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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1953 v jfmv. 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December G. 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, undei the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 ner year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Down in Peru, South America, even high in the Andes Mountains I was served rice twice a day, every day, seven days a week. As you may readily understand, they have a taste for rice and eat 4 lot of it. In the morning the desay- uno or- breakfast w r as very simple, like the French petit de jeuner, as many will recall—coffee, rolls and butter—cafe con leche, pan y mantequilla, the Spaniards say. Then for almuerzo, or lunch, the Spaniard has a substantial meal, usually serving arroz, which is rice. Our Northern friends think of rice as a Southern dish and expect it to be served with milk and sugar; but a real rice- eater wants his rice so artistically prepared that the grains virtually stand apart. I-was entertained once in a South American village with a lunch of six courses—rice in every one of them. Although I am a native low-country Carolinian that was too much rice. We Carolinians never eat rice for breakfast, but our Northern friends are now serving spuds for breakfast. It must be the war and the idea was practiced on the army and the navy. I’ve remarked before that I knew a distinguished geo grapher of Yale in South America and heard him say that rice is the universal cereal, the world over, for you can pro duce more food in the form of rice in a given area than in anything else. Rice is produced in all parts of the world and is the poor man’s friend as well as the rich man’s delight. I seldom eat rice but I like to think about it. Why all this talk about rice? South Carolina is no longer the great rice-producing area. It is turning to rice again, down on the coast. My mind turned to rice driving through Louisiana and Texas. I saw the great rice empires, 'where rice vies with cattle, cotton, oil and sulphur for the crown. I had known about Texas, especially, but it surprised me to see so many great rice mills in Arkansas. Rice, rice, rice for miles and miles, I saw in Arkansas. I spent the night in Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas and next morning met ex-Governor Ben Laney in the hotel. He was interested in South Carolina’s attitude toward Gen eral Eisenhower. Many will recall that Ex-Governor Laney, while serving as Governor of Arkansas, was one of the great old battlers for the States Rights movement. Strangely enough South Carolina and Mississippi led in that great fight, but voted for Stevenson in the 1952 campaign, whereas Virginia and Texas voted for Eisenho'wer, though they were not strong for the States Righters. You can’t always tell how the cat will jump. We South Carolinians flopped one way and the Virginians flopped in another. There has been a lot of talk about new taxes, or higher taxes in order to pay for adult school bus drivers. Why should there be higher taxes? The one reason for, or excuse for, the sales tax was that this money was needed for schools. The operation of buses is a school expense and should be charged against the re ceipts from the sales tax. The first obligation of the State is to offer educational advantages through the primary grades because the major ity of our people do not go beyond the sixth grade. Thou sands go on through high school and stop there. They have the second claim. The Colleges come third. I am not dispar aging the Colleges; I am showing where the people claim the most attention. It is perfectly obvious that as long as we centralize our schools we must have buses. The buses are a necessary service and safety of operation is unquestionably a major fact in any bus service. Therefore we can’t escape the conclusion that a first claim on the revenues from the sales tax is the operation of the primary schools and a fea ture of that is safe transportation. The ambition to be a builder, to leave great monuments to ourselves, is as old as history itself; the Pharaohs and all others built monuments, but the surest memorial of our useful service is a trained, efficient and useful citizenry, rather than construction^ of bricks and mortar. The greatest need is not buildings; rather, it is for teachers who can set a pupil on fire with useful ambitions; teachers who can lift the mind beyond buildings and other surroundings and awaken the Divine spark that lies latent or unknown in vir tually every boy and every girl. We used to hear of greaf teachers, most of whom had no great buildings or other equipment. I have heard so much about the late Major James Lide Coker that I used to wonder what was his inspiration, for he had all the elements of greatness and his achievements were notable. What built the fires of ambition and great usefulness under James C. Self of South Carolina and William H. Regnery of Iowa, the greatest men I have known? Here we have the son of a farm in the sand hills of \ VN •vJ FROM ONE GENERAL TO ANOTHER -x a time of Great Crisis I would tell Them, That we had borne much: That we had lon^ and arderitty sought for reconciliation 1 upon honorable terms That it had. been denied, us; That all our attempts ‘for Peace ed abortive; \ 'pirit of Freedom tod hidh in us to Subm it to/ Slaveru • - • and all this I would tell them in words as the Sun in its meridian bright , v ^ w/ f rarn a written in 1776 South Carolina and a farmer lad from the cornfields of Iowa, now great industrialists, yet greater men. Neither buildings now equipment will produce such men. I wish I could hear those great men tell of their guiding light. I think I have found out something about Major Coker: I’m told that he was a student under the great Agassizz one of those men born to make leaders. It is said that all those who studied under Agassiz were notably successful. It is told of a man who told his son to take courses under Agassiz. The young fellow reported to the great teacher, with a message from his fond father. Agassiz shook hands and handed a fish to the lad and said “Look over this and see what there is to see.” The lad looked over the fish casually and went back to the teacher. That old fogey was gone. The lad felt disgusted, but began idly to draw the fish, just to kill time. He saw things and his interest was aroused. When, after some hours, the old professor “showed-up” he asked the lad what he had seen, during all that time. When the boy showed his drawing and recited all that he had observed, the learned old man talked to him several hours telling him about that fish. He taught men to see and to think for themselves. That seems to explain Major Coker. Are we centralizing our school administration too much? It seems so. The essence of American government is local government. We learned that from the struggles of our English people. Large schools are not the solution of any problem. A standard school should be maintained in any neighborhood which can support it. It is better to have a five-grade school in its own neigh borhood, if possible, than to send the children ten or fifteen miles to a central school. Again, the authority for deter mining the location of a school should be within the County, not in Columbia. The County Superintendent of Education should be superintendent of schools, not a mere paper work er; nor should the Superintendent of one school be the over- lord of several schools, bus service, etc., over a large ter- idtory. I want to mention something about ccotton: “It won’t be long until you can buy a flame-resistant set of cotton drapes, a wrinkle-free cotton dirndl skirt or a cotton sweater with the softness and warmth of pure cashmere. This rosy picture for the cotton industry was painted Tuesday by George S. Buck, Jr., technical service director of the National Cotton Council at its 15th annual conven tion in Dallas. ‘Startling developments through chemical research have shattered traditional concepts of the performance of the cotton fiber,’ he said. Investigation has shown, he added, that cotton’s strength and chemical stability give it a wider range, of scientific opportunities than synthetic fibers in many textile processes. Cotton scientist, he pointed out, have come up with such other developments as cottons that resist soilage and wear like iron, others that resist rot whether buried in ground for months or exposed to tropical waters as fishnets. Many of the ‘dramatic new cottons’ are already commer cially available, Mr. Buck said, while others are in the lab oratory or pilot stage. Opportunities for- ccotton through the science of chemistry are virtually limitless, he believes. “Plant diseases are costing the cotton formers of the United States at least $50,000,000 annually, an agronomist reported at the 15th annual meeting of the National Cotton Council in Dallas.” 1. The Horn burg hat takes its name from: (a) Bad Homburg, a fashionable Gernutn spa; (b) Johann Homburg; (c) Heinrich von Homburg. 2. What President made the shortest inaugural address: (a) Eisenhower; (b) Cleveland; (c) Washington. 3. What state has voted Republican continuously since the Civil War: (a) Maine; (b) New Hampshire; (c) Vermont. ANSWERS ■p|) MtSapiNM 1 Sjaqai«fi p« a •{ Clever Safety Programs Led By Small Town Women “America owes a debt of grati tude to rural and small town wom en for saving lives through their ingenious and unselfish work for the cause of traffic safety.’’ That was the statement made recently by Ned Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council. The occasion was the judging of nominees for the Carol Lane Award for Traffic Safety, established re cently through a grant of Shell Oil Company. The Carol Lane Award offers each year a $1,000 de fense bond and three additional prizes to those American women who make the most outstanding contributions to traffic safety. Mr. Dearborn said that he was tremendously impressed by the number and quality of the entries from small towns and rural areas. He attributed the fact to higher community spirit and neighborli ness there. In Florida, for instance, Mrs. Sara Griffen Hughes, president of the Pilot Club, is credited with or ganizing the state-wide project to eliminate a major hazard on rural highways—jutting roadside mail boxes. Mrs. Hughes’ answer was “turn outs,” or central rural mail box stations every four miles along country roads. Today there are 25 such clover-leaf slations where mail can be delivered and picked up safely and where, incidentally, school buses can turn around with freedom from accidents. Mr. Dearborn also cited the work of Mrs. Sidney Arnold, an Arkan sas PTA safety chairman, who so licited community funds and effort to place phosphorescent tape on all children’s bicycles so that they could be seen at night by country drivers. He said a lone woman in the Lone Star state, from a community so small it’s not even on the map, spearheaded the effort to establish the first safety commissions in 1200 communities last year. T^xas named the new highway that runs through her home town of Mum- ford after her—the Lillian Collier highway. Safety may be a grim business, Mr. Dearborn said, but rural wom en find plenty of room for humor in getting its lessons across. He mentioned Mrs. Henry Hight of Henderson, North Carolina, who posted a sign over mirrors in pub lic places—which read, “Are you looking at Vance County’s next ac cident victim?” KNOW SOUTH CAROLINA By GEORGE MacNABB — CHIEF OF PUBLIC RELATIONS — SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD The Bob Jones University Museum and Art Gallery located on the campus of "The World’s Most Unusual University’’ in Greenville, houses the Eowen Collection of Biblical Antiquities and Illustrative Material and the Bob Jones University Collection of Sacred Art. The extreme modernism of the Architecture of the Bob Jones University Museum and Art Gal lery, though it ties in with the other buildings on the campus, is in strange contrast with the ancient statuary, pottery, and objects of art which it contains. Opened on Thanksgiving Day, 1951, this beau tiful building houses the Bowen Collection of Biblical Antiquities and Illustrative Material and the Bob Jones University Collection of Sacred Art. The art collection was made by Dr. Bob Jones, Jr., president of the school, and has been termed one of the most remarkable collections of famous religious paintings in the world. Exhibiting only religious art, it is made up entirely of Old Masters from the Thirteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries. Numbered among the paintings are outstand ing works by such artists as Botti celli, Tintoretto, Veronese, del Piombo, Solimena, Mostaert, van Leyden, Cranach the Elder, El Greco, Ribera, and Murillo. The Bowen Collection of Bibli cal Antiquities and Illustrative Material, valued at $300,000, in cludes articles from Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Trans-Jordan. There are items from the royal tombs of Egypt, and collections of models of Palestinian life. The purpose of the collection on the campus of this outstanding Christian university is not only cul tural but spiritual. As stated by Dr. Jones at the opening of the gallery, “Through these paintings it is hoped that students and visitors alike will realize more and more how universal is the message of the Word of God in its appeal to human hearts in every generation.” Each day the Museum and Gallery are visited by many mem bers of the Bob Jones University student body, which numbers three thousand young people from every state in the Union and some thirty foreign countries, and by scores of friends and visitors from through out the country. ! WEEKLY CROSSWOk. PUZZLL Belgian Minister i i * HORIZONTAL 1,6 Pictured Belgian diplomat Paul 11 Bar 12 Steeds . 14 Girl’s name 15 Hummed 18 Caress 19 Rodents 21 Mouth ward 22 Talking bird VERTICAL 1 Cuban capita' 2 Puffs up 3 Negative 4 Pole 5 Nested boxe* 6 Lean-to 7 Seed container 8 Area measure 9 Long for 10 Sharper 11 Dries 13 Begin 16 Either 17 Symbol for sodium 23 Trojan prince 20 Mariners 25 More painful 22 Mobile 24 Sleep noisily 25 Auctions 30 City of his couhtry 31 Short sword 32 Was protruberant 34 Cut open 35 Chant 36 Packs away 40 Disorder 41 Preposition 42 Sun god 43 Drinks slowly 46 Expire 47 Statute 50 Specific gravity (ab.) 52 Tellurium (symbol) 26 Indian antelope 27 Fend off 28 Behold! 29 Note of scale 30 Toil 33 Chief of jinns 37 Habituate 38 Incline 39 House additions 40 War god 44 Within (comb, form) 45 Silence 46 Minor part 48 Intimidate 49 Plant adjustment 51 Communion plates 53 Rims 54 Scandinavian Traveling is very broadening, since most people eat too much, but it is interesting. Going through Gurdon, Arkan sas, one day I saw the bronze figures of two wild cats or mountain lion on a large tablet; and this was the inscrip tion, which you must interpret for yourselves: “In the hotel hall which stood here was organized in 1892 the Concaten ated Order of Hoo-Hoo to promote the welfare and prosper ity of lumber men and others.” Well, it’s all right with me. Is that your verdict, so say you all? • Fari/iers in every section of the United States have been con cerned over the decline of farm prices for the past five months. This worry has not been confined to any one group in the farming industry, that is, the farmer who concentrates on a particular crop or one kind of livestock. All have been worried and with consider able justification. The decline now amounts to ap proximately 11 per cent under what prices were at this time last year. A number of farm leaders have reported they see no indica tion of a halt in sliding farm prices. The result has been a low rum bling of discontent among congress men from the great farming states. If prices continue to decline that rumbling will grow in the next few weeks and may force the adminis tration to take quick action to sta bilize farm markets. In the past special groups have used congressional pressure to se cure legislation beneficial to that group. This may be the first such contest under the new administra tion. It will be interesting to watch and may give a good indication of things to come. A stable farm market is a ne cessity to a stable national econ omy. But the new administration will move with care, it is predict ed, because any action in this prob lem may well set a pattern of ac tion in other segiments of the na tion’s economy. • The Wilson affair will leave its mark upon the Eisenhower admin istration, season political observers are predicting. In the first place, a number of senators, both Republicans and Democrats, were unhappy over Mr. Wilson’s first appearance before the senate committee that investi gated his appointment and his holdings in General Motors. He created a bad impression. He did much to erase this impression dur ing his second appearance, but the damage had already been done. And second, as one famous col umnist and political observer point ed out, that however strong the Eisenhower team might be on or ganization, efficiency, management and what not, it has shown an inept itude in the political game. This columnist said it would be well if “nobody else allows himself to indulge in the rather lazy notion that running a big business and running a big government are