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VOLUME 6—NUMBER 33 Published Weekly NEWBERRY, S. C. FRIDAY JUNE 4, 1943 The Rising Sun—1856-1860 $1.00 PER YEAR WITH The FLAG Returns To Camp Private First Class Jack Pruitt, Jr. has returned to Camp Butner, N. C. where he is stationed with the 311 Infantry Band, after spending a few days furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Speer Pruitt. Wessinger at Maxwell Field Maxwell Field, Ala., May 28— Av iation Cadet James O. Wessinger, Jr. eon of Mr. and Mrs. J. Olin Wessin ger, Sr., of 800 Glenn street, New berry, is now enrolled as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Forces Pre- Flight School for Pilots at Maxwell Field, located on the outskirts of Montgomery, the capital of Alabama. Here the new class of cadets are receiving nine weeks of intensive military training, preparatory to be ginning their actual flight instruc tion at ons of the many primary fly ing schools in the Army Air Forces Southeast Training Center. Cadet Wessinger is a graduate of Newberry high school, class of 1938, and Newberry college, where he was awarded his BS degree in 1942. Wes singer enlisted in the U. S. Army on September 17, 1942 and holds a pri vate pilots certificate which .he earn ed through the Johnson Flying Ser vice at Greenwood’. Promoted To Sergeant Friends of Jacbb Bowers, Jr., will be interested to learn that he was promoted to grade of Sergeant at Tyndall Field, Florida, last week after finishing a course in gunnery school there. Sergeant Bowers, a eon of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bowers of the county, is now stationed at Gulf port Field, Mississippi in the 21st anti-sub squadron. Returns To Virginia Captain Leland Welling returned to Fort Eustis, Virginia, Sunday af ter spending a week’s leave with his wife and small son, Leland 3rd, and other relatives. Spends His Furlough Here Tech. Sgt. Fred Lester, stationed at Fort Jackson is spending an 8-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allan H. Lester. Corporal Jim Kinard, of Selective Service Headquarters, Columbia, the past weekend in the city with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Kinard. Stationed hi Alabama Pvt. Aldon Bedenbaugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bedenbaugh is now stationed at Camp Sebert, Alabama. Lieutenant Morris 'Visits Parents Lieutenant Jack Morris returned to Denver, Colorado Tuesday where he is stationed, after spending a week’s leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs J. M. Morris. Sgt. Blalock In Hospital The friends of Sgt. Lewis I. Bla lock will be sorry to learn that he is confined to the hospital at Waco, Texas, where he is stationed, suffer ing from a fractured ankle. “Ikey” says that he would like to hear from his friends. His address is: Sgt. Lewis I. Blalock, 873rd T. E. F. T. S. B. A. F. S. Waco, Texas. Transferred To Tennesee Lieut, (jg) Harry Hedgepath is spending this week with his wife, mroute to Atlanta, Ga., where he vill receive a few days speacial sch- >oling before going to Clarksville, fenn., where he has been transferred from Chappell Hill, N. C. to be in ;harge of the military and physical yaini, g at Austin Peay Normal Sch- )ol, which is a war training center for the Navy. Spends Leave Here Captain and Mrs. Edward Mc- frackin are visiting Captain Mc- ’rackin’s .parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thad IcCrackin. Captain McCrackin ■will ?ave today (Thursday) for Camp Idwards where he is stationed. Mrs. IcCrackin will remain in the city or the present. Miss Helen and Grady Goggins pent a few days the first of the /eek with their brother, Pfc. Will- im Goggans who is stationed at ’ort Moultrie, Charleston. HOME FROM HOSPITAL Friends of Miss Annie O. Ruff will be glad to learn that she was ible to 'be returned home Friday, ifter being a patient in the Columbia hospital for a week. Allotment Checks Stolen From Boxes Reports that service dependency allotment checks are being stolen from parches, mail boxes or other places, and then forged, are pouring in.o U. S. Secret Service Headquar ters in Columbia, according to James J. Cassaday, agent in charge of the Columbia office which has jurisdic tion over the entire state. These reports are coming in from all over the state, Mr. Cassaday stated, urging recipients of checks to take all possible .precautions against having them stolen. He explained that once a check is stolen and the signature forged, it may be months before any reinbursement can be made to the rightful owner. A claim must he put in to the Treasury de partment, ami all circumstances in volving the theft investigated. “In such cases a great hardship may be endured by persons whose only resources are in dependency checks,” Mr. Cassaday declared.