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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY, 41. JM7 tHE NEWBERRY SUN - - 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 cent per word, minimum of 35c; three insertions for price of two. Long term classified rates on request. The SPECTATOR Houston, Texas January 31. Making connection. Hotels crowded. Fat Stock show. This great town, great oil town. Oil der ricks, oil tanks everywhere. Takes more time to get through Houston than New York, or so it seems. Big buildings. No movie gun-men riding about, no shooting in street. All that con fined to Atlanta. All small-boy readers of Spectator will be disap pointed to hear that no bad man nas shot me yet. These men as tame as Charleston politicians in off-year. The Rolling Plains of Tex. Jan. 31, 1947 When you see a look of alarm or dismay on a woman’s face, with a slap as though killing a flea, the cause of war is a tear in the hose, or a run—or what-not. The noble creature—man—is above and be yond such follies. Laredo, Texas Feb. 1, «1947. I am either in a new world or back again to the old world. Here is Laredo.,. The Mexican influence is so great', (Spanish is heard more often than English), that it seems like going to Spain or to South America. I like the Spanish and I like these young Americans who have come from Mexican stock. British and Americans do not usually mingle with the Mexicans; they tend to go together, the British and Ameri cans, holding aloof from the others. I boarded some dingy little local buses and rode out into the poorer suburbs. I was with the plain people, of whom the Lord made so many. Kress, Sears-Roebuck and Mont gomery Ward are here. I went to Sears to exchange dollars for pesos, centavos, etc., Mexican money. The clerks speak Spanish; they are young American-born sons and daughters of Mexican immigrants. The Spanish they speak may not be the purest, but the English I us ually hear in the United States isn’t very pure. These young Americans of copper color or swarthy hue, with black hair and liquid black eyes, are hap py, smiling people, bubbling over with the sheer poy of living;—and with the Latin flair for merriment. Kress has a great store here and a fine restaurant I dropped in for a cup of coffee. All the dishes were named in Spanish and Eng lish. Why in English? Everybody i saw and heard was holding forth in the liquid music of Spanish words. I revelled in it and felt my self back in South America, though I must say that the young people here appear to be happier than those I saw in South America. Of course I was never a fancy-free tourist in South America, but a hard-pressed official beset by all the cares and difficulties of admini stration. Surely these people are happy here in Laredo. This is La tin America transplanted to the United States. I saw a little girl— little girl, mind you—in a store and asked if she were a Yankee cita (little yankee girl) and she beamed as she said “Si, Senor”. (Yes, sir.) Riding on the outskirts of Laredo I saw oranges and grape fruit on the same tree. Moreover, the oranges were both sour and sweet In this hotel—quite a handsome one—the clerks are Spanish—^Eng lish, or Mexican-American, or sec ond generation Americans, still speaking Spanish more easily than English; and naturally so because Mexican-Spanish is spoken in the homes. I had an experience this morn ing which reminded me of wrest ling with the money of Europe and South America. I never was at ease with Dutch money, the guild ers being an apple over my persim mon. I tried to exchange dollars for pesos in Sears, but had to go to the Laredo National Bank. There must have been a couple of hund red Mexican-speaking men trying to buy pesos. 1 finally got a hand ful of pesos and half-pesos in paper. We were a long line of money-ex changers. I haven’t seen any two-gun bad men; nor have I seen any long-horn Texas cattle. Brahmins are coming in and Herfords abound. At Gonzales, Texas, I saw chick ens and sheep. That was a sad blow. “And the blow almost killed father”, as the old song said. I just can’t imagine a big gun man, swaggering in his chaps, or dashing about on a msutang among chickens. The days of the he-man must be at one with Ninevah and Tyre. Tom Waring didn’t tell me about this. Vast stretches of level land greet you with endless monotony about Gonzales, until you reach some parts that might produce such fine men as Frank Burgess—who grew up in Stateburg; but mellowed in wisdom and graciousness in old Hot on the border? I shivered in the morning cold on the bank of the Rio Grande. There was snow here in December. South Carolina would be better for cattle than the exposed plains of Texas. Cattle freeze on the un protected expanse of open land. In a city bus in Monterray I read this sign: “The Board of Health forbids you to smoke in the bus”. Well, they are ahead of us. Cross ing the border on foot was easy— 5 cents—: but crossing in a car, or even on a bus, is something else again. You must go into the cus toms and get a tourist permit. The hubbub reminds me of France. Then one must deal with Mexicans on Mexican soil and with Mexican money. I thought I was an old hand with foreign money, but I held a handful in preparation for the payment of a few centovas. About the cattle business: Many cattle froze down in Texas. South Carolina offers protected fields and possibilities for abundant pastur age-all the year. The courtesous speech of the Mexican may be understood by the repeated request of a bus driver to his milling-about passengers; “Sientense por favor” meanning “Seat yourselves as a favor to me”. On the road to Monterray we passed miles and miles of flat country and then came rolling land with the mountains in the distance, rising majestically. Monterray means “King’s moun tain”. The lack of water means the difference between wealth and pov erty. Monterray is less impressive to me than Laredo, Texas, though it is a center of industry. The people think that Monterray was a dirty town of