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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1953 1218 Colleg-e Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, undei the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., 11.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR The Legislature is in session and new faces are seen. Some men are beginning a political career which may lead to the Governorship or to the United States Senate; it is an interesting speculation: the leader of the next generation may be sitting on a back seat today. Some men serve at personal sacrifice and leave the political arena after a time. I well recall the levelheaded member from Fairfield County who now' operates a great packing plant in Co lumbia: that is Mr. F. M. Roddey. Looking over the names I miss another sturdy man of affairs—Thomas R. Miller of Florence. Mr. Miller was spoken of for the position of Lieutenant Governor tw T o years ago and had assurances of strong support. Our Governor occupies a place of very special esteem throughout the State. Although he has served in the high est positions of the Nation he has come back to his peo ple and they hold him in affection. Frequently a clerk says “The price is $1.00 and Jimmy’s tax.’’ It is said without bad feeling, although our tax shows small regard for the very poor. South Carolina is not the wmrst State by any means. That, how'ever, is not the point; w r e must try to be the best State. We must encourage investments; w r e must do ■everything possible to stimulate sane and sound progress. When a man or a group of men build a factory they make jobs for our people; that helps all other business, for the workers buy groceries, shoes, clothing, dry goods; they go to the physicians and the dentists; they help support the churches and the charities, etc. A State or a County or a Town may lose some tax revenue directly and gain three times as much indirectly. After all, our various units of government exist for the benefit of the people. The get ting of revenue is merely incidental: the main purpose of all government is to promote the interests of its citizens and to protect them in the peaceful enjoyment of their earnings and their property. South Carolina is still undeveloped; it has much to offer sturdy workers and large investors. Not more than the surface has been scratched, but we are making progress. I think the record of our State has been notable for busi- * ness success: we lead the Nation: only 4.7 out of ten thou sand have failed here, although the record for the Nation is 34.3 out of every ten thousand. Ponder that: it is worth emphasizing, as our State Planning Board so aptly does in its advertising. Let us not rest on our oars; let us, rather, go from strength to strength, preparing for the next generation. The News and Courier of Charleston is one hundred and fifty years old. In a great special edition the old paper reviews much of the history of that long span of years. The News and Courier came into being during the early days of Napoleon and celebrates a hundred and fifty years of service eight years after the downfall of Adolph Hitler, whose conquests were greater than those of Napoleon. Napoleon seemed able to thrash the Germans almost at will, but along came the Kaiser and, later, Hitler and re paid the French in full and with heavy interest. Napoleon held France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Holland, with over lowship that went much farther. Hitler had France, Ger many, Belgium, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Greece and much more. The News and Courier saw the rise and fall of Napoleon; the rise and fall of Hitler, as well as Mussolini. Within our borders The Courier saw Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis; and it knew that uni versal-mind, the great American political philosopher, Thomas Jefferson. It saw the purchase of the vast Louisi ana territory by Jefferson and the purchase of Alaska by Lincoln. It discussed the career of that brilliant man James Madi son. The Courier knew Thedore Roosevelt and the genial, lovable William Howard Taft. It knew Woodrow Wilson the great spirit, yet the very able executive who gave us the Federal Reserve Bank and The Federal Trade Commission; Wilson also had the courage and the wisdom and the right eousness to apologize for stealing the Panama route for a canal. And the Courier has spoken its thoughts and its principles throughout the years, and continues to do so. I read many papers every week and frequently express my high regard for the fine spirit which pervades them. I know of no finer body of men than our South Carolina newspaper men. And my appreciation of my radio brethren is fully as great. The radio stations and the press of our State are clean. Seldom do you find a wealthy County edi tor, but seldom do you find a man who tries more strenous- ly and faithfully to serve his County: he is the all-time boost- Another Hitler-Stalin Pact er and champion of everybody and every community institu tion and everything that is good. » Two years ago I had a small part in celebrating our old est Bank’s anniversary. Down on Broad Street, in Charles ton, The Bank of the United States was about to close its doors and the General Assembly of the State created a Com mittee to solicit capital for a Bank. That was the begin ning of The South Carolina National Bank. When all the subscriptions were listed