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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939
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.
EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY
There was held in New York a
short time ago a world-wide Con
gress on Education for Democracy.
There is no doubt whatever that if
democracy as we understand it in
America is to survive the attacks
upon it from within and without our
nation, its underlying fundamental
principles must be inculcated in
every new generation. That the
schools and colleges of America are
teaching those principles upon which
our nation rest is doubted by many.
They are simple enough. As every
speaker at that Congress pointed out,
the fundamental principle of demo
cracy is personal, individual liberty
of thought and action. But every
speaker, aljnost, emphasized the trutn
that liberty is not license to do any
thing which infringes upon any
other citizen’s liberty. Liberty and
its corollary, opportunity to enrich
one’s self at the expense of others,
liberty to interfere with others’ op
portunities.
Liberty is possible only in a nation
where the people rule.
No student of history can have any
doubt that democracy is the most
difficult form of government, Earl
Baldwin, former Prime Minister of
England pointed out recently. It is
difficult because its success is the in
dividual responsibility of each citi
zen.
“He may not recognize easily those
ideals,” said Earl Baldwin, “he cer
tainly cannot express them, but one
who holds to such ideals can never
embrace a cause which grips his
whole being unless he feels in his
bones that it is morally right.
“The spiritual foundation of de
mocracy is a recognition of the
dignity of man and his individuality,
and that dignity and individuality are
his as a child of God.”
No thoughtful person is likely to
dispute that expression of the fun
damental essential of democracy, the
union of a people in a common spirit
ual ideal. Too little attention is
given in these days to inculcating
ideals which have no relation to ma
terial wealth or possessions in the
minds and souls of the coming citi
zens of America. To neglect such
teaching is a danger to the future of
the nation.
Dr.
Frank
Crane
MALICIOUS COMMAS
At a dinner recently, one of the
toasts ran: “Woman! without her,
man is a. brute”; but the newspaper
compositor set it up as: “Woman,
without her man, is a brute.” The
mover of the toast had a good deal
of explaining to do.
In a magazine article on the
milk supply in American cities, the
writer was made to sav: “The milk
maid having finished milking, a cow
offered to take me into an adjoining
room, where milk is cooled. That
was perfectly innocent, but there
was sheer malignity in the conduct
of the comma (so placed by a fun-
loving compositor of a large mid
west newspaper) which made a prom
inent nonconformist minister declare
that “he wanted to wear no clothes,
to distinguish him from his fellow
Christians.”
STUDENT’S DELIGHT
The Students Protective Insurance
Association, of Rhode Island, insures
students at the local university
against failures in examinations. The
premium varies from about one to
to two dollars, the amount depending
on whether the client is a freshman
or one who is advanced in his stu
dies. Freshmen pay the highest
premium. Students who fail are
paid a sum that about covers the
price of the course.
In addition the company runs a
free correspondence course which
coaches insured students. So suc
cessfully has the system worked out
that it is rapidly spreading to other
universities all over the country.
If you feel that you have a “slow”
mind, don’t worry about it. Pretty
good company exists in that class.
Pierre Curie, the famous discover
er of radium, which is one of the
great achievements of the generation
in which he lived, used to say to his
wife and co-worker, Marie, that he
always felt that he possessed a “slow”
mind.
Charles P. Steinmetz, the electri
cian, who was called a “wizard” be
cause of his genius in mathematical
work, said he hated the multiplica
tion table when he was a boy in
school because it took him such an
extraordinary length 0 f time to mas
ter it.
It is a familiar tale that Edison’s
teacher wondered if he were really
bright, and that Grant’s mother al
most concurred in the acceptance of
the popular nickname for her son of
“Useless Grant.”
Thackeray, the English novelist,
once said that he often felt that he
“had no head above the ears.”
“And Moses said unto the Lord
. . . T am slow of speech and of a
slow tongue.’ ”
Yet all of these men achieved sup
erlative things.
There are other qualities in char
acter more valuable than nimbleness
of wit and the faculty for making
immediate decisions.
The mental hares hop about con
scious of their sprinting superiority.
Over a short course they have
things their own way. But the course
of Life is a long one.
