Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1950 . 1218 Collegre Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Arm field 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. KEEP YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND Excessive buying is gradually diminishing. With a little re flection it is easy to see why. Concern over the grim head lines of recent weeks simply caused a lot of people to lose perspective. Indisputable facts meant little—such as booming consumer goods production and soaring agricultural statistics. Meat is a good illustration. Ab normal demand has showed up some prices but there is no shortage. Within a matter of weeks the biggest pork crop in history will be moving to market. And beef supplies are abundant. Meat consumption is one of the best indications of a nation’s living standard. Here again the figures should help wary con sumers get their feet back on the ground. The average family of four in this country eats eleven pounds of meat a week which takes about five hours of the breadwinner's pay. In Rus sia. by way of contrast, one would have to work 35 hours to pay for the same amount of meat, if were available. One very good reason why we have not had serious shortages of necessities in the United States is our free competitive system under which all business, big and little, operates. Where- ever there is a consumer need, it immediately becomes good business for someone to meet that need at a competitive price. While meat cannot be manu factured like automobiles and toothbrushes, meat producers and packers are compelled by the same natural laws governing other free enterprise to do their utmost to satisfy consumer de mand. - These are some of the rea sons why housewives in our country do not need to scramble for goods. There is more than enough of everything. Practicl- Ty any other nation in the world would consider itself well off in deed if it had half the abundance of this country. at; FREEZER LOCKER Paper Free zer Containers, Freezer Jars, also regular Fruit Jars, Tops, Rubbers, Ice Cream Cones, Oyst er Containers, Drinking Cups, Paper Plates, Spoons, Forks. R. Derrill Smith and Son, Inc. Wholesale Grocers, Newberry, S. C. 18-1t. WHERE DO YOU STAND? Basically there are but two philosophies. One sets out the citizen above the state—that is what we have had in this coun try under our representative from of government. The other sets the state above the citizen and results in the oppression that has bedeviled the human race throughout the ages. Cur rently, socialism and communism represent the ultimate in the latter philosophy. That is why present-day planners who advo cate greater and greater govern ment domination over the indi vidual avoid these names like the plague. They promote gov ernment ownership of industry, they endorse compulsory medical taxes, they tour the country at the taxpayers’ expense in sup port of Federal power “authorit ies” and constantly harp on the theme that the capabilities of private industry are inadequate. Their program from start to finish is socialism, and yet if it is so defined they cry “libelous.” Regardless of the sensitivities of the disguised socialist, it is of the greatest importance to define his aims. If this country is to abandon the system of govern ment upon which k was founded, let’s do it deliberately, not by subterfuge. In an outstanding editorial the American Druggist declares: “Up to now no im portant politician has openly asked us to choose between de mocracy and socialism or some other kind of statism, but we are being urged to support cani- dates for Congress who favor po litical programs that definitely express much more faith in gov ernment control than in the in dividual character and ability of the average citizen. “If we have come to the con clusion that the individual pro blems of most people are too much for them, and that the only hope is in a benevolent government, then let us set up a super government... . but let us do it with our eyes open. On the other hand, if we still be lieve that the only real security for any citizen is his individual freedom of opportunity, it is our conviction that the time has come to stand up and declare ourselves...” IMPRESSED WITH OUR MILITARY During the first weeks of the Korean war Americans were stunned by the tragic inade< quacy of our forces and equip ment. Many felt a personal re sponsibility for the needless loss of life. It was a healthy am well-founded reaction which wil lead to correction of mistake^ and weeding out of inept of ficials. There are already en couraging signs of improvement. John Osborne, Time and Life senior correspondent in the Pa cific, writes: “The American ef fort and the American soldier in Korea are magnificent. Doubt less we could and should have been better prepared. But.. today we have in Korea more men and more arms than we sent to the invasion of North Africa in November of 1942, eleven months after Pearl Harbor.” Intelligence reports received in Washington indicate that the evident military ability of thd country to cope with the com munists in Korea has impressed the countries of Southeast Asia. Applications for communist party membership are dwindling and pictures of the communist lead er Mao Tse-tung are disaffpearing from shop windows. Even more encouraging is the opinion of authorities on the mystery of why Russia has not moved into outher areas while the United States has its hands full in Korea. They point out that we have in readiness, prepared to strike with hair-trigger swiftness, a fleet of more than 2,000 Ain Force bombers able to carry atom bombs within a matter of hours to every major city in Russia. And we have the bombs to do the job. If the opinion of these authorities is correct, this factor, plus an in dustrial production potential of near astronomical proportions, has checked Russia for the time being. Another element of strength that is not fully appreciated is the growing efficiency and pro ductive capacity of American agriculture. Food is a mighty weapon and our farms are pro ducing it in record quantities. The magazine Country Gentle man recently described what has been happening on the farm: “Ever since the end of World War II, farmers have been turn ing out, year after year, nearly a fourth more than in the year of Pearl Harbor, and it’s hard to picture the peaks to which farm output might be pushed under necessity. Leading agri cultural scientists now believe that the output of the farm plant of the United States could be doubled by putting to use all the production knowledge we now have.... “Significantly, the great up surge in farm production during and since World War II came about with only a minor increase in- acreage harvested.. .Further more, the gains were made in a period when farmers had fewer workers than prewar.” With all our prodigality, we are demonstrating as never be fore the achievements attainable by free men. It is these achieve ments that are now being felt in Korea and that are earning the re spect of other nations—includ ing Russia. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR A-t Key’s on base FLAT WALL PAINT uuiUtluU JduxtiSuf, JlooJz! iM I ' 4 \ \ l W' mm Kl • 50 Shades from Pastels to Deep Tones • Insist on ATHEY’S Manufactured by IHC C. M. ATHEY PAINT CO., BAITIM0RE 30, M0. You can't hurt an A they surface! m m ■m FLAT WALL PAINT R. M. Lominack Hardware The ladies are full of sur prises, as you may know. As I was leavingi, a telephone in Charleston a lady at the desk said “lunderstand that you are a teacher, so won’t you explain something to me?’’ That car ried a fine tribute to teachers—• that we must know quite a lot. However, my teaching days are over and I no longer can claim the learning and wisdom that the lady credited to the teaching profession. Now here is what she wants to know: Why we per mit Communists to hold public positions in the United States. I wonder about that, too. If any one can enlighten us we should be grateful. By the way, what is a Com munist, or who is a Communist? We take for granted that the Russians are Communists, though only six million Bolshevists gov ern a hundred and eighty million people. The ruling Bolshevists introduced and imposed Com- unism. Whether most Russians are Communists “at heart” I do not know. The rank and file of Russians, the common men, never had a chance under the Czars, so they must think they are more prosperous today. To day they are told that they, the people, own everything. That may sound encouraging, but it is all sound, no substance. In practice, Communism means that the Government is supreme that the Government owns every thing and controls everybody. The Government can fix wages and prices, for the Government is the Boss. The government can tell you where to work, how to work and fix the hours. The Gov ernment can tell you where you may go, or whether you may go anywhere. The Government con trols the newspapers andl the radio; it feeds the people just what the Government wants them to know or to think. If you remember your Bible you will recall the words “As a man othinketh in his heart so is he.” The Communists feed his mind and that is what his mind works on. What is wrong with that? Is n’t it true that my neighbor may be more capable of runing my business than I am? Frequently that is true. And certainly many people are more capable of rear ing children than the fathers and mothers. Still you do not ad vocate sending all children to orphanges, do you? And isn’t it true that we build men on the plan of trial and error? Many of our greatest men failed in one business, though they succeed ed later. In very truth a man is a won derful creation; no one can mea sure the possibilities of his mind and purpose. When you look at a little boy you may see a second Edison, a second Henry Ford, a second Luther Burbank; or he may become an industrious and honorable citizen who is of that “noble peasantry, a coun try’s pride, which once destroyed cannot be supplied.” Of course we have no peasantry; all Ameri cans are equal before the law, as they are equal before the' God of their fathers. America respects the dignity of the individual: we are not massed or herded except by our own misguided conduct. We ob serve that our religion teaches us that “Every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.” The Maker of the Uni verse, the Father of the faith ful, the Mighty God, treats with us an individuals. No man can plead his Mother’s saintliness or his father's righteousness in de fense of himself; And no man is charged with the corruption of others unless he failed to do his mrt in preventing or correcting it. So we stand alone each man before his Creator. A further compelling consider ation is that Jehovah lets us choose our own path and go our separate way. How, then, shall we regard the foolishness of any man, or group or Political Party, that would disregard the splendid possibilities of an individual and impose on his mind and conduct a rule that violates the over-all plan.of the Almighty? Now as to the question of the lady of Charleston: It seems to me, as it does to her, that since a Communist believes in the overthrow of our form of gov ernment he should not be in a position of any kind in that gov ernment. I know that many of our peo ple say that our Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and freedom of speech: that be cause of these freedoms a man has a right to be a Communist and to teach Communism in this Country. The right to pracitce religion would not permit any oractice that offended our sense it decency. So there Is no ab solute right. Nor should free dom of speech include a right to plan the destruction of the form of government of this coun try. It is more than a form of government which is at stake: it is a manner of living, a way of life; and that way of life is the very. foundation of America. No government has a right to control a man’s thinking, but no man should be put in position to destroy the institutions of the land, in the language of the street. No man should try to destroy a Nation’s way of life by^ using that very freedom to stab* it in the back. Russia, having repudiated God, we may have to answer for hav ing relations with her. The read er of the Scriptures finds many instances of Jehovah’s fiery wrath against His people be cause they made alliances with the heathen for military pur poses, rather than to invoke the guidance and power