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PAGE FOUR TmE ^jsirRWRRY SUM FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1940 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year fl.00 Published Every Friday Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1987, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. MAKING IT WORK Amid all the talk about “making democracy work” in America, let us remember that IT IS working here. The first essential of democracy is liberty, not security. We have the liberty. Liberty can be legislated by the passage of a law. Voting of a law cannot bring security. Law can help, but what counts more are the econo mic resources of the country, econo mic forces, and above all, the char acter of the individual. Even if the most perfect laws that could be de vised to further the economic secu rity of individuals were put into ef fect in the United States tomorrow . . . would begin the development of insecurity. Lack would continue to be generated by personal shiftless ness, meager ability, illness, vice, al coholism and gambling. If democracy is taken to mean a perfect society, we are obviously not going to get that until the kingdom of heaven comes on earth. In the meantime let us recognize that in America we’ve the best approxima tion of a perfect democracy to be found. Besides the freedom, Americans en. joy the highest degree of security, economic as well as military. Un questionably there is a great deal more that America should do to ad vance its democracy. But for the protection of that democracy, one of the best things we can do is to appreciate what we have today, and not kick it around. ON BRITAIN’S WATCH TOWERS Britain’s fiery trial has revealed that the man now at the head of her government is the leader needed at the helm in this grave hour. From the day that Mr. Churchill took over, the high resolve of the British people to defend their island has come forth in a sublime fashion that ex cites the admiration and warm sup port of democrats everywhere. Mr. Churchill is on the latch tow ers of the United Kingdom. His keen eye scans the far horizon and sees every threat and danger to his peo ple. These dangers and threats are many—many more than most Ame ricans suspect. The premier detects them all and keeps the people alert to them, thus guarding the nation against surprise, trickery and trea son at home and abroad. A tireless worker, a fearless states man, a soldier unafraid, Mr. Church ill is on the watch towers of Britain. His brilliant leadership will surely pilot her safely thru the beastly war that is being waged upon her by the gangsters of Berlin and Rome. IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT If you were walking down the street with a friend who suddenly was attacked by thugs, what would you do ? Would you say, “This is none of my business and, if I don’t inter fere, perhaps the highwayman will be satisfied when they have beaten my friend to death, and taken his be cng- ings, and will let me alone”? Or would you say: “This man is my friend, and, at the moment, our interests are the same. It seems ridi culous to suppose that, having dis posed of him, these robbers are going to pass up my wallet, which is fatter than his, and my watch, which is worth more. I don’t want to fight, but if I must it’s certainly better to help him, and have his help, than to wait until he’s finished and then fight alone. It’s just possible that, if I hand him the gun in my back pocket, I may not have to fight at all”? The question of aiding Britain is as simple as that. All-out aid to the mother country, should be our slogan from now until the hakistocracy of Berlin and Rome is smashed. It is said that the new 1941 cars are to be presented in bright new colors. Also in bright new phrases. IT’S ANOTHED REASON WE ARE A FREE LAND “Freedom of worship, as guaran teed by the U. S. Constitution, pro tects not only the religious rights of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews, but the right of any man to worship any god he pleases.” So said the state department of New York, when it granted a char ter to a church to establish a pagan religion, which worships “the god dess of love and beauty” the same as the ancient Greeks did. It is known as the “Long Island Church of Aph rodite.” It has a high priest and a congregation of 35 members. It is given a charter to function in America and the right to collect funds to support the church. Our Constitution grants religious liberty to all faiths, without determ ining which is right and which wrong. The slender shrub bends and con quers when it yields to the storm. Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.—Cicero. Another reason why angel’s food sometimes tastes like devil’s food is because it fell. 