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PAGE FOUR 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 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 The Government lost about 599 million dollars on Ameri can farmers during the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1949. That is quite a sum of money — $599,000,000. That is the loss. The Government had assumed a liability of $3,400,- 000,000 under the support pro gram, and under that program had made loans amounting to $2,179,000,000; and the Govern ment bought from the farmers $648,000,000 more, as I read it. After all the buying, selling, and all that, the Government shows a loss of $599,000,000 or little more than fifteen per cent. All this one gathers from the report of (he Commodity Credit Corporation’s ffeport. That is a lot of money—$599,- 000,000—but I do not know whether that should be called a loss. Years ago if a merchant sold a man two hundred dol lars worth of groceries and the man did not pay his bill we should have said that the two hundred was a bad debt, a loss. But not so today. Today some man with an acute social consciousness, (or is it a social conscience?) will rise up to say that the $200 enabled that man to work so that he earned $400 for his family, increasing the world’s wealth. These folk of the Social Mind, these who live in a rarified atmosphere of larger considerations, they have us ordinary people so bewil dered that we flounder around like one who has decided to drink himself into a new State of being. At any rate, what about that merchant? No mathemetician can calcu late the Social benefit, the great Economic uplift, which resulted from the $599,000,000 which the Government lost on the farmer. Surely our Gov ernment should support the farmer; has it not poured out enormous sums of money in Europe so that Europe may be revived? And of all the mil lions spent no greater value has resulted than the quicken ing of the great American well being, through the farmer. How much have the Truman Star-gazers given to Europe? That is what I want you to think about. Study this: $5,- 169,000,000—five billions, mark you, was the total of foreign aid for the last fiscal year— the year in which the Govern ment lost $599,000,000 on the American farmers. And the previous year we gave to Eu rope more than two billions— $2,693,000,000. The total of Am erican gifts to foreign countries since the end of the war is $13,260,000,000—thirteen billions. And $10,800,000,000, nearly ele ven billions, in loans since 1945. I feel as though I were drunk on dollars, don’t you? Just about the time I began to absorb all this monumental arithmetic, twenty three billions —and more, I remembered the forty billions we gave away as “Lease-lend,” and the ten bil lions we wrote off the books from the First World War; and now comes The Columbia State with an item from the Associ ated Press telling us that “A vast $7,124,000,000 program oi economic aid and military sup port for the world’s democra cies” was almost ready for the President’s signature. Some more billions, something new again. We are completely crazy. But the farmers must not be mem bers of a democracy; this mon ey goes to great democracies like England, France, Belgium, Greece, Italy, while the Ameri can farmer must belong to the great and rich plutocracies. I’ve travelled many thou sands of miles on the seas, and have spent many hours on the Pacific, becalmed, just wallow ing in the trough of the mighty billows, but these figures make me more giddy than the sea did, whether calm or rough. Once I was on the Pacific, which isn’t always pacific, go ing from Pacas—mayo to Eten, and the air was as still as an August night in the cotton belt; and the gasoline engines went dead. Just imagine that. I can hint this delicately, very delicately: I did not crave food. Seventeen hours of pitching and tossing with no desire for ham and eggs, or liver and ba con, or hot cakes and syrup, and with pangs, wondering about the breakfast of yester day—well, never mind. Let me make this point: the Government lost on the Ameri can farmer just a wee bit more than fifteen per cent, even be ing secured pretty well, but how much will the Govern ment lose on all this mountain of billions to the whole world? It lost $599,000,000 on the farm ers of America and will lose nearly all those billions on Eu rope. I don’t believe we can “take in” what is going on. While Germany was being dismantled and cramped and hemmed in, so she could hardly wiggle, we sent hundreds of millions of dollars there. And we con tinue that plan: We tear down and destroy what they have and then we send them hun dreds of millions of our mon ey. Wte are stupified. I don’t believe the Congress is faith fully serving America; while I think the Truman Administra tion is more unsound than At- lee. What is still the glory of America is what we inherited; we of today are throwing away the