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THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1! ws EwSr."- ' * : ^ 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Armfikld Eaitor 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., 11.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advapce. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR pamper his tastes or his appetite. He didn’t think that the world owed him a living; he was a great advocate of the simple life —plenty of worle and careful spending. If Benjamin Franklin could get just one peep at our National budget he would retire to his grave for .peace. However. It is comforting, reassuring and strengthening to know that our President approves the campaign to promote thrift. So now we nrepare to pull in the belt a couple of notches more. ' ■ i The News and Courier of Charleston had two reports on President Truman in the same issue, last week. On the editori al page there is this statement: “Between July 1, 1945 and June 30, 1950 the American taxpayer expended, after deducting repay ments to us, twenty six billion dollars in foreign aid. This amounts to about $172 for each man, woman and child in the United States.** Can you grasp that? Twenty six hillion dol lars!! 'What haye we received for that? The only possible ex cuse for spending our taxpayers’ money for uplift, relief—and all that—is to bring about a condi tion 4hat will be a benefit to this country. Those of us who have mingled intimately with Europeans did not expect much in return. There is a vast dif ference between a diplomat and a man on the street. Eupropeans do not care for us. Much that w r e do in other countries upsets their way of living an4. doing business. Our Government usual ly operates without regard for local conditions. The recent up roar about wages approved by the Federal Government for the new project over in Barnwell and Aiken Counties is a good illustra tion. Even before I saw that in print a man said to me “I’m fcoing over to Aiken; they are planning to pay ordinary carpen- tirs $4 an hour. Probably that was grossly exaggerated, but th^- scale of pay published in the newspapers Indicates $1.08 an hour for ordinary labor, and that rdinary labor, with some over time, may make $97 a week. Bricklayers would receive $$<00 an hour straight, with opportun ity for overtime. That is good news for the worker, but a small disaster for one else. What scale must competing contractors pay How many men will work for the other contrac tors for less than the scale in Aiken? Well, when you build your little home what will it cost? It . will immediately re flect all the big pay of Aiken. Where will the farmers of Aiken Barnwell, Bamberg, Allendale. Colleton and Hampton get help on the farms? And at what scale of pay? You may not think so, but at a rate of pay like that of Aiken cotton should be worth a dollar a pound, even if produced by mechanized processes, from trac tors to pickers. The fertilizer labor will soon show the in fluence,of Aiken, so will the price of fertiliser; and so will the prioe of everything else, unless the price is fixed by world markets. In that case agriculture will Just cease firing and retire to the sidelines. In fact agricul ture may be knocked into a cock- edhat; whatever that is; or it may be buried in innocuous den ude, to quote again the heavy nguage of President . Grover Cleveland. Along with marked advances In wages, rents, prices and every thing else, one may be sure that the cost of legal services will rise, affecting everything from the fee for drawing a simple agreement to the horrific cost of a divorce in Augusta, Georgia, or Jacksonville, Florida. Along with all that I have been recording, one reads that President Truman uses the so- AUDITOR’S 1951 TAX ASSESSMENT NOTICE Returns of personal prop erty, new buildings and real estate transfers, poll and road tax, are to be made at the County Auditor's Office beginning: January 1st, 1951 through \ February 28th, 1951 All able bodied male citizens between the ages of twenty-one snd sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax; all persons between the ages of twenty-one and fifty out side of incorporated towns are liable to pay commutation (road) tax of $1.00. All dogs are to be ^assessed at $1.00 each. All returns are to be made by School Districts. Your failure to make return calls for penalty as prescribed by law. PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS Newberry County SS-«te. called Emergency, or War Scare, to force through Congress all the boondoggling so dear to his heart. After nearly six years of Mr. Truman; after all the billions thrown away; after the uncount ed loss of war goods not lost in battle; after -all these things so graphically told by The Hoover Commission, we should be en couraged to know that President Truman advocates “thrift.