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“USE IT UP" THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1043 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. SOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARMFIELD Editor am<l Publisher Published Every Friday In The Y<;ar ' Entered 1 as second-class matter December 6, 1037, at tht postoflice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1870, IN THIS abbreviated form we are again able to bring you the Sun. It. will be mailed to our former list and the unearned time of those eub- ec rib era who did not ask for refund will of course be carried out to completion. We hope those who ask ed for a refund (to which they were most surely entitled) will come back with us. The ipapcr will not always be this size. We promise nothing but to do the best we can with limited help. But we do promise to mail you some kind of sheet every week and in that sheet we will make every ef fort to have at least a few items that will justify the small price we ask for the paper. We have missed visiting with you each week for the past five months. We like to feel that some of our words, feeble though they be, might bring a moment of comfort or en couragement to some war-weary soul among you. NEWBERRY MOTHERS and fathers alike, are interested in the Pat ton matter. Many of their sons are serving under him and their con cern is deeper than parents of boys serving under more stable leaders. The thought that their sons might be misused 1 by this hot - headed swashbuckler makes their war bur dens much harder to bear. Patton should not only not be elevated to a higher rank, he should bo kicked) out and kicked out now. It is foolish to say that his services cannot be dis pensed with. If our chances hang on so slender a thread, we had as well quit now and 'save further slaughter and suffering. His “suc cesses" in Sicily ore given as an ar- gury for retaining him. In the first place his fighting was mainly against Italians and in the second place we have no way of knowing how many lives this impulsive man sacrificed that a cooler head might have saved. And the action of the Allied high command in this matter was about as reprehensible as that of Patton in that it practically lied outright when the matter leaked and was brought to the attention of top-rank ing men in North Africa. No one wants to hamiper the war effort but when a high-ranking of ficer abuses a man under him in such a childish way as did Patton, the people should know about it from responsible authorities, and they should he told at the same time tha. that officer had been summarily dis charged. THAT FINE barbecue lay-out at the Armory is said to be the gift of Lt Col. Guy V. Whitener. This is something the boys of the local guard will enjoy as well as the returning members of the National Guard Unit. This is a generous Rpsturc (Tii the part of Colonel Whit ener who lias a eon serving in the Navy. Incidentally, It is said that this son paid for the last American Lor ion banquet. SOME MONTHS ago an effort was made to have the show houses here opened on Sundays for the en tertainment of the sailors at the college. It was voted down. It should be recorded to their credit that Raymond Blair and ’Dolph Whitaker voted’ favorably while Buck Wicker, Cat Shcaly and Gene Shealy voted in opposition. Whether the Ministerial association scared these latter gents off I do not know, but suspect other motives. Anyway, they voted against allowing a bit of pleasure to the boys who will soon bo out there fighting for them. If they can square their consciences with that it is all right with me and I am sure the boys will live through it too, but the dark brown taste that it will leave with them' won’t dp New berry any good. And while the action of Messrs Shealy, Shealy and Wicker might not be so awful since they were making with the buisness of politics on the eve of an election, I cannot go along with the gents of the cloth in deny ing the boys a bit of Innocent pleas- cre on a plea of “Sunday observance”. We all observe Sunday as suits us best and no legislation is going to drive us out of a moving picture house Into a church. The plain simple fact Is this: if the church can’t com pete with the show house, it Is the church’s fault; it is because the church has not convinced the folks that salvation is more important than a sweater girl. Until the church has realized this very important fact it will go on fighting an up-hill fight. The church must come out of the fog; out of the superstition and black-magic of four thousand years ago. It must realize that we are living in a different age. I FOR ONE miss the virile person ality of “Miss Mamie" Summer. Sh« has been on the ailing side for a number of weeks and it was no surprise to me to hOar that she had pushed herself a little too hard. “Miss Mamie” has capacity and ability above the average woman and I hope this interruption in her already fruitful years will be of short duration. SOME WEEKS AGO I noticed a ne gro woman and her soldier son without the door of my sanctum. They had stood there for hours stretching their necks like a rooster shut out from his habitual roosting place, and shifting from one foot to the other. Upon Inquiry I found that they were looking for one of th<o numerous agencies that abound /vVen in our little town and the object cf the day-long visit from the/country was to get a letter addressed to the war department. I tarnished the