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PAGE FOUR 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. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECtXtOR Democrats, Yes—But Americans First! . Most of us were born in the Democratic Party, but we v.ere born American citizens, too. As a boy here in Charleston I was taught the lessons of the patriots; I de claimed the speeches of Patrick Henry; I learned of George Washington; I spoke in school the Declaration of Inde pendence ; I read accounts of the Partisan leaders who roamed South Carolina —- Sumter, Marion, Pickens and others. Great figures were the men who stood in the forefront of America’s battle for independence. I still revere the memory of great men and notable achievement. I have been reared 'on stories of men who had vision, who worked and saved, who became great leaders in a de veloping land. They built well, for we greatly surpass all other nations in the opportunities and rewards for the worker. This is not due to exceptional resources alone, for other lands have as much; but it is due to exceptional opportunity fostered by the American way of living. In recent years we have fallen under* * the sway of men who have done little or nothing themselves but have bor rowed from Europe the idea of planning our life for us. If there is a plan there must be a planner, so these men are the planners. Little by little planning grew into con trols. Today we are under the control of a body of men who do not even talk our language. If any benefit has accrued then we are like those crying for the flesh pots of Egypt, men preferring bondage to strenuous liberty. The America of our fathers was a land in which every man might make of himself what he could: he sought no Government favor and he had no Government controls over him. Men who built this old City—and built it well—were far-aeeing men, men of vision who built of materials more enduring than bronze—they built on the imperishable spirit of accomplishment. We have naturally fallen into Socialism, as Socialism is Government control. In regulations we are making the Federal Government supreme. It is supreme even if the courts must twist the Constitution beyond recognition; it seeks to be supreme now in actual business operations, competing with its own people. This newest effort is to engage in the power business. , There is only one remedy: we must rid ourselves of Truman, Trumanities and Trumanism. There must be no compromise; it is a nation we must save, not a mere political party. That men of our way of thinking should control the Democratic Party seems a fatuous hope; but unless this nation is assured a thorough cleansing and reconsecration we should use our ballots independently, voting Republican if necessary and then turning them out within 8 years before they also acquire the mink-coat habit. (A speech made by J. K. Breedin to the Kiwanis Club in Charleston.) Government Power Competitor The late Christie Benet, fine citizen and lovable gentle man that he was, met me one day on the street in Colum bia and expressed the gravest concern over the* prospect of the flooding of Clemson property by the proposed Hart well dam. More recently an engineer of Virginia, a Clem son man, has written at length in the same vein. We are told that all this is not true. What engineer of recog nized standing supports the contention that Clemson will not suffer? Some of us are nearing the end of the trail. During the years we have seen many drastic changes, some of them not very good. Although I have been a student of government the shock to me is as a citizen, not as a student or publicist. As a citizen I have seen ambitious programs submitted to Congress under a deliberate deception. Congress has adopted some of these programs Tinder complete misappre hension, based on misinformation. In time of flood and storm we become sympathetic to ward programs of flood control; then, again, we are easily persuaded that we should dredge our rivers and use them for heavy freight, so that brings up navigation. It is a double-barreled proposal that we spend billions of dollars to promote use of rivers for navigation and set up an elaborate flood control. Merely as an incident (some times not emphasized) reference is made to use of the water for generating electric power. Then it suddenly develops that the whole scheme is a sort of gigantic subterfuge in order to make the nation a competitor in the power business. Today the T.V.A. is openly so powerminded that it is building on a vast plan to produce electric power by steam. ^ Knowing some of the promoters of the so-called water projects and Navigation schemes I believe in their good faith, but they are being subjected to the persuasive bland ishments of the Washington Socialist planners and they are carrying the nation rapidly to all-out competition with its own citizens and taxpayers. EDITRESS Miss Alma Altman of this city has joined the tribe of scribes by becoming editor (or editress) of the Furman University publication “The Hornet.” SIMPLE, ISN’T IT? The Johnston Herald offers a simple rule for Punctu ation for typesetters. It goes like this: Set up type as long as you can hold your