Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN THAT’S YOU, MRS. HOUSEWIFE! VjL j: ..i f_r summer is seen in t::is sunback dress done in Cotton Council says. Modeled by Yvonne DeCarlo of Universal, the sunback has a bolero jacket in the same cotton pique. The novel trim of self-fagoting adds a pleas ing effect to the ensemble. Ingredients of Romance For sale—Hard coal stove, ex cellent heater; large tapestry love seat, also wicked davenport. Call Main 539 after 5 and ask for Miss Severence. — Clarksville (N. Y.) News-Weekly. The VETERANS CORNER * — In an average household there are six tons of dishes washed every year. To get enough soap for this staggering task, save every drop of used cooking fat. Turn it over to the meat dealer for four cents per pound so that Industry can turn back to you the soap you need. ROBERT HIPP COPEUAND Mr. anti Mrs. Oswald O. Cope land are receiving congratulations on the arrival of a son, Robert Hipp, bom July 28 at the Colum bia hospital. Mrs. Copeland is the former Miss Nancy Laws of Lau rens. Two cars of Newberry county grown peaches were shipped by Francis Scurry from his grading and packing shed at Chappells. Ex press and car shipments from the Chappells section was about 1500 bushels. Other sales amounted to approximately 3000 bushels. Will the Veterans Administra tion provide maternity care for my wife? Is a World War I veteran eligible for a loan guaranty? Can I get my teeth cared for by the VA? These are but a few of the many questions that have come into the Vetrans Comer from former serv icemen and women. The following questions were selected from recent mail as of widespread interest to most veterans: Q. Is the wife of an honorably discharged veteran entitled to maternity care? A. The VA itself provides hos pitalization only to former mem bers of the armed forces and not to their families. However, maternity care is available for wives of en listed men below the first three grades, through the United States Department of Labor and various state public health services. If conception occurred prior to a vet eran’s discharge, it may be possible to obtain this care many months after the veteran has returned to civilian life. Complete details may be obtained from any county public health office. Q. I am a disabled veteran. Am I entitled to tax exemption for my house? A. Generally, No. There is no federal law allowing special prop erty tax exemptions for veterans. Certain states have enacted special statutes providing limited tax ex emption privleges for speefied types of veterans. It will be nec essary that you inquire of tax authorities of your state as to what exemptions—if any— may be ap plicable. Your nearest VA contact representative will be glad to as sist you in getting in touch with the proper authorities. Q. Please tell me if it is possible for a World War I veterans to get a loan guaranty by the VA? A. No. VA guaranteed loans are confined entirely to World War II veterans. Q. When I was overseas, the dentist told me my teeth required treatment, but because of battle conditions, the work was never performed. Later, when the war was over, I was in a hurry to get my discharge and did not take ad vantage of the dental work offered me at the separation center. My teeth are now in very bad condi tion and I cannot pay for the nec- Cessary work to be done. Can I get it done at a VA hospital? A. It is possible to have dental work done by the VA if it can be proved that the trouble was the result of service. in the armed forces. Generally, any serious den tal arising within a year after dis charge is presumed to have in curred in service, unless the veter an’s military medical record shows that the condition existed at the time of induction. Veterans desir ing to apply for dental treatment should visit their nearest Contact Representative and get his assist ance in filling out the necessary forms to establish the dental condi tion as service-connected. Since it will be necessary to secure medical records from the army, it might take several months before a defi nite decision is made. If the vet eran is eligible, he will be sent to a VA hospital, if hospitalization is necessary; if not, dental work will be done on an out-patient basis. at a VA hospital, if the veteran lives near one. In other cases, it will be done by a private physician at gov ernment expense. In the event of an emergency while a claim is pending, VA dentists may authorize immediate treatment. Q. Can a veteran borrow money under the G.I. Bill more than one time, or does he mse up all his guaranty whenever he makes a loan, regardless of the amount. A. A veteran may make a num ber of loans under the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, provided the to tal amount guaranteed by the Gov ernment does not exceed the sum fixed by law—$4,000 for real es tate or $2,000 for business loans. Once the total guaranteed has been used up, it may not be renewed. However, a veteran may certainly make a small lean now, using only part of his guaranty, reserving the remainder for a rainy day. Loan guaranty is a valuable privilege and VA encourages veterans to use it judiciously, using only that a- mount absolutely necessary and re serving the remainder for the fu ture. . ^ Q. I am an on-the-job trainee with an electrical firm as a lines man and receive $32 per month (Continued on Back Page) FAIR WARNING 9 In Order to Vote In the Important General Election in November You Must Have a s. Registration Certificate Go to the Court House August 5th, 6th, 7th and get yours Spcnsored By The Junior Chamber Of Commerce “To Hefl With The Public!” During the war, when our armed forces were calling for more gravely needed! planes and parts, a certain C. I. O. labor leader, it has been reported, used the above quotation and in commenting, inferred that the building up of, and the aims of the union were paramount to the interests of the public, the Government and the needs of the armed forces. THE UNION WAS WHAT COUNT ED. Therefore, the strike in that airplane factory contin ued for some time, notwithstanding a “no-strike” pledge to the contrary. 