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PAGE FOUR 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Y .jar .. • 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. THEY FORGOT GREEK HISTORY Italian military thugs forgot or overlooked Grecian history when they planned the assassination of the land of Phidias 'and Pericles. They forgot the iron will and det ermination of ancient Sparta, a state which has given us a synonym for the utmost in heroism and bravery. They forgot Leonidas and his im mortal band; they forgot the fate of Xerxes; they forgot Salamis. These immortal pages of Greek history must have been lightly scanned by the blackhand adventurers of Italy in their foul plotting against ancient Hellas. So the Greeks are having to teach the lesson all over again to their enemies. With the capture of Korit- sa by the gallant Greeks, practically all of their soil has been cleared of the dago. The amazing campaign of the men of Hellas has completely knocked the sawdust out of the Ro man Caesar, Mussolini and the rest of the organ grinding fraternity of the peninsula. What little civilization the corrupt ed Italians have is an inheritance from Greece. It was an imported ar ticle among the Romans. Prior to the Greco-Roman wars, Rome was an ag gregation of barbarians. Prisoners captured in Greece remained among their captors and taught them sculp ture, music, letters, and many other arts of the civilized man. The Ital ians are showing their gatitude as Benedict Arnold showed his, and as Judas Iscariot showed his—by base betrayal of benefactor. MILLION, HALF MORE STATE AID SOUGHT Columbia, Nov. 28.—“Adequate” aid for South Carolina’s thousands of needy blind and aged and for des titute families with dependent child ren will cost the state $1,558,887 more during the next fiscal year, Welfare Director Thomas H. Daniel said today. He told the budget commission «hat $3,358,940 would be necessary to en able the department to stop decreas ing its assistance rolls and furnish . “adequate” help. Supplementary federal funds would boost the total funds available then. Daniel said that only Arkansas ranked lower than South Carolina among the states in the amount of individual awards to beneficiaries of the program, first inaugurated in this 'state in 1937. “WASTE WISELY MY DAYS” To awake each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for oppor tunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done—this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.—Thomas Dreier. HARE WILL PRESS ALUMINUM PLANS WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—A peti tion requesting an allotment of be tween $50,000 and $75,000 for an ex perimental aluminum-extracting lab oratory in South Carolina was filed today with Edward R. Stettinius of the National Defense commission by Rep. Butler B. Hare. The third district congressman’s action resulted from a new, exhaus tive report turned over to him by R. R. Sayers, director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines on investigations made of processing aluminum from kaolin. In his report, Sayers recommended that such “pilot-plant” be establish ed for further study before any at tempts are made to secure this type of American aluminum on a large scale. Hare announced that he intended to insist that a pilot-plant be set up. preferably in the kaolin regions of South Carolina. He added that if he could not secure action during the remaining part of this session of Congress, he would press the matter immediately upon his return in J»n- uary. EXCELSIOR MILLS RECEIVER’S SALE IS SET AT UNION Union, Nov. 28.—A receiver’s sale of the property of the Excelsior mills in Union has been set for De cember 18 at 11 a. m. at the county courthouse here. Property to be sold to the highest bidder according to the notice of the receiver’s sale, includes: Land, building, machinery, stock in process, supplies, manufactured goods, cotton and other property of the Excelsior mills except cash on hand or in bank. To Make Home Improvements Modernize Your Home . . . WITH AN F. H. A. TITLE 1 LOAN SECURED FROM-OUR BANK Any Amount up to $2,500.00. As Long as Three Years to J’ay. Pay in monthly installments. Ask your dealer or contractor or come directly to ou bank for full details. The South Carolina National Bank •NEWBERRY, S. C. THE NEWBERRY SUN To Carry Cheer to Those in Trouble Is True Expression of Christmas Spirit, Says Spectator The Governor by proclamation urg es the people of the State to buy South Carolina products. I hope the interest of the Governor, and the press notices and radio reminders will have a follow-up in substantial advertising telling what South Caro lina products are on the market