The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, September 05, 1952, Image 4
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By ARMFIELD BROTHERS
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the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
What are the great principles of America? We hear and
read much about “principles.” The right to work is a
principle. I do not mean that the world owes a job to me
or to anyone else; I mean that no artificial barrier should
stand between two men when one needs help and another
needs a job. If we deny to a man the right to work we
must logically provide for him at public expense; for if the
law, directly or indirectly, so operates as to bar a man from
work that same government should feed a clothe and house
him. Nor should we dictate to an employer whom he
should employ, or whom he should not employ, for it is his
responsibility to guide and govern the operation; it is
chargeable to him only if he is allowed to proceed accord
ing to his judgment. No government has any right to in
terfere. All this talk about FEPC being a matter for the
States, instead of for the Nation, is a mere confusion of
thought; it is not the concern of the Nation; and it is not
the concern of the States. It is the proper concern of the
men who operate business and those who seek employment.
Another thing: the Government has no proper concern to
hold your income down; on the contrary, the Government
should smile on prosperity, for that means better pay,
more employment, sustained employment. And that means
more support for all kinds of business; more support for
the churches and charities; more interest in the cultural
societies.
An income tax should bear on all alike: for example, if
the rate of tax be 15 per cent, it should be 15 per cent on
all. There might be certain minimum standards, but the
principle should be one of percentage equality. There is no
justice in charging the man of $5000 with 15 per cent; and
the man of $25,000 with 25 per cent; and the man with
$50,000 with 35 per cent; and the man of $100,000 with 50
per cent. We don’t do business that way. We don’t charge
one man $2500 for a car and another man $3500 for the
same car. Nor does the butcher sell steak to one man for
75 cents a pound and $1.25 to the banker. Of course it may
be done, but it is. not done under cover. Theoretically we
pay the same price.
Our public service commission would not permit a Power
company to charge a wage earner eight mills and a banker
25 mills. But that is the way we impose income taxes.
We grow so accustomed to all sorts of devious procedures
that we meekly yield, or, else, we sink without a trace,
leaving nothing but bubbles.
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Some of our theorists—those be-spectacled brethren who
have visions and dream dreams; who conjure from nothing
all their weird imaginings, would probably plan it this way;
wages for the wage-earner, when unmarried, $25 a week;
when married $50 a week; and $10 a week for each child.
So one man, however, incapable and lazy might draw $100
a week, if married and with five children; whereas an ex
pert if unmarried, might receive only $25. The expert might
be worth fifty of the other sort, in his actual productive ser
vice. And, by the same token, the Bank clerk with five
children would draw more than a bachelor Bank president.
And then the best plan would be for Joe Stalin to take it
over, lock, stock and barrel.
Perhaps the dreamy fellow who plans for us is taking
a leaf from Shakespear’s idea of a poet. You remember
that he says “And as the imagination bodies forth in forms
of things unseen the poet’s eye turns it to shape and gives
to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.’ Thats as
I recall, though this sultry weather makes me yearn for
air, even Shakespear’s “airy nothing.”
When I was in France I recall that the French merchants
and hucskters unblushingly had three prices: the lowest
for the French, the next for the British, and the highest
for the Americans and the Canadians.
Yes, and they are the people who mark on their freight
cars “40 men or 8 horses.”
By the way, you musn’t think I have a “sour mouth”—
and thereby hangs a tale, again quoting Shakespeare.
Padre Giner was a Franciscan, a monk wearing the long
reddish brown habit, with a cowl. He had come to Peru
from France thirty years before I met him and had labored
among the head-hunters in the wilds of the jungles of the
Amazon. He was a great spirit, a brave man, a devout
and persevering Soldier of the Cross.
Padre Giner introduced the idea of matrimony with the
blessing of the church among those Indians of the Cholo
type. He had performed the ceremony, uniting a stalwart
young Indian and a very attractive Cholo girl. A couple of
days after the ceremony he found the bride at her father’s
house, dismissed, put away, by her husband. The Padre,
a very sympathetic leader of the people, inquired of the
bride the reason for her expulsion from her husband’s hut.
