Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f PAGE EIGHT Follow the Leader pAS “ iiigk?- SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND . . . Tanks and trucks have not en tirely ousted horses from army service. These animals are being trained to ford a stream as part of their “conditioning” for service with the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front. Passed by British Censor. IRY SUN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 193 Better Days Ahead For South Carolina By SPECTATOR MOLLOHON GIRL SCOUTS Well, here I am again but just a “her-say” reporter this time for I was absent from the last meeting of the Mollohon Girl Scouts held Mon day evening at the club house. I un derstood they had the routine open ing. The only thing I could get from them for a while was the fact that they were going to march in the Santa Claus parade. How enthu siastic they were, just like a group of small children and also because they were to wear their new necker chiefs at that time. From what I heard the second im portant thing was the honor to be given the Scouts by serving the Boy Scout Council on Thursday, Decem ber 14. And that about closes the news for this time, so until another session, bye. —Troop Scribe. ST. PHILIPS ITEMS KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN Rev. J. B. Harman, Pastor -JJethany: Sunday 10 a. m. Sunday school. Mr. E. B. Hite, supt. _ 11 a. m. Divine worship. . Summer Memorial: Sunday 10 a. m. Sunday school. Mr Eugene Shealy, supt. 6 p. m. Luther league. Lutheran Brotherhood. Visitors are invited to all of these DR. FRLAND NELSON ATTENDS OHIO CONFERENCE MEETING Dr. Erland Nelson, professor of psychology and director of personnel at Newberry college, went to Spring- field. Ohio, last week' to attend a meetii’cr on Thursday of the reasearch commiltee of the National Lutheran Education Conference which was- held at Wittenberg college. The con ference is engaged in the field of personnel study, and the particular purpose of the meeting in Springfield was to complete plans for the annual fi’.eeting of the organization which will be held in Philadelphia early in January. Dr. Nelson is a past president of the Conference and is now a mem ber of its executive board. He plans to attend the meeting in Philadelphia where he will present a paper. Sunday school will be held at the St. Philips Lutheran church Sunday afternoon at two-thirty with divine services at three-thirty. I Our sick list continues to grow . . Little Carolyn Ruff is sick and has been confined to her bed for several days . . . G. H. Sligh is up again and going about . . . Holland Ruff is some better and is now able to sit up . . . Hubert Wicker also is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wicker an nounce the birth of a daughter on Saturday morning, December 2. Christmas is almost here and the ladies are baking fruit cakes and making ready for the big event. Miss Ruby Ruff put up the first Christmas decorations I’ve seen this season. They are very pretty. Some of the farmers have a pretty stand of grain while some grain is just coming up and this cold weather is rather hard on it. But it could be worse if the tefnperature'- should fall below freezing. FIVE USC STUDENTS ATTAIN ALL-A LIST NOVEMBER BUILDING PERMITS AMOUNT TO $11,295 Building permits in the city during November amounted to $11,295, ac cording to Sam Beam, clerk for In spector H. B. Wells. The following repair work and building u>ok place: repair to dwell ing $5; repair to dwelling, $30; re pair to dwelling, $5; a three room dwelling, $650; five room brick ve neer house, $3800; one car garage, $30; five room dwelling, $2100; re pair to dwelling, $275; two car ga rage, $200; five room brick veneer house, $3500; six room dwelling, $700. JOHNStONE CLUB The Johnstone home demonstration club met Monday at the school house. Mrs. O. B. Sligh conducted devotion- als and Mrs. Rosine Willard read some Christmas poems and “Silent Night, Holy Night,” was sung. Miss Ethel Counts then took charge of the meet ing. She first recited a poem and gave some excellent ideas on Christ mas decorations. We then had our Christmas, as exchange of gifts from the Christmas tree, following which fruit was enjoyed. Columbia, Dec. 4.—Five University of South Carolina undergraduates re ceived the grade of “A” on all sub jects listed on mid-semester reports recently issued. The “All-A” list was released to day by W. Flinn GHlard, assistant registrar, as follows: Ralph Simpson Beckham, sophomore, Winnsboro; Charles Dunbar Black, senior, Mill- ettville; Ralph Edwin Lee, Jr., senior, Asheville, N, C.; Harold Ray Thomas- son, sophomore, York; Harry Slyves- ter Williams, freshman, Bishopville, Beckham and Williams are enrolled in the college of Arts and Sciences; Lee and Thomasson are in the school of commerce, and Black is an engen- eering student. DDK MEMBERS PLAN DINNER TO HONOR 25TH ANNIVERSARY Columbia, Dec. 4.