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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. Keyhole Congressman Reports WASHINGTON. — Congress will enact another tax-reduction bill this session and the inside betting is that President Truman, this time, will sign it. In fact, it appears that I>emocrats may be outdoing Repub licans in the clamor for income tax relief. i » However, White House advisers Insist that the measure finally adopted must provide genuine relief fer lower-bracket taxpayers—chiefly through increased exemptions — to get the President’s approvaL The treasury department meantime is rounding out a con fidential study on the budget out look for the fiscal years ending Jane SO, 1948, and June 30, 1949, which dovetails nicely with plans of house ways and means committee Democrats to come oof flatly for tax cuts this ses sion. House Democratic leaders have kept it quiet, but there was some secret huddling during the holidays on proposed drafts of a Democratic tax revision bill. One reason for the mystery surrounding these strategy sessions is that ways and means Democrats don't want to anticipate the White House. Highlights of Tax Picture Here are the highlights of the treasury’s confidential study on the tax budget outlook for the next two fiscal years: On the basis of current national income, the treasury estimates that tax revenues for the present fiscal year, ending next June 30, may run as high as 44 billion dollars. This is $2,300,000,000 greater than the last estimate, made in September. Against this revenue, the treasury estimates that our (budget) expend itures will total around 37 billion dollars for the same period, includ ing $1,240,000,000 for foreign aid and a $1,700,000,000 credit on our loan to Great Britain. Unless foreign aid spending runs greater than the antici pated $1,240,000,000, and if the Marshall plan (or a Republican substitute) doesn’t become ef fective before March 31, 1948, combined additional expendi tures for the 1948 fiscal year will be no greater than three billion dollars, the secret treasury study reveals. On the basis of these figures, treasury experts estimate conserva tively that our net surplus for the current fiscal year will be some where between four and five billion dollars, which would leave the door ajar for a substantial reduction in income taxes. • * • Livestock Slaughter Halted Despite strenuous protests from U. S. cattlemen against abandon ment of the livestock-slaughter cam paign in Mexico, which was aimed at stamping out foot-and-mouth dis ease there, there is no chance what ever of its being revived. The department of agriculture has announced that the program, car ried on for almost a year under joint sponsorship of the U. S. and Mexican governments, would be halted immediately. “Tremendous economic and social impact on Mexico" was given as the reason. This was just a diplomatic way of not say ing that the campaign bad brought Mexico close to a full- dress revolution. Since the dread malady was dis covered among northern Mexico’s vast herds of beef cattle in Decem ber, 1946, more than 600,000 infected or exposed animals — cows, bulls, oxen, sheep, hogs and goats—have been killed oS. From the beginning, there were reports of fierce resist ance among owners in the more re mote regions, who protested that they needed their livestock and not the cash they received for surren dering them to slaughter. However, this was only a second ary factor in the situation which caused hasty suspension of the pro gram. Mexican government officials played politics with the compensa tion payments, so brazenly and on such a huge scale that the rural populations of four states were about to join forces in open revolt. • • • Battle for Margarine The margarine industry, long a stepchild of congress, which kow tows to the potent lobby of the com peting dairy products industry, will make another appeal for relief from the maze of red tape restrictions under which it operates. Besides heavy license fees and nuisance excise taxes on colored and uncolored oieo, margarine salesmen are saddled with trade ‘ practices that are vastly unfair. Unlike a butter salesman, an oieo salesman must have an advance order for every pound sold from his delivery truck. If he is stopped by a government inspector and cannot show orders for all merchandise on his truck, he is subject to a stiff fine. Many merchants who run short of oieo have complained that they can not refill their stock without this rigamarole, but the dairy lobby sees to it that congress takes no remedial action. Trained Bees' Make Honey in Six Flavors Inventor Got Idea Watching Insects at Flower