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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY. DECEMBER 13, 1940 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher 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. Church Schools What will be the future of the de nominational schools? Will they cease to function by rea son of the lack of money ? Will state schools finally drive out the denomina tional schools? Will the time come when those who are taxed to keep up all state schools and then go down in their pockets for cash to carry on their own schools? Can denomina tional schools successfully compete with tax-maintained schools? Will Furman, Wofford, Erskine, Presbyter ian College, Newberry College be forced to “give up the ghost?”— die? Will there come a day when Limestone College. Lander, Anderson College, Coker College and Columbia College cease to exist for the reason that church folk will come to like the idea of being relieved of the finan cial responsibility involved in support of their denominational schools? The temptation in this day to turn over to the state all the responsibility for the upkeep of the schools is very strong. There is a widespread theory that has gripped the hearts of. many citi zens: it is: “Let the gove-nment do it!” More and more the farmer has been looking to Washington for sub sidies. Citizens generally are less prone to resent governmental inter ference, and governmental assist ance. Will this trend travel much farther in the same direction? Will government, having contributed thru * taxation to keep the farmer, business and industry find that it is also ex pedient to take over all agricultural, all business, all industry, and finally all education? It is a big question, and deserves serious consideration. One thing certain: If government contributes to the various gfoups that make un our citizenry, the time will come when government will attempt to control all these groups. Now, it appears reasonable, say, that state supported schools have one "rest advantage. They get new build ings that must be paid fo- out of state taxes. They get new and mo dem equipment by the same token, And we suppose that some of the pay for administration purposes in state schools get a portion of their salaries aid from tax money. Under such con. ditions such schools may easily offer education at less cost than the denom inational school can offer. As a mat ter of fact, tuition in denominational schools is exceedingly high and you can see why. How, then, can the denominational school survive? Will it pass into dis. card, perish from the earth? We do not believe so, and here are some of the reasons why: The denominational school has its mission. Its mission is to not only prepare boys and girls for waging a successful battle in the economic life of the individual student but also to shape character according to the ideals of the Christian religion. If the denominational college does not .em brace that purpose, then indeed, has the denominational school lost its chief reason for existing. An insti tution that has lost its chief rea son or existence will ultimately die. As we see it, there is no reason to resort to rabid sectarianism, but, also, there is reason for emphasizing Christian ethics. The chief business of a religious school should be the building of character, not the prepar ing of men and women to be able to earn more money. Men of means in every denomination will while living, or by will after death, provide suffici ent funds to endow the denomina-j tional schools. Thus may it be brought about that education will cost the in dividual no more in the denomination- j al school than it will cost in state-sup- ported schools. Indeed, those who believe denomina tional schools are doomed have • not recognized the fact that in every one of the stronger denominations that function in, say South Carolina, could in one year raise five million dollars to endow their schools. The day mav come when this will he necessary. If the necessitv arises, the thing will be done. That is, it will be done so long as religion is kept alive in the Heart of the denominations. If the church people lose their high vision of ser vice, become indifferent to the calls of service, and fail to place man above the dollar, then indeed the denomina- tionaUcollege will go down! There would be no unique place for it in our citizenship. The state-supported schools have their place, but they cannot fill all the needs of all the people of the state. Nor are they safe simply be cause the state supports them. After all, when government does anything it does it at high cost. And this ap plies to both state and national gov ernment. Too, politics sometimes be come so rampant in a state that state schools may suffer serious setbacks. As stated above, there is a place for the state schools and there is a place for the denominational schools. Each becomes a sort of checkmate upon the other. That there are state schools tends to keep denominational schools from bigotry and forces them to main tain high standards and sufficient physical equipment. And the denom inational schools tend to check the state schools in any trend toward ma terialism. The schools should func tion without friction and with benefit to both. After all is said, it seems to us that the chief danger to denomination al schools lies in the possibility of the churches losing their spiritual power, rather than the possibility of the de nominational schools perishing for lack of money. The denominational schools will survive as long as the churches survive, or at least so tong as the churches maintain high stan dards of living and great determina tion to live unselfishly and in humble, faithful service. Any denominaton that does not reflect these virtues will die, and with its death would result the death of the college, or colleges, it supported.