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PAGE FOUR FRIDAY, AUGUST J, 194P THE NEWBERRY SUN O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year . $1.00 Published Every Friday Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ’WARE OF THE HABIT, AI, MUZZLES FOR DEFENSE! Governor Alfred E. Smith is form ing a bad habit—he bolts his party when the notion strikes him. Again this year he has put on his balmorals and gone for another walk. Four years ago he slipped on his galoshes and walked out of what he called the new deal slush. This year his clogs are clattering along the road to El- wood, Ind. Mr. Smith had better guard him self against this habit of walk taking. It is growing on him. It might be come fixt. His continued absence from the home fold may become such a matter of habit that when and if the Democratic party nominates a pres idential candidate to suit him, he may find it difficult to locate the road back. He is liable to get lost in the fog. Al Smith, a great fellow in many respects, has been a “sourpuss” since 1932, but he is not to be harshly criticized. In that memorable year he could have been elected president of the United States. He knew it. Everybody knew that anybody could beat Hoover. The country was in re bellion against the Republicans. It was the chance of a lifetime for Al Smith. But his great friend Franklin Roosevelt stept forward, sat down on the brown derby and crusht it com pletely. With that catastrophe, Al Smith’s political sun had set; and its going down has made the happy war rior an Augustan political hiker. Now adays he keeps his buskins greased and ready for ambulatory exercise any time. DEFENSE STALLED Walter Lippman, in his syndicated column of last Friday, quotes Phelps Adams of the New York Sun on the state of American defense thus far and it doesn’t make pretty reading. Adams says that: “The great armada of fighting planes which President Roosevelt promised congress and the Ameri can people more than 2 months ago is not even on order today. The money has been appropriated, the flying services know what they want, the manufacturers are ready to expand, but a confusion of rules has brought about such a snarl that no contracts are expected to be signed for some months.” This is a bureaucracy at its worst. At this time when, according to Gen eral Marshall, chief of the United States army staff, are in peril, we have the charming spectacle of bureaucracy actually hindering defense. Its stupid rules are working confusion at a time when there should be unity and co ordination of action in every federal department. Several months ago Senator Byrd made a suggestion which, if adopted and applied to the defense program, would bring order out of chaos if anything could: Appoint one capable, qualified man, give him all the authority necessary to build up defense and hold him responsible for results. A man of this type, unentangled by bureaucratic rules and unhampered by small-bore politicians in high places, would get the defense machinary moving in the right direction in short order. An army cannot be run successfully by a dozen politicians none of whom could put a squad of regulars thru the manual of arms. They make an equally poor showing at putting a great nation in a posture of defense. South Carolina needs many things. She needs more payrolls, more live- at-home farmers, more cows, hogs, and chickens. She needs men in the Legis'ature who will act with res traint in spending the people’s money. We are rich in scenery, in climate, in our nearness to the ocean and to the mountains. South Carolina is a healthful place. It is neither very rich nor excessively poor. Within a few miles of any town one can hunt and fish. Its people are nearly all native Americans. Its newspapers are independent and clean; and its radio broadcasting stations maintain a high standard of public service. Our courts are fair to all; and our public administration is free from taint. We criticise some acts, some decisions, and some policies; but the general tone of our public life is good. Our state nas what is both a virtue and a defect; like a fond and indulgent father, who buys everything his children cry for, the state authorizes and engages in every sort of activity which any group will persistently de mand, even though, like the over-in dulgent father, it be unable to look the world in the face on the first of the month. The world is being swept off its feet by theorists. A hard, practical man may have a vision and be impelled to work toward it; but a visionary is a man who has a dream which requires nothing for its realization but an other dream or a magic wand. Chem ists may have visions, but