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the Act of March 3, 1879.
HUGH SPEAKS OUT
As a general thing, a commence'
ment oration is a dull and sterile
thing. But not so—when Hugh John
son makes it.
Speaking to a graduating class a
couple of weeks ago, he told the
youngsters in the most dismal ad
dress we have ever read that this
generation “received a bright estate,
unencumbered by mortgages, which
we are passing on to you burdened by
overwhelming debt, inefficient and al
most insolvent.”
Before he finished he got on this
share-the-wealth doctrine that Harry
Hopkins has espoused and is preach
ing to his cohorts.
The general said this doctrine
means “that all those who can and
will extend their efforts to produce
and advance must do so for no other
reward than the satisfaction of sup
porting those who can’t or don’t care
to make th e effort. It is not a suffi
cient incentive to make our system
work.”
In an article in Red Book for July
Mr. Johnson compared this increas
ing army that is looking to the gov
ernment for support to the crowd
that David gathered in the cave of
Adullam . . . “every one that was
in distress, and every one that was in
debt and every one that was discon
tented.”
The general is right. There is no
incentive to productive work if the
ambitious must support a horde in
idleness.
MIGHT BE NEEDED
It has been remarked that the pre
sent administration does things to
defeat its own schemes. It gives the
farmers a bonus but imposes a
wages-hours law to increase the cost
of what the farmer buys. It offers
the railroads a handout to keep them
out of bankruptcy and then backs
down when the railroad brotherhoods
raise a rumpus about a proposed
salary cut to further ease the burden.
It preaches peace and permits the
shipping of bombing planes to Spain
and China. It taxes business un
mercifully and imposes all kinds of
obnoxious tews and regulations. It
pleads for cooperation and uses the
people’s money to undermine the utili
ties.
At the beheast of the president the
federal reserve board recently re
duced the reserve requirements of
commercial banks in th n federal
baks and thus made available $750,-
000,000 more for lending (the banks
already had much more money than
they could lend safely.)
Comes now Mr. Marriner S. Eccles,
governor of the board, and says that
the restrictions of the government
as to loans are so strict that many
businesses cannot borrow. Why then,
we ask, make more money available
if the terms under which it can be
borrowed are so strict that those who
need it worst can’t get it?
Still, it might be wis e to have vast
funds lying idle in the banks. The
government is preparing to spend
over 11,000 million dollars next year.
WHERE IS OUR NEUTRALITY?
The criminal air attacks which the
unspeakable Jap has been making on
Canton and other cities in China have
aroused horror and disgust in Ameri
ca, but we should do well to take the
‘realistic’ view of the part which
American industry has in this bar
barous business and make an effort
to prevent its further participation
in aid to Japanese thugs.
On June 13 war planes raided
Canton for the sixteenth consecutive
day. These bombardments killed be
tween 6,000 and 10,000 non-comba
tants.
In the same paper that carried this
news Sertator Pop e of Idaho, excoriat
ing the American merchants of death,
was quoted as follows:
“This morning’s newspapers tell of
another horrible bombing of Canton.
In the operation th e United States
furnished more than half the gasoline
and oil necessary to carry out the
venture."
We are supposed to be neutral as
to foreign wars but our neutrality
becomes a mockery when American
industry is permitted to line up with
gangsters to carry on a war against
helpless non-combatants. A way
must be found to end this mockery.
We must do more than express hor
ror over the barbarous massacres in
order to prove our neutrality. We
must not allow our industrial mach
ine to be the means of exterminating
whole cities of civilian peoples.
CRUMBS FOR THE FARMER
Recetly newspapers exulted over
the news that South Carolina farmers
in 1937 realized a gross income in
crease of six per cent above that of
the previous year. A sizable portion
of this increase, not brought out in
the headlines, was in the form of
government benefits.
As compared to increased jncome
which thousands of new deal politi
cian* get from time to time, how
ever, the farmer got the crumbs that
fell from the new deal table. One
example will suffice to show that the
“boys” in Washington have not been
backward in the matter of getting
their income boosted—and at a rapid
rate:
Henry M. Bankhead, brother of
Senator John Bankhead of Alabama,
had a job in the bureau of foriegn
and domestic commerce.
On September 1, 1937, his pay was
raised from $7,000 to $7,500 a year.
. ... .;. ...ar wre,. later lie w...s p o-
...o.ej .o a higher rating and his pay
again boosted to $8,000.
A - $500 increase in the brief per
iod of four weeks will cause the six-
per cent farmer to wonder how the
trick is done.
