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Every Week More People Read . The Sun VOLUME 3; NO. 10 The Sun Strives To Serve The Whole People OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE The Rising San—1856-1860 Aids Finn Relief NEWBERRY, S. C. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1939 Slider and Greneker—1856-1860 $1 PER YEAR GOT HIS SANTA CLAUS She drove under a filling station Saturday night late with her young son. The filling station man greeted the boy with the usual “What’s San ta going to bring you?” The boy dropped his head and the mother said Santa would not be coming to see the boy this year. Then they drove away but the filling station man could not let the matter drop there. Although the stores were closed he gathered an amount from the four or five warming themselves around the stove and routed out the proprietor of a ten cent store and brought gifts for the youngster. And so another young American knows that there is a Santa Claus. Not much of a story apart from the spirit displayed; the kind of spirit needed in this old world 365 days out of each year instead of only one. German Coal To Mills of France A FINE RESOLUTION While Newberry seems to have done a record Christmas business a little investigation shows that far, far too much of Newberry’s business went and is going to other cities. Someone remarked that a few days before Christmas the only people on the streets of Columbia were New- berrians and soldiers. Exaggerated perhaps but vindicative of the good business that is going into other pockets. A lot of printer’s ink has been spilt on this subject, perhaps to little avail, but we will have to continue to spill a little along be cause the practice is wrong. People who earn their money here should spend their money here. Those who make a habit of buying out of town (and we know some merchants who do it) should stop and think what would happen to their business if everybody followed their example. We know one metjth^r.t who Jjpys his clothes and the clothes of his family in Columbia, yet Newberry people have been good to that mer chant and he is absolutely dependent upon them for his livelihood. It is possible that it never occurred to him that his example is encouraging his own customers to “go and do like wise?” A good New Year’s resolution would be one to do every bit of our trading in this city. It is one easily kept and one which gives us an other whack at the dollar. We have little chance of ever again seeing the , ,,, . dollar which is spent in Columbia, da v " a & Greenville or Augusta. I qU,et ? ne ' Beautiful Local merchants carry a large NEW YORK . * . Herbert Hoover, former President, who has taken over the administration of the Fin nish relief movement in this coun- 1 try. He has traveled from coast to 1 coast to confer with Finnish relief organizations and Scandinavian so cieties on the question of aiding Finland in her war against Russia. Brussels, Dec. 16.—French steel mills, making shells and guns, soon may be operated with the indirect aid of the German coal industry. Even if not using coal actually mined in Germany they will be burning coal which Belgium is able to supply only because German coal is made available to the Belgian steel industry, it was indicated to day. A foreign office spokesman ad mitted that a German refusal to in crease coal shipments to Belgium would endanger Belgian ability to fulfill a pre-war iron-coal exchange arrangement with France. The agreement w’JfiF'fcfrtlfer ‘ eft-' dangered by a strike in Belgian coal mines. It was estimated that 45,000 men—about 40 per cent of Belgium’s 110,000 coal minqj.s—were idle in protest against failure of the gov ernment to state definitely that a new law fixing an eight-hour instead of a seven-and-a-half hour day in the coal mines was only temporary. Prac tically ever;- mining area in Belgium was affected. Wallace Makes Stand On Farm Certificates Washington, Dec. 26.