they work with almost infinite pains to realize them. No detail is too small for their earnest and persistent exploration. What is proposed in the exact fields of pure science is modestly suggested It appears that certain Washington officials ought to be wearing muzzles. Secretary of War Stimson is among them. His sensational statement made last week to the effect that Bri tain might collapse in 30 days under Hitler’s bombardment was designed to frighten the American people and rush them to put pressure on the congress to pass the conscription bill. A conscription bill in some proper form should be passed with all pos sible speed, but the attempt to scare people into action to demand its pas sage was childish. Mr. Stimson occupies an important government post. Before he speaks he should weigh his words. He should net allow hysterical or exaggerated reports to originate in his office. They do great harm to the defense pro gram and cause ill feeling among our friends who are fighting for their lives abroad. Congress should add another item to its military bills to provide muzzles for officials who go off half-cooked. It is a necessary item of national de fense. WHO WAS TEACHER? There have been disputes and quarrels and much wordy warfare over the question. Where did Cain find his wife? For ages, perhaps, this has been a vexatious problem among folk with a theological bug In the blood. And all these quarrels, and fueds and fights have added much to the world’s store of useful infor mation. Well, I guess so! The hot weather reminded of a more important question that harks back to those ancient days and it may be looked into in happier mood. It has had a great deal to do with the advance of man along the highroad to health, wealth, and general well-be ing. No one has ever fought, quarrel ed or shed blood over this question. It has to do essentially with the ways of peace. Here’s the question: Who taught Eve to sew? She had done no work of any sort prior to the great sin. She had neither toiled nor spun. Yet, the scriptures say that after her dis obedience had struck down the ori- flame of innocence in Eden, she knew the need of a frock, and made one by sewing fig leaves together. Who taught the First Lady of the Garden whose delicate fingers had never known work? Here may be the answwer to the query. Recently I persued a treatsie on oonrithology. Therein I made the ac quaintance of a bird whose method of home-building might have been the inspiration of Eve’s first lesson in the art of stitching. This bird is known as the tailor- bird, and it is suitably named, for it builds its house by sewing leaves together. Eve could not have had a better teacher. The tailorbird’s needlework re sembles that of the shoemaker. She has a sharp bill which she uses as an awl. With this “awl”, she pierces holes thru the edges of the leaves, and then thrusts true horsehair, string or long grass stems and sews the nest firmly in the shape of a pocket. It is said that the tailorbird’s stitches are better than many little girls make when taking first steps with the needle. and investigated to the farthest reach es of the subject. How different with many of those who talk about social science. With out the exactions of mathematics they affirm with conviction all sorts of theories, v hieh the multiple activities of human kind render incapable of proof. For them to think a plan des irable, means that they shout it from the housetops, as a thing proved be yond dispute. Then they assume an air of superior virtue, a large humani- tarianism, and become in their own conviction, apostles of a new order. One of the new social ideas is that of a minimun wage and a maximum number of hours of work. There is some truth in all the argument for this, but like all half-truth it is more mischievous at times than the work of evil men. We know that a man must not work to that degree of phy sical and nervous exhaustation which makes his life nothing but work and sleep; we know that a man driving a passenger locomotive should not be kept on a strain for so many contin uous hours that his mind becomes be clouded or confused. But, while a principle may be established, it does not argue for such absurdities as six hours a day. True it is that six hours, even in two shifts, may tax a man in some hazardous occupation; but all those hazards are usually taken care of in the relations of management and labor. Equally true it may be, that in sustained creative intellectual work one cannot maintain a high standard of production over long successive hours; but there is a vast difference between mere clerical work and crea tive brain concentration. We know that every business