“Un- fortunately, more and more of these thefts are being reported in direct ratio to the increase in our armed forces, and to stop them, each family receiving such cehcks must take pre ventive measures.’ Mr. Cassaday urged that the fol lowing procedure be adopted to help stop thieves and forgers: 1. Be sure ’that some member of he family is at home wdien checks are due to be delivered. 2. All mail boxes should be equip ped with a lock, and the individual’s name should be printed clearly on the outside of the box. 3. Checks should be cashed in the same place each month, thus making identification easier. 4. Checks should not be endorsed until your are in the presence of the person you ask to cash it. To persons and business houses asked to cash government checks, Mr. Cassaday offered this guidance. 1. Insist that a person presenting a government check .properly iden tify himself as the person entitled to the check. 2. Insist that all checks be cash ed in your presence. 3. Require that all checks be in itialed by the employee who pays out money for them, or who approve such payments. Thousands of persons are depend ing each month on prompt receipt of checks, Mr. Cassaday observed, ad ding that the government is exerting every effort to get them out on time but an equal responsibility vasts on the payee to insure their safety. Must Always Be So Reports drift back from the fight ing fronts which indicate that some of the men in the service believe the government alone has been res ponsible for production achievements on the home front. Apparently they feel that the government has, turned out the record-breaking number of tanks, guns and planes, and there fore it should take over industry, lock, stock and barrel after the war. Erroneous information of this character should be dispelled, even though it is held by only a small minority, for it is upon just such fallacies that the demagogue hinges his appeal. Private industry is producing the equipment with which to win the wait Private industry is producing nearly seven thousand planes a month. Private industry in this country has done in two years what the dictator ships took a decade to accomplish in the way of preparation for mechaniz ed war. Private industry has built ships-—millions of tons of them— faster than they were ever built be fore. Government regulates the flow of strategic materials and takes over the finished goods. In between these acts of government, the great bulk of the war effort is being carried on by civilians. The natural resources industries, oil, mining, timber, and electric power, are the starting point in a vast assembly line that termi nates on the battlefield. Private en terprise and private citizens keep the line moving. That is the funda mental difference between this coun try and dictatorships. On the other side of no-man’s-land the initiative 'fames from government. Here the initiative conies from the individual. It must always be so in a free coun try. ALLIES HAVE SUPERIORITY SOUTH PACIFIC IN FIGHTING MEN TAUGHT TO “LIVE OFF THE LAND”. Atlanta, Ga., June 29.—Feeding the American soldier better than any troops were ever fed is not enough, so the Army is teaching its fighting men to “live off the land”, if neces sary, wherever they are around the world. Intforma. ion on foods native to any land has been carefully catalogued so that soldiers in isolated locations anywhere will know just what is safe to eat and what isn’t, reports at the Quartermaster Branch, Fourth Ser vice command show. Some concoctions, it is admitted, may not be particularly appetizing, such as roasted locusts, smoked ban ana flour, or yak-fnilk cheese, but they will sustain life indefinitely. Great pains have been taken to make the information on meat sour ces especially complete. The records -how that Vilhjalmur Stefanson, the noted artic explorer, once lived an entire year off meat to the exclusion of vegetables. His expressed opinion is that meat is a suitable diet for soldiers from the artic to the tropics. Meat dried or otherwise preserved is used by natives in almost any part of the world and is likely to be avail able in one form or another wherever a soldier may find himself. Com, familiar to almost every American soldier is grown in most parts of the world, even in such reg ions as Tibet and the East Indies. Soy beans are plentiful, especially in the Orient, and are among the most healthful of foods and the soldier will need little help from the natives in their preparation. Plantain, breadfruit, sage, coco nuts, dates, peanuts, and other nuts, and seaweed are used in many parts of the tropics both as emergency an-d ordinary rations. These foods, it is pointed out, are a far cry from the average Army mess, or the packaged emergency ra tion, but they may have their role to play in this global war and if and when their consumption ever becomes a necessity the American soldier will know how best to use them. COTTON ED WONT VOTE FOR ROOSEVELT Washington, May 29.'