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] - i ] - i . i rAG* TWO THE WKWHEEBT BUW TEIPAT. AUGUST l», 1>41 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year .. . One Dollar Published every Friday Entered as second-class matter December 6, 19ST, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March S, 1878. A GREAT ISSUE AT STAKE U. S. LEADS /GERMANY IN TANK PRODUCTION i It is worse than stupid today to play one political party againt the other, particularly in congress. Lead ers of each may be open to criticism But a greater issue is a>t stake. Americans should think, talk and act with the one conviction that the United States must be preserved as a forward-going nation, because of what has made it great, that is,—ex- ^ ercise of individual freedom and ini- tiative. We own our government—it does . not own us—and I hope it never shall! I Forget party in this emergency and work for America. Support leaders 1 who lead with sincere wisdon. snd | real_ patriotism. If you differ from , them, fundamentally, say so, candidly ( definitely, and without abuse. They’re, not supermen, but they need to hear | the expression of the common sense of their constituents. The noisy clamor from partisan supporters, or from partisan opponents, does not help these leaders, but does harm the country. LONGER LIFE FOR AMERICANS The life expectancy of the average white American has increased 13 years since 1900. So reports the census bureau after its latest study, covering the decade 1930-39. Ameri cans today have an axerage life span of 62.3 years. Once again women demonstrate that they have greater vitality than men. Not only is the female life ex pectancy greater than the male, as it was 40 years ago, but women nave gained another year on men. Female life expectancy is now 64.5 years, as compared to 60.6 years for men. In 1900 it was 51 years against 48 years for men. If the trend continues, within ■ few decades we may have a majority of' women for the first time in the his tory of the nation. In a copyrighted story in the New York Herald Tribune, it is reported that tank production in the U. S. has reached a point in a little over a year which Germany under Hitler requir ed more than five years to attain, and the American tanks are far sup erior to those of Germany, Lieut. Col. John K. Christmas, the army’s lead ing tank expert revealed recently. The colonel has been associated with tank development since 1924. The American people should rea lize that the tremendous victories which the German armies have ach ieved in Europe and North Africa are won not because the Germans have superior types of tanks but be. cause they have so many of them that they overwhelm their opponents, Col. Christmas said. In addition to the sp -d with which the American tank production pro gram is being carried forward, he explained, the American tanks are better than tose produced abroad be cause they are faster and are made of better material. ballots 1» general elections. The News and Courier holds that the laws should be impartially ad ministered. Whatever excuse for dis crimination against negroes by boards of registration and managers of el ections existed in 1895, ihas disap peared. Unlawful ways of reducing the negro vote, the white people having come to be the large majori ty, now react to the weakening and injury of the white man’s character. However necessary, and, in fact, praiseworthy, were the methods of the white people in 1876 and follow ing years, there was lasting damage to the Character of the white race from them, and recovery from it is not yet perfect. Maybank Promised Lyles-Ford Project There remains some danger of a split in the white man’s South Caro lina party, of two parties appealing to the negroes. That would be, in The New and Courier’s opinion, dis astrous. It can be avoided, provided the white South Carolinians have the needful character and common sense. The way is plain. They can retain the exclusive white primary for the election of state, county and munici pal officers. Within this primary may be factions, equivalent to par ties, as have been at more than one period since 1890. submitting to the results of the primary as final. Thus would come the benefits of the two party system in the general assem bly, in all state and municipal admin istration, and in a democracy an "op position” is essential to good govern ment. The absence of organized fac tions the last twenty-rour years has been the principal cause of the ever- increasing futility and incompetence of general assemblies. Russia’s “red” army is beginning to look pretty blue—to Adolph Hitler. The Germans are reported to have captured with ease the town of Walk in Estonia. Sort of a “Walkover” per haps. While Helsinki in Finland was re building from last year’s war she was bombed again. That town has an expressive name. The first syllable tells how it has been treated; the sec ond how the people must feel about it. The repeal in 1938 of the require ment that voters in primaries be bound to vote for