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■wn-niTiMniin T - - vf ••' we £ ’■ vP'- ■ ^ -Vf/.v i £k;^ , v ;; - ‘i&m&ag PAGE TWO p 1218 Colley Street DEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered* as second-class n.atter 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. THE NEWBERRY SUN ■-sps-V > b - ' SS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16,1964 THE MAILMAN'S NIGHTMARE gv Bfcg if' COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR A new honor has been awarded my friend Mr. B. M. Ed wards, the distinguished banker. Months ago the University of South Carolina awarded the doctorate to Mr. Edwards, in recognition of great public service, but just the other day, Mr. John A. Campbell, President of The South Carolina Na tional Bank, announced that Dr. Edwards had just been com missioned as full Colonel in the Air Corps of the Southern Confederacy and is henceforth entitled to all the recogni tion, respect, privileges and emoluments of his rank. I happened to be a caller at the Bank that day and joined in a. cording Colonel Edwards the military salute befitting his new honor. I wonder at this commission for Colonel Edwards is wide ly known as a man with both feet on the ground; he never takes a “flier”, nor even indulges in flights of fancy. .7 : # «• Ifv,. What is free enterprise? Since the days of the great depression the papers and books have been full of discussions of free enterprise; ora tors, too, have discussed the theme and all sorts and condi tions of clubs have had the subject for discussion. And then it branched out to include tax-paying businesses as com pared with those not paying taxes.. Well, what's all this about, this free enterprise and tax-paying? Most people may be hazy about it. Most people don’t like to pay taxes; most people are quite willing to get things “free”. Our fathers and grandfathers were not greatly concerned about all this; they knew that a man engaged in business with his own money, whether^much or little, whether it was his capital, saved through the years, or money borrowed from Uncle Tom or grandfather. And everybody paid taxes. A man went to the County Court house and reported to the Auditor that he had ft home or farm, two mules, a horse, wagon and buggy, several plows, and a dog or two, and so on, including household goods, furniture, etc. We still do that, more or less. Later we evolved the idea of letting the Government do things for us. Then men talked of Socialism. What is Social- ism ? It is having the Government to engage in business. I can understand how Socialism grew so rapidly in this country. Of course the Socialists deny that it is Socialism, just as a man may declare himself a tee-totoller, while drink- Jng all sorts of liquors in the guise of tonic and cures. And another man may gamble for high stakes and call it a “game” or “sport”. Some people may not drink “branch-water”, though they drink water from a branch. And so on. Our Government—every sort of Government—operates on taxes. Our schools, our law-enforcement—all public services are made possible by taxes. Who pays the taxes? Does every man pay taxes? Does every business pay taxes; Why pay n taxes ? Banks, Power Companies, Stores of all ’ kinds—all business—all pay taxes. But not quite; .I’m running too fast. We have many concerns which are built with Govern ment money and operate at a profit, but pay little or nothing to support the Government, although they quickly claim and enjoy alk the protection and services of the Government. These citizens operate with Government money, compete with their fellow citizens but pay little or no taxes. Just off-hand, now, don’t you think we should all be fed with the same spoon? Imagine a family, father, mother and six sons. Three sons receive loans or gifts from the father and operate on dad’s money, but pay no board; the other three put up their own money for their business and pay a heavy board bill—paying the part consumed or enjoyed by ‘the three family pets. How does that strike you? It is as foolfsli—‘-and as conclusive—as the story I heard of an Eng lishman supervising the digging of a ditch in China—years ago. The Englishman sat on the ditch-bank, under a large umbrella, while the Chinaman sweated and toiled in the ditch. The Chinaman asked: “Why don’t you dig, too?” Said the Englishman, “One man up here is worth ten down there”. The Chinaman labored on while his slow mind wrestled with the Englishman’s reply. Then he jumped up beside the Englishman and sat at ease. The Englishman harshly demanded the reason. The Chinaman said “Two men up here worth twenty men down there”—but, as you see, nobody was left to dig the ditch. So, if all of us were pampered and petted equally nobody would pay taxes and all Government, all protection, police and fire, all schools— all public service would stop. So you see, some work and feed the others who sit by the fire and dream. But if all dream who will pay the butcher, the baker, and the candle-stick- maker 9 Yes, who will build and support schools, police, fire men, street men—and all others ? Everybody should earn his way. Do you thjnk business, for example, is all profit? Let’s see: What makes this great country “tick”? In other worda what is the basis of our vast development and our amaz ing wealth as a nation? Are we Americans born superior to other people? Or is this country just