THE NEWS, CHAPEL HILL, N. C.
^J/lkrs^^
Let me entreat one thing of thee and 1
■will adventure to promise thee a good
year. The request is in itself reasonable
and may to thee be eternally profitable.
It is only this: duly to prize and diligent
ly to improve time for the blessed end it
was given for and is yet graciously con
tinued unto thee by eternal God.—REV.
JOHN SHERMAN (1613-1685).
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
W
HAT of the checks that
you and I are going to
draw on the Bank of
Time in 1922—if we
keep on drawing checks
through the year?
“There’s nothing new
under the sun,” according to a very
old saying. It’s true, too, in a sense.
But in another sense it most certainly
isn’t true. For there is something
new every time New Year’s day comes
around.
There are several things that are
-Ug-W _at_New Year’s beside the New
Year. There’s a new chance. There’s
a new responsibility. There’s a new
balance in the Bank of Time. There’s
Let us hope that the “reasonable
request’,’ that this early Puritan put
to himself was to him “eternally prof
itable.” In any event, he stands forth
as a fine sample of a sturdy American
pioneer family that has given four
immortals to the nation—Roger Sher
man, one. of the framers of the Dec
laration of Independence; General W.
T. Sherman; Secretary of State John
Sherman; Vice President James S.
Sherman.
Certainly his request is one that
is always reasonable. And it is one
that was never more reasonable than
now.
every
“duly
prove
The year 1922 is a year when
good American should endeavor
to prize and diligently to im-
time.” It is a year with a chal-
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYI SIVEN
THE NEWS GF (HE SOOTH
What Ie Taking
land Will
Place in The South*
Bt Found In
Br’e* Paragraph#
Foreign—
President Elbert, of Germany, is now
paid a salary equivalent to $2,00 a
year. The reichstag budget commis
sion has agreed to raise his stipend, in
view of present high prices and hard
times.
A report that has gained consider
able circulation during the recent days
that Fritz Kreisler, noted violinist and
composer, had been appointed Aus
trian ministed to the United States
was officially denied at the Austrian
foreign office.
German motion picture film manu
facturers have perfected a co-opera
tive organization one of the prime pur
poses of which is to capture the Euro
pean trade held by American produc
ers. In the effort to compete with the
American film the Germans are en-
deavoring to develop a
humor” which heretofore has
lacking in their productions.
“screen
been
Withdrawal of American troops sta
tioned in Cuba, will be requested by
the government under a joint resolu-
tion passed by both houses of
gress.
would
if the
to the
to are
The resolution states that
con-
“it
be regarded as a friendly act”
American government acceded
request. The troops referred
marines, which were stationed
a new bank
check stubs
year?
Rev. John
book. So, what will the
show at the end of the
Sherman had a right to
-iehge.’" It is a year with IT promise.
Though in folly and in blindness
And in sorrow still we grope,
Yet in man’s Increasing kindness
Lies the world’s stupendous hope.
make his “reasonable request,” if prac
ticing what one preaches gives that
right. His “three score and ten” were
busy years. He was born at Dedham,
Essex, England, and before he was
twenty-one he was an A. B. and A. M.
of Trinity college, Cambridge, a min
ister of the Church of England and a
Puritan on his way across the Atlantic
to the Massachusetts Bay colony.
There was no church for him, since
the only three in existence—Boston,
Salem and Watertown—had efficient
ministers. So he was one of the “orig
inal planters” of Wethersfield, Conn.,
and a “watcher,” 1634-40. Then he
was one of the founders of Milford,
New Haven plantation. Next he w
a magistrate representing Milford in
the New Haven colony and also
charged with the duty of dividing land.
Meanwhile he preached wherever op
portunity offered.
In 1647 he became the minister of
the Watertown church. There he
preached till his death in 1685. Church
and state were pretty much the same
thing in those days, so the village af
fairs kept him a busy man. He found
time, however, to publish for many
years an almanac, for which he made
all the astronomical calculations and
wrote the text. He was also the first
fellow and overseer of Harvard uni
versity. Incidentally he also found time
to marry twice. Cotton Mather in his
“Magnalla Christi Americana/’ says he
had 26 children; this is a misstate
ment, but he did have 16. His epi
taph in Latin on the tombstone In East
Waltham, Mass., thus sums up his
life:
“Sacred to the memory of John
Sherman, a man distinguished for pi
ety, character and truth; a profound
theologian; as a preacher a veritable
Chrysostom ; unsurpassed In his knowl
edge of the liberal arts, particularly
mathematics; a faithful pastor of the
Church of Watertown in New Eng
land; an overseer and fellow of Har
vard college. After a life of faith
ful service to Christ in the church
for upwards of 45 years in the full
ness of time he passed away and
received from Christ the palm of vic
tory, in the seventy-second year of his
age, August 8, A. D. 1685.”
