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Every Week More People Read The Sun The Sun Strives To Serve The Whole People VOLUME 3; NO. 3 The Rising Sun—1856-18(?0 NEWBERRY, S. C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1939 Slider and Greneker—I836-186C $1 PER YEAR TODAY d TOMORROW\ i - FRANK PARKER S T O C K B R I D O WAR . recipe LUTHERAN YOUNG PEOPLE TO CONDUCT SERVICES The Lutheran Students Association of Newberry college and the Lather League of the Church will conduct the Vesper service at the Church of the Redeemer on Sunday night, Nov ember 12, at 7:30. A program based on the topic “What Is True Greatness’ will be pre sented by the young people of these organizations. The topic analyzes discussing such points as the will, faith, intelligence, and moral ctrength necessary to achieve true greatness. The service starts at the regular church time, 7:30, and the public is Espec- Ambassador Hugh Gibson remark ed on his recent return from Europe that the war is getting “curiouser and curiouser.” All the observers at the Front agree. They went out to see fighting, and there hasn’t been any fighting worth seeing. A London pa-1 cordially invited to attend per lately printed a big headline: ] ially do the leaders of these organ- “Are We At War?” |izations wish for the young people to What has happened so far is thart be in attendance, since it is primarily the predictions of all the peerers-in-! a young^ peoples’ program. However, to-the-future haven’t materialized. I the topic to be presented will be of in- The world had been all worked up to|terest to all. expect the most horrible war of all time, and the horrors have been con fined mostly to threats and fist-shak- ( Ing. The fact seems to be that nobody really wants to fight. Diplomats of all the nations involved are trying to work out a recipe for peace which all will accept. All sane statesmen know that whoever wins, everybody will lose if the guns once start shooting in earnest. The forces which are at work today in Europe in the ef fort to stave off the worst, way prove to be more powerful than air planes and submarines. PLANES !>«•»■»« Both sides in the European mess are more afraid of bombardment from the air than anything else. Neither side seems willing to start dropping bombs on the unprotected civilian population of the other side. The Germans did that in Poland, when they were still under the illusion that the British wouldn’t fight. They seem to be hesitating to attack the cities of England and France, how ever, and the Allies are dropping only leaflets from the air, trying to tell the German people the truth about their leader. All reports indicate that toe Ger man air force is at least equal in number of planes to the combined air forces of the Allies. There seems to be doubt that Germany has enough gasoline to keep its entire air fleet in action for any long period. But it could inflict terrible damage while it lasted. DANGER IN RACIAL PREJUDICES Veterans Will March In Armistice Parade Armistice Day celebration in the city will consist of a parade of school chldren and World war veterans and a banquet at the Legion hall Friday. COTTON MILLS HOLD OPEN HOUSE NEXT WEEK The three cotton mills of the city will hold “open house” next week Plans for the event have been made b.’ the Chamber of Porvimo-ce through the cooperation of the mill manage ments. The first mill to be visited will be Mollohon on Tuesday and the hour^ The parade is scheduled to begin, . . ... i will be from two p. m. to ten p. m. at 12 o clock noon, forming at Smith , ... v .. ., ^ . ” These hours will permit those who Motor company comer on upper _ , . _ . ^ .. . can not get off from their work to go Main street. The line consisting of -. , , K „ . ., .. . , . _ after business hours, all children m the city school system, approximately 250 x 3terans, and the; On Wednesday the Newberry mills Newberry mill band will parade down wl11 h ° ld °P en house from ten a. m. Main to Boyce, circling the public \ until four p. m. square, coming up Boyce street and | Oakland mill will receive visitors baiting in front of the old court Thursday form ten a. m. to four P: house. There brief talks will be M - made by Prof. O. B. Cannon and Dr. | Guides will be furnished all visit- S. J. Derrick. Sheriff Tom Fellers ors. will act as marshall leading the par-| A prize of $5 will be given for ade and will be assisted by Strother, the best story of a visit to the mills C. Paysinger, retiring Legion com- next week. The prize winning essay, mander, and Dr. Claude Sease, new. to contain not over 500 words, wtH Leeion commander. | be published. Entries are to be sub- The annual banquet will be served nutted to the Chamber of Comerce, the veterans in the Legion hall fol-| K* BorMr^Paystge^and Tj LATIN TEACHERS TO Sease will preside. The main event ROCK HILL MEETING of the banquet will be an address by The