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THE NEWBERRY SUN
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NEWBERRY. S. C.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
By ARMFIELD BROTHERS
Entered as second-class matter December 6. 1937,
at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, undei
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
“0, you Americans have so much.” That’s what the Scot
tish lady said to me as we stood on the bank of Loch Lo-
mon, Scotland, waiting for the boat. And in very truth she
was right, within the boundaries of our great nation we
have enough to provide abundantly for every man, woman
and child, and the stranger w T ho comes this way.
But even we have people who are poor—some sick, some
feeble, some afflicted, some unfortunate, some bereft. Every
year, every day, the call comes to us to share with those w r ho
are in need.
The Christmas season moves all to special sympathy.
I have enjoyed telling from year to year some little exper
iences of mine, in the land of the Incas. I do not regale you
with many details of my ten years of official life, but I
still recall with a glow of warm feeling the efforts of mine
to enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas in American style.
High up in the Andes mountains, in the old City of Ca-
jamarca, I wanted a cake, a layer cake; then I wanted a fruit
cake. And this was a community which had never seen a
layer cake or a fruit cake.
As Peru lies South of the Equator, the seasons are the re
verse of ours; their Christmas comes in their mild summer.
Still I wanted the Thanksgiving and Christmas food of my
own people—so far away in miles, yet farther aw T ay in cus
tom and background.
As to the layer cake, I told my Secretary (a man, Senor
Santolalla) all about it. As he had never seen a layer cake,
and my knowledge of Spanish was then as inadequate as my
ideas of baking were feeble, he drew a sketch of a layer
cake, as he understood it from my description.
It resembled a man’s straw hat with a gaudy band of
many colored ribbons, like Joseph’s fabulous coat. A lady
made the cake, using lard extravagantly. The cake looked
all right; so let that pass, as Shakespeare says. We’ll throw
a mantle of charity over the well-intentioned effort. I gave
the cake away, in slices. And that inspired one lady to try
her hand. Shd made an almond cake that proved her dor
mant powers of cookery that rose to the point of genius.
I wonder if I should distribute a cake now—. Well, never
mind; my Secretary* or the boys of the radio Station would
eat all the cakes.
I yearned for a fruit cake, where a fruit cake had never
been. But the lady of the house and her husband wanted to
try anything American, so I bought the ingredients, using
parched peanuts for all the nuts you housewives put in fruit
cake. It was an honest effort, but a sad achievement, some
what savoring of failure.
The second Christmas I was in Lambayeque and the idea
of a turkey and a mince pie came to me. When one is thous
ands of miles from home and his own country he recalls viv
idly many habits and customs. For example, the day I saw
the ham and recalled that I hadn’t had a piece of ham for
seven years! ' .
I bought the turkey and the neighbor baked it, stuffed
with garlic! That was enough to make the angels weep!
Now my mince pie experience w^s a far happier one. I
looked everywhere for mince meat. I found it in Chiclayo—
again, I called on my loyal Santolalla and he tried to explain
a crock of Mince meat. But no one had ever seen a pie. So,
to the bakers something he himself had never seen—a pie!
All our efforts were unavailing until, as though by sheer
good fortune, a ship came into port at Pimentel and in the
mail were American and British magazines and papers. What
the mail boat means when you are far away! In an Ameri
can magazine was an advertisement of mince meat, showing
a mince pie, with a big slab cut out. By that guide the pie
was made—and it was delicious! «
All that was in the land where rice is served twice every
day, rice cooked* with lard and where they don’t know gravy.
Not a Clock Watcher!
The Christmas season starts with us about the first of
December and is at flood tide by the tenth, the ladies on a
tireless hunt for appropriate gifts at the most appropriate
prices. The little fellows will hear the old story of the
Shepherds and the manger, the Wise men and the Star, the
Mother Mary and the baby who was to the the Prince of
Peace, the Redeemer, “the way, the truth and the life.”
We think of the Holy Land—Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Naz
areth, Capernaum, the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan River—
because of association with the Son of God and His earthly
ministry of teaching, healing, and Salvation.
“Again, on Christmas Eve, Christians make pilgrimage
to the little town of Bethlehem, in the land of Ruth and
Rachel, of Isaac and Ishmael, of David and Solomon. For
nearly 2,000 years it has been revered as the birthplace of
Jesus.
It Is only five miles from the shiny star which marks the
traditional site of the Christ Child’s birth to Calvary. A
scant five miles—yet they mark the span of the Saviour’s
life.
Since Old Testament times—for the tomb of Rachel lies
beside this historic highway—the short road between Jesus’
place of birth and the scene of His agony has run like.a white
ribbon along the rough backbone of Judaea.
