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FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1942. THIS HETVTBKKKT SXJPf PAGE FIVE 'kjlud you. fcuy 'k/UU WAR BDIVDS TWO WHITMIRE BOYS MISSING The 155-millimeter gun is the mod ern version of the old “GPF” of World War I days. It has a range fifty percent greater than the old gun, heaving a 95-pound projectile approximately 15 miles. It is capa ble of high road speed and each one costs $50,000. Included in a casualty list issued by the Navy department are the names of two Whitmire boys, as fol lows: » William McMurry, apprentice sea man, U. S. Naval reserve; father, Lee McMurry, Whitmire. Harold Anderson Senn, apprentice seaman, U. S. Naval reserve; father, Frank Anderson Senn, Whitmire. KICK-BACK OF $26,000,000 TO UNCLE SAM United Aircraft, which itself has passed back $26,000,000 in savings on government war jobs after achiev ing mass production economies, re ports further savings in voluntary kick-backs from its sub-contractors, one of which is cutting the price $2,- 250,000 on one airplane engine part alone. Arsenals of America are working at terrific speed turning out this long range, effective weapon for our armed forces. You and your neigh bor working hand-in-hand in unity can make possible the purchase of an adequate number of these guns by buying War Bonds. Put 10 per cent of your income in War Bonds to help reach your county quota, every , pay day. SERVICES AT CLAYTON MEMORIAL There will be preaching services at Clayton Memorial Universalist church Sunday, May 24. Services in the morning at 11 o’clock and in the evening at 8 o’clock. Rev. J. M. Rasnake, of Atlanta will do the preaching. Everyone is cor- j dially invited to attend. AND NOW—CLOTHES FROM PEANUTS. PROSPECT Other things to watch for: Clothes made from peanuts. W. B. Jester, president of the National Peanut Council, says they are a defi nite early future prospect, and that you won’t be able to tell the differ ence between a “peanut wool’ suit and 'one made of Scotch woolens. . . . Rubberless but nevertheless elastic topped socks for men. . . . At least two new ideas in glass jars for home canning, requiring no rubber sealing rings. ... A gift candy box in large disc shape, the cover of which is, in effect, a phonograph record that can be played. U-BOAT CHASERS TO BE TURNED OUT 1 A WEEK A shortage of tires won’t keep the political machines from rolling. Indianapolis News. CHILLY Keep warm with— Red Bar Red Clover Grenadier Great Heart Stoker COAL Farmers Ice & Fuel Company Phone 155 Far from the ocean-prowling U- boats whose extinction soon will be their assignment, navy sub-chasers are to be turned out, ultimately at the rate of one a week, by the Pull man-Standard Car Manufacturing company’s new shipyard now rising on the shore of Lake Michigan near Chicago. These will be the first all-steel anti-sub patrol craft built in. the midwest. Other Great Lakes yards are turn ing out the regular wooden ones, 110-footers, but the navy needed a company with long experience in working heavy steel, and these 50- foot sleek, diesel-powered avengers will be built by workers who in peacetime pioneered modern stream lined trains. SOPHIE CHAPPELL DENNIS Mrs. Sophie Chappell Dennis, 76, widow of B. M. Dennis, prominent and beloved resident of Newberry, passed away suddenly at her home early last Thursday morning. Al though in declining health for some weeks, her passing came as a shock to her many friends. She was the daughter of the late Stanmore Brooks and Ellen Chap man Chappell of Chappells, She was a member of the First Baptist church and took an active part as long as her health permitted. Her acts of kindness reached out for all, her heart and hand were ever ready to help the weaker ones, and the sick and suffering were ad ministered to daily by her. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the residence on Johnstone street with Rev. H. O. Chambers in charge, assisted by Rev. C. A. Calcote. Interment followed in Rosemont cemetery. Surviving are one son, Dr. C. M. Dennis, Shelby, N. C.; one daughter, Mrs. P. E. Way, Newben'y; one sis ter, Mrs. Mamie Kinard, Ninety Six. Five grandchildren also survive. The following served as active pall bearers: Ned Purcell, George Way, Grady Donaldson, John Norris, Smi ley Porter, Miller Wessinger, Sims Brown, Floyd Bradley. BETTER BUY COAL. Now H EAT Three months from now Government may need all the coal and freight cars for War needs ACT NOW WHILE WE HAVE COAL Clarence T. Summer, Inc. The Nation’s No. 1 Life Insurance Policy Courtesy Detroit Free Press The Spectator By SPECTATOR Shall we have a federal sales tax? I believe it would be more acceptable to our people than a reduction in the brackets for income taxes. Most of us can pay five cents a day, or thirty five cents a week as a tax on common purchases more easily than we can pay $15 or $20 at one time at the end of the year. Besides, the question of collecting more heavily from the poor man no longer exists since nearly everybody else is caught by the income tax. No man or wo man should escape some part of the direct support of the government. Especially true is that in time of national peril. If a man with an in come of $1,000 pays an income tax, why shouldn’t the man with $950 pay something? True it is that with a sales tax both these men would pay about the same tax on purchases, but nobody sympathizes with the $1, 000 income-tax-payer; all the sym pathy is given to the $950 man be cause he might be called on for tax on what he buys. Even that $950 man would rather pay as he buys rather than have to file returns and borrow tax money at the end of the year. There is just