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i THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C. XUe~ FICTION Co? ftev D OWN in the well, with no way of getting out and with little hope of rescue, Chris Thornton remem bered the line he had written over •nd over in his copybook some 40 years before. "NEVER PUT OFF TILL TOMORROW WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY.” He could fairly *ee the large round letters he had so laboriously formed with pen held stiffly in ink-smeared fingers. Toe line had had little meaning for him then—just some words that he must write over and over until Miss Curry was satisfied. And Miss Curry had been hard to satisfy. Its meaning was brought home sharply to him now—when perhaps it was too late. However, the former owner of the farm had let so many things about the place run down that he had time only to take care of what seemed most necessary. Undoubtedly, he thought ruefully, it would have been wiser to replace the rotten boards that covered the abandoned well, even though his cows might have stepped over a fallen wire to tram ple his promising corn. All day he had been fixing fences, and coming home he had forgotten about the well which he could not see in the darkness. An ankle had been hurt in the fall — perhaps sprained or broken. It was swollen and painful, and probably would be worse by morning. He struck a match and looked at his watch. Twenty to nine. Surely it must be later than that, for it seemed like hours since he had fallen. He held the watch to his ear; it was running now anyway. Never before had a night been so unending. Snatches of sleep came at intervals, sleep broken by torturous dreams in which he was forever climbing, yet never quite reaching the top. How long, he wondered, could a man live without water? And how soon would anyone miss him? Not soon enough, he was certain. The farm lay in a lonely place and a car seldom passed over the grass- grown road. He had had few visitors during the months he had lived here. Lou Edwards, his nearest neighbor, had stopped in several times, but it was unlikely that Ed wards would come again soon for he had little time for visiting since his last boy had left. Thornton knew that a man could climb out of a well without a ladder by bracing his back against one side and getting a toehold between the stones on the opposite side. He had seen it done though he had never tried it himself. To try it now, when his foot was so painful he could not stand on it, was out of the question. “Should’ve busted my neck in stead,” he muttered bitterly. "That would have ended the misery sooner.” The stars faded from the small circle of sky that he could see. Gradually light entered the well. Whining softly, his dog looked down at him; probably she had been sit ting there all night, waiting for him to come up. If only there were a way to have the dog summon help. He might as well forget that. There wasn't any way. He wished it would rain, for enough water might run down into the well to satisfy his growing thirst. Then too, Edwards might find time to come; his other visits had been made on rainy days. Might as well forget that too. It wouldn’t rain. Why did that copybook line keep looming before his eyes? Otherwise he never thought of things that hap pened so long ago. Of course, other wise he had other things to think about—like worrying about the crops or planning something else. Such worries looked pretty inconsequen tial now. And unless he could get out of the well, there wouldn’t be any more planning. Thinking of the line made him think of the boys who had been his schoolmates and playmates in those long-past days — Tom, George, Cecil, Jimmy, Fred and many others whose names he could not even recall. Where were they now? He hadn’t seen one of them for years. Dimly their faces appeared out of the past, and then the line came bobbing back, blotting them out. "NEVER PUT OFF TILL TOMOR ROW WHAT YOU CAN DO TO DAY.” Why couldn’t the line stay away, he thought angrily. It couldn’t do him any good now. His dog began barking—at a squirrel maybe. Or was somebody coming? He shouted for help, hope fully at first, but as the minutes went by, despairingly. The dog continued to bark. Prob ably at a squirrel, for there were many of them about. Why Be a Negative? There are some persons — too many, I am forced to declare—who live under the handicap of a per sonality that has a negative tinge. In psychology we recognize them as a definite and an unpleasant group. We classify them. We name them. We call them negatives, and the disease from which they suffer —for it is really a chronic mental state of unhealth—we call negativ ism. A person with a negativistic per sonality always is ready to argue the other side of the question. You make a statement. He says: "Oh, I don’t know about that. Listen." And then the battle is on. For an exhibi tion of downright contrariness, the negativistics always are on hand. They do not really know that they handicap themselves by this trait. To the contrary. They are proud of their bold, contrary attitude. They will tell you it is a sign of courage and strong ••dll. All of which is piffle. A negati< istic tendency, far from being a sign of