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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1942 THE NEWBERRY sure PAGE FIVE The Spectator FOR RENT—Keowee Tourist Camp in Oconee county. Completely furn ished, gas heat and running water. See or write RALPH ALEXANDER, Blue Ridge Station, Seneca, S. C. LANDS FOR SALE—Anyone inter ested in the purchase of the farm containing 373 acres, in Beth Eden School District, on which there is considerable timber, or the lot of 1.2 acres on College Street, touch ing Scott’s Creek, in the City of Newberry, owned by the late Mrs. James C. Duncan, is invited to communicate with me, or my at torneys, Blease and Griffith, New berry, S. C. JAMES C. DUNCAN, Kinards, S. C. 2tc FOR SALE!—Eight young grade cows and heifers, all bred to Here ford bull. C. M. WILSON. FOR RENT—Two or three room un furnished upstairs apartments. Mrs. J. W. White. WANTED TO BUY—Scrap Iron, Copper, Aluminum, auto radio parts. Rags, Inner-tubes and Zinc. Loca tion in alley leading to Standard Oil company bulk plaint. W. H. Sterling. FOR SALE—75 White Leghorn pul lets; April hated for sale. Minton’s ■best stock—wonderful layers. W. C. FRENZEN, Route 3, box 27-A, New berry, S. C. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDER’S MEETING Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the stockholders of the J. W. Kibler Company, a corporation with its principal place of business at Newberry, South Carolina, is here by called to be held in the office of Blease & Griffith, attorneys, New berry, S. C., on Monday, December 21, 1942, at 11:00 o’clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of winding up its affairs, surrendering its char ter for cancellation and dissolving the corporation, and for the transac tion of any other business connected therewith. M. W. CLARY, President Newberry, S. C., Nov. 17, 1942. TAX NOTICE The tax books will be open for col lection of 1942 taxes on and after October 15, 1942. The following is general levy for all except special purposes: Mills Ordinary County 11 Bonds, Notes and Interest 18 Roads and Bridges 2 Hospital V* Schools — State 3 County Schools 5 County Board of Education.... % County Schools — Special I State 1 42 The following are the authorized special levies for the various school districts of the County: Dist. No. Mills 1—Newberry 17 1—Newberry (O.S.) 17 2—Mt. Bethel-Garmany 6 3— Maybinton 6 4— Long Lane 5 5— McCullough 6 6— Cromer 9 8— Reagin '10 9— Deadfall 10 10— Utopia 10 11— Hartford 6 12— Johnstone 5 13— Stony Hill 6 14— Prosperity ' 15 15— O’Neal 8 18— Fairview 4 19— Midway 4 21— Central 4 22— St. Philips 8 23— Rutherford 4 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. Paul 6 35— Peak 4 37— Mudlick 6 38— Vaughnville 6 39— Chappells 6 40— Old Town 10 41— Dominick 8 42— Reederville 12 43— Bush River 12 44— Smyrna 12 45— Trinity 10 46— Burton 10 47— Tranwood 12 48— Jalapa 8 49— Kinards <• 2 50— Tabernacle 8 51— Trilby 4 52— Whitmire 15 53— Mollohon 4 54— Beth Eden 5 55— Fork 8 57—Belfast 6 58S—Silverstreet 14 69—Pressley 4 60—St. Johns 4 There will be a one per cent (1%) discount on general County taxes through November 14, 1942. On and after January 1, 1943, the Penalties prescribed by law will be imposed on unpaid taxes. You are requested to call for your taxes by School districts in which property is located. The Treasurer is not responsible for unpaid taxes not called for by districts. Those who had their dogs vaccinat ed for rabies during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1942, by one authoriz ed by law, and expect to be exempt ed from dog tax will please bring their certificates of vaccination when appearing to pay taxes. J. RAY DAWKINS, Treasurer Newberry County t Adolph, Benito end Hlrofclto —the three blind mice. Make them run with ten percent of yonr income in War Bonds every pay day. Some College authorities (in other States) are protesting loudly against calling students of eighteen and nineteen into the army. It is said in answer to that—and well said, too— that a lad who is not able to attend a college is just as precious as any College by in the land. But it seems to me that everybody could be sat isfied on this point by a little judi cious adjustment. Probably the av erage soldier devotes two hours a day to strictly military training. A half hour in ordinary drill would leave sufficient time to carry on with the College studies until June. Every body knows that a considerable part of a soldier’s time is wasted—or at least unused. Mere infantry drill is relatively unimportant. Com-petem military instructors could almost give bond to get as good results from two hours a day with College stu dents as any full-time rookies in the army. The whole plan of College life could be militarized, allowing for the Collegiate work. Two hours a day, intelligently used, can give fine training in six months, and, regard less of all the comment of the high er-ups, it will require at least six months to make these boys worth very much as soldiers. Well, anyhow no limit has been put on the number of eggs and« hot bis cuits a farmer may hav e “of a morn ing.” Of course this rationing of coffee may put a small-sized crimp