The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, April 30, 1943, Image 10
KAGE EOUE
THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1943
Will Americans Be More Tender With
Their Money Than Lives of Their Sons
Washington, D. C. — A blunt challenge—whether Amer
icans will be more tender with their money than with the lives
of their sons — confronts U. S. citizens as they prepare to
meet the appeal of the government to put an additional 13 billion
dollars into the fight in the next three weeks.
American dollars which run off to'®’-
■ome cozy shelter to hide while
American boys are dying to defend
our cities and towns from destruc
tion and invasion will face a rising
demand from all classes of patriotic
citizens to come out and fight.
Millions of workers who now are
buying War Bonds regularly out of
current income must lend extra
money to their government during
the Second War Loan campaign
(which started April 12).
In recognition of the spirit of sac
rifice which is sweeping over the
land as our troops swing into of
fensive action in Africa and await
the signal for a landing in Europe,
the Treasury Department is offering
a series of government bonds to fit
every pocketbook.
No matter whether Americans buy
the familiar Series E Bonds or 2V2
per cent bonds or 2 per cent bonds
or tax certificates, they will be doing
their part to make the Second War
Loan drive a success.
Consumer Spending Too High.
Consumer spending in 1942 was
much too high to meet the war situa
tion of 1943. Last year more than
82 billion dollars of our soaring na
tional income went to feed the de
sires of Americans for clothes, rec
reation, foods and luxuries. As these
items grow scarcer, more of our in
come must be diverted from such
expenses into government bonds.
During 1942 millions of our fathers,
sons, relatives and friends were in
training here and abroad. Some
were already in action. Casualties
were beginning to bite into every
community. War Bonds became a
vital link between the home and
fighting fronts.
Today sacrifice has become a way
of life for America’s fighting men.
Civilian spending on the 1942 scale
must go out the window if the home
folks are to attempt to match the
heroism of our boys at the front.
Not every American can take his
place in a bomber or in a foxhole
or on a fighting ship but he can fire
away at the enemy by lending
money to the government.
“ . . . And Junior wants to thank you for that chemistry set you gave him
for his birthday.” . . 1
Aztec Motif
Motif of the cotton print used
for Maureen O’Hara’s ultra-modern
handbag and turban was first de
signed m.-ny, many years ago by
Aztec Indians. The print is bright
red, printed in darker red, deep
blue and beige. The bag and turban
provide sharp contrast to light-
colored clothes for Spring and
Sv-i’ner.
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f WluU you Buy f WUlt
WAR BONDS
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While we have nqt heard so much
about them, our air-borne command
is inferior to none. We have thou
sands of these especially trained
troops and the glider is a necessary
factor in their successful operation.
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We build gliders in three types
and their capacity is a military se
cret. The type shown here costs
about $19,000 each. Buy War Bonds
with at least ten percent of your in
come every payday and help pay
for these gliders for our intrepid
fighting men. U. S. Treasury Departiutnt
The following..
Furniture Stores
Will Close Each
W ednesday
at One o’clock
Starting MAY 5 and
continuing thru August
R. L. Baker, Furniture
Buzhardt Furniture Co.
City Sales Company
Home Furniture Co.
Maxwell Bros & Quinn
G. B. Summer & Sons
DEBT CLEARANCE MARKS THE
1943 SESSION JUST CLOSED
Columbia, April 17.—The 1943
South Carolina legislature that pre
pared to adjourn tonight was one of
the most active on record as it had
more money to spend—and spent it—
than any legislature in the state’s
history.
Overflowing state coffers encour
aged the legislators to wipe clean
the state’s debt slate for the first
time in the memory of any of the
solons; to enact a $17,719,272 general
appropriations bill, by three millions
the biggest on the books; to repeal
four mills of state-wide property
levies and give generous aid to coun
ties and towns; to raise the pay of
teachers and state employees
Social, prohibition and military
legislation all got their share of at
tention as the lawmakers enacted a
marriage-license control law, decided
to require enrichment of degerminat-
ed meal and grits, refused state-wide
prohibiiton but curtailed week - end
beer and wine sales, and gave the
state’s 6,000 home guardsmen insur
ance protection while lowering age
minimum of guardsmen from 18 to
17.
