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The Newberry Sun Friday, October 10,1947 % ✓ 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 Columbia is the attractive Cap ital of South Carolina, laid off to be the Capital. So much of State activity is concentrated in Columbia that an outsider is prone to forget that Columbia is a thriving industrial center, a great supply depot, and a beau tiful city, quite apart from the State. The average citizen may ad mire the classical dignity of the State House, the Capitol, the chastely beautiful Wade Hamp ton State office building and the spacious State House Grounds. Some others will think of Colum bia as the seat of the University of South Carolina. Some will associate the Capital City with the State Hospital. But leaving that to one side and considering Columbia as a city what do we find? We find a rapidly grow ing city with a small bonded debt and a low millage. In this day and time Columbia is notable for the comparative economy of its fiscal operations. The very energetic and cour teous Mayor, Dr. Frank Owens, has given me information in re sponse to my request. Columbians are- assessed on a total valuation of $26,000,000, or 15 per cent of actual value. Char leston was assessed on a valua tion of $19,000,000, probably on a basis of 17 or 18 per cent, as I recall. Columbia has a bonded indebtedness of $1,604,000, as compared with twice that much for Spartanburg, three times as much for Greenville and five times as much for Charleston. Columbia has a tax of thirty nine mills, compared with Charleston’s 62. Columbia spends for Police $369,020 as compared with Char leston’s $356,105; Columbia’s Fire Department has proved so effi cient that the Capital City has v low residential insurance rates: The Columbia Fire Department costs $256,000 a year; Charleston’s $242,756. Columbia sells to its citizens 4,500 gallons of water for ninety cents, whereas Charleston charges $1 .00 for four thousand gallons. Columbia has 42,000 trees on its streets. < Columbia has developed a great City Market, known to many as the Curb Market. The Municipality owns ‘ Owens Field and cooperates in the man agement of the Capital City Air port, five miles out. The City maintains twenty two parks. Columbia is a friendly city, a city of so many men and women bom elsewhere that it is like a great meeting place of friends and kindred. I meet Charles tonians living in Coluntbia—not former Charlestonians. There is no such person as a former, or ex- Charlestonian. I know Chester County men. Well I needn’t try to enumerate them, for intimate friends come from, all the coun ties, never forgetting old Abbe ville and Clarendon. Columbia has become a sort of, Mecca, drawing from all over South Car olina fine brains and character. Naturally Columbia has mep in political office from every Coun ty, but in business, in banking, in every field of usefulness may be found sons and daughters of all the forty six counties. So the friendly atmosphere is notable. The City Government of Co lumbia officially promotes the genial, kindly current of friend liness. Columbia’s Fire and Police De partments are efficient organic zations. The City spends $251,- 790 to maintain the fire-fighters and $369,020 for the Police serv ice. Total expendiures- by the City are $2,335^80; Charleston’s total is $2,350,505.61 the last fiscal year. The Mayor, in an appreciated memordandum, makes the point that Columbia has never repud iated a debt, not even the bonds issued by the Carpet-baggers of 1871. Why can’t we Americans settle down to business? Why didn’t we tell the Russians two years ago calmly and plainly what we could and could not do? The two countries are quarreling like old time school boys at a ball game,' each accusing the other of all manner of evil and bad motive We don’t act that way with neighbors. / Even though we act as seems good to us we appear to the Rus sians as supremely selfish and hypocritical. It i true that we feel secure in the righteousness of our purpose; we don’t credit the others with good motives, however. Much that we condemn in Russia we are doing, and have done, ourselves. Frankly, I share the general distrust of Russia, but if we can’t get along why not have a friendly break off? I am not as confident of our leaders as I should like to be Ponder this paragraph from United States News: “The scare campaign about ap proaching food shortage is iJkrt o: a buildup, sponsored by the State Department, to get bigger ap propriations from Congress for aid to Europe. A State Depart ment secret memorandum ex presses that purpose, and partly as a result housewives are paying a pretty penny in higher food prices.” I find myself deeply disgusted with the press-agenting and pro pagandizing of us by bureaucrats in Washington. We have been bamboozled by our Washington men so often before the war, dur ing the v/ar and after the war that I am becoming almost cyni cal; I almost regard the Washing ton reports, speeches, alarms, emergencies — and everything else as a lot of faked stuff of the most grossly misleading type. How generous the rest of the World in being willing to accept nineteen billions from us to heai the wounds of Europe! 