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THE NEWBERRY SUM
PAGE TWO
FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1941
ISIS ColUc* StrMt
N«wberry, S. C.
O. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publiahar
One Year One Dollar
Published every Friday
■ Entered aa second-claw matter December 6, 1937, at
the poet office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the
Act ot March 3, 1879.
CAUTION JUSTIFIED
The cautious attitude of the presi
dent of the United States towards
“all-out” aid for Russia is justified.
The democracies must be on their
guard in all their dealings with dic
tators, Russian, German, Italian, or
whatnot Dictators are crafty and un
scrupulous. They have their eye on
the main chance always. They mean
to hold on to what they have and
will stop at nothing to maintain
themselves in power. Devoid of honor
and dead to shame, these scoundrels
will stoop to any infamy to achieve
their aims. And they will betray the
democracies any time treason fits in
with their schemes.
Has the public forgotten what hap
pened to the British military mission
which went to Moscow to line up Sta
lin as an ally at the outbreak of the
war? While this mission waited an
xiously in its hotel quarters for the
coveted interview with Stalin, he was
signing a treaty of alliance with Ger
many. The betrayal of the British
was pulled off right under their
noses!
If the democracies commit them
selves too deep to the Russians and
Stalin loses the fight, he and Hitler
may come to an agreement, whereby
Adolph would get what he wants of
Russia, Stalin would be permitted to
set up as a Berlin stooge in Moscow
—and the republican countries would
be out on a limb once more.
FAILURE SO FAR
Hitler’s attempt to dominate a Euro
pean federation of states by force is
not new. This tree of evil came to
full fruitage in our day, but it has
its roots in the centuries that are
gone.
Charles Y and Phillip 11 in the
16th century, Ferdinand II in the 17th
century and Napoleon Bonaparte in
the early 19th century were rulers
who fought desperately to achieve
European unity by fire and sword.
Long before Hitler’s day, certain
German philosophers, enamored of
the superman rot, began to preach
pan-Germanism. With the appear
ance of the ambitious Bismarck on
the scene, this doctrine was translat
ed into action. But the Iron Chancel
lor was cautious, too cautious to suit
his master Wilhelm II, late of Doom
in fill land. Bismarck was dropped
—Wilhelm had decided to put the sup
erman delusion to the test. During
the years he prepared his armies and
navies for “Der Tag.’ It came in
1914. The rest of that gory epoch is
history only too well known.
Pan-Germanism is merely another
name for an age-old tyranny. It is a
revival of “chaos and old night”—an
other effort of despots to dominate
“inferior” peoples by force. There is
a consoling and hopeful aspect of
this record of darkness—none of it
succeeded. The melancholy achieve
ments of the sword stand as warn
ings against the folly of a despotism
which is as villianous as it is vain.
WHEAT MEN REBEL
The revolt of the western wheat
growers against 49c a bushel penalty
on grain produced that exceeds their
allotted acres may bring action that
will iron out what appear to be some
bad kinks in the law.
Neither farmers nor others un
derstand why the government will de
liberately allow wheat to be destroyed
if the farmer happens to exceed his
acreage. With thousands of persons
in this land in want of good bread,
what is the sense of throwing away
wheat that would mean life and
health to many?
Wheat grown in excess of triple
A allowances should be distributed to
people who need it in the same way
that other surplus farm products are
being got rid of. The argument that
similar distribution would depress
the wheat market sounds “fishy.” The
people who would get this wheat
have only negligible buying power.
How could the distribution of wheat
to them affect the market?
The government has been buying
potatoes, oranges, grapefruit, and
other foodstuffs and handing them out
to the poor to keep the market UP
on these products.
Why wouldn’t the same procedure
work for wheat?
FOURTH OF ACCIDENTS CAUSED
BY BOOZE
Chicago, July 22.—Recalling his re
cent appeal for a moratorium on
drunken driving through the summer
months as a step to reduce traffic ac
cidents, Charles R. Jones, Executive
Vice President of the American Busi
ness Men’s Research Foundation to
day called attention to the fact that
in May on South Carolina highways,
a fourth of all accidents caused by
drunken drivers resulted in fatal in
juries.
