Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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p^ag ravn THE HEWBEHRT SUN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1941 SPECTATOR WRITES OF COLE BLEASE AT JOLLY STREET BY SPECTATOR This good State of ours is too poli tically-minded for its highest good. With us politics is a game; it is a sport which we can enjoy and revel in for months. It is something to talk aibout. Every man I’ve seen lately has asked: “Well, what about the Senate race?” Very few have talked about crops, or crop prices, or rain; such matters are of sronall con cern in comparison with the over shadowing political campaign. We have in South Carolina campaigns of personalities instead of campaigns of issues. We like the wise-cracks, the jockeying about, the manipulations —and all that. These things absorb us, instead of statesmanlike thinking. I do not ask for constructive meas ures; just now our State needs intel ligent curtailment, which is more like reconstruction. What we need is a simplification of government, but that is not all; we need a simplifica tion of our colleges and other insti tutions; we need a simplification of our welfare, though elimination I re gard as the best means to employ. What is the matter with us? We have everything that Florida has— and much more. And we are within twenty-four hours of such centers as New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. We have some foolish practices standing in the way; and we have al most gambled away our opportuni ties. We have joined in the hue and cry against wealth. Of course, some men have undeserved ease and lux ury, but it would be better that they make millions if all of us should thereby find the doors of opportunity open. The federal favors don’t impress me. True it may be that we are not of the sturdy stuff of our fathers and mothers; soft and easy-living we are, perhaps a man nor a country can grow like the oak unless through the buffeting which the oak survives, strong because of its battle with the elements. A civilization is not made by the toys of fancy, but by the struggles anni vicissitudes of unpam pered existence. This state emerged from the destruction of war and the desolation of Radical misrule. With great energy; courage, and fortitude our people worked in hardship and poverty, trusting to the Almighty. They bequeathed a State to us in trust. Our forefathers braved the hazardous trip across the Atlantic in small vessels; they fought the In dians, cleared the forests, stumped the fields, set up a social order; won our ■independence, made a nation, went to war for their rights in 1861; faced the indignities of Reconstruc tion; redeemed and purged the State of carpetbaggers; and rebuilt the | South. What are we doing? Begging grants from the Federal goverqpient! We can sit still and let the world go by; or we can march with the ad vancing army. If we would see our State as a land of opportunity—and work to keep it so—we should create i conditions favorable to free enter prise, favorable to new industry and , to the unimpeded operation and en couragement of those we now have. ! Let us prepare for the future! Sometimes I find a lot of informa tion in the annual reports of State officers. I have before me the 1940 Year Book of Commissioner J. Roy Jones and have read parts of it with much stimulation. Here are* some items of interest: We produced min erals to the value of $4,000,000 in 1938; we produced some gold with in that general total, the gold (1938) being valued at $408,835. Produc tion of gold for 1939 was probably more. From our stone quarries we took more than $2,000,000. Mr. Jones remarks that while Ohio and Mississ ippi buy granite from us, we often buy granite from North Carolina and Vermont, Kaolin, (White Clay) awas sold to the amount of $865,177. We sold sand and gravel amounting tc $309,299. Our kaolin, says Mr. Jones, is be ing used in the manufacture of lub ber products, electrical porcel lin, etc. Limestone and marl are abund ant. “A large deposit of massive to paz has been discovered in the Brew er gold mine in Chesterfield county.” Spectator went to Jolly Street and saw Hon. Cole L. Blease on his na tive heath, greeting, and exchanging words with his old friends and neigh bors, many of whom have supported him during his fifty years in public life. Jolly Street is just a neighborhood, a community built around its school. It is in Newberry County, cf course, near Prosperity. For seventy-fi/e years, so I’m told, this annual rally has been not only a feature