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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1847
12 18 College Street
NEWBERRY, S. C.
O. F. ARMFIELD
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SPECTATOR
Indiana has waked up. Once
upon a time Massachusetts, Vir
ginia or South Carolina might
have spoken for sound govern
ment. We have eaten at the
public trough, it is true, but not
so abundantly as some other
States. But what we have lack
ed in dollars received we have
made up in hearty endorsement
of Washington bounty.
Indiana, the General Assem
bly of the State of Indiana,
adopted a resolution which I
wish to copy. It sounds like a
plain and simple statement and.
no one can misunderstand it.
here it is:
“Indiana needs no guardian
and intends to have none. We
Hoosiers—like the people of our
sister states — were fooled for
quite a spell with the magician’s
trick that a dollar taxed out of
our pockets and sent to Washing
ton, will be bigger when it
comes back to us. We have tak
en a good look at said dollar.
We find that it lost weight in its
journey to Washington and back.
The political brokerage of the
bureaucrats has been deducted.
We have decided that there is
no such thing as “federal” aid.
We know that there is no wealth
to tax that is not already within
the boundaries of the 48 states.
So, we propose henceforward
to tax ourselves and take care of
ourselves. We are fed up with
subsidies, doles and paternalism.
We are no one’s stepchild. We
have grown up. We serve notice
that we will resist Washington,
D. C., adopting us.
Be it resolved by The House
of Representatives of The Gen
eral Assembly of the State of
Indiana, The Senate concurring;
That we respectfully petition and
urge Indiana’s Congressmen and
Senators to vote to fetch our
county court house and city halls
back from Pennsylvania avenue.
We want government to come
home. Resolved, further, that
we call upon the legislatures of
our sister states and on good
citizens everywhere who beheve
in the basic principles of Lin
coln and Jefferson to join with
us, and we with them to restore
the American Republic and our
48 states to the foundations built
by our fathers.
Adopted by House. January 13,
1947.
Adopted by Senate, January
22, 1947.”
This was introduced in the In
diana House of Representatives,
passed by the House January 13,
and by the Senate January 22.
That has the old-time ring of
commonsense. Some one has
pointed out that it will require a
hundred and thirty years to pay
off the National debt if we pay
two billions a year on the debt.
Let’s look back: A hundred
and thirty years ago what was
going on? America was trying
to recover from the War of
1812. We had not fought the war
with Mexico—lacking about a
generation of that. Far from us
was the Civil War.
If the War of 1812 had cost us
two billions a year until this
year we should have thought the
men of 1812 a sorry lot to mort
gage the nation for a hundred
and thirty years.
We seem to fight about every
generation: 1776-1781; 1812, 1847.
1861, 1898, 1917, 1941—not count
ing Indian wars. If we have an-
otner in 1975 or 1980, we old
moss-backs will have gone, but
the gallant lads of 1975 will find
the nation stili paying heavily on
the martial ventures of their
fathers and grandfathers. Of
course they may take their cue
from us and charge their wars to
their grandchildren. Or perhaps
oy that time the grandcnildren
will have developed such a de
gree of evasion as to become the
superlative buck-passers of all
time.
When we invite the National
Government to feed our people,
pay our teachers, contribute to
our roadbuilding, donate to our
nealth program, and ail that, we
should provide that the Govern
ment is making a grant and that
the Government shall have no
voice in the use of the money
other than to insist that it shall
he used for the purposes speci
fied.
When our Government gave 35
billion dollars (in the name of
Lend-Lease) it did not tie up
Britain, Russia, France and Chi
na with red-tape rules and re
gulations. The over-all gifts of
America because of this war ex
ceeded forty billions. Gifts,
mark you; I’m not talking of
what America spent for herself.
When the Government makes a
grant to South Carolina for roads
the Government requires mini
mum pay, maximum hour regu
lations and other requirements.
There is really very little that
the Government gives a State,
when it comes to roads, for all
the people use the roads. Every
year hundreds of thousands of
people go to Florida and come
back on the public roads. And
we, in turn, use the roads of
other States.
