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PAGE TWO THE MEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA run 1218 Colittf* Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class j>ostage paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 82.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS Very rarely do we elect a busi ness man to high office. There are many reasons for our course. A business man is frequently a failure in politics; he doesn’t jcnow his way around; and he doesn't understand the political find. Whenever a business man tries to be a politician he is apt to blunder; the astute politician throws him a curve when he is ready for a fast ball and a siz- aling blazer when he is all set for a curve. Even when a number one busi ness man accept an appointment to a political office he is apt to lirop the ball for the third out with three on base and a fly right in his hands. A man who is a success in busi ness is accustomed to plain fig ures (thinking only of arithmetic now.) Two and two make four, in business, but not always in politics. Two and two may count eix if sponsored by Senator X, but two and two have no value if sponsored by Senator Y. Dealing with shares on the big Exchanges the man who wins and quits is a man of commanding in telligence; but the man who loses —what of him ? "The market”, as we say, has; been churning up and down and 1 »11 around, lately. The msn who really understands ,if there be auch a person, is so busy with his own affairs that he has no time to advise anyone else. The man who can give you the “low-down” is probably a poor man. Like the woman who offered advice to a young mother whose baby was eick, you may recall, “I ought to know, I buried six.” Where are we today. Forbs tells us: “It is not that business is bad; just that the boom doesn’t seem to be picking up speed according to the expectations of some peo ple. Why not? Let’s take business first. In steel, there is no question that the strike caused shortages will soon be a thing of the past. Production then will be geared to use. Even so, our big steel indus try, as presently set up, does not have to operate at 90 per cent of capacity. Many companies can make good money at 70 per cent of capacity and break even at 50 per cent. Meanwhile, industrial production, the basic measure of our economy’s strength, is stid climbing, in January was running a good 12 per cent better than the average for 1957, the previous record year. But even a little slowing down would not necessarily be bearish A little slowing down might actu ally be helpful in that it would tend to stretch out the boom. As of now most inventories are still at a reasonable level and there is plenty of purchasing power a- round. There is no sign of any thing like a business recession on the immediate horizon. But right now things look as solid as Gi- bialter. Don’t in other words, get “pan icky!” Well, that sounds like a bit of wisdom. The Yfall Street Journal says: “Widespread disappointment be ing expressed these days over the business new's seems to reflect largely a loss of previous high hopes, rather than any guaging of the actual trend on a normal basis of comparison. For instance estimates of the automobile market for this year have been reduced several times recently. From close to 7,000,000 cars, the figure has been gradual ly reduced to 6,250,000, with a few ‘pessimists’ even speaking of only 6,000,000. And the prospect for steel production for the full year has been lately sliced from 180 million tons to 125 million or even 120 million. These are substantial reduc tions, of coursf, but they repre sent reductions from nothing more than enthusiastic guesses. Accept ing for the present the 5,250,000 figure now projected (itself only a guess which may turn out to be either too high or low), it would be the third besc year’s output in history. The only ones which have exceeded that level were those of 1955 and 1950. That of 1955, at more than 7.9 million, stands out as a lonely peak far above any others; and that of 19- 50, at 6,666,000, was given an ab normal boost by consumers’ fears that the Korean war would de prive them of the chance to buy any cars at all. As for the steel estimates, even the lowest one, of 120 million tons would represent a new high rec ord. The biggest previous year was 1955, when production was 117 million tons, a total given special support by the highly ex panded output of cars in that year. Nor is steel production the only economic activity running at a record rate. Industrial production in January at 169 per cent of the 1947-49 average was a record also, a fact which means many other industries besides steel must have been operating at the highest rates in history. No single indus try, not even the highly import ant steel industry, would be able by itself to push the whole pro duction index to a new high, three points above that of the previous top month.” Perhaps our leaders are not crazy; it seems that they are sometimes rational. It may be as the law recognizes, there may be lucid intervals. Even so. President Isenhower, swept away by the exuberance of his own