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/ PAGE FIVE FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1944 HE NEWBERRY SUN Robots Show Pattern Of Next War SPECTATOR By LESTER M. HUNT i countries to prepare them as the bases of future military aperations. Tho robot bombs Germany is now Germany lost the first world war firing across the English Channel are because she did not believe the far more than a final desperate ges- United States would enter it. ture of revenge. They are the tipoff to what Ger many is preparing for the next world war If airplanes loaded with high ex plosive can be guided across the English Channel without a pilot at the controls, the next step is ob vious. Within a few years they will be flying the Atlantic as easily and accurately as they now span the English Channel. Robot submarines without a crew and guided with the same deadly ac curacy will be another step in the grewsome science of war. And per haps battleships, steered and fired by electric controls thousands of miles away will follow the robot submarine and airplane. If the science of the robot bomb develops as rapidly as most war in ventions, it will be possible for Ger many to send fleets of airplanes and surface vessels to destroy the cities of the United States without a Ger man soldier, sailor or flier leaving his native land. The next world war will make this one look like a high school football game. And there will be a third world war unless Germany and Japan are completely crushed and held in re straint long enough to destroy for ever their ability to wage war. They must be occupied by Allied troops and their civil affairs admin istered by Allied officials. All the reliable information com ing out of Germany now is that her military leaders realize she has lost this war. 'But out of their mistakes they have learned lessons which will guide them in the next war. To carry out these plans, Germany must win a soft peace that will leave her strong enough to fight again when the next generation of fanati cally-trained German boys are of military age. Already the propaganda has start ed to allow Germany to renounce Nazism, tie the can to Hitler and set up a “republic” like she did after the last war. This “republic,” like the last one, would' be only a smoke screen behind which the military and scientific leaders would prepare again for world conquest. But many Americans are display ing a strange receptiveness to this kind of propaganda. They are talk ing about a peace that would be “fair” to Germany. How about a peace that would be fair to us. They haven't thought of that. Twice within a generation we have sent millions of young men into com bat against the German legions. We got soft-hearted after our first vic tory and got a second war. If we go soft again, a third war is just as certain as the second war. As the preliminary to another con flict, Germany is making plans for extensive emigration into South America, according to The Society for Prevention of World War HI. This is an organization set up to combat German propaganda for an easy peace as the pathway to an other war. The society reveals that Germany’s first concern after the War will bt to set up economic domination of South America. Huge fifth columns of Germans and Fascist Europeans will settle in key South American Chicago, Illinois—Into the rush and roar of this big city I’ve come. Strange how the rumble and crash and clang annoy me. It really is an old experience. Aside from my experience in Columbia in the days of noisy street cars, I lived seven Navy Fighting Ships Trippied Vast Increase In Service Since Mid dle of 1940, Official Discloses *> CHECK Liquid for Malarial Symptoms MAGISTRATE NEWBERRY 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 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 LOANS ON Real Estate Automobiles and Personal Property NEWBERRY Ins. & Realty Co. NED PURCELL, Manager Phone 197 Exchange Bank. Bldg. She lost the second because she underestimated the fighting power of Russia and the production power of America. Next time she will, according to indications, attempt to cripple the United States first by striking from nearby South American bases with the same surprise the Japs em ployed at Pearl Harbor. If she can fight us alone, she has a good chance of success. We licked her twice, but with the rest of the world as our allies. If she can fight us alone, it may be a different story. And we will fight her alone unless we work 'with the nations now our allies to enforce upon Germany the kind of a peace that is gopd for us, not for Germany. We must sever the German econo mic control of the world through gi gantic cartels or trade agreements through which she obtains her war materials We must prevent the Ger mans from arming the generation ot