The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 08, 1942, Image 4

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PAGE POUR THU NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1942 >tw ISIS College Street Newberry, S. C. 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 the Act of March 3, 1879. AND THEY ASK FOR NO OVERTIME PAY Not only industry is putting in longer hours for defense^—the hens may go on a 182-hour week for their country. At the Rutgers University agri cultural experiment station, a shock brigade of 350 laying hens has been placed on a 26-hour day in a start ling attack on the Julian calendar, designed to step up egg production for the food-for-freedom campaign The patriotic hens are operating in a completely blacked-out laboratory and where each day has 14 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness. If the experiment calls for break fast at 8 a. m. today, it will be serv ed at 10 a. m. tomorrow and noon the following day and so on. This seem ingly confused schedule has a 182- hour week, but the hens have to put up with it for only 48 weeks in their strange new year. But the manufacture of food is not the hens’ only function in our de fense program. They are also helping to bring victory to the United States navy. The white of eggs is the base of an alcohol resistant paint used inside of hermetcally-sealed, alcohol - filled, four and seven-inch navy compasses, which one large company is manufac turing. Egg albumen has been used as the base of paint for the inside of navy compasses for 50 years. Though our nation’s hens are now doing vital defense work and face the possibility of lodger hours to date no requests have been made for over time pay. Minus trousers, cuff and patch pockets, the new ensemble for the citizen still carries a lapel, as this is an election year, and the candi date needs something to hang to.— Detroit News. THE DAY OF THE SUBSTITUTE The grocer who gets today’s trade is the one with parking space for housewives’ bikes>—Dallas News. Anyway, the 'greater the restric tions on civilian consumption the more attractive army life will seem. —Pathfinder. Now that we know the sugar ra- ion will be one half pound per per- on per week, the girls can start iguring on how much candy they a n’t make on the old kitchen stove, lharlottesville Daily Progress. For want of a nail a nation was lost! You remember—the want of a nail caused the loss of horseshoe, then the horse, the general, the bat tle and finally the nation. All U. S. industry is united today to see that no “nail’ 1 is wanting to win this bat tle. Many of our sources of supply have been cut off—many vitally needed “nails’ of production are difficult to get, and without some of these materials it might seem as if certain “horseshoes’ would be im possible. But industry and science are developing substitutes for these “missing materials’’ as they disap pear from the merket. This is the day of the substitute, and in many cases the substitute may be coming to stay. Metals—the backbone of America —metals for planes, tanks, for ships, for ammunition. The mad scamper for materials to replace metals is giving plastics the greatest oppor tunity they have ever had to prove their industrial worth. There are plastics which are tougher than steel yet weigh but half as much. Wool for our army—at the very time when the country needs it most to outfit a victory army with uni forms, blankets, and many other nec essities a shortage of raw wool seems imminent, but industry is coming to the front with all sorts of substitutes. Parachute troops in the United States need no longer depend on Japan for silk, and the army may soon be marching on composition soles, which wear better than leath er. These are only a few of the many products American industry is lin ing up for the future. Substitutes so that we can be independent of many articles that we used to import Substitutes because there is one thing for which we know no substi tute—our democracy and American way of life! LEG-TINT LOTION COMING IN FIVE SHADES “ALL FOR ONE “United we standi’’ That’s the real spirit of America today. Be hind the headlines and the hurly- burly of a giant nation gearing it self to war there’s a new feeling of unity. Perhaps you’ve noticed it . Peo ple are sharing their cars; they’re lending their neighbors articles that can’t be bought any longer in the stores; they’re helping each other in many little ways—but little ways that count. Just as a real trouble brings a family closer to gether, so it unites a nation. According to news stories, this same all-for-one feeling extends to our war factories. Great industries and labor are forgetting their dif ferences and pulling together to speed their output of victory goods. One manufacturer who already changed over his plant to war work helped a rival firm to make a simi lar shift, lending out his expensive plans and factory specifications for the rival job. Another company help ed to train workers for a new air plane plant. This spirit of unity is what Ameri ca has stood sorely in need of during these past months of national peril. Let it continue and our victory is as certain as the sunshine. JEWISH FARMERS DO WELL IN AMERICA Things to watch for: Leg-tint lotion called “liquid chiffon” which looks like sheer hose and comes in five shades . . a new plastic material to be strong enough to use as the nose of both anti-tank and ant-air-craft shells! ... A dim- Contrary to a popular belief, not all Jewish people who come to this country from abroad go into the dry goods business—many of them become farmers. Last year the Jew ish Agricultural Society settled 98 refugee families on