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PAGE v OUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1949 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. O. 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 Los Angeles and Hollywood The traffic through the streets of Los Angeles is ter rific; I am not exaggerating: but the City regulates the dense movement admirably; and the traffic police are ex ceptionally capable. Down some residential street and av enues the roar of the cars is terrifying to nervous people. Even my calm, efficient and sure friend Brutsch had to run at great speed, with never a chance to change his ‘mind. We had rushed along for scores of blocks before we found one relatively quiet spot in which to park and take our bearings. Truly, for several miles, we weren’t going to any destina tion of our choosing, but we couldn’t get out of the four and six lanes of rushing cars. W)e have toured much of the City, much on the trolleys, and it is a vast place of about two million people. At least we though we encountered two million on the streets—Chin ese, Japanese, Mexicans, and a few negroes, included with the rest. As might be expected, Los Angeles seems to be full of movie theaters, the prices be ing higher than in South Car olina. The people are friendly as is true of the whole West. Los Angeles has grown so rapidly . that people of sixty years of age can remember it as a city the size of Sumter, though lacking in that spiri tual quality which distinguish es Sumter. randsome friend Hugh I -a-, .he banker, has an idea that the best work of an in stitution is to sell itself to its employees. Of course I think he is right. Right here in Los Angeles I saw a great chain store counter of 139 stools; and a total counter length of 417 feet. But not even the manager knew the length of that counter. Hollywood is a City of many fine buildings, residences and business places, especially. There are churches, of course, but the churches are a minor interest in Hollywood. Mr. Brutsch is a fan of the Country Church of Hollywood, on the radio, so we went there for the service and met Sister Sarah Hopkins, who is the head of it now. Even in Hol lywood are ernest souls seek ing the Lord. Among them two Columbians, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lucree—Fred and Lydia, they told me. The service was simple and informal, though not lacking in dignity. Paul Leonard whis tled some hymns, accompanied by the piano. I offer one of his records which he gave me with permission to use it this year. From his headquarters in Sherman Oaks, California, he makes records, but he whis tles in person in the Country Church of Hollywood. The sermon was preached by J. Edwin Orr of England. Winslow, Arizona Spending the night here— a desert Rail Road town. We’ve travelled days and days up and down and around mountains and days through the severel deserts. Don’t ever try an automobile trip through the Western moun tains or deserts unless you are t competent mechanic and your car and tires in first class con dition, prepared to withstand Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 THE BEST PLACE FOR Buick & Chevrolet Service IS 0 Davis Motor Company 1515-1517 Main Street It’s Here! Money on your AutomobUe, Furniture or Your Signature. $5.00 to $2,000.00 SPECIAL NOTE, AUTO DEALERS We will finance your sales, no strings attached, without recourse, no endorsements or re-purchase agreements necessary—plus attractive reserve paid date acceptance of deal. Phone 736-M. SERVICE FINANCE COMPANY 1506 Mairt St. Town Bum ... The town bum said he hated holidays because vrfhen everybody loafed, it made him look common! Don’t you be a bum! Work hard, save your money and buy property—then let us insure it for you. PURCELLS “YOUR PRIVATE BANKER” Phone 197 long, steady driving with much high pulling. This town of Winslow—ac- cordiny to the Flagstaff after noon paper of today—had tem perature today ranging from 29 to 57 degrees. Whenever you hear people talk about changes in the temperature you might cite this. The snow of four weeks ago lies on the mountain sides and on lands level with the public roads. I think the dry air keeps it from melting fast. Sunday plays a small part in the life of our Cities. I do not know just where the trou ble is, but it is a stark reality. Most people are willing, and eager to remain away from their usual work, but so far as the idea of public worship is concerned, it is really given very little consideration. That a city twice as large as Colum bia, meaning Hollywood, should have as many churched does not seem strange to you, but that men and women of Los Angeles should ask one another if there were churches, is just symptomatic of the relatively small part playd by the churches in large places. If this astounds you, ask your local pastors whether the ma jority of the people of your community are active, or reg ular or even occasional, in par ticipation in the work of the churches. Near the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles stands in grace and beauty 1 a twelve story building, bearing the name Edison. Whatever you may think of Edison he is the very eternal symbol of a man ris ing to th e peak of Usefulness through sheer perseverance, lighted and guided by intelli gent awareness of a need. In this country of great achievement all the region pro claims the triumph of sturdy, indefatigable, indomitable men. No Government aid; no hand outs; no political pottage— just man rising and conquer ing obstacles. I am not merely talking through my hat when I say that the same men, under the same impulses, could