The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, October 24, 1941, Image 4
THE WEWBEHKT 8UH
rEIPAY,- OCTOBER U, 1M1
1218 Colleje Street
Newberry, S. C.
O. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
One Year One Dollar
Published every Friday
Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at
the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
Selling Arrangement For Farm Products
Needed In This State, Says Spectator
THE TIMES ARE OUT OF JOINT
During the prolonged drouth which
has gripped this section of the
country for the past three months,
many knowing folk have pointed to
the “signs” and predicted rain based
thereon. But all the signs have fail
ed: the position of the moon in the
sky was not right, clouds were of the
wrong color to fetch rain, the gath
ered cloud banks in the west at sun
set went back on the prophets—all
signs failed.
The failure of the signs is a trag
edy. They were the old reliables
Now the drouth has burned them up.
Surely, the times are very much out
of joint.
NOT AS EASY AS IT SOUNDS
Britain is being criticised for not
invading the European continent, now
that Hitler SEEMS to have the bulk
of his army on the Russian front.
It is easy to understand this criti
cism. The chance to strike Hitler in
the rear seems to be a golden one. It
appears to be a wide-open opporunity
to deal him a severe blow. But there
are other sides to the invasion ques
tion which non-military minds do not
grasp.
How does anyone know that a bulk
of Hitler’s armies are in the east? It
is a mere guess. This story may be
a ruse, circulated by Hitler’s propa
ganda bureau to lure a British force
to the continent and then fall upon
it with a hard-hitting army. Anoth
er Dunkirk might follow.
Again, British bombers have play
ed havoc with French, Belgian and
Dutch port facilities. Wharves, pfers,
cranes and railway tracks have been
bombed to pieces. How can anyone
expect to land a large body of troops
and their heavy equipment without
adequate unloading machinery? It
can’t be done.
A more serious obstacle to an in
vasion attempt is the difficulty of
maintaining an army over a large
area of water. Soldier- might effect
a landing in France or Belgium, but
could they be sustained? That is an
all-important question. Unless lines
of communications can be kept open,
the life of an army depending
them is brief.
Unless Britain is reasonably sure
of being able to land and maintain
a superior force on the continent wis
dom dictates the course she is pur
suing.
A radical is a fallow who has less
money than his neighbors.
BUSH RIVER SCHOOL NEWS
There was a flurry of excitement
at Bush River last week when the
first report cards were issued 1 . There
were some surprises, some disappoint
ments. Grades were compared, and
occasionally disputed. In spite of this,
most of the pupils knew that the
grades were correct. So now, the com
motion seems to have settled down.
The high school students will have
free transportation to the State Fair
Tuesday. All who plan to go expect
to have a wonderful time.
The barbecue chicken supper serv.
ed at Bush River October 10 was a
great sucess. All of the chicken war
sold in a comparatively short time.
Mr. Herman Wise cooked it, and any
one who has eaten any of his barbe
cued chicken can imagine how deli
cious it was. Nothing could have been
better.
The basketball girls are planning to
have a Hallowe’en carnival soon.
Preparations have already begun. All
are cooperating beautifully so far;
even other students are helping. This
spirit is what causes success, so we
are hoping that it will continue to
prevail. •>i
The author of Spectator broadcasts
over several stations regularly. The
broadcasts are a presentation of Na
tional and State affairs.
This is the schedule:
Tuesdays—2:15 WIS (Columbia);
WOLS (Florence).
Wednesdays—2:30 WRDW (Augus
ta).
Fridays—1:30 WFRC (Greenville);
11:30 WTMA (Charleston).
Charleston and Greenville alternat
ing.
Twelve members of the United
States Senate are fighting to reduce
Federal non-defense spending two
billion dollars. It could easily be
done. The idea of continuing N. Y.
groups, as part of defense is ridicu
lous.
One of the principa» handicaps to
thorough preparation for war is that
we still must pamper a lot of pets.
The vast, unsuspected war resour
ces of Russia are not sufficient to
stem the tide of onrushing Germans.
Now what have we, in comparison
with the Russians?
This is no time to indulge pet
theories; if business can’t be as us
ual, as all the war economists tell us,
then nothing else here should be as
usual, for business is our means of
livelihood, as well as the satisfaction
of normal human needs.
