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FACE SIX
THE NEWBKUT SUH
FRIDAY. JULY 25, 1941
British Official Tells
US Where to Get Off
(From Washington Times-Herald)
We have been honored by a visit
from a typical member of the British
ruling classes.
He is Col. Josiah C. Wedgwood, of
the Wedgwood porcelain family.
He is likewise a member of the
British Parliament.
He tells us all about our Ameri
can business—“where we get off”,
when we g’et off, and how we get off
We are punks.
We are too slow.
Colonel Wedgwood wants to give
us the “bum’s rush” and throw us
out of our peace, out of our independ
ence, out of our public welfare, out
of our free institutions, into the gut
ter of war.
He allows of no argument.
He says:
“This is your war and you are in
it up to your necks.”
He continues:
“The trouble with you Americans
is that you are afraid to assume re
sponsibilities.”
Friends and fellow Americans, we
sort of thought that we had assum
ed quite a lot of responsibilities dur
ing the last war that England was in.
And that we had assumed obliga
tions, too—obligations of foreign na
tions that were in no way ours and
debts that were theirs but were re
pudiated, and damages and depres
sions, too, that we have never been
able to recover from.
And we thought we had conferred
quite a few boons and benefits, espe
cially upon England, pulling .John
Bull out of the bloody mess he had
gotten himself into, and putting his
topper back on his head, and dusting
off his clothes, and wiping his bruis
ed nose, and standing him bacR on
his unsteady feet.
For all of which we were called
“Uncle Sap”—and rightly so called.
Now comes this British warrior
and statesman and crockery manu
facturer and shows us up.
He tells us how wrong we are, and
have always been, and how only our
President is willing to assume "a
large share of responsibility”—
which he certainly is overwilling to
do, and has considerably overdone.
Then this British member of Par
liament asks us why we have not got
a “sensible Congress,” and says:
“In England all the best people
(including Colonel Wedgwood, of
course) go into Parliament.”
But, remarks the colonel disparag
ingly:
‘They don’t try to get into Con
gress here.”
Then Colonel Wedgwood, warrior,
diplomat, and parliamentarian, tells
Senator Wheeler “to go soak his
head,” and says:
“I would be glad to see physical
intervention (of America in the war)
tomorrow,” and further says:
“I would like to see American
tfcoops fighting beside ours, flying
American planes, sailing American
^hips over and in the war zone.”
The “union now” movement, de
clared Colonel Wedgwood is “far
more advanced” in England than in
the United States.
“The people (in England) are rea
dy for it now.
“We’ve all got to hang together or
we will hang singly,” says the colo
nel, adopting Benjamin Franklin’s
dictum in the reverse, and applying
to America what that revered sign
er of the Declaration of Independence
had to say about England.
As a matter of fact, Americans
would have no particular objection to
seeing Colonel Wedgwood hanging
singly.
Indeed, they would rather favor
the idea.
But they do object to all of us be
ing hanged together in support of
the jealousies and commercial rival
ries and selfish political policies of
any foreign nations whatever.
Still, there is no use becoming un
duly incensed at this crockery war
rior.
His opinions are characteristic of
his present Government.
In the pres* dispatches of the same
day appear the remarks of Lord Van-
sittart, member of the British House
of Lords, who says:
“Any talk of peace with the Nazis
is impossible. Persistent bombing
may weaken German morale and may
start a crack-up.
“But land success is needed against
the Reichswehr. This will take im
mense manpower, and unless the Itus
sians crush the Germans in the East
America is the only hope.
“In the long run American man
power will be needed for a land vic
tory over Germany.”
And a few days before, General
Sir Claude Auchinleck, commander in
chief of the British forces in tne
Middle East, said:
“I’ve always thought the war must
be won in Europe, in Germany, on
Germany^ own soil.
“Therefore, I see as much deed
for American manpower in this war
as in the last.”
And Lord Elibank, speaking be^
fore the House of Lords Wednesday,
advised that the British War cabinet
“include representatives of the dom
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inions, India, and the United States,
who soon will be nearer to us in war
Iran they are at present.”
How gratifying it will be to the
once free people of the United States
to be back in the British Empire on
the same terms and in the same
rank with the subject races of op-
j pressed India.
The facts are, folks—in the plain
English which we are only now beg
inning to hear spoken—that England
knows she cannot win the war against
Germany.
But she positively will not make
peace, no matter how honorable a
peace might be offered.
