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\ t THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 20. 1046 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARM FI ELD 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 the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. - COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR The campaign is over; the tumult and the shouting dies. J. Strom Thurmond will be governor, George Bell Timmerman will be Lieutenant Governor, Jesse T. Anderson will be Superintendent of Education. The citizens have registered their will and we should cheerfully work to gether for the good of the state. Mr. Thurmond will probably make some gesture of cordiality to ward his recent competitors and their supporters so that his admini stration may have a united State in support of it. As I pointed out some time ago, the Governor has power as well as influence; he can be the dominant voice of the State. Governors have too tamley submitted to Legisla tive usurpation. South Carolina should begin a program of strict economy and re trenchment. ■ We should use every intelligent means to promote effi cient administration. I mean that some simple measures should be adopted that will assure more value to the State for each dollar spent. In saying that, I am not willing to let it be a sort of pious platitude; let us see for ourselves: We should have CENTRAL PURCHASING that would be available to Counties and municipalites, well as to the State. We do not need a new Com- mssion for this; the present effi cient Secretary of the Commission on State Printing would be an ad mirable choice. The Commission should be Executive strictly, as the Constitution requires. The water of the State should be analyzed by the State Chemist, not by a private chemist. There should be a State Police force, built around the State Highway Patrol, and including all State police and field enforcement officers, with appropriate coopera tion with all County and municipal enforcement officials. The State should reduce taxes so as to attract investment. The State should regulate awards of Puntitive Damages. The State should investi gate municipal government and re gulate the over-all burden on tax payers now' caused by overlapping tax liens (including multifarious local bond issues). The State should return to Consti tutional government. It should challenge in court every bob-tail bill, eveiy deficiency appropriation bill, every Free Conference Report containing new matter, or itmes exceeding those passed by either House. The State should regulate the road program so that no new bond issues might be made and so that half the gasoline revenue should be applied to the fund to pay Highway bonds. Instead of everybody rising to propose new or additional spending let some group start a movement to clean house from within. Of course the Farmers & Taxpayers League could arouse the State and bring the pressure, but why wait for that? A wolf in sheep‘s clothing; the voice of Jacob and the hand of Esau. Do you remember? Or is your rec ollection hazy? Well my mind is woolgathering for I have not quot ed correctly in either case: so let’s get it right. When Jacob played a trick on his brother, Esau, the old father, Isaac, blind and feeble, said when Jacob appeared, claiming to be Esau, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau”. And the Great Teacher said: “Beware of false prophets, come to you ;n sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves”. False prophets and wolves are all about us. The false prophets speak words of promise, with honey drip ping. Indeed the gentle little lambs are admitted to your chicken yard and then show their fangs; de vouring your chickens. America has let in some false pro phets and they are doing great harm. Of course America was the haven ,the refuge, of oppressed people. But not all were oppressed; millions came here to enjoy all the good things that made America great and then to saw away at the foundations of our nation. It is time to change our Constitu tion. In it we should restrict free dom of speech, freedom of assembly —and all other freedoms which are used to overthrow the fundamental principles of our government. I do not advocate any abridgement of American liberties as we may de termine what America is, or ought to be; but we must deal practically with the problem of sabotage, which would crush the first principles of America. A most singular thing it is that people still talking and thinking in broken English should be permitted to conduct campaigns against the America of Amercans; they are try ing to make something else of America. There is such a thing as self-preservation, and we Americans might well throttle the Trojan Horse which has come into our gates with enemies. Late, indeed, but timely still, some of our business leaders are waking up. The vast majority are still asleep, as are most other citi zens. But a great Company pre sents the first principles of business to the public. See how simple: “You can NOT legislate arithmetic —every scoholboy knows that the price of an article is the sum of the materials in it wages needed to make it taxes taken by government profit without which the manu facturer couldn’t stay in busi ness. Add them all together, and you have the price of the product. In crease