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VOLUME 5; NO. 15 The Rising Snn—1856-1860 NEWBERRY, S. G FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1942 PUBLISHED WEEKLY $1.00 PER YEAR OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE TIME FOR THE FARMERS TO GRAB I’ll swear I believe old farmer is happy in his poverty. With the best chance in 25 years to get himself some decent britches, he’s either too ignorant, to lazy or too patriotic to press home his advantage. The farm bloc has fought his battles however & are going to cram prosperity down bis neCa. Farm prices are going up and they should go up. Cotton should be at least 25c a pound. As the Spectator says in another column, this is a labor government. Doctor Roosevelt gets immediate cooperation from congress when he asks for some 600 million dollars to pay auto workers who will be thrown out of work in the process of chang ing over machines to make imple ments of war. I don’t know whether they should be paid or not but I do know if they are paid some consid eration should be given to the far mer prhen the draft takes all the help he has. The farms of Newberry county to day for most part are being opeated by boken down old men and women. Mr. Pinckney with his six or seven thousand dollar job has all the black “employees” and the army has all the boys. Old Pinckney isn’t going to give up his “employees”. We all know that. No, the old men and the old women have to work the farms and when they want a little something for their labor, a section of the new deal ers and the metropolitan press yelp like the devil about “inflation”. If the farmers had any sense, which I sometimes doubt, they would not sit by while the big grab is going on. Ship builders, airplane builders, ev ery kind of supplier of goverrument needs is rolling in profits, but old farmer doesn’t raise his voice to de mand his part. He stands aside un til all the pork is gone and then bel ly-aches about taxes and high prices. The farmer has been on a grub of fatback and com bread so long until I begin to doubt if he knows there is anything else to eat, and that this might account for his inaction. He is the ONE man who could get a living profit for his wares if he only bestir- ed himself to do it. The world can do without two-by-four newspapers and a lot of other things, but the world will pay and pay high before it will go unfed and unclothed. Maybe old farmer thinks he is some sort of philanthropist! Maybe he thinks he has a sort of divine duty to feed the world, a nd starve in the pro cess. It most surely looks that way. I want to see the farmer become more voluble. I want to see him a continuing thorn in the side of our congressmen and lawmakers until he is on par with other people who la bor. The farmer who has even a n ounce on common sese knows that every one who touches cotton lives on a higher economic plane than he aoes. He also knows, or -"ould easily find out that the average income on the farm is some $164 a year while in industry it is more than $400. This is the case because old farmer has never tried to do anything about it. One of old farmer’s troubles is that he is too dam suspicious. He won’t trust anyone to lead him—he knows it all and he knows nothing. I have been preaching better conditions on the farm for the past 14 years here in Newberry county, and even after this long period of asking nothing in return, now and again some sap wants to know what I hope to get out of the farmer. I want nothing out of the farmer; I have never even pressed or requested 1 what he owed me but I do want his family to have what others have for I am in terested in American people as a whole. Yes, boys, the golde.: days of the farm are here; raise all of every thing you can (or that they will let you) and let old Ed Smith and Butler Hare know that you expect them to stand by the farm bloc in giving you decent prices for your stuff. Write them today. Everybody writes their representatives when they want something and they are guided large, ly by what they hear from back home. Of course if you don’t give a cuss go long and jump in the vieek and stop cluttering up an otherwise beautiful landscape. LIEUT. BLACK NOW IN TENN. Lieut. Ralph Black, son of L. A. lack of Prosperity, and former >unty treasurer, has been transferr- 1 to Camp Forrest in Tullahoma, enn., from Atlanta, Ga. MUST LEARN TO HATE “Damn their morals; its their morale we’re interested in.” That was spoken a while back by a retir ed army general, a hard bitten old boy who knew war in all its black phases. We can’t go along all the way with the general but we are