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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER mn 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 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 RATE?: In S. C., 31-50 per year in advance outside S. C., 32.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR Governor Thurmond has spoken against the trend to So cialism in the United States. It was a timely utterance by the Governor. If every Gov ernor would speak strongly against Socialim it would pow erfully support those Senators and Representatives who have tried to battle against the on- runshing wave of Socialism that threatens to engulf us and destroy all that has made this a great country. People learn to do by doing. You can’t make a great nation out of remittance men. In early days some men were sent away from home by their fathers because the young fellows were either in bad hea’th, or, else, were in trou ble, or likely to get into trou ble. The fathers sent such sons money every month or every quarter; and these re mittances from home gave oc casion for the name “remit tance men.” here were thou sands of remittance men. I have never heard that the greatness of any part of Am erica was due to remittance men; they looked forward to the next check or money order, but were slothful, content, with out constructive purpose. This country owes its aston ishing development to men who worked; and it is today sus tained by men who work. Let us not misunderstand that word “work.” I do -not mean that America owes every thing to the man in overalls; some of our greatest workers, achievers, builders, did not wear overalls; their work start ed with observation; then they explored and dreamed and worked, until they poured the vast energy of their minds and bodies into some phase of de velopment. Until the thinker has dreamed and planned there is very little for the overall man to do Did you know T. C. Williams, the seer, the man of vision? Strangely now, there were two citizens of Columbia by name of T. C. Williams. Both were my friends, and T. C., the younger, still is with us with his cheerful smile and friendly greeting, but he is too young and handsome for a radio eu logy; so I refer to T. C., the Elder. Mi-. Williams was a man who dreamed dreams and had vis ions—dreams and visions based on facts. The facts he dug up by untiring zeal And he rec ognized a fact when he saw it and he knew how to relate it to other facts and to draw sound conclusions from those facts. I recall Mr. Williams’ explor ations in the Santee region, the thousand holes that he bored in order to study the earth, the texture of the earth, and the rocks at great depths. Great power development grew out of his work. Men took a chance and invested their money. With out the pioneering labor of T. C. Williams there would be no great power development here near Columbia, nor would there be a Santee-Cooper. He brought to the minds of men great pos sibilities, based on observations of others, tested and proved by himself. Bureaucrats don’t achieve such results. Mr. Williams per severed, step by step, with the Holiday Notice! Monday, Sept. 5th being LABOR DAY the County Offices in the Court House will not he open \ ,. v - for business Newberry County unquenchable enthusiasm that made Henry Ford the master builder; that made the elder John D. Rockefeller a benefac tor to all the world. Speaking of Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Ford we are reminded of this striking difference: men judged Mr. Rockefeller harshly, though he made it possible to buy Kerosene oil, coal oil, in any corner of the earth; but no one judges Henry Ford harshly. Both men made it possible for thousands of men to find employment. They were economic creators, in a large sense. The world was made rich and inviting to great masses of peo ple because these dreamers worked and kept the light of achievement always burning. The average bureaucrat ^ is so interested in vacations, sick leaves and overtime that he does well if he leaves the world as well as he found it. He will never have the creative urge, the dynamic impulse, to wrest from nature some secret that will transform the life of mankind. Do you let your mind ponder this question of Socialism. So cialism is the operation of in dustry by the State, the Gov ernment. Whenever the Gov ernment builds a steel plant that is Socialism. The build ing and operation of great pow er enterprises by the Govern ment is clearly and distinctly a Socialistic engagement. The theory is that the Government will do something for us. If the taxpayers put up the mon ey then some taxpayers are mistreated. Right there you can put your finger on a flaw in Mr. Truman’s reasoning: if some men use Government power to the cost of $100 a month and others use only $5 worth of power the taxpayers’ money is being used to favor on man against another. Mr. Truman, you recall, twice ve toed bills to reduce income taxes because he said that some men with a reduction of only ten per cent in taxes would have so much money left that