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FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1939 Spectator Tcomments 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. duce so much) at least half of it would have gone out of the county. The cotton mills of Union are worth in local trade aa much as all the agri cultural crops produced in Marlboro, Darlington, Florence, and Union. And if we include salaries paid to execu tives by the mills, we might include O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher The general assembly is in session. Solomon Blatt of Barnwell has been reelected speaker and will be one of that hefty little county of Calhoun, the dominant factors of our state where every man has a full smoke- government. Mr. Blatt is an able man house and owes nothing. and a hard worker. He will do his How we low-countrymen envy the 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. be ^ t0 T^ ee ? t 11 *"** movin ®- rich up-state counties. Month after The Lieutenant Governor J. E. ntll wo doll theT1 We 8Wap Harley, is recuperating at his home. ? heckg) nntll p finally> we sell a bU H* has been one of the best presid- of land or a iece of t5mber * get a ing officers the Senate has had. Dur- do i] ars ing Mr. Ha.ley^ absence the Pres,- From NovPmber t , Anril we vie in dent pro tern, Taylor H. Stakes. ,s thp bp . t rnufflng s0 aa t0 presiding Mr. Stukes is one of the patch touri!ltg . quiet, but effective workers and his long service both in the senate and THE MELTING POTS TASK THE DOG HOUSE AND THE NEW FINANCE A prominent hu'iness man chides in"the"house have* earnedTfor'him ws- an advocate of the sales tar. He is in error; Spectator has not enlisted as a nrononent of the sales pect and confidence. Many Americans will become wrathy over the appointment of Felix Mr. Roosevelt’s arguement in favor Frankfurter, to the supreme court 1 of continued heavy spending to keep bench. Already certain congressmen 1 the recovery machine oiled up and have called Mr. Frankfurter a “Red’', rolling merrily along constitutes a They have affirmed that he has been'novel theory in finance. Carried to associated with certain organiaations J its logical conclusion, a businessman that had their genesis under Com-i facing the dog house would only re- rade Stalin’s cap. I sort to more and increased spending The president has his side of the in order to get himself back on happy question, however. When Mr. Frankfurter ascends the bench he may look to his right or left and behold in his mental eye a days again! Precious few people will be able to comprehend this “new deal’’ in money matters. When a private business It does not seem to occur to manv taT - ^tstor onnose? anv new tax public men that there are no holv or ? 9 wen a * increase of any exist- sacred services supported by the n * * aX- Coming to herd pan, I ad- state. There is no service except that vnrate * survey of what we are now of police protection that is so desir- '"nn-rting snd a reduction of what able as to justify a deficit; certainly we are fostering, there is no such service which would I c * n hardly hone for such a pro- justtfy one penny of additional taxa-1 '’mm as I think both necessary and tion. U that means to restrict any desirable, but some one should have or all public services, then restrict ^be eonr*ge to sneak out so here is them. what T think desirable; 1. Exempt income from invest ments in this tate from the Intangi bles tax; 2. Reduce the Intangibles tax as may be neccessary to be slightly un der New York and other states from same scale as our richer neighbors. We don’t fool anybody but ourselves. Spectator has discussed various proposals for adding to the funds for our general state government, but, beyond presenting the arguments, he does not commit himself. He wishes fervently that there might be enough purposeful commonsense to take a few commonsense steps. Those who are afraid to speak of retrenchment are like a man who is so determined to keep up appear ance* that he dresses in style, at the tailor’s expense. The sales tax has been proposed: sl*o a diversion of gasoline revenue. One. mark vou, would be a new tax: ♦he other a diversion. I think we could hrino. nhnut the anoronriate retrench- '•nent if el, a nr forces would work to- "efhpc if the truckers, the indeuen- Joet me-nlinn+s. fbe American F°der- «Mnu of T.sbor. the Farmers an* Tav- nayars T.eague. the Women’s Organi sations. the Chambers of Commerce, and others, would unite to fight any new tax and anv diversion of ga«o- ennenne * b eu the Teglslaturo nrenl* ent the garment bv the cloth. T* VAweyar these several errouns are seek fighting for or against one tax. tlion there is danwer ot all losing. ’The Oeneeal Aasemhlv wishes to "rtsvo the nnhiic. We are the public, ’■’hot do we want,? ported at length in an Associated Press dispatch from New York February 24, 1988.) on HARE PLAN IS REJECTED Washington, Jan. 18.