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FEARS CIO POWER
Caused Defeat Of Southern Candi
dates At Chicago, Broughton Says
RALEIGH, C., Aug. 7.—
“boycott and proscription” of the
South by “powerful northern negro
groups” and the CIO’s Political Ac
tion committee caused the defeat of
southern candidates for the demo
cratic vice-presidential nomination,
Gov. J. Melville Broughton said here
tonight.
Broughton said that at the demo
cratic convention in Chicago—“.the
wildest and most bewildering session
of recent decades”—these groups
seemed to have resolved that the
people of the South should forever
be but the hewers of the wood and
drawers of water within the Demo
cratic party.”
However, he predicted that Presi
dent Roosevelt will be reelected in
Nevember, and the South would sup
port the democratic nominees.
In a radio address, which h-_ call
ed a “fireside chat" for the benefit
of Tar Heel listeners, the governoi
lashed out at the PAC, declaring
that its anti-southern front at the
convention was “unfair and undem
ocratic and that its aim was to gain
control of the Democratic party.
The negro groups, Broughton
said, “were not representative of
the negro race." The Political Ac
tion committee “assumed unwarrant
ed” authority and its anti-southern
front was “deplored as being out
of harmony with the philosophy and
purposes of organized labor in Am
erica and ultimately destructive of
labor’s best hopes.”
“I have no fued with the Politi
cal Action committee, and I believe
profoundly in the cause of labor
and deeply respect its rights,” he
said. “But I do deny to the PAC or
to any other group or other groups,
white or colored, the right to dic
tate the affairs of the Democratic
party or of the American people.”
“It will be an evil day, however,
for the Democratic party and for
America if the Political Action com
mittee or any similar group shall
be able to take Charge of this his
toric party of ours and engage in
the practice of ,proscribing and boy
cotting representatives of the par
ty from that great southern area
which is in truth the cradle of dem
ocracy,’’ he said.
Promoted To Technician 5th Grade
Harvey Driggers, an Army truck
driver, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward R. Diriggers of Kinards, route
1, has.been promoted from the grade
of private first class to the rank of
Technician Fifth Grade in the South
Pacific, where he is stationed with
the 25th Infantry Division. His wife,
Mrs. Alice S. Driggers makes her
home with his parents.
Prior to entering the service in
February, 1942, Driggers was em
ployed as a textile laborer in the
Mollohon Mills here. Since arriving
overseas in May, 1942, he has seen
action at Guadalcanal and New
Georgia Islands, where the 25th In
fantry division aided materially in
smashing Jap resistance. He wears
the Good Conduct award and the
Asiatic-Pacific theater ribbon with
two stars.
by news of internal strife in Ger
many and other optimistic trends.
And they won’t deny things now are
looking a lot brighter.
But, they remind you of these
things. .
1. Until the shooting »stops, there
is no peace.
2. The shooting has not stopped. ‘
1 3. As long as the war continues,
1 the smart soldier does not let his
| mind dwell on the possibilities of an
early peace or a quick return home.
4. Knowing full well how demoral
izing such thoughts can be, German
propagandists are taking full ad
vantage cf all allied optimistic talk.
Points one and two need no fur
ther discussion. If they aren’t ob
vious, read the latest—and continu
ing-casualty lists. A soldier doesn’t
have to. He sees the dead and wound
ed daily. Point three is something
everyone knows all along any front.
With the war’s end seeming to be
somewhere in the dim and distant
future and the chances of going home
eoually far away, the average sol
dier slips into a fatalistic frame of
mind—wbith may be the best men
tal status for a fighting man.
For instance, I knew a sergeant
who gained considerable fame for
his almost fool hardy courage. He
volunteered for countless patrols.
Once he served as a one-man tank
trap, taking on two tigers with Mol
otov cocktails. Several times, he
cleaned out German machinegun
nests either single-handed or else
he led squads which did the job.
Stories about him were legion.
But then someone made the mis
take of telling that sergeant he had
been recommended for rotation leave.
