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PAGE TWO % 121* Cailag* StrMt , NKWBKRRY, 3. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner v r ' ' !*:V Second-Class postage paid at Newberry, ,Soi Carolina. ' . ^ f 4 ith ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in vance; six months, $1.25. id- COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR Ignorance of our plan of govern ment must be espantosa, to bor row a Spanish expression used with characteristic Latin empha sis, indicating complete, absolute. All the rumors and reports from Washington tell us that President Kennedy purposes to govern and to govern by decree. That can be only by such a weak-kneed atti tude of Congress; such a futility of our legislative representatives as to rrtfeke our great government about on par with the Cuban gov ernment. The amazing aspect of the per version and exaggeration of the Presidential prerogative grows out <rf the utter failure of Congress to assume its responsibility; the Congress has full Constitutional authority (and obligation) to cm. the President and the Supreme Court; and the feeble submission of the Congress strikes a note of failure which should make u s blush with mortification. Recently I read statements like this: “The bill has small chance of passage because it was not on the list of the President, or was not sponsored or approved by him; and ail such misconceived derelic tion. It is the Congress which should enact the laws; and, by en actment, is not meant merely the empty form of adopting what the President wishes. What is at the very heart of nl Ithis Congressional acquiesence ? Politics of the most subservient type, such as the so-called loyal ly to the party. What matters loyalty to the Party—any Party, as compared with the preservation of our lib erties ? “We, the people”, says the Con stitution: not “We the Demorcatic or Republican party.” We seem to be under the ambitious control of so-called intellectuals, men and women who hace had little or no practical experience with ' the problems of life, but who are dreaming, with all the fantastic irresponsibilty of nebulous spec ulators. The bright, academic theorists, in their exxcursions into Econom ics and political philosophy re mind me of what a great Civil Engineer told me about some en gineers of a ■foreign country. “They can draw the plans for a perfect railroad, but they couldn’t lay a crosstie”, he said. I recall an experience of my own. President Leguia had great concern for the Museo Bolivariano (Museum dedicated to the second greatest man of all the Western world (Simon Bolivar). The west coast of South America has very ‘ little rain: the eucalyptus trees in the court of the museum were suf fering for want of moisture. The president called me in some dis tress. I called one of the engi neers of my staff and asked him what he coud do. He, with military puncailio, saluted and assured me that he would submit a plan, or croquis, as it is in Spanish, within a week or ten days. I let him think I was relying on him, but I called my former sec retary, Senor Santolalla, a prac tical but unrecognized amateur- engineer. I said to him “Alcalde, the eucalyptus trees in the mus eum are dying: get water there”. Late the next day my old assist ant came into my office looking like a tramp—unwashed, unshav ed, altogether bedraggled, and said in his precise English: “Sen or Director, I have v- ater”. He had not slept, but he did the work. Perhaps a week later the official engineer brought in a plan. Now, you see. This nation was planned and de veloped by practical men. Th, po litical astronauts are now up in the air calculating the costs and routes to the moon for week-end trips, instead of studying the rea lities and needs of the day. Behold the sad picture of old political war-horses being led by Party considerations, though the victory of the planners might well deserve the remark on Alcibiades: “Go on brave boy; your victory will be the ruin of us all.” Says Tunnell in The Southwest ern Baker: “We’ve wined ’em and we’ve dined e’m; we have promised ’em, we have bribed ’em * . . we have even paid them. Now when the chips are down, where are our friends?” The United States with our “do- goodeuP philosophy has been sav ing one nation after another for the past century or so. We are just a little curious in raising the ques tion of ‘Who is going to save us?’ For several decades we have been saving China after various famines, disasters and wars. As late as World War II, we saved the poor Chinese from the Japs; and soon thereafter we saved the South Koreans, who have been subjected by the Japanese, from the Chineses In World War I and World War II we were saving Eu rope and the world from the ag gressive Germans—we licked the Germans to place the Soviets in the saddle—today we are aligned with West Germany against the Communists of Russia and the oth er Communist countries. We are bed fellows with the Japanese against Red China. In 1958 we wrested freedom from Spain for the Cubans—and today, we are the damn Yankee Imperialists with a strangle hold on the economic life of Cuba, so says Sr. Castro. Some people even think we helped to give the final nudge that unseated Batista in favor of the beatnik dictator. Without doubt we have applied pressure here and there in Latin America or have bolstered tottering ‘ins’ when most of the folks thought the ‘in’ should be out. We are feeding the folks of Po land and various other satellites of Russia including Tito’s Yugo slavia. No American can object to feeding any hungry person. Com munist or nor, but when we rush in to buy friendship from the So viet satellites, we only relieve the pressure from Moscow and Mr. K’s boys. The more people they have to feed, the more promises they have to keep, the less time and money they will have for mak ing war thunder. Soon there will be men into space; men exploring the other planets. It’s frightful to think about . . . not so much that these planets may be inhabited by eith er war making or friendly people, or some of both, but here again, we are caught short. We are whol ly unprepared. How do we know how to save ’em when we don’t even know what they need, or from what they need to be saved. It’s time we get some commit tees appointed, some bureaus in ac tion and some budget demands in motion to take care of the man on Mars or the woman on the Moon, people we have always thought of in the past as fictitious characters. They just might be there; and if they are, surely there is something or somebody that they need to be saved from. We admit this is all most con fusing to us; we don’t know the way out of this mess. Perhaps the way out is UP, so get set, Moon People, take hear:, and hold on a little longer, we’re on our way with our checkbook.” Even so; yea; verily. I read recently an advertise ment inviting investment in anoth er State. How’s this: “Abundant Fresh Water — the largest underground water supply of any state . . . plus 6,000 miles of permanent flowing streams and 2,000 natural and man-made lakes.” “Quality Labor Supply—21,000 workers await industry. Most are farm reared, their productivity un equaled. Favorable labor climate through local and state laws.” “Taxes lowest in U. S. — No sales, income or nuisance taxes . . lowest per capita state tax load in U * .S., levy reduced recently. State government debt free and borrowing is prohibited.” South Carolina has: 1. Abundant fresh water. 2. Abundant labor. 3. Cheap and abundant power BUT what can we say about taxes ? We, unfortunately, are measur ing ourselves by what other States spend, so read again what I’ve quoted. As a former teacher I must say for the thosuards of teachers who have not spoken, The quality of instruction is not determined by the salary. Think of the great teachers, men and women remembered and cherished in every County, who had few dollars, but supreme dedi cation that really was consecra tion. How would you measure in dol lars and cents such a man as James H. Carlisle? Henry N/Sny- Recent Movmgs Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. West- wod have moved back to Newberry and are ifcw making their home at 2309 Armfield Ave. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mayes are now residing at 2310 Main St. Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Connelly have moved to 1110 Speers St. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Folk are now residing at 1940 Evans St. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd L. Lane have moved to 1528 Caldwell St. Mr. and Mrs. Joe B. Pool are now making their home at 2804 Fair Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Cromer have moved to 1607 Nance St. to make their home. Mr. and Mrs. Jack McCullough are now residing at 1934 Johnstone St. in one of the Brook’s apart ments. Permits To Build May 31—Charles E. Leopard, repairs to dwelling, 324 O’Neal St., $500. May 31—Miss Evelyn Burns, re pairs to dwelling, 706 Boundary St., $1050. May 31—Mrs. Aleen Dune Sprouse, repairs to roof of dwell ing, 1931 Main St., $1081. May 31'—Meredith Harmon, add one room to dwelling, 1523 Clark son Ave., $2250. June 2—Richard L. Baker, re pairs to dwelling, 1405 Friend St., $25.00. June 3—Mrs. Julia Moore, one shed 16x10x8, wood frame, 319 Boundary St., $25.00. June 5—Willie Odell Sims, one six room dwelling on Johnstone St., $5000. June 5—Fannie Lindsay, re pairs to dwelling in Horseshoe Al ley, $5.00. TRANSFERS OF REALTY Newberry No. 1 John T. Cromer to Richard Ad dison, one lot, $150. Mrs. Fannie H. Cromer to Rich ard E. Addison, one lot on Kinard St., $150. Robert Earl Summer to Robert E. Summer, Jr., one lot on Har rington St., $5.00 love and affec tion for son. Walter T. Lake to Mary E. Ruth erford, one lot and one building on Johnstone St., $5.00 and other valuable considerations. Anderson C. Gantt, Henry B. Gantt and Leroy Gantt to W. Frank Lominack Jr., one lot and one building, 1401 Main St. (Caro lina Remnant Store), $10.00 and other valuable considerations. Newberry No. 1 Outside Caiol M. Hipp to Rev. Otis Glenn, one Idt and one building on Wise St., $5.00 and other valuable considerations. C. Eugene Buzhardt to Trustees of The Newberry Revival Church, (R. C. Harmon), one acre and one building, $1.00. Silverstreet No. 2 J. T. Hollingsworth to James Tillman Stevens, one lot, $10.00. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Williams B. Whitney to Christ ine M. Dawkins, 8 1-2 acres, $1,- 000. Pomaria No. 5 Bernice Rutherford to Cleo der? Or anyone of a great faculty of Wofford? I am a Baptist, so I’m speaking not as a Methodist but as a South Carolinian, treas uring the memory of great service. I am sure that we Baptists, as well as the Presbyterians, Luther ans, Episcopalians, Catholics—and all others, cherish great spirits who inspired men and women but who never calculated the worth of service in bread and meat. “Our present tax structure, adapted during World War II to direct the nation's resources to winning the war, has been shot full of reductions, exemptions and favored treatment for special groups. For example, private cor porations must hand over a 52-per cent tax before they can use their profits to finance future opera tions or pay dividends—yet farm c6operatives doing a 13-billion- doliar annual merchandising busL ness are virtually exempt from this tax and thus are able to un dersell private competitors. Some 700 federal - government corpora tions valued at 262 billion dollars pay no income tax. And 50,000 la bor unions are able through tax exemption to build up multibillion- dollar investment and business funds.” “Continual chipping away through tax exemption leads to this shocking fact: today only 167 billion dollars of the total personal income of 383 billion dollars is taxed. Because of this narrowing tax base, those unfortunate people caught in it are in an ever-tighten ing squeeze to make up for the money lost to the free riders. Is it any wonder that taxpayer^ take refuge in any gimmick available or even try to beat the game in order to reduce this inequitable burden ?” Are we, all of us, to seek ex emptions? Or should we not re solve to eliminate all favoritism so that, in very truth, all citizens may stand on the same platform? * ; THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JUNE 8, Rutherford, 86 acres and four buildings, $5.00 love and affec tion. Little Mountain No. 6 South Carolina Electric and Gas Company to Richard E. Addison and Florence S. Addison, one lot, $1.00 and other valuable consider ations. Richard E. Addison and John D. Carbosco to Richard E. Addison and Florence S. Addison, one lot, $5.00 and other valuable consider ations. Horace C. Richardson to M. K. Davis and Doris R. Davis, two acres, dwelling, store and stand, $1000 and other valuable consid erations. Prosperity No. 7 John Harold Stone to W. O. Powell and Hester P. Powell, one lot and one building, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. Andrew. H. Shealy to Heyward L. Frick and Rosalyn H. Frick, 3.78 acres, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. HOSPITAL PATIENTS NEWBERRY COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Mrs. Louise Addy, City. Homer Bowles, Pomaria. Mrs. Bessie Clary, Ci*" . Mrs. Stella Chasteen, Chappells. Charles A. Cromer, City. v Mrs. Ethel Davis, City. Master Willie Gilfillan, City. Mrs. Eunice Gatlin, City.- Claude Hester, City. Mrs. Pauline Hall, City. Mr. Jesse Holsonback, City. Mr. C. H. Harmon, City. Mrs. Cojrrie Hiller, City. Roy Huffman, Little Mountain. Everett Long, City. Mrs. Carrie Moon, City. Miss Lessie Mae Morse, City. Wilbur E. Monts, City. Louis Morris, City. Mrs. Lillie Belle Minick, City. Mrs. Agnes Oswald, Leesville. Mrs. Blanche Summer, City. James Jacob Slice, City: Mrs. Ada Turner, City. Mrs. Betty Williams, City. Mrs. Claudia Wilson, Prosperity. J. B. West, City. Joseph Wayne Folk, City. William Johnson, City. Little Joseph Alvin Jay,.Saluda. Mrs. Lenora Taylor, City. Ainsworth D. Martin, City. Mrs. Polly Summer, Prosperity. Mrs. Sarah Ann Regers, City. | people from confirmation age and T> 1 1 1> up are*urged to attena Ms meet- Jimmy Lee Praylow, Prosperity. Adolphus Tucker, "Whitmire. « Fannie Austin, Silverstreet. Jesse I ongshore, City. Ruth Anne Reeder, City. Addie Lee Suber, City. Mabel Jones Suber, City. Lula Tribble, Silverstreet. Little Adrianne Valentine, Clin ton. MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Mrs. Elizabeth. Crapps and baby boy, Batesburg. Mrs. Mary Lou Whittle and baby boy, Batesburg. Mrs. Velma Rowe and baby girl, Chapin. Mrs. Vesta Metts, Prosperity. Miss Lalla Martin, Newberry. Carl Epting, Prosperity. Clinton Shealy,^Prosperity. Mrs. Betty Seigers, Newberry. Mrs. Rilzie McCartha, Chapin. Mrs. Christine Burgess, Bates burg. mg. U.L.C. Women, 7:30 p.m. Quart erly joint meeting with the Educa-< tional Committee in charge. All members are urged*to be present. Visitors and friends are always welcome at Mayer Memorial. We love having you with us! Oil] en To Have A '' re Recent Births DAVID ALlN PERRY Mr. and Mrs. Alan Repworth 1 Perry, C-l Carol Courts, Newber ry, announce the birth of a five pound, thirteen ounce son, David Alan, born at the Newberry Me morial Hospital on June 5th. Mrs. Perry is the former Carolyn Joy Chester. CHARLES WAYNE WHITE Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robert White, Rt. 1, Saluda, are receiving congratulations upon the arrival of an eight pound, one ounce son, Charles Wayne, born at the local hospital on June 5th. Mrs. White is the former Annie Eugene Nich olson. Common interests among rep resentatives of the South Carolina petroleum industry will be discuss ed during a dinner meeting at 7i30 p.m. June 12 at Haile’s Truck Stop restaurant in Newberry. Oilmen from Laurens and New berry counties are expected to be present. The meeting, sponsored by the P^Jmetto State Oil Market ers’ Association annually during the spring, is one of 24 scheduled throughout the 46 counties of South Carolina. t Various legislative matters con cerning the industry will be sub jects of discussion by the oilmen. Also, a report on an enlarged pub lic relations program in the in dustry in the Palmetto State will be given. . W. Q. Boland, 85, of RFD, Po maria, died Sunday afternoon at' the Mills Clinic in Prosperity af ter a long illness. Mr. Bokmd was born and rear ed in Newberry County near Po maria, a son of the late John Adam and Sara Singley Boland, and was a member of St. Paul’s „ Lutheran Church and a former ^Honorary member of the church council. He wj* u was a member of the Pomaria Cburch Coimci1 * Camp of Woodmen of the World and was a retired farmer. He was married to the late Mrs. Corrie Bowers 'Boland, who died in 1944. He is survived by four sons, Howard H., A. R., J. C. and S. F. Boland, all of Pomkria; three daughters, Mrs. ,F. L. Dominick, Miss Mattie Boland and Mrs. A .P. Richardson, all of Pomaria; two sisters, Miss Elizabeth Bo land of Prosperity and Mrs. Ida Hawkins of Columbia; six broth ers, E. L. Boland of Dallas, Texas, C. C. Boland of Chapin, D. L. Bo land of Greenville, C. R. Boland of Columbia, B. E. and F. A. " land, both of Prosperity; grandchildren and ten grandchildren. Funeral services were coi ed Monday at 4 p.m. at St. Lutheran Church by Rev. Wj Dowd and Rev. C. L. Interment was in the church ceme tery. Active pallbearers were C. W* Dominick, H. L. Dominick, 3U M. Richardson, J. LT Richardson, H. E. Metts and Elton Boland. Card Of Thanks . To My Many Friends, Providence i I returned from the Hospital on Thursday Since it will be impossible at time for me to thank each of Personally, I would like to this means to thank you for lovely cards, fldwers and visits. Yqur thoughtfulne ca ’ much to me axis may each of you. imp rOd ■ I Tom M. Fellers, ifi MAYER MEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH Rev. C. K. Derrick, D.D., Pastor Saturday, June 1# Vacation Bible School Com mencement program at 7:30 p.m. This year’s enrollment was over the 100 mark. Sunday, June 11 Sunday School, 10 a.m. Classes for all ages. \ Morning worship, 11 a.m. Ser mon, “The Successful Life,” Pas tor. Lyther League, 7 p.m. All young BEWARE THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILDS FOR A NUMBER of years, the National Government has been building a huge public debt which hangs around the neck of every man, woman and child—especially the latter—in the U, S. This year there is a new gimmick—while building the public debt, the Gov ernment is going to arrange it so you can also shape a private noose for yourself in the form of a per sonal debt that will take almolt as long to liquidate as the na tional debt itself. ALL THIS, and many a kitchen sink, too, is wrapped up in a pack age called the Omnibus Hous ing Billofl96I. Senator Rob ertson, Chair man/ of the Banking and Currency Com mittee, which reported the bill to the Sen ate, puts the total price tag, grants and loans, at $9 billion. THIS ONE AMBITIOUS bill would authorize almost as much money for government housing programs as Congress has author ized in all previous housing acts. Most of the expenditures author ized under this \ bill would not show up in the budget, for the bill relies primarily on “backdoor fi nancing,” a ruse that conceals the actual costs from the public be cause the expenditures would re quire no appropriations. The funds are advanced directly by the Treasury because the authori zation bill creates an obligation for which the Government is le gally liable. Even so, enactment of the bill would increase the bndget deficit by $136 billion in the next fiscal year. IT -WOULD TAKE a book to describe all the housing programs, old and new, mended in this bill. Some of the old'ones, especially those in the form of government insurance of loans, such as FHA and GI, are practical and sound. Many of the old oner, such as public low-rent housing and ur ban renewal are not only unsound, hut are outright socialism. Most of the new ones are absurd. THE B$LL PUTS a premium on the most unsound of the old programs. It would authorize 100,900 new units of low-rent public housing to be constructed at a cost of about $14,000 per unit. For these units, the Gov ernment would be obligated to ap propriate as much as $78.5 mil lion for each of the next 40 years. There have already been author ized units up to $275.5 million per year to supply public housing to a relatively few beneficiaries at the expense of all taxpayers. THERE IS NO actual demand for more public housing. In 1959, the Congress authorized 37,000 new units, hat by June 30, 1961, only 19,897 of these will be under contract. The strongest support for this program comes from polir ticians from the Northern States, but Qie projects are unpopular because of the racial trouble that occurs in them. The courts have ruled that segregated public hous ing is unconstitutional. The only reason that racially separate proj ects remain in the South is be cause no one has contested them in .court. IF THE BILL is passed, bait, in the form of a no down pay ment, 40-year FHA home loan, will be offered the public for in dividuals to build their own pri vate debt nooses. If, under this program, yon purchased a house for $13,500, the total interest you would pay over the 40-year term of the mortgage would be $19,883- 147% larger amount than the cost of the house. After paying on the mortgage for seven years, daring which the house would de predate considerably, the buyer would have an equity of only, about $810. Even if replacement costs remained the same—and they have steadily increased for decades—the house at the end of 20 years would not be worth the amount remaining to»be paid un der the mortgage. UNDER SUCH NEW programs as these, the security for the loan would be the government guaran tee, not the house, and the FHA would end up absorbing the losses. Most of those who would use such loans would be merely “bor rowing” a home from the Govern ment, for no one with any regard for his own finances would under take to so overpay for a home over such a long period. Con sidered objectively, the Adminis tration housing bill—“the house that Jack would build”—is truly a house of horrors. Sincerely, - 8:00 SIS 10:00 11:00 C H A N N EL... AUGUSTA • 1:00 mm GEORGIA ■UMBAY. JUNE 11. 1001 WEDNESDAY. JUNE CM m Robert H. Harper . THC PRODIGAL'S BROTHER W E ARE quite familiar with the story of the Prodigal Son. But you hhve perhaps thought little about the prodigal’s brother We incline more readily to think about the sins of others than we think about our own. We can paint the sins of otoers in lurid colors. We can cite appalling statistics But what about our own sins? The prodigal’s brother was a “model young man.” If what he claimed about himself was true.' we would incline to praise him far his virtues. But, while he claimed he had kept all his la ther’s commandments, he was utterly selfish and devoid of love toward his own brother. Golf v'- . •j* 11111 THURSDAY. MONDAY THORN FRIDAY V " - su JUST A THOUGHT: are y that are “wraag” fear the censeqaenees ef teat it |e eeme- tfimee difSoalt te ttve happily with a gatthj The story gives a vivid contrast between God's attitude toward a sinner and man’s attitude. God deals with a repentant sinner as a forgiving Father. The prodigal’s brother deals with the erring as reprobates. 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