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PAGE POUR ■HE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1944 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, 1879. AMENDMENT SHOULD BE FAVORED HERE An amendment to the constitution which would enable counties to build air fields is to be voted upon the first Monday in November. While the amendment was sponsored by the Newberry county delegation, its application is state-wide. Newberry county voters should back this amendment wholehearted ly as Newberry is today the largest city in the State without an air field. No one doubts for a moment that air transportation of both passen gers and freight will be one of the major activities of the nation fol lowing the war ' and a city without an airport will be as out of date as a city without a railroad or improv ed roads today. The passage of this amendment does not give delegations unrestric ted rights to spend public funds for this purpose, and certainly no large expenditure is anticipated in this county without the consent of the people. The amendment merely im plements thecounty to take part in such an enterprise if it meets with the will of the people. It may well be that the govern ment will stand a large part of the expense of fields in given cities, ask ing only that local communities fur nish the land. As matters stand now, the refusal of a land owner to sell a tract or a few acres in an area where a field is contemplated would mean that that area could not be used since no right of condemnation is now provided for. Air lines are going to be inaugu rated at a fast pace following the ar and to get on the choice routes, Newberry must be in position to take advantage of this great new development in transportation, v More Newberry people are going to vote In the general election this year than ever before and this a- mendment should be given serious consideration by eyery one of them. Newberry will indeed will have to take a back seat if it fails to clear the way for an airport; and after all that is all the amendment does— clears the way. PILOT PRAISES PEOPLE OF RUSSIA The following interesting letter was writtn to his parents by Carl R. Pepper, Jr., American pilot, telling of his experiences while in Russia as a member of a bomber crew: “You can take it from this kid that there is no place like Uncle Sam’s good ole’ States as far as really liv ing is concerned. I’ve really been traveling around and have seen more places than I’d ever dreamed of see ing—the folks living in every place so far are just existing. It’s really pathetic. I wouldn’t trade a tramp’s chances in the States for all these villas and patios, etc., that you hear so much about. I just wrote you all a very brief note concerning the Russians so I want to really give you a picture as best I can about them. To start with they’re the happiest people I’ve yet encountered. They sing the most beautiful music, Mom, and every one of them has terrific voices. They sing the Russian folk songs, etc., while working or doing most anything. The harmony and expression is really wonderful. I’m only sorry I had to leave before I got a chance to really get in on some of their songfests. Everyone, both young and old, work like beavers at anything there is to be done. Women work on roads, clear the shambles of those grotes que figures which were once beauti ful homes and buildings, work the crops, and a million other equally as hard jobs right along with the men. These women of Russia are unique to say the least. There is no such thing as rationing of any commodities as there is no need for it. These people are truly one for all and all for one. Soap is about the rarest of luxuries as there just isn’t any to be had. Even without soap, however, it’s re markable how clean and neat these folks are. The women have the most beautiful complexion in the world. Every one of them is as healthy as can be, which I suppose can be credit ed to the rough life they lead. Pop, you’d go for those little Rus sian kids. They’re the cutest, bright est little rascals I’ve ever seen. In one place we stopped a beautiful lit tle girl kept following us around town. We took her back to the air- diome with us and one of the fellows who speaks Russian found out that she was 13 years old. both her mother and father were killed, and she had been performing the duties of a nurse in the battle of Stalingrad. She was so cute. Hank, the fellow who speaks Russian, asked her if she would like me for a father and she said I was too young for that, but she’d be pleas ed to have me as a brother. We gave her chewing gum which she would bite off in small pieces, chew the sweet out of and then spit it out. ’Phe Russians there treated us like kings. They gave a movie for us—a Russian movie—which we took Gaula, the lit tle girl friend to. Although we didn’t understand the movie I sho’ got a kick out of Gaula as she was simply fas cinated with it. She brought us fruit to camp the next day in appreciation We gave her all kinds of wings, etc., for souvenirs. She is joining the women’s army right away and she’ll probably be tope in this. Honest folks