Show. CORNING, CALIF. — E. C. Close, a beekeeper, has applied for a pat ent on a process to produce honey in six different colors and flavors. He said that through the process his bees turn out honey in straw berry, maple, chocolate, lemon, pineapple and mint flavors, each of them appropriately colored. Close got the idea two years ago when exhibiting some of his bees at a flower show. The bees were in a glass hive and had to be fed a syrup of sugar and water. It occurred to Close he might col or and flavor the syrup and get col ored and flavored honey, so he went to work with his bees. Now he keeps them in electrically heated glass hives, the temperature con trolled by a thermostat. The syrup Is in a glass container, from which it trickles into a trough for the bees. Along with the syrup the bees are fed pollen in a “special mix” which Close says is the real secret of the colored honey. Food coloring is added to the syr up to get the right colors for the flavors of strawberry, mint, lemon and pineapple. The chocolate and maple flavors need no additional col oring. Seminole Leader Wants To Make Peace With U. S. MIAMI, FLA. — New York has convinced a Seminole Indian leader that his little tribe in the Florida Everglades should make peace with the United States. The Seminoles fought a war j with the pale faces more than a I century ago. The conflict ended when the Indians withdrew into the Everglades, where ever since they have done all possible to ignore the white man. That attitude apparently had changed when Billy Osceola, tribal elder and member of the ruling council, returned to Miami after a trip to New York. Billy said: “White man heap change. I see Empire State building, radio, television. Great Overseer give white man big knowledge. I hope red man too will share great work. Now I ask Seminoles if want peace with United States. All Seminoles answer, then may be make peace treaty." All Britons Will Be Trained Against Atom Attack by Air LONDON.—Every adult and child in Britain will be trained for self protection against air attack in the atomic age under a government plan to reorganize the civil defense service. A highly mobile, full time force will be available on short notice for duty in any part of the country to augment civilian groups. The new civil defense service, to be planned by a jiint staff, was dis closed in a home office memoran dum which said: “After a major attack on a large center of population, the task of civil defense will be so onerous that every able bodied man and woman will be required to make some con tribution to the measures of relief and restoration." A white paper said that 1,027,000 of the 56 million acres of land in Britain would be retained for use by the navy, army and royal air force, and for military research and train ing. More than half the area will be used for rifle ranges, battle train ing grounds, tank maneuvers and army camps. Submarine Stays Under Water Several Weeks in First Test LONDON.—A British submarine has remained submerged for "sev eral weeks,” then surfaced under her own power wiffi her full crew of seven officers and 60 men in good health, the admiralty said. Two to three days was the previ ous limit of submersion. A succinct British admiralty an nouncement reported that H. M. sub marine Alliance, with a displace ment of 1,250 tons, had returned to its base at Portsmouth after a cruise in the tropical waters off Sierra Leone, Africa, “to test living conditions aboard a submarine dur ing prolonged dives in tropical wa ters.” ’An admiralty spokesman con firmed that the submarine—one of Britain’s latest types — had re mained submerged for several weeks but declined to disclose any d^ails. Food Market He Robbed Turns Other Cheek; Offers Him lob SANTA FE, N. M.—Albert J. Johnson, 25, World War II veteran, has been offered a job in an Albu querque food market which he held up last spring—if he can get a pa role from the state penitentiary. Johnson was committed last June 30 for a three to four year term. He told the district judge the robbery was staged to finance his British war bride’s return to the United States. The job offer came from Marvin H. Loveland, owner of the store, who advised the American Legion veterans parole committee he would employ Johnson. ‘CHRIST ABOVE ALL,’ THEIR THEME . . . More than 10,000 young people from all parts of the U. S. and many foreign countries attended the Methodist youth conference, sponsored by board of education of the Methodist church, *it Cleveland. Posing before huge globe surmounted by a cross are young representatives of eight nations: Norway, China, Korea, Brazil, Switzerland, the Philippines, India and the United States. ‘LITTLE