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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1953 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-cla^s matter December 6. 1937, at the Postoft'ice at Newberry, South Carolina, unde? the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., 51.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR The State owes a larger measure of relief to the Count ies and municipalities. The town and county units of gov ernment are closer to the taxpayers than the State is, but the Counties are dependent on the will of the State, since most Counties do not levy their own taxes. The towns, of course levy taxes, but that doesn’t change the general condition. The general condition is that taxes are either needlessly high, or that citizens are not receiving the fullest measure of local service because of a shortage of local revenue. The remedy is certainly not to be found in authorizing local units to levy taxes; after all, we must remember that the taxpayer has no rubber income which can be stretched constantly and indefinitely as calls for service increase. The State has a large income, an income beyond its needs. We know that the State can spend it, just as we know that all sorts, types and conditions of our people have plans for all manner of public services, excellently and benevolent ly conceived, but not of the greatest urgency. The condition is as that of a man who has six suits in good condition but buys another for $75 because it was reduced from $100. We men don’t endorse that sort of spending; in very truth we rejoice in the fine appearance of our time-tested suits, and shoes. The ladies are not so, as you may have heard; but men are not women; so with that profound observation we’ll “let that pass,” as Shakespeare says. The automobile, the trucks, the tractors—and other fac tors—increase County expenses. The State cooperates, and has been generous, according to its means, and that is the very point I make: let the State be generous with Counties and Towns, according to its means. Since the State has more means, let it contribute in larger measure to the local units. The Citizens of Counties and Towns are citizens of South Carolina; and they are entitled to every consideration, for it is their State and their money. When the Sales-tax became effective, Property taxes should have been reduced. I think it was generally as sumed that Property taxes would be reduced. That was not done. We still have Property taxes and School taxes as before, even with all the strong boxes of the State bulging with money. I know, of course, that School taxes aye levied on property, but I distinguish between General Pro perty taxes and School taxes for the sake of emphasis. Obviously the first obligation of the State is to grant relief to taxpayers. All this bountiful outpouring of money is not a windfall; no Alladdin has rubbed a magic lantern and produced all this flow of money; no son of South Carolina has bequeathed to the State millions of oil money. Oh, No! All the money flowing into the treasury of the State is the hard-earned money of the citizens and busi ness institutions of the State; millions of dollars have come from the bread and meat buying of our poorest people. It is the people’s money and the people have first claim for relief. So the State should contribute further to the Counties and Towns; and the Counties and towns should reduce their local levies. Senator Olin D. Johnston reports that our Government operates wastefully overseas, and recommends that about fifty per cent of the Federal employees overseas be dis missed. Suppose we could learn all the truth about our sprawling, extravagant National Government! In my ser vice as a Budget Officer I learned the great difficulty in eli minating unnecessary personnel and unnecessary spending. Once you put a man on the payroll his bread and meat de pend on it; so when you cut him off, his wife and children are at the mercy of the cold world. The only merciful course is not to put them on. The papers tell us that General Eisenhower will make no promises to Mr. Churchill. Our Constitution is supposed to prescribe how to carry on our affairs, but our Congress let both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Truman act like Sovereigns of unlimited power. We are learning the results. Let’s get back to the Constitution! Following the Civil War Congress ran over the President, rough-shod; Mr. Roose velt ran over the Congress, though enough Congressmen licked his Tx)ots for favors to make it all appear regular. Now, let’s get right and stay right. A spirit of friendly and gracious consideration for all man kind does not require or justify this world-mindedness we have developed. The other Nations themselves regard us as meddling overlords, instead of as kindly humanitarians. Nor has the Congress any right to spend the money of our taxpayers on world-wide benevolence. We are taxed for our own governing and the Congress works as our employees doing our work. I am not a physician; nor am I subsidized by the Medical brethren; in