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THIS MBWnsmcx won FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, IMS PAGE FIVE The Spectator ★ . • 'it 'What you /iutf. With WAR BONDS ★ ★ Hitler found out that his high pow ered mechanized and motorized army bogged down in the snow and mud of the Russian Winter. Al though our Army is largely mecha nized the cavalry horse is still a highly essential factor in this mount ed division and in the Field Artil lery. The Army also maintains re mount farms where many cavalry horses are bred and raised. These select horses cost from $100 to $165 and our crack cavalrymen are expert riders and carry on the traditions which have followed the cavalry from the earliest days of the Army. Purchase of War Savings Bonds will insure good mounts for the Cavalry. You and your neigh bors buying War Bonds and Stamps regularly every pay day can help buy these horses for the U. S. Cavalry. Invest at least 10 percent of your income in War Bonds. U. S. Treasury Department —S CRAP BOO K—:— Who drives the horses of the sun Shall lord it but by day; Better the lowly deed were done. And kept the humble way. The rust sha.ll find the s word of fame The dust will hide the crown; Ay, none shall nail so high his name Time will not tear it down. The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to heaven the rest. From “The Happiest Heart” by John V. Cheney. In the twentieth century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these—-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.— Victor Hugo. No one has success until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many fold activity of energy, enthusiasm and gladness. It is to spring to meet the day with a thrill of joy at being alive. It is to go forth to meet the morning in an ecs- tacy of joy. It is to realize the one ness of humanity in true spiritual sympathy.—Lillian Whiting. That we should do unto others as we would have them do to us, that we should respect the rights of oth ers as scrupulously as we would have our rights respected—is not a mere counsel of perfecting to individuals— but it is the law to which we must conform social institutions and na tional policy, if we would secure the blessings of abundance and peace.— Henry George. I live on the sunny side of the street; shady folks live on the other. I have always preferred the sun shine and have tried to put other people there, if only for an hour or two at a time.—Marshall P. Wilder. I love you for what you are, but I love you more for What you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfac tions, which may be so hazardously little. . A satisfied flower is one whose petals are about to fall. The most beautiful rose is one hardly more than a bud wherein the pangs and ecstacies of desire are working for larger and finer growth. Not always shall you be what you are now. You are going forward to somethiing great.—Carl Sandburg. Young men, life is before you. Two voices are calling you—one coming out from the swamps of self ishness and force, where success means death; and the other from the hilltops of justice and progress, where e ven failure brings glory. Two lights are seen in your horizon, one the fast fading marsh light of pow er, and the other the slowly rising sun of human brotherhood. Two ways lie open for you—one leading to an even lower and lower plane, where are heard the cries of despair .... where manhood shrivels and posess- ion rots down the possessor; and the other leading to the highlands, where are heard the glad shouts of humanity and where honest effort is rewarded with immortality.—J* . P* Atgeld. To be strong and true; to be gen erous in praise and appreciation of others; to impute worthy motives even to enemies; to give without ex pectation of return; to practice hu mility, tolerance and self-restraint; to make the best use of time and op portunity; to keep the mind pure and the judgment charitable; to extend intelligent sympathy to those in dis tress: to cultivate quietness; to seek truth and righteousness; to work, love, and serve daily, to aspire great ly, labor cheerfully and take God at his word—this is to travel heaven ward.