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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1962
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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 8. 1879.
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
m | By SPECTATOR
Is South Carolina for Eisenhower? It looks so, doesn’t
it? I don’t know how many citizens have signed the peti
tion to put “Ike” on a ticket; and no one knows how
many citizens will vote for him; but very little is being
said about the Trumanite, Trumanized ticket: still you
never can tell: the same lineup that dominated the second
meeting of the South Carolina Democratic Convention
will be busy all the time; many of those gentlemen are
professional politicians and in such matters they can “run
and not be weary; and they can walk and not faint:”
whereas the citizens advocating General Eisenhower are
full of enthusiasm and zeal—both of which must be guided
and sustained in order to be effective: * As Uncle Remus
would say: “Brer Fox he ain spond; he aint say nuthin;
he jest lying watching fer a chance.” Verily, verily,
that is the truth. However, this splendid fervor, this
resplendent purpose,. to rise above bosses and bossism
above political managers and political moguls—all these
elements of a triumphant crusade, enrich our life and add
zest to this campaign. Nothing is finer than a great en
thusiasm; and when it springs from a motive of service
it lifts us from just ordinary, plodding, people, sunk in
the routine of living, to new heights. We must remem
ber always that enthusiasm elevates drudgery into some
thing sublime. But this enthusiasm—this divine afflatus,
as the Greeks call it—must be nourished and revivified
constantly, and maintained at white heat.
“The heights by great men
Reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight;
But they, while their companions slept.
Were toiling upward through the night.”
And so, those now impelled irresistibly, by an overmaster
ing enthusiasm, must learn from the others to “mount up
with wings as eagles; to run and not be weary; and to
walk and not faint.”
So the enthusiasts, with the great spirit of reformers,
must carry out the first part, and not only mount up with
wings as eagles, but they must run and not be weary;
and walk and ribt faint.
Our Nation is so badly in need of a “new look” that
we should keep before us a picture of America as she is,
and should be, rather than as she was fifty years ago.
Some days ago I sat with a great man of affairs and ask
ed what he thought of America today, as compared with
the days of his young manhood. He is a man of marked
success, and is still in control of a vast institution. He
.thinks that our Government and political meddling are
leading us swiftly toward all the evils of Socialism. My
mind turns to two evils which we must correct very
soon, if the America we cherish is to survive: we musi
have the law so clear, so plain, that every intelligent per
son can understand it. There is no reason why the law
should be as mystifying as a physician’s prescription, in
what we playfully call “Dog-Latin.” Of course even Dog-
La tin has its merit. Water, just pure water—pure, that
is the ordinary “drinking water,” could hardly be sold to
us for a couple of dollars a jill; but aqua—well, aqua is
worth a lot of money in a small bottle, with a label and
skull and bones.
The law should not be a rehash of British judicial de
cisions, nor the English Common Law, drawn on as a
fount of unknown law; nor the judgments of Massa
chusetts, Idaho or Florida. There is no practice more
ridiculous than a system of jurisprudence which is as con
fusing rto a lawyer as it is to a layman.
Instead of our being victims of our forebodings of what
some judge or some appellate court will ordain, the in
telligent, prepaired lawyer should be able to say with
certaintly “this is the law.” No one can do that today.
Trumanism has brought sharply to us the evils of our
jurisprudence, the meddling of the courts, the straining,
twisting of the Constitution, the assumption of jurisdic
tion in our local concerns, the imaginary inter-State nature
of much of our commerce, because of a mere incident; and
the inclusion as interstate commerce of matters so far
from being within the scope of the word “Commerce”
originally, that we are today mere puppets, jumping be
fore the vagaries of the courts.
And now the bureaucrats: For some reason that I
have wondered about, the Trumanite bureaucracy wishes
to drive the private power business out of existence, and
have the electric power, and its vast potential, under the
sway and whim of Washington. It was never clear to me
why the Government picked on the power business. I live
on a power line and my power bill is not a major item. If
the Government were really desirous of helping me it
would serve me more helpfully if it reduced my grocery
bill by fifty percent. Obviously I am not advocating that.
