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Every Week More People Read The Sun VOLUME 5; NO. 10 The Rising San—1856-1860 NEWBERRY, S. C. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1941 Biggest Business Ever For Local Postoffice Top Man of Britian Is In Washington Washington, Dec. 22.—The Presi dent and the prime minister—ithe. one Newberry’s heavy pre-Christmas (nailing rush continued today (Tues day) with all service facilities^ j n g re y business suit the other in crowded throughout the day. Ac-] ^feer and cap—w alked together into cording to Postmaster George K.! the house the British once burned . Dominick, the local post office has already broken all rscords of pre vious Christmas busi.iess and up. t6 date has done the biggest fcusinesg in the history of Newberry. Examples, of the trev.endous load the post office is carrying ■ is the fact that on Thursday, December 18, '17,- 000 pieces of mail was run through the cancelling machine, Friday 12,000 pieces was cancelled, and Saturday 16,000. Sunday increased the num ber of pieces to 20,000 for that day. The peak came Monday with the local post office handling 25,000 pieces of mail. Over 70,000 pieces of first class mail has been marked and dispatched since last Thursday. Hundreds of packages have been delivered and thousands of pieces of mail has been cancelled by hand. Christmas Day, Thursday, Decem ber 25, there will be no window ser vice, but special deliveries and pack ages will be delivered. All outgoing mail will be dispatched to star rontes and trains as usual, and mail will be worked in the post office boxes. PRESS CALLS FOR WAR ON TAPS Strike With .Might War has been forced on Ameri ca by an insane clique of Japanese militarists. All that matters today is that we are at war and the nation must face that simple fact. AH of us, from this day forth, have but one task. That is to strike with all our might to protect and defend the Am erican freedom that we all hold dear. —Chicago Tribune. Unity At Hand In this solemn hour the first thoughts of every American will be of his country. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hull deserve all praise for their patient efforts to preserve peace. We state no more than the simple truth .When we declare that this war against oar enemies will be fought to a vic torious end.—New York Herald. Act of (Mad Dog Japan has asked for it. Now she is going to get it. It was the act of a mad dog, a gangster’s parody of every principle of international hon or . The one respect in which Tokyo’s “coup” differs from those of Hitler is that she has attacked no weak and defenceless nation. Instead she has invited her own destruction by the swiftest and most ruthless means by which it can be encompassed.—Los Angeles Times. Time Has Come When a nation gets into war, the way to fight it is to fight to the hilt with the remorseless aim of winning the war.—New York Daily News. Hour Has Struck The peace for which this nation strove for so many years has now been shattered. America will go on the march, and there will be no rest until victory has been secured. This is our rendezvous with destiny. The peace that we have always sought was never a fightless impotence, but a union of strong souls. And that we must seek and ensure after vic tory.—^Washington Post. A little while earlier Mr. Roose velt had met Mr. Churchill at a near by airport and, accompanied by a residential navaLaide and bodyguard, the two motored to the White House. The car slipped in through the gates on the south grounds, then roll ed up at the entrance looking out across the still-gr^ten lawn and to the towering Washington monument in the distance. For a few brief minutes they pos ed there for photographers, they ex changed an occasional word as the President, grinning broadly, stood be side his naval aide, Capt. John R. Beardall. . Churchill, shorter by almost a head, than the American President, stood at his right, his ’fingers firmly gripped on a walking stick to which (for purposes of London blackouts) was attached a flashlight. He wore,- as he has worn much of the time since Britain began her war more than two years ago, the coat and cap of the Elder Brothers of Trinity House, a semi-governmental organization concerned with life-sav ing and the operation of lighthouses. The coat is knee-length, double breasted, buttoned high in seaman fashion. The cap bears the insignia of the organization. The pictures taken, the two 'turned away Mr. Churchill clamped his cigar back in his mouth a nd then trudged into the White House—painted white to cover up fire marks when another British mission arrived for a differ ent purpose in the War of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Epting