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1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
CL F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
Published Every Friday In The Year
Entered as second-class matter
December 1937, at tht postoffice
at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
SPECTATOR
Judge John J. Parker has received
a notable tribute. He is a Republi
can. He was nominated for the Su
preme Court by President Hoover,
but was rejected by the Senate, be
cause of politics. He has continued
in his usual manner to serve as pre
siding judge of ^the Federal Circuit
Court of Appeals* coming occasional
ly to Columbia for special hearings.
Recently, several County Bar As
sociations adopted resolutions urging
the appointment of Judge Parker to
the Supreme Court. Our Senators,
both ardent New Dealers, have . en
dorsed the suggestion of elevating
Judge Parker.
Nothing in recent years has been
more salutary than this recognition
of the able jurist whose distinction
rests on his service on the bench.
Senators Maybank and Johnston have
shown the best of judgment as well
as a fine sense of fitness. .
One lesson we should have learned
long ago: that the courts are the
last refuge of a citizen. In the courts
he should find justice—not just
another brand of politics. It is the
American idea that the court will
hear a man without prejudice and
that neither fear nor favor shall
work against him. Nothing is so un-
American as the efforts of judges to
apply political ideas in deciding
cases in court. Nor is there any ex
cuse for a policy of taxation which
penalizes any man or any group.
This country should be neither the
plaything of political bosses nor the
springboard for alien nations.
I know that Judge Parker is a Re
publican; but I know that all who
appear before him forget politics
and find him a great judge, measur
ing justice with an even hand.
Judge Parker is a Judge, not a poli
tician sitting on the bench.
We South Carolinians are fortun
ate in our judiciary. We do not al
ways elect great lawyers to the
bench, but the bench enjoys the re
spect and confidence of the people.
$25.00 a week may not be exces
sive for a man out of work—but!!!
AncT there’s the trouble. Why can’t
we do things right?
Let’s get to the meat of the mat
ter. A man who has received $50 or
$75 a week may need at least $25 a
week to keep the various wolves
from the door. The figure $25 need
not scare us. In truth we might pay
$25 in really deserving cases and
still not spend a total greatly ex
ceeding the total now spent. But
here’s the rub. Our nation has, been
playing at all sorts of schemes, gen
erally for political purposes.. So
let’s go a bit deeper: How much of
the $25 a week has the worker paid?
If he is to receive $25 a week, or
even $15 a week, how much has HE
paid? Not a penny. It isn’t even
tax-revenue appropriated out of the
Treasury, as in the case of the WPA.
No, this unemployment money is
ALL PAID BY THE EMPLOYER!!
And though the employer pays it all
the law itself—and frequently the
administration of it—operates a-
gainst the employer. The way this
money is paid out one might imag
ine that it came from the treasury
of the CIO.
Let’s look at it:
The Federal Government enacted
the law. It charges the employer
three per cent of his pay roll as a
tax to relieve workers when they are
out of work. As the South Carolina
law says—in the preamble—this is to
help those workers who may be out
of work without fault of their own.
Although the preamble announces
that correct attitude, the law itself
swings away from it and makes it
self a sort of coddling. We have a
case in this State of a man who was
discharged for drunkenness while i
driving a truck. He was penalized
as much as the Statute permitted
but still he was given something a
week for eleven weeks. Our South
Carloina law had to be approved by
the Federal Social Security Board.
Although our law permits such tra
vesties a s that, I know that the Di-
rector and the Commissioners try to
administer the Act reasonably, so
far as they may exercise discretion;
but the law itself is not entirely
sound.
Experience with this law has
taught us something; some changes
have been made; others should be
made. Senator Henry Sims intro
duced two bills which would have
been helpful, with the change of one
provision.
Do you understand this unemploy
ment Compensation Act? Starting
at the beginning: Employers of eight
or more persons are “Covered"—
some of them think the “covering”
is akin to sufforcation. Three per
cent of the wages is paid by the em.
ployer to a Federal fund. 2.7 per
cent of thi^ is retained (or credited)
for a trust fund for payment of bene
fits to those out of employment. .3
of 1 per cent is retained by the Fed
eral Government which pays the
State Office force.
Let’s take two cases, an employer
and an employee. The employer,
John Doe & Co., has one hundred
people on the payroll. The total
wages paid by the year might be
$125,000.
The “Company” pays 3 per cent
of the payroll—$3750. If, at the end
of severa lyears, this annual contri
bution is largely in excess of the
amounts paid out against it, the
“merit-rating” applies, and the em
ployer’s tax is reduced. If, however,
payments to his former employees
exceed the accumulated fund, his t?.x
will be increased. If the employer
had to be charged with benefits to
thirty or forty drunken employees,
the employer’s tax might be increas
ed! Now isn’t that a ridiculous, as
well as a grotesquely unjust, ar
rangement? But there is more to
be said. Suppose fifty of these em
ployees quit our John Doe & Co. and
ian after heavy war wages in a
Government plant, which is not "cov
ered”, which does not pay the tax.
They may later claim unemploy
ment benefits against the employer
whom they deserted!!!
Does that sound like American
justice? Would that be even sound
in law of Russia? No, because there
are no such benefits in Russia. If
a man leaves, quits cold, a covered
employer and works for a shop—per
haps competitor—with only seven
employees, he can claim benefits for
unemployment and have them charg
ed against the rovered employer
whom he qhit, even though the to-
tiii may increase that covered em
ployer’s tax!!
The object of the Federal Govern
ment is not to do justice as between
man and man, but to coddle one man
at the expense of another. That is
the danger of $25 a week for 20
weeks. If strickly limited to cases of
men who are' out of work, without
fault; men who stand ready to work,
that would not be excessive, provi
ded the worker had usually earned
more than $25 a week. But the law
as </e have it; as it must be, to re
ceive Federal approval, would make
possible a raid on the Treasury and
become a veritable political slush
Pinafore Saves
Pennies For Bond
Wear a crisp pinafore. This ruf
fled beauty is of white cotton pique,
with a generous sprinkling of purple
pansies. Look in your local stores
for such patterns. Remember, pen
nies saved by stitching help buy War
Bonds. U. S. Treasury Department
We had a higher standard of of
ficial conduct when the Federal Gov
ernment concerned itself primarily
with foreign affairs and did not
prostitute the Inter State Commerce
clause to play politics. The States
should vigorously assert their sov
ereign powers. The States may
have to challenge the Federal Gov
ernment not only in court but in de
termined assertion of their clearly
reserved Constitutional privilege. The
outgrowth of the Federal policy has
been to make possible alliances with
big city bosses and to govern this
nation by the least constructive ele
ments of American citizenship. That
is too nice and delicate. What I mean
to say is that our National politi
cians now work hand-in-glove with
city bosses, and that this nation is
today threatened by Sidney Hillman
and his crowd on one side, and city
bosses and their gangs on the other.
In the last National election they
worked together.
This Nation has not gone to the
bow-wows—not yet; but sane and
sound men in Congress need the en
couragement and support of sane and
sound people at home. So does Pres
ident Truman need to know that sen
sible, patriotic people expect sound
government, not political fence strad
dling.
I think Mr. Truman has been sound
as a rule, but the political season is
open. If he sees nobedy but the
pressure groups, he will think they
are America—and go along with
them. Let’s make unselfish citizen
ship effective by fighting.
But let’s take the worker who
seeks a benefit: He was employed
by John Doe and Co. and was “laid
off” when work slackened. He drew
$80 a week as a painter, with over
time. By the next pay day he had
little left, except what had been de.
ducted for war bonds and Old age
ipension. It came like a flood and
it flowed out like a mountain torrent.
Nothing left. Should he not have
set aside something ? Most people
don’t know how to do that. Besides,
were not told to spend ourselves
into prosperity? He spent, but where
is his prosperity? This, according to
law, is a clearly deserving case. True
he spent his easy money, but he was
laid off. If all cases were just like
this, we should overlook the inequity
of charging his former employer
with his support, but what of all the
efforts and quirks by which society
in general, and the ex-employer in
particular are held up and made to
support a man whose conduct and
attitude deserve reprobation? It is
because of this type—all too common
—that really deserving cases some
times are not adequately cared for.
We cannot stabilize wages on a
falling price market. Wages are the
largest item in the cost of produc
tion; nor can we fix unemployment
benefits inflexibly over long periods,
for the obvious reason that they
should bear some relation to wages.
Furthermore, we must not allow any
system of benefits to become a fraud.
Our first step must be careful ad
ministration. We have that, for the
most part, in South Carolina; and the
next step should be to take out of the
law the several provisions which
threaten the integrity of the trust
fund through payments to wholly un
deserving applicants.
MEMORIAL SERVICES AT
ST. PHILIP’S CHURCH
Memorial Services will be held
Sunday, Sept. 30, 11:00 a. m. at
St. Philip’s Lutheran Church, for
Thomas E. Folk, who* lost his life
on a bomb mission over the conti
nental Europe on May 11, 1944.
Tom, as he was well known by his
young friends, was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Luther H. Folk of New
berry, S. C.
In infancy he was baptized and
in early childhood confirmed in St.
Philip’s Lutheran church of which
he was a faithful member.
He was born Nov. 21, 1922 near
Newberry, S. C. and attended Mt.
Bethel-Garmany Grammar school,
completing his education at New
berry High school in 1941. Imme
diately following his graduation he
was employed by Thomas & How
ard Wholesale Co. of Newberry.
Prior to his induction in the ser
vice in February 1943, he was em
ployed by White Electrical Con-
stru -ion Co.
After entering the service he re
ceived his basic training at Keisler
Field, Miss. Completed Gunnery
school at Lowery Field, Colo., and
received further instruction with
the Air Corps at Kingman Ariz.
He was sent to England in Janu
ary 1944 and was as a waist gunner
on a B-17 Flying Fortress.
He is survived by his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Luther H. Folk, four sis
ters and one brother, who has re
cently received his discharge from
the service.
MRS. MAGGIE FRANKLIN
Mrs. Maggie Lee Lathrop Frank
lin, 35, died Saturday night at her
home on Davis street following an
illness of eight months. She was a
daughter of R. L. Lathrop and Mrs.
