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PAGE TWO THE NEWBBBRY SUH FRIDAY. DECEMBER 15. 1939 nn 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year . Published Every F’riday Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. DID IT CONTRIBUTE TO RECOVERY? Six years ago, in September 1933 the Federal Trade Commission took issue with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company on what was a fair and legal contract to produce tires for Sears Roebuck and company. Goodyear was cited by the commis sion for alleged violation of the Clay- tor. act, it being charged that the contract tended to create a monopoly in the production and distribution of tires. The result was one of the longest legal proceedings in the history of American jurisprudence. Chicago, Hearings were held at Cincinnati, Memphis, St. Louis, Kan sas City, New York and Washington. Witnesses 211 of them—were sum- there are self-seeking demagogues and ture for people to blame their troubles upon someone else. They look for a scapegoat, and are ready to listen to anybody who tells them that some particular people, class or sect is res ponsible for their distress. The Nazi philosophy makes the Jewish people the authors of the world’s economic woes. In the Com munist scheme of things, Capitalism is to blame. Both philosophies are completely material. Religion of any sort is suppressed or discouraged, and the moral principles of which reli gion is the expression are cast over board. Sensible people are not fooled. They know that neither in Germany nor in Russia has the lot of the common people become easier or happier; rather the contrary. Unfortunately trouble makers busily engaged in try ing to change the American system of free enterprise, free thought and free speech, and the other personal liber ties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, into a new scheme of things under which citizens would become sub servient subjects of an all-powerful ruling clique or a single head of the state. They will not succeed, in the long run. But it is up to every American to be on guard lest even the least of his liberties be encroached upon, open ly or by stealth. TODAV moned from coast to coast at great expense to the taxpayers Nearly 10,000 pages of testimony were taken. Some 22,869 “exhibits” were put in to the huge record. The case dragged for years from court to court. Finally, six years after the com mission’s original citation, the Su preme Court of the United States dis missed the whole proceedings, refus ing to review a decision of a lower federal court which had reversed the commission’s order against Goodyear. ; 'HAVE WE FORGOTTEN Those who think this hemisphere is safe from German aggression in the event of a Hun victory in Europe might do worse than to consider the secret dispatch which emanated from the German government and was Sent to its minister at Mexico City January 19. 1917. This message proposed a German alliance with Mexico on the following basis: Make war together and together make peace. Germany was to give general financial support, and it is understood that Mexico is to recon quer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas and Arizona.” Does anyone suppose for a single moment that the Hun leopard has changed his spots, except for the blacker, since the rise of Hitler? The United States can make itself secure against Hitlerism (or Japan- It didn’t all happen in a moment, ism, either) by arming to the teeth of course. No great change in hu- and giving the dictators to understand 1 excite people into the future. They weren’t, because before the future ar rives somebody will have made some new discovery or invention that will change all human plans. Nobody can foresee the effect of any new discovery. Prof. Bell tried to make a device to enable the deaf to hear, and instead the telephone came into being. The present marvel of the future is television. I have been watching its development. I’m not sure the scien tific men are yet on the right track, but I believe it may yet be possible to talk to people half a world away face to face. , PEOPLE change When folk talk about the changing world they think about such things as I have just been writing; changes in our physical surroundings and the ways in which we move about. We don’t often stop to think about the changes in people themselves that are going on all the time. The greatest change in America in the past century has been the number of people who have some thing of an education. When the Declaration of Independence was signed only about one person in ten could read. Now only one American out of 25 does not know how to read; and there are nearly 30 million pu pils in the elementary schools of the nation. Printing was invented only 400 years ago. There was no point in learning to read before thqn, for books were not available to the com mon people and newspapers were im possible. When people began to read they began to think. The more read ers, the more new ideas for a new world, and the more ready people are to adopt new things and ways. That is why I feel sure the readers and thinkers of tomorrow will make a different sort of world than we dream of now. “What Now, Little Man?