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i /* 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA 0. F. ARMFIELt) Editor and Publisher Published Every Friday In The Year Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at tht postofBce at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SPECTATOR What I don’t know about South Carolina. ' I thought of developing that theme, but I could not possibly cover all my ignorance of South Carolina in fifteen minutes. I used to think that I knew the State well; then I sat at the feet of T. C. Wil liams and listened to him by the hour, as he told of the hidden wealth of forest, hill and river, with all the contiguous territory. I really knew nothing. And now comes our State Geologist, Dr. Taber, and honors me with a visit. * Like the Apostle Paul, I am debtor to many friends, and perhaps some enemies. Dr. Taber’s delightful visit grew out of something connected with my friend, R. E. Hamrua of Cheraw. “Bob”, as we know him, is interested in everything and every body everywhere, all the time. He is interested in our mineral wealth, and that is Dr. Taber’s specialty. Dr. Taber led me up on the moun tain top and showed me a few glimpses of the new land, if only we would use the great resources we have. Most of us have very little exact information about anything. We are headline readers of the newspapers, and hit-or-miss on everything else. Dr. Taber told me just enough about our clay and granite to whet my ap petite. I hope to see South' Carolina through his eyes. Perhaps, some day, we shall develop real apprecia tion of our granite and use it for public buildings and residences. We really could t boast a lot about South Carolina granite. You know, of course, that we have a town named “Graniteville.” Well why was it called Graniteville? Not because the far-seeing builders of long ago stood like figures of gran ite, in time of strain and disaster; they stood as firm as Stonewall Jackson, but their* monumental poise, amid the winds and waves of trouble, did not confer the name Graniteville;' rather, the granite of the community, was used in building a great cottofi mill. So the place was called Granite ville; and there’s granite there now. Dr. Taber told me of some mineral w*ealth in Kershaw county. 'Well, now, what do you know of the rocks and stones and other items of non- metalic wealth? Recently we have been enthusiastic over the possibility of oil in our State. Great oil corporations have' leased thousands of acres all along the coast and for fifty miles inland. Let’s learn what we have in South Carolina. The United States News, in a dou-' ble page editorial, virtually says that Stalin and Churchill ate all the meat and tossed the bone to Mr. Roosevelt. The editolr makes a strong case. But that was to be expected; Mr. Roosevelt shoots a shell with a thousand shot, but 9B0 go wide of the mark. The fifty fee ble hits are crowed over so loudly and so lustily that the people overt look the 950. That is really the' genius of Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Roose velt is neither a dear thinker nor a capable executive; he is not a con structive leader nor a moral force . he is a superlative actor. In that, is his genius. If he had become a medi cine man he could have made for tunes, for he could sell the same jdope for malignant cancer and in growing toe-nails. What are we fighting for? Of course the plain truth is that we ara fighting to defeat Japan and Ger many. Japan stabbed us in the back, and Germany endorsed it. Once we got into the war by for mal declaration, we tried to imagine that we had had a vision like that of John, and were crusading for a new heaven and a new earth. Howev.-r, the agreement with Mr. Stalin and Mr. Churchill proves that there will be no new heaven or- -new earth, growing out of this war, but that Uncle Sam endorses* all that Rus sia and Britain claim. We thank them for -the great privilege of spending two hundred and fifty bil lions of dollars and a million men, whHe virtually handing the other Nations a Ohristmas present of thirty billion dollars. •, When I hear of the .glorious achievement of Mr. ■Roosevelt, I think of the remark of the: old philosopher who saw the parade^ and bonfires and other feats of laudation for the ambitious young Alcibjades: “Go on, brave boy; your success will be the ruin of us, all.” And,so it is. The innocent frequently pay for the: guilty. That is nothing new; , we are accustomed-.to it. Law-abiding taxpapers pay for police and other officers of the peace; pay for jails and courts, penitentiaries and the like, including the Governor’s con stabulary,. And. we pay in other ways, too. Ebr example, there .is probably enough gasoline, just as there are sufficient tires, perhaps. But one man, call him X, uses his car for all sorts, of jaunts and joy rides; drives a car because he is too' delicate to ride on a crowded bus.'