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V PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1939 M- v. nn 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. 0. 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. THE COST OF DISTRIBUTION NEWSPAPER RESPONSIBILITY As a whole nefVvspaper editors are conscious of their responsibilities and Everybody knows that the price anyone pays at retail for anything sold in the stores is much greater are doing constructive work. There than it cost to grow, manufactrre, j is, however, one way in which the av- or otherwise produce. Sometimes erage daily is rendering a dis-service this spread between the cost of pro-: to the country. With but too few ex- duction and retail price is several j ceptions the daily papers are destroy- times the original cost. | ing the morale of the reading public Why this is so, and what can be by the sensational way in which they done to iut prices to consumers by | feature international situations, eliminating unnecessary costs of i Some papers, especially, would make distribution is the subject of a report j contribution to health, happiness, and by eight national leaders who have prosperity if they dumped their been making a thorough study of all i headline type into the nearest river. the elements which go into retail prices. As put out by the Twentieth Can- tl whole field of transportation, ware housing and handling at different points between producer and consum er, which most of us seldom stop to think about when complaining about the prices for the things we buy. The most interesting suggestion made, however, is that some way might be worked out whereby the re tailer's own costs may be reduced, and the savings passed on to his cus tomers. Almost everybody knows that certain stores, especially in the food lines, sell more cheaply than others do. The difference is because the “cash and carry” system elimin ates all delivery costs and all the bookkeeping and possible losses when goods are sold on credit instead of for cash. The plan is proposed to extend this idea to retail establishments in other lines, perhaps by selling goods at different prices, depending upon whether the sale is for cash or on credit, and whether the article, once bought, is returned as undesirable. Considering the standing and repu tation of the Twentieth Century There is not much use in the editor taking up his pen to tell us that con ditions are growing better, and that we should cast out the bogeyman of fear, when his own front page is constantly frightening us out of our senses by reporting in lurid fashion the doings of European dictators and the maneuvers of feaf-ridden na tions. If emotions are continually stretched upon the rack of fear and flogged with the lash of startling headlines, we will react like other peoples have, and become dispirited and indifferent. Such a people prove easy prey for a would-be dictator. Spectator COMMENTS A lot of chaff comes with the wheat. And weeds grow wherever useful plants flourish. So in life. Our modern progress brings with it a lot of nerve strain and rubbish. Nothing is capable of giving more pleasure than the radio and the mov ie. Yet nothing so offends at times as the movie and the radio. If the radio and the movies are giving what the people want—and I assume that they are—then our taste and intelli gence are not high. What moves me at the moment, however, is the blaring, frequent broadcasting of war announcements and bulletins. If they don’t drive us into frenzy we shall at least be “jumpy” with nerves. And some people leave their radios “on” so as to hear all this. Here we are: Lon don—The children are being moved out. Chamberlain says he has done his best. The King forgot his tea. Paris—The French are holding them selves in. Streets are darkened. No wine is being sold. Berlin—Hitler ad dresses a note to Mussolini. Hitler leaves palace. Troops marching. Unit ed States ambassador called on Hit ler. Rome—President Roosevelt sends cable to the King. Nobody knew where he was. Note is given to Mus solini for the King. Washington— President Roosevelt sits up all night reading dispatches from Europe. And this all day long and nearly all night. Suppose you had a wife, son or daughter in a hospital and received half-hour broadcasts, like this: Son a shade better. Temperature rising last fifteen minutes. Slight symp toms of nausea. Nausea developing. Son becomes discouraged. Son calls nurse. Nurse calls doctor. Doctor comes out looking grave. Nurse rush ing about. What about it? ANNOUNCEMENTS ALDERMAN WARD 1 I hereby announce myself a candi date for Alderman from Ward 1, and agrte to abide the results of the Democratic primary election. EUGENE B. (Skipper) HARMON 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 I 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 REVIEW of NEW BOOKS PAUL B. CLARK, PH. D. 1735 Woodburn Ave. Covington, Ky. 