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THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1M7 12 18 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher Published Every Friday. Entered as second-lass mat ter December 6, 1937, at the postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Con gress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year in advance; outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. CLASSIFIED RATES: Two cents per word, minimum of 35c; three insertions for price of 2. Long term rates on request. SPECTATOR Practical people, we Ameri cans? Are we practical Are we efficient Or, do we just “get by” in happy-go-lucky fash ion? We bungle badly in our relations .with other nations. That is nothing new. The ques tion is too important to be a matter of President Truman or Mr. Hoover. Our bungling has been by Republicans and Demo crats; it is really American. Observe us today, in our deal ing with Russia: The Atlantic Charter was a typical example of exalted principles which had no real meaning. While the weak nations built their hopes on it, Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Churchill and Mr. Stalin were calmly preparing to dominate the world. Of course, America would probably have given back whatever she took—we can be lieve that; but observe Mr. Stal in! We call upon our nation to give hundreds of millions of dol lars to stop Russian aggression, but we would tamely and hope fully negotiate with Russia. This nation has given, or promised to other countries, twenty billion dollars since the fighting stopped! Long ago Germany, China, France—and all the others should have been producing their own food. Noth ing but bungling is costing this country all the billions. How much more of this can we stand? To lend a man the money to buy your goods is not sound merchandising. A merchant wouldn’t do that. We cannot conceive of a merchant neglect ing cash customers of his own neighborhood in order to culti vate doubtful credit customers who live far away, even beyond our courts. If we could use the brains of our people, without political bias or personal selfish interest, we might proceed sensibly. Let us look at our business in simple terms. We hope to main tain markets for our goods. Well, even more simply, we want to keep our farmers and factories busy at good prices. If the farmers make a good crop of wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco— and everything else—and sell the crops at a good profit, that is farm prosperity, provided the farmer can buy at a price with in the general range of what he receives. There isn’t any prosperity for a farmer who sells cotton at thirty five cents a pound if he must pay $1500 for a $500 article.. If our mills can sell at a good profit all they can rttanufacture at full time, they will have prosperity, provided that their expenses, in cluding wages, raw materials, taxes, etc., do not “lick the plat ter clean”. There is no appeal to an investor to invest hjs money in a concern which can not do more than pay wages and taxes. If the farmers do well; if they prosper: and if our indust ries do well—and prosper, what .difference does it make to our farmers wherther they sell their cotton to South Carolina mills, or to England? The obvious answer is that a farmer is on firmer ground in South Carolina than in England. Well, what difference does it make to American industry whether our manufactures are sold in Ameri ca or in Russia? It is to our ad vantage to cultivate the market nearest to us. It is more to the advantage of American industry to sell in America than to sell abroad. Then the problems is to have ,ood prices fr the farm er and l jyers for what he pro duces, as well as what our mills manufacture. The great and abundant prosperity which ev erybody talks about—and hopes for—is not dependent on foreign trade; it depends on being able to sell our products, wherever a good price is offered. While so many Americans Eire under fed and underclothed and un derhoused we have a great market at home. If the billions we send abroad to build trade were spent here we should have all the tradb we could handle. That isn’t true in the case of England; unless she can sell and buy abroad she will starve to death. In our case I sometimes suspect our leaders of bamboozling the nation. I have no reference to char ity; I am discussing the practi cal phases of commerce. Even in charity we have been stupid, we, the British and the Rus sians, in not having Europe ful ly self-supporting a year ago. What inconceivably great men and wbmen must have been those rugged Southerners who came back from the Civil War and dug a scant subsistence from the ground, without help, even irritated by the Federal Government! When you hear the cry of the French, the Bel- giums, the Italians—and others —you should lift your hat to the Confederate monument in your county seat. Surely those were heroic figures, sustained by noble women and their faith in Jehovah. When I visited the devastated areas of France and Belgium in 1919 I told my Northern com panions about the South—towns burned, homes destroyed, stock confiscated, fields full of weeds, hungry women and children. To this condition came the weary, ragged veteran of the South— but without a whimper. He went to work. Shall we bring the fallen sol diers home from the battle-fields of the world? That will prob ably be decided by the interest ed family in each case. A South Carolina lady, now living in Europe, writes about the ceme teries in which lie Americans who died overseas. Our friend thinks it would be better to let the fallen men remain in honor where they fell. The late Theodore Roosevelt had that idea about his son, the flyer, who was killed in the first World War. But I’ll quote the lady’s letter and let her speak to you. She says: “We visited the large ceme tery at Luxembourg which is lo cated on the slope of a small hill, at the foot of which are pines. There are rows upon rows of white crosses, each has the dog tag nailed on the back