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X PAGE rOXTK THK KBWVSKKt «UH FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1942 - (^11% ^ mn 1218 College Street Newberry, S. C. O. K. ARMFIELD Editor end Publisher One Year .. .. One Dollar Published every Friday Entered aa second-class matter December 6, 1987, at tbe post office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. “As a nation, Americans haven’t been fighting this war—not by a long shot,” said Life recently. “A com parative handful of boys and officers have been fighting bravely and eagerly. But at home the fighting hasn’t even begun. Most of America i* earning big money, eating well, rolling up new betting records at the horse races, dashing around the country on rubber that is absolutely irreplacable . . . The only battle the U. S. Citizens have won so far is the battle of the newspaper headlines. Meanwhile the axis pushes in, rings us with steel, accumulates real bases all over the world.” That is a pretty tough statement, but the facts certainly bear it out. The incredible optimism concerning the war that still seems to prevail in some quarters is not shared by real military men. As General Somervell, the Army’s chief of supply, said in a 4th of July speech at Detroit, the United Nations have taken a terrific shellacking in every comer of the world. And most of us, he added, have no idea of the magnitude and difficulty of the job is ahead. The hard truths that Hitler and his bro ther dictators have done more to change the map of the world than any conquerors in modem history. The Russians showed great valor in the defense of Sevastopol. They were hopelessly outnumbered in both men and equipment, and after the first few days the Luftwaffe had command of the skies. The Red army made the Germans pay tre mendously for their victory, and, ac cording to the Moscow account, Sev astopol was left a pile of useless ruins. But Sevastopol was a vital position,, and its loss is extremely important. Now Germany can re lease many battle-trained soldiers for service elsewhere. Sevastopol is a key point in Hitler’s drive to seize the oil resources of the Caucasus, and to shatter the U. S. supply line to Russia. That is why the German commanders figured it must be taken no matter how great the cost. At this time it is impossible to ex plain the British defeat in Libya— the facts are not awilable and the Cairo censorship has been complete. As Mr. Churchill frankly admitted, the British had the edge in numbers and in arms. The fate of Libya was settled on a single day—when 300 heavy British tanks went into action and only 70 were left at nightfall. No comparable losses, Mr. Churchill said, were inflicted on the enemy. Rommel seems to have lured the British into a trap. The British commanders seemed confident that Rommel could not fight an offensive action in the desert heat. But Rom mel did. As yet, we have not fully appre ciated the extraordinary fanaticism of Axis leaders and troops. With them it is “win or die.” They take incredible chances. They fight under the worst climatic and geographical conditions. They violate classic rules of warfare. The commanders, are, apparently, completely callous when it comes to the shedding of blood of their troops. These axis hordes can be compared in many respects to the brutal hordes of Ghenghis Khan. To stop them, to defeat them, will re quire a comparable fanaticism, held in a very different cause on the part of all the United Nations. From the U. S. point of view, the Jap landings in the Aleutians cannot be passed off casually, as some of the optimists have tried to do. It is true that a few rock islands, shroud ed in fog, off the tip of Alaska, are not important in themselves. It is also true that Aleutian and Alaskan outposts could be used for devasta ting raids on the U. S. proper. Gen eral Billy Mitchell once said, in ef fect, that whoever controls Alaska, would win the next war. There is po reason to suppose that the Japs raid ed Dutch Harbor and siezed remote Attu and Kiska just for the sake of what military men call a diversion- The Jap commanders have shown, all along, that everything they do is part of a carefully-prepared plan and that everything has a bearing on their grand strategy. It will be hard to drive the Japs out of th< ir Aleuti an footholds. The Axis is seeking to encircle this country now, and It has made gigantic progress. That circle must be broken—and it WILL be broken when more of us realize that this is a war to keep our women from being raped by yellow-bellied bastards from Japan! PRICE ACCEPTS GOVT. WORK Hon. Julian Price of this city, a member of the house of representa tives for the past two years, has ac cepted the position as Examiner <for the Reconstruction Finance corpora tion of Washington with headquar