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T PACE EOtJft tHE NEWBEftftV StTN 1218 College Street f NEWBERRY, S. C. O. F. Armfikld Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY 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 outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS American Taxpayer Drained To Pay For England’s Socialism. BY SPECTATOR As food for a study of con ditions, let us ponder some facts which are being used to prove that a great depression is not coming soom: Our Na tional income never rose above forty five billions a year be fore the First World Wfer. 1 mean the income of the people. The Golden Age of 1929 saw a National income of eighty three billions. Today the Na tional income is about 220 bil lions, and the Government is spending almost forty five bil lions, the total of all our peo ple in 1916. In 1939 there were forty four million people employed and— as I recall—about ten million out of work. Today about fif ty six million are employed and some millions are on Welfare. In 1929 the amount of mon ey in circulation in this Coun try was four billion, nine hun dred million dollars; today it is $27,400,000,000. Ten years ago all bank deposits in the Federal Reserve System totalled $39,930,000,000; today, about $106,500,000,000. Our population today is about 150,000,000 and our National debt about $262,- 000,000,000. One of my pleasures is a visit to my brethren of the press. Some days ago I drop ped in on the City Editor of The State, my friend Harold Booker, Junior, and talked of cabbages and Kings—maybe. While up there the Editor, Mr. Latimer, stopped and passed the time of day. Other, friends of the press in Columbia I us ually meet on the Street for a pow-wow—Major Workman of the News & Courier, a man who must write in his sleep, for Bill is a dynamo and never stops. Commander Alderman Duncan of the “A.P.” (Asso ciated Press) is always going out for news, or just coming back. Editor Buchanan of the Record tarries for a word, fmt is usually busy. Occasionally Managing Editor Henry Cauth- en removes his pope for a brief greeting. A roving reporter, Brim Rykard, on rare occasions gives me the low-down; and this applies also to that tire less newsgatherer, Doctor Ralph Grier, who never seems to be in a hurry but always is. Del Booth of the “A.P.” is nearly always on the run. Wlhat I had in mind was my trip to the provinces, though if I were so foolish as to say that anyone is provincial it would be too bad—for me. Had you ever though about that? Other Countries have a great center—a metropolitan and cosmopolitan center, and all else is provincial. Paris is France, but Washington is not the United States; nor is New York or Boston. We are as as alert in Sumter, Florence and Marion as are the people of New ork, Cleveland, Chica go or Los Angeles. This is a big Country and full of good people—and some not good. Wte have no hick towns and no provinces. You may find the “most-travelled” man in a remote place of un disturbed quietude, and living as though he had never been fifty miles from home. I was going to Conway to talk to the Lions. M!y friend, former Senator Paul Quattle- baum, had invited me to come over and “poison the air” for those Conway Lions. By the way, I have spokqn to many clubs but I do not recall a finer group than those gentle men of Conway. I arrived just about five min utes before the lunch time and found my sponsors, Brother Paul and Dr. Sasser, in a hud dle, wondering why I had run out on them. But I hadn’t; I had been on the wrong road —lost. As you may have heard, one is not likely to suc ceed unless he travels the right road. I had intended to «dl on Brother Platt at Mullins, but all the miles I travelled were on the wrong road. I dropped in at Timmonsville; but was too early for the Edi- —Prompt and Efficient Radio Repairs- CITY RADIO SERVICE 1515 MARTIN STREET L. Pope Wicker, Jr., Owner Telephone 752 Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 SHAPE YOUR FUTURE WITH TODAY’S SAVINGS The action you cake now - setting aside part of every paycheck — will help decide your future. Let us help, with an insured savings account that earqs for you. here. * NEWBERRY FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C. tor. However, a handsome young associate received me graciously. I won his good will by assuring him (on the first day of the month) that I had nothing to sell; nor was I a collector. Everything is changed now, but when I was an Editor a man calling on the first of thq month was in danger of bodily harm — and perhaps, should have been handled roughly. I dropped in on Editor Rog ers of Florence. Have you been there? Well, he has the handsomest newspaper office in South Carolina. It looks like a great bank, as you enter; and all the plant is the best, and is being air-conditioned. Leaving Florence I drove to Marion and upset the tranquil ity of The Marion Star and my fellow scribe, Lem WUnesett. Lem is a great worker and has been a notable success in Mar ion. It was my good fortune to be remembered by one of the ladies of the staff. I told her about the young lady of The Lexington Dispatch who greet ed me with this question: “Art: you the man who writes that long stuff”? I’m planning a pilgrimage to Lexington and Aiken; but let’s wait until the weather breaks, then, perhaps I’ll drop in on “O. F.” in New berry, too. I think what confused me about the road from Marion to Mullins was an incident: Lem Winesett introduced me to a Marion banker, just as I was leaving. Bankers have always upset me and caused me to perspire. That is strange, because it’s the frost of the bankers that does the damage —or is it the heat? Which is worth more to this country; to