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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1939 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. THE NEVER-ENDING WAR We may manage to keep out of the next great war between nations, if and when it comes off, but the United States is already engaged in an un ending war which has cost us in money and perhaps in human lives as much as the last World War cost us. That is the war between Man and the Insect World. Consider. We thought we had the yellow-fever-carrying mosquito lick ed, but lately airplanes from South America have brought more of his tribe to the United States. The ma laria mosquito still takes thousands of human lives every year and in capacitates tens of thousands more. We’ve pretty well learned how to keep the common house-fly from car rying typhoid germs to our dinner tables, but it’s a continuous battle. Consider what it costs the fruit growers of California and elsewhere to fight the San Jose scale, the cot ton planters of the South to keep the boll weevil within bounds, the corn growers of the Middle West to battle with the corn-borers and chinch bugs. Grasshoppers and army worms are a constant menace to the wheat farmer. The Colorado beetle or potato-bug threatens the livelihood of potato- growers from Maine to Utah. The cattle tick infects livestock through out the South and Southwest with Texas fever. Cutworms are at un ceasing war against the tobacco growers. Scientists have been ingenious in finding other insects to help battle the destructive ones. The pretty lit tle beetles we call ladybirds are bred in the West to kill other insects which injure fruit. Lately wasps brought from Japan, whose chief natural food is the young of the Japanese beetle, are starting their own war in the Blast. The war against insects puts hu mans on their mettle, which is per haps a compensation, There is no progress without conflict. And, as Mark Twain’s “Pudd’nhead Wilson” said, “a reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; they keep him from broodin’ over bein’ a dog.” HARE IS AGAINST PHILIPPINE BREAK Washington, July 31.—After a speech by Representative Butler Hare, in which the Saluda congress man urged that a complete break in the economic ties with the Philip pine islands be avoided, the House passed and sent to the Senate legis lation amending the Tydings-Mc- Duffie Philippine independence act. OalUng attention to the provision in the amendments which called for negotiations for a trade agreement between the United States and the Philippines before complete inde pendence is realized, Hare said the islands should not be sacrificed as a potential market for United States goods. “In view of this vast potential market, I think we can be willing to grant them tariff concessions on their products, including a limited amount of coconut oil, to meet these needs,” Hare said. The Saluda congressman is for mer chairman of the House commi ttee on insular affairs which reported out the bill passed today. He played a prominent part in drafting the legislation. THINGS TO WATCH FOR A flashlight that generates its own electricity. Concealed in the alum inum case is a spring motor which drives a tiny, high-powered genera tor. You merely wind the spring, press a button and a beam of light issues forth... A new bottled bever age containing an extract of mate, a leaf used in brewing a South Am erican tea....New personal loan idea for banks introduced by the Vee Bee Service Co. of Memphis. A borrower rents stocks, bonds, or other collat eral from an individual owner and turns this over to the bank as secu rity for a personal loan... A new type of corn syrup for use by con- fectionery manufacturers said to be twice as sweet as ordinary corn syrup. EXCEED LAST YEAR Columbia, July 31.—An increase of $116,671 in collections from the 6- cents gasoline tax this month over July last year was reported today by the state tax commission. The revenue aggregated $1,053,- 988.12 com pa ted with $937,317 for July, 1938. The tax came from sales in June, as wholesalers report purchases a month late. 2 SIDES TO EVERY QUESTION By Lytle Hull THE PEOPLE’S WEAPON The unorganized Public is begin ning to realize that it has acquired an all-powerful weapon in the shape of “letter writing”. Very frequently the appeal is made to “write your Senator and Representative,” and the Public is begining to follow the advice and is finding it successful. Faster and faster this system is ta king hold and today our Congress men are able to know what their constituents want. In the past, great organizations like The American Federation of La bor, and more recently the CIO also, have been able—and are still able on account of their very obvious power of organized voting—to sway some of our lawmakers in their attitude on certain legislation, and there are vote-loving members of such govern ing bodies as City Managements, State Assemblies, and even, ’tis said, our National Congress, who have up on occasion been beguiled by the siren songs of smaller groups like the Coipmunist and Socialist part ies—not to mention the Pork Barrel Gangs. To give the lawmaker