ters in Charlotte, N. C- JULY 28 Is Last Chance You Cannot Vote Unless you ENROLL The Spectator I have had visits from several gen tlemen who are offering themselves for public office. I find the word candidate objectionable Just as “pol itician” now sounds bad. If popular government is to succeed it must be carried on by honorable and capable men. Handshaking and story-telling should not play any part in it. Of course we are all human, very hum- and the human part of us is frequent ly influenced by mere trifles. A cam paign for public office is expensive in time, energy and money. We ape allowing our public offices to be bought, by electing those who ca? spend a lot of money. One of the recent and expensive practices is to sena a car to bring in the voters. That costs several hundred dollors even in county campaigns. We ought to stop it. Another thing: it costs so much in fees to become a candi date that a (poor man has a small chance. In order to become a candi date for Governor each candidate is assessed $600. We have hundreds of capable men in South Carolina who have not $600. They therefore, are barred; the State cannot use their ability. And it is so now in the counties. There is a theory that the winner can afford to pay a large as- essment; but how about the loser? The assessment is, after all, one of the smallest items in the bill, but it starts high. A gentleman asked me what kind of a man should be elected to execu tive office and to the legislature. I know in a very general way, and you know too. We need a level head, a calm spirit, an honest pur pose with trained intelligence and knowledge of the state. We need men who come as states-men, not as representatives of this group or that group, or some other group. We need men to think of the state as a whole, of all the people. Since no one man knows ALL the State and ALL the people, we need men of wisdom, sound to the core. Most of us will agree to that. The difficulty comes in applying it. Some men are smart in their own business but not worth anything in the legislature. They don’t seem to adjust themselves to public affairs. Other men who are worth almost nothing in private life sometimes develop into useful public officials. I mean SOME men, in both cases. Theoretically I am all wrong, but it has happened that way. Who would have picked out General Nathan B. Forrest as a military genius? But there are students who speak of him as the greatest natural leader in America’s military annals. In voting many of our people are swayed by something as trivial as that which fired the spirit of little Jimmy and made him envy little Joe. Said Jimmy to his mother: “I wish I was Joe.” The mother said: “Why do you want to be poor little Joe? He is poor and ragged; he has no money and has to work to support his mother; while you have a pony; a bicycle, a nice home, good clothes and money.” “Yes,” said Jimmy, "but Joe can wiggle his ears.” I wonder sometimes, whether, in our choice of men we are like little Jim my. As a rule, a man of no judge ment at home will not become a Solomon in Columbia; nor should wo send a man of no ability or character to Columbia to make the laws for all the state and to spend the taz money of all the people. The State of South Carolina closed its fiscal year on June 30 with about three and a half million dollar sur plus. Sounds like a lot of money, but it is less than ten per cent of what the state is spending. Any man now enjoying a flood tide of pros perity thru bumper craps and prices or high wages will find that he must pay ten per cent or more in taxes! Besides, when money comes plenti fully and easily one should pay -off his debts and build up his reserves for a defense against the time when the lean kine will eat up the fat kine, as Pharooh’s dream foretold of the famine in Egypt. Three and. a half million, even if wisely conserv ed, and increased to eight million by next year would not take up the slack in our state revenue if a two-year slackening of business should put . us back to conditions of 1938. I do not refer to 1934, when the depression poverty struck us so hard that the state operated on less than six mil lion dollars a year. I’m taking 1938 which was far from the pinch of 1934. In fact, by 1938 our public spenders had so far forgotten the famine In Egypt that they spent $40,000,000 and put the state in debt with a def icit of about $3,000,000. Would it be out of order to point out that the present happy condition of having a surplus is not the result of wise leadership, sound statesmanship . or anything else but just luck? Well, that’s life, isn’t it? Luck? Yet our happy financial condition is bas ed on the blood and suffering of peo ple thruout the world and includes the loss of thousands of our own, people. It is blood money, i n very truth, for