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h'AGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARMF1ELD Editor and Publisher One Year One Dollar Published Every Friday In The Year Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the postoffice at Newberry. South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. YES, BUT? Speaking before a joint session of the congress a few days ago Prime Minister Churchill said: “Let no one suggest that we Brit- ish have not at least as great an in terest as the United States in the un flinching and relentless waging of war against Japan. I am here to tell you that we will wage that war side by side with you in accordance with thie best strategic employment of our forces while there is breath in our bodies and' while blood flows in our veins.” That is all very good, but Mr. Churchill has no assurance that he will be the Prime Minister when Hit ler is whipped. It will be recalled that twice already in this war the British were on the point of kicking him out and would have done so had there been anyone in Britian with sufficient popular support. We should never overlook the fact that Britian has always let others do her fighting: and this is not German propaganda, history proves it. Let us turn our attention to Japan NOW. If England and Russia can’t hold the weakened Hitler we should have positive proof of it before going any further. WHAT REPLY? Army men are generally supposed to fight and let the other fellow do the talking. But there’s no law about it. A fighting man is a citizen like other men, if not more so. And surely a man who has served his country so well as Major Milton H. Ashkins has done, in the terrible Aleutian Islands area, and received the Distinguished Flying Cross for courage and brilliant combat, has not only a right, but a duty, to tell his countrymen the truth. “I’m for arbitrating labor disputes in the front lines, where the lead is thick and hot” says Major Ashkins, “There isnt a reason in the world for a strike in time of war. Labor has enough laws to protect it from discriminaltion, so that strikes are unnecessary under any circum stances. “Why, when we heard about strikes at home When we were fighting like hell in sub-zero temperatures in Alaska, we used to fly into rages. It damaged our morale more than any thing else that came our way. If guys want to strike, they should be taken out and machine-gunned. Hell, this is war, and the sooner the POINTING THE WAY Suspicion that the coal strike sit uation would finally be resolved into one of those peculiar “settlements” which are camouflaged as “victories” for the administration but which are always most satisfactory to John L. Lewis, is not yet allayed. And the feeling grows after cer tain developments. One of these was a speech made in New York City Saturday night by Mrs. Roosevelt on the coal strike. Mrs. Roosevelt made quite a lengthy speech in some public meet ing, the name and other details like that being of no value, and in it she dwelt on the “haidahips of the coal miners, their low standards of living and several other things which seemed distinct echoes of John L. Lewis’s complaints. One in partic ular was her sharp criticism of the company store. It has been said rather frequently in recent years that Mrs. Roosevelt is the first to hand out intimations of what the headman in the White House thinks or wishes to get across to the country. If this be the case, the coal min ers would seem to be all fixed to get what John L. Lewis has demanded for them. If the WLB can be uggled into some satisfactory consent agreement without getting in a state of indig nation and resign in “disgrace and disgust,” as the late Major Joe Ligon put it, then the thing will be just about fixed in every way you can consider it.—Greenwood Index-Jour nal. American people realize this is a fight to the finish, the better it will be for all of us.” That’s rough in spots. But the strikers now have the floor. What do they say about it ? _ — Greenville Piedmont. PERFECT ATTENDANCE FOR ELEVEN YEARS At the commencement exercises of the Lancaster High school, Superin tendent Chas. M. Lockwood announc ed that Reece FunderburtCT a member of the graduating class, had not, missed a day from school in eleven years, covering his entire period in grammar and high schools. COMPARE THESE PRICES OF CIVIL WAR DAYS WITH THOSE OF TODAY Those who complain of the present high prices of commodities ordinarily used: will be interested in the follow ing quotations of current commodity ^prices existing in 1864. From a re port by Douans & Johnston, Com mission Merchants, Petersburg, Va., dated January 24, 1864: FLOUR—The market is very firm at $190 to $200 per barrel, with very little here. MOLASSES We note sales of home-made at, $22, and now held at $25 per gallon. BUTTER—Market firm at $6 per pound. LARD—None in •the market and much wanted. SUGAR—Market up to $4 per pound and firm. PORK—In demand at $2.50 pet- pound and wanted. CORN MEAL—We quote at $16 per bushel. COTTON—$1.60 and $1.65 per pound. PEAS AND BEANS—Active de mand at $25 for peas and ?30 for beans, per bushel. WHEAT—None arriving; prime at $25 per bushel. BACON—Small quantity at $3.50 per pound. IRON]—At $2 per pound. APPLE BRANDY—From $50 to $60 per gallon. SALT—At 40c to 50c per pound. "I never thought the time would come... I never thought the time would come when it would be appropriate for me to say: “Please don’t, ride on a Southern Railway train this summer—unless you conscientiously believe that your trip is necessary.” But that time has come ... an inescapable by-product of our Nation’s fight for Victory! to be literally jammed with men and women in uniform, traveling under orders and on fur lough and civilians traveling in connection with war work. We’re going to do our level best to handle this heavy load, including those civilians who conscientiously believe that they must travel. You see, the Southern serves the South— and the South is serving the Nation as the location of many important war industries going at top speed and more than half of all the larger training camps and military estab lishments in the country. This means simply that our passenger facili ties this summer will undoubtedly be strained to the limit. But, until our trains and stations are no longer over-crowded by essential travel, we hope that you