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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1949- Sun 1218 Collesre Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Armfikld 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., fl.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS moment. x If you observe that one coun ty seems to have paved more roads than another; and that certain roads within a County are paved as a matter of poli tical payment or political in ducement, do you think all the sick babies would receive the same treatment under a political health arrangement? We are innately and supremely selfish—most of us—and we look out for ourselves, our peo ple, our friends, with special solitude and unremitting effort. My long experience on the inside of a paternalistic gov ernment, a benevolent dictator ship, proved to me how de lightful it is—on the inside; the gnashing of teeth, the groaning and grovelling, the unavailing kicking against “out rageous fortune”—on the out side. BY SPECTATOR South Carolina is still a State of V: el-headed people. All a' us the Socialist taint is spreading, notably in the Fed eral Gr vernment. Here, how ever, many of our people cling to the sound principle that a man should help himself and not sit back like a pampered baby and cry for Government pap. Wte are exposed to the loose thinking of the day and we observe that most people don’t let their principles stand in the way of a dollar, or many dollars. All th e persuasion of men is being used to bring us into the swift stream of Social ism — Government ownership, Government operation, Govern ment aid. Government grants Government subsidy and any thing else. All this carries Goernment regulation, Govern ment rules for every detail. Some unhappy day we may find that your sick baby isn’t receiving good care, but that your neighbor has Government doctors morning, noon and night; medicines, tonics in wholesome abundance. Why would that be? That neighbor “stands in” with the “big-wig” and can get streptomycin even when you can’t get an aspirin tablet or a quarter grain of Colomel, ipecac and soda. If you don’t know what will eventually happen you don’t know people and the impulses which move people. Some of this isn’t impulse; it is cold calculation, based on the main chance. There is politics wherever men meet or are associated, even on boards of directors of corporations and in churches. How did X happen to be elec ted to something, even in a small organization? By super lative worth? Because of pre eminent attainments? Some times, but seldom, very seldom. These so-called honors are care fully engineered, oftentimes streamlined, and vigorously ad vocated. The dish is well cook ed and served at the right Shooting Quail A sportsman, from Kingstree, S. C. will bet $100.00 that he can take a box of shells and kill 25 quail, and will shoot nothing but male birds. We call that iperfection in shooting. We think we have reached the perfection, too, in handling insurane matters in a manner that is pleasing to our customers. PURCELLS Your Protection Our Business Phone 197 THE BEST PLACE FOR Buick & Chevrolet Service IS Davis Motor Company 1515-1517 Main Street Who prepares the regulations always imposed by the Govern ment? Is trere a certain type of mind for this sort of work; or does this kind of work para lyze the mind? For example, a splendid gentleman of Col umbia is now eligible for the Government’s Old Age retire ment. How did he become eli gible? Well, since January 1937 he and his employer have paid two percent on his sal ary. It is insurance, not wel fare. But if he continues to work for some concern that pays the tax and earns the col- losal salary of $15 a month he will lose his retirement pay. But he could work for him self and earn $1000 a month and enjoy the retirement pay —$44 a month. As a matter of fact, I think a man might do better by ‘go ing on welfare,” unless he is too poor for welfare!! Now whoever conceived that limi tation? Obviously a man who has paid on an income of $250 a month, cannot live on $44.00 a month. We might send one of the beautiful investigators of Welfare to investigate and learn that with all the fruit juices, proteins and calories that are minimum require ments, even for a client of Welfare, my friend of Columbia cannot possibly thrive on $44 a month; but if he thriftily re mains on the same job, after attaining sixty five years, or works for another employer who pays the tax, he will lose his penswn. Of course if he works for a man who does not pay the tax, he can continue to enjoy his pension and even sixteen dollars (or more) a month. Speaking of the mental quirks of the specialists who contrive the regulations, I re call a South American Cabi net Minister who used to jump up in nervous frenzy because of what some politician (some other politician) said he did. and exclaim “Es up tipo!!” That meant “He is a type.” The word “type” doesn’t seem to mean the same to us, but I”ll borrow it and exclaim that these Federal regulations must have been prepared by “un tipo.” All that brings to mind an afternoon in the Red Cross Ho tel for Officers in Is-sur-Tille, France. My outfit