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THE NEWBERRY SUN 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 34 My interest in our State in cludes all its business, as well as all the other phases of our living. If I emphasize our bus iness life it is not because of indifference to the schools. My varied experience in education al work has been my chief in terest, though the schools are so constantly and so persuasive ly sponsored that I can put my emphasis on other problems. What is the matter with Am erica? Well, we have reared a generation which knows very little about the earner empha sis on individual work: the idea today is to get what you want and to want all you see, or hear about. It may be possible that our higher standard of liv ing is based on that. We may have to think about the stan dard of living: what is it? Wlhat is my standard, what is yours? Is the standard of liv ing merely so many new gad gets? Is it entirely a matter of dollars and cents? If one man, “X,” let us say, has a home which cost him $25000, with furnishings of $15,- 000, including all the things ad vertised for the modern home, has he a higher standard of living than the man who rents a small house or apartment, with $2000 of furniture? Is the standard fixed by the house and household equipment? Is iere no spiritual and intellec tual standard that rises above mildings and gadgets? Is it not true that many people of ordinary, or limited means, set the pace of the nation, as men and women of character? Are we who walk or ride the buses of a lower standard than those who rush about in cars; who feel that buses and lunch coun- are not in keeping with their standard? Perhaps the so-called stan dard of hving is frequently a matter of personal indulgence. We are geared today to many things which were beyond the dreams of our fathers. Seldom did a family keep a horse and carriage, but nearly all have cars today. And all dress alike. In this country the banker does not dress better than the clerk. Americans know no class and bow down to no body. All the gadgets cost money. There was never a time when we needed to work so constant ly because we want more today —and that costs money. Re gardless of how much money may be in circulation you can’t pick it up in the street. That car that once sold for $900 is now selling for $1800 to $2000. It is a better car, of course, but the difference must be earned if one wants the car. That little cottage of $3500 now costs about $7000. Wfe must earn the difference. So we must learn the lesson that we must earn more in order to have what our fathers had. By “earning” more, I mean that we must pro duce more, whatever the job may be. All business depends on production; the clerk who sells $1000 at a good profit is worth more than the clerk who sells $700. We have been get ting away from that idea be cause of the effort to protect al the workers. But every one can see that the clerk who sells $1000 is not being treated right if his pay be held down to the level of the $700 man; and if the $700 man’s pay be based on $1000 the business will go on the rocks. We used to call this incen tive pay—to reward a man for his skill and productiveness. In some lines of work it may be impossible to distinguish one from another because so many participate in the processes of production. It is, at least, something to keep in mind. Cur tendency to call on the National Government continues to grow. Years ago the Con gressman used to send garden seed as a sort of reminder, but today the Congressmen are kept busy running errands for all of us. We, all of us, / seem to want something from the Gov ernment. The idea of direct government from Washington is found in our calling on the FTBI frequently. We write to our Congressman much' often- er than we write to the Gov ernor of the State. I read in The New York Times several weeks ago that the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin challenges the jur isdiction of the Federal Power Commission in matters within the State of Wisconsin. I agree with the Commission. I can’t see why the Federal Pow er ComraLSskm has any power or authority to order the San- tee-Cooper to do, or not to do. And that applies equally to all the other power enterprises within our State, that is those wholly within the State. I quote the article in The New York Times: “Storm clouds are rumbling across the regulatory horizon. With unprecedented vigor, two of the nation’s state public utili ty commissions have charged that the Federal Government is trying to extend its control to intrastate matters. In the light of President Truman’s espousal of public power programs for various sections of the country, the criticism takes on added significance. The state public service agencies not only fore see Federal control over an area’s economy through crea tion of politically potent valley authorities; they also are ap prehensive about the alleged threat to their jurisdictional prerogatives by action of the Federal Power Commission. John C. Doerfer, chairman of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, voiced a warning before the Utilities Association of the Badger State at its re cent convention in Milwalkee. Singling out the EPC, Mr. Doerfer said the agency claimed jurisdiction over the East Ohio Company, despite the fact, he ‘no property or activity outside asserted, that the utility had of the state’. ‘Once it gets its foot into the door, control by the state x x x will be so em asculated that its effectiveness will be nil,’ he declared. ‘At best, it invites a duplication of regulation which will be both impracticable and expensive as well as utterly confusing. Worse than that, it widens the breach through which flows too much state power already. If successful, such efforts will re duce the states to groveling puppets before a Washington bureaucracy. The right to con duct the internal affairs within a state will be merely measur ed by the success of the beggar state’s ability to wheedle fav ors from those in power. Con trol of local affairs by the peo ple directly concerned will be gone forever.’ He also warn ed unless ‘this inordinate hun ger for power by a central gov ernment’ was not curbed it would destroy th e people. The note of disharmony between reg ulatory agencies that invariably saw eye-to-eye in previous years was interpreted last week by observers of Federal and State utility bodes as the spearhead to a drive by the National Association of Rail road and Utilities Commission ers to protect the rights of state agencies. Harry Miller, a member of the NARUC and of the Public Service Commission of Ohio, also sounded an omi nous note in his remarks before the New York Society of Se curity Analysts a few weeks ago. Following a review of utility equity financing, taxes and regulatory problems in general, Mr. Miller described as ‘zealots’ those in Federal bu reaus ‘who insist that the lan guage of an act should give to the Federal commission certain dual and overlapping jurisdic tion over locally regulated utili ties.’ ‘In some instances, they would have Federal control sup plant traditional state regula tion’, he asserted. While Mr. Miller devoted much of his time to attacking what he con sidered the ‘encroachment of Federal Government in busi ness,’ and ‘the current trend toward a socialistic Federal Government,’ he also discussed what he termed the ‘increasing burden of taxes on private companies.’ He said the Fed eral tax structure gave rate ad vantages to tax exempt, pub licly owned utilities, and that the utility customers, ‘whether they know it or not, subsidize Federal projects out of their personal income tax.’ The effectiveness of the stand taken by these state commis sions will depend on the ex tent to which other State agen cies support them. With many states looking longingly to Fed eral aid for relief of their own fiscal problems through such projects as Federal power sites, it would appear unlikely that their efforts will bear much fruit in the next few years.” Observe the last paragraph of the article I quoted. I have received a copy of a bill—Sen ate Bill 1645—which brings So cialism right to our doors. Un der this bill the Federal Com mission may fix the size of a farm which may receive water. Really it is a measure which cuts at the foundation of our American way of living. This is a bill which all of us should oppose, those of the Santee- Cooper, as well as the hun dred thousand stockholders who own the power enterprises oper ating in this State. By the way, if those who own the stock of the power en terprises would show more life public men would wake up. I am in a Coop enterprise so far as power lines are concerned; and I think I have given three rights-of-way, but we of the Coops are a small number in; comparison with those who have invested their dollars in building the great -^companies which serve us. We need all the power of all the enterprises public and private, for develop ing our State industrially and agriculturally, too. - mm For those of you... -y. s . Hi who like to shop early for your spring- clothes . . . we’re happy to. say we are adding to our stock daily new flower trimmed hats to wear with your winter suits as well as your new spring- suits. Come in early and select your spring- wardrobe. Pimv • V ; , ;-, v enters —i I mentioned last week that Mr. Rabb of Greenville and I sat together at the Hoover meeting in Washington. On the front seat with Mr. Rabb and me was a young man. He saw Mr. Rabb’s badge, that he was from South Carolina. This gen tleman comes from New York and is Mr. John T. Gwynne. He has a sister living near Sumter, Mrs. William M. Wilson. When I asked Mr. Gwynne the nature of his business he told me that he was with the New York State Chamber of Commerce. Whereupon I told him that a cherished friend, one time my teacher, Dr. A. Wellington Tay lor, now of the New York State Chamber of Commerce, had been my guest. Dean Tay lor receives Spectator, so now I’ll know whether he reads it. Small world, as you’ve often heard. Spectator wishes a happy, joyful and prosperous New Year to everyone, a year full of the deep satisfactions of use ful living. WANT ADS NOTICE — Positively no hunt ing or trespassing of any kind will be allowed on lands of the undersigned. We have cattle and hogs grazing on our lands and a hired man looking after same. If any one caught on these lands, white or black, will be prosecuted. If you don’t know you had better find out. H. O. Long, B. O. Long, J. G. Long. MILK GOAT For Sale—Fresh Dec.' 19th. 4-quart milker.— Heyward Sease, 2212 Mayer Avenue. 3tc NOTICE—Axn now prepared to assist taxpayers with their in come tax returns and am lo cated in two rooms of the BUS station at the rear of the court house where I’ll appreciate Counts. For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio GEO. N. MARTIN Radio Service SALES and SERVICE 1014 Main Street Opposite Memorial Square 24 HOURS SERVICE Telephone 311W New Plymouth Special Deluxe Club Coupe GOOD BUSINESS YEAR EXPECTED New York, Jan. 1.