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routf THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 19-U 1218 rollese Street NEWBEftRY. jOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher Published Every Friday Iii The" Year Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1037, at tilt postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of Marph 3, 1879. WILL BLEASE RUN? Brim Rikard, who talks over the radio fi\>m Columbia Sunday after noon, states 'categorically that Judge Blease will be in the race for the senate this summer and Judge ! meat in t;he 9umm er," or the spider Blease ihimself added weight to tills . -nfho.- “taiceth hold with her hands, prediction wihen he told reporters ^ in king's palaces,” a s the good job, a home, medical care, security. F.D.R. says I am entitled to them.” His father answers, “Son, when I was 21, my father said to me, ‘You are on your own from today on.’ My grandfather said the same thing to him, and so on back to Adam. From now on I have the right to save for the old age of your mother and my self. In an emergency, we will help you if we can. But this will be a matter of love, and net of right. You have no further ‘rights’ to assert against us.” Now if a grown son has no “right” against his own father to continued care, what right has he against ether fathers? Or mothers? Or tajcpa’yers ? • * What Mr. Roosevelt is saying to this young man is simply this: “The world owes you a living.’’ This is false, no matter who says it. It is universal law that each in dividual must provide for himself. Witness the ant who “provides her OLD •WIVES’ REMEDIES last week that he would be willing to “step aside” in favor of some military man. Now obviously he could not very well “step aside” unless he considered himself already in. ■ Since the line-up then- would be Blease, Johnston and Smith, - .Mr. Blease would enter the rakse with a number of factors in his favor. His . large vote against Maybank insures him a place in a second (primary at the very least and this would be with Johnston.. Ed. Smith 'has ridden the “nigger” and cotton to a frazzle and there is not a good sprint left ■ in' either. Too, he Will have to answer for getting deferments from ' the army for his son. The fact that the governor is willing to give -up' the office to which the people elected him for four years will not work- to his advantage either, nor ViU v 'His record as a staunch Ropsevelt mam Mutah in Judge Bleases’ favor is Carolina know that he is motivated only by a desire to be-of service in this critical time. He.cares as little for the ’honor as any man alive. Since congress has lost so much in prestige in the eyes of the peo ple men of the character of Judge Blease are sorely needed in this last bulwark of the people against dic tatorship and boss rule. One such man as Judge Blease in the senate would indeed be the- “leaven” whereby the senate would regain its rightful place in the public estima tion. Making and interpreting law has been' the life work of Judge. Blease. This valuable experience,coupled with a wealth of common, sense and a liberal leaning for the rank and fiile dovetails into the crying need for real statesmen. A poorly organized campaign and his determination to run a clean campaign cost Judge Blease the vic tory over Maybank. No one in the state not willing to use -the. cam paign methods resorted to by ' May- bank could have defeated him. And yet the thinking people of the state came within 6000 votes of electing Mr. Blease with clean, untainted, honest votes. Mr. Maybank ' does not have that satisfaction, no matter at whose door the fault may be laid. South Carolinians are thinking even more soberly this year about the type of men they are going to support. They are sick unto death of self-seeking politicians. They are thinking this year in terms of men like Tillman, and Hampton and Cal houn, for they realize that , these are such times that only men of sterling worth can stand against the-press ure groups and wild-eyed theorist who would undo all that our fore fathers struggled and died for. ’ ■ It is our fond hope that t Judge Blease will make the race. He will of course again refuse to- spend money, but whatever this may' cost him in the way of votes wUl be more than compensated for in the- awakened consciousness of individual responsibility in electing, good ■ men to office. Many people realize now that thus war‘could have been-avert ed had all of us shown a keener in terest in those we chose to look out for our nterests. Judge Blease has served his state well and in turn has been signally honored. His remaining good years should be given -over to aiding in remaking the country along thfe lines of Jefferson’s idealism; , a nation- in which ' freedom of opportunity is guaranteed to all and where a man’s- success is measured by bis worth and not by his ability to swing - te the coattails of irresponsible (poli ticians. . . ■ Book says.. .