V. 1 No. 1 - The Y.M.C.A. Bugle

[left] 6 [center] THE Y. M. C. A. BUGLE

[first column] Why Victor Is Good Place to Live

Why is Victor a good place in which to live?

Possibly you and I have never paused to think why Victor is such a fine little town with many beautiful surroundings and modern conveniences, with much improvement in progress. The people are generous, kind hearted, high spirited and law abiding citizens as a whole. Our mills are the best in the South, and we employ some of the most intelligent people to be found anywhere. Our school is the best to be found. Our teachers work hard to train our children not only in education but for the upbuilding of our community. Our churches are made up of people who stand for the right and are always ready to lend a helping hand to those in distress. Our pastors are God fearing men ready and willing to help each and every one along life's way. They visit the sick, the poor and needy and share those comforting words to the sorrowing in their dark and trying hour. We all will have that dark hour come to us sooner or later. Our Y. M. C. A. furnishes us with the necessities of recreation and social welfare for our young and old people. There is no town which cannot be improved, yet Victor has an excellent record on law and order. Now your life and

[continues in 2nd column] mine is what counts, to make the town in which we live worth while. Let us then each and every one strive to make Victor the best place on earth. With all of the things which I have mentioned and many other things which I cannot take space to name, is why I think victor is a good place in which to live. [right] MRS. NETTIE JACKSON.

[top, second column] Religion of Congress

More than 90 per cent of the members of congress are adherents of some religious denomination as the following summary shows:

[table of religious denominations for members of the House and Senate. The first number listed is in the "House" column, and the second number listed is in the "Senate" column] [table headings] House Senate Methodist .... ......90 27 Prebyterian .... ...63 11 Episcopalian ... ....57 22 Baptist ...... .......48 5 Congregational .. ...32 6 Christian-Disciple ...21 1 Lutheran .. .. ..... 17 2 Quaker .... ........3 1 United Brethren .... 2 Reformed .... ...... 3 Mennonite ... ..... 1 Mormon ..... ......1 2 Universalist .... .... 2 Unitarian .... ......3 2 Christian Scientist .. 1 Roman Catholic .....32 4 Hebrew .... .......8 Protestant .... ..... 7 None ...... ........ 1 Vacancies ...... .... 1 Unknown .... ......7 3

Totals .... .... ...435 96

[third column] MORE ABOUT MARY Mary had a little lamb, She filled it with benzine, She went to light her little lamp She hasn't since been seen.

[fourth column] CREAMED DATES Stone the dates, roll in sugar, and put apiece of fondant in place of the stone. Roll again in granulated sugar. Fill with nuts or peanut butter instead of fondant if desired.

[advertisement, top half of page, 3rd and 4th columns] THE JET BLACK EYES

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J. D. Collins GREER, S. C.

[advertisement, bottom half of the page, 1st and 2nd columns] Minus Furniture Company

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[advertisement, bottom half of the page, 3rd and 4th columns] LEOPARD'S SHOE SHOP

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We will give away another Boys' Bicycle or $20.00 in money on March 1st, 1926.

We Have Leather for All Weather. Greer, S. C.

The Y. M. C. A. Bugle 7

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Christmas 1925 By Barry Mason

Across the from afar The Maji journyed through the night Led onward by a beckoning star That streamed the sky with silver light.

They came, expecting some proud king Of haughty mien, in purple dressed; They found a tiny baby thing Asleep upon His mother's breast.

Throughout the streets of Galilee He later walked His lonely way In meekness and humility Where'er His Father's business lay.

To those in travail He brought rest; He drew the wayward, spent, and wild; He clasped the outcast to His breast, And gave Himself to every child.

The blind, the sick, the lame He healed, The sorrowing heart He comforted; His Fater's love to men revealed, As from the grave He raised the dead.

Because His ways were not as theirs They spurned the thorny path He trod; They scorned His sacifice and prayers, The even slew the Son of God.

