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1 c OUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1945 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher Puhlisbed Ev-ry Friday In Th° Year Entereei as second-class matter December fi. 1937, at tht postoffiee at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. “O.K. MOTHER, PROFESSOR, PAR SON, ARE YOU INVITING THIRD WAR?” By EX-MARINE JIM LUCAS In Washington Daily News ‘‘Little people” like to believe they don’t make wars. Dictators make wars. Kings make wars. Even presidents and con gresses make wars. But not the “common man”. He merely fights them. And when war comes, he likes to believe he has been “betrayed”. After three years in the Pacific, some of us reject that as rank escap ism. We think you “little people” had a hand in making the war 'we just finished. We fear you may be making another. Gen. Marshall says we must have universal military training. Sc does Admiral King. So do Gen. Vande- grift, Gen. Eisenhower, Gen Mac- Arthur. We’ve served under those men in a global war. We think they are com petent to speak. We’ve followed them into battle on two continents and they haven’t let us down. More over, we’ve seen, out there in the Pacific, what happened to our inade quate pre-Pearl Harbor forces at Guam, Wake, Manila, Pear Harbor. It’s not that we like military life. Most of us don’t. We’ve been scared uncomfortable, unhappy, lonesome. We’ve wanted to come home. But— and this is important—we’ve always taken it for granted someone would take our place. It comes as a .shock that a seg ment of the public—mothers, p' \cn- ers, educators — are campaigning noisily against universal training. We can’t believe they know more about it than our leaders. We aren’t professional soldiers. We are civilians again, and happy to be. But we know we can maintain peace only by remaining strong. Strip our forces and we lose everything we’ve gained. We think we bought peace at too fearful a price for that. Many ex-soldiers, ex-sailors^ ^ex- Marines are frankly worried. We 'say something like this: “You’re doing it to us again. You’ re going to strip us of our basic weapons, our manpower. Then you’ll begin taking away our guns and our ships. In a few years, you’ll stick us, our kid brother or our sons, " on an island with a beanshooter and a prayer. You haven’t learned yet.” We are surprised to hear it ser iously argued that we’ve always been able to train an army AFTER we are attacked and by golly, we can start flat-flooted a nd whip ’em again I wouldn’t for instance, recommend telling it to the boys who were on Wake or Bataan. We can’t seriously believe that an aggressor nation is going to give us a third chance. We’ve played on luck too long. The Spectator The case for mother is stronger than for preacher or teacher. Moth er thinks with her heart. She prefers to believe peace can be kept in some mysterious fashion—after all, she shouldn’t be expected to know how— without her boy leaving home. But mother—bless her heart—is some thing less than a good American when she insists that HER boy come home, even if he doesn’t have enough points, or bullies the Government into scuttling the point system. That’s not idle talk. Congressmen say that the bulk of their mail does not attack demobilization as a policy. Ninety per cent of it, one Congressman es timates, is a plea for special privi lege for specific individuals. Teacher should think with his mind. But isn’t he thinking in terms of fees and enrollments ? The preacher talks doctrine. Their out cry against military training is the more damning. We don’t think it can be justified. Mother, teacher, preacher occupy unique positions in our national life. This is particularly true of mother. Other peoples told us that no nation on earth, certainly no bunch of fight ing men, is more closely tied to the apron string than we are. You are the vocal voters. You are spokesmen for “the little people” who make wars and innocently dis- i Is America turning to Commun- i ism ? There are men so blind as to : see nothing; & there are men so nar-■ . rowly restricted in their outlook ] i that they regard even my question as 1 that of an alarmist, a man seeing spooks, when there are no spooks. What has happened in the United States is that the country is being sold out for votes. Take time off from your business, your golf, your j garden, and the other affairs which! occupy "our minds, and put your mindi to this problem: WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THE UNITED i STATES? I Our trouble began when National politicians deliberately threw tradi tions, rights a nd principles over board because the offenders had vastly more votes than those who were imposed on. The third group, being the general public, had no champion because it was unorganiz ed and ineffective. Tn this day nothing is so grievous a de-eliction as being ineffective. Our National politicians are now afraid to take a stand like men be cause the only stand that counts is the stand that will command votes. A politician’s capital is his vote— getting ability; everything else is secondary. Ponder this as a n American: Why should the Fedearl Government, the Government of the United States, tell anybody that he is entitled to sixty five cents or a dollar an hour? I’m net discussing whether any giv- ! en work is worth fifty cents or a dollar an hour; it isn’t my purpose to discuss that; I don’t know. I don’t know—and you don’t know— whether a merchant should pay his claim all responsibility for them. You hold great power in our Gov ernment. You cannot escape respon sibility the next time, if again you make war by tearing down our de fenses and inviting another attack. We don’t doubt that you can frighten Congress into rejecting the considered opinions of men who led us to victory, Congress scares easi ly. OK, Mother. OK, Professor. OK, Parson. But are you willing to take the consequences if you lead us into World War HI? bookkeeper one hundred dollars a month, or Five hundred. Nor does the Government know anything about it. The Government has fal len into the hands of social workers who are playing with the Nation’s business. Our workers are well or ganized and fully capable of formu lating demands and presenting them. The other side should have the same liberty to reject them. If that pro vokes a strike, then strike. A man has a right to refuse to pay more than he regards as right. Here we have two gsoups of citi zens: the workers and the owner’s The owners—they are stockholders— are usually overlooked by everybody. We seem to think that the disputes affect only the workers and the man- # agement, forgetting the stockholders and the general public. In arguing for what I conceive to be right I am willing that the work ers strike when they please and re gardless of the public comfort or convenience. If we Americans can be brow-beaten and bull-dozed, we ought to suffer, or we should invent means to save ourselves. In conceding the full right of every man to work or strike I do not con cede the right of any man or group of men to prevent other men from working. The right to work is at least as important as the right to strike. Every man who wishes to work should have the full protection of the law, the police and the army and navy. That is the Governfnent’s the peaceful enjoyment of theii chief function —.to protect in rights. Just as soon as the Government takes part in fixing wages and prices the Government will usually seek the favor of the voters, regafdless of principle. The Government will in vent a principle, or strain at one, to put its decision on high ground. All imaginable ingenuity will be used to have it appear that the Government is nobly for the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. Must I carry this to a fair con clusion a nd say that when public matters are decided on the basis of votes we have Communism? A Gov- ernent which does not protect all citizens in the enjoyment of their rights is no government at all. Let your mind work on this: A man has a right to work, with full police protection; and a man has a right to strike, with full police pro tection. Both are exercising their rights as Citizens. But the man who wants to work has no right to compel the others to work; nor has the striker any right to obstruct a man from working. The worker has no right to post pickets around a plant, to drag men in to work; nor ha- a striker any right to post pickets about a plant to keep workers away. The full power of the Community, the full froce of organized society, j should guarantee to every man all his rights, and prevent him from coercingf his fellow man at any time, for any cause, or in any manner. I doubt if any one will challenge that statement of fundamental right. Neither industry nor workers should use the Government. The Govern ment should be the fair, the impar tial force, enforcing peace and crush ing disorder. If that isn’t true, whv have we police force in our towns? Does the policeman run around and get a vote before making an arrest? Let us look at our Government’s march toward Communism and nip it in'the bud. Well, I’m too late for that; it isn’t a bud, but a large flower, and growing like a green bay tree. Leave the workers and industry to thresh out their problems; and let the Government stand by and main tain order. J Without knowing anything about, the merits, isn’t it preposterous for the Government to try to determine whether Industry can absorb a thir ty per cent increase in wages, with out an increase in prices ? Has the Government ever prescribed how much work a man must do for his pay? Is it th business of the Gov ernment to determine the exact pro ductiveness ot each worker ? Cer tainly not; nor is it the business of the Government to determine pro fits. Where :« the rule of competi tion? Haven’t we become the great est industrial nation through com petition? Could any Government regulation do for us what the high ly competitive automobile industry has done independently? How can the Government deter mine what percentage of profit busi ness can stand? Bv statistics’’ Is that a safe rule? If John D. Rock efeller and a street beggar should put their incomes together it might show five million dollars each, when divided by two. You men in business, what do you think of Statistics as a guide? Does every store, does every mill, earn the same percentage of profit? Is it not a fact that some mills lose mon ey, while others are prospering? Can you impose burdens based entirely on general averages over the entire in dustry ? I have no interest in the automo bile industry, except that of a citi zen, so I discuss it without preju dice or favor. We have three out standing motor corporations, world leaders, and perhaps five or six which do a lot of business, but are not in the class with the “Big Three.” But where are the cars and factor ies of 1920? Do you know of any type of business which has been the grave yard of so many companies ? If you will think of the popular cars of 1920 you will find that the gener ation of today never heard of them. Nor do the companies of today show anything like equal percentages of profit. So this talk of what industry- can pay in wages is entirely mislead ing a nd unsound. My farm brethren may read of the enormous prosperity of the farm ers. Statistically it looks as though we were all rolling in wealth; but in my neighborhood, caught in all the rain of July, August and September, there are farmers who have had a worse year than in 1933. The Government has never helped the farmer individually; it tells about holding up prices, but how does it enrich a farmer if he made nothing to sell? I do not think the Government should guarantee an income to the individual farmer; nor should it fix wages for the industrial worker. We should have freedom to contract and liberty to work—all under decent conditions. But the farmer reads that hogs will be worth a ceyt less, while the Government is using its machinery and power to pay indus trial workers more. The farmer’s cotton seed has slumped badly, though butter will advance, and wages will go up. None of this is properly the business of politicians. Strangely enough, this Communis tic urge that dominates America is (Continued on back page) LOST—Large male setter, white, ; answers to name of “Duke”. Strayed from home of Dr. Lide night of 16th. Please notify Dr. Lide or O. W. Coleman, Silverstreet. Reward-3 WANTED—HOGS—will pay $44.40 ceiling price for top hogs. Will buy anything from 100 to 300 lbs Price according to grade. THE NEWBERRY ABATTOIR. REGISTRATION FOR GENERAL ELECTION The supervisor of registration has i been ordered by the Council of the Town of Newberry to open the books of registration September 12. 1945, to remrin open until ten day^s be fore the general election of mayor and aldermen in December. Required for registration, tax re- l ceipts showing payment of all tax- j es for 1942 and County and State ! registration certificate. D. L. NANCE, Supervisor of Registration. BRING US YOUR PECANS —ANY DAY —ANY AMOUNT, —ANY SIZE NUTS. Highest Market Prices R. 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