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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER4 1949 tZTftieiiSiisStW 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. O. F. Armfirld 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 LITTLE ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT FOLKS YOU KNOW Will Mr. Byrnes run for the governorship? His statement prompts me to say again that he has nothing to gain by being Governor; all the distinction and political honor he could wish are already his. So we may dismiss the thought of a candidacy for personal puiposes, and we may believe that if Mr. Byrnes offers himself he will be responding to a call to ser vice, as he interprets it.' I am not an innocent, I suspect that many of those who are urging Mr. Byrnes to run are not act ing from the same disinterest ed motive which I credit to Mr. Byrnes. ^ It is proper to say that other men have high motives for offering themselves to the State. I need not call all the names, but the highest dedication of himself to the public services may certainly be ascribed to Colonel Tom Pope, Mr. Lester Bates, Dr. Owens, and others. The others, might continue in public life for years; this would probably be Mr. Byrnes’ con cluding offical service for he will some day wish to enjoy the calm and peace of honored retirement. Why should Mr. Byrnes offer his services to the public? I have argued that he will break his heart if he hopes to be come a reformer. This State moves slowly; but Mr. Byrnes might well use his great Nation al prestige to promote coop eration among the States to check the encroachments of the National Government, for Mr. Byrnes is a National and World figure of dignity. And Mr. Byrnes could bring South Caro lina to the attention of the nat ion as an inviting field for in vestment. Such a fine speach as that of Mr. McMeekin in New York cciild be indelibly inpressed by the Governor oflically on all the Nation. Mr. S. C. McMeekin of the South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. cited figures to prove the great progress of South Caro lina as an industrial State, and he carried the news that this is a State which offers en ormous advantages in cattle raising, because we "can have pasturage throughout the year. I suppose it was natural for Mr. McMeekin to think about farming since he is a Clemson product. In this, however, we can all agree, for the private power enterprises and the Santee-Cooper are all eager to bring industry to South Caro lina; and we are tremendously interested in farming, hogs and cattle because we want this to be a State of sustained pros perity. In such a constant campaign as this, not only Mr. McMeekin, but Mr. Jefferies, Senator May- bank, Senator Johnston and Governor Thurmond have been enthusiastic and helpful factors. We can all stand together on the platforn of developing the State; whether we agree on the details or not. Beyond a doubt Mr. Byrnes could rerder great services in bringing our State to the attention of the Nation. Politicans and others with the political bug buzzing about in their hats usually try to land on their feet, an agility said to be true of cats. Or, as we also hear it, they want to be on the bandwagon, riding with the winner. So they are listen ing with ears close to the ground. If it seems likely that Mr. Byrnes will run, many a young Caesar will want to seem near the front of the band wagon. And we have citizens who regard their citizenship as a game; they boast of having picked winners. Mr. Qyrnes is studing all this well, beyond a doubt; he may not have come to a decision as to his course, but his closest friends can tell you definitely that he will run, and that he will not run. You may take your choice: the boys on the inside always know: fifty per cent “know” he will run ,and fifty per cent “know” he will not run, so one of those groups is bound to be right. Those who prove to be right will pat themselves on the chest and strut about, quite swanky — and all that, you know. It is good news that the Santee-Cooper has been able to cooperate in bringing about the expansion of a big inAxstry near Charleston. 1 think again of the plan, of T. C. Williams, to use the Santee-Cooper for such developments as might be promoted by heavy con sumers of cheap power, the cheapness being largely the so-called Secondary power, from abundant water. I am in some measure sorry that Mr. Jefferies signalized this new contract with remarks dis paraging to the South Caro lina Power Co. The Santee- Cooper is a long way from serving the people of Charles ton and the sixteen counties served acceptably by the pri vate Co. Mr. Jefferies has a big task and I respect him as a capable man. It wasn’t cred itable to speak as though he had saved the day for Charles ton: he had a problem of his own: to sell the output of San tee-Cooper. He was fortunate in finding customers to save the day for Santee-Cooper. If three private power Companies had not bought enormously from the Santee-Cooper it might have operated disastrously in the “red” until now. No merchant of Charleston would claim to be a community