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XXJL^i I2J Tf JDfjlVIV X o U IN s§wn 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Armfield 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 BY SPECTATOR There are many kinds English. English, as we Am ericans know it, is not exact ly the same as the English of Oxford; nor is the English of Oxford just like the language of Treadneedle Street, London. The English of Oxford and the English of Harvard may have close kinship, though both lack the charm of Charleston’s Eng lish. No one can say that English is English, for even discount ing the influence of the Bow ery on American speech, we still have baseball language, football speech, street slang, school and college distortions and automobile perversions. But, as a great admirer of Co lumbia, I protest against a market report of last week. Few words were used, but how arresting was this item; “Co lumbia eggs stronger.” A par ticularly unhappy characteriza tion, even if true. I felt reas sured, however, when I read | “Orangeburg hogs steady and unchanged”—nice, reliable, de pendable creatures, not moody and fickle nor affected by ev ery breeze, but firm, staunch, unwavering, like old Stonewall at Bull Run. Glancing over the report of the New York Stock Exchange one read “Prices Scrambled.” We Americans play with words; words are in fashion, just as wear-nothing clothing is becoming the vogue. Several years ago nearly every speak er and writer “co-ordinated” all the time. We next “im plemented” — speakers urged that we implement this or that. Now we are “integrating.” An Englishman coming here for a visit might find himself con fused by our magic of expres sion, about like the subject of his Majesty who asked what disposition would be made of of i thousands of tomatoes ripening rapidly. When told that we eat what we can and can what we can’t he was hopelessly be mused, at this American mode of expression, for he would have said “We eat what we can and tin what we carn’t.” Imagine what an Oxford don would say, on reading about Columbia eggs being stronger and Orangeburg hogs being steady and unchanged. Fancy! My word, what!! In the same paper I read a news item from Washington that “The cost of residential electric service has gone down substantially all over the United States, but the drop is more pronounced in the South than in the country generally, a survey by the Federal Pow er Commission showed. The average electric bill showed a drop of a shade more than six per cent. But in most Southern States the percentage cut was greater than the National level —and in all Southern States except Florida and Virginia, the average bill was less than the National average, FPC’s figures showed. South Caro lina met the National average with a cut of slightly more than six per cent . . It was astonishing to read that the rates in Massachusetts. Rhode Island, ermont and South Da kota are hieher than here. leges, and gave an intellectual tone to America equalled only by the contribution by Virginia, South Carolina and Pennsyl vania. That gentleman said, “I have sold everything and am going to Florida. Massa chusetts is being over-taxed.” Since then some Northern man has told his fellow manufac turers that the South’s prog ress is not due entirely to cli mate; but that the South now has better management, includ ing better machinery and bet ter labor, as I recall. The South is progressing, but we must be alert lest we lose step in the rapid march. South Carolina, too, has made notable advances, but all the Southern States are wide-awake. Vir ginia, North Carolina and Geor gia are working all the time for new enterprises, but Ala bama and Texas are never asleep. We must not congrat ulate ourselves on what we have achieved; there is no time to relax: we must have something to offer that exceeds the appeal Of our neighbors. Wte have good relations be tween management and work ers in South Carolina, most of our workers being native Caro linians, at home with friends and relatives, pleasantly ac quainted with all others in the work, from managers to the telephone ladies. I have such great respect for Massachusetts that such« an item makes me wonde Some weeks ago I met a Massachu setts man in a fine car as he stopped at a filling station. Af ter admiring the car I paid a little tribute to the great Com monwealth of the Puritans — those who as Separatists came to Plymouth Rock on the May flower, men who founded col- RUNNING INTERFERENCE for your family ¥ m I speak often of bureaucrats, but no reference is intended to officials in this State. In the Federal and State service one might say that the public ser vice in South Carolina is or ganized to serve the individual. Of course I do not mean that the form or structure is per- f. Jt; I mean that it is a pleas ure to deal with all our offi cials, and that they readily do whatever they can. At least e hundred times I have gone with some indignant man to a pub lic office and everytime