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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class postage paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR What is life; and how long shall we live? Most people are so absorbed in the problems of today that the future means a few years ahead. But even if we become rivals of Methuse lah, who is reported to have lived 969 years, we must still face a future that will extend much farther than the imme morial antiquity of Adam and Eve. When the attending physician tells you—if he tells you—- that he can do no more, and that your days are numbered you think of the future. Well the subject is of great import ance but of greater importance is what we are today, with the immeasurable possibilities of development spiritually as taught by the Master. I am using here a part pf a talk I recently made to the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Columbia. Those gentle men honored me with such respectful attention that I know it was the supernal subject Which commanded their atten tion and not the speaker and his rambling presentation. We have recently had Bible Week and other occasions for sober thinking; and not far off is our day of Thanksgiving. Although for ten years I had direct control of hundreds of schools and colleges and one University I think of the boys and men I have taught from the high school of Co lumbia through Aiken, Edgefield, Orangeburg, Anderson and The Citadel. In contemplating the potentiality of a man let us start with his boyhood on the threshold of manhood. We enter manhood and we approach life physically, intel lectually and spiritually. A man should cultivate and develop his physical potential. He should be strong, vigorous and healthy. He need not be a champion, like old John L. Sullivan, who knocked an ox down with his bare fist; nor need he be a Jack Dempsey; but he shcfuld be able to walk and enjoy walking. In order to promote and conserve his physical ability he must not only take exercise, but he must be discreet in his eating. As to drinking I might include Carbonated water and coffee when taken a dozen times a day. Obviously the human body, heart and lungs, was not endowed to withstand three packs of cigarettes or a dozen cigars in a day. A man would do well to study himself and avoid practices that militate against his full vigor. I learned years ago to avoid fried foods, fats and greases and all rich condiments and desserts. I had dizzy spells. The intellectual potential is a broader field. True, when I was a boy in Charleston I saw draymen lift a barrel of flour and carry it into a store. That was unusual strength— and, perhaps unnecessary. Intellectually the world is before you. No one knows the possibilities of your mind or his. Our country has thousands of men who have developed after several failures. I recall the case of the late John W. Daniel of Virginia, remembered by most as a Senator, but remembered also as the author of Daniel on Negotiable Instruments, for years the standard work on bonds, notes, mortgages, etc. Mr. Daniel was retained in a case and began studying for his client and delved so deep that his study resulted in that great authority. w Consider Edison and Ford. Have you studied Benjamin Franklin ? I am not citing cases of men of Science whose studies and experiments in recondite phases of the abstruse problems were the basic research for the progress of mankind. We can't develop our minds with comics or headlines, though they serve a purpose. A man may relax with a good story or a comic but it is for occasional use; such things are not the bread and meat of the brain. I find an English detec tive story refreshing, but not stimulating. The brain is a challenge; Fve known men who suddenly woke up; many men apparently inept at school, college and university have, in later years, shown aptitudes that indicat ed real genius. They at long last found the spark that fired the imagination and quickened their grasp of all the dormant materials long unused in their minds. And *ow we come to the greatest possibility of all; the spiritual potential. How great can a man become ? If a man gig rich as the Rockefellers and the Fords combined and had castles and palaces throughout the world; and if he were as intellectually transcendent as to surpass all the An cient and Modern men of Science and philosophy he would be but a flickering flame in a century or two. So we come to this: does a man fulfill his highest potential by any purely personal acquirement or achievement? We believe in the life hereafter. Not only do men tell us that energy (or spirit) is unquenchable; that it will survive when released from its present embodiment, but we have Divine teaching and the Divine resurrection. But how great a spirit can one be here? What are the limits? There is a limit surely to what one may make of himself; but may one be an instrument far