it was found that the total was nearly ninety million dollars subscribed when only two mil lions were needed or called for. Then when one-fourth of the authorized capital was call ed for—$500,000—the businessmen of Charleston came for ward with twenty millions in cash! Great old City! Men were men in those days. But Charleston is no museum or place of has-been; no City of our Nation has finer young business men today than Charleston. And if you observed how that rock-ribbed old County and City v’oted for Eisen hower you will see that there is abounding that vigor and independence which made so much history. Speaking of the Bank, the citizens of Hamburg subscribed liberally to the stock. Cheraw and Camden likewise; so it seems quite natural that today that Bank operates in most major centers of the State. We can learn much from the history of The News & Courier and of the South Carolina National Bank. One point will be as interesting as it is informative: when the Bank was authorized by the Legislature, with a capital of two million dollars, the capital was the amount which was available for loans. Depositors were not the main in fluence. Today that great Bank shows capital funds of $7,437,214 but its loans amount to $60,000,000. Where did all that come from? What a change in busi ness within a hundred years! Back in the beginning the Capital funds were the money to be put out on loans; to day the deposits constitute the money for the loans. De posits total about $200,000,000. Do you like to talk about figures? I am thinking only of arithmetic, not draped bodies of astonishing beauty. I read bank statements as zealously as though I had a maj- jor part. I follow the statements of New York and Chicago into the billions. Why not? Certainly the poor man may have visions and dream dreams; and we grasp some part of the magnitude of our great country by reading bank statements. The Comics may be more absorbing, but I'm not interested in the Comics: I see enough foolish and ridiculous nonsense every day without feeding my eyes on comics. Figures—that is arithmetic—may be very drab and dry, but one can clothe them, the arithmetic figures, and make them interesting. Years ago I prepared the tax books of my county and pretended that all the horses and mules, gold watches, lands and buildings, were mine. That lightened the strain until I had to add all those figures in my head, as we used to say. Well, well, well! No one can add now; no one can walk; no one can spell—what’s the matter with us? Perhaps we’ve become great thinkers, though from latest reports Socrates, Plato and Aristotle remain on their pedestals. Still, if those grand old thinkers had to wrestle, with the problems of the State budget, as Chairman Edgar Brown and Chair man Charlie Verner will have to wrestle the likelihood is that the grand old masters of thought would resign and retire. The philosophers of old were highly productive if they gave to the world a few noble thoughts within a year; they had time and quiet and meditation so that principles might emerge and become foundations upon which practices might rest for all time. Instead of that calm and peace and unhurried thinking we have the hectic cries and pres sures of the moment, the clash of interests, as whether to send more liquor revenues to the Counties and towns; or whether to use some other revenue; or whether to let the Towns and Counties stew in their own grease until the eve of the next election; or whether to seek a solution that will offend no one, being founded in sound principles that would apply to both the present hnd the future. From The Sylacaugra News, Syla- cauga, Ala: A “talking horse’’ has hit the headlines lately, an swering many unsolved questions. This is all right if you can believe a horse. My experience has been that they are unmitigated liars. Once or tv/ice I have inquired of one of the breed how he was com ing out in a particular race, and he gave me the wrong answer by half a track. Of course he might have failed to tell the jockey what he told me. • • • From The Lincoln Times, Lin- colnton, N. C.: Today most of us talk about billions as casually as people used to talk about thou sands. And that’s largely a result of the trend of government in re cent years. Our national debt is around $260,000,000,000 and annual spending has been rolling merrily along at an $80,000,000,000 rate. So figures large enough to tax the imagination of a first-class mathe matician are commonplace in pub lic discussion. In view of this, a Reader’s Digest item on just what a single, solitary billion amounts to should be of wide interest. Suppose that your family started a business with a billion dollar sur plus in the year A. D. One. And suppose it had been so badly and extravagantly managed that it had lost $1,000 every day of the 1952 years that have gone by since then You wouldn’t have to worry about it—you’d be a long, long way from broke. For you and your descendants could go right on losing that $1,000 a day until the year 2739 before you’d run out of money! That’s how big a billion is—a solitary billion, not five or ten or fifty of them. It indicates the in credible extent of today’s govern ment spending. It shows how much every taxpayer has to gain from government economy and effi ciency. Thoroughly documented surveys say that Federal spending alone would be cut by as much as $10,000,000,000 a year without hurt ing any necessary activity. It’s