“Any German offer of a peace con
ference with honor,” Lord Vansittart
says, “will always have a certain de
gree of acceptance among ‘mugs’ of
high circles as well as low.”
But “no comprehensive peace is
possible.”
Because the British Empire ex
pects America to do her fighting for
her, and to drag her chestnuts out of
the hot coals of the war she has de
clared, and the diplomatic complica
tions she has involved herself in.
We Americans could not say this
and be believed, but when English
lords and generals and members of
Parliament say it, it must be recog
nized as true.
Moreover, Mr. Atlee, member of
the British War Cabinet, repeats it;
and Mr. Churchill, premier of Eng
land, definitely declares it.
“The age of appeasement and iso
lation is gone,” says the truculent
Col. Johsiah C. Wedgwood, speaking
for us Americans as well as for the
British Parliament.
“We’ve had years and years of
these wk-etoched appeasers, like
Wheeler, in England.”
And “by wretched appeasers 1
mean all people who are not prepar
ed to consider their duty to the rest
of mankind.”
“And,” continues the crockery col
onel emphatically, “this includes all
those who think they can keep out of
the wpr and let the other hemis
pheres settle its own 'difficulties.”
According to these British states
men and generals, we Americans
must take on the age-old hatred and
jealousies of Europe, the ancient ra
cial and religious antagonisms of
Asia.
We must carry the four freedoms
futilely to the four corners of the
earth, only to have them rejectecr and
ridiculed when they arrive there.
Meanwhile we must deprive our
selves of every phase of freedom
here at home—of every ounce of poli
tical liberty, of every atom of pros
perity, of every shadow of public or
private welfare.
We must even sacrifice our inde
pendence so that a foreign nation,
against which we formerly rebelled
because of its exactions and harsh
domination, its ingratitude and! injus
tice, can now use us as part of its
war machine, and make us a part of
its long-sought world dominion.
In discussing this flagrant British
war propaganda on the floor of the
Senate, Senator Tobey recalled the
fact “That Lord Northcliffe said in
his book in 1928 that he spent $150,-
000,000 in the United States in /917
to get America into the war.
“How much,” continued Senator
Tobey, “do you suppose they (the
British) are spending today?”
“This man Wedgwood,” said Sena
tor Tobey further, “is only a disciple
of Winston Churchill. The same Win
ston Churchill who said in his book
written in 1925—‘the best way to se-
sure American sympathy is to get
American blood shed on the field’.”
Senator Wheeler, also on the floor
of the Senate, defended the United
States Congress against the attacks
of Colonel Wedgwood 1 , and repelled
with admirable restraint the^amaz-
ing personal assault against himself
made by the British premier.
Said Senator Wheeler:
“Lord Halifax and the other Eng-
Hsr statesmen may take Mr. Wilkie
into camp; they may take Mr. Mor-
genthau into camp; they may take
Mr. Knox into camp; but they are
not going to run the Congress of the
United States, in my judgment.”
Let us hope that Senator Wheeler’s
judgment is sound and true.
But the people of the United States
have small belief that this cowering
Congress will possess the courage to
assert any form of American inde
pendence, or to stop in any manner
the offensive foreign propaganda
which is rushing our country into an
alien war.
Colonel Wedgwood is on his way
home, to be sure, but Lord Halifax,
the authorized and official interferer
extraordinary, and meddler plenipo
tentiary, in America’s personal poli
tical affairs, is still at large in this
land of the free, and still perpetrat
ing—without protest from our pseu
do-American Congress—his humil
iating affronts to the independence
and the self-respect of the American
people.
Alabama Farmer Uses
Fire On Grassy Cotton
Montgomery, Ala., July 20.—An
army reserve officer-farmer is using a
flame thrower to cultivate his cotton
and do the word of weed and grass
killing now generally done by man
ual hoeing.
Jets of 2,000—degree flames are
replacing cotton hoers on his planta
tion, and crops farmed in this fashion
are faring better than those in com
panion fields cultivated in the tradi
tional manner.
The machine kills the grass; seem
ingly doesn’t injure the cotton.
Capt. Price McLemore, who has
been called from his farm to Gunter
field as a reserve officer, estimates
throwers he devised can be built for
one-mule plows at $10 each and fi
gures this type cultivation £osts only
ten cents an acre. He built a model
himself at an outlay of $5.
