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* PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1957 &*• Snn 1218 Collejre 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 There seems to be quite a movement on the part of our Baptist brethren to challenge some activities of the South ern Baptist Convention. For the information of those who are not Baptists I of fer a word of explanation. Each Baptist church is wholly independent, with no strings of any kind. Baptist, churches have Associations and Conventions but they represent only a purely voluntary cooperation of Baptist churches for the general promotion of all the interests fostered by Baptists. But these Associations and Conventions have no authority over any Baptist Church. This essential democracy is a fundamental of Baptist policy. No resolution of any kind by any Convention has bind ing effect on even the remotest and smallest Baptist church except that church which accepts the resolution or adopts it as its own. So when the Southern Baptist Convention dis cusses church integration it is merely a matter of opinion and without binding effect. The Baptists of our State, however, are taking note of the unsurpations by the Federal Supreme Court in State matters and are resolved to assert and reaffirm explicitly the time honored attitude of Baptists, in matters of local in dependence. We now understand the statements recently adopted by Baptist churches of Orangeburg and Manning. The Man ning statement I quote: “We are constrained to believe that the Southern Baptist Convention is too large, too all-embracing, to be either Southern or deliberative. “We hold in respect and Christian tolerance our brethren of the North and the West, but for greater practical, inti mate and effectual collaboration in the program of Christ ian service we suggest that the Southern Baptist Conven tion, or some other body, be composed of delegates from the States recognized as Southern. Because of conditions peculiar to the South we regard as ungracious the persistent endorsement and support of racial integration in our schools, and we repudiate the idea of so integrating our Baptist Churches. We regard the suggested integration as entirely extran eous to the proper agenda of a religious convention whose primary purpose should be to unify the efforts of hundreds of independent churches in their contribution to further the broad program of generally understood and recognized re ligious work. v The Colored people of the South have made notable, even unprecedented, progress within a hundred years. This has been due in large measure to association with White people, together with the active and helpful cooperation of their white neighbors. The relations between the White and Colored people has steadily improved; as also the economic condition of both races, growing out of practical cooperation, until political \ manipulators began systematically and adroitly to corrall the Colored political potential. This campaign is believed to have been either initiated by, or fomented by, the Rus sian Bolshevists, who exploit every opportunity and occa sion to sow seeds of discord. , Segregation of races was instituted by God Himself with the Jewish people. , The Colored man is building a society of his own; he neither wishes to join White congregations nor have White people seek membership in Colored churches. We recommend very earnestly and urgently that a De partment or School of Theology be created within Furman University and that South Carolina Baptists offer to their brethren an opportunity to prepare for the ministry with out racial comingling. This in mo sense disparages Colored students for the ministry as they have schools of their own or may have, as they wish. The Manning Baptist Church is willing to cooperate with other Baptist Churches in the South, of like principle of ra cial segregation and racial integrity, in establishing and maintaining agencies for the Lord’s Knigdom throughout the world.” The one new feature of the Manning statement is the rec ommendation that Furman University * (a Baptist institu tion) create a new Baptist Theological Department. I believe that the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, now of Louisville, Kentucky, was founded and operated in Green ville years ago. Speaking for myself now I interpret the attitude of the Baptist brotherhood, concerning racial integration in the churches as not being a concern of the churches, but many South Carolina Baptists object to bringing such political questions before a religious body, especially a body compos ed of widely divergent groups bound together in Christian fellowship in spiritual matters, but of very different social tradition. Many Baptists believe that proposed integration is not fundamentally the concern of the churches, but, rather, is a piece of political chicanery, bordering on clap-trap, to THE or SWIMMIN’ HOLE -rr. es Amy I^TtAoSB CrOlDEu PAVSL BePoce GLoPiPifeo^fcACucc