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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1949 ■— 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. rr 0. 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 What kind of people live beans), quite a favorite dis there? What do they eat? Most people ask those ques tions when talking of anotner country. People are very much alike though the superficial dif ferences sometimes stand out. As to what they eat — I ate about the same food in Peru, simple fare—rice, potatoes, beei cabbage, bread, that is bakery bread, not hot biscuits of the kind mother made. Being afraid of the water I drann tea ana coffee. I was even more afraid of the milk. It is worth noting that in the United States the water is sale in every town of any size; so is the milk; but that is not true of all other countries, fcven so our sanitary regulations are not ideal by any means, tnougn tne best tnat I know. Did you ever eat fried ban ana? It is quite a common aish in Peru. Down there 1 found large bananas from Ecu ador and smaller native ban anas called platanos de la Isla —(bananas from the island, though why from “the island’’ 1 do not know. The word "ban ana” is Spanish, I think, but in Peru the word “platano” is commonly used. The small banana is not soft and sweet, like the delicious fruit we know, but firm. It is sliced and fried, hence the term “pla tano frito.” I’ve heard of enormous ban anas of certain provinces of Peru, bananas as large as my leg, they said. But I never saw them. One man sent a bas ket of fruit to me by airplane from deep in the Amazon Val ley. But the fruit was no lar ger than I could buy at the Mercado Central in Lima any- day. He explained that when the plane stopped at the top of the mountain for the night someone stole the fruit . that was sent to me; and my kind friend bought a basket of the same fruits in the Mercado in Lima. Every Spanish town I’ve been to has a Mercado Cen tral—a central market. There are stores, or tiendas, all over town, and restaurants galore, but one great central market where you may buy almost, anything to eat, and, cloth and trinkets, baskets, and many other things. If you go into Mexico from border towns of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, or California, you will find a Mercado Central in every town. I have gone over the border a number of times, from Laredo and El Paso, Texas, and Doug las, Arizona. I was never enthusiastic over plantanos fritos. A banana is at its best just so, and no more unless you make a banana cake with so much banana that you taste only the banana. I remember a banana pud ding in a Baptist church in Greeleyville, South Carolina now; I’m out of Mexico and Peru and back to the land of constant delight. It was an Association meeting. Fried chicken, ham and all other kinds of meat, too, in great abundance. Our Church sisters do not neglect the quartermas ter’s department of the Army of the Lord. But someone showed me a banana pudding. From that moment all the ham and eggs and chicken faded out of mind. It might be suspec ted that I have a weakness, or a strength, for bananas. One can never tell. There being no bananas around here let us dismiss the subject. What about pound cake? Did you ever eat one? I don’t mean the ancient delight of Charleston once known to all as a “groundnut cake.” Time was when peanuts, pindars, goobers and ground peas were known only as groundnuts, in Charleston. Down in Chiclayo, Peru, an important town in Northern Peru, in the sugar region, I found a delicious little cake of peanut mealbizcochuela de mani. Peanuts are called mani down there; and a cake is known as a bizcocho and a small cake as a bizcochuela. So these nice little peanut cakes, bizcochuelas de mani, linger in my mind. They were very satisfying, as you can im agine. I found them only in Chiclayo. So I leave the sub ject of food this time. Platanos fritos and bizcochuelas de mani. I see them no more, though once they were as common as arros con frijolei, (rice with even a bit starchy. Are we becoming so widely estranged that we cannot see eye-to-eye on the problems of life? I have been associated with many of the South Caro lina Co-ops in several organi zations during the years. So I count friends there. One of these friends Mr. R. W. Din kins has done me the courtesy to write me a nice letter in answer to a letter of mine. As we are dealing with a public matter I am sure my friend will not obpect to my using his good letter, or part of it. I appreciate the good will and the gracious expression of Mr. Dinkins. I think we are both seeking the light and we are both willing to look facts in the face. Wle must not rely on rumors or mere distrust. Reading my friend’s letter, I do not think he is thinking of the proposal of the South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. as an offer which, if accepted, would be a hard and fast con tract binding the Power Com pany. That is my main point and on that I rely; the sanc tity and enforceable nature of a contract with a suable and solvent Company. I think we can afford to put prejudice and fears aside and draw up a contract that would meet all the objections and protect all the rights of all the parties. I know that we believe in doing business for a profit. Even the Socialists and the Communists believe in a profit, though they want the State to have the profit, not the indi vidual. That being so, the State and the National Gov ernment would have to build all industries since only the Government would get the pro fit. Both my respected friend, Mr. Dinkins, and Mr. Jeffries seem opposed to the idea of a profit, much to my surprise, because Mr. Dinkins says that the Power Companies “are not out to go into adventures un less they consider it profitable and advantageous to them selves . . .” And