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PAGE FOCI. THE NEWBEftRY SUN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1942 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher One Year One Dollar Published Every Friday In The Year Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the postoffice at Newberry. South Carolina, under the Act of Congress' of March 3, 1879. In the view of many writers, one of the obstacles to the swift and ef ficient prosecution of the war is what might be termed the “Wash ington mentality.” It is an insid ious form of disease which seems to strike a great many government workers, both the important and the obscure. The symptoms are an ever- expanding bureaucracy which is bound lock, stock and barrel in miles of red taipe. In a recent column, Dorothy Thomp son touched on this trouble. “In Washington,” she wrote, “the facts of life are the government itself. Therefore all the struggles of life occur inside the government. In a normal city there is a constant inter play of interests, one meets, day bv day, industrialists, artists, offi cials, teachers, physicians, and all sorts and conditions of men, so that there is a constant correction and ad aption of one viewpoint to another viewpoint. In Washington, since there is no normal intercourse, the world enters in the form of lobbyists —ambassadors from groups in the nation to the capital .... And even tually the domestic life of the nation becomes as complicated as foreign policy.” In Washington, in short, thousands of people are continually striving for political or economic power of some sort. The big men in the government —the President, his cabinet, heads of major departments—are surround ed by “yes” men who are seeking to curry favor in high places. As a re sult, many of the big men become super-sensitive to criticism. They lose touch with the country. Often they are tremendously overworked, and their energies are devoted to routine matters which could and should be done by underlings. There is a tremendous waste of time and effort in making decisions on matters of major policy. The lack of cohesion in the seat of our government has been shown many times. It has become a com monplace for top officials to make opposed declarations on the same subject. The rubber problem is the prime example of that—practically everyone in Washington has had his say about it, and the result has been a vast and needless confusion in the •public mind. Selective Service poli cy is still another example. Every few days a new dictum is handed down—and very often it is greatly at variance with the one which pre ceded it. General Hershey says one thing, that State draft directors say another, some spokesman for the Manpower Commission of the W ar Labor Board says still another—and then the local draft boards, which are laws unto themselw go blithely ahead and do what the;, please. According to capital veterans, some of the ablest men in the country have gone to Washington—and unconsci ously become victims of the “W’ash- ington mentality.” As the old prov erb has it, they can’t see the forest because of the trees. They are too emeshed in red tape, and they too tend to regard criticism as a sort of treason. And in the meantime, the : bureaucracy grows bigger and bet ter entrenched, and the wheels move slower and slower. Dorothy Thompson believes that the answer, in part, is to “decentral ize our bureaucracy—decentralize it to the point where once a clear policy has been laid down, decisions can be made all over the country and far away from Washington.” Still an other essential is to free responsible officials of routine paper work so that they can lav down clear policies. And a third essential is to stick $o policies once they are made—and to keep third-string officials from be deviling the public with confused and contradictory statements. Any major change in Washington must be made by the President him self. The most important bureaus are under the control of the Execut ive branch, rather than Congress. He makes all the important appoint ments of personnel, and he has the power to clean house whenever he wants to and as thoroughly as he wants to. All agree that among the many men he has brought to Wash ington, there are numerous top rate ones. But it is felt that in many cases these men have not been given sufficient authority to adequately perform their jobs. And in many other cases these men have uncon sciously tended to become complac ent, and they need shaking up. ers receiving $60 to $160 a week in war industry—at a time when gov ernment aid to his dependents vir tually condemns them to slow starv ation or public charity? NATIONAL DISGRACE The allowances given the depend ents of America’s fighting men amount to a national DISGRACE. At a tim e when we are spending hundreds of billcne to fight the war, and when waste is rampant, the gov ernment gives the dependent moth ers, children and wive of soldiers and sailors sums ranging from $15 to $50 per month. And $20 of the $60 allowance comes out of the $50 a month paid a private soldier. Contrast this with the generous treatment accorded labor. Its wages are at all-time highs. It has been promptly given every wage increase it has demanded. The War Labor Board has allowed major labor groups recent wage increases on the grounds that they were necessary to compensate “for increases in the cost of living.” And while that goes on, the dependents of men who are drafted into service receive pensions which are not enough to keep bqdy and soul together. A considerable percentage of those dependents, be cause of health and age, are unable to work. The cost of adequate pensions to those dependents would never be noticed in the overall cost of the war. Adequate pensions would do more to create real morale amoung the fighting men than all the flag-waving speeches ever made. What is a sol dier to think when he hears of work- R. Derrill Smith WHOLESALE GROCER 910 Main Street Newberry, S. C. 