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THE NEWBERRY SUN ' m m 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 Some men can’t be replaced; when they pass from the scene of their usual activity a vacan cy exists—a big void, a sort of yawning emptiness. So it is now that A. S. Salley has re tired from the post of State Historian; so it will be when W. Wl. Ball lights his pipe and holds intimate converse with Saint Peter about the illustri ous Carolinians who may or may not be within the pearly portals. They will have suc cessors, but their successors will have to blaze new trails; those men, each in his own way, are peculiar and distinct, each one is unique, though they have much in common. Mr. Salley has left his office and Mr. Harold Easterby of Charleston has brought his own mantle, for no one can wear the Salley mantle. Strangely enough, my friend ship with Mr. Salley began when I had just passed boy hood, let us say; but I’m won dering whether the new his torian, Harold Easterby, is the same I remember from my boyhood days in Charleston; if that be so, then he must be a* least thirty by now, or quite old enough to look circumspect in the office so usefully held by Mr. Salley. Harold—if this be the same Harold—will have to take a leaf from the book of a charming Scottish lady: her older sister who acted as housekeeper and hostess for her father, a minister of the Kirk, married and moved away. Kindly neighbors and friends told the younger sister—as you can imagine—“you will have a hard time to 'take your sister’s place; I shall make a place myself.” So there you are, Mr. Easterby: you must make a place yourself. I am sure you will succeed. For so long we have associ ated A. S. Salley and the his tory of South Carolina that many people think that Mr. Salley is the history of South Carolina. Well, (Mr. Salley is still with us young and active in mind and spirit, a great pa triot, a fine friend, a genial and likeable person. Once I wrote about the time when Mr Salley migh play his harp, in the Celestial City. This moved Mr. Clint Graydon to remark that he never had known that Mr. Salley could strum a harp. I shall let those brethren of the Episcopal church thresh that out. It makes a difference whose ox is gored, doesn’t it? Some time ago I mentioned that my friends of the great profession of medicine were not anxious or deeply concerned about So —Prompt and Efficient Radio Repairs— CITY RADIO SERVICE 1515 MARTIN STREET L. Pope Wicker, Jr., Owner Telephone 752 Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 Big Bet.. Don Haynes, of Ashland, Oregon, is trying to win a $25,000 bet by living a year in an automobile that has been welded shut. Whether you expect to spend a year in your car or not, it is wise to have it financed at rates that are tailor made with a low cut. PURCELLS "YOUR PRIVATE BANKER" Phone 197 ,f 4 SAVING WILL HELP YOU ^ STEER YOUR COURSE When opportunity comes, you can head right for it, with taviugs to help you. Emergencies won’t change your course, either, if you have a savings account. Act now — open an insured account here. NEWBERRY FEDERAL SAVINGS & ' LOAN ASSOCIATION J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C. cialism in our Government un til the hand of Socialism threat ened to touch the practice of medicine. I do not chide the physicians; most of us are in clined to let the other man do the worrying until something affects us. Some ideas, how ever, like polio, should make us think. When we hear of a hundred cases of polio every one thinks of his own home and the litle boy or girl there. So when Socialism strikes the power business, we should use our imagination; What will it do to me? Today the Power enterprises; tomorrow the prac tice of medicine; next—What? Shall it be the Insurance busi ness? A great daily carried recent ly a statement by one of the Nation’s principal bankers. Some humorist says that the Government has plans to make it easier to get loans, but does not show us how to repay the loans except by blood and sweat and tears, as Winston Churchill said of Britain’s re sistance to Germany. I quote several paragraphs; “Bankers throughout the coun try were called on last night to defend the Federal Reserve System from the growing con centration of control over its functions in Washington.” “The Federal Reserve System is threatened «by the same kind of thinking that created totali tarianism in Germany and Rus sia and socialism in England, by the reasoning that efficien cy calls for concentrating pow er in bureaus in Washington.” Continuing, the statement says; “It was the principle of Karl Marx that if a group of men could get control of the credit resources of the country, they could control the whole coun try.” The bankers’ spokesman add ed another paragraph that ap plies to farm' control, banking, medicine, F.E.P.C., and every other pet project incubated by the half-baked intellectuals who clutter the stage of activity in Washington: “It is a hazardous business for a country as large as this for such a Board to make decisions affecting the lives of 135 million people in the detached, statistical, and political atmosphere of