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FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1844. PAGE FIVE LOANS ON Real Estate Automobiles and Personal Property NEWBERRY Ins. Sc Realty Co. NED PURCELL, Manager Phone 197 Exchange Bank. Bldg. Keep your farm animals free of lice in winter, too! Parasite-caused irritations in winter (when dipping is dangerous) can be as costly as in summer. DRI-KIL is the powder de veloped in conjunction with Agricultural College experts. DRI-KIL kills sheep ticks when rubbed in wool . . . horse or cattle lice when dusted on animal . . . hog lice by dusting on animal or putting in bedding . . . poultry lice and mites by dusting on birds and sprinkling in nests, in cracks and crevices. Pleasant to handle. A little DRI-KIL used in time can prevent hard-to-eradicate infesta tions developing. Keep a package of DRI- KIL always on hand. It’s cheap insurance against losses from pa.asites. 2 lb. pkg $ .50 10 lb. pkg 2.25 25 lb. pall .... 5.00 FOR SALE BY: Newberry Drug Co. SPECTATOR The O.P.A. is in Dutch again with South Carolinians. Once H was the dairy interests; now it is the potato growers on the coast. The ceiling price allowed by the O.P.A. does not allow the Charleston county growers a chance to come out even, because he has operated at a great disadvantage all the year. Ac cording to the rule of business a man must receive more than his cost if he is to operate. If storms and other natural forces reduce the yield the producer must sell what he pro duces at a higher cost. Everybody else does so; why shouldn't the farmer? The O.P.A. points out that the California price operates to prevent a higher ceiling price in Charleston. This is one of the sore spots about national controls. Our Charleston A.A.A. Committee fired a blast that reveiberated like a 16-inch gun. Hear our Charleston ibrethren size up the situation: “A suggestion that South Caro lina’s representatives and agencies in government are failing to protect the interests of the farmers in the state as well as Senator Claude Pepper does the interests of his Florida con stituents was made yesterday in a statement by the Charleston county Agricultural Adjustment Adminis tration on the ceiling price recently set by the O.P.A. on South Carolina potatoes. “Condemning the lack of attention which it said was ipuid to information and evidence presented on conditions and needs here, the committee said, ‘Why is it that Florida’s agriculture receives advantages South Carolina’s agriculture can’t receive? Maybe Senator Pepper is the answer to this committee’s question, maybe Mr. Pepper has time off and uses some of it to look after his fanners’ in terests.’ “The statement signed by H.. B. Walpole, chairman; L. E. Cox and Francis Hopikinson, follows: “The members of the Charleston county A. A. A. committee are puz zled by the action of the O.P.A. in its decision to place a ceiling of 83.25 per 100 pound sack on U. S. No. 1 potatoes moving out of South Caro lina beginning 1 Monday, this ceiling to be lowered to 83.05 in June; prices on other grades being proportionately low. “The ceiling of 82.80 on the Vic tory grade in 1943 was more attrac tive to growers than the present price. “The thing that puzzles this com mittee is the apparent disregard of Washington for information and evi dence confirming the fairness of the farmer’s request for fair treatment at the hands of O.P.A. The county agent ,the president of the South Carolina Agricultural Society and the executive secretary of the Charleston County Production Credit Associa tion and the acting county adminis trative officer of the A. A. A. sipent a day showing the state O.P.A. direc tor the serious condition of the farm- er’s crops. Buy Your COAL now.. . We are fortunate in having a good supply of domestic Coal on hand now. We advise you to place your order with us today for next winter’s supply. outhern Cotton OuC.. “If the state OtP-A. director report ed what he sew down here, then no attention waa paid to his report. A petition to our legislative delegation in Washington was prepared by a committee of men authorized and des ignated by the fanners in the county. ’Inis petition asked for the same ceilings as enjoyed during April by Florida farmers. “Why is it that Florida’s agricul ture receives advantages South Caro lina’s agriculture can’t receive? May be Senator Pepper is the answer to this committee’s question; maybe Mr. Pepper has time off and uses some of it to look after his farmers’ re quests. “Maybe this committee has antique ideas about the service the public is entitled to expect from its elected public service representatives and employees at commissions and bu reaus. But it still insists that in formation originating in communi ties concerning the handling of the communities’ business should have some influence upon the actions of these servants, commissions and bu reaus. “Maybe again if we had called upon Senator Pepper, the situation here in Charleston county would have been different. We’ve long suspect ed that the director of the stale O.P.A. office in Columbia gives the right answers to the questions that the powers-that-be in Washington want to hear. “Another thing that puzzles this committee. How was the ceiling price arrived at by the ceiling set ters, anyway, This committee is puz zled', or is it just disgusted?’’ According to the News and Cour ier, which is careful of its state ments, potatoes from Florida and Alabama have been moving to mar ket without a ceiling price, so why a ceiling on Charleston potatoes? Is this the reward for Charleston voting 100 per cent for the New Deal and the fourth term and a life tenure for FDR? The ceiling price announced for Charleston was 83.25 a 100 pounds for U. S. No. 1's. to be reduced to 83.05, then 82.90, while California has been shipping at 88 a hundred. Between 600 and 800 carloads of potatoes will be ready for market from South Carolina. At this ceiling the farmers wil be paid 8744,000—a loss of 82,976,000 from last year. Of course this enormous loss is primarily due to failure of the crop because of excessive rains, frosts, bugs and blight. Perhaps we South Carolinians are “Economic Problem No. 1.” May we hope for a wee bit of justice for our farmers? Or should they quit try ing to earn a livelihood and join the W.P.A. ? Who will pass around the hat for a bit of help for the landlords? Somebody should lend them a hand. We know that everybody is rolling in wealth because the agricultural statisticians have proved that the fanner is bending under the weight of his money; and we know that wages have taken wings. But here is the Poor, starving landlord in South Carolina renting his land for 86.18 on 8100 ef value, and paying taxes, depreciation, and insurance out of that. The Goverament has Issued the figures showing that rents are lower in this state than in 1930. Of course, we are talking about farm rentals, not town propetry in war areas. Then, again, the Government says that South Carolina farm rentals are 1.2 per cent below the national av erage. Poor land-owner! Surrounded by prosperity, he is marooned on his little island of poverty. lly trea Southerners have always thought so. We know that the agricultural South sells on world markets, in competi tion with cheap labor and .cheap land and other items tending to produce competitive crops at lower coat. And we buy from Northern interests which operate on high wages, be cause of a protective tariff. But here is The New York Post in fiill agreement with our general conten tion. Says The Post: “After reading some Southern politicians comments on the Supreme Court decision that gives Negroes the ballot in Texas, it would be easy to picture the entire South as the abode of crazy-eyed lynchers, and moronic snuff-dippers with no de cent instincts or human sensibilities. “It would be easy to do that—and harmful, too. Nor would it be fair. Having kicked the South aroundi eco nomically for the last eighty yea?s, it ill behooves, while holding it down in the gutter with one hand to use the other to point the finger of scorn. “The South never had a chance in American life. Its economic relation ship to the rest of the nation was al ways cockeyed. And from there it is only a step to cockeyed' trace rela tionships. Remember that in 1937 the average per capita income in the United States was 8604.00. But in the South it was 8314 and Negroes got even less. “The South has become our In dia. We extract tons of raw ma terials from its rich forests, we erode its land for its cotton and to bacco. Up to ten years ago we main tained a high tariff policy that cut the South off from markets for its agricultural products while *t the same time it forced the South to buy Northern manufactures at plue-tar- iff prices. “Remember that even the South’s war boom prosperity is a sickly growth. Almost all the large war plants are Northern-owned branch factories.’’ genius; we are the greatest because we have had a free country, a coun try in which to live and work almost without restriction. It isn’t so in other lands; in fact, our miltifarious bureaucracy gives us a bad taste of what is done in other nations. We don’t like it. An advertisement of the largest American corporation is interesting to me. The American Telephone and Telegraph Co., has more than six hundred thousand stockholders and counts its assets in the billions. Wid ows, orphans and estates, as well as active businessmen, own the stock. Hardly a town is without at least half a dozen stockholders in this giant enterprise. What interests me is that the ad vertisement shows a body of smooth faced men as top executives, evetry man of whom started life is a poor lad, beginning at the bottom. No