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PAGE POUR THE NEWBERRY SUN South Carolina Seething With Politics By SPECTATOR “Is the weather going to break” some one aisked last week. I think so; but it is going to break the far mer. As the fields have been, it might be a good idea to have farm canoes to float down the corn and cotton middles for an inspection. As I went over the State recently men in every section asked the same question: “Who’s coming out for the Senate? Will the governor and Ed gar Brown run?” Wefll', beyond a doubt all will know the answer be fore this Spectator appears in print. Roaming among the peach trees and eating at random I thought I was just eating a few old-time field peaches; for the sheer lusciousness of the fruit. But on reading Brother Ira Armfield’s Sylacauga News (Ala bama) I learned trat I was laying in a store of vitamins “A. B. C. and G (b2)’\ for these are found in peaches. Every year I recommend wheat meal for muffins and Tiot cakes. Take the wheat to a grist mill and use the whole product. It is full of iodine and brimming over with vitamins from A to Z and then “complexed”— just whatever thst is. I thought the man with the vitamin bug had a “complex”, but there is such a thing as a vitamin complex, meaning that the vitamin has a complex. Well, what next? All of us were started on a milk diet and milk continues an interesting topic, even if we don’t rely on it so largely now. Some of our pet prejudices are ex ploded now and them. A Massaclhus- setts professor, who is an authority on milk, tells us that many of our ideas are unfounded. Acid fruits and milk are not incompatible, says he, because the stomach juices curdle milk in the normal process of digestion. The curdling caused by acid fruits may even be helpful, says the learned gentleman. Fish and milk together are quite all right, too, says our friend. Of course, he points out, the fish should 1 not be in a preliminary state of spoiling. Milk isn’t fattening, we read. Milk isn’t so much a bev erage, as it is a food. Now, according to our authority, if we eat all the food we require, and then take milk as a beverage, we are adding to the food. That, he says, is fattening. But if milk be taken as a food it is not fattening. Milk as a beverage, along with sufficient food, will amount be too many calories, therefore will become fattening. Skimmed milk contains all the vitamins and min erals found in whole milk, but omits the fat. Milk is not so fluid as is commonly thought. It has more solid food material than onions, oysters, carrots, squash, cabbage, cauliflower, radishes, spinach, watermelons, pump kin, tomatoes, asparagus, celery, let tuce and cucumbers. Well, tell me buddy, man to man, whoever thought that stuff had any jfood value. Oniom have only nuisance value. Every time Congress appropriates a billion dollars our share of the debt is two million dollars, in South Caro ■ lina; Georgie $6,300,000. The presi dent seems to be asking for more bil lions every week, so the part thaf will fall on us for his most recent calls is more than the total amount appropriated by the Legislature. Of course, this is just an interesting cal culation made by a statistician and doesn’t mean anything, nor is It in tended to alarm us. When sinus are up in the billions we are all so be fuddled that we go off on a sort of financial spree and become as unmov ed by ten billions as by one billion. A billion dollars is such a vast sum of money that we staager under the weight of the imagination and our faculties all become so benumbed that we don’t grasp the immensity of the undertaking to which we have set ourselves. I have been talking quite a lot about Punitive Damages. You know what I mean. Even in the early days of our English law we had the matter of Punitive Damages. It is still a part of the legal practice in most states. South Carolina allows punitive damages more readily than most other states, and bur practice injures us in the opinion of otfters. If a man slips on a banana skin in a store and spins around like a top, finally landing ungracefully on the floor, he may not have suffered any injury except to his dignity. Accord ing to our practice he may sue the owner of the store for actual damages, whatever they may be, if any, and punitive damages, or damages as a punishment for having the banana skin on the floor. The skin was not put there by the storekeeper, nor by his clerks. Vey likely a customer from the street dropped the skin. If this store is operated by a rich man or a big cooperation the banana glider will sue for thousands of dollars. That practice is said to operate against us in trying to bring in new business. All that, however, we have said be fore. Something new, however, has come to light. As you know, small canneries appear to be desirable en • terprises in many communities. We have corn, tomatoes, beans peas, fruits, etc., in abundance. These things, except the corn, spoil easily. If we could can our surplus at a fair price, many a farmer might show a profit at the end of the year, instead of a back-breaking loss. It all appears so easy, on paper,—just like so many other things connected with the farm. Any man who can’t figure for himself a good living on a two-horse farm is poor at figures. Of course the figures may play tricks on him, or may fail to keep the faith, resulting in disappointment, or even disaster, sometimes. Of all the side-lines a cannery should be the most profitable. Again I’m indulging in paper farming. It’s like so much of the advice given to farmers; it costs nothing to the man who gives the advice. In fact he gets a thrill out of it and thinks what a farmer he would be if he would only use his master mind on problems of agriculture. I know a farmer who reduced his cotton acreage in order to diversify. He has been trying to sell four or five hundred bushels of oats two months. He could have sold the cotton any day. Now as to the cannery; A shrewd man was about to sell the output of several small canneries to a certain chain. The chain, after looking us over, said: “Your stuff is all right; we’d like to buy it, but we can’t”. If anything foreign were found in a can somebody would' sue us for Punitive Damages, and there we’d be hangring out on a limb. If we buy those things from