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NEWBERR'. iOUTH CAROLINA
O. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
Published Everj’ Friday In The Year
Entered as second-class matter
December <5, 1!'37, at tlit postoflice
at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870.
NO “BASKET CASES”
A rumor that many “basket” cases
were being brought back to hospitals
in this country, brought a strong
denial from the surgeon general of
the army. Not only had there been
no such cases brought back to this
country but so far there have been
none in any theatre of war, he said.
A basket case is so called when a
soldier loses all members, both hands
and both feet. The surgeon general
also said there has been amazingly
few cases of soldiers losing even two
members. He further emphasized
the falsity of the rumor by stating
should there be cases where a soldier
lost all members he would likely not
survive the ithock.
Rumors like this are planted by
the enemy and they always manage
to make them sound most horrible.
Anything not read in the newspapers
or heard on the radio should be in
vestigated before being repeated.
However, if the government were
more frank in reporting unfavorable
news less attention would be ipaid
to rumors.
TRUE DEMOCRATS
On this page is an advertisement
by the Southern Democratic party,
setting forth its principles and ob
jectives, and inviting membership.
There is a refreshing note about
the forthright manner in which the
aims of the new party are set out;
no pussy-footing, no beating around
the bosh. The founders dome to the
point in brutally frank language.
They are against Roosevelt and for
a white man’s party and say so,
simply and frankly.
As we understand it the Southern
Democratic party intends to parti
cipate in the regular Democratic
(primaries and will encourage anti-
Roosevelt candidates to enter the
lists in policy making offices.
There is widespread dissatisfac
tion in this county over much of
what the New Deal has done, or
failed to do, and iwe expect to see
many Ncwberrians in the ranks of
the new party. Democrats have
heretofore contiued in the party of
the Roosevelts because they had no
where else to go. The new party
now opens the way to affiliation
with true Democrats to rid the na
tion of misrule.
Many of the men who brought the
new party into being are known to
us personally and we know they
have no axe to grind. As the adver
tisement points out there are no dis-
grui.tled politicians or sore-heads
or office seekers in the official set
up of the new party. They are true
South Carolina Democrats who are
not willing to stand with folded-
arms while the scalawags rape the
South of cherished traditions and
ideals bought with Southern blood
and untold hardship.
There is no “big money” behind
the new party, hence the suggestion
that you may contribue if you care
to. But whether you contribute or
not make certain that you fill in
the blank in the advertisement and
mail it to the address given. Your
membership and encouragement will
mean more than your contribution
in money.
In joining the new party you are
not “bolting” the Democratic party
for indeed the old Democratic party
is dead so far as the South is con-
cemed. Roosevelt and his crowd
have stripped it of everything it
meant to a true' Southener—it is
now the party of anyone of any col
or or breed willing to bend the knee
to a socialistic bureaucracy run by
little men who think only, of self
and to whom Southern tradition is a
joke.
The immortal words of Tom Paine
are no less true today than when
he uttered them in the dark days of
the revolution. Trying times are
indeed upon us and the sound com
mon sense of the conservative South
is needed to bring order out of a
world of chaos.
HOSPITAL ACKNOWLEDGES
GIFTS
The Newberry County hospital ac
knowledges with thanks receipt of
the following donations:
Pomaria Demonstration club, Mrs.
C. S. Glymph, pres.: 1 quart pickles,
1-4 gallon beans, 1 cake soap, 5 tow
els, 2 bath cloths, 2 vases, 1 quart
soup mixture.
!H. S. and Mrs. Lula Langford:
turkey.
W. M. U. of First Baptis! ‘ohunch,
Mrs. Fred Gilbert, chairman: lamp
for reception room.
First Baptist church: open win
dows for patients.
Meriam Circle of Lutheran Church
of Redeemer, Mrs. Johnny Werts
and Mrs. Buddy Bedenbaugh: 20
cakes toilet soap, 5 bath cloths, 1
pair pillow cases, 8 tray covers, 4
vases.
Willowbrook Home Demonstration
club, Mrs. Charles Golden, president
—11 towels, 2 bath cloths, 1 vase, 1
package washing powder, 1 quart
turnip greens, 5 quarts beans, 1
quart turnips, 1 can tomatoes, 16
cakes toilet soap, 1 pair hand-made
pillow cases.
