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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1964 Utt 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. Moore Succumbs Rites Tuesday Heyward Moore, 61, died early Monday morning 1 at a veteran’s hospital in Mountain Home, Tenn., after a long illness. Born in Newberry county, son of the late Maybin C. and Caro lyn Sloan Moore, he was employ ed in communications work, first with Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co., then at Oakridge, Tenn. He was a veteran of World War II, having served in the Sig nal Corps. He was a member of Newberry ARP church. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. George Wentz of Norfolk, Va.; a son, Heyward Moore Jr., a grad uate student at the University of North Carolina; a brother, J. B. Moore of Newberry; and four sis ters, Mrs. Julia Blalock, Mrs. Lil lie Mae Goggans and Miss Marie Moore of Newberry and Mrs. Es telle Summer of Aiken. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at Whitaker Funeral home by Dr. Paul L. Grier. Burial was in Rosemont cemetery. SKEET SCOOP Abe Chapman high for week with 49x50; in second place Robert Hawkins 47x50; Floyd Dennis 46x 50. Three way tie with 45x50, John Epps, Dr. Dickert and Charlie Epps; 43x50 were Henry Sowell, Walter Cousins and Spencer Green- hill, Mac Fennell 42x50, Lewis Fennell 21x25, Keith Kibler lOx 25, Heyward Mills 42x50, Ross Sessoms 17x25. THE “SPECTATOR'S” COLUMN £a.&tat (fteeting. The coming of this hoi/ day once again reminds us how much of our life is based on faith ... faith in our nation, our leaders and our fellow man. We wish you much happiness during this joyful season. May the spirit of Easter lift your heart and remain with you during the days that lie ahead. 1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422 FINAL NOTICE COUNTY TAXES . . There will be a penalty of v 7 Per Cent added to all unpaid taxes at the dose of business APRIL 1st, 1964 All taxes not paid by April 15th will go into execution with further penalties and will be placed in the hands of the Tax Collector. Please see the undersigned and ar range your taxes and save these heavy penalties. J. RAY DAWKINS t COUNTY TREASURER The Great Jehovah did not en dow everybody with equal talents, as even the most casual and super ficial observation will prove. Without pretending to be pro foundly psychological we know from everyday experience and ob servation that some people have a talent for music, whether it be ability to produce music or a special appreciation of music; others are gifted with eloquent speech and a grace of literary style that command admiration; still others seem to understand mechanics, from the simple, every day things to the most complicat ed machinery; some others have a creative talent. I may suggest that these mild illustrations of day-to-day living appear to be beyond the grasp of some national leaders, who think all are exactly alike. Even the average school teacher, and certainly the average mother knows that children are frequently as unlike as chalk is to cheese. Much is said about the creative talent, the creative impulse, as distinguished from the mere hum drum living of accepting every thing as it is. Quoting a prize-winning physi cist, Arthur Holly Compton: “A characteristic (of creativity) that seems to be universal among Nobel prize winners in science is that they are men of exceptional self-starting ability. When they are irritated by something that gets in the road, they get going at solving the difficulty; they don’t wait for somebody tQ tell them to do it. Also, these men were working under conditions of substantial freedom and leisure. They were not in a position where there was some boss telling them what they should do next. They were free. They had some time to themselves. Having given some generaliza tions, I want now to describe some examples. Consider the discovery and the scientific use of X-rays. The key man was William Conrad Roentgen. He discovered X-rays in 1895 when he was 49 years old. He was a professor in a little German university at Warzburg. He had an assistant, a laboratory, and a few students. Thus he was almost a lone worker. His background was one that you might expect of an imagina tive scientist. He hadn’t done too well in school; in fact he flunked out of one school because he had his own ideas as to what he should study and they didn’t fit with the teacher’s. So his family put him in another. He finally graduated and won his doctor’s degree. He was one of those careful, meticu lous investigators whose work was in the forefront at the close of the last century.” where in the country. And hund reds of other research programs are under way, some concerned with nuclear energy. At the end of the year, the total investment in plant and equipment by the taxpaying, investor-owned utilities had reached the astonish ing total of $54 billion. So this great story goes. And another phase of it should be add ed. On an average annual basis for