- •There is of course a brotherhood among the human family to help those in undeserved distress. We are our brothers’ keeper. The strong have helped the weak and the well the sick, since society began. But if Smith has a “right” to a home, job, ate., which he can assert against Jonas, then why hasn’t Jones the same right against Smith ? If so,-who is geing to do the chores? The Bible says, “In the sweat -f thy brow thou shalt eat bread”—not in the .sweat of another man’s brow. Nothing is gained by removing the spur of incentive. “If any would not work, .neither shall he eat.” Relief wages in time of unemployment should never equal the normal wage. The inducement to get off relief for better pay must always be present. Otherwise, we encourage social par- acites—“those who would vote us in- Scientists are vindicating your grandmothers’ prescriptions, finding them better than many products of their laboratories. The Russians have recently bean using the humble onion, prime in gredient of many enchanted potions, with startling effect as a germ kill er. Smearing it in paste form on in fected wounds, they report that the onion “phytoncides” kill off bacteria almost immediately. Not a species of protozoa has yet lived through the test. Peasants for centuries have used the onion for this same purpose. And American doctors at Guadal canal report that a petroleum and boric ointment was found to cure burns in a quarter of the time re quired by other remedies. Their opin ion is that it has demonstrated its superiority over tank acid which they say leaves the skin leathery and subject to infection. And they con clude that grandmother was right when in a case of burn she ran for the butter and the lard bucket. The same thing is true of cod liver oil, which was an old wives’ remedy in Europe for years and then was discarded by science because it could- not find any reason why it worked. Later with the discovery of vitamins, cod liver oil came back to its own. We have reached a new stage in medicine where anything that works is being used whether we know how and why it works or not. Some of the old wives’ remedies, therefore are com ing back.—Columbia Record. WILD LIFE SOUTH CAROLINA WITH PROF FRANKLIN -SHERMAN HCAD*CL&M£OM COUWfCB’DMT OP 2OOLOGY COTTON quiz HOW pots MICE This is n group and no: jiut^ species. We all know one __ the House Mouse which is only too abundant. It is an immigrant from Europe and not actually native to America. But do you know the White-footed Mouse which 'has larger ears larger eyes, and feet mainly white? Do you know Pine Mouse which has shorter fur. shorter tail, smaller ears and eyes? Do you know Golden Mouse which often builds nests in bushes well above ground? Or do you know the Jumping Mouse with very long t‘'il and long hind feet Which when start led leaps much like a frog? Our ClemsjOn records show eleven species and subspecies of what we may properly call Mice inhabiting South Carolina, in addition to nine larger forms which we usually call “Rats”, a total of twenty for the combined group. The Mice are small mammals and the species vary somewhat in exact THE “LOW DOWN” ON ED. SMITH AND A WARNING TO SLACKERS IN NEWBERRY COUNTY tfie fact that the people Of ^uUjfto ewning their livings for them,” as « - ■ - ^ ■' Booth Tarkington puts it. All men have a duty to afford every, man the opportunity to work and bring. home the bacon to his wife and children. The right to work is Ithe-right to live. It is society’s duty to secure-that right to its weak est member against all monopoly, ex ploitation, greed, fraud or theft. When society does that it is up to the-individual to do the rest. The world’s work must be done. No one has a “right” to have it done. But there is a duty to do it, or go Without, and the duty rests on every man, according to his strength. (Reprinted by Request) Another large contingent will soon be called from Newberry and before many months the able-bodied young man left at home wil stand out like the well-known privy in a tog and his social standing will be about as high a s that little building and his reputa tion will smell fully as bad. The time is here -when our people realize more and more every day that this is WAR—hellish, siekenifig, bloody WAR, and that every avail able-able-bodied man is expected to shoulder a gun or otherwise serve in you the armed forces. The time for the sheep and the the picnic In a short We -have been trying to tell something about Ed. Smith, Jr. and separation of the his “nigger’-baiting father, so long goats has indeed arrived- honored by the people of South Caro- for the jackass is over. lina with a seat ih the