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FRIDAY, JANUARY 24. 1941
THE NEWBERRY SUM
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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
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(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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