and where they may be had. I read recently an advertisement of an eating place in our State and it offered “Georgia eggs”. Some days later the advertisement was chang ed to “Carolina eggs”. South Carolina produces fine sweet potatoes, good hay, excellent corn. Shall we continue to go beyond our bounds for things we produce? We have canned and preserved vege tables and fruits. Since Commis sioner of Agriculture Roy Jones is among the sponsors of the “Buy South Caro'ina Products” campaign, I have no doubt that he has com plete plans for furthering this ef fort in the most businesslike and practical manner. As is known we produce excellent peaches, asparagus, watermelons, Irish potatoes, truck of all kiids. I recall an observation made by Mr. Tom Pearce several years ago, in talking over this very matter. Mr. Pearce said “At lunch today in a certain hotel we were served canned peaches for dessert, although at the time there were hundreds of bush- pis of fine fresh peaches on the market.” As a producer of things for market I know that we have products which are of such quality as to be desirable. We need markets. What better mar ket than our own people? Commissioner Jones has been work ing on a plan to promote the sale of ungraded, unclassified products which are of value and marketable as a means of helping the average farmer with a surplus. As for the other products, men of practical mind who are in touch with all such possibilities, such a merchant as Mr. Tom Pearce might be invited to guide our efforts into safe channels of busi ness. I have no doubt that we should all be greatly surprised at the variety of South Carolina products. Many read with surprise that a merchant of Columbia bought ail the apples on exhibition at the State Fair. We produce apples, though it seems that most people don’t know it. Over in Lexington County I see signs of fresh apple juice, called' ci der. There must be some apples over there. Let’s get acquainted with our State and its products. When we find a South Carolina pro duct we shall have to pay a fair price for it. The days of bar gain hunting at the expense of the farmers is about over. Thousands of farmers listen to the radio market reports; and then comes Roy Jones’ Market Bulletin. You can go to Hell Hole in Berkeley or Four Holes in Orangeburg the remote settlements of the Santee, Pea Ridge in Union, Little Hell in Allendale, Silverstreet, Prosperity, Golden Grove or Trav ellers’ Rest and when you try to buy eggs, chickens, turkeys, or what-not at a bargain, the farmer will tell his wife or daughter to bring out the Market Bulletin. I mention this be cause any one who thinks he can run over to some out-of-the way com munity and pick up eggs and chick ens for a song will find that since the radio came into being, along with Roy Jones’ Market Bulletin, it takes a song and a dance to get things. get Commission to avoid a deficit by reducing appropriations, as the law provides. The appeals sent by ORGANIZED BUSINESS, INCORPORATED, and THE FARMERS AND TAXPAYERS LEAGUE were sponsored by leading citizens throughout the State. Un doubtedly they will be heard from again. Christmas is in the air! In this Country and England Christmas is the children’s festival because of the Babe of Bethlehem. We older people have become victims of a good idea. As God so loved the world that He gave His only son, so the idea of giving, or of serving others, is the dominant note of the Christmas sea son. The idea is right and proper, but we are straining it until it is losing much of its joyful appeal. We shall send thousands of cards in a meaning-less effort; and hand kerchiefs and other things as a mat ter of form. Most of us would rather give a dollar than write a real let ter. Might we make up a purse for the British children, each of us contri buting the one dollar, five dollars or ten dollars usually spent on purely perfunctory presents? We are not giving in the real spirit of Christmas; most of what we do amounts to an exchange with friends or relatives. To carry cheer to those in trouble would be in accord with the Spirit of Bethlehem. Those with children at home must not forget the little fellows, for it is their day; but most of the giving which is a trial and a struggle over nothing—why not quit that and brighten lives which are now in gloom ? A prominent citizen of the State has suggested that a thousand rep resentative citizens come to Colum bia to renew and emphasize by their presence the appeal made to the Bud I had thought that our Welfare Departmeit was created to relieve im mediate distress. All cases of immed iate distress are usually known by the neighbors. But why should there be a Welfare Week under proclama tion