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FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1943
Wfi NEWBfiRRY SUN
The Spectator
(Intended for last week) I old are we when we have no more
The sudden, very abrupt termina-’ illusions ? And if life holds many
tion of gasoline sales last Friday,
even if because of a war necessity,
did not impress our people as an ex
ample of good administration. Every
where the car-owners rushed to fill
their tanks, very naturally, and one
may wonder whether anv good re
sulted.
If a real necessity prompted the
order, the necesity was not so sud
den as to require so drastic a step,
and one almost without notice.
Again we find that the Eastern
Seaboard must bear the brunt. Isn’t
that a lot 6f foolishness? If five
hundred million gallons were sudden
ly needed in the Pacific the Nation
should be curtailed, not California,
Washington or Oregon.
Most of us regarded the order as
another illustration of bureaucratic
incompetence.
The New Deal has meddled with
so much that many men said “Well’
this is to keep people off the road
during Christmas.” This Government
is not only calling for incredible
taxes, but it wishes to regulate in
comes at the same time. It hopes to
solve the race problem by inflaming
the South; and it plans to solve eco
nomic problems by special order.
England failed for generations in
her treatment of Ireland, but Mr. and
Mrs. Roosevelt hope to solve ques
tions more deeply rooted than the
religious differences of Irish Catho
lics and English Protestants. And
they strangely think they can solve
a problem by deepening the chasm
and infuriating both races.
A well known daily paper carried
a story recently under this head:
“Save Matches, Says War Production
Board”. Well, so it’s got to that.
But there is a course which might
help: stop all pipe smoking. Have
you ever observed the brethren of
the pipe? In the first place their
preliminary maneuvers are as many
and trying as were those of us who
once struggled to crank a car. The
pipe fellows look too happy and
peaceful, anyhow. A man with a
pipe (under joyful blast, you know)
walks or sits with a serene counte
nance which exceeds the amount of
serenity which the O. P. A. ration
entitles him to. Hereafter we should
issue a ticket to ration strictly the
degree and duration of benignity on
one’s countenance. But, haven’t you
noticed these flue-smokers, or seated
chimneys, using a whole box of
matches to keep the smoke curling
during one afternoon ? Well, shall
we bear down on the pipers? A pity
it would be to clap on those jolly
lads.
Everything is very flat, following
Christmas. All during December we
have planned for Christmas—and
then it comes—and goes. It is worth
while, I think, to have high lights,
even though the utter emptiness of
the day-after makes you wonder if
it was not all an illusion.
Illusion? Well, perhaps; but how
illusions of happiness and joy,' it is
also full of illusions of disaster. How
many tmes have everything seemed
headed straight for the dogs, with
out going near the dogs? How many
bridges have we crossed before we
reached them, only to find no bridge
at all?
Enthusiasm is beyond all price,
though the high peaks have corres
ponding depressions. Christmas is
the greatest event-—along with Eas
ter—which the world has known. It
started in poverty of things physical,
but in immeasurable richness of
spirit.
Life is monotonous and drab un
less we can get out of ourselves.
Christmas did that for most people.
They planned, they worked, they
saved, and they spent—for others. It
was an ennobling experience built on
some measure of sacrifice. It was
worth it—and more; and now we
start out with new heart and fresh
courage for the long journey until
another Christmas.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! It appears
that we shall walk more this New
Year. That will help our digestion
and make us sleep better. Then we
may live more simply, which will al
so be good for us.
Are we any wiser than we were a
year ago? Shall we grow in wisdom,
so that what Luke said of the little
boy of Nazareth might be said of
us:—“And the child grew, and waxed
strong in spirit, filled with wisdom;
and the grace of God was upon him.”
Or, as Luke later says of Him: “He
increased in wisdom . . . and in favor
with God and man.”
The greatest acquisition which can
grace one’s life is wisdom. If during
the New Year we grow in wisdom
the New Year will be the best of all.
This wisdom is frequently just the
studied and analyzed experience of
each day. When we reflect on our
way of living, see our mistakes and
our Successes, hovdever small, and
then so chart tomorrow’s course by
the well interpreted experience of to
day, or yesterday, as to avoid our
errors—we are growing in wisdom.
