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WM PAQEPOPB Eift #«n 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. 0. F. AEMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year $1.00 Published Every Friday Communications of Interest are in vited. The Open Forum is open to all Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ONLY 26 YEARS LONGER Taxpayers of Newberry county will have only 26 years longer to growl about the tax load for in 1964 the last bond will have been paid and those who carry the load to the end will realize more than ever that the orgy of free spending in past years is th e cause of the load we are bearing today. Newberry county has a highway bonded indebtedness of f747,000 and it has $748,000 of “funding” bonds. These funding bonds represent past indebtedness of many kinds. Some $609,000 of it is a collection of short term notes and other indebtedness collected into the one item and bonds sold under the administration of Tabor L. Hill, then Senator, to take care of it. A considerable saving of interest was effected by this move aud the county’s obligations consoli dated into a more secure form. It takes a millage of 8 1-2 to care for the interest alone on these nuge bond issues. A little digging will show that taxpayers are contribut ing about three fourths as much in interest as they are to finance the running expenses of the county. Careless spending of county money in by-gone years is reaping its har vest of interest today and will con tinue to reap it for 26 years longer. The only hope for a reduction in county taxes in that period is the removal of the state 6 mill levy, for the 8 1-2 mills for interest and the 8 mills for retiring the $748,000 funding bonds and the $747,000 high ways bonds have moved in to stay with us until that far off July in 1964. County affairs are now in excel lent shape and have been for several years; dating in fact from the years Tabor Hill labored so hard to straighten things out and set affairs in shape for those who followed him. On the whole we have officers deter mined that the county shall live with in its income. While taxes will re main at about the same level for several years due to the causes out lined, there is every reason to be lieve they will not go higher; that is, unlees the people vote themselves some more bonds! RIDING AND LIVING Evidence that Newberry county people intend to ride in spite of every thing and everybody is brought to light by a little digging into figures at the office of Pinkney Abrams, audi tor. The worth of all household goods in the county is listed at $189,640 while the worth of automobiles is list ed at $266,036. Newberry is no excep tion however, and no doubt in some counties the automobile makes an even better showing. The figures would disclose that plenty of us ride in a thousand dollar automobile and sleep on a $3 dollar mattress. This seems sort of screwy but we supose its all right; this is the age of riding. The age of living may come later. ■ •' TBS SUN ■ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1988 COME ON LET’S LYNCH SOUTH CAROLINA (Lancaster News) It is reliably reported that the state senate is going to pass the 40 hour bill. Claiming to be the friend of labor they are going gaily ahead with the measure. It is certain of being sign ed by our irrepressible Governor if passed. Who is going to be helped? Labor? It means that the man (or woman) who has a chance to make a little ex tra money through “over time" can not do so any more without violating the law. It means that if the mill wherf labor works happens to have a i Dig orJer that must be gotten out on a certain schedule, it cannot ask (and pay) its operatives for working more than ten hour shifts; it is a violation of the law. It means putting the shackles on both the operatives and the mill management, and preventing the one from making extra money and the other from paying its people more for their services. Further it means that it puts the mills of this state at a disadvantage with the mills of North Carolina and Georgia which are left free by their laws to work over time if orders ne cessitate so doing. South Carolina Industry is hand cuffed by laws and taxes to the limit of its endurance as matters stand to day. If the members of the senate wish to see the mills of the state stand idle and its operatives go on relief, while sister states reap the benefit, they will pass the 40 hour measure. If, in their lust for votes next fall, they are willing to prosti tute the greatest industry that their state has, and the one that directly and indirectly pays more than three- quarters of their salaries, they will pass this law. And it is to be hoped that in years to come they will see the ruin they have wrought and be made to pay the price of their own selfishness. STATE JERSEY CATTLE CLUB MEET FEBRUARY 23 \ v - IN DEFENSE OF THE “BONE- HEAD” It is heartening to note that educa tors and psychologist over the nation are frowning on the idea of forcing or “cramming” school children into making top grades. Here are some comments from noted educators with which