the same thing.” Third, and possibly most impor tant, the Republicans themselves dramatized the suggestion that the Democrats have carefully planted, namely, that the Republican party Is still the party of money. It is now generally agreed there will not be much opposition by the Democrat party during the first few months of the Eisenhower ad ministration. But the opposition will pick up as time moves along and will be centered for most part on the “money party” angle. • The Korean War, momentarily shoved aside by the inauguration and the new administration’s at tempt to hit its stride, was back in the news with the report of an attack by U. S. soldiers that failed and which resulted in numerous casualties. It brought to mind the unan swered question of President Eisen hower’s plans for Korea. The Ko rean deadlock is again the No. 1 item on the administration’s agenda. The first move, perhaps, is Eisen hower’s decision to remove the U. S. Fleet from the Formosa Strait and to permit the Chinese Nation alists to attack the mainland. The fleet will continue in the area, how ever, to prevent any attack by the Communists on Formosa. From The Lincoln Times, Lin- colnton. North Carolina: If you’re still gullible enough to believe that we can pay most or even a substantial part of the in credible cost of government by “soaking the rich,” some facts that Senator Walter George pre sented in a Look magazine article will come as a rude awakener. If congress confiscated all tax able income over $100,000, by im posing a flat 100 per cent tax at that level, the amount of additional revenue would be sufficient to op erate the Federal government for four hours. If all taxable income over $26,- 000 were confiscated the yield would run the government for three days. If everything above $10,000 was taken in toto by the tax collector, it would pay the government’s bills for 16 days. Finally, if congress shot the works by imposing a 100 per cent tax on all income above $8,000, the additional revenue would keep the government going for 22 days. This being true, who must pay the great bulk of the government’s spending—and who must pay al most all of future tax increases if they come? The answer is, people of small and moderate means—the people who work for wages and modest salaries, the people who have little businesses, the people who represent the majority of America’s population and are the backbone of America’s strength. They must pay it for the simple reason that no one else can. There just aren’t enough “rich” to make a dent in the spending! From the Chickasha Star, Chick* asha, Oklahoma: An old line southern democrat telephoned the editor of the Star this week and he suggested that one of the first things Ike should do when he took office was to count or have counted the gold at Ft. Knox. This is a pregnant sugges tion. They have been burying that gold there now for the last twenty years and the same bunch has counted and recounted it each time. At the end of every twenty years it might be a good idea to have a new bunch count it. • * From The Galien River Gazette, Three Oaks, Michigan: To a lay observer there appears to be one very weak spot in the new cabinet and advisory force which the President has gathered. The very strength of the men he has chosen may prove a weak ness. They are trained business men or professional leaders. They are accustomed to authority. They have never had to keep a public sentiment behind them when they worked. Theirs to command and who should argue with them? In their new positions they will need both a sympathetic congress and a public. In the past many able career men have come to grief when they tried public office. Pres ident Hoover was an example of this. He was an able business man and had proven that many times. He had a keen perception of many of the problems of state but he did not maintain good public relation ships and when the depression came along he was lost. DaieCariegie ■jr AUTHOR Of “HOW TO STOP WORRYING ANDSTARMIVING" J ACOB B. SANTANGELO, Hotel Essex, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was orphaned at the age of seven. This meant no one to counsel him. Result? He was always fearful of what to do. This fear was so ingrained in him that it took him five years to pass the State Board Examinations for Law. He would prepare for these State Boards and two or three days before they were to be given he would be so fright ened that he would withdraw. Finally he passed them. Bui fear and lack of self-confidence had become so habitual that he was afraid to try cases before juries. He had to have an associate with him. And he declares that a man cannot continue this too long before his clients will realize what is wrong with him So he sat down one day and analyzed himself and decided to change. He thought back to his grammar and high school days—to those wonderful teachers who helped to mould the young boys and girls for the future. And he remembered one teacher distinctly telling him, “Jacob, knowing the problem is one-half CARNEGU2 of the solution.” When the next case came into his office requiring trial he applied that adage. He searched to the core of the problem and began work. He would study, classify, clarify and associate his work. While doing this he had no fear, for he had no time for fear. Everything he had in his library was searched while all the time bearing in mind that adage. It then began to dawn upon him that no matter what barrage of questions would be asked of him or his client he had a firm founda tion, and never thought of fear. And with a human sense of values, and the endowed ability he was blessed with, and with the problem In mind, he worked it out. As a result of this experience Ufa has taught trim that fear In wtj . a ghost which does not exist.