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PAOE rflUR the; >bwberbt sun FRUIT, VEGETABLE PURCHASES TO TOTAL $100,000 DAY Clemson, March 10.—Current an nouncements from Washington indi cate that considerable progress is be ing made in the net set-up for pur chasing fruits and vegetables by the army, George E. Prince, chief of the Clemson college extension service marketing division, reported today. A communication received from John A. Martin, chief of the perish able foods section, reported rapid progress in establishing the central purchasing associations, and said that the government would soon be buying fruits and vegetables, at the rate of $100,000 a day, making it one of the largest and most important buyers. Home-Grown Products Preferred Mr. Martin pointed out that the program had been drawn up with the thought in mind of giving pref erence to home - grown commodities, provided the products meet with army specifications as to pack and quality, ers and dealers to remember advis ed Prince, is that all purchases be made on aimy specifications, which are based on established government grades; that products must be pack ed in standaid containers; that pur chases will be made on a delivered basis and not f.o.b. shipping points and that the lowest responsible bid- Although the army will neces- der, other conditions being equal, sarily have to purchase in large quan tities, Prince explained this did not mean that the small grower or dealer would not have the opportunity of bidding and the present system of buying would be continued, that is, for definite quantities on a competi tive bid basis. The important things for grow- would get the award. PERFECT ATTENDANCE LIST OF SILVERSTREET HIGH SCHOOL If you’re thinking ot buying a new ’’small” tractor—and even if you aren't —don’t put off seeing the great new Oliver 60 at our store! And on your way, prepare yourself to see a tractor marvel—a marvel of completeness—a marvel of power, wide use/ulness, comjort and economy! Pre pare to see wbat you’ve been looking for in a small tractor! Prepare to com pare the 60 with all others and say “Oliver’s done it again—scooped the field in presenting a money-saving, income-producing, comfort-increas ing 1-2 plow tractor that will make my farm a more pleasant place on which to live!” DON’T DELAY-DROP IN TODAY! Davis Motor Company Main Street Newberry, S. C. Grade 1: James Bishop, Jimmie Kesler, Andrew Longshore, John Wil liam Pitts. Grade 2: Doris Blair, Donald Bran non, John Derrick, Herman Johnson, Gerald Kesler, Vernelle Metts, Mar ian Sligh, James Stilwell, Marion Walton. Grade 3: Horace Bowles, Lester Dominick, Mary Dorroh, Vivian Floyd, Andrew Hamm, Sarah Alice Hamm, Betty Wayne Hendrix, Nell Johnston, Annie Long, Donald Long, Horace Longshore, Patricia Martin. Grade 4: Thomas Blair, Donald Bowers, Carolyn Davenport, Kather ine Epting, Annie Laurie Long, Ber nice Martin, Odell Ruff, Mary Stil well, Eugene Wessinger, Fannie Mur ray. Grade 5: Faye Blair, Ida Daven port, Anita Floyd, Boyd Hendrix, George Nichols, Nellie Nichols, Ray Sligh, Billy Walton, June Walton, Katherine Werts. Grade 6: Ralph Bozard, Hetty Jane Derrick, Ruby Hamm. Grade 7: Hollis Brannon, Thomas Dominick, Consitance FI-'yd, Mildred Kesler, Derrill Longshore, Hubert Ruff, Shuford Stillwell, Waters Swindler. Grade 8: Mary Helen Davenport, Lindstrom Crouch, Beulah Hamm, Arnold King, James Long, Annette Longshore, Betty Martin, Hazel Nichols, Jacob Nichols, Elizabeth Sanders, Roy Paul Saye. Grade 9: Guy Bowers, Frances Craft, Mary R. Derrick, Paul Epting, Miriam Hendrix, Frances Long, Mil- ton Longshore, Mary E. Neel .Evelyn Neel, Harry Senn, Larry Senn, Aud rey Sligh, Mildred Werts, Doris Wil son, Evelyn Rotan, Emma Murray. Grade 10: Paul Blair, Myra Daven port, Ira Dominick, Robert Dorroh, Florence Duffiie, Leora Hendrix, Wal ter Lake, Alice Martin, Alma Nich ols, Mamie Lee Nichols, Sara Ruth Smith. Grade 11: Heyward Boozer, Kath ryn Davenport, George Floyd, Massie Holland, Rosyln Long, Harold Long shore, Lila Pitts, Angus Senn, Charles Sligh. ft • CUTS- fj P Hm<Im *b mm* W I ariMr mu mm! iMoratlana mmd far | I fc—Uag tha waaad. app>r Irid Inin tliniTiil TRUCKS U1111S* 11 *«111 i-IJ 60M0DEIS-9WHEHBASES «• ALL OF THEM ’POWER LEADERS’’ IN THEIR FIELD! \ COTTON SHOULD NOT BE PLANTED BEFORE APRIL 15 By SPECTATOR Dr. Bailey is interpreting the pre sent through the eye of a rich exper ience and a reflective mind. We used to have schoolmen of his type, but the school business now is an in tense and varied activity which shuts out quiet reflection. Most of those engaged in school work are not educators; rather, they are educa-! tionists—they are engaged in school exercises, which are regarded as edu- ‘ cational, though, as Dr. Bailey says, j they are not educative. In a broad, general sense, what are the schools trying to do ? To teach simple mathematics, history, geo graphy, reading, spelling and lan guage construction (or grammar). Those