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- PAGE FOUR THU NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY. APRIL 16, 1943 u» 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. The Spectator Senator Wallace of Charleston is quoted in The News and Courier of March 31st as saying that it had been proposed to foim that he amend the Santee-Cooper bill so as to provide for the purchase of the South Caro lina Power Company by the Santee- Cooper. That should not surprise us; nor need we be surprised if friends of the Santee-Cooper should propose further amendments so as to acquire all the other power companies op erating in this State. It must be evident that we have in the making the greatest political combination ever imagined in South Carolina. How would this operate? Would such a political Colossus be concern ed primarily with the generation of electricity and the development of the State? The first consideration would inevitably be political. By what we now do in South Carolina we may foresee the outcome of a po litical power combine. You want power, Well see Senator X. Sena tor X will be one of the real power authorities, really povser-full in every sense. Since we have 46 counties 24 Senator X’s will control the power business, just as they control almost everything now. If by any chance one Senator should be in a position of special vantage he will be equal to six Senators. Conceivably a domi nant group of Senators—a mere group—would soon run the whole show. You think the Directors hav. the power? What would the Direc tors amount to in a clash with 24 Senators, or even a powerful group? If necessary, the Legislature might dbange the method of choosing Di rectors so as to EMPOWER the Gen eral Assembly to choose the Direc tors of power. We have built up a new system of administration among us. The Sen ator must give his “O. K.”, to every thing, or it will crash of its own weight. Even Federal services in some counties require the approval of the Legislative Delegation. Usual ly the Senator, alone, is sufficient. Senators now in power may feel assurance of their own rectitude and think this is all right; but what will they think about this when they sit in a sunny spot some January while other men hold the power in Colum bia? Look over the Senate: there ar e some new faces; next year the Santee-Coper issue may bring in more new faces. The Senate doubts less remembers that change is the order of the day and no one—bo one —is so firmly entrenched in any po sition that he could not be dislodged or uprooted. Just let the people ask themselves “What is in this for X”? “What is X trying to put over”? Well, the people are now asking, “What wil X get out of this Santee- Cooper deal”? That is the big ques tion. Some whisper various things, but after a while men will run all this down. Ask yourself, citizen, what is behind all this Santee-Coop er, Colossalized ? The Baptist Courier had an article recently on the “NEED OF BIBLI CAL PREACHING”. I was struck with this sentence: “When preachers have simpler approach to the people, WHEN THEIR DELIVERANCES HAVE NOT TO BE QUALIFIED BY SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND PERSONAL CONSIDERATIONS, they are inclined and more nearly compelled to stay close to the Bible”. Strange words, eh? Still the minis try and the churches may need a lit tle toning up, as this article implies. Recently a business man read to me a paper he had prepared for a congregational meeting to plan for a larger churoh leadership in the city. My friend talked like a pro phet of old, with the direct and vig orous style of Amos. What this ar ticle recalls to my mind is that my friend urges the ministers to have a little more of Jonathan Edwards’ style when he flayed his congrega tion with his great sermon “Sinners in the hands of an angry God.” I do not presume to tell preachers how or what to preach. The more I think about the work and place of the ministry the less I know. Phy sicians have to change their treat ment; and even the lawyers and judges are not as they used to be. By the same token preachers arn’t either; that’s the point. Some of us think ministers should be good mix ers—agreeable, sociable, companion able; others think the man of God should walk with his maker and preach the WORD, with the zeal of Isaiah. There again, we have con fusion of Counsel. John the Baptist was a hermit and he didn’t please the people; Jesus of Nazareth was sociable—and the Pharassees com plained of Him. Some congregations want old-time oratory; others want simple presen tations. Some want literature, stories and the news of the day; oth ers want Gospel unadorned; some want love, compassion and mercy emphasized; others want hell-fire ablaze and scorching even by-stand- ers. Surely it needs no argument that the minister’s arsenal and inspira tion can be only the Scriptures and the precept of the WORD, as HE went about doing good. A man may become fluent in many fields, but the average layman is at least as well informed on current topics as the minister is; and editors are bet ter informed. The minister has his own special sphere of influence; it is enough if he can feed the hungry souls and revive the