he came away feeling better; he had been graciously received and everything was either made clear or corrected, if wrong. I can’t call all the names, there are so many fine men, but a typical case I can tell of a great gentleman, long an ornament of the service, but now in honored retirement. A friend of mine was having a long correspondence over some point of the income tax require ments. I thought my friend had failed to state his case clearly, so I called on my es x 5 e • « - - x- X , OJUJX X XltlYXXJX^XV make. Nylon was aided great ly because the Company had long been engaged in produc ing synthetic ammonia. I was for some years a mem ber of the Committee on Scien tific Research of the National Cotton Council. We members were not chemists; nor did we contribute anything to the work. We heard at first hand what the chemists were try ing to learn about cotton, cot ton seed, hulls, linters, stalk. One great National laboratory kept five laboratory technicians at work studying cotton for at least five years. In the mean time many other laboratories are studying cottonf There is a never-ending competition be tween cotton and the synthetic, or manufactured fibers, such as rayon, nylon and many oth ers. We cannot sit back and say that cotton is cotton and wool is wool and that each is beyond substitution. Every fi ber, natural and manufactured, is in the hottest competition all the time. would the businessmen of the Coops borrow just for the fun of it? Some engineers tell me that eight million is not enough; at least twenty mil lion will be necessary. Is a man hiding in the woodpile? So I still wonder why the Coops want to borrow eight million dollars needlessly; and why they want to pay eight millions and then give the property to the Santee-Cooper. It is too thick for me. No good businessman borrows un der a mortgage if he can avoid it. NATION PREPARED FOR SOVIET BOMB DISCOVERY Recently I read an excellent advertisement in The Aiken’ Standard and Review by the Aiken Electric Cooperative. Although I read the advertise ment with appreciation I seem ed to see all the time the en ergetic and dynamic efforts of Monson Morris of Aiken. He must be the father of the work in this State. In our days to gether in the South Carolina Farm Council (Mr. Morris was the never failing worker for rural electrification. Many farms—and farm homes -enjoy electricity because of the REA. No private power company could afford to con struct lines unless with some hope of breaking even, at least. Men who invest their money— many investors are widows and unmarried working women—are dependent on their investments; they are not able to spend large sums on long chances. The REA has been able to do that —and is doing that. I can not understand, however, why the Coops do not accept the offer of the South Carolina Electric & Gas Co., rather than to mortgage themselves for eight million dollars for the benefit of the Santee-Cooper. Every time I think of that of fer I wonder why the sound business men of the Coops don’t jump at it. Let’s rehash this: I am as- New York, Sept. 23.—Leslie R. Groves, one of the builders of the first atomic bomb, said today that the United Stafies has been preparing for some time for news that Russia has found out how to make atoms explode. Groves, retired Army lieu tenant general and head of wartime atomic project, said there was no need for panic in President Truman’s announce ment. “I thought about the an nouncement for a minute when I heard about it,” he said. “Then I forgot about it. I’m not going • to lose any sleep over it.” In fact, he said, he hadn’t thought about it again until he was met by reporters at La Guardia Airport when he ar rived here from Washington. Groves, who now is working with the Atomic Energy Com- SEES FINE OUTLOOK FOR TEXTILE MILLS York Harbor, Me., Sept. 22— The demand for cotton and rayon goods “may easily run ahead of the supply,” the pres ident of the National Associa tion of Cotton Manufacturers said today. Russell T. Fisher of Boston said at the association’s 95th annual meeting that there was a seasonal increase in produc tion in the third quarter of this year. “There are also indications,” he added, “of sharply increas ed activity for the mills in the last quarter.” “Adjustment in the produc tion of cotton and rayon goods has continued up to the pres ent time,” he said. “Like most adjustments the pendulum has swung too far with the retail ers underestimating their cur rent and future needs. “As a consequence,” said Fisher, who was reelected pres ident for a 13th successive term. “Cotton and rayon mills are now entering a period where demand may easily run ahead of supply.” The devaluation of the Brit-, ish pound sterling and the con-1 sequent readjustment in the currency of most European na tions “raises very grave prob lems for the fine goods sec tions of our industry, most of which is located in New Eng land,” Fisher added. “While it is true,” he said, “that British and Western Eu ropean mills are unable to sup ply their customary foreign REGISTRATION FOR GENERAL ELECTION The Supervisor of Registra tion has been ordered by the City Council of the City of Newberry to open the books of registration 90 days prior to the election and keep the same open until ten days prior to the general election for Mayor and Aldermen in December. 