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PAGE FOUR THE SUN — FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 IMS Gllje &«« 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year $1.00 Published Every Friday Communications of Interest are in- all. Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. WAS PLANNED THAT WAY The decision of the public works commission to grant a reduction in rates rather than apply a surplus to retirement of bonds was a good one; one in the interest of all people. A greater number wil be aided for more of us pay light bills than pay tax bills. The fact that Newberry now en joys the lowest lighting rate in the state is a tribute to the ability of those who have managed this unit of the city's business over the years. Despite the fact that the cost of power to the commission has decreas ed only 20 per cent in the past seven years, the local rate has been reduced 40 per cent in that time. This has been made possible through increased consumption of power and efficient management. During 1937 customers of the plant used about 13 per cent more power than in the previous year. Decreases have been made in rates in every instance where the commis sioners felt the volume and profit justified it. In 1931 there was a cut of 4 per cent; 1933, 10 per cent; 1935, 10 per cent; 1936, 10 per cent; and the cut a few days ago of more than 14 per cent. Also during that time the minimum has been cut and the a- mount of current allowed under the minimum used from 14 to 16 kilowat hours. The rate reductions referred to here are in the first and second “blocks” of rates and affect 98 per cent of users. The third block of power, that is, all power used above 3040 kw hours of course did not cany a corresponding decrease on account of the small spread between the re tailing rate and cost price. - The recent reduction was extended to cooking stoves in that hereafter when you go on vacation for a month there will be no connected charge of $2 for your stove. Newberry should be thankful for a commission which backed a man in the formative years of the plant when it was being moulded into its present physical condition. The city hardly knows what interruption of service is and you may be sure this didn’t just happen. Rather it is the result of long-time planning and capa bility of Superintendent Homer Schumpert, plus the vision of those under whom he worked. Mr. Schum pert could have piled up a big surplus at the expense of those who use the service but he didn’t do it. As a re sult we have the lowest rate in the state, there are no outstanding bonds on the electric plant, and we have a distribution system for both water and lights second to none in the country. But all this didn’t just happen. It was planned that way! CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open com- petive examinations for the following positions: Junior graduate nurse, $1,620 a year, U. S. Public Health Service, and Veterans’ Administration. Industrial classification analyst, and senior associate and assistant in dustrial classification analysts, $2,600 to $4,600 a year, Social Se curity Board. Full information may be obtained from secretary of the U. S. Civil Ser vice board of examiners, at the post office in this city. VISITS IN SPARTANBURG Miss Mae Dold is visiting her sis- iter Mrs. C. T. Sondley and Mr. 1 Sondley in Spartanburg. She will re turn to the city Saturday. Spectator Perhaps the best thing that could happen would be to let the dreamers have their way and wreck the country. After that we would have no dreamers for a long time. Take a look at the advocates of the floor and ceiling talk about wages and hours. As long as they fail the;' have such nice, sweet-sounding stuff to talk about; and they would even make political capital out of it; but if they should put such measures into operation they would themselves suf fer from the consequences. As it is today, I am reminded of Absalom’s bit of demagoguery. Absalom was David’s son, you know. He wanted to be king, but couldn’t wait for his father to die. So he sat at the gate of the city and told the people what he would do if he were King. He made many friends by that. And these well-meaning gentlemen really should have a chance to reap the whirlwind they are so diligently sowing. Reminds me of a story told on a German bi^toher in Charleston. A lady asked the price of all-pork