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PAGE SIX THE NEWBBKKT SUE FRIDAY, JANUARY 12. IS40 Northern Democrats Pushing The Anti-Lynch Measure Gift Of “American Women’ By SPECTATOR They are agitating- again for an anti-lynching law. Who wants the law? The Northern Democrats. Why? Well, they made a trade with ^ some northern negro leaders for votes and coralled the negroes for the New Deal. Now the negroes (or their northern leaders) demand an anti-lynching law. Where do we stand in our Party, the Party of our fathers, the Party which we southern men have really kept alive? A few smooth northern politicians got on the bandwagon and made suckers of all of us. We are afraid of what our Party will do to us. Since the days of President Mc Kinley (a really likeable and earnest man) n 0 Republican tried to stir up the race question but Theodore Roose velt—and he dropped it like a hot brick. Taft, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover let well-enough alone. But now we Democrats are in power and the threat comes from our brethren,] not our opponents. We are betrayed by those of our own household. Southern negroes have made great progress. They are becoming better farmers and they are developing through their preachers and teachers. Their need is not political agitation and political agitation will embitter the White people against them. I am closely (and pleasantly) in touch with many colored farmers and their families. What they want .is a chance to make a living and to enjoy the fruits of their labors. They get 1 along well with their White neighbors and are establishing a credit as well as a general reputation for sobriety, integrity and thrift. I applaud their efforts and wish them success. In no sense am I a negro-hater; like all other Southerners, I was bom and reared with colored people all about. But the political intriguing of a few northern negroes will have sad re sults for some of our Southern ne groes and will destroy much of the useful work of Booker Washington and other leaders. I feel confident that colored ministers and teachers in the South are finding their work more gratifying and that they know that the race issue would be disast rous for their labors. What is the purpose of this anti lynching bill? Does it arise from anY serious threat to the peace and en- something to show to their followers for the two million negro votes which were traded to the Northern Democrats; (b) it would allow Fed eral courts to take jurisdiction in a character of the states. It would allow the Federal government to in tervene directly in the local police affairs of our counties. It would, therefore, destroy the sovereign character oof the states. It would put even local police under the thumb of a bureaucracy in Washing ton. It would be the entering wedge to supervise ai.id control our elections. I am not advocating lynching; but let no man deceive himself into be lieving that this bill is an honest en deavor to help our colored people. It is entirely a political play but it is fire that is being played with. Politicians may bow to this sort of thing in their zeal for favors or jobs; and they may prate about re gularity and Party loyalty—and all the usual twaddle that we’ve been fed on; but racial and social issues are fundamental in the south and must not be trifled with. We Southerners of the old school are perplexed. From generation to generation we have fought and de tested the Republicans because of the high tariff and because of the negro question. Now we find our Party, the Party of our fathers, of Hamp ton, Tillman, Woodrow Wilson, and Grover Cleveland, cheek-by-jowl with the negroes and after seven years of absolute control of all the govern ment has not abated one jot or tittle of the worst tariff bill ever enacted. The two issues—tariff and negroes— which kept the South solid against the Republicans, have become sacred tenets in the creed of the present day Democracy. We now endorse J the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill, since in seven years of full power we have not plucked even a eye brow from if and we would now enfold the negro in a warm embrace—something the Republicans 'had quit doing. So what are we and where are we? I joy Christmas one must be prudent, for however prudent one may be he will overdo it anyhow. So then I summoned my old walking partner | (Mr. W. A. Whi.te of the Streamlin- : er) and hiked nearly three miles to 1 restore that physical fitness which enables one to face the usual pie and cake display without quailing. From six to twenty-five one revels in food; after that, get > your fun watching the other fellow eat. And how those youngbloods can stow away food! Once I had a cadet baseball team un der my wing. I have proof that one of the lads ate this for dinner: nine biscuits (big ones); liberal portions of candied sweet potatoes, baked sweet potatoes, rice, irish potatoes, okra, tomatoes, lima beans, peas, fried ham, fried chicken, chicken pie, cocoanut pie, lemon' pie, chocolate ice cream and chocolate cake. We lost the game. But any mother of a healthy lad can match this recital. Let them do it, old scout; don’t you try it; stick to your cracker and to mato juice. The Christmas season started on the wrong foot for me. But let that pass, as grand old Shakespeare would say. One’s troubles, trial and tribu lations are best kept under one’s hat. So never mind. Saturday morn ing a grocer overpersuaded me to _ sample a fruit cake. It was a noble joyment of our colored people? Noli work of culinary artistry, but some- It is because lynchings are more numerous? No! They are fewer each year—none in this state in 1939. What, then, is the motive of the bill? It has a double motive: (a) to give the Northern negro. leaders thing no abstemious man should eat if he would continue to boast of his Spartan qualities. But this Stoic endured more. He ate a bit of candy and muched a few rich pecans. Now this would not do. If