it came to us entirely a? I the fruit of war. If we are wise public stewards we’ll remember that we are now enjoying the smile of fortune, but fortune, you know, is very fickle. When the war closes, great factories will have to adjust themselves to the production of peace time goods. Unemployment will unavoidably be heavy, certainly for a time. Surely we need hot claim the gift of prophecy to pre dict that this mighty strain of the nation cannot continue in times of peace. We should not cut down on what we are now spending, remem bering that when the change comes we shall not wish to close schools or colleges. Let us be prudent now, with careful regard for the future. Many people won’t pay any atten tion to that. It will seem to them just calamity howling. What do you suppose the neighbors thought of Noah when he worked on the Ark? We are short-sighted by nature, which, perhaps has its advantages. Mrs. Mattie Smith, Mrs. Ruth Mathis, Mrs, Stuck, Mrs. Edna Fea- i gle and Miss Mary Wheeler attend ed the district meeting of the Depart ment of Public Welfare which was held in Greenville Wednesday. The friends of Dorothy Dawkins, 9 year old daughter of Mr. and M 1 "®- Ben Dawkins, will be glad to learn that she is improving at her home on Fair street from an injury she re ceived when she slipped in a bath tub while visiting Mrs. Rudolph Os wald in Columbia July 7th. ON THE OFFENSIVE AMERICA! ★ ★ ★ Wars ara won by attacking, not by sitting in a fort! And today Amarica is taking tha offansive against the Axis with hard- fighting, non-stoppabla man and matarialsl Wa'ra taking tha offansiva, too, against tha anemy at home—tha infla tionary 6th column that blows prices sky high. You can help in both fights by saving at least 10% of your money in U. S. War Bonds every pay day. Attack tha Axis with your dollars today. You can start with as little as a 10c War Stamp and you can get a $25.00 War Bond (maturity value) for only $18.75—at your local post office, bank or other convenient sales agency. U. S. Treasury Department War Bonds Guard Home Front ~ ^ r ,w *''** owu ***** jjc Been inrougnoin me United States, emphasizes a new theme in the War Bond sales campaign. The present goal of the Nation wide drive is to per- ■aade all citizens.to mm 10 perceet of income in War Bonds and Stamps. U. S. Treasury Dipt. was smo COTTON QUIZ ANS.— 'fes! AGA? REPELLENT COTTON CLOTH HAS BEEN INTRO DUCED FOR. MILITARY USE. IT IS TREATED, LACQUECEP AND LOOKS LIKE AN OlL'l ' CLOTH RAINCOAT. Home Demonstration News Take extra care of your poultry equipment, especially metal equip ment, for the duration of the war. The WPB has forbidden use of iron and steel for “hovers for brooders, chicken crates, feed hoppers, incuba tor cabinets, wire baskets, grain storage bins, and other items.” Clean and put away all brooding equipment carefully as you finish brooding for the season so as to have it in good condition for next year. Do not waste feed sacks. Keep your mash and grains in bins or barrels and save the sacks or return them to your dealer. Egg cases and fillers are scarce. Don’t destroy them ' or let anyone else do it. Continue to save aluminum leg bands. Only those used prior to 1942 are of value. If you kill, sell o,r buy a chicken with an aluminum (ban odtiit SHL H with an aluminum band on it, cut the band off. Send these old bands to your hatcheryman. They will be collected from him. Feathers have become an import ant was commodity. “The WPB has frozen the supply of all waterfowl feathers less than 4 inches in length, and their use is restricted to military needs—mostly for sleeping bags.” It is probable that the regular poul try dressing can supply the demand for chicken feathers. However when home-dressed birds are dry picked it may be advisable to save the body feathers. Broilers and fryers will be Victory Food from July 16 to 25 when the AMA will stage a nation-wide mer chandising drive. The purpose is to focus the consumers’ attention on poultry when supplies are in season al abundance, and thus shift con sumption from pork and other meats needed for lend-lease and other war time purposes. FROZEN DESSERTS Frozen Fruit Run canned or fresh peaches or apricots through a meat chopper. Sprinkle with lemon juice. Return sirup to the mixture, if canned fruit is being used. Sweeten fresh fruit to taste. Freeze. Fruit Mousse 1 cup whipping cream 1 cup fruit pulp 1-4 cup sugar or 1-2 cup corn starch. 