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♦ THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. Woman's World Refresh Wardrobe by Restyling Garments No Longer in Fashion clrtta r THINK we can divide women into two groups when they look into their old clothes closets. There’s the first group who make a wry face and who try to get rid of these garments as quickly as pos sible. Then there’s the second group. These women thoughtfully pick up each garment, consult their fashion notes and convert the dresses into something that could have come from a smart depart ment store. To the smart woman, there’s not a dress no matter how old, that cannot prove useful if she is clever with the needle. Some garments naturally will require a good deal of restyling or even complete alter ation. Others will need just a slight change in neckline or skirt to make them completely new and re freshed. Dresses frequently discarded are old formals which look so woe begone when they come out of clos ets. Yet look at the beautiful mate rials in them, and think for a moment how nicely they could be made into perfectly beautiful house coats, new formals or fresh-look ing suits. If the neckline on an old formal is hopeless, it’s an easy matter to alter this. Perhaps you will buy a bit of net and work this into a new type of yoke and sleeves. Sequinned straps may be taken apart and used at the wrists as seen in so many of the gowns showing Grecian in fluence. Or, take the sequins apart and use them as a decoration around the neckline, or clustered together in a design or flower. Make a Velvet Housecoat Out of an Old Formal If you have an old velvet formal or dinner dress of prewar vintage, you may be delighted to discover that the velvet is of an exquisite If you have an old formal ... quality. Restore it to life by steam ing, or have it cleaned profession ally. Your daughter may be looking for one of the new bare shoulder for mals to wear at her high school dance, and this might be just the material for her. There will prob ably be enough for just such a dress. If not, select a small quan tity of wide grosgrain in match ing color and use it at the skirt or around the bodice for trimming. Another good idea for the velvet garment is a housecoat. If there is not quite enough material to make a comfortable coat of this type, plan to use coral and lime draping at the front, as this is a very effec tive combination with black velvet. Among the innumerable uses for this velvet, you might discover that the dress could be remodeled into a Victorian or Renaissance style formal for current wear. Recut the neckline, making it a square or sweetheart type, and add a bit of lace ruffling to give charm. This lace might also be used as an insert in the skirt or as a decoration around the wrists. Consider the Material When Doing Restyling Just as you select a new dress for its appropriate material, you Make a perky suit from i$ must consider material when re modeling. I think you will find that old taffeta and satin formals can be made into brigtt, perky suits either for yourself or a teen-age daugh ter. These materials are luxurious Shirt-Cuff Style Typical of Hansen Bang’s flair for the bolero is this wine wool suit worn with a pink tucked crepe blouse. Roll collar and but toned shirt cuffs lend piquancy to the jacket. Four flaps simulate pockets. and require rather high style to set them off properly. For the present season you might like to make them into a lovely suit perhaps with a modified bustle. First select a good pattern and then prepare the material for your project. This will probably require ripping the whole garment apart as the remodeling will be a complete change from the former garment. Pay particular attention to such detail as the sleeves and the bustle and follow the pattern care fully. If there is not quite enough material, use contrasting ribbon, or modify the style just a little to suit the individual wearer. Bustles are attractive only if they are styled correctly. A dress form is handy to have for moulding the lines carefully, as they may re quire slight adaptation from the orig inal style. Pin and baste carefully and then try the effect on the actual person and make any other nec essary adjustments before putting in the final stitches. You will have to sew both of these fabrics carefully to make them look their best. Allow plenty of room, as they do not give when