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- PAGE FOtJ* THIS NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1942 1*18 Colic re Street Newberry, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year . Published every Friday Entered aa aecond-claas matter December 6, 1937, at the poet office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of March S, 1879. Some of the most thoughtful Washington observers have been much troubled lately by the power and aggressiveness displayed by cer tain pressure groups which are hard at work grinding their axes in the capital. Theoretically, th enation is now unified, with all citizens determ ined to do their utmost to help win the war. In actuality, a good many citizens seem more concerned with how they can use the war to serve their own ends, and how they can avoid as much personal sacrifice and inconvenience as possible. Labor in a number of basic indus tries is demanding substantial wage increases, despite the obvious fact that higher pay for workers must re sult in higher costs and higher prices all along the line—thus putting info effect an inflationary spiral that in the long run would hit labor as hard and perhaps harder than any other group. The heads of some of the big farm organizations, despite their patriotic speeches, are fighting tooth and nail for more and bigger subsidies—amj they are implacably resisting any and all attempts to place workable ceilings on farm prices. If these groups win out—and they have tre mendous influence in a Congress which is largely made up of men from agricultural areas—still anoth er inflationary spiral will be well under way. Incidents have been unearthed where certain business interests put their own wishes ahead of the needs of the nation. However, it is gener ally true that the record of industry in this war has been excellent. Fur thermore, industry of all kinds is regulated and controlled to the hilt by the government—which is not true of either labor or agriculture. Taxpayer groups are also active' in Washngton, and all of them, with a few honorable exceptions, seem to be trying to figure out ways and means to make the other fellow pay for te war. They are all for sacrifice— so long as someone else does the bulk of the sacrificing. The blackest picture of all, in the view of many writers, is found on Capitol hill itself. Next November, all of the members of the House and a third of the members oftheSenate, will be up for re-election. There are, of course, congressmen who are not swayed by poltical considerations— who are doing their best, and who reuse to play old-fashioned politics^ as-usual in attempts to make certain of holding their jobs. Unfortunately for the nation, there are a good many congressmen, in both parties, who seem to be thinking almost exclu sively in terms of votes. They don’t want to step on the toes of their constituents. They don’t want to awaken them to the unpleasant reali ties that total war involves. They don’t want to vote for bills which will make their constituents have to do without things. They are, in short seeking to please all groups and all interests—and that means that they are doing their best to either dodge difficult issues, or to straddle the fence. Some of the election campaigns now taking place are, in the view of men who grasp the world situation, almost literally sickening. Political job-seeks are flagrantly pandering to special interests—to labor, agricul ture, pension seekers, ets. They treat the war as a sort of side show—in the face of the obvious fact that we and our allies have as yet not taken back a single inch of conquered terri tory, and the Axis is making trem endous progress on the most vital battlefronts. Every authority is convinced that if we lose this war,we wll be subjected to virtual slavery. We’ll get precisely the same treat ment the people of France, Belgium, the Netherlands and other beaten nations have been given. That is the issue which some of the most active seekers after high office are busy dodging now. It can be argued that such things as this will inevitably happen in a democratic country—in a country where anyone has a right to speak his mind, no matter how empty and misguided that mind is, and where anyone can advance himself as a candidate for almost any office he chooses. It can also be argued that these “democratic weaknesses’’ could conceivably lead to our defeat in war. About the only cure for this kind of politics is public opinion. Next Nov ember, the people will elect a con gress which, in all probability, will run the country until the war is over. This will be one of the most fateful elections in all our history. Some of the United Nations disas ters can be laid straight at the door of the high commands. Too many of the generals seem to think in terms of “classic warfare.” That was' a relatively leisurely kind of warfare, and it was developed and perfected in the days when tanks and planes and similar machines were minor wea pons. The Germans and Japs think in terms of dynamic warfare. They are daring. They take long chances. They use the weapon of surprise to the limit. Libya provides a tragic example of that. As Newsweek says, “British Generals figured it would take Romel a week to ten days to thrust past the Egyptian frontier after the Brit ish withdrawal. It took him a mat ter of hours.” Germany has also been superior in the science of logistics—which simply means the handling of supplies. They