As to the income tax—! Well, it
is a pity to talk about taxes at this
season, isn’t it? Here we are in the
fulness of time and with the fulness
of spirit, and must think of a tax
time coming. Our minds are so full
of fruit cake and plum pudding, nuts,
raisins and candy, turkey and cran
berry sauce, mince pie—and all the
trimmings that belong to our tradi
tional Christmas. But the good fel
lowship of Christmas can still be
ours, the songs of praise and joy can
still fill the air.
A simplified Christmas might help
restore some of the real meaning, of
the great occasion. Surely Christmas
does not depend upon bacon or eggs.
It came to us out of the unadorned
simplicity of very plain and common
living. And, strangely enough, we
must always associate the Christ-
FARM SCRAP VITAL
AS WAR ENTERS
SECOND YEAR
WASHINGTON — The need lor
metal scrap remains unabated as the
Nation's mighty steel Industry, with
production figures climbing to record
proportions, enters the second year
of the war.
The Importance of Iron and steel
scrap In the war effort becomes In
creasingly apparent as the tempo of
the United Nations' offensive against
the Axis powers shifts into,hlgh gear.
Ships, tanks, armored cars, planes,
guns and all kinds of mechanized
equipment are the backbone of our
army’s striking power. Farm scrap Is
making it possible for us to supply
these weapons to our fighting forces
In adequate quantities.
The demand for steel In this war
far exceeds that of any previous war.
In World War I, it required 90
pounds of steel for every American
soldier. In this war every man In
Uncle Sam's armed forces must be
backed by 4,900 pounds of steel. To
equip an army of ten million men,
therefore, requires steel in quantities
that are almost too great for the hu
man mind to envision.
At the beginning of 1942, the an
nual capacity of our steel industry
was approximately 88 H million tons.
But by the middle of 1943, the yearly
productive capacity will have been
expanded by another ten million
tons. This calls for an ever increas
ing supply of scrap, if we are to keep
the steel mills operating at then
stepped-up capacity.
Steel is normally made up by melt
ing together pig iron and scrap, on
approximately a fifty-fifty basis. So
steel is practically half scrap, and that
explains why so much scrap is needed.
Recent scrap drives, it is said, have
brought forth an abundance of light
household scrap, but not enough
heavy scrap. Light scrap in its origi
nal state cannot be used economically
la an open-hearth steel furnace, and
mas at Bethlehem with taxes, for
Joseph ad Mary had gone In Bethle
hem in obedience to the “decree of
Caesar Augustus, that all the world
should be taxed” and, as Luke tells
us, All went to be taxed, every one
into his own city.” So, all this fore
thought of income taxes is intimate
ly related to the historical aspect of
must be mixed with a certain amount
of heavy scrap.
American Industry and Amerlcat
Farms are the Nation's most prolific
son-ces of heavy scrap. War Produc
tion Board officials say. Industry, ol
course, produces most of the heavy
scrap, but not enough. So the farms
of the country become an increasing
ly Important source of this necessary
war material
The huge piles of scrap metal seen
in various parts of the country have
created an impression of over-abun
dance. But this is not the case, ac
cording to Lessing J. Rosenwald. Di
rector of the Conservation Division in
Washington.
“This scrap is where the Govern
ment wants it,” said Mr. Rosenwald,
"and we must add more to It. Large |
reserves of scrap must be built up and I
stored in accessible places, where we
can get our hands on it during the!
winter and spring months ahead. It
would be physically impossible to store
all of this scrap at the steel mills, or
in scrap dealers' yards," Mr. Rosen
wald said. “Instead, it must be stored
in many small piles, from which it'
can flow as needed, in an orderly 1
manner, through the scrap dealers' '
yards to the steel mills.”
Another Washington salvage offi
cial likened the scrap piles over the
Nation to the corn In farmers’ cribs
and to baled cotton stored in ware
houses against the day when they are
needed. “It is a normal process, with
which every farmer is familiar, and
local scrap piles exist for the same
reason," this official said.
War Production Board Chairman
Donald Nelson and Secretary of Agri
culture Claude Wlckard have Joined
hands in an appeal to American farm
ers to dedicate the remaining weeks of
1942 to an intensified scrap hunt, as a
result of which it is hoped additional
scrap piles will be created, and that
the old ones will be made larger.
