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FOUR
THE NEWBERRY SUN
1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
0. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
Published Every Friday In The Year
Entered as second-class matter
December 6, 1P37, at tht postoffice
at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
WHAT ARE THESE KIDS
FIGHTING FOR?
Seventy-nine youngsters lined up
here Saturday morning to go to Col
umbia for examination looking to
induction into the army. Many of
them were hardly dry behind the
ears, and it made one’s heart bleed
to think that these kids would soon
go out to kill and be killed. And
for what?
No one, we belive has any misgiv
ings about our war with Japan. The
Japs murdered our men at Pearl
Harbor and their dastardly act
'should and will be revenged at a
terrible cost to them. But what.of
Europe? Just how much of that
fight is ours. We have already con
tributed heavly to stopping Hitler,
and it would seem from now out
that one hundred and ninety million
Russians^ firty-five million Britons
and millions of others allied with
them could handle Hitler from now
out.
The downfall of Hitler will elimi
nate temporarily, one of Europe’s
trouble makers but it will by no
means put an end to wars in Europe.
In fact there are plenty of signs
that a third world war is even now
in the making.
If the defeat of Hitler would in
sure peace for the next hundred
years most any sacrifice on our part
would be justified, but we have no
guarantee, yea but little hope, that
anything enduring can come out of
the defeat of Hitler.
Secretary Hull, discussing our
foreign policy, said that the peace
of the word depended on cooperation
among the allied nations presently
prosecuting the war against Hitler.
Secretary Hull would have won more
people to a plan of cooperation had
he been able to give some assurance
that cooperation between Russia and
England were at all possible; that
they could come together on a divis
ion of the spoils. There is nothing
to hinder full cooperation between
this country and Russia for we seek
the territory of no nation, but such
a situation does not exist between
England and Russia. Both have their
eyes on much of the same territory
as outright grabs or as “spheres of
influence”
Russia will emerge from the war
as the dominant pcwer in Europe
and the English will be more con
cerned in building up alliances a-
gainst that power than in pursuring
a program of cooperation. Neither
trusts the other.
The cessation of hostilities in
Europe will be the beginning of a
campaign of intrigue the magnitude
of which the world has never seen.
Must this country then pour out
its billions and its blood to bring
about a condition pregnant with pos
sibilities of another war? Would it
not be better to prepare our own
hemisphere against all comers and
leave the Eurepeans to their own
designs; to devour each other, as
they will do in the end anyway?
The racial and religious differen
ces, the old animosities and hatreds
existing between European states
does not grow, less with the passing
of the years. On the contrary they
grow more bitter. Add to this the
political ideologies which have spread
over Europe in recent years and be
come ingrained in the minds of the
younger generation and you have a
picture of the difficulties surround
ing any attempt to bring about a
lasting peace. Peace, to endure,
must come from the will of free
peoples and there are powerful for
es in Europe, including the church,
which do not subscribe to the ideals
of Etemocracy and do not intend to
let the people be free.
We should ask ourselves, if, af
ter we become exhausted in a pro
longed war in Europe, our allies will
cooperate as wholeheartedly with us
in defeating Japan?
In answering this question we
can judge as to Russia only by her
actions so far; only by the stern
policy of realism so consistently
pursued by the Reds in dealing with
its own people and with the rest of
the world. Russia will perhaps keep
a sizeable force of Japs pinned down
in Mongolia and that will be about
the extent of her aid to us.
If there were any assurance that
Churchill or Eden would continue at
the head of the British government-
after Hitler’s defeat we could count
on considerable help from the Brit
ish but it should not be forgotten
that Churchill is not exactly the
kind of man the Tories want for
their first minister; they tolerate
him now because their interests are
at stake and he is the only man in
Britain who has the backing of the
people. Quite another story it will
be when the general let-down comes
with the defeat of Hitler and the
war-weary Britons get a glimpse of
peace. They will then be more amen
able to the designs of the real rul
ers of the British empire. That it
will be possible to keen up the war
spirit among the British, or even
Americans, onece Hitler is defeated
is simnly childish thinking.
We hope that our military com
manders will proceed coutiously be
fore great armies are thrown into
Europe. Onece in the job will be
largely ours, and once out again' we
will still have the job of defeating
Japan single-handed.
SPECTATOR
What is the value of a soldier’s
pay as compared, with a civilian in
come? Spectator reproduces in
part, an article published in Barrens
Magazine. If any service man dis
sents from Barron’s conclusions,
Spectator would like to hear from
him:
Unmarried Buck Private May
“Net"
Let’s consider the case of the sin
gle man and start with proof of the
opening statement. The lowest pay
in the Army is $50 per month, or
$600 a year received by the buck
private, while in service within the
bounds of the United States. The
man may have given up a $3,600-a
year civilian job on entering mili
tary service. And from the figures
alone, he may apparently be taking
a loss of $3,000 a year.