savior because Animals, Acrobats and arenic aristocrats join forces with local Jaycees for a real sawdust and spangles day on Nov. 8 That’s the day the Newberry Jaycee Three Ring Circus, featuring the 1949 edition of Mills Bros. Circus, Menegerie and Horse Show visits the New berry Fairgrounds for two per formances in its tented city. The local group brings Amer ica’s Largest motorized circus, and only one never showing on Sundays. Besides this, through cooper ation of merchants and firms, tickets will be provided for all needy youngsters of the com munity and area that they may attend the matinee free under the big top. The Mills Bros. Circus, now on its 10th jubilee tour, features a two-hour, three ring perform ance of American and imported European stars in its canvas city. "Champions of All Na tions,” and assemblage includ ing four foreign troupes on he sold a million dollars of goods last year; rather, he would thank the customers whose patronage made him prosperous. We could put it this way: the Santee-Cooper had power; the whole nation needed power; the three big private Companies immediately gave Santee-Coop er a market; so everyone was served — the Santee-Cooper, the private companies and the nat ion. In this practical cooperat ion the Santee-Cooper acted with intelligence. Instead of having power without custom ers, it immediately sought an outlet. That was good business, Mr. Hammond, Mr. Jefferies and their associates are manag ing a great Utility which be longs to the State of South Carolina. It can find a market for its power without doing harm to tax-paying power enterprises. In fact the State should call on all the power enterprises to cooperate in a great effort to develop South Carolina. These power compan ies (including Santee-Cooper) are the very life blood of our industrial growth; we can use every kilowatt of all. Instead of playing small politics, and be coming socialist propagandists, we South Carolinians should demand that the paramount consideration of all power en terprises should be to promote our industrial expansion. Why do I insist on industrial expansion? In order to create jobs for all our people. If our cotton acreage be reduced one fourth, that will mean that more people will leave the farms. Where are they going? They all have to live. They are will ing to work; they need jobs, un less we mean to drive our Native Carolina blood to other States, or put all the unem ployed on Welfare, at the ex pense of those who work and pay taxes. South Carolina may be on the eve of better days. We have the soil, the climate, the situation, but, above all, we have the people — good sound American people. South Caro lina has extraordinary attract ions. If we will work together we can lift our State above their first American tours, tops the bill of the Jaycee Circus. These are the celebrated Wal labies, English acrobatic beau ties, Les Rosettis, French aerial thrill team; the Valenciano Family, Spanish-descent high perch exports, and the Niklaus, soaring Swiss trampolinists, fea turing Mille, Urzala Niklaus, Somersaulting tight wire walk er Ray Goody, a congress of clowns, trained animals, aerial- ists, jugglers, three rings of dancing horses, and Virinia Noel, the only girl in the world to place her head completely unprotected into the jaws of a giant elephant and be carried pendulum fashion, are other features. Members of the local group have advance tickets on sale now and derive heaviest bene fits from these advance tickets to help the civic improvement fund for which they are rais ing money. The circus is here one day only, afternoon and night, in its own tented me tropolis. the level of most States. We Carolinians dream of in dustries and want them, but we love the farms. Strangely enough, most of us are either engaged in farming — some times unprofitably — or connect ed with farming, indirectly. My inimitable friend, Mr. James H. Hammond, Chairman of the Santee-Cooper, thinks lovingly of the crops of Beech Island, and may sprout a turnip or two in his back yard at home; Mr. Jefferies lives in Colleton, preeminently an agricultural County, along with tourists, and probobly has roots deep in the soil. Mr. McMeekin, of the South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. went to New York as an electrical engineer and talked to bankers up there about South Carolina as a cattle country, with year round pasturage. Of course he can’t get the Clemson farming out of his mind, nor the red hills of old Fairfield. Now just look about you: our leading industrialists merchants, insurance men, bankers — are still farmers at heart. The boy left the farm but the farm didn’t leave him. My friend of Barnwell, Edgar Brown, has never talked to me about his law practice, but years ago he spoke happily of his farm. Ad mired and respected indust rialist, with large interests here, Mr. W. H. Regnery, grew up on a farm in lov/a. Mr. James C. Self of Greenwood, a no table figure in the New South, is a native of old Edgefield County. These gentlemen have been sustained through great careers by the qualities bred in them as sturdy boys on the farm. Glass