University of South Carolina Libraries
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1940 THE NEWBERRY SUN I 1 Classified Ads | <_ i FOR SALE OR RENT—modern home. Going to Flofida. Prefer to sell, but would consider renting. Five large rooms, hall, bath, storage room, two closets, built-in feautres. Porches, garage, and garden space. Apply IMMEDIATELY. DORA SHELVIN 718 Glenn Street Itp Newberry, S. C. WANTED—Veals, Cows and Hogs; also your Cow Hides. Se us before you sell. The Newberry Abattoir. FOR SALE—Registered Poland China Boars and gills at reasonable prices H. O. LONG 13-4t Silverstreet, S. C. FOR SALE—I have seed barley, oats, and wheat grown from pedigreed seed. See me before you buy. H. O. LONG 13-4t Silverstreet, S. C. ROOMS FOR RENT—One furnished or two unfurnished. Please call after three o’clock. Phone 49-W. 1621 Harrington Street. 3t FOR SALE—Second hand Deering Mower and one second hand two- horse wagon. O. H. Lane. Phone 5602. FOR RENT — Private apartment, downstairs. Call Mrs. D. J. Taylor, Phone 468. 9-13-tf MODERN HOME FOR SALF—Close in. Five large rooms, two bath rooms, two closets, back hall, beautiful floors, built-in features, cement porches. 12x20 garage, ve getable garden, Shrubbery. Practi cally new. Write “A. Z.”, Care the Sun, Newberry, S. C. FOR RENT—5 room furnished home. modern in every respect; in good section. Apply to Mrs. Harrietts L. O’Donnell, 513 Boundary St. 3tc SEED GRAIN FOR SALE I have made arrangements with The Ruff Bros., Agents for Allis Chalmers machinery, Newberry, S. C. to handle my seed grain. Clemson Strain Beardless Barley $1.25 per bu. Marretts Strain Beardless Barley $1.25 per bu. Coker’s Fulgrain Oats . .$ .75 per bu. Cokers Redheart Wheat $1.50 per bu. ALL SEED RECLEANED AND IN FIRST CLASS CONDITION Please call on these boys and get good reliable seed to plant at reasonable prices. Their place .near The Stand ard Warehouse Co. H. O. LONG, 3-50-tf Silverstreet, S. C. TAX NOTICE The tax I woks will be open fox - col lection of 1940 taxes on and after October 1, 1910. The following is general levy for all except special purposes: Mills Ordinary County 13 Bonds, Notes and Interest .. . 17'4 Roads and Bridges 2 Hospital ’A School — State 3 County School 5% County Board of Education .. I State 1 TOTAL 43 The following are the authorized special levies ror the various school districts of the county: Dist. No. Mills 1. Newberry 17 2. Mt. Betlhel-Garmany 5 3. Maybinton 2 I 4. Long Lane 5 5. McCullough 5 6. Cromer 0 8. Rejig in 10 9. Deadfall 10 10. Utopia 10 11. Hartford 8 12. Johnstone 5 13. Stony Hill 6 14. Prosperity 15 15. O’Neall 8 18. Fair view 4 19. Midway 4 21. Central 4 22. St. Phillips 8 23. Rutherford 4 24. Broad River 4 25. New Hope-Zion 4 26. Pomaria 12 27. Red Knoll 6 28. Helena 4 29. Mt. Pleasant 8 30. Little Mountain 16% 31. Wheeland 3 32. Union 6 33. Jolly Street 8 34. St. Paul 2 35. Peak 4 37. Mudlic 6 38. Vaughnville 6 39. Chappels 6 40. Old Town 10 41. Dominick 8 42. Reederville 10% 43. Bush River 10% 44. Smyrna 10% 45. Trinity 10 46. Burton • 10 47. Tranwood 10% 48. Jalapa 8 49. Kina ids 2 50. Tabernacle 8 51. Trilby 4 52. Whitmire 15 53. Mollohon 4 54. Bebh-Eden 5 55. Fork 8 57. Belfast 6 58. Silverstreet 14 59. Pressley 4 60. St. John 4 There will be a one per cent (1%) discount on general County taxes through October 30, 1940. On and after January 1, 1941, the Penalties prescribed by law will be imposed on unpaid taxes. You are requested to call for your taxes by School Districts in which property is located. The Treasurer is not responsible for unpaid taxes not called for by districts. Those who had their dogs vaccinat ed for rabies during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940 by one author ized by law, and expect to be exemp ted from dog tax will please bring their certificates of vaccination when appearing to pay taxes. RALPH B. BLACK, Treasurer Newberry County. Wealth of Nation Ascribed To Those Who Ventured In Industry BY SPECTATOR Cotton is higher now than last year, notwithstanding our exports of the great staple during August and Sep tember of this year are the lowest in 60 years. Exports have been declin ing for