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\ FRIDAY, OCTOiJJffR 2, 1942 PAfGfi FIVE THb nisnoxw>.. The Spectator No American likes to be critical during a war. I know that I should be much happier if I might be just a booster. Mistakes we can overlook because we haveafellow feeling for the man who makes mistakes, since we make them, all of us. We really are not comfortable in the presence of those who are perfect; we can’ understand them. So we are willing to disregard blunders of the Gov ernment; the failure to see, or the unwillingness to act, on matters ap parent to everybody. In spite of all that; notwithstanding the creation of Commissions and Commissions, and yet other Commissions over those Commissions,—and all the manifold evidence of administrative inepti tude, we should like to shout in a frenzy of patriotism. The war, though world-wide in its geographical reaches, though colossal in its demands for everything, is not sufficient to bring us closely-knit to gether as a Nation. Even the war is being used to broaden, strengthen, entrench and multiply the New Deal. The war- front may be in military hands, with out political considerations, but the home-front is still a vast recruiting area for the New Deal. Just as the President brandishes a big stick over the farmers and calls for pegging their prices, regardless of the condition of the farmer him self; and while the President com pels the Congress to sacrifice the farmers, the President generously of fers to stabilize industrial wages What wages ? Industrial wages Not the wages of clerks and book keepers, typists and others. No; the wages of industrial workers. Why industrial workers? Because they are unionized. Let’s hold down the farmer’s prices, his eighty five cents a bushel for corn, though he made little or no corn. I know a farmer who has sold about a thousand bush els of com every year. This year the s potty rains cut his crop; he will barely feed his stock; he has no corn for sale. What about this farm er’s income ? The price may be good, but the income is what the farmer needs; and that is what the Government is giving to industrial wage-earners. Stabilize wages ? What is that^? All the stabilizing we’ve seen Is granting increases. Even on the 18th of this month the War Labor Board allowed an increase of four cents an hour to 225,000 workers of General Motors. Thirty-two cents a day in crease for eight hours and six cents an hour increase all over eight hours. That is “stabilization”, as the Presi dent thinks of it. And the farmer? Well, nobody is working out nice lil- tle increases for him. And, mark you,the industrial workers are al ready better paid than ever before in the history of the nation! When you get to the bottom of all this what does it mean? Surely you farmers understand. You farmers are being sacrificed in the name of the war; but Labor is enthroned and enriched in the name of the war. Politicians talk of the great service of farmers; they pour on us millions of words in an engulfing torrent; and they would do the right thing if they had the courage. They have the wish to do right, and the words to say what is right, but they lack the courage to act like men because political favor and reward are on one side and the short memoir of us farmers is on the other. Even here in South Carolina poli ticians are afraid to speak for fear of being thrown of the band-wagon. They rave and bellow and snort about glorious dreams and valiant achieve ments,but they are too crafty to speak out on' grave issues. They have adopted the saying of the street “I won’t stick my neck out.” Again I’m reminded that all the progress of mankind developed from the cour age of one man, or a few men. “Play ing safe” is a god middle-of-the-road- policy for those who merely live to eat, whose life is nothing but a span of years; but the life of fullness, the abundant life, is no such compromise with great obligations. Each man has an individuality; he will be judg ed by his talents and bis opportuni ties for service; but we are becoming wiser; we are standardizing all man kind s 0 that we must think alike and act alike. Otherwise we stick our necks out. When the President talks about stabilizing industrial wages he means that if the cost of living advances five per cent he will increase indus trial wages five per cent. Since the most expensive actor in cost is labor, every advance in wage wilj tend to increase prices. So the industrial worker will rise by holding his own boot straps, but all the blame for the advance in price will be put on the farmer’s bushel of corn, even if he didn’t make it. All our Universities, all our Colleges seem to have failed to teach even elementary economics to most men now in public life; or, else, we have developed a craving for the pottage and fleshpots which makes us appear a craven lot. What good is a Constitution? Why have one? Well, a Constiution is a guide which indicates in a measure some things which the legislature, the courts and the Governor may not do. The Constitution in theory at least, is a body of principles, and its supreme purpose is to prevent the doing of things under the excitement of the moment which in sound, calm er moments we would not do. And, incidentally, that