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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-11
GRACE BAPTIST
 CHURCH SERVICE
Ten Days Dedication Pro= gram Came to Close
 Last Night

With the exception of a pipe organ, the new Grace Baptist church on Kingsbury street is com plete in every detail and, most im- portant, 1t is all paid for. This was the keynote of the remarks made by speakers at a banquet, marking the end of the celebra- tion of the dedication of the church at the parish hall last night.
 It was pointed out that the funds left over from the building fund will be set aside to be used toward the purchase of a pipe organ. The funds now are not enough, but it is expected that th8 church will find ways and means to get the amount necessary. "
 Charles A. Templeton was toast master at, the banquet. Speakers included John A. Coe, Rev David P. Gaines, pastor of the 2 First Baptist church, Rev Dr James E. Gregg, pastor of the First Congre- gational church, Rev J. B. Pharr, pastor of the Immanual church of INew Haven, Miss Elizabeth Kirk, Rev Dr Isaac w. Reed, pastor of Grace Baptist church, Adrian L. Mulloy and Burton J. Hine, direc- tors of the First Baptist church. who were on the building commit tee for the Grace Baptist church. The necessity for religious edu- cation to-day was emphasized in | the course of the remarks made by MT Coe. The community-wide drive was reviewed by Rev MT Gaines who with Rev Dr John l.. Lewis, rector of St Johns Episco- pal church raised sufficient funds with which to start the edifice.
 | Rev MT Gaines mentioned that during the time between the re- moval of the old church and the construction of the new the pa rishioners were required to rent any space available in order that weekly services might be held This caased the receipts to be ex- ceeded by expenses. Rev Mi Gaines hoped that generous friends of the parish might come forward with donations to help balance the budget.
 Miss Kirk told. of her trips through the south and of African tours she made. Rev Dr Gregg brought the greetings from hit Ichurch and Mir Hine and Mir Mulloy spoke of the building drive com. mittee. Rev Mir Reed expressed his deep gratitude in behalf of tho church to the many friends of the Grace Baptist church who through their generosity. helped to make the church a realization.
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"But it isn't Christian to hate. I'm afraid I'm not a very good Christian"
 Glenn York took a job in the mill. He told himself he stayed in town because he wanted to study how these "townies" lived |. But he stayed because he found himself suddenly and violently in love with Sabina Turner.
 Sabina Turner soon learned of his presence. He was standing in front of the Bon Ton store when she came out of it after having made q small purchase few nights later.
 '"What are you doing here?" she asked coldly in response to the awkward hand salute he tried to make grand and casual.
 "I'm workin' at the mill" he told her. Want me to walk a piece with you?"
 "No!" she said acidly. I'm go- ing to the school to teach night class. I'm in a hurry. And why should a Turner walk with a York;"
 "I don't know" he admitted, staring at her. "Only I thought you was Christian too."
 HE TURNED AWAY FLUSHED AND SCOWLING
 He turned away, flushed and scowling at the hatred in her voice. She too turned away but her steps Jagged. He'd had some experience with women, she thought bitterly. And she could imagine the kind of women York l would seek out. A mountaineer | would never think of "walking q | piece" with a woman. If he walked at all, it would be ahead of her. And she would be HIS woman. Her own face flushed at his temer- | ity. The nerve of him! Did he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-11