the national Demo cratic candidates for president and vice president was a wise and a long step toward the release of white South Carolinians from political ser vitude. In 1940 the party authori ties nullified this repeal in part by ruling that intending voters for Mr. Wilkie could vote, but could not of fer for office in Democratic primar ies. It was, of course, a preposter ous ruling, and the party “leaders” who made it will live to repent it. Miss Juanita Kibler left Sunday for Chattanooga, Tenn., where she has accepted a secretarial position -with TVA. Miss Kibler completed her commercial course at Newberry col lege. Mr. E. S. Blease Speaks Out by two opposing factions in a gener al election to negro voters. Besides, one congressional district, the Sev enth, was still sending negroes to congress from time to time. A negro George Washington Murray, was the representative of the district when the convention was in session. News & Courier. The state constitutional convention of 1895 was called with the main pur pose of disqualifying a large number of negroes as voters. The negroes were then a considerable majority (women were not voting) of voters in South Carolina, about 30,000. The white voters would now outnumber the negroes by 130,000, roughly speaking, were all adults, white and black, voting. The framers of the constitution of whom the dominating one was Sena tor B. R. Tillman, deliberately made registration for voting and the act of voting difficult. The result, as Mr. Eugene S. Blease said in an address at Saluda last Saturday, was to “as sure the complete return of white supremacy”. No danger was present then of a return of “carpetbag rule”, but there was present a danger of a split in the white party and appeal The difficulty of voting has been greatly reduced by the amendment of the constitution requirihg only the presentation of poll tax receipts, in stead of all tax receipts as former ly. Registration a nd voting are now easy for all persons, white and col ored. Women pay no poll taxes, lit eracy of the white people is general and probably 70 or 75 per cent of the negroes can read and write. If the number of negroes of voting age in the state be 390,000, it is probable that, with the laws impartially ad ministered, 265,000 could now cast When Mr. Blease said that the “Democratic party (national) is giv. : ing much encouragment—I hate to ' say it—to the negro vote”, he spoke the plain a nd simple truth as Mr. James F. Byrnes, when a senator, spoke it in , more sweeping terms (“the negroes are now in control of the Democratic party”) on the floor of the senate in 1938. Any candidate now before the people for United States senator in South Carolina speaking against the participation of negroes in politics is disloyal to the Franklin D. Roosevelt national par ty, however numbskulls may be de ceived to the contrary. That candi date is trying to ride two horses in opposite directions. In respect of the Roosevelt party’s negro policy the other two candidates should be compelled to express them selves. The people should make them speak out. No man in a mask should be elected to the senate in the pri mary, September 2. Mr. Eugene S. Blease’s plain-speak ing was public service. Light Vote Expected September 2 Conflicting Predictions are Heard— Absence of Xocal Races Cuts Interest , Of deep interest to people of this section is the following, taken from the syndicated column “Washington Merry-Go-Round” of Tuesday of this week: “Governor Maybank of South Carolina received President Roosevelt’s promise of two new power projects at Clark’s Hill and Lyles Ford when Maybank visited the White House in July.” The Lyles Ford power project lies partly in Newberry county and its completion would mean untold ad vantages to this county in the matter of cheap power. With Lyles Ford, Lake Murray and Buzzard Roost this immediate section of the state should “blossom like a rose” when condi tions return to normal and factories are bo.’lt to replenish the world with what war has destroyed and people have been denied on a ccount of war production. The grant of these two projects to South Carolina’s governor may have some political favor, as has been charged, but South Carolinians are not ready to let politics deprive them of sorely needed power and manu facturing plants. There seems to be little doubt but that Maybank “rates” at the White House and being a devoted South Carolinian, our state stands to gain much should he be elected to the senate. PAPRIKA PLANT SOON TO START Did “Diamond Jim” Have Stomach or Ulcer Pains? It is hardly likely that Diamond Jim Brady could have eaten so vora ciously if he suffered after-eating f iains. Sufferers who have to pay he penalty of stomach or ulcer lains, indigestion, gas pains, heart- urn, burning sensation, bloat and other conditions caused by excess acid should try a 25c box of Udga Tablets. They must help or money refunded. P bi JUST KIDS—The Haircut? HvxcpTir jimjir* *r can't cha ^5 A PULLIN' IT ALL OO THE LOVE O MlkEl “ A LITTLE‘STEAD