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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1941 THE NEWBERRY SUN FAGS MY* i JS Newberry Scout Leaders Receive Awards At the annuel meeting of the Blue Ridge Council held at Lander Col* lege in Greenwood. last Thursday' three Newberry Sooutera received awards in recognition of their ser vices to the organization. Prof. Ohas. L. Trabert was awarded the Silver Beaver award and Wright Cannon and Dewey Kinard each re ceived Scoutmasters’ Keys. The Scoutmasters’ Keys wv.re presented by Dr. F. H. H. Calhoun of Clemson college, and were given upon com pletion of a required number of training courses. The Silver Beaver award was presented to Dr. Trabert by Jesse D. Brown of Greenville anc been "instrumental in organizing new Scout troops. The speaker of the evening, C. K. Wright, Superintend ent of the Laurens schools, was in- ti-oduced by Assistant Scout Execu- tiva Ernest Pittman. Mr. Wright’s address was on the subject, “Streng thening and Invigorating Demo cracy.” Presiding was Dr. Roswell C. Long, president of tne Blue Ridge Council. Among Newberrians attending the meeting were: P. K. Harmon, retir ing president of the local district; B. 0. Creekmore, recently elected to succeed Prof. Harmon; also, Dr. C. L. Trabert, Wright Camion, Dewey Kinard, Hugh Moates, Luther Aull, Harry Buzhardt, Preston McAlhaney, Billy Neel, William Peery, Billy Chapman, Hugh Wessinger, Tommy McCrackin, Idev. James Mitchell, Rev. C. M. Johnson, Rev. C. A. Calcote, and R. M. Monts, Jr., and J. S. Luder of Prosperity. PERFECT ATTENDANCE FOR JANUARY, JOHNSTONE SCHOOL DR. CHARLES L. TRABERT is given to the Scouter in the dist rict who has rendered outstanding service to the boys in his community. Among Dr. Trabert’s qualifications for the trophy are the following: three year’s service as Scoutmaster, 15 years’ service as Merit Badge examiner, chairman of the local Board of Review for six years dur ing which time not a single meeting was missed, member of the Newber- First grade: Bessie Brown, Betty Morris, Olin Brown, Jackson Norris. t Third grade: Peggy Sligh, Carl Brown, Bobby Minick, Otto Morris, 1 Talmadge Wicker. Fourth grade: John Miller, Billy Minidk, Robert Spotts. Fifth grade: Willie Mae Banks, Pa tricia Spotts, Earl Wicker. Sixth grade: Colma Miller, Hous- eal Spotts, Kathleen Boozer. Seventh grade: Emmer Miller, Josephine Turner, IVJaude Spotts. Eighth grade: Albert Brown. Students making honor holl are: First grade, Dorothy Spotts, Jaskson Norris; second grade, Peggy Minick; third grade, Bobby Minick and Tal madge Wicker; fourth grade, Billy Minick and Robert Spotts; fifth grade Patricia Spotts and Willie Mae Banks. Seventh grade, Emmer Mil ler, Maude Spotts and Josephine Turner. R. WRIGHT CANNON ry District Committee for ten years, besides many other civic and reli gious activities. The meeting was held in the dining hall of Lander college and supper was served by the college. The dele gations were recognized by districts and Executive O. B. Gorman made a few remarks. Hugh Moates of Winners chosen in contests Miss Doris Eskridge of Prosperity was chosen winner of the beauty con test sponsored at the high school Friday night by the College “N” orchestra and the Lions club. Miss Eskridge was sponsored by the Lions club. Second place went to Miss Bet ty Bridges, third to Miss Louise Wells. Miss Ha roly n King won first place in the Kiddie Parade. Second place was won by Miss Caroline Vaughn. In the contest for Miss Newberry College, Miss Mary Sue Whitmire of Greenville won first place, Miss Mary Katherine Reiser of Augusta, second, and Miss Irma Addis of Walhalla, third. Jack Adams won the talent contest with a song and a tap dance number. Highlights of the program were the many selections given by the Col lege “N” orchestra, under the direc tion of Chris Kauffman, with Paul La Rosa, vocalist. Prof. T. E. Epting was master of ceremonies. SUGGESTIONS HOW LEISLATURE COULD PLACE ITSELF IN SOLITARY REVIEW of NEW BOOKS PAUL B. CLARK, PH. 1735 Woodburn Ave. Covington, Ky. D. DEWEY KINARD Newberry was given the trophy awarded each year to the Scoutmas ter most recently having become a father. P. K. Harmon of tJii» city was among those receiving Acorn Awards, given to Scouters who have From the address of Speaker Sol Blatt of the house of representatives of South Carolina at Santee-Cooper: “If everybody will let us alone, well pass a program that will be satisfactory' to the majority of the people of the state, and we’ll balance the budget, too . . . And we would adjourn early”. The the public and other branches of government he admonished: “Let us alone. If you do, we’ll do a good job.” To facilitate the accomplishments of this good job, The News and Cour ier proposes that, while the general assembly is in session, the State House be converted into a cloister. Iron shutters should be iLaced on the windows, with narrow slots in them through which food and drink would be passed. Receivers of telephones within the Staite House should be left down at all times. Legislators could telephone the highway department, the welfare department and other departments when in need of information but would not hang up the receivers at the end of the conversations. From downstairs offices