W'ash- ington.” So now the Housing people the Power Companies, the Phy sicians and the Bankers —• all find the Government’s socialis tic activities dangerous. We are not showing that we have learned anything from the first World Wlar. The Germans would strike at the French With full power. The British looked on; then the Germans would organize a heavy offensive against the British; and the French looked on. Then the British or French would start an offensive—one fighting; the other resting. But when the Allies organized a Central com mand and all fought together, the Allies won the war. The lesson is clear; let all who feel the hand of the bu reaucrats join all the others. It is foolish to stand by and wait to be attacked; take the offensive. Wle have in Washington such a supine attitude that we dis cuss and amend whatever fool ishness may be hatched out by the young halfcocked intellec tuals, instead of scotching most of it as you would a snake. This country is worth saving; let’s save it. Do you think I’m having a nightmare? Do you think all this is something springing up in my disordered brain? Does anyone think I am going about like old Diogenes, with a lan tern, looking into dark corners and hunting for trouble? If you know me at all do you think I am an alarmist? No, No; I have just waked from a long sleep, and I want to wake you. A well known Columbia man, one of the top men in several fields of usefulness, tells me that men of broad con tacts have told him that con ditions are far more menacing than we might think, we who live in quiet, loyal Carolina. eral Government is using and has been using for a number of years the taxing power to produce revenue beyond a le gitimate necessity of a Federal Government, other than defense needs, and has been using the funds so raised to invade the province of legislation of the States and to appropriate in many fields that which amounts to a dole to the States of the money raised therefrom to ac complish many purposes, most of them worthy but by the de scribed process making the money available only under conditions which result in a control by the Federal Govern ment from centralized agencies in Washigton, in many cases unfit, and in other cases unable to administer the laws accord ing to the local needs because of varying conditions in the country as a whole; resulting in inequities in the administra tion of the very 'benefits pur ported to be granted; and Whereas State and local needs are disadvantaged because the people are already taxed far beyond the real need for any purpose other than forcing the centralization of all government in Washington; and Whereas the framers of the Constitution of the United States clearly foresaw the possibility of a condition similar to that here in described, and made provis ion in the Constitution for safeguarding the Sates against any oppression or invasion of rights by the Federal Govern ment; Now, therefore be it Resolved by the members of the Nebraska Legislature in sixty-first session assembled: I. That the Nebraska State Leg islature hereby and pursuant to article V of the Constitution of the United States makes ap plication to the Congress of the United States to call a con vention for the proposing of the following amendments to the Constitution of the United States: “ ’Article “ ‘Section 1. The power to levy taxes and appropriate the revenues therefrom heretofore granted to the Congress by the States in the several articles of this Constitution is hereby limited.” Mr. James F.. Byrnes has re plied to my letter and I quote from the Congressional Record the speech delivered at Wash ington and Lee University which has been discussed very generally, and with special in terest in Congress. This is sage counsel from South Carolina’s most illus trious public figure within a half century; he speaks from the fullness of broad experience and unalloyed patriotism. “Too many people are trying to transfer power to govern ment. That is justified in war but not in peace. In time of peace the state must exist for the individual and not the in dividual for the state. Power once transferred to government is difficult to recover. Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol he can recover but when intoxi cated by power he seldom re covers. Wle are not only transferring too much power from the indi vidual to government but we are transferring too many pow ers of State governments to the Federal Government. Wle should not have the Fed eral Governmept regimenting our lives from the cradle to the grave. Some of the proposals now suggested which would curtail the liberties of the people are offered in the name of public welfare and are to be made possible by Federal aid. That phrase in an opiate.. It is de ceptive. It leads people to be lieve that Federal aid funds come from a Christmas tree. The truth is there are no Fed eral aid funds except those taken from your pockets. If the people generally will ever come to understand this, there will be less demand for Fed eral aid. The States may have failed to make adequate expenditures in some fields. That does not justify the transfer to the Fed eral Government of powers it was never