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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1960 1218 ColWjw StTMt NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLLSHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class postage paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 82.00 per ye*r in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS a man can reap a large return by useful service he should be encouraged, not penalized. I am so deeply concerned about the thinking, planning and the spending by our National leaders that I would like to see other Congressmen follow the example of the South Carolina men in the Senate and House who are four square against the futile spend ing known as Foreign Aid. President Eisenhower, go o d man in his purposes, is entirely Igoff ba^, for he has ;Jbeen ajsold- ier all his life, not a man in the tumult of business; he is, at times a visionary. “Our foreign aid program has been going on ever since the war. Our position in the world is worse now than it was when we started handing out money to all comers. It has been claimed, and is still being claimed, that foreign aid giveaways will improve living Did you ever wonder at the re markable sagacity which formula ted the plans to control our farm production in the effort to pre vent over-production ? If the de mand for cotton is for twenty million bales, for example, how would ordinary common sense sug gest as the method of control ? As I see it, the obvious plan would be to determine the pounds of cot ton, not the number of bales, since some bales weigh five hun dred pounds; some five hundred and fifty; some four hundred and ninety pounds. The solution, apparently, would be in pounds. That is so clear that must wonder at the cumber- expensive and unsatisfac- plan now in use. A farmer on my land was en titled to plant 5 9acres; he actu ally planted 62, by official meas- nrement. That does not surprise me; the average farmer is not a anrveyor, nor am I. Instead of allotting or allocat ing fifty acres to a farmer why not allow him 20,000 pounds, or 30,000 pounds of lint cot'oii? The present plan is to allot, let us say on an average fa.~m in our Pee Dee county, 20 acres in cot- ton; 2 acres in tobacco; some wheat, peanuts, etc. One farmer may produce an average of a bale of cotton per acre and fifteen hundred pounds of tobacco; another farmer may produce fifty per cent more per acre; while still another may pro duce 25 per cent less. Out in Ari zona some farmers produce three bales of cotton per acre. It is well known that many far mers, by liberal use of fertilizer, better seed and closer planting produce as much cotton and to bacco on one acre as they form erly produced on two acres. So the control by acres is obviously not realistic. If controls are to be helpful why not disregard the number of acres and indicate the number of pounds? Today, throughout the farming areas, a group of special survey ors must measure the land after the farmer has planted and then they may have to measure again to determine whether the farmer la operating within his allotment. And, as I’ve indicated the twenty million acres in cotton may pro duce fifteen million bales or twenty five million bales. If, however, the test were by pounds the re sult w’ould be calculably right. The present plan is about as uncertain as would be a rule al lowing a production of 20 hogs to a farm without indicating the total weight of the hogs. The av erage might be 200 or 400 lbs. I’ve often wondered w r ho w r as the master-mind that contrived the present arrangement. Suppose we had a rule that on ly forty ships might enter Charles ton harbor a week. How would that work out since ocean-going ships vary in length from 300 ft. to 1000 ft. and more. Certainly the rule would be based on the tonnage of the ships and other factors, not on a mere number of ships. The travels of President Eisen hower probably accomplish some useful purpose in this day of dem ocratic upheavals. People of other lands, the average man, the so- called common man, may be fav orably impressed. And, we must admit that crowds and throngs exercise great influence. Even here in the United States we see the effect of pressures; we see even our government turning so mersaults in order to appeal to the insistent appeals of certain organized groups. Although some good may be done by the travels