great heritage, or letting Mr. Truman and Congress do it Like k the little dog which chases the big train out of the station, I have done my bark ing; so now let’s look at some thing else. Eggs, what about eggs? The Government is in the egg busi ness; it holds twelve thousand tons of eggs in storage in Kan sas. Not twelve thousand doz en, but 12,000 tons of eggs, dried, powdered eggs, held by the Government to help main tain the price of eggs. It is this support of the egg market which keeps the prices up. That is just as reasonable as sup port for any other commodity, and much better than throw ing away billions in Europe. The days of ham and eggs for a quarter are far behind us, along with the ten-cent break fast. Economists tell us that the Government bought one egg of every twenty laid by the hens —all together 56,000,000 pounds when in dried form, or two billion eggs. Not all the eggs are stored in Kansas: Minnesota, Illinois, and Texas are storage places. There is plenty of room in Texas. You could “store’’ all the eggs, the hens, roosters, pulletts and biddies in a small corner of Texas. Governor Tuck of Virginia is quite a man; he doesn’t mean to let Labor bosses boss the Old Dominion, he says. Men have a right to strke; oth er men have a right to work. Whenever the maintenance of my rights encroaches on the rights of another man I am asking too much. The right of a man to strike is not more sacred than the right to work. If we maintain the principle that a man may not be forced to work we must be equally concerned to maintain the right to work. Every man has a right to work; and he has a right to join, or refuse to join, other workers. If we contend for the dignity of work, and the value of the individual, we must protect each man in his rights. I have no right to im- popse my will on my fellow man: let him work or not. And let the Government stay out, except to protect every man in his legitimate business. Did you ever watch a bull dozer at work? Say, why did they name this machine of power a bull-dozer? “Bull-doz ing” used to mean bluffing; we said “Oh, that fellow is just bull-dozing you—bluffing you, pulling your leg, you know, as the English say. Well the ma chines called bull-dozers don’t bluff; and as for leg-pulling, if your leg gets too close it will pull it off, I’m sure. A day or two ago I saw two bull-dozers open three streets, a distance of at least three city blocks. They did the work in two hours. It wasn’t easy work. The Clarendon County Supervisor saw these big machines idle for a few hours and forthwith negotiated for several hours’ work. They tore into tangles of matted trees and vines, up rooted trees, and cut fifty-foot roads. Our Supervisor is never happier than when he can get on a big job and hustle it through. And Suppervisor Du- Bose was full of pep as he di rected a fine piece of work. If our Supervisor had relied on the chain gang, or even day labor with axe and pick and shovel, he would probably have struggled a full week to get done what two bulldozers and six men accomplished in two hours. And thereby hangs a tale, as Shakespeare says. My esteemed friend, Edwin G. Seibels, understands that I am citing the play ascribed to Shakespear, and not taking sides against the high claims of Vere de Vere as the real author of the plays commonly credited to Shakespear. The bulldozer proves that our friends of Labor are not en tirely right in claiming that La bor deserves everything. If those two bulldozers with six men did the work of fifty men then the bulldozers represent stored up labor, saved money which was necessary to buy the giant machines. And that brings to mind that every great business constantly puts out or puts up new money, fresh mon ey, in order to continue in bus iness. I think I mentioned that a great Company showed a pro fit of many millions last year. By the time the total profit of millions was divided by the number of shares of stock the profit didn’t look so big. But that wasn’t all the story. Each share of stock had earned $5.00. But did each stockholder re ceive $5.00 for each $50.00 share? Well, no! 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Miss Jane Caroline Rogers, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Henry Rogers of 550 Al- den avenue, was married Sat urday at 4 p.m. in the chapel of the Crescent Avenue Pres byterian Church, Plainfield, to Ensign William Drayton Wil son, son of Mrs. Clemson May er Wilson of Newberry, S. C., Company treasury retained $3.50 a share for improvements. So it is clear that our great con cerns spend much of their earnings in order to maintain their place in business. In the United States nine bil lions were spent by business enterprises in the first six months of this year for renew ing enlarging #nd adding equip ment and facilities; an estimat ed additional nine billions will have been spent at the end 0 f the second half of the year—> and even that is 