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FRIDAY. MSI'ti, 1946 *#u» 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher Published Every Friday In The Year Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1P37, at tht postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SPECTATOR The General Assembly deserves applause for passing the bill to re duce the Capital Stock Tax and the bill of Senator George Warren to provide for a Business-getting Board. This title is my own inven tion. The Capital Stock Tax was in creased one mill as a school emer gency measure and should have been reduced years ago. But even of more value than the one mill reduction in itself is'the spirit which it proves. We have many sound and safe men in the Legislature. The chief lament is that the safest and soundest men are sometimes too modest and re tiring. South Carolina is not a narrowly partisan State in matters of group or occupational legislation; usually all sides or groups or interests can be assured of a hearing. No one asks that anything be done to promote business; the only re quest is that business be given a fair field and free opportunity. I may say that for nine years I have been cooperating in the effort to persuade the Legislature to remove the emr- gncy one mill in the Capital Stock tax. Years ago we were about to succeed, it seemed, when the Tax Commission urged that the basis' of calculating the tax should be chang ed. One Charleston friend said that this would increase his taxes $600; another friend would be increased $2000. The present bill at long last redeems the good faith of the State. South Carolina? Incredible! Governor Ransome J. Williams says that if South Carolina can’t find three good men for the liquor jobs this State should surrender its charter. Now is it possible that the astute and alert reporters mis quoted the Governor? Every Confederate monument should cry out in protest. Shades of John C. Calhoun, Robert Y. Hayne, Robert E. Lee! Surrender its char ter? Who gave a charter to South Carolina? South Carolina, Governor, was one of the thirteen States which created the American Union! Tho*e thirteen States, then, chartered the Nation! Surrender the charter? Can it be that these words came from the Ups of the Governor of A thousand businessmen could transform South Carolina and make this a really great state. In that group would be every class of busi ness, including farmers newspaper men, physicians, lawyers, dentists, garagemen—all who operate a busi ness or live from the income of op erations. One thousand about twenty two men from each County could lead their countries, their towns and our State in the race for economic development. Lets simplify that; they could show the way to more bus iness, more sustained business. That is our big need. We want to create, develop, or sustain jobs for all our people because our business prosper ity depends on the buying power of the masses. I am not socialistic; I do not ad vocate the creation of jobs or the guarantee of wages by the State. I am advocating that we explore the possibilities of South Carolina and act on the ascertained facts. I do not mean that the Legislature should do this. What we should, ask of the Legislature is a clearance—a green light. So far as we may have laws or practices harmful to business, or discouraging to investors we should show these barriers to the Legisla ture and call for a clear road, peace and opportunity But our troubles are primarily our own lack of initiative and resourcefulness rather than leg islative impediments. Even if the Legislature should repeal all the laws and enact all the measures, we ad- vocte we should be only in a period or condition of tranquillity. Ceme teries are tranquil places. We need, above all, vision, knowledge, and courage among ourselves. We have money. South Carolina has enough money on deposit to build 500 plants at ten million dollars apiece. We have that in cold cash, without using our credit. The fault, then, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. The Legislature, as I’ve said, plays a minor part, though it is important. We have Congress and our Legis lature in session. The outlook is for the end of the war before the first of July, 1946. It appears that the nation will then face a serious read justment How can it be avoided? Do we mean to continue to operate factories with three shifts? Even if we could find markets for peace time goods, what about the three- shift war production? Is the United States to lend or give fifty billion dollars a year to foreign nations so they may buy our gods? Shall we continue to drain the capital re sources of this country so as to pay it back in wages? How long could we keep that up? As rational men, we know that a re-adjustment is unavoidable; and it will bring about a considerable let down. How does our Legislature face that? By frugally conserving the cash on hand; by adopting a program -“iWILD. LIFE SOUTH CAROLINA WITH PROF FRANKLIN SHERMAN HEAD-CLENISON