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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1939
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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.
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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
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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.”
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