SPEAKING HIS MIND
We <Jo not agree with all this Cor
respondent to The News & Courier
says, but isn’t his frankness refresh
ing!
“This gasoline rationing is nothing
more than just another act of our
dictators trap setting, another means
of placing the gasoline in the hands
of the politicians and those who have
the money to buy it up ahead and
store it away, then when the poor
man goes to a station to buy a few
gallons he’s told “sorry can’t let you
have it.”
“Watch citizens: Mr. Politician, of
fice job holders and others have
their own pumps or fifty gallons at
their back doer steps, they will not
walk two blocks back and forth to
their office jobs wfith some living
just around the corner from their soft
seated office jobs, yet Roosevelt ex
pects WPA workers carpenters and
other mechanics to walk five and ten
miles to their work and are then too
tired to do a just days work, but that
is all right as far as these New Deal
disciples are concerned, just so they
are riding.
“Does Roosevelt walk? No: He is
the great advocator and enforcer of
gasoline rationing which is unconsti
tutional. He says, “joy and pleasure
riding must be cut out”. I note parti
cular that he fails to cut it out and
deprive himself and friend of a joy
ride. Last Sunday he took the Duke
of Kent for two automobile rides
through the rolling countryside, but
if the people of South Carolina have
a family reunion or relatives visit
them on weekends they have to sit
around and swelter in the heat with
long faces as if there was death in
the family. Still it is OK for him to
spin around and cool out Has he
any right to be enjoying the pleas
ures of life, regardless, and taking
the civil rights away from American
citizens? We contractors want him,
Henderson, and all others connected
with this unconstitutional act to get
this: We do not intend to have our
business and our means of support
jeopardized and thrown to the "bow
wows” and our work held up by any
limitation to gasoline that is neces
sary to carry on our business. We
have jobs going on at a distance of
150 miles round trip daily for five
days a week, driving a passenger
carrying three, four and five mech
anics back and forth, and we intend
to have gasoline* for such necessary
purposes. Henderson states that,
‘the filling stations better have gas
for the government needs when any
of their cans or trucks drive up for
it,’ it better also be available when
we contractors drive up for it aral no
unjust and unconstitutional excuses
accepted. We as free American
citizens have our rights and privi
leges and do not intend to have these
rights unconstitutionally impared to
hand out necessities of ours to some
ungrateful warring nation to as soon
as they get a breathing spell stab us
in the back or declare war on us.
Neither do we intend to have our
rights and privileges taken away
from us by the New Deal dictatorship
and its associates.
“Hitlerism is rapidly being inject
ed right under our nose in this coun
try and the people sleeping haven’t
knowledge enough to see it. Europe
is wading in blood from such folly,
and because their oligarchy govern
ment has entirely left God Almighty
out of their program and running
matters accirding to man’s withes.
America is following suit, and unless
America awakes and return® to God
with bended knees and kicks man out
of our affairs as lord and king we
will be too late found trying to get
on them in less than six months be
cause one man orders so and so done.
Tomorrow if Roosevelt was to say, 'I
will change Christmas to July because
the weather is more pleasant then,’
there are fools enough in America
who would submit because Mr. Roose
velt said so.
“Christians, if not others, you bet
ter take warning. It is not long be
fore the trumpet will sound and time
will be no more, then all lovers of
this dictator government putting
heart, soul, and body into it, will be
found trying to hide yourselves under
a wash pot.
“A. K. Hammet.”
Barnwell, S. C.
THE EARTHQUAKE
ARMY TO RELEASE RESERVE
OFFICERS
67,100 to End Active Duty After One
Year—Men of Air Arm Not
Included
Washington, Aug. 31.—The war
department announced a policy today
of releasing reserve officers at the end
of one year of active duty “so far as
is practicable,” if the officers wish to
discontinue active service.
The policy means that many of
the 67,100 reserve officers on active
duty will return to private life along
with 200,000 selective service train
ees and regular soldiers who are to
be released in the next four months.
Because of rapid expansion of the
army air forces, reserve officers in
that arm of the service will be re
tained for “at least an additional
twelve months without their consent”.
H was stated, but others “should be
released as rapidly as their services
can be spared or suitable replace
ments can be trained.”
The policy prescribes that not
more than 50 per cent of the reserve
From the Walterboro Press and
Standard
“On the night of the 31st day of
August, A. D. 1886, Walterboro was
visited by a terrible earthquake about
nine and a half o’clock p. m. People
rushed from their houses, frightened.
