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page pour £uu 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 8, 1879. SPECTATOR A farmer's income—what is it? We read again about the great in come of the farmers. As the stat isticians tell it, the money received by a farmej is all profit. Some body must give him his seed and fer tilizer, his labor, gasoline, feed and taxes. Sounds that way, doesn’t it? How much is the farmer’s cotton selling for? Is it twenty-one cents a pound? Nay, my brother; long delays have produced “blue” cotton and the fanner is receiving as little, sometimes, as eighteen cents a pound. He could not get the pick ers; many have not picked yet, some have just started. And the farmer is paying any price , even two dol lars a hundred 'pounds for the pick ing. At two dollars a hundred the farmer is paying about six cents a pound for the picking, is he not?- For the $2 per 100 pounds, includes seed uncleaned, unseparated cotton. Since the cotton farmer is sup posed to be so prosperous this year. tial electors headed. by James L. Coker. Any other course is to in vite challenge and rejection or invali dation. It is entirely .permissible for any citizen to advocate a single bal lot or to apply to courts for manda mus, but unwise to mark or scratch or experiment on the ballot itself if one wishes his ballot to be counted. Vote the Southern Democratic bal lot without mark or alteration of any kind. .HE NEWBERRY SUN NOTICE OF ELECTION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. : Notice is hereby given that the General Election for State and County Officers will be held at the voting precincts fixed by law in the County aforesaid on Tuesday, Nov- Tues- . ... . . . ember 7, 1944, said day being Ti We hke to think of ourselves as d following the first Monday, shrewd traders, as careful business- - - - - men, men of affairs, who know val ues, and are alert to their own 'in terest. Sometimes we mistake the glitter and glamor of the moment, for substantial value. However long we may live here, it is but a brief time, as compared with the time hereafter; and however much we may accumu late here, it is for only a brief time prescribed by the State Constitution. The qualifications for suffrage are as follows: Residence in the State for two years, in the County one year, in the polling precinct in which the elector offers to vote, four months, and the payment thirty days before any election of any poll tax then due and 1 payable. Provided that ministers in of enjoyment, even if we ^t the J c j lar g e 0 f an or g- a nized church and greatest thrill an d satisfaction. t eac h ers 0 f public schools, shall be C J e ^ y As th v en ’ W ^i * la .™ii^D 8 Dr 4 r 'iir tl - n I e 'entitled to vote after six months’ of TODAY and TOMORROW to I residence in the State, otherwise weigh in the balance, against the | quajifiej. timeless period after that. Managers of election shall require The Book, the Brble, tells of the 0 f eV ery elector offering to vote at man who filled his barns and felt I an y election, before allowing him to proud of himself and sure of his prosperity. Measured against the value of his soul—what did it amount to? The Book tells us to live in such a manner that our light may shine, so that men may see our good works and GLORIFY GOD. Clearly this does not mean that we should strut about, advertising our selves or our charity; it means that a righteous LIFE shines with a true LIGHT, and all see the way of truth more easily BECAUSE of IT. Said the Great Teacher: “Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun, in let’s compare a one-horse tenant Illc „ uo olllllc . ivIWI „„ tIlc s farmer with an unskilled worker. The t j, e kingdom of their Father ” unskilled worker is receiving in in dustry about thirty dollars a week, at the least. That is about $1,500 a year. He has no capital expense in volved. Do you know many one- horse tenant farmers who have clear ed $1,500? To “clear” it, that is to put this farmer on a par with even unskilled industrial workers, the farmer must have total sales of about $3,500. If he “made” te nbales of cotton, even at 21c, he had a gross revenue of about $1,500, with his seed. But do you know of any one- horse tenant farmer who received $1,500 for his cotton? That would require about fifteen acres. As ha could hardly cultivate more than 25 acres, where would the rest of his income come from? Of course, one man cannot cultivate fifteen acres of cotton and ten acres of corn, oats and other stuff unless he be a second Claud Counts of Newberry. There are not many like my friend Counts; he’s a man in a million. Spectator may lower his flag and strike his tent soon. I’m not sure of that, but it may be that readers have grown tired of the weekly visits of Spectator. Spectator came into being at the suggestion of a devoted and very partial friend, Ira B. Armfield