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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1», 1941 THE NEWDewht buw and CLUB NOTES IS THIS YOU? Miss Tilla West and Miss Ethel Denticle were the two persons describ. ed in The Sun last week. This week our first description is of a lady who lives in the county. She was seen in a department store on Main street Monday morning do ing some Christmas shopping. She was wearing a black coat, a white scarf, black gloves, green hat with a tan band on it, and was carrying a black pocketbook. Our second description is also of a lady seen Monday morning coming out of a department store with her daughter. She was wearing a red coat, black hat with a red feather on it, black gloves, black shoes, and carrying a black hand bag. Your acribe asked them if they were do ing a bit of Christmas shopping, they replied, “No, just looking.” If either of the above descriptions could be you, come by The Sun of fice and receive your ticket which entitles you to a quart of FREE ice cream from Stokes’ Drug store, com pliments of Stokes’ and The Sun. I THOMAS AND HOWARD j EMPLOYES TO HAVE CHRISTMAS PARTY The employes_of the local Thomas and Howard grocery organization 1 will have their annual Christmas party at the Wallace Home Saturday evening. Jake Wheleer, of Prosperity is in charge of the program, which is ex pected to be a fino one. About forty members, including their wives and sweethearts will en joy a bountiful turkey dinner with all the trimmings, and will also receive lovely gifts. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM AT JOHNSTONE SCHOOL A Christmas program will be giv en at Johnstone school Friday, Dec. 19 at 7:30 p. m. The public is cordially invited. MERCHANT-RISTER On Saturday, December 13, 1941, Miss Helen Beatrice Merchant was married to Mr. James Edward Rister at the residence of the officiating min ister, the Rev. J. B. Harman, in the presence of a few relatives and friends. Mrs Rister is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Merchant of Pros perity, and Mr. Rister is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Berley Rister of Newber ry and holds a position in the New berry cotton mills. Their residence will be on Green street in Newberry. KINARD-NORRIS Mrs. John M. Kinard announces the the marriage of her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Land Kinard, and John Thompson Norris on February ninth, nineteen hundred and forty-one. The ceremony was performed by Dr. F. O. Lameroux at his home in Batesburg. The impressive ring ceremony was used. Mrs. Norris is the daughter of Mrs. John M. Kinard and the late John M. Kinard, who Was president of the old Commercial bank for sev eral years, and at the time of his death was manager of the South Carolina National bank. •Mr. Norris is the son, of Mrs. John T. Norris and the late John T. Nor ris, who was a prosperous planter of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Norris are both pop ular in the city and are employes of the South Carolina National bank. They are now living in their home at 1230 Summer street which they purchased several months ago. FISCHERS ENTERTAIN Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Fischer enter tained the employes of the local Co ca-Cola plant, their wives and sweet hearts with a delightful turkey din ner at their home on College street Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. For the occasion the Fischer home was unusually lovely in its decora tions of holly, candles and other sea sonal decorations. The president of the Newberry plant, R. R. Bruner, Sr., and Mrs. Bruner of Columbia were present for this affair which is given by Mr. and Mrs. Fischer annually at this season. Fourteen guests enjoyed the affair. FIREMEN WILL HAVE TURKEY DINNER , The members of the Newberry Fire Department will have their annual Christmas dinner at the Wallace Home Friday evening of this week. The present members of the city council are invited to join the fire men on this occasion, when a delicious turkey dinner will be served. MORRIS-SNIPES Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Morris of this city announce the engagement of their daughter, Alice Leone, and James Leroy