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i"EE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 194S
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1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
O. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Piddisher
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.
NO PARALLEL
After reading of strikes in various
lines of industry over the most tri
vial causes, while millions of our
boys who depend upon production at
home are battling for their lives, one
lacks words to express condemnation
of such practices. And then when
one hears the leaders of men who
strike, describe them as “soldiers in
the army of production,” one be
comes almost nauseated. With all
due respect to the workers on the
home front, there is not the slightest
basis for comparing them with the
soldiers.
To begin with, the worker on the
home front enjoys short hours, high
pay and is his own boss. If he
works a minute overtime, he gets
time and a half or double pay. If
he wants to quit and go fishing, he
stays away from work. If any lit
tle thing bothers him, he quits. If
one of his labor bosses can't get
what he wants soon enough from
duly constituted authorities for set
tling grievances, a hundred workers,
a thousand workers, ten thousand
workers or fifty thousand workers
walk off the job, regardless of the
needs of the armed forces. During
all this time, the worker lives at
home with his family.
Compare this to the life of a sol
dier. His base pay is $50 a month,
his hours are anything that occa
sion demands. His work week is as
many days as it take^ to do the job.
He doesn’t lay off to go fishing. He
doesn’t quit his company if his offi
cers happen to ruffle him. He doesn’t
strike. He doesn’t live at home with
his family. But month after month,
and year after year, he lives in sur
roundings which no home front work
er would voluntarily accept for a
moment. On top of this, his life is
constantly at stake.
If a soldier disobeys orders, he is
subject to court martial, with im
prisonment or execution—the verdict
depending upon the offense. The
home front worker, when he disobeys
orders, suffers no penalty, and when
he strikes, is in most cases actually
rewarded by higher wages or some
other device to induce him to return
to work.
The least one can say is that the
term “soldiers in the army of pro
duction” is a misnomer that any
honest wotrkiman should shy away
from, because his activity bears not
the slightest resemblance to the ac
tivity of a soldier.
DOWN TO EARTH
In considering problems of post
war planning, the following state
ment from the Business Bulletin of
the Cleveland Trust Company again
illustrates the stalemate that occurs
when a nation seeks to divide its al
legiance between capitalism and so
cialism:
“Postwar planning is assuming; a
progressively more uniform pattern
as it is being discussed in Washing
ton, and in magazine articles and
newspaper editorials throughout the
country. We seem to have pretty
generally accepted the illusory idea
that the purpose of postwar plan
ning is to preserve wartime economic
conditions after peace has returned.
We want to retain, or even to in
crease, wartime wage rates, but we
wish to hold prices down to wartime
levels, or to decrease them some
what. We want the wartime kind of
full employment, with good jobs for
all the demobilized munitions makers
and returned servicemen, but adth
full liberty for everyone to choose
the job he would like to have.
“To do all this we must have war
time levels of national income, but
we want the flow of funds to origi
nate with private enterprise, and hot
come from the Federal Treasury. We
want the transition from full war
time production to full civilian out
put to be brief and uncomplicated.
Now most of the postwar planning
that produces these ideas represents
sheer wishful thinking. The truth is
that the decrease in the flow of funds
from the public treasury which will
promptly result from the termina
tions and cutbacks of munitions con
tacts following the defeat of Ger
many will be about the same as the
shrinkage in the national income
which took place from the peak of
prosperity in 1929 to the bottom of
the depression in 1932.
“At best the transition will be
difficult and complicated because the
changes which we are about to make
in our economy will be of huge pro
portions. It will be rendered doubly
difficult if our planners in Wash
ington carry out the plans they have
recently been announcing in the
public prints. They have decided
that price ceilings should be main
tained during the period of recon
version, and that new ceilings should
be established for articles that have
been out of production.
“Continuing controls over install
ment buying are advocated. Com
modity cartels are contemplated by
those who are making plans for
post-war international trade. Con
trols over the production of ma
terials are being promoted. Re
conversion will be a slow and sorry
process of these ideas prevail. No
one will produce at capacity while
knowing that his enterprise may
any day be wrecked by a new direc
tive from Washington. Our plan
ners are rapidly impairing our re
conversion incentives.”
A LESSON IN GIVING ON A
HOSPITAL SHIP
This little piece comes more in the
blood bank category than in the
bond-buying one, yet if you’ll apply
it to your bond buying, it may help
save a great deal of blood.
This fall I came home from France
on a ship that carried 1,000 of our
wounded American soldiers. About
a fourth of them were terribly
wounded stretcher cases. The rest
were np and about. These others
could walk, though among the walk
ing were many legs and arms miss
ing, many eyes that could not see.
Well, there was one hospitalized
soldier who was near death on this
trip. He was wounded internally,
and the army doctors were trying
desperately to keep him alive until
We got to America. They' operated
reveral times and they kept pouring
plasma & whole blood into him con
stantly, until they ran out of whole
blood.