surpassing himself? The Bible gives us a revelation that lifts us to incredible achievement. Do you rememer that Jesus said: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” The Paper Curtain One of the most important tasks facing the people of the South today is that of piercing the Paper Curtain which has { been thrown up by many news media outside Southern bor ders in an effort to hide or distort the South’s position in the segregation-integration controversy. Most Southerners are familiar with the disparaging remarks about us contained in many non-Sou L hern publications and the lack of coverage given, our strong points. We are also accustomed to the mammoth headlines given any racial incident in our area as contrasted with the lack of display given racial incidents outside the South. Living here in Washington during the Congressional session each year, I can attest to the fact that it is difficult—and in many cases impossible—to find any ;news articles involving Northern racial flare-ups, which many times outnumber any difficulties we may be having in the South. The Northern editors rationalize the lack of play given these stories on the theory that they do not wish to further stir up racial tensions particularly in the “pilot model” area of Washington, D. C., and in New York City where integration troubles are rapidly making that city the “crime capital” of our nation. There are some writers and publications, however, that dare to present the facts as they exist, even though they write from behind the Paper Curtain. Mr. David Law rence, editor and publisher of U. S. News and World Report, stands out among those objective writers. Not only is his weekly magazine one of the best edited and written but it is also the most informative periodical on current news. I also have great respect for the facts and views presented in his news column. Observe that this was not confined to the Apostles: it is universal and all-embracing: He that believeth on me! What an offer from Jesus himself!' I repeat: And greater shall he do because I go to my father. Was that just an inspira tional message ? Think of it: Jesus told His disciples that they might through Him do even greater things than He had done! What had He done? Made the lame to walk; made the blind to see; made the lepers clean; fed the 5000 with 5 loaves and 2 fishes; fed the 4000 with 7 loaves and a few fishes; Raised the dead. Jesus was talking to ignorant and unlearned men. Was all this proved? Peter, an ignorant and unlearned man, made the lame to walk! Peter was operating in tW name and by the power of Jesus. He said so, you'll remem ber. Note the power of God flowing through Peter: Peter the channel, the instrument. So may we, believing exer cise those powers of Jesus, and even greater powers, accord ing to Jesus Himself and, in a measure, through the ignor ant and unlearned Simon Peter! The sublimest thought that a man' can have is that he may become the channel, the instrument of the power of God! John 14:12: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” Some days ago I started for Charleston to be with my old buddy Cecil Keels and the other fine people of WCSC. As I was leaving Alfred Breedin’s filling station he re marked that my brakes were too tight. I didn't think he knew what he was talking about and so, with that casual indifference we show to our nephews I laughed at him. But he, a Steward in the Church, cast a spell on me and my car came to grief on the outskirts of Saint Stephen. After being towed backwards I was delivered at McGowan’s Service Station (where I remained from ten o’clock in the morning until six that afternoon.. Realizing that all my chums of WCSC would be away I turned back for home. During my hours in St. Stephens I enjoyed the conversa tions I had with Mr. Browder and Mr. Murray. In the McGowan Garage I enjoyed my Colored friend, McGowan, who is one of those men enjoying the confidence and esteem of all his White neighbors, several of whom spoke to me of him. In the McGowan garage I read and re-read two framed bits of wisdom. Here they are: “I’ve been lied about, held up, cursed, sworn at, swindled, knocked, cheated, robbed, double-crossed, and married, so go ahead and ask for credit. I don’t mind saying No!” So I didn’t ask for credit. I knew I could count on my friends Murray and Browder to whom I became much attach ed. And I knew that my great friends, John M. Rivers, Matt Barkley, James B. Mahoney and Jesse Orvin would tele graph relief if I called in distress. Here’s the second of those bits of business wisdom hang ing on the wall: “You pay me; I’ll pay them. They’ll pay him; He’ll pay you; and we’ll all be happy.” Yea, verily. While I was spending the day in St. Stephen, I “bought up the opportunity,” as I think the great Apostle Paul once said, and soon found myself engaged with Messrs. Murray and Browder in questions of Public Power, Taxation