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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1939 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year . . $1.00 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. THE CASE OF JEDEDIAH PECK Not many people today have ever heard of Jedediah Peck. All the na tion knew his name 138 years ago. He was an itinerant preacher and farmer of Ostego County, New York, and a member of the State Legisla ture, when he was arrested early in 1800 for violation of the Sedition Law. He had had the temerity to circu late a petition asking for the repeal of that law, enacted by the Federal ist government in 1799. It provided for punishment by a fine or imprison ment of anyone who published or printed any false, scandalous or ma licious writing against the govern ment, Congress 0 r the President, or stirred up sedition or opposition to any lawful act of Congress or the President. For the crime of petitioning Con gress and protesting against one of its laws, Jedediah Peck was forced to walk in chains, 200 miles, frpm his home at Cooperstown to New York City, where he was held in jail with out trial for a year. His story be came widely known, and much to do with the revulsion against the Fed eralists which resulted in the election of Thomas Jefferson as President, succeeding John Adams, last of the Federalists. Jefferson’s election sealed the fate of the efforts to impose restrictions upon free speech and the free press. His inauguration in March, 1801, was simultaneous with the expiraton by limitation of the Sedition Law, and Jedediah Peck went free, in time to read the new President’s inaugural address: “Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable . . . that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect and to violate which would be op pression. . . . Equal and exact jus tice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.” Jefferson firmly establisihed the TWO SIDES TO EVERY QUESTION By Lytle Hull ^ODAV -V TOMORROW] ~h~ FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE WALKERS hazard Wanted—A Great Statesman Great statesmen are often the cause of the world’s troubles and likewise have been, and can be, the cure. A Talleyrand in France — since the end of the World War—a Dis raeli in England, a Machiavelli in Italy, a Metternich in Austria and a Stein in Germany would have rec ognized, and heeded, the danger in which another great war would place Europe and v ould have avoid- er the risky venture upon which it has now embarked. These men, through individual greed—or let us call it patriotism— might have played recklessly with pawns but would never have risked the checkmate which faces the coun tries of Europe if they expose them selves, through exhaustion, to the now obvious menace of Bolshevism. By now everyone is aware of that great danger. Anyone can visualize a half starved Germany falling easy prey to any promise of peace. The old slogan of Capitalistic and Im perialistic War will fall on fallow ground. The fallacies of Commu nism, will be ignored by^ a desperate people, and the great German nation of eighty-six million normally sane inhabitants will become part and par cel of the greatest menace which civilization has ever known. On the fringes of this dread mo rass will stand the small Balkan na tions—Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Turkey and Greece—to the south. To the north the Baltic and Scandinavian nations—Finland, Esthonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; Nor way, Denmark and Sweden. To the east little Holland, Belgium and Switzerland. Southeast, a strong principes of democracy as we know 1 Italy and farther on a weakened it today. It is up to the spiritual J France and England: then Spain and descendants of Jefferson to guard against invasion of the rights of every individual, or some modern Jedediah Peck may find himself in jail for his belief that liberty of conscience means . . . just that! Portugal. A powerful array milt- taristically. Today — if it were consolidated into one fighting force — all the balance of the world could not hope to defeat it; but four years of dis people walking on the highways account for more than 39 per cent of all motor fatalities, the National Safety Council has concluded after three years of study of the facts and figures. Last year 12,500 pedestrians were killed by automobiles in the Urtited States. We hear a lot about drunken drivers, but 13 percent of the road- walkers killed had been drinking, as compared with 9 percent of the drivers who suffered a similar fate. Children running into the street, and old people who became confused in traffic, figured largely in the year’s motor deaths. Most of that sort of accidents oc cur in the cities, where more cars are passing and more people are try ing to cross streets. Where the police have adopted effective meas ures to regulate pedestrians at cross ings, as in Washington, the toll ofi motor deaths drops rapidly. The proposal to place all walkers under the same sort of control as drivers is gaining adherents every where. DUCKS i . . . stop Driving down a four-lane Taco- nic Parkway a few miles north ofi New York City on a recent Sunday,! I saw the car ahead of me come to a sudden stop. The driver signaled, and I drew up alongside of him and stopped, too. At