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PAGE FOUR THE SUN FRIDAY. APRIL 22, 1938 (She fclttt 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year * 100 Published Every Friday Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. MORE FROWNING NEEDED In 1935 we said: “Unless the gov ernment is able to regulate mono polies, money now being spent for relief will wind up in the hands of the trusts and another depression will follow.” According to the Washington Mer ry-Go-Round Mr. Roosevelt now ad mits such is the case. The monopo lies “got the creaan,” he is reported tq (have said. Tlie nation fell for Mr. Rooee- velt’s ingratiating grin. Here was a president all h uman > an advocate of the little man. The affable FR was given a blank check on the treasury and he cashed it to the extent of several billions much to the delight of the boys who are organized to rake in the cream. We hav e never doubted that the president meant well, but if you have noticed the grinners and the free- handers are not always the most capable. The boy with the frown is usually the one who works things out. The New Deal has made rich men richer and left the poor man about where he was; its greatest accom plishment was the banking law, and h»d the president surrounded him- * t with serious-minded liberal business men who framed this law, we would have been out of the woods long ago. Hardly a member of the original "brain trust,” the smart boys who advised the president, remain in Washington today. They, who want ed to strafe all business, answer ed the call when business beckoned, and set about to try to undo all they had done. Tugwell is selling mo lasses on a big scale and wants no government tinkering with business. Moley is on the Vanderbilt boat, and so on. We hope the president will not be long seeing that he needs the help of hard-headed business liberals. He certainly realizes now that the dream boys can’t help him. We wish we could agree that a new spending program would get us out of the woods but we can’t, in the light of what has already happened. COUNCIL ACTS The quick and determined action of city council in taking steps to pro tect home owners from invasion of residential districts by business es tablishments is laudable and calls for praise. Keeping service stations and such out of residential sections will work no hardship on them for all will be treated alike and will have to confine their activities to the business section. In this noisy world we should at least be able to find a little peace and quiet at home in resting moments. The selection of a committee of such calibre as Hutto, Trabert and Mrs. Summer argues well for a zon ing law that will be fair and just. WHY SPECTATOR! We usually find ourselves in agree ment with wise old Spectator as he rambles up and down the Suncolumns but this week he sticks his neck out and we are forced to take a crack at him. He accuses we of the persua sion of Kirk of believing in infant damnation. Where have you been these last 25 years Spectator ? Presbyterians no more condemn babes of pagan pappas than you Baptist wash each others tootsies. We believe maybe some heathens *way back professed such belief but no Presbyterian today worthy of the name believes such bunk. Miss Ruth Feagle, teacher at Pel- zer, spent the Easter holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Feagle. The SPECTATOR Says: What keeps the farmer going? That is to say, what animates and inspirits him, despite all the buffets of uncertain seasons and the slings of outrageous fortune? Well at heart the farmer is a great adventurer; he puts his last dollar down and bets on the elements. Of course it is better to credit him with Abrahamic faith, or the faith that moves mountains. However, let there be no cavil over this; per chance the truth is that the farmer is a man of Abrahamic faith brought down to streamlined pro portions. Anyhow there is a zest in the battle of the farmer with the forces of nature. It is quite “nippy” as I write this; a cold breath has blown over the ten der plants. Well now, here’s the point: every year the fanner hopes to beat the weather and gain a week. I’ve believed that a law should forbid the planting of cotton before the fifteenth of April. Dur ing seven years I have observed closely the annual rush of the far mer to plant during some warm days of March. He feels sure that “this” year h? will pick cotton early, or, at least, get the bojl- weevil. But each year I’ve seen those same farmers looking glum and tell ing about the disastrous “cool nights” and “lice in the cotton.” But aearly every farmer of middle age aan remember one year in which he “made It," gtruck it just right, you know, by early planting; So he would rather hit ft right once than q play safe ten times. But that is he spirit of adventure which en- ivens the toil and monotony and 'ills the farmer with th e zest of -ombat; he wrestling with the pow- jrs! So year after year §pme farmer will plant his cotton in Mareh hop« ing to have the ecstasy of a triumph jver the time and the season. Nine years out of ten he fails; but the tenth—oh boy! If he can beat the weather one- year! These little foibles of