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N l THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE TWO FRIDAY, JUNE CIS 1941 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. 0. F. Editor ARMFIELD and Publisher One Year .. • 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. NORRIS HITS UNION GYPING AT FORT MEADE The excesses of labor are alien ating 1 some of its oldest and best friends. A letter written by Senator G. W. Norris to the heads of tlft? A. F. of L. and the CIO, is extremely signifi cant. “During all my public service,” the senator said, “I have been, I think, a consistent friend of organ ized labor. But labor itself cannot expect its lepresentatives, either in congress or out of it, to sustain any action that requires a man who is out of work to pay a fee of $50, $100 $150, and in some instances $250, for membership in a local union in order to get a job.” Unless labor mends its ways, he added, “I am satisfied that congress is going to be called upon to take action in regard to it.” Army construction officials at Fort Meade, Md.,- estimate that under the closed shop agreements two unions took $400,000 or more as “initiation fees” and dues out of wages paid to workers. In many of the principal crafts, no man is permitted to work unless he “kicks through” with a sum of money far beyond the ability to pay of the average worker. If he doesn’t x ay. he can starve or go on relief for all the union cares.—Indus trial New:: Review. “MONUMENTAL” WASTE i Secretary of Treasury Morgen- thau has urged a billion dollar cut in non-defense expenditures in the in terests of fiscal well-being and na tional defense. Meanwhile, some members of congress aren’t exactly joining in a duet with Mr. Morgen- thau on the subject. A whole host of new bills for pet projects have been presented for eon- gressional consideration. Bills for monuments and memorials alone to tal over six million dollars. These would honor many local figures in our national history, ’way down to Coro nado, Spanish explorer, and Li«f Ericson, who—maybe—first discov ered America. Other measures aimed at increas ing salaries and handing out special benefits and easements bring the pet project spending figure to a much higher level. There is even a sug gested appropriation of $50,000 for printing a book on horse and cattle diseases. That volume could go on the shelves of the five libraries which would be built in various cities in or der to house government publications —cost of these libraries being a mod est fifty million dollars. “The expenditure is practically nothing,” said one representative in seeking authorization for an “his torical frieze” at a cost of $20,000— twice the congressman’s salary. It is against this attitude that ad vocates of economy must contend. Perhaps they might dramatize the is sue by beating the spenders at their own game and advancing a bill for a small appropriation for . just one more monument — an “historical frieze” to waste in the non-defense activities of the government. Or ask for a life pension of $10,000 a month for Charlie McCarthy! WOMEN IN DEFENSE Much is heard concerning the ac tivities of “women’s auxiliaries” in the various foreign lands now at war —where girls and matrons alike have pitched in to help. The United States is not at war. But it is engaged upon a defense ef fort of tremendous proportions. And it’s notable to find out that women are playing a very important part in that program. Here are some exam ples, chosen from various parts of the country: A woman, one of the most distin guished scientists in the county, is now working full time on research for one large electrical company. In peace-time, she invented ‘safety glass”—the same mind that conceiv ed that important safety idea is now . . . working for national security! Another woman scientist is one of the world’s greatest authorities op the structure of aluminum—vital me tal for defense! And another, who also works for an electrical company, is an ace draftsman who has designed the power plants for navy destroyers. In other companies where ex tremely delicate work is required, the nimble fingers of still other women are at work. They are sewing para chutes, barrage balloons, dirigible bags. They are assembling tiny mo tors and delicate radio equipment. Their keen eyes pass final inspection in many other companies, many lines of work. There are many delicate operations where women are naturally or by training, likely to be more adept than men. It is good news that they are working for defense in these fields, for in modern military theory, 1G to 17 civilians are needed to “back up” each man in uniform. MAJOR AMAN SENT TO LOUISIANA According to official army oroers. Chaplain John Andrew Aman, reserve major, has'been sent to Camp Polk, Louisiana. Dr. Aman for the past several years has been connected with the business department of Newberry col lege. Rev. and Mrs. D. W. Ballentine and daughter, Evelyn, of High Point, are visiting friends and relatives in New berry, Walhalla, and Columbia. They will attend the wedding of their son, Rev. Luther Ballentine, of Rural Re treat, Virginia, and Miss Frances Dickson of Columbia on June 11. IS GOD A DIRECTOR AS WELL AS A STOCKHOLDER? That God is the main factor in the guidance and growth of his business is the firm beief of Mr. R. G. Le- Toumeau. His factory in Peoria, Illi nois, has been making earth-moving machinery for the past ten years or j more, and it has expanded right through the depression. The fact that the expenditure of billions of public funds for roads, dams, and ca nals has created an immensely en larged demand for earth-moving ma chinery may have something to do with it, but of course God could be credited with singling out Mr. Le- Tourneau to be the beneficiary of this advantage in view of the fact that much of the profit is used for the support of missionary and evangeis- tic work. “God is the