awp Gorg&oos Cgwccetr *P©olS ■v ' beguile thousands of voters into competitive partisan poli tical affiliation. A Baptist church may designate its contributions to ex clude agencies fostering integration of races, so far as may be practicable, hoping to cooperate with other Baptist con gregations to promote and establish such agencies as may comport with the general plan of maintaining racial integ rity. / along with state righ. meet situations withoi: Governor Harriman burg declared that he ernment’. Neither are 99 $500 REWARD . . . Harry A. Newton and wife leave New York home mi clty-to-city search for son Victor, 27, f since 1953. They'D lire in traUer and tonr sooth first. si)sl jnn g n Q—Are farm prices rising this year? A—There has been a slight rise in the over-all average of farm prices, that is the average prices farmers got for their produce in the past three months. However, the cost of what the farmer has to pay for the things he buys has gone up so that the Department of Agri culture says that purchasing power of farm commodities in June, 1957, sagged to the lowest point in 17 years. According to the report of the Department, prices received by farmers averaged 82 per cent of parity in the month ending June 15, or 4 points below the average of 88 per cent in June 1956, and the lowest for any June since 1940. , Q—How do the Steel Companies justify increased prices ef steel to $a per ton following so closely on an $3.50 boost a year age as a result of an escalator clause pay Increase due to Increased living costs? A—Some authorities claim the Steel Companies cannot justify the price boosts, since the raise they are giving their workers now is part of a deal made about a year ago for a three-year-no-strike pledge by the Unions. However Companies claim “in order to main tain production and safeguard jobs of employees" obsolescent and worn out equipment must be replaced. Under the tax laws the com panies can recover, as depreciation, only original cost of equip ment, some of it bought as long as 30 years ago, so replacement of equipment costs three times its original costs and cannot be cov ered by depreciation, so must be paid for out of profits. Of course under this theory, if consumers are to pay for plant equipment and construction, eventually the companies will get their plants paid for without any out-of-pocket investment. Q—What is the “well" of the House I read about in the papers? A—The “well” of the House is the space between the Clerk’s desk im mediately in front of the Speaker’s rostrum, and the first row of seats. I think Indiana must be typical of the best American spirit. I have great admiration for Indiana. A letter from the governor of that state impresses me very much. Here it is, in part: “T commend to your attention my resolution, which by uninimous consent was made a part of the record at the a final executive session of the Governors’ Conference . at Williamsburg. It was not available to the press at that time, and 1 had previously not released it because the reso lution committee directed that it be considered by the entire conference in closed session. This resolution expresses the overwhelming sentiment of the people of the sovereign state of Indiana regarding fed eral grants in aid, and summarizes resolutions repeatedly passed by the Indiana Legislature, as well as by the legisla tures of a number of other states. The resolution is concerned with existing grants now ac cepted because the people of each state send millions of dollars to Washington in federal taxes, leaving no other al ternative for recovery. Gasoline, tire and auto taxes paid by the motorists constitute highway funds. The school lunch program is an emergency arrangement to help reduce food surpluses. Federal help for land-grant colleges is only a partial and subordinate contribution directed toward research. Flood control and conservation efforts are rightly an interstate program. But, as the resolution clearly sets forth, the trend of federal government of recent years has been to curtail state and local control of ih.merous rights and functions. The people of Indiana rec nize that state responsibilities go and they are able and willing to ederal domination or interference. * national telecast from Williams- not ‘afraid of the federal gov- e. But we do not hesitate to rec ognize the fact that individualism and home rule are being stifled by the continue encroachment of the federal gov ernment upon the rese , powers of the states as guar anteed by the United St. . .