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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1949
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Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937,
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
It would give me pleasure
to speak well of everybody, all
the time. Nothing could be
more entrancing than to loll
about in those superb gardens
near Charleston and meditate
on the beauty of the landscape
But that is just an escape from
the difficulties of living. Life
is real and life is earnest, in
deed;" and reality and earnest
ness have their ugly side which
one would like to gloss over.
It gives me no pleasure to
point out the crass material
ism, the gross self interest, be
hind so much that is reported
to us as patriotism. We Am
ericans are deceived by press
agents and other suave and de.
ceitful men who sell their souls
for dollars.
I knew that the foreign aid
program of our Government
would be either a school-boy
scheme or a happy hunting
ground for those who were in
search of public money. What
do we find? Everbody with
something to sell tried his hand
on selling to the Government;
and then Government was re
presented by men who knew
nothing about the actual need
of Europe.
How does one determine the
r _ed of a country. There is
hardly a family which is not
deficient in some kinds of food,
some articles of clothing, farm
machinery, hbusehold machines
—and all that. But we live
and don’t regard ourselves as
needing charity.
Just how the Govemmen',
operates this hand-out may be
seen from an illustration in
our State. When this relief
started, some of us timidly ven
tured the suggestion that sev
eral thousand dollars a year
might be sufficent for the
needy in even a large County.
The Government’s man asked
me “Can you use $2500 a
month?” Well, our people
quickly learned how to use
much more than that; so today
the relief business has become
one of the most demoralizing
influences in America. Today
we believe in spending large
sums; the more money spent,
the more important the work
appears to be.
One can hardly doubt that
relief costs several times more
than it should. Of course we
must get all we can from both
the Federal and State Govern
ments.
Let us go back to foreign re
lief. One item struck my eye:
$200,000 for a well-known
drink. Now, indeed, Europe
must be in a bad way, but she
will revive when she drinks
the $200,000 of cold drinks.
When I was in Europe the only
soft drinks were Ginger Ale
and Lemon Squash. Now, how
ever, America sends other soft
drinks to Europe in order to
relieve the terrific strain of
living.
What do you think of that?
Bureaucracy in full flower!
A well known observer in
Washington wrote that this
great program of relief for Eu
rope was urged by “those who
stand to profit from the out
lay; those who back any pro
gram of heavy Government
spending; and the professional
do-gooders and relief organiza
tions.” Many of our relief or
ganizations should be investi
gated so as to separate the
sheep from the goats.
Among the relief funds will
be found fifteen million dol
lars, said to be available for
the distribution of American
magazines and papers in Eu
rope. Is that your idea of re
lief? Well let’s give them all
the soft drinks and magazines
and th e world will be saved!
In our zeal to help Europe
we include 288 million dollars
to help pay some debts to us.
How generous!
We sent 26,000 tractors, many
to areas where the land is un
suitable for tractors; and wt
sent no replacements.
We rushed a lot of wheat,
sending several times more per
capita than we use in America!
Wlonderful fellows aren’t they?
In this Country we consume
about four bushels of wheat
per person, but we shipped to
France seven bushels of wheat
per person. By the way,
France is almost able to feed
herself, normally; and the war
ended in France four years ago!
Italy received nearly five bu
shels of wheat per person, Italy,
poor Italy. Why the people
there will be overstuffed with
spaghetti, raviolas and what
not.
We shipped coal to Europe
though the English miners
might have provided the coal.
They merely refused to work
an hour longer. So in comes
Santa Claus, Santa being Uncle
Sam, the soft-headed old gen
tleman with the goatee.
