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* The Horry Herald CONWAY, S. C. Entered at the Post Office at Conway, S. C.? as second class Mail Matter. ^ H. H. WOODWARD, Editor. Published Every Thursday Morning by Conway Publishing Company. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: One Copy, One Year $1.50 One Copy, Six Months .* 1.00 One Copy, Three Months 75 * TELEPHONE 21. Make all Checks or Drafts payable to The Horry Herald or H. H. Woodward, Conway, South Carolina. THURSDAY JANUARY 25th, 1923. CLVWAVAWAW.'.WAVAW.'AWAWANW.SSW.V HORRY HERALDING ? J,W.V.,.V.W.VAWAVAVAVVW.,.SW.V.%V.V.V.W Some of us act too much and think too little. ^ ij o Vt T.J 1 w earner iorecasts are mostly guess work of course. o Building should take on a great big increase during 1923. o Conway needs better facilities for taking care of tobacco crops. o The man who is afraid will be apt to remain on the threshhold of 'accomplishment. i o Hard work and close attention to business will help get over the effects of the boll weevil. o mi % t i % ? - ine intie bits ot time that we throw away could build a city in the course of the years. o Truth itself is often doubted at first in this time of close investigation and hard thinking-. o It costs more to keep up a hard surfaced road than it does 6ne that is made of clay and sand. o Some men forget that they must get along the best they can. with such things as they can afford. o For the making of the white whiskey that causes .so much "work now, the main thing used seems to be just filth. o When fear steps in and creates a doubt a thousand questions shoot their marks through the mind of the timid and bashful. o It is useless to expect perfection in anything whatever. The man who wants the best must have some idea of what is the best or he cannot be satisfied. o Farmers of Horry should have the advantage of sweet potato storage houses. There is no better sweet potato land than we can boast of having in this county. o Since the wars are over and things have settled back into the old ways, travel has picked up and people are rambling all over the world as they once did before. o There is no danger in leaving the fate of Roscoe Arbuckle to the people before whom he will appear when he returns to the movies. Hayes says he shall have his chance. While Harding and his administration is hoping to ride in next time on prohibition enforcement, it appears that things are getting wetter and wetter, even in the national capitol. u AV.W. . . V.,.,-,.".V.V.V.,.V.VA".V.V^.,.".V.V.VAV.V.V.%V.V S AGAINST RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES 5 < ^'. . . VMV.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.VAV.V.V.V.V.V.'.W^. "Should Arbuckle come back. As a man I say no; as a father and a husband I say no; as an American citizen I say no, as a Christian minister I saw unthinkable." These words i closed an address recently made by Dr. W. R. Alexander, pastor of the first Baptist church of Rock Hill, S. C., recently called to that pastorate from the city of Philadelphia, in answer to the question which he declared has taken on a nation-wide aspect: "Should Arbuckle come back?" According to newspaper reports sent out from Rock Hill, this meeting was widely advertised and a congregation of about two thousand persons gathered at the church and heard not only the words we have quoted in the beginning of this editorial, but a whole lot more of t.ho anmn _ _ - W WKM?V ItlUU U1 IA1I\< We aie bound to disagree with the doctor in his views. The main reason why we do is because his ideas on this subject are contrary to the principles of the Christian religion. It makes no difference, at least it should not make any, how much Dr. Alexander is opposed to the moving picture show on general principles, as he would express it, nor how much he may dislike Arbuckle as a man. neither hatred nor prejudice should be a'lowed to take possession of his heart and brain to such an extent as to make him forget the ground-log of the religion which has placed him in the position of pastor of a great church. In the first place was the conduct of Arbuckle as black as it was painted? Was he the slayer of Virginia Rappe? How c?n the minister say that he was when two juries of his peers failed to agree that he was, and a third said, by their verdict that he was innocent? In the view of many people Arbuckle was cerrSftiiil li'j'f 1 "* ' " .. \y r THE HORRY HERALD, CONWAY, S. 0, JAN. 25, 1923 tainly the victim of a frame-up. Of course it was wrong for him to have engaged in a boisterous party at which he is accused of having furnished* the whiskey; but that, in itself, was no