is the trouble to day: We resent all restraints. The Constitutionality of the State Parole law and the machinery to en force it have been hallenged by ex- Senator Klugh Purdy of Ridgeland. About a year ago Spectator made the same point. If the Constitution means anything at all. this parole business is unlawful. It isn t whether we think well of the idea; what mat- ters is that we enact any sort of law however contrary to the Constitution. The Russians are fighing with a dogged resolution which commands our admiration. One wonders some times how the Germans penetrated so far into Russia, but when one com pares Russian military efficiency with that of France the Russians stand out like a Nation of heroes. There is a lesson for all of us Russia had never felt safe; she ex pected trouble and built a mighty machine to meet it. She has equipped millions of men and used millions of tons of munitions, but he is still fighting at full vigor. How far are we and England from that degree of preparedness of Russia when Ger many suddenly struck? If Russians, on their own soil, fighting for their homes and coun try, fighting with an armey strength reputed to number twelve millions, near their own bases of supplies—if with all those factors of advantage for the Russians, a thoroughly mili tant and militarized people, the Ger mans still have the initiative, isn’t it apparent that Britain and America are not ready to meet the full shock of German armies? Of course we can do it, and we shall do it, if nec essary, but we should spend heavily in manpower for our lack of ma chines. We still have far t*x go, but how much farther the Germans will let us go is the quetion. Our leaders are trying to make all those pre liminary preparations for a first class army against a first class army. Butler B Hare, one of our South WORLD-WIDE COMMUNION NEXT SUNDAY “This do in remembrance of me were among the last directions that Jesus gave to his followers before his crucifixion. Since then count less millions of his followers have regularly comemorated his passion and death in th e sacrament of the Lord’s supper throughout the world. Again this year a call has been made that all churches everywhere observe th e first Sunday in October as World Wide Communion Sunday. Central Methodist church is observ ing this day when the Communion service will be observed at the regu lar morning worship service of the church. All members of this church are urged to be preent and anyone else who will not worship elsewhere is invited to partake of the Sacra ment with this congregation. All men need the help and inspiration of the communion service and especially & in the dark days that have come upon the world. Christ came that men might have serenity of spirit an joy in their hearts. The commun ion service will help in supplying this need. Come, let us worship to gether. ORIGINAL ATLANTIC IDEA PROVES WORTH IN WAR Thirty-two years ago the founders of the Atlantic company believed that they had a good idea. Thirty-two years of serving the South through this idea proved it to be sound and practical. Then came the present war and the original Atlantic idea is proving its worth doubly in helping the Victory Drive. What was this idea which now proves to be of such vital value? It was the sound, practical plan behind the Atlantic Ice & Coal Company, as Carolina Congressmen, spoke against | jt was known until recently when the the Senate bill to allow voting by soldiers regardless of the State re quirement of poll tax payment. The hullabaloo of the New Deal against the poll tax is due to the charge that the tax is levied to keep the poor man from voting. Really it ought to be worth something to vote. How much is this terrible poll tax ? One, lone dollar a year. And what becomes of it? It is given to the schools; it helps a wee bit to pay for the schools. Many a man pays little or nothing to support the schools; the schools must be worth a dollar a year to every man. The Federal Government is trying all the time to break down the States. The Federal Government has swollen until it is associated in our miiids with monumental inefficiency and extravagance. Although Congress has tried to stand by the Administra tion the Administration is constant ly grasping power; even to the most deliberate slap in the face I ever heard of. I do not admire our Congress, but my lack of admiration is because Congress has made itself a rubber stamp for the President. The Presi dent points an accusing finger at Congres because it has not given him everything at once. Unfortunately Congress will obediently swallow that, too. Congress has helped build a machine which now threatens Con gress. So it goes. Whenever the Congress acts, even for a moment, as a Congress should act the President excoriates the law-makers as a re creant body. Doesn’t everybody real ly know that the blunders of this war have been of the Administration? Congress has voted money and au thority almost without limit and the Administration has blundered and muddled and pussy-footed, and now holds Congress up as a body guilty of grave dereliction! Adolph, Benito and Hirofaito —the three blind mice. Make them run with ten percent of your income in War Bonds every pay day. name was shortened to