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m 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 Football is growing, constant ly expanding, isn’t it? It is now the major course at Col lege and University. Baseball was once the favorite, but to day football determines the standing of an institution. Years ago men boasted of the course in English, or the su perior standard of an institu tion in Greek or Latin; some times there was pride in Mathe matics or Chemistry. Today the school almost stands or falls by the record of the “Var sity Eleven.” Years ago we had football from October to Thanksgiving; now we have practice in Sep tember, possibly August, and games beyond Thanksgiving. After Thanksgiving, and going into January, perhaps Febru ary, we have bowls, super champions, with the sports or sportsmen travelling hundreds of miles to see the game. It has been hinted a time or two that money now plays the most important part in the sport. Sooner or later money gets in to everything. Have you thought of the “Bowls”? Why the name bowl? WJe have the Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, the Cigar Bowl. Why shouldn’t Virginia have the Apple Bowl, South Carolina the Peach Bowl, or the Textile Bowl, Florida the Fruit Basket? Since there is a *Gator Bowl,” some state might claim the Squirrel Bowl, 1 the Rabbit Warren or the Fox Trail? Lots of possibilities yet. The Congress of the United States, the General Assembly of South Carolina, the forty six so called Legislative Delega tions, all the Municipalities— all tax-levying bodies — are wondering what to do. Ail these money groups are but a glorification of father’s prob lem at home. Fathers used to say “No”! When I was a boy we were taught that the most important little word was “No”! Not only did father say “No,” sometimes with great vigor, but we didn’t dare ask for very much. As members of the vast body of Consumers, the great market potential, we hear about we children operated heartily at the table, but modestly on the outside. Chairman Edgar Brown is a self-made man, one of the success stories, the boy who worked and climbed. I wonder if he can remember being given many dollars, as a little boy in Aiken County, or whether he was busy earn ing his dollars. Well today he hears appeals for millions and millions of dollars, but there is little of the spirit of old-time thrift in vogue today. I once taught in a country school which had pupils who walked four miles each way in the sand. Of course this is better today, but better for comfort; not better for the training that gave us stalwart men and women. You can’t develop muscles by riding all the time; nor can we becoipe hardy and vig orous by exercising only with a knife and fork, delightful ex ercise though it is. Nor can spasms of violent play be re garded as wholesome exercise; it must be something of regu larity. By way of a word for my fellowmen, I’ll say that dish-washing and drying the dishes can’t be regarded as physically invigorating or en oal Is .Wi-f'y. High! No doubt about it. But here’s the situation: The coal industry is completely demoralized. Some mines are operating 3 days a week—many of them are not operating at all. Coal is scarce and much of it has fallen into the hands of the BLACK MAR KETEER. / r-» - ^ ' • Our regular sources of supply cannot get any thing like enough coal to go ’round. Consequently if we get coal we have to get it from the fellow who has it AND PAY HIS PRICE. We are trying to protect you—trying to see that you have at least a little coal and to do this we have rolling two cars of this HIGH PRICE coal. >*If you are completely out of coal, call us and we will tell you What we have and the price of it. In the meantime we hope that conditions in the industry will soon return to normal and we can Again supply you as usual and at a decent price. TELEPHONE 155 irmers Ice & fuel Co. ‘ .. . •A."*. m George W. Martin, Manager Give Your Azaleas and Camellias Expert Care Thousands of visitors to Charleston's world- famous gardens each year marvel at the lushness and perfection of bloom of the camellias and azaleas in Cypress, Magnolia (shown above), and Middleton Gardens. Since the plants in these spectacular show places must be kept in perfect condition, some timely hints from the experts who look after them have been made available to readers who may be anxious about the proper winter care of their precious plants. Most important at this time of year, they agree, is the generous use of water before and after each freeze. This will aid in producing heavy new growth in the spring, and in bringing better camellia blooms pow. Azaleas are benefited by extra mulch now — this keeps frost from penetrating the ground. But be cause of their greater root depth, camellias do not need extra mulch. From temperatures of not lower than 26 degrees, camellia blossoms can be protected by hanging heavy burlap or cloth on posts around the plant — but fabric should not touch the plant itself. For lower temperatures, artificial heat must be used. If blossoms are frosted, ■pray them before the sun can strike them. Pruning is hardly one of the musts for winter care — it -might mean the loss of flower buds. Fertilizing can easily wait until the first sign of spring — then use one of the acid-forming complete fertilizers now available commercially. Apply it from a little distance from the trunk to a little beyond the spread of the branches. For larger plants, put fertilizer in holes drilled in the ground. Solid fertilizer must be dissolved before - the roots can