—The house rejected today a proposal by Repre sentative Hare (Democrat, South Carolina) that fl50,000,000 of federal relief funds be earmarked for the construction of second and third class postoffices. Representative Woodrum (Demo crat, Virginia), opposed the amend ment saying only “one-half of one per cent” of the labor used in such a program would come from the re lief rolls. Most of it, he said, would be skilled labor. CONSERVATIVE TREND NOTED IN TYPE FACE The Congressional Record Cor the newly opened Seventy-Sixth Congress appears in a new typographical “dress”, that is, with a changed set of type faces in its heading. Can it have any political significance? Ob servers already have forecast that this Congress will be more conserva tive than its last three predecessors. But to those who know their printing the artistically re-cut letters on the front of the Record go back not mere ly to the horse and buggy age, but to the horseback and stagecoach era of American journalism.—Christian Science Monitor. George R. Koester of Greenville re cently laid aside his pencil and cross ed into the Great Beyond. He was a great fighter for any cause he es poused—and he believed in causes. Mr. Koester was a man of tr»- which we hope to draw new citizens; meu*nns energy and zeal and in his 3. Reduce tht upper brackets of the white-robed figure stealing silently' fac f? bankruptcy, its banks and other around the Alabama cow pasture at creditors become callous—tiiey shut midnight He can see this figure down as tight as a miser No furth- creep up to the home of an unsuspect- « accommodations areextended. e , , , , - -- .- ing Negro or the home of Jew cost risk 18 worthless. With the debtor writings and talks he labored con- Inheritance tax; a warning notice to clear out and d °wn and out, all claimants then stantlv and well for a sane develop- 4. Reduce the capital stock tax to then slink away in the pitch blackness jump in and try to salvage whatever of the all-enfolding night. | they can from the wreck. Thats the His vision will include the white- le * al ^ of meeting insolvency, robed figure touching off a dynamite' Mr. Roosevelt reverses the process, bomb in the midst of some sleepy j The less you have the more you must town or village, a sign to certain in- 1 spend. That is the bright new road dividuals that they had better mend to prosperity, if we take the doctors their corrupt ways. Or he can hear woiff’for it. the piteous cries of some hapless vie tim as he writhes under the tortur ing lash of the white-robed figure and his white-robed companions. Here on the supreme bench two classic examples of American cul- We have it on good authority that “a merry heart doeth good like medi cine.” If the president will tell the country how to make his singular fin ance work in private business affairs, it will prove to be the “medicine” tare will meet—the Ku Klux Klan and that will make merry the hearts of Jewry. The seething American thousands of tormented business men "melting pot” will reduce the sins of. throughout the nation, one to purified virtues and the acci-J dent of race of the other to brother- german in the U. S. A. dugout of dem ocracy. REPEAL THE NEUTRALITY LAWS re- President Roosevelt’s call for vision of our socalled neutrality laws is belated, but if congress acts promptly upon his request there may yet be time to lend a band to hard- prest democracies in other parts of' ‘ o w nr^“^ > hed."''N 0 "d 0 ubt 'the THE GROWING DEFICIT How much longer can government spending be continued before grow ing deficits imperil the national cred it? Some commentators declare that the time is close at hand while others refuse to become excited over the sit uation. None will say that the time will not come if the present rate of alloting public funds for many agen cies is continued, when the danger ment of our state and nation. one mill; The press of South Carolina is in- 6. Ratify the amendment to the dependent and patriotic snd no nv»n constitution repealing the 3-mil 1 in the profession better exemnlifiod property tax. This amendment wa« sorviee. n»t-i<*Mo,« «n* i*>*»n«odence a o badly phrased that many people than did GEORGE R. KOESTER. voted against repeal because of con fusion. Lewis M. Rice of the Union Times is a clear-headed editor and a man Having done the foregoing let us see where we stand. Then let us fos- of courage. He is not afraid of his ter the public service with what may shadow; Mr. Rice isn’t afraid of the be available. We could do away with subatance, even. I’ve just read this i much that we have without serious the world. The hypocrisy of this law has long been plain to all of us. Its sponsors claimed that it would