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NEWBERRY, S. C.
O. F. Armfield
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Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937,
at the- Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
Have you ever drunk from
a bottle? We be pampered
people nowadays and pour the
drink into a glass, or use two
straws, though why two, I
don’t know, unless it be to
stimulate the demand for
straws and increase the sales.
But an older generation know
how to pour the contents of a
bottle of pop down the throat
with never a drip or a dribble.
And thereby hangs a tale, as
Shakespeare says.
When I was in the City of
Cajamarca high up in the An
des of Peru, it was customary
for the Prefect, the Bishop, the
President of the Superior Court
and me to walk in many reli
gious and civic processions. Af
ter the procession back to the
starting point the official from
whose office we started served
champagne. I learned as a tee
totaller to dodge the cham
pagne, putting it back on the
tvay. Nobody was offended;
you don’t have to drink if you
don’t want to drink, though
one needn’t brag about it.
Having on several occasions
enjoyed the hospitality of the
Alcade—the Mayor—I felt im
pelled to show him some act
of hospitality. One afternoon
a fellow American and I were
walking in the Plaza when we
met the Alcade. I invited
him to join us in a drink. We
went to a store and asked what
the Alcade would have. He
insisted on taking what we
took. We were the first Am
ericans—or Yankees — he had
ever known and he thought
11 Americans were wonderful
people.
My American friend and 1
decided on ginger ale—Heen-
ger Alley—as some called it,
giving it the Spanish pronun
ciation. The clerk set out
three bottles, with three glasses.
The glasses were a reproach
even to an Indian, so the boy
j reached for a towel. The tow
el was dirtier than the glasses,
so I told him that we would
drink from the bottles. Some
minutes later I looked at the
Alcade and saw ginger ale in
his eyes, ears, nose, mouth, all
over his chin and down the
front of his shirt. You see, he
didn’t know how to drink from
a bottle.
Upon leaving the store I
bought a box of chocolates
which we three consumed,
without leaving a trace.
Several days later we again
met the Alcade. This time we
went to a place which had
clean glasses. The Alcade
thought he would show his in
timate knowledge of Americans
so, Without consulting us, he
ordered three bottles of ginger
ale. When the boy brought out
three clean glasses, Alcade
waved them aside, saying “Los
Americanos beben de las bo-
tellas, no mas”—the Americans
drink only from bottles. Then
he bough a pound of choco
lates which we three candy-
starved-men forthwith devour
ed.
The United States Court of
Appeals of the third circuit—
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Delaware — denies the demand
of the State of Georgia that
the State of Pennsylvania sur
render a run-away criminal of
Georgia who was found in
Pennsylvania.
The right of the courts to
assume jurisdiction in such a
pase is one of the many devel
opments which the Constitu
tion did not contemplate.
The Constitution of the Unit
ed States has several clauses
which indicate that when one
Sovereign State calls upon an
other sovereign State to sur
render a fugitive from its
courts or jails, the Governor of
on e sovereign State is dealing
with the Governor of another
sovereign State. The Constitu
tion says: “A person charged
in any State with Treason, Fel
ony or other crime, who shall
flee from Justice, and be found
in another State, shall, on de
mand of the executive Au
thority of the State from which
he fled, be delivered up, to be
removed to the State having
jurisdiction of the Crime.” That
is clear enough, though Gov
ernors feel that there is no
authority to compel them to
act. Governors being represen
tatives of the Sovereign digni
ty of their States, when acting
within the scope of their valid
powers. How do the Courts
come into this? No act of Con
gress, nor act of any State Leg
islature is valid to place any
condition on the exercise of
the Constitutional power as in
this case.
How does a Court assume
jurisdiction in Pennsylvania?
That is one of the practices
needing correction. In this land
of law and democracy, with
one Congress and forty-eighr
State Legislatures, and innum-
merable Boards, Commissions—
and all that—the Courts have
made so much law that the
most learned lawyer sometimes
has to cite a judge-made law
of Massachusetts as a guide for
some case in South Carolina.
When all the courts have made
law; and all the law-making
bodies have made law, no one
can do more than make a guess
at what the law is in any giv
en State at any given time.
