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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1939 1218 College Street Newberry, S., C. O. 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. . EIGHT MONTHS I ONE MORE REASON We were encouraged to believe that ( Another reason for our country re- we were going to have real inspection maining out of the European slaugh- of meat and milk in the new health I ter 'is seen in an editorial in The department setup, now some eiifht | Saturday Evening Post of last week, months old. | The Post states that following Mun- We suppose it takes time to bring ich, or subsequent to September 1938, these things about but it seems the public should be informed what is be ing" done along that line; and too, the British sold war materials to Germany. Thus the greed for gain is again revealed in the British; greed ^tODAV 1 a*t^d TOMORROWS FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE eight months is a right good bit of! which goes so far as to sell imple- time. Wars have been won and lost ments of war to slaughter its own people. People of this country should take a “hard boiled” attitude toward the European trouble. Its none of our affair and no European power or combination of powers is a threat to this country. We can whip them all if they ever start this way and they in eight months and babies have been known to be born in that period of time, altho not always agreeing with the marriage certificate. Any way, we hope the department now has preliminaries in such shape that real inspection of meat is just around the comer. The fact that in a city the size of, j^ow "it. Newberry there is no inspection ofi * i ^ . . . i.. ., t A lot of the propaganda in this meat is something the chamber of . . , , ^ , , . ... commerce couldn’t point to with' ^n^' >s based on Hitler s brutality much pride. , Granting that he is brutal, what will , J happen to him if we jump in and Often small town politics thwart help lick him? Exactl noth ing, ex- efforts to bring about changes of a! cept that he will lose his revolutionary nature but this should |job He will never pay the price his not enter the department. If law does ( are pa yj n g. We will never not exist whereby the department, have the sa ti s f act ion of seeing him can act with a free hand in assurance ( j us ^. a pure meat supply we feel certain Remember' the Kaiser? All the the people need only be informed. The things We were goin g to do to him ? public wants meat inspection and wants it bad enough to go to some trouble to get it. This newspaper does not think the department at fault but it feels jus tified in inquiring of it the cause of the delay, ■ * ^ A TIME FOR REASON We don’t know whether a world in which all human acts were gov erned by reason would be a pleasant world to live in or not. We rather suspect that it might lack a great many of the elements which make life, for most people, rather pleasant on the whole. A world governed by pure reason would, perhaps, be rather monotonous. We haven’t any doubt, however, about what the world would be like if reason were thrown overboard and everybody acted upon emotional im pulses. The only word which can describe such a state of human affairs is chaos. There could be no govern ment, no common purpose, order and discipline would be gone with the winds. The only way a nation ♦long with its neighbors CREED freedom Mrs. Herbert Lehman, wife of the Governor of New York, has written a set of “ten commandments” wmch seem to me to contain such im portant advice to young*Americans —and older ones, too—that at the risk of taking up too much of my al lotted space I want to print them for everyone to read. Here they are 1. Tell the truth. This procedrue is only possible in a democracy where there is a free and unregimentod press. ' 2. Treat all men as you would wish to be treated. Observance of this principle would mean a repudia tion of all false ideas of race supe riority, of race or class hatred, and of group warfare. 3. Respect the sincere religious beliefs of every man, even when you do not happen to share them. This is basic for all those who hold to the idea on which America is founded. 4. Help those who suffer and are persecuted because of their beliefs or their racial heritage. 5. Try to preserve the democratic heritage of equal opportunity for all men to learn and to earn. 6. Remember that freedom of opinion lies at the very basis of democracy and human liberty. 7. Distrust all those who sow hatred of other men. 8. Respect the law, for it is the guarantee of your own freedom. 9. Remember that America is not merely a country; jt is an ideal for the whole world. 