But with all the fanfare and trumpets, the tumult and
the shouting, the average man’s power bill is a small item,
comparatively, while groceries, meat, and other things real-
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iy count. In some families the soft-drink bill is more than
the light and power bill. In some other families the hard-
drink bill is several times more than the light bill; and in
still other families the hard-drink bill, plus the soft-drink,
plus the tobacco bill, makes the power charge look like a
piker’s demand, by comparison. So, why did not the bureau
crats give us relief on hard and soft liquors, cigarettes,
cigars and pipe-tobacco? Gentlemen, I said nothing about
cosmetics—a bill of staggering proportions, what with
scents, re-scents, dissents, astringents, salves, lotions—oh!
and what not!
The Trumanites borrowed the Socialist and Communist
program. For years the Communists have said that the
Government could soon control and utterly dominate the
life of the Nation if it controlled the electric power of the
nation; and even if ignorantly our Government carries it
out. There you have it: it is no secret. But our Con
gressmen have lamely stumbled into the Communist pro
gram because it was sugared so sweet that the nasty pill
was not tasted.
The bureaucrats proceed step by step, here a little, there
a little but with the perseverance and steadiness of ter
mites, eating into the foundations. Here is the program’:
At first they must control the water. That was the great
hoax that Congress adopted, so as to build dams. Then
followed generators, so as to utilize the power possibili
ties. For example, that was the plan at the bottom of
Clarks Hill—and most others. Now, when Clarks Hill is
ready, what shall they do with the power? In our law is
such an anomaly as this: that power generated through
the use of tax-money, shall be sold to a certain group as
preferred customers. I belong to that group, since I have
farm interests. Can anyone defend such a practice? No;
but we who are so favored accept it because we live in
a flesh-pot era when every man grasps all that he can.
Do they sell power at a preferred rate to newspapers?
No! Do they sell it to Cleaners and Pressers, as preferred
customers? Do they sell it to the great enterprises which
pay most of the taxes? No! It is the usual underhand
method of coddling some of us, because we are supposed to
rejoice in receiving special advantages and favors over
our fellow citizens! And because they think we will vote
as a bloc. The greatest buyers of power have never com
plained nor wished Government power.
At long last, even Congress woke up and suggested to
Jie bureaucrats that Clark’s Hill power should be dis-
iributed over the lines of private power Companies, if
suitable arrangements could be made. For two years, or
more, all the private power companies operating in this
State, and Santee-Cooper have offered every plan, con
sideration and inducement to transmit that power. To
any reasonable man it is so clearly the right" plan, the
economical plan, that it is as plain as the nose on your
face. What then ?
Men in high position in Washington say bluntly that
they do not wish to operate with the established Com
panies; they really hope to control the power business.
We shall wake up too late some day. Even if our
Senate and House are swept away by the fluent eloquence
of the bureaucracy; even if these gentlemen see hazily
the drift toward Communism; even if they would like to
call a halt, they are lacking in sturdy qualities of states
manship and are running along weakly, ineffectually, like
men of no strength and no vision.
By WALTER SHEAD
W HAT ABOUT the farm vote
this year? That is the big
question which is paramount in
both political parties. With farm
income barely keeping ahead of
prices, the platforms of both parties
are important to the farmers of the
nation.
The meat of the Republican plat
form is: “We favor a farm pro
gram aimed at full parity prices
for all farm products in the market
place. . . Where government action
on perishable commodities is de
sirable, we recommend ' locally
controlled marketing agreements
and other voluntary methods.”
The nut of the Democratic plat
form says: “We will continue to
protect the producers of basic agri
cultural commodities under the
terms of a mandatory price sup
port program of 90 percent of
parity. We continue to advocate
practical methods for extending
price supports to other storables
and to the producers of perishable
commodities which account for
three-fourths of all farm income.”