keep us out of foreign wars, but it appears to have been made to the express orders of dictators. It has played directly in to their hands all along; and unless it is repealed it will shrivel the soul of the people and keep them in the perfidious position of aiding the dic tators in their ruthless battle against democracy. In his message to congress last week the president urged arming the country to defend our politic?! inde pendence, religious freedom, and our democracy. All three are threatened by brutal dictator methods in other lands. We can prove to these knaves that the soul of democracv is not dead in our country—that it is, in fact, stronvly militant—by outright repeal of all neutrality laws. THE RELIEF SITUATION The House appropriations commit tee contends that WPA rolls carry “thousands neither rightly nor justi fiably thereon.” The committee formerly recom mended today a 2725,000,000 to keep the relief agency going until June 30. There is a growing determination to cut down on the relief rolls, for it is true that “thousands neither right fully nor justifiably” are carried on the rolls. The excessive demands are not needed, but, when granted only intensify the problem. The demand has steadily grown, and will so con tinue to grow until there is a serious rearrangement and cutdown on the waste. The United States has traveled far into the red, and cannot go much tfartheh Without encountering grave financial difficulty. That there should be a general overhauling of the whole plan is evident. Before additional billions are dumped out of the treas ury the government should accurately diagnose the issue. If the $750,000,000 be appropriated it will carry the relief agency onlv to June 30—a little more than five months. What is to follow after that date? Retrenchment! Or at least that is what should follow.— Union Times. Roosevelt administration has its mo ments of uneasiness in spite of the fact that it argues that drastic cur tailment at this time would lead to deflation and other ills as serious as ponderous deficits. The Springfield (Mass.) Republi can says of the present situation: In this connection may be quoted a passage from tht week ly letter of a business and finan-, cial bureau of good standing in New York. Bearing on the point, it critically analyzes the govern ment's spending policy in rela tion to government credit, but finally admits:— “Collapse of government credit, however, is not in immediate prospect. At the present rate of deficit-spending, the situation might not become dangerous for 15 to 20 years. This is indicated by the fact that Great Britain is able to support a debt equal to approximately half her wealth while the present debt of the United States, including state and local debts, is equal to not much over 20 per cent of the wealth of this country." If we have 16 or 20 years to go before deficit budgets must come to grief in this country, we are fortunate, in view of the interna tional armaments race, which we do not seem able to keep out of. —Spartanburg Herald. FRUIT PUNCH (IN THE EYE) News dispatches say the govern ment is now operating several orange, lemon and grapefruit groves in west ern states. They passed into govern ment ownership via the HOLC fore closure route, and former owners are being employed to care for them. Whether the taxpayer likes grape fruit or not he’s now obliged to pay ■'m grapefruit bill. He’ll get the usual reward, of course—right between the eyes.—Lancaster News. NOW THE SALES TAX Several legislators picked up a hot potato this week. Meaning the general sales tax. Representative Milam from this county stated that he was in favor of such a tax provided county pro perty .axes were abolished. State Senator Henry R. Sims stat ed that he was opposed to a genera sales tax but that he would accep it as a last resort. Governor Johnston said, “don’t that”. As was to be expected, h uggested using a "little more of tht gasoline tax. The main immediate need for ad ditional revenue, it would seem, i- for the support of the state welfare program. Legislators having one eye on the electorate and another on the state of affairs, euphemistically vision a position in which the welfare pro gram is continued, property taxes re duced, new industries encouraged and a sales tax avoided. Which is a hard thing to accomplish. Property owners Me all for Mr. Milam’s suggestion. Others are against it. The state’s needy are for it. The merchants are against it. Politically, it is a hot potato.