our exper ience with the travels of Mr. Roosevelt and his personal dip lomacy have been sa disastrous as to be a warning against pres idential trips abroad as w T ell as secret goodwill entertainment in remote refuges. The impressive need is for Am ericans to think first ica. A strong and rick can be worth more to than an America throwing money away all over the world while stifling growth and development here at home. If the corporation tax were 25 percent instead of 52 percent and if the individual income tax were set at an equitable percentage, conditions in the less developed countries of the world and create new markets for American pro ducts. It has been claimed, and is still being claimed, that Wash ington’s handouts of our money will win friends and hold allies for our country in the struggle against the international Com munist conspiracy. The facts show that these claims have lit tle or no justification. If the entire national income of the United States were spent to improve the living conditions of the hundreds of millions of people in underdeveloped areas, their living standard would not be raised even by one per cent. And such benefits as came would not be lasting because of the fast growing population of these countries. Under the foreign aid program, American products and services are bought with our tax dollars and then given away to foreign countries. How can trade be pro moted that way ? The only way to build new markets is the way we have traditionally done it—the businesslike method of sound pri vate enterprise and investments This method is the only one that actually increases productivity, and in doing so, enables the less developed countries to get the means to support themselves and build up their own capital. Can foreign aid buy trustwor thy friends and allies ? The ans wer has to be No. Friendship is not obtained by bribery. A man— or a nation—getting something for nothing places on it the value of precisely nothing. In fact, as a former Prime Minister of France once said, “Americans manage to create something very "near to hatred by the way they give their aid.” The greatest myth of all is that communism can be weakened and defeated by the American foreign aid program. As a matter of fact, it is part of the commun ist doctrine that productive work ers shall support the incompetent and lazy. Isn’t that exactly what we have been doing on an inter- the same percentage to apply to all incomes from $5000 (let us national scale with our foreign say) o’u* nation would prosper and profit immeasurably. The graduated income tax is unsound; all men should pay the same percentage. Because our So cialist thinking makes us afraid of large incomes we are obstruct ing initiative and incentive. If aid program ? In fact, we have .urned great sums of money over to the outright communist gov ernments of such countries as Po land and Czechoslovakia. Since the end of the war, we have spent for foreign aid the equivalent of about $1800 for ev- NATIONWIDE.. WORLDWIDE YOUR MONEY IS SAFE WITH TRAVELERS CHECKS FROM Thurmond The so-called civil rights plank of the Democratic platform is the most extreme, unconstitutional, and anti-Southern ever conceived by any major political party. It is difficult to imagine how a more obnoxious and punitive approach could have been composed. Even ^AACP, in all its fervor, has et proposed mor& drastic steps. Some of the most extreme proposals and pronouncements are: 1. A proposal that all school districts submit a plan for inte gration not later than 1963. 2. Authority for the Attorney General of the United States to bring suits in the name of, and at the expense of, the United States for any person whose “ci vil rights” the Attorney General thinks jeopardized or deprived. This is the vicious Part III of the 1957 civil rights bill, rejected by Congress in 1957 and in 1960, the last time by a vote of 2 to 1. 3. Establishment of a Fair Em ployment Practices Commission, (FEPC) which would force any and every employer to hire the first applicant a federal commis sion declared qualified for the job, regardless of his race, color, creed, or acceptability or com patibility to other employees or to the public. 4. Expression of approval of “sit-ins” and “sit-downs” by Ne groes in segregated privately- owned eating facilities. This gives sanction to an admittedly unlaw ful act—a trespass, unlawful not only in the South, but in every one of the fifty states of the Un ited States. 