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12}$\ Gii' W> iStVefltiM .( m i NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA *,,,.0* F.,ARM-KIELO "**. ■-^ ?. Editor.Mid, PuWi«Tt^r'> ^ PublisRf-fl Every Fri'lftv I»i 'The'iYee r Entered as second-class matter December <5, 1937, at tat postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act ofiQonarass o/ Ma.Th ft. 1879. ' THEY STAND"COffBEMVfib At last P^portfe k&. ^mith, Jr. was bravely guarding jbyU frogs as a member/Vf b|ie n(no^y “Potomac Pa trol’. Our request for his military record has'Beth ignored; in short he does, not deny having hidden behind exemptions for three years. As the record now stands Ed. Smith, Jr. stands condemned by lib erty loving people and Ed. Smith, Sr. also stands condemned in that he permitted a committee of his own department to seek and secure de ferments for his own son. Voters will remember that ths summer. f— fe? "-WILD LIFE < SOUTH CAROLINA i with PROP FQANKLIN 5HERMAN ^BAD-ecfcMSON COLLEGE • DBPT OR ZOOLOGY THE TRUTH HURTS No one can deny the shameful fact that after two years of war the civ ilian papulation of this nation has done little to deserve victory. It is sheer hypocrisy to point to our aims production as evidence of a will to win. Every gun and plane that has rolled off the assembly lines was built on a strictly commercial basis. Not a rivet has been driven for love of country alone—the labor leaders and vote seekers have seen to that. Rarely has a politician made an ut terance uncolored by a desire for personal advancement. Even our bond campaigns have not impinged upon the scramble for easier living. It has been boldly stated that the war must not interfere with social gains. War revenue has been sought without pinching the voter, even to the extent of undermining long range industrial stability and post war jobs. The accent at home h?s been on security and comfort, while mil lions of American boys have for two years been fighting the ugliest war in history. SPADEFOOT TOAD \, Within the realm of animal life Nature provides many curious de vices with which a species meets the needs cf existence. As Spadefoot spends more of the time on (or in) land than in water, ■we consider it a toad rather than a frog. There are about twenty-five species of frogs and toads in S. C., but Spadefoot is the only one which has its pecularity. Along the heel of each hind foot is a lengthwise hard ridge or flange, which is used to burrow into soft earth or mud after the manner in which we use the blade of a shovel. With most burrowing animals (in cluding insects) the front feet are adapted for digging. Spadefoot’s digging-equipment is on the hind feet, suggesting that it burrows by wriggling backward, scraping and pushing the earth aside with his ■“spade.’ Spadefoot is small: about three inches of body from snout to tail. He has no brilliant coloring. He is not often seen. He is usually found tin der partly-buried rocks or logs, tucked away info a rounded out cell or short burrow. He presumably comes out occasionally to seek food, but he seems to be habitually incon spicuous and secretive. In early spring Spadefoot “tunes Up” with thrilling or croaking (some times positively noisy), and may be quite common around fish-and-flowet iponds. Spring is his mating season, and after a short time he subsides and may not be noticed again for nearly a year. He evidently is present throughout S. C., for he has been found at Clem- son and at Charleston, as well as at Columbia and Florence. However, we have onl^ few positive records of his actual capture. He is not so roughly “warty” as the usual gar- , den “hop-toads.’ And not so slip- | pery-smooth as most water-frogs. | Spadefoot, like other toads and 1 frogs, develops from a “tadpole.” : The females lay their eggs in water; I tadpoles hatch; when the tadpole is I grown its tail is absorbed into the body and its little "giUs” are re placed by lungs a nd nostrils. Spade foot then leaves the water and be- | gins his under-the-ground habits of adult life. If you are interested in the curious things in Nature, see if you can find and recogniz" Spadefoot. BUZZARD ROOST BE OPENED FOR FISHING Columbia, Mar. 17.—The house of representatives ordered ratified to night a joint resolution opening up Lake Greenwood (Buzzard Roost) for fishing for the entire calendar year of 1944. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Johnstone, of Baltimore, spent last week at their home here. Of the remarkable stories that have not made the front page of the daily newspapers is the letter of A. R. Moseley we dp not know Mr. Moseley) of Salters Depot, South Carolina, printed in the Williamsburg (Kingstree) County Record. The story is in these sentences of his letter: “As to an airport, as I under stand, it is not needed for war pur poses, and this is no time just to have an airport. Labor is badly needed to supply war requirements. The money is badly needed to finance war activities. I do not think we should put any more debts on our people for our boys who are sweat ing blood on the battlefields of the world to come home and help pay. Friends, for God’s sake let’s forget about the airport. . . . and let’s do our best with all the effort we can to get this war >ver with as quickly as possible.” When, before this letter of Mr. Moseley was published, has a citizen of South Carolina opposed the spend ing of the public money, American taxpayers’ money, in his home com munity ? When before has a South Carolin ian placed the security of his country before the dropping of some hun dreds of thousands of dollars from the federal treasury into the lap of his home town? Assuming that Mr. Moseley is cor rect in saying that the airport is not needed for the war purposes, The News and Courier commends h ; m as one man in thousands, unselfish, clear-thinking and plain-speaking for his country’s safety and as concern ed more for the boys on the battle fields than for the sowing of dollars in the village among the stay-at- homes.