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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1961 L2L6 Coiiere Street VEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. K. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Clasa postage paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR What have we forgotten? I way the little man really must ad- i vance. We are so fearful that someone will make a fortune that Do you think of Henry hord,j c hill the ardor of the men who John D. Rockefeller, Edward H. j WO uld take chances and we there- Harriman, James J. Hill, and oth- frustrate the little man who er men who loomed large in our thrives on what a big man does. industrial or economic life two or three generations ago? And there What about that salt-water? were the Dukes. Those men took s ome time ago I told you about the great chances and succeeded rich- man G f m y town who arranged for ly. Yes, they .amassed colossal Duckets of water from the Atlan- fortunes, but they w'ere builders. wa ^ er t- 0 t>e taken from What men have we today of that the Atlantic about ten miles out constructive order? We live in a f rom the coast. I mentioned at that day when some men accumulate time that my neighbor always fortunes by finesse or chicanery, p asse d through Charleston in sometimes, but the great builders; q Ue st of sea-water and I ventured are lost in the crowd. to wonder wTiether the fumes a- Frequently we emphasize a i on g Highway 52, approaching the man’s methods—frequently un ethical—and ignore the perman ence of his achievements. grand old City, contributed in any appreciable degree to the helpful chemical content of the This is not the day of giants, sea-water, though we have a much higher while indulging my fanciful common level of thought and S p ecu i a tions about the special practical achievement then we had quaIities t y le wa ter near my in the day of the super-man. cherished birthplace, I found an This day of average men and article on t h P potential of the the dominant note of the day is; chemicals of the sea 5 y a man one of curtailment, even destruc tion. Men of great ability and po tential acomplishment are subject to the harrowing, sniping and domination of very ordinary men in positions of authority. Why does not someone in con gress dare to speak against the decrees of the courts in the case of the DuPonts and General Mo tors? Why do we quake in fear of someone’s malignant attitude and caustic tongue. Let us face the problem like Americans. What is the problem? There is no problem; all that we have is a trumped up politically inspired attitude of opposition to two £reat enterprises which have cteitributed enormously to the prosperity and economic well-be ing of our nation. I know of no reason why I should explain that I have no in terest in either General Motors or DuPont, but, perhaps, unfortun ately, I have no financial interest from Vermont. “Being the lowest portion of the surface of the earth, the ocean is the catch basin into which chemical substances of every kind have been dumped by the many moving forces in Nature. Loose and transportable materials are either moved directly and swiftly or indirectly and by degrees, down ward to the sea. Particles are carried bodily by wind, water course, and glacier. Other sub stances are dissolved in water and transported to the sea, where they are caught as it were in a trap and made permanently available. Thus has the ocean become a res ervoir of accumulated wealth in chemical materials which makes the resources of the land appear insignificant by comparison.” “This accumulation of useful materials is a direct challenge to chemists. It seems safe to predict that coming generations will learn the innexhaustibility of the in either concern; I do not even ocean » s hoarded wealth, and how’ own or drive a General Motors to make priceless use of the corn- car nor have I any affiliation of pi e ^ e assortment cf chemicals it any kind, sort or degree with either company or anybody con nected wdth either. But this na tion* stands out before the world in the magnitude of its achieve ment in great degree because of the colossal industrial enterprises we have developed* among us. I am not calling the roll by any means but if any great peril con fronts America we should call up on our vast industrial Companies, such as Standard Oil, U. S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel, DuPont, General Motors, General Electric, Ford, Westinghouse, Chrysler — and a hundred others. includes.” “The surface area of the earth is 196,930,277 square miles. Of this area 70.73 per cent, or 