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FOUR THB SUN m ‘1 ^^ mn 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD • Editor and Publisher One Year . 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. Mounting Taxes Curb Industrial Growth According to a report of the Na tional Industrial Conference Board, 22 cents of every dollar of the na tional income in 1938 was taken by local, state, and federal taxes. Totaling $13,700,000,000, this un precedented figure exceeds by $1,400- 000,000 the previous record set in 1937, which was 17.7 cents per dollar of the national income of that year. This total was described as repre senting a tax burden of $106 per capita, and an average of $317 for each person. The record for 1938 was nearly double the 1923-29 average of 11.8 * cents. The 1937 record of 17.7 cents was over a third more than the 1923- 29 average of 11.8. Dr. Janies D. Magee, who recent ly completed a study of the tax ques tion for the Brookings Institution in relation to the American capital mar ket, emphasizes tax modification as one of the essential steps for indus trial expansion and incfeased employ ment. He contends that the nation is faced with a choice between continu ing the present tax system, which inhibits the flow of funds into new capital activities, or to modify the system so that industrial expansion, greater employment, and higher standards of living may obtain. Revival of the Theatre Says Pope of Lofty Purpose (By SPECTATOR) In the House Speaker Blatt and Winchester Smith, Calhoun Thomas and T. W. Cox were of the Economy House. Some stalwart new men are in the House and they are supported by some wise, seasoned veterans. Prob ably no one will question my judge ment in saying that the two new men who have developed most in fluence in this House are Citadel men—Thomas H. Pope, Jr., of New berry and James Hugh McFaddin of Clarendon. They are serious earnest men, full of high purpose. I might call them practical idealists. I lift my hat to both of them. Among the veterans Speaker Blatt, Calhoun Thomas, Winchester Smith and T. W. Cox have been a steadying and guiding influence. Among the men our State should rejoice in I mqst mention the modest, steadfast Herbert E. Gyles of Aiken. Mr. Gyles was the first man to pro pose a loan instead of new taxes. AN ENDLESS SONG I would turn my drooping eyes to the sun, Where joy in the wondrous East has • begun, For I’m weary of life with its con stant strife, And I long for a peace that will still increase, And end this spread of doubt and wrong. To fill tAts world with an endless song. For now in all hope do I cheerfully start To enter the day where before all was dark, To by down the worries of lowly sin, And with zeal this newer life to begin, Now led by Him who died on the Croae To end my night of dismay and remorse. W. Gustave Houseal Newberry, S. C. If there is anybody who has never seen the film of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” we do not know where he or she lives. That delightful fairytale made in to a motion picture by the artistry of Walt Disney has been shown all over the world. It is pleasing, therefore, to read that in the fifteen months since was first exhibited, Snow White has taken in $6,740,000 in admissions paid by enthusiasts in every quarter of the globe. That is. more money than any pic ture ever shown has earned. We don know how much of it went to Walt Disney himself, but however large his personal profit, he has earned it. There must be something depres sing to other motion picture pro ducers, whose films have never earn ed anywhere near as much, in the re flection that not a single actor actress had to be hired at a fabulous salary to make Snow White. It is a picture made up of pictures and noth ing else. When an artist can give life to the creations of his brush and pen and attract larger audiences than flesh- and-blood actofs draw, no matter how glamorous their personal appeal or how alluring the ‘build-up’ of their publicity men, it is something think about seriously. The possibility suggests itself that Mr. Disney and his disciples have found the ultimate medium through which the movies will make their abiding appeal and establish them, selves as an institution. It is conceivable that the movie shows of the future will consist of the kind of things which Walt Disney does so well—Three Little Pigs Snow White, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and the other creations of his facile fancy. That might reduce the number of movie theatres, but it might also bring about a great revival of the spoken drama with real flesh-and blood actors in person on the stage. There has been a