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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1942
Record War Bond Sales Is Goal
Of Women At War Week Nov. 22
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( WASHINGTON, D. C.—America’* women in the cities and on the farm*—in
war factories and in their homes—are determined to make Women At War Week
the greatest War Bond selling effort since Pearl Harbor.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt sounded the keynote for the Treasury Department*•
Women At War Week, Nov. 22 to 28, with an appeal to women to save on ‘‘little
things” to provide money
for War Bonds.
"We women want to
work hard, we want to be
a part of this strenuous
period because unless we
are, we will not be able to
face the men when they
return and claim our
share of the future re
sponsibility for building a
peaceful world,” the First
Lady declared.
The overall direction of
Women At War Week rest*
with the Women’s Section
of the War Savings Staff
under the leadership of
Miss Harriet Elliott,
Associate Field Director,
and Mrs. Henry Morgen-
thau, Jr., Chief of the
Special Activities Unit.
From coast to coast
women in every commu-
nity have made plans for j
torchlight parades, fash
ion shows, teas, rallies,
store window displays,
Stamp and Bond booths,
pageants, civic sings, balls and mardi gras. In each locality administration of |
the one week drive rests with the local War Savings Committee which has!
worked out activities adapted to their areas.
Mrs. Morgenthau, in a special message for Women At War Week, declared'
that the spirit of America’s pioneer women lives today more strongly than ever.
"The average American woman began to rise to new heights on Sunday, Dec.
7, 1941,” Mrs. Morgenthau said. "This winter the average American woman will
be spending less in order to save more to invest in War Bonds and Stamps. She
will not, please God, ever have to Are a gun or fly a bomber. But she will, please
God, always do everything she can to help buy anything—and the best of every
thing—that fires or flies or floats in this terrible war.”
Durin* Women At War Week volunteer War Bond salea-
women will wear an armband similar to the one being at-
tached to the sleeve oi Mrs. Henry Mor*enthau, Sr., by Miss
Harriet Elliott.
WOMEN AT WAR—Overalls, wrenches and drills replace Bneries as these war workers
In an Army Arsenal march to tank repair shops. Note the determination on their faces.
These women are typical of hundreds of thousands who are working in war factories and
investing part of their earnings In War Bonds.
Mrs. Roosevelt (left) says women help men at front by buying War Bonds. At right 1*
the lapel tag which volunteers will wear during Women At War Week, Nov. 22 to 28.
Everybody Ev’ry Pay Day
ir m
[ 6,000,000 Women Enrolled in War Savings
Payroll Plan.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Women At War Week, opening Nov. 22, during which
women will seek to sell the greatest single week’* volume of War Bonds and
Stamps will serve to put the spotlight on the mighty contribution women generally
are making toward financing the war.
Six million women are on War Savings payroU plans. Their monthly deduc
tions total $70,000,000.
The customers of 300,000 newspaper
boys who have sold more than $50,000,-
000 in War Bonds and Stamps are
mostly women.
Volunteer saleswomen run nearly all
the Bond booths in theatres from Maine
to California. They also are sparking
the War Bond sales in retail stores.
Ralph G. Engelsman, Associate Field
Director of the payroll savings section
of the War Savings Staff, readily ad
mits that without the support of women
the phenomenal record of payroll sav
ings enrollments would not have been
achieved. Payroll savings plans are
now in operation in 148,000 businesses
and factories. Employees of twenty-
five thousand of these firms are con
verting at least 10 percent of gross pay
rolls into War Bonds every payday.
Associate Field Director Engelsman
says that women have contributed di
rectly and indirectly toward this rec
ord. When a man devoted 10 or more
percent of his pay envelope to War
Bonds, the woman at home has had a
powerful voice in the decision. Her
planning, her economies and her cheer
fulness play their part in the success
of payroll savings.
The Treasury Department is counting
upon this woman influence in its cur
rent campaign to “top that 10 percent
by New Year’s.” By the first of the
year the Treasury hopes to enroll at
least 3,000,000 women workers in a pay-
*- •* .
