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FRIDAY, MAKurt zu. 1942
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Young Leaders Directed the Confederacy
BY SPECTATOR
Have the British fallen down in
this war? It has seemed to many
that Britain was just sitting back
waiting for something to happen.
Certainly the list of defeats, re
treats, evacuations and disasters
cannot impress one as inspiring.
Nor, indeed, are we overflowing
with pride and joy at our own show
ing. We read of confusion at the
top and all the disheartening tales
of woe, but are we informed at all?
I have had an eye-opener from an
address of the British Ambassador.
Is England sitting tilght, while oth
ers struggle and fight? Well, Britain
shipped 9,000 planes in 1941 and
3,000 tanks. Some of these planes
and tanks went to Russia. In 1941
Britain received from the United
States 2,000 planes. We sent 300
tanks to Britain. That is the sur
prise to me. I thought we had
been sending at least a thousand
planes a month.
Britain has three and a half mil
lion soldiers at home but two mil
lion of them are part-time soldiers,
being engaged in manufacture of
war supplies. The other million
and a half must guard 3,000 miles
of coast and 90,000 square miles
inside. Seventy per cent of all
losses in men have been of British.
The British have not laid the bur
den on Australia, New Zealand and
Canada. S
Is Britain helping Russia? All
last summer British planes attack
ed France and Germany so as to
draw German planes from attack
ing Russia. In these attacks Bri
tain lost half as many pilots as she
lost defending herself from the
flood tide of German air assaults
in 1940.
Fresh brains, new, clear brains
may be what is needed. Too of
ten the British (and Americans)
seem to miscalculate, to be caught
unawares, half-prepared or with
forces somewhere else. America
and Britain are calling for an of
fensive. It will be a young man’s
war and a young man’s victory. Let
us bring in to command the alert
ness, the dash, the invincibility of
youth. We of the South may have
forgotten that the Confederates
were young fellows. Hidden behind
great bushy beards, and presented
to us in formal portraits, they look
like grave and reverend old gentle
men, but Joe Wheeler was a Lieu
tenant General at twenty-eight, as
I recall. General Lee was only
fifty-four, though we think of him
as seventy-five. George Washing
ton assumed command of the Am
erican army at forty-four. But let
us put young men in command.
And the high, key men in Washing
ton are also much too old.
I happened in to see Mr. T. R.
Waring, City Editor of The News
and Courier. “Tom” has been spend
ing a lot of time in Columbia ob
serving the legislature, and I won
dered whether he was catching on
to the kind of pitching that is serv
ed in that League; or whether the
boys were mixing up curves, fast
ones, slow balls and fade-aways in
such a manner as to bewilder one
who had become accustomed to the
fast ones over the plate by Dr.
Ball.
I wondered whether “Tom” would
catch on to the sweeping delivery
of Senator Laney or the slow ball
of Wilbur Grant. At any rate, he’s
on to the game as its played in the
legislative league and even under
stands what the “Umps’’ are call
ing.
While observing Mr. Waring
closely to see if he had been injur
ed by any of the foul tips, in came
Dr. W. W. Ball, one of the few men
who write what they think. I have
known the Doctor since the time
when, etc., which was quite “a
spell” ago. He is full of the history
of South Carolina and knows a lot
of it which has not been put in
book form, if written at all.
Sitting at the feet of Gamaliel, as
it were, I led the Doctor on to
stories of Hampton, M. C. Butler
and the brave days of Yore, when
men were men and lived in the
great open spaces. Indeed there
had flourished a feeling that a man
owed something to his State; that
his position in life laid him under
obligation to BE and to DO; to BE
a MAN of honor, a gentleman in
refinement, and to render a ser
vice to the public because every
citizens should hold himself subject
to his country’s need. Dr. Ball still
believes in patriotism, in chivarly,
in high integrity in public life.
