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PAGE POUR SllfP &Utt 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. THE SPINNING WORLD SLOWS A British astronomer, Harold Spencer Jones, makes the headlines with the finding that “somewhere an unknown gigantic brake has been clamped down on the spinning world, slowing it down.” Quite so. Mr. Jones, but the discovery is not new. We see it almost every day as politicians in nations throughout the world gather more and more power over the people in a powerful central government There, Mr. Jones, is your “gigantic brake” that has slowed down the spinning world. One hundred and fifty years ago the American pa triots fought a great war to make men the master of the government instead of its servants. But in the last two decades~~since the war the procedure has been reversed, and nation after nation has reverted to the autocratic theory under which government be comes the master again. We have seen that “gigantic brake” clamped on Russia, Germany, Italy and other countries. We find forces in America trying to fit the brake on our own spinning world. And who doubts that the “spinning world” has been slowed down as a result. LITTLE THINGS, BUT— They are little things but they go to show that the vast sums of borrowed money which Uncle Sam ia spreading out over the country in the name of re lief are not exactly applied with the accuracy which Mr. Hopkins et als, claim. Down in North Carolina the newspapers have kicked up a furore over the discovery that the mother of the state’s relief administrator was on the relief rolls! The director said it was all a mistake, of course, and then like old Adam in th e garden of Eden blamed the situation on the woman. He was quoted as saying in effect: “Mother shouldn’t have done that; she Is well provided for.” Fifteen cases of oranges were sent for distribu tion to a Hudson valley town. The selectman had only four or five families on relief. So he telephoned his superior and asked if there wasn’t a mistake. The man higher up said: “Please help me out. I’ve got all these oranges, and I’ve only sent you the same as I sent all others. Get rid of them for me.” And the selectman, being a good and kindly man overflowing with brotherly love and paternalism for which New England is famed, did as he was bidden and then did he distribute the fifteen boxes of oranges amongst his four or five relief flamilies. And a little later did he likewise unto a load of nice Florida celery. It will take more than the siren voice of a politi cal radio crooner to convince the people that federal relief is anything mor e than a waste of public funds. AMERICAN NAVAL EXPANSION Many sincere and well-intentioned persons in our country are unable to understand why President Roosevelt has launched the government upon a huge naval expansion program. These people insist that our naval building will lead to war. The cause of worid peace, to which all sane men are devotedly at tached, is pushed further beyond the horizon, it is claimed, by arming the nation on so vast a scale as that now under way. A number of sound reasons could be advanced and upheld in support of the president’s program, but one of the most convincing has been forced upon our attention in recent weeks. Spanish insurgent bombing planes, manned by Italians, have been making targets of British ships in discriminately, with consequent loss of life and prop erty that no nation would tolerate unless forced to. In the face of these repeated outrageous attacks upon the commerce of a peaceful nation, what has the Chamberlain government done to stop them? It has made feeble and ineffectual protests' to Franco for one thing; but worst of ail, was the hu miliating request made of Mussolini by poor befud dled old Chamberlain to beg Franco to please stop hia bombing of British ships! Would you, Mr. American, relish the spectacle of your president groveling at the feet of an iron-fist ed dictator humbly begging his favors? If the weak military situation of the British doesn’t convince the American people of the need of an invincible navy in a world gone mad, nothing else will. Firebricks are now being made out of old news papers. The leftwing sheets aren’t any good; too inflammatory.—N. E. A. A more descriptive term for the kind of weather we’re having now would be “hot dog days.”—N. E. A. | COMMENTS on MEN & THINGS By Spectator Recently a well known citizen of North—Dr. D. R. Sturkie, published a statement under the head ing “WHY I CANNOT VOTE FOR SENATOR SMITH”. The good Doctor’s article is run in the paper as a double-column arrangement, set in black face type and with a heavy mourning border. The article has the appearance and position and display of a paid political advertisement; or shall we say political denunciation? I shall take up the Doctor’s indictment in part only, for a part is sufficient. 