The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, January 21, 1938, Image 4
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THE SUN
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 31 IMS
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Newberry, S. C.
O. F. ARMFIELD
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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-
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Continuing for Another Week Clary’s Big Re-Organization
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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
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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-
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The following penalties will
be in effect after December
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January, 1 per cent
February, 2 per cent
March, 3 per cent
April, a per cent
J.C. BROOKS,
County Treasurer
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