ASSEMBLY CONVENES . . . This is a historic picture. It was taken at the first meeting of the “Little Assembly,” a new U. N, agency whose formation was sponsored by the U. S. in an effort to supplement the activities of the security council. There were two empty seats at the meeting—those of Russia and the Ukraine, who are bap— cotting the agency because they fear it will bypass the security council where the Soviets have been able to get their own way. NO HANDICAP . . . Gordon Taylor of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, demon strates his ability to bowl with the nse of artificial limbs. He and other disabled members of a group known as “Possibilities Unlimited" took part in a sports round-up sponsored by American Medical association and the office of vocational rehabilitation. Many sports events termed impossible for amputees were presented in connection with AMA’s mid winter convention at Cleveland. HE AWAITS WITHOUT . . . Sen. Glen H. Taylor (Dem., Ida.) was reported to be awaiting formal word from Henry A. Wallace to run for the post of vice president on the third party ticket which Wallace is forming. KING CARNIVAL . . . Dire want may be the rule in other parts of France, but in Nice workshops are turning out the huge figures that highlight the parade for the city’s' annual, lavish carnival. This laughing boy is King Carnival who will rule the roost. NEW PILOT ... From now on when President Truman takes a trip in one of his presidential planes, the “Sacred Cow" or the Independence,” Lt. Col. Francis W. Williams will be at the con trols. He succeeds Lt. Col. Henry I. Myers on the job. IVORY TOWER . . . Evangeline de Castro, 17, “Miss Philippines,” who was an added starter in the Miss America contest, announced that she would turn her back on mundane affairs to enter a con vent. “I am bored with social life,” she said. THEY'RE NOT A BIT SHEEPISH . • . With blizzard winds and snow still whipping around the corners of barns in most sections of the Midwest, these frisky new arrivals, part of the spring lamb crop, frolicked into the picture a little early. However, they don't seem to know it and wouldn’t care if they did. Their young master. Dale Good rich, 10, who lives near Geneseo, III., corralled the youngsters for » picture RACING WITH THE TUNE . . . Fighting the deadline set by James C. Petrillo, musicians’ union czar, for making musical recordings, Vaughn Monroe, sing er and band leader, snatches a snack and tries to sing at the same time. Good leadership and planning ARE MAIN FACTORS IN A REVISED RURAL ECONOMY. SMALL TOWNS, U.S.A. Rural Planning Mast Emphasize Restored Soil, New Employment By EARL HITCH Released by WNU Features. Restoration of the soil and introduction of new types of employment are major factors in revitalizing rural economy to meet the challenge of the changing times. The growing necessity for sound rural economic planning is apparent in small town and agricultural America, faced as they are by revolutionary changes in the pattern of living. The times brings evidence that most rural liv-<$> Ing problems can be solved. Hap pily this evidence, which has been accumulating for several years, shows the solutions can be accom plished by simple, home-devised plans. Rural economic problems ordina rily come from limitations on earn ing opportunities. Rural America At Stake No. 3 In a Series The earnings get lean when the land is allowed to wear out and oth er employment in the neighborhood is limited. There fore, the solution lies in restoring productivity of the soli and in pro viding new kinds of employment. Both these things can be done with good leadership and good planning. Extension of rural electric lines, the trend toward decen tralizing industry, new methods of farm production and land use, all are making easier the task of reviving the country communities and small towns. Much valuable community work has been done. Some of the pioneer ing dates back 20 years and longer. The successes of some communities provide examples for others to fol low. One of the earliest and most Highly regarded small community developments is in the southern mountains at Brasstown, N. C. There the soil has been saved and returned to fertility, and some small industries have been introduced to provide the needed opportunities to earn. Model Rural Community. Brasstown is a model in the rural life movement. It has shown that the home and the home surround ings are the most important things In happy living. High wages are not essential if there are better compen sations. Happiness cannot be bought with wages. All is well when there are jobs for all, if the work is pleas ant and the