The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, May 03, 1946, Image 4
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FRIDAY. MAY 3,194#
1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
O. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
Published 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.
Quiet Session Expected
In State Convention
By SPECTATOR
grants. Then comes the next story
proclaiming that the FWA has
granted $50,000 here, $75,000 there,
and $150,000 elsewhere. Well, what
is the F. W. A.? From what
source comes this money? What
rules govern the giving away of
public money—taxpayers’ money?
The Federal Works Authority—-or
is it an Agency or Administration?
Why did it not take the ridiculous
title of facility, as the Veterans’
hospital calls itself?—a facility?
Why should the Government still
maintain this Federal Works Auth
ority? When the WPA died how
did this survive?
The WPA is the small Federal
Santa Claus and, like Santa Claus,
seems to be answerable to no pow
er. Why have such a bureau; and
why give away the peoples’ money?
We used to think that equality be
fore the law was a prime principle
of democracy But the New Deal
was not a democracy; it was, at its
best, a benevolent despotism, flav
ored with paternalism. It was never
so happy a s when bestowing jobs or
favors on friends. But that isn’t
a democracy by any means. It is
delightful to live within the sacred
precints of a despotism and to enjoy
the radiance of its smile; it isn’t
so pleasant on the outside, though
there are still men left who will not
bow the knee, or sell their man
hood for a mess of pottage. By the
way, I’ve read recently the word
"porridge” instead of “pottage”.
The King James version of the
Bible (the one in common disuse)
tells us that Esau sold his birth
right for Jacob’s beguiling “pot
tage”. Porridge is something which
the Noble Scots have given to the
world. Though porridge may ac
count for the greatness of the Scots,
one may wonder whether Esau
would have surrendered his inherit-
What is the F. W. A.? Almost
every day the papers carry a story
about appeals to the F. W. A. for
ance for a bowl of Scotia’s broth.
Let the scholars and clergy debate
the question.
What type of democracy is it that
gives away money—to one man one
talent, to another two and to a third
five talents ? That isn’t democracy
that is the Infinite Wisdom of Je
hovah—which the New Dealers can
hardly claim.
Can it be that our Government in
its paternalism would adopt the
course of the Biblical prophet who
told his servants to “Set on the
great pot, and seethe pottage for the
sons of the prophets”? Well, in any
case, people are down and out when
they seek the pottage. That can
not be said, of course, for porridge.
Last resort and defeat are not
associated with Scotland’s nourish
ing dish, but greatness and faith.
At any rate, why this Federal
Works Agency? How shall we ever
balance the National budget while
playing Santa Claus at home and
abroad.
The State Democratic Convention
will meet in Columbia May 15. The
delegates from all the counties will
be there. So far as appears on
the surface at this moment, it may
be quiet a session, doing nothing.
Obviously, it’s better to do nothing
than to do the wrong thing; we
hardly expect it to do anything
constructively useful. Quite a num
ber of men will surrender or forget
every Southern tradition and join
in loud applause for Mr. Truman
and the late Mr. Roosevelt. In do
ing so, they applaud and support
Mr. Wallace, Mr. Hannegan, Mrs.
Roosevelt, the FEPC, the anti-poll
tax campaign, the CIO, tht PAC,
the whole communist group They
like to deceive themselves; they see
the evil, but they rise above it, per
haps. Not a man in the Convention
can tell you what a Democrat is, or
what the difference is between a
Truman—Roosevelt Democrat a nd a
Hoover Republican, unless he recalls
that Mr. Hoover did not try to stir
up the race issue.
We know, all of us know—what
a Democrat is supposed to be; we
know, every man of us, what our
fathers taught us, but we have held
to the label, while repudiating the
teachings of our fathers, and dis
honoring their tradition.
But there are some men who be
long to the salt of the earth; and,
like that salt, have not lost the sav
or. Let me remind you: in 1944 the
label—Democrats, the South Caro
lina New Dealers, beat the bushes
and sounded the tocsins of war for
Mr. Roosevelt. He was the incom
parable war-leader, as he was the
unapproached ruler in peace. He was
anything and everything necessary
to keep those brethren either in pow
er or in hope. Pearl Harbor and
other disasters were glossed over.
The great warrior won because
countless valiant men and uncount
ed billions overwhelmed the enemy.
Of course the continued presence of
troops in fifty theatres abroad and
the O. P. A .at home, make you
wonder what we have won. We for
get the agreements at Yalta and
the draft of your boys when we
celebrate the glorious leadership
that gave everything away. But
although persuasion in full meas
ure succeeded in bringing out great
numbers to register, the truth
stares us in the face: one hundred
and fifty thousand of those register
ed voters did not vote. In other
words, the vote for Mr. Roosevelt
was only equal to about a third of
the voters who had registered—ac
tually about 30 per cent! Let the
label—Democrats take that to heart.
