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PAGE POTJft THE BUN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1938 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. Spectator COMMENTS Why The Difference? We note from the Columbia Record that WPA is paying 80 per cent of the cost of paving in the Capital city whereas it is only bearing 45 per cent of the total cost of the paving now being done here. There must be some good explana tion for this difference. Citizens of Newberry contribute as much to ward the upkeep of the federal gov ernment per capita as the people of Columbia. Here is a clipping from the Colum bia Record of November 19th. Who can enlighten us ?: Funds providing for 80 percent of the total paving under the Works Progress Administration program have been deposited with the city of Columbia treasurer. Records in Treasurer B. E. Ab rams’ office today showed that prop erty owners had deposited $80,412, which provides for spending $640,000 on the WPA paving project. Under the WPA program the property owner furnishes 12 1-2 per cent, the city a like amount and the WPA 75 per cent of the cost. One job has been completed, the 1000 block of Hampton avenue, and the Harden street extension will be completed as soon as the asphalt is poured. Medals and a Trip Home demonstration agent, Miss Ethel Counts, has received two hand some gold medals from the state 4-H Girls’ Club leader, Mrs. Harriet F. Johnson, to be presented to Dorothy Johnson, Chappells club, and Helen Goggans, Hartford club, for out standing club work and participation in contests. These were conducted by the Extension service the past year and were made possible through the interest of two large business eoncerns who are cooperating to further 4-H Club work among more than 1,000,000 members in the nation. Sara Mae Kinard who won the state trip to Chicago offered by refrigerator manufacturer, will join the party of delegates to the Nation al Club Congress at Spartanburg on Saturday, November the 26th, and return on December 4th. The winning of this trip is quite an honor and should be an inspiration to 4-H club members to be faithful in their work and encourage them to participate in all activities. Soil Payments Under The Tripple A Despite the emphasis that has been placed on soil-building practice payments by the county agricultural conservation association, few farm ers realize the extent' to which this added income could increase the total payments to their farms under the 1938 Agricultural Conservation Pro gram, according to Acting County Agent, J. L. King. The office of R. W. Hamilton, ad ministrative officer, AAA, estimates the 1939 minimum and maximum soil-building allowance for South Carolina on a 100 per cent partici pation to be well over the $2,000,000 mark. The minimum allowance es timated for the state was $2,197,000 whereas the maximum allowance was $2,553,000. The minimum allowance estimated for Newberry County was $52,000 and the maximum allowance was $61,000. This means that New berry county farmers, by participat ing 100 per cent in the improvement and conversation of the soils ferti lity , will be helped to bear the ex pense of such improvement by from $52,000 to $61,000. Farmers who have not carried out sufficient soil-building practices to earn their full allowance, may still do so by seeding winter legumes. On Your Next Paint Job TRY Atheys R. M. LOMINACK Hardware Let’s Not Get Excited We are afraid the President is sticking his neck out a bit too far in this German-Jewish trouble. We only hop>e and pray he doesn’t stick it out so far that our young men will have to do some fighting to save his face. Let us keep our shirts on, remember ing that Mr. Roosevelt has long sought an excuse for building a large war machine. And remembering too that but for the clever propaganda of 20 years ago some 150,000 Americans would have been spared death on for eign battlefields. No one but the most heartless can be indifferent to the suffering of the Jews the world over, but we can not bring ourselves to feel more concern for them than for some other units of the human family even more sorely oppressed. The actual loss of life of the Jew in . Germany has been slight while on the other hand in China hundreds of thousands of peace-loving people have been wantonly slaughtered by an invader whose only purpose is greed. This slaughter, which yet continues, has elicted only the exchange of a few Gaston and Alphonse notes from our government and seemingly little con cern from the people. The burning of Jewish synagogues is bad but it is no worse than blasting to splinters Chinese temples and shrines. If we are to play big brother to the oppressed of the world we should be no respector of