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NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
O. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
Published Every Friday In The Yeer
Entered a? second-class matter
December 1037. at tht postoflice
at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Conerees of March 3, 1870.
SPECTATOR
The Government took over the
trucking business out West and will
allow an increase of seven cents an
houir to the drivers. That is $13.44
more per month base pay. If the
drivers make 100 hours of extra time
in a month the increase would amount
to about $23.44 additional pay per
month, at least.
This may be all right; I know
nothing about the conditions; but the
occasion permits me to tell our
friends something about the relative
ly small income of the farmers. Let
us consider tobacco farmers. Labor
seems to be in demand at a dollar an
hour base pay; a dollar and a half
over 40 hours. Forty dollars a week
is $2,080 a year. If the worker adds
ten hours a week of overtime the
than in 1943 where does the money
go ? One is struck by the disparity
between ten million dollars more a
month (obviously $120,000,000 a year)
and the second statement that the
government “farm relief is estimat
ed officially at two hundred millions
of dollars more than in 1934.’'
Many loads of tobacco have been
hauled to Georgia markets from
South Carolina farms during this
month. The reason for this is that
tobacco may be sold on Georgia mar
kets ungraded .and untied. Many to-
bactco growers think they receive as
much net cash by selling in Georgia
and are saved the trouble of finding
the labor necessary to grade and tie
the tobacco.
There is an argument in favor of
grading and tying tobacco; certainly
a buyer may be expected to pay more
for tobacco which is not mixed with
green or inferior leaves; but this
question comes up: What right has
the State of South Carolina to legis
late on the subject? Our law-makers
are not autohrized by the Constitution
to dictate how a merchant may wratp
a parcel or tie it.
The State is not lawfully concern-
eel with all the details of our living,
or doing business. The mere fact
that a certain course of action may
be desirable does not indicate that the
State may lawfully legislate on the
subject. Just offhand it seems tKat
any law resuiring the grading of to
bacco before marketing is an invalid
law, regardelss of the wisdom or ex
pediency of the grading.
If our tobacco warehouses have in-
eamings for the yaer will be $2,860.
Many a family is receiving that, to
gether with as much more for the
wife and son or daughter, his dol- Uisted on such a law—as some grow-
lar-an-hour pay is not necessarily ers say—it is the warehouses which
highly-skilled labor. Skilled labor is!are losing by the law, for the tobac-
much better paid. leo sold in Georgia does not help the
Is a fanner a skilled worker? His I South Carolina warehouses,
judgment on when to plow a damp | We must learn some day that the
field, or not to plow, may result in Legislature has no right to legislate
an increase or loss of hundreds of
dollars. Likewise, his judgment on
harvesting and marketing bis crop
may be worth hundreds of dollars,
even on a small farm.
In this farmer is a manager, the
directing head of a business. Does
he receive an income equal to indus
trial wages? Certainly a one-horse
farm should yield a return equal to
that of a n unskilled industrial work-
Ask the farmer if he enjoys such
an income? Far from it.
I have in mind the tobacco farm
er. Let us consider the small plant
er, say of five or six acres. The work
calls for skilled labor, and the farm
er and his family are entitled to the
pay of skilled workers.
Do you know how the tobacco
farmer works ?
Let us think of our tobacco belt in
South Carolina: Georgetown, Wil
liamsburg, Clarendon, Lee, Sumter,
Florence, Darlington, Marion, Dillon,
Horry and others. Most of the to
bacco is produced on small tracts. In
many cases the farmer himself, his
wife, sons and 1 daughters—all are ex
pert workers. They not only produce
the tobacco stalk, but are highly
trained at curing the leaves and grad
ing the tobacco for market . Long
nights are spent at the bam 01 barns,
as the roaring fire is tempered to live
coals, as the drying leaves may re
quire. Once the farmer begins to
“cure”, or dry his tobacco, he is on
duty seven days and nights, seven
day sand nights. No one who knqws
anything about tobacco will deny that
a successful tobacco man is a skilled
laborer, as well as a good manager.
Does he receive a" income equal to
taht of a skilled industrial worker, in-
eluding overtime ? Do the members
of his family enjoy that rate of pay ?
