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THE NEWBERRY SUN NEWBERRY. S. C. "C-lce- ~ ^ FICTIOMI anything for a friend m ■ ■ W ^ P By MARJO «^ ABBOTT 1j S AM looked ur,':omfortable as be stood with his large feet planted awkwardly on Harriet Sweet's oriental rug. His violin was tucked under one arm, and with his free band he pushed a thick lock of hair away from his dark, ugly face. ‘‘All right, Sam, let's try It again," said Harriet. She sat straight-backed on the piano bench and played the introduction to "Traumerei” on the mahogany grand. Her gray head kept time to the music with lively little nods. “Yes, ma’am,” said Sam. His voice was changing. Every move he made was done in an agony of self-consciousness. He brought his violin up to his chin, and then for got himself as he brought the rich tones to life beneath his fingers. Harriet sighed as the last note became stilled. "That was splendid, Sam,” she said. “I haven’t another pupil as talented as you are.” A light showed briefly in his dark eyes, tnd then he blushed and moistened his lips. Harriet wondered sometimes why she wanted so much to win this boy’s friendship. He was unattrac tive. He had a last name she couldn't begin to pronounce. It was partly the longing of a lonely, child less woman, she supposed, for someone to mother. The music should have formed a bond between them. But up to now she felt she was losing the battle to pierce his shyness and win Sam’s friendship. For six months he had come to her for his weekly lesson, but al though she had tried in every way she knew to get next to the boy, she had failed. “I have no friends,” he had told her once bluntly, when she had questioned him, and she had an aching picture of him, working hard after school to earn money to help out at home with his brothers and sisters, squeezing out the extra dollar for a music lesson, practicing late at night. She would have loved to help him in some way, but he was proud and independent. Sam cleared his throat and wiped his arm across his sweating fore head. . “Mrs. Sweet, I’m going to stop taking lessons,” he said. “Oh, Sa* ,” said Harriet, "Why?” "My kid brother busted my violin. This one is borrowed from my old man’s sister just for tonight. I’m going to earn another fiddle. It will take a while. They have them at Brothers’ music store for 15 bucks. As soon as I get it I’ll be back.” It was the longest speech he had ever made. Harriet reached over the bronze bust of Beethoven on top of the pi ano and took her own violin loving ly from its alligator case. "There’s no need of missing those lessons, Sam,” she said. “You may use my violin as long as you need one.” She tried not to think about the kid brother who busted violins. This one had cost her a thousand dollars. Sam's face was shining. “Gee, Mrs. Sweet. Gee! I’ll make it right with you,” he added hastily. “I know you’ll take good care of it.” “Oh, yes, ma'am.” She followed up her advantage. "I wish you’d always try to think of me as your friend, Sam. I like you very much.” He looked down at the floor and shifted from one foot to the other. • • • H ARRIET thought of Sam often in the following week. She thought of his large, strong hands that would bring heartbreakingly sweet melodies out of her violin. She wondered if the boy would like the incredibly rich, full tone of the instrument. She didn’t see him again till the following week. As he came in he was filled with a strange restless ness that he couldn’t control. "Last week you said that you were my friend.” “Why yes, Sam.” "There’s something important I’ve aot to ask you.” This was the moment she had been hoping for, in all her months of knowing Sam. “I’ll do anything I can for you, Sam,” she said quietly. He stood there facing her, almost defiant in his earnestness. For the He saw the look of surprise on her face. His voice cracked as he went on. "Gosh, I know it probably cost you some dough. I’d even pay 75 bucks for it.” She was staring at him incred- uously. There was no sound in the room but the slow ticking of the grandfather clock. He flushed and looked down at the floor. His fingers were restless on his plaid cap. In a sudden agony of embarrassment, he thrust his hands behind him. "You think it’s an O. K. fiddle too,” he said. “I suppose I shouldn’t be asking you for it. Even if you are my friend.” She hestitated only a moment be- She had an aching picture of him, working hard after school to earn money to help out at home with his brothers and sisters. moment his shyness and awkward ness were gone. “I played your