A change of governors a week af
ter the fifty-seven day session open
ed January 12 left the surface of
legislative matters unruffled as Olin
D. Johnston, of Spartanburg and An
derson, resumed office January 19,
after a four year absence, succeeding
R. M. Jefferies, now senator from
Colleton county.
Messages of the two men to the
general assembly made similar
recommendations, most of which
found favor with the lawmakers.
Although prohibition bills were
either continued or left in committee,
a flurry of county bills to prohibit
weekend beer and wine sales led to
inclusion of a state-wide proviso in
the general appropriations bill to re
strict beer and wine sales from mid
night Saturdays to sunrise Mondays,
effective July first.
Notably absent from legislative
activity was the attention usually
given the highway department, al
ready hard hit by halved revenues
from gasoline taxes.
Cognizance of the altered wartime
highway situation was taken as
counties were given a 10 per cent
share in the expanded state income
tax receipts and a $300,000 motor lic
ense fees fund was apportioned to
towns, tto allevate local government
al budgets hard hit by their lowered
share in the gasoline tax take. The
highway department was given the
six-cents-gallon tax on fuel oil, re
ceipts from which, although small,
have trebbled since gasoline was
rationed.
A $6,800,000 fund from unexpected
state surpluses was set up to retire
general state indebtedness, and ad
ditional money was made available
to retire hundreds of thousands of
dollars of institutional bond issues.
Coincident with this, a one-mill state
wide bond tax was eliminated.
A three-mill state wii e school dis
trict tax levy, banked against teach
ers’ salaries, was wiped from tax
books as the legislature gave the
schools a ninth month of state aid,
raised teachers pay by 15 per cent,
and set aside $1,200,000 to be dis
tributed to counties to pay the en
tire cost of school bus operations. A
move to have the state take over the
buses failed.
LOST—“A” Gasoline Ration Book
for automobile lisence No. 106021,
motor No. 120912. Issued on Aug
ust 15, 1942. Finder please return
to JIM HINDERSON, R. F. D.,
Pomaria, S. C. 3tp
FOR RENT — Private apartment,
downstairs. Phone 468. Mrs. D. J.
Taylor.
FOR RENT: Three large connecting
upstairs rooms with private bath.
Miss Annie Gary, 1221 Glenn street,
phone 458. 3tp
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 pla.nt. 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 la^st year.
Better buy quick if you want first
year seed at reasonable prices. H.
O. LONG, Silverstreet, S. C. 2-5tfc
It’s Your
PATRIOTIC
DUTY
to
•FRUIT*
CANNING
AIDS VICTORY
eANifflN!
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EXTRA SUGAR for Canning
is Available. Apply to
Your Ration Board
Th« Government has allotted extra
sugar to enable you to can as much
of this season's fruit and berry crop
as possible. You can secure this extra
sugar by applying to your Ration
Board.
For best results with your jams,
preserves and canning, use —
DixieCrystals
Pure Cane Sugar^
Employees of state departments |
making $2,750 a year or less were 1
given an approximate'10 per cent
salary raise, and many officials mak
ing high salaries were given raises.
A much-amended bill to abolish
what its proponents termed “the
marriage mart” in South Carolina
was finally enacted in th: eleventh
hour to top off a fight extending
over several sessions.
A free conference report on the
marriage bill, that would require a
twenty-four hour waiting period for
license applicants unless health cer
tificates were offered, was finally
adopted.
Again leading the nation in its
fight against pellegra and allied nu
tritional-deficiency diseases, the
state added to its laws of last year
requiring that flour and bread be en
riched, a law requiring that degerm-
inated corn meal and hominy grits
be enriched with vitamin B-l, nia
cin and iron.. The legislation was
made possible when Dr. E. J. Lease
of the Clemson college experiment
station developed an enrichment pro
cess for such granular substances as
grits and meal.
In similar vein the legislature
agreed to support the hot lunch pro
gram for school children, when it was
left shifting for itself with abandon
ment of WPA. Proponents of the
lunoh program were successful in
their last-minute fight to have the
state make contributions that would
sustain a flow of between $2,000,P00
and $3,000,000 in federal surplus
commodities and money to school
children.
Among the most popular bills en
acted was one to place home-
guardsmen under state workmen’s
compensation laws for insurance and
benefits up to $5,250.
