Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-12-21
URGES SOBER CHRISTMAS.
Correspondent Hopes People VIII
FOreg0 Whlskey Driniing.

ForegO Whiskey Driniing.
Editor Fort Mill Times:
1t will be fine thing for Fort Mill
and vicinity IL we get through the
holidays with record of no drunk
enness, no accidents, no fights and
every one loving each other January
1st. Let everybody try. 1t has al
ways been astonishing to me why
some folks deliberately select the
day upon which the Savior of US all
was born to get drunk and fight and
get fined for various offenses. It's a
great honor to God--is it not?-as
He looks down, or walks among us.
to see thing, made in His image,
staggering along some back alley
street or lonely muddy road in
honor0 Of the greatest day the
world ever knew or can ever know.
If you must get drunk, and be hog,
then go off in some dark corner OF
the woods and stay there with the
other "varmints" until it is over.
Whiskey has caused the fools who
drink 1t to murder each other-even
brothers kill each other, when drunk.
One dies and the other later goes to
tho electric chair. Whiskey has filled
our jails and penitentiaries. Did you
ever hear Of whiskey getting a man
out OF Jail or off the gang? Whiskey
has made many a man lose fine po-
sition; did you ever know of it get
ting this man another fine Job? Did
you ever hear Of whiskey restoring
the beauty and brightness Of u young
girls innocent face?
There has been enough booze guz-
zled in Fort Mill since the town was
founded to fill every mud hole in
town with $50 gold pieces. Yet they
are planning this moment-some OF
them-"to git some likker fur Kris
mus. l ain't had none in so long, I'm
gonna have me some, l don't care
what they say Yet some are so
poor they can't get their children
school dresses, and hear them brag-
ging about how much whiskey they
have succeeded in getting from some
devilish bootlegger. Christmas morn
inS they'll get up early, holler a few
times, abuse heir wives and kids,
and themselves worst Of all, and then
dodge some merchant they have been
owing for months for groceries, and
get mad at the merchant cause he
owes him, and go right on down
street and pass a blind Confederate
soldier playing sweet music for
few pennies, without even seeing him,
and remark that Il don't see why the
State don't take care Of such folks as
hat"
Some folks don't know a chicken
would get begged down on the Fort
Mill streets Il saw this near Neil
Bradford's store today, and neither
do they know that the whiskey bill OF
the nation would pave ~ roads 80
feet wide from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific every year. So don't get drunk
this Christmas, but go home, kiss
your wife and baby Uf you have
any, pat your dog on the head and
don't act so the cat will run through
the window at your approach, and
see If you don't look out upon a fair
.er and sweeter world January 1st.
I hope our law officers will be ION
the Job" to watch for booleggers this
season. I saw a white man in a
Ford car meet a negro in a buggy be-
tween Fort Mill and the river two
days ago and the negro handed over
a bottle Of some sort. / don't think
1t was water That shows wha's do
ing in that line all over York county.
i heard a man in Rock Hill remark
yesterday that there must be at least
1000 gallons of whiskey in Rock Hill
this moment" Is it any wonder that
OUT good old men are wondering
what Is to become of our country?
How we shall miss these good old
men and women--they are the salt Q
1.-THE earth, they are the balance tina
keeps things from running wilde
than they are. So let us all be bette
ard kinder to each other this Christ
mas, and remember that the moon
iigat will soon shine on gravestone
and that grayestoIe win be yours G
b1isc. Benz. NJ. Lee.
Fort Mill, December 10, 1922.