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rvvue FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1044 un 1218 College Street NEW!' 1RY, SOUTH CAROLINA • > F. ARMFIELD E^-.ior and Publisher Published 1 > Friday In The Year Entered a.'- second-class matter December 6, H'37, a. tht postoffice at Newberry. Soutii Carolina, under the Act of Courress of March 3, 1879. NEWBERRY MUST FIND A MILLION We have not seen the figures on Newberry’s quota in the Fifth war loan campaign but on a basis of the last drive it will be around a mil lion dollars. That’s a lot of money and the bottom of the barrel will have to be scraped before it is raised. Drives heretofore have not occa sioned much sacrifice on the part of anyone. Our people just bought bonds as an investment out of funds they had no immediate need for. The 200,000 additional dollars sought this time will entail some tightening' of the belt, some doing without, as it will have to come from the rank and file. The sacrifice we will be asked to make next month will not hurt us; in fact if we really buy until it hurts we will have a better conscience over this war. Few of us today can look our boys squarely in the face and say: “I have done my best.” KICK OR BE KICKED There has been general acceptance of the idea of rationing and reasona ble price control as a war measure. Everyone understands that the prob lems of the OPA are multitudinous. But the public cannot understand why price and rationing control is al lowed to develop into a method of oppression in many cases. Take a ruling like the “highest price line limitation,” adopted two years ago. It has been unworkable on a basis of fairness and equality. It is. therefore heartening to read that at last certain adjustments will be made, although the public now takes such promises with a “spoon ful” of salt. Another practice of the price con trol program which is shaking pub lic confidence, is denial of court ap peal on OPA rulings. No satisfactory answer has yet been given for shut ting a man out of regular courts when he objects to a ruling of the OPA, and forcing him to go before an OPA “emergency court” where a complainant can be put to intermina ble delays. While the war makes some restric tive measures necessary, it still re mains highly important to seek cor rection of rulings which, if unchal lenged, leave the citizen outside the courts and at the mercy of political forces beyond his control. money” government borrowing ha« made necessary a mountain of regula tions to save the nation from “infla tion.” The extent to which these regula tions threaten individual liberty is not yet generally realized. Recently Massachusetts meat wholesaler was accused of selling cuts of beef above OPA ceiling prices. He was convicted of criminal violation of the Emer gency Price Control Act. The case was carried through to the United States Supreme Court, which held that a person so cinvicted could not challenge the constitutionality of the Act except within a limited period of time, and then only before an emergency court. Thus does the grim result of the “owing it to ourselves” theory make itself felt in inflation and in arbi trary, freedom-destroying regula tions. As the Portland Oregonian observes: “. . . . For the first time in the history of America, a citizen can be haled into court on a crimi nal charge and told that his denial of the constitutionality of the law is no defense. “. . . . Surely it will be patient upon reflection that if the citizen can be refused the protection of the Constitution in the instance, he can be refused h in any and all cases. Nor does it matter how worthy the OPA aim may be, inflation would be preferable to a return to that slavery from which the blood of our fore fathers rescued us.” This is a portent of national bank- ruptacy. It is atill not tooo late to turn back if the fallacy of believing that unlimited debt does no harm, is abandoned, and government bor rowing brought under control at the war’s end. Attending the graduation exer cises of Miss Rosemary Bowers at Winthrop college Sunday were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Jackson Bowens, Mrs. Wilson of Spartanburg, Miss Sadie Bowers, and Mrs. H. W. Schumpert. s^WILD LIFE SOUTH CAROLINA IN [with PROF FRANKLIN SHERMAN 1 HtAD-CkeMSOM CO LI. IPS-PS Ft OS ZOOLOGY BUTTERFLIES AND SKIPPERS Butterflies arouse more popular in terest than perhaps any other group of insects. They are light, airy, ac tive, amd many of them have beauti ful ‘colors. But many people will call a moth a “butterfly,” and some will call a butterfly a “motto,"--co let’s get that straight right now. The butterflies fly only in day time. Butterflies have the antennae (“feelers”) knobbed or enlarged to ward the tip. They are commonly seen in bright sunshine flitting from flower to flower to feed on the nec tar, or occasionally at some wound on a tree to get the exuding sap. Wide expanse of wing in proportion to size of 'body. The moths by contrast fly more actively at dusk or after nightfall, al