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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN Friday, January 14. 1944 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher Published Every Friday In The Year ' Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1P37, at tht postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, dnder the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. WANTS IT FORGOTTEN This newspaper belongs to that political tribe which would be relec- tant to unseat a rider in mid-stream. No one can forsee what the summer or autumn may bring but from this distance we do not think it good foi the nation to disturb the executive department. Nothing should be ven tured that would involve a risk to our war effort. A complete turn over in the presidential office would be followed by at least a degree of confusion and this we do not want. The President in asking that we stop thinking about the “New Deal" bids for a fourth term, but it will take more than this mild suggestion to make the people forget the sorry picture of the President and his two- by-four flunkies. If he wants a fourth term he can get it by repud iating most of what he and his crowd have done to ruin the nation and bring millions to feel that the government owes them a living. He will have to assure the people that he will never again throw away bil lions in crack-pot relief schemes. And the people will want to know Whether our business enterprises are to be allowed to live or whether they are to continue to be bossed by crooked labor leaders and New Deal labor theorists -who adinister the la bor laws. Yes, the people will want to know a lot of things of the President, and they will want a guarantee, that his promises are made of better stuff than those made in the past and promptly forgot or ignored. Forget the New Deal? Sure he wants us to forget it. It stinks up the political atmosphere. A lot of people are beginning to smell it whe never smelled it before—Ithey had their noses too close to the trougr! Strictly for the sake of the war we would like to see Mr. Roosevelt re elected but we are afraid that most anti-New Dealers are not as toler ant. They see their chance for ven- gance and they are not likely to let it slip. THERE’S TROUBLE HERE Labor unions all over the nation are piling up tremendous reserves. Some of them aje said to have al ready accumulated tens of millions of dolars. That they have a right to tax their members sufficiently to raise large reserves no one denies, but these huge funds are being rais ed for a purpose that spells no good for labor-management relations fol lowing the war. There is certain to be a showdown between labor and management when factories return to the manufacture of consumer goods and manufacturers go to the people for patronage rather than to government. Manufacturers have long resented the squeeze put on them by labor with government conniving, and la- bo ■. is not going to be content with less than it has enjoyed under the present government. As long as Uncle Sam is paying the bills manufacturers string along but old John Q. Public isn’t as easy as Sammie to sell to. He’s going to find out what the other fellow will offer and as a result competition will force manufacturers to econo mize wherever they can. Labor will insist on retaining its “gains” and ttve grand row will start. It will end only with the exhaustion of one side or the other, or both, and resultant suffering on the part of the people. Manufacturers were perhaps srort- sighted in labor relations before the present government came into pow er but now the pendulum has swung to the extreme opposite with labor riding high. If there be a mean here we fail to see it. • ' SAME BOON-DOGGLERS What is to be expected of some of the war agencies now tormenting us when it is remembered that the favorite New Deal method of staff ing these agencies is to gather the incompetents from the four corners of the nation and put them in charge? The New Deal has always specialized in incompetents, men who lived on the thrift of others un- cil this Santa Claus opened up a new heaven for them. You know them and we know them. Newberry coun- .y has its quota. Most of you remained silent when this grab was going on; afraid you would “hurt somebody’s feeling” but you’re paying in the neck now, orother. You’re paying and you will continue to pay. That fourteen bil lion dollars wasted in boon-doggling isn’t going to fall into the treasury from the skies, it is going to come out of your pockets via the income tax route. You already know some thing about that and you are mad. (This paragraph to jab you, and now oack to the senselessness of some of -he war agencies.) The country is simply teeming with hogs, millions and millions of them out in the hog country. Hog farmers are running out of feed and ^an’t sell their hogs because the packers have all they want. In fact the packers can’t use them because of OPAs tight rationing of pork. People want pork but OPA says no. Does that have a familiar ring? Sfes, that’s right* the very same tank- town economists who ordered pigs slaughtered and wheat and cotton plowed under (as late as 1942!) in past years are the same ones now denying you pork when there is a tremendous surplus of it. Maybe they are keeping it to give to luke-worm New Dealers to help swing the elec- don next fall. FINALLY GET ENOUGH We have not had