one would en- NOTICE We wish to make several loans of $2,000 to $5,000 on improved City or Suburban property. A. J. BOWERS, Jr. The Farmers and Taxpayers Lea gue of South Carolina will hold its annual convention in the Columbia Hotel, Columbia, Wednesday morn ing, January 17, at 10:30 o’clock. The League is expecting delegates from every county in the state and, accord ing to its established practice, will call on the Governor and the two houses of the General Asembly and present a memorial against increas ing appropriations. The announcement from League headquarters calls attention to many of the constructive activities of the League, among them being the crea tion of the first commission of busi nessmen to study the condition of the state and to advise the General As sembly what measures might be tak en to attract new industries. The League is now insisting, among other things, that the three- mill property tax be repealed and that the business license tax be re duced. It urges also that the in tangibles tax be removed if it is operating to deter the coming of wealthy citizens whose ordinary taxes would exceed the amount received from the intangibles. The proposed agenda- for the con vention indicates that the League recommends that the General Assem bly take a broad view of the state and adopt measures which will furth er its economic development, repeal ing obstructive statutes. Motorcades are being organized and the outlook is for a large and snappy gathering. - ... '-■■ ■ T ONDON—I ady Astor shown serving tea. cakes, and sandwiches to Tommies somewhere in London recently from a mobile canteen, reported as the gift of “American women.” This photo was taken at the opening of the canteen, which was reported to be the first of many such gifts for the Tommies. Passed by British censor. (or subsidy) of a cent and a half a pound. What happens? Japan shipped to this country more than nine million square yards of bleached goods in October, that being a mil lion yards more than in September. This is more than double the Ship ment to us from Japan in October of 1938. And the cotton goods import ed here from Japan for the first ten months of 1939 were more than double the yards shipped in the same period of 1938. (1938—24,442,791 and in 1939, 65,219,849). While we are giving the Japanese manufacturers a bonus of a cent and a half a pound we are increasing costs to our manufacturers by the minimum wage law and the social se curity tax. An American mill pays as much per hour for labor as a Jap anese mill pays per day, and a long day at that. MISS LUMPKIN WEDS A successful man of affairs calls my attention to some amazing facts. You know that our government is zealous for the farmer. It doesn’t know what to do nor how to do it, but it is eager to do something. So the mills of Japan buy our cotton for a cent and a half less than a mill here has to pay. That is because our government in its noble wish to serve us is trying to move some of the surplus cotton in storage here. A cotton mill in Greenville, just for illustration, is paying ten cents a pound for South Carolina cotton, but a mill in Japan will buy that cotton for eight and a half cents—our gov ernment paying an export bounty (Continued from page three) house smilax, were a silver bowl of calla liles, and the beautifully embos sed triple-tiered wedding cake top- pd with a clustr of real calla lilies. On either end of the table were hand some silver candelabra holding white tapers and silver compotes of green and white mints. Centering the cof fee table were a silver bowl of white gladioli and snapdragons and white tapers in silver holders-. Arrange ments of various white flowers were placed elsewhere about the room. Vases of pink gladioli decorated the mezzanine. During the evening the bride and bH die groom left for theiit wedding trip and when they return will make their home in the Margaret apart ments at Newberry. For traveling the bride wore a burnt sugar crepe dress with draped bodice, burnt sug ar hat with black trimmings, and ma hogany silver fox jacket. Mrs. Pope, a lovely and popular | young woman is the only daughter of Judge and Mrs. Lumpkin, her mother being the former Miss Mary i Sumter Thomas. She is the grand- i daughter of John Peyre Thomas, Jr., and the late Mary Waties Thomas - and of the late Col. William Wallace j Lumpkin and Annie Caroline Lump kin, originally from Georgia. The bride is a graduate of Mary Baldwin college, where she was May queen In her senior year and where she was a member of the student council. Her name appears in “Who’s Who in Am erican Universities and Colleges.” Mrs. Pope made her debut at the As sembly ball in Columbia three sea sons ago, and she is a member of the Junior League and of Les De moiselles. Mr. Pope is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Pope, Sr., of New berry His mother before marriage was Miss Marie Gary. The bride groom is the grandson of Mrs. Eliza Tusten Gary and the late Chief Jus tice Eugene Blackburn Gary of Ab beville, and the late Dr. Sampson Pope and Helen Harrington Pope of Newberry. He is a graduate of The' Citadel, where he was editor of The Bulldog, the college publication, and a member of the Sans Souci club Mr. Pope was graduated in law from the University of South Carolina where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity; the German club; Phi Delta Phi, law fraternity; 0. D K., national fraternity, and Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity. He is now a member of the South Carolina house of repre sentatives and is practicing his pro fession in Newberry. SCHOOL MASTERS MEET MONDAY The regular monthly meeting of the School Master’s club will meet Monday night, January 15, at 7 p. m. at the Wiseman hotel. Ice Carnival At RockefeUer Center T KIPS— FRECKLES. il NEVER QtET NO ^ KISSES 'CAOSH » COT" FRECKLES tt’REO rtAiR*. By Ad Carter ^ \ VOO STOP laughin' J WILLIE JONES. n'kiSS ME" NEW YORK CITY—Dorothy Lewis’ six starlets performing on the ice at Rockefeller Center Skating Pond here. Their number was televised, marking the first time that an ice carnival was broad cast by television. JOY! What a joy to get relief from a cough due to a cold. Get it with Smith Bros. Cough Drops. Black or Menthol. 