The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 25, 1923, Image 4
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The Horry Herald
CONWAY, S. C.
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^ H. H. WOODWARD, Editor.
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THURSDAY JANUARY 25th, 1923.
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Some of us act too much and think too little.
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w earner iorecasts are mostly guess work of course.
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Building should take on a great big increase during 1923.
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Conway needs better facilities for taking care of tobacco
crops.
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The man who is afraid will be apt to remain on the threshhold
of 'accomplishment.
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Hard work and close attention to business will help get over
the effects of the boll weevil.
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ine intie bits ot time that we throw away could build a
city in the course of the years.
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Truth itself is often doubted at first in this time of close
investigation and hard thinking-.
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It costs more to keep up a hard surfaced road than it does
6ne that is made of clay and sand.
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Some men forget that they must get along the best they
can. with such things as they can afford.
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For the making of the white whiskey that causes .so much
"work now, the main thing used seems to be just filth.
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When fear steps in and creates a doubt a thousand questions
shoot their marks through the mind of the timid and bashful.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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#*
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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.
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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
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HOLLIDAY
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f year's work, if you wil
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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
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Some day it will laugh at the
i by medical treatment, educaiman
unfit for society be made
prison scrap heap.
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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
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icsi raxing regardless of policies.
I by President Harding any one
ligible for appointment.
publican continues to act as posti
is in the district of Representan
of the Democratic Congresjpresentative
Rouse has written
jr General Work concerning his
ree eligibles on the civil service
waiting for a reply. This is a
vice law is administered by the
n states.
it should not be allowed to accumulate
on the furniture and window sills
of the home. Brush it olf and run
over the woodwork with some kind of
polish. Keep the floors clear of dust
that will arise, by applying floor oil
of some kind.
Bring the next job of work to The
Herald office.
AfCot a cold
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clears it out. J
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A TONIC
drove's Tasteless chill Tonic restores
Energy and Vitality by Purifying and
Enriching the Blood. When you feel its
strengthening, invigorating effect, see how
it brings color to the cheeks and how
it improves the appetite, you will then
appreciate its true tonic value.
Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is simply
Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So
pleasant even children like it. The blood
' needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to
Enrich it. Destroys Malarial germs and
Grip gerrns by its Strengthening, in vigor*
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