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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1940
THE NEWBERRY SUN
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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.
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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
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... 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
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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
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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
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WELCOME
VISITORS
To The
Newberry County
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Oct. 28 - Nov. 2
We Write:
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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.
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