home is secure. Brasstown is a folk center. It is the home of a school of rural living, which has become the influence that shapes and guides the life of the entire community. This is the John C. Campbell Folk school, es tablished to be a permanent and useful memorial to a devoted work er who spent his life as a teacher of mountain people. The school is the life work of Mrs. Olive D. Camp bell, widow of the man for whom it was named. Ibis school is like nothing else in the U. S. Its pattern was the folk schools of Denmark, and Danish rural school ideas have been adapt ed to the needs of the Brasstown community. The school has more than classes and teachers. It is the voice and spirit of the commu nity. Since it was fbunded the living standards and the outlook of the whole people have been uplifted and given a solid root ing. It has succeeded in making the present bright and the future hopeful. The school is a place for demon stration, practise, study and recre ation. It is the stimulus not only of the culture, but of the commerce of the whole countryside. All ages may go to its classes. Everything having to do with local living is part of its program — farming and forestry, folk dancing and games, health and nursing, home industries and house keeping, and the marketing of the things the people make and grow. The school has a demonstration farm, a forge for iron work, looms for weavers and benches for wood carvers. Develop New Skills. Brasstown wood carvings are known wherever there is a market for southern mountain wares. Five of the best carvers taught in the school have earned as much as $1,300 in one year by their spare- time skills. But the land is first and the people are taught to protect and preserve it. “Do not neglect your farm. Carving is for spare time, and for pleasure.” That is advice that the school people give often, and with emphasis. It should be made clear that the John C. Campbell program is more than the teaching of skills and methods. It is a pro gram of ideas and attitudes. The school has made Brasstown (and that means the coves and the ridges for miles around) proud of its culture and its homes, and proud of the land. It has given the people an “ap preciation" of what they have and are. Moreover, it has made them com munity conscious, with some very practical results. Through study and leadership the school has de veloped a keen response to coopera tive ideas. This has grown into a thriving producers-consumers’ co operative store, operating a retail business and a producing milk plant. Work of Individual. For this example of how to organ ize and guide a community living program, not only Brasstown, but the entire rural life movement is. under a lasting obligation to Mrs. Campbell. She did her work largely unaided and with only the experi ence of the Danes to go by. The re sults achieved have been the prod uct of her vision, personality and determination. A part of the school’s support comes from the home mis sions of the Presbyterian church (North) and the American Mission ary association, but the greatest share of the going expenses is raised by Mrs. Campbell’s own efforts. The next article will tell of community projects managed by rural pastors. Speeding With Mules Legalized as Ancient Blue Laws Revoked MT. CARMEL, ILL.—For the first time in the history of this town ol 10,000, it now is legal to drive a mule "or other animal" 10 miles an hour on the streets and alleys or “five miles an hour around cor ners." This and. other ancient blue law* passed into oblivion when a new and streamlined city code went into effect. Now the peace and quiet of Sun day afternoons may be shattered legally by youngsters playing base; ball or even flying kites in the busi; ness district. Other formerly illegal activities which now are tolerated are the un hitching and feeding of horses iq front of any property without per mission of the property owner; the playing of a game of cards foi amusement within confines of the city park, and youngsters playing on the street after the curfew hour', which was 7 p. m. on short winter days and 9 p. m. on long summer days. Here’s One Barber Who Never Talks SPRINGFIELD. ILL. — Contrary to the prevailing trend among ton- sorial artists, one Springfield barber throughout his 12 years in the trade never has bored his customers with lengthy recitals on politics or weather or wonder oils for rundown scalps. This novel barber. Bob Belford, who stands behind chair No. 5 in Jim Drew’s barber shop here, has been a deaf muts since birth. But some of his customers never are aware of his infirmity. Barbers on either side of Belford act as interpreters for the custom ers, pointing out the tonic desired or gesturing for the various types ol scalp treatments or a facial. George Smith, who works the chair adjacent to Belford’s, rates Belford among the best barbers he has seen wield a razor in his 47 years in the trade. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT AUTOS TRUCKS & ACCESS. FOR SALE—Eichl SD-passenger. high head-room conventional WAYNE busses on 1942 Ford chassis. Leather upholsterea city type seats, good tires and mechanical condition, priced $750 up each. GRIFFIN MOTOR COACHES Phone 224* - Griffin, Ga. BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPOR. MAKE AND SELL CONCRETE BLOCKS, operate your own business, cash in on the building boom, machines 40 to 250 per hour, also mixers, conveyors, motors. Madison Equipment Co., Madison, Tenn. NEW PRODUCT TO MAKE AND SELL Well rated, medium sized manufacturer requires new mechanical or electro-me chanical household item, to add to present line, sold through electrical, hardware, and department stores. Have national distribution, good engineering and manu facturing facilities. M --r P. O. BOX 322 - Rochester, N. Y, FARM MACHINERY & EQUIP. IMS CASE DI, 31 dbhp wheel tractor. Starter, lights, new rubber. hauled. W. J. Liddell, Athena, Oa. ZSW-R. "SAVE FIFTY CENTS on Every Chicken You Eat.” It can be done with “Our Elec tric Backyard Brooder." Free Information. ALCOTT’S CHICK FARM Dept. A-2, Rt. 4, Bog 307, Aagaata, Oa. FARMS AND RANCHES 420-ACRE FARM—330 acres under fence. 7 separate fields and pastures, good 7-room house, modern bath and kitchen. Water in all fields, 2 cropper houses; over thousand dollars worth pine timber; electricity available. Three miles from town. Price: Nine thousand. F. E. CRAWFORD, JR„ ChlefUni, Fla. HELP WANTED—MEN WANTED—HIGH TYPE SALESMEN in everv city and town in Georgia. Write J. A. COBB, Chattanooga Bank B14JF* Chattanooga Tcnneaaco WANTED—Brick masons. Rate S2.12V4 an. hour. 45 hours per week, time and half aU over 40 hours. Long job. Apply C. M. GUEST A SONS, Aberdeen, N. C. HELP WANTED—WOMEN WANTED—Graduate* nurses as supervi sors, instructors and general duty. Excel lent pay. Complete maintenance. Apply to- MBS. FRANCES BURWELL Personnel Director Charlotte Memorial Hospital, Charlotto, N.C. LIVESTOCK FATTEN HOGS FASTER by stimulating their appetites with Dr. LeGear’s Hog Pre scription. Also an ideal tonic for brood sows and pigs. Has helped increase profits for millions of hog raisers. Satis, guar. HELP INCREASE MILK PRODUCTION of skimpy milkers by stimulating sluggish appetites with Dr. LeGear’s Cow Prescrip tion in their feed. A cow tonic guaranteed to give satisfaction. MISCELLANEOUS EARN EXTRA MONEY in spare time sell ing baby chicks and other easy to sell items. NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED. ANY MAN. WOMAN. BOY OR GIRL can easily earn extra spending money or as much an $100.00 per week working full time. Send a penny post card to: JIM PARKER MAROA, ILLINOIS, for details. ROLL DEVELOPED—Overnight Service 8 High Gloss Prints. All Sizes 25c. Reprints 3c each. FOX STUDIOS - BILLINGS. MONTANA HIXON SOLUBLE SULFUR helps supply your organs constant need for this naturaf element, overcoming sulfur deficiency, guaranteeing relief of Rheumatism—Neu ritis—Sciatica—Lumbago—Arthritis—from blood infection and inflammation. Capsulea $1.50—at DRUGGISTS—Liquid $1.00. HIXON - - SOMERVILLE. N, J. SEEDS, PLANTS, ETC. PECAN TREES FOR SALE Guaranteed true to name; government In spected; Schleys, Stuarts, Moneymakers* Write for Sizes and Prices. CALVIN HARMAN - Stovall, Georgia You Can Be a Partner Buy U.S. Savings Bonds! IS IT SAFE TO BLOW NOSE HARDT Answer: No, you might blow infection into ears. 2 drops of Penetro Nose Drops in each nostril reduce conges tion, check watery flow and help lessen need for blowing. You breathe easier. PENETRO DROPS SPEEDED-UP COMFORT for so-called KIDNEY SUFFERERS Backaches, leg pains, brokemsleep; painful pas sages usually go so much quicker if you switch to Foley (the new kidney-bladder) Pills. They nti mulate siuggish kidneys; then ALLAY BLAD DER IRRITATION. That’s the cause of moet pains, aches, urges once thought entirely due t» kidneys. So for quicker, longer-lasting relief, soothe bladder as well as stimulate kidnev action. Do this: use Foley (the new kidney-bladder) Pills; they also have direct sedative-like action on bladder. At your druggist. Unless you find them far more satisfactory, DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK CELHH WNU—7 03—4? We must see that this man and a million more "shall not have died in vain. ’’ Let us talk, think and act like free men. Don’t be a back-seat citizen. freedom is everybody’s fob!