worse than the things being done all over this country by the young men and women who are temporarily mislead, and are forgiven and taken back in the church, even not removed therefrom in the first place. The very worst that can be said of the Arbuckle charges is that they were established against him only to the extent of showing that he was in bad company; as to the rest of the ^charge both actually fctated an^ imagined, all of the best legal machinery in California could not find that ?he was guilty. It is to be implied from what the preacher said that he does not look down on the moving picture as a wholly bad thing, but lie would doubtless tell us that there is a chance of much good through and by means of the silent drama. His idea is to make it better by keeping Arbuckle out of it. We wonder if the doctor has thought seriously about the lives and characters of those who are still in it, and especially the female movie stars who are so attractive on the screen Let him think back and count up the number of those who have shown by their lives that their character is anything else except perfect. Count up the number of both men and women, still appearing in the pictures, and who have been mixed up in murder crimes, in love triangles, in the divorce courts. Even some of the most famous'will come in for his serious thought before he is through; and the result must be that he will condemn the whole thing on account of the escapades of these people. If we are to have the movies then we can see no reason why Arbuckle should not have his chance to come back. No matter how much one has sinned, it is a principle of the Christian religion that a man must be forgiven when he asks for forgiveness in an earnestness, as Arbuckle has certainly done. To hold otherwise is to shut the door of hope to all mankind. As we have said this man, Arbuckle, was the victim of female characters who had descended much lower in the moral scale than we think Arbuckle had. He made the mistake of keeping bad company, and then only such company as we keep when we go to see such people on the screen. He wants to continue his work as one of the funniest actors on the screen that the world has produced, and he is entitled to his chance. The doctor need not worry about the result of his efforts to come back. He has nothing to do but to leave it to the people who patronize the moving picture show7. If they pass judgment on him and he falls down he will be down and out forever; but the chances are that they will remember the principles of the religion we have mentioned and they will give him his chance as he has asked it. WASHINGTON COMMENT "Americanism"?teachers preach it, civic organizations inculcate it, demagogues mouth it . . . but who explains it ? What is "Americanism?" The very question will be hailed by some as "un-American." "Why," savs the patriot, "every one knows what Ainericanisnis." But do they? And is there not a steady tendency to bring under the banner of the world ideas which have no place there? Is there not a continuous attempt on the part of enthusiastic factions and minorities to twine into the Stars and Stripes be liefs and convictions which do not there belong? Americanism is something more than taking off your hat when the flag goes by, going to the polls tc vote, and paying a tax. The real American believes in the principles upon which this Nation was builded, not necessarily upon the way some people have thought these principles should be worked out. There are good Americans who believe the League of Nations is anathema, and there are good Americans who believe it the salvation of the world. There were good Americans who fought and died abroad who believed there were two sides to the world war. But there are no good Americans who refused their country's call because they personally didn't believe in the right of the call; there are no good Americans who refuse to stand by America, not in the league, because they believe in the league. Americanism is a matter of principles, and living up to them. Americanism means freedom of conscience, freedom of speechj the rule of the majjority, freedom of person, respect for law, tol eration of the other fellow's idea, live-and-let-live. To call a mar un-American because he doesn't believe in a law, is foolish. Call him un-American if he doesn't abide by it. To call him un-American because he doesn't believe in this, that, or the other proposal made under the guise of its being "patriotic," is unjust, ft is he, not we, who has the right to decide what he shall believe is l ight and just and true and patriotic. But call him unAmerican if, when the country