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-t# V FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1941 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. 0. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher Published every Friday the poet office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Livestock Train Coming To Columbia AN AMERICAN PLEDGE FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE (By Max M. Harrison East Texas Chamber of Commerce) I will keep myself fit physically, mentally, spiritually—to be ready for any crisis and to discipline myself for strength. I will go about my business with a clear eye, a cool head and a stout heart, neither scared by wild rumors nor delude by false s irity. I will do my parti _lar job—m of fice, store, mill or farm— better than it was ever done before, dedicating my skill to my country’s service. I will take an active interest in government—in town, school, district, county, state, nation,—and m&ke it my business to understand pubhe af fairs, laws and policies. I will help build by town as a wholesome balanced community, be cause if all the communities are sound, America will be sound. I will Vote in every election, appre- % ciating the right of the ballot now de nied in many lands. I will support billions for defense but not one cent for-waste. I will work for unity among all our people and oppose efforts to create hatred based on race, color or creed I will encourage our boys and girls to revere and respect our American traditions. I will keep faith with myself, my country and my God. It is conceivable that some of the superior blue jays of South Carolina, departing for hell on Fridays, stop ped off sometimes in the Peewee Val ley to pick up and guide the unsophis. ticated blue jays of Kentucky on their way, but what we emphasize and as sert is that the intelligent, civilized and brave jay bird has from immemorial spent Friday in hell and that Sunday has nothing to-do with the case. It is likely that the lady who was bom in Kentucky has lived in New York so long that she has forgotten what’s what, as anybody would.— News & Courier. PEACH CROP HELD TO BE FAR ABOVE LAST YEAR YIELD GETTING ANOTHER RECORD STRAIGHT The vastest error that has come to our notice in this blundering age is in a letter from Miss Eva May Mad den, native of Kentucky, who writes in a newspaper. The Times, of New York, that, according to negro auth orities, “blue jays go to heil ever Sundays’’. Of course that is a “fantastic state, ment”, but not in the sense that Miss Madden uses the phrase. Blue jays go to hell on Fridays, that is and always has been their custom, and they go to carry the news of the wars of the “races” for office, the “numbers racket”, and all other sinful doings, to the Devil. Whether they stay over Sunday sometimes we are not informed, but whatever be said to their discredit, they cannot be righteously accused ol traveling on Sunday. Moreover, withe multiplied disre spect for Sunday that has come to pass m recent decades, especially since the automobile has ccme upon the scene, it is obviously necessary for the blue jays to stay on top of . earth Sundays if they are not to fall down on their job as reporters to the Devil. The blue jay attains to perfection in South Carolina, especially in the Columbia-Camden Belt, and accom plished ornithologist, the late Dr. Stanhope Sams, having provided us with that information. Washington, Aug. 11.—Boosting its July 1 forecast by 6 per cent, the agriculture department estimated the 1941 peach crop today at 69,732,000 bushels an increase of 15,302,000 over 1940. . . The monthly crop report, based on August 1 conditions, said that al though prospects declined slightly during July in the North Atlantic and Western areas, this loss was more than offset by favorable condi tions in other sections. The estimate for 10 Southern states was increased by 8 per cent over the July 1 forecast, making the new figure 22,787,000 bushels. The 1940 production was 13,856,000. Among state figures for 1940 and 1941 were: Georgia, 4,216,000 and 5,762,000 bushels; South Carolina, 2,158,000 and 3,549,000; Arkansas, 2,040,000 and 3,237,000; North Carolina, 1,344,- 000 and 2,820,000; Tennessee, 264,- 000 and 2,186,000; Virginia, 1,392,000 and 2,116,000. COUNTY TO GET $25,000 IN COTTON MONEY Approximately $25,000 in Cotton Stamp Money will come to Newberry County during August. This news comes from a meeting of the Cotton Stamp Committee, held in the Cham ber of Commerce offices Thursday. Cotton Stamps are being placed in the hands of farmers- on the basis of limitations on cotton crops. Although the stamps are good for an indefi nite period, it is expected that prac tically