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QIljp #ttn Newberry, S. C. 0. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher Subscription Rates: One Year $1.00 Six Months 50 Published Every Friday Communication:: of Interest are in vited. The Open Forum is open to all. OLD JOE PROPHESIES Old Tieless Joe Talbert says the Republicans will come back into pow er in 1940 with Vandenberg: on the snout of the elephant. Certainly if they come back it will be with Vand enberg but the Republican party as we have known it will not came back in 1940 or any other year. Joe is simply wishing. He knows too much about politics to make any such pro phesy. It is true that the Democrats be came pretty well split over the sup reme court issue but that will heal of i'-self long before another conven tior. snd the Democrats will present the same solid front as heretofore. The threat of the Democrat party lies in another direction, and it is a real threat. If leaders of the two great labor parties ever bury the hatchet and become pals who can a- gree an a political set-up and pro gram, that will be a headache for Republicans and Democrats alike be cause such a party could come near er bringing the farmer into their ranks than any other. Politicians have long dreamed of a strong farm er-labor party. It may not be far in the offing, especially since real ef fort is being made right now ta bring the labor factions together. Joe had just as well forget the postoffice business and run his farm. The Spectator The Irish! Well all my life I’ve that’s the milk in the cocoanut; they thought of the Irish as romantic peo- ; don’t care. I think the Rail Roads pie, kissing and drinking—and all should have refused the raise, that. But I have just read a story in - Strike ? Certainly; but can the Rail The State (Uniled Press, Oct. 23) Roads be forced to pay more than telling that a girl had been banished they earn? But the Companies ac- from Ireland “for kissing her boy ; ceded to the demand and so five hun- friend in public.” And this tender; dred million dollars was added to the exchange took place in a churchyard j expens es of the "Roads.” Now the too. The boy friend was fined $10. Interstate Commerce Commision has And all this, mark you, was under a ! allowed cetain increased rates which law which forbids “any act offend ing modesty or causing scandal or injuring the morals of the com munity.” If this had happened in Scotland I will yield forty seven million dollars, So it is five hundred million against forty seven million. Now if the rail roads are allowed additional increas es in rates to make up the difference should have thought the whole stir. between forty seven million and five was motivated by a desire to put the tawn budget “in balance”; but in Ire land! SAME OLD PLEA The mayor of a Georgia town re signed his post recently when he found himself out of harmony with the town’s councilmen over the opera tion of a lewd shown with a carnival. Councilmen decided against the mayor and allowed the show to operate be cause the carnival management said business was bad and they would go broke if they are not allowed to continue. We’ve heard that, in almost ex actly the same words before. To keep a carnival from going broke a community must be exposed to inde cent shows. That certainly is phil- antrophy of a noble sort. We never interpreted it to mean that we should be our brother’s keeper under any and all conditions, but maybe so. PROSPERITY SCHOOLS Honor roll for first period ending Oct. 15, 1937. GRADE II Joel Cook Martha Counts Mildred Dominick Nell Harman James Mills Christine Minick Wilbur Nichols Forrest Shealy Maxine Shealy Bonnie Ray Stockman GRADE III Jeannine Ballentine Bennie Bedenbaugh Billy Bowers David Bowers Roy Cook Billy Dawkins Millard Haltiwanger John Taylor GRADE IV Patricia Luther Billy Leaphart GRADE V Miriam Ballentine Mildred Bedenbaugh Carolyn Cook Esther Counts Betty Counts Quay Fellers Rhita Thomas GRADE VI Edna Mills Earlene Stockman Voris Wright GRADE VII Alice Bryson Dorothy Watson FRESHMAN CLASS Clarence Cook SOPHOMORE CLASS Joe Bedenbaugh Dorothy Merchant Elizabeth Shealy Mary Wessinger SENIOR CLASS Ernestine Barnes Leslie Mills David Minick Janie Belle Wilson No report for grade one. A. J. COLEMAN DIES AT CHAPPELLS HOME A. Jack Coleman, 37, died at his home near Chappells last Tuesday night after a lingering illness. He was a life-long resident of the Chap pells community, living in Saluda county, and was a member of Chest nut Baptist church. Funeral services were held Wednes day afternoon at the Chesnut Bap tist church. He is survived by his wife and two children. Also a number of brothers