one thing that sticks in the craw of many citizens, or be comes the fly in the ointment. It is the government’s bowing and scrap ing to labor leaders. People are thoroughly fed up and disgusted with that. Frankly, congress is be ing censured severely for buckling under, too. We were assured that Laor had agreed not to strike. But labor is still striking. We 'were told that Labor had voluntarily given up the double-time demand. Well when a big Corporation last week refused the demand for double-time, the War Labor Board rammed it down their throats so hard that the President of the Corporation came back almost on hands and knees and said that he hadn’t fully understood what they meant. It sounded as weak, craven and foolish as any small boy’s expla nation about jam on his mouth. The Administration in Washington has side-tracked Congress and has told of the Labor leaders’ assurances, but the Government Boards are still acting as though the sola interest of this Nation were organized labor. Apparently every effort is being made t<^ use the war to bolster la bor’s ambitions and pretensions. We can hardly hope for a sign of courage in Congress. Perhaps, after all, the Jasper County Democrats are right in urging that all present Congressmen be defeated. It is a fact which should make us sad that all the talk about unity in national life means that we, all of us, must let Labor grow, thrive, prosper and multiply. Labor doesn’t make concessions; Labor grabs, grasps and gets; we are asked to be mild, peace, able, conciliatory, and harmonious, while Labor demands and gets and gams its points. We have a Labor government. Ten million members of Organized Labor control the United States through the New Deal; the rest of us call ourselves Democrats and are allowed to stand on the side lines and applaud Labor as it marches by. Nothing so plainly shows the bias of the National Government as the refusal of Attorney General Biddle to allow Assistant Attorney General Ar nold to testify on labor conditions, when invited to appear before a Com mittee of Congress. Mr. Biddle and all the other New Dealers were all pepped up when Mr. Arnold attacked several big Corporations. He was widely publicized for that; but they don’t want him to tell the truth about Organized Labor. We wish the Committee would subpoena Mr. Ar nold and compel him to testify. The people of this Nation will spend their last dollar and spill their last drop of blood for the Nation it self, but they mean to preserve the sort of Nation their fathers founded, not a labor oligarchy in Washington, This whole labor tie-up with the New Deal is a cold-blooded political calcu lation. We might as well be equally as cold-blooded and knock it into a cocked hat. On May 10 a fire made the early morning comfortable. May 10th and a fire! Farmers, don’t worry; perhaps a little cool weather may toughen the cotton to resist the weevils later on. APPOINTED CADET OFFICER Cadet Otho Williams, of the Naval Air Corps stationed at Jacksonville, Fla., has been appointed on the Regi mental Staff as Cadet Officer. MISS M’ICKER NOW AT STARK HOSPITAL Miss Florence Wicker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Wicker of New berry, has accepted a position as telephone operator at Stark General Hospital, in Charleston. ROY DEVORE WEPORTS TO ANNAPOLIS NAVAL ACADEMY Roy DeVore, who volunteered for the Naval Reserves, several months ago, reported to Annapolis Naval Acadamy last Friday, May 15th for a four months training period. Mr. DeVore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. DeVore of this city, has been a popular member of the Par ker District school in Greenville for the ipast several years. RED CROSS A large amount of wool is in hand at the production room for sweaters, socks, muffers, wristlets and hel mets. Part of this wool was bought with chapter funds and the other part fur nished by the National Red Cross. We are most anxious to get all of this made up by fall, as we are due another shipment then. Perhaps one reason John Lewis wants to organize the dairy farmer is that it will give him a chance to “milk” another body of American workers. Sargeant Jimmy DeHart, of Camp Stewart, Ga. and Mrs. DeHart of Spartanburg visited Mrs. DeHart’s mother, Mrs. Verona Dominick over the weekend. ★ ★ What you Buy With WAR BOARS ★ ★ Our army spells and pronounces it ponton, not “pontoon”, as you do. Ponton bridges cost all the way from $15,000 to $700,000. The smaller bridge using individual metal pontons is pictured here. The largest ponton bridge is 1,080 feet long and is made of rubber instead of aluminum. One small bridge has a weight capacity of 25 tons, using about 2,000 individual metal pontons. The small est is used only to take troops over smaller streams. But whether our army uses the smaller or largest ponton, our engineers need plenty of them. If you and every American invests at least 10 per cent of income in War Bonds every pay day we can supply our fighting forces with thes# essentials to a victorious war,. THE BEST MOTTO FOR ALL TIMES By Paul Stewart Pastor First Baptist Church Pelzer, S. C. “Trust in God and do good.” Ps. This text is not for a select few, or for certain crisis and great oc casions, but it is for all of us at all times. It is the saying of a man of varied experience, a man who had lived a many sided life. He was qualified to write for he knew life in its many aspects. If we are tempt ed to fret here is a good motto for us. One of the many dangers that we have bo guard against in the spiritual life is the danger of despondency. We look into the world around us and it would seem that those people who live their lives without any