thrives, or even exists, through its profits. If a man opens a little lunch stand with five ( hundred dollars capital, he must earn a profit on that five hundred or he will soon close his shop. If the small man can’t afford to pay like a big man, then the small man will be forced out . That will leave the big men in full command of the field. Last year a bill was intro duced in our Legislature to establish a wage and hour law which would compel every employer to pay at least twenty cents an hour to every per son employed except house servants and farm labor. Look about your town; outside the cotton mills and other large industries—which are al ready covered by a national law—are not the majority of the people who work paid about all the concerns can well afford to pay? Of course there are skinflints in some places, but not all men in business are skinflints. We have a large number of people who cannot earn twenty cents an hour; their services are not worth twenty cents and hour. What would happen to them if such a law were passed ? They would be dismissed. When the law tells you to pay at least twenty cents an hour to a worker, whose service may be worth five or ten cents, what will you do? You will dismiss that person. So the person who might honorably earn ten cents an hour will lose the opportunity to earn anything. And then as to the eight hour limit: are there not many occupations which are fairly easy and do not exhaust the workers even in ten hours? Yet the little hotels, stores, small repair shops, garages, even shoe-shine places—all, everything, would have to pay at least twenty cents an hour for not more than eight hours a day for five days. Can you operate your business in five days of eight hours each, and pay at least $12.00 a week to every man, wo man and child ? Politicians advocate this sort of thing because they hone to catch a big vote by it. We should have France in mind just now. France fell completely under the spell and sway of crafty vote-seekers. All sorts of schemes were worked out. The people were almost persuaded that they could live even without working. Of course we have seen idle men thrive in mysterious manner; hut the world lives on work, on production, on the great virtues of honor and self- denial. Within twenty years France degenerated until she proved herself a mere crust and she crashed. In our country we are facing all that today. Smooth, persuasive voices have be trayed the high trust of leadership and are sapping the nation’s strenerth. Is this of benefit to the people? Is the working man benefitted by Wage and Hour bills which become inflexible law? If small business fails, what becomes of those who had earned their living there? Are they absorbed by the giant concerns which will con trol the field, after all the little fellow lows have been run out? If so, why have we millions unemployed? Most of the success stories of the world are of men who worked long and late. Have we any ambitious men left? Are there any who would like to rise to leadership? Or, are we all to live on a common level of mediocrity, none ever trying to advance? Wage and Hour laws virtually hold everybody down to the same level. If there is any quality of our manhood which has been heralded in prose and poesy, it is the strong, struggling man, emerg ing from the ranks, bv superior effort or greater ability. But under the regimentation of Wage and Hour laws we glorify ineptitude, inefficiency and sloth, and hold everybody down to that. Ask men working under such a law if they would like a chance to earn more. The ambitious and in dustrious will tell you “YES”, but the drones will tell you “NO”. There fore we are to be a nation which dig nifies drones and is fashioned by them. Another France? It isn’t the workers themselves who ask for such laws; it is the element which lives on labor, always trying to sell some idea to labor to catch its vote. Some days ago I stood amazed at the work of a dirt shovel on a big construction fob. This gigantic mach ine is operated by about three men. It scoops up the dirt and pours it into waiting trucks as one continuous op eration. It does as much work as twenty-five men could do with hand shovels. The result is that twenty- two men are out of work. There are no hours or minimum pay for the big machine; nor does it pay old-age pen sion benefits, or unemployment in surance; nor does it pay rent or feed a lot of little children. It is the nat ural answer to all the artificial social and economic schemes which visionar ies are thrusting upon us. In some few things we have advanced since the toilsome days of our fathers: but the principle of work remains. Under heat of emotion, or under