The Legislature having created a
Port Authority the Governor has
appointed as the Commission James
H. Hammond of Columbia; C. P.
Means of Charleston, Harold Pearl-
stine of Charleston and Mayor
Smith of Georgetown.
This seems an excellent Commis
sion. Mr. Hammond who has not
only a statewide acquaintance with
men, but a statewide knowledge of
conditions is representative of the
State at large, and excellently so;
Mr. Means, as Senator from Char
leston, has grown steadily in sta
ture as a Senator. Although a
Charlestonian to his finger tips, he
has been broadly sympathetic with
the whole State: Mr. Pearlstine is
a prominent businessman of Char
leston; Mr. Smith of Georgetown is
an outstanding figure of that port
and is mayor of the city.
The Commission will try to find
the means to provide the facilities
necessary to enable Charleston
Gorgetown and Beaufort to compete
for business with other ports of the
Southeast.
The creation of the Forth Auth
ority is a wise Act of the Legisla
ture and the appointments are
highly commendable.
The Santee-Cooper. Project is
swelling. Even before it functions
as was planned, it tries to absorb,
gobble and swallow all other power
enterprises in the State. A bill
greatly enlarging the power of the
Santee-Cooper has passed the Sen
ate; it is now in the House. The
people of South Carolina once had
a liquor monopoly which was based
on a law which seemed fairly ac
ceptable, if you believe in a State
running a liquor business. It cer
tainly left an odor of corruption
which smells bad even in memory.
This power monopoly which would
put all the power in the hands of a
group of politicians; which would
put into politics a vital part of our
business; which would put under
political control business operations
aggregating $23,000,000 a year,
should be prevented by resolute
means. Let us not make such a
mistake as that. We have been
thoroughly hoodwinked once; let us
have judgement and common horse
sense enough to avoid such pitfalls
again.
Let the management of the San
tee-Cooper prove its ability to op
erate at a profit in competition with
existing companies. If the Santee-
Cooper can meet this competition,
and sell at lower rates, it will serve
the public usefully; but we want
no political monopoly of power.
An automobile tire expert is said
to have given advice to a friend
about his tires. He began by mak
ing this statement: “You needn’t
worry about the tire shortage . . .
Your tires are good for four or five
years more.” Well, surely that is
interesting. At one time the ar
rival of a millionaire or a President,
or a great war hero, would bring
all the community into one place
for a good look at the great man.
Today, the arrival of a man with
four new tires would stamp him
Legal beer in South Carolina raises
a huge weight off the shoulders of
many taxpayers, even those who do
not drink beer. Here’s how:
Every year, the state k $1,668,000
richer because of taxes on legal beer.
This large sum helps the School Aid
Fund ... helps pay rising government
costs in cities and towns of 46 counties.
Legal beer in South Carolina makes
good local business even better.
The 8,500 workers in the state’s beer
industry spend their $3,500,000 an
nual wages in South Carolina, paying
rent, buying food and clothing.
If beer and ale were ever again pro
hibited in South Carolina, you’d have
to pay more taxes... and 3,500 honest
jobs would be lost... merchants and
landlords would be hit!
The brewing industry wants to pre
serve these benefits for South Caro
lina, and is cooperating to keep the sale
of beer as wholesome as beer itself.
IF YOU DRINK BEER, you can help
by patronising only the legally li
censed and reputable places selling
beer — by far the great majority.
Others should be reported to the re
sponsible authorities.
NATIVE OF NEWBERRY & FIVE
OTHER BAPTIST MISSIONARIES
IMPRISONED AT HONGKONG
Cowpens, March 15.—Dr. M. T.
Rankin, secretary of the Southern
Baptist mission work in China and
Japan, and five other missionaries
have been confined to Stanley pris
on in Hongkong, according to a
cablegram received from Dr. Rob
ert Eeddoe of Wuchow, Free China.