drooping spirit. Representative Boyd Brown of Fairfield county has written to the Natioial Director of the OP A asking why the government is rationing foodstuffs because of shortages, while sending six million and a half pounds of surplus foodstuffs to the South Carolina Welfare department. Said Mr. Brown, as quoted in the press: “I should like respectfully to ask you why it is that the hard working citizens must have imposed on them a stringent food rationing program when the Federal govern ment is giving away millions of pounds of food?” Mr. Brown points out, and much to the point, that if six million and a half pounds of sur plus foods were sent to little South Carolina, a 100 per cent Democratic state at that— and all in the bag, as it were, it must *be obvious that the state of New York, Pennsylvania, and other great industrial centers were given an even larger quantity of surplus foods.” Well, isn’t this a perfectly regular way to do things? We- have been told that we must not Tet he right hand know what he left hand is-do ing; so the case before -us. is .within the rule. Representative Brown is a level headed business man and may still marvel at the giving away of sur plus food in time of acute shortage. By the way, how many .points must a client or beneficiary of the Wel fare department have to surrender in order to get a supply of skim milk or evaporated, milk, graham flour, white flour, grits, meal, rolled oats, fresh apples, grapefruit juice, grape fruit segments, dried prunes, dried beans, pork and beans, canned to matoes, and peanut butter? These are the surplus foods sent by the government for free distribution, according to Representative Boyd Brown, who read the list as coming from the Welfare department. I went into a very popular restau rant recently fdr breakfast and they had no meat or butter. It appeared that we should have to join the army or navy in order to enjoy a real, old- time breakfast, but as army break fasts depend on the culinary eccen tricities of army cooks, it seems that the best chance would be to become clients of the Welfare department. I’m glad Mr. Brown has asked for an explanation, though such a little matter as six million and a half pounds of surplus food, or four hun dred million pounds, as it probably is in the national total, should not •perplex Mr. Brown, who, though a young man, probably remembers when we downed five million sur plus pigs, while millions of people were hungry; and plowed up thous ands of acres of surplus cotton- while millions were begging for clothes. Son etimes our bureaucrats bring to mind a young man who was in jured in a wreck. His left eye saw double and in curves, while his right eye saw straight up and down, but only half. The oculists worked hard to get his eyes to focus. And so with the bureaucrats; they mean well, but something doesn’t focus, at times. XT made Jim feel mighty proud when that youngster looked up at the cab window and called out, “Hi-Ya, Soldier! ” * You see, Jim fought in France in the last war... before many of the boys who are fighting this war were born. Today, Jim’s a locomotive engineer... been with the Southern Railway System ever since he came back home in 1919. Then Pearl Harbor... and Jim began to feel uneasy. Wondered if he shouldn’t get back in uniform again. But he doesn’t feel that way now. That comradely “Hi-Ya, Soldier!” cleared up a lot of things that were troubling Jim. For it made him realize that he is a soldier! In this war, too! He remembers that tanks and ships can’t be built. or guns and planes roll off the production line ... without railroad transportation. He knows that fighting men would be hungry and cold and helpless.. .without railroad transportation. He knows that there would never be enough of anything, where it is wanted, when it is needed... without railroad transportation. So Jim, and all the other men and women of the Southern Railway System, are “good soldiers”. . . doing their bit by keeping the wheels rolling under the heaviest transportation load in history. Their fight is the vital Battle of Transportation ... and they’re keeping the tracks dear for Victory! i < 7* President 300,000 business enterprises are expected to fold up during this year When reading that .prediction some weeks ago, it seemed so far away. Recently, however, it has come near- er. I told about a bank that closed, well, a well known business man has compiled some figures about closings in the lower part of the State Nothing brought it closer to me than the closing of an old candy business in Charleston. For sixty years it was known as the place for delicious taffy in all flavors. Alas, no more! One more link with my childhn^ gone, like the closing of the Charleston bakery wlhich made such fine wickel-kuchen, after serv ing the public about 80 years. Ther e is a shortage of everything —even hard liquors, so I hear. In fact, a protest was made recently against hhe alleged practice of wholesale liquor dealers selling most of the “lickers” to the big towns, putting small-towners on short ra tions (liquorly speaking). Of course that is all wrong; equality of booze is democratic, even if destructive In fact, every man should have - an equal