Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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" '/ THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1952 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By ARMFIELD BROTHERS Entered as second-claas 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. Corifments On Men And Things . . . Eisenhower Picked Most Likely To Garner Votes Of Carolinians Shall the Social Security Tax of 2% per cent be applied to farmers who operate their own farms? The question is a live one, for the plan of the bureau crats is to bring in the farm ers who are self-employed, or op erating for themselves. A weU known citizen of the State writes about it and I am consulting my friends of the Farm Bureau to ascertain what they think of the program. A letter to me shows that an outstanding citizen is astonished that the fifteen or sixteen billion dollar reserve is invested in Government bonds. Several years ago I consulted a very able man about this and he seemed to think the practice was sound. Here’s how it works: the money paid for what is called the Old Age and Survivors’ Insurance— the three per cent at present ly per cent by the employer— that tax swells into billions every year. In the fifteen years of the operation of this Old Age In surance the Government has ac cumulated fifteen or sixteen bil lions more than all the money paid out in benefits. Where is that money? There is no such money: the Government spends the money and puts bonds in the Treasury. If there should ever be a% heavy withdrawal; or if within a year the outgo exceeded the income, the Government would have to borrow money to make up the difference, or im pose taxes for the outlay. Does that look like good business? Should such a trust fund be used by the Government? Or should n’t it be set aside and guarded jealously for tlm benefit of the millions of peopre who have paid in the money and have a right to except payment in their old age? My correspondent makes the point that the program to in clude millions of additional work ers is really a subtle effort to get more money to spend, while putting I.O.U’s in the box. It is not a sound v plan for a trustee to spend the trust funds. Carolina Rice! A man in Peru said to me “El arroz de Carolina; Senor; el Estado de Ud.” What he said was “Rice from. Caro lina, Sir;, you State.” But it was not rice from Carolina, but “the Carolina” is the grade of rice. My South American friends ofte nsaid that the finest quality of rice is labelled “Carolina.” Carolina was once a great rice producer. Today Louisiana and Texas are the rice producers. But perhaps South Carolina may “come back.” When I was ad dressing the South Carolina Agri cultural Society some weeks ago I heard of an inquiry from Texas for 20,000 acres in or near Charleston County for rice. So I read with special interest the story in the press that 500 acres in the lower Santee Delta will be planted in rice. . As I understand, the planting of rice will be an undertaking Oi. The South Carolina Rice Growers’ Association, I quote The News & Courier: “Mr. Major said the entire operation will be mechanized from the planting to harvest. Plans of the association call for building a drying warehouse and a mill to handle the crop. The association has its own out lets for handling sale of the pro duct. While the South Carolina rice industry was dealt a death blow by a hurricane in 1911, scattered plantations held out until after 1920. Perhaps the last sizable rice acreage was planted by the late L. A. Beck man, superintendent of the San tee Gun Club, for many years, who maintained acreages between 100 and 200 acres until 1936. In 1938, R. O. Mercer, present sup erintendent, planted 50 acres, the last to be planted there. About 10 years ago Malcolm Lee McLeod, Low country lumber man, began experimenting with rice on the Edisto. He produced successful crops in 1950 and 1951 on some 260 acres. Last year Mr. Major’s wife sup ervised the planting, care and harvest of a rice crop on the Edisto River and its success was a big factor in the forma tion of the association. Shall the South Carolina State ONE GREASE for au t Lubrication lobs. With just one grease, Sinclair Litholine, you can lubricate chassis, wheel bearings, water pumps, universal joints... of your car, truck or tractor.. winter or summer. Farmers find it does a better job at each lubrication point than the ’’specialized” greases they formerly used. FARM ADVANTAGES at-o-glance: 1. A finer grease at every point. 2. Less danger of applying the wrong grease. * 3. Quicker greasing operations. 4. Smaller grease stocks — one instead of 3 or 4. 5. Fewer grease guns. 6. Less waste. Democratic Convention meet and adjourn cne day in May, as • usual? Or, shall the Convention transact the usual business and recede, have a recess, subject to recall by the Chairman or Executive Committee? I quote from a letter to me by the well- known Carolinian who has been in the forefront of the fight for a fresh and vigorous assertion of States’ Rights or local self- government—James H. Hammond of Columbia: Hon. J. K. Breedin Manning, S. C. Dear Mr. Breedin: Following conversation with you I thought I had best write you a few things I think of in con nection with the oncoming elec tions. South Carolina will vote for any Democratic candidate who is truly at heart a Democrat. Truman is not and never was a Democrat and this state is not going to vote for him under any conditions, in my