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FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1945 THE NEWBERRY SUN ^ou&ty Miss Clary Weds Air Forces Captain A wedding of beauty and sim plicity was solemnized Thursday, December 21 at four o’clock at the First Baptist church fo Newberry when Miss Mary Elizabeth Clary! be came the bride of Capt. William Wal lace Riser, Jr., the Rev. J. Aubrey Estes, pastor of the bride, officiat ing and performing the double-ring ceremony in the presence of an as semblage of relatives and friends. The church was beautifully decor ated with ivy, Southern pine, white carnations, fern and cendelabra of lighted white candles. Miss Edna Louise Bowers, organ ist, gave a program of beautiful pre nuptial music. She played Tram- meri (Schumann) while Robert Clary and Carl Amick lighted the candles. Then Miss Louise Ezell, sang “Be cause and “The Rosary.” The couple entered together to the strains of the traditional wedding march and during the ceremony Miss Bowers softly played “O Perfect Love”. Immediately after the vows Miss Ezell sang “The Lord’s Praypr” as a benediction. The ushers were Robert Clary, brother of the bride and Carl Amick, brother-in-law of the bride. The bride was lovely in a gold wool suit with luggage tan accessor ies. She wore an orchid corsage. Mrs. Riser is the second daughtei of Mr. and Mrs. James Richard Clary of Newberry. She is a grad uate of Newberry high school and is a student at^ Winthrop college. Caipt. Riser is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wallace Riser of Kinards. He is a graduate of Newberry high School and was a Junior at Newberry college when he answered the call of duty three years ago. Capt. Riser is a pilot of B17 bomb ers and has been overseas with the 8th Air Forces in England for the ■past year. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for ex traordinary achievement in aerial combat, the Air Medal and four oak leaf clusters for meritorious achieve ment in combat missions over Euro- SPECTATOR A new year is here. 1944 has passed into history and 1945 opens a new book. Very likely 1945 will be just a gliding from 1944 in most matters—and probably so. There is a continuity not merely from day to day, week to week, month to month, but year to year. More than that, even the centuries merge im perceptibly, but surely. Time, like the rolling of billows, or the rushing wind, neither stars nor stops ab ruptly. But we can make changes: we can make resolutions which will go vern ourselves, our atitudes. our habits, our thinking, and our ac tions. We can take stock of our selves. what we are. what we should like to be; we can appraise the health, the friendships, even the knocks which have come our way. Sometimes our happiness will be promoted by seeing matters in a new light. Even trivial things can be so annoying that the cumulative ef fect of them will be upsetting, will loom large in our thinking. I re call a little experieAce of years ago. Every day that I was in Columbia a man would borrow ten cents. After many days and weeks of this I found myself irritated even at the sight of the man. I didn’t want to see him; I felt a deep disgust at the thought of him; I was getting sour. Finally I thought it over and came to this conclusion: “This poor fel low is hungry: he has nothing; he is ashamed to beg, so glosses it over as a loan”. In other words, this man was eating at the rate of ten cents a day and whatever more he could pick up. I concluded that my peace of mind and good temper were worth more than ten cents a day, and so provided the several dimes in advance. After that I made the loan every day and gave no thought to it; I was no longer irritated, but passed the dime as a matter of course, about the only ex tended lending operation I ever en gaged in. After some months this man found some regular work, and no longer stood in wait for me. The point of this, of course, is that my own composure was pro moted by taking stock of myself and my borrowing friend, and de ciding that I had been a bit unchari table and let a small matter assume too much size in my imagination, or, more likely, my emotions. Perhaps you don’t like somebody: he just rubs you the wrong way in pe being in three of the major bat- . . . ties. Capt. Riser has 31 missions ■ JP 1 * 6 °* yourself. All of us-suffer and 1000 flying hours to his credit. |f rom t" 81 sort of thing. It might After a short wedding trip the young couple returned to spend Christmas with their parents before going to Miami where Capt. Riser