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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1959 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. 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 What do you know about inflation? You hear about it on every hand. Well, its very real. You men who were in France during and shortly after the First World War may rememb er that our army supported the French franc at seventeen cents for a franc. In other words, an American could ex change a dollar for almost six francs. How about it today? I have just clipped from The Wall Street Journal this article, in part: “The French franc’s free market dropped to a 1958 low yesterday in a week-long sag spurred by rumors of devalu ation by the year-end. On the Paris free market yesterday the rate shrank to 472 francs to one dollar against an officially pegged rate of 420 to the dollar. The free market franc held fairly steady for several months at about 445 to the dollar until it started slip ping a week ago. By Friday its value was down to 465 to the dollar and the Monday rate was only slightly better at 463. The price of gold bullion on the Paris market soared to 546,000 francs a kilogram yesterday. This corresponds to a franc value of 480 to the dollar. Now devalued to 493. The current rate is the lowest since the franc was at 497 to the dollar in December, 1957. In November, 1957, it was still lower at 529 to the dollar. The French franc gave ground in New York foreign ex change dealings yesterday, reflecting the downtrend in the free market in Paris. One large bank put the prevailing price at which francs were offered at ‘roughly 460 to 465’ francs to the dollar—a slightly lower valuation on the franc than at the start of the week. Perera & Co., foreign exchange dealers, viewed 480 francs to the dollar as a realistic figure. Offerings of francs at 476 to the dollar, an official said had found ‘few takers’ and bids were at a 487 rate. He also reported ‘a lot of speculation’ in francs going on.” Now what caused that? The Government of France has adopted a program of Welfare of all sorts and now the chick ens have come home to roost, as we say. The lesson to us should be plain, except that many of our leaders are imbued with the spirit of those French royalists who spent and spent and spent and then said callously “After us the deluge”. Yea, verily; it always happens; the next generation will be taxed outrageously because we are throwing money away. In the good old days when we had common-sense people and not a lot of fanciful dreamers, we would have thought our course so absurd as to constitute the very negation of common sense. Just think of a nation foolishly throwing around billions of dollars in all manner of ridiculous gestures and fallacious reasoning while it is heavily in debt, in notable deficit, and oppressively taxed. Truly the Spanish proverb may be invoked: Sentido Comun; el mas raro de todos los Sentidos—Common-Sense, the rarest of all the senses. It is really true. We can find people of unpractical schemes though people of character and standing, people of notable intellectual alertness and mental energy, but they live in an atmosphere of mysticism and will not be influenced by such common things as ordin ary arithmetic; they prefer to disregard simple addition and multiplication and insist on adding three and three so it will appear to be one half. Whenever you find a man who subscribes to the profound truth that two and two inexorably mean four you have a citi zen with both feet on the ground. If I might venture a word to our General assembly I should say to add the items of productable revenue and be governed strictly by that total, even allowing a reduction of ten percent for error, or fluctuation in income. You may depend upon it that some of our very best people, most admirable citizens, earnest, sincere and all else fine people, will have recommendations and bring pressure to spend money. Stand ye fast and quit yourselves like men, as the Book would say. The Clinton Chronicle is a sturdy paper. I say it proudly that w r e have many sturdy editors. I quote a Babson Article from The Chronicle: “Babson Discusses Surrendering Freedom For So—Called ‘Security’. As I look back over my sixty-odd years as a voter and try to interpret the Democratic landslide of the last election, which happened while I was in Africa, I am forced to this conclusion: The average voter today is more interest ed in seeking ‘security’ than he is keeping ‘freedom’. Now the only real security w’hich I have been able to discover is spiritual security. This is confidence in one's God and in one self so that, come what may, one can, and will, not only sur vive but meet competition successfully. So this thing that disturbs me most about the present wholesale desire for se curity, particularly in a time of plenty, is that it suggests a Hospital Patients