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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By Spectator
I am still unreconciled to the unblushing throwing of bil
lions of dollars on all sorts of fantastical imaginings. When
ever we come to a show-down the friends-for-hire, or the al-
lies-for-money will be sorry, but unable to help. We should
build the United States and its interests as the first duty
of our Government. We are not doing that; we are jeopard
ising the interests 6f the Unted States in our zeal to court
favor abroad.
One of our major interests is the textile interest; we are
taking bread from our own people, while not only taking
away their business, but by selling raw cotton abroad at
prices below the prices here; and we give them billions of
dollars at the same time.
By some incredible folly we still have the bureaucrats of
Roosevelt and Truman entrenched in power; but even the
Eisenhower crowd with the President and Mr. Dulles in the
forefront, are guilelessly, foolishly giving away the life
blood of America for a vague hope of recompense that would
not do credit to a simpleton.
It is amazing that the Congress, Democrats and Repub
licans, is so engrossed in cheap politics that members go
along with these silly notions of statesmanship. This is like
stripping your pantry for your neighbor in an unfounded
hope that you and yours will prosper through adversity.
Senator Olin Johnston has been putting up a manly, steady
persistent and unwavering fight against the confirmation
of Mr. Sobeloff as a member of the Supreme Court. If ascore
of Senators would relentlessly support Senator Johnston he
could win against this proposed new member of the Court
whose attitude is that of Cheif Justice Warren, of a very
dark hue.
Some days ago I was asking about the Southern Regional
Education Board. Well, one of the great industral magazines
of the Nation throws some light on if. Here is what The
Manufactures' Record says:
We h^ve a strange situation in the South today. In many
of our states, the possibility of desegregation of the races
threatens the very existeence of our public school systems.
Legislation already enacted in some states would make it
necessary to close all public schools immediately if integrat
ion should be forced.
Whether the people of the South generaly approve such
measures or not, few will deny that the segregation issuue
poses a major problem for our educational institutions,We
have already seen some of our finest institutions of higher
learning subjected to embarrassment and humiliation.
With this in view, it would be assumed that any educat
ional organization responsible for solving regional problems
would have this matter high on its study program. If ever
there was a matter which needed systematic, professional
study, this is it.
But, amazingly enough, the agency responsible for this
type of work has apparently chosen to avoid the segregration
issue altogether;
We refer to the Southern Regional Education Board. The
SREB, as its name indicates, is a regional organization set
up for the specific purpose of studing Southern educational
problems. It is financed by the 15 Sou then states.
SREB was established in 1948 to administer a program
of exchanging students between the various Southern states.
The threat of desegregaton was a major factor in setting
up the organization.
The SREB plan made it possible, fo example, for a state
which had no medical college for negroes to send students
to another Southern State which had such facilities. This
was a device whereby Southern states might offer separate
but equal facilities and avoid the wrath of the Supreme
Court.
But obiously this system has not solved the segregation
problem. And apparently the SREB has given up. Among
current study programs listed by SREB the segregation
.issue is not even mentioned.
We think there is good reason, therefore, for the taxpay
ers of the South who have invested more than $1 million in
the SREB to want to know why this strange situation exists.
Why should SREB dodge the segregation problem? Does
the Board, by any chance, believe in immediate integration?
We don’t think it unreasonable to expect the Board to
answer such questions. There is a crying need in the South
today for some reputable organization to do a continuing
fact-finding job in the school segregation field.
There is far too hiuch loose and careless talk on this im
portant subject. The SREB, with its highly-trained staff,
could make a real contribution by providing Southern legis
lators and others with authentic information on which to
base their decisons.
SREB has done good work in many fields. The staff has
demonstrated outstanding administrative ability. We feel
that if the talents of the group were applied energetically
to the segregation problem, the South would benefit.
We suspect that the SREB’s reluctance to tackle the con-
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemaon Extension Information Specialist
NEW HOG BULLETIN
“Swine Herd Management for
South Carolina” is the name of
revised Circular 234 Clemson has
just gotten out.
It brings the hog story up to
date, and tells of the lean meat
type hog, in demand now, and
how to get it. Copies are free
from your county agent.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Systematic development pro
grams are now underway in 120
communities over South Caro
lina, according to Thos. W. Mor
gan, assistant director of exten
sion at Clemson.
Special assistant county agents
have been put in a number of
counties to help the local groups
with this. And substantial prizes
furnished by Progressive Farm
er and electric coops and com
panies add interest and incentive
to the undertaking.