will patriotically forego all un necessary travel over our lines. I never thought the time would come ... but it’s here . . . and I know that we can rely on your cooperation and understanding. Many of our passenger cars and locomotives will be assigned to troop movements. Our regular trains and our stations are bound President SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM The Southern Serves the South FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1943 * Home Demonstration News By ETHEL L. COUNTS It takes a lot of laundry equipment to wash the sox and other gamitnts for the fighting men of the armed services. That’s where most of the 46 million worth of commercial laundry ma chinery to be produced in 1943 will go—to Army cantonments, to Army and Navy hospitals, and to the mo bile laundry units that accompany American soldiers and sailors to all parts of the globe. Neither will housewives see any new washing machines or mangles this year, according to War Produc tion Board, Office of War Informa tion. All thq thousands of tons of critical steel, copper, aluminum, rub ber, and zinc that used to go into do mestic laundry equipment each year have been set free for war produc tion. Only repair parts for old machines can still be made. The housewife without a washing machine may have to use her neighbors, buy a used one, or bend over a washboard—which won’t be of metal. Just enough metal to hold wash boards together is obtainable. Boards with glass scrubbing surface, in a wooden frame, are coming into their own now that metal is out. The all-wool washboard, held to gether with wire, is still on the mar ket too. Made of hardwood, the scrubbing surface should not splinter or wear down unduly. Production of galvanized and painted metal pails, buckets, and tubs for civilians, limited during the first few months of 1943 is now be ing increased slightly. Bleaches are not so readily obtain able. Housewives may have to fall back on sunlight to restore whiteness to fabrics. Shirts and sheets may be a little yellower. Production of pigments of the type commonly employed for bluing has been cut to 60 per cent of the normal amount. Clothes lines are still to be had, despite large-scale production of ropes for Army tents by clothes line manufacturers. Clothes line pulleys have to be made of wood or other non-eritical materials.' Metal can no longer he spared for them. Housewives who need new electric hand irons may not be able to buy them. Production of irons and other electrical applicances was stopped May 31, 1942, and the number left on the market is growing smaller and smaller. Manufacturers have turned to making fuses, shot and shells, gas tanks, gun mounts, air craft parts, and other war equip ment. Old-fashioned irons, to be heated on stove tops, are nudging their way back into fashion after being almocst completely displaced' by electric irons. WPB is allowing half the normal amount of ipig and scrap iron for production of sad, or flat irons. For the benefit of those too young to know, sad and flat irons are the same, and “sad’, from an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning “heavy”, refers to the weight of the iron rather than to anything having to do with washday blues. Homemakers who felt like rookies last year—putting up fruit on war rations of sugar—will swing into fruit canning this second war sum mer with the assurance of veterans. And new hands at home canning will have an easier time, for they may copy. The methods that worked best in canning fruit last year will suit 1943 sugar rations, say home economists of the U. S. Department of Agricul ture. The starting point for a home maker’s planning is to get this year’s “I AM WITH THEE” “Yet Love will dream and Faith will trust (Since He who knows our need U just), That somehow, somewhere, meet we must. Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress trees! Who hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned in hours of faith The truth to flesh and sensf un known That Life is ever lord of Death, And: Love can never lose its own.” “Still, still with Thee when purple morning breaket.h When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee; Fairer than morn log, lovelier than daylight Dawns the sweet consciousness, I am with Thee.” “When sinks the soul, subdued by toil, to slumber, Its closing eyes look up to Thee in prayer Sweet the repose beneath Thy wings o’er shading, t But sweeter still to wake and find Thee there. “So shall it be at last in that bright morning, When the soul waketh and life’s shadows flee; O in that hour, fairer than daylight dawning, Shall rise the glorious thought, I am with Thee. MY FRIEND We nodded as we passed each day And smiled and went along our way; I knew his name, and he knew mine. But neither of us made a sign That we possessed a common tie; We barely spoke as we passed by. i How fine he was I never guessed. The splendid soul within his breast I never saw. From me was hid The manly kindly deeds he did. His gentle ways I didn’t know Or I’d have claimed him long ago. 1 Then trouble came to me one day And he was first to come and say The cheering words I longed to hear; He offered help, and standing near I felt our lives in sorrow blend. My neighbor bad become my friend. How many smiles from day to day I’ve missed along my narrow wsy; How many kindly words I’ve lost, What joy has my indifference, cost! This glorious friend that now I know. Would have been friendly years ago. The hud but very little shows To tell the beauty of the rose, And him wt greet in passing by With scarce a nod, the day we sigh, May blossom as the storms descend With all the beauty of a friend. —Edgar A. Guest. sugar facts well in mind. A home canner may get 10 pounds of sugar for each person in her family by us ing stamps in War Book I designated for that purpose. If she needs more sugar than that she may apply to her local War Price and Ration Board and get coupons which will allow her to buy up to 15 pounds per person in addition to the original allotment. The guiding rule for using the sugar is the same as last year; Allow 1 pound of sugar to each 4 quarts of finished fruit. If desired, 5 pounds of sugar per person may be request ed for making preservts or jellies or fruit butters, but this must be in cluded within the 25 pounds of “can ning sugar” allowed to one person.