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i'HE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY. FcmtUAKY t>tn, 1&45„
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NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
O. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
Published Every Friday In The Year
Entered as second-class matter
December <5, 1037, at tht postoflice
at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
SPECTATOR
The six cotton interests which
compose the National Cotton Coun
cil of America met in annual con
vention in Memphis recently. These
groups—the producers, or cotton
farmers, the ginners, the merchants,
the seed-crushers, the waiehousemen
and the spinners—are associated in
a combined effort to promote the
use of the South’s great staple.
Presiding over the convention was
the most extensive cotton planter of
the South, Oscar Johnston of the
Delta region of Mississippi. Inci
dentally Mr. '.Johnston estimates that
he has four thousand bales of cotton
yet unpicked. As his average yield
of lint was 838 pounds per acre it
seems that the twelve thousand acres
already harvested was a bumper
yield without considering what is
still in the fields.
Delegates from Arkansas, Oklaho
ma and Texas, also reported a lot of
cotton in the fields.
The delegates to the Cotton council
are a conservative group. It would
surprise our friends if they should
hear the discussions. Man after man
argued against certain more or less
obvious expedients .discussing prob
lems of foreign diplomatic policy, of
foreign exchange, of international
trade in all its aspects, including pro
tection on one hand and reprisals on
the other.
We sat by delegation, each State
group having its own table. From
South Carolina the first man I saw
was that sturdy and sterling friend,
J. Wade Drake, of Anderson. Mr.
Drake neve r fails; he was the first
South Carolina friend of the Cotton
Council. He was there v’ith Mrs.
Drake. The next delegate from this
State who came my way was the
alert J. C. Miller, Senior, of Jeffer
son, city of Chesterfield County.
Next I met two friends who go to
gether much when at Conventions:
R. M. Hughes of Greer and W. T.
Mikell of Columbia. I always enjoy
meeting our Carolina delegates, none
more so than Messrs Hughes and
Mikeli. Sitting next to me was a
new-comer, though a friend of long
standing: Edgar H. Lawton of
Hartsville, a fine man, with the
charm of his delightful father, J. J.
Lawton. W. A. Hambright of Blacks
burg, Master of the State Grange,
was in his seat, serious and studious
as always. A very handsome young
gentlemn from Easley, H. E. Rus
sell was present as an alternate for
James A. Chapman of Spartanburg,
a spinner delegate. Mr. and Mrs.
M. S. Stockhouse of Dillon were pre
sent, as well as A. M. Klugh of An
derson, though I didn’t have the
pleasure of seeing them. Robert R.
Coker of Hartsville, one of the vice
presidents of the Council, was pre
sent, busy as ever with duties as
chairman of a very important com
mittee. Mr. Fred Symmes of Green
ville, Chairman of the Committee on
Research, missed his train and
couldn’t get there. Incidentally the
committee missed Mr. Symmes v^ry
much and nearly got out of hand for
want of his directing influence. We
may claim Robert Jackson, too, for
he is now connected with the Coker
enterprises; and W. C. Brown of
Belton.
The groups from each State form
a State unit. Mr. Hughes is presi
dent; Messrs. Drake and Mikell arc
vice presidents and I am the sec
retary-treasurer, though the treasur:
part of it is strictly non-bankable.
consisting entirely of rich fellow
ship with the delegation from South
Carolina.
I wondered what to do at night. I
walked by all the theatres but only
one picture appealed to me. I look
ed over the available magazines, but
wasn’t impressed. I should dislike to
feed my mind on-what is being serv
ed to the public and wondei what
sort of thinking our people will do.
Crowds stretched out for two blocks,
waiting to buy a ticket. Probably
there were no crowds on the side
walks pushing their way into the
churches. Obviously the places ot
amusement and entertainment give
the public what it wants, just as the
publications feature the trash which
the public enjoys. Perhaps wa who
are in the churches must study our
programs. But the church doesn’t
stand as a place of entertainment.
There is no frolic or frivolity about
funerals or cemeteries; and the
church would remind us that we shall
all face the problems of the hereaf
ter.
Many of our thoughtful cotton man
feared what unight happen unless the
farmer should learn to produce cot
ton: for less. Against that let us re
member that our Government main
tains high tariffs in order to pro
tect manufacturing; also that not
only is industrial Labor paid more
highly than agricultural labor, but
that higher scale is largely due to
the protection of the tariff. Further-
j more, our Government, through the
Wage-hour law, guarantees wages in
industry without regard to resultant
cost of the product in the competi
tion with the world. Everybody is
protected except the cotton farmer.