** I am not jesting. The papers have told us that the President “en dorses thrift week.” Here is what the President wrote to the President of Indiana University: “If Benjamin Franklin stlM were about, I am sure he would join me enthusiastically in saying that the National Thrift week purpose of calling attention to the wisdom of financial prudence is a most commendable one. All the advice about thrift which Franklin gave us is good. It is advice which we never need question. Thrift builds '•haracter. It builds success for the individual. It builds national economic strength.’* What do you think of that? At first I couldn’t understand * how the President could say that; oi how he could quote Benjamin Franklin on such a subject as prudence in spending. I’ve seen a great light, however; the American people will certainly have to practice thrift to the last penny or button in order to dig up the money for all the grandio- jlty which Mr. Truman advocates. Benjamin Franklin was a great American, but he is sadly out of date. “Poor Richard,” as he call ed himself as a pen-name, was that old-time, old-style fellow who wouldn’t buy something unless he had the money; nor would he A distinguished citizen, whom 1 regard as the greatest son of South Carolina throughout all its history, sent me a report which Impressed him as being very in teresting and unusual. It shows that several of our low-country counties produced more cotton on fewer acres in 1950 than in 1949. The Counties that impressed him are Williamsburg, Clarendon, Al lendale and Bamberg. In 1949 Williamsburg planted 43,000 acres and harvested 10.900 bales; but In 1950 it was 30,500 acres and 18,800 bales; Clarendon in 1949 planted 51,000 acres and harvest ed 20,200 bales; while in 1950 it was 36,700 acres and 21.600 bales. The explanation, I think, is this: in 1949 we had rains at the wrong time and the boll-weevil flourish ed like the Federal bureaucracy; but in 1950 the weather was more suitable and the planters used more poison to discourage the weevils. This is a clear picture of the hazards of farming. I think it safe to say that the farmers of Williamsburg and Clarendon had at least, as much expense in 1949 as in 1960. Considering the larger acreage planted in 1949, we may assume that the addition al acres had value either as a capital investment, or as rented 'and. Further, fertilizer was used on all those acres in 1949; and there was labor, too. No other business operates on so uncertain a basis. Did you ever hear that Provi dence gives us so large a part of •'hat we harvest ? We see here how little a man can do to as- mre production. What is behind most Jobs? A •'ew days ago a friend of mine in Charleston reported that there was a break in his gas service Quickly a truck and a couple of repair men were at his door. 1 am telling that because it illu strates two advertisements I want to quote. Says the firsts “9 people had to save $10,800 to give you your job. \ It -takes an average of $10,800 worth of machines and factory building to provide one job in America. That $10,800 has to be saved before it can be invest ed in those tools for that job. The average savings of an American are $1420, and that in cludes his government bonds, life insurance, bank account and everything else. 10,800 divided by $1,120—9: the life savings of 9 Americans to provide each American job. Aren’t those average, everyday Americans, who made the job and its wages jfcs&lble, entitl ed to a fair return on their savings? But how can they get a fair return unless workmen produce enough and the tax col lector leaves enough to pay profit to the company where the Job exists? If there is no such profit, the investor will get no return-. If he gets no return, he will soon stop saving and investing. Then the tax collector will get no tax es, and he’ll be out of a job; the worker will get no machines, and he’ll be out of a job. ,So—w'orker, government, inves* tor all benefit if all three are fair; all suffer if any one of them is not.'* The repair men went in a truck;—whose truck? And with tools of the trade; whose tools? So the following advertisement is Hke it, at least in spirit: “BEHIND EVERY WORKER That’s Reddy Kilowatt Power— back of ail of you, back of every yorker, just asp. it has been through two world wars. Today 'here Is twice as much electric tower available as there was only 10 years ago. True it is, that almost any work, we just plug in and there is the power. But how did the •tower get there? That’s a long ttory, isn’t it? There are men md women in a hundred branch es of service. All, working to gether, produce the power. The •uost glamorous worker with a tower company is the man climb- 'ng the poles when the ground ind the wires are covered with >ce. To use the language of the street, he’s some man, isn*t he? n the recent freeze those men if all power and telephone