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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY. MARCH 12. 1943
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.
AMERICANS LIKE THE TRUTH
Labor today is the most powerful
single group in America. It can
make or break the war effort. La
bor leaders, by demanding the : r
pound of flesh during the emergency
can bring disastrous inflation which
would wipe out half a century of
labor gains, together with the sav
ings and standards of living of ev.ery
man, woman and child in the coun
try.
Is it any wonder that Captain Ed
die Rickenbacker has asked labor to
make sacrifices along with the rest
of us, forego extravagant overtime
demands, help to protect the working
rights of men returning from war,
cease disruptive jurisdictional strife
and make-work tactics; are these
things too much to ask of labor at a
time when the country is fighting for
its very life? They most certainly
are not.
The public agrees heart and soul
with every word that Rickenbacker
has uttered. Those who attempt to
discredit him as a labor hater, will
hurt labor, because the words he
has spoken were born when he was
very near to death. Men near death
think and speak the truth. And
Americans like to hear the truth, no
matter how unpleasant.
AN OBJECT LESSON
CRUX OF THE FOOD PROBLEM
The president of a leading farm
organization touched the crux of the
food problem when he said: “There
has been failure on the food front.
That failure can be traced to the
failure of administrative agencies.
. . . Empty store shelves, empty meat
counters, disruption of production
and distribution, are the inevitable
result. Now these same people ex
press great concern over food short
ages. They have not yet worked out
with farm organizations a sound pro
gram based on the knowledge of
farmers and their organizations.”
Subsidies and laws will not create
food. Only the farmers can do that,
and they need manpower, machinery
and stability of government policies
which will encourage production in
stead of keeping it in a constant
state of confusion.
YES; SPEAK TO THE SHEEP
(By the Associated Press)
Boise, Idaho, February 19.—An
Idaho rancher tells this one.
Unable to get a priority to buy
lumber to construct lambing pens, 'he
decided to try to use canvas. But, he
said, the War Production Board gave
him this answer:
“It is impossible M allow you such
a large amount of canvas for the
purpose of making lambing sheds. As
an alternative, we suggest that you
postpone your lambing seasons until
more favorble weather,”
Advocates of peacetime laws to
kill competition in retailing, should
now look about them. Competition
has been definitely ended, as a war
measure. Instead of trying to at
tract business, the average merchant
'has to discourage it in his attempt to
comply wih price regulations and
other restrictions which became in
evitable when the natural laws of
suply and demand, and free competi
tion, were suspended.
The new system has been cheerful
ly accepted because war made it nec
essary. Out of this necessity, we
will gain valuable experience. We
will have a practical example of 'how
restricted competition immediately
reacts on the consumer.
The effect would, be the same from
laws passed in peacetime to destroy
competition, as it is from regulation'
; n wartime, which eliminate competi
tion.
Under peacetime competitive re
tailing, consumers were able to buy
what they wanted, when they wanted
it, at reasonable prices. Their stand
ards of living rose year by year. T'
establishments in which they made
their purchases, whether chain or in
dependency operated, steadily be
came more attractive and sanitary
Service became better. These thing
the public came to take for granted
without realizing that they woul
not have occurred but for the magi
of wholesome competition which is
the handmaiden of progress.
The war emergency Should warn
all of us against peacetime crippling
of competition. When peace re
turns, the free competitive system
should be restored. Frozen pricey
mean frozen progress—that is now
being proven'.
FREE CHOICE MEANS PROGRESS
A basic principle of democracy is
free choice. Significantly, extrem
ists who urge adoption of broad com
pulsory health programs gi^e scant
attention to that basic principal.
Free choice guides every act in oui
daily lives. We can go to the churc 1
we choose, we can buy groceries from
what we choose, we can choose the
-ar in Which we ride, we can say
what we choose, we can shoose the
schools we wish to attend.
Whenever we abandon the princi
ple of free choice, we hurt r.o om
but ourselves. And that goes for
medical service. Free choice of
doctor automatically encoui age'-
medical competense. The most qual
ified are the most patronized. As r
result, every doctor is spurred on tr
achieve the reputation of being a
good doctor. This incentive or what
ever you Wish to call it, is the back
ground of every doctor’s training
It embodies more than mere financial
success. Pride of accomplishment.
{FIFTY PERCENT
OF HIS. INCOME
FOR WAR BONDS!
“Only doing his share toward winning the war,** 1
says Bridges
r ^
Colin P. Bridges and his wife are employed by the same
textile mill in Shelby, N. C.