Simple land Cheap
Flame cultivation is as simple as
it is cheap. In the pilot models, one
mounted on a hand plow and a two-
row outfit on the front of a tractor,
fuel oil, and compressed air are used
to provide the flame.
Spouts from jets on either side of
the row, the-flame strikes the ground
a couple of inches or so from the cot
ton stalks and blankets the area be
tween. At present, a sweep plow is
mounted behind the tractor to culti
vate the middle in the ordinary man-
:r.
The tractor moves at regular culti
vated speed, and McLemore estimated
that both grass and the cotton are
subjected to one-fifteenth of a sec
ond treatment of 2,200-degree heat.
Except for the withering of ten-
derest grass, th.-e’r, apparently no
change immediately as the tractor
moves along. But four hours later
the seemingly uninjured grass turns
brown and dies to its roots.
The representative of an implement
company who came to look over Mc-
Lemore’s gadget reported his analy
sis showed that cells of the grass
blades were exploded by steam gen
erated within them and that the plant
died of something similar to suffoca
tion.
Cotton Not Hurt
The stalk of the crop, being exceed
ingly thick (in comparison to grass),
is able to distribute the heat so rap
idly that no portion of the plant will
be subjected to serious heating,
whereas the thin blodes of grass
absorb but can not readily dissipate
the heat.
It works on com as well as cot
ton, McLemore said.
The Alabama extension service is
working with McLemore in developing
the new method. Rows in the same
field are being cultivated by different
means, and actually those getting
flame baths appear to have more
blooms and look healthier.
McLemore got the idea two years
ago when there was an exception
ally wet spring and grass outran
crops all over Alabama. McLemore
fought with hoe and plow, but didn’t
make much headway. Then came a
Sunday and he leisurely turned the
pages of the Montgomery Advertiser
until his eyes fell upon an Associated
Press photo of an Italian flame
throwing tank in action.
“That ought to fix that grass
was his reaction, but he adds: “I
burned up a lot of cotton before I
got any result except being', called
crazy.”
NOTICE OF SCHOOL MEETING
The trustees of the Newberry
School District No. 1 will make their
annual report to the citizens of the
district in the Court House Tuesday
morning, August 5th, at 30 o’clock.
J. Y. Jones,
Chairman of the Board.
THOMAS CLYDE TINDAL. JR.
Mr and Mrs. Clyde Tindal of Co
lumbia announce the birth of a son,
July 23 at Columbia hospital. The
baby has been named Thomas Clyde
Tindal, Jr.
Mrs. Tindal is the former Miss
Julia McAlhaney, daughter of Mrs.
Josie McAlhaney of Boundary street.
Mrs. John S. Riddle and daughters,
Johnette and Elizabeth and son, Don
ald, have returned to their home in
Birmingham, Ala., x after a visit to her
parents. Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Harman,
and other relatives.
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Train Borne Display
Coming To Clinton
Preservation of soil, forest, and
wildlife resources will be the keynote
of a soil conservation exhibit train
which will be open to the public from
9:00 a. m. to 4:00 p. m., August 2, at
the Seaboard station at Clinton, ac
cording to P. B. Ezell, county agent,
and J. H. Talbert of the U. S. Soil
Conservation Service.
The train is sponsored by the Soil
Conservation Service, in cooperation
with the State Extension Service, and
the Seaboard Air Line Railway, and
will consist of one baggage car, two
flat cars, and one passenger coach
loaded with exhibits.
The baggage car contains exhibits
of wide variety, action, and color. One
exhibit has a tolling bell that por
trays the constant toll of erosion on
unprotected farmland. Each stroke of
the bell signifies the loss of another
thousand tons of topsoil from the
fields of America.
Another exhibit consisted of a eol
lection of grasses and legumes val
uable in erosion control. Other exhi
bits will be made up of model farms
in miniature, pictures, charts, and
mechanical exhibits of various des
cription.
In the main the exhibits will por
tray the practices being employed to
control erosion on farms in the
Lower Saluda Soil Conservation Dist
rict, which includes Newberry, Salu
da and Greenwood counties. These
practices include crop rotations, con
tour farming, strip cropping, ter
racing, use of cover crops, gully con
trol, retirement of badly eroding
land from cultivation and planting
to trees, kudzu, or lespedeza sericea,
and the construction of farm ponds
where practicable.
In addition to the baggage car of
exhibits, there will be two flat cars
loaded with the latest types of im
plements used in erosion control.