reported December 28 for reassign ment. Following the wedding rehearsal Wednesday night, the two immed iate families and a few close friens were entertained with an infomal re ception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Amick, brother-in-law and sis ter of the bride. TRESSPASS NOTICE—All hunting or otherwise trespassing on the lands of Mrs. Pat Mitchell or Mrs Claude Summer is expressly for bidden and will be prosecute under the law. 31-3t FOR SALE —/OUR MULES, To SQUARES 5-V SECOND HAND ROOFING, HALF PRICE. H. O. LONG & SONS, SILVERSTREET. AUDITOR S TAX NOTICE I, or an authorized agent, will be at the following places on the dates given below for the purpose of tak ing tax returns of all personal prop erty new buildings and real estate transfers. Persons owning property in more than one District will make returns for each district. All able-bodied male citizens be tween the ages of twenty—one and sixty are liable to 81.00 poll tax. All persons between the ages of twenty-one and fifty outside of in corporated towns and cities are lia ble to pay commutation tax of $1.00 All dogs are to be assessed at $1.00 each. WHITMIRE—City Hall, Tuesday, January 2nd, 1945. WHITMIRE — Aragon - Baldwin Mill, Wednesday, January 3rd, 1945. LONGSHORES— Thursday, Jan uary 4th, 1945, from 9 until 12. SILVERSTREET—Thursday, Jan uary 4th, 1945, from 2 until 5. CHAPPELLS —Friday, January 5th, 1945. HOLLINGSWORTH’S STORE — Monday, January 8th. 1945 from 9 until 12. KINARDS—Monday, January 8th, 1945, from 2 until 5. PROSPERITY—Tuesday, January 9th, 1946. LITTLE MOUUNTAIN—Wednes day, January 10th, 1945. GLYMPH’S STORE — Thursday, January 11, 1945, from until 12. F. L. RUFF & BROS. STORE — Thursday, January 11th, 1945, from 2 until 5. PEAK—Friday, January 12, 1945. POMARIA—'Monday, January 15, 1945. ST. LUKE’S—Tuesday, January 16th, 1945, from 9 until 12. O'NEAL—L. C. Fellers Store, Tuesday, January 16, 1945 from 2 until 5. MAYBLNTON—F. B. Hardy’s home, Wednesday, January 17, 1945 from 9 until 12. REESE BROS. STORE.—Wednes day, January 17th, 1945, from 2 un til 5. At Auditor’s Office to March 1st, after which a penalty of 10 per cent will be added. PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS, Auditor Newberry County. be well to take stock of ourselves and of those people. Life is too great to tie ourselves to prejudices which hobble us as we march along. The newspapers have been carry ing statements and interviews for months telling us that all the high officials, from the President down, were preparing for reductions in the production of war supplies; in fact, we’ve been told repeatedly that the army and navy have a hun dred billion dollars of surplus war goods. Again, the papers have car ried millions of words about peace settlements. So the Government itself has created the impression that the war was nearly over; at least that was how the many state ments impressed most people. Of course, all great shifts back to peace and peace-time production re quire many months of preparation, but the habit of rushing into print is what misleads the public. A great newspaper wisely re marks that all the row over Poland is still a fuss over paper claims and .paper rights, for the most of Poland is still under German con trol and must be won by battle; and that virtually all the fighting must be done by Russia if Poland is wrested from German possession. What, then, are the Poles wrangling about? Neither Poland nor France nor Italy threw the Germans out; the Germans still are fighting with great forces in all those countries. I still think that the military au thorities should control and govern all those countries until the Ger mans are beaten. The demand for a single ballot would apply to county officials, though there have been very few contests except for Senators and Representatives in Congress and for presidential electors. The Sensency bill of the 1944 session could be easi ly amended so as to direct the Clerk of Court i neach County to prepare the ballots or the General Election if the Secretary of State were not required to do so. ed after the roots have gone into the soil. And all this is done while millions of American and British soldiers are in France fighting to liberate France Never before have we heard so from German control. Where does much of labor shortage. The farm er is hard put to it to feed himself and his family and stock. The pro bable further demands for the war may leave us more drastically out of joint. We may devise some method of cooperation. Unfortunately