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- - " i THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JUNE 2, I860 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. O. 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. because his health is not robust. That is something that marks Mr. Daniel as an old-timer, a man reared with scrupulous re gard for his obligation to earn nis official pay. Thai is not the practice of today, however; ac cording to the new practice, Mr. Daniel should hold on until the last gasp. Behold a-man! COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR “We are going crazy,” said a legislator to me. The gentle man talking to me is a member of the House of Representatives of our General Assembly, bur Legislature in Columbia, a member of many years of ser vice, a quiet man who knows all the ins and outs, but never changes from the serious pur pose, to serve the people, not only faithfully but intelligently. In the confusion that we see 1 in Columbia it is frequently forgotten that there are still men whose heads are level. I admit that' they are rare; but there are some; and they do their best, but are lost in the shuffle and scuffle for political capital. What is wrong with the Leg islative? Sometimes I think the Legislature is a fair sam ple of the wild and reckless spirit that rules today. Some times I think we are all crazy; at other times I think we have lifted insanity to a place of dig nity and respectability so that a really sane man appears to be a crank. In a day of low principle, or no principle, wq have raised the practice of “gunme” to the level of states manship. Robert Bunns whose poems sing of hard sense sometimes, the practical side of the vision ary, remarks of the frills and foibles “The man of indepen dent mind, he looks and laughs at a ; that.” * Perhaps he does, but it is an expensive laugh, for the frills, foibles and fool ishness of men are the order of the day. I said mem but I am not blind, deaf or unobserv ant. , If the 1950 session of the Leg islature is up for criticism; if the Free Conference report on the Appropriation bill were be fore us for study, I would sug gest that any ten members of the General Assembly could do much 'better than the achieve ment of one hundred and sev enty. You could pick at ran dom ten members of the hun dred and seventy and be sure of better work. We have men of brains and men of character in the Legis lature. Th^y are sound men at home, most of them, men en gaged in business, farming, or the practice of law, most of them, but the mass psychology, group influence, crowd action, seems to roll the majority into a condition 'like a batch of bis cuit dough vitiated by a little garlic. If you like garlic—well then you like garlic. Some people like snails, others enjoy the tail of an allligator. By the same token, some may applaud this Legislature. The old Latin proverb De gusiibus non dis- putandum certainly applies. (Concerning tastes there is no disputing.) America is being governed by people who own nothing. In their blind foolishness they think they pay no taxes. But no man escapes. Even if you own neither land nor houses, neither stocks nor bonds, you still eat and wear clothing; you still are caught in the net. But you feel the tax load more when you call on the City and County Treasurers, the State Tax Commission and the Col lector of Internal , Revenue. Even though you do not know a City Treasurer, nor a County Treasurer; though you may not have met the affable gentlemen of the Tax Commission office nor the patient, helpful deputies and accountant of our hand some and engaging Collector of Internal Revenue, there is a big tax on your car; and hundreds of other taxes which are a part of everything, even down to baby oil. Sometimes I wonder if the Government will prod us as 1 the Englishmen were prodded in the days of old Henry VII of England, whose Minister, Mor ton, exacted heavy donations known as Benevolences. If you lived well he said that your style, your manner of living, proved that you had money and could make a heavy donation; but if you didn’t “'put on airs,” didn’t make a show, didn’t move in splendor, you could pay the Benevolence because you fc*d all the money still in your nands. If you don’t spend it, you still have it. As you know, that was long before thq dollar-down-and-'lay-it-away en abled us to strut like peacocks, on easy credit. I wondej at times if the schemers and plan ners at the side of Mr. Truman are descendants of Cardinal Morton; spiritually, I mean. John M. Daniel, the Attorney General of South Carolina, is an unusual man; he has always been unusual. About twelve i years ago he declined expense money, and other official bait, becauiste it was unconstitutional. M!r. Daniel found that in the Constitution, but few others