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No. 112.
Entered at the postofflco at Fort
Mill, S. C., as mail matter of the
second class.
THURSDAY, DEC. 30. 1920.
. The newspapers of the country and
that section of the public which refuses
to take seriously the work _ of
the Lord's Dny Alliance in its efforts
to promote Sabbath observance In
line with the teachings of Iloly Writ
are apt to wake up some fine morning
to ldarn that they have deceived
. themselves by believing that the
country did not indorse the work of
this organization, which is endeavoring
to have written into the laws of
the land the principle to which every
great church In America is committed,
namely, that one day in se!vcn
belongs to Almighty God. and that
this day should lie celebrated in the
spirit of genuine rdst and not as the
pagnn Sabbath of continental Europe.
"The Sabbath must bo kept sacred
or lost forever," says the ltev. H. L.
Bowl-by, general secretary of the alV
liancc. "if commercialism is allow
ed to encroach upon it here and
thore it will soon become entirely
commercial and it will not even be
a holiday. Keeping 10.000 traction
employees busy in order to give the
masses an outing is not God's way
of observing the Sabbath. It iiMammon's
way of securing its annihilation.
Wo are accused sometimes
of trying to take the sun out of Sunday."
continued Mr. Howl by. "Thai
is exactly what the Sabbath desecrators
are doing, and we are trying
to bring it back. We don't want to
compel anybody to worship in our
way or to worship in any way. if ho
does not want to. But we insist that
every American is entitled to a Sabbath;
not merely to 24 hours off. but
to ope day out of seven which is obviously
different from other days, to
a day which Is dedicated to the I.ord,
to a day in which he will not have
to fight his way against a current
of commercialism in order to worship
at all. but a day in which lie
may normally expect to be lifted out
of himself into real communion with
his Creator. That would be a day of
rcnl recreation. America <li?l have
such a Sabbath once. our alliance
In simply fighting for Its restoration."
As a rule wortls of commendation
for the efforts of editors to make
their newspapers interesting nn<l Informing
are seldom forthcoming,
however hard the man who is responsible
for the contents of the paper
may try to make It acceptable to
his readers. Once in a while, however,
there is an exception to the
rule, as for Instance Iti the case of
an exctaige which drifted into this
olllce n few dnys before Christmas
enrrying a card in which a friend of
the paper thanked tho editor for the
work ho had "done during the year
In furnishing the community with a
live, progressive newspaper that has
stood always for law and order ami
such other things as promote the
public welfare." concluding with a
word wishing the editor a merry
Christmas and a happy New Year.
Seemingly by a sort of common eonsent
tho best tho leverage editor Is
able to put Into his editorial and
news columns goes into the public
hopper, passes between the millstones
nnd comes out so intermixed with
tho genernl mass of grist that no one
notes it, not at least to tho extent of
i
to hear the editorial. "Fine and exactly
to the point." cam o the general
response when the editor had
concluded the I'euding. " You are nil
friends q? mine," then saf.d the editor,
"and I shall presume upon your
friendship by saying tliat for two
reasons 1 do not thank you for the
compliment you have just paid me?
you are not disinterested critics for
ono thing and for another the article
is as weak as the courage of a kitten
and is barely worth printingHut
I have written 'stuff some of
the big metropolitan papers tnought
well enough of to reproduce in their
columns, and although 1 see and
converse with each of you nearly
every day and have reason to believe
that all of you read the articles I
yefer to, not one of you ever condescended
to mention them to me, perhaps
because you had no personal
interest in the matters discussed in
them."
In The Times last week was
printed a schedule of the license
fees owners of tnotor vehicles will
have to pay for the privilege of
operating their cars in South Carolina
next year. Many doubtless will
complain that the foes arc too high
and with this view The Times finds
Itself in accord. Put high or low. ,
the people are responsibly for the- law
in which the license fees arc sot.
For weeks prior to the meeting of
the General Assembly last winter
there was an insistent demand
throughout tin? State that good roads
legislation be written into the statutes,
many apparently seeming to
think that if such a nteasttcj wete
passed good roads would come overnight.
- Few of those most insistent
upon such legislation stopped to
think that it took money to build
?ood to: ds nr.<l that they would
have to I e paid for. In casting about
for souices of revenue with which to
make a start toward Imihling better
roads the General Assembly hit upon
the automobile ami kindred vehicles
as a source of revenue. The fees
were made higher . than certain
members thought they should have
been, hut their protest was laughed
| out of court. "Most automobilb
u? n|i|>it-uimiun 10 me c<uxnr.
Which recalls an incident that happened
in a South Carolina newspaper
otlico some years aj?o. The editor,
held In high esteeom by his eonfre
rocs as a sound thinker -who could
put his thouRhts into print in unuHtmlly
attraetlvo form, rerclved n
delegation of threo or four of his
personal friends whb had called to
diseuss with him a> mntter of some
public Interest. After tho object of
the islt was stated, tho editor informed
tho party that he had Just
written an editorial on tho subject
in which they were interestod and
thut with tholr permission he would
road It aloud. All, of course, wantedI
I
wners," they were told, "are well to
io and an they get more service out
the public r-nds than any 'other
:luss of citizens, let's make them pay
v good price for it." So tho good
? : <l? measure was pnss-xd with tic
motor vehicle license section as a
part of It. Whether the measure
wiH proye a panacea for the bad
roads of the Stale remains to he
seen. Perhaps the highway commission
has not yet had sufficient
time to prove its worth. In any
event, however, it is worth noting
that the body has n pretty good
opinion of itself, judging from the
increased appropriations it is asking
to carry on its work.
THANKS
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For your patronage
during the
past year. We
hope to see you
in our store often
this year, and
assure you that
you are always
welcome.
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