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1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Armfikld Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY T 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. as an effort to save us, and to hold that cotton. The conditions of 1914 could be reproduced if War should come to Europe and to us. After a time there is the usual spree of Government spending, with high prices and enormous debt, but the first months usually, with high prices and enormous debt, but the first months us ually smash the small farmer and the small businessman. Let’s be practical people; let us remember that though we men don’t use umbrellas nowa days it still rains; and people still have colds and pneumonia. So cut down the spending! COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR The revenue of the State is Jailing off—why? Does that indicate that the State is growing ripher? Ob viously not! Then why the talk of higher or new taxes? Shall the family spend more when father’s salary is reduced? Or shall he borrow, more on a smaller income? Why not have the same com- monsense in public affairs that sensible people practice in their own affairs? „ The Legislature represents the State—all the people, not a few institutions or services. Father doesn't spend more on his children when losing money! If we survey the State, look about us, we find that earn ings are decreasing. We are exactly in the conditions of a man who normally harvests and sells a hundred bales of cotton, at a price ranging from thirty five to thirty eight cents a pound. Now if he has just sold his last crop— seventy five bales, instead of a hundred, and the boll-weevil and rain give a gloomier out look for the next crop, is he likely to rush into new spend ing? Isn’t he more likely to tighten his belt? There are men who rush into all sorts of ventures, but their credit rating isn’t high among their neighbors. I’ve just read a report on the unemployment service through out the nation. Eight key in dustrial States — New York, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Rhode Island, and California — show that all those States, except Michigan (of the automobile empire) paid out more in un employment benefits last year than they collected. In 1949 New York State collected 188 million dollars but paid to the jobless 356 millions. And this year New York expects another deficit in that service—at least forty million dollars. That New York’s unemployment-fund def icit will be only forty million dollars is a bit of wishful thinking, perhaps for the dis bursements for the first eleven weeks of this year were 27 per cent higher than during the corresponding period of last year. So we see the trend. In South Carolina the unem ployment taxes for 1949 amount ed to $8,000,000 and the pay ments were $12,000,000. For this year, conditions are better, says Director Julien Bush. The trouble last year grew out of reducing shifts in textile plants, closing of paper mills, or reduction of work, heavy rains cutting down pulp business. Now is the time to be pru dent. We might use plainer language and say that this is the time to use commonsense, old time horse-sense. Some of us are using too much automo bile sense, perhaps, running so fast we can’t recognize the old landmarks along the road: we need a bit of horse-sense, a slower pace, with time to rec ognize all the roads and houses along the way. How old are the gentlemen of the Legislature? A man of forty years today was a lad with father when the Great Depression struck; and he was a small boy at school in 1920 and 1921 when the Great De flation and the boll-weevil struck a terrible blow, leaving the farmers, merchants, banks, and industries flat. Those who remember lt)20 and 1921 will remember that the South was already flat, “broke” and “bust ed” years before the Depres sion. Younger men have come to manhood in the flush times of war spending, so-called Pre paredness,, then War! Let us make this clear: Just what happened in 1920 and 1921 could happen again. Cot ton dropped from forty two cents to twelve cents! How could any farming State resist that? And we saw cotton “go ing begging” in 1914, when War in Europe brought cotton down to five cents a pound, with very little demand for it. That was when thousands urged people to “buy a bale” at ten cents tlffi NEWBfiRftY SUN Picture Frames Made To Order Some new patterns have just arrived, making a wide assortment to choose from. Nichols Studio Can a State officer hold two State positions? There is a pos sibility that a State officer may serve as a member of a board by virtue of his office. I am not sure of that except in those cases authorized by the Consti tution. If not specifically au thorized by the Constitution then membership on a Board, apart from his office, is a case of holding two offices. Recently the Board which governs the Retirement opera tions appointed the State Treas urer as temporary Executive Secretary of the Retirement Board. Certainly we ar e all agreed that State Treasurer Jeff Bates is one of the best men in the public service; so this is in no sense anything against my highly esteemed friend, the Treasurer. My ques tion is this: May the State Treasurer assume another of fice, with or without the title? Does he not make possible a suit against his acts as State Treasurer? If the General As sembly would make the Retire ment service a part of the Treasurer’s office there would be no legal difficulty, but the Treasurer should not take charge of the office of Secre tary of State nor of the office of Secretary of the Retiring Board. If we go to the bottom of this no one now holding a com mission as a public officer has a lawful right to sit on the Re tirement Board; the General Assembly * has no authority to set aside the Constitution of the State. All these Boards and Conwnissions and tn4steeship!s are executive positions and no one may lawfully hold two pos itions, though the act of the General Assembly may make it legal. That sounds like quibb ling doesn’t it? It is sufficient to say that an Act (or act) of the General Assembly which is repugnant to the Constitution is invalid, and of no effect. We have abundant labor, good labor, sound people; and we have great reserves of electric power, ready for any develop ment; and we have fine llimate and a position close to all the great American markets, as well as near great ports; and we have fine roads. SOMETHING GOOD IS COOKING HERE! Did you ever wrestle with a foreign ' language? Well, what is a “foreign” language? When my friends in England talk to me about a “Ln of bis-, i.ts” for ‘ b.