To-day if thine enemy smite thee on the left cheek in the mountains, you do not turn the other one against the butt of a squirrel rifle and plug him from ambush. You bring him into cot.
 Modern Christianity, forgive ness and cotton have brought about this change. For forty years, evangelists rode into the mountain fastnesses, called war ring feudists together in the little wooden churches and preached the gentle, civilized religion of Christ. What of it if eighty per cent of these congregations lis- tened to the evangelist preachers with their enemies ever in the cor ner of their vision and the rifles or shotguns laying across their knees? What of it, if, now and then, the feudists stepped decor ously from the little churches, and blazed their hatred of each other through gun barrels in the streets :? The seed was falling upon fertile though rocky ground.
 The cotton industry moved from New England into the south and a large proportion of it went to the mountains. Immediately, it was found that feuds interfered with q mountain community s chances to draw good wages. Feuds thereupon became unfash- ionable and the feudists quit their killings. Now a feud killing is rare in the mountains. Thus Christianity and civilizatoin have again been benefited by Trade.
 Sabina Turner's family turned from the old ways along about 1912 for a very simple reason. There were no more men left in the Turner clan. There were only two Turner's left at all, Sabina and her mother. Mrs Turner, at that time was a gnarled and decrepit old wo- man of forty-three. She had been married at fourteen and she had lost her husband, Seth, Dave and Alb to the deadly guns of the York clan. Nobody knew how the feud between the Turner's and the Yorks began but it was generally believed that back in Fl Turner had run over Q chicken belonging to the Yorks. Sabina was an after thought of her parents. She came along quite while, after all her brothers were grown up. She was eight months old when Dave, the last of the boys, was dropped in his tracks" by g. York while on his way up Lonely Mountain to ann bush another York.
 "THERE'LL BE NO
 MORE KTLLIN'S"
 "There'll be no more killin's among the Turner's Mrs Turner said quietly as she stood, dry-eyed in the big room of her cabin and looked down into the pine coffin containing her dead boy. "We'll leave killin' to the Yorks. And we'll leave the Yorks to God. He'll punish them" Her voice raised to a chant. Hell send them down to Hell whar they'll spend all eternity a-weepin' and a-gnashin' of their teeth. Oh, Dave! Why did they have to kill you? My last son!"
 So Sabina grew up abhorring
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she had graduated, when she was fifteen, she was called back to the "mountings" and her mothers deathbed. Mrs Turner had become tiny, frail, washed-out and stern. Feeling her daughters hand on the thin fingers that plucked at the covers, she opened her eyes and said, staring toward the sky.
 You're good girl, Sabiny. Teach your people for they're good people. Teach them, feudists is murderers, like the Yorks. The Yorks, Sabiny, killed your pappy and your brothers"
 Glenn York was a hulk of 8 boy with fierce eyes and a sullen mouth when Sabina went away. He watched the rig which took her down the mountains, mule hitched to ramshackle wagon, until 1t wound out of sight way below him. He idly thought that there went the Turner brat, the last of them. He wished she was a boy so he could "drop him in his tracks" !" After her he sent a cold, imper- sonal and unreasonable hate. But there weren't many Yorks left either. Only himslef, his father ana an uIlCle WHO 1lVcu way ONcI the ridge" The Yorks, good gum men as they were, perished by disease and various facts of God" A change was coming over the mountains. The game was disap-
 bearing under the pressure of the settlements springing up around
 the cott,n mills. There was not much call for "moonshine" liquor. Glenn had heard that better than mountain liquor was being manu- factured in the cities by fur riners." Even the "revenuers" seemed to have lost interest in their eternal hunt for "stills". He was deprived of the three major occupations to which he had been bred: ''feudin'," "moonin'," and hunting. He was 22.
 To the inhabitants of Ninevah, the new and lusty little mill town which sprawled along the noun tain side, he was just another hill- billy. Really, he was a pioneer, a Daniel Boone, Jumping century of material progress and landing in modern community.
 HE LOOKED AROUND
 HIM WITH SCORN
 He looked around him with a scorn which had it's source in a frightened awe. But he went to the Baptist church on Sunday, driven more by loneliness than by a need for spiritual communion.
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several other mountaineers. His cold eyes rested impersonaliy upon her. It was as if he had never known her. She went on by and heard a snicker. She wanted to wheel and berate him. But then she heard his even voice behfnd her
 Wipe that smile off your face, Ed Burton he drawled. "Or I'll wipe it off for you"
 Burton cursed and she heard blow. Then the sounds of a scuffle. A warning cry. She whirled in time to see a knife in Burton's hand deacending toward Clem Yorks chest and she began to run back. But Clem stepped aside and brought his fist crashing against the mans face. Burton dropped. Now she was angry with Glenn York. Wildly angry.
 "How dare you make me the ob- feet of a fight" She screamed. "You-you pig! You keep out or my affairs. And so you do--- Her small hand flashed out against his cheek with resounding whack.
 Clen York looked down at her. slow grin spreading on his face. He turned to her sideways.
 "There, Sabiny." he grinned. "Hit the other check. I'll show you I'm a Christian. Want me to walk a piece with you?"
 "Yes, Clem," she said meekly. THE END.
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F'EsUD