But, just before Christmas, good will to man triumphs
over mundane barriers. Then church dignitaries, diplomats,
and officials from Israel cross no man’s land, less than a
third of a mile wide at this point, "to visit the scene of the
first Christmas and there celebrate the birthday of our
Lord.
Those who go to Bethlehem from the walled city, in the
Jordan-controlled part of divided Jerusalem, travel over a
long new road which writhes like a pale serpent through the
wilderness, without touching Israel. From a spur of the
Mount of Olives this route looks down on the majestic ex
panse of time-tinted walls which make Jerusalem ‘the Gold
en.’
As it approaches Bethlehem, near the fields where shep
herds watched their flocks by night, the road affords the
finest possible view of the city of the Nativity. From
here, Bethlehem is a dream city of shining stone houses, set
on a high Judaean hill.
Bethlehem is largely Christian, and much of its com
merce has depended on pilgrims.
Like Bethlehem in Jordan, Nazareth in Israel attracts
many Christian pilgrims. The city of Jesus’ boyhood is now
largely a Christian Arab city, patrolled by Christian police.
I went to the synagogue where Jesus amazed His fellow
townsmen into saying, ‘Whence hath this man this wis
dom .... Is not this the carpenter’s son?’ (Matthew 13:
54-55). . I
As Jesus then said, ‘A prophet is not without honour,
save in his own country.’ Forgetting that. Christ was of
the House of David, a bright-eyed Jewess in our party ask
ed, ‘What was Jesus doing in a synagogue?’
So conflicting currents of thought, confuse one in the land
of three faiths. But to one of any faith, the Holy Land is
still holy. Here Jew, Christian, and Moslem have the
geographical setting for their behalf.
Since the first Christmas Day, Christian teachings have
circled the earth, far beyond the small area Jesus knew.
Actually, few carpenters’ sons in the Holy Land today wand
er as far as He.
But even if one includes the Egypt to which His parents
fled in fear, and the indeterminate spot on the Syro-Phoen-
ician coast which marked His northernmost ministry, the
area known to Christ was a mere fraction of Bible Lands and
only a tiny patch on the map of the world that now knows
His name.
The traditional site of the Garden of Eden, in Mesopotam
ia, is far away. So are the mountains of Iran, known to
Esther and Mordecai. Mount Ararat, where Noah’s Ark
found harbor on a 16,946 foot mountaintop, looks into Rus
sia from Turkey.
By land and sea, St. Paul traveled as far as Malta and
Rome. It was in Antioch, near Muaz Dag, that men were
first called Christians. The very word ‘Bible’ comes from
Byblos / (now Jubeil, in Lebanon), for papyrus gathered
near that Phoenician port was the material on which the
Word was recorded.
It has ever been hard for pilgrims to adjust themselves to
the realization of their dreams. Even amid the gnarled
old olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane (meaning Oil
Press), the hum of motors on the Jericho road or the chatter
of visitors thanking the guardian for tiny cards bearing
olive leaves from the Garden may disturb one’s contempla
tion.
Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed grew up in a hard, inhos
pitable land which could not daunt their faith. Around the
world, Jews, Christians, and Moslems have carried their
dreams of a Holy Land. As Christmas time draws near,
the age-old dream is renewed. Little children know the
story. How mighty Augustus taxed this stubborn land.
How honest, fearful citizens of David’s city crowded into
Bethlehem. How a weary mother laid her infant in a man
ger because they had no bed. Actually, Joseph and Mary
were far more fortunate than those who had beds but could
not sleep. For them, Christmas was only tax day.
The first angelic Christmas carol has burst the bounds
of Bible Lands, to circle the earth, for it finds response in
the hearts of men:
'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good
will toward men.’ To men the world around, this heavenly
song, this deathless dream, make tiny Palestine the Holy
Land.” (I have quoted from The National Geographic Maga-
zine.)
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3.
Score yourself 10 points for each correct answer in the first six
questions.
1. Find the word below which does not match the other three.
—Hour —Day —Minute —Wristwatch
Which country was the first to use gunpowder?
—Russia —Holland —China —India
Which of the following documents is credited with being the
foundation document of Great Britain’s democratic government?
—The Stamp Act —The Corn Laws —The Magna Carta
—The Exclusion Act.
The smallest state in the United States is listed below. Can you
find it?
—Delaware —Vermont —Rhode Island —Long Island
If a tie vote occurs in the Senate, who is permitted to cast his vote
and break the tie?
—The President —Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
—The Vice President —The Secretary of State
Puppets are operated by inserting the hands inside the doll.
