Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

Jlerrp to all! a + $2.00 PER YEAR A Silver Christmas tree, and arrangements of silver painted leaves and a cluster of red balls decorate the Smith’s dining room. Completing this scene are red candles in silver holders. (All Christmas Decorations Sunphotos.) Santa stands amid the greenery on the dining room mantle, holding the streamers to ring the Christmas silver bells. Beside him are his sleigh and reindeer and the snow man perches on the corner. Stockings were hung with care, for the Smith grandchildren. Smiths and were described in By The Way last week t The picture above shows the living room mantle, decorated in gold and green. Reflected in the mirror is a table containing other decorations. ^ ^ v-.v^vr By The Way - by, ^borid Sander3 MERRY CHRISTMAS In this week’s issue of The Sun the business firms 1 with which you trade throughout the year take the opportunity to wish you a happy holiday season. I hope that once your Christmas excitement has passed, you will take ;his issue and look through it carefully. You will find the greetings, care fully chosen by your friends, con tain beautiful and inspiring mes sages. Those of us at The Sun extend our best wishes for a fine holiday for you along with our thanks for your many kindnesses during the past year. THE BEST PRESENT If you are wondering whether or not a pet would be a good Christmas gift for your child, per haps the following article will help you decide. Entitled “Pets make the best Christmas Presents of all—Only a Dog Speaks to the Heart,” the feature was written by Dr. Brian Welbeck and print ed in a recent issue of The Rey nolds News of London. My thanks to O. F. Armfield Sr. for dis covering and turning this over to me. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did: The Christmas gift that has lasted longest in your affections was a pet, I’m certain. The moment you opened the basket and found that tiny bun dle of fur, you knew this was something very special. He was yours, all yours. It is the liveliness of a pet, against the lifelikeness of a doll or a battleship that puts the childhood pet in a different class. The pet is responsive. It makes new demands on a child because it has to be fed, kept clean and protected. The pet creates a new dimen sion for a child, gives him a fresh understanding of life and a new sense of responsibility. Many Moods On© of the hard lessons of childhood is to learn that love has a hundred moods. There is the passive mood of confident belonging—the child lying still in his mother’s arms, adoringly watching her face. There is the mood of excited activity and shared liveliness— the child romping with his father, shrieking with delight. The mood of jealousy—the child bitterly hating his mother for having another baby, and hating the baby for stealing the mother. The mood of exasperation or annoyance (an essential ingred ient of love)—the child aware that he has angered his parents. The mood of lonely longing— the child waiting, tense with an xiety, for mother to return and catch him up in her arms. Love has as mhny facets as the eye of a fly, as many hues as a diamond. It is the con stant interplay of emotions be tween two beings, each indivi dualistic, each aware of a unique dependence. In the home the child has learned of love only from the point of view of the smaller part ner, the one who needs protection. But give him a pet and he sud denly becomes the strong, exper ienced, reliable member of a new kind of partnership, one in which he experiences the varying moods of love from the adult standpoint. This is valuable training. For the first time another small creature is wholly depen dent upon him and on his under standing of its needs and moods and unspoken demands. This is where a live pet is so far ahead of a doll, for example. You can neglect a doll and it will not whine or fall ill or die. The pet really needs its small master or mistress. Own Will A puppy or a kitten is an in dividual, a creature with a will of its own. It has to be taught or coaxed or punished. The child must learn to under stand an animal which, like a baby, has no language. Most important of all, the ideal pet can respond to the at titude and personality of its young master or mistress. A puppy can get excited, sho-v pleasure when its master comes home from school, be rompingly affectionate. It can be sad or mystified, hurt or forgiving. It can be naugh ty or obedient, clean or dirty, adoring or roguish, playful and loyal. It is this wonderful capacity for showing the whole range of human feelings that makes the dog the ideal companion for the small child. Other pets have their parti cular qualities and advantages, but only the dog possesses the instinctive affinity with