though some fly during daytima. They have the antennae feathery and tapering to a point at tip, or at most only slightly eclubbed.” Less ex panse of wing in proportion to body. •Both butterflies and moths belong to that great order of insects known as the lepidoptera of which several thousand separate species inhabit S. C. All butterflies and skippers, and all moths, develop from what we know as caterpillars, the caterpillar when grown changing to a pupa, and from that to the adult winged insect. The caterpillars usually feed on vegetation and may be destructive. Moths are much the more numerous. Of the true butterflies and skippers we have only about from 125 to 150 species in South Carolina. The skippers are a division of the butterflies whiteh have the extreme tip of the antennae recurved * 1 or hooked, and they fly with quicker, jerky, more erratic flight and have less expanse of wing in proportion to size of body than the typical but terflies. Common names have been assigned to many of our butterflies: there is the monarch or milkweed butterfly which migrates; the viceroy which resembles monarch but smaller; im ported white cabbage butterfly, cat erpillar of which is a pest on cab bage, etc.; little sulphur, the smallest of our yellow butterflies; cloudless sulphur, which is almost wholly clear sulphur-yellow color; buckeye, brownish with eye-like spots on wings; moUrmng-eloak, dark brown- iish-purtpjie with cream-loolored bor der to wings, which may be seen in open woodlands in late winter; black- bordered orange which is active un til late m fall. At Clemson we have seen late- season butterflies into December, and have seen early-spring species as early as February, leaving January as our one month when one is least likely to see any butterfly in volun tary flight. RED CROSS NOTES Under Mrs. A. T. Neely as chair man of Production with Mrs. P. B. Ezell as Co-chairman and Miss Fan nie MteCaughrin, the following com mittee members have been appointed and have accepted: Cutting Committee - Chairman, Mrs. J. L. Dickert; Co-chairman, Mrs. Henry Fellers; Mrs. John Waldrop, Mips. Thomas Parks, Mrs. J. D French, Mrs. Miller Wessinger. Sewing Committee - Chairman, Mrs. H. C. Fellers; Mrs. Viola Rich ardson, Mrs. G. O. Shealy, Mrs. T. A. Wesson, Mrs. Godrge Davenport, IT LOOKS FISHY A great many people were aston ished by the proposal of the Secre tary of the Interior to give the gov ernment’s $20,000,000,000 worth of war industries to the returning sol diers. Of course this would involve a gigantic government-controlled holding company. Giving away industries “would be a revised edition of the Homestead Act and the land provisions of the Reclamation Law,” said the Secre tary, although he admitted that per haps the first directors of the ex periment would have to be appointed by the government. It is hard to see any similarity be tween such a proposal and the home stead law under which a man got a piece of land of which he was abso lute owner, free from government in terference or directors. The home steader became an independent citi zen owning a piece of property in fee simple, which he could dispose of as he wished, and for any price he wish ed. All a returned service man would own in this proposed giant holding company, would be a paper stock certificate. The assets of the com pany would be made up of war indus tries, most of which could not be ap plied to peacetime pursuits without heavy reconversion investments. It is probable the service man would even be prohibited from selling his stock, in order to assure continued government monopoly and operation of the properties. It looks like this proposal to “give” the service man something, is a blind to keep the government in business, uing the service man as a tool to ac complish that end. You'll be glad this neighbor asked you to Buy Bonds HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I hereby announce myself a can didate for re-election to the House of Representatives and agree to abide the rules of the Democratic party and support the nominees thereof. R. AUBREY HARLEY FOR SENATE I hereby announce myself a can didate for re-election to the Senate and agree to abide the rules of the Democratic party and support the nominees thereof. M. E. ABRAMS SUPT. OF EDUCATION I "hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the office of Superintendent of Education, and agree to abide the results of the primary and support its nominees. C. E. HENDRIX COMMISSIONER DISTRICT NO. 1 I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election as Commissioner from District No. 1, agreeing to abide the results of the primairy. WLBUR E. EPPS. FOR MAGISTRATE CHAPPELLS I hereby announce myself a can didate for reelection to the office of Magistrate Chappells District and agree to abide the results of the Democratic primary. A. LAMAR DOMINICK FOR CORONER I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the office of Coroner of Newberry county and agrree to abide the results . of the primary election. LEROY