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THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, NOVE. — •A. 1218 Colleffe Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year .. Published every Friday Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. The Pulpits of Our Churches Are a H-D COLUMN Bulwark of our Liberty, Spectator Says [ By ethel l. counts OTHER SENATORS SHOULD BACK HIM In his recent senate speech on strikes in defense industries Senator Harry F. Byrd took a position that, if it were followed by his colleagues, would compel the president to take a firmer hand in the traitorous and in defensible business which is a con stant threat to perfecting a powerful defense. Mr. Byrd warned: “As a supporter, up to this date, of the president’s foreign policies, I serve notice now that I do not intend to consider vot ing one step closer to war, except in our own defense, so long as sound and constructive measures are not adopted at once in all defense indus try strikes . . .” Americans will applaud Senator Byrd's stand. If other senators took a similar stand they would soon cure the nation of this malignant evil. The old-fashioned, fellow who used to cut holes in the door to let the cats pass in and out during the night now leaves it wide open for Junior and Sallie to enter when they arrive from their car ride at two in the morning. PLANE OUTPUT IS GOING UP Incredible Production lof U. S. Fac tories Cheers the Experts Washington.—Not much statistical information on the progress of our defense production is likely to get in the press in the immediate future. The president announced that after November 1 the OPM would keep the details secret. Observers in Wash ington had been expecting some such clampdown because of the worry in London that such information was valuable to the nazis. London espe cially complained that our stories on tank production were too good a tip-off for Berlin. Experts Greatly Cheered And so even though the OPM hasn’t said it, experts in Washington are greatly cheered by our aircraft output. They see our American warplane production as just about reaching 2,- 400 a month by this year’s end and by the middle of next year, it should be well over the 3,000 mark. The increase in production is almost in credible: from 70 planes, mostly commercial, in October, 1939, to 742 planes in October, 1940, to between 2,150 and 2,200 last month. WILLIAM B. PEARSON William Boyce Pearson, 60, died Sunday morning at his home “Fonti- Flora” plantation, near Strother in Fairfield county, after a lingering illness. Besides his wife. Mrs. Lilly Hol land Pearson, he is survived by three children, William Boyce Pearson, Geore B. Pearso-n and Mrs. George W. Tomlin: three sisters, Mrs. J. G. Mai tin, Miss Emmaline Pearson and Miss Nellie M. Pearson and two grandchildren. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Leavell fun. eral home conducter by Father Mur phy of Columbia. Interment follow ed in Rock Creek cemetery in Fair- field county. / Recently two great religious bodies met in the Piedmont. Over in Ander son the Baptists of South Carolina held their annual convention, while in Greenville the Upper South Caro lina Conference of the Methodist church met. Just a few days before the meetings in Greenville and And erson the South Carolina Conference met in Bennettsville. These great religious bodies of our State are a large and important part of our peo ple devoted to the things which abide through storm and tempest, inflation or deflation, war or peace. The sup erficial trends of life, our petty am bitions, vanities and aspirations, look insignificant in comparison with the enduring qualities of the spirit. Nowhere is our liberty more cher ished or more surely safeguarded than by our religious organizations which recognize no master save the Eternal, which teach us to live in love and charity with all men; to ac cord to constituted authority its due need of respect and deference; but not to cringe before worldly power; nor bow the knee in suppliance save to the Lord of Hosts. The pulpits of our churches are a bulwark of liberty, just as are a free press and a n untrammelled radio. The church is the refuge of all. To it come the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the high and the low, the strong and the weak. Here all meet upon a common level of son- ship; and with the ministrations of the church all look forward to the call which takes no account of class or rank, but which summons all to join the army of the redeemed as it marches before the Throne. These great groups meet for no program of immediate interest. They neither advocate nor oppose many matters commonly occupying our thought; they seek first to promote the Kingdom of God and His right eousness, knowing that all these other things will be added. Governor Harley sounded a note of , Henry W. Grady who is quoted be- wise caution in urging that we keep low had in his time about the same in mind the temporary character of