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NEWBERRY, S. C.
O. F. Armfifld
Editor and Publisher
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Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937,
at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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command. Have Germans on an
over-all General Staff, but no
German General Staff.
The Germans are remarkably,
able to think and plan and ex
ecute; no soldier would deny
that.
Instead of pink-tea diplomats,
in endless conferences and bick
ering, we need a clear-cut plan
that will stand the strain of war.
Let us see clearly: it is war
that threatens the world, while
the diplomats build a house of
cards to serve as a\fortress.
By Tad Kesting
COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
Why should American men car
ry almost all the burden of the
Korean tangle, when the real
threat is the spread of Com
munism throughout the world?
A few British soldiers are now
ion the field but the brunt of the
war falls on us. Of course most
of the expense falls on us. Since
1917 the whole world has de
pended on us.
Something could be done to
lighten our burden: we could
adopt the suggestion made by
Winston Churchill and offer
arms to those who will supply
manpower. We are afraid to
re-arm Germany and Japan: I
am more concerned about saving
our American men.
I do not like to indulge in
twaddle or half-baked measures;
nor do I wish to lend myself to
any form or degree of hysteria.
Our need is man-power; the
British lack man-power. Although
America provided most of the
men for the European battles,
Britain was already drained deep
ly of her able-bodied men.
Since Communism threatens to
engulf all Europe, as well as
Asia, like a gigantic tidal wave
sweeping over everything, we
have two problems of today:
to stem that tide in Asia and to
build military forces like a great
dam in Europe to hold it in
check.
We cannot count strongly on
Britain, and we really can’t ex
pect much from France and
Italy. Are, we, then, to fill
Europe and Asia with American
boys? That is trying to swallow
too big a bite.
What shall we do? We can
get a million men from Japan
and Germany—trained, hardened
soldiers. Are we afraid of a half
latillion Japanese in Asia and a
half million Germans in Europe?
Well, we seem to face fifteen
million Russians, ready to sweep
over either Asia or Europe. What
is there to face the Russians?
The French, Belgians and Dutch?
Let’s stop dreaming and think
it terms of reality: The Powers
of Western Europe can’t hold
back the Russans unless we send
millions of men accross the At
lantic.
With the threat of Russian
aggression so great we might
use our brains to devise a means
for using the manpower of West
ern Germany and Japan, without
inviting a fresh upsurge of their
military arrogance. Is that be
yond the human brain? It doesn’t
seem so. America and Britain
could provide most of the arms,
while using the manpower. That
was Churchill’s cry in the second
World War: “Send us the
means to fight with; we have
the men.” Well today they have
more means than men—and lit
tle enoufh even of the means.
But, looking facts in the face,
we are preparing to supply the
men and the means; and, as we
are now operating, a larger de
mand will be upon us for both
men and means than was made
during the Second World War.
And it costs incredible sums
of money—$400,000,000,000—and
torrents of American blood.
Our problem is to avail the
cause—the cause, not ourselves—
of the available men of German
and Japan, without promoting a
fresh spurt of militarism in
either Country. That could be
done in organizing their men in
units not larger than brigades,
or dvisions, at separated points,
and without larger grouping ex
cept with Americans and Brit
ish and French, under American
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THE STATE
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R. B. BAKER, President DR. H. B. SENN, Vlce-Prest
LOUIS C. FLOYD, Secretary-Treasurer
1115 Boyce St.—Phone 196
NEWBERRY, S. C.
“The Doctors of America in
vite you to Come On In,” says
a big advertisement, addressed to
the businessmen of the United
States. What are the physicians
spreading as a feast to tempt the
businessmen?
Have the physicians waked up?
Have they become alarmed? la
there something to fear? Or, are
the doctors of medicine seeing
spooks? Could the doctors get
relief by compounding a strong
injection of. penicillin, strepto-
mysin, chloromycetn and aureo-
mysin? When we who call on
the physicians receive a loud
call from those great benefactors
we can’t resist the temptation
to prescribe for the gentlemen
of medicine a strong dose of
their own physic; and we feel
the urge to tell them that a few
days rest in bed and nothing fit
to eat will cure all the trouble.