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In other words, the Republicans
favor a flexible program of price
supports in the market place which
means the law of supply and de
mand and local action of a volun
tary nature on perishables.
The Democrats ravor mandatory
90 percent of parity for all basics
and extension of these mandatory
supports to perishables when nec
essary.
The 82nd congress in the last
days of the session became so
alarmed at the continued fall of
farm income that a bi-partisan
move of both Democrats and Re
publicans kicked out the provisions
of the 1949 law, which calls for
a sliding scale of parity support,
for a compulsory 90 percent of
parity through 1955.
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It would seem therefore that the
Republicans in their platform are
falling back on the 1949 law, while
the Democrats approve the bi
partisan action of the 82nd congress
for the full protection of the farmer.
The country can expect during
the next few months an exodus of
Washington officialdom in prep
aration for the coming change in
administrations. Already several
top men have given notice, and it
will be difficult for the President
to replace these men with only a
few months remaining of his ad
ministration. Probably next in line
is ran* Amall, price administrator
and former Georgia governor.
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Amall feels that he had the rug
pulled from under him in the steel
strike settlement. He was un
alterably opposed to the price in
crease granted the steel companies.
He maintained that only price in
crease they deserved was that
under the Capeheart amendment,
which amounted to approximately
$3.84 per ton. Defense Mobilizer
John Steelman, however, granted
them a $5.20 price increase for car
bon steel, which will average out
at something like $5.60 a ton for
all kinds of steel. The price
breaches the standard set up by the
office of price administration which
provided that industries would be
permitted price increases equal to
85 percent of their profits of the
best three years 1946 through 1949.
Under this formula the steel com
panies, according to Amall, could
have absorbed the wage increase
granted the unions and made their
profits without any increase.
This breach of the price barrier
means that other companies such
as aluminum, petroleum products,
and other metals can come In for
price increases to cover wage in
creases and John L. Lewis is ex
pected to top the steel wage boost
for his soft coal miners come Sep
tember.
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All this is inflationary adding to
the cost of living spiral and folks
in the country will hear much dur
ing these next few months as living
costs inch upwards. Adding to the
inflationary picture Is the drouth in
the south and New England states
which is likely to bring food costs
to new peaks.
Added to the drouth picture is
the epidemic of vesicular exanthe
ma in hogs under which thousands
of head are being killed to pre
vent spread.
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Oleomargarine and Atomic Power are not closely re
lated, but in the same paper I read that oleo is now selling
as freely as butter; and the soybean and cotton seed may
ease the cow off the throne, as the queen of the spread
business. Last year butter sales were not quite one and
a half billion pounds, while oleo was above a billion. In
1932 butter sales totalled 2.3 billion pounds, while oleo
aggregated about 332,000,000 lbs.
When I was in Virginia I was asked to “pass the spread.”
I didn’t know what was meant by “spread:” they meant
the apple butter.
As to Atomic Power: “Right now four pairs of companies
are embarked on research with an atomic power plant in
mind.
Who will run these strange new engines? The answer is
in the first and only all-atomic school, conducted by
Union Carbide at Oak Ridge. It will take about 70 stu
dents at its next term starting in September.
Its students include technical men from utility com
panies and from manufacturers of pumps and a variety of
the other power-plant apparatus. 1
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A N ESSAY entitled “What The
i Weekly Newspaper Means To
Me,” written by a Walden, New
York, high school girl, is worthy
of editorial apace in the nation’s
weeklies.
Here it is, in part:
“Biographies by the thousand
adorn the shelves of our school and
public libraries. Yet, unassumingly,
week after week a biography is re
lated to us in installments. A weekly
newspaper is to me the life story of
a community recorded in 52 epi
sodes each year. It is a factor which
unites through common interest and
without bigotry each and every
reader. The facts disclosed in these
journals may not he world-shaking,
dynamic or sensational, but they are
filled with the very essence of com
munity life—births, deaths, and
down-to-earth friendly chatter.