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 ALDERMAN WARD 5 I hereby announce myself a candi date for Alderman from Ward 5, and agree to abide the results of the Democratic primary election. FURMAN J. GOREE MAKE IT SHORT I think it is D. L. Moody who tells of a man who when he died, said: “I Fund, there is hope that this report ma y have done many a wrong thing, will receive the consideration it de- , but I have never done a long one.” serves, and start a trend toward ma-1 The least you can do is to make it king things easier for consumers of short. If what you do is wrong it all kinds of goods. WOULDN’T HURT TO TRY IT "OVER THERE” The first crack of the guns in Eu rope’s present war brought Am erica’s military strategists out in full force. Through the newspapers these tacticians are planning the bat tles for Britain and France and ex posing the weaknesses of the Ger man military machine. England will “blanket” Germany with bombs; the armies of France will cross the Alps and attadk Mus solini’s troops in northern Italy with; disastrous consequences to the forces of the Roman dictator; Britain’s asp fleet will blockade Germany and from the bellies of powerful guns on John Bull’s warships, shells dealing destruction will be hurled upon the coastal towns of the Dutchman. This sort of harmless warfare ought to commend itself to the war ring nations. Our military geniuses will tell ’em that it’s far pleasanter to wage wars with “hot air” rather than fight ’em with hot stee-1. USES OF SPARE NOSES According to an authority on ar tificial limbs and other bodily ap pendages of that order, there is a man in the United States who has three noses made of pulvanized latex and filler. The man doesn’t wear all three at once; he shifts looses with the seasons “to match the varying color of his skin.” y / This explanation does nob explain to complete satisfaction why a man wants three noses. One is often too many for a large number of people. A too-nosy person, however, could have an interesting time if he cared to. When occasion seemed to de mand it, he might turn up a nose at people he held in disdain; he could "smell a rat” with another; when angry at the world he could thumb ion of three noses should excite a third nose at it. Too, the possess- vanity and a desire to “blow” about one’s family possessions. Kidneys Must Clean Out Adds Excess Acids and poisonous wastes in your blood are removed chledy thru 9 million tinv delicate Kidney tubes or niters. And non- organlc and non-systemic disorders of the Kidneys or Bladder may cause Oettlng Up Mights, 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 Cyatex helps the Kidneys clean out > plus I Excess Acids. This plus the palliative work of Cyatex may easily make you feel like a new person in Just a few days. Try Cyatex under the guarantee of money tack unless com pletely sailslled. Cyatex costs only lie a dose at druggists and the guarantee protects you. doesn’t last long. If what you do is right it is all the better for being brief. Brevity is the soul of wit and it is also the soul of commoon sense. Don’t use two adjectives to de scribe a thing. One is enough. Don’t say a thing and then exercise your ingenuity by saying it over again. Writing conduces to brevity be cause, as someone has said, writing is like shooting at a mark with a rifle, while speaking is like trying to hit the sariie mark with a stream of water from a nozzle. • The world is on the run. Most people are always and always will be fn a hurry. The fate of the third verse is something for those who seek the public ear to ponder on. A lengthy article with long, solid appearing paragraphs has as much change of being widely read as have the words of the third verse of the closing hymn when the minister has run past a dozen fine terminal sen tences. Brevity is the soul of attraction as well as of wit. * If a short article turns out a “dud” it at least isn’t a long-winded “dud.” A short, pointed article, if it con tains a thought, is more likely to set you thinking than a long one. It gives you time in the present. A long article requires your leisure to read and then something else re quires your attention by the time you finish it. There is a charm about rambling writers like Charles Lamb when you have an evening to spend under a reading lamp on a winter’s night, But in the everyday turmoil of the work-a-day world the one who has something to say and says it in the fewest words has the best chance to be heard. An American magazine editor pays an English woman writer a dollar for each word of her short stories. He says she can pack more into ten words than most writers can put into two hundred. A literary model writers might study with profit is rbo telegram. The telegram attracts in the first place because it is short. It gives the idea a chance to be heard. But if the article has nothing to say, mere briefness is to no purpose. RHEUMATISM MUBVI PAIN IN MW MINUTI* 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. Hitler has not done anything that might not have been expected. The Germans are