all this money will be ased during August. Governor Burnet R. Maybank has issued a Proclamation, setting aside the week of August 14- 23 as “Cotton Sales Week”. Local merchants are cooperating in this effort to help our farmers and the cotton situation generally, and the public is reminded that stamps may be cashed in for cotton merchan dise at any store displaying the offi cial ‘Cotton Stamp’ seal on its win dow. Other signs and displays will also be seen in the fronts and inter iors of stores as the “City of Friend ly Folks” gets set to do its bit tow ard prosperity in the Cotton Belt. The Farm is in For Better Times Without assuming the role of prophet, we believe it is evident that better times are just ahead lor the farm. Prices on farm products are going to be better, and the more produced the better. COWS will play an even greater part in the new money to be spent, for warring nations are call ing for dairy products in tremendous quantities . . . Let’s look ahead and plan for the better things which seem to be coming to the farm. . . Newberry Creamery Clemson, Aug. 9. — The “All Aboard” signal for the^South Caro lina Livestock and Bett” Farm Liv ing train now in preparation will be given at Columbia, Monday, Septem ber 8, when the eight-car special will start its 21-day run which in cludes 45 stops in 32 counties of the state. “This train, to be operated by the Clemson College Extension Service in cooperation with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and affiliated roads, will show by interesting and significant exhibits and demonstra tions with explanatory discussions what some of the farm changes in South Carolina are and how to make them”, says Extension Director D. W. Watkins. Livestock as an important arm in balanced farming will have an im portant place in the train and its pro gram. More meat . producing animals are needed on S ou th Carolina farms to. provide food for the farm family, to furnish a market for home-raised feeds, and to increase the farm in come. Livestock and equipment for producing animals to supply home needs, as well as for commercial pro- CHAMBER MEETING SUCCESS CITY HOSTESS PLAN FOR CITY duction, will be shown in the live stock. The beef cattle exhibit will show a purebred beef bull, a scrub cow and a half-bred calf, a choice feeder calf, and a common feeder calf, also equipment models. The swine exhi- it will show a sow and litter, and market grades of hogs, and equip ment for hog feeding. The dairy exhibit car is built a- round the single idea that 20 percent of the value of the human diet should be^made up of milk and its products. Four out of ten farm families in South Carolina do not own a family cow. The production of an adequate farm supply of clean, wholesome milk is the state’s biggest dairy problem. The exhibit shows a dairy cow, care of utensils, proper feeds, a milk-cooling box. South Carolina’s $18,000,000 poul try industry will be shown in these features: A comparison in value of poultry and cotton on farms in South Carolina, the importance of good breeding stock, operation of the Na tional rJSultry Improvement Plan in South ^irolina, value of good feed, importance of adequate housing, other equipment for handling poultry. The general public should also realize that this program will be successful only if each and every shopper becomes more cotton con scious in the future. The housewife should cooperate by using articles made of cotton wherever it is pos sible to do so. The over-supply of cotton on hand now represents a loss in profits andA evenues ‘ n our State. The shortage of silk at the present time offers an unusual opportunity to use cotton goods in cases which might have been otherwise inconven ient. The rising cost of living gen- eraPy makes it essential that every American citizen do his part to stab ilize all markets. Buy cotton goods during “Cotton Sales Week”, August 14-August 23. BETH-EDEN LUTHERAN PARISH Rev. M. L. Kester, Pastor Colony: 10 a. m. Sunday school. Mr. H. B. Cousins, Supt. 11 a. m. The Service. Beth-Eden: 10 a. m. Sunday school. Mr. Herndon Hentz, Supt. St. James’: 10 a. m. Sunday school. Mr. Harold Long, Supt. (Eastern standard time for the parish.) equipment which gives them one of the best address systems in the state. Hite Bros, have also announced they will broadcast play by play descrip tion baseball game in the afternoon. Asthma Hucus Loosened r ini Day For Thousands of Sufferers Cboklnc, nspUig. wheezing zpumz of Bronchlu Asthma ruin sleep and < The second monthly meeting of the Directors of the Newberry Chamber of Commerce held last Friday, was very successful and indicated that the local Chamber has been unusually active in recent weeks. Among other