And it is a reasonable request to ev
ery red-blooded, thinking, patriotic
American. Such a man knows that
nobody can stand still; that he has
either to progress or fall back. The
progressive man accepts responsibili
ties as the measure of his capabili-
ties. He never shirks them, for he
ognizes in them the price he must
for advancement.
Competition is going to be keen
rec-
pay
this
year. The dollar is going to be hard
to get. Men who have been getting
twice what they were before and have
had lots of money to spend are going
to feel the pinch. It looks as if ev
erybody who works for a living will
have to work a little harder. It may
be that life will seem hard. But what
of it? Life has always been hard—
perhaps it was meant to be. Anyway,
it is something that has got to be lived
and mastered. It’s the business of men
“to greet the unseen with a cheer” and
“to advance on chaos and the dark.”
Of course all of us cannot have a
hand in the big things that must be
done in meeting the challenge of 1922.
But if all of us do the little things we
may, 1922 will indeed be the “Happy
New Year” of our greetings.
To save a little money.
To praise a little more;
To smile when days are sunny
And when the tempests pour;
To pay Jess heed to sinning
And more to kindly thought;
To see beyond the winning
Just how the fight was fought;
To be a little kinder,
A little braver, too.
To be a little blinder
To trivial things men do,
To give my hand to labor,
Nor whimper that I must;
To be a better neighbor
And worthier of a trust.
To play the man, whatever
The prize at stake;
God grant that I shall never
These New Year pledges break.
Anyone looking for something to do
in the way of helping along can help
bolster up the morals of his communi-
ty.
The war has done what all wars
do. And the leeches on society are al
ways active at such times. Just now
we are facing all sorts of loose liv
ing and the .public at large apparently
feels little concern. Any man or-wom
an can at least help by setting a good
example.
ood American can help just now
by putting his respect for the law
strongly in evidence. For the law is
the law. If it is a poor law, it sliould
be changed. But until it is changed,
it should be obeyed—whether it re
lates to the shooting of game birds or
to the use of liquor or to the speed
of automobiles or to murder or to
anarchy. Many people who would
hotly resent the charge that they are
anarchists take delight in evading the
laws and in making sport of the laws.
Every thinking man must realize
that this Twentieth century civiliza-
ation is too complex to be sane, safe
and sober. Medical philosophers are
unanimous in declaring that we Amer
icans live too hard and too, fastidifd
our rapid ways are harmful both tp
the individual and to the race; th^t
we should slow up. We are, to use the
homely old phrase, burning the candle
at both ends. Men try to succeed in
business, to rule in politics, to be so
cial leaders—all at the same time.
To crowd dissimilar things together
has become a national characteristic.
Our avocations are often as wearing
as our vocations; we play even harder
than we work. Thus to crowd two
or more lives into one is to borrow
of nature. She is a hard creditor and
she always exacts payment.
One cannot, of course, indict a whole
people. There are still millions of
sane, safe and sober people in Ameri
ca. But a society that demands or
even countenances such recklessness
is in need of reformation. It would
be Interesting—and startling—to know
how many men and women put them
selves in an early grave by going the
pace that kills.
“Of all sounds of all bells, most
solemn and touching is the peal which
rings out the old year. I never hear it
without a gathering up of my mind to
a concentration of all the images that
have been diffused over the past
twelve-month; all I have done or suf
fered, performed or neglected, in that
regretted time. I begin to know its
worth as when a person dies. It takes
a personal color; nor was it a poetical
Hight in a contemporary poet when he
exclaimed: ‘I saw the skirts of the
departing year.’
“Every first of January that we ar
rive at, is an imaginary milestone on
the turnpike track of human life; at
once a resting place for thought and
meditation, and a starting place for
fresh exertion in the performance of
our journey. The man who does not
at least propose to himself to be bet
ter this year than he was last, must
be either very good or very bad indeed.
And only to propose to be better is
something; if nothing else, it is an
acknowledgment of our need to be so,
which is the first step towards amend
ment. But, in fact, to propose to one-
self to do well is in some sort to do
well, positively; for there is no such
thing as a stationary point in human
endeavors; he who is not worse today
than he was yesterday, is better; and
he who is not better, is worse.”