boys they have trained to be soldiers in World ar III. This means we must be tough. We must remember that since the time of Frederick the Great, Germany has been fed raw meat by its leaders. For almost 200 years the German people have been told their destiny, is to rule the world. And they have killed over 100,000 of our boys trying to do it. Hitler didn’t originate that super man stuff. He just repeated what other German leaders have been say ing since 1752. Gen. Count van Hessler hit the theme in 1893 when he said: “It is necessary that our civiliza tion build its temple in mountains of corpses, on an ocean of tears and on the death cries of men and women without number. Germany must rule the inferior races of the world.’’ And the following year Prof. Wil- Washington, July 23—The Navy disclosed officially tonight that on years in Lima and some time in New August 18, when the destroyer escort York. I Grady is launched the number of U. Alas for the changes of time. The , S. fighting ships in service will be last time I came to Chicago, my com- j 1,149 or more than three times the panion for a week wa sthat greatly i total available when the fleet began beloved man of God, Robert S. Trues- j to grow in mid-1940. dale, then a pastor in Columbia. The ! When the Navy began its inten- good brother and I ate beefsteak ' give building program injury of that every day—a long time ago. year, it said, it had 383 combatant I’ve seen my friend, J. Irby Koon i ships Completion of the Grady, it of The State, and have had' a call added, will triple this total. from Mr. Suttle of the News and Courier. I caught Irby in his room, corner ed him you see, and we walked to the mammoth Stevens hotel on a bit of business. It is a good walk and only such robust fellows as Irby and I could stand that. Later I saw Leon Harris, Judge Eugene Blease and that sturdy philospher, R. O. Bowden. Later All my life has been blessed by fine friendships . In every period and phase of my work a stimulating association has been my good fortune I canot recount all the friends now, but if I mention George W. S. Hart of York, T. M. Marchant, Dr. C. C. Brown, Dr. Cahrles E. Burts, I should be thinking of only those who have gone Beyond, leaving me their debtor. Among the active men of affairs to day are eight or ten who are like the very salt of the earth. Four of them are in my present public work. I have just enjoyed the thrill of meeting a choice spirit. Here in Chicago is a man of large interests who honors me by reading this bum ble Spectator. He came to my room, had me as his guest at lunch in a quaint old English grill. Later I went to his mill. With charming courtesy he laid aside everything re minding me of the hospitable wel come given me by two other valued friends, Messrs. James C. Self and N. A. Cocke. My host today was Mr. W. H. Reg- nery, who is identified with South Carolina through the big mill at Gold- helm Ostwald, Nobel peace prize win- v [ lle '. Mr Regnery talked history ner, baredhis true sentiments when 1 sho ? v ! n ? wl J de r f»d>ng of world and he said—“I cannot recognize any other source of right than force.” Prof. Heinrich von Treitschke, his torian at the University of Berlin, brought out the Aryan idea in 1896. He said: “Those who preach the nonsense racial trends. And we went to the restaurant of the mill for lunch, the President of the enterprise sitting with some young men of the staff. And at the table was an elderly gen tleman of old school gentility. I might add that no finer apple pie of eternal peace do ’not understand ■ was J ever * an ^ at wl » ich I en - Aryan national life.’ Scores of similar quotations col lected by the Society of Prevention of World War III have been print ed in a book entitled “Know Your Enemy.” They blast the picture of Germany as a nation of simple rustics, amiab ly belching in their beer. They show that Germans are raising their child ren to be our conquerors. “Deutschland Uber Alles” was the joyed in the mill’srestaurant. When you find men of large inter ests who are so big that they can put themselves out for the sake of hos pitality; and whose range of intellec tual and spiritual concern goes far beyond their immediate business, vyj feel in each case the impact of a great spirit. Later I had breakfast this morning at the University ' Club, meeting some slogan of the Kaiser as it is of Hit- ; friends from Texas and Iowa. That ler. And it will still be the slogan of those who rule Germany after this war, if we let them. NEWBERRY COUNTY’S PUBLIC ASSISTANCE INCREASED Newberry county’s average month ly awards for all types of public as sistance increased 51.63 per cent during the fiscal year ended June 30, from $9.84 to $14.92, it is an nounced by the county director of Governor Moody of Texas was there; public welfare, Mrs. Edna