The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, February 10, 1950, Image 4
THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1960
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NEWBERRY, S. C.
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Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937,
at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
I’ve been to Memphis.
The National Cotton Council
ol America held its twelfth an
nual convention in Memphis
last week—three days of re
ports, with two fine addresses.
In the early days J. Wade
Drake of Anderson was a
prime mover—a good man and
always ready to do his part in
any worthy public effort. J. B.
(Pat) Murphy of Columbia;
Wyndham Manning of Sumter;
J. C. Miller of Jefferson; L.
Cottingham of Dillon; W. T.
Mikell of Columbia; Fred
Symmes of Greenville—these—
and others were the early
members of the Council.
South Carolinians attending
the convention last week were:
W. A. Ham bright, Blacksburg;
Neville Bennett, Clio; O. L.
Edwards, St. Charles; E. N.
Sitton, Pendleton; J. F. Mc-
Laurine, Bennetts ville; Thos.
M. Gignilliat, Seneca; Wm. B.
Mood, Columbia; * Thomas N.
Durst, Columbia; T. W. Crews,
Jr., Edgefield; (Mrs. Durrett
Williams, Columbia; W. T. Mi
kell, Columbia; R. M. Hughes,
Greer; Fred W. Symmes, Green
ville; B. F. Hagocd, Easley; E.
S. MdKissick, Greenville and
J. K. Breedin, Manning.
Oscar Johnston of Scott,
Mississippi, founder and first
President, was there. He is
now Chairman of the Board.
Oscar Johnson is one of Amer
ica’s great men; and he is the
biggest cotton producer—38000
acres, averaging more than six
hundreds pounds of lint cotton
per acre. The president today
is Harold A. Young of Arkan
sas, a big planter and business
man, and as gracious a leader
as one could imagine. William
a Blake, the executive Vicq
president, has been remarkably
successful in this broad, con
structive effort. The growth
of the Cotton Council, and its
development in every depart
ment of its widely flung activ
ities, is a monument to Messrs.
Johnston, Young and Blake,
and to the highly patriotic and
capable gentlemen who have
put their shoulders to the
wheel.
Charles E. Wilson, President
of General Motors, and Allan
B. Ktyne, President of the Am
erican Farm Bureau Federation
delivered two addresses of sin
gular charm and appear!. Nor
were they all) Harold Young’s
address sounded the keynote of
Americanism — individual liber
ty, individual opportunity. As
I have had a word or two to
say on that theme I was an
appreciative listener.
Mr. Wilson, though President
of one of the world’s mammoth
enterprises, is not the frock-
coated, silk-hatted plutocrat of
the early days, but a man
whose genial smile proves him
to be as amiable and approach
able candidate for a county of
fice in the heat of campaign.
All of us listened to Mr. Wil
son quite won by his first
words and remaining interested
until the last word. He is quiet,
friendly, clear, and plain, but
he speaks the language of faith
and buttresses his faith by his
works.
I quote from Mr. Wilson:
“Mr. Wilson said the American
system stands on four corner
stones. He listed first the Bill
of Rights, which gives the peo
ple a legal guarantee of their
rights. Second he nhmed ‘a
broad moral code, with indivi
dual responsibility and regard
for the rights of others.’ Third,
he rated ‘basic education of all
citizens at common expense.’
Fourth, Mr. Wilson placed ‘the
right to work and the oppor
tunity for individual achieve
ments.’ ‘These four cornerstones
have worked out so wonderful
ly, that based on these, our
country has become great.’ Mr.
Wilson said, ‘Only by continu
ing them will we continue to
remain great.’ Speaking on
‘What Kind of America Do We
Want to Live in?—Industry’s
Viewpoint,’ Mr. Wilson’s talk
paralleled that of Harold A.
Young, North Little Rock,
Council President, who called
for closer co-operation and bet
ter understanding between ag
riculture and industry in their
‘mutual fight lor survival
against the inroads of soft so
cialism and big government.’
Mr. Wilson made it clear that
he believes all Americans, no
matter what political party
they belong to, want to con
tinue living in the kind of Am
erica we have today. ‘Men of
good will, whether farmers,
businessmen, labor, leaders, in
dustrialists or what, all agree,
I think, that a sound social ob
jective would be a stable so
ciety, economy and ever-con
tinuing and improving stan
dard of living for all,” Wilson
said. / ‘The means to be used
to obtain this is the trouble.’
