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PAGE FOUR FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1939 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year . . rrr: rrrr.Tr.T . . $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." NEUTRALITY, WHERE ART THOU? It’s not our intention to reprove or lecture the daily press on the manner it is handling the European war news, but it will do no harm to remind that its front and editorial pages do not jibe with President Roosevelt’s neutrality proclamation. For the most "part, the editorial pages of the dailies preach, “Keep the United States out of the war,” while their front pages fairly blaze with news that tends to incite public opin ion against Germany. The atrocities, fancied and real, of Hitler’s armies are spread all over the front page under headlines set in the biggest black type the foreman of the com posing room can find in his dusty cases. The screaming headline of the front page largely nullifies the neutrality sermons preached on the editorial page. The sympathies of the overwhelm ing majority of our people are with the allies. This was to be expected. We have nothing in common with autocratic governments that plague Europe today. But we are not at •war—not yet—and it is to be hoped that we shall not become involved. Meanwhile, it is the task of the press to present the war news in a less lur id fashion, thereby helping Mr. Roosevelt's proclamation to serve Its purpose. Sensational war news should be taboo in the newspapers. They should help the public to “keep cool” by keeping cool themselves—on the front page. INTERN THE SPECULATOR Scarcely had war broken out in Europe when American speculators began the senseless hiking of prices on staple foodstuffs. Quotations on sugar, flour, meat, rice, beans, began to soar and John Q. Public has been mulcted of thousands of dollars by the fellows who can take advantage of their position to plunder the con sumer. These patrioteers paid no heed to Mr. Roosevelt’s recent "fire side chat” when he said that none had a “moral right” to profiteer at the expense of the people. There is no reason for higher foodstuff prices at this time. We have large surpluses on hand and no buyers. Warehouses are bursting with wheat, sugar, flour, meat anrt beans. The country has so many hogs they are a drug on the market. The new com crop soon will be har vested and it promises to be a large one. There is no scarcity anywhere In this country. Only the inordinate greed for gain has promoted the speculator to create a ‘scarcity” thai will enable him to “skin” his neigh bor. The federal government must take a hand and curb this gentry. Unless he ceases his profiteering the specu lators should be “interned” for the duration of the war. 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Use NURITO on this guarantee today. Kidneys Musi Clean Oui Adds Excess Acids and poisonous wastes in your Wood ere removed chiefly thru 9 million tiny delicate Kidney tubes or filters. And non- organic end 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 •Cyatex may easily make you iett like a new person in just a few days. Try Cysicx under the guarantee of money back unless com pletely satisfied. Cystex costs only a dose £t dr uggists and the guarantee protects you AMERICA’S CONCERN—PEACE America’s chief concern during the present war in Europe should be dir ected towards the establishment of enduring peace after hostilities have ceased. After the wreck and ruin that will follow in the wake of the armies, the nations involved will need the help of the countries that stayed away from the conflagration. Out of this conflict may come a universal demand from all peoples, Germans included, for peaceful means of settling international troubles. For peace is the natural state of man, and it will not be denied for ever to those who must suffer the agonies of the battlefield and those who wait in anguish behind the lines. When this demand becomes articulate throughout the world, this monstrous thing called war is going to be des troyed. When the time comes to act America should be ready to do her part to free other peoples from war’s nightmares. At the moment we may feel help less to do anything that would strengthen the peace sentiment among the nations. We can, how ever, pave the way to a greater peace-building effort after the war by manifesting good will and toler ance towards all engaged in the pre sent conflict. Hatred and ill will are doing their worst in Europe. They are dragging men down into the devil’s pit once more. But must not allow these ene mies of man’s peace to fasten their clutches upon our thinking. If they knock for admittance at the door of thought, deny them entrance. Think upon charity, as St. Paul admonished and this attitude will lead towards