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The Newberry Sun Friday, November 7, 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 This man from Russia, Vish- insky, seems to use the United Nations’ platform to denounce some of our people. Jimmie Byrnes has been added to the list of war-mongers by this Rus sian. We are becoming tired of it. Most of us are losing patience with the Russians. Communist Russia still wor ships Lenin. What of Lenin? I’ve just read some delightful biographical sketches by Gam aliel Bradford, the historian and essayist. After reading what he says about Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson I found this remark about Lenin, the founder of the Soviet, the dy namic revolutionary spirit who promoted world revolution: “He regarded God with furious, posi tive animosity. God was the contemptible creation of the abject bourgeois. God is pri marily a complex of ideas. Ev ery man who occupies himself with the construction of a God, or merely even agrees to it, pros titutes himself in the worst way.” These quotations speak for themselves. Our leaders of thought must be the bulwarks of our cherish ed traditions and of the faith which is the foundation of Am erica. Donald Rich berg speaks clear ly against the FEPC. As you will recall, the FEPC is a bill which Mr. Truman and various other Democrats would impose We’re As Near As Your Telephone When you want flowers, our Chrysanthemums are at their height. Phone 592-W for your order today. We are now better prepared to serve you since Miss Ethel Kinard is with us. Cut flowers. Potted Plants, Corsages and Floral Designs H1LLCREST FLORIST 2003 DRAYTON STREET on the nation. At bottom the idea would compel all business establishments to employ white and colored workers without the right to exercise any choice. The Federal Government cannot meddle with the right of a smali shop or store, as such places are wholly concerned with business withm the State. However, the recent trend of the Federal auth ority is to go to such extremes as to declare that a concern cringing in goods from other States is no longer merely an intra-State business. Clearly this makes us all inter-State, for ail of us send letters to other States. So, the general hope is to curry favor with the Colored vote by foisting on us such an abomination as the FEPC. Mr. Richberg emphasizes a point of great importance in saying that everyman has the right to choose his associates and assistants. It is sufficient to pbint out that this is just another of the doctrines of the would-be lead ers who have the inside track in Washington. We ought to oppose this by any and every means, developing a political in dependence in order to compel the attention and respect of the misleading leaders of National affairs who claim to be Demo crats though doing violence to Democratic principles. Let’s forget Russian and Am erican politicians and think of more important matters. I went to the Fair. You may well ask which Fair? All the counties are having fairs. Some county fairs are ambitious en terprises on a big scale. Howev er, for the moment I'm talking about the State Fair. Although a member of the Society which puts on the fair, I hadn’t been on the grounds for several years. If I were a poli tician I should have attended regularly, for the candidates and the would-be-candidates walk around the fair grounds so as to attract political lightning. Some times a candidate arranges to have some one call ror him over the loud speaker. It is part of the advertising. “Call for Hon orable Bill Bill of Billville; par ties want Honorable Bill—Bill near cattle pen.” Well, that puts Bill—Bill out in front. I decided to trust myself to the bus of the City lines which operate to the Fair grounds and to Olympia. If you want to know America you must ride buses and learn to eat at lunch counters. On the city bus a gentleman from Newberry was giving a few points on the growth of New berry, “The City of Friendly Folks,” as well as an account of the bounty of nature in all that favored region. He wasn’t boasting or boosting, but calmly stating a few facts. My New berry friend wasn’t like the gentleman from Jackson, Tenn essee, a few years ago. I stepped off the bus during a stop there and asked the name of the at tractive city. Forthwith there poured from a gentleman’s lips such a stream of praise of his city as might have persuaded even a hardened newspaper re porter that this was either a paradise, or next door to it. He boasted even of the excellence of the jail. My Newberry friend didn’t even mention Dr. Sid Derrick or Judge Blease, O. F. Armfield, B. V. Chapman— and others. However, if he had been really desirous of proving the excellence of Newberry he would have reached that point after a while. Nor would I have overlooked my handsome friend Wiseman. And that is a mere beginning, for Newberry abounds in good people. A friend from Sumter County, Pinewood in