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PARK FOm THE VFTVBEWRT SUW FRIDAT, JANT ART U, 194* 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. r -■ .. I: m. . . .■■■j O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year ... . One Dollar Published every Friday Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under tha Act of March 3, 1879. COST OF VICTORY HIGH Big and important figures describe this country’s need in men materials and money, according to a rough out line drawn by the army and navy. Briefly the picture is this: the army will need an air force of 2 million men; a heavily mechanized land army of a round seven million men; a navy of 1,100,000 men, including the air force; a huge merchant marine to transport and to supply forces in op eration, about twice the size of that originally planned. The cost in dol lars will be approximately $150,000,- 000,000. Those figures are flar from being translated into reality, but they paint a picture of what the U. S. citizen must do. The immediate purchase of U. S. Defense bonds and stamps will prove a starter toward building this great fund, and is the duty of every citizen if he can possibly apare the money. The cost of victory will be high. It is the privilege of every American to help pay for it. COST OF TOTAL WAR No one can visualize a hundred billion dollars. Such a sum of money does not exist in cash. Yet that is what we are to spend in the next two years on a gigantic victory pro gram! The Saturday Evening Post recent ly told what this will mean. The most money ever raised in a single year by the government, through taxation and borrowing, was $l?,d00,- 000,000. That is but one-third of the amount that must be raised in each of the next two years. And no one knows what new demands the future will bring. That does not mean that the job cannot be done. It can be done. But to quote the Post, “Let us not be de ceived. It will hurt. We cannot give one-half of our total income to it and keep our present standards of living. Taxes will have to be increased until the beet is white, and borowing may have to be carried to the point of compulsory lending, as in Great Bri tain . . .” We are in a total war now, and everything we have must be given to winning a total victory. WATER IN HIS FACE GEN. LEE’S CLAIM TO GREATNESS IS BASED ON HIS MANHOOD BY SPECTATOR A page in the history of South Carolina should be given to John G. Clinkscales of Wofford College. He passed away, just the other day, full of years and full of the joy of a richly spent life. During a span of eighty-six years at least thirty years saw Prof. Clink- scales at the peak of a very active life. Five days he spent in teaching mathematics in Wofford College and Saturday and Sunday found him somewhere in South Carolina speak ing to the people about the higher things of life. Hardly a community in this state was denied his genial fellowship and uplifting message. Thousands of young fellows from the War puts people on its mettla. As fanns heard him in the country soon as shortages of food and «*ther ( «ho<>] houses aud ^hurchM and^ re- essentials begin to appear, warring countries cast around for means to relieve the condition. The food shortage in Britain has brought into that country’s food pro ducing economy an American infant which in contributing no little to the nation’s dinner tables—hydroponics, which means growing vegetables without soil. Hydroponics got its start in this country a few years ago when scientists in some of our western universities experimented and produced tomatoes of a fine quality by growing them in a chemical solu tion. The news dispatches do not say what vegetables a re being grown in Britain this way, but they indicate that substantial supplies are being produced. Hydroponics may throw a great deal of water in Mr. Hitler's face before the war is over. solved to go to College; thousands of mothers and fathers heard him and planned and prayed that their boy RUBBER SUBSTITUTE ON WAY ARMY HEALTH HIGH Writing in Hygenia, Dr. Morris Fishbein casts a bright light on the controversy concerning the physical fitness of Americans. Despite allegations to the con trary, he says, men of military age are in better, shape than their fore bears of similar age in 1917. Today's army rejection rate for physical reasons is approximately the same as in 1917—and at the same time stand ards for admittance to the army are far higher and the physical examma. tions given the selectees are far more comprehensive. An example of the improvement is found in the fact that army rejections for tuberculosis are about one-third the 1917 rate. Dr. Fishbein makes a highly inter, esting comparison between the phy sical standards of our army and the much-vaunted German army. Back in 1936, General Von Blomberg estab lished the physical requirements for Hitler’s legions. In the Germany army, men are taken for service who cannot meet the 1-A standard the U. S. army demands. The German army will draft for military duty any man who is physically and