the halls and lobbies of the general assembly should be protected by barbed wire fences. The governor’s office should have extra high fences. No one from downstairs should be allowed on the second floor. The general assembly should be segregated. No member or senator •should be permitted to leave the State House, thereby inviting expos ure to the public or the weather. At the corners of the State House Yard ard at the street entrances to it, legislative guards should be auth orized to censor legislative mail and black out all references to political and legislative matters in letters. The censors should be instructed to censor letters and bulletins from Organized Business, Inc., with espec ial care. Thus the general assembly would be let alone and would adjourn early. News and Courier, Charleston. “It is much easier to meet with er ror than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, and the way to seek it does not appear to all the world,” says Goethe. These are powerful words that modem thinkers must face for themselves, both England and Germany must face them to the bitter end. Norman Angell speaks again; in 1908 he wrote “The Great Illusion,” a gigan tic piece of modem prophetism. He now calls our attention to “The Great Illusion—Now”, (A Penguin Special). The thesis of the book is an underly ing call for the nations to realize the futility of war, when the real con clusions are reached; that some sort of international police force must be relied on, in the future, to make it impossible for one nation to wage a war at will. The accepted axiom of the book is to question a nation’s military power to be used to pro mote its economic welfare. Other fine Penguin Specials are—“What Hitler Wants”, by E. O. Lorimer; “Why Britain Is At War”, by Harold Nicol- son; “The Suez Canal”, by Hugh Schonfield; “Britain by Mass-Observa tion”, by Charles Madge and Tom Harrison. All these books give a cross section of the issues in this great conflict, particularly what Eng land has to face, the problems in volved, and how the issues are being met by a noble people. “Mein Kampf” is excerpted in “What Hitler Wants”, giving some notice to neglected pas sages, quite aptly done. “Why Bri tain Is At War”, a pertinent sum mary of pre-war happenings, com pares Hitler to a murderer who gets caught by repeating his crimes "ac cording to plan.” “The Suez Canal”, by Hugh J. Schonfield, goes into His tory, giving the Nile-Red Sea Canals, the struggle for the trade with India, bringing it up-to-date with present day problems, also havin most de lightful pictures. In “Britain by Mass-Observation”, the authors speak boldly concerning “the people”, in superb journalistic style, on such topics as “Crisis”, “Democracy and Facts”, and are alert to lift the latch for readers to see “the people’s point of view. Readers who are fed-up on “War” and “Crisis” may turn with keen delight to “A Book of English Poetry”, collected and edited by G. B. Harrison, ranging from Chaucer to Rossetti,—a splendid pocket antho logy. All of these books are real bar gains,—books of culture and treatises of realism, and can be ordered from Penguin Books Inc., 41 E. 28th St., New York, for a nominal sum. What does the world need : So many people au ready to tell us; it needs this, or that, or something else. One thing the world needs is to get a new vision of the value of Christ ianity, not as a religion but as the religion, not a religion of mere broth erhood of man, not even a religion of mere Fatherhood of God; these con ceptions are fine bul, they are mere phases of the ethics of the bettir, • he best world religions. But Christ ianity, its distinctive, is different not so much in the realm of ethics; Christianity is a redemptive religion, first, last, and always; its difference is metaphysical. It is redemptive metaphysics that gives a new ethics in life, and for life, in experience and in missions. The view of Christian ity that is needed is not new; it is as old as Christianity itself. It is the message that Nicodemus heard, that Paul preached,—a new birth. This, when clearly seen, makes a by product of the daily living, and it is just that; it makes Christian ethics a by-product of the Christian living in that age, in any country under heaven, in any century of history. But the Christian is not the good man, per se; the Christian is the man who has been born again. Two ex ceptionally fine books come to the front just now to repeat these facts in the language that is characteristic of each writer; one is “A Bible Re vival”, by W. W. Hamilton, Broad- man Press, Nasliville, Tenn., $1; the other is “Militant Christianity’ - , by R. C. Campbell, same press and same price. The first book makes it plain that man is a sinner, that man is lost; it stresses the Bible plan of salvation, also the return of Christ to the earth. It is evangelism of real merit; it is the Christian mes sage with force of belief and per suasion. The second book is also clear-cut in theism, Christianity, pro gram and final ends. It is “militant” without being military; it is group- minded with no tinge of regimenta tion that would lose for the individ ual his personality and freedom to choose his own way of life. It is not a volume of condescening tolera tion, a word that carries