On reductions of earnings to “net
income,” the comparison goes into
reverse. This fact traces mainly to
the major items of subsistence which
are provided for men and non
commissioned officers in military
service but for which the civilian
must pay out of his pocket. In ad
dition, civilians have much higher
inicoime taxes to reckon with.
The enumerated expenditure out
of pay, including miscellaneous ex
penses, add up to $15 a month, or
$180 a year—which leaves the buck
private in service within the bounds
at the United States with an annual
remainder of $420. And this is the
measure of his “net” annual income,
if he has no other revenues for fed
eral income taxes do not apply to in
comes of men in military service be
low $1,500—and above that the
service mkm also has his personal
exemptions.
Let’s -compare civilian “net in
come”. Statistics, compiled by the
Joint Committee on Internal Reve
nue for the House Ways and Means
Committee in the course of hearings
^preliminary to the enactment of the
individual income rates now in ef
fect, show average living costs of
single consumers by income groups.
The statistics were based on data
obtained by exhaustive questioning
at thousands of wage-or-salary
earners and others with incomes in
cities, villages and rural sections
strewn through thirty states.
The expenditures are itemized un
der fourteen heads—food, housings,
clothing, medical care, tobacco, per
sonal care, recreation, automobile,
transportation other than auto, fur
nishings, household operation, ed
ucation, reading, and other living
expenses. At present, the automo
bile item may be largely eliminated.
A very recent publication by the
National Industrial Conference
Board, dealing with current changes
in cost of food, housing, fuel and
light, clothing and sundries, shows
in increase of 11.5 per cent in cost
of living since the statistics were
presented to the House Ways and
Means Committee. This advance
raises the total of average living
cost of single persons with income
of $3,600 a year to $2,508 annually.
Expenditures for food, housing, clo
thing and medical care—which are
provided without charge for men
and non-commissioned officers of
the Army—represent $1,831 of this
total.
Of course, the $3,600-a-year man
in civilian employment is not under
statutory compulsion to spend $2,-
508 out of earnings in his living.
According to the data that were
placed before the House Ways and
Means committee and National In
dustrial Conference Board reports,
the annual living cost of $l,200-a-
year men is about $1,100. And the
$3,600-a-year man could possibly
put a “stop order” on his cost of
living at that figure. But, as the
officially compiled statistics show,
he doesn’t. Under the law of life
as it is generally lived by income
earners, increase in cost of living
accompanies increase in earnings.
When salaries or wages are raised,
income earners move into better
quarters, eat at higher priced res
taurants, dress more expensively
and spend more on personal care
and amusements.
The average living expenditures
reduce the $3,600-a-year income to
$1,092. Out of this must be paid
federal income and victory taxes,
that cut it down to $343—which is
$77 less than the “net” earnings of
the buck private.
If the $3,600-a-year civilian em
ployee is a taxpayer in New York
or in any of the other common
wealths where personal income taxes
are in effect, his net annual income
shrivels further.
Now assume that the $3,600-a-year
civilian employee and the buck pri
vate have fathers and mothers de
pendent upon them for support and
are accordingly to be counted as
heads of families. Starting at
scratch on paper—with deductions
permitted in federal income tax com
putation figured in—the $3,600-a-
year man may have a reserve of
about $575 to draw on for such pur
pose. But this figure falls much
below the measure of resources
available to the army private for
support of his parents.
By contributing $22 a month via
deduction from his .pay, the buck
private can obtain an income-tax
exempt government allowance of $46
a month for his parents. The con
tribution and allowance together
amount to $816 a year. And, after
deduction of his contribution and his
normal expenditures out of pocket,
he still has a remainder of $156 of
his annual pay for such application.
That is the army private’s contri
butions out of pay and government
allowances may make up a total in
resources of $972 a year available
for the benefit of his parents, as
compared with the $3,600-a-year
civilian employee's parent-support
ing reserve of $575. If the private
sees foreign service, as he very like
ly will, his net earnings will be in
creased by $120 a year—or to $540.
In the Navy, the “net earnings”
story is practically the same as in
the army. In the first chapter, it
is even a shade more attractive.
While the bottom pay in the two
services is $50 a month, the lowest
paid man in the Army, the buck pri
vate may remain for years in that
rank. The lowest paid man in the
navy, the apprentice seaman, auto
matically advances to seaman sec
ond class with $54-a-month pay af
ter 2 months of training. It is not
until he is promoted to private first
class, wih $54-a-month pay, that the
service man in the Army stands
shoulder with the lowest paid Navy
man in annual earnings.