—Secretary of Agriculture Wallace today issued the following statement in order to correct any wrong impression that may have arisen recently about the farmers’ income certificate program as a consequence of its having been erroneously characterized as a re gressive tax on consumers. “Congress has for seven years de clared its objective to bring about parity relationships between prices and incomes of agricui ure and other industries. Means More Jobs “Back of this objective is the rec ognition of the fact, repeatedly dem onstrated by actual experience, that the maintenance of farm income at a parity level means more jobs for industrial workers, more purchasing power in the hands of consumers, in creased business activity and an im proved condition of the federal treas ury. As a result of the farm and other programs considerable pro gress has been made toward attain ing the parity objective, thus bring ing about a more nearly reasonable balance between agriculture and in dustry. In 1932 farm income was only a third of parity. It is now are getting 75 per cent of parity be cause foreign and domestic conditions keep prices relatively low. The cer tificate program is a method of bringing about parity 'relationship, on the domestic portion of certain basic export crops. To the extent the certificate plan contributes to the restoration of his parity balance less federal funds will be required. “It is not a tax measure that would raise revenue for the treas ury,” said the secretary. “Moreover, its effects, instead of being regres sive, would benefit the low-income farm group through improved prices for agricultural products supplied in Feline Royalty Dr. Jas. Kinard Speaker At Watchnight Service The Rev. E. B. Keisler, pastor of the Lutheran church of the Redeem er, announces. two special services in his church next Sunday. One is that which begins at 11:30 and during which the Holy Communion will be administered and in which he will be assisted by the Rev. Prof. R. A. Goodman, D. D. The other is a Watchnight service which will begin at 11:20 p. m., the address of which will be delivered by Dr. James C. Kinard, president of Newberry col lege. He has announced as his sub ject, “Here We Raise Our Ebenezer”. The public is most cordially invited for these services. DOWN MEMORY LANE 20 YEARS AGO • • vv.'iv; ..n NEW YORK CITY . . . Meet "His Majesty” Dixi Lands Hawthornsyk Ian, husky blue male Persian cat. Judged the best cat at the annual championship show of the Empire Cat Club and the Siamese Cat Society of America, held here re cently. The cat’s owner is Mrs. J. H. Revington, of Bristol, Tenn. Mrs. Elizabeth Cousins ST. PHILIPS ITEMS burden of county taxation; taxation which keeps the schools going, the roads repaired, pays the salaries of your friends in the county offices, and in other ways makes our com munity a desirable place to live. Let’s resolve in 1940 to spend our cash in our county! Time may come when we will want and need credit of the local stores. Will we be able to approach them on a basis of hav ing done the square thing by them, or like a cur dog with his tail be tween his legs ? WE’RE UNDONE The editor of this sheet is going to have to go to work! He may not overcome the shock but circumstan ces makes toil necessary. Its all be cause Constance has signed “30” to her last piece of copy and gone to Anderson to help in the office of Uncle Sam’s nose counting agency. Constance has been of great help here in the office and we are going to miss her. Clarence Hutto says it means that she is gone for good, his philosophy being that girls who go off from home get themselves married,. But we hope nothing aw ful like that happens, and that with in a few months she will be back at the same old desk, recording the joys and sorrows of those whose names pass thru the newspaper mill. Newspaper people ecme to look upon their jobs as “a charge to keep”; they come to know that the good people outnumber the damn fools a hundred fold. Constance has learn ed this lesson, albeit not without the marks of the tutor’s lash, and can now be tolerant with those the Lord didn’t give much foundation. 22 IN THIS STATE Columbia Dec. 26.—South Carolina violent deaths for the t Christmas week-end totaled at least 22, with traffic fatalities holding a wide lead. Nineteen persons were victims of highway accidents, the most destruc tive of which was a collision near Bennettsville that killed five and in jured four. lights decorated many tiomes. I have had a fine time so far and I am look ing forward to a good time through out the week. Teachers enjoying the holidays at home are Elizabeth ana Julia Kate Sease, Marie and Juanita Fel- ker, Ruth and Willie Robert Lomi- nick, Alethia Halfacre, Lillian Grace Ruff, Harvey Halfacre, Mrs Mary Frances Snyder, Grady Halfacre, John Herman Koon, Edna Grace Kinard, Ethel Halfacre. Lottye Lee Halfacre. All of these are taking vacations at home except Juanita and Marie Felker who are taking theirs in Florida. • I wish everyone a very prosperous and Happy New Year. NOTICE Monday, January 1, 1940, service at this post office will consist of: 1. Stamp and general delivery windows will be open for one hour only—8:45 to 9:45 a. m. The money order and registry division will not be open. 2. One complete delivery will be made by the city carriers but there will be no delivery on the rural routes. 