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PAGE EIGHT
THE NEWVKRKY SUM
StV.rs Of “Gone With The Wind” Meet Author
Vivien Leigh (right), playing the role of Scarlet O’Hara in the
film version of “Gone With The Wind^l and Clark Gable, in the role
of Bhett Butler, shown with Margaret Mitchell, author of the book.
TODAY AND TOMORROW
(Continued from page one)
ended Hie ^uneriority of the priest
hood over the ordinary man.
EVOLUTiON presses
Before Gutenberg, or whoever it
was began to print on paper, many
preliminary steps had been taken.
Somebody had invented paper, prob
ably the Chinese. Nobody knows just
when paper was introduced into Eu
rope, but it was brought by Arab
traders from the Orient, maybe
around the year 1,000. Up to then
the writers of books had used parch
ment or vellum, made of animal
skins scraped thin. The ancient
Egyptians wrote on papyrus, which
was thin sheets cut from the hard
skin of reeds and flattened out.
Gutenberg’s crude hand press
was made of wood, and three hund
red years later Benjamin Franklin
was printing his Pennsylvania Ga
zette on a wooden press almost ex
actly like it. The Earl of Stanhope
built the first iron printing press
about 1780, and thirty years later the
first power presses were designed for
the London Times.
NEWSPAPERS . . . progress
It took nearly two hundred years
after printing was -invented for en
ough people to learn to read so that
it was worth anybody’s while io pub
lish a newspaper. Most of the editors
and publishers of the early papers
went to jail for printing news the
government didn’t like. After anoth
er 150 years the principle of the free
dom of the press was established,
more people could read, but the cost
of paper, made from rags, was so
high that' few could afford to buy
newspapers.
The year before I was bom, in
my home town of Stockbridge,
Mass., the first cheap paper, made
from wood pulp, was manufactured.
That invention speedily cut the cost
of newspapers and books. I was a
boy in my teens when Ottmar Mer-
genthaler invented the first practical
type-casting machine, which cut costs
of printed matter still further. Those
two inventions, in one man’s lifetime,
have given us the modem newspaper.
I’ve been a printer since I was
twelve and got out my own little pa
per on a hand press. I’ve been mak
ing my living as a newspaperman for
close to fifty years. But for Guten
berg’s invention 500 years ago I
might today be a cleric copying man
uscripts in a monastery. Certainly I
would be living in a world vastly dif
ferent from that which existed before
printing.
ANNIVERSARIES six
This year of 1940 is certainly a
year of great anniversaries. The
600th anniversary of printing, it is
also the 400th anniversary of the set
ting up of the first printing press
on the American continent, by the
Spanish missionaries in Mexico, and
it is the 300th anniversary of the
first printing done in what is now the
United States, by Stephen Daye of
Boston. It was 250 years ago, in 1590,
that the first paper mill was started
Miss Blakeley Weds
C. Huskey Hutchinson
The following from a Winder,
Ga., newspaper is of much interest
locally:
Marked by beauty and dignity
was the wedding of Miss Kathryn
Blakey and C. H. Hutchinson, which
was solemnized Sunday, December 24,
9 o’clock at the First Baptist church.
The Rev. E. H. Collins, pastor of the
church, officiated m the presence of
relatives and friends of the couple.
Christmas foliage, candles, and
ferns enhanced the stately beauty
of the church.
Entering on the arm of her bro
ther, Ernest Blakey, the bride made
a lovely picture in a costume suit of
blue wool trimmed in fox fur. Her
accessories were of wine and her
flowers a shoulder corsage of orchids.
Miss Marjorie Boyd, cousin of the
bride and her only attendant, was at
tired in royal blue velvet with royal
blue accessories^
Earl Hutchinson, of Newberry, S.
C., served as best man to his brother.
Ushers were Rhett Nowell, Bill Bar
ron, Gene Bagwell and Horace Hol
land.