Mr. Jefferies says in his statement which Mr. Dinkins couretously sent me; “They (the Power Com panies) believe in progress on ly when it is accompanied by a profit to the Power Com panies.” Well what’s wrong with that? Mr. Dinkins as a farmer certainly doesn’t plant cotton and corn just for the fun of it. Nor does Mr. Jeff eries build and rent out store- buildings and other property merely for the pleasure of ap pearing like a Santa Claus in Walterboro. Mr. Jefferies is regarded as a sound business man, in his private affairs; he probably did not go into bus iness or law practice or the Santee-Cooper management for the sole and exclusive purpose of serving the public, without any recompense. So it la a bit odd that two respected South Carolinians should speak scornfully of trying to make a profit when both gentlemen are regarded as successful men. I come back to my first con tention: we should be able to accept the offer of the Power Co. under proper safeguards and guarantees, giving our peo ple all the power they want at low rates and without heavy mortgage debt. If we pdt all prejudice and distrust aside, does it not ap pear unsound to borrow eight million dollars for building lines when the main lines are already built? As one of the original advocates of the San tee-Cooper I recall that the idea of contracting for the transmission of power over es tablished lines was in the minds of many early promot ers of the development. It would be businesslike, sound and economical. But my friends have the right to require an iron-clad guarantee of fulfill ment. I agree with them. Why not meet in conference and thresh the matter out? As to the operation of the Santee-Cooper by the South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. under binding contract, paying the profits to the forty six counties — it that not worth threshing out? Shall we be governed by fear and suspicion or facts and enforceable guarantees? Is this a matter of business or politics? charitable old gentleman; he wants to clothe and feed all the world. He ordains that tire manufacturers shall use more natural rubber so that we may send more dollars to Britain. That is surely gener ous and noble, though we have hundreds of millions of dollars invested in our rubber business A widely circulated paper tells us that in September every pound of bacon pur chased under the Marshall plan was bought in Canada. Not one pound was bought in the United States in September, though we hear quite a lot about our Government losing money by protecting American pork. Why was this bought in Canada? September was a fine month, for the American support of Britain under the Marshall plan. Naturally we should have bought it in America, in the United States, because we are overwhelmed with our vast stores of wheat. But did we? The record shows that the Gov ernment, spending the money of our taxpayers, bought twen ty three million bushels of wheat in Canada for Britain but not a p^-ck was bought for Britain here in our United States! In September our great and gracious Government bought twelve thousands sacks of flour for Britain in the United States but three million sacks were bought in Canada. What are we doing? No won der there is an effort to require the purchase of our surplus, with our money. Apparently trere is some one, some group, with such persua sion and influence that it can make our Government act in a manner that is rediculous, if not a betrayal of American in terest. Quoting again from a very astute and informed student of foreign affairs: “In one year, under the Marshall Plan, our exports of non agricultural products decreased one billion three hundred million dollars, while our imports of non-agri- cultural products increased ap proximately seven hundred million dollars. After spending five and a half billion dollars for the Mar shall plan, our agriculture lost one billion, three hundred mil lion dollars and our industry lost two billion dollars.” FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer Clemson Ext. Info. Specialist Farmer's Week Next week, Aug. 22-26, is Farmers’ Week at Clemson! What a break for farm folks! A fine vacation with con genial folks from all over the state, lectures and demonstra tions dealing with latest con traptions and methods, plenty of entertainment mixed in, and at very moderate cost—that’s what Farmers’ Week offers. Fee for a room is $1 for the entire time or any portion thereof. Meals are 50 cents for break fast and 65 cents for each of the other two. The first meal served will be supper on Mon day and the last one dinner at noon on Friday. Farm folks are invited to come for the entire five days. But if you can’t do that, come for any portion of the week that you can. Bring bed linen, pillow, towels, soap and per sonal articles. Mail or tele grams to those attending should be in care of “Farmers’ Week, Clemson, S. C. A children’s nursery will be maintaines during program hours for the convenience of parents with small children. And there you have it. All you need to do now is head for Clemson on Monday, leav ing cares behind for a while. 