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PAGE POUR .tIE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1944 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. SOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher Published Every Friday In The Year December 6, 1!'37, at tht postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under Entered as second-class matter the Act of •Congress of March 3, 1879. CIO OUT TO DEFEAT BUTLER HARE He Had The Courage To Resist Them (From The Pee Dee Advocate) | We recently made a business trip through the western part of the State where we learned that Congressman Butler B. Hare, of the Third district, is being opposed by two candidates. We were somewhat surprised he shoulu have opposition at this time because over in our part of the State we look upon him as one of our most, active and outstanding representa tives. The opposition from the best we could learn is that some claimed he voted for legislation to prevent strikes in war industry plants. That will probably be the outstanding rea son assigned for his opposition, but that is too thin to hold water be cause the other five members of Congress from the State voted the same way he did and neither of them has opposition. Our guess is the real reason goes much deeper and is more far reaching than that. It is not our pupose to offer any defense for the congressman or cast any reflections on his opponents, but it is well known that the representa tives of the Communist party have announced they will undertake through the CIO labor organization to defeat key members of Congress who have demonstrated their opposi tion to the Communist program t« destroy our system of government thru subversive organizations. ‘Mr. Hare was very active last year in his opposition to the Anti-Lynching Bill and Anti-Poll Tax Bill, and recently took a decisive stand against the F. E. P. C., all of which were strongly endorsed by the leadership of the CIO. He is now one of the key men in Congress. He is a member of the Appropriations committee that refus ed to make appropriations to pay the salaries of William Dodd, Robert Lovett and) Goodwin Watson after his committee had recommended the dis missal of these gentlemen from the government service because of their communistic affiliations and their as sociation with stibversive organiza tions. These men were drawing good salaries in the government service, where they bad a fine opportunity to disseminate their communistic teach ings at the expense of the govern ment, and when the Third district congressman took the floor in Con gress and defended the action of his committee in refusing to provide sal aries for these men be incurred the displeasure of the communists and communistic leadership who, accord ing to John Lewis, dominate the CIO. According to the Congressional Record of March 13, John Lewis said: “I knew when I was organizing the CIO we picked up a lot of commun ists as we grew, including Harry ^ Bridges. Their technique is simple. The American Communists limit their j membership to only the cleverest schemers they can find. Then they worm their way into key places in lo cal chapters of unions and the Com munists dominate the CIO today. Philip Murray today is a prisoner of the Communists in his own union. They control him and the CIO through their seats on bis executive committee. Sidney Hillman is just as bad off. Both of them have got to play ball with the Communists now or die.” They are boasting every day that they have defeated several key men already for the next Congress. Starnes of Alabama is a member of the Appropriations committee and they quietly defeated him with the use of money before he knew it. They say they scared Martin Dies of Texas out of the race. They defeat ed Costello of California, who was a member of the Dies committee, and they came dangerously near a few weeks ago putting the skids under Judge Kerr of North Carolina, who is also a member of the Appropria tions comittee that produced the evi dence and recommended the salaries of Dodd, Lovett and Watson be cut from the appropriations. We think if the truth were known it would be found that the Democrat ic party organized recently by the colored people of South Carolina was prompted by these same communis tic leaders, including Sidney Hillman and C. B. Baldwin, the chairman and assistant ohainnan of the CIO Na tional Political Action committee, who are also responsible for the F. E. P. C., sometimes referred to as the committee to promote social equality of the races, and now trying to make people employ negroes whether they want to or not This is another place where the congressman from the Third district appeared on the floor of the Congress and fought the ap propriation of $500,000 for this com mittee. The Communist leaders of the CIO don’t like it and they are trying to defeat men like Butler Hare who have had the courage and ability to openly oppose the purpose in the Con gress, the one agency of government they have set out to control, or wreck our entire system of govern ment in the attempt. Butler Hare is one of the state’s ablest members of the Congress, a man with his feet squarely on the ground, an asset not only te his own district but to the entire .state and nation, and if we should let the Com munists and the CIO defeat him be cause he had the temerity and the fearlessness to take his stand for what he honestly believed was for the best interests' of his country, it seems to us we might almost as well have let Hitler come on over and take charge before we spent all the money and blood we have spent for the pres ervation of democracy, and say to hell with all of it. Must Support Hare CONSUMING DESIRE ESSENTIAL The United States came into being because a majority of our .public leaders and the people were consum ed with a genuine desire to be free men and the masters of government. The world has progressed