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PAGE four fftE SttN FRIDAY, MAY 20. 1938 <5tff &mt 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year $1.00 Published Every Friday Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Art of March 3, 1879. THE 56 HOUR BILL Will it work out justly? The new labor bill prohibits work ing clerks in stores more than 56 hours in one week but it does not prohibit the employer of such clerks keeping his place open for longer periods. Therefore the larger stores will be at a disadvantage as they can not operate efficiently without a full force. The proprietor of the smal store can keep his doors open himself as long as he chooses. The bill, however, is a move in the right direction. Store hours are entirely too long, many clerks work ing 70 and 80 hours a week. The buying public will soon become as- customed to the shorter hours and time their purchases accordingly, and if the bill can be made to work just ly it will give employers and their clerks extra recreational hours that are enjoyed by workers in industry. COSTLY RELIEF CONSTITUTION CLEAR ON EXTRA PAY BY SPECTATOR Well the “short session’’ of the le gislature adjourned at midnight Sat urday, May 7th. In some respects it was an unusual session. It seemed uncertain whether to help business and the taxpayers or to crush them at once. By way of helping, it kill ed such foolish bills as that to re quire all cotton mills to be air-con ditioned and It took off three mills of the State Property tax. The oth er two mills were taken off by the governor twice; so the Legisla ture can’t be credited with that. And it finally passed the 40-hour bill for textile mills—one of the most inadvisable steps taken in a long time. I am told that this will be dis cussed with the operatives themselves during the summer. If the truth were told the operatives, the poli ticians would have to run for cover. But why anybody expected this session to be “short" I never could see. There will be no “short session’’ as long as some members jockey S' bout trying to pass all sorts of pet schemes. Extra pay! Here we have It again, but in the most virulent form ever known in South Carolina. The court made a mistake in al lowing “expense money.” There is no use in quibbling about this. No one is above honest criticism; so we may take the constitution in all its clarity and say that this Legislature Dae shown utter disregard for the supreme law of the land. And the blame must be put at the door of the Forty-two thousand textile employ ees in South Carolina are out of work and 10,000 of them will never work - - , , aaain since the third shift has been: lawyers, for the lay members don t eliminated. Their spokesmen are know the Constitution. Or perhaps making desperate appeals to Wash-' I should say they don’t know enough “for aid about it to twist it. “yf „ in Virginia there The really Supreme Court of South •n rt hr 8 ^/d nut^for age*assh»tance Carolina is not the five gentlemen Will be paid out for age aswsran ^ ^ ^ me€t in Co , flBMO^^here are h 122 eligibles^or lumbia, honorable men and good ci- Articular county. But tizens as they are; the Supreme aid in this particular coumy. oui jg ^ , e o£ the gtate donT jump to * he , t ver when the Constitution is clear the •ion 5 P !^ P for*morf than one-fifth of people will think for themselves. gJdng to be smmt on ad- Hear the Constitution! “Mmeinbers this money is going to be spent on of ^ AgMrobJy ghftM m% mimstrative expe . ro ro i receive any compensation for more Cotton mill workers in the Ca tb an forty days of any on e seseion.” inaa who may chance to * “Any compensation”—well, that was inexcusable waste will probably have jntended mean j U8t what some misgivings ^ concerning t e t j link Tlle Constitution contei _ “more abundant life “a ^ that the members would come to beard so much twaddle about theM snd 8ta y unt il the end of recent , years. And the s'tua " f orty days. Fay for travel was fixed this Virginia county «bjr ^ at fjve cent(| g m il e each way. - * 1 2 3 4 5 6 ’ country for years. ?bpe, stu- TO A YOUNG LEGISLATOR Coluumbia Record— In the house of representatives is a young: man who has set tumself out from the crowd, who for his de monstrated capacity for logical think ing and acting deserves commer.u- He is Representative T. H. Fo] Jr- of Newberry county, a law dent at the University of South Car olina. ^ . Of the arguments presented pro and con on the point of order raised against the govemor’sveto of the two- mill property tax Mr. Pope’s was probably the moat logical and most convincing. It would have been • credit to any experienced advocate. On extra pay bis stand is unassail able. For extra pay, he said, was un constitutional. And unconstitutional it is as a reading of the constitution and of the supreme court’s decision in the extra pay case will demon strate. So he must, he said, vote a- gainst it. But Representative Pope has not only the conviction, but also the cour age of his conviction. He took his $300 extra pay warrant last yea>- and endorsed it back to the state of South Carolina although he had a day or so later to borrow $100 needed to meet his college expenses. This year he is accepting neither extra pay, nor the weekly travel allowance. Mr. Pope may not always be right— who in or out of the general assembly is?