So wrote Charles Lamb. Therefore
let us make New Year resolutions
“duly to prize and diligently to im
prove time for the blessed end it was
given for”—even if we break them.
New Year Gifts
As to the New Year’s gift custom, it
Is supposed to have been derived from
the Romans, but is probably much
older. Suetonius and Tacitus men
tion It. Claudius Issued a decree for
bidding the demanding of presents ex
cept on New Year’s day. The Roman
colonists in Britain found that the
Saxons kept New Year’s in the same
a pleasant,
fashion. Starting as
friendly custom, it rapidly became an
abuse and a nuisance. The kings and
feudal nobility of the Middle Ages
practically levied on their dependents
for gifts. The presents varied accord
ing to sex and rank.
FEAST DAY FOR RUSSIAN
CHILDREN
In the country towns of Russia New
Year’s is the great feast day for the
children. Boy’s fill their pockets with
dried peas and wheat and go in bands
from house to house. People they
have any grudge against are doused
with the peas, while they shower the
wheat upon their friends. A curious
custom also is festooning the hand
somest horse and leading him to the
house of a nobleman. The pea and
wheat shooters follow in droves. Both
guests and horse are admitted to the
parlor of the lord and the guests re
ceive presents.
Berlin is to erect Europe’s first sky
scraper along American lines, a build
ing 22 stories high.
Approval of 182 advances for agricul
tural and live stock purposes aggrega
ting nearly $7,000,000, was announced
by the War Finance corporation. Of
this amount Georgia receives $461,000.
An appropriation of $10,000,000 to be
used for the purchased of 10,000,000
bushels of corn and 1,000,000 bushels
of seed grain to be distributed in Rus
sia is proposed in a bill introduced
in the house.
The American and Japanese govern
ments have composed their differences
over the Pacific island of Yap, and
are preparing to sign a treaty by
which Japan retains administrative
control over the island and the United
States secures the cable and wireless
privileges there for which she has con
tended since the Paris peace confer
ence.
Japan has indicated conditional ac
ceptance of the American “5-5-3” naval
ratio and a final settlement of the ques
tion appears imminent. After a meet
ing of the naval “big three,” it was
stated that only a very small point re
mained to be determined.
Agreement of the “big three’ naval
powers on the “5-5-3” naval ratio plan
was officially announced recently at
the state department. Under plan
Japan retains the superdreadnaught
Mutsu instead of the old battleship
Setsuand the United States retains two
additional ships of the Maryland class
instead of the Delaware and North
Dakota. Great Britain as an equiva
lent will build two superdreadnaughts
similar to the Maryland and Mutsu
types, but of greater tonnage, scrap
ping four old battleships of the original
retained list suggested by the Ameri
can plan.
a.t Camaguey in March, 1917, at the
request of President Menocal.
The national assembly recently rati
fied the treaty of peace between the
United States and Hungary at Buda
pest. Count Albert Apponyi, chairman
of the committee in charge of the
peace agreement, in an address in the
chamber after the ratification, said:
“Though we are not yet acquainted
with America’s future world policy,
this separate treaty is proof of her
disinterestedness and her sincere wish
to help in the reconstructions of east
ern Europe. This single peace, which
was not dictated, recognizes Hungary
as an equal.”
The text of the note addressed re
cently by Chile to Peru in regard to
the dispute over the provinces of
Tacna and Ari?a, proposes that the
plebiscite, provided under the treaty
of Ancon, be advanced so as to do
away with the necessity for mainte
nance of excessive military establish
ments.
France is willing temporarily to
forego cash reparations payment from
Germany a high official in the French
foreign office told the correspondent
of the Associated Press.
Further shooting occurred recently
in the Newtownards road district,
Belfast. Several women were wound
ed.
The former German crown prince,
who. since November, 1918, has lived
in Wieringen, is now planning to re
turn to Germany and expects to re
quest permission of the Dutch govern
ment for his departure early in the
spring. Frederick William looks for
ward to life as a country gentleman
with his wife and children on an es
tate at Oelst, (Oelsin, Prussia)
Meeting simultaneously in the Irish
and British capitals, the dail eireann
and the British parliament have start-
ed to work on the Irish
and will decide whether
shall rule in Ireland.
There is a report that
peace treaty,
peace or war
revolutionary
Sure Relief
FOR INDIGESTION
6 Bell-ans
O^ Ma
Bell-ans
25t and 753 Packages, Everywhere
IT PENETRATES
FOR COLDS,CROUP PNEUMONIA
30$, 60t $1.20 At Dru^ists
No Offense.
