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RDUR THE NEWBERRY SUN Friday, reoruary 4, 1944 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH C-VROLINA O. F. ARMF1ELD Editor and Publisher Published Every Friday In The Year Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1!»37, at tht postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. When They Come Home (By Philip Burke) What a day it will be when the war is won and our boys come home. Not for all of us certainly, but for most of us, surely, that d.eam will turn true, that prayer be answered. That day will come, as real as its light at your windows, as milk bot tles rattling, as its morning paper with giant headline “Troops arrive.” To a hoarse saluting of whistles a troop ship will move up the harbor, looming huge as it nears. The rest less ants that mass her decks will change, while you watch, to men; thousands of faces now looking down, searching the dock. One face blurred through your tears, shouting through the bedlam down to you. Your hap piest day; it will come. And it will pass. The next day will come. What then? When the fighting is over, and the fearing, and the long, long waiting—when you have him at home again, your loved one. What help can you give him? What help will he need, facing the peace and the post-War world? Now is the time to think about this, lest the demobilization find us as.the call to arms did, off guard, ill-prepared, and confused; lest the peace have, too, its Pearl Harbor. For the peace will bring its own dan gers, will have its casualties. When the fighting is done and your boy is home safe, he’ll be safe from bomb and bullet and shell—not yet safe from the war. Wisdom In The Morning After For war is a great sickness, and the peace that ends it will not bring immediate health, but convalescence. Hitler will die, and his henchmen, and the jackal war lords of Japan. The victorious nations will be convales cent so will be each returning veter an. After long and grave illness, con valescence brings happiness, release from fear. It brings not health but the hope and promise of health again soon. Convalescence brings, too, the need of wise and patient care. The peace will bring that to each victor ious nation; to each happy home where a boy explains his service ribbons, sits again to his mother’s cooking. The day your boy comes home will take care of itself. The morning af ter will call for wisdom, for a love that is understanding. That morning you’ll need to realize that your boy is tired; under his happy excitement, bone and brain weary, physically and spiritually slack with fatigue. That fatigue will wear off; time will cure it. But while it lasts, ' weeks or months, the fatigue will necessarily influence all your boy thinks and feels, and does or does not. Not dangerous in itself, it can lead to danger; not understood and accepted wisely, it can make unhap piness and permanent maladjust ments. Here is the danger. When that fa tigue is physical and apparent, when it results from wounds or illness, when it is recorded on faces and ser vice records, it will be recognized and treated. But your son may come home with no wounds, no hospital record, apparently healthy and well. He may seem to himself and to you unchanged by the war. But he won’t be. Whether he knows it or not, shows it at first or not, he, too, will be tired, below the level of his con sciousness, weary. You, too, though perhaps to a lesser degree, will be tired. And when people are tired their emotions are unstable, their judgments erratic; they make mis takes. Why is this weariness inevitable, the certain harvest of war? Fighting men, soldiers and sailors are seldom overworked. Most of the time, for weeks on end, the physical condi tions of their life and work are close to ideal. They have the foods we must do without, ample and scientifi cally prepared meals. They have regular hours and plenty of exercise in the open air. Why then are men in their forties too old for this Jife? The battle on sea or land is a com paratively brief period of intensive work. Men work staggering with exhaustion; they work till they fall, and creep to work again. There is no rest for the living until the en gagement is broken off. The battles for the South Sea Islands are unlike the battles in Italy, and both are un like the naval engagements. Yet all are alike.in this—they drain the men in action to the last drop of energy. They leave those men weary to the bone. Civilians are inclined to think of battles as if they were colorful