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m / ■aattmMMiM i'HE NEWBERRY SUN Vht^mnn 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARMFIELD Editor end 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 General George S. Patton is a soldier’s soldier, for he is the fight ing man of the war. Of course we do not mean to disparage the others; they may be just as able, but Gen eral Patton appeals to the soldiers and to the public as a rugged fight er—a sort of Stonewall Jackson and J. E. B. Stuart, for he resembles both. Whenever a real slash at the Germans is needed, we turn to Pat ton and feel confident that a big fight is brewing. Mr. Mills B. Lane, head of the Citizens and Southern Bank of Geor gia and South Carolina, is quoted as saying that the South is independent of the North, financially. Mr. Lane knows his subect because no one in the South has more accurate infor mation of our condition than Mr. Lane. I used to take the figures of the banks to prove that South Carolina has enough money on deposit to make this State a place of diversi fied interests .nicely balanced be tween industry and agriculture. Not only have we the money in the coun ties for such development as may be profitable, but our larger State banks have more than enough for great State-wide enterprises. We could build South Carolina beyond the dreams of any of us even with the Government War Bonds held by our people. That money, being an investment, is out of our channel of investment today and would not be missed if we reinvested it in enter prises of commercial nature. So we have the money. •Merely having the money, how ever, does not mean that we know how to use it. • Nobody wants to lose his money; nor is a community benefited by idle speculations or poorly conceived or managed enter prises which crash and stand in idle ness like tombstones. The history of industry teaches us that the coun try has lost billions of dollars which citizens invested with roseate expec tations. Perhaps we can make high- grade gasoline out of pine stumps, as they credit the Jape with doing, but the millions of stumps of old Colleton had better be saved for “llght-ud”, and the seven or eight FRIDAY, JANUAki lurti, 1948 or more millions of her banks might seek more promising investments. I’ve just read a bank statement from Sumter. One bank, now, has more than eleven million dollars Sumter is already a splendidly bal anced town as between agriculture and industry, but think what eleven millions could provide! Investing it does not take it out of circulation, nor even out of the banks. The New Year brings us a new Governor, Ransome J. Williams, well-known for many years through his various public activities. The new governor is a native of Orange burg County and has business in terests in Mullins, of Marion Coun ty. I knew him years ago, when he served in the House, but later was associated with him on the Board of Coker College and as vice-president of the^ State Fair. Governor Williams, has declared his wish to be Governor rather than a candidate for some other posi tion. The Governor may have very lit tle power, as is often said, but he is in a position of leadership and his influence is very strong. A man may render a fine service to the State as Governor and the opportuni ty is highly attractive. Governor Williams has begun his service under favorable conditions, It is not the. Governor’s prerogative to over-rule the courts; ' and it is less his rightful prerogatvie to grant leaves, paroles, and pardons, for reasons of friendship. Whenever ten'or twenty people leave the peni- tntiary in a week ,it always causes a lot of unfavorable comment. There is no reason to suppose that a Gov ernor is in ‘ aj position tq know better than the Judge, the Solicitor, and the Jury wether a man deserves to serve his punishment. Ordinarily 'we do not associate our courts with politics. One need not •be entirely: ignorant of the world, but even so we like to think that virtually -all. people receive justice. By this I mean, that very seldom is anyone punished beyond reason; ’we all know, of course, that many peo ple receive"'' less punishment than they deserve, which indicates an abounding sense of mercy and for giveness, to say the least. But when the governor of the state lets pris oners out,- he is passively proclaim ing that the court was wrong or that a man deserves some special consid eration from the State. It probably is true, sometimes, but not often. I have never fully' shared the be lief that the governor’s prerogative to pardon should be taken from him; there should be this power residing somewhere. In England, the King may not pardon of . his own motion, but he acts on the suggestion of the Secretary of State for. Home Affairs. So, he, the Secretary, is exercising the power, in effect. I know, of course, that the Legis- lature cannot take from the Goyer- nor the power of pardon, since it is a power conferred on him by the Constitution; I know that the Pardon Board and the Parole Board have no power to restrain the Governor. If we mean to restrain the Governor’s power, we must have an amendment to the Constitution There are many expressions now current indicating that the people favor the creation of a board with full power. It is heartening to know that the French are training an army of 600,- 000 men, to join in the attack on the Germans. Many of our people have been wondering for a long time why America should do most of the fighting while the French and Bel gians and Italians bear relatively