Every COC boy ought to be In the
army, navy, marine corps, or back on
the farm—and that applies more or
less to the others.
Congress might omit them from the
budget.
Our people are strangely inconsis
tent; when we draft men for military
service, at great sacrifice, sometimes.,
we have no moral excuse for pussy
footing about anything or coddling
anybody.
A few years ago I read some fig
ures on our condition which may not
be true in equal degree today, but are
too nearly true for ts to feel proud.
Before repeating the figures, I re
peat that we could rebuild South Car
olina with the money we have; and
we could greatly improve our contri
tion by supplying our own needs.
Perhaps you recall a little calcula
tion I made. H 1,000 men of iwtuth
Carolina would invest $1,000 a year in
this state, that would make possible
a million dollar industry every year.
Wj have thousands of men who have
an extra thousand dollars. If 100
men in a small county invest $100 a
year, that county could have a $10,-
000 industry every year. Three or
four thousand dollar industries would
make things hum in most of our
towns. And surely this is not a dream
of riches I have. We may be explor
ing the nation for gold, while acres
of diamonds are under our feet.
We buy from other States millions
of dollars of butter, meat, flour,
feeds, lard, cheese, etc. All this we
could produce here.
It was said a while back that 17,-
000 farm families grow no veget
ables; 80,000 grow no wheat; 20,000
have no chickens; 48,000 have no cow;
14,000 grow no corn; 24,000 have no
hogs. Now that is pretty bad, but
many of those who vary their pro
ducts have not a sufficiency: 33,000
have not enough corn; f97,000 have
not enough wheat; 47,000 haven’t
chickens enough; 63,000 run short of
milk; 54,000 need more vegetables.
Miany farmers buy hay.
When we talk about diversifying
agriculture we might find a market
here, for we buy so much from other
States which could be produced here.
One thing we have not solved: Mar
keting the fanners’ surplus. Time
after time we are urged to diversify
our crops and to “lay off cotton”.
Well when the farmer produces other
things, can he sell them ? I know far.
mers with corn to sell. There is no
market. If you have hay—there is
no demand. Cotton, tobaaco and hogs
can be sold, but very little else.
In 191& the cotton crop was worth
about three hundred million dollars.
At that time our State appropriated
$3,892,682.78; in 1941 the cotton crop
is worth about $35,000,000 and the
state is spending a t least $30,000,000,
received from the taxpayers.
Year after year special pleaders
point with great shame to our low
cost per pupil—and all that; but we
rank very low in individual income in
the United States!
We are not getting our share of
Government spending, according to
THE MANUFACTURERS RECORD.
In the latest issue (October) I find
these comparative figures, which in
clude all contracts from June 1940,
through August of this year:
“ARMY AND NAVY”
North Carolina $124,793,000
Oklahoma 217,782,000
Florida 185,294,000
Louisiana 148,271,000
Missouri 573,442,000
Mississippi 121,297,000
South Carolina 90,447,000
Georgia 161,110,000
U. S. MARITIME COMMISSION
Contracts:
North Carolina ..$64,' -9,000
Louisiana 4- 41,000
Mississippi 32,000,000
Alabama 68,823,000
Texas 66,199,000
South Carolina NOTHING
We received generous allotments
for the WPA—about the same as
Florida.
It must be that the fault is with us
that the Government builds ships in
docks of North Carolina, Louisiana,
Alabama, Texas and Mississippi and
can’t even see us. And we with Nat
ural harbors far surpassing any wat
erways of those states.
Congress has within two years
authorized expenditures equal to the
total income of all the people of the
United States a few years ago. When
war ceases all the billions spont here
by foreign countries and this gov
ernment, for war preparations, will
cease. It does not require an econo
mist to forecast a slump. Even if our
government should try to make work
for the unemployed, how far would
five billion dollars go to make up for
forty billions, not to mention fifty or
sixty billions? ,
We may be concerned about this as
citizens of a great nation, but we
have an even more immediate inter
est as citizens of South Carolina.