Ida Wertz Lathrop and was born and
reared and spent all of her life in
Newberry. She was a devated and
faithful i member of ONeal Metho
dist church.
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon at 4 o’clock from
O’Neal Methodist church with Rev.
N. K. Polk in charge, assisted by
Rev. H. W. Long Rev. J. E. Roof,
Dr. R. A. Goodman and Rev. V. L.
Fulmer. Interment followed in Rqse-
mont cemetery.
She is survived by her husband,
Zach Franklin; one daughter, Miss
Sadie Mae Franklin; her parents,
and the following brothers and sis
ters, Cpl Joe W. and Pvt. Henry
E. Lathrop, Mrs. M. L. Kingsmore
and Miss Dorothy Lathrop.
HOME COMING SUNDAY AT
MOUNT OLIVET
The members of Mount Olivet
Lutheran church, Prosperity, have
everything in readiness for their
homecoming celebration Sunday.
Rev. J. B. Harman of Newberry will!
preach the morning sermon at 11
o’clock. Mr. R. C. Hunter and others
will make addresses in the after
noon. The offerings during the day
will be used to make improvements
on the church building. This home
coming occasion will bring together a
large gathering of friends and for
mer members. Everybody is invited
to attend.
Sitting with some businessmen in
Chicago recently, I was interested to
hear that there is a son of Columbia,
South Carolina, who is such an exam
ple of energy and resourlefulness,
that my Chicago friends find him
notable, notable, mark you, even in
Chicago. I don’t know this South
Carolinian, not even his name, but
I’m told he has rented several idle
tracts of land and made excellent
crops. He seems to have demon
strated in Chicago the chivalrous
rash long associated with the South
ern cavalrymen, but not so common
ly associated with Southerners in
economic endeavor.
MRS. BROWNING IN HOSPITAL
The friends of Mrs. Nell Browning
will be sorry to learn that she is a
patient in the Providence hospital,
Columbia, where she was carried last
Thursday for treatment.
DRAYTON RUTHERFORD CHAP
TER MEETS TUESDAY P. M.
The Draytcn Rutherford Chapter
of the U. D. C. will meet at the home
of Mrs. Steve C. Griffith on Main
street, Tuesday afternoon, at 4
o’clock, with Mrs. J. E. Wiseman as
sociate hostess. ]
THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1943
PREPARED BY
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR ANIMAL HEALTH
MASTITIS TAKES 25%
MILK OUTPUT TOLL
It Is estimated that mastitis or
udder garget is costing dairy farmers
*100,000.000 yearly and in some areas
nearly 25% of dairy herds are af
fected by it
A comon cause of mastitis is a
chain-like germ (Streptococus *g»-
lactiae) which may lie hidden in the
udders of cows for months, or even
years. Then, suddenly, it multiplies
rapidly and produces irreparable dam
age to the delicate lining membranes
of the cow’s udder.
The disease may be either acute,
with high fever and subsequent death,
or a chronic, slow-going tissue change
that ruins the cow’s usefulness. Not
all mastitis is caused by this par
ticular “strep” germ. Sometimes ser
ious outbreaks are due to "staph-type”
germs — the variety responsible for
boils and abcesses.
Fortunately, veterinarians have de
veloped accurate methods for picking
out the cows which harbor the offend
ing germs. Special chemical solutions
have also been perfected which will
free most cows from infection when
Introduced into the udder vault by l
special injection method. Precaution!
ary measures include disposal of uni
treatable cows, milking infected cowl
Advanced mastitis.
last, sterilization of milking machine)
and eups, so-called strip-cup testing
and cow stable hygiene.
Combatting mastitis will pay tin
farmer real dividends, because gar
get-free herds produce as much at
20 percent more milk than disease!
herds.
HARVEY
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Carpenter’s
RES U. S FAT OFF
Taking Orders For
New Cars
We are taking orders now for new
rs. If you have a car to trade in
)u will be in line for a new car at
l early date.
We can allow you a better trade
)w on your used car. We are in
;ed of some good clean cars. Come
in to see us.
HAYES MOTOR CO.
Pontiac 6 and 8 Cadillac GMC Trucks
A LIBERTY SHIP has beer named for James G. Squires of Everett,
Mass., second cook on the torpedoed S. S. Malantic, and a Mer
chant Marine Distinguished Service Medal awarded posthumously. Squires
clung to a rope thrown to the life boat in which he, the ship’s master and
nine other crewmen floated on rough seas until the other ten were safe on a
British rescue craft after the torpedoing. Then he lapsed into unconscious
ness and was swept away. Investment in Victory Bonds to support living
heroes is a testimonial, too, to such men.
HELP WANTED
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319 Caldwell St. Newberry, S. C.
Arm; Trucks
For Sale
I have on band a few more ARMY
TRUCKS, 1941 model, four wheel
drive, and in excellent condition.
Fine for farm work and other heavy
hauling, as well as for passengers.
These Trucks are on the yards at
itiy place of business. Come out
and get a bargain.
CLARK
Wrecking Co.