“Thus to me, the weekly paper is
a strong line which joins me to my
fellow men. Its enlightening in
fluence, truly the life blood of our
community, makes me aware and
appreciative of my neighbors. In
weeklies, disasters and personal
crises are aired, noticed, and
remedied. Praiseworthy achieve
ments receiving publicity in news
print often culminates in a repeat
performance.
. Our weekly would have little
appeal outside our community, but
in our locale the publishing date
ot our paper (and I mean our
paper) is heralded with an air at
pleasant anticipation. . .
“What dots my newspaper mean
to me? In order to fully appreciate
the value ... I imagine my life
and the life of our community with
out its steady influence. We would
be thrust into the very is of
ignorance, and a locality under
these conditions would breed mis
understanding, intolerance, bigotry,
and mass alarm.
“The sole cure of untruths in a
community will always be exposure
of the truth, and the weekly news
paper is built on foundations of
truth and service. My weekly
newspaper to me means an excit
ing serial which inspires progress,
good will, and widespread knowl
edge.”
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Justice Hits a Lick
From The Eufaula Tribune, Eu-
faula, Alabama:
When a Whiteville, N. C., judge
sentenced' the leader of a night-
rider gang to four years in prison
for his part in a series of floggings,
the law took a healthy swing at
one of the most dangerous and sub
versive groups in America.
In addition to sentencing Thomas
L. Hamilton, a squatty ex-grocer,
to four years, the florth Carolina
judge handed some of the same to
sixty-two of his cohorts.
As usual, the Ku Klux KLan in
that area was dedicated to intoler
ance and anarchy with the natu
ral results that citizens of entire
counties spent nights of terror as
floggings and night raids occurred
month after month in the area.
The story was the same as has
been written in Alabama and other
southern states in recent years,
and the action of the judge and
jury should prove the proper anti
dote just as it did in Alabama and
Georgia not too long back.
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.AUTHOR 0F' HfiWT0,ST0P WORRYING AND STARniVING
Learn to Faee the issue
A BOUT THIS TIME last year Miss Shirley Sargent, Westfield, New
l Jersey, was going crazy with worry. She was breaking in a new
girl on her old job, learning a new one herself and doing half the work
of another.
She was woricing during her noon hour, didn’t take any rest, and going
home after work she was worn out. But as she thought it over, she decided
that the management wouldn’t have given her all that
work if they hadn’t thought she could do it.
But one day when one of the men asked why she
hadn’t done some typing, she broke down and cried.
She had been trying so hard and this was the last straw.
She went to her boss and told him be could have his
lousy job. That’s just what she said, “You can have
your lousy old job. I’ve worked overtime long enough.
I’m through!”
Then they had a talk and she explained just what
she had been doing and why she felt as she did. It C»i
seems that he didn’t realize how much she had to do. ,
Because she was capable and could do it, they kept piling things on her
without thinking.
Now when she is troubled she says .she goes to her boss and
“Why are you giving this to me?” They talk it over end get along
and she is happy.
Her policy now is to face an issue and straighten it out promptly.
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I REMEMBER
1Y TXK 0LDTIMSRS
From Mrs. Wilbur F. Brand, Fair
mont, W. Va.: I remember when
every family had three or four
candle moulds 0 and the people
made their own candles out of
mutton tallow.
From Allan Border, St. Louis,
Mo.: In the days of yore, at
threshing, butchering, or cane mo
lasses time, the neighbors would
all gather at your home and help
with the work without a thought
of pay. And the kids rode on the
platform as the old gray mare
pulled the beam of the cape mill.
From E. E. Meredith, Fairmont,
W. Va.: I remember when chil
dren were bom in the home; when
washing was done on a washboard;
when father dealt with “problem
boys” in the woodshed; when quilt
ing parties, husking bees, taffy
pulling and serenades provided en
tertainment.
