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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1941
SALE OF DEFENSE BONDS
CONTINUES
The people of Newberry County are
displaying their loyalty and patriot
ism in the cause of Democracy by
continuing in the purchase of U. S.
Defense Savings Bonds. This report
comes from Mr. C. C. Hutto, Chair
man of the Newberry County De
fense Savings Bonds Committee.
Mr. Hutto stated that the figures
show that Newberrians are not only
loyal and reliable Americans, but
that their business judgement is lit
erally as “sound as a dollar”. There
is no beter security available on the
market today than a Defense Savings
Bond, for behind these bonds stand
the entire resources of the USA. As
of July 31, 478 bonds had been sold,
representing a total of $78,450 ma
turity value. One month later, Aug
ust 30, 1941, the Newberry County
Committee reported nearly 200 addi
tional sales: the August summary
showed a total of 653 bonds purchas
ed, representing a sum of $103,750 in
vented. The Committee, and all con
cerned, are highly pleased with New
berry’s showing. However, it is
stated that the county as a whole
should be able to do much better than
this. It is therefore hoped that every
citizen will make an effort to pur
chase bonds or stamps in the near
future.
A total of $889.50 worth of De
fense Stamps have been sold as of the
August 30 report. Chairman Hutto
states, however, that the Newberry
Chamber of Commerce and its Mer
chants’ Committee are taking a hand
in the sale of stamps and that an an
nouncement will be made at an
early date concerning the availability
of stamps throughout the entire busi
ness section of the City of Friendly
Folks. It is hoped that, in the com
ing week, merchants and business
men of Newberry will carry small
supplies of stamps on hand at all
times for the convenience of anyone
who wishes to invest amounts from
10c to $5.00 in America’s Defense
Program.
TEACHERS IN CITY SCHOOLS
FOR 1941-1942 SESSION
Newiberry High School: P. K. Har
mon, Prin. & Math.; Miss Elizabeth
Dominick, Eng. & Art; Miss Julia
Kibler, Latin; Mrs. S. E. Whitten,
English; Miss Annie Lee Young,
French & Eng.; Miss Sudie Dennis,
Math.; Miss Margaret Burns, Home
Ec.; Miss Katherine Boozer, Home
Ec.; Mrs. Elsie Nichols, History; Mrs.
H. O. Swittenberg, English; Mrs.
Vanessa Holt, Math.; Miss Edna
Hartness, English; Miss Margaret
Paysinger, Latin & Eng.; H. H.
Hedgepath, Sci. & Ath. Dir.; H. B.
Wilson, Man. Tr. & Di. Oc.; J. V.
Neece, Bookkeeping; N. K. William
son, Science & Math.; J. T. Kelly,
Gen. Sci., Soc. Sci. & Biol.; E. M.
Stone, History; C. B. Setzler, Math.
& Science; P. Y. Cuthbertson, Band
Dir. & Bkpg.; C. E. Bowers, Spanish
& Librarian; E. L. Stockman, Math.
& Soc. Sci.; Miss Eva Cromer, As.
latent Librarian.
Junior High School: Mrs. E. B.
Setzler, Prin. & 7th grade; Mrs. T. P.
Johnson, 7th grade; Mrs. Georgia H.
Welborn, 7th grade; Miss Elise Pet
erson, 7th grade; Mrs. Eliz. R. Gra
ham, 6th grade; Miss Georgia Por
ter, 6th grade; Mrs. H. H. Hedge-
path, 6th grade; Mrs. W. C. Brown,
Jr., 6th grade; Miss Bertha Gallman,
Librarian.
Boundary Street School: Miss Ger.
trude Reeder, Prin. & 1st; Mrs. W. E.
Pelham, 2nd; Miss Lila Summer, 3rd;
Mrs. Neal W. Workman, 4th; Miss
Annie Bynum, 5th; Miss Juanita Hitt,
6th.
Speers Street School: Miss Ethel
Jones, Prin. & 3rd; Miss Annie Ab
rams, 2nd; Mrs. Beale H. Cromer,
1st; Miss Rosabel Thompson, 4th;
Mrs. E. E. Stuck, 5th; Mrs. J. C.
Peery, 5th.
Mollohon School: Miss Sarah Cald
well, Prin. & 4th; Miss Marguerite
Bums, 2nd; Mrs. J. F. Browne, 1st;
Mrs. W. E. Turner, 3rd.