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A friendly Life of Georgia agent will gladly tell you about them today. / VSJ//SY7/?^ THE OLD RELIABLE SINCE 1891 ^ M O M I . O r 9 I C S .• ATLANTA 1101 1-2 Caldwell St. Diftrict Office teemed friend’ Mr. W R. suming that the power Com- Bradley, the Director. With his Pany’s offer still holds; and I usual alertness he saw through Assume that the Company will all the maze of correspondence gi ve reasonable guarantees. If at once; and the sun shone so ; h® re is the offer, as I re- again for my angry friend. Al- ca li 't- the power people will though my friend Bradley is transmit over their lines all an unusual man, he was ex- the power of the Santee-Coop- emplifying the spirit I have * or a modest rental, letting always found in our public ser- the Santee-Cooper fix the rates v j ce , and deal directly with the Co- ' ops; or the Power Company Everybody wonders how bus- will operate th Santee-Cooper iness is developping. In this without a profit, paying to the great country something new State and Counties all the prof- is invented or discovered every its: and this would be directly time we need a forward push, under the superivision of the Have you thought of the great South Carolina Public Commis- part the automobiles and trucks s *°?~ an a 8 enc y ot the State, play in our prosperity? This When you can get all you nation owes its renewed or sus- want without borrowing money, tained vigor to those who labor to produce something. Do you know that our great industries spend hundred mil lions of dollars every year on laboratory work? One great concern tells of its experience and observation in research. In 1914 about 528 scientists were employed by industry in lab oratory work; today more than 758,000 are on the payroll. One great Company tells an amaz ing story: that of its sales of a billion dollars a year at least half of the items sold were not sold commercially twenty years ago; and that 20,- 000 of its 75,000 workers are* engaged in making things that were not known twelve years ago!! It is said that Nylon was c laboratory pet for ten years, after six million dollars had been spent on experiments. 230 Chemists, engineers, and others worked on it. When the chemist starts he does not know how many inci dental discoveries he may now is how good an atomic explosion can Russia make, not does she have the bomb? “Anyone with any, intelli gence knew they would devel op' an atomic bomb,” he said. “I know nothing about the President’s announcement ex cept that the announcement, if made by the President was done with competent advice or by people who know or are familiar with the situation.” Asked how the President’s statement would change U. S. defense plans, Groves said that the U. S. has been preparing for this eventuality for some time. “In August, 1945, some ra- them to take special measures * to sell more of their output in the American market. “While it is too early as yet to foresee accurately the effect of these currency measures, it is obvious that the situation reqquires careful watching,” he said. iher distinguished men said that Russia would have the bomb in six months,” he said. Others estimated a later date. The real thing is, not whether they have the bomb or ex plode one, but how they stand in comparison with the United States.” Cheap Wedding / The cheapest weddings in the world are in Java, where eating from the same plate automatically makes a couple husband and wife. The best rates for automobile financing is at PURCELLS “YOUR PRIVATE BANKER” Phone 197 To The Citizens of Newberry; I wish to take this means of introducing myself to you. I am 43 years of age, married and have 3 chil dren. I have been a law-abiding citizen of Newberry all my life. I am a home owner and a tax-payer. I am in the well construction business and have been engaged in this trade for 20 years. I am an active member of the Associate Reform ed Presbyterian church of this city, and also a mem ber of several other organizations which ARE NOT connected with politics. I heartily endorse the City Manager plan and will work hard to make it a success. I advocate quarterly reports, accounting for all money received and paid out be published in our newspapers. I also advocate OPEN COUNCIL MEETINGS where interested citizens and newspaper reporters may keep the public informed as to Die issues which are being acted upon. If elected your alderman I will cooperate with the City Manager and Council in trying to induce new industries to locate in our city. Your vote and support will be appreciated. T. C. 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