many people wont work while they have money. Government benefits of many kinds and high wages operate against getting the usual work done. Can you persuade anyone to cut a cord of wood? You may own a thou sand acres of woods and freeze to death unless you are a mighty axe man. Singular feature of the fuel short age is this: there is enough manpow er to fell the trees and chop up the wood. These men may make inroads on your forests, may trespass on your land, but they won’t work for you. Something good usually fohows all our bad experiences. We may become less dependent on those who shirk today and come begging for work tomorrow. The war may teach us to work to gether, as when two men take a cross cut saw and cut their own wood. Surprising it is what two men can do with a cross-cut saw— in the chill of winter. That mi^ht develop a more neighborly spirit and might be appropriately celebrat ed with a pinder-boiling—or some thing of the sort. Just imagine some of the once ro bust young felows of forty pulling hard at a cross-cut saw. Even so, the press of necessity might restore those flabby muscles to the vigor of youth. Soft living, riding all the time, air-tight houses and rich food —these are the outcome of pros perity, but the cost in manhood is greater than the monthly checks can pay for. I know of no valid reason for not. providing for a single ballot which Uo you understand just where we would contain the names of candi- stand in our relations with Russia dates of all political parties. If we ( 8nd Great Britain? Russia is hand- really believe in government of the * ^ ” people we should provide readily for the free exercise of the peoples will, Did you ever hear a conversation like this ? “Bill, that’s a becoming ruit you are wearing. Treated your self to a new suit, eh?” Then Bill seems to swell with pride as he savs: “I’ve been wearing this suit for five vears; bought it from Jim two years before Pearl Harbor.” Our ladies are not proud of any such record. When the man preens himself on having a suit five years old, the ladies would rather have one five years ahead of schedule. The war permits us to show what we can do; how much wear we can get from half-doling the old shoes— and all that. . Something else gives us a thrill today. Remember when your friends used to say “your tires are getting smooth; better sell the car”. So out we went to sell the car which had run about twenty-five thousand miles. What do we do today? Well, a friend says to me: “See these tires? I’ve run them 20.000 miles since re-capping.” But I’ve some thing better than that: A friend said “This old car has run a hundred thousand miles and is still clicking along 250 miles a day”. I stood in a garage recently. The owner came out to talk to a physician who was with me. Said the garage man: “Look at this car; it has run ove.’ 120,000 miles and requires just a few changes.” The -physician then spoke up and asked, “What do you think of this bus of mine”? Every body looked it over and said it look ed good. One man said, Well, it’s i-un only 30,000 miles. The Doctor laughed and said “Add a hundred thousand miles to that; this car has run 130.000 miles.” What I want to know is what ar gument my automobile friends will use to persuade men to buy a car every year, when cars may be had again. The Germans -may yet be cut off. We need not to swing from overcon fidence to overpessimism. Warfare is subject to great shifts of fortune, and we must not expect any easy success. The Germans are great soldiers and are led by great gen erals, men who have been trained in many battles and in many cam paigns. Let us not underestimate them; but we need not underesti mate our own troops. Our generals may turn this misfortune into a not able success. The German drive ex poses the German army to attack from the north by the British and from the South by Americans. It is certain that some plan of this sort will be attempted, leaving the Germans exposed to Americans in front, on both flanks and to the rear. That would develop a pocket; our troops would surround the Ger mans and cut them off from their heavily fortified -positions; that would develop into a war of move ment, eventually resulting to our advantage, for our superior force? would crash against German troops instead of concrete pill-boxes. All this takes time. Great maneuvres require vast preparations in order to move heavy guns and a plentiful supply of ammunition. making the way simple and clear 'or all registered voters to vote with that degree of privacy which is a