seemed to know about it. Now Mir. Daniel retires from office You’re So Right, Dorothy By DOROTHY DIX The reason there are not more kind, generous, sympa thetic people in the world is because you can’t be kind, generous and sympathetic to anybody once, and then bet done with it. You, have to make a continuous perform ance of it. The minute you begin to help an individual he gets out his marking iron and brands you as his goat. Lend your automobile to a friend one time, and ever after he feels privileged to use it when he wants it, and he soon considers that you are imposing upon him when you use 'the oar yourself. Donate $50 to a charity, and they assess you a hundred' dollars for it the next time they make up their budget. Xt is things like these that turn the milk of human kindl iness in our breasts* into ice cream, and that makes us dare not extend a helping hand to those in trouble for fear they will turn into old men of the sea who will climb on our (backs and of whom we cannot rid ourselves. It would seem that gratitude would make those to whom we have been kind show their appreciation by forbearing to trouble us further and make 'them mark Soane other in dividual for their victim the next time they were staging a hold-up. Not so, however. Not at all so. The very fact that we have shown ourselves easy marks makes us their perpetual target. You pay a poor widow’s, rent for her for a few months. She doesn’t say: “Mr. A has been so kind and generous to me that I will not impose upon his liberality any far ther. I will hustle around and try to get the money my self, and, if I can’t, I will ask somebody else to help me out” Oh, no. Haying once paid her rent, the poor widow not only expects you to do it until the end of the chapter, but soon begins to complain because the house isn’t in a better neighborhood, and has not pink bathtubs. There is not truer saying than that if you lend a friend mloney you lose your iriend and your money both and that ds what makes many of us who would like to help a friend) over a hard place snap shut .the padlock on our pocket- books. For well we know that when the time comes to pay John won’t think how good and kind we were to lend him. the money. He will think what Shy locks we are to make him return it. How would you like an ash tray produced from pigs’ toe nails? Well, here’s what they cell us: The big meat-packers used to use everything of the pig but me grunt, as I recall, but h appears that they threw away me toe-nails of the grunter. ihey are now ground up into powder; and the packers hope to make a plastic molder to use the powdered toe-nails. Another laboratory job is to examine a slice of frozen 'beef, a millionth of an inch thick, to determine how to make beet tender. *1 hope they succeed in tenderizing ail beef, even if the ox has just made a cotton crop on sandy land; but I’m alarm ed about the price of beef a millionth of an inch thick. I nope the restaurants won’t ex periment with it. As a loyal friend and neigh bor of Sumter I held .back something which I may now reveal: We Americans are us ing three billion razor blades a year. Of course that was when Sumter men were also among the buyers—and shav ers. In recent weeks the sales nave probably fallen off badly. However, now that Sumter has discarded whiskers and re-en tered the market for razors and blades, the demand for shaving equipment is 'bound to be enormous. I wonder how much soap and how many blades will be necessary to transform, ox restore, a be-whiskered Sum- terite into a youthful face again. It will tax the family budget. thousand small investors. Well, if we overtax industry; if we stab it in the back by Government competition, the Government will really be stif r ling its own small investors. And if these private Companies fail, who will pay the taxes? I read recently how much some of the companies pay in taxes. It 19 astonishing. We are fi nancing America, and much of the world, on taxes, principally by great enterprises. But the State of South Carolina also uses that money to help its schools. The legislators of recent years have understood that our need- of the moment is to provide for the ever-growing poppulation; and this' new attitude has 'been a great factor in soliciting new enterprises. We do not lose sight of the many millions of dollars spent by the industries which have been oqr mainstay during the years. Without any facts to guide me, my impres sion is that more money has been spent on expansion of ex isting indlis tries within recent years than has 'been spent by new enterprises. In welcoming the new-comers we remember the friends who have stood by us all the years—and still stand by us. It is a problem: to provide for all the young people who seek work each year. The State must grow economically is surely as the lads grow into