And he saw Sabina Turner again. And heard her sing.
 She was tall and slim and dark and rounded. Her voice was ordi- nary and raised in the whine of the backwoods church singer. But Glenn York thought it was beauti- full. Defensively he told himself she was putin on airs" but after church, led by a sudden desperate need to talk to her which he ex- plained to himself as "mout's well let her know there's York in town" he stopped her as she left the church.
 "Howdye, Miss Sabiny," he said. I'm Clem York. What you doin' in this yere town?"
 Sabina looked up at him, granite hardness in her eyes. Your hands," she thought ,S"are dripping with the blood of my father and brothers. I hate you" Then, "Oh, Lord forgive me. I mustn't hate. :" But she said coldly to him:
 How do you do. I'm teaching the school here"
 And moved on, leaving him standing, gaping after her. T hate him." she thought again.
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38 Students On Park Road List

The roll of honor at Park road school for December follows:
 Grade iS-Lelia Durante, Rosa leen Price, Dolores Cone, Gloria Kraus
 Grade 7-Kathleen O'Brien, Doris Rose Dzinsky, Marguerite Martinelli, Joseph Gui ] fo e. Charles Perriello. Grade 6-Jean. Ruda, Ridgway Shinn, Lorraine Malouf, Vincent Ray. Gloria Malouf,. William Mac Charles, Susie Benedetti, Claire Curley. a Grade 5--Drusilla Ford, Richard Tracy, John Price, Patricia Bouley. James Poison, Murlyn Beck, Henry Biansfield, William Perriello. Grade 4-Arthur Baker, Fred erick Loehmann, Mary L. Perriello. Kenneth Betts, Bettye Bristol, Bar bara Ruda.
 Grade 3-Roberta Finlay. Fred- erick Daniels, Mary c. Mcdonald, Margaret M. Collins. Medelise Dzinsky, Leona Curley, Ronald Drumm, Abraham Bearz.
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what he sought to learn. He never again offered to take her "a piece, never spoke to her personally. And she wanted him to. She wanted to hurl at him her scorn as a Turner of him and all tho Yorks. She wanted to tell him that his hands dripped with innocent Chris tian blood. She told him nothing, because he never gave her the chance. She offered him none of the personal help she so freely gave to her other pupils.
 Until one night, collecting the class papers after an arithmetic test, she found that all his prob- lems were wrong. All of them. And she was fiercely glad. The next night she returned his paper to him marked with a giant red zero. She came back triumphantly and took her seat at her desk on the little rostrum and addressed him with faint, fixed smile.
 "Clem York;" she said sweetly, q would be doing less than my Christian duty If I failed to tell you that you're wasting your time
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A Daily Story
 Real Life

coming to this class. Your arith. metic paper Is one child should be ashamed of, a backward child' You've got no head for learning, Glenn York. How could you, who were bred for kiliing?"
 He stood up and looked at her. He was white with shame but his eyes wefe blazing.
 sT THANK YOU
 FOR TELLIN' ME"
 CT thank you for tellin' me, Sabiny." he said quietly. T think you onl. made one mistake in that speech. You said somethin' about bein' a Christian. You wouldn't never know what a real Christian is."
 On her way home she saw him. He was standing on the corner with
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think She began to think of him walking "a piece" with her and there was a strange and | dangerous sweetness in the thought. She pushed 1t from her, remembering her mothers dying words to her.
 But the thought came back again and again. A week later, he presented himself as a candi- date for learning in her night class.
 At first, she despised him for his ignorance, for his loutishness-for the way his cold bare gaze would light upon her eyes and hold them: And then cold anger possessed her because he did not seem to regard her as a person at all, just as some one put there to teach him
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-11

