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PACK POTT* THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1942 1*1* Colic re StrMt Newberry, S. C. 0. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publiahar One Year One Dollar Published every Friday Entered mm aecond-class matter December 6, 1837, at the poet office at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act ot March 3, 1879. WITNESSES AND TIGERS (News and, Courier) In the hill country of South Caro lina are pet tigers, and they circu late freely, or for fifteen or twenty cents a week, among the people. It is safe for them to run loose, for, though they have ^tentorian voices, they have neither teeth nor claws. They eat out of the hands of little children who stroke their velvet hides and play with their velvet paws. These beautiful and amiable animals, despite their mighty roarings, are not feared by man nor woman, and all the people daily feed them, so they are kept fat—so fat they cannot uh- limber even for a primary election. The following is a specimen of the roarings, in English of a sort, in one of them, of Greenville, this morning, many of these pettted and fattened tigers being hopelessly addicted to what they would call “editorializing.” “It cannot be too strongly em phasized that a grave civic respon sibility rests upon every enrolled citizen to make his most careful choice among the candidates for the various ofices and to register that choice at the polls today. That these are* critical times for the na tion as a whole and for the state itself is too obvious to need argu ment; and under such conditions it is more important than ever that we place in public office citizens who have the ability, the sound judgment and the earnest purpose of conscientious public service, es pecially needed in these times of national peril. It is, more par ticularly so than ever this year the serious responsibility of the voter to form his judgment on the basis of the candidate’s qualifica tions to give their country and their state the character of public service which these times demand, and to make their judgment count by registering it in the ballot box today.” Never a hint or word has appeared in the “editorializing” that one of the candidates for office is not as good as another, and the people who pet and feed the tiger are forced to con clude from his bellowed inanities that they will elect perfectly good of ficers no matter for when they vote. I Classified Ads FOR SALE—Genuine Oliver mower repair parts at DAVIS MOTOR CO. 4tc. WANTED—Wire coat-hangers, will pay 1c each for them. Bring them to us or phone 310 and we will pick them up. Newberry Steam Laundry and Dry Cleaners Co. 4tc COTTON SHEETS—For the best Cotton Sheets see Johnson-McCrack- ■in company. 4tc WANTED TO BUY—Scrap Iron, Copper, Aluminum, auto radio parts, Rags, Inner-tubes and Zinc. Loca tion in alley leading to Standard Oil company bulk plant. W. H. Sterling. Announcements 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 When You exchange YOUR WHEAT at our mill you can get « Flour and Feed or All Feed or All Flour For the Best Flour bring your wheat to The Spartan Grain and Mill Co. Newberry, S. C. For the New* tune in on WSPA, Spartanburg, 950 on your dial, each week day at 7 a. m. anR 7:30 a. m. The tiger has no choice, therefore, no choice should be made by the feed ers of the tiger, but they should not evade “a grave responsibility,” that being the exclusive privilege of the petted tigers, one of whom after be ing petted into the cage, called the United States senate, quit the game of leadership as soon as he got out of it. (He was never deep in the game.) Last week another of the pet ti gers, this one not so fat, which roams in the home county of Associate Jus tice James F. Byrnes, actually unlim bered and cut loose in editorial toots against Eugene S. Blease, candidate or United States senator, saying that he injected the “race issue” into the campaign—as though the race issue had not been injected years ago from Washington—injected so strongly that Senator Byrnes exclaimed on the floor of the senate, January 11, 1998 “The negroes are now in control, of the Democratic party.” The Spar tanburg Herald, the sleek tiger to which the News and Courier is refer ring herein, would not quote that saying of Mr. Byrnes—it might Em barrass an associate justice. This petted, though somewhat lean, journalistic tiger, also is toothless, and long has been. The News and Courier will not discuss the fairness or lack of it in the editorial aticles attacking Mr. Blease on the eve of the primary, on that it reserve opin ion and will be polite, but it remarks that The Herald appears to have been fitted with artificial teeth for a particular occasion and whence they came is none of our business. The Herald, we believe, while petted more or less in Spartanburg, is own ed