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'luesaay. January _ ij-FAR AWAY WHERE TiiE WEATHER IS COLD A Newberry Boy Writes Interestingly About Boating anrl Skating on the Ice Milwav" jc, Wiis. I have just returned from :i week's stay in Minneapolis. ??Innnesotn. I did not have time while there to write you about this country, climate, etc.. though I know you are always interested to know rib out the pi .ices that I visit. So I wUl now try to give a description of the snow and ice scenes T CQir fl>oro Minneapolis is called the City of of Winter Sports, and from what I saw the week 1 was there it certainly lives up to its name. There are several I::kes on the ed::e of the city and they are used for ice sport? in the winter. The mair ice sport? are ice hockey, ice boatir.fr, ice skating and horse racing on tfto - _ Ti i ~ r a _ ?_ : _ : ice. mere is <uso 01 .sMeiu;; ice," but this is quite a distance out of the city proper, and I did not set out to see it. Wish I had though, for it is said to be a great sport to watch. When I was there the ice of the Lake of Isles." where the ?norts are held, was about two feet thick, and the ice sports had been under way for about a month. This is the m . place in the city limits for all the ice sports and the day I went out to the lake there were thousands of people there to watch and to take part. It seems rather odd to see crreat crowds of people walking* around on the ice in middle of the lake, and to see auios going: across the lake. The ice boatinc: was great sport. The boats are built in the shape of a cross with one arm considerably longer than the rest. Runners are mounted r?r> f?'nr?V> ovtrl nf fV>o ovmc sail is mounted at the point of crossing of the arms. There are usually two men on each boat and they certainly do sail along in a good stiff wind. They are handled like a real sail boat and when tackin? in a stiff wind, they frequently ride on one runner, like an auto turn ins: a corner on two wheels. This is the time the real sailor shows up, for he must climb quickly out on the side of the raft, that is raised off the ice, so as to prevent the boat from upsetting:. It is real thrilling* to watch five or six of these ice boats coming down the lake under full sail in a stiff breeze and then see them tack back and forth. Tis, indeed, a great sight, and one to Ftir the blocd of anv one. Tho horse racing on ico struck mo as bcinir tho most unusual of all. The idea of having a horse race on ice. certainly did seem odd to me. The track is laid cut on the ice of the lake and is kept swept clear of snow. It is about the usual track width and shape and a judges' stand is built on the ice near the finish line. A bis tent is erected on the ice. near the track for the horses and drivers between beats. The horses arc shod with special spikes in a special leather shoe, that ir> slipped on the horses' hoof, when thev tret on the ice. driver? wear lots of warm clothing and goggles and the horses have a hood over their heads and faces, more of a hood than is used in dirt track racing. The horses seem to bi as keen for the races as horses on a dirt track, and they make very good time, too. Time like 1:10 and 1:2C for a half mile trot or pace is fairlj good for a half mile track. The same kind of sulkev is used as on a dirt track. Tell some of the old racc horse men around town about thi? horse racing on ice, and I'll bet it wil interest them a lot. The ice skating was great ar.d ; large crowd took part in it. Thert several races and the racers certain ly can cover the ground, no?ice, ir a hurry. They, the racers, take spe cial care of their skates carrying them in a leather case to keep fron dulling the edge against anything All real good skaters do this, ant they have expensive skates, too. Tht good racing sKates witn snoes <aru all good skates