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/ Every Week More People Read The Sun 4* The Sun Strives To Serve The Whole People VOLUME 4; NO. 4 Training School Shows Good Attendance Despite the downpour of rain dur ing the afternoon and early part of the night the attendance at the open ing session of the Lutheran Leader ship Training school Tuesday evening of this week was good, in fact much better than was anticipated. It is the belief of those who have been connect ed with the school from its beginning that had the rainy weather not in terfered the largest attendance of any opening night would have been present. The school will continue in the church of the Redeemer with sessions on Thursday evening of this week and on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings of next week, beginning at 7:30 each evening. Anyone who may care to enter the school and work for credit may do so on Thursday even ing, provided they "•ill make up to the satisfaction of their teachers the lessons they missed on Tuesday even ing. If any care to attend the school for the information they may receive without working for credit they may do so and the school shall be glad to have them. , STUDENTS BAN SILK HOSE Queens College Girls Will Boycott Japanese Goods Charlotte, Nov. 12.—As far as Queens college students are concern ed, the silk worms can go on relief, or starve—for three months at least. After hearing Dr. Charles Judd, a medical missionary from China, the students decided not to buy any silk stockings for three months and not to buy any articles manufactured in Japan—as far as possible. The boarding students plan to forego ice cream at two dinners a week and contribute the cost of the desserts to maintenance of Gingling university in China. Day students and boarding stu dents will contribute one cent to the cause of Chinese relief for every five cent purchase made in the campus Y. W. C. A. store. These decisions were made at the chapel period today. Written pledges to the effect were placed on a bulle tin board and flocks of girls lined up to sign. Christianity Faces Fight For Its Life Bishop Thomas Believes Time Is Most Critical Since Mohammedan Invasion Kinjstree, Nov. 12.—“Since the Mohammedan invasion of Europe there has never been such a critical time for Christianity as there is to day,” said the Right Rev. Albert S. Thomas, D. D., bishop of the diocese of South Carolina, at his annual vis itation to St. Alban’s Protestant Episcopal church Sunday morning. He described world conditions today as “a great prairie fire that is sweep ing over civilization threatening to destroy t.” The burden of whether or not Christian civilization is to sur vive rests upon church people, he said. Bishop Thomas, taking his text from St. John 1:12, “And as many as received Him gave He the power to become—”, spoke of the power of “becoming” that decides man’s char acter, pointing out that man is akin to any part of nature, such as a tree, in that he must be eternally growing, reaching forth for the light, and developing. “Life”, he said, “is only a ‘becoming’—a growing, a develop ing.” The difference between man and the things of nature is that man has been endowed with a free will and must work out his own salvation, he pointed out, and the limit of man’s growth is determined by this. The bishop called attention also to the fact that no man has the right to sit in judgement upon man, not even upon one’s own self, but that right must be reserved for the Crea tor who sets a standard different from man’s in judging character, as exem plified by the parable of the Pharisee and the sinner. The point to be con sidered, he declared, is not how good a man is but how much he is develop ing in character and how earnestly he desires to grow—or “become”. The J>ishop conferred the rite of confirmation upon a class composed of Miss Lillian Alsbrook and Clar ence Alsbrook, Jr He presented each with a Bible and gave them for con sideration the text as found in I Cor inthians 10:13. The friends of Preston McAlhaney will be sorry to learn that he is a patient in the Greenville hospital in Greenville. The Rising Sun—1856-1860 NEWBERRY, S. C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1940 published weekly Miss Sullivan Pleases In Harp Recital Many See Parade On Armistice Day Better Citixens Plea Of State Baptists Joe Cromer On Bond Death of Mrs.?Harris Turkey Growers Meet In Columbia Today The first of a