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THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1948 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR Farmers must all be rich, if we believe what is said by many people who are not far mers. And of all the farmers, enjoying Government support of prices, the cotton farmer is the one usually picked on by men who are not informed. The cotton farmer is a small fellow as compared with the wheat and corn farmers. The Gov ernment support of corn and wheat is far above the sum for cotton. What about the support price? The idea is to encour age farmers to plant with con fidence. Large crops will re duce prices after awhile. Of course a heavy corn crop this year will not reduce prices very drastically, because stock fed on last year’s corn will reflect last year’s prices for some time. Why does the Government guarantee a minimum price for some farm commodities? Does the Government pet and pam per the farmer? Well, didn’t the government help the Rail Roads, the Banks, and a thou sand and one other enterprises? Didn’t the Government provide insurance of bank deposits up to five thousand dollars? That you know, was the good work of Senator Vandenburg, though President Roosevelt has been credited with it. And didn’t the Government enact a law fixing a minimum wage of for ty cents an hour, for forty hours a week, with time and a naif beyond that? And isn’t Truman demanding $1 an hour as a minimum wage? Of course that is unsound, even foolish; ttiere are jobs paying a dollar an hour now, some even more, but that rate, or any other rate is based on the earning power of the man as reflected in the prosperity- of the -enterprise. For example, farmers are pay ing from $1.50 to $3.00 for pick ing 100 pounds of cotton. That you know, is the cotton with the seed. For every 500 lb. bale of cotton, the farmer has paid for picking 1500 lbs. „ of cotton with seed. Everyone knows that $3.00 a hundred means $45.00 for picking a bale. If a bale sells for $155.00 the farmer has $110.00 a bale left. With that he pays fertilizer, la bor, rent or interest, taxes, tractor use or mule power, gas oline, oil and grease, or hay, corn and oats. The farmer himself must live. If the farmer planted fifty acres and “gathered” fifty bales with certainty he would still not be a banker. If he had to buy a dozen pairs of hose and a coat-suit for the lady of the house, together with all the accessories, of the femi nine imagination, he might not buy even new overalls. But what of the farmer who has ’’oth the rain and the sun at the wrong time? Even at a dollar a pound he might not be able to “look the banker in the eye.” Getting to the meat of the matter, or the milk in the co- coanut, a patient investigator gives us these facts: “In the 1910-14 period the average pay for one’s hour’s work in all manufacturing in dustries would buy at farm prices this many pounds of these products: 18.2 of pota toes, 0.8 of butter, 2.9 of hogs, 3.9 of beef cattle, 13^ of milk, 1.9 of chicken and 14.4 of wheat. Now, he finds, the av erage pay for one hour’s labor in all manufacturing industries will buy _at farm prices this many pounds: 49 of potatoes, 2.1 of butter, 5.2 of hogs, 5.9 of beef cattle. 28.3 of milk, 4.8 of chickens and 44.4 of wheat.” Do you observe that the in dustrial worker can buy more today than he bought years ago? Can the farmer buy land, fertilizers, services, mules, tractors, seed at 1948 prices and sell at 1914 prices? The price isn’t everything; the poundage is necessary. I’ve asked a number of farmers about their tobacco. Mgny said the same thing: “the price is all right, but I didn’t make i the pounds.” So the Govern- ; ment may support the price 1 per pound but it doesn’t guar antee the weather or the num ber of pounds. A farmer may | be sunk in debt in spite of high j prices. j The Government guarantees ! a minimum wage by the hour • for workers in industry, but not for farmers. I am not ad- ' vocating it, but calling atten tion to it. As to the dollar-an-hour which Mr. Truman uses as bait to catch the Labor vote, it means that when industry can’t pay that, industry will shut down and Labor will live on unemployment pay for a few weeks—then live on nothing. Some of our politicians