thought of God are getting along just as well, and perhaps better than, we ourselves. This depression of soul is seen in the history of man. The Psalmist had experienced it. But he was finally led to this worthwhile conclusion: the sinner, though he may seem to be prosperous, is not an object of envy; that only the righteous are finally blessed. When you have an occasion to think that you are having a hard time and that some ungodly person is having an easy one, read Psalm 37 and meditate on his end and yours. “Trust in God and do good” is a good motto to put on a scroll and hang up in the home or office. It is a grand motto to live by. ★ ★ Whdi you Buy With WAR BOARS ★ ★ The Army’s fighter planes are the finest in the world and develop speeds up to 400 miles an hour. They cost approximately $100,000 each, provide fighter escorts for the huge flying fortresses, and combine speed, range, altitude and blistering fire power. America’s plane production plants are working over-time turning out thousands of these fighter planes. War Savings Bonds will help pay for them and the American people are committed to at least ten per cent of their income to finance their cost in War Bonds. Every Ameri can, buying his share every pay day, will make it comparatively easy to supply our army and navy air corps with these supreme Eagles of the air. Are you troubled about the future, some new adventure, school, work, or business? Trust God by committing your way unto Him, He is concern ed about His own. John Greenleaf Whittier says, “I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.” If yours is a hard lot have faith in God for you can do all things through Him that strengtheneth you. Should you be unable to under stand why your condition does not correspond with your conduct, trust God and do good- The dramma of life is not over—wait until the final act. Here we see that the hero will Others may misunderstand you. They may fail to see the vision you see. You may have to suffer because of this. Remember the prophets, writers, scientists, and other great leaders of the world have been mis understood and mistreated in thier day. Just remember our motto. Whatever your trials and bereave ments may be God has promised to be with you, never leaving or for saking you. Have faith in God and patiently do the work that your hands find to do. Do not get under the juniper tree of discouragement. We are not in this world simply to do no harm. It is not enough to refrain from gross sins, or doing any harm. We are here t« do good. Is the world- a little bettei because of our having lived? # Be faithful and leave the results with God. He has never told us to be successful, but He has said be faith ful. After doing our very best let us leave the results in His hands. Let us consecrate ourselves unto Him anew. A Christian woman asked her pas tor what was his idea of consecra tion. He held out a blank sheet of paper saying, “It is to sign your name at the bottom of the blank sheet, and let God fill in as He wills.” Jim Wheeler, of Gaffney visited his mother, Mrs. J. D. Wheeler, Monday and Tuesday of last week while here on business. Mrs. O. O. Copeland and Miss Flor- ide Rothrock spent Saturday in Greenwood. , Mrs. W. C. Shealy and Mrs. Gus Burton, of Clinton, visited Mrs. Shealy’s sister, Mrs. O. O. Copeland last Thursday. ; Sargeant Forrest Summer, of Camp Stewart, Ga., was a weekend visitor in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Summer on College street extension. Pvt. Franklin Armfield? of Fort Eustis, Va„ and Miss Doris Armfield, of Stark General hospital, Charles ton, were weekend visitors in the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto F. Armfield and family at Gil- dercrest. BRYAN STRIBBLE ACCEPTED IN MARINE CORPS Bryan Stribble, A Oakland, has signed up for another hitch with Uncle Sam. He is now Sargeant A. B. Stribble of the Marine Corps sta tioned at Paris Island. Mr. Stribble volunteered in the last World War and was discharged as a corporal. He was in the heavi est fighting in that war, taking part in the Champagne-Mame defensive, Ainse-Marne offensive, St. Mehle of fensive, and the Meuse-Aragon offen sive. He received a slight wound and was awarded the Victory medal. Mr. Stribble leaves a wife and two children at Oakland. He told a re porter of this paper that he felt like someone else could do the work he was doing and that his place was in the army. RALPH BLACK ELEVATED TO CAPTAINCY Word has been received here that Lieut. Ralph B. Black has been pro moted to a captaincy in the army. Captain Black, a reserve officer was called into the service July 7th, 1941 with rank of lieutenant which rank he has held until the present promotion. Capt. Black is serving in the auditing department of the army with headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. His promotion was effective Febru ary first of this year. Captain Black was treasurer of Newberry county at the time he was called to the service. Miss Betty Taylor, of Laurens visited her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Scruggs on College street extension over the weekend. T. P. Wicker, Jr., of New River, N. C., visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Wicker, Sr. on Langford street Sunday. Pvt. F. J. Harmon, of Fort Eustis, Va., visited his wife and other rela tives in Ne*vberry over the weekend. Pvt. Paul Whitaker, of Fort Eus tis, Va., spent the past weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Whit aker on Nance street. Pvt. Shealy Setzler, of Port Eustis, Va., visited his wife and other rela tives in Prosperity the past weekend. 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