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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
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SOUTH CAROLINA
WAR BOND QUOTAS
FOR JUNE
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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.
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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