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Sec. 2 Sec. 2 VOL. 9; NO. 15 NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1946 $1 PER ANNUM FARMER SHOULD GET ROYALTY ON BALES RESULT DANGEROUS CALUNG By SPECTATOR South Carolina is a very beautiful State. Do you know your State? From the beaches to the mountains we have a variety of scenery, some of impressive granduer. I do not know every arterial road but I've travelled most of them, even to smaller com munities not widely known. Have you en joyed the rugged scenery between St. Matt hews and Highway 5 ? Have you wound and twisted from Camden to Liberty Hill and Great Falls? Have you climbed the hills be tween Chesterfield and McBee and admired the broad landscape? Did you ever drive from Columbia to Sumter and admire the ten- mile view like a panorama of scenic charm? Or did you try this from Sumter to Columbia and rejoice in the broad sweep of Statesburg? Did you ever ride into Manning through the refreshing coolness and greenery of Poketaligo Swamp? Did you ever drive from Lancaster to Chesterfield and feast on the majesty of the rocky places and vast stretches? Perhaps you have gone through the Horst Creek val ley of Aiken County and admired the stately hills approaching the Savannah River. South Carolina has charm and appeal every where. I’ve suggested just a few areas of entrancing splendor. I need not pass over the unspoiled heights and depths of Fairfield and Chester. There are also broad plains of good land, but one does not expert to find such great hills in the low country as dot Barnwell and Orangeburg counties. Lexington, of course, on all her highways, abounds in hills and rolling land. And Saluda, Edgefield—but more of that later. Editor Wilton Hall of The Anderson Inde pendent ran a two-column box on his front page with the heading: “Mayo doctors say farming most dangerous occupation,” and pro ceeded to quote from an address to the American Medical Association that "one- fourth of all persons killed in occupational ac cidents in 1944 were farmers”. Has Editor Latimer of Bishopville overlooked this? This medical fact would powerfully support his argument for a royalty to farmers for each bale of cotton, as John L. Lewis wangled out of the Government on each ton of coal. Tak ing our cue from Mr. Lewis again, and hark ing back to Brother Latimer, the farmer might set up hospitals and provide hospital policies by collecting a premium on each pound of tcbacco, each bushel of corn, oats, wheat, rye and something on every shoat. Over in Hampton they might collect five cents per watermelon. Those thousands of melons I saw rotting in old Chesterfield wouldn’t help that great county, however. They have a “world" of melons and peaches there, but very little “help”. Have you ever been to Pageland? It sur- denly “dawned” on me. All these years I’ve taken Pageland very much for granted; but I drove through a little city of broad avenues, handsome homes and attractive places of busi ness. Cesterfield (Court House), the County seat of Chesterfield County, is itself a revela tion of a good town. I ate the best hot-dog - sandwich there I’ve ever known—and the Coney Island specimen can’t stand the com parison. I told Lam Britton about it, and I’m afraid he’ll quit going home for dinner. If only I had known of that hot-dog special when enjoying an hour with Messrs. Barton and Booker of Lancaster they might have laid aside all the cares of a fine paper and a big business in order to seek the delights of Ches terfield. Perhaps I should restrain my rap ture, but it was “some hot-dog.” Col. Elliott Springs is a man with a vision, but he is a practical planner. While 1 was en. joying an hour with my friends of The Lan caster News I remarked that I was greatly im pressed by what I had seen of the Mill village? of Mr. Janies C. Self and The Joanna Mills and would like to know more of the plans of Colonel Springs. Several time I have enjoy ed a walk through the streets of The Matthews Mills (Mr. Self) and Mr. William A. Moor head was my guide on a trip through the streets of the Joanna Village. I know some thing of Mr. Springs’ development, with build ings along the countryside. Mr. Barton and Mr. Booker were getting ready for printing a large paper prepared by the operatives of The Springs Mills. I have a copy. If all work ers were so fortunate as those of the Mills I've mentioned most of us would do well to go to the mills. Nor are they the only mills which maintain really attractive towns. Observing the workers at the Matthews Mill, included the office staff, I have seen the smiles and heard the pleasant exchanges be tween the workers and the staff. I found the same happy condition in the Joanna village and among the folk of the Springs group. Why shouldn’t people be happy in their work? We ure all just people, regardless of our job, high or low; and all of us thrive best when our minds are at peace. I recall with affection the late Tom Mar- chant of Greenville. A man said of him to me Tom Marchant had his office door open, and he was busy with the affairs of several big mills. A worker came to the door. Mr. Mar- chant invited him in, heard his complaint and offered to look into it. The man talking to me said: "Tom, why didn’t you send him to a foreman?" "Well,” said Mr. Marchant, “I want my people to know that I am ready to hear them: That is true of many great in dustrialists; they themselves worked their way up and have never lost the desire to mingle with the workers. Some weeks ago two gentlemen came to see me. One was an old friend (not an old man, however) and he brought a friend. My friend said that his friend had made something that was death and destruction to boll-weevils. He invited me to visit a patch of eleven acres of cotton in Richland county to see the effects of this spray. At the appointed time my friend's friend came. He is now my friend, too. We visited the