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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1949 COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR Social Security covers many fields. Some people speak of Social Security when they really mean the Old Age Sur vivor’s Insurance, one of the many phases of what is so pre tentiously called Social Securi ty. That part of the Social Se curity which Mr. Truman wish es to extend is the Old Age and Survivors’ Insurance. Those on wages and salaries know this from the one per cent de ducted from their pay, that is up to $250 per month, or $3000 a year. While one per cent is deducted from your pay your employer also pays one per cent for you, so that two per cent of your pay is remitted by him to the Government. Now what is that worth? When you become sixty five years old you will be entitled to a pen sion for life. In case of a man his wife at sixty five will also be given a pension, and al lowance will be made for de pendent children. If the hus band should die before sixty five and the widow be less than sixty five she will be given a sum of money. Some provision will be made for de pendent children. There is a provision which has always seemed strange to me: When the man becomes sixty five and entitled to his pension he will not be given the pension if he earns as much as fifteen dollars a month from work with any covered em ployer, though he may earn as much as he pleases is he operates on his own. , Why should the Government have any right to deny the pension because of earnings? It is not a charity; it is not Welfare; it is supposed to be sound insurance, with the us ual leavening of Government al ponderosity and red tape. The old age insurance was unsoundly planned from the beginning; the Congress was under the spell of Mr. Roose velt’s charm and incapable of clear thinking, so enacted what ever the bright boys incubated and submitted with the en dorsement of the Supreme Chief. For example, since this law became effective in 1937 billions of dollars have poured into Washington. What has the Government done? It gives money to Welfare from this, so that most so-called clients of Welfare — clients, mark you—^receive more money in absolute sloth than do the people who have paid one per c=Mit ot their earnings since 1937, supplemented, as I said, ty in equal sum paid by the employers. But giving money to Welfare isn’t the worst of it, where is the money you and other millions of people have paid? Is it in the Bank? No, indeed; the Government spends it and puts a promise to pay to our credit. What do you think of that? Today this trust fund is—on the books—more than ten billions dollars, but the money isn’t there; it is treated as revenue and spent, sent to rebuild Belgium and France, Italy and others; and to bolster the Socialistic Gov ernment of Britain. Vice President Barkley had a fuss with Mr. Roosevelt about this—if you can believe that Mr. Barkley would stand against his Chief. A Senator used to be a Senator, a Con script Father, as the old Rom ans were; but today a Senator is supposed to be a man loyal to the Great White Father— and that’s most of it. At any rate, on that one brave occa sion Senator Barkley declared that Mr. Roosevelt urged an increase in the Old Age rate so that he might have more revenue to spend. Today Mr. Truman wishes to include many more mil lions of people—and all of us at a higher tax—most of whom will pay long years before col lecting. Is he thinking about this vast additional revenue? Even now the Government re ceives vastly more each year than it pays in benefits. Even though the benefits to us now covered should be increased, as proposed, this new group will pay ten times more in new revenue than we shall draw in increased benefits. So, now, the new plan is to include ele- ven million new comers, and at a higher premium for all of us, though we originals may look forward to a somewhat larger pension—perhaps $75.00 a month for the top, provided we work for less than $15.00 a month upon retirement. A maiden of about twenty five said to me “All this is un fair. I have no children or other dependents, so if I die before becoming sixty five all my payments throughout the years will just be swallowed up. I wonder if the old time men who wrote this law, out- of-date fellows, assumed that no lady would attain the age of sixty five, unmarried. One may believe that if the great moving spirit of this law had lived he would have spon sored many changes, change be CANNING PRESERVING- Come To The FAIR! We invite our farmer friends to * Come To The Fair October 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 And while you are in town drop ’round to see us. We have long enjoyed a good ice and coal business among the farmers of the county and we apppreciate this confi dence. We hope you will have a big time at the Fair and profit by the exhibits of fellow farmers. FARMERS Ice & Fuel Co. PHONE 155 George W. Martin, Manager ing the rule of that family, as one may gather from the shuff ling and re-shuffling of hus bands and wives in divorce proceedings. Some one says that I have been stirring up a mare’s nest in talking about the dangers of a General Property Tax. Is that so? Friend, if you own a house in town, or have a farm, would you like to have a nice little increase in your taxes when you call on the County Treasurer? Keep that in mind. Years ago the State, County and City governments were supported by General Property taxes, so many mills on your home and household goods, in cluding your car. In those days of the simple life we were not ambitious and we asked for very little. Out on the public roads we were fortunate if the wagon or buggy did not bog down in the mud or break a wheel on a stump. The