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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1945
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Frozen Hopes
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By GEORGE S BENSON
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President of Harding College
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Searcy. Arkansas
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“Sweet” Outfit
Helps Buy Bonds
“Sweet as sugar candy” aptly de
scribes a frosty white eyelet-
trimmed blouse, worn with purple
and pink flower-splashed peplum
skirt. Make it with a pattern avail
able at local stores. Watch the War
Bonds grow when you add your sav
ings from sewing.
U. S. Treasury Department
ERNIE PYLE
SAYING what a man earns, ex
pressing it in cents per hour or
dollars per year, tells but little
about the measure of prosperity
he enjoys. Good living depends
on many things that change from
time to time and differ from place
to place. Prosperity depends, in
very large part, on what people
must pay for the things they
need and want.
Ben Franklin’s discovery o f
electricity became a great dis
covery when electric lights began
costing less than oil lamps.* The
automobile became a great inven
tion when cars were priced down
where only rich people could af
ford to own horses. Putting con
veniences and luxuries in reach
of a large number of people helps
to build a nation’s prosperity.
Pay for PLAIN people pay
Service richly for favors; plain
people are so many.
Names like Edison, McCormick
and Ford stand for huge estates
because these men did a real serv
ice for a lot of plain people. Actu-
ally, the thing that inspires me
chanical inventors to invent, is
the chance to earn from a free
people their reward for valuable
service.
Edison, McCormick and Ford
didn’t need to hawk their ideas,
neither did Bissell, Denton, Park
er and O’Sullivan, but Foster
Gunnison had to sell his. Gunni
son’s inventions came later. Do
you ask, “Who is this Gunnison
man?” Well, he is a great in
ventor, not yet famous. But, un
less I miss my guess, he is Amer
ica’s post-war Henry Ford.
Big Ideas GUNNISON invent-
For Sale ed a prefabricated
house and worked out
a plan to build it in mass produc
tion. His units were scientifical
ly constructed, insulation built in,’
thoroughly modern in every de
tail. Individually, his house mod
els are so different that a tourist
might drive past 100 of them in
a row and never guess that they
were drawn by the same archi
tect.
They come in eight sizes with
great variety in looks. They are
better than any house possible to
build of old - line material for
the same money. They have
everything from bathtub to gar
bage grinder, economy and con
venience; a poor man’s palace,
amortized to ?1 a day. But the
inventor sold to the U. S. Steel
Corp.—Why?
1 He lacked capital and, under
today’s tax laws, never could
make much profit. The giant cor
poration can run the project in
the red and deduct early losses
from war profits. Unless our war
time tax laws are changed, every
fertile idea in this inventive na
tion will have to hatch under the
wing of some huge corporation
that exists already.
From a small Indiana town
Came a man who gained renown,
From the Wabash to the Nile.
All who knew—loved Ernie Pyle.
He was small, he loved not splendor;
Was the humble man’s defender;
Trekked far and wide to entertain.
By train and ship and airplane.
In years agone, wrote to amuse,
Pleasing folks with all the news.
But then came fever of wanderlust,
And off to war in God to trust.
To aid morale to our fighting boys,
Ne’er shirked danger amid the noise;
But kept the pace mid fearful fire,
Thoughtless of comfort or attire.
But in his ardor, mid battle’s hell.
Was stricken down by bursting shell.
A real pal until the end,
A prayer we say for a nation’s friend.
Few men have lived, loved so well.
As Danna’s son whom we all called
swell,
He sought not fame or palace grand,
Just to live and lend a hand.
He gave his life, a martyr true;
Now lies asleep o’er ocean blue.
And as he rests on far off isle,
Let’s not forget in the afterwhile,
The noble life of Ernie Pyle.
—H. V. Hesselman.
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which could have been done by about
five mills, the Anderson County
Delegation passed legislation provid
ing for surface treatment of addi
tional roadmileage in Anderson
County as well as the erection of a
County Far - m Building and also a
County Health Building. We now
have a committee of Anderson Coun
ty citizens named for the purpose of
having the Farm Building built, and
we expect this building to cost
around One Hundred Seventy-five to
Two Hundred Thousand Dollars. This
building will house the County and
Home Agents and all associated
agencies operating in Anderson
County. In addition to the offices
to be housed In this building, we are
having an auditorium to seat some
350 or more people and a community
or farmers market of about 100
spaces (stalls) for use of Anderson
County farmers. We also have a
committee to supervise the erection
of a building to house the County
Health unit and this building will be
ample for both the present and an
ticipated need of this agency in An
derson County As you probably
know, we claim Anderson County to
be ready “the best paved county” in
the State We have instituted a pro
gram with a view of surface treating
every public, road in Anderson Coun
ty within the next 4 or 5 years. The
Delegation deemed it better to do
these works than to reduce taxes at
the present time and be in a position
later to reduce taxes when the pay
ment of taxes by the people might
be some more difficult than at the
present time.”
Senator W. Brantley Harvey of
Beaufort writes: “Our Tax levies
vary in each of our eight tax sub
divisions an dconsequently there was
no uniform reduction in the levy.
Our average reduction was just lit
tle under four mills The reduction
would have been much larger except
for the fact that we have made nota
ble improve men ts in the last year or
so. Last year we opened our new
County Hospital and operating cost
to the County was rather high,
about four mills. We expect this to
be reduced as more people use the
hospital. By the waj I might say
that it is a very modern and well
equiped hospital. Two of our town
ships are putting in a locker plant
financed by a tax levy. Voted on by
the voters of the two townships.
