The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 07, 1949, Image 14
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CAMDEN
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Newberry Go.
Is Celebrating
38th. Anniversary
Joe Kelly is mighty proud of
the Newberry company. Joe might
be excused for his enthusiasm,
because he is manager of the
Camden unit of the Newberry or
ganization, but according to Joe,
the Newberry store is something
on the order of a Horatio Alger
epic.
. ‘Tor” says Kelly, “the New
berry organization, now operating
485 stores in 45 states, selling a
there are some articles that are
sold at prices in excess of $2,
started in a small store in Strouds-
burg, Pa., in 1911.
Mr. Kelly went on to explain
that of the consolidated net sales
of the corporation and its sub
sidiaries in 1948, it is estimated
that approximately 80 per cent
were derived from the sale of ar
ticles priced at $1 or less and ap
proximately 50 per cent from ar
ticles priced at 25 cents or less.
The approximate number of ar
ticles regularly carried by the re
spective stores depends primarily
on the size of the store and ranges
from 16,000 to 35,000. Among the
types of merchandise sold are
candy, notions, toilet articles, sta
tionery, footwear, hosiery, men’s,
etc.
operated in
; foods being
ware, tin and
Lunch counters are
43 of the stores, hot
erved in 94 of them.
J. J. Newberry, according to
Mr. Kelly, who is founder and
chairman of the board of direc
tors of toe Newberry organiza
tion, started work as an errand
boy in a department store, then
went With toe S. H. Kress com
pany five, ten and
cent
lariv, a I
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twenty-five
brother.
ATTENTION SWEET POTATO
store. Similar!
the late, C. T. 1
his career with
worth company.. ’
J. J. Newberry, conscientious
and progressive, - learned the
phases of merchandising with the
Kress company and during that
time developea his innate ability
through diligence and hard work.
Promotion followed promotion.
When he started his own store
in 1911 he served as manager,
buyer, floor walker, stocknab and
C nerally complete staff of one.
ter he was able to employ one
clerk, then a second, then a third,
and so on, a small beginning for
what later grew into a huge
Success came rapidly and with
the earnings of his first year and
a half of business activity, Mr.
Newberry opened a second store.
Soon the success of these two led
to toe opening a third and so
down through the years the New
berry company expanded to reach
nation-wide proportions.
This week the Newberry com
pany is observing its 38th anni-
with a sale that is store
e in its scope. On another
je of this issue of The Chron
icle appears a full page spread
of bargains to be found at this
sale.
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GROWERS!
W« arc now buying Sweet Potatoes for stor-
oga or shipping, either graded or field run, hy
the pound and by tho bushel. Plenty boskets.
See or coll' Mr. Poigo for boskets and prices.
Remember when you hove Yams, it's ... .
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Swine Flu Season
Is Here Again
The swine flu season is here,
toe American Foundation for
Animal Health warned farmers
this week. >
Death losses usually are not
high, a Foundation bulletin said,
unless complications develop-, but
swine owners will find them
selves with a sickly, unthrifty
herd until the animals recover.
Typical symptoms include loss
of appetite, coughing, labored
breathing and a watery discharge
from toe eyes. Once toe symptoms
appear in one pig, they spread
rapidly through toe rest of the
herd. A few may die.
Since no vaccine has been dis
covered, the Foundation ( made
these recommendations to protect
swine from the disease:
Get rid of old straw stacks and
other unsanitary matter around
the hog yard; keep hog houses
well ventilated; protect the ani
mals from undue exposure to cold
and dampness; prevent piling at
night. Having swine checked for
lung worm, if it is suspected, also
is important, because veterina-
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By GEORGE M. PHILLIPS
University of Wichita. Wichita,
Kansas
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Benjamin Harris took one last
look at the prison from which
he was being freed, and hurried
home. He was nto a law-breaker
and in his conscience he felt he
had done no wrong. He greeted
his wife and children with tears
of happiness.
He probably said, “Just wait.
As soon as we can save enough
money, We wiU get out of this
country and go to America,
where, I hear, a man is free to
speak his mind.”
Hlttory does not record that
those were the exact words of
Benjamin Harris, but it does rec
ord the fact that within about
three years from the time he was
released from prison in England,
he and his family sailed for
America. Harris was a printer and
writer, and he had been jailed for
printing what the courts of Eng
land said was a “seditious pamph
let.”
It is significant that shortly aft
er he arrived in America, he de
cided to print a newspaper. The
year was 1690, but the town was
Boston, and there was at that
time no newspaper in any of toe
British colonies in America. It is
also significant that the first at
tempt to publish a newspaper in
America was promptly suppress
ed. Mr. Harris printed exactly one
issue of his little paper, which he
called “Publick Occurrences Both
Foreign and Domestick.” Four
days after it was published, toe
governor and councU of Massa
chusetts ordered that “the same
be suppressed and called in;
strictly forbidding any person or
for the future to set forth
anything in print without license
first obtained.”
That ruling seemed to set some
thing of a precedent, for the early
American newspapers met with
considerable opposition at toe
hands of the politicians and the
clergy, both of whom thought
that any form of printing was
pretty bad business.