She did not complain, she said, in the quechua tongue of
her people, and with complete resignation, “He said I have
sour mouth.” That, my friends, was in the dark ages:
there was no chlorophyl on hand, nor yet contrived, to
keep us sweet.
In that tribe the bride was expected to chew the sugar
cane and extract its juice by chewing. From the juice they
made chicha, a sort of liquid lightning that had the kick of
a dozen mules. I’m told; and syrup, too, though the chicha
was the usual product. If the bride had “sour mouth” she
was of no service.
Some of the Indians belonged to the Truman school of
economics. At times of fiesta Indians would come to Lima
from the Sierra and they and the little burro prepared to
spend several days. The burro had his bundle of alfalfa
and the Indian had a few pieces of pottery. If asked the
price of his pottery, the Indian replied, stating it in our
money: 10 cents. But if you tried to buy 10 pieces he
probably wanted two dollars. If you undertook to draw
him out he might admit that if he sold all that he had there
would be no excuse for him to hang around. So he must
keep his stock in order to remain in business. One piece
of pottery ten cents; ten pieces at 20 cents. Exactly the
way our government figures income taxes, isn’t it?
Our local assessor does not say: “A $5000 house at fifty
mills and a $50,000 house at 90 mills, does he? Of course,
as you know, there are strange and wonderful things that
happen in assessments at times, but my idea is that all
such iniquities are perpetrated in other states.
I would not have you think mental quirks are found only
in tax-assessors and Trumanite planners: I recall an insur
ance rating that baffled me a long time: two filling stations
about the same size, in the same town, on the same block,
with exactly the same stock, but with great difference in
insurance rate. Strange, eh? All the inspectors had seen
one station—a comparatively new one—but no one, appar
ently, had ever seen the older station, just across the
street. So, score one for the politicians; they had nothing
to do with the insurance! Of course that was years ago.
You’ve heard of “smothering” a child, the over-solici-
tious attitude of a mother who can think of ailments for
the child if the child can’t think of them for himself? The
over-watchful, nervous, fearful, imaginative young mother?
Well, our government suffers from that affliction; and it
afflicts us. Every turn you make, here is a bureaucrat—
this way, that way and the other way. If you think of
doing this, they will send you a ton of paper about it; or
if you think of not doing it, they will send you a ton and a
half.
I once was a bureaucrat and know the boys inside and
out—and around and around. Among the agencies ofv the
Government of Peru under my immediate control was the
Museum of the things of the great South American, Simon
Bolivar. President Leguia had heard that the Eucalyptus
trees were dying for the want of water. On the West
Coast of Peru they have very little rain—a mild drizzle
about every ten years. When that drizzle comes every
roof leaks, because every house has, or had, a mud roof—
adobe, you know. The President loved El Museo Bolivar-
iano, as it was called. So he “took time out” from the
serious problems of State to send word to me. I called an
engineer of my office and explained the urgency of getting
water. He was all punctillio and genuflexion and assured
me that he would have a croquis ready in ten days. That
meant he would make excursions and explorations and
draw a plan. I sent for my former secretary (a man, mark
Test Your Intelligence
Score 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions.
—polo
—operettas
—California
What name doesn’t belong with the other three:
—Chico —Harpo —Ropo —Groucho
2. In what sport is the word “chukker” used:
—badminton —tennis —hockey
3. Gilbert and Sullivan are famous for their:
—tennis game —exploring exploits
—cough medicine
4. The last of the 48 states given statehood was:
—Texas —Arizona —-Montana
5. The largest planet is:
—Jupiter —Venus —Mars —Saturn
6. Who wrote the poem. Charge of the Light Brigade?
—Kipling —Tennyson —Lee —Southey
7. Listed below at left are four famous cathedrals and opposite them,
jumbled up, the cities in which they are located. Match them,
scoring 10 points for each correct answer.
(A) St. Paul’s —Rome
(B) St. Peter’s —Paris
(C) Notre Dame —New York
(D) St Patrick’s —London
Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80,
superior; JK)-100, very superior.
