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1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARMFIELD, Editor & Publisher Published Every Friday In The Year Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the postoffice at Newberry, S. C., un der the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. THE BATTUNG SMITHS While 1 7 and 18-year-old boys are out bat tling the Germans and Japs to save his dirty hide, E. D. Smith, Jr. is enjoying the comforts of Washington as a “volunteer" coast guardsman in the “Potomac river patrol." Can’t you just see Ed Smith. Jr. and those other 249 heroes battling the turbulent waters of the Potomac in their lace-trimmed step-ins? These New Deal sissies are simply hiding behind a name to try to make someone believe they are serving their country. And in the case of Ed Smith Jr., his “nigger”-Faiting father is just as guilty as he is. Old Ed Smith is attempting to make his son out a hero and at the same time patch up his badly battered political fences. The people of South Carolina have not forgotten that the committee which asked and obtained deferment for Ed Smith, Jr., is headed by Ed. Smith, Sr. Ed Smith wants his son in the safety of a home guard outfit while your sons faces all the hell of the battle field. And on top of this he has the gall to ask you to send him back to Washington and $10,000 a year— which is $9,999.99 more than he is worth. Voters of Newberry county will remember these battling Smith’s this summer when they go to the polls. They will have the choice of replacing old worthless Ed with the governor of South Carolina who entered the last war like a man and did his duty or with Eugene S. Blease, than whom there is none more patriotic and who now has a son in a German prison camp. These four-flushing Smith’s are going into oblivion in South Carolina this summer and a large portion of the despicable New Deal with them. BLOT ON HISTORY The plot of the New Deal administration to steal the forthcoming Presidential election by means of an unconstitutional ballot will be a permanent blot on the pages of American history. This will be true, regardless of the success or failure of the plot. ”” The blot that is already smeared across the pages of American history and is ineradicable is the fact that the attempt was made and that an American national administration was capable of making it. This is not the first time in American history that a Presidential election has been conducted in the midst of war, with the incumbent Presi dent seeking reelection. There was such an election in 1 864, and Abr aham Lincoln was the President whose tenure was at stake. But this is absolutely the first time a war-time administration and President have sought to scuttle the Constitution of the United States in order to be assured of continued tenure. Abraham Lincoln most certainly did not flaunt the Constitution, although he was very doubtful of reelection by the constitutional pro cess. Then, as now, the President was pretty sure of Army support. But then, also as now, there was an undeterm ined proportion of soldiers who would not be able to vote. Probably Mr. Lincoln could have made sure of those votes much easier than it can be done now. All of the soldiers were within the conti nental limits of the United States. But Mr. Lincoln said: “Excpt it be given protection against violence, I decline to interfere in any way with and Presi dential election.” Moreover, said Mr. Lincoln: "By the Constitution and laws the President is charged with no duty in the conduct of a Presidential election in any State." Think of the contrast now. President Roosevelt is not simply seeking re- election, but is seeking a continuous term of 16 ears in the White House. He is not simply interfering with the conduct of the presidential election by the States, as the Constitution provides, but is trying to conduct ’he election as a Federal enterprise, insofar as the armed forces are concerned. He proposes an illegal ballot. He proposes an interested and prejudiced ' ederal Commission to handle the ballot. If this is not for the purpose of stealing the '•lection, what other motive can there be?—San Antonio Light. Our churches for many years sent missionar ies to Japan and taught them the English lan guage which the "poor heathen" Jap is now using to fool our boys into traps and slay them. Many of us have opposed this soft-headed bus iness of trying to Christianize the world for many years but the very mention of a “poor heathen” has always been enough to open the American pocketbook and send floods of gold to people who actually HATE the Christian re ligion and always will. By this time you would think the church would have seen its mistake, but you will not think so when you read the article below: Haw American churches have been deluded in to permitting secretly hostile Japs to spread their propaganda through important war production centers of the Midwest was revealed recently by an incident in the editoral rooms of the “Indian apolis Star”. The incident occured when a Los Angeles Jap named Henry N. Tani was brought into the newspaper office by the Rev. William Nelson of the Immanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church. Tani was in town to tell the Rev Nelson’s Sunday school class about the loyalty of the Am erican-born Japs now in concentration camps and to create sentiment for their release. He was brought into the newspaper office for an interview that would give added circulation to the propaganda. Paul Janes, an alert reporter for the “Star", did the interviewing. Janes drew from Tani the fact that he was making tour through the important war produc tion states of Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. The tour was being financed by the religious denomination the Rev. Nelson