139,295,000 squares miles, are occupied by the ocean. The average depth of the ocean is estimated to be 2.38 miles.” “We do not know the composi tion of the first primitive seas. We do know, however, that thru- out the ages many forces have been bringing material to the oceans from outer space, from the interior of the earth, and from the land. Meteors or cosmic dusts ar riving on the earth have seven In this matter of DuPont andj c ] iance s out of ten of falling in General Motors, what happened? ^iie ocean. Numerous rock meteors' Following the First World War a ■ a s well as those of iron and nickel; great automobile concern was in! are found strewn on the bottom of] dire need of money. That concern j ^iie sea. Volcanoes have contrihut-| not only was a heavy taxpayer, but | ec } much to the ocean, either dir-j employed thousands of men. The! ectly or by dust thrown high into, DuPonts come to the rescue with] the atmosphere, to be carried by ] millions of dollars—buying stock, wind over the ocean and brought j taking long - chances in a sick dowui bv rain. Submarine fissures business. Everybody’s business was. am ] springs bring materials from in a bad way then. Since than Gen- the interior of the earth. Glaciers] eral Motors has developed enor-1 rasp out rocks, mud. and debris] mously and prosperously, but it does not dominate the market; it has the most able and resourceful competition from Ford, Chrysler, foreign cars, and three or four smaller American manufacturers. Why, then, does our Government —this time the courts—demand that DuPont dispose of its hold ings of General Motors? I repeat: My interest is -solely that of an American who knows that our high standard of living is based on our vast industrial de velopment and who thinks all the branches of the Government—Leg islative,- Judicial and Executive— are on the wrong track and crip and, when they arrive at the shore, yield icebergs to drift to sea, where they melt and drop their cargoes of minerals.” “Perhaps the greatest and most continuous addition to the ocean is carried by water. This water erodes and washes away the soil, which is carried as mud and silt down the brooks, creeks, and riv ers back to the ocean. Part of it seeps into the ground to some depth, dissolving out soluble ma terials, issuing again in springs, geysers and artesian wells, and re turning with its dissolved and sus pended substances to the sea, where, again leaving its load of LETTER TO EDITOR (The following letter is pub lished exactly as it was deliver ed to The Sun. This newspaper accepts no responsibility for the unsupported charges contained therein.—Ed.) July 8, 1961 Dear Mr. Editor: In this letter to you I wish to bring up an important matter that should be considered vital to every citizen in New-berry. I am like the late Will Rogers of many years ago, “All I know is what I see in the papers.” Some time back I wrote a letter to the Editor trying to get the people to thinking con cerning the need in Newberry for a City Business Manager. Some time shortly following that letter a group of citizens of Newberry paid out of their pockets and hired a law-yer from Saluda, S. C. to draw up a petition making a re quest to the Newberry City Coun cil to give the people of Newber ry an opportunity to vote on the matter of continueing the City Manager System form of govern ment. The matter wms seemingly ignored. Later a group of citi zens of Newberry again hired a Saluda lawyer and the matter was presented to Judge Steve Griffith. It seems to be the understanding that the people will have the op portunity to vote on this issue. Closely following these actions the City Manager resigned his office. It was accepted. But to my sur prise, the resignation will not go into effect unti Ithe last day of December, 1961, making more than five months to go. I do not know- if the City Manager has a binding contract or not. It has al ways been my understanding that the City Council had the power to fire or dismiss the City Manager as soon as they saw fit. Now it will be remembered that the City Manager resigned once before and the things that followed seemed to bear the ear marks of a spirit of conniving and trickery, anyway the resignation did not go into ef fect. Volumns could be written on this subject. But what I want to say is to express my opinion and my wishes. If the City Manager has actually resigned and the City of Newberry owes him five or six months salary, lets pay him what we ow'e him and let him go his way. Mr. Editor we have had en ough trickery and things of this type, lets do our business straigt forward and keep the people of Newberry