3. All incoming mails will be dis tributed to post office boxes as on Sundays, and the outgoing mails will be dispatched as on week days. Sctzlcr Infant Dies Lois Mayre Setzler, two and a half year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Setzler, College campus, this city, died Monday morning at the local hospital, following an op eration for appendicitis. Her grand- gather, Dr. Edwin B. Setzler died only a few days ago. Funeral services were held Tues day, conducted by pastor E. Bryan Keisler of the church of the Redeem er. Burial was in Rosemont ceme tery. Lois Mayre is survived by her par ents and one brother Hubert Setzler, Jr. Her grandmother, Mrs. Edwin B. Setzler and her maternal grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Thom as, of Greelyville, also survive. Charge (Is Unfair “The outstanding inference of the charge that this is a^ regressive tax on consumers is that the certificate program is someh z unfair. This is not only mislead." but also as tonishing, because x fundamental result of the program would be the correction of existing injustices. “For a long period, particularly since 1920, certain policies of the federal government have had regres sive effects on the producers of ex port crops. The net effects of high tariffs, and numerous other price supporting devices for industrial pro. ducts, have been to impair the farm, ers foreign market and at the same time to increase his costs of both living and production. Consequent ly the greatest distress and lowest incomes developed among the pro ducers of our great export crops. Later the income from other crops was effected. And finally our en tire industrial structure was impair ed. “Since 1933 some conterbalancing forces have been set in motion. But these, powerful as they have been, have only partially corrected the situation. The prices of farm prod ucts in relation to non-farm prices are still 25 per cent below a normal relationship. “In the retail markets food prices are 15 per cent lower than other prices, taking 1929 as a basis for comparison. In fact earnings of em ployed industrial workers could now buy 26 per cent more food than in 1929. “Even at parity prices the average cost of wheat in an 8 or 9 cent loaf of bread is only 1.8 cents. This would be 0.7 per cent more per loaf of bread than in October, 1939, when the average farm price of wheat was 70.3 cents. Cotton and Prices | “The cotton farmer at present prices receives on the average of 12 cents for the raw cotton in an ar ticle retailing at fl. The restoration of parity prices would mean the ad dition of less than five cents to this retail cost. “It is to be noted that the certi ficate plan is supplementary to the ever-normal granary program under which consumers are protected against scarcity and extremely high prices. In the long run, consumers will gain from a continued soil con servation and ever-normal granary program. It is to their long-time advantage to have all fanners parti cipating in such a program from year to year. In this way they can be sure that the soil fertility will not be destroyed. Consumers as seekers of employment, want to protect themselves as well as farmers from (Continued on page eight) S. C. National Pays Out Huge Sum Five hundred depositors of the South Carolina National Bank now are receiving 6742,000 in dividend payments from the bank. Following the banking holiday of 1933, the bank was licensed) by the Treasury department after a reor ganization which involved, among other things, the scaling down of de posits to 60 per cent. Some assets were placed in the hands of trustees for liquidation and the depositors were given participation certificates for their 60 per cent, bearing inter est at the rate of two per cent. Two years ago, with the approval of holders of the larger certificates, the bank paid off 33,000 holders of Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza beth Cromer Counsins who died at her home here on McCaughvin ave nue Monday, were conducted Wed nesday at 2 p. m. at the late resi dence. Mrs. Cousins was 57 years of age and had suffered many months. Mrs. Cousins, the wife of E. H. Cousins was a member of the local church of the Redeemer. Her hus band and a son, Luther E. Cousins