things, the meeting consisted of re ports concerning the sixteen Air craft Warning Posts recently set up in Newberry County, consideration of several industrial prospects for Newberry, purchase of a number of historic folders for the town and pos sible printing of a cheaper folder, continuation of efforts to obtain a' flying field, prospects of erecting two large promotional signs advertising the City of Friendly Folks on the “cut-off”, and the possible installs, tion of a “City Hostess Plan” for the town. Efforts of the Newberry Chamber of Commerce over a period of almost a year, to obtain mail service at the local railway depot has now come to a close. Although the cooperation of local authorities was given, Federal authorities state that will be im possible to place a mail box at our depot without inconvenience to train schedule and endangering the lives of railway mail clerks. A number of industrial proposi tions are being considered at the present time, and Chamber officials in charge of the matter are doing every thing possible in this regard. How ever, the greatest number of outside concerns wishing to Icate here are de sirous of concessions and local financ ing far in excess of the ability of this community. Several likely pro positions are still under considera tion; however, these will be given to the public at a later date. The “City Hostess Plan” which may be used here should be a source of real pride to all who make their homes in the City of Friendly Folks. According to the plan which ma# be installed in the near future, an offi cial “Chamber of Commerce Hostess” will call on all new families as they move here, extending them greetings and shopping information about the city. Gifts frm^^al merchants will *lso be presented^Jtftre about this plan will be seen elsewhere in the paper. The unusual number of activities discussed at the meeting last Friday makes it necessary that publicity on these matters be touched upon light ly. Further articles on individual activities will appear in this paper at later dates. J energy. In gredients In the prescription Mendaeo quick ly clrculste through the blood and common ly help loosen the thick strangling mucus the first day, thus aiding nature In palliating the terrible reearnng choking spasms, and In promoting freefi-breathlng and restful ” - s ie hot a r “ ’ sleep. Mendaeo ie hot a smoke, dope, or in jection. Just pleasant, tasteless palliating tablets that have helped thousands of suf ferers. Printed guarantee with each package —money back unless completely satisfactory. Ask your druggist for Mendaeo today. Only 60c. MAN DIES ON BUS HERE Henry T. Stewart, who, according to a social security card found on him, was 58 years old, died in the Columbia-Greenville bus shortly af ter it arrived here Wednesday at 10:05. The attention of the bus driver was called to the peculiar action of this passenger and he hurried into the Wiseman hotel and secured a wet towel which he placed on the passen ger’s forehead. In the meantime Dr, Pope had been summoned and arrived to pronounce the man dead. The man boarded the bus at Colum bia but his destination could not be immediately learned. His driver’s license gave his home as Woodifard, S. C., but an identification card gove his home as Columbia and gave the name of a brother, also in Columbia, as one to notify in case of death or injury. Woodford is near Columbia. Two purses were found on the dead man but the only money in either of them was less than a dollar in change. Two or three small pieces of paper and ticket stubs indicated that the was an itinerant worker. He was carried to the McSwain Funeral Home to await instructions from relatives. Phone One JOLLY STREET PREPARES FOR BIG ANNUAL EVENT The big annual Jolly Street politi cal rally will be Friday, August 22. Due to circumstances this rally has been delayed for several days but a well worth while program is being arranged that will entertain the us ual large crowd. According to the Jolly Street Dic tator an entertaining program is be ing arranged. Such distinguished speakers as J. K. Breedin, Dr. James H\ Hope, Sen. William Jennings Bry an Dorn of Greenwood, Wyndham H. Manning, Thomas H. Peeples, Con. Butler B. Hare and three senatorial candidates, Bcrnet R. Maybank, Olin D. Jonston and Joseph Bryson. The honorable Cole L. Blease of Columbia and Dr. S. J. Derrick will preside over the meeting. The public address system will be furnished by Hite Bros, of Columbia who have recently added to their The Sun Have you heard about the new hos. pitality plan for the City of Friendly Folks? In the near future, we may have an official City Hostess, who will call on all newcomers, greeting them and furnishing them with hints, in