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; 4 .j ; '• ’; • • ' : ~i* ■i' ; -■’9' ■■ "_ '^;* -';• • 7-.|y'C; '^-'--''' '^'-^v. .'t-'-v - PAGE FOUR mE SLv. OItjP &un 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 Act of March 3, 1879. Nearly everybody will agree that a cool temper is “the thing” on a hot day. If the administration will quit standing on its head, maybe the rest of the country will be able to stand on its feet. Let’s have a campaign innovation this summer. Congressional candi dates might propose a door to door relief service for the convenience of the “coostomers.” TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Presented on the fist page of this issue and arranged in such manner as to be fair to all concerned is matter of such nature as to hold pos sibilities of endless controversy. We have observed many such controver sies but have never known one to re sult in good or advantage to anyone. No one in public life for any length of time but that something in his ca reer would took bad in the proper setting and for that reason, and others, anything further on the sub ject presented will have to be run as advertising and marked as such. PRIZE FIGHTS SHOULD BE OUT LAWED! The near-tragic finale of the prize fight in New York City, is another reminder of the brutality and beast liness of th e business. It is a throw back to man’s primitive days when claw and club ruled and man was re garded as no more than interloper betwen heaven and earth. To call this thing sport is to man handle the word. It is commercial ized plunder preying on cupidity and the sordid instincts of the jungle. The idea of honest sport, which implies manliness and sportsmanship among rivals or contestants, is befouled by the cruel and brutish performances of the prize ring. It is a business that should be out lawed by every state in the union. There is no place for such beastliness among a civilized people. AESOP’S FABLES—AND ONE MORE Americans of the “old stock” will look with kindness and approving eye upon the laudable task of WPA in teaching Aesop’s Fables to Ameri canization classes in New York City. This investment of the taxpayers’ money will return to them as bread cast upon the waters. That our mon ey is being thus used towards mak ing this old classic familiar to foreign ears, must afford a deep sense of satisfaction to all interested in the uplift of their less fortunate brothers from across the seas who know not Aesop. A little learning, however, may prove a dangerous thing in some quarters. In this democratic clime, citizens express themselves freely. Even the foreign born soon become intected with the germ of freedom and speak out in meetin’. A WPA teacher/ after instructing his pupils for a time in Aesop, would be horri fied to hear his pupil answer, if call ed on to name another great fable that has come under his observation, “Zee new deala, which teacha me ze Esop fable.” A GRAY HORSE OF ANOTHER COLOR In a jocular vein we said in this column last week that within ten years practically every adult in this country would be drawing a govern ment check of some kind. It did not occur to us that within less than a week the country would see what promises to be a revival of the Town send old-age pension plan. If this scheme should become law, and should the federal government add to the bounty by pensioning all world war ex-service men—as it will do eventu ally—our prediction, made in a spirit of levity, will become an actuality. Last week advocates of the Town send plan, in their Los Angeles con vention, heard reports on some of their recent political victories. The first cited was that of Senator Pep per in Florida. Mr. Pepper, in ad dition to running as a new dealer, al so espoused the Townsend Santa Claus pension scheme. His over whelming victory is a matter of his tory. We could pass over this Townsend victory as a quirk of politics were It not for the fact that more significant victories for Townsendites were a- chieved in the Maine primary elec tions Monday a week ago. In that traditionally conservative state the successful gubernatorial nominees, all six of the successful congressional nominees of both major parties, campaigned for the Town send plan. Ralph Brewster, one of th e Republican nominees and at pre sent an incumbent congressman, has long been a whooper-up of Dr. Town send’s ambition to pay every person in the United States, over sixty years of age a pension of $200 a month. Heretofore, the Townsend plan has been treated as a joke, but when the people of MAINE back it in so strong a fashion, you have a gray horse of another color! HAS OPERATION W. C. Ackerman of Prosperity un derwent a ms tor operation at the county hospital Tuesday. His con dition is reported fine. Spectator Have you heard our candidates speak? Eevery candidate has cer tain 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. He gets results, just the same, though, by hard work. Gov ernor Johnston, at his best, has a clear voice, though .tot appealing. Edgar Brown has the best voice of the three just as he has,an attractive appear ance of guilelessness and great ami ability. In the race for Governor, the most pleasing speaker is my fellow lowcountryman, John Hughes Cooper of old Williamsburg. Speaking of lowcountrymen, there are several in the race. Burnett R. Maybank is from Charleston; Wyn- dham Manning is