—Union Times. MAKE LIVING ON THE FARM There is much discussion just now as to what should be done for the cot ton farmer in order that he may get the price of his labor and the full cost of production. Also much has been done lately to arouse farmers as to the necessity of growing on the farm all possible food crops so that little need be bought with cotton mo ney. The Press and Standard wishes to urge that this be done. If the farmer does not need to buy things he can grow on his farm, there will be little need for cotton money to provide a living. There are many farms in Col leton county. These farms must, therefore, depend upon the money re ceived from cotton to buy these things, and of course if the cost of production of cotton is as much, or even less, than the farmer can get for his cotton, it means financial ruin for the farmer. On the contrary if the farmer grows everything he need? for home consumption on the farm and has to buy only the few other things he needs for himself and family, then cotton money will make him inde pendent. This is a natural livestock country. There is a market for hogs, cattle and poultry. These any farmer can grow at a profit. He does not need to utilize the best acres on his farm for cotton. He can plant crops for hogs, cattle and poultry, and market these instead and make use of some of them for home consumption. There is where independence comes. Freedom from the necessity of buying meat, flour, eggs, and poultry, will enable the farmer to live with little outlay for food. His cotton, or livestock money, can oo for buying clothing, gasoline, and the few things he cannot raise on the farm, as well as paying taxes and in surance. This week we saw a farmer carry ing home with him from a store in Walterboro a bunch of turnips for his dinner. Doubtless he also had bought some “fat back” with him with which to cook them. Is it not a reflection upon the industry of any farmer who has to buy vegetables when the gar den would produce all he needs and a surplus? All that is necessary is a little thrift and using some of the time devoted to “going to town.” Even many families in town can have a good all-the-year garden and produce their own vegetables. Ye editor does. Vegetables from one’s own garden has a more delicious flavor than those bought, we find.—Walterboro Press & Standard. Lemon Juice Recipe Checks Rheumatic Pain QuicMy If you suffer from rheumatic, arthri tis or neuritis pain, try this simple inexpensive home recipe that thousands arc using. Get a package of Ru-Ex Compound today. Mix it with a quart of water, add the juice of 4 lemons. It’s easy. No trouble at all and pleasant. You need only 2 table spoonfuls two times a day. Often within 48 hours — sometimes over night — splendid results are obtained. If the pains do not quickly leave and if you do not feel better, Ru-Ex will # cost you nothing to try as it is cold by your druggist under an absolute money-back # guarantee. Ru-Ex Compound is for sale and recom mended by Good Drugstores Everywhere* Spectator Suggests Occasional Study, Survey, and Overhauling of Governmental Agencies Organized Business, appreciating the ability of those in charge of our governmental agencies, suggests that these gentlemen propose reductions in their budgets from ten to twelve per cent. The second part of the letter deals with the budget for the next fiscal year, beginning July 1, 1941. The Re search committee of Organized Busi ness, wishing to make recommenda tions for the next fiscal year, decided that the cost of the State government being more an administrative item than otherwise any intelligent ap proach to a solution, would require a s irvey of activities and personnel. It f Hind at once that there is no central record of personnel or activities, for each service operates largely as an independent unit, not only as to its program, but as to the number, duties, and pay of its personnel. Organized Business has requested detailed in formation relative to the personnel of all services, the salaries and activities of such persons. Organized Business, through Mr. C. Norwood Hastie, its President, calls attention to numerous studies, sur veys, and recommendations made by Commissions and Committees which have p-vem months, and even years, to investigation of government within our State. It sounds a very pertiient challenge in conclusion: that the same careful appraisal of government func tions he made as has frequently been made of industrial