-r of e»aekers it is for eign, isn’t it? And when they take the “lift” for an eleva tor, how about it? And then they “brass your luggage,” in stead of checking your baggage. Apd when you run all around beautiful Princes Street in Ed inburgh, looking for a barber shop, without success, only to find that what you want is a “hair-dresser’s,” a man at a hair dresser’s; though a bit bald perchance! Wlhat do you say to that? The English may speak Eng lish; they certainly don’t speak the we Americans don’t speak Enj to kn6i American; but Does it touch your heart when someone fails in his busi ness? When he closes his doors and wonders what he will do next? Wlhat of it?' A young man dreams and plans; he in vests his little capital, probably borrowing some money. Then he fails; the dream fades away. Dreams make the world; some' are simple and foolish; some are the very warp and woof of life. I read recently of some business failures—some of the 70,000 of last year—and failures so far this year are 25% more than at this time last year. Cheer up: we had 143,000 failures in 1944. Those who think that every man in business is “rolling in wealth” might ponder the figures! One city reported no failures “except one-man outfits, such as gas stations and groceries, which for one reason or „ an other failed to make a go of it.” Seventy five per cent of the failures last year were com panies less than five years old.” That tells a story, a story of lads home from the war and losing their dreams and their money. And who guaranteed 1 a profit to them? Who made up the pressure group to de mand money for these men and their families? Nobody, they were not members of pressure groups. They survived the war, perhaps disabled, but they didn’t survive the hazards of ey say Jhat lish. They do seem to knbw about the dollar, though few Americans ever saw a pound or a shilling. We have some differences of speech among Americans. In Virginia my friends said ex emplary, while in South Caro lina we say ex-em’plary. Our Northern friends laugh at us for our way of pronouncing Cooper, though they have a queer way of pronouncing roof ruff—or like that. Frankly, the speech heard on the streets of New York is something else again. Has the man of the street in Havana as much corruption of Spanish as many of our peo ple distort English? iNow and then some friend speaks to me in the Spanish of Cuba or Mex ico and I can’t recognize it: which proves that I don’t know Spanish! An educated Peruvian once told me that he met a citizen of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in Boston, but begged him to talk in English because he couldn’t understand the Spanish, of the Argentine. NEWBERRY COLLEGE STUDENTS VISIT COUNTY SCHOOLS For a number of years the schools in Newberry County have enjoyed programs by cer tain groups from Newberry College. Thru the kindness of Dr. Kinard and his staff these groups generally visited the schools just before the Christ mas holidays. This year, how ever, the Easter season was de cided upon and Miss Violet Lester and her class in Elemen tary Education very generously arranged the program. Mr. George D. Brown carried a part of the class to Chapin, Little Mountain, Pomaria and St. Phillips, while Mrs. Ruth Longshore did the same for Mt. Bethel-Garmany, Long Lane and McCullough. Mr. Roy Stutts carried his group to Kinards and Bush River while Mrs. Julia Smith carried hers to Hartford, Silverstreet and Chap pells. James D. Brown accom panied those visiting Fairview, Prosperity, Stoney Hill and (yNeall. At each school an Easter story was told aAd all joined in singing appropriate songs. The pupils and teachers alike welcomed these students Someone is going to enjoy a delicious old-fashioned 1-2-5*4 cake when this pretty homemaker finishes her mixing and baking. She found the tempting cake recipe in “Mealtime Marvels,” a new two- color, 32-page booklet of recipes for nutritious, tasty dishes made with vitamin-enriched margarine. Today this newspaper begins a new food feature presenting a variety of excellent recipes from the margarine recipe collection. In English, i as you know, ‘ de ‘ words grow and develop new meanings. Wte find that some words of the King James trans lation of the Bible have taken on new meanings. A clear case of that is the word prevent, which we think of today as hindering or obstructing, though the word originally meant to come before, as in a sense of protection. The word desper ate once meant without hope; despise was to have nothing to do with some one, just to dis regard him. So it is a comfort to think that perhaps the language has changed, when you can’t make yourself understood in a for eign tongue. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED The engagement of Dorothy Clark Floyd and Stanley Cyril Baker, Jr., son of’Dr. and Mrs. S. C. Baker of Greenwood, is announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Clark Floyd. The wedding is to take place on June 16, 1950 at the First Baptist Church. KIRBY-LESLIE Spartanburg — The marriage of Miss Miriam Kirby and Gor don S. Leslie, Jr., was solem nized at 8 p.m., March 25, at the Calvary Baptist church, Spartanburg. The Rev. C. O. Lamreaux read the vows in the double ring ceremony. A program of music was pre sented by A. J. Smith, soloist, and John E. Williams, organist. The bridegroom was attended by his uncle, Irvine B. Leslie, as best man and the usher- groomsmen included J. L. Outz of Spartanburg, Warren Cousins, Fred Gilbert and Bill Armfield, all of Newberry, Charles Har- rill of Kings Mountain, and John C. Rogers of Leaksville, N. C. Miss Clara Mountain was maid of honor. Her gown ,was of orchid marquisette over taf feta. Her headdress was a shoulder length veil of net to match the gown. She wore mitts of marquisette and car ried a bouquet of yellow glad- :hi loli tied with matching ribbon. The bridesmaids were Mrs. Virginia Outz of Spartanburg and Miss Joyce Leslie of New berry, sisters of the bridegroom. Miss Hazel Lands of Spartan burg, Mrs. Miriam Grant of Co lumbia, Mrs. Marcelle Rogers of Leaksville, N. C., and Mrs. Eve lyn McCray of Clinton. Their gowns were lime green made identically like that of the maid of honor and veils matching their gowns. They carried bou quets of orchid gladioli tied with matching ribbon. The bride entered on the arm of her uncle, Clyde Kirby of Columbia, who gave her in marriage. She wore a wedding gown of white lace and net oyer slipper satin styled with high neck of nylon sleeves of lace and long train. Her fin gertip veil of nylon net was at tached to capulet of satin cov ered with lace and orange blos soms and was edged with wide lace. She carried a bouquet of white roses centered with a white orchid. Her only orna ment was a cameo which be longed to her mother. The bride’s mother, Mrs. F. B. Kirby wore an orchid gqwn of lace and net with a corsage of white roses. The bridegroom’s mother, Mrs. Gordon' S. Leslie, Sr., wore a rose crepe dinner dress with a whit*! rose cor sage. The reception was held im mediately following the cere mony in the social hall of the church. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon S. Leslie, Sr., and is a graduate of New berry city schools, and Clem- son college, class of ’49.' He is associated with his uncle in architecture. LITTLE MOUNTAIN 4-H CLUB MEETS The Little Mountain 4-H Club held its regular monthly meet ing on April 6, 1950 at the Little Mountain School with thirty-three members present. The meeting was called to or der by the president. The meet ing opened with the singing of “A Song to the Open Country” followed by the Pledge of Al legiance to the Flag and the 4-H Club Pledge. Martha Sons read the scripture and all of the 4-H members prayed to gether the Lord’s prayer. Dur ing the business session the roll call and minutes were read by the secretary. The • meeting was then turned over to Miss Jane Winn, Newberry County Assistant Home Demonstration Agent. Members of the 4-H Club brought their record cards up to date. Miss Jane Winn gave a very interesting talk on “The Theater and Other Public Building Manners.” Then the meeting was adjourned. very enthusiastically and we are sure that it was the unan imous opinion of all that these were wonderful programs and a day well spent. Each group was served a bounteous lunch at mealtime. We are convinced, that these young people in Ele mentary Education are the “Salt of the Eearth.” —Contributed. nif THI LIV11- YOU'RS IN NIUTftAll 7%eM, Feat) JOHNSOi MODEl IN \ NEUTRAL CLUTCH! Smash-hit with the fisherman. New convenience. New maneu- Later in the evening the cou ple left for a wedding trip to, Florida. For travel the bride i chose a brown twede suit with- brown hat and bag and multi color brown shoes, white blouse and gloves and white orchid from her bridal bouquet. After the wedding trip the couple will be at home at 1100 John stone ^street, Newberry. Mrs. >Leslie is the only daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Kirby and is a graduate of Spartan burg high school and Cecil’s Business college. The bridegroom is the son of verability. New features. See it today. Convenient terms. Liberal trade-in allow- ance on old motor. Get ready for spring NOW! TN delivered price... $173.50 Frank Lominack HARDWARE MAIN STREET NEWBERRY. S. C. Make a Date peace. “And no man gave unto YOU CAN’T MISS WITH A SAVINGS ACCOUNT Sighc as your target — education, business, travel, security, a home — and you can’t miss, if you save for opportunity. Accounts here are insured and earn a worth-while return. m NEWBERRY^? ederal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWBERRY J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C. him,” as the Bible tells us in a wondrously simple picture. Not all failures were due to inexperience, lack of capital— and the other usual reasons: some men felt that they could have no confidence in the fu ture; their faith failed, though, as in one case, the concern is well-rated, has been in business sixty one years, and has five mdlion dollars in assets. That is why it is sound busi ness sense to avoid new or ad ditional taxes. South Carolina is now looked upon with favor. with a TAXI 24 For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio GEO. N. MARTIN Radio Service SALES and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Opposite County Library 24 HOURS SERVICE Telephone 311W power |ust ono Everybody’s talking about that "Rotkof lido. Why not try It yoursotfl F U TU R A M t C Give "Rocket” quarter-hour! Try Oldsmobile’s "Rocket” Engine ’*88” on a demonstration sometime this week— and you’ll come home with a brand new idea of motor cac per formance! In the first two minutes, you’ll see how quiet and quick the "Rocket” is. 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