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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY MARCH 10. 1944
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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.
• SLACKERS ON THE RUN
As we expected, our attack on the
slackers of Newberry county last
week resulted in a loud and prolong
ed “Amen!” Up to the time we go
to press people are continuing to call
for copies of the paper to send to
their sons and friends. Many new
subscriptions have also been added
to our lists.
Patriotic Newberrians are on the
warpath, particularly the mothers of
fighting boys and there is no stopping
them; they are going to KNOW who
is hiding behind unwarranted exemp
tions. Justice can be temporarily
scouted but it cannot be set at
nought.
Mothers and fathers know that it
is THEIR time to move. THEIR time
has come to take a hand to route out
the slackers. THEIR time has come
because the time is HERE—NOW
when THEIR boy may be handed
back to them lifeless, broken, muti
lated, because some slacker was not
there to give him a hand.
Every draft dodger is a murderer.
Of course they are murderers! If
they were in the ranks where they
belong other boys would have a bet
ter chance of coming back alive to
those he loves.
If we could see, piled up on one
field, the dead and the dying, we
would be so outraged that every
draft-dodger in the nation would be
driven into the service. Because we
do not have such a scene does not in
the least mitigate the awfulness of
what is happening wherever our
boys are fighting. This is WAR!
What do these draft-dodging New
berrians think would happen to
their own families when they KNOW
that women—and even little girls
—have been raped and murdered by
the beasts of Germany and Japan?
The question probably answers itself
—they are too damned degraded and
selfish to care what happens to
others. They KNOW their women
and children are safe for brave boys
are fighting for them.
The hundreds who have joined us
in this fight should be careful of
their acquisitions. First, pick out
your man, then go to the draft board
and find out FOR WHAT REASON
he is not in service. Some are phy
sically handicapped, some are in in
dustry supplying food and fuel—BUT
there are dozens in this county who
are hiding behind unwarranted ex
emptions. When you get the facts
of one who ought to be in service it
then becomes your DUTY to spread
it wherever you happen to be.
To die thousands of miles from
home and loved ones is indeed sad
beyond expression but that is what
our boys would prefer than to re
main at home with the yellow-bellied
cowards who are slinking around
like whipped dogs, too miserable to
look decent people in the face. Their
shameful degredation is steadily
closing about them, and soon, like a
dog turns again to its vomit they
will have only their own kind to turn
to. RESPECTABLE people are ig
noring them and will INSULT them
on the streets. There is no term of
reproach which implies a more des
picable record than “He’s a slacker.’ 1
If the soul of the slacker were
not dead he might hear the call our
brave boys heard when their mothers
: nd sisters were threatened, and
they could well say to the slacker—
“I hear a voice you cannot hear,
Which says I must not stay.
1 see a hand you cannot see,
Which beckons me away.”
Yes, the voice he hears is the
voice of his helpless kid sister, and
the hand that beckons him go is the
hand of his mother, who, while her
icarts burst with anguish would not
iave him stay among the craven
.•owards.
When this war is over these slack-
;rs will wear the putrid yoke of
heir own wrong-doing—the yellow
/oke of cowardice, and it will stay
with them as long as life lasts and
;ven beyond the grave. Their very
jpitaphs will remind respectable
>eaple that here lies a skunk in soil
he would not defend. No man can
have a reputation that makes him
,o universally hated or which lasts
jo long as that of one who refuses to
light for his country in time of peril.
If these Newberry slackers had
the decency of egg-stealing dogs they
eould not face mothers who have
said goodbye to sons in the flush of
young manhood, and of a truth they
will not be doing it long. Soon they
will have to take to the back alleys
where they belong.
JAPS CAN’T TRICK OUR NAVY
There seems to be a bit of uneasi
ness in the minds of some lest the
Japs lure our navy into a trap. You
can stop worrying about that.
The Japs have announced to their
own people and to the world that
that is just what they are going to
do but that is so much hokum for
home consumption and for effect on
morale in this country. In the first
place if the Japs thought they had
a chance of doing such a thing they
would not publish it to the world.
The fact that they did spring such a
trap on the Russian navy years ago
means nothing at all. The Russian
fleet at that time was officered by
court favorites who knew nothing
about naval welfare or anything
else and held their commands because
the Czar liked them.