ours are the spice of life; they relieve the burden of dreary sameness and COfP fer upon it something of the sports* manlike quality that thrills a man at a horse race. Has this Legislature thought of the taxpayers? Well just listen to this and see if it makes sense: In 1919 our state was prosperous, even lappings up the cream. We had produced a good crop and sold it at a good price. In that year our state government cost $4,000,- 000. But in 1938 we ars a poor peo ple most decidedly. Even Columbia has lost some “trade,” 22 per cent I think, notwithstanding the army of salaried people who Live here and the thousands and thousands who come here. Yet for this fiscal year the State appropriation is $26,000- 000, without the highway depart ment. $12,000,000 more than in 1929 when the whole nation was drunk with prosperity—or, at least, drunk. Now, then, let us look further. In 1933 the Legislature put an extra mill on the corporation capital stock. That was to pay the teachers. What ever the excuse, the taxes usually stick and the people are stuck, not to say stung. Well, well. Since that emergency tax, the schools have been given hundreds of thous ands of dollars, including a good stiff piece of money every time a man takes a drink. But nothing has come off—unless it be the man tak ing the drink. Since 1933 there has been a con stant demand to take off the five mill State property tax and the one mill additional capital stock tax. But these taxes couldn’t be taken off because that would have put the budget in un-balance. Would have tilted it slightly to one side, appar ently. Now since our prosperity began to embarrass us with riches, say from 1935, the Legislature has in creased the spending by adding $4,000,000. If both the five mill property tax and the capital stock tax had been taken off there would still be $2,000,000 more than in 1935 and $6,000,000 more than in 1919. Of course th e Legislature doesn’t want to go back to the horse and buggy days of 1919! Nay, nay. But my! Wouldn’t you like a bit of the easy money of 1919? So, you must recognize the truth: the Legislature is trying to please the tax-consumer, not the tax-pro ducer. In the expressive language of the lat e Kemper Cooke, “the tax- eaters are at the table and the tax payers haven’t a show.” How long are you tax-payers wil ling to put up with that? Somebody gav e out a statement recently that South Carolina led the nation last year in new industries. In my eagerness to find those indus tries I have just made a long trip through the State. The new indus tries must be under cover, however, for they can’t be found. Inquiry in most towns I’ve visited convinces me that these new industries are under somebody’s hat. My Methodist friends are stirred up. Being a member of the church militant (Baptist) I might be tempt ed to “horn in” on this question of Methodist union, but my experience in political politics argues against becoming embroiled in church poli tics. Say! embroiled is right— what? Anyhow we Baptists are usually sufficiently embroiled with out getting into our friends’ fire. But it’s got my Methodist friends not only alert, alive and astir, but agog. Hearken to this: I called a Columbian on the telephone. I didn’t know whether he belonged to a syn agogue—or what. Religion was far from my thought, I fear. Certainly I was not dreaming of Methodist union, or disunion. Says I to the man at the other end of the telephone: This is Spectator. Will you be kind enough to give a message to Mr. X?” Like a clap out of the blue he answered in an guished tones, “I’m a Presbyterian.” The answer shocked me so that I (like the militant Baptist that I am) fired back, “Yes I know you believe in infant damnation, but what has that to do with my message?” Evidently my Methodist friends had mistaken that uncertain ex pression of his countenance for proof that he was a Wesleyan stalwart and subject to call in the impending test of ‘strength. SOME MORE DANGEROUS STAR GAZING There was a time when it was opular to preach about this country eing the land for the oppressed of all nations. We thought the scales had fallen from the eyes on such folly in later years. Here is our president raking up such (rubbish, with 13 million human bipeds out of employment, and still more on relief. We are a democrat, and can’t be otherwise. It requires, however, a strain to ring true on many of Mr. Roosevelt’s vagaries. He has pulled many good stunts but he talks too much messes into too many things and flies off at too many tangents. He is not sufficient ly practical to be safe. His split with Congress ought to open his eyes to his weaknesses, but he mud dles on blindly. The truth probably is that Presi dent Roosevelt is hoping and bidding for a third term. He wants the votes of these millions of aliens, now in this country, along with the colored votes that he has nourished and cinched.