take it up —— so water after the application. If your Camellias are healthy growing plants, picking the blossoms now does no harm if done properly: Cut the stem back to a leaf bud, or to an adjoining branch if no leaf bud is nearby. Visitors to the Charleston gardens are invited to discuss plant culture with their nursery experts. ergizing, though possibly use ful in some deree. What shall we do abouji tax es? Shall we increase the taxes? Why should we? The old-time father (and that grand charac ter, the old-time mother) re sorted to many expedients, when threatened with a fam ily deficit. What is a family deficit? It means that father can’t pay his bills; it means that the grocer, the baker, the butcher, the clothing store—all with whom he “trades” will be paid in part. Still, if father deals with the chains he must pay cash on the barrel head— whatever that meant, original ly. After a while merchants re fuse credit to a man whose family spends more than his in come. lather had to have more money, or the family had to hold in.. So we are in the Nation and State just where father would be. And nobody wants to pay more taxes! It is ridiculous that those who pay no taxes, or very little, should cry aloud for more taxes. Probably sev enty five per cent of our peo ple receive more from the State than they pay to the State. The schools, the public health, police protection cost more per family than the average fam ily pays in taxes. How do we continue to thrive on that basis? The remaining twenty five per cent pay so much more than they receive that the “overplus” takes up the slack. But there is a limit. You have heard men talk of the Law of Diminishing Returns. It is a well known rule. Look at it: Take an acre of land; break it well, harrow it until it has n’t a lump or a clod, plant the best cotton seed and use five hundred pounds of the best cot ton fertilizer. There you are, expecting a bale of five hun dred pounds, unless you live near Chairman Charles Plow- den, in the Summerton area. There it might be two bales. Now double your seed. Will you make more? Probably not. So double your fertilizer; will you make twice as much! Pos sibly. But if you use two thou sand pounds will you make four times as much as you would with five hundred? If you do then try four thousand pounds. Would you then make eight times as much as with five hundred? Somewhere you find that the gain is not in proportion to the cost. So with taxation: at some point it defeats its own purpose: people lose heart. So with regulation: if regu lation or taxation makes it un promising or too hazardous to invest, then you hold your mon ey. The money which ought to earn more money by serving the public stays out of the current of business, and the general public suffers. Ex-speaker Solomon Blatt was speaking with wisdom when he said that any increase in taxes would operate against the sound reputation of the State. We do not accomplish any thing useful by taking money from the Counties and towns in order to balance the State budget. That is robbing Peter to pay Paul. Any business which we attract to South Car olina must be in some County. If we reduce the State spending we shall put our finger on the sore spot. If we continue to spend as we are spending now, and take money from the Coun ties, you compel the Coimties to increase their levies, so what has been gained? Nothing; you merely shift the debt, but we still pay Peter instead of Paul. Probably the Counties could do a bit of reducing; so might some towns. The wave of spending has probably reached Counties and towns, just as it has flowed al over the State and sunk p6or father with his boys and girls. '- We Americans are in an en gulfing mood of spending; and South Carolina has as many golden-spenders as the national average, per capita. Even so, we are better governed than many other States; and we have fine prospects. We are growing; don’t upset the apple cart and break a leg or maim your body. The Nation and the State re flect our personal habits of spending. ' You will remember that at one time we went to school, but received no gifts for attending. Today one must have a gift at grammar school, following the token when leav ing kindergarten; then more from high school; yet more from College. Then come a marriage, following a bridal- shower, then at five years, ten years, twenty five, etc. Of course so many couples break up within five years that the five year gift is no longer a burden. And we have organized char ities which continue to cell and to grow even in spite of all National and State Welfare. With telephone directories, or some other guide, organizations from the North also appeal to us. That is the age we live in. Nobody can walk; we take that for granted. So the Nation, the State, the Counties and the towns are on wheels, with gas oline flowing faster than an ar tesian well, and liberal expense accounts bulging. —Somebody, somewhere, some how, must simplify our mode of living, as well as our man ner of governing. No increase in taxes is nec tary in the Nation, or in the Sffate. We should talk straight and say that there will be no increase is spending taxing, but that will be less spending.. I have been asked if I would revive the Farmers and Tax payers League. Perhaps it should be done. Editor Harold Booker of Camden advocates it. I know that the Government of the United States spends the money paid for the Old Age and Survivor’s Insurance—com monly called Social Security. It receives the payments and spends the money, putting Gov ernment bonds to the credit of