of the Governor? And why should there be meetings throughout the State for the Welfare Depart ment? Has this Department chang ed from one charged with feeding the hungry and clothing the naked to one with such political importance that it must hold meetings through out the State? If this Welfare De partment is of such little value that it must advertise itself and put on “arousements” does it not indicate that it is a fifth wheel to a wagon? Does not this high-pressure adver tising and agitation proclaim and prove that this is one service which a poor State cannot afford to main tain? That million and a half dol lars is just so much which ought to be used for debts. Whoever imagined arousement meetings in order to drum up support for a State Department of charity? The Comptroller General tells us that the debt of the counties and school districts amounted to $47,620,- 000.00 on June 30, 1939. Forty-seven million, six hundred and twenty thousand dollars! Now that’s quite a sum of money. Nothing is said about the total debts of the towns and cities. While we remark fre quently about State debts, State ap propriations, and County debts and supply bills, the towns usually es cape any comment at all. The towns and cities, however, are thoroughly imbued with the idea of free spending and they are spending on a big scale. The spending era which prompts the spending spree is just a part and parcel of our private practice of pro viding ourselves with whatever we may desire, letting the payments come as they may. We buy cars and pay for months and months; then REVIEW o/NEW BOOKS PAUL B. CLARK, PH. D. 1736 Woodbum Ave. Covington, Ky. THE ADVENTURES OF TOMMY BLAKE. By Brother Ernest St. Anthony Guild Press, Patterson, N. J. Pp. ix-240. Pr. $1. WITH THE DIVINE RETREAT MASTER. By Schrijvers-O’Hara. St. Anthony Guild Pp. vii-156. Pr. $1. SELF-KNOW LEDGE AND SELF-DISCIPLINE. By B. W. Maturin. St. Anthony Guild. Pp. 301. Pr. $1. THEY THAT ARE CHRIST’S. By Fr. Dustan. Ouseley, distributed in America by St. An thony Guild. Pp. 189. Pr. $1.25. It is high time that people were getting back to religion and the things of God and His Christ. Here are outstanding Catholic books that every Catholic should “hear i.nd heed.” No. “read and heed” are not enough; rather it is “read” until you "hear and heed.” It is the purpose of this column to keep alive in all of our hearts the freedom we have relig iously, and these secularistic days call all to a new loyalty to the faith they profess. The first book depicts the life of Little Tommy under the leadership of an atheistic father as over against the leadership of a Catholic mother. Be it said to Tom my’s credit that religion did play a great role in hi?, life, and the book closes with him dealing very intim ately with his own father in matters of religion in his last days. The phi losophy back of the book is that re ligion is any boy’s best asset. We all need to realize this point. The second book is “A Message from Jes us to His Priest,” by Joseph Schrij- vers, translated and adapted from the French by Edwin V. O’Hara. This extremely devotional book is a jewel for the Catholic priest, and it is well worthy, of praise for those to follow who know the meaninrr of the “priest hood of believers.” Your sweetness and humility will give you the key to the hardest of hearts.” The thoughts are not transitory ones; they will be needed as long as time itself lasts. The third book enters the province of the human will, dealing meticulously with the problems of the self.—self- knowledge and self-discipline, parti cularly the seat of conflict, and then enlarging on the various disciplines of will, mind, affections, and body, closing with mortification and the supernatural life as a preparation for the glorious revelation of love. A vital study in Catholic religion and psychology. The fourth book is ser- monic and carries the discipline mto what the Catholic church holds on penance prayer and peace, the ser mons themselves being discourses preached in the venerable Church of Santa Susanna, Rome, during Lent, not so long ago. The nature of the sermons hold the Catholic position of the Easter season very high. As sermons the material ranks very good. buy another car; starting off with the unpaid part of the first debt and pyramiding it on the next car—and so on without end. And there are men (don’t forget the ladies, bless ’em) who buy their clothes on the same plan. Drug stores carry accounts for the morning pick-me-ups and the cones and the crackers—and all those things so necessary to our high standard of living and the general diffusion of culture. Debt, debt, debt —wherever you look. So the State tries out on a large scale what so many practice in private affairs. We put up all kinds of buildings as a debt on the future. The pay as you go simplicity of our fathers is too slow for us. We want next year’s car now; and so who cares about deot? LITTLE MOMENTS IN BIG LIVES Kessler Mm am CaireCL -Tiir GOacdlUJ- W TU£ CLAPS rn \M©0 ME A COY AT PCUCGL IW GIBCLEV/ILLE, MV. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1940 President Approves Walhalla Tunnel TAX NOTICE The tax books will be open for col lection of 1940 taxes on and after October 1, 1910. The following is general levy for all except special purposes: WASHINGTON, Nov. 29,—Presi dent Roosevelt today gave his bless ing to Rep. Butler B. Hare’s recent proposal to construct a super trans portation system from Charelston through the Blue Ridge muontains between Walhalla, S. C., and Knox- super highway connecting Cincinnati, In a letter to the Third district congressman, the chief executive expressed himself in hearty accord with the objectives outlined in a brief which Hare sent to the White House on October 12. Hare’s Brief Read President Roosevelt stated that he had read the congressman’s brief with a great deal of interest and con-' cern and added that “the proposed super highyay.connecting Cincinnati, O., with the South Atlantic seaboard at Charleston, S. C., would certainly be a meritorious project and one that would contribute much to the nation al good.” The President pointed out that the exact location of the route between the two points would be based on its “strategic military value,” this, he went on, would be determined by en gineers and military experts. Stating that he was “very much encouraged by the President’s atti tude toward the proposal,” Hare re newed his efforts to promote the project with added vigor. He con tended that such a system would be a vital link in the preparedness and national defense program. Council Is Seen In support of this belief, he con ferred with officials of the national defense council and the bureau of public roads who will have “the last, word in saying whether this project or similar projects will be under taken in connection with the de fense program,” Hare explained. To show the strategic military value of the proposed route stretch ing from Charleston to Columbia, Walhalla, Knoxville and on to Cin cinnati, Hare began preparing a sup plemental statement which he will submit to the President. In this new statement he will show how the proposed route would run almost parallel with the Savan nah river for a distance of 150 miles or more and at no place would it be more than 35 or 40 miles from the river and at some places only five or 10 miles distant. He stressed the significance of this route by pointing out that army engineers already have recommended construction of at least three dams across the Savan nah river with the 150-mile stretch. The most prominent, of course, is the Clark’s Hill dam project and the other two are further up the river. These dams, he emphasized, would generate power that could be used in establishiig war industries along the proposed super highway and rail road system. Hare also poirted that the road would be near the kaolin deposits of western South Carolina and eastern Georgia. “It is well recognized In military circles that if it becomes necessary to process kaolin for the manufacture of aluminum to be used in making airplanes that the road would then be strategically located for all these purposes,” he adds. In further stressing of the strategic military value of his proposal. Hare will remind the President that the road “would pass near the heart of the textile business in South Carolina —an industry which is very vital and important in case of war or in pre paration for defense.” Also “it would pass within a few miles of the Buz zard Roost power project at Green wood, S. C., as well as the power plant at Lake Murray near Colum bia and the Santee-Cooper power plant under construction between Co lumbia and Charleston.” Mills Ordinary County 13 Bonds, Notes and Interest ... 1714 Roads and Bridges 2 Hospital % 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 17 2. Mt. Betihel-Garmany 3 3. Maybinton 2 4. Long Lane 5 5. McCullough 5 6. Cromer 0 8. Reagin 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. Fairview 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. Ohappels 6 40. Old Town 1 10 41. Dominick 8 42. Reederville 10% 43. Bu^h River ... 10% 44. Smyrna 10%. 45. Trinity •••• 46. Burton 10 47. Tranwood 10% 48. Jalapa 8 49. Kinards 2 50. Tabernacle 8 51. Trilby 4 52. Whitmire 15 53. Mollohon 4 54. Beth-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. Phone 110 Clarence T. 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