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PAGB TWO FRIDAY. AUGUST 8. 1941 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publiaher One Year . One Dollar Published every Friday Entered as second-clasa matter December 6, 1987, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE SHEEP BLEAT “YES, BOSS” AGAIN A majority in the house of repre sentatives became a CIO rubber stamp the other day when the vote was taken on the May bill. This bill proposed to protect from labor vio lence men who are engaged i>» de fense industry work. The right to strike and to picket was fully pro tected in the bill. Yet, in spite of all safeguards, the CIO leaders rounded up its hench men and got them to Washington to make war on the bill. Even so dis credited an agitator and enemy of America as the notorious Harry Bridges pitched in and warned con gressmen that unless they voted with the CIO radicals they would be de feated when they came up for re- election again. The frightened con- gressianal sheep bleated “Yes, Boss” and so helped America’s enemies to deal another blow at national de fense. July 15, Congressman Howard W. Smith of Virginia, made a speech in the house in which he fully exposed this move to further cripple our de fense and chided his colleagues who supported it at the orders of a FOR EIGN labor boss. The country is fortunate that it still has in the na tional law-making body a few men who stand for their country in the face of threats of FOREIGN labor boses. THE FALL OF FRANCE By Dr. Gus W. Dyer The French are the most brilliant people in the world. They are pro found thinkers, and have intelligence of a high order. At the close of the world war, France was on the “top of the world,” and Germany was “down and out.” After a decade of floundering in humiliation and defeat, the Germans decided that hard work and struggle are essential conditions of strength, and this was the road they chose for a “come back”. As the Germans ac cepted the hard way as the only way to become strong, the French turned “socialist,” and adopted the theory of ease and leisure and “the good life” as the proper objective of a na tion. By means of a general “set down” strike, a socialist was put at the head of the government, hours of labor were reduced to 40 a week, wages were advanced and a new deal policy in general was adopted. When the French, trained under the new order of “ease and leisure” met the Germans on the battlefield, they discovered that they had de feated themselves before a single gun was fired. It takes something more than big armies and big guns and huge sums of money to win a war. A nation that repudiates hard work and continuous struggle as the essential law of life and progress, puts itself out of the race and commits national suicide. MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR MISS MINNIE C. GIST A memorial service was held at Aveleigh Presbyterian church Sun- ray morning in honor of Miss Minnie C. Gist, who was a Sunday school teacher and a member of Aveleigh for 32 years. Talks were made by several mem bers of the church and her Sunday school pupils. KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN Rev. J. B. Harman, Pastor Bethany: Sunday 10 a. m., Sunday school. Mr. E. B. Hite, Supt. 11 a. m.. Church worship with ser mon, followed by Luther League. Summer Memorial: Sunday 10 a. m., Sunday school. Mr. M. E. Shealy Supt. 6:30 p. m., Luther Leagues. Broth erhood. 7:30 p. m., Church Worship with sermon. All services are held on Day Light Saving Time. Visitors are invited to attend all services. T. L. Hioks was a visitor at Myr tle Beach a few days the past week. Nancy and Patsy Wingater of Charlotte, N. C. are spending this week with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Todd. At least nobody can say now that Hitler is a false prophet. He is the fellow who predicted as long ago as January 30, 1937: “Any treaty links between Germany and present- day Bolshevist Russia would be with out any value whatever.” SEARS ANNUAL AUGUST tf-uA, Sale REDUCED $5 FRO m FALL AND WINTER CATALOG PRICES MINK-DYED CONEY that would co»t you $49.95 elsewhere! Smartly styled with stripes swirl • ing round the sleeves. Stay-skin processed like expensive fur coats. On display here now! SABIE-BLENDED CONEY that would cost you $75 elsewhere! Deep brown, subtly striped, blended by experts. See it at Sears Order Office, act quickly to buy it at August savings. i -I I t i A SMALL AMOUNT DOWN ON OUR LAY-AWAY PLAN will hold your coat In storoga without charge until Nov. 1. SEARS, ROEBUCK and (0. ORDER OFFICE MARY KLETTNER KING, Mgr. 1210 Caldwell St. Phone 430 Must American Boys Fight to Save English Duke’s 175,000 Acre Estate? (By Vardis Fisher) Stricken, like so many interven tionists, with a feverish lusting to see young men fight While he sits at home and applauds, one Russell Bird- well takes a full-page add in the July 21 Times to ask the President and Congress to give us “marching orders”. Maybe