COLLEGE • DEPT OF ZOOLOGY MOLE-CRICKET This insect belongs to the cricket family, but on account of its peculiar atru'cture and its burrowing habits it is known as mole-cricket. We have two distinct but similar species in South Carolina. Mole-crickets a re from 1 to 1 1-2 inches long fully grown and winged, and in this adult stage they often fly and aer attracted to bright lights. They are brown in color, can crawl or run with moderate rapidity, and even jump a little. They are enough crfcket-like in looks so that the name is appropriate. The most peculiar feature is that their front legs are very stout and broad suggestive of the front paws of a mole (mammal), and they use them in the same way: to burrow through the earth. They usually live where the soil is moist and sandy burrowing active ly just below the surface and feeding on tender sprouts and rotlets, often causing considerable damage. Speci mens have been sent to us from vari ous pats of the state by person whose interest was aroused by the curious front legs, but complaints of damage by them are chiefly from our eastern section where the soil is more often loose and sandy. The eggs are laid in the soil and hatch into young mole^crickets simi lar to the adult in appearance and habits, but smaller and without wings; as they grow older wing- pads appear on the shoulders and grow larger with each molt of the skin until after the fifth molt the wings come out full grown and it is then an adult insect The mole-cricket chirps a bit, not so conspicuously as in the usual species, but enough to be quite audi ble; this chirping is done by chafing the front wings together as is the case with all of our usual crickets. Mole-crickets are very active and alert in their underground burrows, scuttling away out of sight at the slightest alarm They are often un seen unless unearthed suddenly. It is interesting that an insect, having the habit of burrowing like a mole, should have the front legs shaped so much like the front paws of a mole that the simiuarity is striking, yet the two animals are very distantly separated in the scale of animal classifiction nd not at all closely “related.” In these two n- tirely different creatures nature has brought about a strikingly similar development for a similar purpose. WAS A PAIN IN THE NECK to the yanks (baseball 'VARIETY)BACK lum WHEN _h£ handed them their, first World SERIES SRUTDUTtN 16 YEARS' k«tv f/'i s, tie POWER \ tfiAL SOUTHPAW /S O/VTPE YAMS' S/PE NOWfO.S AR/Pf VARIETY) AND YOU CAN MAKE SURE THAT THEVLL NEVER. Be SMUT OUT IP YOU Buy WAR m that we can hope to carry out during re - adjustment ? No; the Legisla ture is planning great things; it is planning to use the so-called surplus today and leave the State commit ted to permanent increases in costs of government I didn't know why no one wanted a white elephant until I heard that he ate a ton of hay every day. There seems to be no likelihood of the Legislature studying carefully the possibilities of the peace period. Liquor profits, divorce, certification of teachers, pensions, expansion of the colleges—is any of that a prep aration for a sharp and serious drop in our business, and, of course, in the revenue of the State? What is Congress doing? Just about the same. Of course, Con gress has to carry on the war, but is Congress to finance the peace by taxing America to support the world? ' Some of our people even in high places, don’t seem to understand ele mentary Economics they think that it is just the same whether the na tion takes all the money in taxes and gives it away as if the enterprises created employment and paid the money fr wages. One patient statis tician says that if the present reve nue laws had ben in effect in 1900 Henry Ford would today be operat ing a plant with about $170,000 and that the Government would have re ceived vastly less than it receives to day in one year from the Ford enter prises. Mr. Ford has paid out in taxes hundreds of millions of dollars; an in wages many more hundreds of millions; an has a billion dollar in vestment, employing more than 100,- 000 people, while he and his comi any and ,his employees pay many millions in taxes. Recently, I had a letter from a great South Carolina industrialist; one ^hom I greatly admire and es teem, and whom I had referred to because of his magnificent factories an his remarkably fine mill village, with iits> brick bungalows, its splen did church and chimes. He said this at the conclusion of his modest let ter “We coul not do this today.” More than 5000 employees, a weekly payroll exceeding $100,000 1 —but he could not do that today . If he could not, nobody could. What sort of America are we plan ning ? Is it to be the same old land of opportunity, with success and failure; where brains an d cour age are allowed free play ? Or will some group of clerks and theorists plan for us an America in which each man shall be assigned his part, in a general levelling of the popula- tion ? 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