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FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1941
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
A Disordered Desk
Ordered Mind,
Bespeaks a Well
Says The Spectator
Be reasonable, weathermam; no
body expected you to turn on the
heait like a blitzkrieg; be moderate;
let’s (have at least a wee bit of
spring.
Drive through Summerville and en
joy the gorgeous coloring which
meets the eye on every street. Don’t
try to find any particular place (with
out map, compass and guide) but
drive here, there and elsewhere,
meandering about in calm contem
plation of nature’s efflorescence.
Eventually you will unwind your
self and emerge on a main high
way.
Women cause a lot of trouble,
don’t they? At this season they de
light in turning a house upside down
in the name of Spring Cleaning.
Then a man can’t find anything;
he’s the red-headed stepchild in his
own home—over which, by the way,
he is lord and master, you know.
A man sits in deep satisfaction and
feels at ease only to find that every
thing must be turned inside out and
a general unsettlement and confus
ion reign. Now a man living alone
would have permanence, established
order, stability. His bed would be
put —and it would “stay put” through
the years, even though lie had to bur.
row his way through the room or use
a pitchfork. But a man has order in
disorder. The apparent confusion
does not confound him; he knows,
for example that the paper he wants
is on a certain table, though buried
ten papers deep. But some good
housewifely soul comes along, with
zeal for arrangement, and cleans up
the place. The man never finds any
thing after that. He is sunk.
Did you ever see the table of a
newspaperman or a lawyer? Yet the
mountains of paper, shovelled aside
in spots, are no problem to him;
he knows where everything is and
will dive down till he finds it.
Few men can do brain work on a
polished surface, or amid gloss and
elegance. They work best without
the distraction of shine or refinement.
I have read a report on the schools
of Jasper County, prepared by a Com
mittee of three citizens, of which H.
Klugh Purdy was Chairman.
Several weeks ago I was impressed
by the wise attitude of Senator Ohas.
E. Perry, Jr., and Representative W.
E. Byrd, who sponsored the resolu
tion creating a committee to investi
gate the operation of the schools of
| the County. The gentlemerm from
I Jasper explained that the investiga-
I tion was not political, nor was it in-
| spired by hostility. The plan was to
! make a businesslike survey *for the
purpose of appraising what was good
i and correcting and strengthening any
weak spots. The Committee made a
careful study of conditions and opera
tions and made some sound sugges
tions. The spirit of the report is one
of friendly cooperation throughout.
It would be a fine stroke if such a
study by such a Committee might be
made in every County. Grand Juries
can’t do this sort of thing, and they
are entirely without authority to do
more than see that the school house
still stands, or stands still. In the
Jasper case the investigation, app
raisal was made at the instance of
the legislative delegation and the de
legation is in position to give effect
to that report.
A feature of the Jasper report is
that it is home-made product. Three
citizens of Jasper studied the general
aspects and the cost of the education,
al effort. There were no theorists
or teachers on the Committ'"!—just
three citizens who love their County
and as taxpayers wish to make sure
that the public money is wisely and
usefully spent.
The Free Conference Committee on
the General Appropriation Bill is
now in charge of the bill and will try
to harmonize the differences between
the Senate and the House. It is an
excellent Committee. On the Senate
side are Messrs. Jefferies, Edgar
Brown and Funderburk. Senator
Jefferies has been a vigorous leader
of the Senate, with years of accom
plishment to sustain him. Senator
Brown was one of the illustrious six
who, as Confarees, cut the State’s ap
propriations drastically in 1933, fol
lowing the great service of the Eco
nomy House. Senator Funderburk is
a new but respected member.
' On behalf of the House will be
Chairman Winchester Smith, long
known as a fighter for low appro-
priaions, who refused as a conferee
to sign some reports because he
thought they were too high. The late
Speaker Gibson once said “I know I
can count in Win”. Mr. Smith’s
father, the beloved Dr. Chester Smith
was one of the founders of the Farm,
ers and Taxpayers League. Mr. Hend
rix, of Spartanburg, another conferee,
is that sort of man known as the
salt of the earth, as a Senator called
him. Mr. Hendrix is one of the very
IMPORTANT!
Tax Notice!
All persons who have not
paid their delinquent taxes
will please take notice that
an agent of this office is now
out in the county levying on
property on which taxes are
due, preparatory to advertis
ing and selling the same to
satisfy these executions.
I am compelled under the
law to take this action, so if
you have delinquent taxes, I
urge you to come to the of
fice at once. In doing so you
will save the additional cost
of advertising and auction
fee.