and sisters survive, a- mong whom is Mrs. J. H. Halfacre of this county. We hear much about “balancing the budget” of our national government. hundred million who will pay? All of us who buy goods. Once again labor becomes the over-privileged and we the consumers the under-privi leged underdogs. And, mark you, while the Rail Many men say that because the Roads are trying to make economies “budget is out of balance” all sorts so as to earn expenses we have a of things may h appen. Well, what’s i bill in Congress—already passed one wrong ? A budget is out of balance 1 house—to limit the length of a train, when the* Government spends more ; We may not be as thoroughly soc- than it receives in taxes. It means, 1 ialized as Russia, but if the Govern- then, that it is living beyond it’s ment regulates rate, length of trains, means. What does the Government number of men—and all that—why do in such circumstances? It raises not take over the Roads by law before more money "on the side.” How? the brotherhoods confiscate them by It sells bonds and notes. What are wages beyond their earnings? Rail they? They are promises to pay at Roads cannot continue indefinately a future time and the pavment must to operate at t loss. So far as the be made out of money received from Government has power to fix rates, taxes, or from the sale of more bonds why not fix wages, guaranteeing a and notes. It is bad business, as a , fair rate on the investment. rule. I What is the old-time, common-sense The Manufacturers Record tells us attitude about this ? Here we have 1 that in 1936 “New plants were estab- our Government expecting a deficit j lised in the South for the production of $695 245,000.—which is $277,000,- of thirty-eight different products.” 000 more than was exnected—and it The big question for us is this. How to talks about “balancing the budget”. If the Government should reduce its expenditures by $595,245,000 the bud get would "balance”. Sa whv not do this ? Why continue the W. P. A. with a hillion and a half dollars? If the W. P. A. must be continued at all reduce it by $685,245,000. Looks simple, eh? Last week Captian William E. Gon zales was interred ,near his brothers Ambrose E. and Narciso G. Gonzales —three brothers who loved South Carolina and devoted the full mea sure of their surpassing ability to her service in constructive endeavor. I did not know the first two gent lemen, personally, but I knew in timately some men who knew and loved them. I know all about their record of public service, however, and I have read The State during thirty- six years. I did know Captain Will iam E. Gonzales pleasantly, though somewhat causually. So I can think of him as a public figure without bias .of intimate friendship. Mr. Gflfnzales was the American Ambassador to Peru when I landed there and he continued in that high position eighteen months longer. To be an Ambassador is to stand on the summit of human deference. He was the personal representative of the President of the United States; he was the only member of the diplo matic corps with the exalted rank of Ambassador. And Mr. Gonzales was Ambassador at a time when the pres tige of our country in South Amer ica was at its zenith. So highly were we regarded that President Le- guia contracted with twenty three of us to direct several of the depart ments of the Government. In 1921 Penu celebrated the cen tenary of her independance. The capital city—Lima—was resplendent. Most of the nations of the world sent special embassies to join in the fest ivities. Soldiers, sailors, guns, flags, receptions, balls, medals,—all the pomp and embellishment which the artistic Latin could devise under the spur of a liberal policy were the pro gram day by day for a week. Mr. Gonzales was in the very center of all this, a celebration perhaps unsur passed anywhere for elaborate and profuse display of uniforms, lights, celebrations and diversions. When I came home I found Mr. Gonzales hard at work at the every day tasks of an editor, attending dil igently to the commonplace duties dedicating his energies to h ! s busi ness and contributing generously of himself and his means to every phase of life’s betterment. I may be the only Carolinian who knew the Am bassador as such at close range. President Leguia had a great appre ciation of him and a warm personal regard. many of these new plants came South Carolina? Last week a friend sent me a clipp ing from a paper showing that a big industry had decided to build new branch factories in Va. and Fla. Jumped right over us, didn’t it? Why? We men of South Carolina must i.sk ourselves the question and then f nd the answer. Once we have the ai swer we shall