.'So when the careful driver. Mr. V., needs a little extra gasoline, or a Ure, he must .suffer because Mr. X is already riding high, wide and handsome all over the place. Again, Mr. X drives at 41 smart gait; no time-killing for him; he is a busy man, veritably a business man of the first water, assuming that my business friends are addicted to' water—and appreciate its general excellence and Beneficial properties. Mr X does not idle along; ho; he glides along at a good clip; say fif-. •ty to seventy .miles an Hour; and stops with his feet hard on the" brakes. When “Y”, a cautious driv-‘ er, a driver who goes along at thirty five, comes in for a tire, he is pen- alyzed because of his bustling neigh bor, who also asks for tires—and' too frequently gets them. All of us wortde'r how some peo ple get gasoline And tires, when they driYe. arohrid for ' personal conven ience and. pleasure; Much of this is an abuse 'of confidence or a violence of theif word. Any “extra” gaso line is base;d oh'a statement of need; nobody would get it if he told that he wanted gasoline to make a'lot of unnecessary trips or to go bn fish ing excursions. ' •'* ,Our. Government would have had more success, I sometimes think, if it had' called on the people to restrict' the use .of their cars, as a war ser vice, Bit. when' yop set up''a lot Of rules, . with enforcement measures, the people think .it is a game—and set out to outwit the rules. Of course some people go their own way, regardless Of war or rules:' but most peoplq will respond to a call , on their patriotism; and their attitude puts to. shame the more self ish .element. ‘" ..' Where are all the cigarettes ? When we say that the army uses so many,.let us remember that the army is just' those civilians ■ who used to smoke at home. They smoke more cigarettes, probably, but the army is not a new customer. The increased use of, cigarettes does not seem to Government Rebate 2 c\ /w®! n ft By GEORGE S.BENSON ft President of .Harding College' Seqrcy. Arkansas ; ,,laal ' ' EXCESS is a word that needs a new definition with each new use. It would have been a good thing [for this country if the man who first said “excess profit” had used a term that meant exactly some thing. Excess baggage is every- : thing over 150 pounds, of course,, land doctors know precisely what, ■ excess fat or excess sugar is ' when they find it, but what is. .excess profit? Who knows what t ;it is? Our 1940 tax law calls a profit ' “excess” if it is greater in any bne year than the same firm’s, [average annual profits of 1930. [through 1939. War choked out a, few firms.completely, but a mar- jority kept going and. soon found their sales swollen by war condi tions. Costs increased too butt- even so, most of them are mak ing bigger profits annually before taxes now than they did before the war. ' Costa ALONG with increased Shrink costs, born of war, many big corporations enjoy economies also incidental to war.- Costs can usually come down' with greatly increased volume,- and many manufacturers are selling everything they make to the government as fast as they can make it. Some are relieved entirely of sales expense and kin dred expenses such as merchan dising, warehousing, deteriora-. tlon, etc. Vt,* (~, Business establishments have consistently given, liberal dis-. counts to big - volume buyers whose purchases keep plants busy , and unit costs down. Government is always a preferred customer. Pi '•'? concessions to government ^ dc, tments.are certainly nothing new, and firm’s with government coutracts.'do. npt offer' much pro test .agai/ist ‘ a stiff tax on war . profits. Business- men are' able to • ■ .. see sense in it. Laws TECHNICALLY, the ex- Stay- • cess profits taxes that ' corporations: pay -now are not price-concessions because.the firms actually get the money and 1 pay it back later. It .is almost pre cisely a rebate to the govern, ment for large purchases. The only difference As that our excess profits tax is a law. War con tracts are worded to cancel them selves the day war ends,-but the tax -law has to be' repealed by Congress, or remain • . - . | Excess,.in this law. is the un-. fortunate use of ai) ugly word. It I describes profits. .that are tot , necessarily top big. .The effective ' tax-rate, is &5% and if it is not amended to end With the war, American manufacturers will have jto keep oh rebating the gov ernment after the government- quits buying 'Selling and ware-'; housing costs will return. There will be no big-customer savings to divide with anybody. If- manufacturers give, govern ment 85% of any part- of post- J war profits, they will be obliged to hike prices- That will be an , “excess”, really, and the whole j burden, of it will, fall on us aver- i age consumers, ^he only way we [ can ; protect ourselves is by hav- , : ing proper tax legislation created * now, to Ago into effect