In the case under discussion
a Georgia prisoner escaped to
Pennsylvania and invoked the
courts against being returned
to Georgia. The Federal court
says that it will not surrender
the prisoner to Georgia because
Georgia, according to the court,
treats prisoners “cruelly and
inhumanly.” Sc the Court un
dertakes to interpret Article
Four of the Constitution by
adding something that no one
ever dreamed of.
Here is a matter of States
Rights. Here is a perfectly
plain agreement among the
States, a matter between Gov
ernor and Governor, yet the
courts assume jurisdiction.
tention to what is going on,
however, with some degree of
opposition. But it is a plea
sure to repeat that our South
Carolina courts seem more
deeply grounded in good, sound
law than is true of some other
States. It is equally notable
that th e public services of the
State are in charge of officials
who are cordial and helpful.
That is probably true in the
counties and municipalities as
well. In the county where I
live we have a remarkably
friendly lot of oficials; and my
experience with Richland coun
ty is equally agreeable.
Perhaps few other men in
the State have had so many
conversations with State of
ficials. Certainly I have found
them, without exception the
readiest men to be of service.
I do not call all the names be
cause there are too many for
this occasion. Our Federal of
ficials are of the same type,
cordial, patient, cooperative. It
is always a pleasure to have
business with any of them,
from the handsome and modest
Bowers on through all the
Federal service, including, of
course, my stalwart friend, the
postmaster.
In the service of th e State I
might let my chivalrous friend.
Commissioner Coney, represent
all the fine men—and ladies—
of the service, for their name
is legion.
If I had the time I could say
something pleasant about every
man I’ve known — and know
now—in the public service. In
this I include all the State leg
islators, our United States Sen
ators and Representatives in
Congress.
I heard some one say that
politics is crooked. I wouldn’t
want you to think I am an in
nocent and walk about in a
4ream or haze. I know much
that is going on, but my words
of appreciation stand. There are
more good people than bad,
even though it may appear that
goodness is over-modest, timid
and shrinking.
I do not wish to be a de
structive critic; nor do I like
to be of the opposition. It
seems to be my lot to call at-
Holiday
Notice!
The Undersigned Banks
will not be open for business
Friday June 3rd
in observance of
Jefferson Davis’ Birthday
South Carolina National Bank
Newberry County Bank
Newberry
Joanna
The election of young Frank
lin Roosevelt may serve a good
purpose. He was not the can
didate of the Democrats, but
he made the race and was elec
ted. He was not willing to be
the slave of a label. We should
take that to heart. Here in
South Carolina — and through
out the South—we cling to the
Democratic label although Mr.
Truman and the Courts seem
to make of the name “Demo
cratic” something new and
strange to us. We need not ar
gue the point: we are not fol
lowers of Mr. Truman; nor do
we agree with the Courts.
Since a judicial decision vir
tually takes from us the Dem
ocratic Party, as we know it
and '■herish it, what shall we
do? That is the question for
us—what shall we do? Is there
no fertility of resource that will
devise a means to safeguard
our interests? Or are we beat
en?
The easy way is to fall in
line In all ages most men have
submitted tamely, but in every
age some man or some group
would rally enough sturdy spi
rits to make the issue a battle-
cry. The States Righters have
done that and are doing that.
We might organize an associ
ation of White people as an as-
sociaton and use the form of
the Democratic Party. That is
about what the C.I.O. did with
its P.A.C. And that is about
what the National Association
for the Advancement of Color
ed People has done. Unless
outsiders can break into those
organizations how can outsid
ers break into what I suggest?
We have a problem before
us: shall we solve it? or shall
we declare that we have ex
hausted all the genius of our
people? •
CLUB MEMBERS SEE IRIS
GARDENS OF SUMTER
Approximately 100 members
of the Tranwood, Hartford and
Silverstreet Home Demonstra
tion clubs attended the Iris
Festival at Sumter during the
latter part of last week.
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WANT—to show you the new
one wheel garden tractor.