chief stock holder,” says the president of the concern, because 67 per cent of the shares are held by a foundation that was established five years ago to spread the gospel. It is therefore somewhat disturbing to learn, through the last issue of Newsweek, that R. G. LeTourneau, Inc., is now enlarging its plant to enter a hew and still more profitable field—the manufac ture of shells, for which it has re ceived a $4,500,000 contract from the war department. This is in line with the “national defense” policy and does not, in itself, call for any special criticism. But one does not need to be either the seventh son of a sev enth son qr the recipient of a special revelation from on high to know that the munitions industry is going to be very profitable in the near future. One is, however, entitled to qnery whether the “chief stockholder” is al so a member of the board of directors and whether he was recorded as vot ing affirmatively in the board meet ing at which it was decided to em bark on the new enterprise of manu facturing the instruments of sudden and whoesale destruction. If we have to make shells, it seems that it would be only decent not to drag God into it.—Christian Century. COTTON SPINNERS NOW ARE MEMBERS NATIONAL COUNCIL Entire Industry Is LTnited In Cam paign To Increase Cotton Use Memphis, Tenn.—Climaxing efforts to unify its campaign for increased consumption, the American cotton in dustry has closed the final gap in its ranks with the entry of Cotton Belt spinners into the National Cot ton Council as a sixth section and in tegral part of the organization. The final step toward a combined and all-out effort was taken at a meeting in Atlanta between directors of the American Cotton Manufactur ers Association and Council officials. Here arrangements were completed for election of spinner representa tives to serve on the Council’s voting delegate body and on its board. Unanimous Approval Earlier the board of directors of the Council had unanimously ap proved plans bringing the spinners into active Council membership along with Cotton producers, ginners, ware housemen, merchants, and cottonseed crushers. The new Affiliation prev iously had been unanimously approv ed by the American Cotton Manufac- tu.-ers Association at its annual con vention at Augusta, Ga. More Effective Program W. N. Banks of Grantville, Ga.. president of the American Cotton Manufacturers, declared that “by this move the industry has paved the way for cotton consumption activity which reflects the combined thought, energy and resources of all those who produce, handle or process cot ton fiber. Such a combination of purpose and effort is the logical, practical and most effective approach to adequate solution of the vital prob lem of increasing consumption of cot ton products.” Council President Oscar Johnston said the step “should be a new source of confidence to every American who depends on cotton for a livelihood. For the*first time in the history of the industry every interest which touches cotton or cottonseed in the raw state is solidy behind a nation wide program to sell the products of America’s foremost crop.” CHARLOTTE MINISTER CUT OFF Charlotte, June 9.—A. E. Joscelyn, manager of Radio Station WBT, said today he had ordered Dr. Ernest Neal Orr, pastor of the Associate Reform ed Presbyterian tabernacle, large up town church, cut off the air yesterday during his morning sermon in which the minister criticized the city coun cil for liberalizing the Sunday blue laws. “In his remarks Dr. Orr departed from the usual nature of a sermon,” Joscelyn said. “His discussion became controversial and political. He went beyond the limits which generally are applied to a religious service. “I gave instructions for the pro gram to be cut. We faked a line failure by a series of breaks in the program. Then we apologized to our audience for the line failure and re turned to the network. “The Sunday morning church hour is not for the discussion of contro versial and political issues. Dr. Orr severely criticized the city council, and I felt it necessary to cut the pro gram.” Dr. Orr was out of the city and could not be reached for comment. Auto Vacuum Aids Anglers To many the call of the open road also means the call of the open water. The automobile and good roads have brought thousands of beautiful lakes and streams within reach of the vacationist or the week-ender. Fishing seasons throughout the country are opening, and these young people were among the first to seek their favorite stream. They carry their own boat, lashed to the top of their Chevrolet, and held securely with a new vacuum-grip holding device actuated by vacuum power from the motor. Note the tube connecting boat rack with motor vacuum. TIES Botany,Wool, Cheney Silk, Palm Beach H1CKOK Jewelry, Belts, Luggage MUNSING WEAR UNDERWEAR SHIRTS Enro and Arrow . . . $2.00 Tru-Val $1.35 STRAW HATS Clary Clothing Co. “Styles of Today with a Touch of Tomorrow” NEW INSECTICIDE DEVELOPED BY FLORENCE ENTOMOLOGISTS Florence, June 9.—Two entomoli- gists working at the Peedee experi ment station, have developed a new cotton insecticide which literally kills two birds with one stone. The new insecticide, a compound of Calciunf arsenate, sulfur, and derris or cube root kills boll weevils and then in turn kills the cotton aphid more commonly known as “leaf lice.” Floyd F. Bondy and C. F. Rain water, working in cooperation with government entomologists in Mis sissippi, Louisiana and Texas found that the use of calcium arsenate for killing the boll weevil was fine, but the poison also proved to be a tasty dish for leaf lice. Bondy and Rainwater found, after experimenting, that derris and cube root which contain rotenone was an effective insecticide for the aphid and could be combined with the cal cium arsenate. The entomologists recommended a combination of forty-five pounds of calcium arsenate, forty-five pounds of 3glfur and ten pounds of derris or cube root containing five per cent of rotenone. They said the insecticide when mixed thoroughly, would be most effective if dusted over the cot ton at five-day intervals using ten to twelve pounds to the acre. APPROVAL OF WPA REDUCTION IS GIVEN . Washington, June 9.