i,j e a that the Secretary of Agricul- our industrial boom. His suggestion ture of t ' ne United States is recom- that we keep something in store for ;mendj today . the rainy day ta eminently wise. It ovorv is the homely philosophy which guid- i ‘When every farmer in the South ed our people in the days of hard work and small earnings. Our peo ple who have something did not spend their way into prosperity. We know that only though spending, or sowing, does one reap, but the diff erence between spending productively and spending consumptively seems almost forgotten. We can accumulate capital only by spending less than we earn. This is not as popular as it once was; we are inclined to think that if one can pay as he goes he has done so well he need not concern himself about sickness or loss of em ployment. The public will be quick to applaud the joint statement of Messrs. Jeffer-1 then shall be breaking the fullness of shall eat bread from his own fields and meat from his own* pastures and, disturbed by no creditors and enslav ed by no debt, shall sit down among his teeming gardens and orchards and vineyards and his dairies and barnyards, pitching his crops in his own wisdom and growing them in in dependence, making cotton his clean surplus, and selling it in his own time in his chosen market and not at a master’s bidding; getting his pay in cash and not in a receipted mortgage that discha.ges the debt but does not restore his freedom— There are so many choice spirits in public life, so many genial, com panionable men; and so many high- minded, socially sensitive folk among those who recommend and press for larger appropriations, that an atti tude of unfavorable criticism is both difficult and unpleasant. I should like to share in the general apathy, or join the chorus of praise; so when I find myself in tune with the ma jority I experience a thrill of satis faction. As a sort of Jeremiah, greatly against my inclination, I am with the majority, but it is the great mass whose dissatisfaction is not so vocal as is the eloquence of those who seek something. I rejoice with those who commend the attitude of our leaders of State. ies, Blatt and Smith. Mr. Jefferies is the presiding officer of the Senate and Chairman of the Finance Committee of that body. He is also a member of the Budget Commission. Mr. Blatt is Speaker of the House, a very active and resourceful leader of that numerous body. Mr. Smith is Chair man of the Ways and Means Commit tee of the House, the Committee which holds the purse strings. He is also a member of the budget Com mission. These gentlemen have an nounced that they endope the in augural address and will support the J Governor in his advocacy of a short ‘ session, of biennial sessions, of a policy of careful spending, having in mind the inevtable let-down, follow ing this boom. All this talk of a boom sounds fan tastic to my friends in the agricul tural community where I live. Where is the boom? They see it in part: what they buy has mounted as on the wings of eagles, but they themselves have had short crops of salable com modities. Cotton and tobacco com manded good prices but the crop was short. * A farm associate came to see ^ne Saturday. He has corn and hay to sell. Everything is booming, he has heard. Well, he is offered sixty-five cents a bushel for his com and has no offers for his hay. That is what operates against diversification Spectator hasn’t said much about the war recently because he didn’t know what to say. In a broad, gen eral survey we see the desirability of helping Russia; we see the good which might result from an invasion of France by England so as to divide Hitler’s forces. Most of us armchair stragetists see that. What we don’t know is the mass of detail necessary to do all that we think ought to be done. Drawing on my impressions from the First World War I doubt if the British could hold their own against the Germans, even if they succeeded in landing in France in full force and with all necessary equipment. In the First World War the Germans repeatedly won over British, French, Italians and Russians, with the Jap anese on the side of the Allies, an-* at the end of three and a half years had virtually won every major enp-age- ment, except Verdun and the Marne. And even then the Germans were always able to attack at will at any point on the entire front. Those who want the British to rush over with an army don’t remember the other war. The First World War began in Au gust 1914, but in March 1918, the Germans cut the British Fifth army to pieces and were almost at the Eng lish channel. But for the American help thereafter, together with unity of command, the war might possibly have been lost. Perhaps I am fail ing to give credit to the revolution in Germany itself. That, more than de feat on the field, brought about the German surrender. Unless the German people back home break under the strain I can’t see how the German military machine can be overcome decisively unless five million men