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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1942 Farmer Never Shares In The Ripe Plums of BY SPECTATOR The biggest question before the Legislature is that of Prohibition. To large element of our people the social problems of liquors overshad ows all consideration of revenue. Some of them feel that one should vote his moral conviction without re gard for what may (or may not) fol low. Another large group opposes Prohibition on two grounds: 1. The difficulty or impossibility of enforcement; and the 2. Loss of revenue, with the heavy cost of enforcement payable from the general taxes. We must concede the honest pur pose of most of the leaders on both sides. Neither side has a monopoly of virtue, though one side is idealis tic and puts the issue on moral grounds. The other is practical, sev erely practical, and deals with con ditions as may be contemplated with in the probabilities. Of course the most idealistic procedure sometimes proves the finest practical measure. On the other hand, the severely prac tical handling of a matter may de velop its own idealism. So, into the realm of forensic philosophy we soar. Who knows what’s what? The State Convention of our Demo cratic Party will meet in May. Some men will be there with resolutions extolling the leadership of the Party and recounting all the remarkable achievements of recent months. NOW WHO WILL PREPARE THE RESO LUTION telling with warm grati tude of all that was done for our cot ton farmers? Could we persuade J. Skottowe Wannamaker to prepare such a resolution ? As you know, the Government is deeply concerned about the men of the automobile plants who have been left out; wants to make special provision of $24 a week for them. And the cotton far mers? Well, the Government didn’t want to unsettle the budget by tak ing thirty million dollars for farm ers from money already appropriat ed. Yet the Government rushes to Congress for four hundred to six hundred millions for LABOR- WHY, NOW? .ASK YOURSELVES WHY! So I wait with impatience to hear some orator tell about that. And I hope there will be some horny-hand ed son there with a voice like a fog horn who will speak the truth from . hear^«^-^~>—w-— ~- Be''farmers asked for bread and were given a stone; but look at the The Laborer bread that is being delivered to LA BOR! I suppose you can stand it, farmers, and sing praises, too! What is a laboring man Who is a laborer? What, in fact, is labor? I don’t know, because the dictionary is not respected. The dictionary is out of date, in ill-repute, like the Con stitution; and these very modern, streamlined, up-to-the-minute lads are not going to bow down to, or respect, any worn out old book. At one time a laborer was a man who worked HARD physically. He was one who toiled in the heat amid sweat and grime. Now a farmer is not a laborer; all he does is to begin work in the cool gray mist of early mom and carry on till twelve o’clock. He has a nice easy time for an hour and then he just walks up and down behind a mule until dark. He has no time for movies or parties, but he goes to sleep and sleeps until about four in the morning. It is what you might call the simple, easy life. All you do is work, eat and sleep. But the farmer is not a laborer and nev er shares any of the ripe plums for laborers. A real laborer is one who works eight hours a day for good wages, payable every week. All that the Government can do, it does, for this hard-working man of eight hours. But the farmer! Well, isn’t his life just a picnic all the time? But the farmer gets his pay, too. Just wait until the orators start in the Democratic Convention and near about the farmer being bulwark— and all that. That’s how the farmer is paid—with words! COLONEL WYNDHAM MAN NING OF SUMTER tells me that the rumor that he had declined a Com mission as Brigadier General w, en tirely unfounded. The Colonel says he was never offered a Commission of any kind at all. I heard the re port in Mississippi and in a dozen comimunities in South Carolina. It was being spoken of so freely that I asked Colonel Manning point-blank to give me the facts. He said that he had no knowledge of how such a report started, but that it was en tirely untrue. Since speaking to Colonel Man ning, a friend of mine, who is politi cally very astute, tells me that the report was circulated in order to make it appear that Mr. Manning would not be a candidate for Gover nor. All right, all right. And if anybody starts a rumor that Bishop Smoak has been commissioned an Admiral of the fleet he may know it is untrue, for the Bishop, in spite of