I happened to be in the head doc
tor’s cabin at noon one day when he
was talking about this boy. He said
he had his other doctors at that
moment going around the ship typ
ing blood specimens from several of
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- Her Dadelv’s Still in the
and the War Bonds Yon
Bought Back in the Days of
Pearl Harbor are Still Needed
in the Fight, Too-for Victory!
R EMEMBER this touching picture of a little
girl’s farewell to her war-bound daddy?
Appearing shortly after Pearl Harbor, it touched
the hearts of millions of Americans and helped
to launch the greatest voluntary savings program
in all history.
That girl is three years older today. In that
time, our enemies have been pushed steadily
back toward their own frontiers . . . thanks in no
small measure to the overwhelming flood of tanks,
ships, planes and guns that more than 85 million
Americans have poured into the fight through
their purchases of War Bonds.
But her daddy is still at war—the fight goes
on—the money you’ve put into Bonds is still
needel, just as it was after Pearl Harbor. KEPT
IN THE FIGHT-KEPT IN WAR BONDS-
IT WILL CONTINUE TO WORK FOR VIC-
torv__and FOR YOU.
For just as that little girl has grown, so have
the War Bonds you bought three years ago. The
$100 Bond you paid $75 for then is already
worth more than you paid—and how swiftly the
time has passed! In an
other year i t will be worth
$80—at maturity, $100.
Here’s money you’ll need
later—for education, re
pairs, replacements, re
tirement— just as your
country needs it today.
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So let this picture re-
mind you—HOLD
TIGHT TO YOUR
BONDS!
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OEP FAITH WITS OUR FIGHTERS-n«*, War nonOs For Keeps
This Message Made Possible by The Newberry County fiLpuncil for Defense
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WHOM does your congressional
representative represent? This is
a fair and timely question, more
over, not as silly as it sounds
He is supposed to represent you
and a few thousand other people
in your county and nearby coun
ties, but does he do it? If so, how
does he go about it? How does he
know what the people who elect
him think about questions he
must help decide?
Of course congressmen all have
plenty of people to tell them
what to do. Whenever a congress
man is appointed to an important
committee, ha can be sure of one
thing: a line will form outsif’;
his door; a line of people waiti-
to tell him which side of
bread is buttered, show him \
startling statistics, shout sc
words in his ears and/or si.^u
tears on his desk.
They Try CONGRESSMEN are
To Serve elected and sent to
Washington to repre
sent the people back home. I
know several of them and, all
told, I have known a grea . many.
Every one I ever knew wanted
sincerely to represent them ably.
They were smart men but th< c
was not a mind reader amc. ;
them. None could sit in Washing
ton and have a very clear idea
what the electors expected of
him.
In a few words, the average
congressman gets plenty of ad
vice offered to him and very little
of it comes from the right place.
In rare instances when somebody
writes or wires him from back
home the message represents one
man’s hasty, perhaps impassion
ed, judgment; or sometimes when
letters come in big bunches they
plainly reflect pressure—written
by one man, signed by many
Rational PEOPLE who walk in
Approach crowded streets some
times make facetious
references to Arkansas but down
here we are doing something
about helping congressmen. Just
before Thanksgiving a group of
sixty important men of Bates-
ville held a meeting to consider
some national legislation. At the
end of the meeting they mailed
their deliberate opinion, accom
panied by a list of those present,
to their congressman.
The gathering was no coinci
dence. Somebody called the meet
ing and made sure it was con
ducted in an orderly fashion.*Ar-
rangements were made to have
some impartial, expert opinion on
hand to answer questions, explain
technical terms if necessary and
speed up deliberations. The mat
ter under discussion was some
thing soon to come before the
committee of which their con
gressman is a member.
,1 would like to commend this
method to public spirited and pat
riotic citizens everywhere. It is
easy enough for men who don’t
even know their representative’s
name to lean against a gate-post
(or lamp-post) and revile Con
gress. On the other hand, helping
out a congressman who you know
wants to do the right thing is
loyalty, teamwork and citizen
ship of the first order.
WILD-LIFE
SOUTH CAROLINA^
IN
with PROF FRANKLIN SHERMAN
HtAD-CLtMSOW eOLL*O«-0»Vt OS ZO01-00V
SCORPIONS
The true Scorpions are inverte-
brated animals quiet closely related
to the spiders. It is unfortunate
and in error that some of our peo
ple attach the name “scorpion” to
some of our Lizards which are ver-
tebrated (backboned) animals. I am
not talking about those.
Only about 25 species of true
Scorpions are known in North Amer
ica and only one of these is known
to be native to South Carolina.
They have eight true legs, and have
also a pair of forward reaching pin-
cere somewhat like a crayfish, with
whicn they catch their prey. The
hinder portion of the body is slender
and terminates in a rather large
poison stinger which doubtless acts
as a weapon for both offense and
defense.