2 egg whites 1-8 teaspoon salt. 2 teaspoons lemon juice if desired. Whip the cream. Combine the fruit pulp with sweetening and stir until well blended. Fold the sweet ened fruit into the cream. Fold in the egg whites which have been beaten with the salt. Freeze with out stirring either in mechanized re frigerator or in ice cream freeze^. Honey Ice Cream Honey can be substituted for sug ar in ice cream recipes in the basis of equal measure. A plain honey ice cream may be made as follows: Mix 1 quart of thin cream with three-fourths cup of delicately flavored honey & freeze. Our fighting men are doing ^ their share. Here at home the least we can do is put 10% C of our income in War Bonds ^ for our share in America. COTTON QUIZ MULTI PL V/ , 14 A»S- >^r-ANDA STARTING ASX V M0N ™ LATER- UTTER STRANGERV^J^n?. t MR A MRS 'NEEViL^h/^ CAN REAR A FAMILY OF 30 MILLION BEFORE FROST Classified Ads FOR RENT—Apartment for rent furnished or unfurnished. Mrs. Tom P. Johnson, 1237 Calhoun St., New- berry. Phone 220-J. 18-25-2 ILLNESS CAUSES VACANCY of Newberry Raleigh route. Splendid opportunity for man or woman to continue established route service. Write at once. Rawleigh’s, Dept. SCF-162-203, Richmond, Va. FOR RENT—Furnished Garage ap artment for the summer. Mrs. T. E. Davis, 725 Caldwell St., Phone 96. WANTED—Someone to thresh some five hundred bushels grain. H. C. HOLLOWAY. FOR SALE—Three C’s for killing insects on vegetables, flowers and fruit trees, is not a poison. Johnson- McCrackin Co. 3tc BARBECUE AT JOLLY STREET— As usual a barbecue at Jolly Street, Saturday, July 4th. Meat and hash for sale at 12:00 o’clock. No pig foot stew night before. td. COTTON SHEETS—For the best Cotton Sheets see Johnson-McCrack- in company. 4te NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OF FINAL SETTLEMENT We will make a final settlement of the estate of Mary Emma Roberts, deceased, in the Probate Court for Newberry county, S. C., on Thursday, the 16th day of July, 1942, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, and will im mediately thereafter ask for our discharge as executrix and executor, respectively, of said estate. AH persons having claims against the estate of Mary Emma Roberts, deceased, are hereby notified to file the same, duly verified, with the un dersigned, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment likewise. Mary Jane Fellers, Executrix John A. Mayer, Executor, Of the Last Will and Testament of Mary Emma Roberts, deceased. June 10, 1942. Xr*s going to cost Billions to dcfongtheJop! I Buy WAR BONDS ^STAMPS! Jo Relievr tfisrry lev * ^ RB C$666 Announcements I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the House of Representatives ana agree to abide the results of the Democratic Bri mary election. J. KESS DERRICK I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the House of Representatives and agree to abide the results of the Democratic primary election. R. AUBREY HARLEY COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce myself a candi date fo re-election as Commissioner for District No. 1 and agree to abide the results of the elections. WILBUR EPPS I hereby announce myself a candidate for election as commissioner for Dis trict No. 1 and agree to abide the re sults of the election. HOMER W. BOWLES I hereby announce myself a candi date for Commissioner of District No. 1 and pledge myself to abide the results of the Democratic primary. J. HORACE CROMER 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 I hereby announce myself a' candi date for Commissioner District No. 2 and pledge myself to abide the results of the democratic primary election. JOE N. WILSON MAGISTRATE DISTRICT NO. 2 I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Magistrate for District No. 2, for re-election and agree to abide the results of the Democratic election. BEN F DAWKINS MAGISTRATE AT POMARIA I herey announce that I am a can didate to succeed myself as Magis trate for District No. 4 (Pomaria) and agree to abide the results of the elections. W. D. HATTON FOR CONGRESS I hereby announce that I am a can didate to represent the THIRD CON GRESSIONAL DISTRICT of South Carolina in the Congress of fhe United States and pledge myself to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic Party. BUTLER B. HARE FOR CONGRESS Your support and influence in behalf of my candidacy for Congress in the forth coming Democratic primary will be appreciated. JOHN C. TAYLOR Keep the Home Fires CdMjmiccJlCOhX. C T. Summer, Inc. mm This mask gives bg gas. Opaline against attack of heat and friction. » protection against attack Motor Oil protects engines Make protection your first thought when you buy motor oil for your car. Make sure the oil does not contain any “5th Columnist” wax and petroleum jelly those non-lubricating substances that turn water-thin in heat. You can be sure by buying Sinclair Opaline Motor Oil. Opaline is freed of wax and petroleum jelly by an extra refining process. It protects your engine on the hottest day. And it lasts so long it saves you money. Play safe and save money. Ask your nearby Sinclair Dealer for Sinclair Opaline Motor Oil. Strother C. Paysinger AGENT SINCLAIR REFINING COMPANY