If, for general use, the great
income of the nation should be
shared with the States, it should
be on a scale of equity, not be
cause of the begging or contriv
ing of Congressmen. Much less
should such a scheme of execu
tive favoritism be maintained as
the so-called Federal Works
Administration. The only money
drawn from the Federal treasu-
ury should be for expenditure
according to regulations scrupu
lously observed in a broad na
tional interest-
The Communist scare: Is it a
real menace; or are some of us
imagining “spooks” behind the
doors? Let me quote three par
agraphs in a program of the
Communists;
“The fundamental principle of
all organization work must be
the creation of Communist nuc
lei. In every trade union, coop
erative association, factory, ten
ants’ union, organizations of war
invalids, in every government in
stitution, everywhere, even
though there may be only three
people sympathizing with Com
munism, a Communish nucleus
must be immediately organized.
The party carries on its work in
side such organizations."
That is worth remembering;
three persistent persons always
picking flaws and using every
pretext to promote Communism.
We learn now that a man in
public life speaking for or pro
moting Communism is merely us
ing his public position as a plat
form o nwhich to stand, while
working for his real Master, the
Communist leader. How is this:
“The Communist representa
tive is not a “legislator,” but an
agitator of the party, detailed to
to the enemy’s camp to carry out
the orders of the party. The
Communist member is answer-
able not to his constituents, but
to his own Communist party—
whether legal or illegal. Only
those are worthy of the name of
Communists who not in words
only but in deeds are the mortal
enemy of the bourgois order and
its patriotic flunkeys.”
And what is Communism to do
—and how? This will impress
you:
NOTICE !
All street duty not having been paid by April 1st will
be handled in accordance with the Ordinance of the Town.
Please attend to your street duty before April 1st.
Also the penalty on licenses will be increased to 10 per
cent beginning Aprl 1st. If you have not already attended
to your license please attend to it before April 1st.
PLEASE GIVE THESE MATTERS YOUR ATTENTION!
The Town of Newberry, S. C.
“The task of the Party is to
lead the working class to the re
volutionary struggle for power.
This it does by carrying on pro
paganda in favor of increasingly
radical slogans and by organiz
ing mass action; including
strikes ,and demonstrations
strikes and armed demonstra
tions, and finally, the general
strike with armed insurrection.”
Businessmen are finding some
items of their overhead cost very
heavy. The cost of insurance
against accidents, the general
liability insurance charges and
the tax for the unemployment
insurance are all high. In Specta
tor sometime ago I quoted fi
gures showing how much higher
our industrial insurance is than
that of Georgia or North Caro
lina. Our general liability in
surance for protection against
damage suits for automobile and
truck damages have been sharp
ly increased.
Most people don’t know that
concerns employing eight or
more people pay three percent
of the wages (and salaries) for
the unemployment trust fund.
The employee pays nothing; the
employer pays it all—3 per cent
of the payroll. That is bad
enough, one-sided enough, harsh
enough, but the law put the em
ployer at a disadvantage all the
way. For example, quite a num
ber of cases show that very un
deserving men have been paid
$20 or $15 a week for ten weeks,
or more, though they deliberate
ly quit their jobs, or were hope
lessly ' inefficient, sometimes
even dangerous characters. These
benefits paid are charged against
the fund paid by the employer
and may cause even an increase
in the employer’s tax. As you
see, the employer is taxed to
support even the men whom he
had to discharge or who quit
him, leaving him in the “lurch”.
One can’t defend that.
One employer has paid the tax
until the trust fund shows that
he has paid $20,000 more than
his employees have received as
benefits. But he must continue
to pay, even at a lower rate.
In the nine years of this tax
South Carolina business inter
ests have paid about forty four
million dollars more than the
disbursements. According to
the average benefit payment, if
all employees (everybody now
covered), were paid the usual
(average) benefits during March,
the sum necessary to pay them
would be about twenty eight mil
lion dollars, leaving at least
fifteen millions as surplus.
