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f»AGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1940 —him ■ ii ■ » Society and CLUB NOTES By DORIS ARMFIELD IS THIS YOU? A number of persons must have guessed who last week’s two descrip tions were. But for the benefit of those who didn’t, the lady wi s Mrs. J. D. French, the gentleman, Bill Martin. Both received their quart of ice cream from Stokes’ Drug store. First description this week: a beau ty shop operator, who was seen walk ing down College street to lunch Mon day at about one o’clock. She was wearing her white uniform, and a gray coat with fur collar. Her black hair was beautifully curled. Second description: A little lady who has grayish-/brown hair, who was sen locking her office at noon time to go to lunch. She was wearing a blue coat and hat, a pink sweater and a brown dress, the neckline of which was trimmed with a bit of cos tume jewelry. If the two persons above described will come to the Sun office by Tues day, they will receive a ticket entit ling them to a quart of ice cream from Stokes’ Drug store with “compli ments of Stokes’ and The Sun. HAMLET It seems a pity to me that when Newberrians have a chance to see a Shakespearian play, they don’t take it. . . . By missing two moving pic ture shows you have the price, and would be able to see something you don’t get a chance to see often, and which is really educational as well as entertaining. It is with regrets that I didn’t get to see the “Taming of the Shrew”, presented by the Avon Players Monday afternoon, because from all reports it was grand. The last time the Avon players were in Newberry, they presented “The Mer chant of Venice” and “Macbeth,,” both of which were well attended and greatly enjoyed. . . . That was the reason I was surprised there weren’t more people out to see Hamlet. Har old Selman was excellent in his char acterization of the title role, and the acting as a whole was commendable. Especially good were Miss Maxine Michaels as Ophelia, and John Cul bertson as Polonius. I hope the players made enough for expenses, enough have profit for the high school annual and news paper. . . . But most of all I hope they made enough to justify their leturn to Newberry next year. HAVE YOU MADE a contribution for the Community Christmas Tree ? It may seem that this subject comes up too often, but, as a matter of fact, it couldn’t come up too much. . . . For the Commun ity Christmas tree is one of the most worthwhile projects of the year in Newberry, just as the Community Chest in Columbia and in other cities. In last week’s paper was a list of placing committees. Others to be ad ded to the list are Mrs. Edgar Pay- singer and Mrs. R. T. Albrecht. If you don’t have time to fix a box for an underprivileged child, see Mrs. J.. D. French, chairman, or a member of the placing committee, and contribute as liberally as you feel able. SANTA CLAUS IN all his glory was welcomed in New berry Monday afternoon, when he arrived heralded by bands, scouts, mo torcades. ... In the parade were the “bucking car” its antics causing much fun, especially among' the children. . . . The Newberry college bus filled with college students sing ing “Jingle Bells”, heading a motor cade of gaily decorated cars. . . . The girl scouts and boy scout uni forms. . . . The horseback riders . . . And finally, in a quaint chariot drawn by two gray ponies, Santa himself, surrounded by adoring children. The Newberry Concert Band, the Whit mire High Schol band, and the New berry College singers supplied the music, so helpful at the occasion. ADDING MORE FESTVITY to the town than anything else are the most attractively decorated show windows in the stores about town. By this time, most of the stores are Christmasey, inside and out. . . . You can just spend hours window shopping and browsing around the stores. . . . And it’s such a pleasure when the clerks in the store allow you to look at your leisure, without getting impatient, but are always at your service when you need them.... From experience I know. ... It Don’t wait! Order Today to Provide the Best at a Reasonable Price Supplying the correct kind and size coal for your particular need is part of the service we render when entrusted with your coal order. Farmers Oil Mill Coal IS YOUR ASSURANCE OF High Heat Units Clean Preparation Correct Weight Low Ash Content PhoneJ155 . . . and let us fill your order with coal that will burn to a fine ash; coal and not clinkers. We will appreciate your order no matter how small and offer you the BEST—Plus Quick Service. Farmers Oil Mill takes great patience to be a clerk at Christmastime, and I think as a rule most of the Newberry clerks are wonderful to shoppers. A GRAND OLD LADY is Mrs. M. J. Carwile- who will celebrate her 83rd birthday Thursday, December 12. Mrs. Carwile is a most likeable person with a pleasing per sonality. . . . Always full of fun. ... A person who will do what she can to help you. . . . She is a mem ber of Aveleigh Presbyterian church, and has been all her life. Mrs. Car wile is probably the oldest citizen in the town at present, and this column hopes she wall continue to be for a long long time. THOMAS-ELLER At the Beth-Eden Lutheran par sonage Saturday afternoon, November 30 at 2 p. m.. Miss Eloise Thomas of Salisbury, N. C., became the bride of Loy Eller, also of Salisbury, N. C., the ceremony