—The University of South Carolina circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, national honorary fra ternity, will hold its annual banquet at the Hotel Columbia Monday night, Dec. 4, at 8 p. m. The banquet, which will mark the Silver Anniversary celebration of the fraternity throughout the nation, will be held in the Crystal Room. James H. Hammond, former senator from Richland county, will be the principal speaker. Officers of the University circle to day issued an invitation to all ODK’s living in South Carolina to attend the dinner. • Several newly-elected members were to be “tapped” at chapel exercises at- the University Thursday. They will be initiated Monday. Officers of the Carolina circle are: Robert Earl Penland, Columbia, presi dent; Robert Shaw, Columbia, vice- president; and St. Clair Muckenfuss, Jr., St. George, secretary. NEURITIS RKLICVS PAIN IN FEW MINUTES To relicve the torturing pain of Neuritis, Rheumatism, Neuralgia or Lumbago in a few minutes, get the Doctor's formula NURITO. Dependable—no opiates, no nar cotics. Does the work quickly—must relieve cruel pain, to your satisfaction in a few minutes or money back at Druggist’s. Don’t suffer. Use NURITO on this guarantee today. Would you build a factory in South Carolina ? Suppose you had a mil lion to invesit—would you invest a bit? Of course you would. A man inivestigates today even before he rents a farm. He would ask about the crop history; he certainly would want to know the present allotment for cotton. If he lives in the tobac co belt he will inquire as to the to bacco allotment, too. For example, I know a man who has two farms, each 340 acres, in the same school dis trict; in fact within a couple of miles of each other. X is within a mile of town, near schools, churches, sitores, etc., and on a road about two be paved. Y is nearly four miles out on a dirt road. X has no tobacco acreage and only twenty-two acres for cotton; Y has three acres for tobacco and thirty-seven acres for cotton. Which would you prefer, as a farmer? Manufacturers investigate condi tions. How about taxes; is labor friendly, or disposed to “soak” cor porations Is the policy of the State one of encouragement; or does the State bleed the taxpapers? We are improving in South Caro lina. Businessmen are waking up at last and learning to work together for the betterment of the State. That fact has brought into public life a number of men of soufid, construc tive outlook and has inspired some faithful men who have throughout the years kept their heads level. So, with more and more cooperation be tween the law-makers and State Ad ministrations on one side aind the bus inessmen on the other we are going forward. Our forward march seems to be certain, but it is very slow, we are just foot-soldiers trudging up the long hills, while the other states are like soldiers riding in trucks. Since we have started in the right direc tion let us “step on it” a little. lie-spirited man to me about this in surance business: ‘T enclose copy of article in Nov ember 13th issue of “Time” which is “timely.” Would call your attention to effect of “Punitive Damage Loss”. The South Carolina Auto liability rate is S9.00 above that of most states. This rate of course is to cover pos sible losses to them, not actual ones, by the insurance companies. Thus you see that on 125,000 cars whose owners carry insurance, and based on 5 and *10 thousand limits, each year, $1,- 250.00 goes out the state to Northern Insurance Companies. More tliam that, for people carry larger limits than 5 to 10 and pay more premium on ac count of it. A man sitting next to me yesterday told me the .... cars here carry $300,000 limits. Do you think the peopole know that?” 1 No more taxes; no more bonds Jte- appropriation Federal revenue: as may be needed to care for nat^nal interests, but curb the exuberance which is striking at the root of X>e nation’s economy. No new federal taxes are ndeded; no more federal bonds are needed. South Carolina has two members of the United St 'tes Senate and six re presentatives. We should let those gentlemen know that we think the half-billion dollars for war measures can easily be found by reducing grants and various other extra-governmental activities. We might as well be clear about this. If we had not already plunged this nation headlong into all sorts of useless ventures no one would even dream of adding a half billion dollars to the burden of this nation. By tax ing the people we shall add to in tolerable present burdens; by issu ing bonds we isk our grand-children to pay for our uttte waste ond fool ishness. Let us hope that Senators Smith and Byrnes, and Representatives Ful- | mer, Richards, McMillan, Hare and 1 McMillan will take an active part in restoring some measure of sanity .n the conduct of our nation’s finance. A brief program which would help South Carolina: 1. Kill the 3-mill property tax which was put on even though voted off by the people. 2. Kill the Punitive Damage busi ness and put our state on a par with other states. 