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1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year . |1.00 Published Every Friday Entered as second-clasp matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. PASS THE LUDLOW RESOLUTION No time should be lost after the next congress convenes in passing the Ludlow resolution to keep the United States put of foreign wars. This resolution, if adopted, would deprive congress of the power to declare war and bestow it upon the people. If it becomes a part of our basic law the people who do the dirty work in war will decide whether they would fight somebody else’s wars. The presi dent would be required, upon threat of war by this country, to call a re ferendum to let the voters decide whether they desired to send their boys into the trenches! We can think of nothing that will more effectually prevent our govern ment repeating the tragic mistake of 1917 than this same Ludlow resolu tion. If the question of peace or war is left to the people of this land, as it ought to be, we are dead certain that the United States will never fire another gun to pull foreign chest nuts oat of the fire. The need for adoption of this reso lution was emphasized by two recent events. Speaking to the commons in London, just after his return from Godesburg Mr. Chamberlain indulged in rather fulsome praise of the part Mr. Roosevelt played in the so-called peace of Munich. Mr. Chamberlain was not talking for nothing—he knows how easily American states men “fall” for foreign flattery. At about the same time the Wash ington Herald carried on its first x page the streamer “Roosevelt Plea Halts War.” The first paragraph read: “This nation’s capital went to bed last night assured that the ef forts of its president, Franklin De lano Roosevelt, had halted the world’s march toward war.” Of course, that is nothing but news paper twaddle but it’s a straw in the wind; if the president can ‘halt’ world war what would he do if he THE TERRIBLE COST OF WEAKNESS fe haven’t for( cept uS i v‘ forgotten how Woodrow Wilson kept u& out of war in 1917. We should never again make the blunder of allowing one man and his congress to send United States young men to their death without the con sent of those young men. Passage of the Ludlow amendment would fwevaot a repetition of this of 1917. NOTICE FOR BIDS The Newberry County Board of Commissioners will receive sealed bids on or before noon Saturday, Oct ober 22nd, 1938, for one light weight Sedan automobile, price to include the exchange of the present Chevro let sedan now used by the County Supervisor. ' Bids will be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, the right being reserved to reject any and all bids. H. H. RUFF, Supervisor Newberry, S. C. October 15th, 1938. 2t ; ' On Your Next Paint Job TRY Atheys R. M. LOMINACK Hardware The awful price which the so-call ed democracies of Europe have paid for the alleged peace of Munich shows what happens to militarily weak nations when they get in the way of dictators. After that pig of a Hitler had gained at the bargain counter the heat part of a small na tion’s territory, h e began to make other demands which could not be re sisted. These demands have result ed in the virtual disappearance of a European democracy the forced resig nation of its president and the loss by France of her place as a military power of first rank on the continent. And the end is not yet. No one can predict how many more concessions will have to be made by Britain and France to placate the mad-dog of Europe. The lesson of this catastrophe should not be lost on the people of the United States. If thoy are weak, they invite attack; if they are strong and powerful and will fight for their homeland, dictators will stay at a respectable distance. A powerfully armed United States is the best insurance on earth against the aggressions of dictators. A navy that would surpass in pow er and fighting ability the combined navies of the world; a standing army of one million highly trained fighters, a national guard reserve of four mil lion men similarly trained; a fight ing air fleet whose numbers would darken the sun when they rose from the ground—this should* be our goal in armament. Nothing less will serve adequately a great country like ours while the old world democracies are being run into their holes by power-mad dictators. MURDER BY MOTOR CAR DECLINES Murder by the motor car is on the decline, according to the National Safety Council. Traffic accident fa talities for the past nine months have registered a steady decline. This de cline has taken place in the face of a slight increase in mileage figures, All of which seems to indicate that the speed crazed mass of forty mil lion drivers, known as the motoring public, is slowly awakening to a new found responsibility—safe driving. Possibly the average driver is dis covering that the modem high speed automobile can be a vehicle of hor rible death as well as of comfort and convenience. If so, a great stride is being made toward the day when once again the family car can be trundled out for a weekend holiday with reasonable assurance that all will return intact. Sooner or later, the motoring pub lic will have to get the fact thru Its head that the present slaughter on highways is criminally needless. As was recently pointed out by the New York Times, “it will have to learn that murder by motor—although it may not lead to the chair—is still murder and that it is the part of good morals, good sportsmanship and good