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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. Why should
not the General Assembly devote
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IN
HAWKS
Most people believe Hawks are
wholly destructive and deserve to be
killed. The food habits vary in the
several species of hawks; some do
more harm than good, and vice versa.
“Blue Darters” hawks are destruc
tive. 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