personality, or a man so far removed from realities that he now seems ready to send some American tax-money to Brazil, Argentine and Chile. Of course a billion or two should be spilled over Peru, Ecuador, Columbia and Venezuela. Why not?? Both Brazil and the Argentine are countries of vast possibilities. Why must we rush about throw ing American money all over the universe? Next thing we know our Treasury will tie bags of gold to the missiles and send them to the Man in the Moon. And that might be a charitable plan; that man is probably overfed with green cheese! As I see it there is a splendid opportunity for some hard-headed old-timer td run for the president cy on this platform: American tax money, carefully and. VthHftiity levied and economically spent for* the development of this h&ion..' We need a Franklin Roosevelt IN REVERSE. 1 That' ohe msfc recognized Russia; gave away billions of our dollars; made a present to Russia of millions of liberty-loving Germans, Hungar ians, Bulgarians, and others; in terpreted and misapplied cherish ed laws and traditions—etc, etc— and he just one man! Now if one man could do all that, could not one man reverse all that? Of course he should be handsome, conceited, vain, sup remely ambitious, eloquent and inordinately self-reliant and cap tivating. For a people of hard common sense think, yes think of the Government collecting 52 per ct. —more than half of a Corpora tion’s net profit and gouging the individual citizens for taxes on income so graduated as to raise to 91 per cent of net income! There v/as once a tea party in a little town called Boston. For what ? A measly little tax on tea! Yes, but all those men are dead and they have no success ors! Our people fought the British— actually fought—for about six years; and endured trial, hunger, even death—for what? Less than one fiftieth of what this State alone pays to the Federal govern ment! But men were men in those days, eh? And the grand old Book says in Genesis: “There were giants in the earth in those days.” “The same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” Alas and alack! Where are the mighty men today? When a public question stirs all the State it is helpful to think in terms of basic or fundamental considerations. Frequently we lose our grasp of the underlying principles and become bemused by phases of a problem that need not be so complex if we stop to think. Let us see: A store and a res- W® HIS JOB AND YOURS The lookout is an important jcog in defense against forest fires. But every citizen, too, has a responsibility. Our community depends, to a great extent, on forests for our prosperity. Let’s protect our forests from fire. Coalition Victory TRE SMOKE has now cleared from the political battleground of the.“bob-tailed” session of the Congress, and there is ques tion about the fact that die con servative Southern Democratic- Republican coalition emerged with a very decisive victory over the forces of radicalism and so cialism. Of the five major “must” items declared to be so essential for political and welfare pur poses, three died on the legisla tive vine and the other two were modified before final passage. EXPIRING with the close of the session were three legislative itarns which had already passed both houses of Con gress but either could not get to a joint confer ence commit tee or could not get out of the conference committee. These proposals were: (1) an aid to education bill which would have put the federal gov ernment into the State-reserved area of education on a grandiose scale; (2) legislation foicing a minimum wage level of $1.25 and extending coverage under the law to many local businesses by fur ther stretching the interstate commerce clause of the Consti tution; and (3) an omnibus hous ing bill authorizing “backdoor spending” for construction of many more units of socialistic public housing. MODIFIED BY Congressional action were the medical care for the aged and foreign aid bills. I reported to you last week about the 51-44 vote whereby the Sen ate rejected the socialistic and compulsory Forand (Anderson- Kennedy) approach for providing medical care for the aged. After passing a less objectionable med ical aid bill, the Congress then turned to the foreign aid appro priations bill and chopped off ap proximately billion of the amount requested. ANOTHER ITEM which was pushed very hard by union bosses was also left stranded in the short session. This was the Ken nedy bill to authorize “common situs” picketing or secondary boycotts at construction jobs, even where vital defense and space exploration projects could be adversely affected. This bill would have exempted the build ing trade industry from provi sions in the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act and the 1959 Labor Reform Act which prohibit a labor union from punishing an innocent party in order to bring an employer to union wotk terms. THE HEAVIEST impact of the bill would have fallen on our defense effort, where work stop pages caused by labor disputes in fiscal year 1960 cost us 78,- 469% man days just on missile projects alone. One can imagine how much more this figure would multiply if