his due, it must be remembered that he fre quently was unaware of the wishes of the majority of his constituents. Their voice had not been heard while that of the “groups” resounded through the halls. Most of the organized parties maintain “lobbies” in Washington and in the State Assemblies. These Lobbies are composed of intelligent men and women whose business it is to use pressure on members of the governing bodies. If their or ganizations wish to promote certain laws favorable to them, these Lob byists are usually in a position to use tremendous influence, and will at times even “band together” in an attempt to intimidate the men whom the people have elected to represent them. The farmer, and those other mil lions who live ir the agricultural dis tricts, have probably been the great est losers from these organized “raids.” The city people are more closely allied and when they feel they are being discriminated against they are apt to make their political wishes known in no uncertain manner, and by so doing give their representa tives moral support against the Groups. But our farm population of thirty- two million is spread all over the country and it is impossible for it to act with collective efficiency. The farmers, and small town citi zens, make up the great bulk of real Americans. Their interest in na tional politics is more wholesome and patriotic than is that of the majority o fthe inhabitanst of our great cities, of whom so many are foreigners or foreign born. Their knowledge and grasp of politics is extensive and up until the present they have lacked only the method of expression. Today this situation is changing rapidly and it is the “letter writing” system which is do ing the trick. In all of organized labor in this country there are only seven and a half million members, but when Labor wanted laws passed, even if those laws happen to be unfavorable to the majority of our citizens, they were frequently able to force them through. Today the ordinary citizen knows what he or she can do with pen and ink—or just a low-down pencil for that matter—and with this know ledge, and the determination that his country shall be run for him and for his children, the American has at last found the means to demand the laws which HE wants and to com bat those of which he does not ap prove. May more and more of us join the “letter writers,” and join them now, until that group is so powerful that it needs no Lobby and will brook no opposition. And don’t let us for get that it is just as important to tell our representatives in local, state and national governments, how we want them to vote on important legislation, as it is for us to go to the booth on election day and cast our own vote. RHEUMATISM RILIIVI PAIN IN PIW MINUTIS To relieve the torturing pain of Rheuma tism, Neuritis, Neuralgia or Lumbago, in a few minutes, get the Doctor's«formula NURITO. Dependable—no opiates, no nar cotics. Does the work quickly—must relieve cruel pain, to your satisfaction In a few minutes or money back at Druggist's. Don't suffer. Use NURITO on this guarantee today. Spectator COMMENTS Col: Wyndham Manning, in a speech in McConne'lsville, came out squarely against a third term for Mr. Roosevelt or any other President. Some time ago Senator Smith declar ed against a third term and Con gressman Thomas S, McMillan has declared against it. So far as I know those three gentlemen are the only outstanding political figures to speak out against the third term. No man is so important or so great as to be indispensable. This nation of a hundred and twenty million people is the greatest failure in the history of mankind if it has only one man equipped for the Presi dency. All our universities and col leges, all our public schools, all our years of political freedom and ex perience have been a sad waste if they have produced only one man. In Congress alone there must be a doz en men fully as capable as Mr. Roosevelt; among the Democratic Governors there are certainly five or six who are figures of respectable ability; and outside the field of of ficialdom our nation has thousands of men of transcendent attainments. Stalin may be the one and only man in Russia; Hitler may be the one man in Germany; Mussolini may be the great and indispensable Italian; but no such one-man condition ob tains in this land of liberty and free institutions. We are not dependent on any one man, nor must we choose some one who wears his mantle. In the exercise of sovereign political rights let us choose as may be best for the Nation. Larger counties, a consolidation of counties—is that what we need? Ap parently we have too many counties; twelve counties instead of forty-six, and seven or eight judges instead of fourteen—and so on. As so often is true, appearances are misleading. It may be true that we don’t need any counties at all. For convenience we might have ju dicial regions corresponding to coun ties; and we might have such regions for returning property and for road supervision—and for recording pa pers, deeds, etc.