7urope is playing this country for a soft headed simpleton, and I am con vinced that much of our national leadership is of the soft-head kind. Henry Wallace tells us that we may not have friends in the next war. The next war! We entered the first and second World wars to save Britain. Very soon we were told that all the others were fighting to save us! And some of our people believed that after the First World War, and many be lieve it now. Except to save Bri tain we had little reason to get mixed up in the war. Most of us wanted to seave Britain, but soon we were to carry the major part of the burden. Now, two years after the war ended, we are try ing to rebuild the world, largely by ourselves. There is no great secret in dip lomacy except that nations lie and steal without losing respecta bility. Even in government we seem to think that there is no code of morals. Henry Morgen- tha*i tells us unblushingly that Harry Hopkins carried a hund red and fiffy thousand people on relief needlessly just before the election of 1936. It does not seem to disgust anybody! Here we are flimflammed by our own Government in the name of char ity and suffering humanity! A hundred and fifty thousand men at just $60.00 a month would be nine million dollars a month'. And if carried on the Government rolls for four months would be $36,000,000—quite a tidy cam paign fund! *In view of the fast and loose handling of the public’s money that doesn’t bring forth a word of condemnation.' One rea son is that we fear $36,000,000 was just a small part of the mis spent funds of the taxpayers! It also shows what Executive dis cretion can bring about when great lump sums are provided. While discussing the Constitu tion one is impressed by the act of four judges in declining emo luments. Can it be that the Courts don’t approve and respec; the Constitution? What is a lay man to think? Four judges form a very respectable group. A • ere layman finds himself at sea. One can understand that legislators may be stronger as orators than as lawyers, but Judges are not elected because of oratory: they are the repositories of our juris prudence and the keepers of the Public conscience, as the Lord Chancellor of Britain is said to be the “Keeper of the King’s Con science”. . Still speaking of the Constitu tion: “The State” recently carrier. a report of a meeting of the Rich- Legion Auxiliary Wants Larger Membership NEWS FROM MOLLOHON Mr. and Mrs. Grady Maw, of Central Hall, R. I., visited Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Maw during the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Bishop and Miss Frances Berry visited in Athens, Georgia, over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Tay Wood attend ed the funeral of Mrs. Wood’s aunt in Laurens last Friday. Miss Margaret Harvey of Greenwood spent the weekend with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. B. H. Harvey. Mrs. Ada Brown of Clinton spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. David Brown. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Hurt and children spent Sunday in Green wood wih relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Addy and Carolyn spent the weekend in Mount Holly, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Jones and family visited in Laurens last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Forest Dickert visited their daughter, Evelyn, ift Columbia, Sunday. REGISTRATION FOR GENERAL ELECTION The supervisor of registration has been ordered by the Council of the Town of Newberry to op en the books of registration Sep- teber 29, 1947, to remain open until ten days before the general election of Mayor and Aldermen in December. Required for registration tax receipts showing payment of ^11 taxes for 1946 and County and State registration certificate. D. L. NANCE, Supervisor of Registration. 010-N20C land County Legislative Delega tion. The gentlemen from Rich land debated “grants” to various schools for athletic fields. “Grants,” mark you, by the Leg islative Delegation. And those gentlemen are lawyers, most o. them at any rate. Have we a Constitution? There is a provision in the Constitution which might permit the County Board of Commission ers to fix the levy, but there is no word in the Constituion which permits County Delegation ap propriations, or grants. There are some very clear and conclusive prohibitions of County govern ment y Legislative Delegations. Why all this talk about a new or revised Constitution? What we need most is to revise our thinking and change our attitude toward the basic law. If we do not respect the clear and wise provisions of the Constitution we have, why prepare another? Active enrollment of members in the American Legion Auxiliary