being performed, by Rev. M. L. Kester, uncle of the bride. The couple»will make their home in Kannapolis, N. C. MISS NORRIS TO WED MR. MORGAN Mrs. John Thompson Norris of Newberry announces the engagement of her daughter, Ruby Emma, and William Lee Morgan of Bethune and Pickens. The wedding wiil take place in December. LEGION AUXILIARY MEETS The American Legion Auxiliary met this ^fterioon (Thursday) at the home of Mrs. George Scruggs. As sociate hostesses with Mrs. Scruggs were Miss Ludie Taylor, Mrs. Forrest Summer, Mrs. J. A. Caldwell, Mrs. Guy Whitener, and Mrs. H. R. Long. Speaker for the afternoon was the Honorable Thomas H Pope, Jr., cap tain of Newberry’s Coast Artillery Division of the National Guards. Mr. Pope spoke on the sul ject, National Defense. BAN PLACED ON SHORT SKIRTS FOR DRUM MAJORETTES Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 1.—Short- skirted, bare-kneed drum majorettes and baton twirlers who prance in front of high school bands have been banned by the Milwaukee high school athletic council. “We feel inhuman to let the girls go out there on the field on cold days,” George J. Balzer, principal of Washington high school, explained. “They took the play away from the bands,” added Harry A. Wein- gartner, Custer high school principal. “The poor kids in the band work hard on formations and nobody watches them.” BABY PINK COTTONS FAVORED AT RESORTS Miami, Fla., Dec. 2.—Visitors to Southern resorts will celebrate Cotton Christmas this year in pink cotton frocks, fashionists here said after previewing winter resort clothes. The trend this season is to light er and clearer tones of pink with many smartly dressed women wear ing baby pink cottons. Rosebud pink appears as a ground to printed frocks as well as in the make-up of designs. RED CROSS SEWING IS READY The sewing for the Red Cross is ready and can be gotten from Bound ary street school, beginning Wednes day, December 4th between the hours 2:00 and 4:00 p. m. each day except Saturday until all has been taken. Club women in the county can notify me in advance and I will have work ready if they have to send for it. Otherwise, come and get what is wanted. Work will not have to be re turned until the end of January, 1941. Scraps may be had for anyone wish ing to make quilts for Red Cross. Wool for sweaters has not come. Fannie M. McCaughrin, Chrm., Production Committee, 1234 Calhoun street. LUTHERAN TELLS OF NATIONAL FRICTION AGAINST RELIGION CHAR jESTON, Dec. 1.—Pointing out that the church is suffering ev erywhere today and predicting that it soon will be antagonized even more strongly in America, the Rev. Dr. Frederick H. Knubel, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, pleaded for a greater loy alty to God’s church in a sermon preached tonight at St. Matthew’s Lutheran church. The service was a part of the opening day’s events of a three-day celebration of the con gregation’s centennial. This morning the Rev. Dr. H. Brent Schaeffer, of Jackson, Miss., former pastor of St. Matthew’s, re viewed the history of the church. Loyalty to Church Is Needed More Today, Says Dr. Knubel President of United Lutherans Points To Threat of Antagonism Pointing out that the church is suffering everywhere today and pre dicting that it soon will be antagoniz ed even more strongly in America, the Rev. Dr. Frederick H. Knubel, president of the United Lutheran church in America, pleaded for a greater loyalty to God’s church In • a sermon preached Sunday night at St. Matthew’s Lutheran church, Charles ton. Dr. Knubel emphasized the import ance of the word in loyalty in our na tional life, remarking, however, that we are probably exaggerating the amount of disloyalty that can be dis covered in the citizenship of the Unit ed States. It is an important word also for the congregation to remem ber on its centennial celebration, re viewing the thousands of loyal Christ ian lives which gave themselves un stintedly and unselfishly to the con gregation’s highest welfare during the last 100 years. “Strangely the word loyalty oc curs only a few times in reliable books of quotations from all sources,” he said. “It is difficult also to dis cover that the great essay writers have ever dwelt upon the subject. It is never even mentioned in the Eng lish Bible, the nearest word to it in the Scriptures being faithfulness. The origin of the word loyalty implies that its meaning should be legality, al though we instantly understood today that a loyal man is one who does far. far more than to obey the laws. He is a man of passionate devotion. Loyalty to Living Things “How then can and ought we un derstand loyal aright’ We speak rightly of loyalty to our govern ment, to principle, to duty, to hus band and wife. I suggest for earnest sense loyalty is something we give consideration that in the truest to a living thing. Even loyalty to a nation was originally to the crowned head of the nation, and thus to a person as representing the nation. “Today we regard it as loyalty to the principles for which the nation exists, and all national principles relate to the lives of the citizens. If we are speaking of loyalty to duty, duty is something we owe ih our relations with other human bemgs Always therefore living things are the objects of our loyalty. This is the fact it is my desire to emphas ize primarily to you. Loyalty is the heart’s fealty of one living thing to