This Is My Fight Too’
Proud of her Investment In the American
way of life and equally proud of the grime
of war production on her face and arms, the
young lady in this “Women At War Week’’
poster symbolizes two of the chief activities
of women at war.
roll savings plan and 5,000,000 more
men with total deductions for War
Bonds over the 10 percent mark.
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THE NEWBEKKY SUrr
The Spectator
drop cf water may sooth a parching
tongue and the tapayers bid fair to
have parching tongues before they
come out of the fire.
General Lee! There have been
many Lees who were generals—and
their standing is very high, but wthen
one speaks of “General Lee” one
great figure comes from the gather
ing mists of the past—Robert E.
Lee. Other Lees, however worthy,
however capable, are like dwarves
beside the towering figure whom the
soldiers loved as “Marse Robert.”
Today we are in a great war. We
wonder whether we have leaders who
will develop into able generals; and
we wonder about the British too,
with misgivings, because of thier re
peated failures. Well might we of
fer a prayer for a man able to lead
a host to victory.
A British general—Wavell—re
cently suggested the men he regard
ed as the great generals, the military
geniuses of ali time. In the list ap
pears Robert E. Lee, the only Amer
ican, and one of the four English-
speaking leaders—Cromwell, Marl
borough, Wellington, Lee. The great
warriors of all times are, in General
Wavell’s judgment, Hannibal, Scipio,
Alexander, Caesar, Belisarius, Fred
erick, Cromwell, Marlborough, Nepol-
eon, Wellington, Lee, Moltke, Foch
and Ludendorff. Belisarius is Wav-
ell’s favorite because of his strategic
resourcefulness, but Alexander he
regards as a brilliant leader of a
great army already trained and sea
soned by Phillip of Macedon.
Wavell doesn’t regard Napoleon as
highly as do most other critics. Per
haps Napoleons victories must speak
for him. A Napoleon today would
create a different spirit in France
It was not that France was superla
tively military, but that Napoleon
made the French army great. Of
General Lee Wavell says; “Lee, the
outstanding military hero of the
American civil war, was a fine strat
egist and tactician, great in advers
ity, and possibly the best beloved
and most attractive character of all
great military leaders.” 1 Wavell
thinks that Lee may have lacked the
HARDNESS necessary, being “too
much a gentleman for the ungentle
business of war.” I wish someone
would write the facts about General
Lee’s service of supplv. So great
was Lee that the details have been
glossed over. When a man becomes
a colossal figure in history, and a
saint to his people, the detail are
forgotten. What stands out about
General Lee was his vigor in attack.
This followed many months of re
treating under other leaders. Still
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 V*
Schools — State 3
County Schools 5
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. Mill®
1—Newberry 17
1—Newberry (O.S.) 17
2—Mt. Bethel-Garmany 6
3— Maybinton 6
4— —Long Lane 6
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
15— 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
35— Peak ... 4
37— Mudlick .* 6
38— Vaughnville 6
39— Chappells 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
we think of Lee as a gentle, sweet
godly soul'—all of which he was—
without remembering that his brain
conceived plans, read his opponent’s
mind, and his spirit flamed with in
tense energy. He did not drive his
men; he led them and they followed
with a trust and devotion which
knew no bounds.
With all his quiet dignity and re
pose, his unruffled calm and com
posure, Lee was the PEACEFUL
MAN BUT THE SUPERLATIVE
SOLDIER.
If one can be supremely great in
victory, yet supremely great in de
feat; if one can ride to the heights
of glory in war, yet climb to spirit
ual heights in peace, that was Lee—
Robert Edward Lee, a great general
but a greater man.
I read recently that a single man
with an income of $1,500 a year,
will have to pay a Federal income
tax of about $190. If that salaried
man, or wage earner, is spending
his $125 a month he will run up
against a brick wall next March
He would do well to set aside $25
a month, so that he may pay the
Federal government, as well as the
State, County and Town taxes. If
anyone doubts that taxation is a
solemn reality let him face all the
tax authorities. An ordinary con
ference of surgeons might result in
the removal of one’s tonsils or one’s
appendix, but these revenue doctors
of the Collector’s office will prhb
deep in search of one’s pocketbook
or bank account.