lines vlsked their ' lives to give us service. Everyone of them should he made a Colonel at sight. But we forget easily. A few days ago, on a very .pleasant day, full of sunshine, I heard a lady say that her. gas bill was too high. I don’t know anything about her gas bill, but my oil bill was pretty high too. In fact I twitted my friend of the oil business and asked hbw I could possibly have used that- oil. But when we have several weeks of •old weather, cold weather, the oil heaters and coal heaters use a lot of fuel. And you might ask the farm lad who chopped wood for the home. ' I suppose gas- heaters use a lot, too; I don’t know; I haven’t a grsheater. By stretching my tnerncvy a lit DANIELSON-KIN ARDS Miss Alice Louise Danielson of Newberry became the bride of Hubert Vernon Kinard Sunday afternoon, January 14, at 4 o’ clock in a cermony at Mayer Me morial Lutheran Church. The Rev. D. M. Shull, pastor of the bride, performed the double ring ceremony in the pre sence of a large assemblage of relatives and friends. Miss Lula Mae Goree, organist, Miss Peggy Shealy, pianist, and Mrs. A. O. Livingston, Jr., vo calist, presented the program of wedding music. Wilbur Nichols, cousin of the bridegroom, was best man. J. T. Danielson, brother-in-law of - the bride; Everette Kibler, uncle of the bridegroom, and Robert Ren- wick, were the ushers. Miss Minnie Kinard, sister of the bridegroom, was the bride’s only attendant. She wore a light blue faille suit with white ac cessories 'and carried a bouquet of pink carnations. The bride and bridegroom en tered the church together. The bride wore an off-white faille suit with navy accessories. She car ried a prayer book centered with a purple-throated orchid shower ed with small white carnations. Mrs. John T. Danielson, mo ther of the bride, wore a navy gabardine suit with nayy and white accessories and a corsage of white carnations., Mrs. T. J. Kinard, mother of the bridegroom, wore a black gab ardine suit with black and white accessories and a corsage of red carnations. Mrs. Kinard is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Danielson. She is a graduate oi Newberry 4igh School and attended Win- throp College. She is employed at the South Carolina National Bank in Newberry. Mr. Kinard is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Kinard of Prosper ity, attended Prosperity High School and later, served over three years in the Marines. He is now employed with the Coca- Cola Bottling Company in New berry. The couple left in the afternoon for a wedding trip to Florida. BIRTH OF A SON I Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Campbell of Spartanburg, announce the birth of a son, born in the Whit mire Clentic, Monday morning, January 29th. TO BUILD PARSONAGE FOR REV. J. AUBREY ESTES The Seneca Baptist Church an nounced this week that con struction has begun on a new par sonage building for the pastor of the church, Rev. J. Aubrey Estes. The parsonage, a brick struct ure, will cost approximately $22,- 000. will be a story and d half and will contain eight rooms. MISS DOMINICK ILL AT HOME ON COLLEGE ST. The many friends of Miss Eliz abeth Dominick will be sorry to learn that sh was taken suddend- ly ill at her home on College street last Friday. Her * con dition is reported to be “slightly improved” at this time. Choir Singing CONTEST/ Program &YRNE8 IGNORES CHALLENGE LAID DOWN BY KLAN LEADER By Brim Rykard . Independent Capital Bureau COLUMBIA, an. 21—Gdsrernor James F. Byrnes will stand firm ly behind his program regarding the Ku Klux Klan, outlined in his Inaugural address laet Tues day, as he ignores a challenge issued by Grand Dragon Thomas Hamilton of Leesville; speaking in Aiken County Saturday nig^it. Hamilton’s challenge came four days after Byrnes said “I do not need the assistance of Ku Klux Klan” in the enforcement of law. The Klan leader challeng- ‘ed the governor to clean up, what he termed “rackets In one county.*’ He did not name the county, though. Hamilton admitted in his Aiken speech Saturday night that the Klan had somewhat taken the law into its own hands when he said it went into that county “to fight this thing.** After pointing out that &>uth Carolina had few law violators,- compared to other states, Byrnes said “Howhver we do have a fel|M people who want to take the law Into their own hands and regulate the morals and habits of others.’* He made the procedure very clear. He said “if a man violat es the law, he should be arrested by local officers. If they fail to act and complaint is made to the jj state Igw enforcement division, the offender will be arrested. If a man does not viojate the law, no group of men has the i ‘ to assault him or threaten intimidate him.*’ r-tjal \ ' SAVE For A BIG GOAL!