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NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
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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.
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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.
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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
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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!
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