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The Spectator
Since the gasoline restriction in
our area was decreed; and again
when the price was increased two and
a half cents a gallon in this area, I
have wonderec a bit about the legali
ty of both ths restriction and the
price. One of our principles is that
we are all citizens of one nation and
all stand equa'. before the law. Sec
tion 8 of Article I of the Constitu
tion of the United States says: “AH
duties, imposts and excises shall be
uniform throughout the United
States.”
How about reviving the small
town ? In the god old gasoline and
rubber days we could “start-her-up”
and run to the city for something
or other, perhaps an excuse to run
over to the big town. Of course,
there wasn”t anything worth buying
in the little country town we seemed
to think. The stock doesn’t look so
fancy and Bill and Ed don’t look as
nifty as the city salesmen. But the
time has come around again when the
restrictions on rubber and gasoline
bring old Dobbin back to the pop
ularity he enjoyed before the day of
the gasoline buggy.
The smal town has certain advan
tages: You can “shop” all over the
business section without long, tire
some walking. Again, you probably
know the merchant and his clerks.
John Doe, the merchant, attends
church (or does he?), and Bill and
Sam ar e the sons of a neighbor. Ma
bel, the cashier, lives around the cor
ner and can tell you how Sally’s boy
is or Henry’s daughter. Shopping' in
a small town is just a neighborly
visit.
The war may make us neighborly
again. We can’t go very far with
that “A ’’’card, so lets use good old
shoe-leather.
I acquired a pair of shoes for $1.50.
That was luck, too. Here’s how' it
was: A pair of favorite shoes had
worn to the ground. For six weeks a
certain shoe man had promised to
have a pair for me. As I waited, the
shoes wore and wore. You know the
comfort of old shoes? Well, all the
comfort was on top for the soles had
about gone to the bow-wows.
I bought a pair, but they “didn’t
suit”. No, sir, they weren’t my kind.
So I was in a pickle. But a bright
idea occurred: Why not half-sole
the old shoes? Well, why not, as a
matter of fact? I sent the shoes to
a friend who has the necessary skill.
He did so well that I forthwith sal
vaged a second pair from my private
dump—and now I have two pairs—
all stout and serviceablei—at $1.50
each.
Bernard Baruch and his associates
will command confidence in their re
port on the rubber situation. It is
unfortunate that we’ve waited so
long to do what should have been
done months ago Nor would this
Commission exisv today if Congress
had not passed an Act creating an
agency to deal with the rubber prob
lem, and requiring the use of farm
products in the manufacture of rub
ber.
The rival contentions as between
synthetic, or substitute rubber, made
from oil and alcohol are very much
before the public. Why not both?
Why do we Americans argue interm
inably over such problems? We are
a big enough consumer to use all the
rubberlikely to be made—and we need
it now. Besides, this is no new prob
lem; Russia has been ihaking rubber
from farm products for ten years.
As a result of Japanese activity in
Asia we may soon make all our rub
ber here, thus creating another great
American industry. Both the alcohol
advocates and the oil people are com
ing forward with roseate promises.
The President of a great Oil Com
pany tells a committee of the senate
that by the end of 1943 his company
will be making enough rubber to pro
vide 8,500,000 tires a year.
No nation is defeated; no war is
lost, while the armed forces of a
country are still intact in the field.
We hear many people say that we
are losing the war. Certainly that is
not true. Aslong as our country" is
in our possession we have not lost the
war. But more than that; we have
hardly entered the war. Britain
seemed whipped two years ago, but
she Is stronger today than at Dun
kirk. She didn’t know she was whip
ped; and, of course she wasn’t. We
Americans haven’t put our real
strength into the war yet. When we
have an army of millions in actual
engagement, with more millions in
camp back home, ready to go, we
shall really be trying our strength.
We have a long way to go before we
shall see the vigorous Americans in
battle on a large scale. Enough has
been done by our sailors, soldiers and
airmen to prove the quality of our
men in battle.
We have a military tradition of
victory and the high spirit of con
querors is in the heart of every
American.
Said a man to me “You talk and
write a lot about the war. I thought
you were speaking for businessmen.”