years, but even in August and September of 1939 we sent abror d 870,000 bales, as compared with 125,- 000 bales this ye.;r. The ten-year av erage is nearly 1,000,000 bales. When according to the gloomy pre dictions of last year cottor should be selling for four or five cents, how can we account for a price substantially hi-rher than last year? It must be recalled that last year no one expect ed to see Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France under the heel of the conqueror. Belgium and France were good customers of ours, but our recent exports have been to Britain, Canada and Japan — the European market being shot to pieces literally. What is holding up the market, ev en with strength and vigor? The in crease in the domestic market, of course. Well, what is stimulating do mestic demand? Why are we using more cotton in the United States? An organization known as the Nat- ( ional Cotton Council came into being ! in 1938 under the leadership of a great farmer, who is a great man. Under his guidance the cotton inter ests of the cotton states were organ ized to promote use of cotton. By resourceful publicity, sales arguments and constant laboratory research cot ton is coming back. From this sta tion I have talked about that organi zation. Chemists, engineers, practi cal builders and others are seeking new uses for cotton, while appeals are being made to the ladies to use cotton goods. These appeals are not just petitions to save the crop upon which the South depends; with rare merchandising skill manufacturers, garment-makers, merchants—and all cotton interests, have united to make cotton a more attractive and salable product. The National Cotton Council main tains a research organization known as the Cotton Research Foundation which collaborates with the Mellon Institute in its experiments with cot ton. The Research Foundation hds worked out a cotton tire cord after three years of experimentation, which is said to have a flexing life nearly three times longer than best tire cord now on the market. It has low sensitivity to heat and moisture and 35 per cent greater breaking strength than standard cords now in use. It is said that the new tire cord would be particularly adaptable to high speed and heavy duty truck and bus tires. This new use for cotton is regarded as a major forward step in a field in which 750,000 bales are now being us ed aflnually. The laboratory men in telling about this new use for cotton indulge in a bit of high brow language which many of our audience will un derstand; and the rest of us can at least enjoy the music of the words. Says one of them: “Long chain nature of the basic cellulose molecules is un impaired and consequently it. is able to withstand the extreme heat and shocks of heavy duty usage. The un altered long-chain cellulose mole cules prevent the plastic flow effects and also lessen the danger from cord brittleness when the tire tiecomeT hot.” Who would have imagined that our old stand by. cotton, would be treated to all that flow of words? This is the age of the chemist and the man of physics. A great enter prise of our nation speaks constantly of better living through chemistry. The chemist has made all of us his debtor in a thousand details of even our routing living. In the formative days of the Na tional Cotton Council I was telling a group about the proposed study of cotton in several laboratories and let ting my imagination have free course, when a friend of scientific training rose in the meeting and threw a buck et of very cold water on me and my talk by saying “Oh well, after all, you know that the basis of cotton is cellulose; you can’t get away from that,” Truly, but who knows what cellulose is? Who knows what poten tialities lie within even a cotton stalk, not to mention cotton seed and lint? I happen to be chairmen of a sub committee of the Council on labora tory research into cotton. Last Feb ruary I heard of studies being made by various great laboratories and left New Orleans not only wit! hope but full of assurance that through dis covery of new uses and through sti mulated merchandising our Southern staple need not depend forever on foreign demand; but