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THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE TWO
1118 Collefe Street
Newberry, S. C.
O. ?. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publieher
One Year
One Dollar
Published every Friday
Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1987, at
the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
AMERICAN GENEROSITY—
SPANISH BARBARISM
In the lig'ht of the fact that the
American Red Cross and the United
States government have contributed
in recent months nearly a million and
a half dollars to the ^relief of Span
ish war sufferers, the cruel theat-
ment which Franco is dealing out td
the Protestant church members in
that God-forsaken country, is inter
esting :
Practically all Protestant schools
have been closed, most Protestant
church services have been banned and
thirty Protestant ministers driven in
to exile, reports Dr. Henry Smith Lie-
per, secretary in the United States of
the World Council of Churches. Other
sources indicate that the position of
the evangelical churches in Spain is
lower than at any time within a
hundred years.
A more pointed report of Protest
ant persecutions is that of Percy J.
Luffard, representative of Britain’s
Spanish Gospel Mission. He state^
that more than two-thirds of the mis
sion’s workers in Spain had “either
been executed, exiled, or imprisoned,”
and that some four-fifths of the evan
gelical churches have been either clos
ed or confiscated. The Christian, Eng
lish publication, says that only one
out of six Protestant churches are
still open, and that Franco has de
creed that no outside lettering shall
be allowed to indicate that the Prot
estant churches are places of wor
ship, and if they have an ecclesiasti
cal appearance they must be altered.
The 110,000 Bibles, testaments and
gospels stored by the British Foreign
Bible Society in Barcelona and Ma
drid have been confiscated by the
Spanish government. So far all efforts
to recover them have failed.
What’s the use of having a dog if
you are going to do all the barking
yourself.
DON’T I.IKE HIS BOOKS NOW
Some Canadians have discovered
that Colonel Lindbergh's books and
other writings are obnoxious. The
city council of Guelph, in the province
of Ontario, has decided to ask its li
brary board to destroy all the colo
nel’s books and writings in the Guelph
free library “to protect our Canadian
youth.”
“Our children have no business
reading his writings and transac
tions,” said one of the Guelph alder
men.
The city council of Brantford took
similar action in April.
People are losing their heads. When
they begin to ban a man’s books be
cause they disagree with his views,
hysteria is getting the best of poise
and straight thinking. Moreover it’s
a sign of bigotry and a denial of de
mocracy. People are in a bad way
when they must crack down on books
because they hate the fellow who
wrote them.
FIRST ON THE HONOR ROLL
Ethiopia, first of the small nations
to be overrun by the Blackhand gangs
of Italy, is in business again at the
same old stand. Chased out five years
ago by the dago.Haile Selassie is back
in his palace. One of his first acts
upon regaining his residence in Adis
Ababa was to order beheaded the
stone Roman eagle which surmounted
the doorway of his palace during its
occupancy by the Blackhand—symbol
of defeated Italy.
The restoration of this country to
its owners, may be taken as a bow of
hope by the other little nations that
are being plundered by German and
Italian gangsters. British military
might has put Ethiopia first on the
honor roll of restored nations. Brit
ish and American guns are going to
put others on that roll before many
more months have passed.
MAKE IT A STRAIGHT WAR—
DRAFT ALL
War and its preparation is a na
tional tiagedy. As a means of enrich
ment, it is the-pinnacle of moral trea
son, which wipes out the loftiest pur
pose of any war. This immorality
adds fertility to the soil wherein bol
shevism, nazism, and our own isms
grow.
Unless everybody,—business, labor,
industry—shares the privation of the
drafted boys this war is a mockery
and will only prepare the ground foi
the next one, and for the enemies ol
democracy to destroy our liberties in
a post-war depression.
It is a gross injustice that some of
our citizens have to drop everything
and go into training at practically
nc remuneration, while others re
main at home and make big money
out our war effort—some of them
trying to slow up our defense pro
gram an<f defeat Britain to boot.
Make this war a straight one:
Draft every laborer, every industry,
every soldier .every anything else to
fight the battles before us.
It’s funny how a few square meals
at the pie counter will round out a
political career.
MONEY IN HEREFORDS
Johnston Herald.
Starting in business about two
years ago, a local livestock man in
vested. $2600 in 33 head of registered
White Face Herefords. At present
this operator has a herd of 61 choice
animals, after having sold $1900
worth. In this case, livestock is just
one “crop’' in a rather extensive
farm program but already indicates
a better net return than from cotton.
TO ATTEND CONVENTION
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hutto will at
tend the Banker’s Convention to be
held Sunday, June 1, through Tues
day at the Ocean Forest Hotel at
Myrtle Beach.
Saturday visitor to Newberry
was Miss Dorothy Hentz of Columbia.
NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING
We, the undersigned Jury Commis-
sioners, of Newberry County, shall
on the 5th day of June 1941, at 9
o’clock A. M., openly and publicly, in
the Clerk of Court’s office draw thirty-
six names to serve as Petit Jurors
for the Criminal or General Sessions
Court which will convene in Newberry
County Court House, at 10 o’clock A.