series of faculty re citals was given last Thursday even ing when Miss Jo Sullivan appeared in a harp recital at Holland Hall be fore an appreciative and enthusiastic audience which inclucl-jd many music lovers and celebrities from various parts of the state, among them being Mr. Hans Sehweiger, conductor of the Southern Symphony, and Mrs. J. Y. Perry, the efficient manager of the Columbia Music Festival concerts. Miss Sullivan’s playing is artistic and refined, her shading and fine tonal balance deserving special com mendation. The variety of tonal ef fects used also added greatly to the enjoyment of the concert and bore testimony to her knowledge of the harp, harp technique and harp litera ture. At the conclusion of the pro gram the audience insisted on sever al encores, a tribute to its enjoyment of the evening. Possibly the musical highlight of the interesting and var ied program was her playing of the delightful French folks song, “Le bon petit roi d’Yvetot,” as ..arranged by Grandjany. Miss Sullivan is scheduled to play twice in Columbia before Christmas holidays, having already appeared there once this fall. On Friday even ing of last week she was the guest of honor at a reception in Greenville, playing before an invited group of musicians who enthusiastically wel comed her into the musical life of the state.—P. E. OFFICERS OF YORK TOLD TO DELIVER FUNDS TO STATE Columbia, Nov. 12.—The supreme court today ordered the sheriff and treasurer of York county to remit to the state tax commission $1,700 which they had held after the sale by the county of confiscated liquor. The court’s order said that counsel for the county officials “with com mendable frankness” conceded that the provision in the county supply bill represented “special” legislation that could not be sustained as a ground for retaining the money. BIBLE SERVICES AT FREE-WILL BAPTIST CHURCH MOLLOHON The Free Will Baptist Church of Mollohon will begin a series of Bible services next Sunday November 17th. Rev. Willie Mae Abstance of Columbia will do the preaching. Ser vices begin each night at 7 o’clock and the song service will begin at 6:45. Everybody will be welcomedi. Larger Yield Forecast Peca.n Crop is Estimated at 85, 922.- 000 Pounds Washington, Nov. 12.—Continued improvements in the prospects of pe can fields in Texas and Oklahoma caused the agriculture department to day to raise to 85,922,000 pounds its forecast on the total production for 1940. The amount was 5 per cent larger than indicated on October 1, which in turn has been larger than predicted September 1. The expected 1940 yield in pounds in the principal pecan-pnoducing states included Georgia, 8,260,000; Alabama, 2,320,000; South Carolina, 1,276,000. Georgia led in the forecast of im proved varieties expected to be har vested with 7,682,000 pounds. BIG POWER UNIT MAY BE PURCHASED BY SANTEE-COOPER Columbia, Nov. 12. — Governor Maybank revealed today that nego tiations for the purchase by the San- tee-Cooper authority of properties of the Lexington Water Power com pany and the South Carolina Elec tric and Gas company would be re newed this week in New York. MRS. NANCY BISHOP Mrs. Nancy Cathrine Bone Bishop. 88, widow of J. Allen Bishop, died at her home Tuesday night after a ling ering illness. Funeral services were held at the residence at 3:30 today (Thursday) with the Rev. H. O. Chambers, assist ed by the Rev. A. E. Holler, officiat ing. Interment will follow in Rose- mont cemetery. Surviving are one son, F. H. Bishop, Newberry; four daughters, Mrs. M. L. Duckett, Mrs. W. W. Farrow, Mrs. L. W- Bedenbaugh, all of Newberry, and Mrs. J. F. Riser of Sanford, Fla.; ten grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Many citizens from all over Hie county gathered in Newberry Monday morning to witness the Armistice Day parade in commemoration of the sign ing of armistice at eleven o’clock on November 11, 1918. The parade formed at Smith Motoi company on Main street, and proceed ed to the World war monument on the square behind the Old Court House. Leading the parade was the Newberry Cotton Mill Band, then the Coast Ar tillery Unit of the National Guards, of which Tom Pope, Jr., is captain. The student bodies of all city schools marched next, and ending the parade were the World war Veterans. At the square, Prof. O. B. Cannon, superintendent of the city schools, made an address honoring the veter ans. The remainder of the program was cancelled because of