spectacles, as if they were mammoth football games, w'ith generals for head coaches, bombs for footballs, and galloping backs with tommy guns. Civilians are inclined to ima gine heroic sprints, bagpipes playing, officers shouting heroic epigrams. That is one reason, at least, why returned veterans don’t like to talk of their battle experiences. They aren’t too modest, don’t believe it. More often they don’t want to dis appoint civilian ears. What they re member would sound so flat. Mud and blistered heels, the drip of rain on a foxhole bed, the empty deadly silence. And that famous charge? For many a soldier that was a long, tough walk; an endless clumping un der battle equipment on a road where nothing happened. Then perhaps an explosion; if you heard it, it missed. You got up and dragged on. Word came back that the foe had dug in on the slope ahead. You fell out by the side of the road. You waited and you grumbled for water. You said hopefully, “Buttsies,” to the lucky man with a whole cigarette. Maybe you got out a letter, the last one. The ink had run and smudged, and Notice ot Sale You are hereby notitied that J. Drake Edens of Columbia has pur^ chased the stock of goods and fix~ tures of Paysinger’s Super Market, Edger C. Paysinger, owner. Locat' ed at 1309 Friend Street, Newberry. This establishment is now operas ed by J. Drake Edens as Edens’ Sup er Market of Columbia. | Signed: J. DRAKE EDENS Signed: EDGER C. PAYSINGER you knew it by heart, but it brought a moment of home. Shells whined overhead, brown puffs blossomed along the slope. A runner came up with word for the C. O. The ser geants started bawling again. You stuck the letter away and got under your pack. The enemy had moved back again. Victory for the staff; more work for you. You fell in; you clumped on. When you’ve lived through it, what you remember is hard to explain. It doesn’t make good telling to the folks at home who have heard the radio dramas. The G. I. who does the battle work can’t compete with Quentin Rey nolds. “Sure, I was there,” he’ll say, and no more, looking grim and myster ious. Battles are something exciting. They are always exhausting. But the battles last a few hours or a few days, and they are preceded and fol lowed by weeks of measured activity and waiting. From all physical work, even battle work, young men tend to recover quickly and complete ly. The fatigue the soldiers bring home with them is deeper, and more dangerous. War means fear. War means anger. And these dark emo tions are heavy burdens, tiring bone and spirit of all who bear them. Even Heroes Are Afraid All fighting men, to greater or less degree, are afraid. No sane man can look at the stretchers going back; can watch a sister ship blossom in flame and smoke, and not be afraid. No sane boy can lie deep in the hold of a troopship and listen to the en gines, and wonder where he is going, and if he will get there, and not be afraid. The soldier sleeps with his fear and wakes with it, takes it with him to battle. Were I an un believer, watching men going into ac tion would convince me at least of the human soul. All animals but men will run from what they fear. Men, in a cold sweat of fear, their very flesh shrinking, will man their guns on a sinking ship, will watch men fall and step over them, walking forward to death. Even the heroes are afraid. They triumph over their fears. But that triumph is temporary. The fear stays there like the fox under the shirt of the Spartan lad, gnawing in secret and silence. That is why the war tires all of us; all who fear for ourselves, or for loved ones. That is why when the war is over, you must give your son time to get rest ed, to be himself again. Never again his old self, but a new self, and with God’s help, better. For weariness is but one of the fruits of war. Love can be another. Your son will come home loving his home as he never did before, loving his country, and his God. One hears talk of the crime wave that must follow the war. With very few exceptions the criminals won’t be the returned soldiers. Here at home, our neglected children, our youth, getting used to too much money, to too much hate, from these groups our criminals will come. If you want to see w r hat the boys now on the fighting fronts will be like in the years to come, look around you, examine the Legionnaires of your home town. Graying men, most of them, just neighbors, at their jobs Monday mornings, at church Sunday mornings. Few of us famous, and fewer infamous. No American com munity has been, or will be, destroyed