Claude W. Sanders,
COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR
best men in a legislature of many
good men. Mr. Miller H. Melleitte,
the third House Conferee, has long
enjoyed the confidence and esteem of
the House. He has served on sev
eral investigating Committees •srith
great credit, and is one of the safe
and sound men of the Legislature.
Speaker Blatt, with 124 men to choose
|rom, has been signally sound In
these appointments. No one will
deny that the Conferees on behalf
of the Senate likewise reflect the abi
lity of the senior house, which
counts many able men in its member
ship.
The general condition confronting
the Conferees was sum.ued! up In the
bulletin of Organized Business in
these words: “The Senate has added
I $1,600,000 in new taxes to take care
of the House bill, but has tacked on
nearly a million of new spending.
According to the logic or mathe
matics of the Senate position, you
could strike out the additional ap
propriations made by the Senate and
reduce the new tax bill by the same
amount, leaving a balance of $600,-
000 to be raised. That would take
care of itself, through increased re
turns from existing taxes.
It does strike on,e as absurd that,
while seriously preoccupied with a
series of deficits, and while actually
proposing new revenue, the Senate, or
House, shoufld increase the currant
budget.
Nothing could be more unsound
than increased spending by the
State while the National Government
is preparing new tax demands, each
one up in the billions. Wisdom tells
us to be considerate of the taxpay
ers of the State, for as taxpayers of
the nation they will have to carry
heavier burdens than this country
has ever known. Already Congress
has authorized forty billion dollars.
Our total expenditure for the first
World War was only nineteen bil
lion dollars. Only 19 billions! What
an inconceivable sum of money. Yet
40 billions already authorized—and
we still at peace!
Does the Legislature need a more
compelling reason for leaving out all
new taxes and striking out all in
creased items?”
We have six patriotic Americans on
the Free Conference Committee.
These gentlemen must see that the
time for little favors here, and spe
cial considerations there is past. The
world is in a convulsion and we stand
on the very verge of it, with all the
demands for billions and billions of
dollars. Let us strip and prepare for
the race against barbarism.
KEY TO TALKING HORSES
PASSES WITH TRAINER
El Dorado, Kansas, April 23.,Gloria
Lee, the “talking horse”, which once
thrilled circuses and carnival aud
iences with a black-board chalk-writ
ing act, has run up a big feed bill
with Ed Curd a liveryman.
The horse, once considered the
greatest ever to perform the talking
act, became ulseless overnight when
its owner and trainer, Pap Van Vran-
kin, died.
Van Vrankin did not educate the
horse by the Standard method of
training. What he told Gloria Lee
to make her write certain letters
and numbers on the blackboard,
with the chalk in her teeth, was a
secret that died with him.
“Other trainens, who use the
standard key in getting horses to
perform talking acts, have come
from all over the United States to
see if they can put Gloria Lee thru
her paces,” Curd said, “I can put
her through such drill stunts as
high stepping and exhibitring the
five different gaits. But I can’t put
her through her tricks.
Curd 1 says that her star act was
to receive a man’s name from the
audience transmitted to her by the
code known only to Van Vrankin,
then write it on the blackboard.
“No other horse never learned
that act,” he said.
Van Vrankin, trained Gloria Lee
from colthood. She proved so bright
that he departed from the standard
method of training, believing that
she could learn more rapidly by his
own unorthodox system.
“When he died, the secret died
with him,” Curd said. “All horse
trainers use a standard code, just as
all teachers of the deaf use a stand
ard.”
Gloria Lee, now ten, is too old a
horse to teach new tricks. Curd -says
he believes he will keep her around
just for semrtStaental uurposes”.
COTTON STALKS NOW BRING
CASH TO FARMERS
BIG ESTATES PAY INHERITANCE
TAX; 2 IN THIS COUNTY
Columbia, April 25.—The state
tax commission announced today an
inheritance tax of $5,462 had been
paid on the $312,000 estate of J. L.
Anderson of Chesterfield.
Other recent inheritance tax re
mittances, listing the estate valua
tion first and then the tax paid, were:
R. B. Cleveland of Spartanburg,
$311,000 and $6,531; J. W. Taylor of
Horry county, $97,000 and $2,107;
P. M. Smoak of Orangeburg, $98,-
000 and $2,816; T. B. Stackhouse of
Columbia, $187,000 and $2,927; Mary
C. Murray of Columbia, $196,000 and
$2,733; T. M. DuBose, Sr., of Colum
bia, $183,000 and $5,765; Emma R.
