The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, December 17, 1915, Page 4, Image 4
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.
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ADVERTISEMENTS
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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
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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.
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