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The Newberry Sun Friday, October 31, 1947 #un 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 I^stotfice 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 The Congraree Presbytery, the conventions of Columbia and cen tral South Carolina, meeting in Columbia, recently, reaffirmed its action of July to request the Gen eral Assembly of the Church to withdraw from the Federal Coun cil of Churches of Christ in Am erica. These Presbyterian leaders have found themselves unable to go along with the Federal Coun cil. We can agree with them, for many others can no longer accept the Council’s leadership. At first it was hoped that the Council might bring together the Protestant churches in common undertaking, a warm, generous, gracious fellowship, of co-opera tion in service. But we have men of all minds nowadays: Some Christian Church leaders want to run off at various points until they drag their organization into politics; some others become speculative philosophers in Eco nomics and blend their Econoi*. ic fallacies with various reli gions heresies. On the race issue, on Commu nism, the Southern Christians are not likely to see eye-to-eye with some leaders of the day. Some of us do not find any compulsion to sacrifice the standards of our fathers. Justice, mercy, truth, a fair opportunity, peace and peaceful enjoyment of the fruits of toil we owe to every man. All that and freedom ''to come and go; freedom to work, freedom of worship, a due regard for the right of privacy of every one—all this, yes; but to ordain a mingling of people against all their traditions and tastes is hardly the appropriate manner to promote good feeling or to prosper the Kingdom. We can proceed more wholesomely in establishing the Kingdom than by throwing ourselves at one an other. There is grave danger of sacrificing the essential things for mere forms. What the King dom needs most is emphasis on j individual conduct, instead of I trying to enforce theorectical j notions against deeply ingrain ed principles of social behavior. I do not wish to overlook the Christian emphasis on faith. Said a man recently: “What 1 want to know is this: if Europe could wage war five years with out American help why cry for American food and dollars to day?’’ All Africa, except the desert, can produce food; Africa could feed Europe. Belgium, France, Holland, Denmark and Germany could produce most of the food necessary to sustain them. Then we have Australia, Canada, Ar gentina, Brazil, Roumania—all food producers on a vast scale. Still it is the United States which must feed the world and then give them billions of dollars! If this is the condition then the production and distribution ol food throughout the world has been so neglected in the two harvest years of peace that the world is prostrate at the feet of politicians. Why weren’t the other countries producing food while our farmers were produc ing? I named only great produc ers ; I did not mention Britain and Itely. If the American, British French and Russian politicians have brought about this condition by their blundering, how would you like to have political Commis sions take charge of this coun try? That would be Socialism and Communism. How would you like it? One needn’t go abroad to see how politicians act; just observe our own variety. Does education promote demo cracy? Many people are telling us all the time that the great and compelling need of the day is education. Well, what is Demo cracy and what is Education? Are we confusing sound instruc tion with education? A man properly taught may not be the best educated man but he is the safest man for a troubled world. Education is supposed to develop the powers of the individual, not make him conform to rules and traditions, whereas the need of the day is for a thorough under standing of the principles of free America, the plan of individual iniciatiye within the general scheme of representative govern ment. We have no democracy: the word is commonly misused. Not even in a town governmefit have we democracy. Democracy would mean submitting all matters to the general mass of citizens. We have a representative govern ment. We are governed by men elected by us to govern us. The average citizen participates in the government only so far as voting for a candidate is con cerned. The idea that the salvation of the nation will come through schools and colleges is either er roneous or the schools and col leges are failing to do their duty. How does a knowledge of an cient and modern life help in promoting