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I - PAGE POUR THE NEWBERRY SUN 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. AN APPALLING SITUATION Groups or individuals who seek even transitory gain during the present conflict, are a decided threat to thv- ultimate outcome and to the peace Representatives of organized labor are frankly striving to bulwark their groups against post-war con ditions, at the expense of present war production. Regardless of con sequences, they demand and have been getting ever-increasing wages on the theory that they have a “right’’ to keep fully abreast of the rising cost of living. They are ac cumulating, in the name of the unions, gigantic tax-exempt reserves. They are accountable to no one for the disposition of these funds. The money can be used for the direct benefit of the rank and file members —or it can be used in the evil rami fications of bureaucratic politics. 'Many labor organizers deliberately intend to put labor, and more speci fically themselves, i the saddle af ter the war. To p it bluntly, if they have their way, no man return ing from the army will be able to get a job until he has joined and paid heavy tribute to a union boss. In the meantime, the rest of Amer ica stands by, faced with .paralyzing taxes, a steadily falling standard of living, and lengthening casualty lists from the front. Men with depend ents are being or soon will be draft ed into the army by the millions. What of them ? There is no thought of the standard of living for depend ents they leave behind. In most cases, the government allows hardly enough for food, let alone anything for clothing and shelter. There is nothing left but charity for the families of men who are fighting and dying to save our basic liberties— yes, even the right of the highest paid laborer in the world here at home, to strike. What an appalling situation! THE FINAL TEST The people of this country are face to face with the most critical of all tests that can be exacted of our form of government—inflation. It Is more difficult to understand than war. It is intangible. Dr. Paul F. Cadman, leading eeo’.io- mist, has pointed out that it will take a lot more than laws to fight in flation. The present policy of one group blaming another group in seeking a scapegoat for the rising cost of living, will prove disastrous ly futile. If continued, it will offset all tax measures, forced savings, price regulations, wage stabilization, rationing, and credit control. Inflation is a challenge to the in dividual. As Dr. Cadman observed: “This is one of the real occasions when the American people have a chance to demonstrate the moral fib er of the nation in their willingness to be obedient to the unenforceable. For, of a truth, inflation cannot be controlled by either legislation or compulsion.’’ Most of us have occasionally been guilty of unconsidered attacks on in dustry, labor, or politics, as if each group was a separate entity. We need all three groups and the sooner we realize it, just so much sooner will leaders of each group moderate their policies. It is a mortal certainty that if the irrelevant disputes don’t cease, we might as well abandon the hypocrisy of waving the American flag and consoling ourselves in our discontent with brass bands. It is inconceiva ble that we cannot live up to the ideals of freedom and opportunity that made this nation. However, the test is before us, final and irrevoca ble. Everything heretofore has been preliminary, with plenty of cribbing. Not so now. You cannot crib in a test in which natural law is the judge. Only .production, thrift, economy and honesty in public and private life «an stem the tide of inflation now. CAN’T EAT A BLOW TORCH Unless the authorities wake up soon, a wholly unnecessary food shortage in imminent. Thousands upon thousands of farmers are going out of business totally, or substan tially curtailing production. Lack of labor and a feeling that those in high places don’t understand their problems are the main reasons given for such action. Over 1,400 dairy farmers have quit business in the New York milk shed area alone, according to figures compiled by the Dairymen’s League cooperative association. The league’s figures for the same area showed further, that nearly 20,000 head of dairy cattle have been sold so far this year with the prospect that over 15,000 more will be sold during the balance of the year. The plight of New York dairy farmers is typi cal of farmers in every state. There have been plenty of reported studies made in regard to manpower needs of the armed services and war industries, which are comnfonly des ignated a s armament, airplane and shipbuilding. We