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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1944
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1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
O. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
Published Every Friday In The Year
Entered as second-class matter
December 6, 1937, at tht postoffice
at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
SPECTATOR
The County Democratic Conven
tions in the forty-six counties of the
State were not particularly enthu
siastic for Mr. Roosevelt, on the one
hand, nor particularly vigorous . in
opposition. If we compare the con
ventions of 1944, with the conven
tions of 1940, it might be thought
that Mr. Roosevelt has suffered great
losses in South Carolina. I think
that is true. In the first place, no
man can hold office, having great
power, eleven years, without making
many mistakes; nor can he exercise
large powers during eleven years
without developing such a sense of
power as would tend to make him
willfull. obstinate, and self-centered.
The outcome of this is something
very little short of despotism.
The OPPONENTS of Mr. Roose
velt point to his absolute sway as
being against the interest of a demo
cratic people; WHILE HIS
FRIENDS, apparently realizing much
of this, yet argue for him, that he
is the indispensable figure on ac
count of the war.
The people of the United States
have to choose between a discredited
domestic policy, and a much adver
tised war program. It reduces itself
to this; Is Mr. Roosevelt indispen
sable? Is he rendering a service to
the nation which no other man in the
country is capable of rendering ?
When we consider the immensity
and scope of the operations of the
federal government, and the wide
range of our military and naval op
erations, it is false to assume that
the President carires in his mind any
special detailed information. He can
carry nothnig but the broad general
outline of policy; the admirals and
the generals must be the ones to
deal with the breakdown, or admin
istration of those broad policies. I
think it may be said with confidence
that any first-class intellect could
master the whole general outline of
policy in a few days. Then, at his
leisure, he could ascertain whatever
details he might wish to know. For
example, we know that we have vast
military forces in Oreat Britain,
Italy and Asia. We know, in a gen
eral way, the over-all strategic plan
which has been agreed upon. It
should not require General Marshall
and Admiral King very long to tell
a new President exactly what the
plan of operation is. To go into
greater detail, is a day-by-day affair,
which anyone could master, if he
should have the capability to operate
any major enterprise.
A man might assume control over
a lumber plant, and operate it very
successfully, without counting all the
standing timber. A department head
could tell him in a minute how many
acres are under control, with an es
timate of the number of feet of lum
ber which could be cut. Another as
sistant could tell nim the annual,
even daily, cost of operations, with
all the other matters of general out
line. It is not true at all that the
man who has seen the timber would
necessarily be the best manager of
that enterprise. And the same ap
plies to the management of the war.
Not even the captain of a warship of
any size concerns himself with de
tails, but every vessel has, not only
a commanding officer, but an execu
tive officer, who is responsible for
the details of operations. So I think
that the argument for President
Roosevelt as a great war leader is
somewhat misleading, if not an en
tire misconception of the presiden
tial function.
There is a prospect that South
Carolina will go on record against
the New Deal. I have been saying
for vears that this is not a New Deal
Stewe, and I am informed by men
who have gone throughout the state,
that the feeling of farmers against
the New Deal, is very strong.
The New Deal puts up quite a
front, because it marshals to its side
so many men who hold office, or who
for other reasons align themselves
with the New Deal. In many counties
of the state, the New Deal is the lit
tle class in office, the political top
man of the county, with all those men
who depend on him, in some measure,
for their living. Look over the state,
at some of the counties which hava
declared fo rMr. Roosevelt, and ob
serve the close cooperation of those
who hold office. I am tempted to
paraphrase a famous line of Grover
Cleveland, when he spoke of the
“cohesive power of public plunder.”
I do not say it as harshly as that,
but I do say, there is a very convinc
ing prof of the cohesive power of po
litical pap.
of him as the “Old Confederate sol
dier”, because he was an old man,
weather-bitten and rheumatic, per
haps feeble, when we knew him. But
as a young man he went to war,
walked thousands of miles through
mud and heat; slept on the bare
ground hundreds of nights; won the
admiration of the world as a great
soldier. He was the Confederate
soldier, the embattled farmer or
town lad, who followed Robert E. Lee
and “Stonewall” Jackson. The great
“Marse Robert” was only 54 when
he entered the war; and “Stonewall”
was only 37.
