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The Newberry Shn
Friday, Octob® S, 1947
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NEWBERRY, S. C.
0. F. Armfield
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SPECTATOR
The sweet potato! How much
of our Southern life is associated
with that delicious, nourishing,
sustaining food.
Of course you know that a bak
ed potato with a glass of milk or
a little butter is highly nutri
tious. “Possum and ‘taers’ ” will
inspire any pen. The Potato, by
the way, balances the oily rich
ness of the possum.
Some years ago we had a Po
tato Day in Manning. Miss Car-
rie Carson’, then our tireless
Home Demonstration Agent, had
appealed to the ladies of the
county to submit dishes of pota
to confections. Twenty three or
twenty four recipes were submit
ted, with the inviting skill of
the ladies beguilingly proved by
the tempting dishes. Of course
there were baked potatoes, with
the natural syrup oozing out and
running all over the “tuber”
What memories of school day.-
and great pans of baked potatoes
kept in the oven, or even under
the range. Boiled potatoes, can
died potatoes, Potato Soufflee.
(I’m already getting over my
depth.) There were potato
doughnuts, and of course, potato
pie. A potato pie can be a dish
that would be a poem of food.
Sounds like poem in pomme de
terre, as the French say, I think.
It is appropriate that we have
“Southern dishes,” not just
“Southern fried chicken”. Must
we copy other people and have
only the dishes they serve?
How many people can cook
rice? Surely we ought to learn.
Some people have an idea that
rice is a Carolina dish and that
we should discard it. The best
grade of rice is called “Carolina
rice”. If served as some serve it
it were better discarded. But rice
is the world’s great staple cereal
—or whatever one may call it. 1
once was associated with a Prof
essor of Geography of Yale. He
told me that more rice can be
produced in a given space than
any other food. Rice is served
twice a day below the Rio Grande
—Almuerzo and Comida, lunch
and dinner. Rice and spuds are
old friends to the South of us.
In Peru rice is cooked with lard;
they don’t use gravy.
By the way, I’ve read of a diet
of rice, fruit and lean meat to
reduce blood pressure. However,
rice is fine food when properly
“cooked”—as few people can pre
pare il.
I wonder if a “Rice Festival”
might be staged in Charleston. I
don’t know whether anyone un
der 60 can cook the rice just right.
It is becoming a lost art, “one
with Nineveh and Tyre”, as Kip
ling sang.
What about a “Hominy meal?”
What I mean is cooked grits, not
big “Lye Hominy” of Virginia.
Of all the sad articles of diet the
race is between rice and hominy
as usually served. But there was
a time when they ranked at the
top. Some cooks take slices of
the most delicious ham and pro
duce something like durable sole
leather.
Perhaps at present prices it is
well to make it tough and last
ing.
Shortly after my arrival in
South America I was appointed
as Director of the Northern Re
gion, with headquarters in the
old Andean mountain city of
Cajamarca, the city to which the
Indians brought gold and filled
the room as the ransom for the
Inca, Atahualpa.
To reach my headquarters,
from the Nation’s Capital. I trav
elled forty eight hours by sea,
one day by train, and two days
horseback, climbing thirteen
thousand feet to the cumbre, or
back bone of the Andes.
The train was due for a lunch
stop at a place called Tembladera.
There we were entertained at
Almuerzo (lunch) by an official
group. I do not remember much
about it except that we had five
plates, each with rice. Rice with
fried egg; rice with stew; rice
with steak; rice with rabbit: and
rice with something else, though
I recall the five plates of rice.
Not even a native of Charleston,
Georgetown or Beaufort can eat
five plates of rice, though I’ve
thought some boys on the farm
could eat a peck of rice at one
sitting and with one serving.
For some reason we have in-
gloriously surrendered our rice
for spuds, Irish Potatoes, Idaho
Potatoes at that. We’ve heard
how valiantly General Francis
Marion waged war, sustained by
a Caolina sweet potato, whose
peel was fed to his noble horse;
but we have no inspiring story of
a Carolinian doing deeds of reck
less daring, or climbing the
heights of achievement through
the mighty spud of Idaho, or the
beans of New England.
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Rice has potential explosive
power, as the young bride learn
ed to her dismay. You know
about the pig stuffed with rice?