rain. Following the parade, the Veterans and special guests gathered at the World war memorial home at the fair grounds for the annual armistice day banquet which was served by the Le gion Auxiliary. Chalmers Brown, commander of post No. 24, presided. The principal speaker at the ban quet was Oscar Doyle of Anderson, United States attorney for western South Carolina. Mr. Doyle was in troduced to the gathering by Jake R. Wise, service office of the Legion. The speaker pointed out that for 20 years the American Legion has advocated and adequate defense program and to day America realizes that the very things the Legion has been working for are peeded now. Approximately 200 veterans march ed in Monday’s parade. Local Post No. 24 now boasts of the largest member ship of its history. 3,283 In Fourth Corps Area Will Be Called * Atlanta, Nov. 12.—Fourth Corps army headquarters here announced today that 3,283 men in the eight states in the area would be called by December 13 for a year of military training under the selective service law. Of these 967 will be negroes. The number of men to be conscript ed from each state, with white listed first and negroes second follows: Alabama, 313 and 134; Florida, 242 and 99; Georgia, 286 and 126; Louis iana, 336 and 156; Mississippi, 2.8 and 183; North Carolina, 390 and 123; South Carolina, 126 and 69; and Ten- essee, 395 and IL The reception centers to which the men will be sent for preliminary training were announced as (all white unless otherwise indicated): Fort Barancas, 122; Fort Blanding, 242; Fort Bragg, 390 whites and 484 negroes; Fort McPherson, 477; Fort Oglethorpe, 395; Fort Shelby, 564 whites and 483 negroes, and Fort Jackson, 126. These quotas represent the first batch of the Fourth Corps area's share of some 800,000 trainees who will be summoned for service by next June 15. MOTHER-DAUGHTER BANQUET MOLLOHON SCOUTS On Saturday night, November 16th, at eight o’clock, will be held the an nual Mother-Daughter Banquet of Troop 3, Girl Scouts of America. The banquet will be at the Mollohon club house, and it is the occasion on which the Scouts honor their mothers. Guest speakers will be Mrs. J. H. Summer and Dr. Jas. C. Kinard. The Reverend Jas. B. Mitchell will pro nounce the invocation and Mr. Wilton Todd will be toastmaster. The mothers of Troop 3 are: Mrs. J. L. Boozer, Mrs. T. C. Burton, Mrs. R. B. Shealy, Mrs. Nannie E. Shealy, Mrs. H. C. Addy, Mrs. P. F. Smith, Mrs. J. F. Sessoms, Mrs. Walter Tur ner, Mrs. C. F. Huffstetler, Mrs. W. P. Oswald, Mrs. H. G. Wood, Mrs. Colie L. Cook, Mrs. E. L. Suit, Mrs. J. J. Kibler, Mrs. J. H. Martin, Mrs. E. M. Harmon, Mrs. H. B. Butler, Mrs. E. A. Howard, Mrs. W. L. Elli- sor, Mrs. Lillie Attaway, Mrs. Mary Willis, Mrs. Geo. W. Reeves, Mrs. H. D. Smith, Mrs. A. P. Boozer, Mrs Dupre Harmon, and Mrs. S. B. Tim mons. Other invited guest.3 include Scout master Hugh Moates, and Mrs. Moates, the Reverend J. B. Harman and Mrs. Harman, the Reverend Glenn Smith and Mrs. Smitn, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Tedford, Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss Shealy, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wise, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wallace, Mr. Wal ter Turner, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Har man, Jr. McFarland Sees Failure To Meet World Problems. Guyton Preaches Columbia, Nov. 12—A higher type of citizenship was declared to be the world’s greatest need by Dr. R. A. McFarland, of Rook Hill, in an add ress today to the opening session of the South Carolina Baptist convention of which he is president. Also on the opening program was the conventon sermon by the Rev. A. F. Guyton, of Holly Hill, and re ports from the general board, Bap tist Courier and Baptist book store. “Present civilization has failed to meet the world’s problems and needs,” Dr. McFarland said. “We need a civ ilization to handle the world’s prob lems and need in order to avoid such conditions as exist at present.” The answer to such a situation, he said, was to “gr®w a higher type of citizen” because “the need of the world today is high Christian citizen ship.” Dr. W. C. Allen, of Columbia, vice president of the Southern Baptist convention, called for more unity among Baptists in the South. More reports followed at the af ternoon and evening sessions. Offi cers will be elected tomorrow. The sessions, which will continue through Thursday, were in the