somewhere in partibus infidelium, to wit, New England and other Northern states. To the best of our knowledge, The Spartanburg Herald has not often, if at all, in years contained an article designed to influence the result of South Carolina primariies until last week, when it insidiously attacked Mr. Blease for “injecting the race issue” ten days after the wife of the president had come out of the White House to speak to the colored people of Salisbury, also a textile manufac turing town of the Upcountry, and tell them of their equal rights. She said that they were entitled to have jobs that they were qualified to hold and the Spartanburg Herald probably believes as we do that negroes should be excluded from employment in Spartan, Clifton and Pacolet mills, but will not say so. That ex pression from the home county of Associate Justice Byrnes (former senator and filibustterer against an anti-Southern bill while the wife of the president was lobbying for it), might not be pleasant reading for him. There will be those to say that what I have here and now written is an exhibition of sour temper, that the writer has indulged in personal viciousness. It is not so. I have only the kindest feeling toward the petted tigers, I wish them mighty well, but I am writing for the people who feed them and saying what ought_to be said for the journalism of South Tiarolina because nobody else will say it. Strange as it may appear I am concerned for South Carolina. Its political condition is low, its re sistance is weak, it is debilitated and there is no more alarming symptom of it than the lolling of the petted tigers in their toothless and clawless silence. The Upcountry has had no voice of its own since Alfred B. Wil liams left it. Government is important. The peo ple cannot get away from it. The most governed are the worst govern ed. Mr. Blease has said no more, in substance than that a new Recon struction is afoot, that it is marching from Washington, and that The News and Courier has said time and again the last seven or eight years. We take it that the blow aimed at Mr. Blease is aimed also at The News ind Courier and all persons who bilieve with it that the race is sue Iks been revived and is being pressed on the people of South Caro lina, on all the Southern people, by the Northern congressmen, the cpd- dlers and buyers of negro votes in Harlem and the great Northern citieg, and that the pressure is from the White House itself. When a man’s wife speaks out on a subject ptrtinent to government and politics, the husband agrees with her or else he speaks out plainly that he does not. That is a self evident truth that the petted and fatted of Greenville and Spartanburg will pot dispute. NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING We, the undersigned Jury Commiss. ioners of Newberry county, shall on the 10th day of September 1942, at 9 o’clock a. m., openly and publicly draw, in the Clerk of Court’s office, thirty-six names to serve at Petit Jurors for the court of Common Pleas which w r ill convene in the Newberry county court house September 21, 1942, at 10 o’clock, a. m. H. K. Boyd, Clerk of Court. P. N. Abrams, Auditor. J. R. Dawkins, Treas. The Spectator Every red-blooded man must re- umphs over all. You recall the teach- joice with James A. Farley in his vie. tory over Mr. Roosevelt. As Presi dent of the United States Mr. Roose velt should have listened to President Roosevelt’s solemn admonition that We adjourn politics during the war. Instead of that, Mr. Roosevelt, with all the power, prestige and opportun ity of the Presidency, went out of his way to play politics in New York. His overwhelming defeat—or that of his candidate—is a wholesome demon ing in Zechariah “Not by might, nor by power, but by spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts.’ Through the spirit of omnipotence all opposition is laid Sow. (Zee. 4:6). There is a danger that we may ex ult in our own strength, as we loo’k at the splendid manhood of our forces and deal the figures of industrial pro. duction. All our history warns us to call upon Jehovah. It is not that we narrowly think of the King of Kings stration that the presidency is not | as belonging to us; or that we can • i - -t r* i 1 1* i l tt: a • J „ . '*• n 4- Vi ■tires yet in absolute control of local poli tics in New York state. We proved once or twice that the presidency can’t entirely run our politics down here. If America is fighting for something let political freedom be one of our major goals. Since Con gress handed over the Nation to the President in 1933 our politicians have bowed the knee; but the people don’t; they still want to do their own vot ing Shall the farmers give up. sur render and deny themselves what lit tle advantage they have in the 110 per cent parity? Conceivably the farmer might do that. He might, iin fact surrender much more—^provided