or endangered by its veterans. Habits a re persistent, and charac ter traits. On Saturday nights, on holidays, your son will look for in Cairo, or Sydney, what he looked for PEOPLE’S COLORED HOSPITAL ACKNOWLEDGES GIFTS Dr. J. E. Grant, superintendent of the People’s hospital, wishes to ac knowledge with grateful thanks do nations made to the hospital during the past year. Most of the followng was donated at Christmastime but a part was given at an earlier date. The hospital also acknowledges a nice check from a business firm and this will be made public in a drive for funds which the hospital will make at a later date. Following is a list of the dona tions which Dr. Grant says have been of immeasurable help to the institution: Given by The Rotary Club One hundred fifty-nine rolls of adhesive tape, 180 rolls plain gauze, 555 boxes absorbent cotton, 634 rolls bandgaes, 20 rolls unbleached cloth bandages, several gross handi-tape. Given by Aveleigh Church Auxiliary Cne gallon B-Lixer, 1 gallon In- fantol, 1 gallon milk of magnesia, 1M CC pills, 1M cascara comp, 1M Theobromine and Phenolbarbital, 6 sheets, 16 towels, 8 washcloths, 5 pairs pillow cases, 12 bars soap, 1 bottle alcohol, 11 pound coffee, 1 box paper napkins, 2 cans tomato soup, 1 can tomotos, 1 can tomato juice, 1 box soap powder. Given by Pre-School Group of Mothers’ Club Set of china consisting of 8 plates, 12 cups aftd 12 saucers. Eight ozs. cascara, 2 quarts mineral oil, 2 r ‘‘s. alcohol, six pillow cases, 6 sheets. Given by Fidelia Club of the First Baptist Church Four wati r pitchers, 6 pepper and salt shakers, 12 cups and saucers.., 1 tea pitcher, 2 frying pans, 1 bis cuit pan, 1 double boiler, 3 boilers, 2 pans, 1 mixing bowl, 1 coffee pot, 5 platters. The First Baptist church donated the following prepared edibles which were greatly enjoyed by nurses, pa tients and hospital workers: irish potato salad, sandwiches, biscuit, a large can of tea, etc. Misses Lucy and Eugenia Epps contributed sheets twice during year. The large coal stove given us by Miss Mary Burton is still giving ser vice; it has been a life-saver. Donated by YWA of First Baptist church: 2 sheets. Also thanks to many for maga zines and other kind remembrances. Dr. J. E. GRANT, Supt. in Boston or Seattle. If he was a good lad at hom'e he’ll be a good lad in his platoon. If your son didn’t drink to excess at home, he probably won’t on another continent. You may reasonably hope that he won’t. But don’t hope that he won’t come home tired. He will. It’s important that you realize this, because the Government and its welfare agencies may not. The Gov ernment is making, as it should, plans for returning servicemen to civilian life and to jobs. It will give them bonuses of one kind or another; it will probably give them education al opportunities. The sick and the woundeo and disabled, the Govern ment will care for to the best of its ability. The Government will, as it must, leave to themselves those dis charged as physically fit. If your son be one of these, you can do things for him that no government can. He Has Earned A Vacation You must not be distressed nor im patient if the first morning he’s home he doesn’t get up early and go looking for work; if at first he’s re luctant to go back to school; if he seems unambitious. Give him a little time. He’s convalescent. When a person who has long been sick gets up, it’s just at first for an hour or two. You don’t, that first morning he leaves his bed, give him his din ner pail and get him his hat. You urge him to go slowly, not to overdo. You wait wisely till his strength has returned, and with it his urge to be active. Be no less wise with your returned soldier. He’ll have plenty of time the rest of his life to work. He’s earned a vacation. If he wants it, he needs it. Let him have it with his family’s approval. There is another thing. When your boy returns, he won’t be a boy. He’ll be a man. He may not be 21 in years, but in some ways he’ll be older than you. He will be a part of all that he has seen and experienc ed. For the years of his service he will have been treated as a man, whatever his age. This is but com mon sense, inevitable and inescap able; for the Army and the Navy do not deal with children, nor concern themselves with adolescent psycholo gy. For the G. I. of 17 or of 30, the rules are the same and the duties. To bear arms is a man’s task. And those who have borne aims will never again bear schoolbooks with school boy hearts. The boy who has answer ed to sergeants and boatswains will be