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PAGE TWO s MUIlM,, tj 1^18 College NKWBERKY. g$un Street S. c. PUBLISHED EVER\ O. K. Armfield. , THURSDA 1 r.. Owner Second-Class postage paid Carolina. at Ne ‘' A »Ty, South l * ‘ V t 7. r'v SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ! •nrirp: six months, S1.25. 52.00 per year m ad- » COMMENTS ON ME1 SPECTATOR der. AND THINGS The highest pay, as I recall, Who steals my purse steals trash, says Shakespeare. 'But the great Master of English didn't despise money in ordinary affairs. But I should rejoice and be ex ceeding glad if I could buy groc eries and clothing without money. Just think >of that happy condi tion in which no one esteems mon- In that blissful state the teach ers would work without pay be cause they wouldn't cheapen their great service by demanding mon ey; the contractors would build splendid school houses without wishing payment; the sheriffs would serve without pay; the Judges and jurors wouldn't care for money; the members of the General Assembly would decline to befoul themselves by accepting money. Where, O, where in this Ely- sian field where all work solely for the thrill and joy of working? I ask you, where is it? Our Electric Coop writers of advertisement have found it, for in many papers they have broad cast this celestial song: “Citizen ship is not measured by wealth, but by service”. Well,, well. TL a y proclaim that “serving a need of his fellowman is more important”. More important than what? More important than the amount of taxes they pay. That sounds like a dreamer, eh ? Since the coops, after pretend ing to pay a million dollars to the State actually report to the Fed eral Government $95,000—there must be a screw loose in their ari thmetic. The State and Counties spend certainly not less than ten mil lion dollars, so it must be throw ing money away,for what counts is the idea of service, not money they say, not the money. We know that Barnwell county has good schools and good law enforcement. We know that Barn well has two remarkably able rep resentatives, Senator Brown and Speaker Blatt. But even the wizz- ardy of the most sagacious and resourceful County delegation could not produce such a splendid service for $354. The amount paid in Barnwell! Now, then, if the Electric Coops were counted on, the great county of Barnwell would be ineradicably lost in unfathomable ignorance, a veiitable innocuous desuetude. It takes money friends, millions of dollars. That money comes from TAXES; the coops pay less than 1-10 (one tenth) of one per cent. Do we want to close all the schools; or shall we stai d up for those concerns which pay hard cash to keep the State and Coun ties in operating. Now, considerthese figures. The private companies pay: Federal Income tax: South Car olina Electric & Gas Company, $8,383,100. > S. C. Coops: NONE. ; State Income tax: South Caro lina Gas &> Electric Company $1-, 071,341. S. C. Coops: NONE. Property tax: S. C. Electric and Gas Company $1,930,137. S. C. Coops: Breakdown not avail able. Generation tax: S. C. Electric and Gas Co. $1,292,353. Other Taxes: S. C. Electric and Gas Co.: $1,.'331,441. S. C. Coops: NONE. S. C. Coops: Breakdown not available. Totals: S. C. Electric and Gas Co. $13,808,372. S. C. Coops: $95,643. “Don’t be mislead. REA was created to serve farmers who did not have electricity. Find out why Washington-directed REA profes sionals are now pushing a State law that would take away the rights of cities and towns to say who shall supply power within their borders. This proposal, now in your Legislature, would put Washington-controlled REA in business in your cities and towns.” I think there is a point to be cleared up: The South Carolina Electric and Gas Company paid the $13,808,372, there are three companies and the total taxes of the three paid because of opera tions in this State must be about $50,000,000 (fifty million)! All the Coops, together, are re ported as paying ninety five thousand dollars! Whenever you need a half mil lion for a school ask the Coops to build it with good will and the thrill of serving. Go to the Bank and draw on that account called JOY OF SERVICE! I asked many county treasurers to tell me the amount paid by the Coops for schools and law and or- —in Barnwell! Our State is appropriating $201, 000,000 (two hundred and one million). How much of that is for teachers and the University,, Win- throp, Clemson, The Citadel, the State hospital, the Courts, etc ? The Power companies pay more than thirty million dollars for school alone. Suppose we call all the teachers and county and State officers and ask them to rendw service for the sheer joy of working? Do you be lieve that they would work? Now ask yourself: are the col leges and schools necessary? If so why collect from power companies and other industries millions while the Coops pay a puny $95,000? I speak over some radio stat ion. Good will and the joy of ser vice won't pay for all the capital expenses and then the upkeep and operation. Of course they enjoy good will, but hard cash is nec essary to start and operate a great Radio station. I think I enjoy the good will of several bankers and a dozen mer chants. Can I pay them with good will and the delight I may have in doing business with them ? Even the Coops charge for their service—good hard dollars. They charge you, but you must pay the taxes—they pay so little it looks like the widow’s mite we read of in the bible! I read the following in a county paper: “Much has been said about tax es in the power industry, but the truth of the matter is that elec tric cooperatives and commercial power companies are subject to almost identical tax laws.” Surely that was not an inten tional misstatement. The Coops are not supervised or regulated by any authority. The Private com panies are. All the Coops, togeth er, reported to the Federal gov ernment $95,600 for 1961. $95,600! That for all their operations in all counties of South Carolina. The three private companies paid more than fifty million to the var ious Federal, State, County and Municipal agencies. The schools are supported pri marily by taxes paid by business, in great measure by the Private Power companies. “The theme for the seventh an nual observance of National El ectrical Week is ‘Electricity Pow ers Progress’. It occurs during the w’eek of February 11th, birthday of Thomas Edison. And these three words add up to much more than just an attractive slogan. They constitute a fact. The life of the nation—in industry, on the farm, in the home—depends on an abundant supply of electrical en ergy. So, in large measure, does the national defense. The push of a switch can produce miracles. No one denies such facts as these. But there is a vast area of disagreement as to the proper source of our electrical power. There are those who believe that it should be a function of govern ment—preferably the Federal government. They would socialize the industry, at a staggering cost to the taxpayers, and create a government monopoly with life and death power over the resour ces of this nation and the direct ions its enterprises and individ uals are to take. In the light of that, consider a few facts. Despite the inroads of tax-ex empt socialized power : the busi ness managed, investor-owned, taxpaying utilities of this country produce about 80 per cent of all our electricity. Today, with only one-sixteenth of the world’s pop ulation, we have one-third of the world’s electric power producing capacity. We have more capacity than the next five leading power- producing countries of the world combined. We have a huge lead on Russia, our cold w T ar enemy: it is a lead that will be maintain ed. Specifically, Soviet goals aim at a per capita production of 3000 kw hours in 1970. We expect to peach a per capita production of 7,500 in that year. These are matters of record. How can it be rationally argued that government—and, especially, at a time when government has its hands full and then some with problems that only government can deal with—should be a dom inant factor, much less a mon opolistic factor, in supplying el- ectrk. power. Private enterprise brought it to a record-breaking THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA Recent Births Recent arrivals at the Newberry County Memorial hospital: Donna Maria, five pound, 14 ounce daughter born Feb. 26 to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin T. Sims, 30H Springhill Apt. Mrs. Sims is the former Ella Marie Reynolds. John Edward, seVten pound son born Feb. 27 to Mr. and Mrs John Henry Wilson, 1423 Clarkson Ave. The mother is the former Maude Jeanette Sauls. David Dale, nine pound, four teen ounce son bom Feb. 28 to Mr. and Mrs. David Lever Cro mer, Route 2, Pomaria. Mrs. Cro mer is the former Margaret An nette Mae Hawkins. Cameron Garrett, nine pound, three ounce son, born Feb. 28 to Mr. and Mrs Thompson Holland Longshore, 1109 Purcell St. The mother is