sau sages. He said thirty cents. She protested and remarked that his competitor down the street offered all-pork sausages for twenty cents. Our German asked why she had not bought from his competitor. She said that the competitor had no more. “Oh”, said the German, “dem sau sages what I ain’t got, I sells for fifteen cents.” So, our politico-so cialized dreamers could double the wage and halve the hours, provided they don’t make good on their theo- The Ways and Means Committee of the House has made an excellent be ginning in preparing the appropria tion bill. It has faced ,two realities. One that the State Property tax should be removed, beginning. with the unpledged half—two and a half mills; and the fact that our State had not recovered, though improv ing when the recession came and came suddenly. It is all . right for the economists to delve in£o the mysteries bf " inflation, deflation and reflation, as well as to distinguish between recessions and depressions, but in confronting reali ties our Ways and Means Committee .shows the spirit of Grover Cleveland, who said “It is not a theory, but a condition which confronts us.” The State Property tax of five mills is relatively small certainly when compared with some County levies of seventy mills, but as some counties have very low valuations and others somewhat higher this fixed State levy may really work out as the equivalent of two mills in some counties and ten mills in others.That is the principal objection to the tax, although any reductions for what ever reason is desirable. The slump in business is very mark ed. Our business men usually combat such conditions by reducing prices, sacrificing much of their profits, sometimes all, in the belief that stagnation is to be avoided at almost any cost, since business feeds on it self, whereas recessions bring about downward spirals. The dollar of today has a greater purchasing power than it had last January. Whenever recession comes we should all Start afresh from lower levels and climb together. Anti-Lynching Bill Hon. E. D. Smith c-o U. S. Senate Washington, D. C. Dear Senator: I am opposed to the Anti-lynching bill for the reasons you have set forth. Most of the people of the South do not defend lynching, cer tainly moat of them do not advocate lynching. I do not say that in a moment of great emotional strain we might not all feel moved to think that a lynching was the proper ex pression of inflamed indignation. That would not be because we are Southerners; for surely the impulse is one common to humanity and our friends of the North and West are just as inclined to be violent under stress as we are. I repeat, however, that the overwhelming body of opin- »■ Continuing for Another Week Clary’s Big Re-Organization > Bggssysl Extra SPECIAL! Sale of 15 Curlee Suits $29.50 val., 36s to 40s SALE of 20 Ail Wool Suits Discontinued Patterns for $10 (No alterations at Sale prices) Our Re-Organization Sale has been a very successful one and we have decided to con tinue it smother week. You know ihe class of goods we handle and you can see from these prices the Savings. Come today! Save! 6 dozen Men’s Summer Union Suits $1 value. Sizes 36 and 34, reduced to Arrow Shirts 3 for $5.00 OVERCOATS REDUCED A „ «« c , . . , , ^ _ n $35.00 Hart, Schaffner St Marx Coats .... $26.00 All «p 1 OflirtS rCQUCCCl tO / i/C $27.50 CURLEE Coats $20.00 $20.00 CURLEE Coats $15.00 1 lot Sweet-Orr Work Shirts $1.00 value for 50c Boy’s Tom Sawyer shirts 69c 95 About 3 dozen pairs Men’s Boy’s Shoes Sizes 1-7 reduced to Suits $11 Come today, See for yourself Just One More Week! Discontinuing all Headlight Overalls Special $1.25 ALL OTHER ITEMS REDUCED IN PROPORTION No Charges or Alterations at Sale Prices CLARY CLOTHING CO. ion in the South neither advocates nor condones lynching. There is a point involved which is of the greatest moment to us all: Shall we obliterate State lines until Massachusetts and Virginia became mere expressions of location? I submit that the great Congress of the Nation should never draw a bill directly aimed to humiliate a part at the Union; it would be so much more respectable to present a bill which would empower the Federal autho rity to intervene in any State at any time, of its own motion, whenever, in its judgement, the laws were not properly enforced by local authority. Under such a law a Federal judge might have taken the famous Van- zetti case