Why do we build monuments to
these men ? Many of them had no
slaves; many of them were poor ten
ants. Why did they offer their bodies
to the enemy Because they resented
the dictation of outsiders ;they held
it as a principle to fight for the right
of a State to determine its own do
mestic policy. And all the law of
the land was on their side. They
fought for the rights clearly reserv
ed and implied in the Constitution,
and clearly understood by those who
wrote the Constitution, as well as by
the States Which adopted it. They
had principles of government which
they cherished and were willing to
die for. They couldn’t be bought or
flim-flammed or bamboozled by a lit
tle Federal money here, or a little
political pap, somewhere else.
They were men first; they could
not be wheeled by the outpouring of
Federal funds.
The figure on the horse is Wade
Hampton. Although he was a dis
tinguished officer under Lee, we re
member him more because he re
deemed South Carolina from negro
rule, Carpet-baggers and scalawags.
Hampton and his Red Shirts are en
shrined in the hearts of South Caro
linians because they rescued the
state and restored it to white men,
even at the risk of their lives from
Federal bayonets.
The third monument is to the
women, our grandmothers and great
grandmothers who kept the farms
producing and wrought so mightily
and so grandly that they inspire us
today, and rebuke us, too.
We Southern people have the glor
ious heritage of unmurmuring sacri
fice and heroic dedication. We lost
the war, but we must not lose our
souls. A people in defeat, yet glor
ious in memory; defeated, but un
conquered; poor, but proud—a people
who, under Divine guidance, toiled as
they had fought, splendidly, until
the ravaged South became the land
of promise.
The new generation knows little
about the issues of the Civil War,
and as little about the soldiers of
Lee.
When the King of Englqpd recog
nized our independence he recognized
thirteen sovereign States, individual
ly, separately, as free nations. These
13 nations set up a central govern
ment, but each State reserved most
of its own independence. Our North
ern friends felt as strongly about
that as our fathers did; and Massa
chusetts. Connecticut, and other New
England States, threatened to secede
from the Union in 1814 because they
disapproved the restrictions on ship
ping as well as other matters. They
also talked about nullification of ob
jectionable Federal acts. But it was
this state, South Carolina, which
took action on both matters.
The Hartford Convention of 1814,
a meeting of 26 delegates from the
New England States. in session
three weeks, behind closed doors, de
clared the right to secede from the
Union; and also declared: “That Acts
of Congress, in violation of the Con
stitution, are absolutely void—and
that the States which have no com
mon umpire must be their own judges
and execute their own decisions.”
That was what all of the thirteen
original States understood to be the
law of the land.
There was a spirit in South Caro
lina then that has not died out. We
still have men of clear minds and
steadfast purpose; we still have men
who live in the moral grandeur of
the old Southern tradition of man
hood and principle first, untarnished
by deals and jobs; undeceived by
great words and ignominious deeds—
men firm, resolute to stand for a
great country, under God.
SAME POISON PEDDLED HERE
The persistent campaign stemming
out of Washington for Federal own
ership of the electric industry, is a
disgraceful travesty on the American
concept of government.
When a European dictator drives
private citizens out of business, we
hold up our hands in horror, and call
it state socialism. But here, we have
been blissfully swallowing the same
poison under the disarming label,
“public ownership of natural re
sources.”
Practically all business in the
United States is based on natural
resources—agriculture, waterpower,
mining, oil, timber, etc. If there is
government ownership of natural re
sources, there is state socialism, be
cause everyone becomes subservient
to government.
Under state socialism, the indivi
dual simply works for the state; a
man does not invest his money in
private industry and etrn a divident;
he gets a tax bill in lieu of profit,
and the greater the political control,
the greater the tax bill.
As an example of individual oppor
tunity under our system of private
enterprise, take one typical electric
utility which has just announced that
in 1943 its stockholders numbered
117,283 persons. This example of
private ownership of industry could
be duplicated in every town in the
country. It represents real citizen
ownership, where a workman can in
vest in an industry in which he
works and share in its earnings. It
represents opportunity to earn mon
ey on saving-s and be independent,
instead of being forced to work for
government as a public servant.
