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Y/.t'.-'TIjJ t MY TRUE TO OUKSELVKS. OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD. Forty-Fourth Year Established June 5, 1902 * McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1946 Number 1 i j Washington, D. iNWNS)— ; Labor leaders, led by John L. \ Xjewis, have finally brought upon themselves legislation which will t curb them much more than they ' have ever been curbed before. ; The senate, stirred up by public • opinion,* has at last agreed that it must do something—and the ^ house is now in a mood to ap- , prove any curbs which get v through the senate. Although the new legisla- ' tion is not basic, and does < not\ establish a new govern ment labor policy, it should realize that -the public wel fare still comes first with ■v our government. It should also convince them of the fact that public opinion is ' still the strongest force in • America—and that they can- < not hope, in the long run, to < put over any programs which are opposed by the public. John L. Lewis’ attempt to force employers to hand over : health and medicine funds to unions has been thoroughly quashed by congress. Even the majority of pro-labor members of congress balked at the idea of permitting a union to tax em ployers. Congress has made it clear that whenever there is new taxing to be done it wants those taxes to flow to the public treas ury. Congress, because of its de sire to close up for the summer, is not expected to try during this session to revise the Wagner act, but unless the labor-manage ment picture is a lot brighter by next fall, complete revision of this Iqw is anticipated. The Wag ner act, originally passed for the i>urcc*c s. rg peace, is now considered by many congressmen to have been one of the chief factors in en couraging the strike epidemic. • • • Statisticians here are gath- ering together all kinds of figures to try to find how much production has been delayed by the coal strike and the railroad strike. The figures haven’t yet been an alyzed, but it is indicated that the damage done may take many months to repair. And the end is not in sight —over 1,000 new strikes are now on labor’s program. • • • Although the labor crisis has overshadowed all other consid erations here, there is much speculation on the navy’s reve lation that it has a new weapon which puts the atomic bomb in the horse-and-buggy class. From the little information that has been released, it seem^ that this terrible new weapon is a bio logical one—probably a means of destroying masses of people by the spreading of deadly germs. It is understood that this weapon—which those who know about are praying will never have to be used—is completed in every detail. So far as is known it is a discovery which is entirely an American secret. During the war it was feared on many occasions that the Ger mans, in desperation, might start germ warfare, since they were known to have done much research in this direction. But apparently our new weapon is so powerful in its destructive pow ers that no nation would con sider* inviting that type of war now. Outstanding Citizenship Roll McCormick Schools The outstanding citizenship roll >f the McCormick Public Schools 'or the 6th six weeks of the 1945- 16 session is as follows: 1ST GRADE— Charles Bussey, Tom Haynes. • Monty Schumpert, John A. Dansby, Patsy Edmunds, Larry May, Betty Wardlaw, Paul Edwards, Mary Frances Mayson, Fannie Elizabeth Goff. SND GRADE— Betty Lou Bledsoe, Lucy Boozer, Hazel Brock, Anne Bringle, Betty Sue Browne, Doris Brown, Delma Bryan, Faye Campbell, George Neal Creswell, Frances Dillashaw, P. C. Dorn, Celia Dowtin, Andrew Langley, Cornelia LaGroon, Carolyn Maddox, Rachel McKinney, Margaret Lee Rankin, Mary Weldon. RD GRADE— Peggy Bowick, . James Goff, Mary Sue LaGroon, Lena Mae Loveless, Claude Lindley, Curtis Maddox, Rae Jean Partain, Irma Sandifer, Billy Sharpton. TH GRADE— Georgia Britt, Sue Ellen Campbell, Kathryn Lott Dorn, Bobby Faulkner, Barbara Maddox, Martha Rogers, Harvey Sanders, Jr., Sara Will Talbert. TH GRADE— if Effie N. Banks, Christine Dillashaw, Rose Weldon. TH GRADE— Jo Ann Christian, V^/TfCLEMSON 10 GROMS The Twin-States Farm & Home Program, scheduled 2:00 P. M. each Saturday over WRDW, Au gusta, Ga. The General Public is cordially invited to tune in Sat urday, June 8, when M. A. Bouk- night, County Agent, McCormick County, will bring a miscellaneous program of timely farm and home information. I • 9 Doris Ferqueron, Virginia Ferqueron, Billy Jaynes, Ruth Jaynes, Rae May, Connie McAbee, Betty Anne McNeil, Jo Freda Moon, Charlie Sanders. 