TT? Operation of a paprika plant, the first in South Carolina, is scheduled to begin in Dillon September 1. When this plant begins to grind the paprika, which is cultivated much in the same manner as tobacco and requires the same type of soil, a new milestone will have been passed In a program of introducing an addi tional crop to the money makers for South Carolina farmers. Two hund red acres have been planted in pap rika, and if this proves successful, there undoubtedly will be a lot more nexlt season. The plant was built by Robert Robich, leader of a group of Jugo slavs who have settled here with the new industry. Mr. Robich was a cap tain in the Allied forces during the first World war. Mr. Robich, foreseeing the course of events abroad, left Belgrade some time ago and came to this country. With him are several families of re latives, including his general mana ger, Alfred Revan. Mr. Robich agreed to put up a $50,000 plant here if the farmers would plant paprika, which goes into the making of ketch up and cocktail mixtures. Business men of this community donated a site to the new plant, although its operators did not a sk for the gift and hesitated to accept it. Next year, it is reported, Mr. Robich hopes that farmers will plant at least 1,000 acres, five times the 200 now planted. This year the quantity and quality of the paprika were cut by the excessive rainfall. Supporters of the effort to diver sify agriculture point out that much the same trouble was faced by to bacco, now one of the South’s lead ing money crops, when it was first introduced into this section. They are hopeful that parika will prove a money crop for Dillon county far mers. Details of the mass infiltration were disclosed by the Department of Commerce which reported: “People who had adjusted them selves to the fact that canaries come from Germany and not from the Can ary Islands will receive another sur prise to learn that most of those birds now arriving in the United States are natives of Japan.” Canary shipments by the Japan ese during the first half of 1941 were five times the total for the full year 1940, the Commerce Department re vealed. The Japanese canary business with this country boomed when the war eliminated the European sources of supply. DOVE SEASON CUT FACED JAPAN SENDS MANY CANARY BIRDS TO U. S. Washington, Aug. 23.—More than 5,000 feathery immigrants from Jap an entered the United States during the first six months of 194,1. Government quarters have reveal ed that hundreds of these emigres— canaries—have found good homes and have won the devotion of their own ers. The immigrants entered the United States by the thousana and under the very eyes of the customs men and immigration officers. Hun dreds of them reportedly died en- route to this country, however, be cause of crowded traveling conditions and the severity of the long ocean voyage. Columbia, Aug. 23.—Chief Game Warden A. A. Richardson said today the open season on doves in South Carolina wauld be shortened due to a scarcity of birds. The 1941-42 season for the entire state will run from December 1 to January 11 with a bag limit of twelve and a possession limit of fifteen. The season last year permitted shooting in up-state counties from September 15 to October 15 and from December 20 to January 31 while the lower counties had open season from Nov ember 20 to January 31. Richardson said the fish and wild life Service of the department of the interti-or announced the shortened season was due to a decrease in the dove population due in part to storms last winter which killed thousands of birds. The duck, geese and coot season will open November 2, and close Dec ember 31 while the season on rails, marsh hens and gallinules runs from September 1 to November 30. All dates are inclusive. For the first time since 1916 the shooting of summer ducks will be permitted with one allowed a day in the aggregate limit of ten. DUTCH FORK STANDING FOR SECOND HALF Won Lost Pet. Jolly Street 6 1 857 Batesburg 6 1 857 Prosperity 4 4 500 Stoney Hill 3 5 375 Chapin 3 5 37.’; Peak’s Games Saturday 1 Aug 7 30th. 125 Chapin at Batesburg Peak at Stoney Hill. Two games Saturday, September 6 at Jolly Street. Jolly Street will meet Batesburg in a double-header. Stoney Hill at Chapin. Prosperity at Peak. By LEROY M. WANT in The News and Courier With the Democratic primary elec tion for United States senator just over a week off, indications are that the vote will be comparatively light. Political observers in several coun ties of eastern South Carolina agreed on that point. They disagreed, as did several observers consulted in the Upstate, on what the result would be. The degree of disagreement, with each spokesman apparently certain he has analyzed correctly the news of his neighbors, indicates that per haps the result is a tossup, the out come depending on political winds that are blowing or will be stirred between now and September 2. In the Lowcountry and the Pee- dee, there are county seats where one hears that everyone is for Gov ernor