THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1948
1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, S. C.
0. F. ArMfield
Editor and Publisher
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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
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. Either the Americans
were halted before Berlin or
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they were not. Somebody
knows the truth, but will the
books tell the truth? Did some
higher-up hold General Patton
in check? General Eisenhower
must know. Will he tell us?
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.
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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.
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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.