7TH GRADE— Mary Grace Dansby, Betty Frances Edwards, Ivadell Talbert, Douglass Britt, Ken Dowtin, Joe Thomas Seigler. 8TH GRADE— Janet Caudle, Irma Joan Connor, Betty Jane Deason, Anne Sanders, Marylene Wells, Leonard Dorn, Grover Davis, Bob Sanders, Bobby Edmunds. 9TH GRADE— Christine Flemming, Dorothy Anne Newby, Mary Henderson. 10TH GRADE— Betty Edmunds, Virginia Smith, Marian Davis, Bobby Huguley. 11TH GRADE— Lois Edwards, Claude Huguley, Jr., Bobby Dukes, Gary Brown, Richard Culbreath. Commencement Ex ercises De la Howe School June 9 And 10 The annual commencement ex ercises at John de la Howe School will be held Sunday and Monday, June 9th and 10th. The public is cordially invited to attend. The baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Rev. I. M. Bagnal, pastor of the Easley Presbyterian Church. This service will be held at 8:00 P. M. oh June 9th. The graduation exercises will be held at 11:00 A. M. June 10th in the school auditorium. At thir time the address to the senior class will be delivered by the Honorable Thomas H. Pope, Mem ber of the South Carolina House of Repfesentatives from Newberry County. The diplomas will be pre sented to the seniors by Mr. J. M. Nickles of Abbeville, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. The members of this year’s graduating class are as follows: William Burnett, Greenville County, Helen Campbell, Anderson County, Fannie Chavis, Orangeburg County, Myrtis Ferguson, Lancaster County, Calvin Fowler, Abbeville County, Estelle Mixon, Jasper County, Shirley Sparneil, Spartanburg County. Honorable Discharges ARMY Pfc. Jesse Thomas Bosdell, en tered service Aug. 12, 1942, dis charged Oct. 30, 1944. Served with AFTS Scott Field, 111., then trans ferred to Enlisted Reserve Corps. ^ NAVY William Robinson Cheatham, Motor Machinist’s Mate 3rd class, entered service Oct. 13, 1943, dis charged April 28, 1946. Served with AIRPAC, POOL, NAVY 939, CASU (F) 48. Wears Victory med al. Joseph Earl Collier, Storekeeper Aviation, 3rd class, entered service Dec. 14, 1943, discharged May 30, 1946. Served with NAS, St. Simons Island, Ga. Wears American Area Camp, medal and Victory medal. Manning Corey Freeland, Baker 2nd class, entered service Oct. 13, 1943; discharged May 25, 1946. Served with USS UTE (ATF 76). Wears American Area Camp, med al and Victory medal. Charles Luther Freeland, Jr., Seaman 1st class, entered service Dec. 15. 1944, discharged May 30, 1946. Served with USS Glennon 'DD 840). Wears American Area Camp, medal and Victory medal. Hare Announces For Re-Election To Congress , 'T n .C' m g", 1 1".- 1 ** V i •Cr X- Memorial Poppy Sale In County Was $194.45 Total receipts from the sale of the Memorial Poppies amounted to $194.45. Sales by the grammar school children of $39.27 were led by Mac Wedincamp with Jan Parks and Mary Frances Mason running next. High school sales totaled $32.00 with Pat Parks leading, Wilson Hadsock and Bobby Hugu ley coming next. Other sales were: Plum Branch— School—4.15 Street—6.18 Troy— - School—5.11 Street—4.25 Washington School—5.00 De la Howe—5.00 E. L. Hollingsworth Store—2.50 Mary Grant (Colored Sales)—2.50 McCormick Colored School—10.00 McCormick Street Sales—76.51 Mrs. J. E. Scott, Poppy Chair man, and her corps of helpers are to be congratulated for this good work. Washington. — In making my announcement for re-election to Congress. I can say I shall follow my usual practice and endeavor to conduct a clean and honorable campaign; and in asking a re newal of the confidence hereto fore expressed by the' people, I shall rely upon my training, ex perience and record in the Con gress, together with the position I shall take on new issues I plan to discuss during the campaign. Some new problems have arisen since the last election and others will arise within the next two years. In fact, some of the great est and gravest problems in the history of our Republic, both for eign and domestic, will have to be met and solved in the mean time both by the people and their representatives. I will undertake to suggest only a few at this time. It is now being suggested that a number of wartime powers of Federal control and direction be projected into peacetime pro grams. This is a matter of far- reaching significance because it is possible for a