another living thing. “If then we have gained the best conception of loyalty and if we wish to search our own many loy alties and many disloyalties it is evi dent that we must seek the highest living things to which we are related and there bestow the devotion of our lives, there be true even to death. “It is simple to say that God is the greatest living reality, and our loyalty must be primarily to Him. n trying, however, to measuru my devotion to Him it is well to recog nize that Scripture’s word foi loy alty namely faithfulness, is far oft- ener applied to God than to man. He is the ideal of faithfulness, loyalty. It is his loyalty to me upon which I must gaze if I am to begin being loy al to him. How often do I recount Hir painstaking, His minute and change less devotion to me? Word of God and the Church “We may, however, become even more concrete in our loyalty to Him. discovering s^n.e highly living things we rarely regard as being alive, thrill- ingly alive. There is, for instance, the Word of God. According to the apostles it liveth and abideth forever. According to them it is the power of God. It is primarily the Gospel we Christians know, by which we are born again, by which we have the most abundant life, by which, as the truth, we are made, and under every antagonism are kept free. What then about our loyalty to this living thing, the Word of God? “And then the church. It is the church of God, the church of the IW ing God. It is a living thing, which has continued to pray while em pires come aid go. Make no mis take about it. It is suffering to day, is threatened almost every where, will soon be anta" nized even more strongly in America. What are our loyalties to the church? But is it alive? It is made up of living men and women and children. It has the living Word of God. It is the throbbing body of Chrict. It was con ceived in the mind of God from all eternity and will endure into eter nity forever as the Bride of Christ. It lives. Christians of America, will you be loyal to her here in the com ing days of tribulation? I “Finally and most concrete of all for our loyalty, the church manifest ed on earth in the congregations. This hundred-year-old congregation, these other congregations in this city, of which you all are members, do you judge them aright, judge them highlv enough, recognize them in their right to your loyalty? They are not mere organizations with buildings. They are alive. “I say it solemnly, they are deflnit- ly the greatest living things in the city of Charleston. In them is the living loyalty of God to them for a hundred years and the power of God through His living Word. They will be the final defense of Charleston in the dangerous future. On this centen nial, Christian men and women, meas ure in this way your loyalty to your congregation.” , The Deficit A recent statement by State Audi tor J .M. Smith indicates that South Carolina’s deficit at the end of the current fiscal year will be about $3,- 500,000. Based on present revenue and the present rate of collections, the deficit is mounting at the rate of around $1,650,000 a year, says Mr. Smith. The figures show what a tight spot the General Assembly will find itself in when it convenes in Jan uary, and they show also that mem bers of the Legislature must take steps of a permanent, rather than of a temporary nature. The evidence seems to indicate that what is needed most of all is not a general revision of the tax structure, but merely a polishing up and improvement of the present sys tem. It is no secret that a great deal of property, both real and per sonal, is escaping taxation, and it is also a fact that property assess ments vary widely between counties and even between various areas with in the same county. An especially wide variation in assessment values exists between private property and corporate property, due to the fact that the former is assessed by local boards and the latter by the State Tax Commission. The state badly needs some method whereby all prop erty could be gotten on the books, and it badly needs a system whereby as sessments would be set at 100 percent of actual value, with all assessments made by one group, rather than by an assorted array of local boards. Suggested plans for raising reve nue have included a general sales tax, an increase in the gasoline tax, a lowering of the income tax brack ets, and others. The search is for a new source, but there can be no new source, because in the end the load must be carried by South Caro lina citizens. That is the only source we have. And that is why stricter economy and improvement of our present tax structure seem to be highly in order. Well Trained First Sergeant: Stand up straight, throw your shoulders back and but ton your coat. Married Recruit (absent-mindedly): Yes, dear, I’ll do it right away. Helping to Keep the Family Healthy . > » Visiting nurse from tuberculosis association telling mother how to protect the family from disease. This is one of activities made possible in many communities by Christmas Seals. — H-D COLUMN By MISS ETHEL L. COUNTS A kitchen is a room where the housewife hangs her tea towels dif ferently than her neighbor. That’s one reason why every homemaker loves to visit strange kitchen. She likes to see how others handle the same problems. Basically kitchens may be the food preparation center of the home, but they are also