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If the need be for a hundred thousand men of mech anical ability, I could not fill the bill; but if a million mechanics should volunteer, it might give a surplus to the army and hopelessly deplete our war auxiliary service at home. So it is, with every branch of the ser vice. Bakers will be needed and barbers; but the Army will not be able to use a hundred thousand ba kers, nor a hundred thousand bar bers. The Conscription bill is to en able the Army to call to service the type and number of men needed. The Conscription bill has been op posed stoutly as un-American and unnecessary, and all that. Some great figures tell us that we haven’t even the uniforms to clothe a force of a million men. I’ve heard so much about what we have not, and what we can’t do, that I wish the ex perts would help to get something done, and stop talking about the dif ficulties. Organs of public leader ship perform a great service in tourn- ing the light on the delays and bungling of our bureaucrats; arous ed and informed public interest is a wholesome corrective of many dif ficulties. Before the force of aggres sive opinion the small differences melt away, and the great engine of national preparedness will gather speed under the momentum. The inertia of officialdom is pro verbial, so the nation has cause to rejoice in the frank, blunt critics, even though they exaggerate. We need all the prodding and spurring of a vigorous people, who want tan gible results, not words of re-assu rance. We need guns, ammunition, airplanes, tanks, ships, trained men. We have the basic materials, so let’s do the job. All the difficulties are man-made; why then don’t we remove them? That is worth keeping in mind; we have all the raw materials for the Army, Navy and Air Service, from men to guns, the task is to use them quickly and efficiently. The laws which sometimes stand in the way are laws of Congress. Shouldn’t our leadership be capable of giving the national program the right-of- way? Or must it stop at every cor ner for a green light, or to avoid a traffic jam? Someone has remarked that be fore the Civil War we were accus tomed to conscription in the South. We need not go so far back. The Constitution of South Carolina says: “The militia of this State shall con sist of all able-bodied male citizens of the State between the ages of eighteen and forty-five—and shall be organized^—as the General Assem bly may by law direct.” There is such a thing now as a cotton-cement shingle. The manu facturer’s Record—an authority on such matters—says “Public accep tance will be prompt. The product evidently will free roof designing from numerous construction restric tions.” * The shingles are manufac tured on the building site and laid wet, ten or fifteen minutes after making. It has a strength and work ing flexibility heretofore unclaimed for cement or other roofing mater ials. The shingles having been ap plied wet fit over old shingles per fectly, adjusting themselves natural ly . After being put on wet, the shingles require about thirty days to cure, and during this time the cot ton performs a> valuable service; it acts as a binder, holding the mortar together; its fibers absorb the water of the mixture like wicks. Tests made in Government ana other laboratories, equal to a hund red years of wear and tear left the roofing as good as new. This roof ing was invented by a cotton farmer of Columbus, Mississippi, assisted by the United States Department of Ag riculture, the Portland Cement Asso ciation and the Mississippi State College. I have no doubt it is a product, even if indirectly, of the great stimulative and research work of the National Cotton Council which is doing a remarkable fine piece of work developing demand for cotton. I have read with interest and ap preciation the letter by Mr. L. B. Addy in the Lexington Dispatch News, in which he dissents from my conclusion that England is more dem ocratic in its government than the United States. All that Mr. Addy says is prob ably right, but I was not arguing for the same plan that the English have: the point which I made was that a government so immediately responsive to the will of the people is nearer to the old idea of demo cracy than is our government. Wheth er their government or ours is bet ter is not exactly the point I wish ed to emphasize. A pure democracy, of course, would be a government in which the people themselves voted on every measure. A democracy means rule o* the peo ple directly. In the United States we have not a democracy. Ours is a representative government, the re presentatives thinking and acting for us and holding their ten.j of office whether we like them or not. A Democracy, in the United States, is just a name. The people rule only in theory. The weakness of the French sys tem sprang principally from the mul tiplicity of political parties. In our Congress we have two major par ties; but in the French Chamber of Deputies they had probably a dozen. That prevented any one group from having a working majority unless it constantly made trades with other groups. My reference, then, was only call ing attention to the fact that Bri tish government—meaning the Par liament—can be turned out at any minute, by an order for an election; and that the government itself can be turned out at any minute by a vote of censure. I hope that Mr. Addy will permit me to make this exposition; and that he will write oftener. SOUTH OUT OF LUCK The newly appointed secretary of agriculture Claude R. Wickard, of Indiana, may be the very best man in the United States for this position. We have never heard of him before. But that is of little value in estimat ing many people. They might all re turn the compliments and we could call it quits. But the appointment brings to mind the effort made by the numer ous friends and admirers of Mr. Clar ence Poe of Raleigh, editor of the Progressive Farmer to have President Roosevelt name Dr. Poe to this posi tion. There was no chance. There never was a chance. There are ten members of Presi dent Roosevelt’s cabinet and six of them are from the ONE