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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1959
COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
We Americans have lost our horse—sense; we should re
open the old livery stables and rent a horse now and then so
as to recapture, regain or revive our ancient equanimity,
which was Yankee shrewdness, hard commonsense.
We Southerners don’t enjoy being called “Yankees”,
though we have always respected the notable practicality of
our Northern brethren and their addiction to sound values;
but woe to the Nation for the Northern politicians and their
Western brethren have joined many Southerners in the most
fantastic tomfollery any nation could practice.
There is such a thing as human nature; it seeks its own
first, quite naturally; and it cannot be bought.
It respects certain qualities, such as strength and vigor,
but it yields only lip service to handouts.
Behold our Nation: The Congress has reduced the For
eign Aid about $353,000,000, according to the reports from
Washington. Wonderful, marvellous, a splendid gesture of
economy by our Congress. But it leaves $3,556,200,000 as a
ceiling for the hand-out, the giveaway, the foolish effort to
beguile other Nations; the childish faith in their loyalty,
cooperation and support.
Think this over: Our nation is in debt about $282,000,-
000,000—two hundred eighty two billion dollars! Other Na
tions owe us probably more than fifty billion dollars; and
we had a deficit the last fiscal year of $13,000,000,000 and
Summer Dies
In Columbia
Thomas Evans Summer, 64, of
] 423 Dunbar ' Rd., Cayce, son of
Luther F. Summer of Newberry,
died at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Bap
tist Hospital, Columbia..
He was formerly of Peak and
had lived in Cayce the past 20
years. He was a retired automo
bile mechanic for the South
Carolina Electric and Gas Co.
Mr. Summer was a member of
St. John’s Lutheran Church at
Peak. He was a veteran of World
War I.
Survivors besides his father are
two sons, Thomas E. Summer Jr.,
and Donald Edwin Summer, both
of Yonkers, N. Y.
McClellan Dies
On Saturday
John McClellan, 66, husband of
the former Mrs. Edith G. Getz,
of Newberry, died Saturday morn
ing in a North Carolina hospital
after a long illness.
He was a native of Anderson
County, son of the late Jonathan
and Minnie Gambrell McClellan,
but spent most of his life in
Greenville.
He was twice married, first to
the former Ethel Hughey, who
died in 1949. From this marriage
Survivors include three grand
children.
Surviving his second marriage
is his wife. Also surviving are
four sisters, Miss Annie McClel
lan of Greenwood; Mrs. David
Bramlett of Belton, Mrs. Alonzo
Williamson of Donalds and Miss
Elizabeth McClellan of Green
ville; one brother, Joe McClel
lan of North Augusta, and a sev
eral nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 2 p.m. Monday from the
Mackey Mortuary in Greenville.
we have nearly four billions to give away!
We have a ruinous, entirely unfair income tax; an extor
tionate corporation tax of more than half the profits; and
we have vexatious, restrictive and excessive other imposi
tions yet we, in all our debt, and in our current deficit, we
have billions to give away! It is a monstrosity.
There is something wrong, something pernicious, some
thing ridiculously absurd in the National Government, and it
pervades not only the learned Supreme Court but the Con
gress and the Presidency.
Reduce this iniquity to simple terms. Imagine a man with
an income of $6000 a year, who owes $25000 and has a de
ficit at the end of the year of $1500 yet gives heavily to fi
nance people he hopes to impress with his squandering
prodigality, but in whom he can have only a sort of dubious
and remote hope of grateful cooperation. There are such
people, of course, but what do you think of them?
Did our great country develop and thrive on any such
wasteful folly as this?
Lee County has reduced the tax by two mills (2 mills) and
Marlboro has added five mills, while the City of Bennetts-
ville has added fifteen mills (15 mills), making the new bur
den to citizens of Bennettsville 20 mills. Why? No doubt
public services require that.
Since I am not a citizen of Bennetteville I can’t have an
opinion because I don’t know the condition. But I’ll read
The Marlboro Herald-Advocate with special interest to ob
serve the repercussion.
Be Sure To Cast Your Ballot
IN THE
Municipal Primary Election
Tuesday, Aug. 4th
VOTE FOR
GEORGE W. MARTIN
FOR
ALDERMAN
OF WARD 2
PROSPERITY
NEWS
The Azalea Garden Club will
meet at 8 o’clock Wednesday ev
ening, Auguct 5, with Mrs. Robert
Bowers.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simmons
had as their guests the past week
Mr. and Mrs. David Wicker of
Lake City, Fla.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur E. Taylor
have been visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Everett Edmonds of Asheville, N.
C.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Har
mon and children, Luanne and
Frank, spent several days the past
week with Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Lowe of Allendale.
Mr. and Mrs. Byrd Gibson had
as weekend guests Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Webster and daughter, Lois,
of Florence. Miss Lois Webster
reclamed this week as guest of
her cousin, Miss Kay Newman.
Mr. and Mrs. James Barnes and
daughter, Jeanne spent last week
at Windy Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Mills had
with them over the weekend
their grandsons, Robert and
George Brissie of Woodruff.
Sunday guests of Dr. and Mrs.
W. Leslie Mills w«re Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Garner and children of Un
ion.
With Mrs. A. B. Hunt for the
weekend were Mr. and Mrs. James
Hunt and Miss Joanne Hunt of
Spartanburg.
Mrs. E. B. Smith and daughter,
Beth of McRae ,Ga., are visiting
Mrs. A. R. Chappell.
Misses Susie and Mary Lang
ford spent Tuesday of the past
week in Williamston with the
family of Q. C. Rentz.
Mr. and Mrs. Edd Counts and
Buddy were dinner guests of* Mr.
and Mrs. G. B. Brooks of Colum
bia.
Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Connelly,
Mrs. Mary Long, spent the week
end in Atlanta, Ga. with Mr. and
Mrs. W. M. Mayton.
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Caldwell,
Kenny and Debbra are spending
this week at Ocean Drive Beach.
Miss Katherine Counts of
Greensboro, N. C. spent the week
end in Prosperity with relatives
and Miss Grace Sease. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Lowman
had as their guests Sunday, Mr.
and Mrs. M. U. Lou r man and
children, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Low-
man and two children, Mrs. Leona
Koon, Jimmy and Wanda of Co
lumbia, and Mr. and Mrs. C. R.
Low r man of Joanna.
over TV, in the press, in public
addresses, in every possible way—
warning them they must act to
preserve their economic and poli
tical freedom. Not enough citizens
have so far responded. But Sena
tor McClellan fights on—he hasn’t
quit.
For a part of two days recent
ly, I was with him in Los Ange
les. He had come out from Wash
ington to deliver the feature ad
dress of our Los Angeles Free
dom Forum on the subject “Can
American Freedom Survive?” I
have never seen a more dedicated
man. Every minute of the several
hours we were together, he was
putting forth a strenuous physi
cal and mental effort to awaken
the people of America.
Dedicated To Job
His work days in Washington
are 18 hours long. He had left the
hearing room at the end of a heavy
day and had flowm out to Los
Angeles, working with his brief
case on his knees en route. When
we reached ‘his hotel room his
telephone was ringing until he
left the next evening. At his invi
tation I joined the Senator early
the morning after his arrival. We
were constantly interrupted by
the telephone. At 9:30 he made a
speech which later was used on
television by the American Broad
casting Company.. Ten s minutes
later he was being interview by
another network for a delayed
broadcast.
At 10 o’clock he went to a pre
arranged press conference. Twen
ty members of the nation’s press
kept him more than 30 minutes
with a barrage of vital questions
—and some of a “needling” na
ture. Then came the TV and ra
dio newsmen with their camera
crews. As the cameras turned and
the hot lights beamed down, the
Senator stood for nearly 45 min
utes, his mind and body taxed as
he answered the questions, made
his statements. In everything he
said there was an urgency, a
warning that American citizens
must wake up and participate in
their government—or lose their
freedom.
Work and More Work
With only a few seconds to
spare, the Senator was escorted
into the main ballroom of the
Biltmore where 800 West Coast
citizens leaders had gathered for
his Freedom Forum luncheon ad
dress. The whole affair was on
live television i and other cameras
were recording it for delayed
broadcasts. I introduced the Sena
tor. The lights were hot, the room
crowded. He spoke impassionately
for 30 minutes, closing with his
challenge: “Our forefathers in
words, deeds and sacrifices pledg
ed their lives, their fortunes, and
their sacred honor to secure free
dom. We should be willing to pay
the price, too, for its growth and
survival. Can American freedom
survive- It can if we really want
it to. The answer lies within us.”
Throughout the afternoon he
was giving interviews for televis
ion—network and local programs,
answering the phone again. Ho
used the night to fly back to his
Senate work, As I observed his
great capacity for work, his dedi
cated sincerity, the urgency of
his message to the American peo
ple, I kept saying to myself:
“Here is a great public servant.
If we the people will help him, he
will break the back of a powerful
enemy of freedom — the labor
boss.”
Will we? Or will freedom die
because of our default?
To Attend Camp
For Crippled
Five residents of Newberry
County will be participants in the
annual Easter Seal Family Camp
sponsored by the Crippled Chil
dren Society of South Carolina,
to be held at Cedar Mountain
next week. This information was
reported by State Headquarters
to Mrs. Emmett Nichols, chairman
of the Newberry County chapter.
Attending from Newberry will be
Henry Humphries, who will be ac
companied by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Humphries and
brothers, Carlton and Tharon.
Gail Dominick of Greenwood is
visiting in Newberry this week
with her cousin, Gay Stewart at
her home on Jones St.
Looking A. head
,. by Dr. George S. Benson
PRESIDENT—NATIONAL
.£^7 EDUCATION PROGRAM
Searcy, Arkansas
YOUR SUPPORT WILL BE
APPRECIATED
If honored with election as your Alderman I pledge to serve you efficiently
and courteously at all times, endeavoring to serve as you would have me serve, with
the best interests of the city as a whole, always in mind.
Man Working for Freedom
How would you feel if you
were a United States Senator,
and had found through investiga
tions that some of the nation’s
biggest labor unions were con
trolled by criminals, hoodlums and
gangsters with sufficient politi
cal power in the Congress to neu
tralize any attempt to control
them? You would be frightened
for the safety of our country.
What would you do? As a Sena-
j tor you surely would introduce
legislation to cope with the un
bridled power of the labor bosses
and keep them from gaining con
trol of our nation.
And if the legislation failed to
pass, you undoubtedly would go
to the people of America and per
sonally warn them they must act
at once to restrict the monopolistic
power of the labor bosses—or
meekly accept the destruction of
the American way of life. But
what if the American people
didn’t respond in sufficient num
bers to force the neded Congres
sional action? You would consid
er giving up the fight, wouldn’t
you? Certainly a United States
Senator, under these circum
stances, might be forgiven the im
pulse to “throw in the sponge”—
to quit.
Senator McClellan’s Fight
Senator John L. McClellan has
lived through all these circum
stances as chairman «f the Sen
ate Rackets Committee. But he
hasn’t quit. He has found a men
ace gnawing at the vital structure
of our personal freedom—in some
of the powerful labor unions whose
bosses are riding rough-shod over
our whole freedom structure. He
has tried—without success — to
• -t ler si. ti<'-n enacted by Con
gress to curb this menace. He
has gone co the American people—
To The Voters Of Newberry
*
I wish, first, to express my appreciation for the fine sup
port you have given me in past elections, and for the coopera
tion and assistance rendered by residents of Newberry during
the four years I have served as a member of Gity Council.
I feel that many things have been accomplished during
the past few years for the betterment of our City, and I am
proud to have had a part in rendering to you, the taxpayers,
the best service possible.
I hope that my record as your alderman from Ward 3
has been satisfactory and that I may depend on your contin
ued support. You may be sure that I shall, in the future, as
in the past, vote for what I feel is best for our City.
Remember to cast your ballot Tuesday. I shall be grate
ful for your support.
S. D. (Bozo) Paysinger
ALDERMAN FROM WARD 3
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