** TOMORROWS -if- FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDOE EVOLUTION revolution It is less than 200 years since the world began to change into what we know it today. The change be gan when the first workable steam engine was invented by James Watt in 1765. Mechanical power began to supplant animal power as fast as en gines could be built and applied, and the whole picture of life in the civil ized world turned topsy-turvy. that the first aggresive move against us anywhere will be met with the most terrible military machine on earth. Hitler, Stalin, and all the rest of the dictator breed understand that language when it is backed up by men who will fight, and who are pre pared to fight to preserve a free country. A WORLD FEDERATION—FINE Clarence Stfreit’s book, “Union Now,” handles the question of a world federation to end war in a grand way, or at least many think so. However, there appear to be ob stacles—'thousands of them. What, for example, would Mr. Streit do aboout these: Languages customs, conventions, traditions, prejudices? The different standards of living, minority rights and the problem of religion? The forming of a Streit new world in a new land like America would not be a difficult job. People who come to our shores from foreign counfpies to become good citizens soon forget old-world ways and in a generation or two they can’t be dis tinguished from other Americans. Europe, however does not have our “melting pot.” which makes a world of difference. NEITHER NAZISM NOR COMMUNISM The efforts to inculcate the Nazi doctrines in America have received a set-back by the conviction of Fritz Kuhn, the leader of the German- American Bund. Russian Communism is currently at a discount also. The pact between Stalin and Hitler has disillusioned many who have been taught that there was a distinction between the two varieties of totali tarian government. It turns out that instead of being enemies, Hitler and •Stalin are working for the same end, the destruction of all human .iberty. But, as Prof. T. V. Smith of the University of Chicago pointed out re cently, it is not the Hitler of Germany or the Stalin of Russia that we need to fear as much as the “little Hitlers and Stalins in America.” They are at work all over the na tion, trying to plant imported and definitely un-American ideas in the minds of youth and of the discontent ed. In time of stress it is human na- man affairs ever occurs over night. Change is always a process of evol- tion, as more and more people adopt the new methods and discard the old, only to discard them in turn when something better comes along. Because all change comes about by evolution, it seems rather silly to try to change the world by revo lution. The revolutionist tries to make things over to conform to a fixed pattern, which is more likely than not to be a wrong pattern by the time people have been forced to conform to it. To plan a world order on the basis of what we know today, would be absurd, for by tomorrow the basis itself may be entirely changed. SEQUENCE .... automobiles In the development of new ways to make life easier and produce more of what people want, and do it more efficiently and cheaply, there is always a sequence of discovery, in vention and application. The auto mobile had to wait until men had dis covered how to get oil out of the earth, refine it, and distill gasoline from it. Then there was a long wait before somebody found how to make an en gine run on gasoline. And putting a gas engine into a vehicle that any one would want to ride in was pos sible only after away had been found, first, to vulcanize rubber. Then a clever Irishman invented the pneu matic tire. Most of these things are so new thait they have come about in the lifetime of men now living. I remem ber the first pneumatic tire, which came in when I was 19 or 20, and the primitive gas engines which had no carburetors because the carburetor had not been invented. Self-starting and electric lighted cars are so new that I was past 40 before the first was made. They had to wait for Edison to give us the sto rage battery and the incandescent light. SPEED future To impatient youth change seems to come about with dragging feet; to experienced age the world is seen as changing so swiftly that no plan based upon today’s stage of achieve ment will be any good in the light of tomorrow’s progress. At the New York World’s Fair the slogan, “The World of Tomorrow” was devised to THE 0CT0R by WE AUGHINBAUGH MU Uses for Venom Medical research workers are in vestigating every field for cures for the diseases to which mankind are subject. For centuries snakes have been looked upon as a menace to society, and men