The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, July 15, 1949, Image 4
THE NEWBERRY SUN
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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.
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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
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account here.
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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-
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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.
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