These will include plows, tractors,
seed harvesting equipment, slip
scrapes, and tools used in farm wood
land operations. A passenger coach
equipped with comfortable seats will
be used for the showing of motion
pictures on soil improvement and
conservation.
A display of U. S. Department of
Agriculture and Extension Service
publications will supplement the in
formation in the exhibits, and repre
sentatives of the Soil Conservation
to answer questions.
dially invited to visit the train.
she has taught in the high schools of
Pendleton and Whitmire.
Lt. Hipp is the son of Mr. and Mrs,
J. W. Hipp, Sr., of Whitmire, and is
a graduate of The Citadel. He is now
in service as First Lieutenant in the
United States Army at Camp Ste
wart, Georgia.
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SENN-OSBORNE
On July 20, 1941, at the residence
of the officiating minister, the Rev.
J. B. Harman, Miss Mattie Frances
Senn was married to Adger F. Os
borne.
Mis. Osborne is a daughter of Mrs.
Eula Senn Berry of Newberry and
the late Claud Senn.
Mr. Osborne is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. T. L. Osborne of Townville, S. C.
and is a graduate of the Townville
high school. He holds a position with
the Newell Construction company of
Greenville, and is now working near
Orangeburg.
Monday and Tuesday
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WEDDING OF INTEREST
the bride, officiating.
Central church was beat
decorated with gladioli and
abra.
Appropriate music
Graniteville, organist, and Miss Doro
thy Smith of Chester, soloist.
The bridesmaids, who were attrac
tive in their costumes of Nile green
marquisette, featuring square neck
lines, puffed sleeves, embroidered
Virginia, Miss Wilma Riddle
Greenville and Mrs. George A. J
of Union. They all carried p
sheaf gladioli bouquets.
inserts at the hemline,
a bouquet of lavender,
peach gladioli.
yellow and
liam, George Duncan, Pruitt Abrams,
and Lambert Riser of Whitmire; Lt.
James Abrams and Charles Leaman
of Camp Stewart, Georgia.
J. W. Hipp, Jr., served as his
brother’s best man. All men in the
ceremony wore white suits; the groom
his white uniform.
The bride entered the church with
her brother, Herbert O. Chambers,
Jr., by whom she was given in mar
riage. Her wedding gown was lace
and net, made with sweetheart neck
line, leg o’mutton sieves fitted below
the elbow, bodice fitted' with long
waistline and bouffant ner skirt, end
ing in train. He rfull length veil
of bridal illusion was caught with a
coronet of orange blossoms. She car
ried a shower bouquet of white roses,
ferns, and gynsophilia, tied with white
satin ribbon. Her only jewerly was
a pair of pearls.
Immediately after the ceremony, a
reception was held' at the parsonage
for friends of the couple. During the
evening the couple left for a few days
wedding trip.
Mrs. Hipp is the daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. H. O. Chambers of the city.
She is a graduate of Lander College
and did graduate work at Duke Uni
versity. For the past several years
Wednesday
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BRIDE LAST EVENING
Miss Dot Ruff was charming host
ess at a miscellaneous shower givtn
Wednesday night in honor of Mrs.
Eugene Hiers, whose marriage -was
recently announced.
The h< me of Miss Ruff's parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Ruff, in t*.“
county was dedorat’d with a prolu
sion nf iouely summer flowers---glad
ioli. xues, and zinn.n. As the
guests *.» tered, Mrs- RufV, mother of
the hr.ifss presented each with a
flower. Two persons had flowe>-s to-
alike, end in this way found their
partners. These partner a worked to
gether in games and contests, the
rest of the evening, and winning
prizes were Miss Martha Buchanr.an
and Miss Carrie Lee McSwain.
Mrs. Hiers was given a basket
in whieh was a poem, instructing her
to follow a string attached, to find
her gifts. 'She received many lovely
and useful presents. A gift was also
presented to Miss Mary Lane Wh'ta
ker, a bride-elect of August 3.
Assisting the hostess in serving
lime punch, sandwiches and e< i kies
were her mother, her aunt, Mrs. J.
^1. Ruff and cousin, Miss Julia Ruff.
In Appreciation
We wish to thank the public for the splendid recep
tion given us. Many have taken advantage of the
lowf prices to be had here on pretty yard goods. Our
prices have not advanced and we urge you to buy
now from our wide selection of pretty goods.
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