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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY. THE UNION TIMES COMPANY . . TIMES BUILDING, MAIN STREET BELL PHONE NO. 1 LEWIS M. RICE .Editor J. B. BOZEMAN Manager Registered at the I'ostoffice in Union, S. C., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.00 Six Months .50 Three Months .25 ADVERTISEMENTS One square, first insertion $1.00 Every subsequent insertion .50 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1015. The enemy who seeks your injury is perhaps rendering you valuable service. Our merchants are offering some choice values in their advertisements this week. Give theirryour patronage. The man who i>-et< lesmt nut nf life is the man who attempts to get most; the man who gets most out of life is the man who gives most. You need not magnify your faults; your enemies will do that. You need not minimize your virtues; that your enemies will also do. The psychological effect of Ford's trip abroad may be far different from the effect his criticism imagine it will be. Anyway, we admire and approve Mr. Ford's efforts, for we boiieve they are the result of a real desire to accomplish what now seems to be a most difficult, yet most happy result. Those who laugh at what they conceive to be the folly of Henry Ford in his efforts to bring about peace in Europe may yet have the laugh turned upon themselves. After all, the war, from beginning to end, has had a psychological feature apparent to all thoughtful people. We have no desire to appear as die tator to the sovereign citizens, ,of Union?they are welcome to use their own freedom of choice in the matter of where they spend their money. But we do bespeak for our Union mer* chants a fair show and liberal treatment. Your dollar sent to a mail order house will have a long way to go before it gets back to you. Spent with your local merchant, it may come back to you in a day's time. Patronize yoi^r local dealer; in doing so, you help yourself. We respectfully suggest that the Chamber of Commerce investigate the feasibility of bringing to the attention of the_jSoutheip? Railway authorities; matter of j erecting gates at the , issenger station here. It would be a fine thing if it could be done. The present condition of crowding to jjet^ off and on the cars here is a great inconvenience to the public. The erection of a good fence and of gates would cost no great sum. Such an arrangement would prove of great benefit to the public and to the railroad. as well. We again call attention to the / urgent need for eliminating some of the dangerous railway crossings between Union and Jonesville and Union and Carlisle. Already the public has fallen asleep since its last rude awakening when our good friend, Mr. R. M. Fincher came so near to losing his life. Must we forget and forget again and again? We respectfully urge our county authorities to take up the matter with the railroad and see what can be done. An insistent and udgent demand from the thoughtful people^ of the county should be heard. The people anxiously await the carrying out of this needed reform. We sincerely hope the merchants of Union will join in the contest which has been gotten up by the Chamber of Commerce for Tuesday evening, Dec. 21. It is not the possibility of winning a $5.00 or $10.00 prize, but the spirit of cooperation and of wholesome rivalry, that we trust will lead all to enter. Besides, it is high time you had your windows decorated for Christmas, anyway. We have often said that the store windows here compared favorably with those in a much larger city. This is true all the time. What is desired is that^ln Tuesday evening we put on a little ertra touch. Fall in line. hrotfiAi* merchants, and let's see how handsome we can be. "OLD SCROOGE" AND CHRISTMAS. If I had my way I'd hanpr "Old Scrooge" higher than Haman. I would order his tongue out out and his carcass thrown to the wild beas'ts. Nothing is too had for him. He is a hard old proposition, and no mistake. I hear him say: "If I had my way with the silly editor of The Times, I'd have him locked up jan f0r publishlhpr all those Santa Glaus letters." Oh! yes, he said it last year; he will say it a^airi this year. He is always tryintt to say unpleasant thintts. Rut i't is a fact that I have just as little use for him as he has for me. To my mind he is a very sorry fellow, and I care not what he says. I do know that if the world were made up entirely of his kind it would be a very unkind world and there would be no happy children in it. I am tt'ad the world is not of his kind, not by a ttreat. si'ttht. I have more and more a thankful heart that the Heavenly Father has made a kind world, a world filled with little children and with the music of their lautthter. I am pda*. I there are more smiles than frowns In n the world; more laughter than tears; c more joy than sorrow; more kind peo- n p)e than unkind people. Anyway, I'm p fcofng to see it that way so long as I n can. But, look out for "Old Scrooge!" li Ho gets very busy long about Christ- n mas; his children fear him, but have n little love for him; his associates dread c; him?and flee from him. His lot must ti be quite unhappy, for he seems to get little pleasure out of life save as a ^ "kill-joy." AN UNFORTUNATE SITUATION, n On last Saturday evening on South- a ern train Number ? , which leaves e Union for Jonesville about G:30 o'clock, r an episode occurred which is a dis- !