the former Linda Joyce Holland. Larry Vaughn, Jr., seven pound eight ounce son born March 2 to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Vaughn Ful mer, Route 4. Mrs. Fulmer is the former Nancy Ellen Dowd. Anthony Mitchell, seven pound, 11 ounce sop born March 2 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pressly Morris, 941 Cornelia street. Mrs. Morris is the former Edith Merita Lock- lain. Melinda Susan, seven pound, 14 ounce daughter born March 4 to Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Albert Bush, Route 1, Little Mountain. Mrs. Bush is the former Eleanor Frick. By C. A, r*AN, M. D. MEDITO^IAL: Serious and even fatal <nju ies can occur in any sport, and when they do pro tests can be heard from all cor ners. Although there is some justi fication for complaints, we must not lose sight of the benefits de rived from competitive sports. The good far outweighs the risks involved. The percentage of sports in juries has decreased in recent years. Ten football players died of injuries sustained during games in 1955; back in 1931 there were 17, but a lot fewer playing. Some one estimated that a young person behind the wheel of a car in the United States has 12 times the chance of being killed or injured than he would have playing any contact sport I think this is a significant comparison, one we should always bear in mind. As the decline in injuries shows, a preventive program can be effective through cooperation be tween coach, trainer and team physician. Such a program should start with a physically sound athlete, so a thorough physical examina tion is a must. The examination is especially important to the pre adolescent, for it will not only eliminate anyone unfit for sports but will also help determine to which sport a youth is best suited. In other words, this will help place the child in a sport less likely to injure him. The next step involves physical conditioning and training under the supervision of competent coaches, athletic directors and trainers. The experience gained in practice is invaluable as a pre ventive to injury. The hardened, battle-tried, well-trained and con ditioned athlete seldom suffers serious injury. size, before government ever got into the picture.” Our Methodist contemporary, the Advocate, some time ago quot ed someone as saying that there are 7000 Protestant Minister Communists or leftist inclined. Here are some of the statistics: “Churches, theological seminar ies, church supported universities and church publishing houses in the U. S. have been infiltrated by subversives, a former Air Force intelligence officer and anti-com munist lecturer said in Charles ton. Winding up a study rally at County library—sponsored by Con cerned Churchmen for the Faith— Maj. Edgar C. Bundy of Wheat on, 111. said that every building called a church isn't necessarily the genuine article. Nor is every man who adopts the title “min ister’, ‘pastor’, or ‘reverend’ a true servant of Christ, he said. Documented figures concerning some of the Protestant clergymen who have aided subversive causes in the U. S. show 2109 are Meth odists, 1411 are Episcopalians, 1014 are Congregational, 600 are Baptists and 649 are Presbyter ians, the major said. He used gov ernment records as documentation. ‘This is not all’ he said. ‘There are nearly 2000 more, plus a number of Jev/ish rabbis’. ‘The question is’, said Maj. Bun dy, ‘what kind of churches and pastors support communism? In the answer to this question lies the reason why more than 8000 pastors in the U. S. have aided the Kremlin conspiracy in some way or another.” What is the matter? Are we so busy chasing will-o-the-wisps that w-e no longer understand funda- menals of Religion or Economics? Permits To Build March 1—John Leonhart, one small out building, 2008 Lee St. $200. March 1—Newberry Laundry repairs to building, 934 Main St., $100. March 5—J. V. Boozer, reroof dwelling, 2022 Shelly St. $200. Recent Marriages John Clifford Bobb, Route 3, Prosperity and Carolyn Eloise Lindler, Chapin, were married on February 28 at Pomaria by Rev. H. Wyman Dowd. Ralph D. Harrison and Ruth W. Nix of Whitmire were mar ried at Whitmire on March 2 by Rev. Arthur W. Nicholson. By THOMAS COLLINS THE TRUTH IS TOLD ABOUT RETIREMENT LJERE, no matter what you be- L 1 lieve now, are some 65-year- old facts of life: 1. A married couple can live adequately on $200 a month, and a widow can live adequately on $150 a month—not- on Park Ave nue, of course. Neither