Mr. Wilson examined the past
to understand the present and
take a look into the future. He
said Marx and Engels wrote
the Communist Manifesto only
100 years ago, when the Cali
fornia gold rush was on. He
said we still had slavery and
Russia had serfs. Steamboats
and railroads were still won
ders. Mr. Wilson said two in
ventions brought progress, one
being Whtts’ invention of the
steam engine, and the other a
political invention—the Ameri
can system of government
which limited the power of so
cial planners and politicians
and gave individual rights a
real position. • ‘In our system of
government, the people are not
serfs of the state,’ Wilson said.
‘There is public education and
individual freedom for all. In
our form of government, each
individual is as free as possi
ble to manage his own affairs.’
He told of the improvement
which has resulted, the aboli
tion of child labor, etc. He
said the criticisms of Karl
Marx cannot be challenged, but
said his diagnosis of the way
to cure evils was wrong. He
said redistribution of wealth
would not do it, that new
means of concentrating wealth
would be found. He said man’s
inhumanity to man has always
been a factor, but that a so-
' cialist or communist govern-*
: ment would replace freedom
with fear and coercion. He
said greed is not the basic
cause of trouble, but rather the
low production of the worker,
who can be paid only out ol
the product produced. Mr. Wil
son said that management must
provide means for workers to
produce properly, and that in
America, slaves of iron and
steel—machines—have replaced
human slaves. He said Amer
ica has achieved a standard ol
living nine times better than
any other country and was
able to serve as arsenal ot
democracy at the same time.
‘Our political system is the fac
tor that makes the difference,
Wilson said. He said he be
lieves all Americans should do
a better job of praising our
system, should tell the story
of the most rapid improvement
in the standard of living ever
achieved during the past 50
years.
‘Our system has profited all
states, and in the last few dec
ades this includes the South,’
Wilson said. He said some
foreigners and a few Ameri
cans have confused the idea of
social-minded with socialism.
Wilson said he does not take
the position this country is per
fect and could not be improv
ed, but he said the American
system has the means in itself
of bringing about the improve
ments.
Mr. Wilson said the idea that
government can do so many
things better than the people
is wrong, that everything the
government provides must be
paid for. He said the govern
ment turns things back to the
people, but there is usually
‘quite a deficit in the process.’
He said the move in the late
30’s, partly due to the war, of
big government regulation and
control has been ‘the wrong
trend’.”
Mr. Allan B. Kline is a man
of oratorial gifts, though not a
mere word artist. Mr. Kline
spoke with vigor and fervor,
yet gracefully. I quote from
Mr. Kline;
“Citing the Brannon Plan as
costly adventure if attempted,
which seeks to hold prices
down for the consumer and up
for the farmer by paying the
farmer the difference between
what he received and a pre
determined support price, Mr.
Kline asked; ‘Why go to thd
trouble, if you are a taxpayer,
of giving your money to the
Government to pay a part of
your grocery bill? Government
administrative costs are high
and the costs of administration
will be figured in the price you
pay. Why not just go to the
corner grocery and carry your
money with you? It’s simpler
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Those clever people, the milliners, are making* the
choice of a hat an easy matter. They offer them with
front or back interest.
There are the little bonnets that cup the head leav
ing* only a narrow brim to frame the face, or there are
many that have forward-jutting* or scoop brims; sail
ors may be wide at the front and narrow at the back.
In fact, it is purely a matter of selecting the most be
coming.
CARPENTER’S
Charleston’s Huge Camellias Amaze America
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In the camellia-blooming period, now approaching its peak in
the Southland, ‘"The “aristocrat of flowers’* is being seen at its
unforgettable best by visitors to Charleston’s world-famous gardens.
Cypress Gardens, newest of the three great gardens, boasts 300
new varieties planted this year, according to B. R, Kittredge, owner
— many of them quite as blossom-packed as the luxuriant plant
in the middle photograph. »
In both Middleton and Magnolia Gardens, hundreds of the
camellias are more than 100 years did — they are actually “trees”
that you could easily climb!