from Sumter; Nev ille Benntt is from Marlboro—which isn’t so low, of course. Getting back to voices: Wyndham Manning has a rich throaty baritone that goes well with his general ap pearance. He is a charming and de lightful companion, with an aspect of granitelike solidness and dignity. He is a distinguished soldier a graduate of West Point and a real Colonel, though he says very little about mili tary matters, preferring to talk about farming. Neville Bennett has a clear enunci ation in spite of some little peculi arity, though I don’t know exactly what it is. May be sinus. Mr. Ben nett is no joker, no gladhander, no mixer. He is usually serious and very intent on the matter in hand. He is a man of intellectual concentration and a diligent student of government, one of the best informed in the State. Ben Adams is intellectually the peer of any man in the race and a fighter. His voice is not rich and sweet, like the voice of John Hughes Cooper. Mr. Adams speaks under a strain as though he were racing to say what he wants to say within the time allotted. Adams and Bennett talk a lot about having all the items of Stat e expenditure in the General Appropriation Bill. I agree fully with the contention that no money should be spent except by annual grant of the General Assembly and that all items should be set forth in the annual bill. Burnett Maybank has not a speak er’s voice; nor has he a speaker’s style. He commands attention be cause of his record—one of the most extraordinary records of public serv ice in all the history of the State. Furthermore, there is something about the man which attracts you. It isn’t his voice—which is harsh—nor his appearance, nor his eloquence; but he talks like a man who will go ahead with great driving power. Cole L. Blease! All of us know Mr. Blease. No*, the fire-eater of former years, but still vigorous in mind and capable of great service. This is one of the most extraordinary men ever born in South Carolina. He made his own way and drove his own wagon. Blsase never climbed on anybody else’s wagon; he rode his own and Coley held the reins. But my! how big a wagon he had to accommodate so many fellows who wanted to climb aboard. Mr. Blease has not a good voice; that is, he hasn’t a smooth, musical voice, but what more could he do with a new voice than what he has done? I, once a red-hot “Anti”, lift my hat to “Coley” and teU him while he ia still with us that I know no man among us loves South Car olina more than he. Messrs. Easterlin and Blackmon come new to us in State politics—Mr. Easterlin of almost evangelistic fer vor and Mr. Blackmon rather quiet, yet earnest. But where, Oh where, are the ora tors who made the “welkin ring”—and all that? South Carolina may find itself with an operating deficit of four million dollars next year, according to some of our informed public men. That condition carries with it an obligation to survey our resources. Perhaps I should explain whit I mean. For some years there have been surveys of our underprivileged people and surveys of our institutions, but no surveys of the ability of the taxpayer to pay for what the other surveys have called for. The result has been that we are over-emphasizing the needs and the relative importance of our institutions and giving scant con sideration to the people who pay the bills. I think it beyond dispute that the repeal of the State property levy should stand beyond any further question and that we should set out vigorously to attract new taxpayers, while encouraging those we have. If we must have all the services we now enjoy we must earn more. I do not mean that we should pay higher taxes, but that we should so encour age development of our resources and growth of our manufactures and com merce so that the earning power of the people will be Increased. Until that is done we must not only halt our spending, but we must retrench. The wise course for us to pursue would be to reduce the taxes and re move hampering restrictions. Instead of boasting of having more labor leg islation than other States let us try to be able to boast that all our people are gainfully employed and that we have a high level of well-being in South Carolina. If some of our public men had as much light as they have heart we should be able to see the road to prog ress and prosperity. Instead of swapping a few dollars among ourselves in the belief that we are doing business w e must create wealth, convert raw products into higher values and make our State a refuge for dollars escaping confis cation elsewhere and eager for prof itable invstmen* No man can make money in business without helping somebody else. Let’s do away with the scarecrows which have frighten ed us and show a cooperative attitude toward those who want to do some thing. Shall we practice the live-«t-home plan? Well I’m engaged in actual farm ing; I pay wages every week and suff er many of the bedevilments which bend the backs and wrinkle the brows of the tillers of the soil. Yet, not withstanding the reality of my farm ing I still like to dream about Agri culture—with a pencil and paper. On paper, farming Is a beautiful business; also it can be made to yield fine profits—on paper. But let’s dream together—a 25 acre farm. 5 acres for house, vegetable garden, flower garden, orchard—pears, peach es, plums, grapes, figs. 5 acres in cotton; 10 acres corn, peas, hay; 6 acres wheat, oats, hay and potatoes. 