we imd ourselves in complete agreement: “We must realize the seriousness of a child’s always getting A’s. He has a right to get a D once in a while. It will do him good, for life isn’t going to strew A’s all a- round him.” “Thus, I thouroughly agree that there is nothing so dangerous for a growing child as monotonous and uninterrupted success in school achievement. A few hard knocks are essential.” “That sort of child is likely to grow up to be a conformist—a per son who never blazes new trails —the sort of person who accepts what is told him without question. The pattern of what teacher says is carried over into adult life. He is not likely to be a leader or a dy namic individual. That’s the way I view the future goody-goody child ren.” If Edison had been a teacher's pet, instead of having been kicked out of school, we might today be using can dles instead of electric lights. WEST END P. T. A. MEET The Parent-Teacher Association of West End school will meet this (Thursday) afternoon at 3:30 in the school auditorium. An interesting program has been planned and all members and friends of the Association are urged to at tend. dm ■- The annual meeting of the South Carolina Jersey Cattle Club will be held at the Wiseman Hotel, Newberry, on Wednesday, February 23, at 11:00 a. m., according to announcment made by Judge Neal W. Workman, presi dent, and C. B. Parr, secretary and treasurer. These officers also state that in arranging a program for the meeting they hav e completed plans which should attract Jersey cattle enthusiasts from every part of the state. Among the interesting speakers on the program will be: Lynn Cope land, in charge of Register of Merit testing for the American Jersey Cat tle Club; Laurence B. Gardiner, southern field representative for the American Jersey Cattle Club; and Dr. G. W. Anderson, associate animal pathologist Clemson College. There is defininte evidence of in creased jactivity among the Jersey breeders in this state, and with the successful classification sale held last fall by Wheeler Brothers of Saluda, which attracted national attention, the Jersey breed is in a favorable posi tion to make rapid progress in the near future. The officers of the club have formu lated a definite program of work for 1938 which should make the coming year one of the most active and suc cessful years in the history of the Jer sey breed in South Carolina. WORK ON PARK PROGRESSING Development of the park area in Lynches wood is progressing nicely under the supervision of Dan Wicker, who heads a WPA crew which is now engaged on a road around the park. Homer W. Schumpert and T. E. Davis have gereral oversight of the park development. Early this ‘ summer will see the park in shape to receive visitors, although the work will not be finished. Messrs. Davis and Schumpert are much enthused over the project and give it considerable of their time. CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING Mr. and Mrs. Henry Chapin Lake of Silvdrstreet will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on March 16th. Mr. Lake is 88 years of age and Mrs. Lake is 82. Sons and daugh ters who will join in celebrating the occasion are, Henry Tommy, John Chapin, Frank William, Andrew Boyd, Mrs. Andrew Cromer, Mrs. Edward Wertz, Mrs. Boley Senn, Mrs. J. W. Burshaw, and Mrs. Ernestine Carrol. Mr. and Mrs. Lake have 32 grand children and 2 great-grand children. BACHELOR BLAMES ECONOMIC UPSET ON WORKING WIVES! Columbus, Ohio.—Economic ills of the state and nation are blamed by State Representative Patrick J. Dunn (Democrat), Tuscarawas County, on employment of married women. Dunn, a bachelor, proposed to the taxation committee that laws be en acted prohibiting employment of mar ried women in business and industry and in public positions. “Yon never will be able to break the depression and solve the relief and delinquent tax problem nntil yon stop giving jobs to married women,” Dunn told the committee. Dunn sponsored a bill in the last Legislature which would have pro hibited man and wife being employed by the state, but it failed to pass. S PECTATOR The Commission of Nine after a long study, told file Legislature that although all of our taxes are high, so high as to be oppressive, the taxes alone are not as great an influence Jn keeping out new business and new industry as the hostile atmosphere which seems to pervade the Legisla ture. We are having an illustration of that now. Here is the picture that we must hav e before us in thinking of business: A man invests his money in a plant. After paying for the land, buildings, and machinery he leaves a margin in cash to pay for raw ma terial and labor until the products of his mills sell on the market and bring in some money. If the Legis lature or Congress passes a law which greatly increases expenses, or cost, that mill can only operate if it can charge more for its products. If it must sell it’s products in competi tion with mills which produce at a lower cost then our mills would have to shut down; they could not operate at a profit. When a mill cannot ope rate at a profit it can only run long as its