pressure of organized groups, legislation is en acted which gives special privileges to some. All such legislation is repug nant to the Federal Constitution. Article 14, Section 1, second part, says: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the priv ileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor deny any person . . . the laws”. “Printers”, as they are called, have always shown mechanical ingenuity. Oyer in Manning is The Manning Times, with a corps of ingenious men who turn their talent to schemes of usefulness as well as diversion. Re cently I saw the handiwork of Mr. Britton, known throughout Chester field as Lamb Britton, not because of any lamb-like qualities, but more likely because even in infancy he gave promise of following Charles Lamb, the essayist. Our Lamb essays many things, but without pen or pencil. He “essayed” to organize a Colored chor us and has had it “on the air” from Charleston. He also essays to kill all the rabbits, squirrels, and other "crit ters” in the nearby swamps, but in snite of the terrible roar of his gun, the casualties are few. Mr. Britton has contrived a scheme, I think to scare away rats. He has a wire connected with an alarm clock so that at a set time the clock starts something, which releases a weight, which in turn causes a loud, reverber ating crash—and scares off any mouse or rat which might at the moment be incautiously moving into Lamb’s pre serve. In this manner the mouse or NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION Notice is hereby given that a Dem ocratic primary election will be held in Newberry county on Tuesday, August 27, 1940, for tne purpose of balloting on a state senator, three members for the house of represen tatives, clerk of court, coroner, sher iff, superintendent of education, treas urer, supervisor, two commissioners, game warden, six magistrates, and liquor referendum. Polls will open at 8 a. m. and close at 4 p. m., East ern Standard time and only qualified Democrats may vote and only those persons whose names appear on the club rolls of the voting precincts will be allowed to vote. The chairman or some member of each group of managers named below are asked to call for boxes on Mon day, August 26, preceding the pri mary, A list of managers to serve and polling place follows: Ward 3 No. 2-—R. M. Minick, J. E. McConnell, R. B. Shealy, Mrs. Pearl Banks. Box at Dormitory. Ward 4, No. 2—Miss Minnie Hav- ird, Mrs. Mabel Sanders, W. S. Ale- wine, Harold Layton, clerk. Box at Boarding House. Ward 5—H. E. Corley, Miss Doris Sligh, Mrs. Helen Connelly, Mrs. Helen Shealy, clerk. Polling place at corner of Drayton and Wright streets. Oakland No. 1—W. A. Davenport, W. O. Arial, Mrs. Octavia Kinney, D. D. Darby, clerk. Oak! nd No. 2—Mrs. Gladys Kilby, Ralph Kirby, Mrs. Connie McCon nell, A. B. Stribble. Box at Kirby’s residence. Whitmire No. 1—D. L. McCul lough, R. H. Hatton, B. B. Johnson, R. C. Lake. City Hall. Whitmire No. 2—A. H. Dallas, W. H. Miller, T. P. Scott, J. W. Gary. Polling place Y. M. C. A. Ward I—Mrs. Sara Beam, P. C. Gaillard, G. F. Hunter, Miss Frances Baxter, clerk. Polling place, Record er’s office. Ward II—-John Peterson, James Smith, Mrs. Marie Milam, Mrs. Claire Sligh Parks. Box at courthouse. Ward 3 No. 1—Henry T. Cannon, Gordon Leslie, Mrs. Randolph Patter son, Miss Evelyn Chambers. Polling place, Spinks Clothing store. Ward 4, No. 1—Mrs. Maude G. Esk ridge, Mrs. Myrtis M. Havird, B. M. Buzhardt, James M. Bowers, clerk. Box at Portico Old Court house. Bush River—W. M. Buford, P. C, Workman, F. M. Satterwhite, J. H. Bedengaugh, clerk. Bush River school house polling place. Central—E. S. Shealy, E. A. Koon, C. F. Boland, Sligh Wicker. Polling place, schoolhouse. Chappells—J. F. Scurry, L. E. Werts. M. L. Connelly, Miss Nell Workman, clerk. Polling place, Werts store. Dominick—Joe Brehmer, Sr., Miss Nannie McKittrick, clerk; Miss Mar garet Harmon, Mrs. Horace Oxner. Polling place, Dominick schoolhouse. East Riverside—E. Lee Hayes, W. L. Buzhardt, J. W. Cromer, Mrs. A. E. Bedenbaugh, clerk. Box at Hayes’ residence. Fairview—Jasper Amick, Marcus H. Lester, V. P. Martin. Box at Fair- view schoolhouse. Garmany—L. H. Folk, Mrs. Min nie Lietzsey, J. E. Sease, Mrs. C. C. Price, clerk. Box at A. G. Leitzsey’s old residence. Hartford—I. N. Merchant, J. C. Shealy, J H. Eargle, Mrs. W. B. Gog- gans, clerk. Hartford schoolhouse. Helena—Mrs. Etta Abrams, Miss Nellie Coates, R. E. Gee, J. R. Wood. Voting place at Miss Coates’. Jalapa—V. E. Miller, J. F. Long, W. W. Riser, A. T. Henderson, clerk. Vote at Jalapa Mercantile company. Johnstone—J. F. Banks, D. C. Spearman, Jessie Lewis, Mrs. Anna Sligh, clerk, Vote at Johnstone