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* V page two THE NEWBERRY BUN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1941 % NEWS FACTS ^GEORGE miMUPm, pa. KATE JON SON. ONCE A CHAR* \NOMAN IN A NEWSPAPER OFPCt.USEP TO REAtfTHE „ ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN LETTERS AND DECIDED THAT SHE COULD ANS WER THEM BETTER THAN THE EDITOR- SHE APPLIED FOR THE JOB, BECAME HER ASSIST ANT—AND NOW RUNS A COLUMN OF HER OWN FOR A SYNDICATE/ NORWALK, OHIO. DR.C.l.BEU. WAS THE PHYSICIAN IN ATTENDANCE AT THE BIRTH OF HIS OWN GRAND SON, THOMAS PAUL , BELL// KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN Rev. J. B. Harman, Paator SUMMER MEMORIAL: Sunday 10 A. M.—Sunday School, Mr. M. E. Shealy, Supt. 11 A. 'M.—Church Worship with sermon. 6 P. M.—Luther League. BETHANY: Sunday 6 P. M.—Sunday School. 7 P. M. — Church Worship with Sermon. The subject of the sermon will be “Putting First Things First.” All members urged to attend and visitors are cordially invited to wor ship with us. GO TO CHURCH. Miss Mary Elizabeth Moore, a sen ior at Erskine college in Due West spent the weekend at her home in the county. John Mayes, a medical student at Emory university in Georgia, visited has mother, Mrs. John Mayes last weekend. ATTEND (POLO GAME Judge Eugene S- Blease, Mr. and ■Mrs. Steve Griffith and two sons, Steve and Gene, motored to Aiken last weekend for the opening polo matches. CAMDEN-NEWBERRY BASKETBALL TILT The boys and girls teams of Cam den high school will meet the New berry basketball teams Friday night at seven-thirty. The girls game will be played first. Camden girls are un defeated, and are headled for the State Class A championship. The star of the team is Peggy McGuirt, who has been averaging 400 points per season in her four years of play ing. The line-ups for Newberry are as follows: Girls, Baker, Purcell and Lockman, forwards, Phillips, Clary, Miller, guards; boys, Denning and Kester, forwards, Day, center, Rowe and Robertson, guards. 3 Per Cent PENALTY \ ON 1940 STATE and COUNTY TAXES A THREE PER CENT PENALTY will be added to all unpaid 1940 State and County Taxes on March 1, 1941. Ralph B. Black Newberry County Treasurer Dictators Are Out To Destroy Freemasonry (The American Mercury) I There is only one group of men whom the Nazis and Fascists hate more than the Jews. They are the Freemasons. In Italy, indeeo, the anti-Jewish feeling is of recent vin tage and largely artificial, whereas the blackshirt hatred of Freemasonry is old and deep. In their own coun tries Hitler and Mussolini inaugurated their respective reigns with outrages against Masons and Masonic institu tions, and they never relaxed the systematic persecution. Now Nazi conquests of European nations — whether by invasion or forcible “per suasion” — are followed automati cally by hostile measures against Freemasons. . . From Norway to the Balkans, the progress of the Swastika has brought outlawry, and often van- dali?m and death in its wake for all Masons. The anti-Semitic excesses have been widely reportedl, the anti- Catholiic outrages have had consider able publicity, but the merciless to talitarian assaults on Freemasonry have not received a tithe of the world wide attention they richly merit. They are practically an unknown chapter. Ludendorff’s Pamphlet After the German debacle of #918, the frustrated man who had been the virtual master of Germany’s destin ies, General Erich Ludendorff, sought an outlet for his bitterness in dia tribes against Freemasonry. Right up to his death, Ludendorff devoted him self wholly to propaganda intended to prove that the war, the ensuing German revolution, and most other world ills, had been the doing of Ma sons. He published a pamphlet ■‘An nihilation of Freemasonry Through the Revelation of Its Secrets” where in the socalled secrets of Freemason ry were “revealed” for the hundredth time since the founding of the Order in 1717, without, however, annihilat ing Freemasonry. The Nazis continued where Luden- Horff left ojff. But others had preced ed in Masor-badting. In 1917, as one of their first acts, the Bolsheviks dissolved all lodges in Russia. In 1919, when Bela Kun proclaimed the dicta torship of the proletariat in Hungary’, one of his first decrees ordered 1 the dissolution of Masinoc lodges. In 1925, Spain’s first dictator of this genera tion, General Primo De Rivera, order ed the abolition of Freemasonry in his country. Benito Starts Shop Benito Mussolini went about the same business more methodically. Having established his regime, II Duce proceeded step by step to exterminate the lodges and end the influence of Freemasonry. Even the Nazi apostle, Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, has admitted in his book “Masonic World Policies” that the Freemasons had been the creators of the United democratic Kingdbm of Italy. But this dSd not win them any mitigation of horrors at the hands of ultra-patriotic Fasc ists. In 1924, Mussolini decreed that every member of his Fascist party who was a Mason must abandon one or the other organization. Thereupon General Cappello, one of the most prominent