The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 26, 1939, Image 4
POUR
THE SUM
FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1939
1218 College Street
Newberry, S. C.
0. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
One Year .
Published Every Friday i,. .
Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at
the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
OPTIMISM IN THE SOUTH
Ever since the War Between the
States, the economic problems of the
South have been the subject of much
discussion, but, until lately, very
little action.
The late Henry W. Grady, fifty
years ago, began to preach the doc
trine that what the South needed was
outside capital to develop industries
that would consume its vast wealth
of naw materials, instead of depend
ing upon agriculture alone.
Now tftve South is beginning- to
lose its role of “America’s most dif
ficult problem.” One after another,
great industries are finding the
South measuring up to their require
ments of transportation, climate,
strategic location near markets, raw
materials, low living costs and all
the other requisites! for soundly bas
ed manufacturing enterprises.
Among the nationally known in
dustries which have expanded their
production resources by establish
ing new plants in the South in the
past few years are DuPont, Eastman
Kodak, Johnson & Johnson, American
Sugar, International Paper and Pulp,
B. F. Goodrich Company, and scores
of others.
Users of cotton find it more eco
nomical to locate their plants where
the cotton grows which is the reason
for the model community of Silver-
ton- at Thomaston, Georgia, where
the Goodrich Company consumes
60,000 bales of cotton a year in tire
manufacturing, and is adding to that
a mechanical rubber goods factory at
Clarksville, Tenn.
International Paper, Continental
Container and other producers of
wrapping paper and corrugated
board have built a dozen mills
throughout the South to make paper
from slash pine, the South’* most
prolific natural crop. One of the
largest chemical industries in Am
erica, the Newport-Armstrong Indus
tries, makes artificial camphor from
pine stumps in Pensacola.
As a result of this recent industrial
expansion. Southern banking facili
ties have tripled, manufactures have
doubled and installed horsepower has
quadrupled with the past few years.
The South is at last entering upon
the industrial era which Grady fore
saw fifty years ago.
The people of this democracy of
ours woul dfeel more secure if the
war department announced that we
could put a million real fighting men
in the field in three days if we had
to fight.
IT WILL BE TOO MUCH
TODAY
\TOMORROW\
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PRANK PARKER
STOCK BRIDGE
THREE MILLION IN THREE
DAYS
An official of the United States
war department says that if this
country became invol/ed in war with
a foreign nation, we could put a
million men in the field in three
months.
The statement has the ring of a
similar bombastic one made by the
late Wm. J. Bryan when it appeared
that we might be drawn into the
world war. Mr. Bryan declared that
if we were threatened “a million men
would spring to arms overnight.”
They finally did “spring,” but it
took about nine months to turn out
fighters hardy enough to face the
Huns.
There is no doubt that we could
put a million men in the field in three
months, but without the training
necessary to make them foemen wor
thy of the enemy’s steel, they would
be little more effective than an army
of boys armed with beanshooters.
It is not known, except in the inner
circles of the new deal, what part of
the congress’s billion-dollar farm
subsidy will find its way into the
pockets of the kid-gloves and silk hat
farmers as compensation for “help
ing” the real farmers spend theirs,
but it will be too much, whatever it
is.
Conditions in a Southern county
give us an inkling of what the far
mer may expect to lose. A newspa
per in that county of 10,000 souls,
said there were fifty-six new deal
kid-glove and silk hat farmers there
“helping the real farmer.” The ar
ticle sounded like a report from the
nursery ward of a hospital.
For long weary years the farmer
lay, like Lazarus, at the gate of gov
ernment begging the . . . crumbs
that fell from the politicians’ table.
He begged in vain. But when final
ly Dives was kicked put and the far
mer got a . . . chance to get to the
rich man’s table, he found a brand
new aggregation there waiting to
serve him in the politest sort of
way.