—And during the few days which e-
lapsed before it was approved and
he was pulled out of line to go home,
he was a changed man. His mind,
which long accepted the likelihood of
death or injury suddenly rejected it
in favor of going home to his wife '
and child, alive and whole. He stayed \
glued to his fox hole until his orders
came through—and not a soul blamed
[him.
That happens again and again.
Before the Anzio battles several;
correspondents with reputations for!
taking almost any risk to get a-i
good story were told they would j
get home leave as soon as the oper- j
ation was over. And these guys ,
who had taken all kinds of shelling. \
bombing, strafing, mortar and small
arms fire in their stride were shaken
by the worst fears they had ever
known.
Figuring that as a pretty aver
age reaction, you can imagine what
it. dpes to a fighting man who is
seeing men die around him every
day when 'he hears that all the big
are saying the war will be over any
week now—or gets a letter stating
that “it looks like you’ll be home in
time for the football 1 season this
fall, Johnny."
As for point number four, all win
ter and all spring, Germans have
been firing propaganda leaflets
over the lines and broadcasting
radio speeches, saying in effect:
“The war’s almost over, Yank.
It’s too bad you're going to be killed
right at the last, isn’t it?”
Now the Nazis are pulling all
stops out, asking Allied soldiers why
they’re still fighting when they’re
liable to get killed and the war’s
practically over, anyhowi. Luckily,
the doughboys still can laugh at any
thing the German propagandists- say.
But it’s a strange, ironic twist of
war that soldiers spirits are shaken
and embittered somewhat by the well
meant but unwitting words of the
folks back home. They’ have to be
strengthened by their utter disbelief
in the same words when they’re
spoken by the enemy.
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the heavy requirements of next
winter.”
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til next winter the productive fa-
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SOLDIERS PEEVED ABOUT
OPTIMISM
WITH TH EAEF IN ITALY, July
31.—(Delayed)—Soldiers still fight
ing along the Italian front & airmen
still flying daily missions against
the enemy are getting just a little
bitter these days about all the opti
mistic speculation back home over
how soon the war will end.
it i«n’t that thev weren’t cheered
NOTICE OF DEMOCRATIC
PRIMARY ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that a Dem- j
ocratic Primary will be held in New
berry county on Tuesday, August 22,
1944 for the purpose of balloting on
a Magistrate at Newberry and a
Magistrate at Little Mountain.
Pells will open at 8 a. m. and
close at 4 p m., and only qualified
Democrats may vote and only
those persons whose names appear
on the Club Roll of the Voting pre
cincts will be allowed bo vote.
Polling places will be the same
as in the first Primary for magis
terial Districts 2 and 6 and the same
managers will serve in said districts.
NEAL W. WORKMAN,
County Chairman
MRS. A. H. COUNTS,
Secretary and Treasurer
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FOUR YEARS AGP HdttS WAS IN OUR SHOES
H ans is a German. Four years ago, be felt the way
many of us feel today. He thought the war was
as good as won.
He had reason to think sc. Far more reason than we
have. France was his. England was bloody after
Dunkerque. The German Army seemed invincible.
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But the war wasn’t almost over. And now it is our
armies that are on the march. It is our bombers blast
ing German cities. Victory is in our grasp. It’s up to
us to see that we don’t let it^slip through our fingers
the way Hans did.
Most of us know that this is the military crisis of
this war—the time when our fighting men must give
everything they have, not once in a while but hour
after hour—day after day.
But this alone is not enough. The lives of brave men
are not enough. Money is needed too.
For this is the financial crisis of the war just as
surely as it is the military crisis. Millions of dol
lars’ worth of equipment is being destroyed. The
money to replace it must come from us, quickly.
If every last one of us here at home will try to match
the constant, day-to-day drive of the men who fight
our battles, we’ll raise that money.
The way to do it is to put every cent we can possibly
invest into U.S. War Bonds. Not some of us. All of
us. Not once in a while during a drive, but regularly.
Can we do the job that Hans couldn’t do? It’s up to
you.
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