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i. THE SUM FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1989 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. 0. 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. CONSIDER AMERICA FIRST In a world so filled with terror and confusion as has been brought about by the steady advance of Ger many and Italy toward control of all Europe, it is hard for Americans, so far removed from the center of world events, to come to sound and sane conclusions as to what the effect of the world disturbance is likely to be upon ourselves and our nation. A great variety of opinion as to what* we ought to do or ought not to do, is being expressed by states men and near-statesmen, in and out of Washington. Our greatest danger is that the idea may take possession of the American people that it is our duty to go to the help of the “friend ly” nations of Europe if their securi ty is threatened. There seems little doubt that a great deal of propaganda, emanating from British and French sources, is being set on foot in America to in fluence public opinion. That is a dangerous thing. Just, that sort of stimulated pub- TODAy \TOMORROW\ FRaNK PORKER 8TO C K B R ID O E TRAILERS homes Now that Spring is here and Sum mer is close at hand, the people who keep tab on such things are predict ing that there will be twice as many trailers on the roads of the nation this year as last. Something like 40,000 people will spend a lot of time seeing America first and dragging their homes be hind them; and a lot of them will find spots where they would like to stay and will stay there, with no other home than the trailer. A lot of people, including Presi- dent Roosevelt, are worried about lie opinion got us into the last Eu- t’ np growth in the trailer population ropean war. We came out of it “holding the bag.” We sacrificed the lives of fifty or sixty thousand young Americans to “make the world safe for democracy,” and hardly got even a “thank you” from the peoples and governments we were supposed to be saving. We lent them billions of dollars, not only for war purposes but for re habilitation after the war was over, and they haven’t even paid us the in terest. on the debt. And neither our efforts nor theirs made the world safe for democracy. There is a lot of tommyrbt in all the talk about friendship between *• nations. No nation has any friends except those which want to get some thing out of the friendship for them selves. The essence of national in terest is and must he self-interest. Before we feven think of taking part in any war except in self-de fense, we must consider our own in terest first.* * Nobody else will consid- . er them. THE < WE AUGHINBMMS MD • MICROBES Man is far from being the master of the world in which he lives or even of his own career, because wherever he goes, on land or sea, high in the air or deep into the bow els of the earth, he is confronted by unseen and deadly foes. These enemies a re so numerous that some scientists say it is simply a matter of time before they will eliminate humanity from the face of the earth, for, says Dr. Nicholas Kopeloff, “they are ever mobilized for battle, ever active and give man no respite, awake or asleep.” This unseen host which are our perpetual enemies are called mi crobes. Until the beginning of the seventeenth century they were un known for the simple reason that men’s minds had not been sufficiently developed to recognize them and the devastation which followed in their wake. They are so infinitesimal that the majority of them can be een only by the aid of the most pow erful microscopes. For example it is estimated that it would take 15,000,000,000,000 typhoid fever bacilli to fill an ordinary tea spoon. Under the powerful modem microscopes, each bacilli is shown to have as distinctive features and shapes as human beings, and today more than 1,200 different species have been recognized. No one can say definitely how long some of the more vital of - these live but it is certain that they do remain viable for long periods of time. One authority claims to have demonstrated living bacteria in an thracite coal from mines in Wales and from Pennsylvania. Another says he definitely located bacteria in the inside of an antiquated brick taken from a Catholic mission house estimated to be more than 150 years old, and this same man says he found living bacteria in the pyra mids built by the Incas of Peru more than a thousand years ago. So one is warranted in assuming that bacteria are long lived. Most disease producing bacteria flourish best at the temperature of the human body which is 98.6 de- Califomia is especially distressed about the increasing number of peo ple who come there in trailers and stay, without buying or renting house. The President told Representative Elliott of California that the Federal government was studying that situ ation and would do something about *it. He thought the trailer folk ought to have permanent homes. What Californians fear is that s lot of these nomads will become pub lic charges. But I don’t see in that any reason tor blaming the trailers. GYPSIES nomads In the year 1417 a strange, dark- skinned people, moving in small bands from place to place and settling down nowhere, first began to flock into Western Europe. Because peo ple took them for Egyptians, they came to be known as “Gypsies.” They were really from India, and the strange language they spoke, and their descendants still speak all over the world, was a dialect of the ancient Sanskrit, the mother lan guage of almost all European and Indian tongues Gypsies got a bad reputation be cause of their ability to get the bet ter of simple folk in horse-trades, and because they fooled silly women into believing they had the power to foretell the future And because the Gypsies had no fixed homes, travelled in covered wagons or caravans and lived in the open, “respectable” people came to look with suspicion upon anybody of any race who chose to roam instead of “staying put.’ I think that almost everybody still has in his spirit something of the urge to move from place to place, an urge inherited from our ancestors of ten thousand years ago, who were all nomads. ROAMERS liberty As a people, we Americans have always been roamers. The spirit of adventure is in our blood. Stop and think that every American is de scended from ancestors who came from somewhere else. Even the In dians came to America from Asia. Before automobiles were dreamed of, Americans were always moving on from the places where they were reared to other parts of the country, and a high proportion kept on mov ing, never staying long enough in one place to establish themselves permanently. I think that national restlessness, the urge to be on the move, had a good deal to do with making this country the kind of place it is. No where else in the world could men move so freely over such a wide aiea as in America. MIGRATION census In Washington a short time ago I sat in a conference of a hundred or more people who discussed for two days what sort of questions are to be asked of the American people in the census of 1940. I was most impressed by the in sistence by the majority of the group that everybody should be re quired to tell where he or she lived ten years ago. The purpose, is, of course, to find out whether people arc still crowding into cities or mov ing hack to the country. From what I learned from the experts there, I was glad to find that the old roving spirit of Amer ica still persists. The problem of I internal migration is a bafflling one for those who would like to s every American citizen planted a fixed spot. It was interesting, too, to learn that the swing of population is def initely away from the cities and back to the country. More Ameri cans than in years are seeking se curity for their families by whole time or part time subsistence farm ing. But watch those families start roving as soon ss they are old enough to go out on their own. They wouldn’t be Americans if they didn’t. POPULATION ..... ageing By getting the reports from every state of the number of babies born and the number of people who die, and checking up on immigration from abroad and emigration back to their fatherlands of foreign-bom resi dents, the Census Office keeps a con stant tab on the rate at which the nation is growing. More foreigners are leaving every year than are coming in. People are living longer, so the death-rate is declining. But fewer babies are be ing bora; so that the total popu lation of America is increasing at a very much slower rate than at any time in our history. The statistical experts I talked with in the Census Bureau say that, unless something happens to change the picture, by 1970 our poulation will be stationary, at about 142 mil lions. There will be fewer children and young people, many more old folks. If that is so, there will be room for everybody to roam and live as he, or she pleases without fear of being crowded out by newcomers. But with a people averaging fifteen or twenty years older than now, there may not be so much inclination to ramble The smaller proportion of youngsters will have, it seems to me, a better chance. REVIEW of NEW BOOKS PAUL B. CLARK, PH. D. 1735 Woodburn Ave. Covington, Ky. IT HAPPENED HERE Speaking of April the first, did you see that cute one which gave a cer tain local lawyer a rather dry grin? I did not see it myself, but I heard of it. It is said that even the law yer didn’t let anyone see it—not even himself over three seconds, for he is said to have snatched the car<L off his office door and with a serious look on his face slip right into his office. On the April fool card, we under stand, was the following, with tne exception of the fictitious name: William T. Smith, lawyer Some (?) Lawyer Some Law-here But how much? Who in the world ever heard of the word, lawyer, being defined ety mologically, that is, having been orig inally composed or made up of the words, law and here—thusly, law- here. NOTICE OF ELECTION GEORGE W. TRUETT. By P. W. James. Macmillan Company, New York City. Pages xv-281. Price, $2.50. _ A biography by one who knows in timately the beloved Thruett, the life story of the boy who was bom in Clay County, N. a, in 1867, who founded Hiawassee Academy, North- eascem Georgia when but 21, who raised $92,000 to clear Bayler Uni versity of debt and then entered Bay lor a s a freshman, pastor in Wace, Texas, 1893-1897, of the First Bap tist Church, Dallas, since 1897, a church now with a membership of more than 7000, who three times was unanimously elected President of the Southern Baptist Convention, who preached to the soldiers in France, who is now President of the Baptist World Alliance whose next session convenes in July in Atlanta. The author takes up the big fea tures that make up the man, the sor row that blended his life, the sim plicity of the man, his singleness of purpose, his depth of compassion, his ability to reach the heart and will of humanity, his power to exalt Christ as Savior and Lord, more than his profundity of thought, or his brilliance of rhetoric, or his originali ty of exegesis, or cleverness of hom- iltetics. “In repose,” says Dr. James, page 237, “his countenance appears solemn, almost to the point of stern ness. i There is a broad expanse of brow; high cheek-bones; well pro portioned nose, slightly aquiline; wide and sensitive mouth, well-formed teeth; firm chin; muscular jaws; blue- gray eyes which, under provocation, flash like an eagle’s, or under the contagion of spiritual vision seem to flash forth fire as from a furnace bale rather than ruddy complexion, hair that used to be black, but now is silver white.” Few men in life have spoken to as many people in public address in American and through interpreters to *s many people in as many for eign countries as has Dr. George Truett. He is at home on the range preaching the gospel as he under stands it to thousands in the “round up” as he is welcome in the finest pulpits and platforms of any Ameri- NOTICE FOR BIDS The Newberry County Board of Commissioners will receive sealed bids until 11 a. m. Monday, April 17, 1939 for six ton? of -8-3-3 standard brand fertilizer, to be delivered to the Newberry County Home. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. H. H. RUFF, Supervisor. Newberry, S. C. April 6th, 1939. can city. There is only one G. W. Truett and only after much persua- sion did he permit this book to appear during his lifetime. This fine book pictures the immortal Truett accomplishments are legion. - whose Smart RidlngHabU That’s Ea*tt **> Acqwre The model illustrated is the Buick Special model 41 four-door touring sedan $9% delivered at Flint, Mich.* : Y OU’VE probably noticed that most of the folks who drive Buicks come hack again and again to this great auto mobile when it’s time to buy a new car. There are reasons for that. Sticking to Buick means you’re sure every year that you’re getting top value, and no hunting all over town to find it. Repeating on Buick means that season after season you ride behind the Buick valve-in-head straight-eight, that Dyna- flash powerhouse that’s livelier and thriftier than engines of other type. Year after year you’ll travel in comfort — the smooth, easy, level-going comfort of the torque-tube drive and BuiCoil Springing. You always have room in a Buick—and this year you’ve a new and broader outlook through 412 added square inches of safety plate glass. And you’re leading the style parade with appearance that’s like a leaf from tomorrow’s book. c All of which adds up, you’ll find, to satisfaction so complete that once you’ve got the Buick driving habit, no other car quite seems to measure up. Now this big strong resilient straight- eight costs less fftan you think — less than a year ago—even less than some sixes. So why not simplify your car-buying for all time~get that smart Buick riding habit now. , In no other way that we know can you make sure of having so much fun. Or of getting so much value for every penny you spend 1 Wetter buy ffuick!" DAVIS 1515-17 Main Street MOTOR ■X1MPLA* OP MNUAl AtOTOM VAlUf COMPANY Newberry, S. C. fmi wi* -.7§L VOU GET A BITTER USED CAR FROM A BUICK DEALER A petition having been filed with the Trustees of Silverstreet Consoli dated High School and the County Board of Education asking for an election on the question of selling bonds not to exceed $10,000, amount to be left to the discretion of the trustees of said district No. 58, and a levy not to exceed two (2) mills to be placed on all taxable property in said consolidated district with which to meet payment of bonds sold, pur suant to an act of the legislature it is ordered that an election be held for the above stated purpose at Silver- street High School on the 22nd of April 1939 from 8:00 o’clock in the forenoon until 4:00 o’clock in the af ternoon, the Trusiteea of Silverstreet Consolidated District No. 58 acting as managers. All qualified electors are entitled to vote Money derived from the sale of said bonds to be used for erection of buildings, equipment and maintenance of Silverstreet High School. The Trustees of said school district shall receive the returns and declare the result of the election. Trustees of Silverstreet Consoli dated High School, County Board of Education. FOR SALE grees Fahrenheit. Many olf these parasites can be killed by boUing them in water for five minutes at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. It is strange that some of them can stand a tem perature of boiling liquid hydrogen which is approximately 418 degrees Fahrenheit. Low temperature seems to be very agreeable to many bacteria and ice cream and other frozen delicacies of ten are the means used to convey these germs to others, one Latin American doctor having killed many people in experiments, by serving bacilli in ices, at banquets. I might say that this arch murderer was executed for his scientific crimes. By order of the Newberry County Legislative Delegation, the Newberry County Board of Commissioners of fers for sale the Old County High way Department Shop and vacant lot, located on lower Main street. Sealed bids will be received by the Newberry County Board of Commis sioners subject to the approval of the Newberry County Legislative Delega tion until 11:00 A. M. Monday, April 17th, 1939. Terms of sale—Cash, or one-third (1-3) cash, the remainder in two an nual installments at the rate of six per cent per annum. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. H. H. RUFF, Supervisor, Newberry County. Newberry, S. C. 2tc April 6th, 1939. The South Carolina National Bank Condensed Statement of Condition March 29, 1939 ASSETS Cash and Due from banks $14,948,014.64 U. S. Government Bonds 6,687,937.87 State and Municipal Bonds 522,790.23 Other Stocks and Bonds 19,300.50 Federal Reserve Bank Stock 78,750.00 Loans and discounts 14,097,695.66 Banking houses (11) $502,925.00; less reserve for dep’tn $42,774.00... 460,151,00 Furniture and Fixtures^— 15 Offices 105,846.50 Other real estate $97,727.48: less reserve for depreciation $8,874.92 .. 88,852.56 Other Assets 24,093.42 $1,100,000.00 . 1,100,000.00 $37,033,43238 LIABILITIES Capital-Preferred Capital—Common, paid in $1,000,000.00; earned $100,000.00 Surplus—Earned ....$ 425,000.00 Undivided Profits—Earned 444,280.42 Reserve-.Ret. Preferred Stock—Earned 176,000.00 Total Earned Surplus, Und. Profits &l Pref. Stock Retirement Fund... 1,045,280.42 Accrued div’nd on Pref. Stock; $8,250; Accrued Int. Taxes, Etc. $22,839.88 31,089.88 Deposits 33,757,062.08 $37,033,43238 AH Bonds and Securities Carried at Par or Less. 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