the couple nor the widow can manage on much less. A widow can’t get by cn $79 Social Security. A married couple can’t on $125. No magic is coming along to change this. Peo ple must have the “adequate” sums stated above, or they must appeal to public agencies or to family for help. 2. An important businessman can never be so important after he retires—no matter how many committees be serves on; no mat ter how charming he is. Yet, im portant businessmen keep chasing this illusion A man with a good job has influence in the commu nity in all sorts of ways He can get free tickets to things, can imroduce you to somebody, give you a job or get you into a club In our society there’s magnifieen' sta us to a good job Let a man retire and tre status crumb es like sn aspirin in a glass o? wa.er 3 Public we fare, as it con.e - from ti e agencies of u:e com mu nny's major charity drive—Cmi- muaily C est. Crusade of Mercy or w at nave you—^rows less dis tasteful all the time to a erage feop.e You’d be surp.>se 1 v kr-.-iw that peop.'e on you st. may be getting some form or ••we’fare” help. 4 T e lowered income of leure mem—orovidei it’s S2-X) * »• or better—usually turns out much more satisfactorily than most peo ple think it will. The man who has been making from $7,000 to $15,000 a year scares himself good as he contemplates his retirement in come of $275 or $400 a month. He draws up a cutback on his budget that virtually cuts off the gas and water. He retires, relaxes and then finds he has pocket money left 5. Inflation is a factor in retire ment incomes, but much less a factor than most people suppose, unless they expect to live forever. The schoolteacher who retired in 1939 on $100 a month is in trouble. If you retire tomorrow at 65 your declining wants and your increas ing ingenuity in handling a retire ment income will probably offset the country’s current rate of infla tion. But don’t tell anybody you read it here—it’s not tbe fashion able thing to be saying rignt now. 6 No climate, state or city is going to determine your v, appme"s in retirement Your own inner resources will give you a good re arement. or you won i ave one 7 Friends, in retire ren. are people to play bridge with, or borrow a cup of sugar fro m Lit ? more In our timer* an! parLcu- «tr*v ai a '.a B5 In yxr o. q, z e.e are not rr.anv frie:. 's w o an ! :.y u ea t e kuc.* for you ev'li ’/wit you m he ospiiV if t e ouvses ?ne ru u.r.g T ' e: •dll e V a You ii f.t.e i c..j. .1 ymj’H no nio»re c' ;n t. is F ’r n 'Oi>y of 40e w OVO-si' b « 't by T S’ o* • ■ i '• •!. :j T 1 ’ ■ ■T..r r - SENATOR STRO URMOND Reports PEOPLE What “No-Win” Means We have a “no-win” foreign policy. The phrase may be new, but the policy is not. When the communists took over in China, we had a “no-win” policy; only then, it was called a policy of “letting the dust settle.” At various times since, it has been given many names: “contain ment,” “accommodation,” and somewhere I even heard it called “the xJobcy of the ostrich.” All of these titles are more or less descriptive, but “no-win” is the most descriptive. China, Korea, Hungary, Tibet, the Con go, Laos, Viet Nam, the Berlin wall—they all spell “NO-WIN.” We have a “no-win” policy; this does not mean that it is our policy to lose. It means that we dare not try to win, for fear we may lose. Two basic ingredients of such a policy are FEAR AND NA IVETE. FEAR tends to obscure the perspective. Nothing could ob scure the horribly destructive power of a nuclear war; for the facts of such destructive poten tial are too awesome to be ex aggerated even by the most ad vanced form of fear — panic, itself. Fear, however, can and does cause an exaggeration of the likelihood that a nuclear war will occur. Our policy makers— who admittedly bear an awe some responsibility — have al lowed the gruesome potentiali ties of the weapons, themselves, to magnify out of proportion the danger that such weapons will be resorted to by the com munists. No sane man wants a nuclear war. The communists don’t want a nuclear war. The communists want to dominate the world, but a world filled with people to perform slave labor, not a world of nu clear burned ashes. They will threaten nuclear war, and often do, in the hope that we are para lyzed with fear while they ex pand their empire by the non nuclear means of subversion, infiltration, v espionage, propa ganda and any other foul aeans short of nuclear war itself. NAIVETE is nothing more than wishful thinking and ig