naturally richer than other countries ? Our development, our prosperity—our astonishing prog ress—rest on the plan which has been our guide from the beginning. A thoughtful man decided to ask a few questions in order to find out what the man in the street thinks. “People today don’t know about business, don’t know about earnings, don’t know about profits, don’t know about production costs. They don’t know about wages and they dont know about all the other multitude of elements that make up our free enterprise system. That dramatically has been shown in something that happened in New Jersey two years ago. Two hundred people in Camden, New o ey, were stop ped on the street at random, and they were asked a simple question, and that was this: ‘Out of every dollar of sales that comes into your company, how much do ybu think goes in to the pocket of the boss?’ The lowest estimate was’ 25 cents out of every dollar, and the top estimate was 50 cents. That’s what the people of America think about our free enterprise system. Three thousand or four thousand employees together'in a large auditorium, and one of the vice-presidents of a com pany was called up on the platform, and he said to them: ‘We would like to report to you what happened in this com- pany last year, and we are going to do it in what we con sider an understandable fashion. He took out 100 silver dollars and put them on the table. He said, ‘This represents the income of our company last year. Let me tell you where we expended those dollars’. He took a few off the top and said, ‘Those represent the cost of maintaining the plant to which each of us comes to work each day.’ He took a few more dollars off, and said, ‘Those repre sent the raw v materials from which we manufacture the product that we sell.’ He took a few more off and said, ‘Those represent the cost of the machines to fabricate the product that we sell’ —and he went down to the last dollar. Then, as I said, he had one dollar left, and it was neces sary for him to make change; so he brought out one hund red copper pennes ^nd put them on the table. And when he was down to only about twelve pennies that he had left, you could have heard a pin drop in the room. He said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, these represent the return to the individuals who, once upon a time went down into their savings in order to build this plant that we all work in so that we might come to work each day and have the fulfill ment of our ambitions and ideals. Those twelve pennies be long to those people’. (Stockholders.) Well, you could have heard a pin drop in that room. Fin ally an old man got up way in the back of the room, and he said, T think those guys are getting gypped.’ * Now, that is economic education. It sounds simple. : . 'UU: : -x -7 ■ bRwSSwX'X .vcWtv. • |§!£, THIS FARM, TWELFTH IN A SERIES, has been correctly identified by ten persons as the Charles Cromer fi on the Hartford Road. Winning the TV service call, courtesy George N. Martin Radio & TV Service was Preston j«u- Alhaney, 713 Boundary Street. Harold Folk, Route 1, wins a one year subscription to The Sun. The following will re ceive one free ticket fropi the Wells, Ritz or Clover Leaf Drive-In Theatre: Preston Kunkle, Route 1; Mrs. Aubrey Davis, Route 4; Mrs. George Stone, Route 1; Mrs. W. C. Huges, Route 4; Wyman Williams, 712 Green Street; George Halfacre, 1125 Douglas Street; Ray Taylor, 1312 Johnstone Street, and Tom Clark, 1220 Player street. Winners are asked to call by The Sun office for their awards. ft ■ ■ r - - r - r r - r r t t - r ■ ■ e - ■ ritr a - r p - n ■wt irri ’ii : ri. m mm r iaHi» m iiw « "v »*l mm* m* ^ p % k iwm m V ■■■ I ■■■ I s I ««npRADE, not aid,” might well be the slogan of a joint move ment which is spreading across the country, as between’ REA co operatives, private electric utili ties and manufacturers of electric appliances, which has for its ob jective an increased use of elec tricity by fanners, both in the farm homes and on the farms themselves. The name of this cooperative movement is the “Inter-Industry Farm Electric Utilization Council” and its officers are busy setting up state-group areas, each with its own officers. ' * The parent Council’s officers elected at a recent meeting in Chicago include: Fred H. Strong, Deputy Administrator of the Rural Electric Administration, in Wash ington, who serves as non-voting chairman: J. K. Smith. Kentucky Associa- tion of Rural Electric / Coopera tives, and Oliver Kimbrough, of the Farmers Electric Cooperative of New Mexico—representing the rural cooperatives: E. W. McClure, Vice President, Kansas Power and Light Company, and C. V. Sorenson, vice president and general manager, Indiana & Michigan Electric Company—rep resenting private electric com panies: W. E. Saylor, Kelvinator Divi sion, American Motors Corpora tion, and Walter Hemker, Westing- house Electric Corp — representing the electric appliance industry, through the National Electrical Manufacturers Association; and Russell Gingles, of the NEMA, serving as secretary and non-vot ing member. Ancher Nelsen, National Admin istrator of REA, had this to say of the new organization: “As I see it, the Council’s program stands to help everybody. It will help the farmer who will be able to farm more efficiently and there- by increase his income. It will help to raise the rural standard of living and it will strengthen