—G. Kleiser. The Teachers’ association is plan ning to ask the Legislature to provide a retirement fund for teachers. That, of course, is to set up a pension for teachers. I remark here, as hereto fore, that the teachers are not em ployees of the state; they are em ployees of school districts, and the state has almost nothing to do with them. True, the state supplements their salaries and provides a mini mum scale of pay, but it neither chooses, controls, supervises, nor dis misses teachers. Nor does the state fix their salaries. No other persons serving the public have a minimum wage; the teachers, only, have that. If teachers wish to provide for their declining years, let them do as the rest of us do: let them take out insurance, group insurance, at their own cost. Unless we stand ready to pension our farmers and ministers why should we pension the teachers ? We take note, of course, that the teachers are organized and have capa ble leaders. Naturally the leaders must be able to show results or the teachers will withdraw from the or ganization. In carrying on their work before the Legislature the teachers are quite a lobbying force. It was said several years ago that one gen tleman, teacher, or ex-teacher, or sometimes a teacher, was kept on the payroll of a city without school duties, hi* real work being to attend the sessions of the Legislature, lobbying for pay increases for teachers.^ That is, he was always on hand to talk to the legislators about increased state- aid, as it is called. It might be well for some of you taxpayers to look over the school district payrolls. As a matter-of-fact this is something the grand juries might look into. . If the school funds are being used for lobbying purposes, let’s put a stop to the practice. Some colored leaders are very ac tive in trying to get into the South Carolina Democratic party. The sit uation is anomalous in the extreme. The National Democratic committee is remembered as having gone out of its way to win the support of North ern negroes. I thought they were de ceiving the negroes. I knew that either the negroes were being duped by Northern Democrats, or we South- ern White people were being betray ed by the Northern Democrats, aided and abetted by the overwhelming ma jority of White Democratic leaders, who supinely acquiesced in treachery for the sake of political victory. I said so then, more than once. We knew, we people of the South, that the rank and file of our people would maintair a White man’s Democracy at any cost. Politicians flirted with the idea of party victory. Mrs. Roosevelt and her associates have carried on logically. After win ning one fight,they started another. Cotton-Ed Smith was right in Phila delphia. He is no negro-hater, nor are any of us. He quit the conven tion in disgust because the invitation to the colored minister was only a political by-play. The minister was asked to offer the prayer because he was a negro and the politjcians hoped to capitalize that with Northern ne gro voters. I think it was contemp tible . In the first place we make sport of Almighty God and in the second we deceived the negroes. The colored minister offered the prayer, naturally; he could not, as a ministej. refuse. Now come colored men of this state and ask to be accepted as members of the Democratic party of the state. The governor of Alabama objects to a clause in the contract offered by Defense corporation because it would compel the state to accept all the fed eral rules of procedure. I used to ask “What is a Demo crat?’’ I’m one, of course, and nine ty five percent of my acquaintances are; but what distinguishes a Demo crat from any body else I’m having trouble to see. Friend, perhaps you can tell me. The first thing you say will be wrong and so will the second —so where are we? Two great principles were set forth by our fathers: White Supremacy and a low tariff. For years we thought of the Republicans as oppos ed to both and we became red in the face and hot in our language as soon as we thought of a Republican. Well, look what has happened! Our Demo cratic party is the party in power. It has had all the Government—Presi dency, Congress and Supreme Court— for some time. But what has it done about the tariff? You tell me, farm ers. You still SELL at WORLD prices and BUY at tariff-protected prices! And about the negro? Do I have to ask ? Haven’t you read the papers ? And this is the Democratic party of you and me, the party of Wade Hampton and Ben Tillman, tfca party of our fathers. There are enough men from the South in congress to speak out. Have you heard any loud noise about-this.? No; they took part in the victory and are afraid to stand up for their peo ple on a vital matter for fear they may be barred from the pie counter. If I know our people they have not changed, nor are they willing to bar ter the principles of the South for a mess of pottage. The Congressional Record seems to tell us that in Washington all those on the inside since the beginnig are still on the inside and looking out for all the others who were at one time drawing government pay. We have a great army of career people whose career is drawing government pay. If you have enrolled, be sure to vote. What kind of state government do we need? Should we have a gov ernment specially obligated to teach ers or farmers labor? No; we need a government which is free from ob ligation