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- -.v fr.-y rf7> Pi* Km THE NEWBERRY SUN ■ * ySi FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1961 •tin 1218 Collegre Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Armfikld 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 8, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. m COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR . - South Carolina and Georgia are great States; so are North Caro lina and Alabama. I need not mention Virginia because she stands in majesty among us. I heard a man say that there was this difference between a North Carolinian and a Virginian: the North Carolinian, swelling with pride, tells of the great tobacco interests and textiles, the furni ture plants, and a score of other things, all proving the wealth and progressiveness of the North State. The Virginian says noth ing beyond the bare statement that he is a Virginian, possibly becoming so talkive as to say that he lives in “The alley,” or Richmond, perhaps. There is no need to say more, for if you don't know already that Virginia is the greatest State in the Union it would be a waste of time to talk to you. We South Carolinians and Georgians used to boast of our Generals and Colonels, our Maj ors and Captains; our Confeder ate Soldier, the private soldier, stands on nearly every court house square in bronze or stone, an heroic symbol of devotion and sacrefice. And we have in our hearts great statesmen; but there are great men of industry who have transformed our States in to centers of* manufacture. I have not the figures for Georgia but I have some information on development in South Carolina. By the way, 1 have boasted that I am a native son of South Caro lina, but a grandson of Virginia, my father coming from ‘‘The Valley of the Shenandoah;” but I have kinship with Georgia, too, for my mother’s people moved to Georgia and were in the turpen tine business. Meiggs is named for them. So, like a politician. In campaign season, I cover a lot of territory. What has happened in South Carolina? Since 1936 sixty three thousand, seven hundred and ten new jobs have been created, so far as reports show, up to a year ago. I wonder if shortage of power could have created 63,710 jobs! In the same time capital invested in industry Increased $438,862,346. What part of that was attracted to this State by alleged shortage of power I can’t imagine. During that same period the value of manufactured pro ducts increased $1,393,022,366. It may be noted that 834 new in dustrial plants came to us in that period. Does all this indicate a short age of power? No; there is no shortage of power. That is a story spread abroad to do harm to us. Portrait of a Baby Wide-eyer wonder at this strange new world . . . The heart-warming help lessness and the absolute trust . . . The little smile, the man nerisms so transient and fleeting . . . All these are imprinted forever and with the fidelity to <be found only in a ./ Nichold Portrait The figures Indicate growth, don’t they? The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond says: “South Carolina ranked second among 'he States of the Nation in the ner centage increase realized from 1939 to 1947 in value added by manufacturing. Against an average increase of 204 percent f or the Country as a whole, South Carolina registered a gain of 370 percent! What is it worth to a commun ity to get a new concern with a nlant investment of $100,000? Some patient man has worked out the results. Here they are: 1. An annual payroll of $200,000. (Let me say that wages are higher now). 2. A school. ^ 3. Taxable property, including homes, stores, etc., of $1,000,000. 4. A dozen stores. 5. Support of a thousand peo- nle. 6. Sales and service for 200 should we build a place for Gen eral Eisenhower In France? France must have thousands of great places which the French Government could provide. If you know anything of France you know that that is true. Why should America build a mansion? It is on a par with this: I read a statement showing that this nation had sent to Greece more than a billion dollars! Little Greece. If the great Washington oowers should spend a billion dollars in a Southern State, in the same period, they could al most buy the State. Nothing is needed so much as to turn ninety per cent of the crowd out of Washington, includ ing Congress. Corporations earned more pro fits in 1960 than in 1949, but for every additional dollar Uncle Sam was right there with the hat. United States Steel earned 29 percent more, but its taxes rose S6 percent; DuPont earned 39 per cent more but taxes took 92 per cent more; General Motors earn ed 27 percent more, but taxes rose 109 percent; Sears Roebuck earned 33 percent more, but paid out' 128 percent more. Socony- Vaccuum’s earnings increased 30 percent and its taxes went np 138 percent; General Electric earned 38 percent more and paid 162 percent more to the Govern ment; Goodyear Tire earned 76 percent more and had to pay 172 percent more. Most of the big Companies pay much more in taxes than they pay to their stockholders. SEA FLOWER i i •: 'Pip*: - Mi Mmgm m mmi- imm *. £ m iiip This eye-catching cotton swimsuit — not the girl — is called “sea flower** because it has a long- stemmed waistline that blossoms -in to a slim-flaring skirt. The bright cotton swimsuit was created by Cole f'ars. 7. Opportunity for a dozen pro fessional men. 8. Annual trade of $1,000,000. 