and commercial en terprises, and that we abandon the an tiquated methods of a century ago in government, as we have in industry and in our manner of living, and that we streamline or modernize our State government, so that larger benefits may flow to the people through lower unit cost in government, as has been the great contribution of American in dustrial management and labor thru- out the year. Viro-jnia and Alabama have made notable advances in the simplification of the structure of government and have reduced costs and promoted ef ficiency at the same time. No one with even elementary know ledge of business would create such an organization as has been created for our State. A business is studied, sur veyed and overhauled occasionally, and better methods contrived so as to pro mote output at lower cost. But gov ernment piles on one thing upon an other. and then builds offshoots, so that it looks like a patch work. The State of South Carolina does not control Clemson College and it does not control the public schools. The State owns Winthrop, The Citadel, and Carolina; it pwns the Medical College; hut it does not own Clemson College, for you don’t own anything that you cannot control. Clemson Col lege has thirteen trustees, seven being permanent members of the board un der the will of Mr. Clemson. These seven choose their successors. For example, a successor to the late Frank Lever will be chosen by the six sur vivors. The Legislature has given to Clemson probably several million dol- lars more than the value of the prop erty given to the State by Mr. Clem son, and is giving to it a hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year now for its college work, together with three hundred and thirty-nine thousand dol lars for extension work. I do not mean to say that full control by the State would make any difference in the work of the college; I do poinx out that just a few years ago the State accepted another gift of land with a string tied to it and has not only giv en many times the value of the land, but is giving this year $71,000. It would be a good rule for the State to decline all gifts with strings, for it is an expensive gift as a memorial which costs the State each year more than the value of the gift. As to the common schools, my point is that though the State is now called on each year for more and more mo ney for salaries, the State does not control the schools. They are controll ed by their respective school district trustees, chosen usually by the County Board of Education, except in several cases of direct County control, as I recall. Until a few years ago the schools were supported by the 3-mill Consti tutional school tax, which was recent ly voted out by the people. Immediate ly the legislature put on a state-wide 3-mill tax—which is a very different thing altogether and completely nulli fies the act of the voters. In time, school districts were allowed to vote special taxes for the support of the schools. Some districts voted very high taxes and the assessments had to be brought down to almost nothing Then followed the efforts to get state aid for the schools. Soon the State was asked to guarantee a six months term for every school, then seven months, now eight months. At the same time laws were passed fixing minimum pay for teachers, ranging from $75.00 to $90.00 a month. This much is paid by the State. I wish to say that the impression generally held that all teachers are paid only these salaries is inexact. These are minimum salaries. Every teacher from Gillisonville to Tirzah gets at least $75.00 for eight months. The teachers, however, are classified, beginners receive at least $75.00 a month, but this is increased year by year until it reaches $90.00 a month. But is this the salary actually gaid ? No; the teachers of Columbia, Char- leston, Greenville, Spartanburg, An derson, Sumter, Orangeburg—and al most everywhere else—are paid more The state today is contributing about nine million two hundred thous and dollars to help the common schools; and for this, have the local taxes been reduced? As the State contributes more and more to common schools, has the school tax on your home or farm been reduced ? It should be interesting if you would ask your County Auditor. The teachers through an organization maintained here make a constant drive for higher salaries at the expense of the State. They are asking for ten dollars a month more for next year, and I’m told that the original membership fee of fifty cents charged the teachers has been raised to two dollafs and that is the war chest. Anyone who has ever taught knows that a thorough teacher is a pearl without price, or a pearl beyond all price. No one could say that a com petent teacher is overpaid. Of course no one is entitled to a certain sum of money in all circumstances any more than a first class man in business is entitled to certain profits at all events. But in general, if we have ten thous and teachers I should feel safe in clas sifying them as A, B, and C, knowing full well that there are more C’s than A’s. It is so in .every calling. We have very few class A lawyers, but we have hosts of class C. Farming is the same, as well as merchandising. Excellence and superlative ability are not common in any activity. So the question properly arises about hori zontal scales of pay, and certainly arises in cases of increases. I know, of course, what the teachers will say—and I admit it readily—that the actual nervous expenditure of a teacher in five or six hours exceeds that of most office workers in ten. No one can deny that who has ever tried both. And the social contribution of the teacher transcends that of almost any one else in public service. 