truth is that people didn’t travel much. Then We had simple schools, ordinary frame build ings with teachers paid just enough to hold on until Princes Charming established them as heads of their castles. In those quiet times the Governor had no constables and a Sheriff had one deputy. We didn’t need much money, fortunately, for we had very little, with cot ton selling for ten cents. At that time the State Govern ment spent about a million dol lars a year and Comptroller General Jones let out a war whoop every time the Legis lature spent a thousand dol lars. Even then we had free- spending, Golden Spenders, who tried to add a thousand dollars to the State’s appropri ation. Today the State spends a hundred million. And today the State does not derive its revenue from your home and furnishings, or your farm. Most of the revenue comes from In come taxes, Corporation taxes, Power taxes and so on. If those sources fail, then the Leg islature will reimpose taxes on your home, household furnish ings, and all that. One year nearly seven million dollars came from the Property Tax, after we had begun to spend. So, if my friend thinks I am scaring up a mare’s nest he should inform himself; he is just happily ignorant. There is something to be said for ignorance: some folk know too much; they can’t en joy what they have because they know the dangers always “round the corner.” Just sup pose our mothers had known that we hadn’t the wings they fondly thought we had!! So you see. if revenue is needed in this era of gladsome outpouring, and the business enterprises can’t pay their mil lions in taxes, as now, we may find the burdens on your home and farm heavily increased. And that won’t be a mare’s nest. Rheumatism used to be very common; frequently we heard of our friend’s rheumatism, if we could forget our own long enough to listen. But arthritis seems to be the favorite today. For a long time we laymen thought that the difference be tween rheumatism and arthritis was one of finance rather than pathology, but I observe that the technicians now talk of rheumatoid arthritis, perhaps iust a sop to us who still think of rheumatism. Be that as it may, it is announced that re lief is coming from Soy Beans. “Compound S” for arthritis will be less costly and more abun dant when derived from the Soya Bean. That is gratifying for one announcement told us that a magic treatment was made from 14,000 cattle, all for just one man. This latest discovery is an extraction from the Soya Bean and was merely incidental, the chemists at work not being en gaged intentionally in pharma- cals but finding this as an in cident to other investigation. How rich are we? I quote from a house organ of a great CARL J. BLACKMON Funeral services for Carl J. Blackmon, 52, who died early Friday night from injuries re ceived in a truck accident near Chappells, were conducted at 2:30 Sunday afternoon from the Saluda Baptist church in Chappells by the Rev. Roy Durst and the Rev. G. R. Petti grew. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Mr. Blackmon was a native of Lancaster county, the son ol Mrs. Mary Mickie Blackmon and the late James PoweL Blackmon. For the past 16 years he had made his home in Chappells. He was an em ploye of the Robert Lee Con struction Co., and was return ing from his work when the brokerage firm: “Gross nation al income is $226 billion a year vs. $87 billion in 1929. There are 60,000,000 gainfully employed v 43,000,000 in 1929. Even with a shorter work week wages now average $54 weekly compared with. $36 in the so- called boom-year. Wealth has been diffused and is better dis tributed. One example: an es timated 15 to 20,000,000 stock holders against 8,000,000 in 1929. But in 1948 corporation paid $7.9 billion in dividends ▼ $9.2 billion 20 years ago." Did you attend the World’s Fair in New York a few months before Pearl Harbor? There was so much to see that one couldn’t see much. I recall the glass, ribbons of glass, just as flexible as leather belts. There is so much that I don’t know that I am constantly amazed at what is being done. I used to stand in the gallery overlooking the black sarcopha gus holding Napoleon’s body and enjoy the bluish glass that brought the light so softly over the resting place of that won derful man. But here in Am erica wonders are being per formed. This is a wonderful country; and- it was made by wonderful people who lived and worked and prospered under a Govern ment which did not try to reg ulate everything. I know Am erica, in a superficial way: I’ve been to the great cities of the North and mid West, the far West and the South. I was as sociated with my friend Dr. Taylor in his classes in New York, a remarkable man whom I admire and to whom I am warmly attached. But I know comparatively little of New York, much less of Chicago and almost nothing of San Francisco. As for the great industrial wonder-world of Am erica I am profoundly ignorant. But, friend, what do you know about it? Once I was shown over an industry in Chicago by one of the great men of our country. I beheld the remark able work being done, but you and I don’t know how great is the genius of our marvelous country. We shouldn’t let poli ticians destroy it. We must be always alert and steadfast to maintain this as a free coun try, a land of opportunity, a land of successful men, not a land of failures and unaspiring. America has never been the land of the common man, but the land of the men of brains, ambition and perserverance — Edison and Ford. REGISTRATION FOR GENERAL ELECTION The Supervisor of Registra tion has been ordered by the City Council of the City of Newberry to open the books of registration 90 days prior to the election and keep the same open until ten days prior to the general election for Mayor and Aldermen in December. Any person applying for a Municipal Registration Certifi cate must show that he has a Newberry County Registration Certificate, has resided within the corporate limits of the City of Newberry for a perior of four months, or more, prior to the election, and has paid the 1948 poll tax, if such tax was assessed against him. MRS. WINIFRED A. CULCLASURE, Supervisor of Registration. 