1. I never thought Cotton Ed was much of a law yer, but if he denounced "the A. A. A., as Dr. Sturkie says, and then the Supreme Court denounced it, as Dr. Sturkie also says, why not commend Cotton Ed as a great lawyer; or as one whose mother wit, or native horse sense, enables him to understand the heart of a proposition, when perhaps some others are carried away by words? Again the Doctor attacks the Senator for not ap proving the Processing Tax. Well, ther e you are once more. The Supreme Court threw that tax out, too. So Cotton Ed scores another time as a lawyer. I voted for restrictions and control, but common sense tells me that we are not producing too much food or cotton if our government must still appro priate billions of dollars for our needy people. Our Government has spent many billions of dollars, but as I write this our farm products are selling for less than in th e time of Mr. Hoover, for we are sell ing for a fifty cent dollar. Does it seem that we are grappling sensibly with the problem by reducing pro duction while our own people are alhungered? Now if Cotton Ed made the remark that it was the business of the Congress, not the Executive, to legis late, he deserves a vote of thanks. Does the good Doctor know that at one time our Congress was so honeycombed with “me-toos” that on e Senator intro duced a bill without having a copy of it, standing in his place in the Senate and handing to the clerk a folded newspaper as a bluff until the President could send him a copy of what .he wanted. What says the Doctor to that? I don’t believe Cotton Ed would do that; I don’t believe he would be such a tool. Such a servile attitude disgraces the Senate. I shall vote for E. D. Smith because he had the backbone to think for himself when most of those about him were climbing on to the band-wagon and reaching for a horn. From the days of my childhood I have been taught that a man musit do what he thinks is right; that manhood proves itself by conscientious conduct. I may not think that the mantle of Socrates has fallen on Cotton Ed; but I recognize a real man when I see him and for that I can vote for E. D. Smith; and I shall do so with the conviction that I prov e myself worthy of my citizenship when I support a man who tacts like a man. I am not a 100 per cent. Smith man; I am not any body’s man; I am my own man. When a man is right I support him; when he is wrong I don’t support him. I am no blind partisan. In this case I shall vote for Smith because I se e a question of principle which overshadows everything else. I know and like the other gentlemen in th e race; I am making no fight on them; but I do believe that a vital principle of citi zenship requires me to support a man who remembers the tradition of our fathers more than the crumbs of favor. President Wilson regarded little Uruguay as the most progressive nation in the world, so far as juris prudence was concerned. I can think of one very simple plan that was in effect in Peru many years ago that we .haven’t tried yet. Lima is the capital of Peru. It is quite a city. The daily papers publish each day at the upper right corner of the first pag e “Botiras de tumo”, meaning the drug stores which will remain open all night dur ing the week. One drug store in each ward remains open. Why don’t w e try something like that? In our little towns why should not one store take a turn, letting the others close at a good hour? Years ago the Reverend Baltimore Griddle orga nized “The Sons and Daughters of I Will Arise” and sold insurance to many of his colored bretheren. His seductive slogan was “Pay at the grave”. Last week another genius blossomed forth, this time in Manning. While the body of the insured Colored brother rested in the church and the packed crowd of mourners gaz ed sadly on the sorrowing w’dow an insurance agent passed three checks to the widow in plain view of all. For overwhelming advertising that should give Brother Etchineon of The State something to mull over. ENROLL! You can’t exercise your citizenship effectively unless you vote. QUALIFY TO VOTE. You might just as well b e a foreigner living in America as a native son who can't vote. Tall men in Atlanta, Go.., have started a campaign against low awnings. And not a news story about the campaign was headlined: “Tall Men Hit Canvas.” —N. E. A. THE SUN REVIEW of NEW BOOKS PAUL B. CLARK, PH. D. 1735 Woodburn Ave. Covington, Ky. HISTORY OF THE A. E. F. By Maurice de Castelbled. Bookcraft, New York. This history is compiled from re cords of the War Deparment Order at Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War, and from the Final Report of General John J. Pershing. It gives the causes that led up to the declaration of war, the war aims of the United States as stated by President Wilson, and the British and French missions arriving in the U. S. to urge the dire need for the immediate dispatch of men and supplies to Europe. The organiza tion of the A. E. F. is outlined; the A. E. F. caugulty; the A. E. F. in action on the various fronts. The Final Report of General John J. Pershing takes up the employment of American divisions from March to September, 1918, Assembling the First Amercan Army, St. Mihiel Operation, Meuse-Argonne Opera tion, American Troops in Itply, Rus sia, Germany; and the Return of Troops to the United States. Divi sional (shoulder) Insignia comes next in the book, followed by the or ganization and movememt overseas of certain divisions. Th e A. E. F. decorations are given; also maps of the various fronts. THE MEANING OF MOODY. By Whitwell Wilson. Fleming H. Re- vell. New York. 151 Pages. $1.50. This unique volume is not another biography of this great man; it is what it claims to be—an interpreta- tion_ of what Dwight L. Moody means to us today. His fame