have done even more in South Carolina. It challenges us to develop and use the same spirit of achieve ment. We have such men, and they have achieved on a great scale; but we need thousands more, with the unquenchable zeal of pioneers. President Truman’s plan would enfeeble us to utter mediocrity; exceptional men promote the progress of the world; and they help the rest of us to rise. The Govern ment is worse than a paralyz ing influence in this. We are in the valley of the gold-hunters; miles and miles of travel along the route of those rugged old seekers for gold. If you would come from the Pacific Coast to this valley, and then travel the tortuous climbs, it would brand you a wonder; but if you travelled from the East across the road less, track less prairies and deserts, across its rivers and over the mountains, you would be a super man. And so they were. They did not beg help, nor lap up Government pap. W'e, the feeble descendants, or successors, have not their vir ile qualities. We want the Government to feed us; and we sell our weak selves to the Government. Who is the Gov ernment A lot of bureaucrats. I rejoice that the Southerners won their filibuster fight in Congress. We are operating our governmental machinery dangerously; and any check is desirable. Democrats have some thing more precious at stake than such loyalty to Mr. Tru man as would express itself in servile acquiescence in his program of mixed Socialism and Communism. Partly loyalty is a delusion when it violates sound principles and becomes a mere echo of an individual’s whims of the moment. Mr. Truman 'xloes not lead as a Democrat but as one under the persuasion of crafty poli- tial spoilsmen whose espousal lead only to what Grover Cleveland denounced as party perfidy and Party dishonor. We Americans are sacrificing the real American in a cheap political game. We should not merely whittle down appro priations for purposes foreign to America’s future; we should cut them at the root. Let us stop trimming and compromising; let us stop dead in our tracks and declare that the Federal Government has grossly perverted the Commerce clause in the Constitution so as to lengthen the arm of the Federal over-swollen bureau cracy. It is no part of the Federal jurisdiction to fix wages and hours, nor a thousand and one other activities of the pampered Washington dictator ship. Our Congressmen should re vitalize their loyalty to sound constitutional government in stead of trying to play along with fidelity to a man whose idea is to win over and play with highly organized and insistant groups of foreign flavor which can’t see beyond a mess of pottage at the mo ment, who direct us, alot us, regulate us, and misgovern us. The proposal to operate the Santee-Cooper as a non-profit enterpriss is the most remark able business proposal of re cent years. Observe the details: The Columbia and Charleston power companys, now more or less one company offer to take over and operate the San tee-Cooper, without profit to themselves. That of itself offers a saving, as well as the best available technical operation. It offers more, namely: (a) to produce more power and at less expense: (b) to pay to the State yearly all the net pro ceeds; (c) to pay to the Counties affected the same taxes as other taxpayers now pay; (d) to furnish all R.E.A. Coopera tives in the State all the power they want at a flat rate of five and a half mills. (All the Coops, not a few). All the rights and benefits planned for the State through the operation of the Santee- Cooper will be observed and guaranteed. I need not enter into all the technical details of the offer but the results in dollars and cents would be about as follows: The State would have received in 1948 under this offer $1,933,500 (nearly two million dollars) instead of $198,323; and the Counties $265,000 in stead of $33,662. This difference of $232,00 would have been quite a help to the eight coun- ties affected; while a million seven hundred thousand dollars could well be used by the State. That is an offer which should command attention. It should not b e brushed aside as a publicity stunt. Business men cannot afford to make such offers unless prepared to carry out every detail. Evidently this proposal has been made only after exhaustive study. Engineers have delved into every fact; have studied every factor; have devoted the most painstaking thought to all eomlications, as well as all im plications arising out of a serious business proposal. If there is any doubt as to the seriousness and soundness of this proposal why not accept it? Is it a bluff? Well, call it. As I said, business enter- prises cannot afford to make solemn offers as political moves. Those men are not politicians or bluffers; they have made an offer in good faith, fully pre pared to carry out their part. Let’s look at the proposal, then, on its merits. More or less, it boils down to this: two millions instead of two hundred thousand. That is very plain, very clear. And what more? To carry out the plan of the Santee-Cooper, the Co-ops, and all the others. What more can we ask? What more do we want—Two millions instead of two hundred thousand? What does it mean? More money for schools, instead of a shrinkage, for the outlook is not altogether roseate: We may find our revenues falling: shall we add more taxes when our ability to produce declines: One need not discuss such trivialities as the displacement of top officials by working out a plan of more economical administration of the combined utilities; the top officials are men of means, as well as men of marked ability and great earning power. They are