catch the unwary by promising a world of milk and honey and a moon of green cheese. Ob serve how wages will work to a level according to the profit of the enterprise: It is easy to prove that $3.00 a hundred for picking cotton is too high today. Certainly it was too high some weeks ago. But if a farmer had to choose between paying $3.00 and letting his cotton stand weeks of rain, it would pay him to get it picked at $3.00. Of course that is more salvage than profit; he is cutting his loss rather than making a profit. If, however, cotton were selling for sixty cents a pound a farmer could pay four dollars a hundred and would gladly do so. Would it be sound policy to establish by law a four-dollar rate? Of course not; the wages must be determined by the value or sale price of cotton. So it is with the goods manufactured in the mills; if they compete in a world market the price must be competitive; and all the elements that enter into the cost of. producing them must not exceed a certain per centage. The politician who advocates a high wage by law is either ignorant or contemtibly dema gogic. If the industry shuts down Labor will suffer; and if the industry can’t manufacture and sell at a profit it must shut down. It can’t guess wild ly and then ask the taxpayers to pay the losses—as politicians do. Suppose the business of the nation were in the hands of Mr. Truman: do you know that the Truman Administration has been adding several hundred people to the payroll every week since the guns stopped shooting? And it is still go ing on!! I somtimes wonder why there is no control of what the Gov ernment spends. Apparently the bureaucrats spend as thev please and then call for de ficiency appropriations to co ver up. By the way, we South Caro linians are a bit slow but we are spending and spending, then calling for deficiency ap propriations. And the deficien cy appropriations include not only deficiencies but a lot of pet schemes, plans, perquisites, emoluments. official expense and unconstitutional allowances, i It all proves the value of edu- I cation: education makes us more acute, adroit and re sourceful. History will teach many les sons. if only we read the truth. ! V’oo knows the real truth ' about Pearl Harbor? Who knows about the concessions m-'de to the Russians at Yalta? Who knows whether we held our men in check so that the Russians might capture Berlin? What is the truth? We hear both sides, though both can’t be right. 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Some nights ago I found that no Scotland Yard detective story was at hand to beguile the tedium that followed the political, economic and finan cial forecasts of the day. I had read reports of speeches by Mr. Truman that seemed to classify Mr. Dewey with Gog and Magog whom Satan will let loose upon the world where he takes charge, following the thousand years of the rule of righteousness, as recorded in Revelation; then Mr. Dewey | seemed to promise a new hea ven & a new earth. My friends the States Righters have been proclaiming sound doctrine'and calling men to save the nation from the spoilers, the theorists and communists, but heartily as is my support of them, and my endorsement of the magnifi cent campaign of our vigorous and statesmanlike Governor, I wanted to read without having to think. I turned to Green’s History bf English People. That is not exactly light reading; nothing like so easy as reading about Cleveland trouncing the Boston Red Sox to win the pennant. By the way, th e own er of the Red Sox is a haft Carolinian, being a winter resi dent of Georgetown. I turned to a few comments on Thomas Cromwell, who be came the successor of Cardinal Wolsey as King Henry the Eighth’s first Minister. Says Green of this Cromwell: ‘‘As he saw in the church a means of raising the king into the spiritual ruler of the faith and consciousness of his people so he saw in the parliament a means of shrouding the bold est agressions of the monarchy under the veil of popular as sent. and of giving to the most ruthless acts of despotism the stamp and semblance of law. He had nothing to fear in a house of lords whose nobles cowered helpless before the might of the crown, and whose spiritual members his policy was degrading into mere tools of the royal