Well, take the total receipts of that
family, allow something for the copi-
tal invested, including operating ex
penses, plus something for managing
the farm, and you will find the total
earnings of a successful tobacco fam-
em every plan that may seem desira
ble. One of our freedoms is to han-
de our affairs without a law poking
a finger at you from every nook and
corner.
Some of our cotton-pickers ^ill
have sore backs this year. Much of
the cotton is small, low on the ground,
and full of rust.
Ootton is about ready to be picked.
All over the lower part of the State,
the fields are turning white.
There is no reason why our South
Carolina Democrats should be under
the spell or sway of office-holding
politicians or those who hope to
profit from the New Deal Regime.
Mr. Roosevelt, in campaigning for
a fourth term, pretends to put him
self on a plane apart from politics,
and surrounds himself with the gla
mor cf war and the idea of being
Commander-in-Chief. He went to
the Pacific during the Democratic
convention and spoke from a naval
station. He now goes to Pearl Har
bor and the Aleutians—for what? To
dramatize himself as a great man of
war. The admirals and the generals
-ome and go; they do the fighting;
but Mr. Roosevelt uses the war as a
background for his campaign. It is
a subtle appeal, and an unworthy ef
fort to use the war to promote his
personal ambition.
When he went to the West, preen
ing as the Supreme Commander, he
found time to spend several hours in
Chicago, with his political manager!
And while at a naval station on the
Pacific, he sat with ears glued t-j the
radio or the telephone directing his
•political leaders, the bosses, what to
do.
All this jaunt is the usual stage
play of a man who likes theatrical
poses. It will impress and deceive
many emotional people; but the
fighters themselves and clear-mind
ed people, won’t forget that this so-
called inspection trip of Mr. Roose
velt, with national hook-up and free
advertising, is just CANDIDATE
COOL COTTON
Looking like a million dollars
kolps tka time go faster while
awaiting the stork. This young
officer’s wife does it by wearing
cool cottons, and tha dress sbo
' medals above is a brown and white
checked giagkam snn back which
[has a let-out feature at the sides.
|A brown jackat covers it for town!
and is a good streamliner, too. '
Home Demonstration
Column
Seventy five very enthusiastic 4-
H club members returned from
Camp Long Friday afternoon after
spending a most enjoyable week.
Judging from the reports given by
the campers and leaders the camp
was a great success. Those who did
not get to go this year should begin
now to' plan for next year. It is
difficult to measure or enumerate
the benefits to be derived from such
group training.
Even little short cuts are import
ant in war time cookery. A few
minutes saved each time a job is
done count up to many hours in the
course of months
In a household where baking pow
der biscuits and cookies are baked
often, time may be saved by cutting
them square instead of round. After
the dough is rolled out, criss-cross
ing with a knife and then lifting the
squares onto the baking pan is much
faster than first cutting with a
cookie cutter, then gathering the
Iscraps together, and again rolling
’our and cutting, as is usually done.
In these days when many families
send eookies to members away in
the armed services, the square cut
has another advantage. It makes
cookies pack more compactly and
travel with less breakage.
Drop biscuits and cookies are even
quicker to make than square cut
cookies but their texture and ap
pearance is less smooth and they do
not pack a s well.
ily* far^less than the same work would ' Roosevelt’s method of campaigning
have yielded in industry.
for a forth term.
If we must dig
up unpleasant
What about the post-war business? .facts, let us remind our people that
A great business service tells us that ^en Mr. Roosevelt was eampaign-
at the end of 1943 the people of the iag for a third term, in 1940, toward
United States were ready to buy:
Automobiles and motor trucks 7,-
000,000.
Radios and phonographs 20,000,-
000.
Heating stoves 2,850,000.
Cooking stoves 4,820,000.
Bedsprings 7,270,000.
Hot water heaters 1,600,000.
Furnaces 609,000.
Hot water tanks 820,000.
Sewing machines 748,000.
Oil burners 492,000.
Portable typewriters 662,000.
Bicycles 3,155,000.
Washing matohines 3,956,000.
Mechanical refrigerators 4,700,000.
Vacuum cleaners 3,350,000.
