Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i f :y t y\i r : '<\v. viu: The Sun Strives To Serve The Whole People VOLUME 3; NO. 5 The Rising Sun—1856-1860 NEWBERRY, S. C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1939 Slider and Greneker—1856-1860 Every Week More People Read The Sun $1 PER YEAR TODAY \TOMORROW\ h- “ #1 FRANK PARKER S T OC K B R I D G E PUBLICITY . r . , , . news In 'newspaper offices publishers call every item which comes in which might tend to make people interested in buying something either “advertis ing" or “publicity.” The differerice between the two is that the publisher gats, paid Air. printing advertising material while be doesn’t get paid for, pointing publicity matte}'. That’s why ' the, business i office gets sofe at the press agents who send in pabli city stuff and editors print it be cause it’s more interesting than a lot of news they get. I’ve had a lot of experience with small papers and with big ones, and I’ve never seen the big ones turn down a good' story merely because there Was a suspicion that it might be a piece of "planted” publicity. I counted one day recently eight first- page news stories in the most in fluential of all New York papers, every one of which had,its origin in a press agonfli offie^. tThe biggest corps of publicity men anywhere is that maintained by Uhcle Sam. Nine out of ten “news” items you see coming from Wash ington are the product of the Gov ernment press agents. PROPAGANDA .... . . depends We hear a lot about “propaganda.” It is supposed to have the mysterious power of making people believe white is black, or that everybody we don’t like is a Red. Propaganda is a per fectly good word. It means -any ef fort to influence pulblic opinion, and began with the organized effort to propagate the Christian religion. W« ,u.se the word nowadays to designate efforts to make our people 1 believe that one side or another in any controversial question is lying and the other side is not. If it’s the side we’re for it’s just “educational” hut if it’s the side we’re against it’s “propaganda.” The only way propaganda or pub licity gets into a newspaper is by the editor’s volition. There is no sinis ter. backstairs way of getting pro paganda printed, that I ever heard of. I’ve been, editor of several news papers, and I’ve printed lots of pub licity stuff that I knew was propa ganda for something or other, but only because it was interesting to me. and I thought it would interest my readers. BILL . expert What started me off on publicity and propaganda is a couple of mimeo graphed sheets I lately got in my mail from Bill Sharpe. Bill is an expert propagandist for his home state of North Carolina. If the things he sends out to the papers about North Carolina aren’t true, they’re at least interesting and they get printed. Presumably they make people«think it’s a pretty good state. Bill sent along a story, for ex ample, about the town of Louisburg, N. C., where folks like to take things easy; so some of the sidewalks have been divided into three traffic lanes, the center for walking and the two outer ones for sauntering, talking politics or just loafing. Sounds like a good idea for any town. Then Bill comes along with a geographical discovery. The school books for years have taught that Mount Mitchell is the highest moun tain in the eastern states, with Cling- man’s Dome second. But Bill Sharpe reports that a North Carolina peak without even a name, one of the “Black Brothers” in Yancey County, is three feet higher than Clingman and only 39 feet lower than Mount Mitchell. Unimportant, perhaps, but interesting—and it’s propaganda. Miss Jean Copeland Is First In Beauty Miss Grace Andrews Named “Miss Newberry County” Miss Jean Copeland, brunettte daughter of Mrs. O. O. Copeland, won first place at the beauty contest at tho Opera House Monday night and with it the official title of “Miss Newberry”.’ The honor carries with it trips to other cities in which the young lady will compete for further laurels. Miss Mary Louise Wells, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Wells won second place, and Miss Carolyn Har mon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cal houn Harman, won third place. Little Barhara Felker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Felker won : the title of “Junior Queen.” County Contest In .the competition for the title of “Miss Newberry Chunty” held Tues day night, Miss Mary Grace Andrews, pretty blonde pf Whitmire \v;on first place. Second place went to Miss Juanita Cody, k'lso of Whitmire, and third place to Miss Dorothy Bragg. In the Tuesday night talent con test, Miss Luanna Parrott of Po- maria, won first place with a piano number. Twelve young ladies competed in the Monday night contest and ten in the contest Tuesday night. > *?