The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, July 26, 1962, Image 2

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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY 26 1962 1218 CoUmtm StrM NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class postage paid at Ne ’South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: *‘‘\00 per year in ad- vanee: six months, $125. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS Is Senator Harry Byrd in error? The g:reat Virginia Statesman is a worthy men.her of Virginia’s sur passing group of Americans, who from early times were builders of a reputation more enduring than bronze. Today H^.-ry Byrd is ac claimed throughout the nation as the foremost champion of a sound fiscal policy for our National Treasury and for our National economy. The Senator dissents from the recommendation of the United States Chamber of Commerce, that the Congress reduce the taxes now. The Senator with customary forthrightness argues that the Congress should first reduce the spending and then reduce taxes. That is clearly sound in theory and that theory would guide sound men of Senator Byrd’s principles. But the gmCoress does not adopt sound principles; nor does the ; resident: they spend all that is at hand and all that is hoped for. They seem to dwell in an atmos phere of illusion that savors of de lusion. Perhaps—I say perhaps— if the taxes were reduced the spending might be curtailed. Surely as long as a dollar is ex pected the whole Washington ag gregation of spendthrifts—Pres ident and Congress—will spend it —and more. “If it minded to economize, Washington surely does not lack for opportunity.- Let it begin with the hodge-podge of subsidies to the so-called small business, ex porters, shipping and air lines. From there it might proceed to such areas of scandalous waste as rural electrification and farm sup ports. Finally, it could take be lated aim at foreign aid, space exploration and, so General Eis enhower suggests, at the useless expansion of the nation’s conven tional forces. Budget-cutting along such lines would be desirable in the best of times. Today it is vi tal to the nation’s continued pros perity:" Consider the folly of our spend ing: billions of dollars on utterly unnecessary projects; other bil lions on the fool-hardy plan of raising the standard of living throughout the world, known a s Foreign Aid. Here at home we need help with our. standard of living, but not with charity. We need wise laws and an open road of opportunity by clamping down on oppressive taxes and mischiev ous bureauchatics Commissions. We need most urgently a clear definition of the scope of Federal legislation as well as sharp limi tation on the area within which the Supreme court may assume jurisdiction. It was never intended that the Congress should hold sway in just any field and then have the eff- rontary to say that the Congress having preempted a certain field the States are barred from legis lation in that field. The area within which the Congress may act is even more clearly defined than are the prerogatives of the Supreme court. The Court was in tended to hear certain appeals on ky but not to meddle with the pre rogatives of a State except as the Constitution expressly res tricted the States. I think the States, in adopting the Constitution, had an idea of having Constitutional matters de cided in a Convention of delegates from the States, meeting for that purpose alone. Even a casual reading of the Constitution will prove that there was never any intention to confer absolute or plenary powers on a Congress to roam over the earth legislating at will; and equally as remote was the thought that the Supreme court might rove at will into any matter and set up its abiter dictu as the supreme law of the land. Under the guidance of the late President Roosevelt this nation adopted part of the Communist program and we are today burd ened with Government regulations and Federal laws and Supreme Court decisions and bureaucratic meddling so that we have become the land of the meddlers rather than the Land of the Free. Just ponder the exactions of the day. We give away taxpayers’ money all over the world while our own economy requires that citizens shall estimate their hoped for income of the next year and pay taxes in advance on that estimate. No government has the right to tax a man’s expectations. Un til a citizen has received an in come there is no sound ground for the tax. But the Congress swal lowed that! The farmer’s case will occur to all, naturally. He may have ten ! acres of tobacco so fine that he estimates the yield at two thosu- and pounds per acre, with a pros pect of a thousand dollars to fif teen hundred dollars per ace. And a hail may tear all that to shreds. But not only the farmer: all men in business are subject to the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” the big man and the lit tle man; even a lawyer may have no clients and a physician may not collect. So, in some small degree, the Congress might some day feel im pelled to confine spending to in come, rather than to the hope that somehow, some way, some where the government checks or warrants may be paid before the world learns that we are about as