Chairman Lasker of the shipping
board said, in an interview:
“These men are taking needless of
fense. They were taking offense where
none is intended.
“A tall, gaunt, vinegar-faced worn-,
an walked into Wawa station one day
and said to the ticket agent:
Domestic—
Negotiations are under way for the
sale by southern pine interests to the
French government of approximately
240,000,000 feet of pine lumber, valued
at between $7,000,000 and $8,000,000,
according to an announcement at a
meeting at Memphis, Tenn, of south
ern yellow pine producers.
Twelve years ago, when Harold Fen
ner was nine years old his mother was
killed by a blow on the head. Nothing
was done about it at the time; the case
not even reported to the police, being
generally accepted as an accident. Har
old Fenner recently went to court at
Jersey, City, N. J., and swore out a
manslaughter complaint against his
step-father, Richard Townes, 56, alleg
ing he struck the blow which caused
death.
Equipped with “dust” shooting pis
tols to bring down high-flying insects
that - cannot be netted, Jesse H. Wil
liamson and John W. Strohm, a retired
army captain, will sail from New York
on the steamship Polycarp’for the jung
les of Brazil in behalf of science. They
plan to penetrate beyond the River of
Doubt.
Coster shops of the Southern railway
were closed at Knoxville, Tenn., in
their entirety and operations, except in
the roundhouse, are suspended until
January 3. Closing the shops means
that between 1,000 and 1,200 men will
be out of employment for a period of
about fifteen working days.
Operating coal mines at night as
well as throughout the day, a radical
departure from the established cus
tom, has been decided by the LaFol
lette Coal & Iron company, and its em-
ployees, at LaFollette, Tenn.
This
“ ‘Gimme
Heights.’
a ticket for Chester
Single?’ asked the agent.
“The woman’s
sparks.
“ ‘None o’ yer
hissed. ‘ Gost
eyes flashed steely
darn business,’ she
knows, though, I
might have married a dozen times
over if I’d been willin’ to grubstake
some shitless, putty-faced monkey like
yerself.’ ”
d ail tail
Her Only Chance.
Inconse—Does she dance badly?
Quential—Yes, if the chaperones
aren’t looking.—Pelican.
USE SLOAN’S TO
WARD OFF PAIN
L ITTLE aches grow into big pains
unless warded off by an applica
tion of Sloan’s. Rheumatism,
neuralgia, stiff joints, lame back won’t
fight long against Sloan's Liniment.
For more than forty years Sloan’s
Liniment has helped thousands, tha
world over. You won’t be an excep
tion. It certainly does produce results.
It penetrates without rubbing. Keep
this old family friend always handy
for instant use. Ask your neighbor.
At all druggists—35c, 70c, $1.40.
Travel by Sea
Norfolk to
BOSTON.
BALTIMORE.
.Wed. Sat. 4:00 P. M.
,Mon. Thur. 4:00 P. M.
Meals and Berth included on Steamer.
Through tickets from principal points.
troops operating in eastern Peru de
feated the government forces in a bat
tle. The Peruvian censorship is of
the strictest character.
President Obregon of Mexico, while
entertaining a group of friends at cl a-
pultepec castle, saw the great volca
no southeast of Mexico City, erupt—
Popocatepetl. He sent aviators to the
mountain to ascertain the seriousness
of the erpption.
Washington—
Secretary Herbert Hoover has asked
for twenty million dollars to feed the
starving Russians. He says the vol
untary plan is a failure, and that only
the government can save the day.
The new four-power treaty to pre
serve peace in the Pacific has been
formally sealed and signed by the plen
ipotentiaries of the United States,
Great Britain, Japan and France.
Western Washington was counting
its damages recently after four days
qf floods that resulted in the loss of
13 lives, rendered hundreds tempo-
is not only intended to give miners
more work, but to reduce the cost of
production, according to a statement
issued by L. C. Crewe, president.
The body of Tom Slaughter, slain
desperado, buried in a Little Rock,
Ark.,- cemetery in the presence of
thousands of curious spectators re
cently, may be disinterred. Governor
T. C. McCrae announced receipt of a
long distance telephone message from
G. D. O’Brien, of Dallas, Texas, pro
testing against the funeral service,
and denouncing a woman known at
Little Rock as Mrs. Myrtle Slaughter,
supposed to be the bandit’s widow, of
El Dorado, Arkansas.
