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The Newberry Sun Friday, September 26,1947 5§U» 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. O. F. Armfield Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. SPECTATOR A great National weekly had an editorial recently on the so-called “dollar-shortage” in Europe. It is timely to present frankly and clearly to our people some simple tniths. A man out of a job suf fers from dollar-shortage; a farm er whose cotton has been heavily damaged by rain or bollweevil suf fers from dollar-shortage; in fact every time we go into a store we feel afflicted with dollar-shortage. In plain language of the street, we are short of money in comparison with the prices. Would anyone suggest that the banks lend us a lot of money? Suppose I should walk into a bank in Columbia, Sumter, Orangeburg, Charleston or New York, and say “I want to borrow ten thousand dollars be cause the difference between what I have to spend and what I want to spend is ten thousand dollars.” You have heard of the stem eye, the blasting glare of a banker when considering unsound applica tions for loans? Well try that on your banker and sit near the door or the fire escape. As the magazine s^ys, there is no dollar shortage; we have more dollars than ever before. All the RADIO AND TELEVISION SALES - SERVICE We Specialize in— PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS AND SOUND EQUIPMENT Sale of for Rental INTER OFFICE COMMUNI CATION SYSTEMS Geo. N. Martin 1303 Friend St. Phone 74-J Directly Opposite Poet Office dollars that anyone needs can be had, provided one sells something for dollars. Dollar s are supposed to represent values. If you sell your home or farm for $25,000 or a million dollars, or one thousand dollars, you will probably never see the dollars. Some one will give you a check and the bank will give you a deposit slip. Then you will write checks against that deposit. But the dollar! can be had, if you insist on the dollars in money, legal tender of the nation. It is much safer to carry a bank’s certificate of deposit than a big, heavy bag of money. By the way, this is not a bank advertisement. I should like to get on the blind side of the bankers, but those stem faced gentlemen can say “no” in all languages. Once while I was in South Am erica the Government of the Coun try I was serving decided to circu late coined, money, hard money, throughout the Nation. So I de cided to pay all Government em ployees in hard heavy money. One of my “Yankee” associates had a claim for four hundred pounds, roughly two thousand dollars. He presented his claim to the paying officer and wa s told that he would be paid in coins that afternoon. Just imagine the weight of five or ten thousand silver dollars, for the weight of money would have been about that heavy. My friend engaged a truck to transport his two or three kegs of money and went to the treasury prepared for business. When the paying clerk saw that the “Yan kee” was fully prepared he gave him a check!! We were all called “Yankees”, however much of Dixie blood flowed in our veins. If I need ten thousand dollars shall I just sit down and cry? When Henry -Ford needed those millions in 1920, or about that time, did he cry about a dollar shortage? There was no dollar- shortage. When a merchant finds that his stock i s not moving as fast as his invoices cobe in, or his bills come due, does he start a wail and a lamentation ? Does he find it easy to persuade his banker to lend while he sits with folded “That White Line" * When you see that white line down the middle of the highway, there are two things it should remind you of—first, stay on the right hand side, to save your neck;—and second, handle your life insurance policy loan with us, to save your money. The South Carolina National Bank NEWBERRY, S. C. At work, at play keep yoong feet happy Correct shoes, expertly styled to encourage good posture, give helpful support to active feet. Nation-famous with mothers looking for the better shoes at a sen sible price. Young gents go for the up-to-snuff design ing. The Lexington —in sturdy golden scotch grain. The Jeep—rugged wing tip in brown veal. Bergen Clothing Co. hands? Not at all; bankers like to lend but they don’t lend on sob- stories; they ask for facts. The first fact is “What are you doing or preparing to do, to correct this condition?” As the Apostle Paul asked, “What wilt thou have me to do?” Action, not words or ex cuses. Mr. Bevin of Great Britain is talking about our great hoard of gold; then he talks about more lend-lease. But the record proves that the British mine-workers are so full of the idea of jess work for more pay that Britain is falling short on an essential item—coal. Our Government might well re ply to Britain in the language of Jehovah to Moses: “Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Isarel, that they go forward’’—When the children of Israel reproached Moses for bring ing them into a perilous situation, In very truth that is applicable in large measure today. Instead of crying to us, let them strain at their work and produce more. The more they sell the more dollars there will be. Nor need they sell coal to us. If they sell coal to the Argentine or Peru or Chile they will eventually find dollars through exchange. We can understand that loans may be desirable, but there must be a resolution to protect the loans by greater production. Loans must be repaid in goods, services, gold or exchange. However sadly we may come to this conclusion we might wisely in terpret the signs of the times. We are spending billions of dollars be cause Russia is a Communist men ace, and we are spending billions of dollars to save England from her Socialist experiment and to be the financial bulwark of British So cialism!! Certainly we are close to Britain, but must we underwrite the Socialist failure there? Have' we the means to feed the world? Can we provide enough money to combat the tide of Communism ? Would we be more realistic if we saw that the majority who have nothing, have nothing to lose by experiments in government? Or they think that. At the moment any change appears for the better. If they, the great masses, insist on their experiment must we