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the poet office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
EAT THE SAME BREAD
THE MASK IS OFF
No country on earth has as many
automobiles per capita as the United
States. In no country is the auto
mobile such a necessity in the daily
life of the people. We have used it
so universally that steam and elec
tric railroads long ago discontinued
the bulk of their interurban service
throughout the country, and interur
ban tracks have been generally aban
doned and torn up. Now, as a war
necessity people are required to give
up, to a large extent, this basic means
of transportation.
When gasoline rationing went into
effect, many Congressmen and Sen
ators who regulate the acts of pri
vate citizes, signed up for “X” cards
giving them unlimited amounts of
gas, on the theory that their driv
ing was essential to national defense.
Probably nowhere else in the world is
a private car for a public official
less needed than in Washington, D.
C., where taxicabs are as thick as
fleas on a dog’s back and rates are
the lowest. Most Congressmen arid
Senators live in apartment houses
and hotels where it is more advanta
geous to use a taxicab than a private
car.
Writing on this situation, Raymond
Claper says: “The attitude of these
Senators and Representatives makes
one’s blood boil.” This gasoline grab
is a glaring example of privileged
officialism asking the common peo
ple to make sacrifices which the of
ficeholders do not wish to share. It’s
high time that our growing army of
public servants, which is acquiring
more and more special privileges,
was set back on its heels and made
to eat the same kind of bread it ra
tions out to he people.
The Muzurka (Polish dance) was
immortalized by Frederic Chopin
whose 62 muzurkas are among _nis
most individual compositions for the
pianoforte.
In addition to the temples, one
finds in Maya cities large rambling
edifices on low platforms which serv
ed as civic buildings and are called
palaces.
The people are turning a deaf ear
to the agitation of proponents of
public ownership of electric power.
It is a dead issue compared to the
important issues of the day.
A notable example of this fact just
occurred in the Pacific Northwest,
home of Bonneville and Grand Cou
lee dams, where the socialists have
used every conceivable weapon in
continuous attempts to destroy pri
vate electric companies. On the 15th
day of May, three Pasific northwest
districts voted “No” decisively on
public ownership proposals. This oc
curred despite the costly, aggressive
campaigns waged by government-
employed public power advocates.
You don’t have to be a Sherlock
Holmes to figure out what went on
in the minds of the voters participat
ing in these elections. They know
that private power companies are
giving excellent, low-cost power ser
vice to industries, farms and homes
—and also paying gigantic taxes.
They know that a private utility is
completely regulated and controlled
by local government, while govern
ment power projects are not subject
to local control or taxes. They also
know that to vote themselves fur
ther into debt at a time when Fed
eral taxes, due to war, are increasing
geometrically, is the height of com
munity folly.
And lastly, they are beginning to
realize that the insidious drive to
centralize power control and owner
ship under a politically dominated
powerful government bureau in
Washington is a poor and dangerous
substitute for local self rule and con
trol of power development and dis
tribution.
To socialize private utilities doesn’t
add one kilowatt to the power sup
ply. It simply increases the finan
cial burden on all the people, and
puts bureaucrats in the saddle.
Forty gallons of sap from the ma
ple are required to make one gallon
of syrup.
Elmer says: “Love may be blind,
but it sure can find its way around
in the dark.”
BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Among the unsung public servants
are the school teachers of New
berry county. Unsung but not for
gotten, surely. In their mature days
ahead of them, graduates of our high
and elementary schools will have
cause to remember with gratitude
the time and effort which their faith
ful mentors gave to keep them
abreast of school work until the cli
max of high school d^s—graduation.
Our teachers wear no insignia, fo
Show their “rank” in the army of
public servants; no flags hang at the
windows of their homes, indicating
that a teacher lives within; neither
does crown of bay or laure’ await
their brow upon the close of another
school year, when another "victory”
hag been won.
Use of some symbol would be
commendable. The significance of
such a marker would proclaim that
we are not unmindful of the part
school teachers play in the develop
ment of the finest army of civiliza
tion—the young folk of our county.
READY FOR ATTACK
If General B. B. Somprvell, assist
ant chief of staff of our army, has
solid ground for believing that we are
ready to participate in a gigantic in
vasion of Germany, it is cheering
news. The need of a second front in
the west to help Russia has been' as
plain as day for months; but lack of
shipping, arms and trained men has
restrained us from so hazardous an
undertaking. If the time has at last
arrived when our forces can strike
with assurance of success, we should
go forward at once.