have moved more equipment, and moved it faster by far, than have the defenders. In short, the United Nations still have a lot of red tape to cut—and they have a lot to learn. IT IS NOT FICTION Many Americans—all too many it is feared—do not yet realize the pressing necessity for collecting and turning over to the government all the available scrap iron and rubber they have. Some of them have grown cynical and indifferent to ward the scrap campaign. They re call that the gasoline shortage turn ed out to be ballyhoo. They unwisp- Iv believe that the steel and rubber shortage is bunk, too. Nothing could be further from the stark fact, and this attitude will be a grave danger to the successful waging of the war if it is persisted in. The direst shortage of rubber ex ists. because we have been cut off from 90 per cent of our foreign sup plies by the Japs. Surely all must know this today. It is solid fact, not fancy or ballyhoo. The shortage is liable to continue for anther year or two, when synthetic rubber plants will begin production on full scale basis. But that is in the future; for the lack of sufficient rubber NOW we may lose the war. That bald fact should spur every man and woman to renewed effort in the scrap drive. Is there a shortage of iron ore? One day last week a high army offi cial made a speech to the men and women in a steel plant that is engag ed in the production of war mater ial. While he was there talking to those employes the mill was forced to close down temporarily because it lacked scrap iron to turn into the tools of war. Similar shut-down s have taken place at other mills in recent months. Does anyone want more convincing proof of the need to get all the scrap metals they have in the hands of the government in the quickest time possible? WAR RACKETS ON THE RISE AGAIN When the pedler at the door wants to sell you a supply of airraid sand, specially tested for its effestiveness in extinguishing incendiary bombs— or an impressive stranger offers to let you invest in a new scheme for solving the rubber shortage—get fishy-eyed and skeptical, because the crop of war time rackets is just be ginning to flower. Many brand new schemes, and a lot of old ones dress-! ed up in war clothes, are out to take your money away from sounder and more necessary uses. Among the major schemes now swinging into activity are phony war charities and refugee benefits, which solicit funds, or sell tickets and advertising space, on a basis which yields from zero to 10 per cent of the proceeds to actual charity and delivers the remainder to the promoters. Bootleggers offer retreaded auto tires which may be old, defective, arid absolutely worthless. Fakers “in spect” and refill fire extinguishers with colored water for a modest fee. Fake doctors offer selective ser vice registrants advance physical examinations. The fake oil stock scheme has been all furbished up with news about the increasing shortage of oil and gasoline, which will make the shares still more-valuable. Smooth talking salesmen falsely claim that their insurance policies will cover military service. Still smoother-talking gentry under guise of readjusting your insurance to changed war-tie conditions, would switch you out of your policies now owned into cheaper but less desirable policies, for the sake of a sales com mission or an advisory fee. SILVERSTREET BARBECUE The Silverstreet school will give a barbecue for its benefit on the ground of the Silverstreet Lutheran church August 5, 1942. Supper will be served at 7 o’clock. Also pig foot stew and steak will be served the night of August 4 at 7 o’clock. The prices are right and the cooks are the most prominent available. Come out and enjoy excellent suppers aijd help a very good cause. TUBELESS TIRE IS FACT For half a century auto tire engi neers have been trying to devise a tubeless tire. Last week J. L. Coll- yer, president of the B. F. Goodrich company, announced that Frank Herzegh, a young engineer of the company, had developed such a tire for heavy vehicles. Collyer said the invention was of primary importance because of the savings it makes pos. sible in rubber ordinarily required for inner tubes and flaps. The Spectator He Finds a MAN in Newberry! (V> eekly Letter of J. K. Breedin) I met a MAN recently. I empha size the word “man,” because he was a MAN, not merely a male creature arrayed in trousers. There was a time when a male individual’s man hood did not rest on his trousers, for the masculine qualities which com mand our admiration were common to the highland Scotch in their kilts. In fact, in the first World war the boldness of kilted Scotch soldiers caused the Gerans to call them “the ladies from Hell.” More recently the girls and ladies have begun to wear pants, so pants don’t mean any thing now. If a male creature wishes to proclaim his strength and endur ance, his bravery and chivalry, he can’t convince the world merely by walking about in pants. Nothing really masculine is left to a man nowadays except to chew tobacco. The ladies are our equals and are proving it by cultivating our bad habits. But I met a MAN, as I said. He was a tonic to my spirit, for he made me think of the men we used to have i—when men were men, you know, and lived out in the great open spaces. As I looked at my friend I thought he had never feasted on hot- dogs or hamburgers; nor did he slake his thirst with “pop.” I fancied that I could see him do justice to Spur Krout, eggs, home-made biscuit, pot