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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1948 I
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NEWBERRY, S. C.
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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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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
Good advertising may make
you want the article advertised:
or it may just keep the name
before you. Sometimes a lot
of money is spent for small re
turns. Recently some advertis
ing has attracted me very
much, such as the page ad of
a group of textile mills telling
of the break down of all its
income. It was excellent ad
vertising of a new order. Later
a great Oil Company ran ads in
many papers of the State ex
plaining the oil condition, why
we had a shortage. The reasons
are very informative, so I
quote them.
“1. Last year, this country
used more oil than the whole
world did in 1939—before World
War II.
2. There are 3,000,000 more!
cars on the road than there
were before the war. And the
average motorist is using 50
more gallons of gasoline per
year in bis car.
3. Twenty-five per cent more
buses—.thirty per cent more
trucks—serve you now than be
fore the war.
4. Farmers have doubled their
use of time-saving, work-sav
ing tractors, trucks, and other
equipment since pre-war!
5. A million and a half more
home owners heat their homes
with oil than in 1939.”
So, notwithstanding that the
production of petroleum pro
ducts is sixty one percent more
than before the Second World
Wbr, and twelve per cent more
than the peak production of
the war, we need more. The
Oil Companies are planning to
spend thirteen billion dollars
within the next few years to
keep pace with the demand.
While speaking of informa
tive advertising I am also im
pressed by the reports made by
the management of many enter
prises to the owners, the stock
holders. A power company of
! a northern state tells of con
structing nine hundred miles of
rail road tracks and the storage
of two hundred thousand tons
of coaL This ties up a great
deal of money. If we had no
Coal Kings to stifle industry
it would not be necessary to
have so much coal in reserve.
Our electric power is a house
hold necessity now, at all hours,
day and night, for sick babies
are more precious than articles
of commerce.
The Power Co., reporting to
its stockholders, says that coal
now costs 104 per cent more
than in 1937; that wages have
been increased 64 per cent; and
that taxes are 23 percent higher.
Of the total income the Nor
thern Power Co. paid eleven
and a half per cent in taxes,
but only 5.1 percent in com
mon dividends. The owners re
ceived five per cent of the in
come but they paid 11.5 of all
the income in taxes. While that
■ seems outrageous, I recall the
statement by the late Roach
Stewart, that his client was
paying 23.5 per cent of all in
come in taxes. That statement
was made by Mr. Stewart to
a Committee of the South Caro
lina House of Representatives
about twelve years ago. Since
that time, as everybody knows,
rates have been reduced in
this state, and wages and Fed
eral taxes have increased.
I call your attention to these
taxes, much more must be paid
in taxes than in profits to those
who own the concerns. The
owners bear the risks, they haz
ard their capital, but the gen-
eral^ public receives the lion’s
share, in the form of taxes.
Most people think lightly of
that, but it is a phase of Com
munism which is growing more
serious all the time. You and
I might take the lesson to our
selves by imagining more of
our income going to the various
Government units than coming
to us. Of course we can find
comfort in being in the lower
brackets, but no great indus
trial development is possible
except through the investment
of the surplus funds of those
who have large incomes. Even
at the risk of shocking some
of our share-the-wealth school
of talkers, it is not the proper
function of a government to
tax its people on a graduated
scale. We don’t practice that
in land and building assess
ments. We have accepted too
much specious reasoning. What
would the clerks in a store say
if they were taxed on a gradu
ated scale? Say, those with $20
a week ten percent; $25 a
The South Carolina
National Bank
Condensed Statement of Condition
April 12, 1948
Assets
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Cash and Due from Banks $ 50,155,500.41
U. S. Government Bonds 65,638,619.72
State and' Municipal Bonds 429,710.56
Federal Land Bank Bonds and Fed. Int. Credit Bank Debs. 1,841,389.58
Federal Reserve Bank Stock 126,000.00
Loans and Discounts 37,979,788.45
Banking Houses (11) $507,375.00
Less Depreciation 120,130.50 387,244.50
Furniture and Fixtures 159,887.52
Other Real Estate 1.00
Other Assets V 98,323.13
$156,816,464.87
Liabilities
Capital — Common ^
Surplus
Undivided Profits
Reserve — Contingencies
Reserve — For Taxes, etc.
Deposits
! 2,000,000.00
2,200,000.00
1,146,602.29
750,000.00
296,666.34
150,423,196.24
$156,816,464.87
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Florence
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week 12 percent; $50 a week
30 percent; $100 a week 75 per
cent? The percentages are ex
treme so as to make one do
a bit of thinking.
