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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.
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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
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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!”
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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
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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,