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•'."V > PAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1941 WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS ABOUT SAFEGUARDING BEAUTY ss^-' FOR PERFECT REFRIGERATION &&USE ICE! You know what dryness does to a lovely complexion, how it destroys your attractiveness unless you’rr constantly on ^uard. Dryness — dry cold—is the enemy of foods a s well. It makes them old before their time—robs them of freshness, flavor and nutrition. Thus ’oods, too, need protection against drying out. Melting ice in an air-conditioned refrigerator gives them this protection—provides just the proper mosture to keep vegetables gar den-fresh, meats juicy and full-flavored—does it naturally, scientifi cally. And more—the remarkable new ice refrigerator guards foods against the exchanging of flavors, No other type of refrigerator pro vides the three-way protection of constant cold plus proper mois ture plus clean-washed air! With all its advantages the air- conditioned ice refrigerator costs only a third to a half as much as other types—and a servicing of ice lasts three to five days or longer. Nothing to get out of order ... no noise ... no defrosting. Plenty of pure, crystal-clear, taste-free ice cubes in three to five minutes. We Challenge You to Look at All Threcl Before you buy any refrigerator get the facts about all 3 types—then choose. We challenge you to match the 1941 air-conditioned ICE refrigerator in sheer food-keeping ability —in its provision of both prop er moisture and clean-washed air, in addition to constant cold. It is not too early to plan for yo ur summer Refrigeration. Warm weather will soon Ibe here. You can have better refrigeration with ICE and far less cost. Farmers Oil Mill P II ONSE 155 For Perfect Refrigeration Cold ALONE Is Not Enough! Former Ambulance Driver In French War Zone Tells Of Conflict (By Mary H. Phifer in Spartanburg Herald) “Yes, we were searched at the Spanish border for anything and ev erything. Our clothing was gone through thoroughly. The soles were taken from our shoes for fear we might have papers hidden there. We were fortunate to get out under any circumstances.” That is the way Raoui Jocques Hammond feels about it and Raoul should know. Born in Paris and living there except for three years in Morocco, and for seven months driving an American ambulance in the war zone in France and six weeks in a concentration camp in France, Raoul should know. He arrived in Spartanburg Mon day to visit his grandmother, Mrs. M. E. Hammond, on North Fairview avenue, ard “cannot become accus tomed to the lights after the months of darkness in city and countryside and to the hundreds of automobiles in America after the motorless coun tries in Europe. Tanks and military cars? That is another matter. Hate For Germans Mr Hammond says “The French people hate the Germans but they feel, also, that the English have left them to their fate. That England entered the war unprepared, as was France, and that it was not possible to meet Germany without tanks and planes, to mention only two of the necessities of modem warfare. That the fault lies with the governments. That money in France that should have gone for proper military equip ment was dissipated by graft, that communists and fifth-columnists per meated the country, as they did other countries until the ‘taking over by the Germans’ was almost a foregone conclusion unless the country and her ally, Britain had been ready with a mechanized army to meet the enemy. Those are the feelings of France.” A young man he is, not twenty- one until the last of November, but he has raked over battlefields for dead and wounded, has been cited for “repeated valor” by his French com mander and has been captured by the enemy and spent dismal unfed days in military confinement. His citation was for “bravery”: Specifically for driving his ambur lance unaided across an airport un der bombardment to rescue the badly wounded. Of this he had little to say. The information came in a letter to his family here but when pressed he brought it out to show. “What did I eat in the German camp? For several days only cu cumbers and bread for two meals a day.” Life Today Is Too Fast, Spectator Thinks Many of our friends are passing to the Great Beyond. What about the friends who are still with us ? What are we doing to keep our friendship fresh and stimulating? What about An Old Friend Get Together? Invite all the friends of your youth or younger days to some sort of get-to gether for the sheer pleasure of meet ing them socially. Let’s learn to en joy one another. In a little town of this State three old friends met casually one Sunday afternoon. Perhaps the three had never happened together before, though friends of many years. They decided to form a 30-year Club, that is to have a dinner or barbecue, or chicken supper occasionally for all the friends of thirty years. What do you think of the idea ? We need more social contacts, more unhurried meetings. Life is too fast today. Years ago when a farmer went to town he had to stay several hours in order to rest his horse. That gave the farmer plenty of time after “making his arrangements” to drop by the Court House and drop in on the boys and enjoy a social pipe or a “chaw”. There are no fireplaces in Court Houses nowadays, so a good quid of tobacco is a mortification in stead of a solace and delight. Instead of a casual exchange of news, mostly political, the farmer today is as brisk as one of these town bookkeepers going about with a pen behind his ears. The farmer drives to town in a car, which doesn’t require a rest and is given the hurry order by wile and daughter, unless