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- ■ ■ ■ mm w'mm ■w i2S: PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JULY 4. 1962 run FIREWORKS GALORE 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By ARMFIELD BROTHERS Entered me iecond-cl&*a 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., 31.60 per year in advance outside S. C., 82.00 per year in advance. Fitted For The Job No man seeking public office can receive higher recom mendation than from those who know him best. C. E. Saint-Amand, of Newberry, candidate for Solicitor of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, was wholeheartedly endorsed by friends and neighbors of his home precinct at the organiza tional meeting of the club. In addition to being a successful lawyer for the past twenty years, appearing in circuit and Federal courts and before the State Supreme court, Mr. Saint-Amand has served as a member of the South Carolina House of Rep resentatives. He holds the highest rating in the leading directory of the legal profession in the United States. He has always been active in worthwhile civic and com munity projects; having served as executive director of Blue Ridge Council, Boy Scouts of America, and is now a member of the board. He is a frequent and popular teacher of adult classes at the First Baptist church; a member of the Lions club, and is presently serving as president. He is city attorney for Newberry and Whit mire. i Mr. Saint-Amand's campaign has attracted favorable comment from all over the Eighth Circuit. His integrity, friendliness and character, with his legal ability and ex perience, well qualify him for the office of Solicitor. . j Your Vote Is Important Over twelve thousand citizens of Newberry county are eligible to vote in the first Democratic primary to be con ducted next Tuesday in the county. ‘ If the number taking the time and trouble to vote this year follows the pattern of other years, less than 60 per cent of those eligible will go to the polls. Apparently, many persons do not realize the importance of their right and duty to go to the polling precinct and cast their ballot, after careful consideration of the candi dates and the issues involved in the election. Too many of us take the attitude that our one vote will not material ly affect the outcome of an election. Of course, this is er roneous thinking, for if most of us took this attitude, a small clique would control our local, state and national government, and as a result, run the affairs of government as they see fit. It is the right and duty of every citizen in a democracy to exercise his franchise, no matter whether the election is for school trustee or president of the United States. We urge that every citizen of Newberry county plan now to go to the polls Tuesday, July 8th, and vote for the men you think best for the offices they seek. Be Alive On The Fifth Ninety million Americans will go forth on the Fourth— for a holiday or a hollow day. The National Safety Council estimates that there will be 40,000,000 passenger vehicles on U.S. streets and high ways during the three-day weekend and that they will travel 6,000,000,00 miles—enough to circle the world 200,000 times! The figures only emphasize the tremendous amount of travel to be expected during the holiday, the Council said. It emphasized that more cars on the road travel ing more miles will inevitably mean more accidents—un less there is more caution than usual on the part of the lotoring public. An ominous note already has been sounded this year with the traffic death toll for Memorial Day setting a new record of 360 lives lost in traffic alone. In an attempt to prevent a holiday of tragedy for hun dreds of persons, the Council is conducting again this year a nationwide campaign for a safe Independence Day cele bration. Many national organizations, government officials, police departments and local safety councils are cooperating in the effort. Ned H. Dearborn, president of the Council, appealed to every citizen to do his part in preventing traffic tragedy over the Fourth. “You as an individual can do something about it," he said, “because these tragedies result from thing, we can control—haste, selfishness, thoughtlessness, the desire to show off. Take it easy on the Fourth—be alive on the Fifth.” Now that graduation time is past, those fellows with A. B. degrees will start learning the rest of the alphabet. Watching those fellows play reminds me that golf is a lot like taxes—you drive hard to get to the green and then wind up in the hole. Test Your Intelligence Score 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions: 1. Who composed the opera Carmen: —Bizet —Massenet —Wagner —Puccini 2. Rhodesia is in: —Australia —Central Asia —Africa —West Indies 3. England is presently ruled by the House of: —Hanover —Windsor —Stuart —Tudor 4. Which of the following Communist countries is led by an anti- Soviet: \ —Czechoslovakia —Albania —Hungary ' —Yugoslavia 5. President when the White House was burned in the War of 1812 was: —Jefferson —Monroe —Madison —Pierce S. The Diligent! quintuplets were born in: —Italy —Spain —Sicily —Argentina 7. Listed below, at left, are four U. S. Presidents and opposite them, mixed up, are their Secretaries of State. Match them, scoring 10 points for each correct answer. (A) Washington —Root (B) Lincoln —Kellogg (C) T. Roosevelt (D) Coolidge Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 80-00, average; 70-80, superior; 90-100, very superior. (answers on page five) in its utterly futile effort to convert the. world from the delusion of Communism and to peg the effort with your money. Lady Macbeth tried to “pluck from the mind a rooted sorrow,” but couldn't do it. That would have been a small undertaking compared with the task of plucking from the mind of men the hope to live in ease on the earnings and savings of more thrifty people. But shall “men prefer bondage in ease to strenuous liberty?’ cisions on local questions would be made in Washington— and we would have no choice but to obey. That is the issue that underlies the electric power con troversy.” I say again: we are fortunate in our editors; most them think clearly and write courageously. m COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Limiting Government Spending Our fabulous Government spending, with confiscatory taxation, has been felt by even the wage-earners. I quote: “Since year after year the Administration has steadily imposed higher taxes, engaged in excessive spending and deficit financing, and since Congress has more or less gone along with this program, many are of the opinion that no effective method of forcing a return to sane taxation, sensi ble spending and a complete release of the power and energies of a Free Enterprise System can be found other than the adoption of a Constitutional Amendment of the kind proposed by this Association. It might be well to consider for a moment the history of Ancient Rome and the vglory of the Roman Empire. To evaluate this Roman Civilization we will quote from the brilliant volume of Will Durant. He wrote: ‘The rising cost of armies, doles, public works, an ex panding bureaucracy and a parasitic court; the deprecia tion of the currency, the discouragement of ability, and the absorption of investment capital, by confiscatory taxation—all these conspired to sap the material bases of Italian Life, until at last the power of Rome was a political ghost surviving its economic death.' ‘Loans were made to farmers, industry and business by the government. Taxes were laid upon every product, process, sale, export, or import, even upon graves and burials; and additional assessments were levied from time to time, in kind from the poor, in liturgies from the rich. From Augustus to Trajan the country pros pered; after that zenith it succumbed to the discourage ment and exhaustion of endless tribute and taxation and the lethargy of a regimented economy.' Gibbon, in this ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' also tells how Rome was able to keep the world at peace and to provide law and order for five centuries until she was finally conquered, not basically by the outside foe that overran much of the Empire, but by her own huge army of corrupt tax gathers who sapped. the strength of the people, broke down respect for law, and rooted out what there was of public morality.” “The move to limit Government spendings to 26% of in come gained great impetus in Congress last week. That would mean a limit of 25% on Federal income taxes. Senator Taft (jointly with Ferguson of Michigan) gave his powerful support by sponsoring a measure (S.J. Res. 155) to write a limitation into the Constitution. Taft would limit Government spending. Most of the prior mea sures (there are seven pending) would place a Constitution al ban on taxing incomes (individual and corporate), estates and gifts more than 25%. The methods are somewhat different, but the end re sult could be the same in either case. The 14-year cam paign of the American Taxpayers Association for a 25% limitation has resulted in 27 States petitioning Congress to submit such a Constitutional amendment.” I call attention to the Statement “The Administration has steadily imposed higher taxes.” It is the Congress which imposes the taxes, though the Congress has tamely and lamely thrown the taxpayer's money to the four winds at the foolish behest of the Trumanite bureaucracy Government Power Issue The Standard and Review, “Aiken's daily paper which Mrs. Annie Howell King edits and owns, is a champion of private enterprise. Mrs. King never wearies in the fight against the approach of “Socialism.” -Sometimes I think we should use another word, for the frequent use of the word, “Socialism” deadens the baleful significance of the word. I quote an editorial from The Standard and Review. “Some people may think that the drive to socialize the electric industry is important only to the companies under attack. No attitude could be more wrong. In this issue the interests of the power companies themselves are strictly secondary. For socialized electricity ds just one element in a struggle whose outcome will determine whether we will remain a free people—or whether we will become the pawns of an all-powerful state. The late Carl D. Thompson was a leading socialist spokesman. Many years ago he wrote: ‘the movement for public super-^ower becomes the most vital phase of the public ownership movement. The control of electric power . . will obviously carry with it the control of transporta tion, of mining and agriculture ... it will also dominate and determine very largely the domestic life of the people . . The struggles, therefore, to secure the public owner ship and control of this strategic resource . . . may yet become the supreme issue ... of America and the world.’ Electric power directly touches every facet of our life, from the home to the farm and the factory. A political monopoly of electricity would give those in control of the government dictatorial powers on an almost unbelievable scale. Every town and region would be at their mercy. States rights and tax resources would be destroyed. De- DaieCarnegie If- AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING God’s Good Dirt Cleans Soul M RS MARTHA MADDEN, Greenville, S.C., says she got to the point in her marital difficulties that it was necessary to get a divorce or go to a sanitarium. But instead of her troubles beinj dispelled, things got worse. Had she done the right thing or she helped play the - fool? She began to worry about being alone. She couldn’t sleep and kept away from people. Every day when she left her office, crying, she would go home and walk the floor and feel sorry for herself. All alone and no body cared: this became her theme song. Her home became neglected and the yards were four feet high in weeds. She lost interest in everything and everybody. Finally she became so nervous and sick that she went to a doctor, who said, “I wish I could help you, but there is no medicine that can cure Carnegie you—only that mind of yours.” However, he did not tell her how. After giving his statement serious thought, she realized the most important things in life are shelter, food, clothing and a home— and hers was disintegrating. Right then and there she made up er mind not to let life defeat her. So she rolled up her sleeves and went to work! She started on the yards, trimmed hedges, planted, and worked until she had a beautiful lawn. It was proved to her that there is nothing more cleansing for the mind, soul and spirit than to get dirty with God’s good dirt, especially in ground you your self own, halfway down to China! Then she cleaned up her house, repaired and replaced, until she was proud of it instead of being ashamed. She had no time to worry, for she was too busy working and taking care of her blis tered hands and aching back. She discovered that elbow grease is the best possible ointment for injured pride. Now she wanted friends again and began to have little dinners and parties. She is happier today than ever before in her life. She has regained her pride, her self-respect and, most important of all, she has learned to master her emotions. * We Are Pleased to Announce The Payment of our 34th Semi-annual Dividend $70,966.72 Paid To ' ■ 9 2483 Investors All accounts received on or before July 10th, will receive dividends as of July 1st. 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