The American system of “stock
holder ownership” of enterprise is
superior to the phony public owner
ship of state socialism, which prob
ably explains why the advocates of
the latter studiously avoid defining
their objective by its correct name.
THE NEW ORDER?
S. C. PEACH YIELD HALF OF
’41 CROP
“The percentage of our adult pop
ulation on the Federal payroll is the
greatest in history. Notwithstanding
the widespread benefits resulting
from free enterprise, there are now
persons, some in government po- 1
sitions, clamoring for a new order;
but they refrain from stating exact
ly what this new order is to be.
Their acts, however, speak louder
than words. Their acts show that qs
a substitute for free enterprise, they
propose to establish a plan, directed
and controlled bv government offi
cials.”—John D. Miller, Susquehanna,
Pa., President Emeritus of the Na
tional Council of Farmer Coopera
tives.
FLAME THROWERS ROUTE JAi’S
DUBIOUS HONOR
In nearly every county-seat in
South Carolina stands a monument,
lumbia there is a noble and soldierly
and there is generally an inscription
whdh tells of his heroism in battle,
his devotion to a cause, his fortitude
in defeat.
On the State House Square in Co
lumbia there is a noble an dsoldierly
man astride his battle charger; and
at one of the most prominent comers
of that square sits a woman crowned
by the admiration of South Carolina.
The 10th of May was the day dedi
cated to these great sons and daught
ers of South Carolina. It is “Decora
tion Day,” as it is called in Charles
ton—our memorial day to the Con
federate soldier; frequently we think
Union leaders are vying for the
“honor” of being the first to break
the government’s wage and price
stabilization program wide open
and start another inflationary spiral.
They have compiled statistics pro
fessing to show why the “soldiers of
production” must have more money.
They call strikes at the drop of a
hat. Disrupting wair production is
their club. They get what they want,
or else. The government’s stabiliza
tion laws are currently the subject
of their wrath and every attempt
will be made to smash those laws.
Millions of Americans watch these
union abuses in helpless fury. Those
in the armed forces do not expect
wage increases every time the going
gets harder. They are a t war and
know it. Many more in civilian life
do not expect providence or a labor
union to hand them more money to
make up for rising taxes and bond
purchases and high prices.
Labor leaders should consider well
and long before they decide to smash
by force the laws designed to pro
tect the nation from runaway infla
tion. If the unions pit themselves
against the government as ruthlessly
as they have against industries, pub
lic opinion may destroy the unions.
Tea cultivation in Kenya is to be
increased to 6,732 acres from the
former restricted acreage of 3,500,
which produced 16,000,000 pounds in
1942, but only 12,000,000 in 1943.
Washington, May 14.—The flame
thrower—the “G. I. hotfoot” is
playing an important part in infan
try action in Pacific jungle warfare,
Col. Joseph K. Bush reported today.
Bush, whose home is Salem, Ind.,
returned recently from commanding
a regiment of the American infantry
division on Bouganville. The divi
sion, veteran of action in the Paci
fic, is made up mostly of men from
the Chicago area, but includes sol
diers from practically every other
state and a few Filipinos and Chi-
nese-Ajmertcans.
“Japs above ground make good
hunting,” Bush said, “but when they
are encased underground in their
pillboxes constructed of heavy ban
yan logs and earth, they have to be
poked out with the bayonet or over
come by the flame thrower if they
refuse to budge.”
The flame thrower, he said “has
proved the nemesis of the Japs, who
often have burrowed so far into the
ground that only the application, of
this G. I. hotfoot has any effect on
them.
Columbia, May 10—South Caroli
na’s estimated 1944 peach crop was
cut to one-half the 1941 maximum
yield’ of 4,095,000 bushels by the
April 5-6 freeze but was expected to
be more than five times the 1943
production which was almost wiped
out by cold weather. Federal-state
Agricultural statistician Frank O.
Black said today.