> Constitution. President Eisenhower ano recognized this trend in his address at Williamsburg. I regard the conclusive part of my resolution as implementing his views. Merely to shift administration of certain strvices from the federal budget to state budgets without acc mpanying economy and efficien cy, and without cutting th grants-in-aid fat out of the na tional budget, will not reduce the current excessive demands on taxpayers. We feel that federal grants and federal controls cannot be separated. In Indiana we have had the courage to in crease our state and local taxes to meet the needs of our people. We have watched super-government grow like Topsy until it has become the biggest operator in every field of American activity, and we do not propose to be smothered in the Washington featherbed. America can be made safe and secure only by strength at the grass roots. And those grass roots have always grown back home, and never in Washington. Harold W. Handley, Governor, State of Indiana.’ ideas from other editors From the Granite State News, tVolfeboro, N. H.: From time to time we hear folks moaning about the high cost of various types of automobile insurance. The answer is obvious. Collision is so high because when a driver dents one of these new cars a major repair job is indicated. Time was in the days of the fa mous old Model Ts and A’s, the fine functional Chevs, the good rug ged Dodges and old solid Euicks, it was possible to replace a fender, a bumper, or a windshield with out major financing. If a fender was crushed, why a fender was crushed, and that was that. Now when a fender receives a major damage, a good portion of the side of the car has to come too, id order to be replaced. The bumper has given way to a complex grille. A headlight is no longer a simple headlight but is sunk into the fender or mudguard, requiring a major operation for replacement, alonjj with the fender. The same holds true of bodily injury. Ever since a jury awarded a young man better than ninety thousand dollars for loss of a leg, when his motorcycle was in con tact with a car, no thinking per son who owns more than a camp and a hen coop dares go aboard without the maximum coverage. But basically we set our own insurance rates. When a member of a jury votes a big award, say ing to himself “The insurance company will pay for this” what he is really saying is “A little bit of this will come out of my own pelt next year.” T f the rates do not go up in proportion to the awaxds the insurance compaliies go out of business. It is an old banking practice that if you check more out of your account than you deposit, you get an overdraft, protested checks and activity stops. In essence, the public sets its own rate for all types of insur ance, public liability, property damage, collision, fire and theft. From The Cats kill Mountain Star, ( Saugerties, N. Y.: In the course, of an average married life, a wife spends he* time as fol lows: Dishwashing, 10,000 hours Care of house, 13,500 hours Marketing, 4,500 hours Washing, ironing, mending, car ing for clothes 13,000 hours Caring for members of the fami ly, 10,025 hours In addition, an electronic brain has computed that the average married woman walks 300 miles a year around the house; washes 25,2p0 dishes a year; and still finds time to look her best when hubby comes home from work. • s-sssa Milwaukee and Chicago housewives, incidentally, have inadvertently done their bit to boost the potency of their cities’ plant food product.# The swing to detergents in re cent years has boosted the percentage of phosphoric acid, one of the sources of plant nourishment. The Chicago Fertilizer Co., which contracts for the Windy City’s sewage sludge, sells most of the product to Southern plant food manufacturers, who mix it with chemi cals for truck-farm use. About 25 percent winds up on home lawns and gardens.” tt W HAT is the future of the Ten nessee Valley Authority? Will it remain a vital element in the continued development of the Tennessee valley and adjacent territory? Or will the wings of the Authority be clipped by a governing board who are in opposition to the origi nal aims of TV A as a multi-pur pose agency dedicated to the re gional development of a multi-state area—including flood control, rec reational development, land Im provement and cheap public pow er? Friends of TV A fcre fearful that President Eisenhower's latest ap pointment to the board will tip the scales against further devel opment and, if he is confirmed by the Senate, the future of -this agency which is being Copied in numero.us river valley develop ments in other nations of the ■world, may henceforth deteriorate in value to the region it has served. Arnold' V. Jones, an assistant director of the Bureau pf the Budget, from Kansas State College, is the President’s new appointee to the three-man Bqard of TVA, succeeding Dr. Harry A. Curtis. The other Eisenhower appointee on the board, Brig. General Herb ert D. Vogel, an open foe of public power, has given TVA and its friends a rough time since his ap pointment as chairman of the board. It leaves only one man on the board who can be called a friend of TVA objectives ... Dr Raymond R*. Paty, an Appointee of former President Truman. . No one as yet quite knows where Mr. Jones actually stands on the question of a vitalized TVA, hence the widespread interest in the Sen ate hearings ever his confirmation. What little public information there