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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA tut 1218 Colkf« Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfieid, Jr., Owner FARM u\2 NOTES iMUlz ><>I4||;||||||||||| 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 By SPECTATOR O tempora o mores, exclaimed the orator of Rome as he contem plated the course of affairs and the trend of events. And so may we cry aloud over the happenings of the day. O times o customs, in deed. The only comfort to me is that I’ve read that twcr hundred years ago the world was going to the dogs. Now’ what wdll the dogs do with the world ? I wonder, don’t you ? This is a day—perhaps just another day—of my rights, my privileges, but not my obligations. Just in passing, wouldn’t it be refresning to hear and read some thing that savored of common sense, though I repeat the Span ish observation that common sense is the rarest of all the senses, be ing so rare as to refute the very idea of being common. As the Spanish say in their musical ton gue: “Sentido Comun! Es el mas- raro de todos los sentidos.” I lived and worked in South America ten years, and that was during the time of depression. No one even imagined that some other nation would lift them by their bootstraps to a higher level of living. We Americans have lost our commonsense; and we are chasing will o the wisps all over the world. Today the whole world must look at us and plan to get whatever we will give on whatever pretext. I wonder if the atmos phere of Washington fills the mind with fanciful ideas of deluded grandeur and transforms all the rest of the world into prodigal sons coming to old Uncle Sam for the ring on his finger and the fat ted calf. Just as I’m about to slink into the Slough of Despond and think, as Elijah did, that I, only, am left, I read the papers and take fresh heart, hope and spirit, for, as in the days of Elijah, there are those who have not bowed to Baal. So perk up, s boys; there’s hope yet, for hope springs eternal in the human breast? eh? So they say. there were 372 new’ industrial de velopments representing an in vestment of almost half a billion dollars—greater than any year since 1956. Among these are in dustries of all kinds and sizes, all looking for the same thing—in creased in-plant production effi ciency plus fast-growing markets nearby, to absorb the goods they make at a reasonable profit to the ; manufacturer.” “A recent U. S. Department ofi Commerce report shows the mod ern South leading the national; rate-of-growth average in 29 of the 34 fields of business activity covered. The bureaucrats in Washington seem to have miscalculated. Here is a great national advertiser us ing a page in a national journal to refute the bureaucrats: “Federal Aid to Education should stare with teaching arithmetic in Washington.” “The Federal government says we need 600,000 new’ school rooms in America in the next 10 years and that they should do it. The fact is that local communities are already building at the rate of 690,000 in 10 years, and wdth the’r own money.” ‘‘Everyone wants more pay for competent teachers, and the fact is they are getting it. From 1949 to 1959, w’hile pay of all employ ed people increased 29% in con stant dollars, pay of public school teachers increased 45%. And the pay, with its other and big com pensations, must be attractive, for in that same period the civilian work force increased 12% while teaching staffs incre^.^u ol c >. “What about science? In the past 5 years 47% more college graduates prepared to teach, while those prepared to teach science or mathematics increased 100%.” “Authorities say that by reor ganizing school distdicts far more than 10,000 classes could be saved, quality of instruction co dd be im proved and teachers’ 7->ay increas ed. Then who is holding back that reorganizing?” “And — finally—pupils-per-room are declining. If there ever was crowding, it is being corrected, without Federal aid or interfer ence.” “The crowding seems to be among the bureaucrats—who al ways seem ready to tell the rest of the country how to run its af fairs.” Another advertiser tells us in plain figures about the future of the South. “How’ Does the Future Look to You?** “Your outlook on the future can well depend on where you look to ! see it. Especially is this true in | these highly competitive times, 1 when profits everywhere are much harder to come by. So, w r e say again to profit-minded business men—don’t despair? If you have set your sights on a prosperous and rewarding industrial future. Look South now to find it. You will be in good company. Last year, along one line alone, Six wild ideas that earned in calculably for six wild men and ten million more. “$200,000 risk grubstaked the Wright Company when it started making ‘aeroplanes’ in November, 1910 — seven years after the Wright Brothers’ flight to Kitty Hawk, N. C. The large, chancy in vestment put a new’ industry on its feet. Aircraft manufacturers now’ provide 700,000 U. S. jobs.” “$600,000 risk built Thomas Ed ison’s dream-child, the first elec tric generating station, in 1882. It show’ed a $4400 first-year loss, heralded an $8 billion industry em ploying 550,000.” “'$15,000 risk let Samuel Morse build first Philadelphia to New York telegraph line in 1845.” “$28,000 risk