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FHE NEWBERRY SUN 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA O. P. ARMPIELD Editor and Publisher Pabiiahed 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 ■Maybe the whole world’s gone wrong eh? Now comes Tom Linder, Commissioner of Agriculture of Geor gia, with a blast at the O. P. A. be cause of the ceiling prices on pupl- wood. Mr. Linder says that the ceil ing on pine is $7.60 a cord in Ala bama, Florida, Georgia, South Caro lina, Tennessee and Louisiana, but $13.25 a cord in Vermont and New Hampshire. Says Mr. Linder, “be cause the pines grew in the South, they are penalyzed $5.65 a cord. If a cord of pine wood is worth $13.25 in New Hampshire, there is no reas on why it should not be worth $13.25 in the Southern States”. Just off hand, I suppose the differential is the freight. But we consume a lot of pulpwood in the South, so the dif ference cannot be properly ascribed to the freight rate. Major W. D. Workman, Ji.. who covers the state for the News and Courier, tells of an interesting inci- v>uuiic;i. bCAis va mi mi/cicasing mw- - , , , - . , 11 dent in the state senate. As is gen- « ” as ?_ r 2 f, ^i e ’.u e - Ve L. 1 " l . d0 ^L S ren, but should like to consider the point as a Constitutional question. If this expiring General Assembly may fill positions which become va cant next December, it may fill those which become vacant in January, February or June. It may even fill positions which become vacant in December 1947, for the Constitution prescribes that a member of the General Assembly begins his term on the Monday following the General Election in which he was elected. The new General Assembly will be elect ed on the second Tuesday in Novem ber, 1946, so the new Legislature will be the Constitutional legislative authority beginning the third Mon day in Novem!>er, 1946. Obviously a vacancy occuning after Monday, the eighteenth of November should be filled by the General Ahsembly in office at that time. That will be the NEW General Assembly, not the one now in session. The Constitution does not say in explicit language all that I’ve said, but the implications must be clear; otherwise, why shouldn’t one Legis lature extend its authority far into the future in choosing officers? If the point raised is soundly conceived —and it appears to be—the practice of the Legislature will not (or should not) suffice to override the Consti tution. We South Carolinians should re member the vigorous opposition of our Senators and Representatives in Congress to the FEPC bill. I asked in all seriousness last week how a Southerner can support Mr. Truman, while thinking harshly of Abraham Lincoln. So far as the slavery issue is concerned, we White people of to day are glad it is a thing of the past. erally known, the term of Judge P. H. Stoll expires in December., The members of the House (and half the Senate) go out of office in Novem ber. In legal effect a new, entirely new. Legislature will be in office fol lowing the General Election in Nov ember. This Legislature is prepar ing to elect a suiccessor to Judge Stoll. It means that the expiring Legislature plans to fill a position which will not be vacant during its term of office. This point was rais ed in the Senate by Senator Baskins of Lee and Senator Mays of Green wood Senator George Warren of Hampton, who was presiding, ruled against the point of the two sena tors. Senator Warren, a good lawyer and a senator of clear mind and poise, made an excellent statement of his reasoning against the point raised by tfie two senators But the question persists: is such an election contrary to the Constitution? I am an admirer of Senator War- and cents, and held the South down through inefficiency. Even so we insist that it was not the concern of the National Government and was a condition fully disleussed and agreed on in the drawing up of the Consti tution. The attitude of the North in doing violence to the Constitu tion over the Negro issue would probably have been exactly the course of action of the South if the FEPC were adopted. The FEPC is not rooted in the Constitution; it is a bit of Commun ism which Mr. Roosevelt took from the C. I. 0. and palmed it off on a Nation at war, by a wholly illegal order. Strangely enough, the South has been very quiet about it. The only fight worth the name has been made by Southern men in Congress and a few, very few, newspapers. We Southerners, except for the men in Congress a nd the few newspapers, seem to have lost our punch. I have wondered why no Southern Governor rallied the South in opposi tion; why no Southern legislature issued a clarion call to other legisla tures, to declare vigorously that the South would not recognize such a law a s the FEPC. Have we Southerners been bought by favors? Or are we afraid to speak and act lest we lose a handout? Are we acting as worthy inheritors of a great past, and as trustees for the peace, order and social order of Dixie? I wonder. It looks as though we. once half-starved South erners are ready to quench our spirits for the old mess of pottage. A citizen of distinction who has tried to serve his State, wrote to me, asking if Canada is a good place to move to. South Carolinh is worth living in, very much so, but we need a vigilance Committee, or something of the sort, a few men, just a few men, to stand alert all the time for the good of the State. But they shouldn’t Have any strings tied to them, politically, socially, financially, or otherwise. A Gideon’s Army for the public good. We need some new blood in our public life. Without disparaging any others, I think Colonel Thomas H. Pope of Newberry a promising figure. I have no reference to any particular office, but, in general, the public life of the State needs fresh, new blood, new ideas, new view points. Is rayon superior to cotton? The National Cotton Council quotes a statement from the head of General Tire and Rubber company, saying that rayon is not superior to cotton in passenger tires. “It (ray on) is so thin (in passenger tires) that there is little protection against puncures; whereas the cotton fabric, with its greater thickness, is insur ance against every stone or nail on the road going through to puncture the inner tube”. The Curtis Publish ing company promised to guard against certain advertisements which the Cotton Council protested as mis leading. CONNELLY-MORRIS Mr. and Mrs. *J. B. Connelly of O’Neal street announce the marriage of their daughter, Ruby Inez, to Richard Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Morris also of Newberry, which took place on Sunday, February 10, in Prosperity at the residence of the Rev. I. O. Bledsoe who performed the ceremony. The bride is the younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Connelly. She at tended the Newberry city schools. The bride looked lovely in her wed ding dress of an advanced spring model of aqua blue gabardine with which she wore black accessories. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Berry, brother- in-law and sister of the groom were the only witnesses at the ceremony. For the present, the young couple are making their home in Spartan burg where Mr. Morris is connected with radio station WSPA. I'tnwn, KBBEUABT 22, 1946 NOTICE OF DELINQUENT TAX SALES FOR PERSONAL PROPERTY May Gen- Capt. Julian William White and son, Robert White and friend, Miss Mary White of Greenwood, J. W. White, recently discharged from the Navy, his wife and their daughter, Patricia, of Hynennis, were recent guests in the home of Mrs. J. W. White on Caldwell street. The inflation fear, which has wor ried the President, seems to be some thing which grows by the roadside, or dangles from the skies. Very little is done to prevent it, though furrow ed brows and fluent tongues warn us about it. The Government itself is, by far, the worst'offender. It offends by its own fabulous spending, as well as by its twists and turns of policy Just what is the Government doing to putjts house in order? Let me quote from a h excellent autohrity: “Back m the early 1930’s, when President "Roosevelt came into office, the Federal Government had about a 4 B. P. Goodrich Silvertown Tires The Ace of Spades is tops in cards — a B. F. Goodrich Silvertown is tops in tires, for this tire has three extra years of synthetic experience behind it—and has long since proved its worth by rolling up billions of miles on the cars of essential drivers. 4 B. F. Goodrich TUBES Don’t gamble on a weak, patched, stretched pre-war tube. A new B. F. Goodrich tube—in time—may save a tire! 6:00-16 *152° 6:00-16 *3*5 PLUS TAX i DURECAP DURECAP is your "ace in the hole” for smooth tires. It means new, thick treads fortified with Duram'n, the B. F. Goodrich "rubber vitamin” that combats heat deterioration, makes tread rubber tougher—helps it wear longer. Don’t say "Recap” -say. DURECAP It costs no more. Only . . . 6:00-16 6 7 ° NEW TUBES and DURZCAPPING RATION FREE! NEWBERRY RECAPPING CO. » » I I half million civilian employes on the payroll, whose salaries YOU had to pay. In the years that followed, that figure was increased consistent ly every year without fail until it reached an even million in June 1940. The war in Europe had begun by that time and we were beginning our own national defense program; ad ditional emergency employes obvious ly were necessary. With our entrance into the war, all sorts of government war agencies had to be whipped into being. We had to have a War Pro duction Board, and OPA, an Office of Civilian Defense, an Office of De fense Transportation, and heaven knows how many other bureaus and agencies, to handle the emergencies of war production and distribution. We inaugurated fabuously large pur chasing programs for the Army and Navy, to buy munitions, ships, air planes, clothes, food, and everything else that the Army and Navy needed —as well as our allies. These things required thousands upon thousands of Civilian workers. So, at the very top peak of wartime operation, with all of those agencies and bureaus go ing full blast, the Government pay roll reached^ the staggering all-time high of 3,660,000 full-time