—but South Carolina will be fair ly safe in trusting him and the others like Wm who can think and who when they make a campaign promise can keep it. ALL MERCHANTS COME UNDBD BILL All mercantile establishments, re gardless of the number of employees, are subject to the provisions of the 56-hour bill passed during the clos ing hours of the legislature. No employee may work a clerk more than 66 hours a week, after May 26th, without special permission from the department of labor, and then only in rush seasons. The bill also provided that no em ployee under 18 years of age may be worked between the hours of 10 p. m. and 6 a. m. The new labor hours applies to many kinds of businesses, including laundries, resurants, dry cleaners and all mercantile establishments of whatever nature. During rush seasons, such as Christmas holidays employers may, with consent of the labor department, work employees over the 56 hour limit but for such work, time and a half shall he paid. The bill does not apply in towns under 2,500. The law requires employers to work out a schedule by which their em ployees may be guided and post same ■n a conspicious place on the premises. In such businesses where hours may not easily be determined in advance, the Commissioner of Labor has the power to dispense with provisions of the bill as applied to that particular business. The pemilty for non-compliance carries a fine of not less than $26 nor more than $100. Commissioner of Labor Nates has issued a statement to the effect that his office will begin at once to ac quaint employers with the provi sions of the bill. that the language of Section 19 w permit a lawyer to say that this al lows five cants a mil# every week, We are supposed to know, however, that it means five cents a mile at the beginning and end of the session, The Constitution says, further, “No General Assembly shall have the power to increase the per diem of its own members. The Legislators discredit public of fice and bring it into disrepute by this annua] special affront to the public sense of right- There was hardly a man voting for extra pay who pan square hie vote with the Constjtu-- tion. It may be true—and I concede it— that if a member lives reason* ably well in Columbia and makes the trip home each week he will find him* self cramped to serve the State for four hundred dollars a year; but is there no such thing as right and wrong? Are there no principles to S nide us? May a man flaunt the onstitution ana the ordinary princi* pies governing public trust because he needs the money? Shades of our illustrious dead! Shall we here after advise the school children to follow John C. Calhoun or Mr. Britt of York? While talking about the Constitu tion—oh, well! What’s the use? Still, here’s something worth talk* inj* about: The State Constitution forbids the issuance of bonds by the State excedt as may be authorized by vote of the people. There are some cases of temporary nature ex pected and—apparently—the grand old document isn’t greatly respected at times; but the General Assembly time and again is allowing issuance of bonds by the counties, without vote of the people. That is something worth thinking about. Let us curb this free spending by such Constitu tional provisions as experience has taught us how to conceive, formuuate and set forth in writing—in words clear, lucid, luminous. What a joy forever to turn to old Chester county and take note of what is going on. Wherever you find the Presbyterians in strong array you will find traces of Scotch influ ence. By way of devling. let’s go back to ancient times—say 1927, when this great nation was rolling in the ampli tude of amazing prosperity and the Secretary of the Treasury didn’t know what to do with all the money. 1927—and I find my old friend John M. Wise guiding the fiscal policies of Chester with Roman integrity. Ches ter is Roman, you know. I hope I’m not wasting all this erudition, for these bretheren of Chester have a double obligation; they must be Ro man and Scotch at one same time. In 1927 the Chester County Supply Bill totalled $130,986 and the County re ceived $43,500 from indirect sources, including $34,000 from gasoline taxes. Those were the days of Calvin Coolidge, I point out for the Chester Calvinists. The levy was 8 1-2 mills. Mark you, those were days of great business expansion land ter reducedi the County budget to $108,480, with a levy of six mills. Now right here some one stole a march on Chester. In the budget it included $47,000 from indirect sour ces, but the $37,000 for gasoline was never paid. Well, that’s one on Ben Sawyer, I thought; I’ve got him now; But he wasn’t there in 1929—so that let’s him out. In 1930, the full force of Hoover prosperity struck Chester and there was no county levy. The County bud get was $113,455 and only $19,000 from gasoline! 