the same instant two cars coming in the oppostie dir ection stopped a few feet ahead of us. In a couple of minutes there were a hundred or so cars lined up, honking their horns impatiently. What had happened? A mother duck had chosen that particular mo ment to cross the highway with her brood. With a dozen fluffy duck lings trailing in single file behind her she took her own good time wadding along with an occasional “quack” to her little ones, completely unconcerned with the fact that she was holding up traffic on one of the busiest roads leading out of New York. The word passed back down the line and scores of people got out of their cars to see the amusing sight of the duck and the ducklings. Every body was good natured about it all. I have yet to see the motorist who would deliberately run dowin even such an unimportant and trivial creature as a baby duck. Saturday be^ore- TV/Awksgiv/ik/g- WERE—'TVIESE TABLE SCRAPS WILL HELP TO FATTEN HIM — AN' BE SURE TP GIVE HIM FRESH NUATErR ! Then I WANT YOU TO CHURN TM' BUTTER ^N' PEEL TU' Apples, an'cut up tw' Pun hins^n'cmop TH' MINCE MEAT, AW'CHOP MORE WOOD — Then maybe youLl have time to oo up to /oops an' find s Memofies Sv/ Author of “How to Win Friend* and Influence People.” Appreciation Pays Here is how one man applied a! single bit of psychology and increas-: Then he tried out a letter on 40 ed his business ten per cent in three' ° ^ customers. This is his let- weeks. That man is Frank H. Drake | ^ er e xa °tly as h e wrote it: You are of Huntington, Pennsylvania. ! one ^ m y best customers, and I He put his savings into a small, cer 't a i n ly uppreciate it. Your ac- filling station. But no sooner had he I count is as good as money in the moved in, than a big filling station 1 ^ would like to have more ac- located near him; then another. ^ ^ coun ^ s as good as yours. Maybe price war started, winter came. Mr. &p°d enough to help me. Drake worked hard. He gave ex- y° u S?’ ve me the name of two eellent service. He was polite. But, friends who are as reliable as your- bis business went down hill. He grew seif - Here is a stamped and address- desperate. He didn’t know what to, ed envelo P e - I will write them and | tell them you arg. a customer of The next day -when a customer reiae, and ask them if they will give drew up, Mr. Drake filled the tank,i 1116 a fry- And again thank you.” thanked the customer for patronizing course it worked. He had many him. He had thanked other custo-| of his old customers working for him, mers before, but he put a little extra and ’ n three weeks, he increased his fervor into this. He appreciated the ] business ten percent, man’s trade and he made him rea- 1 Every one values sincerity. If you lize that he did. The man was about i really appreciate the trade that to start his car. Instead he waited i comes t° you. your customers usually a moment and talked. Mr. Drake iwi11 st |ck to you through thick and realized that the man had been re sponsive because his thanks had been sincere. He decided to use the same principle in dealing with his other customers. One-third of his business came to him through courtesy cards furnish ed by the oil company. So he decided that he would do more than merely say “Thank you.” He would make a special appeal. He copied their names and addresses and, a day or tw 0 after they had called, sent them a letter of appreciation. It was a letter of real appreciation, too, for every customer Mr. Drake got meant he was staving off the end that much longer. The result far exceeded his expec tations. People drove in purposely to thank him for his letter. Not only local people, but some from as far away as Harrisburg; one all the way from Elmira, New York. thin. But don’t try merely to make an impression. There is nothing that will more quickly merit contempt. DARKNESS toll Most of the animals that are killed on the highways, and a large pro portion of the road-walkers, meet their fate at night. One of the best drivers I ever knew was killed one night a mile or so from my place in the country because he caught the gleam of some animal’s eyes reflect ed by his headlights and swerved too sharply in trying to avoid killing one of God’s lesser creatures. 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The people of the war-torn na tions might resist the insidious idea- ology of Bolshevism but would the wornout soldiers of those nations be willing to fight another war against a Russian and German army? The German soldier would no longer have the chance to refuse; he would do what his master, Russia, told him, or face the firing squad. Three or four years of exhausting war between Germany and the Al lies is possibly what Russia has plan ned. No matter which side begins to weaken first, Russia, by some means, will probably bolster that side. She has already fooled Ger many into starting the war and is even now making deals with England to encourage that nation. She is no longer even subtle, and therein may lie her weakness. She seems to feel too certain of her prey and it is there, pray God, that she may over play her hand. Europe is waiting for a Talley rand, or a man of equal statesman ship but more altrustic tendencies. She is teetering on the edge of pos sibly a hundred years of dark future and many believe that her people would welcome a reasonable armi stice and that