The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 26, 1957, Image 1
VOLUME 20; NUMBER 35
By The Way " by, Jbori3 Sander3
“Virginia O’Hanlon, 115 West
IDENTIFICATION
The cooperative models to whom
I am indebted for the pictures you
see on this page are as follows:
The girls in choir robes at the
top, left to right, are Eleanor and
Karen Kirkegard, daughters of
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Kirkegard, in
the sanctuary of Central Metho
dist Church. Across the bottom of,
the page, Santa and his reindeer
courtesy the O. M. Cobbs on
Boundary street; Santa on the
roof courtesy the W. H. Chapmans
on Main street; the youngster at
the chimney, unidentified; and the
four enjoying the “Happy Christ-
mas” are, left to right, Nancy,
Jean, Paul and Ken Harmon,
children of Mr. and Mrs. Meredith
Harmon. (Sunphotos.)
CHILDREN HAPPY
1 want to thank a very nice per
son for making two little girls I
know—and I’m sure many, many
others—happy this Christmas sea
son. As soon as Christmas deco
rations started going up around
town, each night these little girls
had to drive by and look for “Ru
dolph.” They remembered from
one year to the next that Rudolph
is supposed to. be on the O. M.
Cobb lawn bn Boundary street,
but several nights of looking prov
ed to no avail. Finally they insist
ed that their Morhmy call and
find out why Rudolph wasn’t
lighting Santa’s way this Christ
mas. Mrs. Cobb told the mother,
“we had just decided not to put
Rudolph out this year, but if your
little girls want to see him, out
he goes.” Sure enough—next
night—there was Rudolph, his red
nose shining brightly—but no
more brightly than the eyes of
those two little girls when they
saw him. So, to the Cobbs, for
making many children happy, my
sincerest thanks.
THE LETTER
Do you ever tire of “The Vir
ginia Letter?” To me it is as
much a part of Christmas as The
Christmas Story, Jingle Bells, and
“The Night Before Christmas.” In
the event there might be a reader
who has not seen the letter and
the reply before, it is a letter
written many years ago by Vir
ginia O’Hanlon to the editor of
the New York Sun, and his re
ply.
Here is what Virginia wrote:
“Dear Editor:
“I am eight years old.
“Some of my little friends
aay there is no Santa Claus.
“Papa says if you see it in
The Sun, it’s so. Please tell me
the truth, is there a Santa
Claus?
59th St., New York.”
The editor replied in this man
ner:
“Virginia, your little friends
are wrong. They have been af
fected by the skepticism of a
skeptical age. They, do not be
lieve except what they see.
They think that nothing can be
which is not comprehensive by
their little minds. All _minds,
Virginia, whether they be man’s
or children’s, are little. In this
great universe of ours man is a
mere insect, an ant, in the in
tellect, as compared with the
boundless world about him, as
capable of grasping the whole
of truth and knowledge.
“Yes, Virginia, there is a
Santa Claus. He exists as cer
tainly as love and generosity
and devotion exist, and you
know that they abound and give
to your life its highest beauty
and joy. Alas! How dreary
would be the world if there
were no Santa Claus! It. would
be as dreary as if there were no
Virginias. There would be no
child-like faith then, no poetry,
no romance to make tolerable
this existence. We should have
no enjoyment, except in sense
and sight. The eternal light with
which childhood fills the world
would be extinguished.
“Not believe in Santa Claus!
You might as well not believe
in fairies! You might get your
Papa to hire men to watch all
the chimneys on Christmas Eve
to catch Santa Claus, but even
if they did not see SitJita C laus
coming down, what would that
prove? Nobody sees Santa
Claus. The most real things in *
the world are those that tieith-
er children or men can see. Did
you ever see fairies dancing on
the lawn? Of course not, but
that’s no proof that they are
not there. Nobody can conceive
or imagine all the wonders
there are unseen and unseeable
in the world.
“You tear apart the baby’s
rattle and see what makes the
noise inside, but there is a veil
covering the unseen world
which not the strongest men
that ever lived could tear apart.
Only faith, fairey, poetry, love,
romance, can push aside that
curtain and view and picture
the supernal beauty and glory
beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Vir
ginia, in all this world there is
nothing else real and abiding.
“No Santa Claus! Thank God!
He lives, and he lives forever.
A thousand years from now,
Virginia, nay, ten times ten
thousand years from now', he
will continue to make glad the
heart of childhood.”
NEWBERRY, SOOTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1957
Crossing Point Of Interstate Highway
Only about 30 persons braved
the inclement weather Friday
morning to attend the public
meeting called by the South Caro
lina State Highway Department
to explain the new interstate dual
lane highway soon to be built
across Newberry County. This
will be a link in the 680-mile high
way which will stretch from Char
leston lengthwise across the state
to the northern portion, reaching
on into Asheville and points in
the mid-west. It will be a con
trolled access highway and high
way department officials say that
it is conceivable that a motorist
could enter the highway at Char
leston and go all the way to Chi
cago “without stopping”—meaning
without encountering a traffic
light.
Present at the meeting to ex
plain the proposed highway were
F. E. McEachern, public relations
assistant, S. C. Highway Depart
ment; L. A. Hendricks, location
engineer, T. J. Hendrix, assistant
urban engineer, both with the
State Highway Department; and
R. S. Richardson of the Federal
Bureau of Public Roads. All of the
gentlemen are of Columbia.
E. L. Blackwell, city manager,
introduced these gentlemen.
The highway will enter Newber
ry County between Chapin and
Little Mountain, about a mile east
of Little Mountain at the loca
tion of the present road. It will
cross Highway 202, the Little-
Mountain-Pomaria Road; then will
cross the Southern Railroad on
Route 773, the Prosperity-Po-
maria road, near St. Paul’s
Church. It will then cross the
Jolly Street road, then Highway
219, the Newberry-Pomaria Road.
The route continues across High
way 34, the Newberry-Winnsboro
road, just on the Newberry side of
the County Home. At Highway 19,
the Whitmire highway, the new
interstate highway will cross
about two miles towards Whit
mire from the intersection of 19
and 176, or about four miles from
the Newberry City limits. Going
north, it will cross Road 81, the
Long Lane road, and 21, the Ja-
lapa-Cromer road. It will then
parallel the present road until it
hits Route 66 east of Joanna.
(Continued on page 4)
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Seasons
Greetings!
+ $2.00 PER YEAB
Let us Sin^ Praises
at- this Qlorious
Christmas time.
Babson Forecast Will Be
Published In Sun Jan. 1st.
The Newberry Sun will publish
Babson’s Business and Financial
Forecast for 1958 again exclusive
ly in Newberry County this year.
It will be in next week’s issue of
The Sun.
A careful checking of the Bab
son Preddictions made in the Busi
ness and Financial forecast for
1967 upholds the remarkable av
erage of the past years by being
88 percent correct. The score for
the past 19 years holds the best
and highest record for Annual
Forecasts on U. S. Future Busi
ness. This score ranges from a
low of 80 percent accuracy to 95
percent accuracy in 1946.
American business has no more
inspiring personality than Roger
W. Babson, internationally-known
business commentator and invest
ment adviser. An outstanding fea
ture of his philosophy has been
his lifelong insistence on the im-
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“Twas The Night Before Christmas and All Through The House
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear
But a miniature Sleigh and eight Tiny Reindeer
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew.
With a sleigh full of toys—and St. Nicholas, too
As I drew in my head and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound
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I heard him exclaim ere he drove out of sight,
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight! 1