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tAnn P6UU TUB WBWBMIKT BUS BBIPAT. AUGUST »•, 1141 HTTLi MOMENTS IN BIG LIVES Kessler Textile Mills Of Lead Rest South Carolina of Nation All Existing Active Spindle Hour Records Smashed During July Washington, Aug 20.—Shattering all existing records once again, South Carolina’s textile industry held fast to its commanding lead over all other states and during July rolled up the largest total of active spindle hours in its history, the census bur eau reported today. AH Records Cracked Not only did the total of spindle hours reach new heights, but the number of active hours per spindle in place in South Carolina shove ahead of the previous record estab lished during May. South Carolinas busily humming industry ran up a total of 2,677,839,- 388 active spindle hours in July, a compared with 2,520,063,820 a month earlier. North Carolina was the only other state to go over the two-billion hour mark, but with more spindles in place and active than South Car olina, it fell short of the huge total compiled by the Palmetto state. The Census bureau reports that South Carolina had 5,474,986 spindles in place on July 31, as compared with 5,469,360 a month earlier. Of these 5,305,810 were active some time dur ing the month, representing a slight decline from the corresponding figure of 5,306,906 during May. North Car olina, on the other hand, had 5,784,- 228 in place and operated 5,615,924, but its total of active spindle nours amounted to but 2,596,280,419, more than 81 million hours less than its southern sister state. South Carolina’s mills average a total of 489 hours for each spindle in place, increasing from an average of 461 hours a month earlier and surpassing the record of 488 hours established in May. This 'compares with North Carolina’s average of 449, and a national average of 433 hours. CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER E. Bryan Keisler, Pastor Sunday school begins at 10:30. Har ry H. Hedgepath is the superintend ent and C. E. Hendrix the assistant. There are classes for all ages and competent teachers for all tlasses. At The Service which begins at 11:30 the Pastor’s subject will be, “Loosed Tongues”. The pastor has been conducting a preaching mission a t Rincon, Ga., this week. He is expected to return to Newberry late Thursday evening. “See You In Church Sunday.” Government of the People Mere Illusion Unless People Exercise Ballot Freely and Sincerely BY SPECTATOR I saw a notable sight one day. I was in Tennnessee taking a bus ride. The bus was crowded—scores of people looking for something they could find at home but won’t have it there. A young woman, of perhaps thirty—was sitting on that dinky lit- for the Steward. Two sitrapping young bucks were comfortably seated at the front but said young bucks continued firm and unmoving in their comfortable seats. Down the road an elderly woman came aboard. Said bucks continued as firm and immov able as ever—or even more so— out the young woman gave her seat to the elderly one. And all the men stood for it; I should say they sat for it. So the young woman joined the eight men already standing and she stood for a half hourl Seldom have I seen one woman give her seat to another woman; but never have been young fellow's so utterly indifferent to the most ele mentary idea of courtesy. tie seat pulled down at the dashboard Greek who was elected public gar bage man by his enemies. He accept ed, saying that if the position could not honor him he would try to dig nify the position. He must have been a big man. A big man must be one who fills his place so completely that he is always regarded as bigger tnan the job. Frequently we see a man whose position overshadows him. People say “Yonder goes the Chief mogul of such-and-such an enter prise”. The job is bigger than the man and even hides him. But when you think of Washington, Lee, Cal houn, Wade Hampton or Ben Tillman you don’t think of a position or office, for any office seems too small for the man. Washington.—Well who was he, or what was he? A general, A president? He was more than that. He was Washington, and all the hon ors just merge into the greatness of the man. Most people don’t remem ber anything about his generalship or his administration as president; but nearly everybody thinks of him as a figure of heroic stature, a man a- bove and beyond the petty details of place or the routine of living. Who remembers anything about the offices held by Joh.i C. Calhoun? Or his great arguments? He towers above all other Carolina statesmen until he is becoming a mythical fi gure of renown. Who today thinks of Lee as the The Press and Standard of Walt- fff strategist; as the aggressive erboro is working hard to bring into fighter always attack.ng the enemy? being a Chamber of Commerce for Who thmks of him as the president Waiterboro. By all means the busi- of Washington, College? Lee was so nessmen of Colleton’s capital should ^ eat “ man that any position would band themselves to promote the wel-' 8 ?.