The United States navy is headed
by the best naval men in all the
world, bar none, and they know the
fighting tactics of the Nipe from the
inception of its navy. Our navy, the
largest and the best in the world now
proudly roams the central Pacific at
will and it is building up supply
bases taken from the Japs with but
little opposition. The Japs will never
catch us far from a base because
we are taking our bases right along
with us as we move toward Japan’s
home islands.
Our people are prone to give the
enemy credit for superhuman ac
complishments and to discount our
own strength. We ought to believe
in our navy; we ought to expect our
navy to trick the enemy instead of
the enemy tricking it. Already King,
Nimits, Halsey and other naval men
have tricked and surprised the Jap
time and again. WHY then believe
they are so stupid as to fall into a
trap of a third-rate people like the
Nips. Get it out of your mind that
these little yellow devils are capable
of doing something beyond our abil
ity to foresee. They did trick us at
Pearl Harbor but here again “court
favorites”, incompetent men holding
rank thru political pull, were direct
ing. Things are very different now.
Our naval commanders and the men
who serve under them are experts
in naval warfare and they are going
to hunt out and send to the bottom
every Jap ship afloat. The Jap navy,
is likely to turn out to be about as
formidable as their “stronghold” of
Truck anyway.
It is well to remember that Japan
is a poor nation and their conquests
so far is the result of years of prep
aration. They cannot fight a long
war successfully for they do not
have the resources. Today every
school, theatre and restaurant in
Japan is closed. Isn’t such a dras
tic step so early in the war indica
tive of weakness?
Every American should feel a
fierce pride in our navy which, at the
end of this year, will be larger than
all the navies of the world put to
gether. Our new battle wagons
are equipped with fire-power not
found on any other ships. Yes, our
navy has the ships and the brains—
watch it, it’s going places, and it is
not going into any trap the so-called
“wily” Jap might dream up.
SABOTEUR OF WOMANHOOD?
The Rev. Clinton C. Fox, pastor of
Drexel Park Presbyterian church in
the city of Chicago, brands Sgt. Wil
liam Thompson, father of quadruplets
by an English girl as a “saboteur of
American womanhood” and “lowest
and most vicious of criminals.”
Just a moment parson, that’s pret
ty strong language to apply to a boy
over there fighting for you. It
wasn’t the Sergeant’s fault that
there were four instead of one, thus
making a sensational piece of news.
If the whole story were told of this
sort of thing we would know that
there are lots of little English tots
over there with Yank dads. This,
too, is a by-product of war.
Certainly we do not condone im
morality but neither, under the cir
cumstances, would we be too quick
to condemn American boys who find
happiness in the English girls. Our
ooys over there are lonely and they
crave companionship of women. They
have been tom from the thing that
the Rev. Fox still has the pleasure
of enjoying—the care and comfort
and friendship of the gentler sex.
No, they are not to be too roundly
condemned. We know a lot of peo
ple (including a few preachers) who
have not done better, even in the
good days of peace.
We recommend that next time the
Rev. Fox wants to deliver a blast
against saboteurs he turn his guns
on David or Solomon—there’s a cou
ple of birds who had some very
smelly affairs with women.
THE SPECTATOR
The attitude of Senators Smith and
Maybank, and of our Representatives
in Congress, in repudiating the slur
on Congress by the President, is a
wholesome assertion of official dig
nity and political independence. Since
I have been sometimes adversely
critical of Congress I take this occa
sion to offer my deepest homage. As
my Spanish friends say sometimes in
concluding a letter, “Beso la mano”,
or freely translated, I kiss your hand.
Or, if I may cite another expression
of Spanish chivalry “me tiene Ud.
A sus pies” You have me at your feet.
For the moment I am ready to say
all that to the Senators and Repre
sentatives in Congress who honored
the great tradition of John Hampden
of old England who stood up for the
dignity and rights of freemen against
an arbitrary and arrogant King.
The arrogance of Mr. Roosevelt" in
his abusive message to Congress per
mits us to quote Shakespeare’s re
membered query: “Upon what meat
doth this, our Caesar feed that he is
grown so great?”