violin all week,” he said feverishly. "It was smooth as—as oil or something. Gee, it was swell!” His eyes were blazing, and his dark face was no longer ugly. “Look, Mrs. Sweet, I can get 50 bucks from my uncle. I’d work to pay it back to him.” fore she walked toward him and placed her small, blue-veined hand lightly on his arm. "Yes, Sam. I am a little attached to the instrument. But if you think you can raise 50 dollars, the violin is yours. For a moment I was shocked, because you see, 50 dollars is quite a bit of money to take. Es pecially from a friend.” Tricks for Teens By Nancy Pepper PETTICOAT PROTEST There we go again—the girls in troducing a new fashion and the boys giving it the well-known Bronx cheer. We’re re ferring to the new P.H.D. society (Petticoats Hang ing Down) — and to the caustic comments that are being made by your best friends and s e - verest critics. Petticoats have made the front pages of your high school papers, just as your long Gibson skirts did last season. But not even the ridicule of your favor ite three-letter man can shake your belief in them. CAN-CAN COMMOTION—Instead of lifting your cotton skirt demurely at one side with a pin or petticoat peeper, you sew a little buttonhole loop to the center back, at the edge of the hem, and sew on a but ton at the center back of the waist band. Then ’ you can button up your skirt in back to form a can can bustle and to reveal your con- BECAUSE MEM BLOW Grace Noll Crowell _ sz S O many furrows in so many lands. So many plows beneath men’s guiding hands, And lo! the old earth’s surface has been tilled. To meet the world’s need, granaries are filled With com and wheat and rye from countless fields. Because men plow, there are these golden’yields; Because their silver shares have pierced the sod And they have worked together with their God, The hungry world has food enough to eat If we share wisely—and shared loaves are sweet The plows go down the land, the furrows run Forever curved and deep beneath the sun: The ancient furrows, and the fresh-jurned furrows now— There will be bread while men have faith to plow. We thank Thee, God. for the heartening thought of men Sowing and plowing und reaping, to plant again--. r? trasting petticoat beneath. It’s a smart trick to play with a black cotton ruffled skirt over a striped or plaid cotton petticoat. WELCOME RELIEF—You teen agers who must wear uniforms to school have welcomed petticoats as a means of breaking the monotony —without breaking the rules. Before and after hours you can pull down your petticoat so that your ruffles show beneath your uniform hem line. During school you tuck your petticoat out of sight. So far, we haven’t heard about any petticoat protests from the faculty. PEGGED PETTICOATS—So you thought that petticoats were pretty only with your ballerina skirts, did you? Then you haven't seen them peeping between the side slits of those straight and narrow pegged skirts to which so many girls still cling—and vice-versa, which cling to so many girls. If your pegged skirts are too short, let your petti coat ruffles hang down below about an inch. CONVERTIBLE PETTICOATS— Some petticoats are made to serve a double purpose. For instance, a pastel cotton petticoat with double hemline ruffles of eyelet, comes with its detachable cummerbund belt. Without the cummerbund, you wear it as a petticoat under another skirt. With the cummer bund, you top it with a peasant blouse and wear it as a skirt. It’s a good idea for those of you who are making their own petticoat, and, judging from the reports of home ec teachers, lots of you are. Now, that you’ve revived petti coats and camisoles, will you be saying “twenty three skidoo” in stead of “scram” and "I love my wife, but, oh, you kid!” instead of “hubba, hubba?” They Started On the Screen. So many of your customs and fads start with the movies. Why that Peter Lawford-June Allyson lesson scene from “Good News” has even inspired you to do your French homework these nights! Has your crowd adooted this movie- made idea yet? YOUR NEW DANCE—It’s that oldie, the Charleston—ever since you saw it danced in “Good News.” Bet your parents could give you some fine points cn it. Bet they could show you the cups they won in Charleston contests back in the days when Joan Crawford scintil lated more than she suffered. YOUR NEW CUSTOM — Since you’ve seen “Captain from Castile,'* you’ve revived the custom of giving a handkerchief to your T-man (top man) as a keepsake. He keeps it in his jacket pocket for show—not for blow. NEW HAIR-DO—The short cut