What do you think of that? Are
businessmen different from other
men? Is not the war the greatest
task of us, all? Who, by the way,
are the soldiers, sailors, marines and
airmen of this war? Are business
men in touch with the fighting ser
vices? There is an. impression that
whenever a businessman gets into
war he sits at a desk in this coun
try, far from the heat and sweat;
safe fromt he awful roar and blast of
artillery, a long way from the crash
of bombs and the rain of machine gun
bullets. Well, many businessmen of
sixty years are at work behind the
lines, but in the ranks, in the fight
ing tops of ships, in submarines, In
the air—and wherever the American
flag flies—are the younger business
men, facing the enemy. And the old
er businessmen: What stake have
they in the war? Their sons are In
the field or on the sea or in the air,
with the other lads of America. The
Draft Boards draw men, and they
come from every walk and community
and condition of life. This is no rich
man’s war and poor man’s fight; this
is the war ofeachof us and is the
fight of all.
Some days ago a man of large in
terests stopped a soldier with these
questions: “Are you in — Division?”
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Order today.
Carpenter’s
The soldier said that he was. “_My
name is X”, said the man “and my
son is in your Division. Can you tell
me if the Division is being moved’”?
Was that man more interested in the
war or in his business? Recently I
had an engagement with a man of
' large interests. When I arrived in
his town he was away. He had receiv
ed a message that his son was being
sent away; and to that camp went
the anxious father,leaving business
and friends and engagements.
All of us are alike: the father and
mother who stood ready to travel 1,-
200 miles to a camp to see their sick
soldier son; and the millionaire and
wife whose boy is a marine—they are
at the bottom just fathers and moth
ers; and their richest treasures are
not in banks, but in flesh and blood!
Even with the differences of plan
and outlook we have a vast stake in
America, a stake which is the same to
all of us. Some are bargaining for
wages. That can’t be done anywhere
else today, I think.
Our Pee Dee farmers are rejoicing
in the goon prices for tobacco. That
can’t be found anywhere else, I think.
We still travel; we still have an abun
dance of everything really necessary
to our comfort. In spite of war con
trols and rationing, we are not only
the favored people of fortune,but our
faViers, in their palmiest days, had
much less.
Businessmen have worked and in
vested in this America of ours and
they have enjoyed the opportunities
of free enterprise and the inviting
field forthe full scope of their genius.
The workers, likewise, have prospered
and lived in comfort and peace and
plenty. The rich men and the busi
ness leaders began at the bottom. As
Napoleon said, to inspire his army,
every soldier carries a Marshall’s ba
ton in his knapsack. Just as every
soldier may cherish the ambition to
rise in the service, like some of out'
generals who began in the ranks, so
may every American worker hope to
rise in the ranks of industry as' so
many have done.
We have some superficial differ
ences of the moment, but to us, all,
business leaders and men in the busi
ness ranks, there is the one great in
terest in common, to keep America
free, to maintain it as the land of op
portunity, becokoning to each man to
rise to the full sweep of his powers
and to climb as high as he can.
GRAPES $6 AND SALMON *3
POUND IN LONDON TOWN
Exhorbitant prices are being
charged for what before the war were
considered only moderate luxuries.
Today grapes are selling for $6 a
pound, while fresh salmon sold for
$3 to $4.20 a pound.
Home grown pears were selling
72 to 80 cents a pound; mushrooms
about $1.60. Most prices are about
1,000 per cent above the prewar fig
ures.
The “grapevine” ’in Europe is bear
ing bitter fruit fp- Hitler.
To The Voters of The
Third Congressional
District:
I regret the legislative pro
gram in Congress has made it im
possible for me to attend all the
campaign meetings or visit every
locality in my district this sum
mer, but since I know the people
usually inquire into the record of
a candidate for office I am avail
ing myself of this method of call
ing attention to some of my ef
forts and accomplishments since
coming to Congress.
Author of Produce Agency act
which has saved and is now sav
ing farmers millions of dollars in
marketing perishable farm crops.
Author of first Philippine In
dependence Act providing with
drawal of American troops from
Philippine Islands July 4, 1941.
This was later changed to July 4,
1945. If Comgress had let the law
stand as I made it and left it in
1933, there would have been no
American boys in Bataan or Cor-
regidor in 1942. Your present
congressman had ,uo part in
changing the law.