good government, un less the teaching be immediately and practically related to good government? What does it mean when a substantial majority of students voted in favor of socialism and against private enterprise? The folly of trusting blindly to colleges was impressed on us by the Germans. They, the best pre pared students in a technical sense, were the enthusiastic sup porters of the new “isms” and “ologies” which constitute the quackery of some institutions. We are not escaping some of this quackery; don’t you remember that nearly two hundred South Carolina students signed a peti tion to Senator Olin D. Johnston urging him to support a bill for the FEPC? And a considerablt number of graduate ministerial students in a Southern Seminar} signed a similar petition? And here, even here in South Caro lina, we have heard a professor or two sighing deeply over th iniquity of the profit motive anc yearning for the Utopian hope for business without profit. I’ve often wondered how any mar on salary could consistently ar gue against a profit-motive ir. business. Do we ask a man anything about his belief before we em ploy him? No .usually not. We employ a man to teach Sociology or Economics or History without regard to the pet foolishness he Everywhere you look you see BIG-CAR QUALITY and everywhere you travel it’s may teach him classes! and we are becoming almost sis careless in calling inisters. No man should be placed in a position of teaching opportunity unless he be thoroughly grounded in the faith. I’m thinking primary of colleges and high schools at the moment. Several years ago I discussed with a really great man some of the problems of the day. I thought then—and still think— that many of our leaders of op inion need a course of lectures in elementary Economics. He list ened with the attention and graciousess which chararcterize him, and is doing a liberal part in that effort. Do you think I exaggerate the importance or the urgency of this? Let us see: two tax bills were vetoed because some men of large means would save ten percent, although the smaller income man would save thirty per cent! Turn that over in youur mind: We a hundred thous and of us—perhaps many more— would have saved thirty per cent, but a thousand would save ten per cent and they would save so much more than we little fel lows! What do you call that? Did our Government intend to level us all off? Did the Gov ernment mean to keep our noses to the grindstone so that we might enjoy the other man’s misery? That is cheap politics, not worthy of the dignity of a great government. But some tens of thousands of men who have been to college applaud all that Communistic reasoning. If this is a product of the teaching of Economics then let us organize courses in prejudice and foolish ness. Let’s boil this down: did you ever hear of a small taxpayer complaining of the reduction on his farm and mule because his neighbor received reductions on three farms and six mules? Does the small home owner in your town prefer to pay fifty or sixty mills in order to make a rich man pay the same millage on a bigger house? Yet our income tax bill would have saved the little man 30 per cent and the big man 10 per cent, but the bill was vetoed because the big man would still have too much! Tax Notice The tax books will be open for the collection of 1947 taxes on and after October 1, 1947. The following is general levy for all except special purposes: Ordinary County 2K Mills Bonds, Notes and In terest 10 Mills Hospital Vt. Mills Co. Bd. Education 2Vi Mills Co. Schools (Special) 1 Mills TOTAL 16 Mills The following are the authoriz ed special levies for the various school districts of the County: Dist. AT LOWEST COST FLEETMASTER STATION WAGON STYLEMASTER 5-PASS. COUPE There's plenty of "lift" In Chevrolet's eye catching, eye-stopping Body by Fisher. Swift, racy lines and contours that are up-to-the- minute in style! You’ll find these bodies only on Chevrolet and higher-priced cars. STYLEMASTER TOWN SEDAN FLEETMASTER TOWN SEDAN FLEETLINE SPORTMASTES FLEETMASTER CABRIOLET FLEETMASTER SPORT SEDAN When this car heads out of town and onto a rough road it seems to "take smooth pavement right along with it"; for it has the famous Knee-Action Gliding Ride, and this, too, is found only in Chevrolet and higher-priced cars. » are pep and liveliness that few cars of any price can equal . . . power and dependability known the world over . , . all stemming from Chevrolet's World’s Champion Valve-in- Head Engine which has deliv ered more miles for more owners than any other engine built