^ <*1 crowd and cramp his person- fare of their good town. al,t y wlth,n narrow confines. Hampton and Tillman are not re membered as United States Senators or as Governors. Those men were of a size too great to be measured by an office. So, perhaps, a man is a big man who fills his office; who exalts hiS office; but he is a great man when he so far surpasses all the requirements of office as to be imeasurably above and beyond it. I was driving up through the mountains, winding and twisting, and squeezing my way along narrow turns, when I saw a disabled truck parked on the shoulder near a curve. The truck was facing the road, but the front wheels were “cut” so as to keep off the main drive. I won dered what misfortune, or perhaps calamity, had happened. As I ap proached, all my fears were put at rest; I knew that no one had been hurt because there were four “pop” bottles by the front wheels, so I knew that the country was safe. Klan Chief Hits At State Official Blackwell ‘Will Hear From Free, White People’ iB«i Adams hero worship than our fathers were; I Any man or newspaper calling at- Says In Capital at least it seems so to me, Tp say tention to our high cost of govern- 0101? that a man is great covers too much 1 ment will find himself sharing the Columbia, Aug. • fn • ’ territory; we may more modestly say experience of the Disciples who re- ^ ral " ~^ a ^ on 0 ^ e . ^ , u ? „ that he is big. What makes a big marked “We have toiled all night South Carolina, sard tonight Secre- man? Is it a big job? Does the job I and caught nothing”. Government of ^ ^ ^ WC i « make the man big, or does the man ' all kinds costs heavily. I don’t know | 1 ? a ^„^ 0<m . ree ’ w 1 e P a< *P e 1 magnify the job? Perhaps your re- ! what to do except to do without *942 for refusing, as a mem er o member the story of the illustrious something. Each one of us could add commission on s e ouse an twenty-five per cent to his cost of grounds, permission for the klan s living and defend it as a wholesome I meeting on the capitol grounds expenditure. But careful men don’t I Columbaan spoke at a rally of buy everything that is, or seems, desirable; only governments seem to do that. That is true here in South Carolina, a* well as elsewhere. It is true of counties and municipal gov ernments, as well as the State. It is true of the nation. There are lots of things below the surface. In geology we expect to find interesting formations below the level on which we walk. OftenUmes 1 jerking his thumb over his shoulder klansmen which followed a parade of approximately 75 automobiles along Main street. Adams criticized Blackwell, who will come up for reelection next year, for his refusal to allow “free white people the use of the state grounds or a gathering.” Blackwell has been reelected repeatedly without opposi tion in the past. The meeting was held at a street intersection adjacent to the capitol. there is more going om beneath^ the j the building, Adams said, “It's Miss Bessie Campbell, who teaches at Traveler’s Rest spent the weekend at her home in Newberry. For Electrical Jobs Phone 120-J for any Electrical work you want done. I will come promptly and do the jot right. Will handle any size job in town or country. CHEVIS I. BOOZER Phone 120-J Newberry, S. C. 1941-1942 Opening Of The Newberry City Schools All new students and all conditioned students are requested to report for examinations and classification at 9 o’clock Wednes day morning, September 3rd. All students except those of grades 9, 10, and 11 will meet Thursday morning, September 4th, at 9 o’clock for lesson assign ments and other preliminary work. Members of the 9th, 10th, and 11th grades who wish to rent textbooks or who wish to discuss with the teachers and principal cconcerning course of study must report Thursday morning. Regular work will begin Friday morning, September 5th at 9 o’clock. Every student must report at this time. All new students (beginners and students entering the city schools from other districts) are requested to enroll before 2 opening date of the schools. Students may enroll by calling at the office at the High School between the hours of 9 A. M. and 4 P. M. Students must show that they have been successfully vaccinat ed for smallpox. O. B. Cannon Supt. Newberry City Schools This Man is PUBLIC BENEFACTOR OU know this man. He may live on your street. If it weren't for him, our streets would be seas of mud after every good rain. Our houses would be less comfortable. They would cost more money. He is the man who wields the paint brush, swings the hammer, drops the plumb line, levels the transit. He plans. He designs. He builds. He finances. But you—the buyer—are the man who sets the pace for construction today. To morrow, you step it up. Your imagination, your in dividual initiative creates the need and the opportunity. American industry matches you, stride for stride. That's America. That's our system of free enterprise. The American frontier spirit of individuals pushing the frontier back. Each of us clears the way for ourselves, and that helps our neighbors, too. Invest now—in your own home—in your own com munity. Courtesy Nation's Business Magazine In interpreting the Federal Wage and Hour law the administrators try to be reasonable and lenient, but even our country newspaper—job printing offices are being scrutinized. There is no problem about the paper, but most county papers do consider- 1 able job printing. So far as the job j printing is for delivery within this state there is still no problem. But suppose the office does some printing for delivery out of the State? Over there in Rock Hill, York, Lancaster and Fort Mill, for example? Sup pose the business houses of Charlotte, in