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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.
Headquarters For
BEST FEEDS & BEST PRICES
Bishopville Flour & Pee Dee Feeds
Ful-O-Pep Poultry Feeds
Waynes’ Dog Feed
Duplex Rabbit Feed
PUREGRA1N Pigeon Feed
BEACON Goat Feed for Milk Goati
Ful-O-Milk Dairy Feeds
PEAGREEN Horse & Mule Feed
CANDIES, CIGARETTES,
TOBACCOS
HAV-A-TAMPA CIGARS
R. DERRILL SMITH
Telephone 155
We Have
JUST
RECEIVED
a Large Shipment
of
Genuine Berwind
Pocahontas
(Smokeless)
B R I Q U ET S
Don’t let winter catch
you unprepared.
Farmers Ice & Fuel
Company
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NATURALLY
we kept faith with the South!
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Southerners are in the middle of the
fight on all the fronts of the world.
Wherever our Armed forces go into
action, our boys are hanging up records
that make us all mighty proud of them.
And here at home too, Southern men
and women are carrying on with the
same kind of courage and stamina —
in defense work, in the shipyards . . .
and in building morale.
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.
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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
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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.
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FOR RENT—Two or three room un
furnished upstairs apartments.
Mrs. J. W. White.
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WANTED TO BUY—Scrap Iron,
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Copper, Aluminum, auto radio parts,
llisg:
Rags, Inner-tubes and Zinc. Loca-
tion in alley leading to Standard Oil
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company bulk plant. W. H. Sterling.
FOR SALE—We have a big supply
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of Rye Grass Seeds for the winter
lawns. See us before buying. We will
be glad to help you estimate the
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amount it will take for your lawn. R.
M. Lominick Hardware.
Atlantic Co. BreweriM In Atlanta, lAariotte, Norfolk, Orlando
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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.
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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