Fascists, who had held the post of deputy grand master of Grande Oriente, Italy’s leading grand lodge, gave up membership in Fascism rather than betray his Masonic ideals. Less than a year later, he was dharged with complicity in an at tempt on Mussolini’s life. It was a palpable frameup by an ORVA stool- pigeon, but General Cappella was sentenced to 30 years in prison, where he probably still lingers. Stood (up for Democracy In the summer of 1925 Mussolini got around to dissolving Italian Freemasonry. In an open letter to II Duce, the grand master of the Grande Oriente, Domizio Torrigiana, had the courage to stand up for democracy and Freedom of thought. The price he paid was exile to the Lipari islands. After nearly going blind there, he died soon afterwards. Humdrecw of other Masons shared the harah Lipari exile. At the peak of the anti-Mas on agitation in 1925-27, blackshirt strong-arm squads looted the homes of well-know Masons in Milan, Flor ence and other cities, and murdered at least 100 of them. The Nazis acted more swiftly. Im mediately on Hitler’s rise to power, the ten grand lodges of Germany were dissolved. Many among the prominent dignitaries and members of the Order were sent to concentra tion camps. The Gestapo seized membership lists of the grand lodges and looted 1 their libraries and collec tions of Masonic objects. Much of the loot was then exhibited in an “AntL Masonic Exposition” inaugurated m 1937 by Herr Dr. Joseph Goobbels in Munich. Persecution in Austria The persecution was carried over into Austria when the country was ca^ ured by the Nazis. The masters of the various Vienna lodges were immediately confined in the most no torious concentration camps, including the horrible living hell at Dachau in Bavaria. The same procedure was repeated when Hitler took over Czechoslovakia, then Poland. Im mediately after conquering Holland and Belgium, the Nazis ordered the dissolution of the lodges in those na tions. It was also point one on the agenda of Major Quisling in Norway. It may be taken as part of the same ugly picture that General Franco "of Spain in 1940 sentenced all Free masons in his realm automatically to ten years in prison. When France fell last June, the Vichy government caused the two Masonic bodies of France, the Grand Orient and Grand Loge to be dissovled, their property being seized and sold at auction. This summary <1068 not begin to convey the full terror of the Calvary to which Freemasonry has been sub jected wherever the totalitarians took power. Murder, imprisonment, eco nomic lootirig, social outlawry have been the bitter lot of individual Ma sons. Rapine has been the fate of their organizations, their treasures, and their institutions of charity. Why They Hate Masonry Why does this implacable and fan atic hatred of the Order obsess the totalitarian mind? The answer is in the whole history of Freemasonry. For more than two centuries its lead ers have been consistently on the side of political freedom and human dignity, reaping a harvest of perse cution at the hands of tyrants. Practically everywhere, individual Masons have thus been in the fore front in movements of liberation. Goethe, who considered himself a European more than a German and so after criticized his fellow-Germans, was a fervent Freemason, as was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, is full of al lusions and symbolism relating to Freemasonry. In fact, its theme is the search for truth and the victory of tolerance over the fanaticism that spring from ignorance, a theme which Mozart shared with his brother Ma sons. But few Masons today, listen ing to the delightful tunes of Moz art’s The Marriage of Pigarro, real ize that they are enjoyirg a “revolu tionary” play set to music by a Mas on who believed in the “revolution ary” principle of the equality of all men. Beaumarchias’ Figarro com edy was written amdl staged under Louis XV of France as an attack against the prevalent feudal social system. Mozart’s choice of this play, at a time when the success or the young American democracy was fir ing the imagination of the world, was not accidental. KINARD-LOMiNICK On Saturday afternoon at the resi dence of the officiating minister, Rev. M. L. Kester, Miss Ruth Kinard be came the bride of Robert Raymond Lominick. Mrs. Lominick is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Kin ard of the Jolly Street community. Mr. Lominick is the son of Mr. Bach man Lominick, of the St. Philip’s community, and the late Mrs. Lomi nick. The couple will make their home in Charleston. NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING We, the undersigned Jury Comfnis- sioners of Newberry County, shall on the 6th day of March, 1941, at 9 o’clock, A. M., in the office of the Clerk of Court, openly and publicly, draw thirty-six names to serve as Petit Jurors for the Court of General Sessions, which will convene in Newberry County Court House on the 17th day of March, 1941, at 10 o’clock A. M. At the same time and same place we also shall draw twelve names to serve as Grand Jurors for the com ing twelve months. H. K. BOYD, Clerk of Court, P. N. ABRAMS, Auditor, R. B. BLACK, Treasurer. February 22nd, 1941. FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT FOR BOYS Mrs. Mamie S. Summer, NY A Area Supervisor, requests that all white boys interested in full time employ ment and training at Camp Aubrey in Columbia or Parker in Greenville or Tamassee near Walhalla, S. C., should visit the NYA office on Boyce street at once. These NYA resident groups offer training in auto mech anics, airplane mechanics, carpentry, woodwork, wood lathe, steel lathe, radio mechanics and metal for sheet work. Many jobs are being filled to day with the men who have had such NYA training. DOHT BARK ...don’t cough! Get pleasant relief from a cough due to a cold with Smith Brothers Cough Drops—Black or Menthol—5^. 