have been told that all ablebodied men and women will ultimately be forced into indus tries “essential’ to our war program. Thus, millions of men have been faced with the choice of a gun or a welder’s torch, apparently in the be lief that we could live, eat and fight with these instruments alone. The time has long passed when at tention should have been given to the manpower needs of the industries that keep the “essential” industries going. WHITE HOPE OF MANKIND War on the scale that it is being fought today, involving civilian and military forces alike, has caused forebodings of the gloomiest charac ter. It has been predicted that civi lization could easily crack under the strain, dragging us all to doom along with the dictators we are fighting. The most hopeful sign that this will not happen lies in ths progress that has been made in the field of scientific medical research and in the wide application of the results ' of that research. Such death-dealing diseases as smallpox, typhoid, tuber culosis, pneumonia and others too numerous to mention have either been eradicated or largely controlled. Most of this miraculous progress has taken place right here in our own country in a comparatively few years. Our medical men have been able to work in unique freedom. No social dogmas or political oppression in any form hampered their work. In addition to their own research, they were able to utilize to the fullest ex tent the scientific knowledge pain fully accumulated by medical mar tyrs amid disease, death and tyran ny the world over. The surest guarantees for the fu ture health of soldiers and civilians ...You can V spot it every time S PECIALIZING in any job is important. And, it takes only one taste of ice>cold Coca-Cola tell you that its makers have specialized in re freshment for years. They created this utterly different drink 57 years ago. Today it’s still individual — and delightfully so. Note the difference in taste. You can sense the special blend of flavors. Sip again. Your thirst is gone before you know it, but some thing else arrives. This is refreshment And it’s refreshment that goes into energy — quickly — pleasantly. When you’ve finished, you know you’ve enjoyed a drink made to a standard of quality, not to a standard of price. Folks the country over feel the same way about it. They appreci ate the genuine ... the real thing... Coke... Coca-Cola. It’* natural for popular name* to acquire friendly abbreviations. That’s why you hear Coca-Cola called Coke. Coca-Cola and Coke mean the same thing... the real thing... “coming from a single source, and well known to the community”. Boy and girl, recreation and refreshment! There’s two for company and two more for happiness and satisfaction. You know refreshment’s first name, of course. Every body knows Coke. SANTA CLAUS. THE NEXT DEPRESSION From an interview with Senator Maybank published in The News and Courier last Friday: “The people want a chance to go all-out for victory. With govern ment bureaus dipping into every body’s business, the people are ham strung.” Just so. Government has been dipping into everybody’s business the last nine years and a half. It has been dipping out of the treasury for WPA, NY A, PWA, for unemployed writers, fiddlers and all sorts and conditions of men. A sufficent number of persons in great cities have lived on tips to carry elections. The dipping has been out of the pockets of men who work. At this time, the United States is in a condition infinitely worse than in 1932 and the spring of 1933. It is burning up its substance, its ac cumulated wealth. It is as if a cot ton mill having 50,000 spindles were having to junk 500 of then each week. In a year there would be no cotton mill. Every day the Americans are poorer, much poorer. They do not feel it, they do not know it. War compels the burning of substance. War is waste, and waste in this war is necessary and avisable, to save freedom. But the waste should be reduced to the lowest possible level. In 1933, no substance, no wealth was burned, except by the measures that were adopted to relieve. The public money was spent to maintain the cities, with sops to the country towns and the farms. The people at home are now em ployed. They are drawing, as a rule, good wages. Therefore, relat ively, it is difficult to buy any of them on election day. They are not crawling on their ■bellies for doles. When the war shall end, there will be unemployment. There will be poverty. Fo a time, the cities will be crowded. Rents will be high. Men will not willingly flock to the lands and take part and lot with the sharecroppers who do not starve and are not fed and clothed at public ex pense. The New