Snipes of Columbia. The marriage is to take place in January. Callie Boyd and Henry L. Parr and Drayton Nance, students at Clemson, are expected home Thursday to spend the Christmas holidays with their parents in Newberry. Henry Baker, a student at Wash ington and Lee university of Lexing ton, Va., and Ralph Baker of Duke university medical college will arrive in Newberry Saturday to spent the Christmas season with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Baker and grand, mother, Mrs. H. L. Parr on Main street. Dr. J. W. Carson and Mrs. H. L. Parr attended the induction of Dr. W. W. Boyce as dean of the Theolo gical Seminary at Due West Monday afternoon of this week. Dr. Boyce will fill the vacancy made by Dr. G. G. Parkinson, who resigned some time ago to teach in the Seminar’.'. CARPENTER’S EMPLOYEES HAVE CHRISTMAS PARTY The employees of Carpenter’s store enjoyed a Christmas party at the Wallace Home on Calhoun street Thursday evening. Red and green Christmas decora tions were used in the dining room where covers were laid for fourteen guests, who enjoyed a delicious tur key dinner with all the trimmings. Gifts were exchanged by the em ployees. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Franklin, Mr. B'-oadus Berry, Miss Loumas Berry, and Miss Mary Lee Gannt spent last Thursday at Camp Stewart, Ga., visiting Lonnie Franklin, Jr., and Willis Berry. Mr. and Mrs. S. Y. Fulmer and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Taylor were Sunday guest in the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Waddell in Rock Hill. W. H. Anderson of Greenwood visited his brother R. H. Anderson in the city Sunday. J. C. Harman of Columbia spent Sunday with his family on Harper street. Louis Patrick of Due West will ar. rive in Newberry Fr.day to spent the holidays with his mother, Mrs. Azilee Parr Patrick. NAGLE-EPTING A marrage of interest to friends in Newberry county and elsewhere was that of Miss Connie Nagle and Rob ert B. Epting of Murry, Kentucky, which was solemnized in Cape Ger- ardea, Missouri on Wednesday, Nov ember twenty-sixth. Mr. Epting will be remember to> Newtoerrians as “Bobby” Epting, son of the late R. L. Epting, and nep hew of Ben Epting of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Epting are making their home in Mayfield, Kentucky. Mrs. Whit Brown, of Wilmington, N. C., who has been seriously ill for several weeks is visiting her sister, Mrs. Wilton Todd while recuperating. Miss Virginia Hayes of Lander col lege spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hayes. Mrs. Carl Aron of Laurens was a visitor in Newberry last weekend. Misses Marie Moore and “Bill” Pettigrew of Conway spent the week, end with their relatives. They were accompanied by Miss Leona Moore and J. H. Hanbury, also of Conway. Miss Ethel Derrick is able to be out again and back at work after be ing confined to her home on Bound ary street several days last week suffering with flu. PERFECT ATTENDANCE ROLL AT O’NEALL SCHOOL P Vlvver see such beauties? Henry Drcyfuss, world-famous designer created this smooth-writing ream! Press the magic button of the Eversharp Repeating Pencil with your thumb—and click! It feeds new points like a machine gun! The Eversharp Pen—with its new “Magic Feed” ends pen messiness — prevents flooding —even above 12,000 foot altitudes! Writes cleaner—faster—easier! Newberry Drug Company Tun* in EVERSHARP’S "TAKE IT OR LEAVE, IT" The following students had per fect attendance for the first three months: Grade 11: Marvin Aull, Oscar Bow ers, Nelson Connelly, Clara Dennis, Buster Eidson, Marjorie Holley, Veola Rogers, Grace Shealy. Grade 10: David Bedembaugh, Jean Bedenbaugh, Carolyn Boozer, Omerle Grout, Aileen Davis, Lula Mae Ear- gle, Fay Fellers, Gerald FuTmer, Erline Harmon, Earl Kelly, Velma Lybrand, Frances Miller, Leora Os walt, Bruce Oxner, Dannie Rogers. Grade 9: Hubert Bedenbaugh, Ce- dalia Fellers, Valeria Price. Grade 8: John Cason, Lorraine Counts, Chester Davis, Gladys Hol ley, Lorena Miller, Agnes Story. Grade 7: Kibler Bowers, Guy Ear- gle, George Pierce Fellers, Elaine Bowers, Mary Ruth Dominick. Grade 6: Dennis Bedenbaugh, Gur- nie Warren, Reba Hawkins, Ella Rae West. Grade 5: Samuel Bowers, Derieux Long, Carroll Moore, Grace Kelly, Helen Parrott. Grade 4: Ettie Adams, Reba Bow ers, Dawkins Dennis. Grade 3: Lewis Black, Drucie Con nelly, James Robert Homm, Doris Moore, Marion Moore. Grade 2: Troy Adams, Annette Hawkins, Barbara Hendrix, Charles Jumper, Ruth Kelly, Richard Koon, Robert Lybrand, Willie Parrott, Una Summers. Grade 1: Betty Jean Adams, George Black, Billie Bowers, J. P. Fellers, Jr., Shirley Hawkins, Rich ard Hendrix, Helen Moore, Dorothy Jean Werts. GENE KING IS CLASS OFFICER Gene K. King, son of Mrs. Mary K. King of this city was elected vice- nresirent of the freshman class at Wofford college He was a star play er on the Newberry high school foot ball team last year. He played on the Wofford freshman team this fall. At School on the Rouge Many unique methods of in struction are used at the Henry Ford Trade School in Dearborn, Mich. For example, this photo shows an instructor in shop theory explaining the operation of a mi crometer by utilizing a giant model built specially by Trade School students as a practical classroom aid. In his hand the young student holds a small micrometer he uses in the Trade School shop. This school, now supplying hundreds of graduates to important jobs in defense industries, has just cele brated Its 25th birthday. It was founded in 1916 by Henry Ford to teach trades to boys. The school is located in the heart of the vast Ford Rouge plant. PENITENTIARY CHAPLAIN (Continued from preceding page) sexually immoral, Mr. Hamilton notes. He said that when the wo men lose their sexual balance, they lose everything, and that they then are reduced to crime. “They are very irritable and they’ll commit murder, robbery or anything,” he observes. “They’re more like a piece of dynamite than anything else. They’re quick to re pent and they’ll curse the next mo ment.” Few JReally Reform It is estimated that of the dis charged prisoners 50 per cent are habitual criminals and that only one- tenth are permanently 'refornted. Mr. Hamilton has been instrumen tal in the organization of county re habilitation committees. These com mittees help convicts in adjusting themselves to normal life after their release from prison. Headed by the sheriffs of each county, the commit tees serve voluntarily without com pensation. They aid the families of the imprisoned convicts and help dis charged prisoners to secure jobs and overcome their problems. Mr. Ham ilton goes from county to county, supervising the operation of the re habilitation board's, and pays his traveling expenses from bis own pocket. Prison methods have changed dur ing the last several years, Mr. Ham ilton observes. He said that an old guard at the penitentiary told him about the time when convicts were placed over barrels or fastened to posts and brutally lashed. Today, the convicts are made to feel that in entering the peniten tiary, they are coming to a house of correction where they are to be taught rather than to a place where thev are to be punished. The ob jective of the penitentiary today is not to punish or invoke revenge, but to repair lives and help men who have fallen to become useful citizens. The penal institution of today can be lik ened to a hospital where broken souls are! mended. Besides giving the prisoners Christian teaching, the state helps them to learn trades in which they may find jobs. Educational lectures are given for their benefit. They are permitted 1 to hear radio programs and participate in such sports as basketball, baseball and football. On Library Censorship One of the largest projects at the penitentiary is the library in which Wholesome, constructive literature is made available for the convicts. Mr. Hamilton is a member of the censor ship board which passes on the mag azines and literature for this library. Mr. Hamilton, who is seventy years old, has been preaching the gospel since he was eighteen. He was educated a t Carson-Newman college, Stetson university and the Baptist Theological Seminary, of Louisville. Mr. Hamilton, who had an uncle who was a preacher, said that it was de finitely impressed on him by the Lord that he should enter the ministry. While attending Stetson, Mr. Ham ilton became a close friend of John B. Stetson, the multi-millionaire hat