mentally able to perform any kind of service what soever. The national rubber shortage may, in within the next few months be a thing of the past. A substitute rub ber said to be as good as the genuine article, and in ample quantities, is on the way from our own western plains. It will be made from guay- ule (pronounced “gwa-yoo-la”) seeds that grow abundantly in Texas and in Mexico. Tests show that these seeds have a rubber content as high as 30 percent. Guayule is a low aromatic shrub. For years it had no apparent use other than shelter for the jackrabbit and coyote. In 1900 an American prospector discovered by chance that the plant had 10 per ce,it rubber. The prospector, Peter Carnahan, interest ed American financiers in the project of milling the shrub in Mexico. A company was formed, peons were hir ed to gather the guayule and ship- might sit at the feet of the lovable man whose heart warmed in response to tile need of the people. Many stories of Professor Clink- scales will be told; I’ve heard a lot of them, but shall tell only what I know. I lived in Kershaw County about a month. One night the big, hearty man in whose home I boarded came to me a nd said “Professor John G. Clinkscales is to speak at our ohucrh tomorrow and he will stay in my house. Won’t you entertain him?” Entertain “Clink” , as he was affectionately called. You didn’t have to entertain him; all you had ro do was to sit and listen. So I agreed, f course. Our host had a son at Wof- ’ord and the father stood in some awe if a College professor, while feeling greatly honored to have him as a guest. At nine-thirty Saturday night the train rolled in and our host met the Professor and gave him a bag with about six cigars. At eleven- thirty it was apparent the cigar sup ply was running low and our big open handed host went to his store and got a box of cigars. Sunday was a gloomy, rainy day. We sat inooors all day, except for the time of church service. And all day the Professor enjoyed those mild, mellow cigars, making such marked pro gress with them that my friend in sisted that the box be taken to Spar tanburg. We never had seen anyone smoke so continuously and I’ve wondered whether the gentle and lovable old teacher had had many oportunities to smoke such choice Havanas with out limit. I was associated on other occasions with Dr. Clinkscales, but he seemed to remember me in connection with the visit I’ve told about. He was a great gentleman, was Proessor Clinkscales, a modem apos tle of education, with a surpassing genius for the personal touch. Of course he was a Methodist, a Profes- rael: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob! Je hovah might have said to Moses “I am the Creator, the Great Spirit, Exhauatleae Energy” but that would have terrified Moses. As the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob Jehovah led the mind of Moses along the path of Jewish his tory and the manifold mercies of the Omnipotent. And as the God of Moses’ father, Jehovah brought to Moses’ mind directly the protecting arm which was about him in the ark of bulrushes. If Jehovah were to call to us Americans today He would no* go back of Abraham; He might say to us “I am the God of your father; the God of the Pilgrims; the God of Washington; the God who healed the wounds of the Civil War. To the God of his father, and of Abrr.ham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses went for strength, guidance and del iverance. We have a custom of opening meet ings with prayer. Perhaps it has become a mere perfunctory rite, but there was nothing perfunctory about the prayers of the early settlers, e:al Lee had this quality superbly, when Indian arrows stuck in the Great a* "'a* the military eapa- timbers of their homes; there was no city of Lee, the splendor of his re- mere ritual in the pra^r of George nown today rests on his shining shield Washington in the snow at Valley- -of great manhood'. Forge; no empty words characteriz ed the petition of Stonewall Jackson as he fell on his knees before battle; nor was there any sham when Gen eral Lee asked the blessing of the Al mighty on his troops and then strove to keep them from acts of vandalism which he could not ask God to bless. Jehovah might remind us of being the God of Robert E. Lee, whos» ap proaching birthday should bring be fore us that magnificent man whose very face portrays the nobility of his soul. What might Lee have done with a well equipped army? And yet much of his grandeur sprang trom doing so much with so little. Recently a magazine spoke of General Lee’s defensive warfare. If to attack the enemy and defeat a half dozen generals is defensive, then Lee was defensive; but if striking the enemy constantly and invading his territory is aggressiveness Gen- Hiatory sometimes tells of a mAh, someone whose qualities as a man lift him above place, position, honors or applause. There was Job. In all his misery he could see the eternal values. “Though he slay me yet will I trurt in him.” And the English cherish the memory of one Who de