his taste for water, is not known as a soilor or lover of the sea. Congress stirred up a hornet’s nest in voting a pension to its mem bers. It was one of the most dis graceful performances of a Congress which does not seem to think for itself, except to grab something. The Senate started this with a fat, juicy new allowance of $4,000 for clerk hire; and now comes the whole Congress voting to make its mem bers eligible for a pension. And they included the President of the United States for a pension! The President signed the bill, making it law. So in dignant are the people that Congress may be forced to repeal the Act. Ask you congressman how he voted. The escape of the German battle ships through the narrow English Channell is a blow to British pride and prestige. But pride and pres tige are secondary for the feat of the Germans constitutes a new peril to Britain and America. Any one of . those German ships could play havoc with our convoys to Iceland and Ire land. Half our battle fleet, with a score of other vessels and a hundred planes will be necessary to offset forays by these German ships. Why the British could not or did not, sink these boats, at their very doors, no one can say; but no spot more fav orable to the British could be imag ined. Are the Germans so smart that the British can’t cope with them ? Well, are the Japs so smart that they play rings around us? Or, are we just perpetually napping? Do we expect to have them send notice of what they plan to do? The one bright page in this war is the defense of the Fhillipines. General McArthur and his officers and men have saved the honor of the nation and brightened our prospects by a dogged resistance which every one must applaud. Our chief seaport is getting a lot of bad advertising. The Admiral commanding the Navy Yard has de clared the city to be ‘‘out of bounds”, meaning that men under his com mand must keep out of Charleston. Why ? Because of certain dives. Well if dives are not what sailors want, why have dives? The argu ment generally used for such places is that they a re necessary in order to attract seafaring men. A little reflection will establish When you buy, you wont to buy something with the quality you can count on. You want ike real thing. Your guests want the real thing / too. Coca-Cola is the real thing in refreshment... with the quality of genuine goodness. 5/ You trust its quality pUuu * SOTTIED UNDE* AUTHORITY OE THE COCA-COLA COMPANY IV NEWBERRY COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Washington Viewpoint (By H. I. Phillips) 1 The public is quite infantile. This fact we always note; We mustn't set it any tasks Without a sugar-coat. With matters like the income tax You’ll never have much luck Unless you dress it up a bit With Disney’s Donald Duck. 2 The people are so juvenile That major aims we find Have got to be a ll prettied up To stir the shallow mind; It doesn’t do to state plain facts As if their brains were keen; The lesson must be put across By mice upon a screen. 3 The public simply won’t grow up— It’s nothing but a child; • Hence any task severe and hard Needs treatment sweet and mild. If rationing has got to come. Let’s shun the sterner way. And link it up with movies at The kiddies’ matinee. 4 The public is so sensitive— So easily upset— We mustn’t let them think the war Is worrisome as yet. Is there some obligation tough To be faced unafraid? Then phone the boys at Hollywood, And have a ‘‘funny” made. 5 The average man is but a babe. He hates the facts of life. We mustn’t be outspoken in A time of mortal strife. Is there a major crisis near Which calls for facing facts? Call up a booking agent and Sign up some dancing; acts! 6 Americans are sheltered folks. We rate their age a t three. We classify this country as One great, big nursery. Is there some task quite burdensome And vital to our land? Then get Pop-eye the Sailorman So all can understand! L’Envoi Approach each fateful problem with A sweet and childlike touch; The brain of any average man Does not amount to much. We’re in a bitter, bloody war, (But don’t use language crude) Just link it up with Coney Isle, Broadway and Hollywood. LT. WEARN TRANSFERRED TO KEY WEST, FLORIDA Lt. Wilson Weam, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weam of Newberry has been transferred from Fort Jackson to Key West, Florida, for temporary assignment. some helpful facts: 1. Fully ninety per cent of the peo ple of Charleston don’t know about dives. Perhaps ninety five per cent of them have never been in one. But for years we have been -old that the foreign element must do this, that and the other. But why