of New berry County’s citizens, but it has had state-wide importance. At the meeting on August 22nd, there were several speakers from private dfj, but the two announced candidates for Governor were there, as well as the candidates for the Unit?d States senate. Governor Blease presided, and spoke to his people word- of wis dom in the earnestness of his deep anxiety about some of the trends of the day. I listened to V.r. Blease attentively. He is no wise-cracker; he is intensely serious. Having en joyed many honors he looks rver the State with good feeling for all and with solicitude for the welfare of the State he loves. Among the recommendations to his fellow citizens, Mi. Biease urged that the nee pie renew and deepen ! their devotion to Christianity: that they maintain o ir jury system at i whatever cost; and that they pres- ! erve White supremacy. Except when such a fr-’i lance as Mr. Blease speaks we hear very little about White '.up; cmavy. All of us , know that our own Democratic party either betrayed the White people of the South or deceived the negroes. In either ease our Natioal Democratic Party has sold ns down the river, as people say. V/e have some of our own people cheek-hy jowl with the National leadership and inclined to swallow anything in order to ap- I pear regular. In nothing are we so i supine and ineffec i -e as in our pub- ■ lie affairs. Every man of us knows that no | Federal grants, no W. P. A., no San- ' tee-Cooper, no N. Y. A., no P. W. A. | —nothing which has come through this Democratic Administration, can ■ atone for the mischief it has started throughout the South in the race mattter and we know that however I the politicians may gloss over the , Democratic bread of faith with us the people of this state will not honor ! the bargain which dishonors the mem ory of their fathers—that is speaking for the manhood that is not tainted with ambition so ardent as to subor dinate every consideration to person al aims. Mr. Blease does well to remind us. R. A, F. FLEDGLING IS REUNITED WITH WIFE, CHILD AT CAMDEN The Germans are the most pain staking, the most thorough people in the world. That is something for us to keep constantly in mind. It is not because we need feel inferior; but be cause we should use our brains in preparing to challenge German dom ination of the world. We have a dash and iniative that are superior to the German’s careful, plodding study, but dash and vim should not be thrown against tanks. Nor should our boys be sent with bayonets to fight against high explosive artillery. If America had the time, her sol diers could push the Germans out of Europe, man for man; but this is no man to man fight. No one could fight j more gloriously than did the heroic Greeks. Matched against Italians, ! the Greeks fought as became the im- , mortal sons of Hellas of the classical age; but when the Germans came with tanks and planes like the sands of the sea, the personal bravery of the Greeks could not match all the mani- I fold enginery of destruction the Huns ■ had prepared. We have had' time to learn a lesson, but the leadership of the nation is | playing politics instead of grasping essentials. No one can understand the lack of definite, decisive action to get | ready. Speeches don’t solve the prob- I lem; smart fancifu. stiategy wer’t , do it; we must see clearly what our Good Ginning CAN BRING YOU A PREMIUM OF $5 to $10 per Bale Get the best ginning that good equipment and expert workmanship can give you. Good ginning is worth $1.50 to $10 per bale. You cannot afford anything but the best ginning in this short crop. LONG YEARS OF GOOD GINNING We have been ginning cotton for many long years and cotton intrusted to us has always brought top prices. We appreciate the contidence of Newberry County farmers and look forward to serving you this year. Cotton Seed MEAL For Sale The Ideal STOCK FEED INVITATION To the new friends we will make this year, we extend a cordial invitation to come & inspect our gins and our work. We Pay Highest Prices For COTTON SEED CALL 155 FOR GOOD COAL OR GOOD ICE Prompt Deliveries Farmers Oil Mill PHONE 155 NEWBERRY, S. C. Camden, Aug. 28.