The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, June 02, 1944, Image 5
FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1844.
PAGE FIVE
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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.
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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
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★ 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.
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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.
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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.