The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, May 18, 1906, Page 4, Image 4
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DMON, 8. C., MAY 13, looo.
Mr. Bryan let? us know that la
won't mind making a noise like n
clover 1 lossoni if the Presidential
boo buzzes his way.
\\*r have heard id the Hump parliann
nt and the Barelonc parliament
of laiglnnd. Now conies along
the Bare-legged parliament of BusSat.
Why cannot the VnitedStates
add some other part of the humni
auatomy?a Back-bone congress foi
instam e.
How about Union's monument tt
the Confederate dead? This is on?
of the few cities its size in the Stat?
t'v.t ? ('..nl'nlnn
" S so loyal in i very other interest, neglect
this longer? The deeds oi
Union men in the dtiys <>f 'G1-'
merit all that we can do. Shall w<
be called unmindful and unworthy?
A negro preacher, and drunk on
the streets! This occurred in Union
not long since. Poor fellow! hut
he is not the only one. If they
knew how the white people wished
to help them, and how they simply
they would try harder to do better.
And while we write, a negro is over
yonder dying from a cut in the
head received at a negro church festival.
How hard_.Unrting influence
gro to do rjidi4 t>ity rather than our
r.""-ubnination. When the negrc
/be made to see that the Sout
white man is his friend, then h
reached the point where he ea
.4# gin a wonderful development
in time reach a plain that he i
will reach otherwise.
He-unions, councils, convent
ions. conferences?era
During the last week it sec nit
the South and, in fact, the >
country is having a record br
in this line. The Cotton Gro
and Spinners' conference in Y
ington, the Bankers' Associati
Greenville, the Travelers' IT
ivc association in Columbia
Methodist conference in Bin
ham, the Baptist conventii
Chatanooga, the Episcopal ct
in Anderson, the Democratic
in every county, the Odd Ft
ami I'.vthians in their recent
ings and this week the ITesby!
Assembly in Greenville and tl
soldiers in Columbia. We sec
represented almost every inter
our commonwealth: viz. the j
cal, social, commercial, itidu
and religious. What does
mean? It uican> simply that
are organizing interests and hv
ccrieu euoris nope 10 promote
interest-'. Man is a social ai
and this combining of intcri
natural and means progress.
THE CRIME OF THOUGHTLESSNI
The thoughtless individual
most as great a misfortune as
wilfully vicious. It tills one
honest resentment to hear
thoughtless fellow exclaim
faco of calamity caused by hi
carelessness: "I forgot.''
the man who thrusts his um
under his arm and punches on
eye of some unfortunate victii
lowing in his rear to tho mai
whose hands tho lives of hun
01 tojw-touijjb uro iuUudtU
? to find the confidence misplaced!
goes lip the sickly cry: "I did not [
incan to do it!" Of course not! i
. But just the s;ulie some poor victim i
loses his eye or a number of people j
| theii lives. It is often a notoriously
wiclcl thing not to think. A
! man la- no lasiness going about
j with a n achine branded "a think-'
er," : lias a head, and forget to use j
j it. We may feel a sort of pity for
| such a specimen, but the predomi
1 1 I
j nating feeling we have for such a j
1 man is contempt. A thoughtless j
; blunderer fings donn the stump of
j a burning cigarette and a score of
, people lose their lives and thousands
of dollars worth of property arc
destroyed. Yet this sorry specimen
ij will stand up I efore bis fellows and
Jjsay "i di 1 not think?" That is just
the trouble, and a grievous one it is,
i to be sure. We naturally expect I
f men who go around with a head on
I ' their slioiildntM in iuk IkukIs.
J Then too, in matters that ilo not inI
volvo th j question of life and death
{or the safety or loss of property,hut
' | yet have niueh t? do with the weal
' or woe of peoi le \\e often see the!
I wretched work of these same;
thoughtless individuals. They are j
of that large class of people who do
not hesitate to use their tongues;
' without reflecting how far-reaching
' in its consequences a spoken word
' may I c. Some whispered word of
' slander goes out upon its blighting
' mission. Should the whisperer be i
r eonfroute 1 with the consequences of
his sinful child he would probably
say: "I had no idea it would work
such destruction!" I>ut it is the
business of people to have an idea!
of consequences in such matters,and ;
we feel contempt for people who do I
I not have an idea along such lines. |
We expect people to have ideas,wc
. demand that they use their faculties j
i of mind, and it is poor reparation
for a man to stand forth in the light
I of the results ??f thoughtlessness and
II say, "I did not think."
