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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.
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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