West End School: Mrs. F. R. Fel
lers, Prin. & 1st; Miss Daisy Cannon,
2nd; Mrs. Maude E. Sanders, 3rd;
Mrs. Josie P. McAlhaney, 4th.
Oakland School: Mrs. Bertha B.
Boylston, Prin. & 4th; Miss Helen
Nichols, 2nd; Mrs. Corrie H. Fridy,
3rd; Mrs. G. G. Sale, 1st.
’ENSE
BUY
UNITED
STATES
SAVINGS
BONDS
AND STAMPS
ON SAIK ATYin 'R POST OFFICE OR BANK
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.
American Way of life Is Based
On a Plentiful Supply ol Gasoline
BY SPECTATOR
The American way of life, as it is
called, is based on a plentiful supply
of gasoline. It would be difficult to
draw the line between the use of gas-
aline for business and the use for
pleasure. W’hen does business and
and pleasure start? Then, again,
what part of the pleasure is just
idle consumption and what part is
a recreational factor tending to re
newed strength and happiness and
contributing to a happy, vigorous and
productive people? Every one knows
that a lad rushing about in dad’s
l car and merely killing time, or using
time for joy-riding and eating ham
burgers and drinking pop—we can
say that this is clearly a waste of
gasoline and such a waste as could
be stopped instantly without hurting
any one. Even that is probably de
batable on social grounds, regardless
of the economical consideration. Many
a family’s way of living may not be
soundly planned economically, but
the happiness and well-being of peo
ple are worth more than sound eco
nomics. The real greatness of
America is that it is a land of happy
people—and gasoline has much to
do with it.
Here we have an apparent conflict.
The economist might argue for those
measures which directly affect the
productive effort of the nation;
whereas a sociologist may think that
a happy people, running here and
there, is worth more to the nation
than any mere calculation of imme
diate utility for defense.
A nation of free people such as
ours has developed through wanting
much—and having their wants satis
fied. Any man dealing with a na
tion should 1 he a psychologist; he
should know the mind of the people.
Our people will resent restrictions
on their movements unless the need
for the restriction is very great and
compelling. The gasoline restric
tion has seemed a half-baked idea and
it has rubbed many people the wrong
way. It has been proved that a little
forethought and a little intelligent
planning would 1 have taken care oT the
gasoline needs of our people and the
British, too.
The discovery of idle tank cars
which could have been hauling gaso
line all these weeks and montns is
just another instance of a failure of
national leaders to see the nation as
a whole.
Gasoline hauled by tank cars could
have saved the day from the begin
ning. If the use of tank cars from
the wells to the coast increases the
price why should that be charged to
us? The British can afford to pay
the price.
I think I reflect the sentiment of
our people when I say that anything,
everything, should be done to save
Britain herself, but our Govern
ment should not be crying Wolf, un
less the Wolf is coming.
Is the morale of our people bad?
The word morale is hardly the word 1 ,
but it is being discussed. What is
meant is that many of our peop'e
are not war-minded; many do not
think the Germans a menace to us;
many think there is no need for all
the fuss and alarm. Well who is it
that seems indifferent? Haven’t the
people acquiesced in unprecedented
taxes, in restrictions of many kinds?
Haven’t they accepted peace-time
conscription? Haven’t they yielded
to a longer term of service for the
drafted men ? Are not the people
buying stamps and bonds? Aren’t
they giving their alminum? And is
it not a fact that we are not at war?
What lack of interest is there ? The
newspapers, the radios—and all
other agencies of communication, are
devoting their major effort to stand
by the Government. So what is
lacking’ Many of the people are dis
gusted because of the strikes. Many
think the leaders are lacking in
ability to deal with the problems
arising out of the world embroilment.
The nation can’t be governed by a
series of committees. Executive con
trol requires authority and decision.
Our war effort is through an aggre
gation of committees which, seem to
the man in the street to trample on
the toes of one another. Let’s ston
pampering and petting people. If
rtis is a national emergency so grave
that men may be drafted from their
homes and jobs whv does the Gov
ernment beg and plead with men to
work ?