into brother farmer, if he has used coffee in liberal quantities to make way for further generous “helpings” of good “vittles” at breakfast. As long as we can keep the platter of eggs coming up on schedule the country is safe. Naturally mother’s hot cakes, with home-churned butter and dad’s home-made syrup are a good follow-up. Farmer, how can you operate next year ? Can’t we .pool our labor and farm machinery? A well known citizen of th e piedmont tells me that he can’t get the help to harvest half of his crop, and that he has no idea of trying to cultivate his land next year. That is serious. All of us are wondering about farm labor. If the army takes all the labor who will feed the army? Also who will pay the school taxes? We must keep in mind that high prices do not bring benefits unless you are SELLING at high prices. The farmer who hasn’t a hog on his place is not rolling in wealth because of high prices for hogs; nor are we Who buy seventy five per cent of our goods rejoicing in the high prices. There is such a condition as poverty amid affluence and abundance. "'So far as we can, we ought to try to ride on the high tide of prosperity, but we can only enoy high prices by SELLING something. So, Mr. Farm er, get on the selling end of this bandwagon. Speaker Solomon BUtt advocates a thirtyday session of the Legislature. That is encouraging for Mr. Blatt is a member of great influence and an extra-ordinarily resourceful leader of the House. Speaker Blatt is right in saying that the war overshadows every other interest and absorbs all our thoughts. To pass an appropria tion bill for the State—carefully pruned—and th e County Supply Bills is the major work to be done, and that could be done within thirty days. We should keep in mind what Mr. Query has said about falling re venues. If the merchandise can’t be had, it can’t be sold. That means ( sharp reductions in several items of our State Revenue. The practice of almost every institution to plead for more money on account of the war is ust the usual song and dance. It ap pears that if all the students should leave College the demands would multiply just the same. We need strong-arm methods in dealing with our public services. If any one expects any public service to recommend a reduction in its budget —voluntarily—he is a man of pecu liar faith, living in the clouds and without knowledge of the earth. The only way to get a reduction is to re duce the appropriation. No pussy footing or high-sounding talk—just cut the appropriation and invite the resignation of all who can’t operate reasonably on a reduced scale. Pity the poor merchant. The Gov ernment is loading him a chase. I’m glad I’m not a businessman. Oh, I farm, you know, and all that, and once had a paper and had to meet a payroll every Saturday night, but neither farming nor county newspap- ering is a business. The county news paperman is a sort of public bene factor, leading in all good works, but without any poundings or good trips; and the farmer—now what kind of businessman is he? We, we farmers, buy everything at the other man’s price and then beg him to put a price on our stuff, too. Do you call that “business”? Nay, my bro ther. When we buy something at the other man’s price how did he put that price on it? Well, he added all the cost and expense, rent, lights, in terest, depreciation taxes, wages— and a percentage of profit, and says “That’s my price”. And what do w e do? We thank him for the price he offers us—and hope we can buy a shirt—maybe. In two things, though, the mer chants are catching fits—in making out Government reports and arriving at ceilings on prices—and all that. Dr. Fred Williams should add a new wing to the State Hospital for the merchants who may have to go there, after trying to make out all the Gov ernment reports. In olden times the ologians discussed whether there was a “personal devil”. I don’t exceU in casuistry myself, letting my friend, Doctor Sawyer of Georgetown, fret over these abstruse concerns, for ,the good Doctor, being a ruling elder among the Sampit Presbyterians, knows (from hearsay, only) all about such vexina questions as “personal devils.” At any rate, our merchants are beginning to think that the “per sonal devil” is connected with the Government and sometimes prepares instructions and requirements for the O. P. A. “Praise the Lord; and pass the am munition.” This was ascribed to a chaplain and it has given offense to some of our people. Are we in righteous war? If so, we ought to try to win. Therefore, pass the am munition and keep on passing it. Also we ought always praise the Lord for His wonderful works to the children of men. The last Psalm is entirely an aduration that we praise the Lord. Quite irreverently we are singing atom praising the Lord while passing the ammunition. Irre verence is to be deplored, of course; but it is—I should think, entirely seemly and Scriptural to praise the Lord while fighting His battle. If this war is not one which God can sanction, then we need not cover up our iniquity merely by not singing. David, you remember, said that the battle was the Lord’s. If so, praise him—and fight. I get a thrill over the exploits of our men