An immediate viewpoint gives all
advantage to the nimble mind, a
time bird’s eye view reveals th pow
er for perseverance which lies in
minds which are thought to be
“slow.”
“Thou sayest,” wrote Marcus Au
relius in his “Meditations,” “Men
cannot admire the sharpness of thy
wits ... Be it so. Show these quali
ties then, which are altogether in thy
power—sincerity, gravity, benevol
ence, frankness, endurance in labor.”
The main thing is to acquire the
habit of thinking things through.
Do not be satisfied with what
someone else has said. See a thing
clearly in your own mind.
A man who accustoms himself to
relying upon his own mental pro
cesses has accomplished a great deal.
He has the kind of independnce
that men need, independence of in
tellect. H is not so apt to give way
in great crises as the man who
forms quick conclusions, but forms
them upon the ipse dixit of other
people. Don’t be alarmed therefore
if you fee: that you are slow. The
main thing is to be thorough and
honest.
American tourists spent more than
five billions abroad during the past
twenty years says the Commerce De
partment. But it hasn’t yet figured
out how much was saved by those
who stayed at home.
The one sure sign for telling when
a village passes from villagehood to
cityhood is when the leading citizens
cease to keep a family cow.
Father Divine and his angels will
get along fairly well until they begin
to fight over who’s going to be the
boss.
Rental System Grows
Columbia, Aug. 26.—South Caro
lina parents will soon begin paying
out sums for school boooks, but the
cost will be around two-thirds less
than what it once was.
Creation of the schoolbook com
mission several years ago to main
tain a rental textbook system has
accounted for the lower cost of
starting the boys and girls on an
other lap in their educational pus-
suit.
The commission was preparing
today t 0 ship out approximately
900,000 books h. be used by about
250,000 pupils . The volumes are
rented for an annual charge of one-
third the contract price, while par
ents 0 nce had to buy them outright.
Director J. D. Robinson pointed
out that if the parents, before the
commission’s creation could not
sell the books after they had been
used by their children, they were
valueless. Now it is not necessary
for them to seek to sell the old
books, as the rented ones are re
tained in depositories of schools or
counties for use in the succeeding
years.
Some legislators have hailed the
rental system as a step toward a
free system, such as exists in sev
eral counties now.
Saluda and Clarendon counties
have decided to come under the
state rental system this year. It is
optional with counties.
Union county will obtain high
school books this year from the com
mission but provide free textbooks
in other grades.
TODAY
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MIRACLE mind
Some kinds of cotton have long
fibers, making them more valuable
than ordinary cotton in many ways.
Other kinds of cotton have fibers
too short to be useful, but resist
plant diseases, insects and drought
which attack the better qualities of
cotton. The U. S. Bureau of Plant
Industry has succeeded in producing
a new kind of cotton which has all
the advantages and none of the dis
advantages of both of the old speies.
New varieties of tobacco, richer
in nicotine; new and superior types
or raspberries, strawberries, and
peaches have also been developed, by
the use of a chemical long known,
but only lately used for the purpose,
which fixes hereditary characteris
tics of the new plants. Plant crosses
are seldom able to reproduce them
selves. These new plants have run
true to form for several generations.
Such achievements of science real
ly belong in the class of miracles.
There is no magic about them, but
they are demonstrations of the power
of the human mind, properly direct
ed, to change the process of nature.
HUMANITY breeding
Students of human characteristics
and heredity say that it is as easy
to breed a new race of human beings
as of plants. The main difference
is that it takes more time. There is
enough scientific knowledge in the
possession of the world today so
that if the mating of people could
be controlled, any kind of people
could be produced in the course of a
few hundred years.
There are two good reasons, how
ever, why this is impossible. One is
that the human race itself would not
stand for controlled marriages. The
other is that it would be impossible
to agree upon standards for the per
fect race. Plant breeders know just
what sort of a plant they are trying
to create. Hardly any two people
agree as to •what characteristics are
most desirable in men and women.
The one standard upon which
there might be general agreement
would be a race immune to all dis
ease. But even that would require
a degree of control of human in
stincts and conduct which even the
most powerful dictator could never
enforce.