A I Kir IU ATLANTA AND CHATANOOGA
! i
The Times Editor last week made
In Atlanta he attended tor one nignt;
the great meeting of Torrey and Al- .
exandcr, now in progress there. !
Dr. Torrey preached a plain, simple .
sermon. It might almost be called
' " tiw^'dace. There was nothing.
eon- tne m*? . . . ,
, . , except that i
? can were moved mightily, 'mv
hem certainty, of strong faith, was he
e has | throughout the discourse. It is
n |)C. | here, one feels that the strengtl
, and this great preacher lies. He
never moreover, a master hand at org
I izing the forces, lie speaks
; strongly against the evils of soci<
ions, i |ms no pUijence witli the p
Tme! j ont (]ay ]axity of professing Chi
' 1 ians. He believes and preaches
vhole | from iit| fa ^lex
eaker jer c|ocs no^ impress one thai
Ayerrf has a very great voice, but he kn
V at>h- j1QW ?() niujjC an assembly sing.
on in i literally pulls them into trying,
otcct- j ceeds in getting the eongrega
' t,lc*! to join in singing a new piece a
ming-1 a fcw ininutes training.
>n in jn (jhatanooga the greatest in
juncil j jng cvcr held j,y 1 tnptists came
cltd s thousands of baptists attended
Hows meetings. (!real reports were Ik
meet- from the secretaries of the vari
tcrian Boards, and the greatest reports
le old er heard from their missions in
heie ejgn fields were made. Along v
attendance upon the eonventior
xditi- was aig0 the Editor's privilege
istrial yjsjt many points of interest in
it all around Clmtanooga. Ixx>l<
men Mountain, Missionary Kidge,
eon- chard Knob, the National eeme
these , au,i other points of interest \
inmal visited- (Iiie nf tin1 niiivi
sts is . experiences was a trip up the
| eline track to the top of Ixiol
ESS. i Mountain. I'art of the way the
j is hauled up an incline of so
is al- J thing like sixty or seventy degr
is the i When one remembers that nil
: with ! degrees is perpendicular, it is ri
some ily seen that this trip causes <
in the chills to travel up and down o
s own spine. One feels that if this
From trip is safely made there will hi
brella second trip, hut knows if the
it the trip fails there will Ik; no second t
11 fol- Next time the Editor makes a
i into it to ( hatanooga, he hopes to m
dredst it in company with some old sol*
(toiy pVfeo can feiVe thrilling dhycrifrti
J
of the many points of historic in-1
tor est. Even without such a companion,
one feels that the ground
upon which he stands is sacred.
UNION BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
It is always painful to have to
chronicle the story of a fellow-man's j
downfall. One feels that if it was j
just to the readers to cover up such i
matters it would l>e host that nothing
he said of such things. However,
a public trust betrayed is a
very different matter from private,
personal affairs. The shortage of
Mr. \V. \V. Hughes as treasurer of
the Tnion Building and Loan Association
I'll I1HI
v?...v ??o .v (jiiut ?iirprisc io
the citizens of t'nion. He has held
positions of trust for many years,
and had very many warmjfriends. I
It is a real grief to those friends that
t
matters turned out as they did. It
is the old story of "speculation"
that thus claims another victim.
The net of this great monster closes
alauit its victim so silently and iib-1
visibly that before he is aware of tt|fe
situation every avenue of osenpvlj#;
eut oft*. There is such bright proiffr- >
of gain in such ventures that ononis ;
blinded to the dangers that must
invariably enter into all such trans- j
actions. The increasing evils of j
"speculation" make it imperative!
that we condemn the thing and1
warn the public of the almost eer- j
tain failure that must follow upon ;
the heels of the speculator. But of i
this enough. The writer personally .
feels grieved that Mr. Hughes has !
fallen into this destroying demon's;
grip. And while lie himself said " 1 !
am alone responsible," it yet re-1
mains that he is not alone resnon-1
siljle. A public conscience tli.it
tolerates and even favours the existence
of "bucket shops" and that;
looks complacently upon all manner
of gambling is not without its share I
in the guilt. A public conscience ,
that condemns such transactions
only when failure and ruin enters a
victims life is largely to blame for
these calamities. There should be '
public. There would then be less i of
such sad occurrences as the one ,
recorded in this editorial. But of ;
this enough. \\ hat of the Building
and Loan Association involved in 1
t-k* go '
? ?*, members of the association w
ard stailj together it is believed the s
just' u;ltion can be saved. It is ccrta
1 _ that all paid in has not been loi
1S? To drop out now means further lot
>lin" In perhaps two year*5 the associ
011 ^ tion can recover itself. Besides/
1..