Official reports of the State High
way Department show 28 accidents
during the month caused by drivers
who were “obviously drunk” of which
seven were fatal to one or more per
sons. Of the others, thirteen result
ed in non-fatal injuries and 8 caused
property damage.
Mrs. Walker Richardson of Mem
phis, Tenn., is visiting Mrs. W. H.
Hunt for a week or ten days.
BUTCHERS HITLER AND STALIN
(From the Keene Valley Sun, Keenes-
burg, Colo.)
Butcher Hitler and old Joe Stalin
have a bulldog grip on each other’s
throat and are slaughtering off wo
men and children at a terrific rate.
Any self-respecting bulldog would
stick his tail between his legs and
slink down an alley before associat
ing with either of these bloodthirsty
brutes.
(From the Erie (Colo.) Herald)
This problem of United States neu
trality is getting thicker and blacker
to me. First it was bundles for
France, then bundles for Finland and
bundles for England, and now its bun
dles for Russia. Apparently this
Russian affair hasn’t ruffled Roose
velt and Hull, but for some of the
rest of us Americans it is hard to
take.
President Roosevelt made a 5-min
ute speech July 4, suggesting that
the American people rekindle the
spirit of July 4, 1776, on this Inde
pendence Day. It is well that the
citizenry didn’t take the President at
his word while so many British pro
pagandists and members of the royal
family are living within the shad
ows of the White House. Our ances
tors in 1776 would have shot any one
of them on sight.
Confusion among the superpatriots
over accepting Comrade Stalin into
the fold of democracy is still ram
pant. The big shots can forgive the
“red” chief for banishing God and
the Czar, hut when he banished title
deeds and mortgages on farm land
and property, that was too much.
Most Americans would want only one
guess for the answer as to how that
crimson economic and social attempt
at equality will mix with present-day
democracy.
A lot is being said and printed to
day about propagandists, spies “fifth
Columnists,” or what have you that
favors those we are supposed to hate.
Closing German consular and pro
paganda agencies and shipping Ger
mans back to Europe is a step in the
right direction, but only a small be
ginning. Rounding up the British
propagandists and nobility and start
ing them home is the next logical
step. Cleaning the United States of
all hypenated Americans is the nec
essary action to be taken if the Unit
ed States is to be really free from
foreign propaganda.
SMYRNA H. D. CLUB
. The Smyrna Home Demonstration
club met with Mrs. A. A. Cleland on
July 18, 1941. The meeting was call
ed to order by the president. Mrs. W.
E. Senn.
The song for the month was sung
by the club.
The President read, for devotionals,
the 56th Psalm and emphasized faith
and the assurance of protection by
God when one is living for Him.
Flag salute by club.
Mrs. C. P. Teague, Sr., gleaner,
read “Do You Want To Be Happy?”
and “What Makes a Great Nation?”
Highway laws and safety were dis
cussed by club, led by leader.
Mrs. C. P. Teague, Sr., demonstrat
ed economical uses in the home of
Bull Dog Nitrate Soda sacks.
The president appointed a commit
tee to collect all old alminum for De
fense Program.
The club picnic will be held this
year on Mrs. George P. Boozer’s
lawn, August 8, at three o’clock p. m.
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General Lear Shows ’Em Who
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(From the Arkansas Legionnaire)
Shades of Captain Flagg and Mad
emoiselle from Armentieres.
These lusty veterans of World War
I would conclude they had fought and
comforted in vain, if they could know
that things have come to such a pass
in this new army that a man in kha
ki can’t even yoohoo at a lass in
shorts.
Why, in the first World War—but
never mind that. Those were the
days when a soldier wis a mar. and
generals knew when to look the other
way.
