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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN rniUAY. NOVEMBER 12. 1940 Get The Money You Need! Borrow on Your Car At Very Low Rates That’s the best way to borrow money — use your car as a security and drive while you pay. Our service will please you and then, too, you’ll save by investigating our new plan with the lowest rates in our history. Call us or come by our office and let us explain how you save with us. $6 per $100 per year Insurance Service YOU WILL FEEL SAFE WHEN THE FIRE ALARM SOUNDS5IF YOUR HOME OR BUSI NESS IS FULLY COVERED WITH INSURANCE. COME IN AND TALK INSURANCE WITH US. Newberry Ins. .& Realty Co. E. B. PURCELL, President MILLIONS SPENT OVER STATE FOR DEFENSE WORKS Over $72,000,000 Poured Into South Carolina by Government Washington, Nov, 18.—Value of contracts awarded to South Carolina indiustry solely for defense purposes soared to more than $72,000,000 by November 1, the national defense commission reported today in its first survey of the distribution of defense awards. Dividing the state into four re gions, the defense commission desig nated them as the Anderson, Fort Jackson, Charleston and Parris Island areas. Charleston, due to shipbuild ing activities, was by far the greatest beneficiary of the national defense drive. The survey represents the spread of primary defense contracts thru- out the industrial structure of the nation. However, sub-contracts by which raw materials and sub assemb lies are provided the main contrac tor are not known. Over the State South Carolina’s contracts are re presented by the commission as fol lows: Anderson area—$427,000 for con struction purposes other than ship building: $214,000 for airplane en gines and engine parts; $1,486,000 for all other manufacturing including textiles; total $2,127,000. Charleston area—$53,920,000 for ship construction: $1,483,000 for other construction; $75,000 for incidental manufacturing: total, $60,473,000. Fort Jackson area—$5,637,000 for building construction; $20,000 air plane engines or parts; $137,000 for other manufacturing including tex tiles; total, $5,794,000. DRAFT AND WAR FEAR INCREASE HOSPITAL BURDEN Williams Asks More Funds As Crowd, ed Institution Now Beyond Capacity Columbia. Nov. 18.—The war, the draft, and the fears of this country’s involvement in the conflict have al ready been reflected in the number of persons who are mentally sick, Supt. C. Feed Williams of the State Hospi tal told the budget commission today. This was one of several reasons Dr. Williams gave as he reauested a larger appropriation for the fiscal year beginning next July 1. Insecurity Increases Worries “Already the draft and the fear of war have broken people down,” he said. “Insecurity of any kind increases our troubles.” Williams asked for a direct main tenance appropriation of $1,317,269. compared with $1,255,872 provided now. He also proposed that $540,000 be provided for additional buildings at the already over-crowded institu tion. He suggested that some of this he used to provide at the State Train ing School ffor feeble-minded) at Clinton for the care of mental defec tives now handled at the State Hospi tal here. He explained that at the hospital there were now about 300 negroes mentally deficient and who, under law, Should not be at the institution. He Makes Distinction He differentiated between the “mentally sick,” for whom the State Hospital is operated, and the "men tally deficient.” The state provides for the care of 600 white mental de fectives at Clinton but for no ne groes of this category and if the ne gro mental defectives at the hospital could be moved elsewhere it would help relieve over-crowded conditions, Williams said. _ Persons who are “mentally sick’, he explained, are ones in whose brains changes have taken place, while the mentally deficient are born with in adequate mental equipment. In explaining his proposed budget the superintendent said rising prices would mean, according to the esti mates, that the per capital patient cost of running the institution would go up to 77 cents a day from the pres ent 74 cents. He warned against cutting down saying the patients would feel it and it would be false economy. 800 Over Capacity The hospital’s capacity is 3,752 pa tients, Williams said, but he report ed the present population was 4,573. He said nothing was more expensive than over-crowding because, he claim ed, it operated against recovery of patients. “Over-crowding is the worst evil you can have,” he said. Williams estimated that in 1941-42 the average daily population of the institution would rise -o 4,752. SOCIAL REGISTER SHOWS ROOSEVELTS TO STAY New York, Nov. 18.—Long before the November election determined their 1941 domicile, President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave their address for the 1941 New York social register as “The White House, Washington, D. C.’ Address blanks for the book, now being distributed to subscribers, had to be returned by the first week in October. • Mr. and Mrs. Wendell L. Willkie are listed as living here on Fifth ave nue, as last year. Dropped from the register is Rich ard A. Knight, an attorney vho stood on his head at the opening of the Metropolitan opera last year. Knight explained at the time that his acro batics were induced by the “divine singing” of Elizabeth Rothberg. POST OFFICE WILL CLOSE Postmaster G. K. Dominick an nounced that the post office will be closed on Thanksgiving day, Novem ber 21, except for the hours between 8:45 and 9:45 a. m., when the gen eral delivery and stamp windows will be open. There will be no city deliveries on that day. Society and CLUB NOTES By DORIS ARMFIELD IS THIS YOU? Miss Lois Fant was one winner of a quart of ice cream from Stokes’ Drug store last week. The other person described as Mrs. Herman Wright, who did not call for her tick et. First description of the week: An auto dealer, who was kind enough to give this reporter a ride Tuesday morning in one of his new cars. He was wearing his work clothes, blue trousers, brown sweater, and gray felt hat. He wears glasses. Second description: A lady who lives at a local hotel. She is very of ten seen walking, in the sunshine. She is rather, but not too large, in sta ture, and has white hair,, and most always wears black. If either of these persons described above should be you, come by the Sun office before Tuesday and receive your ticket entitling you to one quart of ice cream from Stokes’ Drug store with compliments of Stokes’ and The Sun. KRYL SYMPHONY To the lovers of good music, the Kryl symphony orchestra, which gave two performances Friday, was indeed a thrill, a thrill as only a music lover can get from hearing such an orch estra. Many of us were so delight ed with the Southern Symphony orch estra last year, which played here un der the direction of the comparative ly young, but very talented, Hans Schweiger. This year, those who made it possible for the Kryl Sym phony to come to Newberry gave us a much better known conductor, though we hesitate to admit that his directing or his orchestra is much better than our own Southern Sym phony. We do like the suggestion of Kryl’s music as given in* the Philadelphia Ledger, and from this we quote: "At times the music seemed al lost to die away, leaving only the echoes of the pines of Pan, and then again it swell ed with all the fury of a mountain stream, to a volume and mellowness of a great pipe orgf n.” Certainly this is true of Kryl’s mu sic. From the brilliant Overture to “Tannhauser,” the beautiful harp, violin, and vocal solos, to the encores, the audience was very quiet, each one enjoying the music. As for the fav orite selection of the evening, it were graciously entertained Thursday afternoon by Mrs. Sloan Chapman at her home on College street. Bright yellow chrysanthemums added a fes tive touch to the rooms where the tables were laid. Mrs. Joe Feagle was lucky winner of high prize, while Mrs. George L. Epps and Mrs. L. G. Eskridge drew bingo. Late in the afternoon, the hostess served a salad couse with hot tea. MEETING OF HOSPITAL AUXILIARY POSTPONED The members of the Hospital Aux iliary are asked to notice that the monthly meeting will not be held Thursday, November 21, on account of Thanksgiving. The meeting time will be announc ed later. FOR RENT—Apartment wth private bath. 1000 College street. Phone 22-W, LOST—Billfold, Saturday, Nov. 16 in business section of Newberry. Con taining about $40.00 and drivers lic ense. Last seen in R. M. Lominack Hdwe. Return to W. A. Hipp or to Police Headquarters. Reward. R. P. Fair returned to the Hotel Wiseman Saturday from the Colum bia hospital wrtiere he has been a pa tient for two weeks. CLUB ENTERTAINED WITH DINNER PARTY The Wallace Home on Calhoun street was the scenb of a delightful dinner party which was given for members of the Evening Bridge club by Mrs. Don Rook Wednesday night. Before the game a delicious three course turkey dinner was served. Guests of the club were Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hopke otf Charleston, and Mrs. Clem Youmans. High prizes for ladies was won by Mrs. Richard Baker, high for men by E. M. Lipscomb. Mrs. Youmans and Steve Griffith drew bingo. Chrysanthemums made a floral set ting in the attractive Wallace Home. CUW* cuts oittan exports DRAFTEES TO WAIT ON QUESTIONNAIRES TO ASK DEFERMENT Mrs. Charles Ruff, and daughter. Dot, will spend Thanksgiving with Mrs. Ruff’s mother, Mrs. A. Steven son at Wrnnsboro. Columbia, Nov. 18.