—Calhoun Times. JOHNSTONE DEMOCRATIC CLUB TO MEET The Johnstone Democratic Club will meet at the Johnstone school house Saturday, April 23, at 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon for the pur pose of reorganization, and the elec tion of officers and delegates. TAX NOTICE The tax books will ba opened fer 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 11K Bonds and Notes 7 Interest on Bonds and Notes.. Roads and Bridges S Hospital 14 Con. School 3 County School 4% County Board Education % 42 The following are the authorized special levies for 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 $ 6 Cromer • 8 Reagin 8 9 Deadfall 8 10 Utopia 8 11 Hartford 8 12 Johnstone 5 13 Stony Hill 5 14 Prosperity 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 12 27 Red Knoll 6 28 Helena 4 29 Mt. Pleasant 8 30 Little Mountain 12% 31 Wheeland 3 32 Union 4 33 Jolly Street 8 34 St. Pauls 0 35 Peak 4 37 Mudlic 6 38 Vaughnville 8 39 Chappells 8 40 Old Town 8 41 Dominick 8 42 Reederville 15% 43 Bush River 10% 44 Smyrna 10% 46 Trinity 8 46 Burton 8 47 Tranwood 18% 18 Jalapa 8 49 Kinards 2 50 Tabernacle 8 51 Trilby 4 52 Whitmire 12 53 Mollohon 4 54 Betheden 8 55 Fork , 8 57 Belfast 8 58 Silverstreet 12 59 Pressley 4 60 St. Johns 4 The following pelalties will be in effect after December 31, 1987: January, 1 per cent. Feb.nary, 2 per cemt March, 3 per cent. April, 7 per cent. You are requested to call for your taxes by school districts in which property is located. The Treasurer is not responsible for unpaid taxes not called for by districts. Those who had their dogs vacci nated for rabies during the fiscal year ending June 38, 1987, 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. J. C. BROOKE, Treasurer Newberry County. MORE TWINS PER CAPITA IS FOUNTAIN INN’S CLAIM Fountain Inn, April 7.—With the annuoncement of the birth of twins, a boy and a girl, to Mr. and Mrs. Geonge Godfrey April 2 Fountain Inn added another notch to a claim of a greater number of twins per capita than any other community. The birth of twins in Fountain Inn is always a cause for congratu lations to the happy parents, for the town is proud of its twins; but it is never a surprise. Twins are not the exception in this village Monument to Mother There are those who attribute this to the fact, that in Fountain Inn stands the only monument in the world to be erected in memory of the mother of the human race. Ever since Robert Quillen erected the memorial to his “Relative on my mother’s side,” the town has been blessed with numerous pairs of twins. Sometimes twins arrive not many months apart; again it will be two years or more before the town is gladdened by th e announcement of twins—but still they continue to ar rive. At one time four deacons in the Baptist church, each th e father of twins, were featured in the roto gravure sections of newspapers throughout the country. The Sun day school of that church numbered at that time, five pairs of twins on the cradle roll. But the Methodists and Presby terians were not to be outdone by the Baptists. Stewards, Sunday school superintendents, and teachers also boasted the possession of fine pairs of twins. And the youngest twins in town before the recent birth of the Godfrey twins, were those of former Mayor A. D. Can- nn and Mrs. Cannon. These attrac tive children, Caroline and Dickey, are two years old. It is difficult to keep count of the twins in the public schools. “I have to place one twin on the back row and the other up in front in or der that I may tell them apart,” one teacher said. Twins Act As Ushers Last year, T. H. McGee, head usher of the First Baptist church, pressed into service for one month, twins only, as ushers, flewer girls, and pages for the church. Mr. Mc Gee believes that this is the only instance on record where such a cus tom has been established. There were five pairs of twins of high scool age to act as ushers and flower girls, and one pair of younger ones to serve as pages. It always amuses visitors to see the little colored twins with shining faces and kinky mops, which run about the village streets. “I always heard that negr '* were great imi tators, and I see tnat it is true,” said a distinguished visitor to the town. Tourists may hasten through this village; sbrangere rnfey be dtibious of the atmosphere here, but Foun tain Inn considers its record a mat ter of pride and repeatedly challeng es other communities to show proof of a larger percentage of twins per capita. NOTICE OF MEETING WARD 3, NO 1 CLUB Ward 3, No. 1 Club, will meet at the Auditor’s office, in the Court House, Saturday, April 23, 1938, at 8 o’clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of reorganization, election of officers, delegates, etc. Neal W. Workman President GIRLS SOFTBALL NEWS Ther e will be a girls’ exhibition game on the Speers Street Diamond at 4:00 P. M. Thursday, April 21. The Newberry High School girls will play the Newberry county All Stars. The All Stars will be select ed from the crack teams of the coun ty. Oakland, Union, Stoney Hill, Prosperity, O’Neal, Whitmire and other teams will furnish picked play ers. This is a test game to find out the relative strengths oi the two teams. Immediately after this game the City Filling Station Men wrill play the Cotton Men on the same diamond. The Stoney Hill School team lost to the Newberry High Girls. This game was played on the Newberry High School diamond. The score was 9 to 1. The Town girls are practicing regularly now