The lesson is clear; the New Deal is
a minority in South Carolina, even
when its Satellites beg and plead
with the voters while controlling
the machinery and the jobs. Yes,
they registered; some quailed be
fore political blackmailers and vot
ed New Deal under duress; but a
hundred and fifty thousand, in deep
disgust, did not go to the polls at
all! That is something to ponder.
Mr. Truman is the driving force
that seeks to compel you to open
your club rolls to negroes! Mr. Tru
man is the authority that would
prosecute you if you exclude them!
Mr. Truman is the Great Leader who
fights to hold down the farmer! And
in the face of it all, let’s wait and
hear the orators proclaim the great
achievements. Our Senators and
Representatives have stood for old-
time Democracy, but they had to
fight the Trumans, Wallaces, Han-
negins, Roosevelts, the C. I. ^ , the
F. E. P. C., the O. P. A.—and a
hundred other iniquities.
The real Democratic Party is in
your heart, is strong and vigorous
in the mind of us people down
South; "it really has no connection
with the Communst—Negro group
which Mr. Truman is hoping to keep
him in office.
Let’s be independent Democrats
and fight against the political ter
mites that are eating at the foun
dations.
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Our friends who are engaged in
teaching—and many others—tell us
that the need of the t^y is educa
tion. Oa course they are not think
ing of education, ‘but of academic or
scholastic instruction—and that of
the sort which is offered by our
schools. One might agree that the
world needs more education, the
development of the individual to the
fullness of his thinking powers, with
a corresponding growth of moral
and spiritual perception and applica
tion.
Intellectual awakening, mental
acuteness, even solid scholastic at
tainments, a re not a panacea for the
ills which afflict us. If facility in
mathematics or fluency of speech is
an essential of a new order, we
might make more progress by adopt
ing mechanical processes.
Most of our school work, even of
University grade, is little better
than a one-sided, unbalanced stimu
lation of the mind.
If the so-called training of our
institutions were the cure for what
perplexes us, Germany should today
lead the world; and this great
country, with its thousands, of Uni
versities and colleges, its counted
high schools should have no prob
lems of importance, except those of
individual salvation in a new life.
When we hear the O. P. A. orators,
and even the President, we wonder
what this nation has been teaching,
even confining ourselves to purely
mental aspects of the question.
When hundreds of men who have at
tended colleges and universities tell
us such manifest absurdities we
wonder whether our nation has sunk
to the level of parrots, or v/hether
men deliberately stultify themselves
for the sake of propaganda.
Isn’t it clear to everyone that if
inflation be the result of more mon
ey than goods, then any increase
of spending promotes inflation. At
the very bottom of it all, an increase
in the volume of money must cer
tainly increase the demand for
goods, and thereby raise the price.
The only way to avoid inflation is by
increasing the goods which people
want. If money increases faster
than goods, the demand for the
goods will raise the price. Our gov
ernment is the Chief Offender. It is
preaching against inflation, while
always raising wages. Then it puts
all manner of stumbling blocks in
the way of production.
As soon as people can get what
they want, they will not want it so
badly, nor pay so much for it. If
a hundred watermelons come to a
city in July the price will be ex
cessive, but if fifty thousand melons
come, you can buy a melon at your
own price. Naturally I’m thinking
of a small city. When I was a boy
in Charleston I could buy bananas
Mrs. W. E. Reeves
Funeral services for Mrs. W. E.
Reeves, 41, who died in the Char
lotte Memorial Hospital, Charlotte,
N. C., early Monday morning was
held in Jesup, Ga., Wednesday after
noon at 3:30 from the Wayne Fun
eral Home where the body remained
until time of the services.
She was ill about a week, but was
taken seriously ill on Saturday and
was carried to the Charlotte Hospital
Sunday where she d'ed from a brain
hemorrhage.
She is survived by her husband,
one son, Windy Reeves, E. M. 2-c at
sea; four sisters, Mrs. Stanley Bry
ant of Orlando, Fla., and Mrs. B. B.
Kelley of Savannah, Ga., who arriv
ed in Newberry Tuesday morning to
accompany the body to Georgia; Mrs.
S. J. Hires, Odum, Ga., Mrs. A. L.
Brittan, Knoxville, Tenn.; two broth
era, D. A. Carter, Baxley, Ga., and
Dr. W. Q. Carter, Savannah, Ga.
Mrs. Reeves had made her home in
Newberry for the past several years.