of Newberry. Week after week for jen years, these letters have gone to the papers. I am not paid for this, and must be a fool, for I recall the re mark of my one-time friend of Winnsboro that only a fool works for nothing. Very generously he said that I was no fool. Therefore, . . . etc. However, I am not, and have never been, paid for Spectator. In the early days of the Farmers and Taxpayers League the daily and weekly papers were so generous to me with space that I accepted the suggestion of Mr. Armfield that I write regularly. It also avoided the use of my name. Readers grow tired of the same name appearing fre quently. My name was not used for years; nor do most of my readers know me now. In fact I’ve had the pleasant experience of having a man (who did not know me) quote Spectator to pie. You who have read my letters have noted that I like to tell about the problems of the farmers. I op erate a farm and it is a business, hot a hobby. My partner and I make it “pay out”, but we know all the dif ficulties of the farm.. The News and Courier tells us to day that the New Deal Democrats of Charleston are using the city police 4s agents for the sale of tickets to the ball to be given i norder to raise money for the Roosevelt campaign. That is on a par with the use of the Public Service Commission’s ste nographers and typitss to copy the 15,000 cards in the Secretary of State’s office for the New Deal ma chinery of the state. We have many taxpayers in South Carolina who are not New Dealers. This plan of using men and women on the public payroll, for the New Deal, is nothing short of a forcible demand on them to contrib ute to a political candidate not of their choice. The use of policemen for the sale of these tickets has the same moral, or immoral, effect of sending the po lice to solicit contributions to a poli tical campaign. It seems to be difficult for our New Deal friends to understand that a State government and a city gov ernment are not agents of a political party, but belong to ALL taxpayers, equally, regardless of partisan affilia tion. These gentlemen may think that they own the State, as well as the City govei^imente, but a few challenges in court, wiould clear their minds about this. The ridiculous feature is that the New Deal rests on, and is composed of, office-holders and office-seekers, their friends and associates'—most of whom pay little in taxes. Their main support of the government is lip ser vice, not tax money. vote, the production of his registra tion certificate and proof of the payment thirty days before any elec tion of any poll tax then due and payable. The production of a cer tificate or of the receipt of the of ficer authorized to collect such taxes, shall be conclusive proof of the payment thereof. Before the hour fixed for opening the polls Managers and Clerks must take and subscribe to the constitu tional oath. The chairman of the Board of Managers can administer the oath to the other Managers and to the Clerk; a notary Public must administer the oath to the Chairman The Managers elect their Chairman and Clerk. The polls shall be opened at such voting places as shall be designated at 8 o’clock in the forenoon, and close at 4 o’clock in the afternoon of the day of election, except in the City of Charleston, where the polls shall be opened at 7 o’clock in the forenoon, and in the Cities of Charleston and Columbia where the closing hours shall be 6 o’clock in the afternoon, and shall be held open during these hours without intermis sion or adjournment; and the Man agers shall administer to each per son offering to vote oath that he is qualified to vote at this election, ac cording to the Constitution of this State, and that he has not voted dur ing this election. The Managers have the power to fill a vacancy, and if none of the Managers attend, the citizens can appoint from among the qualified voters, the Manager®, who, after being duly sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election the Managers and Clerk must proceed publicly to open the ballot box and Count the ballots therein, and con tinue without adjourment until the same is completed, and make a statement of the results for each of fice, and sign the same. Within three days thereafter the Chair man of the Board, or some one designated by the Board, must de liver to the Commissioners of Elec tion the poll list, the box containing the ballots and written statements of the results of the election. At the said election qualified elec- Regardless of this present in- J t ovs will vote upon the adoption or stance, what America needs most is 'rejection of amendments to the for men of substantial interest to be- i state Constitution, as provided in stir themselves. Every man who | t he following JOIN T RESOLD owns a home, or hopes to own a TIONS: home, has a very substantial inter est. This country has been governed too long by