The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 14, 1943, Image 4
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NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
O. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
One Year One Dollar
Published Every Friday In The Year
Entered as second-ekas matter December 6, 1937,
at the postoffice at Newberry. South Carolina, under
the Act of ContTess of March 3, 1879.
OUTRAGEOUS
A committee of the House of Rep
resentatives which has been pryiijC
into the matter reports that here
are 840,570 men between the ages of
18 and 38 employed by the Federal
government in civilian roles.
This is 52 per cent of the total
number of such civilians who are
working for the government.
It would be unfair to charge that
all of this army of Federal pie-eat
ers ought to be in the armed services.
Many of them, no doubt, are mar
ried, and entitled for the present to
exemptions. Others in some quan
tity may be unfit for military ser
vice.
Yet others may be employed in
such technical work as is vital to
war industries and, therefore, are
more needed in their civilian jobs
than in uniforms.
But the point of it is that the gov
ernment authorities who are hiring
these men should know by name and
by exact number those of the more
than 840,000 who should be made to
serve their country as millions of
others within the same age-brackets
have been called and conscripted for
military duties.
It is abnominable to have a situa
tion of this kind obtain in the na
tional Capitol, and for the American
people to sufer the let-down in mor
ale that is bound to occur when they
observe such wholesale favoritism as
is bound to prevail in this case.
Nor does it stimulate the spirit of
the brave and gallant lads who have
been tagged for military services, and
who are now in camps or in fighting
lines across the world to know that
here at home the ovemment is har
boring an enormous force of Federal
employes in soft, easy and safe places
of occupation without even taking
the trouble, if such be the case, to
ascertain how many of them may be
qualified for military duty.—Char
lotte Observer.
LET FARMERS HAVE FREE REIN
It would seem that the government
is pursuing wrong tactics in reference
to farmers supplying their neighbors
or adjacent points with food produc
ed on their farms. Here is a farmer
who produces extra pounds of butter
each week on his farm. He is for
bidden to sell it save in exchange for
fod stamps. He has too much milk,
but ordinances of town prevent his
bringing it to town to sell — and
this in face of the necessity, it seems,
of rationing milk producs. Why
may not farmers who arc thrifty and
can produce extra amounts of these
essential food products be permitted
to dispose of their surpluses to feed
those who need such? It would save
transportation, and would supply a
real need in the community. It is
our humble opinion that if the farm
ers of the country were permitted
to have free rein in the production
and marketing fields, the country
would be better off and we should
the nearer come to producing what
we need. — Walterboro Press and
Standard.
t Adolph, Benito and Hirohlto
—the three blind mice. Make
them run with ten percent of
your income in War Bonds
every pay day.
NEW COTTONSEED FLOUR
IDEAL AS MEAT EXTENDER
Ft. Worth.—The same seed that
produces the fiber for cotton fab
rics now provides a means for ex
panding by nearly one-third the
housewife’s weekly wartime meat
supply.
Cottonseed, with its already test
ed and dependable contributions to
America’s pantry shelves, now pro
vides the base for a new protein-
packed flour which may be the solu
tion to many major nutritional prob
lems of today, according to the Na
tional Cotton Council.
This new product, Proflo, was de
veloped as a supplement, not a
substitute, to all-purpose wheat
flour since it is 58 per cent protein.
Other components are: fat 6.45;
carbohydrates 21.39; ash 6.24;
crude fiber 2.06; and moisture 6.34.
Analysis also shows that, Proflo
is rich in thiamin, riboflavin, niacin
and pantothenic acid.
Sixteen per cent of this flour,
supplementing regular wheat flour,
provides an adequate supply of
Vitamin B complex for normal
growth; and 24 per cent an ade
quate protein supply.
The protein of the cottonseed and
other oil-bearing seeds is ideal to
extend a meat supply because it is
used ‘preferably in combination.
Along this line, the Subsistence Lab
oratory of the Quartermaster Corps
has developed new rations where
meat is extended as much as 15 per
cent by adding suitable amofcnts of
a protein flour to meat foods.
Housewives can stretch wartime
meat dishes simply by adding Pro
flo to ground beef or veal in the
ratio of one part protein flour to
three parts of m'eat. Nutrition ex-
pers recommend this as an excelent
recipe for a tasty meatloaf.
600,000 BALES FOR ARMY SOX
Philadelphia. — Johnny Doughboy
sihould have plenty of cotton sox to
last through the summer if he gets
his quota of the 23,117.163 pairs for
which the army has just issued invi
tations to bid.