fact, although I have many friends who are GRIST FOR THE MILL physcians, I cultivate the Medicos on purely social grounds. However, so many are talking about heart troubles and heart conditions that I use part of something I recently read: Here it is: “Perhaps no other part of the body has been studied at intensively as the heart. Today new techniques are being developed to reveal more and more facts about how the hu man heart works. A great deal has been learned about the sources of energy which enable the heart to perform its Herculean task. The heart must drive five to ten tons of blood through the arteries and veins every day—365 days a year—for the 68 years of the average individual’s lifetime. In this per iod the amount of blood pumped may reach the impressive total of 250,000 tons. Moreover, the heart must function continuously—resting only a fraction of a second between beats. Heart disease is still the leading cause of death. It is wise for everyone to take certain simple precautions to protect the heart so that it may continue to do its job as one grows older. Here are some of them: 1. Do not wait for the appearance of symptoms that may indicate heart trouble—shortness of breath, rapid or irregu lar heart beat, pain in the chest—before seeing a doctor. It is wiser to arrange now—while you are feeling well—to have a thorough health checkup. Such check-ups often re veal heart disorders in their earliest stages when the chances for control—and possibly cure—are best. It is wise to have a complete health examination every year—or as often as the doctor recommends. 2. Keep your weight down. Excess pounds tax both the heart and the blood vessels. Doctors are now stressing the importance of diet in the treatment of various heart and blood vessel disorders. For example, restricted diets have benefited many patients. 3. Learn to take things in your stride. Avoid hurry, pressure and emotional upsets, that may be brought about by overwork, too much and too sudden physical exertion, and other excesses. These can cause your heart to beat faster and put an extra burden on your circulation. Even if heart disease should occur, remember that most people who have it can live just about as other people do— but at a slower pace. In fact, when patients follow the doc tor’s advice about adequate rest, weight control, and the avoidance of nervous tension and strenuous physical exer tion, the outlook is reassuring. Doctors can now say to many heart patients: Tf you live within your heart’s limitations, your chances for a happy and comfortable life are good,.” A second admonition about health appeared in our dail ies. I use a part of it: “The most healthful resolution American men can make for 1953 is one to ‘stop worrying.’ Worry causes high blood pressure, stomach ulcers and dermatalgia, a skin neuralgia causing intense itching although the skin appears normal. Go to bed at the first sign of a bad cold or illness, and call a physician. Do not worry, and avoid arguments. Remember drinking and driving don’t mix. Avoid exposure to severe heat or cold and sudden changes of temperature. Drink eight glasses of water and get eight hours of sleep daily. Never go swimming, hiking or hunting alone. A simple accident may prove fatal if no one is at hand to help or cal> for aid. Prevent possible cancer of the skin by having moles re moved if they start to bleed or become irritated.” That’s a lot of water—eight glasses. Do you remember the story on the Kentucky Colonel? He said that he had never drunk any water; didn’t think a gentleman ever drank water. Well, many who tried to be Kentucky Col onels now have flowers marking the spot where they no longer drink. All the men of the various armed services will wonder about the eight glasses of water. In Europe a man drinks water at his peril. And he drinks other stuff at his peril, too, so what? One point can be made by our Highway De partment—and beyond all disputing—. The water of Europe and Asia may sap your strength and kill you slowly, but the water of even France will not wreck the car, or lead to crimes of violence. A friend who enjoys a “nip,” once accused me of being narrow and intolerant. Perhaps I am; the man who doesn’t agree usually seems narrow and intolerant: that’s the little conceit of most of us: but I’ve never known a man to drink a “soda-pop” so as to work up enough courage to commit a crime. Not even bad coffee or sloppy tea will cause a mur der. KNOW SOUTH CAROLINA By GEORGE MacNABB CHIEF OF PUBLIC RELATIONS SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD Built in 1855, the Governor’s House, glorying in its unpretentious atmosphere, has been "home” to South Carolina’s greatest governors, and among its guests have been many of the great of the nation and the world. GOVERNOR’S HOUSE The Governor’s House at Columbia, one of the city’s most famous show- places, is so-called today out of respect for the present Governor, James Francis Byrnes, who prefers the simple term “house” rather than the more pretentious “mansion”. As a matter of fact, the house itself is unpretentious and friendly, its