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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.
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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.)