United States while only the very young, the old, senate, but the following dispatch the physically -handicapped and the from Washington tells the story more slackers wil be left. In that day it adequately than we can. Read every will be easy to tell which is which, word of it and remember that Ed. I Retribution will also come to the Smith, Sr., candidate for re-election slacker in that he will be ignored by to the Senate is up to his bull neck in decent people. Anyone who associates THROWBACK 'TO BARBARISM In the magazine Life, dated March 13, 1944, there appears a tale in pic tures of acts as shocking as we might expect" from Japanese barba rians. The pictures show 600 men, women and children of Holmes Coun ty, Ohio,, indtilging in the “sport” of a fox roundup, the conclusion of which is the beating to death of the exhausted animals. One picture re veals an ,11-year-old child m the act of bringing a club down on the bead o(f,a prostrate fox. He is being urg ed'on in his' merciless'behavior by a grown man wearing the badge of a police officer. Another picture shows a crowd of men- and women standing in -a" circle watching a four-year-old child belabor- a dying fox with a stick. The sadistic expressions on their faces are not pleasant to look u(pon. Some are taking pictures of the. spectacle. ••-It,is unbelievable, that such an in cident could happen ii) a community that professes, to represent a Qhris- 'tiali civilization. ' Yet, as Life ob serves: “This is a true story. This happen^ in Hphrees County every -weekend.,. -. . The men of Holmes County consider it sport. ... Al though hunts kre" Over for this win ter,, bigger .ones are being planned '"or. next year.” Thank (Jod the' shame of Holmes County, Ohio, is not typical of Ameri ca. THE NEW BILL OF RIGHTS Mr. Roosevelt has just announced that every man has,, a right to * remunerative job, decent home, med ical care, social security, education, etc. Does he mean that' tiie doors of opportunity must be kept open , to acquire these things, by giving value received ? If so, there is nothing new' about it. America has been, and must- be,- kept, the land of opportunity. Evi dently he means something elSe'.' .If. can only be that-.diery man has -a- right to-all these blessings, whether-; he ea.ns them or not. , V • If it is true that everyone has' a right to a decent home, etb., whoso duty is it to furnish it? There is no right without a duty. \ Let us examine this new doctrine.' A baby is born. He is helpless. Against his mother he has a right to his first-food. God sees to that.' Against his father he has a right to a home, medical care, education, and" the things needful to make a boy in?, to a man. The boy grows up. Year by year his rights against his parents lessen, and his duties increase. He must- help with the chores, run errands, be gin to pull his own weight in ; the boat. Eventually, he is 21. He ii a vot er. He reads Mr. Roosevelt’s speech and announces to his family, “You must continue to supply me with a ’win this war. A JUGGLINd ACT With all due respect to the ’OPA and the perplexing problems with which it js ponfrouted, the fact re mains that many ’ absurdly unfair rulings have been continued in force.. Ith Highest Price' Line Limitation order, referred to as MPR 330, is a ■classic-exaiAple. - Under that order, d store wHicH' -sold a certain line of goods at certain tprices on an arbi trarily fixed date ih 1942, is not al lowed to raise the price even though goods are no longer manufactured 1 to sell at’ that' price. On the other hand, h stor'e that had no price limi- tdIrion oh' the Arbitrary date in 1942, can buy gobds iii : question at ma/nu- faetufe-rs’ 'cufretit priced, and sell them-tlf' higher prices. : ‘ ASUSr such- inconsistencies are pointed out to the'OPA, one can only believe that its' refusal to' correct tfaemds due to its hope that the pub- Kc Will’ thknk that rit is holding prices down- on certain’ commodities, when it is merely juggling figures and penalizing low cost- retail stores. This dbes not benefit the consumers, nor control inflation. <■ • !' The. public understands the impor- tfenc*, of,.rationing and wishes to co operate, but it is confused and dis couraged by the complicated - rules ahd restrictions'with which It is ex pected to comply and still carry on. It is instances; like the foregoing, multiplied a thousand and ten thou sand times,' that are awakening the people to the danger of a growing ahd uncontrolled bureaucracy. OPA makes its own job harder by such practices. The only hope of the people for correction •of'; bureaucratic inefficien cy, is to turn to Congress, because while bureau heads claim to have open minds, they leave policy deci sions to subordinates with closed minds. The people are sick and tired of the endless red 1 tape with which they have to contend in the simplest affairs of life, while straining to do their part, and work and save to help trying to hide his son’s actions: “Washington, Feb. 23.