today! STYLEMASTER SPORT SEDAN /CHEVROLET^ CHEVROLET v/” B« tur. yeur car li ready for winter! Bring it to u« for tarvica and lat u« gat It ready for the bad-weather days ahead. DAVIS MOTOR COMPANY 1517 Main St. Newberry, S. C. Just to show how a politician can disregard simple facts in ord er to win the favor of the crowd, consider the highly edu cated, intellectual orator who recently said that wages didn’t affect prices. Take the farmer: he buys seed, perhaps. Have you been to a seed farm? Seed cost a lot of money, most of it being labor, highly skilled as well as ordinary. The farmer buys fer tilizer. Here, again, is a big bill for labor, beginning in Chile and Florid^ involving work there, hauling; freight, storing, selling, delivering. Then the farmer starts his work—breaking land, laying off, harrowing, too, sow ing, cultivating, chopping, spray ing, harvesting, hauling, ginning, marketing. Any labor there? well, ask the farmer. Then sell ing, transporting processing and re processing, more hauling, more selling, selling, selling—until in a far off day it comes to us—the finished product. Every step is labor. And just think of the foolishness of saying that wages have nothing to do with prices and inflation! Why teach a man anything in school if he will tell the public just such foolishness as this? Or was he taught? Or, perchance, was his teacher just an academic quack? No. Name Mills 1 Newberry .32 2 Mt. Bethel Garmany 6 3 Maybinton __ 6 4 Long Lane . . 3 5 McCullough 6 6 Cromer __ 0 8 Reagin .12 9 Deadfall . 12 10 Utopia 12 11 Hartford _ 4 12 Johnstone 5 13 Stoney Hill 6 14 Prosperity .15 15 O’Neal 8 18 Fairview 4 19 Midway 4 21 Central 4 22 St. Phillips „ 8 23 Rutherford 4 24 Broad River 6 25 New Hope Zion 6 26 Pomaria _ 8 27 Red Knoll 6 28 Helena 4 29 Mt. Pleasant . 8 30 Little Mountain 16 31 Wheeland _ 3 32 Union . 6 33 Jolly Street 8 34 St. Pauls ... 6 35 Peaks . 3 37 Mudlic \ 6 38 Vaughnville . 6 39 Cha^ells . 6 40 Old Town . 12 41 Dominick 8 42 Reederville _ 12 43 Bush River . .12 44 Smyrna __ 12 45 Trinity 12 46 Burton . . 12 47 Tranwood 12 48 Jalapa 8 49 Kinards _ _ 2 50 Tabernacle 8 51 Trilby _ _ 4 52 Whitmire .25 53 Mollohon 4 54 Beth Eden 3 55 Fork _ _ i - 8 57 Belfast 6 58 Silverstreet _ 12 59 Pressley _ _ _ 4 60 St. Johns 3 A Government bureau may em ploy ten thousand University graduates—all having studied Government and Economics—but instead of using their brains, they become echoes of the big man in talking any sort of utter tomfool ery. And when the Big Chief takes for his own the opinions of special pleaders, however un sound, what a lot of me-tooing and yessing becomes the Govern ment service. One man solmen- ly proclaims a lot of rubbish and thousands echo it and sing in chorus. That is real bureaucracy in flower. 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 There will be a discount of one (1%) per cent allowed on taxes paid on or before October 31, 1947. On and after January 1st, 1948, the penalties prescribed by law will be imposed on unpaid taxes You are requested to call for your taxes by school districts in which the property is located. Those who had their dogs vac cinated for rabies during the fis cal year ended June 30, 1947 by a licensed Veterinatrian, and ex pect to be exempted from dog tax will please bring their certi ficate of vaccination when ap pearing to pay taxes. J. RAY DAWKINS, Treasurer of Newberry County 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 all taxes for 1946 and County and State registration certificate. D. L. NANCE, Supervisor of Registration. NOTICE OF DELIN QUENT TAX SAI £S The State of South Carolina, County of Newberry. To all Whom These Presents May Concern: In compliance with the law, the Treasurer of Newberry County has issued in the name of the State, tax executions against de faulting taxpayers of Newberry County to the Tax Collector thereof. By virtue of ‘the said tax executions, the Tax Collector of Newberry County is directed and commanded to seize and take possession of so much of the de faulting taxpayer’s estate, real or personal, or both, to raise a sum of money sufficient to cover delinquent taxes of taxpayers hereinafter listed plus the charges thereon, and he will, af ter advertisement, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the same property before the Court House door of the aforesaid county on a regular salesday in November (same being November 3rd, 1947) within the usual hours of public sales. After completing these sales, the Tax Collector will give to the purchaser (upon his complying with the terms