money last, or so long as it can borrow money from the bank. When a mill operates on its savings —on undistributed profits—it is like a man who lives without eating—who in fact, is consuming his own fat, un til he finally dies of starvation. That is exactly what happens to a mill. Some of our crack-brained people seem to think that just any kind of requirement can be made of a mill and that it will be able to meet it. They think that a mill gets money from the air, or that it flows in a stream underground. South Carolina mills—cotton mills —operate in competition with mills in North Carolina, Georgia, Japan and England. In Georgia a mill may operate sixty hours a week; and in North Carolina a mill may operate fifty-five hours a week. If South Carolina must restrict its mills to forty hours a week that can only mean that the mill will shut down. That is very clear and any child should understand it. But men come to the Legislature with the idea that a cotton mill has no vote except that of the President; and that all the ope ratives are against the mill. These politicians think that they will be come popular with the mill operatives by passing any sort of measure which they can talk about in the campaign. The truth is that if these measures were passed the mills would shut down; the mill villages would be full of hungry people; and the business of the towns, such as Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Greenwood, Rock Hill and Lancaster would dry up, leaving a town of vacant stores, vacant houses and presenting, in ge neral, a scene of desolation. I marvel that the operatives themselves and the merchants and every other kind of business man, including the farmer, the butcher, the automobile mecha nic, the filling station men—and everybody else, do not write in pro test against these men who make the real business of the State a foot ball to kick about in the General As sembly. If several measures now pending in the Legislature—the 40-hour week, the air-conditioning bill, and the ele vator bill—wer e passed it is probable that most of the cotton mills of South Carolina would liquidate and leave us great empty buildings, even th e macinery going to Brasil. These bills, even {f killed, advertise to the world an atmosphere of hosti lity to business that does more to keep out new business than anything else. I know the remedy, because I know the cause. A corporation- baiting politician—is working only for votes, for votes of the unthinking man whom he deceives by playing fast and loose with the business of the State; but since he is playing for votes the only way to impress him is to line up with the votes of the op position and show him that there are two sides and that he has no walk over when he would trample the busi ness of the State in the mud for the sake of appearing to be a popular champion. The only way to squelch demagoguery is to make a show of force. All appeals to reason, all ci tation of facts, are wasted time and effort. Nothing but a test of strength will be effective. From what I know of cotton mill operatives they are not as easy to fool as some politicians think. They know that a mill has to earn the wages which it pays; and they know that a shut down mill, and especially a dismantled mill, does not pay wages. They know just as well as you and I how their bread is buttered and where the butter comes from. Their bread and butter comes from their own effort, of course, their own work, but a shut down mill gives no man a chance to earn bread and but ter but the watchman. DOUGH O Y S BILL OF SENN AND DOMINICK WOULD LIMIT DEDUCTIONS The house has passed and seat to the senate a bill introduced by Repre sentatives Senn and Dominick to Hmit to 60 per cent the amount a textile employer could deduct from the salary of a worker for house rent dur ing short time or illness of the work er. Messrs. Senn and Dominick also voted in favor of a bill which would require air conditioning of cotton mills and Representative Pope paired a nay vote with another representa tive. The bill was lost by a 68-40 vote. Lou Gehrig Joe DiMaggie LOOKING At SPORTS (BY LONNIE FRANKLIN) “It’s in the air,” yes sir, when the birds and ball players start humming it’s time for old man winter to be heading out. The birds make one kind of fuss and the ball players another but the $ is what makes the wheel move round and here they are arguing on contracts for the coming season. Big time baseball means big time money and do they go after it. Well, there is Joe DiMaggio four years ago a fisherman on the Pacific coast and just a junior in the American League wants 40 grand and the Yanks have offered him $25,000 where he got $12,000 in 1937. “Gee Granma” what big ideas you have. Lou Gehrig, old Iron Horse, wants $41,600 a hike of $5,000 over last year but Lou has some 13 years behind him and after pacing Babe Ruth for years now finds himself playing se cond fiddle to “Der Mag” but why ? Gehrig is a ball player who year in and year out hits as well or better than any members of the Yanks. Say what you will he is still the home run boy of the Ruppert Rifles, since