10. Remember that the hope of the world lies in peace and in jus tice to mandkind. DEMOCRACY .... survival Mrs. Lehman’s “commandments” sum up the whole essentials of de mocracy. As she expressed it, these modern principles of human relations Let the old world assins settle their] ar e based upon the only concept own affairs. None of them ever help- under which democracy can function, ed us but for selfish motives and the t h e universal recognition >6f the whole lot of them is not worth the Fatherhood of God and the Brother life of one American soldier. I hood of Man. 1, I There is no other basis unon which Why all the rush, anyway? Why , . , should any kind of neutrality bill be democracy can surv.ve The funda- passed in such haste? We don’t ; m ! nta L pnnc :P le i of _ 0ur ^ or : m °!.S? V ; have to trade with Europe. The war has tossed into our laps the great He has been living comfortably ever since the World war and a year or so back the King and Queen of England sent liim a very touching telegram upon the occasion of his 80th birth day while milllions of British soldiers rotted in the soil of France. ernment is that no man is entitled to rule other men, except by their permission, and then only so long as the people accept bis leadership. Under such a government there South American markets which we have long neglected. This is Ameri ca’s golden opportunity to entrench , , ,, . , o « ■ , ., „ can be no unity unless the great herself in South America both com-, of th / look d merc.aHy and politically, to such an ] and deliberately or instinctively, look to God for the final decisions on public questions extent that she can never again be uprooted. There are too many hot heads in be an entirely peaceful and happy Washington, including the president, j 0nly a God-guided world can eve. We should be calm and deliberate and wor id for everybody, meet emergencies as they come. We | cannot anticipate anything with cer-1 EDUCATION .... liberty can get! taiuty in dealing with dictatorships, j jj e xt to general acceptance of the and the U " like democracies they are answer-, e , ementa] principles of religion, the people of the nation get along with f. ble °" !y to themselves and legisla-. most j mpo rtant factor ir making each other is by a judicious mixture ] tlon to day may be something we do t j emocraCy f unc tion is education. of reason with emotion. The greatest danger to any nation is to let the col lective emotional impulses of its people run away with their reason. That is something to think about, to keep in mind in times like these. There is no question whatever that the emotional sympathies of the American people are preponderantly with England and France against Hitler and Stalin. not want tomorrow. Watchful waiting policy. should be Neither America nor any other our nation can ever reach the goal of complete liberty of the individual un less and until every individual citizen has had the best education he or she is able to absorb, l Questioning whether our present tour of a person’s foot in ten minutes, educational system, on the whole right in the shoe store . . . Increased «sally trains children to become citi- use of oil to prevent coal dust from ze ns of a democracy, the Survey filtering up from home basements to Graphic points out that there are 80,- Out of that emotional tendency may tbe rooms aboV e, as result of dis- ^^0 children in the United States who THINGS TO WATCH F' <t— Shoes with plastic innersoles which come such encouragement to those who hope to profit personally, finan cially or politically from war, that forces may be ‘set in motion to play upon our sympathies and move us as a people to get into the war our selves. Every American needs more uian anything else today to bring all the power of reason to the control of thoughts and acts. For nothing is more certain than that, if we let our emotions run away with us and take a hand in the European struggle, be yond selling supplies, to any buyer who can pay for them and take them away, we are heading straight for the ruin of ourselves and our child ren, whether the side with which we sympathize wins or loses. NEWBERRY-CLINTON BATTLE HERE FRIDAY NITE The Newberry High school Bulldogs meet the strong Clinton high team here Friday night, playing at the municipal stadium at eight o’clock. Last year the Clintonites were run ner-up for the Class B championship being nosed out for the title by Lake City. From all reports the visitors have equally as strong a team as last year. 'Newberry and Clinton have been rivals over the years and each school considers the game to be the “big game” of the year and prepare long and diligently for the fracas. Admis sion for the game will be 25c and 40c. GETS FIRST DEER covery it takes only one gallon of oil do not attend school, either because to make one ton of coal “completely they live wh n th .f e are "° schools dustless” ... A new fumigant for or because of family poyeity. use in warehouses and railroad cars—' 1 have long believed teachers are said to have an especially low fire underpaid The best is none too good hazard, and to destroy insect life at for the children who are growing up all stages of development ... A ter- today. No more serious crime against mite detector said to discover the democracy can be committed than the presence of termites in a building false economy which leads states and without need for tearing out any of communities to cut down on school the timbers—it has a small, hyper- expenditures. sensitive microphone, which picks up We are to ° p ™ ne to regard teaeh- the sound of the termites. ers as merely hired help and re uc- tant to pay them enough to establish ■ their professional and economical | status on a par with doctors and i business men. He Who Laughs Last George S. Suber, in a party with J. B. Berlcy, W. D. Summer, and others, shot his first deer last week near Cottageville in the low country. Only one shot was necessary to down the 200 pound animal. PUYALLUP, Wash The photog rapher couldn’t