Editor, Tall Tower Topics: I'm just another auto driver but once in while observe few regulations and laws of the road. I only wish some of my fellow bluer this winter than in years gone by and result more prone to bitter feelings but it does to that the majority of drivers in our city are going haywre. Nobody gives hand signal any at street intersections or when approaching stop lights and signs. I've had some narrow escapes from accl- dents just because the fellow in front of me didn't signal which way he going to turn. know it's cold driving this year and most of keep our windows closed, but that won't count if somebody is injured. Can you start campaign for more hand signaling MT Tall Tower Man? |. Veteran Motorist. (Nothing would give me greater pleasure Veteran Motoris I've had the experiences you describe Hope the city police the state motor vehicle department will really try to enforce the hand signal statutes.-The Ed)
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feuds and hating the Yorks. She grew until she was nine years old, a straight-eyed, slim, fearless youngster, brown as an Indian, gentle as a lamb to everything on earth but Yorks and feuds.
 When she was nine, Sabina went "outside," down to the settle ments" to the home of the Rev Johiah Biggs, an evangelist and a distant relative to whom her mother had entrusted her. The child finished her growing in the clergyman's home and, responding to the driving religious atmosphere there,. early felt "call'. She dedicated her life to the education of her people. Three years before
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THE SPIRIT OF 1884
Good Evening.

Times are getting better, That's what the shouting's for, Let's all be optimists In nineteen thirty four. Plan to follow the leader, F.D.R., you know, Don't mind talking in initials It isn't nearly so slow. Bad times can't last forever, It's prosperity's turn at the bat; We've turned the corner of Depression Good times ahead, and that's that.
 -Em. Elm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-11
Hollywood gleanings.
Cecil B. DeMille is

Hollywood gleanings Cecil B. DeMille is George Raft has Buffalo nickel that he carries with him all the time luck piece. Although Mae West turned down many lucrative commercial offers to go on the radio she didn't pass up the opportunity to broad cast for the Los Angeles Community Chest Rob- ert Armstrong will play the leading role in ''rhe Baby in the Ice Box" w. c. Fields has resurrected hls old trick pool table for scene in "Six of Kind" He also brings back some of his old juggling tricks. Lanny Ross picture debut will be in Melody in Spring" with Charles Rugges and Mary Roland SUD- porting the former Show Boat star Paul Panzer who made folks hiss loudly in the days of the Peris of Pauline the deep-dyed villain has part in "Boero 200 pieces of statuary were used in filming Catherine the Great" in which Marene Dietrich stars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-11
The shorter the better.

The shorter the better. Hennie McGrath, who spends his many leisure moments as public relations counsel for local sporting units, will be bedrdden until
 he can get rid of attack of grippe. Joe Phean
 an extraordinary vaudeville star in years bygone is incapacitated with broken ankle sustained in recent fall {. |. Mrs Anthony Diorio is i'll at her home with pneumonia and her legion of friends are hoping for speedy recovery. {. . Seen in passing each Tuesday evening Mrs Jane Derwin and her popular son. Bill
 at the Novena services at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Many thanks to my kind friend, Julian Norton proprietor of the beautiful dancetorunp at Lake Compounce in Bristol for invite to hear Larry Funk and his "Band of Thousand Melodies" Sunday night. Jim Pronovost, Democrat ad manager, made
 big hit at the Perry Advertising School Tuesday night with his most interesting address "The Duties of An Ad Man.. .. Jim described his many experiences in similar capacities other New England papers, John German w. X. Millerick and Ray Cemente have returned to St Louis U. to pursue their studies after enjoying the holiday with their parents St Louis U the oldest university west of the Mississippi
 and will celebrate it's 116h commencement this June
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-11

The old nursery jingle about engine, engine, No. 9, pumping water all the time, has been equaed by piece ot apparatus in the local fire department known old Engine Mo- l. Retired because of age and inefficiency, No. pumped 80 hours without skip and kept hundrer of fam- lies in the vicinity of upper Hill street supplied with water Called into service when big cracked in the recent cold spell Old Engine No. will be remembered by the hundreds benefited.
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The Cast of Characters in
 "Feud"

SABINA TURNER, born hilI- billy and who lives to see her father and three brothers killed in a feud.
 CHEM YORK, a member of the family engaged fin mortal struggle against the Turner's.
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STREET CARS ARE
 I HEN CoOPE