nave special skatin< shoes attached like 'baseball spikes cost from $20 to $50 a pair. Ordinal1; skates and shoes range from $10 up Silver skates, the finest of skates range from $2"> to $100 a pair I hat a pair that cost $8 in 101") whicl would now cost about $15. Childen, too, learn to skate here aboul as soon as they walk. Tis amus in<r to see a man or woman leading '< tiny child around on skates, some times you wonder if they are Iar;r< encujrh to walk, let alone skate. Ice hockey was played there als< and was much interested in watchinf this sport. It is played somewhat like basketball, except the players are or skates. The ball is a hard rubber disc thiee inches in diameter and one inch thick. It is called a ''puck" and is pushed alonjr with the stick. You car see it in one of the pictures I soni you a few days auo. There are si.\ players on each of them. It is very vou'- h a iiie pinycrs skate very j j'-'fjcr ;i* <! thi- v.ali. Th?- playev- ere !ir very In- of :u; 1 are very ! Soiv.c'i'iie.- ihey are knocked imeons-eious an-i av e . rrle<! oil" iht T.> 'w . OH. j il'V. l?lu I Ml" ...* . . .... . ... i.cvci"iu'lcss. I >\".v this happen ?ev!cra! times in an indoor rink in Pittsburu and in Canada. too. T!s a very iiirMlinj; irame and 1 like to watch 1 used to ?<> to all 11'"it- jrames in Pittsburg they hid I one of the best teams in the country [for years. . . ? ^ . The day I went out to set* uiese j ; spoils was a clear tlnv and no wind.! ! But 'he temper.: ture way ilcwn beIi. cv freezlnir. I was drifted in my , heav:'-st detains. a I overcoat and !cloth lined ;'!iOe>, called "Arctics," I ' Nut 1 became vcy cr>iH. The natives. ( men. women an.i isn m/."o ? iiiuui.ii, i ; (il l not seem to mind the cold for they I j ?:ood for several hours in the snowj ! and ice. but 1 suppose they are accus-1 I tomeci to it, and don't feel it as much I as 1 do. I may tret and send you a j kodak picture of these ice sports? lone made by me or from a photo siujdio. 1 B. I - J HIS THOUGHTS TURN TO HIS NEWBERRY HOME : j ! A?*er ?. Visit So Impressed With Oia Ho:rc Town That Ho Writes AKcut It I I iTo the Editor: .May I be permitted to encroach j ! upon your ^ace to the extent of putj tinjc in as few words as possible the I 'wonderful transformation that h.is i been made in Newberry since my vis, it just a year a<ro? When at home ; i Christmas mv time wrs so limited that I 1 ' ! 'I did not have the "opportunity of! visiting or calling upon many or my; j friends, but to those I did see I expressed my surprise at the noticeable ! improvements over the Newberry of even a year ago. It is almost inconfceivable to think that the matter of ! well paved streets and a "white way" i could transform a thriving village into a small c-itv of the first class almost I ; over night. And yet that is just what 1 ~J~ J? "-/"ill 1 irr\fori I pavea sireett umi <x ?cn ;ress district has done for your city.! ] It has been my pleasure to visit Xew-j : berry for thirty years or more, and j | the change which was so apparent i r this past Christmas made me feel proud that in a way it is now my real j heme. True, I spend all of my time j elsewhere, but whenever anyone asks; iv? whore my home is. I say, "Xew-j " " t? -11 I. T-. n i berry, s. l. wc ;m xuusi. iiavt ? real home somewhere, and I am not' .at all ashamed to declare Newberry j | mine. j : The writer iroes around over the ! country to a considerable extent in j j the course of a year or so, and since ! i last Christmas has had headquarters j in Knoxville. Tennessee, Boston, Mass., Des ?