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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY BUN >u« 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. 0. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year . .. Published every Friday Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under tba Act of March 3, 1879. Santee-Cooper Largely Result of Efforts of Byrnes and Maybank, Says the Spectator MAYBANK FEELS HE IS JUSTIFIED There were, however, many other factors behind the balloting which returned him the leader by a tower ing margin in the senatorial pri mary. But it could also be said that his vote was a substantial vote of confidence in him as the next junior senator. What is the matter with our men? That this country seems to be weak ening is everybody’s observation, but within the last twenty years we have given so much emphasis to school athletics that it seems odd that men over thirty should show up so badly in physical examination. Sixty-four per cent of the men over 30 were re jected. Fifty-two pei- cent of men from 26 to 30 were rejected. Forty- one per cent of those from 18 to 25 were rejected. It is amazing that 4 out of every 10 young men from 18 to 25 are unfit for military service, according to present requirements. (News & Courier) A new joy has come to the execu tive mansion in Columbia. It is no secret that Burnet R. May- bank’s experience as the governor of South Carolina has not been an «n‘!,SAYS CAMPAIGN “HIGHLY tirely happy one. It is not neoes- SUCCESSFUL” sarily a stigma that many of the.i more important policies he has pro- T. L. Hicks, chairman of the Com- mulgated have failed, either in the ' mittee which cinducted the USO general assembly or in the supreme ! drive in Newberry has received ack- court. But such things have hap- nowledgement of a contribution of | $1,638.44 from the assistant treasur- It is likewise no secret that last er of the national USO drive. A para- week was an extremely happy one graph from the letter states: “You for the young man who came from , and your associates deserve our Charleston in January of 1939 and ; heartiest congratuations for the took his oath as governor. i highly successful manner in^ which On Wednesday morning of last your campaign was conducted.” week, Maybank was probably nap- pier than on any morning since the very first days of his tenure here. It was shortly after he was inaugurated that the assembly delivered its first blow against his program, defeating NEED FOR AID SERIOUS Columbia, Sept. 4.—South Carolina cotton farmers must be granted some federal relief or this winter they will his plan for the organization of a j b e j n “desperate straits”, Agricultur-. state police force. Last Wednesday morning was the day after the senatorial primary, and Maybank beamed his satisfaction over a lead of 18,000 votes that he had accumulated over the second man, Olih D. Johnston. Those who saw him found on that morning a changed Maybank, relaxed, relieved, and firmly believing that relatively the large vote he had re ceived was a “vote of confidence”, as he put it, in his program as gover nor. al Commissioner J. Roy Jones today wired Senator E. D. Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, chairman of the sen ate agriculture committee. Joties estimated 1 the cotton crop at less than 400,000 bales, terming it “the worst in the state’s history-. He said that “hidden damage to grown bolls by a very heavy infestation of weevils is beginning to show up. Cot ton grades and staple are materially off.” Senators from cotton - growing states will meet with Smith tomor- The governor took care to note that row to discusls the growers’ prdb- he had not yet been elected to the ! lems. senate, that there was to be a run-off | primary two weeks hence, but even BRYSON SAYS HE IS DISTURBED that could not take away the joy of BY THE PEOPLE’S APATHY that steaming morning. He received reporters in the so- Greenville, Sent. 5.