considerable re rival of the old-fashioned theater in the past three or four years. It might be tough on some of the movie stars to have to compete with train ed troupers, but It would be interest ing to see the theater—-the theater—come back. Spectator Can’t Understand Why Colleges Have Ta Have More Money A fine young man asks Spectator: “Are all liars fishermen, or are all fishermen liars ? ” Perhaps I’d better pass that up. Spectator recalls the great fish story, said to be the only truthful tale by a fishermen. “Master, ‘we have toiled all night and caught nothing.” Still—the fact is beyond cavil that by actual measurement our creeks, lakes, ponds, swimming holes, rivers, bays, estuaries, and back-waters—all taken together—could not accommo date in actual space one-half of the known and recognized liars. to real ATTEND FUNERAL Mr. and Mrs. R. G, Wallace and family attended the funeral services of Erith Waldrop in Hendersonville N. C., Sunday. JOLLY STREET NEWS (Written for' The Sun) The ball meeting at Jolly Street is scheduled for Friday evening, June 2, at 8:16. All sport fans of the community are invited. All members of the local ball club are urged and expected to attend. Walt Richardson, our advisor, will be in charge. Re freshments will be served. Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Roof were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cook. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Metts have re turned home from Blaney High school. Walt Richardson announces the annual cue date is Friday, August 11. The annual ball club barbecue will be on the fourth of July. King And Queen Welcomed To Canada King George and Queen Elizabeth are shown on thrones inCanada s Parliament as they were formally welcomed to Canada. They plan to visit the United States early in June. Our public business is sometimes very casaully attended to—about like our hrivate business. Every time I have occasion to look into statutes or constitutional provisions I yearn for somebody to edit the great enact ments. Here’s something to mull over: The Constitution of 1896 (which is the present Constitution) requires the levying of a 3-mill school tax. That is what we pounced on so jubilantly ■ last summer and voted off. The Legislature of 1896 (I think it was) assuming (as I must believe) that the Constitution required a statute for its fulmillment passed a law im posing a 3-mill school tax. The law of 1896 does not refer to the Con stitution of 1896—so we ought to be glad that it did not occur to the free- spenders to collect 6-mills (six mills). Our Attorney General John M. Dan iel, who is like a rock in a weary land, opines that the voting off of the Constitutional 3-mill means that the statutory 3-mill tax is dead. But Mr. Daniel soundly believes that such matters should not be left open to doubt, since the Legislature is in ses sion and should legislate. A calm survey of our condition will show that the Senate, while unable to agree on retrenchment, is not entirely committed to details. I be lieve the Senators would be glad to have constructive suggestions. Candor compels me to say that we who are outside the Senate can’t un derstand why the public services can’t be cut. We cannot understand why Clemson, Winthrop, the Medi cal College and The Citadel must have more money. We cannot under stand why they can’t operate on less. But since all this is beyond the cor rection of mortal man, a sort of sa cred right, apparently, we might as well assume that by imprescriptable foreordination, whatever is, is, and must be, legislatively, so we must start with the Senate’s total. I hink there will be general agree ment on the following: There should be no 3-mill property tax, there should be no increase in the corpora tion income tax, there should be no aciditional cent for gasoline. And equally, I think, general agreement will be on the following: There should be no addition of the tax on dividends from investments in South Carolina, called the surtax on Intan gibles, then there should be a reduc tion on other intangibles, and there should be a reduction of one mill of the capital stock tax. Reduce wel fare to one million dollars and re strict administrative cost to $60,000. Now where shall the money come from, if we eliminate some of the proposed taxes and reduce others ? 