By WALTER SHEAD
H ERE in the nation’s capital,
leadership in the two political
parties is setting up shop, almost
from scratch, in what promises to
be the most interesting and the
most fateful campaign in recent
political history.
While both paries will maintain
national headquarters here, the
great middle-west battleground will
see the working headquarters of
Governor Adlal ( Stevenson, the
Democratic nominee, set up at
Springfield, 111., and that of Gen.
Ike Eisenhower, the GOP nominee,
at Chicago.
Two brand new, shiny national
chairmen are on the job here—Ar
thur Summerfield of Michigan for
the Republicans and Stephen A.
Mitchell of Chicago for the Demo
crats.
• • •
Robert Humphries, who has been
doing a bang-up job of handling
publicity for the GOP congression
al committee during the past two
years, has taken over the top pub
licity job for the Republicans, and
Sam Brightman, who has been
second man in the Democratic pub
licity set-up here, is handling the
top job for the Democrats, at
least for the time being.
The issue for the important crop
producing states of the mid-w6st
has already been cast . . . the bid
for the farm vote being made on
platform planks for agriculture
which are directly opposite.
During the war years both par
ties generally .supported a rigid
parity price support program in a
bi-partisan move to protect the
hard-pressed farmer, who was
urged to produce to capacity.
Then at the first national con
ventions after the war years in
1948, both parties came out for the
so-called flexible or sliding scale of
price supports.
• • •
In the 1952 conventions just end
ed, however, the Democrats re
versed their positions of four years
ago and went bads to the stand
taken during the war to “protect
the producers of basic agricultural
commodities under file terms of a
mandatory price support program
at not less than 90 percent of par
ity.*' The Democratic plank also
advocates extension of supports to
storable and perishable crops
“which account for three fourths of
all farm income."
The GOP 1952 plank, while not
mentioning In so many words the
flexible support price clause in its
1952 platform; only goes so far as
to favor “a farm program aimed
at full parity prices for all farm
products in the market place*'
which is interpreted to mean the
same-flexible supports.
• • •
As a matter of fact there have
been two flexible farm price sup
port acts passed, but neither has
had an opportunity to work. The
80th (Republican congress) passed
the Hope-Aiken bill, scheduled to
go into effect Jan. 1, 1950. How
ever, both parties were dissatis
fied and in 1949, thy 81st (Demo
cratic) congress, passed a new
flexible support law making the
efective date Jan. 1, 1951. How
ever, before final passage, several
test votes were taken in the Sen
ate on rigid supports, with a major
ity of Democrats favorable and
with Republicans opposed. There
was a lengthy debate and the
measure was finally sent back to
committee. It was finally passed
however by a bi-partisan vote.
But in 1950 Congress amended
the price-support law to adjust cot
ton, peanuts and wheat acreage al
lotments and to ban price supports
for potatoes unless under strict
marketing quotas. An attempt to
put the flexible price support act
into effect Jan. 1, 1951, was re
jected. Democrats refusing to go
along, the vote being 17 for and
59 against The House then adopted
the conference report and the Sen
ate passed the measure by bi
partisan vote.
DaieCarnegie
AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND STARniVING”
Cater to 0thore’ Interests
V/f ELAN LEGGETT, Dallas, Texas, one day was at work when
a man walked in and introduced himself as representing the
light and power company of his city. Milan is employed with a
broadcasting station and their electrical service had recently been
switched from another company to the one his
caller represented, and he had come to See what
their total power consumption was so that a con
tract could be drawn up for their electrical serv
ice. The two men made the rounds of the build
ing, and Milan told the other man just what the
power drain of the water cooler, water pump, and
air compressor was. He explained the transmitter
and stated how much power it required. As they
stepped outside and looked up at the towers, he
gave the figures for the tower lighting system.
During this time he noticed that his visitor
was fascinated by the transmitter, so he explained
its operation as best he could. They went from one end of the
transmitter to the other and he told why they were necessary.
He showed the large tubes that cost $400 each, and again aa they
stepped outside he explained why they had five towers why
they were a certain height.
