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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, APRIL II, 1941
1218 College Street
Newberry, S. C.
0. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
One Year One Dollar
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.
RECEIVED DEMOCRATIC IDEALS
FROM U. S.
Albania, victim of a brutal inva
sion, in April, 1939, was used by Mus
solini as the spearhead of his ill-fa
ted drive against Greece and may be
the pawn used to bribe Greece to suc
cumb.
Albania is of special interest to
Americans for several reasons. First,
the United States, at the peace-con
ference following the world war, did
most to establish Albania as an inde
pendent country.
This country played a vital role in
the education of young Albanians who
now form the backbone of resistance
to fascism. Fired by the ideals of
Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln,
Albania is resisting the axis drive
mainly because of contact witti our
democratic institutions.
The great number of Albanians liv
ing in the United States offers a
further link between the two coun
tries and has contributed to this ed
ucation in democracy. Their hatred
of fascism is deep-rooted.
Albania’s contribution is not in
large fighting forces, instruments of
mass attack, but in guerilla warfare
and sabotage. Like friends of Bri
tain in France, their sly work to beat
the invaders will count for much
before the war is over.
The willingness to take risks is our
grasp of faith. Risk is a part of
God’s game, alike to men and na
tions.—G. E. Woodberry.
FARMERS SEEK LARGER
PARITY PAYMENTS
Organized Business Incorporated of
South Carolina and the South Caro
lina Farm council have written to
Congressman H. P. Fulmer, chairman
of the house agricultural committee
in Washington, urging him to support
a senate amendment to the agricul
tural appropriation bill for increased
parity payments to farmers, it was
announced yesterday by J. K.
Breedin.
Under the senate amendment the
appropriation for parity payments
would be increased from 1212,000,000
to $450,000,000.
Under the Russell amendment to
the agricultural appropriation of con
gress the farmers would receive much
more liberal parity payments.
* AMAZING ARMY BUILDING
COSTS
Admissions made by the army rep
resentatives before the house appro
priations committee show that the
cost of cantonments will exceed the
estimates by some $338,000,000, more
than half the cost of building the Pa
nama Canal.
It appears that contracts were
quickly let and the money expended
before any real plan had been made.
Putting the cart before the horse,
buildings went up without roads, se
wers or utilities, and other essen
tials such as adequate provision for
recreation and welfare facilities off
the post. As an example of such
planning, troops at Fort Dix, New
Jersey, have been living through the
winter months in tents instead of in
barracks.
A number of elements enter into
the increased cost such as unneces
sary bureaucracy, which centralized
all construction activity in Washing
ton instead' of allocating responsi
bility for construction in the differ
ent corps areas, labor problems and
indecision on the part of those charg
ed with planning.
This is another example of the ter-
mitic influence of politics upon es
sential defense work of the nation.
It will prove fatal to our job unless
it is killed off completely.
KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN
Rev. J. B. Harman, Pastor
SUMMER MEMORIAL:
Sunday 6 a. m., Church Worship
with sermon on “Our Saviour, A
Conquerer.”
10 a. m.. Sunday School. Mr. M.
E. Shealy, Supt.
6 p. m., Council Meeting.
6:30 p. m., Luther Leagues. Broth
erhood'.
7:30 p. m., Easter Program.
BETHANY:
Sunday 10 a. m., Sunday School.
Mr. E. B. Hite, Supt.
11 a. m.. Church worship with Ser
mon and Holy Communion.
Visitors are invited to attend all
of these services.
Louis Patrick, a junior at Erskine
college in Due West spent last week
end in Newberry with his mother,
Mrs. Azilee Parr Patrick.
Sport Coats
$10.95 to $15.00
Sport Slacks
$3.95 to $7.95
Crosby Square Shoes
$5.00
Dobbs Hats
$5.00
Tropical Suits
$20.00
Arrow Shirts
$2.00
Arrow & Botany Ties
$1.00
McGregor Sleeveless Sweaters
$3.00
Johnson Hagood
Clary
“A Step Ahead In Styles”
ON THE PUBLIC SQUARE
Strikes in Defense Industries
(By JOHN S. GIBSON in the House
of Representatives)
“I am wondering where the cour
age of we Americans has found its
place of peace so dear that it resists
not the great threat that has arisen
as a monster among us. At a time
when our national life and honor is
in the balance, we sit idly by and let
Communists and those of communis
tic ideals place their poison fingers
about the throat of the Republic we
love so dearly, and we only cry aloud
but dare not act.
