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r^ufc. FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1944 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 “Low Down” on Ed. Smith they will attempt to get even closer to respectable people. They are craven enough to do anything and since they haven’t a semblance of manhood they will try to bolster their standing by being seen in the company of good people. Avoid them as you would a rattle snake! or you will soon find yourself in their class. This matter of slackers is on the tongue of everyone—it is the common ts^ic of conversation from one end of the county to the other. It will not die—it cannot die. Mothers and fathers who have seen heir sons go off to war are not going to tolerate slackers. They are going to DEMAND to know why some are exempted. There is angry resentment about farm deferments, about which we mean to have something to say later. Suffice it for the future to say that many who hold farm deferments are no more farmers than we are. Parents of boys in the service will be doing less than their duty to them if they fail to help root out the slackers. Our boys at the front cannot understand why they have to serve while others go scott free. If these slackers had a spark of decency about them they would look to the post-war period when our boys will return and exact a full measure of revenge, but, being skunks, they react like skunks. They don’t care. This newspaper is resolved to keep up the fight until every slacker in Newberry county is either in a uniform or so humiliated and disgraced that, like the curs they are, they will tuck their tails between their legs and a Warning to Slackers In Newberry County We have been trying to tell you something about Ed. 'Smith, Jr. and his “nigger”-baiting father, so long honored by the people of South Carolina with a seat in the United States senate, but the followinig dispatch from Washington tells the story more adequately than we can. Read every word of it and remember that Ed. Smith, 6r., candidate for re-election to the Senate'is up to his bull neck in trying to hide his son’s actions: ",. “Washington, Feb. 23.—At the fashionable Army-Navy Country club, “Cotton Ed.” Smith, Jr. son of the South Carolina Senator, who succeeded in keeping out of the draft for three long years, has planned to stage today a cocktail (party to celebrate his com mission in the “Potomac Patrol” of the coast guard reserve. ' “Though it won’t be announced (from Old Eds office) Lt. Smith should also be able to celebrate another accomplishment—namely •that, although he is now in the “Potomac Patrol,” he is still draw ing a $240 a month salary as an assistant clerk of the senate ag riculture committee of which his father is chairman. It was un derstood that he would get one month’s pay when he “resigned” from his job with the senate committee. But more than a month has passed and, as of this writing, he is still on the payroll. Smith has been on that payroll for so long that doubtless it has become a habit. Early in 1941, he was about to be drafted. Then a student at National university as well as a clerk in his father’s senate agricultural committee, he applied for deferment on the ground that he was indispensable to the committee. He got the defer ment. Later the draft board classified him as physically unfit because of a “nervous” trouble. “Apparently the Smith family is indispensable to the senate agricultural committee. Charles F. Smith, a second son of the senator, is drawing $2,200 a year as an assistant clerk of the committee. He is listed on the senate disbursing records as liv ing at the grandiose Wardman Park hotel with his father. How ever a check at the hotel showed no Charles F. Smith registered there. Further 'inquiry evolved the information that Charles F. Smith lives at Lynchburg, S. C., home of the senator, and that he rarely comes to Washington. “Thus, the government pays two of Senator Smith’s sons, one of 'them now in the coast guard, and the other seldom on the job with the senate’s agricultural committee. “Moreover, other members of the senator’s family are on the payroll of the committee. The total salaries of Senator Smith’s family run into real money. Here is the Smith take: “Son-in-law C. Alfred Lawton, secretary to the Senator, and committee clerk, $3,900. Daughter, Isobel S. Lawton, assistant clerk, $2,200.” So much for the Smiths for the nonce and now to the white-livered cowards in Newberry county who are shirking their duty and letting kids do their fighting. These are the curs with whom we are more immediately concerned. The score with the Smiths will be evened this summer. The time is rapidly approaching when Newberry slackers will be openly insulted on the streets as they are in Canada, England and other waring countries. They will be publicly questioned as to why they are not serv ing their country and they will suffer the jibes of the populace. Some young men, physically unfit for service, will unfortunately have to take the dose administered to the slackers. The humiliation they will have to undergo is the price they will pay in order that the real slackers be ferreted out and exposed to ridicule. Most of these physically unfit boys wound like to be in the service and since that is their spirit they will bear their humiliation without murmuring for their country’ sake. Another large contingent will soon be called from Newberry and be fore many months the able-bodied young man left at home will stand out like the well-known privy in a fog and his social standing will be about as high as that little building and his reputation will smell fully as bad. The time is here when our .people realize more and more every day that this is WAR—hellish, sickening, bloody WAR, and that every available able-bodied man is expected to shoulder a gun or otherwise serve in the armed forces. The time for the separation of the sheep and the goats has indeed arrived'—the picnic for the jackasses is over. In a short while only the very young, the old, the physically handicapped and the slackers will he left. In that day