noring facts. No one wants to admit, even to himself, that his plans are based on fear and are without hope of success. Our policy-makers have, therefore, pieced together a rationaliza tion ‘Jiat we will not lose even with a “no-win” or “do-nothing” policy. This rationalization is arrived at by the theory of “evolution.” Simply stated, it is the belief that, given time, the communists will “evolve,” or gradually change into a more civilized and non-aggressive society with whom we can peacefully co exist. We don’t necessarily have to lose, because “the leopard may change his spots.” We have been sitting on our hands waiting for the commu nists to evolve since shortly after World War II. In that time, they have become a nu clear power, and exploded a 58- megaton bomb; they have leap frogged our missile program and developed rocket engines with greater thrust and missiles with advanced guidance sys tems; the> have brought under their domination about 15 coun tries and 900,000,000 people. Their industrial capacity has evolved, but not their morals; their weapons have evolved, but their intentions and efforts are still to dominate and enslave the people of the world. There is obviously no short cut to victory for free men. While we must carefully reckon with file possibilities of a nu clear war, we must also stop ig noring the probabilities of piece meal slaughter and enslavement of the remaining free world, if we continue to passively await the evolution of communists into civilized neighbors who operate by some moral code. There is some small possibility the com munists will evolve; but there is a great probability that unless we abandon the “no-win” pol icy, only the communists and their slaves will witness L. We must have a “win” policy. The first step is to set a goal of victory over communism in the cold war. Concrete long range and short range objec tives should be established for every arena of the cold war. Strategy and tactics should be employed which will utilize our every resource for the accom plishment of those goals. Next week’s report: First Steps of a “Win” Policy. (not prtpartd T prmUd gov*mm*nt txptntt) REV. ROBERT H. HARPER PICTURES OP FANCY TN the gloaming, as the dim light * formed a background for ob jects in the fore, I became inter ested in the widely swaying and fantastic-looking branches ai as immense oak that overhangs my line in the back yard. For in the fading light a stiff wind was caus ing the swaying leaves of a great branch to assume in my fancy curious images, with an emerging human figure with small branches seeming to form hands and mov ing fingers JUST A THOUGHT: The man with a will to win is so busy working at the prob lem that be seldom has time to waste considering (be possi bilities of eventual success or Failure. In a plane over Oklahoma. I saw light banks of summer clouds about us and they seemed like valleys and hills as we sped on And I indulged the fancy that we were traveling through a luminous landscape. Perhaps you can recall times when real situations and experiences lifted you on the wings of fancy Let us be thankful for the power of imagination which’ft surely one of the best gifts God has made to men. And by its cultivation and use, great achievements and bless ings have been possible to men Let us so nurture the power of the imagination that it will bring forth fair images of the pure and good For as a man thinketb in his heart, so is he From The Valley Farmer, Bay City, Michigan: When requested recently to explain remedies to our national dangers, of which there is an over-supply, Herbert Hoover said, “There are many reasons for my not doing that chore. I was not elected to that job last November . . . But I can make three observations: “First, I am sure that the American people earnestly wish for the success of the new Ad ministration. It is faced with one of the greatest challenges of our i whole history. “Second, our country has met and solved equally great crises in the past 18 years. “Third, this nation, founded in strength, will not decline or fail if we remedy the slump in morals with its trail of crime and cor ruption.” From The Cblckasha Star, Chickasha, Oklahoma: J. Edgar Hoover ranks highway killing! with major crimes such as kid napping and armed robbery, and is convinced there should be an end to listing speeders and care less and reckless drivers as “petty offenders.” Is a child killed by a kidnapper deader than one lifeless under a speeding car?, he asks. Is a person crippled by an automobile less pitiable than a person permanently mained by the gun of a robber? He also finds that much of juvenile disrespect for law can often he traced to the “miserable examples*’ of adult motorists who “beat the law” on the highways and boast about outwitting traffic officers. “There will be no safety on the roads until motorists obey the laws willingly or are made to under sure and certain sentences to jail, if necessary. Fines and suspended sentences are a cruel hoax. -i I. mi, ~i ! 