1932 saw the careful, prudent Sena tor trimming his sails to the gather ing storm. Budget $75,421, of which $17,000 came from gasoline and the levy was four mills. 1933— no levy—Budget $72,788, with $17,000 coming from gasoline. 1934— Senator Wise observed the effects of the depression and cut his bill to $69,600, with a levy of 3 mills. Evidently there was a strong team at work—Senator Wise, with the co operation of his House members and a competent Board of Directors, run ning the business of Chester County. In 1934 Chester undertook larger hos pital obligations and increased that cost from $600 to $3,800. In 1936 the budget was for $72,- 362 which includes $3,800 for the hos pital. The levy was 5 1-2 mills. Came 1936 and a budget of $86,- 645, but the levy was reduced to 5 mills. 1937 swelled the tide to $96,073 but the levy fell to 4 mills. But to make that total old Chester gave $5,000 to the hospital pnd $1,500 for relief. For 1938 the bill is $99,000. with a levy uf 5 1-2 mills, but of the total the County is spending $9,500 for an agricultural wing. It seems that Chetser always has money. In 1928 she spent $10,000 out of pockets on the Court House, without taxing the citizens more. Well here is the w«.~k of a modest man who Chester should hold fast in the public service. When life was simple—in 1927—the levy was 8 1-2 mills and the county spent $130,980, But in the hectic splurge of (iouth Carolina, since the statesman preach ed the nobility of free apendlng, old Chester comes up today with 5 1-2 mills and a total of $99,000, includ ing hospital, and agricultular wing. This is a work of devotion done by John M. Wise in his service to Chester county. And to South Caro lina he is a stalwart without reproach. Leppard Announces Greenvjule, May 13—Ben T Lep pard, state Democratic Chairman, senator from Greenville county anr. Greenville attorney, threw his hat In to the South Carolina political ring tonight by announcing that he would run for governor as an out-an-out New Dealer. At the same time he declared that he would not seek re-election as state Democratic chief, feeling that he “would not have as much time” aa he would like “to devote to the par ty” and that he should relinquish the post because pf his entrance into the politics} campaign for the govern orship. In undertaking his first race for state government office, the 46-year- old party leader and legislator increas ed the field of announced guberna torial candidates to four, Wyndham M. Manning, of Sumter. Cole L, Btease of Columbia and Burnett R. Maybank of Charleston having al ready offered for governor, Hooper To Deliver Graduating Address Dr. W. D. Hooper of the University of Georgia will deliver the address to the graduating clasg of Newberry College in June, Dr, Hooper is the head of the De partment of Latin and secretary of i long the University faculty. He has long been a leader in church and education al circles and is now moderator of the Georgia Synod of the Southern Pres byterian church. He has for many years served as chairman of the Com mission on Institutes of Higher Learn ing in the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary schools and is a former president of the Associa tion, “I feel quite sure that we could not hav ? secured anywhere a more enter taining or Interesting speaker,” stat ed President J. C. Kinard, "and I am delighted that Dr. Hooper has accept, ed our invitation.” W. E. SENN PRESIDENT COUNTY JERSEY CLUB but before the era of making it a crime to work and save money. In 1928 the nation continued to wax rich and Senator Wise reduced the levy to 7 1-2 mills and reduced the County’s budget to $125,015, the in direct taxes yielding $46,500. Then came 1929—when Hoover talked about abolishing all poverty! Was ever a man so Mind ? Why to day the only poor man is one who can’t get a good, stout government hand-out—or it seems so. Well Ches- The Newberry County Jersey Cattle Club held its annual meeting and bar becue supper at George Koon’s place on Thursday, May 5, according to W. E. Senn, president. The new officers elected were W, E. Senn, president; C. T. Smith, vice- president; J. L. King, secretary-treas urer. A very definite program of work was planned for 1938. A committee wag appointed to investigate and co operate with Dr. W. K. Lewis, State Veterinarian, and other Breeders As sociations of the County in working out methods whereas Nwberry County prosperity; | could become an accrdited Bang’s Di seas© free County. The club also of fered its assistance in any way pos sible In organizing bull Associations throughout the County, thus giving as many farmers as possible the op