should a foreign element be allowed to flaunt ou r laws? If we go to France, we must conform to French law. Why, then, should a Frenchman come here and evade, or violate, or disregard our law ? It is a confession of weakness for us to let any foreign element hold our law in contempt. Certainly, we ought not to hear any more about the “foreign element”. What about soldiers and sailors? About ninety per cent of them are •well-behaved. We need no dives for them. As a matter of fact, I won der whether the wide-open town, or the town of dives, it not driving away business. Most people are fairly decent, *nd a decent city should not allow its name to be plastered with mud. No city has a finer citizenry than Charleston; none a more generous people of broad enlightenment; the good element, the great preponder ance of the inhabitants, would do well to insist that Charleston be recog nized for its virtues, not its vices. Though some customs in Charleston have earned reproach, the majority should make the old city as decent and attractive as they are. The fall of Singapore is a disaster and it is a disaster which men in the street think should never have been permitted to happen. Our ships of war are too delicate to be risked. Does it not seem that this war calls aloud for ships which we can afford to risk? Even if we lose them— what of it? -Let’s have fast little boats which can harry the enemy. Governor Harley’s veto of the Act to allow towns to impose licensee on trucks soliciting and delivering was wise and timely, and reasons given by the Governor are not only impres sive but conclusive. We must stop the practice of imposing restrictions on trade with other states and other counties. All this country—all the counties, the cities and the states, must be wide open to trade and tra ffic. Just speaking casually I wonder if almost every town could operate at much less expense. Much of the work could be done by volunteers; some of it could be done by part-time work ers. LET US APPLAUD THE CLEAR VISION OF GOVERNOR HARLEY- TRAFFIC TIPS and QUIPS A DAFFY DRIVER,NAME OF BILL, ALWAYS PASSED CARS ON A HILL. THE SAME THINS WENT FOR DASHING DON- , ONE DAY THEY MET, AND BOTH PASSED-OV/ nahonai lAfnr cooMot 34 PASSING - - „ When you become impatient at the slow moving vehicle ahead and your irritation gets the better of your dis cretion as yourself if you have plen ty of time and distance in front be fore you risk a head-on collision in passing, says the state highway pa trol reminding that the violation of passing improperly was reported in nearly 800 accidents in South Caro lina during 1940. Allow a margin of safety urges pa trol officials which means slowing down well in advance of an intersec tion or stop sign and waiting until you are sure of passing space ahead before pulling around the car fti front. You automatically cut down your margin of safety if you get up too late in the morning, spend time over a second cup of coffee at breakfast and take longer than usual to shave, for chances are you will try to make up the time a fter you get into your car by crowding the speed limit, rushing on a red light here and there, taking curves too fast or chasing pedestrians back to the curb. Cutting your margin of safety to make up lost time leads to accidents says the patrol in urging patience behind the wheel. Giant Tractors Cross Frozen Wastes of Alaska Giant ‘Cats’ Chug Through Icy Streams, Snow and Timber- land In Test . WAYS THAT ARE DARK” Beer makers can, under present regulations of government, get tires for their delivery trucks. But the farmer can’t get tires for his truck or tractor. Neither can a minister of the gospel get tires for his car. Under sugar rationing rules, the private citizen is being limited to so many ounces a week. If he exceeds his allowance, he must drink his coffee bitter or use “long sweeten ing.” The liquor industry, on the other hand, has not been subjected to su gar rationing so far as we know. It is going ahead, in most plants, mak ing whiskey, “as usual.” Miss Elwell Steadman, a student at Newberry college, visited her par ents in Denmark over the weekend. Fairbanks, Alaska, Feb. 21. — Sheathed in ice, with powerful motors purring, four giant tractors chugged into this central Alaskan communi ty -ecently after a 350-mile test run over frozen tundra, high divides, thru ice streams and windswept wastes. They came here from Scotty, near the Canadian boundary. Seven men brought the big “cats” through in temperatures ranging from zero to twenty-five degrees below. Described as the most sev ere long-distance test of its kind ever attempted in Aleska, the trip was