Conceived the idea and intro
duced bill three years ago to use
2,000,000 to 4,000,00o bales of cot
ton by converting same into mu
nitions of war, the necessity and
wisdom of which is now recog
nized.
Author of motion approved in
committee to increase appropria
tions by $7,000,000 in the early
part of 1941 for use in training
air pilots.
Advocated and urged increase
in pay and retirement privileges
to soldiers in the army when the
Selective Service Act of 1940 was
amended. The pay increase was
approved a few weeks ago.
Outlined plan and have urged
for more than two years the con
struction of a military highway
from Charleston, South Carolina,
to Cincinnati, Ohio. If we had it
now there would be no gasoline
shortage in South Carolina.
Author of pending bill provid
ing for rural free delivery ser
vice by substitute carriers on all
holidays except Sunday.
Protested against policy of call
ing white and colored men L.to
service at ratio of 10 to 1, sum
moned representatives from Se
lective Service System before
Committee and succeeded in hav
ing policy changed, according to
their written statement, so that
the ratio after July 1st would be
in proportion the population of
each bears to the total population
of the state.
Succeeded after two years ef
fort in having Department of La
bor begin investigations for the
purpose of determining cost and
feasibility of installing air con
ditioning systems in textile
plants.
Author of first bill (H.R.5125)
to insure bank deposits, which be
came the basis of the law enact
ed in the 73rd Congress.
Author of pending bill (H.R.
7298) providing that all grants
in aid to states by the Federal
government should be on basis of
per capita income instead of
matching dollar for dollar, includ
ing grants for old age pensions.
Should this bill become a law it
will mean a saving to our state
of approximately $2,000,000 an
nually.
Chairman of sub-committee
that prepared, reported and pass
ed bill reducing appropriations
this year over $200,000,000 for
non-defense activities in Federal
Security Agency and Department
of Labor.
Chairman Insular Affairs Com
mittee for two years. What to
do with our insular possessions
and how we shall adjust our for
eign trade relations will be para
mount issues when the war is
over.
Now member Appropriations
Committee—the largest commit
tee in Congress—and Chairman
sub-committee on appropriations
for Department of Labor & Fed
eral Security Agency.
I have diligently and actively
discharged every duty to the best
of my ability and if you find I
have merited the confidence re
posed in me two years ago, I
shall appreciate your support.
BUTLER B. HARE
From The Lancaster News.
Eugene S. Blease of Newberry,
candidate for the United States sen
ate, said that this was the first time
he had ever been a candidate for
a state office. Some people won
dered why he entered the race. Since
he had resigned as chief justice he
had spent a lot of time fishing on
Lake Murray and reading. While,
he fished he thought. Sitting down
there reading and studying what
was going on in this state and
Washington he decided that some
body had a duty to perform. South
Carolina had been good to him and
he had determined that he would
try to repay it. He is in this figrht
because he wants his grandson, whom
he had raised, to come back alive
fom this war if it is possible. He
wanted him to come back to a state
free of idleness, free of extravagance
and free of political corruption. He
is standing for principles he be
lieves must be established before
America can win this war. No man’s
heart beats stronger and purer for
President P.^-asevelt than does his.
He wants co help save President
Roosevelt and to save this country
from extravagance. He said that
an American soldier had said to him
that America can’t lick Japan and
Germany until we lick ourselves
first. We’ve got to lick idleness, ex
travagance and political corruption.
He said the President must have help
and his first help must come from
the United States Senate. One of
the first things he would propose
when he went to Washington was
that the Senate — a group of poli
ticians — quit picking out the war
leaders. Politicians have never won
a war and never will. He said that
senators are always saying that they
can’t get away from the arduous
duties of the United States Senate
to come home to meet the people.
