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FRIDAY, JANUARY 24. 1941 THE NEWBERRY SUM PAGE FIVE i NEWS FACTS ^GEORGE LONDON, ENGLAND. ON A RECENT VISIT HERE. ROBERT TAN LOR, SCREEN IDOL WAS 50 BESIEGED BY AUTOGRAPH HUNTERS THAT HE WAS FORCED TO SEEK SHELTER IN A POLICE CHICAGO, kuho&T 1 A WELL KNOWN FINANCIER HERE HAS BOUGHT A HALF INTEREST INANEWSTAND BECAUSE HE WAS FOND OF THE IEYEAROL0NEWSIE/ Mrs. R. D. Wright Nominated For High UDC Office The South Carolina Division, United D'aug'hters of the Confederacy, amd Drayton Rutherford Chapter, New berry, by unanimous endorsement have the honor to present Mrs. Rob ert Downs Wrigiht as a camdidiatie for election to the office of President Gen eral, United Daughters of the Confed eracy at the forty-eighth General Con vention November, Nineteen Hundred Forty-one. Miss Minna McLeod President South Carolina Divisiort, Mrs. Thomas Middleton Harvey, Re cording Secretary, Mrs. St. John Ali son Lawton. Honorary life president, 'Mrs. Chaiponan J. Milling, honorary life president, Mrs. Jaimes Love Howe, corresponding secretary, Mrs. Thomas Joad Mauldin, honorary life president, Mrs. Jesse Young McFall, first vice- president, Drayton Rutherford Chap ter. The above is the announcement card sent out by the South Carolina Div ision, United Daughters of the Con federacy, endorsing unanimously Mrs. R. D. Wright for the office of Presi dent General of the UDC organiza tion. Mrs. Wright has served her Chapter as Recording Secretary, Treasurer and as President for fifteen years; the South Carolina Division as Historian, vice-president, and Presi dent, as Director of War Relief dur ing the World War, and is now honor ary life president. She has served the General organization as Editor ol the U. D. C. Department in Confed erate Veteran magazine; Chairman of Committee on Education, as Recording Secretary General, Second vice-presi dent general, and was-one of the com pilers of the history of the U. D. C. The South Carolina Division, U. D. C., feels that no one in the General Organization is beter qualified for the presidency than Mrs. Wright, and so licits your support for her election. In Reply To Mrs. Roosevelt THE MARCH OF AMERiCA Why work? Because there is something in a man that makes him not content to | live like the beasts of the field. Man I wants more than that, and seeing the broad world and all its opportunities for producing the things he wants, he works, and produces them. Over thousands of years, this work becomes systematized to produce more and better things. That organization of work we call an economic system. The work system, the economic system, that we have developed here in America during the past 300 years has come in for heavy criticism of late yeais, for it has developed grave de fects. But it also has shown remarkable achievements, and it is scarecely wise to concentrate so fixedly on the faults as to overlook entirely, and take for ( granted, the achievements, some for which were recently summarized by the New York Sun; In 1900, for instance, there were 8,000 automobiles in use; in 1941 there are 25.000,000. In 1900 there were 1,000,000 tele phones; in 1941 there are 20,400,000. In 1900 about 4,400,000 people own ed securities; in 1941 there are more than 10,000,000 such owners. In 1910 there were 16,372,000 sav ings accounts; in 1941 there are 46,- 000,000. In 1920, some 10,581,700 Ameriaans owned their own homes; in 1941 there are 14,000,000 home-owners. In 1920 there were only 1000 radio sets; in 1941 there are 43,000,000. In 1920 there were 10,000 electric refrigerators; in 1941 there are more than 14,000,000. In 1920 thee were estimated to be 1,800,000 electrical servants in homes, outside of radios and regrigerators; in 1941 there are 117,00,000. having come so far, we can’t be on the wrong road entirely. The future course of that road may not be straight ahead on the line of the past. It may have curves and dips. But it has carried us too far through too green a country to encourage indis criminate straying into paths.—Un ion Times. HENRY C. CARTER Henry Clary Carter, 63, died Sun day night at the local hospital fol lowing a short illness. He was an employee of the Newberry cotton mill and a devoted member of West End Baptist Church. Surviving are one son, Smith Car ter; two brothers and two sisters, Joe Carter, Newberry; S. A. Carter, Ninety Six; Mrs. J. L. Bums, New berry and Mrs. W. B. Jeter of Ninety Six. Funeral services were held at 3:30 Tuesday afternoon at the West End Baptist church with the Rev. B. F. Rogers in charge. Interment follow ed in Rosemont cemetery. The body remained at j Leavell’s funeral home until the hour of ser vice. uuhat customers te If the purpose of an economy <c to produce goods and get them into the hands of people who can use them, then this is a record without parallel. True, we have had a virgin contin gent to exploit, and many natural ad vantages. But when one thinks that material achievements of this magni tude have been attained by free men living under a system of free govern ment and economy, he is less