—Advocating an amendment to the constitution limiting a president’s tenure in offi ce to two terms. Senator Smith Dem ocrat, South Carolina, declared today be will not support any bid President Roosevelt may make for re-election to a fourth term. ‘I didn’t vote for Roosevelt for a third term, and I’m not going to vote for him for a fourth term,’ Smith told a reporter. “With me it isn’t the man, it’s the principle. No pres ident ever had more than two terms before and I think we ought to write a limitation of that kind into the constitution.” Smith said he is prepared to give active support to a resolution which Senator Bailey may introduce next week proposing a constitutional amendment to restrict the tenure of any future president to two four- year terms. A DAUGHTER Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Reagin, of Mobile, Alabama, announce the ar rival of a daughter at the Newberry county hospital Tuesday, June 1. COUPONS IS AND 16 ARE NOW VALID FOR SUGAR FOR CANNING Householders who have been anx ious about obtaining sugar for can ning purposes were informed by OPA authorities that stamps 15 and 16 in the ration 1 book No. 1, or sugar book, became valid for the purchase of five pounds of sugar on each stamp. The system of distributing sugar for canning purposes formerly re quired every applicant to visit the individual ration boards and present a case in favor of being allowed cer tain amounts of sugar to be used for canning fruits and vegetables. By designing the stamps in book No. 1 as canning sugar stamps, the consumer and the rationing officials both will be benefitted, it is believed. If the No. 15 and 16 stamps provide too small an amount of sugar for the needs of any person then he must apply to the ration board for the right to obtain larger quantities than the 10 pounds to be had from the ration book. Curtain For Newberry’s 86th Session; Reopens With Navy Men July First The 86th Session of Newberry col-j lege came to a close Tuesday with the address to the graduating class bf Dr. Henry Snyder, and the award- I ing of honorary degrees and diplo- 1 mas. Basing his subject on Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities, Dr. Snyder had as his sUbject “Three Cities”, namely Athens, the intellectual city; Rome, the legal city; and Jerusalem, the' spiritual city, emphasizing the im portance of the spiritual with its en during qualities, as opposed to the transient nature of the material. The closing program at Newberry began Sunday with a sermon by Rev. H. S. Petrea, pastor of Grace church in Rock Hill, and Sunday evening the Music Department of the college pre sented a musical in Holland hall. Medals Given Charles Carlisle of Newberry won the medal in the sophomore declama tion contest Monday morning and in the afternoon at five o’clock, the senior class held its class day exer cises. Charles L. Yost, Jr., of At lanta, was winner of the Kendall public speaking contest Monday even ing. Degrees were awarded 65 young men and women and 25 were given certificates in the business depart ment. After the exercises in the gymna sium, the annual college luncheon was held in the American Legion Hall, presided over by Prof. T. E. Epting in the absence of Gary Pas- chall, president of the alumni asso- ciaaion who was absent on account of a death of a member of Columbia city council, of which he is a mem ber. Mr. Parchall was elected to serve for the ensuing year, with Jacob Fulmer as first vice-president and Neal W. Workman as second vice- president Phillip T. Kelly, Jr., is alumni secretary. The Cromer citizenship medal was Auckland, New Zealand, May 28. -—The Allies have superiority in for ces of all classes in the South Pac- ■ , , , . T . T ific. Rear Admiral T. S. WiHciuson,|* walde<) ^ L ' Yost - Jr ” of AtIanta deputy commander, told a press .con ference today. He said the campaign against the 'Japanese is “going well” but that ‘we will not content ourselves sitting where we are. We are on the of fensive.” and others who received medals are: Otis Lester Shealy, history; William Powlas Peery, philosophy; Kathryn Sue Caughman, music; Rebecca Nell Stewart, freshman scholarship; Jean Pelham Johnstone, english, with honorable mention to Mary Elizabeth Layton; John Thomas Harrison, key for meritorious service as president of the student council. The honorary degree of doctor of Divinity was conferred upon Rev. C. F. Herman Krueger of Jacksonville, Florida; doctor of laws