The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, April 14, 1950, Image 4
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NEWBERRY, S. C.
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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.
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
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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.
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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.
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peace.
“And no man gave unto
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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
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