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PAGE FOUR THB NEWBERRY SUN 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-dass matter December 6, 1937, at the postoffice at Newberry. South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. JAPAN WILL PAY The military despotism of Japan has demonstrated that it must be exterminated from the face of the earth for the horrible fate it has met ed out to American flyers captured after the bombing of Tokyd. Some of the men have been put to death, and others temporarily spared the privilege of being murdered, are being treated as common felons, de nied all the rights to which all pris oners of war are entitled under the terms of international law’. The heart of all civilized human beings the world over will be horri fied over such an atrocity while Am erica bums and seethes with reac tions of an implacable hate over this cruel and brutal act of inhumanity. Such heartless perfidy is to be as sociated not with mortals but with menageries, not with human beings but with beasts of the jungles. And for this hideous crime, Japan will be held to account. In a good day that is to come, it will be made to pay in full—to pay through every punishment that can be devised by the ingenuities of jus tice. It will be made to pay with its cities leveled into flaming ruins. It wil be made to pay in terms of writhing agonies wrenched from its felons and fiends by every instru ment of destruction that can be laid in the hands of retaliating American soldiers and sailors. It will be made to pay in lethal death rained from Japanese skies, in explosive destruction bombed from Pacific waters and in every torpedo terror that cfin be released across Japanese lands and their populations. There is no place in the ranks of the human family for rulers of a race with the brutal power and au thority to govern with such tyran nous terror. Nor for such a race itself if this be the mark of its unashamed and naked character!—Charlotte Observ er. STEPS ARE TAKEN BY GOVERN MENT TO HOLD COTTON PRICES DOWN The government announced that steps will be taken to keep the pric e of raw cotton from advancing above the base rate of 21.38 cents a pound for middling 15-16 inch cotton. Under a price stabilization pro gram announced jointly by the War Food Administration and the Office of Price Administration, the Com modity Credit corporation will offer for sale Rs stocks of government- owned cotton at the 21.38-cent base price, with differentials for other grades and qualities and places of market location. Such sales would be supplemented, if necessary, by a government call of loans with the corporation. This action would have the effect either of increasing the market supply or of increasing government stocks avail able for sale or both. The maximum price set corres ponds to that prevailing on April 7, the day before the issurance of Presi dent Roosevelt’s “hold the line” stab ilization order. The joint announcement said im mediate steps would be taken to pre pare permanent price regulations for all cotton to supplement government sales should additional stabilization measures be deemed necessary. What additional steps might be taken were not specified but it is known that the OPA has had a price ceiling order under consideration. The announcement said that should prices of raw cotton exceed the max imum established under the Commodi ty Credit corporation sales program, a temporary maximum price ceiling would be issued. The maximum price established in yesterday’s announcement is slight ly above the 21.21 cent average price prevailing for middling 15-16 inch cotton on Thursday, the last day for which average spot market prices were available. On April 1 the av erage reached 21.43 cents, the high est point of the season. The CCC holds 3,300,000 bales of government-owned cotton, and has loans of an additional 3,500,000 bales. MASS PRODUCTION AND WAR Mass production began about 43 years ago. The automobile industry ranks first in mass production, steel second, cotton manufacture third, and so on through a list of 25 great industries which give employment to a fourth of the country’s working population in normal times. War came on and these giganric organizations were immediately pressed into service, and they have performed a wonderful job of pro ducing the many implements of war for a nation that had not seriously thought of the possibility of its in volvement in a worldwide struggle for its very existence. Lately, we have not been hearing so much about the wicked “octopus” and the dire threat it constanly holds over hese United States. Now, the shoe appears to be on the other foot entirely. The most “octopus” propa ganda we have heard in recent months has centered around a cer tain government-owned business in South Carolina. What’s the answer? Have we really changed our attitude in re spect to such things? Or, have we begun to realize that we have bene- fitted from big business all along, and the fact that our nation has been abl e to cope with a sudden threatening situation like the pres ent is du e to our “preparedness” in an industrial way? At least, we are now able to think on both sides of a question that has plagued us for several long years. FARMERS AND LABOR GROUPS The fact that the Administration is now grouping the farmers with organized labor in its warnings that the nation is being pushed toward inflation—with the more emphasis on the farmers—seems to this news paper to be