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tHE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1951 1218 Collegre Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Arm field Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Entered as second-class matter December 6. 1987, 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. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR Women “outnumber’’ men in the United States. The Census shows that there are one hun dred women for every 98.1 men. That tenth of a man might be anywhere for men are seen all over the nation who are about 1-10. A young lady in a bakery once said something like that. I was looking at some ginger men, studded with raisins, intend ing to buy them for some little boys. All the ginger-men werd without heads, the heads had been broken off. I said to thd lady: “These men have no heads.” So, then, the headless ginger men were just like most of us. * The shortage of men, or the solemn fact that men are in “short supply” becomes more alarming every day, for the men are dropping off more rapidly than the ladles. Every day we read of men who have suffered heart attacks; and in ’ many towns the widows are numerous. The Census tells us more. In 1950 there were 40 percent more children under ten years than in 1940; and there were 37 percent more people over sixty five years of age. Now, strangely enough, between .10 years and 65 years there were only 7 percent more. Even this is higher than the group between 10 and 24; that group, 10-24 is off 6 percent. The total population Increased 14% percent from 1940 to 1950. The Census of 1950 is the first in which the women are more num erous than the men. Is that why so many ladiee are being recruit ed for the armed services? War is an excuse for every scheme that active minds can “conjure up.” It seems that everybody has a plan: one man's plan would tax us out of ex istence; jmother man knows that without this or • that we shall surely be beaten and find our selves “one with Nineveh and MAM£T BASKET SUPER fOOO STORE phone 940-941 ^H£. To JtaZ/ WW BENNETT -G.C PAYSINGER Tyre,” as I recall Kipling. “Education,” as we commonly speak of a certain bit of school training, is not a cure-all for our trouble. Sound, true “education” would probably be worth a great deal, but what is “Education? If one acquires certain basic training in Mathematics and the Mathematical Sciences s he “ed- urated ?” He may be, or he may not he. He may be profoundly learned in Geology and be so narrow in everything else, in cluding routine life around him, that he could qualify as a learn ed man, but not as an educated man. Specialists may be, and frequently are, thoroughly “grounded” in narrow ranges of restricted areas of knowledge. As to life and living in general they may not be as alive and alert as many a lad whose schol arship reaches only' the dizzy heights of a Comics. Many men of eminence in the profounder reaches of abstract reasoning are inclined to futile or fantastic speculations on all the every day interests and problems. Just in a general way I wonder .if our best educated people are those who have a broad range of sym pathy but no absorbing concen tration on one subject. I cannot say that our country is afflicted with educated people or over-educated people. How can one be over-educated? If ed ucation enables one to use his powers and prepares him to func tion usefully in his surroundings how can he $)e over-educated? What leads me into this is the thought that we have thousands of men of active minds who use a lot of language and confuse a lot of people. They even deceive themselves by their fluency of speech and facility with the pen —or typewriter. Sound men, men with both feet on the ground, are often amazed and then dis gusted by remarks, statements, theories and half-baked ideas flowing out of Washington all the time. We are inclined to take a word or an expression and run wild. What is “Inflation?” Mr. Tru man thinks one thing and the Federal Reserve Board thinks something else. Well, what is it? Any definition will be tiresome but we have inflation when prices go up, generally. Why do they go up? Perhaps those who have something to sell realize that money is plentiful. Even in a small area we can have Inflation. Suppose a farmer carries ten thousand pounds of leaf tobacco to market, hoping to receive thirty cents a pound, but receives seventy five cents. If that con dition obtains generally land prices will go up in that neigh borhood; and the nice liUle house 1 he might have bought last year for 310,000 will be raised to $12,- 000 or $15,000. That is local In flation. Lumber and meat and sugar and furniture won't ad vance because thejfc are governed by larger markets. When our Government sells a 1 billion dollars of bonds that calls for a billion dollars from some where. If repeated it may make necessary new money, now de posits, new