8, 721, 029 Man Days Lost By Strikes Between June 1944, when our armies landed on the beaches of Normandy and the German surrender in May, 1945! Most of the so-called “unauthorized” strikes were staged by C. L O. auto workers unions in plants produc ing urgent war materials and equipment. The lack of this sorely needed equipment was responsible for greatly in creased casualties among our boys. Production Limited The Army was in need of tires and appealed to a large rubber manufacturer to increase production. The War De partment was informed by the company that the Depart ment would have to get permission from the C. 1. O. as the contract of the company with the union limited the daily production per emiployee to 10 tires. It appears that this production was based on the output of inefficient workers, although many of the employees could produce 1 5 tires a day. -Regardless of the urgent need for tires, the union leaders said: “No.” Increased production has usually been opposed by union leaders. It is considered by them as a henious crime, known as the ‘stretch-out" and is a just cause for strikes and a demand for higher wages. The C. 1. O. leaders guarantee that when a new contract is signed, the wages lost during a strike will be included in the terms of settle ment. The law of supply and demand is just as fundamental as the law of gravity. Increased production justifies a good standard of wages and also reduces the cost of goods to the consumer, regardless of the theory of Chester Bowles of the O. P. A., the leaders of the C. I. O. and Mrs.Elea nor Roosevelt, who desire the perpetuation of government controls. There is no mistaking as to what Mrs. Roosevelt has labored for during her husband’s administrations . . . Laying the Foundation for a Totalitarian Government in the United States of America, now that she has 4et the cat out of the bag. We quote: “It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the Government, where it can be administered in the interest of the people as a whole. Now Congress, under the influ ence of powerful lobbies, is rapidly trying to return control to big business. It may be that individual congressmen do not realize just what they are doing, but they are heading us straight for inflation and ac cepting the old ’boom and bust’ ideas, instead of sticking to the plan of ironing out the peaks and val leys and trying to keep on a fairly even keel.” For 8 years the New Dealers, operating through Gov ernment control, on the theory of “abundance through scarcity” failed to overcome the depression of the nine teen thirties. Relief only came through God s fundamen tal law of Supply and Demand . . . increased production of war materials by industry despite strikes and arbitrary union demands and rulings. C. I. O. leaders are demanding under threat of strikes the restoration of O. P. A. "as was" prior to June 30, when the old legislation expired. _ ' The strikes they claim, will be necessary to bring wages to the level of the new higher cost of living which they an ticipate will follow the lack of control. They fail to rea lize that if wages are increased to o . ertake prices, then prices are bound to go up because of increased cost of production. There is nothing new about the law of sup ply and demand. It is as old as Creation and was created by God at the time for the benefit of man. . It is just as fundamental as day and night and no atheistic ideologist can thwart it by any legislative act or by any other device of man. As the increase in wages have failed to offset the high cost of liv’ng, as is admitted by the labor leaders in their demands for further increased wages, it was quite obvious that there are deeper motives back of the epidemic of strikes than the demand for wage increases. Is it not pos sible that Earl Browder “skilled the beans”.when he said, “The American Communist Party was convinced . . . and I fully share ‘.heir conviction . . . that post-war industrial strife would cripple the United States and offer promising revolutionary possibilities.” Production Lags Woefully Midwest farmers are patching up worn-out agricultural tools with baling wire and are mad enough to cuss. Since last August seven of the major farm equipment manufac turers have been closqd by strikes, ordered by the C. I. O. United Auto Workers, from time to time; two of Case Company’s four plants have been closed since Dec. 26. and seven plants of the Allis-Chalmers Company since April. The strike at Racine, Wis., has cost the farmers about 100 tractors and 100 other farm implements daily In our opinion, this blow at the source of supply and the limitation of production in C. I. O. controlled plants is aimed at “crippling the United States’’ economically and thus making a totalitarian form of government a possibility. The C. I. O. Dixie drive, it is stated, consists of 350 paid organizers . . . bred-and-born Southerners, 95 per cent of them are war veterans. A C. 1. O. executive stat ed, "When trouble comes, and it will come, management will probably charge that unions are trying to destroy the country. It seems to us that it will be pretty hard to con vince the people that men who risked their lives to save the country now want to destroy it." It is inconceivable that a patriotic, liberty loving person should be a party to such a plot if told the motives behind the drive. Does a burglar inform the officials of the bank before he robs it? Is not the wrecking of our economic system as great a crime as robbing a bank? If the Constitution is a covenant given the founding fathers by God, then He expects each individual citizen to uphold it and oppose any effort to annul or violate it. Enroll in the campaign to define and protest the in herent rights guaranteed in the Constitution through an amendment on the relations between labor, management and the public. Also one to limit the tenure of the Presi dent to one term of six years . . . which is being conducted by The Farmer’s States Rights Association P. O. Box 815 Rock Hill, S. C.