Of their combined salaries,
they regularly invest more than
50 percent in United States War
Bonds! Mr. Bridges says that
he and his wife are savers by
nature and they agree that
United* States War Bonds,
backed by the Government of the
strongest country on earth, offer
the best and safest opportunity
for return on their savings.
“And, of course,” says Bridges,
"the purchase of War Bonds
gives us what every American
not in the service is looking for—
a chance to share in winning
this war.”
There’s the answer to people
who wish they could do more for
the war effort!
Fifty percent is a record that
not all of us can equal. But if,
like Colin Bridges, you too are
fighting on the Bond front, make
it a good fight-^make it the best
fight you can. Boost your Bond
FARMERS ARE PUT ON DEFER
RED LIST BY ORDER OF WMC
Agency Issues Instructions Designed
to Help Meet Shortage of Labor
buying through the Pay-Roll
Savings Plan right now . .. .
today!
You’ve done your bit—now do
your bettl
Washington, March 6—The war
manpower commission told local draft
boards tonight to keep farm workers
in deferred classifications—even ii
.he quotas for the armed forces can-
.iOt then be met.
The commission also issued three
other new instructions designed to
.lelp meet the farm labor shortage:
1. Any man with farming expe
rience who is now in other work
should be classified as farm-de
ferred (Class 2-C or 3-C) if he goes
back to agriculture as a regular oc
cupation before notified to appear
for induction.
2. State and county war boards of
the agriculture department may re
quest. the deferment of a necessary
farm worker even though the work
er himself or his employer do not
seek the deferment. The boards also
may appeal from decisions of local
draft boards.
3. If a draft board finds that a
farm worker is not producing
enough to justify his deferment it
must refer his case to a county war
board and allow thirty days for him
to be placed in another job before it
can draft him.
To gain draft deferment a farm
worker is required to produce a
minimum output fixed by formulas
prepared by the agriculture depart
ment. Cases of workers failing to
meet these requirements heretofore
have been referred to the U. S. em-
olyment service. The new order is
lesigned to give local draft boards
treater influence.
Meanwhile a house appropriation?
subcommittee slashed by more than
50 per cent the funds sought by the
’griculture department to recruit
farm labor. The action was aimed
not at the recruiting program itself
hut was designed to bring the ad
ministration’s program more in line
with congressional views.
the heart-warming feeling that peo
ple come to him because they be
lieve in him, these are part of the
incentive inspired by free choice
which governs the career of the av
erage doctor. The same inspiration
has been responsible for the miracu
lous scientific discoveries that have
come from research laboratories of
American medicine.
If we abandon the principle of free
choice in the field of medicine, medi
cal service will decline.
UNCLE SAM
Wants You To . . .
Plant A
V egetable
Garden
LET US SUPPLY YOUR NEEDS
—Garden Hoes.
—Spading Forks.
—Rakes, Pitcrforks.
—Potato Hoes.
lood Stock of Rubber Hose on Hand
PAINT — PAINT — PAINT
You’ll find it profitable to keep
your property well painted! We
have a full stock for every pur
pose.
POULTRY NETTING
We have just received a shipment of
Poultry Netting. Can be sold only
through County Ration Board. Up
to 25 feet sold without restriction.
Raise chickens and save for your-
;elf and for Uncle Sam.
canning needs
1-2 pint, Pint, Quart, 1-2 Gallon jars.
Extra Lids, Complete Tops, Glasses.
Jars and Containers will be scarce.
Buy now while we have them. Sold
without restriction.
While mercnandise .is .scarce, .we
still hae a complete stock of. many
scarce items. Shop with us and
save money.
R. M. Lominack
Hardware
The manpower commission issued
this memorandum to draft boards:
“Having madt its decision that an
individual registrant is necessary to
and regularly engage in an agri
cultural occupation or endeavor es
sential to the war effort, the local
board has no further discretion and
must defer the registrant.
“No desire to meet calls for man
power should in any manner in
fluence the local board’s decision.
Calls which cannot be met without
taking registrants considered neces
sary to and regularly engaged in
agricultural occupations or endeav
ors essential to the war effort should
be left unfilled.”
The selective service system said
nearly 600,000 farm workers had
been placed in 2-C and 3-C in re
cent weeks. About 117,600 were
transferred to those classes in Jan
uary alone.
“Over half of these men, had
they not been transferred, would in
all probability have been inducted
into the armed forces, depriving ag
riculture of their services,” the se
lective service said.
