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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1953 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937 at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR “County taxes slashed by 20 per cent.’’ That was the big headline I read in the Aiken Standard and Review re cently. And that’s news, real news, joyful tidings, heart warming information. Let me quote: “The Aiken County Legislative delegation announced yes terday afternoon that county taxes have been reduced 20 per cent for the next fiscal year. Senator John Henry Williams, spokesman for the group which includes Representatives Frampton Toole, Jr., and Edward Cushman, said the delegation met with county Audi tor David Alexander and, after studying the anticipated revenue from sources other than taxes, decided to reduce the county tax from 60 mills to 48 mills. Ordinary county tax was reduced from 13 mills to 5 mills, county bond tax was reduced from four to three mills, school bonds from 10 to seven mills, and school operation tax remained at 33 mills. “The county is in fine condition and will continue to op erate on a sound financal basis,” Senator Williams said. The reduction in taxes was made possible by all around prosperity in the county and state, he said. For the past four years the county revenue from sources other than taxes has been on the incline. In 1950 the esti mated receipts from liquor, wine, beer, fines, service offi cer, insurance Icenses, gasoline taxes, commissions and fees were $245,800; in 1951 it was $293,300; in 1952, $326,- 372.49; and the estimated income this year is $498,800. The decision to reduce county property taxes was reach ed after considering the above revenue and the revenue that would be paid on all county property, Senator Williams said. Auditor Alexander said this was a “tremendous” reduc tion of taxes in Aiken county, and all officials at the Aiken county courthouse expressed delight in the cuts. “The Aiken County delegation is setting a good example for the federal and state lawmakers to follow,” one county official said. According to the senator one mill brings in approximately $15,000 in taxes, therefore the 12 mills reduction means about $180,000 will remain in the county taxpayer’s pocket next year. If any other County has that sort of cheerful news I shall be glad to proclaim it far and wide. (The Spectator might proclaim far and wide if he likes that .Newberry has only 42 mills, having cut a mill this year. And we believe Newberry has all the services Aiken or any other county has. We have had devoted public serv ants up this way for a number of years now, Brother Spec tator, and they have been saving money. Also the stealing of past years has been stopped and taxpayer’s money goes where it is intended.—Editor.) A symposium on the Federal Constitution might be inter esting as well as informative. The Supreme Court of the Unted States has invited information on the relevancy, or application of the Constitution to the school cases pending in that court. South Carolina has Counsel to submit a brief, but why shouldn’t many of us study the Constitution and all the decisions of the Supreme Court bearing directly or remotely on the issue, so that our people may have facts on which to base opinions ? I don’t mean horse-back opinions; this issue is now before the Court; let us study the Constitution and the expressions of the learned jurists over the years. Since the Court, in recent year, has differed from the de cisions of earlier days; and because the Court frankly ad mits that the application of the Constitution to the case at bar isn’t clear, in spite of earlier decisions on the same point, it would be interesting to challenge the validity of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments which were adopted and ratified unlawfully. Both amendments were proposed while Southern States were not enjoying their full Sovereign rights, so a question properly arises whether those amendments conform to due process of law. In good temper and graciously let us publish the truth to our fel low citizens of the United States. If this be a time to re-open established legal traditions, and to consider them afresh, let us accept the challenge and re-open the whole matter. We gain nothing by weakness. Since the whole matter has been a campaign against the South, let the South meet the issue aggressively, resource fully, submitting its case to the judgment of our fellow Americans with whom we have fought in Cuba, Europe and Asia—five wars, side-by-side as Americans. It so happens that in 1873 the Supreme Court of the United States, rejected the suggestion that, under the 14th Amendment, the National Government should now be the source of all those rights of a fundamental character which belong to citizens, the Court saying that the Amendment did not disclose “any purpose to destroy the main features of the general system.” And the Court held that a State is not prevented from abridging the privileges of State citi zenship. LET'S RE-AFFIRM OUR FAITH WnW CERTAIN UWAUENA&LE fcjWTS, HIZ—TWAT AMONG- TWES'E ARE ==r-LIF£, LIBERTY ANPTWE PURSUIT of HAPPINESS.