—Requests for deferment of registrants under the selective service system should not be made until after questionnaires have been received by the registrants, state headquarters for selective ser vice said today. Deferment will not be considered by the local boards until actual classi fication is begun, Gen. Holmes B. Springs, state director said. Under the regulations, local hoards must classify registrants according Bo the order established by the na tional lottery unless they volunteer, Springs said. NATIONS AT WAR' BUT WAB MATERIAL— Cotton piles A European war criais that haa caused a draatic reduction in cotton exports this season, will be on farmera’ minds as they go to the polla on Stmrday, December 7, to cast their ballots on the uae of cotton mmrketinc quotas for 1941. During the first three months of the present markeUng season, the United States exported less than *00,000 bales of cotton, as compared with about 1,750,000 bales for the same period last A two-thirds majority of cotton farmera, voting in this and 18 otnor state* in the cotton belt, is required to put quotas Into effect. I Mrs. John Ruff and daughter, Ju lia Katherine, will spend Thanksgiv ing with Mrs. Ruff’s mother, Mrs. Ju lia Long in Winnsboro. William Charles Ruff, of Saluda, spent Sunday in the home of his Bar ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ruff in the county. THURSDAY EVENING BRIDGE CLUB Mr. and Mrs. Ed MeCracMn were host and hostess to the meeting of the Thursday Evening Bridge club last week at their attractive apart ment on Walnut street. Chrysanthe- , , , , , . _ - mums were used for a floral setting would probably be a different one for . n rooms where tables were laid person, for each person almost every has different likes and dislikes in al most anything and surely music is no exception. As for this reporter, she favored the Overture to “Tannhaus er” and the vocal encore by Miss Katherine Landry, the “Oastenet Song” from Carmen. The orchestra under the direction of Bohumir Kryl delighted us, but (and we still admit we may be partial because of meeting Hans Schweiger and knowing how wonderful he is off stage as well as on) we hope that we have the Southern Symphony come to Newberry next year. MRS. FRANK WILSON ENTERTAINS EMERY Mrs. Frank Wilson entertained the Emery Circle Friday morning at the Wallace Home. Several guests were invited to play rook with members of the club. Snapdragons alnd chry santhemums decorated the rooms where six tables were laid for rook. Mrs. C. A. Calcote and Mrs. H. L. Parr were Invited for the sumptuous three course dinner which was served at one o’clock. MRS. HOPKE GUEST AT BRIDGE CLUB Mrs. H. W. Hopke, of Charleston, who is visiting her daughter, Mrs. John Clarkson, was guest of the bridge club entertained Friday mom. ing by Mrs. C. C. Hutto. The rooms were attractively decorated with chrysanthemums. Prizes went to the following: High for guests, Mrs. Steve Griffith; high for club, Mrs. John Clarkson; bingo, Mrs. Clem Youmans. The hostess presented Mrs. Hopke with a gift of remembrance. After cards were laid aside, - the guests enjoyed assorted sandwiches with iced drinks. MRS. CHAPMAN ENTERTAINS ONCE-A-WEEK CLUB The members of the Once-A-Week Club, and two guests, Mrs. E. M. Lipscomb and Mrs. George L. Epps, for contract. After several progressions, Ml McCrackin served a chicken sah course with coffee. Mrs. William Patridge and John Lide were high scorers. Arthur Well ing drew bingo. DEBUNKING FALSE PROPHETS The country’s self-appointed re formers have been telling us that advertising raises the cost of liv ing. Let’s see. Let’s take an ex ample that everybody is familiar with. Cast your mind back to what you knew or what your parents knew of the automobile of the first few years of the century. Then a big, heavy, unreliable gas eater could be bought, without top, windshield, horn or spare tire, for from $2,000 to $6,000. Few people bought this expensive lux ury. But automobile makers saw a vis ion, a nation on wheels. They adver tised persistently. More people bought. As production went up, the cost to make each car came down. Part of the savings was put into inprovement. Part went into contin ued advertising. Part went to the pub. lie in lower prices. Again more peo ple bought these better cars for less money. And so it went, year after year. Continued advertising, production and value up, cost and price down, until today you buy an infinitely better, more efficient car, complete, for less than half of the lowest price of a few years ago. The same is true of the refrigera tor, vacuum cleaner, washing ma chine, oil burner, radio, electric light bulb; of packaged foods, clothes, and many another product that will come to your mind as you think this over. Advertisihg, says Nation’s business, has helped mass selling and 1 made possible mass production, which cuts the cost and brings the price within the reach of the average family.—Na tion’s Business. LET 1 NEWBERRY ✓ vs Wofford Thanksgiving Day Let The College Know You Will Provide Transportation To Spartanburg For Some Students. PHONE NOW! .-a