Severe shocks continued during the
entire night at intervals of one and
two hours. Some houses were
wrecked, chimneys fell, and plastering
in nearly every house was thrown
from the walls. People did not return
to their houses for several weeks to
sleep, on account of continuous snocks
and rumbling sounds which contin
ued for several weeks. But one week
ago we had' two slight shocks. Provi
dentially, no lives were lost, but
great damage to property. Surely this
was a night of terror. I was sitting in
my bedroom when the shock came;
what it was we did not know; it
looked as if the house would be tom
and thrown to pieces every moment. I
rushed out into the yard with my lit
tle boy (Madison) in my arms, Mrs.
Howell with baby (Carrie); the whole
earth was racking, and seemed to be
giving and sinking. Screams and
prayers of the people could be heard
in every direction. Every moment we
expected: to be engulfed and destroy
ed. No pen can describe the awful
night: may we be spared from anoth
er. Was it the hand of God? Man’?
insignificance was surely demonstrat
ed on that night of nights; days pass
ed before we couldi hear from other
parts of the country. Charleston, S.
C., was a wreck,—a great many lives
lost. Summerville, suffered severely,
three lives lost; great damage to
property.
“Yours fraternally,
M. P. HOWELL.”
October 3rd, 1886.
The above was written on the fly
leaf of the family Bible of my
father, M. P. Howell, Sr., in. his own
handwriting. August 31, 1941, will
mark the fifty-fifth anniversary of
this terrible earthquake.
M. P. HOWELL.
Ruffin. 1.
Items of Local and Personal Interest
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy West of Tam
pa, Fla., and Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Cool
ey and son-, Tommy, of Elkin, N. C.,
spent the weekend with Mrs. C. J.
Purcell on Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Kinard and dau
ghter Miss Ruby Kinard and J. H.
Shirey spent last Wednesday with
Mrs. Kinard's sister, Mrs. B. T. Bo
wen and Mr. Bowen in Sumter.
Mrs. E. E. Melton has returned
from New York where she spent 10
days with her daughter, Ernestine,
who was studying for an M. A. degree
in Busjness Education at Columbia
University.
Mrs. Harry Anderson also visited
her sister in New York. They stop
ped in Washington, and visited Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Vaughn at Arlington,
Va., for a few days.
Miss Mary Boozer, Miss Margaret
Davis, Miss Edith Wilson and W. C.
Carter left Monday for Saluda where
they will teach this session.
Miss Juanita Swindler left Sunday
for Ware Shoals where she is on the
faculty of the Ware Shoals schoool
for this session.
Miss Pauline Summer left Monday
for Winthrop where she is a senior
this year. She was accompanied by
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. 0. Sum
mer.
Ensigns Joe Purcell and Dicker-
son S. Mullins of San Diego, Cal.,
spent the weekend with Mr. Purcell’s
mother, Mrs. C. J. Purcell on Main
street.
Misses Frances Wallace and Mary
Johnson will leave Monday for Coker
College at Hartsville.
Cam Wallace will leave Monday for
Charleston where he will be a student
again this session at The Citadel.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Lominack spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Pet Lomm.
ack in the county.
Mrs. H. H. Ruff, Mrs. Davidi Half
acre and Mrs. Sallie Lominick were
business visitors in the city Tuesday.
Miss Ruby Dennis left the past
weekend for Inman where she will
teach again this session.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Baker and
little son, Kenneth, Jr., of Clinton
visited relatives in Newberry Tues
day.
was a business visitor in the city
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Danny Lambeth ar
rived Saturday to spend a few days
with Mrs. Lambeth’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. Derrill Smith, before gong to
Georgetown where Mr. Lambeth will
be a teacher and coach in the George
town high school.
Clayton Smith of Fort Jackson
spent Sunday with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. Derrill Smith.
Miss Julia Catherine Ruff will leave
next week for Lynchburg where she
will teach again this session In the
high school.
Mrs. Edythe Wright of Charleston
spent the weekend and Labor Day
with relatives in Newberry. Mbs.
Wright holds a position with the
Kerrison Department store in Char
leston.
Mr. and Mrs. Brady Bledsoe and
children of Washington, D. C. are
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bled
soe on the cut-off.
Misses Gertrude Smith, Bonnelle
Cromer, Evelyn McGraw, Ruth Fea-
glue and Mable Havird left Tuesday
for Pelzer where they will teach in
the public schools.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Todd spent a
few days last week in the mountains
of North Carolina.
Dr. and Mrs. Olin Hentz and three
children, of Anderson arrived Tues
day for several days visit with his
mother, Mrs. E. O. Hentz on College
street.