are the elements; and those I are the subjects most commonly needed in the world. Unfortunately we have forced the schools to adopt spurious substitutes for real values. We insist that every child shall be “promoted”, else we are wrathful and demand that the teacher be dis missed. Old style drill, drill, drill is out of date—but nothing of value has taken its place. Ask any employer if the boys and girls can read, write, spell or do simple arithmetic. My own exper ience leads me to believe that very little geography and history should be taught before the last year of high school. Much of the science that is taught could be confined to simple elements of every day use. The curriculum gives a bit more than that but not enough to have practical value. On the other hand, languages should be taught in primary grades. Memory work Should be concentrated in the years of most retentiveness. Sub jects of practical informational use, and those requiring analysis and con structive thought should be fitted to the development of the youthful mind. The finest teachers should have the first two years. No other teacher can compare with the first teacher. She starts a little fellow on the road. Perhaps the greatest failure of all our educational effort is in languages. The idea, of two years of French and two in Spanish is a waste of time. And the teaching of a modem lang uage as a feat of translation, is both burdensome and misdirected. It should be taught as a living, spoken word; and to children. Almost no adult acquires an exact pronuncia tion. Language is memory work and it is a hard task for adn,„escents to do memory work. Dr. Bailey has said something which should not be disregarded. I repeat my earnest recommendation that we decide what we should do, then do it. As it is, we don’t know anything except that those who do most of the' talking are those who are salaried men in school work. And so great a smoke screen has oeen made that the real work is hard to see. Those who pay for the schools have been howled down by those who draw the money. ing bill, the revenues may absorb j Of coqrse many parents ask noth The Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, Hon. Winchester Smith, made a statement in the House which is very interest ing. It will be recalled that the Sen ate Finance Committee prepared a bill to raise more than two million dollars in additional taxes, then struck out certain items, leaving the total $1,600,000. This bill was pass ed by the Senate and sent to the House. The House killed it. This action irritated the Senate and was the occasion for some sharp remarks by several senators. Mr. Smith, by way of reply, said that the new takes were unnecessary because the in creasing revenue will absorb the defi cit. It seems to me that Mr. Smith may have time and collections on his side. One may wonder, then, why he proposed subsequently that a half cent be taken off the gasoline tax and then be allocated under the new law to State operations. It isn’t exactly clear why Mr. Smith regards new tax es as unnecessary in one case but himself proposes a new tax, which would be only diversion of highway revenue. Mr. Smith is not a lawyer, but a businessman of varied interests. A lawyer might hesitate to try div ersion again, in view of two supreme court decisions; and as a successful businessman Mr. Smith might well ad vocate an appreciable reduction in State appropriations, leaving the in creasing revenue to absorb the deficit. This, I thought, was the clear impli cation of his remarks in the House, when speaking in reply to Senator Jefferies; but as quoted in the news papers two days later, he advocates voting off some highway money, then voting it back for something else. This tweedledum and tweedle- dee manipulation of highway revenue did not originate in the business brain of Chairman Smith, but was formu lated by an adriot legal mind a year or two ago. Whether one agrees with the Court or not; the decisions of the Court are the law. As a matter of sound statesmanship we ought not to tread on doubtful ground. And if two decisions of our Court do not make this doubtful then what is nec essary to create a doubt? I repeat, the Court may be wrong; its decis ion may outrage ourtidea of right; but it is the Court. Furthermore, there has been no change in the per sonnel of the Court. As practical politicians and men of affairs why should we hang the credit of the State on the houe that the <-*me judges will change their minds? Years ago, Mr. Smith refused to sign a Free Conference report on Ap propriations because he thought it was too high. There are many who applaud Mr. Smith’s statement m the House because it seemed like the ut terance of the man who joined the late James B. Gibson in refusing to sign the report. With some reduction in the pend- PUBLIC MUST FOREGO LUXURIES TO AID DEFENCE, REPORT STATES New York, March 16.