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-.?•• ■ THE NEW’BERRY SUN 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By ARMFIELD BROTHERS 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. Specfator Comments . . . Easley Editor Declares School Law Radical Dose To Take At One Time The older I grow the less I know. You may not be afflicted in that way though I challenge you tp take an examination for a Federal job. Considering the awesome type of examination we might think that the Federal Service is the refuge of genius and that genius flourishes there. And it may be so. But this mis fortune of knowing less and less is all too comon. Are you sure of your spelling? Can you “run up” a column of figures? Well, what is the Capital of Missouri? We used to know; and your twelve-year-old daughter or son may know. Did you ever see a college graduate tear his hair out trying to “do” a simple bit of arithmetic? Well, be calm; I’m not going to prove it. Simple Arithmetic, Simple Grammar, Simple History are not the only brain-racking difficul ties: how is this: the Government set out to save the farmer. We hear a lot about the money lost by saving the farmer. But here is a question: Why did our Government clamp down the lid on the Southern farmer’s cotton at forty five cents while the world price was much higher? There must have been a reason, but what was it? In simple ignorance we might assume that if the world price was above the ceiling price the Government might have stepped aside. As I said, there must be a reason. Some months ago I read Tom Linder’s comment on this and I raised the question then. It was my idea that the world price might have disrupted our in dustries and their contracts. I could easily imagine a paralyzing result if contracts based on forty and forty five cent cotton had to be filled by paying sixty or seventy cents. It might have closed the mills, with disastrous results to hundreds of thousands of men and women of the mills and as many more in all the stores and trades drawing trade from the heavy mill payrolls. Recently my very able and useful friend, J. M. Eleazer, has raised the question again. I think he also asks this: if the Govern ment sells the four million bale surplus to Europe and Asia will it sell on the world market? If not, why not? Mr. Eleazer s in teresting column in many papers brings afresh this ques tion. We know that much of our surplus is sold abroad at less than the price here. But it has always been contended that this practice was to stabilize the home market. That is to say that the high price at home depends on taking the surplus off the market. We can understand that, whether we regard it as sound practice or not. But the idea of selling our surplus abroad at less than the world price, in spite of a demand for it at the world price, 163.V6S us somewhat mystified. And on the strength of that wor ld demand our Government urged the farmers to plant cotton, more cotton, as a great war-effort. Of course the Government doesn t need all the cotton; it is just a wild gesture of the general in competence that prevails in Wash ington. ' Mr. Eleazer is connected with the Extension Agricultural work The DEPARTMENT Of COMMERCE And BUSINESS y ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES NEW COURSES In SECRETARIAL Subjects designed for building Shorthand Skill on a Broad Business Vocabulary. THE COURSE Emphasizes Civil Service Dictation, Medical Dictation, and other Voca tional Dictation, representing Six teen Modern Businesses. THIS COURSE Will be of special appeal to Nurses and Stenographers who are interest ed in better preparing themselves for Advancement. SPECIAL CLASSES May^ be arranged for those desiring Shorthand alone. Fall Semester Begins — September 13th For Information Call — the Registrar's Office Telephone No. 330-M of Clemson College. And Clem- son is closely associated with the Federal Government. If so well- informed a writer from the inner circles raises the question it is deserving of an answer. Perhaps Commissioner Linder, the eagle of Georgia; or Commissioner Roy Jones of South Carolina, or some one else in authority, could answer. Our Senator Burnett Maybank is not only one of the top men in the Senate, but he is a man long regarded as an ex pert in the cotton business; per haps the Senator could explain this, or get the information for us. What do you know about Green wood? Do you think of it as an attractive city built on both sides of the Rail Road tracks but with out any social distinction based on which side of the tracks? Do you think about Greenwood be cause of the textile mills and the fine hospital? Well, there are facts of great interest about Greenwood so I copy from Broth er Harry Watson’s paper. The Index-Journal. I should point out that though Editor Watson is brimming over with the Green wood spirit he is himself publish ing a dispatch from New York. Here is the dispatch: “On the basis of money earn ed in Greenwood County in 1950 and the amount spent in the local retail stores, the city takes its place as one of the richer markets of the United States. This is shown in the new, copy righted survey of buying power, prepared by Sales Management, covering every section of the country. The high scale of business activity in Greenwood is indicat ed by the $24,495,000 in sales chalked' up In the local stores. This figure, an increase from the $21,158,000 retail business of the previous year, was well over the city’s quota. It represents .0175 percent of the nation’s business -more than the .0091 percent that should be produced locally on the basis of population. The chief factor in the bigger spending locally was the better earnings of Greenwood families. The data shows that the 3,600 families had a net disposable in come, after taxes, of $16,513,000. It Represented an average income of $4,587 per family. This was higher than the $4,521 earnings nationally and than the $3,882 per family averaged in the South Atlantic States. In South Carolina it was $3,066. The figures are arithmetical averages, it is pointed out, and are higher than the median fig ures that will emerge later from the 1950 census, which took into account only individual incomes under $10,000. The fact that the volume of sales locally was greater than the total income indicates that the city is the center of a large trading area. A guide to the relative eco nomic position of each commun ity is given in the survey by a quality of market index. This compares the individual city’s potential, based on population, income, sales and other factors, to that of the rest of the coun try. Greenwood’s index is placed at 123, or 23 percent above the general average.” This, as you observe, is about Greenwood County. Julien D. Wyatt of Pickens County is an editorial writer of notable clarity and independance. Brother Wyatt regards some of us as old fogeys but he has a tender spot in his heart for us, just as we