as soon as' the war ends. / /HE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1945. account entirely for the shortage, be cause men have written from all the theatres of war asking for cigar ettes; so where are the cigaettes? There was a Jime when a man could throw domn a. quarter and' call with confidence for a “pack of cig arettes”, usually specifying, some brand something which he fancied had a special quality that would soothe his weary spirit or lift his mind to the heights of ecstasy. Then he’ed tear a hole and slide a “smoke” out, lighting up promptly and ^blow ing smoke through his nostrils, with one eye squinted. But today, a man walks in a store, gives the clerk a “knowing” look, winks a time or two, eases over to the counter, makes a few- ihystic signs; and the • clerk “slips” him a pack—all on the “q.t.” Then the buyer hurriedly puts jt in his pocket furtively, and “Sidles” out —with a feeling compounded of great wickedness and triujnph—a regular devil-may-care fellow, you know— and all that, a he man, a go-getter, and a man among men. It won’t be long, perhaps, before we have to keep an eye on the .po liceman before we ask for a piece of candy. I recall the days in France, when the children begged for chocolate, eigaretts, and souvenirs, meaning money. Chocolates and cigarettes -paved the way for* us many a time. Perhaps we now must welcome Bra zilian and Peruvian soldiers, hoping that they have unlimited suppHes of chocolate and cigarettes. A little self-denial may do us a lot of good; —who knows ? The impression persists that the cotton farmer is rich. What about this: The prices of the things cotton producers must buy have recently incieased, as shown by the January report of the Bureau of Agricultural Economies. Cotton sold in January for $5.65 a bale less than parity. Parity; you know, is the price level of 1909 to 1914. You don’t know any one working for wages as of that iperiod do you?. The average price of all agricul tural commodities in 1944 was 15 per cent above parity, but cotton was 5 per cent below. Cotton and wheat are the only basic agricultural com modities selling below parity. Suppose the cotton-farmer should go on strike? The Southern farm er feeds and clothes many millions; he is an indispensable factor in the war; as well as in peace; but there is an idda that he should stay poor. It must be for his spiritual health.' LOANS ON REAL ESTATE AUTOMOBILES AND PERSONAL PROPERTY NEWBERRY INSURANCE AND REALTY 00. NED PURCELL, Manager TELEPHONE 197 Exchange Bank Building |^*«3tWlLD.LlFE L'V' SOUTH CAROMNA rk4E!^4i|w>TH PROF FOANKUN 5HERMAN MCAD-cueMSOM COLUCE-MPT or ZOOLOGY When you’re a week-end- guest you notice a lot of little things that make your visit a memorable and pleasant one. It’s those little “ex-, tra touches” that make you re member your hostess as charming and. gracious. I’m sure you’ll find, as 1 did, that for providing that “extra touch" perfumed sachets in the new tuck away packages are wonderful in their appealing fragrance. By the use of one of the lovely floral frag rances; in the drawers of the dress ing table, among the -linens and guest towels, the'guest room will present a delightful “perfume en semble." Among your own personal things, too, tuck -aways, delicately perfumed to suit your taste and personality, add a distinctive touch,. of femininity so essential to gra cious living. My hostess showed me the color fully decorated little packets with gay flowers matching the fra grances of the sachet—rose, carna tion, gardenia, and lilac. They’re ao.attractive that she used the tuck aways as place "cards at the luncheon, choosing fragrances that blended perfectly with 'the' center piece of flowers. It was such a lovely effect that the guests are still talking about it. When tuck aways are Slipped in to gifts, even an inexpensive one carries an expensive air. And imagine my^very pleasant surprise when I discovered my hostess had tucked away several of these dain ty sachets in my luggage! I am told they are available at drug, department and syndicate stores and gift shops. I know 1 .am going to look for some at the first opportunity. COWBIRD The cowbird is of the blackbird family; is blackish in color, goer in flocks, and walks (not hops) when on the ground, but its bill is, shorter and stouter than most blackbirds and it is smaller than they. It is or deserves to be an “out cast’ among our birds for it builds no nest of its own, the females lay their eggs in the nests of other usu ally smaller birds, a nd pays no more attention to them. The eggs are then hatched and the young birds are fed by the foster-parents often at the expense of their own off-spring. We may therefore speak of it as a “parasitic” bird. " It is our only bird which has this habit. At Clemson it arrives in late win ter or very early spring and nearly all have moved on to northward by mid-April. A few have