Our single species of true Scor
pion attains length of one to two
inches, is brown in color; when noti
ced at all it is likely to be considered
as a sort of “bug or sipider” yet the
turned up end of the body looks
threatening and most of us assume
(and truly) that it can sting. This
little creature is quiet common thru-
out the warmer part of this state,
but perhaps absent from our higher
mountains. It is often found under
loose dead bark of pine and other
trees, under chips and dead leaves.
Many of the animals which I men
tion in these articles have some
peculariaty, and so has the Scorpion.
It does not lay eggs, the young are
born alive and the whole brood
climbs on the back of the mother
and hold on by their little pincers
to her back and legs, thus they are
carried about during infancy. What
they then feed upon, or whether the
mother provides food for them, or
whether they feed at all in this
early stage of their lives. I do not
know. (In some spiders the young
are carried on the back of the
mother.)
This true Scorpion is found from
South Carolina to the south and
southwestward, yet we are about its
northern limit for in North Carolina
it is known from only a few locali
ties along the southern border. Sev
eral other species or Scorpion occur
in the southwestern United States,
some of them of larger size than
our species.
A person here at Clemson who
was stung on the arm by our com
mon Scorpion says that it hurt
sharply and the place was red and
itched for a day or longer.
pressed it. This is associated with
a food-habit which is prominent with
this whole family of birds. All of
them when adult feed largely on
seeds, and this angle at the base of
the bill enables them to crack open
the seeds so as to digest the con
tents. A seed which has passed
through a Sparrow has usually been
digested and cannot sprout, and the
sparrow-family is quite important in
limiting the increase of weeds, by
devouring their seeds. Aberry-feed-
ing species like the Catbird, however
merely digests the pulp and the seed
passes through unharmed so that it
may afterward sprout.
Among our most common true
Spanows: English or House Spar
rows, which is not actually a native;
white throated Sparrow, which is
common beneath shrubbery and in
our yards all winter; Field Sparrow
present all year; Chipping Sparrow,
which is most numerous during mi
grations; Vesper Sparrow with white
outer tail feathers, present in win
ter; Savannah Sparrow, in open
grassy fields all winter; and Grass
hopper Sparrow apparently in our
grassy fields all year but not an
easy one to observe.
Among the Sparrows which are
less common are: White-crowned,
Pine-Woods, Backman’s. Swamp and
Fox.
Others of the same family but not
usually called “sparrows” are: Pur
ple Finch, Crowbill, Goldfinch, Pine
Siskin, Slate-colored Junco, (that
is “Snowbird”), Towhee (Chewink),
Cardinal, Rosebreasted Grosbeak,
(Blue Grosbeak. Indigo Bunting, and,
near the coast, the beautiful Nonpa-
real (“Painted Buntin”) which many
regard as the most handsome of all
our native birds.
Although they eat seeds, all the
species feed the young chiefly on
insects, and are beneficial in that
respect also.
SPARROWS
Our list of South Carolina birds
shows 24 forms or kinds which
most of us would properly call
“sparrows”, and 18 additional
forms which are of the same family.
Thus the family totals 42 forms, but
nine of these are sub-species, leav
ing 33 distinct species for the family
in this state.
Some of them have been taken in
only one or a few localities in the
state, and .some only once or a few
times. Hence, while Sparrows in
general are common in all localities,
yet all the species are not common.
After the keen amateur observer
has learned to know most other
groups, even including the many
warblers, there are likely still to be
several species of Sparrows which
he does not yet know.
All of the Sparrow family agree
in having the cleft of the bill angled
at Vje base—“corners of the mouth
drajh down” as someone has ex-
BOOZER-WICKER
Miss Margaret Elizabeth Booze
and Cecil Wicker were married a
the residence of the officiating min
ister, the Rev. J. B. Harman, oi
December 23, 1944, in the presenc
of a number of relatives and friends
Mrs. Wicker is the daughter o
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Boozer of th
St. Lukes church community of th
county and Mr. Wicker is the son o
Mr. and Mrs. Ben R. Wicker of th
St. Phipils section. Both have em
ployment in the Joanna Mills, o
Goldville.
HAYES-CRAVEN
On December 24, 1944, Miss Mat
garet Elizabeth Hayes was marrie
to Eugene Craven at the residenc
of the officiating minister, the Res
J. B. Harman. The beautiful cere
mony of the Lutheran church wa
used.
Mrs. Craven is the daughter o
Mrs. Mattie Hayes of Goldville am
the late L. Efird Hayes, and Mi
Craven is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J
W. Craven of Kinards, route 1. B
is a graduate of the Bush Rive
high school.
They will hive their residence ii
Goldville.
TRESPASS NOTICE — Trespassing
any form—bunting, hauling wood,
fishing—is strictly forbidden, on
the lands of the undersigned and
any violation will be prosecuted.
Signed: H. O. Long, B. O. Long,
J. G. Long, A. P. Worts, T. Blair
Boozer, Guy Boozer, J. H. Bow
ers, S. L. Porter. tfe
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