The Atlantic Company. The plan was for the prac tical, economical operation of a group of strategically located ice and cold storage plants to serve the South. In other parts of the country, such groups had been formed and gave those sections the benefit of every modern improvement in the manufac ture and distribution of ice to homes and to commerial users. Here in the South, with more months of warm weather, the advantage of such system was needed even more than in the northern part of the country. The South, being largely a farm ing section, needed great cold storage plants to take care of the crops rais ed here, to tide them over the flooded market periods, and save the crops for more profitable markets and save STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, management, etc., required by the Acts of Congress of August 24, 1912 and March 3, 1933 of the Newberry Sun, published weekly at Newberry, S. C., for October 1942. State of South Carolina, County of Newberry. Before me a Notary Public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared O. F. Armfield, who having been duly sworn accord ing to law, deposes and says that he is the owner-manager of the New berry Sun, and that the following is a true statement of the ownership, management, etc. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing edi tor, and business manager is: O. F Armfield, Newberry, S. C. That the owner is O F. Armfield, Newberry, S. C. That the known bondholders, mort gagees, and other security holders, owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of bonds, mortga ges, or other securities are: None. O. F. Armfield, Owner. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 25th day of September, .1942 Frank Sanders (LS) . . Notary Public for South Carolina My commission expires at the pleas ure of the Governor. “They Sure Look Like New Ones” If you want the best when you have your shoes re-soled, dyed, shined, re-heeled, or anything that needs to be done to them, bring them us, and you too will say, “They sure look like new ones” and you will at the same time be doing your bit by conserving leather so vital in winning the war. Buy A Bond Today R E A G I N ’ S Shoe Shop them for out-of-season use. The South needed a network of carefully placed ice plants capable of making the many tons of ice needed to ice railroad refrigerator cars on their trips rushing Southern produce to northern and eastern markets. Serving Seven Southeastern States Founders of the Atlantic Company saw the need, pondered on it, and then acted. They got together and formed this Company. They planned carefully. They built soundly. Suc cess crowned their efforts and they bought other well-located plants. Planning, building and ever serving the seven Southeastern States chosen as their markets, the Atlantic Com pany continued to grow. As the sys tem grew, new services were added to round out a complete and year-round service. In many of the cattle and hog raising sections of the South, meat curing in the cold storage plants helped farmers get a better price for their meat and th public to get a better meat for the price. The sale of coal had been added to round out work for th e delivery department in the winter when ice sales were off the summer peak. Growing, building and serving the South in more and better ways led the Atlantic Company to a need for further expansion of their territory or a more concentrated coverage of the Southeast. They wisely stuck to their original idea of serving only seven Southeastern States, forgetting the temptation of spreading out into other states. They stuck to the idea of doing a jam-up job righ here at home. They followed the original idea of giving the South, and every individual community served by At lantic the very best in ice, cold stor age, and coal service. Later the sale of ice refrigerators wa? added and the finest modern ice refrigerators weresold to the public on the easiest of long terms. Atlantic had learned that its pro duct, ice, did the very finest job of refrigerating foods when used in prope^y designed and constructed re frigerators. Research proved ice re frigeration to be the only kind that would provide cold, moist and con stantly washed air to preserve foods without loss of weight or contamina tion from other food odors. Follow ing their idea of service to the South, the Atlantic Company told their cus tomers about *the new scientific im provements in home refrigeration and made it easy for them to buy the new equipment. Keeping Faith Always kesping faith with their friends, neighbors and customers in their own chosen market, the Atlan tic Company forged ahead and grew to be a nintegral part of the business and civic life of more and more cities and towns. With the repeal of Prohibition, the Atlantic Company looked around and found that, while other sections of the country were pretty well supplied with breweries, the South had few of them. Still following the idea of con centrating in the Southeast and serv ing it well, the Atlantic Company set up brewing operations in five strate gic locations. Five Modern Breweries To serve their customers with brewry-fresh beer and to prevent long and costly hauling, the brewer ies were located at