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SPECTATOR
1218 College Street
NEWBERRY. SOUTH CAROLINA.
O. F. ARMFIELD
Editor arid Publisher
Published Every Friday"
In I he
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Entered a= second-class matter
December 6. 1P37, at tht pcstoffice
at Newberry, Sogt'i Carolina, under
the Act of Conjrress of March 3. 1879.
CONDUCT OF UNIONS
IRRESPONSIBLE spokesmen for
' labor attempt to measure the man
hours lost throup-h strikes in fcprms of
the time lost by the striking workers
only. The hypocrisy of their method
was damningly revealed during the
Philadelphia transit strike. In a
and light bill and laid his cards on
the table, continued to get ro wer
even though his bills had not been
| paid fir three, four or five years—
and more .... "When the turn :ame 1 - ^ , _
growers began, paying their back P 18 of **<>****?
!Sower bill* but the icmtanv -=yer ' attcnf.on to the oath in the Fri-
! did scliect for all the power it deliv- ' } ?. uo J e al ] n: .. , _
1 eied . The power company took! We na.c Heard quite a number of
it on the chin along with the
of us.”
The fiction tha tprivate industry
is completely selfish, while govern
ment generosity knows no limit, will
eventually be revealed for just what
it is—fiction. Every man knows
j that if he fails to pay taxes, no mat-
| ter how hard up he is, the tax col
lector will collect every dime, pdus
heavy penalties and interest, or sell
his property.
W. H. HARRIS DIES
William Hannibal Harris, 87, died
, .. . . r, . I at his home in the Old Town com-
letter to the President regarding that: munity of the eount y Sunday mornu-
strike, William H. Davis, chairman I in at an early hour f 0 ii owin g an ill-
of the War Labor Board, wrote ‘It; ness which extended over several
involves upward of six thousand em -' wee ks
ployees of the Philadelphia Transpor- ! Mr° Harris was born and reared at
tation company; it is depriving some I gt step hens, Alabama, the son :f P.
two million people of transportation. ! T Harris but moved to Newberry
about a ^million of whom are war j county nil !, eteen
years ago.
workers. I Puneral services were held Monday
Actually no one can measure the , afternoon at 4 o’clock from the Mc-
far reaching effects of a wartime | Funeral r ho me with the Rev.
strike. Anyone who even attempts w M 0 wings conducting the ser-
to justify such a strike is tarring -
himself with the same brush of near
treason which blackens the soul of
every striking worker. The plain
fact is that there is no excuse what
soever for strikes during wartime.
They will boomerang against the
cause legitimate unionism as surely j
as the sun rises.
Instead of trying to excuse past |
strikes whose damage can never be ;
repaired, union representatives can
and should work to avoid further
strikes until the war is over and won.
vice, with interment in ,Rosemont
cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Mary Alice Caughman Harris and
one son, P. T. of Newberry county;
one grandchild also survives.
HOW TO KEEP FROM
GROWING OLD
GOVERNMENT GENEROSITY
A MYTH
j^NYONE who has been dazzled by
the seeming benevolence of gov
ernment during recent years, should
talk to the farmers in Washington’s
apple producing center, the Wenat
chee valley. One of them, grown
weary of unjustified attacks of pub
lic ownership promoters on the pri
vate electric company serving his
district, wrote a letter to a local ed
itor, observing that “When the big
depression of the thirties came, ir
rigation districts and the county
took over thousands of acres of or
chard for back taxes and unpaid
water assessments. But the . . . .
power company continued to stand
by the growers. It did not run out
on them.
“Duriny those dark years,
Always drive fast out of alleys.
Always pass the car ahead on
curves and turns.
It gives you chance to play magi
cian.
Don’t use your horn, it may un
nerve the other fellow.
Demand half the road—the middle
half—insist on your rights.
Always speed. it shows people you
are a man of pep.
Never stop, look or listen at rail
road crossings. It consumes time.
Always race with locomotives to
crossings. Engineers like it. It breaks
the monotony of their job.
Always lock your brakes when
skidding. It makes the job more
artistic.
MEETING OF PATRONS AND
TAXPAYERS
rest 1 complaints that the persons voting in
the recent Democratic prittary tvere
given an path that they would sup
port the nominee of the party, both
state and national. Any manager
who gave an oath to support the
nominee of the party, state and na
tional, either did so through ignor
ance or through deliberate intent to
mislead. We prefer to think it was
through ignorance.