Editor Latimer of “The State” rav
ed so much over the recollections of
the York County potatoes of his
childhood that I am almost persuaded
to send him a Clarendon sweet pota
to so that he may get a real idea of
the subject.
Miss Carrie Carson, our Clarendon
Home Demonstration Agent, organiz
ed a Potato Day for Clarendon a few
years ago and the ladies had twenty-
four “Potato dishes”, from doughnuts
to “potato custard pie”. If Mr. Lati
mer had sampled these potato delec-
tables his pen would have dirped with
the syrup thereof for many a moon.
How did the Federal Court in Char
leston acquire jurisdiction over the
salaries of colored school teachers? I
have great respect for the lower Fed
eral Courts, particularly those which
operate in this State; so in raising
the question of jurisdiction I do so
in my character as a sovereign citi
zen, not because I wish to flaunt the
Federal Courts, The courts are the
instrumentalities of justice, but jus
tice is something which has legal def
initions and must not depend on ex
traneous incidents or circumstances.
What was the claim of the colored
teacher? That she was not paid the
same salary as the white teachers. I
have not read (he papers in the case
very carefully, but she brought her
action against the school board of the
city of Charleston in her demand for
equal pay. That was the proper body
to sue, because the State does not
operate or control the schools. This
point should be borne in mind also,
in view of the campaign to have the
state provide a pension fund for the
teachers. The teachers are not of
ficials of the state but perform a
ministerial function in and for the
school districts which employ them.
Unless the Federal Court can
show constitutional authority for
intervening in this local matter, it
has no jurisdiction in the matter.
What constitutional right of the
colored teacher was violated by the
Charleston school districts?
The Supreme Court of the United
States has said this in one of its
decisions: “Among the powers of the
state not surrendered—which power
therefore remains with the State—
is the power to so regulate the rela
tive duties of all within its jurisdic
tion as to guard the public morals,
the public safety; and the public
health, as well as to promote the
public convenience and the common
good”.
The constitution of the United
States does say that “No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall
abridge he privileges or immunities
of citizens of the United States. In
this case of the colored teachers
there is no state law which invites or
justifies Federal intervention. The
contract between them end the school
board was not a state law. I am not
merely quibbling about this; the
Supreme Court itself has said that if
a state by law excluded colored jur
ors that is one thing; but it is anoth
er matter where the jury commis
sioners merely selected white jurors;
there being no state law. It appears
that the Supreme Court undertakes
to maintain Federal rights against
denial by the states; but where the
issue is entirely a state matter, or a
local mater, the right of the state is
paramount; and so a state may reg-
ilate the hours of work within its
borders. The Supreme Court has
said that no privilege or immunity, of
national citizenship was abridged by
state law limiting the length of the
day of workers.
The Supreme Court upheld the law
of the State which required that citi
zens of that state be given prefer
ence in employment. The Supreme
Court has also said that the privilege
of attending the public schools is one
springing from the State and not the
Nation, and, therefore, the child can
not assert a constitutional right to
admission.
Can we say that the colored teach
er was denied equal protection of the
law? Here again it is the state whch
must not do that.
As this decision of the Federal
Court in Charleston has agitated the
question throughout the State; and
has been discussed at length in the
Legislature, it seems timely that the
States should challenge these deci
sions on every possible ground, and
should not tamely submit until the
Supreme court of the United States
has decided each appeal. Afer that
the state might plan its proper pro
cedure.
As to the point of law: for the
moment, there is no reason why the
State need be alarmed. The State
merely grants money to aid the
schools and grants are not subject
to any constitutional restriction, as
the Federal Government itself has
shown in its grants to the States. It
is common knowledge hat even in the
matter of wages the Federal Govern
ment paid by different scales in the
States of the North and South. Boiled
down, then, since the States have
some rights which they should zeal
ously maintain, they need not rush in
timorously every time some one
raises an issue in court.
I do not fully grasp the point of
jurisdiction raised in Charleston, but
it is to be hoped that these issues
will finally be threshed out in the
Supreme Court of the United States,
with all the acumen and resourceful
ness which our State enjoys.
Mr. Roosevelt has been in the
presidency so long that he regards
himself as having a proprietary in
terest; he is supreme. His rebukes
to Congress have been somewhat un
dignified and very presumptuous.
Congress has never adopted a resolu
tion denouncing Mr. Roosevelt as a
selfish demagogue, though it may
think of him like that; so why does
he denounce the motive of Congress ?
I am glad Senator Barkley became
angry ;for years he has been the de
voted, loyal errand boy for Mr.
Roosevelt, carrying his wishes to the
Senate. Now let us hope that the
Senate has a leader who will repre
sent the Senate, not Mr. Roosevelt.
No one from the Senate and House
tells Mr. Roosevelt what to do; why,
then, should he have leaders in
House and Senate speakine for him?
Mr. Rosevelt gives away ships, uses
the airplanes and the navy as his
private possessions. This whole Na
tion has been converted into the toy
and plaything of the Roosevelts. Well,
let’s be done with them and all their
des»mcive influence in America.
FORMER NEWBERRY COLLEGE
HEAD DIES
News has been received in Newber
ry of the death of Dr. James A. B.
Scherer, former president of New
berry college, and an able minister in
the Lutheran denomination in South
Carolina a number of years who died
last week in Santa Monica, Calif.
Dr. Scherer became president of
Newberry college in 1904 and serv
ed for four years. He also served
his church as a missionary to Japan
He also served as president of the
California Institute of Technology.
STATE GOES OVER WAR LOAN
QUOTA
Sales Reach Total Of $62,100,000—
More Reports To Be Made
Columbia, Mar. 2—Christie Benet,
chairman of the State War Finance
committee, has announced that every
county in South Carolina has achiev
ed its quota in the Fourth War Loan
campaign.
Sales in the state as a whole have
reached a total of $62,100,000, or 15
per cent above the quota of $54,000,-
000, Mr. Benet said. Further re
ports are to be made and this is not
the final figure for the campaign.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—I HAVE 7 MULES
FOR SALE. H. C. HOLLOWAY.
FOR SALE—Stove and fire wood.
Coker 100 & 4 in one wilt resistant
cotton seed for planting. H. O.
Long, Silverstreet, S. C.
LOST—Thursday afternoon a Wal
tham pocket watch with gold
chain. Finder please return it to
200 Hardamen street and receive
reward.
PECANS! PECANS! PECANS!—
We are still buying pecans, and
will be for some time. Shake vour
trees and bring any kind, any
size—we buy every day in the
week. Highest market cash prices.
R. Derrill Smith, Wholesale Gro
cer, Newberry, S. C.
LOST—Brown leather bill-fold con
taining $28, birth certificate, social
security card, tire record, gas
stamps and 3 pictures, last Satur
day afternoon. Finder please re
turn to W. S. Alewine at the Post-
office and receive reward. 3tp.
WE WILL BUY—Your burlap sacks
or any kind of old rags, also scrap
iron and other metals. See W. H.
STERUNG.
FOR SALE—Arrostock Maine grown
seed Irish Potatoes. Johnson-Mc-
Crackin Co. 3tc
MAN WANTED for Rawleigh Route
in Newberry and Southeast New
berry County. Real opportunity.
We help you get started. Write
Rawleigh’s, Dept. S C B-162-0,
Richmond. Va.
FOR SALE—Fresh stock field and
garden seeds. Johnson-McCrackin
Co. 3tc
AM NOW PREPARED to assist you
in filing 1943 Federal and State
Income tax returns. If you are
entitled to a refund the sooner the
return is filed the sooner the re
fund is made. Come in today.
MRS. A. H. COUNTS, Sun office.
Phones 1 or 414-M.
NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING
We the undersigned jury commis
sioners of Newberry county, shall on
the 9th day of March, at 9 o’clock
a. m., in the Clerk of Court’s office,
openly and publicly, draw thirty-six
names to serve as petit jurors for
the Court of General Sessions, which
will convene in Newberry court house
on the 20th day of March, 1944, at
10 o’clock a. m., at the same time and
place we shall also draw twelve
names to serve as grand jurors for
the ensuing year.
H. K. Boyd, clerk of court
P. N. Abrams, auditor
J. R. Dawkins, treasurer.
February 26th, 1944.
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