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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 195S
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Since the Congress and many of our leaders have agreed
on the intervention by us in Asia it would seem propitious
to have national conventions of citizens to arrive at a sane
national policy.
Are we to police the world ? Let us face the facts: we are
assuming the duty of maintaining order throughout the
world.
Why should we feel it as our obligation to combat
Communism everywhere? We would do well to combat
it in America. And we mean to fight it why not go to
the source Russia?
It is quite proper to hip—hip hurrah in a spirit of
knightly mission, but our policy may lead to further
entaglement and to war unless we are willing to wage
on all fronts, from Dan to Beersheba, we should concen—
trate our strength here in America. After all, we are
only a few days from any zone of battle; we need not to
maintain forces all over the world.
Russia is not deterred from offensives and aggrandize—
ment by our forces in England, France and Germany, but
by the unlimited potential of America at heme.
We are losing our ancient spirit, even in Congress. And
we are submitting to all manner of usurpation of authority.
I am in no sense interested in any steel plant, corporation
of operation, so I speak only as a Commentator when I ask
to oppose the price of steel? It may be too high, or it may
be too low: I don’t know. But are we to have Congress
ional intervention all the time? Is Congress all-powerful
and omniscient?
We are not drifting; we are plunging headlong into
a government of unlimited powers. Is that wholesome?
I am a very small figure and of no importance, but if
thousands of us small fry had the spirit of our Revolution
ary ancestors we would draw other thousands to us in
the name of sound, constitutional government.
I still think the president is an engaging figure, a patriot
a man who means supremely well, but must we accept
Mr. Eisenhower in preference to our Constitution and the
long, established American tradition?
And now the light of publicity has been turned on those
quiet, retiring druggists, pharmacists, oneje called pill-
rollers.
What’s it all about? When I was a boy in Charleston a
glass of “soda water” cost five cents, with extra ice and
perhaps, a wee bit more syrup.
I wonder if my distinguished and revered friend, Mr.
Julian Mitchell, could support what I’m saying.
In the good old days a drug store was a drug store;
you couldn’t buy hot dogs there. In fact there were no
hot dogs. Today, in many drug stores, the druggist is hid
den away, while alert clerks sell everything from alarm
clocks to bracelets and straw hats.
Even so, Edgefield, the fine old town of friendly folks,
is far ahead of the procession for my remembered friends,
Doctor Penn and Mr. Jule Holston, had a combination
store of drugs,toiletries, groceries of all kinds - -staple,
fancy, light, heavy and medium. They were years ahead
of the times.
“While many a merchant is scouting around for new
products to put pep in his sales, lots of the nation’s drug
stores are finding a new lift in an old line. These happy
druggists, elbowing their way through stacks of magazines
camping equipment and toys, have rediscovered prescription
drugs.
Some druggists are so enchanted by rising drug sales
that they’re actually kicking out that long-time earmark
of the corner drug( store - the soda fountain - to make
room for more pills and powders. And in most new or re
modeled stores, the prescription counter is being pushed
out to a more prominent position.
The reason is not hard to find. Prescription sales last
year totaled $1.7 billion, nearly four times the total for
as recent a year as 1947, and another gain seems sure
even in this recession year of 1958.
Says Justin Dart, ‘Prescriptions are the life blood of
our business. Along with self service, the increased em
phasis on prescription sales is the most important trend
in our business’.
A few of the moves required of stores:
Move the prescription counter up front where every
customer can see it.
Raise the prescription department eight inches above
the mainfloor - - to show it off and to permit the pharma
cists on duty to boss store operations.
Pay more attention to drug displays by use of colorful
containers and catchy signs.
Drug stores are finding this good advice.
Walk off the street into the air-conditioned atmosphere,
of a Drug Store in Torrance, Calif., and the first thing
you’ll see in the large, general merchandise drug store is
a brightly-lighted prescription counter, raised on a platform
above the rest of the store. In Clarksburg, W. Va., another
enterprising druggist has abandoned everything but pre
scriptions; for customers’ comfort, the front of his store is
deeply carpeted. And in Ventura, Calif., a Midway Pharmacy
is featuring a drive-in prescription window.
Not only are prescriptions sales rising - - they’re also
accounting for a steadily growing share of the druggists’
total business. Lumping all drug stores together - -big
and little, chain and independent prescriptions now
account for 25.5% of total store sales, up from 21.1 in
1953 and from a mere 16.2% back in 1947, according to
American Druggist, a trade magazine.