government with increasing power to become as dic tatorial as a Czar. The distinguishing powers and responsibilities between the legis lative and executive branches of the Government should be re viewed and clarified, and it is in dispensable that the clarification be such as to permit no misun derstanding on the part of the people and their representatives. The Constitution of the United States gives the Congress the power and responsibility to pro vide and maintain an adequate military force. The procedure or formula for discharging this re sponsibility is now a debatable matter, but one which must be de cided. “Equal rights to all*and special privileges to none,” is one of the main tenets in our system of gov- erment. It is a fundamental and sound doctrine and must be pre served if our Government is to survive. The war has been won by heroic sacrifices made by our armed forces and civilian popula tion. Hostilities have ceased, but peace has not been declared; sound thinking, profound judg ment and courageous action on the part of all will be required to insure permanent peace, which is our one great objective at this time. The actions of the next Congress will, in a large measure, determine the results. The people throughout the Nation will say who shall represent them in the next Congress. The war has entailed a great burden on the American people in the way of taxes and if the bur den is to be removed government- il expenditures must be reduced. The question of collecting reve nues on taxable resources by both State and Federal Government must be defined and clarified if the functions of the State are to prevail. The wealth of a nation is in its soil and the products of labor both of which must be protected and preserved if we are to main tain or stabilize our national e- conomy. Problems of mass production, including problems of mass de struction, are pressing for solu tion. Enforceable legislation to control atomic energy must be considered or we may find our selves in an atomic armament race in which civilization itself may be destroyed. On the con trary, a proper solution of this new discovery or invention prob lem may be the beginning of a new era in the social and eco nomic life of humanity. The question of whether private 1 enterprise shall be free or subject to Federal control and direction is one which will soon be pressing the people and their representa- ~*r Ed. Note: This newspaper has ar ranged with the Washington Bureau t>f National Weekly Newspaper Service, 1616 Eye St. N. W., Washington 6, D. C., to answer questions pertaining to serv icemen and veterans. These questions will be answered in this column if ad dressed as above. No replies can be made by mail, but this paper will print answers to all questions received. Q. Can you tell me how much pension the son of a war veteran killed in action will receive?— Guardian, St. Louis, Mo. A. The rate of pension for one child, no widow, is $25 per month, until he is 21 years of age. Q. Is this new increased pay for enlisted men in the army for the duration, or is it a per manent law?—Discharged veter an, Mobile, Ala. A. The new law providing for increased pay is permanent leg islation. Q. I am the wife of a service man who expects to get out of the army next month. Will I get his mustering out pay?—Mrs. A. R. M., Towson, Md. A. No, mustering out pay is given the veteran when he is / separated from the service. Q.. My husband was injured about the legs in an accident • while he was in boot training. He was discharged as a result of this injury. Is he eligible for the bill of rights benefits?—Wife, Colorado Springs, Colo. v A. Yes, if he obtained a dis ability discharge for injuries re ceived in line of duty, even though he did not serve the 90 days as required by law, he is eligible for benefits under the G.I. bill. Q. My brother, a second lieu tenant, bombardier, was listed as missing in October, 1944. Eighteen months later he was declared dead by the war de partment. He married while in service and has no children. His wife remarried several months before he was officially de clared dead by the war depart ment. Is this a legal marriage? She has been receiving a large allotment until he was declared dead and now she has filed claim for his back pay, gratuity pay, G.I. $10,000 insurance and also his medals. We feel that she doesn’t deserve any considera tion because of her actions. We would like to know if there is any way we can prevent her from collecting any at the de ceased’s property? His mother is the second claimant.