THE SPECTATOR
Some of our editors ask the ques
tion: Who are behind this Southern
Democratic party? There is, natur
ally some curiosity about that, but
the principal question, as I see it is
not WHO, but WHAT! In other
words, no one connected so far with
the Southern Democratic party, of-
fi.ially at least, is a candidate for
any office; no oneTs a disgruntled
politician; no one is a soured has-
been in any relation in life. Who, by
the way, is the new National chair
man of the New Deal party, the
man recently named by Mr. Roose
velt? It makes no difference WHO
he is. Nor does it matter WHO may
be the members of his committee.
He a nd they cut a small figure. The
big question, the important question
is are you for Mr. Roosevelt? They
mean to ask if you favor the New
Deal, its blundering, its wastefulness,
its toadying to northern negroes.
Don’t try to deceive yourself; if
you are for Mr. Roosevelt you are
for what he stands for and what he
does. Our fathers didn’t stand for
that; our fathers stood for a white
man’s Democracy. Our fathers suf
fered the agonies of Reconstruction
and risked their lives to redeem
South Carolina from negro rule, car
pet-baggers and scalawags. If you
honor the memory of your father ask
yourself if Mr. Roosevelt is a Dem
ocrat of your father’s kind. If so,
vote for him
If our fathers did not cherish and
support the Democratic party as a
white man’s party then we have been
deceived' all these years.
You don’t need any argument
about this: Think it over. Are you
a Roosevelt man, or are you in favor
of a WHITE DEMOCRACY?
They tell us tha4 the President is
being discounted by Stalin and
Churchill because the President can
not commit this nation bo any pro
gram without the consent of the
senate. Certainly our Constitution
did not provide for a dictator. If
our Constitution limits the scope of
the President’s power it was intended
to be that way. Surely no one would
advocate a dictatorship like that of
Russia. If so, then why fight. Are
we not fighting to make men free;
or must we ourselves become a land
of submerged people?
As a matter of fact, Mr. Churchill
is not a dictator; in very truth ' he
has far less power than Mr. Roose
velt Mr. Ohurchill is the king’s first
minister, but be has a cabinet of men
who have a vote on what is to be
done. The British Prime Minister
chooses as a cabinet members of in
fluence in the party. They are not
merely high clerks of his, as are our
Cabinet members. Secretary Ickes,
Secretary Perkins, Secretary Stimson,
Secretary Knox and Attorney Gen
eral Biddle do not owe their cabinet
positions to prominence in the Demo
cratic Party. Secretary Perkins has
no political influence or weight; I do
not know that she is a Democrat. At
torney General Biddle, if a Demo
crat at all, is very modestly so, and
has no political strength. Secretaries
Stimson and Knox are prominent Re
publicans, but not Democrats. Presi
dent Roosevelt’s cabinet, as you see,
is not a group of political leaders;
rather to the contrary. But under
our Constitution the real authority
is vested in the President, not the
cabinet. We have no cabinet, as an
institution of law. Each member is
head of a department and owes all
to the President. In Great Britain
that is not true. Over there the
Cabinet rules, the Cabinet, not the
Prime Minister. And tbe House of
Commons can vote the Cabinet out
of oflice at any minute. Mr. Church-
hill has enormous personal prestige
and seems to us bo be a great power.
His power, however, depends on his
associates and the support of the
House of Commons.
The widely repeated statement of
Mr. Churchill’s absolute power is
based on lack of information. An
American president has a tenure of
four years, while a British Prime
Minister may be voted out of office
in four months.
Stalin knows what he wants. He
wants to sou round Russia with
friendly nations to be buffers be
tween Russia and ambitious Euro
pean powers. He probably wants a
year-round seaport and the necessary
approaches.
Great Britain knows what she
wants. Her people are practical;
they want trade, markets for their
goods; and they want peaceable
neighbors. The United States doesn’t
seem to know what is best for us.
That we are not selfish in seeking
territory may be admirable; I think
it is; but our problem is that of a
man of noble purpose and idealism
in a neighborhood of go-getters; we
are the "world’s most generous, most
gullible people and we are dealing
with people who walk with both feet
on the ground, WHILE we walk on
air.
How would you like to live in Ger
many today ? I read that question
recently in a popular magaine. I
quote what follows: “No? Yet Ger
many has had for years all the things
that many Americans seem to want.
The German government ended un
employment by government work.
The German government owned and
operated the railroads, controlled the
press and radio, guaranteed univer
sal education, supported unions, as
sured medical care, limited corpora
tion profits—did all the things many
Americans want our government to
do. Of course the German govern
ment became a dictatorship as all
such paternalistic governments al
ways do. Of course the German gov
ernment did all this for its people at
the price of their freedom—at the
price of making all slaves of the gov
ernment as is always the case.
