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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, JULY 4. 1962
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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