that peace for which all sane men are hoping—peace universal. WORK AHEAD FOR THE RED CROSS The service of the American Red Cross in the last great war is one of the brightest spots in the history of that terrible conflict. At the out break of the war, nearly three years before the United States entered it, our Red Cross offered its aid to all the nations at war, all of which ac cepted the offer. From America there were sent to Europe in the early days of the war more than 200 nurses, 71 physicians and surgeons and a number of others, together with more than $1,500,000 worth of hospital and relief sup plies, of which $350,000 went to Ger many and Austria. After the United States became a belligerent the work of the Red Cross was vastly increas ed, of course. If the present conflict in Europe develops into such another long- drawn-out struggle as the last one, the American Red Cross will be call ed upon again to give the sort of help for which it is equipped, to ev ery nation at arms which will accept it. It will be the one form ofAmeri- can intervention which will be wel comed by all Who remember the heroic and useful service offered and given twenty-five years ago. There probably will not be the im mediate, intense need of the Red Crojs now that there was in 1915. That war caught most of ttie nations of Europe unprepared, lacking in medical and hospital supplies and personnel, and with poorly organized military medical staffs. Today there has been ample time for preparation, military surgery and nursing is on a much more scientific basis than ic was then, and the call on America for help will be neither so sudden nor so urgent. Nevertheless, it is probable that there will be much that the Ameri can Red Cross can do to alleviate suf fering on both sides. Workers will be as much concerned with wounded Germans as with any others. Red Cross is as international as pain. It knows no nationality, discriminates in favor of no race. Say That Again The ranch owner telephoned his manager to buy “two sows ’n’ pigs.” Imagine his surprise a few days later to get a bill for “2000 pigs”! Better Than A Tan Of all the backs I’ve ever seen, I most prefer The one that’s green. PIANOS SEE J.J.LANGFORDaSON THE NEWBERRY SUN Spectator COMMENTS Is Popeye a fraud ? Have we been eating great quantities of spinach un der a delusion? Perish the thought! Fond young mammas of scientific turn have fed little Jimmies and Billies on spinach in the belief that they woud grow strong like Popeye. But, as always happens, one man of science will throw a bomb at what another says. In my childhood I heard that “abun dant feeding was good for a cold. That is to say, it is bad for the cold but good for the patient. As a small boy I accepted that doctrine and lived up to it scrupulously, re garding it as only slightly less im pressive than the decrees from Sinai. In fact, when the “table spread” is tempting I still lean fondly to that grand idea. Whether the harassed father of a growing boy can openly advocate that “heavy feeding treat ment for colds is quite another mat ter. Pathology and Finance might clash in a teriifle battle. But what about spinach? Can we bribe the young hopefuls to eat spi nach under the impression that they will grow up i» become foot ball stars at Clemson? Or fast-ball kings like the great Walter Johnson? I’m going to say right here that if spi nach can produce a foot ball man of Popeye ability I want to send a few cases or hogs-heada to Carolina a couple of weeks before the next clash with Clemson. How about the spinach? It’s a wash out, kiddies. You were right all the time; all that Popeye sttlf is the bunk. In the midst of our hero- worship comes a man of science, one Doctor Edward F. Kohman, of Phila delphia, and throws a monkey- wrench into the machinery. What does he say? Says he that spinach not only does not supply the useful lime salts or calcium, but it keeps away from the body some of the calcium of milk or other foods. And worse than that, says he, “Spinach contains too much oxalic acid.” According to this same man of science one would do better by eating mustard greens, kale, and collards. Mustard greens and col- lards! Well, give me spinach, oxalic acid, Prussic acid, carbolic acid—or what not. N Spectator has hay fever, or some thing else uncomfortable and annoy ing. When Spectator was a real hay man, planting hundreds of bushels of peas for hay, he had no such hay fe ver; but now that he is less hay- minded the ebullient spirits which once made hay seem now to make fever. . We are all guessers, usually very poor guessers. Many of our farmers are wondering about the prospect for a high price for cotton. One man’s guess is as goood as another man’s. I may be dead wrong and a thousand miles from the truth, but I have an idea that prices will go