The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, August 17, 1951, Image 4
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By ARMFIELD BROTHERS
Entered as second-class niatter December 6, 1937,
at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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President And Minor Bureaucrats
Fill Public .With Alarm—Spectator
Has the Government sold the
cotton farmer down the river?
That seems to be the idea of
South Carolina’s Commissioner of
Agriculture, J. Roy Jones. Mr.
Jones taay be right. As you
have heard, this great nation is
being managed, or mismanaged
from Washington. A very dis
tinguished leader of our State
said to me a few months ago:
“You might as well recognize
the fact that everything heads
up in Washington; that’s where
the game is; and that’s where
you have to go, whether you
like it or not.” And he is right.
Here is the cotton story, well
known to me since I also am
somewhat of a cotton and tobacco
farmer: In the winter of 1950-
1951 the bureaucracy in Washing
ton warned us that we were
“short of cotton” and getting
shorter every day. Of course
this had nothing to do with the
program of wearing—shorts, get
ting shorter; I don’t blame that
on the Government. Being short
of cotton and wearing shorts of
cotton are not necessarily re
lated. We were admonished and
warned and urged and persuaded,
that the great war-effort required
at least sixteen million bales in
1951. All the clamor of the Wash
ington bureaucracy cried and
pleaded for at least 16,000,000
bales. The farmers were begged
most solemnly to plant cotton,
more cotton and then more.
Naturally this cry from Wash
ington was repeated in every cot-
con-growing. State by everybody.
More cotton was to be a glorious
war-effort, a noble contribution
to victory. You might have
thought the farmers would be
awarded medals of honor and
other decorations, with tumult
and shouting and brass bands.
Alas and alack! No so. In
stead of the cotton farmer re
ceiving a guaranteed price of
ninety per cent of the price of
cotton as it was in the winter, it
all turns out that the bureaucrats
have guaranteed a price of about
ten cents less per pound, say 30
cents, instead of 40 cents, in
round figures.
The farmer having planted cot
ton everywhere, has been helped
by the days and days of un
broken heat, so that it appears
that the crop may be a big
one. But could the farmer be
blamed for that?
I met a young man on a bus
this week, a lad from Bamberg
County. He told me that the
farmers of all that region would
have difficulty in getting cot
ton-pickers. One reason is that
the cotton-pickers are getting
jobs in war work. Cotton-farm
ers can’t possibly pay the wages
of war plants. So cotton as a
war crop is sacrificed, as Com
missioner Jones says.
dollars to prepare to resist Rus
sia. If the Russians don’t take
note of all that they must, indeed,
be the most thick-headed num
skulls that ever breathed. We
are filling our people with alarm;
we are destroying our faith in
the future; we are forgetting the
infinite wisdom and mercy of Je
hovah and preaching a doctrine
of inevitable war. If the stupid
leadership of this nation had rea
son to believe in the Russian
menace in 1945 why didn’t we
quietly go about our business,
preparing as we should, but- with
out screeches and screaming day
and night, telling the enemy of
our weakness and telling the
world that we shall be ready in
two or three years? And day by
day come new programs of world
help, all at our expense! Even
Senator Tom Connally of Texas
seems disgusted! And when Sena
tor Connelly can't stand for some
of the Truman stuff it must be
a rancid thing, for Senator Con
nally can wave the Truman flag
without fatigue, day and night,
unless a ground swell of opposi
tion tells him that Texas is about
to move from under his feet.
Everytime Y pick up a paper
I read a warning, a solemn ad
monition, or other hullabaloo,
from Washington. From the
President * down to some little
•fly-by-night minor official we are
warned of perils and dangers
an dlooming catastrophies, all
calling for billions and billions
of dollars. Most of the menace
grows out of the stupid diplomacy
of those very people. What could
be more blunderfully ridiculous
than the constant outpouring of
speeches predicting war with Rus
sia, while assuring the Russians
of our friendship? We tell the
world we are preparing for war;
spending scores of billions of
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Did you ever hear of John
Hampden? Do you recall the
Boston Tea-Party? Have you
ever read of those foolish people
who defied the Roman Emperors
and died in the arena, torn and
mauled by lions? Gan you imag
ine a more hopeless condition
than that which followed the
crucifixion? A mere handful of
men and women talking about
evangelizing the world! How pit
ifully weak and desperate must
have seemed the Man of Galilee
in the age of glamorous emperors,
in / a day of pomp and cruel
power! Where are those emper
ors? Where are those empires?