There are thousands of people in
South Carolina who would forego
their right to vote in the primary
rather than vote for Franklin D.
Roosevelt for a fourth term. The
Democratic .convention in May was
aware of this fact and the oath pro
vided and adopted by the State Con
vention is as follows:
T do solemnly swear that I am a
resident of this club district, and
am duly "qualified to vote at this
election according to the rules of
the Democratic party, and that I
have not voted before at this elec
tion, and pledge myself to support
the nominees of this primary.’
This is the exact wording of the
oath in the Rules of the Democratic
Party adopted May 17, 1944 The
Committee on Rules struck out the
following words ‘in the ensuing Gen
eral Election.’ Until 1938 the oath
did read ‘support the nominees of the
party, state and national.’ The
word ‘national’ was struck out by
j our State Convention then after the
11936 national convention had abolish
ed the two-thirds rule. It has never
since been in the oath, and the oath
ipres, ribed in the May Rules requires
you to support only the nominees of
the piimary. In the South Carolina
Democratic Party the people do not
have an opportunity to vote for the
presidential electors. They are not
even elected by the State Conven
tion, but are hand-picked by the State
Executive Committee. They are not
nominees of the> primary.
You have taken no oath to sup
port the Presidential Electors, who
a re. pledged to Roosevelt and Truman.
If you want to, you may; if you do
not want to, you may vote for any
other slate of electors, or you may
write out a ticket of your own. A
written ticket is just as good as a
printed one. You can fix it before
you go to the ballot box and nobody
ust 23rd, tells us that President Roo-{
sevelt has appointed that colored
minister to be Recorder of Deeds of
the District of Columbia. Mark you,
this colored preacher doesn’t live in
Washington or anywhere else in the
District of Columbia; he lives in
Philadelphia In fact a protest has
been made, against the appointment
by Edward F. Harris, president of
the Federation of Civic Associations.
Says Dr. Harris:
“I think this job should go to a
Washingtonian, instead of being" a
national political plum, awarded for
vote-getting purposes.”
Now there must be a mistake, sure
ly, about appointing a colored man
for political purposes. President
Roosevelt would not do that, though
our South Carolina New Deal friends
.can probably explain all this.
The Washington Times-Herald has
this to say “Observers here saw a
double significance in the naming of
Shepard—(the colored minister) . . .
First, Pennsylvania is very much in
the dubious category as regards the
November General Election. The
Democrats need every Negro vote
they can corral to carry the state . . .
For the past three national cam
paigns, Shepard served as head of
the Speakers bureau, colored division,
of the Democratic National Commit
tee.’’
I need not emphasize the tierup
between the Rooseveltians and the
negroes. Some of our own public men
try to persuade themselves that it
isn’t so, although they must indeed
be blind. No, they are not blind;
they are deceiving themselves; as a
matter of principle the negro is either
a Rooseveltian Democrat in South
Carolina as he is up North, or he
isn’t a Democrat anywhere. Since
Mr. Roosevelt woos them in Pennsyl
vania, what about South Carolina?
Men who embrace Mr. Roosevelt
and all his works must follow his ex
ample here at home. Yet one of the
Roosevelt high priests in South Caro
lina had the audacity, to call a White
man’s Democrat a Scalawag! Our
fathers would almost come forth from
their graves if they could imagine
the tie-up between South Carolina
New Dealers and the Negroes,
through their joint interest in pro
moting Mr. Roosevelt’s life tenure
of the presidency!
Are not our New Deal friends in
the wrong crowd ? They beieve in
a White Man’s Democracy, a De
mocracy hallowed for us South Caro-
li.iians by sacrifice, devotion and
marvellous fortitude. Yes, they be-
OH, YEAH
After his medical examination had
been completed a mountain boy from
Arkansas stepped up before an offi
cer at the draft induitioh center..
The officer asked what he Vftjg.itd
to be. "' .
“What are you?” said the indutfi&e.
“I’m a captain.’ ,
“Well, that’s what I want to be.”
“No,’ explained the vcajrtain". “I
mean where do you want to go?”