fact, Mr. N. L. Broughton, was on the city bus, headed for the Fair. A little boy—Bert Rutland— was all set to ride a plane at the show. His daddy is out in Cali fornia in the air force. As I entered the Fair I saw that well known figure, George W. Collins of Columbia. Our friend Collins now wasn’t an ex hibit, but he would have been a worthy exhibit of genial man hood and good citizenship, with rich fellowship and a joyous greeting for his host of friends. My old Taxpayers League as sociate, Clarence Richards, with Mrs. Richaros, was enjoying fhe exhibits. And there was Mr. Scroggie, whom Judge Holman represents in challenging the Expense-Accounts of legislators. I used to think that Mr. Scroggie was a mythical figure, invented by Judge Holman, but he is very much a reality, a man of convic tions and Scottish steadfastness. Man-like, I was capable of more clearly defined apprecia tion of cakes and pies than of quilts, spreads and even flow ers, so I understood at once the attitude of two Sheriff’s depu ties who stood gazing longingly at cakes, while drinking sam ples of coffee. I gave close scru tiny to the cakes, likewise, but without avail. “All I want to know”, said a Deputy, “is wheth er the lady who made that co- coanut cake is married.” Well, well; what of it? What salary would a man need to have such cake as that? The last look I had at those two deputies they still looked hungry, though hopeful. I saw some individual exhibits of great merit, such as several from Lexington, those of Jessie Bickley, L. D. Roof and N. C. Leaphart. I wondered about the Bickley booth, whether a lady or a man had operated the farm. I think that is where I saw the fine apples. The Future Farmers of Am erica were on hand in a big ,1 way. As I entered a building two farm-boys were resting on a! bit of hay, one from Springfield, the other from Greenville coun ty. I saw some boys and girls proudly leading their fine cows before the judges. LaVerne Smoak of Orangeburg was fond ly stroking his cow, as he await ed his turn before the judges. Pauline Gramling was there, too, and S. W. Gramling, Junior —all from old Orangeburg. I hope there may be a fair with a thousand individual ex hibits, from every corner of the State. All fairs tend to be come industrial expositions rath er than exhibits of farmers. I don’t know how to arouse the farmers, however. The farm which produces a variety of things for practical use is the most inspiring sight for a farm er. As agriculture becomes spe cialized and mechanized we get farther from the home as the center of a varied production. Most people attend fairs for the tent shows and opt-door gymnastics. The people are re freshed after months of routine and enjoy the frolic. Perhaps one should fill his pockets with dollars, halves, quarters and dimes and prepare his spirit— and stomach—for whatever may come. I read with interest every week the editorials of Tom Lin ier of Georgia. Mr. Linder sees below the surface of what is go .ng on in this country and he world, and he ^sks pertinent questions. That our leaders are badly wrong in mtfch that they do seems perfectly clear except to them. They send bankers and bureaucrats abroad and they come back full of the propa ganda that served over there, and we, in turn, are fed it. If we raise a voice in protest we are regarded as unpatriotic, Communistic, un-American, un- Democratic, or un-Something else. The folly of pouring out American money like a swift stream is overlooked because some leader has dived off the deep end. The world may be in a sad condition, but can we trust the leadership that has allowed this condition to develop? That is a fair question—why is the world hungry? Didin’t our leaders know in 1944 that Africa could produce crops? Didin’t tney know in 1945 that France and Ger many could virtually feed themselves, as they have always done? 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Why should we merely shrug our shoulders when we hear stories of extra vagance that seems a wasteful ness that is a crime against the taxpayers? Demociacy, as people talk it, may be on trial. Private busi ness has demonstrated great capacity to meet great needs, but the administration of our Government, the handling of the taxpayers’ money, has been—and is—a demoralizing influence in our country. W. E. Turner, Jeweler FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD When we compound a pre scription correctly, we may have to draw on drugs and chemicals from many dif ferent countries,' in order to fill that prescription exactly as your doctor ord ered. For letter-perfect compounding, bring your prescription here. We call for and deliver prescriptions at no extra charge. Gilder & Weeks “The Right Drug Store” PHONE: 101 HOWDY FOLKS: May be you felt like the chairman of his society who said: “In most associations half of the committee does all of the work while the oth er half loafs. 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