—At the fashionable Army-Navy Country club, “Cotton EM.” 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 commission in the “Potomac Patrol” of the coast guard 1 re serve. “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 drawing a *240 a month salary as an assistant clerk of the senate agriculture committee of which his father is chairman. It was understood that he would get one' monithls pay when he “resigned” from his job with the senate Committee. More than a month has passed and, as of this writs ing, 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 agriculture committee, he applied for deferment on the ~ ground that he was indispensable to the committee. He got the deferment. Later the draft board classified him as physically unfit because of a “nervous” trouble. “Apparently the Smith family is indispensable to the senate agribuRural committee. Charles F. Smith a second son of the senator, is drawing $2,200 a year as an assistant clerk of the com mittee. He is listed on the sen ate disbursing records as living at the gfadiose Wardman Park hotel with his father. However a check at the hotel showed no Ohs. F. Smith registered there. Further inquiry evolved the in formation that Charles F. Smith lives at Lynchburg, S. C., home of the senator, and that he rare ly comes to Washington. “Thus, the government pays two of Senator Smith’s gens, 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 O. Alfred Lawton, secretary to the Senator, and committee clerk, $3,900. Daugh ter, : Isobel S. Lawton, assistant clerk, *2,200.” So much for the Smiths for the nonce and now bo 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 imme diately concerned. The store with the Smiths will be evened this sum mer. The time is rapidly approaching when Newberry slackers will be epen- ly insulted on the streets as -they are in Canada. England and other waring countries. They will be publicly ques tioned as to why they are not serv ing their country and they will suf fer the jibes of the populace. Some young men, physically unfit f>r service, will unfortunately have to take the dose administered to the slackers. The humiliation they will have to undergo is the prk-e they will pay in- order that the real slackens be ferreted out and exposed to ridi cule. Most of these physically unfit boys would like to be in the service and since that is their spirit they will bear their humiliation without murmuring for their country's sake. himself with a slacker is no better- than a slacker. It will 'be well to ,re member 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 newapaiper in tends 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 boy should be Cannon fodder to gave their dirty, yellow hides. If you feel that your boy is as god as a slacker you will not fail to do your duty—you will get fighting mad and go out and find out for yourself wriry certain men in NEWBERRY CITY and New berry county are not in the service. Once found you will not hesitatfe. to - denounce them to bhAir faces and scatter the news of. their infamy As eoph day fades and night comes. With its period of reflection Newbery ; mothers qat their hearts out for sons' acr'oss 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 thou sand young Americans at the bottom of the Atlantic means nothing to these shrivel-souled Newberry slack ers; they are dead to everything that is noble deaf to all that decent peo ple 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 cowardice is traveling 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-dodigers is in order. As the noose gradually tightens about them they will attempt to get closer to respectable people. They are craven enough to do anything and ‘since they haven’t a semblance of manhood they wil 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 every one—it is the common topic of con- versation from one end of the county to the other. It wrill not die—it can not die. Mothers and fathers who have seen their 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 defer ments, 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 dhrty to them if they fail to help root out the slack ers. Our >bOys at the front cannot understand why they have to serve while others go soott free. If these slackens hid a spark of decency about them thev 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 caie. This newspaper is resolved to keep up the fight until every slacker in Newberry County is either in a uni form or so humiliated and disgraced that, like the curs they are, they will tuck their tails between their legs and slink off into oblivion. We invite you to