WE MUST ASSIST RECOVERY
Congress has gone home to its
fishing, fence-mending and other
summer pleasures, leaving the rest
of us to shoo away flies, dodge the
bill collector and cuss the govern
ment. The lawmakers have done
only six months work for which they
will receive a full year’s pay. And
that’s not to be sneezed at in a de
pression. It will tend to produce
sleep o’nights and a feeling of
brotherly love, peace and good will
to all men.
The rest of the country will have
to handle Dr. Roosevelt’s depression
without benefit of congress. The
twelve millions out of work need
sympathy and cash, but both may be
a long time coming. Congress
might have remained in session the
full year to show its sympathy for
the downtrodden and earn its pay.
However, congress is gone and it’s
up to th e rest of us to do something
to put the country on its feet—it has
been on its head too long. We might
start by getting out on. the stump
and fighting for the Townsend old-
age pension plan. Within ten years
practically every man and woman in
this country will be drawing a gov
ernment check of some kind. Since
the Townsend plan is the juiciest
sugar-rag that has been offered the
proletariat, we’d better go after it
while congress is' in a liberal and be
nevolent mood.
Spectator
As the 4th approaches I wonder if
it is just an occasion for blowing off
steam or whether a grateful people
will renew their loyalty to the spirit
of unselfish service which inspired
the founders of the republic.
Many people in this country were
100 per cent for the King; they never
joined the patriotic rebels whom we
today recall with such fervor. Come
weal, come woe, they stood by the
King.
What sort of people were those an
cestors of ours who fought against
the encroachment of the King? Had
they suffered?
Well, when it comes to Government
control and taxes our patriots of the
Revolution lived in the Golden Age;
they knew nothing about taxes. They
could have “stood in” with the King
and enjoyed pfrosperity. But they
were men of sterner stuff than we.
We, in similar circumstances, would
compromise; w e would stand in with
the others so as to get all we could.
This nation became a reality be
cause some men thought in terms or
principle; to them the question was
one of right or wrong. I don’t like
to hear people aay “all history
teaches,” etc.; for no man of us, how
ever widely read, has knowledge suf
ficient to be so categorical, but I
think I’m safe in saying that we re
member with appreciation those who
sacrificed most for a principle. Wood-
row Wilson may have been ai poor
politician, yet he will live because he
threw everything, including himself,
into the fight to save humanity. Per
haps he was in error; he was sincere.
A practical politician makes
trades; he gets what he cn; a- states
man clings to his principles and im
mortalizes them by his sacrifice. The
Son of God was the world’s greatest
failure, as men saw it, yet his sacri
fice on Golgotha has been the
transforming influence through nine
teen centuries. He succeeded through
bitter defeat. He exemplified His
own teaching. “He that would lose
his life for my sake shall save It.”
There is something in this Sena
torial race which makes me wonder.
Senator Smith has not always run
with the crowd; he has not tried to
get all the loaves and the fishes; he
has balked at times because he just
couldn’t follow the pack. Was he
wrong? Did we elect Coton Ed six
years ago to follow somebody? Was
this great nation built on me-toos?
Did the great George Washington try
to make this nation a one-man affair
of friends, sons, sycophants, coat
tail swingers and servile flatterers?
Let us South Carolinians ask our
selves whether we hav e in as the stuff
of our forefathers, who through sac
rifice made this nation, or whether
we condemn a pubic servant who has
shown some of the spirit we profess
to praise on the Fourth of July.
Was he wrong? Well, he was act
ing like a MAN, wasn’t he?
I am no negro-hater; I have much
consideration for those colored men
whom I know well; they come to me
in trouble and I am happy to have
heir confidence; but the charge that
Senator Smith is capitalizing on the
negro issue unduly is not true. We
here in South Carolina know that no
'aw of our state will endanger white
supremacy but we must not be so ig-
iorant or credulous as to assume that
he leaders of the two million negroes
iow in the Democratic Party are not
isking for anything.
I have no axe to grind; I am not a
candidate; I am not seeking favors
’’rom any candidate; I have nothing
o gain by speaking the truth soberly
xcept the satisfaction of treating
my readers fairly and I say as one
Carolinian to his fellow Carolinians
that the northern Democrats have
made trades with the negroes and
that we of the South must pay the
bill. This is no idle statement. When
Smith walked out of the Democratic
Convention he did exactly what you
would have wished him to do. Of
course th e prayer of the Colored
Minister could be as acceptable to
God as anyone else’s prayer, made
in the proper spirit; I am not raising
race issues between men and God;
but the Colored Minister was not in
vited for the spiritual blessing which
might come from his prayer; he was
invited because he was a negro and
in the effort to influence negro votes.
H? wasn’t invited to pray for God,
out to the negro voters.