strong will and in- "Where are you?” some one rfalled faintly. • • * After the stranger had found a ladder and helped him out, Thorn ton said, “I should have fixed that long ago. ’Way back when I was in the second grade I wrote in my copybook about Teven hundred times, ‘NEVER PUT OFF TILL TOMORROW WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY,’ and I’ve certainly found out now how wise that is.” "I suppose that makes good sense always," agreed the other, “unless there’s an exception to prove the rule.” "Well, if every rule has an excep tion, this was no exception, any way,” Thornton said, adding sud denly, "Say, how did you happen to come?” "I represent the Valley Farmer. Your subscription has run out.” Thornton laughed. "There’s the ex ception we were talking about. I got a letter from your paper a month ago asking me to renew. I’ve put off sending the money again and again, but if I hadn’t put it off, you wouldn’t have come today.” Intelligent children exhibit negativ ism less than dull children. Wherever it persists, it is a sign of deficient intelligence and a mind that won’t grow up. And to have negativism is not a thing of which to be proud. Closely akin to negativism is a commoner trait. We call it stubborn ness. One-third of us are born stub born, grow up stubborn, die stub born—to the everlasting damage of our personalities. For like negativ ism, stubbornness is a sign of mental deficiency and inadequacy. The stub born person isn’t strong; he is mere ly weak; he is afraid that if he gives in, yields a point, he never again will be able to climb back to the same degree of vantage. Therefore he sits tight. If you have negativistic or stub born tendencies, don’t give up heart. You can get over both. Just examine your own mental outlook. Do you find yourself taking the opposite side of questions? Do you find yourself holding your ground when there is no reason for it, no need of it? Then guard against both these tendencies of yours. Watchfulness you must exercise. But you can win if you try. And you must win, be cause no negative, no stubborn per sonality was ever a successful, a likeable or a charming personality. Job Injuries Increase In Postwar Industry U. S. economy is expanding under the pressure of postwar necessity, but that almost frantic expansion is taking a high toll in deaths and in juries of workers. Last year, the bureau of labor statistics reports, was the seventh in a row in which more than two mil lion workers suffered disabling in juries on the job. Time lost during the year because of injuries amount ed to 44.7 million man-days—the equivalent of a year’s full-time em ployment for about 150,000 persons. Giving even greater pause was the fact that 17,000 persons were killed in job accidents during 1947. Bureau of labor statistics puts the blame, to a large extent, on rising employment. Another factor last year, however, were two ma jor industrial disasters—the Texas City explosion and the Centralia, 111., mine disaster—both of which took heavy tolls. Job injuries in 1947 increased 1 per cent over 1946. job injury deaths jumped 3 per cent. The year’s toll Included 1,800 employees who will be totally disabled for the rest of their lives and another 90,000 who will suffer some permanent impairment as long as they live. Increases in injuries and deaths occurred in construction, mining and quarrying, public utilities and trade. Agriculture and railroading injuries were fewer than in 1946. t | 1HROUGHOUT the ages men have I ever clung ^ To the everlasting promises of God. When loss and grief and suffering have wrung Their hearts, the pilgrims journeying on earth’s sod Have turned their faces skyward, and will turn Forever toward the arching starlit skies. Where steadfastly his silver fires bum Like words of flame before their seeking Omen, behold! Lift up your eyes and see Who hath created them. He brings them out. He names each one—he knbws their destiny. Not one will fail! Oh, we so prone to doubt. Can we not trust the One through life’s brief hour. Who has such infinite, unfailing power? How long, be wondered, conld a man live without water? And how soon would anyone miss him? Not soon enough, he was certain. LETS TALK ABOUT you, BY CHARLES B. ROTH — telligence, is definite evidence of an adult who hasn’t grown up and who is dumb in the bargain! Dr. M. M. Reynolds, careful ob server of human traits, made a study of negativism in babies. It begins to appear at the age of six months, he found. Then it gradually subsides. ZECHARIAH 1:1-6; 4; 7—8. DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalms 24: 1-6. Zechariah Pleads For Righteousness Lesson for April ZS, 1948 Z ECHARIAH almost certainly was born and reared in or near Babylon, and was trained for the priesthood and ordained of the Lord as a prophet. His father, Bere- chiah, was the son of Iddo, the proph et. Though much younger than Hag- gai, about whom we studied last Sunday, Zechariah began his minis try only two months later than Haggai—a minis try which was to summon the peo ple to righteousness as a condi tion essential in the rebuilding of the temple and in cleansing them selves of idolatry, if they were to throw off the yoke of their foes. The student will need