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By SPECTATOR.. COMMENTS OD MEN AND THING What’s in a name? Someone In- qaired years ago. Let us see: The Bamberg Herald than which, etc., carries this headline over an edito rial: "Brother Edgar disagrees.’’ Now, tell me, in one guess, who is Brother Edgar? Well, you are wrong; this Brother Edgar is a much smaller man, much less im portant than the man you had in mind. Naturally you thought, as I did, that the brother who disagreed was our well known Senator from Barn well, a distinguished figure in our public life and a staunch champion of sound finance in our State Gov ernment. Not that our Brother Ed gar wastes his energy and time in disagreeing, but he is so pre-emi nent in the state that if the headline says “Brother Edgar” we turn our gaze toward Barnwell. The "Brother Edgar" headlined in the Herald of Bamberg is just Ed gar Eisenhower, brother of the President, and an excellent citizen but not well known hereabouts. The “Brother Edgar,” that is, Mr. Eisenhower, has this to say, to gether with a brief comment by The Herald: “The burdensome taxes, the inva sion of states’ rights, the lack of adequate labor safeguards, the sub sidies and the uncommon preoccu pation over ‘security’ ... all have come from the Congress over the years.” It was not a southern ora tor who said those words. It was Mr. Eisenhower, brother of the president. He had a lot of other things to say, too, all of which sounded good to Southern ears. For one thing he called on the country to stop ‘rushing down the road to so cialism. I wish the President had been guided by this brother of his instead of falling a victim of all the Social istic schemes of wild spenders. • • • I wish a President might act ac cording to sound principles of gov ernment and economics. I should like a President to stand squarely for the fundamentals instead of bowing to the pressures of the va rious groups. We are burdened with aO sorts of fantastic plans and schemes and programs, each to gratify toms group, while the overwhelming ma jority of the people bear the burdeae of those favored dementi I should like to begin with that very futile and misleading foreign aid foohshnees. which should be broken off root and branch Of all the utter rwhcuious eeaseaee noth- MIDWAY CLINTON, 8. C KRJ. A SAT. NOV. 21*22 THE MAN FROM DEL RIO I at Rua ing surpasses in iniquity the throw ing away abroad billions of taxpay ers’ money, while heavily burdening our citizens and our business at home. No man and no nation can buy respect or confidence: we need to rebuild ourselves as a nation of character, rather than as a well spring of fabulous wealth. All our people should be equal be fore the law, but the very people who prate most of such a principle, sponsor such injustice as the grad uated income tax. Then we have favored groups, representing votes, blocs, not jus tice. Wouldn’t it be thrilling to have a vigorous, sturdy figure in the White House, a man of the stature ot George Washington. Even a Grover Cleveland would so far surpass the time-servers and political figures of recent years. Although I respect President Ei senhower, I wonder at his recent declarations against the Demo crats, for Mr. Eisenhower has dis appointed most of us, I think. How much worse the spending might have been is a matter of conjecture; it was terrific. Of course Pm not impressed by little Harry’s strutting, but the Con gress, together with the President, has dived headlong into the Trea sury, scattering money all about— and running wild. We should take the Supreme Court in hand; and we should stern ly prescribe the functions and scope of the various commissions. I have not mentioned the michievous ac tivities of the Department of Justice It has become meddlesome and op pressive. We need to revert to some phases of the simple life, for example, in the matter of Inter-State Com merce. Interstate Commerce was conceived originally as goods pass ing from one state into another state. Now a hen laying an egg in Saluda is subject to inter-state reg ulation if that egg is boiled in Mis souri Furthermore we have stretch ed and strained all the laws so as to aggrandise the National Govern ment and supercede state jurisdic tion. • • • I love South Carolina and know my Stale well. Among the delightful towns is old Edgefield. 1 lived there two happy years. So let me teO you what the Edgefield Advertiser has to any: "Hie Town of Edgefield was never very large la fact tt was generally deaignatcd as Edgefield Village not too many yean ago But if la a place that has the distinction of achieving first place in many dam Perhaps our readers will thu* at athsn Pint Baptist School m the South estahlishod to prepan young men tor the ministry (as a feeder la higher MsUtuUoaai was Punnaa is the Utotod States and first pres idant of the South Csrihai Baptist — Al Out of that SWAMP WOMAN Kr. * SUNDAY NOV. X* SNOW FIRE Irt Run By MOLLY and BOB McGowan IP TOO DO ITT READ TOO DOITT GET THE NEWS 74 Bring us your Doctor's Prescriptions • When there is illness in the household, you want the ietf professional service available. That is why we urge you so bring prescriptions here, where precise compounding is a spe cialty; where each step is double- cbecked for accuracy; and where prices arc uniformly fair. HOWARD’S PHARMACY PHONB 111 T son' street