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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 The “under-dag” has become a roarmg lion. During all the ages since Adam’s tragic fall ' there have been some men who “got ahead,” advanced more rapidly than their brothers. Sometimes the prosperity of the fortunate was based in part on scheming, ^chicamery or open, arrogant rascality. But men of all ages have had ambition to climb the ladder; and. some times the new climbers were the worst of all. They forgot all their scruples and complaints when they rose to the level of the top rank. But something else was seen: in every gener ation many men rose from pov erty and obscurity to the high est levels. Brains seemed to be worth a fortune. ■Not aH men of brains became rich however! At no time have we been able to make all in tellectual men rich or famous. Just what it is that makes one man prosperous in business and another man a failure isn’t al ways easy to point out. Some business failures are diligent, i hard-working men, careful, thrifty, frugal and possessed of all the virtues. Life’s reward to them must be in spiritual values; and who can say that in the final account before the Great Judge they may not have the lasting crown, the im perishable rewards? Life among men is a slow process of improvement; in America, for example, -the stan dard of living has moved up ward steadily and today wa live so well that the remark of the Scotch lady to me is in creasingly true: “Oh, you Am ericans have so much”! So we have, but how did we get it? Our great factories: were they given to us by the Govern ment, or by any other nation? Is our soil richer than that of other lands? Are our people stronger, more intelligent, more diligent than the people of other nations? Perhaps a third of all our people are sons and daughters of those who came to this coun try since the days of Grover i Keep these moments alive forever with some fine, photographs. We invite you to visit our air-conditioned studio and choose the styles and groupings you perfer Nichols Studio Cleveland; and two-thirds of those who are today Americans are descendants of men and wo men who came to this land of opportunity since the Civil War. All the rest of us are from those who came over since 1607 at Jamestown, allowing for about a million who camt over on the Mayflower and landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620, counting all those who proudly claim that noble ances try So 'We are all immigrants if we go back a few genera tions. except for the Indians. So far as I recall our great in dustries were not built or plan ned by the Indians. Not even the hustle and bustle of Rock Hill. South Carolina, nor the wealth in her -banks, can be credited to the Oatawba In dians who live on a reserva tion nearby. So America is the land of immigrants, even more than the “Land of the Pilgrims’ prids.” Why did the immigrants do so well here? Could they not have done as well in England, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Ger many, FVance, Poland, Italy, Russia and the other countries? Aren’t they the • same people whether in Europe or America? What about resources? Is this a more fertile soil than Mexico, Central America, Soifth America or Cuba? Is our su periority based entirely on cli mate? I think my ten years in South America will permit me to guess that if George Washing ton, Thomas Jefferson Benja min Franklin and aH those oth er stalwart early Americans had been transplanted to Cuba or Mexico or Venezuela the bounty of nature would have been equal to that enjoyed here. Well, if America is not due to superior soil, nor more fruit ful land, why does it surpass all other nations of all time? It isn’t our pre-eminent genius, because we are the same blood and bone and brain as the oth ers, be in their flesh and blood. Certainly the conditions of liv ing have been fruitful in a flo wering genius. Men have had a chance hare. The greatest Corporation in the world publishes with pride that ail its top-executives rose from the ranks: they are sal aried men, employees, even though of top rank. But look around you: we have many successful men, though few have colossal fortunes. Thi r man who owns his store or farm is a man who has fought his way up. And the others many others, in positions of trust, -are men of success. I know some South Carolina bankers, insurance men, law yers, doctors, pharmacists—and others—who have breasted the waves and swum ashore. For fear that not all my friends are hardy seamen, I mean that they have succeeded. I like to think of the two lads, one from the Friday, may 12, i960 farm in Iowa, the other from the sandhills of Edgefield, who went to the thriving centers and by their resourceful minds and unresting toil became notable examples of American success, a success not only in material wealth but in citizenship. But the America which pro duced such men and offered such opportunities is not good enough for seme bright minds of today; today those men would change everything and make the Government the source of Capital. That, you know, is Socialism. The word “Socialism” need not scare us so much as the fact of Social ism, the actual Socialism in be ing today are rapidly expand ing. Don’t be deceived by the words of politicians; every time the Government supplies the -money we are having a bit of Socialism. Well, what is wrong with Socialism? Don’t be for or against something without knowing what it is* If the Government puts up the money, who will have the final decision? The Government. Who is the Government? An army of bureaucrats in Washington, with agents riding all around. Have Government projects been a success? No; I need hardly argue that. Wlell, if the Gov ernment is a political body, operated by and for and with politicians, do you expect it to be operated like a