The kid-glove and silk hat farmer
took charge of all arrangements
and considerately undertook to re
lieve the farmer of a part of his lar
gess and at the same time to con
tribute his mite to our greatest na
tional blessing, an enormous public
debt.
is to be grown again in the land
where it is native.
LOST ... . .
arts
LUCRATIVE PROFESSION
The occupation, or more strictly
speaking, the profession, of helping
the poor has come to be an exceed
ingly lucrative business for the men
and women who run the works.
Some months ago the head of s
poor-relief organization in Richmond,
Va., resigned to take a similar post
in a far west city. The newspapers
that printed the story of his resig
nation, stated that he was receiving
88,000 a year in Richmond and that
he would get $9,000 per annum in
h& new job.
Salaries of this size explain why
there are so many people shedding
tears over the poor these days. When
people in certain strata of society
weep over the plight of the poor, you
may set it down—there is the pros
pect of a fat job somewhere and
green fields in prospect for the
weeper.
The professional keeper of the
poor is with us and his presence is
going to dictate laws and decrees
and high salaries for jears to come
unless there is a stiffening of the
American backbone. We, the people,
are easy marks. Imitation is infec
tious: when we see a fellow mourn
ing the sad lot of the poor, like as
not we’ll join in and make it a lach
rymose . . . refrain that will be
heard in Washington and Columbia
and wind up by seeing to it that the
fellow who started the tears a-flow-
ing gets a job that would make a
railroad president feel like he lived
In the poorhouse.
WILL REUEVE YOUR DEBT
WORRIES
We’ll LEND You
$50 to $100
On Your Automobile
NO RED TAPE NO DELAY
Keep Your Automobile „v
When you buy a new or used automobile ask your
dealer to finance it through bis home owned concern.
Newberry Insurance & Realty Co.
E. B. PURCELL, Ppes. , Exchange Building
TOWERS Eiffel
From the beginning of time, man
kind has tried to build as far up
toward tut sky as he could. Primi
tive men built in the tops of trees
to protect themselves from prowling
enemies on the ground. The Bible
tells of the effort to build a great
tower at Babel, which never was
finished.
Two recent news items reminded
me of modern efforts at tower build
ing. It is just over 60 years since the
tallest structure ever built by man
up to then was finished. That is the
Eiffel tower, 984 feet high, built as
a show piece for the Paris World’s
Fair, and still standing, the domi
nant figure of the Paris landscape.
Only two higher buildings have ever
been built, the Empire State Build
ing, 1,248 feet high, and the Chrys
ler building, 1,066 feet, both in New
York.
New York learned a build high,
steel-framed structures from Chi
cago. For years the Chicago Masonic
Temple, first of the “skyscrapers,"
302 feet high, was the tallest build
ing in the world. Only the Wash
ington Monument, 666 feet, and the
Eiffel Tower, neither of them really
“buildings”, surpassed it. But now,
the papers say, that pioneer of high
steel buildings is being torn down.
MYSTERY Roanoke
The most fascinating mystery in
American history is what became of
the colony of Englishmen .which Sir
Walter Raleigh planted on Roanoke
Island, off the coast of North Caro
lina, in 1687. Here was bom the
first white child in what is now the
United States, Virginia Dare. But
when an expedition with supplies
for the colony reached Roanoke a
year later, no living prson could be
found.
Many legends have centered
around the lost colony, the most
credible being that they joined
tribe of friendly Indians on the
mainland and intermarried with
tL°m. Gray-eyed Indians were still
found around Cape Hatteras two
hundred years later.
Just the other day a storm swept
Roanoke Island and uncoyered the
frame of an ancient ship, of the
type built by Englishmen 360 years
ago. A crew of CCC boys is dig
ging away the sand in the hope thai
there may be found in the old hulk,
something to give a clue to the real
fate of the Roanoke cokmisrte.
Raleigh's name is perpetuated in
the capital city of North Carolina,
and the memory of the “Virgin
Queen,” Elizabeth, who sent him to
America, is preserved in the name
of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
IMPOSSIBLE radio
The older I grow, the more ah
surd it seems to me to hear people
say that anything is impossible. I
have seen so many impossible things
come to pass that I am ready to
believe anything can be done if the
right man puts his mind to it.
