Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. alter indie Notes of a Newspaper Man: The Justice Dep’t members (who are planning to ashcan the sedition case) are as spineless as spaghetti. The defendants aped nazi tactics and still are echoing nazi propa ganda. ... It provides a galling contrast: Thousands of American soldiers losf their lives fighting naziism. Others lost their eyes, hands and limbs. But some defeat ists in our justice dep’t refuse to cake Hitler’s stooges into court for fear of losing a case! . . . And re member that any American soldier Who refused to fight when it seemed like the nazis would be victorious —could have been shot. Vignette: Laura LaPlante, the movie star, who is still a looker, tells it herself. . . . She drove up to a gas station recently where the attendant did a double-take and said: “Say, did anybody ever tel] you that you look like Laura La Plante?” ... A bit cagily, Laura replied: “Why, yes. As a matter of fact s veral people have.” ... To which he hastily added: "Oh, don’t get me wrong, lady. I don’t mean the way she looks NOW!” An American newspaper man and a Russian scribe got chum my at the peace conference. “I can’t understand your Stalin,” said the Yank. “It took a world war to get us American report ers into Russia.” “What are you complaining about?” chuckled the Russian. “It took a world war to get us Russian newspaper men out!” Another newsman, recently back from the Balkans, explainci the Tito regime’s arrogance with this yam. ... He asked a Yugoslav leader wfiy his tiny nafiorf insisted on alienating a powerful friend such as the U. S. . . . The Yugoaf sneered: “Tiny nation? We and the Russians number more than 200 million!” New York Novelette: L._. too long ago a pretty newcomer chorine phoned a newspaper man she known. . . . She said she had a weighty problem for him to help solve. She said her chief ambition was to wed a millionaire, but she didn’t know any. . . . Could he in troduce her xo some? . . . Nothing came of it. ... A few weeks ago that girl married a multi-million aire, who settled nine millibn dol lars on his ex-wife for the divorce. The newlys are still honeymoon ing. . . . She is Marianne O’Brien. . He is the Camel ciggie heir, fl. J. Reynolds. Broadway Torch Song: (By Don Wahn): The mob is back — the bights take on a tang. . . . New shows, new gals new blood is in the veins. . . . Yet I remember all the songs we sang. . . . When wine was king and glamour held the reins. . . . That was an autumn tinc tured with delight. . . . When life was lush and all the chips were flown. . . . ^nd we would wait like culprits for the night. ... To steal the gold that drifted on the town. . . . But we were ripe for all the pranks of Fate . . . And so we came to terms with discontent. . . . And suddenly we found the hour was late. . . . The wine was low— the gold was strangely spent. ... I turned to you as solace for a Fool. .. . But you and autumn both turned very cool! Many of the misunderstand ings between nations can be traced to a lack of knowledge. Some newspaper men in an en lightened city such as Paris know very little about the United States. . . . Several months ago a gazette in Paris referred to “a village of 200 souls in the half savage state of Texas.” Faith Moves Moontains Boychoir School Rated Unique Youth and Educational Project Sounds in the Night: At Leon & Eddie’s: “Tommy Manville must be getting old. He took a vacation this summer instead of a honey moon” ... In the Cub room: “Oh, stop giving yourself 4 stars!” . . . At the Singapore: “He’s a typical Broadway success. Doesn’t know anybody any more.” ... In Village Vanguard: “Her tongue's an ex press train, and rumors are its only passengers.” ... At the 400: “Ev- 1 ery time one of those guys at the 1 United Nations conference shakes ! a threatening fist he’s taking your life in his hands.” ... At the Copa: “He took me to breakfast last night.” ... At the Stork: “Be careful! She looks like the plaintiff type.” WNV Features. Faith still moves mountains, provided it has as its motivat ing force a person who refuses to recognize obstacles which to most people would seem insurmountable. Down in Columbus, Ohio, the unbounded faith of one man has proved the major factor in formation and development of the Columbus Boychoir School, which in the short span of six years has been accorded national and international acclaim in the realm of youth projects and educational enterprises. The idea of a boy school choirs— was conceived by Herbert Huffman, musical director of the school, who <S~ Boston blue-pencilers added an other slice of stupidity to their non censorship record. Although “Life with Father” has been running there for more than a year, the Boston censors finally decided to delete a line from the play. ... It recalls the time the same blue- pencilers issued the following in structions for a film: “Eliminate scene showing man kicking girl.” ; . . And then the censor’s report added: “This elimination required only