citizenship to drive and walk safely.” JAMES N. SLIGH DIES IN COLUMBIA Funeral services for James Nolan Sligh, 65, Spanish War veteran who died Thursday afternoon at the vet eran’s hospital in Columbia after a long illness, were held at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the graveside in Rosemont cemetery, conducted by the Rev. E. Bryan Keisler. Mr. Sligh was th e son of the late N. C. Sligh and Sallie Cannon Sligh. He was a Mason, a member of Amity lodge. He is survived by a nephew, Dun can Farrow, of Columbia. Weigh and Store Your COTTON WITH THE FARMER'S BONDED WAREHOUSE Loan Cotton Classed and Contracts Made Out Free Prompt Service Rendered Cotton Ed is being censured for his outburst in Washington. On the face of it, as the dispaches inform us, it seems as though the Senator was suf fering from a barbecue such aa lifts a plain man to the dizzy heights of a king of old. My appreciated friend, Barnwell of the Highway Depart ment, will vouch for me in saying that the barbecue of White’s Streamliner in Manning will make any man defy Hitler or Mussolini and even Chief Flowers, with all his billy and big guns. But for the Spectator—if he had gone to seek a job for one of us hench men of his, it would be clear that he should stand outside with hat in hand, however much we might urge him to enter and beard the lion in his den— and all that; but when thousands and hundreds of thousands of disappoint ed, disgusted, and disgruntled farmers wrote, called, yelled, and howled for help, do you wonder that the Senator thought this was a matter of great urgency? Might not the President of the United States be interested to grant relief to these fathers of fam ilies who are trying sturdily to feed their families by honest sweat, and pay their taxes and sustain their communities? In this great country of ours if there a man before whom all official doors should open it is the man who is trying to earn his bread and meat in the good old way. Suob men are rare and growing rarer every day. • Dignified, literary language has limitations which cramp my style for the moment. I know men who could say what I have in mind in few words, but my! Wouldn’t they blaze to a literary luminosity! —Oh, well, I’ll have to stick to the dictionary. There 1® great concern in Washing ton for the WPA and for the under privileged—on relief—but a horny- handed fellow trying to be his own man, well, some of those officials are a lot of incorrigible, spiritually dee- si ca ted abnormalities who should be hurled into the unfathomable profun dities of innocuous desuetude. I don’t know what this amounts to, but it has given me relief—but not of the WPA brand. . Summed up in a few words, I un derstand how the Senator felt.. He knew that poor men were selling their cotton and that every minute was pre cious. We are two months too late as it is. The Senator thought that honest meat of millions of men justified crashing any gate. I agree with him. And the Senator knew that the Government is lending Western farm ers fifty-seven cents a bushel on corn, though com is selling—or was—at forty-five cents. Cotton Ed probably remembers that the President publicizes the pov erty of the South, but gives more money to Pennsylvania than to all the Southern Stater, combined. Ten million people of rich Pennsyl vania are given more Government money than thirty million of the poor South. So perhaps Senator Smith felt that no dignity was equal to the call of a million people in distress. I read my County paper and I probably read yours, too. The editors are very real persons to me, not just an impersonal “we.” When you read Spectator you know that you have only one man to whip, if he offends you; but when Doctor Dreher fires a broadside and slays 'em right and left you hesitate to tackle the editorial “we,” lest it be a dozen brawny fellows with foot ball hair. I don’t read by County paper as a favor to the editor; I read it to see what’s going on. Friends get sick; kin people die; Bill buys a new car and Sam John had a run-in with a triffic cop, and the county paper car ries notices. Say farmers, I have to read what the County agent writes in order to know what’s coming next. May be a check. Here’s hoping, you know. I don’t know how those boys figger those checks; I take mine every time and do the kicking after wards. It’s like the docs. You ask for a looking over. “Doc” pinches your knee, punches you in the “stomick”, knocks you in the head, looks sad and worried, writes a little Latin for something nasty but expensive—and you take it—and like it. I subscribe to many copies of my County paper and pay for them. They serve a great purpose. I am a May correspondent and just can’t write letters about the little details of life’s routine, the things that really inter est one’s friends and kindred. So I send the County paper to my sister in Florida, my brothers in this State and Pennsylvania and some “in-laws” here, and about. Instead of dull and occasional postal cards from me they have long weekly visits, with all the news of home. People read their County papers. Some months ago I wrote a word of appreciation of my greatly esteemed friend, Mr. J. R. Fairey of Fort Motte. Several weeks later Mr. Fairey re ceived the little tribute from a friend in a distant State who clipped it from a South Carolina paper. But I do more than read the County paper; I urge my colored tenants to subscribe to the paper—and they do. I want them to know what is going on so they won’t become victims or rumors and