>Ioines. Iowa, and Pitts j bhrg, Pennsylvania. Constantly travJ eiin^r as I do, I be-iieve that I am in ;: position to pass discriminating and ! unprejudiced judgment on the aspect 1 jot Newberry as it appears in its pros jcut role ot an up to uau\ im-usicmiw I city of the first class even if on a j small scale. The time will come when !! your city will take its place along with . j the best in the state. You may not ,;notice it nor your citizens, but you ' will find that the spirit of p-*ogrcssivet ness and push and spirit will permeI'ate the atmosphere of your commun >! ity in such a way as that each and r i every one of your good citizens will : j be imbuc-d with the one idea of con: tinuing the good work of making New } I berry an even better place in which ?i to live, play and work. And when I jthe citizens generally really and jruly | catch the spirit of the times, and all II work to one end, nothing can hold * - -? L 'VM?nnr>/lino' t(*V i j your ccni:uumt> auu i vn. - J ritory back. 1 j You have everything around you to -' make a real city. Diversified farming: rj would do much to hasten the day 1! when your back country for miles 1 /! _ J! J . j around will grew mio a proline ieeuI (er to your growing municipality. One j'eroo sections sooner or later speli dis1; aster, not only to those working r I the crops, but to the communities ) j roundabout as well. The South is / j slowly, but surely, learning this les.json. Am! while you have been won, [derfully blessed by nature and are II endowed naturally as few cities are i iin this respect, permit me to say right |now that it is men nnd not material . I resources that build cities?men and - women and the spirit back of them, i Through your chamber of com merce. your Rotary club, Kiwanis ijclub and other civic organizations, i both men's and women*?, the communi > ity "will come to envisage a greater c'Newberry. And there can never be a > j greater Newberry except through a i greater c'tizenship?a citizenship that 1 is aroused over the possibilities of the i [community and who. once aroused, ; i cheerfully and willingly put their i shoulders, individually and collectively, to the wheel of progress and ^ive : J it a determined, consistent shove in it-he direction of commcreial and civic I ;;;ivan, "ir H *i v * tits it.:; clary of scv? :*i?i . hambers cf ::eive. of K;>lary .-lu'bs ami advertising clubs, as well as :hcr r.-iv ;that hr. i for their a:ni thr up and deveionmeni ::f a community, I can say unreservedly that there hv:\-< in the breast of every citizen -he spark of civic pride, ami t'n.'t li is or.iy necessary to find t;je bent of the individual in order to quicken that spark into an all-eon sumin-r flame t'int work- early and late for the betterment of his or her community. And it rcmuins for such ora:.ir.ivations as the chamber of commerce. Rotary club. Kiwanis club and other bus in men's organizations. women's clubs, churches and schools L seiiee ihe individual's ulents. leanings and abilities and then to intelligently direct them along constructive consistent lines of work calculated to bring about that development which every loyal citizen of every ccmmun ity earn*.-t!y desires to see. The writer knows something of the ireneiul plan of development of the city a?i<i county andjs watching with interest the great fogress you are making in that direction. Others are watching, too, and if there is any tendency on the part of any Newberrian to "rest on Ks (or her) oar/' now is fcfce time to disillusion them and get them again headed in the right direction, for neither an individual nor a community may stand still?they must either 5:0 forward or backward, and to be satisfied with one's progress, however notable it may have been to date, spells in the k.st analysis the difference between success and ure. One more thought and I am through. Newberry is only going to be as big and beautiful as her citizens. iv.en and women, make her; and that is going to be determined largely. I mtight say wholly, by inspirational and intelligently directed leadership, and that leadership must find ex.ires.