3 sows, 1 cow, 60 chickens—well, why not? Mr. John Doe Greenville, S. C. Dear Mr. Doe: Our business interests are frequent ly in jeopardy because they do not show politiral strength. Politicians respect votes and only votes. Year by year the failure of our business men to exercise their citizenship puts them at the mercy of men elected by others who do vote and capitalize the ballot. May I suggest that you urge all your associates—business and social— to enroll now in a Democratic Club and to vote i n the Primaries? All Democre.s must enroll this year; previous enrollment doesn’t count. This is not a political meddling but a suggestion to our people—men and women—to avail themselves of their privileges as citizens and to make their influence count for stable and sound government. If we ar e not willing to vote we should not complain if laws are pass ed for those who do vote. We can make this State what we want it to be. Yours truly, Spectator Spec.: Et Live at home? Well, let’s see about it. Most of our land will pro duce rye and oats; a considerable part of it will produce wheat. A ton of lime to the acre will help the small grain for four or five years. Follow ing your small grain you will prob ably make hay, plowing r -,)Jer a lot of stuff. With rye and oats (even if you haven’t wheat) bread can be made. Then the farm can produce com, peas, beans, cabbage, and all that loud smelling brotherhood of truck, begin ning with collards and including Pop- eye’s stand-by—spinach. Peaches, plums, grapes, and figs may be pro duced. Eggs and chickens, too. Of course a cow and that means milk— maybe. I nearly forgot—a few pigs. These things can be done—and are being done by many. But that doesn't giv» any money for taxes, medicine, clothing, sugar, coffee, etc. Well, let’s see about that next week. Evelyn Lea veil, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Leavell, left yes terday to visit the F. D. McLeans at Lake Kanuga. REVIEW of NEW BOOKS PAUL B. CLARK, PH. D. 1735 Woodbum Ave. Covington, Ky. THE NEXT CENTURY IS AMERICA’S. By C. D. Murphy and H. V. Prochnew. New York; Green berg; Publisher. This fascinating volume by Carroll D. Murphy and Herbert V. Prochnew, with a Forword by Glenn Frank, is an optimistic appraisal of the future of America; it is splendid treatment to read after one has read the haran gues of some prophets “of decay (that) insist—that the masters of our economic life are ignorant, incompe tent, and callous, and show no signs of bringing social intelligence to bear up on their problems.” In a masterly stroke of the pen, in facile style, in clear historical data, the authors pre sent the proofs of their optimism by setting in the foreground the condi tions of the past, in the long past, in the nearer past, and the recent past; and it is upon these data that the welcome prophecy is made. The chapters run: I. From Impulse to Perspective; II. Civilization Under the yardstick; III. Backwoods and backgrounds; IV. Familiar and Ti tanic years; V. The Everyman Fam ily at Home; VI. American Business— Exploiter or builder?; VII. Man’s Hu manity to Man; VIII. America’s Bal ance Sheet; and IX.XA Breath-Tak ing Look Ahead. This book deserves to be known very widely. To wit we give but two sentences: “For we have in America the greatest uniform population reach ed and serviced by one press in one language, with one ideal scale of liv ing, ever known” and the other—“Out of this dream of liberty and of equal rights to education, to the products of a free press, to the p.*ofits of per sonal efforts, comes this exhaustless fountain of progress.” SOREN KIERKEGAARD. By Ed- Wk,d Gelsmar. Augsburg Publish ing House. These Lectures on the Religious Thought of Soren Kierkegaard, giv en at Princeton Theological Seminary recently on the Stone Foundation, and later to other schools from coast to coast, come from the pen of Eduard Geismar, Profssor of Theology at the University of Copenhagen, and with a most able Introduction by David Swenson, Profeasor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. This able volume is the best intro duction for Americans of this giant Danish theologian and philosopher that has come from the press in the English language. There are five lectures: I. The Life of Kierkegaard; II. The Method of Kierkegaard; III. Ethics and Existence; IV. The Essence of Christianity; and V. The Attack on Christendom. The book is a superb psychological approach to the physics and metaphy sics of daily, ethical and religious ex istence. In brief compass the author deals with the writings of this great thinker and compactly sets forth his findings with real skill. Perhaps the gist of the book can be put thus: Kier kegaard f’ces life as concrete life- problems and Christianity offers the real solution; and this solution is through forgiveness of sins, and the forgiveness means the restoration of each man’s pristine moral integrity. Forgiveness is through the pathos of an individual moral experience; it is not through th e disinterested objec tivity of an abstract-intellectual ap prehension. Greatness in man lies in three things: 1. Religious inward ness; 2. Moral sincerity; and 3. Es thetic creativity. The volume is essential for those who are trying to study the current European thought of Barth and Brun ner; it seems equally true that this new movement both follows Kierke gaard and also misinterprets him at points. Further, the volume is an other instance of European thought that stresses immanence or transcen- dance without combining the two; im manence in this case. The hook de serves wide reading. WAR AND THE CHRISTIAN. By c! E. Raven Macmillan. In this timely book Charles E. Rav en, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge and Can on of Ely speaks prophetically on war and thg Christian conscience. He en larges upon pertinent historical data, —National Council of Social Service, the Lambeth Appeal, the Labor Party, the Communists, Birmingham Confer ence in 1924, Oxford and Edinburgh Conferences of last summer, etc.