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FRIDAY, JUNE CIS 1941
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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
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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.
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Tru-Val $1.35
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“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. They will re
ceive ten weeks of primary train
ing here, ten weeks at a basic fly
ing school and then a similar period
of advanced instruction at Kelly, Max
well or Randolph field.
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