Coming into the limelight as
another big wartime use for cotton,
these 23 million pairs of tan mercer
ized socks will require no less than
2,300,000 pounds of mercerized yams.
This amount of yam would consume
about 600,000 bales of raw cotton.
ERSATZ ‘CORN LIKKER’
ATTEMPTED BY SOLDIER
Allied Headquarters in Tunisia,
May 8—A thirsty doughboy from
Kentucky’s hills, who necessarily re
mains nameless, built a home-made
still and tried to produce something
to take the place of “com likker”.
With water cans, copper tubing and
other parts from a damaged French
plane he built a workable contraption.
Only then did he realize he lacked
the necessary ingredients to go to
work. The first night he dug up five
gallons of French beer and boiled it
down. No hick. The next night he
tried it with wine. It was a little
better and everybody v-as happy.
Then a lieutenant caught up with
him. t j *|
“Junior arrived in camp OK but until they assign him permanent quarters
they’re making the poor kid live in a tent!”
THH NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1948
FSAs PROMISES PLOWED UNDER
IN WALLACE’S “PROMISED
LAND.”
Plum Bayou, Ark., April 17.—Six
years ago Henry Wallace, then Sec
retary of Agriculture, stood on a
porch here in the Arkansas delta ^nd
made one of his speeches about
dreams. «
“Dreams,” said Wallace, gazing
out over 5,800 acres of bottom land
dotted with 96 little dream castles,
“the stuff of which living things are
made. Tnere lies .... a promised
land ”
Utopia In The Making
He was speaking at the dedication
of America’s first rural settlement
project, the Plum Bayou homesteads.
It was cn November 20, 1936; Mr.
Roosevelt had just been elected to
his second term, and here, on this
land, Utopia was about to unfold.
Each of the 96 dream castles was
a model farm home. Rich soil had
been bought at a cost of $198,OOd,
model homes had been built, and a
guiding mentality was coming out of
Washington.
The Secretary said he hoped pri
vate industry would see the signifi
cance of the mighty proect. He said
he wanted business men to look it
over and be convinced that “thous
ands of farms like these can be sold
on a business basis as a paying prop
osition.”
“Come back and see them a year
from now, 5 years from now,” he in
vited his audience. “I certainly
shall.”
Dreams Global Dreams Now
Wallace has never come back. He
has moved on to more global dreams.
In the meantime, his first dream
here appears to be in process of dis
solution.
Today, as the Farm Security Ad
ministration, its sponsor, is undergo
ing fire in Washington, Plum Bay
ou’s original 96 homesteaders, placed
there by a process of scientific sooth
saying, have dwindled to 22.
The other 74—including I. W.
Counts, the farmer into whose hands
Rexford Tugwell, aide to Wallace,
dropped the keys to farmstead No. 1
with the declaration that “These are
not the keys to houses; they are the
keys to the future”—either left in
despair or have been, evicted by their
landlord, the Government.
No one bought a farm. No one
had a chance to. Only one tried —a
farmer named Booker M. McDade.
When he essayed to buy his farm at
the end of five years he was told he
could not. Instead, he learned he
might remain in the unhappy status
of tenant farmer.
This made McDade sorely un
happy. When he took over Ills
dream castle No. 76 it glowed like a
jewel in the middle of an old cotton
patch. He worked its 36 acres so
assiduously that he was able to pay
the Farm Security Administration
$2,000 in crop rents in the 6 yaers,
send his boy ind girl to college, ac
quire a nice herd of dairy oattlo, and
put $2200 in the bank.
He bega ' to write protesting let
ters exposing gaping defects in the
Plum Bayou dream. He told of dis
criminations; of strange prices at
the cooperative store. And '.n Dec
ember he was asked to leave. He
did not and in March a Marshal
stumbled through the high water to
his front door to hand him an evic
tion notice.
McDade is still here. He is fight
ing his eviction as is his neighbor
Ernest Priest whose acres hare been
under water for two springs now.
Their stand is singular in that ii is
considered audacious for a poor ten
ant farmer to talk back to a Federal
godmother.
Well McDade has four attorneys,
and all good ones. If the case ever
comes fo trial, the fantasy of Plum
Bayou may come into the open, if it
does not come out in congress before
then.
Back in June 1936 the government
bought the land. It happened to be
land with a long history of being
under water every spring, but this,
presumably, don’t show on the Wash
ington blueprint of its 5,800 acres.