up. Here’s my reasoning: The big buyers will be Britain and France. Because of the submarine menace they will buy for a short haul and along the most pro tected routes. That indicates that the United States will be the princi pal seller. Britain and France will not risk the long hauls from Aus tralia, India, Egypt and South America when they can get what they need from this country. So, even in the matter of cotton, the dangers and delays of shipping will tend to con centrate British and French trade in the United States. An industrialist of wide-spread in terests told me a week ago “The San- tee-Cooper development will not bring any new enterprises to South Caro lina because the political atmosphere of this state is hostile. Politicians in our state think it is good politics to attack and hamstring business. It may be good politics for a day, but it means that South Carolina will con tinue to feed only on the crumbs which fall from the table.” Strangely enough, just before that gentleman called on me I had read an article in a Northern trade journal which said about the same. Let the prophecies I have cited put us on guard. My own observation is' that the political atmosphere in Soutjy Carolina is improving, and I have tes. tified frequently to the constructive attitude of the governor, and the leaders of both the House and Senate. I am well aware of the energetic ef forts of the Farmers and Taxpayers League and of the South Carolina Federation of Commerce, Agriculture and Industry. To these constant workers for state-wide results 1 would add the Chambers of Commerce Boards of Trade and Service Clubs. One good item which came to me recently was that one big industrial ist, who for years would not consider South Carolina, is coming to this State to look over the field because the recent Legislature showed a friendly spirit toward business and investment. Let the Congress ameno the neu trality law so as to permit sale of anything that may be bought in this country for cash and carried away by the purchaser. Many reasons may be assigned for that: 1. Our own trade is worth develop ing; 2. Nations too poor or too peace- loving to prepare for war through dedication of their major manufacture of munitions should be expanded so as to provide for our needs in the event of emer gency; 4. Gradual development of our manufacturing facilities now would prevennt over-expansion in a crisis; 5. Sales on the cash and carry basis would not be one-sided. If, for example, only England and France might buy in quantity from us the Germans, do not hesitiate to buy from every neutral nation within reach of them, while seizing the immense mun itions plants of Poland and Skoda; 6. Germany can buy here, too, eith er in her owq^ name, or through Nor way, Sweden, Holland, Russia and Italy. If the United States had not bought munitions and airplanes from the French and British during the World War our American army in France might have had to attack the Ger mans with walking canes and cap-pis tols. Of course I am exaggerating, but without the suonlies purchased from England and France, the A. E. F. could not have gone into battle. I hold no brief for England and France. Of course I hope they will wipe the earth up with Hitler; but I am thinking primarily of ourselves When I urge that we bring all our war manufacturing facilities up to maximum efficiency. Such things can’t be done overnight. A lot of trouble can be done in six months; a lot of ships can be sunk; a lot of blood spilled; but this country cannot be geared for war in six months. So let’s get started. Start up all our plants and sell their products until we need them ourselves. Probably every school district in the state, and every state institution would accomplish as much for the public if the buildings had cost about a half of what was actually spent. Not every merchant houses his busi ness in a brick and marble palace, but our public buildings are built on a plan beyond the means of the people. Years ago our fathers and grand fathers rebuilt this state, following the Civil War. I have thought kindly and respectfully of those men; have thought of them as men of heroic stature. But we are a much brighter lot today. Those men had simple, even childish ideas about debt. They plan ned and worked along modest lines. Old plodders that they were, they worked hard and cleared fields and reared families and bought their farms through narrow ignorant, old- time skimping and saving and hard- living, Now look at the progress we’ve made. We have splendid pub lic buildings—thousands of dollars of bonds outstanding; we have lost the place the old gentlemen bought and paid for when a dollar was a dol lar and hard to “come by”; but we have bought it, or another again— and have a nice mortgage on it; and we have put a new roof on