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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1963 1218 College Street, Newberry, S. C. « PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner- Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina. Looking A. bead ...by Dr. Georg* S. Benton PRESIDENT—NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Searcy, Arkanta* SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN We Americans are prone to read headlines and think in headlines instead of going to the basic facts. Now as to the famous, or in famous, Fourteenth Amendment: The President and the Supreme Court have cited the 14th Amend ment and have relied on it to sup port some of their sociological twaddle. The so-called 14th Amendment was never legally, lawfully or val idly adopted. If that is true there is no 14th Amendment. When the Civil War ended President Lincoln contended that the States had ever been out of the Union although the South se ceded, as it had a right to do. The 13 States which formed and com posed the Union voluntarily with drew from the Union. Observe that each State decided when it would join the Pnion or if it would join the Union. So jealous were the States of their sovereign power and dignity that ten Amendments were speed ily adopted in order to calm the fears and compose the differences. Remember that the States were delegating certain of their powers to a general government, but the full sovereignty and dignity re mained assured. Following the Civil War the Congress outlawed the Sovereign ty of the States and set up mili tary governments. South Carolina smarted and groaned undera mil itary government for ten years during the Reconstruction as it was called. During that time we had carpet-baggers in control and a heavy Colored majority in the Legislature. Did you know that? If the TV stations care to show that, photographs are available. Remember now, that South Carolina and some others—were declared by Congress to be rebell ious and outside the Union. During that Reconstruction era the so-called 14th Amendment was submitted to the States. States outside the Union, under military control, were counted as favoring the Amendment, although accord ing to the Congress itself they were not in the Union and still were under military and carpet bag control. Therefore the 14th Amendment is a legal fiction, not a fact.. Anyone informed about our his tory knows that the Government i of the United States has no auth ority to issue orders to a State, or to a State institution or agency. The central or national Govern ment has only such powers as are conferred by the Constitution, and internal affairs of States are not within the jurisdiction of any Fed eral authority. I am sorry they did not arrest and imprison the Governor of Ala bama, for that would have shock ed the whole nation into realiza tion of the arbitrary, despotic and unlawful course of the national government. i. As someone said, a bad king is good for liberty if he is just bad enough. In other words, a tyrran- ny can be fully understood if it be so bad as to offend all fair-mind ed and informed citizens. We are approaching that now: the States are being kicked about as though they owed their being and continued existence to the National government. Far from it; the National Government owes its life to the States. Sometime, somewhere, some leader will rise who will sound a trumpet that will make the Walls of Jericho fall down. j articles vie with the glamour of gowns once worn by royalty, cur ios from the South Seas, hand- carved crutches, decorative bird cages, odd bits of furniture, kitch en utensils and even tombstones. Within its one half square mile area, there are 6,000 merchants who tend approximately 3,000 stands and sidewalk displays. Large shops, which have branches in the Flea Market, may pay as much as $1000 in rent; sidewalk merchants pay as little as 7 cents a day per square yard. A word to shoppers; among the fakes and worthless junk, there are also good antiques and useable decorative items. Prices are about on a par with downtown shops, when the item is good and the dealer has the faintest suspic ion that it has any value. Bargain, but not belligerently. Be warned that most dealers can at least count in English. The Flea Market is open only Saturday, Sunday and Monday year round.” “In 1891, the Paris police round- id up and herded together a mot- ey crowd of itinerant peddlers, rag and iron merchants and side walk salesmen. Loaded down with bundles, dragging handcarts, they straggled through Montmartre, :ut through the Porte de Cligan- rourt, and onto the plain of Saint- Ouen, on the outskirts