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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1946
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£un
1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
O. F. ARiMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
Published Every Friday in the Year
Entered as second-class matter
December 6, 1937, at the postoffice
at Newberry, South Carolina, under
lh<- Act of Congress of March 3,
1879.
COMMENTS ON
MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Congress should reduce taxes; the
State Legislature should reduce
taxes; the County Legislative Dele
gations shquld.xeduce taxes; and the
towns and cities should reduce
taxes. That takes in most of the
taxing authorities who operate in
. South Carolina.
There has been very little, very,
very little reduction in taxes due
to good management. When coun
ties reduce taxes it is because bond
issues have finally been paid, or be
cause the State is contributing more
to the counties. If the towns have
made any reductions it is due to
something similar. But reductions
growing out of competent manage
ment have not been many.
When the State seemed prosper
ous it grew out oi abnormal condi
tions which swelled the revenues.
The State has done virtually noth
ing to put its house in order except
to provide for certain bonds, with
the swollen receipts. But nothing
very businesslike has been done.
Nothing at all was done to give
better service or better value for
the dollar spent. Our State, like
our Nation; has been a prodigal
spender; and like the Nation, the
State continues its prodigal way.
The Nation is probably spending
at least ten billion dollars needless
ly. This is the fault of Congress,
for Congress has the power to curb
the bueraucrats. Congress need not
denounce bureaucrats extravagance;
it should lay the axe to it and hack
it near the roots. If we are to re
trench we must stop indulging in
generalities. Bureaucrats are not
going to close their offices and cut
off thier salaries unless Congress
leaves them off the payroll and
takes from the President the Emer
gency powers and Emergency funds.
Thou are the man, said Nathan to
David
to bring home to David his guilt.
And so we must tell our Con
gressmen (Senators, too, of course).
Reductions, deep reductions must
be made. Yes. Well thou art the
man; get busy.
We spent one billion for National
defence when we were watching
Germany and Japan; we are spend
ing eighteen billions for National
defence now. Eighteen billions!
A lot of money. Do we need eight
een times more than we needed
when Japan and Germany were
running wild? Seventeen billion
dollars is an inconceivable sum.
With an army, navy and air force
of a million men, costing an aver
age of three thousand dollars per
man, the expense would be three
billions. Allowing for upkeep of
two billions more, we have an ex
pense of five billions. That looks
generous by any sort of calculation;
but the budget for defence is not
five billions, but eighteen billions.
Of course like a set of bureaucrats
who can give away millions upon
millions of taxpayers’ money, a
few billions shouldn’t impress us.
That difference of thirteen billions
is nearly half the total cost of the
First World War — the shooting
part. What do you think about it?
And, mark you, the total Federal
budget is forty one and a half bil
lions. President Truman himself
increased the estimate by five and
a half billions between January
and August. Five billions is small
change, of course. We gave—call
ing them loans—credits and goodf
amounting to forty billions. The
name was Lend-Lease. We lost for
ty billion dollars. Then we gave
billions right and left—more loans.
Now we can relieve everybody but
an American and every country but
America.
To set this country right is the
duty of Congress. Congress cannot
escape its obligation by pointing its
finger at the President and his
horde of tax-eaters.
In South Carolina we act as im
prudently as Congress acts; but our
scale is much smaller.
Has anyone ever tried Central
purchasing? Not even so simple a
measure as that has been tried,
spending has been the rule, and in
that our Legislators have been as
exuberant as the Congressmen.
Lem WineseU, Editor of The
Marion Star, ran as his leading edit
orial a story which I quote: “This
is to inform you of a situation which
is causing the current curtailment
of shipments of our shoes to our
customers. Due to a labor dispute,
we have made no shipments since
July 24. During the month of
June, 1916, we negotiated wage con
tract agreements with Unions prin
cipally CIO and AFofL, represent
ing more than sixty bargaining
units covering our various shoe
factories, supply departments and
other plants. Increases in,rates oi
pay which, with the increase grant
ed December 1, 1945, total 15c per
hour since V-J Day, were put into
effect retroactive to June 3, 1946,
after formal approval by the Na
tional Wage Stabilization Board.