Plonty of Precedent
-These early American poli
ticians had plenty of precedent for
their actions in suppressing the
press, though. Ever since Guten
berg had invented printing, the
press had been in danger of being
suppressed or of being regulated
out of existence. In fact, Guten
berg and his partner, the re
nounced Doctor Fault, were re
garded as patrons of the devil.
Perhaps it was to overcome-some
of toe superstition of the times
that the first proprietors of the
prats devoted most of their ef
forts to reproducing the Bible
and other religious works.
America is toe land of the Free,
but freedom got rather a tardy
■tart even in this country, and
now, during National Newspaper
Week, it is interesting to notice
that the growth of liberty and
freedom in America is paralleled
closely by toe growth and spread
of newspapers.
After Harris failed to establish
a successful newspaper, the Col
onies existed for 14 years before
another attempt was made. The
second attempt was the Boston
News Letter, and it was allowed
to exist because it was “publish
ed by authority” and favored the
side of the Tories in the British
Colony of Massachusetts. When
the patriots under Washington
were victorious, and representa
tive government was established
in the United States, the news
papers gained a foothold on se
curity.
The constitution did not orig
inally grant Americans the priv
ileges of freedom of speech and
of the press. In fact, some of the
great leaders of the day, including
Alexander Hamilton, were
against putting any such guar
antee into the constitution. Oth
ers, however, including Thomas
Jefferson, held out in favor of
Fair
In Crop Harvest
South Carolina farmers made
fair progress with crop harvest
and fall planting last week but
crop gathering is still a little slow
er than usual due to previous un
favorable weather, the U. S. de
partment of agriculture reported.
Some oats have been sown and
it appears that more winter graz
ing crop* are being planted than
ever before and new pastures de
veloped in preparation for in
creased livestock raising. Soil
moisture is generally adequate
and present conditions are favor
able for coastal truck, pastures
and home gardens. * f
■nd its first About half the cotton has been
JSrioi, to^C^ff^doptod toe gatoefed.Pfckingjs about corn-
amendments known as the "Bill
of Rights.”
Many mistaken ideas exist as
to what is meant by the term
“free press.” Some people evi
dently think that a free press
means a truthful press, and the
press has often been attacked on
toe grounds that it is inaccurate
and at times biased. Others have
attacked the press on the grounds
that it is not representative—and
they say freedom of the press is
abused because some newspapers
take sides on public issues.
Freedom of toe pres* means but
one thing: that anyone who wish
es to do so may set up a press
(or a mimeograph, or other print
ing or duplicating device) and
may publish and circulate
pamphlets, books, leaflets, or
newspapers so long as he does not
violate toe rights and liberties of
others.
plete on many farms in the low
er half of the state but the bulk
of tor up-country crop is yet to be
tatoes and a few pecans have been
gathered but harvesting of them
Is not get general. About 60 per
cent of the commercial peanuts
have been dug and only a small
amount of hay remains to be cut
The week was generally fair
and dry} Rain of any consequence
reported on only one day,
;Sept. 29. Daytime temperatures
were rather mild and night tem
peratures ranged from near the
mild sixties at toe beginning and
end of the week to unseasonably
low, in the forties, on the morn-
inn of Sept. 30 and Oct 1.
The weekly mean temperature
averaged 88.1 degrees, or about 2
degrees below normal The high
est reading, 86 degrees, was ob-
ed at Conway on the after-
third. The lowest tem-
served
noon of the
small sum, copies of newspapers
which are pro-Communism and
papers which are anti-Commun
ism, papers which are pro-this
and others which are anti-that
In fact one can obtain free of
charge copies of newspapers
which represent widely divergent
views on nearly all public issues.
The Christian Science Monitor,
for example, may be .read free in
many reading rooms, railway sta
tions, and other public places. And
nearly every barber shop, restau
rant or doctor’s office provides
customers with copies of various
kinds of newspapers.
Anyone who has ideas which he
wishes to circulate by means of
the press can find a newspaper
which will print his views, pro
viding he keeps his remarks with
in reasonable space limits and
providing that he writes with a
reasonable
interest.
A Vital Nood
Truly, the modern
serves a vital need for a
country. Have you ever thought
what it would be like to get along
with no newspaper at all? Imag
ine the people of toe unenlighten
ed counties who do not even
know of the existence of automo
biles, of telephones, of ice cream,
of chocolate candy bars, of auto
matic washing machines, or of the
variety of religious services.
“John Peters to Be Hung for
Murder," the heaedline says. Use
ful information? Perhaps not, but
to curb the right of the news
paper to print such information is
to curb the citizen’s right to know
—and the right to know is one of
the most fundamental of human
rights. Despots have only one
ressen for taking away the citi
zen’s right to know, and that is
to clothe their own actions with
secrecy. People who give up their
right to know—their right to buy
and read newspapers—are in toe
greatest danger of being en
slaved.
“Freedom goes where the
newspaper goes.
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Come in and see the Farmall Cub. CUnb onto the I
Ride out into the field, lip a tmy lever wifi]
rians have found that these para
sites are connected with the
spread of the disease.
If, despite the owner’s precau
tions, llu gets into the herd, good
care of the animals is essential,
the bulletin points out. Because
swine in a weakened condition
may be easy prey for other dis
eases.
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BISHOPVILLE
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(at Outlaw's Old Stand)
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