111 n i ' v - 1 ", 1 44 Just unplug that oversized end nlua the lamp back la!” Pnpand by National 4-H Sarrlca Commltt— Experts Back Versatile Youths When 400,000 men and women volunteer their time and know how to help 2.3 million 4-H Club members “learn, live and serve,” the results are no less than spectacular. For instance, the Head, Heart, Hands and Health youths fin ished nearly 4 million projects in more than 40 different cate gories just this past year. In almost every instance, the completed project benefited the entire family and in many cases, the community as well. The information comes from the Cooperative Extension Serv ice which directs 4-H Club work. Further proof of the far- reaching effect of 4-H was found in 1,900 record books maintained by state award winning club members. The records were re viewed in the headquarters of the National 4-H Service Com mittee last November, said Nor man C. Mindrum, director, for the purpose of selecting boys and girls for scholarships and trip awards to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago. Miss Sheila Nixon, 20, of Pomona, California, winner of a $400 Ford scholarship, com mented: “The awards we win in 4-H work aren’t totally ours. Many people have helped us win them.” Another national champion, who won a Sears-Roebuck Foun dation scholarship for leader ship, is 20-year-old Hoosier farmer Wayne Buck. He has a 4-H record so long “it would fill a book.” Now a student at Purdue University, Buck credits 4-H training with, teaching him how to accept responsibility, and to better understand the world and the people in it President Kennedy expressed a similar feeling when he said in a recent message to 4-H mem bers: “I would commend you especially for your constructive and worthwhile efforts in learn ing to live and work coopera tively with others.” In the beginning, 4-H Clubs were intended for farm young sters, and offered only projects in crops, livestock, home can ning and cooking. The present program embraces a wide range of agricultural, home economics and scientific programs. With the exception of a few such as livestock, tractor and field crops, the projects can be carried on in town as well as on the farm. 4-H Moves to Town Today, membership in 4-H Clubs is about equally divided betwe^ farm and non-farm boys and . The main reason for this shift is the disappearance of the small farm from the American agricultural scene. Meanwhile, more and more business people are participat ing in 4-H as it moves into suburban and urban areas, Min drum points out. National 4-H Club Week, National 4-H Club Congress, Farm-City Week achievement days, county ar state fairs, Farm-Safety Week and the like are but a few examples, he said. Director Mindrum, who is a former 4-H member and state extension official, has this to say: ‘To sum up 4-H achieve ment one should call special attention to the concurrent ef forts of many which, over the years, have made the ‘learn by doing’ program the success it is. Business Gives Cash “Besides the paid and volun teer workers who carry out the teaching-training aspect, there are business people who con tribute know-how and money ” he added. Approximately 60 different business concerns provide funds for 4-H through the National 4-H Service Committee, he said. Donors of awards for the last 25 years or more include: Inter national Harvester, Montgomery Ward, Westinghouse Educa tional Foundation, Kerr Glass MIg. Corp., Cudahy Packing Co., Armour and Co., Livestock Con servation, Inc., Wilson & Co., Mrs. Charles R. Walgreen. Also, Santa Fe, Chicago and North Western, Illinois Central and Burlington railways. Newer 4-H backers are the Sperry and Hutchinson Co., Ralston Purina, Moorman Mfg. Co., General Foods, E. 1. du Pont de Nemours and John Deere. Also, Pyrofax Gas and International Minerals A Chemi cal corporations. These firms have supported the program for ive years or less, according to ' 4-H Service Committee.