Was all this money—the bil
lions—.just for the nations
which had bled and died in
the war? Well, let’s see: 114
millions for Ireland. Not a
scratch, so far as I know. On
the contrary, they are scratch
ing us. 295 millions for Bel
gium. By the way, Belgium
is a small country. That am
ount would count tremendous
ly here in South Carolina. Our
Washington experts regard Bel
gium, Holland and Switzerland
as great, countries, perhaps co
lossal land empires. They real
ly are small, Belgium being
much less than half the area
of South Carolina, while Swit
zerland is little more than half
our size. Holland has just
about the same area as Bel
gium. 180 millions we have
for Denmark, which is about
half as large as South Caro
lina, and ten millions for Ice
land.
We are in the hands of
spenders and there seems to be
no limit to their spending, or
our gullibility. We Americans
are the champion suckers of
all time and very proud of it,
apparently.
When all this hand-out was
under consideration, nobody
seemed to know all the facts.
Says a reporter: “The witness
es talked about ‘imponderables,’
■guesses,’ ‘estimates,’ gave gen
eral opinions and resorted to
hearsay. No two Government
witnesses could agree on any
one estimate. Day after day
Congressman Keefe asked wit
nesses to indicate as nearly as
possible the level of recovry
that the United States is seek
ing to achive in the receiving
nations. No one knew." Let
that sink in: No one knew, but
all sang loudly in the chorus
for American contributions.
Why ar e we Americans so fre
quently bamboozled and flim-
flammed by our own people?
A lady spoke to me on a bus
recently, saying: “My husband
listens to you because you tell
the truth.” Unfortunately I do
not deserve the tribute; I sel
dom tell more than half the
truth, perhaps not quite so
much. Even the half is be
yond believing. However, I
want to make a suggestion: be
fore you join the chorus that
is singing about the poor, starv
ing, neglected teachers, go to
the County Superintendent of
Education’s office in your
County and read the salary
list, the whole salary, and then
look about you. You will find
some surprising items. Try
this.
For many years we heard
about the neglected ministers;
now it is the teachers; who—
next? Is there any possibility
of reaching out to help the
starving news reporters and the
emaciated radio workers? Per
haps the columnists and com
mentators deserve to die a slow
death by attribution. At any
rate, they can’t collect from the
public treasury. That makes
a difference. Our Legislators,
though starved by an ungrate
ful people, yet begged to be
allowed to starve again; but
now they, too, need the help
ing hand to hold off the wolf.
It is really very sad.
about 100,000 Veterans Admin
istration hospital beds have
been built or authorized which
serve no purpose except to
make beds available for non
service-connected cases.”
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Carpenters
As to Federal health meas
ures let me quot a well known
investigator:
“The Federal Government to
day is composed of over 1,800
separate bureaus and agencies,
and the lines from these bu
reaus criss-cross in deep and
tangled furrows. It was not
intended so. Each new agency
had small beginnings, but al
together they have grown un
pruned into a vast and com
plicated jungle.
Th e earliest government med
ical service was for the military
forces. Later there came the
Public Health Service and the
activities for veterans, spread
ing gradually to limited care
for other government employ
ees, Indians, some classes of
indigent patients and so on.
Today the Federal Govern
ment is giving degrees of med
ical care to an estimated 24,-
000,000 beneficiaries, about one
sixth of the total population.
What this costs, how much of
it is waster duplication, or even
who does it, is not easy to de
termine.
A$2 Billion Doctor’s Bill.
The Hoover board could
count 40 government agencies
rendering some medical ser
vice and five agencies of which
this service is a major activi
ty. All this costs a minimum
of $2 billion, or about ten times
the amount spent in 1940 —
which should give a rough idea
of what medical care for the
whole nation would cost.
That there should be inef
ficiency and tremendous waste
in this bureaucratic grabbing
is hardly surprising. The Hoo
ver investigators found a lot.
For instance:
The per bed construction cost
of the various hospital-build
ing agencies ranged from $20-
to as high as $51,000; the av
erage cost in private voluntary
hospitals is $16,00 per bed. On
June 30 last there were 255,-
000 Goernment hospital beds
for 155,000 patients, yet the
Veterans Administration was
planning an additional 38,000
beds. As for doctors, “Fedfer-
al agencies ... do not make
proper utilization of their phy
sicians personnel.” Some are
overworked; some practically
idle.