In recent years, a number of syndicated artists and writers
have been attempting to locate America’s largest camellia — and
to assist in this, a survey has just been completed. The tallest and
largest camellias were found; hitherto unpublished facts were
brought out; and these recent photographs are now published
here for the first time. The “tree” at the left is the tallest^ camellia
in America. It towers 29 feet, 6 inches; the trunk is 50 inches in
circumference; and the spread is 21 feet. It is a John Harvard
variety, with a maroon imbricated flower. C. Norwood. Hastie, Jr.,
of Magnolia is shown beside this record camellia in his renowned
garden — called by John Galsworthy “the loveliest in all the
world.” It was planted in 1843.
From the standpoint of trunk circumference, the tree on the
right is the largest. Its circumference is 63 inches; the spread
is 33 feet; and the height is 21 feet, 9 inches. J. J. PringFe Smith,
owner of Middleton Gardens, is shown pointing to <me of the
thousands of single red blossoms which deck his fabulous tree,
one of the first camellias planted in America
1783-1785. Because of the shape of the trunk, this
is called “Elephant’s Foot.”
Garden lovers who have traveled the world
nowhere else is there such a mass display of
the imagination as at Middleton. You will,
actual “tunnels” of camellia blossoms — o
and on the red carpet of petals in the paths. For
of varieties of choice camellias. Magnolia leads with i
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and cheaper. The logical aim
of America is not to pay part
of everyone’s grocery bill, but
to help those who need help.
Mr. Kline warned that we must
live with Big Government for
some time, but held out the
hope that its powers could be
curtailed through decentraliza
tion. He cited the land grant
college as an example. Sup
ported by Federal grants, but
kept responsible to state and
local people they are adapted
to state and local needs. In
completely centralized agencies,
the temptation to use Federal
employes as a lobbly is over
whelming,’ he continued. ‘This
has nothing to do with the par
ty in power. It is simply the
nature of Government adminis-
tratice agencies. ‘The Ameri
can Farm Bureau is dedicated
to the proposition that agricul
ture can prosper best in a rel
atively free, fully productive
economy. We believe in keep
ing opportunity in agriculture.
We want to maintain an econ
omy in which we can be thor
oughly efficient in producing
for society the things which so
ciety needs from farmers, and
in which the rest of the peo
ple can pay for those things on
the basis of what they are
worth. We hope to preserve
a system of regulated free en
terprise in which farmers and
others enjoy a degree of Gov
ernment protection, but in
which efficiency and achieve
ment, not Government guaran
tees, provide- the hope of the,
individual.”
Harold A. Young would com
bat. the Socialistic urge of the
day. I quote him; “No better
evidence of the accuracy of
such a statement can be found
than the fact that the indivi
dual American buys more than
five times as much cotton per
year as does the average citi
zen of the world. ‘Yet despite
the proven record and obvious
superiorities of the American
enterprise system, we are to
day in grave danger of losing
it to the advocates of an alien
philosophy which would sub
stitute the opinions of bureau
cracy for the judgment of bus
iness management, and politi
cal planning for private enter
prise. The danger is no longer
a matter of foreign political
idealism, soap box oratory or
amusing and harmless screw
balls. • Ideas, plans and pro
grams once associated only
with wild-eyed radicals on
street corners have become
serious proposals agressively
pushed by groups and indivi
duals who occupy positions of
prestige and influence in our
national life.” ‘They are being
introduced in our national Con
gress in the form of specific
legislative proposals inspired
and actively supported by high
administrative officials of gov
ernment.”
Schools and colleges mean
nothing if they teach a man
only to express discontent in
fluent words. Education is
supposed to prepare a man to
use his abilities: that is to rec
ognize Certain aptitudes and
to develop the ability to ac
complish something. We edu
cate men individually; the in
dividual is a unit all to him
self. If he must be one of the
mass, living under mass regi-
mentation we don’t
schools. In Russia a school
science may exist to -of
Government, to serve
mote its policy of co
America a school of
trains a man to be and to
what he can, an individual.
dignity, a man carving his own
future—not the puppet of *
bureaucrat nor the creature
any one’s whim.
No Quail Available
For Distribution
There are no quail avail;
for distribution at present
Newberry County, according to
the Newberry County Wild
Life C6nservation Committee.
The Committee was able to
secure 100 pairs of quail
year. The eggs laid
birds will b e
spring, and thei
tributed when, the
day old, to those
cations. The birds will be
tributed in pairs of 50, in
of applications.
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