Before his caller left, he gave Milan his card on which he
wrote his residence phone number, and said: “If you ever have a
power failure or other trouble with our electrical service call
me. You can call the trouble division, but if you call perhaps
I can expedite matters.’* This meant that someday he might be
able to save Milan’s company a loss of revenue by expediting
power line repairs. Since this courtesy was volunteered, Milan
is sure that talking in terms of the other man's interest is what
prompted it.
Carnegie
FLYING SAUCERS REAL . . . Rocket engineers Rollin Gillespie
(left) and Winthrop Coxe, Azusa, Calif., explain that flying saucers
are phenomena, like northern lights, and are earned by electro
magnetic vortex.
(Answers on Page Six)
you) and told him. He worked two days and a night,
without stopping,—but he got water to the trees. Someone
said that I was a slave driver. Not so; do these brave,
daring, resourceful linemen of the Power companies quit
work when.the power is off? No, they correct the trouble
and then sleep. They are the real heroes of peace; they
take the strains and stresses in their stride and go on every
day to fresh exploits that compel our admiration.
I have not finished, but I’ll get back to it again.
T HE DEMAND for a “change** is
strong. It is Eisenhower’s task
to prove that that means a repub
lican victory. On the other hand
Stevenson will urge that. he will
give a complete change and the
administration will remain demo
cratic. He also has to determine
how much aid he can afford to ac
cept from the president and his
personal followers. — The Gallen
River Gazette, Three Oaks, Mich.
Not only do* we wish to see the
electoral colleger abolished and the
President elected by popular vote,
but we would also like to see a
strong Republican party estab
lished in North Carolina. This wish
is activated not so much by the
wish that our state might receive
more consideration from the na
tion in political contests by virtue
of being a pivotal state, as it is the
desire that we may get the Repub
licans out of file Democratic party
in North . Carolina.—The Warren
Record, Warrenton, N.C.
• • •
When a man buys a home or a
bit of property, he is casting a vote
which is backed by his honor and
fortune. He elects to become a
stockholder in his community. He
is expressing his faith in the future.
He believes that our Constitution
will validate his decision and se
cure him in the possession of what
he labors and saves to acquire.
His choice is made possible by the
free market. It can all be cancelled
out, however, if his political vote
is not t trong enough to maintain the
free market without which person
al choice is impossible.—The Free
Press, South Charleston, W. Va.
Bki ;
There was once a pair of so-
called snag-proof, yellow boots
that were the meanest outfit of
footgear that any boy tried to get
on—or off. Made of a heavy tough;
rubberized fabric, these boots were
designed with a certain construc
tion at the ankles that was to help
in keeping them from pulling off
the wearer's feet as he waded
mud. Whoever it was that invented
those boots succeeded admirably in
creating something that would not
pull off in the mud. If getting into
them was something of a chore,
getting out of them was a minor
operation. It was finally discovered
that a fork in a small cherry tree
was just right to serve as a boot
jack. So the urchin could divest him
self o: the foot gear by lying on his
back, wedging his. foot in the fork
of the tree, placing the other foot
against the tree and pushing for all
he was worth.—Morning Sun (Iowa) 1
News-Herald.
This issue of the Union' probably
marica my exit from the publish
ing business after an active life of
seventy-one years; forty'-two o:
them as a newspaper publisher,
began our active life at ten ye-*—
of age, swinging a lash whip over
the backs of huge ugly oxen re
cently released from the freight
wagon trains of the Dakotas when
the railroads came through. They
were the very essence of bovine
depravity and the only language
they understood was profanity of
the most violent kind. Have been
going at one thing or another ever
since, and it may be high time to
retire.—Arthur Towne in The Ot
sego (Mich.) -Union.
SEND 12TH CHILD TO SERVICE . . . Mother of Albert Gets, Del-
anco, N.J., adjusts navy hat of son after his induction, as father
looks on. Albert is 12th child of Get* to Join armed forces.
PHONEY EXPRESS . . . Detroit mailman Roman Kortes (left)
helps postal inspector sift mail Kortes stole from malls and de
livered to his basement in past four vear*.
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