simplicity confirming the warmth of the welcome to be found inside. The house was erected in 1855 to serve as barracks for officers in the old Arsenal Academy. Two build ings which survived the burning by Sherman 10 years later were joined to make the present structure. To day, beautifully landscaped grounds are surrounded by a cast-iron fence on a plastered wall, and the tall magnolias and other shade trees give the home a true southern setting. Many of the nation’s great men have been entertained here, includ ing the late President Roosevelt, and some of South Carolina’s loveliest ladies have served it as hostesses. Three-quarters of a century of gracous living and “southern hos pitality” are deeply imbedded in the charm of the house, and are tru ly expressed by the present occu pants, Govenor and Mrs. Byrnes. W ASHINGTON is agog over the inauguration and has talked about little else for the past two or three weeks. The inauguration of Dwight Eisenhower will be, of course, one of the big news stories of the year. Behind the scenes, however, speculation continues as to whether there is a possibility of a split between the executive and legislative branches of the adminis tration in the very near future. Most news stories out of the Capi tol during the past week indicate that the Republican administration is determined to launch a strong legislative program that will keep the GOP in control of Congress two years from now. A number of news stories have pointed out that the inaugural cere monies skip lightly over Eisen hower’s Army background. One float touches upon his West Point period, but that one has a big foot ball as the point of interest. • Meanwhile, as the nation fo cuses its attention on Washington, activity in Korea has increased during the past week. Red troops have increased * their pressure against the South Koreans. The Reds seem to be trying to break the fighting spirit of the South Koreans with bullets and propa ganda. The pressure has caused Gen. Mark Clark to announce that American soldiers serving behind the lines will have to spend more time in Korea because of a shortage of replacements. This may be part of the reason the Defense Department has an nounced a draft of 53,000 for Janu ary, the largest number in many months. Dispatches indicated this high draft call may be continued for much of this year. • Elsewhere in the news, Stalin’s much discussed replies to a num ber of questions submitted to him by The New York Times has sim mered down to the belief that it is all propaganda. News analysis this, past week have generally come to the conclusion that the Stalin statements represent no thing more than another Kremlin propaganda move. In his replies Stalin indicated that he would be willing to meet with Eisenhower, he didn't think war with the U. S inevitable, end the U. S. S. R. will cooperate to end the war in Korea. • A hint of things to come in the near future was given when the House Small Business Committee urged the abandonment of price, wage, and material controls. The committee said, in part, this move “would provide a smooth transition back to free competition.” This problem of controls will be one of the first pressing problems of the Eisenhower administration. Wage, price, and rent controls ex pire April 30 under present law. Priority and allocation controls over scarce materials will expire June 30. The question is whether the new administration will take action to extend them or let them die their natural death? The House Small Business Com mittee does not believe that prices will rise if ceilings are removed. # As a new cabinet takes over the government in Washington a big question, and a newsworthy one, is being asked by political ob servers. Just how well can a Presi dent trained for the Army, and a cabinet trained in finance and busi ness, get along with the politicians? It is an unanswerable question, of course. But this much is certain: These business men and Eisen hower can not succeed unless they learn to understand and tolerate politics and politicians, the men in congress who must go before the voters of their districts for periodi cal election. Nation's Tuberculosis Death Rate Declines; Case Numbers Remain Same Although tuberculosis remains a major medical and public health problem in this country, the dis ease took only one-third as many lives in the U. S. last year as 20 years ago. There are now 1,200,000 cases of tuberculosis in the nation, accord ing to the latest estimates, and in 400,000 of these the disease is ac tive. About 250,000 of the active cases are outaide of hospitals and sanatoria, and of them 150,000 are either undiagnosed or unreported. Zb addition, each year approxi mately 115,000 new cases occur which require medical treatment and supervision. The number of known tuberculo sis cases has changed little, al though there has been a rapid de cline in the number of deaths. One reason is that many more From The Shamokin Citizen, Shamokin, Pa.: Going from neigh bor to neighbor, hqr eyes brimming with tears, a little five-year-old-girl sought help for her mother. Little