— Laurens Advertiser. statement in The Times: “So long as our mills are in operation we have prospects of fair business. The Pay rolls of the textile mills of Union county for the year June 1930 to June 1937 totalled $3,720,759, not in cluding salaries paid to executives. It shows conclusively that the principal income in cash for our county is com ing from the textile plants.” Which is better for Union county t $3,720,769 from the mills? Or $500,- 000 from the WPA loss to the people. Retrenchment, then, would be my idea of promoting the immediate wel fare of the state. As will be seen, that does not propose or endorse any new tax. Now where are we, as a state? Are we in danger ofi a deficit for this fiscal year, ending June 30? Probably so, in spite of certain cuts. Then if w e are now using all the current re venue, plus the savings (surplus) from other years to meet the bills for How much is that worth to Union ?! this year, that means that the same The amount paid in wages is equal services vrill require the same amount That will call to the price received for 82,683 bales of cotton. About every dollar of this was spent in Union. If 82,683 bales of cotton had been produced (even Anderson and Orangeburg can’t pro- of maintaining a household on the of money next year, for more taxes. I repeat; I think a cut should be made; we shpuld stop the foolishness hlng a Girl Dancer Turns Preacher A year ago, Dorothy Young was touring Europe, South . . . America and Cuba as a professional night club dancer, twisting her 5-foot, 108- pound frame in the contortions of the rhumba and the shag. Last week, to the strains of a theme-hymn call ed “The Beauty of Jesus” and sung to the tune of the old popular favor ite “Pink Lady”, Miss Young was ex horting New Yorkers to seek solace from their troubles in religion. The 27-year-old brunette’s meta morphosis from dancer into evangelist stemmed from childhood training. Miss Young grew up in a devoutly re ligious family as the daughter of the Rev, Robert Young, a Methodist minister. But she was determined to be a dancer, and though “they didn’t entirely approve” her parents sent her at the age of six to study ballet in Pittsburg. Later, after she ran away from Beaver College near Phil adelphia to persue her chosen art, her father lent a hand. Years before, Dr. Young had pro tested when censors threatened to close a play called “Damaged Goods” starring the famous American actor, Robert Bennett. Bennett remembered the favor, and helped Dorothy to get jobs dancing in Hollywood and on Broadway. Eventually, he introduc ed her to Gilbert Kiamie, son of a Syrian manufacturer, of lingerie, who became her dancing partner. Dur ing her career that followed, Miss Young became successively a wile, mother and a divorcee. A year ago she suddenly quit danc ing and went back to her parents in Palm Beach Fla. With her father’s aid she practiced preaching until she became an accomplished evangelist. Last week, planning a nation-wide tour, she explained that she was able te help others because I’ve known what trouble is.” “Daughter” replies Spectator in Th e -Carolina Free Press, telling him graciously that the housekeeper of today need not apologize to her grandmother. Daughter thinks the big Christmas dinner went to Spectator’s head—and it may be so. Still, you know, we are told that our “knowledge” of diete tics is so entirely wrong that we are just victims of clever advertising and impostors rather than informed peo ple. Her e we are prescribing bananas for babies I Gandma knew better than that! Of course Grandma may have required soda at night, but a casual “listening in” to W. I. S. leads us to believe that the young husbands of today are not always cheerful. In fairness Spectator lifts his hat to any daughter who “works out” in business, yet carries on in her apart ment, doing all the cooking. She does mighty well even to serve “boughten cake, canned Irish potato, canned bis cuits, sliced bread and canned meat.” Spectator offers his homage to those who toll all day on the outside, yet find the same domestic cares as those who have nothing to do—and do nothing. If I might say one word more for the valiant trencherman of yore it would be to tell that once there w«s a man in Florence county—at one time an editor in another county— who “ate up three plantations”, as they tell it in the easy-living land of the pinebark stew. He ate every thing, even to collards, and died hale and hearty at one hundred and three. And today? The papers tell us all too frequently of men of forty being found dead in cars and beds, all unex pectedly. We men (I’m one of the faddists, too) of bran and hot water tea, with a glass of fruit juice, can’t “take it”; no, sir; If you can too much, you can- not. SAYS FTNmNCS ON TOBACCO PUBL T CIZED THROTTGOUHT U. S. That, Son, Is a Pedestrian (By Ashley T. Wannamaker In Orangeburg Observer). The “Daddy, what is a pedestrian?" “A pedestrian, my son, is a man -hat starts out from home to walk iowntown, and—’’ “Why does he walk. Daddy?" “Well, he has no car, and—" “Why has be no car?" He owes some money here and .here, to the coal