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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, I960 m 1218 Coiiogv Strut NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class postage paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year m ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS The power to tax may be the ^ower to destroy, as Chief Justice Marshall said—and so well said that the great Chief Justice would view with alarm if he could see what is being done today. Assuming there is no legal limit to the rate of taxation one wonders what is to be expected of a municipal tax of 85 mills ad ded to a County tax of 60 mills. The total would be 145 mills. Now add Federal taxes and see where you are. Not only are we taxing heavily but we have adopted the plan of deducting the tax on wages etc as payment is made. But that is mild as compared with the re quirement that you file an es timate of your expected income for the next year and that you pay in advance the tax on that es timated income. I ask, as a matter of law, how can the government require pay ment of an estimated tax ? Can anyone be taxed until he has property ? An income is prop erty. One practice of today which would amaze and horrify real lawyers of a century ago is the practice of law by decision of other courts, as a rule, instead of arguing the legal principles in volved. Of course the ancient doctrine of the law known as Stare Decisis has its value, but courts some times err as do laymen; so a dec ision obviously in error need not slavishly be adhered to if a prin ciple has been badly applied. Our older lawyers were steeped in the principles of law; and our ancient statesmen were grounded in fundamental maxims of sound government. The practice of statesmanship today seems to be predicated on whims and vagaries of the mo ment. The idea or requiring a citizen to file an estimate of his expected or hoped for income, a year in advance, and immediately to pay in full, or pay in install ments the entire tax on the hoped for income is, as I see it, an abuse of the taxing power as well as an invasion of the citizen’s right of privacy. I am well aware that this will appear a mere fanning of the breeze, but it is worthwhile that we think sometimes rather than meekly to acquiesce. I am not an expert today, but I once was an expert. That is, I was an expert according to the definition of the remembered Sen ator Smith, our Cotton Ed, you know. He said “an expert is a fellow a long way from home.” While I was in South America I was certainly a long way from home; therefore, according to Cotton Ed, I was an expert. My ten years in South Ameri ca, as an executive, made me con versant #rith our Latin >bre|hren. Mark you! I was not a diplomat, specializing in high-balls, marti nis, club life and snobbery, along with cocktails, etc; I was an of ficial of that South American na tion intimately and constantly as sociated with all the elements of society from weekly conferences with the President to daily confer ences with the high and low, the rich and poor. Incidentally I had to speak and understand Spanish. Based on that very rich and varied experience of ten years, happy years they were, I thought our government badly advised in dealing with Castro. We should have adopted a firm course at once. In detail, at the beginning we should have planned naval exer cises in the ocean between Key West and our Cuban base at Guantanomo. Then we should have told Castro that we had no de signs on Cuba but that every Am erican interest would be protect ed. Why didn’t we act quickly and firmly? Because we wanted to prove to the world that we are a long-suffering people, full of ideals. W’hat has followed? Cuba has had time to arouse and en list Russia and many people of Mexico, Panama and elsewhere. We have lost face—a disastrous course to pursue. It is, or should be, elementary knowledge that we cannot treat Cuba as we treat Great Britain. Nor can we trust Russia. Since so much water has passed over the bridge what should we do now? Since the Castro regime has consfiscated virtually all Am erican investments in Cuba we should give Castro an ultimatum; release all American property in three days or we shall blockade Cuban ports and seize Cuban cus toms. And in the meantime send destroyers and submarines to every port and station battleships