worn. When sewing sheer material, set the machine stitches carefully, and test on, a strip of fabric before you do any actual sewing on the accessory you are making. You may also use tissue paper under neath the material when sewing, as this gives the material more body whfle you stitch. This is eas ily ripped off when you finish the sewing. Planning Wardrobes There are many interesting ways of choosing clothing for yourself. One of the best ways of appearing your most at tractive is always to choose col ors that blend well or contrast with your own personal type of beauty. If you have a lovely home, look to the colors you use in your rooms and “borrow” them for your wardrobe. Or, if you have a lovely picture print in color, test the colors against your own complexion and see if they can’t furnish inspiration for your clothing. Check all colors you would use on yourself from all angles. See what they do for you under dif ferent lighting, and when you are certain they flatter you al ways, use them as a basis for your wardrobe. It’s always a good idea to have one or two good basic dresses in the wardrobe, and several sets of accessories to go with them. If you have a suit, make sure it fits perfectly, and then build a wardrobe around it with differ ent blouses and dickies, hats, shoes and other accessories. —m - ■•-r"” - .... . - Released by Western Newspaper Union. STRIKES OF 1894 AROUSED DEMAND FOR LABOR LAWS Agitation for labor-management legislation began with the railway union strike, called by Eugene Debs in 1894. Workers in the Pullman plants in Chicago were a part of the Debs organization. The strike start ed at Pullman, then spread to the railroads. Debs was a Socialist, and his or ganization was definitely socialistic. John Altgeld, then governor of Illi nois, although elected on a Demo cratic ticket, was sympathetic to the socialist cause. Until forced by the action of President Grover Cleve land, he declined to take any action fo:- the protection of property. After Cleveland sent regular army troops into the city to operate mail trains, Altgeld called out the state’s nation al guard. The order came too late for the militia to do a thorough job. At that time I was a member of, and had a minor command in the first regiment of the state guard. That regiment was as signed to the southeastern sec tion of the city, in which were located the Pullman shops, the Illinois Central shops and the five-miles-long yards of roads coming into the city from south and east. It was late afternoon when thi mobilization order was issued and after dark when the regiment reached its designated position. That darkness was illuminated by the light of the burning freight and pas senger cars, thousands of them, in that long five miles of railroad yards. As I watched that terrific fire, started by frenzied men, it seemed that I was seeing the end of government and the beginning of an archy. LASTED A MONTH At the end of some 30 days it was over. The strikers had lost, and had gone back to such jobs as were left. Property destruction had re duced the number. Some months later workers at the Pullman plants were given a portion of the raise they had asked, but it was months or years before that increase made up for their loss in strike-time wages. The property loss of the rail roads amounted to hundreds of mil lions of dollars. The court had en joined Debs, and his violation of that injunction brought for him a prison term in a federal penitentiary. That strike opened the long era of labor-management legis lation, including establishment of a labor department, with cab inet rank. With labor, presum ably, representing more votes than does management, that legislation has largely favored the demands of labor. Because of such actions as the threatened railroad strike of a year ago, the three months tie- up of the automobile industry, those that have affected the dis tribution of food, the coal strike of last spring and again this win ter, the public has protested, and now the pendulum will swing backward and away from labor. Leaders of labor pressed the advantages they were enjoy ing beyond the limit. Generally the people were sympathetic to labor’s wishes until those wishes and demands, and the methods used in enforcing them, directly affected the consumer. The coal strike brought directly home to the people as individuals the full meaning of a labor dicta torship. It is such labor