First Baptist church. MAN WHO TOOK GOD IN AS PARTNER RISES TO RICHES An industrialist who says his board chairman and majority stockholder is God related in Chicago on October 23 how he rose from bankruptcy to a millionaire’s rating in 12 years. “I am convinced that man can make his best living as well as his best life in partnership with God,” R. B. Letourneau told an emergency conference of Christian business and professional men. Letourneau, who flew to Chicago in his own airplane, heads factories in Peoria, Georgia, and California, employing 2,000 men in construc tion of road-building machinery. “I had a little foundry back in the boom period that was doin a modest business,” be recalled. “Then the depression flattened me out. I was bankrupt and several thousands in debt. In my extremity I turned to the Lord for guidance. I promised a part of my income for missions. “I started going again on faith, not knowing how I would meet the payroll. It seemed I couldn’t make both the payroll and the pledge for missions, but each time prayer opened the way. “The Letourneau Foundation now owns 67.5 per cent of the 450,000 shares in the company and uses the income for missionary and evange listic purposes. Last year, with the Lord as chairman of our board, we made $1,816, 470 but that money didn’t go for private profit. Nine- tenths of it was used in spreading the teachings of the chairman of our board.” He said the foundation was rated at $13,000,000 and the company’s sales last year amounted to $17,- 731,325. JOSEPH LANE KIRKLAND MARINE APPLICANT Joseph Lane Kirkland, of this city was one of the 244 selected to stand the third nationwide examination for appointment as Cadet in the merchant marine which will be held Saturday. The successful candidates will be placed on a list of eligibles from which the commission makes appointment to United States merchant vessels. HELENA S RETIRING POSTMISTRESS MRS. ELIZABETH MELTON Joe Cromer, of this county, was held under bond, following Coroner’s inquest Tuesday night. The inquest was held to determine liability in the death of Mrs. Evelyn Harris who was killed on October 19 at the comer of Senn and Wright streets, West End. Thos. H. Pope, Jr., represented the Harris family and Blease and Grif fith represented Mr. Cromer. WEEK TO ENCOURAGE USE OF S. C. PRODUCTS November 18-23 has been proclaim ed “South Carolina Products Week” by the governor of the State, and it is hoped that South Carolinians will, within this period at least, ask for South Carolina products at the gro cery and dry goods stores. Newberry grocers handle many South Carolina products in cans which is of a very high quality and every can bought contributes just that mu<-h to the wel fare of the State. In the dry goods stores, too, may be found products of South Carolina mills. Most mer chants will be pleased to show you South Carolina goods. Remember to call for some South Carolina products next week. MANNING GUNNERS REPORT 20 KILLED ON HOLIDAY Manning, Nov. 12.—Armistice day proved a successful day for Manning hunters. They renort twenty deer killed in Black River and Santee swamps. Manning is midway be tween these swamps. Deer is reported to be plentiful. Renewed Efforts To Speed Defense Work Officials Confer on What is Believed to Be New Speed-up Efforts Washington, Nov. 12.—New efforts to speed-up hemisphere defense pre parations in collaboration with Latin American neighbors were indicated tonight after a meeting of the sec retaries of state, war and navy. The officials—Secretary of State Hull, Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Knox—would not specify the subjects discussed at the hour-long conference. The state department said it was a periodic survey. It was believed in well-informed quarters, however, that they review ed the progress made in defense ne gotiations with the other American republics and steps needed to advance the program with all possible speed. A sign of closer collaboration with Latin America was the announce ment that Vice President-elect Henry A. Wallace would represent Presi dent Roosevelt at the inauguration of General Avila Camacho as president of Mexico on December 1. The state department also disclos ed that President Roosevelt invited President Vargas of Brazil to pay a visit to this country and that Vargas had accepted in principle, although he had not set a date. Defense talks have been in progress with Mexico and the other Latin American