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# THE NEWBERRY SUN r"— PAGF. F'VF Friday, February 7. 1944 The original of this picture was conceived and painted by the famous artist, Howard Chandler Christy, In vivid color and heroic proportions as an artistic symbol for the Crusade for a New World Order. This move ment, led by the Council of Bishops of The Methodist Church, is this denomination’s part in a general" effort of £he churches to register in advance with the peacemakers ap proval of such post-war collabora tion among the nations as will guar antee future peace. I A hundred mass meetings in key cities during January, a transcribed radio series on scores of stations, posters, periodical and pamphlet lit erature and a sermon on the picture title in every one of the 42,000 Meth odist pulpits on January 30 are items in the program. ? WUai r l$(U4 fitUf. With | WAR BONDS Services On Sunday morning as you sit in church and see the vacant places in the choir and wonder where the war has taken the young people from your community you may feel certain that they are attending di vine services if circumstance per- Chaplains and choral leaders are found on the larger ships and even abroad in the Army centers. Millions of hymnals have been dis tributed to the men and women of all services and you may rest as sured that a portion of the savings you are placing into War Bonds is used for their spiritual welfare. £7. 5. Treasury Department AT FIRST SION OF A a _ USE 666 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS 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 outside of incorporated towns and cities are liable to pay commutation tax of $1. Alld ogs are to be assessed at $1 each. Whitmire, City Hall—Monday, Jan uary 3rd, 1944. Whitmire, Aragon Baldwin Mills— Tuesday, January 4th, 1944. Longshores— Wednesday, January 6th, 1944, from 9 until 12. Silverstreet— Wednesday, January 6th, from 2 until 6. Chappells—Thursday, Jan. 6, 1944. Hollngsworth’s Store—Friday, Jan uary 7th, 1944, from 9 until 12. Kinards—Friday, January 7th, 2 until 5. Prosperity—Monday, Jan. 10, 1944. Little Mountain—Tuesday, January 11th, 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 6. 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 5. At Auditor’s Office to March 1st, after which a penalty of 10 per cent will be added. PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS, Auditor Newberry County Lesson For Sunday January 9th By Paul Stewart, Pastor First Baptist Church, Pelzer, S. C. JESUS BUSY WTH HIS MINISTRY OF LOVE INTRODUCTION: Have you ever thought how much of Christ’s life ■vas spent in doing kind things? Re view the Gospels with this in mind and you will find that he spent a great portion of his time in simply helping people, in doing good turn: >o them. He went about doing good. From beginning to the end of his ministry Jesus’ was a ministry of love. Because of such a ministry he attracted much attention. Bishop McDowell tells the follow ing story: A certain famous teach er in one of our colleges has died within a few weeks. The last time I visited the college they told me he had visited all the sick, all the trou bled, all the poor in the community, being the most useful man in the small town, and that he seemed to think it belonged to hirr as a teacher of Greek to do such things. Our Mas ter was always like that. He evi dently meant to be so. It was not an accident or an incident in his life. His daily life was rich in deeds of mercy and of love.” A Busy Evening—Many Cures Wrought At the close of a busy Sabbath, at Sunset, a great crowd came with their sick. The crowd wa sso large that Mark graphically says that “All the city was gathered together at the door”. Jesus healed all their various diseases. A Morning Prayer Early next morning, so as to not to be held back by the crowds, Jesus left the city for a restful solitude in a desert place. There he communed with the Father an<f renewed his strength. Prayer is still the secret of power. Martin Luther said one day, “I have so much to do today, I can’t get through it with less than three hours of prayer.” A Preaching Tour Through Galilee Simon Peter and other disciples followed Jesus and brought him word that all men were seeking him. Probably Peter was surprised when Jesus showed no rejoicing over his popularity. Jesus had more import ant work to do than to enjoy being popular. It was his mission to bring the good news to other people. So he made a preaching tour through Galilee. A Leper Cured A leper came to Jesus, in his dire neeff, and pleaded for help. He kneeled before Jesus and besought him saying, “If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.” What faith! Jesus said unto him, “I will; be thou clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed. Jesus charged him, and sent him away with the words to say nothing to anybody but he should go to the juriest and get a health certificate, according to the regulations of Mo ses, which would be accepted by the people. He did exactly what Jesus told him not to, giving publicity to ids healing. Because of the excite ment of the publicity, Jesus had to avoid the cities and went out into the desert places to which people continued to come to him from all quarters. My what a difference be tween the attitude of Jesus and ma ny modem ministers! Practical Applications 1. Some active service for Christ should be a part of the program of every. Christian. There is joy in act ive service. Too there are great blessings to others. 2. Preaching in an implement of the salvation program. 3. Sympathy is more than flowers, trays of food, and books. In one as pect, the cheapest thing we can give; in another aspect, it is the most ex pensive. Sympathy is more than medicine. There is danger that doct ors and nurses, as well as others, have to guard against the hardened heart. Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell had to guard against this danger. Lest he become irritated and unsympa thetic he kept posted in his surgery, these words that showed him the joy of doing things Christ’s way: “He did kind thing so kindly It seemed his heart’s delight To make poor people happy From morning until night.” 4. The word “Compassion” comes from the Latin, and the word “sym pathy” from the Greek, and the root meaning of both is the same, “to suffer with”. They mean pity in action. 6. The experience of Jesus was very different from that of most preachers today. Most of us are not troubled by the onrush of crouds. Jesus sought to evade crouds, and they followed him. We try to get them, and any times they go the other way. Probably our preaching is too common place. The religion that Jesus preached did things, mighty and amazing things. A re ligion that does things is exciting. That is what the world wants and is looking for. Many schemes are in vented to fill our half-empty church es, which are powerless. The world needs a religion that can do things that nothing else can accomplish. We need to preach and teach with power, Christ and him crucified, that people might be converted forsaking their sins and committing their lives to the Master. Add Indigestion RsImtmI in 8 minutes or double your money back When excess stomach *cid causes painful, suffoeat- ing gaa, tour stomach and heartburn, doctors usually prescribe the fastest-acting medicines known for symptomatic relief—medicines like those In Bell-ana Tablets. No laxative. Bell-ans brings comfort la a THE SPECTATOR Dairy farmers in South Carolina are producing milk at a cost of 45c a gallon, not including cost of de livery, and selling this milk for 38c a gallon, not counting delivery cost. That is a bald statement but it is the experience or the Edisto Milk Producers Association of Cope, S. C., over in Orangeburg county. Back of his is a story of what is happening to our dairy and beef interests. It is not the policy of our Gov ernment that men shall operate any business at a loss; and certainly it is unthinkable that the Government should countenance a policy which drives our dairy farmers and beef cattle producers into bankruptcy. But the policy of the OPA is doing precise!' that. Some weeks ago I spoke oi the plight of the beef pro ducers, basing my statement on what I had read in The New York Times. In brief, we had at that time sufficient beef on the hoof to assure adequate supplies to our fighting forces and to our civilian population. Notwithstanding that, the regulations of the OPA had brought about such confusion that we found ourselves with a shortage of beef on the market while ample beef supply could be found on the range. About the same time that I discussed the artificial beef shortage I also discussed a statement of Mr. John T. Roddy of York as to his ex perience as a dairyman, trying to do business under Hie regulations of :he OPA. I think our trouble is trying to regulate vast enterprieses with to tally inadequate knowledge of the conditions under which business op erates. No one could be so deliber ately hostile to vital national inter ests; but whether deliberate, or merely through ignorance, the re sult is the same; and our men in charge ' great enterprises spend a great -al of time in Washington trying to give to the entrenched bureaucracy even an elementary idea of the ordinary principles which govern men who try to produce any thing. Organized Business, Incorporated, of South Carolina, has in its mem bership virtually every type of bus iness carried on in South Carolina. Among its members are many men engaged in farming, same operating dairies as well, while others pro duce beef cattle. Last week two of our dairy farmers came to our office and told us just what is happening to them. Mr. Glenn W. Cope, a well- known farmer of Cope, who is en gaged largely in the dairy business, shipping milk to Charleston, made the blunt statement: “I am losing one hundred dollars in cold cash shipping milk to Charleston at the OPA price; and this hundred dollar loss does not in clude anything for my own services nor any of the item of expense which any businessman knows must be charged as part of the cost. I am losing this hundred dollars a week as the milk is produced on the farm with the cost of transportation not included, nor yet other items of cost. Notbing is taken into account for replacement of cows, machinery, or buildings.” Mr. Cope had spent some time in Washington at his own expense trying to show the OPA the plight, of the dairyman. He does not want a subsidy; he knows that a subsidy is nothing but sand in the eyes of the people; he wants to operate a plant so that he may make a liv ing. Whether the shipping of milk to Charleston is a useful occupation, you can judge for yourselves. II the supply of milk were cut off, there would be an uproar. While Mr. Cope was making an appeal to Organized Business to help him bring this to the attention of our officials, and of all those whose business in any way enjoys the sup port of the dairy and beef interests, Mr. H. L. Whisenhunt came in to support the statements of Mr. Cope and to join him in requesting that Organized Business cooperate with them in bringing their case to the public and to any others who might be specially interested. Mr. Cope is not speaking merely his own experience; he not only call ed on Mr. Whisenhunt to confirm this on behalf of all the milk produ cers, but cited individually some of the outstanding fanners of South Carolina, whose experience had been identical with his. Mr. Cope gave me some interest ing figures, in support of his state ments and assured me that if I were sent to jail, he and all the other Edisto farmers would see that I should be well fed. That may be really an attractive proposition, for if those brethren should keep me supplied in jail with big juicy steaks, I’d be better off in jail than most of my fellow citizens on the outside. And that would solve the fuel problem for me also, for I be lieve they keep the jails nice and warm. Certainly that would be the finest way in the world to advertise the case of the farmer, wouldn’t it? Mr. Cope said, supported by Mr. Whisenhunt, that a short time ago the city of Charleston had an acute shortage of milk. Some of these gentlemen, in order to supply the need in Charleston, arranged to buy milk in Chester County. The Edisto Dairymen had to buy in Chester and ship to Charleston for 38c a gallon, whereas a man from North Carolina bought the milk in Chester at 26c a gallon, hauled it to Lexington, North Carolina, and then resold it in Charleston at 64c a gallon. These gentlemen call attention to the fact that not only was this dairyman from North Carolina receiving 54c, as against their 38c, but that, in spite of all the shortages in trans portation, he was hauling from Ches ter to Lexington, North Carolina, and then rehauling it to Charlestpn, by truck. The gentlemen from South Carolina are told by the head of the Fluid Milk Department of the OPA in Washington that the OPA is now working on a plan to compose these differences, and avoid discrimi nations. Whereupon our South Carolina dairymen exploded in a burst of language which I see indi cated on my notes by a series of ex clamation points, starts and dashes. Mr. Cope and Mr. Whisenhunt, to whom I refer by name, by their ex press permission, in order to give me an elementary basis for this state ment, gave these facts from their own records: In 1941 the Edisto Milk Producers Association was allowed to charge 34c a gallon for milk. Sine; 1 that time observe what has happened to what they have', or must buy: com is up 150 per cent., oats 250 per cent., hay 250 per cent., concen trates, like cotton seed meal, more than 100 per cent., labor 100 to 150 per cent., and all these items are supposed to be under the control of the OPA—but the ceiling price on their milk in 1943 is 38c on the farm, with all the cost of transpor tation in addition. There you have it; 34c a gallon in 1941 and 38c in 1943. You men in any kind of busi ness, whether farming, dairying or manufacturing, can readily under stand that a price of 34c in 1941 meant a great deal more^to these dairymen than 38c in 1943 Now where do we get the idea of the cost of milk? Somebody will say that the cost varies with the farmer, as it does; just as one far mer’s cotton may cost him a half cent a pound more than another farmer’s cotton; but I am not rely ing on the cost figures of the Edis to Milk Producers Association, nor of the individual cost-figures of Mr. Glenn W. Cope. I know, of course, f -hat we have no finer farmers in South Carolina than in the region of the Association, but I cite you the figures that have been worked out on a 5 year average by Olemson Col lege, based only on such itoms as feed, labor, taxes and part deprecia tion, but including nothing for pro fit and no allowance for replacement —the Clemson figures—over this 5 year spread show that it cost the dairyman 45c a gallon to produce this milk at the dairy bam. Mr. Cape bases his argument on these figures of Clemson College. I have given you the story that these two gentlemen brought to me. If they should sell every cow they have, and cut off the milk supply of Charleston, and other points, they would be acting only for self-preser vation. But why should our Govern ment, so ready to assure a floor for wages; so ready to balance every little item of the cost of living against wages, be willing to impose a price on producers which would mean nothing but starvation? Is that the sort of thing that the Gov- emmen will cover up with a subsidy? Then when these gentlemen are ut- erly ruined, somebody will think out a magic formula to save the farmer. One more little story of the farm er trying to be patriotic: The Gov ernment asked a number of farmers to buy beef cattle, to fatten for the Government over a period of six months. These gentlemen came to Columbia with splendid patriotic fervor. They bought the cattle, at prices ranging from 12 to 17c, on foot, and fed these cattle six months. Then they were offered two weeks ago from 4 to 8 l-2c a pound! Now doesn’t it appear that we need a lit tle knowledge of conditions in deal ing with such cases as this? There will be auction sales of beef at many points of the State beiween noon' and the middle of Jan uary. The farmers are urging that all who take part in these sales shall communicate with the Congressmen so that the plight of the farmer may be remedied in January; and they are asking that all the business in terests which deal with the farmers shall support them in their petition for a just price on their products, based on costs arrived at by such disinterested organizations as Clem son College. The Joint Congressional Economy Committee is trying to save one hundred billion dollars of unused, uncommitted money. Senator Byrd told the world some months ago that a hundred billion dollars, already authorized, remained unexpended and unpledged on July first. That being Irue, it seems absurd to the point of ridiculous to make new appropria tions. Of course it may be necessary to re-designate the use to which the money will be put, but common sense indicates that we not have vast to tals hanging loose. Perhaps the best plan, or more orderly procedure is to cancel an appropriation, the unused part. How to proceed is a mere de rail; the important thing is to turn this money back before new money is used. Deep Water Two Negro soldiers were on a transport going overseas. Standing on the deck they gazed out across the vast expanse of water. “That’s the mostest water I’ve ever seen in all my life,” said one. Did you ever see so much water?” “Man, you ain’t seen nothing yet,” his companion replied. “That’s just the top of it.” Cautious Mr. Hull Cordell Hull weighs every word carefully—so carefully Vhat his ut terances are internationally famous for their extreme accuracy. Passing through Montana on a bus, his companion pointed to a flock of sheep. “Those sheep have just been sheared,” he ventured. 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