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PAGE POUR THE NEWBERBT gUN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1940 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year One Dollar Published every Friday Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. —AND SO HE FIGHTS FOR UNCLE SAM Better than a heavy sermon, better than a long and involved discourse on Americanism, is a little story. It happened in Camden, N. J. A boy came to the recruiting office to enlist in the Army Engineering Corps. His father proudly walked with him. Anton Schmager was the father’s name. He knew what war was about, for just 22 years ago he was in one. He was a machine-gunner with a German outfit on the Somme. So, when he presented his boy to uie examining board, he knew exactly what he was doing. So did the officer. Lieut.-Col. Lee Sumner was also on the Somme, on the other side He and Schmager may actually have fired at one another in those days. They understood. Schmager is one of those men on whom Nazi Germany believes it should exercise some hold. He is one of those men of German blood whom the German organizations concerned with “Germans abroad” would like to control. But Schmager is not having any of that. His boy Rudolph is going into the American army, to fight if nec essary. for the country his father has adopted, and which is his own country. ^ Rudolph is an American, ready to do his duty. Anton is an American ready to help him do it. This sort of thing must be the des pair of those who insist that the call of race and blood must always be stronger than the call of country. It must baffle those who insist that a man may pm to a foreign land, as sume its citizenship, and yet remain loyal to the land from which he stem med. It is not the American way. The thousands of fine American soldiers of German ancestry and blood who fought in every war from the Revo lution on down to the war against Kaiserism, give it the lie every day, every hour. The best Americans are often those who have but recently tasted despot ism abroad. The love of freedom is often stronger within them than in those of us who take it for granted. We don’t know him, but we’ll bet that Rudolph Schmager, son of a German machine-gunner on the Som me, will be a fine American soldier. —Union Times. OUR SPENDING SPREE During the past seven and a half years state governments have been spending with a free hand, emulat ing the action ot the federal authori ties in Washington. Much of this money has been spent for needed things, while many millions have gone for projects that were .more or less useless and expensive. The states have been like people in private life trying to keep up with the Joneses regardless of in come. The result of all this waste of public funds has brought about in creased indebtedness and tax loads to call a halt. The River’s administration, in the neighboring state of Georgia, is wind ing up in a sorry financial mess that will talke years to straighten out. What can happen in Georgia can hap pen here rt home, if a curb is not placed on spending by the State of South Carolina. There is. much being said on this subject by the newspa- for the people to bear, and it is time pers of the state, and we reproduce a brief editorial pertinent to the sub ject, and taken from the columns of The Bamberg Herald: Hobnobbing With “Plutes” The Calhoun Times comments: “There are two huge state office buildings in Columbia and lots have been bought for two more. Those tax consumers make us feel that our little commonwealth is as big and rich as New York state.” And right there The Calhoun Times put its finger on the greatest trouble we have in South Carolina in making income and outgo meet. If New York, or North Carolina, or Florida have something that South Carolina has not, then the spenders here will never be happy until we get that thing too. The fact that everybody and every state does not enjoy the same degree of prosperity does not enter into the matter at all. We must keep with our neighbors, and by gum, well do it or bust!—Aiken Standard & Review COKER FRESHMEN ELECT OFFICERS Hartsville, Nov. 24.—Miss Kather ine Kalber of Hartsville was elected president of the freshman class at Coker college in a recent class elec tion. Miss FYances McDaniel of Wal- terboro, who has served as class chairman for the past two months, was at the same time elected class re presentative on the student council. Others class officers recently elect ed are: Myrtle Dudley of Darlington, secretary; Rebecca Barbee of Dur ham, N. C., treasurer; Sarah Jane Guest of Greenville and Frances Wal lace of Newberry ushers; Betty Long of Conway, class representative on the Coker Christian association coun cil. Miss Helen E. Woodyard, head of the department of business admini stration, has been chosen by the class as their faculty adviser. JOHN J. MILLER DIES AT WHJTMIRE John Jacob Miller, 76, died FYiday morning at his home in Whitmire. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the resi dence. Interment followed in Oak- wood cemetery at Spartanburg. Besides his widow, Mrs. Sallie Cris- one Miller, he is survived by one daughter and three sons, Miss Marie Miller,. Olin Miller, Leroy Miller, and William Miller, all of Newberry. At the end of the 1939 fiscal year, the indebtedness of South Carolina counties and school districts was $47,620,000, according to the annual report of the Comptroller General. Additional Sources of Revenue Is Fundamental Need of This State By SPECTATOR We South Carolinians are under the spell of a few who talk in terms of humanitarianism, progressiveness and such high-sounding and soul-moving terms; and so glibly is this talk de livered to us that many men who are sane and sound in their own affairs are carried away by the confident as sumption of superior wisdom and patriotism of those who talk. Let us think of a merchant whose gross sales during the year are a hundred thousand dollars. He would not be a merchant prince, but he would have a very substantial stake in the State. He may earn twenty percent gross on his sales. That would not make him a millionaire, but it is rather a fair yield. My point here, however, is not whether twenty percent gross is the average profit on sales, but I wish to emphasize a pro bable limit to the amount of the pro fits. The merchant would have at his disposal $20,000 a year for himself and all his expenses, from freight and taxes to clerk hire, rent, losses and everything else. All must come from a possible earning of $20,000, assum ing that conditions are favorable. If. however, during the year, say in the second or third month of his busi ness year he were threatened with a loss of one seventh of his sales—what would he do? Would be continue to spend twenty percenl of $100,000? Would he begin to talk himself into a sort of hypnotic spell, as though he could dream away the stern reality of figures and facts? That is what our State has done—and is doing. When the Legislature directed the diversion of $2,000,000 of Highway revenue, it was regarded as a mere political ruse of no effect; that was the opinion of men who knew that many a vote was registered for the diversion by legislators who were sure that it would not stand against a chal lenge in court . This was so com monly known that one wonders that anyone in responsible position could be misled. But whether a serious proposal or not; whether soundly con ceived or not, it must have been ob vious to the most trustful person that recourse would be had to the courts and that every resource of the law would be invoked to present the use of highway revenue for general ap propriations. We respect and admire idealists but in politics one must be alert to realities and to the extraord inary practicality of those who want to do things, as well as those who don’t. In order to understand men we must be prepared to see hard-headed men who are successful in their own business turn out to be most unpracti cal and visionary in other walks of life. Our State, with a certainty of a law suit, yet went ahead spending all the budget. What is worse, it is-still pended. We should have seen the pro- spending as though nothing had hap- bable failure to get two million dol lars df road money; and we should certainly do something about it now. But we are slowly, steadily and sure ly heading for a two million dollar deficit which could have been avoid ed; and which could now be avoided. Bob Conner, the^refreshing philo sopher from Bowman, who though a man of reflection, is one of our very practical men of affairs, said in a meeting in Columbia that we ought to build a fence around our state to keep people out until we have cor rected some of our bad practices and changed some of our bad laws. I wonder what Mr. Connor would say if we could invite new business to in vest in our State assuring it that we had “no sales tax, no income tax, no bonded debt, no other extra taxes; and as to labor: intelligent, coopera tive, true partners of business—alert skilled and interested- 90 percent of the population is native bom.” That is an advertisement run in some na tional magazines by one of the States. I note the conclusion of the advertise ment: “All these factors combine to make “X” an ideal location for those who are interested in the problem of where best to locate industry for de fence.” Suppose we could say something like that for our State! If fifty great war plants could be brought here they would pay as much in taxes as we now receive. Of course it would pro voke a titanic struggle to keep our public budget within even the new to tals, but some day we may produce a group of super-men and reduce the budget. Or we may go on blindly and imprudently as we are now doing un til the Primary of 1942 brings in an other Economy legislature like that of 1933 and make another fifty per cent reduction in one year. We know that a cut of 50 percent would cripple many useful and even indispensable services, while allowing some others to drain the public treas ury