Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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In this war our wounded fightinfi men have a greater chance for re- aovery than in any previous con flict because of the medical aide, and services that have been devel oped by the War and Navy Depart ments. One of these aids is the Hospital Transport Plane service that has been bringing our wounded back from Africa. Your increased and continued pur chase of War Bonds is required to help the Treasury Department finance this hospital transport serv ice. “Back the attack with War Bonds.” u g Treasury Department HO SAI GUI" One evening just before Christ mas I was in Chinatown visiting a Chinese friend. His seven-year-old son, Jung-Foo, with a great air of mystery, drew me aside. “Me send letter to Santa Claus,” he whispered. “You write it for me please?. And so, as he told it to me, here ip what Jung-Foo wants for Christmas: Dear Santa Claus: When Christmas comes this year please give my father necktie that won’t wear out, because when his neckties wears out, he gives it to me. For my mother please give 12 lolli pops of all different colors, because she thinks lollipops isn’t good for small boys, and that is because she has never tasted any. For my teach er in school please give 100 in every thing, so she can know how happy boys is when they get 100 in every thing. For Quong, who lives next door, please give him some good manners, because everybody tells me it a good-mannered boy he is and 1 get tired of hearing it, for I know different. For me, I don’t deserve nothing, because I have been a bad boy this year and I can prove it. I hope you have a nice trip on Christ mas Eve, and should you visit my home, please wake me up because I want to thank you for what you have on your mind. My name is as put down below, but my American friends call me “Tarzan.” Yours truly and Merry Xmas, Jung-Foo Tarzan P.S.— And for 1944 “Ho Sai Gui.” (May all the world be good to you.) AUDITOR’S TAX NOTICE I, or an authorized agent, will be at the following places on the dates given below for the purpose of tak ing tax returns of all personal prop erty, new buildings and real estate transfers. Persons owning property in more than one district will make returns for each district All able bodied male citizens be tween the ages of twenty-one and sixty are liable to $1 poll tax. All persons between the ages of twenty- one and fifty cutside of incorporated towns and cities are liable to pay commutation tax of |1. AUd ogs are to be assessed at fl each. Whitmire, City Hall—Monday, Jan uary 3rd, 1944. Whitmire, Aragon Baldwin Mills— Tuesday, January 4th, 1944. Longshores— Wednesday, January 5th, 1944, from 9 until 12. Silverstreet— Wednesday, January 5th, from 2 until 6. Chappells—Thursday, Jan. 6, 1944. Hollngsworth's Store—Friday, Jan uary 7th, 1944, from 9 until 12. Einards—Friday, January 7th, 2 until 5. Prosperity—Monday, Jan. 10, 1944. Little Mountain—Tuesday, January Uth, 1944. Glymph’s Store—Wednesday, Jan uary 12th, 1944, from 9 until 12. F. L. Ruff & Bros. Store—Wednes day, January 12th, 1944, from 2 to 5. Peak—Thursday, Jan. 13, 1944. Pomaria—Friday, Jan. 14, 1944. St. Lukes’—Monday, January 17th, 1944, from 9 until 12. O'Neal, L. C. Fellers’ Store—Mon day, January 17, 1944, from 2 to 5. Maybinton, F. B. Hardy’s Home— Tuesday, January 18th. 1944, from 9 until 12. Reese Bros. Store—Tuesday, January 18th, 1944, from 2 until 6. At Auditor’s Office to March Ist, after which a penalty of 10 per cent will be added. PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS, Auditor Newberry County Aid to Enemy “Any American who wilfully neglects to pay his taxes on time or to invest every cent he ean in War Bonds is surely giv ing aid and comfort to the enemy ... We have a job to do and we are all called for service to our country. Our dollars are called to service too. Let us all ask ourselves, ‘Shall we be more tender with eur dollars than with the lives of our sons?’ ’’ — Secretary Morgenthau. According to the Nazi timetable, prior to Pearl Harbor, Hitler and Tojo fully expected to be joint ten ants of the W’hite Hou-e by Christ- 1943. The Austrian paperhanger was su premely confident he would be re viewing Nazi troops from the White House balcony as a feature of the Christmas festivities in Washington, D. C. Tojo waa equally positive that the people of Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles would be kneeling hum bly at the feet of Japanese war lords by Christmas, 1943. On the contrary, after 2 years of the bloodiest war in all history not one single American home has been wrecked by an enemy bomb. Our children continue to laugh and sing in the streets of ow towns and villages—with no danger of being machine-gunned at their games. In America our children have not been forced to watch their mothers being dragged' away by brown-shirt- ed Nazi hoodlums or savage, slant eyed Japs. We have not been required to cam ouflage our hospitals, schools or orphanages to protect them against air-borne missiles of destruction and death. No enemy has had the chance to reduce our factories to ruins, plun der our farms. Our historic shrines are still intact. This year, just as always, we Americans can put our children to bed on Christmas Eve to dream un- iisturbed of Santa Claus and his miracles. Because of the courage and sac rifices of America’s defenders over seas, no invading Japs have defiled he air we breath. No Nazi boots have goose-stepped on American soil. This is the answer to America’s war weary defenders who may won der why anyone should suggest this is going to be a “merry Christmas.” Yes—this is going to be a merry Christmas. We can say that again because millions of brave, young Americans have been willing to build i fortress of defense around the United States—a fortress that has its foundations buried in the soil of flfstnnt continents. The parents of boys who wflt never come home from this war must try to find some measure of comfort in his thought. Fathers, mothers, and grieving wives, must strive to accept the truth that their hero dead have giv en their lives for the puipose that has already been partly achieved—a purpose that is reflected in the hap piness of little children at Christ mastime. Those men whose bodies are bruis ed and battered, from the wounds of the war, must try to understand that their blood was not spilled in vain. Because of their unselfissness, little children can still romp and play around their Christmas trees thru- out the length and breadth of Am erica. This can truly be a Merry Christ mas for every man in uniform—no matter where he is serving or how much he longs for the peace of his own fireside—if he will simply say to himself: “Yes, this is a merry Christmas because the people I love are still safe from harm.’ DELEGATION MEETING The county legislative delega tion will hold its annual meeting for the public on Wednesday, January 5th between the hours of 10 a. m. and 1 p. m. in the court room. Complaints or sug gestions will then be entertained from the voters. A deer blocking a road in Canada was run down by a motorist. The creature probably put too much faith in the news of gasoline ration ing. CnX<m>0<X>000<X>0<>00000000<>0000000000<h><X><>0000«000«^0^0^ Nichols’ Studio ‘$7J^—(36u4ftha</, /^3 —(3&uJl*h4Uf, /^43 ("• ^ £&i&i T&cjfic — £%uift*uu. /<743 erm Cluistinas,c»erybo ilg? T HIS YEAR, when you wish everybody Merry Christmas, think of the millions of American hoys who aren’t having such a merry time. Think of the wounded soldiers in Italy, the half-frozen sailors on the Atlantic, the marines in Jap-infested jungles, the American captives be hind Nazi barbed wire— You’ll find it a little easier to think about them if you're doing everything you can do to help the cause they’re fighting for. How can you help? ^ By buying extra War Bonds. Buy extra Bonds for Christmas gifts. Buy extra Bonds for the boys overseas. Buy extra Bonds for yourself and your family. And remember this: .J Every time you buy an extra Bond, you not only help pay for the guns and ships and planes that these boys must have—you also help bring nearer ^ the day when they, like you, can gather around the Christmas tree with their wives and children and mothers and sweethearts and friends and say* “Merry Christmas, everybody I” 4 I The South Carolina National Bank NEWBERRY, S. C. A. Pickens Salley John T. Norris, Jr. J. A. Satterwhite Joseph L. Keitt Lewis J. Shealy Mrs. Gladys H. Carlton Mrs. Blanche Dickert Miss Mary Stevenson Miss Nell Harmon Miss Geneva Harmon James Simpkins E ON EARTH*BUY WAR BONDS fr