But for a better example,
watch the Veterans Administra
tion grow:
“Veterans with nonservice-
connected disabilities are receiv
ing care in Veterans Administra
tion hospital beds under an au
thorizations to hospitalize them
only if beds are available. Yet
Some folk seem to enjoy the
stories of South America.
I was on a ship in the bay
at Guayaquil, Ecuador, far up
the Guayas Bier from the Pa
cific. Guayaquil, you know,
once was known for yellow
fever. It is still known for
bananas. Some one said, “You
must eat some cocoanut ice
cream. The best in the world
is made here” (in Guayaquil).
So I scouted around seeking
that delicious ice cream. Every
dealer said “No hay Senor,”
meaning “there is no cocoanut
cream today.”
When the ship sailed from
Guayaquil we next make a step
far off shore from Esmeraldo,
Ecuador. Emeralds were once
shipped from this place, the
name itself being Spanish for
emerald.
Esmeraldo has such a shal
low approach that we set out
from the steamer in a launch,
then transferred to a canoe,
which landed us a mile or two
below Esmeraldo, in a marshy
inlet. We went ashore and
tramped through a jungle to
Esmeraldo, hearing the chat
tering monkeys overhead and
seeing the green pods of co-
coanuts. Cocoanuts, you know,
come in pods like nuts.
Arriving in Esmeraldo my
immediate concern was to get
away, but I was tired and did
n’t want to walk back. I’m a
good walker but the tramp
through the steamy jungle sap
ped all the freshness out of all
of us. So, for once, I used my
official position. I called on
the Prefect and asked for a
car. There was only one. I
chartered it. As I went along
the way to the canoe, my fel
low passengers climbed on and
in and about the car until it
groaned and creaked under the
strain. There was no cocoanut
ice cream in Esmeraldo.
Arriving in Balboa and Pan
ama City I again started the
quest for that ice cream. “No
hay” was all I heard. Buen
aventura and Barranquilla were
also without cocoanut ice
cream. My word! as the En
glish say.
We docked at Havana, Cuba,
La Habana de la Republica de
Cuba, to be correct. Walking
down the street I saw a big
sign “Helados de Coca,” cocoa-
nut ic e cream! I bought about
a pint and sat down for real
enjoyment. But I spoiled it by
buying a great slab of cocoanut
cake.
I’ll tell you a secret: the best
cocoanut ice cream I ever ate
was made in Columbia, South
Carolina. By merest chance I
found it. Alas, but that man
has gone out of business.
So It may be that I shall
have to go back to Havana to
enjoy Helados de coca.
I was asked the name of' the
great Liberator, celebrated
throughout all Spanish Ameri
ca, from Mexico to Chile, in
cluding Cuba. When I spoke
the name so cherished by our
Latin-American friends, my
pronunciation was challenged.
His name has been given to
a town in Tennessee and mis
pronounced. I called a little
Cuban boy. “Oiga, joven, como
se llama este caballero?” “Say,
boy, how do you call this gen
tleman”? “Simon Bolivar, Sen
or.” (See-mone Bo-le-var). And
so it is. Simon Bolivar, one of
the great figures of all time.
Do you know about him?
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Carolyn Long Marries
Richard A. Wicker
A wedding marked with
beauty and simplicity was sol
emnized in St James Lutheran
Church Sunday afternoon, May
1st at 4:00 o’clock, when Miss
Carolyn Long of Newberry,
route 3, became the bride of
Richard A. Wicker of Kinards.
The double ring ceremony was
performed by the bride’s pas
tor, the Rev. C. J. Rice.
Palms and fern gave back
ground to tall baskets of white
gladioli and lighted tapers in
seven branch candelabra in the
chancel of the church. The
family pews were marked with
large white satin bows.
