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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, AUGUST 30,1940 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, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE SPECTATOR We shall have an opportunity to register our wills on two questions: the sale of liquors and bi-ennial ses sions of the Legislature. When we were boys we were taught that a man should act according to his conscience; and that he should not swerve nor be dismayed by all the fiery darts of the wicked. Shakespeare says that “Con science does make cowards of us all;” but I sometimes observe that position and wealth and trade can substitute policy for conscience and argue till doomsday to justify it. I have begun to think that the only really free man is one who has little or nothing, and aspires to nothing. The commonest expression I hear is “I’d like to do this or that, but a man in my posi tion has to think of his responsibili ties.” To quote Shakespeare again: “And thereby hangs a tale.” Do you remember the illustration in the Scripture about the excuses offered by men who were called into service? One had bought a piece of ground and must needs go and see it; another had bought five yoke of oxen and had to prove them; and the third had mar ried a wife. And we, like the ancients, are still doing business at the old stand. This matter of bl-ennial sessions has been submitted to the electors twice, and both times the people vo ted for having the Legislature meet every two years, instead of every year. But the Lgislature which suo- mits the question to the voters does so as it goes out of office. The new Legislature finds the matter awaiting its approval, but being new on the job it doesn’t wish to legislate itself out of office; so it just fails to act at all. Then the proposal dies. Now is the time to ask candidates for the Legislature whether they will ratify the will of the people, Bi-en nial sessions will not be a cure-all, by any means. It will not stop the con stant expansion of State institutions; it will not do away with the wholesale giving away of the taxpayers’ money, now amounting to nearly two million dollars a year; it will not stop the dreamers from dreaming, nor the vis ionaries from going into a trance. The principal benefit from bi-ennial ses sions would be comparative quiet and calm for a year and a half instead of just six months. Nobody knows what the Legislature will do. Even in its last gasp, in the Free Conference re port on the General Appropriations bill, it may turn the State upside down, or require all men to grow beards; or impose a tax on all bald- headed men. The Constitution—well, never mind about the Constitution. We used to sit back and wait for the House and Senate to wrestle with the question of whethr the total should be twelve million or fourteen million dollars. But when the Free Confer ence Committee meets now, no one can tell or imagine how many rabbits will be pulled out of the hat. Use this opportunity to ask the candidates what they will do about re ducing State appropriations and coun ty levies. Don’t let any candidate have the field to himself by declaring for schools and helping old people. Pin them down a bit. You will find that many a candidate knows very little about the State and its govern ment. Now is a good time for them to learn; so ask them. So much has been said about High way funds, ask them how much the other departments are spending. Do they know what the institutions spend ? Do you know that our State is spending ten times as much as it spent when cotton sold for forty cents? Do you know that the poorer we become the higher the State appro priations are, Well, let me urge you to think about it. South Carolinians are Democrats. We were born in the Party; our grandfa thers were in it and of it and fought for it. They poured out their blood and exhausted their young manhood Thanks, Folks!! S. W. “Brother” Brown wants to say THANKS to you, and you, and you! Thanks to everybody, and please remember me in the second primary in the race for Commission er from District No. 1. S. W. “Brother” BROWN Card of Thanks May I take this opportunity to express to the good people of New berry County my very deep appreci ation for reelecting me your County Superintendent of Education. I am deeply grateful and my one ambition shall be to merit the confidence ex pressed in me. I want you to feel that this is your office and that you are welcome here at any time. C. E. HENDRIX for it in the Civil War; and they en dured every sort of privation, they and our mothers and grandmothers, not only during four years or arduous fig! ting, but during eleven years more of i.umiliation during the Reconstruc tion period. And after Democracy had triumphed