From the blood and dying
gasps of the Christian martyrs
grew r the religion of the Naza-
rene, who himself was nailed to
the cross. You might ask your
self: What is success? Well,
which was successful: The power
of Caesar, which hanged Jesus;
or the power of Jesus which
transforms millions of believers?
“Not by might nor by power,
but by my spirit.” Do we really
believe that, we people who re
joice in our practicality? Does
history teach us nothing?
I like to think of sturdy John
Hampden who refused to pay an
illegal tax to King Charles. In
that spirit Matthew Barkley and
B. F. Anderson brought suit
against the State of South Caro
lina. And in that spirit our
people engaged in the Revolution
ary War, though many South
Carolinians remained loyal to
King George. They were prosper
ing, so why take sides with the
“crazy” people who revolted
against the King? But were they
“crazy?” If they had not fought,
we would today belong to Eng
land. This so-called practical
man has been the greatest fail
ure, according to history. The
man of principle, the man esteem
ing, spiritual values, the man
building his life on useful ser
vice to humanity, stands like an
immovable rock in a day of shift
ing ambitions and personal pro
grams.
The Legislature had five
months in which to act; it dawdl
ed along until the last minute
and rushed through the bond
issue and Sales Tax. Even now
it could not spend the bond
money in a year. Why couldn’t
the Legislature respect the Con
stitution? It could not trust the
people. Well, if the people can’t
be trusted, what kind of demo
cracy have we?
The Legislature was not saving
segregation; it was trifling with
the Constitution. Some day we
may be sorry. When the Con
stitution is thrown overboard by
good men, bad men may do it,
too. Remember that.
One of the most intresting
campaigns of recent years was
that of Senator Taft of Ohio,
running for re-election, but op
posed by the greatest array of
political influence this Country
could master. Seventy thousand
people sent one-dollar bills to the
Taft campaign as an evidence of
interest. We can imagine that
seventy thousand dollars didn’t
cover all the cost of advertising
printing, postage and travel in a
thickly settled State of big cities;
it probably wouldn’t be sufficient
even in South Carolina; but it
shows that men and women felt
a deep interest in the campaign.
How many people are in the
public service in your County?
In a recent issue of The Press
and Standard of Walterboro, Col
leton County, Editor Smoak (son
of the “Bishop”) has a big head
line on his front page “One in
12 Colleton residents get funds
from taxes.” And a subhead
says: “Survey finds 2,246 persons
receive pay from Federal, State,
County or Town income.” Editor
Smoak gives the names. Colleton
is a small County, at least not
a rich County, though its two
banks have many millions of dol
lars, apparently disproving what
I said about not being rich.
I don’t think the purpose of
Editor Smoak was to challenge
the usefulness of the services
represented, but, rather, to show;
how large a part the public ser
vice plays.
The Rock Hill Post is also call
ing names. That vigorous young
paper is talking about the Legis
lative Delegation by name, dis
cussing the promises made by
each man in his campaign and
his record in office. In a first
page feature known as Scuttle
butt, .The Post treats some local
worthies in a playful mood, but
also suggests that edch one make
THE NEWBERRY SUN
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a will urging his “Great, Great
Grandchildren to notice” how a
well known Judge decides a ques
tion of York County politics!
It must be the heat. I suppose
it will be accepted without argu
ment or proof that it has been
hot. Remember what August can
do when it tries, we are probably
counting ori a day or two of hot
weather yet. If the Editor in
Colleton and the Editor in York
County respond to the heat, as
I’ve told you it must be due to
the heat, for Colleton is almost
at one end of the State while
York is cheek-by-jowl with North
Carolina. But, while South Caro
lina Editors have dealt kindly
with me, several of my readers
have shown that they, too, rec
ognize July and August as warm
days; and they have taken their
pens in hand.
What is upsetting my friends?
They seem to agree with me
about the blundering bureau
cracy;. and they don’t dissent
from my words of praise for our
old Carolina and Georgia, but sev
eral have taken me “sharply
to task” about my remark that
the State of South Carolina owns
the Santee-Cooper. They point
out that the Santee-Cooper • has
been holding back millions that
could have saved the State and
prevented the Sales Tax; and
that Santee-Cooper could pay the
interest and annual payment on
a small bond issue for schools.