Russia needs just such a blew this
summer as she hasn’t needed it be
fore. She underwent a grueling win
ter of fighting. Her steadfastness
was an allied success. It blocked Hit
ler’s scheme to capture that part of
the world; it inflicted upon him un
told losses in men and material and
morale. Russia’s magnificent resis
tance, it may be said without quali
fication, saved the world from the
blackest day in modern history—^a
Hitler victory. Had Hitler won the
Russian campaign last winter, other
natons, at war with Germany, would
have had to make the best terms they
could with the hun or fight until the
last man and last dollar were gone—
with Hitler on top at the end.
If allied preparation for the open
ing of a second front in the west has
reached the point of adequacy indi
cated by General Somervell, we
should strike. Russia deserves this
aid. We must give it if we can.
TWO LETTERS
Letter from College Student: “Dear
Dad: Gue$$ what I need mo$t of all.
Thaff right. Send it along. Be$t
wi$he$. Your ?on, Tom.”
Letter from Dad to son: “Dear
Tom: Nothing ever happens here
We kNOw you like your school. Write
us aNOther letter aNOn. Jimmie was
asking about you Monday. NOw we
have to say goodbye.”
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JOIN THE ATTACK ON TOKYO,
. . . YOURSELF!
Every person in America may not
fly over Tokyo, but every one’s
dollars can help produce the bomb
ing^ planes that do!
You, you, you, can join the attacks on Tokyo by saving at
least 10% of your pay in War Bonds—by joining your com
pany’s pay-roll savings plan today or going to your local
bank or post office and buying War Savipgs Bonds—at least
10% of your pay—every pay day.
Remember you can start buying War Bonds by buying War
Stamps for as little as 10c and that you get a $25 War Bond
(maturity value) for only $18.75.
U. S. Treasury Department
EUGENE BLEASE
CHRISTIANS! BUY WAR BOND!}
URGES PAPER
From the Christian Evangelist:
Ohurch people are under scrutiny.
They cannot hesitate between two
opinions. They must make a choice.
It is inconsistent to pray for our
boys in the armed forces; to send
them Bibles; to encourage thier chap
lains; to give to the Red Cross and
other essential non-military services,
if at the same time we withhold guns
and plains and ships from the sober
faced boys who are marching to the
battle lines.
We do not want our Christian boys
to step out of the church in order to
be soldiers. We do not want them
to renounce their faith in the right
ness of their cause.
Neither for them nor for ourselves
can we maintain the fictitious distinc
tion between the citizen and the
Christian.
We buy bonds because we are
Christians, and more bonds because
we believe in the rightness of oiji
cause.
It will not be enough when the
boys come home, to recall that the
church protested against war and
merely carried on its accustomed ac
customed activities, if hundreds of
thousands of boys from our churches
died or were disabled because church
people hesitated to go “all out” in
buying bonds, through sacrifice and
self-denial, that our soldiers might
have all needed supplies in the hour
of battle.
AT HIS OWN DORSTEP
The report that Hitler has jaded
several of his trusted flunkeys arid
generals is good news, for when
thieves fall out, honest men get
their dues.
From the allied standpoint, the
most significant prisoner is Walter
Darre, German food administrator, It
is reported that he told Hitler blunt
ly that the nation’s food shortage is
acute. The boss didn’t like this plain
talk and so sent his employee to
gaol.
Darre’s fear of lack of adequate
food supplies have foundation, an
other cheering note for the allies.
Recent news coming out of Germany
via Ankara declares that lack of
food in Germany and in the occupied
countries now is the number one
worry of the Hitler hakistocracy. No
wonder need be shown at that, for
there is not a single continental
European country that is self-sus
taining today. All must import food
or suffer severely.
Deprived of adequate food sup-
pliet for civilian populations, fight
for food has broken out on Mr. Hit
ler’s own doorstep. Jails can’t stop
it. Hungry people will get out of
hand. When tlhe wolf begins to
howl loudly, they will do worse than
get out of hand—they will shoot and
their aim may be directed at the
man responsible for their plight.
WAR TOOLS AFTER ,THE WAR
What are we going to do with the
vast accumulation of war tools once
trie axis has been licked? Heaps of
fighting machines, guns and other
sorts of implements that played a
role in the conflict will be useless to
the government after peace.
There’s a pcssibility that much_ of
this material will be turned to coh-
structive purposes rather than scrap
ped as was done after the first world
war. Conversion of it into post-war
industrial and agricultural uses may
provide an outlay for the use of sev
eral items that are now doing ser
vice on the battlefield and in the
camps.