Murder was given as the cause of
the death of Charles Nelson, 55, form
erly of Columbus, Ga., at Mobile, Ala.,
recently by the coroner following an
investigation after the dead body was
found at the bottom of a railroad em
bankment. Nelson was last seen alive
at his home, when he left in an auto
mobile in company with a man that
the police have been unable to locate.
Am earthquake that rocked buildings
and which was accompanied by a roar
ing noise, was felt at Rockwood, Tenn.,
and reports that the tremors were se
vere at Spring City.
Tommy O’Connor, two-gun man, sen
tenced to be hanged for murder, and
two other notorious Chicago criminals,
escaped from jail, fighting their way
past half a dozen guards, most of
whom were beaten into unconscious
ness by the desperadoes in their dash
for liberty, were later apprehended.
Jack Howard, the convict who shot
and killed Tom Slaughter, leader in
Merchants & Miners Trans. Co.
A. E. Porter, G. A., Norfolk
Health-Rest-Economy
fl NTM ITU’S
Si Chill Tonic *
NOT ONLY FOR CHILLS AND FEVER
BUT A FINE GENERAL TONIC.
Shave, Bathe and
Shampoo with one
Soap.— Cuticura
Cutieura Soap is the f avoriteforsafetyrazorehaving.
I PARKER’S
HAIR BALSAM
Removes Dandruff-Stops Hair Falling
Restores Color and
I Beauty to Gray and Faded Hai,
60c. and $1.00 at Druggists.
[Hiscox Chern. Wks. Patchogue,N. Y,
EYES HU
Don’t ignore the danger signals
of aching eyes, red hds, blood*
shot eyeballs. Mitchell
Eye Salve removes irrita
tion, reduces inflammation,
soothes pain.
HALL & RUCKEL
HINDERCORNS Remoras Corns, Cal
louses. etc., stops all pain, ensures comfort to th®
feet, makes walking easy. 16c. by mail r at Drug
gists. Hiscox Chemical Works, Patchogue, N. X.
For CROUP, COLDS,
INFLUENZA & PNEUMONIA
Mothers should keep a Jar of Brame’s Vapomentha
Salve convenient. When Croup. Influenza or Pneu
monia threatens this delightful salve rubbed well into
the throat, chest and under the arms, will relieve the
choking, break congestion and promote restful sleep.
BSMS
will MOI siAut mt CLOTHES
30c, 60c, and $1.30 at ell dies slcro « Will crcwjdlr
Brame Drug Co. N. Wilkesboro, N. C.
rarily homeless, washed out
bridge
and roads, disorganized traffic and cut
wire communications in many parts
of the state. The property loss was
estimated at a half-million dollars.
The conditions by which Japan's
league of nations include provision for
Cree admission of missions and protec
tion of American interests in the man
dated territory, and require that Ja
pan shall report to the United States
as well as to the league on details of
her administration of the mandate.
Subject to Tokio’s approval, the Jap
anese delegation accepted the Chines
offer to pay 53,000,000 gold German
marks fo rthe Kiao Chow Tsinanfu rail
road in Shantung, plus what Japan has
made in permanent improvements, but
less deterioration.
the spectacular prison jail
delivery
at Little Rock, Ark., recently, has been
arrested on a charge of first degree
murder.
Acreage and diversification will be
the theme of the second annual cotton
conference to be held in Memphis,
Tenn., during the week ending Decem
ber 17.
Adoption by the senate recently of
the conference report on the first de
ficiency bill sent the measure to the
president, the house having adopted
the report earlier in the day. The bill,
as agreed to by the conferees and
house carried approximately $103,000,-
000, of which $66,000,000 is for the vet
erans’ bureau.
Th./ woman sheriff of Allamakee
county, Iowa, admits that there is no
clue to the murderer of Miss ’Edda
Magneson, a school teacher of Waukon.
She has sent bloodhounds to the scene
of the murder.
Oranges and Grape Fruit
direct to consumer. For $2 we will ship you
a dainty family size box delicious Oranges
and Grape Fruit assorted. Send us your
orders. Moody & Williams, Orlando, Florida.
Lr-^/Ql^vV Money back without question
if HUNT’S GUARANTEED
11 SKIN DISEASE REMEDIES
WJ (Hunt’s Salve and Soap), fail in
/Xl the treatment of Itch, Eczema,
L 1A Ringworm,Tetter or other iteh-
J ing sltin diseases.Try this treat
ment at our risk Sold by all reliable drugglsts.
A. B. Richards Medicine Co., Sherman, lexM
W. N. U., CHARLOTTE, NO. 52-1921,