the day 1966 days ago when they gave him Wally Pipps first base mitt he hasn’t missed the first game and those are regulation playing dates to say nothing of exhibition and World Series gamds. Joe draws at the gate they say; well how about Gehrig and Lou led the Yanks at bat in ’37 with .351. Ball players are pulling for Di Maggio to get the 40 grand so next season they can all ask for pay hikes. Well its dollars to doughnuts that Col. Ruppert won’t pay that kind of dough for a third year player. If DiMaggio in three years worth that then Gehrig is worth the Chase National Bank. The boys in the Piedmont section are getting the old soup bones limber ed and before long thousands will be hard at work. The Central Carolina League has started on 38 plans already as Ninety-Six and Greenwood have be gun to line «P players. The other teams are expected to be ready to fir e up by the time the League meeting is called in a week or so. The Mid-State will fire away with all barrels booming in the next ten days. Newberry mills must have se veral players or second division, Mollohon if they get some team work will be nobody’s cousin, Winnsboro is still the Royal Chords and Whit mire may come back strong if the other teams add strenght then things may hum. The Dutch Fork is about ready is n’t it Mr. Metts and Bill Eargle lets have something soon on the Dutch Forkers. Harry Hedgepath at the “Hi” may come up with a good team as some good material from last season is back. The College team has more holes now than last years minnow net. All they need up there to have a team is I a catcher, two pitchers, three infield ers, and two out fielders, outside of I these they seem to be set they have a schedule and playing field. But several are coming out who may plug these holes and Dutch Mc Lean’s last Indian baseball team may be hot. You can’t tell yet. Newberry will send four to the fast company this summer which “ain’t” bad for a town her size. Mickey Livingston will be second string catcher for Washington of the American League sharing work with Rick Ferrel who grot his start on the college diamond with the old Caro lina League team. From textile ball to the nation’s capital in two years. That’s stepping Oliver. Derrill Bouknight signed by the Cards will probably do duty at Ashe ville in the Piedmont League. Edgar Thompson and Dunck Sing- ley are slated to be team mates at Macon in the Salley League. Maybe Newberry doesn’t still raise some good ball players. We Fix ’Em All and Fix ’Em Right Maybe there is a lot of good left in that old car yet that can be brought oat with an inexpensive repair job; and brightened up with a new Paint job. BRING IT TO US Our charges are always reasonable and the work is guaranteed to he right. Also there are many accessories on which we can save yen money and which make for more satisfactory driving. BEDENBAUGHS Auto Repair Works PHILOSOPHY OF GETTING IS BLAMED FOR YOUTH CRIME NOTICE To Delinquent Taxpayers Please take notice that I have begun (evying on all unpaid taxes. In order to save additional coat of levying, mileage, eta, please call at the office and attend to this at once as I must abide by the law. I wish to save you this additional cost and ask that you cooper ate with . m to this end. C. W. SANDERS, Tax Collector Jay B. Nash, professor of education at New York University, delivered the address at the weekly crime clinic sponsored by the Institute of Crimi nal Science in Washington, D. C, re cently. He blamed a false “philosophy of getting” as the cause for the “most lawless cross-section of young child ren of any country in the world.” Desire for profit at the expense of wholesome, right-living must be curb ed, or the next step will be dictator ship or utter lawlessness he told the large audience which attended the clinic. He hit radio broadcasts, particularly certain types of bedtime stories, as sources of juvenile delinquency. In this connection, he said that less than 10 per cent of the financially success ful motion pictures displayed themes comparable to the mentality of a 12- year-old child, dftan, he declared, children experienced unpleasant dreams after a harrowing radio pro gram or after seeing a trashy, sugges tive picture, and began a career of crime, re-enacting some of the themes thus seen and heard. Th speaker did not charge the screen and radio with conspiracy a-. gainst civilization in its apparent in difference toward society by the cha racter of entertainment given by them, but it was plain that they were in his mind among other profit-mak ing businesses, when h e said, “We must curb some people’s desire for profit.’ HAWKINS RE-ELECTED BROOKS EFFECTS SAVINGS Treasurer J. C. Brooks has retired two bonds which, if allowed to mature, would have cost the county some $2,200 in interest. The bonds were of $2,000 denominations. One of the bonds bore 6 per cent interest, the other 6 per cent. WORLD NEEDS FRIENDLY SPIRIT SAYS DR KINARD South Carolina Guernsey Cattle Club held Hs annual meeting Tues day, February 8 at the Jefferson Hotel, Columbia, South Carolina. The all-day cees’or' saw the re-elec tion of J. F. Hawkins of Newberry as President and Sam H. Zimmerman of Columbia as Secretary-Treasurer. Senator C. S. McCall of Bennettsville was elected Vice presdent succeeding J. H. Verdery of Orangeburg, accord ing to J. L. King, Asst. County Agent. At the morning session the annual sale to be held in Columbia May 10 was discussed with reports indicat ing that about 50 head would bq con signed. Mr. Zimmerman was named Sales Manager. “Mastitis” (a disease of the udder) was the principal address of the morning session and was delivered by Dr. G. W. Anderson, Animal Patholo gist at Clemson. Other speakers included James H. Hammond of Columbia and Art Tel- fer of Petersboro, New Hampshire. MRS. MARY C. ROGERS DIES AT SON’S HOME Mrs. Mary G. Rogers, 81, died at the home of her son, Victor Rogers, late Friday afternoon after a short illness. She was a faithful member of the First Baptist church of the city. Mrs. Rogers is survived by five sons, A. M., Columbia; T. M. and Vic tor, both of Newberry; W. H., Marion and S. Rogers, Virginia. The body remained at the residence until 7:30 Saturday when it was taken to Marion for burial. Funeral ser vices were held Sunday at 3 p. m. at the graveside in Rose Hill cemetery, Marion, with the Rev. Mr. Allen jn charge. WANT ADS -YOU MUST SEE THE PARADE OF STYLISH FURNITURE ON DISPLAY AT— J. J. LANGFORD ft SON FOR RENT—Several houses. , Apply at J. J. Langford & Son. FOR RENT OR SALE—My residence at 1817 College street. Possession given March 15tji to 26. R P. FAIR FOR SALE, Milk cows and one small work mare. See man at place. Stp C. M. Wilson FOR SALE—Reconditioned Farmall tractor. Will trade for mules, cows or cither farm produce—Johnson McCrackin Co. 6ta UNFURNISHER APARTM ENT FOR RENT—Feu- rooms, two on lower and two on upper floor. Pri vate bath. Apply at Sun office. FOR RENT—Unfurnished apartment with private bath, on first floor, and one furnished room on second floor. Phone 90, or inquire at The Sun office. stp FOR RENT—1200 aq. ft. of space, including several offices, on second floor in the Insurance Building on the Public Square. This floor has been recently renovated, including ladies’ and gentlemen’s rest rqoms and steam heat. Apply, A. J. Bowers, Jr. H. K Bcdenbaugh SIGNS House Painting Interior Decorating “Satisfaction Guaranteed” 1103 Boyce Sc. Newberry, S. C. Augusta Hearld 12th “The world needs a spirit of friend liness,” Dr. James C. Kinard, presi dent of Newberry College told mem bers of the Exchange club Thursday afternoon. “Americans worry too much about what they have coming to them. In stead we should laugh more and spend more time in making the world a happier place in which to live,” de clared Dr. Kinard. He quoted the last two lines of a poem: “Let me think a little more of my fellow man and a little less of me.” Several visitors attended the Innch- eon to hear Dr. Kinard. He was in troduced by a former student of New berry, Past President Ernest E. Fund. AUDITOR’S TAX NOTICE I, or an authorized agent, will be as 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 far 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 the ages of twenty-one and fifty outside of incorporated towns and cities are liable to pay commu tation tax of $1.00. All doga are to be assessed at $1.00 each. At Auditor’s office to March 1st, after which time a penalty of 10 per cent will be added. Pinckney N. Abrams, Auditor Newberry County TAX NOTICE The tax books will be opened for g the collection of 1937 taxes on and after October 4, 1937. The following is the general levy for all except special purposes: Mills State 6 Ordinary County Hit Bonds and Notes 7 Interest on Bonds and Notes.. 8Vi Roads and Bridges 2 Hospital Vt Con. School '. $ County School 4 it County Board Education It 42 The following are , the authorized special levies for the various school districts of the county: No. District Mill. 1 Newberry 17 2 Mt. Bethel-Garmany 4 3 Mayhiuton 2 4 Long Lane 8 6 McCullough $ 6 Cromer 0 8 Reagia 8 9 Deadfall 8 10 Utopia 8 11 Hartford 0 12 Johnstone x3 bumy Hill 14 Prosperity 16 O’Neall 18 Fairview 19 Midway 21 Central 22 St. Phillips 23 Rutherford 24 Broad River 26 New Hope-Zion 26 Pomaria 27 Red Knoll .... 28 Helena 29 ML Pleasant .. 30 Little Mountain 1 31 Wheeland 32 Union 33 Jolly Street 34 SL Paula .. 36 Peak 37 Mudlic .... 38 Vaughnville 39 Chappells . 40 Old Town . 41 Dominick 8 42 Reederville 16 It 43 Bush River 10Vh 44 Smyrna 101t 46 Trinity ; 8 46 Burton 8 47 Tranwood 10Vt 18 Jalapa 8 49 Kinards 2 60 Tabernacle 8 51 Trilby 4 52 Whitmire 12 63 Mollohon .. 4 54 Betheden 8 66 Fork 8 67 Belfast 6 68 Silverstreet 12 69 Pressley 4 60 SL Johns 4 The following pelalties will be ia effect after December 81, 1987: January, 1 per cenL February, 2 per cent March, 3 per cent. April, 7 per cenL You are requested to call for your taxes, by school districts in which property is located. The Treasurer is not responsible for unpaid taxee not called for by districts. 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 pleaae bring their certificates of vaccination when appearing to pay taxes. J. C. BROOKS, Newberry Gouty.