nations. They have been proceeding quietly since the Havana conference last summer and were said to involve air, land and naval facilities available in each country for hemisphere defense, In connection with the possible use of naval and air bases of the other republics by the United States forces, Secretary Hull has emphasiz ed that the negotiations in no way contemplated any impairment or transfer of sovereignty. Setting an example for mutual use of defense facilities, the United States formally extended to the other American nations the right to use the naval and air bases for which sites recently were acquired from Great Britain in this hemisphere.' Other developments indicated the survey by the three cabinet members might have included Pacific defenses and the situation at the French island of Martinique in the Caribbean. NAZI LINER DESTROYED San Francisco, Nov. 12.—Uncon firmed private reports, one received by the Danish-Norwegian newspaper, Bien, said today the Bremen, Ger man’s great merchant ship, had been sunk several weeks ago off the Danish coast. A Danish family received a letter from relatives in Denmark saying the 49,864-ton Bremen was sunk in the Kattegat four miles north of Sjaelland, one of Denmark’s larger islands on which Copenhagen is sit uated. A meeting of all turkey growers in South Carolina has been called at 2.00 p. m. at the Jefferson hotel in Columbia, Friday, November 15, by W. C. Huffman of Newberry, South Carolina’s representative of the Na tional Turkey Federation, says Coun ty Agent Ezell, urging that every Newberry county farmer interested in turkeys be present. The purpose of this meeting, ac cording to the county agent, is to discuss the advisability of organizing a state turkey association and affi liating this organization with tne National Turkey Federation. The objects of the National Tur key Federation are: 1. To increase the consumption o*f turkeys. 2. To promote legislation favorable to the turkey industry. 3. To promote turkey-producer edu cation. ' 4. To assist in collecting and dis tributing news material about the turkey industry. 5. To work in general for the bene fit of the industry. Turkey raising is becoming a size able industry in South Carolina, and many turkey growers feel that a state association can be of consider able value in promoting the industry, Mr. Ezell says. UNION REPEATS WORLD WAR DRAFT RECORD Union, Nov. 12.—Union county re peats a unique patriotic record estab lished in the Word War by not hav ing to furnish a man in the first draft. Already her quota is filled, with 96 men over. Enlistment in the national guard and volunteers from here total 473 men. Thus she will be skipped over in the first call under the peace time selective service program. The county now has three military units in service. They are Company “E,” 118th Infantry, the Service Com pany, and 118th Infantry Band, and Co. “C,” Quartermaster Train. These outfits are stationed at Fort Jackson. Government Wants Translator, Inspectors Examinations for a translator of Portuguese or Spanish, Department of State, will be held soon, and appli cations must be in by December 9. Application forms may be obtained at the local posttoffice. The pay is $2,600 per year. The government also has open positions for inspectors of hardware, leather, wood products, china and glassware, stoves, and ranges, tents, sheet metal products, barkery and cafeteria equipment, table and kitchen utensils, paints, gas oline, oils, etc. The need is urgent for men to fill these latter positions. The pay is $1,800 to $2,000 per year. A written test is not required for these latter positions, buc applicants will be rated on their qualifications as set forth on their applications, and on other corroborative evidence. GIRLS TO TRY TEACHING Rock Hill, Nov. 12.