5. Proposes to make the Civil Rights Co mmission permanent and to extend the scope of its ob streperous activities. 6. Proposes elimination of lit eracy tests as qualifications for voting—in other wafc-ds, nullify the right of the States, under the United States Constitution, to fix voter qualifications. 7. As'extreme as are the fore going proposals, the Democratic platform managed to go even far ther ,and I quote, “The time has come to assure equal access - for all Americans to all areas of community life” which clearly in cludes churches, fraternal orders, civic clubs, and private associa tions of every description. The 1960 Democratic platform is a blueprint for a welfare state and an end to individual liberty and dignity in the United States of America. It is a road map for economic collapse and unconditional sur render to the forces of socialism. It is a chart for amalgamation of the races and a reduction of the individuals of which our coun try is formed to the lowest com mon denominator. It sounds the final death-knell of the Democratic party known to our forebears and completes the transition to a party dedicated to socialism, welfare statism, con formity, and centralization of po wer. CAUGHMAN Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Caugh- man, Rt. 3, Batesburg, announce the birth of a seven pound, four ounce son, Russell Wayne, on July 2 5at Newberry Hospital. Mrs. Caughman is the former Miss Imogene Hawkins. Don't ruin your wonderful trip by losing your money. Stop at SCN for travelers checks before you go! Good everywhere- safe anywhere Start a carefree vacation at SCN. ery family in America. But inter national communism has not grown weaker during that period. It has grown stronger and has swallowed up hundreds of mil lions of people more in the world. Why does foreign aid go on— endlessly—year after year? Who favors such squandering of our resources on this program? One group is made up of unrealistic sentimentalists who persist in be lieving, against all evidence to the contrary, that we can buy in ternational friendship. Another group includes those who hope to sell their products.” Looking A. bead v ... by Dr. Georg* S. Benson PRESIDENT—NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Searcy, Arkansas SOUTH CAROLINA NATIONAL BANK Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation NEWBERRY 1119-21 BOYCE STREET PHONE 1549 I should like to reorganize the United Nations into an annual meeting of Scientists, with no standing Committees, no big staff, no authority of any kind. Since the days af Adam’s grandsons the Have-nots have been more numerous than the Haves. Now that the Have-nots are exercising the right to vote, the age-old program finds ex pression; let us take from those who have and give to those who have-not. Those who have are like those who put their capital to use and made a profit; those who have not are often like the man who buried his talent in the earth. All of you will recall the par able of the Great Teacher about talents. The world hasn’t changed very much, except politically the one Supreme Consideration is votes. So, if the Nation go to the bow wows let it go if the voters so wish. This practice has some merit, but it robs us of the real ability of our men in authority because they must first, last and all the time keep their eyes on the voter. Senator Barry Goldwater re cently startled some of his poli tical colleagues in Washington with a recommendation that dip- loi-'^tic recp^niUpn of Suyiet Rus sia be wftharavim. After you have read Senator Goldwater’s book, The Conscience of a Conservative, (Victor Publishing Co., Shep- herdsville, Ky.), the consistency of his recommendation is appar ent. In his book he suggests that Americans place their foreign pol icy and their domestic govern mental operation on the sound foundation of moral law and com mon sense. He considers world communism to be an evil force, our enemy in a “cold war” that we are losing. On the open record of history, he considers the communist leaders to be guilty of towering crimes against mankind. And he notes that the record of history shows you cannot do business with them without terrible injury. He de clares that in our government’s present drive for “peace” our peo ple and our governmental leaders must be made to realize that peace “in which freedom and jus tice will prevail. . . is a peace in which Soviet power will no long er be in a position to threaten us and the rest of the world.” A Must Goal “A tolerable peace, in other words,” he says, “must foL’ow victory over Communism. We have been 14 years trying to bury that unpleasant fact. It cannot be buried and any foreign policy that ignores it will lead to our extinction as a nation.” The temptation is strong, Sen ator Goldwater says,° “to blame the deterioration of America’s for tunes on the Soviet Union’s ac quisition of nuclear weapons. But this is self-delusion. The rot had set in, the crumbling of our pos ition w r as already observable, long before the Communists de tonated their first Atom Bomb. Even in the early 1950’s when America still held unquestioned nuclear superiority, it was clear wd" were losing the cold war. And in the succeeding years, that trend, because its cause remains, has continued. Who Wants To Win The real cause of our contin uing defeat in the Cold War can be simply stated, Senator Gold- water says: “Our enemies have understood the nature of the conflict, aflA w e have not. They are determined to win the con flict, and we are not. . . We have tried to pacify the world. The Communists mean to own it.” He urges that our nation take the offensive—and go for vic tory. As guideposts in such an offensive, he suggests: Guideposts “The key guidepost is the Ob jective, and we must never lose sight of it. It is not to wage a struggle against Communism, but to win it. “2. Our strategy must be prim arily offensive in nature. ‘.‘3. We must strive to achieve and maintain military superior ity. “4. We must make America economically strong. “5. In all of our dealings with foreign nations, we must behave like a great power; our national posture must reflect strength and confidence and purpose, as well as good will. “6. Wo should adopt a dis criminating foreign aid policy; American aid should be furnished only to friendly anti-Communist nations that are willing to join with us in the struggle for free dom; and our aid should be loans, not gifts. “7. We should encourage the captive people to revolt against their Communist rulers—estab lishing close liaison with under ground leaders behind the Iron Curtain, furnishing them with printing presses, radios, weapons, instructors; the paraphernalia of a full-fledged resistance. “8. W e should encourage friendly people that have the means and desire to do so to un dertake offensive operations for the recovery of their homelands. wasThYnGTON AND "SMALL BUSINESS By C. WILSON HARDER It is possible that due to this being an election year. Con gress will not complete all the vital projects before adjourn al ing. But there is no doubt, when a tax revision bill is considered, definite consideration will be given on this matter of tax- ‘j ation of coop eratives. * * * The House Ways and Means Com mittee, head ed by Rep. Wilbur Mills, has already gathered ex- C. W. Harder tensive testimony on matter. * * * Basically, if the loopholes in the income tax laws on co operatives are not plugged, it appears that in due time much of the country’s independent business will be forced into co operative by tax law pressures the same as Kremlin edicts forced Russian business into state owned stores. * * * Testifying before the commit tee, George Burger, Washing ton vice president of the Nation al Federation of Independent Business pointed out that on four different occasions over 90% of the nation’s independent businessmen members voted in favor of closing the loopholes. * * * This is not an attack on simon pure farmer cooperatives which operate for cooperative mar keting of farm crops. * * * But the laws on taxation of cooperatives are so loose that they have opened the gates for promoters to develop all kinds of business in manufacturing, wholesaling, and retailing. * * * In the fields of chemical, min ing, oil production, jet fuel production, printing, food can- © Nitloml Federation of Independent Bmlaeu ning, and others, in past ten years cooperatives have be come a growing phenomena. « * * Under the laws as they now stand, a private corporation, wishing to lay aside profits for expansion first has to pay out 52% for income taxes. * * * But an enterprise qualifying under the present loose law as a cooperative theoretically pays out its profits in the form of patronage dividends. ♦ • * Theoretically, those who re ceive the patronage dividends, or refunds, as they are called in cooperative circles, pays an income tax on them. * * * But, a cooperative can hold these dividends, or refunds, in the business and by giving the patrons certificates, which are tantamount to stock, use the money to finance expansion plans. * * ♦ In other instances, it has been worked out so that an investor in a cooperative mannfactnring venture receives his returns In the form of extra production signed to agents for resale. ♦ * * The investor then receives on this production his patronage refunds in the same manner as if he had actually used the goods himself, thus giving him a much higher return on his investment than any private company could possibly pay. * * * There seems to be no ques tion that there Is a legal right for cooperative enterprises. The question is should they be able to compete with private indus try on a tax basis that makes competition with them all but impossible. At present as alert promoters have discovered, co operatives are the biggest and the best business tax dodge ex isting. HOSPITAL Mrs. Sugftn Abrams, 1308 Cal houn St. -|“v Mrs. Cora Bigby, 1221 Glenn St. Mrs. Sallie Boozer, Newberry. Mrs. Inkaigen* Caughman and Baby Boy, Batesburg. Mrs. Mary Cannon, Walnut St. Mis. Eloise Earhardt, Cline St. George H. Jreagle, Vaidosta, Ga. Mrs. Genevieve Frye, Newberry Mrs. Mary E. Fulmer, Newber ry. James C. Gallagher, Newberry. Mrs. Betty . Kibler, Newberry. Mrs. Lizzie Kinard, Rt. 2. Mrs. Elise Long, Newberry. Rufus Monts, Prosperity. Mrs. Euqa Mize, Newberry. Mrs. Judy Miller and Baby Girl, 201 Crosson St. Miss Colie Murphy, Pomaria. Paul Nelson, 2035 Adelaide St. Mrs. Ruth Reynolds and Baby Boy, 2128 Adelaide St. Mrs. Katheryn Senn, 908 Reid St. Ralph Sayi&e, 1224 Glenn St. Jeff Singley, 419 Werts St. Mrs. Carrie Singley, Prosperity. James Stdne, 2100 Adelaide St. Mrs. Sarah Way, 808 Drewry St., Atlanta* Ga. ♦ ' < Colored Patients Hattie Brown, Helena. Gertrude Dean and Baby Boy, 23dl Emory* .!§£■' Mattie Houstal, Pomaria. , I _ i.i« ■ i mi .. jy i.i„ . , f i .1 | i. “9. We must—ourselves—be pre pared . to undertake military oper ations against ynlnerable Com- Carnell Johnson, Whitmire. Inez Jones, Silverstreet. Reena Koon, Pomaria. Sara McMorris, Newberry. Eunice Reeder, 716 Wise St. Sally Jane Sanders, Whitmire. Martha Sims, Pomaria. munist regimes.” MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Little Timothy Bundrick, Cha pin. Little Frances Farr, Columbia. Mrs. Dearie Boozer, Prosperity- Carl Ept^ng, Prosperity. Miss i*ila ^Martin, Mrs. Mar? Wright^ Inez Livingston 4ttMi>fwili Pomaria. _ ’ _ ,. Mary Elizabeth Kinard, ^pros perity. • ...V* '• % Recent Births STONE Mr. and Mrs. James Heltom Stone of D. Spring St., Whitmire,, announce the birth of a fivw pound, nine ounce son, Phillip AL lan, born July 21 at the Newber ry hospital. Mrs. Stone is thw former Miss Katie Mae Ammons- STOUDEMIRE Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Frank- Stoudemire of Pomaria are par ents of a seven pound, two ounce son, Stucky Joseph, born July 2k at the local hospital. The mother is the former Miss Hulda Minnie Stuck.. ; _• SHAW Mr. and Mrs. Sula Rankin Shaw - of Rt. l r Saluda announce the birth cf a six, pound, 14 ounce daughter, Sandra Lee, on July 2k at Newberry Hospital. Mrs. Shayr before marriage was Miss Loie Geraldine • Jackson. AWNINGS For FREE Estimate Without Obligation CALL 993 Whitaker Floor Coverings 1011 CALDWELL ST. NEWBERRY, S. C. AGENTS FOR Ventilated Awning Corp. IN THE NEWBERRY AREA 4V iiitites yo uto have the thrill of picking ' W A V*. ' your own luscious, tree-ripened, V - V* •,YtV t\ P E A C HE S Bring your own container. Orchard lo- * cated at Junction of Highways 391 and 245, two miles from Leesville, three miles from Batesburg on road to Prosperity. The homestead of the late Chris M. Folk located on S. C. Highway No. 19 about half way between Newberry and Whitmire, S. C. House in good state of repairs, excellent well and six pecan trees, modem bath and kitchen, electric hot water heater and wired for electric stove. ADDITIONAL LAND IF DESIRED Contact Miss Lillie Mae Folk Rt 1, Newberry, S. C., Telephone 753-J1 • • * heartbeat of main street NEWS ON THE HOUR World, Carolina, Local Sports Weather Sportscast 7:35 AM. and 6:35 A.M. Complete Baseball Scores —ON— WKDK 1240 Kc.