“I refer to the so-called strikes
that are running mad in our country
today and delaying our defense pro
gram, when we admit that time is
the determining factor in the preser
vation of our way of life. Yet we
have permitted these strikes to cause
the loss of 1,000,000 working days in
January of this year alone in indus
tries given wholly to the manufac
ture of articles necessary to defend
the lives and homes of our mothers
and babes, as well as the right to
live in a free democracy.
We appropriate billions of the tax
payers’ money for defense, millions
for the Dies committee to investigate
subversive and communistic activi
ties. Yet as servants of our people
and our commonwealth we stand
childishly by and let those of avowed
communistic faith shut down our in
dustries and s destroy our property
before our very faces and accept it
as weaklings, I should say unworthy
of the heritage of true Americanism
if we do not rise equal to the demand
upon us, and crush these enemies
for all time to come. Do not mis
understand me, I favor full defense
preparation and appropriations, and
the Dies committee. I think it is do
ing great work, and the American
public will remain in lasting grati
tude to its able chairman. Hon. Mar
tin Dies, and its full membership;
but please tell me why we should
spend millions to go bear hunting
and then let the bears eat our arms
and ammunition at our very door
before we leave our home; are we
working to an end or merely shadow
boxing? If the latter, for God’s sake
let us quit appropriating the public’s
money. Will we accept the challenge
thrust at our national security and
honor or sleep peacefully on until
our system of life has been burnt
from out our very hands? We must
(answer our own questions.
We must be fair and we must be
positive. There is no means by
(which the administration can shift
the responsibility of this great threat
and national disgrace, it is clearly in
•its lap. Our great leader has stated
that no legislation was needed to
properly handle these strikes. If
this be true why in the name of peace
hnd safety have they been permitted
fco continue, why were they not stop
ped at once? Has it forcefully pre
sented itself to you that in sections
of this great Commonwealth we are
today permitting warfare to be wag
ed on a big scale and forces deny
ing to citizens the right to manu
facture defense articles are engaging
in bloody battles with the peace of
ficers of certain States in direct de
fiance of America’s right to defend
herself from the forces of dictators
abroad? If we permit this to con
tinue, we must admit that we have
become soft and can never boast
again of th* courage of a true
American.
Picture thousands of mothers cry
ing after their sons who constitute
the noblest youth of our great coun
try as they gladly send their sons
away to fight in the shadows of
death for $21 per month to defend
not only their homes but the very
life of our democracy; as we permit
others in civilian life to strike for
more money when they make this
sum in 2 days in the safety of life
and the love of homes and friends.
Suppose these young sons should
strike, I ask you what would be their
fate? Are we still Americans?
We are sought to be pacified by
the advice that a Mediation Board
has been appointed to adjust these
matters. I know those enemies of
freedom of life laugh aloud when they
find that Philip Murray, the succes
sor to John L. Lewis, is one member
of this Board. We must admit that
John L. Lewis is the greatest single
threat to the flower of American
liberty, a short study of his past re
cord is all that is necessary to con
vince anyone of this fact. It is but
natural that this party will follow
the distorted ideas and poison dic
tates of Lewis. How long can we
expect the American public to pour
the earnings of their investments and
labor into the Government Treasury
to be squandered in waste as the re
sult of the work of these enemies
of free government, and in the very
face of a pretext so obviously a ges
ture.
I am proceeding to make a state
ment which I am happy will be re
corded in the proceedings of this
great body and which I predict will
live when I have witnessed the last
sunset of life. I say to you <hat
Hitler, is no greater threat to the
eternal peace, love, and tranquility
of American life and liberty than
John L. Lewis. If we remain repos
ed in that state of blindness we have
slumbered in so long spending bil
lions and the blood of our noblest
youth to crush dictators abroad and
leave his hands clutched at the throat
of our democracy, then my words
will come true, and my children and
yours will be witnesses to this fact,
if, in fact, it does not come while we
are yet on the stage of life.
Let us be fair to all. It is possible
that industry has had its faults and
that labor generally has had its, but
the greatest responsibility must rest
on the shoulders of those leaders who
would destroy our way of life and
who have become fat at the expense
of American labor. It is our duty
to place the fault and crush it at its
source, regardless of where it may
rest.