I call attention to what must bt
thoughtfully considered by us be
cause of the meetings of the State
Budget Commission, and shortly af_
ter wards of the Legislature. The
money pouring into the State treas
ury is unprecedented, but it is highly
flexible; it comes from a rapid accel
eration of business. Any slowing up
in business will be followed by reduc
tion of revenue. If we spend in pub.
lie services all this revenue, are we
not as surely headed for trouble as
were the Egyptians, when Joseph
foretold “Behold, There come seven
years of great plenty throughout all
the la,ud of Egypt. And there shall
arise after them seven years of fam
ine * . . and the plenty shall not be
known in the land by REASON OF
THAT FAMINE FOLLOWING; FOR
IT SHALL BE VERY GRIEVOUS.”
Well that was sound economics and
the experience ox men in all ages.
The Egyptians prepared for the de
pression in time of plenty. Are we
as wise as they?
We stand in need of a selling ar
rangement for farm products, such as
Commissioner Roy Jones suggested a
year or two ago. Today some farm
ers may have a few bushels of com
beyond their needs. In many a com
munity several truck loads of com
can be had. Some other farmers may
need this cbm.
What is corn worth? As I under
stand, from selling com and from the
price of Western com, it is about
like this: If a South Carolina farmer
offers corn he hears that the Chicago
price is eighty cents, but the freight
is twenty cents so our com is worth
eighty cents, less twenty cents. But
when we buy com, it is worth eighty
cents, plus twenty cents. So we may
sell for sixty cents and buy it back
for a dollar.
Why can’t we handle all the farm
ers’ produce? There must be a de
mand somewhere. It is true that
much of it, perhaps most of it, is
not graded, not up to certain specifi
cations; but this nation was built by
men who ate ungraded produce and
the plows were drawn by mules
T. L. HICKS NEW PRESIDENT
SECURITY LOAN & INVESTMENT
By HAL KOHN
T. L. Hicks, a native of Greens
boro, N. C., decided twenty-four years
ago to make the insurance business
his life work. And after one year
spent in his home town in his chosen
profesion, he moved up by being made
District Manager of the Pilot Life In
surance company at Cheraw, where he
remained 1 three years, coming to New
berry in 1921, as secretary of the Se
curity Loan and' Investment company,
which position he has held until the
past week when the Board of Direc
tors named Mr. Hicks president to fill
the office held by the late J. H. West.
During the time that Mr. Hicks has
been connected with the Security Loan
& Investment company, the business
has shown a great increase which ne
cessitated the doubling of the capital
stock from $12,000 to $25,000.
In addition to doing General Insur
ance, Real Estate, Rentals and Surety
nourished by ungraded com, oats and
hay; we have reared a vigorous man.
hood on unclassified pork and the
hogs were fattened on ungraded com,
potatoes—and anything else around
the place. Most of us have know the
thrill of “busting” ungraded water
melons and we have eaten bushels of
ungraded peaches, pears—and what
not.
I do not disparage the value of
standards; we need standards of qual.
ity an standards of size; but the
quality of much of our ungraded pro
duce is good, though the sale price
may be a bit off. But surely we can
sell it to somebody!
Bonds business this firm was one of
the first in the south to sense the op.
portunity offered in auto financing,
and in July, 1922, they added this de
partment and at that time they and
one company operating now in At
lanta were the only auto finance
businesses operated in South Caro
lina, so this company has the honor
of being the oldest local owned auto
finance company in South Carolina.
The Security Loan and Investment
company was founded in 1905, and
celebrated its 36th birthday in March.
It is the oldest insurance business in
Newberry county and had as its first
president, Dr. O. B. Mayer, who was
followed by Colonel W. H. Hunt, Mr.
W. A. McSwain and Mr. J. H. West,
all of whom are now deceased.
Mr. Hicks takes up where these es.
timable gentlemen left off, and under
his guidance the future of this great
home institution is assured, for in
addition to a thorough knowledge of
the insurance business, Mr. Hicks
combines a most pleasing disposition,
a courtly manner, and unlimited en
ergy, and all of these virtues com
bined make him one of the outstand
ing insurance men of this section.
During his busy life in Newberry,
Mr. Hicks has found time to do his
share of civic work. Just this year
he was co-chairman in raising funds
during the USO drive, and this city
doubled the quota asked for. He is
past vice president of the Chamber of
Commerce and immediate past presi
dent of the Newberr*' Rotary Club.
Miss Mary Wheeler and Mrs. Elli-
sor Adams were business visitors in
Columbia Saturday.