Virtually all primary laws on the
statute books were wiped off as leg
islators feared court action that
would result in admission of negroes |
to the Democratic party. Notably,
exceptions were laws dealing with
fraud, and statutes enacted last jear
that opened up the field of absentee
enrolling and balloting.
Proponents of biennial sessions
successfully substituted $1,000 a ses
sion “pay and expenses in full” com
pensation for legislators, to begin
with the next general assembly.
A stiff fight developed over exten
sion for the duration and six months
thereafter of a law permitting Sun
day movies and sports in areas ad
jacent to military establishments, but
the legislation was enacted after
elimination of a provision that would
have required a fifteen cents, or half-
price admission charge to men in
uniform.
Teachers were given a $40 bonus
for their 1942-43 work, the property
-tax deadline was set forward from
January first to May first. War vet
erans, their wives and or w'idows
were given preferential ratings in
merit system employment, all popu
lar legislation.
BLOW AGAINST JAPAN URGED
To Hasten Victory
No American wants this war
to go one minute beyond the
time we can bring it to a vic
torious end. To hasten that
victory—to save possibly the
lives of millions of our hoys
on our far flung fronts—it is
imperative that every Ameri
can do his part in the Second
War Loan. There is an in
vestment to fit every purse.
The most you can do is little
enough compared with the sac
rifice offered by our boys in
service. They give their lives
—you lend your money.
(By Representative Fred Norman)
Washington, February 17 — The
forecast of a new and powerful attack
on Japan is welcome news in the Pa
cific Northwest.
And with all our hearts we of that
region hope that the Japs are hit be
fore they hit us, because if they beat
us to this punch it may prolong the
war for years.
The yellow menace is not outdated
on the Pacific coast. Since December
7, 1941, it has become a grim and ter
rible reality, increasing day by day.
Coast Knows Danger
That’s why so many people on the
Pacific wonder at the present con
duct of the war. Feeling strongly
that Japan is our major enemy, We
cannot help but worry when we see
America’s major fighting forces and
resources concentrated against Ger
many.
The west coast knows only too well
that the “experts” can be wrong. It
knows they certainly were wrong,
even the highest of them, before
Pearl Harbor. It may well be that
the “experts” are wrong about Japan
and her menace to America’s Pacific
borders.
I am not an expert, but I pose
these questions:
With Germany getting licked pn
the Russian and North African front,
must not Japan create a diversion to
help her Axis friends? And what
better diversion could she create than
an attack in force against Russia—
an attack that would of necessity
sweep across the Pacific in a strong,
relentless thrust at our Pacific bas
tions ?
Japan has lost a few thousand men
in the South Pacific. We’ve lost men,
too, Japan has lost some ships down
there. So have we. Japan gained a
lot of territory, but has lost but lit
tle. We lost a lot, and have gained
back but little. With all due credit
to the heroism and genius of the men
fighting our South Pacific battles,
we canot rightly say, so far, that we
have been fighting more than a
series of holding actions,
very long way from Tokyo
southern branch line.
Strike At Once
But Tokyo is not so far from us on
the northern branc’.i line. No inform
ed, serious-minded person in west
ern Washington scoffs at the idea
that Japan can and will attack us
there. What may seem fantastic to
the people of the East is an extreme
ly grim probability in the Pacific
Northwest, Alaska, and down along
our western coast.
Gen. Homer Lea, the hunchbacked
military genius who helped Sun Yat-
sen lay the foundations of republican
China a generation ago, foresaw that
probability long before some of our
“experts” were born.
In the Valor of Ignorance he figur
ed out Japan’s North Pacific inva
sion right down to the last detail.
Time soon muy tell that his pre
dictions were correct.
I beieve we shoud strike at once at
Japan from at least two directions.
We should form fronts of our own
choosing instead of merely defending
ourselves on fronts of Japan’s choos
ing.
We’re a
on the
"THEY GIVE THEIR
LIVES—YOU LEND
YOUR MONEY"
Buy More
War Bonds Today
2nd
WAR -'d
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Adolph, Benito end Hlrohlto
—the three blind mice. Make
them ran with ten percent of
your income in War Bonds
every pay day.
Delinquent
Tax Notice
Please take notice that we are now levying on all
unpaid delinquent taxes. Please call and pay
your taxes by May 1st in order to save the cost
of levying, advertising, etc.
I
This is positively the last notice!
Claude W. Sanders
Tax Collector
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