under Hampton, thru lonr and weary toil, our people clung to the Party of Jefferson. Some men say that they feel today like sailors marooned on a desert is land. They think the Party of their fathers has gone adrift. They were bro ght up to believe that their Par ty stood for certain principles and that the Republicans were directly oppised to those principles; but to day they say that they cannot distin guish between the two Parties. They are not Republicans and they cling to a kind of Democracy which is not honored todav. We Southern Democrats were rear ed by fathers and mothers who felt deeply their political party allegiance. We think a shift to another party would carry with it even a social stigma. So we accept anything, we swallow anything—and, of course, we don’t count. The Republicans can’t count on us; don’t even try to persu ade us to come to them, because they know it would be useless; and the big leaders of the Democratic Party don’t worry about us, either; don’t even give us any thought, because we are “in the bag”:—we are already sewed up. That is a ridiculous condition: We are not regarded by either Party. We are Democrats with votes, but with out influence. Some day there will be men of courage who will try to organ ize a Party of Americans, which will be for Americans, and which will stand for the things which transform ed this wilderness into a mighty na tion. Just at this time we Democrats are divided into three groups: (a) those who have jobs, or whose kindred or friends have fattened on the Party; (b) those who want to be regular, regardless of what may be done, so long as it bear the Party Label; and c) those who despise all the chican ery and buffoonery of Party manage ment and wish to bring back the Democracy which was lean and hung ry, but honest, sincere and purpose ful. Our friends of the coast suffered from a distastrous hurricane, while many of us in the interior felt the winds and the rain in varying de grees of severity. That our crops have been badly hurt is beyond r.ny doubt. We may rejoice, however, that so few lives were lost. After all, we can make more crops. Even at that, it is no simple matter for a famer to lose most of his year’s work and expense, as well as the loss on his capital investment. CARD OF THANKS I am deeply grateful for the fine vote given me Tuesday and I want to take this means of thanking each of my friends. HERMAN WISE O. B. CANNON, Supt Newberry City Schools Governor Maybank went to all the scenes of devesta tion with commend able zeal and deep sympathy for all sufferers. To his energetic initiative may be credited the ready response of all the agencies of relief. This is too late for the first pri mary, at least for my weekly and semi-weekly friends, but it is just as important now to keep in mind that the men you elect to the Legislature are the managers of your county. No man should be elected because of his handshaking or joke-telling. What you want is some one to reduce your county taxes, as well as to hold the state institutions in check. I admit that it sounds foolish to talk about restraining departments and institu tions, while giving away two million dollars. The departments and insti tutions render a service, largely a con -1 structive effort, even if too ambitious for our purse; but the two-million handout of the Welfare Department is exactly like the boastful charity of a man who gives “to be seen of men”, but forgets to pay his just debts. We have been swept off our feet into foolish extravagance. We should abolish the Welfare Department out right and clip the wings of those wl'o fly too high. Mrs. Paul McCarley and Miss Rach el MeCarley of Whitmire spent Sun day in the city. Miss Eva Cromer is vis'lit g fry n 1 in Spartanburg this week. MARINE CORPS AS A CAREER Mrs. George Addy and three chi! !- ren have returned from a visit with Mrs. Addy’s sister in Atlanta, Ga, 1940-1941 Opening of the Newberry City Schools All new stutfqnts and all conditioned students are requested to report for examinations and classification at 9 o’clock Wednes day morning, September 4th. All students except those of grades 9, 10, and 11 will meet Thursday morning, September 5th., at 9 o’clock for lesson assign ments and other preliminary work. Members of the 9th„ 10th„ and 11th, grades who wish to rent textbooks or who wish to dis cuss with the teachers and principal concerning course of study must report Thursday mornijig. All students are notified to meet their respective teachers at their schools on Friday morning, September 6th„ at 9 o’clock for lesson assignments and other preliminary work. AH new students (beginners and students entering the city schools from other districts) are requested to enroll before the opening date of the schools. Students may