Already the U. S. Department of
Agriculture is giving the jeep cars
a try-out ‘down on the farm’ in Ala
bama and Georgia. It is reported
that these tough little war “buggies”
perform their tasks in a satisfactory
manner. A practical'farmer in Ohio
has used this car, in an experiment,
to complete soil treatment of 122
acres of his land. Gasoline consump
tion was as low as half-a-gallon an
acre.
We may see other “swords’ of this
war turned into “plowshares” after
the axis has signed on the dotted
line.
MOLLOHON BOY ON TORPEDOED
OIL TANKER
Harry D. Yochem, of 333 Player
street, Mollohon, was one of the
survivors of a tanker which was tor
pedoed on May 16 in the Gulf of
Mexico with a loss of 29 lives.
Young Yochem received painfui
burns and is now recovering in a
marine hospital in New Orleans. He
has been in the navy about four
months trrd was a member of the
gun crew of the tanker. Parents of
Mr. Yocehm are Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Yochem of Mollohon.
(An Editorial—Calhoun Times)
The Calhoun Times has learned,
with gratification, that Eugene
Blease 'has entered the Democratic
Primary as a candidate for the
United States Senate; and it would
feel derelict in its duty if it did not
immediately endorse his candidacy
and commend him to our readers.
Never before in the lifetime of this
sheet, or of its predecessors, has
there come to South Carolina an
opportunity to put its most compe
tent, its most distinguished, is most
revered and respected citizen in one
of its highest political posts.
There is no greater contribution
that South Carolina can make to the
war effort, and to the steadying
of conditions that are sure to arise
after the war, than to send to
Washington this intellectually hon
est gentleman. The greatest need
of these times, and of 'all times, is
integrity; and Eugene Blease will
carry a measure of integrity to
Washington that can not help but
work for better government.
The Times does not endorse Mr.
Blease for reasons of expediency;
it is not selecting him because it
knows he will be the winner; but it
is happy that all signs point so clear
ly in that direction. His name will
attract a host of voters; while the
character and ability of the man
will give him an advantage at the
polls that no other force or combi
nation of forces can overcome.
ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
“The battle of production has been
won,” wrote Paul Mallon recently.
“American industry went over the
top in April, out of the preparatory
organizing phase, and into the great
American stride of mass production
which no one can equal anywhere.
From now on the production line on
our charts will go nearly straight
up.”
That is an incredible achievement,
and it takes incredible statistics ‘ to
describe it. In April, our war pro
duction was at the rate of $40,000,-
000,000 a year. The June rate will
be about 2E^per cent greater. And by
the end of this year, the economists
confidently predict we will be pro
ducing at the rate of $70,000,000,000
a year.
In time to come, many a learned
book will be written telling just how
private industry did this job—a job
which is unprecedented in world his
tory. Two years ago we were totally
unprepared for war. Today we are
outproducing nations which devoted
most of their resources to getting
ready for war, for a decade or more.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler says time and
time again that the democracies are
weak, spineless, unwilling and un
able to fight. The Japanese also pin
ned abundant faith on that supposi
tion. This country, along with the
other Unied Nations, is showing Hit
ler how tremendously wrong he was.
American industry has done far
more than turn its plants from the
production of the necessities and lux
uries of peace to the production of
the instruments of war. It has bold
ly pioneered new techniques. It has
thrown old production prejudices to
the four winds. It has worked on
the basis that nothing is impossible.
The skeptics said, for instance, that
the assembly-line principle could nev
er ,be successfully applied to the man
ufacture of fighting airplanes. Ford,
Boeing, Consolidated and other
plants have proved otherwise—in
Seattle, San Diego, Willow Run and
elsewhere some of the finest military
airplanes the world has ever seen are
being made almost as swiftly as au
tomobiles were made in the old days.
Skeptics were certain forecasts of
tank production were fantastically
high. Chrysler and other makers, to
the contrary, are today well ahead of
the forecasts and are going farther
steadily.
Ail over the country plants, little
as well as big, are setting new pro.
duction records in a hundred war-ma
terial fields. Delays still occasion
ally occur because of lack of mater
ials, labor difficulties, etc. But those
delays grow fewer.
There is only one dark spot—mer
chant ship output. The ship-build
ers have done an excellent job in the
face of staggering technical difficul
ties, but the fact remains that United
Nations’ losses are somewhat ahead
of replacements. For some time de
livery of steel plate was behind sche
dule. However, existing yards are
steadily upping their output, and
some gigantic new yards, on both
the Atlantic and Pacific Seaboards,
will shortly go into operation. In
this as in other war fields, some rev
olutionary changes are taking place
in production methods. In the last
war, it took close to a year to make
the 8,800-ton Liberty ships we used
then. A Portland, Oregon, yard re-
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cently produced a 10-800-ton freight
er of the standard type we are build
ing now in 60 days. And it is be
lieved certain that still faster produc
tion will soon become commonplace.