our national economy, which is the real purpose of the Rural Electri fication Act.” Of course behind the Council’s plan is an increase in the use of electricity on the farms, which will help the Coops, and the pri vate power companies serving ru ral areas, and the manufacturers want to sell more equipment. From the standpoint of the REA itself, it is deeply concerned about the loans issue to REA coops . . . More use of electricity means more business for the coop com panies, or revenue for the bor rowers and more security for the REA loans. On June 30, 1954, REA loans to coops totaled $2.8 billion. On that date its 1,000 borrowers served 4,093,437 rural consumers. Of these, 2,695,315 or 65% were farffis. Ap proximately 54% of the 4,965,962 farms in the country which are now electrified are served by REA- financed facilities. The Council’s first meeting was held at St. Paul, Minn., for rep resentatives from north-central states; the second at Denver, for western states; a third meeting was at Columbus, Ohio, for north eastern states; the fourth at Ft. Worth, Texas, for the southwest, and the fifth at Nashville, for the southeastern states. It is planned to make the Coun cil a permanent organization, and steps toward this action were tak- _en at a Chicago meeting. W7, ——“ Dam mm §!%* ( * my - ! INHALER . . . Sometimes calves vapors commonly used by human beings for lung congestion. Pall te f hot water contains and helpful medication. Out sack bottom, ti calf breathe as shown. ' "'7 .- YU ; :7 ' '■ tSI : ' : ®J8S • ..vY. ill i H! lifefi: fe 7 fe 'A' AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIV \17TLLIAM H. TALLEY. 39()0 16th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., VV regained consciousness about three and a half days after the “Battle of the Bulge” on a cot in an Army field hospital in Belgium. Where his feet should have been there was nothing except the ends of two plaster casts on his legs. The first picture that flashed into his mind was that of a legless man strapped to a little platform fitted with roller-skate wheels, sitting on the comer in his hometown selling pencils. He became almost frantic with woi*ry and self-pity. Would he ever walk again? Would he be an invalid all his life? How would his wife and his mother take this terrible news? Why had this happened to him? Luckily he had sense enough to realize that he had to get hold of himself.’ He forced himself to think rationally. His feet were gone—what could he do about it? Nothing. For some reason fate had de creed that he should loose his feet, and all the worry in the world wouldn't bring them back. Then and there he made up his mind to accept the facta as they were. He began to analyze what he had left with which to fight the bat tie of life. It added up to a great deal more than he had realised before. He had life, which many of his Army friends no longer had; he had youth, strength, hope, ambition to get ahead, to help build a better world, and he had a beautiful little wife who would help him with whatever he wanted to do! What did he really have to worry about? The answer again was nothing! He had accepted his fate and ceuntad hit Nasstags instead of hit troubles, and he found he had a great deal left, ond ho knew that It Is never what we have lost that counts, bat what we have left. mentarily the theme “a program to juvenile delinquency,** hot . . . that’s a wrong approach whan you come to dealing directly with youth. Tell a bunch of kids you're doing something to prevent them from becoming delinquents, and they'll shy away aa they would from smallpox. Actually the problem—or at any rate the better approach—is simply to see that youth is kept interested in. and active at, something that is reasonably wholesome and con structive. There may be a difference of opinion as to the best solution. Some folk ***"* a Youth Center to serve the entire area, or separate Youth Centers for the separate communities, would .supply the an swer. Professional opinion has been consulted and has tended to emphasize the need for trained, paid leadership which will insure a continuing ftW< ^ well-aimed pro gram, as more essential than physi cal facilities. • • • From the Gazette, Rockland, The great advertising agencies recognize the fact that a weekly is read from first page to last, every item, every advertisement. If you see a newspaper discarded in a bus or waste can. it la always the big daily, read through hastily and laid aside—never the weekly which is taken home to be shown with pride to a neighbor where ft speaks of Unde Doc*s new housellf or the "piece” about Junior's rew ord in arithmetic. As a result, the agencies place a high value on the advertising of the country papers their intimate, homely of all the items "up our The country press has a disregard of the national crimes and scandals so valued by the metropolitan subscriber. H ■ ..-!S nism is out to conquer the A small group in 1917 has grown to an enslavement of over 800,000- ^ 000 people and has 5.000,00b ened, strictly disciplined tors working in 60 non-Communist countries. Recentiy Attorney Gen* eral Brownell was asked what the FBI thinks of Communists in United States. He thidk it is a greater than at any time as they organized difficult 1 . ' «•$ ««■*. •. . ispjpv* . -■ CHANNEL... AUGUSTA • GEORGIA SUNDAY, DECKMaom IS. 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