I don’t want to be tedious
and shall leave this tax busi
ness in a moment, but a state
ment by the South Carolina
Power Co., of Charleston is
before me. That is the con
cern the Santee-Cooper would
like to absorb. You will recall
that the Santee-Cooper remitted
to the State treasury a check
for $139,000—or something like
that. And so proud was the
Santee-Coopetr that it photo
graphed the checks and bought
space in most of the papers of
the whole State in order to
to publish the glorious picture
of the check for $139,000. But
the Charleston company makes
this report of its tax payments
for 1947:
General taxes $751,434.82
Estimated Federal
Tax $603,672.00
State Income Tax 95,479.00
A total of $1,450,585.82
And with all this tax bill, the
owners received $470,000. As
you will see, you can no longer
reap the fruit of your genius
and capital; the world, even in
America, is making the thrifty
and enterprising pay the way
for the shiftless.
You may know that the San
tee-Cooper pays something in
lieu of taxes to the counties,
but they weren’t so proud bf
the county payments as to pho
tograph the checks—and publish
them in all the forty six
counties.
We’ve won our annual war
with John L. Lewis. It is not
clear at the moment who will
claim the glory, but every year
of late Mr. Lewis throws a
great scare into the hearts and
minds of all Americans. Then,
after weeks of work stoppages,
and rail road train cancellations
and discomforts in thousands
of homes, some one in Washing
ton bows down to John L. Lew
is — and claimte that he killed
Cock Robin, or is it Goliath?
At any rate, John Lewis is
beaten every year, then struts
out with all the arrogance of
a dictator.
If the Rail Roads should
threaten to cancel all their
schedules, the public would be
frantic; if the coal owners
would close all the mines for
a month the hue and cry would
be terriffic. But this one man
can nod and stop trains and
factories: discommode shops and
endanger families, and with it
all defy the courts and play
with the idea of legal techni
calities, a mischievous sort of
pettifogging, and proceed at his
pleasure to the courts.
Why is this? Because we
subordinate every other con
sideration to votes, to organized
political mass action. We, the
“overwhelming” majority, are
overwhelmed by the organized
minority, working hand in glove
with the politicians.
Certainly no man should be
compelled to work, according to
American ideas; but we are
foolish to foster schemes and
laws which give special privi
leges to one group and make it
possible for that group to dic
tate to all the rest of us. If
every special privilege were
taken off the books, all groups
would face each other on equal
terms, under the equal pro
tection of the law. Neither the
one nor the other should have
special privileges, for neither
can prosper without the other.
But ttfe besetting difficulty of
the day is the eagerness of po
litical managers to corral votes.
The position is clear; there are
a hundred workers for one
owner or manager; so the poli
tician craftily calculates his
chances, playing the worker
against the owner. Of course,
when the owner steps out, we
shall have Socialism or Com
munism. The Government then
will be the boss, and we shall
have stamp books for every
phase of our living, as the bu
reaucrats may decide.
Dr. Charles A. Beard, the well
known historian, has published
a book that tells of the prelim
inary moves which brought
America into the Second World
War. Dr. Beard virtually ac
cuses President Roosevelt of
provoking a war with Japan
and Germany. An editorial com
ment sharply dissents from that,
but adds:
(Quoting Dr. Beard) “At
this point in its history the
American Republic has arrived
under the theory that the Presi
dent of the United States poss
esses limitless authority, pub
licly to misrepresent, and se
cretly to control, foreign policy,
foreign affairs, and the war
power."
The Editor of Time maga
zine. or the book Editor, some
what liberally states Beard’s
attitude, with a second quota
tion. I quote the Time’s state
ment and its quotation from
Dr. Beard.
“At this point in its history
the American Republic has ar
rived under the theory that the
President of the United States
possesses 1 limitless authority
publicly to misrepresent and se
cretly to control foreign policy,
foreign affairs and the war
power.”
Beard is indignant about
Roosevelt’s promise' to the na
tion that he had made no com
mitments during his Atlantic
meeting with Churchill when,
in fact, he had. Such binding
agreements, he feels, as well as
those entered into at Yalta, are
inconsistent with the constitu
tional provision for Senate par
ticipation in foreign affairs.
sidestep the duty and power
af Congress (and so of the
people) to determine when or
whether the nation shall go to
war.
Warns Beard: “If these pre
cedents are to stand unim-
peached and to provide sanc
tions for the continued conduct
of American foreign affairs, the
Constitution may be nullified
by the President, officials, and
officers who have taken the
oath, and are under moral ob
ligation to uphold it. For limi
ted government under supreme
law they may substitute per
sonal and arbitrary government
—the first principle of the to
talitarian system against which,
it has been alleged. World War
II was waged—while giving lip
service to the principle of con-
srtutional government.”
