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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. r - - - — - ■ -' - . -i ■ — — — ■ ■ ■ - 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 C> THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1850 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. O. F. Arm field Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY read thi^l pay It, news item in “The State” of Columbia: “Truman fights Social Security law amendment.’’ That was the heading. In the news story I read this: “President Truman summoned Democratic congressional leaders to the White House today to urge removal of what he consid ers an objectionable provision in the new Social Security bill. The assignment appeared to be a tough one. The senate and j| house have been at odds for months over terms of the intri cate legislation which would ex pand Social Security coverage and Increase the benefits paid retired oldsters and their sur vivors. A conference committee gave its final approval only yes terday to a compromise version which the two houses had been expected to accept without furth er changes. House Democratic Leader McCormick of Massachu setts. present at the White House conference, reported that Mr. Truman’s main objection is to an amendment sponsored by Sen ator Knowland (R-Calif.). The Knowland amendment would sharply restrict the authority of the secretary of labor to hold back unemployment comensation funds from states which fail to conform with set federal stand ards of administration.” If you have thought over Mr. Truman’s attitude you have another argument for States rights; or a cogent point against the constantly growing Federal invasion of our local rights. You robably know that * the Unemployment tax is a Federal ifkx, though collected by the State. It is not called a M Tax’’ hut a “contribution," which is the same sweetsmelling rose, or, as we might say “it is a horse of the same color; for whether a tax or a contribution it is a compulsory levy and you must . For Export Repair Bring Your Radio GEO. N. MARTIN Radio Service SALES and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Opposite County Library 24 HOURS SERVICE Telephone 311W \ This is the sort of law that directly slaps a State in the face. Instead of playing along with the smart policy-makers of Washington every Congressman should have voted against it. Go to the root of it—and what do you find A Federal tax of three percent on payrolls, all charged against the employer. Being charged entirely against the em ployer, however, is not my point: regardless of who pays it, what Constitutional right had the Fed eral Government to tax virtually every mercantile and industrial establishment in order to set up a fund against unemployment? It has its uses, I well know, but it has its abuses, as I well know. But good or bad why should the Federal government say to the States “We have imposed this tax of three percent on payrolls and you may collect it and send us the money. We will allow' you to draw against a fund of 3- 10 percent for costs of admin istration and the 2 7110 percent we will hold as a trust for your unemployed workers? The State has to beg with hat in hand even for the 3-10 of one percent, though our Commission begged so well last year that it was allowed an automobile for the Commissioners, although the Commissioners do all their com missioning in Columbia. But even though the big wigs of Washington should allow three cars for the three Commis sioners that would only be the proper course, for in this day and time every man, woman and child is supposed to move on wheels—with rubber tires, and with other numerous accessories and gadgets. I think well of our Commiss ion and the Director of that service. They have worked hard to administer a law that is a strange mixture of helpfulness, day-dreaming and utterfoolish ness; and no officials try more diligently to serve all parties than do the officials of the South Carolina Employment Se curity Commission, as it is call ed today. If you want to know how real ly vicious is the Federal author ity sometimes, I recall that a bureaucrat from Washington once remarked to the Commiss ion “If you reject more than two percent of the applications you are out of line.” And what are some of those applications? I shall never forget a case I rep resented before the Commission some years ago. A man re peatedly cautioned about his drinking, was one day so drunk on the Company’s truck that he was wobbling down the highway a menace to all traffic and an enormous risk to his employer. He was dismissed by his employ er but was allowed by the Com mission five dollars a week for eleven weeks, even after all the penalties had been deducted. I think the mere statement of the case is sufficient. You have seen what the Wel fare service is doing, under the compulsion of “Federal Aid.’