conferred up on John Anderson Chase, Jr., of Columbia, and doctor of laws upon Prof. O. B. Cannon of Newberry. Bachelor of Arts Degrees conferred upon Newberry county students were: Emma Julia Ballentine, Lula Bon- nelle Buzhardt, Edna Marie Carlisle, Dorothy Carpenter, Helen Louise Ezell, Edna Mae Fowler, Marguerite Gregory, Sarah Carolyn Harman, Tommie McCain Johnson, Jeanne Pelham Johnstone, Dorothy Angeline Jones, EUzabeth Perricia Kessles. Benjamine Lee Kilgore, Mary Eliza beth Layton, Mildred Louise Long, John Ernest Mayer, Albeit Dewey Owens, William Powless Peery, Frances Elizabeth Renwick, Frances Catherine Ruff, Clara Evelyn Stone, Temple Evelyn Thornton, Janette Elizabeth Tolbert, Edna Hunter Workman. Bachelor of Science John Howard Cook, Jr., Erskine L. Mills,, Willie Ringer, Jr., Irwin Mat thews Satterwhite, Jr., Luther Mack Shealy, David Morris Singley, Mary Lou Wicker. Business Department Sara Cornelia Byrd, Nina Maude Graham, Frances Elizabeth Renwick, Frances Catherine Ruff, Bettye Wicker, Mary Lou Ballentine, Thelma Dukes Counts, Velma Allen Counts, Edith Sheaffer Dickert, Annie Mayes Franklin, Mabel Louise Hiller, Jeanne Pelham Johnstone, Geor gia Virginia Longshore. Elizabeth O’Dell Sligh. Mr. J. W. McCain, Mrs. Carl Ben nett and son Carl, of Lancaster, Mrs. T. G. Anderson, Goldsboro. N. C., Mrs. Edwin Nivens, Monroe, N. C. and Miss. Betty Belk Pratt, Ruther- fordton, N. C. visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Johnson this week, and a.tended the graduation exercises of Miss. Tommie Johnson at New- berry College Ttuesijay evening. Mr. McCain and Miss Pratt remain ed in the city for a short visit with Mr. and Mrs, Johnson. PAITENTS IN NEWBERRY HOSPITAL THE FUSE IS BURNING During recent years while the pen- | dulum of political strategy was swinging in favor of beneficient la- ! bor laws and increased regulation of . business, vote-seeking politicians I have time and again stepped across the line in their capacity of law makers to show open-armed favorit ism to certain groups, principally la bor. Out of the welter came such laws as the Wagner act. National Labor Relations Act, the Guffey Coal Act, and others. These laws were drawn to appeal to the votes of organized labor. Justice and the national wel fare were ignored. Labor racketeer- ring and strikes increased. Evil as these are, especially in wartime, something worse has come of the elassconscious legislative thinking that has ruled Washington—a fright ening admiration for personal gov ernment has sprung up within th e groups which the politicians have patronized. If this admiration pre vails indefinitely, our republic will perish, for it was founded on a gov ernment of laws, not of men—and its laws mqst be just if it is to survive. Government seizure of the coal mines is only superficially attributable to the war. Under constant politically- inspired labor strife, it would have come eventually anyway. At last an important segment of the private enterprise system has been engulfed. As long as the coal mines remain un der the total control of government, their former owners together with the mine workers are operating under a system of state socialism. If we want the system to expand and be come a permanent substitute for capitalism, we have only to sit back and continue along the path we have been following. At its end there is neither private enterprise nor labor unions. Congress should move immediately to amend or remove every law which deliberately favors labor or any | other single group. Born to Mr. and Mrs. James Leo Amick, Prosperity route 1, a daugh ter, Elizabeth Ann on Wednesday. May 26. * Born to Mr. and Mrs.H. A. Frank lin, 414 Floyd street, Newberry, a son, Dennis Alvin, on Friday, May 28. Born to Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Tomp kins, Whitmire, a daughter, on Tues day, June 1. Born to Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Beck, 717 O’Neal street, Newberry, a daugh ter, on Tuesday, June 1. Mrs. Beck was the former Miss Frances Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jones, of Newberry. Born to Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Thomas Newberry, a daughter, on Wednesday, June 2. O.her paitents are: Mrs. Martha Koon, Prosperity; Miss Katt Gary, Newberry; Mrs. J. B. O’Shields, Whitmire; Mrs. Henry Davis, Blairs; Miss. Verta Mae Martin, Chapin; MVs. J. C. Mills, Saluda; Miss. Cornelia Price, 1303 First street, Newberry, and Miss Myrtle McCartha* Prosperity, Route 1. Dr. and Mrs. E. D. Kerr, of Colum bia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Ga., have arrived in the city to spend the summer months in the home of Mrs. Kerr’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Z. Wilson on Main street. LOST Gasoline Ration Book for Chev rolet Coach, License Number C-45-214 Motor Number 3435330. SEBY RICHARDSON, Route 3, Prosperity, S. C. Sap. A large swimming lake, located on Crosson street, leading out from the front of G. J. Jones' store, will be open to the public Saturday. Every thing at the Isfke is free on opening day. The public is invited to come, ride in the boats, run down the slides, or jump off (the diving tower. Bathing <u’ts may be purchased or rented at the lake. Dressing rooms for ladies tnd gentlemen 1 , and everybody is wel come. Music by the Newberry Con cert band from 2:30 until 3:30 in the afternoon. Moons Ago.