—Special: Thir teen months ago A. G. Grant, head of a shipping and transport business in London, sent his wife and two- year-old son, David, to America. Last night an alert, keen-eyed man came into the lobby of the Hotel Camden and inquired the number of the room occupied by Mrs. A. G. Grant. Walk ing up the stairs and down the corri dor to the room, the visitor knocked and when the door was opened. Mrs. Grant was face to face with her hus. band. To add to the human interest of the departure of Mrs. Grant and her baby boy from England, it de. velops that less than thirty days after she left, the Grant home was demolished when a Nazi bomb scor ed a direct hit during a raid. The presence of Mr. Grant in America at this time is due to the fact that he came to Camden with a contingent of British men early Wednesday morning to begin train ing to becime a flier in the Royal Air Force. Hsuband and wife had a two-hour visit Wednesday night as the former had to return to the barracks at the flying school. Mrs. Grant has been making her home with relatives in Washington and when she learned her husband was in the group of fliers arriving here this week, she started forth with for Camden. Mr. Grant arriv ed here shortly after midnight Wed nesday morning. A few hours later Mrs. Grant arrived abroad a train. The happy wife and mother with little three-year-old David will take up residence in Camden in order to be near the husband and daddy dur ing the ten weeks ife will be in train ing here. BIG BLAST FIRED BY NEW WARSHIP AT COST OF $23,750 NEGRO TEACHER AT TRYON WINS COVETED DEGREE Tryon, Aug. 29.— : Lola Jackson, Tryon negro, has shown that hand icaps age, and color does not stop any one from attaining something that they work hard enough for. Lola is a mother of several chil dren, and also a grandmothej:. Her age would cause most people to be gin a life with the in-laws. But this negro woman used her per severance to advantage, and is now the ideal of the settlement in which she lives. After she had reared a family the need for additional funds to make ends meet seemed almost impossi ble to obtain. She took a job in the colored school of Tryon. She began teaching a low grade with the state’s lowest mark, a “C” certificate. She saw that she must get a better rating to earn more in her work. Each summer she attended sum mer school and raised her rating to a “B” certificate. After this had been attained, she decided that she was not too old to add another sum mer school course. She again attend ed summer school every year until she had made the “A” grade certifi cate. Then Lola Jackson said to herself, “There isn’t any reason why one should not attain more if they are d'etermined.” So, this summer she packed up bag and baggage and left for the State A. & M. college at Greensboro. She studied hard, ad hered to the task before her, and came home the other day with a B. S. degree. Asked about herself, she will smile and say: “I am just a grand-, ma and a mother who would like to be an example for some one.” Lola is not in any way over im bued with her exploits. She needed a job, needed the revenue from the job to help in the family welfare, and from this one thought she attained her career in the degrees necessary to make a teacher to be sought by any colored school in the country. Aboard the U. S. S. North Caro lina at Sea (Delayed).—Standing on the windswept forecastle of this mighty battleship I saw and heard Uncle Sam’s sailors fire the greatest salvo from one ship in naval history —a collective blast that sent more than 20,000 pounds of metal from the flame-belching muzzles of 19 glist ening grey guns at a cost of $23,750. Making a new era in the hitting power of fighting ships, this terrific salvo sent me reeling blindly across the slippery, spray-drenched deck while I clutched my cotton-padded ears and thought of hell and heaven. The majestic bow of the 35,000-ton North Carolina—one of the navy’s two newest and largest battleships— quivered sharply to port and star board, the ship gave a slight list and settled quickly as the shells scream ed into the night air. Crew members and guests sent up a mighty cheer when they learned that the North Carolina had passed her tests. No one had known how she would react because never had such a powerful salvo been fired from a single vessel. It was touched off at 8:30 p. m. when Capt Olaf M. Hustvedt, stem faced but calm, climbed onto the fore top high above the main deck and took his place beside the trigger. His stocky, strongly-built figure, silhouetted against a brilliant back ground of stars, was a source of strength to the frightened newsmen crouching on the forecastle. Informed that his crew was at bat tle station, Capt. Hustvedt, 55, step ped forward and gently squeezed the trigger that made naval history. A huge flame of red, blue, green and purple burst from the nine 16- inch guns trained' over the port side. Short, sharp flames darted from the ten 5-inch dual purpose guns and the creseendo of thundes seemed to carry beyond the horizon as the shells whistled away. Most of us wilted after the “big noise” but we felt like better men and were proud of our navy. The terrible blast, we learned later, was much worse than any that would be fired from the $70,000,000 vessel if she were to engage in battle. Trial tests include every possible type of fire to prove the strength of struc ture and guns. .