William P. Baskin of Bishop-
ville, chairman of the execu
tive committee of the South
Carolina Democratic Party, was
•in Atlaitta this week, in con
ference with Democratic leaders
from Georgia, Mississippi, -Ala
bama and Florida. These party
leaders decided to cooperate
with the Mississippi and Arkan
sas groups in a great rally in
Jacksion, Miss., on the tenth of
MJay, being a Monday. Quite
a number of our South Caro
lina Democrats will attend the
rally.
The Associated Press reports
that Mr. Baskin, who is chair
man of the group, read a state-
njent that "the conference con
firmed the general opinion that
no candidate advocating the
Civil Rights program of Presi
dent Truman would receive the
electoral votes of Southern
States.”
DRIVER EDUCATON
INSTITUTES ANNOUNCED
“Two institutes in driver edu
cation are now open for high
school teacher enrollment” said
C. R. McMillan, chief highway
commissioner in announcing a
training program for school of
ficials interested in offering
student driver education.
A forty hour training course
will be offered for negro high
school teachers at State Agri
cultural and Mechanical Col
lege at Orangeburg, opening
May 10th, and continuing thru
Friday of that week.
The next institute in driver
education will be presented for
white high school teachers at
Winthrop College on June 21st,
to continue through June 25th,
and is scheduled as a part of
the Winthrop College summer
school.
These one week teacher
training courses providing spe
cialized instruction in offering
both classroom teaching and
actual behind-the-wheel student
training, are to be conducted
by the National Conservation
Bureau and Safety Education
Section of the State Highway
Department in cooperation with
the State Department of Edu
cation.
“One of the most effective
means toward achieving a per
manent reduction of traffic ac
cidents, is by teaching high
school boys and girls the intel
ligent and safe use of the auto
mobile, which results from de
velopment of proper attitudes
and habits, together with ma
nipulative skills,” Commissioner
McMillan stated, in urging
earliest teacher enrollment for
the two institutes.
AT MEMORIAL HUT
The May meeting of the
American Legion Auxiliary will
be held Thursday, May 6, at
the Legion Hut at 4:00 p. m.
Hostesses will be Mrs. Eugene
Spearman, Mrs. Seth A. Meek,
Mrs. Butler Holmes, Mrs. T.
Roy Summer, Sr., Mrs. A. G.
McCaughrin, Mrs. J. R. Spear-
By TeJ Kesting
The canoe is one of North
America’s most fascinating wa
tercraft. It can be the most
stable of all. and also the most
dangerous. For the uninitiated
and timorous, Robert Page Lin
coln, noted outdoor writer, has
a few pointers on how to
handle one.
Stay off the water if there is
wind or waves. When fishing
from a canoe, never stand up tp
cast or play a fish. In trolling,
with a line out behind the
canoe never £it facing forward,
half turned in the seat with rod
out at the side. Rather, turn
in your seat and face the stem
and the paddler. You then have
complete control over rod and
line when a fish strikes.
When casting it is preferable
to sit on your duffle just back
of the bow seat, forward or
center. Have the canoe pointed
in the general direction of the
spot to which you are casting
and cast at an angle from the
bow, either right or left. Make
no sudden twists or turns that
are likely to throw you off bal
ance. Do not attempt to land a
large fish from a canoe. Beach
the canoe and then bring m
your catch.
The 18-foot “guide’s model”
canoe is best for length. It will
take four packsacks in the cen
ter of the craft. Arrange the
load so the bow rides a trifle
higher than the stem, but not
too high. As a rule all valuable
items are tied with cords to the
underside of the seats or to the
gunwales. Waterproof contain
ers can be strapped on under
the seats or in the bow of the
canoe to hold photographic e-
quipment, binocular, wallet, etc.
In fact, anything that is likely
to be lost in an overturn should
be tied to the interior of the
canoe.
Only the lighter models of
outboard motors weighing 20 to
30 pounds should be used on
canoes. Electric motors are
ideal for canoe use, especially
for slow trolling and casting.
Canvas-covered canoes are
very popular in the north where
hundreds of guides and woods
men swear by them. The alu
minum alloy canoes are now
very much in favor. They
handle remarkably well under
all conditions of wind, waves
and swift water.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
A petition having been filed
with the County Board of Edu
cation asking for an election
in Prosperity School District,
No. 14, for the purpose of vot
ing an additional 10-mill school
levy and retaining the present
5-mill bond levy (due to ex
pire in 1949), to be used for im
provement!,, repaid, mainten
ance, transportation, and general
school purposes, the said peti
tion is hereby granted and the
election ordered held May 11,
1948, between the hours of 8:00
a. m., and 4 p. m., at the Town
Hall in Prosperity. The trus
tees of school District No. 14
to act as managers of said
election.
Only persons returning real
or personal property for tax
ation shall be eligible to vote
and shall present a registration
certificate and his tax receipt
for the preceding year as is re
quired in general elections.
Newberry County Board of
Education
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