nationalities. Viewed by our standards of freedom there is hardly a nation whose people are not oppressed in one form or another. Are we ready to police the world? The Jew knows and understands so much better than the rest of us why he is now and has always been persecuted. He knows that it is the price he must pay to keep his nat ionality. Just as Americans have suffered to remain Americans, Eng lishmen to remain Englishmen, or Frenchmen to remain Frenchmen. It is the price all races must pay when they are unwilling to be absorbed or “melted”. Had our forefathers been unwilling to fight and suffer for their new-found liberties we would today be subjects of George instead of free Americans. Testing Breeding Flock May Avoid Loss Newberry county poultrymen can avoid ^possible serious chick losses next spring by having the birds se lected lor next year’s breeders tested this fall for pullorum disease, says acting County Farm Agent, J. L. King. Pullorum disease, or bacillary white diarrhea, kills more young chicks than any other one disease, ac cording to poultry specialists of the U. S. Department of Agricultue. This disease passes from the hen to the chick through the egg, and the best way to control it is to cull out all infected breeding stock. Eliminating pullorum disease from farm and commercial flocks is one of the main points in the program of the National Poultry Improvement Plan adopted by many South Caro lina poultrymen. Testing the flocks for the disease is a job for a train ed person, says Mr. King and this service may be obtained from Clem- son Livestock Sanitary Department at Columbia. Other objectives under ths Nation al Poultry Improvement Plan are the selection of standardbred flocks that have vigor and the ability to pro duce eggs profitably. The breeding methods outlined in the national plan are desirable for any poultryman, whether he is enrolled under the na tional plan or not, Mr. King points out. BAPTIST YOUTH HIKE WELL ATTENDED I must believe that we have the ability to solve our problem in agri culture. Dr. Gordon Moore used to tell us that a clear statement of a problem is a long step toward a solution. Our cotton problem may be stated very simply: We make more cotton than we can sell profitably, therefore our cotton is selling at too - low a price, That sounds very simple and is of such simplicity that the solution seems to be to plant less cotton. But no one can dismiss the subject so easily. The agriculture of the south is built on cotton; American export trade leans heavily on cotton. Con sider thos% facts. The South is prosperous when an average crop sells at a net profit which affords a livelihood. I mean the sort of liveli hood we are accustomed to, White and Colored, not a theoretical stand ard worked out by dietary special ists and politico-sociologists. That crop means a lot of money to farm hands, cotton-pickers, railroads trucks, merchants!—and, finally, all the other enterprises doing business with us. Since the economy of the South is so intimately related to cotton, and our labor is accustomed to it, it can be seen that a quick change is some thing to be avoided, yet that pre supposes that we make it possible to continue the production of cotton, but on a profitable basis. It should be pointed out that even at the pre sent narrow margin of profit, cot ton yields to hundreds of thousands their daily bread through the plant ing, cultivating and growing seasons and hundreds of thousands of others have been denied the chance to earn their daily bread by the reduction in the production of cotton and its by products. To avoid upsetting the economy of the south, then, we must foster the growing of cotton. It should be noted here, however, that notwithstanding the primacy of cotton as an export, and its enormous value in preserv ing a balance of trade between the United States and foreign countries the government does not discriminate in favor of the cotton farmer; rath er it pays far more to wheat and com growers. So if anyone has the idea that cotton is a crop being unsound ly supported by our national treasury it must be remembered that our whole national agriculture is on the rocks and calling for treasury sub sidies. We have a problem, then, af fecting a whole nation. Our cotton is but a part. No one is suggesting that we discontinue planting wheat and com; the truth is that our well- being as a nation suggests that we plant for great surpluses. To do otherwise is to invite famine. No man can foretell the harvest; nor is it controlled absolutely by the num ber of acres planted. If our nation al defense justifies heavy expendi tures for armament (as it does) our national economic self-sufficiency ar gues against too fine a calculation on crops. Our experience