The wheat farmer enjoys the favor
of a protective tariff; the dairy
farmers havd laws which operate
against their competitors—and also
against the whole consuming public.
A man asked for more butter in
a great hotel fn Tennessee—center
of the cotton market of America.
He couldn’t get more. He then ask
ed for margarine, a cotton seed pro
duct, a strictly Southern product. He
was told that the hotel in Tennessee
would have to pay $800 for the
privilege of serving margarine and
a $20 tax per pound. See how the
dairy interests get restrictive laws
against cotton products! Suppose
we should pass a law like that
against butter! There would be
strong protest and denunciation—
and properly so, too.
By the way: 1 have a friend from
North Carolina who is a delegate.
When I was marvelling at Oscar
Johnston’s 939 lbs of lint per acre on
thousands of acres, this friend spoke
up and said that two bales per acre
were not uncommon in his country;
and that when North Carolina wants
to show off she produces five bales
per acre. He was a perfectly sober
man, at that. Perhaps we are just
playing at it in this State. I was so
knocked out by that that I told of
my friend S. J. White of Sumter,
who harvested 800 bushels of sweet
potatoes from one acre. That cooled
my North Carolina friend off. Even
at that I don’t say that 800 bushels
of potatoes is the limit; I’ve made
no inquiry; it isn’t common in my
county, so far as I know; but one
can’t tell what another county may
do.
The Cotton Council has a research
laboratory and employs fifty techni
cians, chemists, physicists and plant
biologists. It is trying to find out
all that cotton is capable of in the
highly^competitive field of world in
dustry.
There were about two hundred of
us there. One thing impressed me
from the beginning: in Committee
meetings of twenty, and in general
meetings of two hundred, not more
than ten per cent of the delegates
smoked.
| It has been suggested that there
; be one price for cotton, both on for-
I eign and domestic markets, and that
[ the producer be paid a subsidy.
| Along with this is the suggestion
that the revenue received from a
j protective tariff doesn’t yield reve
nue; the purpose of it really is to
keep competitors out.
The Western delegates told us
that Ame:ican tractors sell in Mexi
co for 27 per- cent less thari in this
country. That’s what the protec
tive tariff does—it keeps out com
petitors; nor need we think that
American tractors are sold in Mexi
co at a loss. Our tariff victimizes
our own people. American tractors
made in Ireland have been knocked
down and brought here for less than
they could be bought direct from the
factory in this country.
In Oklahoma they are harvesting
late cotton with a Combine, after
frost.
In Texas and Oklahoma farmers
are sowing oats in February for fall
harvesting.
Oscar Johnston is pleased with his
German soldier labor in driving
tractors. He says they turned out
more than twice as much as his usual
labor.
FOOD
FIGHTS
FREEDOM
Gtemaofi GfMefe §*£ Service
SOUTH CAROLINA
1945 10-POINT FOOD AND FEED
PRODUCTION PROGRAM
WAR BONDS
1. Make maximum use of avail
able labor and equipment on the
farm and in the community.
2. Arrange now for quality plant
ing seed.
3. Arrange now for fertilizers for
heavy applications.
4. Check farm and home equip
ment, and order parts or new equip
ment now.
5. Grow plenty of high quality
grazing, hay, and silage.
6. Produce record small grain and
com crop.
7. Produce adequate gardens,
poultry, eggs, meat, and milk for
every family and conserve for home
use.
8. Produce, grade, pack, and mar
ket quality products.
9. Take care of the land and for
ests.
10. Control crop and livestock di
seases, insects, and parasites.
YE FARM GOSSIPE
We Owe Us
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iiFlwid
By GEORGES. BENSON *
President of Harding College
Searcy. Arkansas
EH
Some of you are greatly interest
ed in promoting the passage of a
law for a Single ballot. Such a bill
has been introduced by a Represen
tative from Greenville. It may need
a lot of very active support, for all
of us are afflicted with inertia and
have to be prodded frequently. Leg
islators are like the rest of us, they
respond to pressure.
I need not tell all the details of
how things are, but let us all see
what we have in favor of the bill.
The Senator from Charleston is for
it; probably the Charleston House
members also. The Central Labor
Union of Charleston is for it; there
is strong feeling throughout the
State for a single ballot The prob
lem is to make this sentiment affec
tive in Columbia. Many leading news
papers are in favor of a single bal
lot for the State and a single ballot
for the County. The bill of the
Greenville legislator proves the in
terest of the Piedmont. Our friends
of Labor could enlist their friends
throughout the State; and the Green
ville and Charleston legislators have
friends in both Senate and House.