—North and South Carolina schoolrooms will be visited by Winthrop seniors next week beginning November 18 as nearly 200 take over teaching jobs for a week in the annual teachers ex change. The teachers they displace will come to Winthrop for a week of observation and conferences. Santee Concrete Work Is Big Job Concrete used in the Santee-Coop- er project, totaling 300,000 cubic yards and much of it already plac ed, would go a long way in almost any sort of project. Public works ad ministration engineers, who say that the Santee concrete is as fine as any in the world, point out that this same amount of concrete would be enough for one such feat as: (1) Building a box to enclose a skyscraper, 100 feet square and 10,- 500 stories high. The box, with six- inch walls, would extend up twenty and one-half miles; or, (2) Stretching a sidewalk, four inches thick and four feet wide be tween Charleston and Los Angeles; or, (3) {filling a hole in the ground with concrete, twelve feet deep and one-half mile square. A monument with a five-ffoot square base and extending 40.7 miles up into the sky, could be built with the concrete in the lock. $1.00 PER YEAR DOWN MEMORY LANE 20 YEARS AGO November seems to be the month for babies in Newberry, as they fol low each other in quick succession. On Monday night a nine pound girl ar rived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Cromer and on Tuesday night a boy of 8 1-2 pounds appeared at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hal Kohn. Hal has been advertising that “Miss Min erva’s Br.by” has arrived. Now be tween Miss Minerva’s baby and his own baby he will be busier than ever. Congratulations to the mail carrier and the book seller, two popular per sons with popular jobs. The most earnest efforts are being made by Republicans to induce Presi dent-elect Harding to appoint former President William H. Taft to the sup reme court in suecesssion of Chief Justice White, who will shortly retire, for the purpose of safely disposing of him without damage to tihe organi zation. The change is expected early in the Harding administration. We understand the state highway department is now preparing to-be- gin repairs on the portion of the road that has been taken over by the de partment from Prosperity to Little Mountain. Pity the road from New berry to Prosperity could not be put in condition for its acceptance by the department so that it might be taken over also; for it does not improve and is now generally conceded to be the worse piece of main highway in the county, taken as a whole. And it could be made a fine road with just a little of the proper sort of work, and would cost very little in propor tion for maintenance. S. C. Baptists Open State Convention Columbia, Nov. 12.—A higher type of citizenship was declared to be the world’s greatest need by Dr. R. A. McFarland of Rock HH1 in an address today to the opening session of the South Carolina Baptist convention, of which he is president. Also on the opening program was the convention ^sermon by the Rev. A. F. Guyton of Holly Hill and reports from the general board. Bap tist convention, of which he is store. Dr. W. C. Allen of Columbia, vice president of the Southern Baptist convention, called for more unity among Baptists in the South. More reports followed at the af ternoon and evening sessions. Offi cers will be elected tomorrow. The sessions, which will continue through Thursday, were in the First Baptist church. SEEN ABOUT TOWN Judge Eugene S. Blease asking your scribe to please leave his name out of the paper—o. k., judge—June Wise parking his car—Rev. James Mitchell waiting for bus to come in—The in spiring spectacle made during the ar mistice day parade when the many flags carried by school children were seen, all waving in one direction, blown by the wind—Little George Lip scomb, four year old son of Mr. ajvd Mrs. E. M. Lipscomb, at the Newber- ry-Union football game Fridry night, helping the cheering section by yell ing “We gotta have a touchdown!”— Frank Sanders wearing a new sweat er, and being kidded about throwing his money away on sweaters when he would soon be wearing uniforms— Mrs. Wilton Todd carrying a load of children from Mollohon school to town Monday for the parade—“Cricket” Harmon getting memberships for Red Cross—Mrs. Fred Dominick coming to town Monday when the rain started to see about her daughters, Doris and Joan—Two small boys standing on College street, one beating toy drum, and asking the other “What makes you say this isn’t a real drum?” Little Gene Griffith going to rose gar den and cutting lovely rosebuds for a friends—Mrs. Fitzgerald Rutherford stopping by Sun office to bring your scribe a pamphlet—Celebrating birth day anniversaries this week are the following: G. Leland Summer, Nov. 16; Dr. E. D. Kerr, Nov. 17; Charles E. Summer, Sr., Nov. 18; R. E. Sum mer, Nov. 19; Mrs. H. O. Newman, Nov. 20; Doris Armfield, Nov. 20; Gurnie R. Summer, Nov. 21; Mrs. Edith Wright, Nov. 21; Mrs. P. E. Way, Nov. 17; Mrs. Mary Livingston, Columbia, Nov. 17; Doris Hipp, Nov. 19; J. Oliver Havird, Nov. 15.