Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I 1 page two THE NEWBERRY 8TIN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY «, 1841 Millinery is going feminine Millinery is going mid-Victorian . . . women who formerly looked at pompadour hats askance are now wearing one or planning to buy one . . . Style leading New York stores are promoting the pompadour hat, also the straight Gibson sailor as they never have be fore. Fifth Avenue windows stress pompa dours and tiny dressy hats . . . with ready- to-wear going in for lacy and frilly trims and for lingerie collars and cuffs for dresses and suits, hats must be dressy . . . 5 The light dressy touch in hats takes the form of flowers . . . birds . . . veiling . . and yards of tulle moulded into fascinating choux 5 Materials for hats are diversified; bakus, braids, shiny and dull, toy£>s, tuscans, milans, felt — in fact anything goes if it is chic and feminine . . . Hats in general are small; how ever larger shapes are beginning to blossom forth . . . These are especially evident in the bonnet type, some with ribbon flanges to soften the effect. Carpenter’s Civil Service Exams Civil Service System Planned For South Carolina Former U. S. Commissioner Sees Need for State to Adopt Merit Idea A state civil service system appli cable to several departments of South Carolina government now is being planned. Samuel H. Ordway, Jr., president of the National Civil Service Reform league, and Hairy W. Marsh, field secretary, have been in the state several days conferring with officials and supporting the program. Mr. Ordway and Mr. Marsh, who are stopping at the Fort Sumter hotel will leave today. Earlier in the week Mr. Ordway addressed the general assembly. Yesterday he re peated the hope that “your state will get a good system.” Senator Henry R. Sims of Orange burg, now is preparing a civil ser vice bill for introduction. Governor Burnet R. Maybank called for such a system in an address to the general assembly. “With the continued expansion of government into new fields, we need technicians rather than politicians in many offices,” Mr. Ordway said, pointing out that the government now is involved in social welfare and insurance fields, among others, where its participation was undreamed of a few years ago. The civil service system affords a “democratic meth od” of bringing good men into the government’s service and keeping them there,” he said. Mr. Ordway formerly was a mem ber of the United States civil ser vice system, appointed from New York. Mr. Marsh formerly was state director of personnel for Connecticut. While here the league officials conferred at the chamber of com merce and with various individuals. They saw S. Marshall Sanders, di rector and Mrs. Margaret W. Guer- ard, assistant director of the county welfare department, which recently has gone under a merit system; Har old S. (Dick) Reeves, manager of the Charleston field office for the United States social security board; Mrs. Harry M. Rumin, president of the Civic club, and Mrs. C. R. Bold, of the Business and Professional Wo men’s clubs. The visitors expressed interest in the recent series of public forums of the Civic club. BOYS WANTED FOR CAMP ENROLLMENT Miss Azilee Livingston of the De partment of Public Welfare, announc ed todiay that an unlimited number of white boys can be sent to C. C. C. camps in the February 26 enrollment. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Epting and little daughter. Barbara, of Greenville, spent Sunday night with his mother, Mrs. T. E. Epting on Boundary street The United States civil service com mission announces open competitive examinations for filling the positions of Aircraft Mechanic (general), from S7.12 to $8.08 a day; Metdlsmith (aviation) S7.88 to $8.64 a day, in the United States Naval Air Station, Pen sacola, Florida, for which applications tnay be filed with the Recorder, La bor Board, U. S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla., until further notice. The commission also announces ex aminations for the positions of Air craft Mechanic (motor), Instrument Maker, Boatbuilder, Sheetmetal Work er, Shipfitter the first two at Jack sonville, Fla., or Banana River, Fla. The three latter are at Key West, Fla. Full further information and ap plication blanks for these examina tions may be obtained from the Re corder, Labor Board, U. S. Naval Air Station either at Jacksonville or Pen sacola, Fla.; from 'the Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examin ers, at any first- or second-class post office; or from the Manager, fifth U. S. civil service district, New Post of fice building, Atlanta, Ga. Open competitive examinations for the positions described below were announced by the United States Civ il Service Commission today. Applications will be accepted at the Commissioner’s Washington office not later than March IS and March 17, 1941, the extra time being allowed for those sent from Colarado and States westward. All salaries are subject to a 3 1-2 percent retirement deduction. Senior and assistant chemical ana lyst, $2,000 and $1,620 a year, res pectively. There are five optional 'subjects: precious metal assaying, and analysis of ore and metals, coal, petroleum, and gas. Applicants must have had general experience in ana lytical chemical work or assaying, in cluding some experience in the op tional subject selected. Inspector, naval civilian police, Navy Department, $3,800 a year. The duties involve general direction of a civilian police force at navy yards and naval establishments. Applicants are required to have at least 2 years of law enforcement or criminal in vestigation experience on a nation wide basis. Engineman (steam-electric), var ious grades with salaries ranging from 81.320 to $2,600 a year. Ap pointments to these positions will be made in Washington, D. C., only. The duties involve the operation and maintenance of power plant and mech anical equipment, and applicants must have had appropriate exper ience in this work. Full information as to the require ments for these examinations, and ap plication forms, may be obtained from the Secretary of the Board of U. S. civil service examiners, at any first- or second-class post office. DIRECT TAXATION ON RADIO SOUGHT A. F. of L. Unions Claim Broadcasters Cut Into Newspaper Revenue Miami, Feb. 16.