but mildly distressed at teacher’s scolding, will stay after school with ill grace. If your son is one of the many who left high school for the service, he should go back to school, but not au tomatically and necessarily to his old school. For if he does go back to school, it canot be as the schoolboy be was; it must be as a man, getting training for pay checks, or wasting his time. Undoubtedly in some form or other the Government will subsidize vet eran education. It will almost cer tainly offer all those it took from the schools opportunity to resume their interrupted educaton. Many more will take this proffered training than will take advantage of it. To go blindly back to school just because the schooling is free, has no value. It would be better for a boy to go fish ing. The first thing your son must do, and you must help him do it, is to de termine what he wants to do with the peace he has won, a ud the years. If and when he knows with certainty that he wants to be doctor ot steam fitter or farmer, then he will submit to the discipline and program of the school that can help him attain his ambition. In a university that had better be nameless, I remember after the First World War, a nonstop crap game, carried on by the veterans who were officially upstairs in the classrooms. Those crap-shooters were being fair neither to themselves nor to the Government. Tired boys and disabled, they were there in school because it was the place of least resistance. They didn’t know what they wanted to do, and so they shot crap. If when he comes home your boy has an opportunity to eo to school, urge him to think carefully what school, and why. Men can be drafted to fight, but never to studv. In the meantime, your son and mil lions of men are enduring now for the days to come, for the better world the peace will bring. It is good that they have this vision to light the present darkness. Yet lest they come home to disappointment and disillusionment, they should know it for what it is, a vision:, a horizon that will move before them, a journey’s end, not to be reached by armies nor nations. This better world we are promised must, in the nature of things, re main a phrase, an ideal, until men, the majority of men and their lead ers, are willing to live, to think, and to act, by the laws of God. That will not be soon. No matter what the economists plan, and governments perform; no matter what agreements are sworn in Washington and London and Moscow; if your son is to live in a better world, it must be a world he makes for himself. No Atlantic Charter can make him personally free. No grateful Con gress can vote him happy. He must make his own peace. He in himself must live his own life, with his own hands earn his. bread, with his own mind seek and find his own good. POULTRY MEETING FEB. 9th Poultry raisers will be interested to know that there will be a poultry meeting at the Court House on Wed nesday morning Feb. 9th at 10 o’clock. This meeting is being arranged by P. B. Ezell, County Agent and Mrs. Ethel Counts, Home Agent and will be conducted by Miss Eleanor Car- son, Poultry Speacialist from Win- throp College. This will be a fine opportunity to discuss your pioblems whatever they may be. Please keep this date in mind. FORFEITED LAND COMMISSION SALE State of South- Carolina, County of Newberry. By virtue of the power vested in it under the statute law of the state of South Carolina, Forfeited Land Commission for Newberry * County will sell to the highest bidder for cash, in front of the Newberry coun ty Court House in the city of New berry, County of Newberry, State of South Carolina, on the 7th day of February, 1944 at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, the following described property, to wit: Lucy Derrick.—Lot in School Dis trict No. 35, bounded on the north by Estate of W. M. Wilson, West by Mulberry street, South by lands of J. C. Swygert, East by lands of W. D. Morehead and perhaps otherwise. W. W. Boozer.—Lot in School District No. 14, bounded on the North by lands of Jacob Mayer, East by public highway, south by lands of J. D. Luther and west by lands of Harriett Mayer. , Joseph A. DeWalt.—Lot in School District No. 1, bounded by lands of or formerly of J. J. Amick on the North, J. V. Langford on West, J. J. Langford and Ruthie Suber* on the East and perhaps others. Mamie Boozer.—Lot in School District No. 14, bounded now or for merly by lands of J. D. Luther on the South, by lands of Jacob Mayer on the north, by Main street on the east, and on the West by lands of J. D. Luther. Albert Mobley’s Estate.—Lot in School District No. 1, bounded on the East by lands of Mary Washington, on the South by lands of Tom Cald well, on the West by lands of Rob ert Reeder and North by lands of Hank Wilson and perhaps others. Lucinda Suber:—Lot in School Dis trict No. 1 bounded by lands of or formerly of George W. Summer on the north and east, Clarence Robin son on the south. Player street on the west and perhaps othewjse, said tract being situate in School District No. 1 Abraham Cromer.—Lot in School District No. 1, bounded by Gallman street on the east, south by lands of or formerly of Darvin Cromer, west by J. H. Wicker and north by George Smith estate and perhaps otherwise. J. J. Langford.—Lot containing one (1) acres, more or less and bounded now or formerly by lands of the C. N and L .Railroad company on the South, by lands of J. A. Long on the west, and by lands of Mrs. W. H. Caldwell on the north and east. Jack Rubin.—Lot with building thereon, in School District No. X, County of Newberry, State of South Carolina, bounded by lands of or for merly of Lilia Henderson & Mrs. S. E. Baxter, North by Lilia Ferguson on the west, Pink Sanders on the east and Horseshoe alley on the South and perhaps otherwise. E. T. Rivers.—-Lot in School Dis trict No. 52 and bounded now or for merly on the south by lands of Dora Robinson, on the north by country road, and perhaps otherwise. Spencer Lewis.—Lot of land in School District 28, bounded now or formerly by lands of T. F. Harper, on the east and south by lands of Sallie Werts, and on the west by lands of C. H. Cannon. Mealy Williams.—Lot in School District No. 19, containing 4 acres more or less and bounded on the West by lands of Mrs. Bell Baker, South by Public highway, North by lands of M. G. Shealy Estate, and East by lands of Jacob Mayer, and perhaps others. J. C. Sample Lot in School Dis trict 58, bounded on the north by property of Southern railroad, south by lands of Mrs. S. H. Maffett Es tate and west by lands of H. O. Long, and perhaps others. Minnie Williams.—Lot in School District No. 28, bounded now or for merly by Southern railway company on the north, by lands of Mariah Finnery on the east, by lands of Brooks Mayes on the south and lands of George Scott on the west. Christian Home Burial and Aid Society:—Lot, containing 1 acre, more or less in School District 28, bounded on the north by lands of Gordon Bluford, on the south and west by lands of FYank Glenn, syjd perhaps others. Lucinda Kinard.—Lot of land in School District No. X, bounded now or formerly by lands of John Glenn on the north. Hack Wilson on the west, Joe Williams on the south and east, and perhaps others. Ben Shealy.—Tract of land in School District No. 15, containing 10 acres, more or less, and bounded now or formerly by lands of J. Wilbur Taylor on the west, by lands of the Mike Monts Estate on the south, by lands of the Lexington Water Power company on the east, and by lands of J. Wijbur Taylor and Lexington Water Power Company on the north. Linchen George.—Tract of land in School District No. 27, containing 36 acres, more or less, and bounded npw or formerly on the north by lands of Kate C. Miller, on the east by lands of John Shealy, and south by lands of John Bush and on the west .by lands of Kate C. Miller and perhaps others. C. F. Bobb.—Tract of land in School Distriot No. 12, containing 14 acres, more or less, and bounded now or formerly by lands of New berry college, lands of A. E. and R. E. Reese and E. Wallace on the east, on the south by lands of W. E. and A. E. and R. E. Reese, and on the west by lands of W. E. Wallace and Newberry college. A. R. Sligh.—Lot in School Dis- tret No. 12, containing twenty-five, (25) acres, more or less, bounded now or formerly on the north by lands of Edd Sligh, on the east by lands of C. N. and L. railroad com pany and on the south by lands of J. M. Sligh estate and west by lards of George McDuffie Sligh. Lawrence Gary.—Lot in School District No. 28, in the town of Hel ena and bounded on the north by lands of Dock Greenwood, on the east by lot of Corrie Metz, and on the west and South by unnamed streets.. Mamie Jones.—Lot in School Dis trict No. 28, containing about one (1) acre, more or less, and bounded now or formerly on the north by lot of Meridan Lodge, on the east by J. M. Workman Estate, on the south by lot of Joe Williams, and on the west by lot of Bob Waters and per haps others. Sophie Wilson. Estate.