put Henry Ford, a two-time failure, back in busi ness in 1903. Competing with 120 other automakers, he almost went bankrupt before selling his first car. Today the Ford Motor Com pany employs 160,000; assets are $3.8 billion.” “$110,000 risk was staked by one backer of an inventive ‘vocal physiology’ professor, Alexander G. Bell, in 1877. During 1960, U.S. telephone industry employed 800,- 000.” “$2500 risk went into a hole at Titusville, Pa., in 1859—then the original investors gave up. Ed win Drake borrowed $300 and kept drilling. At 69 feet, he brought in the first oil well.” “Six wild ideas, with about a million dollars split among them: Dollars for a railw’ay conductor who wanted to drill for oil; for a two-time failure w’ho wanted to build automobiles; for a portrait painter who wanted to send words through wires. If you invested in such schemes, your friends call ed you crazy . . . but you wound up covered with gold. • The six ideas, wdth the million dollars split among them, paved the way to the best part of 10 mil lion jobs. They call this innovative invest ment, and it’s a chancy business. You risk a considerable amount of money, and it’s a 50-50- chance or worse that you’ll fall on your face. It’s the kind of investment that recalls a comment by Mark Twain: ‘I’m not concerned about the re turn on my money. I’m concerned about the return of my money.’ It recalls, also, that there are a thousand safer ways to spend a business dollar. Some good ones are mentioned above: Money to ex pand a going business; to replace worn-out machinery; to modernize old plants and improve established products. All are necessary to commercial health, and to neglect any is to court disaster. But the fifth element—innovation—is the one which gives a real growth tex ture to the investment total. The dollars which put ‘wild ideas’ in motion are the ones with real po tential. One major innovation gamble— like the $27 million which DuPont staked on nylon, before earning a penny back—can create thousands of jobs at what amounts to a cut- rate cost. More than 10,000 Du Pont jobs, plus some 150,000 in other firms, stemmed directly from the introduction of nylon. Com pared to the ‘down payment’ gam ble of $27 million, this works out to $169 of risk capital per job. To use a currently popular word, this is ‘growth’, with a plus. Industry’s problem, today, is how’ to stimulate this kind of growth—how to get the dollars to. stake on the ‘wild ideas’, as well as those needed for modernization, 1 replacement, retooling, and ex pansion of established plants. Where will the high-risk dollars come from; and why should chose who have them, take the chance? It’s a matter of potential profit versus potential loss, played against a discouraging tw’o-toned By COUNTY AGENTS Back to School We’ve just completed a new ex perience. For the past three weeks, along with 19 other agri cultural workers from 13 southern states, we had the opportunity of attending a special course in Farm Policy at N. C. State College. Usually a County Agent attends school to learn how to help farm ers increase production of farm products. This time it was differ ent. We gained instead an insight into the agricultural situation here in our southern states and some thing of the adjustments necessary to improve our economic position. We thought you might be inter ested in some of the things that seemed important to us during this course. The story of American Agricul ture is perhaps the greatest suc cess story ever told. By putting to work increased technology and “knowhow” farmers have poured out a tremendous increase in the production of farm products dur ing the past 25 years. This unpar- alled production has been a major factor in providing our nation with the highest standard of living the world has ever known. No longe" must most Americans dread that Age-old fear—“the fear of hun ger.” Americans now spend only 20% of their income for food. This we believe is important to all of us. However, there is something wrong with agriculture today. Our farmers who produce this abund ance are not getting the rew’ard they deserve. Farm income is lag ging far behind incomes of non farm workers, ihe average person living on a farm last year had an income of $986. The rest of us had an income of $2,282—over twice as paedcom Wrnit wi woaya f,enloed much. Income of farm families are lower today, when compared with those of non-farm families, than they have at any time since the late 1930’s. Farm surpluses, Government subsidies, and mounting storage costs! These things have in re cent years given the farmer an ill deserved reputation in the eyes of the public. “Push farmers out of the government trough and turn loose farmers to produce all they want,” we hear is the solution to the farm problem. This is not so, say our leading farm economists. A return to free prices in agricul ture would bankrupt half our pres ent farmers within 5 years and would eventually cost the consum er more in the way of increased food costs plus taxes for welfare programs than all of our present) agricultural programs cost. It’s true farm programs have cost taxpayers money. Future pro grams will continue to cost tax dollars. However, it is vital that we all realize that adjustment in Agriculture is a slow process. No one farm bill or