survive of the immediate family. Two brothers, J. W- Cromer, and Jeff T. Cromer, and two sisters, Mrs. J. H. Cousins and Miss Willie Cromer, all of this city, also survive. The funeral services were in charge of Pastor E. Bryan Keisler, assisted by Rev. W. D. Haltiwanger of Johnston. Burial was in Rose mont cemetery. Active pallbearers were Ed Feagle, Fred Cromer, Henry Cousins, Ralph Black, Rob Foy, Nick Merchant, Pinckney N. Abrams, and Homer W. Schumpert. Personal Mention Mr. and Mrs. George W. Sanders large part to the lugher-incamO^^"^^^^^ ”U“d SOn ’ Jr ”. P assed the noil-farm groups ^smnWrr certifieateJHWir fn) with in- Christmas holidays with Mrs; San terest and) a part payment with in- ders’ parents in Florida, terest was made on the larger certi ficates. Holders of larger certificates are now being paid off in full with interest. DELEGATION MEETS JANUARY 8th The regular monthly meeting of the Delegation will be held January 8th at 11 o’clock at the County Court House. Interested citizens are always welcome to these monthly meetings of the Delegation. Miss Viola Dominick of Spartan burg spent last week with her mother, Mrs. V. B. Dominick afid her brother, Pinckney Abrams at their home on Walnut street. Lost Following Santa Spartanburg, Dec. 26.—Santa may be the patron saint of the kiddies everywhere and all that sort of thing, but little Ikey Woodruff, five year-old negro youngster of the Clevedab section of the county can truthfully say that sometimes it’s best not to check too closely upon the old boy. And little Ikey knows. For little Ikey this morning was confined to his bed. His head ached and he was bothered with the snif fles. And his mother kept coming around, bothering him with some evil tasting medicine. All because little Ikey took a no tion to follow Santa Claus! Early Christmas Eve night, Santa Claus (in the person of a neighbor of the Woodruff family) visited Ikey’s home, leaving toys and other gifts. But little Ikey was not inter ested in toys. He was interested in Santa Claus. So, when Santa left, little Ikey was close behind him. His absence was not discovered until an hour or so later, his family taking him to be in bed. Rob Woodruff, the boy’s father spon raised an alarm, and the entire countryside between Fairforest and the Fairforest Finishing plant joined the search for the little boy. Sheriff Sam M. Henry was notified and soon county officers had joined the hunt for the boy on the trail of Santa Claus. Until past midnight the search continued. With the dawn of Christmas day the search reopened—with results. Ikey was found, fast asleep, and nearly frozen, in a huge coal pile at the Fairforest Finishing plant, two miles from his home. Kindly resi dents of that section took him in, dosed him with hot coffee, wrapped him in blankets and carried him to his near-frantic parents. A doctor was called and Ikey was put to bed and his mother began coming around, bothering him with that evil-tasting medicine. He still does not know where Santa Claus lives. Visiting Mrs T. E. Epting on Boun dary street for the hoolidays was her son, Mr. Roy Epting of Colum bia. Miss Belle Sanders of Greenwood, visited her mother, Mrs. J. W. San ders of Silverstreet during the holi days. Mr. and Mrs. George K. Dominick and two children spent Christmas with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Dominick and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bowers in the O’Neal Section of the county. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Anderson spent the holidays with Mrs. Ander son’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar in Union. Mr. and Mrs. Letcher Poole of Roa noke, Virginia, and Mr. and Mrs. Hayne Miller of Columbia spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Iva Miller on Fair street. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Osborne and son, Jimmie, of Little Rock, Ark., Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Osborne, and three children, and Mrs. J. A. Osb orne of Ninety Six visited Christmas day with Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Tur ner. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smith and dau ghter, Sally, are spending a few days with Mr. Smith’s sister, Mrs. Dick Floyd, and family on Mayer avenue. The Smiths are from Montgomery, Alabama. Misses Brooksie and Madelene Hutchinson, James and Earl Hutch inson, left early Sunday morning for Winder, Ga., to attend the wedding of their brother, Hughey Hutchni- son, which took place Sunday. Mr. Hutchinson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Hutchinson of Boundary street. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Hutchinson and two children Harold and Betty Sue, High Point, N. C., are spending this week with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hutchinson, and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Epting. The year now drawing to a close has been one of possibly greater mo ment than any other in the history of Christian civilization, with the ex ception of the year the Christ was bom, the year of the first Easter, and last year, when the Stars and Stripes were unfurled to the breeze beyond the Rhine. For the United States and Carolina it has been a period of great prosperity, and also of great trials. Throughout the na tion, following the war, there have been clashes between capital and la bor, and strikes threatening the in dustrial life of the country have been frequent. Within this state we have been free from industrial dis turbances of this character, but crime has been rampant, and it has been stated that homicides have av eraged something like one each day. We are now in the crucible. Today the people are divided among them selves on live issues affecting the fu ture life of the nation. It is pecul iarly a time for broad patriotism, and that the American people will rise fully to the occasion we have not the least doubt. The blood which flowed in all the wars from the In dian wars to the Spanish-American, and lastly that which hallowed the lilies of France and ’.nade more red- pure the poppies of Flanders still courses in the veins of the freemen of the Republic, and it is determined that those who died at the Marne and in the Argonnr and at Chateau-Thier- ry shall not have died in vain. The issues which confront us will be sol ved and solved rightly that freedom might live. Newberry can be made a better town if we will all come to gether and give Mayor Blease and his council our hearty cooperation in everything that looks to the upbuild ing of the interests of all the neoyt*.- Cooperation is the prime need of Newberry, and with cooperation we will make this the best town in the state, as it ought to be, both by in heritance and by natural resources, A wedding that was quietly'solemn- ized but beautiful in all arangementa was that of Miss Mittie Barksdaly Young of Clinton and Mr. Forrest Summer. The ceremony was per formed by the Rev. J. F. Jacobs at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Jacobs in Clinton last Thursday evening. A mu sical concert was enjoyed before the appointed hour. The bride’s girlish beauty was never more pronounced than on this her supreme occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Summer amid a shower of rice left for Newberry where they caught a train for Florida. SEEN ABOUT TOWN Mr. Paul Anderson, Sr., of Long Island, New Yorx, and Jns son, Har ry Anderson of Clemson, visited his brother, Mr. Roy Anderson, and Mrs. Anderson last week end en route to West Palm Beach, Fla. B. V. CHAPMAN assisting ne groes in getting marriage license . - . CLAUDE SANDERS riding in mew car that Santa left for him . . . REV. E. B. KEISLER writing church mews taking time out to chat with a friend, telling him that he wanted to live in Newberry long enough to see his name in the “Twenty Years Ago” column . , . P. M. G. K. DOMINICK saying that the most enjoyable Christmas he ever spent was delivering baskets of food |to the blind several years ago . . . JOHNSON HAGOOD CLARY looking up date on cal endar to see which day of the week Christmas will be on next year . v . PINCKNEY ABRAMS eating pecans . i . STEVE GRIF FITH looking cold walking up street with both hands in his overcoat pockets . . . KEISTER WILLINGHAM telling your scribe how pleased he was over a present his sister, Mrs. Taylor gave him Xmas . . .. OLIVER CROMER putting picture puzzle together » . . BILL TURNER and SAM WILLIAMS discussing the picture “Gone With the Wind” . . . HOLLAND RUFF walking down the street e . . Merchants remarking that they had the best Xmas business this year than in several years . . . TED BREMER and HARRY Raymond admiring an Eagle’s dance placard in the Sun office window . . . PROF. R. C. LAKE, of Whitmire in the city Wednes day . . . Many thanks to MRS. T. E. EPTING for that box of delicious fruit cake. Our boquet of orchids goes to you again this year for the very best fruit cake baker in the city . - . This is all folks ’til 1940 and may you have have a prosperous New Year.