man’s by right in all his affairs. “Democracy” is a Greek word meaning the rule of the people. Am erica is the world’s nearest approach to a rule of the people, I think, though we must be vigilant lest bosses aiid political schemers mani pulate votes and voters in a manner dangerous to our fredom. We need not imagine that our political -policy is perfect. The indifference of tens of thousands of thoughtful citizens is matched by the venality of other tens of thousands. That gives too much influence and power to those who command the support of unprin cipled people. Too many of our best people, rich and -poor, try to wash their hands of their political and civic duties—and then marjvel at the success of demagogues on the stump and shysters in the courts. If a man regards himself as too good, too superior, too important or too busy to vote or to serve as a juror, what right has he to complain of the elections or the verdicts? How many top business men sit on juries? When a suit is brought against a company for-damages be yond all reason how many times do you find a businessman on the jury as to what reckless judgements may mean? We are in great danger of awarding judgements for sympathy alone, forgeting all about justice. “He can pay it”; or “They’ve got the money and this poor fellow hasn’t anything”. That’s what some verdicts mean. So we operate to take from one and give it to the other on the basis of generous big-heartedness, leaving law and justice just a miserable wreck. Many people can’t -withstand the allure of a dollar when it clashes with a principle. Let it be said, how ever. that splendid qualities are not confined to rich or poor; fine ex amples are found among the high and the low, the rich and the poor; and the lack of principle may be found likewise. Our Unemployment Compensation law seems to encourage a lack of fairness, even of common honesty. The law itself is bad, and many of our .people try to go far beyond it. The acid test may be money; cer T tainly some who a re normally scrup ulous don’t hesitate to file claims which are without any merit. They just can’t resist the dollar. Russia come in? Just to show how the Americans and British are bow ing to Russia, consider several facts; Mr. Rosevelt and Mr. Churchill went almost to Russia to confer with Sta lin. Churchill himself has made sev eral trips to Moscow and this coun try has sent Secretary Hull and num. erous others to Moscow. Just as soon as we had won Rome and Southern Italy, with oceans of Mod, we invited Stalin to sit in. In deed. before that, when we took the Italian fleet, we offered to share with Stalin. In fact it was widely reported that Mr. Roosevelt was even giving some of our warsMps to Rus sia. In all the dealings related to Greece Mr. Stalin was consulted be fore hand. But, has Mr. Stalin con sulted us about Poland? Mr. Church ill told the House of Commons that he had failed entirely in his efforts in behalf of Poland . And now goes De Gaulle, who owes everything to Britain and America, seeking the fa vor of Stalin. It seems queer to me. America seems to be putting up bil lions of dollars as gifts to the other nations, for already the road is made smooth for a cancellation of the thirty billions already sent as a loan and the billions still to be sent. In addition to that we have spent two hundred and fifty billions our selves and sent six million men over seas. It won’t be long before trained propagandists will tell us that Rus sia and Britain are fighting our war. That’s the trick that was work ed on us in the First World War. It isn’t exactly hopeless yet. Nei ther Britain nor Russia together, could win the war if America should i withdraw her army and navy. Why, then, don’t we stand up like men and assert ourselves ? Why should these other nations disregard us ? Where is the leadership that should guard America’s interests ? now. How would Mr. Roosevelt re store calm, order and productiveness throughout the world? Shall Amer ica let him give away another thirty or forty billion dollars to Europe? Mr. H. G. Wells, the well known realist? We used to hear a lot about practical men and practical handling of affairs. All of us know that there is such a thing as practi cality. For example, the story told of the great philosopher, that he cut British writer, says that Churchill J rwo holes in the door so that the lit- has outlived his usefulness and ile cat and the big cat might get should retire, though Mr. Wells eon- out. Such an absurdity is the last cedes the great part Mr. Churchill played in