that our great crop may be consumes here at home It is a crop worth saving. We can’t compete with other sections in their specialties, without glutting the na tional market; but we should try to save and develop the crop which our climate, our soil, and our people are best adapted to. The genius of America expresses itself in mass production. Mass pro duction is dependent on the most ex pensive machinery, which means that our American business is built on capital invested in machmery. Our business is planned for a national and world-wide market not local markets; therefore we enjoy the economies of large-scale production. What we en joy is lower prices and lower prices are what the up-to-date manufactur er tries to introduce. It is interest ing to speculate on some possibilities. We Americans buy 9,000,000 radios in a year at an average price of $31 each—a total annual expenditure of $279,000,000. If the average price were reduced $2 there would be $18,- 000,000 left over for other things. This would buy 3,600,000 pairs of shoes at $5 a pair, or 3,600 houses at $5,000 each. The probability is that industry could do this, and enlarge our enjoyment of the things of life, but in spite of industry’s effort to reduce prices, all the elements of cost are constantly rising. For ex ample, since 1930 tin has gone up 21 per cent; rubber 27 per cent; wool 33 per cent; finished steel 10 per cent; wages 25 per cent; and taxes 100 per tides sell for less today than in 1930. Industry offsets many increases by constantly improving its machinery. Machines must be constantly better. Unfortunately we have allowed so many crackbrain theories to thrive here that people are afraid to invest. That means that our machinery is getting old. In 1925 , 44 per cent of our machine tools were 10 years old; in 1935 65 per cent were ten years old; in 1940 it is 70 per cent. Two- thirds of the machine tools are more than 10 years old! 67 per cent of our steam engines are more than 20 years old! More than 50 per cent of all production machines in the textile industry are fifteen years old! Old or obsolete machines operate at a higher cost per unit than the latest machinery. If we can persuade, or induce, a flow of investment, capital, and re-assure industry so that it may go ahead unafraid, we can greatly re duce the cost of much that we use, therefore making it possible for more people to enjoy them. America be came rich through the hazards of in vestment and it can regain lost ground by looking at conditions sen sibly, Some of our public men are so afraid that someone will get rich that they prefer that we should all die in poverty together. We didn’t get all the good things we have •• • curtailing or browbeating, rather they came from letting people try their wings. Most were failures, but the few who succeeded not only be came rich but they enriched our country and contributed enormously to the most abundant life which is a desirable social goal of each of us. When we think of the millions a few men made in oil; or the colossal fortunes made in steel and automo biles, let us remember that the men who succeeded were a small percent age of all those who tried. Our busi ness history is full of failures, but the few great successes have been a beacon to all aspiring spirits and so have made possible our abundance of all good things. Boiled down to es sentials it amounts to this, the world progresses through the lepdership of exceptional people. Through their work the common level is raised. If we discourage this leadership, or deny it the broad range of opportunity we shall impede the march of pro gress, for the world will never prog ress through a spontaneous upsurge of the great majority. Who pays the taxes? The whole tax business is unduly hard on some and too easy on some. A man own ing land and houses may have his land lying out and his town houses vacant, but his taxes go on just the same. l*m told thait the English don’t tax vacant houses. Even if that is so, I shouldn’t swap with a British landlord just now. But who really pays these taxes? Some one has burned a lot of midnight oil and dug up these facts: If every dollar of income of