will. Nor could he find anything to dread in a house of commons which was crowded with members direct ly or indirectly nominated by the royal council. With a par liament such as this, Cromwell might well trust to make the nation itself, through its very representatives, an accomplice in the work of absolution. His trust seemed more than justified by the conduct of the houses. It was by parliamen tary statutes that the church was prostrated at the feet of the monarchy. It was by bills of attainder that great nobles, were brought to the block. It was under constitutional forms that freedom was gagged with new treasons and oaths and ouestionings. One of the first bills of Cromwell’s parliaments freed Henry from the need of paying his debts, one of the last gave his oroclamations thq force of laws.” We have been passing through just such an experi ence. The great personal charm of Mr. Roosevelt, and his astonishing popularity throughout the nation brought to the front thousands of men who wished to bask in the great light of a luminous and captivating personality. They planned and schemed all man ner of things and wheedled and cajoled the Congress to enact laws that still amaze us. A strong, appealing character* draws men who delight in praising him, and whose song of jubilation prevents him from hearing opposition. In a land bf law we must have a government of law, not a gov ernment of indiiduals who use the law as a personal instru ment of policy, perverting it. Even the form of law may violate the spirit which should pervade our jurisprudence. We must guard against Government by decrees and Government by bureaucratic regulations, but we must be equally vigilant to prevent abuses by Statutes and abuses by Courts. Our liberty calls for as close a scrutiny of the Courts as it does of Execu tive and Legislative procedure. FOR SALE—Five room house at 1916 Harper street. Con tact V. L. Adams or phone 409-J. 2tp FOR SALE —1942 Chevrolet, Master Deluxe 4-door sedan. Excellent condition. Radio and heater. Tires excellent. Rea sonable price. Call 793-W af ter 5:00 p.m. tn FOR SALE — Marretts 1st year and seed wheat $3.75 per br. Coker Victor grain seed oats $1.75 per br. H. O. Long & Sons; Silverstreet, S. C.; Phone No. 441-J-l tn WANTED — Scrap iron, brass. copper, lead, zinc, aluminum pewter, old batteries, radiators, all kinds of rags, old waste cot ton, mattress cotton. We also have a nine line of groceries. W. H. STERLING, VINCENT ST. NEED MONEY? SEE US FOR A QUICK CONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL LOAN, AT . . . 1307 Friend St HANDY FINANCE CO. NOTICE OF ELECTION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA County of Newberry. Notice is hereby given that the General Election for State and County will be held at the voting precincts fixed by law in the County aforesaid on Tuesday following the first Monday, as prescribed by the State Constitution. The qualifications for suffrage are as follows; Residence in the State for two years, in the County one year, in the polling precinct in which the elector offers to vote, four months, and the payment thirty days before any election of any poll fax then' due and payable. Provided that minis ters in charge of an organized church and teachers of public schools, shall be entitled to vote after six months’ residence in the State, othrwise qualified. Managers of election shall re quire of every elector offering to vote at any election, before allowing him to vote, the pro duction of his registration cer tificate and proof of the pay ment thirty days before any election of any poll tax then due and payable. The produc tion of a certificate or of the receipt of the officer author ized to collect such taxes, shall be conclusive proof of the pay ment thereof. Before the hour fixed for opening the polls Managers Clerks must take and subscribe to the constitutional oath. The chairman of the Board of Man agers can administer the oath to the other Managers and to the Clerk; a Notary Public must administer the oath to the Chairman. The Managers elect their Chairman and Clerk. The polls shall be opened at such voting places as shall be designated at 8 o’clock in the forenoon, and close at 4 o’clock in the afternoon of the day of election, except in the City