9. Such a plant would employ about 150 men directly; they and their families would be 1000 people, at least; and there would be others. Tbe Federal Government is having/gambler’s luck; that is the gambler who wins, or, when winning. If ever an organiza tion did everything wrong it <*eems to be the National Govern ment. Of coursq our State doesn’t want to be overlooked; it, too, has been gambling on the future. Although the Federal Govern ment has been throwing money around promiscuously, spending and lending and giving, it may close the books on June 30th. with a surplus! Wonderful, eh? A truly remarkable thing is that we still have billions to throve away on Europe and Asia and South America but a battle-scar red veteran can’t build or buy a house. He would do better, ap parently; or his chances would be better, if he were one of Tito’s subjects, or even a lad from Argentina. Billions for the foreigners but a straight-jacket for our own boys. At any rate, we are building a mansion for Gen. Eisenhower in Paris. Why Well, if our brilliant young thinkers have their way we! should borrow our ideas and plans from Russia. They must think that life over in Russia is a long, sweet song, a life of Riley, milk and honey, ambrosial delights, or in our best native tongue, ham and eggs, liver and bacon, all the time. Now is that so? Here’s the condition under •vhich the Russian worker lives: “Inefficient workers are sub ject to prosecution in court. Workers who damage tools can be fined 10 times the tools’ value. On the one hand, concessions are made to the ever emerging personal ambition; but on the other, criminal law Is put Into operation in an effort to check the inefficiency of the entire sys tem. Workers are subject to penal- Mes imposed by managers for ‘loafing on the Job,* and to court action for absenteeism and un authorized quitting of the Job. From 10 to 26 years in a forced labor camp, with or without con fiscation of property, can be im posed for ‘misappropriation.’ em bezzlement or any kind of theft of the property of the principal employers, the government or public bodies. Neither the constitution nor any law or decree mentions the right to strike, and the strike is tacitly outlawed. But labor does have the right to ask for a better deal—by ap plying to the state. of California in flag-printed pique, lton Council says. the National Cotton ADVANCI-DESIGN TRUCKS i: : sheep following Bo-peep on the ition. As (Continuation of standard oqoipmont and trim Mum tratod Is dependent on availability of matoriaU it on-the-job performance with these great truck features GREAT ENGINE FEATURES e Two Groat Engines e Valve-In-Head Efficiency e Blue-Flame Combustion • Rower-Jet Carburetor e Perfected fooling e Specialized 4-Way Lubrication e Thermostatic Heat Control e Cast Alloy Iron Platons • New Twin-Action Rear Braksa (heavy-duty model*) • New Dual-Shoe Parking Brake • New Torque-Action Braksa (ttght-duty model*) • Foot-Operated Parking Brake (model* with 3-ipeed trantmluion) • Steering Column Gearshift (model* with 3-ipeed tror.imkdoe) • 4-Speed Synchro-Mesh * Transmission (to • Largs Door Openings • Side Doors Held Open by Over- Center Stop • Sturdy Steel Construction • Unit-Design Bodies • Plck-UpBodisswIthFlushSkldStrfp# • Insulated Panel Bodies • Extra-Strong Stake Bodies • Full-Width Gravel Shield • One-Piece Fenders • Counterbalanced Aillgator-Jaw Hood GREAT CHASMi FEATURES • Wide Range of Springs • Rugged, Rigid Frames • Hypoid Rear Axles • Single-Unit Rear Axle Housings moor FEATURES • New Ventipanes in Cabs • Flexi-Mounted Cab • Improved Full-Width Cab Seat • Seat Adjusts to Proper Eye Levd CMVROLETS IN UN THAN ANY OTHCR TRUCK! KEMPER MOTOR COMPANY Telephone 982 151S-17 Main St. ,? ' ... v -Zt - ' * • , ' ... ..a isn’t a new Constitution we need, but a new spirit of loyalty and regard to the Constitution we have! The fault is not in the stars, but In ourselves; yes, and we are plunging headlong, fool ishly, into greater debts and greater commitments because we have thrown aside the thrift and sound financing of our , fathers and have arrogated to ourselves the know-all for every occasion. We may borrow from Job on his ash heap the scathing reply he gave to the friends who ac cused him of sin: “No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.” Yes, indeed, we are wise, full of wisdom, wise beyond all the wisdom of the ancients; and when we die all wisdom will. Both our Legis lature and Congress are full of the wisdom that passes for wis dom of the moment. WANT ADS WANTED TO BUY—Iron, Metal Batteries, Radiators and Rags. W. H. Sterling. 1708 Vincent I street. Phone 731-W 28-th POSITIVILY no tresspassing or hunting of any kind on lands of B. O.. -J. G. and H. O. Long. We really mean what we say. H. O. Long, Mgr. 26-tc. FOR SALE—Eight room house with central heating system and oil furnace. Close in. Phone 1202 48-3tp. m SERVICES AT CLAYTON MEMORIAL CHURCH The Clayton Memorial church announces Preaching services, Sunday April 22 at Eleven o’ clock. Supt. Bennett will preach. “What’s Right with the World” will be the subject. You are invited and will be welcomed by this friendly people. JOINS CRUSADE — Screen star Barbara Stanwyck lends her help to the American Cancer Society’s 1951 Cancer Crusade. The word “give,” the says, la the most im portant one in making this year’s campaign a success. Many of the nation’s leading entertainers are helping to publieize the Crusade. BIRTH OF A DAUGHTER CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION! MRS. MARY GAROENHIRE NAMED PRESIDENT OF GOLFERS Collective bargaining is allow ed, and in fact is considered ‘most important’ to achieve pro duction. But wage rates and bonuses are specifically excluded from the area of bargaining. Very good workers may be