Louise Chianello, of New York, overhearing her father’s frantic telephone calls in his efforts to so licit blood donors for his critically ill wife, decided that her mother could best be helped by her direct appeal: “Please help my mommy so that she can come home again.” Like the worried father, she sought the precious life-giving whole blood that could restore her mother to her. To such an appeal, hardly anyone capable of giving would turn a deaf ear. To the pleading of others who have sought the gift of health restoring blood, many of us have turned our backs. Giving to the Red Cross bloodmobile unit is not so emotionally satisfying for the unimaginative who cannot envision the little girl in tragedy’s back ground. But frequently the plea is made, and often the opportunity presents itself to answer a little girl’s prayers for help. To the Red Cross most of us who are in good health can give blood to those who are in desperate need. If we are sensitive enough to the plight of others, we will foresee the need before it becomes desperate. To the nameless mothers at death’s door we can offer the assurance that lack of whole blood will not deny the chance of life. We need never find ourselves shamed at the pleadings of a little five-year-old girl whose mother needs our blood. * * * From Carlsbad Current-Argrus, Carlsbad, N. M.: Every big labor boss in the country . . . was cam paigning against the Republicans. Millions and millions of dollars were poured into the election fight by professional labor bosses. And they lost every dime of it. The money didn’t come out of their pockets, of course, but came from the union treasuries—from the dues of hardworking union members. * • * From Wilmington Morning Star, Wilmington, N. C.: The govern ment, since President Roosevelt launched his NRA, has piled sjfecial agency upon special agency, with spendthrift frequency, so that thou sands of federal employees have been getting in each other’s way, listlessly duplicating each othler’s tasks, at the expense of the tax payers. Surely this can be cur tailed, if not wholly eliminated. The tens of millions of dollars to be saved on federal payrolls obviously would help reduce government tax bills. DaleCarnegie -jfc' AUTHO? jb"H0W TO STOP WORRYING AND STARTUVING’ ^ OHIRLEY M. DECKER, 3744 Greenway Place, Shreveport, La., mar- ^ ried a man who had a $20,000.00 interest in a flying school. He was a million dollar producer in the life insurance business *nd conse quently did not have time to operate the flying schooL So she went to work at the airport and for the next two years that flying school was the big black beast in her life. The succession of managers hired began to shift more and more of the responsibility on her and she simply did not have the ability to han dle it. She knew little about airplanes and no matter how hard she tried, they kept going in the red. It finally got to the point where she hated the word airplane. She cringed at the sound of one flying over head. She would lie awake at night worrying about them and about letting her husband down. They were going to lose $20,000.00. She had knots in her stomach and thoughts of going out to the airport would actu ally nauseate her. She was afraid she had stomach ulcers. Then her sister came to visit her. She saw what Shirley was doing to herself and told her that if she didn’t quit worrying she!would have a nervous breakdown. She added that if she had done the best she could and couldn’t change things, to quit worrying about/ it. gave the best advice Shirley says she ever received; day unto itself.” It wasn’t easy, she declares, but that is how she through the next year. When they closed the doors on the flying school/ they ha $20,000.00 but she had learned a valuable lesson she pays. Noi this world is worth the worry she devoted to that flying schooL She passes on to you this suggestion: If you ever find yourself situation that causes you nothing but worry and griqf and you c change things for the better, then get out of it. If yj of it, the only thing you can do is to live in daylight com >7? #•-* CARNEGIE get can’t get rtments. cases have been discovered due to the great increase i* chest X-ray examinations, especially Ja hospi tals, in pre-employment and peri odic medical examinations industry and in community-wide tuberculo sis detection campaigns. Moreover, persons with tubercu losis now live longer, thanks to the increase in facilities for treatment, the employment of effective surgi cal methods in advanced disease, and the use of antibiotics and other drugs. The death rate from the disease last year was approximately IS per 100,000, less than half of the 1046 rate. Only 15 years ago it was nearly three times as high. The death rate in the United States from all causes last year was 9.6 per thousand, the fifth year in succession with a rata loi QUADS GET SHOES . . . Nurse Dorothy Potvin fits shoes to feet of the Manning quadruplets of South Weymouth, Mass. Betty and her brothers, Robert, Richard and John, Jr., see new footgear. I WimgMNilp iHI ; - ■ V Thomas J. K< newly-appoini ell holds