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PAGE POUR NEWBERRY SUN 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher Published Every Friday In The Year Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at tht postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 18?9. THOUGHTS ON V DAY (Newark (N.J.) Evening News) A great deal of foolish, even dan gerous, conversation is heard about the wild celebration that will occur on V-Day, the same being the day on which the Germans surrender. The prediction is heard that this celebra tion will be so unrestrained, in all respects, as to cause the 1918 armis tice celebrations, false and real, to pale in comparison. In short, what some people seem to expect, and to take keen pleasure in expecting,, is a riot, a demonstra tion of spontaneous mob violence in which shop window will be smashed, hotel lobbies wrecked, theatre seats torn up, and bars—their contents first having been consumed—demol ished. Establishments in the fields SPECTATOR Mr. Roosevelt has everything, ac cording to Mr. Truman and most other New Deal satellites. If he were a pitcher they would say that he had speed, curves, slow bails, faders, breakers, benders, drops, rises, dips, ducks—and what not. As a fast bailer, his speed is so great that he hurls the sphere before the watch can record any time; as a slow-baller, the first baseman has to run over and take the ball where it hangs in the air. So now, Mr Truman calls for Mr. Roosevelt as the genius of the peace table. Up to now he has been the un- matchable genius of the war. Until a month or two ago, the New Dealers were proclaiming Mr. Roose velt the greatest war chief of all time, the only man who could win the war; now they say he is the supreme peace chief, the only man who can win the peace. As the chief characteristic of Mr. Roosevelt is spending, giving away and throwing away, what would he give away or spend or throw at a peace confer' ence? Preparedness for Peace. What shall we do in order to prepare for peace? We talk about the coming of pulling and tugging at her from morn till night, as she goes about the thousand details of housekeeping and home-making—she knows what rest is .when the little felows ate tucked into bed, looking like so many little angels as they sleep, Notwith standing ail the work, worry .and vexation of the long day. So life is work, toil, vexation, an xiety, labor; and we recognize with praise, and honor not merely those who are members of labor organiza tions, but all who work usefully in the great vineyard of the Lord. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1944 — —— . ' . . ■ ■■■' urnalia. It has even reached the point where civilian defense organi zations, mobilized to protect against our enemies, are being readied, in event of need, to .protect us against ourselves. The idea of having a destructive national binge on V-Day is one of the most mistaken ideas to come out of this war. In the first place, there may be no Day, in the sense in which there was an armistice on November 11, 1918, when the firing ceased. This is a fluid war, and it is pos sible that the war will continue in one part of Europe after it has ceased in another, or in one or more parts of the German Reich after other parts have laid down their arms. Thus there would be no sharp terminal. Assuming there is a definite D- Day, the war at that point will be but half over. There will be millions of Americans still under arms in the Pacific, engaged in fighting a war against Japan. Will those who have men in the Pacific, exposed to dis ease and death, feel like joining a Bacchanalia of window and bottle smashing at home? Last and most important of all, there will be the wounded and the dead, who will have sacrificed them selves to bring about the defeat of Hitler. Can we think of them and go on a V-Day jag We can rejoice in the victorious results of their 'pain and death, we can feel a sense of ut most relief and gratitude, but will we be in a mood to scream and throw ourselves about like jitterbugs? It ought not to be—not if we can re capture the mood of D-DAY, which was not one to blow whistles and sirens, but to bow in prayer. CONGRESS THE GUARDIAN NOW The centralization of government in. Washington has grown to such an extent that Federal agencies now brazenly reach out to limit more and more the rights of the various states to regulate business within their boundaries. Following an attack by the Depart ment of Justice, fire insurance has now been held to be interstate com merce and subject to Federal regula tion under the anti-trust laws. It has heretofore been regulated by each of the 48 states, in accordance with the laws and conditions applica ble to each state. Justice Jaokson, in criticizing this new interpretation, said: “I have lit tle doubt that if the present trend continues, Federal regulation will eventually supersede that of the states.” The insurance industry is in utter confusion. State regulatory agencies do not know where they stand. To remedy the situation, the House of Representatives in Congress, by a vote of almost 5 1-2 to 1, approved a bill that not only renders inapplica ble the Federal anti-trust laws to in surance, but clearly indicates that as a policy, the House favors preserva tion of tsate regulation wholly free of Federal interference. The bill will now have to go before the Sen ate. That Justice Jackson’s fears are well justified, is shown by the latest move of the anti-trust division of the Department of Justice which plans to attack the railroads under flhe anit-trust laws. The procedure which the department claims are violations of the Sherman anti-trust act, for the most part have been in effect for many years. Some of them are nec essary in order to comply with the provisions of the Interstate Com merce Act. Virtually every important act of a railroad is already subject to the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission and regulatory commis sions of the various states. But cen tralized government is reaching out for more authority which at every trn limits or destroys state and in dividual rights. Never before did the preservation of individual and states rights depend so completely on the protection of Congress. pen