I’d given anything to have adopted that little girl and about a thousand and one others there. The hospitality shown us by the Russians was unbelievable. They couldn’t seem to do enough for us. We couldn’t fly to our destinated place as the weather was too bad around the mountains so we just dropped in on this field. These peo ple had had no notice of our stopping there but we had no sooner gotten there when they had beds, a hot meal, and terrific entertaining in the form of music all whipped up for us. It makes me ashamed of us when I think of how little we have done for these people. I just wish I could de scribe how absolutely “swellelgant’’ they were to us during our entire stay there. They wouldn’t let us do anything but enjoy ourselves. All that bull about morals, etc. ,in Russia being so low is another piece of propaganda put out by someone who doesn’t know the score. The girls are very beautiful as I’ve already mentioned, but they are interested only in their own kind. They are nice to the Yanks and talk to us, etc.— they even have dances for us, but as for making love they are just a little on the careful side of the fence as lots of the boys found out. The Germans raped and murdered so dam many of these folks that they are leary of other men besides their own. They don’t just have babies by carloads and marry as we’d been led to be lieve. They have weddings by the priest the same as we do, and it really is rough on any girl who has a baby that isn’t married. They are really terrific. The main trouble with our rela tions with Russia is that we just don’t have sense enough to realize that these folks live differently from us in lots of ways. We don’t give a damn about learning the truth and if some big-time operator tells us something we just take that to be the truth. All of us feel the same abut these people. They aren’t blood thirsty, uncivilized people. They’re a people with a soul an dheart who love to live in peace with everyone but when they were kicked in the stomach as they have been then they’re in there pitching—all for one and one for all—it’s a swell set-up. They are a fearless race and the destitution which they’ve endured is unbelievable. There wasn’t a home or what have you left after the Nazi retreat. I just wish we could wise up and give them the biggest part of our aid instead of some of these oth er countries which don’t really seem to appreciate it. Any skepticism I’ve ever had about these people has sho’ been banished after this trip. We should give these people everything possible. Chub, you can tell Honest that he can take it from us guys that these folks really deserve the very best. I could just go on and on about these people of Russia but I’d best quit as you probably couldn’t believe me anyway. I’d give any thing to get stationed there though and hope I get a chance to do so soon. I’m sho’ going to save candy, gum, soap, and cigarettes for any chance I get to go back there. Those kids are so cute. I’ll write you all every thing a bout the remainder of my trip later although nothing has been as interesting or as swell as the visit to Russia. I’ll sho’ be glad to get some mail from you all and it’s probably wait ing on me back in Limie land. I can’t wait to hear about the skipper and the marines. I sho’ miss you all and love you more than I could ever tell you. Oodles of love to each and everyone CARL, JR. RETURNS TO DUTIES AT WASHINGTON Miss Martha Vance Ellisor, who spent ft fortnight here with her moth er, Mrs. Janie Vance Ellisor, on Johnstone street, has returned to Washington, D. C., where she is a member of the National American Red Cross headquarters staff. Miss Ellisor has recently been made special assistant of the staff of Insular and Foreign Operations, Re lief of Prisoners of War, with "the Washington office. She has been associated with the Red Cross in various capacities since 1934. Serving first as a member of the Red Cross staff in Norfolk, Va., where she served in a supervisory capacity for Home Service, and lat er as director of Junior Red Cross activities in that chapter until 1937. In 1936 she joined the Junior Red Cross staff of the Eastern area where she was responsible for the Junior program in six Southern states. Miss Ellisor became a member of the National American Red Cross Headquarters staff in 1942, serving first as a member of the inquiry unit staff in Home Service which is con cerned with the problems of families separated by enemy lines. Later she became supervisor of the Prisoner of War section in the Home Service branch, and then assistant chief a* that unit. Miss Ellisor is now a member of Insular and Foreign Operations, Relief of Prisoners of War in which capacity she serves as special assist ant. Miss Ellisor is the daughter of Mrs. Janie Vance Ellisor and the late Dr. P. Grey Ellisor, well known physi cian of Newberry, where she lived until her college days. She received her education at Converse college, the University of South Carolina and her masters degree from the Uni versity of Virginia. Miss Stella Senn spent Sunday in Leesville with friends. Mrs. Ida Wheeler and daughter, Mrs. Patterson of Saluda were visit ors in the city last Friday. SPECTATOR A well-known man of our st&te sold his business some years .agb and took his family on a trip throughout the South in search of a place to be come their new home. For several weeks they travelled even going into Mexico One day the son of the family said: “Dad, we’ve been looking over a lot of territory, but I haven’t seen anything that looks as good as South Carolina.’ So they turned around and came back, not only to South Carolina, but to the community from which they started their quest. Right they were, too. Many have heard Mr. C. Norwood Hastie tell of the six hundred South Carolinians living in a city in Texas, but all hoping to accumuh-.te enough to spend their reclining days in the peace a nd beauty of South Carolina, If some of our residents .not Caro linians, dissent -rom this, let us ask where they would go to find a better people, a more gracious set of neigh bors, or a better climate. We must recognize that they may feel the tides of blood and friendly association which drew them to other places, es pecially the old communities. Sometimes we hear someone say “Well, I wouldn’t live here.” There is no reason to be angry; perhaps we should find THEIR neighborhoods just as unattractive to us. In fact, Senator Paul Quattlebaum and I talked about that one day on a bus. The Senator told of a long stretch of country in a certain state, all so unappealing that he indicated that he wouldn’t care to live there, even if vast areas were given to him. I agreed that the land was a dreary monotony, but I’m more of a Scot than my friend Quattlebaum. Perhaps I should be tempted to accept vast areas as a gift, and persuade my friend of genius, Pierre Mazyck, to put on an auction, to the stirring accompaniment of a brass band. I believe “Perry” and I could stand it —if he had the band and lots of umpty, umpty. It may not be out of place to pay this tribute to Pierre Mazyck: I’ve heard him point out the weaknesses of the New Deal program in the early days; and I heard him suggest plans for restoring our economic well-being five years ahead of any body else—just plain, simple sensi ble plans. Our Government could have saved a billion dollars by listening to Pierre Mazyck in 1934 And not least of all his discernment was the need for vital spiritual awakening and re dedication. Pierre, with his rank pipe, did more real thinking than ninety per cent of the stuffed shirts that filled the public eye and drew the big salaries. taxes paid by private power corpora tions, but not by the Santee-Cooper; Corporation tax, income tax, kilowatt hour tax, Federal tax on sales of power. Furthermore, the private corporations pay heavy taxes on 'jdams, buildings and other improve ments-.while the Santee-Cooper pays taxes on the bare land. Private power corporations pay more than 25 per cent of their receipts for taxes. There should be a statement show ing the public service rendered by the ] Santee-Cooper which is not rendered by a private, tax-paying power cor poration. In other words if the San tee-Cooper is now a business enter prise of the state let us see how it compares with privately owned and operated concerns of like character. As the statement stands it is an over-all—a gross—earning of seven per cent, or a “net profit” of about eight-tenths of one per cent (.008). When the gentlemen of the man agement of the Santee-Cooper tell us that the big enterprise has earned a net profit of $190,846 we are bound to accept their figures, but some times we can’t understand the impli cations of their figures. A year ago the Santee-Cooper pub lished a statement that it was sell ing $200,000 of power a month. That was $2,400,000 a year. Does it sell less now? Or, what becomes of the difference between the indicated reve nues of $2,400,000, deducting items of cost and depreciation (about $1,600,- 000) and the net profit of $190,846? Since depreciation is already account ed for, does the operating cost total $600,000 a year? Well what would be its state and federal taxes? On the strength of the published statement, the Santee-Cooper, if it paid 25 per cent of its total receipts in taxes, would it be in the RED. Spectator is here suggesting how to present the financial statement so that the public may grasp it. We again mention that the Santee-Coop er has not mentioned its county and school taxes. The statement is mere ly incomplete. It must be said for the Santee- Cooper management that it has not tried to befuddle the public with a roseat picture for the statement is so unsatisfactory that it shows up the Santee-Cooper badly. My mind is turning to the visits of the Grim Reaper Last week two Carolina men crossed over the river to rest under the shade of the trees. Rion McKissick a nd now W. P. Rob inson of Lancaster. Robinson was my classmate, though much older than most of us. We called him “Judge” because he was always serious, always studious, always a sound man. He never en gaged in any pranks, but with mark ed diligence went about his work, enjoying the confidence and admira tion of all of us. I’m tempted to tell a story about