As in the Army, major items of
subsistence are provided for men
and non-commissioned officers dur
ing service in the Navy. But, also
as n the Army, there are divers
neeus and wants of minor diminsions
which must be taken care of out of
earnings. While those items of ex
penditure may differ in some details
from corresponding expenditures of
service men in the Army, according
to statements obtained from seamen
and petty officers, they run to about
the same total—that is, $35 a month.
With these expenditures out of
earnings deduced, the net annual in
come of the seaman second class and
the privte first class in service
stations in the United States shows
at $468. In foreign service, the net
darnings would be increased to
$597.60. And, if there are depen
dent parents, contributions by the
Government would raise the parent
supporting resources of the seaman
second class and the private first
class from $972 a year to an annual
total of $1,149—nearly twice the re
sources of the $3,600-a-year civilian
employee for such purpose.
For all single men in service—with
rank below commissioned rating—
allowances for dependent parents
(46 dollars a month added by the
Government to $22 deduction from
monthly pay making a total of $816
a year) are available as in the case
of the buck private. And with al
lowances figure in, as ratings are ad
vanced, parent-supporting Msources
climb higher in comparison with
sulch resources from civilian earnings
or income.
Government allowances for de
pendent brothers and sisters are also
available. As was noted with refer
ences to alloances for parents, these
and all othe rgovemment allowances
for dependents are income-tax ex
empt.
The married serviceman’s case is
basically different from that of the
single man. If he is childless, his
problem is more difficult—but it is
materially eased by gevemment al
lowance. If he has children, govern
ment allowances become a major
problem-solving factor. The schedule
of allowances for dependents of mar
ried men follows:
To $22 deducted from monthly pay
or to $264 deducted from annual pay,
the government adds allowances that
make up the following “yields” to
dependents :To wife (no child) $50,
to wife and one child, $80; to child
(no wife) $42; to each additional
child $20. There are also qualified
allowances for divorced wives with
or without children. If a family in
cludes dependents in the two classi
fications—the wife and children
class and the parents-brothers-and
sisters class—the serviceman may
Obtain the advantages of both sche
dules of allowances by contributing
an additional $5 a month (via de
duction) out of his pay.
For a wife without children, the
buck private may contribute $22 of
his monthly pay and obtain a gov
ernment allowance of $28 a month
with a yield of $60 a month. And to
that sum, he can add the remaining
$13 a month out of his pay (after
deduction of normal expenditures).
The resulting receipts of the buck
prvate’s wife would be $756 a year.
If the buck private sees foreign ser
vice, the wife’s receipts may run up
to $876 a year.
Now take an average American
family—husband, wife and two
children. On entrance into the Army
as a buck private, the husband can
contribute $22 out of his pay and
obtain government allowances for
his family making up a yield of $100
a month or $1,200 a year. If the
husband turns over the remaining
$13 of his monthly pay (after de
ducting the contributed $22 and
normal monthly expenditures
amounting to $15), the receipts of
his family may be raised to $1,356—
and if he sees foreign service, his
family’s receipts may be increased
to $1,476 a year.
On the basis of expenditures for
living by average families in differ
ent income groups—with deductions
attributable to absence of the hus
band—the receipts of the buck pri
vate’s family (average American
size) will enable its members to live
according to standards prevailing
among families with annual civilian
earnings or income of $1,600. The
married entrant into military ser
vice may be assured that his wife
and children will he enabled to live
wholesomely during his absence.
And. in a ereat number of cases,
families of men in service (average
American size) will be enabled by
their receints to attain higher stand
ards of living than those maintained
before the husband’s enrollment in
the armed forces. It may be added
that, if emergency needs arise, (sur
gical operations, etc.) a number, of
relief organizeKons and agencies are
in readiness to provide aid’. Also,
the great majority of soldiers and
sailors, wishing to provide financial
protection for their families, have
taken advantage of low-cost govern
ment life insurance. Servicemen are
able, at rates much lower than those
available to civilians, to provide up
to $10,000 in life insurance for their
beneficiaries in ease of death.
FARM MACHINERY SHOULD BE
CHECKED FOR NEEDED
REPAIRS
by P. B. Ezell, county agent
All binder and combine owners who
have not already checked over their
machinery for needed repairs should
do so at once, says County Agent P.
B. Ezell, calling attention to the pos
sible delays and losses that may oc
cur if the machinery is not in good
working condition.
The sicarcity of new machinery is
creating an unusual demand for re
pair parts for old or used machinery.
The farmer who waits until the last
minute to buy repair parts may have
difficulty in getting repairs made op
time, the agent warns.
Having the binder or combine in
proper adjustment after repairs are
made is one of the major points in
conneiction with the successful opera
tion of harvesting machinery. It is,
therefore important that all binder
and combine operators understand
how to make adjustments necessary
for different crops and conditions of
harvesting. A careful study of the
instruction manuel that comes with
the machine is one of the best sug
gestions that can be given.