Birdwell is only a phoney front for a bunch of indus trialists with foreign investments. Maybe he owns a block of Internm- tionai Telephone. Or perhaps he is a sincere and wealthy American who thinks it is our job periodically to save the British Empire. Whatever he is or is not, his hysterical nonsense calls for an answer—because thfk is not the first time he has jumped into of a small ally and cheer him up. Now she is cheering Russia and be seeching us to hurry and jump in. Only after she has exhausted all her allies will she gird her fat old belly and make a fight. Mr. Birdwell thinks that all isola tionists ought to be shut up. He says the world belongs to the “good peo ple”—meaning, I suppose, that war- lusting minority in this nation which thinks the majority ought to be sup pressed. He says gangland must go. It would be well to start at home and wipe out a few Hagues and Kellys first. Above all else, he says that our all-out participation in this war will bring “decency” and “bequeath to our children a decent world.” In the last war, it will be rememb Remember that last time we fought only a litle skirmish at the tail end of a war. Remember that this time we shall, if we get in and if we must, fight to the last young man. But re member, too, that most of these young men will come back to us, hor ribly mutilated, blind, or emasculat ed, and sentenced to years of agony while we forget them. They witt be full of physical and mental sickness that nobody can understand, I ima gine, except those who suffer it. Re member, above all, that our hospitals were overcrowded last time, and tha\ this time on the sites of all ou* fine cantonments and barracks and air fields we shall build hospitals to hold these young men to whom we are be queathing a decent world. Tens of Maybonk Will Sign Teachers’ Pay Bill Orangeburg, Aug. 2.— Governor Burnet R. Maybank announced here today that he would sign the bill to increase public school teachers’ sal aries $10 a month “next Tuesday”. He made the statement in the course of his speech at the opening of the Democratic campaign for the United States senate seat vacated by Justice James F- Byrnes. “I have always thought school teachers were underpaid,” he said, but “if I had immediately signed the bill” when it was passed more than two months ago in the closing hours of the general assembly “it might have caused trouble because of su preme court decisions.” (The Court recently held that negro school teach ers must be paid on the same basis as white teachers). Since that time, Maybank said he had been studying the bill with edu cators and attorneys. The final re port from these groups “will be made next Tuesday”, he said, “and the people of South Carolina will be told the whole situation when I sign the bill that day.” ’The $10-a-month increase would cost the state about $1,100,000 more a year for public education. four or five thousand dollars’ worth of type. In huge black words he heads his advertisement thus: “What the hell can we get out of this war?” De cency he says. A decent world for our children he says. A noble & sweet and Christian world in which Demo cracy will be saved and we’ll all love one another and listen to the birdies sing. There’s another answer, but, first, it is well to pass under review a baseless charge which he repeats. Invasion-Proof A million times over the air and in the press it has been said that iso lationists are appeasers. Some of them may be. I don’t know. But any body who calls all of us appeasers is either stupid or dishonest. As an isolationist, I merely echo the senti ment of millions when I say that I believe in arming this Nation to the teeth—and giving it an extra set of teeth. With a mighty navy and air force, talk of invasion becomes sheer lunacy. I’ll let my sons go to their death any day to save this nation, but not to save the 175,000-acre estate of the Duke of Hamilton. If there’s an appeaser in the world at the moment, it is England. Why is she not bombing the huge I. G. Farben powder plants just out of Mannheim ? Because they’re insured by Lloyd’s of London. Why is she taking certain materials we are giv ing her and selling them to Latin American countries? To keep her economic foothold in our doorygrd. Why isn’t she doing a real job of bombing Germany now? Because she is interested not in winning the war but in saving the property of the Tories. To sacrifice other nations, in cluding our own if she can, has been her policy; and during the last 15 years she double-crossed France at every turn. That’s enough for me. Again and again she appeased Hitler by sacrificing her allies, and she’ll sell us down the river too if she ever gets a chance. The reason England loses all battles except the last bat tle lies in the fact that she first in duces other nations to fight for her and fights for herself only when she must. At this moment, when Ger many is engaged on the eastern front, England’s bombing of Germany is, in my opinion, nine-tenths