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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
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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
.
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\ 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
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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
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