with bangs, as Eleanor Parker wore in "Voice of the Turtle” is sweeping through the high school halls these days. But do any oi your upper classmen try to look like Ronald Reagen? Poultry Will Require Water for Winter Steady Flow Obtained With Pressure System Farmers have tried various ways of preventing water from freezing in their poultry houses in cold weather. Some simply drain the poultry line and go back to carry ing water during the winter. Others,- who dislike carrying water even more in the winter than they do in the summer, appear to have devised satisfactory ways of keeping their pressure water systems working no matter what the thermometer reads. The result of one farmer’s idea is shown in the accompanying illus- tr. tion. It presents one of 16 water- ers fashioned from drain tiles, feet high and 13 inches in diameter. Pie plates, suspended a few inches below the top of the tiles, are used for drinking purposes and water flows into them on a continuous, Ideal water heater for winter use can be installed at little cost. year-round basis. Ordinary sink drains, located below the plates, direct the overflow into a central waste system which serves the three-story poultry house. Waste water spills over a hill a short distance from the building. The steady flow of water through the supply pipes, plus the fact that all such pipes are doubly protected by being located within convention al soil tiles, keeps them open all winter. To date, ice and snow have not retarded the waste outlet. The system's 500-gallon supply tank is served by a two-horsepower elec tric motor. Pays to Mechanize The mechanical age is paying dividends on the farm as well as in industry, says the Farmers and Manufacturers Beet Sugar associa tion. A century ago 64 man-hours of labor were required to produce an acre of wheat, now less than 10 hours are needed. One hundred fifty years ago the labor of 19 farm workers was necessary to produce the food consumed by one person living in the city, now one worker can produce for four people living in the cities. Herds and Flocks Milk slump usually is caused by fly trouble, poor pasture or both. To control flies, keep buildings sprayed with DDT and use a repel lent type of spray at milking time. To bolster short pastures, feed grain or silage. Mudholes for hogs, aside from harboring parasites and disease, are likely to cause animals to overheat. An animal plastered with mud, baked on by the sun, is likely to heat up in a hurry. Mangy hogs usually bring 50 cents to $1 less per 100 pounds when sent to market. It’s easy to clean up mange with benzene hexachloride. Farm Population Drops 10 Per Cent Since 1940 Farm population of the United States declined about three million persons, or 10 per cent, between the census of 1940 and the special estimate as of January 1, 1948. The latest farm population figure of 27,439,000, nowever, is more than two million larger than the total for January, 1945, when many farm residents were in the armed forces or working in war plants, census reports show. SCRIPTURE: Act* 18:1-8, 18-26; Ro- mans 16:3-5a; I Corinthians 16:19; 11 Timothy 4:19. DEVOTIONAL READING t I Corinth ians 12:4-11. Home Team Lesson for September 5, 1948 Dr. Foreman H USBAND AND WIFE: Team or tug-of-war? In times when more and more homes are splitting apart, it is refreshing to read the story of one home that stuck together. We do not know whether these two ever had children; no doubt their borne was happier if they hud. But we do know their names. No one who ever spoke of them men tioned one without the other. You could not think of Aquila without thinking of his wife Priscilla (or Prisca for short), or vice versa. They were displaced persons, but that did not keep them down. • • • • Family Trade Union L IKE ALL JEWS of that time, they had a specialty, a trade they had learned. In this case someone had' taught Prisca the same trade (or did she learn it from her husband?), so the two of them formed a sort of trade union. They were tentmakers, working not only in heavy tent-cloth but in the tanned skins of which many tents in that time were made. Their home was a workshop, their hands were bent by long use of hard tools, very likely they initialed their produce. P & A tents were good tents. Their business was good, for we know they always had room for another guest, for another hand at the workbench. That was one thing helping their marriage to stick. How many husbands and wives today are working teams? One reason why' divorces are more common in cities than on farms is that the city