and have enough ma terial for a fair team. New girls are coming out for practice every day. Buck Bouknight is again coach ing and managing the Oakland girls. Buck hasn’t failed to turn out a good team yet. They are practicing on the new ball diamond at Oakland. The Prosperity girls are getting in an hour to an hour and a half practice every day at school. This team will play as a school team this year. Prof. Herlong is coach and manager. No news is available as to the activities of the O'Neal, Stoney Hill Outsiders, Whitmire, Hartford, Union, or the Silverstreet teams. MRS. CARRICKER DIES SUNDAY NEAR CITY Mrs. Sallie C. Carricker, 77, wi dow of J. W. Carricker, died Sun day at the home of her niece, Mrs. Edwards, near the city. Funeral services were held Monday after noon at St. Peter’s (Pincy Woods) church, conducted by the Rev. J. B. Harman, assisted bv the Rev. J. S. Wessinger. Burial was in the church cemetery. Mrs. Carricker is survived by two brothers and two sisters, J. W. Riser, Columbia; W. R. Riser, Sum ter; Mrs. J. D. Koon, and Mrs. Della Koon, both of Newberry. Also sur viving are a number of nieces and nephews. WANT ADS BRING US YOUR DULL CLIPPER BLADES. WE GUARANTEE TO MAKE THEM CUT LIKE NEW FIFTY CENTS PER SET, ANY SIZE CITY BARBER SHOP NEWBERRY, S. C. POSITION WANTED—Lady, has ex perience as manager general mer cantile store, bookkeepping, cashier, knows commercial art. Can furnish excellent references as to ability and character. Consider any reasonable offer and can fill in in most any business.—Address replies care XS, care The Sun. NOTICE—I have "Mr. Frank Sloan’s Fertilizer accounts. Come to ware house next door to Thomas and How- ward. See me for prices on Mer chant’s fertilizer in the Cotton bags. 8t C. G. Gilliam. FOR RENT—Several houses. Apply at J. J. Langford A Son. TOR RENT—One office, 400 square feet floor space, well lighted, heated and screened, facing public square in the Insurance building. Apply to A. J. BOWERS, JR. FINAL Tax Notice A!1 persons who have not paid their delinquent taxes, please take notice that same must be paid by MAY 4TH After that date all unpaid taxes must be advertised for sale as prescribed by law in order that I can make set' dement with Treasurer. I have been as lenient as I could but I must abide by the law, so please attend to this in order that you may save the cost of advertising, sale, etc, C. W. Sanders TAX COLLECTOR GOLFERS BAG FISHES IN STEAD OF BIRDIES AT BARN WELL COURSE Barnwell, April 6.—Perry A. Price, cashier of the local bank, and Charlie LaFitte, of Estill, teed off from the number two tee at the Sweetwater golf course Monday af ternoon intent upon bagging a few birdies on their round of golf. How ever, much to their dismay, they got no further than their tee shots when their attention was diverted from birdies to “fishies.” Price’s tee shot dropped in the edge of the stream that crosses the fairway, and, electing to play the ball where it lay, he drew back his club to hit the ball. Hearing a splash in the stream, he investigated and found a three-pound trout stranded in the shallow water. Us ing his golf club as a weapon, the golfer administered a death blow to the fish and tossed him out on the bank. Messrs. Price and LaFitte then decided that the fish probably had come from the nearby Saltkehatch'e river and tried to get into the lake a little above the place where they were. Being unable to negotiate the spillway at the mouth of the lake, the fish had started back down stream and had become stranded in a shallow spot. The two of them aided and abetted by their caddy, then began a drive through tbe shal low waters running the fish up the stream until they could cor ner them in a spot too shallow for them to dart swiftly. By using their goJf clubs to good advantage, the erstwhile golfers bagged an even six fish(ies) weighing a total of fif teen pounds. Despite the fact that the waters were cold and icy the next day found a number of Barnwell citi zens at the golf course for the pur pose of trout fishing, but instead of the proverbial rod and reel they were armed with golf clubs and wad ing boots. Funeral services for Miss Maude Grizzard, 63, who died late FViday night, were held Sunday after - * at her residence on Harrir _ street. The Rev. F. O. Lamoreux, assisted by the Rev. T. C. Can officiated at the funeral, was in Trinity Methodist cemetery. Miss Grizzard is survived by two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Pitts and -Mrs. Ora Davenport, both of the city; one brother, T. E. Grizzard, of At lanta, Ga. SERVICES AT MOLLOHON Revival services are now under way at the Eastside Baptist church, Mollohon village. Evening services begin at 7:80. The preaching is being done by the pastor. , Miss Elizabeth MoCaughrin, stu dent at Converse College, Spartan burg, was home for the weekend. R. M. LOMINACK HARDWARE faint Selection no Save money on your repair bills. Protect your home end hold yonr property high by painting thU season with At key's 100% Pure Lend « Zinc Paisst. (\they's IOO% PURE LEAD AND ZINC PAINT j Jfau cunt an GtAteyAu*jfmce{\ Let Us Help You Get an FHA Loan R. M. 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