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FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1939 7 ' €T!)>e^i»§wn 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. ANOTHER RECOVERY MOVE According to Washington commen tators the administration is about to launch another move to speed up re covery: the president and the con gress are planning to “do something” for the small business and profes sional man. What form will this proposed aid take? is doubtless the question be ing asked by those who will under take to provide it—and by those who must foot the bill as well. Will the administration pay news papers not to print their sheets, for example ? Many straggling papers would be hapy to fold up if govern ment pay checks were coming along to provide food and clothing for their owners. Will the hard-pressed merchant be offered a cash inducement to sell only so many groceries or pairs of shoes per month to keep his shelves from being overstocked? And what will the government do for the lawyer who waits for clients that never come? Or the doctor whose patients remain as healthy as young mules? Is there any way to help men and women in these pro fessions except by opening the treas ury doors? There appears to be only one ave nue of aid for these forgotten folk: the good old new deal way—call on Plutus and appoint a check-writing staff. DON’T ALL SPEAK AT ONCE! IT’S WORTH THE MONEY A congressman with perhaps little else to do, criticizes the national ad ministration for spending govern ment funds to entertain King George and Queen Elizabeth when they visit the United States this month. Such criticism has no merit whatever. It is a waste of breath, and woefully lacking in good taste. King George will com* here, not only a s the ruler of the greatest em pire on earth today, but also as a symbol of the spirit of democracy in the old world. His visit to us should be taken as more than a mere courtesy call of one ruler to another: it should be regarded as an oppor tunity for further cementing the ties that bind one great democracy to an other in a fraternal bond that knows no breaking. We are satisfied that the over whelming majority of the American people hold this view, and that their good taste and common sense will gladly accord every courtesy due to the British king and queen when they come to see us. MT. TABOR LUTHERAN PARISH Rev. D. M. Shull, Pastor The world is so full of a large num ber of words that none should lack for a vocabulary sufficient to express every shade of meaning in his speech. Pick up a dictionary or a thesaurus and there the word of words unfolds in regal splendor. If the swain wanted to pen a mis sive to his pearl, in rainbow-tinted phrases, he would find no fewer than one hundred fifty synonyms of “beautiful” with Which to decorate > em —such a s, charming, bewitching, fascinating, adorable, lovely, fair, and so on. Or a thing may be lawful, legiti mate, justifiable. A statesman may be dependable, incorruptible, reli able, true. A friend may be loyal, steadfast, true-blue. Justice may be fair, equable, impartial, righteous. If each of us could carry in his head all the words needed to convey the proper shade of meaning on all occasions, conversation would be a brilliant exchange of ideas instead of a monosyllabic swapping of grunts, as-it sometimes is. Or would it? IT MUST NOT HAPPEN HERE Mt. Tabor: Saturday at 4:00 Ladies Aid meet. 10:00 a. m. Sunday—Sunday school with Mr. J. W. Ballentine, Supt. 11:00 a. m. The Service. Mt. Pilgrim: 10:00 a. m. Sunday school with' Mr. B. O. Lovelace, Supt. Mt. Olivet: 3:30 p. m. Sunday school with Mr. O. O. Martin, Supt. Children under 12 years of age are not expected to attend church functions until further notice. At ‘Un-American Quiz’ 4 -c t •’ ,\ Recently the newspapers announc ed that the Catholic bishop of Vienna had been ousted from his palace and its furnishings confiscated and cart ed off to an unknown place. The bishop’s home was turned into a headquarters of the Nazi secret po lice, Who explained, this action of the Hitler government by saying that the property belonged to the state. The church in Germany is state-supported. This incident should serve to re mind Americans again that religious liberty is a precious article worthy of the most valiant guardianship. Any sort of alliance between church and state in this country must there fore be promptly and instantly re jected by the people of all faiths. Under the principle of complete sep aration of chuich and state in this land, free religion has prospered here as it ha® nowhere else In this health ful atmosphere there is no room nor need for the subtle wiles of state craft or the cunning and tricks of diplomacy Here the sway of the dictator must stop and his vulgar counterfeit of power cease. Religious freedom, Which means that a person may profess and prac tice any religion he pleases or none at all has given America a unique place in the family of nations. Am ericans will be watchful of this precious boon a^d be prepared to re sist with resolution any moves of politicians that tend to undermine or restrict it. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Dr. F. O. Lamoreux, Pastor Sunday: 10:15 a. m-, Bible School. W. C. Wallace, General Superintendent. 11:30 a. m., Service of Worship. 7:00 p. m., B. T. U. 8:00 p. m., Service of Worship. Monday: . Circles will meet *s announced in Calendar. Tuesday: 4:00 p. m., The Fidehs. class will meet with Miss Verna Mae Abrams. Wednesday: 8.00 p. m., Mid-week Prayer Meet ing. Thursday: Champion Sports Girl WASHINGTON, D. C.—Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, of the Repub- Ucar National Committee, Is shown as he appeared before the Honse Committee on Un-American Activi ties where he denounced religious and racial intolerance and denied he was familiar with the operations of alleged sponsors of an antt-radal propaganda eampaigm ^ eom,. trj. PASO ROBLES, CALIF. . . . Miss Dianne Stewart, of Hollywood, Calif., Is crowned All Sports Queen here where she captured first prise In swimming, diving, tennis, badmin ton, golf and archery contests In which more than fifty California beauties participated. She Is shown . here with an array of sports equip ment which she used to gain her title. TODAY \TOMORROW\ -ly.- FRRNK PARKER STOCK BRIDGE HERO Maness Add to the long honor roll of Am erican naval heroes the name of Lloyd B. Maness of Greensboro, N. C., electrician’s mate on the U. S. Submarine “Squalus.” There were 59 officers and men on the Squalus when she submerged on her trial trip off the Isle of Shoals. Something went wrong with the me chanism intended to close the air- valve into the engine room, when the vessel dived. The sea flowed in, and certain death by drowning faced the entire crew. Lloyd Maness acted, instantly. There was a door in the watertight bulkhead between the forward part of the sub and the after end into which the water was pouring. It took the strength of a giant, almost, to pull that door shut, with the ves sel tilted upward at an angle of nearly 45 degrees, but Maness had the strength and the presence of mind to use it. Five of his ship mates slipped through in the last se cond as the door was closing. Twenty, six were left behind to drown in the flooded engine room. But thirty-three who would also have drowned if Maness had not had the wit and the strength to close that door and keep the water out of the forward end of the boat were rescued alive. That is why I call the boy from North Carolina a Jiero. SUBMARINES .... BushneU The idea of navigating a ship un der water is, like flying, almost as old as the human race. Nobody knows how many inventors of primitive times lost their lives in home-made submarines. Before electric batteries and motors were invented, sub marines had only human power for propulsion. The first submarine boat to oper ate successfully was built by David Bushnell of Philadelphia in 1776, for the purpose of blowing up British warships. It was made of wood and was operated by two men with oars projecting through leather protected openings. Bushnell tried to blow up the British ship “Eagle,” and got his submarine underneath the other craft. He failed to attach the bomb securely, however, so that when it exploded an hour later the “Eagle’’ had moved away and no damage was done. IRISH Holland It was an Irishman with a griev ance against the English who invent ed the first modern submarine a hundred years after Bushnell’s ex periment. John P. Holland, a naturalized Am erican, had a project for building a fleet of submarines to blow up the whole British Navy. He built an ex perimental boat with gas engine for surface navigation and electric mo tors for underwater propulsion. Holland showed his submarine to friends, who talked him out of the idea of raising funds from Irish pa triots to carry out his original pur pose, and brought him in touch with the United States Navy Department. The result was that in 1883 our Navy contracted with Holland for the very first submarine torpedo-boat ever built by any government. From then on the United States has been in the first rank among sea-going nations in fighting power. No other country has overtaken us in submarine design and construc