of Charleston, where the polls shall be opened at 7 o’clock in the forenoon, and in the Cities of Charleston and Columbia where the closing hours shall be 6 o’clock in the afternoon, and shall be held open during these hours without intermis sion or' adjournment; and the Managers shall administer to each person offering to vote oath that he is qualified to vote at this election, according to the Constitution of this State, and that he has not voted during this election. The Managers have the po wer to fill a vacancy, an.j if none of the Managers attend, the citizens can appoint from among the qualified voters, the Managers, who, after being duly sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election the Managers and Clerks must proceed publiclly to open thd ballot box and count the bal lots therein, and continue with out adjournment until the same is completed, and make a state ment of the results for each office, and sign the same. With in three days thereafter the Chairman of the Board, or some one designated by the Board, must deliver to the Com missioners of Election the poll list, the box containing the bal lots and written statements of the results of the election. MANAGERS OF ELECTION The following Managers of Election have been appointed to .hold the election at various precincts in the said County: NEWBERRY COURT HOUSE —Raymond Blair, Mrs. Lucille Sease,' John Peterson. NEWBIERRY COTTON MILL —Dewey Kinard, Rev. V. L. Fulmer, Edward Bouknight. MOLLOHON MILL—T. B. Grant, R. J. Willingham, C. A. Shealy. OAKLAND MILL — G. W. Attaway, Herbert Morris, C. J. Swindler. MOUNT PLEASANT—Archie Reese, Mrs. Fred Pope, E. L. Glymph. HELENA—Gerald Baker, Ted McDowell, Charlie Zoble. MAYBINTON — Bannie Cath- cart. Arthur Maybin, Lula Bess Whitney. WHITMIRE— James Moates, F A. Christie, Marvin Abrams, Jr. LONG LANE—Lee Hargrove, Edward Chandler, John Baker. JALAPA —JOHN SWITTEN- burg. Herman Wise, Andrew Miller. LONGSHORES—Richard Neel J. W. Senn, Griffin Dorroh. DOMINICK — George Breh- mer, Horace Oxner, T. J. Dev- enport. CHAPPELLS—J. B. Scurry, John Boozer, M. L. Connelly. HARTFORD—H. L. Shealy. Mrs. W. L. Buzhardt, Horace Cromer. PROSPERITY—T. L. Daw kins, D. P. Young, J. A. Sease. O’NEAL—Vernon Pugh, J. F. Dawkins. Curtis Long. MIDWAY — C. A. Counts, Horace Richardson, Warren Dowd. JOLLY STREET—D. L. Wed- aman. L. B. Bedenbaugh, No land Wicker. CENTRAL — Ernest Shealy, Perry Lindley, Olin Setzler. POMARIA—E. O. Stuck. C. E. Long. J. M. Stuck. WiALTON—Marvin Graham James Crooks, Joe Ruff. MT. BETHEL—Oscar Graham Howard Boland, Chalmers Brown. ST. PHH,IPS—David L. Ruff, Loami Ruff. George Shealy. LITTTE MOUNTAIN— Er nest Wtheeler. Miss Roberta Sease, D. O. Frick. UNION ACADEMY— Clvde Wilson. J. L. Halfacre, John Shealy. SILVERSTREET—T. M. Fant B. W. Mills. J. B. Havird. KINARDS—George W. John TAX NOTICE The tax books will be open for taxes on and after October 1, 1948. The following is general levy for poses; Ordinary County Bonds, Notes & Interest Hospital Co. Bd. Education Co. Schools (Special) the collection of 1948 all except special pur- 214 Mills 9 Mills 14 Mill 214 Mills 1 Mill TOTAL The following are the authorized 15 Mills special levies for the various school districts of the County ; Total District No. Special Bonds 1. Newberry 26 6 32 2. Mt. Bethel Garmany 6 6 3. Maybinton 6 6 4. Long Lane 3 3 5. McCullough 6 6 6. Cromer 0 0 8. Reagin 10 2 12 9. Deadfall 10 2 12 10. Utopia 10 2 12 11. Hartford 4 4 12. Johnstone 5 5 13. Stoney Hill 15 15 14. Prosperity 20 5 25 15. O’Neal 8 8 18. Fairview 4 4 19. Midway 4 4 21. Central 4 4 22. St. Philips 8 8 23. Rutherford 7 7 24. Broad River 6 6 25. New Hope Zion 6 6 26. Pomaria 8 8 27. Red Knoll 6 6 28. Helena 4 4 29. Mt. Pleasant 8 8 30. Little Mountain 16 16 31. Wheeland 3 3 32. Union 6 — 6 33. Jolly Street 8 8 34. St. Pauls 6 6 35. Peak 3 3 37. Mudlic 6 6 38. Vaughnville 6 6 39. Chappells 6 6 40. Old Town 10 2 12 41. Dominick 8 8 42. Reederville 12 12 43. Bush River 12 12 44. Smyrna 12 12 45. Trinity 10 2 12 46. Burton 10 2 12 47. Tranwood 12 12 48. Jalapa 8 8 49. Kinards 2 2 50. Tabernacle 8 8 51. Trilby 4 4 52. Whitmire 20 5 25 53. Mollohon 4 4 54. Beth Eden 3 i 3 55. Fork 8 8 57. Belfast 6 6 58. Silverstreet 10 2 12 59. Pressley 4 4 60. St. Johns 3 3 There