the size of any one of them, and the price goes up. And, of course, the higher the price, the fewer people who can buy it. The fewer who buy it, the fewer jobs there will be in the factory. In crease labor’s share by taking away the profit, as some suggest. Even if you took all the profit, labor would gee only 4 cents more added to each $1 they now receive. And naturally the companies would go out of business and then labor would get nothing. Increase labor’s share by reducing taxes? Abso lutely sound. Cut the waste out of government, and business would be delighted to share the saving with their workmen. And there is an other way workmen can get more. If they produce more efficently, the cost per piece goes down. Then the price of the finished product can remain the same but with more dol lars in total, for labor to share. Anyone who tells a workman he can get more without producing more should get back to playing with blocks .. . 2 plus 2 still equals 4. You can’t change that by laws.” All that seems simple but Presi dent Truman and Henry Wallace didn’t seem to know it when they ignorantly inspired the strikes a year ago. Strange that a well-edu cated man shouldn’t know better. The truth is that few people think; most people read headlines and jump to conclusions. We are fed on propaganda, sometimes deliberate lies, and sometimes artful varia tions of the truth or delusive mis representations. We have heard much about a strike that has already passed the hundredth day. Let us hear what that Company has to say about it; “You have wondered, no doubt, why the strikes at our plants have continued for well over 100 days. You probably have said to yourself, ‘Why don’t they give them 18 1-2 cents and settle it?’ It’s not as easy as that! You see, we offered our unions 18 1-2 cents before they ever went on strike. The next question is: ‘If it’s not wages, what are the issifes?’ Our problems center around a major issue that faces all industry today . . . whether WE are going to run our shops or whether irresponsible union leadership is go ing to run them. To state it di rectly . . . our superintendents and foremen are going to supervise pro duction of equipment for you, not the union stewards! We are not going to contract to discharge an employee, regardless of techical knowledge at the whim of union leaders. The Labor Department told the unions our plants would be seized . . . the unions then could negotiate a contract with some government agency ... a contract that no sound management could afford to give. From that moment en, collective bargaining went out of the window. Our unions refused to settle their strikes around the bargaining table. Their whole strategy was based on the seizure plan. The union leadership is not ready to get down to real collective bar gaining . . . We have repeatedly de manded that they do so. We are continuing to demand that they genuinely try to settle our strikes. Have you considered the conse quences, if We had sat by and meekly let our plants be seized? If this national pattern had develop ed, whose plants would have been seized next? How long would it take before other unions demanded government seizure, instead of bargainin'' out an agreement around the confer ence table? Seizure! Then how long before the majority of American industry v ould be under government control . . . nationalized? Nationalization of industry, you know ,is one of the prime objectives of the Communist Party. But it takes two to make a bar gain . . . We can’t settle our dif ficulties until the union leaders are ready to sit around the table and bargain collectively ... so, you see, it’s not a matter of an 18 1-2 cents an hour. It’s not as easy as that! CAR HEATERS Let us install a Heater in your car before cold weath er. expert Carburetor and Elec- irical service. IVE SPECIALIZE IN AUTO AND TRUCK REPAIRS SEASE MOTOR COMPANY Your PACKARD Dealer ?1 3 Friend St. Phone 37-M The Veteran’s Corner Funds were recently approved to enable the Veterans Administra tion to provide an automobile or other conveyance for World War II veterans who lost one or both legs in service. Answers to some of the most fre quently asked questions are: Q. Who is entitled to a car? A. Each World War II veteran who is entitled to compensation un der VA laws for loss, or loss of use, of one or both legs at or above the ankle. Q. What is the maximum which may be paid for an auto? A. $1,600, including special equipment. Q. Is addtional compensation al lowed for maintenance, repairs, re placements and accessories other than standard equipment such as radio or heater? A. No. Q. Will the VA pay the $1,600 on a vehicle of greater purchase price if the veteran pays the difference? A. No. Q. What’s the dealine for filing claim? A. The claim must be completed by June 30, 1947. Q. Will the veteran be reim bursed for a car already purchased? A. No. Q. What conveyance can be pur chased? A. New or used automobiles, jeeps, trucks, station wagons, trac tors and other conveyances upon approval of the Veterans Admini stration in Washington, D. C. Q. Must the veteran have an op erator’s license? A. Yes, and he must satisfy the motor vehicle requirements of the state in which he resides. Q. Who determines whether the veteran is able to operate the car? A. The state licensing agency. Q. Where does the veteran make