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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
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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
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