—Organized print ers and allied workers of the nation will ask congress to place direct tax ation on radio revenues and restrict the issuance of station licenses. John B. Haggarty, president of the AF of L’s International Allied' Print ing Trades council, said a five-year study showed such legislation was necessary to counteract the inroads of the radio into revenues of news papers and other industries in which his men are employed. The Radio cost his union 25,000 jobs, he added. The council, he said, will ask, first, that congress permit the Fed eral communications commission to issue licenses for radio stations only to persons residing in the commun. ity where the station will operate and, second, that stations be permit ted to devote only 25 per cent of their time on the air to commercial pro- grams. These proposals, together with de mands for direct taxation of the radio industry, will be backed by 200,000 workers, and Haggarty will ask 15,000 publishers and printing executives to join the campaign. The council’s study revealed, he said, that whereas the radio took two cents of each dollar spent for all advertising in 1929, it had increased its share to 35 cents on the dollar last year. From 1930 to 1938, the stations were shown to have in creased from 25 per cent to 40 per cent the proportion of commercial programs, and the chains were pro ducing 90 per cent commercials. Haggarly said 519 radio stations with an investment of $29,819,000 showed' a profit of $18,206,000 in 1939—aproximately 63 per cent. He said Columbia Broadcasting company, on an investment of $1,600,000, de clared dividends of $3,000,000 in the past five year's. National Broadcast ing company, he said, had shown pro fits of $22,319,000 since its founding on an original investment of $3,300,- 000. HARE OFFERS PENSION AMENDMENT Representative Butler B. Hare, con gressman for the third congressional district of South Carolina, offered an amendment Monday to the old age pension law designed to increase the federal contribution in states with low per capita income. Reading The Newspapers The last day or two we have been reading the newspapers, or some of them under the headings, the re marks they make about themselves and other interesting thoughts.' Most of these newspapers to which we are hopelessly addicted, are products of South Carolina’s composition and printing. The results of the investi gations will be of instruction and value to The News and Courier’s col lection of choice readers. This quotation is from a line under the name of The Florence Morning News: “Covers Eastern South Caro lina”. The covering of South Carolina is completed by The Index-Journal of Greenwood, “The Leading Newspaper of Western Carolina”. This is slightly perplexing, inasmuch as “South Caro lina’s Most Interesting Newspaper”, The Independent, is published in An derson, a county adjoining and north west of Greenwood. The coverings are very pretty but too sheer and sleazy to cover a multitude of sins. One’s anxieties are multiplied by the description of The Greenville News, neighbor of Greenwood and Anderson, itself being the author, • /hich is, “The Leading Newspaper of South Carolina”. (The News and Courier is tempted to call itself The Misleading Newspaper of South Car olina, lest all the claims of distinction be staked by the other gazettes.) Adventuring across the state line, ore discovers that The Asheville Citizen is “Dedicated to the Upbuild ing of Western North Carolina”, and one hopes that it may obtain a PWA grant to raise the peak of Beaucatch- er a hundred feet. It could be up- built. The Sumter Item tells that it is “The Voice of the Gamecock City. First with the News”. What could be more stimulative than the item ized crow of the chanticleer? “Our Country: Be She Ever Right, But, Right or Wrong, Our Country," is the roar of The Marion Star, timely in the national emergency, but the North African pirates hre not the peril just now. That expression was a toast and one can’t read it on The Star’s front page without wond ering if Marion’s men and women resist temptation once a week. In Manning “The Times Sixty Years Has Faithfully Served the People of Clarendon County”, and the quantity of legal advertising that it printed last week, guarantees that it will serve them another year. In Columbia, The Record is “Dedi cated to the Growth and Economic Progress of South Carolina”, to which the general assembly and the bureaus and departments of the state govern ment are also dedicated, but an im proved motto for it would be “Laugh and Grow Fat”, as long as the bung- hole is not stopped. As for The State, its present dec laration is much like The Record’s and runs, “For Columbia and South Carolina”, but as it prints “Guest Editorials” than any other contemporary, we think of it always as “The Most Entertaining South Carolina Newspaper”.—News and Courier. Hoover Presents New Plans to Save Hungry in Europe to Asks British and Germans Try Soup Kitchens in Belgium as Militarv Test Negro Teachers Ask Doubled Pay State Would Bear $170 of $400 Av erage Boost, Districts $230 1 have to add about $1,000,000 to the Columbia, Feb. 16.