Rock Hill District on the Pre- Major W. D. Workman, of Green-j aerv t Status of Classical Studies in ▼ille, prominent lawyer and Legion-) South Carolina will meet at Rock naire. War songs nill be led by Dr. Hill, November 11. The meeting will John B. Setzler of Columbia, and a begin a t one o’clock with a luncheon In- What is going on in America re flects what is happening in the rest of the world. Powerful nations are attacking weaker nations and justify ing their conduct by claims of ra cial superiority. The “right” of peo ple of one race to dominate peoples! , * j —- v , - —- of other races is used as an excuse to numb f r J of attendance prizes will be at the An drew Jackson hotel. seize their territory by force, or to oppress or massacre those of the "inferior” race. We haven’t got to the point yet in America of countenancing the mur der of the people of any race because some other people consider their own race superior, but propaganda is at work, inspired by European examples, aimed at certain racial and religious groups. Prejudces are being stimu lated, antagonisms aroused, which are so contrary to the very spirit of Am ericanism as to give concern to every citizen who believes in the funda mental principles of our democracy. At a great gathering of scientists at the New York World’s Fair the awarded. Because Saturday was not a suita ble day the celebration was scheduled for Friday. CIVIC LEAGUE HEARS COMMERCE SPEAKERS The Civic League held its regular monthly meeting at the NY A home on Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock with the executive committee of the League serving as hostesses. A large number of women were present for the afternoon’s program which con sisted of talks by Hal Kohn, Presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce, T. W. Bremer, Sec. Chamber of Com. eluded on the program are Miss Ruth Carroll of the Latin department of Newberry college, and Miss Julia K9>ler of the Latin department of Newberry High. Miss Carroll will speak on “The Pendulum Swings Again Towards the Classics,” and Miss Kibler will lead a round table discussion on “Improved Methods of Teaching Latin.” The Armistice (By Spectator) if endorsed that there is no such thing as racial stock, and that democracy is threatened by the assumption that certain races or racial strains are mentally superior or inferior. From that asslmption it is but a step to the restriction of the liberties of the supposedly inferior races by those who assume themselves to be super- ! ior. Most of the people of Germany! There is danger that racial animosi- have not been told that their coun- ties long since silenced may find new try is at war, trustworthy observers I and violent expressions under the report. Everybody in Britain and ! emotional currents set in motion by France is acutely aware of the war, 1 events far beyond our shores. There for everybody is required to carry I are evidences of such unreasoning and j a gas mask ready to put on at the | un-Americai expressions already visi- first warning of an air raid. Bombs ^ ble. which will drop poison gas are more ^ Thoughtful people are beginning to feared than anything else. take steps to counteract the trend. „ , C nnmnckpd ' The New York Herald Tribune, spon- GAS - - • r » • i- •• • sors 0 f the great public forum for the Highly imaginative yarns, mostly 1 discussion of current social and eco- untrue, have been circulated widely nomic topics, held annually in New in recent years about new kinds of York, has this year included among poison gas and death-dealing “rays” the lecturers the Negro scientist. Dr. which the Germans are supposed to George Washington Carver of Tus- have, undreamed-of horrors to be ex- kegee Institute. That doubtless will pected if and when the war gets go- offend many unthinking persons. To ing in earnest. | thoughtful Americans it is merely a Chemists who know not only what deserved recognition of the fact that has been developed, but what is pos- talent and ability are not the sole sible, say that there is no likelihood possession of any one race. that Germany has any poison gas that can be dropped from the air * which is any more powerful than the gases used in the last world war. The most powerful of those was “Lewisite,” invented by an American chemist, Dr. Gilbert N. Lewis. It was never used 5 n war, and its ror- mula is the most closely-guarded of American military secrets. When the war ended the entire supply of Lewisite gas was taken in a closely guarded freight train to Baltimore, loaded 0 n a Navy vessel and taken out to sea where it was sunk in mid-ocean. Lewisite is tht most deadly gas ever invented, but even it Is not powerful enough to poison the air of a whole city, in any quantity that could be carried by even a fleet of planes. RAY'S . . i. . u k . . . . -bunk Twenty-one years ago the embat- merce, and John Leitner, Sanitation, tied