made in an elapsed time of twen ty-five days. Fording of the Tanana river at Big Delta climaxed the exploit. The fleet was comprised of three D-3 caterpillars and one 0-7 cater pillar and bulldozer, weighing twenty tons. The latter served as the trail blazer, knocking down trees, clearing away fallen timber, and leading the way through frozen streams. The three other “cats” pulled seventeen-yard Wooldridge scrap pers, or carryalls, laden with fuel oil, camp and other supplies, includ ing spare machine parts. At Big Delta on the T.ichardson highway, site of the historic conten tion between Fairbanks truckers and government toll collectors, the “cats” were converted into veritable sub marines that walked under the icy waters 300 yards from shore to shore. Owing to warm springs feeding the river a short distance above the crossing, and a racing current, there was no ice at the site of the under taking, but the water was icy cold. Moving forward in a procession, with the twenty-ton brute in the lead, the “cats” plunged in, taking a zig-zag course to the shallowest bars. For some distance from the shore, the water reached only part way up the steel sides of the big crawlers, but in the middle of the stream—for a stretch of 60 feet— it was seven feet deep and all was submerged except the exhaust stacks oil tanks and the upper parts of the cabs. It was impossible for the men to remain at the controls, so they set the tractors for a definite course, gave them the gun and climbed up on top. Once over the deepest stretch, the men resumed their pltuies inside. They were an hour hooking up cables and making final adjustments and in wading from shore to shore, but no more than five minutes in negotiat ing the actual crossing under power. The crossing of the shallow stretches was made in high gear, with a speed of five and a half miles per hour, but the deep spots requir ed low gear. Crews were drenched repeatedly but resumed the trek after a change and a warm meal. From Big Deltr. to Fairbanks, a distance of ninety- one miles, the tractors plowed into Fairbanks in seventeen hours. Egg Buying Stations May Help Egg Prices The surplus marketing administra tion has agreed to cooperate in set ting up several egg buying stations in South Carolina and in other Southern states, according to E. H. Talbert, extension marketing special ist. Mr. Talbert has just retured from Washington where he and represen tatives from North Carolina, Geor gia, Louisiana and Kentucky con ferred with officials of the surplus marketing administration, the Com modity Credit corporation, the ex tension service and the bureau of dairy and poultry products. It is understood the plan will work about as follows: Three stations probably wil! be sot up in South Carolina and they will have to be o-perated in coopera tion with an established poultry and egg firm or one of the county live stock shipping associations. Pre ferably the buying stations should have easy access to storage facili ties that are adapted to egg stor age. It will be necessary to oper ate through some established or ganization that has a reserved fund in order to purchase small lots of eggs from the farmers. The eggs will have to be purchased according to United States standard for ex port grades as it is necessary that the eggs be packed in cases accord ing to one of the aforementioned grades before the purchasing de partment of the SMA can handle them. It is likely that a price will be announced for a definite period, say, every two weeks or every month so as to establish some defi nite basis for purchase from the in dividual farmers- The details are being worked out by officials of the SMA and exten sion service in Washington and it is hoped that this information will soon be available in order that the purchase program can be started to support egg prices. Efforts are be ing made whereby the eggs pur chased by the SMA can be turned over to the officials of the school lunch program in South Carolina as these eggs will be .very helpful in giving the children balanced school lunches. * CHEVROLET’S "TRUCK ‘ . *■ 0 '■ CONSERVATION PLAN” Is Dedicated to the Job of Keeping Your . jt M Trucks "On the Job" for the Duration! j It is designed to accomplish this result through a new and better kind of service, which — 1. prolongs truck life 2. prevents many major troubles 3. protects your pocketbook 4. preserves your trucks* haulage efficiency Sue your Chevrolet dealer for full delbils—today! • \ A MOBILE NATION IS A STRONG NATION Always see your local '* CHEVROLET DEALER FOR SERVICE' on any car or truck Davis Motor Company 1515-17 MAIN ST NEWBERRY, S. C.