harum-scarum as the man who gives checks recklessly hoping that the checks may get by, somehow. “Trying to make gold from base metals preoccupied alchemists for a good 2000 years. From ancient Babylon to Medieval Europe they happily frittered away their time; stewing brews, muttering at the moon and producing not one ounce : of gold. Around the time of Colum- | bus che more sophisticated al- j chemists gradually forsook their treasure hunt and turned towards a pure investigation of the basic nature and behavior of all matter. Their experiments laid the foun dation for early chemists and led eventually to the modern, wonder working chemical industry. Most alchemists included salt in their recipes. A neat bit of foresight— for today salt is just about the most versatile and valuable chem ical in industry’s stockpiles. Daily, chemical plants turn out an aston ishing number and variety of in termediate materials and finished products that are dependent on salt for their manufacture: acids, bleaches, dyes, mercerized cotton^ synthetic rubber, photographic chemicals, insecticides, detergents, cellophane, rayon and thousands of drugs and chemicals.’’ Something is going on all the time. The most alert mind could not fully grasp the marvelous work being done dally by our great commercial enterprises. For example, let us think of Oil: “Traveling in and out of New York I have seen the Bay way re finery a hundred times, in sun shine and moonlight, fog and snow and during steamy summer dawns and bell-clear winter twilights. The seasons and the color of the sky can change the look of sea or mountains, but Bayway alw r ays looks like what it is: a fascinating monument to the mind of man. Sometime ago I was invited to tour Bayway. I accepted with a- larcity. 1 wanted to see what au tomation engineers had created there. The enigneers are confident that ultimately most industrial work will be done as it is being done now at Bay way, so that this massive complex towering above the Jersey flats is actually the doorstep of the future. And, in a way, it is also very much like a living organism. All of its slender columns and huge towers, its round tanks and latticework of steel, its silvery pipes through which fluids and gases flow—all these are forms grown out of pur pose and content. The shapes of living things have evolved in the same way, as silhouettes of in ternal functions. And in a sense refinery men no longer operate these machines; they collaborate with them. Everything we see happening in a refinery is based on the par tial answers that have been found thus far to science’s oldest ques tion, one whose answer was first sought by the inventors of science, the Greek philosophers. Incidental ly, the fact that the answers are still only partial has allowed this to remain the best single question to ask a young person if you want to open his mind to the challenge of science. The question is: If you divide a thing and keep on dividing it, does it always re main the same thing? Oilmen ask this question with a drop of oil in mind. The partial answers they have found have transformed . refineries from sim ple distilling plants into great manufacturing complexes. Crude oil, it seems, is not a simple raw material but a whole bundle of them tied together with chemical twine. In it is a tar thick enough to pave streets and a film so fine and rare that it is sold for more than $1,000 a gallon to oil watches. (A gallon will lubricate several million watches). Then, of course, there are different fuels and dif ferent grades of them, plus KEY. ROBERT rf. HARPER CHINESE MENACE v ' \POLEON BONAPARTE is - ^ credited with the saying con- r eerning the muiti-rmliions of vast j China—‘ China is a sleeping giant. I let him sleep.” The statement was j the essence of prophecy For at Lst. after another of many cen turies the lion awoke, stretched himself and leaped into the full glare of the noonday sun. A race of men that we had rated some what backward in the mental scale, appeared on the eastern horizon fully equipped and fully armed for modern war. Years ago, it was estimated that the Chinese could martial a battle line four hundred miles long. What if an army four hun dred miles long comes marching JUST A THOUGHT: If we will only take the time to count our blessings, we will surely see the goodness of God in so many tilings. out of the east! The possibility is intensified by the expectation that the line would be vastly lengthened in Siberia and west of the Ural Mountains. Let’s be like the prophet wbo prayed that his servant’s eyes might be opened that he might see that the forces with them were mightier than all those ar rayed against them. In a seven-days’ battle the Mos lem crescent, with one born on the Bosporus and another on the Strait of Gibraltar that seemed about to round to the full over all Europe was forever eclipsed. And so shall the followers of the true God roll back the infidels from thp Wpst AMERICA FOR ME RELATIVE of mine and his wife recently made a trip to Europe by jet. Arriving in Scot land, they saw Edinburgh, then went to London, saw the Shake speare country, and then crossed to the continent and visited nearly all the great cities except those in Spain and those behind the iron curtain. In telephoning me from his home in Washington, my son re minded me of Van Dyke’s poem, “America for Me.” Hi had found it was fine to see the Old World, but he was glad to embark on a ship that was westward bound to plough the rolling sea to the land of youth and freedom “beyond the ocean bars where the air is A JUST A THOUGHT: “And finally, that Thou wflt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that of the di vine Author and our blessed re ligion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation.”