not mer e job-holders, but men with a public purpose. The General Assembly of the state is the final authority; it has a proposal that can not be treated lightly. Cer tainly our law-makers will not regard this as an occas ion for political considerations of any kind; the proposal calls for a decisive answer, based on the revenue, with the assurance that the offer rests in good faith; it is a matter of sound business; it will assure the State every possible benefit contemplated by the Santee- Cooper; and all this is futher guaranteed by a competent management and capable tech nical force which are beyond challenge. To turn this proposal down; or to play politics, would be very cheap and unworthy. If the Santee-Cooper is a soundly conceived plan of public benefit here is an opportunity to pro- mote that plan even more broadly and efficiently; If, on the other hand, the Santee- Cooper is a public institution principally for private individu als, or for political promotion or political aggrandizement, we might as well know. What shall we do? Act like businessmen, or play politics? The State of South Carolina owns the Santee-Cooper in fee simple, as fully and completely as a farmer owns his farm. The Federal Government has only the claim which a mortage can give. So We need not worry about the Federal Government. Let the General Assembly act, directing acceptance of this pro posal. ENOCH EDWARD HAZEL Enoch Edward Hazel, two- month-old son of (Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hazel died early Sat urday morning at the Newberry county hospital. Funeral services were con ducted at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon from the Lewis Methodist church by the Rev. B. H. Harvey, Rev. C. F. Du- Bose and the Rev. Alvin Boone. Interment followed in Spring- dale cemetery. Besides his parents survivors include his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hazel and Mrs. Victoria Bradley of Newberry, Miss Summer and Mr. Young Wed In Beautiful Ceremony Miss Clara Elliott Summer of Newberry became the bride of William Thomas Young of Al lendale, in a lovely ceremony, Sunday evening, March 20, at 8:30 o’clock, in the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. The Rev. Paul E. Monroe, Jr., pas tor of the bride, performed the double ring ceremony in Jthe presence of a large number of relatives and friends. Bamboo, southern smilax, white gladioli, white iris, Eas ter lilies, and white candles in floor candelabra effectively de corated the rostrum and form ed the background for the wed ding scene. Mrs. James Ferdinand Jacobs of Clinton, cousin of the bride, and Miss Barbara Jean Long, of Newberry, furnished the wedding music. Prior to the ceremony Mrs. Jacobs played “Ave Maria” and ‘Intermezzo.” Miss Long sang ‘‘Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life” and “At Dawning.” During the cere mony “To a Wild Rose” was played and at the end of the service “ O Perfect Love” was sung. The traditional wedding marches were used. The candles were lighted by Ferdinand Jacobs Summer, bro ther of the bride; C. V. Pierce of Honea Path, brother-in-law of the bride; E. W. Clay of Greenville, brother-in-law Of the bridegroom and Doyle Clif ton of Allendale. Mrs. Virgil Pierce of Honea Path, sister of the bride, was matron of honor. She wore a colonial style dress of pink slipper satin made fitted bod ice, with bertha of lace, off the shoulder effect. The full hoop ed skirt which was caught at three places by clusters of flo wers showed rows of lace and ended in a short train. Miss Kathryn Duncan, maid of honor, wore a dress of blue slipper satin, made identical to that of the matron of honor. Th e three brides maids, Miss Mary Johnson, cousin of the bride; Mrs. E. W. Clay of Greenville, sister of the bride groom, and Miss Ann Colcock of Allendale, niece of the bride groom, wore dresses of gold slipper satin, made like those of the matron and maid of hon or. All the bride’s attendants carried old fashioned nosegays fashioned of carnations, daffo dils, Dutch iris and roses, tied with contrasting satin ribbon. The flower girl, Mary Eliza beth Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Duncan Johnson, also wore a colonial dress of blue slipper satin made like that of the other attendants. The bride, a lovely blonde, given in marriage by her father wore a wedding dress of white slipper satin. The fitted bod ice was designed with a round yoke of braided marqusette and outlined at the neck with seed pearls. The long close fitting sleeves ended in a point over the hand. The full skirt extended into a long train. Her full length veil of bridal illu sion was caught to her hair with seed pearls. She carried a white prayer book topped with a purple throated orchid showered with white satin rib bon and fern. R. C. Young of Blacksburg, brother of the bridegroom, was best man. Mrs. Charles Forest Summer, mother of the bride, wore a black crepe evening gown trimmed with net and rhinestones and a corsage of pink rosebuds. Mrs. J. T. Young, mother of the bridegroom, wore aqua crepe evening gown with multi colored sequins and a corsage of pink rosebuds. The bride is the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Forest Summer. She is a graduate of Newberry High school and Newberry -College in the class of 1947. She taught at Honea Path' following grad uation and is now employed by the Allendals County Citizen at Allendale. The bridegroom is the son of Mrs. J. T. Young and the late Mr. Young of Allendale. He is a graduate of the Allen dale High school. He served in the U. S. 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