—South Carol ina’s expenditure for negro teaheers’ salaries will be more than doubled in the next two years if the requests of the Palmetto state teachers associa tion are met. The association, appearing before a joint meeting of the senate finance and house ways and means committee, asked that negro teachers’ salaries be increased during the next two years so that they would be on the same basis as the salary scale for white teachers. A recent decision of the United States supreme court held that states could not set up a separate salary basis for white and negro teachers. The association requested that negro teachers' salaries be increased so that it would not be necessary to institute legal proceeding to re quire the state to boost negro salaries. Estimates based on figures from the department of education showed that the state government would $2,000,000, it now contributes to negro teachers’ salaries, and school dis tricts would have to add to their present annual appropriation of about $200,000 an amount close to $1,200,000. Allowing for the difference in the length of their teaching terms, the present statewide negro teacher av erage for 5,600 employed would be raised from $380 a year to $780 a year. The state would bear $170 of the $400 increase, and the school dis tricts wouM be required to increase their contribution by $230 for each negro teacher. The length of school terms is left to the discretion of district trustees, but the state pays on salaries of both white and negroes up to eight months. At present, white schools run 175 days a year and negro schools 147. Allowing for the difference in the length of the school terms, South Carolina would increase its total ex penditure for negro teachers’ salar ies to approximately $4,400,000 If the general assembly meets the request of tie negro association. Chicago—(Special) New plans to save the Inhabitants of the occupied democracies in Europe from starva tion were presented by former Presi dent Hoover at a mass meeting. heM In the Opera House Auditorium here last Sunday night. In expressing his appreciation to the two thousand public bodies who have supported this movement to aid these unfortunates, and the sixty thousand who have written letters of approval. Mr. Hoover explained the purpose of the Committee was to expose to the world the facts of the food situation and to raise a voice in behalf of those tens of millions of innocent men, women, and children, now suffering from want of nourishment. Speaking as Honorary Chairman of the Committee on Food for the Small Democracies, he made public the pro posals submitted to the British and German governments a few weeks ago, to establish Soup Kitchens In Belgium as an initial experiment to test out whether these people can be saved more ( without military advantage to either side. * * There is nothing new in this war “March of Hunger,” Mr. Hoover told his audience. The consequences of great wars are always famine and pes tilence. The World War of twenty-five years ago brought hunger to three hundred million people. In the present conflict it Is coming faster and with more violence. Today nearly three hun dred million people are on rations more drastic, except In Germany and Great Britain, than at the end of the third year in the last war. In this creeping -famine the most Immediate danger and greatest suffering Is among the seventy million people In the democracies which have been overrun by the Ger man armies. ^ Two weeks ago the Committee’s American experts in Belgium reported that within a month the city and town population consisting of over eight million people would be without food unless supplies were brought In some where, somehow. Reports from Hol land, Norway, Central Poland and free France, Indicate an extreme food short age, and Finland and Spain present a serious problem. « NEW PROPOSALS In presenting the new proposals, Mr. Hoover said, “You are aware that this Committee has made proimsals to the belligerent governments that com pletely organized food control should be set up for the peoples ou the lines INDIANS’ SKULLS GIVEN TO MUSEUM The fragments of two human skulls, believed to be those of Indians buried many years ago, were present ed yesterday morning to E. Burnham Chamberlain, curator of vertebrate zoology at the Charleston museum. The bones were brought to Char leston by C. W. Martin, district man ager of the bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, after a week end trip to Beaufort county. Mr •Martin reportedl that the bones were found early this month by Charles J. Colcock, of Bluffton, while digging on Hilton Head island, near the Parris island marine base. Mr. Colcock found the bones in a mound beneath a large oak tree which was estimated to be at least 200 years old. The skull fragments, pieces of pottery, beads and the bones of domestic 'animals were found about four feet beneath the surface of the earth. Mr. Chamber- lain expressed the belief that the mound might have been an old In dian burying ground. If the other bones are found to be those of domestic animals such as horses, the bones probably were deposited there since the arrival of white men on this continent. Horses were brought here from Europe, Mr. Chamberlain pointed out. They were not used by the Indians. Mr. Chamberlain explained that the old bones may have been deposit ed there sometime after the lodians were buried, or may have been food bones. The skulls are well preserved rfmd the imprint of nerves and blood ves sels still may be seen. Several well- worn teeth, indicating the age of the individuals, also were found with the skulls. Mr. Chamberlain said that al though there have been other In dian burial mounds found in the state, there has been no evidence that men and animals were buried togeth er. He indicated that if human bones were found with animal bones, more than likely it was by accident, or the bones had accumulated at the spot long after burial.