The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, April 13, 1945, Image 4
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NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
O. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
Published Every Friday In The Year
Entered as second-class matter
December 6, 1937, at tht postoffice
at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
SPECTATOR
This is the Easter season. Easter
answers the great question: After
death, What? The churches will
make out of it a great celebration,
a brilliant jubilation. And quite
naturally, for the church is built on
the risen Lord. Unless He rose from
the dead our faith is vain, as Paul,
tells us. A great teacher, He was,
a great example for righteousness;
hut He rose from the dead, having
explored and experienced death it
self. So He marks the way all of us
must travel. Death is the one ex
perience we must all have. We do
not enjoy the good things equally;
nor suffer equally; nor become ex
alted or humbled equally; nor are
we equal in sickness, or in the pomp
and circumstance of rich funerals;
but we are equally dead, when we
die; and all must look to Him eqaul-
ly for guidance through the way to
redemption. “I am the way, the
truth and the life,” He tells us.
There are some who challenge the
resurrection, just as they doubt all
miracles. As the poet said: “Know,
then, thyself; presume not God to
siian." But what doubted of the
miracles knows himself?
Can you explain all the processes
of your body or your mind? Do
you understand how and Why the
brown cow eats green grass and
gives white milk Can you tell us
why the little black seed produces a
green watermelon with red meat
and a white rind? Do you know
how the mind works ? Why do six
men, eating the same food, nourish
ing their brain with glood enriched
by the same food, go out into six
flrStfjlct professions, thinking on very
different lines? How do you walk?
Do we really know, even a small
part of that which is ourselves?
Yet we presume to question the
power of God, though we live by it
every day. Indeed, as Paul asks,
“Why soould it seem incredible that
God should raise the dead’? We
sleep, yet awaken. Do you under
stand that? If God is life, why won
der that He should raise the dead; or
carry on life in change forms?
The seed dies that it may sprout;
or the seed changes its form and
comes forth into newness of life,
for a dead thing could not give life.
The seed undergoes a change in or
der to come forth in a larger life. |
So, with us; the body .we have is the
outer skin covering the germinating
difine spark. We throw off the skin !
and the seed grows into a new life, ]
transformed. We know this is every
day life; Jesus rose from the dead
to prove that we, too, shall live
always. That is the resurrection.
Haven’t you wondered how much
money a railroad takes in and from
what sources it receives its reve
nue? There is the annual statement
of a railroad open before me. Here’s
what it says: Operating revenues for
1944 were 156,720,899. This was
81,172,000 below 1943. The operat
ing expense was $109,122,118, five
million more than in 1943. Note that:
revenue more than a million LESS,
but expenses five million MORE. Of
course “operating expense” isn’t all
the expense. But it was about 70
per cent of the operating revenue.
Railroads pay taxes and interest on
borrowed money. This railroadpaid
$24,015,149 in taxes.
This Company had 24,718 em
ployees last year, about 450 more
than in 1943. It had 22,267 stock
holders. In other words, 22,267 peo
ple own the Company and they em
ploy 24,718 people. The Company
has 2,243 miles of road.
This Company did not get rich
hauling passengers; no railroad Com
pany does. Of the total receipts
less than nine per cent came from
passengers; 85 per cent came from
hauling freight. Well, what about
express and mail? We’ve always
heard aibout those two as rich reve
nue producers. Express and mail
together brought in 6.28 per cent.
41 1-4 per cent of all income was
paid in wages; 13 1-4 per cent for
supplies; 7 per cent for fuel; 15 1-4
per cent for taxes; 4 1-2 per cent
to other railroads for use of their
equipment and facilities.
Well, what do the owners receieve?
The Company earned $2.30 on each
share of stock. It paid $9.78 in
taxes on each share, as against $2.30
earned for each share of stock. It
paid only $l.f0 on each share, re
serving the balance for future de
mands.
To maintain roadbed and struc
tures the Company spent 10 1-2 per
cent of its income and 17 per cent
for maintaining rolling stock.
The company has an investment of
$408,000,000.