men who support the government only because the govern ment supports them. America needs to purge itself of the barnacles of political hangers-on, the payroll pa triots who care little for traditions or principles, but who regard the government as a machine which they should operate for themeslves and their friends, even though they make strange bed-fellows. Sometimes the law is confusing. Even the broad and general man dates of the State Constitution con- Every week, as I write (with pen- , tradict themselves, or may be so - * 'variously interpreted as to require a court decision on the exact point in order to be intelligible. Considered solely as a matter of law, the proposed purchase by the City of Columbia of a power corpor ation, at a cost exceeding appreciably the total assessed valuation of all cil) I imagine I see a Bamberg farm er. Years ago my Secretary of the time told me that a Bamberg farmer read Spectator every week in the Bamberg Herald. So I write for him and to him. I’ve always tried to make Specta tor stand for the solid and substan tial interests of our people. I have property within the city, one reads given to Spectator my very best and ' Article 8 of the State Constitution it has been a pleasure to me. [ in search of light. Says Section 3 of Whatever I may decide about Spec- : Article 8: No debt may be contract- tator, let me express my heartfelt ed by a city “except in pursuance of appreciation of my readers and of the editors who have steadfastly stood by me. I admire our newspaper and news reporting folk; they are splendid peo ple, men and women of character and good service. I have great respect for our industrialists and other busi nessmen and have not hesitated to present their side when politicians were cringing and scraping; I think quite a lot of most of the .public offi cials of the state; my most solicitous . regard has always been for the citi zen of small means who carries a heavy burden. I am a working man; few men work harder; but I know that we need capital for investment if we are to have jobs. I know that invest ments must be encouraged. I know that punitive laws and regulations not only scare capital away, but they prevent the creation of jobs and opportunities for those of us who work. Spectator, like all other loval Americans and Carolinians, loves his country and loves his State and wishes the road to development to be kept wide open. I very earnestly advise friends of Southern Democratic Party, to vote the straight ticket sent out by South ern Democratic Party, with presiden- law, for public purposes specified by law.” What does that mean, if it doesn’t apply to the proposed pur chase? Of course they tell us that this is a debt binding only on the property sold to the city. In other words, it is the sale of a house, with out down payment, and with the house itself as security. It isn’t un usual, but it might be justified by an excessive price; or the property may resemble a white elephant, and be well sold at any price. True enough it is, that Section 5 of Article 8 authorizes the purchase of a power plant by a city, if en dorsed by a majority of the electors who are uqalified to vote on a bond ed indebtedness. How far does this modify Section 3? Then Section 7 forbids any bonded debt, which, together with existing bonded indebtedness, shall exceed 8 per cent of the taxable property within the city. This pur chase would be itself an increase of the bonded debt amounting to about 140 per cent of the assessed valua tions. Again, however, we shall htear that this is something new, something not contemplated by t!?e (Constitution, a self-liquidating trans action which would form no part of the bonded debt of the city. This is a case requiring someone to explain away the Constitution. STATE - WIDE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS NO. 1 A JOINT RESOLUTION propos ing an amendment to Article III of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, by eliminating Section 32, re garding pensions and containing limitations on granting of financial assistance to certain needy persons. NO. 2 A JOINT RESOLUTION propos ing an amendment to Article II of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, by striking out Section 10 thereof, which reads as follows: “The General Assembly shall provide by law for the regulation of .party primary elections and punishing fraud at the same.” NO. 3 A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend Section number 6 of Article X of the Constitution relating to the credit of the State and for what purposes taxes may be levied . <jr bonds issued by providing that the limitations there imposed shall not be applicable to funds expended for the construction and maintenance of airports or landing strips. LOCAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS NO. 4 Charleston County A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend Article 10, Section 14-A, of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1896, b.