manufacturer and founder of the uni versity. Stetson contributed to Mr. Hamilton’s expenses at the Baptist Seminary, and promised him a posi tion os secretary of the Y. M. C. A., club of his Philadelphia hat factory, but Mr. Stetson died before Mr. Hamilton was graduated from the seminary. . At the seminary, Mr. Hamilton took special courses in social wel fare work, a serive in which he al ways has been interested. Before accepting his present position at the penitentiary, he was * secretary of orphanages and industrial schools in Georgia. He also aided in the estab lishment of an orphan’s home at Co lumbia. Mr. Hamilton regards the Apostle Paul as a remarkable example of how a man can repent and take on new life in Christian faith. Mr. Hamilton is the father of Fred P. Hamilton, chief clerk at the Charles ton police station. CANTALOUPES FOR CHRISTMAS Belton News. , Enjoying a fresh ripe, juicy can taloupe at Christmas time may -not be entirely impossible for this section according to Walter H. Sullivan, far mer of near here. Mr. Sullivan has now a cantaloupe that was pulled from the vine some six weeks ago and has kept almost perfectly free from decay. He stated that this fruit was from a planting in July, and it is not fantastic to be lieve that with such warm falls as this year, a late crop could be made and stored for use at Christmas time. Such an experiment would be worth while. FOOD COST JUP 21 PER CENT The cost of food in South Carolina jumped 21 per cent from January to early this month, a report by Labor Commissioner W. Rbett Harley dis closed yesterday. Vegetable shortenings topped the list by increasing 75 per cent, lard rose 63 per cent and eggs went from 32.9 cents a dozen to 48.3 cents. The labor department surveys food prices regularly, studying quotations in eight widely-separated municipali ties. Sixty-one items are priced. KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN Rev. J. B. Harman, Pastor Summer Memorial: Sunday 10 a. m., Sunday school. Mr. M. E. Shealy, Supt. 11 a. m., Church Worship with ser mon. 6 p. m., Luther Leagues. Bethany: Sunday 6 p. m., Sunday school. Mr. E. B. Hite, Supt. 7 p. m., Church worship with ser mon, followed by Luther League. Visitors are invited to worship with us. EX-SERVICE MEN ARE NOW SUBJECT FOR CALL Local draft boards will soon re classify some thirty white regis trants who were given a 4-A classifi cation because of prior military ser vice. Deferment of such men has been nullified by reason of declara tion of war. IS IMPROVING Herman “Hop” Halfacre, who was taken critically ill at his home on Boundary street last week is improv ing at this time. Mr. Halfacre was county auditor for several years, filling out the un expired term of his father, the late J. B. Halfacre, who was auditor for many years. Looking ’em Over BY LONNIE FRANKLIN Last week this column said: “Let’s Go America!” Today we say we have “gone” and in a way that will leave no doubt in the minds at Tok yo, Berlin or Rome. The Japs had their day when we were discussing some way for peace but they stabbed a dagger in our backs, and since the result has been gratifying to everyone except those axis thugs, each day sees more Japs fed to the sharks, more boats lost, until we wonder what will really happen when Uncle Sam gets in on the ground floor. Some 250 Marines are making history in Wake island. For one week they have beat off every Jap attack, and the Philippines are still there. Remember, we are some 0000 miles away., while the Japs are next door and if those yellow lice wan’t whip a landing party in a week what chance do they have when we really begin to send n.en over there. We said and repeat, Japan has chos en the way to a fifth rate power in world affairs and today she knows Hitler and his thugs are whipped in Russia; they are all bat out of the desert and she alone must now fight the war started by the greatest as sassin in history. Hitler and his gang rode rough shod over Europe until the Russians slowed them up. Theirs was a war of scaring people with military splen dor, fifth column activities and double crossing. But America isn’t that kind; we are behind our army and will not be misled by any Hitlers and therein lies the defeat of the