Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. TWFICl DON CORNER 1 STRICTLY BUSINESS By ROBERT C. BLACKMON T HE finest sermon I ever heard ended and the benediction came straight from the heart of the broad-shouldered figure in the pul pit. The stirring voice of the big organ filled the church and the con gregation began to leave. Harry Thatcher and I were sur rounded by sober, thoughtful people as we went to the car. He drove out toward the lake. “Don," Thatcher said abruptly aft er he got a cigar started. We were entering the lake drive. “There are three million, five hundred and sixty-thousand, four hundred and eighty letters in the Bible.” “I suppose so.” I almost dropped my cigarette. His talking about the Book took me by surprise. His in terest was financial news, exclusive ly. “There are seven hundred and seventy-three thousand, seven hundred and forty-six words In its thirty-one thousand, one hundred and seventy-three verses.” “Sure." I looked at him, wonder ing. His gray eyes were half closed, his broad face grave. One could see why he was called “Bull-dog” Thatcher. He had a reputation of going after business, wherever it was. and getting it. “Shortly after the war ended, a young man named Phillip Crasor came into my club one evening.” Thatcher settled himself more com fortably in the broad front seat of the car, one big hand on the wheel rim. “He had been a pilot. I don’t know how many missions, but enough. Star end at the university before that. All around athlete. He had been mentioned as a possible Olympic chance. Folks had a lit tle money.” The car rolled with almost no noise. I said nothing. This wasn’t the Harry Thatcher I’d known. I’d dropped in on him last night since I was in town for a few days, and he’d insisted upon my going to church with him this morning. Thatcher was not a church man, so far as I knew. I waited. "Phillip had got some cockeyed ideas in the army,” Thatcher went on. “Some radical talk. He started griping about youngsters in the army getting killed while the big-income businessmen stayed home safe. My income runs up a little.” He couldn't conceal a note of pride. “He looked at me when he said it and I thought he was making it personal. I told him big-income men were worth what they got and he said they were a lot of stuffed fools. I got sore. I told him he couldn’t handle a $50,000 job for a month, much less a year.” Thatcher coughed a little, apol ogetically. “I was a captain in the first world war. Infantry. Shrapnel.” His hand moved to his right side. “They wouldn’t take me the last time.” He straightened. Breeze from the lake swept our smoke from the car. “Phillip Crasor said he had $5,000 that said he could handle any $50,- 000 job for 12 months. Inherited the money from an aunt, I believe. Anyway, he said for me to put up or shut up. The fellows in the club laughed, and I—well, I lost my tem per. I called him at ten to one, betting 50,000 against his five that he couldn’t handle the job. I was to name the job. It wasn’t to be impossible, or require technical skill neither of us had. It was foolish, but neither of us would back down. It was a bet and I couldn’t call it off. Betting is strictly business with nae. If I win I collect, and if I lose I pay off. Strictly business. If a man can’t look at it like that, he has no business betting.” He tooled the big car around a curve. Sunlight was on the lake, a moving pattern of glinting water under a cloud splashed sky. “The club was in an uproar, with men betting each other we’d both back out, or go on with it. I went over to the big bookcase at the other end of the room to think it out. “I saw the Bible in the book case and remembered my mother telling me that the Book was good to read when yon didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know what to do. "I took the Bible and saw in the back where it had so many letters and words and all that, and it gave me an idea. When I was in school I couldn’t spell. “The teacher used to make me write missed words on the black- place and the materials to do the job, and I was to be the judge of whether the copies produced were acceptable or not. If we had too much argument we could each choose a friend and they would choose a third party to settle the argument. There wasn’t anything left for me to do but go through with it. I was going to each Phil lip Crasor a lesson, anyway.” My forgotten cigarette burned my fingers and I tossed it from the car. “I turned over a small cottage down on the lake to Phillip Crasor, stocked it with a Bible, paper, pens, ink and blotters and told him to go to work. I left a man there to see that he didn’t get outside help. It was strictly business with me. I had $50,000 at stake.” “Phillip Crasor was going to produce 10 perfectly legible hand written copies of the Bible, as the contract provided, or he would lose the bet.” “I didn’t get back for a week or two, and Phillip had spoiled a lot of paper but produced nothing ac ceptable. He wanted to fight, but I told him to read the contract and My man cabled me that Phillip Crasor