tion. With the new undersea craft now building our Navy will have 100 of these deadly weapons of de fense. ROMANCE Verne The modem submarine was de scribed long before one was ever built, Jn a widely-read romantic novel by a French author, Jules Verne. The “Nautilus”, the under water pirate craft described in “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” had everything modem submarines have and some things which have not yet been developed. One American inventor, Simon Lake, has built submarines with doors through which men in diving suits can emerge on the ocean floor, to salvage treasure from sunken ships, but the chief use of such craft is still to sink enemy ships at sea. John Holland’s first sub, the “Plunger”, was only 55 feet long. The one just sunk, the “Squalus,” is 299 feet long, 27 feet wide and twenty-two feet deep. Many ocean going surface craft are smaller than the “Squalus” of 1450 tons. Men of the Navy, if they are young and aventurous, welcome de tail to submarine craft. Their job calls for high intelligence and great courage even in peace time; but it carries extra pay. The proposal has been made to provide war-time pen sions for widows and dependents of sailors who lose their lives in sub marine service. ATROCITY war The ruthless use of submarines by Germany had more to do than any other one thing with bringing Am erica into the World War. It was quite in accordance with Spectator COMMENTS In a reent issue of The United States News of Washington, D. C., appears an article by our well-known and esteemed fellow Carolinian, J. Skottowe Wannamaker, recognized as a leader in cotton economics, first President of the Farmers and Tax payers League and one of the most energetic and resourceful intellects I have ever known. The two friends of mine who were always alert, men tally, were the late John J. McMahon and J. Skottowe Wannamaker, hap pily still with us and always “redeem ing the time,” as the Apostle admon ishes us. Recently Mr. Wannamaker received high recognition for a bio graphical work of general interest. Speaking of these two stimulating minds—and they always kept me on the jump—I find that the death of John J. McMahon took something out of my life and left a place unfilled. I have been rich in friends. There’s my loyal, partial, courtly friend and champion Colonel W. W. Bruce, now re-establishing his health in Asheville. And Doctor Burts! Truly a man among men and an apostle in all good works. And there’s my valiant friend, a knightly soul, Lewis Rice of Union—may he come back renewed in youth like the eagle But really, I’m embarrassed with a wealth of comradely spirits who have enriched by life and renewed and strengthened my faith in humanity. And Mr. J. J. Lawton, a noble soul and lover of mankind, who amid all the cares and demands of varied in terests, yet took time to write me a letter of encouragement. But I can’t write about all the choice friends I have and have had. Mr. McMahon crowds out other thoughts at the moment. He wa® a brilliant man, his brain never fag ged, never rested. Spectator has in tellectual impulses, but they “peter out.” After a snatch of something serious I renew my touch with base ball and pin my faith on Dizzy Dean, hoping, to, that Bob Feller will “fog ’em” past all the batters. In fact I’m one of the boys except for this whang-doodle so-called mountain singing I hear over the radio. Sunday afternoon I was rejoicing in the beauty of Faust, as it came over the radio; but a dose pills or something else followed so quickly that my thirst was not quenched. But Mr. McMahon had no small talk, no cheap jokes, no smutty sto ries—no foibles He wanted ideas and turned them over and about, up and down, delighting in the intellec tual exercise. Oh, you might not agree with him—but he made you think. If you should liken pure intellec- tualisom to the porterhouse steak of fillet mignon, most of us take small bites of those cuts, feeding oftener on stew-meat, and not seldom on the hamburgers and hot-dogs of the higher life. Most of us are men tally indolent and need lots of prod ding to keep off aposiopesis, just as we quaff, imbibe, and such, quarts of “dope” to keep our bodies awake. So I never cease to marvel at men who are always wide-awake, intensely aware of everything and running under a full head of steam day and night. Remember Dr. Mitchell, the scho- larly president of our University who really carried old Carolina to the people? It wasn’t safe to make casual remarks to him, for if there was even the germ of an idea the Doctor looked it over, examined it carefully, analyzed it, speculated on