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PAGE FOUR .HE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAL, SEPTEMBER 29, 1M4 'Mm, 1ghtisQ»jh*n 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA 0. 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. SPECTATOR Several tickets of presidential elec tors are in the field. F^om them, South Carolinians may choose. There is a clear-cut issue: The tickets are FOR and AGAINST a fourth term for Mr. Roosevelt; they now control the party machinery in the state and regard themselves as the South Cal’©- lina Democratic Party. They adver tise their adherence to White Supre macy, though White Supremacy is not a plank principle or policy under Mr. Roosevelt’s leadership. The truth is that through the F.E.P.C. and the C.I.O. Mr. Roosevelt is actively iden tified with the Negroes. The Ne groes of South Carolina are there- fope perfectly logidil, as well as properly grateful in organizing a Ne gro Democratic Party in this state to support Mr. Roosevelt. All this is out in the open and well-known. The New Deal Democrats are in intimate association with the C.I.O 1 ., Sidney Hillman, the Communists and the Negroes for the election of Mr. Roosevelt for a fourth term. The Southern Democratic Party is op posed to Mr. Roosevelt and will sup port Senator Harry Byrd, or other Jeffersonian Democrat. It has no af filiation with Communists or other foreign elements, and has no negroes within its fold The Republicians, of course, will support Governor Dewey. Recently the Southern Democratic Party gave to the press its ticket of presidential electors. The Southern Democratic Party has emphasized public service in its ticket, but not individual political ambition. Its ticket is composed of citizens who are distinguished for present day general social and national service and sacrifice Among its members is found a woman, a farm-wife, actually living on a farm and daily concern ed with the problems of a farmer’s wife. She is the mother of four fighting sons, three volunteers, the fourth tried several times to enlist but was reected, though afterwards accepted under the draft One son is a flier, who ferries big bombers; another is a sailor in the South Pacific; the third is a soldier still in this country; the fourth is a Marine of Guadalcanal, a lad who bears on his body the sears of his service more proudly than the Purple Heart which was awarded him. This mother grew up in a family of high dedication, the daughter of a Bap tist minister widely known for his zeal and consecration She stands for high dedication .for service, for sacrifice. Observe two elder citizens of statesmanlike stature: T. Yancey Williams of Lancaster and Jesse S. Plowden of Greenville. These two gentlemen have always been known for their rugged forth rightness and their independence of thought and action. Mr. Williams af ter a long and notable career in pub lic political service, as well as in the practice of law, gave his great talents freely whenever his county or his state called hirn. A modest gentle man, seeking nothing, he has never refused to serve his people. Mr. Wil liams put his finger on the weak nesses of Mr. Roosevelt’s program in the beginning. No glamor of lavish spending could becloud his clear mind. Let me tell a little story of Mr. T. Y. Williams: He offered for the legislature in 1932 and was there when a hundred new men came into power as a result of t.ie great cam paign of the Farmers and Taxpay ers League to organize the citizens of the state against the free-spend- ers of the day. The new members were at sea when they came to Co lumbia. One night fifty members met in the League’s office a nd decided to adopt as a solgan “Hold the Appropriation Bill to $6,000,000”—about half of what it had been. It was a most critical time; farmers were losing their land; politicians seemed unable to believe that a calamity was upon us. I had the honor to suggest that Mr. T Yancey Williams should lead the fight and that the others should support him whole-heartedly. At eleven o’clock at night, I called Mr. Williams to the telephone and asked him if he would lead the fight in the House. He agreed; and so came about the famous “Economy Bloc” and the five million dollar program. It also proved the value of the Farmers and Taxpayers Lea gue. T. Yancey Williams rendered a great service to his state. He is a man of practical mind, a man of common sense and a man who never feared; if he thought he was right he went ahead; he didn’t look around afraid of his shadow. And there’s the lad who wore the Red Shirt under Hampton—Jesse S. Plowden. He comes from the great Carolina family of hunters and fish ermen, sportsmen who love sport and who observe the rules. A great fam ily of sociable and likeable people but with that clear vision and indepen dence we always associate with the Englishmen who defied kings and paved the way for British and Amer ican liberties. Mr. Jesse S. Plowden has been grounded in the great prin- crpes of political liberty and his fluent pen has carried to his fellow citizens clarion calls to restore the principles of government held in reverence by our Democracy, though traded and bartered and slurred over for * mess of pottage today. This steadfast Democrat stands with his shield and buckles for the principles of bur fathers. J. Wade Drake of Anderson. At every meeting to help the farmers, or to build fee enduring interests of South Carolina, there