and name and serial number on front. The way an officer can be told from an enlisted man is by his serial number beginning with O. They are all side by side. “We met out there our Ameri can Charge-d’ Affaires, Mr. Geo. Paul Waller, who was out for the weekly ceremony. He was quite nice to us and invited us to visit with him. “Each week a different com-, munity parades out to the graves, plays and sings and places flowers on the graves that section has adopted (each family has adopted a grave and puts flowers on it quite often). We saw the parade headed by a wreath about 6 by 8 feet, also many children carrying small wreaths and pot plants. It was also headed by an American flag draped in black crepe and played the Stars Spangled Ban ner. It was good to see first hand the respect being paid our boys by a neutral country that realizes what those boys did for them'. “I feel that if many of the boys were sent home they wouldn’t receive the care Ameri can graves are geting from the Government.” Once we started after the Communists we found them ev erywhere, didn’t we? There is danger, of course, of becoming overwrought, but there is far more danger in becoming indif ferent. If a man or woman has a Communist tendency it would be like risking the barrel of apples rather than throw out one, if we let them pollute opinion. We have something worth preserving in this Coun try. The Congressional Committee now studying Un-American acti vities finds Communism stalk ing in Universities and Colleges. Many professors like to throw rocks at our American business. Indifference to hard realities is regarded as a symptom of the superior mind. Most of us know or have seen the strutting type of man who is vulgarly rich, or a cheap braggart. But the big business of this nation is something built on. the sweat, blood and sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of men and women and sustained by hard and per sistent work. We have a high standard of living in America and enjoy more than the people of any other country. We should uproot all those who would undermine the foundations of our country. I will quote the Asspciated Press account from Washington: “The house committee on the un-American activities declared today that “the specter of Com munism stalks our college cam puses masked under the cloak of the American Youth for de mocracy” and called upon state governors and school heads for a thorough expose of the rgani- zation. , The committee, in a lengthy blast against AYD, said that “gracing various AYD enter tainments, meetings and cam paigns, or contributing to its magazine, Spotlight, is the usual list of sponsors which are invar iably found supporting the Com munist party and its front orga nizations.” “In a report to the house, the committee said American Youth for Democracy has headquarters in New York City—formerly located at 13 Astor place “in the same building with a number of other Communist-controlled or ganizations” — and claims 60 chapters in colleges in 14 Puts any size region* TIRE ON YOUR CAR! 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The series of eight transcriptions is entit led “So You Want to Stay Mar ried.” It is directed by Carlton E. Morse, famous author and producer of the radio program, “One Man’s Family.” Mr. Morse has been secured to write and produce this special program on marriage by The Upper Room of the Methodist Church. Those appointed to consult with Mr. Morse and review his scripts for the actual programs were, Bish op Ralph S. Cushman, Dr. J. Manning Potts, Dr. Hazen G. Werner, Mrs. Evelyn Duvall, Dr. Elvin C. Myers, and Dr. Roy H. Short. The Christian Crusaders’ Class of Young Adults of the O’Neal Street Methodist church are sponsoring this series with the hope that many young adults and young people will profit by it. Prospects of the value of the program were recently giv en the Newberry County Minis terial association and received its hearty approval. A favorite spot has been afforded by sta tion WKDK making it possible for many people to hear it These courtesies are greatly ap preciated by our Christian people. states and a total membership of 16, 194. It is “neither American nor democratic in its origin or pur poses,” the committee said. “Manipulated by shrewd and specially trained organizers op erating in a narrow circle be hind the scenes, it endeavors to exploit to the advantage of a foreign power the idealism, the inexperience, and the craving to join, which is so characteristic of our college youth. “Behind a veil of a multitude of high-sounding slogans, one is conscious of a determined effort to disaffect our youth and turn them against the college auth orities, and agaTnst the Ameri can government itself. “It is indeed a training school in law lessness. Its methods are under handed and devious, in line with the Trojan horse policy initiated at the seventh Congress of the Communist International.” “The Committee said here is a “growing conviction that the Communist party and the American Youth for Democracy are part of an international con spiracy seeking to undermine and destroy democratic coun tries throughout the world in the interest of Soviet aggrand izement.” In some states, the committee said, “the young Communists have even pene trated the Young Democrats.” Announcement! We have bought out the “M” System Store and we want our friends and customers to know that in the future we will endeavor to give you the best service that we can render, and the best quality merchandise that we can buy a the lowest prices. We want to thank the customers of the store and will appreciate your con tinued patronage. We are here ready to serve you. The personnel other than the owners will be the same. System Store H. TOM LONG Owners J. R. FORD A Gift Wrapped Package From Carpenter’s . . . May nth, is the day we celebrate for Mother . . . tho ) we all know that every day is Mothers Day . . . A gift wrapped package from Carpenter’s would be nice for her .. . We have many items ready for your choosing. C ar P enter ’ s NEWBERRY. S. C.