( grace to a civilized people. A noisy, 11 drunken fellow, without shame, and in ? loud language, was cursing and using n obscene language. In the car were " ladies?Union county women?whose ears were made to burn with shame 11 becapse of the foul language. The P thing kept up until a passenger, a brother of one of the ladies, took the ^ matter up and demanded that the cursing cease. A serious mix-up was (> narrotvly averted. /"A.. IL. O-l 1 1! . < 11 \/11 me ouiuruay prvceam^, as me . Carolina Special was going from Un- _ ion to .Jonesville, the clay coaches were 1 packed. In the crowd were at least a a dozen men who were so much under ? the influence of whiskey that they v had forgotten how to be well behaved. c The scene in the smoking compartment was revolting in the extreme. v One man in there was drunk?and v sick; the rest may be imagined. The n truth is, the conditions reveled on the ?. afternoon and evening trains going west are incredible. One could hardly x believe it possible in a civilized community. Yet, it is a fact; as you may c' witness for yourself, if you care to ? go to the trouble to make the trip. It ? is of little use to say that the con- " ductor should handle the situation. We do not believe he could do so un- n less he had a dozen deputies armed with guns. We do not presume to K say who is responsible for this law- * ; less condition, nor do we presume to t] say how it is to be stopped. We merely reveal the facts, facts that are " a shame to a civilized community. * It is a very common occurrence to see P a man take out a bottle of whiskey and deliberately drink therefrom and ? pass it around to other fellow-passengers seated nearby. This is in it- e self a violation of the law. But if this ^ were all, it might be tolerated. It ^ is the drunken, overbearing, brutal and c vulgar ruffiian that produces a situa- ^ tion which is intolerable. Somebody 11 is going to come to grief if the condi- ? tion is allowed to continue. s g" ^??? b Newspaper advertising. We are very much gratified over ? the qplendid advertising patronage ^ which'this issue of The Times reveals, We feel a considerable degree of prilda*- aiacv in' the general make-up of our paper this week. We have spared *( neither time nor money in the pro- ^ duction of the issue. One thing we Q have known for quote a while is this: tf^a^trfcwspaper is to be of any real j value to the public, its production costs money, and a considerable ^ amount of money, at that. We have . for several years been promising our ^ readers that we would improve; wt are striving honestly to fulfill those promises. We feel sure that we have improved; we intend to improve yet p more. We have as good mechanical ^ equipment as can be found in any ^ shop anywhere in the country outside the larger cities. We could, without (1 the investment of another dollar get j out a small daily newspaper. We have, ? moreover, a superb equipment for doing high grade printing. Our presses have, for the past few ?months, been u busy eight hours a day, six days in the week. This is another cause for rejoicing on our part. We felt that wo had but to stick; to work, strive _ and deal squarely, and doing this, sue- e cess would come our way. We gratefully acknowledge our debt of gratitude to the business men of Union and u to our large family of subscribers for ^ f hn nof rnno/?n ^ ?- -? vv |>uvi una^v incjr nave p i veil US. _ And, speaking of advertising: We have "downs" and "ups" in this, as ^ does any other business. Recently a gentleman, when asked for an adve 0 tisement for this Christmas number, ji said: "I don't believe in newspaper n advertising." And we did not get his patronage. That very morning, not jj two hours before, another party who n had invested a 25 cent want adver- ^ tisement in the paper, said to us: "I t( never saw anything like it in my life. w I got forty-three letters in response n in one mail, and in all I got one 0 undred answers to thrt little adver- ^ tisement." So it goes. We did not ^ tell the non-advertising merchant of (j the multitude of letters 'that we knew |j to be going to out-of-town concerns Q which sell just the same brands of jj goods that* he 4ias to sell, and that j, such orders were going away from v home because the home people read in the newspapers the offerings of mer- t chants out of town. We could have s argued our case and the argument t( would have been strong. But we ck not feel it worth while to argue the matter. We know that the honest merchant, telling each week just what he has to offer, and telling it to twelve thousand people, and, too, at charge of perhaps lifty-cents, a dollar?some very small sum, for the service, is re- s ceiving valuable returns for the small f investment. t There is another phase of the ques- j tion that we feel more like arguing: t the newspapers, score them as one ^ may, are the best boosters any community has. They are by nature optimistic, aggressive and public spir- j ited. They must needs have the ma- u terial and moral welfare of the com? munity at heart, or they could not t exist. They deserve some considers- j 1 tion for what they do for the com-1 - lunity as well as for the help they an render the individual business lan. They should be liberally suported for the value as an advertising: ledium. They should also be liberal--' 1 / supported for the contribution they lake to the general good. There is o newspaper, that is, not one that an long endure, that does not conribute much to the general good. OOPERATION, THE KEY TO SUCCESS. I do not consider myself a business lan?far from it. I do not see hov nybody could accuse a "pencil pushr" of being so august a personage s a business man. But, I have an lea that one on the outer rim of busless, so to speak, has the advantage f viewpoint, to a certain extent. A , lan standing by the track may.