hidden in its meaning a submissiveness that may not be Christian: it is a volume of commanding freedom, freedom to be “militant”, in thb sense that this book uses the word, and freedom to reject the “military” advised. Create nart of the comine revival by hand ing these commanding books to your children and friends. Baruch Retains Warmth For His Native State By MRS. J. A. YARRBOUGH m The News and Courier The binomial theorem in algebra was evolved by Sir Isaac Newton. “South Carolina is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh and al though I have lived in New York more than fifty years, the core of my heart remains in South Carolina,” said Bernard M. Baruch, internation ally known financier, philanthropist, friend of presidents, but first of all, a South Carolinian. In a luxurious private reception room Mr. Baruch sat and talkerf of many things—the genius of J. B. Duke and the humane way in which his wealth is being expended; of North Carolinians in congress today; the first World war; his memories of South Carolina’s sufferings during the reconstruction; of visiting his uncle, Hermann Baruch, in Charfotte during his boyhood; of his frequent trips to his plantation near George town where the people give him a warm welcome but leave him to come and go quietly in unobtrusive fash ion. His large New York office occupy ing an entire floor is maintained only for the purpose of conserving his for tune and attending to his many ben evolences. Over six feet, erect, slender, with classic features, ease and poise, Mr. Baruch is a distinguished figure in any company. His blue eyes are sharp without being keen, his hair as silver without making him ven- is silver without making his ven- eraible, his gestures dramatic, his vigor and energy striking. Every few minutes he is out of his chair, pacing the floor, looki ng down on Madison avenue’s congestion, or go ing to an outer room to speak courteously to one who has perhaps called without an appointment. Notwithstanding the fact of his investure during the World war of the broadest authority over Ameri can industry and commerce any func tionary of the United States govern ment had ever held, one gets from Mr. Baruch an impression of simplicity, freedom from pretentiousness, lack ol affectation and a high sense of com passion. His good deeds are frequent without being public, for he does not divulge his benefactions. He is a Jew and proud 1 of it. His father. Dr. Sirnon Baruch, a Jew of Spanish lineage, emigrated to this country from Polish Prussia at an early age, settled in South Carolina and during the War Between the States was a noted surgeon of the Conferedate army. His mother was Isabel Wolfe, member of a well known Southern family whose fore bears had come to America prior to the Revolution. • • * Before there can be real under standing of Bernard Mannes Baruch, one must first understand the back ground of this man who has neld various national positions of trust and by authority of the President of the United States became one of the most powerful men in America dur ing the World war. Entering Spain as conquerors in 1500, the Moors gave favor and sympathy to the Jews, who, in time, turned barren wastes into fertile fields, hung the hill-sides with pur ple grapes, gathered figs and olives where formerly thistles had flourish ed. Their clever fingers wrought marvels in precious metals, stones, fine linens and silks. Jewish states men held high places in public affairs and so superior was their positions in literture, art ard the sciences many came from distant countries to learn of these Hebrew masters. From early childhood the finest traits of remote generations exhibit ed themselves in Bernard Baruch. Among his forebears were many rabbis, doctors and students of phil osophy and he seems to have inmerit- ed some of their idealism and im patience with error. While he is not an orthodox Jew he observes the Jewish holidays in tribute to his par ents and to his distinguished heritage. In Sherman’s march to the sea the beautiful home of Dr. and Mrs. Bar- i uch was burned and six years later, their son Bernard was born at Cam den, in a white frame house which is “till standing. He recalls driving thru the country to Charlotte, his childish impression of the splendor of his uncle’s store located where Mellons now stands and he has vivid memories of an attack of malarial fever in Charlotte when he was given quinine in sweet milk. When he was about fifteen years of age, his father, impoverished as a result of the War Between the ’ States, moved to New York City, to practice medicine. The boy entered the college of the City of New York and was graduated from the institu tion of which he is now a trustee. Al though he has an academic education he is also a self-made man with the broad sympathy such men acquire in the making. His long residence in New York has never weaned him from the South and he takes deep pride in its traditions and accom plishments. He never allows a year to pass without spending several weeks at intervals at Hobcaw, his home near the South Carolina coast where he and his friends hunt and fish together. On the plantation he has built comfortable homes for sev eral aged family servants and here, too, he 'buried, his old black mammy," Aunt Minerva.' ' ‘ ’ ' ■ ■.'