appreciation of the excellence of the work done in the offices of Messrs. Huckle, Grist, Barton and Bradford should overwhelm those gentlemen with job work? All have papers and all have job offices as ad juncts. So long as the work is for delivery within this state there is no difficulty; but if the orders pour in from Charlotte—then what? A bulletin says: “The publisher of the typical news paper described in the exemption em ploys few employees and most of them work only part of the week in publishing the newspaper. The re** of the week they are employed in dat ed work, usually job printing. “For enforcement purposes, ai. em ployee in such cases will be consider ed exempt if he spends more than 50 per cent of his time in work dir ectly necessary to the publication of a newspaper which meets the re quirements of Section 13 (a) (8).” “In our opinion, therefore, except as hereinafter stated, employees em ployed in connection with the publica tion of a counity weekly or semi weekly newspaper described in Sec tion 13 (a) (8) must be considered within the exemption, even thougih they work on job printing during the part of the week in which they are not engaged in publishing the news paper and even though some of the job printing is produced for custo mers who use the printing in inter- J state commerce.” “If any employee spends one-half or more of his time on job printing work in a particular week and the newspaper exemption does not ex tend to him, the question then arises whether the job printing work done by the employee for that week is work covered by the Act. The test for covered work hinges on whether any of the job printing material on which this employee works, is print ed for interstate’ commerce. As is true in other fields, if an employee in a particular workweek on goods which at the time of production his employer ‘hopes, intends or has rea son to believe will move outside the state,’ the employee is covered by the Act for that workweek.” “A weekly newspaper of 2,800 cir culation, the greater part of which is in the counity where the paper is printed and published, does consider able job printing work. Examination of the books by an inspector discloses that while practically all of the em ployees do some work on job print ing much of which goes into inter state commerce, all of the employees spend more than 50 percent of their time in connection with the publica tion of the weekly newspaper. AH the eployees, therefore, are exempt under Section 13 (a) (8).” street level in matters political than on the level. Let us repeat, there is a lot of stuff that is decidedly not on the level; and agreement here, a combination there—and all that. A government by the people isn’t Worth anything unless the people ex ercise their choice freely and sin cerely. I do not know that any one deliberately sells hi-j vote for so many dollars, but we have developed and are still developing, the practice of sending cars out to bring in the voters. $100 to $500 may be sent to a county to get the men to the polls. To the polls for whom? Surely for those who pay for the cars, or the gasoline. Ben Tillman wasn’t elect ed that way. Wade Hampton and his followers didn’t wait for a hired carriage to take them to the polls. We voters should regard our ballot as something which symbolizes our citl- zenshipn We ought to get to the bal lot box under our own power, or with friends who take us at our re quest. We ought not to be hauled about by friends or paid workers of candidates. If the voters don’t re- the first time I’ve ever known that building behind me is a private insti tution.” Many women were among the robed but unmasked persons 'who sat on front fenders in the parade, which was led by a city police escort. 1941 NEWBERRY COTTON GINNED The first bale of 1941 cotton in Newberry county was ginned last Saturday, the bale of middling grade weighing 449 pounds. The bale was placed in a warehouse un til the owner George Reeder, negro farmer of Silverstreet, decides to sell the new lint. » ATTEND OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL COMMENCECENT AT CLEMSON The commencement for the 264 students of the annual Opportunity school sponsored by the state educa tion department was held Friday night at Clemson College. The two students from Newberry county were Constance Hamilton and Janie Mae gard the right to vote as a solemn t Vaughn. responsibility, government by the j Those from the county who attend- people is a mere illusion. I €( j exercises were, Mrs. Mae Aull, j county attendance teacher, Mrs. Myr. Friends of Mr. Ollie Sligh regret tie Culclasure, Mrs. Mattie Smith, to know that he is a patient in the ^ ss Azilee Livingston from the de- 0 . T , , , „ ,, . „ partment of Public Welfare, Senator St. Joseph hospital, Atlanta, Ga. Mr. I and Mrs Marvin Abrams amJ dau(rh . Sligh underwent two operations in t er ( Josephine, of Whitmire, James the past ten days. j Morris and Sarah Riser of Newberry. How big is a big man ? What makes a big man ? We are less inclined to In offices everywhere, people turn to refreshment right out of the bottle without turning from work. It takes but a little min ute to enjoy ice-cold Coca-Cola -a minute busy people welcome. You trust its quality plus tax BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY IV NEWBERRY COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY