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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS . mb*.. *A ’ mm wm A very interesting campaign is being carried on by our fellow- citizens of the Electric Co-ops. I haven’t a TV but people have been telling me strange and won derful .things about Co-op radio and TV programs. One program cited frequently says that the Co-ops paid enough taxes one year *Eo build two school houses and pay three hundred teachers. As. I am still unable to walk I wrdtd around to get information. I asked -Sur handsome nnd effic ient Statb Treasurer for informa tion and he referred my inquiry to the State Tax Commission. The Tax Commission has not replied. I next sought information from the State Public Service Commiss ion and received a prompt reply, as follows: “In repy to your letter of Jan uary 27, this Commission has no authority over any operations of the rural electric cooperatives in South Carolina. Therefore, they do not contribute to the support of the Public Service Commission.” “Chapter 15 of Section 12 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina covers the ‘Rural Electric Cooper ative Act’. Section 12-1005 is quot ed: ‘Exemption from control of the Public Service Commission. Co-op eratives and foreign corporations transacting business in this State pursuant to this chapter shall be exempt in all respects from the jurisdiction and control of the Public Service Commission of this State’. “If we can furnish any further information, please advise.” Next I read that the Co-ops (REA) paid $95,000—ninety-five thousand dollars in taxes one year. So there we have all the Co-ops paying $95,000 while three so-called private companies paid more than $40,000,000 (forty mil lion dollars!) I was interested in the tax pay ments and conferred with county treasurers. I asked how much the Co-ops paid in support of our schools, colleges, State and coun ty governments. Taking just a few at random I find nothing paid by Co-ops in Lexington, Fairfield, Saluda, or McCormick counties. Perhaps they pay something somewhere for example the Treas urer of Jasper says they pay to support schools in Jasper county. How much?? The treasurer of Beaufort says: “Replying to your letter of Jan uary 23rd in regard to how much taxes the electric Co-ops pay in Beaufort county, I find that the Palmetto Electric co-op on Hilton Head, Beaufort county, pays $166.- 98.” This amount is the tax on three lots and two buildings the Co-op owns on the island. There is no charge for the right of way or for the transmission lines.” “The South Carolina Electric & Gas Company pays $26,760.94 for the installations over the balance of Beaufort county, and I expect their taxes to be considerably high er next year on account of an ad ditional facility for better service to .Beaufort county. That is the new Power Union installed near Burton in this county.” In Barnwell they seem to be good taxpayers, as the treasurer reports a payment in or by Salke- hachie Electric Co-ops as follows: “$122.50 for Schools. “$35.00 for county and hospital.” This makes a total of $157.50 in Barnwell county. Our friend from Hampton says: “1961 property taxes paid in Hampton county: S. C. Gas and Electric company $27,447.99. Palmetto Electric Co-op $338.83. I did not hear from Allendals so 1*11 ask “Stonewall O’Connor to get the low down for me. As a prosperous farmer (a Co-op too) said to me, “I think all should be taxed and regulated alike.” Even so. “The equal protection of the law” means equal responsibility, equal obligation, equal basis of taxation. Of course I knew that the Co-ops were poor man’s friend and I won dered because the poor man says he has no friends. The Co-ops have done so well serving the poor man that the Co-op office in every county seems a very handsome edi fice and they have more than five million salted down, along with other profits and evidences of prosperity. I thought the co-op rate was lower but I have the figures prov ing that the residence rate is low-er from the private companies. Who pays for the schools? Who pays for law enforcement? Who pays for the colleges? Who pays for the State hospi tal? Who pays for the penitentiary Who pays for the State Health Department? When I asked county treasurers if the Co-ops paid they said NO! So I repeat, the State, Counties and Towns are supported by tax es ? How much is paid by the Co-ops? Nothing! An aroused public wants to know more about our various or ganizations which thrive on the public yet pay nothing or virtual ly nothing. One company! runs an advertise ment which challenges the Co ops to a show down. The Carolina \Power & Light company runs this in the Lee County Messenger, of Bishopville: “Are South Carolina’s Electric Co-ops playing a game with num bers, telling you one story and their Uncle Sam another. Currently they are buying big advertisements to convince their neighbors that Co-ops in this State are paying over a million dollars in taxes annually. And yet, in an official document which they filed in Washington, the Co-ops report that they paid taxes of $95,643 for I960. How can they give one answ r er to the folks at home while reporting a complete ly different amount to their fed eral agency—the REA? Are they trying to fool the federal govern ment or you the public whose tax dollars put the Co-ops in busi ness? CP&L winders if the Co-ops of South Carolina aren’t a little more inclined to be completely factual when they’re reporting to a branch of the federal government which demands accuracy ? Above all—it would certainly be disappointing if professional Co-op managers ars misrepresent ing the facts even to the fine farm families who belong to the Co-ops. Where do they spend even $95,- 643? Not in Abbeville, not in Aik en, Berkley, Calhoun, Clarendon, Edgefield, Newberry, Orangeburg, Hampton or Richland. Nor Beau fort. Are they regulated? Well, how! I’ve been telling you of my prog ress toward recovery following my broken hip of October 22,1961. Well, today the 4th of February I put on street clothes. Until now I’ve been dressed like Mahatma Gandi, with the little something they put over your head and let it hang like the illustrious Mahat ma’s apparel. I now, hereby and forthwith discard the hospital’s ur.form and authorize that it be returned to India or to Mahatma’s nearfest of kin. So now I hobble about the house like a two-year old learning to walk. My Methodist brother scribe is not afraid to publish the awful truth. In a recent number of The South Carolina Methodist Advocate I read this startling paragraph: “Robert Welch stated that there were 7000 clergy in the Protestant churches that were Communists.” Does our Methodist church have any Communists in it? If we do, what are w r e going to do to get them out?” Why are so many Ministers and Professors running on the wrong track ? ? As a .former teacher I think I can understand them. They are meditating on what really is Eco nomic theory, l^ith no regard or understanding of the Russian sort of Communisqa. The economic theory is unprac tical, though not vicious or blood thirsty. The Russian brand is wholly bad. Ministers and Academic schol ars look over the world and are impressed by the wealth of some, while others are on a bread and milk diet. That is not a new condi tion: it has existed since the ear liest days of man’s existence. At bottom is there a bit of envy ? One who is a scholar won ders about the neighbor who al ways has money. We must face the truth: scholarship may have the richest academic flavor but it is not the only training for life. Is the Minister or Teacher with the most degrees the best teacher? Not the best alw-ays. Sometimes he may be the least appealing and successful. The rarest requirement is not academic scholarship, but old-time horse-sense. Since I’ve been citing my Methodist brother I ask if Wofford, in the time of Dr. Car lisle, has been excelled by any group of “Doctors” (Ph D’s) in our State. I do not disparage those devout and dedicated teachers but I doubt wdiether anyone of them could have qualified to head a de partment in Harvard. But no col lege was more fruitful in its out put. Those men were teachers, not merely theorists basking in the light of doctorates. They abound ed in horse-sense and never lost the common touch. I am not &w r ept off my feet by ties of church affiliation, for I am a Baptist. Some of our ministers think they have received a spec ial revelation, thereby imputing error to all the greatness upon which our country rests and upon which the world has rested since the days of the Caesars and their free corn. WASHINGTON AND SMALL BUSINESS” By .C. WILSON HARDER There is substantial evidence that the current session of Congress is tending toward be coming more hard-headed, and veering away from the Polly- anna fatuousness which has cost Americans billions. * * * It is being felt that dol lars do not change hu man nature. The great apostle of non-agres sion, non-vio- 1 e n c e, and “peace, bro ther, peace,” namely, In- c - w - H * rdar dia’s Nehru, did not hesitate to use modern arms to grab off a chunk of territory, even though Nehru has fed long and hear tily at the trough provided by the American taxpayers, a a * His great cry was to end col onialism, Goa had been Portu guese since the 16th century, and of no great consequence to anyone. But lately, Portuguese capital had succeeded in devel oping an important iron mining industry in Goa, producing new wealth. India is not producing any new wealth. So bango, with 30,000 troops, planes, et al. Nehru “ends colonialism” and just by chance picks up a thriv ing new industry. * * * Robbery movements never proceed under their true names. In early Nazi days Hitler spouted a lot of non sense about “aryanism.” But back of it all was a move to rob a substantial part of the German nationals. * * * In the ^ dies, Sukarno, an other recipient of huge amounts cf foreign aid, has more ter ritory than he knows how to r'rvelop. But the Dutch have y-<nr,na! developed some economically important complexes in their possessions in the Indies. * * * Sukarno now wants to use force of arms to take over these Dutch properties under the banner of “anti-colonial ism.” Nobody, for-example raises the sacred cry of “col onialism” against Chinese con trol of Thibet, because there’s no wealth in Thibet. Even that great bleeding heart of human ity, Nehru fafled to lift one finger against the Chinese massacres in that lonely little nation on his border. * * * Long before World War II, General Douglas MacArthur warned “America is a vast storehouse of wealth which every nation in the world would plunder if they could.” * * • Senator Barry Goldwater In a recent statement, put it an other way, saying, “The trouble the U.S. finds itself In Is fail ure of our policy makers to make proper use of American power. The affairs of nations— for good or evil — are deter mined by power. The Soviet Union has not gotten where it is today through the attrac tiveness of its doctrines.” * * * The Senator further com ments that the entire U.S. pol icy has been to butter up peo ple around the world so that they think of Americans as just fine people. * * * He further states, “This sluggish sentimentality, this obsession for pleasing people, has become a matter of grand strategy. It is leading us, for all the good intentions it im plies, to national and interna tional disaster.” Thus, realiza tion seems to grow in Washing ton that Pollyanna principles are of little avail in a world run by gangsters. FARM NOTES Farm Management Meeting The third of a series of four Farm Management meetings will be held Friday night, February 23 at 7:30 p.na. This meeting will be held at the County Agricultural Building auditorium. Professor Bauknight of Clem- son college will be here to present the program on “Making Farm Management Decisions.” Farm management is most im portant today and is going to be even more important in the years of the future. You can not afford to be haphazard in your farming operations in this day and time. The decisions you make today will be determining factors as to your future profits in farming. Be sure and attend Friday night. Many of you have heard Profes sor Bauknight before He is a very interesting speaker. Flame Cultivation. In a recent meeting, information about flame cultivation was pre sented. It certainly looks as if flame cultivation is on the way back. From information presented it shows promise of playing a part in weed and grass control in a number of crops. It is a job which would require accurate care in set ting your machinery as well as op erating the machinery. It does show some promise of being helpful in future farming. If interested in what it can do, we will be happy to supply you with information on hand. Clemson college has dene only one year of limited experimenting with flame cultivation. Clemson will be doing further experiment ing this year and will probably report these results next year. Maintaining Lawn & Shrubbery. Apply lawn fertilizer the last of this month. It is a good idea to put down about 25 pounds of eith er 4-12-12, or 5-10-10 per 1000 square feet. As soon as it warms a little and the grass begins to grow, be sure you keep it mowed. Mowing often will give you a prettier lawn. In most cases, leaving the grass clippings as mulch will help. Some of the grasses, such as Zoysia and some bermuda grasses have real dense turfs and you would have to remove the clipp ings. fane To Apply For Cabins Only a few days remain for families to apply for summer va cation cabin reservations at South Carolina’s state parks, according to State Forester Chas. H. Flory. Applications should be sent to the State Commission of Forestry in Columbia before March fiist, said Mr. Flory. •Because of the heavy demand for cabins in June, July and Aug ust, all requests received by March first are included in a public draw ing. This gives each family an equal opportunity to reserve a ca bin, Mr. Flory said. Vacation cabins for white fami lies are available at the seashore at Myrtle Beach and Hunting Is land State Parks, in the mountains at Oconee or Table Rock, and also at Cheraw, Poinsett, G’.vhans Fer ry ,and Santee State Parks. Negro families may rent cabins at Pleasant Ridge State Park in the mountains of Greenville Coun ty or on the seashore at the Negro area of Hunting Island State Park near Beaufort. Sixty-seven cabins are located at nine state parks. All cabins have running water, electric kitch ens, and are fully equipped except for bed linen and table silver. Most cabins accommodate six peo ple, and rentals range from $24 to $46 per week, according to loca tion, facilities and cabin capacity. Cabin rentals are limited to one week per family during the sum- Fertilize your shubbery also. A good guide to this is, 4 pounds of complete fertilizer, such as 5- 10-10 per 100 square feet. Placing fertilizer in holes made with a crowbar is an excellent method of getting the plant food to the plant. Many types of shrub bery can be damaged if you try to cultivate the fertilizer into the soil around it. Make the holes 12 to 18 inches deep and as many as