you will find J. Wade Drake. Mr. Drake is a busy man of many, interests; he is a real farmer and knows how to farm; he is a Master Farmer. Whenever there is a call J. Wade Drake takes time to go to the meeting and support it. Mr. Drake is one of the founders f the National Cotton Council of America. If I may introduce a personal note, let me say that in every public ac tivity of mine several men have al ways stood at my side; I should hardly feel just right without them —J. Wade Drake of Anderson; J. R. Fairey of Fort Motte; Rev. Lewis M. Rice of Union. To me they have al ways been towers of strength. Now the Rev. Lewis M. Rice of Union, a natural fighter for his con victions. Like the Apostle Paul, Mr. Rice bears scars of service, for he is no trimmer or time-server, not yet does he pull his punlches. Yet withal he is one of the gen tlest, most lovable spirits . As edi tor he doesn’t dodge or soft-peddle the facts; end as a preacher of righteousness he is a crusader in all the militancy of his splendid fervor. H. H. Woodward of Conway, one of America’s first crusaders against the false economics of the Harry Hopkins spenders. There was a time when no pen seemed to portray the unsoundness of Mr. Roosevelt’s policy except for the daily writing of W. W. Ball and H. H. Woodward. Here is a man of extraordinary range of experience, who gives the best that his able mind can conceive to his county and state every week. H. H. Woodward has stood like a beacon to ships at sea. For years and years he has poured out his heart and his mind to call the nation to a saving knowledge of the truth. He is one of the citizens, in deed, in whom there is no guile. The name of James L. Coker is an illustrious one throughout the South. In South Carolina it is associated with nobility of character, broad vi sion, clarity of judgment and suc cessful commercial enterprises as well as the highest sense of public service. There have been—and are—many gentlemen who bear the name “Cok er.” Hartsville seems to me their monument, though their service pass ed far beyond the limits of Harts ville. The Southern Democratic Ticket has among its presidential electors the bearer of that great name—James L. Ooker. The strik ing fact is that the Coker name is worthily home by each generation and the record of public service more widely enhanced. And so with the present James L. Coker; he bears a great name and he fills a great place, for the Coker tradition is one of service to their fellow-men. Although directing one of the great industrial enteiprises of the state, the present Mr. James L. Coker is ready to stand forth for principles of government and to lend his influence to the preservation of our principles of sound Democracy. I purposely held back until last the member of a profession so high ly respected for its spirit of service and helpfulness Already I have named a minister and a minister’s daughter who typifies the spirit of motherhood, which is complete abne gation of self. Dr. D. Strother Pope is a physi cian in active practice, one whose sole dedication is the profession of heal ing. Physicians hold their great calling in trust and view with alarm the proposed socialization of medi cine which seems part and parcel of the New Deal Wagner bill to make the director of the Public Health Ser vice a e^ar or supreme dictator of the practice of medicine ,as well as hospitalization. There is an inti mate relationship between a physi cian and his patients which cannot be regulated by bureaucrats. The great progress of medicine is due to the initiative of the physicians and laboratory technicians. They jeal ously and zealously guard the great profession in the interest of their fel- lowmen. So the note of service—practical, immediate service—characterizes the ticket which the Southern Democrats have put out for public support at fee polls. NEGRO TEACHERS CONTINUE DRIVE FOR EQUAL PAY Columbia, Sept. 25.—Petitiois re questing equal salaries for Negro teachers in one county and one city district were taken under advise ment after separate, hearing before the Richland county board of’ ed-* ucation today. >-• , ' Columbia schools Superintendent A. C. Flora testified that teachers of both races had equal opportuni ties for salary advancement in this city’s schools and County Superin tendent of Education W. H. Cobb said district trustees set pay sched ules independently of the county board. R. Rebecca Monteith of district 2-B and Albert N. Thompson, a teacher in the Columbia city schools contended in separate petitions feat they were paid less than white teachers having similar experience and doing similar work. The actions were the first filed under a 1944 legislative directive providing for teacher grievance ap peals to trustees, county boards of education and the state courts—if any law violation is contended. At the morning hearing, Secre tary John G. Martin of district 12-Bs trustees testified the district sent its white children to the Col- I umbia schools, paying a pro rata lump sum to fee city, that the dis trict had only negro teachers and set their salaries on a basis the trustees deemed equitable. Martin contended his district had nothing to do with setting salaries of teachers who taught in the city schools. SINGLE BALLOT FOR GENERAL ELECTION OUT SAYS DANIEL The question of fee single ballot is interesting. Regardless of the out come, the attitude of the Charleston authorities is very wholesome and