Dr. Rankin is a South Carolinian,
He was born in Newberry and was
graduated from Furman university
in 1918. He is also a graduate of the
Southern Baptist Seminary in
Louisville, Ky. He was appointed
missionary to China in 1920 and
elected secretary to the Orient in
1935.
Others With Dr. Rankin
The missionaries with Dr. Rankin
are: Miss Flora Dodson of Monti-
cello, Ky.; Miss Aurice Pender,
West, Miss.; Mr. and Mrs. C.' S.
Ward and Oz Quick.
The State department is hamper
ed in its efforts to send relief to
Hongkong because the Japanese
government will not grant the
right to the Swiss government to
act as representative.
The office of Dr. Rankin is in
Shanghai. He went to Hongkong
on a visit concerning the mission
work there a few days before Japan
opened hostilities against the Unit
ed States.
as a King among men, and all of
us would crowd around to see what
special characteristic enabled him
to rate new tires.
But about the tires; the tires “had
10,000 miles on them”, of service
hither and yon. Ne' er before had
this car owner been able to use his
tires more than two years. Well,
now—must be a trick in it, but let’s
see. Well, have we been wasting
our tires? Yes; our friend couldn’t
walk three blocks; into the car
and away he went. Seldom did he
check his tire pressure. Never had
he rotated the tires, or used the
spare to rest another tire. Assum
ing that a tire is good for 30,000
miles, then every mile counts from
the 30,000. And if I drive thirty-
five miles an hour I will get more
wear than by driving fifty miles.
If I start slowly and stop carefully
and avoid curb cuts—all that will
help.
The expert says that no one
knows how long a casing will last
when not in use. I have been told
that a casing “standing ^up” would
deteriorate rapidly. The expert
said that he laid aside a tire in
1937, after two years use, and had
it retreaded last week. He thinks
it may last a year and be recapped
then.
I think our tire friends and local
tire dealers have done such a thor
ough piece of advertising for new
tires that it becomes difficult to
convince the public that we have
been oversold on new tires; and that
old tires have a lot of service in
them.
For many years attention has
been called to our slipshod, hap
hazard organization of State Gov
ernment. Our State is like a
crazy-quilt. Even in recent years
new creations have merely added
new positions, though new func
tions could easily have been added
to existing public services. For
example, we have a big Department
of Education, but there was created
a Schoolbook Commission, now
costing $31,505.00 a year. The Dir
ector of that receives a salary of
$3,300.00, whereas the High School
Inspector receives $3,000.00. Now
against that the Director of the
Probation and Parole Board is paid
$4,000.00, though the Director of
the Income Tax Division is paid
only $3,600 00. What sort of criter
ion have we in fixing salaries? The
principal criterion is not the value
of the service, but one’s standing
with important legislators.
The Dean of the Medical College,
he is the head of it just as the
President of any college, is paid a
salary of $3,600 00 a year, whereas
the Director of Rural Sanitation and
County Health work, serving under
the State Health Officer, is paid
$4,800.00 a year. The Health Offi
cer, who is head of the whole de
partment, receives $3,600.00.
If we assume that Medical train
ing, technical preparation, is the
reason why the Director of Rural
Sanitation receives $4,800.00, while
the Director of the Income Tax Div
ision receives only $3,600.00 that
would be refuted at once by ob
serving that the Administrative
head of the Tax Commission re
ceives $6,000.00, though the Admini
strative head of all the Health ser
vices receives $3,600.00!
I have never known definitely
what the State Council of Defense
is to do, or is doing. In a very gen
eral way I have assumed that it
was to get civilians to a greater de
gree of efficient cooperation with
the National War effort. For that
we observe an item of $6,000.00 for
travel for the gentlemen in charge
of Administration, and $2,400.00
for the travel of the two field men.