to any group; which will give justice to all. We have had government which played to labor and teachers—in fact any group which was numerous and assertive; let’s see if we can have a ’state government which will stand primarily for justice for every man, instead of toadying all the tie to spe cial groups. Perhaps what we need is a state government which will be most thoughtful of the un-organized people. They, by the way, while quiet, are the majority. The National Resource Planning Board, in its report for 1JM2, tells us that mankind everywhere is en titled to nine rights, all of which must be guaranteed by the victory over Germany and Japan. Vice-Pres ident Wallace is quoted as hoping that every child may have a quart of milk a day, as a result of the war. S. W. SHEALY will appreciate your support in his race for Commissioner No. 2 The nine rights are not the rights of our American patriots; they didn’t have much more than one right. That was the right to work. And they ex ercised that right from early morn uniij_dark. This planning board as serts the right to work, to fait pay, to adequate clothing, shelter and medical care; to security, with free dom from fear of old age, to personal growth and happiness; to rest, re creation and adventure, etc. A dis tinguished critic Speaks of the nine rights as bunk, though good reading. He says all this is old stuff. I sub mit that it isn’t old stuff and it isn’t anything more than idle musing. O' course it is a pity that such dreams may seem so far off. But why dream and dream about the nebulous fu ture? Let’s start right here. What about fair pay? What is fair pay.? Can you understand why a clerk should receive $100 a month while a share-cropping farmer may be lucky to receive half as mudh? Can you ex plain the justice of one man’s $10,- 300 when an abler, more useful man receives $5,000? Or a still more use ful man may have $2,000 ? I know that these inequalities are man-made, but they are deeply in- rrained into our way of living. I could tell of men who get out county pa pers; who spend six days at the work; who write and write; who read aijd read; who solicit business; who read all the proof; who run around trying to get all the news and then must help get the paper out. Well, what is that man entitlea to? Has he a right to fair pay? He works harder than most men of the community. What is fair pay? Even in salaries there is no such thing. Not even in salaries paid by t the state is there anything like fair pay. In one office of the state are higher employees, digging into books, checking over figur^, working all the time for $1,600; in another office $1,600 pays for very little work; sometimes it seems to be decorative for the most part. What we need in this country is to break the shackles put on us by law and regulation. We need to enjoy the right to be men, uncoddled, un pampered—just men. It takes a great deal of boldness mixed with a vast deal of caution, to acquire a great fortune; but then it takes ten times as much wit to keep it after you have got it as it took to make it.—Mayer Rothschild. URGE BATTLE ON GERMAN SOIL The sustained and imperative cry of the people of the United nations for opening a second front in Europe accelerated the war against the axis. Destruction of Cologne and other German cities was a part of the answer to this cry. The second battle of Libya was another. Still, the military experts hesitate to un dertake to strike where the blow would most effectively paralyze our chief enemy, Germany itself. They appear to believe the enterprise of land invasion too hazardous. The in vincibility myth of the German forces still unnerves action. Few, if any, military experts are found among the people. They are not trained in the science of military strategy. But often the impulses pf the heart are more trustworthy in a supreme crisis than the intellect. The people know that the golden op portunity exists to strike Hitler in his own lair. If this chance is al lowed to slip by, it may never occur again. Only further demands for action by the people will send our forces in to Germany. Victory over the axis calls for renewal of this demajnfl. Officialdom, both civilian and military must be compelled to move before it is too late. The people must con tinue to urge battle on German soiil, or it will never take place. GET GOOD PRICES FOR NEW TOBACCO • Valdosta, Ga., July 28—Prices av eraging 30 to 35 cents per pound were paid Georgia farmers today for first offerings in the tobacco auction sales, apparently averaging a few cents above 1941 openings. During the first weele last year, the average price on the 15 markets in the state was 20.38 cents per pound. Low grade and medium brought prices today ranging from six to twelve cents a pound. A high price