secondary boycotts on construction projects were to be sanctioned by law. It also isn’t difficult to imagine the effect this could have on our South Carolina economy. Every time a South Carolina truck driver, not a mem ber of the Teamsters Union, would try to haul a load of South Carolina non-union building ma terials onto a construction job, the union on the job, by use of a secondary boycott, could force the contractor to use only ma terials hauled and manufactured by union labor from elsewhere. CONSIDERING the fact that the political fever was so rampant in the brief session, I think the conservative coalition performed most admirably to close the ses sion without passage of the fed eral aid, minimum wage, housing, Forand and picketing bills. This record of holding the line against socialism should give new hope to the many Americans from all over the country who have ex pressed to me their deep interest in. a return to the sound con servative principles of govern-* ment w hich have made our coun try the greatest nation on the face of the earth. Sincerely, Looking A. bead 7 ... by Dr. George S. Benson PRESIDENT—NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Seercy, Arkenses (Yol printtd at govimmtnt txptntt) * v.;l mm 'j SS:5: : .. < -iv :- y *> HP -I V; * mM Recent Movings Dr. and Mrs. A. G. D. Wiles are making their home at 1715 Harper street, until the new home for the college president is com pleted. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Milford have moved to 2230 Johnstone St. in the Nat Gist home. Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Schumpert are now making their home at 1604 Friend street. Mr. and Mrs. Ned Hipp are re siding at 1203 Charles street. Mrs. Nora Worthy has moved to 1531 Caldwell street, to make her home. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Hunter are making their home at 1419 Dave Drive. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Coward have moved to 1520 Clarkson Ave. in the home they recently purch ased. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Moore have moved to 719 Daisy stret. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Martin are now living at 1804 Milligan street. papers % i w k m V Champion Paper & Fibre Co. taurant are private enterprises and not subject to any Federal or State compulsion. All of us enjoy the privilege of doing business only on the terms prescribed by the owner or operator. This per missive privilege is not a legal right. A merchart may withdraw the privilege as he may think best suited to his business. The merchant is a citizen and pay taxes and licenses. He is en titled, as his right, to full legal and police protection. The first duty, responsibility and inescap able obligation of a city, county, state or nation is to maintain pub lic order and to protect at all costs and hazards the rights of personal safety and peaceable use and enjoyment of their property. The public has no right in this matter, only a privilege. Any group seeking to assert a right which does not exist is just an aggregation of trespassers and that trespass calls for the full exercise of the police power. No unit ol government is wor thy of the name if it fail to assert and maintain the author ity of the police power to protect everyman’s rights and to repel and punish every act of criminal trespass. There is no reason fer being mealy-mouthed about public dis orders either we can and shall have a government of law or we are just failing in the paramount prerequisite of our sovereignty. Sister of Local Women Dies Funeral services for Mrs. Leila Folk (Miss Lou) Simmons were conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday af ternoon at the Dunbar Funeral Home in Columbia. Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery in Newberry at 4:15 p.m. Mrs. Simmons, of 1524 Hen derson St., died Tuesday evening in the Baptist Hospital. She was born in Denmark, daughter of the late Hattie Fogle and Dr. J. William Folk. She had made her home in Columbia for 50 years where she was a saleswom an with Haltiwangers and Deans, retiring about three years ago; She was a member of Main Street Methodirt Church. Her husband, Willie H. Simmons, died in 1954. Survivors include eight sisters, Mrs. Maude Houseman of Alex andria, Va., Mrs. Frank Bradley of Clifton Forge, Va., Mrs. Edyth Green and Mrs. Helen Smith, both of Columbia, Mrs. Robert Long and Mrs. J. B. Coward, both of Newberry, and Mrs. Birge Al- briton and Mrs. Sam Evans, both of Greenville; two zrothers, Levi Folk of Savannah, Ga., and Earl Folk of Greenville; and a num ber of nieces and nephews. NO WILL TO WIN Dr. Walter H. Judd, of Min neapolis, is recognized as one of the top authorities in Congress on the Communist world conspiracy. He has beep a distinguised mem ber of Congress for ' 18 * y enrs. Prior to his Congressional service he was for 10 years a medical missionary to China and Japan. His was one of the first influen tial voices raised in America to warn our people of the nature and magnitude of world Commun ism. He had seen its growth in China and Asia and he under stood clearly that is irrevocable goal was world