remains; it blends with the race, says the author. He is unravelling the essential fact in Moody’s life that places him among the universal and the immor tals; his soul goes marching on. Many citations might be quoted to catch the drift of the author’s mind; one such sentence closes the chapter entitled “The Ambassador”: “This man came to God, knew God, obeyed God, and became an ambassador of God to his fellow men.” He always insisted in th e validity of Ihda own credentials; his authority was the authority of God; his commission was to get man to meet God; life to him meant eternal life; not the kind that begins to be worth living after death but the kind that has already become worth living in the here and now. The author proves beyond all peradven- ture of doubt that Moody was ir. life one man that knew where he stood; unmistakably, unswervingly, he believed In God; he believed in his mission to a world he believed to be lost without the knowledge he him self had to give it if it would only listen. The Moody Bible Institute in Chicago stands as one monument to him; the author speaks of many other many tasks and incidently mentions the fact that “he becomes big enough for whatever job might lie ahead of him.” CHINESE WOMEN YESTERDAY AND TODAY. By Florence Ays- cough. Houghton Mifflen. China, the biggest thing on the map, the Old China, the New China, the China at war with Japan, espec ially Chinese women are herin de picted in their traditions, their reli gions, their customs, their transi tions, etc. Part one discusses Child hood: Then and Now; Girlhood: Then and Now; Marriage, Education, Pro fessions, Communist Women, The Shifting Scene, and The Three Sis ters: Remarkable Women of China Today—the ladies of the Soong fam ily, Mrs. H. H. Kung, Mrs. Sun Yat- sen, and Mrs. Chiang Kai-shik. Parts Two deals mainly with artists, poets painters, women warriors, educators, etc. Part Three enlarges upon social customs: The Standards within Bat- en-door, The Way of Maidens, Hus band and Wife, Wives, Mothers, etc. The book concludes with a key to the plan of a typical Chinese house of the better class, a chronological post script of the dynasties, a bibliagraphy and index. This book will prove helpful to any student or reader who is anxious to understand China in transition.The book abounts with folksongs which the author has translated so as to maintain the Chinese idiom; the illus trations which are also numerous are taken from Chinese books. Chinese philosophy, centering around the YIN the Negative Essence, and the YANG, the Postive Essence, is explained, to gether with many other fine points. Facts: “Slavery also has been pro nounced illegal . . . Parents sell little children to keep them alive. Evil men moreover lurk in the streets of country towns and villages, lure little girls with toys and sweetmeats, sweep them away to big cities, and sell them to those who buy domestic or to brothels,” recorded on page 71. FORMER NEWBERRIAN PASSES IN NEW YORK Ellis E. Williamson died Wednes day, June 24, in Mohawk, N. Y., at the home of Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Neundorf where he went on a vaca tion. Mr. Williamson formerly lived in this city on Harrington street and was known here by many. He was born in Union, January 16, 1901, a son of Mrs. Euna D. Williamson and the late Ellis E. Williamson. FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1938 SMITH-or WALTER WHITE Frederick William Wile, who writes “Washington Observations” in the Washington Star, says that the Rooseveltian fight on E. D. Smith is based “not alone on hie oppoeition to the Roosevelt court plan” but that it is made because “the negroes of the United States are moat bent on re moving him from public life.” The New Deal is dependent on the votes of negroes in the North. “The Society for the Advancement of the Colored People has three sepa rate grudges against ‘Cotton Ed’ ” (we quote Mr. Wile), his objection to the selection of a negro to pray in the national Philadelphia conven tion, his protest against the choice of a negro congressman to second Mr. Roosevelt’s nomination, these incidents being “symbols” of the Democratic capture of the Northern negro vote and the cause of Smith’s walking out of the convention, and his active opposition to the anti-lynch- ing bill, so-called. Let no one think that these actions by Senator Smith in Philadelphia were a hot-headed outburst of “pre judice” against negroes. They were nothing of the kind. Smith’s feeling about the negroes is that of the aver age Southern man <rf decent instincts. His conduct in Philadelphia express ed hia swift and accurate recognition that the national Democratic party had “gone negro”, that no longer could it be relied on as the fortress of the South against the determined and unceasing effort of the Walter White negroes to destroy the white people’s control In the Southern states. The apearance of the negro clergy man and the negro congressman in conspicuous posts in the convention Smith recongnized as the national Democratic party’s capitulation to the Northern negroes, and experi enced congressman that he is, he in stantly perceived that the day when Northern and Western Democrats, men like William Jennings Bryan, Stone, and Reed of Missouri, Kem of Indiana, O’Gorman of New York— all the Northern Democrats—stood