What I can’t understand is the item
of $4,800.00 for two inspectors in
social diseases, with $2,400.00 for
travel, and $30,000.00 for con
tingencies. What has the Council
of Defense to do with social di
seases? Haven’t we a health de
partment? We have: and we spend
$292,961.44 a yar to maintain it, not
including $44,000.00 for crippled
children. Within the big general to
tal we spend $143,727.44 for rural
health work and we note $30,000.00
for drugs for social diseases. Why,
then, is this sort of thing tied up to
the Council of Defense And the
law, this same Appropriation Act,
directs that the State Department
of Health shall do this work through
its County units!
So it will be seen what a lack of
clear-cut organization we have. No
body studies proposals in relation
to existing services. Either a new
service is created, or it may be
tacked on to almost any sort of
service.
You will agree that a reorganiza
tion is overdye.
Due io Leave With Evacuees
Dr. Rankin and all Americans
are scheduled to leave with the
first group of evacuees.
According to a map of Hongkong
island, Stanley prison is about 10
miles from the city of Victoria on
the southern coast of the island.
Miss Lydia Greene of Landrum
is among the missionaries who are
being fed at Canton by the Chinese
Christians. Other missionaries there
are Frank T. Woodward of States
ville, N. C.; A. R. Gallimore, Lex
ington, N. C.; Dr. and Mrs. C. A.
Hayes of Illinois; Miss Ruth Ford
of Illinois; and John Miller.—Spar
tanburg Herald.
FAKED ARK ROYAL FOOLED
GERMANS
On July 24 the German Luftwaffe
proudly informed Adolph Hitler of
the sinking of the British aircraft
carrier, Ark Royal, under terrific
bombardment in the North sea . . .
and thereby hangs as merry a tale
as this war has produced.
Part of the tale is briefly told.
It wasn’t the Ark Royal at all, for
she remained actively afloat until
November 13.
But the important chapter—the
secret’coup that was scored through
one of the greatest hoaxes of this
war—is the story of James L.
Wick, economic analyst.
“The scheme was conceived in the
first weeks of the Russian war,”
Wick revealed, “as a means of in
suring the safety of a huge move
ment of war materials to Russia.
Plan Evolved by British
“It was known, of course, that
the Luftwaffe would be extremely
vigilant to destroy such shipments
So the British evolved a plan.
“A worthless, rusted tub of a
merchantman was selected, of about
the dimensions of the Ark Royal.
Its silhouette was quickly altered
to match the carrier.
“An airplane deck was built. On
it were mounted row after row of
‘airplanes’—all cardboard—and anti
aircraft guns—also cardboard. A
few real guns were mounted. The
whole vessel was painted as a naval
craft. And then, with a suicide crew
aboard, it was dispatched to a spot
in the North sea.
“A German scouting plane saw
it, as planned, and raced back to
its base with the news. In no time
a whole squadron of bombers and
fighters were back for the kill.
They begdu a furious bombard
ment.
‘The fake Ark Royal blazed back
with its few genuine guns to keep
up the illusion. The Luftwaffe
keeping high above the range of
the anti-aircraft fire, kept up its
rain of bombs with singularly poor
aim.
“The bombardment had continued
nearly twenty-four hours, before
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the poor rusty old tub got its death
blow. It sank—fortunately the crew
escaped in lifeboats—and the Luft
waffe went home to announce the
‘glorious achievement’ of sinking
the Ark Royal.”
Attention Diverted
But the real story, meanwhile,
was being written one hundred
miles away.
“I was aboard the convoy of ships
bound for Russia,” Wick revealed.
“The fake Ark Royal succeeded in
its purpose of diverting the atten
tion of the German air forces.
“There were forty-five ships,
loaded with planes and tanks for
Russia, in our convoy. Not one was
harmed. On our way northward, we
passed three other convoys south
bound with about 175 ships in all.
Not one of them was harmed.
“Thus the hoax of the fake Ark
Royal, so proudly announced as
sunk ‘under terrific bombardment’
on July 24, allowed about 220 ships
to slip unscathed through the Ger
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Wick accompanied the convoy to
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so desperately needed by Russia
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One convoy, he said, proceeded
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