he refused to give the great majority of us a thirty per cent reduction. It was queer reasoning but there are queer ideas gloating about in the world today. Did you ever see an old church, standing alone in some remote place, though once the center of a thriving communi ty with a large and active membership and congregation? You hear it said “That is > an endowed church.” We have learned that endowed churches do not thrive like the younger churches which have to keep their members on their toes most of the time. Let us hope that they are on their knees part of the time. I once shocked some of my friends by remarking that the French would have had a re ligious revival if most of their churches had been destroyed during the war. You will un derstand what I meant: those churches were old and the peo ple who had the zeal and con secration to build had long ago become dust again. When ever you see two great churches being built as greet the eye so delightfully on Divine Street of Columbia you see activity which proclaims zeal, devotion, self-denial, high purpose — the church militant, marching vic toriously. So, indeed, we learn to do, by doing. So does a country become great when its devel opment springs from the in- iative and constructive impulse of men who work by the light and purpose of individual ac complishment. When men grow weary; when vision is beclouded; when life seems a dreary, unpromising existence—when we lose the American spirit, then we cry for the Government to do something. That is Socialism; and Socialism breeds more So cialism; and the last State of Socialism is Communism, for the bureaucrats will find it nec essary to control us as men and women, control our work, our place of work, our mode of liv ing, and all else, all this being necessary for the fulfillment of their plan of over-all manage ment and control. I ask you: “What is wrong with Ameri ca?” Do we want to be like England, once great old Eng land? If so, who will give us billions and billions and billions of dollars to make up for the destruction of the morale of a great nation? Or do you want to be like Russia? All those perversions and ini quities had a beginning. The soothing syrup was nice, at first. Socialism began in Am erica with Government power enterprises. It is steadily marching on. If you like that, you might go to England and get a big dose at once. But isn’t America good enough for us? Not only good enough for us, but able to give and give all the billions to help the other nations which are victims of Socialism and advancing Com munism, though proclaiming to the world all manner of false “isms” and “ologies,” through the snare of hallucinations. and in our State Capitals as well. If the interest of another ten or fifteen per cent of our voters could be aroused, it would make a tremendous dif ference to our politicians, but unfortunately I do not know how to bring this about.” How can we set forth the National interest in manner so dramatic as to compel atten tion and carry conviction? Is it Communism you like? Well, t y the army. There the Government will clothe you and feed you and shelter you from all the cold and heat and the buffeting of the winds. Doctors, nurses, medicines, and hospitals will be yours. How about it? Would you like to have the Government take over everything? Well that is a nec essary condition in the army, but how would our National life develop on that line? Under our American way of life some one is always experi menting to do something better, more efficiently, more cheaply. I have before me a paper which tells of a new type of coal burning, steam turbine, elec tric- drive locomotive designed to reduce fuel cost by fifty per cent. Something like that goes on all the time here. If we had Government operation you would have to persuade so many bureaucrats that you would decide to draw your pay Trial and error, or success and make few suggestions, through many trials, is the method of private oontroL Look about you: unless we want America to be like Eng land, France, Italy and Russia we must stop imitating them. Every so-called welfare pro- oosal has been tried in Europe. Why not continue the develop ment of America on the tried just disappeared. And, of course, the abundant food sup- is gone then too. AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer Allies Birds and farmers are surely allies, or should be. And the little feathered crea tures are friends to just about everyone else too. For most of them eat insects. All day long vasse, hedge, bush, tree, lawn, they hunt them, in crack, cre- pasture, on field and truck crop, and in the air. They never relent. Flitting about, hunting food most of the time, and that food is mostly insects. There are seasons when in sects are scarce. Then they feed more heavily on seeds, weed and grass seeds princi pally. Students of wildlife feel that available food throughout the year determines the amount of bird lifi you must have. And shortages of it at any season goes hard of certain birds that don’t migrate nor move around much. Our quail is in the latter