was billet ed there in the house operated as. a hotel by the Red Cross ladies. The ladies used to have tea in the afternoons, as the British do, and the handsome young officers would “sit in.” I’d heard a lot about those 'teas,” but our work kept us out in the camp beyond tea- time. One day, however, a handsome young Captain urged me to attend. This attractive young fellow was a happy spirit, in love with all the world, including himself. He talked about his services in a certain branch, and spoke with pride of certain army A-E.F. regulations which he had pre pared. I had an assistant, a Captain from th e North, a fine gentleman, but blunt and un gracious in speech. He long had spoken harshly against that regulation. As the first young Captain chirped along, my Assistant looked up and spoke almost with a snarl: “So you’re the fellow who wrote that, eh? I always want ed to see the guy that had that spasm and mistook it for a thought.” With these kind words floating about, it re quired extra tea and cakes to restore a semblance of decor um. Perhaps that young Captain was "un tipo.” Even private business can do some strange and wonderful things, proving that a bureau cracy is a bureaucracy where- ever you find it, but with this difference; you can find somebody, somewhere to make the private bureaucrats see the light; the political ones are almost hopeless. In a town I saw two concerns do ing exactly the same kind pf business, identical throughout. One paid an insurance rate of $1.05 a hundred, while the other paid $2.75. If that had been in politics the reason would have been clear. Some thing will be, or can be, done about that. A country place of some pre tension wanted the cheap rates and services of the R.E.A. The owner gave a right-of-way and the R.E.A. hacked his trees and made his approach on the highway look like a devasta tion of invading armies. Wlhat can the owner do? Nothing. But if that had been a private power company the right-of- way would probably have cost something, and the devil-may- care hacking of trees would have cost that company some thing, quite a bit, perhaps. This is a sort of hush-hush age. If I seem to be breathing fire and brimstone it isn’t be cause I’m a sore head or a malcontent; I’m just telling you some of the things we should know or think about. In these little talks I am not trying to “make friends;” of course I do not wish to of fend anyone; but I shall never have the pleasure of knowing or meeting, most of you; so what I earnestly wish is to de serve the confidence of my public, as one who studies the problems of the day and speaks soberly the thoughts of his mind. land of Scotland’s great writ ers, I went by land and boat, but even the memories of Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge and Scott could not drive out the urge for a shave. I started in hot pursuit of a barber. I asked policemen, and all others, where I might find a barbershop. I couldn’t understami the burr of the Scotch police, but I knew they meant well. Finally one man who had seen me in all my pursuit of happiness, a jnan I had consulted, by the way, asked, “What did you say you were looking for?” “A bar bershop,” I said. ‘What is that? What do you want?” “A shave,” I said. “Oh!” he said, “go to the hair dressers.” So that’s what they called the barber—a hair-dresser. I won der if a bald man would go to a hair-dresser. Some of my tenants speak a language of their own. One, speaking to me of another, said “he’s a separate man.” As I have a nodding acquaint ance with the Apostle Paul, I understood that—a man sep arated from the world. But recently that same man came to see me. He had a vague idea that the Government owed him something, but he was badly confused. After reciting his impressions, along with his recollections, he said, several times, “I just want to get the ‘size’ from you.” He meant that he wanted me to advise him, confiding in my know ledge of the appropriate Gov ernment agencies, so as to give my old friend “the size” of it. Save Regularly Here you save money in convenient amounts. You also save worry...for v savings at work here have insured safety plus attractive earnings. a away ■ • pay for Port,©, of each c heck the down Ptyment on a home of your own. Start now and save re 9u/ar/ y Strange and wonderful doings come to, my attention. Some weeks ago an observant gen tleman from Tennessee was telling of his boyhood in Rich land county, up near Fairfield in the Crooked Run communi ty. All the region below Col umbia toward the Wateree River was peopled by his kins men. He told me that in the long ago, there was a type of earth near Horrel Hill that was eaten by some people as a tonic for the digestion. Some time later I sat next to an elderly man on a bus passing through Horrel Hill. I told him what my Tennessee friend had said. My bus friend strok ed his chin reflectively and said, “Well, I don’t know about Horrell Hill, but I’ve fished all the river and the lakes down to the Santee, and be yond. Down near Poinsette Park is a lake and people used to eat the dirt from the bank of the lake.” So I’m prepared to accept the story of a thrifty young trader of Clarendon that his hogs