for 1948 has begun, and the goal of 295 enrollments, an increase of 25 percent over 1947, is ex pected to be reached by Novem ber Uth. Groups of membership workers have been organized to invite eligible women in the city and county to join the Auxiliary. Mrs. May T. Stuck, unit presi dent, asked the membership workers to explain to all eligible women the opportunities for worthwhile service offered by the Auxiliary in its program of support for the work of the Am erican Legion. “Americans must remain unit- Farmers Urged Prevent Fires Important factors to consider in a farm building program are the proper spacing of buildings and fire-safe construction with fire- resistant building materials, says D. W. Watkins of the Clemson Extension Service. He suggests that the dwellings should be at least 100 feet from bams and so placed that line be tween them will be at right angles to prevailing winds. This will protect each building from windblown sparks. He recommends that machin ery shops and sheds, brooder houses, garages, and com cribs be placed 100 feet from the main buildings, if possible. This is a precaution against these build ings catching fire if one of the main buildings is burning. After laying out the farm building plan, Director Watkins says the next important steps to take are the following: (1) Ob tain fire-resistant materials, (2) plan for an adequate wiring sys tem, (3) have proper chimney construction, and (4) provide safe sorage for the gasoline and kerosene needed on the farm away from main buildings. “Fire extinguishers, placed at strategic points for use in com bating fires when they first start, and ladders of sufficient length to reach the roofs of all buildings for use in fighting roof fires will help to save many buildings and should be included in the materials secured,” Mr. Watkins says. He urges that suggestions made for fire prevention be observed not only during Fire Prevention Week but throughout the entire year, with special emphasis on ed to meet the challenge of to day’s conditions,” stated Mrs. Johnny Jones, membership chair man of the Newberry unit. Urg ing enrollment of all eligible wo men, Mrs. Jones said, “Women of veterans’ families need to be united for peacetime service. In an organization like the Ameri can Legion Auxiliary, there much they can do to improve the lot of the disabled veteran and the families of the dead and dis abled. In the Auxiliary they can make their voice heard in behalf of security measures to protect America’s peace, and against the threat of communism to Ameri can liberty.” effgrts to lower the number of preventable fires, which is now estimaed to be 90 percent of all fires. Mr. and Mrs. James Smith, Sr., spent the past weekend in Green ville with Mrs. Smith’s sister, Mrs. Lois McMillan. Loans! ON REAL ESTATE AUTOMOBILES AND PERSONAL PROPERTY NEWBERRY INSURANCE AND REALTY 00. NED PURCELL, Mina car TELEPHONE 197 Exchange Bank Building RADIO AID TELEVISION SALES - SERVICE We Specialize in— PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS AND SOUND EQUIPMENT Saif of for Rental INTER-OFFICE COMMUNI CATION SYSTEMS Geo. N. Martin 1303 Friend St. ' Phone 74-J Directly Opposite Poet Office NOTICE! To Our Customers: Beginning the 15th of October we are having to increase the price of milk to 21 cents per quart. We have watched prices go up for some time, and had hoped that we would not have to raise the price of our products. However, every thing pertaining to the dairy industry has gone up in the past few months. Producers are having to'pay $100 a ton for dairy feed—^therefore, we are having to pay the farmer more per gallon for milk. The cost of bottles has also increased. Do you know that a quart milk bottle costs $.07 and they are still hard to get? Milk prices have increased comparatively little since 1941, but other food products have gone up nearly 100 percent. We intend to give you the same high quality of milk you have always received, but in order to do this we are forced to do like others are having to do. We hope this is only a temporary situation and just as soon as we can lower the price of our product you may be sure we will do it. We appreciate your cooperation and assure you of ours at all times. Newberry Dairy Cooperative TELEPHONE 65-W “It’s Pasteurized” COUNTY FAIR Opening Next Week This bank has served the financial needs of the farmers of Newberry county for many years, invites you to the big coun- * ty fair next week, and extends an invitation for a visit with us. We have the willingness and the capacity to serve you in any banking matter. South Carolina National Bank We Can Offer You MORE This Year We can offer you more in many lines during your visit to the Fair this year ... Drop in for a visit while at the Fair. We are always glad to have our farmer friends make our store their Fair headquarters. Rite-way Milkers are now in stock . . . as well as plenty of Paint R. M. LOMINACK HARDWARE NEWBERRY COUNTY FAIR OCTOBER 13-18