necessary to surround the plant or plants. If you broadcast the fertilizer keep it off the foliage or you may burn it. Apply your fer.ilizer when the plant is dry and then thoroughly water them aftervard. Never apply fertilizer to dry soil unless watering is planned. Soak thoroughly to carry the fer tilizer to the roots, otherwise a high concentration of fertilizer on or near the surface may cause root damage. SENATOR STRO URMOND Reports PEOPLE Behind the Executive Fifth THE INVESTIGATION into censorship of military anti-com munist statements has received much attention lately, especially since the President has resorted to the claim of executive privi lege (the executive fifth amend ment) to shield the no-win, de featist policies the State De partment has had in effect for some years. The President said at a news conference that he would invoke this legally ques tionable and Executive-originat ed doctrine on the grounds that he and Mr. McNamara did not want their censors “harassed.” THEY BOTH know that no witnesses have been or would be harassed. In fact, as an ar ticle in the WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS has pointed out, if they are truly interested in their military censors rather than in hiding policy, they could get their military censors off the hook if they would permit them to testify. SOME HAVE inquired why I am not satisfied with the proce- dura. changes which have al ready been made and which will be made in censorship of speeches. Constructive results cannot be obtained unless we change the timid, vacillating policies which are reflected in the censorship of statements which purport to state the aim of world communism, the nature and conspiratorial aspects of world communism, and which voice any hope or desire of at taining victory in the cold war. And, 1 might add, no one advo cating victory in the cold war has suggested preventive war or the necessity for any type of shooting war to attain eventual victory. I HAD HOPED that the Ad ministration would be frank with the Subcommittee, as At torney General Bobby Kennedy had indicated the Administra tion would be in a statement on September 24, 1961. At that time, he said: “I think it is ter ribly important to insure that the Executive Branch ... is not corrupt and that they are efficient, that the Legislative Branch . . . has this ability to check on what we are doing in the Executive Branch.” THEEXECUTIVE fifth amendment has been used to cover up numerous Cases of mal administration, scandals, and se curity risks. When invoked, later-obtained evidence has re vealed embarrassing data on the foreign aid program in Laos, an anti-trust suit settlement by At torney General Brownell, the Goldfine-Adams case, the Wil liam Remington security risk case, the case of the communist and former Assistant Treasury Secretary Harry Dexter White, East-West trade on strategic materials, and other such ex amples. If the Congress had relied on the assurances given by the Harding Administration, the infamous Teapot Dome scan dals would never hav» been un covered. I AM GOING to show the American people what policies, past or present, are responsible for these speech deletions be cause they have a right to this information if they are going to exercise intelligently their power to change such policies as do not meet their approval. It is important to understand that these policies govern not only what military and civilian lead ers may say but also what ac tions our government may take in meeting the various commu nist challenges, such as in Cuba and Berlin. These policies will b« difficult to comprehend not only because they are complex in nature but also because it is incredible that our government should employ such policies for meeting the most deadly serious challenge ever laid down to our people. THE COMMUNISTS have vowed to destroy and bury us. Their system and our system are supposed to be directly op posite in methods and ends. We seek to preserve liberty; they suppress it. We proclaim the dignity of the individual; they promote the power of the state. We, as a nation, look to a Su preme Being; they recognize no god, only materialism and the worship of man. EVEN IN THE face of these facts, our government does not seek victory in the cold war over this system which has vowed to destroy us and which is dedicated to the idea that any action which promotes commu nism is justifiable. This just doesn’t make sense, unless we are willing to accept their sys tem over ours. Sincerely, A&xjemx- m %£uuiris}rrtJPnriJL * ' ■ •,,£ 't.