her troubles and ques tions could he satisfactorily worked out under the guidance of some great statesman. There is at the moment a dead lock, not only physical but moral. Each nation is convinced it is fight ing for a just cause. Each natior. would like the other to give in and avoid the awful outlook ahead. Each nation CAN give in a little and the war CAN be stopped. Germany makes peace moves but stipulates her own terms. England and Frances will not accept those terms and have more or less outlined their demands. There is a middle course — there are several middle courses — but some one must step to the front and point them out. Some one must take the initiative and it must be someone whose power is sufficient to command attention. In all the world is there no man great enough to save Europe from the awful scourge of Bolshevism? Driving over Stockbridge Moun tain in the early morning I often see the pitiful reminders of the night’s tragedies. More than once, in the dim light just before sunrise, a pheasant has whirred up from the woods beside the road and dashed into my car, once shattering my wind shield. Before the town built a bridle path along the road in front of our house, separated from the concrete by a wide grass strip, several children were killed each year by cars, right on the village street. Now the greatest danger is to the bicycle-rid- ing youngsters of high-school age, who prefer the smooth highway and ride in droves in apparent disregard of the constant flow of motor traffic. WEATHER war One of the perils of war is the danger that our Atlantic coast may be swept by storms of which we have no warning. The Weather Bu reau has worked for years to develop a system whereby ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean in both directions report the weather conditions at re gular intervals, by rudio. By charting these reports it has H-D COLUMN By MISS ETHEL COUNTS “Life is not so short that there is always time for courtesy.” This se lection that Emerson wrote rings as true in the hearts of civilized Ameri cans as does the selection, “You can not dream yourself into a character, you have to hammer and forge your self one,” by Froude. Character and courtesy are similar in gaining the necessities of life. Anyone with character will have courtesy. The people in small towns seldom think of courtesy but often character is thought of. If all the people would follow Emerson's selec tion and do their best, they would find it no trouble at all to follow Froude’s. Your manners make a lasting im pression on people. They show the extent of your regard for the rights and feelings of those around you. Good manners are habits of thought fulness for others. They are natural to one who is truly considerate and, fortunately, can be cultivated by one who is not. been possible to forecast northeast Graceful manners come of a know- gales, tropical hurricanes and other ' ed £e °f correct social forms. These approaching disturbances carrying f° rms ar c based on common sense danger to small craft, water-front | and K 0 °d taste, and are easily learn- property or inland regions, in time ■ ed - to provide protection against them. Now hardly any ship afloat, except Good manners must begin at home if they are to he at all natural out- those of the United States dares toi side - Therefore, it is well to start ’ this review of good manners by con sidering how thoughtful you are in your home. report its position for fear of Ger man submarines. So many neutral ships have been sunk that none feels safe in letting a possible lurking U-boat know where to find it. Even the few ships flying the American flag, will not be able to render the customary weather ser vice if Congress passes the proposed law to keep our own craft out of the zones of warfare. HURRICANES .... headlines It is unfortunate that the first news of the tropical hurricanes, which are to be expected at this time of year, always comes to the news papers from the U. S. Weather Bu reau station at Jacksonville, Fla. No matter if the storm spend itself a couple of hundred miles off shore, it is headlined: “Another Florida Hurricane.” I have met many people, and have heard of many more, who are afraid to spend their winters in Florida for fear of hurricanes. That is as sensi ble as being afraid to go to Chicago because of the gangsters. Only two hurricanes in a quarter of a century have swept any part of Florida with serious results. Long Island and New England, last fall, suffered more property damage and loss of livep from the hurricane which destroyed thousands of homes and levelled mil lions c,f acres of forest, than Florida has ever experienced. The “hurricane season” in the Carribbean, where these storms gen erate, is over by November and does not begin again until July. With the rest of the world barred to Ameri cans seeking peaceful comfort In Winter, the coming season ought to see Florida crowded with visitors. There’s no better place ,1 know to go, from December to May. G1NNINGS TO (NOVEMBER FIRST There had been 21,180 bales of cotton ginned in the county up to November first, according to Special Agent B. M. Wise. To the same date last year there had been only 15,167 bales ginned. Apparently the coun ty will run five to six thousand bales ahead of last year. 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