democratic. The question of secrecy has been somewhat overemphasized, I think, because no one is required to ask the election managers for a ballot; there is no necessity for any one to disclose the ticket he is voting. In the primaries one has to call for a ballot, but in the General Election any citizen may CARRY HIS BAL LOT WITH HIM. The election mana gers have nothing to do with what is on your balot; you may fold your ballot and put it in the box in abso lute secrecy. Where we are running in danger of legal difficulties is in case of our men who write for ballots. There is no reason why only one ballot should be sent unless that ballot contains the candidates of all the Parties. If a person applies for a ballot without specifying the Democratic Party he should be sent all the tickets of all the parties ,or one ballot containing all the names of the candidates of all the parties. Mr. Roosevelt may find that he was in error in calling himself Command- er-in-Ohief. If Commander-in-Chief at one place, then he was Command er-in-Chief at another. If North Af rica and Southern Italy cleared the Mediterranean Sea for the British, and may be claimed as a glorious ex ploit of American soldiers and sailors fighting to open England’s route to NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING We the undersigned jury commis sioners, of Newberry county, shall on the 5th day of October 1944, at 9:00 a. m., in the Clerk of Court’s office, openly and publicly draw, thirty-six names to serve as petit jurors, for the court of general sessions, which will convene in Newberry county court house, October 16th 1944, at 10 a. m. All grand jurors are called to also attend this court. H. K. Boyd, Clerk of Court. P. N. Abrams, Auditor. J. R. Dawkins, Treasurer. Sept. 22, 1944. Egypt to India, then the inglorious leadership at Pearl Harbor was chargeable to Mr. Roosevelt. It might be wiser for Mr. Roosevlt to act as President and let the real sol diers and sailors run the war. Columbia, Sept. 25. — Attorney General John M. Daniel held today that Federal election commissioners were specifically prohibited from printing and distributing federal election ballots containing names. of all' party candidates in the Novem ber 7 general election. The Attorney General was asked for an opinion on the legality of an all-inclusive federal election ballot by William B. Oliver, one of the three members of the Charleston county federal election commission. The commission had adopted a resolution to print and distribute a single ballot if it were “not unlawful or illegal in South Carolina.’ Oliver said that the attorney general was asked for an opinion because fi we cannot find any law requiring us. to do so and we would like to know if ■we do print such a ballot would it be unlawful.” A committee of three Charleston attorneys was asked for an opinion on the validity of a single ballot and they held that the commission or any other interested person could prepare such a ballot. They held further that scratching names of persons for whom the voter did not wish to ballot would not render the ticket invalid. However, Daniel said, the state code provides that “the ballot shall •be ‘without ornament, designation, mutilation, symbol or mark of any kind whatsoever” and that the only thing appearing on the ballot is to be the name or names of the person or persons voted for and the office to which such person or persons are intended to be chosen.” Consequently, the attorney gener al said, “it can be seen that if the name of candidates or two, three or more political parties were on the ballots they would contain other names than those to be voted for —which, in my opinion, would make such ballot in violation of the law.” MR. AND MRS CARPENTER IN NEW YORK Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Carpenter are spending this week in New York buying fall and winter merchandise for their store here. COTTON GINNING REPORT Census report shows that 3020 bales of cotton were ginned in New berry county from the crop of 1944 prior to Sept. 16 as compared with 3432 bales for the crop of 1943. You Are Cordially Invited to Inspect the Newest Fall and Winter Woolens for T AILORED-TO-MEASURE Gentlemens and Ladies SUITS and TOPCOATS Styled in Latest Fashion by Globe Tailoring Company Mr. Hugh Mauney in charge Friday and Saturday, Sept. 29-30 At T. ROY SUMMER Store BILL’S SMILE... Busy '. . . Yes! But not too busy to smile, to be £ J courteous and considerate. !§ In fact, in a recent survey of public opinion in Southern Railway territory, 98 percent of the peo- P jLRHAPS it’s a little thing, after all . . . that fri-ndly smile on Bill’s face. But we don’t th.nk so. We’re proud of that smile. You see, Bill is a conductor on one of our _ passenger trains. And, like 45,000 other men and pie interviewed said that our employees habitually women of the Southern Railway System, he is “make an effort to please.” mighty busy these days. L3 This is a reflection of the very heart and soul of • Busy . . . because the Southern is carrying the ' *j} this railroad. It is an expression of the spirit of the greatest transportation load in all its history. f j 45,000 Southern Railway System employees who • Busy . . . because every Southern railroader is V are dedicated to the service of our Southland. working harder than ever before to do a vital war r “ job that is helping to speed final Victory. A b . *■ President SOUTHERN RAILWAY. SYSTEM