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. DOUBTS GLIDERS SUCCESS IN RAID Germans. However, May Try Risky Scheme of Invading Britain W. L. White, writing in the Wash ington Star sees failure for the Ger mans if they undertake to Invade England with gliders. He said: Back from London, I am able to add up the score on invasion both from the standpoint of the British and of recently arrived travelers from Ger many, with whom I talked in Lisbon. Some of the best-qualified’ military ob servers believe the Germans have in preparation about 28,000 troop carry ing gliders, each capable of trans porting 14 men. Two of these gliders can be towed behind a single bomber, and such convoys are a familiar sight above German military airdromes today where the Luftwaffe is practicing tak ing off, cutting loose the gliders, and landing them. As a part of the total invasion scheme the glider would be loaded ■with crack troops armed with the German version of the tommy gun and then, under cover of night, would be towed out over England toward their objectives. At a distance of many miles from the ultimate target and at a height of not less than 10,000 leet the glid ers would 1 be cut loose from’ the tew ing planes, leaving the bombers free to return to France and Holland to ferry over more gliders. The original gliders would then come silently down over their targets, with no roaring motors whose sound or exhaust flames might betray them to British ground observers. Alheugh more than 400,000 men might theoretically be landed by this method, they would be devoid of heavy tanks and by themselves, would be utterly inadequate to conquer Eng land. They would he used only in con nection with an attempted sea land ing, and their function would be to paralyze England’s key airdromes and rail centers, disorganizing the British air force and transport sys tem so that British troops could not be moved' swiftly about the island to meet and throw back the main body of German troops, with heavy equip ment, which would attempt a barge landing by sea. The most optimistic expert would hardly give this combined plan bet ter than a 40 per cent chance of suc cess. LONG LANE H. D. CLUB The Long Lane Home Demonstra tion club met at the school house on Friday, Feb. 7. The meeting vas called to order by the president, Mrs. Dickinson. Devotionals were con ducted by Mrs. Fowler, who read the 91st psahn and' then led in prayer. A very interesting demonstration was given by the leader, assisted by Miss Counts. The demonstration was how to convert an old kerosene lamp into an electric lamp. Miss Counts disci’ssed the electric brooder. She also gave a very interesting picture study “Lady With a Fan" by Vales- quez. Mr. Brown read the history of Long Lane club. All adjourned to the dining room Where chicken and dumplings and other delicacies were served. The hostesses were Mrs. John Baker and Mrs. C. T. Cromer. An open house is being planned for parents to see the benefits of the hot lunch in the school. The next club meeting will be March second at 2:30 p. m. ■Mrs. Roy Clary, and little son, Bil ly spent two weeks in Georgetown with Mrs. Clary’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Bynum. Mr. Clary went to Georgetown Sunday for the day at Which time they returned with him. Robert O’Donnell of Fort Jackson, visited his mother, Mrs. Harriette O'Donnell over the weekend. Eighty-Seven Years Old and He Works Every Day (' Joseph Grundy has been a railroad man all his life. When he got into his sixties the rail road, on which he had been employed since his youth, re tired him. But Mr. Grundy didn’t like being retired. He felt full of pep and health and began look ing around for another job. At the age of 69 he landed one — with the Ford Motor Company. That was 18 years ago, and he’s been there ever since. Not for a hobby, either his own or Henry Ford’s; nor for charity, nor does he collect a' dole. He puts in full work time at the north end of the switching yard. And does Mr. Grundy want to be retired now, as he nears his 87th birthday ? He says emphatically, no. He also says he’s glad he landed with a company that doesn’t have any blanket re tirement age. LITTLE MOMENTS IN BIG LIVES K«ssl*r V- EDWAQ-D TDS^TEQj. PRfeSlDtWT OF THE' AMEOlGAD SUSAC- OEFINJIW0 GOMQAWy, $>TA12TED VtOGVlNJC?, IM THE SYME OFFICE HE MW OCCUPIED, AS* A OCV TOO Smk: dollar a week*