armed with every wea pon and they know how to use the weapons. Moreover, the Germans are fine soldiers and they, as well as all Germany, are disciplined and blindly obedient to authority. If Po land did not expect a swift overrun ning by German troops she did not know anything about German tac tics in the World War. The Germans will conquer Poland quickly and then turn to meet Bri tain and France. The World War has begun. Ger many invaded Poland and Britain and France declared war. If anything can be certain, Italy will join Ger many. What hope have we of keep ing out? Britain will drive German and Italian commerce from the seas; German and Italian submarines will prey on British and French ships. American ships, and ships carrying Americans or American goods will be torpedoed and our national indig nation will sweep us into the tide, as in 1917. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for reelection for Aider- man from Ward 5 in the approaching Democratic primary election, and pledge myself to abide the results of said election. A. H. CLARK COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Commissioner of Public Works and agree to abide the results of the primary election. R. G. WALLACE* our Supreme Court—recent study, I repeat, shows that the roads are built by bond issues and that the law of 1929 expressly and cjearly so pro vides. It was a shock to me, but there it is in black and white. And it is the law of the land. At the first of the year the High way Commission estimates the prob able income and uses that income 1. To pay county road bonds when they mature; 2. Interest on county and state road bonds; 3. Complete projects already un der construction; 4. Repair existing roads; 6. Provide for general adminis tration, engineers, superintendents, etc. Spectator has, then, a more than casual knowledge of what is being done, but would like to suggest that a clearcut settlement be given the public, so that we may see exactly what’s what. Adolph Hitler must carry the blame for all the suffering and slau ghter which will come from this war. That one man, with a dream of world empire, will cost Germany. more than she can possibly gain. He starts a river of blood that will wash him and his ambition away. Can the nations make a treaty of peace and settlement which would be permanent? Men say that the Treaty of Versailles laid the founda tion for this Hitler uprising, but what caused the Japanese to de spoil China? Spectator must plow up some cot ton. And how does It feel? Well, just exactly as though a housewife had baked a fine fruit cake and then had to throw jt down a well. And there you are. Everything agin the farmer and many things happeniig at once. Europe aflame, the United States agog, the markets nervous and upset, and my own cotton land rising up against me. Well, sir, too much is enough, as Potash used to tell Pearlmutter. When Chairman John T. Stevens of the State Highway Commission said something about having ho mo ney for highway construction he probably meant that there was no money for new undertakings. All about us we see highway building and repair work going on, so there must be money for that, or it would not continue. Mr. Stevens is a man of large interests and has the habit of dismissing a matter when he makes a decision; so he probably thinks in terms of future contracts or entirely new projects when he says there is no money for work. If Spectator is correct in this surmise there need not be any difference be tween the statement of Mr. Stevens and that of Gov. Maybank. At the same time there is no reason why Spectator should surmise. It would be interesting for some one in au thority to tell us what the Highway Department is now doing. Let us ask that the financial condition be given also. Spectator observes that the pub lished statements of gasoline tax re ceipts convey the idea that the De partment has the full monthly sum at its disposal to spend. I used to think so, too. But recent study of the Bond Act—which I think clearly un constitutional, although validated by The war in Europe will create a demand for our foodstuffs. The best plan, I think, for our farmers is to produce what they consume. Most farms will produce rye and oats, as well as crops for hay. Certainly the yield will be promoted through the use of lime. Most of our land, if limed, will produce wheat. Ordin arily, wheat is not a profitable crop with us, but if flour should skyrock et as it did in 1917, we should find wheat profitable. It is too early for wheat, but rye may be planted this month, oats next month and wheat in November and December. Raise some hogs, too. Remember that when prices advance rapidly we must buy as well as sell. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. By S. I. Hayakawa and Howard Mum- ford Jones. American Book Corn- Company, New York and Cincin nati. Pages cxxix - 472.. Price $1.25. S. I. Hayakawa, Armour Institute of Technology, and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, Harvard University, in this delightful little volume of American writers series under the general editorship of Har ry Hayden Clark, University of Wis consin, give Holmes’s social and political backgrounds and ideas, a look into his medical career, his scientific and religious philosophy, his literary theory, a picture of him as Boston Poet-Laureate, and an in troduction into his essays. A splen did bibliography follows: this em braces Text, criticism, and General Background. There are poems and prose selections. Appendices: The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1831-32); The Autocrat (a poem), from “Punch,” Oct. 20, 1894. Notes. Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems. This book is a worthy volume in the fine series. It is well done from the standpoint of the authors; and the neat little volume is another strong ly bound book by the company that excells in that regard. There is much in the life of Holmes that would be interesting to quote; there is a vast amount of material in this book that might be given to show the power of research in the authors. Perhaps this book is best evaluated in showing a keen insight of the au thors that would meet the opinion of Holmes himself. One of these is on page ix; it reads: “What London was to Dr. Johnson, Boston was to Dr. Holmes . . . Born in 1809, exact ly a hundred years later than the author of Rasselas, the author of the Autocrat was accustomed to trace the parallel between his own life and that of his great predecessor, but the essential point of the comparison is that they were both urban beings, though Holmes surpassed the Eng lishman in urbanity.” Another keen insight is this: “With a personality such as Holmes had— sentimental, excessively sociable in capable of vehemence except in mat ters strictly relating to his profess ion, so even-tempered that he missed the great heights and the great depths—it is perhaps to be wondered at that he became an artist at all.” p. cxi. The letters given in the rear of the book add much to the understanding of the man. HARTFORD NEWS The Hartford borne demonstration club meeting was held Thursday af ternoon, September 7, at the school house. The meeting was opened with the song, “America, the Beautiful” and Miss Annie M. Schumpert gave a few interesting facts about the composer of the song. Devotions were conducted by Mrs. Len Penland. Miss Ethel Counts, county home demonstration agent, made an inter esting talk on “Personal Appear ance.” The gleaner, Mrs. Horace Cromer, read a poem. Delicious sandwiches and tea was served by the hostesses, Mrs. Tom Summer, Mrs. L. C. Fulmer, Mrs. Y. T. Dickert, and Mrs. Fincher Hipp. The Hartford Grange held its meeting Thursday night at the school house with about 25 members present. The principal speaker of the evening was the Hon. Eugene S. Blease. After the program and business session, Dick Boulware took charge of the social hour. Twenty-six members of the Hart ford H. D. Club attended the Pied- mon district council held at Clemsoa college, Saturday, September 9. Mrs. J. H. Eargle is improving slowly after being very ill at her home. Her friends hope she will soono be better. Mrs. J. W. Cromer is spending a while with her daughter, Mrs. Hamm Shull at Lexington. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Shealy and family of Pacolet spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shealy. Pat Shealy of Prosperity visited his daughter, Mrs. Walter Buzhardt, recently. Miss Louise Buzhardt has returned to Monticello where she is a member of the faculty of the school. PAIN IN BACK MADE HER MISERABLE Read How She Found Blessed Relief Muscles were so sore she could hardly touch _ ^ them. Used Hamlins Wizard OU Liniment and found wonderful relief. Try it today if your muscles are stiff, sore.ochy. 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 .ind PAINS RHEUMATIC PAIN —‘■LUMBAGO 666 TABLETS. LIQUID. SALVE. NOSE DROPS CHECKS MALARIA IN 7 DAYS & RELIEVES COLDS SYMPTOMS FIRST DAY THY ‘‘RUB-MY-TISM" A WONDERFUL LINIMENT iJCGS [^[§^£)[^[£) o ooo Facts That Concern You A'o. 11 of a aerlei. Sinkings, disasters, and all the horrors of war, are ‘being squawked over the radio and shouted through the streets day and night. We must grow accustomed to horrors and try to avoid hysteria. It was bad enough during the World War to open the daily paper and find great headlines telling of the sinking of two or three ships the day before and the bomb ing of a town; but now if we must have a dozen radio broadcasts for each sinking and a dozen more for each bombing, with extras yelled all over town every hour—say war it self 4s less nerve-racking than all this. ■Y e Beer has made work fn over 100 industries, since repeal. If Beer had not come back .there would have been I MILLION FEWER RESPECTABLE JOBS tor the nation today. In the year before its re-legalization Beer contributed practically nothing in taxes to the stafc treasury. 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