Ionla, Mich - (UP) - Chick ems lived comfortably today in cars in which professors and legis. lntors rode 10 work at Lansing, Michigan. When the Lanalngtrac- ton company ceased operations, lts troileys were stripped of wheeif and sold t0 poultry farmers near here to neryo as chioken coopA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-11
By CHARLES McGuIRK

THE "good old religion" has gone from the mountains
 No does the us active and whimsical God of the Old Testament stalk the hills and allow his children the boon of exactng payment in kind for injuries according to the ancient Mosaic law an for tooth for a tooth, a life for a life"
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The U. S. s. OREGON steamed i4,000 miles from the North Pacific to Key West via Cape Horn to tahe part in the battle of Santiago in te0e. iiiea is the capital ef LATviA
 ff. q. Wells is c BRITISH MOvnLIBT AND HISTORIAN
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Aside to Private Harold Warrington the pride of Con- pany G. 1O2nd Infantry Thought your contribution to the Tower did appear but if it didn't it through some mshap and not intentional part Will use current contribution day this week. bear with Harold bear with us Liked your stuff quite we'll Keep plugging soldier and keep your eyes front Quite with you about the outfit.
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She whirlcd in .- time to sec the knife fall from Burton's hand.
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Scotland paid GAO. a head to do. atroy muskfats ifl tho last year.
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Fire Marshal Lahey's warning about removing Christmas trees from homes and destroying them is timely Many househoders allow the trees to remain in their homes much too long. Ten days is plenty long enough for everybody, from Grandpop down to tiny Tim to enjoy the holiday tree. And when getting rid of them the cellar back porch is no place for them They should be burned carted away to dump where they can be disposed of properly. Some years ago the Tall Tower Man recalls reading about the use of old Christmas feeding posts for birds That would be all right if took proper care of the trees and saw to it that they were moored securely to some solid support to prevent blowing into the neighbours yard. Marshal Lahey'S plan to burn them up on the city dumps Is probably the best solution of the entire problem
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Wonder what would happen if Waterbury reverted to 1884 days. Horses drawing sleighs because snow would lie in the streets and paths all winter long Kerosene lamps, candles the vogue Small buildings where large ones now stand. Streets merely shad- oWs of their present outline Men and women dress ing for the season by the number of wraps Social events few and far between.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-11-14

national honors and a $400 schol-
arship. She is II and won the
state title against battling odds.
She has had to travel long dis
tances to meetings in wheezy au-
tos. Once she and four girls got
stuck in gumbo in a storm and
pushed themselves out barefooted.
No stores were near to supply
project materials. Her mother is
a widow. Despite it all, she and
her club mates have won note
worthy state honors in contests
and demonstrations. She receives
the Montgomery Word company's
educational trip to the congress.
Dorothy Embleton of Fort Ben
ton will also attend the congress
as Montana's All canning cham
pion, earning this title after
waging a lively battle with ranch
hands and home folks to demon
strate the value of club work.
She came out with flying colors.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-11-14
FARLEY PICKS UP A HOT ONE

Immediately after the election, assuring a Democratic
landslide all over the country, Postmaster General James
Farley, in an interview, pronounced the Republican party
dead.
This drew fire from Senator Vandenberg of Michigan,
Republican, who just emerged successfully in spite of the
Democratic landslide. In the same news article, Senator
William Borah, Republican of Idaho, seconded his Michi-
gan colleague in reminding the Democratic national chair
man that the G. O. P. popular vote reached 100000
Tuesday, despite the new deal wave.
A few days following, came an interview from Senator
Lynn Frazer, Republican of North Dakota, who was also
successful in spite of the new deal wave.
Then comes Pat Hurley, former secretary OF war IN the
Hoover administration, and Mark Requa of the repubi-
can National committee of California, demanding a reor-
ganization and realignment of the Republican party for a
real battle in 1886.
Vandenberg admonished Farley with Pride goeth be-
fore destruction, and a naughty spirit before a fall".
The Republican party principles are just as fundament-
ally sound today as they were in Lincoln's time. The
trouble has been that the party leaders have gotten away
from the real Republican principles. The party will be re-
organized, and will stage a comeback under sane, con
structive principles, meeting the issues and the needs of
the new day into an organization not tainted with any
Hooverism or special privilegeseeking classes, but will be
reorganized in the interest Of progress and prosperity.