H. Fea- atld Governor Jimmy Davis of Louis splendid dining room makes one think of the spacious banquet halls of the great royal palaces. I’ve learned a lot about the Tex ans. Last night I attended the Anti- New Deal meeting in the Palmer House, a demonstrative jovial crowd from Arkansas. Louisiana Mississip pi, Texas and South Carolina. Ex- Govemor Sam Jones of Louisiana was there; Ex-Governor Mike Con nor of Mississippi was there; Ex- gle. The increases in June 1944 over June 1943 were as follows: Ok! age assistance, from $9.41 to $14.57. Aid to dependent children, from $13.05 to $18.74. Aid to the needy blind, from $12.02 to $18.76. The total amount paid out in the county as public assistance during the year was $110,227.24, disbursed as follows: Old age assistance, $88,351.43. Aid to dependent children. $11,- 733.24. Aid to the needy blind, $4,452.92. The State provided onehalf of each of the first three types of assistance, matched by federal funds under the Social Security Act. General relief was paid from county funds matched from State appropriations. KENDALL MILLS LUTHERAN PARISH J. B. Harman, pastor. Sunday school will be held at Bethany and Summer Memorial next Sunday morning at 10:30 o’fclock. Summer Memorial—10:30 a. m., Sunday school, Mr. M. Eugene Shea- ly, supt. 7 p. m., Luther League and Wo men's Missionary Society. Bethany—10:30 a. m., Sunday school. 11:30 a- m., Luther League. On account of the pastor being,on a vacation there will be no preaching services in the parish on the first and second Sundays in August. iana actually led the singing. Messrs. Blease, Bowden, Harris and I couldn’t sing much; our South Carolina was not fighting for principles; our dele gates were seated on the band wagon shouting for the boss. Too bad, South Carolina politics has fallen into the control of what really is a firm alliance which will have to be smashed before it becomes a ring. Can it be {possible that South Caro lina is keeping company with a lot of political bosses instead of stand ing by Texas, Louisiana and Missis sippi 7 This is a thoroughly bossed con vention. Mr. Roosevelt ha sit by the Many other fighting ships are un der construction and some Navy offi cials have indicated that many more than that number could be in service or about to move to the fighting fronts. It is in the less glamorous types of ships, however, that the real ex tent of the Navy’s stupendous growth is shown. And there, figures are not available. Officially the fleet now comprises “more than 10 times” the number of craft available in July, 1940, exclusive of small landing craft and yard and district vessels. One indication of the brobable to tal is found in the Navy’s statement that the number of crat of all types approximately doubled in the last year Last September it was disclosed that ship® of all types totaled 14,072, indicating there are at least 28,144 naval vessels. These figures do not include the tens of thousands of amphibious craft used in invasion of enemy beaches. On one recent occasion it was disclos ed by the navy that the amphibious craft totaled 48,267 with the building program expected to boost that num ber to probably 100,000. In the air, too, the sea arm’s growth continues, with the navy officially saying that planes now are 20 times the number in service in July, 1940 On that date Navy planes nuinhered 1,744 of all types, indicat ing a present strength of fighters, bomber, torpedo and scout planes, of at least 35,000. Personnel also is growing. The Navy has announced that it needs 194,000 men by December 31 and an other 189,000 by June 30, 1945, to njan the ne^ ships, and planes and file growing numbers of jobs at naval bases. Presidential approval, Navy Secretary Forrestal said, has been given to the increase which would raise the authorized personnel strength to 3,200,000 by the end of this year and 3,389,000 by June 30, 1945. nose. The delegates prate and prattle about what the President will accept. Some call him the boss—which he is. How is this—Jimmy Byrnes wanted to be Vice-President. A delegation plead with Sidney Hillman to en dorse Jimmie. Hillman turned his thumb down and graciously agrees to let Mr. Truman run. Now where are we? What is this nation coming to? Does that sound like America? By the way ,why shouldn’t Jimmie be the candidate for Vice-President? Has he not toiled and bleu for Mr. Roosevelt? Hasn’t he been one of Roosevelt’s men? Has he not earned Mr. Roosevelt’s support? Well, how are the South Carolina New Dealers to swallow the repudiation of Mr. Byrnes for Mr. Truman, or anybody else? They Will Swallow It. of course; the boys must stay in line, even if kicked about. What is wrong with Mr. Byrnes? Well, the C. I. O. doesn’t like him; and the Southern atitude toward the negro is not popular. So Mi. Roose