eleven acre patch, of which one acre had been used for demonstra tion. That one acre is notably better in size of stalk and in size and number of bolls on each stalk than the neighboring ten acres. I’m interested in that demonstration and wonder how this will turn out at the gin, for that is the acid test of its value. Unless a farmer makes more money, more clear money, the experiment won’t be worth anything. Of course this would be just the very trick for a road farmer, trying to impress his visitors and overawe his neighbors, but my friend’s pur pose is not to humiliate one’s neighbors but to enable each one of his neighbors to pro duce cotton on a scale comparable to the planters of the Delta of Mississippi. I’ll keep an eye on that experiment. Perhaps it was unfortunate to ‘‘treat’’ one acre in the midst of ten others, but that makes the demonstra tion more remarkable. I wish to repeat an advertisement by some Sumter men. It carries a measure straight ' from the heart: “As veterans of World War II and as young business mes just beginning our careers we would like to make the following public statement: “When we received our discharges from the service we returned to enter the business founded by our father, John Evans. It was our hope that through our own industry and enterprise we could earn a comfortable liv ing and possibly expand and increase the scope of the business, thus providing employ ment for more people and adding to the • growth and prosperity of the community. "We know from our own observations that the relations between our father and the men who work with him in the business have al ways been most friendly and cooperative. We know that these men have always been well- paid and that they have been free at any time to talk over with our father any problems, per sonal or business that came up. "The CIO is now making an attempt to unionize the business. We see in this attempt a threat to our future and to the future of all who gain their livelihood here. We are work ers ourselves and looking at it from this view point, we cannot see what possible benefit can accrue to anyone connected with the business if it is unionized. “We believe that the big majority of the employes of this company .ire opposed to be coming affiliated with the CIO. We believe they realize that their own interests will be best served if they maintain their independ ence and by their own diligence and appli cation to their jobs gain lasting security for themselves and their families. They know they have always received a square deal and 87 YEARS AGO (From the Files of the Rising Sun) The great demand for negro la bor in the southwestern states this season has caused large shipments from Virginia and North Carolina to take these markets. The Wel don (N.C.) Patriot says that 200 negroes passed through that place during the month of January, and not less than 50,000, it is informed, went into the cotton region during the last year. „ James Hayes who, it will be re collected, was found guilty of the murder of Colin Campbell, on the streets of our city, and was sen tenced to be executed on the 25th of the present month, has had his sentence commuted to one year from this date, and banished from the state.—Charleston Courier. The London correspondent of the inti-slavery Standard denies that Mr. Dallas shook hands with the black Haytein minister at the opening of parliment, as had been reported. The Columbus (Ga.) Sun of the 19th inst. states that a gang of 30- odd African negroes arrived at Co lumbus on Thursday evening last, on the four o’clock train. The Nenton (Ala.) Herald of the 17th inst. learns that two wagon loads of wild Africans had just ar rived at a plantation in the vicinity of that place. James Tupper, f q., Master in E- quity, per Messrs * 'ilbur and Sons, auctioneers, sold 23 slaves at an av erage of $606 each, ranging from $970 to $380, sold, with restrictions to remain in the cty; also 29 slaves, at an average of $693 each. The highest price, $2620, was paid for a driver over 50 years old. Messrs Porcher and Baya sold a negro carpenter, 24 years old, for $1490, and an apprentice in the same trade, 17 years of age for $1330. Messrs Thomas lyan and Son sold a prime fellow, a laborer, for $11.30, and a boy for $940.— Charleston Mercury. A few days ago, 436 slaves— men, women and children—were sold at auction in Savannah, Ga., for the aggregate sum of $303,850. They are said to have belonged to Pierce M. Butler, Esq., of Philadel phia. The Helena, Ark., Shield, of the 5ti: inst. says: Mr. Scaife, of South Carolina, a few days since sold, in this city, to Drs. Deputy and King and Judge Horner, of the city, 70 negroes, at an average price of $1,000 each. LOST—Light tan female Hound. Growth in left eye. Plain collar on. Answers name Belle. Dr. J. S. Lide, Phone 183. 2tp IRON TONIC "TAKE YOUR DRUGGIST A I |U| P-HflS IT Malarial Symptoms. WE-PUCK SHE doe to MALARIA? will continue to do so in the future without re ceiving any help from outside interests. “These men with whom we work are our friends. Their problems are our problems. We have the fullest confidence in their good judge ment. We know they will consider both sides of the question honestly and carefully. Be lieving this, we have no fear of the final out come. "Linwood S. (Jack) Evans “John Marion Evans "Warren D. Evans “Charles G. Evans.’* Was Talmadge chosen by a fluke ? No, that would not be correct. By what we South Carolinians call Democracy Talmadge had about ninety thousand votes more than Mr. Carmicheal. Mr. Carmicheal is credited with a hundred thousand negro votes. South Carolina's Democracy is White. That bloc of one hundred thousand colored votes for one man!) Well, Carolinians, let that be a warn ing, and resolve that the South Carolina Demo cracy shall be White. The Negroes are at liberty to organize a Party or a faction, but we must keep our Party White. Some White Politicians are ready to solicit and- to accept the colored vote; let us heed the voice of the rank and file and keep South Carolina’s Democracy White. Reprinted from The Pae Dee Advocate of May 23. 