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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN 1218 Coltege Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937 at tlie Postoffice at Newberry. South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per ytear in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR According to the old-timers this should be a fruitful year, a season of good crops, following the ice and snow. I'm no authority on crops or farming, since I am only a sart of town-farmer, not a real dirt farmer. From long association with real sons of the soil I know their contemp- tous attitude to agriculturists who just talk about farming. Since I have a few acres I am a landlord. That is strange, when you think of it-a land-lord. Why didn’t we get rid of all the “lords” when we came out of the “Revolutionary War” ? Originally, far back in the early days of England a Lord was a big owner of land; not a farm, but thousands of acres, wild, wooded and cultivated by peasants or serfs. There was the Lord, the noble, the man of the blue blood who lord ed it over vast domains. He was a “lord”, rooted and ground ed in the land. Today we have no “blue-bloods”, no nobility, no great lords, but we democratic Americans call a land-owner who has a tenant a landlord, though without the trappings or pomp or panoply or heraldry of the acient Lord of the Manor who fought the battles in the clash of chivalry. A new day has dawned. All the grandeur and the glory have departed and the lord of the land now rushes not to deeds of noble emprise, brandishing swords from the back of his splendid charger,but to the Soil Bank, though alas, perchance too late, too late, too late. Yea, verily. The noble lord, once magnificent in “the boast of heraldry and the pomp of power, and all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave”, now “awaits the inevitable hour” when the path of glory leads but to the Soil Bank-or the rejection thereby. George Washington’s birthday reminds us of the ‘‘no nobler figure ever stood in the forefront of a nation’s life , as I recall a splendid tribute by the English historian, Green. As I think of Washington today, with President Eisen hower with us and Messrs. Roosevelt and Truman behind us, it seems to me that I am looking at a man whose pre eminence was not intellectual, for he could not be compared intellectually with Jefferson, but Washington readily per ceived the essential right or wrong, good or bad, helpful or harmful feature of whatever came before him and he had the unwavering manliness to choose the right, regardless of the weight, influence, persuaveness or political repur- cussion against his decision. Washington was not a better man spiritually than Eisen hower; nor was his intention more noble or patriotic; he differed supremely from Eisenhower in being able to see the fundment’als of every problem for himself and never wavered because of pressure; nor was he moved by opinion or cajoled by a lot of mischievous planners who had no foun dation except the whim and vagary of the moment. Washington towers above all for his moral grandeur but to me he was the consumate genius of sound judgement, the veritable apotheosis, of common sense, which, as the Spanish say, is the rarest of all the senses. Our Nation was started right, but seems to be floundering in the sea of' confusion, -having thrown overboard to the sharks the magnificent heritage bequethed to us by Wash- ington. What is this we hear about the R.E.A. and the bill before the Legislature? Is anything wrong with the R.E.A.? Or is there anything wrong with the Power Companies? Is it possible that the towns, the City Councils, should be con sulted ? i What is the matter? Let’s go back, say twenty five years. Quite a long time, if you think it over. The men of fifty years old, back then, are in the cemeteries, most of them. The young men of twenty five are now Elders and Deacons and Stewards, perchance. Back there we had a very general poverty. The young men don’t know about it but in many towns and counties so many citizens were in arrears with their taxes that in Orangeburg County at least one man running for the Leg islature declared that he would fight to protect every man against the sale of his property for taxes. At that time power companies were a^ short of money as were the rest of us. The R.E.A. came into being to make it possible to build power lines to remote farms. Of course if our Government can toss around sixty billions of our tax-money in Europe, Asia and elsewhere, then it might well do something at home. The Government has done that and done it generously. Today most farmers are within reach of electric power, if they want it. Shall the Government continue this ? How did the Government help the farmers? Let me use my own case: I had one place about five miles out of town. No company could afford to build five miles of line and main tain it for the little business with me. It costs, possibly ten