Something can be done, I think, but
favorable action will not come be
cause of the activity of a few of us,
there must be concerted action
throughout the State. Moreover,
| merely writing editorials and mak-
’ ing radio speeches won’t effect re
sults; legislators are immune to all
that. But when their . constituents
talk to them and write or telegraph
them there comes a great change, a
new vision.
The dog incident, or dog priority,
was something the President knew
nothing about. I’m sure of that.
Mr. Roosevelt would not deliberate
ly do anything so_ utterly ridiculous
_ as to authorize, or even sanction
(priority for a dog at the expense of
'three soldieis. Probably young Roose-
I velt, the probable Brigadier General,
' would not have done this even for
his third wife. We may, I’m sure
absolve the Roosevelts, but the point
of importance to me is that this na
tion has become so thoroughly a one-
man affair that the mere name car
ries priorities, legally or not. We
are a dictatorship, and all the family
are above and beyond the rules which
apply to the rest of us. The Presi
dent takes cruisers and destroyers
for fishing trips; outfits geat Bomb-
es for Mrs. Roosevelt; plays hide-
and-seek with Congress; makes laws
by himself. The dog priority is but
a small incident of the Roosevelt dic
tatorship. They don’t have to ask
for priorities.
By A. B. BRYAN
A good gardener likes to feel sor
ry for the person who has no garden.
“Still and all,” the plain American
country boy is important beyond
words.
The farmer who robs his soil is
headed for the rocks—and it’s later
than he thinks.
The farmer who doesn’t put faith
in lime, legumes, and livestock for
balanced farming is dumber than he
ought to be.
Happy is the man that findeth
wisdom for soil building, and the man
that getteth understanding for ro
tations.
MRS. LULU HYATT LANGFORD
News has been received here of
the death of Mrs. Lulu Hyatt Lang
ford, wife of Pierce P. Langford, a
native of Newberry, who died Mon
day, January 22 at her home in
Wichita Falls, Texas.
She was one of Wichita Falls’ best
known social and civic workers in
the turn of the century and had been
a resident of that city since 1893.
She was a native of Huntsville, Tex
as, ancT the daughter of Major and
Mrs. Benjamin Hyatt.
She married Mr. Langford in 1906
and is survived by him and two sons,
Pierce Poindexter Langford, Jr.,
and Ben Langford, both of Wichita
Falls, a daughter, Mrs. George Har-
igan of Pittsburg, Pa.
Mrs. Langford visited Newberry
relatives a number of times, and bud
many friends and relatives here, who
will be saddened of her death. Mr.
Langford, the son of the late Stan-
more and Sarah Sawyer Langford
went to Texas as a young man and
has lived there many years. Her
relatives here include Mrs. C. White
Fant, Griffin Langford, Herman
Langford, Mrs. Herman Wright, Mrs.
L. G. Eskridge, Mrs. Thad McCrack-
in and others.
MISS SHEALY ACCEPTS POSI
TION IN TREASURER’S OFFICE
Miss Dorothy Shealy has accepted
a position as clerk in the Treasur
er’s office. She began her new du
ties Monday of this week.
Miss Shealy was formerly steno
grapher at the Chamber of Com-
' merce office.
MM.
Signal Corps Photo
Pvt. Ralph A. Herr, Colbert,
Wash., removing felled timber from
the jungles of a South Pacific is
land. War Bonds pay for caterpillar
tractor equipment to make roads
and clear airstrips on invaded terri
tory- Buy more War Bonds.
U. S. Treasury Department
HOW QUINTUPLETS
rsll«v« coughing «f
CHEST COLDS
Whenever the Quintuplets catch co —
their cheats, throats and backs are ruL .ed
with Musterole. So Musterole must be
just about the beet cold-relief you can buy!
Musterole helps break up local con
gestion in upper bronchial tract, makes
breathing easier, promptly relieves cough-
ining chert muscles
MUSjME
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HOURS DAILY FROM 10 A. M. TO 10 P. M.
PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN STUDIO TRAILER ON THE
GREENVILLE HIGHWAY—Next to Walter Joye’s Filling
Station, just beyond city limits. Look for.the Sign.
ON THE morning of November
12, 1918, a dusky American sol
dier slept through two or three
bugle calls and was waked at last
by his sergeant gruffly ordering
him to rise.