to read the entire Book pf Zechariah to have the background for this lesson. Also Psalm 24:1-6. * * * LIVING TOGETHER IN GOD’S WAY U'T’URN ye unto me, saith the 1 Lord of hosts, and J will turn unto you,” Zechariah 1:3. Peo ple cannot live together in peace and harmony until first they are on speaking terms with God. The in sidious onslaught of secularism was weakening the Jews at the very moment when they needed to be strong and united for the task of rebuilding the temple and restor ing their life in Jerusalem. Read further into the prophecy of Zechariah and note the admoni tions of the Lord for kindness one toward another—kindness and un derstanding and sincerity, which are the indispensable qualities of community life. Dr. Newton WHAT MAKES A PEOPLE GREAT? Z ECHARIAH reminds the people that the downfall of their fathers had been due to their for getfulness of God. He calls them now to repentance of their owf/' sins, that they become truly a great people. "Fear not, but let your hands be strong,” Zechariah 8:13. "What makes a nation great and strong? Not brick, nor stone, nor wood, But Justice, love and brother hood." Boys and girls will do well to look again at what this old prophet was saying. We long to see the United States a truly great nation. Then let us be strong in the Lord. . • * GOD HAS A STANDARD R EAD chapter seven, verses 8-14, and 8:16-17, for some of the standards which God sets up for his people. “Execute true judg ment, and show kindness and com passion every man to his brother. Oppress not the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, or the poor, and never plot evil in your hearts against one another.” Zechariah is here epitomizing the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. All of which is to remind us today that we do not need new standards. We simply need to conform to God’s eternal standards. GOD IS TO BE SOUGHT UNTO T HE first eight chapters of Zec hariah have to do with the as- sential qualities of life if the people are to rebuild the temple. The last six chapters deal with the general standards of life which we must accept and strive to attain if we are to be well-pleasing unto him. I like the phrase of the fathers. "God is to be sought unto.” And how are we to come into the pres ence of the Lord? “He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto van ity, nor sworn deceitfully,” Psalms 24:4. It was not enough to rebuild the temple. God wanted his people to become living stones of integrity and fidelity in the city of God. This we shall attain only as we seek first the Kingdom of God' and his righteousness—constantly seek this daily walk with the Lord, in the light of his word. “Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” * * * [Copyright by (he International Council oi Religious Education on beholi oi 40 Protestant denominations. Released bv WNV Features.) By the Bible If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catas trophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity. —Daniel Webster. flAN You \S GUIDE MISSKATTV) HEJt HOME WITHOUT GO' INGINA PATH THAT WILL GO TO THE VICIOUS DOS ? plAYEAtX- DONT TUPN BACH IF YOU LAND IN A PATH THAT LEADS TO THE DOG. KIPDIE CORNER »r CROSSWORD PUZZLE Solution In Next Issue. 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Purzle No. IS. WHO Iff lb Detective Makes Crime Sleuthing a Work of Art CHICAGO.—Detective Adolph Va- lanis has made crime detection a fine art. He listens to witnesses, fits the pieces of description together and draws a picture. Copies arejchecked against photographs in the police department’s rogues gallery and sent to officers working on the case. The detective’s sketches have led to the solution of three slayings and a string of robberies. He was accused of taking tlas money from a drugstore where me was doing a paint job. This Tax Payer Believes that U.S. Has Him by the Collar HARTFORD, CONN.—Federal tax officials here told of a man •who enclosed a collar in a letter asking for a copy of his 1946 tax return. "This doesn’t make sense,” the man wrote, “but if that is the rule, then that is the rule.” Investigation proved that the taxpayer was right. He had written previously ask ing for a copy of his return and had been told it would cost him "one collar.” Embarrassed bureau officials said such typographical errors — “collar” for “dollar” — were rare but they did happen. The Meteorologist’s Job Predicting the weather if plicated task. In a large city, (for instance, a substantial crew ) of trained men and women get ports each hour from sta throughout the particular The reports include temper; changes, the kind of clouds In heavens at the time, the direc and speed of the wind, vlsib: and other celestial data. Pres: change maps then are drawn she ing in which direction the masses are traveling. When has been done the meteorologist equipped to predict with a fair gree of accuracy what kind weather can be expected for 24 or 36 hours. The velocity and direC' tion of the wind is recorded by the] triple register, which also inter prets how much sunshine or rain la in the air. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT POULTRY, CHICKS & EQUIP. 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