I think of my old friend, Lee de
Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube
which .gave radio a voice. In 1913
de Forest was indicted on the
criminal charge of using the mails
to defraud. His letters to prospec
tive subscribers to his company pre
dicted that eventually the human
voice could be carried across the
Atlantic. That was so obviously im
possible that it was called a crime to
take money from people to develop
the radio.
Lee de Forest was acquitted of
crime, but I thought of him the
other day when I listened to a for
mer King of England talking to all
the world in a moving appeal for
peace, from the battlefield of Ver
dun, while his brother, now King,
was on a ship bound for America.
Not many years ago we would
have said it was impossible for the
most powerful King in the world to
be forced to give up his throne be
cause he wanted to marry someone
of whom his Government did not ap
prove.
QUININE . ‘ cinchona
Among the things which the
world owes to America are turkeys,
Indian corn, tobacco, cocoa and
chocolate, rubber, potatoes, and one
of the most valuable and essential
drugs in medical use, quinine. The
Indians taught the Spanish settlers
in Peru how to cure malaria with
cinchona bark, and modern science
learned how to extract its active
principle as quinine.
For a century the best cinchona
has been grown in the Dutch East
Indies, which have almost a mono
poly on quinine. So the United
States Department of Agriculture
sent an explorer over there to see
if he could get some seeds to plant
in South America. He had trouble
getting them, but he got them and
nojw the Western Hemisphere will
no longer be dependent upon the
East for its quinine.
Dr. Walter Swingle, the Govern
ment scientist, also brought to Bra
zil some rubber seedlings, better
than any that now grow in America.
The world depends on the East In
dies for commercial rubber, but it
t An art died only a few weeks ago,
■vtoien Rudolph Blaschka died at 82
in Germany. With his father, Leo
pold, he had spent his life for fifty
years making colored glass reproduc
tion of flowers and botanical speci
mens for Harvard University. There
never were such skillful glassblow-
ers as the Blaschkas were. In the
Harvard Museum are 840 glass flow
er models they made In fifty years,
which cannot be distinguished from
the natural flowers. They are per
fect in every detail.
Asked why he did not teach a
young man his art, Rudolph Blaschka
said: “Find me a boy of ten with
generations of glass workers behind
him, who will work ten hours a day
for ten years; then I can begin to
teach him.”
VISIT HERE
Sunday visitors of Mrs. E. E. Mel
ton of Helena included Mr. and Mrs.
R. W. Anderson of Columbia; Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. Philips and children
of Charlotte, N. C.; Miss Travis Mel
ton of Charlotte; Miss Ernestine
Melton of High Point, N. C.; Miss
Sue Bond and Miss Annie Bond of
Greenwood; Louis Bond of Clinton.
WHOSE BEANS?
In a recent speech to the Young
Democrat Clubs of America, Presi
dent Roosevelt informed the country
that if the Democratic party nomin-
nates a conservative for president in
1940 it will go down to defeat in the
national elections. As tong as the
party remains democratic, he added,
it always wins; when it goes moss-
back, it loses.
If the 1940 nominee is defeated,
however, it will be Mr. Roosevelt’s
responsibility in all probability.
Two weeks ago a Dr. Galllp poll
(that groundhog of the public pulse)
was revealing as to whose shoulders
Democratic defeat would rest upon
next November a year.
This poll disclosed that the confi
dence of the people in Mr. R.’s new
deal program began to slip with the
fight he waged upon the supreme
court and continued to slip on thru
the “purges" of certain senators and
representatives. Hence, the voters
‘sampled’ saw a Republican victory In
1940.
If these prophets are correct, and
the Democratic party is defeated
next year, it won’t be conservative
beans' that spilled, but rather those
of the exceedingly liberal gentleman
who now lives in the White House.
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