state of New York. One of these, Brother Jim Farley, has taken leave of the group. Think of it again: Six of the 10 members of President Roosevelt’s cabinet are from his own state of New Yurk: It is evidently regarded as the only state with brains enough to use in selecting cabinet members. The Democrats have played out in cabinet material already. Four of the 10 members are Republicans. And this is supposed to be a Democratic administration. The South has one member, Sec retary of State Hull. And though he is the only one, he is by all odds the biggest and brainiest of the lot of ten. Why is the South kept out of the cabinet and other important federal positions ? It not the South loyal to the Dem ocratic party ? That is the trouble, The South is out of luck politi cally speaking because it is always in the bag. The political pursuers of power of the Democratic party do not have to court the South; they do not have to promise the South; they do not have to please the South. The South is theirs even without the asking.—Greenwood Index-Jour nal. Looking ’em Over BY LONNIE FRANKLIN How About It Newberry? For years I’ve heard people say if they only would get a football team at Newberry we would be willing to string along with them. Well, New berry has part of a football team and Bill Laval nor any other coach can go any farther than his material. Sports writers and other coaches say that his first team is as good as any in the state but you can’t play a season with one football team and reserves are the need of the Indians now. If Bill had as good a crop of line reserves as he has backfield men then we could say bring on Clemson, Carolina and Furman. It costs money to keep a football team and unless you have one you don’t get the money so now that New berry is getting started on a pay off system with a flashy colorful team will the people of Newberry sit still and see the Indians go back a so-so gang of athletes on the gridiron? You could have the best coaching staff in America but if they haven’t the mat erial they won’t get any place. Laval is now trying to run ath letics by himself where schools much smaller have from three to five men doing the job yet even now sports writers say he has one of the possible three best teams in the state. It comes back will Newberry get behind the Indians and help so that Laval (and we all know he can) can go out and compete with other foot ball players to come here instead of going elsewhere. I’ll promise this—give Bill the backing and he will give you the team as many people may recall his first remarks when he came here with football at a low ebb he stated this first year team is mine but from then on its yours so fans will you keep pace with Bill or will you let him down ? Baseball Survey Cincinnati is in nobody knows who will win the American League flag and fans are getting radios tuned for the series. The Reds can send Wal- trs, Devinger, and Thompson out there, the Tigers have Newsome, Rowe, and Bridges, the Indians have Bob Feller and some cry babies so there you are. The Tigers look better to stop the Reds with Greenberg and York hit ting homers but don’t forget good pitching slows long hitters so the Reds look the best to win right now. Many Uses For Power From Buzzard Roost Greenwood, S. C.—With six sub stations already using current gen erated by the Buzzard Roost hydro electric plant, only a few more re main to be completed and connected before the project will be serving the original number of outlets planned for, Secretary E. I. Davis of the county finance board said. The town of Ninety-Six, the Swift Oil mill, Grendel and Panola mills here, the Farmers’ Oil Mill at New berry, the Greenwood rural elctrifi- cation authority and the city of Laurens already are using the power. The Laurens Cotton mill is expected to be ready for connection immed iately, while the city of Newberry and the Goldville Cotton mill substa tions are not yet complete. The auxiliary steam plant has been fired up, Mr. Davis said, and the machinery is now undergoing a dry ing process b order that the full load may be put on early this week. One of the problems faced by the project has been that of drying out the turbines and other mechanical parts. Only a small voltage is turned into the plant until the dampness is removed. WAIT! SEE! DRIVE! 19 4 1 DODGE Stunning Interior - - - Fluid Drive Smith Motor Co. FALL COIFFURES .... FOR THE WINTER SOCIALS AHEAD Be prepared for the social activities during the coming season; have us design a new permanent for you. You’ll be sure of always looking your best with one of our special waves. No matter how fine your hair, or how coarse, we’ll give .you the sort of wave you like best. Scalp treatments. “Oil Treated” Waves for dry hair and “Sun-Bleached” Hair! The Newbeny Beauty Shop M € IB B€KKY, SOUTH Phone C A K O 1 I ■ A 400 5th Floor Exchange Building Please Phone 476 Even to those of us who run a year behind in reading best sellers, the interesting and popular book “All This and Heaven Too” by Rachel Field is familiar. And since the mov ing picture from the book has made its rounds few are left who are not acquainted with this true story of a French governess, Henriette Des- portes, who after facing difficulty and hardships in her position in Paris, came to America, married Henry M. Field who was an American minister, editor, and author, and here found great happiness. Having read “All This and Heav en Too” for the second