twelve miles out. Something dras tic must be done and done now. After our demonstration we shall have time and opportunity to restore*?Cuba to the Cubans. We are playing with more fire by delay than if we should act quickly and firmly. It must not be forgotten that Cuba owes, liberty, independence and well-being to the generous and gracious act of this nation. W T hat we have done in Cuba, Pu erto Rico, the Philippines, Japan and Italy and Germany is the ir refutable proof of our not wishing to absorb . Cuba. We must act while Russia only growls. Just ahead of us is the threat of trouble in the Panama Canal Zone. We must have men who know how and what to say, and our nation must quit acting like a well-meaning weakling afraid to take action. ^.LECTR/c pa AND ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING NEWBERRY COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1960 — 7:30 P. M. Prizes and Entertainment! ENTERTAINMENT WILL BE IN THE FORM OF A VARIETY SHOW FEATURING: • Cliff and Caren Berry—This versatile two-some will pre sent a delightful mixture of juggling, unicycling, guitar playing and singing. • Puppeteer Margie Baker and Ventriloquist Danny Asbury —Their acts will please the entire family. • Bonnie Davis—Musical background will be provided by this pert young lady. Also A Number of Nice Prizes Will Be Given To The Lucky Registered Members Business Meeting, Too! In addition to fun and entertainment, there will be an im portant business meeting. You will hear reports from the of ficials and employees regarding the operation of your Cooper ative and you will elect three directors. Plan Now To Attend This Annual Meeting. It Is Your Privilege — Your Responsibility! NEWBERRY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED HOME OWNED BY THOSE IT SERVES When I think of the utter fool ishness of the so-called foreign- aid program I wonder if our Nat ional leaders are chasing a will-o- the-wisp, or are colossally ignor ant or supremely simple-minded. Not only are the experiences of nations of all the ages clearly in dicative of the futility of suen programs, but futulity is not the worst that may be charged; there is a mischievous consequence far more serious. Even if the details did not prove the ridiculous program some will be impressed only by the details. Weil, here are some of the de tails, just some out of the moun tain of misdirected effort. “We shipped 421 jet planes to a country with only 186 pilots.We shipped 255 tanks to a country whose total active tank force is 30 men. We shipped 391 jet planes, cost to us $70 million, to a country which placed 160 of them in tem porary storage and 45 in perma nent storage. We gave three surgical army hospitals to Ethiopia when there was only one native doctor in the Ethiopean army. In Vietnam we promoted a highway system to cost $18 million. We have already spent $130 million on it, or about seven times as much. We started the Marshall plan in 1947, to last 4 years, and to cost $7 billion. Under changed names, it is now in its 13th year; and in all forms of foreign aid, we have now spent $103 billion. In the various kinds of ‘Mutual Security’, we now have 44,000 em ployees, and 10,000 trainees in 77 countries. We gave Norway $300 million, which the thrifty Norwegians ap plied to the reduction of their gov ernment debt. We paid for free airplane trips to thousands of Arabs, so they could visit their religious shrine at Mecca. We paid tuition and living ex penses to the sons of wealthy Per sians attending American colleges. In Portugal, which was not in the war, we financed a six-lane highway connecting Lisbon with a gambling resort. Everybody is making hay for themselves! We are the sole re maining internationalists!” “The chemical industry is the dynamic giant of American in dustry. It is the fourth largest in dustry by assets, the fifth largest by sales. It is one of the fastest growing of all major industries, with new products developed by the hundreds every year. Since 1947, chemical and allied produc tion has grown at an annual rate of 8%, compared to 4% for total industrial production. Sales, now at an annual rate of $27 billion, have doubled since 1947. What has made the chemical industry grow so fast? What part has research and development played in the industry’s growth? What is the pattern for the fu ture ? Until World War I, the