Call by my home for free dem
onstration. Ted McDowell, 721
Pope street. Phone 790-W. 3tp
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Ranges — Refrigerators —
Water Heaters, Table Top and
Upright, R. M. Lominack Hdw.,
LAWN MOWERS—We have a
nice selection and the price
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Newberry, S. C. tn
WATER HOSE-—-Large stock
Rubber and plastic Water
Hose, and you will find our
prices good.—(R. M. Lominack,
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For Expert Repair Bring
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Radio Service
SALES and SERVICE
1014 Main Street
Opposite Memorial Square
24 HOURS SERVICE
elephone 311W
Evidence of
Rural Progress
The annual report of the Sil-
erstreet Home Demonstration
Club is eloquent testimony to
the marked progress being
made in the standard of living
in our rural communities here
in Newberry County. As such,
it is a source of satisfaction and
pride, not only to rural people,
but also to the business and in
dustrial interests of the county.
The slogan of the year’s work
has been “Today’s Homes
Build Tomorrow ”s ’World.
Surely the outlook for the
world of tomorrow is brighter
because of the increased com
fort, efficiency, and beauty
which is being achieved in this
as well as hundreds of rural
communities over South Caro
lina and the nation.
In evaluating this progress,
members of the Club gave first
pplace to the coming of Rural
Electrification. Not only is it
rapidly transforming and mak
ing easier the processes on the
farm, but also it is lightening
the tasks in the home. Of the
366 members of th e Club, com
posing about 30 households,
all of them report the use of
electricity for lighting, refrig
erating, ironing, and playing
radios. In addition, 18 house
holds now cooks with electrici
ty. Fifteen use electric wash
ing machines and 13 have elec
tric hot water heaters. Ten
households have large home
freezers for the preservation of
such meats as beef, pork, chic
ken, turkey, quail, squab; such
excellent fruits and berries as
peaches, pears, plums, apples,
grapes, strawberries, boysen-
berries; and vegetable, such as
corn, peas, beans, squash, to
matoes, turnips, carrots, etc.,
grown on the farm. Others rent
commercial locker space.
Next in significance has been
the installation within the last
year of telephone service which
has contributed greatly to the
ease and speed of communica
tion. Twenty six households
in the Club have this service.
Several new homes of mod
ern design, convenience, and
charm have been completed
within the year; notable among
which is the lovely, and very
complete home of the Richard
Neels, set in a background of
pines, and located just off the
Greenwood highway above Sil
verstreet. This home was plan
ned and much of the work
done by members of the fam
ily. It has all the installa
tions and comfort of the most
up-to-date city residences. Mrs.
Neel is at prerent serving the
Club as its active and efficient
president.
Many reported extensive re
modeling and renovating. Two
oil furnaces, and two floor
furnaces have been installed in
the homes of members. Others
have done exterior and interior
painting on an extensive scale.
Floors have been sanded by.
members of some of the fami
lies themselves, by the rental of
the sanding & polishing equip
ment ov/ned by Mrs. T. P.
Crooks, herself a member of
a home demonstration club.
Mrs. Crooks’ equipment can be
rented from her husband’s bus
iness establishment located at
the intersection of the Colum-
bia-Greenville and the New-
berry-Winnsboro highways.
Every member reported hay
ing worked intensively beauti
fying her grounds during the
past month; ten members have
begun working on over-all
landscaping plans.
Along with the increaeing
comforts and pleasures has
come a growing sense of the
imperative to share as exem
plified in the participation in
projects for community and
county-wide betterment, such
as the Newberry County Fair,
the Christmas Sal e of TB Seals,
the Red Cross and Cancer
drives, the Newberry County
Education Conference on the
Education Survey, Poppy Day
for disabled and distressed vet
erans, showers to the Newberry
County Hospital, and to the
County Home, contributions to
the new Community Hall, gifts
of produce to CROP, as well as
special ministries to the needy,
the sick and shut-in. Mrs. Os
borne Long, a member and past
president of the Club is serv
ing as Commander of the New
berry County Cancer Society.
She is also a past president of
the County Council of Farm
Women, Chairman of Health of
the S. C. Council of Farm Wo
men, and is at present a district
chairman of the S. C. Council
of Farm Women.
If this realization of progress
and practice of sharing can be
multiplied not only will “To
day’s Homes Build Tomorrow’s
World,” but it will be a world
of peace and plenty for all.
—Contributed.
Smith Radio Service
If you’re missing your
favorite radio programs
due to a dead or improper
ly operating receiver call
724-J or bring your set to
Carolina Electric Co., 942
Main street.
We charge only for parts
replaced—we replace only
parts we know will make
your radio right again.
E. K. (Eston) SMITH
SEEN ALONG
THE ROADSIDE
By J. M. Eleazer
Clemson Ext. Info. Specialist
I had always wondered what
Arizona would be like.
Wte arrived at Phoenix on
Sunday morning early in
March. Cotton growers had
their cars lined up when we
came out from breakfast. All
day they showed us that coun
try around there. Cotton has
grown into the state’s leading
crop. And much of it centers
there where w’e were. It is
utter desert. Irrigation brings
abundant harvests without the
use of fertilizer. They were
pre-irrigating for cotton. They
flood the land. Then when it
dries out enough, they prepare
and plant cotton much as we
do. Some of their water is
pumped from wells and much
of it comes in canals from riv
ers many miles away. We saw
a lot of date palms and citrus
trees there. Cold had damaged
the citrus but not the dates.
Their other field crop is alfalfa,
grown in rotation with cotton,
three years of each.
Cotton seed were piled in
small mountains by the mills.
Since they have practically no
rain, they don’t have to house
the cotton nor the seed. The
finest cattle country we saw
was in that vicinity. A giant
feedlot there carries thousands
of cattle. Many of them are
fed out for the ranchers who
own them. Clean lots, with
no rain. And the manure is
just in the way, a waste prod
uct of little value. How we
Amid plaster our land with
that stuff, if we had it!
Their cost for growing cot
ton are such that we felt we
could compete with them and
stay in the cotton business if
we did the job right
In addition to a few tumble-
weeds and sagebrush, here we
saw a scattering of varied sorts
of cacti across the great bleak
undeveloped reaches of desert.
And rattlesnakes are plentiful
there too, we were told. Most
of the bushes and cactus have
savage stickers on them. All
of which lead an old-timer
there to tell me that “just
about everything you find out
here in this desert country will
either bite, sting, or stick you.”
Ae we ascended the hills,
where winter snows furnish a
little water that supports some
tree growth we saw the strange
manzanita tree. It sheds its
bark instead of its leaves each
year. And the trunk and limbs
are a rich mahogany red.
Overnight from Phoenix and
we were in Los Angeles. Next
week we will start out there.
FSIDAV, JUNE 3, 1549
by placing one stick of ditch
ing dynamite every 15 inches
in the bottom of the old ditch
The SCS technicians lay out
and supervise most of these
drainage systems that are be
ing built, and the soil conser
vation district supervisors are
behind the work- in most cases.
Lespedeza is helping hold
and built the lands of Fairfield
in a big way. And on it and
some other grazing plants the
county is building a real cattle
industry.
The county agent’s office
there secured 57,250 pounds of
lespedeza seed for planting this
season. And many farmers
harvest seed locally or get it
through! other channels. So, all
in all, many tons of seed were
sown there the past spring. Add
to this the vast acreage seed
ed on past years that reseed
themselves, and you have a
lot of this great legume in
Fairfield.
Ditching is coming to the
Low Country rather rapidly. I
see signs of it at many places.
Some of it is by means of
dragline ditchers, that a num
ber of counties own. And some
of it is done with dynamite.
Clemson’s McKenzie has put
on many demonstrations of this
sort. County Agent Alford
tells of a very successful one
being blown on the farm of
E. D. Kinard down in Colleton.
H e says, “An old ditch that
was practicall filled up was
blown to a new depth of about
three and a half feet and a
width of four feet at the top
Albert Dennis down in Cal
houn county rigged him up a
four-row cotton planter that
does the full job in one throw.
He drives it, and has two boys
riding on the back of it to
feed the fertilizer to the hopper
and keep a check on the plant
ers. Thus he plants 50 to 60
acres in a day. One man and
two boys doing the work of
25 men and 25 mules!
There are five other 4-row
outfits in Calhoun county.
These are complete factory
jobs, according to County Agent
Cain.
Mechanization comes rapidly
to this former land of the plow-
boy and a mule. Assistant
County Agent Epps of Marl-
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