and Government. They are sound in the faith and we three were of one accord. I have always been impressed with the sound thinking of our citizens—those who are citizens without axes to grind. Here are the names of some other writers who also print the facts objectively: Raymond Moley, Ray Tucker, Holmes Alexander, William F. Buckley, Jr., in National Review, and the editors of American Mercury. The Case for the South One of South Carolina’s most able and distinguished newsmen, Colonel W. D. Workman, Jr., has wnitten a book entitled The Caste for the South which should be off the presses in January. It should be read by every Southerner and all fair and open-minded Americans outside the South who are anxious to get a true and objective picture of how and why the great majority of Southerners feel as they do about preserving separate and equal school facilities for the children of both races in their own area. This book is a mas terpiece, and if we fail to place copies in the hands of mil lions behind the Paper Curtain we will lose a wonderful op portunity to convince many brain-washed noji-Southerners that we do have a case, and a very strong one at that. Freedom and Federalism Mr. Felix Morley, a distinguished writer and political phil osopher from Gibson Island, Maryland, has recently written and published through the Henry Regnery Company, an ex cellent book entitled Freedom and Federalism. Mr. Morley’s theme is that freedom can be maintained in this country only so long as we have a government of separated and divid ed powers—which, I might point out, we are fast losing in the trend toward socialism and centralization. Outside Interests Not only am I concerned with presenting an objective pic ture of the South’s position to the rest of the American peo ple, but I am also concerned about the picture being present ed to our own people by some supposedly Southern news, media which have been bought out by Northern interests. Mr. Edward H. Sims, editor of The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg, recently pointed out in a very provocative edi torial that this is occurring and that all too often the editor ial views of such publications reflect the thinking of some outsider who is not familiar with the local customs, tradi tions, and views of the community. I am glad that this has not happened so far in South Carolina. The news media in this country are powerful and most influential in molding public sentiment. At the present time most of it is being used against the people of the South. Some of this material is quite open and direct, but some like the recent Loretta Young TV program on prejudice are most clever and subtle, casting the people of the South in the role of appearing to be bigots. I wouldn’t say Hollywood has been very kind to us either. The job of piercing the Paper Curtain and countering this persecution of Southern customs and traditions is a big one, and it merits the attention and consideration of everyone. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1959 FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER damson Extension Information Specialist are making about the same amount of cotton on 50,000 acres this ON THE WAY ... Mrs. Nico- 11ns Casts^ns, 89, thanks to an anonymous donor, left the U.S. thl» month for her home in Italy, eren though a welfare hoard made her relinquish 13,590 she had saved. BOYS ARE" THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER In the old one-teacher coun try schools they generally had men as teachers. For that was a man-size job. Kid^ went late then, for few, if any, went off to college. We had ’em in ours all the way from 6 to 21 years of age. Those men were stern disci plinarians, and their tough hick ory switch always stood up there in the corner back of them. It was not there just for ornamen- - tal purposes either. When school turned out at four, if a name or two waa read out to remain, we knew what that meant. And we could hear the victim yelling out, when their turns came, as we walked away down the path. Of ten the chastised one would catch up with us laughing and saying he yelled so loud the teacher must have thought he was killing him. Yet it hadn’t hurt a bit. For it took a real sure eriough switching to hurt much through those tough home made jeans pants we wore. We were never switched much at home. But we used that same tactic there. By yelling like all forty we felt we could get sym pathy. Or at least a lighter beat ing, which was true. They didn’t want the neighbors to hear and would quit early so we’d shut up. In the realm of child rearing now, many folks do not believe incorporal punishment. But, hav ing been a boy, I believe there is a time in most kids’ lives when reason, persuasion, nor anything else works very well. It is then that the primitive fear of being hurt is about all that matters. Or at least it now appears to me that this is about all that kept us from going plumb wild. Water at all Cost Water is the life of the West. Without it, they are just dry land. But with it, towns, oities, and farms flourish. I was riding with a county agent in Colorado a few years ago. He showed me their Big Thompson Project. A 13-mile tunnel had been dug under the Continental Divide that you could drive a truck through. It brought a tor rent of water to this side to bless the land. This great project was started in 1938 and finished just the past July, at a cost of $159,500,000. It has 15 great dams and dikes, and 35 miles of tunnels. It irrigates 720,000 acres and supplies water to 10 cities and towns, in addi tion to producing a lot of power. Yes, their water out West costs them staggering sums. In this, the Almighty has been awful good to us. If the natural water that comes to our land stayed, in a year we would be a lake four feet deep. But it does not come regularly nor does it stay. Much of it runs away and is not here when we need it. Ponds are our fort for water in many areas. In others we caii get deep wells. In still other areas we dig holes and get it. And some get it fr9m streams. Water has always been essen tial for households and livestock uses here. Of late a vast new use has started coming. And that’s for irrigation of crops during droughts. County agents and SCS men point me to its profitable use in almost every county I go. Yes, it costs them fabulous for tunes to get the needed water out West. But here the Almighty dumps it right on our land. Our problem is to catch and conserve it. Surely this is easier and cheap er than what they have to do on most farming areas west of the Mississippi River. Fall and win ter is a good time to look round and plan for a source of livestock and irrigation water. Your SCS man and county agent can help you with this. Farming Uncertainty County Agent King of Orange burg points out the fact that they year they did on 30,000 last year. Now, what other business could stand that? But it has always been that way with farming. Un favorable weather came, making it favorable for diseases and in sects, and the prospects for cotton just dwindled away. * Thqt danger hangs over every crop. But the farmer with several money crops is not likely to hit it so bad on all at once. And therein lies one of the main virtues odf diversification, with crops plus livestock. The rains that make the grass and insects bad in cotton make the pastures grow lush and green. And dry weather that holds the pastures back retards the boll weevil, when it comes at the right time. So you have a sort of even break with variable weather when your farming is varied. Farm Dollar Turnover , Our economists tell me that » farm earned dollar in normal trade turnover multiplies about 7 tiiwsa there in the community. That means when you sell a cow. for $145 it creates a little over a thousand dollars worth of total business in the community. And so it is of farm dollars earned from the soil in bother ways. And the industrial payroll dollar does similar work too. I’m sure. There is a lot of room for earn ing more dollars for processing and refining farm products. Can neries, baby food plants, grapa juice plants, dehydration and pel leting of forages, etc., are ex amples of this activity I’ve ob served in our area of late. Nickel itself is strong, tough and resists wear. When used to alloy, it imparts these same qualities to other metals; when added to steel, for example, it produces alloy steels that are stronger, tougher and more re sistant to wear. • * * The record Chinook salmon weighed 125 pounds. It was caught by a commercial netter in the ocean north of the Washington State coast. There*s No Such Thing As “EASY CREDIT’.... Many times, borrowing money is a good idea. But sometimes it isn’t. That’s why—even though lending money is our busi ness—helping you to borrow wisely is a most important part of our job. Credit, we believe, should not be used carelessly, be cause credit—whatever its form—never really pays for anything. It merely defers payment and usually must be repaid by work and sacrifice. Of course, you often can borrow wisely. You may need credit to repair your home, or to purchase or build a home. But, in general, don’t borrow money for things that are not absolutely necessary. One of the greatest services we provide our custom ers is careful, conscientious counsel on loans. Helping customers to borrow wisely is part of this association’s obligation to you and the community it serves. So when you borrow money, borrow wisely. AVIIYGS AND LoAN ASSOCIATION M A SAVINGS INSTITUTION 1889 COLLBOB BTMBBT, NBWBSRRY. B. C. ! Use our Modern Night Depository for after office hours business.” “NEWBERRY’S LARGEST SAYINGS INSTITUTION” “SMALL ENOUGH TO KNOW YOU—BIG ENOUGH TO SERVE YOU” Directors J. F. CLARKSON M. O. SUMMER G. K. DOMINICK J. K. WILLINGHAM E. B. PURCELL W. a HUFFMAN RESERVES OVER $900,000.00