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THE NEWBERRY SUN
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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.
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
Several items In the newspa
pers Interest me'' very much, in
spite of the heat. This must be
the right time to start the day
on a glass of tomato juice with a
cracker, running about full of
pep until 12 o’clock, then taking
a glass of buttermilk with half
a cracker, winding up the day
with a glass of tea without sug
ar, and a whole cracker. Such a
diet would relieve one of all the
discomforts of being overfed. I
don’t recommend such a plan for
breakfast, dinner and supper, but
I’m merely theorizing at your
expense. Three visits to the ta
ble with light meals of that
sort might bring about a loose
belt, but one couldn’t fight the
battles of life on that food. The
best one could do on that would
be a little shadow-boxing.
If one would meet a real con
tender in the race of life one
must have some eggs and bacon,
some low-country hominy and
some home-made biscuits.
Do you think President , Tru
man could be so ‘‘cocky’* on a
glass of tomato juice? He exclud
ed the Governors of South Caro
lina and Mississippi from the
luncheon he gave to all the
other forty six Governos of the
Union, Republician, Trumanites,
real Americans and otherwise.
That was pitifully small, really
contemptible. All the Senators
and Representatives from South
Carolina and Mississippi should
regard the Truman discourtesy
as an affront to their States.
Hurry Truman probably did not
pay for that luncheon; nor was
it given in a private home. The
gentlemen who were invited were
Governors, invited as Governors,
not as individuals. Now the presi
dent of the United States invit
ed forty six Governors of States,
the affair being paid out of
National funds for entertainment,
but Harry Truman used the
presidency and the occasion to
snub Fielding Wright and Strom
Thunnond. Both Governor Thur
mond and Governor Wright have
been rebuked for the vote of
Mississippi and South Carolina
as some one said of Grover
Cleveland, as I recall, “We love
him for the enemies he has
made.” I ought to explain that
I can remember with some
clarity as far back as the days
of Herbert Hoover;; beyond that
I sometimes depend on Mr. Alex
Salley, who remembers every
thing, from the days when the
memory of man runneth not to
the contrary.
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The papers tell us that the
Washington Federal bureaucracy
plans to investigate the financi
al operations of the States-Right-
ers in South Carolina I dont
know in which bank the so-
called Dixie-crats carry their
overdraft, but I doubt if they
ever had much money. The idea
of an investigation is excellent,
but let’s investigate the Truman
Party and the Colored Party in
South Carolina at the same time.
If the gentlemen of Washington
want light let’s turn it on, all
the light. The South Carolina
Democracy is not well supplied
with money; nor has it ever
been, according to my informa
tion
The next item in the papers
tells us that Mr. Truman urges
the people to elect “real Demo
crats” to Congress. What is a
real Democrat? Did you ever
see a real Democrat? For many
years* I’ve wondered what dis
tinguishes a Democrat from a
Republican and a Socialist. I
mean in practice. I am a Dem
ocrat, because I am not a Re
publican or a Socialist, but I
don’t know just what a Democrat
is supposed to believe. Perhaps
I do; but what does de do about
it? We have National, or Tru
man Democrats, South Carolina
Democrats; then we have hy-
brid-Democrats. If I take Mr.
Truman as a Democrat I find
that he is a consistent spendeh
and high-tax man. I am neither.
As I see it, our country needs
a clean sweep in Washington.
Men have fattened on the pub
lic so many years that they now^
regard themselves as a govern
ing class of special rights and
privileges. Men are thinking up
and proposing all manner of
schemes for the purpose of main
taining themselves in power. Men
use ships of the Navy, planes of
the Air Force, buildings of any
Government service as though
the whole nation were subject
to them and their whims.
I enjoy that young candidate
for the Legislature whom I have
quoted several times. Here he
comes again, in a display ad
vertisement in his county paper:
“Do you know that the total
expenditure of the State Gov
ernment was increased from One
Hundred Seventeen Million Dol
lars ($117,000,000.00) in 1946-47
to One Hundred Sixty-eight Mil
lion Dollars (168,000,000.00) in
1948-49, an increase of Fifty-one
Millions of Dollars ($51,000,000.-
00)? (See State Comptroller Gen
eral’s Report for 1946 and 1947.)
Do you know that a war time
surplus of Thirty-three Million
Dollars ($33,000,000.00) has been
disposed of; that there is a cur
rent operating deficit of approxi
mately Eight Million Dollars
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Number
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Your Savings
Amount to:
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$ 8.34
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NEWBERRY
Federal Savings
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
OF NEWBERRY
J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C.
($8,000,000.00) that the Legis
lature has levied additional mil
lions of dollars of new taxes up
on the people to cover this de
ficit and to continue the exist
ing Orgy of Extravagance and
Unbridled Spending? With this
increase of more than Fifty Mil
lion Dollars (50,000,000.00) in the
annual expense of the State Gov
ernment, DO YOU KNOW WHY?
