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PAGE FOUR THE WBWBBRRT 8Py 1218 Colic re Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Pnbliahar One Year 1 One Dollar Published every Friday Entered aa second-class matter December 6, 1987, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act at March 3, 1879. WHAT COULD LITTLE JAPAN DO Getting his haddes up at Uncle Sam has become a habit with the Jap in recent weeks. For some ob scure reason or another Little Japan doesn’t like Big Uncle Sam. Perhaps Sam is not as nice to Little Japan ov. er the “Chinese indicent” as she would like for him to be. Or perhaps Little Japan still resents the fact that Big Uncle Sam finally had the good sense to stop feeding the Jap war machine with scrap iron and gaso line. Whatever it is, the Little Brown Man has his back up, threat ens, and rattles his little sword at us in a most ferocious manner. It’s comical to see a little fellow mad and stewing and wanting to scrap a big fellow. Secretary of the Navy Knox takes a serious view of Little Japan’s bellicose manner. He says that war between Big Uncle Sam and* Lit tle Japan is inevitable. This may be a warning to Little Japan to speak softer, or it may be a realistic ap praisal of a realistic situation. Its publication at this time gives the Jan hierophants and rhapsodists of militarism and excuse to talk biggei and louder. But if litte Japan really got down to fighting, what could she do with Big Uncle Sam ? She has not as many motor vehicles of all kinds as the state of Mississippi; she has only 6,- 000 miles of railroad in the entire country; she has only two little bom ber making plants in the nation. Two big bombs dropped at the right spot from an American flying fortress would paralyze Japan’s entire rail road system for days. Why does Little Japan want to take on Big Uncle Sam DOCTRINES NOW MUCH RARER THAN PERFORMANCE Dr. James Kinard, President of Newberry College, made an address before the Exchange Club of Charles ton last Wednesday. His views, in our judgment, are now so rare, but so full of pure gold, we cull a few points as reported in The News and Courier. 1. “Too many people are looking to the White House to take care of them.” 2. “Hard work is today rare.” 3. “Too many strikes, and a dis position to keep people from work ing who are willing to work.” 4. “England would have gone long ago had she depended on bombs and bullets.” 5. “The government is competing with private business, and a philoso phy of government abroad that it is a crime to make money.” 6. “Must not ignore the needs of people who cannot take care of them selves.” 7. “Forces, unwilling to accept their responsibilities, should be driv en from these shores.” 8. “We have got to stop the un- NEXT YEAR WILL BE AN EXCITING ONE, SAYS THE SPECTATOR The Master of Magnolia let me go with him on a visit to his wondrously beautiful estate on the Ashley River, twelve miles from Charleston. It was not a visit of State, with notable guests from Europe or Canada ex claiming over the profusion of gor geous coloring; it was the work-a- day visit of the owner to see for him self the progress of considerable work that is going on. Mr. Hastie visited his nurseries at one end of the place, with the shim mering waters of the broad Ashley just below us. A very considerable lot of work goes on during the long months when “The Gardens” are closed to the pub’ie. The Manager lives in the mansion and devotes all his time to the thousand and one details which assure the perfection which the public expects. Mr. Hastie took me off the beaten paths and into recesses of unspoiled rusticity, where great pines and oaks abound and where a pine and an oak have grown together and where a noble beech stands apart like a watch man on the tower. Amid all this wealth of plants and flowers I was enjoying a feast which the average South Carolina garden club would have relished with a queen’s taste. Mr. Hastie pointed out some tea olives, whose mild fra grance had scented the air for a long distance, and he asked if I knew any thing about Japanese tea olives. I said “I think I have one at home.” “Think!” He fairly snorted, with all the disgust of an expert for a bung ler. And that’s all he said. But though Mr. Hastie talked over my head most of the time I felt at home when I espied a stack of hay, off to one side, like a thing to be ashamed of in all the glory of Magnolia's beauty. Still that stack of hay gave me the comforting assurance that I was still on the earth, alive and kick, ing, though I do not emphasize the word kicking. But for the hay I might have thought I was treading Elysian fields and looked about for nymphs and goddesses. necessary spending of money.” Old Ben Franklin would have been pushed to crowd more homely wis dom, necessary advice, and sound horse sense in an address than the above.