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“USE IT UP’ THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1943 HITLER AND THE DEVIL (By Forrest Jones) The devil in hell We are told was chained And there 100,000 Years he remained. He did not grumble Neither did he groan, But was determined to start Him a hell of his own. Hitler said to the devil Have you any more land? And the devil said, yes plenty In Germany and some more in Ja pan. Then old Hitler went down and Looked at the truck And said if I can get it As a gift I am stuck. Then the trade was made And the deed was signed. And he started him a hell On the banks of the Rhine. Then Hitler and Tojo Appeared on the scene And the devil said I’m afraid You boys are too mean. Then Field Marshal Goering Spoke up and said We can conquer this world If we will go right ahead. Then Hitler and Goering Began to prepare For World War No. 2 On land, sea and_ air. He first took Austria Without the fire of a gun, And when he hit Poland The trouble had begun. Then the civilised world Began to unite, For we had our choice To be enslaved or fight. Then Belgium and France Were soon overrun, And by this time The trouble had really begun. And the English canal Was the next point of attack And this was the first time Hitler’s bloodhounds turned back. Then he turned like a snake , And began to coll And struck and landed On Russian soil. At first Stalin’s army Really reeled on tnelr feet Then they came hark afightuig Through rain snow and sleet. Napoleon once made The same mistake, When he rattled his sword On Russia's front gate. Now Stalin knows That Hitler can't win And Italy's troubles Are about to begin. Now the United Slates And the United Nations Are all lined up In the same occupations. And that occupation has A blueprint plan That will stop Hitler's '•ill Ami mop up Tojo's Japan. I am neither a prophet Nor a prophet's son, But l have tried to keep posted Since the war first begun I don't know the future MAYER-HOOPER ENGAGEMENT IS ANNOUNCED. An announcement of cordial inter est to many is that of the engage ment of Miss Martha Etta Mayer to A|C Harold H. Hooper of Evansville, Indiana. Miss Mayer is the daughter of Mrs. Edna Mayer and the late E. H. May er of Newberry. She is the grand daughter of G. Latimer Shealy and the late Mrs. Corrie Etta Shealy of Little Mountain and Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Mayer of Newberry. She is a graduate of Newberry high school and is a sophomore at Winthrop. Cadet Hooper is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hooper of Evansville. He attended Evanvsville college and is now receiving his basic training in I can only guess But old Hitler knows his hell Is in a hell of a me*?. the air corps at Greenville, Miss. The marriage will take place dur ing the Christmas holidays. A Thankful Thanksgiving Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Dickinson have just received word that their nephew, Lieut. Harold Dickinson and crew managed to land their plane on water after the Japs had shot it down the day before Thanksgiving. The entire crew took to their life raft and were scratched up but none seriously hurt. He wrote “Don’t you think we all had plenty of reasons to be thank ful? But foe the grace of God, some f us might not have been here for Thanksgiving. Lieut. Dickinson carries with him the testament that his uncle, O. H. Dickinson carried with him overseas in World War I. Helpful and Patriotic South (tornllim hmntewlvv*, like movie eUni, are adopting unique tnellmd* to eolleet rtenoalt bottlea and return them, Theae bottlea will lm NterlllKed ami iixed over again to vlako the thlnt of (South Carolina fumlllra thla fall.