have to find a remedy. Let’- go out and get the business; we need it. The highly esteemed Anderson Independent comments editorially on the sale by the county of nine cows and one mule for $233. If the mule is able to move under his own power he should be worth at least $40, leaving the average value per cow of about twenty-one dollars. But the mule t^ems to have appealed to And erson farmers only to the amount of $26. But editor Hall must consider the possible mule power which said mule can generate. If able to walk unaided he is certainly worth $26. Now what the mule may be worth if made into coats and cloaks for the ladies my ignorance surpasses all bounds. I have attended a meeting of farm ers recently and have found the great est lac': of agreement among them on the subject of farm-relief. And there is a reason; there are powerful rea sons. Unless one should have a clear nndestending of world conditions he cannot really think intelligently on the subject. Our leaders in Washing ton—I mean the officials of the De partment of Agriculture—are in posi tion to have the facts. Let us get the facts and then discuss plans. This is no time for small politics. THE SUN JESSE C. TURNER Jesse C. Turner, 71, died at his home here Friday morning at 6:45 o’clock after an illness of several months. Funeral services were held Satur day afternoon of last week at 4 o’clock at Harmony church near John ston, conducted by the Rev. J. B. Harman, the Rev. W. H. Lewis, and the Rev. C. M. Johnson. Burial was in the church cemetery. He is survived by his wife, the for mer Miss Dorothy Palmer, and the following children: A. C., E. D., and L. A. Turner, all of Ward; Mrs. Ir win Gilliam, Pelzer; Mrs. D. J. Rowe, Johnston; Mrs. Tommie Bryant, Tren ton. Two brothers, Henry J. Turner of the city and Sammy Turner af Sal uda, also survive. McSwain in charge. MEAT CURING Pork prices are now at an eleven- year high And as nearly half of all meat eaten in the United States is pork, the wisest way is the safest —kill the big hogs now and cure the hams, shoulders and middlings at the NEWBERRY ICE & FUEL CO. NOTICE We the undersigned Jury Comm issioners of Newberry county, shall on the 11th and on the 18th of Nov ember 1937, at 9 o’clock A. M. openly and publicly in the Clerk of Courts Office, draw thirty six names to serve respectively as Petit Jurors far the Court of Common Pleas, which will convene, (first week), November 22nd (second week), November 29th, 1937, at Newberry Countv Court House 10 o’clock A. M. '■ JEg. H. K. Boyd, Clerk of Court J. C. Brooks, Treasurer P. N. Abrams, Auditor November 30, 1937 TAX NOTICE The tax books will be opened for the collection of 1937 taxes on and after October 4, 1937. The following is the general levy for all except special purposes: Mills State 5 Ordinary County 1114 Bonds and Notes 7 Interest on Bonds and Notes.. 814 Roads and Bridges 2 Hospital 14 Con. School 3 County School 414 County Board Education 14 42 The following are the authorized special levies far the various school districts of the county: No. District Mills 1 Newberry 17 2 Mt. Bethel-Garmany 4 3 Maybinton 2 4 Long Lane 8 5 McCullough 5 6 Cromer 0 8 Reagin 8 9 Deadfall 8 CHAPPELLS NEWS There was a Hollawe’ea Carnival at the Chappells High School build ing on Thursday evening, a nice sum of money was made. Dr. and Mrs. W. O. Holloway ac companied by Mrs. J. L. Holloway visited Dr. Jordan Holloway at Ware Shoals, Thursday to see Dr. Jordon’s new son. Mrs. Harry Strother, Mrs. L. E. Werts, Miss Lillie Mae Workman and Miss Mary Lou Werts were New berry visitors on Friday. Miss Mary Ellen Workman spent the weekend in Clinton with home folks. Mrs. Kate Coleman and Miss Jos- espine Strother were shopping in Greenwood Wednesday morning. The Community was saddened by the death of Jack Coleman on Tues day evening at 8:45 o’clock. The be reaved family has the sympathy of Mr. Gonzales measured up to every : the whole community, call. In the blaze of a great occasion, | Mrs. W. A. Webb and Mrs. L. E. but not less in the hum-drum calls af j Werts attended the leaders club unspectacular labor, he did his best! meeting at Newberry Court House on and his best was worthy the ideal which motivated his life, Farmers, here’s how its done: The railroad employees are already receiving as much wages as they re ceived in the boom times of 1929. Certainly the purchasaing power of their wages makes them in better con dition today than in 1929 and far bet ter than in 1926, which the Govern ment has set up as a sort of normal year. If the farmers were receiving pay on the basis of 1926 cotton would be seventeen cents a pound. But it isn’t bringing seventeen cents, is it? More nearly seven than seventeen. However, the rail road unions—called brotherhoods—decided that they last Saturday. Miss Josephine Strother is visiting in Johnston over the week-end. Mrs. J. B. Scurry went shopping in Newberry Friday. Mrs. H. C. Strother assisted by Mrs. L. E. Werts entertained the Merry Makers club on Tuesday, Games were played one of which was dressing the witch. Mrs. J. J. Boaz- man won the prize for the best dress ed witch & Mrs. W. O. Holloway the spookiest one. A delicious fruit salad course was served with Russian tea. Misses Elizabeth and Irene Keith of Lander College spent the week end at home. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Cook called in the community one day recently. Mr. E. C. Harmon took dinner in the home of Mrs. Harry Strother should have more pay. The railroads said they were not earing enough to pay more. Then came the reply “we | Thursday, don’t care what you earn; we want! Misses Lucy Vivian and Grace more money.” All right, brave boys; 1 Arant visited home folks Sunday. 10 Utopia 8 11 Hartford 0 12 Johnstone 5 13 Stony Hill 5 14 Prosper-'ty 15 15 O’Neall 8 18 Fairview 4 19 Midway 4 21 Central 4 22 St. Phillips 8 23 Rutherford 4 24 Broad River 4 25 New Hope-Zion 4 26 Pomaria 27 Red Knoll 6 28 Helena 4 29 Mt. Pleasant 8 30 Little Mountain .... 12V4 31 Wheeland 3 32 Union 4 33 Jolly Street 8 34 St. Pauls 0 35 Peak 4 37 Mudlic 6 38 Vaughrrville 6 39 Chappells 6 40 Old Town 8 41 Dominick 8 42 Reederville 15% 43 Bush River 10% 44 Smyrna 10% 45 Trinity 46 Burton 8 47 Tranwood 10% 48 Jalapa 8 49 Kinards 50 Tabernacle 8 51 Trilby ..:... 4 52 Whitmire 53 MolloJion 4 54 Betheden 55 Fork 57 Belfast 6 58 Silveistreet 59 Pressley 60 St.' Johns 4 The following discount will be al lowed on payment of taxes: Thru- Oct. 20, one and one-half per cent; thru November, one per cent. On and after January 1, 1938, the penalties prescribed by law will be imposed on unpaid taxes. Those who had their dogs vacci nated for rabies during the -fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, by one authorized by law, and expect to be exempted from dog tax will please bring their certificates of vaccination when appearing to pay taxes. You are requested to call for your taxes by school districts in which property is located. The Treasnrer is not responsible for unpaid taxes not called for by districts. J. C. BROOKS, Treasurer Newberry County. 20YEARSAGO At a meeting of the commission on Thursday the contract for the build ing of the new jail was let to W. G. Summerland and company at the price of $63,250. They are the same gentlemen who are in charge of the building of the new Exchange Bank building. Miss Mattie Adams returned Tues day from Columbia, where she spent the previous week with Mrs. Lizzie Clark. Mr. G. Leland Summer has return ed from Washington after havinc,- successfully passed two government examinations, for excise tax inspec tor and first grade departmental ac countant. He received an immed iate appointment in the ordnance de partment of the army located in Washington. On account of the high cost of living, however. Mr. Summer did not accept that appointment, not feeling justified in moving his fami ly there. eral young ladies of the neighbor hood were enjoyed by the little guests, followed by delicious re freshments. Robert E. Mayson of Charlotte, N. C., in a letter to The State Saturday suggested Dr. George B. Cromer for United States senator, whom he con siders in every way capable of filling the position, knowing full well that if Dr. Cromer should be elected, the state would have nothing to regret. Truer words were never written. Sunday will be “Go-to-Sunday- school” day. No doubt the occasion will call out a greatly increased at tendance at the various Sunday schools. It ought to. The students of Newberry college subscribed $600 for YMCA work in the army camps when Dr. McNair of the army YMCA at Camp Jackson presented the cause at a recent chap el service at the college. Congressman Frank Lever, of the seventh district, is mentioned as a possibility in the next senatorial race on the anti-reform ticket, but he has so far made no political announce ment, nor given any intimation along that line. A Soggy Spectacle By The Office Cat The Indians are now looking for ward and preparing for the big Thanksgiving game to be played in Clinton w>th Presbyterian college. This is the last and most important game af the season. (This is a story I have long hesit ated to tell for there be many who will doubt its truthfulness. Albeit, many of our good people are of late much given to this sport little realiz ing its dangers.) When the war t ax gets on