T want to go hom.e,” the youth re
plied.
“But who’ll do your fighting for
you?” asked the officer.
Replied the mountaineer: “The
same guys who are doing the fight
ing for you.”
“Will you please tell the one
who writes ‘Comments on Men
and Things’ that it is the first
thing we read each week. We like
it so much. He said his mother
was from' Society Hill, his father
from Virginia which made it more
interesting,,” ( j
V.Thj* '^HjSr .wSs signed by a lady
from" Society Hill in behalf of hfir-
self and her husband.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 8, 1944
PHYSICAL EXAM.
The chap with bad eyesight was
being examined by the draft medico
—and was placed in 1-A. “But my
tyes '.are terrible, I can hardly see a
.thing,” he pointed out.
“Look,”, said the medico, “we don’t
examine eyes any more—we just
count ’em.”
S. C. PAYSINGER
AGENT NEWBERRY
From an article in the Washing
ton, D C. Afro-American of August
26, written by Michael Carter:
“I believe that Truman is an hon
est man, who probably thinks of
himself as a ‘piraictical politician’ who
believes in fair play, but understands
the need for humoring race-haters.
He must also understand the need
for ‘getting along’ with machine poli
ticians in order to achieve demo
cratic aims. I suppose I was most
impressed with his eagerness to talk,
his off-banded courtesy and his dis
taste for certain politicians—men in
his own party—which he freely ex
pressed to me. These names, as
much as a great deal of other talk,
were ‘off the record.’
“He freely admitted that the pl£R-
form, as it concerns the colored citi
zen, was brief and generalized. But
he added: “You have made more
progress under Roosevelt than und
any other President. You want .
keep us in power; you must under
stand that a true ‘democratic’ party
is a pairty of minorities. Democracy
means conciliation a nd agreement.
“I pointed out that the party had
gone to some lengths to conciliate
the South; that the plank on colored
citizens was obviously a part .of the
conteiliatiom. Senator Truman taftitly
admitted that it was. ‘Why shouldn’t
the
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There will be a meeting of all the
patrons and taxpayers of Silver-
street Consolidated School District
at the Silverstreet High School aud
itorium, Friday night, September 8
at 8:30 P. M. to discuss school finan
ces. All persons interested in the
any operation of Silverstreet schools are
^ ~ . : i rie army wnose n
has to see what is on jt. Twt may f Communists, star-gazers and
millions of bureaucrats whose De
mocracy is not of principle but of
And they march with a Party
which is recruiting its ranks by call
ing in, inducing, persuading and bar
gaining with the negro vote. Friends,
aren’t you in the wrong crowd?
1 we conciliate the South? Why
lieve in 'Lbu y . 8 ' ' shouldn’t we conciliate the colored
: voters as well? -Both are part of the
grower who could not pay his power ireed to be present.
PHONE 155
YOUR
FARMERS
Ice & Fuel Co.
WE HAVE A LARGE
SUPPLY AT THE MOMENT
NOW
seem irregular, but the State of
South Carolina has never adopted an
Australian ballot for the General
Election. This is written to give you
what the Democratic Party of South
Carolina has prescribed as to the
oath, and to make it clear that you
took no oath to support Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Truman when you
voted in the primary on July 25,
1944. If any election manager told
you to the contrary he told yoii in
correctly or falsely. Our authority
is Rule 32 adopted May 17, 1944, by
the ‘Regular’ Democartic Party of
South Carolina.”
There is something about a bank
er. Of course there is something
about a banker: money, lots of money
francs “bo-koo”, to make English but
of the French.
Bankers not only deal in money,
but lots of string. Perhaps you hadn’t
thought of that—lots of string. You
see, they have to get a string on a
man and must use lots of string.
Now you are prepared for the
story, I dropped in to see a chival
rous and debonair banker, but he had
gone away on vaication; but a hand
some young man of milione was pre
sent, with all the authority of life
and death over us meek spirits who
trembled at the door. Even so, he is
a Democratic spirit and abounds with
t^e, milk of human kindness and rich
fellowship.
The rich young man loves dogs; he
has developed a theory of training
whifch brings out the qualities of the
dogs. His dogs are all retrievers.
Now, observe the old doctrine of ap
perception in a fresh setting. We
are likely to interpret people and
events in the light of our own ex
perience.