the house and painted the place—on Government credit; and we have bought a car through the “finance company” and are buying clothes on the installment plan. So our little state operates on the same plan. If we had resolution to reduce our state, county and munici pal budgets at least thirty per cent, nobody would know the difference in twelve months. » EMERGENCY CASE The average layman has not the least conception of the pathetic, hu morous, and strange cases which come to the emergency departments of the hospitals of the country, I had been an interne about twen ty-four hours, and was standing in front of one of our smaller operating rooms, when there was brought to me a young colored man, with what seem ed to be a horn protruding from his forehead, for a distance of about six inches. An examination disclosed that in stead of a horn, the thing was a sec tion of the barrel of a shot gun. While hunting, the gun burst and a portion of it embedded itself in the frontal bone, doing comparatively little in jury, for I withdrew it easily and the man made a prompt recovery. To me on of the most humorous in cidents of this nature happened in a city near New York recently. A wo man excitedly approached the young interne of a large hospital. Accom panying her was a boy of about eight years. Over his head was pulled a very large paper bag, and from with in the bag came heartbreaking sobs, as the mother led her child to the physician. “What is the matter?” queried the medical man. “Plenty,” screamed the overwrought parent. “The boys in our neighbor hood play soldier, and each of them has one of those steel hats the Ger man soldiers wore in the World War —except my son. So he improvised one”—at the same time withdrawing the paper bag from the little chap’s head and exposing an enamel pot. “He put this thing on the lead the charge against the enemy and could and I brought him here on the sug gestion of my friends. I came in a bus and everybody has been laughing at us. I have never been so humili ated in my life.” moaned the dis tracted lady. But internes are accustomed to meeting and dealing with unusual cases. The boy was ordered to bend over and cracked ice was inserted around the rim of the bowl. As it melted it congested the skin of the scalp, and made the hair slippery and the misused utensil was easily withdrawn. Without waiting to thank the doc tor, the mother yanked the boy by his arm out of the emergency operat ing room yelling at him, “Wait until I get you home.” And thus an em bryo general was vanquished. NOTICE OF SALE Pursuant to the authority con tained in the Last Will and Testa ment of Mrs. Sallie C. Wilson, I will sell at public auction at the Court House in the town and county of Newberry, State of South Carolina, on the first Monday in October, it being October the 2nd, 1939, at eleven o’clock ili the forenoon, the following ascribed real estate: Tract No. 1 All that piece , parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being in Union school district No. 32, New berry County, South Carolina, con taining 66 56-100 acres, more or less, and bounded as follows/ on the north by lands now or formerly of J. K. Epps; on the east by lands now or formerly of J. K. Epps and Dr. G. Y. Hunter, and on the south by lands now or formerly of E. L. Strauss; and on the west by lands now or formerly of T. L. B. Epps. Said tract of land being known as the home place of the late Sallie C. Wilson. Tract No. 2 Also, all that piece, parcel, or tract of land, situated, lying, and being in Union school district No. 32, Newberry county. South Carolina, containing 12 89-100 acres, more or less, and bounded as fol lows; on the north by the Pomaria Road; on the east by lands of E. L. Strauss; and on the south by lands now or formerly of M. T. Epps es tate; and on the west by lands of Mrs. Maggie Wicker. The two tracts of land above de scribed will be sold separately and then sold jointly. The largest total received for the same will be con sidered to the highest bidder. Terms of sales: Cash. The purchaser is to pay for rev enue stamps and recording of pa pers. The undersigned reserves the right to revoke any and all bids. Joseph M. Wilson, Executor ANNOUNCEMENTS I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the office of Mayor of the city of Newberry, and pledge myself to abide by the laws, and the rules and regulations governing the Demo cratic Primary Election, CHAS. W. DOUGLAS FOR MAYOR I hereby announce myself as a candidate for reelection as Mayor of the city of Newberry, and pledge my self to abide by the rules and regu lations governing the Primary elec tion, J. W. EARHARDT, Sr. ALDERMAN WARD I I hereby announce myself a candi date for Alderman from Ward 1, and agree to abide the results of the Democratic primary election. EUGENE B. (Skipper) HARMON