likely to te impressed by what dictator-ridden governments promise. The Germans are still waiting for the Volksauto .It reems that the dictator had to have a war; the car can wait. An economy which has produced these fabulous floods of goods and dis tributed them so widely has something more substantial than the promise of dictators. We have not come far enough. But Otir TnTlsIb!o TTalf-Folinp baa no “repaired look”—nc ridge or visible seam. onr eomfortah’e «hoes restored to new appear- ance at popuLar prices. Dennis Shoe Shop SHOE SUPPLIES LACES POLISHES (From the Richmond (.Ind.) Palla dium-Item of January 10, 1941) Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has stated she was “astonished and sad dened” at the lack of applause from the Republican sector When President Roosevelt addressed Congress on the state of the Nation Monday. Mrs. Roosevelt, as the wife of the President, is too important a person age, she may know too much of what is in the mind of her husband, she has had too many years’ experience in the White House to permit this attack against the Republicans to pass unnoticed. Dear lady, you may be “saddened” but you should net be “astonished”. Those Republican Congressmen rep- lesented 22,000,000 voters who were against the reelection of your hus band for a third term and also against him because they believed he was det ermined to get us into the war. If the address your husband deliv ered last Monday had been uttered be fore election last November, despite many good points in it, it would have assured his defeat. Some of its tone and some of its wording constituted a plain dare to Hitler to declare war against us. That, many of us be lieve, is the President's Machiavel lian policy now since he knows that most of the 22,000,000 Republicans wtho voted against him, as well as many of the 27,000,000 who voted for him, still do not favor getting the United States into the war. You should not be “astonished” therefore, dear lady, if most Republi can Congressmen, and some of the Democratic Congressmen whom you neglected to mention for some queer reason, did not applaud your hus band’s dare to Hitler. They saw through him. And they did not like what they saw. You also said that you thought the four principles enumerated by your husband as this country’s stand for world peace could be applauded re gardless of party affiliation. Those were freedom or religion, freedom of speech, freedom from want, freedom from fear. The last freedom from fear was not present among the Congressmen who heard your husband. They feared the consequences of the President daring the war-lusting Hitler to declare war against our country. They feared the offer of the other three freedoms, of religion, of speech, and from want, was for the purpose of allaying sus picions among great numbers of Americans and for making them more avid for war, for war waged on a world-wide scale by us in order to force our ideals on all the other peoples of the earth. With that interpretation of what may be in the mind of your husband, possibly delusions of grandeur, you should not blame Republican or De mocratic Congressmen who could not force themselves sheeplike to applaud a policy that thrusts us much nearer to the flames of this insane foreign war. And now we come to another very important part of your statemew as reported by the Associated Press; im. portant, because you are very rtose to the President of the United States—your husband. “It might be,” the First Lady said, “that the lack of Republican ap plause,” she noted wal a “purely per sonal reaction to the individual,” but added that “after all this individual, the President, does represent the choice of the people. It must be pos sible to rise above personal feelings.” In Germany, under autocratic Hit. ler, dear lady, there is no minority of opposition to the policies of the head of state. As a consequence Germany and nearly all Europe have been thrown into a terrible war by arbi trary Hitlerian decree. In the United States, under the Constitution, we in the Republican minority, have the right and the duty to try to get en ough of you Democrats to back a sane policy of keeping our Nation out of this war, if we sincerely believe that involvement in it is not for the best interest of our country. So it is possible, you see, that this “personal feeling” should continue to stand between your husband and his success in getting us into war. The recent election was not a man date to your husband to get us into war by hook or ■ rook. Nor did It mean that the majority which voted him into office again did so under the old doctrine of monarchy, “the king can do no wrong.” We, the people, Democrats and Republicans ,alike, reserve the right to criticise and to try to modify, to even defeat, the policies of our Presidents if we deem best. “It must be possible to rise above personal feeling,” you said. What do you mean by “must”? If you mean, “it should be possible to convince others of their mistake,” you are speaking as a true American, well within your legal rights under our Constitution to debate a point freely, and to try to convince those of us who disagree with you that we are doing so from prejudiced feeling^, which should not enter into the dis cussion. But if you mean that we “must” agree with whatever your husband as President proposes as a national poli cy, that we “must” agree regardless of our conviction that he is wrong, Query Sees Sharp Boost in Revenue Dr. Walter G. Query, chairman of the South Carolina tax commission, predicted Tuesday a revenue increase of 21,205,000 above bis previous es timates. “Business conditions are the best they have ever been in South Caro lina. Business is booming” and the higher income should prevail for “at least the next two or three years,” he told the house ways and means committee and senate finance com mittee at their first joint meeting to draft the state's general appropria tions bill. His prediction — which, legislators always follow closely in view of his recognized position as an expert on the state’s revenue — brought smiles quickly to the lawmakers who must solve the question of how to meet a 23,500,000 deficit. Doctor Query said his previous in come tax revenue prediction of 23,- 500,000 should now be raised to 24,- 200,000 or an expected increase from that source alone of 2700,000. Part of this amount, however, is earmarked for schools and could not be applied directly to the deficit. He said that the other increases would come trom the soft and bottled drinks, admis sions, inhei tance, business license and documentary license taxes. “At the rate we are going now, the tax commission is going to collect more than $30,000,000”, the veteran tax commission official asserted. He estimate several months ago—which he explained was made while ill and not in full touch with the expanding state income—was $28,595,000. He said that income tax payers in the last two years had increased from 50 to 60 per cent, in number. Tax at Canteens. Questioned by committee members, Doctor Query said that the commis sion had ruled that canteens on mili tary reservations were subject to the state’s luxury taxes under a new federal law. He said that the commission had been citicised for its action, although federal taxes were collected on many items which state taxes would affect. A temporary federal court order bias withheld imposition of the levy, and Doctor Query indicated that it was his desire to appeal to the United States supreme court by saying he hoped the general assembly would keep its hands off in order for the federal law to be tested “in the high est court of the land.” He said that the commission had been asked “Why are you going to tax the poor boys who have got to go out there and train and maybe of fer their lives.” • “We wouldn’t collect any taxes at all if we listened to all the poor mouth talk put up to us,” he declared. He explained that the coAmission felt that is was its duty to carry out what it believed to be the law and that if the canteens were to be ex empted, “Why not sell to other groups who are poor and needy” or to Leg- ionairres who had already offered their services in active war. He said also that a federal act pro hibited the sale of “alcohol” on army reservations but, with a wave of the hand, “it’s being sold out there.” Until the commission “went after” the canteens, he said, highly-paid construction company .employes pur chased at them “in Hoods”. ST. PHILIPS There will be Sunday school Sun day morning at 10 o’clock and divine services at 11 o’clock. Holy Commun ion will be administered by the pas tor, Rev. J. Emmet Roof. We hear that our pastor is now in the bed with the flu, but trust that he will be able to meet his appoint- mem/t The flu is mighty bad in this com munity. Some of the families are all in the bed at the same time. I believe that it would do good if all of the schools and gatherings would close down for a few weeks. Doctors are now very scarce and they are badly needed. Some of the boys ought to take profession, for there is a big opening. We need more doctor®. The farmers are now very busy making preparations for another year. We trust that this year will be a great success, as last year wasn’t so good. MRS. DOMINICK OF PROSPERITY DIES TUESDAY MORNING Prosperity, Jan. 21.—Mrs. Ellen Dominick, 82, died early this morning after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at the graveside in Prosperity cemetery at 11 o’clock Wednesday morning with the Rev. M. E. Boozer officiating. Mrs. Dominick was a member of Wight- man Methodist church. Surviving Mrs. Dominick art five sons, Ed W. Dominick, Ira G. Domi nick, John C. Dominick, Furman R. Dominick, Gus T. Dominick and two daughter®, Mrs. Jake Taylor and Mrs. Herman Taylor. then, dear lady, under our Constitu tion, we have no Hitler to dictate to us nor do we want one. That is why so many of us fear that if we war for democracy abroad we will lose it here at home. You surely are not so un-American as to use the word “must” in that dis loyal sense. You used it in the sense of “it should be possible,” didn’t you ? 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