Busy workers know that a minute
for ice-cold Coca-Cola promotes
contentment and efficiency.Why
not enjoy it at home? A six-
bottle carton of Coca-Cola from
your dealer brings home the
pause that refreshes.
THE
SIX-BOTTLE
CARTON
SOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY
NEWBERRY COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY
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TAX NOTICE
State and County tax books
for the year 1941 will open
October 15, 1941. One per
cent discount will be allowed
on all taxes paid by Novem
ber 14 except the four mills
State tax.
J. RAY DAWKINS
County Treasurer
A., W. P. A., C. C. C., aixl some othei
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Classified Ads
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NO TRESPASSING—Everyone Is
hereby notified that hunting, sein
ing for minnows, or trespassing in
any manner is strictly forbidden
on our lands. This means every
body. Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Domin
ick. 15-3tp
FOR SALE—Seed oats, wheat, vetch,
clover, rape, and all other Held
seeds. Johnson McCrackin Co. 19-4c
RIBBONS—for adding machines and
typewriters. We put them on for
you. The SUN office. Phone 1.
THIN PAPERS—for Lawyers snd
others, any size, any grade, any
weight. Plain or margin ruled.
The SUN office., Phone 1.
SKRIP BLACK INK—In qnarts o.
smaller; numbering machine, and
stamp pad ink. The SUN' office.
Phone 1.
FOR RENT—Two office rooms over
Johnson Hagood Clary’s Clothing
store on the Public Square oppo
site the old Court House. Apply
at J. H. Clary’s clothing store,
Main street. 3tc
| FOR SALE—Seed oats. Barley and
Wheat—all seed grown on my farm,
necleaned and graded. Purity and
germination test high. Prices cheap
if you consider quality. Contact
me for all information possible re
garding these seed. Phone No.
2302. H. O. Long, Silverstreet,
S. C. 10-3-tfe
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TAX NOTICE
The tax books will be open for col.
lection of 1941 taxei. on and after Oc
tober 15, 1941.
The foliowring is general levy for all
except special purposes:
Mills
Ordinary County 1 11%
Bonds and Interest 18
Roads and Bridges 2
Hospital %
School—State ■ 3
County School 5%
County school special 1
County Board of Education %
State 1
TOTAL '......43
• The following are the authorized
special levies for the various school
districts of the county:
Diet. No. Mills
1 Newberry 17
2 Mt. Bethel-Garmany 6
3 Maybinton 6
4 Long Lane 5
6 McCullough 6
6 Cromer ... .■ 0
8 Rnagin 10
9 Deadfall 10
10 Utopia 10
11 Hartford 6
12 Johnstone 5
13 Stoney Hill 6
14 Prosperity 15
15 O’Neal! g
18 Fairview 4
19 Midwray 4
121' Central 4
1 22 St. Phillips 8
23 Rutherford 4
I 24 Broad River 4
25 New Hope Zion 4
26 Pomaria 12
27 Red Knoll 6
28 Helena 4
29 Mt. Pleasant 8
30 Little Mountain '.... 16 %
31 Wheeland 3
32 Union 6
33 Jolly Street 8
34 St. Pauls ' 6
35 Peak 4
37 Mudlic < 6
38 Vaughnville 6
39 Chappells ' 6
40 Old Town 10
41 Dominick ' S
42 Reederville 12
43 Bush River 12
44 Smyrna ■ 12
45 Trinity 10
46 Burton 1 10
47 Tranwood 12
48 Jalapa 8
49 Kinards 2
50 Tabernacle 8
61 Trilby 4
62 Whitmire . 15
53 Mollohon 4
54 Beth Eden .■ 5
55 Fork 8
67 Belfast . 8
68 Silverstreet 14
59 Pressley ' 4
60 St. John 4
There -will be a one per cent (1%>
discount on general County taxes
through November 14, 1941.
On and after January 1, 1942, the
Penalties prescribed by law will be
imposed on unpaid taxes.
You are requested to call for your
taxes by School Districts in which
your property is located. The Treas.
urer is not responsible for unpaid
taxes not called for by districts.
Those who had their dogs vaccinat
ed for rabies during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1941, by one authoriz-
■ed by law, and expect to be exempted
from dog tax will please bring their
certificates of vaccination when ap
pearing to pay taxes.
J. RAY DAWKINS,
Treasurer Newberry County, j