He said if you would look in on a
session of the Senate you’d prob
ably see fouror five sitting around
while one man was talking. He said
that under certain circumstances he
would also have hesitated to face
the people. He said if he had prom
ised 1,000 people jobs as state con
stables and only appointed a hun
dred and if he had promised 5,000
people jobs on the Senate canal and
appointed only 1,000, he too would
not have wanted to go out and face
the people. He said they got busy
in Washington after the opening of
this campaign and now claim to have
cut a billion dollars qff of approp
riations. He held up a check which
he said had been paid to a negro
woman, who draws $5 a day, for
teaching negro women how to
straighten the kinks out of their
hair. This, he said, was paid under
the guise cf national defense. He
said that he was accused of trying
to inject the race question. If
elected he would plead with Wash
ington to let us aloonoe — that the
two races had been living in peace
since 1876 and that Washington was
going to stir up trouble if it kppt
dabbling in it. He said that a soc
ialite was paid $400,000 in Washing
ton for getting contracts and that
all that he ever did was to entertain
at champagne parties. Washington,
although only about one-fourth as
large as New York, drinks mpre
champagne. We can’t win a war
that way. As Mayor of Newberry
he had tried to enforce prohibition
law. Maybank as Mayor of Char
leston had said that Charleston
would drink beer and pay a tax bn
it if the state would let them, other
wise it would drink it and not pay
it because the police of that city
had no intention of trying to prevent
it. Referred to the voting machine
in Charleston and of efforts made
by good people of that city to get'a
ballot machine which automatically
registers votes installed. Expressed
confidence in his election.
SELECTIVE SERVICE PLAN FOR
FUELWOOD
“The proper selection of fuelwood,”
says P. B. Ezell, county agent,“can
do much towards improving the re
maining stand of timber. Although
the use of fuelwood has decreased
steadily in the United States for mpre
than 50 years because of the increas
ed use of coal and fuel oil, the quan
tity that is cut each year is still near
ly half as great as it was at the
peak -
“The use of fuelwood also is sec- ;
ond only to lumber in the amount of
jyood that is used each year. Proper
selection of fuelwood, therefore, of
fers a very important means by which
farm wodlands can be improved.
“If fuelwood is cut according to
plan,” Mr. Ezell continues, “many of
the mistakes of the past can be cor
rected. Firewood should be obtained
from crooked, dead or diseased, sup
pressed, or large, limby, “wolf’ trees.
The removal of such trees as these
will do much toward improving any
woodland. It removes the cull trees
and leaves the good, desirable, and
well shaped ones to continue growth.
“Trees that are suitable for lum
ber, veneer logs, box bolts, or other
special products should not be taken
for fuel. Large quantities of straight-
grained hickory are needed by the
airplane industry for laminated pr<r
pellor blades, good oak is needed for
ships, hickory and ash are needed for
handles, and lumber is needed for oth
er war industries. These products
can be obtained only from well-shaped
trees. The cutting of these trees for
fuel, therefore, is a waste of valua
ble resources.”
Men are dying for the Four
S|i Freedoms. The least we can
(Hr* do here at home is to buy
mk. War Bonds —10% for War
Lm Bonds, every pay day.
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By ETHEL L. COUNTS
There is plenty of cheese—good
cheese—in every part of the United
States right now. There’s enough at
this time to supply our own fight
ing men—to ship to our allies—io
serve often here at heme. From
August 17 through August 29, food
stores the country over are featuring
cheese as a Victory Food special. '
This is good news to homemakers
—especially those in parts of the
country feeling a temporary shortage
of certain types of meat. For cheese
contains the same high-type protein
that is in meat. Many cheese dishes,
like meat dishes, are the substantial
kind around which you build a meal.
It’s easy to see why there’s so
much ado nationally and internation
ally about cheese as soon as yoou see
what it has to offer in the way offood
value. Take American cheddar cheese
—which makes up about four-fifths
of our total production here—and is
the kind we send under Lend-Lease!
This cheese contains the efficient
kind of protein that provides the
building stuff of the body—repairs
worn out tissues. By far the greatest
share of American cheddar is made
from whole milk, and therefore has
enough fat in it to make it a good
fuel food and one that “stays by’” the
eater—keeps him from feeling hun
gry right away after a meal.
Cheese rates high also as an excel
lent source of calcium—the mineral
that gives shape and permanence to
body framework. If it is made from
whole milk, cheese supplies vitamin
A. Also it has in it considerable rib
oflavin—another vitamin needed for
health and normal growth.
In fact, heese made from whole
milk contains almost all the food val
ue of the milk itself—done up in a
compact package with the liquid
squeezed out. Although a bit of the
milk”s ’’food value goes of in the
whey, for all practical purposes if
you wish you can count 1-3 of a
pound of cheese equal to 1 quart of
fluid milk when you figure your
family’s daily milk quota.