are prepared to attack from the West, with tanks, planes, guns and ammunition in quantities almost incredibly great. We are superior to the Germans and can overcome them, but it will ,take all the men and means we have, if we mean business. For people who work hard, food alone is not enough; they need refreshment, too. Ice-cold Coca-Cola is pure refreshment, a natural partner of good food. iOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY IY NEWBERRY COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY “When the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder’s in the shock” has been ringing in my ears these morn ings. Riley, whom we used to read, knew all about the penetrating chill of a big frost. One morning recently I started out at five o’clock in the morning. I didn’t think much about “punkins”; I was plentifully occupied with how the frost was nipping me. And along the way the dhirymen were hauling off their milk. Say, farinming is bad enough, but suppose you were a dai ryman. Organized Business, Incorporated, held its first a nnua l meeting here in Columbia, this week. There were some notable features, but most no table to me was the number of top- notch business leaders who attended. Organized Business has not tried to bring about plans and measures of selfish benefit to men engaged in business. Its first activity last year was its effort to curtail public ex penditures. It has devoted itself tire lessly to the large, general public in terest instead of to narrow or selfish interests. The organization made ouite an ap peal to the public through t v e mag netic personality of Mr. C. Norwood Hastie of Charleston, who travelled all over the State appealing to busi nessmen and to the people at large to increase the abilitv of the State to employ its sons. This, Mr. Hastie pointed out eloquently, depended on such an enlargement of our industrial our day.” At a meeting in Memphis Septem ber 29th Secretary Wickard encourag ed farmers of the South to produce more milk, more meat a n d moe veget ables. The South is steadily increasing its production of food and feed but a good deal more needs to be done. A substantial increase in milk, eggs and meat and other vital foods in the South helps in two ways. It makes for a healthier, Jiappier people and extra food in the South makes more food available from Britain and 1 the American people as a whole. THOUSANDS OF FINGERLINGS PLACED IN LAKE The Four County Fish Hatchery at Newberry which is maintained b;* the four counties bordering on Lake Murray, and under the direction of Hon. A. A. Richardson, Chief Game Warden of the State Fish and Game department, has been the scene of much activity during the past few days. Through the cooperation of the State Department, and under the supervision of Mr. V. F. Funderburk of Columbia, some 128,000 fish have been placed in various parts of Lake Murray bordering on the counties of Richland, Lexington, Saluda and Newberry. This will doubtless be good news to the followers of Isaac Walton, for some 18,000 fish measuring from 3 to seven inches consisting chiefly of bass and bream, together with some 110,000 fish consisting of bass, bream, war-mouth, and crappie, many of which were of legal size, may be nib bling at their lines next time they salley forth to fish in Lake Murray. activity as would create more oppor tunities for our people. There was something so fervent and so dramatic in Mr. Hastie’s presentation that the businessmen raillied to him and all others who heard him felt kinship with a rare and generous spirit. JENET LOMINICK Mr. and Mrs. George Lominick an nounce the birth of a daughter, Jenet, born at the Newberry County hospi tal Friday, November 7th. The Lom- inicks live in the Mt. Bethel Garmany section of the county. MARY LINDLER MILLS Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Mills of Char leston announce the birth of a daugh ter, Mary Lindler, bom at the New berry hospital Thursday, November 13. Mrs. Mills is the former Miss Mary Alewine of this city. u I SAVE i MONEY” * Sinclair Greases save farmers money over a season because they last so long. They help prevent costly breakdowns because they lubricate moving parts safely. You play safe and save money when you use Sinclair Greases. Let me deliver to your farm STROTHER C. PAYSINGER Agent SINCLAIR REFINING CO. For Electrical Jobs Phone 120-J for any Electrical work you want done. I will come promptly and do the job right. Will handle any size job in town or country. CHEVIS I. BOOZER Phone 120-J Newberry, S. C. They’re GEARED TO HAULAGE LEADERSHIP for the Defense Program—these massive, long-lived Chevrolet trucks for ’42. • • • That’s why they have the strongest ap peal among buyers who want powerful, dependable, economical trucks capable of HAULING EVERYTHING AMERICA NEEDS.... Choose Chevrolets and you’ll own the trucks that are geared to "stand the gaff’’ of these hard-working, fast- inoving times! 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