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RANCHERS DONATE SCRAP
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These Iron wagon wheels were part of 34 tons of scrap donated by
the Ferretto Brothers to the scrap campaign and shown being loaded
into trucks at the Ferretto Ranch on the Carson River, east of Day-
ton, Nev., for trucking to a collection depot. Note the acetylene tank
aboard the truck for cutting up the larger pieces into hunks small
enough to drop down Hitler’s throat-
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So, as Joseph and Mary went to be
taxed, as the law required, we must
keep in mind our obligation to sup
port our Government.
One of our banks has sent me an
income tax table and it is very ser
ious reading.
Looking over the figures one may
wonder how much a wife is worth;
or how much she represents in the
expenses of the home. If a man’s
income is $1,000 he pays no tax, if
married, but $89 if single. Well isn’t
a wife worth more than that? Of
course I’m dealing with just business.
Some recently married radio friends
think a wife is worth $100,000, at
least. But I don’t think the revenue
men will agre to that. The wife of
a $2,000 man is assessed for income
reduction, at $133. The $5,000 man
is allowed $174 off for his wife,
while the $9,000 married taxpayer is
allowed to deduct $230. Married men
will conclude that some one connect
ed with the revenue business of our
Government is lamentably cut of
touch with the present cost of high
living; or, else, has based his calcu
lations on sentiment.
Some years ago the Congress en
acted a statute forbidding the prac
tice of law before the Departments
of the Government by members of
Congress. We have a practice in
South Carolina of electing many
State Officials by the Legislature
Then the lawyers in the Legislature
appear professonally before the men
whom they helped to elect, or may
help to defeat. It is common knowl
edge that this is a bad practice and
should be prohibited.
A State or County Official has to
strain a bit to be judicially impartial
when a lawyer comes before him
who worked hard to elect him; or
whose disfavor may cost him his job
Then, again, every official is inter
ested in the budget for his depart
ment. He can get additional money,
or new items, or larger powers, on a
sort of quid pro quo basis—I’ll do
this and you do that. That sort of
thing—and we know that it is not
rare among us—tends to make this
a government by favor, instead of a
government by law or strict merit.
Some of our legislators contend that
they choose as good men from their
own number for public positions as
the State could find outside the Leg
islature. That may be true. Certain
ly we have been fortunate in choos
ing men of character and ability.
The Judges and administrative offi
cials chosen from the membership of
the General Assebly compare favor
ably with an equal number of possible
candidates from the outside, but the
practice is not wholesome and is
converting the Legislature into a po
litical springboard. A lawyer should
practice law and a law-maker should
make laws. But, obviously the law
maker should not practice law be
fore the officials whom he has cre
ated or whose administration he can
largely influence, if not control, by
means of budgetary items.
Every citizen should stand on the
same level before the courts and be
fore the administrative bodies—ani
so should every lawyer in the State.
MAYBIN C. MOORE
Clarence T. Summer, Inc.
MRS. ANNIE YOUNGBLOOD
Funreal sesvices for Mrs. Annie
W. Youngblood, 71, who died early
Thursday morning, December 24, at
the home of R. M. Powell were held
Thursday afternoon at the graveside
in the West End cemetery by the
Rev. H. W. Long and the Rev. V. L.
Fulmer. 1
She was the widow of Milledge
Youngblood who died a number of
years ago Surviving is a great-
nephew.
Active pall-bearers were: Irvin
Attaway Berley Shealy, Charlie
Bradley, Roland Williams, W. A.
Clamp and Leroy Eargle.
Outstanding Newberry College Students
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The ten most outstanding seniors on
the Newberry College campus this
yea r are shown above. These young
men and wome were selected by the
college faculty to be listed in Hie
Who’s Who of American Universities
and Colleges. This is a very high
honor and is well deserved by the
following students, seated left td
right John L. Yost, jr., of Atlanta,
Ga., Fiances Elizabeth Renwick of
Newberry, Lewis Fleniken of Rowes-
vitle, William Peery of Newberry,
Mary E. Layton of Newberry, Bumps
'Harrison of Columbia, Lovic S. Flen
iken of Rowesville, Wade F. Hook of
West Columbia. Some of the requi
sites of attaining this honor includes
character, scholarship, leadership in
college activities.