One Union, the St. Louis Joint
Council Retail, Wholesale and De
partment store CIO, representing
only 24 of the Company’s more than
30,000 employees, did not accept
this increase. Its demands were
substantially higher and wholly un-
-easonable. It refused tc arbitrate
this wage issue or to follow orderly
procedure toward a settlement. A
strike was called for July 24. Pick
et lines were established at all of
our supply departments, ware
houses and other plants in St. Louis.
Employees, represented by other
Unions which are not parties to this
dispute, are unwilling to cross the
picket ilnes. This action has re
sulted jn the closing of our facilities
for shipping shoes and has stepped
the flow of supplies to our factories.
This means serious loss of produc
tion in our shoe factories, it means
financial loss to the Company, it
•means loss of earnings to those em
ployees who are denied access to
their places of work and to those
in our factories which run out of
supplies. It means great incon
venience and disappointment to our
customers. It means an overall
economic loss to our country.”
At the conclusion of that quoted
part, my friend Lem expressed his
indignation by consigning all and
singular to the regions “Where their
worm dieth not and the fire is not
quenched.”
Well, what think you of that?
Haven’t we let our country fall into
the hands of the Philistines? Isn’t
this America of ours worth redeem
ing from all the foreign isms that
not afflict it? What kind of coun
try do you wish to leave as a heri
tage to your son? Hadn’t we bet
ter do something about it?
That was a letter from a shoe
manufacturer to a Marion merchant.
The
Veteran’s Corner
America tried communism once.
You may have forgotten it, so this
will refersh your memory; In the
early days of the first settlement at
Jamestown, Virginia, everything
was held in common. Food was
scarce, sickness abounded, the col
ony was about to break up. Only
sixty remained of the five hundred
of the winter before. Lord de la
Warr, the new Governor, arrived
and surveyed the condition, sending
the next year Thomas Dale who
partially abolished communism and
restored the right of private owner
ship. Let me quote a well known
historian who wrote many years
ago: Before the coming of Dale
“the land and other possessions
were held in common; no one own
ed private property; each man was
a servant of the State, and the ten
dency of many was to do as little as
possible. Dale gave to each of the
old settlers three acres of ground
with the right of possessing private
property. The effect was to stimu
late industry, and from this time
there was never a scarcity of food
in Virginia.”
The Mullins Enterprise tells us
that “About a thousand men and
women, mostly negroes, gathered
(in Mullins) for political rallies
sponsored by the CIO and heard
vairious speakers of the CIO dis
cuss the program for industrial and
farm workers.
“It was announced that every
possible effort would be made to
organize the farm labor so that
the farmers would be compelled to
pay substantially higher wages. It
was announced by some of the
speakers that strikes would be
called at harvest time unless the de
mands of the CIO were met. The
speaker indicated a determination to
see that the farmers were compell
ed to pay whatever wages the CIO
thought should be paid, or else the
workers would be called out at har
vest time.”
The Dillon Herald, after citing
the above, makes this pithy remark:
“It appears that CIO is determined
Veterans Administration has been
authorized to operate canteens along
the lines of the Army’s PXs and the
Navy’s ship stores which served the
veterans so well while they were
in uniform.
The purpose of the canteens, how
they will be operated, who will run
them and the service they will give
are explained as follows:
Q. Who will be the principal
beneficiaries of VA canteens?
A. The 90,000 patients in VA
hospitals and homes throughout
the country.
Q. What merchandise will be
sold at the canteens?
A. Toilet articles, tobacco prod
ucts and incidentals, miscellaneous
food itmes such as sandwiches and
light meals sold at snack bars and
the service provided by barber and
beauty shops, tailor shops, and soda
fountains.
Q. Will sales at the canteen be
limited?
A. Yes, to hospitalized veterans,
their friends and relatives who visit
them, employees and members of
their families who live at the sta
tions. Visitors on official business
also will be eligible to patronize
the canteens. Sales to persons who
do not reside at the stations will be
limited to items for consumption on
the premises.