spending—and all that. When money is plentiful the man with a . house wants more; then everybody wants more. The next phase of the problem is to deflate, or reduce inflation. We hear discussion on the subject of more bonds or fewer bonds. Every group has a specialist who can talk till the end of time. If we quit buying, prices will come down. If I have a development with a hun dred building lots, priced at $1000 each, and those lots drag along I’ll have to reduce the price, un less my banker friends would be so indulgent as to say: “Don’t worry; take all the time you want; we don’t want the money If the lots don’t move reasonably well the Banker will not risk his depositors’ money forever just because he likes you; he has to keep in touch "with values and de mand. In our country we have de veloped such a narrow political partisanship that men of ristlnc- tlon as Economists, as well a men In high office, will agree with whatever the President says, Just like the case of an eminent Admiral who wished to do his native port a favor and asked to be heard first. He knew that his subordinates would hesitate to contradict him, or even to take issue, mildly. We, toe,* are regimented; we think in harmony with our group. You will recall that, some weeks ago, I argued from the Constitution that the President had no authority to make com mitments, or to send troops with out the sanction of Congress. The distinguished pastor of President Wilson has recently cited the same provisions of the Constitu tion in his timely letter opposing all this ridiculous argument about the prerogative of the President. Even so good a man as Congressman Richards has de clared that the President's auth ority to send troops abroad is clearly established. Mr. Richards, by the way, Is a leavel-headed, clear-thinking and able Represen tative, but he must have absorb ed too much of the fog on the Potomic in this matter. » What is most astonishing in our Country today is that we are thinking along most lines as po litical partisams; “let's'" stand by the President,” seems to be the litical partisans; “let's stand by the country.” To show to what absurd and dangerous lengths this partisan loyalty can go, it Is told reliably that a certain jurist once argued to support a Governor for arresting again for the same of fense a man who had been pard oned. The argument was made that “we should stand by the Governor." Fortunately for that State other judges didn’t play politics. Because of the Constitutional question involved—and it is of fundamental importance—I argu ed—and still contend—that the man tried by the State and ac quitted in Dorchester cannot be lawfully tried again for that crime. He was under the Juris diction of the State; he was pros ecuted by the State; he was ac quitted by the State. There may have been politics in the case, as people say, but that can’t change the Constitution. If there was nnything wrong, why not proceed against those who did the wrong? I do not know any of the people in the case; I am not speaking for or against anyone; T should like to know whether the Constitution still is the Su preme Law of the Land. As to curbing the President, I find myself out of sympathy with his plans to put on the backs of the American taxpayer the ills, failures, backwardness of Europe, or the unprogressiveness of Asia. The Cholos, ordinary Indians, of Peru don’t want to adopt the customs of Lima or Cajamarca, Chiclayo, Trujillo, Chachapoyas or Arequipa, nor, Indeed of Cuzco. When the time comes for certain fiestas the Cholos come on their little burros from the Sierras and camp on the outskirts. Perhaps the burro carries a bundle of al falfa strapped under this throat and the Indian man may be astride him, letting the wife and children follow on foot, the wo man carrying a baby on her back. Asiatics, the rank and file, have their own life; they want to con tinue it, nor can they be help fully beguiled from it by tons of American provisions. They are eager for American gold, of course, but not to buy American goods or to adopt American hab its. There is a great leisure in the living of Cholos and Asiatics—our American Indians, also. They are basically of the same original strain many centuries ago. They like to sit and muse or dream. though I think most of the^i ‘just sit.” If they devoted their sitting time to thought or thinking they would make So crates, Plato and Aristotle seem like. small-time pretenders, for they have time, plenty of time, all the time there is, a matter of fact. The Cholos may bring some simple something for sale. A man atfeed a Cholo how many straw mats he had for sale. The Indian replied “siete” 7. “How much do you want for one”? “Fifty centavos”—about 20 cents in our money. “How much do you want for all seven?” “Five hundred centavos.” “But I want to buy all you have and that would be 350 centavos. You should sell the seven for less.” “I don’t want to sell seven; I want