persons receiving more than five thousand dollars a year were taken—all of it, mark you—the grand total would pay the cost of our nation, state, county and town gov ernments about six months. So clearly, the rich don’t pay it all, even overlooking the fact that a man with five thousand dollars or ten thousand dollars a year is hardly a rich man. Still he looks very comfortable to those with incomes of $1,200. Some genius has worked it out that we spend more for taxes than for food. One man figured it out that our various governments in this coun try cost last year what amounts to 42 cents out of every dollar spent in retail purchases during 1939. Many business concerns pay more to government in taxes than they pay to stockholders in dividends. Taking 150 big corporations together they paid in 1937 $2.62 per share in taxes, but only $1.95 per • share dividend. That looks like sharing the wealth, doesn’t it? Except that the man who invests his savings comes out at the small end. Russell Culbertson, student at the University of Georgia, spent the week end with his parents on Crenshaw street. Virginia Hayes, who attends Lander College in Greenwood, spent the week end with her parents. 377 MEMBERS - OF COUNCIL OF FARM WOMEN MEET FRIDAY The Newberry County Council of Farm women held its regular fall meeting with Silverstreet and Trin ity clubs at the Silverstreet High School auditorium, Ocober 18. Mrs. Robert Glymph, Jr., called the meeting to order and the opening hymn was “Holy, Holy, Lord God Al mighty”. The devotional was con ducted by Miss May Lou Ballentine, who used Matthew 15:29-39 for her Scripture reading. Mrs. G. P. Saye gave a hearty wel come and Mrs. George Richardson responded appreciatively for the wel come so courteously extended. Dr. S. J. Derrick gave a timely ad dress on “The World of Today.” He showed the great need on the part of farm women for courage and wis dom in order to be able to meet con ditions as they do exist and as they may be in the future. The council sang “Carolina”. Miss Lonnie I. Landrum talked on “The Women’s Part in a National Defense Program”. She stressed the X X “When the Frost Is on the Pumpkin ...” ... It’S FAIR TIME In Newberry Come in while at the Fair and “hang around” with us. We have been supplying the farmers of New berry county for many years and we rejoice to know that crops are good this year. Call on us for any thing we can supply. Johnson- M’Crackin Co. FARM SUPPLIES Implements and Tractors X I .x_xwx<-x-x-x-x-x~x-x~x-x«-;ri~:-;-:~x.-:“>x-<:“X~:“:-:->:~x-x-x-x-x-X“X<-xx<«x<*x««x*x><M>c>o Live at Home Program and urged the farm women to do everything they could to carry that program out. Fifteen club presidents gave their plan of work for the year 1940-41. The New Hope-Zion chorus sang two selections, which were enjoyed by the council members. Then “God Bless America” was sung. After Mrs. Paul Long, president ot the county council gave her plan of work for the new year, “America” was sung. A bounteous and delicious lunch was served by the Silverstreet and Trinity clubs. After lunch, Mrs. John Earl Smith gave the report of the Courtesy Com mittee. The children of Silverstreet school presented “The Tiny Tot Cir cus” and “Mothers of All Nations”. They were thoroughly enjoyed by the 277 members present. The spring meeting will be held with the Bush River and Vaughnville clubs. STOVE TIME! If you are going to buy a stove this winter come in and select one from our large stocks and let us in stall it properly ... Be ready when the cold weather comes. SIMMONS Wood Burners f In addition to many other kinds of stoves, we handle the famous line ot SIMMONS WOOD BURNERS. Let us tell you about this trouble- free stove which burns any kind of wood and gives even heat day and night . . . it’s automatic and most economical to operate. R. M. LOMINACK HARDWARE XnXK“X»X“X»XXK“>X*X*X~X*OO<X*X>0<X>OO >x>oooo WELCOME VISITORS To The Newberry County F A_l R Oct. 28 - Nov. 2 We Write: FIRE, LIFE, TORNADO HAIL & RAIN LIVESTOCK AUTOMOBILE & Other forms of Insurance LET US FINANCE YOUR NEXT CAR Newberry Insurance & Realty Co. E. B. PURCELL, President Phone 197 Exchange Bldg. X*X - <X«« - X««<«’*X*