Well the story is that the bride,
knowing very little about rice,
and not much about cookery,
stuffed a pig with raw rice, sew
ed him up and put him in the
oven. In time the expanding,
swelling rice burst the body of
the pig, blew up the range and
made the whole kitchen look like
a scene of devastation, most of
the rice and pig sticking to the
ceiling. Of course that might be
a feminine device to get rid of
a husband, in apparent innocence.
Our Governor has offended our
Real Estate brethren by his stern
rebuke to them in his address of
welcome, it was a bit irregular,
you know, to welcome the breth
ren from many States with a
swift kick. The occasion called
for a Governor-Ansel speech —
Governor Ansel congratulated
everybody about everything and
beamed with good fellowship on
the assembled citizens. Governor
Thurmond, feeling that veterans
and others had been imposed on
by landlords, agents and others,
entered the fray with both fists
hitting out in all directions. The
Myrtle Beach people didn’t like
it; the Convention hosts didn’t
approve it; and the Convention
guests didn’t enjoy it.
One may wonder whether the
Governor was correctly inform
ed. Apart from the fact that it
is irregular to greet your guests
with harsh words, are the charges
well founded? s
When I buy a pound of meat
am not acting as a Democrat, but
as a man. Politics is not sup
posed to govern grocery stores,
but we might look at facts, for
facts are facts, just as meat is
meat. There may be a Republi
can beef and Democratic beef,
but money is money; a dollar is
a dollar.
Our memories may be short but
what started most o f this spiral
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of prices? When the boys thought
of home in the lonely vigils of
camps and ships they thought of
a job and a home. Most of us
thought of fuIFtime employment,
full time production, peace, pros
perity and plenty. We were all
ready for a burst of production.
Just then President Truman
threw a monkey wrench into the
machinery. Under the spell of
Henry Wallace Mr. Truman be
gan to challenge industry to pay
twenty five per cent more wages
without increasing prices. From
that moment, we have had a
race, prices rose, wages rose, pri
ces rose, wages rose, prices rose
again, then wages rose again—
and again and again. Many peo
ple were squeezed between in
dustrial wages and commodity
prices. Nobody is better for all
this, but millions are so hard
pressed that they are being
crushed.
Prices would have risen, prob
ably, but natural causes would
have had a more or less orderly
course. Politicians have no busi
ness trying to run the intimate
affairs of the citizenry.
Where are the real estate men?
Are rents to remain stable while
everything else skyrockets? I
know that some rents are soar
ing, but when ordinary pears
and apples are being sold for fif
teen cents a pound what does one
expect of rents and land sales?
When you ask a man to pick
cotton and he receives from six
to eight dollars a day, are the
others to maintain the old prices?
No one man and no group de
serves all the blame; all are just
swimming with the current.
When we refuse to buy, the prices
will come down. We are still
buying, buying with strong lan
guage and heavy indignation—
but buying. We cannot stop buy
ing, all buying, but let your
sturdy Scotch blood have free
course. We are indulging our
tastes as long as the money lasts.
Why not ease up a little now,
even while the money cries aloud'
to express the power of your
purse?
We are not a body of children;
we know that the fruit man will
not reduce his prices as long as
he can sell all his stock at pre
vailing prices. Would you do it?
Certainly not.
It is very shallow reasoning
unless we gu more deeply into the
subject. On what do we base
prices? Everybody has some sort
of price plan, based on a cost
scale, except farmers; they buy
at the other man’s price, and sell
at the other man’s price, in a gen
eral way. But when you make a
note of your capital, the wages
you pay, the insurance, taxes, de
preciation, freight—and a half
dozen other items, then add a
profit, that is your price. When
we consumers clamor for reduc
ing prices what can he reduce?
He can reduce only his profit—
the other items are beyond his
control, or largely so. If you re
duce his profit sharply he will
have to go out of business, for no
man can do business without a
profit, except a salaried lecturer
who condemns the profit-motive.
Hiding behind his snug salary he
condemns the profit-motive.
If you buy lumber or hardware,
and employ someone to do a little
work on a building, you will find
that the real estate men are not
the only people who walk in the
clouds.
“Judge W. F. Etchison, who
recently passed on, was in truth
a gentleman of the old school,
meaning that he had natural dig
nity, graciousness, good humor,
patience, broad sympathy, and
understanding, and the courtly
manner of an engaging sort.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
All persons having claims
against the estate of Moses Gra
ham, deceased, are hereby noti
fied o file the same, duly veri
fied, with the undersigned, and
those indebted to said estate will
please make payment likewise.