proves that. But holding the question to one of economics, alone, without regard military aspects, we come to suggest ed palliative measures, for the only solution must lie in increased con sumption of cotton; or, at least in creased consumption of American cotton. Some one has suggested that we undersell the foreign producers and protect our growers by a subsidy. The difficulty about that is that for eign spinners would buy below the price of our American spinners. Of course the answer to that is that they are doing so now. It has been hinted that we should regain our foreign market at any cost, protect ing our manufacturers against com petition on this market. Then, again, it is suggested that we have a so- called domestic allotment, by which cotton-growers should receive a pari ty price (sixteen cents) on all cot ton consumed in the United States (about six million bales), letting the rest (about eleven to twelve milion bales) go on the world market at the world price. A friend calls my attention to this: that our wheat and corn producers would thrive and wax rich on a Domestic allotment plan at parity prices because ninety per cent of their crop is consumed here. I present both of the plans now be ing considered most widely. I have no plan of my own. This is no narrowly local question, but a world problem. There are men who know the whole matter in all its phases. I am seeking light. The Intermediate B. Y. P. U., oi the East Side Baptist church enjoyed a hike to the fish hatchery last Fri day afternoon. Those attending wen the Rev. James Mitchell, Mrs. Ruth Kinard, Miss Velma Burton, Mn Leila Suits, Hugh Moates, Murie Mayo, Myrtis Gregory, Dot Reaves Ola Mae Burton, Virginia Smith. Melzie Mae Shealy, Doris Mae Smith, Syble Boozer, Marzelle Booz er, Nellie Ruff, Carolyn Addy, Irene Harmon, Wingard Berry, Carl Bur ton, Kenneth Beaty, Jerry Seasons, and Talmadge Ellisor. FOR SALE: One Circulating oil heat er in first class condition. One used G. E.. cabinet model radio, twelve tubes. Both above in good Condition. SMITH MOTOR COM PANY. 18-3tc what our state does to scare off business. Here is the list, not in cluding tax measures, from 1934 to 1938. No. of Bills and Provisions Resolutions 30 Relating to wages and hours of labor for employees. 8 Creating, providing for, or de fining duties of Department of Labor. 7 Regulating rentals or evictions from mill-owned houses. 7 Regulating or relating to child labor. 6 Relating to unemployment com pensation, 6 Regulating or relating to the work load of employees. 4 Providing codes of fair competi tion for trades. 3 Regulating or relating to indus trial relations. 2 Prohibiting discrimination because of union membership. 2 Providing for or relating to pick clocks. 2 Regulating the assignment of wages. 2 Providing that plants furnish uni forms when required 2 Relating to textile unemployment relief. 1 Prohibiting discrimination in charges for commodities. 1 Requiring screening of plants. 1 Requesting passage by congress of Wagner Bill. I Providing for investigation of cotton mill. 1 Requiring installation of air con ditioning equipment. 1 Requiring installation of elevator service for employees. 1 Relating to contracts between la bor and management. Some of these measures would have proved disastrous. I am unwilling for uninformed people to regard me as a moss-back but I find it hard to understand why we don’t recognize our position as state and accept it in a sensible spirit. When you talk about re trenchment. that is reducing public spending in this state, somebody looks wise and says we mustn’t go back. I find that I have to make my garment out of the cloth I have or am able to buy. Of course I might stretch and strain my credit, but that would either cramp me later, or impair my credit. Isn’t this state just so many of us living together? When the bread-winner has his pay cut, or his business falls off he has to hold Mother and the girls check. Why does not our state try that? Mother and the girls, in the persons of our institutions, are de manding more, though the old man’s crop has been cut one-half. When we went to vote we found “ihis proposed amendment to the State Constitution. It is one of the most involved pieces of circumlocu tion I have run across. The point used to be made that we should have lawyers in public life for the sake of clear thinking and precise statement. Land of Goshen! Here’s the proposed amendment: “Constitutional Amendment to Sec tion 6, Article XI of the Constitu tion so as to Remove Therefrom the Necessity that a Three Mill Property Tax, or other State Wide Property Tax, be levied for School Purposes.” Reads like the morning after the night before. I Some one has been so industrious as to look over the records to