correctly informed with true facts. How can a people even discuss a matter or even vote on a matter unless we are correctly informed. What I w’ould like to see 7° for the City Council to pay the City Manager what we owe him and then let the people know what the ammount comes too. I would like to see a picture of the check printed in our local newspapers. If we have to pay we certainly have a right to know w-hat is be ing paid. After we have settled the business matter, then we can sell the automobile as it will be worth more now' than six months later. There will be many more things that can be saved. In my opinion no better man can be found to run the affairs of our City un til this entire matter can be straightened out than our very own C. C. Wallace. If it becomes necessary for him to go any where over the city on business let him hire a Taxi, they not only pay a license but they have to make a living also. Mr. Editor, in my opin ion every citizen in Newberry is deeply indebted to those citizens that have brought these things to the front, we should be very grate ful for them. There are so many things that the people of Newber ry are not informed about. We know that we can go to Mr. Wal lace as I have done, Mr. Wallace is a fine Christian man in my op inion and is very courteous and will let any one know anything that he knows. But lets just think pling the goose that lays the gol- minerals in the ocean, it returns to den eggs. the land for more. The most sol- ] America is the envy of all the other nations of the world. Why? Because of our able, adroit, under standing and accomplished diplo- uble substances go soonest and] most completely. Whatever in creases solubility also increases tire impoverishment of the land mats and diplomacy? Nay, verily;] and the enrichment of the sea. for we have astonished the world by our incapable diplomacy only a bit less than w r e have amazed all mankind by the wealth of Amer ica. And where does our w'ealth originate? In our industrial prim acy. America ow r es very little to our politicians; they often stand in the w’ay of progress, always think ing that they are protecting the little man, being little men them selves, but, in truth, darning the stream of progress which is the Among the most soluble com pounds are the nitrates, the halo gen compounds—the chlorides, id-, dide, bromides; also sodium, pot assium, calcium, magnesium, and others. The less soluble substances such as silicia or sand, and the clays, or alumina, are left behind. It is these less soluble materials which are now the bulk of our soil.” “Various agencies assist the process of escape of minerals to the sea. Every stroke of lightning oxidizes some atmospheric nitro gen to nitric acid, which is carried down by the rains, to the soil, where it dissolves some minerals as nitrates. Some of this is used by plants, and some of it is dis solved and washed away to the sea. The carbon dioxide of the at mosphere dissolves in rain water and increases the solubility of limestone. Large quantities of , this are transported down the rivers to the sea. While the above substan ces are carried in vast quantities to the sea, all minerals are soluble to some extent, though some of them more swiftly; silicia or sand, alumina, phospates, and the like are carried in small amounts but add up over geologic time to huge quantities. The agencies of erosion—wind, frost, exposure to changes of temperature and sun light—all tend to aid the escape of substance from tthe land to the sea. Mountains and hills slowly crumble, valleys are chiseled out, rocks disintegrate and decompose and are dissolved and washed away.” I haven’t exhausted the subject of the sea-potential; I’ll have more later. Perhaps we may find the source of the intellectual acute ness of our friends who feed gen erously on fish, oysters, shrimp, clams, shark-steaks; and rub down with whale oil. what a congloremation it would be if every citizen when wanting to know something would have to go to Mr. Wallace. It seems to me that all important matters should be printed in our local newspap ers for all to see. I wonder if many citizens realize the fact, That any four of the elected seven men could do some mighty good work in so many ways. Any four could do away with the commode tax and put it where it should be. Any four could have setteled the mat ter of the purchase of the Fire Truck. Yet it ~„ook a group of firemen along with their chaplain Dr. Truesdalo to bring the mat ter to a head. Just four of the men could have had a filtering plant on Saluda river and sending pure clean w’ater to Newberry and also supplying all of those