more or less uselessly as they do now. At least one, perhaps, two public services should be totally re moved from^the budget; some are op erating now in a manner both eco nomical and efficient; while others should have their wings clipped. Our greatest need is for more re venue producers; we need new pay rolls for our people and new tax payers to help carry the public bur den. We all know that our State would reap no substantial benefit from war industries which will fold up and die when this war threat is over. Idle factories and rusting machinery are a sad and demoralizing picture; and, worse yet, they mean thousands of idle people. But if we can bring in industries of permanent character, or which will be converted and adapted to the uses of peace, after the fitful fever of war they would be real fac tors of constructive rehabilitation. Uncle Sam has been called a Shy- lock—and other names, too; but the dignified gentleman with the goatee is no piker. I have before me the figures showing the appropriations made by Congress and they indicate that the nine billion dollars,—or is it eleven billion—due us from the first World War, is just like small change, for already this Congress has auth orized $25,600,000,000. Most of us have a wholesome respect for a hundred dollars and we stand somewhat in awe of a thousand. Beyond a thous and the common run of us are like the story of the linotype operator on a small paper out west. He set a statement that a certain citizen had been employed at a salary of $25,000 a year instead of $2,500. The mana ger of the paper, in apologizing said that all amounts above $25.00 a week were the same to the operator. So I wonder at the stupendous figures in the national appropriations. Do our Congressmen understand these fi gures? Most of these gentlemen, like ourselves here at home, have never taken part in great transactions; so all of us must be equally intoxicated by the figures. Here they are: “For the first time since the “total defense” program was launched last June, there are now available official figures, from the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, covering appropriations, authoriza tions and future spending commit ments by the third session of the Seventy-sixth Congress, which assem bled in January, 1940. The total for national defense (ex clusive of all civil functions o» the (Continued on page Four) TAX NOTICE The tax books will be open for col lection of 1940 taxes on and after October 1, 1910. Tlie fallowing is general levy for all except special purposes: Mills Ordinary County 13 Bonds, Notes and Interest ... 17>4 Roads and Bridges 2 Hospital 14 School — State 3 County School 5 >4 County Board of Education .. 1 State 1 TOTAL 43 The following are the authorized special levies for the various school districts of the county: Dist. No. Mills 1. Newberry 2. Mt. Bethel-Carmany . 5 , 3. Maybimton 2 4. Long Lane 5. McCullough ......... 6. Cromer 8. Reagin 9. Deadfall 10 10. Utopia 11. Hartford 12. Johnstone 13. Stony Hill 14. Prosperity 15. O’Neall 18. Fairview 4 19. Midway 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 35. Peak 4 37. Mmdl ic 6 38. Vaughnville 39. Ohiatppels 6 40. Old Town 1 10 41. Dominick 8 42. Reederville 10% 43. Bush River 10% 44. Smyrna 10% 45. Trinity 46. Burton 10 47. Tranwood 10% 48. Jalapa 8 40. Kinards 2 50. Tabernacle 8 51. Trilby 4 52. Whitmire 53. Mollohon 4 54. Beth-Eden 55. Fork 57. Belfast 6 58. Silverstreet 59. Pressley 4 60. St. John 4 There will he 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. 1 Newberry Co. Board of Commissioners QUARTERLY REPORT - July 1, - Oct. 1, 1940 Salaries of County Officers Clerk of Court...: Clerical Help for Clerk of Court Sheriff ' Senior Deputy Sheriff Junior Deputy Sheriff [. ’ Tax Collector Clerical Help for Tax Collector Treasurer Clerical Help for Treasurer Auditor Clerical Help for Auditor Probate Judge \ Superintendent of Education !. County Physician Coroner Supervisor County Commissioners District No. 1 County Commissioner District No. 2 Clerk County Attorney Physician of County Health Unit Health and Service Officer County Nurse Assistant County xAgent Magistrate District No. 1 Magistrate District No. 2 Magistrate District No. 3 Magistrate District No. 4 Magistrate District No. 5 Magistrate’s Constable District No. 1 Magistrate’s Constable District No. 2 Magistrate’s Constable District No. 3 .. . Magistrate’s Constable District No. 4 .... Magistrate’s Constable District No. 5 ... Jailor County Home: Salaries Food and Tobacco Clothjmg Medical Care Paupers Burial Telephone Kerosene. Hardware Supplies Disinfectant and Soap Ice and Fuel Repairs Bedding Roads and Bridges Salaries Equipment Cement and Naila ., Lumber and Bridge Material Pipe Engineer Hardware Supplies Chain Grang Salaries Food and Tobacco Stripes and Clothing Medical Care Repairs .' Lights Freight and Express Bedding Disinfectant and Soaps Hardware Supplies Court Expenses Juror Pay Bills Coroner’s Jury Pay Bills Magistrate’s Trial , Witness