in North Africa yet I fear we shall soon have a lot more of the polyglot French which graced our conversation twenty odd years ago. Our boys did some remarkable stunts in speaking French. Of course our French was so thoroughly American ized that the French didn’t know what it was. But we, a practical people, couldn’t waste time to turn up our noses as the French did. The campaign in Africa has made Us all sit up: We must fight the Germans anywhere and everywhere, but there is sound generalship—and commonsense—in looking for weak ness in the enemy’s armor. True, Northern Africa was not German; it was French, Italian and British; but since Vichy France and Italy have become mere tools of Hitler the seiz ure of Northern Africa o-pens a way to strike at Hitler. The British drive against Rommel is good news, too. The war will not be won or lost by taking or losing towns; What counts is sapping the enemy’s mobile forces—his army, air force and navy. The capture and killing of thousands of Germans and Itailians, with the virtual debilitation of their fighting strength, is vastly more important than a number of miles of desert. For our part we need landing fields and secure places for storing supplies. What does al most knock a fighting force out of the ring is to lose its bases, itsi dry- docks and repair shops, its depots* of supplies. Those are what we are taking from the enemy and using for ourselves. None of this means that the Ger mans are whipped. They still have their vast armies and superb organi zation. They also Jjav e the German genius for utilizing every element for practical purposes. Nobody expects Germany to fight on, until Germany i s invaded. She will quit when her own soil is in dan ger. Air attacks have carried a taste of destruction to Germany but she is almost without the scars and disas- Masufavdi Margar&t turned off the humming vacuum cleaner, and straightened the slipcovers of the armchair and the daybed that she had pushed up to go over the rug. Then she stood quite still in the doorway and looked at the small bedroom with its south ern exposure. It was as neat and impersonal as a pin. It might never have been lived in. The door stood open on the clean, bare closet. There was not a pennant, not a team pic ture, not even so much as an old Arithmetic book left to show whose room it had once been. *4 Margaret stared at the walls, the furniture, and deeply, slowly, she realized that no matter what lodg ers with their own trinkets and pic tures might occupy it, she would al ways see it the old way. It was the old way that she saw it now. A pair of hard-worn gray pants lay on the floor where they had been dropped. Three baseball bats were stacked with a fishing rod in the corner. A battered red cap with a letter on it lay on the bed. And through the bed, as though it were transparent, Mar garet saw another bed, smaller, and with high slatted sides. She put the vacuum cleaner away and went down to her desk in the sitting-room. She took the fifteen dollars rent that the new lodger had paid that morning in advance for the room, and added to it, from her purse, three dollars and seventy-five cents more. Then she drew out a sheet of paper and began to write on it, slowly, gravely. “To buy a bond to help train a young man to replace Don, Jr.^->; killed on June 6th in the Battle of Midway.” (Letter from an actual communication in the file* of the Treasury Department.) • • * Help our boys, Make certain tha wage earner of the family joins a payroll savings plan and top* that % by New Year’s! ^ £V.S. 7>fojur> Difrrimnt; 18% OF HER PAY GOES INTO WAR BONDS War Plant Worker Buys Bonds for Warrior Husband Although she has two children to support on her wages as a power press operator at a war plant, Mrs. Mabel W. puts 18% of her pay every week into War Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan. Mrs. W. thinks of every bond she buys in terms of what it can do for her soldier husband out in Australia. “Already,” she says, “I’ve bought Jim a Garand rifle and a gas mask in War Bonds. I feel I’m helping to bring him back safe and sound!” You Can Spare 10%! Maybe you can’t save as much as 18% of your salary in War Bonds. But you can stretch yourself a bit more- make a few “sacrifices”—and reach Uncle Sam’s goal of 10% for War Bonds every payday! Sign up today with the Payroll Savings Plao. where you work! ters of war. Unless the German peo ple collapse, as they did in the First World War, we have a hard fight ahead of us. That does not discour age us for American troops can hold their own with any troops of Ger many, provided we supply them with appropriate weapons. W e must pre pare to meet the Germans, however, and not repeat the poor staff work which has characterized our offensive in the Solomon Islands. The criti cism of the Congressman who took part in the American offensive should not be brushed aside. He was in th e fight as a Marine Officer and he knows. This Nation has fine fighting men but we must not fail them by in competent planning her e at home. Mrs. Clyde Taylor and little daugh ter, Peggy, of Florence are visiting Mrs. Taylor’s mother, Mrs. D. A. Livingston and sister, Miss Mary Livingston, on Summer street. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Livingston, of Spartanburg spent the past weekend in the home of Mr. Livingston’s mother, Mrs. D. A. Livingston, sr., on Summer street. CONFERENCE BROTHERHOOD WILL MEET Our Conference Brotherhood will hold its tast meeting of the year at the Church of The Redeemer, New berry, Sunday, "'November 29 at 4 P.M., the subject “Freedom of Wor ship.” Officers will be elected for the year of 1943. We urge that you all come, and bring others with you in order to conserve gas and tires, and have a full attendance-—J. Cecil Bcrly, Ext. Secretary. SANTA IS COMING At a meeting at the chamber of commerce the following central com mittee was appointed to make plans for the Santa Claus parade: Jimmy Wiseman, chairman; Mrs. C. I. You- mans, co-chairman; Mrs. P. E. Scott, chairman of float committee; Mrs. Steve Griffith, chairman of invitation committee; Chris Kauffman, chair man of music; H. S. Langford, chair man of trans.portation. —L. C. Graham, Secy C of C Winter Cottons Setting • Pace In Fashion Centers Corduroy and Velveteen Creations are Outstanding, Say Smart Designers Cottons for cold weather are the keynote of current style trends in the fashion capitals of America. Outgrowing its traditional summer role, cotton is proving as never be fore that it can fill just as impor tant a place in the cold weather as in the warm. And, considering the shortages of other fibers for civilian use, the warm, winter wonders being wrought with cotton by designers and cutters are a valuable contribu tion to the war effort. Moreover, they open up a vast new market for cotton and are Expected to develop a year-round demand for cotton for clothing purposes. Outstanding among cotton’s con tributions to the fuel-rationed win ter are warm coats of corduroy and water-repellent gabardine, hollow- cut velveteen, quilted velveteen, “powder ptiff” plush and Guanaco fur lined with corduroy to match a cor duroy suit. Quilted percale and velveteen suits are outstanding in a group that in cludes denims, twills, corduroys and velveteens for town and country. Daytime cotton dresses come in many groups, but a favorite with smartly dressed women is cotton vel vet. Sportswear also has “cottoned” to cotton and there are corduroy and “powder puff” plush skating cos tumes; ski suits of water-repellent gabardine and poplin, and after-ski suits of black corduroy and velveteen that double for nights before the ap- en fireplace. In a further effort to solve the problem of keeping warm, designers are offering warm flannelette paja mas and nighties, quilted percale and gingham robes, and the corduroy robe adopted by the WAACs. For outdoor wear in the warmer southland, a white bedford-eoat. is just the thing and will be just as be coming next summer as it is now. Cotton proves it is just as fash ionable as it is fresh with its offer ings for evening. Typical examples are a black net dress, embroidered in sequins; a red velveteen bolero which can be worn with a street length dress .and cotton sweater or with a long dinner -skirt of velveteen and crepe blouse. Another popular offer ing is a black lace dress for year- round wear, with a reversible quilted velveteen wrap—black on one side and brilliant cerise on the other—^pro viding a jacket that can double for informal wear and for cold nights at home. Even the bride can wear cotton this winter, while the fashionable models include cotton velveteen, cotton lace evening length gown with detachable mantilla and a dramatic velveteen ap pliques on cotton net. ATTENTION YOUNG MEN The Navy Recruiters made their regular weekly visit to Newberry Thursday, November iJth, accepting applications for enlistment in the U. ,S. Navy and the U. S. Naval Reserve. Anyone between the ages of 17 and 50 interested in joining this branch of the Service see these Recruiters in the basement of the Newberry Post Office on Thursday of each week. The Navy offers training to men in 50 different trades. Particular atten tion is called to the young men in school ,17, 18 and 19 years old to the fact that they have excellent oppor tunities of attending one of the Navy trade schools. Misses Dorothy Abrams, Margaret Welbom, Louise Purcell, Bebe Pur cell and Anna Hart attended the Thanksgiving “hop” at the Citadel in Charleston last Friday night. Carpenter’s ... is ready for / H CHRISTMAS SHOPPING is in the air ... and if it’s gifts, practical, useful and apprec iated gifts, you’ll find them here in a wide variety. 5- Our store has truly taken on t the the Christmas spirit. Our years of experience in catering to the demands of gift buyers has enabled us to secure one of the most pleasing selections we have ever offered. You’ll be delighted in seeking gifts here, and you’ll find that eager delight on the part of our salespeople to help you in'selecting just the right gift. 5 You’ll find gifts for women, the younger misses or the children—useful gifts for the home or play gifts for the children; and all attrac tively boxed and beribboned in the spirit of Christmas. ^ Choose your gifts early. Stocks in every department of our store are most complete . . . and use our lay-away plan if you wish. CARPENTER’S