—News and Courier. GREEKS CONTINUE DRIVE The drive in Newberry for Greek relief continues as efforts are made to raise at least five hundred dollars in Newberry county. Dennis Atha- nos, who is chairman of the drive in the county, has announced that citi zens of Whitmire have contributed $29.70, making a total of about 5316 in Newberry county at present. THIEF LIFTS MACARONI PIE An unidentified admirer of maca roni pie paid a Saturday night visit to the kitchen of Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Booker, of 47 South Battery, Charles ton, it was reported yesterday. Mr. Booker said that “nothing valuable” had been taken from his residence, but listed among the missing items a piece of cheese from the refrigerator. The thief got in through the kitchen door. At about 11:30 p. m. Saturday. Scottie, a small Scotch terrier be longing to Mr. and Mrs. Janies D. Lucas, of 49 South Battery, began to bark. Mr. Lucas investigated but could find nobody. On his wife’s insistence, the po lice were notified. While they -were searching, the marauder evidently made his way next door to the Book er residence and investiated the Booker ice box. Mr. Lucas said ihe intended to buy the dog a steak and apologize for thinking he had turned in a false alarm.—News and Courier. at the last war. Those proposals would have given time to organize preven tion. They are the ultimate necessity. But a distracted world is slow to be lieve, and we were reluctantly com pelled to conclude that. It must be contronted with ghastly reality before action could be hoped for. That ghastly reality has arrived in Belgium. Further more. while I do not agree to the grounds for the rejection of our pre vious proposals, yet If these people are to be saved, we must seek to meet those objections by proving our case in action. *' “Therefore a few weeks ago, we laid before the British and German Govern ments the following suggestions: “First: That we make an initial ex periment in Belgium to test out whether these people can be saved without miHtary advantage to either side. • "Second: That this test comprise feeding only through soup kitchens, where the people come to get their food and thus there can be no qcea- tion of feeding Germans. "Third: That at the beginning we provide for oue million adults and two mlillon children; the adults to receive half a pound of bread and an allow ance of soup, the children to receive special food in addition, including pre served milk. This would require about 50,000 tons a month, of which about one-half would be breadstuffs and one- half meats, fats, and food for children. "Fourth: That the German Govern ments agree there is to be no requisi tion of native food. "Fifth: Both Governments to give Relief ships immunity from attack. "Sixth: The whole to be under the supervision and checks of some neutral body. g “It Is my belief that the Germans should cooperate to secure some bread- stuffs from continental sources. Bnt for mea a, fats, and food for children there are no sources of supply on the Continent. That must come from over seas,—and that requires cooperation from the British to pass the blockade. "If we can make this experiment work In Belgium then such a plan can be extended to the other democracies. It Is primarily devoted to saving the unemployed destitute and the children. "These Governments have this plan under consideration. » Mr. Hoover was of the opinion that the relief of these countries would not prejudice the British and would be of no gain to the Germans. The countries benefited are not seek ing charity, and would defray all ex penses. The amount exported from America would simply use our sarplnt food.« « "To those who say it cannot be done,” said Mr. Hoover, “the reply Is simple—at least let ns try It and if we fall that ends our effort. To those who say. the Germans, even If they made such agreements, would yet violate them there Is also a complete answer. If such s thing should occur, then we have (ailed and we quit.” GUY W. WALLEN Guy Wessley Wallen, 32, was round dead early Monday morning at Whit mire. He had been a resident of that town for a number of years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Opal Manus Wallen arid one child, Dian Wallen of Whitmire. Also sur viving ate his mother, Mrs. Martelie Wallen, and two brothers, Hampton and John Wallen of Virginia. The body was sent to Virginia for burial. HUGH E. PORTER AT MILLER CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH Miller Chapel A. M. E. Church will present Hugh E. Miller, a pianist and radio gospel singer of New York city. The lucky number wins $2.50. Spe cial seats have been arranged for our many white friends. The program will be held at 8 p. m., Friday, Feb ruary 28. Admission: Children, 10c; Adults, 15c. The singer will dramatize the Mi ami, Florida, tornado storm on . the piano.—Adv. DONT BARK ...don’t cough! Get pleasant relief from a cough due to a cold with Smith Brothers Cough Drops—Black or Menthol—5f. Smith Bros. Cough Drops are the only drops containing VITAMIN A Vitamin A (Carotene) raises the resistance of mucous membranes of nose and throat to cold infections, when lack of resist ance is due to Vitamin A deficiency. LITTLE MOMENTS IN BIG LIVES Kessler . 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