It seems that a bunch of the boys
from the Thirty-fiifth Division were
returning to Camp Robinson from
Tennessee where they had spent 6
long, hot, dusty weeks chasing mythi
cal enemies over the hills and dales.
They hadn’t seen anything in-Skirts
in weeks, and now, as they passed a
park in Memphis, they spied a bevy of
pretty girls—not in skirts, bless their
hearts, but in shorts. You know—
1-e-g-s.
Why Wear Shorts?
So the boys yoo-hooed, and whistled
and saluted, and otherwise manifest
ed the pleasure of the male animal
when he sees a comely specimen of
the opposite sex.
And did the girls burst into tears
and run, blushing, to the nearest
bush to hide themselves in shame and
chargin? They did not. They smiled
and waved back, in fact, some reports
had it that they waved first, the hus
sies.
Nearby a man in golfing clothes
witnessed this scene with a bilious
eye. Some of the soldiers, wasting a
glace or two, are said to have inquir
ed if he needed a caddy.
Little did they dream that this sour
puss was the biggest brass hat of
them all—Lt. Gen. Ben Lear, com
mander of the entire second Army'
Ben Hadn’t Noticed ’Em
The general waxed exceedingly
wroth. How dared these dusty
young whippersnappers even look
from their passing trucks at the bare
legs of the flower of Memphis wo
manhood. Of course, the gerieral
hadn’t even been aware of their
skirtless presence. It was a degrading
exhibition of unmilitary, uncouth, and
ungentlemanly behavior. And, besides,
it interrupted his golf game. Well,
he’d show ’em.
He showed ’em. The convoy con
tinued to Little Rock, where on orders
from General Lear (or is it Leer?),
the trucks were refueled and turned
around and went back to Memphis.
There the entire battalion made an
other practice run through the city,
averting their eyes from the possible
dangers of parks and playgrounds,
listened to a lecture on the evils of
yoo-hooing, and then alternately
marched and trucked in the broiling
sun from West Memphis to Forrest
(City.
That’s what they got for peeping in
broad daylight (the Peeping Toms).
Of course, after a mile or two of foot
work with full packs, they wouldn’
have looked up Lady Godiva had rid
den by on her way home from a bar
ber shop. Or, if they had, they’d have
said “Good afternoon, sir.”
What—No Powder Puffs
Well, that’s the new order of tnings
in modern military training, as ad
ministered by a general who doesn’t
like to have his Sunday afternoon golf
interrupted by a convoy of lechers in
khaki.
Look out for a general order for
regular issue of ruffled shorts for Ben
Lear’s second army hellions.
It is rumored that hereafter when
the slodiers at Camp Robinson get
passes to come to Little Rock they
will be required to turn in their gas
masks and take out blinders.
Any man caught winking at a girl
will be detailed to 2 weeks of K. P.,
where he and the potatoes can make
eyes at each other.
Holding a girl’s hand will cost the
offender a round-trip hike to St.
Louis, on the double and pushing a
jeep. /
A kiss will sentence the soldier to
carry "General Lear piggy-back thru-
out the war maneuvers in Arkansas
and Louisiana.
And—well, if the Second Army is
sent to Iceland, it’s an even het that
the intrepid general, will not be
caught out in front yelling, "Come ou
men, let’s give ’em hell.”
Unusual Donations Feature
Start of Aluminum Drive
Washington, July 19.—Toys, kitch
enware, household appliances, old au
tomobiles and even a few artificial
legs piled upon the government’s alu
minum scrap heap today.
In at least five states, civic workers
already had begun the nationwide
campaign to scrape up every hit of
old alminum and turn it over to de
fense officials for eventual manufac
ture into aircraft and other items in
the armament program.
Reports from New York, Connecti
cut, Florida, Texas and California,
where the drive was under way in
most (immunities, indicated officials
said, that the goal of collecting 20,-
000,000 pounds was not set too high.
Some communities in other states
also were already on the job, and
from here and there over the country
came announcements of gifts.