along the way, making possible ‘ many industries along the way. Newber ry has received some very poor publicity concerning many things and most certainly some of these more recent ones. My hope is that] the citizens will become correctly informed, become concerned and help get these terrible things straightened out and then ALL work for a better city. Dewey Kinard 530 Wright St. Newberry, S. C. Drug TRANSFERS OF REALTY Newberry No. 1 J. F. Hipp Jr., to John Henry Wilson and Jeanette S. Wilson, one lot and one building on Clarkson Ave., $5.00 and assumption of a mortgage. Hazel W. Halfacre to Frances Senn Adams, one lot, $200. Newberry No lOutside J. M. Roland to Bertha Jackson Roland, one lot and one building, $5.00, love and affection. Silverstreet No. 2 Sebella Elizabeth Nichols, et al to Waldrop Bros., Inc., one lot and From the Waverly Son, Waver- ly. New York: When World War II came along the Congress pass ed a number of “emergency” tax measures to help finance the war. Since then the “emergency” taxes on various Items have been ex tended year after year. The term emergency tax has been used by Congress instead at “sales” tax because the sales tax idea was not popular. Therefore, a limited number of industries were penalized with high “emer gency” taxes instead of low gen eral sales taxes. The latest example of the “emergency” tax racket is the one-cent additional federal gas tax enacted last year with the provision that it would expire next June 30th. A move is underway to continue the tax and even in crease it above the present federal tax of four cents a gallon. State gas taxes range from three to seven cents a gallon not counting state sales and local taxes. In other words, state and federal “sales” taxes on a necessity are IDEAS FROM OTHER EDITORS some 50 per cert of the price of the product less taxes, $1.00 on every 10 gallons of gasoline. Is it any wonder the worms (the taxpayers) are beginning to turn and no longer believe their lawmakers when they talk about “temporary” taxes? It is time to call a spade a spade and admit that most temporary or emer gency taxes are just an excuse for permanent sales taxes, which legislators are afraid to propose for fear of losing votes. The honest thing to do is to < t out such subterfuges and if nevds demand it, establish a general sales tax instead of socking a few industries with sales taxes running from 10 to 50 per cent, as with telephones, transportation and gasoline. The exorbitant tax on gasoline may be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and brings a halt to the deception practiced in the name of “emergency” or “tem porary” taxes. The worms are turning against the temporary tax racket. SENATOR STROM RMOND Much Work to be Done THE CONGRESS has already approved several major pieces of legislation and a number of small er bills, but much work remains to be done on New Frontier pro posals between now and adjourn ment. Major legislative items which the Congress has already considered are the following: aid for economically depressed areas, minimum wage increase and ex tension of coverage, extension of unemployment compensation ben efits, aid to dependent children of unemployed persons, additional fi nancing for the interstate high way program to keep it on a pay- as-you-go basis, liberalization of Social Security benefits, feed grains legislation, an omnibus housing bill, and military con- ] struction and procurement au thorizations. THE ONLY ESSENTIAL legis lation which must be acted on be tween now and ad j ou rnment are approxi mately 13 ap propriation (spending) bills to enable the govern ment to oper ate during fis cal year 1962, which began on July 1. All of this legislation is supposed to be approved by June 30 of each year, but only two appropriation bills — for aid to Latin America and to operate the Labor Department and the De partment of Health, Education and Welfare — and a few 1961 supplemental appropriation bills have become law. THERE ARE A number of leg islative items which the Adminis tration has on its “must” list for this year, but some of these may have to be carried over until next session. For instance, the Ad ministration has placed top pi’i- ority on three federal aid to edu cation bills: aid for school con struction and teacher pay, exten sion and expansion of the Na tional Defense Education Act of 1958, and federal aid for institu tions of higher learning. ALL THREE OF these bills are tied up in the House Rules Committee in a hassle over aid to parochial schools, desegregation, federal control and general oppo sition to federal aid to education, particularly the issue as