1 con cede that. But for that consecrated and efficient teacher, whose life is a lesson, who deeply impresses the young mind and stimulates is con structively; who guides the youthful spirit into wholesome activities, there are ten or a hundred who are decided ly mediocre, who teach to fill a gap, and who feel like slaves because they lash their unwilling spirits to work. We may make machines by mass pro duction, but it isn’t the way to make teachers. The observation I have made about grades of teachers certainly applies to clerical employees of the State and County. All this horizontal raising and reducing pay is inevitable. There are employees of the State who through native ability, trained to cer tain positions during years of service are pretty valuable, who could not be easily replaced. Yet they see pretty faces and vivacious manners regarded certainly »s highly even on the pay roll. Nothing is so demoralizing in any service as to keep superior merit down to the level of the ordinary. We have employees in the State who, af ter years of competent service, have reached middle age and find that a lit tle pull and other extraneous matters put others on the same level with them —or nearly so. Of course I admit all this when the teachers raise the point, hut horizon tal scales don’t mean anything to number 1 teachers, they command good salaries, not by law, but by effi ciency. REVIEW of NEW BOOKS PAUL B. CLARK, PH. D. 1735 Woodbum Ave. Covington, Ky. From 100 Southern Recipes 1 FRIED CHICKEN The most famous of chefs will hew in reverence before the old Southern negro nammy when the t.me comes to serve fried chicken —Southern style. But it’s easy to s^rve this appetizing dish on your table. Just follow this recipe for Southern Fried Chicken Select a young chicken from 1V2 to 2 pounds Dress and disjoint Chill. Sift flour (about 1V4 cupsl, add salt and pepper and roll each piece of chicken in flour mixture Place in heavy frying pan with cot tonseed oil margarine or shorten ing at least two inches deep. Al ways place larger pieces in first and on hottest part of frying pan. Remember, it is important to have margarine or shortening very hot when the chicken is first drop ped in, then lower the flame and keep covered to keep steam in. When done and a golden brown, remove and make gravy as fol lows: Pour from pan all the fat except 2 tablespoons, add to this 2 tablespoons flour, mix smooth and add one cup milk, stir until it boils and is thick and rich, add salt and pepper and pour in sep arate dish from chicken. (If plain gravy is desired, use hot water in place of milk) Yields 4 servings Other favorite Southern recipes are presented in a large, full-color 100-page free cook book, -“100 Southern Recipes” Send to Na tional Cotton Council; Box 18 Memphis, Tenn. LITTLE MOMENTS IN BIG LIVES Kessler fCZAKJk: WTMOGE. OF THE FlCPT Maticmal DAiOk: a= cuioAsa started vrru that institution A9 A MtPPtWOFC DOV bEFCQF PAD DKQ CUNNEQP A>0C> MAQUlWF OW« Titles of a few books that may in terest some of the readers of this column are—“War through the Ages,” Montross; Lankes’ Edition of “Elergy Written in a Country Church yard,” Gray; “What’s Past Is Uro- loque,” Gilson; “The White House: 1800-1940,” Hurd; “Sunderland Cap ture and Other Poems,” Bacon, «ftc. THE EIGHTEEN NINETIES. By Holbrook Jackson, Pelican. 41 East 28th St„ New York. THE JEWISH PROBLEM, By Louis Golding. Pen guin (Same Address). BLUE AN GELS AND WHALES. By Robert Gihhings. Pelican. VISION AND DESIGN. By Roger Fry. Pelican. GREY STEEL. Bv H. C. Armstrong. Penguin. 25c each. Jackson in the first book, tells of the decade which “began with a dash for life and ended with a retreat—but n^it defeat. It was the old battle between heterodoxy and orthodoxy, materialist and mystic, Cl ristian and Piagan, but fought from a great var iety of positions.” The book is well characterized as a review of art and ideas of the specific decade: it is well written, evenly balanced, covering an amazing amount of data with real brilliance and merit. Golding at tempts to solve the problem that was begun centuries ago when the Jews were forced to leave Palestine in the first Christian century, dealing more forcefully with it in its prerent acute form, and pointing to very pertinent facts. “On the day a civilized regime is re-estebli ried in Germany, life whatever Jews survived, a.id a gigan tic load be removed from the minds and hearts of all liberal-minded peo ple bevond her borders.” He points out where dictators are sensitive. Gibbingis takes us under sea in his hook, paving us drawing® and a re cord of his personal experience be low water level, raising a baffling question as to whether the pictures are more interesting than his words about his adventures. Fry takes us deep into the realm of art and life, covering a wide range of the entire subject. Without doubt this stimu lating books 'will lift the reader’s opinion about the value of living ana he a real help to tnose who delve deeper than mere appearances on the scene of life. GREY STEEL, is a biography of one of the best think ers of our generation, Jan Ohiristian Smuts. A most important figure in the South African government and British life, and a philosopher of the first magnitude, using most forcibly the concept of holism. Penguin and Pelican books are always outstanding values. Note 1.