What are the doctors afraid
of? Perhaps I’d better clear up
a point: these “doctors” are
doctors of medicine, the well
known “M.Ds.” we tell our trou
bles to, often in the wee hours
of the night, when all the world
is in deep slumber. No Doctors
of Oterature or Doctors of
Science, or Doctors of Laws in
vite us, but the tried and true
“M.Ds.,” who listen to every
body else’s aches and groanings
but have little time to pro
claim their own troubles. The
physicians are alarmed because
they fear our Nation is moving
toward Socialism.
The physicians say in their
advertisement: “The Medical
proffession’s $1,000,000 advertis
ing campaign is designed to tell
every America the truth about
State Socialism and the truth
about the achievements of our
voluntary medical care system.
The campaign affords a splendid
opportunity for business to tell
its story, too.” That is nice of
the doctors, but businessmen
have been telling the story for
fifteen years.” Businessmen have
also been fighting in Congress
and in the courts, as well, all
these years, while not only Soci
alists, but Communists, too,
have had the eager ear of our
Administration in Washington
and a strong support in Congress.
But we welcome the doctors,
even at this late hour. Perhaps
the doctors are the fresh shock-
troops come on the field of bat
tle just in time to put the
enemy to rout. Just as the Duke
of Wellington prayed that either
night should halt Napoleon, or
Blucher’s army should come with
fresh help, to hold the line, 6o
businessmen rejoice that the
great medical profession throws
its strength and influence in the
war against Socialism.
The physicians graciously in
vite businessmen to join them:
it is the other way: businessmen
are already in the fight; and
they are footsore and weary;
now let the doctors join the
businessmen who have tried to
keep the Government from driv
ing the Power industry from
private ownership to Government
ownership. Control, regulation,
by the Governments, State and
Federal, has long existed: now
Government ownership is the pro
gram. How about this, gentle
men of Medicine? Are you ready
to join the businessmen who are
now under attack by our Wash
ington Socialists?
The Washington bureaucrats
mean to take over the practice of
medicine, just as they mean
to own and control all the
power business; they will crawl
into other fields of business,
too. The occasion calls loudly
for a united front, against a
common enemy.
Physicians are great public
servants. In all climates; what
ever the hour; whatever the con
dition of time or ide or weather;
whatever the cidcumstances,
their gentle ministrations are the
nearest to the Healing Hand of
the Most High. The public will
take note of the threat to that
intimate relationship of physician
and patient.
Did you realize that almost
every wild hickory, walnut, but
ternut, pignut and king nut in
this country was planted by a
squirrel? Some scientists be
lieve it was squirrels which
speeded up the reforestation of
all the parts of North America
swept bare of life by the great
ice sheets of the glacial age.
And of all the squirels, the
gray is the most efficient tree
planter. Donald Curlross Peattie.
one of our most famous natural
ists, thinks that if the gray had
studied at the Yale School of
Forestry he couldn’t do better
by the woods.
The life of a gray squirrel
ties is the way they’re winning
new converts. A year ago there
were about 40 products going
into the new containers. Today
there are over 400, and the list
is mounting daily.”
RENTAL NOTICE
The entire second floor of the
“OLD OPERA HOUSE” or any
part thereof, is now available
for rent at very attractive terms.
It can be made into very, de
sirable and attractive offices for
insurance, lending agencies and
other types of business.
E. L. Blackwell
City Manager
20-3tc.
THE NEWBERRY SUN
usually begins at the end of
winter when mating is at its
height. Four or five young are
born about 44days after breed
ing. The babies don’t open their
eyes for 36 days, and are utterly
helpless for eight or nine weeks.
They are naked, their legs
ridiculously short, their ears
seemingly nonexistent, and the
tails give little promise of fu
ture beauty.