As a further aid to binder and
combine operators and owners in get
ting better service out of their ma
chines, C. V. Phagan, extension ag
ricultural engineer, calls attention to
the Extension Agricultural Engineer
ing Leaflet No. 39, “Binders and
Combines, Care and Operation”. This
leaflet, available at the county
agent’s office, contains numerous il
lustrations and suggestions on re
pairs, lubrication, care, and opera
tion.
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1944
to our acceptance of the rulings of
our courts and that good govern
ment cannot exist in a locality or
state or a nation where the people
attempt to circumvent the studied
and honest decision of their courts.
“We call upon our beloved stete
of Georgia and its party and gov
ernment officials to respect the
letter, the implications and the
spirit of the decision of the Su
preme court of the United States
in the Texas primary case, to the
end that no qualified citizen of the
state of Georgia be denied his right
to participate in the primary and
general elections of the state, and
that no steps be taken to circum
vent what we regard as the logical,
honest and just opinion of the Su
preme court in this matter.”
NEW PENNIES
WANT ADS
COAL—We Have a good supply now.
Call 155 for your next order.
Farmers Ice and Fuel Co.
Boston, Apr. 27—New pennies will
have the “bang’’ taken out of them.
The Boston ordnance district an
nounces that the first shipment of
empty army ordnance .50 caliber
cartridge cases—scrap brass from
the firing range—have arrived at a
U. S. mint to be remelted with zinc
and copper for use in copper one-
cent pieces.
HINTS TO TRACTOR OPERATORS
iby P. iB. Ezell, county agent
Accidents don’t “just happen”; they
are always caused, says County
Agent P. B. Ezell, in pointing out
some of the danger spots around the
farm, especially around tractors and
other types of power machinery.
Hundreds of South Carolina farm
ers will be using tractors for the
first time this year. On hundreds of
other farms tractors will be driven
and operated by persons who have
had little or no experience around
power machinery.
A word of caution should be given
to all tractor operators about the
dangers that result frm neglect or
carelessness. The following 10 points
are listed by C. V. Phagan, exten
sion agricultural engineer, as being
some of the most important safe
guards in working with tractors and
related machinery.
1. Be sure tractor is out of gear
when cranking.
| 2. Engage clutch gently, start
slowly rather than in jerks.
3. Bring machines to full stop be
fore cleaning, oiling, or adjusting.
4. Keep gloves and loose clothing
away from belts and other moving
parts.
5. Use low gear for brakes when
going down steep hills.
6. Don’t mount or dismount a
tractor that is in motion.
| 7. Reduce tractor speed when
turning or applying brakes.
' 8. On hillsides and rough ground,
watch carefully for holes or ditches
, that may cause an upset.
i 9. Do not refuel tretor when mo
tor is running or when engine is very
hot.
i 10. Keep power take-off shields in
place, and keep out of space between
tractor and drawn implement.
NEGRO PRIMARY VOTE IS
URGED
Georgia Interracial Committee Asks
States Abide By Court Ruling
Atlanta, Ga., Apr. 27—The Geor
gia committee on interracial coopera
tion today released a resolution call
ing on party and government offi
cials to abide by the “logical, honest
'and just” U. S. Supreme court ruling
that negroes may vote in Texas pri
mary elections.
The committee said that it ap
pears that the decision will probably
apply to primary elections in all
states where negroes, on the basis
of their race or color, are now ex
cluded from primary elections, but
noted that some Democratic party
officials had asserted the decision
will not be followed in certain states.
“We believe that the * time has
come for every state in our great
nation to treat all of its citizens
justly and equally,” the resolution
said, “believing also that the in
tegrity of the nation and of its
whole people is definitely related
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FOR SALE—House at lot at 909
Wilson street. See Mrs. T. H.
POPE at 1113 Calhoun street, or
Phone 425.
FOR SALE—Pre-war Pressure Can
cers; 7 quart size. Pre-war prices,
$15.95. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO.
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
FOR SALE—.Pre-war Pressure Can-
ners of aluminum; 7 quart size. Pre
war prices $15.95. SEARS, ROE-
BUCK & CO.
FOR SALE—Stove and fire wood.
Coker 100 & 4 in one wilt resistant
cotton seed for planting. H. O.
Long, Silverstreet, S. C.
FOR SALE—Young mare mule, 4
years old, has been worked some.
Prifee $290.00. J. M. SHEALY, Po-
maria, S. C.
UNPAINTED LAWN CHAIRS $2.95,
SETTERS $5.95. Pool your orders
to make a load and we will deliver
to Newberry. Can be loaded in
your car unassembled. Mail us
your order. GOLDEN OAK FUR
NITURE CO. 1013 Gervais St., Co
lumbia, S. C. 4tp
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