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THE NEWBERRY SUN
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1948
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1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, S. C.
0. 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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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
1 went to Houston, Texas to
attend the ceremony at which
Gov. Strom Thurmond was no
tified of his nomination for the
presidency and Gov. Fielding
Wright of Mississippi was noti
fied of his nomination for the
vice presidency.
The ceremony took place in
the great auditorium in which
Alfred E. Smith was nominated.
I estimated the audience at
about five thousand — more
than I saw at the Philadelphia
Convention the first several ses
sions.
I sat high in the balcony to
the left of the rostrum. From
my position I saw the states
manlike George Warren of
Hampton break his solemn dig
nity of the moment in order to
leap over a bench in order to
mention something to some
body. It was a feat of agility
and I was envious of my spry
and nimble Hampton friend.
Bob Figg of Charleston showed
up with that smile compounded
of humor and wit. Scanning
the newspaper seats I did not
see Friend Latimer of the State,
nor Alderman Duncan, but ere
long I espied Bill Wlorkman up
and doing. Of course I saw the
governor and his bride. I also
saw Solomon Blatt, Senior, rise
and lead some vigorous cheer
ing for Goernor Thurmond.
Wlhen Governor Thurmond
rose to speak he was greeted
with an ovation, a real ova
tion. no synthetic make-believe.
What was this occasion? It
wasn’t a Convention or deliber
ative body; it was a great gath
ering for political and publici
ty purposes. And the publicity
was very generous. Governor
Thurmond was not in good
voice and lacked some of his
usual sparkle, but he was per
suasive enough to command
hearty applause.
The meeting had „ band and
the band played Southern airs,
as well as the Star Spangled
Banner. When the strains of
Dixie were heard the moving
music lifted the audience to
loud and long handclapping and
rebel yells. Bill Workman
challenges the accuracy of the
rebel yell, but the rebel yell is
a strong, vociferous shout with
a whoop or two mingled with
a sort of bloodthirsty shriek.
That is the rebel yell, and it is
as authentic as are the family
trees of several thousand fam
ilies which did not grow from
the redoubtable passenger list
of the Mayflower.
Men and women ask me,
“Well, what do you think of
this Thurmond-Wright cam
paign?” I think well of it; I
am heartily in favor of it.
We people are not campaign
ing merely against Harry S.
j Truman; we are aroused be-
' cause America herself is in
j danger. Mr. Truman is a men-
j ace, though he is a man of
mild manner and good personal
! and private impulses. He has
become so absorbed in winning
votes that he seems to have no
political principles; he recom
mends almost anything that
j will appeal to any and every-
! body; according to him the
Government is a never-failing
Santa Claus. The chief objec-
' tion to the Santa Claus idea
' is that someone, some day,
somehow must pay the piper—
1 or there will be no dance. Did
( you ever think that this pros-
! perity of ours is built on the
I free and easy money of war?
Did you figure for yourself
that the five hundred billions
spent for war would hcve
bought a nice cottage for every
American family, together with
a tidy bank balance? Even the
$20,000,000,000 spent as hand
outs for foreign nations since
fighting stopped would have
built many a house.
President Truman was the
poor dupe of Henry Wallace
back in 1945 when he said
that the American industries
could increase wages 20 to 25
per cent out of profits, and
without increasing the prices!!
The world cannot be run by
statistics: a millionaire and a
pauper together may have one
j million and five dollars, but
| that does not prove that each
has half a million dollars. Hen-
i ry Wallace did the loose talk
ing and Harry Truman gave it
the sanction of his high office.
That strange blundering set
off the fight for higher wages,
still higher and higher. Poor,
innocent Mr. Truman thought
he could adjust one side of the
world and keep the other side
still. In his ignorance he lit
the torch that started the con
flagration. Today we are look
ing for more for ourselves all
the time—and so is the other
man. We are in a mad scram
ble which does nobody much
good, beyond a week, perhaps.
Like the little ripples when a
pebble is thrown into a lake,
each increase grows into a
widening circle of increases and
calls for more and more.
Some odd things are being
published. In one paper I read
that Mr. Truman may challenge
the South Carolina presidential
electoral vote if his ticket
should lead the State. The As
sociated Press is quoted from
Washington as saying, “But the
Administration camp has been
talking of possible court action
to force those electors to sup
port the President—if he should
carry the three states”—mean
ing South Carolina, Alabama
and Mississippi! Then we read
that the state must have a meet
ing of the Legislature to de
termine how our eight presi
dential electors shall be chosen.
Let’s see if this is law, as un
derstood by lawyers, or mere
talk by theorists whose theoriz
ing has scant basis in fact. The
The Constitution leaves this to
the States; our State permits
and acquiesces in a plan which,
then, is the attitude and deci
sion of the State.