1. An increase is suggested for li quors; 2. Increase the loan from the Highway to two millions and then issue five yearly notes for $400,000 each as another loan. 3. Lower the income brackets of single men and women to $720, pay able monthly, and of married men to $1,200, payable monthly. Surely no argument is needed fo» the elimination of the property tax. Our County governments and our schools rest heavily on property taxes. Our towns and cities almost as much more. When the voters voted off the 3 mill tax they “voted off” a tax; they were not a lot of pettifogging police lawyers. They meant to vote off a tax. If that tax is put on again it will be a breach of faith with the peo ple. One legislator said to me, “That vote doesn’t mean anything, because the people would vote off all the taxes if they had the chance.” I a- gree with him about the voting off, our people are predominantly in fa vor of reducing until they become legislators. That seems to* change the point of view. But if the peo ple want to take off a tax, shall the Legislature become a body of Hitlers and make us pay? As to the corporation income tax. t’he impression that eliminating the surtax on intangibles will help the corporations is entirely an error. We need new capital here, we need new business, we need new peo ple of wealth. If we remove the sur tax on intangibles we shall help our citizens who own home enterprises, but we must go further, if we wish to atract vjtsiders to become citi zens and die in our midst, leaving their estates to pay to South Carol ina millions in inheritance taxes. The business enterprises we have are not prosperous; if we want to bring in others we must not add to their burdens. Likewise, common fairness and justice requires that the emergency one mill put on capital stock in 1933 should be removed. The emergency is so far gone that we raBBiK .>38888? N Mr Due West, S. C., May 26—Mrs. Jen nie Grier Moffatt (above), instructor of English and French at Erskine college, is busy making final prep arations for the Erskine Historical pageant to be presented June 6, du ring the centennial commencement of the college. The pageant will pre sent a brief history of Erskine through the past one hundred years. Mrs. Moffatt is the wife of the de ceased Dr. J. S. Moffatt, who for a number of years was president of the Woman’s college of Due West. She has received the B. A., M. A., and Litt. D. degrees from Erskine. have raised millions in new revenue since -then. Now the raising of four millions through loans can be amor tized so that a revival of business, even to the 1937 scale, will absorb a considerable part of it. Incident ally the Senate made provision for funding part of the debt. I think there can be no sound dis agreement with the limitation of Welfare to a million dollars, restrict ing administrative expense to $60,- 000. I have attended several state wide conventions in the last four months and I have found a strong and growing sentiment for the com plete suppression of the whole Wel fare undertaking, as we now have it. I heard no one defend it as it is. Some few suggested a million as the ceiling. I think I do not mis judge general sentiment if I inter pret it today as favoring either the doing away with the welfare pro gram, or the severest limitation on it. If we reduce welfare to one mil lion dollars the loan would bn reduc ed by nearly a million and a half dollars. Now is the time to curb it before it becomes another giant. TSfE Here is a poor County. No rich people no big enterprises. This County lost about a hundred thou sand dollars through bank failures as I remember, but it has struggled along, quietly, steadily, modestly, but surely. This statement of old Clarendon shows that we are a working, sober people, struggling to pay our debts and not tempted to chase illusions and phantoms at the expense of the 1930 1938 Bonds outstanding: County $480,000 $244,000 School $168,900 136,265 Total taxable property: 3,501,870 2,316,640 Aggregate of Taxes for all purposes: 209,618 157,059 Delinquent taxes: 8,942 State 11,973 County 62,292 95,110 School 58,168 78,516 $132,433 $182,568 No Industries in County: 1929: 21; 861 Employees. 1933: 3 Employees not given. 1936: 9, 692 employed. 1937: 10, 680 employed. Two Dispatches No 1.—“Tennessee loses $3,600,000 tax revenue by sale of private utili ties to T. V. A. according to Tenne ssee Taxpayers’ Association.” No. 2—“The T. V. A announced to day it would increase tax payments to Tennessee and Alabama to com pensate the states for loss of rev enue through sale of privately own ed electric utilities.” Query— Where Is The Money To Come From? CHINA at Give-away Price* Many patterns to select from Made by SEBRINT, Ohio C. T. SUMMER Hdw e . Dept. 81,209 M A LARI A CASES REPORTED IN U.S. IN 1938 DONT DELAY! £UU* Start Today with OOO 660 CHECKS MALARIA IN 7 DAYS LOCKJAW Tetanus, or lockjaw, a disease al most wholly preventable, is today on the increase, due to a lack of know ledge of its seriousness on the part of the laity. In the