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i PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY. APRIL 1. 1954 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. 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 Too Many Bureaucrats Senator Walter George of Georgia is one of the soundest men in Congress. He may be a politician but he is incapable of playing politics with the well-being of our Nation. Of course I have great respect for President Eisenhower, but Senator George is a better leader in finance than the Presi dent is. Senator George has served many years as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and is by training a con servative thinker. This may be said of him notwithstanding the taxes voted on us during the Roosevelt and Truman era of lavish spending and heavy taxes. In advocating higher exemptions, say a free, untaxed $800 instead of $600, Mr. George may be mindful of the heavy, the excessive, even oppressive burden borne by many taxpayers. When we study the many billions that we spend, we must remember the other billions given away outright, or lent on dubious hope of repayment. We can thrive and prosper and be safe and sound and strong by making ourselves invincible here; while our peo ple rejoice in their work and enjoy the rewards of good work. Our weakness comes through the pleading of those who w r ant us to rebuild every other Nation in the world, even lifting them to our level. That is utterly preposterous. Do the law-makers and Executives in Washington under stand our own people? I think they do not. Day after day, week after week, I pass humble, even shabby homes but observe a good car in the yard. And I see some very unpretentious homes boasting television. Those people are happy; they are enjoying life; they may not ob serve the rules, regulations and standards prescribed by the do-gooders, but they are enjoying their income as f hey see fit. It is equally true of people in other countries; they don’t ask for our leadership. A country is in a dangerous condition when people re sent taxation. Certainly no tax is universally popular, but when a man feels that he is working, toiling for a spend thrift bureaucracy he sours on his own country. The only way to reduce is to reduce. Bureaucrats never welcome reductions or curtailments: they have specious pleas and loud arguments against reductions, but reductions are in order. As I’ve said before, I admire many other countries but they are not exactly like us: we would do well to develop ourselves and our people first and foremost. You will hear it said at once that we need foreign mark ets. So we do; but didn’t we used to try to figure out the consumption of cotton if every Chinaman would add one inch to his shirt? That may be homely, but trade follows resourceful approach. Public Should Know The Facts The Walterboro, or, rather the Colleton County weekly, The Press and Standard carried an excellent editorial in its issue of February 25th. Someone in Colleton has paid that paper to publish that same editorial as a paid advertise ment. I reproduce it because it is very timely and should provoke thought. Here it is: “Seldom, in our opinion, do circumstances ever give elected political office holders the right to withhold infor mation from the voters and tax payers who placed them in office on a theory that it is best for such information of proposed plans not to be made known until it has become an accomplished fact. We are thinking of an occurrence some weeks ago. We maintain that the people have a right to be told what is being planned for them by their political leaders BEFORE such planning has reached a stage where nothing can be done about it: no changes can be suggested, or made. Several weeks ago we asked the county supervisor to let us have a copy of proposed expenditures, for the coming fiscal year; prepared by him as required by custom and regulation, for presentation to the legislative delegation. The legislative delegation then studies the proposed bud get for operating the offices of the county whose funds pass through the office of the county supervisor. The delegation has the right, and does, change and often trim many items of this proposed budget. When we learned that the county supervisor had complet ed the preparation of this proposed budget, we asked for a copy so publicity could be given to the funds requested. We were refused with the statement that ‘a member of the delegation told me not to let you have a copy. This pro- posed budget was prepared for the legislative delegation and not for the public. It has no right to see it, or know what it contains.’ The public has every right to know what responsible heads of its county government have asked to operate their var ious departments on during the fiscal year. FEUDIN' RINGMASTERS They have a right to complete information as to what has been requested before the request has been handled by the legislative delegation and becomes law as written in the supply bill for the year. It is not correct for the delegation to adopt the attitude that it is all powerful; that it alone has the right to know about proposed spending plans for operating county govern ment agencies; that it can be dictatorial about what shall or shall not be given the public in way of information it is en titled to. The delegation, if a member of it did so state to the coun ty supervisor, has in effect said to the people of Colleton county, ‘You are not intelligent enough to be told what is in store for you; how your elected office holders suggest that your hard earned tax dollar is to be spent in Colleton; you can’t be trusted to learn what the supply bill we are plan ning for you to pay will be until we make it law’! It is wrong. The people should demand better treatment than they have received. More and more it is becoming apparent that the average American is daily losing ground on having presented to him the information he is entitled to have. And what is so distressing is that the average American apparently doesn’t care; nor can he be made to take action; to secure conditions under which he will be a partner in mat ters which concern him, and not a driven slave, subject to the thinking and action of those in political power. In many meetings of political bodies, more and more often’ is the statement made: ‘This is off the record. It can’t be used now. Later, when it becomes a completed fact then it can be used.’ Such a dangerous situation. We urge that the people take up the problem themselves and fight for an adequate partnership in decisions made, be it by town or county or state or national political leaders. Knowledge is power. The worst part of the whole situation is that day by day; week by week; month by month; year by year; a little taken away here, a little there; indifference by the average citizen, spells an iron curtain and more power in the hands of a few—yes, even in America, in South Carolina, in Colleton County, in Walterboro.” We owe a great debt to the press. Truly the press stands like a Sentinel on the watch tower, many of our South Caro lina editors are vigilant, diligent and courageous. Getting out a paper is hard work. At the moment I am thinking of the County papers and the County editors. My brethren of the city press are faithful servants of the pub lic weal, but they have facilities not often enjoyed “in the country.” From The Free Press, Greater South Charleston, W. Va.: of cours- th- hard-st 1-tt-r of th- alphab-t to g-t along without is th- small 1-tt-r E but th- Ruskin (N-braska) N-ws, in a story, show-d that it is also difficult to g-t by without a “t” or even an “f” and a “k”- Th- story in th- Ruskin pap-r r-ad: “We had a bit of machine trouble quite a long time ago and damaged a number of ‘t’ mats. Our first order for replacements went astray and it was not until last week we finally got the vital bits of brass (incidentally they cost 22c each). While waiting for the replacements all we could . do was reset lines twice, then cut the slugs and patch them together Sometimes, we missed the double takes in the proof and then our readers were confused by such puzzles as: The Committee will mee- a- -he -he commi~ee will meet at the “It was an exasperation all the way around. Even so, we weren’t so bad off as the poor fellow who explained to his readers thus: “We began the publication of the Roccay Mountain Cyclone with a few diph- phiculties in the way. The type- hounders phrom whom we bought our outphit phor this pringin-cphice phailed to supply us with any ephs or cays, and it will b*r phour or phive weeques bephore w=* car g *t any. The mistaque was not phound out until a day or two ago. We have ordered the missing letters, and will have to get along without them til they come. We don’t lique the loox ov this variety ov spelling any better than our readers but mixtaix will happen In the best of phamilies and iph the ph’s and C’s i and x’s and q’s hold out we shall ceep (sound the c hard) the paper going until the sorts arrive. It is no joque to us — it is a serious aphphair.” From the Vista Press, Vista California: In recent weeks the Vista Press has received several anonymous letters, most of which we would have liked to print. How ever. we have a policy of v not using unsigned missies. If you are ashamed of your ideas, please do not trouble to send them in. From the Italy News - Herald, Italy. Texas: An oil man never knows whether he is four feet from a militoii dollars or a million feet from four dollars. From tbs Arvada Enterprise, Arvada, CoWwdo I) seems in credible tha; imn.vdwo* relief is being asVed for farmer* of the easterr plains area, who only a few yeaxf back were all driving big cars and w^mdering wnst tc- » j with ••I theii money. It appears that conservation of the bankroll was forgotten as well as adequate conservation of the land. /'A UR economic debate has be- '-S come a running battle of ac cusations and finger-pointing with the big unanswered question about our business outlook being black or bright overshadowed by the battle of the pot and the kettle. On February 16, Rep. Herbert C. Bonner TD. N. C.) put some findings in the record, apparently from a search of the 1949 Congressional Record made by the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer, edited by Democratic National Committee man Jonathan Daniels. Here are comments read into the record: “Rep. Usher L. Burdick (R. N. D.) in a speech on the House Floor Feb. 21, 1949, said: ‘Few soup lines have yet shown up but it is now apparent there will be plenty of them within the next six months. * “Sen. George W. Malone (R.Nev.) foresaw an equally dark future In a speech on June 16 of that year: ‘Several significant straws in the wind are now pointing to a camel’s back that has reached the breaking point,’ warned Malone. ‘The camel’s back is our employment, national, security, and economic structure, which will surely collapse . . “Senator Homer Capehart (R. Ind.): ‘I say that business in America is falling. Unemployment is increasing. Anyone who can read and write, anyone who can add, knows that our national income for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950 is going to be smaller than it will be for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1949.’. . . Rep. Bonner included in his re marks about what the Republicans had said in 1949, a remark of his own about the present debate: “But the Republicans thought they were performing a great serv- } ice by warning of a depression. However, when the Democrats now foresee economic troubles ahead, they are called ‘left-wingers’ and ‘political sadists.’ ” Which could—or could not—have led up to these remarks by Rep. A. L. Miller (R. Nev.) on March 3: “A hard core of Americans for Democratic Action members and other left-wing groups are talk ing of depression. These people fail to interpret the great strength of America. They are devoid of faith, courage, and determination — the three things that will keep America great. Scanning the Congressional Rec ord of 1949, I can find no state ments of those who are now crying depression. Unemployment, wages, construction and buying power were considerably lower then. It appears that some are trying to make political fodder out of some thing which should be above politi cal haggling.” Not looking back to 1949 is Sen. Wayne Morse (R. Ore.) who claimed in a TV show on Feb. 21 that soup lines were reappearing in 1954. Two days later he repeated in a Senate speech: “When I talk about soup lines increasing in America—and I do talk about them increasing in America—I point out that every unemployment insur ance line in America is in effect a soup line in fact . . In the midst of all these com ments there are not enough facts for the average citizen to determine how well off—or how poox—the busi ness condition is and will be in the days ahead. DauCariigie ^ AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING"-' ^ J OSEPH ARAUJO, 2932 Alabama Street, La Crescenta, California, learned through an experience that has served him in good stead that if you spend all your time worrying, you don’t have time to think about solving your problem, and that if you crowd worry out of your mind, and work with calm, your problems work themselves out. Half a dozen years ago he went into business for himself. He bor rowed some money from his family and with a little he had saved, he opened a haberdashery. The first year all went well; business was good. But as he started the second year, business dropped off; there were days when all he sold was a hand kerchief. Worries? He had them. Bills had to be met and in addition, his family had to live. He didn’t worry only when at the store either. That wasn’t enough. He went home and worried half the night. He says how his wife was able to live with him he will never understand. After about three months with his waking hours filled with worry, and his nights filled with restless turning and tossing, business began to pick up and he was making a fair living. Then he decided to put the store up for sale. Three more months went by and he had prospects but no buyers. In the meantime, he again started to worry. Finally he said to himself, “Joe, worrying didn’t help business three months ago, and T isn’t going to help sell the store, so you might as well stop.” Worrying had hindered not helped. , Three months later he sold the store. CARNEGIE fW&tcL INTEIXIGRAM Chock the correct word. 1. The capital of Switzerland is (Berne) (Geneva). 2. Idaho is associated with (tomatoes) (pota toes). 3. The edge of a woven fabric is called a (selvage) (hem). 4. Former President Wilson’s first name was (Thomas) (Woodrow), 5. The calory is a measurement of (rainfall) (heat). 6. Paper is (organic) (inorganic) matter. 7. A trefoil is a (plant) (carpentei’s tool). 8. Basilisk is a (mythical dragon) (ornamental column). 9. The Sugar Bowl is in (Alabama) (Louisi ana). 10. Arteries carry blood (to) (from) the heart Check your answers, scoring yourself 10 points for each correct choice. A score of 0-20 is poor, 30-60, average; 70-80, superior; 90-100, very tuperior. Decoded Intelligram •uiojj—oi •eueisinoq—6 *uo8eap iBOiqpCju—8 quejej—i ■oiuefi.io ‘—9 qeaH—9 ‘seuioqj,—$ -ageAias—8 ’saoieioj—Z 'au-iag—i A country editor—as many of us have been or now are— has to be a writer, a thinker, a reporter, a bookkeeper, a' financier, an unsleeping county booster; a glad-hander, a fountain of good wishes for everybody whether he achieve international renown or find an unusual litter of pigs in the pen. He must rejoice with those who are glad; and he must weep and mourn with those in sorrow. And he must know everybody and everything, as well as all the antece dents of the happings as well as of the people. And the edi tor must be as wise as Solomon, as eloquent as Demosthenes, as learned as the renowned Dr. Johnson, and as gracious and graceful in his writing as Lord Tennyson. Fortunately he isn’t required to be a good speller; the proof-reader will come to his recue. He'd Better Hurry 0—When I read that Sen. Pat McCarran (D-Nev.) had received a medal from Spain, I remembered a provision of the Constitution forbidding acceptance of foreign decorations without Congressional authorisa tion. How does this prohibition apply to McCarran? A—The Constitution states: “. . . no person holding any office of profit or trust under them (the United States) shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office or title . . . from any . . . foreign state.” However. Members of Congress, unlike officials and employees of the executive and judicial branchy, generally are not considered officers of the U. S. }—What portion of U.S. firms are considered “small business?" A—By any of several formulas used to define “small business,” more than nine out of 10 U.S. concerns fall into this class, according to a Congressional Quarterly survey of federal economists and organ izations representing small businessmen. 0—Where do Congressmen live while in Washington? Are special quar ters provided for the lawmakers? A—In Washington’s early years, Members of Congress lived near the Capitol because of transportation difficulties. Now-a-days they live all over the District of Columbia and in nearby areas of Maryland and Virginia. Proposals that the government build living quarters for the legislators have not been acted on. ^—When I write to my Congressman should I send postage for hi* reply? A.—No. Members, Members-elect, Delegates and Delegates-elect may send free through the mails, with certain restrictions, any mpil that is official business. The Congressman’s “frank” (signature) serves as postage. (Copyright 1953. Congressional Quarterly) brain budaet 1. Clement R. Atlee became British Prime Minister in (a) 1945; (b) 1950; (c) 1952. 2. The capital of British Colombia is (a) Regina; (b) Victoria; (c) St. John’s. 3. The “Pittsburgh of the Sonth” is (a) Birmingham; (b) Atlanta; (c) Mobile. 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