- EEE 1 -!- twat to secure 'Wees'E ARE INSTITUTED ANlONG M£N,P£RW|NG , rjuSTjPCWEfcS PROM THE COMMENT OP THE An authority says that “The privilege of a child to attend' the public schools is one springing from the State, and not the Nation.” So let’s meet them in the Courts and in the public forum. Senator Burnet Maybank, replying to criticisms of South ern industrial progress, said recently in the Senate: “Sen. Burnet R. Maybank said today the South’s tremendous in dustrial expansion is due largely to the ‘economic states manship’ of its industrialists. Maybank called no names. But his speech was regarded as a reply to a recent series of speeches by Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) on the industrial decline of New Eng land. “We occasionally hear comments about ‘mature’ econo my,” Maybank said, “but it strikes me that these regions frequently have perplexing problems, which suggest that thteir ‘maturity’ is in reality a condition of approaching old age, or weariness, or of becoming worn out.” “Can it be that such regions are paying the penalty of failure or inability to translate their scientific progress into lower prices for the buyers of their products? Is it per haps possible that in their zeal to promote expensive social welfare schemes, they have stifled industrial initiative by running up the costs of doing business? “If so,” Maybank added, “it is hardly for them to point a finger of scorn, and to shout ‘unfair’ at those regions where business foresight has permitted technological prog ress to be passed on in good measure to the consumer in the form of lower and competitive prices for products.” The Germans are great people; their record is one of ex traordinary accompliments, so it need not surprise us when they show surpassing qualities. We have become accustom ed to German thoroughness; to their patient and brilliant achievements in chemistry and other branches of science; but I have some figures which indicate that the German habit of methodical application, of steady, persistent work, is still characteristic of that remarkable people. This story makes me think of the South during the years of the Civil War and the eleven years of devastation afterwards. “Almost immediately after the war Germany undertook to clear away her eleven billion cubic feet of rubble. From the rubble-mountains men, women and children, working with their bare hands, selected, cleaned and piled in neat rows seventeen billion bricks. In 1950 West Germany set a European all-time and all Nations record by erecting seven and a half dwelling units per thousand heads, while at the same time France built fewer than two, and England fewer than four units. I drive my car to Columbia and to Charleston every week, but I’ve learned to park my car and let it stand. If I have oc casion to go about either city I usually ride the city bus, as I hear some one advising the public to do. The one place in Columbia I have to go in my car is the Postoffice, to mail my weekly Spectators. That is a pain in the neck, though the pain is not confined to the neck. In going about the City I take the bus and let the bus driver worry about the traffic, about drivers who back out and ram your car, as well as drivers who scare you otherwise. And I don’t have to hunt a parking space. If I want to go to the corner of X and Y streets I don’t have to drive around and around and up and down, looking for a parking place. In Charleston I use the buses, too, as I said. Recently I had an engagement on Broad Street and rode the bus. As I was about to get off, the door did not open and I called to the lady driver. She smiled and explained that “you gotta push ’um,” so a little touch and all was well. So I had no worry about parking! I was free of all worry; and I’ll re member the proper way to leave the bus. When I make my way through Main and Sumter streets, in Columbia, or King Street, in Charleston, I marvel at the skill of the bus drivers. It is a great comfort to know that the Charleston and Columbia bus drivers hold National rec ords for safety. Those who drive cars are never entirely at ease in their minds, for even if no one hits you from the back or the front or the side, someone may scratch your car or scrape it or dent it, while it is parked. So we may get hit running or standing or parked. I don't know how may car drivers hit the buses, or strike terror to the heart of the bus drivers, but they carry their From the Bassett-Henry County Journal. Bassett, Va.: We see where a North Carolinian is suing the government for return of in come taxes he has paid (and some that he has failed to pay for which he will likely go to jail), and also asking to be classified as an In dian, because these people are ex empt from income taxation. He might get it into his noodle that he wants to be an Indian, but self- respecting red men would balk at accepting such an animal into die tribe. Indians have no time for traitors. From the Democrat-Herald, Al bany, Oregon: As the law now stands, a citizen has a legal right to belong to any party he chooses, including the Communist party, which as of now is not outlawed. He had not, however, the right or privilege to use the classroom and the college as a place to promote the ideas of a group devoted to the overthrow of the government by force. • • • From the Harvard Herald, Har vard, Illinois: Foreign trade is a complex subject. However, one fact is not difficult to understand. Trade must be a two-way street. An example of the constructive force of foreign trade may be found In the jute Industry. The jute industry of India links the farmers of America with the farm ers of Asia, and in doing so ac counts for two-way trade that is of benefit to both. Manufacture of burlap from the jute crop of In dian Parkistan is India’s largest industrial enterprise. Burlap ex ports by India to the United States in 1951 accounted for 26 per cent of India’s total dollar earnings and amounted to $80,0000,000. About 80 per cent of the imports of burlap by America are used for the pack aging of agricultural commodities in burlap bags. • • • From the Journal, Sunny slope, Arizona: The Russians don’t be lieve working men own automo biles. They would say it’s a lie to see our high school boys and girls driving to school in their jalopies. Who has stopped them from get ting what we have? Certainly not the United States. No—their lead ers are to blame. • • • From the Weekly Leader, Mar ion, 111.: The great principle of democracy can be applied to the religious field. Respect for one’s neighbors, whether or not he agrees with your strict beliefs, is an Amer ican principle too often abused. fW-otd. INTELHGRAM Check the correct word. 1. Feisai is king of (Iraq) (Siam). 2. Lobsters are (avarians) (crustaceans). 3. (Defoe) (Stevenson) wrote “Robinson Crusoe.” 4. (Lima) (Rome) is built on seven hills. 5. The (Mississippi) (Tiber) is called the ‘‘Father of Waters.” 6. Rhee is president of (North) (South) Korea. 7. Independence Hall is in (Washington) (Phila delphia). 8. 'Formosa is (Chinese) (French). 9. Leo Durocher’s nickname is (Lippy) (Slogger). 10. Steel is an (element) (alloy). Check your answers, scoring yourself 10 points for each correct choice. A score of 0-20 is poorj 30-60, average; 70-00, superior, 90-100, very superior. Decoded Intelligram •Xonv—01 'XUdri—6 'asauiqo—g *emdppeiiqd—^ qinos —9 ’iddissTSsrj^—s auioH—* 'aojaa—g -suBaa^sai;)—g beai—i E S S I 0 Q—How far back fa American history does tariff sentiment extend? A—’Way back. To encourage his fellow-citizens to “buy American” and protect “infant industries,” George Washington wore New England home-spun broadcloth at his first inauguration. (Later, President Jackson’s wife wore a grass bonnet “as an evidence of the perfection which our domestic manufacturers may hereafter acquire, if properly fostered and protected,” according to Old Hickory.) The second law ever passed by Congress was an im port tariff act, designed primarily to raise revenue, not to protect American industry. The first protective tariff was enacted in 1828. Q—What is a “most-favored-nation” agreement? A—Secretary of State Cordell Hull explained it thus: “I won’t treat you any worse than the person I treat the best of all, provided you don’t treat me any worse than the person you treat the best of alL” When the U. S. signs a ‘ ‘most-favored-nation” agreement with Nation A, we promise not to impose higher import duties on Nation A’s products than are levied on simi’ar goods sold here by any other nation. In return. Nation A gives me same assurance. Q—What is the continental shelf I’ve read so much about fa connection with “tidelands” oil? A—The House Judiciary Committee defines the shelf as the slightly submerged areas of the continent up to the point where ocean depth falls off abruptly to 600 feet. The U. S. continental shelf is estimated at 290,000 square miles, of which about 27,000 square miles are within the states’ historic boundaries under the recently enacted offshore lands law. Q—Has any official action been taken recently to lower the voting age below 21? A—Yes, a Senate subcommittee concluded hearings June 2 on a reso lution