and two children, Carl, Jr., and Barbara, of Greenville spent the weekend with his mother, Mrs. T. E. Epting on Boundary street. SEEN ABOUT TOWN Dairyman K. F. Dennis waiting on daughter. Ruby, to come home for the Christmas holidays ... Corporal Preston McAlhaney and Wyman Shealy sitting on rail in front pf the court house talk ing ... A small boy buying a present in » drug store and tell- in 'the clerk that he jwanted it fixed up nice because it was for his mother ... Dr. R. A. Good man waving to a friend with one finger ... Fred Weir and George P. Boozer walking down Friend street together and talking to each other, not hearing |a friend when he called to them ... Phil Aull acting as junior printer’s devil this week in The /Sun office and seeming to/get a big kick out of it. It just seems as though printer’s link runs in the veins of the Aulls ... Birthday anniver saries through December 31st: Benjamin Anderson, Dec. 24, P. D. Johnson, Jr., and Mrs. T. B. Jacobs, (Dec. 25; Mrs. Griffin Coleman and Ann Brock Culbert son, Dec. 26; J. H. Bedenbaugh, Dec. 27; G 1- * 00 French, Dec. 29; Mrs. Nat Gist, Jr., Mrs. G. V. Clamp and Carolyn Harman, Dec. 31. Your scribe wishes each one of you 'rt very, very Merry ,Christ mas and a most prosperous New Year. So long folks till 1942. We’ll be jseeing |you then. PLAN TO REGISTER 23,500,000 WILL BE MADE AT ONCE Those From 20 to 44 Z tary Servi Waal exp® by 4 selective service officials began lay ing plans for registering the 23,500,- 000 men between 18 and 64, inclu sive. They said the men may be regist ered on several dates, by age groups, rather than en masse. It .was believ ed the first registration might be next month. Registrants between the ages of 20 a nd 44, inclusive will be liable to military service. Task To Classify Them Already local boards have been ad vised by Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, national draft director, to' prepare to tackle the task of classi-: fying the vast additional man power made available by the measure. Existing machinery, used to regis-1 ter and classify according to eligi- ] bility for military service the 17,-1 500,000 men between 21 and 35 al-! ready enrolled, is to be employed and expanded as required. No hint has been given by the war department as to how fast the armed forces are to be expanded to | meet war requirements. Secretary Stimson has said only that strategic considerations would dictate the ex pansion, that no ceiling would be set, and that the draft would be relied on to the exclusion of voluntary enlist ments which are to be discontinued “as soon a s the present rush sub sides.” Some officials thought, however, the armed forces might be increased at a maximum rate of 200,000 a month, beginning in January, until additional mobilization and training camps are provided. uti i \/ ? ■ mmm m - | T \ w 1 L 1 ^ U w — — 1 n As you eagerly await the occasion of an enjoyable Season with your friends and family ... we trust you will pause just long enough to accept these few words of Christmas cheer from the personnel of this firm. * To have served you in the past has been a decided privilege, prompting us to express a Christmas Greeting that carries with it our best wishes for the coming year. The friendships fomed these past twelve months, combined with those other friendships of long standing, lead us to again renew our pledge of service. PRESENT DAY CALENDAR IS RESULT OF MANY BELIEFS DISPLACED FARMERS HAVE HARD TIME MOVING In five states—^Missouri, Ohio, Il linois, Iowa and Indiana—over 3700 families have been forced to move away from their farms to make way for army camps and defense indus tries. So testified Philip G. Beck, regional director of the Farm Securi. ty Corporation, before a congression al committee investigating defense migration at St. Louis. In three of those states, said Beck—Missouri, Il linois and Iowa—two army canton ments and six munition plants ab sorbed 256,957 acres. The displaced farmers, it was stated, were well paid, but they could not find good new farms, and had to move to poorer land. Teacher: “Name the Pupil: “Temperate, war, postal and o.’’ 5 zones.” intemperate, Foreman: (pointing to a cigaret butt on floor): “Is that yours, Tub by?” Tubby: “No, sir, you saw it first.” To follow foolish precedents and to wink with both our eyes is easier than to think. The caledar has been regulated by mathematics and astronomy. It has been compounded af superstitions and religious rites. Primitive man noted the new moon, watched it wax and wane. He knew the moods of the seasons, and after aWhile he sensed they came at regular inter vals and that their coming would be sure. The ancient Egyptians calcu