Of course all this ‘something for
nothing’ reduced the standard of iiv-
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ing of everyone in Germany as it al
ways must and will. Before the war
the average worker in Germany
made $2.00 a day, in America $5.00.
Dictatorship Germany spent 10 years
getting ready for war; private in
dustry in America you can look for
ward to your own home, a new auto
mobile, being your own boss, doing
What you like. In government con
trolled Germany, the ‘beneficiary’ of
the state can look forward to noth
ing but ruin and want. There will
come a time when the bureaucrats,
to save their own jobs, will try to
sing you to sleep with the siren song
of government ownership, govern
ment control, government “benefits”.
When you hear that song,_ remember
the Germans.
Too little and too late! Again we
■hear that. The Army and Navy
Journal tells us that our Italian com
paign is suffering from the “too little
and too late” ailment which seems to
afflict the British and American
military efforts. In Burma the Japa
nese net only hold fast, but are ad
vancing. In Italy—where are we?
In Northern Africa we had a set
back due to the same “too little dnd
too late”. And to this, the military
critics suggest that in Italy we have
been too slow! What is the trouble?
Americans are not slow people, as a
rule. Nor is the American soldier
slow. If success reflects credit on
the leadership, what shall we say of
failure ?
The man on the street wonders
why we don’t send to Italy sufficient
force to drive the Germans out. If
we have had millions of men and
thousands of planes standing idle in
Great Britain why didn’t we use
them in Italy ? A dead German is
just as dead in Italy as in France.
What was the significance of Mr.
Ohurdhill’s demand for a vote of con
fidence ? In Great Britain the cabi
net resigns when the House of Com
mons defeats one of its measures.
Rather than risk defeats the Cabinet
asks for a vote of confidence. If the
vote i® not favorable to the Cabinet,
the Cabinet (Government) resigns. If
we had such an arrangement in this
country President Roosevelt would
have resigned when Congress first de
clined to pass measures advocated
by him.
If you plant a nickel or a penny
will it grow?
A pretty little three-year old girl
was observing her daddy as he
bought seed for his garden. Soon
afterwards she showed me a nickel
and aSked “If I put this in the ground
will it came up?” Not if the New
Deal gets it; the New Deal is strong'
for spending for consumption, not)
for saving and production.
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Wltat you Ruy WUU
WAH MWDS
Holy Stono •
Cleanliness is the first order of ev
ery American soldier and sailor and
the United States Government
spends millions upon millions of dol
lars to keep our fighting men as
clean and as healthy as circum
stances will permit.
“Swab the deck!” cries out a pet
ty officer and the men fall to with
their “holy ston ” equipment and
in a short time everything is spick
and span.
WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY?
On the battlefield in Africa, tank
commander Lt. Dean Shatalain was
severely wounded. Alone, he ampu
tated his own foot wath a jack-knife
and thought he was dying when he
wrote this poem. Later he was res
cued by Americans and is now recov
ering in a hospital in England:
What did you do today, my friend?
From morning until night?
How many times did you complain
That rationing is too tight?
When are you going ito start to do
All of the things you say?
A soldier would like to know, my
friend
WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY?
We met the enemy today
And took the town by storm
Happy reading it will make
For you tomorrow morn.
You’ll read with satisfaction
The brief commique
We fought, but are you fighting?
WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY?
My gunner died, in my aims today;
I feel his warm blood yet;
Your neighbor’s dying boy gave out
A scream I cannot forget.
On my right a tank was hit,
A flash and then a fire;
The stench of burning flesh
Still rises from the pyre.
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Call 155 for your next order.
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FOR SALE—House at lot at 909
Wilson street. See' Mrs. T. H.
POPE at 1113 Calhoun stroet, or
Phone 426,
FOR SALE—Stove ana fire - wood.
Coker 100 & 4 in one wilt resistant
cotton seed for planting. H. O.
Long, Silverstreet, S. C.
NOTICE—I am prepared to assist
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. H.
STERLING.
FOR SALE—Fresh stock field and
garden seeds. Johnson-McCrackin
Co. 3tc
TO PREVENT CROWS from pulling
corn up treat with Pestex. Johnson-
McCraekin Co.
NOTICE OF MEETING OF DEM-
OCRATIC CLUBS
Pursuant to the rules of the Dem
ocratic party, precinct clubs of New
berry county will meet at the usual
pkVce of meeting at three oViock, P.
