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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1939
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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
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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.
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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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intergrating warfare will change the
picture drastically.
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. The total crop
for the entire country will fall short
of last year by some several hund
red thousand bales.
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