By contrast, during the last five years the tobacco dep
artment declined in percentage of total drug store sales
from 6.8% to 5.8%; fountain sales from 12.5 to 10.6%,
and toiletries from 10.7 to 10.3%.
Helping to push up prescription dollar value has been
a swift rise to the price of the average prescription. Ac
cording to figures compiled by .a big drug maker, the
average prescription in 1942 cost 99 cents. By 1947, the
figure had risen to $1.41. And by 1957, according to the
American Druggist, the average American was shelling
out $2.93 each time he had a prescription filled.
To a large extent, the upswing is explained by inflation;
a dollar, as everyone knows, just doesn’t buy as much as
it did in that early World War II year of 1942. But that’s
only part of the story. Modern medical research has dev
eloped a lot of new drugs for sufferers who a decade or so
ago simply would have had to grin and bear it, or just
plain bear it; some of these new drugs are costly enough
to give a hefty upward push to total prescription sales.
And, with swiftly rising individual incomes, doctors are
more free to prescribe more of these expensive drugs.
Still another factor tending to push up prescription
prices: The pharmacist’s own wages. In southern Calif
ornia, for example, a pharmacist with a fresh professional
degree can command a starting wage of as much as $4 an
hour, compared with a top of $2.50 as recently as 1947.
A spokesman for a Los Angeles-based chain, figures
the average pharmacist pulls down $10,000 a year, fig
uring in fringe benefits, for working a 40—hour week.
Just what a druggist charges for a prescription, how
ever, depends a lot on competition. A operator of a inde
pendent drug store in Duarte, Calif., heads a pharmacists’
trade group in his area, includes a fixed charge on every
prescription he fills and is trying to encourage other
druggists to do likewise. He adds to the cost of materials
a 40% markup, plus a flat fee of $1.25 which he says, is
supposed to offset overhead, such as rent light and labor
A manof Bangor, Maine, adds 40% to wholesale drug costs
and lets it go at that. Other druggists fiddle with pricing
charts prepared by pharmaceutical trade journals.”
In a small town the druggist is sort of general helper
to ■all and sundry. “Doc”, I’ve got a pain”; “Doc”, what’s
good for this, that and the other” ? And the “Doc” fixes him
up and sends him on his way rejoicing.
Strom; lurmond
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension information Specialist
SOUTH CAROLINA PEACHES
In all of the crop improvement
recent years have seen, none has
been more than with peaches. By
following best orchard practices
and quick chilling the fruit soon
after it is picked, the public, even
in the far places, is getting South
Carolina peaches in their prime,
and second to none.
I was talking with one of our
best orchardists, B. B. Jolley of
Chesnee, back in the spring. I
never saw neater, bettier kept
orchards than his. He told a group
there: “If you violate Clemson’s
orchard schedule, you pj*y for it.
There’s a time for everything, and
it sometimes varies from season
to season. Roy Ferree keeps us
posted on that in his weekly
broadcasts from Clemson. Just
Monday he said we had better add
a little sulphur, that was not in
cluded in the printed spray sched
ule. I stopped my spray rig right
then and did as he said. For I’ve
found he really knows peaches.”
Now folks, that’s just about
what it takes in every farming
line now. You had better plan and
try to do it right, or let it alone.
We don’t know everything. But a
lot is known. Clemson has it, and
it’s available to you through the
specialists and local county agents.
All you have to do to get it is
call upon ’em.
The Little Rock Case
I hope that the Federal Circuit
Court of Appeals will sustain the
decision of District Judge Harry
J. Lemley suspending integration
at Central High School in Little
Rock, Arkansas. However, I am
not at all confident that the
court will, inasmuch as none of
the judges are from the South.
This circumstance is a dangerous
deviation from the principle that
local judges, familiar with local
problems, should, whenever pos
sible, have jurisdiction over legal
controversies arising from the in
famous 1954 Supreme Court de
cision on segregation.
The sevent judges who will hear
the appeal from Judge Lemley’s
order are residents of Nebraska,
North Dakota, South Dakota,
Iowa, Minnesota, and Missouri.
Even attributing full sincerity to
these men, they cannot be in the
best position to decide questions
involving education and local
law enforcement in other sections
of the country.