breath wihout turning blue in the face and then put in a comma. When you start to gape, put in a semicolon, and when you have to sneeze, start a new paragraph. HAULING THE BRASS In Washington city alone there are 849 full-time chauf fers and 317 part-time, to move the “brass” around on missions which would as well be lef^ unattended. POOR SPELLERS Some of our greatest men are said to have been poor spellers. If so a Newberry county merchant might be numbered among them. Closing his place recently he chalked the following on the window: “CLOWED. OUT OF BUSINESS.” UNASSISTED Every chair in the doctor’s office was taken. Some of the patients talked for a while and then silence fell. Final ly one old man stood up wearily and remarked: “Well, I guess I’ll just go home and die a natural death.” WELL, THAT’S ONE REASON Nearly 80 couples attended a marriage renewal ser vice at St. Paul’s Church, Margate. On Sunday night. As they knelt in prayer, the Vicar (the Rev. Frank Mellows) read out the marriage vows. In his address the Vicar pointed out that at the be- gining of the century there were only about 500 di vorces, whereas the number now was more than 1,000 a week. He spoke of some of the causes of broken marriages. Sometimes it was because the husband did not pay suf ficient attention to his wife, who then responded to the advances of another man. WE’LL BUY THIS Ed. Finlay in The State: I don’t know what the law is, or even if there is a: law, but someone should have the authority to control some of these lame-brained motorboat operators. A Sunday driver on the highway is one who slows everyone down by pid dling along at 20 miles an hour. But a Sunday driver on the water is a speed demon who makes a nuisance of him self by endangering others—and there are too many of them running loose. If a man likes speed with his outboard, let him have it away from other people; but don’t let him have it bother ing and endangering others by speeding right by them or sending out big waves with sharp turns. > Maybe a special law would be needed giving Santee- Cooper and Lake Murray game wardens the right to make cases against reckless operators. And as another safety measure I’d like to see a law pro viding that every boat offered for rent come up to a cer tain standards, both in dimensions and state of repair; and possibly another law to make everyone going out on one of the big reservoirs have a life preserver. There’d be a dozen or so less funerals this summer. PAIR OF LITTLE ONES From The Saluda* Sentinel: * 4 C. A. Bodie, who lives in the Richland Spring sec tion seemed awfully “peeved” about something the other day. He was making excuses about not catching any fish. Said he went one day last week and came back with only two little orphan fish. One weighed 14 1-4 pounds and the other 12 3-4 pounds. Now, before you turn green, bear in mind these fish were Carp*. Mr. Bodie was told the Carp were coming out and wal lowing around the shallow waters like so many pigs. Word comes in front the Higgins section thait a num ber of fellows caught over 500 pounds. Rumor has it they were also Carp. These fish, we are told, are not caught with hook and line. They go after ’em Beaver fashion. ashineton •••••••••••••••••• DOESN’T TRUST THE HUNS A wreck of a man, helped by two ushers, climbed to the rostrum in the French National Assembly. He was a Buchenwald concentration camp victim, M. George^ Heuil- ard, aged 52, speaking on the European Army, and he said: + “I am a condemned man. I am going to die soon, but before that let me warn you: Distrust the Germans al ways. Do not rearm Germany. “I do not want my sons and grandchildren to fight at the side of their father’s hangmen. “When I was at Buchenwald my friends and I swore an oath that the survivors would always oppose any form of German rearmament. Most of my friends are dead, but I am addressing the Assembly on their behalf. P OLITICS at the Washingtwi lev el is at least confounding the experts. The managers of the booming campaign of General Dwight Eisenhower, who a short few weeks ago were screaming to get General Eisenhower back into this country, are now divided up on the expediency rf his coming home now for fear lest some of the romance and glamour of the five-star general might rub off in close contact with the people. The best information obtainable now is that the general, who has said he may “re-examine” his po sition, will be back probably by June 1. And further, it is likely that if “Ike” makes any speeches prior to the GOP convention in Chi cago, they will be “non-political” speeches. ‘ The General feels that it would be in bad taste for him to cam paign in uniform of a general of the army, and for that reason, if he is nominated by the Republican convention, he will resign from the army, give up his pay and retire ment emoluments, and campaign strictly as a civilian. This is in direct contrast to the action of General Douglas Mac- Arthur, who has declared he is willing to accept a nomination and is making political speeches against his commander-in-chief, with uni form, army plane and all. • • • At the other end of the Republi can field, Senator Robert A. Taft, “Mr. Republican” himself, who