—News and Courier. Mrs. Theron Mills and baby are visiting Private Mills at Camp Beckenridge, Kentucky. NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF THE ESTATE OF MISS CARRIE STREET Notice is hereby given that the creditors cf the estate of Miss Carrie Street are required to render an ac count of their demands, duly- attest ed, to the undersigned, or her attor neys. Biease & Griffith, Newberry, South Carolina. (MRS.) CHRISTIE YOUNGBLOOD Administratrix of the Estate of Miss Carrie Street, deceased. March 4, 1944—10,17,24,31 LOANS ON Real Estate Automobiles and Personal Property NEWBERRY Ins. & Realty Co. NED PURCELL, Manager Phone 197 Exchange Bank. Bldg. JWANT ADS 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. WE WILL BUY—Your burlap sacks or any kind of old rags, also scrap iron and other metals. See W. H. STERLING. FOR SALE—Arrostock Maine grown seed Irish Potatoes. Johnson-Mc- Crackin Co. 3tc FOR SALE—Fresh stock field and garden seeds. Johnson-McCrackin Co. 3te WRIST WATCHES—We have a limited supply of wrist watches for ladies and men. Sears, Roe buck and Oo., 1210 Caldwell St. Phone 430. TO PREVENT CROWS from pulling corn up treat with Pestex. Johnson- McCrackin Co. WRIST WATCHES—We have a limited supply of wrist watches for ladies and men. Sears, Roe buck and Oo., 1210 Caldwell St. Phone 430. AT FIRST SION OF A c ov® „666 6*6 TABLETS. SALVE. HOSE DROPS BEGINNING TO PINCH Draft dodgers in Newberry are be ginning to feel the pinch of public condemnation. They a*e being openly l denounced by name wherever a few | are gathered together, and the “hang\ dog” countenance of some of them is proof positive that they know they are the topics of censure throughout the county. Every slacker is known in his own section. He can no more hide from the peopde than he can from his own conscience—if he had one. The time has long passed when an exemption of any kind is justified unless the person exempted is serv ing in the production of food, is in a vital war industry, or otherwise contributing directly to the produc tion or distribution of actual living necessities. Men are having to close businesses they have struggled to build, leave wives and children and take up arms. If some have to do this, all should do it—a phony ex emption is no excuse. If some of the draft dodgers in Newberry could see an inch before their eyes they would volunteer now and not wait to be forced by social pressure. The young man not now engaged in a pursuit vital to the war effort can no more hope to | stay f it of the service and keep the | respect of his neighbors than he can - hope to fly without mechanical j means. The esponse to our recent articles on this subject reveal a determined I attitude on the part of parents of boys in the services to root out and expose every draft dodger. More than 330 copies of the articles were given out in our office and mailed upon : cquest. Perhaps as many as 200 people have commended the sen timent of the articles to us in jjerson and sackers hereabouts would be surprised at the bold manner in which these people are talking about them. We would like to give you the names they are calling but are not allowed to do so. But whether we publish your name or not the odium of a, skunk is upon you and you will never live it down nor shake it off. You have been branded COWARD and unworthy to bear the name of an American. You are the kind of scum who would take up with Hitler were he to invade this country and invade it he would if it were left to such as you to de fend. You are the Quislings of America. Every Newberry man who leaves for camp brings the slacker that much nearer to being a social out cast. You have so far been able to hide behind these respectable men, but now thev are going and only YOU will be loft. That day is coming as sure as you T ive and b-.-eetbe. You cannot sto- 1 " it; you will have to face it. You will hen h—e to face mothers and fa thers vhrse sons have already paid with their lives for your safety. You will have to f-v-e mothers and fithev of bow lany.vjsfctnv in o’ rw - md fi''-‘ : eo- on bloodv bsttlefie'Vs Yes, you will have to face that and more—you will have to face your hildren when they come home with stories of having been jeered at school because their father was a slacker. But possibly neither this nor any - other thing matters to your dead soul. Mrs. H. T. Long of Greenville, spent several days last week with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. G. V. Clamp on Boundary street. E VERY year you have given to the Red Cross . . . willingly and with a free heart. You helped us help millions of people . . . when the floods struck . . . when the earthquakes came . . . when famine devastated some far-off land. It was your habit to give... the great p.rc ad habit of thirty million American families ... proud that they could give ... proud of the great Red Cross, that made the giving worthwhile. But this year k is going to be different. When you dig into your pockets and purses it won’t be just your < *regular” con tribution. For this year of global war the need is greater than it’s ever been before. And this year it is your own boys the Red Cross serves . . . Eleven million of them in every land from Sicily to Chung king ... on every ocean and in every sky. This year, when you cannot be near your sons, you will give gen erously and be glad that the Red Cross—your Red Cross —is still the greatest mother in the world. This year, when the need is greater than ever before —this year you will want to GIVE TO THE + RED CROSS give more... to give freely to your own Red Cross ... to your own sons in the service. So give—for this is the year when giving really hits home. Give for the boy who longs to be with you—give to your Red Cross which will reach him for you. This time dig deep—deeper than ever before. Dig deep and be glad that you can. Yes, give generously and be glad that Red Cross—your Red Cross—is still the great est mother in the world and that wherever in the world your boy is The RED CROSS is at his side and the Red Cross is YOU! Sponsored by The Newberry Cotton Mills ft