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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY. APRIL 2, 1964 uw 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. 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. - THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN A respected member of the South Carolina House of Repre sentatives did me the honor to write a good letter expressing his dissent from some remarks of mine. I think he reads my Specta tor as an earnest student, agree ing with me sometimes; disagree ing at other times. I appreciated a candid critic because if he is not right I have the opportunity to offer an explanation; if he is right he may convince me and be of service to me. I suggested, as I recall, that we have too many agencies at work in our effort to appropriate mon ey. My friend, Ithink, dissents a- bout that. As you know, the State Budget Commission, now called by another name, invites all State agencies to submit a proposed budget. The State Com mission, composed of the Gover nor, to officials of the General Assembly, and others, threshes out all the proposals and makes recommendation to the General Assembly. All that is Point 1. A week or so before the General Assembly meets the Ways and Means Committee of the House meets for special study of the proposed budget. All is threshed out again, with or without change, The Ways and Means Committee adopts a proposed budget and submits it to the House. The House debates it and acts inde pendently, then sends the budget as adopted by the the House to the Senate. The Senate refers the proposed bill to its Finance Committee which holds the bill in cold storage for some w r eeks and then it sub mits the bill, as modified by that Senate Committee, to the Senate. Then the whole Senate acts up on it. I think the point my friend makes is that unless the members of the House and Senate have the right and privilege to amend the bill as proposed by the Committ ees and Budget Commission the members are denied the oppor tunity to exefeise their rights and privilege as members. I do not deny or challenge that: it would be a government by selected groups (Committees) if the mem bers were denied the right to act according to their judgment by proposing amendments. He is right; we do not want a govern ment by the few; every member has an obligation to act according to his judgment in voting, or pro posing amendments. As to my frequent remark that the Budget Commission is an or ganization in express violation of the Constitution I cite and quote the Constitution: Sec. 14 of Art. 1: “In the government of this State the legislative, executive and judicial powers of the Govern- ment shall be forever separate and distinct from each other, and no person or persons exercising the functions of one of said de partments shall assume or dis charge the duties of any other.” I need not dwell on that, how ever, for we can find other infrac tions, as Art. 4, Sec. 17, as to the Governor: “He shall commission all officers of the State.” That was based on the Constitution of the United States and vests in the Governo’’ all appointments. I need not insist on declaring that legislators are State officials: they are State officials, but they usually dictate to County offi cials and are really a super-gov ernment. The grip that a legisla tor has over his county is, in part, based on the so-called County Supply bill, the County budget, which is prepared in Columbia and which passes through House and Senate and bears the Governor’s signature, though the people back home have little, if any knowledge of the details until they call on the County Treasurer to pay taxes. Are you tired of discussing County and State matters? That is our trouble; we don’t know and don t care about such things. In some counties the County Supply bill is quite a secret. I’m told: it is not filed for public information nor is it available, many tell me. So there we are. Our lack of information is amazing. Now and then I read of some Commission in Washington making a grant of hundreds of thousands of dol lars to some purely local public service. I wonder if we might ask our Congressmen for a list of Government agencies which have discretionary power to make these grants. What say you? Just talking at random about the Constitution, have we thought of Section 30 of Article 3, which says: “The General Assembly shall never grant extra compen sation, fee, or allowance to any public officer, agent, servant or contractor after service rendered.” Browsing around, “M using there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still (or yet) be free,” as I think Byron said. 