from the State courts of Massachusetts or the Linbergh case from the State of New Jersey or the Mooney case from the State Courts of California, just to mention a few at random. And we recall the fail ure of the authoritiee of Michigan to function efficiently when the sit-down strikes made that State notable. Then New York and Chicago have their gangsters which their officials do not always bring to justice. Our friend who advocates this bill might well be reminded that “with what measure ye mete, it shall be meted to you”; and that if the Fed eral authority may be lawfully assert ed in the anti-lynching case R can be equally asserted in every other case; and our friends will have to look out for themselves when their time cornea. Cordially yours, Spectator WHAT THE MISSIONARIES SEE IN CHINA — ' NINETY-SIX SEES RAPID DEVELOPMENT Greenwood, S. C.,—“Ninety-Six, the Power City, the Home of Buzzard Rooet” is the slogan adopted by the of that city In sending out an apeal to four and one-half million Southern Baptists for China Relief, the Foreign Mis- ) chamber of commerce .dons Board presents a picture of the since the Supreme court handed down conditions with which missionaries in | * favorable decision on the Saluda China are struggling: | river power project. ‘The human suffering in China to- A civic prc « ram in cotmection w,th day is beyond America’s imagination. Huddled together by the thous ands like helpless sheep in alley-ways, the development was mapped out at a meeting of the chamber and a com mittee was appointed to make a in shells of ^ed Gildings, or^ld The CIO doesn’t seem to stapd well in New Jersey. Just read this Associated Press dispatch from Jer sey City: Jersey City, N. J.,—(AP)—Mayor Frank Hague, vice-chairman of the democratic national committee and state party leader, with hands clenched and shouting, told a wildly- cheering throng that the CIO “shall never come into this city as long as I am mayor.” Speaking over a coast-to-coast radio hookup and before an estimated crowd of 25,000 persons, Hague de nounced the Committee for Industrial Organization as a communist-led movement. Interrupted by Roars His speech, delivered in the Jersey City armory, flag bedecked and jam med to capicity, was interrupted by roars from the audience as he called Roger N. Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties union, “the head of the Communist party in this country,” and declared Morris Ernst, CIO counsel, was leading “50,000 lawyers” and newspaper workers to the Communist party. The meeting to which Hague had “invited every citizen of Jersey City to demonstrate against the red inva sion,” was preceded by a parade of World War veterans, whose number was estimated at 4,000 by acting Police Inspector Walter Cieciuch. Radical Move Says A. Harry Moore, United States senator, governor-elect, and chair man of the meeting, speaking before Hague said: “This radical group in jected itself into labor x x x not to help labor but to destroy it and in dustry.” Twenty-one American flags were draped around the inside of the build ing and behind the speakers’ platfrom a huge sign, bearing fivefoot letters, read: “Jersey City is one hundred per cent American. Reds keep out.” damp warehouses, in dark frigid heathen temples, are millions of homeless, hopeless, starving victims in Shanghai, in Soochow, in Wusih, in Nanking, in hundreds of towns and cities tom asaunder by the Japanese. “The missionary doctors write that they ar e having to perform major operations without anesthetics. The wounds are being wrapped in news paper because of the lack of gauze and bandages. Matsheds on hospital grounds have been erected. Wounded soldiers lie under these on piles of straw on the cold ground, receiving first aid as rapidly as the doctors and nurses can get to them. But there is not enough medicine or food avail able to save themselves. "Matsheds for the multitudes have been erected along the Grand Canal. Shivering, sick, suffering women and children huddle close together under these improvised shelters from the oold drenching rain that has been pouring for days over Central China, and freezing to the meagre clothing of the millions. Weeping over the dead in their arms, mothers separated from hus bands turn trembling hands to help ing one another. Old grandmothers cry for food and faint. Groanings fill the air while others and yet others struggle into