opportunity to express our regret over the death of our friend Sid Halfacre heretofore. Mr. Halfacre was a solid citizen and a good man. He kept posted on af fairs of the state and nation and was a dyed-in-the-wool New Dealer— until. The economic earthquake brought into being by Mr. Roosevelt and la- oled a new order never found a more ardent convert than Sid Halfacre. He defended it coming and going, up and down and this sanctum was the scene of more than one argument as the years of the “Deal” came and went. Finally our friend began to waver. Being a fair-minded man he could no longer brush aside the mounting evidence of the cussedness of the half-baked new order. There was in fact little of the New Deal which he cared for when he passed from the earthly scene. The case of our friend is indica tive of millions thruout the width and breadth of the land. Our people want to return to he old order of simple economics—to the rule of supply and demand with as little government interference as possible. The New Deal has not only ruin ed the economy of the country, but about everything else held in honor and pride in the old days of simple and honest living. Man must make his own happiness as well as his own living and much of his happiness comes from honest toil, of a task well done. The New Deal theory that money can buy everything, including happi ness, has been disproved in all ages, dating back for thousands of years. But no one could tell a New Dealer anything; he insisted there was something new under the sun despite Holy Writ and set out to buy it with billions of tax dollars. Is he disil lusioned? He hasn't got sense enough to be disillusioned. If he could get his claws on more billions he would toss them into the same rat hole. MHMt SWMOFA c ov® use 666 666 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS FOR YOUR OWN SAKE So nuch has been said and written about War Bonds that anything we add would be trite, so we will say out little as the new drive opens realizing tha+ most people know the necessity of buying these govern ment securities to finance the war. ft should be pointed out, however, that while the past war loans have oeen easily raised the sale of E bonds nave been disappointingly low. The government is especially anx ious that in this drive a large per cent of small bonds be bought. In urging the buying of these bonds your government is looking ahead to the day following the end of the war when transition from war to peace will cause a lot of unemploy ment. Your government wants peo ple of small means to hedge against this “rainy day” by putting away a part of their earnings now in safe, interest-bearing E bonds. Every person in Newberry county will want a part in putting over this Fourth War Loan Drive. This drive comes at the most critical time of ihe war. Victory is in sight and all of us will want to feel that we have had a part in it. PATRIOTIC FIRMS We ask our readers to stop here and read the names of the firms sponsoring the war bond ad in this issue. Read these names, and re member them. These firms have been called upon time and again to spend .heir money for bond advertising and -hey have responded each time will ingly. This advertising of course means revenue for newspapers but it means more than that; it insures the success of the bond drives. We feel that these firms will be remembered for their patriotism. THE SPECTATOR So we want to have no more strikes! No more strikes! The La bor leaders resented the Smith- Connally Anti-Strike Act because they were resolved to have no more strikes, they said. Well, what have we had? Headed by John L Lewis, the coal miners struck. And in the midst of the strike the president meekly surrendered! Recently 146,000 steel workers quit. Then what? Telegrams from the president promising them some thing. Then the Rail Road threat. And what? The president falls down. I say it sorrowfully, but it is the truth. The nation has suffered in its morale because Mr. Roosevelt prefers to be a politician instead of a national leader who can draw out spiritual power and inspire the na tion. If, in the beginning, the president had said to John L. Lewis “The na tion will not permit the mines to be abandoned; I will use the army and navy; I will call on the man hood of all America to operate the mines”, he would have evoked a patriotic fervor, a spiritualized pa triotism that would have quelled the arrogance of Lewis. It would have prevented all those other strikes and threats of strikes. But Mr. Roosevelt plumed himself on his a- bility as a politician; he played the politics with Lewis and Murray. Notices of five hundred and fifty- seven strikes were filed with the Na tional Labor Relations Board in five months! In his conceit, in his overweening vanity, he has played as though all this were a game. And the nation feels a sense of revulsion. Instead of appealing to the spiritual forces of the nation, he has bargained and cajoled and pampered and petted the elements which are threatening the stability of the nation itself. No one will ever know how pro foundly sorry I am that the presi dency of this republic is a give-and- take manipulation for the glory of one man and the perpetuation of that man and his satellites in pow er. It harries my soul to observe the prostitution of America for the gaudy tinsel of brief authority. Our nation has become the happy hunting ground of small fry fatten ing on the public. The Newberry Sun is shining again, to my great joy, for Specta tor was first suggested by the Arm- field brothers and has been carried by them at the mast-head. The Newberry Sun is one of the straight-from-the-shoulder paper and its revival shows the invincible spirit of Brother O. F. Armfield who saw his last man called to the colors, but waves his flag again in the triumphant ecstasy which an ed itor feels when he surmounts a’| ob stacles and “gets out the paper”. Spectator is “powerful glad”, O. F. The Manager of the City of Sum ter has sent Spectator a copy of the annual report of that thriving mun icipality and center of enterprise. Ordinarily such reports have not the appeal of a Scotland Yard de tective story, being just dollars and cents; but I read this report with interest, because that splendid city is close to me in many respects: its afternoon paper (The Item) carries Spectator and its radio Station (WFIG) lets me talk over it. Then, again, Sumter is a city of neighbor ly folk. There is no city in South Carolina which can muster its people more quickly for a community project than can Sumter; it is our South Carolina Atlanta, someone has said. The financial statement, better, let us say, the statement of opera tion, shows that Sumter is managed economically. A study of every de partment and every item indicates that. And it closed the fiscal year with a favorable balance. That is not always easy, for municipalities, like White-collar-workers, some times don’t share in the easy money which is said to flow all around us. Wouldn’t it be better if Washing ton would discontinue the practice ■>{ alarming us? It would be inter esting to study the statements and appeals by our leaders since 1940. Some university man might try for iis doctorate by preparing a study on “Government by ignorance, misin formation and alarm,” or something like that. We were told that not an American boy would be sent to fight in a foreign country; then we were alarmed over many things. Today we are told to prepare our minds and hearts for 600,000 casualties in the next few weeks. Why ony one should terrify the people in that manner is incredible. It is worse than the frequent statements of a few months ago that “the people do not realize the seriousness of the situation,” or some such twaddle and tomfoolery. How could the people fail to real ize “the seriousness of the situa tion?” Were not young men leaving home for camp? From stores, offic es, factories, farms, schools, colleges —and from the homes—came millions of our youth and manhood, changing from peaceful pursuits to regimen.a- tion and drill. Was not every home deeply aware of it? Were not the draftees impressed? Yes, thy people were impressed; we needed to im press those in authority with the seriousness of the situation; we needed to persuade them to quit playing politics and to rise to the heights of personal dedication as would evoke the vast spiritual fer vor of America and lead the Nation in a' crusade for freedom and the opportunity to enjoy a quiet and peaceful life. The saddest feature of this war is the spiritual emptiness of our leadership, a failure to rise to the supreme opportunity of states manship. Instead of that we’ve had wise-cracks, smart-alexisms, political manipulation, the enthrone ment of selfish groups and petty in terests. Farmer, did you read what the Ed- isto farmers have experienced? Ob serve how LABOR gets increases! Do you think there could be any POLITICS in this? Well, is it YOUR kind of politics? The NEW DEAL doesn’t treat the farmers and labor alike, does it? But it wants a fourth term. Haven’t we had enough of the New Deal bureaucrats? There is a Senate bill to do something for the dairy farmers (Senate Bill 1418) but the CM) is calling on all its members to fight it. See CIO News, December 20, 1943. We are offering democracy to all the world, but what is it? Is it a great nation in the grip of five per cent of its people? Is it a great re public under the heel of a few sel fish labor leaders? Is it a country of great traditions, bowing meekly be fore the threats of predatory inter ests, organized to coerce the Gov ernment? Is that what American democracy is? FORMER EDITOR WEDS News has been received here of the marriage of Ira B. Armfield, a former editor of Newberry, in Bre vard, North Carolina. 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 5th, 1944, from 9 until 12. Silverstreet— Wednesday, January 5th, from 2 until 5. 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 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 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 The • South Carolina National Bank Condensed Statement of Condition December 31,1943 ASSETS Cash and Due From Banks f. $ 40,241,332.55 U. S. GovernmentJBonds! 38,631,287.54 State and Municipal Bonds 928,763.06 Federal Reserve Bank Stock 88,200.00 Loans and Discounts 20,381,578.68 Banking Houses ( 11 ) $503,875.00 Less: Reserve for Depreciation 78,581.50 425,293.50 Furniture and Fixtures 113,768.46 Other Real Estate 1.00 Other Assets 72,241.27 $ 100,882,466.06 LIABILITIES Capital: Common $ 1,320,000.00 Capital: Preferred 845,000.00 Surplus 775,000.00 Undivided Profits' 570,831.37 Reserve: Retirement Pretered Stock 335,630.00 Reserve: Contingencies 200,000.00 Reserve: For Taxes, etc 234,545.80 Deposits 96,601,458.89 $ 100,882,466.06 Member FederaLDeposit Insurance Corporation