ate so much of his coal that they increased in weight quickly. Coal is decayed vegetable matter that has come through the crucible of time. Still, coal as hog food is new to me. Accepting at face value that the hogs fattened on coal, one can’t be sure of the economy of coal as hog feed, consider ing the sky-high price of coal. Farmers would do well to 'stick to” corn. INSURED SAFETY 3* Newberry Federal Savings and Loan Association We speak English; the Eng lish, of course, speak English; and the Scotch speak English; or do the English speak Scotch? The Scots don’t borrow any thing from anybody, as you know. We Americans and British don’t always use the same words, as, for example, Am erican tall buildings have “ele vators,” while the British have “lifts;” Americans have crack ers, but the British have bis cuits; we have freight trains and the British have goods trains; we have “candy,” but the British have “sweets” and chocolates;” we have “bag gage,” but the British have luggage” —and so on. Once I was in Edinburgh, Scotland’s lovely city, or one of its beauteous communities. I went everywhere, including the “Carsel” (Castle) where James I, of England, was born; to Holyrood Palace; to the tiny “Study” of valiant old John Knox, the great preacher. After running around I needed the attention of a barber, to re store the youthful appearance. All through the Trossachs—the entrancing Loch Katrine and Loch Lomond—and the fairy- SMITH RADIO SERVICE If you’re missing your favorite radio programs due to a dead or improper ly operating receiver call 724-J or bring your set to Carolina Electric Co., 942 Main street. We charge only for parts replaced—we replace only parts we know will make your radio right again. E. K. (ESTON) SMITH By Kesting Poor land makes poor hunt ing and fishing. The impor tance of this fact is receiving growing attention from hunters farmers and wildlife experts throughout the nation. We are at last beginning to realize that modern soil-conservation farming does more than restore wasted lands and boost crop yields. It also brings back the game and fish. In the process of rehabilita ting the worn-out acres of his farm in Ohio, noted author Louis Bromfield observed that the game and fish population increased in the exact ratio with the rising fertility of the soil and with the decline of erosion. He writes that America is still suffering from the spoilers’ tradition in relation to our nat ural resources — a tradition which poluted streams and lakes, cut and burfted over forests, and wore out farm after farm. It is a tradition for which We are paying heav ily in terms of living standards health, recreation, and sport. Within the last four or five years a new approach toward providing fish and game has been gaining support. It is based upon the premise that we can have maximum fish and game populations, without the aid of artificial stocking, where food, shelter and gener al conditions of habitat are right. There is little use in stock ing either game or fish in areas where they can scarcely sur vive, let alone reproduce. It is shockingly expensive. One state game commission esti mates that every trout stocked at a mature size cost $4.75 in fishing license money. Providing adequate wildlife habitat requires the proper use Franklin Spending " Leave At Home Corporal Marvin W. Franklin, son of Mrs. Floria Dean,2103 Benedict street, has returned to his home for leave and re- assingment prior to discharge. A veteran of the Pacific thea tre during the past war, Air man Franklin reenlisted at Long Island, N. Y., in 1945 and after a year in the U. S. was transfered to Guam with the Twentieth Air Force. He was a construction engineer with the Heavy Maintenance and Construction Unit, part of the Far East Air Forces. of land and forest, the estab lishment of clear streams and lakes, and the wise expendi ture of wildlife funds. The creating of such habitat conditions lies primarily in the hands of the farmer, but the sportsman can play a great role in educating the public and helping the farmer to do his part of the job. Soil conservation and good forests are necessary to the ecd- nomy of the nation, but they are also vital to the interest of all . those who want good hunting and good fishing. Forrest C. Wicker Died Wednesday Forrest Christain Wicker, 55, died early Wednesday night at the Newberry .County Hospital after an illness of several weeks. Born and reared in the Jolly Street section of the coun ty, he was a son of the late Jane and WScker Banks. He was a life-long member of Bachman Chapel Lutheran Church. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock at Bachman Chapel Lutheran Church with the Rev. D. W. Haltiwanger conducting the service, asisted by the Rev. J. L. Ballentine and the Rev. J. B. Harman, D. D. Interment followed in the Church ceme tery. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Essie Long Wicker, and the following children: Ray x>f Saluda, Claud and Alton Wic ker, Mrs. Fred Fulmer, and Mrs. Ralph Bryan of Newberry; two sisters, Mrs. Clara Banks of Enoree and (Mrs. Maggie Sulton of Newberry, and six grandchildren. It’s Here! 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