The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 07, 1943, Image 4
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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.
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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
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Rags, Inner-tubes and Zinc. Loca
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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
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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.
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