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- PAGE TWO * f THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1961 #un 1218 Colloge Street 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 in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS SPECTATION In the Sumter Daily Item of Thursday, February 2 appears a news report from Columbia under the heading “Gimmies Resound ing Legislative Halls.” I have no doubt that’s very plain, the Gimmies are people who want something from the state govern ment. I think in fairness to all, the Gimmies are not all alike: some are just members of pres sure groups; some are arguing for more reasonable taxes; and some are fanning the breeze into great velocity because it seems to be the thing to do. All these things can be con sidered in very simple terms. What I can afford and what I can wish may be very far apart. A ynan or woman of discretion will keep his wants within his means. That man is a solid citizen. He doesn’t run around explaining to everybody that he expected X to pay him on the first the month and X didn’t do it. Sometimes this is understandable and even per missible but, generally, it is like » man diving into the marsh at Charleston hoping that the incom ing tide will float him in. And it may happen. But that’s taking a long chance. I spoke of the people who are the pressure groups. In some measure they are upsetting the equilibrium of the Nation, you understand that I mean they are upsetting the apple cart. If the carpenters get a raise, why ehouldn’t all the other men get a raise? If one crowd has stronger pressure force than the others they will get it. Our friends of labor, in general, are riding high, wide and hand some because labor is so inter twined and inter-related that the whole labor force of the Nation | is sometimes ready to support 1 the claim of one Union. Down at the bottom you and I both wonder why some men have more than others. We know of no more ability than we have who receive two or three times as much as we do; and those men know a number of men no abler than they who receive three times as much as they get; and down at the bottom a great many people wonder how we deserve what we get. Suppose you were starting all over with Adam and Eve: You could live in a cave—no house rent; live near a river or lake— no expense for water; live in a for est of all kinds of trees and fruits and there you will have all your fuel and fruit. There would be no special problem for lights because our great, great grandfathers re ceived their light from a blazing fat log or faggot. There would be no problem of style; nor would any beauty par lor or hair dressers thrive about us. Now there we have a state of nature, though I could have men tioned that we have hung three skins of a wild animal about us and the cumbersomeness of the human shape would have been concealed. Now there we start: No job, no personal property, no land of our own, enjoying the bounty of na ture. I did not mention that we might have caught some fish in those lakes and if need be, we could have caught several fifty pound channel bass and several fifty pound rock fish every morn ing, giving the family a good start. Assuming now, equality in the beginning how do we grow so far apart that school teachers earn $3,000.00; big truck drivers may fiLz earn $3,500.nO; skilled electri cians, anywhere from $5,OOO.OOYo $50,000.00 ink?'year. Now how do we get so far apart? Well, now, let’s see: If every man were paid wages there would be some like lihood of most men receiving about the same pay. I need not remind you that that is not a healthy eco nomic condition; I must empha size that the world has never pro gressed by holding men or things at a common level. Henry Ford was a working man and but for his own efforts would probably have died as superintendent of some machine shop; but Henry Ford lived in a country, in an at mosphere of opportunity with all the stimulation of the example of every other great man before him. And so there was nothing to hold him down. He rose to the highest heights and operated in prodi gious scope. “Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and departing, leave behind us foot prints on the sands of time.” Now something else complicates this situation—we have the learn ed professions. A man denies eco nomic reward for 6, 8 or 1 0 years. And steps out on the platform of human endeavor. Where does he come in now? Is he to start side by side, at the same wake level, as the boy carrying boards for the carpenter ? And this oecomes accentuated in professions like medicine and the highly applied mathematical sciences as physics. Where does that man start? Now there is an other side to that and that is mer chandising. Let’s hold that off. In some measure-the profession al man is paid on the basis of the worth of his service. And every- time a professional man works he is drawing on those many years of hard living and high thinking. (On locusts and wild honey per chance, as did John the Baptist.) One other factor is, often times, the value of money involved. If a multimillionaire asks a country lawyer to draw a deed for the pur chase of 10,000 acres of land for a hunting preserve—a cash trans action of five hundred thousand dollars, the preparation of that deed would not require any more skill that would a deed for a small corner lot in Horrell Hill, S. C. Yet the chances are that the client would pay at least 50 times as much for the hunting preserve as the man for the lot in Horrell Hill. Now what is the difference and why? And so you see! You wouldn’t ask a lawyer to draw that deed for $10.00 eh? No lawyer is going to gaze on a $500- 000 deal and take just $5.00! Nor are the lawyers alone in that. If I called up the tip-top medical practitioner of Gillison- ville he would charge me a couple of dollars for a saddle bag dose of nox vomica, Ipecac and soda, or syrup of squills. But what Doctor called into the home of a Houston millionaire would charge just a dollar or two? Nor would he pre scribe such humble stuff. It would carry a long Latin name, even if the same thing, and a greatly in creased fee—something itf' keeping with the dignity and standing of the patient. Someone speaking once referred to the Doctors, the learned and un wearying Apostles of Esculapius said, “speaking paregorically.” There is another factor—the profit motive. Doctors, lawyers and other professional men do not charge by the profit motive. The merchant does. If an article costs a merchant $100 he must add to this list price all the items of Op erating a business. If at the end of the year the merchandise cost the merchant $500,000 and he paid in insurance, taxes, licenses, clerks hired, rent, light, freight charges, loses, stealage, etc.—all $125,000. He adds all that to the original cost of the stock, so it now costs $625,000. If we assume that he hopes to earn 10 percent a year he must earn net $62,500. Now he operates in a highly competitive market; if his clerks ^or other expenses become exces sive, he may have to close, since he can’t operate a big store with, all that money just for fun. In other fields of activity it is the same. Just imagine, fawncy now, a big doctor, driving a $10,000 car and wearing all sort of eye-glasses and chains, driving up to the Fi(fth Avenue home of Mr. Got Rocks and writing a prescription for a half grain of calomel three times a day for two days? Now would the druggist send a bill for 10c. My! My! The patient would feel insulted. But whenever Mr. Got Rocks or Mrs. Got Rocks goes in to a grocery store they want ev erything cheaper—even than at a 10 cents store! “Ridiculous,” says the lady. That man charged me thirty cents a dozen for these apples! Thirty cents a dozen! And before coming to the table { Mr. Got Rocks took a couple of pegs at a probable cost of one dollar! What great names are associated with the month of February? I’m informed that the noble and illus trious Ground Hog identifies him self with the second day of Febru ary. fiT olden 'times every farm- BETTER LIVING FROM TREES er kept the ground hog in mind and he could plan his year’s work somewhat in accordance with whether the ground hog had seen his shadow. If so, then there was a likelihood of winter for six weeks more. Now the ground hog must have seen his shadow- on the second day of February this year and he means to work hand in glove with all these men who sell fuel. In addition to the ground hog, whose memory is so much alive, there are some other names that we might remember. On the third of February there was a birthday of one of the first three ranking Confederate Generals. It is a tri bute to General Robert E. Lee that he is about the only one of the Confederate Generals remem bered by the masses, unless it be Stbnewall Jackson. Now the South had many illustrious military lead ers, but they are fading away in- toJ the mist of history books. General Johnston was the Com mander of the Confederate Army protecting Richmond in the early days of the war and was wounded in the battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oakj3).v That circumstance brought General Robert E. Lee to the com mand of that Army. General John ston was regarded as a man of notable military skill, but he has passed into oblivion. On the sixth day of February came the birthday of General Phillip Sheridan who is remember ed today as the greatest union Cavalry leaders. On the ninth comes the birthday of William Henry Harrison, who seiwed the briefest period of any president, also President Harding didn’t live long either. And now we come to the two great names in the American his tory—Abraham Lincoln on the twelfth; George Washington on the twenty-second. Now as to these two transcendent figures — Lin coln and Washington—one can say nothing new. Mr. Lincoln grows in the appreciation of men, even among us, as the years come and go. George Washington was the noblest figure that ever stood in the forefront of a nation’s life, as some eminent statesman has said. One thing in common—Lincoln and Washington seem to possess: A calm balance of mind and spir it beyond things that were petty and unworthy. And another thing that characterized both of them was not only the ability to see and vthink clearly but they always ex pressed themselves in a literary jstyle of dignity, clothing the no bility of their thought with a lan- guage' of such appealing . beauty and. persuasiveness that it‘s sim ple eloquence was incomparable dress for the thought. * In between those dates we have Saint Valentine’s on the 14th, though we could do just as well without it. St. Valentine stirs up a lots of business causing millions of pieces of mail to be sent out with millions of dollars for pos tage. On Feb. 15 we have Ash Wed nesday which is significant to our friends of the Catholic, Lutheran and Episcopal churches. Ash HOSPITAL PATIENTS Mrs. Jackie Avery, 1720 Gulf street. Mrs. Zetha Adams, Clinton. Mrs. Myrtle Ammons, 1106 Mar ion street. H. Irvin Attaway, 1300 Poplar street. Mrs. Louise Buchanon and baby boy, Route 1, Kinards. Miss Shirley Baker, Route two, Clinton. Master Dean Brown,, Route 1, Newberry. * Willie F. Cromer, Route one, Kinards. George Covan, 406 Glenn St. Mrs. Katie Counts, 701 O’Neal street. Mrs. Virginia A. Fulp, 1207 Speers street. Mrs. Barbara Harmon and baby ooy, 2106 Brown street. James Harrison, Whitmire. Mrs. Nora Koon, 1315 Nance street. * Mrs. Willie Faye Lewis, Bound ary Street extension. E. T. Long, Sr., Route 3, New berry. Wayne Long, Route 2, Pomaria. Mrs. Maude McCullough, Route 3, Newberry. Mason McConnell, Carol Courts, Newberry. Mrs. Betty Metis, 912 Cline St. . Louis Morris, 2012 Main St. Mrs. Vesta Metts, Prosperity. Mrs. Euna Mize, Route 1, New berry. Robert F. Nelson, Whitmire. Mrs .Minnie Perry, Route five, Saluda. Mrs. Ellie Paysinger, Route 2, Prosperity. Mrs. Neomie Robbins, Route 2, Pomaria. Alonzo Shealy, Little Mountain. Mrs. Alberta Setzler, Route 1, Pomaria. Miss Carol Louise Smith, 6-B Springhill Apts. Mrs. Vivian Stutts, 308 Glenn street. Mrs. Mahala Smith, 2200 Main. Grover L. Todd, 1309 Johnstone street. Mrs. Fannie Todd, Route two, Pomaria. Lester Watts, 1300 Drayton St. Mrs. Veda Wilson, Chappells. Mrs. Betty Yochem, 1302 Jef ferson street. Carrie Anderson, Route o n e, Silverstreet. Lindy Anderson, Route one, Chappells. John Preston Coleman, Route 2, Blairs. Elliott Caldwell, Route 1, Box 89, Newberry. Wednesday is the beginning of Lent and Lent is the beginning of the forty days in commemoration of the crucifixion of Jesus. As the faithful of the churches are supposed to refrain from much of the frivolity of life, there is us ually some wild and hilarious car rying on just before the calm and quiet of Ash Wednesday. In New Orleans the Mardi Gras is that ex uberant jubilation of the popu lace just before Lent. TRANSFERS OF REALTY Newberry No. 1 Rhoda Pearl Boozer to J. Cal vin Boozer and Vanessa M. Booz er, one lot and one building on Caldwell street, $5000. Newberry No. 1 Outside Demmie C. Summer to William Oliver .O’Dell, 62j61 acres, $5 juid other valuable considerations. A. M. Summer, Sr., to William Oliver O’Dell, 36.8 acres, $5 and other valuable considerations. Linda Byrd et al to Freddie Lee Glymph, one lot, $100. Bush River No. 3 Christina D. Senn to George S. Senn, 3.7 acres, $5 love' and af fection. Whitmire No. 4 Mrs. Mamie F. Tidmarsh t o Martin Gay Suber, one lot $10.00 and other valuable considerations. Mrs. Mamie F. Tidmarsh to J. J. Frier, one lot on Tidmarsh Dr., $10 and other valuable considera tions. L. W. Barbee to Ronald S. Man- ess, one lot, $10 and other valua ble considerations. •Whitmire No. 4 Outside Mamie James to James Harri son, one lot, $300. Little Mountain No. 6 Carl Lindler to David E. Lind- ler and Mamie M. Lindler, one lot $5 love and affection. S. C. Gas and Electric Co., to Carola R. Morris, .50 acre, $1 and other valuable considerations. Prosperity No. 7 Furman Holmes to R. Derrill Smith and Son, Inc., one lot $6 and other valuable considerations. M. C. Hair and wife Nancy Mae Hair to Future Home Owners, Inc., .50 acres $10. Job security for our employees depends upon Tree Farming. Many of our neighbors are growing trees as a crop—Tree Farming. Help them to protect their crops from fire. WOOD RECREATION WATER WILDLIFE KEEP THE FOREST GREEN Tax At the close of business on February 28th, 1961 A THREE PER CENT PENALTY will be added to all unpaid 1960 State and County Taxes Recent Marriages Lillious E: Kibler of Ballentme and Gloria L. Shealy of White Rock were married on February 11 at White Rock by Rev. Guy C. Cruse. Jacob Claude Frick of Little Mountain and Linda O’Neal Shealy pf Prosperity Were married at Little 'Mountain by Rev. J. S. WeSsinger bn February 11. Waited Raleigh Johnson, of Whitmire and Judith Marie Wick er bf Newberry were inarried on February 12 by Rev. Clarence L. Richardson of 1 NeWberry. Herman Lane Watson and Sara Evans of Newberry were married at Newberry bn February, 15 by Revr Jattfei A. Grigsby. " 'tlermatf T£ay Nalley of Newber ry and Ailed Juanita Lathrop of Pomaria were married on Febru ary 19, at Pomaria by Rev. Wyman Dowd. ' Norville Doyal Toby and Betty Joyce Steele of Whitmire were married at Mauldin on February 17 by Rev. Darrell D. Toby. Robert M. 1 Ruff and Wilma S. Stuck of Route 2 Newberry were married by Rev. Clarence Rich ardson at Newberry on February 19th. James Cannon, Jr., Route 3, Newberry. Ola Holloway, 704 Coates St. Geneva Hill, 703 McSwain St. Bessie Penny, 2416 Mathis St. Maggie Rutherford, Route one, Newberry. Hattie Mae Sims and baby boy, Route 2, Whitmire. Mary Singleton and baby girl, 2228 Emory Street. MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Mrs. Louise Shealy, Leesville. Clinton Shealy, Prosperity. Chester Bedenbaugh, Prosper ity. Carl Epting, Prosperity. Miss Lalla Martin, Newberry. Baby Crystal Hawkins, Prosper ity. Norma Jean Cromer and baby girl, Pomaria. NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING We, the undersigned Jury Com missioners of Newberry county r shall on Wednesday, March 8th, 1961, at 9 o’clock, A. M., in the office of the Clerk of Court, op enly and publicly, draw the name^ of thirty-six (36) men to serve at Petit Jurors for the Court of General Sessions (Criminal) whidfc will convene in the Newberry Co. Courthouse on Monday, March 20* IWr,- at*!l0 o’clock A.M. Burke M. Wise, Clerk of Ct. Ralph B. Black, Auditor. J. Ray Dawkins, Treasurer. Newberry, S. C., Feb. 22, 1961 NOTICE OF SALE FOR DELINQUENT TAXES State of South Carolina, County of Newberry. TO WHOM These Presents Majr Concern: By authority of the tax law£ of South Carolina and the various tax executions issued to me by the Treasurer of Newberry Coun ty, the following properties, listedl below, have been seized and taken possession of and are hereby ad-* vertised to be sold for delinquent taxes plus charges therefor, ♦ on March 6, 1961 (Monday) before the Newberry Court House door* within the usual hours of public sales. - > Terms: Cash. All properties ad vertised will be sold as the prop erty assessed to and levied upon* in the names of persons herein after listed. - After sales a receipt will be given the purchaser but no title will be issued until after twelve months, if property is not redeem- eded. 1 lot, 1 building, in tax district No. 1, assessed in the name of Carrie CaldwelL • <7. t-M 1 lot, 1 building, in tax district No. 1, assessed in the name of Miss Blanche Culclasure. 22 acres, 1 building, in tax dis trict No. IDS, assessed in the name of Solomon Caldwell Eat. 1 lot, 1 building, in tax district No. 1 OS, asTjesaed in the name of Lilia Floyd Est 2 lots in tax district no. 1 CMS* assessed in the name of Ruth So ber. 1 lot in tax district'No. 1 OS* assessed in the name of Sara. Werts, 25 acres, 2 buildings, in tax dis trict No. 3, assessed in the name of Allred M. Johnson Est. 1 lot, in tax district No. 4, as sessed in the name of Raymond! W.Dean. • 1 lot in tax district No. 5, as sessed in the name of Floree Har per Barton. 8 acres, in tax district No. 7, as- sessed in the name of Irvin Bridges Est. 12 acres, in tax district No. 7, assessed in the name of Marie Ponds Est. W. B. HALFACRE, Newberry County Delinquent Tax Collector. 43—3tc. Jam it? ■&M ★ MOTHER ANN ★ Spiritualist, Reader & Advisor to help on all problems of LIFE, snch as LOVE, BUSI NESS, MARRIAGE AND HEALTH, etc. Price: Donation Mother Ann is located in Co lumbia at 3721 N. Main St. For Further Information Call ALpine 4-0627 Open Daily 8 A.M. to 8 P.M. Sundays 9 A.M. to S P.M. heart beat of main street MORNING DEVOTIONS Public Service in co-operation with the Newberry county Min isterial Association: MONDAY through FRIDAY 8:45 to 9 A.M. 1 mb! E