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THE SUN
FRIDAY. APRIL 22, 1938
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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
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BLADES. WE GUARANTEE TO
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NEWBERRY, S. C.
POSITION WANTED—Lady, has ex
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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.
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