—Consumers must forego luxuries and semi-iux- uiy goods and perhaps cut use of scarcity items to aid the defense pro gram, said a study issued today by Dean John T. Madden, director of the institute of internatioal finance, New York university. The huge rearmament effort ,it was held, could not be superimposed upon a normal peace-time standard of life. « “There is a strong possibility,- the study noted, “that after all employ able labor has been absorbed by in dustry, the hours of work per week will have to be increased and the tax burden on the entire population will be heavier. “If the nation as a whole is will ing to make these sacrifices, which would seem trivial when compared with the privations and suffering of the population in practically all coun tries of the globe, the danger of in flation will be eliminated.” Operating against drastic boosting of prices and costs in this war, the study explained, are these factors: (1) Backing up of farm surpluses in the Western Hemisphere as result of the closing of foreign trade out lets. (2) Abundance of basic raw ma terials in North and South America. (3) Increase in the United States’ productive capacity since the World war. (4) Rearmament started at a time when much of the country’s plant capacity was idle and a large labor reservoir existed. (6) Devising of government plans to avoid an “inflation spiral” by con trolling; prices and rationing supply in bottlenecks. “Comodity price inflation,” said the study, “is probably the greatest economic disease that can afflict any country.” pmiykY, march as, MRS. CALDWELL Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie Todd Caldwell, 88, widow of W. W. Caldwell, who died at her home near here Friday afternoon, were held Sat urday at 3:30 at the graveside in Rosemorrt cemetery with the Rev. J. B. Harman in charge. Surviving are one niece, Mrs. Mary Morris of Charlotte, N. C., and one grand niece, Mrs. Fannie Mae Hen dricks of Newberry. the deficit between now and July, 1943, for all this war fever is bring ing in the money to the State and the nation. It is a sort of treasury wind fall. But after the great spurt the slump will come. Let us put our House in order now. Every sane man knows that this is a boomlet to all except farmers. Let’s not spend on this basis. Boom incomes are good only for old debts. Use easy money to pay off the standing obli gations. Never fix your budget on the basis of a flood of easy money. Don’t all mature minds know so ele mentary an i** *ruth,? Is there no way to learn except thru disaster? nurse >re (c mg more (or better) than that the schools take the children off their hands for five or six hours a day. These new Chevrolet trucks for 1941 have the most powerful truck engines in the entire lowest-price field. . . . They out-pull all others, and they also out-value all others. . . . That’s why many owners say they’re the best money-saving trucks you can possibly buy —“The Thrift-Carriers for the Nation!” 90- A *° *hoih, °nff, mocf, **tr a AR STt Hth »'n non Uty irf f#/NG IfG Hjf &00/M tor *0IUd- s OUT- PULL OUT-VALUE • OUT- SELL UAD, "G truck "•nfort BUlLbtR The 15th of March and the thermo meter telling me that it is freezing weather. During recent years we have had warm weather in February and March (in spells) and the farm ers have rushed out to beat the boll weevil by early planting, only to have the lice eat the cotton. So year after year Spectator has urged the farm ers to wait until the middle of April to plant cotton. But as the weather man is acting today the farmers may be shivering around the fire the mid dle of April, unless we turn from freezing nights to ’hot days in the twinldimg of an eye; up to now we are huddled in a comer, wrapped in overcoats. That’s a far call to shirt sleeves, boys. I wonder if old Bre’r Weevil has had a tussle this year. Steady cold during most of the winter ought to put the weevil on relief, though I heard Senator Byrnes say that the weevil didn’t like the rations that the Government gives away. Davis Motor Company 1515-17 MAIN ST NEWBERRY, S. C. Dr. R. S. Bailey, long an educator himself, is quoted as saying that our common school progravm is a misfit. He says that the children are being forced into a false pattern instead of the pattern being made for the children. , In a very interesting study of a great problem Dr. Bailey exposes a lot of sham, which abounds in edu cational work. In a particularly pithy paragraph we read “Not more than five per cent of our pupils are intel lectual, eighty five per cent are in telligent and adaptable, ten per cent or morons, yet our high school cur riculum is prescribed for the five per cent intellectual children who love knowledge for its own sake, whether worthwhile or not.” The Government has adopted a cot ton stamp plan by which a farmer whose allotment is 10 acres may plant 9 and be given stamps for about $25 for the other acre. These stamps will be redeemed in the purchase or cot ton goods. The figures may not work out exactly as I’ve given them, but the principle