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PAGE FIVE Friday, junE 36, uu SPECTATOR By SPECTATOR Men who write sometimes devote time and space to matters they don’t know much about. Speakers are even greater offenders for many men do not know what to say; do not know what they are saying; and do not know what they have said. Those who write are a bit more restrained, for though they may not know what to write they must know what they have written. It stares you in the face like blood stains on the hand of Lady Macbeth. And, unfortunately, what is written is written and stands like a record in the Book of Doom. Of course most tpeople don’t read the stuff, except when it is very, very bad. \11 this stuff I’m writing is be cause of an alarm, a growing fear gnawing at my heart. It is all about “Bishop” Smoak and something whir h I read in his good paper. That charming and knightly spirit, James O. Sheppard, told me that dur ing his term as Lieutenant-Governor of the State, characterized through out by that traditional chivalry of old Edgefield,—that, as I said, during that service, Mr. Sheppard concluded that some members of the legislature constituted themselves. A Commit tee on Wild Life, or The Committee, as you please. There may have been “fishy” procedures, but their pro gram did not include fish of the wa ter—nor anything else connected with water. Now comes our religious friend, and in spite of his own Episcopal dig nity as a ranking Methodist, writes a story under the heading “Looking at Wild Life in South Carolina” and under it indicates that the story is fishy Fancy, now; can .you beat it; Wild life, forsooth! And the Bishop of Colleton? Land of Goshen! Where could this wild life have been that fell under the gaze of the Bishop, or otherwise impigned on his consciousness 9 Not in Walterboro? Nay; nor yet in Green Pond. Wil liams. Rounds or Lod<*e; not in Smonks Cro®* Road e . either. Where. then 9 In the Legislature, of whkh the Bishoo is a resnected member ? I reproach myself that I did not “look after” my friend with more assiduity. That word hounds bad; I mean that I should have been more on the job. After all. one does not have to loo 1 , at wild life, for there are colleges, seminaries, libraries, churches—and all the agencies of tone and mor"! ■ nlift. It might be a hit awkward, but a consecrated brother could blind-fold himself and walk about without seeing wild li?e; tand, of course, if he couldn’t see it, he wouldn’t “look at” it. Tut, tut, Bishop. The State political campaign has shown us the general drift of each candidate. Senator Smith declares himself clearly against Mr. Roose velt and the New Deal. He stands nat on his reerrd of opposition to Mr. Roosevelt and is equally as pat on ' k record for the farmers. As is ! '■row" Pensto’ Smi f h 'Chairman f; ’he Committee on Agriculture of the ; emte md is in nosjiinn "o> mere!'’ t-> sneak but to have th' f, ill weight t ...irv nowerf-d n"r»t’on. if "S| r-o secret that most of the mnortant , measures are determined largely in committee. It is desirable that Soutl: | Carolina conside*. the importance of l avi"" the chairmanship of a great f smmittee. Mr. A. S Mer imon b fully meet- : evpe-t-t’ons and is speakin" l.ol 'l'-. clearly, and effectively to the people. Mr. Merrimon’s rebuke to the Gov ernor and the Attornev-Genernl fin^ camnaigning for one office while al- ! irady drawing nav for another wasj very sharp and showed that he would fight his way strenovsly. Mr. Merri mon’s forceful arraignment of the Roosevelt Administration was speci fic; he did not merely shell the woods .and indulge in generalities; he gave details to support hi? charges. Mr. Merrmtcn is developing into the chief attraction of the audience. Governor Johnston is running on the record of General Marshall and General MacArthur. He is for White Supremacy and against much that we condemn in Mr Roosevelt, but he will support him as Commander-in- Ohtef, on the strength of the achieve ments of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force. Undoubtedly the Medical and Hos pital service should be likewise cred ited to Mr. Roosevelt as well as the martial exploits of his heroic sons, .all of whom seem to enjoy immediate 1 ecognition for their valorous deeds, as weH as quick promotions; and medals. It may be possible to remember that Mr. Roosevelt was Commander- in-Chief at the time of Pearl Harbor, ns well as when the heroic soldiers of the Philippines surrendered. As Commandcr-in-Chief Mr. Roose velt has been led bv the no«e by Mr. Churchill and Mr. Stalin. If you pat Mr. Roosevelt on the back you can have his shirt; and he seems willing to gave away Uncle Sam’s trousers, too. As has been pointed out, the gen eral plan of operations has been agreed on, unless Mr. Roosevelt’s ad mirers think, the strategy of the war is a day-to-day affair. Mr. Roosevelt has worked so hard all these years that he deserves a rest; his friends should not insist that he sacrifice himself further. Dr. Eppe has lived up to his declar ation of steadfast and zealous loyal ty to Mr. Roosevelt and the Roose velt tradition. The Doctor sees . no reason why he should apologize for anything done or undertaken by the New Deal. Probably the ten dollars expended for one dollar of benefit is not worth challenging. The Assist- HE NEWBERRY SUN ant Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Bard, testified a year ago that certain Rooseveltian policies cost the Navy alone more than five bilion dollars at that time. Of cour-e our earnest friend must fiTTd it difficult to pass over that since he took a worthy part in saving five millions to the State one year. Of course, Mr. Roosevelt has lifted our eyes to the hills. No longer do we think or spend in small figures. We talk in billions, no less. Many of our people will recall that in ancient Rome the most important man was the man who owed the most money. Mr. Roosevelt would have made Julius Caesar look like a village politician in the matter of importance based on debts. Another idea of the Roman politi cians now brought up to date is that of giving away a lot of stuff to please the voters. Don’t you remember all that? Mr. Roosevelt has another grand scheme like that: He would control the hospitals and the physicians. Since Mrs. Roosevelt seems to be the man of the family we can imagine what would happen. Attorney General DanieJ uses strong