—R. W. H., Chagrin Falls, Ohio. A. Your brother’s wife is cer tainly his legal widow although she has forfeited a life pension by her remarriage. Whether or not her second marriage is legal is a matter for the courts to de termine, but it does not change her status as the widow entitled . to the insurance and other al lowances, if she was named as beneficiary in the policy. There may be a legal question involved and if so you should consult a lawyer. Q. I know a veteran of World War I who fought valiantly in the first war. He is now 60 years old and it is hard for him to find employment at all times. Could he get a veteran’s pension or any other aid?—Mrs. H. B., Cheraw, Colo. A. Suggest that your veteran apply to the nearest Veterans’ administration office to deter mine whether he is eligible for a pension because of some dis ability. There is an office in the Central Bldg., Pueblo, and in the First National Bank Bldg, at Trinidad. Q. 1 am the Wife of a second lieutenant who has been overseas for almost 18 months. Am I not entitled to free maternity care as provided for others in -the army?—Mrs. H. E. D., Char lottesville, Va. A. No, wives of commissioned officers are not eligible. We sug gest that you consult the person al affairs bureau at headquar ters of your nearest service com mand for assistance. Q. Can you tell me i* an of-, fleer is discharged from the army is he liable for reinduc tion? Some folks tell me he is. —Interested, Denver, Colo. A. If an officer is released with an honorable discharge he is normally placed on an inactive status for the duration and six months, during which time he is not liable for induction, but is subject to recaU for active duty at any time his service may be needed. If he is separated un der conditions other than honor able, he is not placed on this list, but is completely separated from the armed services. An of ficer so separated is required to register with his local draft board and therefore is under ju risdiction of the Selective Ser^w ice system and liable for inauc tion. Buffalo Grange To Meet June 13 The Buffalo Grange will meet Thursday night, June 13th, at 8 o’clock at the Buffalo senool house. S. L. Britt, Master. New District Forester At Newberry Newberry, May 21. — The S. C. State Commission of Forestry an nounces the appointment of John W. Clarke as District Forester for the Newberry District, replacing F. M. Renfroe, who recently re signed to enter private business. Mr. Clarke, a graduate of the University of Georgia Forestry School, has been connected with the S. C. State Commission of j Forestry since 1939. His work with the State was interrupted for 4 1-2 j years of Army service, 3 of which were spent in the African and Italian Campaigns. He received his discharge from the Army in November, 1945. Before coming to Newberry on March 15, 1946, as Assistant Dis trict Forester, he was forest tech nician in the Aiken District. Conservation News (By Benj. W. Crouch) L. C. Talbert has two excellent small fields of crimson clover that he expects to gather seed from for use in a winter grazing program. Mr. Talbert planted these fields for grazing and as soon as his pasture was good took the stock off and let the clover go to seed. It looks good to see a farmer growing his own seed too. S. O. Bouknight cut the sericea hay from his meadow outlet about a month ago and when I saw it the other day it looked as if he will get another hay cr®p in about tv/o weeks. This meadow strip is acting as an outlet for terrace water and at the same time yield ing a lot of good hay. The terracing machine is in the Mt. Carmel area now and anyone wishing to have land terraced in that section should make the nec essary contacts as soon as possible. R. M. Edwards planted two acres of kudzu in March and he has a good stand that is growing pretty. How does your farm look after heavy rains? -X- tives for an answer. It shall be my purpose to dis cuss these and many other mat ters during the coming campaign and state definitely my position on each. “A garden full of succulent, well tended vegetables is as beautiful in its way as a flower garden. The dullest, least poetic of men gets a sense of continuing when he grows his own food. It is more than thrift; it is a vital connectioi with the source of our being.”— Edna Cain Daniel, in The Atlanta Journal.