I hereby announce myself a candi date for Alderman from Ward 1 and agree to abide the results of the pri mary election. J. D. (Tant) WICKER 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 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 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 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 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 i I CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS The United States Civil Service Commission has announced open com petitive examinations for the posi tions listed below. Applicants must be on file with the Commission at Washington, D. C., not later than Oc tober 16 if received from states east of Colorado, and not later than Oc tober 19 if received from Colorado and states westward. Statistician, $3,800 a year, also principal, $5,600 a year, senior, $4,600 a year, associate, $3,200 a year, as sistant, $2,600 a year, various op tional subjects. College education and professional experience in tech nical statistical work are required. Applicants for the assistant grade must not have pased their fortieth birthday, for the associate grade they must not have passed their forty-fifth birthday, and for the other grades they must not have passed their fifty- third birthday. Full information may be obtained from Secretary of the U. S. Civil Service Board of Examiners, at the post office in this city, or from the Secretary of the U. S. Civil Service Board of Examiners at any first- or second-class post office. Denmark, it is said has agreed not to attack Germany. Now if Ghandi will promise not to make a brutal assault on the British empire, the world will be safe. not get it off. My neighbors and I have tried for an hour to get it off his head but it seems to stick tighter I effort to J Q n f o I When You FEED USE PROVEN FEED To feed livestock successfully, you need rich-in-protein, concentrated feeds to bal ance your grains and roughage in rations. COTTONSEED MEAL is ALL FEED, protein in the concentrated form that gives you the best results in the rations of all classes of livestock. You can get the feed you need for your livestock by bringing your cottonseed to us and obtaining Cottonseed MEAL and HULLS-the economical, efficient feeds of PROVEN VALUE. . \ Fanners Oil Mill PHONE 155 Important Notice To DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS Below You will find a Letter To all Sheriffs and Tax Collectors in South Carolina: TO ALL SHERIFFS and TAX COLLECTORS: Section 95 of the Appropriation Act passed by the General As sembly and approved on July 1, 1939, provides as follows: “All taxes, assessments and penalties legally assessed shall be considered and held as a debt payable to the State by the party against whom tile same shall be charged; and such taxes, assess ments and penalties shall be a first lien in all cases whatsoever upon the property taxes; the lien to attach at the beginning f the calendar year during which the tax is levied; and such taxes shall be first paid out of the assets of any estate of deceased per sons, or held in trust as assignee or trustee, as aforesaid, or pro ceeds of any property held on execution or attachment and the county treasurer may enforce the said lien by execution against the said property; or, if it cannot be levied on, he may proceed by action at law against the person holding said property. “Provided further, that in making levies and sale of propertv of any taxpayer for the collection of any tax due the State and county, the Sheriff or Tax Collector is hereby authorized and directed to levy upon and sell any property of the defaulting tax payer, real, personal, mixed, either or both, to satisfy any tax llei as evidenced by a tax execution issued by the county treasurer against such defaulting taxpayer, and the sheriff or tax collector shall not be required to identify any property of the defaulting taxpayer as having been included in his return or assessed against him for the purpose of taxation.” Yours very truly, A. J. BEATTIE, Comptroller General, This office is preparing a statement to be mailed to all Delin quent taxpayers who have not paid their taxes. We will soon go out from this office to either collect these taxes or levy on prop erty in possession of delinquent taxpayers, and will have to sell same as required by law. This county has one of the best cotton crops in years and the price seems as if it will be fair, so please come in and settle up your delinquent taxes. I am sure you will agree that the County has been very lenient indeed in this matter and now show your appreciation by paying your taxes without being forced to do same. I urge that all landowners encourage their tenants to settle promptly their tax obligations to the County. C. W. SANDERS, Tax Collector