rich man’s son is a top executive in this vast enterprise. The big chief, the president of the whole combina tion, started as a clerk, in 1904. This mighty enterprise is the product of brains and loyal service. That is what made America. Would you sub stitute for it something dominated by a lot of government bureaucrats who, in private life, never succeeded, in anything but the use of words. The greatest danger to the real America today is that we are trying to substitute governmental direction and control for management by own ers and their representatives. Gov ernmental control means control by bureaucrats, most of whom have never wrestled with the problems of management; who have never stat ed a business with nothing and fought through trials, adversity and failure, to present success. Almost no business becomes a suc cess, mechanically; it is the product of inspiration, perspiration, planning, failures—and all that—but comes through as a result of (patience, per sistence, devotion and loyalty. NOTICE TO JURY DRAWING We the undersigned jury commis sioners of Newberry county, shall on the 8th day of June 1944, at 9 o’clock a. m., openly and pubKciy, in the Clerk of Court’s office, draw thirty- six names to serve as petit jurors for the court of general sessions, or criminal court, which will convene at Newberry county court house, at 10 o’clock a. m., June 19th, 1944. H. K. Boyd, Clerk of Court, P. N. Abrams, Auditor, J. R. Dawkins, Treasurer. May 26, 1944. What made America great? Not mere size, for Brazail is larger, China and India have more people. Ameri cans ae not the finest people ip the world because of special talent or Add Indigestion Relieved la 8 minute* or double your money back Wh*B excess stomich geld causes painful, suffocat- iBf gas, sour stomach and heartburn, doctors usually prescribe the fastest-acting medicines known for traptoanatte relief modtrlnse like tbeee in Bell-ana Tablsts. No laxative. Bell-ana brings comfort in a SUtf or double your money back on return of bottle ions. 25e at all druggists. ★ You can buy Series E War Savings Bonds from your bank, postoffice, mail carrier or Production Credit Association. 'k You can name a co-owner or a beneficiary. * You never get less than you lend. For America’s future, for yow future, for your children’s future, invest in extra War Bonds now! Leon L Rice Enters Congress Race ANDERSON ATTORNEY SEEKS TO UNSEAT BUTLER B. HARE OF SALUDA LEON L. RICE Leon L. Rice, of Anderson, has formally announced his candidacy for Congress from this district and is basing his campaign of the following objectives: 1. To bring the war to a success ful conclusion at the earliest possible moment and make proper provisiot.s for our soldiers and sailors return ing home. 2. A fair deal for farmers and protection against sale below cost of production plus a reasonable profit to the growers, preventing cotton from selling below parity, while wool is selling at twice parity; and tobac co is selling at three times parity. The ceiling price on cotton goods should be adjusted to the price of cotton and the loan value should in sure at least parity price. The price of cotton seed should be fixed by a loan value in line with peanuts, soy beans, and other, food and oil-pro ducing products. 3. Adequate protection for cot ton against synthetic fibers and sub stitutes. 4. A fair deal for labor and capi tal and a discontinuance of freezing workers on jobs. 6. Less interference by govern ment in private business, and en courage of small business, new en terprises, and initiative in all of our citizens. 6. To relieve your people of bur densome taxes after the war is won, and palce reparations on the axis na tions and see that they pay for the damages incurred to the end that never again shall they disturb the peace of the world. 7. Development of our natural re sources, rural electrification, soil con servation, roads and airways. 8. Exempt from excess profits tax, dividends actually paid to common stockholders to the extent of a rea sonable return on their investment. 9. Participation in a world court or some kind of international coop eration to keep the peace of the world. 10. Strict economy in the expen diture of all public funds. ACHING-STIFF SORE MUSCLES For PROMPT relief—rub on Mua- terolel Massage with this wonderful “counter-irritant” actually brings fresh warm blood to aching muscles to help break up painful local con gestion. Better than an old-fashioned mustard plaster) In 3 strengths. MUSTeroIE 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. Da^is & Son shall render the same, duly attested, to James H. Davis at the place of business of W. H. Davis & Son, Newberry, S. C. Macie Davis King, Administratrix of the Estate of Walter H. Davis, deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OF 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.