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THU NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY. APRIL 16, 1943
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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!
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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.