formation, and shopping facts. At the Friday meeting of the New berry Chamber of Commerce, a plan for this system was presented to the Directors by Secretary Ted Bremer, andwas approved for action. The Chamber’s active new president, C. C. Hutto, has had such a system in mind for some time, and details of the plan cannot be presented in this article, bu the general idea is as fol lows: A new famil ymoves to the City of Friendly Folks. At once, the mach inery of the plan goes into action, and word of the location of the new family comes to the Chamber of Commerce. (You can help in this re gard, personally, by informing the local Chambe raboui any newcomets you chance t hear of from time to time.) Immediately thereafter, the official “Hostess” makes a trip to the home of the new citizen. She spends a few minutes in friendly conversa tion, making the stranger feel at home and among friends. She then furnishes shopping information, church and school information, litera ture about Newberry, etc. She ends by presenting several small gifts from local merchants and business houses, and inviting the new family to call on the Chamber of Commerce for further information at any time. It is hoped that the entire com- mpnity will be proud of the new plan and that new friends will be won for The City of Friendly Folks thereby. Certainly no better advertising can be gained, then that visitors go away with praise and a good word for our community. ARTHRITIS Don’t despair of relief from terrible Arthri- tis aches or pains. The NEW Colloidal Iodized Sulphur capsules called SULPHO-KAPS often brine wel come relief in Arthritis dao to Sulphur de ficiency. Small daiir coat. Moa- ey back if no relief after 30 days’ dosage. Begin taking TODAY. PENALTY ON EXCESS MORE THAN DOUBLED The Department of Agriculture to day announced that the penalty rate in 1941 cotton marketed in excess of the farm marketing quota will be 7 cents per pound. The 1940 penalty was 3 cents a pound. Establishment of the rate was pro vided by Congress in an amendment to the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. This legislation set a basic loan rate to cooperators for the 1941 crop of cotton at 85 per cent of the cotton parity price as of August 1. At the same time, it provided that the penalty on marketing excess cot ton be placed at 50 per cent of the basic loan rate. The parity price of cotton on Aug ust 1 was 16.49 cents a pound, which middling cotton 14.02 cents. Thus, the penalty rate was set at half of made the basic loan rate for 7-8 inch this figure, or 7 cents a pound. This will be a flat rate applicable to the marketing of all 1941 excess cotton, regardless of grade or staple. Department officials pointed out that -the new loan rate is more than 5 cents above that in effect on the 1940 crop while the penalty rate was increased only 4 cents. Producers who knowingly exceed their acreage allotments may receive government loans at a rate of only 60 per cent of that offered to coopera tors, but only on that portion of their crop which is subject to penalty. CROMER REUNION AT LITTLE MOUNTAIN The descendants of the late Geo. A. Cromer and Harriet Cromer Counts met at Little Mountain on Wednesday, August 6th for their an nual family reunion. The devotional was conducted by Rev. Paul M. Counts who took the 23rd Psalm as the basis of a few suitable comments. He pointed out that this psalm makes us feel de pendent on God for physical as well as spiritual benefits. In St. John’s gospel the 10th chapter the 23rd Psalm is fulfilled in these words, “I am the good shepherd.” All of the living children were pres ent except Mrs. Nora Wheeler who lives in Washington. Although she is in her ninety second year she is active and interested in everything around her. The Roll Call showed one other family without representatives—that of Mary Haltiwanger. Miss Lucille Counts gave a his tory of the late Walter S. Counts. Mrs. A. N. Crosson reported events in the life of her mother, Mrs. Janie S. Reagin. ! After the benediction the group enjoyed a picnic dinner and visiting with each other. The older ones compared ages and talked of old times while the young er ones enjoyed swinging and see sawing. The next meeting will be held at the regular time—Wednesday after the Little Mountain reunion. TWISISTYKIVK CKTVT NON-TRANSFER ABLE COTTON OltDEH r SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS PR ESCRIBED BY TH E SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE Headquarter* for Cotton Stamps Bring your Cotton Stamps to Clary’s MR. AND MRS FARMER .We will cheerfully accept your cotton stamps for any purchase of cotton goods made at our store. 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