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THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1947 1218 College Street Newberry, south Carolina O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher Published Every Friday in the Year Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year in advance; Out side S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. CLASSIFIED~RATES: One cents per word, minimum of 35c; three insertions for price of two. Long term classified rates on request. Cards of Thanks, Tributes, etc., will be charged for at 50c each. The SPECTATOR There is a campaign against the South. Perhaps it is against South erners and not against the South, for South is good or bad according to the people. On my table lies a weekly maga zine, “The Saturday Review of Lit erature”. It has published reviews of some books which are not favor able to the South. One such book is by a Southerner. We have some Southerners, who find eager buy ers for their opologies for our ig norance, our narrowness, our mean ness—and all that. i am reminded of some “revela tions” published years ago in Col lier’s. One man showed that some of our mill workers received no pay at the end of the week. Much ado was made of that. By reading the photostatic copy of the man’s ac count it was perfectly clear why he hadn’t received anything. That at tack was on the Brandon Corpora tion. I wrote to “Collier’s” and of fered to show them far worse con ditions within a few blocks of their office. In the book by a Southerner the poor share-cropper is held up for sympathy. What is a share-crop per? Down here two men make a bargain for the operation of a farm. One man, the land-owner, will “fur nish” the land and the fertilizer; the other man will “furnish” the stock and labor. They divide the harvest. The land-owner provides the land, usually with house and barn. If the operation is on the ba sis of fifty acres of productive land, there are probably some additional acres in wootfe. The land-owner is contributing his investment of three acres or four thousand dollars (in days of cheaper land), together with about three hundred dollars in fer tilizer. From his share the land- owner pays taxes, insurance and upkeep. The stock are fed on the land, more or less. The share-crop per lives in the house and gets his fuel. If that partnership should result in a harvest of twenty-five bales of cotton, three thousand pounds of tobacco, three hundred bushels of com, a hundred bushels of potatoes, twenty-five bushels of wheat, an adequate supply of vegetables, a cow, a dozen hogs, fifty crickens, how would that work out? I think one could find hundreds of share croppers who have done as well, as I’ve suggested. In'dollars and cents, this year the share-cropper should have received a half of three thous and dollars for cotton, a half of sev en hundred dollars for tobacco. The hogs, chickens, potatoes and wheat would have gone to him. Here we have the share-cropper living at home, in considerable degree, and earning more than eighteen hund red dollars in cash. You will observe that the three . thousand dollars for cotton was about two thausand dollars below the market.' Our Suthern critics suggest that the share-cropper is robbed of his share. We have no doubt that many a share-cropper is robbed. But is anybody else ever swindled? Let us admit that some people, many people, are swindled. Not only are Colored people swindled, but White people, too. No one can claim that the South is a little heaven; what is overlooked is that the general level of conduct in the South will bear comparison with the conduct of any other region on the earth. If the South is so bad, so mean, so oppressive; if the whole attitude of the South is so glaringly bad that the' South is a fair target for scorn and derision of Northern critics, ana weak apologies of Southern “Lib erals”, then it must be true that the North and West must be free from wrong-doing. In those favored re gions all must be milk and honey, one glad, sweet song. As you know, I must not throw rocks around, if i myself live in a glass house; nor must I constantly condemn in an other man the things I myself do. You will recall the penetrating sarcasm of thp Great Teacher when He said; “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam tnat is in thine won eye? . . . Thou hyocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye”. We haven’t changed much since the Galilean talked on the “mount”, have we? Did you ever hear of “sweat shop” up North? Even in New York City. Have our Colored people been mistreated in New York, or Boston, or Philadelphia, or Detroit, or Chicago? Did you hear how the ignorant immigrant were exploited up North? is it