We have law in South Caro
lina governing elections. Our
State permits a practice which
is certainly democratic, essen
tially democratic, in allowing
any one to prepare a ballot and
circulate it. Blit the State calls
the election; the State appoints
the managers; the State con
trols the election; the State re
ceives the ballots, counts them,
declares the result, and enforces
the result. Most people seem
to be entirely uninformed as to
our electoral procedure. They
go about repeating stuff which
someone says or writes, with-
‘ out knoing what law and what
legal control the State has. The
State does not print or furnish
the ballots. But the State has
certain requirements even as to
ballots; the state is not impo
tent in the matter.
In the case of presidential
i electors—speaking of South
Carolina, only—it is absolutely
impossible for Mr. Truman to
lead the State; the voters show
no preference for any candi
date, except the eight candi-
! dates for presidential electors.
1 If the eight gentlemen proposed
or nominated should be elected
who could claim that Mr. Tru
man had a majority of the pop
ular vote?
Too much misinformation is
being published. Some of it
is based on stuff and non
sense issued by, or inspired by,
press agents of the North and
their Satellites in the South.
If the State of South Caro
lina allows the largest liberty
in the matter of nominating
presidential electors, the State
still calls, regulates, manages
the election, pays all the elec
tion expenses, counts the bal
lots and declares the result. The
State is in full control of every
process, except that it permits
complete liberty in the matter
of nominating electors, but ac
cording to certain rules pre
scribed by the State.
_ ^W© be careSess wifla
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riRE ira tla©
Most people know it’s bad luck to be careless with
fire in the woods. But sometimes they forget. Then
the fire demon has his day. He destroys standing
timber. He damages growing trees. He kills seedling
trees that would be tomorrow’s wood supply. Every
one loses but the fire demon.
Don’t bring bad luck to your neighbors—your
community — your pocketbook. Remember! Its bad
luck to be careless with fire in the woods.
American Legion Post No. 24
I find more enthusiasm in
other States for the Thurmond-
Wright ticket than I find here.
I mean that I hear more being
said. This should not deceive
us. So far as I have been able
to test the sentiment, our peo
ple are heartily for the States
Rights candidates — Thurmond
and Wright. And our conven
tion was so clear and precise'
that there has not been much
need for shouting. Perhaps we
should shout. Let’s show our
strength by overwhelming de
monstration.
cracy, sapping our moral
strength like the persistent ter
mites. who eat away the sills
of our buildings.
What can be accomplished by
the so-called Southern revolt?
Our people should not try to
calculate the assertion of a
principle in immediate practi
cal results. Unless a Nation
rises above selfish considera
tions of a petty sort it cannot
hope to develop or nourish
the spiritual vigor necessary for
the onward march of a great
people. But I say again that
the so-called practical man of
politics may prove to be the
most impractical man, the
blindest man in a group of
blind men. The Spaniards
have a proverb: “In the land
of the blind, the one-eyed man
is King” (En la tierra de los
ciegos el tauco es rey). The
man of vision has the wisdom
of knowing real values, perma
nent adjustments, on the basis
of truth, rather than immediate
evasions, dodges and disloca
tions. We Southerners should
stand like men for a Constitu
tional republic; and we should
fight for that with all vigor
and devotion. If we stand on
firm ground we are right, re
gardless of the petty spirit of
those who know no principle
and confuse mean and narrow
policies with principles.
In defending the rights of
the States. we are maintaining
not merely the historical, con
stitutional principle of local
self- government, but we are
insisting on efficiency in admin
istration, since centralized gov
ernment of a vast area becomes
the arena of bureaucratic in
competency and bungling. As
George Washington suggested,
I let us do what is right and
leave the results to Providence.
■Southern men of the old
Democracy have repudiated Mr.
Truman and the Communists
who have influenced his course.
Henry Wallace defends the
Communists openly, and Mr.
Truman advocates measures of
Communism, in ignorance of
their implications. His ignor
ance does not make him less
dangerous.
We Americans have some
thing at stake: We have a land
of freedom and initiative, in
which the poor man or his £on
or his grandson may become a
towering figure of public ser
vice. We must not surrender
to special planners who would
become an entrenched bureau-
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
I will make a final settle
ment of the estate of William
H. O’Dell in the Probate Court
for Newberry County S. C., on
Thursday, the 23rd day of Sep
tember, 1948, at 10 o’clock in
the forenoon, and will immedi
ately thereafter ask for my dis
charge as administrator of said
estate.
All persons having claims
against the estate of William
H. O’Dell deceased, are here
by notified to file the same,
duly verified, with the under
signed, and those indebted to
said estate will please make
payment likewise.