figure out what made this fellow think things were so funny, but he seems to be look ing at the man just behind the camera. The horse is Major, owned by N. *H. Martin, mayor of Tho Dalles, Oregon. TEACERS inspiration The trouble with our educational system is that there are too few first-rate teachers. ‘There never have been, at any time in history, enough really great teachers. Contact with one great teacher for a year or two in a child’s formative years may do more or a boy or girl than years of formal schooling. i Many men have risen to greatness I without education, but only if they j have been directed in youth to ways | of educating themselves. i Great teachers are never forgotten, i The memory of Mark Hopkins, the farmer’s son who became president ! of Williams College, is preserved in ! President Garfield’s tribute. “A boy on one end of a log and Mark Hop kins on the other would be a greater educational institution than most of the colleges.” Not long ago I saw the great play, “Abe Lincoln in Illinois.” The opening scene shows the rawboned country boy patiently listening to instruction from a truly great teach er. Lincoln had only a year or two of schooling, yet he became a truly educated man, because of that early In a World Atltsme Fairs, Statesman of Cotton, War and Rumors BY SPECTATOR The State Fair will probably sur pass itself this year. Mr. Moore, the Secretary, and his capable Secretary were so busy while Spectator was with them that only in high places could he discuss the outlook. Mr. Moore showed by the diagram that all the space had been taken and that exhibits were be unusually fine and complete. The Counties are having s^lp-'did fairs. \11 are creditable and all show progress made during the vear. The State fair does just that also, but on a state-wide scale, even a national scale, for machinery and various in struments reveal the progress of in dustrial America and the mechaniza tion of agriculture. The State Fair brings us, all, to gether as one people, one State. We meet at times in political conventions, sometimes in business conferences, sometimes as religious bodies or pro fessional associations; but the State Fair brings us together in a spirit of friendliness, everybody full of whole sale interest in exhibits of friends and people of other counties,—all seeking a good time and prepared in spirit to contribute to a good time. The State Fair marks a truce to all activities except those of healthy competition in good work. The best apples, the best hay, the finest corn, the most tempting cakes, the most ap pealing delicacies of the well-stored pantry—all are here to make us re joice in our rich and peaceful State. Now the farmer may pretend that he isn’t interester in such things, though his attitude at the table strongly con tradicts him. But does he want to see hogs and find out something about hogs? Here they are. And cows! The best cows are brought here. One can see the joy of possession shining through a farmer’s eyes as he watch es the crowd admire his hogs and cows! Chickens, turkeys,—all that, even beyond calculation. Fancy work? As a mere man I stand bewildered before it. How can the ladies do all these things? And what about the amusements? Oh, boy! Did you ever? Spectator thinks he will try them all. Say, wouldn’t it be fine to get tha spirit of the fair, to take it all in ? We low-countrymen and up-countrymen— all Carolinians—can leave the years at home—and the cares—and get into the crowd for a grand and rambunc tious time. What do you say about it? Well, meet me there, Buddy. in Greenville, Friday, October 13. The difference between 250 1 pounds per acre and 625 pounds per acre is due to Oscar Johnston’s abil ity as a farmer. Spectator is a cotton farmer of sorts himself, but neither Spectator nor his associates can touch the hem of Oscar’s garment. Under the direction of a man who knows cotton and the problems of the cotton farmer and the National Cot ton Council must prove an instru- j ment of power for the recapturing of i markets and the creation of new markets. Spectator greets Mr. Johnston as the pre-eminent statesman of cotton, 1 just as he is the foremost producer of our great staple. A war of words! Still, lots of noise can be made by words and the loud boom of Hitler’s oratory is less destructive than his cannon. Did you ever hear of so much speechmaking? A blast from Mus solini today and a loud retort from Daladier tomorrow; a thunderous speech from Hitler and a declaration from Chamberlain. But all this is an appeal to popular favor. Surely this is something new and something wholesome. The more the rulers must court the favor of the people the less likely they are to choose violent courses. The debates in the United States Senate are a bit mortifying at times. When a great union, at peace with the worid, denies to its people the right to use the seas that surely is going f*.r enough; but /when it is seriously advocated that we must vir tually close our factories for fear of Germany that is going too far. It is entirely new in our national life to forbid American ships to trans port goods to countries at war. It is playing safe and is intended to pre vent involvement in the war through the sinking of our ships cairying goods to nations at war; but surely the right to sell to any and all na tions, for transportation at their