of Paris, where the army occasionally held maneuvers. Here they settled down, offering their trinkets for sale to passer- bys. When the army seemed not to object, they put up awnings over their merchandise and built flimsy wooden booths. They sold everything from ormulu clocks to cracked washbasins, but one of their most popular items was a cheap hard mattress, usually fill ed with fleas. Thus began, at the close of the 19th century, the famed Flea Market. Today, the Flea Market is a peddler’s paradise, where a con glomeration of merchants is as sembled from seemingly every where. It is a major Parisian tour ist attraction and offers the prov idential Parisian both a show and an opportunity for bargains. Here tawdry and nondescript “Did the driver who ran off the road and hit a telegraph pole real ly fall asleep, as he said he did, or was he the victim of slow poison ing by carbon monoxide seeping into his tightly closed car from a defective muffler or exhaust heat er? Chances are that carton mon oxide was the important factor, as it is in so many highway acci dents. Carbon monoxide’s action is in sidious, since it is odorless, and non-irritating. It can cause a per son to become drowsy and lose consciousness before he realizes anything is amiss. It’s so potent that a person who smokes from 20 to 30 cigarets a day may have a large amount of carbon monoxide in his blood, be coming easy prey to relatively small amounts of carbon monox ide. Checks of autos inseveral states have shown dangerous concentra tions of carbon monoxide in as many as half the cars examined, and a high percentage of fatal auto crash victims have substan tial amounts of carbon monoxide in their blood. There are many sources of car bon monoxide aside from automo- [ biles. Utility gas is a common source, since it either may contain carbon monoxide or create it in the process of burning. Defective ly vented or operated refrigera tors. Kerosene stoves burning in closed room have caused many deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning. The reason carbon monoxide is so poisonous is that as it grad ually accumulates in the blood, it displaces life-giving oxygen. Ev entually a level is reached at which the tissues can no longer get the amount pf oxygen they require to stay alive. Since the brain has the greatest need for oxygen of any tissue in^ the body, it succumbs first. The victims experience a gradually in creasing lethargy and stupor, quickly followed by loss of cons cious ness. His skin and mucous membranes become a bright cher ry-red color—as bright as the tail lights on the car he may have been driving. Preliminary symptoms include headache, yawning, dizziness, faintness, ringing in the ears, per haps nausea, and a peculiar pound ing of the heart. These signs should be enough to warn of im pending danger, and to urge the victims to seek fresh air as rap idly as possible. Unfortunately, carbon monoxide poisoning also produces a kind of lethargy; while the patient may vaguely realize that he is in danger, it harly seems enough to bother him. When giving first aid for car bon monoxide poisoning, quickly remove thevictim to fresh air. Give him artificial respiration and oxygen if possible. The oxygen can be administered while artifi cial respiration is being carried out. But prevention is even more im portant than treatment, and cor- bon monoxide poisoning can be avoided if you recognize its po tential dangers and follow a few simple rules; Remember that any device that produces heat through a process of cumbustion can produce carbon monoxide, which must be carried off through a properly functioning venting system like a flue or a chimney. If the vent draft is in adequate, or there are any leaks, carbon monoxide may readily seep into a room or a car without the occupant’s being aware of it. Never run a car motor or any other internal combustion engine in a closed space like a garage or shop. The exhaust from such en- BOOM OR BUST PLANNERS One segment of American thought considers the prospect of reces-! sion about as fearsome as nuclear war. Generally, this thinking in sists that government provide guarantees against each calamity, it was therefore both concession and pressure when President Ken nedy looked a group of bankers in the eye recently and promised the nation a recession unless his tax cut goes through. Has Mr. Ken nedy taken up soothsaying? If so, why are his planners blind to dan gers of government induced eco nomic chaos? Either kind of col lapse would surely briog thorough going government-managed econ omy. Perhaps this is the real goal. When the economic indicators revealed a slow-down last summer we heard this same