is now one of the wonders. We used to think of the beauty of the stained glass windows of churchs as the transcendent achievement in glass. And it may be yet, for the beauty of the cathedrals, the solemn, restful appeal, is enhanced by the windows, some of a beauty that is sublime. But patient workers, experi menters, are always trying to find something new, or to pro duce new effects. I’ve been reading of some new achieve ments in glass. I mentioned some time ago that I had seen glass as flexible as strands of rope. That does not convey the idea clearly. However, let me quote what one great concern has done in its several glass works: “One makes glass building materials, another fibre-glass. The third is in the new field of silicone chemistry, develop ing a wide range of products which are related to glass chemically, but have character istics of both plastics and oils. Since 1899, when Coming hired its first chemist on a part-time basis, its researchers have de veloped over 50,000 formulas for making glass — 46 for pro ducing red glass alone. The company now turns out about 400 different glasses for com mercial use. Glance at some of the types of glass which Coming’s laboratories have pro duced: A hollow cylinder of one type is hard enough to hammer a spike into a heavy plank. Another kind is soft as cotton. One glass is light as aluminum, another as heavy as iron. Take a dish made of still another type and put in it a like appearing but smaller dish made from a distant cous in. Roast them both in a fur nace under pressure. Result: The first dish, unharmed, holds the second melted down into a liquid. Corning can make opti cal glass so transparent you can read a newspaper through a ten-foot-thick block of it. Or it can make glass so black it shuts out all but invisible ultra-violet light. You may find glass products of Coming’s laboratories in heavy industrial plants as glass piping for mov ing chemicals and as electrical insulators. O' you may find them in a royal living room President Truman sent Princess Elizabeth a Corning product for 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, December 13, 1949. Any person applying for a Municipal Registration Certifi cate must show that he has a Newberry County Registration Certificate, has resided within the corporate limits of the City of Newberry for a perior of four months, or more, prior to the election, and has paid ^he 1948 poll tax, if such tax was assessed against him. MRS. WINIFRED A. CULCLASURE, Supervisor of Registration. For Export Repair Bring Your Radio GEO. N. MARTIN Radio Service SALES and SERVICE 1014 Main Street Opposite Memorial Square 24 HOURS SERVICE Telephone 311W a wedding present — a “Steu- benware” crystal glass bowl. Why, with 50,000 formulas on file and only 400 in com mercial use, are Coming’s 70 professionally trained scientists busy developing new ones. “One problem of all research people is keeping the short-range view from overwhelming the long- range one”, answers Dr. J. T. Littleton, vice president and di rector of research or Corning Glass Works. This is especially pressing for the glass makers. “It is not now foreseeable that the auto can be supplanted. But glass can be — any time a cheaper material is made having as good qualities. We must keep searching for better glass, and provide a continous growth of new uses for it.” MISS MARY C. FARR Miss Mary Cornelia (Mollie) Farr, 90, lifelong resident of Little Mountain, died at her home Thursday night after a long illness. She was the daughter of the late John and Polly Chapman Farr, pioneer residents of Newberry County, and a member of Holy Trinty Lutheran Church. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Holy Trinty Lutheran Church with Dr. Grady Cooper and the Rev. Albert Stemmerman of ficiating. Interment was in the church cemetery. Surviving are a brother, D. E. Farr of Little Mountain; two sisters, Miss Jean Farr of Little Mountain and Mrs. J. A. Sum mers of Columbia, and a num ber of nephews and nieces. CHARLENE HAMILTON Charlene Hamilton, five week old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Hamilton, died Friday afternoon at the Newberry County Hospital. Funeral services were held Saturday morning in Rosemont Cemetery with the Rev. Paul Sherrill officiating, • She is survived by her par ents, Hoyt and Mrs. Sara Cro mer Hamilton; her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Hamilton of Whitmire, and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Cromer of Newberry. BIRTH OF A SON Mr. and Mrs. Elbert H. Aull of Saluda, are celebrating the birth of a seven-pound son, Elbert H. Aull, Jr., bom in WV>odward, Sunday, October 30. Mrs. Aull, the former Emmie Stewart of Woodward, and in fant son expect to remain in Woodward about a month be fore returning to their home in Saluda. COWS IN COUNTY GIVEN HIGH RATINGS Three Newberry County bree ders received high average scores on their animal dairy conformations according to re cent certificates received from the American Jersey Cattle Club. One young cow classified for Judith Johnette Halfarce rated very good for highest possible award at her