nations turned back from the statement was made and unanimously| Expert for the county of NewberryH carnage of war to await a final treaty President of the Cham- of peace. The child bom then has Lutheran Churches Note Good Growth Mr. Kohn, her of Commerce, brought to the [ become a man and those who were League greetings from that organl- > in the service then are today in the zation and gave something of the j autumn or winter of life. History of the nei^|v re-t ^anized Has anything come to us except Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Bremer | time, the passing of years ? Have made an interesting talk of Civic! the relations of men improved, pride and urged cooperation on the The world seems nearer to us than cooperation on the part of all organ!- before the World war. England,! zations with his activities as Secre- France and Germany are not just red, 1 tary of the Chamber of Commerce. 1 blue and green spots on the map. I Mr. Letner, explained to the League Two million of us have bejn there, some of the things he would like to accomplish in Newberry and urged the help of all Civic League mem bers. SENIOR MUSIC CLUB The Newberry music club will meet Tuesday evening, November 14, at: eight o’clock at Smeltzer hall, New-' berry college. Entertaining the monthly club will be Miss Vivian El-1 lis, John Erickson, Milton Moore, and Harry Feld. From the earliest days of radio, in ventors have come forward from time to time claiming to have discovered a mysterious “death-ray” which could kill people by wholesale from a distance. The nearest anyone has really come to such a device is a gi gantic machine weighing many tons which can kill mice a few feet aw y. Electrical engineers tell me there is just as much bunk in the printed tales of a ray which will stop a gas engine by putting the magneto out of business, and so can be used to bring down airplanes. With a powerful enough machine, an automobile en gine may be so stopped if close enough, say twenty feet or so. There are enough scientific mar vels which are really true to make this a wonderful world. There is no excuse for feeding the public mind with terrorizing fakes, as some un scrupulous writers and publications do. This war, when and if the fight ing really begins, will be fought with the same old weapons, somewhat im proved, that were used in the World War of 1914-1918. And as in that and all other wars, the men who will bear the brunt of the fighting and win the final victory will be the “dougboys,” the infantry soldiers. CASH k . . • wins In the long run cash will win this war as it has won every other war. Europe east of the Rhine is broke. The French and British have about 7 billion dollars in gold in America, and not much else. That is about what they started with in the World War, a nd they had to borrow 10 bil lions more to win. Germany has al most no resources with which to pay for the supplies which it must im port. There you have the real reason why both sides are hesitating to get go ing in a war which would mean finan cial ruin to all parties. It’s a “poor man’s war.” European nations have never recovered financially from the last war. None of them can borrow any more money from this country to carry on another war, and this is the only place where there is and im portant money available. R. OTWAY SALTER DIES R. Otway Salter, 55, died here about 8:30 Thursday morning at the home of his sister, Mrs. Authur Kib ler, 821 Pope street, following a pro longed illness. Mr. Salter was a photographer by trade and ran a business here many years ago. Prior to returning here about 7 months ago, he resided in California. Mr. Salter left Newberry about 20 years ago to follow his trade on the West coast. A sister, Miss Lizzie Salter died here a few years ago. He is survived by the following brothers anc( sisters: Jack Salter, New York City; L. A. Salter and C. L. Salter, both of Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Arthur Kibler, of Newberry; Mrs. E. C. Witt and Mrs. Fred Young, both of Lake City, Florida. Funeral arrangements will be an nounced from the McSwain Funeral home. i COMMITTEE IS CALLED Mrs. J. H. Summer, Area Super visor of the National Youth Admini stration in this district, is calling a meeting of the NYA Advisory com mittee of Newberry county consisting of Dr. James C. Kinard, Dr. Erland Nelson, Otto Armfield, C. E. Hend rix and Miss Azile Livingston and other leading citizens of Newberry county. This meeting will be held in the NYA home on next Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock. State officials of the NYA in South Carolina will be present. A forum will be conduct ed at this meeting concerning youth problems. The public will know that there are 7,542 youths in Newberry county who should be given training today for better citizenship tomorrow. The great Atlantic is no longer a vast mystery, for the two million | Americans experienced all the diS’, comforts of the sea and united in ail eager longing for the shore. But though we think of English, Scotch, French, Belgalmt, Italians and Germ-1 ans as men like ourselves, have we; felt for them a sense of brotherhood, or even comradeship? No; all of us, of all nations, came out of the war resolved to look out for ourselves, only. The great dream of President Wilson could not overcome the dis- 1 trust that Americans had for Europe. And the nations began to isolate themselves by resolving to become self-sufficient. It is said that the United States started this by enact ing a tariff law which virtually slam med the door in the face of the world. They soon retaliated and the nations became so conscious of their own importance that we became a neighborhood of high walls around the houses and barred gates. What a farcical outcome of a great association in battle to save human ity! At bottom the idea of President Wilson was to avoid alliances among nations for war. If, as he hoped, the nations will all come together for peace and justice no two nations will make special alliances. All special alliances ar> based on fear. England, has a great navy, but she needs help 0 n land; so she allies with France. Germany and Italy became afraid and allied with each other against France and England. If all had been in one great association the combined strength of all would protect each other. But the United States backed out! And today the world is in worse condition than in 1914. We must remember that our great nation sometime:; does a lot of pious talking without acting piously. All the blood and sufferng of the World War have been wasted up to now. Surely the brave men who have died and the fine women who have griev ed compel us to ally hatred and dis trust among men so that peace and justice, truth and charity, religion and piety may be established and may become the lamp to light the pathway of all humanity. Mrs. L. M. Blair of Blairs was ad mitted to the local hospital this week. Contributions to the general Luthei-an church bodies in the United States increased by nearly 13 per cent during 1938 according to a re port released Friday, November 3 by the statistical department of the Na tional Lutheran Council. According to Miss Mary Boozer, statistical secretary of the Council, this repre sents a sharp upswing over the nor mal gradual increase which has been evident since 1933. The report also indicates that 1938 memberships were slightly better than the average of past years. The benevolence contribution—con tributions for other than Individual congregational expenses—are made available to the various national Lutheran bodies for charitable work, for Christian education, for pen sions, for all phases of the general work of’the church.. Miss Boozer stated that the ac tual 1938 gain was $1,972,142, an in crease of 12.9 per cent over 1937. This brought the benevolence total to $9,380,824, which is $2,298,988 over the 1933 level. It is still nearly $2,000,000 short of the 1930 figure, however. In total membership the Lutheran Churches in the United States also registered substantial gains. At the end of 1938 they had a baptized mem bership of 4,866,412—80,055 more than in 1937, a gain of 1.7 per cent, This increase is slightly above the normal growth of the past five years, which has averaged a 1.5 per cent an nual gain. Growth in confirmed membership was somewhat larger according to the Council report. In 1938 this increase was 81,979 or 2.5 per cent. Since 1933 there has been an average an nual increase of 2.2 per cent, raising the total confirmed membership from 3,042,705 to 3.370,583. Because the confirmed membership increase is somewhat larger than that of the baptized membership Miss Boozer in her report questioned whe ther “this phenomenon goes hand in hand with the ‘aging population’ in the United States” or whether it may be that the strain and stress of the 1930’s has brought adults to a reawakened interest in the Church.” There was also a spurt in the num ber of children enrolled In Sunday schools, parochial schools, weekday 1 and vacation Bible schools during 1938. The number of pupils jumped to 1,971,843, a gain of 39,754 or 2.1 per cent over 1937. Over the five year period the increase was only 90,817 pupils or about 1 per cent per year. • The number of Lutheran congre gations in 1938—15,798—was less by 886 than the previous year and 778 less than in 1933. However, this is accounted for by the fact that the Council’s tabulation never before sep arated the two categories; congrega tions and preaching places. If count ed together, as prevously there would be a definite gain. It is also pointed out that Church mergers of the past few years have made it posible to consolidate many of the smaller con gregations. It is Evident from the Council re port that depression years have had a serious effect on congregational building programs. During 1938 the value of property owned by Luther an congregations dropped by $4,231,- 683 to $362,651,883. This figure is nearly $4,300,000 over the 1933 total, however. Expenses for local congregational purposes went up by 4.4 per cent in 1938, rising to $39,280,408. This rate is somewhat lower than the average 5.8 per cent prevailing since 1933. The Rev. E. B. Keisler, President of the Newberry Conference, states that while he does not have the figures for all the congregations within the con ference the same healthy and thriv ing condition of the Lutheran church throughout the country is reflected in the congregations in this section. He makes special mention of the re cently organized Lutheran congrega tion in Whitmire and of its rapid growth in .numbers and influence, and of the fine spirt of loyalty and devo tion evidenced increasingly in the members which make up the varoius congregations of the Conference. An other congregation organized in New-] berry County within the past few years is Bethany, Oakland. ,28 YEARS AGO Washington, Nov. 5. — President Wilson today set aside Thusday, November 27, as Thanksgiving Day, in a proclamation on which the coun try looked forward “with confidenca to the dawn of an era where the sac rifices of the nations will find some recompense in a world at peace.” Mr. Tom Derrick died at his home near Little Mountain Wednesday morning, November 12. He is surviv ed by his wife, who was Miss Jane Stoudemire before marriage, and the following children: J. B. and J. Derrick of Little Mountain. George of Lancaster, and W. P. of Spartan burg. Three sisters, Mrs. MaMie Bedenbaugh of Prosperity, Mrs. Jane Lever of White Rock and Mrs. Re becca Singley of Prosperity, and one brother, President S. J. Derrick of Newberry college also survive. Mr. B. V. Chapman attended Synod at Little Mountain. B. V. is a mighty good young man and a good Lutheran besides. He has a splen did record as superintendent of the Sunday school in the church of the Redeemer. , Our noble young men crossed the seas, thousands shed their blood, thousands of them sacrificed their lives “to make the world safe for democracy,” as was said. How much less important was that than the Americans should join in a fight to make democracy safe for the United States! BAKERS TO HOMECOMING AT WASHINGTON AND LEE ltr Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Baker, Miss Mary Baker, and Miss Gladys Greer of Due West, left Thursday for Wash ington and Lee University at Lexing ton, Virginia, to attend the homecom ing there Saturday. They will be the guests of Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Moffett of the University. Mr. and Mrs. Baker’s son, Henry, a junior at Washington and Lee, will be playing on the football team in the homecom ing game Saturday afternoon. From Lexington the Bakers go to Duke University to spend two days with their elder son, Ralph, who is studying medicine. FROM ERSKINE Louis Patrick, sophomore at Ers- kine, passed last weekend ir. the city with his mother, Mrs. Azile Parr Pat rick. NATIONAL BOOK WEEK TO BE OBSERVED The week of November 12 has been set aside as National Book Week. The Newberry public and county libraries have many interest ing books for readers of all ages. Visit the librares this week and see the attractive displays and the many books, new and old. The official bulletin carries as its slogan “Around the World With Books.” This slogan seems especially appropriate this year since our in terests are in world wide affairs. SEEN ABOUT T0WN| IN HOSPITAL Ernest Mayo is a patient in the Veteran’s hospital in Columbia where) he will be for the next three weeks. Policeman Jesse Hitt hurrying across College street to get out of the path of oncoming car . . . Louise Harmon shopping . . . Mrs. A. H. Counts out about her business of gathering news after long confine ment to home because of illness . . . Marie Moore, local hospital manager, with handful of mail . . . Mrs. Mae Aull, attendance teacher, rounding up two small negroes on Main street and inquiring as to why they weren’t in school at that hour . . . Mrs. Joe Feagle carrying huge bag of grocer ies .. . Policeman Miller Smith look ing over the barrels of apples in front of a grocery store . . . Bus driver referring to Jimmie Wiseman’s moustache as a “third eyebrow” . . . Mrs. C. H. Driscol shopping . . . Sam Williams' parking his car and then gong around to the back of it to see if he was in the white line . . . C. C. Hutto star^,.g his verbal Merry Christmas greetings . . . Box Counts •in a new green hat and looking very unfamiliar . . . Mrs. J. H. Summer addressing the Newberry College ‘Y’ organization . . . Dr. E. B. Keisler announcing that the annual union Thanksgiving services will be held at the Presbyterian church on the 23rd . . . Burton Wells showing interest ing movie of recent fires in the city.