Our foreign trade for the first six
months of this year shows some in
teresting items. Among our exports
may be noted $284,000,000 in air
craft, $86,000,000 for munitions and
explosives, $64,000,000 for chemicals,
$227,000,000 iron and steel products,
$118,000,000 machinery for metal
working; among the imports exceed
ing the usual purchases were wool,
hides, copper, rubber, silk, tin and
nickel. Coffee, sugar and cocoa in
creased spectacularly. Our ship
ments of $8,000,000 a month to Egypt
and about the same to the Dutch
East Indies and China are the out
growth of the war. We bought more
from South America from January
to June of this year than in all the
year 1938. From Uruguay alone we
bought five times as much in five
months of this year as we bought in
all 1938. Heavy purchases came also
from Argentina, Chile and Venezuela.
From Australia we bought $56,000,-
000 in five months of 1941 as com
pared with less than nine millions in
the full year of 1938.
During the two years of this war
1880 ships were sunk. These ships
flew flags of 29 nations and had a
gross tonnage of 7,041,898 tons.
The British claim to have shot
down 7,170 Nazi planes in two years.
Are the war powers of the Presi
dent, or his authority as Command
er-in-chief, virtually unlimited? By
no means. We are in danger of a lot
of confusion of thought growing out
of misinformation by men who are
regaling the public with special ar
ticles based on inadequate or undi
gested facts.
A citizen of sound, judgment, a man
who reads, quoted some one as say
ing that the President had full auth
ority to send the navy and army to
Dakar, or anywhere else, at his dis
cretion. And by way of bolstering
all this cited Wilson’s order to take
Vera Cruz, the sending of our troops
to France in the First world war, and
the Monroe Doctrine.
Tht President as Commander-in-
chief is like the Admiral commanding
a fleet before the days of radio and
telegraph. It was in that era that
the authority was conferred, but ever,
then it was to make sure of some one
with executive control—to do what?
To command, but according to the
law of the land. The sunreme auth
ority in all matters, civil and mili
tary, is the Congress. The Presi
dent is the Chief Executive of the
nation and the Chief Executive of the
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ON SALE AT YOUR BANK OR POST OFFICE
Records Topple as
Cotton Use Increases
Loss of Export Markets Only Gloomy
Side of Cotton Picture
Washington, D. C.—Domestic con
sumption of American cotton broke
two all-time records with the recent
end of the cotton year. For the year
as a whole U. S. cotton consumption
tion was 22 per cent higher than in
any previous year, and the month of
July topped every previous month in
cotton use.
Bureau of Census figures showed
domestic consumption for the yoar
to be 9,718,220 bales of lint and 1,354,.
938 bales of linters compared with 7,-
783,774 and 1,060,864 for the previous
year.
During the month of July consump
tion totaled 928,943 bales of lint and
134,006 bales of linters. The previous
monthly record was set in June when
875,137 bales of lint and 126,351 bales
of linters were used domestically.
10,000,000 Bales in ’41
TNe National Cotton Council said
that domestic consumption for the
calendar year, if continued at the pre
sent rate, would probably be in ex
cess of 10,000,000 bales for 1941.
The Council pointed out, however,
that gains in domestic consumption
were more than offset by the tremen
dous decline in cotton exports. Dur
ing the cotton year only 1,083,505
bales of lint and 20,811 bales of lin
ters were shipped abroad compared
with 6,191,712 and 320,479 during the
previous year.
“The loss of markets for more than
5,000,000 bales of export cotton dur
ing the past cotton year,” the Coun
cil said, “makes it more imperative
than ever that every effort be made
to maintain cotton’s present leader
ship in- established domestic fields,
develop new cotton uses, and pre
pare for a vigorous program to recap
ture foreign markets at the conclu
sion of th epesent emergency.”
PTA MEETING AT BUSH RIVER
A meeting was held at Bush River
Friday, September 5, for the purpose
of reviving the PTA. A large num
ber of patrons of the school were pre.
sent. Certain matters of business
were discussed but the election of offi
cers was postponed until later in the
year. Since the PTA has been very
generous toward 1 the school in the
past, we are hoping that it will be
still stronger this year.
The senior class rings have been
ordered for several months and are
expected soon. The class is looking
forward to the day of their arrival.
Rev. C. J. Matthews, for the fourth
consecutive year, is planning to
teach Bible at Bush River once each
week. A large class of Juniors and
Seniors are enrolled for the forth
coming year. For the first time,
however, the Freshmen a n< l Sopho
mores are having the same privilege.
Rev. A. T. Usher plans to teach them.