5c Plus Tax Pepsi Cola Co., Long Island City Franchise Bottler Pepsi Cola Bot. Co. of Columbia LEMUEL C. RUSHTON Funeral services for Lemuel Clifton (Shorty) Rushton, 37, who was killed in a truck acci dent near Chappells Friday night were conducted at 4:30 Sunday afternoon from the Bethel Universalist church by the Rev. Neil E. Truesdale and the Rev. Roy Durst. Inter ment followed in the Rushton family cemetery. Born and reared in Saluda county, he was the son of Mrs. Marie Houge Rushton and the late Arthur I. Rushton. He had made his home in Chappells for a number of years and was an employe of the Robert Lee Con struction Co. He was returning to his home at the time of the accident. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Viola Puckett Rushton; five children, Frances Rushton, Charles Rushton, Roy Rushton, all of Chappells; his mother, Mrs. Marie Houge Rushton; one brother and two sisters, Ernie W. Rushton of Florence, Mrs. J. C. Harter of Augusta, Ga., and Mrs. Hugh (Buck) Con nelly of Newberry and a num ber of nieces and nephews. FIRE PREVENTION WEEK SLATED AT CAMP GORDON Fire Prevention week at Camp Gordon will be a long- remembered event if the plans of Fire Chief Henry B. Wells are enacted as well as is ex pected. Chief Wells, working in con junction with the Post Safety council, has planned a six-day program that should be of in terest to all post personnel. Wednesday’s program will be perhaps the most colorful of alL In the morning at 10 o’clock a training shack which has been burned and rebuilt 30 times, will be set afire and the firemen will stage a demonstra tion of various fire-fighting methods used by the depart- accident occurred. He is survived by his widow. Mrs. Alma Pearl Hatfield Blackmon; nine children, Ralph Blackmon and Raymond Black mon, both of Columbia, Mrs. Robert Gilotte of Milwalkee, Wis., Mrs. John Barksdale of Asheville, Mrs. Dorothy Ann Thompson of Washington, D. C., Jimmie Blackmon and Jay Blackmon, both of Chappells, Mrs. Frank E. J. Miller of Asheville and Miss Johnnie Blackmon of Chappells; his mo ther, Mrs. Mary Mickie Black mon of Chappells; two brothers and one sister, Gordon C. Blackmon of Greenville, Tom Blackmon of Bridgeton, N. C., and Mrs. John Wannamaker of Orangeburg and six grandchil dren. men! At noon, a parade of the men and the fire vehicles of the de partment will make a one-hour tour of the entire post. A dem onstration of the department’s pumping trucks will be held at 3:00 p.m. at Wilkinson Lake to conclude Wednesday’s program. Another very important part of the week’s program is being conducted every day at the var ious theatres at Camp Gordon when Chief Wells lectures the post personnel on fire preven tion and conducts a demonstra tion of the use of the various types of fire extinguishers found at the post. Even tiie children of Camp Gordon personnel have not been forgotten. Their day to remember will be Saturday when they will be transported in fire engines to see a motion picture. ' This program to further in still the spirit of fire preven tion into the minds of the Camp Gordon personnel is be ing conducted so that in the future the number of fires on tiie post may be cut below the minimum already achieved. — Augusta Chronicle During the war the demand for mechanics was so great that the test for availability got to be very simple. The applicant was put into a room with a leg of lamb, a dog collar and a screw-driver. If he picked out the screw-driver he was hired. WANTED- To buy some Guineas—Speckle or white—also pure bred Mal lard Ducks—Let us know what you have to offer. 23-30 2tc R. Derrill Smith and Son Inc. Wholesale Grocers Newberry, S. C. CIGARS and CANDY—Tampa Nuggets—Sports—Jewels—. Mo dems—Above the Average— Straights—Cincos— King Ed wards—Elmoro—ElReeso— All the popular brands of Candy & Chewing Gums—Cigarettes and Tobacco 23-30|2tc R. Derrill Smith and Son Inc. Wholesale Grocers Newberry, S. C. NOTICE TO CREDITORS All persons having claims against the estate of Mrs. Lula Smith Daniel deceased, are hereby notified to file the same, duly verified, with the under signed, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment likewise. J. McT. DANIEL 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 46, 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 6, S. C. Authorized executive will interview you personally this week. SAVING ... < ONE OF THE STEPS TO SUCCESS Take a step in the right direction by coming in to open YOUR insured savings account at this Association. Then, add to savings regularly. Earn liberal ^dividends, too. NEWBERRY J federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OP NEWBERRY J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C. Off To The Fair Among the best exhibits at the Fair will be the farm animals. Newberry has grown to be one of the lead ing counties of the (state in the production of dairy products. This {position of leadership has not come about suddenly. It is the result of patient work over the years. The South Carolina National Bank is proud of the small part it has had in making possibble funds for the advancement of this industry. Come to the Fair next week and see what the neigh bor has been doing. You will get new ideas and new inspiration. NEWBERRY COUNTY FAIR October 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 The South Carolina National Bank