of sale) a receipt for the purchase money, but not to make title to the purchased un til after the lapse of twelve months from the day of sale. £HEI* By Tad Kesting Alaska is the last great strong hold of the bruin tribe: its bear population per square miles ex ceeds that of any other place on earth, according to Russell Annabel, Alaskan outdoor writ er. The species represented in clude grizzly, polar, black and brown bears, plus the strange little blue bear of the coastal glacier moraines. Alaska is one of the few places left on earth where a guide can not only guar- All properties levied upon and sold at this sale will be solid as the property assessed to and lev ied in the name of persons here inafter listed. 1 lot, 1 building in School District No. 1, in the Town of Newberry, County and State aforesaid, assessed in the name of Thomasseen Boozer and Georgia Clark. 1 lot, 1 building in School District No. 1, in the Town of Newberry, County and State a- foresaid, assessed in the name of Mary Mangum. 2 lots, 2 buildings in School District No. 1, in the Town of Newberry, C-^nty and State a- foresaid, asses»^i in the name of Mary S. Williams. 1 lot in School District No. 1, in the Town of Newberry, Coun ty and State aforesaid, assessed in the name of Robert Williams. 103 acres in School District No. 2, County and State aforesaid, assessed in the name of Albert Nance, et al. 8 acres, 1 building in School District No. 14, County and State aforesaid, assessed in the name of Irwin Bridges, Estate. 12 acres in School District No. 14, County and State aforesaid, assessed in the name of Marie Pond, Estate. 1 lot, one building in School District No. 14, County and State aforesaid, assessed in the name of Godfrey D. Harmon. 1 lot, 1 building in School District No. 28, County and State aforesaid, assessed in the name of John Bobb, Estate. 1 lot in School District No. 28, County and State aforesaid, as sessed in the name of Smith Spearman. 6 acres in School District No. 52, County and State aforesaid, assessed in the name of Tilda Crowe. 2 acres in School District No. 52 County and State aforesaid, as sessed in the name of W. W. Gil liam. 1 lot in School District No. 52 County and State aforesaid, as sessed in the name of Mattie and Gene Hunter. 1 lot in School District No. 52, County and State aforesaid, as sessed in the name of Eddie C. Thomas, Estate. 60 acres in School District No. 51, County and State aforesaid, assessed in the name of J. H. Wil- son. i+sAml T. L. HILL, Delinquent Tax Collector. Oct. 17-3tc Loans! ON REAL ESTATE AUTOMOBILES "and PERSONAL PROPERTY NEWBERRY INSURANCE AND REALTY CO. NED PURCELL, Managgr TELEPHONE 197 Exchange Bank Building MONUMENTS & MARKERS Now on display, all sizes and designs, made from Winnsboro Blue Granite. Visit our display on the cut-off, or call or write a postcard and one of our representatives will be glad to call at your home. You will be under no obligation. O. C. PHILLIPS, Memorials Located on cut-off at Morningside Nursery. antee you a bearskin trophy, but the opportunity to select it in much the same fashion as you would a rug. The bigger, more ferocious species are so common in cer tain areas that sourdoughs carry cowbells to ring, or a frying pan on which to pound, as they traverse bear country. Those who sneer at such precautions have been mauled by coming un expectedly upon a sleeping bear in the thick brush. Alaskan sourdoughs carry on a perpetual fued with all spe cies, respecting principally the grizzlies and browns, but re- sering their deepest hate for the thieving, mischevious blacks. One old trapper, returning after a long absence to a trapline cabin, found that a black had broken ip, taken all his clothes and equipment, and dumped them in a beaver pond. This had froz en to the bottom, and it was a long job chopping them out of the solid ice. On another occasion, the sour dough entered a cabin, had a fire going and had made himself comfortable before he discovered that there was a black bear hib ernating under the bunk. The bear charged out the door upon awakening, and scattered sled dogs, ad camp goods, which had been waiting outside the door, over half a mile of Alaskan scen ery. Bears are not a thing of un alloyed joy to have around. BIRTH OF DAUGHTER Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Irby Long, Jr., announce the birth of a daughter, Brenda Ann, at New berry County hospital on Octo ber 24th. Both mother and daughter are doing nicely. Mrs. Long is the former Miss Ora Lee Owen of Greenville. 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