Mrs. Ida Baker, 619 Main St. Mrs. Ruth Culclasure, 1411 Si- ! las St. I ! Lon S. Davis, Drayton St. i Mrs. Effie Derrick, 1311 Trent St. Mrs. Bettie Fulmer, 824 O’Neal ! st. Mrs. Frances tint fin, Rt. 1, Po- ! maria. \ .Miss Wanda Faye Giles, Spring- - hill Apts. ! Mi's. Mary Ann Holsenback and I Baby Boy, 1121 Summer St. | Mrs. Anne Halfacre, 2018 Glenn | St. Miss Sue Halfacre, 1604 John stone St. Mrs. Dorothy Harmon, 1523 Clarkson Ave. Mrs. Helen Hipp, 1317 Pearl St. Mrs. Sara W. Houseal, 722 Cald well St. Mrs. Katie Connelly, 948 Cor nelia St. M iss Judy Jones, College St. Extn. M ss Annie Knotts, Prosperity. Mi's. Lula Langford, 603 Bound ary St. Mrs. Hattie McEver, 708 Pope St. Mrs. Lavinie Matthews and Baby Girl, 406 N. Jefferson St., Saluda. Mrs. Mary Sue Mitchell, Rt. 5, Saluda. Miss Lalla Martin, 1513 Main St. Mrs. Euna Mize, Rt. 1. Mrs. Estelle Marlowe, 1519 Harrington St. Mrs. Drusilla Pitts, Rt. 1, Sil- verstreet. Luther L. Suber, Rt. 2, Pomaria. Mrs. Obera Sexton, Joanna. Mrs. Emma Shealy, Rt. 1, Little Mountain. Carlo Swindell, 1411 Johnstone St. Mrs. Callie Thomas, 1210 Fair St. Mrs. Lillie Timmerman, 726 Boundary St. Herman N. Taylor, Rt. 1, Pros perity. Recent Births BOWERS Mr. and Mrs. William Everett Bowers of 759 Baxter St. are re ceiving congratulations on the birth of an eight pound, three ounce son, Kenneth Everett, at the Newberry County Memorial Hospital on January 16. Mrs. Bowers is the former Bonnie Ann Mims. STOCKMAN Mr. and Mrs. Robert Krell Stockman of Rt. 1, Prosperity an nounce the birth of an eight pound two ounce son, James Randall at the Newberry hospital on Janu ary 15. The mother before mar riage was Annie Rose Long. BOUKNIGHT Mr. and Mrs. Joel Dale Bouk- night of Rt. 3 are parents of a seven pound, four ounce daughter, Donnie Marie, born January 17 at the local hospital. The mother is the former Betty Marlene Long. HOLSONBACK Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Ray Holson- back of 1121 Summer St. are re ceiving congratulations on the birth of an eight pound, two ounce son, Alvin Ray, on January 18 at the local hospital. The mother be fore marriage was Mary Ann Cunningham. Samuel DeWalt, Rt. 3, Box 246. Elizabeth Davis, 917 Booker St. Lizzie Johnson, Rt. 2, Clinton. Lucy Long, 910 Fair St. Mary Elizabeth Miller, Rt. 4. Baby Girl Neal, Rt. 4. Mattie Pearl Swindler, Rt. 3. Addie Lee Suber, 212 Boundary St. Maria Wells, 913 Wise St. Mary Alice Watson. MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Mi's. Claire Vaughn, Rt. 1, Newberry. Mrs. Frances Epting, Prosper ity. George Cook, Rt. 1, Prosperity. Mrs. Frank Brown, Prosperity. Joe Turner, Rt. 3, Prosperity. DEED TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 George K. Dominick to H. Lee Smallwood and Pearl M. Small wood, one lot in Coateswood place, $5. and other valuable consider ations. Robert D. Schumpert to R. B. Baker, one lot and one building, formerly belonging to Bernice and Emily Hoof, $5. and other val uable considerations. Newberry No. 1 Outside James Larry Boozer as execu tor estate of Henry R. Boozer to J. Luther Boozer, 1309 Highland Ave., Camden, S. C. 5.26 acres $1525. J. Luther Boozer to Janie B. Shealy, 5.26 acres, $1525. J. Ellerbe Sease to Martha S. Sease, 110.15 acres, $5 love and affection. R. C. Mays to David A. Grad- dick, one lot fronting on Fair Ave nue, $550. Virginia S. Merritt and William B. Merritt to Ruby Mills and Ben jamin T. Mills, Jr. one lot and one building on Rosalyn Drive, $500 and assumption of a mortgage. Bu^h River No. 3 J. W. Craven to Wilbur E. Mitchell, 107 acres, $7000. Ambrose M. Mayer to R. I. Chappell, one lot, $5. and other valuable considerations. Whitmire No. 4 J. O. Counts to David L. McCul lough, Jr., et al, 117 acres, $5. and other valuable considerations. Mrs. John W. Hunnicutt, one lot and one building, $5. love and affection. Pomaria No. 5 Ethel W. Johnson et al to Ista- lena S. Wilson, one lot and one building, $1500. Little Mountain No. 6 May T. Elam to J. Ralph Wil liams, two lots and one building, $5. and other valuable considera tions. Mrs. Arie L. Shealy to Henry Burton and- Mary C. Wells, 1/2 acre, $75. J. Effice Metts to Tommy Wes- singer, et al, one lot and one building $5750. Prosperity No. 7 Dan H. Hamm, Jr., et al to James Henry Summers and Mary Frances Summers, one lot, $5 and other valuable considerations. T. Earl Bigby to Roy H. Domi nick, ont lot, also converted trial- er, $650. Hayne Morris to Nannie Bell Morris and Cora Morris, .95 acre, $5.00, love and affection. Elizabeth S. Hunter as execu trix to D. M. Shealy estate to E. O. Shealy, 1.22 acres and one building, $2300. Recent Marriages Herbert E. Youngier of Irmo and Lillian Grace Ruff of Pros perity were married January 13 at Newberry by Rev. Clarence L. Richardson. Clarence Alvin Stribble and Martha E. DeLoache of Newberry were married Jan. 14 at Newberry by Rev. Carl J. Sexton. Foster Manly Perdue and Mary Elizabeth Covan of Newberry were married Jan. 17 by Rev. Paul D. Petty at Newberry. COUNTY HOME AGENTS The County Home Agents Mrs. Margie D. Freeman and Miss Do- ney Crain announce the following schedule for January 26th through 30th. Monday, January 26th—Office; Home Visits Stoney Hill 4-H Club at 7:30 with Beverly Lake as hostess. Tuesday, January 27th—Wooden Tray School at Pomaria Luther an Church at 9:15 A. M. Silverstreet HDC at 3:30 P. M. with Mrs. Ellen Abrams, Mrs. R. C. Neel, Jr. and Mrs. Tommy Lake as hostess. Wednes, January 28th and Thurs day, January 29th—Home Agents Conference, Anderson. Friday, January 30th—Office; Home Visits. F. E. Mims Dies In Maryland. Floyd E. Mims, 40, a native of Newberry, died Sunday night at George Washington Hospital in Indian Head, Md. Mr. Mims was born and reared in Newberry, a son of the late Ernest and Mrs. Bessie Dean Mims. He had made his home in Indian Head, Md. for a number of years. He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Sybil Berry, also a native of Newberry; three chil dren, Mrs. Horace Bowles Jr., of Silverstreet, Jimmie and Tommie Mims, both of Indian Head, Md., and two brothers, Carl Mims of the U. S. Navy and Bennie Mims of New York. One brother, Tom mie Mims, died a year ago. Funeral services wil be con ducted today (Thursday) at 3:30 p. m. at McSwain Funeral Home. Burial wall be in Rosemont ceme.- tery. Master Phil Riley, Rt. 5, Saluda. Mrs. Minnie Reagin, 1222 Glenn St., Newberry. Mrs. Sue Williams and baby girl, 3335 Casper Ave., Columbia. Mrs. Vesta Metts, Prosperity. 1 Albert James Wilson. senile civilization, not the youthful, fearless men that made this nation great. The Democratic landslide was a tremendous rebuff not only to present administration’s pay-as-you-go domestic po licy, but also to its foreign aid policy. The voters seem to be saying, ‘We want peace, but we are unwilling to sacrifice for it’. Our fathers knew that freedom and peace were conditions that had to be cultivated by each generation. Life, for our forefathers, was full of hazards. They were in danger of be ing scalped by the Indians, were often cold and hungry and without material comforts; but they were free men. Today we are slowly, but certainly, surrendering those hard-won freedoms as we move in the direction of a welfare state. Subsidies and guaranteed ‘womb-to-tomb’ economic aids of every variety have to be paid for by someone. Uncle Sam has no mystical source of revenue. Money for your unem ployment security or old age pension comes out of your pock et, not Uncle Sam’s. He has no pockets; and if he did, I am afraid they would be full of holes! When you put a ceiling on a man’s earnings by taxing his initative, man tends to des troy those financial sources that built our great educational institutions, hospitals, research centers, and libraries. You then begin to scare away private risk capital because the re turn is just not worth the risk. Then government steps into the breach to subsidize those projects which private capital formerly undertook. This means that more money has to be collected from your pay check in the form of taxes. Further more, as government takes on these responsibilities, it also assumes control over them. Thus, the individual, little by little, surrenders certain aspects of his freedom in exchange for what he thinks is security. In my humble opinion, it then becomes but a matter of time before national bankruptcy sets in; in that event, all of our economic legislation may not be worth the paper the laws are written on. It may not happen in your lifetime, or par- haps even in your children’s life span; but it can happen sametime. The history books will look back upon such a per iod as an era of economic leaches. I have long said that the next sizable depression will be brought about by organized labor’s over-reaching itself. While we should be grateful for labor’s watchful eye, we should at the same time be concern ed about strikes and about any of labors’ actions which re sult from its being exempt from the Anti-Trust laws. Our founding fathers expressed their freedom in terms of responsibility. Each, indeed, was his brother’s keeper. Men were close to one another. If there was a fire, they had to work together to put it out; if roads were to be built, the building became a commuiity project; and the laggards were chastized by their neighbors. One trouble today is that the average citizen has become so far removed from community respqnsibility that he has really lost touch with democracy in action. Too often the av erage man gives little thought to much of anything beyond the evening TV programs. It is almost as if he were unaware that freedom in our U. S. A. is fighting for its very life”. John Milton, the illustrious poet says: Some men prefer bondage in ease rather than strenuous liberty. Years ago a Baptist Minister in Beaufort had me to read that to him several times. It is,the truth even of today. “Bondage in ease”, so-called Security, disregarding all the teachings of history. If our people had always preferred bon dage in ease there would have been no revolutionary War; and we would be a dominion of the British Crown today. “Strenuous liberty,” full-fledged fighting spirit, made America. And we would swap that today for the fleshpots of Egypt. Do you remember the flesh pots of Egypt ? “Would God we had died in Egypt”. Well, Well!! Garden Club Council Meets The Council of Newberry Gar den clubs met January 14 at the home of Mrs. James Kinard who is recording secretary. Mrs. Rich ard Baker, president, presided. The Council members voted to continue the planting of Judas trees in our city as a eonservatipn and beautification project. Mrs. Baker requested that all clubs which had not submitted their yearbooks for the annual year book awards competition sponsor ed by the council would please do so immediately. Members were pleased to learn that an ordinance proclaiming the City of Newberry a bird sanctuary was passed at the City Council meeting Tuesday night. This ordi nance was presented to the City Council by the Council of New berry Garden Clubs. Mrs. Baker urged all garden club members to write their state legislators and request that they vote in favor of the Uniform Driv er License Law. The passage of this law will improve the safety program by providing an increase in the minimum driving age from 14 to 16 years and a driver re-ex amination program with higher minimum physical and mental standards for driving. Four new books have been add ed to the Garden Center which is located at the Newberry-Saluda Regional Library. These books are as follows: “The House Beautiful Book of Gardens and Outdoor Living” by Joseph E. Howland. An eighteenth Century Gar land” by Louise B. Fisher. “Flowers and Plants of Inter ior Decoration” by Esther Wheel er and Anabel Combs Lasker. “Rockwell’s Complete Book of Roses” by F. F. Rockwell and Es ther C. Grayson. Mrs. Heisey encouraged the garden club members to take ad vantage of the Garden Center and read the large number of inform ative books that are available. Mrs. Baker expressed praise for the wonderful assistance of the garden clubs with the Civic League Christmas Tea. A note of appreciation was received from Mrs. J. T. Rutledge, President of the Garden Club of South Caro lina, for the lovely orchid corsage which was presented her by the council and which she wore while attending the Christmas Tea. An announcement was made that the Camellia Flower Show Sponsored by the Columbia Gar den Club and the Men’s Camellia Club will be held on February 14 and 15 at the Township Auditor ium in Columbia Admission will be fifty cents. Mrs. Baker stressed how inter esting and informative it will be for those who attend the Sympo sium on Conservation, Horticul ture, and Flower arranging on January 29 at Drayton Hall, Uni versity of South Carolina, in Col umbia. The symposium is spon sored by the Garden Club of kouth Carolina in co-operation with the University of South Carolina. And is free to the public. The program will begin at 10:00 a.m. following a coffee hour. The highlights of the program will be a presentation, “Fashions With Flowers”, by Mrs. John W. Knight, Jr. of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. She is the winner of the $5,000, Jackson and Perkins Rose Company Award and a national ly recognized flower arranger. At the close of the council meet ing, revised editions of the con stitution were distributed. Youth Thrown Bike Dies An inquest will be scheduled soor^ into the death of an eight- year-old Negro boy who was kill ed near the Chappells section about 3:30 p. m. Saturday while riding his bicycle on Highway 56, according to Coroner George R. Summer. The young lad, who had receiv ed his bicycle for Christmas, was Sherman Chandler. Investigation showed, according . to the Coroner, that the boy was returning to his home in the Chappells section after visiting a neighbor, and apparently entered .the highway into the path of an automobile driven by Bernard Young Hollingsworth of Cross Hill. The boy was thrown from his, bicycle and into a ditch, and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Newberry hospital. The driver of the car stated that he swerved to avoid hitting the youth, but was not able to do so. Building Permits Jan. 15: Charlie Golden, gener al repairs to dwelling, 915 McKib- ben St., $500. FINAL CLEAW-UP 129 Pair DRESS SHOES $5.00 pr. (VALUES TO $16.95) 135 Pair FLATS, LOAFERS .$3.99 (VALUES TO $9.95) Anderson’s Shoe Store BE SURE. . . AND SECURE AT NEWBERRY FEDERAL Whether it is $1.00 or $10,000 you have at New berry Federal, every Dollar is Fully Insured Against Every Possible Loss by the Federal Sav ings and Loan Insurance Corporation, Washing ton, D. C. 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