* If you are not informed, sit outside your Welfare office someday. The Baptist Courier carries an article of great timeliness, be cause the ability to meet people pleasantly is worth developing. I quote in part the article from The Baptist Courier: “A survey made by an Ameri can university revealed that 65 percent of people in all occupa tions fail, not because they lack brains or skill in their vocation, but because of their inability to get along with other people. If you must always ‘speak your mind,’ you won’t get along with people If you can’t take sug gestions gracefully, and appreci atively, but always give them, you won’t get along well with others. If you are sensitive to criticism, you will not be popu lar. If you haven’t a sense of humor about yourself, which means being able to see your own foibes and mistakes and laugh at them just as heartily as you do at those your friends make, you^ won’t be liked. If you are domineering, dictatorial, and insistent on having your own way in the face of other opinion which may be just as good, you won’t be loved. If you can’t be disagreed with without taking the incident as a personal attack, you won’t last long as a popular leader of people. If you can’t take defeat with poise and good will, you will lose your following for people dislike a bad loser. If, on the other hand, you re frain from being too talkative, if you welcome suggestions and criticisms, if your sense of hum or is apparent, if you are self- effacing, ‘in honor preferring’ another, if you have bounce in your soul so that defeats do not keep you down, you will be loved by those with whom you work. Furthermore, if you take a real interest in others, manifesting a genuine concern for whatever is important to them, you will be liked. If you try to im prove the position of others by offering merited compliments, you will bfe cherished. If you are patient with others’ mistakes, willing to give them the bene fit of the doubt, you will be loved for your considerateness If you are humble about your own achievements, proud of those made by others, and insistent that those who have not achieved may yet do so, you will be fol lowed for the courage you im part.’’ breakfast. Must be the war. When I was in France I grew ac customed to that: “It is the war.’’ So the war, some war— must have brought spuds to the breakfast tables of my North ern friends—along with apple pie. I recall the National Demo cratic Convention in ^Philadelphia in 1948_ Major Bill Workman and I had a room together and we teamed up with Alderman Duncan of the Associated Press. Frequently we met Editor Lati mer of The State, Managing Edi tor Henry Cauthen of The Re cord and Brim Rykard. Strang ely I met Brim only at meals, one day wrestling with a plate of spuds for breakfast, but no hominy-grits and ham gravy. Brim was so resolved to prove himself a Philadelphian in Phila delphia that he discarded plates of hot cakes, waffles and muffins and devoted himself energetical- Iv to marmalade and spuds. But back to the rice: No Caro- J.n,an roared for rice: we fought without a flag, as it were. Even George Warren, patriot that he is, and grand battler when a principle is at stake, did not fight for rice. But wedded to rice as my Charleston and Georgetown friends used to be-^—and Beau fort, too—they let the boys and girls of today think that rice is out of date. Well the late Ells worth Huntington was my guest in Peru and told me about rice. Rice, he sai,d is the world’s principal cereal because more food can be produced in the form of rice in a given area than in anything else. It is the uni versal cereal. In Peru rice was served twice every day, every day—for al- muerzp and conida—dinner and supper I was a guest at a din ner in Tembladera and was serv ed six plates, each one with rice. Rice with steak, rice with fried eggs, rice with stew, rice with duck, rice with chicken ,and rice with some kind of sauce. Now* that is what you might regard as a rice meal. On that diet Charleston of today could build as did Charleston of yesterday— orphan houses, opera houses, parks, museums and city hall. Rice, however, is used for scouring carbon from automo bile engines. How does this strike you: “Rice is turning up in an un expected place—the inside of auto engines. It’s there to do a cleanup job. For auto engin eers in Detroit have found a way of using rice to remove car bon deposits from car engines about as quickly as a motorist can get an oil-change and grease PROSPERITY NEWS Miss Shirley Jones and Leon ard Joel Perry both of New berry were married Wednesday, August 9, at the home of Dr. J. B. Harman, D.D. The single ring ceremony was used. Accom- paning the couple were Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Duffie, sister and brother-in-law of the bride. Mrs. Perry is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Joseph A. Perry of 826 O’Neal street, Newberry and received her education in the Newberry city schools. She wore a white silk dress with white acessories. Mr. Perry is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Perry of 2031 Ade laide street, Newberry. He too, received his education in the Newberry city schools. He is em ployed at Boozer’s 3 Point Grocery Store in Newberry^ The couple will live at 2031 Adelaide street. A marriage of cordial interest to the people of Prosperity is job. They say they can do the trick in about 40 minutes, with out removal of the cylinderhead. The technical men have worked up a new machine for the pur pose. With compressed air, it fires hard round rice, grains through the ’Spark plug openings into the cylinder chambers where the gasoline is exploded. The rice ricochets around the cham bers until it chips off all the ac cumulated carbon. Then con tinued air pressure from the machine forces the rice and re sidues out of the engine through the air return hose. The idea was worked out to do away with the present costly, time-consum ing method of removing the cyl inder head and cleaning the com bustion chambers by hand. Tests indicate that carbon removal by the new method gets rid of ob jectionable engine noises and in creases power. It is said some rice particles might remain in the cylinder chambers after cleaning, but they would rapidly dissolve in the engine oil and would not harm either the oil or the engine,.” If our brainy bureaucrats would remember, Spain is the mother country of nearly all the Western World South of the Rio Grande, excepting Brazil—and Brazil is Portuguese—a double- first cousin. Spain may have an un-democratic government, but what about Russia? There is something un<fer cover in Wash ington: What is it? that of Miss Dorothy Lorraine Thompson and George Elbert Counts, Jr. which was solemnized Sunday evening, August 13, at the home of Dr. J. B. Harman, who used the impressive double ring cermony, which was witnes sed by Miss Miriam Hite and Carrol Counts. Mrs. Counts is the daughter of Mrs. James M. Thompson and the late Mr. Thompson of Sea board, N. C.’ She is the grand daughter of Mr. Marion Miller and Mrs. Emma Mayer Miller of Newberry. She is a graduate of the Seaboard High School. For her marriage she chose an olive and lime green dress with which she wore beige accessories and a corsage of pink carnations. Mr. Counts, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Albert Counts, Sr., of Prosperity garduated from the Little Mountain High School. Re served for 3 years in the U. S. Army part of which was spent in the European area. He was a prisoner of war for 9 months. He is employed by the Shealy Motor Company in Prosperity. The couple will make their home in Prosperity. Mrs. Van Long was hostess to the Carl Caughman Circle of the Missionary Socity of Grace Church last Friday afternoon. Mrs. Ozols and Mrs. Ross George were guests. After the program the group showered Mrs. Ozols, who talked to the group of con ditions in her old home and ex pressed appreciation for what the people in the county are doing for them. Mrs. L. A. Fermenter has re turned from the hospital where she underwent treatment for a week. Richard Ross underwent an op eration at Duke Hospital Wed nesday. Mrs. Hunter Fellers is a pati ent in The Columbia Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Will Browne of Cherryville, N. C. visited Mr. Browne’s brother, J. Frank Browne and Mrs. Browne last week. v Miss Ethel Counts is attending Farmers Week at Clemson Col- Miss Linda Hancock returned home this week from a month’s visit with her aunt, Mrs. Hawkins at Rockville, Md. Mrs. Hawkins accompanied her home. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wise have returned to Columbia after a two weeks* visit with Mrs. Wise’s mother, Mrs. t*. J. Fillers. Little Miss Judy Wise remained for a longer visit with her grand mother. Mr. and Mrs. Heyward Singley and their two daughters, Anna Kay and Denby, of Columbia were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Luther. Mr. and Mrs. Webster Domi nick of Philadelphia, Pa., were guests last week of Mr. and Mrs. T. A Dominick. Mrs. L. J. Fellers visited her sister, Mrs. Margaret Rawls in Greenville for a few days last week. Mrs. R. E. Carnes and Miss Willie Wise returned to Jackson ville, Fla., Monday to resume their work in the City schools. Dr .and Mrs. J. B. Harman attended the funeral of J. Wil bur Wheeler at Saluda last Tues day. James Ray Dawkins spent the weekend at Myrtle eBach. Mrs. Daisy Stone is back at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. C Metts, after spending two months visiting her other chil dren. Mr. and Mrs. James Lee Counts and their daughter. Miss Jenny lee Counts spent last week at Edisto Beach. Mrs. Jake Wheeler and her daughter, Margaret are spending the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cockran, in Abbeeville. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bedenbaugh and their son, Maxcy, of Pasa dena, Texas, arrived Friday for a two weeks’ visit with Mr. Bedenbaugh’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Maxcy Bedenbaugh. Miss Mary Bedenbaugh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bedenbaugh, has been with her grandparents for a month. Weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs W. E. Taylor were their son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Loftis and their little daughter Mary Elizabeth. Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Saner were Mrs. Elorse Taylor and children of Charles ton; Mrs. C. L. Wheeler and Miss Elizabeth Murphy of Dillon; Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Smith of New York City; Dr. and Mrs. White and baby of Roanoke, Va.; Mrs. Ernest Dodson and children of Moncks Corner; and G. E. Saner of Charleston. Dr. Cyril Wheeler and his 'sister, Mrs. W. D. Stone went to Philadelphia last week and brought home Major Stone who had been in the Naval Hospital there. Sunday guests of Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Harman were Mrs. John S. Riddle and three children, John- nette, Donald and Linda, Mrs. J. N. Whitehead and two children of Greensboro, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Matthews and J. B. Harman, Jr of Columbia; Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hawkins and children, Mr. and Mrs. Houseal Auton and children of Newberry. DX. KXNNBTH J. FOMBMAN One of the nation’s recognized Biblical authorities writes about JOHN THE BAPTIST in "The Bible Speaks" — THIS WEEK APPLES Starks Red Delicious ready, call 787-J Containers now GEO. E. Off Cut-Off R< DR. R. C. MINOR § OPTOMETRIST IIOOY2 CALDWELL OFFICE HOURS 9 to 12 f to 5:30 , : : X PHONE 268 Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CART E R’S ‘T?v jjp t.u Or Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 1 V .. ■ .■ Do you like rice? In Charles ton rice was served every day at dinner. But dinners were din ners then, not luncheons. In my boyhood in Charleston hominy and hot biscuits for breakfast were as unchanging as rice and meat, potatoes etc. for dinner. Now our Northern friends have become so confused that they have spuds, Irish Potatoes, for lEngraurb Urbbtng Jmntattotta *®at| Up Baft At A ••. .v 43k ' ■ atyp £>mt ODfftrp Jlfyimp X - \ f America 9 * Lowcet-Priced Straight Eight 0 Lowest- JPriced Car with G3§ Hydra-Matic Or ire Optional on all models at extra cost. 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