—well there we have the counties, eh? What real benefit would come from a consolidation of counties ? Change meiely for the sake of change isn’t worth much except in ladies’ clothing. The advocates of consolidation ar gue that paved roads make it easier to go long distnees to court houses. True, but that argument is just as persuasive for doing away with all counties and concentrating in Col umbia, or in Columbia, Charleston, and Greenville. But there are cer tain services which are performed better in small units. It is interesting to observe that the small counties seem to be the most competently administered. Let us take time to admire little Bamberg. Apparently there are neither ordinary county bonds nor school bonds outstanding. There are no certificates of indebtedness, al though the revenue produced by property taxes has fallen from $179,- 410 in 1929 to $96,180 in 1938. Only $94,880 was due for back taxes. Now would you add this to its great big neighbor, Orangeburg? Not unless every Bamberger were slain at the ballot box. Orangeburg, in 1929, owed $955,000 for county purposes and $298,000 for schools; but in 1938 it ©wed $1,783,000 for county pur poses and $526,767 for schools. Verily those sturdy burghers have fallen under the spell of the New Deal. True it is that Orangeburg’s revenue from property taxes fell from $718,- 390 in 1929 to $381,041 in 1938; but delinquent taxes still totalled $734,- 678. A singular development is that Orangeburg liad twenty-four indus tries in 1929, with 1,226 employees, but she had 28 industries in 1938 with only 917 employees. This re verses the experience of most coun ties. So, then, would you tie Bam berg to Orangeburg? Nay, my bro ther. Then there is another baby county which touches on Orangeburg —wee Oalhoun, which owes next to nothing and had only $11,903 in de linquent taxes. Mlost of this must be double-entries, for in a land of so many Smoaks and Wannamakers the Auditor may be excused for a bit of confusion. Orangeburg is a great county and its people are the very salt of the earth, but would it be good for Bam berg and Calhoun to be taken into Orangeburg ? Suppose a law were enacted es tablishing a minimum wage of two dollars a day for cotton pickers and limiting the day to eight hours— what would be the result? The far mers would “go broke,” of course; but thinking of farm labor—what would happen? Three-fourths of the pickers would lose the opportu nity to work. Why? Because $2 a day for eight hours would mean perhaps a four-hundred pound pick ing. Such picking is possible, per haps, but very rare; most pickers would be disqualified at once. No farmer can pay $20 a bale for picking, $6 for fertilizer, $4 for rent, $15 for labor, $8 for stock, feed, im plements, etc.—a total of $49—not counting anything for the farmer— sell his cotton for $41 and thrive! All the labor which remains idle becomes a charge on the community. In time some men might become ex pert pickers; and machinery might be used: but society cannot be built on expert labor; it must find a place for the inexpert, the ordinary and the inefficient. Every man must be allowed to “earn his keep,” to pull his own weight; and every enter prise must be encouraged to use all the kinds of labor we have. So when you pass laws fixing minimum pay and maximum hours you rule out all those who cannot produce that much, plus some more for general expenses. Instead of helping the “poor man,” artificial regulations work against him. He might earn a dollar and sustain himself; but if he must re ceive two dollars, while producing only one dollar, e’en that which he hath shall be taken away. A dictator may be a man of gentle manner, benevolent, charitable, lib eral, generous, eloquent and persua sive. In fact, a dictator may be the most likable man, even the most lov able man, to those on the inside, his friends, his supporters, and his pup pets. Moreover, a dictator may be earnestly desire js to build his coun try, to deserve the plaudits of the people because of his public services. I served ten years under a dictator. He loved his country and he strove with all his means and all his ability to promote every good interest of his people. I admired him; I respec ted him; and I had a warm affection for him. He was good to me; he wished to be good to everybody. Was he a good dictator? Not necessarily a bluff, harsh, cruel man of violence Not a man of fierce mien and pirate’s moustache, with sword and buckler, guns and pistols. More likely a dictator is one who re gards himself as the fount of justice, the supreme apostle of righteous en deavor, and all that. And such a man may be just and righteous. But is a nation to be governed by the will of one man? The dictator believes in himself so supremely that he thinks his will, his ideas should prevail; he thinks him self and his ideas the standard by which all others must be judged. Those who disagree with him are wrong, unpatriotic, schemers, etc. Even the courts and the law-making body must yield to the one, supreme benevolence which can brook no rival. I served under such a dictator. All of us who served him were enthusi astic adherents of both the man and his administration; but what of those on the outside? Well, now, the world wasn’t so roseate for them. They felt able to think for them selves; they felt a patriotic impulse to serve their country; they denied that their country or any other coun try was, or should be, dependent on the will of one man, even though he were Moses and the Prophets, Socra tes, Solon, and Demosthenes, all com pounded and then distilled into one essence. RATE OF INTEREST LOWERED BY FHA Washington, July 30.