The income from the Gasoline
Tax has not been supplemented
to increase and hasten the con
struction of the Farm to Market
Hardsurfaced Highways. Do you
appprove of the new one cent
per gallon tax on gasoline which
Is not to be used for Farm to
Market, hardsurfaced highways
but to be used to help cover
the Eight Million Dollar ($8,-
000,000.00) 1950 deficit?
Do you realize that this Foray
into the Field of Gasoline Taxes
for General State Purposes has
broken the Precedent that Gaso
line Taxes must be used only
for Highway Purposes, and that
this diversion of gasoline taxes
threatens the completion of the
State System of Improved High
ways?
Do you agree that it is time
for the people to rid themselves
of some of the political Hacks
and Lame or Dead Ducks who
are responsible for the present
plight of the State’s Finances 1
and the new Tax Burdens laid
upon the sorely burdened backs
of the people?”
another effort to put everything
under the heel of Washington
tax-eaters, the golden-spenden|
of the Truman bureaucracy. Our
thousands of everyday conveni
ences come to us from big con
cerns.
Think Of this:
“Millions of dollars invested
over long periods of experimenta
tion are necessary in the devel
opment of new products. For
example, du Pont spent $43 mil
lion over a period of eighteen
(Continued on page 7)
Did you ever observe how the
General Assembly throws money
around? “The State” published
the General Appropriation Bill in
the issue of June 18th. I sug
gest that you read it. Then you
might ask for an itemized ac
count of such items as “Special
Services for both Houses $8,100.”
Senate Approved Accounts $50,-
000, together with Approved Ac
counts for 1949-1950 — $35,000.
Now what is all this? Let’s
have the items—$85,000 for Ap
proved Accounts for the Senate.
Also I find Approved Accounts,
House of Representatives, $50,-
000. As you know, this is over
and above and^ beyond all pay
and allowances of members.
Reading in detail the General
Appropriation Bill it permits the
impression that the public money
is not spent prudently, frugally.
I’m being very mild: I think
the State spends with a lavish
hand.
By the way, I am hopeful that
the Co-ops and our Santee-Coop-
er and private power brethren
will find a way to solve all our
problems. The report that the
private power enterprises are
fighting the Co-ops, as Co-ops,
is, of course, not correct. There
is a matter of policy involved,
but nobody is fighting.
Why does the Government at
tack big business? The effort
of the Governmet to compel the
General Electric Company to do
away with a large part of Its
business is an astonishing bit of
bureaucratic tyranny that is just
Letter From S. C. Medical Body
South Carolina Medical Association
N. B. Heyward, M. D., Secretary
COLUMMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
June 30, 1950
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Mr. O.'F. Armfield
Newberry Sun
Newberry, S. C. %
Dear Mr. Armfield
So much attention has been given in the Senatorial campaign to the
appointment of Dr. T. C. McFall, Charleston Negro physician, to the
Hospital Advisory Council of the South Carolina Medical Association,
that the undersigned officers of the Association are glad to correct false
impressions concerning it.
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Dr. McFall was elected to the Hospital Advisory Council by the South
Carolina Medical Association, upon recommendation of the Charleston
members.Under State law, the Governor appoints upon the recom
mendation of the South Carolina Miedical Association and he had no
choice in the matter.
Therefore, any attacks directed at Governor Thurmond alleging that
he made this oppointment of 'his own choice are false. We sincerely
hope your newspaper will publish this letter and correct such impress
ions.
Sincerely yours,
S. C. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
W. R. Tuten, M. D., President
N. B. Heyward, M. D., Secretary.
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Congressional District
The conflict between my official duties and cam
paign obligations has made it impossible for me to
see and confer with as many of you as I would
have done otherwise, for I have endeavored to attend
to my duties in Washington with as little interfer
ence as possible. However, during the campaign, I
have undertaken on the stump and through the
press to explain my position on matters to be con
sidered in the next congress.
I have not tried to be spectacular, because I learn
ed before going to congress that big-talk or grand-
stand-playing do not make a successful congressman.
On the contrary, it takes thinking, real thinking,
sound thinking, conscientious thinking, hard work,
and courageous convictions to become an influential
congressman, which has been the height of my
ambition and the objective in my work.
I have endeavored to display these political vir
tues ^hiring my short service in the congress, and
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successful I have been in these efforts.
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c4n open Utter to the
citizens oi South Carolina
Spartanburg, S. C.
July 6, 1950
Dear Fellow Citizens:
Our response to my candidacy for the nomi
nation of the Democratic Party of South Caro
lina for the office of Governor of our beloved
State has been gratifying. Although I have
no campaign organization as such, loyal friends
have worked unceasingly in my behalf. For
that I wish to express my humble thanks in
these closing days of the campaign.
The difficult days ahead will require all citi
zens to give their best thoughts to public affairs
and to participate actively in the efforts to
bring about better government. South Carolina
needs leaders of experience, ability and vision,
men who have no ambitions and no desires be
yond the betterment of their State.
I have no further political ambitions. I
have no desire other than to work for the im
provement of South Carolina. If elected your
Governor, I will devote the next four years of
my life to that cause.
I urge you to vote in the primary next Tues
day.
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