Miss Louise Harmon left last Friday
for Easley where she is on the faculty
' of the Easley high school.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lominack and
son Raybom, visited Frank, Jr. at
Camp Stewart during the weekend.
Miss Mary Wightman of Holly Hill
spent the weekend and Labor Day
with her mother, Mrs. F. G. Wight
man and sister Carrie Wightman.
I Miss Elizabeth Holt left Sunday for
Charlotte, N. C., where she'will teach
art in the Charlotte city schools.
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Hicks spent the
weekend with their son, Tom, Jr.,
who is ill at the hospital at Gamp
Stewart.
Miss Doris Armfield of Charleston
was a weekend visitor in the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. F.
Armfield and family.
Miss Betty Bridges of Washington,
D. C., spent the weekend with Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Lathan on Main street.
FOR SALE — Thoroughbred Chow
puppies, mother has registry pa
pers. Inquire at 1307 Glenn street.
Phone 349.
officers on. duty in each regiment, bat
talion or company may be required to
serve longer than twelve months, and
not more than 75 per cent of those on
duty in corps area service commands
and war department administrative
units. This, it was explained will
permit the training of other reserv
ists not yet called to active duty.
BUY IN NEWBERRY
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PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY
OP AGRICULTURE
With Your
COHON STAMPS
Mrs. F. G. Wright of Charleston
was a weekend and Labor Day visitor
in the home of her mother, Mrs. T. W.
Smith on Boundary street
Misses Helen and Cornelia Clary
will leave next week for Winthrop
college.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Stevens and
three children of Lancaster, visited
friends in Newberry last week.
Mrs. Myrtle Culclasure and Mrs.
Mattie Smith were visitors in Cofum-
bia last Saturday.
Miss Leila Norris will leave the
first of the week for Columbia where
she will teach in the A. C. Moore
Grammar school.
Miss Pearl West will leave next
week for Columbia where she will
teach again at the high school this
session.
Mrs. Jno. T. Norris, Sr., spent last
week in Conway with her daughter,
Mrs. Lee Morgan and Mr. Morgan.
Arthur Eargle left Monday morning
for Goldville where he has accepted
a position in the Goldville high school,
teaching Mathematics and Manual
Training.
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Epps of
Charleston will move to Newberry
September 13. They will occupy the
Goggans home on Crenshaw street.
The Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Roof are
planning to be away from the parish
for a few days, but will be back for
the regular services Sunday, Septem
ber 7.
Sergeant Henry Ralph Fellers of
Fort Jackson spent the weekend with
relatives in Newberry.
Charles Fellers, a junior at Clem-
son, who has been at the Pee Dee Ex.
periment Station in. Florence this
summer spent the weekend with rela
tives in the city.
Mrs. Kate Williamson of Charles
ton was a visitor in Newberry Mon
day.
Paul Floyd left Tuestay for Char
leston where he will be a student at
the Citadel this year. King Boyd,
Robert Houseal, Keitt Purcell, Cam
Wallace and Jim Todd will leave
next Monday for the Citadel where
they will continue their studies.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vigodsky and
family returned to Newberry the past
weekend after spending the summer
at Hendersonville, N. C.
Miss Gladys Stilwell and Miss Lil
lie Mae Werts of Silverstreet will
leave this week for Spartanburg where
they will teach in the Spartanburg
high school.
Mrs. Henry Wheeler of Prosperity
Jacqueline Abrams of Columbia
spent the weekend and Labor Day
with Mr. and Mrs. Pinckney Abrams.
Eddie Tolbert will return this week
end after spending his vacation with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Tol
bert in Savannah, Ga.
Sam Brock of Carrolton, Ga., spent
the weekend with Jim Todd.
Misses Marion Fellers and Elizabeth
Mower will leave this week for Whit
mire where they will be members of
the faculty of that school for the 1941-
1942 session.
HOME FROM HOSPITAL
The many friends of Mrs. S. J.
Derrick wil be glad to learn that she
returned to her home on the College
campus, Tuesday of this week after
being a patient in the Columbia hos
pital, and is doing nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wise of Ander
son were weekend visitors in the home
of his mother, Mrs. Eugenia Wise. '
Miss Sara Linda Goggans will leave
next week for Winthrop college where
she will be a student this session.
Miss Ella Mae Milam, of Baltimore,
Md., spent the weekend with her
mother, Mrs. M. L. Milam.
Mrs. C. C. Elder® and two children
moved Tuesday from Davidson, N. C.,
to Pope Terrace, Newberry, where
they will make their home. Mrs. Eld
ers will be remember as the former
Miss Katherine Spearman.