M. on June 16th, 1941.
H. K. BOYD, Clerk of Court,
P. N. ABRAMS, Auditor,
R. B. BLACK, Treasurer.
May 24th, 1941.
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FRIDAY, MAY SO, 1941
Will Address Grads
Dr. M- C. Huntley of Birming
ham, Alabama, who will make the
address to the graduating class
of Newberry College on June 3.
Dr. Huntley is Executive Secre
tary of the Commission om Insti
tutions of Higher Education,
Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools.
Kennedy Scoffs At
Talk of Invasion
ays America’s War Entry Would
Mean Failure, Disgrace Abroad
Atlanta, May 24.—Speaking, out
strongly against United States inter
vention in the European war, Joseph
P. Kennedy, former ambassador to
England, warned young Americans
today to “beware of the phrasemak-
er” and demand the facts.
Kennedy scoffed at the idea of in
vasion of this country, the theory
of carrying freedom to all comers
of the world and the “materialist
argument for bloodshed” on the for
eign trade issue as a war issue.
Speaking at the commencement
exercises of Oglethorpe university,
Kennedy asserted:
“When I resigned as ambassador
I said that I hoped to assist the
president in his oft-claimed desire to
stay out of war. I can think of no
more patriotic task and one which
should more readily enlist the active
support of every lover of liberty.
“There are some among us who
sincerely believe that the welfare
of the United States requires us to
become a belligerent. But they give
us slogans. They seek to sitir our
emotions. We should never take
such a grave step just because we
bate Hitler and love Churchill.
“Facts are what the country needs,
not slogans. What are the facts?”
“What is the state of our defense?
What can we do if we declare war?
Where will we land troops? What
about Japan? What will be the result
of declaring war in terms of our abi
lity to help England?
“The people v Ho must suffer and
give up their lives are entitled to
know all the facts before their judg
ment can be won over to the inter
ventionist cause. It is a mockery of
liberty to withhold from democratic
people the essential facts upon which
this, the most awful decision of our
times must be based.”
Kennedy quoted John C. Calhoun,
famous Southern senator as saying
in 1838:
“We make a great mistake in sup
posing all people capable of self-
government. Acting under that im
pression, many are anxious to force
free governments on all the people
of this continent and over the world,
if they had that power. It has been
lately urged, in a very respectable
quarter, that it is the mission of this
country to spread civil and religious
liberty over all the globe and espec
ially over this continent, even by
force if necessary. It is a sad delu
sion.’ ”
“These words,” Kennedy said, “are
as compelling, as fresh, as convinc
ing and a stimely as though they
came over the Washington wire this
very morning.”
Continuing he said:
“I am particularly unimpressed
by the hysteria which I suspect is
consciously stimulated by the idea
that we are in fianger of military
attack. We do not believe that any
nation could secure a concentra
tion of bases which would encircle
us as Britain is now encircled.
“Every day that passes makes the
prospect of attack less tenable. A
two-ocean navy, a large army, an in
comparable air force—all these are
on the way. In *a short time they
will be ours.
“As a nation we should not let
our aid to Britain become the argu
ment for direct involvement.
“Anyone who speaks in terms of
imminent military danger is doing
his country a disservice. The Eng
lish should be amused when they
think of their confident stand against
invasion and the hysteria of their
friends three thousand miles away.
“The crusaders’ argument for war
is the silliest of all. I have the
fullest conviction that few countries
of the earth, by and large, want
our kind of democracy. Most of them
have neither the training nor the
tradition for it—not even a proper
understanding of it. Democracy can
not be imposed by force or otherwise.
“In our very attempt at this co
lossal crusade, we would end in
failure and disgrace abroad, in dis
illusionment and bankruptcy at
home.”
Sanfee-Cooper’s
Impressive Statistics
Construction of the highest single
lift navigation lock in the United
States—in what will soon be the
world’s longest dam—is rapidly near
ing completion.
The dam and the lock are features
of the $50,000,000 Samtee-Cooper nav
igation and power project, now under
construction approximately thirty-
five miles north of historic Charles
ton.
A description of the lock becomes
a list of big-figure statistics. More
than 92,000 cubic yards of concrete
were placed in order to build it more
than 100 feet high. Its chamber is
180 feet long and sixty feet wide.
More than 8,500,000 gallons of water
will be required to fill the chamber to
its capacity water level.
The lock’s gates are massive.
Workmen have just completed erect
ing the upstream set, each leaf of
which is thirty-seven feet in width,
thirty-five in height. The downstream
set is even larger. Each leaf is nine
ty-one feet in height, thirty-seven
feet in width. And they weigh about
300 tons apiece.
The guide wall stretches for 250
feet off the northern top of the lock
into the reservoir area. It will warp
ships into the lock chamber if they
should be drawn toward the adjacent
dam by the swift currents.
Two guide walls extend off the sou-
them bottom of the lock—these for
warping craft also, and mooring them
while they await passage through the
lock.
