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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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to meet you and wonders why!
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THE SPECTATOR ‘
All of us owe military service to
our countiy. I have no right to ex
pect my neighbor to make sacrifices
for me unless, I, too, am doing my
part, either in the military forces,
or in some civilian capacity worthy
of a citizen who recognizes his obli
gations.
The selective or conscript service
may be explained on this ground: the
military forces need men of all trades
and experiences. 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.
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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