7% less than last year’s new investment in established concerns. Rail roads Electric and Gas companies are spending more this year than in 1948. If we would bring these fig ures home to each of us in sim ple manner, have you observed the many rebuilt stores, many handsomely rebuilt, refurnished, many greatly enlarged? Hawe you read of a South Carolina store which has just received a permit to rebuilt its structure at a cost of $200,000? This is money freshly put into the bus iness. America keeps abreast of the times by constantly put ting back into business the profits it did not spend, but carefully saved. When we have a storm and the lines are twisted and the ppoles down, and a tangle of confusion generally, how is or der so quickly restored? Good organization, of course, but dol lars, thousands and thousands of dollars, are put back into the business. That is the mon ey the owners didn’t receive; they let it remain in the Com pany for emergencies. So we patrons sometimes receive much more than we pay for. and the late Mr. Wilson. The double-ring ceremony was per formed by Rev. Ralph T. Haas and was followed by a recep tion in the junior room of the church. The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore a gown of off-white taffeta with a fitted bodice coming to a point in front and a shawl collar trim med with Alencon lace. The skirt of the gown was straight in front and formed a bustle bow effect and full court train in back. She wore matching mitts. Her fingertip French il lusion veil was held by a Juli et cap with an off-the-face cor onet of Alencon lace. She car ried a bouquet of Eucharist lilies and stephanotis. Miss Edith Rogers was her sister’s maid of honor. She wore a dusty rose taffeta gown with a full skirt, peplum front, pointed back and a short train. She also wore a matching stole and carried a fan bouquet of blue delphinum, roses and small chrysanthemums with a wheat background. She wore similar flowers in her hair. The bridesmaids, Mrs. Guy Robert Hopper of Westfield and Mrs. George Hoobler of Eliz abeth, wore gowns like that of the honor attendant and car ried similar flowers in various shades of pink. Best man was Ensign Robert H. Dunn Jr., of Philadelphia, Pa., and ushers were Ensign Dalton Hoskins of Portland, Ore., and Ensign Bert Wteaver of New Orleans, La. For traveling the bride wore a beige *gaDardine suit . with black accessories and a corsage of PinnocchiO and white roses. After a two-week wedding trip to the Adirondack Mountains, the couplpe will reside at Great Lakes Naval Station in Illinois. The bride is a graduate of Wtestfield High School and at tended Russell Sage College, Troy, N. Y., where she major ed in home economics. Mr. Wilson was graduated in 1948 from the U. S. Naval Aca demy and received the Bache lor of Civil Engineering degree this month from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. He has been assigned to duty at Great Lakes Naval PERHAPS YOU TOO CAN MAKE MONEY The Young man to whom Electrolux paid over $6000 cash last year (and who will train you, if you’re ac cepted) was previously a planter—no sales experi ence. We will teach two young married men, under 45, with cars who can stand strictest investigation and furnish character refs, as to honesty, energy, integrity, and willingness to work and learn. Write at once giving details to P. O. Box 5112, Columbia 5, S. C. Authorized executive will interview you personally this week. MRS. LUCY C. NOBLES Mrs. Lucy Chapman Nobles, 77, died late Friday evening at the residence of her son, Ern est L. Nobles, in the St. Luke’s section of Newberry county. She had been in declining health for the past three years, but was seriously ill for the past five weeks. She was bom and reared in Newberry county and was the daughter of the late Arch and Carolyn Griffin Nobles. She was a former member of Can non’s Creek Associate Reform ed Presbyterian church, but after her marriage she became a member of St. Luke’s Luther- an church where she was a faithful and devoted member. Mrs. Nobles was the widow of John S. Nobles. Funeral services were con ducted at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon from St. Luke’s Lu theran church with the Rev. C. E. Seastrunk conducting the services. Interment followed in the church cemetery. She is survived by three chil dren, Mrs. Marvin Pugh, Ern est Nobles and R. S. Nobles, all of Prosperity; one twin bro ther, Luther E. Chapman of Newberry; seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Base in October. House guests here for the wedding included Mrs. Clem son M. Wilson, Mrs. Fanny Mc- Laurin and Mrs. Hoyt Hen dricks. Following the wedding re hearsal Friday evening, a din ner was held at the Millbum Inn by Mr. and Mrs. Irving Rogers. AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWBERRY J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C. 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