50-Year-Old Gale Ralph Bell, over in Lee County, has a good sound gate that still swings easily on its hinges that is 50 years old. Good material, proper con struction, and properly swung from a good post tell the story. We might not have material like that now. But we can build ’em out of treated timbers or keep them painted and they can be made to last about as well. G. H. Stewart, Clemson’s extension agricultural engineer, has the plans for such a gate. And remember, that post you hang it to is very important, too. As costlj as even poor grade lumber and labor are, it is poor business to have to re place gates every few years. Put ’em up right once and they can be made to last. Corn in Marion County Agent King of Mar ion has 58 farmers entered in the com contest. He says some of these planting look like they might beat the coun ty record of 133 bushels per acre. The present corn awakening Uncle Sam is a broadminded, 1 in South Carolina has a lot of meaning. I see our livestock men DuRant and Graves, smil ing broadly. And Cushman, leader of the dairy branch, sees better times ahead with more corn in that field. And Good ing, the poultry man, and Nes- bit and Thaxton, the turkey boys, see a better basis for their specialty when the cribs are bulging with corn. Corn In Charleston Too County Agent Carraway of Charleston was telling me of the three acres of early corn Billy Mitchell, 4-H Club mem ber of Mount Pleasant, grew this season. He sold $365 worth of roasting ears from it. Ear- worm control was carried out. He has planted crowder peas in the middles to be picked and sold to the fresh market This is to be added to his income from his three-acre 4-H pro ject this - ummer. And Carraway further stated “Three 4-H Club members have been assisted in securing Pro duction Credit funds for use in financing their 4-H projects.” Thus the youngsters learn how to use credit in their farm op erations. Boys Are Thai Way My brother had gone to mill down on the creek that June morning and left me to hoe cotton. The deep rythmic sound from the old water wheel at the mill resounded up through the valley where I was. I never liked to work anyway. And on a lazy June morning out there in the field it looked like I could never get anywhere against that grassy cotton anyway. We always started on the shorter rows. You could get to the other end and rest in the shade quicker. But on the afternoon before we had fin ished all but two of them. I fought my way through grassy cotton on rocky land for those two. Then I looked at those long rows and felt hopeless. They wound clear around the hill and up a ravine on the other side, and were lost be hind another knoll in the dis tance! That was just too much for me. I leaned on the hoe handle, propped one foot against it, and looked into the stern blue skies. A buzzard was soaring there. How I envied him! No grassy cotton in long rows on rocky land to hoe. Just float ing around on the summer air looked like luxury to me. Eventually I had an idea and looked around to see if anyone was in sight. I stood my hoe up and struck out for a drink of water at a spring a mile away while the well at our house was only a few hundred yards. In fact, I was not thirsty, but that was good for a rest. Expect I took a half hour to walk back there, eating blackberries as I went. The woods below the spring looked inviting and cool. There I found the cool clear stream cutting through a deep gorage. And the northern slope was carpeted with soft green moss. I lay down there in that heav enly retreat and dropped off to sleep. At length some red ants bit me on the neck and I thought it was a snake. I play ed in the cool water of the banch a while. Found a large mussel and a few crayfish. Put them in my pockets and started home. Soon I thought of the tell-tale nature of those crea tures of the branch and I went and put them back in the wa ter. And I was shambling back up the path through the or chard when I heard a neigh bor’s dinner bell calling the la borers from the field. My bro ther said that was the smallest half-day’s hoeing he had ever seen. I pointed him to the grassy nature of the crop and the hard rocky land. Texas It took us 33 hours to cross Texas on a fast train. What a place! It caused me to re member this verse I heard out there: The sun has ris, The sun has set, But here we is, In Texas yet. ENROLL TODAY Wait! 1—Book at Fire House. * Ward 2—Book at Smith Motor Co. Ward 3—Book at Jackson's Grocery ' Ward 3 No. 2 book at Clamp’s Clothing Store Ward 4—Book at Layton Store and Newberry Drug Co. Ward 5—Book at home of Eugene Shealy Ward 6—Book at W. H. Davis & Son If you do not know your Ward call the secretary at No. 1 ^wV , WwV»»»»»»X w ! w ' fe^THE BEST PLACE FOR Buick & Chevrolet Service is Davis Motor Company 1515-1517 Main Street Traveling Fire In Santa Ana, California, a motorist had to over take a fire truck to tell the firemen that the rear of their truck was blazing. Don’t lose money by failing to borrow. PURCELLS “YOUR PRIVATE BANKER" Phone 197 , Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 ENROLL TODAY Here we are again playing the same old tune . . . “Order Coal Now.” Yes, we get sort of tired of it our selves but it seems to be one of those necessary evils. All of us are prone to put things off and since we’ve got coal to sell it seems to be up to us to gently remind you every summer about your coal supply. To tell you how much bet- L ter, cheaper, cleaner, it is to get your J coal in before cold weather sets in. Right now you can get all the coal you want. Later, it may be another tale. Our perennial messer-up off the coal supply, one John L. Lewis, has his mei on three days a week. On such a sche dule there is bound to be a shortage of coal. We would find no pleasure in telling ycu “I told you so.” We had much rather see you with your winter supply of coal safely in your bin. Then we could tell old John off. Won’t you co- \ operate for your OWN good? FARMERS Ice & Fuel Co. * PHONE 155 Drive it Once... And You'll Want to Drive it Always! MAKE A MTE W/TH THE We warn you . . . you won’t be satisfied with any other car, once you’ve driven the "88.” For this is a "Rocket” Engine car . . . and your first minutes at its wheel will give you a completely new point of view about motoring! Here’s eager power that makes traffic driving easy. Here’s effortless power that’s tuned to the open road. Here’s true high- compression power that costs less, not more, to command! And it’s paired with the new ease and safety of Hydra-Matic Drive*. 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