narrow streets. How far from the truth. The newer avenues have homes of beauty and splendor that compel one’s admira tion. With what money all this was done—and is maintained—I do not know. Probably the water sup ply is bad, but we pay for water, don’t we? In my ignorance I was ready to think that “no good thing could come out of Mexico”. Ignorant man that I am!! Years ago I read better statutes in South America than we have; now I see in Mexico —Mexico, mind you—many prac tices. we might well adopt. The Apostle Paul admitted his debt to the learned and unieared. Well, so may we. Nuevo Lareo, Mexico. This is Mexico, Mexico itself, all Mexico, as planned and built by the Mexicans. Laredo is on the Texas bank of the Rio Grande River—an American town but so full of Mexi can descendants that Spanish is heard everywhere. Very little English is heard here. But I like these eager-faced young Americans of the mellifluous tongue of Spain. Nuevo Laredo is a town of some size. It cannot be compared with CALLING ALL . . . CAMPAIGN WORKERS Harvey D. Gibson, national chairman of the 1947 Red Cross Fund, this week called upon all campaign workers to unite in their efforts to achieve the $60,000,000 goal. “If an opportunity to give is ex tended the entire citizenry, I am fully confident our goal will be achieved,” he said. “The campaign objective of $60,000,000 represents the absolute minimum required to continue those services for which the Red Cross is responsible.” Mr. Gibson, widely known New York finicier and philanthropist, has served the Red Cross in many important capacities since 1917. Laredo, Texas. Although Laredo is atuned to Spanish words and enlivened by the flash of dark eyes, accompanied by the ryhthmic cadences of old Mexico, the town was built by Americans. It is American. Nuevo Laredo is a sprawling place, but with an imposing Palacio del Gob- ierne (Palace of the Government) and a commodious park—the Plaza. The Plaza, a great square, has stone along the sidewalks, those benches being given by citizens with an inscription like this: “Ob- sequiado por (Given by ). Quite an idea, eh? No wonder these coppor-colored young Americans seem happy. We Americans ought to be a happy people; and we ought to throttle all the isms which would change the land of our inheritance. The greatest threat to the security of our great America is the Labor despotism. We did much to crush business monopolies but we have made a vicious Labor despotism and enthroned it. We ought to give every man his rights, but no man’s rights can be founded on injustice to others, or to any form of menace to public peace and national peace. Whoever named the Rio Grande river must have been bom and reared in a desert, for only such a man could regard this river as The Great River, as the name says. It is hardly any greater than the Pee Dee; and not even Bob Hanna would call that The Great River. All the pueblo (town) of Nuevo Laredo swarms with Muchachos (boys) wanting to shine your shoes: or with bazeers offering trinkets of some sort. The more I see of other coun tries, the more I love America, the America of our people. And I think we narrowly escaped being Rus sianized by theorists and planners. You can’t plan another man’s life; he himself must grow and develop by his own work. Most of our Government bureaucracy ought to be thrown overboard as dangerous to the real America. Debonaire Doeskin, a Winthrop fabric, falls generously to accent the slender grace of the Junior figure. Every detail delights the eye, from the fine shoulder- line to the hroa'd leather belt with its great metal buckle, and the clever wrist-clips on the smartest of sleeves. The shades are flatterers all— Carpenter’s r NEWBERRY. S. C. Manning. Newberry Will Held Tournament The upper state class C high school basketball tournament will be reeled off in the Newberry Col lege gymnasium February 27, 28 and March first, Newberry Athle tic Director W. L. Laval announc ed today. The tournament which will see some 18 boys and girls teams from throughout the upper half of the state entered, will be conducted under the supervision of Coach Laval. Last year’s class C tourney at tracted large crowds from over the Piedmont section. Officials of the high school loop expressed a desire to return to the Newberry campus for the play-offs again this season. HOME GARDEN 50 Plant Rasp- . .berry Collection consisting of 25 Sunrise, the best new, early red, and 25 Cumberland, the best black cap, for only $7.65 Postpaid. Write for FREE COPY NEW PLANTING GUIDE listing more than 800 var ieties of Fruits and Ornamentals. 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COTTON: To meet competition from other areas and other fibers, produce higher yields pel acre at lower cost per pound. Improve staple length and quality. Improve ginning. Expand grade and staple service in marketing. 8. TOBACCO: Increase yields per acre of high quality tobacco at lower cost per pound. Improve curing and grading practices. 9. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES: Improve methods of production and marketing of peaches, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, and other fruit and tduck crops. 10. FORESTRY: Take care of the farm woodlands, and do a better job in marketing the prod ucts. Reforest lands best suited to trees. « 11. SEEDS AND PLANTS: Increase production and distribution of high quality seeds and plants, including certified seed, for additional income and to aid in efficient crop production. 12. DISEASES AND INSECTS: Use up-to-date methods in fighting crop and livestock insects, diseases and parasites; household insects, rats and other pests. 13. FARM BUILDINGS: Plan and improve farm home and other buildings for health and efficiency. 14. FARM BOYS AND GIRLS: Further develop 4-H club work to train South Carolina farm boys and girls in improved farming, homemaking, health and citizenship. 15. HEALTH AND RECREATION: Develop more adequate rural health and recreational facili ties. The South Carolina National Bank