man; the grocery man; and others; and he feels that >0 long as he owes the other fellow t is not quite fair to buy a car. So he starts downtown afoot to be daz- :d very soon by a bicycle that comes vhizzing by as he starts down the idewalk. “Then he arrives at a street in tersection. He starts across. He >oks up and down; to one side and he other until he becomes dizzy; his ;ead swims; his neck seems to be dis jointed; he steps forward; he steps hack; he hesitates; he moves forward again; black, green, maroon, red, ■’■ray, and brown ligtning seems to flash back and forth in front of him, mixed with toots, honks, and 00-00 OO-OO’s. Finally the atmosphere 1 grits his teeth.” might escape; but woe unto the un- inuiatedl he maxes it! he’s safe again on the other side—oh! no, a car dash es across the sidewalk into a filling station—or one dashes out of the station—toe pedestrian jumps, leaps, dashes, runs, sidesteps, and whatnot, all in one swift twikle-of-an-eye movement and is safe again.” “But Daddy, why does the driv er—” “Don’t ask me. Son, it just seems— But let’s go on. “The pedestrian proceeds cautious ly down the sidewalk and -arrives whole at another street comer, only to find his way thoroughly blocked by an eight-cylinder, seven passenger de luxe monster that is waiting for other cars to pass.” “But, Daddy, why doesn’t the car stop behind the line? What are those marks for?” ‘Decorations, Son.” “At the next comer a horn toots as the pedestrian shows on his face that he would like to cross. He is off the curb there is another toot then another; the drivers smile a pleas ant ‘howdy do’ while the pedestrian clears; the storm is o^ver for a few seconds; he dashes madly and— whew!! is safe on the other side. “Soon he'' makes bold to cross an other street. An auto is seen in the distance maybe two; or three. The drivers see the pedestrian and put on speed. The race is on. Will they catch him? An experienced pedestrian “Does he finally get down town, Daddy?” “Perhaps.” “That’s a good definition of a pe destrian, Daddy; but it’s too long. Give me a shorter one. A pedestrian, Daddy —” “A pedestrian. Son, just ain’t nothin’." Baltimore, Jan 13.—Dr. Raymond Pearl, Johns Hopkins university bio logist, taking cognizance of Secre tary Icke’s statement last night that findings at Johns Hopkins on ef fects of tobacco smoking so far as he know had not appeared in any news- naper. «a'd tonight his findings had been “printed in every cross-roads newspaper in the country.” In his radio speech last night on the freedom of the press, Ickes said: “I understand that at John Hop- kin* university there is a very sen sational finding resulting from study of the effect of cigaret smoking, that has not appeared so far as I know, in any newspaper in the United States. I wonder if that is because the tobacco companies and the cig aret companies are such large adver tisers.” “My publication in science was of Mfe tables of smokers,” Dr. Pearl stated. “There was no specific men tion of civarets. It showed that smoking is harmful; it dealt generally with all smokers. “But so far from not having been "iven publicity, the matter has been printed in every cross-roads news paper in the country and the clip pings have been delivered to me by the pailful. “A man named George Seldes who *uns a newspaper column wrote to me some time ago saying that he wanted to give publicity to my article which he thought' had been suppres sed. I wrote to him to pay for the newspaper clippings which had been delivered to me by clipping bureaus, he would not be under that impres sion. In spite of my letter to him. Seldes wrote me again to the same “ffect. He has written me several times and in spite of my assurance that the article was given wide pub licity, has persisted in taking the view that it has been suppressed. “Within the last two weeks Seldes has published a book. The book is in the general vein that all newspapers are owned by captalists and that therefore the people don’t get the news they should get, that the news papers suppress news, because of the advertisers.” (Dr. Pearl’s findings regarding the effects of tobacco smoking was re- .tr*, Place a wreath of remembrance, in the shape of a Beautiful Monument, at the last resting place of your loved one. We can duplicate any job and save you money on a fine job. NEWBERRY STONE CO. W£ QUAUTY PHOTOS .. . whether it be a June Bride, or Dad or Mother, or one of the Kids, the same careful at tention is given all photographs NICHOLS STUDIO L. D. Nichols, Prop. Newberry 'TV i v. Sp: Use Cottonseed Meal In Your Feeds For Fattening! Hogs % Cottonseed meal produces a firm hog fat of excellent quality when fed in a half-and-half mixture with tankage or fish meal as a sup plement to farm grains. 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