Burnet R. Maybank. There are others where the political prognosti cators say that former Governor Olin D. Johnston controls an overwhelm ing majority. There are still others where one man says his neighbors favor Maybank and another that they favor Johnston. Bryson at a Disadvantage The name of Representative Joseph R. Bryson, the third candidate, is not heard frequently in these predictions in the eastern half of South Caro lina. In most of the localities Mr. Bryson is “too new” to figure in the local political gossip. In the Upstate it may be a different story for him, but he faces the disadvantage of be ing an unknown quantity to part of the state, while his opponents’ vote getting abilities are known through out the state. Both Mr. Johnston and Governor Maybank are men who have excited fierce political enmities and won permanent favor with large masses of people. It is entirely believable, therefore, that each will win large majorities in specific regions, as their friends predict. The expected small vote would be a definite advan tage to the candidate whose friends loyally go to the polls. In the state, as of 1940, 439,0‘.!2 Democrats were enrolled. The total vo|te in the Hqudr referendum of that year was 319,727. There has been no enrollment since. The absence of local races insures a comparatively small vote. As a rule, it is the statewide contests which make the headlines but the local races that win and hold the in terest of the man who must leave his business or farm to vote on election day. Enrolment Down Here Charleston, with a total enrol ment of 19,483, is not expected gen erally to vote more than half of the ballots cast in 1938, when Governor Maybank was elected to his present ■post. Maybank led Wyndhan. M. Manning by more than 20,000 votes then, more than Charleston’s total present registration. The maximum total vote expected here September 2 appears to be about 11,000 with some piedictions running as low as 8,000 to 9,000. Thus, regardless of how large a proportion of Charleston’s vote Mr. Maybank can poll as its “favorite son", he cannot obtain the 20,000 iead here which elected him over Mr. Manning in 1938. The vote in the second primary then was: Maybank 21,812, Manning 1,371. For the first time in many years, the city administration is not acting as a unit on a major' poltical issue. . Mayor Henry W. Lockwood has said that he is not supporting Maybank. Some members of the administration will vote for Mr. Maybank. In past years, the city administra tion’s personnel has been a chief means of bringing out the vote. If that personnel is not as active this year, another factor cutting the to tal vote would be plainly apparent. (Past /Votes Recalled Maybank and Johnston have not opposed each other on the stump prior to this campaign, but when Maybank was mayor of Charleston and Johnston governor of South Car olina, they had bitter words back and forth on occasion. Both have receiv ed good votes in Charleston, but John ston also has received poor ones. In 1929 Mr. Maybank was elected mayor by 9,630 votes to 5,030 for Lawrence M. Pinckney, now state Works project administrator. Four years later he was reelected without opposition. When he ran for gover nor, Charleston was almost united behind him. In 1938, the same year as the gub ernatorial race, Charleston went two to one for United States Senator E. D. Smith over Johnston, despite President Roosevelt’s support of Johnston. In 1934 on the first gub ernatorial primary this county went for Manning, giving good votes to ^Tohnston and Tom B. Pearce, now chairman of the South Carolina Pub lic Service (Santee-Cooper) authority. In the second primary, however, Johnston carried this county over Cole L. Blease, now a member of the unemployment compensation com mission, 7,900 to 5,027. In 1930, Johnston was runner up to the late Governor Ibra C. Black wood. Blackwood carried this county 10.398 to 2,638 for Johnston. On the fiiist primary Ashton H. Williams carried this county, with Blackwood a poor second and Johnston finishing seventh out of the eight candidates. Johnston said he was “robbed” in the second primary in Charleston. CANDIDATES QUIT Spartanburg, Aug. 25.—Political precedent was set here today when three candidates for a vacant seat on the county’s delfegation to the house of representatives canceled their tra ditional speaking tour. Reason for the quenching of poli tical oratory was the lack of listen ers. At the first meeting on the cam paign itinerary at Woodruff, only 12 persons, including a newspaper re porter, were present and only about twice that number turned out for the second meeting scheduled at Lyman. Formal speeches were canceled at both places for the lack of anybody to listen to them, and at Lyman two of the candidates went to a ball game. Back to School Visit here and select attractive & smart fabres for clothes of the school age youngsters . . fabrics made with an eye to sturdiness and priced inexpensively. NEW FALL GOODS . . . 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