This work started up in Oconee
several years ago. In riding with
County Agent Morgan there, you
could tell the difference when you
hit one of the communities that
was working on organized im
provement. Mail boxes were uni
formly neat, churches, schools,
and cemeteries, had been improv*-
ed and beautified, farmsteads,
ditch banks, and hedge-rows had
been cleaned up, all of which
made the crops look good in the
fields. Since then the work has
been widely extended there and
has been put on a state basis.
Extension Circular 403, Commun
ity Development in South Caro
lina, tells of it.
IRRIGATION IN THE WEST
Anyone going West is impress
ed with the powerful production
potential of irrigation there. Ag
ricultural Leaders’ Digest points
out that only 3 percent of their
land is irrigated. Yet it produces
33 percent of their annual farm
wealth!
This same publication points
out, “Arkansas, with a rainfall
average of 50 inches has more ir
rigation than Nevada, New Mexi
co, or Washington state. But Ark
ansas, and most other states in
the so-called rainfall belt, has
more to irrigate with, the water.
And recurring droughts along are
teaching us how to insure good
yields of crops with a little add
ed water at the right times.
Mississippi is irrigating over
42,000 acres of cotton. North
Carolina over 10,000 acres of
tobacco, Kentucky over 25,000 ac
res of crops, and Florida has
about 750,000 acres of irrigated
crops and groves. And our figures
here in South Carolina are get
ting rather sizable too. For last
year, county agents reported 27,-
901 acres irrigated, and some
areas had enough rain that it
wasn’t needed.
OUR GREATEST RICHES
Back when I was in Clemson,
1912-16, Dr. W. M. Riggs was
president. He saw the/importance
of the soil and the need for build
ing and conserving it. Once I
heard him say in substance: “The
top 6 inches of this earth carries
its greatest riches. The diamonds
from Kimberley, all of the oil, all
of the gold earth yields are as
nothing in comparison to what
comes from that top 6 inches of
its soil.”
Pressure upon, misuse, and mis
handling of that precious top
crust of the earth has caused
much of it to go. But in our time
a great awakening is growing.
Our stewardship in the soil, not
ownership, is being stressed from
the pulpit to the very grassroots..
And we see sign of it taking hold
in the gully that is being stopped;
the field that is being terrace^
contour farmed, and strip-crop
ped; and the steep places that are
being put to tree and sod.
Much of conservation calls for
community action to be most ef
fective. Thus we see the whole
watershed approach being tried.
One of the first of these is up
here in Pickens county, the Twelve
Mile Watershed. There, under
the soil conservation district sup
ervisors, the ills of erosion are
being attacked on all sides. And
marked progress is being made,
although that work is only two
years old. Other watershed im
provement projects are pending
over the state. Local farmers ini
tiate them, and the agency work
ers help in the technical and
planning' phases of carrying the
needed improvements out. Louis
Hendricks, executive secretary of
the district supervisors in this
state, with headquarters in the
Calhoun State Office Building in
Columbia, is coordinator of thesis
activities and the State Commis
sioner of Agriculture is charged'
with selecting the communities
to be concentrated oh in this
watershed improvement. Mr.
Hendricks can furnish details to
interested areas or watersheds.
Deed Transfers
Newberry No. 1
Citizens Hpme Fire Insurance
Company to Jobe E. Smith, Jr.,
et al, two lots in Coatswood Place.
Lots 3 and 4, $5.00 and other val
uable considerations.
Porter C. Jackson to Ruth T.
Armfield, one lot and one build
ing, 2003 Lee street, $5.00 and
other valuable considerations.
Newberry No. 1 Outside
Miss Grace M. Summer to Cur
tis W. Hipp, one lot and one
building on Armfield Avenue. It
is the identical premises conveyed
to grantor by deed, Perry and
Perdue, $5.00 and other valuable
considerations.
W. A. Perry and Ralph C. Per
due to Grace M. Summer, one
lot and one building on Armfield
Avenue, $6000.
Jobe E. Smith, Jr., to Estelle C.
Smith, 25 acres and one building,
( a one-half undivided interest),
$5.00 love and affection.
George H. Crosson to Walter
T. Lake, two lots and one build
ing, $5.00 and other valuable con
siderations.
O. F. Armfield, Sr., to Porter
C. Jackson, one lot and one build
ing on Rosalyn Drive, $5.00 and
other valuable considerations.
Silverstreet No. 2
Clyde B. Arant, Lucy A. Webb,
Vivian A. Montgomery and Grace
A. Bowen to Jacob B. Arant, 25
and one-half acres, $5.00 love and
affection.
Prosperity No. 7
Ransom S. Bush, et al to W. A.
Hamby, 35 acres, $5000.
Mamie Johnson to Sammie
Johnson, one lot $5.00 love and
affection.