Carolina in those adys. Many fine fellows were there, just a sample— Edwin Belser, James Brailsford, Mar ion Rich, Josiah Evans, Jesse Car ter, Gordon Baker, Ed Oliver, “Judge” Hiott, John Wise . . . Well, it was the custom to call the roll on Mondays (Prof. Carson) and the students were required to answer “Yes’, if they had attended churcn the day before, or “present” if they had not. Of course they were ex pected to be at chapel to hear “the Major” (President Sloan) and “Par son Flynn,” (Dr. J. William Flynn, the chaplain and Professor of Phil osophy). The spirit of evil must have been present on Mondays because one or two fellows would start on Jesse Carter and Priestly Robinson, in the most serious manner, asking about something in the day’s assignment. The victim would then fail to re spond to his name and have to call on the President with some sort of explanation. Jesse Carter and Priest ly Robinson were frequently victims of this prank because they had so much f aith in their felow-men. I have known them to be so determined to “answer” to the roll that they re sponded to a name BEFORE, or a name AFTER their own. When I think of some of those grave men of the church in Columbia and Orangeburg, I can look beneath the mask of grandfatherly sedateness and still see the bubbling of merri ment and innocent mischief. Recently the Santee-Cooper au thorized the statement that it had earned a net profit of $190,846 after allowing $623,198 for depreciation and $1,000,000 on debt service. The News and Courier analyzed the state ment, pointing out that the bonded debt of the Santee-Cooper is $24,500,- 000 and that a net profit of $190,846 on an investment of $24,500,000 is nothing to be proud of. The News and Courier does not overlook the fact that the Santee- Cooper project has cost more than $57,000,000, but seems to assume, for the sake of argument, or broad chari ty, that the $32,000,000 above and beyond the bond issue, was a sort of froth or foam and not worth con sidering The $32,000,000 was given or granted by the W.P.A. and P.W.A. The statement of the Santee-Coo per is not a clear business-like ex position, for it does not show the amounts paid in land taxes. If the citizens of the state are to under stand just what the Santee-Cooper is doing, or how it is doing, there should be a n item to show how the Santee-Cooper would compare with a privately-owned and ooerated uower plant. For example here are the though of neutral powers, and that the content of the messages became known to the Germans and Russians. We were at peace with Germany in 1939. What has been-written above still does not tell all the inside. The mother of Kent in her" message to members of the United States Sen ate says: “During October, 1939, con trary to custom, courtesy of the Am erican Embassy code was extended to Winston Churchill, the then First Lord of the Admiralty, in order that he might send his first cable to President Roosevelt which read in effect: T am half American and the natural pedson to work with you. It is evident that we see eye to eye. Were I to become Prime Minister of Britian WE COULD CONTROL THE WORLD.’ ’. Here we find Mr. Roosevelt acting behind the back of the British Prime Minister, deliberately meddling in such mahner as to provoke nations with which we were at peace. This is only one of the many illustrations which prove that Mr Roosevelt is not only meddlesome but that he wishes to act in an individual, unrestrained manner, according to the whims of the moment. If by any chance we had not entered the war we might have been called to account for many things which Mr. Roosevelt has done. It only goes to prove again that he is an unsafe man, as well as extravagant beyond all measure. James D. Boylston, who has been a patient in the Charlotte Memorial hospital, Charlotte, N. C. for the past two weeks returned to Newber ry last Friday a nd is now at the home of his mother, Mrs. Bertha D. Boylston on Calhoun treet. Mrs. Madeline Boulware of Char leston spent the past weekend in the home of her brother, W. A. Daven port and family. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Ragsdale of Camp Wheeler were weekend visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Sease on Nance street. You have heard about the case of Tyler Kent. He seems to have been a confidential employee of the Amer ican Embassy in London. He appears to have handled the code messages to and from the Embassy. In 1539 he was dismissed from his job and arrested by the British and impris oned. He is still a prisoner of the British. Some people wonder why our government permitted the Brit ish to arrest and imprison him. As he was an employee of the American Embassy the British government might have regarded his offense as a crime against the United States, but not against Britain. What did he do? The Times-Herald (Wash ington, D.C.) of September 6 has a statement from Kent’s mother. It seems that the former Ambassador Kennedy also made a statement. Mr Kennedy says that Hyler Kent made copies of 1,500 code messages which he handled f&r the Embassy. 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