Smith of Charleston, $118,000 and
$2,341; Clara R. Solomons of Char
leston, $83,000 and $2,040; J. M. Ven
ning of Charleston, $87,000 and $3,-
366; W. M. Copp of Beaufort, $113,-
000 and $2,727; B. H. Owen of Char
leston, $219,000 and $4,344; M. G.
Stone of Spartanburg, $168,000 and
$3,489.
What has become of the plan of
our friend, Roy Jones, to find a mar
ket for the ungraded but good pro
duce from the farms? I know, of
course, that best marketing requires
classification according to standards,
but thousands of tons of good usable
produce need 1 a market every year
until that great and gladsome day of
transition when we shall suddenly
find ourselves with nothing but grade
“A” produce.
Commissioner Jones, with great
appreciation of the realities of our
farming, knows that we have the
greater part of our produce below
standard, so far as standard is det
ermined by uniformity of size; but In
the thousands of instances which
do not require unifmdty of size the
excellence of our quality might bring
about sales, particularly with those
who seek good stuff at a slightly re
duced price. ‘ What the farmer needs
is a market—a market for all that
he produces. A three pound sweet
potato, and a three ounce sweet po
tato, taken from the same hill, are
probably of equal quality so far as
nourishment is concerned. So great
a difference in size however, operates
Toledo, Ohio.—National Cotton
Week, May 16-24, will be a period of
celebration for cotton farmers in
Sunflower county, Mississippi. A com
pany in Toledo has just signed con
tracts for 11,000 tons of cotton stalks
to be used in the manufacture of cel
lulose.
Long a complete waste, the cotton
stalks will afford the Mississippi
farmers an addled income of $80,000.
Farmers are paid $7.50 a ton for bal
ed stalks delivered to -gin®. The aver
age stalk yield per acre in Sunflower
county is two tons, with the cost of
gathering and hauling running about
$3 per ton.
NEWBERRY COUNTY COUNCIL
FARM WOMEN HOLD SPRING
MEETING
against the salability bf the potatoes.
There are people, however, and there
are resturants, hotels, boarding i
houses, mess halls and other pieces,
whose use of a product is not det
ermined or influenced by the lack of
uniformity of size. Let us hope that
Mr. Jones will continue his vigorous
effort to find a market for all the
things which the farmer produces.
“Spending by Government on arm
ament alone will be $850,000,000 dur
ing April. One year ago it was less
than $160,000,000. Factory pay rolls
are running now at a rate of ten
per cent higher than in 1929. Hourly
factory wages that averaged 56.6
cents in 1929 today are 68 cents. In
the steel industry, today’s wages are
50 per cent higher on an hourly bas
is than they were in the last boom
year., Prices, on an average, are
nearly 18 per cent lower than in
1929. , :
The Newberry County Council of
Farm Women will hold its Spring
Meeting in the Bush River auritor-
ium Friday, May 2, with Bush River
and Vaugfhnvillp. The program of
the session is as follows:
Call to order—10:00 a .m.
Hymn—“Love Divine”.
Devotional—Mrs. Robert Glymph,
Jr.
Flag Saluate and Council Creed—
Led by Mrs. Y. T. Dickert.
Welcome—Mrs. P. C. Workman.
Response—-Mrs. Colie Cromer.
Song—“-Carolina”.
Address—“Our Part in National
Defense”—Dr. Jas. C. Kinard.
Reports of County Chairmen:
Agriculture — Miss Doris Gene
Shealy.
Citizenship—Mrs. Y. T. Dickert.
Education—-Mrs. Wm. Webb.
Exterior Beautification—Mrs. C. C.
Wallace.
Finance—Mrs. D. S. Half acre.
Health—Mrs. Carl Epting.
Music—Long Lane Chorus.
Legislation-—Mrs. R. C. Carlisle.
Music and Recreation—Mrs. R. C.
Neel, Jr.
Publicity—Mrs. J. W. Abrams.
Religion and Welfare—'Mrs. W. B.
Bodnest.
Membership—Mrs. A. A. Clelaod.
4-HClub —Mrs. Claud Price.
Roll Call.
Old business; New business.
Treasurer’s Report.
Lunch—12:30 p. m.
2:30 p. m., Entertainment—Flower
Show.
Pennies will be gathered for British
Relief—Mrs. Paul H. Long, Pres ;
Mrs. J. W. Abrams, Secretary.
Kidneys Must
Clean Out Acids
Excess acids, poisons and wastes in your
blood are removed chiefly by your kidneys.