because groups of people had an undying faith in certain philosophies of reli gion or human conduct in which they believed. How many 'people in the United States today are uncompromising in their desire to retain personal liber ty and democracy within the frame work of our Republic? Of late years, there have been too many politicians insinuating that as a nation we have outgrown the constitutional ideals on which this country was founded. A majority of our people must have a consuming desire to retain in dependence at all costs, just as our forefathers had the desire to gain it at all costs, or the United States as we have known it will be but an era in the history books—'bureaucracy will have supplanted democracy. As a nation, we cannot sui-vive as free men if we submit to being the “tended herd” of a socialized gov ernment toward which we have been rapidly drifting. MR. TAZZ SENN CRITICALLY ILL The friends of Mr. Tazz Senn will be sorry to learn that he suffered a stroke at his home in the county last Wednesday and is still critically ill. Not everyone in Newberry county loves Butler Hare; that has been demonstrated in past elections by a minority vote, but this year whether we love him, merely like him or just tolerate him, we’ve got to vote for him. We’ve got to vote for Mm be cause we have sons in the service whom we do love, and because our way cf life in the South is threaten ed. The CIO is out to “purge” Butler Hare; they’ve got him on their black list and they intend to get him if money can do it. They don’t like ’.dr. Hare because he voted his hon est convictions in the interest of our boys and of our civilization. The CIO is going to try to elect a man who will vote as. they dictate, one who will allow their lousy followers to sit down in war plants when the army is crying for the products of those plants, and while YOUR son serves on battle fronts the world f ver. Of course it is the privilege of CIO in this free America to try to unseat Mr. Hare, but what you want to remember is that it is also YOUR privilege and YOUR duty to keep in office a man who has the courage to stand up on the floor of the national congress and fight for your boys. You should also I'emember that this method of CIO in throwing its weight and its money in selected dis tricts of the country to defeat con gressmen and senators they do not like will result in but one thing and that thing is GOVERNMENT BY CIO amd all the radicalism that goes with it. If THAT is what you want just remain away from the polls this summer and that is what you will get. CIO is going to see that CIO' members vote. No one is going to see that YOU vote except YOUR SELF. Sydney Hillman is the boss of CIO Political Action Committee; he is more than that, he is Roose velt’s boss. Do you ‘know anything about Syd ney Hilhnan? He is not even a na tive American, but a radical labor leader of, we believe, Jewish-Russian descent, who came to this country after he was grown and properly imbuded with ideologies which we hate. How would you like to have Mr. Hillmain tell you what yon may do—where you may work? Most of you are too trifling lazy and indifferent to do any thinking for yourselves; the height of your interest in anything is confined to finding yourself a good possum . dog or how the Yankees came out yester day. While you are thus sleeping subversive elements in this country— IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY— are planning, scheming, contriving, ways and means of getting you COMPLETELY under their thumbs. When you are compelled to flash your paw at the approach of Sydney Hilhnan, Walter White (colored), FDR and his Squaw, Jim Byrrte-s, Harry Hopkins, and all the rest of the motley lot, then, and only then, will you see what a fool you had' been not to have seen the storm coming. And now b&ck to Mr. Hare. I do not owe him anything, nor does he owe me anything. I am going to vote for him and get as many peo ple as I can to do likewise for the one reason that I stand in “fear and trembling” at the dangerous trend in this country toward socialistic government. Bond Peddling Muyor You will have learned by this time that Newberry has again far over subscribed its Fifth War Bond quota. Overscribing bond quotas is getting to be a habit with Newberry and the formation of much of that good habit is due to the efforts of Mayor Ned Purcell. Being a modest feiow Ned would .probably disclaim having much influence in the matter and give all credit to his loyal team of oo-workers. To be sure much credit goes to them, but the fact remains that Ned has been the mainspring be hind the bond drives. Had he been a poor man instead of a plutocrat he would have been hungry by this time for his own business is pretty well forgotten during these drives and Ned schemes and dreams bonds and more bonds. Maybe one cue to N$d’s success in selling bonds is that he has his heart in it, having two sons, brothers and a sister in the armed foices. But even if that were not so we believe he would be equally energetic in selling bonds for there seems room in his makeup for the troubles and heartaches of all. I just wanted to sing this little piece in his pra'se and now I will stop and let Mrs. Purcell cut it out for his scrap book. UPHOLD AMERICAN TRADI TIONS AT HOME The Hon. John R. MeCarl, for fif teen years Comptroller General of the United States, says: “Send strong men to Congress. A weak .Congress imperils the nation. A strong Con gress, sustained by an informed, in terested and alert citizenry, protects freedom and is vital to national safe ty." WILLIAM D. WILSON GETS ANNAPOLIS APPOINTMENT William Drayton Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Wilson, has been transferred by the Navy from the Naval training unit at the Universi ty of South Carolina to the United States Military Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, as a midshipman. He has been a V-12 student at the University for the past three semesters Midshipman Wilson, completed one year of electrical engineering at Clemson College before entering the V-12 unit. He is one of the princi pal appointees from the Third con gressional district represented by Congresman Butler B. Hare of Sa luda. White Democracy? Shades of Tillman and Hampton! White Women Serve Negre Bosses Under Polyhedral New Deal By Confratsmavi Gibson of Gooryio The Communists some months ago came out with the statement that the South was the black man’s country and in substance that they expected to put him in possession of the prop erty of the South and in control of its destiny. “It is, of course, known that Mal colm Rcss is chairman of the com mittee, whose function is reputed to be to see that there is no discrimina tion in employment on account of • ace or color in this country. It is noteworthy in the organization of his committee that this principle is most flagrantly violated. Over all, there are 106 paid employees—61 ne groes and 45 whites. Compare that with the per cent of negroes against the per cent of whites in this coun try. The employees of this bureau are the highest paid of any bureau or department of the Federal Gov ernment, on a -per capita basis. “In the central office where all the polices are made and enforced here in Washington there are thir teen white employees and thirty-five negro employees, the whites drawing $48,540 per annum and the negroes $94,220. “The chairman is whits, his asso ciate fair-practice examiner is a ne gro. The office of the chairman is staffed by twe ;ther whites and organizations. management of Southern railroads they must use negro engineers and conductors, and union officials that they must accept negroes into their three negroes. His administrative “They are liberal enough to let office is staffed by eleven negroes the regional offices in (jhe deep Soutli and no whites. His operations sec-(slight advantage in the number of tion is staffed by seven negroes and | whit* personnel. In New York, how ever, the regional office has a per sonnel of nine, six of whom are ne groes and three whites. The big boss, head of the office, with the classifi cation of regional director, is a ne- six whites, his Review and Analysis Section has seven negroes and three whites. His Legal Division two ne groes only. Hearing examiners, on# white and five negroes. The Direc tor of Review and Analysis is a ne gro. In fact, the whole set-up is negro dominated with just enough whites to give a slight diversity of color. “Ttiis is the group that goes into the South and sets up offices with negroes and whites working to gether; to Detroit and set up an of fice with one Edward M. Swann, a negro man, as fair-practice exami ner, at a salary of $3,800 per year, with a white lady for his secretary at $1,620 per year, the two consti tuting the entire office force. This is tha same group that has told the r- gro at $5,600 per year, and the high est paid white in the office is desig nated ‘associate field examiner’ at $3,200. His white lady assistant clerk-stenographer gets only $1,620, while her negro boss draws approx imately three and one-half times this amount. “There are four regional directors in the entire United States, one negro $4,600 and two whites at $4,600 per $4,600 and two whites at 4,600 per year. You'will note in every in stance the negro has the controlling voice and the higher salary with the same classification.” SPECTATOR The Baptists of the South are op posed to the extension of Social Se curity so as to include tax-exempt organizations. Although the bill now pending in Congress would not in clude ordained ministers in the regu lar exercise of their ministry, the Baptist brethren are fearful of what might happen. The Baptist Courier, the South Carolina journal of the great denomination, devotes a full page this week to the proposed broadening of Social Security, and I quote it in part: “From time to time various amend ments have been ‘proposed to the So cial Security Act some of which, if enacted in the law, would vitally af fect the beliefs and time-honored practices of Baptists as well as peo ple of other faiths . From time to time the Southern Baptist Convention has had occasion to vigorously pro test certain amendments to this Act. Attention is called to a most impor tant proposed' change which, if en acted into law, will vitally affect Baptist churches and institutions throughout the land, and will be a marked advance on the part of the Government into religious affairs. Southern Baptists 'believe in the time-honored principle of the separ ation of church and state as guaran teed by the First Amendment to the Constitution. “The question has again arisen in a most dangerous and subtle form. There is now pending in Congress a bill styled: H.R. 3204, 78th Congress, First Session, which provides that any tax exempt organization “shall -ecure Federal Old Age and surviv ors insurance for its employees, and through such insurance provide for he payment of benefits to such em ployees, etc ... ’’ The bill further provided in subsustance, for the cre ation of a special fund for “employ ees of religious, charitable, educa tional and certain other organiza tions” and levies a tax on all such organizations. An elaborate set-up is provided for benefit payments, hearings, etc., with the right and power of the Board to issue subpoe nas, investigate the records of the various churches and various institu tions affected by the Atet. The fundamental obection to the enactment of the proposed extension of the Social Security Act, as well as any other of similar import, is that it permits the Federal Govern ment to reach its hand into the af fairs of local churches, and the var ious denominational agencies and in stitutions of our States, and of the Southern Baptist Convention. When ever any government is empowered to tax churches, or the agencies thereof, that government has therehv obtained the power to destroy. If this power is ever granted, we are in • -+’-t>me danger of seeing the do st) ''cn rf our time-honored beliefs ar ' ♦•■editions. T7»e granting of the power to the Government to tax churches in any way, or any form whatsoever, is the first stop in the rapidly expanding tendency to cen tralization of governmental power, which will lead to but one thing, and that is the establishment of a State church.” All that I have quoted is part, of a resolution adopted by the recent Convention of Southern Baptists in Atlanta. The first amendment to the Con stitution of the United States for bids Congress to “make a law re specting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise there of.” The extension of Social Securi ty to apply to the churches would not come within the forbidden ground, it seems. But our Baptist friends are right, I think, in their apprehension lest the act be further amended. In truth that is what many fear about all these socialistic plana which would relteve us of all care and make us like the fatted calves, just ready to be slaughtered. If the Government is to do every thing for us, we must look to the Government and feed on the govern ment. Inevitably that means that a few men must govern our lives and business in great detail. The objec tions raised by the Southern Baptist Convention are the fundamental ob jections which businessmen have to the control by Government of the de tails of operations. I take the liber ty to quote a sentence in part which succintly states the whole ease: “The granting of the power to the Gov ernment to tax churches ... is the first stop to centralization of gov ernmental power.” This is correct and sound as a principle, but very in accurate as a matter of mathema tics. It would not be the first step at all; already the government has taken g thousand stops in that di rection. Or am I not understating that myself? and with their imitations fired by what they know; even they have a narrowly restricted idea of the im mensity and richness bound up' in the ordinary things about us. Register now in order to qualify yourself to vote in the General Efec- ttion. Ask the clerk of court ' of your county when and where to re gister. JOKE ON GERMANY Verily, this is an astonishing world, with riches all about us. We know IRtis about the underground sources of our wealth. You know that many oil companies fiovi hold leases on thousands of acres of our land so that they may bore for oil. I do not know whether we have great stores of natural gas, such as con tributes to the wealth of Texas and Louisiana, but every two years, about this time, some of us suspect that .perhaps South Carolina may be fabulously rich in natural gas. Otherwise, how do you account for the out-pourings of so jmany candi dates ? But seriously, we seem to have extraordinary facility in the produc tion of many weeds. I’ve known for some time that the milkweed seems to be enjoyed by stock; and now a great business journal tells us not to mow roadsides in areas where milkweed grows wild because the War Production Board needs one million and a half pounds of milk weed floss this year. All cf us have heard of the great lecture, “Acres of Diamonds”, teach ing that all about us are many any •'* wealth, frequently great er ♦*•.■>n the gold in the mines. With our very limited knowlege, we look aboout us, and see very little, but the chemist or the bio chemist and the geologist see many things that are hidden to us. And these men, with all their learning, Americans returning from Ger many on the exchange ship Grips- holm tell amusing tales of how Ger man people are led to believe this country is slowly starving to death. The Germans know from bitter ex perience that a nation, like an army, fights on its stomach. Picturing the United States as a hunger-weakened opponent is logical for a people who have lived with starvation and have used it as a weapon to destroy other nations. Few citizens of the U. S. know the importance of food, because they have never known scarcity. How many customers, when they walk in to the marvel of a modren food store, stop to think of the scientific productive effort that went into the stocking of the shelves and counters before them ..with canned, packaged, and fresh foods from every corner of the United States? It is a pity they cannot see a living panorama of the preparation and distribution of the food on those shelves. From begin ning to end, it is a struggle against the elements and the grim laws of supply and demand. Wartime re strictions are just one more hurdle tha* food producers and distributors take in stride. No one has a better conception of the work that goes into keeping the American dinner table the most lav ish in the world, than the retail dis tributor. He is familiar with the problems of both producers and con- jsumers. He knows the limitations I of the housewife’s pocketbook, just as he is conversant with production details. His is the job of balancing the demands of the two—producer and consumer—to achieve mass dis tribution. Every modern retailer of every article we eat, wear and use, believe in mass stribution as the key to a rising standard of living, which is one of the best reasons why the American people live in luxury, com- i parted to the rest of the world—not- ! withstanding the wishful thinking of German propagandists. MAMIE LEE BOLAND ; Mamie Lee Arnold Boland, age 40, died at her home on the Colum- , bia highway early Monday morning after several years’ illness. She had si>ent her entire life in Newberry. Funeral services were held Tues- iVay afternoon at 4 o’clock at the home of Mrs. S. A. Bedenbaugh on ■Montgomery street. Rev. ,T. B. Har man officiating, aesitsed by Rev. C. M. Kelly. Interment was in Baxter | Memorial cemetery. | She was the daughter of W. R. | Arnold of Laurens and the late Nan nie L. Hill Arnold of North Caro- llina.