to their lack of constitutional authority. Only one of these bills, the one providing aid for construction and teacher pay, has passed the Sen ate thus far. TWO OTHER major pieces of legislation which may go over until next year are the Adminis tration’s farm and Social Secur ity medical care bills. The Senate Agriculture Committee has re cently deleted the main feature of the farm bill, a provision which in effect would have let the Secre tary of Agriculture write his own farm program. The medical care for the aged legislation hasn’t stirred much this year in either the House or Senate. ANOTHER Administration pri ority item is foreign aid, a pro gram which had its real begin ning with passage of the Lend- Lease Act of 1941 and which has cost, in all forms, approximately $100 billion. The Administration is trying this year to convince the Congress to delegate to the Ex ecutive Branch more authority over the aid program by approv ing 5-year authorizations and also authority to borrow from the Treasury (a form of backdoor financing). There is much ques tion not only as to whether Con gress will provide the 5-year au thorizations and borrowing power, but also the full amount requested this year, $4.8 billion. HERE ARE SOME other pro posals the Administration would like to have enacted into law this year: tax law changes, minimum federal standards for State un employment compensation pro grams, authorization of funds to re-train workers in economically- depressed areas and industries, authorization for the Executive- ordered Peace Corps Program, and increased postal rates. TWO FINAL ITEMS which could be very explosive in nature and should consume considerable time in debate are proposals to further curb debate in the Senate and to make permanent the Civil Rights Commission. Either of these two proposals could run the Congress beyond Labor Day and even longer, if they are insisted on. So, we may be stuck here with the New Frontier for some time to come, even though the Legis lative Reorganization Act calls for adjournment by July 31. Sincerely, one building (Silverstreet Co.) $400. Little Mountain No. 6 Forest L. Frick to Douglas L. Haltiwanger and Virginia Ray Haltivvanger, .69 acre, $5.00 love and affection. J. N. Hamm to J. Howard Wall and Pauline W. Wall, one lot, $5.60 and other valuable considerations. Prosperity No. 7 Alice Bedenbaugh, Ralph O’Neal Bedenbaugh, Virgie Bedenbaugh, j John Edward Bedenbaugh, and Elizabeth B. Williams to James Gallman and Willie B. Gallman,! 3.44 acres, $5 love and affection. Ruth B. Griffith, Amos Beden baugh and Mary Rebecca B. Wo mack to James Gallman and Wil lie B. Gallman, 3.44 acres, $5 love and affection. Joe N. Bedenbaugh to James Gallman and Willie B. Gallman, 3.44 acres, $5 love and affection. Mary Bedenbaugh to James Gallman and Willie B. Gallman, 3.44 acres, $5 love and affection. David R. Bedenbaugh to James Gallman and W’illie B. Gallman, 3.44 acres, $5 love and affection. R. H. Frazier and Alvia Welchel to Samuel L. Gladden, one lot, $5.00 and other valuable considera tions. Virginia H. Nelson et al to Tommie E. Harmon, two acres and one building, $2900. Annie Belle Quattlebaum to Tommie E. Harmon, 15 acres, $5.00 and other valuable considera tions. H. B. Hendrix, and Edith B. Hendrix to James H. Barns and Annie H. Barns, 2.37 acres, $5.00 love and affection. I E. Chapman and Mildred H. Chapman to John Boyd Smith and Betty F. Smith ,one lot, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. I. E. Chapman and Mildred H. Chapman to Johnnie J. Fuller, and Ernestine M. Fuller, one lot, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. James Robert Hamm to James Robert Hamm and Judith H. Hamm, one lot, $5.00 love and af fection. WASHINGTON AND SMALL BUSINESS At evidenced by voting through the National Federa tion of Independent Business, over 70% of the nation’s in dependent businessmen, 74% to be exact, favor enactment of the bill presented by Sen. Ken neth Keating to tie import duties on foreign imports to die wages in the country such merchandise is made. * * * For just as it said that this nmtion cannot endure half slave and half free, it is becoming c. W. Harder more apparent that 1M years later the nation’s economy can not endure with goods from free labor competing in mar ketplace against goods made by labor at near slave wages. . • • * Aggressive Japanese busi nessmen realize fully the ad vantage they have in cheap labor and are exploiting it to the fullest in their bids for U. S. commercial connections. * * * For example, Japanese firms are carrying on direct mail campaigns to American mer chandisers, asking for the op portunity of getting their mer chandise requirements made for them in Asia. so* One firm in Tokyo, is offering as bait, to send to the recipient of their letters a nine piece carving set which they say is available in Tokyo for $7.96. * • ♦ As a matter of fact, they are using this offer to illustrate their sales “pitch.” This carv ing set, they point out, was made at the request of *a American firm to duplicate a set that they reta ” d at I164.S5. fct Fed^ratio:' ' T ' i ndent Business WILSON" HA They claim the Japanese made set is not only less than 1/lOth the cost of the American item, but due to the fact it was handmade by craftsmen long skilled in making Samurai swords it is quite superior to the American made article. • * a. Interestingly enough, the Jap anese do not claim to he in any why competitive with products where the principal cost is raw materials. But on the other hand, if the major cost is la bor, they quite bluntly say their chief resource is cheap labor. • • * It is this cheap labor, they claim, which is causing major American firms to establish plants in the Orient, and which will account in 1961 for a per- capita purchase cf $6.02 in Japanese made goods, or over a billion dollars. * • • And herein is highlighted the major fallacy committed by the Internationalists when seek ing to defend the lack of tariff protection for the U. S. * * • These people will invariably point to a set of figures which shows, for example, that while a billion dollars worth was im ported from Japan, U. S. ex ported similar value to Japan. * * • This is not a proper measure ment. While America’s exports are valued in their U. S. pro duction costs, the imports from labor costa of.production, every billion dollars worth of Jap goods flooding into this na tion replaces in actuality some where around 16 billions of dol lars in American protection. It is estimated in many Jap plants the labor payroll in total Is no higher than just the taxes paid by U. S. FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS Do Teenagers Have REAL Problems? By C. D. Smith I ^ I iwFewoRrry - complex' THE WEEK’S LETTER: “First, I am not a teenager. I read your column, just as I read everything else in the paper. Throw this let ter aside, or answer it if you wish. I just want to make an observa tion: apparently most of the let ters you receive from teenagers concern problems dealing with dating, boy friends, girl friends, being liked or not being liked, etc. Don’t teenagers ever have any REAL problems?” OUR ANSWER: Certainly, teen agers have REAL problems. And, if a grownup cannot remember how REAL wore his or her own prolilems at the dating age, then it haj* been some time since this individual went through the dif ficult (often) and challenging (al ways) business of growing up. Teenager* have problem* with their schoolwork. Wher they do, usually, ihey buckle down and try to do their best. Or, they turn to someone—jn older person or a more gifted student, for assist ance. Teenagers have acne, inferiority complexes, nightmares, claustro phobia, measles, mumps and chicken pox. Some teenagers be lieve that no one loves them or cares what happens to them. Some teenagers are well-adjust ed. They love life, they like peo ple; thfey are looking to the fu ture and they intend to carve a place for themselves in the world. In short, teenager* are people; young people, but people just the same. They have all hinds of problems, just as grownups do. But dating,, being liked — these must rank high on the teenage problem sheet. As we grow to ma turity, we either marry or decide on the single life and the problems of dating or liking (or loving) someone who does not return the favor becomes no longer a prob lem. We are married to someone we love, or we are no longer looking. We are then mem con cerned with such things as earning a living, accumulating a little nest egg in the bank, and the I ke. It is a common thing for oxUstars to look at the young and say, “How lucky they are, without knowing Tt—they haven’t a care in the world.” Anyoue who de votes even a little thought to the subject knows better. Teenagers have problems, all kinds of prob lems—and to them their difficul ties are just as. real as the plight of the jobless father who has to worry about where his next pay- check is likely to come from. If you have a teenage problem pea want te discuss, sr an observatlsn to make, address jronr letter to FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS, NATION AL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERV ICE. FRANKFORT, KY. 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