“Y’all kan’t boss me roun’ nn
mo,” came the protest, “dis wah
am ovah. I jes sign up fer de du
ration.”
“How right you is, boy!” the
sergeant replied. “De wah am
ovah, sho ’nuff, but de duration
. . it have jes begin.”
There is a five-year-old epigram
like this: “Who cares about the
national debt? We only owe it to
ourselves.” It implies that we will
be very easy with ourselves on
collection day, but can we afford
to be soft? We owe ourselves
more money than we can ever
collect the interest on, unless we
work hard and pay our taxes.
These debts to ourselves are
genuine, and bigger than most
of us realize.
Tinkling SOME people owe
Cymbals themselves new cars,
or new tires for their
old cars. Since they can’t buy
these useful items, they waste
their money on silly pastimes.
Easy money that rattles in our
pockets because there is nothing
to buy, is not prosperity. Actually
it as bogus money. If a higher in
come does not help me live bet
ter, my prosperity is phoney.
Prosperity is born of work.
America is bleeding in war and
sulfering in want this very day.
Our needs are no less real be
cause certain items are off the
market. National income figures
for the United States illustrate
the point perfectly. On paper, our
national income was 135 billion
dollars in 1943, breaking all rec
ords, but actually we received 150
million dollars a day less take-
home money in 1943 than in 1929.
Phoney WE ARE going in debt.
Wealth When 1943’s debt was
subtracted from what
we called our national income, it
was 20 billion under 1929. String
nine 0’s after all figures in the
table below; they are billions:
Figures in billions 1929 1943
National Income $ 81 $136
Government Deficit .....none 66
Federal Taxes 3 21
Net
BUSINESS WOMEN MEET
._$ 78 $ 58
Difference—$20,000,000,000.
The average war-time wage is
more cents per hour; the average
salary more dollars per month.
Consequently our total national
income is more billions of dollars
per year than in any previous
boom, but the debt changes the
picture. It will have to be paid
in money that represents con
structive work, doing and making
useful things for better living.
Official accounts of military
gains rightly build up our hopes
for peaceful years to come. The
anecdote at the beginning of this
article was told to suggest this:
When the fighting stops, it will
be no signal to commence sleep
ing late trying to subsist on war
time prosperity. Unless we in
crease our efforts and do our part
to meet our national obligation,
“the duration will have juat be
gun.”
The Business and Professional
Women’s club met January 30, 1945
at the Newberry hotel. The collect
was read and reports from all stand
ing committees were heard. Miss
Ruth Blackwelder reported that jier
committee had finished its project
by hanging the prints in the College
dining hail. Under new business
Mrs. Moon moved that the club
charter be framed and hung in the
private dining room of the hqtel.
This motion was seconded and car
ried. Mrs. J. H. Summer made a
short talk and urged the cooperation
of the club with the tin can and fat
salvage. Miss Mary Alice Mitchell
was appointed to meet with the other
clubs in making plans for the col
lection of cans and fats. Mrs. Helen
Newton, Mrs. Mae Aull ,and Mrs.
Anna Hawkins were appointed by the
president on the nominating com
mittee. Mrs. Copeland advised th - *
club of the illness of another mem
ber, Mrs. Mamie Hawkins. It was
also brought to the attention of the
Tiembers that Mrs. Aull had received
a telegram from the Wa r Deoarl-
ment saying one of her sons was
missing.
The program was then turned over
o the Program Chairman who asked
Mrs. Donaldson, Mrs. Moon, and Miss
’ "erier to tell the club members
rbout the recent conference in Co-
umbia. The topic of the conference
vas the Place of Women on Policy
’liking Boa’d and Commissions.
There are only two women in New
berry county serving on such com
missions. After some discussions of
boards on which women should serve,
the president asked that the Legisla
tive Committee study the proposals
and submit recommendations to the
club.
IRON MAN
You’ll see him along the track in rain and
heat and cold.
His strong hand wields a hammer, holds
the throttle, waves a lantern.
He’s ‘'workm’ on the railroad”... in shops
and yards and roundhouses ... on trains
and in stations and offices.
He’s the “iron man” of railroading—and
without his help, the “iron horse” could
never have hauled its record wartime loads.
Together, the iron horse and the iron man
took on a major share of America’s emer
gency transportation burden.
They’re seeing it through, too. All of the
45,000 men and women of the Southern
Railway System are handling tougher,
heavier jobs than ever before. Handling
them cheerfully—because they know that
their weffk helps speed the day of Victory,
and the coming era of peace and prosperity
for the whole Southland.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM