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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1969
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Do you want to make money fast ? In other words are you
seeking a method or means for quick enrichment?
I once heard of a country merchant who had the finest
home in his County, a splendid pair of carriage horses, etc.
and after a long life he died leaving a fortune.
How did he make all that money? By buying and re-sell
ing cotton at a loss on every bale.
Have you ever heard such a story? Here are his words:
“I lose money on every bale of cotton I buy and ship . Some
one asked “Well, how do you keep up your big mansion and
the fine carriage and horses”,
plied. So you see the inverted
“I buy so many bales”, he re
mathematics, don’t you?
When you and I went to school we were taught a different
sort of arithmetic, but the whole trend of our life has been
changed by the splendor and glamor of the Government in
Washington. The old gentleman I referred to was a half cen
tury ahead of time.
Let’s see: Our great Government needs money; needs it
badly, or urgently. Not like the lunch-counter lady in Char
leston who called over the counter microphone to the kitchen
“Send me up a cup of coffee; I need it bad”. To me that ad
monition was superfluous; it was bad enough without the
suggestion. Our Government needs money badly, but good
money, friends, the financial blood and bone and flesh of the
taxpayers.
So badly does the Government need money that it is try
ing to sell millions of dollars in 3-year bonds at four per cent.
Four per cent!! Isn’t that more than any Bank or Savings |
institution among us pays ? Four per cent by the Govern
ment !! And what does the Government do ? It lends money
to the R. E. A. at two (2) per cent!! At that rate our Govern
ment will soon pay off all its deficit and pile up gold, won’t
it? By the inverted mathematics of the Congress that must
be the hoped for result. Actually, according to rumor, some
pampered institutions are borrowing Government money at
two per cent and are buying Government bonds with that
money and making a nice profit.
It must be part and parcel of the new Thinking in Wash
ington. The Constitution no longer means what it says un
der the enlightening interpretation of the Higher Intelli
gence, so now the ordinary old-time school arithmetic has
been put on the shelf and languishes in Innocuous Desue
tude, as Grover Cleveland once said in ponderous phrase,
meaning utter oblivion.
Since our Spudnik physicists have knocked out time and
space the old rule of one and one no longer equals two, as we
see by the new strain of fiscal talent which today authorizes
the sale of Government bonds paying four per cent so that
the Government may lend that same money at two per
cent!!
All this new way of thinking proves to me that all people
more than forty years old require scholastic re-orientation,
unless, as that Doctor said, we should all be chloroformed!!
Who was that doctor? I recall what he said, but his
name escapes me.
Let me do as a friend at Washington and Lee did one
night in a literary society. He hesitated over a word, then
tapped his head and said “Steady”—and recalled the word.
So I’ve taken a short walk and recall that Dr. William Os
ier said that people over forty should be chloroformed. Based
on that I’m already dead.
Now it may be possible that some psychologist will say
that we who still think that two and two equal four are just
ossified, even if not dead.
It certainly is an interesting speculation, the wild ideas
of some men in Washington as contrasted with the sober
sense of values and realities of some others.
As I see it, we have lost all sense of intellectual balance.
That is more serious than a budget out of balance. If we had
a nation of sound balance our budget would not be the gran-
doise outpouring of the taxpayers’ money for all sorts and
conditions and sizes of theoretical interests from Dan to
Bersheba and taking in Ur of the Chaldees in passing.
We’ve read a lot about the great national highways. Most
towns wonder if the big roads will leave them high ai d dry,
or beyond the travelled routes, and so headed for the shrivel
ling process.
“Piece by piece, mostly in scattered bits of new construc
tion that replaces inadequate stretches of existing highways,
the 41,000-mile Interstate Highway System, authorized by
Congress in 1956, is beginning to take shape. Within the first
two years, some 6,000 miles were finished; the whole net
work is scheduled for completion by 1971. This is the biggest
building job in history, about sixty times as large an under
taking as the Panama Canal.
It used to take about two and a half years, on the average,
to study road locations before construction could begin, That
was because surveyors and engineers worked entirely on the
ground, and with the human eye and brain aided only by con
ventional instruments. The New Hampshire people, however,
used aerial photography and electronics to cut this time dras
tically.
Strom, lurmond
COMMUNISTS GET
PREFERRED TREATMENT
It will be both a sad and ironi
cal day in the history of America
when Communists who advocate
the overthrow of our government
are given preferred consideration
over loyal and patriotic citizens
who are prepared to support and
defend the Constitution. Close
.study of the Administration’s so-
called civil rights reveals that
such will be the ease if one of the
Administration’s proposals is en
acted into law. This particular bill,
S. 955, would make a criminal of-
fense of uttering threats or com
munications which interfere with
Court orders on the subject of
school integration, even in the ab
sence of overt acts.
In one cf a number of pro-com
munists decisions, the Supreme
Court in 1957 released 14 Com
munists leaders who had been con-
victed of sedition on two counts:
(1) organizing groups to overthrow
the government of the United
States and (2) conspiring to teach
and advocate the overthrow of the
government. They were freed by
the Court on the ground that they
had committed no overt acts.
SPEECHES COULD
PROVE COSTLY
If the Administration’s so-call
ed civil rights bill are approved,
the Federal Courts, and ultimately
the Supreme Court, will have the
authority to decide whether a
speech by anyone on the subject
of school integration constitutes
a violation of this criminal provi
sion. Should the Court so decide—
and the Justices are getting a bit
thin-skinned over the coutinous
criticism directed at their school
decisions—the person making the
speech could be subjected to a pri
son term of two years or a fine
of $10,000, or both. This penalty
could be imposed in the absence of
any overt act on the part of the
person making the speech.
This “discriminatory” feature of
the bill concerns me because of
the favored treatment it would
make possible for Communists to
Electronics releases men from time-consuming drudgery.
Thus, when Washington approved the Franconia plans in the
summer of 1957, Mr. Morton’s men already knew to the de
cimal point such diverse facts as distance and grades, the
number of square yards to be excavated, the cost of grass
seed, and of building ‘access roads’ for property owners
whom the highway would cut off. It was also known approxi
mately what the cost of several alternate routes would be. As
with all other sections of the Interstate, federal funds were
raised by gasoline and other taxes.
Lifting tons of material high in the air and laying it down
with precision, this power shovel replaces a regiment of the
oick-and-shovel workers of yesterday.
The biggest scraper-loader on the job, for instance, did
(he work of 1000 men with pick's and shovels. Each time the
operator lowered his scraper bowi, it gulped up thirty-five
tons of rock and dirt, enough to fill a fair-sized room, and de
livered its load clown-hill at thirty miles an hour. The great
weight of the wheels themselves helped to compact the raw
earth.
Dirt isn’t just dirt to the highway builders. It is part of
the contractor’s job to make sure that the right kind of dirt
goes in the right places. Those types which are more subject
to frostheaving need to be buried below frostline. Topsoil,
naturally, is reserved for use on banks, or in the median
strip that divides the traffic, or any other place where grass
and shrubs will grow.”
And so on, one might talk and write at great length, but
it is an absorbing story of engineering and construction.
In discussing our foolish policy of lending money for less
than it costs 1 am not merely running at random. It is a se
rious condition which confronts us. The Supreme Court has
disregarded long-established policies founded in decisions by
other Federal Supreme Courts. In other words, this Court
has virtually set aside accepted law and substituted a lot of
bookish undigested theories. Are we, then, to have a differ
ent constitution whenever nine new men sit on the august
Bench?
Now the Congress and the President disregard all the
imperative reasons for economy and set forth on even great
er spending sprees. They think that Government spending
will win and hoid the people. That has been tried in all ages
and it has failed.
Here is the latest on the condition of the Treasury as re
ported by the Associated Press:
“The Treasury disclosed Friday its latest effort to refi
nance part of the national debt failed to provide all the need
ed funds. It made a surprise announcement that it will have
to borrow 1 D billion dollars in new cash—through an auction
next Wednesday of 217-day tax anticipation bills. Earlier
this week the Treasury offered new securities in" exchange
for SM,872,000,000 of maturing issues. It said Friday hold
ers of $2,081,000,000 of the old securities refused the offer
and demanded payment in cash. As recently as Jan. 29, offi
cials said they hoped to get by without such a borrowing
until April. Officials conceded that the attrition, or demand
for cash in the refinancing, was heavier than expected.”
And this: “The Treasury this week will raise $1.5 billion
new money through an offering, of 217-day tax anticipation
! ills. The department previously had planned to stay out of
iho money market until April. It indicated the extra finan-
•ing had become necessary because holders of $2.1 billion of
maturing securities had elected to take cash rather than the
tv > new issues offered in exchange in the Treasury’s recent
>15 bill mu refunding program. Officials said the heavy cash
demand highlighted a growing problem confronting debt
managers: More and more, investors are shying away from
intermediate or long-term Government obligations. This
tends to force the Treasury to rely on short-term issues.
Tlie-e are purchased largely by banks, adding to the money
supply and increasing the inflationary potential.” This is a
report from New York.
And we still lend money to the R. E. A. at 2 per cent,
though the R. E. A. now serves more, non-farmers than farm
ers.
Wasn’t it Alcibiades who was so extravagant that some
one exclaimed “Go on brave boy; your success will be the ruin
of us all”, and so we are heading!!
receive over loyal Americans. I am
even more fearful, however, of
the danger it poses for the Bill of
Rights. With the Administration
whitciing away at one end (Arti
cle I guaranteeing free speech) and
the Court gnawing at the other
end (Article X securing the rights
of the States), I fear for the sur
vival of this great document. The
assaults on the Bill of Rights will
probably be halted, however, when
Article V is reached, for it is un
der this Amendment to the Con
stitution that so many Commu
nists, criminals, and unscrupulous
union leaders find their most pro
active shelter.
FISCAL SANITY NEEDED
The subject of the financial
condition of the Federal Govern
ment has come in for much Con
gressional talk and little action
during recent weeks. Last week I
introduced in the Senate a resolu
tion vvhich will give the Senate an
opportunity to take action toward
restoring to our government some
semblance of fiscal sanity. Con,-
gressman Howard Smith of Vir
ginia has introduced a similar re
solution in the House. Our resolu
tions would require legislative
bills authorizing either contract
commitment of Government funds
or direct borowing from the Trea
sury to have the approval of the
Appropriations Committees.
Sincerely,
STROM THURMONU
the idea of tearing down the old
opera house, a building that has
been in the eyes and minds of our
parents and grandparents for
years past, I was astounded.
Rockefeller spent millions re
storing the old town of Williams
burg so that we may see a way
of life that contributed to what
we are today, and I believe that the
men in authority in our town
should make an honest effort to
restore the old opera house.
As a young citizen of Newber-|
ry, I hold the opinion that this
old building should be preserved
and at the same time house mo
dern facilities. Our ultimate goal
must to be to make Newberry a
better place in which to live, but
this cannot be accomplished by de
stroying the remains of a glorious
past.
David Boyd Parr
The Azalea Garden Club will
meet with Mrs. Helen Summers
Wednesday, March 4th at 3:30 p.
m.
The Prosperity Garden Club
will meet Monday, March 2nd, at
3:30 p. m. with Mrs. A. R. Chap
pell.
The Dogwood Garden Club will
meet with Mrs. D. H. Hamm Sr.
on Monday, March 2nd, at 3:30 p.
m.
BOOKMOBILE
Thursday, Feb., 26th:
Mt. Bethel Garmany-:—Mrs. Minnie
Leitzsey
Mt. Bethel Garmany Community—
Mrs. Byron Nichols
Keitts Cross Roads—Leo Van-
Cleave
Maybinton Community—Mrs. Ar
thur Maybin
Strother Community—Mrs. Jeff
Suber
Crooks Store—Homer Crooks
New Hope Zion Community—Miss
Olive Eargle
Peak
Pomaria Community—Mrs. Ben
Johnston
Friday, Feb., 27th:
St. Phillips Community—Mrs.
John Stone
Pomaria School
J. W. Payne of Cherryville, N.
C., has been a visitor of Dr. Geo.
W. Harmon.
Mrs. Geo. S. Wise of Columbia
was a guest of Mrs. J. Frank
Browne.
Mike Harmon, who spent sev
eral weeks with his grandparents,
Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Harmon, re
turned this week to Dallas, Texas.
He was accompanied to Atlanta
by Dr. and Mrs. Harmon, who re
mained there for a visit.
Mrs. J. L. Counts and Miss An
nie Hunter accompanied Mrs. Ver
non Carlton and Mrs. Boyd Jac
obs of Newberry to Florida for the
weekend.
Mrs. W. D. Moore of Newberry
was a recent visitor of Misses Su
sie and Mary Langford.
Miss Mary Langford of the N.
Augusta schools was at home over
the weekend.
Mis. and Mrs. Rudy Barnes,
Rudy and Susan, Mr. and Mrs. B.
T. Barnes and B. T. were dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Barnes, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hendrix of
Estiil were in town Sunday. Mr.
Hendrix made the speech of dedi
cation, preceding the Open House
at the renovated grammar school
building.
Miss Sarah Scott, at home for
the- weekend, had as her guest,
Miss Brenda Moore of the Uni
versity of S. C.
Mrs. J. H. Morris of Columbia
was a visitor in town Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. D. *H. Hamm Sr.,
Mrs. Walter Hamm and Mrs. Mat-
tie Koon made a business trip to
Columbia Monday.
Mrs. Anna Belle Hunt, Mrs.
Frances Spotts, were supner
guests Monday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Riley of Union.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Counts Jr.
had as their guest over the week
end, Miss Phyllis Wise of the L.
B. C. school faculty.
Mrs. B. T. Young will be in Si..
Vincent’s Hospital, Room 560, in
Jacksonville, Fla., for several
weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Chappell, ac
companied by daughter, Bunny,
were guests this week of Mrs. Joe
White of Charleston.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Jacobs of
Rock Hill were dinner guests Sun
day of Mr. and .Mrs. Waldo Low-
man.
Recent Marriagres
William Thompson Glenn III of
Jenkinsville and Martha Elizabeth
Rawls of Pomaria were married
Feb. 14 at Pomaria by Rev. Thom
as P. Poston.
Robert D. Humphries and Judy
Rinehart of Newberry were united
in marriage by Rev. B. B. Blake-
ney on Feb. 15.
William M. Mikell of Statesboro,
Ga. and Lorna Christine Cherry of
Tatum, Texas were married Feb.
20 at Edgefield by Rev. Denver S.
Lee.
James I. Green and Dorothy
Mediock of . Whitmire were mar
ried Feb. 21 in Columbia by Rev.
Robert N. DuBose.
Notice...
On March 1,1959
A Penalty of
10%
will be added
to all
UNPAID
1958 TAXES
-ALSO-
A Penalty of
5 per cent
will be added
to all
UNPAID 1959
BUSINESS LICENSES
City of Newberry
Letter To
Editor
Several years ago a sign was
placed upon the highways ••oming
into Newberry which read, “A
City of Friendly Folks.” People
coming into Newberry to live tes
tified to the truthfulness of that
sign. I believe the people of New
berry will always have a friendly
attitude toward others coming in
to our town. All they ask is that
those coming to Jive among us
help us preserve the customs and
atmosphere that have contributed
to our ways of life and made us
into the kinds of people we are.
I am a young citizen, and I
have had very limited experiences.
At present I am away from New
berry in a college of another state;
and when I came home and found
that some people are entertaining
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