manhood, as they pass from boyhood and school days to become self-reliant workers and producers. FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. Eleazer All Together The fertilizer folks of the Hate are meeting at Clemson July 12-13. This includes the manufacturers, dealers, and iialesmen. They have decoded that their entire program of lectures, dis cussions, and tours wdM hinge on the subjects of pastures and com. v This is in tune with the times in South «Carolina. A few years ago -the “Clemson Plan” for producing com • and pastures was carried from the proven experiment to the field demon stration in ail counties jby the county agents. The SCS men aided a lot with the latter, and jhe teachers of agriculture in stilled both ideas into the youth in the classes. And 1 the fertilizer folks 'too are an important part of this modem awakening. And they show their interest by schedul ing! an entire annual meeting to a consideration of grass and com in' the new light. We are importing about sev en hundred and fifty thoysand barrels of oil, or petroleum, a day. The Oil Companies want imports restricted; so do the coal miners; so do the rail roads. But gasoline is going up; we are paying more for it. What is the trouble? No one should want tq cripple our oil companies, but not one wants the oil companies to cripple us, either. Oil is not controlled like electric power, by numer ous price-fixing bureaucrats; nor do I advocate such controls or price-fixing; but it would be more 'the American way, to produce the gasoline and widen the’ market by reducing the price, if necessary, rather than to maintain a price scale arti ficially by agreement. A lay man is hard put to it to under stand why we shut down, or limit, our producing wells, while importing oil and advanc ing the price. We need not wonder, however, for our Leg islature endorses glamorous and grandiose schemes of highway spending, while telling the farmers there is no money for his dusty or muddy roads. The Highway money is one fund that could be used strictly according to what is on hand and what has to be done. Ap parently the garment is not cut according to the cloth: it al most looks like a 'beautiful coat and no pants. The State of Pennsylvania is advertising extensively. That rich State, already a State of great industries and colossal wealth, wants more industries. What about Sbuth Carolina? If We have two hundred thous and more population than we had ten years ago that means about fifty thousand more fam ilies. And: we have new indus tries and greatly expanded in dustries which have been with us for years. Pennsylvania, as a State, ran a big advertisement in New York, telling of the great de- ) velopment of the power busi ness by private investment. Says the Pennsylvania adver tisement: “In the six-year per iod (1946-51) the electric pow er industry is adding fifty one per cent to its generator ca pacity.” And it continues: “Why all this new power?” And it gives as a reason, the investments in new and ex panded factories. It takes money to do that and it takes time to prepare for new business. And it takes what we call the "Know-how." In South Carolina we have enough power today and in prospect, for hundreds of new factories and thousands of new homes. We need a program of cooperation so that all the pow er may be used constructively; but that means that power is a constantly growing business. It needs a lot of new money, fresh capital, in order to prepare for growing business. Who is the power Company? I asked that one day. The verb “is” is en tirely wrong, for the men and women whose money, whose savings, make even the mam moth corporations, are thous ands and thousands. Some have an investment of $500; some $250; some $2000; but the Com pany is the sum total of the money 'put into it by many thousands of people who drew out their savings and bought stock. The great Steel Company does not belong to a dozen or a hundred millionaires. It be longs to about two hundred LUCKY 13 At Fort Benning, Georgia, the 13th paratrooper to jump from a plane fell 1,000 feet to the ground when his ’chute failed, and walked away unhurt. Such luck! Your lucky day will be the'day you decide to let us finance your next new car. We give our custo mers every consideration. PURCELLS u Y0UR PRIVATE BANKER” Phone 197 WANTED Two young married men, 25-45, who have ambi tious plans and hopes for their, and their family's future; who are seriously interested in making some thing of themselves; who want a lot of things their present or previous job doesn’t offer; who will work without watching. You are urged to write Box 5112, Columbia, S. C., giving essential details—a car is necessary. This is a "permanent job in which men are really finding a secure financial future right from the stat. Interviews promptly and openings are available how. Atheys INTERIOR GLOSS FINISHES AM Beauty to- It ouo HOME! rA NT HURT AN v X£V«.” For walls and woodwork! 