lated time from the rising of the Nile, which occurs in mid-June. The North American Indians computed the length of a journey in so many “sleeps.” The Gregorian calendar which is built around sun, earth, moon and stars, is as accurate ds scientific knowledge can make it. It is the calendar most of the world follows. Some conservatives in eastern churches of Orthodox faith cling to the Julian calendar, Which is 13 days later. This year is 2602 in Japan, 6702 to the Jews. In mid-January the Ro man year 2695 will begin. In Febru ary, the Mohammedan year 1361. But here in America it is 1942. Let’s make the most of every shin ing hour! Time marches on! C. A- STEWART, FATHER (OF NEWBERRIAN, DIES RESOLUTIONS “SILLY,” SAYS (PSYCHIATRIST Funeral services for C. A. Stewart, 63, veteran Southern railway em ploye who died Friday morning at his home in Spartanburg, following a brief illness were conducted at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the residence, 625 North Church street, by the Rev. G. H. Hodges. Interment followed in Rosement cemetery here, at 4:15 p. m. A native of Newberry county, Mr. Stewart had resided in Spartanburg 30 years. He had been a telegraph operator for the Southern railway for 43 years. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Vivian Free Stewart; two daughters, Mrs. G. R. Summer, Newberry, and Mrs. Carl Shelley, Rains; two sisters, Mrs. W. C. Turner, Ninety-Six, and Mrs. Mable S. Jones, Newberry;-a half- brother, H. S. Boozer, Denmark and three grandchildren, Mable Summer, and Martha June and Peggy Ann Shelley. INDUSTRY ON THE MARCH GUANO ANNIVERSARY—AT THE CENTURY MARK New Year’s resolutions are just a bit silly in the opinion of Dr. Francis J. Gerty, professor of psychiatry at Loyola university. He believs that a person who makes resolutions is something of an exhibitionist in ad-, dition to being quite childish. “And , moreover,” he adds, “he probably won’t carry it out anyway.” Dr. Gerty asserts that New Year’s resolutions have little value. “I dont think resolutions are the best methods of curbing our little difficul ties and correcting ourselves. The best method is giving some thought to what causes our troubles and try ing to correct them rationally. “People must remember there are human limitations. Humans can’t be perfect. They should do the best they can without straining, for the minute they strain, as they do with New Year’s resolutions, they make a botch of their efforts.” Children especially should not be encouraged to make resolutions, in his opinion. “A child should be taught to do the best job he can at all times and not save his difficul ties for one particular time and tear them up by one superhuman effort that is almost sure to fall.” This year is the 100th anniversary of the discovery by the outside world of that famous “Peuvian gold » _ne” which became known to every /iliz- ed farmer as guano. An American diplomat in 1841 called attention to this great deposit of natural fertilizer, rich in nitrogen and phosphates, off the islands of Peru. It had been deposited by mar ine birds nesting there from remote times. It was the first commercial fertilizer used by this country, *nd I the principal one up to the civil war. I In one 20-year period, shipments j abroad amounted to more than $20,- j 000,000. But other natural and manufactured fertilizers and substi tutes gradually replaced guano in this country until no more is imported. Little is shipped abroad now, but Peruvian farmers continued to draw on this source of soil enrichment. The Spanish gold-hunters never found guano but the ancient Incas used it long before its “discovery” in 1841. “American lives have been lost in bombings; ships sunk; planes des troyed. These lives will be av enged through uninterrupted produc tion on the factory front. The muni tions of war will be replaced.” In those words Walter D. Fuller, president and William P. Witherow, president-elect of the National Asso ciation of Manufacturers, pledged America’s industrial might to our country’s fight for freedom. “Industry will build two battle ships for every one that sinks. “It will match every enemy bom ber with a dozen. “It will blacken the skies with planes to replace the ones shot down. “Industry’s production to arm our fighting forces will be limited only by the human endurance of the men who man and manage its facilities. “We Americans haven’t always seen eye to eye among ourselves. But, as always, aggression from without fuses our family differences in unity of purpose. The enemies of our de mocratic way will find us one un breakable phalanx in which class, creed and petty politics are forgot ten. “With every other patriotic element in the country, industry is on the march! It will produce, produce, and produce to the end that victory shall be swift and sure.” SUGAR PRICES BE CONTROLLED BILL NEEL VOLUNTEERS FOR SERVICE IN NAVY Bill Neel, 17 year old son of Depu ty and Mrs. J. C. Neel, left Newber ry today (Tuesday) for Norfolk, Va., where he is to report to the Navy Yard for further orders. Bill volunteered for the Navy last week in Columbia. Washington, Dec. 20.