portunity of improving their dairy cattle since there are so many cows in the County that are such low pro ducers that they are not producing enough milk to pay feed costs. In other words, the club is sponsoring a drive to rid Newberry County of scrub bulls. Describes Horrors Of Devil's Island Prison From the suffocating depths of the French penal colony—Dvil’s Island— to the tranquil Low-country of South Carolina Rene Belbenoit, or Prisoner No 46635, after a seach of years has found “peace.” Gaunt and nervous, the frail thirty- nine-year-old Frenchman, who has described fifteen years among the “living dead” in the grisly best seller “Dry Guillotine” relaxed Wednesday in a Charleston resturant and recall ed in broken Engli: h the shocking ex periences he has set down in his book, the mauscript for which he carried with him on his five escapes from Guiana. Rene was in Charleston with his host the “rattlesnake man” of St. Stephen, at whose rustic home he had been visiting for six days. “I like fine this countree,” said Rene. “I have peace.” Dressed in a conservative brown business suit, the small Frenchman was sipping beer with obvious enjoy ment. Between .sips h e smoked a popular brand American cigaret ner vously and related his experences, which ran the gamut of wild adven ture from watching fugatives in an open boat eat the flesh of a slain companion to living with a tribe of In dians in the Chakio village, Central America. Served In Army Bom in Paris April 4, 1899, Rene at geventeen was in the French army headed for Beilgium to fight the Ger mans. After the World war he said, he volunteerd for the Army of the East and became a seergeant in the second regiment of Tirailleurs, the Arab regiment. Later, he became ill with fever and was sent to France for treatment at Percy hospital in Cla- mart where he met a young nurse with whom he fell desperately in love. “In the army, I had good clothes, money. T left the army, good clothes and money. I could not find work. I had no good clothes. My sweetheart would not think I look good. “J could get a job quickly,” he said but finally found a place as valet in the Chateau Ben Ali. “I wanted good clothes and money. I took a necklace and in « few days the poleece they caught me and I was sent to the colo- nee.” Asked how many times he escaped, Rene, his eyes glistened with enthu- siam, answered quickly: “I escaped »ix times," whereupon he lifted ft hftnd and used his fingers to illustrate. “In 1923, by jungle; in 1924, by sea —this was most terrible.” (On the word “terrible” Rene had great difficulty, bui was aided quickly by Mitchell who si t across the table, frequently interpreting the French man’s poor English.) “This time (1021) was very most terrible. Three kill one man and eat him. We in open boat with no food. Yes, the one was a companion. It was terrible.” ' “In 1927 Blair Nile* (author of “Condemned to Devil’s Island”) visit ed thg colony. She gave me money for writings and I escape." “In 1928 I escaped from Gayenen.” After each escape Itene said, he was caught ard sent back to the co lony. Gets Brief Freedom “In 1930 I was free. They gave me one year free because I had finished my sentence. went to Panama and work in the cangl sene, I wrote for a Panama newspaper. I wrote of the evil of Devil’s Island. 1 wanted to end it. When I went back to the colony they gave me three years. 8hey gave me three year because of what I write. For that injustice,’ h e said angrily, "I am asking the government for 160,- 000 francs." He was asked through what channel he was making his demand. "I ask the French court of justice. They will hear me, too. “On second cay cf May 1935, I es cape with five other ‘free’ convicts in an open boat wi get from the Indians. After seventeen day wo arrive in Trinidad and the British authority very, veree fine. They put my friends in hospital, After three weeks the British gave us a big bout and plenty of food and w® leave for Miami, but we lose the way." “We go west instead of North. Af ter twenty-one day it sea we see the coast was Columhtt. Open boat was break on the rockf. We passed all night In beach. On the morning come some Indians, si oh’ 111 things we have, our papers, our clotnes. We walk on beach naked, “After seven day we see house no body there, but ve get woman’s clothes and walk th ree day. The po lice see us six men with long beards in woman’s clothes <o they put us in jail. Two days 'ater they sent my friends back tc Deril’s Island, but I do not go. I get away. I walk eight months and reach P mama city. When I was Ip Panama City I heard police looking for me and I go in jungle. “I pass seven months with Chakio Indians. I am first white man so they take me In, give me food. Dreams of Books “Always I carry thirty pounds of manuscript. I think and dream of the book. Always I know I shall write It. “I leave Panama April, 1937, with no paper, no passport. So when I reach Costa Rica they put me