plea: there would have to be a tax cut to stave off recession. Then, with the economy stepping along brisk ly at the year’s end, it was said that the future would require a tax cut. Now that we’re on a plat eau and nothing spectacular is oc curring to set off a boom, we are told that we have only two choices, either we cut taxes or we face a recession. (A free economy always faces recession.) Boom Obsession Another obsession among the planners is that we require inces- ant economic boom. They decree that our growth must proceed at some predetermined but furious rate, with never a backward look nor pause for readjustment. But the complex economic life of the nation is not going to gee and haw at command from Washing ton. The government can meddle with the currency and inflate it to the bursting point, but after that the meddling ceases. But if we seek complete planning and con trol we encourage the tyranny of the state. Although it has been tried be fore, deficit spending has ^ never accomplished muich as anti-reces sion medicine. It would seem that if national deficits are worth any thing in achieving economic pros- i perity, we would have had no ups and downs at all. But we have had our peaks and valleys for five years, during which our habit of deficits has piled up some $30 billion in debts. Our nearly 30 years of deficit spending in peace time has produced nothing except debt and cheap money, unless it has been a more vigorous interest in the pork-barrel. Where Cuts Are Needed People have grave doubts that tax cutting such as that proposed by the President will prevent re cession or stimulate growth. Many believe that cuts in the low in come brackets would not have any effect at all upon our economy. There is doubt whether this would stimulate consumer spending. What will people do with a tax refund? They may choose to pay off debts, or hide it under the mattress. Cuts toward the top brackets, however, along with cor porate tax relief, could produce more action toward stimulating enterprise and expanding business. A big question remains. Can we expect business itself to go off on a wild spree of expansion as long as the federal government controls prices, encourages the wage spiral, and keeps the dollar in jeopardy by its domestic and foreign policies? Can even Mr. Kennedy suppose that the steel industry will charge out of the corner in which he stood it a year ago, beaming with confidence and rearing to build new plants that will hire the unemployed? Do Ad ministration economists think that Big Steel will build more capacity just because they say the word “boom”? Confusion or Sense? The truth is that the Kennedy money policies tend to produce caution and confusion. People may not understand what White House Adviser Walter .Heller means by “deficits of strength,” but they do understand that a tax cut is supposed to mean less revenue for the government to spend. People are aware that a tax cut with deficit spending is, after all, not a tax cut in the full sense of the picture. If the government cannot afford the loss of revenue, our citizens would just as soon forget about the tax cut. To be sure when high taxes confiscate capital that would be used to create jobs, it is time to talk about relief for enterprise. But the President proposes limit ing deductions and altering the rules so that middle and high bracket taxpayers would probably pay higher taxes. The nation’s economy would have less risk cap ital than it has now—another ex ample of government planning gone wrong. It will be only self- defeating to tax so that govern ment can spend so that more taxes are required to pay for big ger government. gines includes enormous amounts or carbon monoxide and quickly produces dangerous levels in the air. FARM NOTES '•iiftiiuiifjiiil Recent weather has proved ideal for the work of Mr. Boll Weevil. This insect pest likes nothing bet ter than the cloudy, rainy weather we’ve been having lots of. Also the fact that it has been too wet to get into the fields with tractor equipment to apply insecticides has also been in favor of the boll weevil. All of which adds up to this. Every cotton farmer must immed iately go on a 5 day schedule in order to keep damage to our cot ton crop as low as possible. In addition to maintaining a 5 day poisoning schedule, the following points will help you get better weevil control: 1. Dust cotton only when the wind is still. Winds of over three miles per hour greatly reduce the effectiveness of dust applications. You can’t depend on “drift” of the dust to kill cotton insects. 2. From now on through the growing season, use a minimum of 15 pounds dust per acre, re gardless of the insecticide you are using. 