The wonderful part of the couse is
that, besides being interesting, credit
is given for the work done.
The days are much more pleasan*
now that the weather is cooler. Here’s
hoping it will remain so.
Final Details Are Arranged
For “Battle of the Carolinas”
The only major sport playe.i in the
United States that is wholly Ame
can in origin is basketball.
armed forces. That’s what the Con
stitution meant. And it leaves no
doubt about it, for the Constitution
says that the Congress shall have
power to declare war; and to make
rules for the government and regula
tion of the land and naval forces; to
make all laws necessary for carrying
into execution all the powers vested
in the government or in any depart
ment or office thereof.
President Monroe addressed the
Congress and was submitting those
proposals to Congress which we will
call today The Monroe Doctrine. He
pointed out that we should not in
terfere in the affairs of Europe and
that Europe must not conduct new
operations on this side. In the Vera
Cruz case, there had been an msult
to the flag, growing out of months
of bad feeling, and President Wilson
ordered 1 the seizure of Vera Cruz
merely as a demonstration of force
for the time being. In the case of
sending troops to France in 1917 we
had declared war against Germany
and sent troops as a belligerent
-force, being ourselves a* war. We
were at war. Today we are not at
war with any nation. We are not at
war with Germany, France or Italy.
Dakar belongs to France. To send
an army, or a force of marines, to
Dakar would be an act of war. A
naval vessel might call on a visit of
courtesy, with France’s consent. We
might as well admit that there is no
such thing as International law in
force todaq. When we sent destroy
ers to England we joined the other
nations in disregarding the law of na
tions; in repairing British ships of
War in our naval stations wc are
committing acts oi war; in sending
and maintaining troops in Iceland, in
association with British troops, we
are actually in a military alliance with
Great Britain against Germany. So
one adidtional act of war, more or
less, ought not to make any differ
ence.
Congress, unfortunately, is acquies-
sing in all this without taking ac
tion. But the power of Congress is
supreme; and if necessary it can re
move the President from office.
Washington, Sept 13.—With ar
rangements for the current maneuv
ers disposed of and tht “Battle of the
’Cajun Country” getting under way,
army headquarters officials here are
now concentrating upon final details
for the “Battle of the Carolinas”, in
which selectees and national guards
men will, durifK October and Novem
ber, join regular a rmy members in the
“invasion” and “defense” of the Pal
metto and Tarheel stales.
Exactly • 492,000 men are scheduled
to partcipate in the Carolina war
games, designhI to become the near
est thing to modern “blitz” warfare
ever concocted by Americin military
officials. This number will probably
be increased to vi<:!l over 600,000 by
assignments expected to be made
prior to opening of the program on
October 6.
Heading the group of army staff
officials who will direct the modern
warfare tactics planned to give the
nation’s fighting men an idea of what
to expect in event of invasion of Am
erica by a foreign powe , ‘ will be Maj.
Gen, George C. Marshall, army chief
of staff.
Area 10,000 Square Miles
From down Oarolina way the war
department has reports that Direct
ors G. Heyward Mahon, South Car
olina, and T. S. Johnson, North Car
olina, of the state councils for nation
al defense, have virtually completed
local arrangements for activity In the
maneuver area, embracing sixteen
counties, eight in each state.
With the assistance of county man.
euver chairmen* Directors Mahon and
Johnson are obtaining final rights-of-
way which will give the army legal
authority to “invade” and “defend”
approximately 10,000 square miles—
larger than ill-fated Albania, one of
the smaller nations which has felt
the heel of the German Luftwaffe.
Counties in the war games area
will include Chesterfield, Fairfield,
Kershaw, Lancaster, Marlboro, Rich
land, York and Chester, in South Car.
olina, and Anson, Hoke, Montgomery,
Moore, Richmond, Scotland, Stanly
and Union, in North Carolina.
Civilians in Air Defense
Of primary interest to South Car
olinians is the Atlantic seaboard air
I defense program, including maneuv-
: ers to be staged during the month
I of October.
Directors Mahon and Johnson,
. working in cooperation with Mayor F.
;H. LaGuardia, of New York, director
of civilian defense, have already in
augurated plans for cooperation by
civilians in the air maneuvers. The
South Atlantic area maneuvers, in
which the Third interceptor command
will participate, will begin October
20 and continue through October 25.