had locked himself in the cottage and wouldn’t let anyone in. board a couple of hundred times. I wrote about 20 words a minute, writing carefully. I figured I could write perhaps 30 words a minute, fast. That meant about 15,000 words in a full day of writing. At that rate, it would take 50 days to com plete a handwritten copy of the Bible. Ten good, clear, handwrit ten copies would therefore take about 500 days, and the bet was for a year.” Thatcher laughed softly, remem bering. “I realized that this was an ideal job for the purpose. It required no technical skill neither of us had, and there was a good chance that Phillip Crasor couldn't do it. I didn’t want to lose $50,000 any more than he wanted to lose the five. Phillip hadn't stuck at anything since he came out of the army, and I figured he’d drop out within a few weeks at the most. Then, I’d return his money and teach him a lesson he wouldn’t forget about betting. And there was a very good chance that, after he learned what the job was to be, he’d drop the whole thing and agree to call the bet off. That would have been fine with me. I couldn’t back down as long as Phil lip wanted to go on, of course. The men at the club never would have forgotten it, and it would have hurt me in a business way. I went back to the others.” He nursed his cigar for a few moments. “Phillip Crasor exploded when he learned what the job was to be. I didn’t know it, but his handwriting was awful. He thought I was rib bing him. The men in the club were having the time of their lives. A well-known lawyer drew up a contract and both of us signed it. Phillip Crasor wouldn’t back down and I couldn’t I was to furnish the Grace Noll Crowell T HIS would 1 hold mote predoua than fine gold. This would I keep although all else be lost: Hope in the heart, that predous, priceless thing, Hope at any cost. And Cod, if its fine luster should be dimmed. If seemingly through grief it may be spent. Help me to wait without too much despair, Too great astonishment. Let me be patient when my spirit lacks Its high exuberance, its shining wealth) Hope is a matter, often. Cod, I know Of strength, of health. Help me to wait until my strength returns. Help me to elimh each difficult high slope. Always within my heart some golden gleam. Some quench Iras spark of hope. It was time for him to put up or shut up. I thought he would burst. The club was betting he’d last about another week. I did not think he’d go that long.” Thatcher looked out over the lake, then his eyes came back to the drive before us. “Business suddenly took me to France and Italy and I stayed there for months.” He coughed again, apologetically. “All wars are not won on the battlefield, and all sol diers do not wear uniforms, you know. Anyway, I was gone over nine months. My man cabled me that Phillip Crasor had locked him self in the cottage and wouldn’t let anyone in. The year was almost up when I got back home. It had about 20 days to run. I hurried down to the cottage.” Thatcher flicked ashes from the cigar. "My man said Phillip Crasor had been gone for a week. The 10 handwritten copies of the Bible were on a table in the cottage, all per fectly legible. On top of one pile was a letter to me from Phillip Crasor. I have that letter home now, in my Bible. He said he wouldn’t take the $50,000 and the bet was off. I paid, though, to the church we attended this morning. When a man loses, he should pay. It’s strictly business. If I’d won—” “But what about Phillip Crasor?” I held another forgotten cigarette in my hand. t “Oh. He preached that sermon you heard this morning.” LET'S TALK ABOUT 'IJoil — BY CHARLES B. ROTH GIVE YOURSELF TO A CHAIR A friend of the late William James, greatest psychologist of his day, asked the noted man If he would mind giving a few rules for the improvement of personality. “One rule I will give you,” re sponded Dr. James, “a simple rule —but so important. The rule is this: Learn to give yourself up to a chair at least once each day.” Mystified, the inquirer asked what Dr. James meant when he said “give yourself up to a chair.” “Practice conscious relaxation,” he was told. “Relax every day. Relaxation, particularly the ease and restfulness associated with utter relaxation, is one of the best aids I know in developing a charming personality.” How often one sees these futile run-arounds, men and women who are busy from morning till night, who never relax, who dash from one thing to another, who fidget and fume, who talk rapidly, who burn up energy and tire themselves and everyone else out by their fruitless display of waste motion. And how rarely one finds the composed, re laxed personality of power. Dr. James’ advice was, of course, purely physical—all you had to do was to give yourself up to the chair, relax utterly, let your body sag where it would. But there is al ways a subtle and marked relation ship between mind and body. And the purpose of his counsel was to let your mental moods take theii tone from your physical department. "What mental mood can you ex pect if you are always physically tense?” he