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Shall we talk about money? We talk about money all the time, don’t we? We don’t know much about it and it doesn’t stay with us long enough to enable us to become intimate, you might say. Still, here is something about money, going back to those days when we almost regretted that the Latin books were not burned, buried and forgotten along with Caesar, Cicero and all those worthies who once made the old City in the Tyber the invincible capital of the world. “Four thousand years ago, the earliest known record of a loan was made, inscribed, and baked into a clay tablet of Babylon. The borrowing and lending of money, and the safeguarding of valuables have been taking place almost since the dawn of civilization. These functions were common centuries before the coinage of money. (The word shekels, refers not to coins but to a given weight of silver. Shekels as coins did not exist until the 17th century B.C.) The age of the financial busi ness is revealed in the origin of its language. For example, a tell er is not aperson who goes about telling things. Rather, he is prin cipally occupied in counting, as was the case centuries ago when the Anglo-Saxon word “tellan” meant to count. The Dutch tellen, the Greek zablen, the old High German ze’len, the old Norse telja, and the Danish taelle have the same meaning. The first money that a teller counted was minted in the an cient temple of June at Rome. Juno was popularly known as Moneta, a name that has given us the two words, money and mint. In an agrarian society, a man’s wealth was measured by the number of cattle he owned. Our word, pecuniary, is derived from the Latin word Pecus which means cattle. And the term cap ital comes from caput, a word meaning head. The capital of a pastoral people was measured by the number of head of cattle pos sessed.” I’ve cited and quoted Raymond Moley frequently: he was the guiding intellect of the Franklin Roosevelt regime in the days in Albany and then in Washington. Mr. Moley is a man of ripe scholarship with practical grasp of the policies, programs and pre tensions of government. I quote him: New Orleans—Without offering any invidious c«nny>arisons among the Southern states which I have visited on this trip, a special should be said about South the con flicts, the quiet which has pre vailed in race relations in South Carolina has scarcely been noted in the past three years. Without surrendering the basic principle of state sovereignty expounded many years ago by its most dis tinguished son, John C. Calhoun, South Carolina has remained reasonable and progressive. This condition has not been ac cidental. It has been man-made. During the past three decades South Carolina has sent no dem agogues to Congress and no dem agogue has occupied the gover nor’s office. The sociologists’ at tribution of poverty as the major cause of social unrest cannot be relied upon because South Caro lina, in average income, is one of the least opulent of the States. Nor is the relative freedom from incidents due to lack of threats XT' are between the ages of, say, 58 and 65. You are pre paring yourself mentally for the retirement you know must come soon after your 65th birthday. You’re having a little trouble with it. <Ycu were born between 1898 and 1905. You finished high school from about 1916 to 1923. That is, if You were lucky you did. Many bays in that era weren’t able to finish high school. You got your college diploma from about 1920 to 1927. Except that you probably didn’t. Very few men now ap proaching retirement got a college education. This frets you as you try to sell yourself the idea that your retire ment is a good, natural, and posi tive thing. Because you see all around you men with college de grees, eager-beavers who are pushing and pushing—sometimes making you look silly and always bucking for your job. You come to think that you are an old fogy, used up and washed out, and so outclassed by the privileged men, that you are fit only for the re tirement you have been sentenced to. Be consoled by the knowledge that it has always been this way. You, with a high school diploma, pushed the man ahead of you who had finished only the fifth grade. Just as the man with the college diploma (and there are lots of them since the G.I. Bill of World War II) now pushes you. But the eager-beavers who make you feel inferior are already feel ing a hot breath down their necks —from the boys who came along later and got not just a college diploma but a Master’s Degree. by pro integration organizations. While they have made threats, they have realized that there would be very limited response to their efforts to kindle passions and create disorderly demonstra tions among South Carolina’s negroes. Izaak Walton left some obser vations of his wisdom: “But, my worthy friend, as 1 would rather prove myself a gentleman by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, virtuous and communicable, than by any fond ostentation of riches; or, wanting those virtues myself, boast that these were in my an cestors (and yet I grant that where a noble and ancient des cent and such merit meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person.”) And on that, I shall tell you that in ancient times a debate hath arisen, and it remains yet unresolved: whether the happi- So, if you feel obsolete and sus pect this is why you are being re tired, be reminded that you are a natural link in the progressing pattern of life. What is happen ing to you has been, is, and will be, happening to everybody else. And since you are able to sub scribe to a newspaper—or you wouldn’t be reading this—you have done pretty well with your life, in your time upon the stage. Figures from the Institute of Life Insurance show just how well: The average income of Ameri can men who had less than eight years of schooling is $3,483 a year You make more than that. (All these figures are based on 1961 U.S. Census reports, and cover men 25 to 64 years old.) The average income of those who completed one to three years of high school is $5,305, or $102 a week. You beat that. And for those with a high school diploma the average is $6,102, or about $118 a week. Again prob ably less than you’ve been mak ing. Many of you have probably been making around $150 a week. The Institute of Life Insurance study shows that this is more than the average income of all men who have finished one to three years of college, which is about $142 a week. Some of you have been making up to $183 a week, which is the average income of men who have won a college diploma. And a goodly number of you never got beyond the seventh grade in school. Because you had to help Pa on the farm. JVew GOLDEN YEARS 36-page booklet now ready. Send 50# in coin (no stamps), to Dept. CSPS, Box 1672, Grand Central Station, New York 17, N. Y. A BETTER PERSPECTIVE FOR MEN NOW 58 TO 65 ARE YOU LISTENING? BY EARL WILSON The sa 1 vation which comes into a person’s life is extremely per sonal. It is such a close union with God that it causes that person to feel that he is the only one to have received this fulness in Christ. This feeling of oneness in Christ is the source of strength for the Christian. It makes him feel that God has given all his time and wisdom in personal care for him alone. Once such a union is formed it is one that will last forever. Many ties that are made on earth are' easily broken. Mar riages can end in divorce; busi nesses can be dissolved; partner ships can cease; but this is not true of the union which exists be tween a man and Christ. Does this mean that a person can no longer sin ? By no means. Christian do sin, but they do not have to go through God to be sav ed again. When we were saved we were saved forever. We may be out of fellowship with God, but we will never be out of relation ship with him. God is always the father of the Christian. We may be out of communion with him ness of man in this world doth consist more in contemplation or action?”. but we are never out of union with God. We will always be a mem ber of his family once we have given our all to him. The sin ning Christian may lose his joy but never his salvation. The grace of God is greater than all the sin in the world, and his grace is suf- licient to keep us in his love. If you have repented of your sins, believed on the only begotten son of God, and confessed him as your Saviour before men, then you have all the assurance of God’s word that you have passed from death unto life. The Bible says: “And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” Are you listening? MEN IN SERVICE FORT BLISS, TEX. (AHTNC) —Pvt. James B. Carter, son of William H. Carter, 1109 Amelia street, completed advanced train ing as an operations and intelli gence assistant under the Reserve Enlistment program at the Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Tex., March 13. Carter was trained in crypto graphy, radio communications, map reading and dissemination of radar information. The 22-year-old soldier com pleted basic training at Fort Jackson. A 1959 graduate of Newberry High school, he attended Wofford college, Spartanburg. BIRTHS « o COLEMAN Mr. and Mrs. George Mellwood Coleman, Route 5, Saluda an nounce the birth of an eight pound, 14 ounce daughter, Helen, on March 19 at Newberry County Memorial hospital. Mrs. Coleman is the former Dorothy Elinor Mills. SHEALY Mr. anu Mrs. Stephen Russell Shealy of Little Mountain an nounce the birth of an eight pound six ounce son, Bradley Carroll, on March at Newberry County Mem orial hospital. Mrs. Shealy is the former Carolyn Louise Koon. HENDRIX Mr. and Mrs. Robert Arthur Hendrix of Route 1 announce the birth of a seven pound daughter, Linda Gaill on March 21 at the Newberry County Memorial hos pital. Mrs. Hendrix is the former Linda Jeanette Ginn. KINARD Mr. and Mrs. William Harvey Kinard of Route 1 announce the birth of a six pound, 10 ounce son, William Travis, on March 22 at the Newberry County Memor ial hospital. Mrs. Kinard is the former Mary Maxine Brigmam HITE . Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Wendell Hite of Route 2 announce the birth of a seven pound, 13 ounce son, Travis Dion, on March 24 at Newberry County Memorial hos pital. Mrs. Hite is the former Ed ith Ruth Connelly. SAFETY JP VOW*. fAVINOS INSURED 5iaooo 40 Earning Years AND HE MISSED THE GOOD SHIP OLD AGE INDEPENDENCE Over your 40 earning years from age 26 to 65, you'll earn a fortune. For example: $3,000 a year mounts up to $120,000. Income of $6,000 a year totals $240,000. Many make much more than that. Think of it, a quarter-mil- lion Dollars! How much have you saved for yourself? How much do you wish you had saved? We have a plan to guarantee independence for you wheth er you "Live" to see your plan completed or "Die" before completing it. Our monthly savings plan can be "Insured" to guarantee this—when you save a definite amount each month with a definite goal in view. 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