with Tillman, John Sharpe ^Williams, Simmons of North Carolina and him self on Southern questions, had pass ed. That is why he “walked out.” He saw that the old effort of the ‘seven ties is on again, this time to be car ried on insidiously and adroitly, and that to awaken the South be had to walk out. How surely he saw the truth Is now proved by the invasion of South Carolina by Labor’s Non-Partisan Lague, a strictly political organiza tion composed of Northern whites and negroes, to “engage actively” in a South Carolina primary for the pur pose of defeating Smith. This capture of the Nortihen Demo cratic party by the negroes bas been seen and declared by the junior sena tor of South Carolina, Mr. Byrnes, who said on the floor of the senate last January that “the negroes con trol the Democratic party.” This issue is clear. Do with it what you will, Voters of South Caro lina. If you vote against Smith you vote for the. victory of Walter White of the Society for the Advancement of the Colored People. There are no two ways about it.—From the News and Courier. Columbia July 18.—Preliminary tabulation of bids received today by the state rural electrification autho rity on construction of 226 miles of rural power lines indicated that J. B. Britton of Sumter was low bidder, A. J. Beattie, secretary of the authority said. Britton bid $181,907 on the work which will be done in Colleton, Calhoun, Richland, Florence, Wil liamsburg, Darlington, Marlboro, and Dillon counties. SOME EXAMPLES OF CONSERVING NATURAL BEAUTY In a small town in North Carolina, the local beauty spot was about to be sold to a sawmill. The enchanting glen, where a white sprite of water fall leapt into a gorge wooded with ancient beeches and hemlocks, was to be laid waste. After that, stumps and gullies, weeds and desolation. Gone would be the trembling maid enhairs, the atarry trilliums. With out the high forest canopy, azalea, dogwood, laurel and rhododendron would bloom no more. Mockingbirds and redbirds would shun the waste, never again to pour their rapture above the singing falls. The Garden Club of Tryon, this town of only 1500 people, went into action. Money was needed—and try to borrow from a banker with a brook for your security and orchids for tagible assets! The clubwomen were not wealthy—and waiting at the entrance to the glen was the lumber company, with cash and with sarws. Four thousand miles away a nat uralist, who had spent some of bis happiest hours at tins waterfall, heard of the impending disaster. He wrote from memory the story of every bird and tree, shrub and flower in that living green museum. The ladies took his plea, and their own, to a civic minded local citizen who dug into his depression-thinned pocket for the money to buy the glen. The Garden Club women are paying him off with admission receipts, by the sale of the naturalist’s guide book, and by garden shows and other enter tainments. This was conservation on a small scale. But conservation begrins at home. There is something everyone can do about it. Perhaps like Tryon your town has a beauty spot endan gered or neglected—a wood, an is land a lake. Is it safe for posterity, or is it liable to selfish destruction? Are they dumping junk in the ra vine ? Are the ferns v and jack-in the-pulpits diminishing under the greedy hands of the snatchers? Re cently a complacent marauder as sures me that I would find no more of the stately lotus in the Calumet district of Indiana, as he himself had “cleaned out the last of them years ago!” Your river—is it still lively with game fish, or is factory waste killing every aquatic creature? In America’s national park Nature ■has been saved for the populace by Uncle Sam. Local government can suplement them with sanctuaries and playgrounds nearer home. Cook county, Illinois, which is mostly Chi cago, moved in tim to save its love ly woods from “development.” bought up river courses and small lakes, and linked them together in a green girdle where one can walk for hours on lovely trails without meet ing anyone but squirrels. True, Cook county is big and rich. Yet a small Indiana town bought up a pretty little lake, unsightly with junked cars and shot over by duck poachers, and made it a recreation spot for a whole community and cm island of safety for waterfowl. In Virginia a county set aside a tract of woods as a wildflower preserve. Paradise Key in Florida, was a most beautiful everglade island In the country, the outpost of some of the rarest of tropical plants. The var ious proposals for disposing of It included turning it into an experi mental station, a cornfield, a site for a bungalow town, grounds for a palace hotel, a sportsman’s club. In stead, the women’s clubs of Florida bought it and presented it to the state, to be kept as God made it. There is little doubt that as the lovli- in Florida it many times has repaid in tourist SUMTER MAtf BIDS LOW ON CONTRACT QUESTION FOR MR. OLIVER When vice-president Oliver of La bor’s Non-Partisan political party arrives in South Carolina to “engage actively” 'for the nomination of Governor Johnston, ask him what his party thinks of the demand by a de legation of CIO automobile workers upon a hotei in Lansing, Michigan, to entertain four negro delegates and whether or not he would approve a similar demand on the Poinsett ho tel in Greenville, S. C.?