—Ed. Sun) T. Edward Epting, Jr., leaves next Wednesday for Goldsboro, N. C„ where he has accepted a fine posi tion with a drug company in that city. He will remain there until college opens in the fall. “Dude” will be missed by everybody as he is an especially popular young man. <And “Dude” has lost none of his “perspicuity” along this line.—Ed. The Sun.) Much interest will be manifested in the recent election by the board of rustees of four new teachers to take places in the city schools. The new eachers are all from Newberry and are as follows: Miss Marguerite Werts, Mrs. Bertha D. Boylston, Miss Emily Hoof, Mrs. E. J. Dickert. Miss Caroline Weeks, a student at Converse college, has returned home 0 spend the summer holidays. Little Miss Mary Birge Kohn will find “right of the reel” that'this old world will make mistakes. No, her name is not Mery Boinest—it’s Mary Birge. for her paternal grandmother, and she is the week-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hal Kohn. couple have lived at Dyson, the home they occupy having been planned and built by Grandfather Aull. Under its roof and in its very walls are en- tJhrined the memories, the hopes, the fears, the joys and the sorrows of years of happy companionship sus tained by a deep and abiding love which they bear for each other and by a simple trust in God. Theirs is a true philosophy of life— to do the work their hands find to do; to be content with their lot in life; to practice the law of kindness; and to keep bright and cheerful every day, all the time, under all circum stances. Such are the sixty-seven years they have spent together, and now, still hand in hand, they go. down the sunset trail together — and their children arise and call them blessed! i H. C. w. Mrs. R. G. Wallace, Jr. and child ren, Cam Davis and Franees, left on Saturday for a visit of two weeks to Hendersonville, N. C. They Were ac companied by Miss Margaret Davis who will return Tuesday. Mr. Irvin Satterwhite, after spend ing a few days with home folks, left Sunday for Macon, Ga., where he fc» taking a course in pharmacy. CELEBRATES SIXTY-SEVENTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Luther Aull Have Gome Hand in Hand Down Many Miles of Life’s Highway The children, grandchildren and groat-grandchildren, nieces, neph ew®', cousins and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Lutehr Aull gathered on Tuesday, May 22 ,1923, at the fami ly homestead at Dyson, to celebrate with them the sixty-seventh anniver sary of their wedding day. -Just such an occasion has been celebrated year in and year out— the throngs of people congratulating Grandmother and Grandfather; the many varied gifts they receive; the barbecue dinner served on a long table under the spreading oaks in the back yard; the devotional ser vice to the Maker who has allowed the silver cord to remain unloosed for yet another year; heavens own sunshine blessing the day with its brightness; and in the center of it all—Grandmother and Grandfather Aull! The pendulum of time swings back to Thursday, May 22, 1856, and we see Julia Ann Haltiwanger—a lovely young woman of 25 years. Her hair is deep rich auburn; her cheeks are flushed with excitement; her eyes are the brightest blu e and twinkle merri ly (as they do to this day). She is very demure, and very modest, yet very happy and eagerly, and even thrilled! For this is her wedding day! As the glory of the day passes and the soft shades of twilight fall, the family and a few friends assem ble in the parlor of the home near Trinity church in what is now Sa luda (then Edgefield) county, and Julia Ann Haltiwanger and Jacob Luther Aull are united in the holy bonds of matrimony by the Rev. J. P. Morgan. The next day, Friday, they go 22 miles to their home and on the following Sunday a “big din ner” is given- in their honor. The home was blessed by seven children, five boys and two girls, one of the boys dying in infancy. The living Children are: Elbert H. Aull, Nathan E. Aull, William B. Aull, Bachman Aull, Mrs. Eva Aull Tim merman and Mrs. Rowena Aull Dan iel. For fifty-one years this beloved