finance it? Or must we pour out our sub stance fighting it? Can you buy people ? If in this country we have Communists and’ Socialists—and we have—how can we hope to thwart them in other countries? Does it not seem that we are try ing to get a foothold in quicksand. Consider the church. People of ten think of the church as unreal istic, unpractical visionary and un successful. But let us see: Ob serve that .the church emphasizes organization, strong organization. The church spends quite a» large sum on itself, its local organiza tion. Why? The stronger the church, the more it can do, when wisely led, in a spirit of consecra tion. When the missionaries call for larger programs, the local church doesn’t sell its building or furniture to meet the need; it strengthens the church at home as the sanctuary from which the help must come. Its chief strength is by no means its dollars, but the character, devotion and fervor of its people. America should look to herself. We must ibe strong at home and our influence will be strong abroad. Our strength need not be merely in the armed forces of the nation: we must solve the clash between Labor and Management; we must prove to our people that what we have is the best, or we must make it the best. High taxes, high wages—what is the solution? All will have to come down, we say, but it isn’t- as simple as that. Not all wages are too high; not all prices are too high; not all taxes are too high. The Federal Government is a vast, swollen, gluttonous bureaucracy, an inconceivable sponge. It ought to be cut fifty per cent, at least. But when you make the cut you take some one off the payroll. If we could agree on a formula, that capital invested in business haz ards is entitled to a certain per centage, if it is earned, with some allowance for unforeseen difficul ties, even that would be not so favorable as the worker’s part which he claims and receives whether the concern prospers or fails. Since the worker collects every week or month, might a con cern have a claim on profits for the bad year? That is one of the questions of the day. -The big corporations aj)d the great problems of Nations are frequently as simple as our little affairs. We used to expect men to tell the truth except in politics and diplomacy. We know that a lie is a lie, however much we may try to glamorize it. If a merchant with five cle"ks closes the year with a loss of $5,- 000, he has already paid his rent, taxes, insurance, wages. Now lias he any right to hope to make that up ? I recall two great Rail Roads: on? didn’t pay any div idends for seventy five years, but it always paid wages and taxes; the other also paid wages and taxes and the Federal Court wiped out the common stock. How shall we be fair, then lib eral, to all? The Communist dream is just a soap-bubble. Observe our general governmental inefficiency and mis management: Would you like to expand that and live under it for ever? Most of us have this much vanity; We are sure that we could govern the country well in every detail of your living, including the rearing of your children, but we don't want the other man to gov ern us and prescribe all the details of our business and work. Well, in a Communistic arrangement a few will tell us what, why, how and when; the rest will be like sheep or cattle. Mrs. Minnie Lyles Alewine, and the following children: Mrs. Dous- ka Rice, Atlanta, Ga.; James T. Alewine, Sanford, Me.; Marion Alewine, Kinards: and Miss Kath erine Alewine, Newberry; one sis ter, Mrs. Daisy Taylor, Newberry, and one half sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Russell, Atlanta, and three grand children. Funeral services were conducted from McSwain Funeral home by Rev. C. F. DuBose, Jr., and Rev. V. L. Fulmer. Interment followed in West End cemetery. Miss Emmg Ray; six daughters, Mrs. W. R. Wisemore, Mrs. For rest Finney, Mrs. George Thomp son, Mrs. Odell Thompson, Mrs. Forrest Campbell and Mrs. Wil liam Wilson; two sons, Ernest and Paul Malone; 21 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren; also four sisters, Mrs. Land Kim- brell, Mrs. Cleve Horton, Mrs. William Mason. Oil Heaters 1-3 Room Size INSTALLED $69-50 HOME Furniture Co. CLIFFORD ALEWINE Funeral services were held Sat urday for Clifford Alewine, 68, who died at his home near New berry Friday morning after a long illness. A native of Newberry, he was the son of the late Thomas and Mamie Cromer Alewine. He is survived by his widow, ROBERT N. MALONE Robert N. Malone, 66, of Laur ens county, died Sunday night af ter a short illness at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Odell Thomp son, near Whitmire. Funeral serv ices were held Tuesday afternoon at the Thompson home with Rev. E. S. Jones and Rev. A. L. Phillips officiating. Interment followed in Whitmire cemetery. Mr. Malone is survived by his wife, who - before marriage was Fender & Body Work Have your Fenders and Body straighten ed by Expert Body Men. Complete Re upholstery service and Painting. Davis Motor Company . 1515-1517 Main Street TT <0 WM ■"v ; I * |h4; I?* w if * V '"■, x . N0P t (xviotfuicv ! ■mt It was on March 22, 1786, that a bill passed the General Assembly of South Carolina establishing Columbia as the capital city of this great state. The founders of Columbia led by John Lewis Gervais planned wisely and well. They intended that Columbia should be centrally located and easily accessible to^ll sections of the state . . . that Columbia should be a spacious city of wide streets and beautiful trees. From every county in South Carolina people came to Columbia making this city their home and in turn giving the city a definite South Carolina heritage. These citi zens and others who came later have built for South Carolina much more than a seat of government. They have established a city of schools and colleges; of libraries; churches; hospitals; of traffic and trade. > Much of Columbia actually belongs to South Carolina, and all of Columbia is dedicated to the high-purpose of serving the entire state. Enjoy the pride and con venience of ownership by taking full advantage of the facilities offered by Columbia ... your capital city. Columbia belongs to South Carolina. Columbia Merchants Ass psiation, Inc. Columbia, S. C.