award ed such honorary titles as ‘hero of labor' and get special bene fits.” . Do we need a new Constitution in South Carolina? If we need a Constitution at all it must be because we Intend to respect it; to be governed by it; to do what it requires; and to refrain from doing what it prohibits. If we are to proceed at our own plea sure, according to the impulse of the moment, and In total dis regard of clear mandates of the Constitution, why should we speak of v a new Constitution? How can we say that this is a bad, or outmoded. Constitution if we disregard provisions of it which are sound and fundament al? Some of us may have spent long hours studying the Federal and State Constitution but all that work is love’s labor lost. On the National scene we have such things as the pact or agreement of the United Nations, which most of our people know nothing about but which can operate in such manner as to supersede our own basic laws. The Senate of the United States concurred in that. The Senators probably don’t know anything of the terms, but it was . submitted by the so-called Democratic Party, or th® Trumanite wing thereof, and we are the victims of Party loyalty. It is why I am beginning to think that Party government in a curse to the Nation. Party government means that a few leaders think up something smart and the little sheep follow their Bo-peep all the way. We should be fortunate If the great and mighty Bo-peep should lose his sheep. Because Mr. Truman is a so- called Democrat we find the Mrs. Mary Gardenhire, mana ger of the Sears and Roebuck lo cal order office here, was elected president of the women’s South Carolina Golf Association last week, succeeding Mrs. Frank Ford, Jr., of Charleston. Approximately fifty women competed in the women’s third annual state golf championship, which was played at the Ander son Country Club last week, and Mrs. Mary Gardenhire of this city championship flight consolation honors, four and two. Polly Btone of Greenville retained her S. C. Women’s golf championship last Saturday with a three and two victory over Jane Covington of Orangeburg. Special prizes were presented to all flight champions. ^ The United States Civil Service Commission today announced an examination for Substitute Postal Transportation Clerk (formerly called Railway Mail Clerk) to fill positions in about half the states of the Union, including South Carolina. Appointments to these posi tions are restricted to persons entitled to veteran preference j however, applications will also be accepted, from persons not entitled to veteran perference who live in the states of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. Such persons will be considered only when qualified veterans are not available. To qualify appli cants must pass a written test and must be residents of the states needing these clerks. Minimum age limits 18 years. Basic pay is $1.41 % per hour. For states Included in this announcement and application forms call at local post office and ask for announcement No. 18 LjOC&I. Sadie Bowers, Sec. U. S. Civil Service Com., Newberry, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Olin Lomlnick announce the birth of a daughter, Dianue, born in the Newberry Memorial Hospital Monday morn ing, April 16th. Mrs. Lominick, the former Mary Folk, and infant daughter are doing nicely and expect to i*eturn to their home near Keitt’s Cross Roads this weekend. % * WATCH REPAIRS Watch and Jewlary Repairs Pearls restrung EXPERT WORKMANSHIP | Jim's Watch Repairs FOUR ® R 't v ,ciS THAT Wl' 1 stampih® B,V , , w Kl °” M A . .i—— a. - MAPI ONtV WITH THE ■ , European-troop question. As it stands, the Great Bo-peep tells his sheep that he will send troops hither and yon, as he pleases, so we set aside the Law, the Con stitution and commonsense in order to stand by the leader, though he lead to a destruction. What is more sacred in a na tion—in^ ordinary concept—than the purity of its money? How can we live and do business unless we can accept in complete trust the soundness of our money? Well, our Government under its marvellous leadership lent to the Russians our money—printing plates for the reproduction of American money by the Rus sians. That was quite a secret and we learn of it now from a speech before the Ohio State of Commerce by the Editor of The Indianapolis Star. Why have a Constitution which can be set aside by a Presidential Prodamayon declaring a State of Emergency? WTiere, in the Constitution, do you find that? In South Carolina we are quick to catch on. Our leaders in 1929 authorized a bond issue of $66,000,000 for roads. It violated the State Constitution as clear ly as any act could. Then our Courts validated it, found rea sons for declaring it within the Constitution! Read your Consti tution; thousands of our people are as capable of understanding plain language as are the Courts. Instead of upholding the Consti tution we play at a game of up holding the Legislature or legis lators, in plain violation of the Constitution. Read this Appropriation Bill, with its Sales Tax and Building fund; a three percent Sales Tax and a Building Fund of $75,- 000,000. Observe the increase in pay in the most high-handed re fusal to respect the Constitution; and observe a trickery of langu age which is intended to slave the consciences of the Judges, if they accept increases in pay! And then talk to us about a new Canztitution! Save ths qvark! It mm MULTUM DATER. Solidly built die-plate dater. One operation and your papers are marked with all essential information. 'N8JF9 TIMESAVER BAND STAMP. 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