- %, 4 > l 'mk TRANSFERS OF REALTY Newberry No. 1 Gertrude M. Julian to Rev. John C. Cooper and Ann J. Cooper, one lot, $10 and other valuable con siderations. Newberry No. 1 Outside Eugene S. Blease to Samuel E. Wilson and Pearl B. Wilson, one lot and one building, $5 and other valuable considerations. Pauline G. Penland et al to Lillie Mae M. Goggans, 33 acres and one building, $5 love and af fection. Silverstreet No. 2 Bennie Davenport and Lizzie Davenport to Wise Homes, Inc., one lot and one b idding, $10 and other valuable considerations. Bush River No. 3 Donald G. White to Julian W. White, 122.77 acres, 1-4 interest, $700. Whitmire No. 4 Ulyss A. Gilliam to C. D. Cole man ,one lot and one building, 922 Central Ave., $5 and assumption of a mortgage. Whitmire No. 4 Outside William B. Kithcens to Rosa Belle Kitchens, one lot and one building, 615 Evans Et., $5 and assumption of mortgage. George H. Davis to John Lind say Grant and Elsie Moore Grant, three acres and two buildings, $400. Pomaria No. 5 David Luther Ruff to Mary Sease Ruff Riser, 7 acres, $5 love and affection. Jacob W. Livingston to Claude C. Wicker and Edith Wicker, one lot, V2 acre, fronting on Pomaria- Peak highway, $5 and other con siderations. Little Mountain No. 6 Mrs. Sparta N. Garrett to Ver non B. Garrett, 30 acres and one building, $5 love and affection. S. C. Electric and Gas Co. to Jack Shivers and Almond O. Shiv ers, 5.98 acres, $1 and other val uable considerations. mer. Applicants should indicate whether for white or Negro fam ily, and give general choices of parks and dates to increase their chances of reserving a cabin. Any family wanting to spend a week’s vacation at one of the state park family vacation cabins this summer should write before March first to the S. C. State Commis- 1 sion of Forestry, Box 357, Colum-{ bia, Mr. Flory said. I On March 1, 1962 i' A V will be added • •• . V ’ to all UNPAID 1961 X ; j I •4 I E % A Penalty of mm ■ -3®^ ' will be added to all UNPAID 1962 BUSINESS LICENSES fM sdls ■» m i ■m City of Newberry 1 National P.T.A. Reaches 65th Birthday With Glance Back, Plans for Future ■g,: An organization that devotes itself to children and their wel fare reaches senior citizen sta tus this February, with a sched ule full of further projects in behalf of children for the years ahead. The National Congress of Par ents and Teachers celebrates its 65th birthday on February 17, the anniversary of the “Nation al Congress of Mothers” held in Washington, D! C., in 1897. This session marked the be ginning of the P.T.A. Its found ing, by Alice McLellan Bimey and Phoebe Apperson Hearst, will be observed this year by more than 47,500 parent-teacher associations throughout the U.S. and in communities of Ameri cans living overseas. Mrs. Clifford N. Jenkins, of Roslyn Heights, L.I., N.Y., pres ident of the National Congress, calls the P.T.A. “a great social invention.” Like other inventions, she notes in her Founders Day an niversary message, “it was cre ated out of need—the need of parents for more knowledge about children's health, growth, and development; the need for child labor laws and juvenile courts; the need for health und recreation facilities; the need to build broad highways of educa tional and vocational opportuni- tiess that might be traveled by all children and youth, not just the fortunate few.” Historic-minded P.T.A.'s across the country may mark the Founders Day observance with a glance back to the time of the first Congress. In the words of one historian for the National Congress^ those were days “bustling with progress and growth . . .** but with edu cators “calling for increased appropriations to the public schools, more attention to teach er training, more practical cur- riculums, and greater consid eration for handicapped chil dren . . .** The time was ripe for reform — “especially for launching a movement directed toward the welfare of children.” Young Mrs. Bimey and the philanthropic Mrs. Hearst sparked what was soon to be come a nation-wide organization of which they are memorial Lsed as Founders. —Since that time, P.T.A.’s have continually directed their efforts toward: —Establishing and supporting public kindergartens; —Pioneering hot school lunch programs and supporting ade quate appropriations for them; -—Conducting parent-education workshops in all parts of the nation; —Sponsoring safety legislation and programs of home and traf fic safety education; —Urging regular physical ex aminations for millions of chil dren from birth through high school; —Raising the standards of 1 treatment for youthful offend ers and helping establish juve nile courts for minors; —Donating millions of dollars in scholarships for prospective , teachers. —Backing bond issues directed toward improving facilities for children’s education and recrea tion. Large as such achievements may loom, Mrs. Jenkins points out that “much remains to be done for children, in this chang ing world of 1962.” “Through the P.T.A.” she says “we help alleviate the hardships and confusion that result from change, and we help to establish services to meet new needs.” Oak tree emblem adopted in 1922 represents relationship of mem bers, local units, and state branches to parent trunk of National Congress of Parents and Teachers. Since 1897 P.TJL*s have been Photo above is from an w „ in P.T.A.-sponsored kindergarten today, children''make temple experiment in sdenee. re been sponsoring public kindergartens, early issue ot The FT A Mmqaain*. Below, r > J* V:*- : ’'*&"**& fmj ’ !p.| -ii-i ij “v.?'--1.', mWdRE