—George Washington’s prayer at ValV’ Forge, 1783. full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars!” Only in Van Dyke’s time there were fewer stars and my son took passage on a ship that sailed through the skies. For him it was home again. Let us all at this time think of the glory and might of our great Country. With foes without and foes within, in this hour of des tiny, may the spirit of Paul Re vere ride throughout our land “from sea to shining sea” to arouse our people to the dangers that may soon beset us. MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Mrs. Louise Rowe, Leesville. Mrs. Sophie Matthews and baby boy, Batesburg. Mrs. Mary Kelly, Joanna Mrs. Essie Holliday, Clinton. Margaret Rinehart, Columbna. Edgar Hiller, Newberry. Charlie Chapman, Little Moun tain. Mrs. Margie Lee Smith, Mon- etta. Miss Mary Wood, Newberry. Miss Lalla Martin, Newberry. Mrs. Girlie Mae Taylor and baby Boy, Saluda. Mrs. Mattie Perry and baby boy, Prosperity. Frances DeHart, Route 1, Pros perity. greases, waxes, numerous gases and the chemical raw materials for thousands of products. The stupendous outpour of products—more than 2,000 gal lons of motor fuel a minute, plus in the same minute pounds and gallons of hundreds of different kinds of fuel oils, solvents, gases and chemicals—goes on twenty- four hours a day, seven days a week. Repair and maintenance are done chiefly by day. At night the streets are alive only with blind things signalling to each other; thermostats, photoelectric cells, gauges, valves opening and shut ting, light winking on and off mysteriously, flames flaring up occasionally from lofty, lonely stacks, subsiding slowly, finally snuffing out.” Recent Marriages Permits To Build Edgar Wesley Everett of Clin ton and Imogene Livingston of Prosperity, were married at New berry on July 15 by Rev. Clarence Richardson. Alfred Lewis Harbuck and Pa tricia Deanne Mitchell of Newber ry, were married by Probate Judge E. Maxcy Stone at Newberry on July 21. July 17: Security Corporation, repairs to office building, 1219 Boyce St., $1200. July 18: Dr. E. G. Able, general repairs to dwelling, 2100 Har rington St., $1100; R. M. and Joyce Attaway, add two rooms to dwelling, 823 Hunt St., $3000. July 20: Mrs. Clyde Adams, add one room and porch to dwelling, 2222 Eleanor S.t, $1800. A $1 80-A-WEEK MAN SEES RETIREMENT AS A CRISIS C'lFTEEN months from now ^ be retired. He’ll be two me he’ll months beyond the age of 65. His wife will be 61, a year short of collecting her own Social Security. He will have a company pension and Social Security totaling $235 a month. He will have two paid-up life insurance policies with a total face value of $11,000. Here are his other assets: A house that is clear and in joint ownership with his wife; U.S. Sav ings Bonds, also in joint owner ship, with a face value of $3,400; A savings account in the bank, also joint, that amounts to $766; A two-year-old car; Six rooms of medium-priced furniture with a freezer, range, refrigerator, TV set and a piano. This man is deeply concerned about his retirement. His salary is $9,360 a year ($180 a week). Taxes and upkeep on his house, which he thinks he could sell for $16,000, are running around $500 a year. Living costs are running right up to his salary—he has been able to add only $800 to his U.S. Bonds in the last two years. How can he cut down to the $235 a month? This will be about $54 a week. If he can save no money on $180 a week how can he possibly live on $54? For this man, and for all those others beset with a similar kind of problem, here is some advice: In the first place a $180-a-week man doesn’t make $180. It’s more like $135 after income taxes. Then the costs of working—bus fare, lunches, coffee breaks. Social Se curity, charity, and what next? —will cut it another $10. Clothes ACROSS 1 Kind of fruit 6 Through 9 Separated 14 Decoys 15 Mineral rock 16 Qua who scolds 17 Usage 19 Sarcasm 20 Worm 21 Consume 22 Elevated grounds 24 Checkllne 26 Former Russian rulers 28 Bothersome person 29 Female deer 31 Breathe noisily 33 Strict 35 Holy 39 Eternity 40 Water barricade 42 Diminutive of Ann 43 National Recovery Administra tion (abbr.) 44 Unsteady 47 Took the part of 49 Confuse 50 Sandy hill 51 East Indian dodder 54 Super family comb, form 86 Limbs 59 Detect 61 God of underworld 63 Fondle 64 Permit 65 Painted glass 68 Large fowl (Pi.) 69 Great amount 70 Sphere 71 Compound ether 72 Affirmative word 73 Communion table DOWN 1 Change 2 Handbag 3 Head of a ■ Democracy 4 Meadow 5 Italian community 6 Bards 7 Sea eagle 8 Coming back befitting the $180 job can cut it another $10. Then the incidentals. The $180-a-week man is probably netting about $110 a week. A re tirement income of $235 a month is about half, and a man with a house can manage. It will be embarrassing if he stays where he is. Because $56 a week, or $8 a day, must come out of his way of living. And the cut back will show. Still he can man age. But if he cringes from what his neighbors are thinking, then there is an out—Moving—moving to where people don’t know, or care, how he used to live. A house a man thinks is worth $16,000 will probably sell for $14,- 000. Then the real estate commis sion and the fiddle-faddle will take another $1,000. So he walks out with $13,000 in his pocket. In small towns all over the South—but not in the resort areas —a retired couple can buy a little frame house with a plot of garden ground for $9,000. This leaves $4.