—A reduced relief appropriation of $885,905,000 for next year was approved today by the house appropriations committee which voted also for retention of pres ent restrictions on WPA, such as that forbidding employment of aliens. The total was $95,000 below what President Roosevelt repommended for the twevle months beginning July 1, and was 35 per cent lower than the current fund. The committee said the cut would necessitate a reduction in WPA employment from an aver age of 1,300,000 this month to 951,- 315 in July or August. In addition t° trimming WPA’a request the committee allocated $50,- 000,000 of the total to the agriculture department for extension of the food stamp plan, and called for a $10,000,- 000 cut in the $50,000,000 fund now available to WPA for paying wages higher than usual to workers on de fense projects. But at the same time, the com mittee gave “hearty commendation” to continuation of the WPA defense training program which it said had enabled more than 30,000 workers to fit themselves for private jobs. President Roosevelt and Howard O. Hunter, WPA commissioner, had proposed a series of revisions in the relief law, including removal of the ban on employment of aliens and the requirement that persons on the rolls for eighteen months be dis missed to make room for others. Rejecting these suggestions, the committee said: “The WPA is not a permanent ser vice. It is an emergency activity for the temporary relief of unemploy ment. Every sound reason to reduce it and every restriction that will op erate to prevent abuse should be av ailed of.” It reduced this year’s $44,500,000 for the WPA administrative expenses $9,034,000, or 20 per cent, and refus ed to place WPA administrative em ployees under civil service. OCC STATES POLICY ON COTTON LOAN STOCKS Columbia, June 7.—The Oommodity Credit corporation will not take title to any stocks of loan cotton without giving prior public notice, the U. S. Department of Agriculture has an nounced through R. W. Hamilton, state administrative officer, AAA. This announcement was made in view of the fact that several inquiries have been received as to when the Govern ment might take title to the loan stocks of 1938, 1939, and 1940 crops of cotton. The Corporation now holds title to 6,170,662 bales of cotton, which were produced almost entirely in the years 1934 and 1937. The Corporation also has $165,718,578.43 in loans outstand ing on 3,308,703 baes of cotton of the 1938, 1939, and 1940 crops. It is possible, says the announce ment, that the Government may find it desirable to take title on August 1, 1941, to any cotton remaining pledges to secure notes which are ov erdue at that time. In the event, however, that the Government should take title to any of the stocks of loan cotton, at least ten days’ public no tice of such "hetion would be given by a press release. If the Government should take ti tle to loan cotton, the cotton produc ers would be paid any amounts by which (1) the redemption costs of their notes (which incude principal, interest, and carrying charges on the pledged cotton) were exceeded by (2) a fair value for the cotton at the time, which would be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture on the basis of the then prevailing average market prices for cotton with reas onable allowances for differences in grades, staple-lengths and locations. BRITISH AIR STUDENTS ARRIVE AT CAMDEN TO START TRAINING Camden .June 9.—Sixty-six British flying students, their faces red from a 95-degree sun, tonight completed the first day of seven months of fly ing instruction as the program to train Royal Air Force pilots on Am erican soil began. The students, part of a group of 556 sent to Southeastern flying schools, arrived here Saturday night from Canada after passing through the area where the Bismarck was sunk. The H. M. S. Rodney, which participated in the sinking of the Ger man dreadnaught, was escorting the ship that carried! the British students. The R. A. F. students said only a destroyer accompanied their ship af ter the Rodney left. The British youths, beginning pilot training at a town where their fore fathers fought a Revoutionary war battle, had no complaints, although the sun had almost blistered them. Accustomed to the much cooler weather of Endgland, the students brought flannel underwear and heavy woolen uniforms with them. While in training at the Southern Aviation school here,they will wear American flying “cover-alls.” When asked about the difference in the war spirit here and in England, one student said, “You Americans haven't got the full sense of the war yet.” United States army officers re fused use of students names in ab sence of the R. A. F. officer who will arrive this week from Canada to re present them. “They are bombing us practically every night and we want to finish this school as quickly as possible to return the nightly raids over Ger many,” said one British youth whose parents had been in hundreds of raids. “However the folks at home take it easy now. They have become ac customed to the bombing and never interrupt what they are doing unless fragments of the shells reach them.” A large student, dripping with perspiration after a long drill, said what Great Britain wants “is snore and more of your airplanes and supplies.” The students late today took their first American swim, after ten hours of aotual flying and class room in struction. Most of the British had their first plane flight this morning. The British students had been in army service for one year, and had eight weeks of academic flying in struction in Engand. 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