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' CAGE FIVE The Spectator I’vs heard so much about saving tires that every time I drive twenty miles I am tempted to inspect the tires to see how much wear they have suffered. There was a time when the big man in a community was the banker. Well, bankers are just small fry now adays, like the rest of us. Even_ if his valuts are bursting with the coin of the realm or the gold eagles of the republic he can buy just a wee bit of sugar and a few drops of gasoline. The big boy of today is the lad who has new tires, retreaded tires or an X card. That bird can just strut about and throw his weight around. Whereas we once stopped to gaze at a banker and reveal in his smile or “ordinary folks’ because he has to handshake, today we treat him like stand in line like the rest of us. But if we can claim kinship or friendship with the buyer of new tires or an X man—OH, BOY! About this sugar business: I was in the office of a Rationing Boaid when a man came in and asked for a new sugar allowance. The capable secretary asked why he wanted more sugar. “Well, we’ve got another member of the family since I got my card.’ Say, how soon do the little fellows get on a sugar diet? That’s an idea: Why not give young daddies extra gasoline to take their hopefuls to ride? If all the gentlemen who have been mentioned for the office of Lieuten ant Governor should become candi dates for that ofice the second honor would attract more attention than the first honor. Politically the B-l, 2 and 3 candidates would outshine the “X” men. Why is there so much in terest in the second place? Does any one hope to inherit the governorship? Quite. possibly, for within eijarht months not only has a Lieutenant Governor succeeded to the Supreme Executive Authority of the State, but a President Pro Tempore of the .Sen ate has become Governor. So you see the possibilities in this day of rapid movement. Suppose Colonel Wyndham Man ning or Governor Jeffries or M^jor Thomas H. Peeples were Governor. Colonel Manning, a graduate of West Point and a distinguished regimental commander of artillery in France, might be made a Major General and called as an artillery expert; or Ma jor Peeples, who was a Judge Advo cate might be called into the law ad ministration of the army; or Gover nor Jeffries might be called to Wash ington, as was Governor Cooper. Then the Lieutenant Governor would be come governor by means of constti- tutional succession would be much less difficult and expensive than to run for the office in the primaries. It is the easiest way for a 'political B-l card to be exchanged for an X. Fortunately all the gentlemen, spoken of for governor are in good health & may be expected to complete the term unless called to other service because of the needs of the nation. Years ago the federal government scarcely touched us at all except that it operated the postal service. We had great respect for the United States mail, but the postmaster was the only federal official most of us ever saw. There were federal courts, but they were far away and we thought of them as being occupied with moonshiners. Even the Con gressmen was a sort of nebulous fig ure who sent packages of garden seeds. Washington was a long way off, a place to visit once in a life time because it was the capital. Well times have changed; the federal gov ernment is all about you. We have income taxes, farm programs, gaso line, sugar and rubber rationing—all under the federal government. Satur day morning, as a farmer, I called on the Triple-A staff; a few minutes be fore I had spent a half hour in the Rationing Board’s office, talking about gasoline; a day or two before I had talked to Mr. Hamilton, the state administrator of the Triple-A about getting superphosphate. So the government is all around us. NIPE THAT SNEER OFF HIS FACE/ Boy WAR SAVINGS BONDS & STAMPS U. S. Treasury Department BALTIMORE NEGRO SECTIONS ARE JAMMED The Supreme Court of South Car olina decided that the Santee-Cooper Authority had no legal authorization to acquire the South Carolina Elec tric and Gas company and the Lexing ton Water Power company. There had been an agreemnt by which the Santee-Coper wonld buy the two Co lumbia power corporations for about $40,00,000. Personally the fede.ral government was disposed to put up the money. As is generally known, the Santee-Coper is a South Carolina enterprise, entirely financed by Fed eral loans and grants. The title and full ownership are vested in the state; the federal government as the holder of the bonds is like the nian holding a mortgage. It is reported that the federal gov ernment is willing to put up the mon ey necessary to purchase all the competing companies operating in South Carolina. It is the state which controls the Santee-Cooper and the state did not contemplate such ex pansion of the Santee-Cooper as would include the purchase of devel oped and operating companies. The supreme court, speaking through Jus tice Fishburne, made a distinction be tween the acquisition of sites and pro perties for development and the pur chase of enterprises already developed and operating. The people of South Carolina have a lasges stake in this matter than the millions of dollars involved or in prospect. The control of this great and vital business interest by a state agency would establish a state mono poly of power under control of offi cials appointed politically and under HAROLD TEEN BY (A!2L EP. LOOK? LI L LAMBPIE—BUYIM NOW* THROUGH THE IS PLAN AT THE FACTORY- <S>QM»o -wagons. I OjfjfUUai f U. S. < 1'veGA*t f uf, SOUTH CAROLINA WAR BOND QUOTAS FOR JUNE ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1.—Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secre tary of the Treasury, today made known June War Bond quotas for the 3,070 counties in the nation to all State and County War Savings Staffs. The June quota for the State of South Carolina is $3,351,200. The county quotas, based upon a substantial increase over May quotas, are expected to reach ten per cent of income when the nation goes on a billion-dollar-a-month War Bond basis in July to help meet the war cost. “Everybody, every pay day, ten per cent,” is the battle cry throughout the country. You can buy War Bonds at your Bank, Building & Loan Association, Post Office and at many department stores. Quotas by counties are: AbbeviUe, $19,000; Aiken, $53,30C; Allendale, $8,300; Anderson, $220,600. Bamberg, $14,300; Barnwell, $10,- 400; Beaufort, $22,600; Berkeley, $16,500. Calhoun, $17,200; Charleston, $541,200; Cherokee, $40,200; Chester, $33,800; Chesterfield, $20,300; Clar endon, $12,800; Colieton, $28,300. Darlington, $71,300; Dillon, $33,- 200; Dorchester, $30,800. Edgefield, $8,000. Fairfield, $19,700; Florence, $128,- 100. Georgetown, $34,300; Greenville, $318,200; Greenwood, $79,400. Hunpton, $12,200; Horry, $46,500. %- Jasper, $4,900. Kershaw, $34,600. Lancaster, $35,200; Laurens, $90,- 200; Lee, $22,100; Lexington, $31,300. Marion, $23,200; Marlboro, $22,- 200; McCormick, $6,500. Newberry, $48,000. Oconee, $43,700; Orangeburg, $66,- 800. Pickens, $43,700. Richland, $451,500. Saluda, $7,600; Spartanburg, $295,- 200; Sumter, $87,700. Union, $34,600. Williamsburg, $21,600. York, $130,100. V. S. Trtatury Dtparlmtnt 58,259 To Square Mile, Big Social Problems Loom. More Are Flocking In (From The Evening Sun) Baltimore. — Frying fish wafts tempting aromas over the beads of massed thousands of men and women swinging and swaying in holiday mqod, jamming sidewalks from building line to curb and spilling over into the streets, laughing and calling, While juke boxes blare and bright lights glare. Everybody is happy on “The Avenoo” on Saturday night. Among the bustling negro com munity of Baltimore, fourth largest in the nation and bigger in its own right than many a first-class city, “The Avenoo” is the five block length of Pennsylvania avenue from Dolphin street to Laurens. It is the heart of the negro com munity, an area of bright lights and big times, the Lenox avenue of Bal timore’s Harlem. It is packed with night clubs, with beauty shops, with fortune tellers and dream-book stores and with employment agencies whose chalked sifjns calling for “Cook $15” and “Handy Man—Good Pay” go un heeded under the impetus of tho boom. Almost any night is Saturday nigh* on The Avenoo, but Saturday night is Mardi Gras. Under the spur of war’s demand for labor and a flood of migration from States to South and West, with wages up and with more peo ple working than ever before “The Avenoo” has become the pulsating center of a negro community which has a population of 174,778, up 5.39 per cent since the census of 1940, and bigger than Jacksonville, or Mia mi, or Nashville, or Norfolk, and threatening to grow as big as the entire state of Wyoming. A density of population which averages 58,259 to the square mile which is contrasted to a white popu lation density in Baltimore of 9,337 to the square mile, and which soars to 75,000 per square mile in the most congested areas. A rate of growth nearly four times as great as that of the white populace. A housing problem which is ap palling. A health problem changing from serious to critical, and a death rate 60 per cent higher than that of the white residents of the city. Along “The Avenoo” the crowds on a Saturday night are heedless of j the statistics. With pay in their pockets from new employment op portunities recently opened in wai industries and from the jobs vacated by whites stepping up to fatter wages, the crowds throng the street, stand in line to wait admittance to the glittering bars, and gayety reigns. At midnight the police estimate from 20,000 to 25,000 the throng which has milled around the five blocks since 10 p. m. Keitt Purcell, Robert Houseal, Paul Floyd and Hugh Boyd returned to their homes in the city Sunday from the Citadel in Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Cromley and daughter, Annie Fae, of Saluda and Chappells, spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hawkins at their home 1000 College street. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obe dience unto righteousness.—Romans 6:16. the constant control of the legisla ture. No man in public office can be free from his friends and thei^ jpi- portunities. Even in private life that is true, but the necessity for show ing a profit restricts private manage ment from giving jobs away. Men in politics are subject to presure which they can hardly resist. With a state monopoly of power we should embark on a sea of troubles, all undermining the good faith of the state. The Tennessee Taxpayers associa tion has compiled a statement of all the internal revenue taxes paid by eleven Southern states to the Feder- eral government. Including corpor ation income taxes, individual income tax, miscellaneous internal revenue, payroll taxes, South Carolina pays a total of $22,686,717; Georgia $6l,- 892,609. It has been calculated that if the government should cut off two billion dollars of non-essentials the saving to South Carolina would be $5,200,000 and to Georgia $14,200,000. Would the Government reduce the expenditures or switch the money to other things? NOTICE OF DEMOCRATIC ENROLLMENT Notice is hereby given that the books of enrollment in each Demo cratic club will be open for enroll ment 0 n or before the first Tuesday in June, 1942 and will remain open until the fourth Tuesday of July, 1942, which will be the last day. of enrollment. The club districts will be the same as in 1940, and place of enrollment will be the same as in 1940 unless otherwise designated by the Executive Committeeman of the club district. The Secretary a' d enrollment committee of each c)u'~ are as heretofore announced. NEAL W. WORKMAN, County Chairman Mrs. A. H. Counts, Secretary. May 26, 1942. ISIAH ON RATIONING Isaiah, chief of the writing proph ets, made a remarkable prediction some 2,700 years ago (circa 760 B. C.) which to many people seems pregnant with meaning today. Speak ing of a land that was full of silver and gold; a land that was full of horses, neither was there any end of chariots—but a land that was also full of idols, Isaiah wrote (3rd Chapter, Verses 18-26): “In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their ROUND TIRES LIKE THE MOON, “The chains and the bracelets and the mufflers, “The bonnets and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands and the tablets and the earrings, “The rings and nose jewels, “The changeable suits of apparel, and -the manlets and the wimples, and the crisping pins, “The glasses and the fine linens, and the hoods and the vails. “And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a gird ing of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. “The men shall fall by the sword, and the mighty in war. “And her gates lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit up- on the ground.” It has been said that the Devil can quote Scripture to his own purpose, and, rememlbering that many fana tics during World War I could take the Bible and point out passages pur. porting to show just how, when and where the Kaiser would win, we are leery of attaching any specific signi ficance to the foregoing prophecy. But it is interesting, to say the least. JOINS NAVY James Fagan, son of Mr. George W. Fagan of 823 Boundary street, was accepted Thursday, May 28, for enlistment in Class V-5 for Aviation Officer training in the U. S. Naval Reserve. A Message From the Merchants Committee of The Newberry Chamber of Commerce Uncle Sam Says: YOUR CREDIT GOOD IF You Pay Your Bills Promptly On April 27,1942 THE PRESIDENTS SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS READS IN PART: ”... encourage the payment of debts, mortgages and other obligations.” NOW THE LAW READS: In Regulation was Revised Effective May 6, 1942, Charge Accounts, in Part as Follows: a. No listed article shall be sold in a charge account with an agreement that payment therefor may be deferred beyond the 10th day of the sec ond calendar month following the calendar month during which such article was sold. b. When a charge account is in default, the Registrant shall not extend credit to the obligator for any charge sale or instalment sale of any listed article until the default has been cured. c. A charge account shall be deemed to be in default if any article, listed or unlisted, tor which credit was extended if such account has not been paid for in tor full on or before the 10th day of the second calendar month during which such article was sold. or in Ordinary Every-day Words Every Charge Account Dated on or before June 30 Must be Paid in Full on or Before August 10,1942, or Your Credit Will be “Cut Off”. (This dots not apply to installment accounts) If you have a charge account with any Newberry Merchant we urge you to settle your past due and present account before July 10 in order that your credit will not be cut off. Your Merchant Wants You to “Charge If But he cannot do it unless you comply with the Law Merchants Committee of Newberry Chamber of Commerce