propaganda I pitals. ered, our part was very small. We lost fewer than a hundred thousand men, and we were in only a few min or engagements. Tn a wet dismal day in August 1930 I stood on a hill north of Verdun. In no direction could I see farther than a mile, but within that small radius nearly half a mil lion men had been slain. Persons were digging out their bones And piling them up, and when they got an assortment of bones that seemed to make a skeleton they called it a body and hauled it off for burial. On that small segment of the front more than five times as many men were killed as we lost in the war. Fate of Four Rigby, Idaho is a small town with a small high school. Among my class mates are four whom I remember well. One was killed in action. The other three I shall call John and Jim and George. John, after his return, became a dentist, but he had been shell-shocked and gassed, and he knew* he could never see his forty- fifth birthday. I talked with him many times and found him disillus ioned and sad and bitter. He died a couple of years ago. Jim had been a happy-go-lucky prankster, but after he returned from France he wa* an other man. He was a drunkard, and he was mortally sick. The last heard of him he had been shipped off to a hospital, and he is probably dead now. George used to be in business in Boise. I saw him often, but he never wanted to talk with me. Ow film was the blight of a sick body and a sick soul. He is one of the living dead who helped to keep the estates for the Dukes of Hamilton. Our hos pitals from coast to coast are full of these* men who went out to aave democracy and came back to be for gotten and slowly to die. A gentleman up north named Klon Moore has recently quoted the ®om mander of the American Legion to prove that we fought in a noble cause last time. He might as well have quoted Charley McCarthy. The real American Legion is not these healthy and prosperous men, not smug tfien who never saw the front or saw it safely, not the propagandists of our present hour. The real Legion is the forgotten men slowly dying .in hos and bluff. She is hoping now that Russia will turn the tide; and if Rus sia doesn’t, well, there’s the United States getting ready to plunge in. It’s a pity that Americans don’t realize that of all nations in the world, none including Japan, sio envies and iis- trusts and despises us as England does. Realists, Not Appeasers Isolationists of my stripe, are not appeasers. On the contrary, we are determined to be just as realistic and selfish as that greedy old Mother of Parliaments. We have only to be hard-boiled and get ready and no combination of powers can ever in vade us or ever dare try. It is a de luded and sentimental patriotism that wants us to take up the fight for England where Russia leaves off. Neither in France nor Belgium nor Norway nor Greece did England do much more than to stand at ,the back These Birdwells, these fat old breast-thumping men like Knox, these scurrilous name callers like Ickes, say we shall get decency out of this war. They say if we save the British Empire with its exploit ing heel on two-fifths of the earth, we shall give a decent world to our chil dren. But I see something else. T see them a decade after the war has closed gathering up the bones of our men and trying to fit the bones into Skeletons. That will be the easiest part of it to take. I see hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions to whom we shall bequeath a living death in our midst. For every man killed, 10 suffer a fate a thousand times more dreadful; and they come back to die among us or be shoved into hospitals where we can wash our hands of them with a few taxes and forget them and pretend that it was all for the best. thousands, perhaps hundreds of thous ands, of them will be confied to hos pitals for the insane. The others, men bankrupted by murder, with bod ies half dead and souls stricken. I saw all over France and Germany. This time we shall have the joy of seeing these corpses walking to the morgues. “What the hell can we get out of this war?” That, Mr. Birdwell, plus economic chaos and a military dicta torship; but it will be on the con science of you interventionists, and not on mine. , TAX ON MARRIAGE Bangor (Me.) Daily News. Aside from all discussion of the relations between church and state, or the clergyman’s proper role in civic life, there is wide agreement that there was a time when the cleric was as generally correct as he was generally effective in politics. There is also a widespread belief that, la ter, this ceased to be the case. To day, though the American clergy are so sharply divided over America’s war policies, there is a feeling that they are again beginning to speak of public affairs “not as the scribes.” A striking contribution to this feeling was made at Bar Harbor, the other <}ay, by Protestant Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning, of New York, protesting against the propos ed Federal law