has been considered as the Republican organization candidate, or at least the candidate of the professional politicians in the convention, hotly blasted the disaffection in the New Jersey Republican organization and withdrew from that state primary on the ground he is not getting a square break against General Eisenhower. Senator Taft’s with drawal from New Jersey Is con sidered a confession of weakness, although his managers still claim he is out in front of the Republican field by a two-to-one delegate vote at this time. Senator Taft’s stinging defeat at the hands of the Eisenhower sup porters in New Hampshire and the unprecedented write - in vote in Minnesota in favor of Eisenhower ' have given the Taft supporters cause for anxiety and although General Eisenhower came, out of Minnesota with none of the dele gates, all going to Harold Stassen, who has agreed to divide delegates with Ike, the Minnesota vote was more -important politically than the few delegates General Eisenhower picked up in his New Hampshire victory. • • • QtENATOR TAFT needed an ex- ^ tra strong showing in the Wis consin primary. Of course there are many more delegates, which * the Taft supporters declare they will garner from conventions and party appointments, than are named in primaries which will show up in his camp at Chicago, but even the professional politicians can read a trend. Stassen will wind up In the Eisen hower camp, probably angling for some cabinet job and that may also be true of Governor Warren of California, although there are some who give him a chance in case of an unlikely deadlock. ' On the Democratic side of the picture, President Truman is as uncommunicative as ever as to his intentions. Politically, the Presi dent is being wise in putting off any announcement as long as possible, particularly if his decision is not to run. If this is his decision, he might be placed at a disadvantage in dealing with our European allies, and, if he does decide to run, he is not being hurt, since the concensus is that he only has to make his wishes known to gain the nomina tion. Senator Richard B. Russell oi Georgia, who has thrown his hat in the ring, has opened up national headquarters here and actively started hi£ campaign. He is being importuned by his southern sup porters to head up a Dixiecrat party, but the word is that he has refused on the theory he does not believe President Truman will run What his reactiop will be if the President does run remains to be seen, although he refused to bolt the regular Democratic party when the Dixiecrats took a walk at the Philadelphia convention in 1948. In the meantime. Senator Estes Kefauver is making hay where he can with a back-breaking schedule The 1962 Maid of Cotton, Miss Patricia Ann Mullarkey, 20, of Dallas, -Texas, made flying visits to Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fresno, , Bakersfield, Denver, Des Moines, St. Louis ahd New York recently. By plane, the maid will travel 66,000 miles in the next .five months as the 14th fashion and goodwill ambassadress for the 13,000,000-member cotton Indus try. Her visits to 30 major Ameri can cities are just a starter on this young emissary’s travels. She will enjoy “April in "Paris,” and cherry blossom time in Wash ington, D. C. She will be the first Maid of Cotton to carry King Cotton’s greetings to Cana da. In mid-June, she will board, a Braniff International Airways El Conquistador for a five-week fly ing visit to five South American counties. A highlight of the American part of her tour will be her re turn to Memphis in (May to attend a special Maid of Cotton Ball at the annual Memphis Cotton Carni val. She also will make a re port of her travels to the Carni val’s King Cotton. In each of Maid Pat’s tour stops she will be giving fashion shows at various department stores—all cotton, of course— greeting mayors, governors and other public .officials, making radio and television appearances. And, at all times, she will be wearing her exclusive wardrobe, created especially for her by 36 of America’s most famoys de signers. Her hats, bags, shoes, even luggage are cotton! Miss Mnllarkey was chosen Maid of Cotton January 3, in Memphis. Miss Estelle Lane, fashion editor of McCall’s maga zine, headed th§ judging panel which chose her on the basis of personality, poise, intelligence, as well as beauty. Until then. Maid Pat was a senior student at Southern Methodist University, where she was 1961 Homecoming queen, a yearbook beauty and a home economics major. Her fath er is a representative of a large textile manufacturing firm. The contest and tour are spon sored by the National Cotton Council, the Memphis Cotton Carnival Association, and the cotton exchange of Memphis, New York and New Orleans. tHi ' i ' mm For a widely-traveled of Cotton, a sports outfit from the Italian, inU American cotton. Miss Pa key, chooses this Stanley . Beacon Hill design, for hear moments on her 65, will tour. The versatile sweater is in washable knit, the dickey in, white knit and the shorts skirt in ambra solare according to the National Council. Here’s the Doi BUT OFFICER, I'M SUPPOSED TO PUT MY APM OUT WHEN I STOP. 1 7 — ^ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO S WORRYING AND START! Your lob ♦ aV apHE NATION’S weekly newspaper ^ editors waited until the smoke had cleared from the New Hamp shire election battle before com menting editorially. As a result, they came up with some precise, if somewhat sarcastic, observa tions. Here are a few of them, se lected at random: The Berlin Reporter, Berlin, N.H. —“Interpreting in clear, dramatic terms the way that ’hiost of the people feel about affairs of the day. Kefauver did it and won. Taft mis took politician# for people and lost . . . “That, It seems to us, was the sum and substance of the New Hampshire primary ... "Kefauver went out and shook their hands and ASKED^or their votes. Taft went out and TOLD the people that they must vote for him to save the country from Socialism." • • * The Irwin Standard, Irwin, Pa.— “More than a trace of the spirit of rebellion and unrest that prompt ed the famous Boston Tea Party as a prelude to the Revolutionary War, is evident in the T’ party staged by the voters of New Hamp shire in the nation’s first 1952 presidential primary . . . Just as the patriots of Boston dumped tea into the bay as a protest against intolerable conditions, so the voters of New Hampshire tossed over board the candidacies of President Truman and Senator Taft in favor of new faces in the political field.” • • • The Hillsboro Argus, Hillsboro, Oregon—“Thb victory of Senator Kefauver over President Truman indicates a public revulsion against influence peddling, political and governmental corruption and tolar- ation of Communist-linars as brought out in congressional hear ings.” ' • • a The Suburban List, Essex Junc tion, Vermont—“Hie result of tlje presidential primary in New Hamp shire . . . was a sweeping and de cisive victory for General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and a definite de feat for President Harry S. Tru man . . . “The remarkable thing about it is that Gen. Eisenhower won his contest without a single per sonal move on his part . . /* • • * The Loudonville Times, Loudon- ville, Ohio—“The general’s thank you note to his New Hampshire campaigners was routine gallantry, but he put so much enthusiasm in it that he runs a great risk of hav ing folks think he’s actually in the race.” SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO Miss Gertrude Hunter, Chattano Term., went to work for a~man who had the reputation of ^ ing the hardest man in the city to work for. She didn’t know abou his reputation at that time, but she soon heard about it from nuir. erous employees who had been working for the company for time. When she realized that she had walked into a hard job, she had to ask herself if she were going to be able to hold the job down. After consider ing the good features to be derived from work ing for the company she told herself “to get busy and make good on that job.” Then she set out to learn more about the job than anybody else in the building; she reviewed what little knowl edge she had of curves, angles, degrees and min utes, of which most of her dictation was com posed; she brushed up on her shorthand, and gave her job first place in her life. Her boss, a well educated westerner, expected hings to be done NOW. Before coming to this city he was ownt and operator of a business college, and he never hesitated to sa . that there was no excuse for a girl not turning out LETTER-PER FECT work. He traveled a hard road and he was hard on his em ployees. When he would «ay “bring your notebook” she woul. reach-for it and utter a silent prayer that he would not be able t detect how she was trembling while taking his dictation. But be fore long he and she together were turning out more certificate, than any other examiner and stenographer in the whole office. h|§ He was vice-president of the company when she went t vork for him, but in a few years he became president, and she « secretary instead of a stenographer. She is glad she stayed on, am uow if a young, timid stenographer asks her “How to conque ear” with respect to a job, she advises “Learn more about you iob than anyone else in the office, and then what you dare t iream. dare to do.” 4 i? Carnegie I Score 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions: 1. A facade is a: —Front of a building —Kind of food —Fish net —Small animal # | 2. General Burgoyne was a British officer in the: -—Boer War # —Boxer Rebellion —American Revolution —World War II 3. Tly author of the novel Jane Eyre was: —Emily Dickinson —Dorothy Parker —Emily Post —Charlotte Bronte X 4. Who said, “I regret that I have but one life to give to my country”? —Benedict Arnold —Nathan Hale . —Patrick Henry —William Jennings Bryan 5. Alaska was discovered by a: —Dane —Russian —Englishman —Norwegian 6. Which of thejtollowing is not an official language of Switzerland: —French —Italian —German . —Spanish 7. Listed below are four occupations and opposite them, jumbled up, are tools used in those jobs. Match them, scoring 10 points for each correct answer. (A) physician —T-square (B) machinist (C) draftsman .(D) carpenter Total your points, superior; 90-100, very superior. Answers On Page Six —miter box —calipers A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80,