m R leads to the site of Dr. Jihnesn’s home and school for young ladles which be contact ed. A monument to his memory is in the Baptist cemetery although heis buried in Anderson. The First Baptist Church of Edge- field is the first and only church in South Carolina theft has had as pas tor two men who served as preo ident of the Southern Baptist Con vention: Dr. Johnson tnd Dr. Ro bert G. Lee (only one other church in the Southern Baptist Convention hss a similar record: the First Bap tist Church of New Orleans that has been served by Dr. Lee and Dr. J. D. Grey.) First Catholic Church to be nam ed after dogma of immaculate con ception of Mary was the Church of T—anilaln Conception at Edge- fiald, dedicated in Ortbosr, 1*80 It is generally called St. Mary’s and is a very beautiful building con structed of native granite. Edgefield is the birthplace of the man who founded the first leper colony in China under Baptist aus pices: John Lake. Tai-Kam Leper Colony is now in Communist hands but the work of John Lake will never die. He was born in the Plea sant Lane section, ordained in the Village Baptist Church, and sleeps in the village cemetery. The first Ordinance of Secession adopted by any Southern State was written by Chancellor Francis Hugh Wardlaw of Edgefield. The Edge- field Historical Society placed a marker over the gravee of Chancel lor and Mrs. Wardlaw in AugMt at the annual meeting The first Confederate War, Gov ernor of any state was Francis Wil kinson Pickens of Edgefield, who was elected governor shortly after he resigned as United States Minis ter to Russia and reached South Carolina late in 1880. The first cannon ball fired by Federal troops at the opening of the War Between the States is in the home of Dr. and Mrs R. B. Duno- vant. It was brought to Edgefield by General R. G. M. Dunovant, on duty with State Mihtia, when the first shots were fired off Charleston. Edgefield was the home of the first and only man to serve as gov ernor of both South Carolina and Florida; Pierce Mason Butler. Later Butler, as colonel orthe famous Palmetto Regiment in the Mexican War, was killed at Cherubusco while leading his men. It was Butler who wrote to- General Worth a letter commending Lt. Col. Dickenson as an officer who desired ‘ a place in the picture a little nearer the flash ing of the guns . . . Please accept him on your personal staff, and let him have it.’ Butler paid with bis life as did Dickenson Edgefieldians have ever desired a place in the picture, even as the young officer from Camden did, and have faced the firing of the guns fearlessly Edgefield is the only county out side of (Tiarleoton to have furnished South Carolina with ten governors and five lieutenant-governors, as fol lows: Governors Andrew Pickens, Jr, George McDuffie, Pierce Mason Butler. James H. Hammond. F W Pickens, M. L. Bonham, Benjamin Ryan Tillman, John Gary Evans, John C. Sheppard. J. Strom Thur mond, Lieutenant Governors EWred Simkms, W H. Timmerman. James H Tillman, J C Sheppard, James 0. Sheppard Edgefield is the birthplace of the first and only man to be presiden tial candidate of the States Rights Democrats: Strom Thurmond, in 1948. who polled more than one million popular votes Even today one meets people from all parts of the South whs state 1 voted for Thurmond in IMA’ The first (and only) Red Shirt Shrine is ‘Oakley Park’ in Edge- field, given to Edgefield by Former Governor John Gay Evan* in mem ory of his uncle, General Martin Witherspoon Gary, who promoted the so-called Red Shirt Campaign in 1878 when radical was eradicated and Wade Hampton waa elected governor on a Democratic platform. The only newspaper in South Carolina that has remained in con stant circulation with its original identity the longest length of time is The Edgefield Advertiser, estab lished in 1838 This paper offers a salute to the distinguished municipal visitors in our midst today. V\ On December 3 we will open our new store in Clinton. We wont the people to know something obout how we started and our aims • » In January of 1921, with only six months experience and five hundred borrowed f * dollars, our first store was started in Spartanburg From the first day I loved the food business and at the end of the first six months I found that my store was op erating at a profit. During the next ten years the going was hard The depression of the late twenties and early thirties almost mowed us under In 1927 Mr Paul M Smith joined me, and for 31 years we hove worked side % by side In 1948 my son, Broadus R Littlejohn, Jr., also joined us We hove worked together os o team In 1932, sensing the change in the food business, we started our second store. Then year by year we have added stores, until our new store will moke our twenty-sixth. Our new store in your town will be our largest and most modern We come wonting to be good neighbors We want to become o port of your town ond shoulder the responsibilities of o good citizen. We expect to earn our way and merit your bus iness. Our definite aim is to make our store such a pleasant place to buy your food that you will soon think of the Community Cash Store as "My Store/* Mr. Edward Perry, the manager, has been with us since finishing high school. * mi He is o man of character ond ability. I am sure you will enjoy knowing him ond his fomHy. - ' Sincerely, 4 BROADUS R LITTLEJOHN