Preceding the ceremony a pro
gram of wedding music was given
by .Miss Catherine Vnllhi-i^ht, vocal
ist, and Mrs. W. T. Randolph, or
ganist.
Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson left for
a wedding trip and upon their return
will reside on Center street. Mr. Hut
chinson is manager of Roses’ store.
The bride is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Herman E. Blakey and a
sister of Mrs. E. H. George of Au
gusta, and Betty Sue and Ernest Bla
key of Winder. She received her edu
cation in the Winder schools and at
present is secretary to Col. R. L. Rus
sell.
Mr. , Hutchinson is a son of Mr,
and Mrs. C. E. Hutchinson of New
berry, S. C.
Several social courtesies were ten
dered the couple before their mar
riage.
LOCAL POSTOFFICE
HAS GOOD YEAR
Candidate For “Davy Jones Locker
FRIDAY, JANUARY 5,
•According to Postmaster George K
Dominick, the year of 1939 was the
best business year they have had
since he became postmaster.
The total pieces of mail handled for
the year 1938, were 2, 658,809 and foi
1939, 2,770,360, showing an increase
of 111,451 over the previous year.
The postoffi.-e reached it’s peak
Wednesday, December 20, when 22.
800 letters were run through the can
celling machine.
Mr. Dominick wishes to extend his
thanks and appreciation to the public
for their splendid cooperation, mak
ing the work easier and quicker for
the employes.
TWO NEW MEMBERS
OF WAYS AND MEANS
Columbia, Jan. 3.—The house ways
and means committee had two new
members when it met today to begin
drafting the annual appropriation
bill as a preliminary to the session
of the general assembly opening next
Tuesday.
Ur. Olin Sawyer, of Georgetown,
revealed that he had been appoionted
to the committee by Speaker Sol
Blatt to succeed the late Harold Siau,
whose unexpired house term he was
recently elected to fill. Rep. J. Crate
Herring of Anderson, named to fiill
the place vacated through the resig
nation from the house of Rufus New
ton of Anderson, was the second new
member.
Other members at the meeting
were chairman Winchester Smith of
Barnwell and Reps. Busbee of Orange
burg, Bradford of York, Brown of
Sumter, Chadwick of Saluda, Graham
of Richland, Hendrix of Spartanburg,
McCuen of Greenville, Mitchell of An
derson, Poag of Greenville, Senseney
of Charleston, Shand of Darlington,
Smoak of Colleton, Weeks of Orange
burg, Wilburn of Union, Williams of
Greenville.
’ OFF ENGLAND—Th* I-ondon oil tanker, San Calisto, shown
-king recently off the Southeast Coast of England after striking
i German mines. TViro of the Crew were killed and farty-coewef*
1 as and brought ashore. Passed by British censor.' *
NEW HEALTH CLERK
PRA.’SED FOR REFUSING AD
Mr. and Mrs. James Aull, Misses
Emily and Anita Aull spent the
Christmas holidays with Mrs. Auil’s
father, Mr. J. R. Davidson at the
home of Mrs. Bertha D. Boylston.
AMONG THE AILING
in this country, and 150 years ago
that the most famous of all Ameri
can printers, Benjamin Franklin died.
When Gutem>erg was starting his
first press, in 1440, there was born
in England a baby who was to write
the first book to bp printed in the
English language, just emerging
from its Norman-French swaddling
clothes. His name was Geoffrey
Chaucer, whose “Canterbury Tales”’
rfiarked the beginning of modern
English literature.
Mrs. E. L. Boozer, who was carried
to the Newberry county hoospital
Monday is much better, and expects
to return to her home on Boundary
street this weekend.
The condition of Harry Vigodsky,
who is a patient in the Veteran’s hos
pital in Columbia is improved.
Miss Fannie McCaughrin, is able to
be out again after being confined to
her home on Calhoun street with in
fluenza.
Mrs. C. A. Dufford, who has been
ill for several weeks is much better
at this time.