—Sugar prices were “frozen” by the government to day at current levels. The office of price administration placed temporary emergency ceilings on primary and wholesale prices of all formrs or refined and other “dir ect consumption” sugar which it said should “remove any reason for high er retail sugar prices.” Announcing the order, Price Ad ministrator Leon Henderson declar ed: “The OPA has removed all pos sibility that retail outlets will be forced to pay fore for their supplies of sugar. “Hence there is no reason for American housewives to pay any higher prices for this fundamental foodstuff than they did before the at tack on Pearl Harbor December 7.” YOST REPRESENTS NEWBERRY John L. Yost, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga., was selected Newberry college repre sentative in the state oratorical con test to be held at Furman university in April. PUBLISHED WEEKLY $1.00 PER YEAR Miller Smith, Newberry Policeman Dies Monday Thomas Miller Smith, 51, died Monday at his home here after a short illness. Mr. Smith was a popu lar member of the city police force for the past five years and had a host of friends who will be grieved to learn of his death. He was a son of the late W. T. Smith of Laurens. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Es sie Furr Smith, his mother, Mrs. Mag gie Smith Grant; one son, Larry Thomas Smith, Pearl Harbor, Ha waii; three daughters, Mrs. A. T. Boozer a nd Mrs. Parris Livingston, Newberry; and Mrs. Harold Bowers, Silverstreet; one brother, Clyde F. Smith of Ninety Six; and two half brothers, Malcolm Grant, Ninety Six, and J. W. Grant, Miami, Fla., and two grandchildren. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Epting Memorial church conducted by the Rev. S. B. White, as sisted by the Rev. O. H. Hatchell. In terment followed in Rosemont ceme DOWN MEMORY LANE 30 YEARS AGO The Christmas Message “And she brought forth ber first born son, and wrapped him in swad dling clothes, and laid him in a man ger. “And there were in the same coun try shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. “And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid. “And the angel said unto them. Fear not; for behold, T bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. “For unto you is bom this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. tery. SEEKS TO SAVE SOUTH CAROLINA $1,750,000 In an effort to save South Caro lina consumers approximately $1,- 750,000 annually the South Carolina public service commission will send a representative to Chicago, January 5 to attend the hearing at which the interstate commerce commission will hear a petition of the nation’s rail roads for a ten per cent increase in freight and passenger rates, it was announced yesterday by John B. McMillan, chairman of the public service commission. H. A. Manning, freight rate expert withe SCPSC returned to his office yesterday morning from Atlantia, Ga., where he attended a meeting of the board of governors of the Southern Traffic league. TJio league repre sents shippers throughout the South and met to discuss the proposed rate increase. The railroads of the nation were recently compelled to grant employes pay raises totalling approximately $300,000,000 and H is their conten tion that the freight and passenger rate boost is necessary to partially offset the tremendous expenditure. Following his return yesterday morning, Mr. Manning said, “the .South Carolina public service com mission has authorized J. Van Nor man of Atlanta, counsel for South ern governors freight rate conference, to attend the Chicago meeting in their behalf as well as that of other South ern commissions in an effort to per suade the IOC to give consideration to the railroads needs by regions. SISTER OF NEWBERRIAN DIES '.AT GREENWOOD Mrs. Emma McDowell Lewis, 83, sifter of J. B. McDowell of this city, died early Saturday morning at the home of her sister, Mrs. Fannie Gheatam, near Greenwood. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at 2:30 from Mt. Creek church and interment followed in the church cemetery. Miss Bonnelle Cromer, a teacher in the Pelzer city schools will arrive Tuesday (today) to spend the holi days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Cromer and sister, Frances. crucified. And in his cricifixion the atonement was complete. He was alone, because none could help him die. Alone he was—alone in his suf fering, because in the tenderness of the love of God that babe Who was laid in a manger took upon himself the sins of man; and alone he was in his glory, because he was the God- man, and the glory was the glory of the Creator. And what is the Christmas mes sage ? The record contains it. The star which led the wise men of the east to the manger of the Christ child is still in the heavens. The star of Bethlehem beckons today as it did on the first Christmas morn. Its light will bathe our little world this Christmas day even as it shone upon the shepherds Who watched their flock by night. The record is complete. It remains only for us to understand—and it is as simple as the white light of truth can make it. If there is sorrow, seek to bring some comfort. If there is want, seek to bring some relief. If there is a mother whose heart is sore be cause she see', no way for Santa Claus to pay her little ones a visit, go to the relief of that mother. If there is a little one you can make happy, make haste that you lose not the opportunity. Remember that the babe whose birth we celebrate said: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my breth ren, ye have done it unto me.” And that is the Christmas message we would bring.. “And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. “And suddenly there was witM the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” It is a simple story. There is grandeur in its simplicity. There is simplicity in its grandeur. Simply the birth of a babe—a babe who was wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger, be cause there was no room for him and his mother in the inn. Picture in your mind “the Holy Night:” “Sapphire sky and star of gold that streams against the blue; Withered hills whose white strong hold out-gleams to whiter view; Shade of shepherd, flash of sheep, o’er that illuminated plain; Spots of light and darkness creep, and shadows change again; Silver glint on shim’ring wings and angels, ah! so fair! Singing knr, “The King of Kings is lying over there!” ^» • It is no Chalons or Austerlitz or Waterloo or Bunker Hill or York- town that we celebrate at this sea son; our joy now in this celebration reeks not with the groans of the wounded and dying, mingled, though H be, with the shout of victory as the flag is planted beyond ramparts belching forth death. It is simply the birth of a babe. Though he came of a kingly race, and though before the era of man and throughout eternity, he was, is, and shall be ruler, he was not born in a palace, nor was there any pomp or ceremony connected with his birth. His mother laid him in a manger, be cause there was not room in the inn. The glory which attended him shone not round about the mighty, it enveloped the shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. Power was his—.power was the babe’s who lay that night in Bethle hem’s manger. That power “which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades and the chambers of the south; which doeth greatr things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number." And yet the message which accom panied his birth, borne upon the still night air to the shepherds as they watched their flock, was “on earth peace, good will toward men.” And when the babe had grown, and when from his lips there came the wisdom of the ages and of all etern ity, he said: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” And he made it second to the first commandment, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God.” And what is the Christmas mes sage? The gospel tells it more beautifully than could the most brilliant. It is so simple that the Children may un derstand. It is so comprehensive that the most learned can add noth ing to it. Round about it today there is the glory which there was in the begin ning. Nearly twenty centuries old, the message is as new and as sweet today as it was when the angel chorus on that first Christmas morn broke the stillness of the calm night dur ing which the babe was born. It is there in all its purity/and in all its pristine glory. The words which tell it tell it fully and tell it all. It is a message of peace and of good will. It is a message without which the world would be lost. It is a message without which man would be groping in that darkness which accompanied the fall of man. The birth of a babe! Grown to manhood, that babe in the darkness of Gethsemane’s garden, alone drain ed to the bitter dregs the cup which held all the sins of man. He was alone, because in the nature of the atonement, he could bot share his sufferings. A little later he was