Mrs. S. P. Harris, pianist,
rendered a program of pre-nup
tial music including “Intermez
zo” (Mascogni), “Serenade”
(Schubert), “Canzone Amoroaa”
(Nevil), and “Traumerei”
(Schumann). Just before the
ceremony Miss Betty Rice, vo
calist, sang “Because” (D’Harde-
and “I Love You Truly” (Ja
cobs-Bond). At the close of
the ceremony she sang “The
Lord’s Prayer” (Marlotte). The
traditional wedding marches
were used. During the cere
mony “To a Wild Rose” (Mac-
Dowell) was softly played.
The ushers were Messrs. Ro
bert Cecil Harmon, Robert Mc
Leod, James Wicker, and John
Taylor Longshore.
For the best man th e groom
Chose his brother, (Marion Wic
ker of Kinards.
i Miss Margaret Long, sister of
the bride was maid of honor.
She wore an afternoon dress of
dusty pink with white acces
sories and a corsage of white
carnations.
The bride, who was given in
marriage by her brother, Rich
ard Long, was lovely in a
white suit with white acces
sories. She carried a white
Prayer book topped with a
white purple throated orchid.
Her only ornament was a
strand of pearls, a gift of the
bridegroom.
Mrs. Harmon, mother of the
bride, was dressed in navy blue
with black and white acces
sories and a corsage of pink
carnations.
Mrs. Wicker, mother of the
bridegroom, wore a navy blue
crepe dress with black acces
sories and a corsage of pink
carnations.
Mrs. Wicker is the daughter
of Mbs. Cleo Long Harmon and
the late F. Buford Long of
Newberry. She is a graduate
of Bush River high school and
Columbia Commercial college.
For the past year she has been
employed by Purcells, New
berry.
Mr. Wicker is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. O. Wicker of Kin
ards. He is a graduate of Bush
River high school and is now
employed in Joanna.
On Saturday evening after
the Long-Wicker rehearsal the
parents of the bride-elect en
tertained th bridal party at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur
Wessinger, Prosperity. The
Wessinger home was thrown
ensuite and beautifully decorat
ed with lovely spring flowers.
A delicious buffet supper was
served followed with ice cream
and individual bride and groom
cakes..
Miss Long presented gifts to
the attendants, those who fur
nished the music, and also to
Mrs. C. J. Rice, wife of the of
ficiating minister.
CHOLERA SEASON
ALL YEAR ’ROUND
Hog cholera knows no season.
Precautions must be observed* all
year ’round, if American farmers
hope to check the ravages of this
deadly virus disease of swine.
Veterinary authorities report
that complete losses of large
Even sanitation and clean past-
urt aren’t proof gainst cholera.
droves of swine, due to hog chol
era, have occurred in the middle of
the winter as wel. as duriftg the
hottest summer months.
Also, there seems to be no sci
entific evidence to support the old
superstition that the feeding of
new corn is somehow related to
outbreaks of choler?
The only thing seasonal about
hog cholera, according to these
authorities, is the proper tlmt for
the first vaccination of young pigs.
Vaccination at or around weaning
time, for each new crop of pigs,
is the surest and most effective
precaut«->n against devastating
losses from this fast-killing virus.
As an added safeguard against
hog cholera, farmers are urged to
guard against letting sick swine
be brought onto the premises
There are many ways that chol
era can be transmitted from one
herd to another. Flies, for instance,
may carry the virus. But many
outbreaks nave been traced to in
fection carried fr >m farm to farm
on the clothing of threshing crews,
in uncooked garbage, in contami
nated feed bags, on wagon and
truck wheels and other equipment.
Still other dangers must be kept
in mind. Hog cholera virus and
hypodermic needles, carelessly
he died by persons without the
proper training, can spell disaster.
Furthermore, pigs should be given
a general physical check-up by a
veterinarian to be sure they are
in proper condition for vaccination,
because if they are not in satis
factory condition, they may not
develop immunity.
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