M. on the 22nd day of April, 1944,
unless a different place and hour is
fixed by itihe club within the same
week, for the purpose of reorganiz
ation, and the election of delegates
to the County Convention to be held
at the Court House in Newberry, S.
C. on the 1st Monday, the 1st day,
of May, 1944, at 11 o’clock A. M.
Each club is entitled to one delegate
for every 25 members, and one del
egate for a majority fraction thereof
based upon the number of votes poll
ed in the first primary election in
1542.
NEAL W. WORKMAN,
County Chairman
Mrs. A. H. Counts, Secretary.
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WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY, MY
FRIEND?
To help us with the task?
Did you work harder and longer for
less,
Or is that too much to ask ?
What right have I to ask you this,
You probably will say;
Maybe now you’ll understand
YOU SEE—I DIED TODAY!
NEWBERRY
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NED PURCELL, Manager
Phone 197 Exchange Bank. Bldg.
^WILD LIFE
SOUTH CAROLINA
WITH PROF FRANKLIN SHERMAN
^#• ai ■ . nitVT OF 2 OOL.OGV
BIRD MIGRATION
Bird migration is a miracle which
nature performs before our eyes
twice each year.
A highly intelligent farmer once
told me he had learned that catbird
comes to us each spring, nests, rears
a brood and goes South again for
the winter. He asked if this is true
for other birds. Yes, many others.
This great swing of birdlife (north
ward in spring and southward in
fall) constitutes bird migration.
How, why, when, did bird migra
tion first begin ? It is not merely a
matter of food, for many species will
come north when there is less food
than where they came from, and will
go south while tere is still abundant
food where they are. Not merely to
escape cold, for they will come north
while it is still cold here; in fall they
start south while summer warmth Is
still here.
Whatever the reasons, migration
is strongly fixed in many species of
birds. A chief delight of bird-ob
servers is to record dates when they
see the different sipecies of birds, the
first date in spring, the last date in
fall, etlc.
Certain expressions denote the
status of a bird with respect to mi
grations: Crow (also blue jay, Caro
lina wren, many others) is with us
the year ’round and is designated as
\ permanent resident. Catbird is
lere through the summer (but not
’or the winter) and is a summer
•esident. Same is true of chimney
iwift, ruby-throated hummingbird
and others.
White-throated sparrow (not hero
in summer) comes in fall, stays all
winter and goes north in spring. He
is a winter visitor or winter resident.
Also junco (called “snowbird”) and
others. Scarlet tanger, Baltimore
oriole, many warblers neither sum
mer nor winter here, but pass
through going northward in spring
and southward in autumn. They are
migrants or transient visitors.
Certain birds usually arrive' early
in the migrations, others about mid
season, still others usually late.
Several years of careful observation
Show that at Clemson these birds av
erage arriving on the dates given:
(It is a much more difficult matter
to establish average “last” dates.)
Chipping sparrow, March 15; chim
ney swift, April 3; wood thrush,
April 9; ruby-throated hummingbird,
April 14; catbird, April 20; wood
pewee, April 23; indiago bunting,
April 24; bobolink, May 3; and
nightbawk (“bull-bat”), May 8.
Miss Helen Johnson of Charles
ton, was a weekend visitor in the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.
E. Johnson of Chappells.
The Southern
—invites the cooperation pf all Democrats.. ;Its platform is
simple; it is opposed to:
A fourth term for Mr. Roosevelt, hs well as the nomination
or or election of any New Dealer, or candidate who is committed
to the New Deal.
The Southern Democratic Party advocates and will work for:
(1) A revival of conditions in which all may Kve and work
without the constant irritation of a meddling and muddling
government control, and without the annoyances of an
arrogant bureaucracy.
(2) The Southern Democratic party stands squarely for the
principles Which governed Washington, Jefferson, Jackson,
Wilson and Hampton; it believes in a representative
democracy, as opposed to a dictatorship founded on hand
outs and administered by sycophants.
It is not only the plan and purpose of the Southern Democratic
party <o vote in the Democratic primaries, but also to nominate
a full slate of Presidential Electors pledged to support an out
standing Democrat, whose first qualification must be complete
apposition to the New Deal and all it represents.
The Southern Democratic party advocates a return to free
enterprise and broad opportunity for America and its citizens.
If you wish to be' associated with the Southern Democratic
party sign the coupon. If you wish to contribute to it, indicate
the amount. Address Southern Democratic Party, P. G. Box 1144.
Columbia, South Carolina. Send checks or other contributions to
M. B. Barkley, Treasurer, P. O. Box 1144, Columbia, S. C.
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