been seen later, leading us to believe that some of them breed here. In his book “Birds of South Carolina” Wayne says that at Charleston it arrives (after breeding) in July and remains through the winter, thus its status differ in the two ends of our state. The male is black with greenish tinge, head and neck coffee-brown. Female is dark brownish gray: The males give out a very poor squeaky apology of a “song.” They are likely to stay about barns and pastures near to cattle hence the name. When on the move a flock may settle in top of some leafless tree, where they look and act like usual blackbirds. In June 1934 at Clemson Mr. G. E. Hudson, class of ’28, saw a female being scolded at by a Carolina wren; and the date suggests that the cow bird had been here through laying season and the association suggests that the wren had been a victim. © Kin* Feature* Syndicate All BicfeUjtoenred. HOW QUINTUPLETS relieve coughing of CHESTCOIDS Whenever the Quintuplets catch cold— their chests, throats ana backs are rubbed with Musterole. So Musterole must be just about the best cold-relief you can buy t i Musterole helps break up local con gestion in upper bronchial tract, makes breathing easier, promptly relieves cough ing and tight, sore, aching chest muscles due to colds. In 8 Strengths: Children's M'ld, Regular, and Extra Strong. MUSteroIF Also at Clemson in July of 1934 the writer saw a well-grown young cow bird being attended and fed by a weary-looking smaller bird of warb ler family. These are our records of probable breeding in western part of the state. [Because of its unusual habits cow bird is a species which you should know if you wish to extend your bird-knowledge beyond the most com mon species. FUL - O - PEP - FEED—Start your chicks off right with Ful-O-Pep- Starting Mash. Give your laying hens'a trial sack of Ful-O-Pep Laying Mash. R. Derrill Smith, Wholesale Grocer, Newberry, S. C. 2t Hot Tip Saves Cold Cash Pretty Cherie Gist, popular Northwestern University coed, never forgets that in wartime fuel conservation is everybody’s busi ness. She’s clipped the family fuel bill to her window shades to re mind herself to save vital fuel by drawing the window shades. Actu ally, Dad’s fuel bill will be smaller by 10% if the family remembers to keep the shades drawn halfway (’•.iring the day and to the sills at night. Cherie has also found that an old fashioned woolen nightie and an extra blanket help beat the fuel shortage during cold winter nights. Buying Poultry Thursday, March 15 10 to 11 A. M. HENS, colored 26c HENS, Leghorn 23c Stags and Old Roosters 15c Ducks and Geese 15c All Turkeys 30c Country HAMS 35c Last schedule until further notice. Greenville Poultry Co. Notice , * In addition to items recently adver tised we have Cotton Seed Meal, Peanut Bran (a substitute for cotton seed hulls,) and good Hay. All sold at reasonable prices. ' Also various early varieties garden seeds. All fresh stocks. Clary Feed & Seed STORE 1013 Caldwell St. Phone 33-J Home Demonstration By ETHEL L. COUNTS Due to labor shortage on the farms of those who have been supplying the maket with sweet potato plants it seems advisable for those who have god potatoes to be them for home use. The following information comes from Clemson College: 1. Discard potatoes with wounds or decayed spots. 2. Dip potatoes 10 minutes' in borox solution (6 lbs. to 30 gals, of water). Prepare this solution by dissolving borax in hot water at the rate of 6 lbs. to 6 gal. of water, then cool by adding to 24 gallons of cold water. 3. Bed the potatoes imme diately after treatment. Do not rinse. 4. The borax solution need not be renewed. When the amopnt of solution becomes too small to cover well the potatoes in the con tainer, more of the solution should be added. 5. A 16-ounce package of borax in 5 gallons of water will treat up to 8 bushels at a cost of about 15 cents. Treating is one step to quality po tatoes. The need for fats in the war ef fort is most urgent. In fact 100 million pounds more is needed in ! 1945 than was collected in 1944. The 1 reports are that collection has ser iously bogged down and it i srequest- 1 ed that we renew our help. As wounded American boys come back from the battle fronts they find American Red Cross workers in all military and naval hospitals ready to help them. This year there will be more need than ever before for Red Cross service in domestic hospitals.-Now, more than ever, your Red Cross is at his side. Because it burns clean with a hot, even flame, you’ll like Sinclair SuperFlame Kerosene for both cooking and heat ing. And its bright, clean burning majees it ideal for many uses on the farm or in the home. SuperFlame’s pure, water-white color tells you that all waste elements that cause odor and smoking are removed by expert refining. Try Sinclair SuperFlame Kerosene, LFT M€ DELIVER TO YOUR FARM S. C. Paysinger, Agent NEWBERRY, S. C.