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Thrill Circus, American Legion
Fairgrounds, Newberry, Saturday,
May 4. Afternoon and Night.
for ten cents a dozen at any corner,
or twenty-five cents a bunch at the
ship. There were more bananas
than buyers. Those bananas today
are ten cents a pound! Because we
now have more money than bananas,
Just wait until two or three ships
come in a week! The average Char
leston small boy will buy all he can
eat for ten cents. If you’ve ever
tried to fill a little boy you know
what I mean.
The real trouble with the O. P. A.,
I think, is that it is counting the
little trees on he edge of the woods
and overlooking the great forest
beyond. It is so absorbed in a sort
of half-baked pedantry that it does
not see the problems in perspective.
What we need is full production,
knowing that competition will soon
hold down the prices.
There are few absolutes in life;
almost any policy suggests excep
tions. A million dollars paid out in
wages in a town of a thousand work
ers wiil probably flow immediately
into the channels of trade and be
felt. But an extra million distribut
ed among a hundred bankers and
community industrialists won’t cause
a ripple. It will not mean an addi
tional slice of bacon or one more
egg for breakfast. The standard of
routine living remains unaffected.
So, in disucssing inflation, it isn’t
merely the amount of money, but
the likelihood of immediate disburse
ment that really affects the question.
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NOTICE!
The City of Newberry has adopt-
ed a new speed ordinance calling for
speed limits of:
15 miles per hour in business
districts
25 miles per hour in residential
districts.
This new speed law will be rigidly
enforced and the public is warned
that all violators will be prosecuted.
COLIE L. DOWD,
Chief of Police
GASSETT-CROMER
Miss Autry Wilma Gassett of
Greenville, Ky., and Henry David
Cromer of Newberry, were married
Saturday, April 27, at two o’clock at
the home of the officiating minister,
Rev. W. M. Owings. The ring cere
mony was used in the presence of a
few close friends and relatives.
Mrs. Cromer is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Enos Gassett of
Greenville, Kentucky.
Mr. Cromer is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. Andrew Cromer of New
berry. He received his military
training in Breckenridge, Kyi, Camp
Shanks, N. Y., and England. He
spent 19 months overseas in the
European theater, serving in the
83rd Field Artillery.
Mr. and Mrs. Cromer expect to
make their home for the present
with Mr. Cromer’s parents in New
berry.
Mrs. Joe Baker
Mrs. Joe Baker, 65, died Tuesday
morning at her home near Whit
mire. She had been ill for several
months. She was the daughter of
the late Thomas W. and Frances Mc
Cullough and was born, reared and
lived all of her life in the McCul
lough section of Newberry county.
Funeral services were held Wednes
day at four o’clock from the resi
dence near Whitmire with Rev. El
liott Hamilton conducting he service.
Interment followed in Beth Eden
church cemetery.
She is survived by her husband,
Joe Baker and two sons, Reginald
Baker and Weldon Baker; one
brother, D. L. McCullough; one
sister, Mrs. George S. Enlow; seven
grandchildren survive.
AN ORDINANCE
A WARDROBE MUST
PROVIDING FOR THE AMEND
MENT OF SECTION 198. OF THE
CODE OF ORDINANCES OF
THE TOWN OF NEWBERRY,
SOUTH CAROLINA, RATIFIED
ON SEPTEMBER 12, 1939, REG
ULATING THE SPEED OF VE
HICLES IN THE TOWN OF
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CARO
LINA.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
the Board of Aldermen, constitut
ing the Town Council, of the Town
of Newberry, South Carolina, in
council assembled:
Section 1. That Section 19® of
the Code of Ordinances of the
Town of Newberry, S. C., as rati
fied on September 12, 1939, be
amended by striking out sub-sections
B and C and inserting in lieu there
of sub-section B, which shall be as
follows:
“B. Where no special hazard ex
ists the following speeds for all ve
hicles shall be lawful, and any speed
in excess of said limits shall be un-
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town suit designed by Mollie Per-
nis of New York, is the National
Cotton Council’s “dress-of-the-
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can be worn with tbe jacket for
town, or withonl for country.
lawful:
force and effect, except insofar as
this ordinance may be inconsistent
therewith, in which event, this or
dinance shall operate as a repeal
of any such ordinance.
Section 3. This ordinance shall
become effective upon its adoption
and ratification by the Town Coun-
“1. Fifteen (15) miles per hour
in any business district;
“2. Twenty-five (25) miles per
hour in any residential district.” .
Section 2. This ordinance shall
not repeal any ordinance now in
cil of Newberry, S. C.
Done and ratified in Council as
sembled, under the corporate seal
of the Town of Newberry, South
Carolina, this 29th day of April, A.
D., 1946.
DAVE L. HAYES,
Mayor.
I attest:
D. L. NANCE,
Town Clerk.
(Corporate Seal)
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