will be a discount of one (1%) per cent allowed on taxes paid on or before October 31, 1948. On and after January 1st, 1949, the penalties prescribed by law will be imposed on unpaid taxes. You are requested to call for your taxes by school dis tricts in which the property is located. Those who had their dogs vaccinated for rabies during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1948 by a licensed Vetinarian, and expect to be exempted from dog tax will please bring their certificate of vaccination when appearing to pay J. RAY DAWKINS. Treasurer of Newberry County. son, G. R. Boozer, Jack B. Smith. GARMANY — Mrs. Minni Leitzsey, Allan Oxner, J. D. Caldwell. PEAK—M. O. Mayer, J. O. Counts. S. P. Chapman. ZION—Joe Ringer, Jacob A. Bundrick, Ben Eargle. The Managers at each pre cinct named above are request ed to dlgate one of their num ber to scure the boxes and blanks for the election. Managers will appoint their JACK B. SMHTH, J. C. DUNCAN R. M. MINICK Commissioners Federal Election. J. A. Mayer. Clerk. COL. CALLAHAN APPOINTED TO P.O. HEADQUARTERS Headquarters, Far East Air Forces, Tokyo, Japan.—Lieuten ant Colonel William O. Calla han, son-in-law of Mr. P. C. Singley, of Prosperity, has re cently been assigned as the Assistant Adjutant General and the Postal Officer of Headquar ters Far East Air Forces in Tokyo, Japan. As postal offi cer, he will be responsible for the maintenance of all post of fices. Starting his colorful military career in March, 1942, Col. Cal lahan was assigned as com manding officer of a postal un it at Indiantown Gap, Pa. He remained there until June of that year when he was trans ferred overseas to Tidworth, England to command a postal unit. In October he w r as mad» chief of a special postal staff section in London with the Twelfth Air Force. He moved with this unit to Algiers, North Africa, thence to Lamarsa, Tu nisia and in September 1943 transferred with it to Foggia, Italy. Awarded the Legion of Me rit for his outstanding services in 1942 and 1943 for setting up postal units in North Africa for the air force commands there. Col Callahan also has the Bronze Star for air force mail services in North Africa, Corsica, Sardinia. Sicily and Italy and for the preparation of mail dispatch charts, a sys tem adopted throughout the theater Looking forward to the ar rival of his wife. Phoebe Sing- ley Callahan, some time in De cember. Col. Callahan will choose housing for the in a Japanese style home. Mrs. Callahan now lives at 2808 Forest Drive, Columbia, MRS. MARY ANN FRYE (Mrs. Mary Ann Almena Mc Carthy Frye, 67, wife of the Rev. Irvin Frye, died early Friday morning at her resi dence on the Whitmire high way. She had been in declin ing health for several months. Mks. Frye was bom and rear ed in Lexington County and was the daughter of the late George D. and Mrs. Adrian Price McCarthy. She had lived in Newberry for a number of years. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock from St. Matthews Luth eran Church near Lexington, with the Rev. H. C. Ritter in charge, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Dashier. Interment fol lowed in the church cemetery. She is survived by her hus band. the Rev Irvin Frye; one daughter, Mrs. J. C. Stroud of Abbeville; one son, William Irvin Frye of Newberry, Ray McCarthy, George McCarthy Jesse McCarthy, all of Lexing ton. Simm McCarthy of Flori da, Mrs. Ella Rivers of Bates- burg, Mrs. Salley Ivey, Mrs. Nancy Ivey, both of Lexing ton, and Mrs. Agnes Taylor of Leesville. and fourteen grand children and three great grand children. FORTY-TWO MEN with this company in S. C. are making more money than ever before in their previous job or business. We will teach two more ment of clean character and honest, hard working habits to make their future and that of their families permanently secure from the very first week. You must be able to stand strictest investigation, have good car, references, married, age 25-45, and an ambition equal to this opportunity. If you have any plans, hopes and qualifications as outlined, then we will welcome de tails as to age, previous job, when available, etc. Address: Electrolux Corp., 1921 Blossom St., Col umbia 5, S. C. for interview promptly. Read that first line again. This is a full time job.