his creditors didn’t surrender him for debt. There is no Pmit to the self- denial and patriotism of which farm ers are capable, but the Secretary of Agriculture cuts a sorry figure in asking farmers to give up expected income while the only voice which speaks of Labor cnes for more “social gains,” higherpay, and all that. The farmers, merchants and others of America should look at this tie-up between the Government and Organ ized Labor. Much that i's being said and done is such a bold and bald tie- up with Labor that the rest of us are violently thrown on the other side of the fence. The National Dem ocratic Party, or the National New Deal, is courting, supporting, pam pering and coddling Labor so openly, so unfairly to others, that it is di viding us. We can see that, even the most near-sighted. Perhaps our farmers would rather be New Dealers with Labor, even by surrendering the 110 per cent, of pari ty, and leaving Labor with the $10 a day to $20 a day jobs. But I doubt it. The farmer who has clear ten bales of cotton is such a rare man that he ought to be put in a big wagon and caried in triumph through the street for all of us to see him and bow in admiration; but even ordinary work ers on Government jobs are receiving the value of a bale of cotton a week, if they put in even much less time than a fermer’s week. There you. are farmers! You should surrender your little piece of meat in the pot, while the man on wages draws as much money in a week as you hope to get in a month. And need I remind you that your bale of cotton is not pro fit? How much profit have you in a bale of cotton? The wage-earner with his $50 to $75 a week is clear ing all that. No investment lies be hind it. That is the fruit of his work —and from a fine tree—but your fruit or iprofit is hardly $25 a bale, is it? , Say, what do you think of Mr. Wickard’s suggestion ? He says that your prices are causing things to go up! Well, did he sayanything about high wages making everything high? It is passing strange but everybody seems to think that it is a fine and noble thin when a $2 man receives $10,—five times, mark you—but it is simply terrible for a farmer to re- ceive twenty cents for cotton, thougrn his labor, fertilizer, mules—have greatly advanced. Twenty cents isn’t his profit; it is his Selling Price. A man’s wages or salary may be regard ed as his personal profit; but a farm er’s selling price lacks a lot of being his profit. Both Cotton-Ed and Congressman Fulmer have denounced Mr. Wick ard’s suggestion. As they are lead ers of Agriculture in Congress I hope they can protect the farmer from those who are afraid that a few dol lars in his pocket will ruin the Na tion. We ar e all full of the war;—camps, flying fields, forts are everywhere; and all about us are our boys in uni form. They wear the insignia of the Nation and carry our hopes and our national safety with them on fields of battle throughout the world and on the seven seas. We are trusting to tijese young men to uphold the Na tion’s dignity and its integrity. Two hundred billions have been authoriz ed and many, many billions will yet be called for. We are providing the means and the men for battle. But I need not apologize for saying that no great or lasting victory will result merely from matching our skill and bravery against the enemy. What are w e fighting for? Land and wealth? No. Are we seeking anything which belongs to some one else? No. Are we trying to extend our trade or reap an advantage of any kind? No. What, then, are we fighting for? We are fighting Nations which claim the right to take the property of others by force. Boiled down, if powerful, rich and well-armed men undertook to seize the farms of their neighbors, we should all band together to re strain those bold marauders, in the interest of justice and the common peace. Our program is a generous one of neighborly consideration, as well as our own safety. There is a power greater than the terrific velocity of a sixteenth-inch gun. We need those guns on battle ships; and we need all the other wea pons, but there is a power far trans cending all the might, pomp and panoply of war. It is the fact of omnipotence which we must consider. In that wonderful Book which we call the Bible,—the Book—the way of life is made so plain. We are taught that our means and power are just puny, when consecrated to Jehovah we become, through Him, or He, through us, a force which tri- bring Him to our side; rather we must be sure that as the mariner watches the sun and fixes his course by frequent study of the sun, so should we study our course by the Righteousness of Jehovah. The ma riner does not try to bring the sun to his ship; he keeps the ship’s posi tion right with the sun. So must we. As we read of the mobilizing of our vast resources it is timely to re call the admonition of Jeremiah: “Let net