decides, he does not fall in line in spite of his personal belief to the contrary. Many who boast of their patriotism shout, "My country right or wrong, but my country always." The good American couples with it, "If I think her wrong, 1 will yet abide by hei laws, but strive to make them better." It is un-American, unjustly to call a man un-American An English woman was hung for murder. The inevitable aftermath is the world-wide protest against the brutality of tht execution, and renewal of efforts to abolish punishment. The protests are a healthy sign. For the time will surelj come when both capital punishment and putting away in ston* and steel cells at hard but unproductive labor as> punishment, wil be one with the rack and the thumbscrew, the burning at tin stake, the ducking stool, the stocks, the casting into dungeons o the insane. A few hundred years ago nations made "the punishment fi t.h#* primp " If j mon o!/\1a 1-i { o noi't; urnfa r> 11 f s\f f If Ka Kaw ? w OI/VIC) IIIO V?l Id ff VIV VUll WI I. 11 IIV l/v/1 ' false witness, his tongue was cut out. If he didn't pay his debrf he was put\in jail until he did, the idea being not to allow him t< earn money to pay, but to make him disgorge his hidden wealtl or mulct his friends. We smile pityingly at the "misguided ignorance" of thos< old days. We are very wise and modern. All we do is hanj women, or electrocute men, or put them behind iron bars fo various periods of time, only t i men than when they went in. > This is an age of making i which was thrown away is now > i rots by the mill; it is used as fi ing is lost of a slaughtered pig b will come to recognize that anj be made from a social liability i needs is not punishment of the what the world needs is not to ti to use them. We are on the way. Model treadmill and the idle prisoner, idea of iron bars unaccompaniec tion, a making bver, that the hi fit, not destroyed or put in the Speed the day . . i Republican "Civil S For eighteen months a Rep master at Bedford, Trimble Cou 1921, a civil service examinatic the highest three ratings were i Under President Wilson th went to ,the person with the high Under an executive order issuec of the highest three was made e After eighteen months a Rei master at Bedford, Ky. Bedfor< tative Arthur B. Rouse, Chairrr sional Campaign Committee. R< a letter of protest to Postmast< failure to appoint one of the thi list. At last reports-he was still typical case of how the civil ser Republican party in the 'souther RECORD OF THE PAST No Stronger Evidence Can Be Had In Conway Look well to their record. What they have done many times in years prone by is the best guarantee of future results. Anyone with a bad Iback; any reader suffering from urinary troubles, from kidney ills, should find comfortincr words in tho fniirtvuin#* v? statement: H. C. Moore, farmer, Conway, says: "I had constant pain in my back and was so lame and sore I could hardly walk or bend. My sight blurred and objects floated before my eyes. My kidneys acted irregularly, too. Doan's Kidney Pills were recommended so I bought some at the Conway Drug Co. They relieved the backache and other symptoms of the trouble. AFTER FOUR YEARS, Mr. Moore added: "Doan's Kidney Pills cured me of kidney trouble and I am glad to renew my former endorsement." Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy?get , Doan's Kidney Pills?the same that Mr. Moore had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y.?Adv. o Dust that is raised by the wind and the breeze will carry disease, especially that which is left to stand in rooms and hall ways. Cleanliness is a great thing for health. Make all things as , clean as possible. Dirt is not sickly within itself, but it is a great breeder of disease germs and for this reason !__== HOLLIDAY Have just rec Car C Fresh Mules ; al First Wagons a to su - We a prepared f year's work, if you wil 5 buy till you look over whs j Would like to ha | Holliday A I rtjrno ( I l|25-2t ' 1 ? o turn them loose again, worse ?x useful the by-product. That valuable. The sawdust no longer lei or to make chemicals. Nothut his squeel. Some day society r man convicted of a crime can nto an asset; that what society criminal, tout making him over; hrow away its sawdust men, but * rn penology frowns upon the Some day it will laugh at the i by medical treatment, educaiman unfit for society be made prison scrap heap. o Service" in the South ublican has been acting as postnty, Kentucky. On August 13, >n was held for. this office and ill obtained by Democrats, e appointment of a postmaster x x " icsi raxing regardless of policies. 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