convrnced that the morale of the army will not be what it should until we learn i to hate. The boys in uniform and the people back home must learn to hate the enemy with all the vehem ence of which they are capable. We cannot expect our boys to step out of the peaceful quiet of civilian life and become first class killers unless something takes place in their hearts to make them such. The change from civilian clothes to a army uniform is not enough. As sad as it may seem our soldiers cannot go into battle with Christian love in thetir hea'rts. They must possess the desire to kill, and a willingness to die for the thing they are fighting for. Far from discouraging marriage among young men going off to war, it should be encouraged, for men have willingly fought and died for their women from the early dawn of time. The war department knows this and already rumors are trick ling out of Manila telling of Jap attacks on white women. The war department wants its soldiers to hate the enemy and that is as it should be. In the last World war the churches did a good propaganda job, but in this war the churches have not awakened to the fact that we are engaged in a brutal, savage war. The churches can do much to instill hate into the hearts of our people and if the people hate our soldiers will likewise hate. A doctrine of hate will be more readily accepted from the church than from any oth er source. Our preachers ever tempted to lash out at their recalci trant flocks can now vent their spleen upon Hitler a nd Tojo and the real of the mob. Already the boys "on the radio ari: telling us we mustn’t hate; we must be charitable toward one and all; even toward those who are cutting out throats. Bunk! We must be savages, brutal, ruthless, until every skunk who had anything to do with starting this war, or running it< or aiding or abbeting in it, is hanging from a telephone pole by his toes. There will be no room for Christ ianity in the world until the foes of Christianity and decency are wiped from the scene. Hitler must be taught Christianity by the sword. That is the only way he will ac cept it. Chrisianity is a fine philosophy of life but the doctrine of hate must largely take its place until the world is rid of those who would kill it. A doctrine of hate will bring with it a moral let-down, that we must expect. We saw it during and fol lowing the last world war and we will see it on a vastly greater scale this time. But from painful exper ience the world creeps forward. Thgxe will be a longer period of peace following this war, a period in which it is to be hoped Christianity will become enthroned in the hearts of many more millions and wars will cease to be. Those who doubt that 2000 years of Christianity has brought mankind any good thing have a warped per spective. The pagans have plenty of followers but the masses of peo ple are not bad. They follow false gods occasionally as they have al- ‘ ways done but in vastly smaller num- ■ hers. There is more good in the world than there has ever been. And contrary as it may seem hate will be the vehicle of even move good. And so, we have a job to do, a job in which hate is a necessary evil. Cruel and savage we must be until such time as the world can return to the paths of peace. MAYBANK COMES THROUGH Senator Maybank has come through for the farmer, just as we told you last summer we thought he would. He voted for the pries control bill which contains features guarantee ing good prices for farm products. You will see the effects of this bill when you begin to sell your next crop. Old Ed. Smith whom you have voted for all your life did not bother to cast his vote. We believe the farmers will re member Mr. Maybank for this vote. Tho no friend of ours we sincerely believe he is concerned jor the wel fare of the farmer and for that rea son we intend to support him next summer. We hope the farmers will not fall for that bag of wind called Olin Johnston, under the guise that he is “of the ‘Peepul’.” What if hi has been poor, or is poor, what’s that going to get you? You ought to stop one time in your life and vote with common sense. As long as you continue to vote for men because they are “poor boys” just so long will you stay poor along with them. Poverty isn’t a badge of anything except laziness and indolence. We want to vote for men who have “ar rived’'"—they are the boys who can help us. The old moth-bitten idea of the blind leading the blind is so much hooey. We want to be led with men of proved vision. HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN Mayor Herman Langford reports sales this week of two buggies, in