Black said that crop correspond
ent reports May 1 indicated total
production from commercial „ and
home orchards would be 2,100,000
bushels, compared with 392,000 bu
shels in 1943, 3,500,000 in 1942, the
record crop of 1941 and 1,832,000 bu
shels for the 1932-41 ten-year aver
age.
If current prospects are realized
and the usual percentage of total
production is sold, about 1,900,000
bushels of peaches will be available
for the fresh maa-ket this year, com
pared with 347,000 bushels last year
and 3,104,000 in 1942, Black added.
NOTICE TO CRFDITORS AND OF
FINAL SETTLEMENT
COTTONS FEATURED AT
SAMBA CONTEST
GERMANY LOOKS AHEAD
What is the Democratic Party?
Is it a body of men who come and
go or is it a body of living princi
ples which stand against time and
the whims, ambitions and follies of
the moment?
Do Mr. Roosevelt’s tieups with
negroes, selfish groups and alien
elements become Derrvcratic princi
ples? Was the high-handed seizure
of a retail store asymbol of Roose-
1 velt dictatorship, or a New Deal
Principle ?
OR, is Democracy still a part of
White Supremacy, Low Tariff, Eco
nomical Government, States rights
and Individual Liberty?
Mr. Roosevelt barters White Su
premacy for negro votes. What say
you to that?
The New Deal is not Democracy;
it is Mr. Roosevelt’s dictatorship,
founded on political pap, not politi
cal principles.
Are you a Democrat?
Then stand for Democratic Princi
pals!
WILD LIPE
SOUTH CAROLINA
IN
with PROF FRANKLIN SHERMAN
HEAD -CL&MSON COLLEGE - DEPI OE ZOOLOGY
MOCKINGBIRD
This is one of the favorite birds in
South Carolina, native in all parts
of the state, stays with us the year
round though less noticeable in win
ter, and a favorit songster. It sings
most freely in spring and early sum
mer, but it sings oecasionly in late
summer, and on warm days even in
midwinter one may oecasionly be
heard singing in a subdued tone. It
is only the male which sings; though
the female may utter calls or notes
of alarm.
The very name indicates that in
singing it imitates the notes or
songs of other birds and this is true,
but it also uses many notes and
“phrases” of its own, uniting the
whole into a continuously med-ly of
notes that is a wonder to hear. Many
of our birds have songs which are
pleasing, but for both volume and
variety I think that most persons
agree that Mockingbird is the best
singer of them all. Surely you know
the bird itself, slightly larger than
the catbird and more slender, gen
eral color grayish, with broad white
patches on the wings, and white on
outer tail-feathers.
He is not the only imitator among
our birds; catbird also imitates other
and so does brown thrasher, and
these three are of one natural family
of our birds, but the Mockingbird is
conceeded to be the most versatile
singer of the three. Also, often
sings at night, which is unusual
with birds.
It neslts commlonly in grape-ar
bors, thickets, shubbery, often close
to the house; the eggs 4 to 6 in num
ber, are usually pale greenish blue
or bluish white, speckled with brown
ish.
This is another bird which has
changed or extended its nesting
range; during my boyhood I did not
know it in northern Virginia.but
found it common in the same neigh
borhood ten or fifteen years later.
Mockingbirds feed largely on in
sects, berries, and small fruits and
thus its food habits are both good
and bad. It may do real damage
to strawberries, rasberries and
grapes in the garden, yet most of us
are so fond of its song that we would
not think of shooting it. It feeds
the young almost entirely on insects,
and in this we consider it to be high
ly beneficial.
Mockingbird is one of our few
binds which most of our people do
know definitely and positively with
out confusion with other species.
MNiLMN!
Extra Sugar for Canning
is Available NOW!
Your Government wants you to help
in th» present food shcrtc^e by pre
serving fruits and berries this Spring
and Summer—and has alleged 20
pounds of extra sugar per person
for this purpose—which you can get
by applying (either by mcil or in
person) to your local Ration Boarc
Dixie Crystals
' *Pur0 Cane Su§ar ’ -v
The undersigned, administrator of
the estate of J. F. Stewart, deceased,
will make final settlement of said
estate in the Probate Court for New
berry county, S. C., on Monday, June
12th, 1944, at 10:00 o’clock in bhe
forenoon, and will immediately there
after ask for discharge as adminis
trator of said estate.