L'l-> are informed that from this tinic<
res" the payments are to be ma
through the Merchants and Har
^1C ere Bank each month. This ma
an" agement will safeguard the func
^ *10 Many years ago a treasurer of tl
ows same organization was found she
"c in his accounts, but the whole nit
and t,.r wa8 (inally worked out and litl
tion joss sustiiined by any one indivi
iter lla]_ it, is to hoped that in t
present ease the same result mi
follow. Moreover, it is not unlike
that some of the lost money may
the ^covered from the Security Coi
"ar" pany that for many years earri
101,8 Mr. Hughes. It is true that tl
cv": bond was allowed to lapse aboutt
f?r" first of the year. But the shorta
k ith oiust go back for several years, ai
b ^ such shortages it is thought wou
have to be covered by this compan
an^ A few words in conclusion: Wh
Lout these failures are discouraging, th
Or-' 1-1 --a 1 - 11 ?
milium inn. ue allowed to i>aral>
tery, a community. They should r
vere j (!Vl.n j*. allowed to destroy our fai
in our fellows. The whole busin<
! m" j world is run upon faith. T
iout w}iee]g 0f the whole concern ml
: car ! stop if we lose faith in our fello
mc"jmen. Ix:t us take the situatl
ccs<! calmly, and with every possil
icty | safeguard for the avoidance of su
L'a''" an occurrence in the future that ci
ro^ j he had, let us face the future hop
nc s fully and unllinchingly.
first ?:
n<) Anderson's power house on t
first Seneca river was destroyed by ti
rip. Friday, May 11th. In some w
vjg. the wires caught fire and set tl
ike wo?dwork burning. The city
I Anderson was in total darkness f
j three nights. There was no inse
to ftM* hfctf.
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variety may be
made in no les
9 affording accui
| the first day wi
B this variety, in
tions here shov
IB o4.sk for then
I $3.50 M(
ExGelstor Mill Notes. W]
1 have been on the .hupi/awcomfiture
nit to my fcU****5*?>thing past the ordinal
y; except the loss of a small
baby at Mr. Coleman's, I think a
ill grandchild of the Mr. and Mrs.
it- Coleman.
jn Some two or three families pulled
j. stakes and left for other parts, hoping,
I suppose, to find a more con58
genial climate; or perhaps they are
a- looking for a place where bread,
,ve butter and cheese grow on trees,
3n and hence be able to live without
so much toil, or they may be hunting,
like the young man who wrote
d- to Henry Ward Beeeher, for an easy
n- place. But the answer of the reverls.
end gentleman to that young man
jj8 was: "The grave was the only place
he could refer him to." So we
think the better plan is to hang on;
d- just stick to your hush if you hope
tie to ever get your basket filled,
d-1 Now us to work in the mills, I
i?> think where one follows this line of
I work for a living: just simply locate;
make this your home; work a
ly garden, keep your own cows, and,
be if possible, raise some chickens;
n- live economically; lay up some
(,(j money for a rainy day; and by all
i means send the children to school
1,8; until they are at least fourteen
he years old. Then you will not find
ge the very sad state of the clnldren
dd the writer did a few days ago, when
j(j he found two young men who could
, neither read nor write. How confused
their ideas when asked by
1? j this scribe where they were raised;
ey j the answer was "in the cotton
>jr(j I mill." I shuddered at the thought
' of children growing up in the mills
. ! without being able to so much as
i read. I asked myself what of the
i8SJ future of our cotton mill children,
he I hope the day may soon come
j8t when we will have a compulsory ed...
ucation law in all our Southland.
W": JoJo.
on j
ch! Dr. Pell, ol Converse, to Speak.
an |
x*. I Mr. Jeffries has secured Rev.
R. P. Pell, 1). I)., president of Converse
college., to make the address
at the closing exercises of the gradhc
ed schools. Dr. Pell needs no inIN!
I I rn/1 not ian to rvor?rv1 a rvf OrvnlK
Vi VSX4 UVVtUII W/ V/l kAiUI/ll vai U"
&y lina. and Union is glad of the
h<- opportunity to hear hiin. The ex?f
j ercises Jwill l>o on Friday morning,
or June 1st, at 10 o'clock in tho Ccnif
! tral school building. The publip
fait) bitfdialiy invitbd*
V
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