dicating that the good old days are here again. Young folks of this generation are likely to experience something of the courting days of their parents and grandparents. Highways will be deserted and the shady lanes of the countryside will again be the scene of courting •cou ples. This is good, too. Engage ments contracted at 60 miles per hour don’t always result in happy married life. Behind the ryhthmic clop, clop, clop of old Dobbin young hearts can find each other. “Sweet nothings” will be sweeter without the stench of gasoline, and memories will be put in store upon which to call when skies are gray and life is fading. My! my! Listen at me. I must quit dreaming! MUST BECOME RACKETEERS Well, old $6000-per-annuni Pinck ney said a few weeks back that he would release some of his Black Boys to till Newberry soil but we haven’t heard of the rolls being decreased any at this writing. We have seen several buck Negroes about the streets waiting to get on Lawrence’s list though. How about that farmers (and other taxpayers)—$6,000 bucks a year to boss several thousand sorry Negroes (plus a handul of deserving whites). That’s what Uncle Sam pays Lawrence out of tile tax money you and the rest of us struggle to pay. You must admit however that it takes a lot of ability to boss a bunch of shiftless negroes. It is a terrible job to see that they don’t work too hard, and then of course they must be “investigated”. O, my yes! They must be investigated to see if they need any commodities, or perfume or nail .polish! You government, Mr. Farmer, is paying these blacks out of YOUR money to do needless work while you and the old lady make the crops with which to pay them, and so ’round and ’round it goes. You farmers think manna has fallen into your laps direct from the fountainhead of goodies when you are given a little subsidy check. That’s because you’ve never been used to anything. That’s because you have always been honest enough to work for what you have and also for what others have. It’s because you have never had sense enough to know that you will never get any where until you turn farming into a racket. Everything else is a rack et—big or small—and WPA is the biggest racket of all. But you don’t care. You stand with your hat in your hand, thankful for a little handout when Pinckney’s negroes get as much in a month as you get in a year. You’re too cock-eyed complacent to demand what’s yw«rs. You condemn WPA but what have you ever done about it? Have you ever as much as written your con gressman telling him that WPA has ruined all farm labor. Did you ever tell them that all a WPA negro knows is “15c an hour” when you get perhaps about 2c for your own time? Sure you didn’t, you’ve been too busy belly-aching when you should have been acting. Thousands of you worked the whole of last year and got exactly nothing for your work. Has any one come along and given you even HALF what Lawrence is giving his negroes? No, of course not! Why? Because you are not “racket-mind ed”; you’re too timid; you’re afraid to ask for your share of the loot. You’ve been kicked around so much you’ve got the “whats-the-use” complex. But you say, old “nigger” is not organized to get his. He isn’t eh? Then why do you think they voted almost to a man for the New Deal? He bought his place is the sunshine with his vote. But you. O, you vote “Democratic”, vote that way because your papa did. You couldn’t vote as independent * men and women lest papa turn over in his grave. When the farmers organize them selves into a great nationwide body and operate along the lines of the rest of we racketeers they will get somewhere. They won’t until they do. LITTLE STAR’S SUGAR Since Little Star Food stores has made its “sugar policy” a public is sue and tried to justify it with a lot of soft soap in the manner of large advertisements, I suppose that lets me in to say that such a policy in just what was to be expected from Little Star, and when we say Little Star we mean the owners of that out fit. By requiring other mer- Jchandise to be purchased in order to get a measly pound of sugar Little Star is playing into the hands of the rich—deliberately so, we believe. The rich, under Little Star’s plan, can stock their larders wi.h groceries and thus obtain stfgar while the poor who can buy only bare necessities from day to day hr week to week are denied this sugaf. We know of no other stores in Newberry doing this but if they are they are to be as roundly condemned, i We have been wanting to write you another piece about this Little Star outfit anyway but We have been in mellow mood of late, little given to raising