Here are some interesting figures,
comparing 1917 and 1944. Em
ployees, 44,000 in 1917, against 24,-
000 in 1944; locomotives, 1,489 in
1917, against 770 in 1944; freight
cars in 1917 were 54,000 against
26,000 in 1944; passenger cars 1254
in 1917, against 768 in 1944; but
passengers in 1917 were 648,000,000
against 703,000,000; 10 1-2 million
tons of freight in 1917, against 15
This is
CLEAN-0UT-Y0UR-
CL0THES-CL0SET WEEK
XVIGHT NOW, 125 million innocent men, women, and chil
dren in war-torn European countries alone, are in piti
fully desperate need of clothing. If every American
family will make this week “CLEAN-OUT-YOUR-CLOTHES-
CLOSET WEEK,” enough spare clothing, shoes, and bed
clothes will be obtained to go far toward relieving the
suffering of these people. Will you help? Then call your
local UNCC Committee for full irformation.
UNITED NATIONAL CLOTHING COLLECTION
For Overseas War ReKef • Henry J. Kaiser, National Chairman
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Kalional Clothing Collection, and sponsored by
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^WILD LIFE
SOUTH CAROLINA
> w 1 th PROF- FRANKLIN .SHERMAN
M'-Cs-fc-MSOft COL-LECc-DBPT OO ZOOLOGY
GREEN LIZARD (“CHAMELEON”)
We have only one distinctly green
;ecies of lizard in South Carolina
and its color is changeable from
green to gray to brown, hence often
called “chameleon” because similar-
to some foreign lidards of that name.
Our green lizard is found from
North Carolina to Florida and Texas,
common throughout this state but
fewer in mountains. Those usually
seen are from 4 to 8 inches long.
Color above is bright green, whitish
on belly.
It habitually climbs into low trees,
bushes and weeds where its bright
green color may be to its advantage
in two ways; (1) by concealing it
from enemies, and (2) by enabling it
to approach its victims, it feeds upon
insects which it finds among the fol
iage, and is presumably somewhat
beneficial.
In accordance with its climbing
habits it has the special characteris
tic that its toes are broadened, with
crosswise ridges beneath, enabling it
to get a firmer hold on bark, twigs,
etc., than ordinary lizard-toes would
do; it climbs expertly and will even
leap squirrel-like for a few inches
from one twig to another.
The males can expand loose skin
on the throat, fanwise (flat) to di
ameter of upward of an inch, nnd this
this distension is pink in/ color, quite;
handsome in combination with the
green. This is done more especially
when interested or excited, as when
approaching a mate or about to fight
with rival, and some time it will
rise and lower the head up -and dow r n,
nodding-like
In winter you may find them un
der stones or loose dead bark, and at
this cool season, they re sluggish and
are gray or brown in color. I shut a
half-dozen of these, sluggish chilled
brown specimens into an empty shoe-
box and took them in the house.
When the box was opened two hours
later, they Were all lively an dtoright
green, a good indication tht green
is their norml color in active life.
Their change of color seems asso
ciated with temperature and light,
and is perhaps also influenced by
excitement. ”
Like all of our South Carolina liz
ards it is entirely non-venomous,,
though when caught in the-hand it
may bite enough to pinch the skin
harmlessly.
They reporduce by the * laying of
eggs. -
Watch one when you get the
chance*. Catch it and examine the
toes. Experiment with its changes
of color if you wish.
millions in 1944; $40,000,000 in
wages in 1917 against 65 millions in
1944. Interesting, isn’t it?
That is typical in a way: more bus
iness, more wages, more taxes, less
net profit. It is worth repeating,
that this railroad, in a great trans
portation boom, earned for its own
ers—all the net profit, I’m speaking
of—, not merely what it paid in divi
dends—earned for the owners $2.30
a share, though it paid in taxes $24,-
015,419, or a n amount equal to $9.78
a share—paid in taxes four times as
much as it earned for the owners.
Who are the owners of that rail
road? A few big, fat, overdressed
men, smoking strong cigars? No;
22,267 people.
ing fat out of the war; some people
—millions of them—are scraping the
bottom of the barrel. They are some
of our best, our choicest • people.
Let’s not gear State expenditures at
a speed too fast for them.