re presented. Thus, in every defense center he reached, the Jap was assured of a sympathetic local audience with local clergymen sponsoring his appearance and promoting interviews in local newspapers. Tani revealed that until recently, he was vice principal of the high school at the Jap camp at Topaz, Utah, a hotbed ,of propaganda fanned by the Fellowship of Reconciliation. The Fellowship of Reconciliation is the organ ization that attempted a year ago to hold a cele bration of a Jap Bubbhist festival in an Oregon Jap cemetery under cover of darkness. The ceremony was broken up, however, by the residents of the neighborhood who recalled how many of the Jap fliers shot down in the Pa cific wore the class rings of Oregon colleges. The Fellowship of Reconciliation has also been active in Minneapolis. Tani said that 500 Japs had been released from concentration camps to "relieve the man power shortage” in the important war produc tion center of Minneapolis. None of the Japs turned loose to find jobs in war plants were investigated by the FBI. They were just let out because some social reformer or pacifist thought they were nice people. Tani told Janes there was a vast difference between the rebellous Japs at Tule Lake, Calif., and those in other camps. He demanded that all these thousands of Japs be immediately released to take the jobs Amer ican workers lost when they went into the army and navy to fight the Japs. Tani insisted that these Japs, like himself, were loyal American citizens and desired the jobs, not through any desire for the good wages but only to help win th war. But Janes suspected Tani was as untruthful as his race. And suddenly he shot at him the question: "Are you in favor of unconditional surrender for Japan?” “No,” blurted out Tani, caught by surprise. “Then how do you think the war should end?" Janes demanded. Several moments of embarrassed silence fol lowed while the Jap squirmed and fumbled for words to cover the confession he had just made. Then the Rev. Nelson came to the rescue. “I think he means,” he said, "that the war should end with a victory for democracy." “Yes, yes,” echoed Tani gratefully. “That’s it. A victory for democracy.” But no unconditional surrender! In other words, Tani admitted what Teamsters have long suspected: that the Japs now touring the country speaking to chuich groups are sec retly attempting to promote sentiment for a ne gotiated peace. By inaugurating themselve into unsuspecting religious denominations, they hope to gain con verts for a “Christian peace” that would leave Japan strong enough to eventually destroy our Christianity. And by putting thousands of Japs into war jobs they can infiltrate labor unions and estab lish a new espionage system in the United States to prepare for the next Pearl Harbor. The ships, toll their bells as they steam along the potomac before Mount Vernon; and visitors remove their hats before the tomb of Wash ington. Here I would salute that great soul who stood between the in fant republic and disaster. Emerson, I think, said: “What you ARE speaks loud, I can’t hear what you SAY”. We might.change that to say of Washington that what he WAS proclaimed the man above all the din of the world. What was he? In very truth, a MAN. Like Shakespeare’s Macbeth, he might have said: “I dare do all that may become a man”. And what a man! Washington had not the sweetness of spirit, the gentle aipproachable- ness of Lincoln; he was a tower of strength, a massive figure, a colossus among men, surpassing by common consent a hundred men of conspicu ous virtue, integrity and brilliance, any one of whom might have con ferred distinction on the feeble nation by illustrous abilities. The key to Washington as a states man may be found in his memorable wordh and firm attitude at the Con stitutional Convention. Others quail ed before the work of their own minds. Weeks and weeks of patient enlightened, luminous discussion re sulted in the great document we call the Constitution. And then the qua! ity of statesmanship receded, and the taint of politics appeared, as the delegates feared what the people might say. That didn’t deter the Great American; he had done his best; his mind, his heart, his con science, approved what he had done; that was all that counted. And so he spoke with characteristic brevity and wisdom to his doubting and won dering associates: “If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise a n d the honest can repair; the event (outcome) is in the hands of God”. And this country, so nobly started on its national life, has today only One Man for the Presidency? Can that be true? Que Calamidad! The dominant motive of ^r. Roose velt, in advocating roll-backs of food prices, is to stand hand-in-glove with the Labor politicians. It is indeed refreshing to know that one of our South Carolina Labor leaders led the objection in the House to a resolu tion advocating a fourth term for Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt, In olden times the King of England was an absolute monarch; he did As he pleased and what he pleased. No man or woman dared oppose him, unless willing to risk his or her neck The King threw men into dungeons and let them starve to death and rot. The King spent the nation's money with a free hand, without a by-your- leave from anybody. And he sent his collectors about the country and took what he wanted. Our Constitution still tells us all about that, because OUR sturdy forefathers profited by the battles fought by their forefath ers, to curb or control the power of the King. The power of the Nation to spend money is determined by laws passed by the Parliament (in Great Britain) and by the Congress, in this country. The power of the King was regulated primarily to put a stop to irrespon sible spending and tax-collecting Now we