* Matter-of-fact Lieut. Commander Thomas B. Hill, Cripple Creek, Colo., the gunnery officer, gave this as his reaction : “The news here is that we got them all fired without hurting any one.” DUELIST FATALLY SHOT Gaffney, Aug 25.— Two negro farm hands who allegedly had prom- i ised each other to “shoot, it out” met in a pasture in Wilkinsville cbmmuni. I ty near here yesterday afternoon. From a distance of about 100 feet ! Sam Lee Dunn, 18, fired once with his single barreled shotgun. The fine shot peppered George Brown, 54, from bis face to his | knees. A single pellet pierced his jugular vein and he died within a half hour. Investigating police found Browns’ double-barreled shotgun by his side. . It had never been loaded. Fight Early In Day Officers quoted Dunn as saying he and Brown had a fight early in the afternoon and Brown told him “get your gun and I’ll get mine; we’ll shoot it out.” Dun went immediately home for bis gun and despite his par ents’ entreaties, struck out for Brown’s home. The latter secured his gun and of ficers said .endeavored to borrow shells from neghbors but was unable to do so. A coroner’s jury today ordered Dunn held for grand jury action at November court of general sessions. The youth arrested late yesterday at a store near his home, led officers to the shotgun which he had con cealed in a honeysuckle thicket. LUTHERANS ELECT EPISCOPALIANS RESUME SERVICES The Rev. B. A. Williams, rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal church an nounces that church services will be resumed at 4 p. m. Sunday, Septem ber 7th. Services on first and third ( Sundays in the month at 4 p. m. The public is cordially invited to worship with us. Columbia, Aug. 28.—Archie Dodgen of Graniteville was reelected presi dent today of the Luther League of South Carolina at the final business session. The convention entertained an in vitation from the Church of the Re deemer, Newberry, to meet there next year, but no action was reported. Other officers elected were: Clara Shealy, Elloree, vice-presi dent; Laura Muller, Blythewood, re cording secretary; Jeanette Coiner, Charleston, Correspondin secretary; Charles Spell, Columbia, treasurer; Clayton Kleckley, West Columbia, educational secretary; Mary Rude, Greenville, missionary secretary; John B. McCullough, Columbia, life service secretary; Ruth Feagle, Lit tle Mountain, intermediate secretary; Nora Randall, Graniteville, statisti cal secretary; Margaret Wolff, Char leston, publicity secretary; the Rev. J. O. Kempson, Columbia, executive secretary; Margaret Paysinger, New. berry, archivist. > Miss Julia Dickert is spending this week in Florida on her vacation. LONG LANE OPENS FRIDAY Long Lane school will open Friday morning, September 5 at 9:30. There will be no public program but par ents and friends are always welcome. All pupils are urged to be present on the opening day and in cases where books are to be rented such arrange ments would be made then. NEW WPA COMMERCIAL CLASS The WPA commercial school lo cated at 1109 Boyce street will begin new classes in shorthand, typing, September 5th. Those who are int- ested please enroll on that date. Classified Ads FOR SALE—Wood range in First- Class Condition. A . H. Dickert, 1000 Boundary street. To those interested in antique glass, you are welcome to see my collec tion from 9:00 a. m. to 6:00 p. m. at my home. Verna Kohn 25-3tc RIBBONS—for adding machines and typewriters. We put them on for you. The SUN office. Phone 1. THIN PAPERS—for Lawyers and others, any size, any grade, any weight. Plain or margin ruled. The SUN office. Phone 1. FURNISHED APARTMENT FOR RENT—Contains two large rooms and a private bath. Apply to Mrs. T, P. Johnson, 1237 Calhoun street. Phone 220-J. SKRIP BLACK INK—in quarts o. smaller; numbering machine, and stamp pad ink. The SUN office. Phone 1. 