days when Napoleon stalk ed about Europe with his army, a majority of the wounded succumbed to tetanus because the missiles of warfare drove cloth, dirty, rusty iron and other debris into the wounds, and it was the Little Corporal’s surgeon Larry, who described this disease which is typical of -the tetanus today. That lockjaw is preventable Is proven by the work done during the World War, when there was but 0.117 per cent of this dreaded dis ease among 2,032,142 wounded Brit ish soldiers, and only 0.0008 per cent occurring among 1,237,500 victims of industrial accidents. It happens more frequently among the male sex, because of their dan gers to exposure. It is more fre quently encountered among children than adults, probably due to their playing in the dirt and among rusted iron which has been cast off. And it happens with greater frequency in the south than in the norh. The automobile, with its various metal parts, shaking rust off along the roads it travels, means that per sons hurt in accidents due to these conveyances account for much of the inrease of lockjaw among patients The tetanus bacillus was dicovered in 1885 by Nicolaier, and an anti- toxine was discovered later for this disease by KRasko and Behring in 1890 and is today used extensively clinically as a prophylactic thera peutic measure. In a series of 813 cases of tetanus, Dr. Graves found that fully 60 per cent were caused by splinters and nail wounds. Other types of wounds, such as lacerations, abrasions, iif- cised wounds, wadding or shot from firearms, dirty or soiled clothing or earth coming in contact with an open cut may cause this infection. A patient with tetanus develops rigid muscles, his jaws become lock ed so he cannot chew, then follow spasms, with extereme rigidity of the jaws and an inability to swallow, with the entire body becoming tense There is profuse perspiration, pro found exhaustion, and then death re lieves the sufferer. All this can be prevented if one does not ignore small wounds. Per haps the best immediate relief is to swab the wounds with iodine, a sup ply of which should always be kept in an automobile. After that a doc tor should be consulted. Ash heaps and old junk piles should be cleaned up, for the tetanus bacillus thrives in them. ECZEMA • The skin is subject to many dis eases, and the conditions which bring about these maladies, are num erals, and increase with age. Some -of these diseases are purely local in character while others are systematic. If you are troubled with some skin eruption do not let your self be obsessed with the idea that you have acquired or inherited some so-called “blood disease”. Among these skin troubles, per haps the most common one to which mankind is heir is eczema. Indeed some physicians and most patients incline to the belief that it is a major -affection; for there can be no ques tion that it adds misery in almost unbearable quantities to those whom it afflicts. Some have it in a dry form and others m a wet form, commonly termed “weeping eczema”. It is non contagious and it inflames the slrin, always being accompanied by an itching and burning. Slight vesicles and pustules are present and the skin in and about them thickens and eliminates scales or crusts. It is often associated with asthma and constitutes about 40 per cent of all skin diseases—indeed there are few elderly people free from its ravages. With the decrease of gen- ral vitality and resistance, poor as similation and elimination and a chronic or acute diabetis, gout, rheu matism, nephritis, one may expect eczema. I am certain that doctors will ag ree with me when I say that it is one of the hardest diseases to con quer that the medical profession knows. I had one patient, a w«.slthy man, of about seventy-five years, whose entire body was affected. I accompanied him to most of the best specialists in skin diseases in this country and in Europe, who wrote various prescriptions for him and changed his diet repeatedly, without improving his condition. We simply exhausted medical intelli gence and the ma terial medic a upon him, and he had not benefited in the least. Several teeth pained him and ul cers developed. The offending teeth were extracted. He got a new color ed cook, who said, “Boss, I kin cure yo suah of dat trouble, if you does what I says.” I told my patient to try anything. She fed him fried herring for W' . . REVIEW of NEW BOOKS PAUL B. CLARK, PH. D. 1736 Woodburn Are. Covington, Ky. •FAVORITE STORIES OF FAMOUS CHILDREN. Edited by Dixie Willson. Henry Holt and Company, New York City. Pages viii-184. Price $1.75. All young readers will hail this charming book telling the choice stories of Patience, Richard and