The slow process of education,
and the better development of hu
man intelligence, coupled with a
widening spread of knowledge, may
eventually bring about a disease-free
world, whose people would still be
different from each other in almost
every other respect.
DESERT water
As recently as forty years ago the
sandblown trails across the desert of
Southern California were lined with
the bones of men and animals which
had perished of thirst in the track
less, tropical waste. Today more
than a million acres of the same
desert have been transformed into
the richest garden spot 0 f all the
world.
The city of El Centro, the metro
polis of the Imperial Valley, lies 250
feet below sea-levl. The Summer
temperature often runs to 130 de
grees in the shade. Here the first
air-conditioned hotel in the world
was built. Now the houses in the
Valley are made comfortable by mo
dern refrigeration methods. Farming
goes on the year around; seven cut
tings of alfalfa, three to five crops
a year of vegetables; fruits of all
kinds, melons and berries are harvest
ed from what were once barren de
sert lands.
The secret is water. A great irri
gation canal runs from the Lower
Colorado river through the heart of
the Imperial Valley, with lateral ca
nals carrying water to every culti
vable acre. The first canal ran
through a comer of Mexico. When
I visited the Pacific Coast recently
the people were celebrating the com
pletion of a new All-American Canal.
RANCH range
East of the Rocky mountains folk
seldom hear the word “ranch” used
except to mean some sort of an out
door show with horses. West of the
Rockies “ranch” means any country
place where people live, whether they
grow anything on it or not. The
word derives from the Spanish “Ran
cho,” which literally means “range”
and was first applied in America to
the cattle ranges of the Southwest.
A friend in Los Angeles invited
my wife and me to supper at his
ranch. After a thirty mile drive we
found ourselves on top of a moun
tain where my friend breeds dogs
on a three-acre plot. That is a ranch
in California.
I telephoned another friend and
was told he was out on his ranch
Inquiring how big his ranch was, I
was told by his secretary that it
was about 150,000 acres in New
Mexico.
FOOD prices
My wife went to a tea party given
by a famous movie director on his
NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING
We the undersigned Jury Commis
sioners of Newberry County, S. C.
shall on the 7th day of September, at
9 o’clock A. M., in the clerk of
Courts office, openly and publicly,
draw thirty-six names to serve as
petit jurors for the court of com
mon pleas, which will convene in
Newberry County Court house, the
18th day of September, 1939, at 10
o’clock, A. M.
H. K. Boyd, Clerk of Court,
R. B. Black, Treasurer,
P. N. Abrams, Auditor.
AUCTION SALE
There will be a public auction sale
held at the Newberry County Home
on Friday at 10:00 a. m., September
15, 1939, at which time the follow
ing will be sold to the highest bid'
der:
13 head Holstein cattle.
1 stock bull subject to registration
1 Used Grain Drill.
The right is reserved to reject
any and all bids.
H. H. Ruff, Supervisor
Newberry County 2t,
NOTICE FOR BIDS
PIANOS
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J,J.LANGFORD&SON
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Kidneys Must
Clean Ouf Acids
Excess Acids and poisonous wastes in your
blood are removed chiefly thru 9 million tiny
delicate Kidney tubes or filters. And non-
organic and non-systemic disorders of the
Kidneys or Bladder may cause Getting Up
Nights, Nervousness, Leg Pains, Circles Un
der Eyes, Dizziness, Backache, Swollen
Ankles, or Burning Passages. In many such
cases the diuretic action of the Doctor’s pre
scription Cystex helps the Kidneys clean out
Excess Acids. This plus the palliative work of
Cystex may easily make you feel like a new
person in just a few days. Try Cystex under
the guarantee of money back unless com
pletely satisfied. Cystex costs only 3c a dose
at druggists and the guarantee protects you.
PAIN IN BACK
MADE HER
MISERABLE
Read How
She Found
Blessed Relief
Muscles were so sore
she could hardly touch i
them. Used Hamlins Wizard Oil Liniment and
found wonderful relief. Try it today if your
muscles are stiff, sore, achy. Rub it on thorough
ly. Feel its prompt warming action ease pain;
bring soothing relief. Pleasant odor. Will not
stain. Money-back guarantee at all drug stores.