We’ve been reading quite a bit
about a Victory Tax. It is a five
per cent tax on all income beyond
$12 a week, or $624 a year. This
will become effective January first,
1943 and will be deducted from
wages and salaries. Part of this
tax will be refunded by the Govern
ment after the war. Under the
new income tax, something apart
from the Victory tax, all single tax
payers may claim an exemption of
only $500, while married tax payers
have an exemption of $1,200, with
deductions of $360 for each depend
ent. Notwithstanding the income
tax and its exemptions and deduct
ions, the Victory tax of 5 per cent
must be paid on the gross income
beyond $12 a week or $624 a year.
Well, sir, this may make many a
man feel that a preliminary day of
judgment has been inaugurated.
You may recall that William the
Conqueror, like a true ruler, wished
to impose taxes on the English back
in 1086, and as a basis he had every
man’s property listed, just as a
County Auditor does today, in part.
All this inventory of England was
recorded in a great book, or library,
called the Doomsday Book. Well this
latest doomsday book will catch us
farmers, too, for all income above
$624 a vear-l The tax will begin to
run next January. Incidentally,
while we are sharpening our wits for
the Doomsday agents, should a far
mer count a fried chicken for his
pastor as income or outgo?
Not only the farm income will be
saught in the net, but fees, dividens
interest, rents, annuities. Now this
Victory tax will a^nly to you wheth
er married or single. Though I
have referred to this as comparable
to William the Conqueror’s taxes, the
old Duke of Normandy was really a
piker by the side of our Congress or
the present British Parliament.
A part of this Victory Tax will
come back to us after the war. How
much will be returned to us? Per
haps a third of what you pay, or
even a half in some cases.
The a.ppeals to the Budget comm
ission of the State for increases in
salary are what we might expect. In
some'cases employees may be on the
border line and really are having a
hard time of it. The State might
adopt a plan like that by which it
collects income taxes.
A job or a piece of work is worth
so much money regardless of all the
facts and circumstances. But soc
iety is not quite as hard as that. In
the payment of income taxes a man
is allowed deductions, if married,
and further deductions for children
and other dependents. Since society
considers those factors, why not pay
according to that schedule? If the
cost of living has gone up>—and it
has of course, then the married man
with three children has suffered
more from the advance than has a
single man. The public .pay is ade
quate for single men. What measure
of difference higher prices may make
to them is as nothing compared with
the sacrifice of a soldier. We might
properly, however, consider the mar
red man with dependents, allowing
him additional pay on that ground.'
There isn’t any reason for horizon
tal advances, such as 10 per cent
for all under so much etc. The State
needs to save money for the after-
math of the war and should not in
dulge in free-handed increases.
Why not see wherein some econo
mies might be effected? With pro
fessors in camp and students in uni
form, must the same expenditures
prevail? Can nothing be salvaged?
And this applies to our public schools
and to all public services.
I think I read in the Congressional
Record that the government will re
imburse the States for such war ac
tivities as the equipment of Home
Guards. That is proper. The na
tional government is drawing dollars
from every conceivable source—and
still wasting money on many things
—so our State should not spend a
dollar for any kind of war activity.
It is foolish to put our little drop in
the bucket when the Nation is draw
ing money like the incoming tides of
the boundless deep. Probably a fair
consideration could be shown to mar
ried employees with dependents by
using some of the war chest our
State appropriated.
Of course all the spending and,
therefore, all the economies, of the
State will be as a mere drop of water
compared with the outpouring ofl
the National treasury, but even a^
The problem of directing land or
naval forces in actual engagement
is quite different from that of pre
paring supplies. If our offensive
against the Japanese was not plann
ed well; if Hie men engaged are too
few; if the air service there has been
“skimped”; if tanks, guns and all
other equipment were not in suffi
cient supply—then the fault is so
elementary that all connected with
it should be assigned to other duty.
