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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02

and serious reflection and meditation
and for assimilating and digesting
the great fundamentals which they
are coming in contact with and pass.
ing over in their regular college
course.
1t is all right to become good ball
player and athlete, but the young
man is to be pitied whose ambition Is
no higher than to become a profes-
sional league ball player. To be sold
and bought and betted on like race
horse and to play the Sunday games
where the gamblers and thieves are
betting on him.
Now to the presidents and faculties
of the colleges: we believe that they
know, but they have permitted these
matters to go too far. But we under
stand their position. They know that
it is popular with the students and
the prospective students and tina:
other colleges are doing it, but they
know that it is not right. They know
that everything that is popular is not
right and proper to he tolerated, but
each of them is afraid to take stand
for fear that it would be criticised as
being out of date and that it might
injure the popularity of the school.
But | want to tell them that a very
large per cent of parents who are
sending students to college and those
others who are intending to send boys
to college are criticizing very Sc
verely the colleges for permitting and
encouraging so much waste of time,
thought and money in these expensive
indulgences. The pendulum has
swung entirely too far and it is time
for readjustment. They need to
call Southern College Presidents
conference and with concerted action
call a halt on these matters and re-
wise the athletic program and start
anew on a more reasonable and con-
servative basis.
We hesitated to write upon TINS
matter, but it needs attention so bad
ly that we have ventured this criticism
and it is not aimed at any special col
lege but only an effort to point out
some defects which need immediate
remedy.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02
league and of training athletes.

league and OF training atnleIeS.
AS a matter of fact, some colleges
have their athletic directors going
about over the state during the sum.
mer vacation seeking out prospective
students which stand a good chance
of making expert football or baseball
players and winners for their college
team.
We recently saw where a prospec-
tive student wrote the president of a
certain college enquiring if certain
coach would be employed at that col
lege next session. If so he wanted to
enroll at that college.
We asked a student who was home
on short vacation how he was getting
along at college. He at once began
to discuss their baseball team and
how many games they had won. This
illustrates the attitude of the average
student. The alumni and former stu
dents and prospective students of a
certain college recently held their To-
cal banquet and their main speaker
or honor guest was the athletic direc-
tor of that college, and from the news
account of that meeting, the greater
part of the meeting was taken up
discussing athletics and as to putting
out a winning team next session.
1t occurred to the writer that 1t
would have been befitting to have also
had the president of that college or
one of it's ADLER professors to have
held up that college as an educational
institution with it's able faculty and
its nigh ideals and attainments.
These are simple illustrations of
the secondary matters that are alb
sorbing the time and attention IN
large measure of the students and
prospective students of our colleges.
When the writer was in college, the
college teams played only the other
college teams in her own state, and
l will say just here that that is as far
as it is justifable, but it has now
become interstate because the teams
now go into other states to play other
colleges of other states. Last spring
we noticed a schedule Of the games
of a certain college and out of about
forty days during the season that
team was to play about twenty-three
games. l guess that they were on
their way and in preparation during
the vacant days. During that time
a large per cent of the students were
a large part of their time
discussing the victories and defeats OF
their team, saying nothing of the
amount of money being bet away by
a good many of the students gambling
on the games. And some of them
write untruths home to their parents
as to what has become of their. money.
| know whereof speak and these are
no exaggerations.
Our Protestant churches and de-
nominational colleges have been
alarmed in recent years because OF
the fact that so few of the students
and graduates are entering the min
istry. We verify believe that one OF
the reasons for this state of affairs
is that our colleges have permitted
and encouraged so much athletics
and other sideline activities that the
BOYS do not find much time for deep
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02
The Professors Reason.