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We in the Atlantic Company, brew ers of Good Old Atlantic Ale and Beer, are proud to be numbered among those Southern institutions who are fighting the production problems created by war conditions 24 hours a day. Faced with shortages of metal for bottle caps, restrictions on deliveries to conserve vital rubber and gasoline, shortage of man power because so many of our men have enlisted in the Army, Navy and Marines, we at the same time must produce more because many of our former competitors have abandoned this market and are now devoting all their efforts to serving their own home communities—and we must fill in the gap. In pledging ourselves to make every effort humanly possible to insure our customers and trade against any avoid able shortage of Good Old Atlantic Ale and Beer, we are, in our own way, simply doing our bit in the country’s war effort, for we recognize that in the strain and tension of the wartime job, there is a real and vital need for the healthy relaxation which comes at the end of the day from a refreshing glass of cold Ale or Beer. §5 igpi ii L;> p ... : : TAX NOTICE The tax books will be. open for col lection of 1942 taxes on and after October 15, 1942. The following is general levy for all except special purposes: Mills Ordinary County 11 Bonds, Notes and Interest 18 Roads and Bridges 2 Hospital 1 A Schools — State 3 County Schools 6 County Board of Education.... % County Schools — Special I State 1 42 The following are the authorized special levies for the various school districts of the County: Dist. No. Mills. 1—Newberry 17 1—Newberry (O.S.) 17 2—Mt. Bethel-Garmany 6 3— Maybinton 6 4— Long Lane 5 5— McCullough 6 6— Cromer 0 8— Reagin 10 9— Deadfall 10 10— Utopia 10 11— Hartford 6 12— Johnstone 5 13— Stony Hill 6 14— Prosperity 15 16—O’Neal 8 18— Fairview 4 19— Midway 4 21— Central 4 22— St. Philips 8 23— Rutherford 4 24— -Broad River 4 25— New Hope Zion 4 26— Pomaria 12 27— Red Knoll 6 28— Helena 4 29— Mt. Pleasant 8 30— Little Mountain 16% 31— Wheeland 3 32— Union 6 33— Jolly Street 8 34— St. Paul 6\ 36— Peak 4 37— Mudlick 6 38— Vaughnville 6 39— Chaippells 6 40— Old Town 10 41— Dominick 8 42— Reederville ✓.... 12 43— Bush River 12 44— Smyrna 12 45— Trinity 10 46— •Burton 10 47— Tranwood 12 48— Jalapa 8 49— Kinards 2 50— Tabernacle 8 51— Trilby 4 52— Whitmire 15 53— Mollohon 4 54— Beth Eden 5 55— Fork 8 57— Belfast 6 58— Silverstreet 14 59— Pressley 4 60— St. Johns 4 There will be a one per cent (1%) discount on general County taxes through November 14, 1942. On and after January 1, 1943, the Penalties prescribed by law will be imposed on unpaid taxes. You are requested to call for your taxes by School districts in which property is located. The Treasurer is not responsible for unpaid taxes not called for by districts. Those who had their dogs vaccinat ed for rabies during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1942, by one authoriz ed by law, and expect to be exempt ed from dog tax will please bring their certificates of vaccination when appearing to pay taxes. J. RAY DAWKINS, Treasurer Newberry County All This Week I OFFER THE FOLLOWING REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Property Location Acres Jackson House—Newberry—Lot. Daniel House—Newberry—Lot. Cromer (2 houses)—Newberry—Lot. Gary—Newberry—Lot. Reid place—Chappells—187.34. Watt place—Chappells—33.50. Folk place—Newberry—183.34. Johnson place—Silverstreet—147.30. Longshore place—Silverstreet—50.00 Richards place—Maybinton—173.00. Oxner place—Kinards—109.00. Kennerly place—Newberry—372.05. Chick place—Newberry—470.00:. Caldwell place—Newberry—60.00. Setzler place—Pomaria—90.00. Waldrop place—Silverstreet—122.20. Riser place—Kinards—146.20. Clabe Gilliam house—Newberry—Lot Baker place—Whitmire—69.00. Rich Gilliam house—Newberry—Lot. Hutchinson (2 houses) Nby.—Lot. Caldwell place—Newberry—90.00. Maybin place—Maybinton—53.00. Kinard place—Kinards—76.25. Emory place—Newberry—102.00. Longshore house—Newberry—Lot. Cofield place—Newberry—97.00. Frailin place—Silverstreet—55.00. Bedenbaugh house—Newberry—Lot. See the undersigned for prices—will subdivide farm lands. H. C. HOLLOWAY, Attorney ' Newberry, S. C. Classified Ads FOR SALE—Coker’s Victory Grain Oats, 90c per bushel. D. S. Halfacre, Route 1, Newberry, S. C. pll FOR RENT—Two or three room un furnished upstairs apartments. Mrs. J. W. White. III! WANTED TO BUY—Scrap Iron, ; IS Copper, Aluminum, auto radio parts, llisg: Rags, Inner-tubes and Zinc. Loca- tion in alley leading to Standard Oil mm » company bulk plant. W. H. Sterling. FOR SALE—We have a big supply mm i of Rye Grass Seeds for the winter lawns. See us before buying. We will be glad to help you estimate the Op® amount it will take for your lawn. R. M. Lominick Hardware. Atlantic Co. BreweriM In Atlanta, lAariotte, Norfolk, Orlando > •• • • w FOR SALE—For good quality seed oats, barley and wheat, high in •purity and germination test. Write, phone or see me for prices. H. O. Long, Silverstreet, S. C. The State Fair in Columbia Food For Victory The whole theme of the Fair this year is Victory. Special attention to agricultural exhibits. But the amusement side has not been omitted. Excellent midway and grandstand show. Oct. 19-24 : Day & Night NOTE: Children admitted free on Tues day, Wednesday and Friday, \frhich are Future Farmers Day, Four-H Day and School Day. 1 9 2 Tax Notice State and County tax books for the year 1942 will open October 15, 1942. One per cent discount will be allowed •on all taxes paid by Novem ber 14th, except the 4 mills State tax. J. Ray Dawkins County Treasurer Sinclair Greases save farmers money over a season because they last so long. They help prevent costly breakdowns because they lubricate moving parts safely. You play safe and save money when you use Sinclair Greases- Let me deliver to your farm Strother C. Paysinger AGENT SINCLAIR REFINING COMPANY