velt pushes Jimmie aside so as to placate the C. I. O. and the negroes. And the South Carolina New Dealers swallow that, too. Is it to be wondered at that the South Carolina New Dealers receive nothing but words from the great big chief in Washington? Our New Dealers have bartered away our rights—but for what? The presence of South Carolina Federal and semi-Federal officials here is causing some comment. There (Continued On Page Eight) WILD LIFE SOUTH CAPOLINA wTtm PROF FRANKLIN SHERMAN HKAD-CLeMSON COLLEOl-MPT Or ZOOLOGY MRS. BEN EPTING Mrs. Ben Epting of Rion, Fair- field county, died at the Columbia hospital on Tuesday night, July 25, after an illness of ten days. She was a native of Fairfield county and the daughter of the late Calvin B. TUMBLE-BEETLES (“TUMBLE- BUGS”) Truly they are beetles and not “bugs”, so let’s call them tumble- beetles. These are the beetles which form a marble-sized ball of manure and may be seen pushing, pulling or kicking it along—for what reason ? A town-man vacationing in our mountains repeated to me what a 10 year mountain lad had told him about tumble-beetles and it was a surprisingly accurate account for so young a boy:—where, when and how he had gathered his information I do not know, possibly from his fath er, possibly from me, possibly frem some book, but anyway he had it right. There are ten or more species in the same ball they may be one of each sex, or both may be females, or both males. Mr. O. L. Cartwright of this department who has made many observations says that two may be rolling a ball along, apparently partners, but when one starts dig ging to bury the ball, the other may try to roll the ball away, i.e., to “steal” it for himself or herself. The grub which hatches from the egg looks like the ordinary white grubs in our gardens; it feeds for much or all of its life on the ma terial in the buried ball,—when grown it goes through a pupa stage, and then emerges as an adult tumble- beetle. Often I have been asked by men in middle life or beyond:—“What has become of the tumble-beetles, I al- South Carolina which have this same habit; the ones most often seen are l wa ys knew them when a boy, but I from one-half to one inch long, of {never see them any more?” The Rabb and Margaret IVfcMeekin Rabb j stout build, and black color. The ! answer is that we do not pasture of Monticello. She was married in jball of manure is used as food, either ; cattle along the roads and paths like she made her home until two years ago when the couple moved to Rion. 19'15 to Mr. Epting of this city where by the adult beetle, or by the grub we used to, and there are fewer (larva) which hatches from its eggs, horses on our highways; also that It goes like this:—both male and a middle-aged man does not notice Besides her husband, she is sur- female beetles feed on manure and such things so closely as when he vived by two sisters and five broth- | have the instinct to form a ball, roll was a boy. If one searches in pas- jers. 1R to a distance, bury it, and feed on tures, or along remote cattle-trails Funeral services were held at Mon- 1 it later. The female has the instinct be will find tumble-beetle still prac- ticello Methodist church on Thurs- to lay her eggs in such balls so that ticing the same habits as it did fifty day afternoon, conducted by the Rev. j the grub which hatches will have years ago, and just as many of them R. L. Hall, pastor. Interment was in jfood. Hence either sex will form and as he saw when he was a boy. the church cemetery- roll it away; if two are working on | Yes, nature is wonderful. CARD OF THANKS I am deeply grateful to the voters of NeWberry county for the handsome vote given me in the primary last Tues day. 1 assure each and every one of you that I shall continue to fill the office of Coroner to the very best of my ability. Leroy Wilson Card Of Thanks 1 wish to take this means to thank every man and woman who voted for me in the recent primary. 1 do appreciate your confidence. Toward those who did not vote for me I hold no ill will. That was your privilege and a right our boys are fighting for all over the world. Again 1 say: Thank you all. Sincerely, Tom M. Fellers 2 EXTRA YEARS FOR YOUR TRACTOR Surveys show that the average farm tractor will last two extra years if it is operated carefully and lubricated properly. Moreover, it will do more work with fewer breakdowns. To help you get those extra years of good work from your tractor, use Sinclair Pennsylvania or Opaline Motor Oil to save wear on the motor. These famous oils lubricate better and last longer because they are expertly refined from oldest, mel lowest crudes, then de-waxed and de-jellied by an extra refining process. Phone or write us today. SINCLAIR FARM OILS ier M€ DELIVER TO YOUR FARM S. C. Paysinger, Agent NEWBERRY, S. C.