- • V Join our 1000 Club and start saving now for that big goal you have in mind. Save systematically every pay-day and watch your sai row to $1000. % EVERY SUNDAY : : v_ ; V- : ? y ’ ■ $ tie I can recall how glad I was to see the oil man, even if I did have to pay so much for fuel as made me think I was working for the oil-man. He was cer tainly a heart-warming sight dur ing each freeze; and 1*11 welcome him with open arms during the next freeze, even if 1 have to give him my overcoat on the bill. WKDK 3:30 P. M. 1240 kc ■ } 'll "K AND LOAM ASS< OF MKWBKRRY m ik ■ v-4 A tm ■ ' !- I. K. Willingham, Sec’y . ' ■ .. Newberry, *"'v ‘ - . . •T , • —. V* the Railroads What is At various states in with the brotherhoods of mm -, ■>> -iraa MM m ■■ M Labor Unions . . . the railroads agreed to arbitrate. The union leaders . . . the railroads accepted the mendations of President* Truman's Emergency Board. The union leaders refused. .. . the railroads accepted the White at • 5. memorandum of agr Washington, D. C- December 21, 195° 1. Establish^^our^eek^or addl _ ' crease of 23 ° e " f f e *tive January 1. 1951 ■ tlonal 2 cents effecti agree oent until January , 19K 2 '.nr..“uie«y work TaVre^eVt 1 straight tlm ® ™ they do not now b ? n given of desire tritAr&nteen where ” e.v.-i notice to be giveu v* availability of k lll “X°aUy“eo 0 mes effective. - th . 40 hour week ^uaUy ^ ^ 6 day w „k. 3 . settle rules for eu oth , r rule. 4 Grant yard ocnductora an r ,tarder operators and such as dally earnin|.»lclmum.e nd9d by Ba.rg.no, Board footboard y&rdmastera 6- (Conductors Mid Tr^a- IDdll) Poollng^Cabooses^'tConductor, and Trel—I Reporting for Duty service gore than One Class w* flr^Hose* IConductowa and Tr^lad.r and Ton- ^^uinluo^CoSucrors and Traln«n. Territories). hour lno r.ese ' 6. Road sen additional 5 cents per hour effective October 1. 19® ^ gl -—° n ° f 0081 *1 P ?«f t0 o * qual P 9r hour. First aojuaxaent April 1, 1951. Base to be 176). vardmast• ©“bodying principles applicable to yarasasters to be entered into for benefit of yardaastera. Effective October 1, 1950, the basic hours of Der mnn+h r steward ? shall be reduced from 225 to 205 hours have bee£'wo?k«rf na Ji y ® vertime to accru e until 240 hours for at ?he ?aJe Ur8 6811 2 ° 5 ^ 240 t0 56 ^ ld on« h*i? ff ! C ^ Ve Februa:r y 1951, overtime at time and The~basL CCrU ? after 220 hours have been worked. month shall ary t0 4 be paid for th ® 205-hour mnn+h sha11 be the same as that now paid for the 225-hour shall h« EX ^ P i !^ at four dollars aad ten cents ($4.10) ^ ’ Janiar^ 1 Jlsi th ® present m °nthly rate effective^ - - consideration of above, this agreement to tie Unt “ October 1953 ' thereafter until Mor«t° r ®° dified und « r Provisions of Railway Labor Act. “ 0 t r ? 0 n ri r.° n P ro P° sal * for changes in wages or rules until October 1, 1953, as follows: «« «. N °. P ro P° sal8 for changes in rates of pay, rules hv 7h rking T Conditiona wil1 ba initiated or progressed by the employees against any carrier or by any car- Us em P lo y ees * parties hereto, within a p *^ od of th ree years from October 1, 1950. except dition^M^® for . chan 8® s in rules or working con- i iQRn h i ch may have been initiated prior to June > t™Z? 50 ‘ Prov i ded » however; that if as the result of W ? ge stabilization policy, workers gen- ? ave been Pomitted to receive so-called 2??K a n IjPr 0 ^® 11160 ! increases, the parties may meet with Doctor Steelman on or after July 1, 1952, to whether or not further wage adjustments for in P add?+? co * er ? d by this agreement are justified, I?,,?? 1 * ° n inc r® a 3es received under the cost of f for ®nla. At the request of either party for SaJa n ? Doctor st ® el “ an shall fix the time and place for such meeting. Doctor Steelman and the parties may secure information from the wage stabili zation authorities or other government agencies. If House proposal of August 19,1950. The union leaders refused. Finally an Agreement the White House on Now the union leaders seek to the Agreement. The railroads stand ready to terms of this Agreement ihto effect im- | mediately, with back pay at the rates and date indicated. The Agreement is given in ftill belowj mm * ‘ ihe parti#a are unable ♦ “ ssk^hePresident ^of'th us «re S jusu??f5 r ! no<,a sbether as;--"- “hd the effect!vs'd** •*?* ^hat such incr«a ^E® increases JbbU bev. *£ 1 “ t *‘ t « ‘hereof. s ho u l<j b. ” ■ ^ os. vote « d \ , h.V\%:^X e a r8 r ,iS * nt a"v« 8 s^n UV *' or rulesahlnT 1 ” oa,mot »gree on^d T" m *' ** rf-S ' “ —•“* SiVSSur S-SS •bovj'exlsting staad^d^' ' ■ la csllaneous *greeient* aa<lard dall » - o» not debar ^ rates, rules fro " «“tuaUy ““»*?««« ^ count... agreesent. “ d * 0rkl »* ° OIK ilUo n e o/f^jpou T yeea c ®vered by thi« •rvv ; ■m r .ti t CM*/ fr* Chairman by Fra.lde«t Cbai r«r5nc*“ TonSS. r *Me*t- Chair By Pr We are publishing this and other advertisements to talk to you at first bnnd about matters which are important to ever> oody. OUTH Eastern WESTERN BTm w»- -w stfl 3 I 6* rrywifw