**?»» BROWNS WELLS, Mississippi . . . Here's 4-year-old Bobby Toler, frog gigging champ. Frog gigging, in case yqu didn’t know, is quite a sport in the deep South. A threp- oronged stick and a quick trerd are the main requirements. COURT CALLED OFF Civil court, scheduled to start here Monday, has been called off. Only two cases could have been tried and it was thought better to carry them over until the February term. The two cases docketed were E. D. Rich ardson against O. F. Armfield, for alleged libel and a land condemnation suit. AMONG THE AILING Forrest Cannon of Little Moun tain underwent a ffiajor operation at the Newberry county hospital Mon day. He is getting along nicely. Alan Hipp will be dismissed at an early date from the county hospital. Frank Simpson, Jr., is reported getting along nicely at the hospital following a serious illness. C. C. Hutto, Jr., was admitted to the local hospital Monday. His con dition is reported satisfactory. Mrs. J. D. Goodwin of Hunt ave nue, who underwent an operation here last week, is reported improving. J. H. Perry was dismissed from the local hospital Tuesday following treatment for head injuries he re ceived in a wreck near the city last Saturday afternoon. Mechanics School For NY A Enrollees The National Youth Adminitsra- tion, through the cooperation of the aeronautics commission, has com pleted preliminary plans to estab lish a vocational training school at Columbia which will give training to approximately 2000 young people, of South Carolina annually. The federal government is equipping the school with $3,000,000 worth of aircraft and engines and the city of Columbia and Richland county are renting a build ing to house the school. The students are to be quartered at the National Youth Administra tion barracks at Camp Jackson. The instructors will be licensed airplane and engine mechanics who will give practical training in all phases of aircraft and engine work. In addi tion to receiving the usual monthly allowance paid NYA youths, they will receive the training without charge. Williams Awarded Verdict of Big Sum Judge Eugene S. Please returned to the city last weekend following a week in Columbia where he was en gaged in the suit of T. C. Williams aga’inse Murray and Flood, engineers, and builders of the Murray dam hn Saluda river. The jury in the Fed eral district court awarded Mr. Wil liams the sum of $133,333.33. The suit grew out of the building of the large “Saluda” dam, and was the second legal tilt, Mr. Williams losing the first some time ago. Appearing for Mr. Williams in the suit were' Eugene S: Blease, <)/ thik ‘city; John P. Grace of Charleston; Jos. L. Nettles, of Columbia; and Claude N. Sapp, also of Columbia. Christie' Bennet, of Columbia, artiong other attorneys, appeared for Mur ray and Flood. 1 Mr. Murray is said’to have purch ased some years > ago a fine estate, comprising some 8000 ! acres near Columbia on which he has a private power plant and many other modern improvements. ' > ’ ' • DEPUTIES MAKE ARREST OVER WEEKEND Cornliusking Champion 20 YEARS AGO Wright Rutherford, an old negro who had been in the Johnstone family all his days, diet/ on Wednesday morning at 6:15 o’clock' and was buried in the the city cemetery on ' Thursday aftemoop at 3 o’clock. Hjs. last days were spent in the employ of Col. and Mrs. Geqrge Johnstone. He was 74 years old. LAWRENCE, Kansas . . . Law rence Pitzer, Indiana farmer, be came new king of the cornhusk- ers by outshiicking the pick of eleven states in the national con test here recently. He husked 28.