true that gangsters terroriz ed small business in Northern cities? Yes, it is quite true. Is it a fact that Southern truck-drivers were beaten and dragged off their trucks in New York? Oh, yes; all too true. Of course that might have been done only to White driv ers from the South! . Our Northern friends need not try to wear a mantle of superior righteousness; it doesn’t fit them, and is unbecoming. I know that Northern people are like the rest of us: some good, others bad; the majority “so-so”. Some men in Georgia killed a Colored man. I know nothing ot the circumstances; on the face of it, the act was deplorable and the State of Georgia should investigate the crime. Human life should not be cheap, ragerdless of race or Co lor; nor should we condone bully ing tactics or acts of oppression. The South, in general, is as fair and free from violence as any other section. We are being played up on the air, in the newspapers, maga zines and books, but most of those who slander the South are cousins of Judas; they do anything for thirty pieces of silver. They are not seeking truth, but isolated cases of unfairness. As an example of the exaggera tion in some of the books, this one speaks of “scheming by money- heavy Southern industrialists and politicians to steal the 1944 election by the Electoral vote.” I ought to know something about the cam paign of 1944, for only South Caro lina of all the Southern States had an independent electoral ticket. Where the heavy money bags were I do not know. Certain it is that throughout the whole campaign there was far less money than was used in one ward in any city of the North! And with all this smug as- suption of righteousness, they over look the hundreds of millions of dollars of W. P. A. money spent in New York State alone for the sake of having the votes in hand! How one must thrill to disregard the virtual corruption of several million people and talk about in dustrial money-bags of the South!! Truly the beam in the eye blinds Greenville Poultry Truck Will Load At NEWBERRY Behind the New Court House JANUARY 16th, 1947 From 10 till 11 A. M. Colored Hens ~~ 25c Leghorn Hens ~~ 21c Roosters ~~ 12c All Turkeys. 28c Ducks and Geese ~~ 15c Greenville Poultry Co. This Schedule Will Be Weekly Until Further Notice. these so-called liberals to the pros titution of a nation while they search for the misdeeds of this sec tion. What about our driving? I ride on buses and drive my car hundreds cf miles every week. I see many cars and trucks on the roads and streets of the State. And here is what I see: A lot of drunken drivers, fre quently without any liquor. Acci dents on the roads—so far as I see —are not due to worn cars; some accidents may be due to worn-out drivers. But worn out cars and worn out drivers cause comparative ly little of our trouble; liquor prob ably causes many accidents, though the driver was not drunk, as we commonly think of drunkenness. Many accidents are due to the devil- may-care speed mania of some people, and the foolish risks they take. Most of us can arrivj on time by leaving an hour, or even a half hour, earlier and driving at forty miles an hour, or thirty five. Some people seem to think that a car wont run at less than sixty. I’m not even thinking of the speed artists who start with a jump and reach eighty within a mile. Slower driving enables one to control his car; and it permits him to accommodate his car to that ol some smart driver, whom we al ways have with us. You know the driver I mean; the man who passes a car going at forty five and would dash into your car head-on, if you did not slow up. He is a smart driv er, he thinks, but he is foolishly im perilling his life—and yours. If both approaching drivers are equal ly foolish—there will be an ambu lance on the scene soon. But the drunken driver? The first drunken driver is just a man full of spirit—not spirits; he is gear ed high and dashes around, just full of pep, though cold sober, so far as liquor is considered. He is swept off his feet by a sort of speed ma nia. And the drunken driver, the man drunk from drink—when is ne drunk? What is drunkenness? A man may seem to be in full pos session of all his faculties, yet not quite himself. He may be able to walk like a Judge and speak as clearly as a Minister, and yet be out of timing. Some insurance companies made a study of accidents in factories Their conclusion was that even one bottle of mild alcoholic beverage threw out of liming the worker with his machine, resulting in an acci dent. Here is what it amounts to: A man who operates a machine which makes a hundred turns in a minute, must time himself to that machine. One mild drink does not make him drunk, as we think of drunkenness, but it speeds