- adding further roadways of the City of Charleston and to provide for the provisions thereto so as to further define the type of permanent improvement which may be used, on the streets and levy of a portion' of the cost against abutting property if the remainder shall have been paid by a governmental subdivision or unit or agency other than the City of Charlestcn. NO. 5 Chesterfield County A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to Section 5, Article X of the Constitution of the State of South Carolina, 1895, relating to bonded indebtedness of counties, townships, municipal corpor a ti o n s and other political divisions of this State, so as to provide that the pro visions thereof under certain condi tions shall not apply to Chesterfield County, nor to any township or other political division of this State in said county, and to authorize the is suance of bonds under certain condi tions by said county, any township and any school district thereof. NO. 6 Richland County A JOINT RESOLUTION to amend Article XI, Section 5, Constitution of 1895, relating to school districts, by excluding Richland' County frpm the provisions relating to area. NO. 7 .j-AiSen and Hampton Counties A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to Section 20, of Article 5, of the State Constitution with respect to the terms of office of magistrates in Aiken and Hampton Counties, so as to increase the term of two years to four years. MANAGERS OF ELECTION The following Managers of Elec tion have been appointed to hold the election' at the various precincts in the said County: NEWBERRY COURT HOUSE Mrs. John Peterson Raymond Blair Mrs. Lucille Sease John Peterson NEWBERRY COTTON MILL Dewey Kinard Rev. V. L. Fulmer Edward Bauknight A. H. Clark MOLLOHON MILL Q. L. Shealy Rev. J. B. Harman T. B. Grant George Martin OAKLAND MILL W. C. Holsonback Carl Setzler Loyd Davenport C. G. Summer MT. PLEASANT T. W. Henderson Willie Ringer Mrs. Raymond Ringer E. L. Glymph HELENA Mrs. Myrtle Cook C. J. Zebel Will Waters J. C. Abrams MAYBINTON James Henry W. F. Cathcart Mrs. Jphn McCollom Minor Cathcart WHITMIRE W. H. Miller Joe H. Simpson A. H. Dallas S. C. Young LONG LANE J. A. Brown B. H. Caldwell R. C. Carlisle J. C. Glenn JALAPA John Swittenberg Herman Wise Andrew Miller Mrs. E. E. Melton LONGSHORE Johnnie Neel Furman Sterling Harry Shealy W. W. Senn DOMINICK STORE W. D. Bozard C. S. Fellers P. T. Harris Ralph Lancaster CHAPPELLS J. B. Scurry B. W. Watkins J. L. Holloway J. H. Boozer HARTFORD H. L. Shealy W. B. Goggins Bille Carter Gurney Nichols PROSPERITY B. O. Lovelace Mrs. Colie Wessinger J. B. Pugh T. A. Dominick O’NEAL NO. II Vernon Pugh J. S. Dawkins/ Curtiss Long G. A. Lindler MIDWAY F. A. Boland G. M. Epting J. H. Singley Warren Dowd JOLLY STREET G. I. Kinard O. S. Richardson T. L. Boinest T. A. Ellisor CENTRAL SCHOOL Ernest Shealy Perry Lindler Olin Setzler C. M. Wheeler POMARIA S. P. Koon J. P. Setzler J. E. Counts Julius Hentz WALTON Brab Crooks J. W. Parrott Joe Ruff M. O. Mayer MT. BETHEL George S. Ruff Chalmers Brown Leland Rikard John H. Ruff ST. PHILLIPS J. W. Lominick Loma Ruff George Shealy Holland Ruff LITTLE MOUNTAIN Ned Boland Harold Metts Mrs. Eula Boland M. Q. Boland UNION ACADEMY G. S. Enlow T. P. McCartha J. A. Kinard Clvde Wilson SILVERSTREET Richard Neel B. W. Mills J. V. Havird J. H. Bowers, Sr. KINARDS Robert Yong Hugh Epting John Earl Smith Mrs. D. M. Vaughn GARMANY Kemper Albritton Vinnie Kate Price Robert Sease Allan Qxn«r peak r M. Q. Mayer F. T, Chapman J. K. Shell J. V. Eargle ZION Jess Bundrick J. B. Kinard Marvin Graham George Richardson The Managers at each precinct named above are requested to dele gate one of their number to secure the boxes and blanks for the elec tion Saturday morning, November 4, at ten o’clock at the Court House. JOHN A MAYER, REUBEN E. MINNICK, LAMBERT W. JONES, Commissioners of State and Coun ty Elections for Newberry County, South Carolina. October 16th, 1944. 020-27 NOTICE OF ELECTION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. Notice is hereby given that the General Election for United States Senator, Representatives in Congress and Presidential and Vice-Presiden tial Electors will be held at the voting precincts fixed by law in the County aforesaid on Tuesday, Nov- vemfoer 7, 1944, said day being Tues day following the first Monday, as 'prescribed by the State Constitu tion. The qualifications for suffrage are as follows: Residence in the State for two years, in the County one year, in the polling precirfct in which the elector offers to vote four months, and the payment thirty days before any election of any poll tax then due and payable. Provided that ministers in charge of an organized church and teachers of public schools shall be entitled to vote after six months' residence in the State, otherwise qualified. Managers of election shall require of every elector offering to vote at any election, before allowing him to vote, the production of his registra tion certificate and proof of the payment thirty days before any elec tion of any poll tax then due and payable. The production of a cer tificate or of the receipt of the of ficer authorized to collect such taxes, shall be conclusive proof of the payment thereof. Before the hour fixed for opening the polls Managers and Clerks must take and subscribe to the Constitu tional oath. The Chairman of the Board of Managers can administer the oath to the other Managers and to the Clerk; a Notary Public must administer the oath to the Chair man. The Managers elect their Chairman and Clerk. The polls shall be opened at such voting places as shall be designated at 8 o’clock in the forenoon, ind close at 4 o’clock in the afternoon of the day of election, except in the City of Charleston where the polls shall be opened at 7 o’clock in the forenoon, and in the cities of Char leston and Columbia where the clos ing hours shall be 6 o’clock in the afternoon, and shall be held <q)en during these hours without intermis sion or adjournment; and the Man agers shall administer to each .per son offering to vote oath that he is qualified to vote at this election, ac cording to the Constitution of this State, and that he has not voted dur ing this election. The Managers have the power to fill a vacancy, and if none of the Managers attend, the citizens can appoint from among the qualified voters, the Manager, who, after be ing duly sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election the Managers and Clerks must proceed publicly to open the ballot box and count the ballots therein, and con tinue without adjournment until the same is completed, and make a statement of the results for each of fice, and sign the same. Within three days thereafter the Chairman of the Board, or some one designated by the Board, must deliver to the Commissioners of Election the poll list, the box containing the ballots and written statements of the re sults of the election. MANAGERS OF ELECTION The following Managers of Elec tion have been appointed to hold the election at various precincts in the said County: NEWBERRY COURT HOUSE T. S. Humphries Mrs. Sam Beam M. A. Counts Miss Mary Burton NEWBERRY COTTON MILL B. S. Goree Rev. N. K. Polk Lou Davis H. C. Corley MOLLOHON MILL J. Ed McConnell C. H. Johnson C. L. Duncan C. J. Jackson OAKLAND MILL D. D. Darby R. L. Timmerman H. W. Sanders George Attaway MT. PLEASANT Ernest Ringer John H. Cromer Mrs. Maude Graham Lovett Miller HELENA J. R. Wood Mrs. Nellie Coates R. E. Gee Gerald Baker MAYBINTON F. B. Hardy J. R. Thomas B. H. Maybin Miss Lula Bess Whitney FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1944 — - . . . .. ■ j-i i_»!»'n. WHITMIRE George Young L. D. Moates E. A. Christy R. C. Lake LOI*G LANE C. M. Folk W. S. Hentz L. E. Chandler L. C. Hargrove JALAPA V. E. Miller J. F. Long B. S. Derrick C. C. Wallace LONGSHORE Richard Neel N. J. Martin John Senn Oscar Pitts DOMINICK STORE R. S. Sanders Clarence Pitts Sam Wertz Miss Maude Sanders CHAPPELLS L. E. Wertz R. D. Morrett M. L. Connelly J. L. Fellers HARTFORD V. J. Livingston J. W. Cromer B. L. Bishop Walter Buzhardt PROSPERITY T. L. Dawkins John A. Sease J. S. Wheeler M. P. Connelly O’NEAL NO. II R. C. White Fred Koon Noah H. Moore Pat B. Wise MIDWAY Ross George G. L. Bowers G. Y. Shealy Ernest Alewine JOLLY STREET D. L. Wedaman Nolan Wicker L. B. Bedenbaugh Carl Epting CENTRAL SCHOOL Sligh Wicker Willie Seybt * Mrs. Maude Harris E. H. Koon POMARIA L. A. Mayer E. W. Epting W. D. Hatton J. A. Kinard WALTON John H. Harmon George Hentz W. B. Graham Mrs. Louise Suber MT. BETHEL H. H. Boland Daniel Graham Oscar Graham T. W. Keitt ST. PHILLIPS Perry Halfacre David Luther Ruff D. Govan Sease Ed Enlow LITTLE MOUNTAIN D. 0. Frick F. E. Metts \ V. J. Shealy J. L. Bowers UNION ACADEMY A. H. Kinard J. C. Kinard C. L. Counts J. L. Halfacre SILVERSTREET T. M. Fant Murray Sheppard Sam Shealy * Mrs. Ellen Abrams KINARDS J. H. Bedenbaugh F. M. Satterwhite J. R. Longshore J. B. Smith • GARMANY T. P. Adams Luther H. Folk ' Mrs. Minnie Leitzsey Roy Carroll PEAK < Joe E. Meyer H. L. Suber C. E. Stuck John Mayer ZION Jacob Bundrick C. D. Eargle Joe Ringer ■Mrs. Henry Folk The Managers at each precinct named above are requested to dele gate one of their number to secure the boxes and blanks for the election Saturday morning, November 4, at ten o’clock at the Court House. JOS. H. SIMPSON, FRED CROMER, W. B. BOINEST, Commissioners of Federal Election for Newberry County, S. C. October 16, 1944. 020-27c '.'.j [we'xi on the trail TO THE 3S2S£ OR/G/AMU ONfCENT SALES THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2, 3 and 4 Gilder & UIeehs THK SIGHT DSUG STOSS PHONE 101 m