of 50 cents per pound was paid on the Hahira market for some baskets and other markets re ported top quotations ranging from 40 to 48 cents. The average price for first sales at Hahira was 36 cents. Sta'tesboro, with a million pounds r.i leaf on hand compared to 750,- 000 pounds for the opening last year, reported a price average of 32 cents, or ten cents a pound high er than the average for opening sales the previous season. Two Douglas warehouses paid six to seven cents above opening sales last year with the range there averaging 33 1-2 cents. The top price in Douglas was 41 cents and only a few grades sold under 20 cents. Vidalia and Baxley reported mom. ing averages of 35 cents per pound while Tifton, Adel, Moultrie, Nash-' ville, Waycross, Metter, Pelham and Blackshear markets sold the leaf at prices averaging from 30 to 33 cents. First sales at Hazelhurst brought an average of 28 cents. CONWAY CHINAMAN SELLS LAUNDRY “TO GET JAPS” Conway—Pvt. Tom Lem, who holds the distinction of being the first na tive Chinaman to enter the American army through the portals of Fort Jackson’s busy reception center, sold his laundry business in Conway sev eral weeks ago so he could take a personal hand in “whitewashing” the Jalps. Born in Canton, China, thousands of miles from Columbia, yet Private Lem has not the slightest feeling of being a “foreigner” in the United “I haven’t found anything tough about the a?my at all,” he com mented. “Everything's been fine. I don’t know just where I’ll fit in best now that I’m in, but there’s one thing of which I am sjire, I’ll come back and when I do- my former bud dies will see two or three stripes on my arm.” JoRfliev* invert/ ievr Cptut qquq. Usuis, salvi. nou tutors Cotton Play Dress This smart-looKing glazed chintz makes an ideal cotton play dress for summer. Designed to button dAwn the back, the Camellia print is featured in red, white and pink. JUNK needed for War "What’s it good for?” "Guns, tanks, and maybe part of a plane In the attics and cellars of homes, in garages, tool sheds, and on farms, is a lot of Junk which is doing no good where it is, but which is needed at once to help smash the Japs and Nazis. Scrap iron and steel, for example. Old radiators, lengths of pipe, refrigerators, garbage pails, broken garden tools... It may be rusty, old “scrap” to you, but it is actually refined steel, with most impurities removed—and can be quickly melted with new metal in the form of pig irqn to produce highest quality steel for our war machines. Even in peacetime our Nation relied on scrap to provide about 50% of the raw material for steel. Now production of steel has gone up, up, UP, until today America is turning out as much steel as all the rest of the world com bined. But unless at least 6,000,000 addi tional tons of scrap steel is uncovered promptly, the full rate of production cannot be attained or increased; the necessary tanks, guns, and ships cannot be produced. The rubber situation is also ci itical. In spite of the recent rubber drive, there is a continuing need for large quantities of scrap rubber. Also for other waste mate rials and metals like brass, copper, zinc, lead, and tin. America needs your active assistance in rounding up these materials. The Junk which you collect is bought by industry from scrap dealers at estab lished, government-controlled prices. Willyou help? First—collect all your waste material and pile it up. Then—sell it to a Junk dealer, give it to a charity, take it yourself to the nearest collection point, or get in touch with your Local Salvage Committee. If you live on a farm, consult your County War Board or your farm im plement dealer. Throw YOUR scrap into the fight! This message approved by Conservation Division WAR PRODUCTION BOARD This advertisement paid for by the American Industries Salvage Committee (representing and with funds provided by groups of leading industrial concerns.) LOCAL SALVAGE COMMITTEE JUNK MAKES FIGHTING WEAPONS One old radiator will provida scrap atecl need ed for seventeen .30 calibre rifles. One old lawn mower will help make six 3-inch shells. One useless old „ tire will pro- vide as much £» rubber as is used in 12 gas &• masks. One old shovel will help meke 4 hand grenades. MATERIALS NEEDED Scrap iron and steel. Other metals of all kinds. Old rubbar. Rags, Manila rope, burlap bags. Wasta Cooking Fats — Strain into a larga tin can and when you get a pound or mora, aell to your maat dealer. NEEDED ONLY IN CERTAIN LOCAUHES: Waste paper and tin cans, as announced locally. NOT NEEDED at this time: Rator blade#-glass. MRS. R. H. WRIGHT, Chairman, Phone 132 L. C. GRAHAM, Cp-chairman, Phone 255 CENTRAL COMMITTEE: P. B. Ezell, Miss Ethel Counts, W. H. Carter, Mrs. R. L. Baker, Mrs. Price Padgett, Mrs. H. M. Bryson, John L. Epps.