- 39 bushels of com in 80 minutes. County organizer Hal Kohn of the American Legion told us that the meeting on Sunday afternoon was well attended and that many impor tant. mattteps came, up for action. He also stated that steps are being, taken to put a post in Whitmire, Prosperity, and Little Mountain. We expect to see great things come from thp Legion. uiCt- -Iwl t: RANGER BILLINGSLEY PATROLS FOREST IN AIRPLANE Three negroes of Goldville,. Robert : Young, Ulysses Satterwhite, George Ousting and Alfred Gilliam, were ar rested Thursday by Deputy H. B. Quattlebaum and lodged in the coun ty jail charged with destroying pub lic property in Newberry county. Friday morning, after paying for damages for which they were res ponsible, each of the four negroes forfeited a $6 bond before Magis trate Ben F. Dawkins for disorderly conduct. Charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, Zach Martin, ne gro of near Peak, was arrested by Deputies H. B. Quattlebaum and J. C. Neel and placed in the county jail Sunday afternoon. Martin cut .a jppgro, Jack Cannon, also of Peak, tlannon is seriously ill. A warrant had been issued by Magistrate W. D. Hatton of Pomaria. HARE HERE FRIDAY FACTS . pay My observation of press agents and publicity men has been long and, on the whole, favorable. I can’t re call having caught one in a deliber ate lie in forty years or so. The big business organizations which used to refuse to tell newspapers any thing, discovered that it was better to tell them the flat truth than to leave it to reporters to guess at it. The Pennsylvania Railroad started the plan of telling the newspaper men all about every accident on its line. It made friends of the papers and did away with guesswork esti mates of the number of people hurt • in train wrecks and what caused .them. (Continued on page eight) Congressman Butler B. Hare will be in the city at the court house all day Friday, November 24th and will be glad to see those having business with the congressman, as well as other friends. Dairy Farming Schools Planned by King Producers of butterfat will have an excellent opportunity to get help with their problems at two schools to be held this' winter in Newberry county according to J. L. King, as sistant county agent. The schools will be of special benefit to this group of producers as it is built around the problems of producers of butterfat which are quite different from the problems of the producer of commercial milk. The school will consist of one-half day sessions held once each month for four months beginning in Decem ber. A dairy specialist from Clem- son college will assist Mr. King in holding the school. Subjects to be discussed include, “The Place of Dairying in a Diver sified System of Farming in South Carolina and Factors which Affect the Income from Milk Cows”, “Diges tion and Feeding”, “Producing Feeds Economically”, and- “Breeding and Calf Raising.” Farmers who wish to enroll in the school may secui-e enrollment cards by writing to or calling at the county agent’s affice. There is no cost of those who ehroll in the school Mr. King said. However, those whq enroll will, he expected to attend all four sessions except in case of sickness or other similar reason. Mr. and Mrs. C. Walter of Bir mingham, Alabama, are visiting the lattter’s sister, Mrs. Roy Summer, on Main street this week. Mrs. Walter is the former Miss Laura Bowman. Mrs. Summer plans to return to Birmingham with them. Last week Ranger John C. Billing sley patrolled the Enoree pivision of the Sumter National Forest in an airplane as an aid jn spotting, locat ing, and quickly dispatching fire crews to numerous forest fires. The haze or smoke from several large forest fires burning outside the for est boundary decreased visibility to such a point that prompt location of fires by towermen was difficult. The use of the plane has proven very successful. Small smokes can be promptly and acculately located and 'haze does not effect fire detec tion from the air as great as it hin ders detection from the towers. The extreme summer drought has caused grasses and other vegeta tion to die prematurely so the fall season is a particularly hazardous one. The Ranger warns all forest users and motorists to use all pre cautions in an effort to prevent woods fires. Hunters in particular are warned that if fires caused by them occur on or near National Forest Lands such lands will be restricted to hunting and all permits cancelled. There have been 31 fires this year within the forest and due to prompt action by crews from CCC camp F-6 the acreage burned has been held to a low figure. The largest fire was 73 acres in size and all the fires to gether burned a total of 251 acres of national forest land. The Forest Ranger has 153,000 acres under pro tection. MRS. MARY ELIZABETH LATHROP Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lathrop, 58, widow of J. I. Lathrop, died Monday night at the home or her daughter, Mrs. Vernon Bobb on Crosson street, this city. She was a member of the Methodist church. Surviving are the following sons: Floyd W. Lathrop, Forest R. Lathrop, daughter, Mrs. Vernon Bobb, of Newberry. Also four brothers and four sisters sur vive, George Merchant and Andrew Merchant of Kinards, Mattthew and Claude Merchant of this city, Mrs. Minnie Moates and Mrs. Lillie Bish op of this city, Mrs. Lulu Taylor of Spartanburg, and Mrs. Mamie Lee Bishop of Kinards. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Vernon Bo/bb at her home on Crosson street, in charge of Rev. Ray Anderson, assisted by Rev. T. B. Wilkes of Whitmire. Burial was in Ebenezer cemetery. STOP! Long enough to LOOK! Long enough to LISTEN! Long enough to Join the Red Cross. Indians Play Final of Good Grid Season (By DON ROOK) The Newberry Indians end their 1939 football season Thursday, Nov ember 23 when they meet Maryville on the local field at 2:30. The game will also write finis to the football playing days of such Newberry stars as Co-captains Alec Thurman and Paul DeBruhl, Howell Cockfield, Har ry Williams, and Red Burnett. The Maryville team moves in a little faster company than Newberry. Maryville has defeated Union, Tus- culum, Cumberland U, and has tied Carson-Newm ati. However, in the last few games Newberry has been moving in company not fast enough to keep up with the flying feet of quarterback Dom Collangelo. The Redmen have upset such favorites as Stetson and Oglethorpe, and perhaps they can do the same to Maryville. An interesting feature about the game is that neither team has scout ed the other. The game was sche duled unexpectedly to fill a date, left open by the cancellation of the Milli gan game. The game should develop into a wide open offensive battle since neither team has a knowledge of the others plays and therefore, will be unable to demise a set de fense to stop them. This undoubted ly will prove beneficial from the viewpoint of the fan, for it should mean many fancy runs and several scores by both teams. It isn’t known who are the stars on the Maryville team, but it is a settled fact that Collangelo will be heard from on the Newberry side. Collangelo is lead ing scorer in South Carolina for the second straight year, and he is out to add several points to his total. When he is right, he is dynamite; and he is right and ready to go. It isn’t often that a runner of Collangelo’s caliber gets an opportunity to play against a team that isn’t set for him. If he doesn’t have a field day against Maryville, it will be because the Tennesseeans are too tough for the Indians. THRICE THANKFUL Someone has said: “I am thankful because I’ve got a little house well- filled, a little land well-tilled, a little wife well-willed, and that’s enough to make any man feel rich and grateful.” Traffic is held up—the Red Cross light is on! School Men Discuss Attendance Act Tho November.' session Of Newberry county’s Schoolmasters’ club was held Monday evening at Adam’s camp on Lake Murray with 17 at tending. - | A fish and-steak dinner was ser ved at 7:30. Following the dinner the ipembers held a n ppen forum pro gram when the school compulsory attendance law was discussed. The effects of the law in Newberry coun ty were presented by Mrs. Mae Aull, county attendance teacher. John Grady Long, superintendent of the Silverstreet school, was pre siding over the meeting. Mr. Long is president of the club. The next meeting will be held at the Hotel Wiseman December 18. MRS. MOWER IS CHAIRMAN OF .CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE A 69-year-old twice widower took a 43 year 6|d widow to Judge Ewart Saturday for a marriage license. The thrice prospective, groom is from Saluda county while the once more would-be bride is from Greenville county. The couple wanted t’.e judge to marry them, but a small child ac companying the pair put up such squalls, being afraid of the building, that the ceremony had to he post- poneij. It is not known whether they married oh the way or went on over to Saluda. A fire of unknown origin on Sun day at 10:30 o’clock oh Mr. R. G. Wallace’s place at Belfast destroyed between $6,000 and $7,000 worth of foodstuffs, etc. The barn, with 20,- 000 bundles of fodder, some hay, the crib filled with corn, and two cotton houses, one with a bale of cottton and the other filled with rough feed, were all destroyed. IS ^WORKING HERE Mrs. Frank D. Mower has accepted the chairmanship of the 1939 Christ mas Seal sale, it was announced this week by Mrs. J. R. Stewart, presi dent of the American Legion Auxili ary. This will be the thirty-third consecutive year that the nation-wide educational campaign against tuber culosis has been carried on by tuber culosis associations, both state and local. ^ “Protect Your Home From Tuber culosis” is the slogan of the cam paign, according to Mrs. Mower. No home is safe from this disease until all homes are safe. Tuberculosis is still the leading cause of death in the age group from 15 to 45. The Christmas Seal campaign will open December 1 and continue thru Christmas, Mrs. Mower announced. “The purchase of these gay stamps makes possible a continuation of those measures which are bringing about the gradual eradication of the disease. I am sure we can count on the people of the Newberry to make our own campaign a successful one,” she said.” , Blanche Sowell of Columbia, color ed field nurse of the South Carolina Tuberculosis Association, is working among the colored people of the county under the supervision of Miss Theressa Leightsey, county health nurse. She will be here until Decem ber 21. RED CROSS FIRSTS Join the Red Cross now! Join the Red Cross! SEEING AN ANC-EL One of the early purchasers of the 1939 Christmas Seals wrote a letter to Mrs. F. D. Mower, chairman of the Newberry Christmas Seal cam-j paign, “I understand that is the head of an angel on this year’s attractive seal,” she wrote. “It doesn’t look very much like an angel to me.” The letter was referred to Rock well Kent, noted artist who designed this year’s seal. Back came the answer of Mr. Kent: “Have you ever seen an angel?” Kiwanis club—first 100 per cent, service club. American Legion Auxiliary—first organization membership. Oakland mill teachers—first 100 per cent, strong teachers. Civic League—first “In Memorian Membership” taken in memory of Mrs. L. W. Floyd whose last public work in Newberry was for the Red Cross. First store 100 per cent, strong— J. H. Summer. The Rotary and Lions clubs are now 100 per cent, strong. The schools of the city and county are enthusias tically at work. Every person in. Newberry county will hear the roll call between now and November 30th. How many will answer? More money is needed for Red Cross work, than ever before. What will your answer be? CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE MISS PAYSINGER PROMINENT SENIOR AT NEWBERRY Mrs. D. L. McDonald of Columbia, executive secretary of the South Carolina Tuberculosis Association, was in the city Friday attending a meeting at the home of Mrs. J. R. Stewart in the interest of Newberry’s part in the annual Christmas Seal sale, the seal to finance a program of tuberculosis prevention and con trol. The sale gets underway Decemlber 1 and concludes Christmas. Over $1000 was raised in the city last year by mail and personal solicita tions. The goal for ’39 has been set at $1200. Mrs. F. D. Mower is chairman of the sale which is being sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary. P. K. Harmon will head the drive in the city schools and key persons in each community of the county will assist. Mrs. B. V. Chapman has been j named chairman of the publicity comittee. Serving with her are Miss Constance Armfield and Maxcy Stone. One of the seniors in the class of, 1940 at Newberry college who has an outstanding record is Miss Sara, Paysinger, daughter of Mrs. C. T. Paysinger of 9331 Cornelia street. Sara, who is an excellent student in scholarship, has had her name on the Honor Roll continuously since she came to the college as a freshman. Her chief interest and her major sub ject is music. She is very popular among the students, and is now serv- , ing for the fourth year as the sec retary of her class. She is a valuable member of both the College Singers and the Euterpian Music class. She. is also a reporter on the “Indian”, the college weekly and is a member of the staff of the “Newberrian”, the college year book published by the senior class. She is also an active member of the Lutheran Students Association. Although these activities have brought her distinction, probably the, greatest honor that she has received has been that of being named, re cently, as one of six students select ed by the facutly to represent New berry college in “Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities.” The qualifications considered in se lection were scholarship, character, leadership, and potentialities. Con gratulations are due Miss Paysinger on the new honor which she has achieved.