WILSON FOR AUDITOR I hereby announce myself a can didate for re-election to the office of auditor of Newberry county, and pledge myself to continue to give my best efforts to the county and bo abide the results of the Democratic primary election. PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the office of Sheriff of Newberry county and agree to abide the results of the primary and support the nominees thereof. TOM M. FELLERS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I hereby announce that I am a candidate for re-election to the House of Representatives in the Democratic primary for Newberry county, and I pledge myself to abide by the rules of the Democratic Party. STEVE C. GRIFFITH THE SIGNS ARE CLEAR During the decade of peace pre ceding the war, the Federal govern ment was going deeper and deeper into debt. The public was beleaguer ed by bitter arguments from £wo schools of thought concerning gov ernment borrowing a nd government spending. The “we - owe - it-to-ourselves” school claimed that it made no dif ference how high the debt goes be cause with proper “planned econo my,” defbt is an asset rather than a liability. A second school of thought argued that inordinate gobemment borrow ing leads to bankruptcy and loss of individual freedom. A generation of voters has now reached maturity never knowing any other than a “borrowing” govern ment. The country to all outward appearances is prosperous and the citizen is still free. However, in spite of appearances, the philosophy of wasteful spending has been proven wrong. No one will longer claim that our public debt is a burden whose weight is barely felt. And government of ficials themselves cry ‘ that “easy O NE DAY SOON, a neighbor may stop by to talk about the War Loan and the share your locality is expected to play in it Or, he may talk at a War Bond rally at the high school. Chances are he’ll ask if you’ll buy more Bonds. Will you look on it as a request for a donation? Or will you look on it as an opportunity to build up the financial reserve every business-like former or rancher has to have to run his place profitably? .. M No need to tell you it takes money to run a war. No need to tell you it’s your war, your liberty at stake. But we’re all human and just a little bit given to “letting George do it ” Only this time we’re all George. We’ve got to do it! And in buying those Bonds, we’re doing ourselves as big a service as we are our fighting men and our country. Were building strength—personal finan cial strength—with which to meet the inevitable problems of tomorrow. Mrs. R. G. Carroll. Knitting Committee - Chairman, Mrs. T. J. McCraekin, Co-chairman, Mrs. Wilton Todd. Packing Committee - Mrs. John Boozer and Mrs. George Rodelsper- ger. The only sewing to be done at pre sent is “buddy” bags. Mrs. Neely is anxious ithat those that have been taken out by workers be returned as soon as possible so that a shipment may be made. There is a great de mand for these not only for boys go ing adross and in American camps, but especially in the hospitals. As soon as the quota is finished a ship ment will be made. These bags are filled with the small necessary art icles that a boy needs to bring com fort and recreation. Mts. Herman Wright is Vice- chairman of the volunteer Special Services Committee. Two addition al committees are in process of foration under this head—Home Service Committee and staff. Something Worth Buying Maybe you have a son off at war. What a homecoming when he gets into his jeans and you’ve both got those Bonds to fall back on for the machinery and equipment and build ings you’ll be needing in the future. And how about the education you’ve promised yourself you’d give your children? And that long va cation in the sunshine you and your wife have so long deserved? All these things take money — and the only way to have these things is to save that money now. U. S. War Bonds are the safest and most liquid investment you can make for these future needs—needs worth S. providing for! 1 For Your Future • For Your Country’s Future • For Your Children’s Future BUY MORE WAR SAYINGS BONDS > 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 & S6n, Newberry, S. C. Macie Davis King, Administratrix of the Estate of Walter H. Davis, deceased. NOTICE ^TO CREDITORS ANlTOF FINAL SETTLEMENT 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 the forenoon, and will immediately there after ask for discharge as adminis trator of said estate. All 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. LOANS ON Real Estate Automobiles and Personal Property • NEWBERRY Ins. Sc Realty Co. NED PURCELL, Manager Phone 197 Exchange Bank. Bldg. V a * M FfUS? SUN OF A c OV.V “666 006 TABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS By preserving fruits and berries — I'm SAVING FOOD and SAVING POINTSI V ■' \ ■ ?0 'vlf! ; Fruits and berries pre served NOW will mean points saved later onl Twenty pounds extra sugar per person al lotted for this purpose. 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