Getting up Nights, Burning Passages, Back
ache, Swollen Ank'es, Nervousness, Rheu
matic Pains, Dizziness, Circles Under Eyes,
and feeling worn out, often are caused by
non-organic and non-systemic Kidney and
Bladder troubles. Usually in su r h cases, the
very first dose of Cystex goes i tght to work
helping the Kidneys flush out excess acids
and wastes. And this cleansing, purifying
Kidney action, in Just a day or so, may eas
ily make you feel younger, stronger and
better than in years. A printed guarantee
wrapped around each package of Cystex in
sures an immediate refund of the full cost
unless you are completely satisfied. You have
everything to gain and nothing to lose under
this positive money back guarantee so get
Cystex from your druggist today for oi^Ly 35c.
JUST KIDS— Shortcake!
By Ad Carfer
Winnsboro Native Elected New
Moderator of A. R. P. Synod
Hendersonville, N. C.—The Re -1 /.
David T. Lauderdale of Lexington,
Va., was unanimously elected moder
ator of the general synod of the As
sociatedReformed Presbyterian
church at today’s session of the one
hundred and thirty-seventlh annual
meeting, being held at the church as
sembly ground, Bonclarken near here.
Statesville was chosen for the 1942
meeting place, with the First ARP
church as -host.
Doctor Lauderdale, chosen by ac
clamation, will be installed at the
Statesville meeting as successor to
the Rev. C. B. Betts, D. D., who is
moderator of the current assembly.
A native of Winnsboro, S. C., Doc
tor Lauderdale is the oldest minister
in point of sertvice in Rockbridge
county, Va., having rounded out 26
years there. He was graduated from
Erskine college and seminary. Due
West, S. C., in 1914, and studded for
one year at the Moody Bible insti
tute in Chicago.
He is married and has five child
ren, two qf them being students at
Erskine now. , •
The synod today received greetings
from the general assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States (Southern). The message was
delivered by Dr. L. T. Wild® of Hen
dersonville, substituting for Dr. C.
Mrs. Raymond Henderson-, Mrs. F.
G. Hartley. ''Mrs. John Bedenbaugh
Misses Allie Amick, Miss Myrtle
Da whips, Miss Corrine Hendrix and
Don Van Meter of the Newberry
county (hospital attended! the Garo
ld nos-Virginias Hospital Conference
in Greenville Friday.
Mrs. Lucy Taylor of Columbia is
visiting Mrs. F. G. Hartley.
Miss Margaret Harmon was guest
for a few days last week in Charles
ton in the home of Miss Lucy Lock-
wood.
Summer months ahead make Na
tional Cotton Week an ideal time to
buy canvas play tents for the child
ren.
To return from Palestine last
summer an American archaeologist
had to go by car to Bagdad, train to
the Persian gulf, boat to Bombay
and freighter via Capetown and
Trinidad to New York.
Apple peeling is‘about five times
as rich in vitamin C as apple flesh.
Grier Davis of Asheville, who was
unable to be present.
Dr. T. H. Spence, curatoc of the
historical foundation and library at
Montreat, assembly ground for the
Southern Presbyterian denomination,
discussed the work of that institutwn,
in which the ARP churdh was a part.
A conference on foreign missions,
with the Rev. S. W. Redd of McCor
mick, S. C., presiding was in to
night’s program. A testimonial by
Dr. Edgar Long of Due West, chair
man. of the foreign mission board, to
Mies Macie Stevenson, for 50 years
in the ARP mission in Mexico, was
arranged for this service, as was an
address bv the Rev. S. Dwight Winn,
pastor of the Second Presbyterian
churdh of Greenville, S. C.
Business matters will consume all
of tomorrow’s sessions of the synod,
which will adjourn after various
services Sunday, including a memor
ial for deceased ministers.
TM-
quss^
• A quick freshener for perspir-
ing-hot, dusty skin. Makes a
lightly fragrant summer rub-
down, to maintain after-bath
daintiness. Choice of 4 scents—
Mountain Laurel, Tropical
Spice, Natural and new Blue Iris.
Carpenter’s
FINAL
NOTICE!
/ : - * '' 1
Books for the collection of
1940 taxes will close Wed-
nesday, April 30, after which
time a 7 per cent penalty vVill
* «
be added, and uncollected
1940 taxes will shortly there
after be placed in the hands
of the Tax Collector,
The penalty until April
30 is 3 per cent.
Ralph B.B lack
COUNTY TREASURER