Norfolk, Va., Charlotte, N. C., Chattanooga, Tenn., Atlanta, Ga., and Orlando, Fla. Thus the entire Atlantic territory could be served quickly and economically so Atlantic Ale and Beer could be sold at the most popular price. Careful brewing with the highest quality in gredients with the best of skilled brewmasters and fine equipment, made Atlantic beverages so good that they quickly won their way into lead ership in the entire Southeast and soon more Atlantic Ale and Beer were sold down here than any other brand. Competition was heavy from East ern and Midwestern breweries who shipped their surplus beer to this ter ritory, for after the first rush when beer was legalized, it became quite plentiful. In the face of all compe tition, Atlantic still held the lead. Plants At Capacity Then came the war, with gasoline and tire rationing, restrictions on bot tle caps, deliveries, and labor short ages. Most other brands of beer were withdrawn to their home mar kets and Atlantic wag left with the job of, not only supplying their reg ular customers, but of filling in where other beers had pulled out. With the ingrained spirit of serving the Southeast as it deserved to be served, Atlantic pitched in to do the job. Plants ran to capacity. All available storage space was pressed into service. Men and equipment worked to deliver at peak perform, ance. All the while Atlantic Ale and Beer continued to be brewed careful ly and aged slowly to their mellow best, but in greatly increased quan tities. Atlantic met the test, supplied its own and the former customers of other breweries. Atlantic again has kept faith. They chose this as their market, set themselves up to serve it, and have proved their right to serve it. Great as was the temptation to expand & sell beer outside their own territory in the days when there was beer to spare, Atlantic is again glad that they held to the original idea of serving only the Southeast. Now it is not necessary for them to desert 3ny customers or any territory served before the present emergency. The entire Atlantic organization is proving its worth in the war effort Ice for home use is even more nec essary now that we must save and preserve food carefully to avoid any waste. Ice for commercial use is more necessary than ever before to keep foods rom spoiling or shrinking while stored for sale. The tremendous cold storage plants of Atlantic are bulging with stores of food for the armed forces and the public. Coal for the public assumes a more important role with the short ages of other fuel. Even the brew ing end of the Atlantic Company serves more and better since a glass of Ale or Beer provides relaxation and enjoyment at the end of the stepped-up work day of all in these trying limes. In every way the original idea of the Atlantic Company of doing a superb job in every community it serves is proving its worth. As ever, Atlantic has kept the faith. Make “Her Day” a Happier One. For the momentous occasion when every Bride wishes the distinction of having every thing perfect—we are at her service by having the gifts of quality and lasting beauty —come see our showing of lovely, distinctive gifts be fore deciding on a wedding gift for that radiant bride. ROCK CRYSTAL By Dunean Feutau ETCHED G-LASSWARE Viking and Indiana WEST COAST POTTERY Vivid, arresting colors to blend with any color scheme BREAKFAST SETS Service Plates See Also Our BARGAIN COUNTER of GIFTS “Bride’s Paradise for Beautiful Gifts” Stokes’ Drug Store 11 W V s * >x v is YOUSTO BY US now we’ll stand by you! With pardonable Southern pride, we have always believed we brew just about the best Ale and Beer in the world. Naturally there has always been plenty of lively competition ready to argue the point. Down here in our territory the man who knows his beer has always been able to choose from the products of the foremost breweries in the land. Yet it’s a fact that people here drink more Atlantic than any other ale and beer. You have stood by us—not, we believe, be cause of any local sentiment but because we delivered a product second to none at a reasonable price. Now a change has come over the scene. Many competitors have abandoned this market and are now restricting their activities to looking after their home communities. That’s exactly what we at Atlantic have always done. We "stayed home” and brewed the best Ale and Beer that could be brewed regardless of cost. We have always been more interested in quality than quantity. Now when the pinch comes, it’s up to us to try and fill in the gap. Despite shortages of bottle caps, restriaions on deliveries to conserve rubber and gasoline, shortage of man power due to the enlistment of many of our personnel in the Armed forces—and faced with unprecedented demand for our prod- ucts, we have increased our production to the limit of the capacity of our four breweries without sacrificing quality one iota. It’s no longer just a question of selling beer or making money. Under existing condi tions there is little doubt but what we can sell all that we can brew. We have redoubled our efforts in order to keep faith with both our trade and our customers. It’s a matter of pride with us now—YOU STOOD BY US-NOW WELL STAND BY YOU! i I i im:; ■ $ M - ■! HI *! 'la m ATLANTIC jH€/ntD •it