the outlet for expressing many other in terests of the homemaker. The woman who loves color, the home sewer, the plant and flower lover, the efficiency expert—all these may find expression, large or small, in the kitchen. Even the man of the family has his place in the kitchen. His presence is some times revealed in very practical shelves put up to hold gay bits of pottery or built-in cupboard to save his wife miles of walking back and forth across the room. Or it may be a rocking chair where he may read his paper or snatch a few minutes from a busy day to visit or make plans. Kitchens are just as different as people. And the satisfactory thing about it all is that we can learn by visiting other kitchens. Some of the changes are expensive. Some are ri diculously simple. One woman moved the nail that held her matchbox by the kitchen cabinet to a safe place near her range, She calculated the change saved her ten steps every time she lit a flame. In a year’s time that would be a lot of walking. Home economists and kitchen en gineers who have attacked the prob lem of kitchen efficiency advise that the large units (range, refrigerator, and sink) be in logical arrangement so that each is easily accessible irom the other. They agree on the three main types of kitchens. The U-shap ed one which begins with refrigera tor, followed by working surface and storage space; then the sink and more storage space and ends with the range and serving dishes and cooking utensils conveniently nearby, is the ideal arrangement. For kitchens not adaptable to this plan, they advise the L-shape, or broken L, following the same general plan of succession. Many homemakers who have mod ernized large kitchens have found it. more convenient to centralize all these units in one comer of the kitchen, using the L or U formation, and leaving the balance of the room for a dining center and other acti vities. Study your kitchen and make it a convenient, labor saving work shop. HOSPITAL NEWS Mrs. John Bedenbaugh, registered dietician, has taken up duties at ti e Newberry County Hospital. Mrs. Raymond Henderson is tak ing post-graduate work at the Gen eral hospital in Greenville. The hospital is being redecorated on the interior with three rooms now completed. The grass planted by the Civic League about three weeks ago is showing up very nicely. The employees and patients of the hospital enjoyed turkey for Thanks giving, same being donated by Mr. Z. F. Wright. The hospital reports the birth of four girls and five boys during the month of November. The Newberry county hospital ac knowledges with thanks the follow ing donations: On Venetian blinds: American Le gion, $5.00; Mary Wright Memorial, $5.00. Other contributions: Female Uri nal—Children of Mrs. Alan John stone; Moving of Supplies, H. D. Whitaker; Bush River Demonstration club, 6 towels, 1 package absorbent towels, 1 pair pillow cases, 2 quarts pears, 2 cans tomato juice; Union School Demonstration club, 1-2 gal lon peaches, 3 cans tomatoes, 1 1-2 pounds sausage, 1 peck sweet pota toes. i 1 | Classified Ads i 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 M,ss Mattie Adams at her new location—909 Wilson Street. Phone 511. 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. SHOATS FOR SALE—I have 20 shflats 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 FOR SALE: from large tracts in Newberry and Fairfield counties. If interested write E. C. Haff, The Champion Paper & Fibre Co., Can ton, N. C. FOR SALE—Lot on Johnstone street. 100 foot frontage, 243 feet deep. Apply Aubrey Harley. 3tp FOR RENT—My home located at 916 Glenn street. Six rooms with mod ern conveniences. Immediate deser tion can be given. Mrs. J. C. Brooks.l SEED GRAIN FOR SALE I have made arrangements with The Ruff Bros., Agents for Allis Chalmers machinery, Newberry, 8. C. to handle my seed grain. Clemson Strain Beardless Barley $1.25 per bu. M arretts Strain Beardless Barley (1.25 per bu. Coker’s Fulgrain Oats . .$ .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. CHRISTMAS SEALS Help to Protoet Your Homo from TuborculotU GERMAN AIR ACE FAILS TO RETURN, BERLIN ANNOUNCES Berlin, Dec. 1.—Major Helmuth Wick, commander of the Richthofen squadron failed to return from a flight last Thursday over British territory it was announced tonight. Comrades said Major Wick shot down his 56th opponent during his last flight. Only 25 years old, he was one of Germany’s air heroes of this war. On October 9, after he had been cred ited with shooting down 40 planes, he was decorated by Adolph Hitler personally with oak leaves added to the iron cross. Up to The Cotton Grower Large supplies of cotton, which may be increaeed through the loss of foreign cotton customers while the war lasts, is a major phase of ths cotton situation which f u rmers will consider before they vote on Sat urday, December 7, to approve or disapprove marketing quotas for the 1941 crop. They must decide then whether they need the support of all features of the farm program, or whether they can get along without quotas and loans. The Agricultural Adjustment Art provides that loans can be made available, under certain price and supply conditions, if two- thirds of the voting farmers in the referendum approve marketing 'quotas. However, the Act also provides that, if quota's are rejected, no loans can be made available during the following marketing year.