Axis be cause every country that has gone down except Greece and Russia fail ed to fight. They wue lulled to sleep by the talk that the Axis couldn’t be stopped—now the world knows that they HAVE T>een stopped. Hitler said the Russian army was cut to <pieees, promised his people peace in 1941. Now he says its too cold in Russia, too hot in Egypt. The Yanks will send him to a hotter cli mate and he will have to like it. America has never asked an enemy about the climate, the> just beat the devil out of him and make him like it. It isn’t for Hitler, Mussolini or Tojo to say what the peace terms will be. THAT is for America and her al lies, and those thugs will not be ask ed what they want—they will take what is dished ou^to them and like it. WHERE - WOULD WE STAND NOW?” It is easy to make promises, we got them in 1918 but they were not fulfilled. Let’s not let our boys down now. I know boys who were promised their jobs back but it took a year or more for them to get them. Be fair with the boys, don’t tell them a job will be waiting unless you mean it. I had that promise and got the story “we will see what we can do.” Don’t promise a soldier what you don’t intend to do. Back our boys and mean it, they get enough “bull” in the army. I have talked to boys in the ser vice, the first thing they want to know is what they are to expect when they get back. Last week in an army camp I had a soldier from a Northern state tell me he hoped to get better treatment from his boss than his father got when he return ed from the first World war. We are in a war to the finish. It will take every ounce of power Uncle Sam and his nieces and nephews can muster. We are fighting a bunch of thugs who will stop ju nothing to attain their aims. It isn’t nice any more to treat the enemy like your best friend so we will have to play their game of “any thing goes” and we must make it so convincing that even a thug like Hit ler will say once again as he has al ready said about Russia, “I underes timated his strength. He KNEW our strength but the fool he is, he thought * we were to good to fight, too soft, had lived free so long that it would be easy to sway us from our aims. Didn’t we sit still and let the German Bund drill in our cities, let the Dago bands move on our soil. We paid little attention to the Dies committee —all that and more made the thugs think tbey would have a pink tea af fair, but what they did not have sense enough to see was that we may get busy, and now every dictator in the world knows that these United States can and IS going to give ‘them more hell than they can ever stand. Yes, Uncle Sam has gone to war. He isn’t in it for any territory; he doesn’t want to oppress any race or creed, but he does mean that so long as this world may stand, no foreign power or group of foreign powers will ever dictate to him nor his friends what his policy shall be. This Christmastime we cannot say “Joy to The World” but we can say to the world we intend to see that •pea:e to all mankind will sooner or later be a reality instead of a hope. But, there is much to do before the above materializes. The people must get behind the boys who are doing the fighting. There is money to be raised, work to do for each and everyone. Stop and ask yourself this question: “IF EVERY AMERI CAN HAD DONE AS I HAVE MEETS AT CENTRAL CHURCH The Newberry County Ministers’ Association meets in Central Metho dist church in Newberry next Mon day, December 22nd, at 11 o’clock a. m. An interesting program is being arranged and the annual election of officers will be held. DEALER’S NAME THE EXCLUSIVE NEW K ’ GENUINE -REGISTERED -| eepsake SOLITAIRE DUETS ANTIQUE Set 215.00 Engagement Ring 200.00 MONTROSE Set 94.75 Engagement Ring 75.00 Fashion favors the smart simplicity of these new Keepsake styles, as adver tised in Life and other leading magazines. They are Guaranteed by Good Housekeeping as advertised therein. In addition, you receive from us the Keepsake Guaranteeof Quality and Permanent Registration, con firmed in writing hy the makers. Come in soon to see these new Keepsake Matched Sets. LAUREL Sot 1 37.50 Engogamwit Ring 125.00 CLOISTER Sot 119.75 Engogomwit Ring 100.00 W. E TURNER Jeweler EXTENDED PAYMENTS IF DESIRED