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THE NEWBERRY SUN
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Entered as second-class matter December 6, '937, at
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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
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