— and thus paves the way to discuss Is War Evil?, Is War Inevitable?, The Claims of the State, War and the Church, War as the Less of Two Evils, etc. The thought is logical; the book is convincingly written; few, if any, can find fault with the solid learning and directed verdict. To discuss war from the Christian point of view is of ne cessity to be driven back “to the bas al affirmations of our faith.” Both the re-examination and the restate ment of these basal facts are long overdue. The problem of war not only demands solution from the Christian point of view among Christians but it may be just the concrete problem that will enlighten and deepen and unify the thought of the Churches within Christendom. The book makes two points amaz ingly clear: That war is evil; That “an honest controversy, honestly and generously discussed, can be, as we all know, amazingly clarifying and productive.” It is just here that this book will contribute ite superb worth in dealing with this crucial problem of war. Its readers should be many. Perhaps those western grasshop pers are just unemployed musicians out seeking a Mister who is willing to give a dime for a little cup o’ coffee. The fellow with a patch on his britches no longer excites admiration. It’s the fellow with the mortgage on his car that gets it nowadays. TT 5 *? Before yooi newspaper is pnt to bed •When w* talk of putting a newspaper to bod wo aren't try ing to bo humorous. It's shop parlance for going to press—the final step in the production of a newspaper. Before your newspaper is ready to go to bed there's a long series of steps, representing the collec tive efforts of many minds and many hands. 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"WggBfRSBgggKtM 2 Gun Gentleman Was Jesse James Los Angeles, July 3.—Jesse James robbed banks; his granddaughter ig a banker. Whatever the judgment of his own bloody age, she calls him a two-gun gentleman. Gentleman ? He carried a Bible in his pocket ad was unsurpassed in prayer. He wore a brace of six-shoters in his belt and no one ever beat him on the draw. They sang ballads about him on the middle border. When he died, it was with a bullet in his back, fired by a false friend. He had his boots on. Joe James, a comely, blue-eyed brunette, still treasures these boots, They are neat black and size 7—al most as small as a woman’s shoes. The Scripture-quoting outlaw kept them carefully polished. Joe is the escrow expert in a branch of the Bank of America. She lives in a staid old westside Los Angleles home with her father, Jesse James, Jr., retired Kansas City lawyer. With his encouragement, she started out four years ago, on a biography of the grandsire slain before she was born. Will Be Movie Special It’s nearly ready for the printer now, this story of and by the Jameses. A Hollywood studio bought the screen rights to make it into a super-special Western this fall. For the picture, Jo won’t take re sponsibility, but for the biography she says: “It’s time somebody got the facts straight after a half-century of blood- and thunder dime novels about my grandfather. I don’t wish to glorify him, but I do hope to show that, right or wrong, he had a reason for everything he did.” Efficiently catalogued are the rea sons and the deeds that Miss James and her collaborator, Rosiland Shef- fer, have collected. They went af ter “angels” the world thought bu ried with Jesse James in 1882. First, they got some potted-down memoirs from “Uncle Billy.” laet sur viving member of the band. He held the horses when the Northfield, Minn., bank was robbed in 1876. Here in California his past unknown, he car ved out a prominent niche as an at torney. He died not long ago. Most of those who rode with Jesse James kept mum including his brother Frank, who explained: “If I say I took part in a holdup, I’m a scoundrel. If I say I wasn’t there, I’m a Har. When they ask me questions, I don’t answer.” Scotches Cave Legend It was Frank, however, who once quashed a legend that a certain cave was the James hideout. He shook his head and winked. “No sirree, that wasn’t our cave. We never went into any place we counldn’t leave by the back door.” Frank mellowed with the iyears. He stood trial in three states and was acquitted each time. He liked that. He said it vindicated Jeeae’s memory. He died, without boots on, in 1916. Jesse James, Miss James and Mrs. Shaffer set forth in their book, was no mor e lawless than his age. His father was a preacher and he himself, wanted to be a man of peace. But he grew up, of Kentuckian family, on the Missouri battleground of the slavery issue. As a boy plowing in the fields, Jesse was horse-whipped one day by federal militia. Se he went off to Quantrell’s