Need For Understanding
I have contended all along that
he Federal courts have no juris
diction over problems of educa
tion. Under our Constitution, edu
cation is a subject reserved to
the States, since it was never dele
gated to the Federal government
by the States. In my opinion, ev
ery order of the Federal courts in
the Little Rock ca^se, from the ori
ginal Supreme Court decision to
Judge Lesley’s recent order sus
pending integration, is unconsti
tutional.
However, Judge Lemley’s order,
in which he agreed with the Lit
tle Rock Board of Education that
integration at the present time is
not feasible, at least had the merit
of recognizing the facts of life in
the South. Judge Lemley, a na
tive of Virginia, is a resident of
Arkansas. He is in a position to
understand the problems of Ar
kansas.
There is a great need for such
a local understanding in adjudi
cating legal cases growing out of
the segregation controversy.
Judge Davies’ Order
The tragic events of last Sep
tember, when the President un
lawfully ordered Federal troops
into Central High School, grew
from an unwise court order by
Judge Ronald Davies, a resident
of North Dakota. Judge Davies,
sitting temporarily as the District
Judge in Little Rock, ordered the
Governor of the State to withdraw
the National Guard from the posi
tions to which the Governor had
assigned it, in his efforts to main
tain order in Little Rock.
Subsequent events proved that
this North Dakota judge did not
understand the depth of feeling
in Little Rock in opposition to the
integration of the public high
school. If a local judge had heard
this case, the President might not
have had the occasion to order
Federal troops into the school.
Dangers In Centralization
This is clearly another example
of the dangers in over-centraliza
tion of the government.
The Founders of our govern
ment realized that the best govern
ment is that which is close to the
people. The principle of local self-
government, which permits the
government to adjust itself easily
to local needs, is one of our best
safeguards against tyranny.
Federal interference in local
systems flies in the face of the
Constitution and the principle of
local self-government. It is a step
toward centralized tyranny.
Recoving After
Car Accident
Mrs. Thompson Dennis has been
released from the Newberry Coun
ty Memorial Hospital where she
underwent treatment for injuries
received in an automobile accident
near Cheraw early Friday morn
ing. Mr. Dennis is still hospitaliz
ed and the passenger riding with
them, Jennie O’Dell, is in a hos
pital in Charleston. She is report
ed to be recovering satisfactorily.
The Dennises were en route to
their home in Newberry after a
visit with . their daughter, Mrs.
Billy O’Dell and her well-known
husband who is a pitcher with the
Baltimore Orioles.
COTTON NOW
We once grew close to 3 million
acres of cotton in this state. This
year we have only 384,815 acres
not rented to the Soil Bank, ac
cording to ASC records. Our
planted acreage to cotton has
been down, down, down each year
now for years. Some blame the
farm program for this. But I
don’t know about that. Hardly a
county has ever planted its full
allotment since the farm program
started. And this year we put 48
percent of our 739,758 acres al
lotment in the Soil Bank.
We have large areas not spec
ially suited to cotton under all of
the present conditions. From
CARD OF THANKS
Due to our inability to thank
each of you personally, we wish to
take this means of expressing our
sincere gratitude and apprecia
tion for the many kindnesses so
graciously bestowed upon us dur
ing the sudden death of our hus
band and father. All of the flor
al offerings, trays of food, visits,
cards and prayers were so deep
ly appreciated.
Especially with humble and
grateful hearts, would we like to
say “thank you” to the personnel
of McSwain funeral home, Dr. V.
A. Long, Dr. E. J. Dickert, Mr.
F. J. Hipp and all of his employ
ees.
Your thoughtfulness will always
remain as a cherished memory.
May God bless each of you.
The family of the late
John C. Wilson.
NOTICE OF SALE
State of South Carolina,
County of Newberry.
In the Court of Common Pleas
these, the crop is fast going. Take
the county where we live, Pickens.
As late as 1930 it planted over
40,000 acres of cotton. This year
we have only 691.1 acres. But
there are farming areas in some
counties that would like to have
more cotton. They have the lands
suited to mechanization, the la
bor, and everything that goes into
the making of cotton. But they
h^ve fared much like other farms
that are ill suited to cotton and
dop’t want cotton. Many feel it
is there our unwanted allotments
should be going, and not out of
the window.