AH persons having claims against
the estate of J. F. Stewart, deceased,
are hereby notified to file the same,
verified, with the undersigned, or
with my attorneys, Blease & Grif
fith .Newberry, S. C., and those in
debted to said estate will please
make payment likewise.
B. E. Stewart,
Administrator of the estate
of J. F. Stewart, deceased.
May 10th, 1944.
DISPOSABLE WASH CLOTH
OF COTTON
A disposable washcloth is among
the newest cotton products. A tab
let of compressed cotton measuring
about 1 1-4 inches in diameter by
less than one-half inch thick, it grad
ually swells and opens out to a rec
tangle measuring approximately 5 1-2
by 3 1-2 inches when it may be dis
posed of by throwing it in the waste
basket.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF THE
ESTATE OF WALTER H. DAVIS
Notice is hereby given that the
creditors of the estate of Walter H.
Davis are required to render an ac
count of their ^demands, duly attest
ed, to my attorneys, Blease & Grif
fith, Newberry, S. C., and any credi
tor having account against W. H.
Davis & Son shall render the same,
duly attested, to James H. Davis at
the place of business of W. H. Davis
& Son, Newiberry, S. C.
Made Davis King, «
Administratrix of the Estate
of Walter H. Davis, deceased.
LOANS
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Automobiles
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Personal Property
NEWBERRY
Ins. & Realty Co.
NED PURCELL, Manager
Phone 197 Exchange Bank. Bldg.
New York—Colorful Samba con
tests mark the premiere of summer
cottons in Rio de Janeiro, according
to Xavier Cugat, the rhumba king.
Highlight of the festivities is when
the women don their summer cottons,
often worn with a fruit-laden head
dress, and the men appear in colorful
cotton shirts a nd fantastic Indian
headpieces, brandishing spears, tam
bourines, guitars and fans. Cugat,
who popularized Latin American
music in this country, has broken
all records for attendance at Broad
way’s largest theater, and soon be
gins his fifteenth engagement at the
Waldorf-Astoria.
I*
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(Charlotte Observer)
Netherlands Ambassador Alexan
der Loudon in Washington comes for
ward with further evidence, or at
least corroborative testimony, that
Germany already is planning for an
other war.
The German high command already
has charged its generals with the
preparation of World War III, the
ambassador said in a speech in Bal
timore. “The German high com
mand naturally realizes it has lost
World War II and has charged Gen
eral Von Stuelpnagle with the pre
paration of a memorandum on the
next struggle”, the ambassador said.
He quoted Von Stuelpnagle as say
ing that the program of starvation
and destruction pursued by Germany
in the occupied lands is aimed at so
weakening her neighbors that “we
shall be better placed to conquer in
25 years from now than we were in
1939.”
Von Stuelpnagle was quoted in
these columns to the same effect sev
eral weeks ago.
Evidence accumulates that German
leaders are looking forward to a fu
ture World war in which they hope
to complete the ambitious enterprise
of conquest which they have attempt
ed twice in 25 years and in which
they have failed each time.
They MIGHT win next time—if
the United States and her allies
should prove so stupid as to permit
Germany to have another chance at
aggressive war making.
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risk your life in establishing a
beachhead. But you can release a
Marine to do that job in your place
if you are between the ages of 20
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A Message from Donald M. Nelson To
The Cotton Textile Workers of America
The nation is calling on you tor greater cotton textile
production. Steadily increasing quantities of these
materials are needed to supply the requirements of
the armed forces, and to provide essential clothing
for our civilian population.
With you, the weavers of the world, rests the re
sponsibility for meeting these needs. It is a great and
serious responsibility, for the needs are urgent and
must be met now it we are to hasten the day ot vic
tory that lies ahead.
I am confident that when the full story of the
cotton textile industry’s contribution to the war
effort is finally written, the prestige of this industry
will occupy a high place in the public mind.
Donald M. Nelson,
Chairman,
War Production Board.
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