when peace comes? The big thing is that our boys will not be in danger from the hazards of war; and the next thing will .be that they will come home; and the next thing will be that some infalted prices and wages will fall; and some people will be let out from their jobs. How shall we prepare for Peace? One of the best answers to that is the example of two colored people of my town—that is, the town where I live for I cannot claim all of the town except in a spiritual license. These two people, a man and his wife, went North and found jobs at very high wages They had the good sense to know that this would not last forever. What did they do? They arranged to buy a home in that lit tle town and they have paid for it month by month, until they now own it completely. That is preparedness for peace. These two people have done what hundreds of thousands might have done, .but failed to do. If we had more of the Scotchman sense of value we would buy less when things are high, saving for the time when prices will be lower. That rule could be followed .profitably by most people. Instead of that, many have spent all their high wages for things at high prices. The result is that they have a distorted idea of values and extravagant taste which they must readjust when their in come falls. BACK UP YOUR BOY lacrMM jraar payr*// sav/sgs H y~r fwmliy limit I am writing this on Labor Day. Of course that does not mean that we shall do extra work; it is a day set aside as a tribute to those of us who work. It is not a day to honor Labor organizations; or to glorify Labor leaders, or their high-salaried officials; it is a day on which to con sider the obligation on everybody to work, to justify his existence by use ful work. And it crowns with dignity that honest toil. The Son of Man paid His tribute to work when He said “My father WORKETH hitherto, and I WORK.” There is no place in the world for one who does not work. We must produce in order to repay the world for the bread and meat we consume. Not all work with picks and shovels, or hammers and saws; not all guide or control the great machines of'in dustry; not all follow the plow from gray-dawn to night; not all walk be hind counters all day; or bend over desks; but the obligation is on all to serve society in some useful manner so that directly or' indirectly bur work shall flow into the great sur- rent of productive labor. Labor is work; it is not just a un- ion of workers. Nobody works more strenuously than the man breaking new ground; no one serves humanity more helpfully than the physician, the nurse and the druggist; and .the spiritual leader who lifts the mind from the monotony of the daily rou tine to the eternal reward for right eous living. The policeman on his lonely beat; the sailor on watch in the night as his ship rides the tumult of the sea; the soldier in the heat of battle, or on the outpost—all these labor and by their service dignify and glorify labor, for by their service we at home are able to carry on the pro cesses of peace. The merchant, the clerk, the insurance man—all labor. There was a time when work was not highly respected; it was asso ciated with slavery. In England a gentleman was a man of independent means who did not work. Merchants were not respected; manufacturers were held in low regard; surgeons were just ordinary laborers; even bankers were held in contempt. The world lived on toil, but it was re garded as a mean and contemptible thing. Our Labor Day marks the great advance since then. Today we recognize the necessity for work, in dividual work, the individual contri buting in some manner to repay the world for his upkeep. In the first revelation to us of the Great Jehovah we read that in the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth; and that He RESTED on the seventh day, which he made a holy day. The idea of Jehovah RESTING clearly conveys the idea of work, for one cannot rest unless one has worked. The man or woman with nothing to do, and who does nothing, doesn’t rest. Life is just a bore to them, a weary, dreary suc cession of hours, days and weeks— all dull and dead. But the man who uses his mind and body steadily from Monday until Saturday—he knows what a day of rest means. And the mother, with her little boys and girla The rapid thrusts of General Pat ton’s army turns the thoughts of many of us to France. Paris is the center of France. Paris is the cen ter of France. It is the very heart of the country. New York, Chicago and Washington, all taken together, are not as vitally tthe core of our country as Paris is of France. Thinking about the cities swept over by Patton’s men, I recall Orleah, where Joan of Arc lived for a while in the convent. Many of us visited the convent and refered our minds as to the Maid of Orlean. Not so far away is Tours, the great center of the army supply sys tem in the first world war. From that city went the Crusaders in the Middle Ages, bent on recovering the Holy Sepulchre from the Turks. In the yard of the Cathedral is a great cedar, which is said to have grown from a seed brought from Lebanon by the zealous Knights of the Cross. In that general area are Gievres, Prunieres, Romorantin—all a part of the great territory known as the seat of the AEF’s base supply depot. Not so far away is Blois, where the great poisoning queen, Cathar- inne de Medici, lived in a splendid palace. Then, off a few miles in an other direction is the Chateau de Valenci, where Napoleon held the King of Spain a prisoner. So beauti ful is the Chateau that the King is said to have wept when he was re leased. I spent several nights there, climbing up on little ladders to the high beds. Not more than a couple of hour’s ride beyond is Bourges, whose cathe dral was regarded as the most mag nificent in France, after the heavy damage suffered by the more fam ous Cathedral at Rheims. I climbed to the belfry—366 steps —and had sore knees for two days. Nearby is the palace of Jacques Coeur—who was treasurer of his King. Any treasurer in those days could build a palace. And there was Dijon, near the Swiss border with the big advance supply base of Is-Sur-Tille within a few miles. I spent some months at Is-Sur-Tille. It was convenient to Chaumont, the general headquarters