disturb ances, those that directly affect the individual, that have swung public opinion against labor leaders who cause the condi tions. It is a public opinion to which the congressional ear will listen. PRIVATE TAX ON COAL THE PEOPLE are expecting, as one of the early acts of the new congress, legislation that will def initely, permanently and effectively outlaw any and all attempts to foist upon the American consumer any tax, direct or indirect, not imposed by recognized government authority. The five cents a ton paid into the miner’s union treasury by the oper ators for every ton of coal mined was, and is, such a tax on the con sumer. That contract, made by In terior Secretary Krug, established a precedent that can be just as reason ably applied to every line of produc tion. It is a tax that is passed along to the consumer. It is, in no sense, a part of the mine worker’s wages. The workers do not see it. Officials of the union collect it, and they alone determine its disposition. It is dis tinctly unAmerican, unjust and un justifiable. It definitely must be out lawed by congress. Needlework Hints Women preparing needlework for commercial sale should remember that all articles should be kept spot less while being made, experts say. Articles which require washing, no matter how carefully it is done, lose some of their natural value, espec ially when made of yarn. WASHINGTON'S DITCH . . . Great Dismal swamp canal, first surveyed by George Washington, here goes through the forbidding swamp which has piqued the curiosity of men for generations. Army To Restore Canal Through Famous Swamp By WNU Features Oldest man-made waterway in the United States again will carry pleasure and business traffic through one of the most fascinating areas in the world with restoration of the Great Dismal swamp canal, often referred to as “George Washington’s ditch,” to its standard nine-foot channel depth. Work will be done under direction of army engineers. The canal, connecting the Eliza beth river in Virginia with Alber- marle sound in North Carolina, is in use today but lack of engineering attention in recent years has pre vented full use of its facilities. The nickname, “George Wash ington’s ditch,” stems from the fact that Washington himself surveyed the canal in 1763 and later invested in a company which proposed to drain the Great Dismal in an ambitious land development scheme. The canal, dug by slave labor,,was not navigable, however, until 1822. Drainage Cuts Area The canal originally cut through one of the most famous swamps in the world—one which has piqued the curiosity of men ever since they first came to its green edge and were repelled by its desolate de fenses. But now drainage has shrunk the area from 2,200 to 750 miles and the canal itself leads through con siderable cultivated land. The canal is fed by the “feeder ditch,” a straight canal which brings water from gloomy Lake Drummond in the very heart of the swamp. Navigable for small boats, the feeder ditch is the usual entry for explorers and curiosity seekers. George Moore, the poet, was among literary lights who have been fascinated by the Great Dismal. He visited the lake in 1804 and while there wrote his “Lady of the Dismal Swamp,” which heralds one of the many superstitions which abound along the canal. Probably the first white man to penetrate the swamp was William Byrd, who named it. In his Divid ing Line History, Byrd relates that his party often could progress at the rate of only one mile a day. He adds that he “liked no part of it.” Subsequent expeditions have re vealed the swamp rich in flora and fauna. Owned mostly by lumbering interests, the swamp has yielded large harvests of gum, cypress and other timber. It now is proposed to preserve it as a national forest. Deer and bear still abound in some portions although not in as large numbers as previously. At one time a hunter killed 30 bears in a single year. Birds which nest on the ground are scarce but Lake Drum mond and tributaries are considered good fishing waters. Copperhead snakes also are prevalent and are reported to have fallen into boats from overhanging boughs. Juniper water flowing out of Lake Drummond is a deep red and is considered by most “swampers” to have tonic values. At one time it was taken aboard ships for drinking water, since it reputedly would not grow stale. In fact, one enterprising man bottled it in Baltimore for sale as a health-giving beverage. Curiously, Lake Drummond occu pies a depression which is on a ridge higher than the rest of the swamp. For this reason it is considered likely that the swamp could be reclaimed entirely but a proposal to do this several years ago brought protests from nearby farmers, who claimed the swamp had a beneficial effect on local weather. CANAL LOCKS ... One of the two locks on Great Dismal swamp canal, which take care of a nine- foot drop in the terrain. Easterner’s Yen Realized at Sale CANON CITY, Colo.