—■ Rcpresenta- called “back study" at the mansion, j tive Joseph R. Bryson, unsuccessful a room in which he confers and works candidate for the senate in Tuesday’s while there. He hadn’t dressed and Democratic primary, told reporters sat easily in a big chair, in a sum- mier-weight dressing robe, drinking coffee. In the many batu , of his stay here, reporters had often found Maybank tense and terse. Now he was the opposite. The correspon dents stayed' more than forty-five minutes and partook of the execu tive coffee, from blue cups. When he got around to dictating his statement of thanks, he seemed to emphasize that part of it in which he expressed the belief that the vote was a justification of his policies as governor. That, and the fact that the Char leston vote went so overwhelmingly ■ to him, made Maybank happiest. It undoubtedly is true that the Maybank vote was something of an endorsement of him as governor. today it was “not proper to ‘advise’ people how to vote” on the runner-up candidates—Governor Burnet R. May- bank and former Governor Olin D. Johmston—in the second primary September 16. “I believe in the Democratic pro cess of government,” the Greenville attorney said. Referring to the small percentage of the qualified voters who went to the polls, Bryson said: “I am gravely concerned and ex ceedingly disappointed, however, in the lack of interest. I hope that the people will display more interest in the second primary. ... In Europe thev are spilling blood for freedom and here we won’t even walk around the block to vote. I am afraid that our people are being lulled into tak ing things for granted.” The early completion of the great Santee-Cooper development is very gratifying to me because the whole plan of T. C. Williams, the father of it, had been told me in detail by Mr. Williams himself. Under the *pell of Mr. Williams I wrote several let ters to the papers in support of the project, and was active in its spon sorship in daily contacts with legis lators. The Santee-Cooper project, includ ing both power and the waterway from Charleston to Columbia, has had a history that makes it look like a foot ball. When it was first propos- |ed I underst-.nd that it would cost about $34,000,000. The record of shifting estimates is interesting, as published in the press. In November of 1933 it was estimated at $34,000,- 000. In February 1934 Engineer j. Monroe Johnson estimated that the cost would be $60,000,000. In October 1964 the Santee Authority asked the Federal Government for a loan and grant of $35,871,910. On April 19, 1935 President Roosevelt was quoted, 1 as proposing $25,000,000. On April 20, 1935, Mayor Maybank said that ‘$20,000,000 would bd enough. April 24, Chairman Maybank said $21,000.- 1000 would be necessary. May 1, Chair man Maybank carried to Washington an estimate of $22,000,000. May 2. 1 1935 the estimate was reduced in I Washington to $14,000,000. July 16, 1935 Washington said that the Presi- I dlmt would approve $37,500,000 by [the P. W. A., if the legal opposition j were settled favorably. July 16, 1935 The News & Courier carried a state- 'ment that power would be sold to in dustry at 2.2 mills and that demand I for the power ranged even to Sav- | annah. July 27, 1935 Senator Byrnes assured, a relief fund help of $20,- 625,000, the remainder to be a grant. August 4, 1935 Maximum cost was es. timated at $41,875,000. At that time Louis C. Hill, an, engineer, estimated the cost at $59,702,000. Somebody else, an engineer, put the cost at $69.- 816,000. In March 1937 Alexander Clogher, another engineer, said the project would cost $53,616,000. On August 6 of this year The Charleston Evening Post published an estimate of $47,025,000; and somewhere I have read of an additional grant which carries it beyond $50,000,000. And these estimates, from $14,000,- 000 to $69,816,000, were made by en gineers! Most of us are not mathe maticians, nor mathematical in our thinking. We go through life on the hit-or-miss-vague and general ap proximation of things. But an engi neer! We always thought of engi neers as men of meticulous exacti tudes, in spite of the denunciation of engineers by the inimitable Bob Con nor of Orangeburg during the debate on this very Santee-Cooper measure. Db you wonder that a farmer mis judges his acreage or his harvest? It is being said that the Santee- Cooper can‘t hope to attract any new business to this State unless it quote* a rate. Industry would have to make a contract based on a certain, defi nite rate over a period of years. It is admitted that a rate has been giv en to the Pittsburg Metallurgical company, but it appears to be a sec ret, for it has not been filed with the South Carolina Public Service Com mission nor is anyone informed as to the rate. I think the critics are wrong in expecting rates to be quoted before the cost of the project is definitely known. Since the Santee Cooper must pay operating costs, interest on bonds, and the like, it is necessary to determine, first, the total expen diture for construction, then what part of that is for the waterway and what part for the generation of power. Until all these factors are cleared up the