inquired. Simplicity is Secret of Good Entertaining (See Recipes Below) Relaxation Tips Many of us when we have guests think of having them to fulfill obligations. It seems to me this should be the other way around. Let’s have friends over, not to return their invitations, but rather to enjoy their company and have pleasure in talking over the problems of the world, the home, or whatever is uppermost in our minds. How can you have time to talk and just enjoy food when there’s food to prepare and serve, I hear many women asking. Well, then, let’s plan simple, easy to serve foods that won’t take us away from the guests, or make us too flust e r e d and worn out by the preparation. It’s far better to serve a bit of cinnamon toast and a cup of tea, for example, to friends dropping in during the afternoon or evening, than it is to try to put together a cake or fancy sandwiches and cookies. They’ll appreciate it much more. All of the recipes I’m including today are simple and easy to pre pare. Perhaps they may even seem too simple, but remember that very simplicity may come in very handy when you want to fix something, quick and easy. CHEESE PLATTER % pound American cheese, sliced % pound Swiss cheese, sliced % pound aged Cheddar cheese, sliced 3 ounces cream cheese 2 portions Roquefort cheese 1 small glass jelly or jam Assorted bread Arrange cheese and jelly on large platter. Serve v/ith a hot beverage, letting guests make up their own sandwiches. Another good idea is to keep ice cream on hand- at all times, just in case peo ple drop in. The ice cream can be served plain or with cake and cookies. Here’s an unusual recipe that is bov.nd to please. APRICOT PARFAIT (Makes 1 quart) Yz pound dried apricots ik cup sugar 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten % cup heavy cream Cook apricots in water to cover, until just tender. Drain off juice, LYNN SAYS: Kitchen Tips: To keep broken eggs or egg whites from drying out, use a tightly cov ered container and place in refrigerator. If possible use a jar that is just large enough to hold the amount of eggs you have, without any space on top of jar. If yolks are broken, they may be stored as described above. If unbroken, they should be placed in a covered container, covered with water and re frigerated. Leftover egg yolks may be dropped in cold water and cooked, then used for sandwich fillings or garnishes. To extract onion juice, scrape with a sharp knife or the edge of a spoon. To grind raisins or sticky fruits, heat the grinder before putting them through. To sour milk for a recipe (when you have none on hand) add 2 teaspoons vinegar or lemon juice to 1 cup sweet milk. Keep in a warm place or over low heat, stirring until the mix ture curdles. LYNN CHAMBER’S MENU Beeksteak and Kidney Pie Corn-Lima Bean Succotash Chef's Salad Hot Biscuits Pineapple Bavarian Cream Beverage add sugar and boil to 230° F., or until syrup spins a thread in cold water. Pour syrup slowly over beaten egg whites, beating con stantly. Continue beating until cool. Press apricots through a sieve and chill. Whip cream until stiff enough to hold in a soft peak, add apricot pulp and egg white- syrup mixture. Freeze until firm. Apricot parfait is also good served with a berry sauce or strawberry or raspberry preserves. If you keep ice cream on hand as I’ve suggested, you won’t have any difficulty making up the next two delicacies. These are excel lent for luncheon desserts, after noon tidbits, or evening snacks: Orange Blossoms Sponge Cake Shells Ice Cream or Orange Sherbet Lemon Pie Filling o Whipped Cream Sponge cake shells may be made at home when you are baking, in Mary Ann individual cake pans, or may be purchased. Mix equal parts of whipped cream and lemon pie filling (made in advance and kept refrigerated. Place a layer of this mixture in each shejl, top’ with sherbet or ice cream and serve at once. FROZEN CAKE BALLS Cover a scoop of ice cream with soft cake crumbs and place on serving'plate. Cover with choco late sauce and sprinkle chopped nuts over all. Combinationssuggested: Straw berry ice cream rolled in cocoanut in place of bread crumbs and cov ered with fresh fruit sauce or whipped cream. Quickie Sandwiches Long strips of toast spread with seasoned cottage cheese and served with a slice of pickle dr dash of paprika. Long slices of thinly cut car rots spread with cottage cheese and rolled as for jelly roll. Deviled ham mixed with bacon or chopped olives spread on thin slices of toast. Hard-cooked eggs mashed with mayonnaise and a dash of curry and served with bread, allowing guests to make their own snacks. Fresh crabmeat salad made with celery and green pepper, diced and served with potato chips. Dates, chopped, mixed with cream cheese and moistened with orange juice. Or, several ground fruits (put through the grinder) and mixed with cottage cheese to serve for sandwiches. Pimiento cheese mixed with chopped ginger and served on bread or toast. Sliced sausage, chickm or ham placed on a platter with cheese and a bowl of fruit make a good evening snack. Always serve a