man and his wife seldom have any work in common, while a farmer and his wife are a working team in which each needs the other to sncceed. Find some work yon two can share, even if it is washing the dishes, and yon have something to help yon hold together through the years. More Than Meals A NOTHER bond that held these together was their hospitality. They had a long list of friends, some of them distinguished. We know about Paul and Apollos and we hear of many others. But when Apollos stayed at their house, he was getting more than meals. If you don’t do more for a guest than feed him, he might as well be at a restaurant. If you don't do more than amuse him, he might as well be at the movies. What those two did for Apollos was to give him ideas, bigger ideas, truer and bet ter than he had ever had, about the Christian faith. No doubt Apollos enjoyed Priscilla’s lamb chops, but when he left that home he was not merely a well-fed man but one whose soul had grown. Here again is something for husband and wife today. What are yon doing for the people who come in yonr door? If they come for dinner yon wouldn’t in sult them with trash or poison. What do you give their minds, their souls? Poison, trash or food? • • • The Church in Their House E vidently the p * a tents made enough money for Pris cilla and Aquilla to have a spacious home, for we find Paul in a letter mentioning “the church in their house.” This more than anything else kept these two together, a working team. You know in every church there are a few key people. They may not be conspicuous, but like the distributor ' under an auto mobile hood, if they are not there things do not run smoothly and maybe not at all. Aquila and Priscilla were like that. Their church naturally re volved around them. This must have taken a good deal of their time, no doubt it cost them money, and it must have meant work. But if the church was in their house it was because they wanted it that way. It would be hard to believe that they asked for this so as to keep themselves from drifting apart; yet undoubtedly th-- was one effect of it. The great majority of divorces ' are among people who have no connection with the' church •whatever. Many, of course, are of persons who are on church rolls somewhere. Bnt how many broken marriages do you know among persons who are active in Christian work? • • • (Copyright by the International Council ol Religious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features.) Kathleen Norris Says: Broken Homes Break Children Bell Syndicate.—WNU Feature*. His bead hung, he looked fixedly at a pulley he had in his band, "That all?" he asked thickly. By KATHLEEN NORRIS W HAT are “broken homes?” The phrase is new, for it has been in circulation only a few years. But now one hears it on all sides. Recently I visited a home for boys. I asked the nice motherly woman who was in charge how many of the 200 eager, lonely, little fellows, whose ages ranged from 10 to 15, were orphans. Almost none, she answered uite simply, as if that were e most natural thing in the world. "But then where are their fathers and mothers?” “Oh,” she said, looking cautious ly about and lowering her tone, al though we were alone, “they’re liv ing. Well, no,” she corrected it, “some of them have only one par ent. But most of them come from broken homes.” "Broken homes? Divorces?" "Well, both,” she said cheer fully. “Mothers working, very often. The domestic situation is hard now and many people don’t actually feel equal to the claims of children. So they send us a boy or two." "You mean—” It made me sick to think of it. "You mean they may have other children?” “Often. David,” she called to a small boy who went past us as we wandered into the grounds. "Your mother has another child, hasn't she?” Child Is Ashamed "Yep,” he answered, not meet ing her look. The whole story was there—the shame and bewilder ment in a nine-year-old’s heart when he was sent away. Oh, nf course, sent way to suffleient meals, a good bed, honest, kindly care, safety. But they kept little Sharon and they sent him away. His head hung, he looked fixedly at a pulley he had in his hand. “That’s all?” he asked thickly. There’s another home for boys near our city. I went there, heart sick, yet determined to know what percentage of these little fellows had parents, too. And again it was the same story. Divorce, high living expenses, working mothers, desertion— the most important element in any commonwealth, the ab solutely indispensable element, the home, broken up. The much-feared, much-discussed