Smith did right. Which of us will
deny it?
The Colored Minister may have
been the victim of the political
schemes of th e Northern White De
mocrats; he may have invoked the
blessing of God in all fervor; I am
not condemning him; but the White
men who put him on the platform
tried to make a Colored Minister and
the Great Jehavah bring the negroes
into the Democratic Party. And now
Methodist bretheren; you have been
afraid of this in your own church
through union with the Ndrth, what
say you of the big wigs of our De
mocratic Party today?
Governor Johnston has asked a
question which deserves considera
tion. What would be our chance to
get the Santee-Cooper appropriation
if all our Senators and Congressmen
had acted like Senator Smith.
Well, if the Santee-Cooper is just
a gift to the other gentlemen then
indeed have we a dictatorship in
Washington. There are 48 states,
South Carolina being one; and there
are nearly two million South Carol
inians in the United States. Are we
entitled to anything; or does the Gov
ernment dish out favors to those
who bow and scrape to it?
If our men in Congress have taken
part in setting up a dictatorship,
which owes its existence to Congress,
yet ladles out soup to favorites, I
say our Congressmen have served
us badly. Either we are entitled to
all we hav e received or we have set
up a dictatorship. The truth is—as
I’ve pointed out before—we have not
even received a fair share. Now how
much toadying would it take to get
our just and proportionate part?
Are we choosing a Senator to get a
few crumbs or to be a Senator?
The 4th of July might well be an
occasion for asking ourselves serious
ly whether we cherish the institutions
of our forefathers and are men
enough to preserve them inviolate;
or whether we are cheap traders,
men without convictions and princi
ples, with hands held out for the
loaves and fishes.
Are we a sovereign State and
proud of it; or a conquered province
begging the conqueror’s favor?
Have you beard our candidates
speak? Every candidate has certain
peculiarities of voice. Among the
Senatorial group—“Cotton Ed” has
a voice that was not intended for or
atory. As a speaker the Senator has
to overcome the drawbacks of a ham
pering throat. ll e gets results, just
the same, though, by hard work.
Governor Johnston, at his best, has
a clear voice, though not appealing.
Edgar Brown has the best voice of
the three, just as he has an attractive
appearance of guilelessness and great
amiability.
1 want you to strain your imagin
ation until it hurts—just imagine
Wade Hampton or Ben Tillman or
Cole Blease promising to stand in
with the Administration for a few
hand-outs! And from old South
Carolina came Andrew Jackson, who
asked favors of nobody, and John
Rutledge, who left the chief justice
ship of the United States because he
wouldn’t ask favors; and John C. Cal
houn, who lost the presidency because
he wouldn’t toady. Yet with a his
tory like that we are told that we
ought to jtand with bent bock and
hat in hand, asking for favors—fav
ors with our own money!
Enroll now! Every Democrat must
enroll this year in order to vote in
the primaries. Don’t delay; do it now!
Business men, urge your employees
to enroll. Show your interest in your
citizenship by engaging actively in
enrolling all Democrats.
Let every man and woman enroll
in a Democratic club. See your
neighbors and let’s get our people on
the Club rolls.
The only influence or power re
spected by most politicians is the
ballot.
Use your ballot!
Spectator seems to have maligned
some of his fellow scribes. He rejoices
in them for their fine work and
doffs his cap in apology, and assures
them of his appreciation and respect.
BOUGHT WITH A PRICE
From an editorial in the Charleston
News and Courier:
Your “Democratic” administration
is this day feeding probably more
negroes than ever the Southern slave
holders fed. These negroes in the
North—“Democrats” they are—are
paid by your government double the
wage that white laborers are paid in
South Carolina.
Or course Southern negroes mi
grate to the Northern cities. All
they, men and women, have to do
when they go to them is to be “good
Democrats” and get a living, which
you taxpayers furnish them—your
Mr. Hopkins sees to it that they do
not “starve.” Can you blame a ne
gro for migrating?
These Northern Democrats are no
longer hiding from you Southerners
that they mean to boss you, rule you,
with bought negro votes. They are
telling you so in practically so many
words.
NOTICE TO ALL MERCHANTS
ALL BUSINESS MEN AND AL!
FRIENDS OF THI
CIVIC LEAGUE
All merchants who wteh to cooper
ate with the Civic League in the Boos
ter Celebration at th e Margaret Hun
ter Park on Friday evening, July 1,
are requested to contribute prizes
for th e many contests and events of
the evening. Please telephone Mrs.
R. D. Wright at 393 or Mrs. J. P.
Shealy at 138. Telephone Monday
or Tuesday, please.