is about Mr. Jones adds up to this: He is a Kansas Republican on leave from Kansas State Col lege where he took a post in 1945 at the request of Milton Eisen hower, the President's brother. In April 1956 he came to Washington. What happened in the Budget Bureau in connection with TVA is now an open book, for it was here that the Dixon-Yates deal was cooked up which would have pumped private power into the TVA system and made impossible further development of TVA facil ities. Finally after two senatorial committee probes, the Dixon-Yates combine became such a liability that the Administration scuttled the deal. The White House maintains that all this had happened before Mr. Jones came to the Bureau from the Kansas College. However, be cause it is known that Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams was di rectly connected with the Dixon- Yates affair, and that he is defi nitely opposed to TVA and that any appointee must pass before Mr. Adams first, it is conceded that Mr. Jones’ views are at least known to Sherman Adams. With a new board in charge of TVA whose two new members are directly opposed to the concept of the original TVA, it is no wonder that private power interests now come forward with a 10-point pro gram to sell out TV^ to private utilities. * However, Jones must get past the Senate Public Works Commit tee, with a sub-committee headed by Senator Albert Gore of Tennes see, #onp of TVA’s most ardent supporters, on the way to his con firmation. ■&M CROSSWORD PUZZLE r-n 14 15 18 [6 1 ir-re w 23 10 11 12 1T“ —• i ■ W'Wm S3 . PUZZL.K No. 457 fM Glancing over the June Bulletin of the New York Chamber of Commerce I found some nuggets of value. Now, do you know that: If living standards are to be maintained in the face of a tremendous growth in population, if the current high level of industrial activity is to be sustained, the petroleum re quirements of the free world are going to increase even more sharply. Demand in the United States in 1956 was about 8.8 million barrels a day; and in 1965, domestic consumption is expected to reach a level of approximately 12.1 million barrels a day—almost 40 per cent above the present level. An even greater increase will occur among the free for eign nations. Demand outside the United States among these countries in 1956 was some 6.8 million barrels a day; by 1960, this will be about 9.8 million barrels a day; and in 1965, it is expected to climb to perhaps 14.6 million bar rels a day—a rise of 115 percent over the current rate. Since it is difficult to visualize this tremendous growth in terms of barrels of oil, let me put it another way. By 1965 t^ie free world consumption of petroleum will have risen to roughly five times the level prior to World War II. The big question is: where is all the oil coming from? On the basis of everything that we know now, there is only’ one answer to that question. The projected increase in de mand for petroleum will be met primarily from foreign production, principally that in the Middle East. Perhaps the most significant factor in the international petroleum industry since World War H has been the shift to that parfe of the globe as the major source of the world’s petroleum. Proven reserves in the Eastern Hemisphere— according to conservative estimates—have quadrupled in the postwar period and now constitute about 75 percent of the free world total. 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She felt that die knew enough about it to carry on and support those little ones. She went through the books. The liabilities exceeded the assets! There were many debts. These were small debts but they loomed up big to Mrs. Wormser. Should she sell the business? But a business in die financial straits of hers was not desirable. She could go into bankruptcy and start all over again under another name. But she had been brought up in a God-fearing family! Since this was the only business she knew, she wanted to hold it She had the shop and the machines to work with. Finally she decided on a coarse that proved to be the very one she could beat pursue. She went in person, or wrote letters, to every creditor relating her -ircumstances. She said she would pay off a little each month, if only a dollar, unto every bill was settled. To her great relief she found all of them encouraging and receptive. It was better than the alternative, “nothing.** And the way was made easier for her by her creditors giving her business that they might have placed elsewhere ex cept for her straightforward at titude. It was nearly four years before all those bills were paid, but pay them she did. Not only that, during that time she built up a better business than even she and her husband bad looked for ward to in such a short period of time. Martha's motto, which she doesn’t flaunt before others but which she declares she never loses sight is “Honesty, Integrity.^ It pays 1 •*. • ■ _ liipiSf -V. *, ■ -.7t-•••#&■$;• ' '.c. •• issa •/ - ■ Wl .Jr • »,. jit, -