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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1941 , ^ Where Cars Run Thousands of Miles Without License Plates Two automobiles without license plates have been aver aging 25 miles a day on Detroit streets and getting away with it. No traffic cop holds them up. Detroiters do not know of these cars or the streets on which they run. The pilots of these unlicensed autos drive in eternal darkness except for their headlights, which burn constantly. The beams of these headlights flash on crystal pillars and arches and roadbeds as the cart curve and twist through 30 miles of streets in the great salt mine lying a quarter of a mile be neath the traffic of Detroit. Few Detroiters even kno«' that the mine exists. Thirty years ago immense deposits of salt were discovered a thousand to fifteen hundred feet below Detroit’s west side. A shaft was sunk by the Inter national Salt Company, which has been burrowing under De troit ever since. Distances finally became so great that the automobile idee got into the company's head. The difficulty was that no road ran into the mine. The only way was by vertical •shaft. So the salt company put its problem up to the Ford Mo tor Company. The next difficulty was that a regular closed car wo'ddn’t fit into the shaft. • So a couple of convertibles were sent over and the tops re moved. Then into the depths of the shaft went the topless cars. There was no need to put the tops on again, for no rain or snow ever falls in the city of salt, where the temperature is always 58 degrees. One of the cars was assigned to foreman Edward Yipee, who has worked in the mine since the shaft was first sunk in 1910. The other Ford is equipped as a "repair and maintenance car and is used chiefly by the mechanical trouble shooter in keeping the mine’s far-flung machinery in working order. NEWS FACTS ^GEORGE A. CALF BORN HERE HAS TWO MOUTHS, TWO MOSES, THREE EYES- THE OWNER REPORTS THAT THE ANIMAL EATS TWICE AS MUCH AS AN ORDINARY ^ CALF/ AUTHORITIES STATE SCOTLAND HAS BEEN DRIFTING WESTWARD TO THE ATLANTIC AT THE RATE OF 7& FEET IN TWO VEARS/^^c PREACHERS TOLD NOT TO BECOME “TOO POMPOUS” St. Louis, Feb. 10.—Ministers who “tend to become too pompous” were verbally switched around and the an kles today by one of their own group, Dr. J. Harry Cotton, president of the Presbyterian Theological seminary at Chicago. “Every minister needs to learn to enjoy a good life at his own ex pense,” Doctor Cotton declared. Speaking here in connection with the National Christian Mission cam paign, he continued: “Ministers tend to become too pom pous, dignified and self-important, as though they were not human beings as is every sinner who sits before them on Sunday mornings.” The speaker urged the ministers to “keep alive our common humanity” in every day life. “We need to make clear to .rar- selves the burdens that our people carry, he said, “along with the anx ieties that disturb them, their unfilled hungers and their restless sense of need.” WOMANLESS WEDDING The St. Philips High school will present a “Womanless Wedding” Saturday night, February 15th, at 8 o’clock, featuring A. P. (Jolly) Ruff as the bride and John Stone as the groom. Be sure to come early if you want a seat. A small admission will be charged. LITTLE MOMENTS IN BIG LIVES Kessler CAVy D. DUQUAM, N&v Vice-PQ'E^idejot 4kjd GEAJCQAL AMWAGtQ op TO DOIGKT MOTOQ GO- 1 STAQTED A? AM APOQOOTiQfe AT THJCTEEM /W TO ^L?6V I STEAM PIKE ENGlKJt GO- OF SEMtOA 'TAIL?, M-V- mmmtm ■ ^ i. — ..» ■■ ■ .i . ■■ , ■ » „ ■ ■ THB NBWBBUT SUN Explains Origin And Significance of ^Ground Hog" Day (Delayed) Meterological significance of Febru ary 2nd, commonly known as Ground Hog Day, is more significant as the mid-winter period than his Hogship’s connection with it. Thus the congeal- ment of condensation of the atmos phere at this period sets the pace of the weather to follow until the close of winter and spring is ushered in, in six weeks time. The weather is psycholo gically concerned about such a decision just as we humans are in “making up our minds” in such a respect, in settl ing a problem of one kind or another. Congealment of the atmosphere means cold weather and condensation means exactly the opposite—mild weather in stead of warm. The decay of vegeta tion is not caused by frost as one sees it on the leaf stem. It is congealment of the atmosphere which exhausts the life of vegetation more rapidly than the source of revival can be supplied, frost being the evidence that the life of the plant has been destroyed. One sees frost on dry grass, pine straw, roofs of houses, wood, etc., but such vegetation sucJf as wheat, oats, and other grains and certain vegetables with many fibrous roots generally withstand the congealment attacx in the winter season. So in this period the day was approximately