A list of all who contribute a prize
will be published in both papers. Any
member of the Civic League will be
glad to receive your prize.
REVIEW
of NEW BOOKS
PAUL B. CLARK, PH. D.
1736 Woodbum Ave.
Covington, Ky.
LIFE OF HORACE MANN, by Mary
Peabody Mann. National Education
al Association of the United States.
This Centennial Edition has been
brought about by the generous sup
port of the Committee on the Nine
tieth Anniversary of the Central Syn
agogue of New York City. “The
members of the Synagogue have sup-
ported this project as their contribu
tion toward a finer way of life for
all Americans through universal, free
public education.” This particular
edition is a reproduction in facsimile
from the original jne published in
1865 by Walker, Fuller, and Com
pany, Boston, Mass. This particular
edition of the Life of Horace Mann
is published as a part of the Centen
nial celebration of Mann’s entrance
into the field of education on July 1,
1837, as secretary of the newly cre
ated Massachussetts Board of Edu
cation. The purpose is the “spread
ing throughout America a knowledge
of Horace Mann and his inspired
leadership which in importance to
democracy may be compared with
that of Washington or Lincoln.”
And perhaps nobody today or in
any other day knew Horace Mann as
did Mary Peabody Mann his wife.
Chapter I deals with his early life
and the influence of Calvinism; Chap
ter II depicts him as educator; Chap
ter III takes up his nomination as
Secretary and in this chapter and in
IV w e find numerous citations and
excerpts and letters; Chapter V tells
about the second marriage and the
trip to Europe; and the last chapter
deals with his nomination for Gov
ernor of Massachussetts and for the
presidency of Antioch college, etc. He
revived the common school system
and this was really the work of his
life; he stirred the people to reform
by his reports of the ignorance of the
people and the incompetence of the
teachers of that day. He holds a
place in the New York Hall of Fame.
THE CASE FOR DEMOCRACY, by
Ordway Tend. Association Press.
This timely, vital and arresting
volume gives the meaning of demo
cracy and contains a splendid read
ing list for further study of the sub
ject by Benson Y. Landis. The pur
pose of the book is to make clear the
relation of democracy to the yearn
ings of men of good will for the good
and abundant life. The book is not
intended to be exhaustive in any
sense; selected issues that are very
pertinent today hold the limelight.
It is not a book that sets up a com
plete economic and social reform; the
task is to view today’s task and op
portunity in terms of the possibilities
and actualities of today and tomor
row. The constant aim of the book is
to subvert the prevalent anti-demo
cratic doctrines and movements by
making the tasks of contemporary
life more democratic—good for the
individuals for productivity, and for
national integrity. Wide interest
centers around such topics as Demo
cracy Under Attack, What is Chris
tianity?, What Is Democracy?, Am
erica’s Democratic Origins, Limits
Upon the Democratic Process, Pro
ductivity and Planning, Constitution
al Limitations, etc. The reader will
become "Ware that good will is fine
so far as it goes but “Good will alone
is not enough to achieve this (neigh
borliness among all men). Added to
right desire and giving it effect, we
need intelligent and inventive social
action in many fields, governmental
and voluntary structures and agen
cies of operation that use democracy
as their method, and valiant leader
ship that is clear visioned, bold, and
filled with democratic faith.” A splen
did little book.
THE PLACE OF ST. THOMAS
MORE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
AND HISTORY, by R. W. Chambers.
Longmans, Green and Co.
This delightful little book is a re
vision of a lecture delivered before
the Thomas More Society by R. W.
Chambers, Quain Professor of Eng
lish language and literature, Uni
versity of London, and has a fine
foreword by Lord Russell of Killo-
wen, President of the Society. The
book has four sections: (1) More
and His Father at Lincoln’s Inn; (2)
The Memory of More; (3) More,
Henry VIII, and the Reformation;
(4) Human Law and Divine.
The book centers around the place
that Thomas More should be accord
ed by th e verdict of history; the facts
are that his place in history has al
ways been so obscure, and perhaps
his literary work has done mere than
anything else to obscure his real
place in history. The author asks:
What then is More’s place in HIS
TORY? “Surely this—that he suff
ered death rather than agree that Di
vine and Human law were united hi
the state of which Henry was Head.”
The volume is worthy of careful
reading whether you subscribe to
the author’s point of view or not.
The point of More’s place in litera
ture and history is vague; we usual
ly think of his “Utopia” and let the
whole matter rest there.
MISS COUNTS ADVISES
ON CORRECT LIGHTING
The New Hope-Zion Home Demon
stration Club held its regular meet
ing at the school house Thursday af
ternoon, June 23, at 4 o'clock. The
meeting was opened by au singing
Carolina. Mrs. Carrie Hipp conduct
ed the devotions, using John 10. The
flag salute and council creed were re
peated in unison.