A we'll known professor went 70
his club every afternoon and ordered
a glass of whiskey in the good old
days. He invariably drank it with
his eyes closed, and this little eccen-
tricity had been commented upon
many times by his fellow members.
At last the more daring of them un-
dertook to get an explanation of: the
oft repeated popularity. Approach
ing the professor he said: '"You come
in here every afternoon at the same
hour and orderla glass of whiskey.
There is nothing, extraordinary in
that, but do tell us why you close
your eyes when you drink it.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02
SOCIETY
All items this column should be either sent paoned to
Miss Hortense Woodson, Editor, Phones Nos and rs
BRIDGE PARTY
WEDNESDAY MORNING

Mrs. ]. L. yelling entertained a
few friends on Wednesday morning
with an informal but very delightful
bridge party. The room in which the
PLAYERS were seated was artistically
adorned with vases Of bright hued
per;winkle. At the close of the games
Mrs. yelling served delicious salad
course to the following guests: Mrs.
Roy Summer, Mrs. Elmer Summer,
Miss Carolyn Cromer, Mrs. Herman
Wright, Mrs. L. G. Eskridge, Mrs. J..
N. Mclaughlin and Mrs. Thomas
Pope.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02
Grand Finale.

American Legion Weekly.
Two dusky soldiers who had learn
ed the manly art in the A. E. F. were
putting on a farewell bout at the de-
mobilization camp. AS they advanc-
ed to the center for the preliminary
handshake one said:
"Yo' bettah git ready fo' da
mawnin', man, cause when dey
blows reveille yo' amt gwine be
round fo' breakfast.
"Huhp retorted the other scorn-
fully. ''Dey is gwine play reville all
right, but yo amt gwine hear it. De
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02
Birthday Party

On last Friday, August 26th, from
3 to 4 80 o'clock Mrs. S. H. Abrams
entertained at her home for her little
s-year-old son, John Willie. About
25 of his: little friends were invited
to be present on this occasion and al
ter enjoying a number Of games the
children marched into the dining room
where ice cream and cake were serV-
ed. John Willie is a bright and III
teresting little boy who is loved by all
his friends. He received many pretty
and useful gifts. May he be a worker
for. God in days to come.
-, A Friend.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02
Waste of Time

In Pacific coast town there had
been a slight earthquake shock and
Messrs. Clancy and Callahan had both
felt it.
"Patrick," said Mr.. Callahan sol
emnly, "what did you think whin first
the ground began to trimble?"
"Think?" calculated Mr.. Clancy
with scorn. "What man that has the
use of his legs to run wit and his
lungs to roar wit would be after
thinkin' at tonne like that?"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02
MRS. ESKRIDGE ENTERTAINS
ONCE-A-WEEK CLUB

The / Once-a- Week Bridge club
held its regular meeting on Friday
last at the home of Mrs. L. G: Esk-
ridge. The players enjoyed pleas
ant period of bridge and at the close
Of the games attempting salad course
was served. Those forming the two
tables were: Mrs. j. L. yelling,
Mrs. Thomas Pope rs,.J; ~. Nc
caughrin, Mrs, Elmer, Summer, Mrs.
Roy Summer, Mrs, White FAINT; Mrs.
Herman Wright and Mrs ~7Eskridge.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02

:or are sent to college with the wrong
ideals or conceptions as to what they
have come for and as to what the col
lege really exists for.
If one will but read the college
news during the first fall months and
during the spring, season as that news
appears in the daily press, if he did
not know differently, he would get
the impression that our colleges and
universities exist for the purpose OF
maintaining a baseball and football
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02
THE BASEBALL, AND FOOTBALL
CRAZE IN OUR COLLEGES