a small part. We read all the tinje about the fairly good condition of France, Belgium and Holland; and we know that many of these coun tries could supply large armies. Up to this time the war on land and sea and in the air has become pri marily an American enterprise. As usual, we go all out and then find that we are doing what the others think is only our duty. The idea of America remaining aloof from the squabbles of the oth er Nations must long have been dis sipated. Before we were in this war; before anyone had committed a hos tile act against us, Mr. Roosevelt had assumed an entirely un-neutral position; it may be said that we were never fully neutral at any time and that our getting into the war was the logical result of Mr. Roose velt’s diplomacy. The next time wc would do well to take a firm hand during the diplomatic squabbles rather than wait to do most of the fighting during the war. Aa our memory serves us, we used to wonder why Mr. Stalin did not lead a great attack against East Prussia. For many months we have been conducting vast operations ( through France against Germany, Signal Corps Photo Pvt. Isidore Sack, New York, dis plays German cement captured in France and being used to build road to an American airport. Confiscated materials help the U. S. war effort but War Bonds pay for the vast quantity of materiel necessary for Victory. U. S. Treasury Department. gomery, now a Field Marshall, to command the American, British and Canadian trops North of the Ger man wedge in Belgium, meets with strong approval. We remember the British disasters in Africa before Montgomery assumed command; and we recall the thrill of his march but Mr. Stallin has held up on the| acr ° s *. th ® desert - d J iv T i f n *[. East Prussians front and has been and hls G ? ri P l ans , and , I 0 ta '“" S *2^“ , Ako* comer and then to the sea. ine binefiT? , Germans fear the crafty Montgomery promise diplomatic (benefits to jh,us“ i j . v v v* 'Dn+f-/-»■»> sia. Mr. Stalin used to wonder, dur- and the slashln S Patton - BOWERS NEW CITY MANAGER OF GREENWOOD E. H. Bowers, city clerk of Green- wod for the past year and a half, was named city manager by unani mous vote of council in an executive session on Thursday evening, Jan. 11, the new office to be effective February 1. Mayor J. M. Marshall has been acting city manager since the resignaftion of C. A. Nichols who had previously held the office from June to August 1942. The new city manager has long been connected with the city of Greenwood. He was born in Pros perity in Newberry county, moved as a small boy to Abbeville and later to Greenwood. He was manag er of a grocery store here for a number of years and before coming here as city clerk a year and a half ago had been with the South Carolina Tax Commission for twenty years, during which time he made his home in Greenwood much of the time. He was living in Columbia just beefore coming here to be city clerk. ing the days of the carnage'at Sta lingrad, why we did not make the attack on the West which we pro mised time and again. Mr. Stalin observed that America sent hundreds of thousands of men to Britain and then shunted them off hundreds of miles to North Africa to fight the battle according to Mr. Churchill’s strategy, Mr. Churchill’s idea being that it was of first importance to dear the Mediterranean. In that strategy Mr. Churchill consulted the interests of Great (Britain, not the interests of the United States, and certainly not the interests of Russia. At that time Stalin did not regard the African and Italian ventures as a second front, as we had -promised. So today Mr. Stalin is playing the same game-—and we are wondering about it. The designation of General Mont- Of course you want a Farmers are having a tough time; there are able-bodied men doing light, unimportant work, while the farmer tries to prepare to feed the nation,—and tries almost single- handed. We need not dodge the truth; the farmer could get the help he needs, certainly in part, if he could com pete with wages in town. A farmer can’t pay those wages and run the risk of a crop failure, as well a; a financial failure. Either guarantee the individual farmer a net income, or recognize farm work as having high priority over every other kind of work, except the/ making of muni tions. the actual labor involved in producing munitions. Everybody engaged in any sort of war production is paid on the basis of his individual cost of production, based on high wages, and with other liberal considerations. Stop the prattle about farm prices and get down to individual farm incomes. Many years I have argued for that; high farm prices don’t mean anything to the farmer who doesn’t make a crop; and no one can foretell what a harvest season will bring forth. Signal Corps Pboto Doughboys unloading projectiles on the European front to be hurled against the Nazi. War Bonds pay for these shells es well as establish savings for your needs ten years icnce. Buy War Bonds. U. S. 7 reasury DtpartmsnS WILD-LIFE SOUTH CAPOHNA WITH PROF FBANKLIN .SHERMAN MeAD-cteMsoK eouJcv D*n o» zoouoov BROWN CREEPER This small bird is only member of its family in this state, and has its own peculiarities which are not shared with others of our birds. As it is small and not conspicuous we will describe it briefly. It is smaller than most of our sparrows . and is of slender form; color a mixture of brown gray and white, and the rump pale reddish- brown. It hops along on vortical tree-trunks like a woodpecker but it does not hammer through