Deal may have new life. With the return of peace, there may be millions of fools looking to Washington as Santa Claus. Again. It may be that Santa Claus’s pack will be emptied before this war shall end with victory for the United na tions. It may be that Donder and Blitz- en and the other six of his reindeer team are even now growing thinner, showing their ribs. — News&Courier. MANY WORKERS THINK THEY PAY JOB-INSURANCE TAXES Although the state job insurance program is now over five years old, confusion as to who pays unemploy ment compensation taxes still exists in the minds of many workers, C. M. Wilson, executive director of the S. C. unemployment compensation com mission has declared. Letters and verbal inquiries received almost daily at the agency, and at employment service offices over the state, indi cate that many workers believe that they and employers contribute equal ly to the unemployment fund, Mr. Wilson pointed out. The fact is, however, that the total cost of this program is met by the employer. “We frequently receive letters say ing ‘I have paid on this Social Secur ity for several years, and I don’t un derstand why I can’t get my money.” “In the case of the Old Age and Survivors Insurance program under the Social security law, warkers con- tibute equally with employers. In the case of unemployment insurance only their employers contribute. The employers contribute normally at a rate of 2.7 per cent of the wages paid their woricers and this money goes into an unemployment trust * fund to be used solely in meeting claims for job insurance payments." FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1942 good taste' for any room in the house, fall and winter. If the chickens are By making the slip cover of some reared to a weight of at least 3 bright material this is an excellent pounds apiece we would have a mini way to add a note of color to a room mum of 600 million pounds added to that needs brightening up. ! our supply of chicken during the next Winter is the season that we need few months. That would do a lot to to think of warm colors for our liv- help cover up the bare spot in our Ing room and to enjoy this room to civilian meat supply. The program the fullest color will help more than (proposed by National Poultry De- anything else- This may be introduc- 1 fense Council) seems most practical, ed by bright pillows, draperies, vases, The extra chickens will be raised etc. , during the off season for poultry A note of color in the kitchen production; thus will not require any especially red, helps keep us warm extra equipment. They will not in- and also “peps” us up and gives px- tra energy for the tasks tha have to be done. All of these things may seem small and insignificant but it is certain that we will have more thngs to do than ever before and it behooves us to make our tasks a joy if possible and to do all that we can to keep up our morale as well as that of our families. In a radio talk on September 18th Mr. Wickard, Secretary of Agricul ture, informed the Nation that more chicken meat is needed this winter to supplement the short supply of red meats. There is said to be a demand for all the chickqns that farmers can raise. People are eating more chick terfere with farmers’ spring plans for raising poultry to increase egg production. The plan is distinctly supplementary program, applies only to farm families who are not making full use of their equipment at this season. Boys and girls can help. This will be a real war service. Winter poultry production presents special problems, but it can be practiced suc cessfully with careful management. One of the main points to rememKer is that it is dangerous to overcrowd brooder houses. It is important to have brooder houses that are weather tight. Sanitation is even more im portant than in warm veather be cause the birds are confined more ens. In addition to the normal sup- ; closely, ply, the Secretary has asked hatchefy i This looks like an opportunity to ■people and farmers to raise at least I serve the Nation and at the same 200 million additional chickens this (time make an additional profit. Mrs. J. N. Davis, Saluda, Mrs. Jes sie Johnson, Kinsrds, Mrs. T. D. Jones, Whitmire, Mrs. M. C. Bed- enbaugh and Mrs. Ryon Fellers, Mrs. Dudley Bedenbaugh, Prosperity, Miss Gladys Jackson, Pomaria and Miss Oallie Long, of Columbia, were busi ness visitors in Newberry last week. alike, are our efficient medical offi cers and private physicians who can bring into play the scientific re sources of centuries to protect and save life. Without this safegurad for our physical welfare, our spiritual foun dations could be sadly shaken. And though the pioneering