they are headed for the shops and beauty parlors. Trie old boy is kept on the run all the time now. No more mellow days of up roarious good fellowship in the Court House or in the “store lots”. The stores haven’t any lots now, as a rule. The truth is we have to put on an extra burst of speed in order to meet the installments on the car. Weren’t we better off driving the mule to town ? The slow-moving mule gave rise to much reflection and the com forting quid did its part to make one reflect. Mighty few farmers kept a saddle horse or a special buggy horse for pleasure, though the gasoline grew on the place; but its a rare farmer today who doesn’t buy a lot of com and fodder at a filling station. Still, after all is said, I saw a man recently who said “Well, it used to take a day to drive to Columbia and a day to get home. But now I go and get back in one morning.” Even so, his visit to Columbia is a rush' affair, unless wife and daughter want “What about breakfast”, I asked, shuddering to think of greeting the rising sun with such a diet. “We did not have breakfast, only a cup of coffee; not really coffee, just some kind of cereal. Ten thous and men in the camp and there was never enough food, that of the poor est quality. Of course the guards, as all the German soldiers, had good food and plenty. It has gone from the countries Germany has taken. It is the civilians that suffer.” “Can America send food to unoc cupied France without it getting through to Germany?” I asked. Mr. Rammond thinks it can but if it went to occupied France the Germans would get it. Food for un occupied France is drastically need ed, he said, and if America does not help, who will? Son jof Spartan The story of Mr. Hammond be gan with the first World War when his father, the late Raymond Ham mond of Spartanburg, enlisted and was sent as a lieutenant in the sig nal corps to France. There he met the French girl, who after the war, became his wife. He returned to visit his family here after the demo bilization but a short time later re turned to France where he was in business and was married. A few years later he died leaving his wife and little son. Mrs. Hammond and her son visited here the summer Raoul was ten years old. After his high school education he decided to enter agriculture and was sent by the French government to Morocco where he was a foreman in a large vineyard when war was declared. Leaving at once for Paris he filed application with the French aviation, passed his examinations but his ap pointment was deferred because of his age. He then applied to the American ambulance corps and was subsequently admitted and assigned an ambulance. While this work was pending he worked in a ground crew servicing transport planes for the Dutch airlines. It was the latter part of January, 1940, that he was given an ambu lance and assigned to the Maginot line, the Sarrguemenes sector, and from-then on he served until the day in June when he and twenty other drivers ant! their ambulances were captured. The next few weeks, six he said, was much of a nightmare. Seme days in a German concentration camp with 10,000 other men and then in a smaller camp, until through the American Embassy he was released late in July. He is, of course, an American citizen as his father re mained one. “Where does he go from here?” He hopes as soon as possible to be assigned to aviation in the American army but in the meantime is enjoy ing his peaceful rest, with no guns, no bombs, from airplanes, no fear, no hunger, and no bitter enemy at his throat. to go shopping. In that case he will have time to bum. What can he do, even then ? In that case he will have time to bum. What can he do, even then ? In the public offices the furni ture is highly polished, the floors clean and, between “dopes”, every body tries to appear busy. No well of water; no, sir- “Dopes”! We gotta have ’em or we can’t get up steam. For some time I have been talking about getting our State in good fin ancial condition before the flood tide of Federal taxes engulfs us. We start in this war, whether by declaration or not, with a national debt of fifty billion dollars, as compared with less than two billions when we entered the first world war. Our Federal debt is today about twice as large as it was at the close of the first world war, and to this staggering national debt we add eighteen billions of State arid local debts, against five billions in 1917. So we begin a torrent of spending, added to a debt of sixty- eight billion dollars. Even without the Lease-Lend, or defense spending, we have been pil ing up deficits in billions years after year. The net national deficit for the year ending June 30, 1940 was $3,611,000,000, and for this year the estimated deficit is put at $6,190,- 000,000, and for next year at more than $10,000,000,000. It is easy to write and speak these figures, but the national deficit for last year—just the deficit, was great er than the assessed value of all pro perty of every kind, type or descrip-' tion in South Carolina, including all the money in all our banks. We must win; by all means; but words won’t win a war. Britain’s losses at sea are greater today—in 18 months—than in the first two and a half years of the first world war. How shall our Government finance this appalling expenditure? Already individual income taxes have been raised, and the rate on corporation incomes is now 24 per cent, instead of 18 per cent, with graduated ex cess profits taxes rising to 60 per cent on large enterprises. Higher taxes are, of course, inevitable. Several times I have referred to the swelling tide of income flowing from all this spurt of war prepara tion. Not many war