see Back To Savagery (Baltimore Evening Sun) The men who were killed in the war were picked men, the very flow er of German youth. They would have been capable of maintaining the high level of civilization to which their ancestors had brought to Germany; and had they lived they would have been men in their for ties and fifties today, therefore, members of the generation running the country. But they, or most of them at any rate, were killed. Naturally, therefore, we have wit nessed a retrogression that has ac celerated as the able old men, who did not go to the front by reason of age, have died. The line recently taken by Germany is familiar to an thropologists. Almost every phase of the Nazi ideology represents a re version to the culture characteristic of primitive tribes. The Aryan doc trine, for example, is nothing but to- temism dressed up a bit. The perse cution of the Jews, ancillary to it, is also a revival of the primitive be lief in the efficacy of the scapegoat. If all the guilt of the war can be heaped on the Jew, and the Jew then killed, according to this magic, the guilt will go with him. Every primi tive race has believed this, including the Jews themselves in the earlist part of their history. The formation of able-bodied Jews into “working corps”, as is now pro posed in Austria, is a revival of slavery, nothing less. And this also is characteristic of primitive cul tures. It is an old,' familiar path that Germany is following. During the war there were millions of Gertnan males who saw no ser vice, not because they were defective, but because they were children. With in a short time these will be men of the dominant generation. People outside of Germany would like to think that Germany at this moment is at, or very near, the lowest point that her degradation will reach, and that the rising generations will re fuse to tolerate such goings-on as those of the last few days. This Nazi reversion to the culture of pri mitive tribes can’t go much further without running into cannibalism, The Hero-State In Action (New York Herald Tribune) If some official of the state should go before the Budget Commission and say something like this: “Gentle men, I know the condition of our farmers and manufacturers and can not conscientiously propose an ap propriation equal to that of the pre sent fiscal year. It seems appro priate to recommend a reduction of our budget in proportion to the re duction In the farmer’s income.” Well, if any man in public office should say that I should watch for the approach of the angel who would be sent to bear him to the heavenly abode. Imagination pictures such an official being suddenly transfigured and translated, with a harp in his hands. Nay, nay; I shall not live to see the miracle. Rather, the officials, not being themselves dependent on a half-crop of cotton at eight cents and a corn crop at thirty cents, are dreaming dreams of expansion of the “program”. I am hopeful that if I should meet any of my friends in a 'happier world (you’ll observe that its my friends I’m worried about) I fervently hope that they will not have a “program” and that no man shall talk to me any “boogets” — budgets. Also I want the words “definite” and “de finitely” stricken from the books for a rest. But I definitely wish there were some relation between a state “progrum” and our private "pro- grum.” New Cars In S. C. Are Fewer This Year Columbia, Nov. 20.—The chief highway commissioner, Ben M. Saw yer, said today the business reces sion apparently had caused a reduc tion of nearly one-half in the number of new automobiles and trucks in South Carolina. In a statement, Sawyer said regis trations for the license year ended October 31 showed 14,926 new pas senger motor vehicles, compared with 29,627 for the proceeding year. New truck registrations totaled 4,- 138, compared with 7,552 the preced ing year. Sawyer asserted: “It appears that the business re cession of the last year caused a drastic reduction in the number of new automobiles and new trucks pur chased by the people of South Caro lina—a reduction of nearly one-half —compared with new motor vehicles purchased during the present ending year. “284,199 motor vehicles of all kinds (automobiles, trucks, trailers and motorcycles) were registered for the lisence year ending October 31, 1937. This is an increase in total registra tions of approximately one-fourth of one per cent.” Because a Polish Jew, suffering under all the brutalities which have in the last two or three years been imposed upon his people, shot and killed a Nazi diplomat in Paris, the citizens of that great, enlightened god-state which is to be a model for all mankind gave themselves a long day yesterday of dynamiting and burning German synagogues, wreck ing