The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, October 20, 1939, Image 2
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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,
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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.”