—American business, taking heart from the way it rode out the mild reces sion of 1949, enters 1950 on the greatest surge of confidence in ten years. Economists for industry and government alike, with a rare harmony of agreement, predict a strong first six months for the new year, with most fore casting a slight and gradual de cline for the second half. They add it all up to a year of con tinued boom at levels equal to or only slightly below prosper ous 1949. Business and government leaders generally echo publicly these views of their economic specialists. Not since before the war have they regarded a dawning year with such opti mism. Even at the beginning of 1948, which. brought the peak of the postwar boom, fore casts were clouded with fears. Now warnings of possible trouble ahead are barely audi ble amid the cheer. They point mainly to dangers of further inflation, and usually are cou pled with criticism of the Fed eral Government’s spending and deficit financing programs. But even here, the omens are seen A as not likely to become reality until sometime after 1950. The new year confidence is based not only on large order backlogs in many industries and continuing strong consumer de mand, but also upon the convic tion that we had our long-fear ed and long planned-for post war readjustment in the mild recession of 1949, Until now postwar forecast ing has been sobered with the realization that an adjustment was necessary and bound to come, and that it might be se vere. The history of 1920-21, the period of sharp readjust ment from the first world war, was expected by many to be repeated. Many experts now feel that no further shakedown beyond taht of 1949 is necessary, and that we can move along at a busy clip for an indefinite time. The good business forecast for 1950 should bring continued good times for the average cit izen. There will be, as there were in 1949, variations by both industries and regions „ hurting some people more than others A family head without a job or a businessman closing up shop has hard times no matter how prosperous the country as a whole may be. The cost of living is expected to drop / a little in 1950, with food down, rent up, and clo- ADVERTISEMENT On or about December 23, 1949, drawings and specifica tions for the construction of Ag ricultural Building, at New berry, South Carolina, will be available for distribution to general contractors by Willis Irvin, Architect, Helen S. Ir vin, Associate Architect, 722 Greene Street, Augusta, Geor gia. Applications from contractors interested in bidding on this work not to exceed one set of drawings and specifications, to gether with payment of $25.00 per set, should be filed prompt ly with the Architect, and the bidding material will be for warded shipping charges col lect, as soon as available. Any bidder upon submitting a bona fide bid and returning such set promptly and in good condition will be refunded his payment. Any sub-contractor or non-bid der, upon so returning such set will be refunded $15.00. Bids on this work will be opened by Newberry County Agricultural Building Commis sion in the Court Room at Court House, Newberry, South Carolina at 12:00 noon, Janu ary 24, 1950. YOUNG M. BROWN, Chairman, NEWBERRY CO. AGRICUL TURAL COMMISSION, Newberry, S. C. 4t AUDITOR'S TAX NOTICE I, or an authorized agent, will be at the following places on the date given below for the. purpose of taking tax returns of all real estate and personal property. Persons owning prop erty in more than one district will make returnes for each district. All abl£ bodied male citizens between the ages of twenty- one and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax. All persons between the ages of twenty-one and fif ty outside of incorporated towns and cities are liable to pay commutation tax of $1.00. All dogs are to be assessed at $1.00 each. CHAPPELLS Monday, January 9, 1950. HOLLINGSWORTH STORE Tuesday, January 10, 1950, from 9 until 12. KINARDS Tuesday, January 10, 1950, from 2 until 5. PROSPERITY Friday, January 13, 1950. ST. LUKES Monday, January 16, 1950, from 9 until 12. O’NEAL Monday, January 16, 1950 from 2 until 5. LITTLE MOUNTAIN Tuesday, January 17, 1950. PEAK Thursday, January 19, 1950. POMARIA Friday, January 20, 1950. JAMES HOMER CROOKS STORE Monday, January 23, 1950, from 9 until 12. A. E. fe R. E. REESE STORE Monday, January 23, 1950, from 2 until 5. * At Auditor’s office to March 1st, after which a penalty of 10 per cent will be added. PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS Auditor Newberry County Total employment is climb ing at year-end, hugging around the 60,000,000 mark and just about where it was a year ago. As our labor force grows with the population, the area for un employment increases, however and there are some predictions that the jobless total may reach 5,000,000 in 1950, a whole mil- To Be Seen at Christmas Party A lovely Christmas party was given by Miss Patty Singley Tuesday evening, December 27, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Mower Singley. Lovely Christmas decorations were used throughout the home. In a number of games and contests conducted by Miss Singley, prizes were won by Miss Dorothy Leaphart, Donald Long, Billy Ackerman and Bill Leaphart. After the games the guests were invited into the dining room. The center table decora tion was an herb scale filled with candy, nuts, and miniature toys. From the