the devil. What with regular doses of Carter’s Little Liver pills and Vitamin B-l complex plus a diet of communion wafers we have been at peace with the world but at the finish of this you will have surmised that we didn’t get by with that pork chop. Anyway, this Little Star is the same outfit which operated here a few years ago as Rogers and folded up when the going got tough, leav ing Clarence Summer, W. O. Wilson and the rest of the boys to pay the taxes and keep the schools and churches going until the picking got good again for Little Star. That’s the kind of outfit Little Star is. Did you ever hear of them going out into the woods and building a towm of their own ? No, you didn’t! They come into good towns like New berry which have been built up by loyal citizens, citisens who have stuck it out through thinck and thin, and suck, its life Mood and then when cash to the Little Stars in good times. Dumb indeed are those who cannot see that concerns such as this are sapping the very life blood of our community and pouring it into the pockets of rich men in distant cities. They (the owners) care nothing about Newberry. Where would you go for hospitalization if it were left to Little Star? What kind of schools would your kids go to? What kind of parks would they play in? Wake up and do some thinking—even if it killr you! I haven’t time to write much this morning but one of these days I’m going to take on another pork chop and a couple of sweet potatoes and see what I can do. IN HOSPITAL The many friends of B. M. D. Liv ingston of Prosperity will be sorry to learn that he was taken seriously ill at his home Wednesday night. He was carried to the Newberry hospital early today (Thursday). Mr. Living ston is an employee of C. T. Summer, Inc. in the grocery department. GLENDA ANN WESSINGER Mr. and Mrs. Haskell Wessinger of Chapin, announce the birth of a daughter, GL-nda Ann, bom Friday January 23 at the Newberry county hospital. Mrs. Wessinger is the former Miss Eva Rauhce. the old cow fail* 4 ^ “Srfve down” they •rtlentty fold th Ifi ifljnts * and steal away. You have seen a lot of our good merchants go down as a result of these Little Star grocery com binations. My old friend Bob Wal lace was the latest casualty I believe. There never was a more honest or accommodating grocer than Bob but he couldn’t stand the pressure of a lot of you sorry devils taking his credit in hard times and giving your GLENN THA&DEUS MILLER Mr. and Mrs. Ewell Miller of Lees- ville are receiving congratulations on the arrival of a son, Glenn Thaddeus, bom Sunday, January 25 at the lo cal hospital. Mrs. Miller was form erly Miss Annie Louise Caughman. KAY LIVINGSTON DAVIS Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Davis, of the city announce the birth of a daughter Kay Livingston, bom at the Newber ry county hospital Wednesday, Jan uary 28. Miss Davis, before marriage was Miss Lottie Livingston.' IA' DAUGHTER Mr. and Mrs. George Abrams of Newberry announce the birth of a daughter at the county hospital Wed nesday, January 28. Mrs. Abrams is the former Miss Virginia Smith. Grady Graham, of Fort Jackson, visited his brother, Tom Graham and Mrs. Graham over the weekend. LEST WE FORGET Elsewhere in this issue is a report of a recent meeting of the Civic League, some rambling remarks ap pertaining, and a list of some ac complishments by these progressive ladies. The list of accomplishments is to refrsh our memories of all she league means to Newberry. We too often take for granted the fine things we have and often fail to realize that they come to us out of the hard la bor and planning of unselfish spirits. The league has not been much in the public print lately for the reason that its guiding spirit has been other wise occupied, but the work on the League goes on. I have been hoping that “Miae Mamie” would get fired or something so that she could again give more of her time to the League and its work. Mr. Wright in addressing the ladies spoke of the importance of continu ing the good work of the past many years, a nd in this he voiced the sen timent of all who are interested in a beautiful city. Read the article elsewhere to re fresh your memory of the one agency- in the city which give all without asking anything in return. MAYOR APPOINTS COMMITTEES Mayor Herman S. Langford has appointed the following committees of city council. The appointments were made at a meeting of council Tuesday night: Ways and Means—H. D. Whitaker, chairman, Eugene Shealy, C. A. Shealy. Streets—Raymond Blair, C. A. Shealy, Eugene Shealy, H. D. Whit aker, M. K. Wicker. Supplies and Accounts—Eugene