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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN m. >un 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year . $1.00 Published Every Friday Entered as second-class matter December 6, '937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3. 1879. FRIDAY. JANUARY 12, JSf®. BILL CUNNINGHAM ON FOOTBALL Bill Cunningham, former all-Ameri can footbhll star and now a famous wports writer, thinks football is a great game—for someone else’s boy. For he claims almost every old foot ball player he knows is bothered in later life by some injury received during his playing days. The figures quoted by Cunningham in the December issue of Cosmopoli tan showing the injuries received by a five-year period are rather stagger ing. These statistics show that between 60,000 and 75,000 boys are tempoor- arily crippled each year, and that 100,000 of the 300,000 who participate each season are hurt badly enough to require medical attention. ibis means that during the last five years almost as many men were temporarily crippled by football as were killed or wounded in the United States army during the world war. War department figures place total casualties for the war at 350,000. When the numbers (involved are considered, however, it appears the chances of getting through the war unscathed are considerably better. The chance of injury in football is one in three—in war less than one in ten. WAR IS A COSTLY BUSINESS MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS JUST NOW Opinions voiced in the Gallup poll on the acceptance of West Indian is lands as payment for old war debts, owed the United States by England and France, are based upon the pro posal that we negotiate for such settlement—not upon the silly sug gestion that we seize the islands by force. France could no more legally bar ter away Gaudeloupe or Martinique than she could sell us Paris. Even if she could, we have in our own nation al consciousness some loyalty to the ideal of self-determination of peoples. And if the basic laws of the coun tries whose flags these islands now fly permitted them to “sell” their citi zens, and if our national conscience permitted us to “foreclose,” there would still remain to be considered the effect on our going “good neigh bor" policy of such an imperial act. While some “settlement” of the debts wil probably come ultimately, we have vastly more important mat ters that need to be commanding our attention. A gangster with good aim can pic^ off another thug with one bullet. Mass warfare is considerably more waste ful. To kill one soldier in the world war required an average of 400 ar- tilley projectiles, 80 shells had to be fired to wound a single enemy. Revealing such military statistics in a recent issue of Chemical and Me tallurgical Engineering, Dr. Ernest Berl of the Carnegie Institute, Pitts burg, also reported these other fig ures. More than 12,000 shots were need ed to bring down an airplane in 1916; to destroy a single armored turrent in the fortifications of Antwerp, Bel gium, the German forces used 122 tons of projectiles. Dr. Berl esti mated that when the AEF captured the St. Mihiel sector in France, more munitions were used in four hours than during the whole American civil war. NOT A VISIONARY SCHEME— IT WORKS If Europe truly seeks a way to end the violent gusts of warfare that have swept over her peoples for more than 2,000 years, she can find in the United States a practical, working plan—not a visionary scheme—under which many states and many nationalities compost- one united nation. Ernest Mayo, formerly of New berry who has been in the Veteran’s hospital in Columbia for several months has returned to his home at 47 South Church street, in Union. Gable’s Ex-Wife A man who has struggled into the glare of the spotlight may find that it reveals defects more relentlessly than a x-ray machine. “ A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” So a laugh a day may keep the doctor away. COLUMBIA, Mo. — Mrs. Jose phine Dillon Gable, former wife of Clark Gable, film star, has just taken over the post of drama instructor at - Christian College here. She will instruct in courses covering the stage, motion pic tures, television, and radio. Gearshift Vacuum Power Lifts Car Demonstrating the p-.wer developed by engine vacuum, Miss Evelyn Clark, of Detroit, is shown lifting a car by touching a finger tip to the valve of a spec ally-constructed lifting device. The regular vacuum cylinder used for the power gearshift has been removed from the car and attached, for the purpose of the demonstration, to a standard jack. The tube connects with the engine, and the vacuum developed by the latter does the entire work of opeiatirig the lifting mechanism—just as it does the work of shilling gears \.hep the fingertip is applied to the steering column shift lever. John Wood, Chevrolet assistant chief engineer, is supervising the demonstration. FIFTEENTH INSTALLMENT Synopsis When the wealthy foster