And now, each blessed Christmas morn Our prayful praise to God we give, Our hearts rejoice that One was born Who later died that we might live.

And yet, were He with us today, I wonder just what we would do? Would we cry, "Christ, Thou art the Way," Or would we crucify Him, too?

[below is an ad] W. M. Thompson, INC.

Fords Products

Since 1907 Greer, S. C. Greenville, S. C.

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When In Need

We call on our neighbors. Why not help our neighbors by calling for their Christmas products?

Something Good to DrinkBlue Bird, Orange Kiss, Strawberry, Lemon and Root Beer

In the long, octagon bottle. Made in a sanitary plant.

Ponders Bottling & Ice Cream Co.

Ice Cream for all occasions. Phone 123 Greer, S. C.

[next ad]

Castle Blair

Slippers for Ladies

32 styles from Paris, New York and Chicago, measured to fit and delivered to your home. Drop me a card; I will call and get your order.

J. L. Woodward

No. 6 Hollis St. Greer, S. C.

[last ad]

We offer A host of inviting items that make acceptable Christmas gifts

You are cordially invited to inspect our merchandise before you complete your Christmas shopping.

McHugh Specialy Shop Where Quality Lingers Long After the Price Is Forgotten."

Trade Street Greer, S. C.

A Creed for the Cradle-Rockers

Christmas Editorial By Ida Clyde Clarke

Peace and good will ! Watchwords of the Christmas season, touchstones of human happiness! Good-will should really come first, because without it there can be no permanent peace, and where there is good-will, there is peace. A will toward that which is good - that is in reality what it means. To be conscious of positive thought or desire toward things that are good is in itself an act toward peace and happiness.

Financial experts may croak, students of economics may lament, and yet this shining fact stands out as a beacon light against the gray, uncertain backgroud of world affairs - the great nations of the earth have expressed a desire, a will toward peace. Their representatitves have come together and have discussed frankly and openly questions heretofore considered so delicate as to require the attention of cautious diplomats operating behind closed doors.

Yes, secret diplomacy seems to be passing. Statesmen have never been so willing to take the public into their confidence as they are today. And this means that we have a heavier responsibility resting upon us than we have ever had before.

After all, it is not in the World Court or the League of Nations or the Disarmament Conferences, it is not in the parliaments or the legislatures or the diplomatic councils that world problems are to be solved. In the final analysis, depend ont he kind of thoughts we think, the kind of deeds we do back in the homes of the world.

If all the cradle-rockers of the world could be made to feel their individual responsibilities, if all the mothers in the world could only realize how much civilization depends on them it would do more for universal peace and human advancement than courts and conferences, because, after all, it is the spiritual values back of the acts of national and international bodies that give potency to these acts and translate them into reality.

If we, the mothers of America, could only [ cont. next column]

[next column] find a tiny square of common ground and stand on it, together and united, now and forever! If we could write a sort of Mothers' Declaration of Responsibility! It might begin, "We, the mother of these United States in order to form a more perfect union of mother-forces to combat the evils that threaten our homes and our children and our lives, do hereby declare that henceforth we will be conscious of our individual responsibility t o feel and to express a will toward good."

Now cradle-rocking has out of style, and the hand that rocked the cradle never did rule the world. Bur rhe brooding, protective mother-spirit pervades every home in the land, whether it be a poor cabin in a far place or a gilded palace on a princely estate.

The bald truth is we mothers do not wnt to rule the world. No woman ruler in history ever got as much pleasure and satisfaction out or ruling a nation as the humblest mother gets out or reigning supreme over a cradle.

If we really could have a Creed of the Cradle-Rockers, and if even the mothers in our great Pictorial Review family alone, would subscribe to it and believe it and repeat it and live it--why, how vert much we could do within the next year!

The mothers' Creed should include proper laws, either State or national, for the protection of the child-life of the nation. It should emphasize and recognize the need of better and uniform laws touching marriage and human relations depends the future of civilization. It should recognize that every child has a right to be well born and to start life with the leat possible handicap.