The warship building program is
reported ahead of schedule. Special
emphasis is laid on the production of
the destroyers which are needed for
convoy duties, and for protecting
ships-of-the-line in naval squadrons.
And the U. S. submarine flet is grow
ing satisfactorily.
Not until the war is over and the
information is of no use to the enemy
will it be possible to tell the whole
story of America’s production effort.
What can be said now is that no na
tion or group of nations ever did so
much in so short a period of time. At
the end of the last year, Von Luden-
dorff wrote, in bitter admiration,
that the United States understooa
how to wage war. The cold produc
tion figures show that the United
States understands it better still to
day.
The President, Secretary Hull, Vice
President Wallace and other top
flight officials have warned the peo
ple not to become too optomistic—
and to disregard the current crop of
rumors to the effect that the Axis is
on the verge of collapse. There is
sound reason behind that warning.
Nothing suits the Hitler-Hirohito
combine better than unjustified op
timism on the part of their enemies.
Nothing is so fatal to a nation . in
modern war as complacency.
Tne newsmen who were recently re
leased from Hitler’s Europe brought
some very interesting information
with them. Axis morale, they say,
dropped when Germany and Italy de
clared war on us. But Hitler has
most of the people sold on the idea
that they must win or perish. They
are doggedly determined to fight on
to the very end. There are relatively
few rebels—and the Gestapo is ac
tive and efficient.
It is possible, of course, that the
war could end with startling sudden
ness. That happened in 1918. But
it would be the height of folly to an
ticipate that. We can hope for a
short war. But we must build and
plan for a very long one.
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The 75-millimeter gun is a divi
sional weapon used by the Artillery
as an anti-tank gun. It has been
replaced to some extent by the more
modern “105”, known as the heavi
est of divisional weapons. The 75-
mm gun costs $12,000 and has been
converted by our Ordnance into a
“blaster” twice as efficient as in the
first World War.
This gun gets maximum power for
minimum weight and cost, and the
American people are providing the
finance through the purchase of War
Bonds. If you do your share and in
vest 10 per cent of your income in
War Bonds, adequate supply of this
efficient gun can be assured our
fighting forces. Buy War Bonds every
pay day. U. S. Treasury Department
YANKEE INGENUITY TRADING
PUNCHES WITH MAWS
New York, May 25.—In both con
sumer goods and industrial fields,
the week brings ab-mdant evidence
that good old “An. in ingenuity”
which Americans have so proudly
hailed for many generations—and
which the war is putting to its stern
est test—is right in there pitching,
trading punches with Mars.
A specialty shop here held an “in
genuity show” that revealed:
A woollike cloth that’s made of
soybean^ a “victory” electric fap,
with blades of maggpite, and with
silver instead of copper in the cord-
wire, a sun-lamp bulb which needs no
reflector or metal stand because the
reflector is inside the bulb, which
screws into an ordinary electric out
let, a clothes brush with no bristles
at all—it’s made of plastic and cleans
by friction.
On the industrial front American
ingenunty is batting out home runs
at a lively rate.
One example is an auto parts
company which, undertaking shell
manufacture, found it had to utilize
sub-contractors in surrounding cities,
so organized a motor truck route
that now covers a 125-mile route
every day, touching all six bases
and constituting in effect, a 125-
mile “assembly line.” And General
Electric now is turning out a half
ton of mercury a day that is so pure
that purity has to be expressed like
this 99.99995 per cent.
Lawn Tennis was played as long
ago as the 13*h century in. France
where it was known as the Jeu de
Paume, of the hand game.
NOTICE OF CREDITORS AND OF
FINAL SETTLEMENT
I will make a final settlement of
the estate of Lena M. Amick in the
Probate Court for Newberry County,
S. C., on Thursday -the 9th day of
July 1942, at 10 o’clock in the fore
noon, and will immediately thereafter
ask for my discharge as administra
trix of said estate.
All persons having claims against
the estate of Lena M. Amick deceased,
are 'hereby notified to file the same,
duly verified, with the undersigned,
and those indebted to said estate will
please make payment likewise.
June 5th, 1942.
Mae A. Aull, Administrix.
COMMISSIONER DISTRICT NO. 2
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for the office of Commissioner
from District No. 2 and agree to
abide the results of the Democratic
primary election.
S. W. SHEALY
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