**•*■*,. Largely through his influence a colony of northern capitalists has been established along South Caro lina’s coast which includes men of prominence such as Eugene DuPont, Robert Goelet, Ralph and Herbert Pu litzer, Richard Reeves and Howard S. Hadden. “The greatest man of our time was J. B. Duke,” said Mr. Baruch. “While 1 he was hesitant and inarticulate in speech he was unerring in judgment. Throughm ; the world, anywhere you go, you see the discarded butt of a North Carolina cigaret or cigar. Mr. Duke, like John D. Rockefeller, wise ly provided for the expenditure of his money. It was his ardent wish that it should be used for the well-being of mankind. He often talked to me about H. Today there is hardly a county in the Carolinas that does not feel the practical effect of his well developed plans. * * • Dr. I'aruCh, who was one of New York’s most eminent physicians want ed his son to study medicine, but he had set his mind on a business car eer and after his graduation entered a broker’s office in Wall Street at a weekly salary of three dollars. At a night school he studied law and book keeping. Seven years later he had advf veed no farther than a clerk-ship and was receiving only $100.00 per month. Dissatisfied, he asked his employer to double his salary in or der that he might marry the girl he was engaged to. The request was promptly refused, although hix em ployer finally agreed to give him one- eighth interest in his business. Mr. Baruch accepted and at the end of the year he received $6,000. His marriage to Miss Annie Griffen of New York soon followed. Within a few years he became known as one of Wall Street’s most clever brokers and in 1902 profits readhed almost one million dollars. He gave large amounts to his father who used it for charitable purposes. Before his fortieth birthday Mr. Baruch was established as Wall Street’s largest and most highly es teemed speculator. It is natural for one so successful to incur enmity and he has been a target for the envious. His transactions have been frank and open and never has a blemish been found. In the heat of War’s furnace many reputations wither. Success is the only test of merit and from the gen eral who loses a battle and the ad ministrator who fails to make good, excuses are not accepted. Whether at fault or not they are retired for it is achievement and not explana tion. that is wanted. In every war those who were supposedly able are found wanting and pass into oblivion while others appointed to high places win public confidence for what they accomplish. Mr. Bernard M. Baruch is in the latter class. When President Wilson in i916 of his investments so that he could not earn a dollar of profit out of the war. Mr. Baruch also sold his seat on the Stock exchange and severed made him a member of the advisory his connection with the financial dist- commission of the o ^nicil of na tional defense it was generally re garded as a complimentary appoint ment for the position carried no sal ary and involved more or less expense for Mr. Baruch. He had never been active in politics and bad never met Mr. Wilson when he enlisted in his support to which he was drawn en tirely by the idealism of the man as expressed in his public utterances. The council was composed of the secretaries of war, navy, interior, ag riculture, commerce, labor. The ad visory commission was composed of Daniel Willard, Howard E. Coffin, Jul ius Rosenwald, Dr. Hollis Godfrey, Samuel Compels, Dr. Franklin Mar tin and Mr. Baruch. Arranging all NIP ’N TUCK — Nipped in at the waist and tucked over at the boson. A coat designed to make women of all ages look and feel forever young and lovely. Navy or Black Wilshire Twill. Sizes 12-44. wHD SUITS WITH THE I co£o^ nNSIDE STORY " • • 1 Carpenter’s rict in order to give ids entire at tention to the war work of the nation. He was made a member of the com mittee formed to purchase supplies in America for the Allies. Then the president appointed him on the war council which included the secretaries of the treasury, navy, war, Edward N. Hurley, Harry A. Garfield, Her bert Hoover, Vance McCormick. On March 4, President Wilson appointed Mr. Baruch chairman of the war industries board. The presi dent’s letter defining the powers and duties of the chairman stated “The ultimate decision of all questions should rest always with the Chair man” and the letter ended with the sentence that he was to be “the gam- era] eye of the supply department* in industry”. And so Mr. Bsruah along with the glory of his title WM to shoulder the full responsibility. He had two qualities highly de sirable in an administration—quick ness and courage. He had them in the Street and he had them in war. He was not afraid of action. A third quality which fitted him most for tunately for his duties was his abil ity to get people to agree on a pro position and put it through. Hi* methods were tactful persuasion rather than coercion and he was fired with an honest ambition to serve hia country. The courage with which he met many situations where he had to decide between the rights of the nation ard the rights of ct pital dhow, ed that he was no respector of fin ancial personages even though they (Continued on Page Six) LlTT» r MOMEHTS IN BIG LIVES Kessler