forgetting watermelons. Here’s the kind of man ne is, this strudy son of NEWBERRY counjy At 08 years of age he does all the work on his farm; has plowed every day. He planted 12 acres of cotton, 14 acres of com, 4 acres of wheat, 6 acres of oats. Presumably he will have 10 acres of hay following the small grain. He has hogs and chick ens, a vegetable garden, fruit and all that, including a cow. And he has no help, this hardy citizen of 68. What I’ve said is enough to make us softies quail, but that man harv ested his 10 acres of wheat and oats with a cradle! What a MAN! Did you ever see a cradle? Well, somebody says of it that it is “An archaic implement consisting of a frame of wood, with long bending teeth, to which is fastened a scythe for cutting grain.” I don’t recognize a cradle from that description, but since most of our people have never seen or heard of such a contraption To see a man cut his grain with a cradle looks like something heroic— any description will be equally clear, makes you think of stalwart old lads of the Middle Ages swinging battle- axes, and all that. It takes a MA?I to swing a cradle; just “britches” won’t do it. Any man who swings a cradle needn’t fear that the women will take his job. This friend of mine bought a farm just after the first world war -for about ?4,000. Land was high then and he paid *75 per acre. Soon,af terward he lost his bam and stock— $1,300. But he sees daylight novv, the debt being less than $100. “But” says he “I didn’t have any car.” No, he walked. He was walking four miles from a visit to a sick brother the day I saw him, late in the after noon, following long hours in the field. Men like that made this nation. Since then we’ve heard that the na tion is making the men, guaranteeing a living and a pension, high wages and time and a half, with double time for collecting the pay; also with pay while you loaf, or get drunk on the job. Jesus could have turned all the stones to bread, and transfonned the Sea of Galilee into milk anJ hon ey. He didn’t do that; we think we are wiser than He. In the Supreme Wisdom a MAN is the sum total of hardships, privations, self-discipline, sufferings and heart-aches. If a calamity were to befall us, that friend of 68 would dig himself out and start something, some effective measure of rehabilitation. But most of us, weaklings that we are, spooon- fed, bottled-dopers, would let out a wail and a yell for more WPA, or Welfare, or some other Government pap. We’d call for the congressman and both senators to come down for a close inspection so that they might proclaim the fact of disaster to the White House and bring about organ ized relief, said relief costing per haps $100,000 in travel and salaries, to pass out $50,000 to the afflicted. But that sometimes fails. Remember how we cotton farmers met and met and met again, in Columbia, and re solved and resoluted for help? Even after the Southern congressmen and senators came to our meetings we sent big delegations to Washington. Result? Well if anybody received a single copper let me see it. Wash ington was ready to dish out SOCIAL GAINS (in form of higher and high er wages) for organized labor, but the farmer came back footsore and weary, “toting” an empty bag. Governor Jefferies had something to say about school consolidations. He thinks we may have gne too far with that. It should be remembered that Mr. Jefferies, as chairman of the Senate committee on education, has been in the front of all the battles for the schools. He speaks now as a statesman, looking over all the state and all the interests of the state, but without any change of fast friendship for the schools. There are two sides to the ques tion, both argued by men and wom en of unquestioned devotion to the public interest. But let us weigh the considerations and think together: Six one-teacher schools can form one consolidated school with six teachers and have six teachers for ten grades, instead of one teacher for ten grades. Buses bring the children perhaps ten or fifteen miles. One big school house takes the place of six small ones. Right here ourusual extrav agance comes in. Six little school houses, worth $1,000 each, are scrap ped or left to rot, while the district is bonded for $50,000 for a big hand some school house. We save $6,000 but spend $50,000. Since children are not required to walk or work or even play naturally we must build a gymnasium for $25,000. All the churches may be frame buildings; and all the people may live in frame buildings, but the school hous-' had to rest on a pile of debt to start with. The interest on the bonds pay for better teachers, or give bet- would employ two more teacners, or ter pay to the deserving and efficient teacners. When we learned that we could issue bonds and build on credit we lost all sense of proportion. How ever, the temples of learning now stand, served by starving teachers. Theoretically consolidation should have been a thirfty and helpful meas ure of school management; and, of course it should provide better in struction. I assume that in the mat ter of instruction the consolidated schools are better than the one-teach er and two-teacher schools which they replaced. The bringing of the children by buses is a problem here, for no child should have to walk more than a quarter of a mile in this easy-going age. What’s wrong with consolidation? Well, it has broken down communi ties and the close, neighborly com munity life which was built