opinion. Of course if Byrnes, Russell or Byrd run, or somebody like that, this state is going to vote Demo cratic. Should Truman be nominated and have to run against TaCt or Eisenhower, the state will be confronted with a terrible situa tion having no Democratic candi date to vote for. The people don’t like Taft, but if it were between Truman and Eisenhower, my opinion is they would go for Eisenhower because even on the Republican ticket he is more a Democrat than Truman is or ever has been. The County and State conven tions should not adjourn after their meeting but should recede from business. We don’t know where we are going and if these conventions are adjourned and things take an un- forseen turn, we would have no way of having popular ideas brought before our people for concerted action. Certainly these conventions should recede from business until after they know who both Nation al parties put in as their, candi dates. In my opinion this is a greatest importance, particularly at this time. Very truly, James H. Hammond.” 1 think Mr. Hammond is right, that the State Conven tion should not adjourn sine die, but should be subject to recall, following the National Conven tions. W« d«iiv*r d/r*cf to farm*. P/iono or writ* us. Strother C. Paysinger Suppliers of Sinclair Prod. Newberry, S. C. UTHOUNE WUlTI-PURPOSi GREASE This is an age of power; so I like to read what is going on. I found something interesting in an advertisement and want to tell you about it: “POWER AT YOUR FINGER TIP—Nearly everything you do today is easier, quicker and bet ter—thanks to electricity. If you are an average American worker you use the strength of nine lorses each working hour of the day. Merely by flicking a switch '. . for by that simple act you are tapping the vast sources of electric energy that are ready to work for all of us in the home and on the job. Today, the use of electric power has grown to where a sin gle factory uses more electricity than an entire city used a genera tion ago. And your home—with its electric appliances, lighting and other conveniences — con sumes more power than was used in yesterday’s factory. This great progress could not have jeen achieved without the many new and better materials which make possible today’s larger and more efficient power generating equipment. Giant turbines and generators, for example, couldn’t stand up under terrific heat, pressure, wear and corrosion if it weren’t for teels made tough and enduring oy alloying metals. Improved plastics also do their part in bet- ;er insulation and protective coat ings. And carbon brushes are as vital to huge generators as they are to your vacuum cleaner motor.” Wonderful age we live in, isn’t it? So great is the use of electric power that the great generating facilities of the Na tion are being increa'sed at an almost incredible rate. I think I’ve read that the rate of in crease has been so great that we have as much new power since 1940 as we had available all the years up to 1940. Today we have electricity; soon, perhaps, natural gas; then atomic power. But power, in some form, multiplying the abil ity of the workers. people as the Gr*at Spirit of personal renunciation, of supreme dedication and devotion. Lincoln grows in stature and favor, as we contemplate his broad-mindedness, his sympathy, tolerance and forbearance. In a day of petty minds, vengeful spirits, Lincoln stood out for broad humanity, with malice to ward none, with charity for all. As illustrative of Lincoln’s great spirit a small incident has ap pealed to me: some tale-bearer said to Mr. Lincoln “Stanton (his Secretary of War) says you are a fool.” A small man would have kicked Stanton out. Lincoln, stroked his chin whiskers and said “Did Stanton say that? Well, it must be so, for Stanton is usually right.” What can be added to the lustre of Washington, the noblest figure ever to stand in the fore front of a Nation. Washington may have been an ordinary mili tary leader, though it is difficult to iheasure a leader who had so little to throw against the invader. Perhaps Washington has become a figure of such commanding eminence that all the details aro lost in the immensity of the colossal figure. Disregarding all the practical side of his very practical practice we stand in profound respect be fore the awesome grandeur of his towering character. Behold a man who sought only the best for his country and who sedulously avoided all dubious association and questionable expedients. It was no idle tribute of the orator to say of Washington: “First in War; first in peace; and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Of course that doesn’t mean that Washington plunged into war, but that when the nation was at war Washing ton was the stalwart* figure who personified victory; and so in every relationship. We look to Washington, still a spirit alive among us, still the guide and refuge of our peo ple, who think of Washington as a figure in close communion with Jehovah, the man of God, con stantly renewing his strength from the fountains of Eternal Truth. Library Shelves Hold Many New Volumes Among the books recently add ed to the collection of the New- berry-Saluda Regional Library are the following: Adult Fiction. Remember the Valley, Ben jamin; The Serpent - Wreathed Staff, Hobart; The Lost Sea, Hartog; Novelette, Barker; The Sultan’s Warrior, Baldwin; The Glorious Three, Wetherell; Forty Pounds of Gold, Stong; The Sea Gulls Woke Me, Stoly; The Mystery of Hidden