is clear. The plan, then, is to reduce production and in crease consumption at the same time. It is a very wisely conceived plan and should prove attractive. SUMMER SAFETY, CAMF A “Summer Safety Camp”, spon sored by the South Carolina Highway patrol, will be offered for school pa trol members of the state, opening June 9, and lasting through August 31. Members ’of school boards will be able to stay one week, during these twelve weeks of camp. The camp plan was successfully tried for two weeks last summer, and the benefits and advantages far exceeded the previous three day trips to Wash 1 - ington, with enly one day of activity. The camp, with group cabin prov isions, ample mess and kitchen faci lities, assembly hall, swimming pool, tennis court, electric power, telephone service, pure inspected running wat er is ideally arranged and situated in the mountains, twenty-six miles from Greenville, ten miles from Caesar’s Head, but apart from traffic hazards. Selection of boys and girls attend ing is to be made by school authori ties, and total cost for each child will amount to $6.00. Good food, pure pastuerized milk and pure water inspected and ap proved by State Labroratories, with clean and sufficient cabin space which are screened andl comfortable, one bunk to a person is provided and the care of all children attending is, of course of major consideration. Camp ers are asked to bring for his or her own use, 2 blankets, 2 sheets, 1 pil low and clothing for a week. Patrol members, chaperons, and nurse*, will be in charge of activity for the week. Miss Caroline Mayes, of Greenville, spent last weekend with her mother, Mrs. Lucille Mayes on the college campus. Bulgaria, a nation of 40,000 square miles, has am estimated 6,000,000 in habitants. Ronald Galcote left Monday morn ing for Presbyterian Junior college, Maxtor, N. C., where he is a stu dent, after spending spring holidays /with his uncle, Rev. C. A. Galcote and family on Calhoun street. TAX NOTICE The tax books will be open for col lection of 1940 taxes on and after October 1, 1910. Tlie following is general levy for all except special purposes: Mills Ordinary County 13 Bonds, Notes and Interest ... 1714 Roads and Bridges 2 Hospital 14 School — State 3 County School 5'A County Board of Education .. 1 State 1 TOTAL 43 The following are the authorized special levies for the various school districts of the county: Dist. Nfe. Mills 1. Newberry 17 2. Mt. Bethel-Garmany .. .... 5 3. Maybimton 2 4. Long Lane 5. McCullough . .. . 5 6. Cromer 0 8. Reagin 9. Deadfall 10 10. Utopia 11. Hartford 8 12. Johnstone 5 13. Stony Hill .... 6 14. Prosperity .... 15 15. O’Neall 8 18. Fairview 4 19. Midway 4 21. Central 4 22. St. Phillips 8 23. Rutherford 4 24. Broad River ’ 4 25. New Hope-Zion .... 4 26. Pomaria 12 27. Red Knoll 28. Helena 4 29. Mt. Pleasant 8 30. Little Mountain .... 16V4 31. Wheelamd . 3 32. Union 33. Jolly Street 34. St. Paul 2 35. Peak .... 4 37. Mudlic 6 38. Vaughnville 6 39. Chappels 40. Old Town 10 41. Dominick 8 42. Reederville .... 10% 43. Bu®h River .... 10% 44. Smyrna .... 10% 45. Trinity 10 46. Burton 10 47. . . . . 10% 48. 49. Kinards 2 50. Tabernacle 8 51. Trilby 52. Whitmire 15 53. Mollohon 4 54. Beth-Eden 55. Fork 57. Belfast .... 6 58. Silwrstreet 59. Pressley 4 60. St. John 4 what customers tad us— our YOU CAN'T TELL THEY’RE REPAIRED I ■ r <Htr Invisible Half-Soling bee no “repairoJ look**—no * ridgo or viaiblo eeam. Yoor comfortable shoes restored to new appear* aaee aU popular pricoa. Dennis Shoe Shop iW* AfShse J IACB SWUES Sk-bJ pouSs Time to Knit And Crochet Visit Mrs. J. W. White & Co. for; Germantown ‘ four-fold wool in all colors. 20c per Ounce or 4 oz. Hanks 75c KNITTING NEEDLES CROCHET HOOKS Crochet Threads and Embroid ery thread in all colors. Mrs. J. W. White Opp. Central Methodist Church Caldwell St. Newberry, S, C. Automobile LOANS 50 to* 500 Let this Newberry own ed and operated Com pany finance your next car. There will be a one per cent (1%) discount on general County taxes through October 30, 1940. On and after January 1, 1941, the Penalties prescribed by law will be imposed on unpaid taxes. You are requested to call for your taxes by School Districts in which property is located. The Treasurer is not responsible for unpaid taxes not called for by districts. Those who had their dogs vaccinat ed for rabies during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940 by one author ized by law, and expect to be exemp ted from dog tax will please bring their certificates of vaccination when appearing to pay taxes. RALPH B. BLACK, Treasurer Newberry County. Request your dealer to let your next car be financed here at home. Standard rates, quick and friendly service. We will refinance your present car so as to make the payments smaller. We will also make direct loans on your present car and let you pay it % back in monthly installments. Newberry Insurance & Realty Co. E, B. PURCELL, President Phone 197 Exchange Bldg,