of the A.E.F. I do not dwell on Paris. “Paree” deserves special mention, not just in cidental reference. I know of Le Mans, through which our tanks rushed as well as Versail les, the little city of the vast and sumptuous palace of Louis XIV. Truly the magnificence of Versailles is in keeping with the arrogance of the grand monarch who said, “The State; it is I.” Yes, I am the State. He must have thought himself equal to FDR. Rion McKissick. All of us who were at Carolina with him will recall viv idly his personality and some of his characteristics on the campus. Rion McKissick, Douglas McKay and H. P. Johnson (my room-mate) seemed to live and love Carolina beyond the rest of us. “Pete” Hollis belongs there, too. Carolina abounded in fine gentlemen such as Eugene Blake Jesse Carter James Brailsford, John Williams, Gordon Baker, Edwin Belser, Vernie Cook, Frank Bradley— but I can’t call the roster of good fellows. Rion McKissick and Eugene Blake were inclined to be oratorical, Blake on formal occasions, and Rion on all occasions. I’ve always enjoyed teas ing Rion about an exchange between us one night. I had “welcomed” one group to a meeting of our group. Rion, in response, sipoke his “appre- formation. elation of the words of my BUCOLIC friend. “This was only the frenzied rapture of a budding orator. In all the intervening years I saw Rion McKissick only occasionally, but last summer I went to the Univer sity to interpret for two educators .from Uruguay. They wished to make courtesy calls on the Governor, the Mayor ,the Superintendent of Educa tion (Dr. Hope), the city superin tendent (Mr. Flora) and the Presi dent of the University. Among the South Americans the Rector de la Universidad is a man of great pres tige and a very austere personage. They were amazed to find Carolina’s president in a plain, even shabby, of fice, sitting at a small desk. Instead of an atmosphere of chilling scholas ticism the President of the Universi ty seemed just a plain, unassuming, unaffected man who was democratic ally working amid a great hubbub of coming and going students . I greet ed him in English on behalf of the gentlemen from Uruguay and before translating his resiponse I playfully gave him a dig by telling him that I would tell the Uruguayans that he was a BUCOLIC SCHOLAR. He en joyed it and said he would regard it as a long-deferred reprisal. I know nothing of the University today from the inside though I know some of the choice spirits who com pose the faculty. I cannot evaluate the services of Rion McKissick to the university and to the broad field of humanity but this I know: It was easy simple and pleasant to transact business with the university. Rion McKissick never lost his amiable manner, never became less the easy going democratic gentlemen because of position or distinction; he was, to the end, as we had known him, just Rion MCKissick, except that he grew in stature as the mellowing years ripened him in useful service. Under him the University, following the course laid down by Dr. Mitchell, was not an institution apart and aloof but a great public service in the heart of the' busy affairs of every day life. Home Demonstration Column By ETHEL L. COUNTS Newberry county 4-H club mem bers are very proud that two of their number, Lorraine Counts and Alice Beth Gunter won first place in the State Dairy Team Demonstra tion v'hieh was held at Camp Long on August 30th This recognition also carries with it a free trip to the State Fair and a $50 war bond for each of them. These girls have worked hard and are not satisfied with what they have won but are trying for other trips and awards. This should be an incentive to other boys and girls to try. Unless we try we cannot achieve. In October children between the ages of 10 and 18 will have an opportunity to join the 4-H club for another year. Attractive year books are now being prepared. “A new doctrine is gaining ground, that nutritio nis no less a right of the citizen than is education.” Now and after the war is over we have great need of a nation which is men tally and physically strong. There fore, we must bend every effort to- i wards building abundant health and I vitality through the constant prac-1 tice of good nutrition. his is a challenge. To meet this challenge all official and voluntary agencies, whose work deals with nu trition, must intensify their efforts to make people everywhere conscious of the importance of practicing good nutrition to build sound health. We eat 8-10 times our own weight every year. We spend 1-3 or more of our income for food. Food is the only necessity we all have in com mon. Feeding a family is a compli cated job and shouldn’t be under taken without a plan or without in- MANNER OF DISCHARGING Continued from page Five division who were to be retained for fighting would-be shifted to the oth er three divisions. In the United States, the men in the surplus units will go into a “surplus pool” which will include men from all overseas theaters and surplus -aen from the United States. Men will, be sent back to civilian life on the basis of their “scores”. No man in a unit that remains in service can be sent home until a qualified replacement is available under the plan. On the other hand, any man who has been declared non- essential under the plan but wishes to remain in the army wil not be “forced out” if he has a satisfactory record and can be usefully employed. Officers will be released as they can be spared with military necessity determining which are nonessential. WACS will be released under the same formula as soldiers except that WACS whose husbands already have been released will be discharged upon application. Discharging from the service will be done through 18 separation cen ters, five of which already are in operation. -■ GIN your COTTON at the Southern Cotton 00 Co. YOU CAN BE ASSURED OF A good Sample and Turnout Prompt Courteous Service We will give you a good trade on your Cotton Seed for hulls and meal. Your ginning will be appreciated. BLITZ THE BUGS ib^ 2SS SINCLAIR P.D. KILLS FLIES * MOSQUITOES -MOTHS GNATS - FLEAS - ANTS BEDBUGS•ROACHES RATES # GRADE AA’IN KILLING POWER S. C. PAYSINGER, Agent Newberry, S. C. 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