Marionnettes are operated with
—Magnets —Weights —Strings —Levers
Match the following national symbols to their particular coun
tries. Score yourself 10 points for each correct choice.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1952
5.
(A) Bear
(B) John Bull
(C) Uncle Sam 5
(D) Cockaded hat
Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80
c uperior; 90-100, very superior.
—France
—America
—England
—Russia
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From The Mtmising, Mich., News:
Now about coasting—that, pri
marily, is of parental interest too.
For years children have been tak
ing their chances with traffic on
city streets. Last winter some
thing was done to alleviate the risk
when a “man-sized’' coasting hill
was cleared at the city playgrounds
and another in the west end of
town. They were given an encour
aging amount of use, but some
children still preferred street-
sliding.
Cure That Ulcer
.We think there is something con
tradictory in the picture when
coasting hills away frqpi traffic are
provided, and still street-sleighing
is permitted. Given a choice, the
young crowd probably will take
the streets. We don’t think they
should have that choice—for their
own safety and to relieve motorists
of a constant chance for accidents.
We believe street sliding should
be prohibited, that normal traffic
be maintained on all thoroughfares
and that the young folks should be
encouraged to use those coasting
hills provided for them—away from
traffic.
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tp ARLY IN LIFE William E. McGill, Atlanta Georgia, began a
^ battle with fear. He did the things that he feared to do, which
brought about mostly trouble. He was afraid of girls—so he tor
mented them; afraid to fight—so he fought; afraid of discipline
and so he was constantly in trouble at scnool. The fellows called
him “Wild Bill,” and the teachers called him “The Smart Alex.”
In business life the same situations arose, ex
cept now they became more serious in nature.
He left his first job as a roofing salesman to
become manager of a roofing department in a
local hardware store. A few months later he
beat up the bookkeeper and was fired. He was
young, cocky, and tough—so he thought!
Finally, after an average amount of success
and failure, he stood before his doctor who said
he must enter a hospital to be fed scientifically
for stomach ulcers brought on by business pres
sure. But Bill McGill says he now knows pressure
came from within—not without! He was not being crushed, but
literally about to explode from inward pressure which he now
knows to have been brought on by himself. He was to find a new
w'ay of life.
If his trouble was arising from worries, the simple thing to do
seemed to be to relax and stop worrying. What a wonderful idea!
This is what he did:
From The Glenn Ellyn, m..
News: ,
A bird In the hand is what all
hunters look forward to these days.
But that bird should not be bagged
in the village.
A closet at the Glen Ellyn Police
station is full of guns. Nearly 50
hunters were arrested in the first
24 hours of the season for hunting
within the village limits.
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offenders are
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required to
post $200 bond or leave their gun
at the station. Fines up to $100 may
be assessed, under the village ordi
nance. And Chief Lee Brierton
warns that hunters in violation will
continue to be arrested throughout
the season, fl
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That’s expensive hunting, but the
consequences of shooting near
homes may be many, many times
more costly. Bullets have been fly
ing around residences, especially in'
the areas east of Spring Rd. and
south of Roosevelt Rd., infested
with indiscreet gun-bearers. Some
one may pay the rest of his life
for the folly of an unthinking
hunter.
If the birds in the bush, or in the
air. are in the village—leave them
there!
• • •
Ohio,
From. The Chagrin Falls,
Exponent:
As a rank amateur at crystal
gazing, .we predict that the nation’s
three foremost pollsters. Dr.
George Gallup, Archibald Crossley
and Elmo Roper are going to swear
off politics. After months of inter-
viewing and projecting and plain
and fancy sliderule work with per
centage points and margins of
error, we still had to rely on the
same old election returns to learn
who won the Presidency.
Gallup, handicapped psycholog-1§
ically by his 1948 prediction of a
Dewey victory (in which he had
plenty of comp&ny) ‘this time pre
dicted “a tight race.” Crossley said
the contest could “go either way,’*
and Roper declined to prediet any
thing.
CARNEGIE
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1. He got the old chip off his shoulder. Ceased being so bellige
rent and avoided every argument. He let the other fellow save face.
2. He began to smile at people. Not a silly grin, but a great,
big, genuine SMILE. This was not easy—He was not in the habit
of smiling at folks. But wonder of wonders, he found that people
would smile back at him.
3. But real relief from pressure within came when he became
genuinely interested in others. This enabled him to acquire out
ward mterests—to think about something besides himself and
what he wanted.
The ulcer got well all by itself! It simply isn’t there. No inward
pressure, no ulcer!
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HAPPILY MARRIED . . . Negro blue* singer Pearl
bridegroom drummer Louis Bellson, Jr., drink toast
marriage in London.
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and the correct answer.
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