The first thing to do is to stare at
the typewriter for a good two hours,
memorizing just how the old ribbon is
fixed in the machine. It is even wise
to draw a little diagram of this, be-
- -. cause you will find that once the old
the birth of the Son of the Highest, ribbon is removed you will have for
gotten how the ribbon wound its way
through the little jiggers and doo
dads that hold it.
Now, open the new ribbon. Now,
throw the new ribbon away. No one
ever opend a first new ribbon and
found it to be the right make, size
and shape. Now, open another new
ribbon- This one, if you’re lucky, is
the right one. Now, go chase the
new ribbon, which has fallen from
your hands and unwound all the way
into the next room. After you have
rewound the new ribbon, don’t bother
to wash up, because you are just
starting to get dirty.
The big moment is now at hand.
The time has come to put the right
spool on the revolving business on the
right. Be sure that the arrows are
pointing the right way, and that
everything snaps into place. Now,
do the same with the left spool. At
this point it is excusable to go and
wash up. Whether you know it or
not, you are black with ink from head
to foot, and need only to drop to
your knees, roll your eyes, and clasp
your hands to look like A1 Jolson on
the second chorus of “Mammy”.
When you return all spruced up, run
the ribbon through the little claw in
the center, and the two little what-
chamacallits on each side. Now, by
all rights, the ribbon should be ready
to work. Heabe a sigh of relief,
grin a grin, and start typing, all the
while watching the ribbon to see if it
is moving and going from one spool
to the other.
It won’t move a lick. It never
does. It just sits there, impatiently
waiting to be worn out in one spot,
like a child waiting for a spankng.
So, start all over again. This
time put the left spool on the right
side, and vice versa. Pay no atten
tion to the litle arrows. Keep plug
ging away and then call for the re
pair shop and they’ll send a man
over. Well, not a man, exactly, more
of a magician, who’ll do the whole
job in ten minutes.
Maybin C. Moore died Monday
night, December 28th at the age of
83, after some years of lingering
health. He was the son of the late
James and Rebecca Lake Moore, of
the Union community of Newberry
county, being the last surviving
member of his immediate family. He
wa s a farmer until entering the gro
cery business at Oakland Mill. He
is survived''by his widow r , formerly
Nancy Carolyn Sloan of the county,
and the following children: Mrs. E. H.
Werts, Mrs. J. D. Wicker, Mrs. W. B.
Goggans, Mrs. C. P. Summer and J.
B. Moore all of Newberry; Robert
Moore of Toledo, O., Miss Marie
Moore of Conway and Heyward
Moore of the U. S. Army, now sta
tioned at Fort Monmouth, Red Bank,
N. J. He is also survived by a num
ber of grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at Lea-
vell Funeral Home Wednesday after
noon at 3:00 o’clock, conducted by
Dr. J. W. Carson, pastor of the Asso
ciate Reformed Presbyterian church,
with interment in Rosemont ceme
tery.
L. W. C. BLALOCK
Funeral services for L. W. C. Bla
lock, 85, well-known Laurens county
resident who died at his home in
Goldville Thursday afternoon, Dec
ember 24, were conducted at 3
o’clock Saturday afternoon at the
Goldville Baptist church by the Rev.
James B. Mitchell, the Rev. S. B.
White, the Rev. C. F. Allen and the
Rev. Ray Anderson.
The body was placed in the fam
ily mouso'leum at Goldville.
Survivors include one sister, Mrs.
M. E. Browning; a niece and nep
hew and several grandnieces.
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The popularity of all-purpos* cotton is booming on the campus of Texas State College for Women,
Denton. Joe Ann Wakefield, freshman, models three cotton outfits designed and constructed by students
making a special studv of cotton clothing. At left, she wears a hollow cut velveteen jacket in honey beige
over a brown, green and gold plaid gingham frock. The hat is of dark brown corduroy to match shoes
of dark green and brown in the same fabric. Center, she wears slacks and jacket of light beige corduroy
with a crew-necked, long-sleeved shirt of knitted cotton jersey. The suit at right is a narrow-wale cotton
corduroy and is lined with striped gingham. The hat js a close fitting one made of bias folds of corduroy
and trimmed with bias cords Upped with brown wooden beads. . ..