to sell one.” “Why?" “Well, if I sell all seven what will I do?" So he had to sell something each day in order to feel justified in remaining in town. We Americans, b u m b 1 l,n g bouncing, purse-proud, presumpt uously want to convert all the world to our standards. The world will do better to change its life gradually and from with- ARTIFICIAL BREEDERS CHOOSE PROVED SIRES At the annual meeting of the Cherokee Cooperative Breeding Association recently held at Gaf fney, the Board of Directors vot ed to use the service of the Southeastern Artificial Breeding Association of Ashville, North Carolina. The Southeastern • Arti ficial Breeding Association, an American Breeders Service, fur nishes semen only from high in dex proved sires. President, W. A. Hambright of Blacksburg led the Directors in this decision. The farmer mem bers fully agreed with the Direct ors in making the change. They found that they now could get semen from great proved bulls at the same as they were getting it before. The larger percentage of the cows in the county and in the state are Jerseys and Guern seys. The Stud at Ashville sup plies semen from such American Jersey Superior Sires as Design ing Ena B., Monlo Sybil Pempey, and Green Pastures Afterglow; popular Guernseys such as Klom dike Konover, and Quail Roost Bright Maxim; and from a fine group of high index proved Hol- steins led by the “Gold Medal Sire” Wlnterhur Fobes Great Viscount. — The annual meeting was at tended by John Lyle, Dairyman at Clemson, who on “The Program of A- — Breeding in South Carolina.” He praised the Cherokee County As sociation for the fine work they were doing in the county. Maury Gaston, Extension Repre sentative of the Southeastern Ar tificial Breeding Association, spoke on the proved sire program of his Association. He showed slid es of bulls and discussed the pro- men. Gaston pointed out that the Southeastern Stud furnished cessing and handling of the men fropa its proved bulls for 000 flrS$ service cows bred in Southeastern states in 1960. in. They are happy even in their squalor and poverty. What they want is just enough rice and plenty of time to do as they please. DUE FIRST TIME IN APRII This is the new social tax return blank for rej wages of household wc First reports using these- envelope forms are due dt April. Miss Martha F. Pressly, ger of the Greenwood, S. _ C., al security office, points out every household worker meets the 24 day—$50 U covered by the social law. This test is explal booklet, “Do You Have^a which may be secured at i social security office, post or office of the Colle ternal Revenue. The so includes a post card in requesting this return blank. « / HOME PERMANENT ■•w—'Mfctar than avar to vsal Look! found,pmfeftional • Toni’s new, professional plastic curlers are round and ribbed—for easier winding. And these plastic curlers have more curling surface, so you can wind more hair on each- more evenly, too. pm corns You sovo monoy every time you give yourself another beautiful Toni Home Permanent. For you use Toni plastic curlers over and over. And a refill kit costs only $100 — contains everything but curlers. THE CREME COLD WAVE New Deluxe Kit with plastic curlers' ^ Regular Kit with fiber curlers Refill Kit without curlers M 00 All pricmt plui tail CUT RRTE DRUG 5TDRE- 1212 MAIN ST. PHONE 410 For the Past THE NEWBERRY Has Been v-s ■ 'V.:,:- S\: > L COTT*** I 0 L.-i- f -l W# now havo the most modem processing equipment available. The installation of this new equipment has been quite a task since our milk still had to be bottled daily. If during the past eight weeb you have noticed anything wrong with your milk it was due to our machin ery's being taken out and our bottling schedule being disrupted time after time. S • ■mmm m We wish to express our appreciation to all of you who have stuck by us during this trying time, and to those of you who have seen fit to discontinue taking milk from us, we hope we shall have the privil ege of serving you again. We are now in a position to give our cus tomers the richest, best tasting and most sanitary milk produqpd any where! Newberry Dairies milk will be the freshest that you can buy, because it is all produced locally, and does not have to be hauled great distances before it is pasteurized and bottled. *1 ■ yvtrti-tap In the very near future we will be able to offer our cus tomers "Vitamin D enriched Homogenized Milk" and "Gold^lake"' buttermilk (cultured buttermilk with lots of rich butter flakes in every glass). A j ;i|!i Again we wish to express our approbation tor your loyalty dur ing the time wa were remodeling our plant, and wa invite you to visit with us at anytime. Our pasteurizing and tattling operations might prove very interesting to you. Some of the Boy Scout groups of our city have visited with us in the past few days, and wa welcome any group or individual at any time. 'Help Nawberry and Halp Yoursalf by Trading at Home."