Johnny Abbe; Freddie Bartholomew; Dolores and John Barrymore, Jr.; Sandra Burns; Shirley Temple, and a host of others. The stories are in teresting even to adults; they range from personal contributions to those taken from the Bible and the other sources of an exquistite literature in our language. The story that each child selected is no less interesting than the class into which that par ticular story falls upon reflection. Temple selects a dramatic story tak en from the Old Testament; Ernie Clarke, Jr., America’s youngest cir cus star, ranking at the top of the list of America’s younger perform ers prefers “The Pony Express.” The book is illustrated by C. E. Mill ard, giving exclusive pictures and autographs; the annotations tell other children what they enjoy hear ing about the young people who have made “the front page” in their own right or in their family name. The book is calculated to instill com radeship between the children of the average home with those of the book. Ethically speaking, the array of young people and the stories they tell or prefer to hear are those that are calculated to do good. Johnny Abbe matches his imagination in his story, “The Cat with Midnight Eyes,” with the realism of all the others; and his story takes his cat, “Hurricane” by name, despite the cackling Old Witch who practiced a kind of alchemy in personality, the angelic becoming dembniac, away from Old Witch Step-and-a-half. Powerful ethical arguments arise be tween Old Witch and Hurricane; Hurricane leaves; Old Witch has a change of heart; Hurricane returns and . . . “Everyone concerned lived happy ever after.” The children of all ages will read this book with pleasure. weeks. Gradually his skin cleared and he became practically well, all of which convinced'me that his par ticular case of eczema was due to some food allergy, or to use a more understandable word—food poision- ing. And I learned about medicine from that Negro woman. FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1989 H-D COLU MN By MISS ETHEL COUNTS Most poultrymen are very parti cular about the eggs they eat, but not about the eggs they sell. Eggs are a perishable product and many things can influence the quality of eggs before they are eaten. Eggs should be gathered at least twice daily and placed in a cool damp place free from odors. Eggs should not be allowed to remain in buckets after they are gathered, but should be spread out to cool. Wire bask ets are excellent for gathering and cooling eggs. Clean eggs should be produced by providing clean litter and nesting material and by keep ing birds confined during muddy weather. Slightly dirty eggs can be cleaned with sandpaper. All exceptionally small or large eggs or eggs cracked, abnormal, or dirty shoud be used at home. Eggs should be marketed twice a week if possible. Most poultry flocks that have not been treated for lice and mites du ring the last six months are infest ed with these parasites. The pre sence of lice can best be detected by examining the abdomen of the birds or the region commonly called the “fluff.” Lice stay on the birds all the time and feed on the outer layer of skin and cause damage chiefly by annoying the birds. Mites infest birds usually when they are at roost at night and when they are in the nests, and pass the day in cracks and crevices and be neath debris. To destroy lice, treat the birds with sodium fluoride dust or apply a nicotine sulfate base compound to the perches one hour befort the birds go to roat, and another application within 10 days to destroy the lice from the eggs hatched (hiring the period. Nicotine sulfate compounds give excellent results also by indi vidual treatment with one applica tion from a small oil can, placing a drop each in the fluff, on the feathers, under each wing, and on the back of the neck. Thorough cleaning of the house and spraying with old motor oil or cresol or some strong disinfectant Is necessary to kill the mites. Poultry flock owners who pl«n to keep a breeding flock next fall may obtain best results by selecting the males when they are 12 to 16 weekt old. During this period rate of growth, feathering, and vigor show up quite readily. Additional selec tion can then be made at mating time. Saturday, June 3 (Jefferson Davis’ birthday) being a Legal holiday, this Bank will not be open for the transaction of business. S.C. National Bank C. C. Hutto, Manager Get An Auto Loan UP TO $500 In 15 Minute* Let your auto solve your financial worries. If car payments are too high—refinance, npking them smaller and get extra cash. NO RED TAPE NO DELAY Keep Your Automobile ' Newberry Insurance & Realty Co. E. B. PURCELL, Pres. Exchange Building *