farms here. Op erating since its foundation in 1900, the society has placed 324 Jewish refugee families on farms in 12 states, besides advising other settlers who required financial aid. The number of refugees handled by the society last year was small er than that of 1940—655, as com pared with 892. But they repre senter a wider range of nationalities, languages and social strata. Previously the main country of origin was Germany, and the ref ugees came stripped of their pos sessions, and glad of a chance to be settled on farms. Among those com ing last year were numbers of law yers, physicians, bankers, professors, and industrialists, accustomed to a high standard of living. Some of these turned down good farms be cause there were not enough shade trees, or for other reasons of taste. That the Jewish refugees are be coming self-supporting on the farms is indicated by the fact that last year the society made 376 loans, totaling $298,886, while it closed out 353 loans aggregating $268,489. out electric bulb, all black except an orange button the size of a nickle, which sheds enough light for wash ing, cooking, dressing, etc., but which can’t be seen when ordinary shades are drawn. If there be a man that labors not, or a woman who does not occupy herself with spinning, some one in the empire will suffer with hunger or cold.—Chinese roverb. WHIN A HORSE PULLS HIS WEIGHT... You Don’t Let Him Stand In The Barn! And speaking of legal beer in South The brewing industry wants to pre- Carolina, it's important to remember serve the important benefits of legal that the beer industry has pulled its beer to South Carolina-for its own weight in tax contributions to the State sake as well as for yours-and is co- Treasury since 1933. operating to keep the sale of beer as wholesome as beer itself. Just look at tbe figures! While other sources of tax revenue fluctuated* YOU CAN HELP by patronizing only here is how beer taxes have increased: legally licensed places selling beer — 1933 $150,220 j ar t j je g reat majority. Others should J934 * 270,294 ^ reported to responsible authorities. 1936 * 569,164 1937 620,673 * -pfe South Carolina Tax Commis- 1938 622,146 3lon exp ecU receipts from soft i ee;;;e; ili r SOUTH CAROLINA /Mt-, ““'^5 HEElt WHOLESALERS s.soe.iT,.. The Spectator By SPECTATOR Well the weather is all right, isn’t it? Good for sleeping, but how about the cool nights on cotton? And will the cotton “come up” without a shower ? Perhaps I told you of the wife on the farm who hoped that some day she might “enjoy the weather.” When the nights are delightfully cool she hears that cotton isn’t doing well. So, as a loyal farm wife, she should look as sorrowful as her husband feels. The only time a cotton-farmer’s wife can afford to rejoice and be glad is when the “close,” hot nights of sum mer come—and when one hasn’t enough “pep” to rejoice over any thing. I picked up a hitch-hiker recently. He was a bit down at the heels and was standing by the road appealing for a ride. The bus was due to pass; and the fare was about seventy three cents. As we rode he told me that he had been making more than $57 a week in Florida and had received $175 for the previous three weeks. But he was hitch-hiking! How much should a man earn in order to be wil ling to pay his way He was an agreeable man to have on the ride. He talked continuously and became somewhat revealing. Said he “I’d ruther have $20 or $25 a week at home than $60 a long way off on special contract jobs. After paying board it goes like the wind.” Why? Board may be high; I know of single men who pay as high as $42 a month for a room, ordinary room at that But that is only $10 a week, though high enough “in all con science.” Allowing $10 a week for meals, that leaves this man $37 a week—for what? And at the end of the job he has nothing. He isnt com ing back with money in his pocket to help those who have “carried on” here. On the contrary, he is coming back to live on them until something turns up. I met a one-armed man recently. We talked about the war. He said “You know I’d like to get into the war; I could do a lot of things.” And of course he could. He is making a living now on outdoor work. After paying his respects to the Japs, he said something which appeals to every man: “I’d like to be able to tell my kids what I did in the war.’ And then he added “of course I guess I’d add to it you know, but it would be worth something to me, and they’d be awful proud of me.” I’m sure they would. This war will bring about a great comradeship. Once a man has be come a part of the service he feels the kinship of the same aims and en deavors. The greatest satisfaction comes in after years. Twenty years from now the lads of today will be the men of middle age and will tell their little boys about the war. Looking back over the years, the months of service will be a memory of association, of fellowship, pf rich companionship, that would be cherished beyond all other considerations. You have known old Confederate and Union soldiers to ask that they be laid away in the uniform they wore forty or fifty years before. It was the thrill of a recollection of hardship, long marches, hunger, suf fering, danger—endured with a great company of men in their young man hood. The memory of it will lift every man from the dreary routine of com monplace living and make him feel anew the exhilarating pulsations of youthful spirit. All the various organizations of relief set up during the Depression should be cut off So great is em ployment that hundreds of thousands of lads and girls are now at work. It is estimated that ten million more jobs will be open before the end of next year. To win the war