program is likely to remedy the situation complete ly. More farmers will likely quit farming in the next few years. This along with the various land retirement programs is Helping to bring production more in balance with demand. When we get right dow r n to the matter, shouldn’t we be thankful we have an abundance of food and fiber instead of an acute short age? The farmer cannot be ex pected to continue to invest his capital, labor, skill and manage ment ability for an inceme far be low our national average. The 82 cents an hour a farmer receives for his labor is only about two- thirds of the minimum $1.25 an hour recently established by law to become effective soon. Here in the South our problems are much the same, only more so. We have more small farmers and lower incomes than the national average. This means we perhaps will need to make more adjust ments in the years ahead than w# have in the past. This does not mean our situation is hopeless. Far from it. Our opportunity for ex pansion in livestock & poultry are probably greater than for any oth er area of our country. It does mean that we have a big job ahead to make needed changes and to put all our resources into practice to forge ahead. We hope this does not sound too much like we have become confus ed in our thinking by attending summer school. We do feel howev er that we have some definite pro blems in agriculture that we must recognize if we are to overcome them. We feel more strongly than ever that agriculture will continue to be of vital importance to all of us here in Newberry County. To keep it so and to continue to make progress we pledge our best ef forts. Farm and Home Week Make plans now to attend Farm and Home Week at Clemson Col lege the week of August 14-18th. It sounds like it will be bigger and better than ever. There’ll be some thing of interest to everyone. Young folks, and old alike will find things to their liking at this gala event. New farm equipment galore will cover Bowman field for you to see and inspect. Classes and lec tures on all phases of farming and homemaking are arranged for your benefit. Tours and exhibits will bring you up-to-date on new methods and conveniences. Or you may just want to meet new friends and renew old acquaintances at this biggest event held each year for farm people in South Carolina. These are the things that have made Farm and Home Week be come known far and wide for its ability to interest and attract large crowds year after year. Good eating too will be a main feature again this year with ’sum- tous meals at reasonable prices in the college dining hall. We’ll be telling you more about Farm and Home Week in the next few weeks, but we know right now you’ll want to go for sure this year. So hold this week open and plan to don’t miss it! How Much Steak per Critter? On a 1,000 pound beef animal there’s less “eating meat” than meets the eye. To a meat packer, a 1,000 pound steer looks like this —550 pounds carcass beef, 62 pounds hide, 85 pounds by prod ucts, and 303 pound valueless ma terial. Only a little more than half a steer is carcass beef. This means that the dressed cost per pound is about double the live weight cost. From 100 pounds of choice car cass beef, you can expect an aver age of—24 pounds round steaks and roasts, 9 pounds standing ribs and roasts, 17 pounds loin, 20 pounds stew meat, 20 pounds ham burger and 4 pounds suet. Now you see why steaks are ex pensive even though the live weight price of beef cattle seems pretty low. 4-H Club Round Up Newberry 4-H Club members competed successfully with other members at Piedmont District Round-Up held at Camp Long last week. 4-H Club boys who attended and their placings included: Bobby Lominick, dairy, blue award; Ken- ry Caldwell, leadership, blue aw ard; Olin Dorroh, field crops, red award; Alan Bickley, safety, red award; and Alvin Killian, garden, TRANSFERS OF REALTY Newberry No. 1 C. A. Kaufmann, et al to C. A. Kaufman, et al, one lot and one building on Harrington St., $5.00 love and affection. Carol M. Hipp to Newberry Col lege, one lot on Evans St., $5.00 and other valuable considerations. Lola Ellen Smith Cook to James O. Cook, one lot and one building on Glenn St., $5.00 and assumption of mortgage. Newberry No. 1 Outside Carol M. Hipp to Jack Edwards Jr. and Annie Mae Edwards, one lot and one building on Byrd St., $5, and other valuable considera tions. Silverstreet No. 2 Hazel W. Bryant to Evelyn C. Wright, one lot, $5.00 love and af fection. Margaret G. Prince to William | T. Prince, one lot, $10.00 love and affection. Whitmire No. 4 Margaret G. Prince to William j T. Prince, two acres, $10.00 love I and affection. | Lynn Louis Culbreth and Pau-1 line P. Culbreth to R. Horace: Jenkins and Geraldine O. Jenkins, one lot and one building, 53 Mc Dowell St., $3,000. I Pomaria No. 6 E. Maxcy Stone, Probate Judge, of Newberry County and Ellen C. Ringer, as adm. of Estate of Thomas E. Ringer to Mrs. Ellen C. Ringer, one lot and one build ing, $2,000. Prosperity No. 7 C. S. Holland to Clyde R. Odelll, one lot, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. white award; demonstration, white award and National Junior Vege table Grower Demonstration, red award. At district Round-Up 4-H Club members throughout the Piedmont District compete with each other with their 4-H records. The records are judged and placed in either the blue, red or white ribbon group. Those club members whose rec ords are placed in the blue ribbon group may rework their records and enter them in State competi tion, the State blue ribbon winners may then go on for National com petition at the National 4-H Club Congress held in Chicago. Recent Movings Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Henry have moved to 2105 Charles St. to make their home. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Bledsoe are now '•esiding at 2027 Montgomery St. Mr. and Mrs. WTlliam Vaughn have moved to 709 Wright St. Snapshots: The Old Water Mill Permits To Build July 12: L. H. Julian, repairs to dwelling, 2004 Glenn St., $2500; Paul James, repairs to dwelling, 1801 Lindsay St., $111.; I. T. Tim merman, repairs to dwelling on College St., $40; Mrs. T. S. Humphries, repairs to dwelling, 937 Cline St., $80. July 18: Miller Chapel A.M.E. Church, one 16x45 ft. Sunday school room, concrete block on Caldwell St., $3000. Mrs. I. H. Wilson is spending this week in Batesburg with her sister, Mrs. M. Z. Watkins. SENATOR STROM RMOND Do We Deserve To Win? THE UNITED STATES is pre paring to make another important concession to the communists—- diplomatic recognition of and United Nations membership for the so-called Republic of Outer Mongolia. This proposed action is merely a prelude for admission of Communist China to the U.N. and when consummated will mark another in a series of communist victories over a vacillating USA. OUTER MONGOLIA is a land locked country about the size of I background. On the one hand is a hard fact: ‘Wild ideas’ have a 98 per cent death rate, and even some good ones fail. On the other hand are high taxes, which discourage risk-taking.” “National growth would be well served by a farsighted program of U. S. tax reform.” Alaska and is located be- ^ > | tween Commu nist China and Soviet Russia. Because of its location and its socialist police- state government. Outer Mongo* lia has very close ties with Red China and Russia. In fact, it is Russia’s old est satellite. THE ARGUMENT being used by Under Secretary of State Chester Bowles and other Ad ministration advisers, who appar ently see no Bear Traps in Krem lin aims and strategies, is that our Government will win a val uable listening post by placing a diplomatic mission in Outer Mon golia. Bowles’ contention evident-^ ly doesn’t worry the Soviets, who continue avidly to sponsor Outer; Mongolia in the U.N. Visits to areas near Russia and China have convinced me that we already have many good listening posts and that we listen well. OUR WEAKNESS lies not in the collection of intelligence data but the application of this data. The best intelligence is no good if many of our policy makers in the State Department and the White House don’t have a basic understanding of the enemy—his aims, methods, and devious na ture. Too many of them seem to have no strong quarrel with the basic tenets of socialism and com munism — that is, sharing the wealth through state ownership or control of property and the. economy. They also seem to con tinue to ignore the lessons of his tory on policies of appeasing or trusting the enemy, particularly our record in dealing with world communism. ANYONE FAMILIAR with communism—and on this score my mail and contacts reflect that the American people are ahead of this Administration and the past one, except for John Foster Dulles —realizes that only a FIRM AND RESOLUTE policy will save the world from either thermonuclear holocaust or bit-by-bit surrender to the communist conspiracy. OUR GOVERNMENT has put forth a few strong words on Ber lin, but we haven’t shown Mr. Khrushchev we really mean to fight, if necessary, to preserve our rights in Berlin. We are still reeling and reacting to Mr. Khrushchev’s moves, such as his recent pronouncements about re storing proposed defense cuts— which were never seriously in tended—and his demonstrations of new air power. Why didn’t we take the initiative on such a move? Because they have a plan and we don’t. We are still pro crastinating over whether to ne gotiate or to demonstrate we still have the will to win. BERLIN IS truly a “bone in Mr. Khrushchev’s throat,” but it is rightfully there—just as we are rightfully there in Berlin. This city is a capitalist oasis in a communist desert. If we show any inclination to abandon any of our rights there, then NATO will be shattered to bits, Western Eu rope will be in grave danger, and our Allies around the world will rightfully lose what respect they still may have for a once mighty protector and bulwark of liberty. WE PROVED our mettle and called communist bluffs with our courageous brinkmanship actions in Greece, Turkey, Iran, Berlin (1948), Formosa, and Lebanon. What we vitally need today is a firm, resolute determination by our leaders to fight, if necessary, to preserve liberty and insure our survival as a nation, and this atti tude must be communicated with out equivocation to the commu nists. IF WE DON’T dare to win, then we don’t deserve to win ir the protracted conflict with com munism. Sincerely, (Not printed at vzwrnnunt txpente) THE TEEVEE CORNER This old water mill in the Osarks is the landmark of another era, standing idle as the cool, clear waters of a Missouri stream flow bflT, undisturbed. In the Osarks, as in many other sections of Missouri the nation, many such colorful sights are to be found . . . mountain beauty, rolling plains, bustling Industrial cities, dear spring-fed streams, numerous lakes, caves and deep valleys. In its time, this water mill was probably the center of much community activity, perhaps even a meeting place. Today it stands a silent mard over the waterfall. By LYN CONNELLY F OR some inexplicable reason, girl singers have suddenly made a comeback ... As myste riously as they were dropped and forgotten for the past few years, the female gender has arrived anew and afresh out of nowhere . . . Why the lack of interest and sudden reawakening will probably never quite be solved ... In the past few years only Connie Francis was able to live comfortably on record proceeds yet there are a slew of really talented vocalists who were doomed strictly by their sex. Oddly enough, the girl singers there are—Cathy Carr, Doris Day, Dinah Shore, Teresa Brewer, Kay Starr, Peggy Lee, Joy Layne, Jayne Morgan and company, are all good singers while the males who are the big sellers sound more like hog callers than vocal ist .. . Fans apparently insist on a good voice in a girl but it doesn’t matter in a boy which-is good news for freaks like 7 ibiaiL CAPITOL: Speaking of good girl vocalists, as we were above, reminds us of Anna Maria Alber- ghetti who has a great new album out, “Warm and Willing’! . . . Ann adds immense appeal to such favorites as “Anema E Core,” “Smoke Gets In Your Ey»s,” “In the Still of the Night,” “Cuban Love Song,” “Non Dimmticar,” “I’m In the Mood for Love,” and that gorgeous “Come Back to Sorrento.” Another new hi-fl album turned out on the Capitol label is one featuring Evalyn Tyner in piano impressions of Broadway hits ... This is a little different than the average . . . Miss Tyner has taken some of the season’s better hits from musical comedies ap pearing on Broadway . . . “Mack the Knife,” from “The Three- penr.y Opera,” “Sound of Music” from the show of the same name. There are some who claim that if a law had not been passed providing for income tax deductions from pay checks, that the costs of government would have declined, instead of steadily increasing. * v • In addition, there is quite some concern in certain quar ters in Wash ington over the trend ^ the past few years crea duel seenr- a Congress man Harbld Ostertag - of c. W. Harder northern New York recently pointed- out that without any further items tagged onto so cial security, social security taxes on already passed legis lation will continue to increase each year up to 1969 when the employer and employee both will be paying 4tt% each on the first $4900 of wages and sal aries each year. :% * * ♦ Thin means, then, if there ■rbrim M% of wages per year will be go- kis fond. On top of states, the em- I loyec [ as high as 3.1% n thd BOM paid per year lent taxes. * * means that on taking $125 per for the first six year, the em ployer will be paying a tax on this payroll over more than 7%. > ■ e*S < In # business snch as retail ing, < or soute other enterprise where labor is the biggest cost of doing 'business, these wel fare taxes on the employer can well equal,' if not exceed, the (cl Nrttoml Federation of ImUpcndcnt Builnew to in in This; employee keek or monthsFo: each prunt vj m given line of commerce or industry. **o Without going into the mer its or demerits of any proposals to extend welfax'e benefits, it is perhaps weil to consider that from one standpoint alone the peril point may have been al ready reached. ♦ • * That stamdpoint is the supply of Jobs. Inasmuch as business, unlflte government, cannot look to outside sources of income to make up increases In costs, every time either or union actions of labor higher, great thought and study is given to finding methods, means, or equipment to replace the need for a part of the workers. * * * Spurred by past actions, many industries have already replaced workers, many more developments are in the prepa ration stage and will become operative in the near future, to further aggravate the unem ployment problem. 000 Of course, there is quite au emotional pull to provide the fuller, richer, more' carefree ; life for older citizens. Yet it’s kind of a futile activity if It results in less and less Job opportunity for the younger citizens. **o This concentration by poli ticians on greater and great er welfare benefits, especially around times of elections, could well re stilt in killing the goose that lays the golden egg. • • • After all, a sound, logical ar gument can be made that the father of any young family should carry at least a quarter of million dollars in life insur ance. However, if in order to pay the premiums, the fam'Jy has to stop eating, the argu ments that sound so logical be come rather silly. WATCH YOUR $1.00 BILLS FOR ANY $1 BILL YOU RECEIVE ... fro mthe sponsors... may be a winner! Listen to Announcements every hour 011 .. . As part of this feature program. Hund reds of $1 bills have been put into circu lation . .. and numbers taken from these $1 bills are being announced daily on WKDK! There’s a different number e$b ery hour . . . and every one is worth big cash prize. 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