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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.