is our big job, our supreme task. We are foolishly bleeding our people for a lot of tom. LIBERTY LIMERICKS A postman wKo lived in New Haven, Said—“Millions of people are savin’. They’ve bought Bonds galore. To help win the war. And keep our Old Glory still wavin’.” Yout loot] port office hmm m U.S. Saving* Bond or Stamp to fit yotar budget. Get one today! foolery, like NYA, WPA, CCC, and a score of other osganizations even less meritorious. Congress should be firm and should knock all these things into a cocked hat. Let’s get down to business and win the war. The clubs have already met and chosen delegates to the County Con vention; the County Conventions will start off the oratory and little groups will engineer, manipulate and make trades so that X may be elected to some Party office and Y may go to the State Convention as a delegate. That is harmless if the State Conven tion is just a jolly get-together and general glorification. But is that all the Convention means ? Down at bot tom, what difference does it make who is Chairman of the Party in your County or Chairman of the State Committee? If the Democratic Pri mary is honorably conducted the offi ces are not worth fighting for, whereas there are principles worth our noblest efforts While men everywhere are fight ing; while women and children see the world drenched in blood let us try to think how our great republic can help to guide the Nations into paths of peace GEMS OF THOUGHT The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.—Tuckerman. The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your cham ber.—Quarles. Beauty is but the sensible im age of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like vir tue and the moral law it is a com panion of the soul.—Bancroft. His modes declare the beauty of holiness, and His manifold wisdom shines through the visible world in glimpses of the eternal verities.— Mary Baker Eddy. I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.—Socrates. Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.—Harry Emerson Fosdick. AUSTRALIA NOW A GREAT FORTRESS The biggest American army ever sent overseas, excepting the AEF in France, hds transformed Australia from a rich plum ready for the inva der’s plucking into an offensive base for operations which are already hurting the enemy and may well in the coming weeks change the whole course of the war, writes Joseph C. Harsch from “Somewhere in Austra lia” to his paper, The Christian Science Monitor. The time has come, says Mr. Harsch, when it is obvious that this new American AEF is far more than just a token of America’s good will toward the western world’s most im portant Pacific heritage. This is the real thing—a powerful military force that has girdled half the world and gone into action. Obviously, and this tells the enemy nothing he does not know, American forces in Aus- Keep the Home Fires GmomiarflCOM- C. T. Summer, Inc. tralia do not yet compare in numbers with those who went to France in 1917 and 1918. But considering the distance from home, the staggering transportation obstacles to over come, and the absence during the critical period of any strongly held frot to guarantee the security of unloading and reorganization, this op eration in many respects is a great er military achievement. Two months ago when I crossed Australia en route to Java, says Mr. Harsch, I saw a token American force scattered sparsely over this continent but it was almost nothing. Where one plane touched the ground we would find usually a single Am- ercan pursuit plane and perhaps half a dozen ground crewmen just arrived and making a poor best of servicing and repair facilities and small runways adequate only for the simplest peacetime needs. I have just returned from another tour, writes Mr. Hirsch, which in cluded advanced allied bases in the. southwest Pacific. “I’ve seen written across the face of this continent the fact that during these two months token forces have become a great military power and the sparse and Spartan landing fields of peacetime Australia have become an integrated maze of mod ern military airdomes organized in depth, equipped with long runways, and supplying facilities to a point where an enemy attack on one would have a negligible meaning. Where two months ago there was grazing land or jungle or desert or an unpeo pled island, Australians and Ameri cans working closely together, have leveled scores of new fields and er ected miniature communities revolve around the needs of warplanes end lessly arriving and departing. 1 Classified Ads FOR SALE—Three C’s for killing insects on vegetables, flowers and fruit trees, is not a poison. Johnson- McCrackin Co. 3tc FOR SALE—Buy our Boll We-Go for poisoning the boll weavil. It has been tried. Johnson-McCrackin Co. 3tc FOR SALE—A complete line of field seeds. Johnson-McCrackin Co. 3tc FOR SALE—Several acres, close in, desirable for residence and poul try or truck farm, very reasonable. Apply at Sun office. FOR (RENT—Garden plot, cheap to right party. Mrs. W. E. Pelham. FOR RENT—A three room apart ment on Glenn street with private en trance and private bathroom. J. J. LANGFORD & SON. FOR RENT—3, 4, or 6 room apart ment, furnished or unfurnished in the residence of the late Mrs. Laura Wise, Prosperity, S. C. See Mrs. B. T. Young, Prosperity or E. B. Pur cell, Newberry. 10-3tp. FOR SALE — 1938 CHEVROLET truck, good tires, new motor, extra long wheelbase. Very cheap. J. D. Butler, 2107 Adelaid street, Newber ry, S. C. / 10-3tp WANTED—A boarding place for a 3 1-2 year old boy. Anyone interested please contact Mrs. Camp at the Newberry County nurses home. 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