Senator Richard M. Jefferies of |
Colleton undertook some broad eco
nomic reforms last year which I
published at the time. As to this
year he writes: “The levy this year
will be 481-2 mills County wide,
which is still far below the old av
erage. There are cash reserves and
incoming revenues which we have
not spent. My financial plan involves
the accumulating of a cash reserve in
an amount sufficient to pay one
year’s operating expenses. In spite
of the evils of a surplus, which
everybody seems to want to spend, I
hope to hold the cash reserve so that
if another depression should occur
we might eliminate taxes entirely for
one year to assist the people in meet
ing economic stress. You will realize
that such policies are new in South
Carolina. Generally counties are run
on a “hand to mouth” basis with de
ficiencies being the rule rather than
surpluses.”
Here is a short and sweet note
from Senator J. D. Parler of Dor
chester: “We will reduce our county
wide levy in Dorchester County this
year to four (4) mills.”
My old friend from Georgetown,
Dr. Olin Sawyer, whose perennial
youthfulness never loses its savor,
writes: “We made a 10 mills reduc
tion for all purposes back in 1942,
and could have made another reduc
tion of 5 mills for this year after
the State took over the entire cost
of maintaining and operating the
Forest Fire Protection. The county
service officers’ expenses in each of
the counties and the item in The De
partment of Public Welfare—known
as General Relief (aid for needy per
sons under the age of 65 years). All
three of these agencies were hereto
fore operated on a State and County
matching basis.’’
My friend the Doctor is looking in
the future, as his letter clearly im
plies. If I know him as well as I
think I do he has something up his
sleeve for old Georgetown.
Senator George Warren of Hamp
ton, who holds taxes down all the
time, writes: “Heretofore, we have
drastically cut our taxes until we
have a very fine county picture at
present. Not much left to cut.”
My friend, Senator J. Moore Mars
of Abbeville, puts the ball right over
the plate: “So far as I can see at
this time Abbeville County will have
on only six mills for ordinary County
purposes for the year 1945. For the
past two years Abbeville County has
been on a cash basis and will be on
a cash basis for this year.”
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JOHN A. VAUGHN
John Allen Vaughn, 64, died Sun
day afternoon at Lowman home in
White Rock. He was the son of the
late James Ranee and Jane Enlow
Vaughn His wife, Mrs. Nezzie En-
| low Vaughn, died 11 years ago.
Funeral services were held at 4
! o’clock Monday afternoon from Sum
mer Memorial Lutheran church with
the Rev. J. B. Harman in charge,
assisted by the Rev. V. L. Fulmer.
Interment followed in Prosperity
cemetery.
He is survived by the following
children: Mrs. Fred Boland, Mrs. No
land Myers, Miss Christine Vaughn,
all of Newberry, Birge Vaughn,
United States army in Germany,
Colie Vaughn, United States navy in
the Pacific; two brothers, George
Vaughn, Nathan Vaughn, both of
Prosperity; one sister, Mrs. L. J.
Cromer of Newberry, and one grand
child. His nephews served as pall
bearers.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express to our many
friends sincere thanks and apprecia
tion for their deeds of Tdndness and
expressions of sympathy during the
illness and death of our husband and
father.
We also thank them for the beauti
ful floral designs, cards and letters.
Your kindness will always live in
our hearts.
Mrs. J. D. Kinard
Miss Ruby Kinard.
FOR SALE—Hardwood for heaters
or fireplace, sawed any length de
sired. Order yours now before the
bad weather comes in order to get
prompt delivery. Phone Saluda 2556.
O. W. COLEMAN, Silverstreet. 4t
and Taxpayers League, the Senator
f.-jm Newberry, Mr. M. E. Abrams,
writs: “I am rducing my county levy
only one (1) mill this year. Could
reduce same much mpre but prefer
to wait until next year; want to see
how the trend is County is in fine
financial condition.”
I don’t wonder that the Senator
from Bamberg is proud of his Coun
ty’s condition. Says Senator J. Karl
Kearse: “In view- of the fact that
Bamberg County has been operating
for a number of years on only five
mills it was impossible for us to re
duce the millage, but I wish to call
attention to the fact that the total
ta xrate for all purposes in Bamberg ,
County averages only twenty-five j
mills, which is the lowest of any ;
County in the State as shown by a
report prepared by the Research and
Planning Department of the South
Carolina Aeronautical Commission on
April 5, 1945.”
I hope to tell you of other counties,
soon.
CHARLES BLUFORD BISHOP
Charles Bluford Bishop died in the
county hospital Monday afternoon,
following a period of illness. He was
a i-esident of the Trinity community
where he had made his h«me for
long years- Mr. Bishop was a son
of the late Hilliard and Annie Dicker!
Bishop.
His widow, the former Minnie
Elizabeth Pitts survives, together
With two sons and three daughters:
James R. Bishop and Pfc. Horace
Bishop; Mrs. J. R. Pitts, Mrs. M. J.
Hendrix and Mrs. JDewey Steele;
a brother, J. S. Bishop and a sister,
Mrs. Vick Davenport, also survive.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday morning at 10 o’clock at
Trinity Methodist church with Rev.
W. M. Owings in charge, assisted by
Rev. C. J. Rice. Interment followed
in_the_church_burial ground.
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HANDBAGS
for FALL
No costume is
right until youVe
selected the rigfit
bag to go with it.
Let it be Aligator,
Kid, Fabric, Cordet
or Plastic.
2.98 to 22.50
Carpenters
V. S. Treasury Department