intended to exer cise. In every State there has been increased expenditures for welfare purposes. Give the States a chance. If the Congress instead- of seeking new ways to spend the money which is being collec ted from the people, would re peal some of the excise taxes, the States could then levy ad ditional taxes in that field. They could provide for many worthy causes and still leave the people with more money and more liberty. In the days ahead of us, there will be a struggle between those who believe in individu al freedom and those who would subordinate the individu al to the dictates of govern ment. There will be a strug gle, too, between those who would transfer even greater powers to the Federal Govern ment and those who would stand by the Constitution in its reservation of 'powers to the States.” By T*d Kesting Bats are probably the most unearthly-looking creatures in the modern world. The “flying mice” have always been thought of as symbols of mys tery, presagers of dire events. In reality the bat is one of our friendliest neighbors. He is harmless (excepting the trop ical vampire bat) and in the temperate zone mostly very beneficial to man. The prehistoric - looking bat is a mammal—-not a bird—and it is the only mammal that can maintain sustained flight. The “wings” are thick mem branes connecting back and front legs, somewhat on the or der of the flying squirrel. How ever, the flying squirrel glides, while the bat actually flies. As a wizard of night flight, the bat is tops according to Writer Joe Austell Small. Guid ed by his own system of radar, the little mammal darts, swoops and zooms through the black night with hardly ever an ac-. cident. Tiny squeaks, too high- pitched for the average human ear emanate from his throat constantly during the flight. When these hit an object ahead, the sound bounces up partly by his highly sensitive ears, but mostly by supersen sitive nerves in the delicate skin of his bare wings. Auto matically these signals are in terpreted to bypass obstacles. Bats do have small eyes, and in general their keenness of sight does not equal that of other mammals, but to be ‘blind as a bat” is not to ba blind at all. Their ears seem to be specially tuned to pick up the buzz of flying insects, on which most bats feed. The bat does not resemble, nor act like any other creature in the animal world. Little is known about its migratory habits. A recent study of Bat Cave in Comal County, Texas, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1949 indicated that females come to the cave year after year to give birth to their young. The majority of the males evidently congregate elsewhere. TO VISIT CRETE Raymond W. Fowler, boat swain’s mate, first class, USN, son of Mrs. Ora M. Fowler, Rt. 1, Newberry, is scheduled to arrive at the island of Crete, July 16th as a crew member aboard the light cruiser USS Juneau for a five-day visit. ICE COLD Watermelons FARMERS Ice and Fuel Co Phone 155 Is the States Rights idea dead? You never can tell, can you? Wle think that we Sou therners, and, above all others, we South Carolinians, and Mis- sissippians, are the only ones who are carrying the torch. Help may come from unexpec ted source: there be many who think as we think; let us get together. The Congressional Record is a very informative journal, at times. In the Congressional Record a State, A Sovereign State, suggests to the Congress that a Convention be called to adopt an amendment to the Constitution so as to restrict the right of Congress to tax us. True the measure suggested is too long and complicated, as I see it but read the preamble to the resolution: : “Whereas the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, in view of the increasing tax problems of the State, caused in large part by the invasion of tax sources by the Federal Govern ment, believes that its prob lems as well as the problems of other States similarly situ ated can be solved only by some restraint upon present un restrained exercise of the tax ing power by the Federal Gov ernment; and Wthereas the Fed- Monticello By Syracuse Cambridge and Imperial International Wallace Lunt Sterling W. E. TURNER Jeweler STATEMENT OF CONDITION The South Carolina National Bank At The Close of Business June 30, 1949 ASSETS Cash and Due from Banks _* $ 38,997,514.45 U. S. Government Bonds 63,532,398.05 State and Municipal Bonds 428,988.17 Fed. Land Bank bonds and Fed. Int. Credit Bank Debs’ 1,895,787.47 Federal Reserve Bank Stock 135,000.00 Loans and Discounts 37,075,317.96 Banking Houses (11) $507,375.00 Less Depreciation 110,848.25 396,526,75 Furniture and Fixtures 231,714.55 Other Real Estate 1.00 Other Assets 66,319.14 $142,759,567.54 LIABILITIES Capital— Common $ 2,000,000.00 Surplus 2,500,000.00 Undivided Profits 1,432,419.54 Reserve — Contingencies $750,000.00 Less Transfer to Surplus 25</,000.00__ 500,000.00 Reserve Under Section 23K (Int. Rev. Code) 625,000.00 Reserves, for Taxes, etc. 345,546.34 Deposits 135,356,601.66 OFFICES AT—Anderson, Belton, Charleston, Cheraw, Columbia, Dillon Florence, Fort Jackson, Georgetown, Greenville, Leesville, Navy Yard, Newberry, Pickens, St. Matthews, Seneca, Sumter. Ig w