time this past July and having the luck of see ing the picture in Columbia a few days afterwards, I was all ears when Mrs. J. W. M. Simmons of Calhoun street told me that years ago she met Mrs. Field at a hospital in New York City and had at her house some- letters from her. I lost no time in going around to Mrs. Simmons’ and seeing the letters. Glancing at the date of the letters (she had destroy ed all but two) my expectations that they were from the heroine of the book were sha tered as the dates were September 2, 1893 and Decem ber 3, 1894. Henriette Desportes Field died in 1875. And the letters were signed “Frances Dwight Field”. Furthering inquiries as to how she knew the Fields, Mrs. Simmons said she had taken her son, Samuel Rook, to a hospital in New York. The Fields were visiting constantly in the ad joining room with a nephew, Harry W. Dwight. Mrs. Simmons and Mrs. Field became good friends and for sometime after leaving the hospital corresponded. In her letters Mrs. Field asked Mrs. Simmons to write to her in care of The Evangelist. Those of you, who read the book will remember that Mr. Field bought The Evangelist, a religious magazine, shortly after he married "the French woman. This was referred to in de tail in the book. Mrs. Simmons also had a clipping from The Evangelist along with the letters giving an ac count of the death of the nephew the Fields had been attending in the hospital. Our only solution to the “Mrs. Field problem” was that Henry M. Field had married a .second time. His first wife had died rather young DINNA FORGOT THE BILL There is always something to laugh at, even these days. We hear that in a big hotel in Scotland guests were invited to read the typed sheets of ARP instructions placed in the lounoes, and we ima gine that they cannot help smiling when they read the last paragraph which runs: “Dining-room customers who wish to go to the shelter should tell the waiter, who will present their bill immediately.”—The Children’s News paper, London. The Reason Willie: “Can’t you give me another name, mother?” Mother: “Why?” “My teacher is always saying she will keep me after school as sure as my name is Willie.” The two fishy little dictators of Europe are now swimming in their own juice. and at that was ten years his sen ior. Shortly after talking to Mrs. Simmons I wrote the author of the book, whose surname by marriage is Pederson, in care of the publishing house telling her of my findings and asking if Mr. Field married a second time. You will remember that Mr. Field was the author’s great-uncle. A couple weeks ago the following charming personal letter on blue stationery arrived from Beverly Hills California. September 9 ,1940. Dear Miss Armfield. Thank you so much for your very interesting letter. It took sometime to reach me because, thru a mis understanding, the publishers sent my mail to the coast of Maine instead of out here to California where I am living at present. Hence the delay. Your surmise about the Mrs. Hen ry M. Field that your friend, Mrs. Simmons, knew is correct. My great- uncle, Henry M. Field, remarried af ter Henriette’s death in 1875. His second wife, Frances Dwight, was a very charming and attractive woman and she helped to bring up a niece and nephew. (The latter was Harry W. Dwight.) So you see this all tallies with the letters and the ac count Mrs. Simmons gave you. Please let me thank you again for your interest and all the pleasant things you have said about my book. I am flattered that a busy newspaper woman like yourself should have read and approved of the story. Most sincerely, (Signed) Rachel Field Pederson. Refugee Is Here Vivacious is the best adjective we can think of to describe the little nine-year-old Scotch refugee girl, Jill Melford, who has been taken by I Mr. and Mrs. Tincy Davis for the duration of the European war. In an interview with her the day after she arrived in the city we found her in terested in so many things she found unusual here and there and too she was quite willing to tell reporters all about her trip over. Jill is the daughter of a well-known Scotch ac tor, Jack Melford now living in Lon don. Mr. Melford has been for years a friend of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Davis and through them the child was brought to Newberry. She was ac companied here by Mrs. Peter Davis who will remain until the middle of October. Jill said she arrived in New York City about siv weeks ago along with 160 other children from abroad. She told of taking in all the points of in terest in New York before coming South. Last Friday she enrolled at Bound ary street school and at present is in the fourth grade. Because her former studies and grading were so different from those here she will have here, it’s been difficult for teachers to decide just where to put her. The little girl is quite talented. She rides well qnd also plays the piano. She’s the best conversation alist for a child her age we’ve ever run across and she easily wins any listeners over with her perfect Eng lish as she smiles and constantly winks when anything delights her. Because of her winning ways, Jill has already made a host of friends here who will do all possible to make her stay pleasant. 1940 TAX NOTICE State and County Tax Books for the year 1940 will open October 1, 1940. One per cent discount will be al lowed on all taxes paid by October 30,1940, except the four (4) mills State Tax. Ralph 6. Black COUNTY TREASURER