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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
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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
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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
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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
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