Trannie Graham,
Administratrix.
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National Employ The
Handicapped Week
On August 11, 1946, Congress,
by joint resolution, designated the
first full week in October of each
year a s National Employ the Phy
sically Handicapped Week. Presi
dent Truman has by proclamation
officially called upon the people of
the United States to observe the
week of October 6-11, 1947, in this
connection.
Mayor David L. Hayes has is
sued a proclamation to the citizens
of Newberry as follows:
WHEREAS, the fjrst full week
in October each year has been des
ignated by Congress as National
Employ the Physically Handicap-
iped Week, and
WHEREAS, there are in this
community numerous handicapped
persons, many of whom were
wounded or disabled in World
Wars I and H and are deserving of
self-supporting jobs in which 'they
can make useful contributions to
our community,
NOW, THEREFORE, I, David
Hayes, Mayor of the City of New
berry do set aside the week of
October 5-11, 1947, as National
Employ the Physically Handicap
ped Week, and I call upon all lo
cal officials, all local employers,
all local organizations and all
members of this community to as
sist in placing our handicapped
fellow citizens in gainful employ
ment. Since the South Carolina
State Employment Service is
charged with the responsibility of
placing all unemployed workers,
including the handicapped, you are
urged to give this agency every
assistance. All employers are ur
gently requested to place all their
job orders with the local Employ
ment Service office since their
knowledge and experience will in
sure that handicapped workers re
ferred to jobs will, through prop
er selection, be fully qualified to
perform the required duties of the
position.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I
have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the City of New
berry to be affixed.
Dave L. Hayes,
Mayor.
MRS. LENA GLYMPH
Mrs. Lena Glymph, 77, died
early Monday night at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Fred Smith in the
Mt. Pleasant section of the coun
ty. She had been in declining
health for several years.
She was a daughter.of the late
John and Eugenia Cromer Gilliam
and was born and reared in the
Mt. Pleasant community. She was
a faithful member of Mt. Pleasant
Methodist church. Her husband,
Robert Glymph, preceded her to
the grave two years ago.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday afternoon at three o’clock
at the McSwain Funeral home with
Rev. James Gilliam in charge, as
sisted by Rev. T. E. Gunter. Inter
ment was in Mt. Pleasant Metho
dist church cemetery.
She is survived by the following
children: Mrs. Eddie Graham,
Dewey Glymph and T. B. Glymph,
all of Newberry; Edgar Glymph
and Robert Glymph, both of Po-
maria; the following brothers and
sisters: Tom Gilliam and Newton
Gilliam, Jim Mack and Mrs. Mace
Cannon, all of Newberry, and Mrs.
Fred Smith, Pomaria; 16 grand
children and four great-grandchild
ren.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kadel have
returned to their home in Cin
cinnati, Ohio, after spending a
few days with Mr. Kadel’s sister,
Mrs. E. A. Brooks and Mr. Brooks.
Macedonia Church
100TH Anniversary
On Sunday, September 28, the
congregation of the Macedonia
Lutheran church, Prosperity, will
observe the 100th anniversary of
the founding of the church.
Former pastors and members
wall be among the speakers on the
occasion. Rev. J. B. Harman, a
former pastor, will conduct the
adult Sunday school class at ten
o’clock, and Rev. Arthur Ballen-
tine, former member and only son
of the congregation in the minis
try will deliver the sermon, “The
Christian Heritage.” Rev. Ballen-
tine is now pastor of the St. Mark-
Corinth parish.
Following the morning service,
dinner will be served on the
grounds.
At 2:30 p. m., the service will be
continued with an address by Rev.
Edgar Z. Pence, another former
pastor of the church, who is now
pastor of the Trinity Lutheran
church in Greenville.
Rev. Karl W. Kinard, president
of the Synod, will bring greetings,
and greetings from the Newberry
conference will 'be brought by the
president ?f the conference, Rev.
C. J. Rice.
A history of the church has been
written by Pastor Ballentine and
copies will be sold before service
and during the lunch hour.
All former pastors, former mem
bers, members and friends of the
congregation are invited to attend.
Mrs. Pat Coggin and daughter
Cornelia, of Blackille, are visit
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
E. Monts.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson C. Kiser
were in Newberry Sunday after
returning from their wedding
trip to North Carolina. They left
Sunday afternoon for St. George,
where they will make their home.
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