human beings that speaks straight to the heart. New World For the small boy to possess a pet in the home that can share his moods, wake hin in the morning, produce a litter of pup pies or guard him at night, is to open a door on to a new world of rich experience. Some vital part of a child’s heart is given to his first pet. As a very small boy in China, I was given a black-and-white (Continued on Page 8) Bill Workman’s Book Due Soon Babson Forecast In Next Issue Mayer Service Christn las Eve January 11, 1960 will mark the date for publication of The Case for the South by a South Carolina newspaperman, William D. Work man Jr. Candid, outspoken and dodging no issues, the book discusses the race question in all its aspects—- constitutional, political, economic and social. It is the only thorough work on the subject from the Southern standpoint since the Su preme Court decision of 1954 ord ered integration of schools. With the recent shift of large sections of the Negro population across the Mason-Dixon line, the problems attendant on this shift have become of concern to the en tire country. The Case for the South attempts to supply honest answers to pertinent questions in this area. “It will not appeal to members either of the Ku Klux Klan or of the NAACP,” says the author, “but it should be welcom ed by those who seek to know the true South.” Mr. Workman, a native of South Carolina, covers the State Capital for the Charleston News and Courier, the Greenville News and other publications. He is, in his own words, “neither an ex tremist nor a repudiator of bis heritage.” For many years he has enjoyed a reputation for frank reporting and perceptive inter- Roger W. Babson will predict major changes in America’s edu cational system, presidential nominees, “hot war” possibilities, and will give his forecast as to what will happen in business, fi nancial and political situations during 1960 in his annual Busi ness and Financial Forecast to be published in The Sun next week. Also covered in the Forecast will be such important topics as commodity prices, taxes, trade, labor, inflation, farm outlook, and real estate. Mr. Babson, a pioneer in the field of business and financial statistics, enjoys an unusual rec ord of accuracy in his Annual Forecasts. His score for 1959 was 84 percent accurate. WRIGHTS HERE FOR CHRISTMAS Captain and Mrs. Downs Wright arrived in Newberry Tuesday to spend the Christmas holidays with his mother, Mrs. R. D. Wright Sr., and other relatives. Capt. Wright is stationed with the Navy in Washington, D. C. preting of issues facing the South. He is a graduate of The Citadel, a veteran of World War II, and a colonel in the Army Re serve. Traditional Christmas Eve Wor ship service will be held in Mayer Memorial Lutheran Church, Thur sday at 11 p. m. This will be an informal service with the mem bers of the congregation uniting in singing carols and in responsive readings. The choir will render special music. A sermon, “Our Great and Good Gift” will be de livered by the pastor. ' The public is most cordially in vited to attend. Columbia Firn Is Low Bidder At a special meeting of City Council held Wednesday morning, the firm of Kohn and Jackson of Columbia was awarded a contract for the installation of sewer ex tensions in the Suburbia area and water extensions in the South Glenn street area. Of eleven bids, the apparent low bid of Kohn and Jackson was $49,985.45. Council also authorized the city manager and clerk and treasurer to procure funds to finance the construction. It was stated that construction would begin with in 10 days after the signing of the contract and completed within 60 days. Santa’s reindeer mount the stairs in the entrance hall of the Smith home. In the fore ground is a red candle, decoratec with small multi-colored balls and in the background, a green net Christmas tree, adorned with golden balls. Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Kaufmann are shown in their home on Harrington street on the occa sion of the annual party given by the Newberry College presi dent and his wife for members of the faculty and staff. The Kaufmann home was attractive ly decorated throughout for the occasion. COMPLETES DUTY WITH U. S. NAVY Lt. (JG) Eugene C. Griffith ar rived in Newberry this week to spend the Christmas holidays with his parents, Judge and Mrs. Steve C. Griffith, and brother, Steve, Jr. Lt. Griffith has completed three years active duty with the Navy, during which time he served 14 months in Morocco. He was later assigned as Gunnery Officer on the Destroyer Charles R. Ware, with home port in Newport, R. I. During his term of duty on the destroyer, he took a number of cruises to the Mediterranean, South America and other areas. Lt. Griffith, who was graduat ed from the University of South Carolina prior to his entry into the Navy, will enter the law school of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in January. Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Summer will spend the Christmas holidays in Knoxville, Tenn. with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. McBeth Sprouse and sons. Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Baker plan to spend the Christmas holi days with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Carter and little Syd in Charles ton. Straight Talk by ^ Imagine getting your greatest spiritual experience in atheistic Russia! We had just left Mos cow’s citadel of atheism, fantas tically ugly Red Square, where thousands of subservients come daily to worship the incarnation of history’s foremost mummies, Vladimir “The Body” Lenin and “good 01’ Joe” Stalin, their car casses perfectly preserved in their glass showcase in the red marble mausoleum. They’re the only well-dressed people in Mos cow—all dressed up and no place to go. Stalin had pronounced repeat edly: “Lenin is God. . .The party cannot be neutral toward reli gion. Anti-religious propaganda is a means by which the complete liquidation of the reactionary clergy must be brought about.” The Russian “God,” Lenin, sta ted: “Religion is a kind of spirit ual gin in which the slaves of capital drown their human shape and their claims to any decent human life. . .Marxism is mater ialism . . . We deny all moral ity taken from superhuman or nonclass conceptions . . . Atheism is an integral part of Marxism . . The materialist gives a more im portant place to materialism and nature, while relegating God and all the philosophical rabble who believe in Him to the sewer and manure heap . . . Down with re ligion. Long live Atheism.” Atheism or Starvation Sunday Schools in Russin are not permitted to exist. All “edu cation” belongs to the state—and so do the children. Six days a week for 40 years the children have been taught atheism in school. It would be Inconsistent to let them be taught about God in a Sunday School! A person can lose his job or be demoted for church attend ance. Starting next year young people have to either be con firmed in church or join “youth confirmation” (Communist) groups. If they choose the church, they won’t be able to get a job when they’re old enough to work. Most people under 60 have sold out God for jobs, security, con venience. Or maybe they’ve sim ply concluded that co-existence with atheism, is better than no existence. Our intourist guide had inform ed us that intelligent people don’t go to church; that religion, which they refer to in the past tense, is a fairy story. With a straight face the beguiling guide had told us that churches were closed because the people nq long er wanted them open; they had “learned better.” In spite of this unsolicited wisdom, we drove from the ornate atheistic Kremlin to a little out-of-the-way faded stucco Baptist Church on a nar row cobblestone street. The Cen tral Baptist Church, one of the few open-for-business churches left in Moscow, was playing to its usual three times a week, standing room only crowd of about 1,000. Behind the pulpit glowed a stain ed glass window inscribed with “Bog est lyubov (God is love).” It glowed quite differently from the diffused orange-colored light which bathes the cagcasses of the enshrined killers on display in Red Square. Every face in the old* sanctuary- gaped incredulously as our ob- viously-American group was led down the aisle. They grabbed for our hands as we proceeded to our (Continued on Page 8)] BIRTHDAY !j GREETINGS Dec. 27: J. H. Bedenbaugh, Linda Jane Lominick, Berlin Stuck, Mrs. David Ringer, Mrs. Ferd Summer, Larry McCul lough, Ronald Chapman, Berley Shealy, Mable Darby, Mrs. G. B. Sessions, Mrs. A. J. Wilson, Douglas Bozard, Mrs. J. W. Longshore, Christine Shealy, Jo Ann Summer, Harriet H. Smith. Dec. 28: Mrs. Elbert Dickert, Lisa Lominack, Mrs. Fay Mur ray Gray, Mrs. F. Scott Elliott, Mrs. Oscar Mayer, Brenda Sum mer, Dale Eargle, Gates Beck with. Dec. 29: Mrs. Dave L. Hayes, Mrs. Frank Stewart, Mrs. J. Al vin Kinard, David Langford, Margaret Watkins, Christie Weigle, Frances W. Lester, An nie Belle Wilson. Dec. 30: Brother Gilliam, Jac queline Crooks, Carolyn Boland, Mrs. Virginia S. Senn, Mrs. HL O. Stone, Lynn Altman. Dec. 31: Mrs. Nat Gist, Mrs. G. V. Clamp, Mrs. Ella H. Beam, Miss Emily Boozer, Mrs. Eddie O. Graham, Sue Stone, Mac Brooks, Clyde E. Minick, D. B. Dawkins, J. C. Shealy, Elberta Coleman. Jan. 1: John Harrison Rag land, Buddy Lipscomb, Mrs. G. W. Kinard, Larry Young, Grace Reddick Joye, Rachel Werts, George B. Brooks. Jan. 2: Mary Fulmer Wells, Ben Pressley Stewart Jr., Mrs. Mamie Smith, David Stone, Molly Lindsay, Robert Wicker.