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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1949 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Arm field 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 Well, you never can tell, can you? A letter from Spartan burg—an unsigned letter—asks why I don’t suggest James F. Byrnes for the Senate. My cor respondent reminds me of Mr. Byrnes’ service in the Senate and thinks that he would be a happy choice. Obviously my correspondent is not a support er of Senator Johnston or Gov ernor Thurmond. The suggestion of James F. Byrnes for the Senate must cer tainly have occurred to many others, but my friend of Spar tanburg has expressed his per sonal preference, though he may not have considered all the political explosions that would result. Incidentally he doesn’t endorse Senator May- bank, either, and suggests that Mr. Byrnes would raise the level of our Senatorial repre sentation. I cannot say what Mr. Byrnes will do about running for the governorship, but I think I can be confident that he will not be a candidate for the Sen ate. The governorship will be open, vacant, inviting all com ers, bli the senatorship is held by a vigorous campaigner who seeks re-election. Moreover, the Governor, a tireless worker, is campaigning for that, too. Mr. Byrnes is no child in poli tics: he knows that the senator ial race will be a sort of knock- down-and-drag-out affair next summer and that the official slogan will be “Lay on, Mc- Duff,” and all that follows. Mr. Byrnes will remember that Senator Johnston defeated Sen ator E. D. Smith—and thereby hangs a tale, if I may again resort to Shakespeare. Why should Mr. Byrnes become em broiled in that campaign? I am grateful to my friend of Spartanburg for the implied compliment, but Spectator does not wish to propose that Mr. Byrnes throw himself into, the turmoil of the senatorial race It is his old ground, of course, and he knows his way about with an amazing sagacity, but this race promises to become a slugging match of young men who can speak in Beaufort, Charleston, Conway and Green ville the same day, and main tain that pace six days a week, speakin several times a day over the radio by way of relax ation. Those who battle against the follies of Mr. Truman should study all his proposals and all his works so as to prove how unsafe he is. In my opinion he thinks he is doing great and wonderful things; and the un reflecting man may stand by him because the loaves and fishes are an attraction beyond all doubt. When you dangle something before a man, a free living, a good pension—and all the other things Mr. Truman proposes, the allure of all that is like the glitter of ten-cent store jewelry which looks like diamonds in a gold setting, un til the shine wears off. Now if the glistening bauble will glean, for three months it may de ceive the casual person; and so with Mr. Truman's ideas: England is suffering all man ner of hardships even while spending our billions. Poor Mr. Truman is trying to modernize Ponce de Leon. Old Ponce only tried to live like Methuse lah, and failed for some reason; whereas Mr. Truman decides that we can grow old richer by spending more that w e have. Even old King Canute failed when he tried to stop the tide from coming in. I admit that Mr. Truman oc cupies a .more powerful posi tion that King Canute or Ponce de Leon, but there are natural forces that he cannot change: the best he can do is to brand ish his weapons like old Don Quixote at the Windmills, un less he can do as a Westerner claims: petrify the laws of na ture and hold everything until he has his fling. We remem ber, as Churchfolk, that Josh ua caused the sun to stand still, but Mr. Truman may not be a Joshua. If* I treat this flippantly it is a sort of emotional release; I do not regard our course light ly. We are letting too many hare-brained schemes be tried. As I’ve said repeatedly, Mr. Truman is in the hands of Con gress, if the Congress will have the enlightened patriotism and courage to act as the vital, permanent interests of the Na tion require. America is suf fering because Congress plays at its job, instead of performing its duty fully, not merely trim ming a bit here and there. I spent a day in Camden. Just that and nothing more, but Camden is more than a City or an area; Camden is a modern City, bustling and sphere, but not discarding any- growing, enlarging its .ancient thing. My trip to Camden was to speak to the Rotarians; my sponsor was Senator R. M. Ken nedy for whom I have very special esteem. My friend “Bob” is up to his neck in politics, but he is no politician. He is a straight- from-the-shoulder talker and a man who says what he thinks and means what he says. I enjoyed the fellowship of that Rotary lunch; it was tip top, and I saw some of my sturdy friends of years ago. Mr. Kennedy took me for a ride. Nothing wrong about that, I assure you. I have been taken for a ride and also Have been given the run-around sev eral times, but not in Camden and not by Friend Kennedy. By the way, another man, a spiritual brother of Bob Kenne dy, is Matthew Barkley—those two are a great tonic to me. Mr. Kennedy drove his car to every