HAMLINS
WIZARD OIL
LINIMENT
For MUSCULAR ACHES and PAINS
RHEUMATIC P AIN — L U M B AG O
The Newberry County Board of
Commissioners will receive sealed
bids until 10:00 a. m., Sptember 12
1939, for 75,000 ft. of oak and pine
lumber to be cut in bridge builds.
Specifications for same can be ob
tained by calling at the office of the
Clerk of the Board.
The right is reserved to reject any
and all bids.
H. H. Ruff, Supervisor
2t. Newberry county.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed bids will be publicly opened
at 10:00 a. m., Tuesday September 12,
1939, at the office of the Supervisor
of the County Board of Commission
ers, County Court House, Newberry
S. C., for furnishing surface treat
ment equipment and bituminous ma
terials for the surface treatment of
approximately 97,700 square yards
of County Roads.
Alternate No. 1;
97,700 square yards or bituminous
surface treatment, emulsified as
phalt type.
Alternate No. 2:
97,700 square yards of bitumin
ous surface treatment, inverted pene
tration type.
Proposals must be submitted on
the County form of proposal with
specifications attached.
Proposal forms may be obtained
from Frank Sanders, Clerk, County
Board of Commissioners, Newberry,
S. C.
The right is reserved to reject any
and all bids.
H. H. Ruff, Supervisor
2t. Newberry county.
On Your Next
Paint
Job
TRY
Atheys
R. M. LOMINACK
Hardware
ranch. That turned out to be an
up-to-date country house such as
one might find in a New York suburb,
with a garden sloping down the
mountain-side.
I had been prepared to find food
prices lower than in the East, but
had expected manufactured goods of
all kinds to cost more. My wife
spent a good deal of time price-shop
ping in the stores of San Francisco,
Los Angeles and Pasadena, and turns
in a report that, grade for grade,
clothing, toilet articles, all the kinds
of things which women buy, cost
less than in Chicago, New York, or
Washington. I discovered for my
self that taxi fares and standard
brands of cigarettes are cheaper than
in the East.
The mild climate, low-cost fuel oil
and cheap electric power, combine
to bring living costs down. Building
lots are cheap by comparison with
similarly located sites in the East.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ALDERMAN WARD 2
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for Alderman from Ward 2, and
agree to abide by the results of the
Democratic primary election.
RAYMOND BLAIR
1 hereby announce my candidacy
for Alderman from Ward 2, and
pledge myself to abide the rules and
results of the Democratic primary
election.
RICHARD C. FLOYD
ALDERMAN WARD 4
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for Alderman from Ward 4,
agreeing to abide the results of the
Democratic primary election.
M. K. (BUCK) WICKER
DUTCH FORK LEAGUE
The final series of Dutch Fork
League play off begins Saturday be
tween Jolly Street and Chapin, Jol
ly Street will go to Chapin for the
first game.
New Fall Stocks
Just Received! New Shipment!
PETER’S
Star Brand Shoes
We now have new complete stocks of these famous
Shoes. Call and let us fit you up for winter.
Indications are that prices will advance due to
the war, so buy now at the old prices.
Let us serve you in many of the things you will be
buying this Fall. We will save you money and give
you honest merchandise.
Buy Today—You May Pay More Later
S. W. Shealy
PROSPERITY, S. C.
the Opening of m
Spinks Clothing Co.
Having long felt Newberry’s need of a Clothing store where one
could buy Suits and Top Coats in both Quality and Style and at
prices prevailing in the larger towns surrounding Newberry/ we
are now ready with such a store.
Now Open for Business
Hundreds of Suits and Top Coats
Now on Sale
We are showing all the New Fabrics
in the newest patterns, shades and
styles at one popular price
$15
Sizes ranging from 30s to 50s in reg
ulars, shorts, longs, and stouts, in both
single and double breasted.
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Should it not be convenient to pay the full
amount of your purchase, then try our LAY
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We Invite You To Visit Us
Spinks Clothing Co.
1410 MAIN Street
In Front of the Home Store