and looting Jewish shops and similarly demonstrating the heroic virtues of their culture. One would not have supposed that a single assassination would have been taken so seriously by a nation which only four years ago reorga nized its own government by cold bloodedly and officially assassinating half the most eminent of its own political leaders. One might have thought that a system which has made it a cardinal principle of state to rob, oppress, torture and vilify minority too weak to resist, would have taken it as just a part of the beastly game when one of the victims managed to find a means of strik ing back. One might even have thought that a nation which putts emphasis upon the soldiery quali ties of courage, fortitude and honor would hesitate, just for the looks of the thing, to do all its fighting against the feeble and the helpless. One might have supposed these things. But the ugly child who en joys tying tin cans to the tails of stray cats has rarely failed to shriek with rage and pain when he gets scratched. The gospel of brutality has rarely failed to breed anything but grosser brutality in its devotees. Contempt for the worth and mys tery of the human spirit, in what ever body it may live, has rarely failed to make those who practice it anything other than contemptible. One can understand the new wave of Nazi outrages. What one cannot understand is how even the present masters of Germany can imagine that in permitting this sort of thing they are inviting for their great creation anyhing but the disgust of all civil ized men. Xocl&ty MRS. WILSON HOSTESS TO EMERY CIRCLE Mrs. Frank Wilson was hostess to the Emery Circle Friday morning at the home of Mrs. R. G. Wallace on Caldwell street. In a setting of white and yellow chrysanthemums, four tables were arranged for the guests to play rook. Invited to play with Circle members were Mrs. W. G. Houseal, Mrs. Hugh Senn, Miss Mary Burton, Miss Fan nie Mae Carwile, and Mrs. Fred Dom inick. At noon, a three course luncheon was served. Now! is the time to have your car serviced for cold weather. PRESTONE ZERONE HEATERS YALE Tires and Tubes Battery Service C. D. Coleman Company Phone 400 Youth Learns to Serve Through Junior Red Cross ♦ . v i r "w HTuj School boy members of the Junior Red Cross building furniture as gift* for less privileged youngsters. T RAINING of school children in practical community service Is one of the objects of the Junior Red Cross. More than 9,000,000 school boys and girls in grade, junior and high schools In the United States and Insular possessions are enrolled in the organization. The children carry on a wide va riety of projects of helpfulness not only for underprivileged boys and girls in their neighborhoods, but also for adults in hospitals and homes for the aged. They make gifts and find many personal services they can render. O Junior Red Cross also sponsors ' an international good-will program through exchange of correspond ence with school boys and girls of more than 50 other nations and through sending Christmas Jmxea to the children of many nations. An important feature of the Jun ior Red Cross is the experience the children obtain in directing their own deliberations through school councils and an annual convention, which they conduct under parlia mentary rule without the assistance of their elders. The Juniors also participate In Red Cross disaster relief work through donation of toys, books and other small gifts to the children made homeless through floods, tor nadoes and other catastrophes. Sw’lll afety Is Object Red Cross Training Girls In swimming class learn prone pressure method of resuscitation of victim of drowning. ‘T'VERY year shows Increasing thousands of people engaging in water sports, flocking to beaches and pools, and to unprotected swim ming holes while picnicking and camping. Yet deaths by drowning have shown a steady decline in the past 25 years, until from a former annual death toll of 12,004) persons, now only an average of 7,000 per sons needlessly surrender their lives while at play in the water. " The American Red Cross, which has led in water safety instruction and life saving in the nation for 25 years, attributes this encouraging decline to Increased knowledge of safety rules in swimming, the wide spread knowledge of resuscitation of the drowning person, and In creased protection of the tyro swim mer at beach and pool. Red Cross chapters throughout the nation sponsor training of life savers, and 82,000 persons were trained in this vital knowledge dur ing the past year. The instruction by the Red Cross not only water-proofs the individual swimmer, but it teaches him how he can, with greatest safety to himself, be most helpful in saving the life of a person in distress.