3. Kill the Intangibles tax which is costing us ten dollars for every dollar we take in. 4. Empower a commission to sur vey all the public services for the purpose of conserving what is essen tial or within the scope of our means. 5. Repeal the act creating the We- fare service. 6. Hold all appropriations to the amount in the current budget, ex cept those which may be reduced or eliminated. The taxpayers must speak out; all the spenders are pleading. The tax- eaters are swarming all over the place; the taxpayers must gird their loins for battle. BAPTIST WOMEN MEET The Womans Missionary Society of the First Baptist church will hold its last meeting of a Foreign Mission series Friday afternoon at the church at 3:30. At this time a Christmas offering will be taken. COME SEE: MY SPECIAL (One hundred years old) handsome, unus ually large Mahogany Wardrobe (col lapsible) formerly in a Prominent old Family’s Home in upper South Carolina. Richard L. Baker Furni ture, Newberry, S. C. 2tp Men ’ Ladies Children Linen Handkerchiefs Beautiful Handkerchiefs TRUCKS Initial Boxed Hand’kchiefs Coty, Houbigant, Evening TARGET SETS Tie fis Handkerchief Sets In Paris, Toilet Water Per fume, Bath and Face Pow- CHINESE CHECKERS Traveling Sets der, Sachets. DOLLS Shaving Sets LINGERIE SEWING MACHINES Amity Bill Folds MAKE UP CAPES TOYS from 10c up Key Cases, Fountain Pens “Best Hose In Town” BOOK SETS Here’s a letter of good cheer: “We too are very anxious to put a plant in the Greenville-Greenwood neighborhood, and as a matter of fact have an option on a site in that district. I went down with our presi dent yesterday and had lunch with your governor, the head of the Ein- ance Department, the head of the Ways and Means Committee, and the head of the Tax Commission. As you know, South Carolina has not been favorable from a taxation standpoint but they now seem inclined to go after new business and not increase taxes and we are, therefore, consid- eding South Carolina for a possible plant.” That letter came from a big con cern to the president of a group of mills. He showed me the original and permits me to quote the letter, without any names. Read it care fully. My friend who showed me i that letter is himself a believer in South Carolina and has a large for tune invested here. If we would dis tribute the tax burden we must bring in new taxpapers and new capital. But that isn’t all. The most impor tant thing is to have a new payroll. That means jobs for our people and markets for our products. Let’s work together and make this a great state. Baby Dresses, Books, Plakies, Shoes, Vanta Garments Chatham Blankets Bates Bed Spreads Cannon Towel Sets Beautiful Madera Linens Tiffin Glassware Cemetery Wreaths Pot Plants Plain Holly Wreaths Cut Flowers Flowers Miss Mattie Adams I ■ I IIHIIB'I' ’ We pay too much insurance; that is the rates are too high. What kind of insurance? What is insurance? When my house burns and “the company” pays me $5,000 that may be more than I i paid to the company during all the years. Who pays it, then? My neigh bors, of course. AU of us carry in surance, each one helps the other. Now if one hundred of us carry in surance together and never have a loss the rates will be low, but if a third of us are careless and have fre quent losses all of us must pay a higher rate. So we have an interest in the neighbors and what they do with fire. Some of us carry liability insurance; most of us carry insurance to cover damages caused by our automobiles. Factories and other concerns carry insurance to protect them from law-suits growing out of something done by one of their employees. You know how it is. If my plow-hand runs over your pig it is unfortunate for you, for my plow-hand and I may be just two doors away from the, poor-house. Oh, you may cuss and rear and snort—and upset your di gestion, but that’s as far as you go. But if the driver 0 f a truck belonging to a big corporation hits your pig! Jumping Jehoshaphat; the pig was worth $5.06 (are pigs really worth anything on today’s market?) and you sue for a thousand doollars puni tive damages—to punish that soulless, iniquitous corporation for grinding a poor man under foot! Yes, sir. Now, then, do you know that every concern has to pay a higher rate in South Carolina because of our prac tice of allowing punitive damages To get down to brass tacks, do you know that you and I, have to pay more for our liability insurance? In most states the rate is $30.00 but in our proud little state we pay $39.00. Why? Because this state—the only state in the Union to do so—allows punitive, as well as actual damages, the rates are high and you and I pay, too. Let me quote a letter from a pub- T H E Buzhardt Furniture Co. is offering you a list of lasting Christmas Gifts Beautiful CEDAR CHESTS Sofas, Rugs Lounge Chairs Dining Room Suites Platform Rockers Bed Room Suites Lamps, Tables Heaters, Stoves Smokers Clocks Living Room Suites And many other attractive Gift to suit your pocketbook. "Yours To Serve And Satisfy*' Ben T. Buzhardtj Furniture Co. 1323 Main St. NEWBERRY, S. C.