on Sunday showing.” for several years had been minister of music in b Columbus church. Founded on Faith. When the school opened its doors in September, 1940, its chief assets were Huffman’s faith and the enthu siasm of Harry C. Marshall, head master. Although books, blackboards and teachers’ salaries were among the missing items, the lack of these usual essentials in the school was a minor factor. The men and boys worked to gether for the development of their ideal until their own en thusiasm began to pay divi dends. In launching the unique education al project, the founders termed it a “venture into choral training using music as the means, not the end— a motivation, not a goal.” The di rectors decided that choral train ing held untold possibilities for the educational and moral development of each boy. Actually, the choir had existed two years prior to founding of the schodl. The boys had rehearsed after their own schools let out, but time did not permit sufficient personal contact between teacher and boys. Form Unique School. The solution was the Columbus Boychoir School of four grades, using the standard scholastic cur riculum with emphasis placed on choral training. Admission to the school—then and now—had two requisites, musical aptitude and the possibility of a good voice. Forty- eight boys attended the opening ses sion, the enrollment increasing con sistently to reach the present total of 97. A non-profit, interdenominational institution, the school relies on re turns from its own concerts and public subscriptions for support. Although the teachers in the ear ly days of the struggling school were given no assurance of a salary, they came anyway as a result of their faith in the genius of Huffman and the conviction that their ideal eventually would be realized. Make Town Hall Debut. In the third year of its existence, the unique, tuition-free organization got its long-awaited opportunity. Siegfried Hearst, representative of the National Concerts and Artists corporation, attended a rehearsal of the Boychoir in Columbus. Capti vated by the group, he advised a Town Hall debut in New York. Ig noring the financial drain, the choir went to New York to score its first outstanding success. Reviewers were lavish in their praise. Only disappointment following the Town Hall debut was that the anticipated request from N.C.A.C. to manage the Boychoir failed to materialize. Now, however, the N.C.A.C. has full management of the choir’s affairs. Second major opportunity for the choir came three years ago when the choir appeared in concert at the Radio institute’s annual convention at Ohio State university. Leading radio executives arranged to pre sent the Boychoir in a six-month series of broadcasts. Radio appearances and con certs brought the work of the choir to the attention of musie lovers throughout the nation, with subscriptions guaranteeing future of the school beginning to pour in. Two-thirds of the back salaries now have been paid. Huffman, who had re ceived nothing for his labors for the first five years, has started to draw his well-earned wages. The school, which started with faith and a $6,000 budget, has set its goal at $25,000 next year. Lack of housing and boarding fa cilities for out-of-town applicants has prevented many deserving boys from taking advantage of the unique opportunities offered by the school. 7 To remedy this situation, more than $100,000 of a $150,000 quota has been raised in an inten sive building campaign. Plan Major Tours. For the past six years, the Boy choir confined its choral activities to Columbus and its environs. Ex panding its activities, the choir con ducted its first organized tour through the East last spring. In response to requests from par ents in all parts of the country, the Columbus Boychoir summer camp at Chautauqua, N. Y., was estab lished to make the unique training of the school available to boys from other communities. Supported at first by nothing but an abounding faith, Columbus Boy choir School today ranks as one of the nation’s major achievements in the artistic and educational world. Court Sets Aside Will Typifying Spinster’s Hatred of Men NEWARK, N. J—The last earthly wish of Miss Louisa Strittmater—to show her utter contempt for men— was rejected when a court set aside her will, which would have cut off her male relatives without a penny and left the bulk of her estate to the National Women’s party. Neighbors said the elderly spin ster’s bitter hatred of men induced her to hoard her money in her home because she could not find a bank run by a woman. Part of her $15,- 000 estate was in gold coins dug up from the basement of her home in Bloomfield, N. J., after her death on December 9, 1944. In setting aside her will. Vice- chancellor John O. Bigelow said the woman’s hatred of men went beyond the borderline of sanity. “Miss Strittmater regarded men with an insane hatred and looked for ward to the scientific day when women could bear children without the aid of men,” the prerogative