the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise loving- kindness, judgment and righteousness in the earth: for in these things I de light, saith the Lord.” (Jer. 9:23, 24). In time of peril there is a reality about our dependence which strikes more deeply than in normal periods. A strong man knows his strength and, if he is strong enough, knows his weakness. When I think of the war I recall the story of David as a young war- rier. You recall that he came to the Goliath: “Thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield; but I come in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the ar mies of Isreal . . . and all the assem bly shall know that the Lord saveth not with the sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s.” David had a weapon and was prac ticed in the use of it; he had the courage; but he went forth as the instrument of Jehovah and proclaimed the battle as the Lord’s. That is full of meaning for us. David did not quail before the giant Goliath because David thought of how puny Goliath was, and how feeble, compared with the God of Battles whom Goliath in sulted. So David went out to the combat in the strength of the Lord, as His soldier, the instrument of His power. If our armies and ships are the Lord’s no question can arise as to ultimate victory. This is no reli gious exhortation; religion, or a right relation to the Supreme Being, is the most practical fact in life; nor should we have to stand by an open grave to believe it. One little incident of Jesse’s dip lomacy impressed me and shows how understanding and practical David’s fathei* was. Jesse had three sons_ in Saul’s army; and he sent David to see the soldier brothers, very thought fully sending parched com and ten loaves of bread to the soldier boys. That was a reminder of home and mother, a bit of home cooking which all soldiers enjoy. But Jesse was a man of wisdom and broad outlook for he sent 10 cheeses to the Captain. I wonder why some Captain doesn’t discover this chapter. Nothing also said about the result, Whether the three boys became corporals or ser geants. At any rate, I don’t think a fine baked turkey or box of mo „ ther’s cakes, sausage and pies would Camp*of* S*auf to "sle his three soldYer • offend any Captain. Of course there brothers. He saw the towering figure may be a law against it. If not, brothers. He saw the towering figure of Goliath and heard him shout de fiance to the Israelites. Then David with the valor of youth, went forth and slew the giant and cut off his head. David used his skill with the sling, but he went forth to battle in the name of Jehovah. Said he . to then that is one noble impulse not chilled by law. The Scripture says that Je-se sent the parched corn arid bread to his sons, but I wonder if Jesse’s wife didn’t send the com to her boys, while Jesse craftily sent the cheeses to the Captain. Hare Thanks Voters I am deeply grateful to the voters of the 3rd Congress ional district for the gener ous support given me in the recent primary election I shall continue to serve the interests of my District, State, and Nation to the best of my ability, and sin cerely trust my efforts may be such as to merit the con fidence reposed in me. Butler B. Hare The Fall meeting of the County Council of Farm Women will be held at New Hope-Zion school house on Friday, Septemebr 25th with Mt. Pleasant and Pressley as joint hos tesses. Plan now to go—save your gas and be sure that there are no va cant seats in your car. SERVICES AT ST. LUKES’ EPISCOPAL Regular Sunday services on the first and third Sundays in the month will be resumed beginning Sunday, September 6th at 4 p. m. in St. Lukes Episcopal church, the Rev. B. A. Williams, rector, announces. BANK HOLIDAY NOTICE This Bank will be closed MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7th in observance of • LABOR DAY SOUTH CAROLINA NATIONAL BANK Pudding Performance _ ?.»C0AL Clarence T. Summer, Inc. RU-BER-OID TEX-TAB ASPHALT SHINGLES Tex-Tab’s popular wood grain textuia and attractive colon make emart roofe. Tex- Tab wean longer, protect* you against fire. Many discriminating home owners prefer Tex-Tab. Looks costly, yet you’ll be pleased at the thrifty price. Made by Buberoid — makers of fine roof products for over hall a century. See us today! Clarence T. Summer, Inc. Strother C. Paysinger AGENT SINCLAIR REFINING COMPANY To The Farmers of Newberry ... and Surrounding Counties Bring your COTTON to the FARMER’S BONDED WAREHOUSE, Federal license No. 2-1294 for prompt Service. Having been approved by the CCC and having received contracts for the 1942-43 Gov ernment loan, we are now ready to put your cotton In loan and issue check here at the Warehouse. If you want to sell, two buyers on yard at all times are paying top prices for both long or short staple. —YOUR PATRONAGE APPRECIATED. FARMERS Bonded Warehouse JNO. W. ROBERTSON, Manager