REV. ROBERT H. HARPER
STOPPING SHORT \
When Abraham was told of the
Lord’s purpose to destroy the city
of Sodom because of the great
wickedness of the people, he be
gan to plead with God to spare
the city if such and such a num
ber of people were found there.
He began with fifty and kept on
reducing the number, hoping to
bring the number doWn to one
that would include Lot and his
family. Lot was his nephew who
had come to Sodom several years
after the separation between him
and Abraham.
Uncla and nephew had ‘’hot seen
each other for J perhaps fifteen
years sod' they may not have
heard from each other. So Abra
ham must have thought that Lot
and his family would number at
least ten and when God promised
to spare Sodom If tan righteous
persons were found therein, he
thought his prayer had been suc
cessful and be cessed pleading.
And in so doing be fell into great
error, for the family of Lot did
not number ten, even including the
sons-in-law who were* men of
Sodom.
Thus Abraham failed utterly in
his prayer by stopping short. Had
he persevered, had he continued
to exercise faith, his plea might
have been granted to spare Sodom
and thus save Lot and his small
family. But ruin fell upon the city
and Lot, his wife, and two daugh
ters were forced to flee. Let us
learn to persevere in all good
things.
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W ILLIAM M. MAGEE, 2112 Erie Street, San Disgo, California, says
the day he flew 349 miles down into Mexico, was (me he will never
forget. The weather was perfect—clear and bright—the air was smooth
and their plane perfect for the trip.
They ate their lunch at a small ranch, cooked by a Mexican woman,
one of the most delicious meals he has ever eaten, consisting of turtle
soup, delicious turtle steaks, a Mexican salad
tostadas, frijoles (Mexican beans) and coffee. All
this rich spicy food he ate and enjoyed. In fact,
everything about the trip was exciting and enjoyable,
one of the outstanding events of his life.
Why has he told us this? Because four months ago
be would not have taken time off from his business to
go on such a trip. For a long time, each day had been
a turmoil! He didn’t have enough time for anything.
At ten o’clock in the morning he would be working on
one thing while worrying about others. Consequently
he was never at ease; he seemed to be living in a ter- CARNEGIE
rible “thrash” every minute of every day.
But that trip, from which he returned fresh and enthusiastic, taught
lim he could do more and better work after suck a period of relaxation.
troversial segregation problem results from fear of closer
scrutiny of its operations. In recent years the Board has
expanded its scope of action into a veriety of fields, some of
which are pretty far afield for an academic group.
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JEWELER
Friends, Relatives Enjoy
25th Anniversary Supper
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie A. Sheely
of Newberry celebrated their 25th
wedding- anniversary Thursday
evening, June 7th with a buffet
supper at their home, 1005 Wil
son street. Sixty-five relatives and'i
friends attended.
Esther Reid daisies, white car
nations and gypsophilia were us
ed in decorating in both the living
room and dining room. White
candles in silver candelabra and
magnolias completed the floral
arrangements.
Mrs. Jacob Bowers, sister of
Mrs. Sheely, invited the guests
to the sun porch where supper
was served. The table was cen
tered with an arrangement of
mixed summer flowers. Guests
were seated at card tables
throughout the home.
Among those assisting with the
entertaining were Miss Claudia
Sheely of Pennington Gap, Vir
ginia; Mrs. Willie Howard Sheely
of Columbia, Mrs. Furman Reag-
in of Newberry and Mrs. J. D.
Sheely of Columbia.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheely are the
parents of three children. They
are Louis A. Sheely with the U.
S. Navy in Formosa; Miss Con
nie Sheely and Jimmy Sheely,
both of Newberry.
For the occasion, Mrs. Sheely
wore a lovely light blue french
voile dress with a white carna
tion corsage.
Among the out-of-town guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wil
son and daughter, Harriett of
Hickory, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. J.
L. Yount and Miss Louise Yount
of Ninety Six; Mr. and Mrs. Ja
cob L. Bowers and children of
Prosperity; Miss Claudia Sheely,
Pennington Gap, Va.; Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Sheely, Mr. and Mrs.
Willie Howard Sheely, Mr. and
Mrs. James W. Sheely and Miss
Elizabeth Sheely of Columbia;
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Sheely, Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Sheely and Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard Wiggers of
Pomaria; Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Garner and Mr. and Mrs. I. M.
Buckner of Union.
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But reserves are a necessary ingredient to success in
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The greatest athletes are those who maintain a spec
ial reserve of strength and speed that they can call
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with greater reserve strength. The great industrial
and raw material reserves of the United States were
. one of the most decisive factors in World War II.
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NEWBERRY, S. C.
DIRECTORS
John F. Clarkson
M. O. Summer
J. K. Willingham
E. B. PunoeU
G. K. Dominick
Waldo C. Huffman