3. For those using sprayers, make certain you are using suf ficient toxicant and sufficient wa ter per acre. Extension Informa tion Card 97 gives the proper number of pints per acre of the various insecticides. All insecti cides used from now out except Sevin should contain at least one pound per acre of DDT for boll- worm control. 4. Three nozzles per row is now needed for adequate coverage. Also be sure you use sufficient water for good coverage. No less than 7 gallons per acre should be used. Ten gallons per acre would be better. Remember that boll weevil poi son in the bam won’t stop weevils from feeding and reproducing. Start on a FIVE DAY schedule! SOYBEANS Continued rains have really hurt those farmers who planned on planting soybeans following small grains. Some are wondering if it is now too late to plant them for combining this fall. Although we normally consider June 20 as the approximate cut off date on planting soybeans, we feel it might be worth the risk of late planting this year. Here’s why. With the good moisture now in the soil, beans planted within the next week should quickly come up to a good stand. And with just a little bit of cooperation from the weather man with rain at the right time in August and September, you could still get better than twenty bushels per acre average yield. So with the prospect of $2.40 per bushel or better this fall we hope many acres of soybeans will be planted by the end of the first week in July. Varieties you should consider using include JEW 45, JEW 101 and Yelnada. Jackson and Hampton may also be used on limited acreage for late planting— While we’re on the subject, our congratulations to John S. Har mon for his prize-winning yield of 46 bushels per acre of soybeans last year. John won first prize in the Newberry County contest and second prize in the Piedmont dis trict contest. The Newberry County Farm Bureau will again sponsor the county 5-Acre Soybean contest this year. Let us know if you are interested. BETTER MAKE HAY All livestock farmers remember last winter when everyone ran out of hay before the winter was gone and grass turned green. This reminds us that we’d better not count entirely on the fall hay crop for your winter supply. Brown top millet, if you can find the seed, can still be seeded for a quick hay crop. Also makes good late grazing, if not needed for hay. Doug Clawson, our Clemson Dairy Specialist, tells us that *Brown Top Millet hay has shown up extremely well in their forage testing program. That simply bears out what some farm ers have been telling us for years—that their cows like the Brown Top Millet hay better than any other kind. Let’s Grow More Alfalfa For years Newberry county led the State in Alfalfa hay product ion. However, the coming of the Alfalfa Weevil five years ago caused many farmers to despair of growing this valuable crop. Al falfa still r. iks as the king of all hay crops. No other hay can quite equal its ability to make cows give milk. Also there is a steady demand for good Alfalfa hay. There is usually little trouble sell ing any surplus you may have. Now we’ve learned to live with the Alfalfa weevil just as we learned to live with the boll wee vil. One application of insecticide applied in the fall will usually give adequate control the follow ing season. So let’s get some land ready for planting Alfalfa this fall. Take soil samples now and plant by prescription. We believe you’ll find it will pay you to include this valuable crop in your dairy feed program. Statement of Condition Loan Association NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA After the Close of Business June 29, 1963 ASSETS First Mortgage Loans $17,327,025.29 Loans on Savings Accounts — 192,956.45 Properties Sold on Contract 23,038.65 Real Estate Owned , 20,857.96 Investments and Securities 792,600.00 Cash on Hand and in Banks 906,412.99 Office Building and Equipment, Less Depreciation 159,901.39 Deferred Charges and Other Assets 82,969.83 $19,505,762.56 LIABILITIES Savings Accounts $17,094,628.98 Advances from Federal Home Loan Bank 500,000.00 Loans in Process 414,060.50 Other LiabOities 4,228.70 Specific Reserves 2,500.00 General Reserves $1,435,908.02 Undivided Profits 54,436.36 1,490,344.38 $19,505,762.56 MEMBER OF U. S. Savings and Loan League Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation S. C. Savings and Loan League Savings and Loan Foundation J. F. CLARKSON M. O. SUMMER 108* COMBOS 0TBBBT, BBWBBBBY. 0. O. . •‘V- ' ■ . ./ " • '• • •' V • • • ' . • „ • • - . - ... •• •• ... . DIRECTORS G. K. DOMINICK J. K. WILLINGHAM BRANCH OFFICE —Baiesburg, S. C. V' . . . , UN 4 ' ■ *■ B. PURCELL | * v.-- Mm AN W. C. HUFFMAN