it will be easy to tell which is which. Retribution will also come to the slacker in that he will be ignored by decent people. Anyone who associates himself with a slacker is no better than a slacker. It will be well to remember that and begin NOW to withdraw from their company. We believe all parents of boys in the service will join with us in this campaign to smoke the skunks out of hiding and make life miserable for them. Your part now is to suspicion every able bodied man and ask your draft board whether they have been deferred—they will tell you that much. The task will be easier as time goes on and this newspaper intends to hound these rats to its last sheet of newsprint. Just remember, mother, that YOUR boy is held by these slackers to be inferior to them. They feel that YOUR bay should be cannon fodder to save their dirty, yellow hides. If you feel that your boy is as good as a slacker you will not fail to do your duty—you Will get fighting mad and go"but and find out for yourself why certain men in NEWBERRY CITY and Newberry county are not in the service. Once found you will not hesitate to denounce them to their faces and scatter the news of their infamy. As each day fades and night comes with its period of reflection New berry mothers eat their hearts out for sons across the water, and in training to go across; days when they were children returns to mother and she is crushed by the thought that her boy who has seen so little of life is having'to fight on bloody battle-fields to guarantee the future of dirty devils who have lived much longer and enjoyed much more of life. The sodden bodies of a thousand young Americans at the bottom of the Atlantic means nothing to these shrivel-souled Newberry slackers; they are dead to everything that is noble, deaf to all that decent people cherish. These Newberry county slackers need not think for a moment that they are not known; the whispering campaign is on and the news of their cow ardice is travelling fast. Even now many of them are branded as cowards as they pass crowds on street corners. A word of warning to those who have been associating with these draft-dodgers is in order. As the noose gradually tightens about them and slink off into oblivion. We invite you to join us. We have hundreds of extra copies of this issue. If you want to sand some of them about, come and get them, free of any charge. Send one to your boy in camp or overseas and let him know that the fight is on. THE SPECTATOR Two citizens of this State have been warning us that we are prepar ing the boys and girls of the State for the opportunities of life while keeping the door of opportunity part ly closed. We spend more than twenty million dollars a year for Our public schools; and many who gradu ate, or who must leave to work be fore graduation, find that while we have provided schools and education al opportunities, we have not provid ed enough opportunities to work. Mr. C. Norwood Hastie went all over the State telling our people that we must make jobs for the oncoming generation. Of course he meant that we must create opportunities; we must bring in the new industries that will offer employment to the young people who will seek employ ment. My next friend has delved further into figures and tells us that 40,000 children are born in this State annu-' ally and that 47 per cent—or 18,800 l x>ys and girls—will have to leave the State in order to find work. Counting the school cost of each boy or girl as $2,000, we have an an nual loss of $37,600,000. My friend makes a graphic presen tation by saying that this is more than the value of 300,000 bales of cotton. Fancy, now, throwing 300,- 300 bales of cotton overboard. Of course those who ploughed up cotton and drowned five million pigs would not quail before such ruthless waste. But we ordinary people—we who pride ourselves on our common-sense —how does this strike us? My friend thinks that industry and cheap power, with proper freight rates, would solve our problem. Undoubtedly he puts a finger on some sore siports, and they are very sensative. How can we get the industries ? What do we lack? That is worth study. If men like my friend will preach this throughout the State he may open the eyes of the people. Here is South Carolina: Why is she such a poor State? What can we do about it? Well, why don’t we do it? Only once in all its history has one man loomed so large in America that nearly all others seemed small by comparison. Strangely enough, that man who towered so high above all others lived during the most bril liant period of American political genius and statesmanship. Let your mind recall such names as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Mar shall—and I have mentioned just four out of a group of fifty. These men were so able that any genera tion would have been distinguished by any one of them. Have we a man living today who can fill the shoes of Benjamin Franklin? Is there such a constructive mind in Congress as James Madison? Has our Federal Supreme Court any one who measures up to John Marshall? I need not dwell on that universal genius, Thomas Jefferson, nor men tion Alexander Hamilton. I do not speak of the Rutledges and the Adamses. So rich and great was the genius of America that I can omit a score of men who would stand out today like giants among our public men, but who were just modest fig ures in that epoch of patriotism raised to the zenith of intellect and character. To stand out among such men implied greatness, true nobility, majesty of character. America had a pre-eminent man, a modest unselfish man, one to whom all instinctively looked for the right word, the appropriate act, in any crisis. Who was that man ? Think for a moment; can you possibly fail to recognize that heroic figure? He became president of a new na tion. All his heart yearned for the peace of his farms and the quiet of his home. It was a formative per iod; everything was new; it was a question whether this republic would survive the jealousy ,of the States. Men wondered whether the infant nation would endure in a time ' of great rivalries among the