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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.
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from reports elsewhere in this nation, his stay is
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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. When Jehovah
made Himself known to Moses from
the burning bush He said “I am the
God of thy father, the God of Abra
ham, the God of Isaac and the God
of Jacob.” Illustrious names in Is-
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