the fund. It owes, then, right now, about fifteen billion dol lars. When Congress appropri ates billions, does it appropri ate this, too? Or does the Gov ernment spend at will? I won der whether the money receiv ed for Unemployment Compen sation, and the money received as insurance fees by the Fed eral Deposit Insurance Corpora tion and kindred guaranty Gov ernment corporations is also spent at will by the Govem- men. If so, what control is there over Government spend ing? I expect to attend the South- JOIN THE 100 BUSHEL CORN CLUB Two Newberry County Farm ers qualified for the 100 bushel Corn Club lastf year. They are Mr. Henry L. Parr with 125% bushels per acre and Mr. H. M. Bryson with 101% bushels per acre. Both of these yields were made with the hybrid corn known as N. C. 27. The seed, however, does not tell the whole story. The old adage that a “Chain is no stronger than its weakest link” holds true in com production. The Clemson College Exten sion Service recommends the following five-link-chain for in creased corn yields: (1) Proper soil preparation, (2) Use of im proved hybrids and open-polli nated varieties, (3) liberal fer tilization, especially nitrogen, (4) Sufficient plants per acre, and (5) shallow and early cul tivation. The row width, in the two fields mentioned above, was 36 inches, Mr. Parr had an aver age of 99 ears on each 100 feet of row while Mr. Bryson had 96 ears per 100 feet of row. Mr. Parr used 400 pounds of 3-9-9 fertilizer plus 400 pounds of tqp dressing. The first top dressing was 200 pounds of 14- 0-14 and the second was 200 pounds of 20% nitrogen. Mr. Bryson used 100 pounds of 5- 10-5 plus 200 pounds of 14-0-14 as a side dressing. The cost of producing com for feed, by these two farmers averaged 48 cents per busheL BRADLEY RETIRES Victor W. Bradley, son of Mrs. Victoria Bradley of New berry has retired after serving 20 years in the United States Army. He and his wife and small son are now making their home with his mother on Brown street. ern States Industrial Council meeting in Atlanta this week and the National Cotton Coun cil meeting in Memphis next week. In these meetings I learn what is going on. As some one said, they give me something to talk about.. The papers are interesting; rather the people are interest ing. Recently the big brains of America had several conven tions.. In a convention of Econ omists the learned brethren la mented their ignorance of hu man nature. , However, they predicted that business would be good during the first six months of this year. I’m mis taken; it was the Scientists who didn’t know people. One group of superior minds harked back to our childhood; they think that corn syrup may be the base of a remedy for Arthritis. ’ We’ve been reading about the wonders of Cortisone but Cortisone is costly. Most of us would have to stand at the threshold and gaze at the more fortunate ones who can afford Cortisone, while we limp and straggle along. But with grand old Com Syrup proving unsuspected virtue we may pour it down, let our hot cakes swim in it, and consume Corn Syrup enormously. Do you think some one may tell us that ham and eggs, liver and bacon, hot cakes with com sy rup, mother’s hot biscuits—say we are returning to the days of hearty, zestful, mouth smack ing eating. Good news, don’t you think? FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1950 Husband of Newberry Girl Figure In Heroic Rescue Team In Wastes of N. Polar Region The following article about Lieut. Robert Sproul, husband of the former Mary Jane Han na, daughter of Mr. .and Mrs. R. E. Hanna, E. Main street, this city, was taken from the January 7th issue of Collier’s magazine, “Vicking on the Ice Frontier,” which was written by Bill Davidson. The story is about Colonel Bernt Balchen, polar pioneer, and the Arctic’s fabulous Tenth Rescue Squadron, U. S. Force, of which he is Commander. A few weeks later, the squad ron presented Balchen with an other sample of their work. A Tenth Rescue pilot named Lieu tenant Robert Sproul was fly ing back from a mission in a small ski plane, when he ran into a squall of freezing rain over Cook Inlet. He couldn’t get back to Point Possession for an emergency landing, and he couldn’t go on. With ice pil ing up on the wings, it looked like the end. But as his engine was about to cut out, Sproul remembered an ice floe he had just passed in the man-killing waters be low. He brought. his plane around in a wide circle and found the floe ahead. He aim ed the' planes skis at the water alongside the floe and held hi# breath. The maneuver worked. The skis hit the edge of the floe and the plane flipped over on its back—on the ice. It skid ded io within five feet of the other edge of the floe and stop ped. Sproul was alive, thanks to a spectacular combination of great skill and luck; but there he was, floating around in the vicious tides of Cook Inlet with the temperature at 30 4egrees below zero. When Sproul’s plane didn’t show up at Anchorage on sche dule, the search began. First, Balchen sent a B-17 to Point Possession to see if Sproul was there. Sproul wasn’t; and in a mat ter of minutes after this intelli gence came in, Balchen threw two more B-17’s into the search. Sproul’s floe, in the mean time, had described a complete circle of about 25 miles in the rapidly moving tides and was back at the place where he had come down. He knew Tenth Rescue planes would be search ing his route at about this time. In fact, he could hear a plane’s engines above the heavy cloud bank. Just then, he spotted a tiny opening in the clouds. He tore up his extra survival clo thing, soaked it in oil, and set the clothes on fire as the floe approached the cloud opening. Again, Sproul had done just the right thing. One of the B-17s spotted the black smoke, dived through the clouds and came out directly over the young man’s head. When the B-17 pilot recovered from his surprise at seeing the strange tableaux on the ice floe, he radioed Balchen, who immedi ately dispatched a helicopter piloted by Lieutenant Peter R. Ferryman with Staff Sergeant Lawrence Luberda aboard. The B-17 kept the floe in view and directed Ferryman to it by radio. The helicopter then hovered tvto feet above the floe while Sproul climbed up a rope ladder and into the cabin. After this, the B-17 took off, leaving Ferryman on his own. But Sproul’s tribulations weren’t over vet. As the helicopter headed back through the freezing rain, the entire aircraft, including the rotor blades, soon became covered with a coating of ice 1-16 of an inch thick. Ferry man shouted, “I can’t see. The stuff is on the windshield.” Whereupon Luberda opened the front right door of the helicop ter and leaned out into the paralyzing wind. With a mighty effort he reached around to the wind shield and scraped away a tiny clearing in the ice with a met al washer he found in his poc ket. Peering through this hole —which was no bigger than a quarter —. Ferryman then brought the helicopter all the way into Elmendorf Field, An chorage, navigating along the treetops. He landed the heli copter sideways, so he could look out an ice-free side win dow. In commending the squadron for this mission, Balchen re marked on the tremendous im provement hi arctic rescue methods since he saved the crew of the Bremen in 1928. To Sproul, he said, “Young man, I’m afraid that 20 years ago you would have been a goner.” m SUBSTANTIAL SALE OF WAR BONDS IN COUNTY Mr. Joe M. Roberts, Chair man of the volunteer Savings Bonds Committee for Newberry County reports the purchase of $616,728.25 in U. S. Savings Bonds in Newberry County during the year 1949. This substantial sum, states Mr. Roberts, invested in Sav ings Bonds is a great step for ward in helping the people of our County to further safeguard their future financial security. U.S. Savings Bonds purchases in South Carolina in 1949 to talled $27,653,201.00, as report ed by W. Brooks Stuckey, State Director, Savings Bonds Divi sion. In releasing the above figures, Mr. Stuckey states that this fine record of sales and the continued success of the Sav ings Bonds program is due to the excellent work of the Coun ty Chairmen and the many other volunteer bond workers throughout the state. She’s quite a trick Is Marianne But she’s be more spic If she had less span. By 7W Kesting r ' '' i • ■■ (The other day Horace Lytle made some very frank remarks about the Irish setter as a field dog. We were so impressed we decided to turn this week’s col umn over to him.) I was an Irish setter man once. Some 25 to 30 years ago we had my own bitch Smada Byrd, McKerry’s Pat and Modoc Bedelia. Between them these three cooled the pointers and English setters many times. But the good ones were becom ing fewer and fewer. It was the breed’s popularity as show dogs that proved their undoing. Recently I was invited to judge an exclusive Irjsh setter field trial With but two pos sible exceptions, the perform ances were of the sorriest sort. The breed, from the standpoint of hunting excellence, seems to have slipped farther and far ther since my active days with it. The conflict of the shows is still what’s doing the damage. After the trial, the secretary came to me with a question: , “Is it worth while trying to on as we are?” This is gist of what I told him: Irish setters were once and white. All of the white has been bred out of them— and hlong with it has beep lost much of the breed’s “heart for the hunt.” There is no use go ing on now on a basis of show- and-field. The breed has gone too far over the hill and is too close to the bottom as a hunter. There are not enough good ones to provide any basis for br ~ * ing. As field dogs the breed is doomed—unless a few bold, de termined men get together and divorce themselves from' show dogs and develop field special ists. I believe there is only one thing that can be done. The best possible Irish bitches that have been used constantly for hunting must be obtained. Breed these bitches to the best sons of such an English setter as Mississippi Zev, National Champion of 1946. Register the , offspring as crossbred setters in the Field Dog Stud book. Then breed back offspring to pure bred Irish setters—-but the dogs and bitches in the meantime should have seen as much hunt ing as can be given them. Then when the English setter mating does not appear in a four-gen eration pedigree, ' the resulting offspring again will be—and can be . so registered—purebred Irish setters. Yet that potent “Zev influence” will be in there and should linger on beneficial- . ly for a long time. m the opening of Feagle’s Feed and Seed We’re pleased to announce our opening and to extend you an invitation to visit us. We Carry a Full and Complete Line of the Famous BALLARD’S t \ • Feeds and Flours No matter what your feed needs, whether it be feeds for mules, cows, hogs, chickens, dogs, rabbits or any other kind of animal, you’ll find it here, and at a sav ing price. Ballard’s Obelisk Flour, too, is the finest quality flour that money can buy. We handle both plain and self-rising. Come in today and pay us a visit, and save money here on fine quality feeds and flour. We deliver. Phone 1277.