him up HAWKINS-CONNELLY Miss Sara Catherine Connelly became the bride of Ernest Berley Hawkins, Jr., in a simple but beau tiful ceremony Tuesday afternoon, December 24 at 3 o’clock at the home of the Rev. Julian B. Harman, D.D., who officiated using the double ring ceremony in the pres ence of the immediate families and a few close friends. Mrs. Herman Hawkins, the bride’s only attendant, wore an aqua crepe dress and a pink corsage. The bride chose for her wedding a pin stripe grey wool suit with which she wore black accessories and an orchid corsage. Herman Hawkins was the bride groom’s best man. Mrs. Hawkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pope Connelly is a grad uate of the Bush River high school and the Commercial department of Newberry College. Mr. Hawkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Berley Hawkins, is a graduate of Newberry high school. He served two and a half years in the Naval air corps. He is now employed by the Carolina Life in surance company in Newberry. Following a wedding trip the couple will reside with the groom’s parents on Glenn street. FORMER NEWBERRY GIRL MARRIED IN CLINTON The following announcement of interest has been received in the city: Mr. and Mrs. John Calhoun Harmon announce the marriage of their daughter Carolyn to Mr. Henry Meadors Young, Jr. Sunday, January fifth One thousand nine hundred forty seven First Presbyterian Church Clinton, South Carolina NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OF FINAL SETTLEMENT I will make a final settlement of the estate of Neal W. Workman, deceased, in the Probate Court for Newberry County, S. C., on Tues day, the 4th day of February, 1947, at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon, and will immediately thereafter ask fr my discharge as executrix of said estate. All persons having claims against the estate of Neal W. Workman, deceased, are hereby notified to file the same, duly verified, with the undersigned, or Blease and Sanit- Amand, attorneys, and those indebt ed to said estate will please make payment likewise. GENEVA T. D. WORKMAN, Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of Neal W. Workman, deceased. J3-4tp B-29’s TRAIL WEATHER Boeing B-29’s of the Army now are making regular flights over the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, spawn ing ground of blizzards, to chait storms for the government’s weath er forecasting service. Many volun teers in the new Regular Army are being trained in meteorology for assignment to weather service units in this country and at Army sta tions overseas. HIGH SPEED PLANE 'ESCAPES' Protective devices for pilots of high-speed planes of the U. S. Ar my include power-ejected seats which will toss the airmen clear of a crippled plane. THE J. R. WATKINS Co., oldest and largest institution of its kind in the world needs two dealers. Write Watkins Products, 611 E. North St., Greenville, S. C. J3-3tp RADIO AND TELEVISION SALES - SERVICE We Specialize in— PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS AND SOUND EQUIPMENT Sale of for Rental INTER OFFICE COMMUNI CATION SYSTEMS Geo. N. Martin 1303 Friend St. Phone 74-J Directly Opposite Post Office V CAR HEATERS Let us install a Heater in your car before cold weath er. elxpert Carburetor and Elec trical service. WE SPECIALIZE IN AUTO AND TRUCK REPAIRS SEASE MOTOR COMPANY Your PACKARD Dealer >13 Friend St. Phone 37-M NURSERY NOTES;— NANDINA SEED. Will buy dur ing February only any nice nandina seed you may wish to sell. Prefer them in bunches, not picked off. Bring the mto Nursery any Satur day in February. Paying 25c lb for the bunches. ROSE BUSHES, you will want to replace some or make a new bed. We have many of the varieties wtf know thrive in Newberry, both in bush roses and in runners. 85c, $10 doz for top grade, 2 yr old Texas bushes. CAMELLIAS, we now have 50 plants in stock, the most we have ever had. They are in the varie ties which succeed here. When weather gets mild come and see them. MAY WE REPEAT, before mak ing trip to Nursery phone County 4103 and ascertain if we are there, for, so often we are out on jobs and there will be no one to show you around. HAL KOHN'S MORNINGSIDE . NURSERY. Crotwell house doors, mantels, ceilings, flooring and other items for sale. See Hal Kohn at Nursery. J3-ltc PECANS ... PECANS PECANS We are buying PECANS every day ... all sizes ... any amount . . . Best Market prices paid. Shake your trees and bring us all that you don’t need. Christmas Candies are coming in every day . . . Chewing gum. Saccharine Tablets and lots of hard to get items. Come to see us at our ware house—lower Main St. . 13-4tc R. Derrill Smith & Son, Inc. 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