your money they’ve been so busily throwing away in Washington. * * • From the Catskill Mountain Star. Saugerties, N. Y.: America has a shortage of males, and its going to grow worse, we learn from an American Medical Association Journal. There aren’t so many old maids any more, say the statis ticians. The doctors point out that the 1950 census showed 1,430,000 more women than men and de clared that the higher male death rate and more women immigrants are increasing the disparity. In the last 11 years, say the insurance men. the marriage rate of Ameri can females has increased 16 per cent. And for the first time in 60 years girls over 35 scored more weddings. It must be because they marry so often these days. PakCariwegii 'At AUTHOB jjf “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND STARrtlVING" ^ M ARGARET SHAW, 2198 Pennington, Trenton, New Jersey, as a child of ten years was worried because she thought her mother would become totally blind. Her mother had already lost the sight of one eye. She remembers so well how she lay awake at night and wor ried. She couldn’t help hearing everything that went on in the night. Mother would have spells of dizziness and lose her sight temporarily. Her dad would rub her mother’s back vigorously since improvement in circulation seemed to bring back her sight. Her mother had had the very same symptoms before she lost the sight in the other eye a few years previously. All attempts to save her sight in that eye had failed. Margaret says she can remember well how her older sister wept until she thought her heart would break. She can’t remember that she cried a great deal, but she worried and lost much sleep. Finally she realized that she wasn’t helping her mother by worry ing; that there was much to do with the twins and other younger members of the family needing attention. Young as she was she knew this problem was too much for her to handle, that there was a far greater Power to help in such a situation. She prayed hard and often. Not only did she pray, but she figured out just what she would do to help her mother in case she did lose her sight. She would read to her and describe all the flowers and plants that she loved so much. Well, fortunately she never had to do any of these things because her mother never lost her sight completely; God answered Margaret’s wravers. CARNEGIE KNOW SOUTH CAROLINA By GEORGE MacNABB — CHIEF OF PUBLIC RELATIONS SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD The Second Presbyterian and the Third "Dissenter" church to be established inJWilliamsburg County. A splendid example of the strictly plain, dignified architecture of the period of 1830. INDIANTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Williamsburg County The history of Indiantown Presby- /Thejfirst edifice of worship is be- terian Church dates back over 200 lieved to have been constructed of years. No accurate records are homemade brick. This church was available, but it is reported that destroyed by Tarleton’s Lieutenant the congregation was organized in “Bloody” Wemyss in 1780. The 1750fand that the church received congregation, impoverished by war, a legacy of land and money from had no funds to build immediately William Thompson in 1754; and a and worshipped for some 4 to 5 house of worship was in use in 1757. years under a brush arbor erected The charter members were for the near where the first church had most part sons and daughters of the stood. The second church built of Scotch-Irish members of Williams- hewn logs sufficed until 1830 when burg (Kingtree) church, who had the present building was erected, settled in the lower part of what is It is of frame construction and its now Williamsburg County, and • severly plain rectangular design is with them were a considerable num- an excellent example of the popular ber of Church of England mono architecture of that time. A portico Indiantown was therefore the Sec- with massive Doric columns was ond Presbyterian and the third added in 1907 and a basement for “Dissenter” church to be estab- Sunday School purposes in 1919. fished in what is now known as Today it has 356 members and its Williamsburg County.' pastor is the Rev. E. TJBeckman. f S INCE the Republican landslide of November, the average man has been wondering what approach the new congress would take to ward a cut in taxes. Last week, with congress just getting down to serious work, an opinion was being formed and expressed. Leaders in this legislative body. Washington news reports say, are just about agreed that they can not promise too much in the way of a tax cut too soon. First must come a balanced budget. Representative Charles A. Hal- leck of Indiana, majority leader in the house, had this to say on the subject: “I think first of all a major objective of this new ad ministration must be to balance the budget, and we’re not going to be reckless with the finances and the financial structure of tms coun try. But at the same time I think that we must drive to cut the cost of government and, doing that, to bring about a tax reduction. • One of the leading news sto ries in the nation’s press the past two weeks has been Winston Churchill’s visit in the United States. His talks last week with leading national figures has caused considerable speculation, especial- 1 ly his talk to Dwight Eisenhower. In that connection, it is interest ing to recall what the two men have written about each other in the past. Here is what Churchill wrote about Eisenhower: “Eisenhower was a broadminded man, practical, serviceable, dealing with events as they came in cool selflessness.” Eisenhower wrote this about Churchill: “Mr. Churchill was a man of extraordinarily strong con victions and a master in argument and debate He was a great war leader and he is a great man.” On his arrival in the United States, Mr. Churchill put forth these views on various subjects: 1. Now that Britain possesses an atomic weapon, she would like to be a “useful partner” of the U. S., but has been deprived of the exchange of information promised by- the late President Roosevelt. 