sL ss~. S---->
P. B. Yarbrough in Southern Chris
tian Advocate.
The human race is given to excess
es and extremes i'm one form or an
other and the American people are
especially affected with this weakness.
Just originate and set going certain
idea, or sentiment, fad or fashion and
tell the people that this is the latest
fad and they will seize upon it and
forward march with the procession
with disregard to it's real merit and
its consequences.
One of the prevalent and common
excesses which our colleges and uni
versities have come to is that of en-
couraging and tolerating entirely too
much intercollegiate and l might say
interstate baseball and football.
The writer wishes to state just here
that he is neither a pessimist,
knoeker, nor an extremist, but is one
who simply tries to observe some
facts and conditions as they exist IN
their true relations and aspects.
The writer himself is college
graduate and. claims to know little
at least, of college life with its vari-
Gus activities and influences. We are
heartily in sympathy with and believe
in\plenty of college and high school
athletics. The proper kind and
amount of exercise and athletics are
primary essentials for the -~lainte-
nance of health and proper develop
ment of the young men and women
in our higher Institutions Of learn
ing.
We do not condemn baseball and
football, though there is a question
as to whether the number of deaths
and broken bones justify the latter,
but we do condemn the extent to
which it is being carried in our col
leges and universities. Too much en-
phasis is being placed on those things
and entirely too much of the Students
time and thought is being absorbed on
that which is only secondary to the
main object for which the students
parents are sacrificing in order to
keep their boy in college, namely: to
rightly develop his mind and soul and
to make of him benefactor to hu-
manity and a servant of God. The
latter reasons are the main purposes
for which our institutions are sup
posed to exist, and especially so with
our denominational colleges. But we
do not hesitate to say, and l believe
without exaggeration that our col
leges are becoming too tolerant and
are placing, or permitting to be plac-
ed, too much emphasis on the secon-
dary matters of college life and that
very large per cent of students go,
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02

In order to keep abreast of the
march of impeachment and line of
progress and advancement in the city
of Newberry and to have his place of
business appearing to advantage along
the new paving and the white way
now coming, MAT. Vigodsky has had
his store front Hpainted.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02
las moosic yo' hears is de taps Abs
gwine serenade yo' with
A Great Success.

The motorist was at the side OF
the road engaged in the hot, dirty
and irritating job of changing tire,
A second motorist stopped his car
alongside.
Having trouble with your tires
blowing out?" inquired the second
driver cheerfully.
"Nahw snorted the troubled one
bitterly. "They blow out fine. The
trouble is when I go to patch them
up"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02

"Well," said the professor, ''it's
like this; when l see glass of whis-
key it makes my mouth water, and |
don't care to dilute the liquor
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02

A few doses 666 break cold
ADJ
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-09-02

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$500 Children's Shoes..........$1.98
$500 Ladies' Shoes. s....................98c
$500 Ladies Shoes ..............$3.95
$3.50 Mems Dress Shoes
$500 Mems Dress Shoes....$5.0O
$500 Mems Work Shoes......$2.98
$1,000 Mems Work Shoes......$3.99
$500 Mems High Cut Boots $3.50
1Oc size Baking Powder..............7c
SC size Bakirs Powder. er..................3c
10c P. & C. Soap..........................5c
S1.25 can Syrup, gallon..............65c
soc Peanut Butter r......................15c
The Washington times., 1921-11-13

soon to be seen in New York, ID
an enthusiastic member of this
group.
The cafe is painted inside and out
in big splotches of the most vivid
colors-in keeping with it's name.
The men attending these clubs
have apparently neglected to shave
for years, and are equally afraid Of
the BARRIERS scissors. Their trousers
are large baggy affairs. sometimes
in bright blue or purple shades.
Corduroy coats, three or four sizes
too large. huge flowing black ties,
and a tight fitting art students cap
complete their costume.
The women, mostly American
girls from Greenwich Village, who
claim to be studying art, dress in a
way which causes the French resi-
dents of the quarter to throw up
their hands in horror. Mon Dieu!
is that the American fashion,"
They are clad in very long ex-
tremely tight skirts always Of
faded blue or brown material. With
equally sloppy looking coats of
another color, sandals, bobbed hair,
large tortoise shell glasses and
cigarette dangling from one corner
of their mouths-and the sketch
of the "Cameleon" girl is complete.
The Washington times., 1921-11-13
Philips
Mother, Now Mrs.
William Hayward,
Shoes Son Off to
Europe when Society
GosSips Declare Seat
Tile Girl Was Choice
of His Heart.