class. Often we see a good many of these birds in the summer breeding season, when food and hiding are plentiful. But by the time the hunting season is here, hunters often complain that the birds have and proved plans of our fa thers? We are not perfect, but we advance steadily. We are not perfect; but look at the rest of the world. farmers here and there are planting lespedeza bicolor, and other bird-food plants along dge rows and edges of wood lands for winter bird feed. Those with patches of bicolor tell me that there is where they can usually find their partridg es in the fall and winter. The seed pods of this plant cUfe not shatter out readily, and there by they hang on and feed the birds through the winter. Assistant County Agent Stone of Cherokee showed me what they were doing in that county to help their game birds. They are not only raising hundreds to turn loose, but the past sea son there 35 farmers each set out 1,000 bicolor seedlings for future bird feed. Many more will be set this winter. They are also growing patches of grain sorghum for their birds. It does not shatter out readily either, and they can eat it and get the bicolor seed even when snow is on the ground. SC5 man can help you pre pare for and enter these con tests. Pastures in Horry County Agent Johnston of Horry county says, “Interest in permanent pastures continues to grow in the county. People who never before showed any interest in pastures are trying to get a good permanent pas ture started.” And that is a reminder that now is the time to get busy preparing and seeding that per manent pasture. Planted now, you can likely get some good grazing from it this coming winter. Ask your county agent for particulars. And, remem ber, we have a number of county pasture contests, and a state one too that you can en ter. Valuable prizes are offer ed. Your county agent and Busy Men If there is still anybody that wonders what a county agent does, look at this, and it’s by no means a complete list of things claiming his time; In Darlington county they have 23 farmers in the state 5-acre cotton improvement con test; 49 in their 3-acre corn contest; 24 in the state one acre com contest, 111 in their county tobacco contest, and 15 in the Pee Dee Green Pasture contest. Realizing that every one of those has to be worked with from the start, visited along through the season and record secured, one wonders how the agents handle all they do. But that isn’t anything like alL In that cm -unty they also have 19 4-H Clubs with a mem bership of' 424 boys to meet with and assist with their growing projects monthly. Then there is the summer camp for this group, rally day, achieve ment day, fair exhibits, fine stock to grow out and groom, and so on. And Darlington is just one of the many counties with such a program under way and being done in good fashion. No won der a writer in a leading farm magazine said “what Germany needs most is 100 good Ameri can county agents to get her on her feet.” Boy* Are That Way I always hated to pick cot ton. In fact I didn’t particu larly like anything that looked like work. But picking cotton was a particular abomination r to me. And the stuff just wouldn’t accumulate in my bas ket, it seemed. (We used large whiteoak split it in.) And the rows i around the hills and so white with disbourage me. One fall we made r ton-than usual, and it though by brother and never finish picking it. then away out in earl] ber, the field was and we were making \ headway at it after on Saturdays. Schc turn out until 4 was 5 before we got way we piddled along That left very little cotton picking before shadows brought us cotton patch. I was of that , A cousin down a rather large fa and they had theirs. So we their little girls to ours picked out tiny things, compared two big gawky.' ther could not with them picking it was rather hu they consistently with at least twice pounds as I did. didn’t bother me a little more int got in the shorter there in the bottom simmon trees, ton was rank was too. Hidden growth we would i find a small ripe i that had when the cotton Until this day, I nothing tasting bett melons did, away out there in November, the cotton patch hills of the Dutch that are now 40 ' V r-' ' - ' --- ^especially created by M . Sv-r' - -' for us alone i’Jp^ • MM f vM,; A distinguished citizen and great man says in a letter to me “1 have been forced to con clude that something less than five per cent of our citizens are really intersted in what is go ing on in our National Capital || Make No Ip Mistake The Real Issue In This Campaign Is Whether Your Elected Officials WiU BACK UP YOUR CITY MANAGER Jimmie Wiseman is wholeheartedly in favor of the City Manager plan and will do his best to ad vance the cause of Newberry and its business men by buying at home any and all supplies that can be so bought WIN with Wiseman r As seen in E... a perfect foil for your most feminine accessories, this soft suit of pure worsted-wool crepe with the new deep curving yoke. In vibrant autumn shades. Sizes 12 to 20 5450 *Dttign Patent WMF* Carpenter’s NEWBERRY, S. C.