To the figures & items mentioned
we must add several hundred thou
sand homes and hundreds of public
buildings. And to the new building
must be added repairs on hundreds of
thousands of others.
Nothing is said about farm machin
ery, or the simple tools cf agricul
ture and machine shops. Nothing is
said about many things which form a
part of our American style of living.
We are told that government bene
fit payments to agriculture continue
at about $50 million a month, com
pared to $40 million last year.
Federal farm relief this year is
estimated officially at $200 million
more than 1934, first full year of the
“depression” emergency program.
Total farm income (before govern
ment subsidies) estimated at $21 bil
lion for 1944 against $5.3 bi'lions in
1933, when crop-adjustment bountie:
were launched.
SIGNIFICANCE: Although total
farm income has doubled twice since
1934, federal aids now are 50 per
rent above ’34 rate.
Where does this money go? Who
receives it—and for wfliat? As r
cooperator in the AAA program from
the beginning, I have not received
this increase; year by year we re
ceive less. If the Government is
spending even a hundred and twenty
million dollars a year more in 1944
the eud of the campaign period, he
rode around the country declaring
that he was making tours of inspect
ion for national defense.
The record shows that in 1936,
when campaigning for a second
term, Mr. Roosevelt traveled 1 across
the country on what he called a tour
of indpection of the drought-suffer
ing areas and flooded regions.
Although these trips ‘have been
made during presidential campaigns,
he asks the public to believe that
they nave no political purpose. We
may ask how a candidate separates
himself from his candidacy in the
heat of the campaign?
Here is a problem for farmers, as
put to Spectator by a farmer: Can
you feed 20 bushels of com to a hog
(Ipig) and “realize” $35 from the
com ? Well, can’t you sell the 20
bushels of com outright (as com)
for $35? If 20 bushels of com, as
corn, are worth $35, why expect a
farmer to feed 20 bushels of corn to
a hog FOR LESS, and have the
worry and trouble “to boot”?
LINDA FAYE HOGGE
Linda Faye Hogge, infant daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Colie Hogge
died at the Newberry County hos
pital early Sunday morning.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at 7 o’clock from the
graveside in Rosemont cemetary
with the Rev. Earle Robinette con-
lueting the service.
She is survived by her father and
mother; one sister, Ygenia; her ma
ternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
F. F. Holland and paternal grand
mother, Mrs. Gladys H Puckett, all
of Newberry.
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KILLED BY TRAIN
Tony Sharpe, 18-months-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Sharpe, died
Saturday night at the Newberry
County hospital a few hours after
he was stniek by a train.
The child was playing near his
home and started across the rail
road when he was hit.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at 5 o’clock from the
McSwain funeral home with the Rev.
Furman Rivers and the Rev. Win-
gard Berry conducting the service.
Interment followed in Enoree
Church cemetary.
He is survived by his parents; one
brother. Junior Sharpe and his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bartow
Wicker, of Newberry.
U. S. CASUALTIES THUS FAR IN
WAR STANDS AT 299,474
Washington, Aug. 17—Battle casu
alties in the United States armed
forces thus far reported to next of
kin have reached a total of 299,474.
Acting Secretary of War McCloy
•today listed Airmy casualties of 244,-
775 from the start of the war until
July 29. Navy, Marine and Coast
Guard casualties totaling 54,699
were announced by the Navy.
Of the Army total, 45,491 were
killed, 113,977 were founded (57,956
of the wounded have recovered and
returned to duty), 42,102 are missing
and 43,205 are officially reported
prisoners of the enemy.
Army casualties in Normandy,
from D-Day through August 6
amounted to 112,673 with 16,434
killed, 76,535 wounded, and 19,704
missing. The Normandy figure in
cluded one week’s casualties, not
broken down, which were not in the
summary of all Army casualties.
Navy casualties alone totaled 34,-
414, with the Marines reporting 19,-
530 and the Coast Guard 755. For
the three naval services, the total
of dead was 22,665; wounded 17,819;
missing 9,746 and prisoners of war
4,469.
The Army’s total of casualties was
an increase of 26,302 over the latest
previous report, made August 3, of
218,473 The Navy total increased
2,828 from 51,871.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 88,
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