to allow 18-year-olds the right to vote through a Constitu tional amendment. Leonard W. Hall, Republican National Chair man, said May 25 that he. President Eisenhower and Vice Presi dent Nixon favor lowering the voting age to 18, as Georgia did fa 1943. responsibilities on broad shoulders and just grin and bear it, whatever comes, whether a beautifuT young lady, with drooping hand, which indicates that she is turning left or stopping, or just thumping the cigarette ash; or the man who rests his hand on the top of the car, just to ease his tired arm, though it looks like a signal t<^ turn right. The bus driver becomes a specialist in reading our minds even when our minds are asleep. Everyone is familiar with San Antonio, the City of Texas. It is named for Saint Anthony who is regarded as special helper of all young ladies wishing to get married. El Paso, the city, means the pass; it is one of the gateways into Mexico from this country. Santa Cruz, holy cross; Santa Fe, holy faith are well known. I recall streets in Lima, Peru, such as Jesus Nazarenas (Jesus the Nazarene); Espiritu Santo (Holy Spirit) Aflijidos; the afflicted. Lima has a street “Los Pobres”, meaning the poor; but London has Threadneedle street, Cheapside, and other names illustra tive of conditions. Daub Carnegie AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" E LMER L. ANDERSON, 30 West Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois, found what he declares the most effective way to banish worry. He was so worried about thirty years ago that he almost had a nervous breakdown. His father had creeping paralysis and palsy and had been sick for a year. He had been to a specialist and was advised that the medical profession could do nothing to relieve him of his pain and misery. Elmer was then 23 years of age. He sat with his father and mother in the kitchen one eve ning as his father repeatedly said, “What shall we do? What shall we do?” Elmer promised that he would stay with his parents and help in every way possible. His father in relief shook his hand and thanked him profusely; then placed his other hand on top of Elmer’s and his wife’s and thanked Elmer again. The next three years of his illness that father was helpless and slept only fifteen to thirty minutes at CARNEGIE a time during a twenty-four hour period. Elmer and his mother took care of him day and night until the last year when they had to hire a woman to help them. They overcame their worry by doing the best that they could each day, putting in approximately nineteen hours of work out of every twenty-four. By doing this, worry seemed to disappear and they agreed that God took care of them, for their income was small. Their money seemed to stfetch far enough to provide for necessities and even at his father’s death they still had their property clear of any encum brance and had to ask for no outside financial help. His bulwark now if worry rears its ugly head is to pitch in a-'’ work the best he can and he has learned that if he does his wo’" always disappear. 1 WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Opera Star Here’s the Answer HORIZONTAL 1,8 Pictured opera star 14 She is a 15 Vegetable 16 Smoke deposit 17 Arrive 19 Sad cry 20 Type measure <pl.) 21 Happen VERTICAL 1 Hebrew ascetic 2 Rose gradually 3 Heroic poetry 4 Facility 5 Sodium (symbol) 6 Formerly 7 Plant part 8 Hastened 9 Toward warehouses 13 Blushingly 23 Upon (prefix) 24 Compass point 10 Greek letter 25 Samarium (symbol) 2G Written form of Mister 28 Hebrew deity 29 Decree 31 Flower 33 Decay 34 Chill 35 Charm 37 Staggers 40 Either 41 Down 42 Boy’s nickname 43 Preposition 44 Part of mouth 46 Persian coins 51 Musical direction 52 Leave out 54 Sound 55 Ogle 56 Indigenous 58 Most minute 60 Slopes 61 Originates 18 Note of scale 21 Fought 22 Realms 25 Reprove 27 Ran 30 Anger 32 Born 11 Bulky package 35 Law makers 12 Russian 36 First 38 Most recent 39 Begins 45 Aloe fiber 47 Followers 48 Negative 49 Opposed 50 Harness part 51 Observed 53 Metal 55 Falsehood 57 Vermont (ab,> 59 New version <ab.) 1 2 3 4 5 £> 7 8 r- 10 M ii 13 H 15 16 17 18 M ,-,v 14 20 21 22 M 23 ZH w?- F.&M 25 /lb Zl 28 r 30 fr-. l 31 32 u 34 55 36 37 38 34 40 HI K&U: 4^ r~ 43 44 45 1# 4b 47 H8 hh so SI 52 53 4 Wits* 54 55 56 57 58 54 OD 01 Musgrove’s Mill Is Locale For Romance Of Revolution CLINTON—One of the stories of the Revolutionary War is woven around the site of a skirmish and a small water fall located between Clinton and Cross Anchor. k . The skirmish—known as the Battle of Musgrove’s Mill— was fought ’August 19, 1780, when a group of Georgians and Carolinians under Cols. Shelby, Clarke and Williams defeated a British garrison and made away with 70 prison ers. A battle and a monument to Col. Samuel Inman identi fies the battle site.