—Calhoun Times. It must he a royal treat to be shown the glory of Magnolia Gar dens in full bloom by the genial own er himself, but it was also a great treat to go behind the scenes and see the endless work that must always be done, and to be the companion of the MASTER OF MAGNOLIA. My idea of being in clover is to be a cotton farmer of Greenville, Oconee, Pickens or Spartanburg this year. Look at this: Greenville produced this year 8,976 bales against 7,860 last year; Spartanburg 14,423 against 14,228; Oconee 5,626 against 3,886; Pickens 7,634 against 4,745. And cotton selling from sixteen cents to eighteen and a half. Business must be superlatively tip-top in those counties. SO OLD CAROLINA WON OVER CLEMSON! I saw Dr. Carl Epps, of Sumter, when the news came through the air. ‘DOC” jumped up and exe cuted a sort of Indian dance with war whoops. I can only wonder about Doug McKay, that urbane and trim Counsel of hie - enterprises, whose record as a football enthusiast makes me believe that he was in a seventh heaven of elation. Of course all of us CAROLINA men are strutting our stuff and parading our prowess with chests thrown out—and all that. But if I know CLEMSON, the time from now until the next State Fair will have one supreme purpose; to beat CAROLINA. Since CAROLINA will fight to hold the crown one may pre dict today a real battle next year— the irresistible Tigerf against the im_ movable Gamecocks. Let’s see now: next year promises to be an exciting one. A United States senator will be running, unless the recent pace of Mr. Mayhank causes the others to let him win in a walk next time; a Governor must be chosen; all the Constitutional State officers will come up before the elec torate and one or two who are not constitutional, whose .positions were created by statute; Clem son and Carolina will battle again; and— w^o knows whether out next battle will see most of us wearing khaki? The fine sportsmanship which char acterizes our football classic is some thing which generations have wrought into the fiber of our being. Hitler, with his threat to world peace and security, is abhorrent to .the spirit which we Americans have developed. We cant live in a world with Hitler. How big is a watermelon? I once had a friend who told me that his watermelons were so large that he had to cut them into sections with a cross-cut saw in order to move them from the “patch”. As he was a fish erman, I thought he had GRAFTED a fish-story on a watermelon vine. But I rode to Columbia recently with a gentleman who has produced a mel on weighing 136 pounds and who does not regard a hundred pound melon as anything to brag about. He also produced 800 bushels of sweet pota toes on one acre! If the Government wishes to increase production of food why not tell Mr. S. J. White of Sum ter County (on Manning road) to go ahead. Through the courtesy of Mr. Frank E. Lawrence, Director of the State Planning Board, I have read Bulletin No. 6, a very interesting study of our condition in South Carolina. Most of this bad news I have been talking a long time, but as the State Budget Commission is now in session and certain to hear appeals for more money it is timely to tell the people of the State just how we stand. Says the Planning Board, mark you, income per capita in South Car olina was $255 per annum. This was the lowest given, being less than that of Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia or Florida—considerably below the average for the South Atlantic States. We had in savings banks $15 per capita, the lowest in the United States, by a big margin, being less than half of Georgia’s. Only 0.91 per cent of our people made returns for Federal income tax, compared with Georgia’s 1.54 per cent. We were lowest of all in what we bought per capita at retail. Even in gasoline consumption we rank last, although our motor registrations exceed those of North Carolina or Georgia. From this we must have a lot of old cars we are not able to operate. In tax able property per capita we are last a train, and we are last in what the Board calls our debt payinc capa city, being not only last, but last by considerable margin. 