countries of the world. Patiently, firmly, unselfishly, this man guided the Ship of State for eight years. He could have remained in the presidency for life, probably, for he seemed the one, indispensable figure. But he retired. He believed that this nation did not depend on one man; that, as history teaches, the need, the emergency, produces the man. There is no indispensable man. If America has not a thousand, ten thousand first rate men, capable of filling hte presidency in the fullest measure, then our government of the people and by the people is a sham and delusion; and our democracy a farce. The one time when the young re public might have thought one man was indispensable, he knew better. The Nation does not depend on one man. There may be only one man in Germany, but America is full of men. There was a illustrious philosopher of Monticello—the world’s greatest political thinker; the man of such wide intellectual range that his mind grasped everything; he pondered the matter of a third term, but retired in the fulness of his prestige. He, too, thought the national genius suf- ficent to supply the Nation’s needs. There was the rough son of South Carolina, who came to the presidency from Tennessee. He was the .peo ple’s idol; undoubtedly he could have continued in the presidency; but, he, like his renewed predecessors, step ped down, confident that the youthful nation would grow, “like the path of the just, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Three times a presidtnt might have continued in office, as the indis pensable man, but these men had the intelligence to see the folly of that, and the character to deny personal* and factional ambition. This vast nation of ours is not poor in brains, though it seems short on character. Nothing is more likely to bring democracy into disrepute 'than a leadership which regards it self as supremely competent, or a fellowship which bends in supine ac- quisence in order to enjoy the crumbs from the master’s table. Our statesmanship wallows in the mire of self-seeking and patronage, rather than walk naked, cold and hungry, if need be, on the heights of sacrifice and .patriotism. Name the three men. Our General Assembly ought to take action immediately on 1. the Merchants’ Floor tax; 2. the Capital Stock tax; 3. the State Ballot. Let us not become mere victimis of pressure. Why so much consid eration of the teachers? Because the teachers are maintaining a powerful legislative lobby; and because many legislators have relatives who are teachers. We need not blink the facts: There you have the milk in the cocoanut. This is pressure from both the out side and the inside. I need not dis cuss the adequacy of the salaries. Mr. Mellette of Clarendon—as I re call—made the point, that these hori zontal increases benefit the good and the bad, the efficient and the ineffi cient, the old and the young, the ex perienced and the inexperienced, the serious and the flippant—all alike. Leave all that aside. 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Their tail is relatively long and nearly squared off; fly low and swift ly between trees, swoop suddenly on a chicken or bird. Of this group we have in S. C. Cooper’s Hawk, Sharp- shinned Hawk and Pigeon Hawk. The first two are common, but Pigeon Hawk is scarce; indeed we have no specimen in the Clemson collections and need one. Duck Hawk, which seems to be very scarce and confin ed to a few remote localities in our mountains, is also destructive. “Blue Darters” feed on rats and mice also, but kill so many birds that they are regarded as destructive. The other group of hawks kill far more rats, mice and other destruc tive forms than birds and poultry, and specialists believe them to be beneficial. These beneficial hawks usually have the tail relatively short and more rounded. (Red-tailed Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk and Broad-winged Hawk). They sail and circle high in air, in much the same manner as the buzzards. Se ’eral species of hawks do not fit into those groups:—Osprey or “Fish- hawk” stays chiefly near ponds and large streams, and feeds almost whol ly on fish which we do not value, so they are not noticeably either harm ful nor beneficial. The little Spar row Hawk does kill some small birds, but many more grasshoppers and mice. But there is another aspect: an in dividual “beneficial” hawk may find a chicken-yard so conveniently locat ed and chickens so easy to capture, that is will “take to” the chicken- eating habit and become a destruc tive individual of a normally benefi cial species. How would you “rate” a rabbit- killing hawk? Rabbit is destructive and in that respect it deserves to be killed; but rabbit is also game, and we would not want them to be heaviv ly killed out. Marsh Hawk, which is of wide spread, long tail and white on the rump, kills many rabbits. I believe that it would be a mis take to wage a universal war of ex termination against all hawks. But if you know your hawks and confine your shooting to the “blue darter” group of hawks, you are likely to he on the right track. CONDUCTS EDUCATIONAL QUIZ ON FIRES The State Forest Fire Fighter Service of Newberry county, with Ranger M. E. Wilson, have been con ducting an educational quiz program in the schools of the county. These programs were about the prevention of forest, brush, and grass fires. He has visited 35 schools, contacting 3500 children. At each school a first, second, and third cash prize were given. In the near future a county contest will be held, a pupil from each school being selected to represent his school. A large cash prize will be given. Newberry College announces 5 Beginning courses in all secretarial subjects in new term beginning March 6th. 5 Certificate courses offered in: Ex- ecutive - Secretarial, Combined, Stenographic, and Bookkeeping. 5 Special classes may be arranged in beginning shorthand and typing for those who do not desire cer tificate credit. 5 Qualified students may enter also for regular college work in this new term. 5 For information call the College office, No. 245, or write JAMES C. KINARD, President