And if there is one thing that mothers should be interested in, it is educaton. Bettter schools in this generaton mean better homes in the next.

When the standards of living are raised, when mothering has been brought up to the dignity of a profession, for which women are trained and prepared, then, and then only, will governments stand and nations thrive.

The Y. M. C. A. Bugle 9

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How It Started

Ever hear this story about how we came to hang up our stockings on Christmas Eve?

The legend comes from Italy, and it's about old St. Nicholas of Padua. This good old knitted purses, tied at both ends, into the open windows of the very poor people. These purses were made of yarn and looked like a footless stocking. Pretty soon people formed the habit of hanging these long empty purses out of their windows the night before Christmas so that St. Nicholas might drop coins into them as he passed by. After a while, when there wasn't so much money, he'd slip toys into them for the kiddies, and useful presents for the grown-ups.

In countries where it was cold at Christmas time, purses were hung up on the mantlepiece and people believed that old St. Nicholas came down the chimney to fill them. By and by, these purses went out of style, and from then on stockings were used. And we've been hanging up our stocking ever since--just as our great, great grand-parents did back in those days long ago.

[second column] The Telephone Girl

The telephone girl sits in her chair, And listens to voices from everywhere. She knows all the gossip, she knows all the news, She knows all our sorrows, she knows all our joys; She knows all the girls who are "chasing the boys;" She knows all our troubles, she knows all our strife, She knows every man who talks mean to his wife. She knows every time we are out with the boys; She knows the excuses that each fellow employs. [cont. top of next column]

[top of column 3] If the telephone girl had told half that she knows, She would turn our friends into bitterest foes. She would sow a small wind that would soon be a gale; Ingulf us in trouble and land us in jail. She would start forth a story, which graining in force, Would cause half our wives to sue for divorce. She could get all our chruches mixed up in a fight, And turn our bright days into sorrowing night. In fact, she could keep the whole town in a stew If she told but one-tenth of the things that she knew.

[below the two columns in the top half is an ad] Yuletide Greetings Practical Gifts for men

Mufflers .. $1.00 to $5.00 Ties ....... $1.00 to $3.00 Collar Bags 1.50 to 3.50 Sox ........ .25 to 1.50 Suitcases .. 3.00 to 30.00 Belts ...... .50 to 2.00 Bathrobes . 4.00 to 15.00 Hats ....... 2.50 to 7.50 'Kerchiefs . 10 to .75 Caps ....... 1.00 to 3.00 Shoes ..... 5.00 to 10.00 Shirts ...... 1.00 to 6.00

Suits and overcoats $15.00 to $40.00

Smith & James Where your $ counts Greer, SC Merry Christmas to All.

[last column is an ad]

Let your wife rest on sunday

Eat with her at Elmore's Cafe

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Announcement W. R. Mosley has bought J. W. Pollard interest in Cash Grocery Company.

H. O. Holcombe will have charge of the business. The man that organized the business in 1919.

Get our prices on apple and oranges for Christmas.

Our Motto, "Good Eats for Less Money"

All American

Cash Grocery Company

H. O. Holcombe, Mgr.

10 THE Y.M.C.A. BUGLE

(column 1) Local News

Mrs. C. M. Miller was called to Union on December 12 on account of the death of her father, Mr. C. H. Kidd. Mr. Kidd was 74 years of age. He leaves tomourn his death Mrs. Kidd and seven children, three sons and four daughters, besides a great number of grandchildren.

Mr. E. A. Johnson and family recently spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Phillipps at Brandon mill.

On December 7, at the home of the bride's father, Mr. J.B. Pitts, Mr. Carl Hall and Miss Monti Pitts were united in marriage by Rev. Clarence Martin, pastor Franklin Baptist church. The Bugle extends congratulations.

Mr. and Mrs. C. . Dabb, formerly of Victor, but at present living at the Worsted mill, spent the day last week with their daughter, Mrs. Bill Brown.

Rev. J. A. Brock made a trip to Columbia this weekn in the interest of the little Jenkins girl, who has a crippled foot.

Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Stone were recent visitors to Greenville.

On December 12, Mr. and Mrs. Still and family spent the afternoon in Spartanburg and Greenville. Are you sure at both places? Certainly, a new Nash is the answer.

(column 2) Quite a bit of rivalry is going on in the mill as to which department can make the most improvement in the looks of the Victor Improvement club.

They say that Thomas Gossett is sitting up at night with his Dixie Flyer getting it in trim during the holidays.

Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Bruce announce the birth of a son on December 14.

Prof. and Mrs. Edgar Smith, who are teaching school a few miles out of Greer, are expected to spend the holidays with their homefolks here at Greer.

Misses Kathleen and Inez Brock, who are attending school at Tygerville, will arrive home for the holiday season about the middle of the week.

Rev. Ralph Brady will preach at Jackson mill next Sunday.

Elmer Pruitt, one of Lyman's basketball plauers and a son of G.J. Pruitt, spent Wednesday the 16th in Victor.

Mr. L. A. Ramsay and Mr. Quillen, of Whitney, were visitors at the Victor Y.M.C.A. recently.

Mr. Harry Mosely, Victor-Monaghan florist, and Mr. Jesse Brown, secretar yof the Monaghan Y.M.C.A., were among the visitors who came our way on December 15.

Mr. B.A. Schnell, state secretary of the Y.M.C.A., called by the Victor Y.M.C.A. on Wednesday.

(column 3) The annual Sunday School convention of the Methodist Church, South, was held at Fountain Inn church on Friday, Dec. 11. The occasion was enjoyed by a large number of delegates from all the Sunday schools in the state.

Dinner was served by the Ladies of the Fountain Inn Methodist church.

Victor is looking for to next year, when the conventio n will meet wit h them. The following were delegates from Victor: Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Chick, Mr. A.C. Stroud, Mrs. Zeb D. Simmons, Mrs. J. P. Bagwell, Mrs. P. A. Bolt, Miss Lillian Bolt, Miss Lora Noble, Mrs. Rachel Noble, Mr. J.H. Lowe.

Mr. E. D. Roy, traveling salesman, spent a day at Victor last week. Mr. Roy installed the first looms which were placed in the Victor Mill.

The two houses that were burned in Victor about six weeks ago have been rebuilt and are now occupied by the same people who occupied them when they were burned, Mr. and Mrs. Whetlock and family occupying the upper house, while Mr. Chas. Tipton and family are in the lower. Congratulations on speed, contractor.

(column 4) Mr. J.J. Littlefield and family recently visited Mrs. Littlefield's mother, Mrs. Boyter.

Mrs. Mary Waters celebrated her eighty-eighth birthday a few days ago, and on this occasion the Methodist Sunday school gavce Mrs. Waters a handsome sweater. Mrs. Waterrs is the oldest member of the church.

Hilery Wilson and Elvis Vickory, of Judson, spent the day at Victor Wednesday, December 16.

Miss Cecil Mayfield, a student at the Normal and Collegiate Institute at Asheville, will be home for the holidays.

Mr. and Mrs. D. Va. Flynn, of the Worsted mill, spent last Sunday at Mr. Albert Westmoreland's.

Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Simmons were shopping in Greenville on Saturday.

Rev. J.W. B ass, a student of Furman university, called at o ur office and left us a book on the life and memoirs of William Jennings Bryan. We are always glad to see Jess, as he has something to tell which generally interests us.

Any person or persons who have not secured their Christmas fowl will do well to call by Rev. J.B. Chick's before his supply is exhausted. It is rumored that he has contracted to furnish two suburbs of Greer.

[advertisement spans bottom half of page, columns 1 through 4]

AT THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON, we want to assure our customers that your wishes are our wishes, and if we can assist Santa Claus in any way, why, call on us.

V-M STORE B.W. BURNETT, Mgr.