thousand dollars to build that line. The Company serving THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1958 me in town could not afford the expense for so little business. So the Government made loans at two percent to groups, operating under the R.E.A. The Government continues to lend those groups money at two percent, though the Gov ernment recently paid three and a half percent for the mon ey. That, of course, is an outright subsidy. In other words the Government lends nioney on long terms at a heavy loss in order to help us on the farm. It is a fact that quite a lot of this power is provided by the private power Companies. The question is; Shall the R.E.A. take care of the farmers, or may it solicit business in towns and from industrial en terprises ? Is the R.E.A. to be a money-making concern, trynig for town patronage; and soliciting business from factories? Or is the R.E.A. to continue as a service to farmers out on the farm? I don’t expect the R.E.A. to serve me in town. Are the Mayors and City Councilmen to have no voice in this? Our Power Companies pay heavily toward the support of towms, schools, as well as the State and Federal Govern ments. I live on the line of The Carolina Power Company and have no connection or association with it except as a cus tomer, but the Power Componies operating in South Car olina pay more than thirty five million dollars a year in the State and Federal taxes, on business in South Carolina. If the R.E.A. has any just claipi to operate in towns it must be to help the farmers who live there, but the real far mers, out on their farms, away from the towns, are the ones the R.E.A. should think about. Perhaps the towns are so prosperous they don’t need tax money. If so, I should like to know just where those rich municipalities are to be found. As a mere layman in the street I am somewhat bemused or befuddled by the continued rivalry of the several branches of our armed services. For example, the Army seems to have suceeded in firing its missle into the vast distances and at almost incredible speed. Since the Army seems to know what to do and how to doesn’t that sufficient? Should not the Army tell the Navy and the Air Force all the secrets involved? Or must the Navy and the Air Force and the Marines and the Coast Guard spend months at tedious ex perimentation and at a incalcuable expense to learn what the* Army already knows? Of course some learned man may labor the point and mys tify us by his long words and assumption of vast erudition, but am I right or not? Did the Army succeed? If so, must w e clamor for more money, more men, more time, and more what-not, so that the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines, the Coast Guard and the National Guard may at long last equal the achievement of the Army? Where, why, and how, is the unification of service we Louise Hiller, Prosperity. ClaTcnce Mangum, 51 Boundary St. x Mildred Simpkins, 1603 Vincent St. - Mary Lee Thompson, Rt. 4. MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Mrs. Betty Dominick and baby boy. Route 1, Prosperity. Mrs. Francis Epting, Newberry. Mrs. Minnie Frick, Chapin. Mrs. Etta Bradley, Saluda. Miss Florence Miller, Pomariat Carl Epting, Rt. 3, Prosperity. D. L. Amick, Chapin,, Mrs. Georgia Haltiwanger, Cha pin. Mrs. Mamie Shealy, Route 1, Prosperity. Mrs. Minnie Reagin, Newberry. Maxey Bedenbaugh, Prosperity. Recent Births TESENIAR Mr. and Mrs. Robert Donald Teseniar of 1404 Harris St., an nounce the birth of a 9 pound son, Timothy David, on February 19 at the Newberry Memorial Hospital. The mother is the former Marion Leo Clamp. SUTTON Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Sutton of Route 1, announce the birth of a 7 pound, 14 ounce son, Rondell Erwin on February 23 at the local hospital. Mrs. Sutton is the former Lizzie Lucille Knight. BAILEY Mr. and Mrs. Earl Edison Bai- ley, P. O. Box 578, James St., are parents of an eight pound, 13 ounce daughter^ Patti Jo, born February 23 at the Newberry hos pital. Mrs. Bailey before marriage was Dorothy Mae Hall. Building Permits Feb. 13: MrS. Marie Schumpert, general repairs to dwelling, 1912 Harper St., $200. Feb. 19: A. F Busby, add car- port v hnd storage room to dwelling, 1240 Crenshaw St, $600. Feb. 23: James O. Mayer, gen eral repairs to dwelling, 417 Cald well St., $850. * • DEED TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Mary E. Hoi/oway, individually, etc., and Ruby H. Thorpe to Amos S. Wells, Minneapolis, Minn., two lots and one building, .$5.00 and other valuable considerations. Newberry No. 1 Outside J. Dave Caldwell to Doris K. Hipp, one lot on Emory St., $360. ' Whitmire No. 4 Annie Mae Crowe to William Gililam Jr., and Ruby E. Gilliam, one lot and one building on Mac Donald St., $5.00 and other val uable considerations Prosperity No. 7 J. B. Lindley to P. D. Butler, 106 acres, Mrs. Christina Dominick, Estate, formerly assessed in name of Nattie S. Bobb, et al), $5.00 and other valuable considerations. Snelgrove-Waites Miss Clara Sue Snelgrove be came the bride of Kenny Waites on February 8 at 5:00 p. m. at the parsonage of St. ^Paul’s Lutheran Church near Pomaria. The Rev. J. L. Drafts performed the double rlfcg ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Snelgroye of Pros perity. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Waites of Ponuqna. ^ The couple will make their home in Prosperity. Wheeland Grange See Pictures Wheeland Grange held its regu lar monthly meeting at the Com munity Center February 6 at 7:30 p. m. A lovely flag was presented to the Grange by Ralph Black and was a gift from Woodmen of the World Camp 1078, Old Hickory, Newberry. This beautiful and much needed flag was deeply ap preciated by all the members. After refreshments were serv ed, Ollie Donkle showed two very interesting films: “Our Great Heritage” and “The Mississippi River.” Both pictures were great ly enjoyed by everyone. A short business meeting was conducted. Master James Riddle; Milton Riddle, Mrs. Everett Lake, Mrs. Floyd Lake, Virginia Frick and Evelyn Cannon, who attended the South Carolina Slate Grange Leaders Conference at the Jeffef* son Hotel in Columbia February 1st, gave a short report of the various conferences each Attend ed. Plans were made to meet at the home of Mi;, and Mrs. Everett Lake on Thursday night, March 13 in order that good balanc ed lecturer’s programs, which would meet the needs of the mem bers, be made out for the remain der of the year. It was also decid ed that the prange would begm making plans to enter an exhibit in the County Fair. The march meeting will be an Open House meeting. have heard so much about? Must each branch in the service experiment on the same things all the time? The Old-age and Survivors Insurance is one part of the so-called Social Security. Another is the unemployment compensation feature, which in South Carolina is borne en tirely by the employer and the employer is so handicapped that the language of the street might be used to describe an utterly unjust condition that really has the employer hog-tied. The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance was begun more or less equitably, employer and employee contributing equally. Now, however, the politicians have found in it a fruitful spoil which is destined to wreck the whole plan. If there is any man in power ready to fight in season, organizing the sensible men in Congress, to put our Nation on a sound basis of equality before the law, I wish he would step out. “Now m^ybe John will believe me when I tell him a r^w car, financed by Purcells would save us money.” Come to think of it, why wait to tell John. I’ll start looking around for that new car myself. frurcellA “Your Private Bankart” 1418 Main St. * Newberry Hospital Patients George Abrams, Rt. 1. Harold Bennett, 1302 Washing ton St. Mrs. Bee Buzhardt, 1220 Sum mer St. Mrs. Dorothy Bailey and Baby Girl, Box 378. George Boozer, Prosperity. Master Danny Chandler, 1603 Calhoun St. Mrs. Ruth Cothran, 2708 Milne Ave. - Master Wayne Cohen, 2521 Main St. Mrs. Lucille Cockrell, Prosperi ty. Miss Ada Durst, Lakeside Rest Home, Lexington. Mrs. Betty Bobb Fulmer, 824 O’Neal St. Thomas A. Gilstrap, Kinards. Mrs. Mary Alice Hedgepath, 1623 Harrington St. Mrs. Lillian B. Hendrix, New berry. Litle Miss Ruth Jean Jenkins, Whitmire. Mrs. Elsie Heller, 2017 Harper St. Miss Nancy Kunkle, Silver- street. Ralph Kirby, 2813 Clyde Ave. Miss Ethel Koon, 718 Boundary St. Miss Annie Knotts, Prosperity. - Mrs. Laura Longshore, Silver- street. Charlie Miller, Pomaria. Ambrose Mayer, Newberry. Mi-s. Estelle Marlowe, Harring ton St. Mrs. Euna Mize, Newberry. Mrs. Cora Padgett, O’Neal St John L. Pitts, Silverstreet. John Earl Price Sr., Leesville. George H. Richardson, Po maria. Mrs. Helen Reid, 1806 College St. Miss Jeane Rossiter, 1934 John stone St. John S. Scott, Whitmire. Miss Polly Ann Slice, Chapin. Little Ronnie Stevens, 941 Cline St. W. D. Swittenburg, Chapin. Mrs. Elberta Suber, Pomaria. Mrs. Jessie Sligh, Newberry. Mrs. Ruby Shealy, Chapin. Mrs. Savannah Tinsley, New berry. Mrs. Dorothy Turner and Baby Girl, 2011 Charles St. Mrs. Luella White, 608 Player St. Miss Lula Wicker, Newberry. Eugenia Adams, Prosperity. Thomas M. Bishop, 2390 Bene- ict St. George Collins, 229 Drayton St. Jim Chalmers, 421 Boundary St. Wade Hampton Dawkins, 718 Brantley St. Notice., On March 1,1958 A Penalty of will be added to all UNPAID 1957 TAXES - Also - A Penalty of 5 per cent will be added to all UNPAID 1958 Business Licenses \ City of Newberry MUM, ll Si; ' “Are You Up A Tree With Your Home Loan”? If so—there is no substitute for our “Direct Reduction Home Loan.” It will, without doubt, give you a “Debt Free Home” in a definite number of years. Easily under stood—no red tape. That's why we make so many home loans at Newberry Federal. NEWBERRY Federal Savings & Loan Ass’n « Use our Modern Night Depository for after office hours business. ** a NEWBERRY’S LARGEST SAVINGS INSTITUTION”