—You will wi-nt to read the December, 1940, issue of the PULPIT DIGEST for articles entitled “Sym posium on Religion, Democracy and War” by outstanding men. Pulpit Di gest Pub. Co„ Great Neck, N. Y. 10c a copy. Note 2.—Of outstanding value are the two volumes of “Sermons on Books of the Bible” by W. W. Ham ilton, Broadman Press, Nashville, Tennessee, each volume now selling at a reduced price. The sermons will not grow out of date; they are thoroughly orthodox and well organ ized for study or devotion, covering in these volumes the books from Gene sis through Daniel. It is rare that this opportunity comes to- the stu dent of the Bible, to get the scholar ly approach to this methed of en deavor. The date are compact with out overdue condensation; they are detailed without loss of spiritual value. This is just the type of book that religious leaders should have ac cess to; for, in reaching the student, the teacher must have in mind the ethical and religious values. Some phonograph records, perhaps most of them, lose their “tone quality”; such will not happen to these books. Certain details may change, but the “tone” will remain. Few hooka can be valued in this light. We feel sure that orthodoxy will remain firm. Valuable books. INDIGESTION may affect the Heart Gas trapped in the stomach or gullet may act like a hair-trigger on the heart. At the first sign of distress smart men and women depend on Bell-ans Tablets to set gas free. No laxative but made of the fastest- acting medicines known for acid indigestion. If the FIRST DOSE doesn't prove Bell-ans better, return bottle to us and receive DOUBLE Money Back. 25c. tiny' 1 T FfiDPCTI UOll TFuRucI! 9cr OtvdbeAj Hg* ?l A ■ ’^k>\ l] ix today! . Phone 110 Clarence T. Summer Auditor’s Tax Notice I, or an authorized agent, will be at the following places on the dates given below for the purpose of tak ing tax returns of all personal prop erty, new buildings and real estate transfers. Persons owning property, in more than one district will make returns for each district. All able bodied male citizens be tween the ages of twenty-one and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax; All persons between the ages of twenty- one and fifty outside of incorporated towns and cities are liable to pay commutation tax of $1700. All dogs are to be assessed at $1.00 each. Whitmire—City Hall, Thursday, January 2nd, 1941. Whitmire — Aragon-Baldwin Mill, Friday, January 3rd, 1941. Longshores—Monday, January 6th, 1941, from 9 until 12. Silverstreet—'Monday, January 6th, 1941, from 2 until 5. Chappells—Tuesday, January 7th, 1941. Hollingsworth Store—Wednesday, January 8th, 1941, from 9 until 12. Kinards—Wednesday, January 8th, 1941, from 2. until 5. Prosperity—Thursday, January 9th, 1941. Little Mountain—Friday, January 10th, 1941. Glymph’s Store—Monday, Juanuary 13th, 1941, from 9 until 12. F. L. Ruff &Bros.Store—Monday, January 13th, 1941, from 2 until 5. Peak—Tuesday, January 14th, 1941. Pomaria — Wednesday, January 15th, 1941. St. Lukes—Thursday, January J.6th 1941, from 9 until 12. O’Neal—Thursday, January 16th, 1941, from 2 until 5. Maybinton—F. B. Hardy’s Home, Friday, January 17th, 1941, from 9 until 12. Reese Brothers Store—Friday, Jan uary 17th, 1941, f.om 2 until 5. At Auditor’s office to March 1st, after which a penalty of 10 pur cent will be added. PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS, • Auditor Newberry Cjunty. V TAX NOTICE The tax hooks will he open for col lection of 1940 taxes on and after October 1, 1910. The following is general levy for all except special purposes: ' Mills Ordinary County 13 Bonds, Notes and Interest ... l?^ Roads and Bridges 2 Hospital >4 School — State 3 County School SVi County Board of Education .. I 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. BetJhel-Garm-any ... .... 5 3. Maybinton 4. Long Lane 5. McCullough .... 5 6. Cromer .... 0 8. Reagin 9. Deadfall 10. Utopia 11. Hartford 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 32. Union .... 6 33. Jolly Street 8 34. St. Paul 35. Peak .... 4 37. Mudlic 38. Vaughnville C 39. Cbappels 6 40. Old Town .... 10 41. Dominick 8 42. Reederville .... 10% 43. Bush River .... 10% 44. Smyrna . ... 10% 45. Trinity .... 10 46. Burton 10 47. Tranwood . . . . 10% 48. Jalapa . . . . 8 49. Kinards 2 50. Tabernacle 51. Trilby \ .... 4 52. Whitmire .... 15 53. Mollohon 4 54. Beth-Eden 5 55. Fork .... 8 57. Belfast 6 58. Silverstreet 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.