feared them and killed them whenever possible, except in India, where, because of what might be call ed a mutiny among the Gods of the Hindu mythology, one of the deity was ejected from heaven and in des pair, called for help from among the things that flew, crawled, jumped and walked, in order that he might regain his former status. Snakes responded to his cry for aid, and since that time have been venerated and treated with con sideration by Hindus, so much so that if one is found in the yard or house of a native, saucers of fresh milk are placed for it; and it is never molested. Now many physicians are experi menting with snake venom, obtained from the most deadly species, and numerous cures have been reported following its use. Viper venom has been effectively used for hydrophobia and yellow fever; rattlesnake venom for leprosy, diptheria and febrile conditions, cobra venom for cancer, and the doctors who employed these poisons are loud in their praises of their effectiveness. Perhaps the most remarkable cures have been reported in the use of the serum in cases of epilepsy. In 1914 a man in Arizona who had been subject to convulsions since he was 15 years of age, was bitten by a rattler, and survived. His attending physician noticed that after this ex perience he had no further attacks, and began experimenting with this particular venom. Since that time hundreds of cases have been thus treated, with the re sult that many have been completely cured, while in others the character of the convulsions were modified, the LIFE ....... tomorrow The one certain prediction anybody can make about the world of tomor row is that people will live longer and get more enjoyment out of living. Whether they will as a whole be wis er is another question. They will know more, be better educated, but that j they will manage the intricate prob- ‘ lems of human relations any better than we do now is not at all certain. Human nature, in its fundamental aspects, does not change. There have been good people and bad people, mis ers and spendthrifts, industrious and lazy, honest and crooked, selfish and generous, since the beginning of time. The proportion is about the same now as it was in ancient Greece. However, I think I see signs that the process of evolution is at work in human relations as it is in the sphere of material things. Charac ters are never changed, except for the worse, by revolution; but as we learn to tolerate the differences between our ideas, beliefs and behavior and those of our neighbors, we will evolve in time, a more peaceful and happier world. intervals between attacks lengthened, and the mental and physical condi tion of the patient noticeably im proved. Dr. F. W. Fitzsimmons, Director of Snake Park, South Africa, and an expert in this line of work, has de vised a mixed venom—one composed of the poison from numerous deadly snakes—and has used it in more than 500 cases of epilepsy. Only 6 per cent failed to respond favorably. He even has employed it success fully in St. Vitus dance and some forms of accessible cancerous tumors. In India doctors use snake venom for cholera, and as a heart stimu lant. In Paris, in 115 cases of incurable cancer, all hope having been aban doned by physicians, the serum poi son from the black cobra was used, with the result that all the sufferers experienced great relief from pain, and in a few cases, the progress of the disease was checked. WEEKEND ROOK PARTY A group of girls of the sub-deb set had a delightful rook party Friday night at the home of Miss Margaret Anderson. In decorations and favors a Christmas motif was carried out. Three tables were arranged for players in the reception room. Af ter several progressions the high score prize was awarded Miss Rose mary King. When bingo was played. Miss Virginia Senn won the prize. Refreshments served by Mrs. Fred Gilbert and Mrs. Anderson consist ed of hot punch, cheese crackers, and cookies. Favors of the occasion were gay colored cellophane packages of candies with a miniature Santa Claus tied with a bright red ribbon on top. PRETTY PARTY FRIDAY Mrs. H. B. Wilson entertained at a very pretty party Friday afternoon for members of her bridge club. At that time she invited several extra guests in compliment to Mrs. Vernon Wheeler of San Diego, CaKfomia, Who is spending some time in the city with her mother, Mrs. i. M. Kibler at 1605 Main street. A Christmas atmosphere was cre ated by the candle motif used by the hostess. About the playing room were numerous red candles and ever green leaves that had been painted silver. Candles were used on the tallies and prizes and gifts were can dles and candle holders. In the re freshments served after contract a red and silver motif was carried out The burning tapers furnished the only light when refreshments were enjoyed. Miss Julia Kibler won the high score prize for club members and Mrs. Wheeler, the guest prize. 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