unfair. Never, since the feudal days of the Barons of Agriculture has any body had the gall to accuse the farmers of making too much mon ey. Certainly, in these days of the 40-hour labor week and the dollar- up wage scales, is a strange time to start making that sort of talk. Recently, we heard of a farmer going 'to a buyer to sell several cases of eggs. According to the rules, the prospective buyer started in by telling the farmer, “I will giv e you such-and-such a price.” But the farmer came right back, “I didn’t ask you what you would give. I am telling you what they will cost you if you want them.” Right there that farmer made news, because he reversed the order that has 'prevailed for generations past. When the farmer gets to the place he can make his own price and ac tually sell his produce on a basis of its actual cost to him, then it will be time to class him along with or ganized labor in the general cost of living. The above instance is given be cause it is most unusual. It is to be hoped that the system may become genera] some time. At present, the farmer takes what he can get for his stuff, regardless of what it has cost in labor and cash to .produce it. Until that is changed, he will never count much in the bringing of in flation to this country. CHRISTIANITY THREATENED? Lancaster News. In this Easter season it is inter esting to note that in a broadcast that went to all parts of the British Empire, Queen Elizabeth called upon British women for a revival of re ligious spirit and warned has subjects that “our precious Christian heritage is threatened by adverse influences.” After praising women’s part in th e war and predicting that they would play an important role in rebuilding the postwar world, she said: “It is on the strength of our spiritual life that the right rebuilding of our nat ional life depends. In these last tragic years many have found in re ligion the source and mainspring of courage and selflessness they need. On the other hand we cannot close our eyes to the fact that our precious Christian heritage is threatened by adverse influences.” Pleading for resurgence of spirit ual thinking, the Queen declared that “our homes must be the place where it should start. It is the crea tive and dynamic power of Christ ianity which can help us to carry the moral responsibilities which history is placing on our shoulders.” It is heartening to see the great queen of the British people sounding a call for resurgence of spiritual thinking. Would that our own rul ers in Washington could awaken to the necessity of such an appeal in this country! A revival of religion would mean more to America than anything in the world. It would accomplish what the appropriation of sextillions of dollars by Congress could not ac complish. ‘INVASION BOATS ON LONG RUN Fleet Completes 2,000 Mile Trip Bv Sea Waterway to New York New York, May 1.—Men in “zoot suits” stepped from Hitler’s coffin here today after a history making trip. “Hitler’s coffin” was just one of a fleet of two-score “invasion boats,’ manned by American seagoing sol diers wearing the waterproof cover alls and hoods they have dubbed “zoot suits”. They had just completed a 2,000 mile trip by sea and intercoastal canal from a Gulf coast port, and to day army officials said the success of the trip “demonstrated the effec tiveness of the craft” in tactical op erations. Such crafts were used by the ma rines when they invaded Gaudalcanal. The 50-feet-long, shallow ramp load ing vessles would be able to land infantrymen with light packs and the mobile equipment of a modern mechanized, force. Army officials said the completion of the movement demonstrated the craft could travel long distances under their own .pow er, and that the number of troops and equipment would be limited only by the number of the boats avail able. The military sea-dogs, under the command of Brigadier General Dan iel Noce, of the engineer amphibian command, included Captain Ralph Ingersol, former editor of the New York newspaper PM, who said that once during the trip, the convoy crossed 132 miles of open sea, at times 50 miles from land. The convoy was actually the sec ond, officers said, over the long course. At times, the flotilla had to ride out heavy weather but it ar rived intact. The first movement southward was carried on in strict est secrecy. On the return voyage, the fleet of invasion boats left from the north west elbow of Florida on the coast of Mexico, proceeding to a point off Tarpoon Springs, Florida, then by stages through the Florida canals and up the Atlantic coast. Brief stops Brief stops were made for mainten ance and re-supply at Florida ports. Charleston, S. C.; Norfolk, Va.; Cape May, N. JJ.; and-Atlantic City, New Jersey. The craft were attended during the voyage by several maintenance boats equipped to make engine and hull repairs, and by a supply boat a “PX chaser,’’ which put in and out of ports to bear refreshments and cigarettes to the men. ★ ★ WUtU you Rutf. With WAR BONDS ★ ★ Nurse that heating plant along for it must do you for the duration. Metal . . . every bit we can rake and scrape up is going into War Production to provide the tools for our Boys on the fighting fronts. But start saving now for that heat ing plant by your purchase of War Bonds every payday through a Pay roll Savings plan. War spending goes on month after month. So War Sav ings must keep pace, month after month. Put at least ten percent of your income in War Savings through War Bonds. U. S. Treasury Depurtmittf I 1 | Classified Ads i 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. f Pomaria, S. C. 3tp FOR RENT: Three large connecting upstairs rooms with private bath. Miss Annie Gary, 1221 Glenn street, p/hone 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 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. 