chemi cal industry produced mostly in organic chemicals, concentrating on the basic salts, acids, and alka lies. Since that time, more com plex research on organics has led to an almost entirely new indus try, producing not only the or ganic chemicals themselves, but many intermediate and end prod ucts. Growth has come both from displacing older products (for ex ample, man-made fibers for nat ural, synthetic for natural rubber, and synthetic detergents for soaps), and from creating new and enlarged markets by provid ing new, substantially better, and lower-priced products (for ex ample, new pesticides, drugs, plastics, and high-concentration fertilizers). Today, thousands of companies produce an estimated 11,000 chem icals. Industrial chemicals have be come one of the most important raw materials sources for Ameri can industry. They range from the DEED TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Walton B. Half icre to John C. Eargle and Mary Nell H Eaigle, one lot on Summer street, $10 love and affection. W. Fulmer Wells, et al, to R. H. Harmon, one lot on Fulmer avenue, $5 and other valuable considerations. R. C. Floyd to Newberry Gin and Trading company, Inc., four acres, 96 Caldwell street, one- half interest $11,415.69. Mrs. Margaret M. McCrackin, et al, to Newberry Gin and Trad ing company, Incorporated, four acres, 96 Caldwell street, one- half interest $11,415.69. Newberry No. 1 Outside M. O. Mayer to Margaret Reid Lyles, one acre and one building, $5 and other valuable considera tions. Mary E. White to Horace T. Buffington, et al, one lot and one building, 2810 Milne avenue, $5 and other valuable considera tions. George A. Cromer to J. W. Leopard, 75 acres, $1000. B. M. Davis to James D. Sey mour, one lot and one building on Trent street, $5 and other valua ble considerations. Carrie Gaffney Calemese, to James Robert Swindler, one lot on Glenn street extension, $300. Bush River No. 3 Hoyt E. Morris to W. J. Rice, 2.06 acres, $5 and other valuable considerations. W. J. Rice to Norman Cromer, 2.06 acres, $450. Maggie E. Harmon to Helen H. Epting, 15 acres, $300. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Raymond W. Dean to William N. Malone, six acres and one building, $10 and other valuable considerations. Pomaria No. 5 Annie B. Torain et al to Rosa Bell Boyce, five acres, three lots and one building, $5 love and af fection. Little Mountain No. 6 Otto Bowers et al to Ernest Bowers, six acres, $5 and ex change of property. basic chemicals like chlorine, sul furic acid, and ethyl alcohol to complex dyes, bulk medicinals, and industrial gasses. The chemical industry itself is a major consumer of its own ma terials. Beyond it, one can hard ly find another industry which fails to use one chemical or an other—iron and steel, paper, glass, rubber, petroleum, textiles and a long list of others among them.” Recent Marriages James L. Shealy of Prosperity and Ruth S. Livingston, of New berry were married on August 4 at Newberry by Rev. D. M. Shull, Jr. Rufus Duffy and Margie Lor raine Livingston of Newberry were married by Rev. Clarence L. Richard son at Newberry on the fourth of August. James Harold Kinard and Sad ie Rae Wicker of Routh 3, Pros perity were married on August 5th by Rev. J. L. Drafts at Lees- ville. David Gordon Greenslade, of Smith Parish, Bermuda, and Mary E. Regnery of Newberry were married on August 20 at Joanna by Rev. Gerald Ernst. Ralph Eugene Holden and Mary Ann O’Shields of Clinton were married on August 20 at Clinton by Rev. I. H. Webb. Building Permits Aug. 17: Tom Bouknight, gen eral repairs to dwelling, 1306 Drayton St., $387. Aug. 17: R. E. Harvey, repairs to dwelling, 2637 Deloach Ave., $75. Aug. 18: Wilbur Boozer, re pairs to dwelling, 1510 Mower St., $1600. Aug. 18: Olan Price, repairs to porch, 1500 Drayton St., $300. Aug. 18: -Bennie Wicker, one four room wood frame dwelling on corner of Vincent and Wardlaw Sts., $1595. Aug. 18: St. Marks Catholic Church, one church building on Boundary St., $40,000. Aug. 18: J. L. Metts, repairs'to dwelling on Main St., $1000. Aug. 19: L. L. Brice, repairs to dwelling on Main St., $50. Aug. 19: J. E. Hunter Jr., one nine-room brick veneer dwelling, 1331 Summer St., $34,000. Aug. 19: Preston Kunkle, re pairs to dwelling, 2107 Charles St., $40. Aug. 20: Carol Hipp, repairs to porch of building on Main St., $250. Aug. 20: Lewis Bobb, one sev en-room brick veneer dwelling on Ebenezer Rd., $14,600. Aug. 22: Rebecca Livingston, repairs to dwelling on Harris St., IMPORTANT MEET There will be an important meeting of Mollohon TWUA Lo cal Union 324 Sunday afternoon, August 28 at 3 p.m. in the school auditorium. Every member of the union is especially urged to at tend. Jeep&u! JuMpm! Right-- stunning three-piece outfit for the little-girl- about-town. Vibrant Orion/Wool plaid pleated jumper and matching new cut double-breasted waistcoat. Long sleeve Arnel/Cotton blouse with gold circle pin at neck. Left -- Orion/Wool lapel jumper, with costume pin and Arnel/Cotton sport blouse. All machine washable. Tots To Teens Main Street Phone 1474 NEWBERRY, S. C. Xhe Presidential Electisa SINCE THE NATIONAL poli tical conventions have been con cluded IjJtave received a number of letters from South Carolinians seeking my advice aa to how they should vote In the presidential election on November 8. In answer to these queries, I have offered this advice to my fellow South Carolinians: Follow the election campaign closely, watch the tele vision debates, study the plat forms of both parties, weigh care- fully the election statements of the cam^dates, consider the ability, experience, and prior rec ords of public service of the can didates, and then vote yoUr own consetajiML Many developments may stQi unfold in the campaign which could easily affect the thinking of the voters. JIDENT Nixon and Idwater, who is cam paigning for Vice Prea- aiid Sen ator Johnson itely plan to speak in South Caro lina. Senator Kennedy and Ambassador Lodge may al so visit our State. I aui glad that by our apparently uncommitted attitude South Carolina is not being over looked by the candidates in this presidential election year, as we have In the past. The resolution adopted by the State Democratic Convention recognising the right of South Carolina Democrats to vote as they please in the presi dential contest without affecting their State party standing should cause the candidates to give even more consideration to our State in devising their campaign strategy and in making their campaign utterances and promises. I HAVE NEVER felt that we could gain anything by being “in the bag*’ for either major political NAACP have had enough judgment to-xefuso to.comm leadership of their organmnagp either major political party. TSvi- dently they want to determine- which party will woo their in dorsement more and will make more convincing promises to help them attain their goal of com plete integration of the races sooner than possible. RECENTLY on a television pro gram, Martin Luther King, leader of the sit-inners, the wade-inners, and now the kneel-inners, indi cated that this was the strategy^ he and his followers had mapped out for the presidential election. THE PRIVILEGE of voting to a very important one because it to by the vote that the people govern themselves and thereby determine the destiny of their country—and in these days* the destiny of the world. It was Thomas Jefferson, more anyone else, who con vinced the delegates to the Con stitutional convention of the wis dom of vesting the power of government in the people them selves. Jefferson’s persuasiveness stemmed from conviction, and his personal conviction waa based ei» the premise that all of the people could and would bo educated. IT IS ONLY by a process of thorough study and consideration of toe issues, the platfonsM^^i^^ the candidates that we can fulfill this great responsibility which we take upon ourselves when we ex ercise toe privilege of voting. There is plenty of time prior te November 8 for every qualified voter to become, adequately edu cated on the issues and personali ties of this campaign so the voters, - with their individual viewpoints on so many matters, can determine who or what party will lead our country and the free world in the perilous years that lie ahead. Sincerely, % - 'if. (Not printtd at government txpeneo) “See, dear? I’ve been after you and after you to see PURCELLS for an auto loan to buy a new carpet!” The friendly Purcell people roll out the carpet for folks who need cash for new furnishings. Just ’phone; then trip in for your money. PURCELLS “YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS" 1418 Main St. Newberry SOUTHERN 500 WORLD’S GREATEST STOCK CAR RACE —ON— WKDK 1240 Kc.