As a natural port of entry. Char
leston is considered as one of the ci
ties in which added protective meas
ures are essential. Coast cities be
tween Norfolk, Va., and Jacksonville,
Fla., are included in the program.
Volunteer watchmen, working under
the direction of the state councils for
National Defense, will be assigned to
stretegic outposts, from where they
will lj,e able to spot “invading” bomb
ers and quickly relay the information
to alarm centers of the coast cities.
Details of plans for air defense
must necessarily be kept secret, lest
they get into the hands of the “ene
my.” Likewise the “enemy” is with
holding public announcement of plans
for “invasion,”
Armored Units in Games
The war department and civilian
observers alike, are particularly in
terested in the effectiveness of Am-
' erica’s mechanized equipment, such as
tanks and armored oars, and this
phase of modern fighting will receive
particular attention during the “Bat
tle of the Carolinas.”
I Major General Bruce Magruder is
| bringing his First Armored Division
fom Fort Knox, Ky., to “oppose” the
Second armored division, coming from
Fort Benning, Ga., under command of
Major General George S. Patton,
j The army’s various models of tanks,
armored cars and anti-tank equip
ment will be given every test possible
under simulated warfare in efforts to
bring out their essential features and
Refects, in comparison to the armored
units of the Nazi blitzkrieg.
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Headquarters Established
I General maneuver headquarters has
been established at Monroe, where
Lieutenant General Hugh A. Drum,
whose permanent address is Gover
nor’s Island, New York, has taken
charge to wind up final details of the
“Battle of the Carolinas” from the
military standpoint. General Drum is
commander of the First aimy, em
bracing the First, Eighth, Ninth,
Twenty-sixth, Twenty-eighth, Twen
ty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Forty-fourth
divisions.
Press headquarters will be maintain
ed a t Camden, where Captain John P.
Fisher has been dispatched from Fort
Jackson to work with the correspond
ents who will cover the maneuvers.
The' war department has revealed
that a number of officers will be as
signed to the Camden press bureau
to keep newsmen, radio rporters and
cameramen informed.
MODERN GIN SEEN
BY CROWD
Several hundred farmers and busi
ness men of the county met last Sat
urday for the opening of the Coleman
and Scurry modern and streamlined
ginnery at Chappells.
Featuring the occasion besides the
viewing of this fine and speedy gin
[ were the presentation of a solid gold
watch to Reed D. Merritt, a driver for
j Coleman and Scurry, who had oriven
I trucks for over a million miles with-
| out a mishap; a fine barbecue dinner
served the visitors by the firm and
| several fine talks delivered by prom
inent citizens.
Those taking part in the program
included F. E. Greer, president of the
Bank of Greenwood; J. A. Gresham,
also of Greenwod; Paul B. Ezell, coun
ty agent; Pinckney N. Abrams, New
berry county auditor; and the Rev. J.
R. Pettigrew.
This well-known firm of the Pied
mont was organized 42 years ago and
through honest and fair dealings, has
purchased approximately 500,000
bales of cotton. The firm was organ
ized by John B. Scurry and the late
A. P. Coleman, and is now operated
by sons of the organizers, namely,
John Francis Scurry and John S. Cole
man, who saw the need of the latest-
in equipment and thus invested a
large amount in improved machinery.
This gin is said to be the most mod
ern in the state and was greatly ad
mired by the large crowd present.
The barbecue dinner was well pre
pared and heartily enjoyed.
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Cotton Takes War
In Its Stride
• Earthenware in place of aluminum pots and
pans, fewer model changes in new cars, higher
prices for nearly all everyday commodities—
these are among the realities which a world at
war brings to American families.
But there is ond American industry big
enough to take the increased demands of war
time effort in stride. It’s bigger than steel, big
ger than airplane manufacture, bigger than
shipbuilding, bigger than munitions. It gives a
livelihood to more than 14,000,000 Americans.
Millions of farmers, half a million textile mill em
ployees, another half million garment workers
spread over a greater number of plants and a
greater geographical extent than any other
American industry—these are the people who
make cotton great. They produce and process
the crop which America uses in ten thousand
ways.
The time-tested excellence of cotton prod
ucts pouring from this giant cornucopia of
American industry is a guarantee to American
consumers which war cannot destroy. In war
time as in peacetime, American cotton is the
best buy.
When we buy cotton we build America’s
future.
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