All this time they see nothing
of their father. In the first place
there is nothing he could do to
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1950
be useful. In the second place,
the male is by this time pursu
ing another mate. This is not
resented by the first; his promis
cuous behavior merely puts
more little squirrels in the world,
and who objects to that?
When a gray squirrel is big
enough .to walk and balance him
self, his mother puts him away
from her and he has to go and
look for his own breakfast. Then
the fun begins. And nature has
fitted him superbly to enjoy it.
He has big bright eyes, and a
nose that can smell anything
good to eat. His forepaws are
almost as mobile and cleverly
manpulated for handling things
as a raccoon’s; his hind legs are
coiled springs for jumping. And
finally nature has pinned on him
that preposterous yet elegant
tail.
Once in a squirrel’s lifetime
an impulse stronger than love
may overpower him—a wild de
sire to leave home. EJvery gray
squirrel within a hundred miles
travels with him. Studies in
Ohio and Wisconsn have shown
that these flights from nothing
to nowhere reoccur in cycles
of five years when the popula
tion has reached a peak of about
10.8 squirrels per acre. Back in
the region they have left, a
hunter will need an average of
11V4 hours to bag on squirrel!
But nature swiftly fills the void.
Soon again in early spring every
hollow tree has a nursery of
little suckling grays, preparing
to start on their madcap ex
istences.
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Effective Sept. 29,1
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NOTICE FOR BIDS
Office of Newberry County
Board of Commissioners, New
berry, S. C., will receive sealed
bids by 10:00 o'clock, A.M., Mon
day October 9th, 1950, for the
following items for the Second
Quarter—1950-1952:
LUMBER, NAILS, TIRES,
CONCRETE PIPE, PILING, RE
PAIR PARTS, GROCERIES,
CLOTHING (Convict), JANITOR
SUPPLIES, OFFICE SUPPLIES,
BOOKS, AND EQUIPMENT.
Complete specifications on
special forms may be obtained at
the Supervisor’s office in the
Courthouse. All bids must be
submitted on form furnished.
The right is reserved to re
ject any and all bids.
S. W. SHEALY,
Supervisor 20-2t.
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WE REGRET the necessity for this slight increase ?n prices but rising costs of operation make it nec
essary. Since we went into the ice business every single thing entering into the manufacture and de«
'livery has increased sharply and many items have doubled in price, but through all these years
have held our prices at just what we started with.
The increase we now make is necessary to keep us in business and to give you the service you have!
a right to expect, but even so ice prices are still little more than they were 20 years ago. ICtE is th<
cheapest thing you can buy today, so buy it EVERY DAY!!
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By Popular Demand, Production Concentrated on
Sensational New High-Compression 8-Cylinder Power Plant!
OVER 450,000 ’’ROCKETS’’ NOW ON THE ROAD!
"Rockets” and only "Rockets” are rolling off the production line at
Oldsmobile! Because of record-breaking public enthusiasm for this
famous engine, Oldsmobile is concentrating 100% on "Rocket**
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Plastic bottles? Here’s what
I’ve just read:
“The glass bottle, already
staggered by the competitive on-
ush of the tin can and fibre
container, is facing still another
threat: the plastic bottle, one-
fifth the weight of its glass
counterpart and shatterproof.
Its rise has been meteoric. The
first plastic bottles made their
commercial debute late in 1946.
In 1948 about 18 million were
produced, and in mid-1950 they
were rolling off production lines
at an estimated annual rate of
65 million. One big plastic mak
er thinks this will double by the
year-end. Even more optimistic
estimates put 1950 production at
close to 200 million,
compared with the output of
glass bottles, fibre containers
and cans, the plastic bottle is
still small peanuts, of course.
Glass bottles topped 12 billion
units in 1949.
But what gives cheer to both
the big chemical concerns which
produce the plastic and the
companies whch turn it into bot-
A G*n«ral Motors Volu*
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