industries flour ish in South Carolina, but nearly all business, except Agriculture, has been greatly stimulated. Two or three weeks ago I told of how the defense emergency had raised taxes, even vastly out of proportion to all increased income from new business. I have before me a few other reports which may be interesting. Company A. earned for its stock holders in 1940 $4.32 against $4.w5 in 1939, though its sales were $440,000,- 000 more than in 1939. Why so small an increase to those who own the company? Well, taxes increased from $45,000,000 to $125,000,000 and the other increase was in wages and upkeep. Corporation B. earned $3.72 in 1940 as compared with $3.02 in 1939. Corporation C. earned $4.95 a share in 1940 and $3.53 in 1939. But its taxes in 1940 were $20,623,000 and $1,890,000 in 1939. TVo or three others just for the taxes: D. $3,370,000 against $952,000; E. $1,558,000 against $109,924; F. $2,429,000 against $180,000. One enterprise after another will show a greater volume of sales, with less profit, than the year before. That would not be true 1 of all, however. Nor is that what I am trying to im press. What impresses me most is that this gigantic war crusade may not enrich the stockholders, but it certainly brings in the taxes. We have hardly swung into our stride yet. Even in South Carolina more business will be done and more State taxes collected. But it may end overnight, leaving all war enter prises counting their losses rather than their gains. If we use this money to pay our debts we shall face the inevitable slump with our affairs in order. People who don’t believ that slump always follows such tremen dous efforts are just as lacking in wisdom and vision as those who thought the boll-weevil couldn’t cross the Mississippi river. The strife raging throughout the world makes unpredictable the im mediate future of our nation; and Whereas The turmoil abroad has made nec essary many billions of dollars of new burdens on the United States; and Whereas A wise preparation on our part re quires the restriction of ordinary pub lic services so ftir as may not impair their usefulness; be it Resolved That we, a gathering of business men and women of South Carolina, very earnestly petition the Governor, the Senate and the House of Repre sentatives that our State forthwith adopt a budget for the next fiscal year that shall be less than the cur rent budget so that within two years the increased revenues of the State for the years ending June 30, 1940 and 1941; and That provisionally the cumulative deficits be funded by notes payable in three years or at the conventence of the State within a shorter period; That our State refrain from any legislation which may' affect compe titive operation of our enterprises; That in the grave decisions which our National Government may have to make it may find South Carolina on a cash basis in State affairs and with a united, purposeful and industrious citizinship responsive to the Nation’s call, prepared in mind and resources, as the seal of South Carolina proudly proclaims to the world. 71 PERSONS INDICTED BY U. S. IN GIANT LOTTERY RING At a meeting of businessmen aftd women Wednesday the following reso lution was adopted: Whereas A federal grand jury in Pittsburg, Pa., has indicted 71 persons charging them with being members of an al leged multimillion-doHar lottery ring operating in nine eastern states. Louis Cohen, also known as LouiS Cole, a former Boston attorney, was indicted along with four brothers and two brothers-in-law, as the leaders of the ring. D. H. Stephens, postal inspector, named nine eastern cities as points where the lottery based its opera tions. They were Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Albany and Syracuse, Boston, Baltimore, and Cleveland, Miami, and Wilmington, Del. NO IMPERIALISTIC INTENT BY BRITAIN IN ABYSSINIA London has already suggested that when Abyssinia is freed from the Italian yoke. Emporer. Haile Selassie should choose a number of non-British advisers to help those British mili tary and political aides who are at present assisting him in the restora tion of his country’s independence. His majesty’s government has stat ed that Great Britain has no terri torial aspirations in Abyssinia, and this endorses the British claim that their interest in the present conflict there is not imperialistic, but desire to free the country from its axis designs. DIAMOND TIRES EASY TERMS Quick Credit BATTERIES Battery or Electric HOME RADIOS AUTO RADIOS GreystonE SERVICE STATION Nitrate of Soda The American Nitrate Sold in Newberry by L T. COUSING Office Phone 212 Fat mers Bonded Warehouse PROM1PT FARM DELIVERY ▼RAO When a cough, doe to a cold, drives you mad. Smith Brothers Cough Drops usually ^ giv« goothing, pleasant relief Black or Menthol—5 v. Smith Bros. Cough Drops are the only drops containing VITAMIN A Vitamin A (Carotene) raijes the resistance of mucous membranes of nose and throat to cold infections, when tack of resist' twee is due to Vitamin A deficiency. “Personality . . . ” Personality embodies many things . . . the voice . . . the hair . . . dress . . . manner . . . and so on. A beautiful personality is a priceless possession. A NICHOLS photograph captures all the fine points of your personality for the simple reason that our interest in you is personal . . . and we are willing to go to that extra trouble to insure that your photo graph is all that it should be. We would like to show you the proof. Nichols 'Studio Every Day is Bargain Day at.. Johnson-McCrackin’s When you Want BARGAINS COME SEE US! If We Haven’t Got Them, We’ll Be Glad to Tell You Where to Get Them! Johnson- McCrackin “The Farmer’s Friend”