around the school house and the church. Once the neighborhood school house was a thriving center of community social activity; today the boys and girls are carried to town and are neither a part of the town nor of their own community. I think this is what Governor Jefferies is think ing about. It is, of course, of the highest im portance that we have community in terests and not be tied up to the towns in everything, or become es tranged from our neighborhood. Whether the technical advantages of consolidation outweigh the social advantages of the cultivated com munity is the question. other citizens. Shall the State pen sion the operatives of cotton mills? How about newspaper men and the radio staffs—shall the state provide i for them? The teachers have an ef ficient organization and can take care of themselves. Our fathers didn’t like the pen sion plan and provided against it m the Constitution. Who, by-the-way, has thought of pensioning that Newberry farmer who paid for his high-price farm through blood and toil; who today, at sixty-eight, does all his work, cul tivates about forty acres and cuts ten acres of grain with a cradle?’ No nation will amount to a hill of beans with a pensioned citizenship ladled out of the public treasury; but a people who provide for their old age by thrift are the pillars _ of our society. VICTORY MAIL” STATIONERY Another matter brought out by the governor is a teachers’ retirement plan. Any teacher paying a percent age of his salary for years should b eable to draw from a fund set up by the teachers. Or if the teachers in a body should consult a sound in surance company it could arrange something attractive. By using their association they could get favorable rates under a group plan. There is no reason why the state should set up or contribute to *a pension fund for teachers unless it is prepared to contribute in like manner for all The local postoffice has received a supply of “Victory Mail’^stationery. It is writing paper and envelope combined, for use in writing the boys who have gone oversees. The new writing material is made so that it may be photographed and instead of receiving your letter that boy over seas will receive only a photograph of it. The postoffice is allowed to give free to anyone three of theese new Victory writing forms. After their present supply is exhausted, you must purchase from stationery or other stores. TOMATOES ARE BOUNTIFUL Bennettsville, July 19.—The tomato season is at its height in Marlbor ough county, as one of the most bountiful crops in several years is being harvested and hauled to mar ket. The tomatoes are graded, packed in crates and shipped from four packing stations in the county, at these same stations well equipped canneries are taking care of those found too ripe for shipping. More than 300 persons are employ ed in the canning industry alone arid the combined output of the Ante Canning company at McColl, the Shaver cannine company at Clio, the Doyle packing company at Benn ettsville and the Tatum cannery this year is expected to be in the neigh borhood of 120,000 cases. In addition to this several thousand quarts will be processed by school lunch pro jects in the county as well as by individual families. One of the earliest of the depres sion-born efforts of this section 'to ward diversified farming, tomato growing has become during the last few years the major trucking indus try of the country. Approximately 1,500 acres of Marlborough county land have been devoted to tomato growing this year. Marlborough’s tomato crop for this year is estimated at 6,000 tons and is expected to bring the farmers of this section approximately $75 per acre, or a total of more than $100,000. Better Do It Today! JULY 28 Is Last Chance You 4 Cannot Vote Unless you ENROLL 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. 4tc BITS O’ BUSINFIS IN UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN General Electric booked more busi ness in the three months ending June 30 than in any full year prior to 1940 . . . Talk about sizzling war production! A plant of Inland steel turned out 3,515 net tons of ship- plate steel in one day recently afid the plates were hustled aboard a train of 73 gondola cars for ship ment while stillat a temperature of 600 to 700 degrees Fahrenheit! . . . . The farm labor shortage is credited with boosting sales of milking mach ines in Ohio .... The telepraph com panies agree that girl messengers, on the average, are more dependable than boys .... So well-publicised is Leon Henderson’s hankering for cig ars he’s getting a flood of them from grateful persons whose rents OPA has “rolled back.” r Announcements I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the House of Representatives and agree to nbide the results of the Democratic pri 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 SUP THAT JkPf 0U<* SWATTERS cost monetj g IVY U.S. WAkBONOMTAUH 7o Relieve uouaTABLETS. SALVE. NOSE MOM 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 the United States and pledge myself to abide by the rules and regulations of thfe Democratic Party. BUTLER B. HARE "/j 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 u i „ JSrTS / GmonucaiCOAL C. T. Summer, Inc. This mask aives ■protection against attack by gas. Opaline Motor Oil protects engines against attack of heat and friction Make protection your first thought when you buy motor oil for your car. 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