Village, Turn- gren; Lise Lilly white, Sharp; Bull dozer, Meador; I and Claudie, Anderson; Jingling-Spurs, Raine; Mister Johnson, Cary; Children of the Archibishop, Collins; The Enchanting Witch, Farrell; The Wanderer, Waltari; The Lute Player, Lofts; Where Nests the Water Then, Roy. Adult Non-Fiction. Voyage to Windward, Furnas; Cleopatra Slept Here, Brown; Ice Is Where You Find It, Thomas; Virginia, a Guide to the Old Dominion; The Best Plays of 1950-1951; Biginner’s Guide to At tracting Birds, Hausman; - The Baseball Reader, Graber; You’re as Young as You Act, Wilson. Juvenile Fiction. Red Fox of me Kinapoo, Rush; Steamboat South, Chastain; The Capture of the Golden . Stallion, Montgomery; Storm of Dance- wood, Chipperfield; A Ranch for Danny, Bulla; Finders Keepers, Richardson. Advertisement For Bids Sealed bids for Alterations to Ground Floor of the First Bap tist Church, Newberry, S. C. will be received by the Board of Dea cons, First Baptist Church, c/o Irvine B. Leslie, Architect at 7:30 P.M. Friday, February 8, 1952. Plans^ specifications and con tract documents may be inspected, without charge at the office of Irvine B. Leslie, Architect, 1410 Friend Street, Newberry, S. C., where they may also be obtained upon a deposit of $10.00. The de posit will be refunded upon re turn of the plans and specifica tions in good condition. Refunds will be limited to ten (10) days after opening of bids. Bids must be submitted on the Form of Proposal provided with the specifications, and the suc cessful bidder will be required to execute the Form of Contract provided for construction of the work. The right is reserved as the interest of the Owners may ve- AUDITOR’S 1952 TAX ASSESSMENT NOTICE Returns of personal prop erty, new buildings and real estate transfers, and poll tax, are to be made at the Coun ty Auditor’s Office begin ning: January 1st, 1952 through February 29th, 1952 All able bodied male citi zens between the ages of twenty-one and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax. ' All returns are to be made by School Districts. Your failure to make return calls for penalty as prescribed by law. PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS Auditor Newberry County 38-6tc. SERGEANT SINGLEY ENROUTE HOME M/Sgt. Levi C. Singley of Route 3, Newberry, recently left the 7th infantry Division on the fighting front in Korea to return home under the Army’s rotation program. During the most recent action the men of his unit have been engaging the Communists in the countains north of Mwachon. The division has been playing an important part in the Korean war since landing at Inchon in September of 1950. Sergeant Singley, first sergeant of the 31st Infantry Regiment’s Company G, entered the Army in September of 1950. He received his basic training at Camp Pickett, Va. A jreteran of 10 months Ko rean service, Sergeant Singley holds the Combat Infantryman Badge. — Dr. James L. Biber Announces the Opening of Offices for the practice of .Optometry Offices 304 Exchange Bank Building Telephone 144 ..«rVi - - - — '■I Make a HABIT of Banking Regularly \ ■ -aferv v ^52 THE BEST WAY TO MAKE SURE OF CONTINU ED SECURITY FOR YOUR FAMILY IS BY BANK ING REGULARLY. IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY ACQUIRED Start the bank habit today! it, - v -. Y/kuai . FOR YOUR OWN HOME FOR YOUR CHILDREN’S EDUCATION FOR MEETING EMERGENCIES FOR FUTURE SECURITY V. The Sout National Carolina ank John T. Norris, Mgr. Joe L. Keitt, Asst. Mgr. i the reject Robert E. Lee and Benjamin Franklin were born in January; Abraham Lincoln and George Washington in February. Just off-hand, without consulting a book, can you think of four men in public life today of the stature of those four? Franklin, the typical American of the old school; a man* who was frugal and thrifty, who had to make the dollars go a long way, and who used his quick mind to solve simple problems of convenience, as well as questions of depth and breadth. Franklin was a shrewd, crafty citizen, but a man of vision and * wisdom, while eminently practical in the busi ness of life. He was full of the interests and affairs of life, seek ing life in its fullness, the more abundant life, at least in its workaday phases, not claiming great spirituality for Franklin. And then comes General Robert E. Lee, the Peerless Knight, the Soul of ^lonor, the unselfish spirit who renounced so much for a principle in following his Native State Into Secession. Lee lives forever in the hearts of the quire to inject any or all bids, and ta waive any informaiity in bids received. «*_ No bids may be withdrawn after the scheduled closing time for the receipt of bids for a per iod, of ten (lO* days. Irvine B. Leslie, Architect 38-2tc WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRS BROADUS LIPSCOMB WATCHMAKER 2309 Johnstone Street *OUR IN NtfW POWER -■•with WHIZ MOTOR RYTHR), Cleans out carbon and sludge. Re news engine “pep”, protects against friction. Add to gas and oil. Satisfac tion or money refunded. Try motor rythm! R. M. Hollingshead Corp., Camden 2, N. J At Swvica Stations, Garages, Auto Supply Store Distributed By PIEDMONT AUTO PARTS CO., INC. 1320 Thompson St. Newberry, 3. C. Polk Cardigan claMic cfaete $18.75 It's young. It's deceptively simple in its precise tailoring. A smart, soft casual rayon crepe with jewelry neckline. % The blouse has a fly-front and the skirt a deep un pressed pleat. Sizes for misses, women, half sizes. 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