guerrillas. If the Confedracy had won, he might have been a schoolbook hero. The conquering North granted him no amnesty. H e tried to come back and work his farm. He was accused —unjustly, his friends said—of var ious crimes. He became t.a outlaw. Put Money on Deposit Bank robberies, to Jesse, were “put ting money on deposit”. He would help an impoverished Southern fam ily to pay off its mortgage to a car petbagger. Later, he would “draw” the money out of the bank. Train holdups were “educational enterprises”. Jesse learned how to unload a gold shipment from a bag gage car without waking up the train passengers. For sixteen years he was a fugi tive, but much of the time he wasn’t in the saddle. He lived quietly for long periods in Kansas City, Nash ville, Tenn., and St. Joseph, Mo. Des peradoes traded on his reputation and bragged to victims that they were Jesse James. Once, the real Jesse rode with a posses in their pursuit. He was a black-bearded, prosper ous cattle broker in St. Joe when he made a fatal mistake, He stood un armed, with his back to a camp fol lower, Bob Ford. Most of the townfolk, who knew Jesse as the church-going “Mr. How ard”, mourned at his bier. Even when he was in his grave, imposters cropped up—at least seven teen, his granddaughter estimates. ■jjjnnBBg FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1988 Announcements CONGRESS I hereby announce myself as a can didate for congress in the third con gressional district of South Carolina and pledge myself to support the nominees of the party and abide by the results of the primary. BUTLER B. HARE, Saluda, S. C. HOUSE Yielding to the solicitation of friends I hereby announce myself a candidate for the House of Represen tatives and agree to abide the results of the Democratic primary. J. KESS DERRICK I hej-eby_ announce myself _ . ^ of Representa- • a candi date for The How . tives and agree to bide by the re sults of the Democratic primary. R. AUBREY HARLEY I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the House of Representatives and pledge myself to continue my efforts in behalf of all the people, and abide the results of the Democratic primary. J. CLAUD SENN I hereby announce myself a candi date for reelection to the House of Representatives and pledge myself to abide by the rules of the Demo cratic Party and the results of the Democratic primary. THOMAS H. POPE, JR. I am a candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives and I agree to abide by the results of the Democratic primary JOHN J. DOMINICK, M. D. COMMISSIONER I hereby announce myself a candi date for Commissioner from District No. 2, and agree to abide the results of the Democratic primary. C. B. (Cy) SCHUMPERT I hereby announce myself a candi date for Commissioner of District No. 2, and pledge myself to abide by the results of the Democratic pri mary. JOE N. WILSON by date for the office of Commissioner of District No. 2 and agree to abide the results of the Democratic Primary. S. W. SHEALY I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Commissioner from District No. 1 and pledge my self to dbide by the results of the Democratic primary. PAUL HAILE GAME WARDEN I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election as Game Warden and agree to abide the results of the Democratic primary. HERMAN WISE MAGISTRATE I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election as magistrate at Newberry, and agree to abide the re sults of the Democratic primary. BEN F. DAWKINS iy annoi date for Magistrate of District No. 4 and agree to abide the results of the Democratic primary. W, D. HATTON LITTLE MOUNTAIN WOMAN HAS LYED A CENTURY Mrs. Kate Monts of Little Mountain will celebrate her birthday on Wed nesday, July 13. She is the only liv ing member of the immediate family of George Feagle and his wife, Mar garet Kouseal Feagle. The descend ants of this family hold an annual reunion in the school auditorium here each summer. This year they are holding it on Mrs. Monts’ birthday. After 3 o’clock she will be at home to her friends and relatives at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Shealy. She cor dially invites all who would like to greet her on this occasion to call and she requests that no gifts be brought. HAILE REPLIES (continued from page 1) torney. These gentlemen considered the matter very thoroughly before they acted and evidently thought they had go^d grounds for doing what they did. In bringing these matters to light I was doing what I considered my duty and I do not believe the people of Newberry county will censure me for having the courage to expose the above instances as an example of practices of which I do not and can not approve. I hav e never accused anyone of graft I have simply sought to bring to light practices which I believed were not in the in terest of good gevomment and let the people draw their own conclusions. PAUL H. HAILE J Commissioner District No. 2. They got sideshow jobs and pub licity. But they steered clear of the James family. There was only one Jesse James. •••oa ' .* r COACHES ON ALL THROUGH TRAINS Insure a coul, clean, restful trip at tow cast PULLMAN CABS • DIMIMQ CABS Be comfoii-table In the safety of trmim tras>«l Consult P*M«ngM Tnttc Boymonlstfms as TVckut Aq—t, fer Fa—a fefcadnlaa Hauarratloaa aad otkav tnval lalaaaallaa SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM