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PACK TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1961 1218 College 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 The old-time bookkeeper’* Do you remember him? Can you-see iritn now, looking at you over his “specs”? He was a careful man and knew his customers. In place of the old-time book keeper we now have a lovely girl who punches buttons and does not know the customers. The cus tomer is just a number to her. So, in between the artistic applica tion of the lip stick and the mild touch of rouge she punches but tons, sometimes wondering what the sweetheart is doing. I read recently of a learned professor who rendered a state ment for $183 for a lecture he had delivered. To his surprise he re ceived a check for a million one hnndrod and eighty three dollars! Evidently the young lady punched the wrong button. I think I told you of a bill 1 received for thirty-six hundred dollars. The explanation was that a clerk had pulled the wrong card. The old-time bookkeeper could n’t manipulate a hundred thous and names but he would have caught such errors immediately, knowing that X or Y didn’t “rate” a credit of $3600. > Some folks are slow to accustom themselves to change. It is worth remembering that our great na tion plunged headlong into var ious Socialistic programs about 20 years ago, an<^ that so complete was the upsetting that T think ©ur old arithmetic, or the treas ured ideas of numbers may have keen changed, too so that one can not be sure today whether the multiplication table still stands like the Rock of Gibralter or wliether it is leaning like the Tower of Pisa. It must be a bit wobbly, as when the young lady in Charleston asked me if twelve times seven was ninety six. Among the marvelous transfor mations is one that reminds me of the wizzardy of the Indians of the Andes. An Indian came down to a coastal town to celebrate a fiesta, bringing some pottery a- long with his burro and several bundles of alfalfa. He was asked the price of his pottery. He offer ed one little jar for twenty cen tavos but five would cost about thirty centavos each. Upon being asked for an explanation he said? 1 don’t want to sell all; if I sell all what will I do?” Mr. Roosevelt seemed to adopt that as a sound plan so we have our graduated income tax; and so if your income is, let us say $10,000 you pay 25 per cent, but if it be $40,000 you pay 50 per cent—more or less. Even at this late day of our en lightened era I find the adver tisement of a vast Stock broker age concern and it harkens back to the time of George Washing ton for its ideas, as its ad says: “Reasonable commissions are charged on all Stock Exchange transactions, and all member firms charge exactly the same standard scale of rates. These rates vary with the amount of money involved in the transaction and are a little less proportion ately on big orders than on small ones.” Fancy that now! Applying the rule of the graduated Income tax, a block of a thousand shares should cost about thirty times as much as a block of ten shares. To be perfectly clear and ex plicit, the more you buy, the higher the rate should be for each SENATOR i STROM THURMOND End Does Not Justify The Means OFTEN our State Department cornea up with proposals which show a common train of thought v/ith the chicken farmer, who, when faced with a continuous de cline in the size of eggs laid by Ms flock, killed the chickens to make sure the eggs wouldn’t get any smaller. THERE IS now pending before the Senate for ratification a “con vention,” or treaty, by which it is proposed that the US become a member of the Organiza tion for Eco nomic Cooper ation and De- velopment (OECD). The purpose of OECD is to create an organization composed of the 18 European nations, now members •of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, and the US and Canada. The three goals of OECD as set out in Article I -of the convention are: (1) to achieve the highest sustainable -aconomic growth and employment fend a rising standard of living in member countries, while main taining financial stability and thus -to contribute to the development '«£ the world economy; (2) to con tribute to sound economic expan sion in member as well as non member countries in the process of economic development; and (3) to contribute to the expansion of world trade on a multilateral, nondiscriminatory basis in accord ance with international obliga tions. ALL THESE goals are desir able. Cooperation of free nations Is needed to reduce our gold out- 'fiow, to help bear the load of aid to undeveloped nations, and to achieve a relaxation of barriers against US exports. * THE TREATY, however, does ’not place these goals in proper ^perspective, for it would delegate to this international organization the authority to make binding decisions on member nation^ in these areas and, therefu volves a sacrifice of political sov ereignty. European economies, unlike ours, are not founded pri marily on competition, being dom inated largely by “cartels”, or monopolies. Decisions by an in ternational group affecting our domestic economy might well and, in fact, probably would, be incon sistent with American political and economic principles. Eco nomic cooperation and develop ment should and must be achieved, but never at the cost of surrender ing the power of Americans to make their owm decisions by and through their elected representa tives. UNDER THE Constitution, the Congress is vested with the re sponsibility and authority to reg ulate trade and tariffs. Already American workers who have lost their jobs or had them curtailed because of low-wage foreign im ports have felt the effects of Con gress’ delegating this responsi bility to the Executive Branch. It is hard to conceive how much worse the situation would be if this Congressional responsibility should be further delegated to an international organization. EVEN WITH Congress retain ing control over foreign aid ap propriations, huge sums have been squandered and the tax payers needlessly bled in the name of foreign aid. At least, there is now still room for hope that Congress will further reduce the expenditures for this purpose. It is utter folly to consider al lowing an international organiza tion to determine the level and distribution of our foreign aid program in the future. UNDER THE broad general language of OECD, it is even conceivable that production quotas could be imposed on the economies of member nations, a power which the American people have dele gated to no one, not even their own government. THE GOALS of OECD are de sirable ones, but the end does not justify the means. The treaty should be rejected. Sincerely, share, if you would cherish the Roosevelt tradition. I do not Uke'^lo' erf “Wolf” but I think our State is like a sitting duck, waiting to be fchot. Our whole attitude seems to be “It couldn’t happen here.” Men said that about the boll weevil, years ago. i I went with-a sagacious Banker! to observe the ravages of the weevil in Alabama and Mississip pi. My friend profited by what he 1 learned; he sold his bank at a fine profit and set on the side lines. Our attitude of waiting amazes me. If there is anything a lawyer may be sure of that is that the Federal Supreme Court will rule that all our plans -are mere eva sions of the law anti thereby will be declared invalid. Why do we not arrange for a concerted attack on the alleged Fourteenth Amendment ? Recently I walked through Kress’ Store in Columbia, thinking that it being about tw r elve o’clock, or thereabout, I might get lunch. I had seen two columns of young Colored men and women headed toward Main Street. I soon saw that one group had gone to Wool- worth’s and the other went to Kress’ store. I observed that in Kress’ the seats were roped off and no Colored people were serv ed. But no White people were served either. Let’s get u to the bqttom <$ this: A store invites the public to en ter, but a store is a private af fair, not in any sense under the ownership or management of a City, County, State or Nation. Be ing private it may choose or re fuse its customers. I am a White man and am invited to enter the Kress store and ask for service at the lunch counter. The Kress man agement however would be wholly within its legal right if it refused to serve me. We might have a program with two specific drives; one to de clare invalid the so-called 14th Amendment; the second; To ar ouse the Nation to demand of Congress a clear Act setting forth precisely the jurisdiction of the Supreme court, as provided in the Constitution. Since the Court has arrogated so much to itself and seems so imbued with the spirit of agrand- izement why not specifically ex clude some matters from the pre rogative of the Court? We are like an army immobi lized and sitting around while the enemy is marshalling his forces at front and rear and on both flanks. In such a condition the gallant “Stonewall’ Jackson would have attacked. So would Foch in the First World War. All we do is wait for the attack. Both as strat egy and tactics our plan is fu tile. George Wellington! What a name! , p “We find in George Washington a great military commander. It is true that he actually won but few battles, but this fact will not af fect his reputM{f6n when one con siders the conditions. An army of regulars, or professional soldiers, is worth at least three times its number of untrained militia; and not only was Washington's army composed largely of militia, as against the British regulars, but it was also usually far inferior in numbers, and was badly equipped in comparison. We do not class Washington among the greatest warriors of history; he lacked the brilliant genius of a Hannibal, a Caesar, or a Napoleon. He is es pecially remembered for his Fa bian policy; and yet his operations at Trenton and Princeton, his well planned attack at Germantown, so soon after the defeat at Brandy wine, and his stealthy march upon Yorktown,—all must be classed among the most brilliant military movements in the history of war fare. Other valiant leaders there were in the field and in the State but any one of them could have been spared. Not so with Wash ington. Without him — judging from a human standpoint—the Re volution could not have succeed ed.” All those people who stood at the Kress counter were attempt ing to coerce the Kress manage ment; all those people were tres passers and should have been ar rested for trespass. The presence of Officers, presumably to main tain order, was a sort of travesty. If a man enters your house, ev en by your invitation and you ask him to leave would the presence of policemen protect you in your rights if the man remained? Of course it must be admitted that if the Kress management did not invite the trespassers to leave the police could n,ot do anything about it. Our law lays quite a lot of weight on the intent. The group of people entering the Kress store were not entering in the usual way and for the purchase of a gen eral stock; they entered deliber ately and purposefully to assert an alleged right which did not exist for they knew they would not be served and were displaying not merely displeasure but an unlaw ful purpose to compel attention, knowing their unlawful act de prived white people of their law ful right to be served. Now if an organization inspires, encourages and promotes this trespass and the powers of the law are set at naught what is to deter an organized body of White men from protecting the White people in the enjoyment of their rights ? The young Colored people are being badly advised and mischiev ously led. Not only should Color ed ministers and teachers and other leaders think clearly and soberly but those white people who are members of Colored So cieties or cooperating with them should do a bit of thinking, too.. Let us face facts: the petition of a Colored man to participate in some Government activity is quite a different thing from a bold assertion of an assumed claim to participate in a private business. The day be.ore I ran into the Columbia inc.dent I was in Char leston and found pickets in front of the Kress store. And they, al though in the street, were assert ing that they should be served in the Kress restaurant. As a matter of law those picketing men and women in Charleston were not WASH I N GTON AND "SMALL BUSINESS" By C. WILSON HARDER There are some strong indi cations along the Potomac that the hey days of the inter nationalists, the foreign mo nopolists, and other do gooders who stampeded the nation into an expenditure of more than $70 million in all manner of foreign give away schemes, may just about be over. * * * For some time, on nu merous occa- s i o n s, the nation’s inde pendent busi nessmen, vot ing through the National c. W. Harder Federation of Independent Busi ness, have pointed out the fal lacy of this nation attempting to establish a new order by throwing money around like it is going out of style. * * * This viewpoint is gaining in support. For example, Rep. D. R. Matthews reported on his recent attendance at the Latin American agricultural confer ence held in Lima, Peru. * * * Congressman Matthews says “I am positive that the nations of the world must solve their own problems. America isn’t smart enough and big enough and rich enough to solve all the problems of the world. We can help, I think, other nations to help themselves, but basically, the great problems of other na tions are going to have to be solved by themselves.” * * * He went' on to say “I am confirmed more than ever be fore of the opinion that in many nations of the world the rich live better than the rich in America while the poor live in j far worse conditions than do ‘he ooor in our own country.” TUs statement of the Con- j gressman is comparable to the | observations of many others ! who had long claimed that if the affluent of the so-called dis tressed nations were taxed any where near the American scale of taxation to help people of their owti country, there would be little world distress. * * * But as it has often been point ed out, the taxpayers of Amer ica have been assessed heavily to maintain a feudalism status quo in many nations. * * * Congressman Matthews also feels that our attitude and ap proach to foreign trade must be changed saying “Our trade with nations must be on a re ciprocal basis. America is fac ing tremendous problem now in maintaining its exports. We not only have the competition of the self-sufficiency ideal of under developed nations, but we have hard competition from Germany, Japan, and other na tions. For our own national survival, we must not be forced out of the trade markets of the world because of an ab sence of bargaining at the con ference table.” * * * In the past, the American failure at the trade conferences has been the dominance at these meetings of that segment of the State Dept, which appar ently has only the foggiest no tion of what is meant by busi ness negotiations. * * * But as Congressman Mat thews so well states the situa tion, the time has now come when America at international trade meetings must be repre sented by hard headed business bargaining instead of the past > fuzzy wuzzy Follyana approach which has caused the siphoning ''ff -*f '*■5 ’ T S. gold reserve. tcyOU can have your ‘world ^ outdoors’,” a city-bred friend said recently. “Me—I’ll take the asphalt jungle, the big city. Any time you want to know where you are, you walk up to the nearest „ policeman and say ‘Where Am I?’—and you’re not lost any more.” Feeling kindly at the moment, I saw no reason to point out that this friend’s dislike of the world outdoors stemmed, no doubt, from the fact that he had ex perienced an unpleasant few hours during a vacation to one of our national parks. He’d strayed off the beaten path and managed to get himself lost. Being lost in the woods or forest is an unpleasant experience, even for the veteran woodsman. They get lost, too, although not so often as the “tourist” who takes to the forest full of joy and enthusiasm and with nary a thought about where he is, or where he is going, until suddenly comes the realiza tion that he doesn’t know whether his car or cabin is one mile or a hundred away—or in which di rection. The moment of impact, the sudden discovery that one is “lost” — is a crucial moment. There is the urge to panic—and panic only makes the situation worse. The frightened person wanders, often in circles, using up valuable energy, and making it difficult for searchers to find him. The best insurance against being lost in the woods is to plan your route beforehand. Know where you are going—and be sure to tell someone, letting them know when you expect to return. Take along a compass, some matches in a waterproof container, a cou ple of short sections of candle. It takes a lot of matches to start a fire with wet wood. The candles save wasted matches. i Miller Rites Were Tuesday Arthur Brooks Miller died late Sunday afternoon at his resi dence near Newberry. He was born in Newberry coun ty, the son of the late William C. Miller and the late Manora Counts Miller. He was a retired farmer and well-known business man. He was a member of St. James Luth eran church and a former mem ber of the Newberry Band and the Knights of Pythias. He was edu cated in Newberry county schools and attended Newberry college. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.- Sula Mae Miller, and one brother, James O. Miller, boUi of Newber ry. Funeral services for Mr. Miller were conducted at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday from St. James church by the Rev. Alvin Haigler and the Rev. A. W. Ballentine. Interment followed in Rosemont cemetery. Active pallbearers were Harold Long, William Ballentine, Will iam Swittenburg, Arthur Eargle, Walt Wise and Tom Henderson. Honorary pallbearers were C. B. Parr, Judge Eugene S. Blease, Henry Parr, Jr., Forest Miller, Dr. E. J. Dickeiff, Dr. E. G. Able, Dr. R. L. Livingston, Tom Fel lers, Slim Henderson, Cay Baker, Frank Lominick, Sr., Cyril Hutch inson, Bennie Sease, John Norris, H. D. Whitaker, Harvey Wise, Charley Wise, O’Niel Counts, J. W. Henderson and Allen Eargle. trespassers, for they were in the street. Now, whether this is a matter of conspiracy is a legal point worth contemplating. J wondered how it would ap pear if a dozen White pickets had appeared and said “Your jobs are now gone and your wages stop ped.’” Of course the Federal gov ernment would have rushed in with unemployment pay and sur plus food supplies! There was a time when clear- thinking Colored leaders ould have pointed out the difli; ‘ence between a private business and a Government office. Who will compensate the Kress store for a thousand dollar loss ? Who will make amends to several hundred of us who were not serv ed because of an illegal invasion? There has ben too much of this foolishness; let’s have an end of it. The Charlotte Observer seems to regard the Sumter incident as a denial of Constitutional rights. You know what happened in Sum ter ? Sumter does not tolerate this presumption and hauls the of fenders to jaii. Wouldn’t think that a great paper would have more know ledge of the Constitution than to regard this illegal trespass as a Constitutional right ? “Buncombe” Buncombe is a North Carolina county. In the most recent Sumter case a mass demonstration in coercive effort to demand a right which dees not exist is, at law, a con spiracy to violate the peace and dignity of the State. FARMS & FOLKS (By C. L. Hamilton, Clemson Extension Information Specialist) What’s the best opportunity in agriculture ? Clemson’s Roy Ferree says it’s growing pecans. He likes pecans for two reasons. At the present time South Carolina is producing less than half the nuts required by pecan processing plants in the! State. “And,” he says, “there’s a def inite trend toward more process ing in the pecan business.” Now, this appears to be a real attractive proposition to me. W T ith fruits and vegetables we have a definite shortage of processing facilities. Now, here is industry that is asking for more product ion to supply existing processing plants.. And, increasing ou* ac reage for processing would be in line with the trends. Your Federal Income Tax Q. I made child support pay ments of $750 during 1960; $520 was for 1960 in accordance with spirits, etc. Q. I retired February 1, 1960, with a monthly pension of $200- While working, both my employ er and I contributed to the cost of the annuity. My total cost was $4,925. W hat amount of the pension is taxable in 19607 A. None. During the first three years you will receive $7,200 which is more than your total cost. Since .you will recover your cgsk in a Court Order and the remaining ' J ‘years or less from the date If you already have pecan trees, you don’t necessarily have to plant ijnore trees in order to in crease production. The present average yield per bearing tree in South Carolina is only about 8 pounds. Such a low average yield may seem rather astonishing to you. It surprised me too. Clemson’s hprticulturists say the - biggest single reason for these low yields is low soil fer tility. If your trees need fertili zer, the season’s not too late to do something about it. Putting fertilizer on in ‘ late February or early March is best. If you have 15-20 year old trees, it’s suggested that you apply a- bout 1200 pounds of an 8-8-8 fer tilizer to each acre of trees. If the trees are of other ages, figure the fertilizer neq^ls on the basis of 3 pounds for each year the tree is old. Another way to esti mate fertilizer needs is to apply 3 pounds for each inch of the trunk diameter. In effect, that’s what George Settles of Radio Station WABV, Abbeville, told selected local farm ers over the air last month. I’m mentioning this incident be cause it is one of several things that seems to ae part of a pattern. I believe one can now detect a little more promotional effort on behalf of agriculture. Some of the effort is coming from town peo ple. It points up a growing cons ciousness of the part that agri culture plays in the total econo my. Four-H club membtfts are feed ing next year’s birds. That’s a long way off, you say. It is. But they do it. by planting bicolor lespedeza on unused acres of the farm. Bicolor is one of the best feeds for quail and doves. It is peren nial, and once established, should stay with you. E. C. Turner, Clem son’s extension conservationist, says that bicolor drops its seed in late winter when birds need feed the most. Larry Hutto of the Blackville 4-H club in Barnwell county start ed planting 5000 bicolor plants last month. $250 represents delinquent pay ments for the year 1959; • The cost of supporting the child in 1960 was $1,300. May I claim the child as a dependent? A. No. Since only $520 is con sidered to determine whether you provided over half of the support. The delinquent payments are re imbursement to the divorced wife for supporting the child during the period of payments were in arrears. Q. I am employed as a sales man covering Columbia and sur rounding area. I return home each night. How do I show on my incont«‘ tax return thei ex penses paid in connection with my work? ■ A. You ordinary and necessary expenses as a salesman may be de ducted on page 1, Form 1040,, or Form 1040W in arriving at" ad justed gross income. Except for meals, these expenses are deduct ible even though you are not away from home. Q. May I deduct Federal ex cise taxes on my return? A. No. Individuals not in a trade or business cannot deduct Federal excise taxes on theatre admissions, furs, jewelry, luggage, cosmetics, telephone, air, rail or bus tickets, gasoline, tobacco, wine, distilled your first annuity payment and both you and your employer con tributed to the cost, the amounts received are not taxed until you recover your entire cost. After that, the annuity is taxable in fulL Q. My husband and I filed a joint return for 1960. We now desire to file separate returns. Is this permissible? A. Yes, provided you file the separate returns prior to April 17, 1961,- the due date of your 1960 return. After that date, you may not file separate returns. Mrs. John Seim’s Sister Dies Mrs. Lila Anderson Harper, of Piedmont, a sister of Mrs. Jobs Senn of Newberry, died Satur day morning at her home. > She was a native of Abbeville County, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Anderson, and had spent most of her life at Piedmont. Funeral services were conduct ed at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Pied mont Presbyterian church by Rev.. James T. Benjamin and Rev. G. Lynch. Burial was in Rose Hill cemetery; . ' - - ■ ■- ^ ^ L ■ e&rt main World, Carolina, Local Sports We%ther Sportscast 7:35 A.M. and 6:35 A.M. —ON— WKDK 1240 Kc. 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