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THE WKWHEEBT BUW
TEIPAT. AUGUST l», 1>41
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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.
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A PULLIN' IT ALL OO
THE LOVE O MlkEl
“ A LITTLE‘STEAD
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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.
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