When the period of re-adjustment
comes, and our tax-revenues fall off
sharply, how shall we provide for
the operation of the State govern
ment and its institutions on the scale
now being adopted by the Legisla
ture? Every man in the Legisla
ture who was a grown man in 1932
should know what to expect. If by
good fortune we may soften the blow,
all well and good; but surely we are
foolish people to spend today on the
basis of a boom income; and we are
even more foolish to commit the
State to this scale of spending. Of
course the world is full of improvi
dent people, it always has been; but
the State should not be led by its
spendthrifts -’ and reckless people,
but by its brains, knowledge, char
acter and experience.
Anybody ten spend money; no
genius is required to throw money
away. Nor is a soft heart much
excuse for a soft head. Nor, indeed,
can a soft heart and a free-handed
attitude, escape the consequences of
prodigality.
Every man worthy a place of lead
ership knows that we cannot hope
to maintain our present scale of pub
lic spending; there is, then, an obli
gation on our leaders to deal wise
ly, frugally, with public money.
Most people are improvident.
What think you of those who are
spending all the money in the fat
pay enveloipes ? Many are spending
$75.00 a week now who will have to
re-adjust themselves to less than
half that amount. Do you think it
can be done? Well, we have millions
of men and women who are still liv
ing on small pay. These people still
contribute to the churches, buy bonds,
stint and “skimp” all the time, wear
thread-bare clothes—and carry on.
High wages didn’t reach them but
high prices did—and do. Not every
body in this great country is wax-
The. South isn’t so bad, after all.
I love old Virginia; am a'grandsdn
of the old Dominion; so when I heard
about the Virginia Liquor Store
plan I felt that it must be good. But
consider this: Virginia had a liquor
bill of 13.91 gallons for every man,
woman and child, White .and colored,
while South Carolina consumed ' 6,24
gallons,—not half a« much!'
An interesting fact is that the
South, with the exception of Flor
ida, drinks less than the other, sec
tions. The heaviest drinking appears
to be in the District of Columbia and
the States of the North Atlantic
coast, the Pacific coast and some
mountain States. The great farm
belt of the South and middle West
seems to drink much less than the
other sections. . . .*; :
The liquor agitation in- obr Legis
lature seems to be primarily due to
the wealth of some liquor dealers.
I don’t know any good plan for deal
ing with' liquor; it is doubtful if a
good plan can be devised for a bad
business; but the fact that'some men
may get rich is no' argument for the
State to sell Uquor. If the State re
gards a business as legitimate, and
licenses that business, why object
to the prosperity of 'the business
which the State itself sanctions? If
the liquor business is a legitimate
oofjimercial enterprise—that is one
thing; if it be not legitimate—do a-
way with it. But there is still no
argument for State- liquor stores.
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AFTER DRAWING SY
SGT. "PAT DENMAN,
IN '-THE LEATHERNBCK'
'HEN a Jap 75-mm gun threatened to halt landing parties.at
Bougainville, Marine Sgt. Robert A. Owens placed four men to cover fire
from adjacent bunkers and then charged into the mouth of the cannon. He
entered the emplacement through the fire port, drove the gun crew out and
insured their destruction before he himself was wounded. War Bonds helped
-£** aha which bis mpn covered his heroic feat. Sergt. Owens
The State has no right to engage in
a legitimate commercial business;
and surely it has no right to engage
in a bad or improper business.
It seems to me that the only man
who has any ground to object to the
high price of liquor is the man who
buys it Certainly no one compels
him to buy liquor; nor can liquor be
regarded as a common necessity.
A man called put to me recently—
a farmer friend of mine—“Why rave
about a ceiling price on liquor? Why
don’t they put a ceiling price on one-
horse wagons and mules”?
What is the real interest of our
State in this—to control the profits;
to reduce the price of liquors; to get
all the profits; or to promote public
order? The voters of this State have
repeatedly called on the Legislature
to declare liquor an outlaw, an il
legitimate business. Shall the Legis
lature then, make the State itself the
liquor dealer?
1 .