danger of communism is nothing to this. This is a national outrage. That these little fellows, who ought to have love from someone, who ought to have a corner in some comfortable place, a few books, dinner table talk, Mom or Dad to run to in trouble, are herded away like cattle is so terrible an indica tion of national irresponsibility that the atom bomb is a harmless tal low candle oeside it. What are these mothers and fathers putting in the boys’ places? What domestic luxuries, movies, comfortable quiet evenings and dancing compensate for this in justice to their sons and this loss to them? Are we American wom en so unimaginative and so flaccid that we cannot adjust our lives to make room for our boys? Seven hundred boys from “broken homes” KEEP TOGETHER After visiting several homes for boys Miss Norris discov ered that most of the young feRows were not orphans but unwanted children from brok en homes. In many cases the parents felt that they couldn't man age all their children satisfac torily so they sent one or two of their boys to a honte where they would be less bother. Other boys were the sons of divorced parents who did not want the custody of them. Miss Norris strongly warns that the danger of commu nism is insignificant compared to the national outrage of cast ing little tots among strangers where they never will receive the love and affection they need so much. As an example of how a home can be preserved. Miss Norris cites her own case. Three brothers and sisters, only one of them out of the teens, supported three young er children. By dint of much striving, work and sacrifice they managed to keep togeth er. right here in my neighborhood and, for all I know, 7,000 in my state. • • • There have been years in my life when we were very poor, when three brothers and sisters, only one of them out of the' teens, sup ported three younger ones. We lived in four rooms for a while, but they were clean rooms and they rang with plans and laughter. Old Clothes Fit WeU. We wore the discarded clothes our friends gave us and congrat ulated ourselves that they looked better on us. We scrimped, we went without things, we had no butcher bill for months because we had no meat. We suffered, ol course, when a small boy smashed a window or a small girl played hookey. But there never was a mo ment in all those years when we two older ones could have said to a little sister or brother, "We are sending you to the loneliness, the unlovedness, the dreary vague hours that no in stitution can spare children.” We stuck together 45 years ago and we are together still. What are we made of. we Ameri can women, that we don’t dare sac rifice, plan, contrive and work to keep our homes and our children together? We don’t know our own power or we would know that if social conditions aren't right for us, if Dad's salary is inadequate and home hours and obligations too heavy to leave room for working hours, then we can change the conditions. We don’t have to beg, we can dictate, even if it means that shops are open only between 11 and « every day or that one mother in a group takes care of all small chil dren two days a week and works four. For the boys’ sake and for America’s sake, let’s solve this problem some other way. . ., we went without things Spare the Rod CHICAGO. — Any parent who spanks his child has a spanking coming himself, in the opinion ol Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, a Chicago psychiatrist. Childhood whippings, the doctoi explained, are undesirable because they leave a lifetime mark upon the victim’s character. If a “servile, timorous” adult is at the same time “cringing and crafty," the chances are that he received a paddling now and then as a child himself, the doctor said CLASSIFIED D E PARTMENT BUSINESS St INVEST. Q?PO». St. Augustine Beach, Fla. Bar, cocktail lounge, and ballroom, OM the ocean. Contact II. QUEEN, St. Angnettne Beach Heiel OWNER - OPERATORS ^ interested in sawing good timber on Camp Stewart Reservation. Contact MR. E. L. FROST - Hinesvilie, Ga. CAFETERIA FOR SALE MODERN cafeteria in south Georgia town. Doing a very nice business, books open for inspection. Owner’s health will not permit him to operate same longer than Sept. 1. Long lease at reasonable price; g ood location and the only cafeteria in >wn. Price $8,000; will sell on reasonable terms. Call or write „ _ J. E. CRABB - Doaflas, Oa. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT MACHINERY and TOOLS FOB SALE pipe with elbows. Reply P.O. 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