again in jail. They put me in jail in Nica ragua, too, and in Salvador. Always they give me my freedom. “I stowaway at Lj Libertad. Nine day after I was in Ran Pedro free at last. It was July, 1937. I wash dish one month. And I catch bus to New York with my manuscript. The immigration authority at New York for the first time give me my free dom in this country—I have just six months left, but they will let me stay. . . . If I go back I will have five year more. I cannot go back to France. “What will you do now?” he was asked. “Now?” he shruggd his shoulders. “I am writing book to knock Devil’s Island. It will be no more with my next book. Then I make butterfly pictures for the New York fair. I speech to clubs, too. My first job in the United States was criticizing the film, ‘Life of Emil Zola’, for Warner Brothers. It was good, life like, too. Rene’s book, in its fourteenth print ing is a vivid, horrible description of the colony life and his efforts and success at escape. he said he wrote the book from the day he was sentenced at Bensancon until he reached California. He car ries thfe thirty pound manuscript, he said, on his adventures. He kept the paper in oil skin and managed to save it from thieving Indians, the sea and the French authorities. Acquainted Through Mail When he reached New York, he consulted a literary agent and put his story on the market. Several publishers placed bids for his work The bid of E. P. Dutton and Co., Inc., was highest. The text is based on the original translation from the French by Preston Rambo. Rene, proud of his book, displayed quickly a table from the book review section of a New York newspaper. His book was listed near the top in a long line of non-fiction. He point ed smilingly to “Dry Guillotine.” “It is a good book. It is best on Devil’s Island. And it is time—all true,” he said arnestly. He and Mitchell, who collects rep tiles for a living, became acquainted through the mail. “I read about him,” Mitchell said, and I liked him so I wrote him a let ter and he answered. Wacorrespond ed for some time and I invited him down to see me.” Rene left St. Stephen by train Thursday morning for Washington where he said he would speak before a club group. Next month, he said, h e plans to go to New Orleans and hopes to pass some time in Charles ton. Rene passed last Sunday, Mother’s day, at Mitchell’s home in the swamp. “Yes, I wrote my mother a long letter. She now live in Paris and she want to see me, but she say ‘Stay TAX NOTICE The tax books will be opened for the coi'ection of 1937 taxes cji and after October 4, 1937. The following is the general levy for all except special purposes: Mills State 6 Ordinary County 11% Bonds and Notes 7 Interest on Bonds and Notes.. 8% Roads and Bridges 2 Hospital % Con. School 3 County School 4% County Board Education % 42 The following are the authorised 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 6 Cromer 0 8 Reagin 8 9 Deadfall 8 10 Utopia 8 11 Hartford 0 12 Johnstone 6 13 Stony Hill 5 14 Prosperity 16 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 6 39 Chappells $ 40 Old Town 8 41 Dominick 8 42 Reederville 16% 43 Bush River 10% 44 Smyrna 10% 45 Trinity 8 46 Burton 8 47 Tranwood 10% 48 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 6 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. February, 2 per cent 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 fer unpaid taxes not called for by districts. These 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. J. C. BROOKS, Treasurer Newberry County. A Day In The Life of a Dictator Dear Dairy: 7:12 a. m.—My bugler awoke me with a beautiful rendition of the call “Attack!” How inspiring . . . Discovered I had again torn a large hole in the mattress with one of my spurs. 7:22 a. m.—Had some difficulty in deciding which uniform I should wear to breakfast. Finally, choose that of a general of a poison gas division, com plete with gas mask & trench helmet. Must add two more full-length mir rors; I could not get a proper view of my medals from the left side. 7:31 a. m.—Breakfasted frugally on hot house strawberries, breast of guinea hen under glass, two sabers, a handful of shrapnel, a gallon of champagne and a marijuana cigar ette. Ordered two waiters shot for failing to goosesteip while serving. 7:58 a. m.—Changed uniform. 8:00-8:43 a. m.—Read the morning papers from all parts of my country, and was impressed and deeply touch ed by the unanimity of editorial op inion commenting on the well-being of the state and the benignity of my leadership. 8:45 a. m.—Changed uniform. 8:46 a. m.—Received the ambassa dor of Great Britian. Reassured him that the territorial integrity of Czech oslovakia, AustraHa, North Sussex, and Piccadilly would be respected. 8:47 a. m.—Changed uniform. 8:48 a. m.—Received the ambassa dor of France. Reassured him that the territorial integrity of Czechoslo vakia, Morocco, Normandy and the Arc de Triomphe would be respected. 