—News and Courier. esrt thing the state traffic. Perhaps your town has a piece of tax-delinquent woodland. Many a Eu ropean community owns a town for est which, judiciously harvested, pays most of the taxes. Recently, in one of our mountain villages where handi craft toys are made, I was told that lumber costs kept the price of the toys high. Yet the local newspaper was full of notices of the sale of woodlots by the sheriff. These might yield firewood, timber for community buildings, lumber for the toy Indus try, and golden hours of recreation for everybody. Conservation means conserving not only growing things, but wild life as well. All of us, for example, can do something for the birds. It was difficult for a certain man In Louisiana to make an old backwater into a sanctuary where come even the rare and stately egrets. But a poor man in Iowa simply turned an old cattle wallow into his private paradise of wings by fencing it off and scattering grain. You may have no more than a win dow sill, but you can feed the birds, and help get rid of the starving, wretched stray cats -who are the fore most bird killers. When you plant trees, don’t plant all of one kind; monotonous forestation makes for thin avian population. Dead hollow trees should b e left standing; they are the nesrtion sites for bluebirds and woodpeckers, swallows and owls. When you take away their homes, they have no choice but to leave you, and up goes the rodent and insect population. Leave the vines, cedars and milk weed along the fences, for only un der such covert can the bdbwhdte live. All over the country, in spring, the well-intentioned set brush fires, killing the nativ e vegetation and let ting in gangster plants—ragweed, burdock, and thistle. My neighbors smarted their fire so late that it caught the fround birds in nesting season. We found pheasant eggs and song-sparrow? chicks roasted in their cradles. .Statutes are toothless and with out public support. Th e man who breaks the conservation laws is a thief, stealing from the public heri tage, and he should be condemned as such. Yet I know a southern banker who has spies telephone him from the local lake whenever wood duck alight. The government has closed the season on these beautiful It litle suvivors the year round; the banker thinks it a joke to serve them at his table. Public opinion should run that joke out of town. The law of public opinion is its own police force. Around our nat ional capital the dogwood, Virginia’s state flower and the glory of the Maryland hills, was rapidly vanishing as truckloads rolled to market. The Wildflower Society started a pub- lisity campaign each spring asking to help save the dogwood by neither buying nor picking any. The cam paign was a complete success. We need Nature, just as it needs us. A woman in Massachussetts, be reaved, crippled, on the verge of los ing her reason, was brooding on her misfortunes when a chickadee alight ed on her window, which overlooked a woodlot. She gave him crumbe, and he gave her hope. The sill became an unofficial station wher e birds were fed, banded, recorded. Today the woodlot is a bird santuary, ad ministered by trustees, its floral and feathered beauty preserved for pos terity. In Louisiana there is a regular business in game poaching. Wood cock are illegally hunted with lights at night, or baited and trapped then sold to northern hotels and “sports men’s” clubs. These game bootleg gers are often otherwise criminal. Biological Survey men in a battle which left some of them severely wounded, recently arrested a ring of southern game hogs, all of them al ready wanted for murder or larceny. You can back up such men ns those who caught the criminals by buying a “duck srtamp” for a dollar at your post office. Each issue is a philatelic item, for a famous artist engraves a new on e each year, and all unsold on December 31st have to be destroyed. The dollar goes to pay wardens, feed game animals in time of scarcity, and establish refuges. Complacently we say to ourselves that conservation is a good thing, “but what can I personally do about it?” Plainly, we can do a good deal, For personal conscience is the begin ning of conservation. And when conscience moves you to save wild life, the sheltering trees, the fowl of the air, the waters upon the earth, “and all that in them is,” you are saving America. Announcements CONGRESS I hereby announce myself as a can didate for congress in the third con gressional district of South Caroli and pledge myself to support 1 nominees of the party and abide the results of the primary. BUTLER B. HARE, “ ‘ SUTLER 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 hereby announce myself a candi date for Th e House of Representa tives and agree to abide 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 th e 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 anu 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. v ly) 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 I hereby announce myself a candi 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 1 and pledge my self to abide by the results of the Democratic primarv. 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 I hereby announce myself a candi date for Magistrate of District No. 4 and agree to abide the results of the Democratic primary. W. D. HATTON