—Lot con taining 1 acre, more or less and sit uate in school district 28, bounded on the north by an unnamed road or alley, on the west by lands of Will Glenn, on the south by lands of John Lewis, on the east by lands of Sunset Park lodge and perhaps other wise. Nancy Ellisor.—Tract of land in the town of Helena, bounded by an unnamed street which separates it from lands of or formerly of Pick ens Jackson, lands of Dan Metts, lands of T. F. Coleman and lands of Smith Spearman. R. M. Caldwell.—Lots of land ly ing and being situate in the City of Newberry, consisting of Lots Nos. 8 and 9 on Plat recorded in Clerk’s office Book No. 18, page 151 front ing 57.8 feet on West side of Cald well street, and running back 110 feet on south and 117 feet on north line and is 55.6 feet on rear line. Solomon Basha.—Lot of land sit uate in School District 39, in the Town of Chappells, bounded on the North by lot of or formerly of H. C. Holloway, on the east by old Main street of Chappells, on the South by lands of or formerly of Bank of Greenwood, and on the west by back street. Alice Farrow Estate.—Lot situate in School District No. 28, in the county of Newberry, bounded now or formerly by lanes of Mary McMorris on the north, by Glenn street on the east, and by lands of Brooks Mayes on the south and west. E. B. Tyson Land containing 43 acres, more or less, bounded on the north by lands of Katie Bell Tribble Estate, on the east by lands of Dora Tribble and Katie Belle Tribble Es tate, on the south by lands of Dora Tribble and Delton Boyd, and on the west by lands of Delton Boyd and lands now or formerly of Marie Tribble and perhaps others. Purchaser to pay for deed and revenue stamps to be affixed there- FORFEITED LAND C'OMMISSION OF NEWBERRY COUNTY. By J. K. Willingham, Secretary. January 20th, 1944. NOTICE: SALE OF EXCHANGE BANK BUILDING, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA By virtue of Act. No. 925 of the Acts of 1942 of the General Assem bly of the State of South Carolina, the Commissioners of Newberry county, South Carolina, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder before the Newberry County Court House Door, Newberry South Caro lina, on the First Monday in Febru- ary, 1944, at the hour of eleven o’ clock in the morning and immediate ly after Court Sales, if any; the fol lowing described real estate;—all that lot or parcel of land together with The Exchange Bank Building, located on the North Side of the in tersection of Main and College Sts., of the City of Newberry, in the County and State aforesaid; the said building being five stories high with a basement and in excellent condition with elevator service, the first floor being suitable for the op eration of a bank and also other of fices and the other floors being suit able for offices all of which are how occupied or practically so. Good in come, operating expenses moderate. Being owned by the county, reason for selling is, the County is not in the real estate business. Terms are: Either cash or one fourth (1-4) down and the remainder to become due in three equal annual installmente with four per cent (4), interest, payable annually, with the usual .provision a s to Attorney’s fees of ten per cent. The successful bidder or bidders shall immediately after the bidding is closed, deposit with the Clerk of the Board ten per cent of the amount of the bid as evidence of good faith, and upon failure to comply with this provision, the sale shall be immed iately reopened and the said proper ty resold at the risk of the default ing bidder or bidders, and the said bidder or bidders shall have ten days thereafter in which to fully comply with the terms of the bid and upon failure to so comply, then and in that event, the said deposit shall be forfeited and become liquidated damages. Purchaser to pay for all papers and revenue stamps. The right is hereby reserved to reject any and all bids. If any further in formation is desired, confer with B. V. Chapman, County attorney. EUGENE H. SPEARMAN. County Supervisor for tin Board Newberry, S. C., Jan. 14, 1944. Mr. and Mrs. James Smith spent Sunday in Greenwood with Mrs. Smith’s mother, Mrs. Eunice Glas gow. Mrs. Pat Coggin is staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. AV. E. Monts on Main street while her hus band, Ensign Coggin is on sea duty. Mr. and Mrs. Nat Gist and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Myers of Columbia spent last Thursday in the home of Mrs. Gist’s mother and sister, Mrs. R. L. Tarrant and Mrs. Mae Stuck. AT FIRST SIGN OF A a ^666 _ USE 666 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS