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FRIDAY JULY 88, 1944 HE NEWBERRY SUN FAG* FIVE r 1 ft V, SPECTATOR What Is A Democrat? Is the a person who believes in cer- All The Roses Were Cut „ —r-—,— r -- , In the ordinary manner of Writftig tain principles and traditions; or * I should preface thjs memorial pas- ' he sonieonr who calls himself a ^ sat r e -with seme such phrase as' Democrat for the purpose of , “Breaking the News.” Perhaps lit- vjciating- with other people who call erar y readers'would p’efer the well- ithemselves Democrats? Ik ~ ... jthemselves Democrats? >■ Iknown French sentence “les lauriers , "I ‘Sni in "somewhat of a quandary, |*sont coupes.” But I am writing this ;and I should be glad for someone to for simple English people and about (dissolve the mental fog that seems -to be glowing thicker every day Let me - give nTy own background way cf showing how I have be- y ■ome sample English people , during the greet troubles which this war brings upon them.' Ah msihnce befell me of late though I never dreamed of confused. As a child I at-1 making chronicle until I found that a harp recital of,>wh«t I had heard and Witnessed "was comforting to others who had also suffered loss Thtere ape times; when one has found orteself, in. the great words .of Euripides, ‘neither amongst the liv ing nor the dead.” I* must have been' eadh a time Yor- fate ! • when I found myself seeking for a friend’s face among the dead laid out in a chapel; a face known to me;since the boyhood of the reported dead; the face of the last surviving non of an old friend How I hoped" I should not find it, but by some fate prear ranged. his body was brought in wihije I was searching and, know ing the face I sought further identi ty, .in .the. uniform - and the ribbon#: which I knew too well. Then I" real ised .that an immense , sorrow Wtis about to ingulf a dear brave English man I will not say what it is bo stand and move among bodies that held, but a day ago, spirits brave and now brighter than one’s own: but there is a line or two in Cole ridge’s “Ancient Mariner” jvhich came to life on my dry lips; And many men so beautiful, And they all dead did lie. Rightly, my first thought was of ‘tended school in. Charleston. At that ' time fchirleeton was ! rich in memor- ,‘ies of the Confederate soldiers and hfull -of reverence for states righte,. constitutional government,' white su premacy and a low tariff. In my 1 "boyhood I knew many of the men •fwho' has fought with Lee . and Jack- Hson. At that time there were many •^Confederate voters in our country. ’Most of them—had- eome back '^o a meene of desolation—their homes had Sbeen burned and their filds ; had ■grown up in weeds They were very ttpoor but very proud-. I never beard a Confederate Veteran apeak of the fWar except with pride They ', did Inot grouch, because they were de- “fepted. What inflamed the South was that period of eleven years—1865-1876— tailed Reconstruction. Then it wa« that the race issue came to the front when Northern Republicans sgave the negro the vote and took it Tiway from the white man. Those ^11 years filled the South with a bit- iftemess and deep-seated resentment kwhioh srtill can be found through'the land of Dixie. In all the schools I attended, I was taught the principles and traditions ‘of the South. At Washington and ••Lee University we looked upon the handsome statue of General Robert ••Defpocracy would 4E. Lee every time we'Wefl-t to chapel ,: ' le st™ 1 * 1 of the and in the basement we saw General brand. I not have Roosevelt ‘Lee’s office as it was when he occu pied it. fn the cemetery of Lexifig- 'Mr- Roosevelt: lb i* & miscellan rai vr: i • it. _ i i_. oj. « oermim <vf nf^nrtlo whn havo nofal -ton, Virginia, lies the body of Stone wall Jackson. If »I may be personal, I Was brought up on stories of the Civil War an<l of Reconstruction, for my What -is this so-called Democracy eous group of people who have noth ing in common, ordinarily, except the ho$e of sharing in a political vic tory. I do not mean by that arty suggestion that the delegates them- .mother came from Society Hill in old ' selves are ''seeking personal advah- Dariington county; and my father, ta f? e , but that they are staking came from embattled and scarred {everything oh a party label though .Winchester, Virginia, of the famous the label today is on a product as different from the old Democracy as General Robert E. Lee was different “Shenandoah valley. Later 1 came under the influence of Maor Sloan at Carolina. By inheritance and by 'daily asso-’ guerilla. ia-tion I-have been embued with the IdeaiiT of'the "Soith “ «b "-deepiy ^unbue?- from a<>uth G«r<>Mna, many, that neither association in a nortbr-'' 0 ^' wham I know very . pleasant^, cm universitv nor lone- vears in What in the world have these men in - - from Genera] Villa, the Mexican Look over the Iif»t of -Gentlemen the parents of the boy identified and as the cruel bri ef telegram from the War Office came to mind, 1 had , the thought' lhat I should try "to '^dre-' stall the official news and tell them with the Vcice of a friend. It was a cihance If I could trace them, for they had been moving arid their old ad- diesses were of no avail; but by .hance, call it Providence^ 1 was able to know ’between'what 'points 'they' Were travelling that day, and by midday I had contacted the fhtlK-r. It was in His, pffieg. in .th? fiity- •tihat 1 reached him He stood so. straight and his steady, eyes stared without flinching. . . . He a^ked for a little time to take the blow and to make a few decisions. He said he was only thinking of his wife then sifting unawares in a little garden iri- the Home Cburities. He decided to reach her immediately before vjWrd cable, asking me to perform a few serveies in town and to join them both later I grasped any little task he offered me.' ; My friend talked very quiefly, very decidedly. He had been playing golf in the sunshine' all that day when bis son was killed: he had been at peace among his friends while his son's' body lay until that evehing and through the night. He said to me, “There must be people suffering and ifeeding this every mimit'e somewhere,’ True enough, but I did not realise his full case until he stood'and he^an speaking. 'There in the City, amid last war, I was left alone in my generation. Then my two bpys grew up. The eldest was killed flying, and now the younger, you tell me you have seen lying dead, to-day... It) epukl pot have. befallen me more cruelly. I have lost all now — brothers and sons.”.. their glossy leaves, were cut.—S. L. In All the roses London Times. CLARY SELLS STOMP SPRINGS M. W. Clary has sold the famous Stomp Springs place to Lawyer Thomas E. Hair of Columbia, a for- Then I realised the huge extent of | mer Newberrian, now one of Colum- hjs. wqe and' the last knife thrust he bia’s foremost real estate promoters, musjt endure jn a^ few hours, as he ; The Stomp Springs site consists of Wife’s grief, I ^strove tp..share his crept..bumbled and crumbled into th lift; I. set about a-few tasks. “Could 1 (-ontniunicate with .the Chaplain?’*, ne had asked, . W'hat .little I could do; f prayed I might do well and speed- 1 ify. ... .... .V .... 30 acies, and Mr. Hair is planning to erect a hospital there in the near future. The remaining 300 acres was purchased by Coleman C. Mar tin, also of Columbia, who recently received a medical discharge from the army, her on this COMMUNITY RALLIES TO BE HELD The Chamber of Commerce is spon soring a series of community rallies in cooperation with 4th Service Com mand at the.request of the War De partment and War Production Board. The programs will include array bands, returned heroes, some of the latest war pictures, speakers, etc. They will be entertaining in formia- tive, and. educational to the general public, and of partciular interest to all who are engaged in war work. Watch this paper for further de- He, plans, to-cut Abe .tim-. tails and date of first rally, which iplaied -and f!irm aie i fand.#wHlIbe held soon. familiar .sounds and Sights glimpsed W( ,p j, urK .h That evening I reached a littl house near a Southern line and foum -him with his wife. - Whonj sorrow had joined .together -God had merci fully not allowed to be . asunder that 4 day. . They stood ..together) and - the evening sun,. .came into their little garden We. .being untaught by An-: gels know “there are no words, no! aympabhies we eau.offer on such oc-' rasions. But, as I thought of the un-, coffined head Which-I should see; again and which was not for the par ents to look upon, .1 said, before my :] going: “Any roses that his mother nicks this evening I-can promise will{| he. placed at his. head hefore burial.” So she went, down into the. garden,* and I stood with,her husband while, she brought the roses-into the house,.' only a handful, to .make .into, a fare-* from the window, I was "listening to sheer Greek Tragedy The gods have not been kirid.^he raid. “We were three brothers in my family. I can Amember my eld est brother killed in the Boer Wkr. My other brother was killed in 'the principles to the issue of battle. Those men were Democrats. What is a Democrat today? veil for tbe spols of office? They have absolutely nothing in common with such people, but they are throw- I find that Mr. Roosevelt is run- >'« ><? the winds the most revered ning for a forth term and running traditions , of their fathers and the as a Democrat. I am not sure that, Hest interests of their o\\n Jellow any policy which he ft# , squares , c i6S? s 7° da ?' v *,jK. ,.S with the Democracy of the Fathers what may anyone expect from the and Grandfathers of the Gentlemen Chicago convention? who are going from South Carolina ' Amenta will win the war, but Mr. to Chicago I had the honor of a Roosevelt does not make the gqns close friendship with the fathers of nor the shells; he does not lead the some of our delegates, and I think soldiers. True, we have a iP'eat and I mighty army and a wonderful navy. Do we owe these things to Mr. Roo- to CHECK Liquid for Malarial Symptom*. MAGISTRATE NEWBERRY I hereby announce myself a candi date for the office of Magistrate for District No. 2 (Newberry) and pledge myself to abide the results of the primaries and support the nominees thereof. RALPH G. HIGGINS I hereby announce myself a candi date for the Office of Magistrate at Newberry and agree to. abide the re sults of the Democratic primary and support the nominees of the party. J. B. COWARD I hereby announce myaelf a can didate for the office of Magistrate at Newberry and agree to abide the re sults of the Democratic party and support the nominees thereof. W. S. (SHELTON) ALEWINE I hereby announce myself a can didate for the office of Magistrate for District No. 2 and agree to abide the results of the Democratic pri mary. LONNIE M. GRAHAM LOANS ON Real Estate Automobiles and * Personal Property NEWBERRY Ins. Sc Realty Co. NED PURCELL, Manager Phone 197 Exchange Bank. Bldg. stvelt? Could not any man have done what he did if given hundreds of billions of .dollars to spend?, And if \#e must study Mr. Roosevelt as a war leader, do we-forget all they, blunders of "the rubber campaign aod all the other pyramided organiza tions, crowding Washington with TO men for one man’s work? Under the charm of a smoeth tftice and a cofck sure maner ha» he hot eovedtd ;up- enough mismanagement to convince us that he ,is, not an able leader ? ‘ I ask again, what is a Democrat? This party of ours is today coddling the negro, crushing States’ Rights, violati/ig the-Constitution - and main taining high tariffs. If Mr. Roosevelt is a Democrat; and if the Gentlemen who are going to Chicago age Democrat*; what are the rest of us? Since the delegates from South Carolina speak as loudly as one any one else for all the prin ciples of the South, how can they pro fess these principles and support Mr. RoosevhltJ - v - Perhaps we have a riddle: When is a Democrat not a Democrat? Of course this very practical gen eration does not draw its sword or engage in battle over principles. Principles seem to those who live en tirely in the immediate present to be mere abstractions and unrelated to the all-absorbing and compelling interest of daily living. Clearly that is wrong; all life and living are based on principles; there is no good policy based on bad pimcples. The Roosevelt polcy of smilingi jovial dictatorship violates the principle of nation developing through aelf-.re- A nation of strong men is better thgn a strong nation of weak Tnen. Look about you. Mr Roosevelt’s policies have -mfeebled the ■ character of our people; we are changed from resourceful, independent mSTi to fawning, pleading, favor-seeking weaklings. , Mr. Roosevelt has so encroached on the common rights of useful, produc tive men that we live in the smile of his favor or we smart under his dis approval. We have seen hi South Carolina e arrest of a aheriff on the gov- nent’s order—a thing unheard we have seen the experience of e farmers.with peanuts; we have sten the discrimination of a power ful Roosevelt bureaucracy against fair prices for cotton and tobacco in relation to wages in industry; we know of the autocratic seizure of Montgomery Ward’s store. All tins —and more—; and the South is slap ped and kicked—All this is the Ad ministration of Mr Roosevelt. Before I departed I wandered down’, the garden. Flowers there were few, but the familiar ycifeHahles showed, what care had been taken with the produce of the sbil In one corner the rose bushes were standing straight and green.-* They had-need ' of all ,bm university nor long years in ... ,, South America have made me forget common with negro politicians, the the part the South played in the for- CIQ,_the Communists, and the sev- tnation of the Union and magnificent I eral . heterogeneous gang which Is courage of her people in carrying her bolding up the banner of_ Mr. Roose i Fractionating towers for producing Toluene at a Sinclair Refinery H -4. .UENE puts the knock-out punch in TNlI, and it is TNT that gives bombs, "block busters'”, sea and land mines their destructive power, • Sinclair makes great quantities of Toluene froim petroleum in these newly completed fractionating towers at its refinery at Marcus Hook, Penna. To supply our boys who are doing the fighting, Sinclair makes not only Toluene, but also components for syn- S UY MORE WAR BONDS thetic rubber, 100 octane ayiation line and a fongijist of fuefs and spe- H, -?■ M « M ' *' v Tx cialized lubricants. Altogether, 10 mod ern Sinclair refineries are turning Qut A**. - * i«-• l• »• !:»&** Of** products for war-front and home-front usd.-»^ flj SINCLAIR DEALERS do their part by keipihg war workers’ cars, delivery trucks and other vitally needed vehicles on the job. Let a Sinclair Dealer care for your car, too. ^ AND STAMPS wr 7’ S _ v 8 „ ft * ,11 R S. C. Pay singer, Agent “Next to the Postoffice and Just As Reliable” NEWBERRY, S. C.