have some of that in Ameri ca. In the free and easy days of 1933 to 1936 Congress created or ex panded various Federal Corporations so that they now have, or can bov row, billions of dollars. If Congress undertakes to limit these powers, ihe President vetoes the Act of Congress Since many Americans would prefer to ride the gravy train than to stand up for principles of government and liberty, it is difficult to find enough patriots to over-rule the President’s veto. By so much, then, have we let Mr. Roosevelt develop into a full- fledged despot. The power over the nation’s purse is now in the grasp of Mr. Roosevelt, who can—and does- defy Congress. And to make our condition more serious, we cannot put our faith in the Supreme Court of the United States. It has become a Roosevelt group to support the Roosevelt ideas. That is the heaviest loss this nation has sustained. A court which interprets rights and de cides cases on the fantastic social philosophy of Mr. Roosevelt is not a group of jurists to command the whole-hearted confidence of the peo ple. Truly this is a sad condition, but seems part and parcel of the gen eral scheme to Rooseveltianize the America of our fathers. Congress is determined to curtail subsidies; the President will pro bably veto whatever Congress does, AND WILL CONTINUE TO PAY SUBSIDIES, REGARDLESS OF CONGRESS. He will use the money Congress gave the R. F. C. and many other Federal coporations for very different purposes. Whether one advocates these sub sidies, or opposes them, here is the issue: Shall Congress control Federal money and expenditures; or shall the President — like ancient Kings— spend AS and WHaT he pleases? Mr. Roosevelt regards himself as a very modern man, but he hes gone back five hundred years to assert a Sovereign power to spend, which was curbed at Runnymede in 1215 and re peatedly after that. The greatest struggles of English men for political liberty nearly al ways resulted in further limitations over the public purse. Mr. Roose velt seems to think of himself as Louis XIV of France thought of him self when he said “The State: it is I”. The General Assembly has provid- (Continued on page 8) Friday, February 25, 1944 “•""WILD LIFE , SOUTH CAPOL1NA Sy with PROF FRANKLIN SHERMAN 1 CLtMSOM COLLtet DC P 1 Or Z OOLOGY CARDINAL Cardinal is sometimes called “Ken tucky Cardinal” or “Carolina Cardi nal”, but those are names which merely appeal to local pride. Very often it is called “Red-bird”, but its true officially recognized common name is merely Cardinal. More ex act, it should be called Eastern Car dinal to distinguish it from closely- related forms in western states. Cardinal belongs to the sparrow- family as shown by the short, stout beak, and the cleft of the mouth be ing angled at the base. This enables him to exert nut-cracker-like pres sure on a hard seed. All the spar rows, inches, and grosbeaks have this characteristic and arb largely seed-eaters although they feed the young chiefly on insects. They are considered quite beneficial in prevent ing undue increase of weeds, for they digest the seed; the seed will sprout and grow after passing through the body of many berry-eat ing birds. We have other summer birds which are largely red in color, but Cardinal is the only distinctly red bird which stays here through the winter; also one of the relatively few birds with a distinct “top-knot” of feathers which may be raised when under ex citement. The male is bright red; the female is more gray or ashy, suf fused with red. Both sexes have the stout bill of pink color. There may be some shifting south ward for winter and north again in sipring, but Cardinal is with us in S. C. all ’round. Perhaps ones that are here in winter nested north, and those which nest here go south; be that as it may be, the species may be seen in our state any day. Cardinal begins to sing in early spring (March or even February). It is not a voluble and varied song, but a series of loud, clear whistles,— welcome bird-sounds after the rela tive bird silence of mid-winter It likes to perch on the very top-most twigs of a tree when singing, and seldom sings from low in a bush (cat-bird). The most distinctive thing about Cardinal: an occasional female will actually sing. In other birds the fe male may chirp, scold, or cry out in alarm, but they do not actually sing. (Female catbirds, mockingbirds, rob ins, wrens, thrushes do not.) Cardi nal females sometimes (not usually) actually sing. It is a very unusual thing among our birds. BRITONS OPPOSE ALL-OUT JAP WAR—LIBERALS URGE USE OF ONLY VOLUNTEERS London, February 10.—Demobiliza tion of British forces at the end of the war in Europe and recruitment of a volunteer army to fight Japan were recommended by a Liberal Par ty committee in a report published today. The committee suggested, however, that if volunteers were too few, the new army be supplemented by young conscripts 18 to 22 years old. The report, sent to Prime Minister Churchill and other Ministers, reject ed Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin’s “first in first out” demobilization plan. Instead, the committee urged an “all out at once” program. It ex- | pressed conviction that a large de- *mand for labor immediately after the war would provide sufficient jobs to absorb all men availabe. The committee urged that civil de fense services be demobilized on the same basis as the armed forces. The Most Thoughtful People Are Always The First To Mark The Resting Place Of Their Loved One With A Suitable MEMORIAL Have you failed to attend to this important duty? A visit to our display yard will reveal many attractive designs from which you may choose a fitting tribute to your de parted loved one. NEWBERRY MONUMENT CO. "A HOME CONCERN” J. B. Coward, Prop. 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