keeping Britain in fight ing trim. It would be tragic if Mr. Churchill should so operate against little Greece as to tarnish the lustre of his great fame. Conceivably it would have been better if both Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt had retired some months ago, for it appears that we are in danger of losing the peace after ■paying for it by incredibly severe darins on our Country. But there is time for a clear exposition of Amer ican policy—if we have a clearly de fined policy. If we have no definite idea of what we are fighting for it is high time that we decide just what we are sacrificing for. Then we should not merely affirm our atti tude, but declare it forthrightly with all clarity. Vigor and insistence. A radio commentator, in comment ing on Mr. Churchill’s acceptance of Russia’s handling of the Polish question, says that the British are word in unpracticality, yet that great mathematician observed and studied a common happening, that objects fall, and expounded the law of gravity. At any rate he was practical in the highest reaches of the human mentality, where most of us would grope in darkness, though in the petty concerns of living he was unpractical. It is told of the same man that he called his servant and ordered him to move the grate with its red hot and blazing coals. The servant said; “My Lord, would it not be better to move your chair”? “I never thought of that”, responded the great mathematician. So when we talk about realists, what do we mean ? This Christmas season commenor- ates the birth of one who was des pised and rejected of men; who had no where to lay His head; Who was given a crown of thorns and cruci fied with thieves. He called men to righteous living; He taught that, a (Continued on back page) ling Poland to suit herself. She is paying no attention to either Amer- Dealish ica or Britain. And now General DeGauIle goes to see Stalin and signs a treaty to govern the rela tions between France and Russia. The Springfield Republican—the renowned Massachusetts’ daily which is 100 per cent Roosevelt and New carries a story that Mr, Roosevelt’s campaign for a fifth term is already under way because the world will not be completely re stored three and a half years from It’s the Quality of leadership that makes Leaders ATLANTIC AMmiUTCCB are the Leaden Atlantic Cemvany - Xrvvtri** in Atlanta, Charlott*. ('hattonoorx, Norfolk, Orlando The British would not think of moving Oxford and Cambridge Uni versities; they venerate the tradi tions which cluster about the old institutions. The idea of moving Carolina doesn’t appeal to me. I’m an old alumnus—; no, no; I’m a young alumnus of the old school, and I think it worth something to main tain what we have and provide what ever expansion the serious needs of the institution may make necessary. At one time there was no central heating or water. A common prac- titee was to keep a cord of wood in the “Study”—the large room, from which led the two small, individual bedrooms. Would we destroy all that link with the past? Of course men were men in those days. Could Carolina ever be the same some where else? Where do our people get their grandiose ideas? If this is realism, it is the kind which seper- ates valuable traditions from reali ty. Great Schools are built on tradi tion, not on brick and mortar. I did some work at New York Uni versity. My roopns were on the campus, but my classes were miles away. A university may need the immediate contact with a populous center; or it may flurish in isolation, even in the wilds; but neither one nor the other can be abrutply chang- HELPING OIL THE WAY TO VICTORY 1 : ' •; -i ■vmi gif? sliilliil, illiill mm Wm 1 10 SINCLAIR REFINERIES are geared for war. Photo above shows a newly completed Sinclair catalytic cracking unit producing 100-octane gasoline —the super fuel that gives our war planes added speed and power. Today great Sinclair refineries are producing not only 100-octane gasoline but also aviation gasoline for training planes, and fuels and lubricants for all tj’pes of mechanized equipment from jeeps to battleships. M . wk SINCLAIR DEALERS are backing up our boys abroad by keeping vitally needed cars on the road at home. See your Sinclair dealer regularly. 13,000 TIRES. Sinclair now produces enough Butylene for synthetic rubber to help make 13,000 average size tires daily. T. N. T. Sinclair makes Toluene, used for T.N.T., the high explosive in bombs, block busters, sea and land mines. BUY MOftE WAR BONDS AND STAMPS S. C. Paysinger, Agent NEWBERRY, S. C.