Fees Repair Public Buildings Fuel Water and Lights •Telephone Insurance Repairs—Court House Repairs—Jail Jail Expense—^Supplies County Office Supplies Court House Supplies Typewriter—N. Y. A. Office Express Charges Books, Statioinary, Postage and Printing Pos^ge Stamps Office Supplies Advertising and Printing Record Books Miscellaneous Contingent Salaries (as provided in Supply Bill) Rent County Health Office Rent Welfare Office Reht N. Y. A. Quarters Vital Statistics FYeight - Express W P. A. Office Expense Relief F\md for Welfare Office Carolina Orphan Home Supplies for W. P. A. Projects Board of Public Welfare (Salaries) American Legion Bond Refuntf Colored Hospital ; County Park Sheriff’s Expenses Fingerprint Expenses P. O. Box Rent Magistrate No. 3 Office Rent Magistrate No. 3 Supplies Supplies Health Department Repairs — Library Bus County Agent — Misc. Expenses County Agent*— Stenographic Work 4-H Club Work Rent W. P. A. Sewing Room County Council of Farm Women Medical Services Uniform (Deputy Sheriff’s) Bond Premiums Deputy Sheriff’s Car Expenses Magistrate’s Expense Conveying Prisoners Sheriff's Dieting Post Mortem and Lunacy Coroner’s Expense Lunacy Exams Post Mortem Exams Autopsy Exams Preparing Lunacy Papers Testimony — Inquests Interest on Loans Armory Maintenance Battery H Construction Road Maintenance Salaries Labor Pay Roll Road Material Pipe Material Repairs and Parts for Trucks Gas, Oil’s Grease and Tires FVeight and Express Highway Garage Express Medical Expense Hardware Supplies Repairs — Machinery Parts — Machinery Insurance Telephone $600.00 75.00 624.99 450.00 450.00 450.00 150.00 225.00 75.00- .. 225.00 . 150.00 . 600.00 . 499.98 . 124.98 .. 150.00 . 499.98 . 124.98 . 124.98 . 450.00 . 99.99 . 399.99 . 300.00 . 300.00 . 300.00 . 124.98 . 300.00 . 124.98 . 75.00 . 75.00 . 99.99 . 249.99 . 99.99 68.73 . 75.00 . 285.00 180,00 273.17 56.20 15.66 10.00 10.40 1.80 2.30 5.25 26.44 6.00 2.08 25.00 40.85 251.47 1517.23 5.76 300.00 92.82 1624.00 672.82 336.36 37.03 50.00 50.42 1.64 61.50 15.60 15.03 206.50 52.70 2.50 4.90 1200.00 267.69 270.68 14.53 207.75 16.39 111.80 69.80 178.23 35.78 5.32 14.00 202.20 51.55 239.28 257.49 119.00 75.00 75.00 15.75 1.29 90.00 1840.75 80.00 166.26 150.00 750.00 300.00 500.00 440.82 73.37 45.00 2.25 15.00 1.70 13.99 61.03 57.81 .76.50 125.20 45.00 800.00 77.40 100.00 440.50 160.00 18.00 602.80 22.10 80.00 10.00 25.00 60.00 20.00 35.00 300.00 500.00 760.00 3210.75 119.78 2.90 712.69 2597.62 10.99 32.31 116.00 6.80 175.50 641.30 56.44 19.72 l 1 Classified Ads \ I PANSY PLANTS FOR SALE—We will have the first shipment of Steels Jumbo Pansy plants November 1st. Place your order now for one of the shipments. Miss Mattie Adams, Phone 511. KNITTERS’ NOTICE—We still have a complete line of Fall yarns—Come and see us at our new location. Miss Mattie Adams, 909 Wilson St., Phone 611. FLOWERS—We are now specializing in Flowers for ALL Occasions. Call on us at any time for: Corsages, de signs, potted plants and cut flowers. Call at our new location at 909 Wil son St., or Phone 511—day or night. “We send flowers anywhere”—Miss Mattie Adams. HEMSTITCHING—Bring your hem- stit> hing to Miss Mattie Adams at her new location—909 Wilson Street. Phone 511. FOR RENT—Upstairs unfurnished three room apartment with three closets, bath, kitchenette, front porch. With front and back en trance. Apply Mrs. J. W. White, 1003 Caldwell St., opposite Metho dist church. ll-ls&t-tf FDR 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 ildwe. Return to W. A. Hipp or to Police Headquarters. Reward. SHOATS FOR SALE—I have 20 shoats for sale, weigh between 75 and 100 pounds. George E. Stone, Newberry, S. C. Phone 572. 2tp. WANTED—Veals, Cows and Hogs; also your Cow Hides. Se us before you sell. The Newberry Abattoir. PINE AND HARDWOOD TIMBER FDR SALE: from large tracts in Newberry and Fairfield counties. If interested write E. C. Haff, The Champion Paper & Fibre Co., Can ton, N. C. 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 jiear The Stand ard Warehouse Co. H. O. LONG, 3-50-tf Silverstreet, S. C. SUMMONS FOR RELIEF STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, Plaintiff, —vs— Willie Singleton and Eugene Gregory, Defendants. SUMMONS FOR RELIEF (Complaint Served) TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at their office ait 1221 College Street, Newberry, S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such rervice; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated at Newberry, S. C., the 1st day of November, 194.0 .CLARKSON, HUNTER & HARLEY Plaintiff’s Attomev(s) TO THE NON-RESIDENT DEFEND ANT, WILLIE SINGLETON, You will take notice that the origin al Complaint in this action together with the original Summons, of which the foregoing is a copy, were filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Newberry County, South Carolina, on the 14th day of November, 1940, aqd that the same are now on file there. . CLARKSON, HUNTER & HARLEY Plaintiff’s Attorney (sf* Phone 110 Clarence T. Summer