2. The Korean war has improved the chances of world peace. 3. The possibility of World War III has receded, but has not en tirely disappeared. 4. His country wants “trade, not aid” to regain her economic strength. He termed the present U. S. trade policies as “unsatisfac tory” and hampers the sale of British goods in this country. • One of the most shocking re ports to reach public print in many months was the recent Army state ment that 46,000 enlisted men have deserted since the start of the Korean War. All of them, except ll-.OOO, have been picked up and returned to Army service, the re port said. The Army officer who made this information available added that the desertion rate during the cur rent hostilities was less than half of what it was during one 12-month period toward the end of World War II. Besides the Army, the Air Force, Navy and Marines reported an ad ditional 2,790 deserters. In all, if this Army report is correct, there are 13,790 deserters from the serv ices roaming the streets of America. Current regulations classify a man as a deserter if he is absent without leave more than 30 days. These figures, the Army said, does not count men merely absent with out leave. * > Gamma Globulin Provides Temporary Polio Immunity W ITH the nation’s polio cases mounting steadily during the last five years, news that research and scientific tests have demon strated the effectiveness of im mune serum globulin in giving human beings some degree of temporary immunity against the disease will be particularly wel come in rural areas where it has struck hardest. The serum — commonly called gamma globulin—is a protein frac tionated from human blood. Now the American Red Cross has been requested by the Office of Defense Mobilization to expand defense blood collections in an effort to make gamma globulin available during this summer’s epidemics. Working at full capacity, the country’s pharmaceutical labora tories will be unable to produce sufficient gamma globulin for all persons who will be exposed to the virus—an estimated 2,000,000 chil dren living in anticipated epidemic areas. Allocation and distribution of the serum, therefore, will not be handled by the Red Cross, but by some other agency yet to be desig nated by the O.D.M. Discovery of the usefulness of gamma globulin followed scientific tests during the past two years in Provo, Utah; Houston, Texas; and Sioux City, Iowa, under the aus pices of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The gamma globulin used in these experiments also was provided by the Red Cross. While no one can predict the in cidence of polio in 1953, figures seemingly speak for themselves. The case rate has increased stead ily since 1946 and last year’s tQtal of 57,000 reported cases not only was an all-time high, but was also more than two and one-half greater than the annual average for the past 15 years. Many of the 1952 cases were in such predom inantly rural states as Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Texas, Kentucky and Michigan The Foundation reports that polio invaded the nation’s farms with savage frequency last year. Ini Mapleton, Iowa, for example, 11 of the 14 children of Joe and Clara Thiel were stricken; while in Tay lor, Wise., five out of eight chil dren in one family contracted polio. The Red Cross also will continua its primary responsibility as the coordinating agency for the col lection of whole blood for the armed forces, national defense and civilian hospitals as part of the National Blood Program under ODM auspices. Since the Red Cross launched its present blood program in 1948, it has procured—with the help of cooperating community blood banks—over 8,180,000 dona tions of blood for civilian use ■*** for national defense. | YEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLl | British Historian Here’s the Answer HORIZONTAL 1,7 Pictured British historian 14 Closer 15 Overdue debts 16 Pledge 17 Seed covering 19 Soil 20 Worm 21 Looks happy 23 To (Scot.) 24 Behold! 25 Diminutive suffix 26 Place (ab.) 28 Near (ab.) 29 Sleep noisily 31 Peruses 33 Prohibit 34 Hearing organ 35 Turn 37 Ward off 40 Area measure 41 Dawn (prefix) 42 Down i 43 Suffix 44 Ignited. 46 Stair parts 51 Eggs 52 Short jacket 54.Number 55 Imitated 56 Nullified 58 SUck fast 60 Gymnastic bar 61 Smooths VERTICAL 1 Heavenly beings 2 Intellect 3 Scolds 4 Mineral rock 5 French article 6 Fluid measure 7 Caudal appendage 8 Shield bearing 9 Year (ab.) 10 Boy’s nickname 11 Lure 12 Mission 13 Natural fats 18 Measure 21 Loud speaker 22 Disperses 25 Expunge 27 Depart 30 Japanese sash 47 Girl’s name 32 Exist 35 Ability 36 He is a distinguished 38 Worship 39 Exchanges 45 Roman garment 48 Lateral part 49 Half an em 50 Harvest 51 Unclosed 53 Short sleep 55 Exclamation 57 Tellurium (symbol) 59 Deciliter (ab.)