enroll by calling at the office at the High School between the hours of 9 A. M. a.nd 4 P. M. Students must show that they have been successfully vaccin ated for smallpox. Card of Thanks I want to thank you most sincerely for the fine vote which enables me to serve you for an other term as a Repre sentative. R. Aubrey Harley CARD OF THANKS I am very thankful for the fine support you gave me Tuesday in my race for magistrate, and pledge you my best efforts for law enforcement in the future. Ben F. Dawkins All over the United States there are men toiling at various tasks with long hours, poor working conditions and low pry. These men are fin 1 - ir:i it difficult to ren-ain with a j ib that n getting then', pract rally i > wkeie. Some of them will succeed eventually, no doubt, while others must he content to stick to the daily ;ii:i(l and know nothing of the better things of life. Some of them have an eye on the higher ideals of life, but month after month rolls around nd the goal of their ambitions seems orever remote. Elsewhere there are other young len who are definitely bound som - v.'here. At the start they were : a eiifercnt from the rest of them. Their background, their h< ."ae training, and their educational qualities were about like that of the average ybung man The only difference is that they found a solution to the problem that you may be trying to solve. These young men are U. S. Marines, and many of them are content with the life and never want anything els . hey find everything in the life cf n urine to gratify thei'' ambitio. . hey are entirely satisfied with th.-ir e. sen career. V?caneies for enlistment in the T T . S. Marine Corps now exist.and men who are single, white, 18 to .'10 y avs of age, and between 64 and 74 inches tall may call on or write to Sergeant Hamer E. Tinklepaugh, U. S. Marine C n Recruiting Station, City Hall, ’ I 'mbin South Carolina. KINSMAN OF GRIFFITH ELECTED W. J. Bryan Dorn, 21 year old nep hew of Steve C. Giiffith c f (’’is ci'v was Tuesday elected to the St t" Senate from Greenwood county. Mr. Dorn received 4.083 against " 533 f^r the incumbent Senator Nicholson. NOTiCE OF JURY DRAWING We the undersigned Jury Commis si' is of Ncvdberry County, shall on 5th 'sv if Sei'tr be”, 19M, at 9 A. M. in th - Clwk of Court’s ifi -e, openly and publicly, draw thi - inames to serve as Petit Juro s ! for the Court of Common PI-o , which wdl convene on September 16t' , at 10 o’clock A.M., 1940, in the New- : berry County Court House. H. K. BOYD, Clerk of Com \ R. B. BLACK, Treasurer, P. N. ABRAMS, Auditor. August 24, 1940. I; DON’T FORGET furniture Clearance Sale now on. Buy and save on easy terms. J. J. LANGFORD & SON. WANTED—Veals, Cows and Hogs; also your Cow Hides. Se us before you sell. The Newberry Abattoir. FOR SALE — Farmall 30. Rubber tires 10|20 steel tires. Johnson- McCrackin Co. 4tc FOR RENT—Mountain cottage at Bat Cave, N. C., for rent part of September and October. Equipped with lights and water. See Mrs- B. M. Scurry. Phone 164-J. LIFETIME GUARANTEE EvERYFircstone Tire carries a written lifetime guarantee — not limited to 12,18 or 24 months, but for the full life of the tire without time or mileage limit. convoy 4.75/5.00-19 5.25/5.50-17 $gl5 $015 $085 9.00-16 AND YOUR OLD TIRE "PRICED right down to bedrock — and just before your Labor Day Trip! Here’s the value sensation of 19^3 built with patented Firestone construction features to assure longer mileage and greater safety. At these low prices, equip your car with a full set today. \ NO W! THE FAMOUS finston* mm IFEED TIRE At These LOW PRICES AND YOUR OLD TIRI Six* 6.00-16 SALE ENDS SEPT. 2 Millions of new cars were originally equipped with this great Firestone High Speed Tire — now built to deliver still longer non-skid mileage. The outstanding value of 1940. Buy a complete set today. ‘Ffr«$fone NIGH SPEED TIRE SIZE PRICE 4.75/6.00-11 6.25/5.50-17. 5.26/ 6.50-18 ... 6.00/ 16 $7.53 9.27 8.46 9-99 12.23 \ 6.25/0.50-16 7.00-16 AND YOUR OLD TIRE 5 Other Sizes Preportiorately Lew JLy r TJxxjTjFW' M' FOR RENT—One house and apart ment or will rent rooms to men. Private bath. See Mrs. Jim Wheeler \ 42-3tc. 1934 Harper street. FOR RENT—Three room unfurnished apartment with two clothes closets, pantry, kitchenette, and bath. 1003 Caldwell street tf. Mrs. J. W. White You Are RIGHT! Auto Financing Is Our Business We will finance a new cat for you. We will refinance your pre sent car so as to reduce your payments-or We will make you a loan on the car you now own. City Filling Station "Next to the Post Office and Just As Reliable" Standard rates — no red tape Quick and courteous service A Newberry Finance Company to Serve Newberry People 1 »i « I Newberry Insurance & Realty Co. E. B. PURCELL, President Phone 197 Exchange Bldg.