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And' 'he also spent some tame in the state 4-H office here at Clemson and in the district and Winthrop offices. 9 , Farm Safety - The 4-H girlsi, as well as the boys, are participating in the farm safety program. Movie shows by the county agents and programs carried out in then 4 regular 4-H meetings point out common hazards on the farms. In Marion county 108 4-H girls located and corrected 852 accident hazards on their home farms. Many of the simple things that could easily Lead to serious farm accidents' had nev er occurred to them until they were pointed' out in the movie and in their club meetings. 'Then they went about correct ing them. All 4-H Clubs have a similar program on farm safety. And the boys -and girls .are further taught it at their summer camps 'beginning now soon. Boys Ax© That 'Way It was about the first of June, and on a'Saturday after noon Lattikoo was playing our team, Spring Hill. We took our 'baseball seriously, and a big crowd, perhaps 100 folks were out for if. It was staged 1 down in our pasture, as usual. And Zeke, my little colored play mate, and I were minding the break in the rail fence so the sows wouldn’t get out. ' About the seventh inning, we heard a commotion down there on the field and left our post and drifted down there to sed what it was. Men were laugh ing so you could have heard it plumb down oh the creek. And the ladies stood in an embar rassed clulp near third base. What had happened was this. It was the second game of the season and they hadn’t gotten the weeds trampled down much. They got Cousin Bob trapped between first and second base. He was the fastest thing on our team. He played back and forth, as they pitched the ball from one to the other, trying to ratoh him. The first base- man juggled the ball a bit and Cousin Bob, as quich as a flash, lit out and slid into what hq thought was second base. Well sir, that all but ended the game. When I got down there he was over there in the ditch back of first base wash ing off a bit in a wafer hole. 7 And while all of that was happening, the oows % got out of that 'unguarded break irl the fence, and* were • taking our com, row by row, when we noti ceddf. Most of the folks left the game and helped drive the cows back. I was running away around the edge of the field to ead’em off and step ped on a thorn that put me out of the chase. Cousin Ed out it out of my'tough foot with the sharp knife he always kept, and someone oeeled a leaf of tobacco from their plug an ^ slapped that o 'er it, tied »t with a handkerchief and all was well. . After .the game was over we fixed the fence back and all went home feeling that we had bad a better than usual Satur day afternoon outing. For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio GEO. N. MARTIN . Radio Service SALES and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Oppoaii© County Library , 24 HOURB SERVICE Telephone 311W wmmmmammmmmmammammmpmmmmmmmmmmmmmamrnm 7 More Freezers On The Way * i . ' »• V V'* iT v ■ ' . : **V- ..**’*, ■ i That big bargain we offered in Dolly Madison Freezers completely wiped us out in a few days. ’ ' t We have more of them on the way and hope to tell you in this space next • ' j week that they have arrived. You will want one of these fine Freez- I ers at COST. Watch for announcements. -FARMERS ICE & FUEL CO. . TELEPHONE 155 . ’ GEORGE MARTIN, Manager JOURNEY INtO TOMORROW Carried by sfream or tide or wind, the seeds of a forest tree may travel many miles before they find a haven where they may begin their useful lives. Once they have rooted and sent their green sprouts searching for the sun light, their mission becomes that of all trees*—to serve mart. Some serve through sheltering man and his pos sessions. Some give us food. Others serve their great est purpose in the beauty they contribute to our lives. But most trees serve man through the production of 4 most essential commodity—wood. Trees, like most growing thing., come into the world td grow, mature and die, and in death are*replaced by others of their (find to which they have given life. Be cause of this cycle—because forests replace themselves— the forest industries of America speak of "trees as a crop." They encourage private owners of forest lands to manage their trees for increased growth and improved quality. They support an educational program that is helping Americans to grow trees as a cash crop—to "tree farm" for wooo. Such a management >plan calls for t!i© harvesting of the inherent wealth of our timber lands while, through good forest practices, we grow new forests of trees *or tomorrow.. Fairfield Forest Products Co. N«wb«rry, South Carolina