it, dug into its antecedents, grilled you about jt and thrilled over it— and put you through your paces. A survey of our condition in South Carolina indicates that the farmers have passed through a disastrous year. This is equally true of our industries, as well as our mercantile establishments. This argues against any new taxes. A very poor State should study how to increase its revenue through increased production and individual income. Increasing State revenue by further squeezing an impoverished people is not sound statesmanship nor wholes*me finance. The problem, then, is to remove certain taxes which militate against new investments and operate to dis courage a n< l diminish those which we have. the rules of civilized warfare for “unterseebooto,” or “U - boats,” as others called them, to sink fighting ships. It was only when the Germans, with a large fleet of submarines, be gan to attack and sink peaceful merchant ships, beginning with the “Lusitania,” tthat American public opinion became aroused to the fact that a great nation had thrown into the discard all rule to which others still adhered. When American ships were tor pedoed by U-boats and Germany warned America that the Stars and Stripes could fly on the high seas only by German permission, we went to war to preserve our liberty and our national self-respect. I find naval and military men agreeing with me that the submarine is a much more dangerous weapon than the airplane, in unscrupulous hands. It is harder to detect and more difficult to ward off its attack. H-D COLUMN By MISS ETHEL COUNTS Listen to WBT Farm Features each Tuesday, Thursday, and Satur- da; r at 1:00 p. m. Let’s not forget the sweet potaU.es for they are one of oar imp -rtar.t yellow crops. A side dressing of Nitrate of soda will hasten the growth of plants so that you may get plenty of 'vines. ‘•Vt cannot stress too much the growing o f po tatoes from vine cuttings. T.nese should be set as soon after June •the first as possible arid net later than July the first. Watch your garden crops for in sects—keep your dust gun supplied with Rotenone and take it to the garden with you. By mulching tomato plants with straw, leaves, or litter, moisture will be conserved, resulting in a longer fruiting season. Deep planted tomato plants will stand the»drouth much better. Sow tomato seed now for transplanting in July. Make successive plantings of corn and beans. Transplant tomatoes, sweet potatoes, egg plant and pep per. Let’s not forget the garden for this is our best source of health. Eggs are plentiful and cheap, and are rated as one of the protective foods needed in every diet. Nutrition specialists count them among the best of the body builders, and for that reason recommend that, when eggs are cheap and plentiful, one or more a day may be used to advan tage by every member of the fam ily. Hard cooked eggs are used freely in the summerur'.e for salads and sandwiches. Fluffy angel cakes, custards, and ice creams are a few of the deserts that make use of eggs. In egg cooking, the secret of success is “always cook slowly at moderate even heat”. High tempera tures shrink the protein and make the eggs tough. For an omelet use a smooth heavy pan and very low heat. Many frozen dishes, especially those made in a mechanical refrigerator without stirring, call for beaten egg whites. The tiny bubbles of beaten white prevent the ice crystals from getting together to form large, icy masses that make the ice cream grainy. Miss Edith Wilson, a member of the high school faculty of Saluda, is at home for the summer vacation. King and Queen End Canadian Tour PAS ^ -sc: mm King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on the rear of the royal train as they complete their tour of Canada preparatory to coming to the United States. ! ' - k IN MEMORY OF OUR MOTHER, MRS. P. B. BANKS It was one year ago today, May 31st, that you journeyed to your- heavenly home. We have missed you, dear mother, for you have been away so long, and our hearts have been so desolate without you. But God need ed another flower so he pllcked you, our dearest one, and transplanted you on some fairer shore, where now you adorn His immortal bowers. Day after day we think what you are doing in those bright realms. You were always so busy here, but never too busy or too tired to be a friend or lend a helping hand. So many of us in the hustle and bustle of life trample down the flowers others plant, and forget to entertain strang ers, but you did not, for you always thought you might sometime enter tain angels unawares. There was never a cake too gpod, no pie too sweet, or anything too great not to be shared with your friends or those who stopped at your house by the side of the road. We think of you as still the same. You are not dead, you have just gone away to rise on some fairer and more peaceful shore. You were so tired, for you had lived so unselfishly in your service to others. And .when God bade you come, He must have said, “Well done, thy god and faith ful servant; come and I will give you rest.” You were as a mother and friend with a heart of gold Bearing kind thoughts and words * for all, Ready to cheer the young and old, Whenever for service you heard a call. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Wilson had as their guests during the last week the following: N. G. Outzs, Clay ton, Ga.; F. B. Outzs, Mirs. J. S. Wilson, Mrs. Seldon Harling, Mrs. Wallace Timmerman, Mrs. Wilbur Workman, Greenwood; Mrs. W. W. Redding, Columbia; H. E. Thomason, Georgetown; R. M. Smith and R- F. Thackston, Anderson. 1. By universal opinion of inform ed men the Intangibles tax keep out wealthy men who might become citi zens. If citizens, they would pay largely to the general taxes of the State. I should suggest a cut of fifty per cent of the general Intan gibles tax dividends from South Carolina enterprises. It has been es timated that at present we have as property holders men of large wealth who pay heavily to other states on their incomes. Some of those men would like to become citizens of this State and would contribute more, several times more, in income taxes than we should lose through reduc tion in the general Intangibles tax. This I should regard as a highly con structive effort to rebuild the State, for we should become a very definite interest in the minds of those men as citizens. 2. No Property tax should be lev ied by the State. All the studies which have been made indicate that our local taxes are much higher than the local taxes in other states. By reimposing three mills we not only break faith with th# voters, but we put that burden back on industry as ■ytell as on the homes and farms of the people. 3. No argument is needed against an increase in the Corporation In come tax. If business is not allowed to earn profits and set aside some thing to take up the slack of dull periods it will mean the end of em ployment during slack times for it is known that all large units of busi ness frequently operate at a loss rather than to shut down. 4. The proposed cent on gasoline will work against not merely great contractors and truckers, but against ministers, physicians, traveling sales men, farmers, and a multitude of small concerns. 5. As a matter of fairness the emergency one mill increase in the Capital Stock tax should be removed, leaving the tax at two mills and com puting it from the same base as at present. So in peaceful beneath rest- dear mother, slumber In God’s own acre, flowers. And when we join that innumerable number, May the peace that is yours for ever be ours. — Her Children Leading Batsman CHICAGO, ILL. . . . Augie Galan, veteran outfielder of the Chicago Cubs, who Is leading the National League batters with an average of over .400. See America of 1960 THREE iSHIFTS HELD AT MARGARET HUNTER POOL The Margaret Hunter pool is now open for three shifts, according to Manager Otho Williams. The morn ing hours are from nine to twelve o’clock. The afternoon shift runs from two-thirty to six-thirty and the night shift from seven to ten o’clock. ‘ i The park grounds are accessible at any time for picnics and various gatherings. In accordance with the suggestion of the State Health Board, no child ren under thirteen years of age will be admitted to the pool. FOR |RENT—Recently remodeled 5 or 6 room apartment, all modern conveniences, cool and comfortable. Available July 1. 2009 Mayer ave nue, B. M. Scurry. 3t. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. Henry Morganthau, Jr., experienced a new travel sensation Tuesday when they toured the faturama of the General Motors exhibit at the New York World’s Fair. In moving sound-chairs they soared over a vast scale-model of America as it may conceivably appear in the year 1960. CHINA at Give-away Price* Many patterns to select from Made by SEBR1NT, Ohio C. T. SUMMER Hdwe. Dept. Get An Auto Loan $500 jn 15 Minute* Let your auto solve your financial worries. If car payments are too high—refinance, making them smaller and get extra cash. NO RED TAPE NO DELAY 81,209 M A LARI A CASES REPORTED IN U.S. IN 1938 DON’T DELAY! Start Today with OOO sets CHECKS MALARIA IN 7 DAYS Keep Your Automobile Newberry Insurance & Realty Co. E. B, PURCELL, Pres. Exchange Building