management can’t quote a rate except op a basis of guesswork—which wouldn’t be very businesslike. It would be profoundly interesting to know that a rate of two mills or 2.2, or even 3 mills, would be quoted to industry. All our electric utilities should be under the same regulations as those which govern our private power companies. The Legislature is set ting up so-called authorities without subjection to State supervision or re gulation acted unwisely and should establish uniform rules for all op erating power enterprises. With the completion of the Santee- Cooper there comes to successful con- clusicn the great cooperative effort of James F. Byrnes and Burnet R. May- bank, in furtherance of the proposal of several indefatigable spirits in and out of the General Assembly. Over 1500 Newberrians Visited “Better Farm Train By J. M. ELEAZER I usually visit the ‘Triple A” office on Saturday and there I find my far mer friends in full force. All of us are signing with alarcity and glee the applications or the “Parable pay. ments", as one of my tenants calls them. Now that Uncle Sam issues cotton stamps, why not let the far mers have food stamps and rent stamps and tax tickets? Then life would be “sort of tolable”. What say you? Still, we should need shoe stamps and tobacco stamps. LITTLE MOMENTS IN BIG LIVES Kessler | AVID 51m?/JOFF. PRESIDENT Of= TMET Padio Corporation of America. Sold ajewcpapecs' on the streets' OP /VE\SJ VOCKT PROM 4- TO 3 AM- i-ILV lAAlGTfijy !! Dodged Uans'Om cabs as* a /WES’S’PNGER Bcty' POC THE Coaaaaeqciai- Cable compaajv mOM 8 A.M. TO fo R M- — >4nd after, choir, PRACTICE ATAIIGHT Pe pad ajotwaig - TO IX?- Wv E ' Robert Burns is loved for his sim ple themes, the homely joys—and a’ that. We like the things we know about. I find that many of my read ers are interested in the every day affairs at home rather than in the war. The war is a long way off, so far as fighting is concerned, but the gasoline restrictions have brought it to you and me and all who buy from the big filling stations, or the little station at the cross roads. Perhaps some of the readers have been shopping with cotton stamps. My brethren of the soil know about this, though my town friends may think of the cotton stamps as being as remote as the Russian and Chin ese battlefields. I don’t know who figured out this cotton stamp scheme but I’ll tell you how it worked in my case and you will see Uncle Sam paying off one man and being beneficient with some others. Back in the spring the govern ment decided to attack the cotton problem at both ends. We had too much cotton in storage and we would probably produce more in the new crop than the world would buy, thus increasnng the surplus on hand. So when a farmer was entitled to plant 10 acres in cotton he would be given a bonus for reducing his acreage one acre or two, and he would be paid about $25 in cotton stamps. With these stamps he must buy cotton goods. I have no complaint—and making none—for the plan is a generous one, and those who administer it are pa tient and long suffering, as well as anxious to please the farmers, who are, of course, not only the chief pil- I lars of society, but who carry the flag of freedom, if pillars can march. Sometimes I think Uncle Sam has some curve pitchers on his staff, be cause while you stand at the bat looking or a fast one, a quick break ing curve makes you feel foolish. Even so, we farmers practice on fast halls in the Spring andl have to dodge curves in the fall. Our Uncle Sam let us believe that if you should reduce your acres you would be paid on your reduction; but now the reduction is not on your allot ment, but must be a reduction under what you actually planted! last year. The trick delivery “fooled” us, all, we swung at the ball and got a two- bagger when it should have been good for a home run. I went up and agreed to take out of cotton eight or ten acres. Uncle Sam allows no man more than $50 in stamps, even though he reduces his acreage by ten, twenty or a hundred. It must be figured out that no fam ily can wear or use more than fifty dollars worth of cotton goods. So when the smoke cleared away I got $44 (having been awarded $6 on an other place) and my tenants (who didn’t even know about it) are buy ing shirts and dresses (mostly dress es) for three times the amount which I received. And that’s all right. I have received a fair rental value for the land “taken out” and my tenants “A liberal agricultural education on wheels’ is the way that County Agent P. B. Ezell of Newberry des cribed the eight car better