join us. habits; some live chiefly in low grounds, others more in dry uplands; some Kve largely underground fol lowing the burrows of moles holes left by decaying rots etc.; others forage above ground usually at night. Some hibernate in northerly locali- in cold weather, but in our mild cli- climate they are likely to be active all winter. At Clemson I once uncovered a White-footed Mouse under a stump; she had several nursing young, and they held to the mother’s teats while she ran, waddled and jumped in her effort to find a hiding place. I made no effort to kill them. One of the very few jumping mice taken in this state was caught by student R. B. Oasey at Clemson; it te rather a Northerly species. Most of the mice feed chiefly on seeds, berries, and 1 nuts, but also they often devour insects. In gen eral. they are destructive to our in terests, same very much so. They are defenseless little crea tures, and are preyed upon by cats, dogs, hawks, snakes, foxes, skunks, and other animals. But nature pro vides that they are small and gives them the instinct to hide, so that many escape; also they multiply rapidly so as to catch up- quickly in numbers when for any reason they may be lessened in number. There are undoubtedly more mice in South Carolina than there are people. S. C. REPUBLICANS GATHER IMPROVE ™ E OF CIGARS §> Columbia, Mar. 29—'South Carolina republicans will name delegates to the national convention to be -held in Chicago and select congressional can didates in a meeting here tomorrow expected to attract 200 party mem bers. The party will lay plans for par ticipating in the November general election and adopt resolutions to be presented to the national conven tion. W. B. Daughtrey of Sumter, party secretary and treasurer, said four delegates to the Chicago convention would 'be selected along with four alternates. It will be the first time since 1938 that republicans 'have offered a candidate for the U. S. senatorial rate. In that year -Marion W. Sea- brook was defeated by incumbent democratic Senator Ellison D. Smith. The party te headed by J. Bites GenaM of Charleston. Other officers are G. . Hambright of Clover and C. B. Ruffin of Bishopville, vice- V^ortoMseeD mealT ' USED *5 fEKTIUZER, IMPARTS A r distinctive COLOK. -agjjpj TfXTUKF,AND TASTE "JotrCB Y? TO LEAVES OP SHA.OE- I — ~ CROWN TOBACCO USED _ FOR C/OAR WRAPPBRSfi • Kinc Feature* Syndicate Alt Right* JReeerred. HOW QUIHTUPLE1S reliav* coughing of CHEST COLDS Whenever the Quintuplets catch cold— their chests, throats and backs are rubbed witn Musterole. So Musterole must be just about the best cold-relief you can buy! Musterole helps break up local con gestion in upper bronchial tract, makes breathing easier, promptly relieves cough ing and tight, sore, aching chest muscles due to colds. In 3 Strengths: Children’s Regular, and Extra Strong, WJSTERQlf WANT ADS 1 -- —"i —fcj. COAL—We have a good supply now. Call 155 for your next order. Farmers Ice and Fuel Co. FOR SALE—House at lot at 909 Wilson street. She Mrs. T. H. POPE at 1113 Oalhoun street, or Phone 425. “'j FOR SALE—Stove anfl fire wood. Coker 100 & 4 in one wilt resistant cotton seed for planting. H. O. Long, Silverstreet, S. C. chairmen, George Norwood of Green- ! - ville national committeeman and Mrs. I NOTICE—I am prepared to assist John E. Messervy of Charleston, na- ! tiorval committee woman. WUai 7/ou Buy With WAR BONDS V Mail When a soldier or a sailor is low in spirits there is nothing that will cheer him up as much as a letter from home, so the War and Navy Departments have devised a meth od for getting “the word” to its fight ing men with the greatest dispatch. This is the microfilm method of transmitting letters, known to all of us as V-mail. Any news from home is bound to please our soldiers and our sailors but the news they want to have most is the news from our produc tion front and news that we are win ning our fight against inflation by our savings ’ and investment in War Bonds. U. S Treasury Department SMNBFA c ©v.® - USE 666 M4 TABLETS. SALVE. HOSE DROPS you in filing your 1944 income es timate due April 15. Mrs. A. H. COUNTS, The Sun office, Phones 1 or 414-M. WE WILL BUY—Your burlap sacks or any kind of old rags, also scrap iron and other metals. See W. STERLING. H P FOR SALE—Arrostock Maine grown seed Irish Potatoes. Johnson-Mc- Crackin Co. 3tc FOR SALE—Fresh stock fiold and garden seeds. Johnson-McCrackin Co. 3tc WRIST WATCHES—We have a limited supply of wrist watches for ladies and men. Sears, Roe buck and Co., 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 Co., 1210 Caldwell St Phone 430. LOANS ON Real Estate Automobiles and Personal Property NEWBERRY Ins. & Realty Co. NED PURCELL, Manager Phone 197 Exchange Bank. Bldg. AUmMir Crmwmw i. AlUmU. CUrtom. CtilUnneA. Nrrlelt. Orlande