language about the Federal Supreme Court. All that he says is true and should be said with em phasis. Does he not see any connec tion between the once austere and great court and the philospher of the WHITE HOUSE who wants to be Congress and Court, as well as presi dent? Not even so cloistered and un suspecting a gentleman as our quiet Attorney-General could be so far re moved from the wicked world as that. Our Governor is 100 per cent for Generals MacArthur, Marshall and Eisenhower. So say we, ALL of us. Certainly we are FOR our men in the services. But why insist on sup porting Mr. Roosevelt? Is he, too, a general ? Would not MacArthur, Mairshall and Eisenhower continue to direct the forces? Surely this is not a New Deal war; we thought it was AMERICAN. The Federal Fair Employment Practices Commission is another of the agencies created by the President, and is demanding the employment, of all races in all plants without dis crimination as to race, etc. Recent ly a concern in Dallas, Texas, adver tised for colored men for certain work This FEPC officer wrote to the con cern that its advertisement was in violation of the general order. Let us look at this a moment If there were a job with a hundred men and all were colored worker’s, and 10 or 15 more were needed, the contractor would advertise for ten or fifteen COLORED workers. That is common practice. The advertise ment would be a racial discrimina tion, it is true, but a discrimination IN FAVOR OF COLORED workers. Frequently a white man calls for a colored helper. But this foolishness of the FEPC would forbid mention of either white or colored. Observe the folly of this: If a man wants 100 white helpers he should advertise for 10 helpers, saying noth ing about race. If 500 colored help ers apply they merely waste their time and suffer a comrplete deception. We have never treated our people that way. The great ignorance of the meddlers with our racial question is that the meddlers do not know that there is now a working and workable plan which is almost without friction. I know that we hear of discrimina tion against the Colored people. But the Colored people have done wonder fully well WITH their churches and THROUGH their churches. The whole world cannot be made over in a ^lay. There are discriminations against the whole South. Does it ever occur to the politi cians who stir up the racial question that there are not enough lawyers and marshals in the North to arrest and punish the whole South? Is’ it conceivable that'the Colored man can thrive and prosper in r. land of white men who have turned against ■him? As a matter of just hard, com mon sense, or horse-sense, does not the- welfare of the Colored man de pend on the good will of the South ern White man? Well is this constant New Deal campaign likely to make friends for our Colored People? Or is it not noticeably making for bitterness? The Scriptures tell us that he that taketh up the sword shall perish by the sword. The meaning of thrt is that we invite reprisals when we make an attack Does it seem rea sonable that the Southern white man will let meddlers, agitators and poli tical manipulators crowd him to the wall? Is anybody so simple and ig norant as to think that the White people will fail to retaliate? The so-called leaders are arousing the colored people hut they are arousing the white people, too. Just as a number of the colored people are being inflamed against the white oeople. so at least an equal number of white people are inflamed against the colored people. A little reflection must suggest that the law-suits and other chal lenges of colored leaders are like red flags to a bull—deliberate incite ments. Some leaders have run.off the rails and are likely to he ditched by the quieter, wiser leaders of the race. Now farmers, on the level, wasn’t it hot enough for your cotton all during the first three-fourths of June? If net. how much neat do you require? So great has been the heat that some difference has developed be tween cotton and tobacco fanners. Said the cotton farmer: “Lay on, McDuff”; but the tobacco farmer said, “Hold, enough.” MR. WILLIAMS GOES TO CLEMSON S. A. Williams left June 16 for Clem son College, where he will be special agent of Clemson College Ex tension Enginering Department. His duties will take him over the state to contact ginners and help them in ginning their cotton more efficiently to save waste. He was Assistant County Agent in Newberry before going into the army where he served over a year as lieutenant. After be ing discharged from the army, he asumed his duties here again until he was appointed to his new duties. W. A. Ridgeway has been appoint ed Assistant County agent taking the place of J. E. Fagan, who was agent in Mr. William’s absence. Mr. Ridgeway, prior to coming to New berry, was vocational and agricul ture teacher in the Swansea schools. He, with his wife and two daughters, Eleanor and Ansel, are making their home at 1324 Hunt street. Mr. Fa gan has moved to Union where he will be County Agent. Mrs. Gene Hires and daughter, Re becca, are now making their home in the Buzhardt Apartments on Main street. They formerly lived on Glenn street. BACK TN E 5® WAR LOAN TO THE LIMIT the Sicilian MvaMoo? Each mechanized division re quired 18,000 gallons of gasoline for every hour it was on the move. Remember the invasion of Italy? The cost to reach the mainland from the time we began the attack in North Africa was 1,800 aircraft lost. Even when we win, we lose vast stores of guns, olanes, tanks and other equipment. For that is the price of victory. The Bonds you bought in the first four War Loan Drives are today’s exploding bombs and shells! They can never be used again. But today the battle is bigger than ever! And th t is why you must do more done before in the 5th War Loan. Btsy all you can—atid then more! More than you’ve ever bought before. Invest not only out of current income but out of idle and accumulated funds. This is the biggest job America has ever had to do! Let’s show our fighting men we can do it! OPEN YOUR DOOR AND YOUR HEART TO THE During this drive you ni»y be visited by a volunteer Wat Bond worker. Let ’him (or her) explain the various U. S. Government Bonds available. They are the safest invest ments in the world. Buy them and keep them ... and you can face the future with confidence. S^WARIBAN Derrick Lumber Company L. C. Derrick, Manager