nook and corner of that spacious and delightful city and we talked over the history that clusters about the neighborhood. From the days of the Revolution, Camden was important, and you find ties with George Washington, La- Fayette, General Gates, Lord Cornwallis—and the illustrious sons of the Confederacy. Among the many friends whom I had the pleasure of meeting again were Harold C. Booker, the Editor; Frank H. Heath, Stanley Llewellyn and Mayor Savage. My new friends there are splendid gentlemen though too numerous to men tion. I pay homage to the ladies who graced the occa sion. Camden is soon to have a mammoth enterprise. W. P. Blackwell was a good official. As Secretary of State I found him capable and cour teous and helpful. Throughout the years I have made frequent visits to the office of the Secre tary of State of South Caro lina. I have gone there to read original documents; and I’ve worked with Mr. Black- well in preparing the way for a State Ballot. Mr. Blackwell was a quiet, modest gentleman whose going saddens all who knew him. The office of the Secretary has long been a favorite place with me. Somebody always met me pleasantly and stood ready to help me in digging for material. I did not trouble the ladies very much, but for long years I called on Mr. Little, Mr. Watson and my handsome young friend, Rich ard Lane, Jr. I still call on, my friend W'atson, the most willing man to help, and the most helpful helper you ever SclAV. When I speak or write my appreciation of many in the public service I am embarrass ed by the great number of those I should like to praise publicly. But as I once said my Commissioner John Coney typifies the best of official life, I now repeat that and say also that Mr. Watson of the Secretary of State’s office is that kind of official who mag nifies his work. Thanksgiving! And what does it mean? Are we thankful for the thousand dollar fur or the new house? Are we thankful for glowing health, the vigor of a robust body? Surely the loaves and the fish's have their place. Are we thinking of the gleaming luxury car that glides along at seventy even before you know it? What is there for special, but enduring thanksgiving? The Psalmist tells us unforgettably, as you remember, that we should bless the Lord and “for get not all his benefits.'’ The teacher habit clings to me and I take the liberty to say that the word benefits means the Coal for Christmas As we write the situation in the Coal Industry is uncertain and unsettled. By the time you read this the strike may be over and again it may not be over —depending upon the autocratic will of Boss Miner John L. Lewis. You will of course want Coal for Christmas, even if you have to skimp on it at other times. A cold, dreary Christmas has little appeal to us. We have been getting a little Coal along (but very little) and alloting it in the fairest possible manner. If the strike ended Wednesday, or if it didn’t, coal will be scarce for some time. Let us know just how you stand on coal so that we can be looking ahead to getting you at least a little for the Christmas holidays. We want to serve every one fairly. Won’t you call today and let us know how low your supply is, The number is 155. FARMERS Ice & Fuel Co. PHONE 155 George W. Martin, Manager * good that he does for us. And David suggested that we give thanks in a studied order. He was thinking of the relative importance of the benefits, or the good we have received. And this is the order of im portance: (1 j to give thanks for the forgiveness of all our iniquities * (2) for healing all our diseases; (3) for redeem ing our life from destruction; (4) for crowding us with loving kipdness and tender mercies; (5) for satisfying us with food, so that our youth is renewed like the eagle’s. We observe the spiritual ben efits are far above the gratifi cation of ordinary hunger. We are inclined to esteem the claims of the appetite as above and beyond spiritual concern. The well-known Psalm of thanksgiving — the 103rd — is the beautiful song in which David said “The Lord is merci ful and gracious, slow to an ger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide; nei ther will he keep his anger forever.” And farther on in that same Psalm David gave us in simple, homely illustra tion, the most understandable explanation of the ways of Je hovah toward us, “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.” 'Our Episcopal brethren tell us that “there is not health in us,” meaning that our spiri tual life is at a low ebb. We are urged to be mindful of the things of the spirit, those qual ities that eUdure against moth and rust, as well as which stand impregnable when thieves break through and steal. The 118th Psalm is also used as specially appropriate to the occasion, with its concluding verse- which all remember: “O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever.” AS OUR GAY POLITICIANS GAMBOL (J. B. Purvis m the Columbia Record) Perusing a bit through the South Carolina press, we find several editors in acrimonious or satiric mood. President Truman’s athletic undershirt stroll at Monticello brought caustic comment from two editors, and a riposte from a third. Mr. Truman, it