Q. What becomes of the canteen
profits?
A. Profits will be kept at a
minimum any that accrue will
be turned over to the U. S. Treas
ury.
Q. Will the canteen service af
fect private, small businesses in
the communities where VA hospi
tals and homes are located.
A. No. Congressional authoriza-
iton restrtics sales and provides for
constant supervision and inspection
to prevent abuses.
Q. Will accounts of canteens be
audited?
A. Yes. The Canteen Service
will maintain an integral set of ac
counts subject to a commercial type
audit by the U. S. General Account
ing Office.
Q. When will the canteens begin
operation?
A. It will be some months before
canteens in all VA installations are
in operation since many of the
present contracts with private con
cessionaires have 90-day cancella
tion clauses. It will also require
time to select the necessary person
nel and methods of operation.
Q. Will present managers and
personnel of the private conces
sionaires now under contract with
VA be given an opportunity to be
come associated with the new can
teen service?
A. Yes. In all cases, however,
veterans will be given preference.
Q. Will canteen personnel be
hired under Civil Service rules and
regulations?
A. No, except that all employees
will be subject to the veterans pre
ference Act, the Civil Service Re
tirement Act, and the U. S. em
ployees compensation Act.
Q. What are some of the other
outstanding features of the new
law authorizing VA to establish can
teens?
The right to fix prices and pre
scribe rules and regulations for the
operation of canteens on a business
like basis; permission to accept
gifts and donations of merchandise,
fixtures, equipment and supplies,
and the privilege of operating ware
houses and storage depots that will
facilitate centralized large scale
purchases so as to take advantage of
lower prices.
R - U AWARE?
to spread its tentacles to the farms
of the South and disturb the pleas
ant relations that exist between
landowners and their employees
and tenants.”
Well, we Southerners, we Demo
crats of the South, are “renegades”.
Who says so? The Illinios Demo
cratic Convention. Listen to those
brethren: “We summon the people
of Illinois and of the Nation to wit
ness that, although they (Southern
ers) profess membership in OUR
party . . . they are not representa
tives of its real aims and liberal
principles”. Well, well; now
wouldn’t that jar you? Indeed!
And right they are at that, for those
“real aims and liberal principles”
call for the FEPC, the anti-poll tax,
and about complete domination of
this nation by the CIO, the Com
munists and the Negroes. Verily,
verily, there js no bond between the
CIO and Negro Democrats and the
Dixie Democrat. How long will it
take some pie-grabbers to find this
out?
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Boozers Observe
Annual Reunion
The descendents of the late Thos.
Newton Boozer and Janie Longshore
Boozer of Newberry met at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Sligh at Newberry on Sunday,
September first.
Everyone gathered around the
bountifully laden tables in the spa
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given by Mr. Arlie Buff of West
Columbia.
After partaking of the picnic, they
were in conversation in the living
room and on the lawn. Pictures
were made later in the afternoon.
Those enjoying the occasion were
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sligh, New
berry; Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Malone,
and Miss Lula and Miss Ruth Booz
er, Greenwood; Mr. and Mrs. Arlie
Buff and daughter, Mittie Irene of
West Columbia; Mr. and Mrs. Frank
H. Boozer and Johnnie of West Co
lumbia; Mr. Bernard Sea of Lex
ington; Mr. Boozer of Lajeune, N. C..
At the close of a most happy day
all reluctantly returned to their
homes- looking forward to meeting
again next year.
Clarence Sligh.
CAPT. CHARLES B. FELLERS,
1507 College street is now on termi
nal leave until September 23 when
he will receive his official dis
charge from the Fort Bragg, N. C.,
separation center. He went into the
service on December 14, 1943 and
served one year and ten months
overseas, where he participated in
the battles of Central Europe and
the Rhineland. He wears the
EAMET ribbon.
CPL. RAYMOND LEE KOON,
route three, Newberry who has been
a member of the Marine Corps for
the past two years was honorably
discharged from the service at the
Camp Lejeune, N. C., separation
station on August 22.
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