chance- to destroy himself, may be, hufli? >- But about those closings: cafes, filling stations, service stations, stores, etc. Lawyers, doctors, den tists, farmers, merchants, -preachers, teachers, salesmen—the war! I read this same statement, practically for Barnwell; Dunbarton, Blackville, Allendale, Vamville, Estill, Brunson, Fairfax, Hampton, Ehrhardt, Ruffin, Smoaks, Lodge, Branchville, Cope, Denmark, Bamberg, Olar, Waiter- boro, Summerville, Holly Hill, Eu- tawville, St. George, Herleyville, Hardeeville, Ridgeland, Coosavtfhat- chie, Beaufort, Aiken and the towns in the Horse Creek valley, Ellenton, Edgefield—163 places closed in those communities. How many have been closed in the State? I wonder. Within sight of my home, three fill ing stations, once prosperous, have closed. 8.720 SURGICAL DRESSINGS MADE IN NEWBERRY IN THREE DAY PERIOD Volunteer workers for the Newber ry county chapter of the American Red Cross made 8,720 surgical dress ings during a three-day period the past week when a special call for ad ditional workers was made to clear up the material on hand at the end of March. In one morning alone 63 workers made 2,325 dressings. The material was worked up so rapidly by the large number of women who responded that the work room was closed for a short period. However, a shipment .of material for 18,000 dressings arrived Monday and the women are again . busily engaged in getting them fixed. Mrs. E. G. Able, chairman of the surgical dressings for • the county, states that 54,632 dressings were made in the county during the month of March. Of this number 13,675 were made in the Whitmire work room. which was opened recently. There are at present two work rooms in the county, the one located in the Red Cross headquarters in the courthouse, which is under the sup ervision of Mrs. Able and her corps of supervisors and the one in Whit mire of which Mrs. H. B. Thomas is chainnan. Groups of women from Silverstreet, Prosperity and else where over the county have volun teered their services and are right on th job with local women at the court house. Both the local and Whitmire work rooms maintain'a full weekly schedule of open hours in order that it will be convenient for the women. In ad dition the Whitmire room is opened on Sunday afternoon for the women who are unable to come at other times, enabling them to participate in thb‘ service. Approximately 120,000 dressings have been made in the county since the workroom was first opened on October 23, 1942. Every effort is made to speed up production by working up the material as quickly as possible after it is received from the forwarding headquarters. The work of making the dressings is done entirely by volunteer workers. HONOR STUDENT C. A. Dufford, Jr., son of Mr. and .Mrs. C. A. Dufford, was one of the eleven students at the South Carolina Medical College, Charleston, that fin ished the freshman class there in March with honors. MRS. EDITH M. BROWN Mrs. Edith McGill Brown, 47, wife of J. Alvin Brown died Friday at the Newberry county hospital af ter several weeks serious illness. She was a daughter of Mrs. Harriett Whitesides McGill of York county and the late John Calvin McGill. Surviving in addition to her husband and mother are two sons, James Al vin and John C. Brown; two daugh ters. Misses Harriett and Catherine Brovoi and t^o brothers. Bosner and W. M. McGill. Funeral services were held Satur day |afternoon at 5 o’clock at the Leavell Funeral home conducted by D. J. W. Carson. Interment followed in Rosemont cemetery. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM Mrs. Verona Dominick spent last week with her daughter ,Mrs. James DeHart in Spartanburg. Miss Marie, Fellers, of Schoolfield, Va., spent the weekend with her par ents, Sheriff and Mrs. Tom M. Fel lers. Bxtiut SUGAR — and it it your patriotic duty to i.«lp in tho present food-shortage by preserving as much of this sea son's fruit and berry crop as possible. Apply to your Ration Board for your .pllottment of extra sugar for canning NOW! DIXIE CRYSTALS C.inc Sugar 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—Coker Four-In-One wilt resistant and Coker 100 wilt resist ant Cotton Seed, first year from breeder; price $1.50 per bushel. Made 48 bales on 35 acres last year. Better buy quick if you want first year seed at reasonable prices. H. O. LONG, Silverstreet, S. C. 2-5tfc RAISE YOUR OWN. MEAT—Rab bits will help solve the meat prob lem. Have for sale. New Zealand Reds, Whites, and Grey Chinchillas. Breeders and young kind, any siae. See me. R. Derrill Smith, Whole sale Grocer, Newberry, S. C. NOTICE OF ELECTION A petition having been filed ac cording to law with, the Newberry county Board of Education by the patrons, and resident taxpayers of Rutherford school district No. 23, asking for an election for the pur pose of naming a trustee of the above mentioned school district, said election is hereby granted and called on the 24th day of April, 1943, be tween the, hours of 8 a. m. and 4:00 p. m. The residence of Mr. H. H. Boland has been designated as the voting place. All patrons and resi dent taxpayers are entitled to vote in such election. NEWBERRY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.