-ion in the commercial and civic organization, both men and worn* * 1 i . 1 j ^ on, Uic enure nes, scnocis ano in'heme. To have a superior city one must needs have superior citizens? citizens that are alert in th 3 needs of the community an-I. bclmj alert, wining: to work, day and nirbt, n. the interest of the community. Emerson it \v is who said: "The conduct of ar.y business or institution is but the reflection of the personality at the head of it." And so. after ;11 is said, it is a matter of that kind of leader?h"p which places service to one's cif.y above selfish and strives to thrxt end through the years and ... t!w? fA-.i vcq i* "h* J < iWl'I V t';-> 111,1 i:uiu in;.. v.ui ov 10 mapped out no mat-tor whose individual toes may be tramped upon meanO xy AceteL "\A/T/-? n aw n rj \ro n "f * 7 11U VV lit'. * v, v shop and are prepa; Welding and Brazir broken parts and let 1 nff u 1 iViciiara i Upper Main Street g^nraHgBBBBg35B8?gHHE I 8% 1 THE UN IV NEW | F. O. B. $ Effeciive J s 1 Chassis Runabout 1 Tourin? Car I Truck Chassis | Coupe f Sedan 1 ? 1 hese are the lov/est p | hisiory of the Ford Moto Orders are cominsr in f ii ? i i.i* !iy to irssure eariy acuver SHEALY h H Prosper assEsnssa^sEnasEssa^saEss v.' : vf " '*> . I jV.'.'j't'js" ih:s slc:i fo! ;iu- { rcttcr .Vv'A'hf y that is to !>' A <-!;! ; \TEU XhWBKl'ilY TitROl <-H A (:iJMATKR CiTiZPJNcini? Joseph I.. r>0\vk'?\ Jr. J'itis!>usvl't i:r.:;ylvania. January II. 11?21. < > ' > ' ' > <?/ sty ? > ^ <5> GOVERNED TO DEATH ?> . > * '*> ' > ^ < >< > <i' ^ <? <$> < ' Xew \ oik \V oriti. \ Pr. testing a f-. w duys a^o against the* .^rcvvth of bureaucracy and the - - - - *" ontl^AVif \* nVAV i C n 'j* < "J j 1 <. J i iCUv 1 ci i au'viiv; <k? v v the lives of American ritizens, Senator Stanley of Kentucky said: "Every business man finds an inspector at his elbow, a federal sleuth at his heel. Houses are searched, homes outraged and the public high 1 - 1-1 1 ways clappieit in l.'iu uiuwu <;i uuuifendinir citizens by a multitude of agents anil inspectors ignorant of and indifferent to the law of the land and the rights of citizen?." Lest anybody think that. Senator Stanley, who is a Democrat, has allowed his Jeffersonian theories of government to warp his judgment, it j mivn t<^ tbp deliber-I IS VY U1 L.I \Wi Jiw cw 4< v w _ ately expressed opinions of Dr. Nicholas Butler, who is not only a Republican. but. who is identified with the conservative wing of his party, j In a report to the trustees, of Columbia university expressing his objections to the proposed federal bureau for the supervision of education, Dr. Butler used language no less ve he merit than that employed by tne senator from Kentucky: "In the United States we are, in flat defiance of all proclaimed principles, building a series of bureaucracies that will put to shame the best efforts of the government of the Czar of all the T?.ussias when, in the hpvdav of its srlory. We are surround ed by agents, special agents, inspec-| , tors and spies, and the people are called upon to support through their ; taxes, in harmful and un-American activities whole armies of individuals who should be engaged in productive industry." ? - * --?i- . i Senator Stanley naa aescrioeu m i this fashion the tendency of the 15,-J 000 bills already introduced in tlu- * present congress: * . "Nobody escapes. -Everything in the moral, industrial and commercial world is to be owned* operated, supervised or censored, from the '"birth of a1 1 ' -- L - it- - i :~1 rt-f /rnvneo ntir! ORny L'j int." nui.mi .kjj. . ill" worst is not yet.'' The passion for (bureaucracy and government regulation which begnn under Roosevi-lt has now ios' all sense! of restraint. Outside of Bolshevist I ^;;;;/i ;r;I ane Welding ? I rained Welder in our red to do any kind of is-. Brins? in your old ; us save you money. y Mower I Phone 300 j t I &ZSBBtS?Sm ERSALCAR | PRICES ' I DETROIT | anuary 16th. $285.00 | $319.00 | S34A.00 I IAS V A ir $430.00 I $SS0.00 S $645.00 1 >r;ces cf Ford cars in the r Company. ast. so ^iace vours prompt ioiOR CO. | ity, S. C. | i Russia the American people are tin.