real -busi ness? No; the taxpayers will cover up all the blunders by paying more taxes. If the Government takes charge it will level us off, as they say—put us all on thf same footing, probably keeping us all at the foot. Of course the bureaucrats would be over everything, and over us. For years this Socialism has been tried in parts of Europe—-but America is sending biMioms ove$ there every year. They have brains in Europe, why are they so destitute? Think over that. Some countries have today, or did have, a despotic Govern ment, what we used to call a tyranny, government by tyrants. What is their condition? Yet hundreds of thousands of men are stealthily trying to under mine America so as to make her like those despotic and des titute lands across the water. What are they driving at? They are hoping to have the cower ; m their hands. They will feed us, build hydro-electric plants, spend billions on so-called nav igation schemes; they will pay pensions, give handouts, lend money almost for nothing: they will do almost anything — to win us, so that we shall be lulled into a sort of hapey slumber. All to win us and they will have the power. All this they do with the taxpayers’ money. The use our money to beguile us. The hunger for power is ram pant in Washington. The Pres ident wants more power: even is stretching the powers of his office. The Federal Courts want more power; and quietly arro gate it themselves. The Con gress wants more power and has blindly followed the lead ership of the Administration- in to many fields properly within their province. So today Exe cutive usurpation is supported by the Congress and buttressed by the Federal Supreme Court. That is our condition -today. Do you accept it quietly and casu ally? “I won’t worry about this a hundred years from now,” or something like that was sung on a radio s$me days ago. Well, that is true; You and I won’t worry about Socialism and Communism a hundred years from now. And if a plunder ing invader or local revolu tionists should dig up our bones and scatter them all about we shall not worry, for I’ve seen the bones and skulls taken from graves in Cuba and thrown on the ash heaps. But the dead bodies didn’t worry. So if you and I are 'willing to sell, or give away, our country, we won’t worry, a hundred years from now. But I think .with pride and gratitude of those men of a. hundred and sixty seven years ago who received a trea ty ftom King George the Third, recognizing the independence of thirteen States, the real le al foundation, of the Sovereign dignity of the t States. This great country is largely the re sult of the work of those hard ly and resolute spirits: and what a debt we owe to the men and women who toiled and sacrificed for what we en joy today, those thousands of brave spirits, unsung, bpt whose lives were lived in those sacri ficial days which we forget. As Kipling sang; “Lord, God of hosts, be with us yet, lest we forget, lest w© forget.” A hundred years from now W won’t worry, but your great grandchild may worry. We may pass the buck, but some one will have to catch him by thd horns and hold him. Ever think about wax? About 4,200 B.C. the Egyp tians were using the oldest known kind of wax, to preserve mummies. Consider, for ex ample, wax for bananas, now being tested by a large gro cery chain. Sprayed on the yellow fruit, this secret mixture makes it ripen more slowly. The grocery oomcem finds this increases the store life of ban anas to seven 4 or eight days from the normal five or six. A leading maker of wax emulsions makes a special wax which helps asbestos shingles resist weather and repeal wa ter. Tooth paste tube makers are cutting their number of re jects with the help of wax used as a lubricant on the alumi num slugs from which the tubes are punched. One wax mixture keeps synthetic rubber- gaskets from 'sticking together. Another works well as a gas ket in soil pipe. And in the past two or three years, some 350 to 400 furniture makers have begun using a polish bas ed on wax instead of oil. The wax polish doesn’t pick up dust in retailers’ show rooms and won’t cloud the finish. These commercial waxes are largely produced 1 as by-prod ucts. Paraffin: and 1 the hard but flexible miorocrystalline waxes, for example, are among the crude oil derivatives. Then there’s a sugar cone wax, one produced from fir bark, and at least ’two derived from animals slaughtered for meat. The food industry’s growing appetite for wax is one of the biggest things behind the doub ling in wax consumption in the past decade. Those paper milk bottles that hav-e become so commonplace take huge quan tities of paraffin. Equally important for wax producers is the rising number of waxed paper packages your edibles come in these days. Frozen foods, baking mixes, boxed fresh produce such as tomatoes and limes are all tak ing a growing amount of wax. A polsh-maker makes one for potatoes. In addition to making the potato handsomer, the coating makes spuds keep longer. “It puts 30 to 45 days on the life of a sweet potato,” says George Peterson. “Un- Waxed, they often spoil in three on* four weeks.” ' BYRNES, NOT PLAYING 'CIRCUS' TOUR, MAY KILL OLD SYSTEM Columbia, May 2—Decision by James F. Byrnes not to participate in ’ the county-to co unty speaking itinerary was seen by political observers to day as sounding the death kneel for that amtiquate system of political campaigning in South Carolina. It was repotted here that Justice Byrnes, a candidate for governor, will attend few, if any of the 46 scheduled speak ing dates. ■Whether a candidate follows the tour is optional this year, and Byrnes plans to us^ the radio and other means to reach the people with his message rather than waste time at county seat .meetings usually attended by only a handful of people. EXTRA!! EXTRA!! 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