Patented floating mooring bibts
have been installed on either side of
the chamber for obviating the neces-
shy of remooring craft as the water
level changes. There are six sets of
•line hooks; each set consisting of fif
teen hooks, so craft can remoor them
selves if the floating bitts are not
available.
Diversion of the Santee river which
forms at the confluence of the Water-
ee and the Congaree, just south of
Columbia, is being effected with con
struction of a dam nearly eight miles
long across the Santee.
This is the “longest dam”, and it
will back up water into the Santee
reservoir by a seven-and-a-half-mile
diversion channel. The reservoirs
cover more than 250 square miles.
From the Pinopolis reservoir wa
ter will pass through the huge tur
bines of the Pinopolis powerhouse,
capable of producing 700,000,000 kil
owatt-hours of energy in a year of
average rainfall, into a four-and-a-
half-mile long tail canal, connected
with the Cooper river, a tidewater es
tuary of Charleston, harbor.
Santee-Cooper is expected to begin
operation within six months, and the
PWA has made a total loan and grant
allotment of $39,300,000 toward 1 its
construction. The WPA is now em
ploying more than 9,000 men to clear
the basin area alone, at an estimat
ed cost of $10,846,000.
Construction of Santee-Cooper was
started in mid-1939 by the South Car
olina Public Service authority, an
agency of the state created in 1934
to build and operate the project. The
water route created by Santee-Cooper
will shorten the distance between
Charleston and Columbia by approxi
mately 100 miles.
INJURED IN BICYCLE FALL
Miss Carolyn Harmon, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Harmon of Main
street, suffered head and shoulder in
juries in a fall from her bicycle
Thursday afternoon.
The accident occurred on Main,
street, in front of the Homestead fil-"
ling station, as Carolyn was coming
home from school. It was thought
that the bicycle was struck by a pass
ing automobile, which did not stop.
She was carried unconscious to the
Newberry county hospital, where she
remained for treatment until Satur
day afternoon. X-ray pictures show
ed no factures or broken bones, but
she received a severe head blow and
J cut, and her shoulder and left side
were badly bruised.
Carolyn is improving at her Home
on Main street.
NEW GASOLINE TESTING
SYSTEM IN S. C. ASKED
Columbia, May 25.—Adjournment
of the general assembly today left
with a house sub-committee a call to
set up a new system of testing gas
oline. kerosene, and other fuels in
South Carolina.
Rep. Wilbur Grant of Chester, a
member, said that the group expected
to report early next year to the ways
and means committee on the house
merchants and mercantile committee
proposal to require octane-rating
tests of gasoline. Gasoline is not
tested now for octane ratting but the
flash-bowl method is used in determin
ing some other qualities of gasoline.
Grant said, “I am strongly in favor
of setting up the new testing system.
I feel South Carolina is being used
as a dumping ground for inferior
grades of gasoline. The public is
being gyped.”
The bill would require the agricul
ture commissioner to use sufficient
ment to send portable testing equip
ment over the state to examine gas
oline tanks at the filling stations ami
label the tanks according to grade.
To meet this added expense, the in
spection tax would be increased from
a quarter to a half cent a gallon.
Gasoline samples are now inspected
at the commissioner’s office here.
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U. S. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS
The United States Civil Service
Commission announces open competi
tion examinations for filling the fol
lowing positions:
Calker and Chipper (Iron)—$6.96,
$7.44, $7.29 a day (at the United
States Navy Yard, Charleston,
Wire Worker (Aviation)— $6.64,
$7.12, $7.60 a day;
Metalsmith (aviation)—$7.68, $8.16,
$8.64 a day;
Aircraft Mechanic (ordnance) —
$7.12, $7.60, $8.08 a day;
Aircraft Instrument Mechanic —
$7.60, $8.08, $8.56 a day (at the Unit
ed States Naval Air Station, Jackson
ville, Florida)
for which applications may be filed
with the Recorder, Labor Board) at
the establishment where employment
is desired, until further notice.
For all work in excess of forty
hours per week, employes will be paid
the overtime rate of time and a half.
Full further information and ap
plication forms may be obtained from
the Recorder, Labor Board, at the es
tablishment where employment is des
ired; from the Secretary, Board of U.
S. Civil Service Examiners, at any
first- or second-class post office; or
from the Manager, Fifth U. S. Cm!
Service district. New Post office
building, Atlanta, Ga.
RED CROSS NEWS
Our present Red Cross allottment
is due to go off this week. All work
is out .except parts of layettes and a
few girls dresses. It is hoped that
these will be finished up in time for
shipment. Those of you who do not
sew but enjoy doing simple fancy
work can help by doing button nole
work on various garments in the lay
ettes. There is no cutting out to be
done at present. Watch the papers
for notice of the arrival of the next
allottment when the cutting will be
gin.
POST OFFICE WILL OBSERVE
MEMORIAL DAY
Friday, May 30, National Memor
ial Day, the Post office will be clos
ed with the exception of the Stamp
and General Delivery windows, which
will be open from 8:45 a. m. until
9:45 a. m. There will be the regu
lar morning delivery in the city, but
no afternoon delivery, and no de
livery by rural carrier.
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