—Because he “just got a bug on owning a ghost town,” Cecil R. Miller, Cincinnati electrician, bought one at a delin quent tax sale here. Miller, chief electrician for a Cin cinnati newspaper, saw the former mining town of Whitehom, 60 miles northwest of Canon City, during his summer vacation. After persuading the county to offer it for sale, he returned here by plane to purchase the 332 acres for $1,550, a higher bid than that of George Everett, cattle rancher. , Back in 1905 Whitehorn was a prosperous mining' center with a population of 600. Irritated by Tickets, Motorist Sends Bill PORTLAND, Ore.—Irritated with the way traffic officers gave him parking tickets, Carl A. Peterson decided to do something about it. So he mailed City Auditor W. E. Gibson a bill for $6.80 to cover re pairs on his windshield wiper, which he contended had been broken three times by patrolmen attaching the tickets. Vets Seek Entry Into Poor House MONTROSE, Colo. —House hunting World War II veterans here are trying to get into the poor house. Long abandoned, the county farm and poor house recently was sold for $10,000 and the new owners plan to use it for veterans’ housing. Old Way of Milking Works, Police Insist MILWAUKEE, Wis. —The old- fashioned way of milking cows may not be as fast but it gets the same results, the Milwaukee police insist. During a power failure a woman called police headquarters to com plain she was unable to milk 24 head of cattle because there was no power to operate her milking machine and asked what to do. “Lady,” said the desk man, “I guess you’ll have to do what you did before you had that machine.” Fashion Flashes Henry Ford at 83 Remains Active but not in Industry Hats remain more flirtatious than ever for the new year. You’ll be seeing bright plumes, tufted satins and plenty of posies in the new headgear. Other hats seem to be a-glitter with sequins and more sequins, and there’s no limit on colors in this department. You’ll find plenty of silver and gold sequins along with multi-colored ones. Hats in the shops look like very pretty boxes of bonbons. They come in the prettiest of pastel shades, champagne, beige, winter white, pink, ice blue, aqua and mocha. Any woman is certain to find her dream hat among these. Look also for swirling ostrich feathers, but don’t wear them un less you’re strictly the type, or can find one turned to fit your face. JUST WHO is the boss in these United States? A news story print ed at the time of the east coast long shoremen’s strike said: “The gov ernment won permission from the j strikers to unload some food ships.” Evidently it is the labor leaders who are now telling us, the people, who thought we were kings, where we get off. * * * Less work for more pay is not a pol icy that will put the nation hack on its peacetime feet, and provide the prosper ity for which we are hoping. DETROIT, Mich.—Famed as the elder statesman of the world’s auto mobile industry and the master of mass production, Henry Ford ob served his 83rd birthday anniversary recently, still active in mind and body but no longer the guiding genius of the fabulous empire he founded more than four decades ago. The slender, white-haired motor magnate stepped down from the presidency of the Ford Motor Com pany last September, declaring he wanted to devote most of his time to “personal interests.” He turned the huge responsibility over to his grandson, Henry Ford II, eldest son of the late Edsel Bryant Ford. Now living in virtual retirement »at his large fenced-in estate, Fair- lane, in nearby Dearborn, Ford makes infrequent visits to his com pany’s main plant or to his own Greenfield village. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAY I chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Released by Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for January 5 CLASSIFIED D E P A R T M ENT BUILDING MATERIALS CONCRETE block machine double block vibrator 200 to 240 per hr. 3 cu. ft. mixers on wheels $59.95. Power brick machines to 12,000 day. Hand oper. brick or block ma chines. Mixers for blks., mortar. Wheelbar rows. Madison Equip. Co., Madison. Term. BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Heligious Education; used by permission. THE WORD MADE FLESH LESSON TEXT—John 1:1-18. MEMORY SELECTION—No man hath «een God at any ttme: the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom ot the Father, he hath declared him John 1:18. A new year always carries with it a deep sense of responsibility and at the same time a thrill of expectancy. That is why we need to begin this new year—and continue it—in the study of God’s Word, so that we may know his will. You will find it to be a joy and blessing to you, not only as you study it by yourself, but also in the fellowship of those in the Sun day school and church. Our lessons for the next three months are of unusual interest, for they take up the Gospel of John which was “written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name” (John 20:31). Jesus Christ is here presen tea as the Word (Logos), and he is indeed j the living Word come to reveal God to us. I. The Living Word Is the Light of Men (vv. 1-5). Men ask questions about Christ. | ■ They want to know whether he is I to be regarded as a good man and a great leader, or must we recog nize him as being God? The answer is here. He “was” jin the beginning (Gen. 1:1), which | means that he pre-existed from all ; eternity, and he “was God” even as he was “with God.” This eter- | 1 nal, living, divine Word was the *‘ex- ; press image,” of God (Heb. 1:3), and ' so perfectly revealed the Father (v. 18). He is the Creator (v. 3) and giver of life both natural and spiritual. This eternal Word became (as he was) the light of men. He came to shine into the darkness of a sinful world with the only light of redemp tion. We say again, “This is the Lord!” II. The Living Word is a Divider of Men (w. 6-13). WILL SACRIFICE my recapping tire plant consisting of ten recapping molds, eight section molds and all other equipment in excellent condition. Great bargain at $3,000! Write CENTER HILL TIRE CO- P. O. Box 732. Atlanta, Ga.. ar Phone Vernon 8132. EARN $100 per day profit with Master Concrete Tile Machine. Materials and mar kets everywhere. Descrip, literature free. CONCRETE MACHINERY COMPANY Box 2248-B - - - - Hickory, N. C. MFG. Sales Agents wanted, local and traveling. Make fur, leather, wool coats, suits, jackets. Kip skin trial offer $30. Special to one able to make simple trailer. Write P. O. Box 32. Station E. Atlanta. FOR SALE—Army surplus store in Dublin. Ga. A going business, approx. 20,000 popu lation. Long lease on building. B. H. SAMPLES Dublin, Ga., Office phone 84, Res. B0>W BAKERY EQUIPMENT 8 BENNETT, No. 55, double deck 184xm f »an. Peel ovens; 1 Peerless auto, gas our-bun pan oven; 1 slow speed dough mixer, Gillman Speed Giant Jr. slicing machine. Sold to highest bidder. Coiner see them in operation. Immediate delivery. 902 S. Court St., Montgomery, Alabama Phone 8131 see Perry, Ga. ARMY SERVICE SHOES, reconditioned. Merchants, buy direct and save the dif- ference. BLACKWELL’S. Lincolnian, Ga. SALESMAN—SHOW IT, SELL IT. A high grade cigar lighter of solid aluminum, never fails. Retails for $1.98. costs you $7.50 a dozen. SeHs for $10.50 to retail trade. Guaranteed. Send $1.00 for sazm^s or write ATLAS SALES CO.. 327 Jo ha sten St.. Decatur. Alabama. FOR SALE—Jewelry store. Good location. 5 to 10-year lease. $7,500. Write or call W. D. CARDEN Day Phone 1551-J: Night Phene 6649-J. 1314 22nd Ave. Heights, Meridian. Miss. FARM MACHINERY & EQUIP. TRACTORS—Bready Garden, also Cun ningham mowers. CLARK TRACTOR CO., 4305 W. Beaver St., Jacksonville, Fla. COTTON GIN, 4-80 Murrey saw gins, all latest equipment, including butane gas dryer; best cotton county in Ga. Reason for selling other business. Write Box T, 400 Edward Ave.» Pgh. 16, Pa. FARMS AND RANCHES » SACRIFICE sale, lock, stock and barrel. 