school- house. / Jolly Street—Geo. I. Kinard, W. B. Boinest, Jr., T. W. Metts, T. A. Ellesor, clerk. Hunter Dewalt schoolhouse, polling place. Kinards—Pope Johnson, W. D. Boozer, Miss Nellie Johnson, clerk Olin Fellers. Vote at Vaughan’s store. Little Mountain—Mrs. J. Harold Wise, Clerk; R. P. Huffman, W. M. Sloan, Andrew Shealy. Longshore—J. W. Wilson, G. M. Neel, Henry Dorroh, W. O. Senn. Vote at Longshore’s store. Long Lane—Lee C. Hargrove, Ben Caldwell, L. E. Chandler, Miss Sara Folk. Vote at Long Lane school- house. Maybinton—J. R. Thomas, Mina Cathcart, A. H. Maybin, Frank Hardy. Midway—G. L. Shealy, W. H. Counts, G. L. Bowers, Ross George. Vote at Midway schoolhouse. Mt. Bethel—Curtis Rikard, Horace Cromer, George S. Ruff, William Cromer, clerk; Wilbur Epps. Vote at Epps residence. Mt. Plasant—G. Henry Cromer, John H. Cromer, O. B. Graham, Mrs. Pauline Adams. Mt. Pleasant school- house, polling place. Mulberry—-J. A. Felker, Oscar Gra ham, J. M. Cromer, clerk; Daniel Graham. Box at Oscar Graham’s. O'Neall No. 1—R. C. White, N. A. Moore, H. B. West, Pat B. Wise, clerk. Old voting place. O’Neall No. 2—Dove Connelly, C. W. Bedenbaugh, Ashley Long, Ver non Pugh, clerk. Peak—Joe E. Mayer, H. L. Suber, C. E. Stuck, J. A. Mayer, clerk. Vote at Town Hall. Pomaria—L. A. Mayer, Frank Stuck, R. H. Hipp, Henry Counts, clerk. Vote at Town Hall. Prosperity No. 1—T. L. Dawkins, B. T. Gibson, J. S. Wheeler, B. E. Livingston, clerk. Polling place at Magistrate’s office. Prosperity, No. 2—J. A. Cook, Mrs. B. W. Ackerman, Jim Ret Cook, Mrs. Colie Wessinger, clerk. rat will think that Lamb is always around and is capable of striking from any distance. Mr. Ike Thomas, who functions as top sergeant of this outfit, which once knew John Barton of the Lan caster News and Ed Davis of The State, thinks that a cat might be trained by Mr. Britton to start the plunger so as to save the clock and the electric current. THE SPECTATOR POLITICAL MEETING AT WEST END Candidates will address the voters of West End village Saturday night, beginning at 7:30. The general pub lic is invited. The candidates have already addressed voters at Mollohon and Oakland villages. The final meeting of the campaign will be held here Saturday night August 24th at Margaret Hunter park. The election is on the follow ing Tuesday, the 27th. RETURNING FROM VACATION Rev. H. O. Chambers, who is pas tor of Central Methodist church, and his family will return to the city on Friday. They have spent the past two weeks at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, during which time Rev. Chambers attended various conferen ces concerning work of the church. He will fill his pulpit next Sunday, Aug ust 18th, and every member of the church is requested to be in attend ance to welcome him back, and at this service there will be an important an nouncement to the membership that should prove of greet interest. Polling place, Moseley building. Red Knoll—G. H. Shealy, T. B. Lindler, Grady Wicker, Frank Stoud- emire. Saluda No. 7—J. S. Werts, Her- mon Pitts, Richard Sanders, C. S. Fellers. Dominick store, polling place. Silverstreet—J. F. Havird, Mur ray Sheppard, J. M. Alewine, J. C. Butler, clerk. Bank building. Stoney Hill—C. Eugene Lester, Epting Kunkle, J. I. Boozer, Mrs. R. C. Hunter, clerk. Vote at Stoney Hill schoolhouse. St. Paul—D. L. Wedaman, Lester Williamson, Nolan Wicker, L. B. Bed enbaugh. Vote at St. Paul’s church, St. Phillips—John D. Koon, P. F. Halfacre, M. E. Enlow, Govan Sease. Vote at schoolhouse. Trinity—Reeder Pitts, J. C. Wald rop, William Johnson, Luther Bed enbaugh, clerk. Vote at Trinity church. Union—D. C. Wilson, G. S. En low, J. C. Kinard, L. A. Kinard, clerk. Union schoolhouse. Utopia—G. C. Blair, Ernest Der rick, Gurnie Nichols, D. E. Schum- pert. Polling place at Ernest Der rick’s. Vaughnville—John H. Boozer, T. H. Neel, B. W. Dominick, Wilbur Salter. Neel’s store. Walton—Mrs. Pauline Crooks, clerk; W. D. Graham, M. D. Crooks, J. D. Crooks, J. L. Crooks. Vote at J. L. Crook’s store. Wheeland—M. Q. Boland, clerk; Mrs. O. C. Derrick, Harold F. Metts, Forest Lee Frick. Vote at the schoolhouse. Zion—Joe L. Ringer, J. B. Eargle, Horace Kinard, C. B. Suber. Suber’s store. NEAL W. WORKMAN, Chairman. A. H. COUNTS, Secretory ELECT J. WARREN ABRAMS YOUR SUPERVISOR Of Newberry County I will render honest, efficient, and courteous service at all times. J. WARREN ABRAMS — Stock Up Your Coal Now! W RILE days are long and there’s no pres- ” sure of hard cold weather, let us fill your bin with selected, Quality Fuel T HE National Defense Program will begin * in earnest in the fall, resulting, maybe, in higher prices. ALL us now and put your fuel worries aside.