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1 c PAG* SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN Government Loan on Cotton Is Too Late to Help the Poor Farmer, Says The Spectator “Thanksgiving” I am an American, a citizen of the United States. That is enough for real thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is, of course, purely an American holiday. And the cir cumstances promoting the first feast of thanks gave a religious flavor to our own celebration which I do not know of elsewhere. The early set lers of New England felt that there had been a gracious intervention by Jehovah to spare them through the cold and dreary win ter and until the autumn should yield a harvest of simple grain. Their pious gratitude to the Al mighty came from simple and trust ing devotion. I fear it has been imitated by us, rather than emulated. We are observant of forms but we are too well-fed to feel dependent. America is still the land of liberty, of free speech, of religious liberty. This is still the land where no caste system ties a man forvever to any place or any work. Here we earn a livelihood and have the bounty of a rich market to supply us. It is pleasant and comforting to think of our great nation at peace and with plenty in a time of con flicting ambitions and sordid grasp ing, but our thankfulness for the goodly heritage we enjoy and the bounty of Providence should make us resolve that this country of our fathers shall be transmitted by us to posterity as free as when we in our turn received it. t No one likes to be a pessimist, it is so much more pleasant to be cheery and optimistic, at least in speech. It would be so much more agreeable to be able to say, as the professional and clubby glad-handers do, “fine, splendid, marvelous” in re sponse to everything that is said and done. Such felicity of expresion, however, is usually entirely super ficial or insincere and not inspiring. Like the surgeon, we may sometimes use the knife in order to help the patient. Our patient is this happy little state of ours, the home of ourselves and of OUr people, a land beloved for all its history and traditions. Taxpayers are the stockholders of the state and should take an interest in the routine of administration. It is said that we could not do without the services we now have. That may be true, but it is worth a bit of inves tigation. At first blush I question the accuracy of the statement. At any rate we can agree that whatever service may be charged to the pub lic should be worth the cost, or should Nine, to study the condition of the State. Later I became closely asso ciated with the Vive-President here, Mr. Hoi ace H. Morgan. All the gen tlemen of the bank—and ladies, too— have been so progressive and con structive in their outlook that the bank in Columbia has quickly made a place—and a big one—in this terri tory. That is equally true of the Charleston and Spartanburg banks, also. What interests me particularly as a citizen is that our state now has such strong banking groups that it finances its needs at the lowest in terest rates in its history. Strong banks reflect sound condi tions. Spectator salutes Messrs. Bird, Morgan, and their associates and congratulates them on their splendid growth. Dignity of expression is sadly lacking among our people, at times, but it is like gall and wormwood to hear the Postmaster General of the United States say “We’ve got ’em in the bag.” He was left with the bag, it is true, but the bag was empty. And now comes the Ambassador of the United States to Japan, Joseph C. Grew, and delivers a speech or a message expressing President Roose velt’s ideas and says—in Japan— “This is straight from the horse’s mouth,” meaning the President. Of course Mr. Roosevelt does get pretty horsey sometimes, but we needn’t call him a horse, when talking to the Japanese. Figure this out. His excellency the Ambassador of the United States of America, the personal representative of the Presi dent of the United States, accredited to the Imperial Court of the Son of the Sun, utters words which he says came “Straight from the .horse’s mouth”! Considering that the Japanese are dignified and ceremonious I wonder if some of them who have read the Bible think Balaam’s famous steed had arrived in their midst. On November seventh the Secretary of Agriculture announced a loan plan for cotton of the 1939 crop. But on November seventh at least three- fourths of all the cotton had left the hands of the small producers, the very men to whom five or ten dollars is real money. When men become ac customed to think or deal in big figures they sometimes forget that a few millions, of our people seldom (if ever) have a spare five dollar bill. If Uncle Sam wants to help the poor farmer he should make plans for his cotton in July, not November. not cost more than the service is reasonably worth. All of us must Ssr l^e that there should be no hocus- pocus about the administration of public affairs. ; What dd you think about this? It is very eomomonly said that a cer tain public service, bought from twelve to thirteen thousand dollars in stamps in June—$12,000 to $13,- 000—in order to spend all its money before the close of the fiscal year, and, furthermore, it is said to have given evidence of its fastidiousness by spending more than a hundred dol lars for seat covers for the “com fort station.” An interested citizen came to Spectator, boiling with indig nation. He urged that the State should have postal meters to curb the stamp abuse. Some of our public offices are op erated on modern plans—and some are too modern—but the spending of balances so as not to return the money to the treasury is not a prac tice which will impress the taxpayers favorably. They, all, want more money. Of course, it is the same old story. The spenders are riding their horses and they think the fodder hangs low in the rack. The first