fied his Kinv for tha sake of a prin ciple. And John Hampden’s memory still inspires free men everywhere. And Robert E. Lee, declining off ers of position and wealth, turned from the height of military reputa tion to tea-h the sons of soldiers to be good citizens! The Jews remember the pillars of their faith; so do the Greeks, with their intellectual greatness; we have our men of heroic mold, too, and none greater than Lee. Miss Annie Hunter of Prosperity visited in Newberry last Friday. ments were made to the United States until 1912, when the Mexican revolu-lsor at Wofford, but he was (like so tion drove the company out. That we may, before many monvfis have passed, be riding on guayule seed rubber is no mere fancy or stretching of tile imagination, for the United States government has pro vided financial aid for the planting of all available guayule seeds as a means of solving the rubber shortage. RATES I FOLLOW COSTS The railroads have asked the Inter state Commerce Commission for per mission to increase their passenger and freight charges. That in the light of the trend, was unavoidable. The railroads are just like any other business. They have no source of income save the sale of their services to travelers and shippers. When their operating expenses g up, because of higher wages, taxes, supplies, they have no choice but to pass the cost on to the railroad customer. If they didn’t, they’d wind up in bankruptcy in short order. many distinguished associates) bigger than any denominational mold. He loved people and peopU loved him. To mankind he gave himself; and his monument stands in the hearts and lives of men and women who heard his call to higher things. 1 ^ B ' ^ ;yX ' <r 1 ^ « s? .;i 'L %|3 ■v\ There Is Ho Priority On Coal But it’s your best defense against Winter Illness and Colds Old King Winter is now paying his first visit of the 1941 - 1942 season to Newberry . . . and judging from reports elsewhere in this nation, his stay is likely to be an extended one. It’s time to refill your coal bin with a sufficiency of that famous RED BAR and RED CLOVER coal. Fight Winter Colds and Ailments With Warmth and Help Defense RED BAR AND RED CLOVER PHONE 155 . . . the coal that BURNS to a crisp, clean ash, and produces a maximum of heat units to keep every corner of the room cozy, comfortable, and cheery. Our stock of coal is at present ample to take care of your needs . . . We hope that trans portation facilities will enable us to keep it so. PHONE 155 Newberry Oil Mill (Formerly Farmers Oil Mill) Un Politico Desconocido Following the First World war France laid a tablet under the Arch of Triumph to one of the soldiers whom no one recognized, and refer red to him as. the Unknown Soldier. Other nations adopted the ide- not ably Britain and America. Ou. Peru vian friends appropriated it also and on the heights at Chorillos, overlook ing the waters of the Pacific, there stands a monument to El Soldado Desconocido. About the time of the unveiling of this monument, that became the most talked of topic on the streets. While it was fresh in the minds of the peo ple a monument was unveiled in one of the streets of Lima, dedicated to a prominent official who had recently died. Two Indians looked at R in passing and one asked? Quien? (Who is he?) The other, probably confusing the tribute to the unknown soldier with the fact that this new monument was not in memory of a soldier, replied “Un politico descono cido,” that is to say “The the Un known Politician.” We Americans have had the pleas ure of having the Prime Minister of Great Britain in this country several weeks. We are in the midst of the making of history a nd in Mr. Church ill we see a figure of heroic size who will take place with the greatest of England’s sons. Not since William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066 has the danger to the British been so grave and immediate as it was in the gloomy days when i Churchill took charge; and that peril is still present. Britain has built monuments for sevices much less illustrious than that already rendered by Mr. Church ill. Churchill’s renowned ancestor, the brilliant Duke of Marlboro, never deserved so much of the Island Em pire as does this man wbo seems to blend within himself all the gifts and the greatness of Britain. Never were the newspapers more needed than now. but tnere is danger of such loss of national advertising as may deprive them of considerable revenue. Newspapers perform so many ser vices that they are as much a part of a well regulated home as the fur niture, including the kitchen range, with all the pots and pans. We can not do without our papers; the y are very vi‘;al in any consideration of na tional defense. Let’s pay up our subscriptions and even pay ahead if we can. Legislators, may you have a satis factory session. Many of you are serving the State at a loss; let’s make the session short and snappy. Here's wishing you well. Great men stand out like land marks of a nation. 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