table punch sandwiches, cookies, and nuts were served. The favors were packages from the Christmas tree, pres ents from the hostess. Entertain With Tea Misses Ethel and Katherine Counts entertained with a tea Thursday afternoon, December 29, from three-thirty to five o’clock for the members of the young women’s class of Grace Lutheran Sunday School. Miss Ethel Counts is president of the teacher. Miss Sease and the Misses Counts received the guests. Serving tea, sandwiches, dates and mints were Miss Ef- fie Hawkins and Mrs. Gurdon W. Counts. Entertain College Student* The student secretaries of the Women’s Missionary So ciety entertained the college students of Grace Church Wed nesday evening, December 28, at the home of Mrs. Cole S. Wtessinger. Mrs. Sheely Setzler directed the recreation. Several Christ mas contests and bingo were enjoyed. A salad plate with cookies, spiced tea and toasted nuts was served. Sunday School Party Miss Miriam Ballentine en tertained the members of her Sunday School class at the home of' her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ballentine last Fri day afternoon. After a number of games the exchange of gifts gave the members the Christmas spirit. A delicious sweet course was served. Brief News Hams The William Lester Chapter of the UDC win meet Friday afternoon with Mrs. John Stockman as hostess. Mrs, Minnie Kibler entered Providence Hospital last Sat urday. She is improving slow ly. The Dogwood Garden will meet Monday January 9, with Mrs. B. nell Bedenbaugh. Mrs. L. S. Long had with for Christmas Day, Dr. Mrs. Elmer Long of .. and their daughter Miss Long of Philadelphia; ~ Mrs. L. S. Long and Sidney of Brunson; Mr. Mrs. J. P. Addy of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. and their two (Continued on New Plymouth Special Deluxe Four-Door ON DISPLAY. J WKmtKBtm c '■ ,1 y » :?.<> • IS lion more than the postwar thing and taxes about the same.' high in July of 1949. The Plymouth Special DeLuxe four-door sedan, one of nine new models, is shown above. The car important styling changes and improvements for safety and comfort Its high compression engine ai mechanical features provide lively, economical performance. • ••• ••• Plymouth Has New Look Both Coming and Going The 1950 Plymouth car, with im portant styling changes and improve ments for safety and riding comfort, will go on display in dealer show rooms throughout the country Jan uary 12. There are new lines in the silhou ette which give the new Plymouth a longer, lower, more streamlined ap pearance. The changes are readily apparent whether viewed from front, rear, or side. Rear fenders, which are bolted on for economical removal in case re pairs are necessary, have been re styled and lengthened. A larger rlar window on club coupes and four- door sedans, slightly greater over-all width, and alterations on the rear deck provide a longer, heavier, road- hugging appearance for all models. The grille has been simplified and made more massive. It consists of two large horizontal bars with a curved-down top member and a single vertical bar at the center. Above the grille the Plymouth name plate appears in larger block letters, and a bigger, more colorful medal lion has been placed over the name plate. Described as “Packed with value and ready to prove it,” the new Plymouth was characterized by D. S. Eddins, president of Plymouth, as ‘"Hie greatest car value we have ever offered the public.” “When we speak of value,” Eddins said, “we mean that we have com bined beauty with sensible styling, that we have achieved big-car per formance with small-car economy, and that the mechanical excellence of which we have always been proud has maintained its high level.” The front and rear tread have been increased, a factor which in creases stability, eases tire loading stress on curves, and enhances the car’s general appearance. Thirty-two per cent larger than on previous models, the new rear window in creases visibility and its lines blend into the car’s new streamlining motif. The window is set in a newly designed locking rubber seal. There are larger bumpers on both front and rear. In addition to pro viding greater protection for the grille, rear deck and fenders, the bumpers add materially to the gen eral appearance of massiveness. The theme of simplicity which has been carried out in the medallion and name plate on the front has been continued in the ornamentation of the rear deck. The block-letter name plate, the license plate light ornament, the license plate recess, and the T-shaped luggage compart ment handle are styled to accent the car’s low, sleek lines. Combination tail lights and stop lights are set into each rear fender. The redesigned instrument panel provides new backgrounds of trans parent gunmetal on spun aluminum for the gauge dials, speedometer, radio dial, and clock. The gunmetal finish is also used on the radio grille screen. There are larger rotary switch knobs which are easier to operate. Features for performance, comfort and safety which were previously in troduced in the Plymouth line have been retained. The car has charac teristic interior roominess, ample head and leg room, and wide, deep chair-height seats. The six-cylinder, 97-horsepower engine has a 7 to 1 compression ratio. The combination ignition and starter switch, auto matic electric choke, super-cushion tires, safe-guard hydraulic brakes and safety-rim wheels are among the “high-priced car” features contained in the new Plymouth. Smith Motor Cat