From Michael Hammond, Troy,
N.Y.: I remember when the tiny
half-dime was in circulation. It
was worth the same' as the nickle.
But people then would rather havo
a nickle than a half-lime.
From the Rev. William E. Thomp
son, Stevens, S.D.: I remember
when we went on an errand to a
neighbor’s house, if we • found
someone churning there with a
dasher in a jar, wr had to take
hold of the dasher and use it for
a few times, fqr if we didn’t we
would take the butter away with
us. That ^ as in Ireland.
(Mail your memories to THE
OLD TIMER, N.W.N.S., 210 S.
Desplaines. Chicago 6.)
LAST CHANCE TO
GET CERTIFICATES
Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day, September 1, 2, and 3, will
be the last days on which regis
tration certificates may be ob
tained for voting in the General
Election on November 4th. All
citizens of the county who are of
voting age are urged to secure
certificates on one of the above
mentioned days if they are not
now qualified electors.
Members of the Registration
Board will be at the County Court
House from 9:00 a.m. until 6:00
p.m. on the first three days in
September to issue certificates.
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S TATE POLICE down in
have caught a few la>
motorists. The officers thumb
good drivers to the curb and
them a good talking—but it is
the tongue lashing the drivers
pect. Instead, it is part of the 4
gia highway patrol’s policy of i
ping safe drivers and cox
them on their highway max
Caught driving safely near
dosta last week was Dawdle
“champeen greenhorn,”
Green, vacationing in the
land with his wife, Blondine.
He was sputtering along in
1930 Ford, not exceeding 25 m.]
driving on his side of the road, i
veering off a straight line not
iota. Suddenly, the shrill whine
a siren in his left ear forced
to ram his brake pedal to
Neither Collard nor his brakes
as quick as they were in 1930,
the car continued in
Collard in confusion turned the:
wheels into a ditch. A police i
ground to a dusty halt beside
Blondine screamed.
A burly patrolman leaped
the cruiser. “I must com]
you on not exceeding 50 m.
he growled politely. Collard felt 1
ter. The way his coupe rattled,
telling how fast he had been
“You are not drunk,’
cop. “Congratulations, 1
although it’s not very
stopping a guy for sticking to
side of the road, I must thank
for driving on the right.’.’
Just then a new car roared p
doing 90 on the left side, veering in
a corkscrew spiral, and leaving
trail of whiskey bottles. The
sighed. “Don’t have to worry about
those guys any more since we stop
the good drivers now. But I can’t
utter nothing but compliments, and
I got a few choice cm>s words
cankering in my chest.”
Blondine hadn’t recovered from
her fright. She begged, “Officer,
please let us go. My husband will
buy a driver’s license soon as we
get home. I promise!”
A new light came into the police
man’s eyes as he gazed at Collard.
“You dirty, law-breaking skunk!”
he snarled. “Welcome to Georgia!”
Mimeograph Paper
Adding Machine Paper
THE SUN OFFICE
WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Early Statesman
HORIZONTAL VERTICAL
Test Your Intelligence
s
Score 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions.
1. The collar-bone is the common name for the:
—clavicle —lumbar column —trachea —esophagus
2. A flautist is an:
—iconoclast —musician —sportsman —gourmet
3. The hottest place in the United States is in:
—Florida —Mississippi —California —Arizona
4. “Winnie the Pooh” is a character invented by:
—Fielding —Chaucer —Keats —Milne
5. Hay-fever sufferers are attacked by pollen from:
—corn flowers —ragweed —clover —sunflowers
6. In the Bible, Rehoboam was the son of a:
—king —shepherd —beggar —carpenter
7. Listed below at left are four stars of the world of sports and op
posite them the sports in which they have achieved fame. Match
them, scoring 10 points for each correct answer. '
(A) Dick Button —football - ^
(B) Maureen Connolly —baseball
<C) Ferris Fain —ice skating
(D) Dick Kazmaier —tennis
Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80,
superior; 90-100, very superior.
(Answers on Page Six)
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