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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1963 inn 1218 College Street, Newberry, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Carolina. Paid at Newberry, South SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. SPECTATOR What should a teacher be paid? What sum total can the State (and school districts afford? If we now pay about all we can shall we impose new taxes or additional taxes so as to increase the pay of the teachers? I was a teacher for years in common schools, junior colleges and standard colleges and may have a bias for teachers. On the other hand I was managing Di rector of the Farmers and Tax payers League and know at first Important Notice To Citizens of Newberry THE CITY OF NEWBERRY CALLS ATTENTION OF CITIZENS TO AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE CONTROL, REGULATION, INSTALLATION, CONSTRUCTION, INSPECTION, AND OTHER MAHERS RELATING TO THE GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF NEWBERRY, S. C. AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF SECTION ONE: RULES GOVERNING GAS. No person, firm or corporation shall install, replace, repair, extend or alter any system or piping for the conveyance, distribution or use of illuminating or fuel gas, or construct, repair, replace, install, al ter or maintain any gas burning devices connected to any such system of gas piping, in any building or structure in the City of Newberry and its Police Jurisdiction, other- wise than in conformity with the provisions of this Ordinance and the Building Code of the City of Newberry. ALL GAS CONNECTIONS MUST BE INSTALLED BY QUALIFIED LICENSED PERSONNEL AND PROPERLY INSPECTED BY THE CITY. This is for the protection of everyone within the City Limits and will be strictly enforced. hand the burden on the taxpayers, especially on our business enter prises. We must not impose unduly on one group for the benefit of an other, for all groups are import ant and essential and must be duly considered. We might approach the prob lem in this manner: Are all the teachers underpaid? Are there grades based on efficiency in ac tual teaching? Academic profic iency is not assured by academic degrees, though they are j^o be carefully considered. Some teach ers have majored or specialized in one or two subjects, but are not teaching those subjects. Some were “honor students,” but are rather ordinary teachers. I am just thinking aloud, based on extensive experience since I once appointed thousands of col- should be towers of strength and virtue, are weak and worthless, seeking only their own personal gain. We can only wonder how people so lacking in basic virtues, so de void the moral worth and spiritual discernment managed to get in these places of authority. Certainly modern man needs a renewed sense of moral responsib ility. That which we gain at little cost we seldom prize, therefore we do not cherish our birthright of freedom as we should, because we seldom stop to think what it cost our forefathers to win. If our lib erties disappear (and with the present trend of things it seems that the different parts of the puzzle are rapidly falling into place for our form of government and our way of life to make its exit), it will be the results of com- lege professors and grade teach- j placency, carelessness, and corrup- ers. Now, if all the technical aspects of teaching are duly considered the next question might be this: How much can the State afford? Since the State is not a bottomless source of wealth the general eco nomic conditions must be consid ered. Frankly I think the Taxpayers’ League should be revived so that all aspects of the problem should be studied. If we conclude that the teach ers’ pay should be increased must we impose new or additional tax es? No, that isn’t necessary or de sirable. Someone suggests that the Sales Tax be increased so as to pay teachers more. Well, are the people of the State a bottomless pit of inexhaustible resources ? Must we always impose new or ad ditional taxes? Is there no service which might tion, within rather than attacks from without. The fathers of this country were dominated by principles of right. They might well be ideals for nat ional leaders today. This instead of corruption which is so wide spread, involving so many phases of modern life that the greatest fears are being entertained for the future of this great country of ours, and therefore the welfare of future generations. Never was there so desperate a need for truly great men, not men great in poli tical meneuvering and selfishness but great in character and moral worth. The words of Longfellow are more applicable today than when he wrote them. Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem that human mind from error, be reduced or even suspended ? Is j There would be no need for arse- there any service so sacrosanct nals and forts.” so that it may not be reduced, or even abolished ? We are collecting many millions from the Sales Tax. May more of that revenue be diverted from buildings? Are we wise and pru dent in our building program when we are face to face with some new fads of the Government which may outmode all our building? What shall we do when a crisis confronts us ? Shall we blindly fol low a doubtful course of building; or shall we conserve funds for even remote possibilities ? ? That seems to me the prudent course to follow. Mr. Odom has written clearly and well the thought of a sound man in private life. He is not a politician, but a citizen who thinks and now tells us what he thinks. A friend of mine, from Claren don, a retired Rural Mail Carrier, wrote a letter to The State which I wish to endorse and reproduce. “We live in a strarige and lin- predictable world. Leaders in the political, business and educational world, confess they do not know where they are going. Tragic it is that in such an hour Do you rememoer the Roosevelt “Brain Trust”? Franklin Roose velt, as Governor of New York, at tracted a group of scholars to his Administration and the first, as I recall, was Raymond Moley, a university Professor, a man of ripe scholarship and economic ideals. Mr. Moley now writes for News week magazine every week and I quote his recent contribution to that magazine, a study of Congress and President Kennedy, based on Mr. Moley’s rich experience in Government policies: “In the past months we have witnessed a great deal of criticism of Congress as an institution be cause of its failure to act upon the multitude of Presidential recom mendations and requests which have been made this year and also in 1961 and 1962. Newspaper edi- as this, when all Western civiliza tion is in jeopardy from mighty | torials, columns, books by pro forces now challenging its supre- fessors, and a book by senators macy, many of its leaders, who NewChevellei BY CHEVROLET The kind of handling ease you'd expect In a smaller car. Come on down and drive it. The kind of comfort you'd expect In a large Interior. Come on down and sK In It. Only a car that looks as good as this could come between Chevrolet and Chevy XL Come on down and stare at It. 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Like the fact that (and see if this isn't one of the nicest surprises of all) the _ new Chevelle comes at an easy-to-take price! ' Like to hear more? The listening’s wonderful at your Chevrolet dealer’s—and so’s the driving. ^Optional at extra cos! ceived committee attention but no approval. Thus the Presidential score was 5 per cent. To consider and act upon the 1963 Kennedy requests would take five years. But there are other reasons for the President’s low score. This is a Congress with over whelming majorities of the Pres ident's party. Republicans plus Southern Democrats could not alone have stopped this legisla tion. The failure to act has been because of the reluctance of mem bers who expect to run in 1964 on a ticket headed by the President. They don’t want to go on record against him. Early in 1961 tho President and Speaker Rayburn ‘packed’ the House Rules Committee after some of the most rugged and un scrupulous uses of pressure ever seen in Congress. But even after the enlargement of the Commit tee, the gate was not opened. Members realized that without the restraint of the Rules Committee there would be chaos. Why have all these requests withered on the vine ? Because members realize that there is no popular demand for them. Not only are members closer to the American people— except on television—than the president, but a larger number of them are better equipped to judge the wisdom and need of such leg islation than is the Chief Execu tive. Moreover, a large number doubt the President’s sincerity in most of his proposals. They be lieve he is merely piling up a rec ord to satisfy minorities upon which he must depend for re-elec tion in 1964. The worth of Congress cannot be judged only by what it passes. Equally important is what it re jects.” BIRTHS $ • .• \ DANIELSON Tried it yet? The new Seal Gloss acrylic finish for vinyl and all hard surface floors. It’s different. Whitaker Floor Coverings. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Danielson of 521 Green street, announce the birth of a seven pound, seven ounce son, Christopher August, on October 24 at Newberry County Memorial hospital. Mrs. Danielson is the former Etta Louise Wise. BARRETT Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Omerle •Barrett of Route 1, Pomaria, an nounce the birth of a six pound, six ounce daughter, Tammy Lynn, on October 28 at Newberry Coun ty Memorial hospital. Mrs. Bar rett is the former Margaret Lu nette Graham. Recent Marriages James William Stewart Jr. of West Memphis, Ark. and Barbara Ann Graffin of Columbia were married on October 26 at Columbia by Rev. Paul E. Smith. LOST OR STRAYED — A little grey and white kitten. Her name i s Hermione (Her-MY-oh-nee) which she knows. Reward if found. Call 276-4183. 29-2tc. Mr. and Mrs. James P. Fulp and daughter, Kathy have moved into their new home on John stone St. Mr. and Mrs. George W. McCall have returned to Pelzer to make their home. Mr. McCall, who has been superintendent of the Mollo- hon Plant of the Kend&il Company for the past two years, will be con nected with Kendall’s Pelzer plants. mm m Term Bruce-Te largo* tarmlta control orgonlxartow' $5000 GUARANTEE Agtdmti eaimrm Tormft* Dm l^nMM nfionOy |y ever mo Newberry Lumber Co., Inc. Authorized Representative For TERMINIX SERVICE 913 CLINE ST. TELEPHONE 56 mm \ m Ask about a SMILE-MILE Ride and the Chevrolet Song Book at your Chevrolet dealer’s KEMPER CHEVROLET COMPANY 1515-1517 MAIN STREET NEWBERRY, S. C. TELEPHONE 276-1610 have echoed the theme. Congress must be reorganized, ‘streamlined’, so that it will promptly act when the President gives an order. It is interesting to note that most of these people who would relegate Congress to a merely nominal role in our government also loudly denounce military or executive take-overs from repre sentative governments abroad. Hence, while they denounce auth oritarian government abroad, they call for one here. Much of the criticism of Cong ress centers upon the House, be cause that body has been less re sponsive to Presidents over the past few decades. In a scholarly and deeply pene trating book, ‘The Forge of Dem ocracy’ (496 pages. David McKay. $6.75), Neil MacNeil has pointed out that with a minimum of windy debate and a maximum of labor ious committee work the House, at least in recent years, has more truly reflected the collective wis dom of the nation than has the Senate. MacNeil says that the Senate ‘has tended to be more sympathe tic to the President ... the House . . . has tended to be more parsim onious than the Senate with tax payers’ money, more insistent on reducing the President’s request for higher taxes and larger spend ing . . . less receptive to ‘bullet- te’ activist pressure groups . . . That has made the House reflect, less than the Senate, labor unions, ethnic and urban minorities, and the liberal causes these groups have normally espoused’. In the present congress, how ever, the Senate as well as the House has been reluctant to sub ordinate itself to the President’s wishes. According to a compila tion by the Congressional Quar terly covering the 7 months prior to July 31 the President had sent 403 requests to Congress. Of these only 19 went in that period to the White House for the President’s signature. Thirty-eight had passed one house or the other. Five had passed both houses but awaited final Congresional action. Nothing at all had been done about 154. Fifteen had been rejected either by committee action or on the floor. Nineteen had been reported or approved by a committee but had not come up for a vote. One hundred and fifty-three had re- POSITIVE '■w Tbe Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corpora tion, Washington, D. C., organized by an Act of Cong ress in 1934, guarantees that no one will ever again lose his life-time savings. No one has ever lost a penny when his money was protected by this Corporation, a perma nent agency of the United States Government. Your savings at Newberry Federal are thus Insur ed to $10,0.00. Our Current Dividend Rate is 4% per an num, compounded twice a year. Our Savings Plan is flexible, you can start an ac count with any amount and add to it as you please. Your money is available, immediately, when you need it’ all or any portion thereof. SAWOTt »r you* fAVINOf INSURED 'avtjvos hato Loan Association A SAVINGS INSTITUTION l-OUNDLp IU35 •VUMMT, MmWMBMMY, 9. ©-’ J. F. CLARKSON M. O. SUMMER DIRECTORS G. K. DOMINICK J. K. WILLINGHAM BRANCH OFFICE —Botesburg, S. C. E. B. PURCELL W. C. HUFFMAN jc-