What could be more realistic for n
banker than a RETRIEVER? Isn’t
RETRIEVING the most habitual act
of a banker? If he doesn’t retrieve he
will soon be an ex-ibanker. So now—
my banker friend specializes with re
trievers. But, hear him, as he sage
ly discourses on the noble art of
transforming a mere puppy into a
noble dog. Says he: “Get a piece of
string and tie it to the puppy; speak
gently to hit# by name, touching the
string lightly and he will come.” Now
isn’t that banking practice applied, to
dogs? Isnt that what the banks do
to us? They touch the string with
the slightest pressure, just the slight
est, and call our names softly, and
WE step lively in response. Believe
me, all the soft words in the diction
ary would not turn the trick except
for the little piece of string and the
mild pressure
As with dogs, then, so with men:
soft words, gentle approach, soothing
touch, but the easy tug at the string
does the work.
Ifatry.’’
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REAL ESTATE
AUTOMOBILES
AND
PERSONAL PROPERTY
NEWBERRY INSURANCE
AND REALTY CO.
NED PURCELL, Manager
TELEPHONE 197
Exchange Bank Building
Some of our South Carolina New
Dealers declare their unswerving al
legiance to the Atlantic Charter. The
Atlantic Charter, you will recall, was
srmething M.r. Roosevelt and Mr.
Churchill hatched out when the two
threabrical sea-lords met on the
ocean a nd transferred from ship-to-
ship. Mr. Chundhill came over on the
new battleship Prince of Wales and ,
Mr. Roosevelt was bobbing up and •
down on a cruiser. Their pictures
were published all over the world—
which is part of a politicians dream.
It should be remembered, however,
that the great theatrical meeting at
sea between Messrs. Roosevelt and
Churchill was over three months be
fore we were attacked at Pearl Har
bor. Obviously our great peace-lov
ing President was not planning a
war! Surely not; but there is the 1
record; over three months before even
the secret attack at Pearl Harbor,
Mr. Roosevelt was trying to decide
on the things of war.
It is very encouraging to receive
appreciative messages. The editor of
the Chesterfield Advertiser, Mr. Paul
R. Hearn, sends us a letter, which
we quote:
Seems a long time since the old
battler, Cotton Ed Smith walked out
of the Democratic convention In
Philadelphia because a colored
preacher was invited to offer a pray
er. Eight years ago. Cotton Ed ex
plained that he would welcome the
prayer of any sincere person, but that
the invitation to the colored minister
was merely a political stroke .just an
effort to attract the Northern Negro i uishingt "driving
vote. Of course it was.; it was just the
sort of smart politics that sincere
people regard a s most contemptible.
The negro minister was not to blame;
but the white men who used that
trick for political eain made a mock
ery of prayer and religion.
Well, now, after all these years
what do we see? The Times-Herald
of Washington, in its edition of Aug-
NOTICE OF SCHOOL BUS CON
TRACT LETTING
The Newberry County Board of
Education hereby asks for bids to be
filed with the Board to transport
pupils in the following districts to
wit:
1. To transport children in Silver-
street Consolidated District over
route now operated by J. C. Butler.
2. To transport children in Sil
verstreet Consolidated District oyer
route now operated by R. S. Sand
ers.
3. To transport children in Mid
way School District to Little Moun
tain School over route now operated
by Hunter Caldwell.
4. To transport Children in St.
Johns School District to Pomaria
over route now operated by J. Cecil
Berley.
5. To transport children in Ruth
erford School District to Pomaria
over route now operated by Marvin
Graham.
Successful bidders shall furnish
safe comfortable transportation. All
bidders shall be required to place
each bid in a separate envelope on
the outside of which shall be plainly
marked the school district and the
route for the bid inclosed.
The contracts will be awarded for
a term of theree years unless sooner
cancelled for cause, and for the re
spective school terms to the lowest
responsible bidder. The bidders shall
furnish the buses and the drivers of
same and shall comply with all laws
and regulations relative to the fur-
and equiping of
same.
Bids will be received through Fri
day,, Sept. 15. 1944 and will be open
ed Saturday, Sept. 16, 1944 and
awards made as soon thereafter as
possible.
The Board hereby reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
Newberry County Board of
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