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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!
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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
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We have every plan that you may v
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us know what you need, we will .do
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DON’T SELL YOUR WAR
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Pay tor your car out of your present
earnings.
When you need financial assist
ance, let us know.
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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
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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
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near County Hospital on Hunt
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I have in stock all parts for any
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ready when you need it. I have lin
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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
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