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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.
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Working together like that
hastens results.
They Like 4-H
Miany countries of the world
have sent folks here to study
our 4-H Club set-up for work
ing with farm youngsters. And
some of them have then set up
similar work.
For the past few months Cu
ba has had its representative
here. Two months of that
time was spent in South Caro
lina. He spent time with the
county and home agents of Lan
caster, Florence, Marion Orange
burg, and Abbeville counties
seeing just how they handle
this work with farm young peo
ple. 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.
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More Freezers
On The Way
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That big bargain we offered in Dolly
Madison Freezers completely wiped us
out in a few days.
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We have more of them on the way
and hope to tell you in this space next
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week that they have arrived.
You will want one of these fine Freez-
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ers at COST. Watch for announcements.
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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