1 — FOR RENT—A two-room apartment with private bath. Phone 22-W. FOR RENT—Two Furnished bed rooms. Phone 151-M, or call after 3 o’clock. Mrs. W. E. Pelham, 1621 Harrington St. 29-3tp ADVISES HOLDING COTTONSEED Senator Bankhead' States That Price Will Likely Hit $60 a Ton Washington, Aug. 31. — Senator Bankhead (D-Ala) advised farmers today to withhold their cottonseed from markets until prices reached $60 a ton, about $15 above recent averages. Bankhead said in a statement that he had conferred with Leon Hender son, price administrator, concerr.ing recent threats “to put a ceiling price on cottonseed oil.” $60 Figure Considered The senator said he had infor.ned price officials that “I believe $69 a ton for cottonseed under all existing circumstances would be a fair price.” He added that he believed Henderson would not regard this as a “run-away price situation.” Bankhead said that crushers, re finers and processors “who may 'seek low prices for cottonseed” shsuld know that a “movement is rapidly taking form in the cotton belt to aid and encourage farmers to withhold from the market their cottonseed un til a price of sixty dollars a ton is paid them.” . FIRST AUXILIARY MEETING OF THE FALL The first fall meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary will meet Thursday afternoon at four o’clock at the home of Mrs. J. M. Kinard. Entertaining with Mrs. Kinard will be Mrs. J. L. Keitt, Miss Elizabeth Ki nard, Miss Rook Kinard, Mrs. Edgar Hart and Mrs. H. O. Swittenberg. September is Music month with Mrs. P. K. Harmon in charge. OFFICE NEEDS OF ALL KINDS Ledger Outfits Account Books File Guides (Letter & Legal) Thin Papers of All Kinds Manila Folders (Letter & Legal) Rubber Bands Ail Kinds of Inks Paper Clips—Thumb Tacks Pencils—ajiy kind or color Pencil Sharpeners Typewriter Ribbons Adding Machine Ribbons Adding Machine paper—any size Clip Boards & Arch Boards Manuscript Covers Stapling Machines Carbon Papers Library Paste Index Cards—any size Clasp Envelopes—any size Expanding Files Mimeograph Paper Columnar Pads Index Tabs Typewriter Erasers, And many other items. We put ribbons on your type writer or adding machine. THE SUN Phone No. I NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OF FINAL SETTLEMENT We will make a final settlement of the estate of Henry B. Wells In the Probate Court for Newberry County, S. 0., Monday, the 15th day of Sep tember, 1941, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, and will immediately there after ask for our discharge as ad ministrators of said estate. AH persons having claims against the estate of Henry B. Wells, deceas ed, are hereby notified to file the same, duly verified, with the under signed, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment like wise. August 12, 1941. K. Burton Wells, W. Fulmer Wells, Administrators. NONCHALANCE A fellow got on the bus with a hundred-pound bomb under his arm and sat down. “What’s that you’ve got on your lap?” asked the conductor. “It’s a delayed action bomb J’m taking to the police station,” came the answer. “Lumme,” said the conductor, “you don’t want to carry a thing like that on your lap. Put it u..der the seat!” —Tit-Bits. course is and steer our ship of State resolutely by the prescribed course. Our people don’t know what its all about—no; nor does anybody know. Mr. Churchill virtually says that England will support us against Ja pan! Indeed! I thought we were sup porting England against Japan! By what consideration of strategy we have posted little garrisons all over the world I don’t know; why we are playing at warfare in all the seven seas I don’t know. It is small won der that the people are apathetic; they see nothing but what seems to be a game going on. Let us have something clear and soundly conceiv ed as an appeal to the people. Telling The Story Of A Changing State Today South Carolina is assuming a new role of im portance in the changing affairs of the nation. Sleek new destroyers are being launched on the witters of Cooper river; a huge new shipbuilding plant is being erected at Charleston to fashion merchantmen for America’s service; the $57,000,000 Santee-Cooper project is almost ready to begin its mighty work for industry; thousands of men are being trained in camps and in maneuvers in South Carolina for a vast new army; and millions are being spent in our state for defense. The glamor of a new era in Charleston, in South Caro lina, in America, and in the world is reflected in the columns of 'Hie News and Courier. With the world’s greatest news services pouring thousands of words into the office each hour, with special correspondents in Washington, Columbia and South Carolina towns and villages, this paper is superbly equipped to keep you completely informed and entertained. { | >•* ®&e Jfefc* Iflti 134 Meeting St. t \ Charleston, S. C. Established in 1803