institution to call for more money is the State Sanitarium, that is the hospital for tubercular treatment. The State is now giv ing it $220,000 this year, but it asks for $413,493 for the next fiscal year. This is not a free affair, as some one told me recently. Then comes Win- throp College. It receives for this year $261,875, but asks for $388,254 for next year. And so on. More, more, more! The State itself is not growing in wealth or numbers very impressively; but it is growing in public expenditures enormously. There is one way in which to stop this: that is to stop it. The State is just all of us, taken together. Well, all of us, even mix ed up like a mass of dough, are not able to pay for more. What we need is an onslaught, a veritable avalanche of an effort to cut what we have. Some few years ago. while I was below the equator, my brother open ed an account for me in a Charleston bank I had never heard of. It was The Citizens and Southern Bank. Later, when conditions looked unpromising, a branch of that bank was opened in Columbia, then another in Spartan burg. I came to know the officers and attaches pleasantly; later was as sociated very pleasantly with the President of the South Carolina chain. Mr. Angus E. Bird, when he was Chairman of the Commission of Looking ’em Over By LONNIE FRANKLIN Once whenever a state team play ed an out-of-state team you could give the outsider a two or three touchdown margin and bet your shirt. Now South Carolina teams are play ing big time games and more than just filling a schedule. Clemson leads the state schools and the Tigers are a nation-wide attrac tion. They lost to Tulane, so far un defeated, by only one point, showed the National Capital fans how to lick Navy and George Washington on suc cessive weekends, and last week gave Wake Forest a going over and don’t forget Wallace Wade and Duke had a hard day with those same Deacons. Furman can point to a close game with Army and a win over Georgia. Carolina has Florida for a star and P. C. has wins over outside teams. Yes, sir, a new war is on and South Carolina teams are changing from trench warfare to open field charging as outside teams instead of brothers on their schedule find headaches on the gridiron. No longer do fans have to say we wish to win. Now we tell ’em—watch those Palmetto teams in action. More good athletes coming to our schools and our own boys getting bet-! ter due to an improved high school coaching, are two big reasons. “Here’s to You. Bill” At the start of the season I said Bill Laval would win six, lose four of a ten game schedule. Well, so far they have tied four, lost 0 ne and won three for one of the best seasons Newberry has had in years and Coach Laval has had a hard time getting a team on the field for old manlnjury. Key men have been missing, some playing when they could hardly get about, and yet an undeserved loss to P- C. is the only one. Once Newberry played out-of-state schools for the money they could make, not expecting to win. Now out-of-state schools come to Newber ry for a good gate, split at the gate, hoping they don’t lose. Newberry has yet to lose a home game under Laval. Yet the calibre of teams play- ^Scratching Relieve Itch Fast orMonf/fljtk Few quick relief from itching of eczema, pimples, athlete’s foot, scabies, rashes and other ex ternally caused skin troubles, use world-famous, cooling, antiseptic, liquid D.D.D. Prescription. Greaseless, stainless. Soothes irritation and juickly stops intense itching. 35c trial bott’e proves it, oryour money back. Ask your druggist today for D. D. 6. Przscriptio.w. Hartford News A party beautiful in its simplicity was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Lester Friday night by Miss Virginia Cannon of Columbia in honor of Miss Margaret Lester, a bride-elect of this month. The guests were greeted at the door by Miss Lo- rene Cannon of Columbia. Games and contests were enjoyed throughout the evening. Favors were small hearts with the inscription “Lester-Shealy” written on them. A delicious salad plate was served by the hostess. The bride-elect received many useful and lovely gifts. Miss Louise Buzhardt of Monticel- lo spent last weekend with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buzhardt. Misses Virginia and Lorene Can non of Columbia spent the latter part of the week with Misses Margaret and Mildred Lester. Mr. and Mrs, Malcolm Moore of Whitmire spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Wessinger. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hipp and family spent last Sunday afternoon with Mr and Mrs. W. L. Buzhardt. Mr. Ray Foy of Fort Moultrie spent several days last week with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Foy. Mr. and Mrs. Waldore Huffman and daughter of Clinton, have recently moved into the community. His many friends here wish him much success in his “turkey raising.” Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Livingston have also opened up a" very sanitary and modern dairy in the community. We wish for them much success. Mrs. J. H. Eargle and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Long of Little Mountain. UNION CLUB MEETS The Union home demsontration club held its regular meeting in the school auditorium October 26 with 20 mem bers present. The meeting opened with the project song, “Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny.” The devo tional exercises were led by Mrs. Carl Epting. Miss Ethel Counts, county home demonstration agent, discussed “Grading Products to Sell” and dem onstrated her lectures with pictures. Four new members were reported. After the business session Mrs. J. E. Dowd and Mrs. Epting served re freshments. The next meeting of the Union club will be held November 22 at pne-thirty o’clock. Merchants’ Red Cross Displays Are Attractive From show windows of practically every business fitm in the city, at tractive Red Cross signs and pla cards send out an appeal to “Join”. A few of the civic-minded merchants went a little further, and arranged a whole display window for the annual Red Cross roll call. The window of Miss Mattie Adam’s shop on Caldwell is arranged most attractively. In the center was a huge red cross formed with soft red and white wool knitting thread. To one corner was a board of white and red hankies arranged in cross shape. About these were pots of white and red flowers tied with white papers and red ribbons. Rose’s had a unique window—a bat tlefield scene. On a bank of grass were many toy soldiers engaged in the activities of war. All around were tanks, guns, airplanes and other such equipment. The display at Gilder and Weeks drew a crowd. A nurse was seated at a machine making hospital linen sup plies. To her right were flags and Red Cross placards. One of the Newberry Drug win dows was arranged with rows of “Join” signs centered with a Red Cross flag. Another appealing window was the one at Carpenter’s. It qontained two nurses in uniform, one wearing a Newberry county hospital cape. Hos pital and nursing supplies were ar ranged in tho window along with flags and signs. Efird’s window featured a nurse in uniform with a Red Cross head- band. A nurse also centered Belk’s displav window. About her were United States flags and a number of Red Cross placards. ^ This year’s Red Cross roll call pla cards are beautiful. They show a nurse in white with a navy blue cape lined with red, flung over her shoul ders. She is raising a snowy white flag centered with the Red Cross with her right hand and her left hand is stretched out in an appeal to “Join.” The large signs seen in many win dows show the same nurse in like costume in front of a flood scene. Her left hand is stretched in an appeal to “Join the American Red Cross.” Stores Here To Observe Thanksgiving 23rd CirReuer ThisFdstWsv -or Monty Back For quick relief from itching of eczema, pimples, athlete's foot, scabies, rashes and other ex ternally caused skin troubles, use world-famous, cooling, antiseptic, liquid D. D. D. Prescription. Greaseless, stainless. Soothes irritation and quickly stops intense itching. 35c trial bottle proves it, oryour money back. Ask your druggist today for D. D. 6. PRESCRIPTION. Local stores will observe Thanks giving Thursday, November 23, by closing their doors. As was announc ed by Governor Burnet Maybank sometime ago, this state is officially observing the new Thanksgiving day proclamation by President Roosevelt and city officials state the Newberry will fall in line with the rest of the state. WOMEN! read how thousands have been able to GET NEW ENERGY IMPORTANT Medical Tests Reveal WHY Famous Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound Has Been Helping Weak, Rundown, Nervous Women For Over Half A Century! If you feel tired out, limp, listless, moody, depressed—if your nerves are constantly on edge and you’re losing your boy friends to more at tractive, peppy women—SNAP OUT OF IT! No man likes a dull, tired, cranky woman. ., All you may need is a good reliable tonic. If so try famous Lydia E; Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. *1 Let it stimulate gastric juices to help digest and assimilate more whole some food which your body uses directly for energy—to help build up more physical resistance and thus help calm jittery nerves, lessen fe male functional distress and give you joyful bubbling energy that is re flected thruout your whole being. % Over 1,000,000 women have re ported marvelous benefits from Pinkham’s Compound. Results should delight you! Telephone your •, druggist right now for a bottle. Loafing At the “Ritz” SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE . . . Tommies off duty at one ot their dug- outs along the front line. Passed by the British censor. ed is getting stiffer and fans are ap- precative of the fact that another year or so is needed to get Bill’s sys tem going. Here’s saying to coaches Laval, Hambright, Setzler, and Setzler, along with all the players, that re gardless of the outcome of your last game you have given Newberry a season the student body, the fans, and yourselves can well be pround of. When a team loses four stars and then sees the other mainstays hurt, most of the lime, yet keeps going, there is plenty of what we call guts in the bunch (call it fortitude if you’re sophisticated.) Hunting Season Opens With Thanksgiving Game Warden Herman Wise has asked us to advise hunters that the hunting season opens with Thanks giving on all game in this section. Dove season opens next Monday, the 20. FROM HOSPITAL Mis s Carrie Boland has returned to her home on McKibben street after undergoing a tonsilectomy at the Newberry county hospital. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1939 • Youthful English Ice Marvel in Action NEW YORK. N. Y. . . . Miss Belltta Jepson Turner, 16-year-old English Ice skating star, who arrived in New York recently, is pictured during her first appearance in costume here. She won the highest European skating award when only ten years old. #/ 155 IS NEWBERRY’S COAL NUMBER" Remember the times you were incon venienced by not having coal? We make it a point to give good service on coal deliveries, but it is not always possible to deliver just at the moment you want it. How much better to have the satisfaction of knowing your coal supply is sufficient! just Phone 155 today for any kind you need. We have it! Farmers Oil Mill PHONE 155 SPECIAL PRICES On Permanent Waves for Thanksgiving It will pay you to get one ,bf our special prifed waves for the holidays ahead. It is well to kemember that inot ievery hairdresser can give you the 'same lasting (satisfactory service. Years of ‘experience, plus the best of equipment, plus trained beauticians, puts ’us in position to (give you the most for your money. 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