parents of Marjorie Wetherill both die she finds a letter telling that she has a twin sister, that she was adopted when her own parents couldn’t afford to support both of them and that her real name is Dorothy Gay. Alone in the world, but with a fortune of her own, she considers looking up her own family whom she has never seen. A neighbor, Evan Brower, tries to argue her out of it and tells her he loves her and asks her to marry him. She promises to think it over, but decides first to see her family. She goes to their address, finds that they are destitute and gradually persuades them to accept things they need. When the doctor calls to see her mother she notices that he seems particularly interested in her sister. Marjorie goes to church in Brent wood, where her family used to live, and becomes very much interested in the young minister there, with whom she later has lunch in the city. While at Brentwood she sees the home her family formerly owned, buys it back for them and gives the deed to it to her father on Christmas morning. The whole family is very joyful. Mean while Betty meets Ellery Aiken, a man she used to know, goes with him to a night club, becomes disgusted with his drinking, has an accident on the way home, starts walking home alone and is picked up by the family doctor who happens to be driving by. Here we are at Aster Street!” He helped her out most tenderly and went up the steps with her. The door opened at once and a much scared Ted stood behind it, i white with anxiety. Marjorie in a dark robe stood just behind him and their relief when- they saw the doc tor was almost amusing. “I brought her home. I hope you didn’t worry,” the doctor said comic ally. “She preferred my company to Keith Sheridan’s face suddenly went white and his lips touched for an instant the hot wet lashes that lay oh the wet cheeks. “And so am I glad!” he whispered. Then suddenly he drew his handker chief from his inside pocket and soft ly patted her face dry from the tears. “There,” he said in a matter-of-fact voice, “now let’s get going! The sooner we get home the less for any body to worry about. Now, put your head down on my shoulder and rest and forget it. It’s going to be all right. I’d like to get out and whale that friend of yours, but I guess I’d better confine my efforts to getting you home. Now, cheer up, little girl, and don’t try to talk about it. I’ll fix things up at home for you. Straighten up your face and put on a grin and we’ll face ’em out. Ready? the fellow she started out with, and the pleasure was all mine.’ “Okay!” said Ted gravely, his face relaxing from its anxious strain. And Marjorie put her arms around her sister and led her upstairs softly. Betty closed the door softly, faced around toward her sister, and spoke in a low shamed tone: “Marjorie, I’ve got to tell you that you were right, and I’m ashamed! I don’t know whether it was a regu lar night club I went to or even if it wasn’t, even if night claw are a great, deal different from tn»‘ one, I never want to see one a® long And I never want to ae® either! I® again I live. Ellery Aiken cured!” Marjorie put her arms around sister and kissed her lovingly- “You precious sister! There wasI ' anything to forgive. I’m only thankful you are safe home aga™- Now, don’t think another thing a4> °“ it tonight. Get to sleep as soon » you can.” . They were just sitting down breakfast the next morning — messenger came to the front doo with a special delivery letter fo° Mr ' Gay ' His hand trembled as he took letter whidh Betty handed him, the family was utterly still while ne (Continued on page three) _— Leap Year Hopefuls The S. C. National Bank Condensed Statement Of Condition December 30th, 1939 ASSETS: LIABILITIES: Cash and Due from Banks... . *U. S. Government Bonds *U. S. Treasury Bills ’State and Municipal Bonds. .. . ’Other Stocks and Bdmfc Federal Reserve Bank Stock .. Loans and Discounts Banking Houses (11) $502,925.00 Less: Reserve for Depreciation 52,832.50 Less Reserve for Depreciation 52.832.50 Furniture and Fixtures (15 Offices) Other Real Estate 74,612.93 Less: Reserve for Depreciation 10,596.63 Other Assets $19,037,714.22 3.619,425.37 3,000,000.00 537,790.23 19,300.50 79,500.00 17,276,574.36 450,092.50 111,911.05 Capital — Preferred $ 1,100,000.00 Capital — Common, Paid |n.. 1,000,000.00 < Earned 100,000.00 1,100,000.00 Surplus — Earned 450,000.00 Undivided Profits — Earned .. 478,531.98 Reserve — Ret. Preferred 'Stock —Earned .. .. 200,000.00 Total Earned Surplus, Undivided Profits and Preferred Stock Retirement Fund 1,128,531.98 Earned Reserves: Accrued Dividend on Preferred . Stock 16,500.00 Accrued Interest, Taxes, etc . 4,250.00 64,016.30 5,945.66 Total Earned Reserves Deposits $44,202,270.19 ’All bonds and securities carried at par or less. 20,750.00 40,852,988.21 $44,202,270.19 OFFICES AT: i Anderson, Belton, Charleston, Cheraw, Columbia, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Greenville, Leesville, Newberry, Pickens, St. Matthews, Seneca, Sumter.