farm liv ing train that visited Newberry on Tuesday morning. During its three hour visit at Newberry a total of 1544 people, or almost ten a minute passed thru the long aisles and view ed the varied educational exhibits, charts, and demonstrations. “This train is being sponsored by the Atlantic Coast Line Railway and the Clemson Extension service,’ states Dr. D. W. Watkins director of the extension service, “for the purpose of furthering the better farm living program that has been pro moted in the state for some years and that has now been made so im perative by the war conditions. In the all-out defense program of the county, agriculture is being asked to produce and to become self sustain ing itself”, states' Dr. Watkins. “We have a long way to go, but we are on our way. Those who see the graphic have received a treat which will not come amiss in view of the crop shor tage. I have enjoyed the courteous at tention of our County Administrator and his assistants on all occasions. Once I appealedl to the very efficient State Administrator, Mr. R. W. Ham ilton. and found him ready to do his best ini every case. In the very nature of things errors and misunderstandings creep in, but I find an honest and 1 constant effort to serve us acceptably. exhibits on this train will be im pressed! with both of these facts, and will learn many ways in which progress can be made on their indi vidual farms towards these desired goals’,, concludes Dr. Watkins. At Columbia on Monday 1810 peo ple viewed the exhibits and at New berry on Tuesday morning a continu ous stream of interested farm folks oas'sed thru its aisles. In the after noon it passed on to Clinton and on Wednesday it shows at Spartanburg from 8:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. From there it goes to Woodruff for exhibi tion from 2 to 5:30 p. m., and on to Greenville at 8:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m., on Thursday and at Fountain Inn that afternoon from 2 to 5 p. m. Then to Laurens and Greenwood on Sep tember 12, and Andersom Calhoun Falls, and McCormick on Saturday, September 13, and from there on to many points over the state. Visitors enter the eight-car special train at the front, where an accurate count is kept, and the first is headed “Timber Aids the Farm”. Timber management and utilization is illus trated and its relation to wild life made plain. Soil conservation is il lustrated with a miniature farm in relief where prope. conserving prac tices are illustrated and a companion' farm is carried there that shows the corresponding ills of erosion going in unhindered. “Better Farm Living”, the theme of the entire train, is the title of the next large display as we go thru the train. It has green growing pastures that show the benefits of lime and phosphate. And since pastures in this section have been receiving appli- 1 cations of these materials the quali- | ty of livestock has picked up and 1 deliveries to the local creamery great, ly 'improved, according to local auth orities. “Pasture building, is also building a livestock industry in this state”, stated H. A. Woodle, exten sion agronomy specialist. The ele ments needed to make a given amount of com are illustrated and could serve as a guide of fertilizing and handling this important farm crop. Quality hays are shown and how to produce them illustrated. Clean, fragrant, leafy green hay is best and it is produced with heavy seedings, by cutting at proper time, and curing properly on home-made racks that are illustrated there. The importance of small grains in this diversified live-at-home program is graphically illustrated. Here we pass to the next car where the sign emblazoned with “Quality Hogs for Home and Mar ket” catches the eye. Cull hogs grown under unsanitary conditions and of poor breeding occupy the first pen. Quality top hogs are in the next pen, and the third one contains a fine type sow with nine sanitary pigs. It is made quite plain that the first sort sown will lose you money, but that the last two pens show the sort to grow for profit. “The prini- pal difference.” state A. L. DuRant extension livestock specialist, “is that the good ones were produced on clean land on grazing crops and the poor unprofitable ones were produc ed in a dirty, parasite infested lot.” Sanitary hog troughs, artificial shade farrowing houses, pig creeps, and (Continued on Page Five) The Grade of Your Cotton Means Much This Year . ■ - For Cleaner, Better Samples Gin Your Cotton at The Southern Cotton Oil Co. 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