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PAGE FOUR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year . • Published Every Friday Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. MOVING THANKSGIVING DAY There is no question whatever that President Roosevelt is entirely within his rights in proclaiming next November 23rd' as the annual day for giving thanks to Almighty God for His 1 blessings upon the people of the United States. Thanksgiving Day is not a legal holiday except by tradition and long established custom. The President’s change of date from the customary last Thursday in November, which will be on the 30th this year, to a week earlier, is not binding upon anybody but the inhabitants of areas completely under the control of the Federal Government. Any state legislation, or any state governor by proclaiming, can declare November 30th as Thanksgiving Day, and thus maintain the tradi tion established by immermorial cus tom in the North and East, and by the proclamation of President Lin coln in 1864, for the first time on a national scale. There is much to be said in be half of a longer interval between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Christmas shopping season would be lengthened, to the advantage of business men. There would be a longer interval between school holi days, which come pretty close to gether when the last Thursday of November falls on the last day of the month, as it does this year. There are other goood arguments for the general principle of observ ing Thanksgiving Day earlier than time-honored custom places it on the calendar. The Presidential action not only runs contrary to ancient custom and habit, but interferes with foot ball schedules and other Fall events which had been planned on the ex pectation that Thanksgiving Day of 1939 would come at its usual time. Moreover, it makes liars out of the calendar makers, and introduces an element of doubt as to what they ought to do in the future. But if the whole business results in focussing more attention upon Thanksgiving and bringing more people back to its observance as a real day of thanks for Divine bless ings, perhaps the net effect of Mr. Roosevelt’s action will be good. MASSACHUSSETTS COUNTS ITS CAUSUALTIES Decline of the textile industry in Masssachusetts is revealed in the re port of a legislative commission that between the years 1923 and 1935 nineteen cotton and three woolen mills moved to other states and that sixty seven cotton mills closed as the result of bankruptcy or were volun tarily liquidated. We believe that the textile manu facturing business in South Caro lina for a corresponding period would show an almost correspond ing increase. \In offset to the loss of textile plants the commission revealed that Massachusetts capital still controlled many mills in other sections of the country, notably the South. That may be consoling to the Massachusetts coupon clippers but it is mighty poor consolation to the textile employee who finds work in New England harder and harder to obtain. —Anderson Daily Mail. PIEDMONT FARM WOMEN MEET AT CLEMSON The Piedmont District Council of Farm Women will meet at Clemson college on Saturday, September 9th at 10 o’clock. Let us put forth an effort to have a large delegation of farm women fro mNewberry coun ty attend. We are anxious to get the attendance vase. It depends on our going. Clemson is a fine place to visit, so let us go. A morning session only, is planned. It will take three or four hours to make the trip. Start early enough to be there at the registration hour. Please notify Miss Ethel Counts at once if you want dinner in the college dining room. Mrs. D. S. Halfacre, president, Newberry County Council of Farm Women. UNION SCHOOL OPENS SEPTEMBER FOURTH The Union school will open Mon day, September fourth at 9:30 o’clock. All patrons and interested friends are cordially invited to at tend. Several interesting speakers will be on hand for the opening. Miss Kathleen Lominick has re turned to her home in the city after having spent a week in Columbia with relatives. SAYS U. S. WET NURSE FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE (By Dr. George B. Cutten, Presi dent of Colgate Univtrsity) Whenever you have had security, you have always started on the de cline. Security means a lack of ini tiative and forcefulness, because we are always as lazy as circumstances permit. For instance, a woman goes to a hospital to have her baby born, and she is taken care of at public expense; the baby is born at public expense and kept there two or three weeks, and he is brought up at pub lic expense. When it comes to go ing to school, not only is his school ing at public expense, but food and clothing, also, if necessary. He never has to look for a job for a job because the unemployment are taken care of. Sickness never bothers him because the sick are cared for at pub lic expense, and finally, he is cre mated or buried—it doesn’t matter which—at public expense. So, from the cradle to the grave, there is noth ing to force initiative or to require a person to make any effort what ever unless he so wishes. That is the trouble with security, and while old age pensions are some thing that appeal to us most, I would rather have old people, of which I am one, suffer than to have the race go soft. Survival of the fittest is nature’s method while civilization, through the doctors and philinthropists, is saving the unfit. There is no ob jection to saving the unfit so long as you do not allow them to become the future breeders of the race. A magazine of nationwide circu lation has called me the “most reac tionary college president! in Ame rica.” Well, I have good company. I think God is reactionary, doing the things the same as He did 20,000 year ago. When He takes a step forward. He doesn’t have to back track. I suppose the young people say He hasn’t an open mind because He does n’t do things in the modern way. If He did, I suppose they would have girl babies born with hair-line eye brows, purple lips and green finger nails, but they are born the same as they were 20,000 years ago. And the boy babies, If God had been open- minded, would be born with one shoulder lower than the other, so they could more conveniently lean on a shovel. Nature demands competition, while civilization is always talking about co-operation. That is as true of business men as it is of labor unions. If they are going to make a success t here must be competition within the group and co-operation by members in that group to fight other groups. Nature believes in progress through the individual rather than through the mob. A mob never accomplished anything except destruction. A join er surrenders the last hope of de- eloping the mind, and we only join together for one purpose—and that is for protection and defense. Herd ing together simply means to get to gether to pool weaknesses; strengths are always used for individual effort. MOTHERS’ CLASS ON, TOUR TO GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS The Mothers’ class of Epting Memorial Methodist church went on a tour last Saturday to Paris moun tain near Greenville. Going on the trip were 51 ladies, the class teach er Ben McCarty and O. E. Wood chairman of the board of stewards. In Greenville the group was met by Mr. Allen of the Chamber ot Commerce; Will Hicks, Boy Scout of the city; and C. E. Seawright, city patrolman. These three directed the ladies on a sight seeing tour of the city. The trip ended at Paris mountain where a picnic lunch was held. NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING We the undersigned Jury Commis sioners of Newberry County, S. C., shall on the 7th day of September, at 9 o’clock A. M., in the clerk of Courts office, openly and publicly, draw thirty-six names to serve as petit jurors for the court of com mon pleas, which will convene in Newberry County Court house, the 18th day of September, 1939, at 10 o’clock, A. M. H. K. Boyd, Clerk of Court, R. B. Black, Treasurer, P. N. Abrams, Auditor. ANDERSON VISITOR Mrs. Blair Griffin and two child ren, Ralph and Blair, Jr., have re turned to their home in Anderson after spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Sligh. THE NEWBERRY SUN TODAY TOMORROW\ I ~ I FRANK PARKER | \ STOCK BRIDGE ij TROUBLES Everywhere • One of the very few things upon which practically everybody agrees is that there is something wrong with the world. That is nothing new in human history. We are more keenly aware of the world’s troubles today than our fathers were because we read and hear about them. Inter national strife, internal struggles in every land for control of govern ments, economic warfare of a hun dred kinds, social insecurity, class hatreds, general disrespect for law and order—make your own list of the world’s troubles. Up to that point you’ll find most folks agreeing with you. The dis agreement begins [when you start discussing the causes of the unhappy state of human affairs, and the appropriate remedies. Not more than a handful of people ever agree on what has got us into the present mess, and what ought to be done about it. Countless remedies are proposed all different. My old family doctor said, when I asked him how to cure a cold: “If anybody knew that you wouldh’t see so many cold) reme dies advertised. Most of the plans and programs being put forth to cure the world’s ills are the same sort of quackery. HOPE Groping Not in a long lifetime have I seen so many different kinds of people in every walk of life so keenly con cerned about the unhappy state of human affairs Never have I seen and heard of so many earnest, well- intentioned persons and groups devoting their lives and their for tunes to efforts to bring humanity back to peace—peace between na tions, peace between/ warrirjg ele ments inside of national boundaries. That much of this energy is mis directed, that the remedies proposed cannot all be effective, and that some of these attempts to reconcile peoples with peoples and to solve the unsolved riddle of social justice are likely t 0 have the contrary effect, does not lessen my hope of a better world than we have ever lived in. Rather, the very fact that great mul titudes are seeking the answer gives me renewed faith that out of all the groping will come the discovery of the way. MORALS Crux I read and hear a great and grow ing volume of ex,p i essioins by thinking men, leaders in political and industrial fields, leaders and thinkers among workers, philoso phers, students of social problems and ordinary people like you and me, all saying the same thing in different words. The thing they THE AWFUL PRICE YOU PAY FOR REINS NERVOUS rhirJg Below And See If Yon Hare Any Of The Signs Quivering nerves can make you old and haggard looking, cranky and hard to live with—can keep you awake nights and rob you of good health, good times and jobs. Don’t let yourself r ‘go” like that. Start taking a good, reliable tonic—one made espe cially for women. And could you ask for any thing whose benefits have been better proved than world-famous Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound? 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These are some of the unusual pets with Russell Bros-’ Circus which comes to Wells Field on the Oakland Mill Road, Newberry, 0 n Friday, Septem ber eighth. Among the elephants with the circus is Elsie, who escaped in Vir ginia and was at large 36 bourse be fore her capture. Buddy, the talkative star of Walter Jennier’s marvelous trained sea-lion exhibition, appears in the lower left with “specs” on, ready for his music lesson. ~ j m Topsy, the chimp was busily wash ing her hands when the picture at lower right was taken. Her child-like mannerisms and cunning pranks make her a prime favorite of the circus family. Scores of amazing trained ani mal acts appear in the swiftly pac- el, twohour program of Russell Bros.’ Circus, together with an im posing galaxy of human performers including many of circusdom’s top most stars. Two performances are given daily, at 2 and 8 p. m., the doors opening one hour earlier in each case to per mit a leisurely visit to the circus’ mammoth wild animal menagerie. One ticket admits to the menagerie as well as the main circus perform ance. say is that the present crisis is a moral crisis, and that it can be solved only by application of moral principles to the world’s problems. Disagreement begins when peo ple ask for the definition of “mor als.” A course of conduct or line of action which seems entirely moral to one man may appear to others quite immoral. Yet the essentials of morality have been preached and taught for thousands of years by great spiritual leaders, all whom the world respects and one of whom the Christian world believes to have been the very incarnation of God. The reason why the well-fknown and easily gras/ped principles of morality have fiever been applied in human affair is that they are hard medicine for men to take who are ambitious for power, for glory, for wealth, for worldly security or for luxury. They delude themselves by believing that such things are essential to human happenings. REARMAMENT .... MRA I have been lately in California observing at first hand, both from without and from within, the larg est and most widespread movement in modern times to bring the essen tial principles of Christian morality back as a living, vital force in hu man affairs. Moral Re-Armament —“MRA” as its followers abbreviate it—is a world-wide effort to change the world by changing the lives, and therefore the outlook, of the people in it. Startd by the founder of the “Oxford Group,” Dr. Frank Buch- man, less than a year ago, MRA has already teams of workers in sixty countries and has enlisted the support of the ruler and political leaders of many nations, who see in it the one possible solution for na tional and international problems. Literally like an army with ban ners a thousand men and women from all the world descended upon California in July, and from the Hollywood Bowl to the Treasure Is land World’s Fair, stirred the whole Pacific Coast to a new realization that all our world problems are hu man problems and therefore moral problems. Within a m<(nth, thou sands in California had joined the hundreds of thousands of men and women elsewhere in the world. Their lives had been changed, and they had found peace and happiness such as they never had known or dared to hope for. REVOLUTION . . Spiritual I think everybody will agree that if everybody were honest, none was selfish, all led pure lives, and liter ally loved their neighbors as them- seves there would be an end to war, to social and economic strife and in equalities—in short, a revolution. Everybody will agree, too, that such a change in the lives of men cannot be wrought by human power but only by the Divine Spirit. So Jesus taught. Stripped of all theological and sectarian dogma and doctrine, these principles of the Ox ford Group are the essential prin ciples of all religions. The Group has no organization, no creed, no doctrines other than those. It asks none to change his church affilia tions, but rather urges all to help bring fresh spiritual strength to the church. THE 0CT0R IgjlfolhSfotof kKEAnamBwam FAT PEOPLE Most fat eople have only them selves to blame for their condition. Early in life they, in all probability, started eating too much at meals and kept up that practice through adult life. Or they are inclined to being lazy, neglecting to take proper exercise, and sepnd too much time sleeping. All of these help in the accumulation of excessive fat. Of course there are other causes for fat developing in the human be- ing. The chief ones, over which the individual has absolutely no control, are the various forms of glandular troubles. For such cases medical science has discovered a means that often proves helpful, namely the use of different glandular extracts. But the use of these medicaments is attended with extreme danger and their adminis tration should be done only by the physician. It is the belief of the best inform ed physicians that there is no gen eral medical treatment for obesity and the socalled fat reducing cures, advertised extensively, are positively liable to cause death because they have as one of thei- ingredients a drug which has already killed many hundreds of persons who have tried it, twelve trained nurses being among the number who had their lives snuffed out by a patent medi cine guaranteeing to daily take a pound of flesh off those using the preparation. If everything you eat seems to turn to fat, it is proof positive that through faulty metabolism, your system cannot use up the fats it pro duces fast enough, and you should consult your physician. The best reducing method is to cut down on your food intake so that the fat will gradually disapear. Stop wines and alcoholic drinks, especially beer. Eschew sheets of all kinds, es pecially cake and candy. Cut out butter, cheese and cream. Do not use salad oils. Eat water cress, lettuce, onions, and radishes, making a salad with lemon juice, as a dressing. Plenty of raw fruit some melon, berries, and green vegetables, such 4 as kale, spinach, dandelion, beet tops, and cabbage, make excellent foods for those anxious to get thin. Avoid as much as possible, starchy foods;—^potatoes, bread, baked beans. Keep your mind occupied. Go to the movies and the theaters. Fishing and hunting will give you exceptional ex ercises tending to reduce your weight. Baths, morning and night, are ex cellent for this purpose also. Bodily exercises which induce perspiration are good, and should be done after your meals have had time to digest. By thus combining diet, with cura tive measures and proper exercise, you can add to your years and in crease the comfort of living. 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