application? A. He may apply in person or write his nearest VA office and ob tain an application as well as advice and assstance in completing the form. Q. From whom may the veteran buy his car? A. He may select the seller of his choice. Q. Who determines special at tachments and devices necessary to operate the vehicle safely? A. The state licensing agency. Pointing out that the mailing of terminal leave applications to the Veterans Administration will only serve to delay receipt of payments, A. M. McWhirter, Contact Repre sentative, emphasized yesterday that all terminal leave matters are handled directly by the armed serv ices and not by the VA. Mr. McWhirter said that the Vet erans Administration Center, Co. lumbia, was receiving numerous terminal leave applications, neces sitating that they may be forward ed to the proper armed service of fice, thus delaying the receipt of terminal leave pay by the veteran. “We shall be glad to assist veter ans in making out their applications if help is needed,” Mr. Groeschal, manager VA center, Columbia said, “but when the completed applica tions are forwarded to us there is nothing we can do but again for ward them.” This, it was pointed out, not only delays receipt of terminal leave pay, but places an added burden of work on Veterans Administration person nel, and delays their processing of other veterans’ affairs. Full mailing instructions are _ in cluded on page two of the terminal elave application blank as to where the application should be mailed. Blanks may be obtained from any U .S. Postoffice. WE ARE READY This-Newberry owned Company was organized for Newberry Folks. We have every plan that you may v need. You pick out the car and let us know what you need, we will .do the rest. Our service is Reasonable, Quick and Confidential. DON’T SELL YOUR WAR BONDS. Save them for a rainy day. Pay tor your car out of your present earnings. When you need financial assist ance, let us know. “E. B. Purcell, Your Private Banker” NEWBERRY INS. & REALTY CO. Phone 197 Exchange Bank Building with every DAVIS “HS-SPEED” TRUCK TIRE Ifow’s the time and here’s the place to mak« a double saving on those tires you need! Davis rayon-cord truck tires are cooler-running, longer-running and fully-guaranteM . . so your saving is made with safety! Come in; see us today! Sample Saving: ; 7.00/20 10-ply. Ceil. ; ..$52.92*' ? 7.00/20 Tube. Ceil._.. 6.82* TOTAL NOW both for only....' 6.00/16 6-ply. Now...$18 7.50/16 6-ply. No\*... 3 8.25/20 10-ply. Nowk. 58.76* i FREE Tube with all above tires! Other Sisea—Similar Savings R. P. MEDLEY 1310 Main St* Newberry, S. C. DINE AT ADAM'S CAMP ON BEAUTIFUL LAKE MURRAY The owners of Adam’s Camp wish to take this means of thanking their many friends throughout the state, who patronize them for those fam ous meals, which are served in one of the largest and most modern buildings in the state. You are invited to pay Ad&pi’s Camp a visit on beautiful Lake Murray, and meet your friends at the same time. The Camp specializes in serving the different civic clubs, Sunday School classes, church organiza tions, ball teams, and any other gathering that would like to come. Just drop them a card in advance, and they will be glad to make ar rangements for you. Adv. MISS FOWLER TO WED MR. WILLIAMS The fololwing invitations has been received in Newberry and else where: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Otto Fowler request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Dorothy Jeanne to Mr. Otho Benson Williams on Saturday, the twenty-eighth of September at nine o’clock in the morning Blessed Sacrament Church Kansas City, Missiouri IRON TONIC TAKE YOUR DRUGGIST A I il [# HAS IT A-rlfl WANTED—Scrap iron, brass, cop per, lead, zinc, aluminum, pewter, old batteries, radiators, all kinds of rags, old waste cotton, mattress cot ton. Also old feather beds and pil lows filled with goose or duck fea thers. We also have a nice line of groceries. W. H. Sterling, Vincent street. WANT TO BUY— Geese, Ducks, Rabbits, Pigeons, Bantams. R. DERRILL SMITH, Wholesale Gro cer, Newberry, S. C. 3-8tn FOR SALE—Two mules, two 2- horse wagons; 1 3-row Cole grain drill; several thousand feet second hand lumber. H. O. LONG & SONS, Silverstreet, S. C. A23tnc WANTED TO RENT-^4 or 5 room unfurnished house or apartment. Contact Joe M. Robert in care A. J. Bowers, Jr. 9-13-3tp FOR SALE!—Seed Barley, wKeal and oats. Also Crimson Clover seed. H. O. LONG & SON, Silver- street, S. C. FOR RENT—U pit airs space at J. H. Summer’s store for storing of furniture. Apply at J. H. Sum mer Store. 9-13-3tc WANTED—FURNISHED APART. MENT FOR MAN AND WIFE. MEMBERS OF NEWBERRY COL LEGE FACULTY. Please telephone 245. Dr. Jas. C. Kinard. 9-6-tnc WANTED—Room for male labora tory technician. Prelev room near County Hospital on Hunt street.*Call 16. 916-13c EXPERT STOVE REPAIRING— I have in stock all parts for any make of stove or range. Have your ^love renovated and repaired now for the coming winter. Parts are scarce, so let me know now, in or der that I may have your stove ready when you need it. I have lin ings for all wood-burning heaters. TOM BRIGMAN FOR SALE—Several good building lots on either Johnstone or Ran dall Street—prices reasonable. R. Derrill Smith, Newberry, S. C. Tele phone 88. 9-6,13c Loans! 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