Well, that does not change the
facts: the State does own Santee-
Cooper; and the State can regu
late and govern Santee-Cooper.
As the Legislature does not act
to suit my critics it must be
because the Legislature is well-
pleased with conditions as they
are. But the ownership by the
State is a fact, just the same.
'When I am asked why the
Santee-Cooper is not under the
Public Service Commission, as
the other power Companies are, I
can only cite the law.
An insurance apostle—fire in
surance brother he is—tells me
that fire insurance rates have
gone down in South Carolina in
recent years. Well, I repeat, it
Miss Eleanor Boozer
And James N. Beard
Wed At Aveleigh
Miss Eleanor Boozer, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Chevis I. Boozer
of Route No. 1, Newberry, and
James Neal Beard, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. James Neal Beard, were
married Sunday, July 22, at high
noon in Aveleigh Presbyterian
church.
The double ring ritual of the
church was used in the ceremony,
which was pronounced by the
Rev. Neill E. Truesdale, pastor.
Miss Mazie Dominick, organist,
and Miss Faye Mitchum, vvocal
soloist, presented a program of
wedding music.
Serving as acolytes were
Chevis I. Boozer, Jr., brother of
the bride, and Frank Beard,
brother of the bridegroom, who
also served as ushers.
Miss Carolyn Smith was maid
of honor. She wore a dress of
orchid organdie and carried a
colonial bouquet of pink asters
tied with orchid and green rib
bons.
Miss Donnell Swindler and
Miss Marcelle Boozer, sister of
bride, were bridesmaids.
They wore green organdie
dreftes and their colonial bou
quets of pink asters were held
with pink and green ribbons.
All attendants wore simulated
pearl checkers, the gifts of the
bride.
James Neal Beard, Sr., was his
son’s best man.
The bride was given in mar
riage. by her father. She wore
a wnite organdie bridal gown.
Her veH of illusion was held by
a coronet of valley lilies and
she carried a prayer book which
was decorated, with white purple-
throated orchids. She wore
pearls, the gift of the bridegroom.
Mrs. Boozer, mother of the
bride, was gowned in navy blue
with blue and white costume ac
cents and a shoulder corsage of
must be the heat; everybody is
calling everybody else down. At
any rate, my friend made such
a heated statement about reduced
fire insurance rates that I
thought he was himself on fire.
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pink carnations.
Mrs. Beard, mother of the
bridegroom, wore a dusty rose
chiffon and lace dress, with navy
accents, and a white corsage.
Following the ceremony the
bride and bridegroom paused in
the portico of the church to greet
the friends assembled for the
wedding.
The bride attended the Newber
ry city schools and was a clerk
at McCrory’s store before her
marriage.
The bridegroom is a graduate
of Newberry high school, and at-
tened Erskine college prior to
his induction in the United
States army. He is now at Fort
Jackson where he is an instructor
in a leadership school.
Mr. and Mrs. Beard are now in
Tribble Given
Silver Star
The posthumous award of the
Silver Star for gallantry in action
to M-Sgt. Julian Tribble, Negro,
residence in Columbia.
Among the out-of-town guests
attending the marriage were:
Mrs. A. F. Whitesides, Miss Wil
ma Whitesides, Gastonia, N. C.;
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Whitesides,
Jr., Birmingham Ala.; Mrs. John
Forbes of Matthews, N. C.; Mrs.
C. A. Beard of Newton, N. C.;
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Beard and
Mr. and Mrs. S. M Quion of
Charlotte, N. C.
307 Boundary street, was an
nounced July 21 by Major Gen
eral Ira P. Swift, commander of
the 25th Infantry Division.
Tribble received the award for
outstanding service against the
enemy near Haman, Korea while
serving with Company M.
Infantry Regiment, a part of the
25th Infantry Division. He dis
tinguished himself while
machine gun section was support
ing a combat patrol.
After contacting a strong enemy
force, the patrol was ordered to
disengage. Although seriously
wounded, he voluntarily remained
to cover the ^withdrawal and to
attempt to locate a missing mem
ber of his section. While in the
performance of
was fatally wounded
his mission, he
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