WILLIAM MILES O’DELL
Administrator
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NOTICE OF DELINQUENT
TAX SALES ON PERSONAL
PROPERTY
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 a-
gainst defaulting taxpayers of
Newberry County to the Tax
Collector thereof. By virtue of
th e said tax executions, the tax
collector of Newberry County
is directed to sieze and take
possession 80 much of the
defaulting taxpayer’s personal
property to raise a sum of mon
ey sufficient to cover delin
quent taxes of taxpayers here
inafter listed plus the charges
thereon, and he will, after ad
vertisement, sell to the highest
bidder for cash, the samte prop
erty before the Court House
door of the aforesaid County
on a regular salesday in Sep
tember, (same being Sept. 6,
1948), within the usual hours
of public sales.
All properties levied upon
and sold at this sale will be
sold as the property levied up
on in the name of persons here
inafter listed.
Personal property, consisting
of one mule, club foot, and one
wagon, in School district Num
ber 1, in the County and State
aforesaid, levied upon in the
name of Calvin Sanders.
Personal property, consisting
of one wood stove, one bed and
dresser, in school district num
ber 1, in the County and State
aforesaid, levied upon in the
name of Neal Gallman.
Personal property, consisting
of two mules, in School Dis
trict number 1, OS, in the
County and State aforesaid, lev
ied upon in the name of Bi.U
Turner.
Personal property, consisting
of one Pontiac car, in School
District number 1, OS, in the
County and State aforesaid, lev
ied upon in the name of Dennis
Dewalt.
Personal property, consisting
of one 1930 Ford with small
truck body, in School District
number 39, in the County and
State aforesaid, levied upon in
the name of Jim Pitts, Sr.
Personal property, consisting
of one 1932 Chevrolet car, in
School District number 39, in
the County and State afore
said, levied upon in the name
of Thomas Harmon.
Personal property, consisting
of one Jersey milch cow with
horns, in School District num
ber 40, in the county and State
aforesaid, levied upon in the
name of Will Farrow.
Personal property, consisting
of one cook stove and a three
piece bed room suit, in School
District number 40, in-the county
and State aforesaid, levied upon
in the name of Lee Brown.
Personal property, consisting
of one 1930 2 dr Ford, in School
District number 40, in the
County and State aforesaid
levied upon in the name of
Bennie Lee Harmon.
Personal property, consisting
of one cow with horns and spots,
in School District number 42,
in the County and State afore
said, levied upon in the name
of Bob Robinson.
Personal property, consisting
one 1936 Master Chevrolet, in
School District number 45, in
the County and State aforesaid,
leied upon in the name of Sam
Boyd.
Personal property, consisting
of one bed and dresser, one
cook stove (wood) and three
chairs, in School District num
ber 45, in the County and
State aforesaid, levied upon in
the name of Franklin Saddler.
Personal property, consisting
of one iron bed and one wood
stove, in School District num
ber 46, in the County and
State aforesaid, levied upon in
the name of James Lawson
Whtts.
Personal property, consisting
of one 1939, 2-dr. Chevrolet, in
School District number 47, in
the County and State aforesaid,
levied upon in the name of
George Robinson.
Personal property, consisting
of one 1937, 2 door Chevrolet,
in School District number 47,
in the County and State afore
said, levied upon in the name
of Forest Long, Sr.
Personal property, consisting
of one 1934 Dodge car, in
school District number 47, in
th e County and State aforesaid,
levied upon in the name of
Mark Clark.
Personal property, consisting
of one bed dresser, one wood
cook stove, in School District
number 49, in the County and
State aforesaid, levied upon in
the name of Douglas Burton.
T. L. HILL
Delinquent Tax Collector
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FOR SALE — 1935 Pontiac
business coupe. Clean. Call
858-R after 5:30. 20-2tp
For Rent—One room for men.
818 O’Neal street. Mrs. Joe
Smith 20-2tp
FOR RENT—One Farm 4'/2
miles from Newberry, 40 acres
of land, 5-room dwelling dou
ble garage, running water, elec
tric current. Immediate pos
session given. J. F. Banks, Rt.
APPLES FOR SALE
Starks Red Delicious, Selected, Or
chard Run or Culls
Bring- containers.
Golden Delicious will be ready later.
CALL 93-W
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It has been said that it is better to undertake an
enormous task and get it partly done thatn to un
dertake nothing and get it all done.
We have undertaken the task of giving to this
community a service for financing both new and
used cars, that is seond to none.
PURCELLS
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We will finance your sales, no strings attached,
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agreements necessary—plus attractive reserve paid
date acceptanceof deal. Phone 736-M.
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