1946 *llte Pee. 2>ee Advocate Be+uutiiuuUa, South Ga/voluta W. G. HAZEL Editor and Publisher Dear Readers: My good friend. STROM THURMOND, of my na tive county of Edgefield, has announced as a can didate for the office of Governor of South Caro lina. I am writing this endorsement of his can didacy, not because of county pride or a sense of duty, but because I know him well enough and have known him long enough to say it is my firm belief that he will make the people an able and honest Governor if elected, one of whom the entire State will be proud, and who will do honor to this high office not only at home but in the eyes of the nation. I knew Strom Thurmond when he was a strip ling boy around Edgefield, when he was a student at Clemson, ah agricultural teabher. County Su perintendent of Education, State Senator, Judge and soldier. I have watched him develop from a promising youth to the fine and upstanding man he is today. His grandfather and mine walked home from Virginia together after the surrender of GENERAL LEE, and a friendship was cemented be tween them that lasted throughout the years of their lives and was handed down to their sons (our fathers), and to us, their grandsons. I knew Strom's father for many years, one of South Caiolina's ablest lawyers of the past genera- tioa, as well as one of her outstanding citizens, and 1 loved him, as I do Strom. And his mother, whose family name he bears, is from one of Edge field's finest old families. Strom Thurmond has a heritage of character and ability, and he has lived and is living nobly up to it. He graduated from Clemson as a mere youth, and was an agricultural teacher at the'age of 20— the youngest in the State. At 25 he was elected County Superintendent of Education, State Sena tor at 29, and Circuit Judge at 35, at the time be ing the youngest man in each of these offices. Although exempted by his position, he volun teered for service the day war with Germany was declared, and served three.and a half years, being discharged at the end of hostilities. That he performed his duties well is shown by his hav ing been awarded the Legion of Merit "for excep tionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services," the Bronze Star for "heroism on the field of battle," the Purple Heart for "injuries received in action against the enemy," and the French Croix de Guerre for ■exceptional services of war rendered in the course of operations for the liberation of France." He landed in France on D-Day with the 82nd Airborne Division on June 6, 1944, and received the Bronze Arrowhead for being a member of the assault troops landing in enemy-held territory in France; the Unit Citation for "outstanding performance of duty in action in the initial as sault on the coast of Francemedals for service in the American, the European and the Pacific theatres, as well as the Victory Medal and five Battle Stars. As a member of the State Senate. Strom Thurmond supported higher salaries for teachers, longer school terms, and the school attendance law. He was the author of a bill increasing ben efits to laborers under the Workmen's Compensa tion Act; supported measures to provide for tobac co research and other bills vitally affecting farmers. He was a member of the Social Security committee that wrote the first Social Security Bill, which provided assistance for the aged, and benefits for dependent children, the blind and other handicapped people. He was a member of the committee that prepared the Rural Electri fication and Santee-Cooper laws; was chairman of the Public Buildings committee that sponsor ed the bill that Resulted in the erection of the new State Office Building, saving the State over $20,000 annually in rents. And when the General Assembly voted its members extra pay of over $1,000, he refused to accept it and this money was turned back into the State Treasury. Thurmond was a member of the Board of Trus tees erf Winthrop College for several years, and his work for that institution, both as a member of the State Senate and as trustee, was so appre ciated that one of its buildings was named "Thur mond Hall." He has served in such varied capacities as Superintendent of the Baptist Sunday School, County Chairman of the Red Cross, President of the Clemson College Alumni Association, State Councilor of the Junior Order of United ^erican Mechanics, President of the Lions Club, Vice- President of the South Carolina Bar Association, and as a delegate to the National Democratic Con ventions of 1932 and 1936. He is a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vet erans of Global Wars, the Masonic Order, Wood men of the World, Loyal Order of Moose, Sons of the American Revolution^ and the South Carolina Farm Bureau. Strom Thurmond is not only an able man, but still has the energy of youth. Although the son of an eminent lawyer, he was brought up to work, laboring on his father's farm until he entered Clemson, and on the farm and in the cotton mill at Edgefield between his college years. If elected, he promises to advocate poli cies best for the masses of the people, and that will result in the greatest good fonthe great est number—and this I am confident he will do. Strom Thurmond showed his good faith by re signing as Judge when he announced for Governor, and it is my belief that the people will show their faith in him by nominating him for Governor in the coming Democratic primary. The Advocate usually takes no active part in a political campaign, unless it is to support a local man in a State or district race, but in this case I feel that in supporting Strom Thur mond the paper is performing a real service to the people of South Carolina. • (Sponsored by Strom Thurmond’s Newberry Friends)