of the Most High. I do not apologize for this Illustration: religion is the most vital concern of each one of us. We may think so today, or we may wait until the son rowing family comes for a last look, and the doctor counts the pulse as life ebbs to eternity. We can’t escape it, though in the flush of youth, and the pride and arrogance of earthly success, we forget that the cemetery is full of men who once were bubbling with ambition. America is to be invited to continue to pour out billions of dollars all over the world. The so-called Marshall Plan, under which America has been sending billions to Europe, always seem ed to me to be a wild, fantastic dream that would do nothing of permanent good. We set our selves up as • missionaries of the dollar, neglecting our own Coun try and our people in order to send billions of our tax money to sustain Europe. We also dreamed that we were putting Communism to rout. We would have succeeded so much beter by using common- sense. I’m reminded of the Spanish expression: “Sentido comun: el mas raro de todos losf sentidos’*—Common sense: the rarest of all the senses. It isn’t very ‘Common,” is It? By com monsense we mean that sort of horsesense that seems to be born in a man, or which he acquired by dealing with men and keeping his eyes wide open. Perhaps it was due in a measure to associat ing with horses in the old days. Certainly some drivers ot cars have no horsesense, though they do get pretty “horsey,” some times. But commonsense, or horsesense, is a pratical judge ment that is not based on books. The old-timers were inclined to sneer at those of us who look ed up everything in a book, and believed only what we saw in print. Well, where am I, now? ’ Ex tolling commonsense. If we htid spent on our military forces half of what we’ve wasted in Europe our Army, Navy and Air Force would command such respect that we could maintain peace throughout the world without fighting. Of-course the dreamers and wasters in Washington would have had just that much more to throw away. I do not say that 'idly; assuredly I say it sorrow-* fully, for if our campaign in Korea is a measure of our Ad ministration’s ability I should wonder what ten billions more would have provided. After speding 400 billions on the Sec ond World War—just four years ago—and after spending fifty bil lions since, we seem to have too little to crush that litle war. t^et me quote the latest scheme to throw away the American taxpayers’ money: “London—The British govern ment is ready to spring a new globalaid scheme on the Ameri can taxpayer. The outlines of the plan are contained in an official state ment on foreign and domestic issued yesterday by the Labor Party’s National Executive Com mittee—whose decisions are al most always tantamount to gov ernment policy. The document proposes that a new long-term program of “mutual” economic aid be drafted now by the free nations of the world to succeed the Marshall Plan when it ends in 1952. Several leaders of the Labor government. Including Prime Minister Clement Atlee, are mem bers of the committee which drafted the plan. Party Secre tary Morgan Phillips says he anticipates the government will take the initiative in launching it. ‘It’s British initative with American money,’ remarks one observer here. The United States asked for it, however. When Secretary of State Dean Acheson was in Lon don for the foreign ministers’ conference in May. he practically assured Western Europe the flow of dollars would not stop in 1952. Yesterday’s British statement the first official European pro^ gram for keeping the dollars flowing. All the same, first American reaction here was chil ly. Few U. 8. officials hare yet had time to study what the Lab- oritles call ‘A World Plan for Mutual Aid.’ But those that hare note that the U, 8. is the only country able to supply large amounts for such a program, and that its resources are now go ing to be heavily taxed by the newly blossoming rearmament program and expanded military aid not envisioned by Mr. Ache- son this spring. These are skip ped over in the Labor Party statement. Some U. S. observers also wryly recall that during World War II the British used the phrase ‘mutual aid’ for the same thing Americans referred to as ‘lend-lease.’ However gen eral, the British scheme is clear ly a bid to the U. S. to pour out a steady stream of dollars to finance the world’s economic needs. The party statement specifies that all non-communist rations ‘would be expected to contribute to the world plan ac cording to their ability.’’ We cannot depend on Britain’s Socialistic government for great help; France is weak and wob bling; Italy is worse. We need a strong German police force to re sist Russia and we need a strong Japanese police force to Chinese Communism. Am can’t fight the world alone. America were really a consecrated it could win: but hovah expects us to use .the telligence He endowed us Our present difficulty has. _ out of our stupid leadership, gave Russia China and bar Korea and told the world would not defend Korea a mosa! m : .J. ■ Flowers and Gifts for All Occasio r* a btitu’q Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 MR FAR We have just completed the most modern system for drying your v. We also have installed more cleaning equipment. We are no sition to give you a fine sample and turn out. Give us a chance to pr the above facts. ' ' v ’ ' "lH We will pay you the highest market price for your cotton seed. We W - have hulls and meal at all times. We also carry a complete line of fertilizer for your faM grain and pastures. PHONE 118 . The Southern At- '*******w**m***s****""" / ‘ //////////M ////////////# /////////mty ////////////■ //////////*!* y///////////* /////////""A /////////////Sr Advance-Design TRUCKS Prst/itdema/Hr\.f?i&fa tv/ud...Prsf/n str/ts Chevrolet's Valve-in-Head engines can do more work per gallon of gasoline con sumed than any other make of their ca pacity. You can't beat Chevrolet for low cost of ownership, operation, and upkeep —or for high resale value. Chevrolet trucks work for more owners on more jobs, every day, than any other make. So come see us. We’ve got Just the truck you wantl v im -tM Kemper Motor Company TELEPHONE 988 1 NEWBERRY, S. C.