the bark, instead it is hunting for insects and spiders which hide in crevices of the bark. Having habits somewhat like the woodpeckers, the brown creeper has the tail-feathers pointed and somewhat stiffened so as to prop it self up as it travels over the tree- trunks. On close inspection, you would find that its bill is proportion ately long, and slender, and curved, all this enabling it to reach into crevices and get at the biding insects —whereas woodpeckers have chis el-like bill to get through the bark at the boring insects beneath. So brown creeper has habits and ac tions somewhat like a woodpecker & a tail somewhat like a wodpecker, but as it seeks a different sort of food its bill is not at all like that of wood pecker. As it especially seeks in sects in crevices, its bill is appro priately slender and curved. Very well adapted to its particular habits of life is brown creeper. It is present in South Carolina only during the winter season, and nests farther north. At Clemson we have found it from October 11th through winter and until April 8th. It nests in higher mountains in North Carolina, but not known to nest in our lower mountains of South Carolina—wish it did. Brown creeper does not fly up from the ground in front of you, nor does it flit from twig to twig nor from bush to bush. If you wish to find brown creper you must keen ly watch the trunks and larger branches of trees in winter. If you are patient and lucky after a while you will find him busily working his way up a tree. Up, up, perhaps spirally, until after awhile it will drop off, and fly downward to near base of another tree and again be gin its upward search. It chirps or chatters a bit when excited or in terested; but no impressive song. If you can find and recognize brown creeper you will have made a real start in knowing our birds; everyone doesn’t know this bird. F. B. DAWKINS JAILOR F. B. Dawkins is now serving as jailor under his brother, Sheriff Ben F. Dawkins. Mr. Dawkins is well qualified for the position, having served in this capacity three years under the former sheriff Tom M. Fellers, after which he accepted a position as deputy Tax Collector and served two years .prior to resigning the first of January, to again serve as county jailor. Mr. and Mrs. Dawkins and family have moved into an apartment in the Sheriffs home on Harrington street. NURSES’ AIDS NEEDED GEORGE ELSIE DOMINICK AT FIRST SION OF A V O'* 0 - *666 What other purchase could you make that would give you more service thruout the year, or that you would feel that you look just as you would wish to look? Choose it with care. TRESPASS NOTICE — Trespassing any form—hunting, 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. Werts, T. Blair Boozer, Guy Boozer, J. H. Bow ers, S. L. Porter. tfc LOANS ON REAL ESTATE AUTOMOBILES AND PERSONAL PROPERTY NEWBERRY INSURANCE AND REALTY 00. NED PURCELL, Manager TELEPHONE 197 Exchange Bank Building COTTON QUIZ Cold Preparations as directed WE WILL BUY—Your burlap sacks or any kind of old rags, also scrap iron and other metals. See W. H, STERLING. TRESSPASS NOTICE—AU 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 George Elsie Dominick, 70, died suddenly early Monday afternoon at his residence in the O'Neal section of Newberry county. He had been in declining health for several years. Mr. Dominick was a prosperous and progressive farmer and had spent all his life in the O’Neal sec tion of the county. He was the son of the late George W. and Nancy Stockman Dominick. Funeral services were held Tues day afternon at 3:30 o’clock from his residence with Rev. Earl Robin ette and Rqv. J. B. Harman con ducting the service. Interment fol lowed in the Prosperity cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Positions open for Nurses’ Aids in the Fifth Civil Service Region are needed: Salary $1752 per year. Minimum qualifications: Appli- j cants must have satisfactorily com pleted: 1. Preliminary supervised demon strations and supervised practice totaling 80 hours approved for Red Cross Volunteer Nurses’ Aids. 2. A minimum of 150 hours of volunteer service as Nurses’ Aids on wards of approved hospitals. Nurses’ Aids are badly needed for filling vacancies in Army Hospitals throughout the Fifth U. S. Civil Ser vice Region which composes of the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee. Men and women are eligable. Full information may be secured locally from the Post Office or from the U. S. Employment Service on Caldwell street. Mary Kinard Dominick and the folloWjng dhildren? Rj. A. Lail, George K. Dominick, Teddy P. Donynick and Mrs. Ira Kinard; also his stepmother, Mrs. Anne Dominick, and the following brothers and sis ters: W. S. Dominick, Bennett Dominick, Mrs. Lillian Turner, Mrs. Edna Parrott and Mrs. Ridgell Bowers. Six grandchildren also sur- r A*VE$T*IHAT IS MAPS OF STEEL STCIP5 COVERED WITH COTTON CANVAS. USED BY COMBAT PLANE CREWS, IT * ■ looks uke a life-jacket * BUT WEIGHS ABOUT 29 LBS. 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 $1.00 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 6. CHAPPELLS —Friday, January 6th, 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 9 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’NEAU-i. C. Fellers Store, Tuesday, January 16, 1945 from 2 until 5. MAYtBINTON—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. 1944 Tax Notice After the close of business on January 31, 1945, a If per d Penalty will be added to all unpaid 1944 State and County taxes. J. Ray Dawkins COUNTY TREASURER