good and proper we will all then begin to realize that we are in war. And then when all the food dealers have to be licensed and you are not permitted to have more than a 60 day’s supply of food on hand will be another time when you will find out that you are in the war. That will not touch many of us town -people because most of us are fortunate if we have a week’s supply on hand at any one time. The new postage law is in force. That is another reminder that there is a state of war. Some of us old people can remember when letter postage was three cents and so it will not be such a terrible blow to us, and then some of us da not write so many letters anyway. Mrs. Robert D. Wright will leave next week for Chattanooga, Tenn., to attend the U. D. C. convention. Little Miss Minnie Morris cele brated her tenth birthday with a de lightful party Tuesday afternoon. Many outdoor games, directed by sev I was fishing in deep water way out in the lake when I got a bite. I knew right off that it was a big one and the reason I knew was that it began to pull the boat ‘round and ’round in a half mile circle. He pull ed the boat so fast I got dizzy and fell out and believe it or not I fell right on the fish and knocked him out. Me and that fish went to the bottom like a rock and I tried my best to pick him up but could not budge him. I pulled and tugged and grunted for two hours but couldn’t budge him. Finally as I was about to give up I looked close and much to my amaze- fent found it wasn’t a fish at all but only a big log I had been pulling at. When I finally came to the surface my boat was nowhere in sight. Peer ing in every direction I spied a small dark object on the water moving rap idly at a distance I judged to be a- bout 14 miles. I knew this must be the boat so I struck out after it., I swam a while and then dropped to the bottom and ran awhile to rest myself. In exactly four minutes I caught up with the swiftly moving object which turned out as I thought, to be my boat. I made a grab forit but it dodged and went off with a FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1937 TT— roar. I grabbed a rock off the bot tom (the water was only 40 feel, at this point) and threw it vnth great violence. It hit the handle of the motor causing it to head back toward me, roaring like an enraged bull. I ducked quickly as it sped over my head. Gaining the surface I found the boat standing quietly near where I emerged. I was considerably peeved by this time for I had lost the good catch from the boat. I started the motor and threw it wide open. Up and down I went, the backwash flood ing the lowlands and driving the peo ple to the hills. Old men and women running for their lives and little ba bies gingerly hopping over cotton | rows to escape the mountainous waves. It was indeed heartless but j by now my disappointment knew no 1 bounds. Finally becoming somewhat appeas ed I shut the motor off and went in to the fields and gathered up all the water and put it back in the lake. I filled my boat with the finest fish and headed for the boat house. You may well imagine my feelings when the boat house was nowhere to be seen. As far as eye could reach was only baren waste, not a house in sight. I was greatly dejected; all the country ’round abrut seemed des olate and still; even the sun was gray and overcast. sat down to weep but found I had put my tears in the lake along with the water. There was nothing I could do so my thoughts turned toward home. I put out thru the endltess miles of waste lands caused by my rash act. After I had gone what seemed to me hund reds of miles I saw off to my left the boat house turned upside down and all thq people in it standing on their , heads. Those who were in the house 1 fixing lines on poles at the time of the great catastrophe were seen holding an to their poles with lines sticking straight up in the air. You see I had also upset the law of grav ity. After restoring the laws of gravity by means of tossing an apple into the air I put the boat house on top of my car and brought it back to where it originally stood, but those in the house don’t know ’till this day what really happened. As I staggered into the little nest we call home with my load of fish, j I was suddenly brought to realize I was still living in the same old world. I “Drunk again, you brute. I told you the very next time—etc, etc, etc. And so, far, far into the night. FOR SALE Genuine Japanese Giant timber Bam boo. Seven inches in Circumference and forty feet high. Stays green all winter. Shoots easy to grow. Mrs. Jas. M. Smith 1808 Harper street There’s a Big In a paper you Take and a paper you REM) || People Read The figs (