Still the payments continue.
There are industries in our
State which pay a thousand dol
lars a week in this payroll tax.
There are some which pay as
much as three thousand a week.
That is added cost of operation.
Now add to this the one percent
- SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF.—These five citrus princesses of the
National Orange Show are busy lassies, each toting 100 golden ripe
oranges a minute to feed this super juicer, one of the features of the
citrus exposition here. Food Machinery corporation developed it to
juice five hundred oranges per minute and extract the valuable oil
from the peel automatically. The princesses left to right are Eliza
beth McLain, Ginger Anderson, Pat Hall, Laurie Hayes and Dolly
Johnson.
FARM & HOME LABOR SHOW
PLANNED FOR APRIL 2ND
By P. B. EZELL
County Agent, Newberry County
Plans are shaping up nicely
for the Farm and Home Labor-
Saving Show scheduled to be
held at the Armory in Newber
ry on Wednesday, April 2, be
tween the hours of 10 a. m. and
4 p. m.
This unique show, which con
sists of three parts, is sponsored
by the Clemson Extension Serv
ice and is being arranged locally
by the county and home demon
stration agents, local farm people
and commercial dealers.
The first part consists of 82
large explanatory panels with
models of labor-saving gadgets
assembled by Clemson College
specialists and brought by them
to this show. A number of these
specialists will be present to
explain and demonstrate the la-
old-age tax paid by employers
for their employees and we find
that some of our business con
cerns pay $300 to $700 a week
for that. All these are additional
expenses and are pot always ad
ded to the price. Prices are
sometimes determined by world
wide conditions, which take no
account of our special taxes.
oor-saving ideas and equipVnent
wrought from the college. •
The second part of the show
vill present the farm and home
labor-saving ideas and gadgets
worked out by people here in the
jounty. Those who have home
made labor-saving equipment
are urged to promptly get in
:ontact with County Agent
Ezell and arrange to show them
an April 2. This according to
Mr. Ezell should prove to be one
of the most interesting and help
ful features of the show. There
is plenty of native ingenuity be
ing shown by Newberry county
folks, and the local agent is-
anxious to have these local in
ventions on display for the bene
fit of others, since one of the
purposes of the show is to swap
ideas and demonstrate devices
and short cuts to get a more ef
ficient return for labor expend
ed.
The third part of the show will
be in the hands of local commer
cial dealers and they are urged
to exhibit new labor-saving
machinery or equipment.
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Lt Powell E. Way
In Alaska Hospital
Lieut. Powell E. Way, son of
Dr. and Mrs. P. E. Way, wrote
his wife, the former Elizabeth
Mower, from an Army hospital
in Alaska, saying that he arriv
ed in Alaska and would be sta
tioned at Camp Richardson.
Lieutenant Way contracted
influenza while en route to Al
aska, and was hospitalized im
mediately upon his arrival.
Jones fell asleep at the wheel,
and the first thing he knew he
had driven smack into the living
room of a roadside cottage. Em
barrassed and humiliated, he
climbed out the car and mumb
led, “Can you tell me the way
to the next town?” The farm
er’s wife said coldly, “Straight
ahead through the curio cabinet
and turn ' left at the grand
piano.”
Here’s How To SAVE !
1 " Find out the cost of your new cor.
2 “ Come to us for the money.
3 “ PAY OFF IN CASH - and save the difference.
SEE YOUR PRIVATE BANKER
E. B. Purcell
Newberry Ins. & Realty Co.
Exchange Bank Building Phone 197
PICTURE FRAMES
Special Prices on all metal frames,
wood frames and leather folders.
Good assortment of styles <Sl sizes.
Nichols Studio
Afen and women everywhere acclaim
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NOTICE OF
Tax Penalty
After the close of
business on
March 31st. 1947, a
PENALTY OF
| per cent
will be added to all
unpaid 1946
State & County Taxes
After April 15 all taxes go
into execution with 3 per cent
collection cost added.
J. Ray Dawkins
County Treasurer
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