work of medi cine will never be completed, it has advanced sufficiently to be the white hope of mankind in the present hor- HOUN’ DAWG SONG My dog Drum is a good ol’houn’, Trails th’ possum on th’ dryest groun But every time I come to town. The boys keep kickin’ my dawg aroun ■Makes no difference if you live in town, Kick my dawg and I’ll knock yo’ down. Makes no difference if he is a houn’ Yo’ got to quit kickin my dawg aroun’. My ol’ woman wears a calico dress, That’s no reason I should love her less; No matter if she is gittin’ old, She’s as dear to me as a lump of gold. I smoke my terbaccy an’ I chew, Raise it myself, so what’s it to you? Buy my likker, and drink er straight; Of wildcats I can lick my weight. I drive a mule to a two-wheel cart, An’ work like the devil to git a start; I eat cornbread an’ eat ,possum, too; If yo’ kick my houn’ I’ll soon show yo.’ Home . Demo n str a t ion News By ETHEL L. COUNTS Do you need a comfortable, up holstered chair? Here is an easy way (financially) to have one. _ TaJ^e one single front seat from a junked car, remove metal attaching it to car floor for “scrap”, and clean and mend upholstery. Soap, water, and sunshine are excellent cleaners. From a few odd pieces of rough or smooth lumber make and attach a wooden foundation to chair. Di rections and dimensions can be got ten from the Home Demonstration agent. An attractive slip cover is the final step that changes a junked car seat into a comfortable chair in the better buy! tOTHED UNDER AUTHORITY Of THE COCA-COIA COMPANY EY * NEWBERRY COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Piece Goods for Fall Clothes New Drapery Material in cretonne and chintz, the yard— 25c, 39c, 49c Gaberdines, Shantungs and Poplins —nice showing — yard 15c and 35c BIG NEW STOCK of Fall Prints yard 22c, 25c, 29c. RAYONS REDUCED You will want to get in on this sale of fine Rayons at the following low prices: 29c, 39c, 49c, 59c. Carolina Remnant Co. Friend Street Newberry, S. C. From where I sit Jy Joe Marsh I missed getting n:y hair eat this morning on account of the scrap collection. When I climbed into the barber chair, Ray says to me: “Sorry, Joe. Ain’t got time for you today. We’re closing up this morning at ten.” And then I remembered. This was the day the town had agreed to drop everything — and I mean everything—and collect scrap for Uncle Sam. Yes air, the drugstore, the cor ner garage, Sam Abernethy’s gen- *ral store — every place in town except the post office — closed up tight today from 10 to 5. And you ought to see the result piled up in front of the fire house. One hundred and fifty tons of metal that had been lying around in attics, cellars and back yards of our town since Charlie Jenkins’ great-grandfather joined up with the Texas Rangers. That’s almost 200 lbs. of metal for every man, woman and child in our town. Just shews you—when American citizens go out to do a job for Uncle Sam they do it right. Judge Cunningham and I were talking about it this evening, sit ting on the front porch and having u sociable beer together. We agreed that the way this town went all ont to collect scrap was a pretty good illustration of how Democracy works. No need to crack a whip ... no need to pass a law ... just self-determined folks working hand in hand to get a job done for their own people. Because from where I sit, that’s what we’re fighting for—the right to work together—of our own ac cord. To do the job because we want to, not because somebody tells us to. And when the job’s done, to relax as we see fit. And the Judge agreed. He point ed out that one of the things that helps folks get together is just what we were doin’ now. It’s great, after a good day’s work, to be able to have a chat and a glass of beer if you want to. Newberry College New War Emergency Courses In Business Administration Newberry college offers its second five months’ war emergency business course, with certificate, to prepare students for civil service positions. Course includes: Vocabulary building in army, navy and aviation terms, with basic studies; development of Typing skill in code work as used by military forces, and mechanics of army and navy correspondence; Business English, civil ian and military correspondence; Busi ness Law and Spelling; Office Procedure and Practice; Office machines, with in structions and practice in cutting sten cils, mimeographing and manipulation of calculating machines. Also is offered a sixty-day course in military typing, $10. Special shorthand courses at corres pondingly low rates. Classes begin November 15. Students should register as soon as pos sible at the college office. Telephone 245 for any further information desired.