Miss Counts gave a beneficial talk
on correct lighting. This talk was
especially appropriate here because
these members will be preparing for
electricity in the near future and
Miss Counts stressed the importance
and economy in buying the right
things first. She demonstrated the
proper shades for lights to prevent
that harmful glare. A home made
reading lamp was also demonstrated.
Miss Counts reminded the club of
the flower show to be held in the fall
and urged each member to prepare
for this by planting and taking spe
cial care of the fall flowers.
Th e treasurer’s report showed that
$40 had been cleared from the supper
served the Fish and Game Associa
tion recently.
A generous supply of farm produce
was gathered at this time and sent
to the Newberry County Hospital.
It was announced that J. E. Mainer
and his “Crazy Mountaineers” would
appear at New Hope-Zion School
hoi’se on Thursday, July 7, at 8
o’clock with 15c and 25c admission.
At the close of the meeting, the
hostesses, Mesdames George Hentz,
Hugh Hentz, Earl Crooks, and Tom
mie Rawls served refreshing punch
and cookies.
The next meeting will be held at
the school house July 28, at 4 o’clock.
Commissioner Dist. 2
S. W. SHEALY
Candidate for Commissioner
Opera House Mon. and Tues.
TOWN JUNIORS LICK
OAKLAND VILLAGE TEAM
Commissioner Dist.1
E. Lipscomb let Oakland down with
2 hits Friday morning and the Town
Juniors racked up a 12 to 4 win. Lip
scomb lead his team at bat with 2
for 4 while C. Mims had 1 for 3 for
the losers. Batedies: Town, E.
Lipscomb and Wicker; Oakland El
rod and Mims.
Town 12 runs, 6 hits, 2 errors.
Oakland, 4 runs, 2 hits, and 5 er
rors.
The Town Seniors won from Oak
land 15 to 6 Friday getting 16 hits
off Carpenter’s delivery. B. Duncan
and Burnette led the town attack
while Holsonback and Carpenter fur
nished the stick work for the losers.
Batteries: Town, Culbertson and B.
Duncan; Oakland, Carpenter and Tay
lor.
Town, 16 hits, 15 runs, 7 errors.
Oakland, 6 runs, 9 hits, 3 errors.
NOTE: At the end of the second
week of the summer program 124
boys have taken part in the games,!
34 from Oakland, 32 from West End,;
31 from Mollohon, and 28 from the
town. Coach Hedgepath extends an
invitation to the boys to come over.
Mollohon is leading the junior lea
gue with a percentage of 1000 while
the town and Oakland are tied for the
first place in the Senior league with
a percentage of .666. Th e program
gained 30 boys over the first week.
Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
E. Bryan Keisler. pastor
The Sunday school begins at 10:30.
Harry H. Hedgepath is the superin
tendent and C. E. Hendrix is the as
sistant. There are classes for all
ages and competent teachers for all
classes.
PAUL HAILE
Who Offers for Reelecetio
NEWBERRY BOYS
ORDAINED AT EHRHARDT
James Lee Shealy, E. A. Felker, and
C. L. Richardson, all of Newberry,
were ordained as Luhteran ministers
Sunday, June 26, at Ehrhardt. Rev E.
Z. Pence, pastor of Holy Trinity Luth
eran church at Little Mountain, and
President of Synod, conducted the or
dination. Rev. Felker has gone to
Fairfax and Rev. Richardson to
Ehrhardt where they will begin their
ministry. Rev. Shealy left Wednes
day for the State Hospital where he
took up his duties as chaplain of the
institution.
At two services on next Sunday
morning the Holy Communion will be
administered. The hour for the first
service is 8:45. That for the other is
11:30. At both services the pastor
will be assisted by the Rev. Prof. R.
A. Goodman, D. D. At the second
service he will direct the meditation.
During next Sunday afternoon the
plastor will be happy to administer
the sacrament to those of the congre
gation who are ill and who request
such administenatton.
The Senior Luther League meets at
6:30 for its Bible Study class con
ducted by the pastor. The Book stud
ied is the Epistle to the Colossians.
Those who plan to atend are asked
to read the entile epistle, noting the
connections in which the word “ALL”
is used. The study next Sunday even
ing will center around that word.
The Women’s Missionary Society
meets next Monday afternoon and
evening in various homes. For spe
cific announcement look in next Sun
day’s announcement sheet.
The pastor has been all this week in
Spartanburg conducting a Preaching
Mission. He expects to return late
Friday evening.
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