Nor did the swarms of malarial mos
quitoes which sweep in over the high
wide, protective levee. An impartial
sanitary engineer warned against it,
but no one heeded him.
Model Project, But—
The blueprint showed 5,800 acres,
and scientists divided this into 96
segments, the acreage of each vary
ing with the size of the farm family.
Each unit had a neat, white bung
alow, electrified and screened, with
running water. Each unit had a mod
el bam. It was built to bold 100
bales of hay, and the Farm Security
Administration discovered, a little
late, that each farmer required 300
bales to feed his livestock through
the winter.
The McDades’ experience, as they
relate it, is probably as good an ex,
planation a* any of (1) some of the
workings of the project; (2) why th e
76 families left; and (3) why so many
homesteads now are vacant.
“We’d been here 3 weeks,” Mc
Dade began, “when the project man
ager called me in and said, T think
I’ve got your car sold.' I said,
‘What?’ He said, ‘Why, you can’t
have a car and stay here.’ ‘We told
him. to take the plaice, and we’d go
find another.’ We was fixin’ to
leave the place when we got word
from the higher-ups—‘You stay here.
“The next trouble came when I
stopped borrowing from them, the
Farm Security Administration. The
first two years I borrowed to make
my crop. They said we had to. The
next year I borrowed from a bank.
That made ’em mad.
“They charge $8 a ton for fertili
zer, so last year I went out and
bought some for $7 and hauled it in
—it’s things like that that makes ’em
mad at me.
“They told us when we came that
if you was out of debt at the end of
five years they’d issue a contract and
you could buy the,place. They said
we’d get ifc 15 percent cheaper than
the estimate ($4,000) because the
house was built with Works Projects
Administration labor.
“But you can’t get any understand-
in’ out of these people. When I
checked up, they said they weren’t
ready to sell.”
“The way it looks to all of us,”
McDade said, “when you get out of
debt and can handle your own things,
they want you to leave.
“Looks like they want a big debt.
If everyone was like us, what ‘use
would there be for any managers.
They want to keep the personnel.”
204 AXIS SHIPS SUNK IN
MEDITERRANEAN
AMERICAN HEROES
BY LEFF
Marine Pvt. 1st Class M. G. Hoffman, survivor of the U. S. S.
QUINCY, was a loader on one of her big guns until she was sunk during
an engagement with the Japs off Save Island in the Solomons.
Hoffman is typical of the crew. You are helping Hoffman anil his
buddies when you buy bonds during the Second War Loan‘Drive. They
give their lives—You lend your money.
- U. S, Treasury Department
Serve your Country
in the U. S. Crop Corps!
In many areas, men and women, boys and girls,
will be vitally needed for work oa farms and
in food-processing plants... to help save Amer
ican crops for Victory. Be ready to volunteer
for service in the Government s official U. S.
Crop Corps!
Q. When will the Crop Corps reeruits be needed?
A Anyone with the entire summer free should volunteer now.
Consult your local County Agricultural Agent or U S tm-
■— ployment Service.
‘ Anyone with only a few days or few weeks free will rtill
; be able to help during local harvesr and food-processing
; seasons. Volunteers for such help will be solicited by a (. cn-
munity Committee. Watch your newspaper and listen to-
your radio for local information.
Q, Will the Crop Corps recruits be paid’
' A. Yes. Crop Corps recruits who qualify for service will be
paid at prevailing rates for the kind of work they do.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
and THE WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
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“counteb-ibritant” actually brings
fresh warm blood to aching muscles
to help break up' painful local con
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mustard plaster! In 3 strengths.
London, May 2.—.British subma
rines have destroyed or damaged
204 Axis ships on the Mediterranean
“death run” since the Allied land
ings in French North Africa last
November 8, it was announced auth
oritatively today.
Of these, 110 were listed as defi
nitely known sunk, and it was said
many of the damaged vessels may
have been unable to reach
Among th e 2(54 were many
tankers, ammunition carriers
supply ships.
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First Lady of Oklahoma
„ —Photo by Wynn Richards.
Mrs. Robert S. Kerr, First Lady of the State of Oklahoma, is
shown with her daughter, Kay, in the library of the Governor’s Man
sion at Oklahoma City. Fourth in the cotton industry’s current series
of “First Lady” portrait presentations, this photograph appears in the
June issue of Harper’r, Bazaar. Mrs. Kerr is wearing an eyelet batiste
dress in blue and white. Kay’s costume has a red and white striped
chambray skirt with a whit* pique top.
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