these cold, filthy, fright ful havens. “And Southern Baptist missionar ies, are in the midst of these horrors, endeavoring to live out the Goapel of Love that they have preached through the years. But they cannot meet the baffling conditions without help from America. One lone dollar in the hands of a Southern Baptist mission ary in China will save the life of a Chinese far a month.” Every dollar received by the For eign Mission Board in Richmond, Va., is cabled (to China within three hours after it is received. On the day the appeal was isued the Board cabled $1,051 to China’s Relief.” MAYBANK CONTRIBUTES Mayor Burnett M. Maybank, of Charleston has forwarded to the Tillman Memorial commission his check for $100 toward the proposed Tillman memorial, in appreciation, the mayor said, of all that the late Senator had done for Charleston report all available rooms for rent and the number of boarding houses to the secretary, Miss Margaret Gail- lard. AUDITOR’S TAX NOTICE JUDGE BLEASE TO CAPITAL Judge Eugene S. Blease has been named a member of a delegation which will go to Washington on the 20th of this month to promote the candidacy of Judge J. Lyles Glenn of Chester for the vacancy on the United States supreme court bench. A half hundred heavyweights, in eluding the governor, will make the trip. VAUGHAN TO ENTER RACE FOR SENATE Clemson, Jan. 15—President E. W. Sikes of Clemson College, announced today the resignation effective im mediately, of T. L. Vaughan, rural or- ginization specialist, who said he would offer for the United States senate. Vaughan is a native of Anderson county. SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY OF THE ESTATE OF JAMBS D. TIDMARSH, DECEASED Pursuant to an order of the Pro bate Court of Newberry County, South Carolina, I will offer for sale, and sell to the highest bidders, for cash, on Saturday, January 22nd, 1938, beginning at 11:00 o’clock in the forenoon, at the gin house of Gilliam and Tidmash, in the Town of Whitmire, Newberry County, South Carolina, certain personal property, owned by the Estate of James D. Tid- marsh, including four (4) mules, three (3) hoes, one (1) mallet, one (1) guano distributor, one (1) cuta way harrow, one (1) cotton planter, one (1) corn planter, two (2) plow stocks, one (1) one-horse turn plow, one <1) traction engine, one (1) two- horse wagon, corn, fodder, cotton seed, one (1) share of the capital stock of the Farmers Oil Mill, New berry, S. C., of the par value of $10, etc. Mrs. Minnie Tidmarsh, Administratrix of the estate of James D. Tidmar-h, deceased January 8, 1938. Mill, I, or an authorized agent, will be at the following places on the dates giv en below for the purpose of taking tax returns of all real estate and per sonal property. Persons owning prop erty in more than one district will make returns for each district. All able bodied male citizens between the ages of twenty-one and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax; all persons between tb* ages of twenty-one and fifty outside of incorporated towns and cities are liable to pay commu tation tax of $1.00. All dogs are to be assessed at $1.00 each. Whitmire—City Hall, Tuesday, Jan uary 4th, 1988. Whitmire—Aragon-Bald win Wednesday, January 5th, 1988. Longshores—Thursday, Janu 1938, from 9 until 12. Silverstreet—Thursday, 6th, 1938, from 2 until 5. Chappells—Friday, January 1938. Hollingsworth Store—Tuesday uary 11th, from 9 until 12. Kinards—McGill’s Store, Tuesday January 11th, 1938, from 2 until 6. Prosperity—Wednesday and Thurs day, January 12th and 13th, 1988. Little Mountain—Tuesday, January 18th, 1938. Glymph’s Store—Wednesday, Jan uary 19th, 1938, from 9 until 12. J. L. Crook’s Store—Wednesday, January 19th, 1938, from 2 until 6. Peak—Thursday, January 29 th, 1938. Pomaria—Tuesday, January 26tk, 1938. St. Lukes—Wednesday, January 26th, 1988, from 9 until 12. O’Neal—L. C. Fellers Store, Wed nesday, January 26th, 1938, from 2 until 6. Maybinton—F. B. Hardy’s home, Thursday January 27th, 1938, from 9 until 12. Reese Brothers Store—Thursday, January 27th, 1938, from 2 until 6. At Auditor’s office to March 1st, after which time a penalty of 10 per cent will be added. Pinckney K. Abrams, Auditor Nev/berry County —.r- . • obce The following penalties will be in effect after December ' January, 1 per cent February, 2 per cent March, 3 per cent April, a per cent J.C. BROOKS, County Treasurer mm