own risj<, is playing safe enough. Reports of the speeches in the Sen ate will do harm, for some of our Senators are deliberately charging that the purpose of the Cash-and- Carry plan is to help England. If 1 our own Senators say that, is it not j to be expected that Germany will act I on that assumption? To declare to | the world our willingness to sell to all o n equal terms is sufficient proof i of our neutrality. A farmer who picks 625 pounds of lint to the acre is a farmer among farmers; a farmer who so improves his land that in twelve years he in- ] 'Teases production from 250 pounds of i lint per acre to 625 pounds is a mas- j ter; but a farmer who makes this in crease on thirteen thousand, two hun-! dred forty acres, and now averages 625 pounds of lint per acre on the 13,- 240 acres is a wizard. That is the record of Oscar John ston of Scott. Mississippi. Mr. John ston makes his living as a farmer, but gives his time without pay to the National Cotton Council. Mr. John ston will speak at the Cotton festival contact with a teacher who inspired him. He learned to think and how to find the meaning of life for him self. I know that I owe whatever I have acquired in the way of educa tion more to two such inspiring teachers in my high-school days than to anything I got from the formal school courses. What sort of war is this in Europe? Or is there a war? I looked at some figures recently that prove the ser iousness of the war. Little Switzer land, the baby nation, has four hun dred thousand men under arms! That is twice as many men as we have in our armv, stationed in the United States, Panama Zone, Hawaii, Philip pines and China. Switzerland is so small that I almost wonder where they station so many soldiers. Germany’s merchant marine of four million tons of ships has been driven from the seas. As for Ger many. France and Great Britain— they have girded themselves for a titanic struggle. Then why so quiet? Why so few clashes? Apparently Britain and France on one side, and Germany on the other are each hop ing that the other side will make a dash, take the offensive, start a drive] with all the power of a mighty host. Then what would happen ? In the World War the Germans re solved to take the fortified area call ed Verdun. Great masses of troops were thrown against the French, who stood behind their guns and greeted the German rushes with an avalancha of shells. The Germans are ^iid to have lost six hundred thousand men at Verdun. The Allies did some stunts of about the same stupidity and sac rificed thousands of lives foolishly. Now—today—the stalegy is to let the enemy attack, hoping to receive him with such a rain of shells as to annihilate him. That’s why the war is so quiet. The British did make a dash with their planes against the German fleet —and lost six of the twelve planes. Many such losses would be disaster- ous, though an occaional flurry serves to harry the enemy. Who started all this underground rumbling about Wyndham Manning for the Senate? It is keeping out of the papers, or is being kept out. as you please; but by word of mouth it is gaining circulation. Another ru mor is that Olin D. Johnston will op pose Senator Byrnes. Why? Did not Senator Byrnes support Mr. Jrhnstoi. for Governor against Mr. Blease? But if Senator Byrnes sup ported Senator Smith he did not sup port Mr. Johnston for the Senate. That would release Mr. Johnston from any debt to Senator Byrnes, accord ing to common political practice. What a lot of rumors! Is it true that Mr. Johnston will offer for Governor again ? Or will he really launch out against Senator Byrnes? It has been said that Governor Maybank will be in the race for the Senate for the seat now occupied by Senator Byrnes. I doubt that. The Governor and the Senator are staunch friends. The suggestion is fre quently made that Senator Byrnes will be offered a judgeship. But what of Mr. Manning? It is generally believed that he can have the Governor’s chair if he wants it. RACING PIGEON GETS A LIFT BY AIRPLANE Washington, D. C., dispatch to The Christian Science Monitor: Aviators here (Washington) have been having a strange attraction for carrier pig eons lately. One dropped in at the operations room of the ^ lerican Airlines on a rainy day—just to get a weather re port, officials presumed. Inquiry showed that he was racing to the New York fair, but was too wet to fly so the airline gave him a lift on their next plane to New York and re leased him at the Newark airport. A few days ago, another pigeon turned up at tbe Bolling field, the army flying field. The army named the bird Homer, then sent him to the Animal rescue League where he was treated royally for a few days. As soon as Homer had recovered his strength the league took him to *Ue outskirts of the city and released him, in he supposition that he would return to Long Island whence.his leg band showed he came. Homer flew back to the Animal Rescue League and hasn’t yet been persuaded to leave. BACK SEAT SEWING The husband drew up his chair be side bis wife’s sewing machine. “Don’t you th’nk it’s running too fast?” he said. “Look out! you’ll sew that seam wrong! Mind that corner now! Slow down; mind your finger!” “What’s the matter with you, John?” I’ve been running this ma chine for vears!" “Well, dear, I was only trying to help you. just as you help me drive the car.”