civilian employes. Remember that figure, because it is important in the light of current events. Last August came victory over Japan and the whole war pro gram stopped. There was no need for the tremendous buying program, with all the paper work and records and negotiations involved. The office of War Information was abolished, so the Office of Censorship, so the Of fice of Inter-American Affairs, so the Foreign Economic Administra tion, so the vast War Production Board, so the War Labor Board, so the War Food Administration, so the War Manpower Commission, so the Office of Defense Transportation, so the gigantic Lend-Lease Administra tion and many others. In fact, the entire army of civilian Government employes that was re quired to watch and regulate almost every move you 'made, during the course of every day—all of the food you ate, and the people who produced i i j ^ that food, and the clothes you wore, j cow and one cook stove, an wdhere who worked, and how ■ - - - many hours he worked, and what he was paid per hour—all of these people no longer were needed and the agencies they manned folded up. That sounds very gratifying—to have the Federal payroll, which YOU must pay for, relieved of all of these millions of workers. It’s a great re lief. Well, is It? Let’s see! Remember the all-time peak for civilian Government employes was 3,650,000. The figues just made pub lic by the Byrd committee show that with all of these eliminated bureaus, agencies, functions, duties, policing, investigations, and activities in gen eral—with all of the things that are no longer necessary, with all of the employes "that are no longer requir ed for these wartime operations, the number of civilian employes on the Federal Government payroll has bee n pulled down only from 3,650,000 to 3,215,000. And the Byrd report shows that from last October to last November the number of civilian employes on the payroll of the Government, out side of the War and Navy Depart ments themselves, actually increas'd. The Reconstruction Finance Corpora, tion, for example, showed an increase of 10,000 during that month alone. In August, when the war ended, the La bor Department had 6,346 employes; today it has 34,596. In August, the State Department had .11,188 em ployes; today it has 18,943. This rising trend is projected into fiscal ’47 by the President’s budget. Here, for instance, are proposed in creases in Federal employes (a few of many): White House regular em ployes to 225 from 52; Budget Bureau to 825 from 492; Civil Service Com mission to 2,244 from 1,670; FCC to 1,006 from 606; Coast and Geodetic Survey to 1,057 from 693; Public Health Service to 984 from 667; Bureau of Mines to 489 from 247; Bureau of Labor Statistics to 1,548 from 509. And so it goes. In agency after agency, Mr. Truman has asked Con gress for extra funds to create jobs and increase peacetime spending. Those interested in perpetuating pur Federal bureaucracy are wearing broad smiles and gleeful expressions.” That is an eye opener, isn’t it? Although one dislikes to suggest that America should fail to respond to urgent need throughout the world, one may wonder whether we are ex ceeding our ability. We must supply millions of tons of food and clothing and billions of dollars in money, too. Is it likely that these requests are being sharply scrutinized ? Probably not! We know, as a practical habit, that people who are invited and en couraged to submit a list of needs, The State of South Carolina, County of Newberry. To All Whom These Presents Concern: Whereas, by an Act of the eral Assembly of the State of South Carolina, entitled, “An Act in Rela tion to Forfeited Lands, Delinquent Lands and Collection of Taxes,” ap proved December 24, 1887 and acts amendatory thereof, the Treasurer of Newberry County of the aforesaid state, has in compliance therewith, issued in the name of the State, tax executions against defaulting tax payers of the aforesaid county and state as herein below listed and has directed T. L. Hill as Tax Collector of Newberry County, or his lawful deputy, to levy the same by distress and sale of so much of defaulting taxpayer’s personal property to satis fy the taxes of each defaulter. Whereas, it is further provided by the said Act, and amendatory Acts that under and by virtue of the said tax executions, the Tax Collector of Newberry County shall seize and take possession of so much of the defaulting taxpayer’s personal prop erty to raise a sum of money suffi cient to cover delinquent taxes of taxpayers hereinafter listed plus the charges thereon. Having complied with these terms, the Tax Collector will, after advertisement, sell to the highes bidder for cash, the same property before the Court House door of the aforesaid County oh a regular salesday in March next, (same being March 4, 1946), within the usual hours for public sales. After completing these sales, the Tax Collector will give to the purchaser (upon his complying with terms of the sale) a receipt for the purchase mohey. All properties levied upon and sold at this sale will be sold as the prop erty assessed in the name of persons hereinafter listed. Personal property, consisting of one 1936 Chevrolet, in School District number 10S, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed and levied upon in the name of L. R. Timmer man. Personal property, Consisting of two mules, one cow and one wagon, one cook stove, and a bed, in School District number 6, in County and Seate aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of Maitoel- lus Rodgers, Personal property, consisting of one 1939 Ford truck, COE, M 67307, S-B 2188 in School District number 9, in the County and State afore said, asssssed to and levied upon in the name of J. Pat Livingston. Personal property, consisting of one cook stove, one bed and dresser in School District unmber 9, ’ in County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of Brooks Cannon. Personal property, consisting of one cow, ar.d Chevrolet car, in Schobl District number 9, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and lev ied upon in the name of Clarence Vinson. Personal (property, consisting of one cow, one cook stove and bed, in one cow. one cook stove and bed, in School District number 10, in the County and State aforesaid, assess ed to and levied upon in the name cf Pink Moon. Personal property, consisting of ! cook stove, in School District number 10, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of M. P. Spearman. Personal property, consisting of 1935 Chevrolet car, in School Dist rict number 15, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of Alice Wise. Personal property, consisting" of one cow, one Ford pick-up, in School District number 15, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of David Boyd Personal property, consisting of one cook stove, and radio and one bed, in School District number 19, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of Lee Green. Personal property, consisting of one Model-A Ford, in School District number 22, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of George Sims. Personal property, consisting of one cook stove, one bed, in School District number 22, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of Bennie Harmon Personal property, consisting of one cook stove, one bed and dresser, in School District number 22, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of Leroy Boozer. Personal property, consisting of one cook stove and one bed, in School District number 22, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed and levied upon in the name of Manuel Edwards. Personal property, consisting of one heater, one bed, and one dresser, in School District number 26, in the County and State aforesaid, assess ed to and levied upon in the name of H. H. Germany. Personal property, consisting of two hogs, one cook stove, bed and dresser, in School District number 26, in the County and State afore said, assessed to and levied upon in the name of John Atwood. Personal property, consisting of one cook stove and one bed, in School District number 26, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of Jim seldom act economically. We can easily overdo our generosity if we fail to study in detail what is needed, not what is submitted. We Americans are not giving what we ourselves produce (that would be clear enough) but we are mortgaging production for many years. We are giving a lien on a crop that hasn’t been planted—a bad idea, as South Carolina one decided. Holly. Personal property, consisting of one 1938 Plymouth car and one mule, in School District number 26, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of H. C. Cromer. Personal property, consisting of one 1929 Chevrolet car, in School District number 30, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of Eudie Summer. Personal property, consisting of 1939 Hudson, in School District num ber 33, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of G. F. Wicker. Personal property, consisting of one 1935 Ford, in School District number 39, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of Abbie Mae Sum mer. Personal property, consisting of one cow, one cook stove, and one bed, in School District number 40, in the County and State aforesaid, assess ed to and levied upon in the name of Fred Burton. Personal property, consisting of one mule and one cow, in School District number 44. In the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of George Scott. Personal property, consisting of one mule and one cow and one auto mobile, in School District number 68, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in the name of George Scott. Personal property, consisting df one mule and one cow and one auto mobile in School District number 68, in the County and State aforesaid, assessed to and levied upon in thu name of Gus Thomas. TABOR L. HILL, Delinquent Tax Collector. Mr. Farmer We advise you to take care of your fertilizer requirements at once before the rush starts. We have on hand a supply of that good SCOCO FERTILIZER and our prices are right. 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