#be o sort of engineer, yet may get a tetter view of the passing steam lonster than does the engineer who ulls the throttle. It seems to me that one of the chief weaknesses of the average business i'es in the fact that there is not nough of cooperation. I do not refer a the matters pertaining to the busless in its relations with the public, ut in matters relating to the internal lechanisms of its life. There is often n utter indifference to the success f a business on the part of the actual ,'orkers employed to carry on the ' oncern. This indifference is some- jj imes manifested in point of contact nth the public; it is frequently reealed in the lack of response to the linor duties falling to the lot of the mployee. It is to be seen in the istless, half-hearted, indifferent serice rendered. It may not be altoether the employee's fault; it, no oubt, often results from the attitude f mind the employer brinps to bear n the conduct of the business. It ometimes comes from his stupidity, is vanity or his ignorance?that is ot the question?jjettinjr rid of it is he thing: that counts. A clock keeps ood time when all the wheels are urning: in harmony, without lost moion and when regulated. One broken dieel may not stop the thing:, but it nil certainly impair its usefulness. 'here must be cooperation, inter-deendence, if the clock is to fulfil its unction as a timekeeper. So, it seems o me, the various individuals in a usiness must work together, cooprate, make up one complete unit?if he best results are to be achieved, lappy the man who, as the head of a oncern, can g:et his forces together, ni'te their wills, bind their efforts ito one g:reat whole?in the conduct f any business, any enterprise. It eems to me that I would, if I were a usiness man, get the whole store, ank, shop, mill or farm dwellers toether and preach just one sermon** Cooperation, the Key to Success." y on't pretend to say just how to he sermon, but elegantly " or antly?no matter which?I wouiaf/\ eek to create that sentiment when I [ ound it did not exist, and to intensify t where it already existed. Instead | f building a wall of reserve about lyself as "the head" of the concern, would try to batter down that reerve and build the wall around the 'hole concern. There are many ways 3 do this?fish frys, trips, an open ome. I believe that business presided ver by a man who is on intimate :>rms with the "office boy" is in far afer condition than is that business resided over by "the boss" who is eld in awe by the office boy. I may e misetaken in this. Hut I do know hat a boy can render heart service or ye service as it may pjease him. And know the business tyrant will hot et heart service. I don't believe eye ervice is a sure foundation for busless. I believe the average business rould pick up amazingly if from office oy to head man the business was poken of as "our business." I believe le average business would show imicdiate signs of improvement if the mployer opened his home to the emloyees. I don't believe any business tan will get the best out of his clerks ntil he sits down and eats with them, he Great Teacher, in winnincr men? I ublicans and sinners?%pceived them, te with them. The principle is not nly tfood in the hiph realm of souldnninpc, hut also in the meaner realm f commercialism. Anyway, I believe ;. And I believe this is pointf to he lore and more an accepted principle f a successful business. And I beeve the employer needs the contact lore than does the employee. He as more at stake; in fact, he has all i lose, if the concern fail. That it rill not fail, soon or late, clepends, lore than anything else, upon the coperation of the whole crew. If all he employers in Union were to try his, even if done as an experiment, urine: the Christmas holidays, I heeve it would work a marvel in most f the concerns. And, I will say this: f I honestly tried to win a fellow, and e would have none of the wooing, I /ould make it convenient to fill his lace at the first convenient opporunity, with another and more reponsive helper. This I would do not o punish him hut to save my business. CARD OF THANKS. Whitmire, S. C., Dec. 15, 1915. lr. Editor: Iwish through your valuable paper H o thank most heartily the commis- H ioners who reelected me as guard of B haingang. They can rest assured B heir confidence is not misplaced; that B 'II be strictly "on the job" at all I imcs giving my ^ry best service to fl he county. Sam Mobley. a "Willie." said the teacher of the I uvenile class, "what is the term, 'etc."' I ised for?" 8^ "It is used to make people believe hat we know a lot more than we real y do,' replied the bright youngster." ?Chicago News. THE AI Christm IS < \ Are Y R> Have You Seen Oi rnrT r VJ1I 1 V If not come in and see 1 creations in Gold La ^ Brooches, Bracelets and "V The gift for a woman is Our gifts for men are t( it is easier to shoV them t Let us solve the weddin ?we have a lovely line to Come to our store for acci time daily by wireless fro ment Wireless Station at Y TINS] ?jf.? ?, Fine Fan --ON EAS We have subdivided the C. small farms, ranging in acre farm and will sell cheap, terms one, two and three years. Ea public road?2 miles from Si miles from Whitmire. The i lay well, practically every far bargain. This is a opportuni farm cheap on easy terms. \ umor ( A t I \fNUAL as Rush ON! ?ady For 1 lr Beautiful Line of , tOOBS ;he beautiful and artistic /alliers. Wrist Watches, Iedgewood Cameos. a lovely piece of jewelry. >o numerous to mention? o you. g present problem for you choose from. urate time. We check our m the great U, S. Governfashington :::::: LEY'S! f ' * ~r t i 11s Cheap Y TERMS? H. 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