give a billion dol lars to Europe in the guise of a loan, or to spend a billion dollars here at home, within the United States? Some of our people think there is spe cial virtue and benefit in lend ing, or giving, our money to foreign Countries. It appears that our loans soon are regard- ded as gifts, as has been true since the days of the first Wlorld War.. We have not learned the lesson, that the other Nations think we should tax ourselves in order to lend them money which they will never repay. America has poured money into Europe like a mountain torrent, but the lasting effect is usually doubtful. We can’t buy good will, nor can we give away enough money to put the world on its feet. If we mean to proceed helpfully let us re build and strengthen America, its people and its commerce, giving credit in the usual man ner of business, but only to those who will use credit • con structively. Our easy loans, our gifts and grants, our forgiven debts (that is money due us) are just as useless as a constant handout to an able-bodied man. A job, a chance to work, is what he needs. Some men try to prove that it promotes American industry to give money to other nations so that they may buy Ameri can goods and farm products. It is not true that selling auto mobiles to France increases our business more than selling au tomobiles to our own people. What counts is the market, the cars sold, regardless of the pur chaser. If France buys a mil lion cars from us with French gold, that is one thing; but if France buys a million cars from us with American money we might just as well have sold those cars io poor Americans and called on the Government to pay for them. I do not advocate a policy of babying our people, and 1 am as much opposed to baby ing the French or the British the Russians, Italians or any other people. If we want to stimulate in dustry and commerce in Amer ica we have a vast field in our Country, for thousands need houses, tens of thousands need a thousand and one other things. It is not the duty of our Government to provide for us, and it is much less its duty to be a Santa Claus for all the world. I was in a small town recent ly. Seven or eight years ago the Government bought a lot in that town as the site for a post office. No post office has been built. Very likely American money has built Gov ernment buildings in a dozen foreign countries. I mean that the foreign countries have erected buildings for themselves with American money. But our Government is not able to build a building for its own official use. I do not advo cate useless, pork-barrel ex penditures, but necessary con struction. Probably fifty towns in South Carolina should have Federal buildings costing a quarter of a million each. These are needed. Cities have United States Government offices all over the town. Probably Co lumbia needs forty or fifty ad ditional rooms for the scatter ed agencies in rented quarters. Every other city the size Of Columbia is in the same con dition. Wlould it help American in dustry more to spend a billion dollars in Europe rather than in America? Some of our people like to PROSPERITY Padgett-Adams A marriage of cordial inter est was that of Miss Dorothy M. Padgett and Albert M. Adams which took place Sat urday evening July 23, at 8:30 at the home of the officiating minister, Rev. J. B. Harman, D.D. The impressive double ring ceremony was used. Miss Evelyn Padgett and Fred Lovelace were attendants. The ceremony was witnessed by a large number of relatives and friends including the par ents of both the bride and the groom. Mrs. Adams is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Padgett of Newberry and is a graduate of the Newberry High School. She chose for her marriage a dress of powdered blue with which she wore white acces sories, and carried a colonial boquet of mixed flowers. For several years she has been em ployed by McCrory’s Store in Newberry. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Adams of Prosperity and is a graduate of the Prosperity High School. For the past three years he has been in the Army Air Force, having been discharged about a month ago. However, he has reenlisted and will report for duty at Shaw Field, Sum ter, this week, where the cou ple will have their residence. Little News Items Reginald Bedenbaugh, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bedenbaugh, is in the Colum bia Hospital, where he is un dergoing treatment. Mrs. Ray Stockman is im proving at the Newberry Hos pital after an operation. Mrs. S. C. Spence of Wash ington, D. C. spent Friday with her sister, Mrs. A. B. Hunt. Mrs. J. I. Oxford of Atlanta, Ga., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. G. W. Harmon. (Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hendrix and their two sons. Gene and Danny Newton, moved to Pros perity Monday. They are in the Hunt apartment on South Main street. Mr. Hendrix is superintendent of the Prosperi ty School and they will be wel comed by their many friends here. Mr. Hendrix was super intendent here about eight years ago. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Beden baugh ana their son Jimmy spent the weekend with Mrs. R. T. Pugh. Little Miss Ann Bedenbaugh, who had spent the week with her grandmo ther, returned home. Von Anderson Long, Jr., has returned from a visit with his cousin, Sidney Long, at Brun son. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Counts. Jr. spent last week at Myrtle Beach. Mks. A. B. Hunt, Mrs. Joe Spotts and two children, Larry and Frances Ann, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Hunt and family in Spartanburg. Mrs. L. J. Fellers has return ed from a few days’ visit with her sister, Mrs. Frank Keene, in Atlanta. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Hendrix and their two children, Anne and Billy spent Sunday in the mountains of North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Ballard and their two children Mack Jr. and Betty of Charlotte, were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Wheeler. Mr. and Mrs. Gurdon Counts, Gurdon Wright and Dicky Counts, Mrs. A. K. Epting and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Epting, spent Sunday in Highlands, N. C. Continued on next page look wise and talk learnedly about foreign exchange, inter national trade balances, com mercial reciprocity — and all that. But if all these things are based on unpaid debts to us we are deceiving ourselves. You never heard of a man supporting all the people in bis neighborhood so that they might be so well fed and clothed as to be suitable com pany for his family, did you? Much of our foreign policy sounds like that. We have reached a point at which we must stop mooning about like a lad with the first sympton of calf-love, and grap ple vigorously with the stem reality of building and strength ening our own country. Let us urge our men in the Congress to think first of Am erica and to let the world do something for itself. If the British want to be So cialists let them be Socialists; we can’t stop them, nor should we try. Certainly we should not support their Socialism with the money wrung from American taxpayers. If th$ rest of Europe wants to be Communist we can’t buy them off, either. Let them plunge in and wallow about in it. Then they will learn some thing. You can’t do much for a man uptil he realizes that he needs help. Even the Great Providence does not thrust His mercy and His bounty upon us; He stands ready to help him who seeks help, and is ready to do bis part.. We Am ericans, however, try to be wis er than Jehovah; we rush in and overwhelm the world with our bounty; and then when we stop to catch our breath they yell for more. Cliff Metis Dies James Clifford (Cliff) Metts, 46, died Saturday night at the home of his father, S. R. Metts of the Bachman Chapel section of the county. Mr. Metis had been ill for many months. Clifford Metts was born and reared in the Jolly Street sec tion and was a son of S. R. and Cleo Kinard Metts. He was a graduate of Newberry college in the class of 1926 and was known to many people of the state through his teaching. He had taught at his native Jolly Street, at St. Philips, Blaney, Hollywood in Saluda county, Georgetown, and Tallahasee, Florida.. Mr. Metts was a life-long member of Bachman Chapel Lutheran church and also sup erintendent of the Sunday school and also a member of secret orders and the Lions’ club Funeral services were held Monday at 4 p.m. from Bach man Ohapel Lutheran church with the Rev. J. L. Rallentine, the Rev. J. E. Roof and the Rev. V. L. Fulmer conducting the last rites. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Mr. Metts is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lucile Stone Metts, and two sons, Jimmie and Phil lip, of Prosperity; his parents, and the following brothers and sisters; R. J., T. W. and C. B. Metts, Mrs. Carrie Metts Kin ard and Mrs. Herman Kinard, all of Prosperity, and a num ber of nieces and nephews. GEORGE KRELL George Krell, 78, died Sat urday night at a Columbia hos pital. He was buried at St. Peters Pinewood church. HENRY SAMUEL WICKER Henry Samuel Wicker, 65, died Friday, July 22 at his res idence in the St. Phillips sec tion of the county. He had been ill for some time. Mr. Wicker was born in the section in which he died, a son of the late Walter and Mrs. Mary Cromer Wicker He was a members of the St. Philips Lutheran church. Funeral rites were held Sat urday afternoon from St. Phil ips church with the Rev. C. H. Stuke and the Rev. J. A. Keisler conducting the services. He was buried in the local cemetery. Mr. Wicker .is survived by his wife, Mrs. Minnie Lee El- lisor Wicker; one son, Thos. Wicker of Newberry; and the following brothers and sisters: George, Andrew, Adam, and Manuel Wicker, all of New berry, Mrs. Jeff Gruber, of Clinton, Mrs. Alice Rikard of Pomaria, and one grand-child. Members of St. Philips church acted as honorary escort and his nieces were flower attend ants. gratis AflEIJi by T*d Kestmg A little real know-how in predicting weather can be the most valuable boating know ledge an outboarder has ac cording to boating authority Willard Crandall.. Cloud types and formation can give a pretty fair idea of coming weather. Unfortunately most of these signs only point to rain, or the absence of it. They aren’t too much help in predicting wind. And while rain on water can be unpleasant, the real concern of the boatman who thinks first of safety, is to predict wind. Familiar to almost every sportsman, particularly in the Midwest, is the thunderstorm, heralded usually by the slow appearance above the horizon of a big, unbroken cloud of a deep blue-black. If you’re on exposed water, in a small boat, it’s time to head in as soon as the storm is definitely sighted. Along the seacoasts, old-tim ers are wary of any black clouds, for they can always mean squall winds. However, inland where waters are usually exposed, a big detached cloud with a dark center often means a shower without high winds. Anyone who plans a really exposed water trip should get a good barometer a learn how to use it. The weather bureau will always give a wind fore cast in you inquire. If you’re without either of these services there are Some rules for ama teur forecasting of wind. Remember that it takes hot, damp weather to make a thun derstorm. If it is very dry, there won’t be one. 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