8:49 a. m.—Changed uniform. 8:40 «. m.—Received the ambassa dor of the United States. Reassured 10:22 a. m.—Changed uniform. 10:40 a. m.—12:02 p. m.—Dedicated two munitions factories, christened four new warships and accepted 27 statues of myself. 12:04-1:40 p. m.—Lunched frugally on caviar, pate de foi gras, four bayo nets, a gallon of sparkling Burgundy, and a marijuana cigarette. 1:42 p. m.—Changed uniform. 1:45 p. m.-5:36 p. m.—Spoke brief ly over world-wide radio broadcast, outlining the modest ambitions and peaceful intentions of our glorious state. 5:38 p. m.—Changed uniform. 5:40-6:40 p. m.—Posed for photo graphic reviewing field artillery and Baltic fleet, pitching hay, kissing a baby and congratulating a widow on losing her 11 sons in defense of our ideals in Spain. 6:42 p. m.—Changed uniform. 7:00-8:20 p. m.—Dined frugally on roast ham, rost beef, roast mutton roast goose, roast hand grenades, two gallons of amontillado and a marijuana cigrette. 8: 22 p. m.—Changed uniform. 8:24-8:30 p. m.—-Signed state pa pers. 8:32 p. m.—Changed uniforms. 8:34-8:30 p. m.—Read '“Anthony Adverse,” “Gone With the Wind,” an<| “Mein Kampf.” 9:32 p. m.—Pinned medals on pa- ■ jamas and went to bead. Move over, God! —Santa Barba (Calif.) News- Press. ENGAGEMENT OF INTEREST I Mr and Mrs. J. W. Mims announce I the engagement of their daughter, | Innis, and Gordon Neville Clarkson him that the territorial integrity of ! Czechoslovakia, Vermont and Kala-' weddln * will take plac e m late June. mazoo would b e respected. 8:51 a., m.—Changed uniform. 8:52-9:21 a. m.—Received assorted ambassadors and ministers. Reassur ed all of them that the territorial in tegrity of various and sundry gee- graphical areas would be respected. 9:22 a. m,—Changed uniform. 9:23 a. m.—Called in my minister of war, navy, a rial forces, propaganda civilian bombing, apologies, personal aggrandizement, medals, uniforms, in ternment and colonization. Ordered them to prepare for immediate oc cupation and absorption of Czechoslo vakia, Australia, North Sussex, Pic cadilly, Morocco, Normandy, the Arc de Triomphe, Vermont, Kalamazao and all way stations, now ready on track . . . Oop! Wrong announce ment. 10:02 a. m.—Changed uniform. 10:03 a. m.—Dictated a telegram to the League of Nations, urging that everything possible be done to bring about universal and lasting peace. 10:04 a. m-—Changed uniform. 10:05 a. m.—Ordered 4,647 Jews, 2,136 Catholics, II bankers, 4 drug clerks, 2 street sweepers and 344 suspected spies shot. Directed a newspaper editor to be kept in soli tary confinement without food or water for 99 years because he failed to spell my name in all capital let ters. Sehweinhund! UNION CLOSING IS ANNOUNCED Exercises for the closing of Union school will begin at 8 p. m. May 19. Both primary and intermediate child ren ar e taking parts in the closing E rogram. A play, “That Awful etter” will be presented by older students of the school, while “Sue’s Beau to Dinner” with other drills and playets will be presented by the smaller pupils. The public is invited. FOREST CAMP COMPLETES ANNUAL PLANTING PROGRAM CCC Camp F-6 baa completed its spring planting program on the Eno- ree District of the Sumter National Forest. The following species and amounts have been planted: Loblolly Pine Slash Pine Black Locust White Oak Mimosa TOTAL 452,900 seedlings 2,700 seedlings 43,050 seedlings 16.800 seedlings 6.800 seedlings 522,250 I want to see her, countree. Too where you are too. “I like this fine mucl: people in New York. I have no peace. I have peace here.” Rene sighed and looked out the restaurant window toward the sun. His eyes were moist in the glare. r~' These seedlings were planted on 541 acres, of which 295 were in New berry, 129 in Union and 117 in Lau rens counties. , All planting stock was grown lo cally at the Forest Service nursery, located near Camp F-6 on Hi; " 176, between Newberry and Whl These seedlings were planted on abon- doned fields no longer suited for agri cultural use and on areas subject to sheet and gully erosion. The Forest Service is operating on a ten-year planting program on this district, and at the completion of this program it is expected that all of the “idle acres” of National Forest land will have been reforested and thus restored to forest growth. COACHES ON ALL THROUGH TRAINS htiurr it clean, r fitful it ip at low cost PULEWf AM CARS ‘ DINING CARS Be comfortable in the safety of train travel Consult Pnwnqot TnUle RnpraMotattVM at Ttcknt Aetata lot Fan* Schtdalm, Pullman Rat err a Mobs and olknt travel Information SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM Tax Notice By order of the Comptroller General, taxes have been extended until June 1st, without additional penalty. Taxes will go into execution on June first. Hail applications may be made until October first. All dogs treated for rabies be fore July 1, will be free of 1938 tax. J. C Brooks, Treas.