good beverage to go with snacks such as these, as it makes the get-together more pleasant. CARDINAL BEVERAGE 1 quart cranberries 1 quart water 2 cups sugar 1 cup orange juice Yz cup lemon juice 1 pint gingerale, diluted with water Cook cranberries in water, then strain. Add sugar and cook for six minutes. Strain again, and chill. Serve with fruit juices and gingerale over crushed ice. Released by Western Newspaper Union SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 18; 34; 36:22 38; 37:1-14. DEVOTIONAL READING: Ezekiel 34: 25-31. His Message to Exiles C ONTINUING the theme of last Sunday’s lesson, we go further Into the ministry of Ezekiel as God’s messenger to a people in exile. For this Sunday we ^ have chapters 18 and 34. and por tions of the 36th and 37th chapters. The 18th chapter opens with a re vealing rebuke to EzekieL God tells him expressly that he is not to say any more to the Jews that “the fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Isreal. Behold, all souls are mine.” And then God adds, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” « • • GOD’S LOVE AND CARE A LL through these chapters in Sunday’s lesson, two solemn truths appear—God’s love for his people, manifest in unwearied care; and the responsibility of each soul for the sin which such commits against God. This troth, or these truths, I should say, are equally applicable for us today. As Ezekiel was sent to remind the people of God’s love and care, so must we, early in our youth, accept the responsibil ity of accepting his love or re jecting his love. We cannot claim his care if we despise his will. That is the message of Ezekiel for us. • • • WHAT GOD IS LIKE N OWHERE in the Old Testa ment is the love of God more manifest and compelling than in Ezekiel 34:11-27. I hope that you will open your Bible to this passage. Here the Bible speaks in words that burn with the compassionate love of God for sinful souls. “I will both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day . . . And I will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers." One is reminded here of Jesus, when he said, "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost” • • • A NEW HEART «« A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you,” Ezekiel 36:26. Here we have, perhaps, the sub- limest sentence in the prophecy of Ezekiel. God is speaking. Ezekiel is merely the messenger^— the voice, as John the Baptist delighted to de scribe himself. Ezekiel has faithfully declared that each individual is responsible unto God, and just as faithfully he has proclaimed God’s love and care, and now he adds the third great truth, namely, that God waits to bestow the new heart and the new spirit to every repentant soul. A new heart and a new spirit That is what the Jews needed. That is what the world needs today—a new heart and a new spirit Only God could give a new heart then, and only God can make such gift today. • • • EZEKIEL’S MESSAGE FOR US W OULD we listen to Ezekiel to day? He has the message we need above all other words that may be spoken. He called the Jews to repentance of sin. That is what America needs today. Boys and girls need it. Men and women need It. And just as God waited patiently to bestow the new heart and spirit to Israel in the long ago, so does he wait to grant us today a new heart and a new spirit. "Our God, our help, in ages post. Our Hope for years to come; Our shelter from the stormy blast. And our eternal home." (Copyright by the International Council of Religious Education on bebali of 40 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features.) There's No Substitute "I thoroughly believe in a univer sity education for both men and women, but I believe that a knowl edge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a col lege course without the Bible. Every one who has a thorough knowledge of the Bible may be truly called educated, and no other learning, or culture — no matter how extensive and elegant—can be a proper sub stitute.” SEWING CIRCLE PAHERNS Make. UtU Jlaoely fynocJz &a&iLf. SJuAiwaiiteA. 94. 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Two Ozark Families Sign , v Treaty to Halt ‘Feuding’ SALEM, ARK.—Male members of two "feuding” Ozark families have signed an agreement to “live in peace and harmony” and to let “all difficulties, differences and troubles of the past be forgotten and forever done away with.” The unusual document, filed in justice court here, was the out growth of a rock fight between the Lawyer and Shepard families last December. ( / After that battle S. L. Lawyer, his son, Dahl, and son-in-law, Ar thur Rosenberry, were charged with assault, and the Shepard brothers, Jim, William and Frank, were charged with flourishing dead ly weapons. They live on adjoining farms. Brought into court, the six de fendants agreed to sign the “peace treaty” drawn up by Judge Will H. D. Green, West Plains, Mo., attor ney. The court accepted the signed document and then levied fines of $1 on each of the six defendants. 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