seems, was illustrating his accuracy as a weather prophet. The Charleston News and Courier catalogued the deed as “Trumanic disregard for good taste,” a sentiment which was seconded by the Pee Dee Advo cate, which said indignantly, “when the President of the United States so far forgets the dignity and prestige that, in the minds of most people, go with the office, that he strolls around the country-side in his undershirt, then it’s time for a change. In fact, it’s past time.” x But, comments the Winnsboro News and Herald, “The Repub licans, we recall, thought sub stantially the same thing, but since they failed in the en deavor, one wonders how the Dixiecratic devotees expect to accomplish it.” The N. and H. goes on to in quire “Whether it is more ple beian for a chief executive of state or nation to stroll with friends on a country estate, sans shirt, or to stand on his head, attired in a track suit, for the edification of widely- circulated ‘Yankee’ picture mag azines?” So far as we are concerned, our gay politicians can gambol all they please, as long as they refrain from standing the country on its head and tax ing the shirts off the populace. NAVY RECRUITER The US Navy Recruiter who is in town Friday of each week lists the following advan tages of being a member of the inactive Naval Reserve: If you were in the Navy or Naval Reserve before you re tain the rate you held at time of discharge. No drills, no meetings, no cruises. Longevity piles up while you are in inactive reserve. Four year enlistments (17 year olds, minority). Inactive Reserve time counts toward advancement. You may be discharged at any time upon your request. No physical examination. You keep in touch with lat est developments in the Navy by mail correspondence. Age limits are from 17 to 64. You may go on a two weeks training cruise each year if you desire, and receive full pay and allowances. You will not be called to ac tive duty without your writ ten request, except in case of war or national emergency. After enrolling in V-6, you may join the organized Reserve or remain on inactive duty. Modern training courses are available for advancement in rating and change of rate. You may enlist here in New berry at the Veterans’ Admin istration each Friday. Mrs. Edna H. Feagle and Mrs. May T. Stuck attended the district Conference for Di rectors and Case Workers of the Department of Public Wel fare, which was held at the Wade Hampton Office build ing in Columbia Tuesday. By J. M. Eleazer Livestock Dollars The present livestock awak ening in South Carolina began about 1928. Then county agents were putting on their first demonstration feeding tests with hogs. They were to show that the corn that was so cheap then could be sold to better ad vantage through hogs. Those demonstrations proved what they were designed to teach. And since then the hog business has been coming along in the Low Country. Likewise, a little later than that our bqef cattle awaken ing came with the first ferti lized pastures. Then we didn’t have pack ing plant nor a regular live stock market. Now we have a half dozen or more packing plants and some daily and many weekly livestock mar kets. And where cotton and truck crop failures came this year, the livestock have come in on many a farm and cush ioned the shock. Yes, we have a long way to go with livestock yet. We are just good started. Yet it al ready means much to many counties. For the immediate years be fore this thing started in 1928, the farms of the state got 12 percent of their income from livestock and its products. Now we are getting about 20 per cent of it from livestock. industry and farmers alike by keeping a close tab on the quality of it that goes to the farms through its inspection and analysis department that Mr. Cloaninger heads up very efficiently. Tha Geese Have Come Back For several seasons now I have told you of the thousands of wild geese that spent the winter in Lockhart Gaddy’s farm pond at Ansonville, North Carolina. This year they started com ing earlier than ever before (Old timers say that means an early fall and cold winter). Back on Sept. 22 the first batch of 17 came in. Up to October 23, about 400 had come. Then on the 24th and 25th, they really started pour ing in, at least 1,000 in those two days. “It’s a thrilling sight to see the large flights come in,” says Mr. Gaddy. It’s an interesting story there. About 12 years ago the first few geese stopped in this two- acre farm pond. He didn’t run for his gun. He protected and fed them. And since then they have come back each sea- Much Fertilizer During the past year South Carolina farmers used 995,380 tons of fertilizer. According to B. D. Cloaninger, head of Clemson’s Fertilizer Inspection and Analysis Department, this included 720,163 tons of mixed goods and 275,217 tons of ma terials. If cotton had to pay all of that, it would take half of the money this year’s crop brought. But, of course, there are tobac co, grain, truck crops, and live stock, etc., to help pay it. For they all share in its benefits. Even the hog, cow, and chic ken. How would they eat, but for the stuff that this fertilizer helped produce? But looked at in any sort of way, our fertilizer is a big item. And Clemson helps the son with their normal increase. He has banded hundreds of ’em, so he knows his same ones come back. Now they reach five" or more thousand head at the peak. This is one of the most un usual and thrilling sights I have ever seen. And I try to get up there each season to see it. Ansonville is about 27 miles above Chesterfield, and a few miles above Wadesboro, North Carolina. Sekts At Fair Grounds A few years ago they asked me to talk to the fair secre taries at their annual meeting. One thing I suggested was that they provide some seats where weary folks could rest a bit while making their rounds to see things. Farm people come for the day, and usually have to bring the children. The little ones soon gets tired. And the average fair ground has no * place at all for mother and little ones to sit and rest a while. Well, Mr. Paul Moore of the State Fair took me up on that suggestion, and he later told me he was putting a lot of benches around. I saw hun dreds of folks there enjoying those seats at the Fair this fall. And I am sure they went home less tired that day and feeling a bit better about fairs in general. The Sumter fair has long pro vided some seats, and there are possibly others. I am sure pa trons would appreciate if all would. Boys Are Thai Way I always liked to play around and watch the work at the blacksmith shop at the foot of the hill below our house in the Stone Hills of the Dutch Fork. On a June day we had a good rain on the night before. So we didn’t have to work that day. And a lot of folks brought their horses and mules to be shod. I specially liked to see that job done. Some o{ them were usually unruly, and I liked to see ’em conquer them with a twitch on the nose or other wise. I always thought that blacksmith was the bravest man I had ever seen. He’d take hold of the hind leg of a kicking mule or horse, stretch it back, get straddle of it, and hold it like a vice between his knees. And stretched out that way, the animal ^couldn’t kick at ail. It was interesting to see him prepare the shoes. They come too long, and you heat them and cut ’em off to fit. I waa playing around there that day and went over to the anvil to tap it with the hammer to hear it ring, when he took the shoe he was working on in the tongues out to see if it fit the hoof just right. I didn’t see that piece of hot metal he had just cut off the shoe sizzling there in the black dust. And I planked my bare foot right on it. It took a few seconds for it to burn through the thick skin on the bottom of my foot. But when it had done that and hit the “quick,” I leaped, let up a yell, and lit out. I went on down the road, so they codidn't tease me. But I could hear them laughing as I left. Down by the old persimmon tree, I soaked it in the water that was left in a pot-hole there in the red clay ditch. It hurt me a lot on into the night. And for weeks I walked around on the toe of that foot. It got me out of a lot of work, which made the experience not altogether bad. <T Weic4>me ic'\> — ^ ~~must include Christmas RECORDS ANDREWS SISTERS GUY LOMBARDO Merry Christmas Polka Christmas Candles Christmas Island Winter Wonderland ANDREWS SISTERS BING CROSBY Here Comes Santa Claus Twelve Days of Christmas BING CROSBY White Christmas God Rest Ye Merry Gentle men. LAURITZ MELCHIOR O Holy Night Silent Night SAMMY KAYE Here Comes Santa Claus I Want To Wish You A Merry Christmas FRANKIE LANE You’re All I Want For Christmas Tara Talara Tala Albums DORIS DAY Here Comes Santa Claus 01’ Saint Nicholas SPIKE JONES My Two Front Teeth Happy New Year FRANK SINATRA Jingle Bells White Christmas PERRY COMO White Christmas Silent Night BUDDY CLARK MIerry Christmas Waltz Winter Wonderland KEN GRIFFIN White Christmas Here Comes Santa Claus VIC DAMONE Silent Night Ave Maria COWBOY COPAS White Christmas Jingle Bells ERNEST TUBE White Christmas Blue Christmas EDDY ARNOLD C_h_r_i-S_t_m_a_s Will Santa Come To Shanty Town GENE AUTRY Here Comes Santa Claus An Old Fashioned Tree He’s A Chubby Little Fellow Santa, Santa, Santa RAY SMITH An Old Christmas Card * Jolly Old Saint Nicholas BILL BOYD Jingle Bells Up On The House Top THE RAVENS , Silent Night White Christmas SISTER ROSETTA THARPE Silent Night White Christmas RADIOS Z*nilh RCA Vidor, Philco, Motorola Portable* (battery-electric) Table Models (from $19.95) AM-FM. table model* Radio-Phonograph Combinations RCA Victor 45 RPM Automatic Record Players (from $12.95 up) Chimes At Christmas Time Christmas At the Organ (Master Cathedral Organ With Chimes.) An Organ Concert of Carols (Richard Keys Biggs) Christmas Music — Ethel Smith at the Organ ’Twas The Night Before Christmas — Fred Waring Merry Christmas — Bing Crosby Christmas Greetings — Bing Crosby Christmas Songs — Dick Haymes Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music wccumannwiimPcnnumtKumgi MUSICAL TOYS PIANOS DRUMS CLARINETS HARMONICAS UKELELE BATONS KEYMONICAS \ »!*»»*»****** Record Players for the Children Children’s RECORDS Large Selection of Children’s Records and Albums for Christmas and the Year ’Round. WERTZ Music & Appliance Co. » ™ m “There’s Rhythm in That There Store” LOWER MAIN STREET LOWER MAIN STREET