age. The ten animals classified for Furman Epps rated five very good and five good plus for one of the higest averages on initial classification in the state. The 20 animals classified for I. B. Duck, Jr., rated ten very good and ten good plus, on the second classification for the Duck herd. Pinn Basil Sir Valiant jointly owned by Messrs Duck and Epps rated very good for highest pos sible award allowed at his age. He and four of his daughters were exhibited at the New berry County Fair. Another animal rated very good was Standard Noble Luciama, Gold Medal Cow for production and first ton of Gold Cow in New berry County. The classifying judge was Pat Reagan, extension dairy man of the University of Missouri, and official classifi cation judge for the American Jersey Cattle Club. John Ross of Charlotte, N. C. spent the past weekend with his mother, Mrs. Maude G. Ross on Drayton street. Miss Leah June Vigodsky, a student at the University of Florida, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vigodsky on Walnut street and attended the Har- mon-Lake wedding Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Kibler William son of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, were weekend visitors in the home of Mrs. Williamson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Strother Paysing- er on Johnstone street. CMr. and Mrs. Sid Waldhour of near Savannah, Ga., spent the past weekend in the home of Mrs. Waldhour’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hayes on Frierid street. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Brown and daughter, Linda, of Colum bia spent the weekend here with Mr. Brown’s mother, Mrs. Sallie Brown on Main street. Miss Frances Ruff of Colum bia and George Ruff of Union, were weekend visitors in the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. George S. Ruff on Main street. Ben F. Dawkins, Jr., of Wil mington, N. C., spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Dawkkins on Nance street, and with Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Ezell on Brown St. Mrs. Dawkins and two children, Bobbie and Sandra, who has been on a week’s visit with Mrs. Wallace’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ezell, returned to her home in Wilmington Sunday af ternoon with Mr. Dawkins. Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Living ston, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Sum mer and Mr. and Mrs. William (Bill) Tedford spent Friday night in Atlanta, Ga., and at tended the Tech-Duke football game there Saturday afternoon. Miss Florence Wicker of Greenville, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom P. Wicker on LangfonJ street. Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Counts of Prosperity spent the week end and a couple of days the first of the week in North Car olina with Mr. Counts’ rela tives. Mrs. Counts is an em ployee at Carpenters. Let Us Cure Your The old fashioned way of curing meat is as out moded as the horse and buggy. Modern methods have taken all the risk out of meat curing. \ And not only is there no risk in our method of curing but you get a cleaner, sweeter product. Our charge for handling your meat is not high. You ca nprepare it yourself for our storage rooms, or we will do it for you at small cost. Ask about our two plans for handling your meat over PHONE 155 or in person. FARMERS Ice & Fuel Co. PHONE 155 George W. Martin, Manager NEWBERRY ONE DAY ONLY TUESDAY, NOV. Newberry Fairgrounds □ill* / Brosi 0 Tcbtldi o{atye*£ VlotoM^ed CUcut ARENIC and HIPPODROME STARS and CHAMPIONS OF ALL NATIONS APPEARING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AMERICA! THE RVDIS—INCOMPARABLE AERIAL BALANCERS VALENCIANOS—ASTOUNDING HIGH POLE DEXTERITY WALLABIE GIRLS—Precision-Performing Acrobatic Beauties MLLE. NIKLAVS-SOARING SWISS AERIAL DARLING THE PHANTOMS—Daring English Duo Cheating Death Aloft Europe’s SAWDUSTLAND ARISTOCRATS, Making Their First UNITED STATES Tours, Join the Cream of American Stars THE HUMAN PENDULUM Helen Huntley, Only Girl In The World To Place Her Head In The Jaws of a Huge Elephant And Be Carried Along The HIPPODROME TRACK! *Wild Animal Menagerie * Dancing Horses and Ponies ArCavalcade Of Clowns ★Vast Aerial Ballet Of -- — Gorgeous Girls — — ★ Pageants and Spectacles TRULY The GREATEST CIRCUS PERFORMANCE EVER T* Be UNFOLDED In YOUR CITY THIS Or ANY OTHER YEAR The •Scintillating RAY'GOODY America's Foremost Exponent of Agility, Grace And Unmatched Skill On The Tight Wire ★ THE CATHALAS, Danish Railing Globa Pracisionlsts *r OOBAS DUO, Parch Exports WNICKLINGS Horizontal Bars *Tha GREAT RAY, Slide For Life ★Mills Bros. Celebrated EQUINE REVUE, in all Three Rings ★Casting Artlsis ★BUFFALO BEN S Cowboys ★Jugglers, Equilibrists, Aoriailttt, ★ AND COUNTLESS MORE CIRCUS CHAMPIONS FROM ALL NATIONS AU New ★ Half Million Dollars Investment ★ Acres of Tents ★ AVOID STANDING IN LINE - Reserved And General AdminiM $Mtt NOW At CENTRAL DRUG STORE WINTER BRIDES I will find samples of beautifully engraved WEDDING STATIONERY here at prices within reason The SUN Office Phone 1 Tuesday Is Big J-C Circus Day