clear and cold it means that congealment had taken place and six more weeks of winter will follow. February 2 is really Candlemas Day, the oldest fes tival of the Christian church establish ed in 492 A. D.. as the feast of the presentation of Jesus, in the Temple or the Purification of Mary. His Mo ther. The Catholic church observes it by consecration of all the candles to be used throughout the church year. Conection of the groundhog with the day is purely sentimental, even it has existed 500 years when the custom first began in England. While editing the Newberry Observ er in 1898-1901 the writer revived in terest in Groundhog Day and was in volved in a controversy with a Penn sylvania editor in 1900 as to its worth as a weather indicator, the Newber- rian defending the affirmative. An early spring securing that year on ac count of condensation of the atmos phere, the day being cloudy. When strawberries began ripening March 23, the writer, on April 1st, sent which were grown in the writer's garden. The zoological name for 'the ground hog is Aardvark (aard-varic, early pig), having first been observed by Englishmen in South Africa at the Cape of GoodHope where it is also called cape pig. It is an insectivorous mamal, an anteater like the armo- dillo. In New England and other sections of America it is known as the groundhog or woodchuck and bur rows into the earth for its habita tion, being dormant during the win ter season. Groundhog Day as connected with Candelmas Day in England the fol lowing stanza was used: “If Candelmas Day be bright and clear The groundhog will return to his lair Tho if the day be cloudy on country side He will on the outside duly abide.” As January 25 occurs winter begin* to approach midseason on February 2nd, the week is significant at open ing date as indicating the quantity of precipitation during the interven ing period of the coming year, there fore this year rainfall will be abund ant for the growing crop season, as the weather around January 25 in dicated that this condition will pre vail. W. P. Houseal. REV. E. B. KEISLER ON "THE CHRISTIAN HOME" a. a. ILSR OPENINGS IN COAST GUARD Competitive examination for ap pointments to cadetships in the United SUtes Coast Guard will be held May 14-15, 1941. This examina tion is open to all physically qualified boys throughout the United States be tween the ages of 17 and 22 years, who have the required moral qualifi cations and educational preparation. Successful completion of four years of cadetship leads to a Bachelor of Science degree, a commission and a career in the United States Coast Guard. While the course is mainly professional, sufficient time is given to purely cultural subjects. In ad dition to the time given to engineer ing and such subjects as Seamanship and Navigation, etc., the cadet spe cializes in Maritime Law and studies related to Maritime Economics and Marine transportation. The course is designed to fit him for a commission in the United States Coast Guard, whose function is to enforce all Federal laws on navigable and territorial waters of the United States and to promote safety and se curity to vessels that a^e our waters or legitimate commerce and pleasure; to have its personnel, units and sta tions prepared or active war time duty and to organize yachts and small craft and train their crews for duty in case of national emergency. Wilson Brown and Horace Switten- berg were business visitors in Colum bia Tuesday. The home is God’s first Institution, chronologically and otherwise. Upon R rests the security of other institu tions indispensable to civilization. Ever since His founding of the home God has safeguarded it and has richly blessed those Who have honor ed it—blessed them materially and with other blessings a thousand times more precious. At le-st a potential home is es- tablishe > when, in accordance with God’s ordinance, one man and one woman in marriage discontinue to be twain but become “one flesh”—one in spirit, one in ideal, one in purpose. Yet one out of every seven couples pledging their love and loyalty to each other for life find their way to the divorce courts seeking to be law fully separated, all to frequently to unite m marriage with some other party already decided upon. Wherever there are children involv ed ir divorces they, as the records of the courts will show, are put to a disadvantage. A larger percent of those than from other homes, become law violators. And a criminal is a liability to society in every respect. No wonder then that the ministers throughout the county who are united in the joint effort of bringing tv the people of the county massages upon vital modem problems will on next Sunday appeal to their hearers to “Save the Home”. Too, the enurch people generally will, by their pres ence at the services and their res ponse to the messages, strengthen the