- 000, plus the $3,400 in U.S. Bonds. The total of $7,400 in a bank or savings and loan association at 4 per cent would be extra income of about $25 a month . . . added to the $235 pension. This could be wealth in a small community of little money, whde it could be near-poverty in a $180- a-week community in the North. It’s not the same dish of life, for sure. But it’s not necessarily bad. And a man and his wife can adjust to it, even at age 65. F*r • copy of the new Golden Tenro booklet by Thomas Collins, send US cents in coin (no stamps) to Dept. NWNS, Box 1672, Grand Central Sta tion. New York 17. N. X. Answer To Puzzlo No. 702 M U F T 1 0 N 1 0 N « 1 N E e T E A R E S 0 A PlSl c Ltor 3 N E T S L E c T A R * H • A N £ t 0 s E R G L L 9 Seed covering 10 Wall 11 Make amends 12 Tears 13 Secret meeting 18 Small rugs 23 Skin disease 25 Correlative of neither 27 Viper 30 Finished 32 Wash lightly 33 Place • 34 Also 35 Amusingly 36 Play events 37 Part of “to be” 38 Young boy 41 Passion • 45 Containing talc 46 Man’s nickname 48 Girl’s name 50 Raised platform 51 Proverb 52 Measure of distance (pi.) 53 Little Island 55 Prepares for publication 57 Thin toast 58 Guide 60 Pitcher 62 Medieval story 66 Fish eggs 67 Not well \ 2 3 4 t .. . 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ALpine 3-0401 Boys’ Club Volunteers Help Build “Juvenile Decency” Today, when many people solve problems simply by avoiding them, a progress report by the Boys’ Clubs of America offers vivid proof of how responsible adult leadership can help halt juvenile delinquency. la its annual “Juvenile De cency” review, f the national youth-guidance organization re veals how 80,000 men and wo men helped more than 600,000 de serving members of some 600 Boys’ Clubs in 400 cities and towns throughout the country. This represents a new peak in the number of Clubs in opera tion and the number of members being served. These volun teers, who serve in an almost infinite variety of ways, are vital to the suc cess of the Boys’ Clubs movement. Each Boys* Club is staffed by fall- time, paid, profes- w — sional youth Herbert Hoover wor k ers# But, the volunteers help by donating time, talent and energy to administration, fund raising, service as Club presi dents and board members and to teaching everything from mar bles to music. The success of this cooperation has brought the Boys’ Clubs of America wide recognition as one of the nation’s fastest-growing and most effective youth organi zations. Each Club is the product of the city, or town in which it is located. Locally built, locally supported through United Fund, Community Chest and service, civic, fraternal, labor and other groups, the Boys’ Clubs are a proven anti dote to Juve nile delinquen cy. National lea dership for the organization is provided by former presi dent Herbert Hoover, who for 2o years has very ac tively served as its board chair man. Mr. H hover, who says Hie Boys’ Clubs are “after the home, church and school, the greatest character-building institutions in our country today,” has gathered more than 100 nationally prom inent men to work with him in expanding the organization. Working directly under Mr A. L. Cole Hoover is A. L. Cole, president of the Boys’ Clubs and generah manager of the Reader’s Digest, whose dynamic leadership has played a major role in the move ment’s growth and development. John M. Gleason, an internation-’ ally known authority on youth problems, serves as national di rector and heads a professional staff with headquarters in New York City and seven regional of fices. Under the guidance of these men, and many thou sands more, the Boys’ Clubs or ganization has blended grass roots citizens, | capital, labor i and opposing political par ties into a high ly effective youth - guid ance organiza tion. Its immediate goal — estab lished by Mr. Hoover — is the establishment of 1,000 Boys’ Clubs, serving one million deserv ing youngsters. Committed to a continuation of its policy of solv ing the problem of juvenile de linquency, rather than avoiding it, it’s safe to report that goal should soon be attained. J. ML. Gleason May her wishing well never go dry Every child is a sacred trust. One of the best forms of protection for your child is a planned savings program with us. The best time to start is now. WC' ^NSUPfoU avijvgs and Loan Association* S A V INGS INSTITUTION FOUNDED 1935 isaa COX.X.BOB btbbbt, bbwbbbry, m. a. Directors J. F. CLARKSON M. O. SUMMER G. K. DOMINICK J. K. WILLINGHAM S. a PURCELL W. & HUFFMAN I