Clemson’s Dr. G. H. Aull sug
gested the need for this shifting
acreage away back in 1941. Last
winter the Sumter Cotton Com
mittee passed such a resolution
and County Agent Bowen pre
sented it at our state cotton meet
ing in Columbia. I understand a
bill has been introduced in Con
gress that would permit a state’s
cotton acreage to be thus allocated
to areas that want and are in po
sition to handle it.
We sure need something like
that, or cotton seems long gone
from these parts eventually.
DAIRYING IN BAMBERG
Dairying has developed into a
major farm income in Bamberg of
late. County Agent Hubbard tells
me at least half of their dairy
cattle are in the test programs
that are under way. Building for
sure there.
Have Benefits
Veterans and Federal employees
who have exhausted their benefit
rights under current regulations
and who are still unemployed may
be eligible for additional benefits
for weeks of unemployment be
ginning August 4, 1958, it was an
nounced today by Keith R. Aull,
executive director of . the South
Carolina employment security
commission.
Mr. Aull stated that the com
mission which he represents has
arranged for an extension of the
«vriating agreement with the Fed
eral (Jovernment to pay up to 18
additional weeks of benefits to
eligible Federal employees wWb
have exhausted their benefit rights
to unemployment compensation
since June 30, 1957 and are still
unemployed after August 4, 1958*
The first week for which addition
al benefits will be paid is the week
beginning August 4.
Mr. and Mrs. George
will spend the weekend in v—#-
leston, where Mr. Dominick WpEt
attend the Methodist Conferenjat
as an official delegate.
Mrs. Mamie Payne, of Mont
gomery, Ala., is visiting Mrs. W.
L. Miller on Johnstone St. Mrs. J*
W. Rawlinson of Marietta, Ga. Is
also spending a while with M&.
Miller. •
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Mrs. Fred A. Stewart and chil
dren, Peggy and Ricky of Green
wich, Conn, are spending tfcfe
week with Mrs. Stewart’s grand
mother, Mrs. Claude F. La than on
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Regina W. Sartor, Plaintiff
—vs.—
Ernest Carter, Jr. and
Fanny S. Wideman, Defendant.
Pursuant to an Order of the
Court of Common Pleas issued in
the above entitled cause, I shall
sell at public auction the real
property hereinafter described at
11:00 A. M. Monday, September
1, 1958 at the Newberry County
Court House. The terms of the
sale shall be cash. The successful
bidder shall be required to deposit
ten (10%) per cent of the bid im
mediately after the sale and pay
the balance within ten (10) days
thereafter. The deposit shall be
forfeited upon the successful bid
der’s failure to comply with his
bid within the time specified. The
purchaser shall pay for the cost
of the deed and documentary
stamps.
All that lot or parcel of land_
.known as Lot No. 22 of the J.
F. McPherson Survey, lying and
being situate in the Town of
Whitmire, Newberry County,
State of South Carolina, being
fifty feet in width and facing on
New Street, being one hundred
and fifty-two feet in depth and
being bounded by Lot No. 21,
Lot No. 19 and Lot No. 23, the
same being the identical lot of
land conveyed to H. L. Parr by
deed of Ida Sanders and An-
dersons Sanders, recorded in the
office of the Clerk of Court for
Newberry County, in Deed Book
32 at page 41, and being the
identical lot of land conveyed to
Mary E. Sartor by Deed of H.
L. Parr said Deed being record
ed in the office of the Clerk of
Court for Newberry County in
Deed Book 32, at page 69.
E. MAXCY STONE, Master
16-3tc.
In Memoriam
Whereas, John Crouch Wilson
was a faithful and loyal member
of the Baraca Class of the First
Baptist Church of Newberry, S.
C., always ready and willing to do
anything called upon for the bet
terment or advancement of the
class or his fellowman.
Now, therefore, be it resolved
that we the members of the Bara
ca Class, recognizing the fine
qualities and loyal devotion of our
departed brother, extend bur deep
est sympathy to the bereaved fam
ily and friends, and hope that the
fine Christian life of our brother
will continue to be a guide and
inspiration to all who knew him.
Be it further resolved that a
copy of this resolution be forward
ed to his fanjily, the Baptist Cour
ier and the local newspapers.
Committee:
W. C. Wallace,
Frank Sutton,
A. W. Watkins. .
August 10, 1958.
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