the 1958-62 period, the power companies pay more taxes than any other industry in the nation. Their 1963 tax bill is testimated at $2.67 billion—a jump of $90 million over 1962. Who says this country needs socialized power? The plain fact ual record makes a mockery of the tax-subsidized, socialized pow er movement.” We are electric-minded, aren’t we, though not electrically minded —if I may pose a nice distinction. I was much impressed years ago by an illustration to show the marked difference in a bit of punc tuation. It was said that the Czar of Russia had made a brief notation on an application for a pardon. The Czar wrote “Pardon impossi ble; to he sent to Siberia.” The Czarina while waiting for the Czar to get ready for a visit tRey were to make, saw the application for a pardon with the Czar’s brief note “Pardon impossible”, (semi colon) to be sent to Siberia.” The Czarina, waiting for the Czar to dress (if you can believe that the lady was already and the man was causing the delay) the Czarina read the application for a pardon and it appealed to her heart. She could not change the wording, for the Czar had already signed the refusal, but with quick wit she erased the semi-colon after the word “impossible” and put it after the word “pardon”; so it now read “Pardon; impossible to be sent to Siberia.” We are a wonderful people; and this is a wonderful nation; not withstanding the somersaults and gyrations of some leaders in our political life. Just consider one phase or as pect of our economy: “The electric power industry of this nation has a long-standing habit of setting records—month after month, year after year. And the year that just closed was no exception. Some of the facts: For the first time in history, a total output of more than one trillion kilowatt-hours of electric energy was recorded by the U. S. in 1963. The use of electricity is follow ing its long-term growth rate of doubling about every 10 years— about 2 1-2 times the rate of growth of the whole economy. During the year, the United States increased its lead over the second-ranking country, the Sov iet Union, to 317 million killo- watts. Power lines of 500,000 volts are now being built and vesearch is being conducted on test lines of 750,000 volts and more. This ex tra-high voltage transmission pro gram promises still better, still more dependable, still more eco nomical electric service every- I think it might prove a waste of time and money to challenge in court many of our present day Communistic practices, though we may have blundered seriously in accepting many of Mr. Roosevelt’s pet ideas that he borrowed. I think from radicals. For example, the 52 per cent of corporate income. How can anyone reconcile that arrant communistic spoilation with the “Equal Rights” so often proclaim ed as the American political phil osophy. The rule of today is “Get all you can; justice is all old stuff.” “The President in his special tax message to the Congress pro posed, among other things, the broadening of the base of corpor ate income taxes and the removal of unwarranted special privileges in order to provide more nearly equal treatment to taxpayers. The electric utility industry in the United States is made up of two major segments—the investor owned companies, which serve a- bout 80 per cent of the electric customers, and the government- owned or financed projects, which serve about 20 per cent of the electric customers. Such govern ment projects consist of federal, state and municipal systems and rural electric cooperatives financed by the Federal Government thru the Rural Electrification Adminis tration. The total tax liability of the investor owned segment of the electric utility industry is, on the average ,more than any other one industry. These taxes for the year ended December 31, 1962, were approximately $2.7 billion. Over half of the taxes paid went to the government as corporation income taxes. Looking A head ,..by Dr. Georg* S. Benson PRESIDENT-NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Searcy, Arkansas PROPERTY TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Roy C. Bishop to Roger Arnold Bouknight and Mary Maney Blackham Bouknight, one lot $5. George B. Sligh, et al to Susie E. Sligh, one lot and one building on College street $5 love and af fection. Newberry No. 1 Outside Milton L. Haltiwanger to Ray L. Busby, one lot and one building on Milne Avenue, $5. Whitmire No. 4 Gladys M. Scurry to Thomas L. Alexander and Patricia S. Alex ander, 1 lot $10. Louise T. Collins to M. L. Baker one lot $10. C. B. Jeter to Tom W. Suber, one lot on Duckett St. $975.00. Evelyn S. Jeter to Tom W.. Su ber, one lot on Duckett St. $5. Tom W. Suber to Jerry R. Vic ars, one lot on Duckett St. $500. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Joe H. Bond to John William Crapp, one lot and one building, $10.00. Pomaria No. 5 David Leroy Wedaman, Jr., to Clyde N. Suber and Evelyn W. Suber, one lot $5 love and affec tion. Herbert S. Fulmer Sr., to Jua nita B. Fulmer, 5.6 acres $5. Prosperity No. 7 Mabel M. Counts to Jacob Frank Wessinger, one lot and one building $5. Former Resident Dies At Hospital Mrs. Nettie (Sanders) Player, a former resident of Newberry, died at the Baptist hospital, Col umbia after about a month’s ill ness. Mrs. Player was a daughter of Hamelett Sanders and Amanda (Crocker) Sanders. She is survived by four sons, J. C. of Florence; Thomas, of Jacksonville, Fla.; Cannon and Henry Jr. of the home; one bro ther, George Sanders of Sullivan’s Island; Mrs. Flossie Sligh, of Newberry and six grandchildren also survive. Recent Marriages Wilton T. Bryant of Columbia and Betty Faulkenberry of Lan caster, were married by Probate Judge Frank H. Ward at New berry on March 20. Affluence And Poverty Early in the year a leading magazine, U .S. News & World Report, published a survey of the business and economic outlook for 1964. Every indicator on their board, except two, showed trends upward: more spending, more prosperity, more gains. The two negative factors were decreasing farm income and a higher rate of unemployment, despite creation of 3-4 of a million new jobs. Every thing else, mostly the result of business optimism and buoyance, was on the upswing. Europe, too, the periodical said, and Canada and Japan are expecting more boom, with more jobs than people in some countries, particularly in West Germany. In Communist areas of the world, however, the outlook is bleak, with hunger and scarcity rampant. This, it is obvious, is in glaring contrast to the West. The outlook is for the Communist em pire to remain the world’s poor- house and for these countries to fall farther behind the west. This is not without its irony. Today, the world’s chief government-run tyrannies are in famine. At the same time, the chronic problem areas in the U. S. that are not keeping up—labor (unemploy ment) and agriculture—are the very areas where government has done the bulk of its tinkering and adjustment. Fighting Our Poverty It was also ironic that the mag azine, almost coincidental with the president’s announced drive on poverty, should feature this story in headlines suggesting that 1964 may well be the Affluent Year. The “affluent society,” you know, is the phrase of John K. Gail- braith of Harvard, formerly, on the Kennedy staff and later Am bassador to India. His view is that too large a portion of the wealth of America is in private hands, that too little belongs to the gov ernment. Just where Mr. Gailbraith stands with regard to the “war on pov erty” amid such prosperity, we do not know. Perhaps he too would have the federal govemr ment eliminate poverty by bring ing every family up to $3000 in yearly income. But that would hardly do, for this would increase the wealth in private hands. Sev eral more billions (borrowed) would thus be required for social ized subsidization of the poor. The nation presently spends a- bout $44 billions ($31 billions of it federal money) each year to help the needy, but it has not, so far, eliminated poverty. What’s Good For You Expanding the private economy would be bad, in Mr. Gailbrith’s view. All of this private affluence predicted for 1964 would serve to degrade our citizens and under mine the society. More government spending apparently will be fine, but the government would have to forego the tax cut. Yet, any good New Frontiersman knows that without a tax cut AND deficit spending, the nation is heading straight for a recession. Well, we begin to see the ambi guity of the position that every thing must be done by the federal government. These Liberal G- men like to insist that they know exactly just how everything should be done. They would be completely at ease in the all-powerful State as long as they control it, just like the Communists. Big Sam could easily solve the unemploy ment by hiring the 4,000,000 or more who are supposed to be out of work. Everyone is entitled to a job, you know, even if it’s a gov ernment job. It takes away your breath, what the government can do for you! The trouble with all this is that it is morally wrong in a free soc iety for the State to seek control over the lives of its citizens. It is moral weakness for the citizen to submit himself to the mercy of the government’s breadlines in time of prosperity. Ch arity and help for the unfortunate have a place in our society already, Pres ident Johnson notwithstanding. But not this! When this nation comes to the place where govern ment has to guarantee everyone a job or so much income, two chickens in the pot, and two cars in the garage (one a Volkswagen) we are finished! Medicare, at the top of the list as one of the big guns in fighting poverty, would cost about $1 bil lion annually to begin with and nobody knows how much later. This medical care for the aged, under Social Security financing like most of the programs of com pulsion, is not needed. With the Kerr-Mills plan providing help now to those who can’t afford it, private health insurance programs already cover most everyone. At the end of 1963, 60 per cent