It is estimated that more than
3,000,000 farm workers will have
received agricultural deferment by
the end of this year. Some 6,500
farm workers are being reclassified
daily into deferred status.
the name of mercy and human de
cency are strong enough to survive.
“Each one of you who has a frien
or relative in uniform will measure
the significance of this crusade ir
your own heart. You—at your house
today—know better than anyone els'
what it means to be sure the Red
! Cross stands at the side of our sol-
I diers or sailors or marines wherevei
: they may be. All of Us—one hun
I dred and thirty millions—know how
indespensable to victory is the work
1 of this great agency.”
RED CROSS NEWS
General Eisenhower Said
“The Red Cross takes your sub
scriptions, transforms it into usefu’
and practical aid, and brings it to
1 the soldier frely, cheerfully, and ef
ficiently.
“I do hope that the Red Cross or
ganization in this theatre will be ex
panded many times. We have need
of it every day everywhere. In the
brief moment I have had, I cannot
possibly describe to you the extent to
i which all of us, particularly those
1 magnificent soldiers who fill th«
I American units in North Africa, de
pend upon the American 1 Red Cross.
Perhaps it would be best for me to
say that I have yet to meet an Ameri
can soldier—and I’ve spoken to hun
dreds—who doesn’t say with enthu-
siam and vigor—that Red Cross is
certainly doing one fine job.”
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
FRIDAY. MARCH 12
The annual World Day of Prayer
will be observed this year on Fri-
’ay, March 12.
This service will be held in Cen-
ral Methodist church, at 4 o’clock,
■Friday afternoon.
In this time of crisis this service
should be observed in a spirit of
mmality and re-dedication. Let us
mt treat this call lightly.
We cannot afford to miss the ob
servance this year of the World Day
of Prayer. Make plans to attend.
D. S. COOK
David Soneltzer Cook of near Pros-
nerity died March 3 at the home of
a son, Colie Cook. Mr. Cook spent
oractically bis entire life in the
vicinity of Prosperity. He was mar
ried twice, first to Mhry Elizabeth
Kinard and then to lola Taylor. He
is survived by one brother, J. Ben
Cook, one daughter, : Mrs. Maggie
Minick, two sons, David Colie and
Ira F’rank Cook, and four grand
children, four of whom are in the
armed services. Funreal services
were conducted at Colony Lutheran
church by his pastor, Rev. M. L.
Kester at five p. m. Thursday, March
third. The body was laid to rest in
Colony cemetery.
Notice To Newberry Women
Women of Newberry if you think
you are busy, just take a look at
what one volunter in Dublin and
Laurens county Red Cross chapter
did. Miss Claude Martin, retired
school teacher, deserves a special ci
tation of merit for her work. She
made 268 garments for the Red
Cross in 1912, and pieced two quilts.
Living on a big farm, she does her
own laundering, %ooking and clean
ing, milks the cows, feeds the pigs,
tends the garden, cans fruits and
vegetables, hoes and picks cotton.
She also finds time to attend church
regularly and meet with her circles
every "Monday.
IjOOO'VNOOOOO'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCO
Receives Red Cross Relief
First confirmation that American
Red Cross relief goods and mail from
home actually have been received by
American prisoners of war in the
prison camp at Zentsuji, Japan, has
come from the International Red
Cross committee delegate in Tokyo.
Two hundred and thirty-four Ameri
cans, of whom 54 are officers, are in
the camp. All were reported in good
health.
The President Said
"The American Red Cross begins
the greatest crusade of mercy in all
history. It is undertaking a task un
precedented—because this war is un
precedented. We undertake ' this
greatest of all Red Cross crusades In ( i
Poultry Wanted
The Greenville Poultry Company will have a truck in
Newberry Every THURSDAY from 10 to 11:30 a. m.
CASH PRICESfAS FOLLOWS:
Colored Hens, pound 23c
Leghorn Hens, pound * 20c
Roosters, pound 10c
Turkey Toms, pound 25c
Turkey Hens, pound 25c
Ducks and Geese, pound 12c
Loading Point at Lake’s Machine Shop
This will be a regular schedule,rain or shine
Be on Time and Tell Your Neighbors
Do Not Feed Poultry on Day of Sale
Greenville Poultry Co.
WOW
WAR FUN
AMERICAN R
Symbolic of the role the Red Cross is again playing, the ‘1943 Red Cross War Fund poster depicts
the organization as a mother ministering to the needs of the men of the United States armed forces
and the victims of war throughout the world. The poster is an appeal to all men and women for con
tributions to the War Fund. Lawrence Wilbur, noted illustrator, designed the poster. Helen Muallc.
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