domination. Congressman Judd spoke at the dedication of the Citizenship Training Center established rec ently at Oklahoma Christian col lege. As Chancellor, it was my privilege to introduce him. His address contained some of the wisest observations and clearest challenges to the American citi zens that I’ve heard in a long time. Communists Have Will ~~ He noted the constantly chang ing behavior of Khrushchev, and said: “The Communists world program hasn’t changed in its ob jective of world conquest. It can not change. Does this mean that we have to go to war? No, it does mean that we ha. T e to under stand their world program for domination and deal with it be fore it g*ts in a position to go to war. They have had the will all along but they didn’t have the strength. We have had the strength but have lacked the will. Who will be the first to have both the strength and the will? That is the important ques tion.” America doesn’t yet have the will to win. The keenest students of the world situation today agree on this. Congressman Judd con tinued: “We have no choice ex cept the Cold war. You can’t call it off. It’s been tried.” He men tioned the futile—even damaging —efforts of President Roosevelt, President Truman, and President Isenhower to do business with the Communists leaders. The Cold war continues to get warmer and the United States and the free world continue to lose. We’ve Been Duped > ■ “Communists act like Commu nists,” Congressman Judd em phasized. r “But we continue to hope that they are going to start acting like capitalists and that if we continue to offer them con cessions out of which they can make gains, they will finally fall for it. But they don’t. Then some -mm THURSDAY, SEPT. 8, 1960 I’m : SgaM f of us think they are nationalists— so give them the things that should satisfy them as Russians and get them to relax. But they don’t operate in terms of national interest either. They’re an inter national conspiracy”—just as ths . literature of Communism says ; J' they are. “And then,” continued D**;. Judd, “we think that they must be humanitarians. They are not humanitarians. Their ohjec&Ye is not good relations. Then* objec- * tive is victory. They are Commu nists, and this is theu^natm*. The Communist Cancer „• “A cancer is bad because o£ the way - it grows—the : -lawless way in which it encroaches^ oil .J tissues that don’t belong to it* We don’t say, ‘Oh, it’s down in||: the big toe, let’s wait and see if it’ll spread.’ It has to spread* | That’s the nature of it. Better: get at it in the big toe before it gets to the liver, because it’ll get there. No cancer ever was content with the territory it had; it can’t stop there. Communists always act like Communists; they can’t do otherwise. “I had a friend up borne iiMU: Minnesota. And this fellow said to me one day recently: ‘Walter* : you’re playing the same old tuns (on Communism) that I’ve heard you play all these years.’ He sahl ‘after all, they’re making some changes; they’re more amenable; you’ve got to have faith in them* you’ve got to believe the best.’ I said, ‘Bob, how much is two times two?’ He said, ‘Four.’ I said* ‘There you go playing the same old record I’ve heard y^u play all these years. Two times two ir four. Why don’t you change it? Let’s make it five for a while’.” Congressman Judd is concerned about the Coi menace and the general ai attitude toward it throughout erica. He feels that the just ahead will be decisive, feels that if American citizens velop a will to win and act upon it, our children will live in free- f dom and that otherwise, they will not. Recent Marriages Curtis R. Bush of Newberry and Alice M. Frady of Kinards were married on Aug. 28 at Kinards by Rev. Cyril F. Hamm. John R. Riddle of Summerton and Rebecca Sue Wood of New berry were married by Rev. Paul D. Petty at Newberry on Aug. 30* m MILLS CLINIC PATLENl'S Mrs. Mary Barr, Batesburg. Mrs. Dora Shealy, Leesville. Carl Epting, Prosperity. Miss Lalla Martin, Newberry. ! Miss Sara Wicker, Newberry. Lula Mae Harmon, Newberry. Janie May Adams and baby girl, Leesville. wj Dies Following Auto Accident Mir. Emma C. Hughes, 78, of Saluda, died last Saturday shortly after being admitted to a Flor ence hospital following an automo bile accident. She had been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Odessa H. Womer, for the past two weeks. A daughter of the late Giles and Sarah Long Chapman, she was born near Chappells. Prior to her retirement several years ago, she had served as ma tron at Whitten Village, Clinton. Funeral services were conduct ed Tuesday, with burial in Travis Park Cemetery. Building Permits Marvin J. Rucker, repairs to dwelling at 2115 Johnstone St., $3000; Mrs. Lillian C. Heisey, re pairs to dwelling 1230 McMorris St. $2000.; E. Kirby Lominack, one 7-room dwelling, brick veneer 1819 McHardy street, $15,000. For FREE Estimate Without Obligation CALL 993 Whitaker Floor Coverings 1011 CALDWELL ST. NEWBERRT, S. C AGENTS FOR Ventilated Awning Corp. IN THE NEWBERRT AREA m m GOOD PRACTICES STATION World, Carolina, Local Sports Weather Sportscast 7:35 A.M. and 6:35 A.M. Complete Baseball Scores —ON— WKDK 1240 Kc. SSI 7m m mm mu*