of Americans over 65 had private plans, and the total coverage is more than 145 million persona of all ages. One might ask: Whose welfare, yours or the State’s? Dean Manion m THE MANION FORUM |« • The overriding issue of the 1964 election campaign has been clearly cut out for both political parties by the assassination of President Kennedy. The big ques tion now is this: What has been done, what are we doing, and what do we propose to do about Com munism ? The sophisticates in our State Department who have so long maintained that there is no inter nal menace to the United States from Communism have now been tragically and dramatically refut ed. The death of President Ken nedy was plotted and accomplished by a professed Communist who was under the orders and subject to the discipline of Fidel Castro’s murder-bund. In their so-called “cold war” a- gainst us, the Communists have accomplished what no other en emy has ever been able to do, ni>mely, they have killed our Com mander in Chief. The American public is contin ually being told that the foreign policy course being charted in Washington is achieving “victory” over Communism. If our ultimate goal is a world of peace from the Communist menace, isn’t it a contradiction to subsidize any country controlled by' that ideology? Are there contra dictions in policies which have weakened our relations with his torically staunch allies, such as France, Portugal, Pakistan, and the Philippines, while we make political and economic concessions to Communist governments? Review some of the background of the invitation extended to Mar shal Tito of Yugoslavia and his visit here. We were told that this was a personal invitation extended by the President, and this preclud ed the usual pomp and circum stance which usually greets heads of State in Washington. The state department realizes that the Am erican public is aware of Tito’s history and the role he played and plays in the International Com munist conspiracy. In 1917 Tito helped organize the Yugoslav party. During the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia he head ed the Communist partisan move ment aimed in part at destroying anti-Red political and military groups there. Political opposition in Yugosla via is completely suppressed, churchmen are silenced, inteP-'c- tual opposition is stifled. People are denied freedom of press and of speech, and in general, the Yugoslav government is as dicta torial as its Russian counterpart. Tito has never opposed the Soviet Union on a single foreign policy issue. The evidence is overwhelming to support the conclusion that the aid we have supplied Tito in the past 15 years has served to perpetuate Communism in Yugoslavia and has helped expand its operation thru- 6ut the world. Ideologically and economically, the Communist world has tremen dous internal complications. If we applied effective external and in ternal pressure, rather than rush ing to their aid with subsidies, we could .exploit the rotting condi tions and tumble the Communist world. Communism is the mortal ene my of our American way of life; it threatens every free-world gov ernment and institution. Since Communism is false in its politi cal, social and economic principles, it has within itself the seeds of self-destruction which should be carefully nourished by us. Communism can be crushed ard its captive peoples freed by an in- lightened, determined foreign pol icy which calls for a course di rectly opposite to the Administra tion’s philosophy. We must en courage and aid the anti-Commun- ist nationalistic forces which are at work. The constant struggle of nat ionality groups behind the Iron Curtain can be seen in the farm failures in Communist lands, since peasants displaying their tradi tional independence, refuse to pro duce to their ability under the col lective farm system. The Voice of America should tell the truth about conditions within the Communist world; dra matize its failures; point out the accomplishments of the free world and give encouragement to the nationalistic forces within t he Soviet colonial empire. When victory over Communism is achieved, it will not have been produced through the application of misguided State Department planners, but by the application of the common sense of the American public. The American public applauded General MacArthur when, in his historic address to Congress, he reminded us that “the very pur pose of war is victory.” The cold war must not end in defeat thru the vehicle of coexistence, but thru positive application of sound principles the victory will be won. Don’t Settle for Less Than the Big Four For Your Money 4% PER ANNUM (Compounded Twice a Year) (June 30th - Dec. 31st) 1. 2. 3. 4. SAFETY SERVICE RETURN AVAILABILITY SsAnmr or voua fAVIMOf INSURED «»* to (Where you see this emblem your savings are safe) % r 4U/. avjjvos and Loan Association O T i o N £ O U J. F. CLARKSON M. O. SUMMER DIRECTORS G. K. DOMINICK J. K. WILLINGHAM BRANCH OFFICE — Batesburg, S. C. WawOBBBY, m. oJ EL a PURCELL W. C HUFFMAN