Shealy, chairman, Raymond Blaiq, H. D. Whitaker. Lighting of the City and Water Works—C. A. Shealy, chairman, M. K. Wicker, Raymond Blair. Licenses, Guard House and Police —Euge le Shealy. chairman, C. A. Shealy, H. D. Whitaker. Fire Department—H. D. Whitaker, chairman, Eugene Shealy. Cemetery and Parks—M. K. Wick er, chairman, Eugene Shealy, Ray mond Blair. Opera House—Raymond Blair, chairman, M. K. Wicker, H. D. Whit aker. The mayor is a member ex-officio of each committee. Civic League Must Go On To Accomplish Greater Things For City Says Mr. Wright REVIEW SHOWS MUCH DONE IN BEAUTIFICATION The Civic League recently met at the home of Mrs. Tom Fellers. An most enthusiastic meeting was held. Hon. Z. F. Wright spoke to the League on the impertance of coninu- ing the fine work that has been done over a period of thirty years. At this meeting the League presented Mrs. R. D. Wright, a member who has done much fine work in the Civic League, a gift of appreciation in view of the fact that she has recent ly brought honor to the city of New. berry and to the Civic League in her election as President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The newest project of the Civic League is the landscaping of the nurses home which has recently been built on the hospital grounds. Mrs. Forrest Summer has been placed in charge of this. The women of Newberry who are members of the Civic League should feel much pride in the success of the many fine things that has been ac complished in the past and resolve to press forward with a more determin ed effort now on account of the fact that during this period of National Defense efforts much emphasis is placed upon keeping up the morale of our people—attractive surround ings, flowers, shrubs, landscapes and efficient health program. All tend to boost morale. The attractiveness of Margaret Hunter Park and the safety of the pool mean much to the people of Newberry city and county and also to surrounding counties. Three thousand people from Newberry and surround ing counties attended the opening of Magaret Hunter park last spring. Some people coming as far as Sav annah, Ga., for this occasion. The Civic League wishes to exiptess its thanks to the City Council of Newberry for all its cooperation and assistance in the past. Nothing could have been accomplished with out the cooperation of the City Coun cil. For many years this relation has been most congenial because of the fact the city has realized that the Civic League is doing a work for the city in a very big way without any thought of compensation for the work done—only the job of serving the boys and girls of Newberry who en joy the pool, the parks, and the play grounds and the citizens who enjoy beautiful surroundings. The Newberry Civic League has ac complished the following for the City of Newberry: 1. Sponsored the adoption of the Standard Milk ordinance in the City of Newberry. 2. Sponsored the Bigger Health Program for the City of New berry connecting the City up with the County and State De partment of Health which brought about the present Abat toir system in the City of New berry. 3. Sponsored the erection of the flag pole on memorial square. 4. Sponsored the cleaning up of the old bone yard and the pres ent set up on memorial square including the World War monu. ment. 5. Sponsored the landscaping of old Court House grounds and its upkeep. 6. Sponsored the landscaping of the Newberry County Hospital grounds and its upkeep. . 7. Sponsored the landscaping of the Newberry County Fair grounds and its upkeep. 8. Sponsored the landscaping of the World War memorial build ing grounds. 9. Sponsored the landscaping of Margaret Hunter Park and its upkeep. 10. Sponsored the landscaping of boy scout home and its upkeep. 11. Sponsored the recent thorough cleaning of the village grave yard in Newberry. 12. Sponsored the placing of granite piers at the entrance of the Rosemont Cemetery. One of said piers has been dedicated to Lola Clark Floyd, first member of the League, another has been dedicated to Walter H. Hunt, a Newberry citizen who did much for the city of Newberry. 13. Sponsored the dedication and landscaping of the Marion Davis (playground and its upkeep. 14. Sponsored the enlargement of the house in Marion Davis play ground which is used for a play school for little children. 15. Sponsored the upkeep of all play ground equipment in Marion Da vis play ground. 16. Sponsored the activities of the Swimming pool in Margaret Hunter park assuming full res ponsibility through a Board of Control. 17. Sponsored the landscaping of new court house grounds and its upkeep. 