admire him. Mr. Wyatt discusses the new school law as approaching radi cal venture, in The Easley Pro gress. I quote his editorial, omitting several sentences. “The new school law is a very radical dose for consumption in one gulp. We find it pretty hard to understand, and even con ceding the extremely high level of legislative ability, we doubt if very many members of the State Legislature understand just ex actly what they did. The act, or probably it is only the state dic tatorship which it has set up, says there must be a negro high school in every district and that high school must have 250 negro students. Thus it follows that Laurens County can have only two school districts. They even wonder if it means Greqnville and Parker must consolidate be cause Parker can’t get up 250 darkies for a Waring College. It seems that once again Judge Waring has scared the White folks out of their wits.. Why, we say why, does .every school dist rict have to have a negro school? If there is only one negro stu dent in a district must it main tain a Negro high school? Judge Waring doesn't even think that way. It may be that it is best to have only one school district to a county, or perhaps only one to the state, or perhaps just go all the way and let the Federal Gov ernment take over the schools. That may be the best—we do not think so, and we believe the de struction of local influence and supervision in the schools is the beginning of their deterioration and certainly the opening wedge for the abolition of segregation. There may be economics in the new act, but there is much in the loss of freedom and the advance of socialism. It is a radical ven ture—certainly no preventive of the one thing it is supposed to do—to maintain segregation. It transfers spending from a local to a county and state level. No local car dealer will any more sell school buses—the juicy com missions on the huge bus orders are reserved for Columbia. Watch it, all the other spending and con tracting will move in that direc tion. A Truman Fair Deal might in the long run be a better choice than a Columbia Fair Deal which contains absolutely no guarantee on the segregation issue.” I referred to this last week. I know that the great program was planned as a Segregation meas ure, to meet the requirements of the Federal Court. I think we have probably opened the flood gates and flooded the State. My brethren of the academic field may not be wizards merely because of success in teaching or in supervising a small group of schools. Wizards are needed to uproot so much and to build a- new. We might well make haste slowly and build securely when we build. Nobody seems to know what the program is, exactly, but in true bureaucratic style much talking is being done, some of it very disquieting, some of it sounding badly conceived. The education of the boys and girls of our State is i^ot entirely a purely academic training, or the teaching of certain subjects in classes. In a democratic coun try it may be more useful to maintain adequate neighborhood schools than to transport chil dren long distances to great cen ters. There is a point beyond which school work does not gain in efficiency. Even in industry we have learned that, in the im personal operations of production. In education work it has not been proved that a small, well- equipped and capably-staffed col lege is inferior to a vast Univer sity in covering the same under graduate field. It certainly may be desirable to have high schools where the number of pupils and the available means, make pos sible effective high school wCTrk. That may be 150 pupils, since many will drop out and two sec tions of the lower classes may be had; but there is only doubhtful advantage in concentrating great numbers in primary grades, brought from great distances. If we want to use big w T ords we might contend that, as a matter of Sociology, our Nation, as a Na tion, of men and women, owes much to Country schools, small schools, and small churches. It is the genius of democracy, the very essence of it, that we build men and manhood. The problem is not primarily one of buses and buildings, but of teach ing, effective teaching. L. P. Hol lis, of Greenville, affectionately remembered by all Carolina men as “Pete”, made a good point when he said that the people of the State are more interested in the quality of the teaching than in any other phase of school work. And a real teacher teaches effectively even under handicaps, but no equipment, no building and no buses can make a real teach er out of an incompetent. Have you ever heard of the old school masters whose pupils attained success? And do you recall the great James H. Carlisle or the great Richard Furman? What did they have of facilities? Yet they wrought wondrously for the State. The men and women who re deemed South Carolina from radical rule; and their sons and daughters who have rebuilt and magnified the State economically -they were trained at home, but they attended little schools of scant equipment. There they had teachers, real teachers! NOTICE Redeemer Lutheran church, Boundary and Wilson streets, Newberry, S. C. is asking for sealed bids for local painters and contractors , on painting the church inside and outside accord ing to specifications in the hands of the undersigned. Bidders are requested to put in two itemized bids as follows: 1. Bidder to furnish everything. 2. Bidder to furnish everything except paints and thinners. The undersigned committee reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Homer W. Schumpert C. B. Spinks Chester Hawkins 17-ltp. SHEALY-STUCK An engagement of much in terest is that of Miss Rosemary Shealy of Little Mountain and Warren Monroe Stuck of Waiter- boro and Pomaria, announced by her mother. / Miss Shealy is the only daugh ter of Mrs. Elmer L. Shealy and the late Mr. Shealy of Little .Mountain. She is a graduate of the Little Mountain high school Mr. Stuck is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Stuck of Po maria. Announcement Dr. Rayburn W. Lominack has resumed his * Medical practice FOREST PEST CONTROL IS FOREST MANAGEMENT, TOO Forest management means many things in modem America. It means protecting woodland from fire—it means harvesting practices that leave seed trees or young timber for tomor row’s wood crops—it means protecting trees from destructive grazing. Forest management also means guard ing woodlands from tree-killing insects and disease. Here, you see an airplane spraying an insect-infected forest. Every year the forest industries, and state and federal forest agencies co operate in carefully planned campaigns against insects, disease and fire. Spraying operations like this save bil lions of feet of future lumber and mil- » lions of tons of future wood pulp for the nation. This is one of many ex amples of effort in the never-ending job of protecting and growing MORE TREES FOR AMERICA. 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