Every bit of cheese—down to the
rind—is good food. If the cheese get
too hard to cut easily, grate it and
use it that way. Keep cheese well
wraped in a cool place.
Cheese Cooking Briefs
■ Build cheese right into your meals
It is a concentrated food that contrib
utes a lot of food values.
Cheese and eggs make up many
substantial main dishes—souffles,
fondues, rabbits, baked eggs and
cheese. As far as temperatures are
concerned the same coking rules hold
for both of these good protein foods.
Both become hard and tough if cook
ed at too high temperatures.
Keep heat low in cooking cheese
dishes atop the stove, by setting them
in a pan of hot water. Most cheese
dishes cooked in the oven need tem
peratures from slow to moderate.
Get cheese into small pieces before
you combine it with other ingredients
in most coked dishes. Grate the
cheese, slice it, cube it, or run it
through a sieve. That way the
cheese cooks more quickly, can be dis
tributed evenly throughout. Cheese
heated in one big chunk stays in that
chunk after the fat melts out. Then
it is impossible to divide this mass
into smaller pieces and mix the even
ly throughout the dish.
A good way to combine cheese with
potatoes and leftovers vegetables
... with cereals such as spaghetti
and marcaroni.. .is to make a cheese
MORE COTS NEEDED FOR
SOLDIERS’ CENTER
Any person having a cot to lend
can be of real service if he or she
will call 132, Mrs. Herman Wright’s
residence. Cots have been donated
by Mrs. L. W. Jones, Mrs. Burl Da
vis, Mrs. Joe Feagle, Mrs. R. D.
Wright, and Miss Mazie Dominick.
These, the 6 given by Dr. Weeks, and
those bought by the committee, there
are in at, twenty-two. At least that
many more are needed. Of the more
than fifty soldiers here last weeekend,
many had uncomfortable sleeping."
sauce to pour over the other cooked
ingredients. Make a white sauce of
flour, fat milk, and salt Take this
sauce from the stove. Add the finely
broken cheese, and stir the sauce until
the cheese melts.
Add food value and variety to
biscuits and muffins by putting grat
ed cheese in with the dry ingredients
first, then add the cheese.
In a muffin recipe that uses 2 to 4
tablespoons melted fat, one-half cup
of cheese may replace the fat. In a
biscuit recipe calling for about 1 and
one-half cups sifted flour, one-half
cup grated cheese may be added the
other ingredients.
If you have difficulty making a
Welsh rabbit that is smoth and un
curdled try this. Make the cheese in
to a white sauce mixture before you
combine it with the egg. Keep tem-
perature low throughout.
Safe & Sane
Wyndham
Manning
For Governor
Advocates Safe and Sane Govern
ment . . . Unity Instead of Disunity
\
. . . Order Instead of Disorder . - as
a Guarantee of Maximum State Co
operation for Victory . . and to as
sure a Strong Economic Foundation
Against Difficult Times Which Will
Follow the War.
Neighborhood Mothers
Endorse
Eugene S. Blease
We, mothers of sons offering their lives in our
country’s defense, are neighbors of Judge Eugene S.
Blease, always our true neighbor. He has helped our
boys in peace; he will help them in war. Our boys
have played with his boy, also now in his country’s
service.
We wish Eugene S. Blease elected to the United
States Senate, for we know: /
He will oppose extravagance, idleness and cor
ruption, so that the war will be won as early a t pos
sible, so your boys and our boys, who are spared,
may come back to us and to a state of honest peace.
Mothers, help us beat the political machines.
Vote with us for Judge Blease, who will serve his
country at all times.
We are willing to entrust the lives of our sons to
his care. We can depend on Eugene S. Blease.
MRS. HARRIETTE LEAVELL O’DONNELL
MRS. C. E. HUTCHINSON
MRS. CHARLIE M. BERRY
MRS. JOSIE P. McALHANY
MRS. S. O. NESLEY
MRS. L. G. ESKRIDGE, SR.
MRS. OTTO F. ARMFIELD
MRS. EPSIE M. BUZHARDT
MRS. G. V. CLAMP
MRS. FRANK DEVORE
Paid For By Newberry Friendi of judge Blease