MRS. SUSAN HALTIWANGER
Mrs. Susan Emma Haltiwanger>
67, died at 4 o’clock Sunday after
noon at her home in Chapin, after
an illness of several years.' She had
lived in that community all her life
where she was a member of Holy
Trinity Lutheran church. She is
survived by her husband, John Ad
am Haltiwanger of Chapin; two
daughters, Mrs. Alma Shealy of
Chaipin and Mrs. Essie Lott of Eau
Claire; three sons, Clarence Halti
wanger and Claude Haltiwanger,
both of Charleston; Carroll L. Hal
tiwanger of Chapin; four sisters,
Mrs. C. C. Boland of Chapin, Mrs.
P. A. Dailey of Irmo, Mrs. J. W.
George of Prosperity, Mrs. I. B.
Leslie of Newberry; one brother, J.
S. Comalander of Chapin, and 11
grandchildren.
, Funeral, services were held at 4
o’clock Monday afternoon from the
residence in Chapin conducted by
her pastor, Rev. Albert Stemmer-
mann of Little Mountain. Inter
ment was in the family cemetery at
Chapin.
Prof, and Mrs. B. B. Leitzsey, Jr.
of Florence, were recent visitors in
the home of Professor . Leitzsey’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Leitz
sey, in the Mt. Bethel-Garmany com-
m unity.
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0O8BV WAS DOING KPat
CAMP ROBERT’SiCAi,WHEN
HE HEARD THE SpoRTiNG
HEWS NAMED HIM "MOST
VALUABLE AMERICAN
LEAGUER. OF 19W"—
YOU CAUSE A MOST
valuable American
IF TOO CONTINUE TO
BUY WAR BONOS
U. S. Treasury Department
McDOWELL-LANE
Mr. John B. McDowell announces
the marriage of his daughter, Gladys
Ina to Pvt. Edward A. Lane, of
.Spokane, Washington, and Camp
Butner, N. C., on Wednesday after
noon April 4th.
Pvt. Lane is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. S. Lane, of Spokane,
Washington.
Mrs. Lane will continue to make
her home in Newberry with her
father on Evans stret, while her hus
band is in service.
Mrs. Frank J. Kennerley of Wil
mington Del., and son Robert B. Ken
nerley of Philadelphia, were visitors
during the Easter holidays in the
home of Mrs. Kennerley’s brother, B.
B. Leitzsey and family.
KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN
PARISH
J. B. Harman, -pastor.
Bethany—10:30 a. m., church wor
ship with sermon.
ll:30i a. m., Sunday school, Mr. E.
B. Hite, supt.
12:30 p. m., Luther League.
Summer Memorial—10:30 a- m.,
Sunday school, Mr. M. E. Shealy,
supt.
11:30 a. m.,-church worship with
sermon.
6 p. m., Luther League.
Lonnie (Hop) Franklin returned to
Washington, D. C. Monday where he
is employed after spending three
weeks at his home here on College
street.
Their very
depend onyml
l
The very lives of multitudes in war-torn
countries depend on the filling of their des
perate need for clothing.
The demands of America’s armed forces
and civilian needs are so great that only a
small amount of new clothing can be spared
for overseas relief.
But all of us can spare some serviceable
used clothing—to provide the 150 million
pounds that must be collected this month
for that purpose.
In die clothes closets and attics of Amer
ica’s homes is enough usable, spare clothing
to help care for the 125 million men, women,
and children-in Europe alone-who have
given all but life itself toward the Mine last
ing peace we all are fighting for.
Let’s get it out—and send it off—NOW l
What YOU Can Do!
1 Get together all the serviceable used summer and
winter clothing you can spare. This includes: Men’s,
women’s, children’s, and infants’ wear, and shoes.
Overcoats, topcoats, suits, dresses, shirts, skirts,
jackets, pants, work clothes, gloves, underwear, sleep
ing garments, robes, sweaters, shawls, and all knit
goods. Also blankets, bedclothes.
*2 Take your contribution to your local COLLEC
TION DEPOT now or arrange to hove >c r
LOCAL COMMITTEE collect it before April SOt:-..
3 Support your Local Committee not only with your
clothing contribution but also with your time, effort
and energy.
Uktuti) KATiGriAL CLOTHING COLLECTION
for Overseas War Relief • HENRY J. KAISER, National Chairman
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