51. Both taste delicious. Smith Bros. Cough Drops are the only drops containing VITAMIN A Vitamin A (Carotene) raises the resistance of mucous membranes of nose and throat to cold infections, when lack of resist* ance is due to Vitamin A deficiency. WOMEN! read how thousands have been able to GET NEW ENERGY IMPORTANT Mtdical Tests Reveal WHY Famous Lydia L Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound Has Been Helping Weak, Rundown Nervous Women For Over Half A Century! If you feel tired out, limp, listless, moody, depressed—if your nerves are constantly on edge and you’re losing your boy friends to more at tractive, peppy women—SNAP OUT OF IT! No man likes a dull, tired, cranky woman. All you may need is a good reliable tonic. If so try famous Lydia E. Piiikham’s Vegetable Compound. Let it stimulate gastric juices to help digest and mi!ate more wi-?ole- some food which your body uses directly for energy—to help build up mere physical resistance and thus help calm jittery nerves, lessen fe male functional distress and give you joyful bubbling energy that is re flected thruout your whole being. Over 1,000,000 women have re ported marvelous benefits from Pinkham’s Compound Results should deli&h t you! Telephone your druggist right now for a bottle. H-D COLUMN By MISS ETHEL COUNTS It should be the aim of each club to plan at least one outstanding ac tivity at each meeting of the year, if we do this we will at least feel that we have put forth an effort. The months go by in a hurry and if we let them go by without effort, the year’s record wil have a blank ap pearance. In grandmother’s time oranges were a rare delicacy. But now Ameri cans have taken oranges out of the class of luxuries and put them on breakfast tables throughout the land. There have been plenty of oranges to fill the country’s fruit bowl for several years now, and the 1940 crop is expected to be more bounti ful than usual. Oranges are abun dant everywhere—from the general store at the country cross roads to the city delicatessen. Although oranges are available throughout the year, the big orange season begins this month. And oranges are most welcome during these winter months when supplies of many other fresh fruits and fresh vegetables may be low. Nutrition workers have also look ed into the orange-eating habit, and discovered that this fruit has a real place in the well-t-Janced diet. Their studies show that oranges are an ex cellent source of vitamin C. Vitamin C is a rather special vita min that must be supplied each day for both children and grown-ups to have all around good health. It has an important function in keeping bones and teeth in good condition- A real shortage of vitamin C will pro duce scurvy—that disease so dreaded by old-time sailors who were often without fresh foods for months at a time. Orange juice has become a break fast tradition! in many homes and it is one of the first foods given an in fant. So it is no wonder that a glass of refreshing orange juice is the happy ending for many oranges— especially those from Florida. If the orange is to be used for purposes other than producing juice, the dessert or salad type is usually preferred. These oranges are easy to peel and easy to eat when divided in-' to sections or sliced. It probably was this kind of an orange that Robert Louis Stevensoni had in mind when he wrote the lines: “And every day when I’ve been good, I get an orange after food.” The orange in itself makes a per fect dessert. But it may be combined with other fruits to make a satisfy ing fruit cup. Oranges add sparkle to a mixture of canned fruit, or they may be used with apples, bananas grapes, or any other fresh fruits. A* a novelty, try serving the mixed fnfiU in the half orange shell. FISH AND GAME ASSOCIATION MEET The monthly meeting of the New berry county Game and Fish asso ciation will meet Monday, January 15, at the Hartford school. All state oncers and chief game warden, also all past presidents of the state association are invited to attend this meeting. President, S. A. Williams urges all members to be present Supper will be served by the Par ent Teacher Association of Hartford school. FORMER NEWBERRIAN DIES IN TEXAS Mrs. Mattie Whitmire Spearman, wife of the late James S. Spearman, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. D. Hudson in Dallas, Texas, Wednesday, January 3. Mr. and Mrs. .Spearman lived in Newberry county before moving to Texas and were the aunt and uncle of Eugene Spearman, Miss Felicia Spearman, and Mrs. J. W. Wallace of Newberry, and Mrs. Zach Suber of Whitmire. Mrs. Spearmf.n was 87 years old. Before her marriage she was Miss Mattie Whitmire of Whitmire, which town was named in honor of her father. TEACHERS MEET TODAY The first teachers meeting of the new year will be held today (Thurs day) in the high school auditoriim beginning at 3 p. m. Dr. Frank K. Poole, director of Religious Education at Furman Uni versity, will be guest speaker. 0. B. Cannon, superintendent of the city schools, will speak to a joint meeting of high school, intermediate and pri mary groups. His subject will be. 'Major Problems in the High school.” FLETCHER PADGETT, Jr. WINS HIGH HONOR Fletcher Padgett, Jr., of Saluda, was recently honored by Harry Mil ler, editor of “Youth Today,” national journal for young people of high school age. Fletcher was named by Mr. Miller as one of the ten out- tanding young Americans of 1939. Fletcher, who is 18 years of age, won the state oratorical contest sponsored by the American Legion then the National contest, also sponsored by the American Legion. He was awarded the £4,000 scholar ship given by Eddie Cantor for. the win nine* /vf fViic mntAflt-