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The Newberry Sun
Friday, October 10,1947
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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.
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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!
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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-
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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