I want to go on record as con
gratulating the American Federation
of Labor for its true patriotism, as
exemplified by resolutions recently
adopted by that organization, in
which it incorporated just, fair, and
reasonable restrictions on strikes. If
one is fair to labor he must admit
that the provisions of those resolu
tions are all that could be demanded
of labor, which is surely and truly
entitled to unite for its own protec
tion. It has been seen in the past
that you cannot turn industry loose
on labor, and I do not advocate that.
I worked for 7 long years, and truly
they were long, in a railroad shop
with the various craftsmen, and I
always found them reasonable in
their demands and just in their con
victions. Truly, the American Fed
eration of Labor has through the
years championed the cause of the
American working public, and I have
found it to adhere to true American
principles of government. We have
permitted the C. I. O. to go so far
until it has been hard for the Ameri
can Federation of Labor to stay with
in reasonable bounds and yet main
tain its membership and standing
with the various crafts, not at its
fault, but at the fault of those rep
resenting our people. We have per
mitted the C. I. O., under the leader
ship of John L. Lewis, to demoralize
the progress of our commercial life,
and to place on it and the American
workingman shackles that will be
hard to free ourselves from.
I have been closely associated with
the membership of the American
Federation of Labor of my section of
Georgia and let it be said to their
credit that there is no class of
Americans living that are truer in
their loyalty and patriotism to our
Govemmemt, and this I say without
fear of contradiction by anyone who
is informed. They will go as far as
you or I to defend' our flag and all
the purity for which it stands.
I place the responsibility for the
deplorable conditions that exist in
our defense program today in the
breast of those leaders of the C. I. O.
who would destroy American demo
cracy, and are being permitted day
by day, month by month, and year
by year, to eat the very marrow
from the backbone, and the sinews
from the body of our beloved demo
cracy, wrought by the blood and
brains of those patriots who formed
the cradle of American liberty in our
Nation’s child hour, and who, through
their strong characters and noble
hearts, planted the seed that grew
into the most beloved land ever oc
cupied by a peace-loving people.
Their spirits must stand trembling
behind the golden gates today when
they see the foundation rock of
American life gradually converted in
to crumbling sand by the avowed
enemies of our form of government,
led by John L. Lewis, who for years
has been given the green light. May
the God who gave us this great land
now give us courage and wisdom
with which to save it and the rights
of its people.”
LAND OF COTTON AND OF
LIVESTOCK
By A. L. WARD
Horatio Alger overlooked some
thing. This writer of “success
stories” of our boyhood days should
have known about cottonseed hulls.
If he were writing, today, he would
find even more inspiration in this
Southern product than he ^found in
people who rose from rags to riches.
Chemists now are developing many
promising products from cottonseed
hulls—commercial articles that will
extend the industrial consumption of
this already useful Southern product.
But, as important as these new uses
promise to be, it is as one of the most
efficient and economical roughages for
livestock in the South that hulls are
mps^ useful today.
For beef and dairy cattle, horses
and mules and sheep, cottonseed
hulls have many advantages over
other available roughages in most
of the Southern states. Hulls com
pare favorably in total digestible nu
trients with hays, stovers and silages;
and, the fact that hulls are fed with
out waste and are uniform in quality
has contribu'ed toward their giving
even higher value in actual feeding
than their total digestible nutrients
contents indicate.
Palatibdlity of hulls and their de
sirable bulkiness also cause many
feeders to prefer them. In dairy
rations, they are especially desirable
to increase the bulkiness of mixtures
of heavy concentrates; and hulls are
an excellent roughage to prevent ex
cessive looseness and scouring vftien
cows are on early green pastures.
Cottonseed hulls and meal, alone,
often make the most economical ra
tion for fattening mature beef cattle.
Usually fed for 60 to 90 days, this
meal-and-hull mixture may be used
indefinitely if a small amount of good,
bright hay is fed daily. A popular
plan is to feed one pound of meal,
daily, for each 100 pounds of live-
weight with all of the hulls steers
will eat.
. Idle work stock also may be fed
economically on meal and hulls,
alone. A daily ration of 3 pounds of
meal and 12 pounds of hulls is suffi
cient to maintain a 1,000-pound mule
or horse in good condition, when not
working.
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BY CAPTAIN /
henw Morgan:
This War May Come Home To Us
(News & Courier)
Of the Americans, great numbers
are without conception or understand
ing of their country’s condition. Of
what entrance into this world war
will, or may, mean to them they are
not thinking. Or willing to think.
A few of the Americans are taking
seriously President Roosevelt’s words
that they will have to make sacrifices.
The Americans, as a whole people,
have never suffered in a war, in the
sense that the British, the Greeks,
and the peoples of the conquered
lands, have suffered and are suffering.
They have never borne hardships and
losses equal to those of the Germans
now and in the first World war.
With the exception of the people
of the Confederate States, the Ameri
cans have always been ignorant of
the meaning of war in the terrible,
the dreadful, way that Europeans
know it. As for the living Southern
ers, save a few old men and women,
what the South suffered is to most of
them no more than a tale in a school
history book about a foreign people.
The Americans can talk of their
“isolation”, of their immunity from
attack, fancying themselves insured
against it.
The first World war was different
from all wars before it. This second
World war is fought in a way vastly
different from it. The submarine was
a factor in 1917. It still is. So was
the armored tank. It still is. This
war the Germans are waging with
those things vastly improved, perfect
ed, multiplied—and with airplanes so
improved and multiplied that it is,
on tremendous, fearful scale, war in
the air.
How many South Carolinians are
light-hearted this day about this war?
How many Americans, the South
Carolinians among them, are think
ing about a camp, a fort, an airport,
a housing project, for their town, the
money that it will “turn loose”
among them ?
How many are deeply concerned
about the money their forts, the ship
yards, their navy yards, the hydro
electric dams (national defences you
know), their congressmen and other
politicians shall get for them?
How many are thinking about high
er and still higher wages?
How many believe that war would
not be worth winning unless it were
won with a forty-hour work week ?
The dispatches say that the Japan
ese are making jokes about our la
bor troubles, our many little civil
wars. Does it seem funny to Ameri
cans that they seem tunny to the
Japanese ?
Are the Americans, this day, light
hearted, dollar-minded ?
As a nation of 131,000,000 people
we have never known suffering. It has
not “come home to us”.
We hope that it will not come to us.
Every man, every woman, so hopes.
Those who pray are so praying.
No one can tell. There is no pro
phet among us, no prophet anywhere.
In times like these, the whole world
over, dollar-mindedness and light
heartedness, turmoil and turbulence,
about wages and hours, and fright
about profits, are signs of weakness,
of shallowness of national character,
symptoms of dangerous national di
sease.
We may be in a war that will come
home to every one of us, not to the
soldiers and sailors only.
COUNTY SHARES IN WHISKEY
TAX ARE ANNOUNCED
The state tax commisaion" reported
Mondiay that Richland and Charles
ton counties received the largest
Shares of the state tax on whiskey
for the months of January and Feb
ruary.
Richland county received $5,959 and
the City of Columbia, $4,098. Charles
ton received $4,991 and the City of
Charleston $3,175.
County allocations' for the two
months follow:
Abbeville, $280; Aiken, $732; Allen
dale, $174; Anderson, $1,311; Bam
berg, $320; Barnwell, $249; Beaufort,
$592; Berkeley, $319; Calhoun, $59;
Charleston, $4,991; Cherokee, $721;
Chester, $581; Chesterfield $764; Clar
endon, $241.
Colleton, f-/55; Darlington, $465;
Dillon, $463; Dorchester, $319; Edlge-
field, $96; Fairfield, $583: Florence,
$1,145; Georgetown, $635; Greenville,
$2,403; Greenwood, $899; Hampton,
$195; Horry, $661; Jasper, $154; Ker
shaw, $596; Lancaster, $441.
Laurens, $409; Lee, $130; Lexington
$426; McCormick, $50; Marion, $490;
Marlboro, $334; Newberry, $401;
Oconee, $208; Orangeburg, $649; Pick
ens, $186; Richland, $5,959; Saluda,
$130; Spartanburg, $3,024; Sumter,
$681; Union, $49; Williamsburg, $306;
and York, $2,437.
Carnations, Roses, Snapdragons, Violets, Gladi
olus, and other Easter flowers.
Also a large selection of potted plants that will
bring real joy for Easter.
HILLCREST FLORIST
2003 Drayton Street Phone 592-w
MRS. J. D. KINARD, Prop.