years had been. incidentally.
close friend Of the boys family.
The case ut this point dropped
from public Wow to spring In life
again last Tuesday. when the filing
Of the damage suit became known.
At the same time It transpired
that Miss Jasmer. Tar from having
recovered from her injuries. 10 Just
beginning to experience their ter
rible effects.
ONE EYE NEARLY BLIND.
She has become almost blind IN
one eye. Efforts of skilled sur
geons have thus far failed to 70
build the cheek crushed in by the
accident.
The question Of whether young
Plant wished to marry Miss Jes-
mer before her Disagreement Is
one that will figure prominently in
the coming hearing on the bill for
damages.
1t Is known that on the very
day of the accident Miss Jesmer's
father, In Seattle. received a let
ter from her in which she wrote:
He is the finest man I ever
knew, but, daddy, somehow I don't
love him any more. I don't know
why"
Did young Plant propose mar.
riage to the girl who suffered 80
disastrousuly in the automobile H.
drove into a smash-up? And was
this proposal refused by the girl
whose pride forbade. possibly, &C
cepting what she might have
otherwise considered?
These questions point to another
twist which the romance may have
taken in the closing chapter that
will remain hidden until the court
proceedings.
Miss Jesmer came to New York
three years ago. After posing as
a model, she appeared In the Hotel
des Artistes as q dancer. A short
engagement with Lubovska was
followed by a contract with '.'Ths
Greenwich Village Fouies."
Plants father was Selden b.
Manwaring. His mother obtained
a divorce and was married to Nor
ton F. Plant, millionaire shipping
man. whose name the boy adopted.
Following Plants death, Philips
mother married Colonel Hayward,
In June. 1919.
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Dresses Native to Greenwich Village, Flair for
Large Tortoise=SheEl Glasses and Cigarette
Smoking on Street Startle Even the Uncon-
ventional French Students i'm Art District.

''the inner character" Of their fell
low men.
Modern musicians have their
gala night on Friday, when they
meet in their club-"notre Par
nasse." They worship Poliakoff,
whose comrades regard him as a
great musician and sculptor. Dur
ing the war he made a record in the
French aviation service.
The members of this club play
their own composition and criticize
with no attempts at flattery each
others efforts.
Residents near the Cameleon de-
clare they have heard enough of
modern music-'it is nothing but
tumble Of unpleasant noises
which, instead OF soothing the saw
age breast only arouses it to I'M
comfortable anger" said one peace
full resident of the quarter.
BACHELOR GIRLS.
"Palata Pateoff." the Russian
club, meets on Saturday evening.
Among its members are counted
the most distinguished modernists
Of the Latin Quarter. Snosko
Borovsky and Jean Chuzeville. lit
erary critics who write for the
best French literary reviews, are
regular attendants. Serge Sou.
deikine, who painted the scenery
for the Russian play. the "Chauve
Souris." which has made a re-
variable success In London and n
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scum which raised such a flrore in
artistic circles in New York would
seem as old fashioned and conven-
tional as the works of Rubens or
Rembrandt.
Philosophers Of all nationalities
meet on Wednesday evenings. Hero
are discussed impromptu many phil
osophic problems-mostly those deal
ing with phases of modern religions
or Hinduism.
One of the most regular attend
ants in these seances is a character
well known In the Latin Quarter as
Kharis. Although an etcher by pro-
fession. his hobby is Hindu philos-
ophy. Born on an English merchant
ship off the Indian coast, Of a Dutch
father and Hindu mother, he inher-
tied a love of Eastern philosophy.
This tendency was strengthened by
his early training. After receiving a
splendid education, having obtained
degrees from two German and ono
Swiss university in medicine, he
turned his efforts to art. For years
now he has existed in. the Latin
Quarter.
French prose writer's meet the
following evening and discuaa tho
most advanced problems OF story
telling. Their efforts deal mostly
with the gruesone and sordid side
q NE n The attsmpt = pertray
The Washington times., 1921-11-13
Forget the FlivVer,
Centenarian Gives
AS Longevity Rule