2-5t£c EGGS FOR HATCHING—from iFg Black Giants, Dark Cornish Games, and also Bantams, domesticated Mal lard Ducks, Ringneck and Mutant Pheasants, Rabbits in all sizes. R. DERRILL SMITH, Wholesale Grocer, Newberry, S. C. APARTMENT FOR RENT — Apply to Mrs. T. P. Johnson, 1237 Calhoun street, Phone 220-J. FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1943 HOME CANNERS TO GET SUPPLIES PROMINENT NEWBERRY FARM ER DIES Newberry home canners will tackle the vital war job of putting up this year’s fruit and vegetable crops with assurance that there will be plenty of “ammunition and ordnance.” The War Production Board reports that glass manufacturers will turn out at least a billion and a half re usable commercial pack jars, with “muzzle” diameters of 63 or 70 mm. And home canning discs to cover cans and jars will be plentiful. South Carolinians have always saved and re-used empty pickle, mayonnaise, coffee and other jars. This year the glass manufacturing industry is cooperating with the WPB in turning out the most com monly used jars in standard sizes. The 63 mm. jars are about 2 1-2 inches in diameftar at the m'tuth and the 70 mm. jars about 2 3-4 inches in diameter. Home canning discs the only items canners will need to buy— are available at most stores in both 63 and mm. sizes. The metal screw tops that come with the jars can also be reused with the paper linings pried out, or the sealing compounds scraped out to hold the canning discs on the jars during processing. Em bedded around the underside of each disc is a sealing compound which takes the place of a separate rubber jar ring. Sealing jars by this method is ? matter of second. The sterilized disc is laid flat on the jar mouth, then screwed down tightly with the ori ginal jar cap. Immediately after orocessing, with screw ton intact, the jar is ready to be set aside in an up right position to cool. After 24 hours the screw top may be removed, care fully so as not to break the seal by disturbing the disk. UNFAIR TO THE CITY MAN John V. Clary, one of Newberry county’s moat successful farmers j and prominent churchman, died late j Thursday at his home in the Smyrna ! section of the county. He was 66 years of age. Mr. Clary suffered j from an incurable malady and he : set about to put his earthly house in order with the same thouroughness j that characterized his life. John V. Clary had the respect and esteem of everyone who knew him. Mr. Clary was one of the leading members of Smyrna Presbyterian j church. He served as elder of the I church for many years and represent- j ed it at various meetings of official ^ bodies in this Presbytery. He was extremely generous in his contribu tions to religious causes Mr. Clary was a man of much en ergy and his knowledge of farming was far above the average. He was a successful farmer in every sense of the word. He owned considerable town property and in spite of his liberal contributions, he accumulated a sizeable fortune. Mr. Clary was a son of the union of the late James and Helen Vernon Clary of Newberry county. Surviving member of his immediate family are his widow, before mar riage Jessie Boozer; three daughters, Mrs. J. E. Smith, Mrs. W. M. Work man, and Mrs. J. L. McCord; and one brother, Ben Clary. Funeral services were held Sat urday afternoon at Smyrna Presby terian church conducted by Rev. C. J. Matthews and Rev. A. T. Usher, Deacons of the church served as ac- ADVICE Sentry: “Who goes there?” Major: “Major Mackafuss.” Sentry: “Sorry, but I can’t let you go by without the proper password, sir.” Major (impatiently): “I’ve for gotten it for the moment. You know me well enough.” Voice from the Guardhouse: “Don’t stand there talking to him all nigh* —shoot him!’’ Lancaster News. Last week the News reprinted ed itorials from the Bamberg Herald &■ the Dorchester Eagle calling atten tion to the fact that the present ra tion plan which limits people who live in town to the same number of points for meat per week as people who live on farms works a hardship on town people, who have no oppor tunity to produce meat, whereas farm folks have, can and do produce much of the meat they consume. Last week we were talking with some Lancaster county farmers and one remarked that he had used prac tically none of his meat points be cause of the fact that he had plenty of meat which he had produced and an abundance of chickens. He agreed with the Darchester county farmer who was quoted as saying: “I may buy a .piece of steak occasionallv but I will not begin to use 16 points a week for each member of my family and if the government would allow it I would be glad to share some of my points with friends in town.” As the Bamberg Herald so well said “probably no ration plan could be devised which would not be in equitable for some people but the present one seems to be unequitable to an unreasonable degree” in at least this one respect. tive pallbearers and the elders as honorary pallbears. Burial was in the church cemetery. BACK UP YOUR BOY Buy an Additional Bond Today The goal of the Second War Loan drive is 13 billion dol- i lars. 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