*; most ;rovovr.merit ri.i n n per.pl>- in the vY<>r];i. and every session of congress,] every session of a sta-e l-.-.n slat ure. | marks an extension of the system. ' Among: the indictments against j George III i:i the Declaration of Inlependence was this: "He has erected > n-.<: I * i ? 111\<> ! . t now i\f :? rw I hither swarms of ofibers :o harass oui neople and ear out their substance." If George III could see the armies of Dificers that the American people, under their own government, have allowed to be imposed on them, t:> harass them and eat out their substance, he would be astonished at h'.s own moderation. What the fathers refused to endure the sons submit to as j l.T.. _ *1 T- .U ... iiit'ffh.1^' its nui'tv ul >;jui The American people are in pro-; cess of being governed to de.uta as i well as taxed to death, in order to > I j i i | j | GEO. E. WIN' } rTsi 1 he Big i LIS I J i NYRA BRG . Americas Most Beau ACTRESS j Tl?p Vt/nrsrl^s jV A A -t -W V W V ? - ? ? j I Averital The Flirtation y QiCX^^-C /\T*? 4 Prices: 5 f i dk HTHE motor of -a- X/fsivw^ll is ru ? speeds are attaine This absence of and assures a mil - _ ten mice cos is. These mechanic; are fittingly augn of the New Serie Touring Cnr, ?585 Roac f. o. B. Car oil i 3 97 \/f A i ivi ri ' . u noii. i- ;?r??*? > of oiTj.-c-ht.IiLr* who haw u uicr. ihori r -tiur: ;' from the c?ad> t the grave. What ' naki r- a -bad matter immeasurably s ;v?u they seem to have lost a!! cat)- ! a city for resistance to the ever-,: .viih nin^ rale of bureaucracy. EIGHT BIG FEATURES K IN "LISTEN IRENE" ii i Never before have we heard of a i -hew a< cuiicssus and which boasts of i u*. h New York ?t::r*: and features : 'Listen Irene." which is coming to 1 '.he opera house Thursday night. This f ' - 1 .~11 l company nas receiver more c.\ccmni j . ih'anco pms comments ami has been the hit of musical comc<!y sh:<ws of 1 'he season. Wtih the show is the famous beauty and New York musi- comedy star, Nyra Brown. As-i? . ' , T 1 sistm,:- her is none otner tiian Johnny i , LUC iik<* ii ana *.w-v , , I ^ W77.53^?J /^>iY? *71 r? if IT1 A ipf,? muii u Musical Corned; TF1I III1? WITH WN and JOF lie.St lit Ui PI r Show of Novelties a >Ie Harem of Beautif *ask Eniending-15 R< le Gilder & Weeks I 0-75-100-150-200 P the New Series of the goo 3 finely balanced that hig d with minimum vibratioi vibration reduces wea limum of repair and mail al elements of great vaiu nented by the great beaul :S. istcr, $885 Sedan. $1485 Coupe, $1' - * - f- - . J J. J jACtoiy, revenue tax i<? uz auu^u na Atifo Cor tyke Good it. Also the elk? quartette, the mirconsidered the plethor of any I -ctrical effect ever seen on the tajre. The three Browns and their Mi:Iruments who will make you shimMini whistle or buy a mouth harp -pun reaching* home. LaZaskia the ultana exponent of perennial dances such as were witnessed by the Ronan. emperor or Cleopatra's barge. A ligation walk. 1"> rows into the audience where a closer view can be had, s the h< ;ven!y beauties promenade ir.d show their lingerie atalier de uxe i!i a Hood of fascinating, filmy, 'emin;ne and veritable sea of dainty, nxuricus. lacy garments vvhicn daz:le the eye and feed the brain with noniories of such a night. Scenery which is opalescent in ;pangles :ind tinsel and a wedding pvpw <rirl will try to IV1A 0 ony on her betrothal day. Such are :he reports on "Listen Irene." mmrwairt .mi laiMMlii Un 9fi { Jan. Li\j . f Success. MT j ,1111 ' INNY GETZ. The F.RFECT NUT md Features ul Girls >ws in Audience )rug Store. T T ius 1 ax. 1 / ' 1 1 I??. wan??aanEB?da????I r, i 585 npany j i j v.