DEFIANCE, Ohio, Nov. IA
WING one hundred years or
more is a simple matter II you
take the word Of Francis Ferdinand
Mekus. who a few days ago cele-
brated his one hundred and first
birthday.
Quit eating 'nick-nacks.' Eat
only solid, substantial food.
Walk when you have to go any
where. Forget the flivver. Use
your legs. and. finally
Play lots of pinochle."
Sounds simple. but the Defiance
centenarian saws that observance Of
these three rules has seen him
safely to life span far beyond that
enjoyed by the average man, and
from all appearances he is good for
many a year more.
So far as food goes he Is q lover Of
plain and simple fare. Pie ant, cake
he long ago marked off his menu as
being neither wholesome nor satisfy
ing. but as for meat. vegetables and
bread-hot and cold-he eats as sub
stantial a meal as 4 busy working
man.
Long walks and cards are his d.
version. On his one hundredth
birthday he walked six miles and
then sat down to a hearty MONDAY
meal.
Although a resident of the United
States for more than fifty years. he
speaks no English. His formula for
a long and happy life was translated
from his native German by daugh-
ter.
What does he think of prohibi-
tion?" the interviewer asked.
1T wouldn't be safe to ask him."
the daughter said. and refused to
translate the query.
The Washington times., 1921-11-13
Most Germs
I'm Richest
Part of Paris
PARIS, Nov. IL.

A Juror has been caused in
multi-millionaire circles In
Paris by the grave assertion by two
eminent savants that the avenue
du Bots de Boulogne, thanked by
palatial mansions and bordering the
worlds finest park. In the unhealth-
lest street in Paris.
The two scientists have q passion
for germ discovering. First they
visited Square Drouot, where-police
records show traffic congestion.
Here they counted 60.711 virulent
microbes in 1851 cubic feet. their
standard of measurement being the
cubic meter.
Satisfied Of the danger Of living
in congested districts. they next
went to the Champs Elysees. region
OF nursemaids and children. Here
they counted 1887 germs. At tho
corner of the rue Royale and tho
rue st. Honore. near the Madeleine.
they found 73.17s.
Mortified by the discovery that
the farther they penetrated into
aristocratic regions the moro mi
crobes there were. the scientists
finally went to the avenue du Bois
de Boulogne, where 1t is said no.
body can live without an income of
IA million francs a year. At o'clock
in the evening they counted no less
than $4,000 microbes.
As a result It is now officially
stated that It is healthier--in Paris
to live In the slums than in the
wealthy residential quarters,
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wild Party" Proves
To BE StOrk Visitor

{ COLUMBUS, Ohio. Nov. l2.-1As
entire neighborhood. II see...so,
was aroused. People were unable
to sleep. 1t was at an early hour
in the morning when some one
phoned police headquarters that a
wild party" was being held at the
home OF J. '. Rich.
When the policemen reached the
Rich residence the party had ar.
rived, The stork had brought II
The Washington times., 1921-11-13

the ensuing spring and summer
convalescing at the home of her
father. II. B. Jasmer. who for
The Washington times., 1921-11-13
BY Universal Service.
PARIS, Nov. II.


A PLAGUE Of squirrels is threat
~ ened in the Latin Quarter
Of Paris because Of an over
supply Of their favorite food. say
American residents of the Quarter.
According to those who came to
Paris for the purpose Of serious
study lack Of their customary liquid
inspiration has driven almost the
entire population Of Greenwich VII
lase to the left Of the Seine.
In a little cafe called the Came
leon on Boulevard Montparnasse. a
collection Of so-called freaks" Of all
nationalities may be seen every
evening deeply discussing the most
radical subject dealing with modern
music, art and literature. At first
glance the most striking thing Is
that the crowd is composed entirely
Of the long-haired men and short
haired women.
French poets Of the most modern
type hold forth on Monday evenings
and read each other their produc-
lions Of the week, which are inva.
riably in the freest Of free verse.
The uninitiated and lovers of classic
poetry declare that in this Came
leon poetry sense and beauty are
just as uncommon as rhyme and
meter.
FUTURIsTS GATHER.
Modern French painters meet on
the following evening. The walls of
the cafe are covered with the can
vases of these men. They are all
of the most advanced cubist. post
impressionist and dadaist schools.
Compared with these paintings the
sxhihition In the NstzpDelitaa NM