In Evanstown, 111., Mrs. Ida B.
Wise Smith-, president of the Women’s
Christian Temperance Union, urged
all aluminum cocktail shakers be add
ed to the scrap pile, saying this
“would accomplish very beneficial re
sults”.
An automobile, costing more than
$4,000 when it was new in 1909, was
donated in Omaha. Its owner said that
it contained 200 pounds of alminum
and that President Theodore Roose
velt once rode in it.
In Newark, N. J., a carload of
aluminum pots and pans were given
to start the campaign. Romeo Caprio,
who donated them, said that he “went
broke” running a restaurant during
the depression and the utensils had
been stored in his cellar.
A $25,000 Italian automobile was
donated in Arlington, Va. Mrs. Allie
S. Freed, who gave the old car, said
it contained 500 pounds of aluminum.
The aluminum mechanism in some
slot machines will swell the collec
tions in Milwaukee. Sheriff Joseph
Schinners said that he would disman
tle the confiscated machines and don
ate the aluminum.
A nine-year old boy in Crockett,
Calif., sent his contribution directly.
House officials in Washington turned
over to the office of Production Man
agement a small piece of aluminum
together with a letter from Wesley
Bradshaw saying he was contributing
it “to help make airplanes to keep
our great country free.”
Assisting the campaign set up un
der governors, mayors, and other
officials are more than 200 organi
zations, including Boy Scouts of Am
erica, and Salvation Army.
The campaign begins officially in
most cities and towns on Monday.
Urges Voluntary Reduction
Ickes Asks That Consumption in
Eastern States Be Cut One-third
Washington, July 19.—Secretary of
Interior Ickes asked today for a one-
third voluntary reduction of gasoline
consumption in the populous East,
adding that such curtailment was es
sential to avoid compulsory rationing.
In his capacity of defense petro
leum coordinator, Ickes made the re
quest in a communication to the gov
ernors of sixteen Atlantic seaPoard
states, the commissioners of the Dis
trict of Columbia, oil companies op
erating in the East, and other affected
agencies.
“It has become the patriotic duty
of everyone in the states affected by
the impending shortage of petroleum
products to reduce their consumption
of such products,” he said. "Loyal
Americans in view of the seriousness
of the situation, -will cooperate.”
On ways of attaining voluntary
conservation Ickes said:
“Substantial part of the necessary
reduction can be achieved by the adop
tion of conserving methods such as
correcting faulty motors, driving at
reasonable rates of speed, the use of
but one automobile instead of several
by those who drive to and from work,
when they live and work in the same
general areas, and the elimination of
wasteful practices generally.”
The coordinator already had dis
closed that ration card system was
under study because of the eastern
coast oil shortage arising from trans
fer to British service of some tankers
normally used to transport oil from
gulf to Atlantic coast ports.
On the basis of information from
government agencies and the petro-
luem industry, Ickes said today he
had found that the trend of consump
tion products in this area was upward
and the trend of daily averages ship
ments was downward.
T
ST. PHILIPS ITEMS;
DEATH OF O. H. RUFF
Sunday school and divine services
at the usual time Sunday morning,
services being followed by administer
ing of Holy Sacrament.
On July 21st Oshon Hampton Ruff
passed away at the home of his
brother, L. A. Ruff. He had been
there for several weeks. He ran a
store for 31 years near Newberry.
Before going to Newberry he ran a
store in this community. He also
worked for the Western Union for
several years. His brobhef and his
brother’s wife attended him faithfully
during his illness. Mr. Ruff was a
good-hearted man. He was 64 years
of age.
There were five people in this com
munity named for Governor Hampton,
three of them have passed beyond.
Betty Hampton Halfacre, Melvin
Hampton Wicker, and Oshon Hampton
Ruff. The two living are, Luthef
Hampton Sease, and George Hamp
ton Ruff and I am the oldest of the
three. I regret the death of those
that have passed away hut am thank
ful that I am still living.
G. H. Ruff.
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