838 acres good level land: 350 acres culti vated; 300 acres planted to oats: fer tilized; now growing; 4 good dwellings, several nice barns, two good wells with windmill; located two miles west of Butler. Gar, on paved road; R.R. running through property; electricity available; one Ford and one Farmall tractor; planters and cul tivators; 2 Case six-ft. combines with mo tor; peanut picker, hay baler, 2 lime spreaders; pair good mules and wagon; stalk cutter; cut-away harrow, cultivator, grain drill and mule-drawn equipment too numerous to mention. The grain crop any average year will pay half of price asked. Price $25,000. Owner. J. A. PAYNE Butler. Ga. - - - P.O. Box 481 FOR SALE—100 acres, two houses, mile of Blairsville. $4,000. Twelve acres, one house, h»lf mile south of Blairsville. $3,500. C. J. WELLBORN * Blairsville. Ga. The darkness of sin was so deep, and still is so deep that the glorious light of God is not received with gladness, nor accepted at all. We see that in the close of verse 5. Now the question comes. Does it make any difference how a man regards Jesus Christ? The answer is clear. You must decide what you will do with him. You cannot avoid that decision or evade that light which shines. You must either accept or reject, and a failure to accept is a rejection. God has witnesses to the Light. John was such a witness and he, like all true witnesses for Christ, directed attention to him. John’s great testimony was just a lesser light to point men to the true Light. That true Light is shed abroad for all men (v. 9). HELP WANTED—MEN CABINET makers, tinners and plumbing shops wanted to build and install the new electrical and ice refrigeration svstem in to old and new homes alike. Write P. O. Box 254 - - Hapevlllc. Georgia MISCELLANEOUS SPANISH CEDRO hand carved life-like figures 12" long for wall, table, door. $4.95 and $6.95. Rose petal silver necklace- bracelet sets made by Toltec Indians $14.85 incl. tax. KARAKUL ASSOCIATES. Drawer 1109. El Cajon, Calif. CEMENT BLOCK molds, flower pot molds and bench molds. SAM ROBINSON FOUNDRY CO. 1178 Pryor St., S. W. Atlanta, Georgia 225-H.P. BUCKEYE Diesel motor, 6 cyL. 400 r.p.m., with 3,900-gal. fuel tank. 600- gal. feed tank; air compressor for start ing and water pump. Write or wire your power unit or road eouipment needs. JOE MIXON 155 Clairmont Ave. - - Decatur, Ga. “GALION** motor grader. Model 101. used, excellent condition. CARLTON-HENNES- SY CO., 179 Peters St., S. W., Atlanta, Ga. CY. 1330. CY. 1625. As they face Christ, men divide into two groups. His own people, and his own creation rejected him when he came (v. 11). How utterly tragic! And yet the same thing goes on today. Men hear the gos pel, are made acquainted with Christ and his claims, yet fail to accept his proffered salvation, and are eternally lost (John 3:19; Eph. 2:1). But, thank God, there are those who receive him (v. 12), and to them he gives the power, the right or authority, to be the sons of God. This change is expressly declared to be (1) not by reason of family or heredity—“not of blood”; (2) not by natural instinct or development —not “of the will of the flesh”; and (3) not by human volition or by man’s will power—not “of the will of man.” III. The Living Word Is a Re- vealer of God (vv. 14-18). The eternal Word, the Lord Jesus Christ, laid aside his place of honor in heaven, came to earth and took upon himself our flesh that he might redeem us from sin. What infinite condescension, what unfathomable love! He dwelt among men and showed forth the grace and ' truth of God, for he was full of these heavenly attributes. But it was in his giving of himself as Redeemer and Sa viour of mankind that he fully re vealed God in all his gracious love for us. Nofice the antithesis here. “Law” is set over against “grace”; “giv en” stands in contrast with “came,” and “Moses” with “Jesus Christ.” The law was a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ (Gal. 3:24), but It could not save anyone; but grace —oh, it is by grace that we are saved (Eph. 2:8). Moses was God’s honored servant, but Jesus was the Son in the house hold (Heb. 3:5, 6). It was this Son of God who came to reveal the Fa ther and to declare his grace in sal vation. The law was sent through a mes senger, but no messenger, no mat ter how great or worthy, would do to bring the gospel of the grace of God. That message of “grace and truth came by Jesus Christ” (v. 17). PERSONAL Personal or Business assignments repre sentations undertaken. Sales closed. Con fidential reg. serv. Reas. Precision Indus tries. 210B 5th Ave., New York 10. N. Y. SEEDS, PLANTS, ETC. ONION PLANTS Crystal Wax and Yellow Bermuda $5.00 per crate, express collect. Crystal City Plant Co., Crystal City, Tex. 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