Dr. E. G. Able returned to his home
'on McCaughrin avenue, Monday,
fro mthe Columbia hospital where he
underwent an appendectomy.
Dr. R. M. Brown who is a patient
at the Veteran’s hospital, is getting
along fine.
t
Loyal Citizens
Mrs. S. E. Leavell of Chappells,
mother of James R. Leavell of the
city,' is a patient in t he Newberry
county hospital. She is doing as well
as could be expected.
The friends of Miss Lillian Welch
will be sorry to learn that she is a
patient at the local hospital.
Mrs. Lynell Bowers, returned to
her home in Prosperity Monday from
the Newberry hospital.
The condition of Misses Agnie and
Elizabeth Brehmer, who were injured
in a wreck about ten days ago, is
about the same.
Miss Helen Ray Koon, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. K. R. Koon Newoer-i
ry, route three, was recently named
clerk in the county health office. She 1
began work . December 15 succeeding
Mrs. Andrina Oswald.
The name of Sally Rand adorns a
late list of licensed aviators. After
years of manipulating those feathers,
she finally got off the ground.—Sena
tor Scaper, NANA.
s. c. corroN allotment
REDUCED
WASHINGTON, Jan 3. — South
Carolina’s 1940 cotton acreage allot
ment was fixed by the Agricultural!
Adjustment administration at 1,337,-
085, acres, a reduction of 1,593 acres
from the 1939 allotment.
For the 19 cotton-producing states,
allotments totaling 27,070,173 acres,
472,842 less than for 1939 were an
nounced.
FOR SALE—Pigs and Shoats, get in
touch with me at County Highway
garage, telephone 399-J oi home
telephone 237-W. Gee E. Stone.
CLUB MEETS WITH
MRS. MAE STUCK
Mrs. J. <3. McLane and Mrs. Er
nest Brooks were invited to play with
the members when Mrs. Mae Stuck
entertained her bridge club Tuesday
morning.
Those winning prizes were Mrs. J.
T. McCrackin, club prize, Mrs. J. C.
McLane, guest prize, and Mrs. Adrian
Summer, bingu.
The guests were served sandwiches,
fruit cake and soft drinks.
MRS. ADRAIN SUMMER
ENTERTAINS WITH BRIDGE
Mrs. Adrain Summer entertained
guests with three tables of bridge
Tuesday afternoon at her home on
Summer street. The room was dec
orated with pink gladioli and white
narcissus. High score award went to
Mrs. L. F. Fischer and second high to
Mrs. J. T. McCrackin. Mrs. Ernest
Brooks was winner at bingo.
After cards were laid aside, Mrs.
Summer served a salad course with
coffee and fruit cake.
’t is uiu-• il " hen an editor turns I
down an advertisement from a re
tailer located in a nearby larger
town, but it is more unusual when
such a icf: ;al is made, and the mer
chant commends the editor. Such an |
incident happened at Charlotte.
E. M. McGrath turned down * j
Battle Creek retail dry goods firm
which wanted to advertise in the
Charlotte Republican-Tribune. Short- |
ly after, McGrath received the fol
lowing letter from the retailer:
“I want you to know that as far j
as we are concerned we admire yon
in your stand.
“If all newspapers took the same
stand in communities such as Char
lotte and Battle Creek, these com
munities would be a d— sight better
off.
“I like to run into this kind of a
businessman running a newspaper,
who has got intestinal stamina
enough to stand up and refuse busi
ness that might have a tendency to
hurt his own town.”
“xxxx Anyhow I appreciate your
stand. You’re one hundred percent,"
—Michigan Publisher.
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BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Loyal Citizens always spend their
money at home.
Let’s be Loyal during 1940
and patronize home firms.
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Danilson of
616 O’Neal street, are the parents
of a baby girl, bom Thursday, Jan
uary 4th.
The little girl was named Nancy
Sue Danilson.
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