18. Sponsors any project in the city of Newberry which is for the good of all the citizens of the town. DR. KINARD WILL ADDRESS NEWBERRY CLASS 20 YEARS AGO The general assembly has made re. markable progress during the three weeks of its session, and, if only the old-time customary forty days are to be consumed, then the legislature is half way through with the session. However, in the past several years, the session has gone beyond the forty days, and it may go beyond that this year, though both senate and house have been working hard both at day and night sessions. We publish this week the resolu tions adopted by the bar association on Col. George Johnstone as written by Dr. Cromer. It is a fair and true tribute to one of the great minds of the state. There is no doubt in the mind of anyone who knew Col. John stone as to his ability. He had his faults, and who of us is free from fault? He said to us on one occa sion when we were together and he was in one of his fine conversational moods, and he was the most enter taining conversationalists we ever knew, that he could not understand it, but somehow the people of South Carolina gave him credit for having more brain than he actually did have, and also less heart, and it seemed to us that he said it with a tinge of sadness in his voice. And having known him quite well for many years we believe that what he said was true as to the heart, though his intellect was not overestimated. The lawyers of the state have hon ored themselves in electing Judge C. J. Ramage president of the state bar association. Carroll Ramage is not only a fine lawyer, but he is a fine gentleman and an all round good fel low. We congratulate the bar as sociation no less than Mr. Ramage on the honor conferred and we are sure that he will wear the honor with becoming dignity and modesty. WITH THE SICK Mrs. W. D. Hornsby, who under went a major operation at the Co lumbia hospital last Thursday, Is do ing nicely at this time. Miss Lois Fant, who fell a few weeks ago, injuring her back was placed in a cast at the Couhnbia hos pital, returned to the Newberry hos pital last Saturday is improving. Miss Nell Davis, who underwent a major operation in the Columbia hospital last Friday is reported to be doing nicely. SHORT TERM OF CIVIL COURT Civil Court which convened here Monday morning with Judge E. H. Henderson, of Bamberg, presiding, was a short term of two days. Mon day the case of Miss Annie Living ston against the County of Newberry in the death of her brother, Robert C. Livingston was tried and the court awarded Miss Libingston $4,- 000 damages. T. M. Sanders case for actual dam age to himself and his car against the T. B. Jennings & Duke company and corporatio’i was tried Tuesday. Mr. Sanders was awarded $2.35 for damages. SEEN ABOUT TOWN The faculty of Newberry college have asked President James C. Ki- nard to deliver the address to the graduating class of 1942 on Com mencement Day, June 2nd. Both Dr. and Mrs. Kinard are graduates of Newberry and their two sons are students here. James Efird is a member of the Senior class and Frank Efird is a Freshman. Dr. Kinard has been connected with Newberry college since his graduation in 1916 snd has been President since 1930. SONS IN TWO WARS G. Holley Shealy was in the city Wednesday morning to see his boy off to Columbia for examination looking to induction in the army. Mr. Shealy had a son in the first World war with the 30th division and also has a son with the fleet in Asiatic waters. KEISTER WILLINGHAM, DR. RICHARD LOMINICK, JIMMY WISEMAN and JOHN EPPS stand ing on comer of College and Boyce streets talking . . . DR. JAMES C. KINARD getting on bus . . . MAX- CY STONE selling tires off his car and is now wanting to sell the car . .. MURRAY COUNTS chasing a chick en (hen) up College street . . . CON STABLE RUFF LIVINGSTON talk ing to two pretty girls in front of the Court House Tuesday morning . . . Received card from JOHNNY KI NARD, who is a patient in the Vet eran’s hospital, telling the Sun force how much he enjoys reading The Sun, saying that he read every word and then passed it on to several others and they enjoyed it as much as he. Hope you will soon be back home and in the bank, Johnny. We miss you . . . Don’t forget the “March of Dimes” campaign is still on and your dime will help “keep ’em walk ing’’ as Winchell says. Birthday an niversaries through February 5th: Mrs. B. E. Stockman, Jan. 30; John T. Norris, Houseal Norris and O. W. Douglas, J-n. 31; Mrs. Hugh K. Boyd, Mrs. C. E. Hendrix and C. B. Beden- baugh, Feb. 1; R. C. Williams, Feb. 2; A. H. “Box” Counts and Mrs. Henry T. Fellers, Feb. 4.