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Tear out and take or send this coupon to the Navy Editor of this newspaper Fa Without any obligation on my part whatsoever, please Mod me free booklet, "Lde in the Navy,” giving full de- tads about the opportunities for man in the Navy or Naval Reserve. Nama- -Age_ - Addres fltato FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1941 This certainly may sound like a lamentation, but those who appeal for more appropriations are always pointing out that we DO the least per capita. Well, there is abundant reason for that; we HAVE the least. And while costs of all kinds have risen, the value of our property has fallen 15 per cent since 1929. Our population increased nearly 200,000 from 1929 to 1939 but our wealth decreased about $62,000,000. Since 1929 our delinquent taxes have increased 111 percent, amount ing to a debt of $33.50 on every $1,- 000 of taxable property in the State. We now have $12,000,000 in unpaid taxes and we know that this year’s crop disaster will swell) the total. That equals a debt of $6.40 on every man, woman and child in South Caro lina, White and Colored. In 1929 we had 1,614 industrial establishments; in 1940 we had 1,394. Thirty-three counties lost industries in that period. AH this sad story sounds like a bulletin of the Farmers and Taxpay ers League, doesn’t it? But it is a bulletin of the State Planning Board. And need I remind our people of what is to so many farmers and com munities a real crop disaster? I’ve said nothing about Federal taxation and the new demands the Government will make. Shall we just pile it on; or shall we take in our sail like a pood sailor before the angry clouds of the gathering storm ? How can the Government help those who need help? Obviously the farmer whose income from cotton this year is the same as last year’s is not in distress. If I normally pro duce fifty 'bales at ten cents and have this year sold thirty bales at seventeen cents I am not in distress; but if my crop this year was ten bales I have suffered a heavy Toss. Many of our farmers have had that experience. One suggestion is that the loss be ascertained and some measure of re lief be accorded to the individual far mer according to his loss. The Gov ernment has already worked out a scale of poundage for each farmer. If the average production of record be 300 lbs. per acre and the harvest this year was 100 lbs. as shown at the gin then a method of aid might he devised for the 200 lbs. difference. Senator Smith says the Government should pay three cults a pound to the STATE LIKELY TO DO WITHOUT LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR IN ’42 South Carolina appears likely to do without a lieutenant governor for about a year in a situation resemb ling that of 1923, when the late Lieut enant Governor Wilson G. Harvey succeeded Governor Robert A. Coop er, who resigned to accept a federal farm board post. State Senator Alan Johnstone, president pro tempore of the senate in 1923, did not become lieutenant governor when Mr. Harvey succeeded to the governorship. Now, Senator R. M. Jefferies, of Colleton county, is president pro tempore of the sen ate. He has not announced his plans, but it is unlikely that he would con sent to give up his present position, one of the most influential in the state, for the opportunity of being lieutenant governor for a year. The state constitution provides the order of succession to the governor’s office as lieutenant governor, presi dent pro tempore of the senate and speaker of the house of representa tives in the order named. It does not specifically say that should the lieutenant governor move up there should be a succession to his office also. , ' ’ Since the lieutenant governor is not a senator, any senator holding that office would ha-'e to resign his seat. Should the president pro tern be come governor, the senate would elect a new president pro tern. In the case at hand, Lieutenant Gover nor J. Emile Harley already has in dicated his willingness to move up to the governorship when Governor Burnet R. Maybank takes the United States senate post to which he has ,been elected. Before the revolution, East New Jersey was sold at public auction to Wm. Penn and Quaker asociates, who already beld West New Jersey. Mrs. H. S. Cjilclasure and daugh ter, Jackie, Misses Margaret and Sarah Paysinger spent last Friday amd Saturday in Charlotte, N. C. with Mrs. Culclasure’s sister, Mrs. O. L. Hill and Mrs. W. P. Johnson. oroducer as it pays'to the exporter. Mr. Skottowe Wannamafeer advocates a parity of .0338 per pound. THE BIG lc Rexall SALE Is NOW ON AT Older & Weeks for PERPETUATION ot Christian Education v Presbyterians and their friends throughout South Carolina are invited to join in the Christian Educa tion Movement for the establishment of the endow ments of Presbyterian College Columbia Seminary Queens College ‘That the pillars of faith shall endure" For Electrical Jobs Phone 120-J for any Electrical work you want done. I will come promptly and do the job right. Will handle any size job in town or country. 1 - , i” : r . • : • CHEVIS I. BOOZER Phone 120-J Newberry, S. C.