to exact income-tax returns from huqband and wife* “We have got to pay greatly in creased income taxes to defeat Hit lerism,” said the bishop, “and we must all be willing to do this; but . . . the proiposal in question would tend definitely toward divorce, celi bacy, and a declining birth rate, and would be a reversal of the progress which has been made, in recent de cades, in giving women their true status as individuals and citizens. The strength of our Nation lies in happy marriages and in happy homes and families. This proposed law would say to married couples that they must pay far larger income tax es if they live together than if they break up their homes and live apart, or if they were not married.” The bishop, a staunch supporter of all-out American aid to Britain urges every citizen to shoulder a full share of the tax burden, but denoun ces as a bill calculated to force a man and a woman, married and liv ing together, to pay a larger tax than a couple unmarried, divorced, or liv ing apart. Although Dr. Manning speaks primarily as a clergyman, his religious arguments are cogent ad ditions to the purely economic rea sons against a measure essentially discriminatory and anti-social. BRIDE GONE TWENTY YEARS HUSBAND FEELS DESERTED Hartford, Conn.—Napoleon Boisse, 45, was granted a divorce on grounds of desertion after he told Superior Court Judge Ernest C. Simpson he hasn’t seen his wife since the day she left him twenty years ago on the steps of the church after the marriage. Boisse said his wife turned to him as they left the Salem, Mass., church and remarked: “I’ll be seeing you.” Boisse’s lawyer told the court the woman’s family hasn’t heard from her in 20 years either. O’NEALL SCHOOL FACULTY O’Neall school opens September 5, with the following faculty: G. A. Lindler, superintendent; 'Mrs. G. A. Lindler, Miss Elsie Bedenbaugh, Rogers Blakley. Grammar school: Miss Grace Jeter, Miss Ruby Long, and Mrs. Evelyn Cooper. COUNCIL TO MEET AT ROCK HILL The Piedmont District Council meeting will be held at the new Win- throp College Auditorium on Wednes day, September 3rd.. WOMEN STAMPEDE STORES FOR SILK STOCKINGS New York, Aug, 4.—The women folk stampeded silk stocking counters of Manhattan department stores to day. Store managers said the week end sales showed increases of from 200 to 500 per cent. A mass movement which began quietly last week when President Roosevelt froze Japanese assets in this country and gained momentum Saturday when the government ord ered stoppage of silk processing, reached its peak today when the wo men realized just what had happen ed. At GimbeTs they put up red plush ropes and stationed husky plain- elothesmen to keep the ladies from pushing and snatching. At Macy’s, the area of the stock ing counters, was roped off also and uniformed guards kept the lines moving. Wannamaker’s saw piles of sheer silk melt like snow. Orbach’s was too tired from sell ing 30,000 pairs of hosiery Satur day to say much about it today. Saks-Fifth Avenue doubled their stockings sales force from 20 to 40 clerks. Up and down Fifth Avenue shop keepers and department store man agers gave a uniform report: Bed lam! Some places, - restricting sales to three or four pairs to a customer, had trouble with many buyers who hid their initial purchases and got back in line for more. Most of the stores reported that despite the rush their stocks were still large. CHICAGO SENDS TWO TO PRISON IN DRAFT CASES Chicago, Aug. 4.—Two officials of a local selective service board were sentenced to prison terms today on charges of conspiracy and bribery to defer a draftee. It was the first Chi cago ease of its kind since the sel ective service act became effective. Attorney Joseph W. Nosek, chair man of board 110, was sentenced to three years on a charge of accepting $35 from Walter Kukovec, 26, a reg istrant. Dr. J. P. Gardzielewski, ex amining physician for the board was sentenced to two years for conspiracy in the case. The annual Bible school at Helena was held during the week of July 26. Assisting Rev. Calcote, the pastor, were Miss Juanita Swindler, Mrs. Lever, and Miss Mary Cook. The courses consisted of Bible memory work, Bible stories, song drills and children choruses. Refreshments were served each day. The total enroll ment was about 28. On the last day the Children visited and sang for a shut-in of the community. The re freshments were shared each day ■.with the shut-ins and near neighbors. ?ENSE BUY UNITED STATES SAVINGS BONDS AND STAMPS <» Ml F VniH'R WSTOFTirr OR Rank America On Guard! Above is a reproduction of the Treasury Department’s Defense Savings Poster, showing an exact duplication of the original “Minute Man” statue by famed sculptor Daniel Chester French. Defense Bonds and Stamps, on sale at your bank or post office, are a vital part of America’s defense preparations. For OFFICE SUPPLIES 1 ' i i: The SUN ; THESE BOYS will give you good service, no matter how small your wants. C. D. Coleman Co. Phone 400