The practice of the Navy depart
ment, of publishing losses two or
three months after they occur, while
regaling us with stories of heavy
losses suffered by the Japanese, is
beginning to irritate us. The people
can stand the losses, but they would
like to know that every American
loss was paid for heavily by the Jap
anese. Give us the truth.
The labor shortage in industry is
more apparent than real. Our forty
four hour week in this period of tur
moil is about as foolish as would be
a b’g job of excavation with soup
ladles. If the great army of work
ers added 20 per cent to their hours
and 20 per cent to their output there
would be no labor shortage nor pro
duction bottle-necks. The Russians
are working 66 hours a week; the
Germans 60 hours; the British 56,
the Ameicans 43, adding 3 hours to
the 40-a week. Now can you ^con
ceive of a greater folly than con
tinuing a 40-hour week while actually
engaged in war, and not doing so well
either? Isn’t it a thing so utterly
absurd as to be a national reproach ?
The shortage of manpower has be
come so acute as to constitute a
National problem of the most press
ing importance; but we, alone of all
the great powers, cling to what
amounts to part time employment,
while our men on all battle fronts
fight all hours of day and night and
live all hours under shelling and
bombing.
In our supreme emergency the 40
hour week, and the frequent loafing
on jobs we hear so much about, are
as inimical to our national interest
a though planned to obstruct the
nation’s preparation for war.
It isn’t enough to squeeze the last
ounce of endurance from our fight
ers; let us squeeze more work out of
ourselves. We have the people; we
are the people; let’s work like men.
FORT SUMTER GUN ONTO
SCRAP PILE
Chicago, Nov. 7—Special: On its
way to Chicago’s war furnaces for
melting down as scrap today is a 16,-
020 pound siege gun which blasted
cannon balls from Fort Sumter in
the War Between the States.
The gun, mounted as a memorial
to students of Northwestern univer
sity, Evanston, 111., who fought in
the Civil war, has been a familiar
sight for thirty-seven years on the
bend of a heavily traveled arterial
highway at the south end of the cam
pus. ,
The campus memorial cannon and
a small pyramid of cannon balls were
presented to the university by the
class of 1905. It is set on a massive
masonry foundation with a base of
concrete sixteen feet square.
Classified Ads
LANDS FOR SALE—Anyone inter
ested in the purchase of the farm
containing 373 acres, in Beth Eden
School District, on which there is
considerable timber, or the lot of
1.2 acres on College Street, touch
ing Scott’s Creek, in the City of
Newberry, owned by the late Mrs.
James C. Duncan, is invited to
communicate with me, oh my at
torneys, Blease and Griffith, New
berry, S. C. JAMES C. DUNCAN,
Kinards, S. C. 2tc
FOR SALEi—Eight young grade
cows and heifers, all bred to Here
ford bull. C. M. WILSON.
FOR RENT—Two or three room un
furnished upstairs apartments.
Mrs. J. W. White.
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.
FOR SALE—We have a big supply
of Rye Grass Seeds for the winter
lawns. See us before buying. We will
be glad to help you estimate the
amount it will take for your lawn. R.
M. Dominick Hardware.
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.
FOR SALE—One John Deere trac
tor outfit-tractor, 20-22 inch disc har
row, 6-2 inch disc tiller. Also, one
Burrough’s adding machine and one
fat beef cow. H. C. Holloway. 22-23
NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING
We, the undersigned Jury Commis
sioners of Newberry County, S. C.,
shall on th 12th day of November,
1942, and then again on the 19th day
of November, 1942, openly and pub
licly, in the Clerk of Court’s office,
at 9 o’clock a. m., draw thirty-six
names to serve a s Petit Jurors for
the Court of Common Pleas which
convenes on the respective dates of
November 23rd (1st week) and Nov
ember 30th (2nd week) at Newberry
County Court House at 10 o’clock
a. m.
H. K. BOYD, Clerk of Court,
P. N. ABRAMS, Auditor,
J. R. DAWKINS, Treasurer.
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