efforts and encourage the hearts of those to whom they look for spir itual guidance. This county-wide ef fort is erssade in which everyone can have a distinct and important part. Many of the pastors have ex pressed their appreciation of the unusually gratifying response which has been accorded by people in all walks of life. In developing their subject, “Save the Home” the ministers will doubt less, among things, plead for the es tablishment of the family altar in every home, denounce the infernal (not necessarily eternal) triangle, picture the tremendous peril to the home of intemperance and inconsid erateness and appeal for family ehuroh-attendanee and in every way a greater emphasis upon spiritual values. The ministers are in earnest. While they would not be alarmists nor men without faith and hope in both God and man they are avowed ly deeply concerned and are commit ted to the task, as God’s ambassadors, to bum into the consciousness of their people the will of God with respect to man’s manner of life, regardleaa of the price. LAST OF STATE NATIONAL GUARD IS MOBILIZES The last of South Carolina’s Na tional Guardsmen entered the federal service Monday when units of the One Hundred and Seventh Coast Ar tillery battalion (anti-aircraft) were mobilized at their home' stations pre paratory to a year of training at Camp Sewart, Ga. The seven units will train at their home stations in six different South Carolina towns and cities until Feb ruary 20, when they will move to Camp Stewart. The other National Guardsmen have been mobilized and stationed already as follow*: At Fort Jackson: The One Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry, regiment. Thirtieth division; several units of the One Hundred and Fifth Quartermas ter regiment, Thirtieth division, and a portion of the Thirtieth division special troops. At Fort Moultrie, Charleston: The Two Hundred and Sixty-third Coast Artillery regiment. _ At Fort Bragg, N. C.: The One Hundred and Seventy-eighth Field Artillery regiment. Units comprising the One Hundred and Seventh Coast Artillery battal ion which was mobilized yesterday are: Headquarteds—Dillion, with Lieut. Col. John C. Henagan, commanding officer; Maj. Walter A. Johnson (of Clinton), executive officer, and Capt. W. D. Arnold, Sr., as chaplain. Headquarters battery—Dillon, Capt. Ralph B. Murchinson, commanding officer. Battery A—Lancaster, Capt. Wil liam G. Williams, commanding officer. Battery B—Clinton, Capt. Jack H. Davis, Jr., commanding officer. Battery C—Newberry, Capt. Thom as H. Pope, Jr., commanding officer. Battery D—Hampton, Capt. Nathan J. Johnson, commanding officer. Medical department detachment— Columbia, Capt. (Dr.) Robert W. Ball, commanding officer. DOC UNITED WITH MASTER ST. PHILIPS NEWS It make* me feel good that St. Philips was more prompt in paying up their pastor than any in the charge. Don’t misunderstand me, the others in the charge will pay the pastor. This is to show you that we are on the job. I learned that St. Philips has only 15 dead member*. I think that does very good out of 845 members and I hope that I will live to see St. Philips stand alone. They are now able to pay their own pastor. The grain eropa do not look *o prosperous because of the severe win dy weather. It now looks as if Feb ruary is going to be very rough. I am looking for the cold weather to continue until the first of April. Monterey, Calif., Feb 10.—Th* iova of a dog for a man found expression in a dramatic reunion at the «n4 «f a 2,000-mile trail, today Laddie, desperately-ill and inoon- solable since Everett Seatt was called to army duty from Chanute, Kas., three months ago, was met at an air port by his master. Scott peered into the basket iu which the ten-year-old Airdale, wrap ped up in blankets and hot wator bottles, had made the plane trip. “Laddie, old boy, you don’t look so good,” Scott said softly. A flicker of eyes and the lifting of one ear constituted the aging dog’s response, The dog was taken to special quar ters by a veterinarian at Fort Ond, where Scott is in the service. If ha lives, he’ll be mascot of the entire Seventh division of 15,000 men. Three months ago Everett Scott left Laddie behind in Chanute, Kas., when tie joined the army and was assigned to Fort Ord, Calif. The dog, griev ously affected, pined for his master, became disconsolate and refused ts eat. Then it was arranged to send th* dog to Scott by plane. He arrived yesterday, but his heart was so weak ened veterinarians feared he might die. Miss Julia Smith of Winthrop spent the weekend in Newberry with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. DsrriU Smith and family. DIAMOND TIRES EASY TERMS Quick Credit BATTERIES HOME RADIOS Battery or Electric AUTO RADIOS GreystonE SERVICE STATION All (lai s xW’/ Buyer Preference-But Davis Motor Company 1111-17 MAIN ST. NEWBERRY, S. C.