court justice said. “In 1937 she wrote: ‘It remains for feministic organizations to make exposure of women’s ‘protectors’ and ‘lovers’ for what their vicious and contemptible selves are,’ ” Bigelow said. Two male first cousins, who had been left out of the will, and a sec ond cousin will share in the estate. yifJloHte in WASHINGTON By Walter Shead WNU Correspondent WNU Washington Bureal 1616 Eye St.. N. W Indiana Town Lifts Itself By Its Bootstraps \/I ILFORD, IND. — An experi- ment, called by the experts a lecture-seminar in rural sociology has been conducted at Milford, Ind., a small rural town of 1,000 population in northern Indiana. The experiment is a success. It has transformed a sick, withering com munity. A decadent town, which for a dozen years has been slipping down the economic ladder into busi ness failure, social lethargy and complete lack of community inter est, has been brought back by a reawakening and revival of commu nity spirit. This upsurge of unself ish co-operative effort has attracted national attention among farm and civic leaders and students of sociol ogy and psychology throughout the nation. The answer to this lecture-seminar which brought to this small commu nity the big names, a veritable “who’s who” in education, church work, sociology, business, industry and agriculture, is quite simple in the mind of this reporter. The an swer is the same in any community, in any nation or in any community of nations. It is the elimination of selfishness and intolerance. It is that simple. Symptoms which corroded and ate away the civic consciousness and social life of Milford are evident today in many American communi ties, in many nations, in the peace conference and the meetings of the United Nations. These symptoms include business failures and empty storerooms . . . lack of collective leadership, bickering and narrow provincial attitudes in some churches . . . selfishness, greed and intolerance . . . deterioration of the public schools . . . striking loss of population in high school age groups and older . . . government by a small clique of selfish ultra con servatives . . . loss of trade to near by cities and towns, and a clash of interests between townsmen and those living on farms. Miniater and Editor Sparked by the interest of a young minister of the gospel, the Rev. Harry Graham, who also is a lecturer for the local Farm Grange, aided and abetted by the members of the Lions club and the publisher of the local weekly newspaper, Ar thur Baumgartner, a returned G.I. and publisher of the Milford Mail . . . these symptoms have been an alyzed, their causes determined. As a result, the town of Milford to day is convalescent and well on the way to recovery. Space here is not sufficient te tell the detailed story of how Milford went about ridding itself of the bar nacled of social obsolescence. Suf fice it to say that today leaders in Milford believe they have stemmed the loss in population of young folks who have been leaving the town and the farms . . . age 15 to 19 years about 9.4 per cent of the population annually; 20 to 24 years, 7.4 per cent; 25 to 29 years, 6.4 per cent and 30 to 34 years, 5.2 per cent. Today they believe that this tre mendous loss in manpower in the most productive years has been stopped: (1) because they have brought new small industries there which will take up the slack in em ployment; (2) because they have giv en these young folks new lease on life in recreational facilities — a bathing beach, tennis courts, softball courts, a community center, a youth center, supervised recreation for youth from elementary school age through high school; a town band. Churches have opened their halls and other facilities to the young peo ple; business men have joined hands co-operatively to work for the best interest of the many, not the selfish few; the high school has been re generated and new agricultural courses have been instituted for the farm youth; larger and better do mestic science facilities have been installed; an adult education riass has been instituted in the town li brary; a program of land use and soil conservation has been institut ed intended to increase the number of owner - operated family sized farms; efforts are being made to develop more favorable landlord- tenant agreements; to improve credit arrangements and to encour age ownership and conservation; to hold down land values below in flation prices so that returned vet erans and younger farmers can buy at a price which permits a living on their investment. Co-Operative Leadership Elimination of the imaginary line between the town limits and the surrounding country was one of the first steps in the rejuvenation of Milford, in an effort to develop a co-operative town and farm leader ship and an invitation to this lead ership to participate as co-equals in the problems of the community. Working quietly behind the scenes is the Foundation for American Ag riculture, a non-profit, non-political organization which is working for the best interests of agriculture. IMPROVED U UFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By F )LJD L. LUNDQUIST. D. Of The I*- dy Bible Institute of CY'cago. Released by Western Newspaoer Union. Lesson for September 29 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. JESUS AND THE LAW OF LOVE LESSON TEXT—Psalm 119:33-38: Mat thew 5:43-48. MEMORY SELECTION—Love worketh no 111 to his neighbor; therefore love Is the ful filling of the law.