a big packer he will protect us, even in court.” So there we are again. Like Banquo’s ghost, the Punitive Damage practice stares us in the face in all occasions. All national expenditures, for non- military purposes, should be cut to the last penny, so far as may be prac ticable. Our nation has authorized military expenditures more than twice as much as we acutally spent Ice-cold Coca-Cola adds to relaxation what relaxation always needs, — pure r wholesome refreshment. You taste its qual ity. You respond happily to its refreshment. So when you pause throughout the day, make it the pause that refreshes with ice-cold Coca-Cola. BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY NEWBERRY COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1941 3,000 Hear Klan Chief Adams, In Robe, Rails Against ’Agi tators’; Struck By Tomato and Egg News and Courier, 25th. A crowd estimated by police at 3,000 persons last night heard Ben E. Adams, grand dragon of the K.u Klux Klan, appeal for a “united America” against “agitators at home and a- broad.” He spoke at Marion square Although over-age eggs and ripe tomatoes splashed against him, Mr. Adams paused only briefly to take notice, then to resume his bombard ment of “persons responsible for let ting aliens into this country.” He as serted that due to too-lenient immi gration laws, the same persons wel comed into this country in past years are now engaged in sabotage of vital industries. Scores of soldiers and sailors dot ted the crowds. As the speaker be gan, there were mingled boos and cheers. In the middle of his address, eggs and tomatoes began to fly. A tomato struck the speaker on the back of the neck and an egg struck him on the right arm. He stopped a moment and said, “there’s some trash like that in America, but thank God, most of you people are real Americans.” His Eight-Point Program Mr. Adams advanced an eight- point program “to clean up America for Americans.” It follows: 1— Stop sabotage by employing on ly second generation Americans in all defense industries. 2— Banish from our country Nazism, Communism, Fascism, and every for eign “ism.” 3— Place in concentration camps all alien law violators whose native coun try will not accept them under our deportation laws. 4— Stop all immigration for ten years. 5— Deport all illegal and undesir- during the first World War. While carrying tills back-breaking burden for preparedness, the taxpayers are continuing to pay for all the load of social experiment and public pap. We must realize that a vast number of our people now look to the Govern ment for support. And this great multitude have become career men and women on Government payrolls. A lot of this work is just about as nec essary as a bag of candy is to a well- fed ciiild, but the human element, the vote element, enters into it, and poli ticians are slow to do anything which will count against them, at the polls. We here put a finger on one ol the sore spots of a democratic govern ment, the man with a grievance, or grudge, carries it, cherishes it and uses it in reprisal at the ballot box; whereas those of us who have really been saved in taxes, or otherwise, soon forget all about it. South Carolina is already seething with politics. The resignation of Senator Byrnes leaves a vacancy which no man, however able, can really fill until time and experience have worked upon him. Perhaps we haven’t another man jusit like Mr. Justice Byrnes, who has certain rare qualities. It may be that some as pirant would answer as the Scotch lady did, when she was told that it would be difficult for her to take her sister’s place. She replied “I shall not take her place; I shall make a place for myself.” So we shall prob ably have a Senator of a different I type. able aliens. 6— Give Americans preference over aliens in all matters of employment; not a job to an alien until every Am erican is employed. 7— Protect the free public schools. 8— As was said by the father of our country, ‘ Put none but Americans on guard.” Claiming that the aim of the Klan is to protect America, Mr. Adams said that in Russia, Communists had pledged to “liquidate” the Ku Klux Klan in America. “May I tell the Communists that they have made a miserable failure?” Mr. Adams said. “The Klan now is working more than ever for the inter ests which have made America great. “There’s no room in America for Communists who are attempting to block Uncle Sam’s defense effort. Let’s put Americans on guard against the influences of Communism in the United States.” The grand dragon said the sher iff of Spartanburg county “uttered a falsehood when he said the Klan is supported by the German gov ernment.” Although he mentioned no names, Mr. Adams touched briefly but point edly on the forthcoming senatorial campaign. Referring to “one now seeking higher office”, Adams said “when it’s all over, he can go back to peddling manure here as he ono* did.” A Klan spokesman said unofficially, that “We’re out to beat Maybenk in this election”. They added that once “he was the fairhaired boy of the Klan. He used it to his advantage, then turned against it”. “Take Command of Unions” Mr. Adams urged Americans to “take command of labor unions from the Communists and put it back where it belongs—in the hands of loyal Americans”. Speaking from* the rear of a small truck and before a large United States flag, Mr. Adams continued that “the aliens who were our forefathers are not the same type as the aliens we now have. . “Our forefathers came to this country to seek a new way of life. These aliens who now are disrupting industry came here to destroy our way of life”. The cause of the many aliens in this country today, he said, is that they were imported as cheap labor. “They have been permitted to stay here when they should have been shipped back to another land,” he charged. Mr. Adams said that in America today there are too many “Italian- Americans, German-Americans, Bap tist - Americans, Oatholic-Americans. We should have more people who put America first and only.” The Ku Klux Klan accepts as mem bers only white Americans who are Christians. This he said, is the pur pose of the Klan: “To maintain America for American white men who are Christians.” The Newberry Insurance & Realty Co. 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