lies. I wish the Comity paper were In every home; no other paper carries so much local matter; and it could be even more useful if supported liberally. It isn’t the editor I’m dunking of; most people don’t ever think of him, though he comes nearer to being the very soul of the whole town than any one else. His sympathy pervade* all the community, all sects, creeds, and interests. No, I’m not thinking of the editor, bat of the County. How would you get in touch with your County quickly? Would you write a letter to every man, woman and child ? Would you print and circulate ten thousand large posters? Much better to have a handy vehicle of communi cation with all the County. That’s what the County paper is—the bond of communicatkxn for all the county. The farmers are dissatisfied with the present farm control, or crop con trol arrangement. But what can be done about it ? Am we to do away with the whole plan of control? Many are ready to advocate full indepen dence and unhampered production, perhaps with some kind of subsidy. But there’s the rub! Subsidy for what and subsidy based on what? We know that the industrial wages in this country are high, the highest in the world. We know that these high wages are based on high prices received for the products produced by industry. We know that our in dustries are protected from foreign dumping by * high protective tariff. We know that virtually every thing bought by the farmer is protected by the tariff. But the farmer is not protected by the tariff. Nor can he control production except approxi mately. For example, I planted more cotton this year on more acres and used more fertilizer per acre, yet pro duced about thirty per cent less cotton then last year. The censes were be yond my control. A manufacturer can control his output much more accurately than con a farmer, might under favorable conditions plant 30 per cent less cotton next year and produce more \than this year. So a subeidy is die means suggested to offset the special favor of the tariff to industry. Now what shall we do? Is the present plan a failure because poor ly conceived, or is it badly adminis tered? Perhaps both, but I have bad occasion to spend a lot of time with those who administer the agricul tural law and my observation is that every County office is swamped with papers and reports and reguations, and the State office is buried under a mountain of papers, but that all au thority is concentrated in Washing ton. Now that is an impossible condition. In each County may be seen such ab surd conditions «a make one’s blood boil, yet the County agent has no authority to do anything but forward reportal It looks like Five T he vast Buick factory is a grand place to visit, these days. Down the roaring aisles, throughout the sprawling bays there’s a feeling of great things happening. They’re building something ultra, here at Buick, and they know it. /t looks like five years from now, they’ll say of this dazzling 1939 Buick, and they’re not talking of appearance only. of new visibility—up to 413 square inches more glass in SPECIAL and CEN* They’re talking of “catwalk-cooling” that floods aw under forced draft to ease the temperature of your engine. They’re talking of BuiCoil springing and the soft shock-smothering spirals that give you the true “full float” ride. They’re talking of that Dynaflash great eight engine, instant with life and wring ing good from every drop of fuel. They’re talking of wheels that camber to let you take the curves more safely— TURY models. They’re talking a, thousand and one de tails of Buick that you’ll never know nor need to know but that to their schooled eyes spell a better built automobile. You can see this car they’re talking of at the nearest Buick showroom. When you do see it, think of what the men who built it are saying, not boast fully, but with quiet sureness. They know. And they’re saying, “Looks fine for ’39!” ★ * ★ ★ NO OTHER CM IN THE WORLD HAS ALL THESE FEATURES * DYNAFUSH VALVE-IN-HUD STRAISHT-HCHT ENGINE ★ BUICOIL TOMUE-NKE SPRINGING * GRUTER VISIBILITY ★ HANDKHIET TRANSMISSION ★ ROOMIER UHISTEU BODIES BY FISHER ir TORQUE-TUBE DRIVE ★ TIPTOE HYDRAULIC BRAKES if CROWN SPRING CLUTCH ★ "CATWALK-COOLING" if OPTIONAL REAR AXLE GEAR RATIOS ★ FLASH-WAY DIRECTION SIGNAL * SELF-RANKING KNEE-ACTION FRONT SPRMOMG DAVIS MOTOR COMPANY 1515-17 Main Street Newberry, South Carolina The South Carolina National Bank CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION SEPTEMBER 28,1938 ASSETS LIABILITIES Cash and Due from Banks...$13,470,329-46 Capital—Preferred $1,200,000.00 U. S. Government Bonds 6,641,627-87 Capital—Com. State and Municipal Bonds... 557,290.23 P* idin $1,000,000.00 Other Bonds and Securities... 27,370.00 Earned 100,000.00 1,100,000.00 Federal Reserve Bank Stock... 78,000.00 Surplus: Earned 300,000.00 Loans and Discounts 14,025,487.28 Undiv’d Profits Banking Houses (12) 502,925.00 Earned... 444,976.85 Furniture and Fixtures— Ressrve: Retir’t 15 Offices 1105,670.32 Preferred Stock Other Real Estate 121,386.60 Earned... 216,000.00 Other Assets 13,911.87 Total Earned Sur plus, Und. Profits and Pref. Stock Retirement Fund 960,976.85 Earned Reserves: Depreciation— BANKING HOUSES AND AC CCA, 04 OTHER REAL ESTATE T Accrued Inrerest and Taxes 34,620.49 Other Reserves 7,530.31 Total Earned Res’vs 87,704.84 DEPOSITS 32,195,316.94 $35,543,998.63 $35,543,998.63 ANDERSON COLUMBIA NEWBERRY BAMBERG DILLON PICKENS : OFFICES AT BELTON FLORENCE SENECA CHARLESTON GREENVILLE ST. MATTHEWS CHERAW LEESVILLE SUMTER