'Misses Jane Goodman, Caroline
Lane and Macie Davis left Monday
for Clinton where they will teach in
the Clinton city schools.
Robert Milam of Columbia spent
the weekend with his mother, Mrs.
M. L. Milam.
Mrs. W. J. Mitchell of Columbia
was a weekend visitor in the home of
her sister, Mrs. M. L. Milam;
William Milam left Tuesday for
Sally where he will be principal of the
Sally High school. Mrs. Milam will
join him the last of the week.
Tom Summer, who underwent an
operation at the local hospital about
two weeks ago, returned to his home
last Wednesday.
Miss Jean Johnson of Saluda spent
the weekend with Miss Carolyn Har
man.
Mrs. J. R. Green spent the weekend
and Labor Day with her daughter,
Mrs. Henry Niles and family in
Oamden.
Miss Virginia Hayes was a visitor
in Greenwood Monday.
Mrs. Paul Anderson left Sunday
for a visit with her relatives in Mc
Cormick.
Miss Sallie Lee Cromer left Sun
day for Liberty where she will teach
in the Liberty High sihool.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Tedford of
Edgefield and son, Billy, are spend
ing this week with Mrs. Sallie Belle
Miller.
Jack Workman, of Washington, D.
C., is visiting Judge and Mrs. Eugene
S. Blease.
Misses Nancy and Agnes Mayes and
Rosemary Bowers will leave next
week for Winthrop College to con
tinue their studies.
Kirby Lominack returned to At
lanta, Ga., Monday after spending
ten days with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. M. Lominack.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stone, Wash
ington, D. C., arrive! Sunday for a
visit with his mother, Mrs. Clara
Stone. Mrs. Lola Schumpert who
has been visiting the Stones in Wash
ington returned to Newberry with
them.
Theo Neely, son t>f Dr. and Mrs. A.
T. Neely will leave September 15 for
Front Royal, Va.. where he will at
tend the Randolph Macon Military
Academy this year.
Forrest Carpenter, Son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. A. Carpenter will leave Sep
tember 15, for Charleston, where he
will attend the Porter Military Aca
demy again this session.
George Scruggs will leave the 15th
of this month for Radford. Va., where
he has accepted a temporary civil
service appointment with the Ordin
ance Division of the War Department.
Mr. Scruggs has been employed at the
Newberry Observer for the past
year.
Miss Rose Dreher of Goldville was
a business visitor in the city Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Hayne Workman and
two daughters, Carabelle and Mildred
of Clinton, were visitors in Newberry
Tuesday.
Miss Kate Wheeler of Prosperity
left Sunday for Greer where she will
teach during the 1941-42 session.
Miss Grace Wilbur was a visitor in
Newberry Friday.
■Misses Lucille and Katie Mills of
Prosperity were visitors here Satur
day.
Mrs. T. H. Roper of Columbia, Mrs
Frank Collins and son, Frank Jr. of
Newport News, Va., are visiting
their mother, Mrs. D. B. Chandler on
Drayton street.
Mi®. Bob Livingston of the Bush
River community was a visitor in
Newberry Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Carpenter
and children of Columbia visited Mr,
and Mrs. E. A. Carpenter Labor Day.
Mrs. O. H. Harvin cf Piney Woods
is visiting her mother, Mrs N. C
Toole.
Notice To All Candidates
City Democratic Primary
The Executive Committee has fixed
the final date for filing pledges and
paying assessments at Noon Mon
day, September 15 th. The Secretary
may be found first floor Exchange
Bank Building.
J. OLIVER HAVIRD, Chairman
HENRY I. CANNON, Secretary
iimimQ
Cotton -a Fighter
Worth Defending
• The mustard seed has nothing on rollon when
it comes to faith or a fight for life. And not
even the British or Creeks can “take it” better
than cotton. Droughts ma> foree the young
plant to shed leaves, squares, and hulls; but the
instant the drought is broken, it sets new squares
and bolls at new joints on the fruiting (tranches.
So it grows, taking advantage of each short
spell of favorable weather, continuing to pro
duce flowers and hulls through one picking
after another until killing frost brings its life to
a close.
The rollon industry is tough, too. Crises of
price, of insert infestation, of penalizing legis
lation, are survived just tike the plant survives
droughts. The only certain death is the killing
frost of Inst markets. Produrtion problems ran
be licked; it is failing markets alone which ran
destroy its vitality.
In tropical climes the cotton plant is a pe
rennial. So is the cotton industry as long as
markets keep it warm.
We in the Cotton Belt can keep out frost
and winter's death by buying cotton produrts.
When we buy rollon we build our future.
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