—Romans 13:10. Love fulfilled the law—in Christ. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son (John 3:16). The law of love is therefore appro priate as the subject of our closing lesson on the general theme, “Jesus Interprets Old Tetsament Laws.” Love is the heavenly gift of God, who is love, to man who so much needs its grace and power for his own life and for his living with others. I. The Mind of Love (Ps. 119:33- 35). Eight times in this psalm there is found the cry of verse 33 for in struction in the laws of God. Man not only must know them, but he must know how they operate. The picture here is that of a man who wants to get in step with God, marching out to spiritual warfare and being prepared to respond in prompt obedience to the commands of his divine leader. Here we have the true mind of love. The one rightly instructed in the principles of God’s rule in \he world sees that love is the basic re quirement, but that it expresses it self in a life that is in accord with the will of God. The thought of this passage is well expressed by Dr. W. R. White: “The psalmist had the highest possible conception of love before the revela tion in Christ. He saw it as the basic order of things. He conceived it as identical with the will of God. He viewed it as the safe, happy path for man. He considered it as the way of wisdom. He passionately desired to embrace it and order his life by it. He saw it imparting to the naive and simple the benefits of extraordinary judgment. To measure up he knew that he had to be quickened or made alive to it by the power of God.” II. The Manner of Love (Ps. 119: 36-38). Love operates not from necessity, but because of an inner urge which will not be denied. The psalmist prays that his heart may be so in clined toward the Lord and so quickened within that he may be eager to do the will of God. Love has a technique, if you will, a manner of operation. It avoids certain things which would hinder or prevent its full function and seeks out those attitudes and ex periences which will encourage and enlarge. Covetousness must be avoided, for that is idolatry (Col. 3:5). We noted in our lesson of two weeks ago that covetousness makes a man stingy, envious, selfish, proud and foolish. That means that love fnust rule out this destructive element. Love cannot live in such an atmos phere. Love turns away from vanity. The vain things of this world are usually presented in such attractive dress that to look at them is to be tempt ed. The answer is to turn your eyes away, or better still, ask God to give you special grace not only to turn away, but to stay turned away. The vain passions of this world destroy real love, even while using the word to describe their base counterfeit. The positive side of the /natter is also clear. The manner in which love best expresses itself is in the fear of God, in the established order of a life according to the law of God (v. 38). By being inclined to his testimonies it finds the right way—God’s way (v. 37). IH. The Measure of Love (Matt. 5:43-48). How far does love go? Does it have a limit? Does it choose those toward whom it will express itself, loving the lovely and ignoring or hating the regj? In answer to these questions let us first ask. What is the general attitude of the world? The answer is evident. The world has established its own principle of conduct based on selfish advantage. It pays to be polite to those who can favor you, so cultivate their good will by acts of courtesy and kindness. Your neighbor may be able to help you in an hour of need, so do good to him as you have op portunity. But an enemy—what can you gain from kindness to him? Hate him, and treat him like an enemy. Christianity knows nothing of such a spirit. Even though it be neces sary to oppose wicked men in order to hinder their evil plans, we need not lose our love for them. Even those who despitefully use us may be loved for Christ’s sake. “Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself (and went right on loving them) lest ye be wearied” in your own love for those who bear the sad name of enemies (see Heb. 12:3). This is admittedly a high stand ard, but it is not too high for those who know the love of Christ. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. HOMS AND AUTO SUPPLY STORE. Se cure your future. Franchise and merchan dise available now for new Associate Stores. Investigate before you invest. Write or wire. KENYON AUTO STORES. Dallas 1. Tex. MISCELLANEOUS WIRE OR WRITE PRICE F. O. B. CARS. 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