— The feder al housing administration tonight moved to stimulate further expan sion in home building and buying by ordering a 1-2 percent reduction in interest on future mortgages insured by it. The reduction becomes effective August 1. On and after that date the maximum interest rate on mortgages committed for insurance by the FHA on small homes will be 4 1-2 per cent instead of 5 per cent as at pre sent. The maximum rate on mort gages on large t -cale rental projects limited by law to $5,000,000, will be 4 per cent as against 4 1-2 per cent existing heretofore. , Stand Ready to Buy At the same time, Jesse Jones, administrator of the new federal loan agency, announced that the federal national mortgage associa tion and the RFC mortgage company, both subsidiaries of the reconstruc tion finance corporation, stand ready to buy FHA-insured mortgages at the reduced rates from lending in stitutions. , The FHA does not make loans for home construction or buying. It insures loans made by lending insti tutions, such as banks and saving and loans associations, up to 80 and 90 per cent of their face value. The reduction in interest rate is expected to stimulate greater inter est in home ownership among low income groups. NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OF FINAL SETTLEMENT I will make a final settlement of the estate of Mrs. Vida Mae Beden- baugh in the Probate Court for New berry County, S. C., on Thursday, August 31st, 1939, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon, and will immediately thereafter ask for my discharge as administrator of said estate. All persons having claims against the estate of Mrs. Vida Mae Beden- baugh, deceased, are hereby notified to file the same duly verified, with the undersigned, or his attorneys, Blease & Griffith, and those indebted to said estate will please make pay ment likewise. EVERETT E. BEDENBAUGH, Administrator. July 31st, 1939. 4-4te 666 CHECKS MALARIA IN 7 DAYS A RELIEVES TABLETS. LIQUID. SALVE. NOSE DROPS COLDS SYMPTOMS FIRST DAY THY ‘ RUB-MY-TISM” A WONDERFUL LINIMENT today TOMORROW\ ^ -if- I ptan mbker I I 8 TO.C K B 8 I D O E | DRIVERS women Whether women are better drivers than men, or vice-versa, is a question to which nobody has an entirely sat isfactory answer. I think it depends upon the age and experience of the driver more than upon any other fac- tor. ,i In my family, the best driver, all odds, is my daughter. I ’**> teach her to drive when she was fif teen. She has driven more than half a million miles in twenty years, without an accident or a ticket for traffic violations, and only one bump ed fender, I can never drive a® well as she, for I started too old. I was past thirty before automobiles came into general use, thirty-five before I ever drove. Nobody who starts to learn after maturity can fully master a new skill, espcially one which calls for such complete coordination of body and mind as driving a car. The best and safest driver is the one who learned to drive while still in his or her ’teens, and who has been driving long enough to have absorbed the importance of expect ing the fellow in the other car to drive badly. That and quick reac tion to traffic signs and signals are what make a good driver. FLYING . jobs The Government is beginning a program of training college students for flying. It takes plenty of time to make a good flyer. More than half the college men who begin training in the Army and Navy flying schools are dropped before they finish the course. Some men just can’t learn to fly expertly. It takes longer even to train com petent airplane mechanics, and more of them are needed than flyers. It takes five or six men on the ground for every one in the air, to service the planes. That opens a great op portunity for American youth. With the prospect that in three or four years there will be thirty thousand military and commercial planes in the American sky, there seems to be one of the greatest op portunities open to boys of mechani cal tastes, in learning to be skilled airplane mechanics. Jobs are close ahead for 150,000 such trained workers, at good wages, and the big airlines are beginning to set up schools for apprentices in which high school giaduates can learn, in four years, all there is to know about taking a plane apart and putting it together again, and get paid while learning. MARRIAGE ..... deferred Too many young people postpone marriage until the man is earning enough to give his bride the com forts to which sne has been accus tomed. I have always believed that any girl worth marrying would put up with whatever her husband could provide, and that the man who mar ries young stimulates his ambition thereby. Some studies of the effects of the depression on marriage indicate that in hard times young folks are prone to put off marrying until times are better, with the result that many times the other fellow gets the girl. The best chance for happy married life comes to those who marry young enough to get a family under way while the parents are still youthful. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford University, advises his students to marry young. He says that the reason fewer European mar riages fail than in America is our tendency to wait until our incomes are larger. The European system of providing a dowry for the bride by her parents might well be adopted in this coun try, too. The happiest marriages I have ever known about have been be tween youths of twenty and girls of eighteen. CIVILIZATION food According to Dr. Elmer Drew Merrill, professor of botany at Har vard University, there were no food plants grown in America which were also grown elsewhere in the world, before the white men settled here, and only one domestic animal was common to both hemispheres. The Indians, and the peoples across the Atlantic both had dogs. With no cattle, sheep, or swine, no horses, no crops, except Indian corn in North America and potatoes in the western part of South Ameri ca, there was no civilization. Dr. Merrill points out that civilization begins with permanent settlements, and that all permanent settlement and community life is based on ag riculture. Whole tribes had to migrate from season to season in search of food that grew wild, fish they could catch and game they could kill. They could not live otherwise. Therefore they could build no permanent homes and develop none of the arts and crafts which are the foundation of civilized life. They could own no property but what they could carry on their backs, for they might never come back to the place they started from. It was a free life, but not a very comfortable one. BOOKS postage It is quite possible that when the history of the official acts of the United States Government of today comes to be written, it will be set down that the thing which has served future generations best was the reduction pf the postage rate on books, from a cent an ounce to one cent and a half a pound. Though only six months in opera tion, the reduced book postage rate has already greatly increased the sale and distribution of books of all kinds. Few books weigh more that two pounds, most weigh less than a pound. The difference between the present rate and the old one means that books can be sold more cheaply and so more people can and will buy them. ORIGINAL—BUT NOT MATCHLESS WAS HE Matches got a man a job. Re cently an unemployed man borrewed $20 from his father. He had seen book matches with appeals for chari ty; why not book matches printed with appeals for a job! iHe had 1,000 of them printed and dropped them wherever he thought they might be useful. Within a few days all New York was talking about the young fellow. He had done some thing original; he got his job. ST PHILIPS NOTES (Written for The Sun) Sunday evening at eight o’clock divine services will be held at the St. Philips Lutheran church conducted by the pastor, the Rev, Emmett Roof. A god attendance is desired. The annual Shealy reunion was held at the old home place Saturday, July 29. In spite of the threat of rain, the morning was very pleasant. A barbecue dinner was served under the oaks. The reunion afforded a time for many of the family to be together again after a year apart following the last reunion. Being a distant relative of the group, I was invited. A report of happenings since last year’s gathering showed no deaths in the family, six added by marriage, and four by birth. I founthe event delightful and appreciated the invi tation so much. May God’s richest blessings rest upon them all and may they be able to gather another com ing year. ANNUAL BEAUTY PAGEANT IS BEING STAGED Representing Newberry in the Ju nior Talent and Beauty pageant to be conducted this (Thursday) night at Myrtle Beach in connection with the annual State Talent and Beauty pageant will be Miss Jean Copeland. Miss Copeland was winner of the junior beauty contest held here last spring. The three-day pageant concludes Friday night with the official selec tion of “Miss South Carolina.” From 82 carefully selected beauties over the state between the ages of 18 and 26 years of age, the one will be cho sen to represent the Palmetto state in Atlantic City where she will com pete in the National Beauty pageant for the title of “Miss America.” The Junior beauty winner will be awarded a trip to the World’s Fair. Competing in the senior contest will be Miss Caroline Palm, beautiful Greenvillian, who won the title last April of “Queen Azalea VII.” BE SURE WITH PURE ask the car that’s had one Pure Oil's new TREATMENT Got some time? Got a dollar? Then get new life for your mo tor 1 Pure Oil’s new Solvenized Tune-Up Treatment makes me chanically sound motors young again while you wait. Cleanses valves, pistons, and piston rings of excess carbon and gummy binder. Improves performance, gas 'mileage. Under-tne-Hood Inspec- ' tion included /ree. Exclusive with Pure Oil dealers. 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