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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1964 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. THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN A recent address by one of the Deans of Clemson before the Rotary Club of Columbia has given occasion for critic ism. I have read parts of Dean Wiley’s address and am try ing to understand parts, such as this: “The cost to the gov ernment in surpluses t oeffect a 13 billion dollar saving in food prices was four billion. As Dean Wiley was defending and advocating subsidies he must have cited those figures with approval. As a former Dean myself, with appreciable farms interests in cotton, to bacco, trees, etc., I read the newspaper report with interest. As a farmer (probably better Agriculturist) I do not ask for a lot of so-called Government money. My allotment for cotton appears to some as carrying a subsidy. The real truth is that our Government is playing Santa Claus to the world puts our farmers and textile men at a serious disadvantage and the Government, now and then, undertakes to indemnify our farmers and textile in terests in some measure for the Government’s paternalistic favoritism of other nations. However, the spending of four billions to effect a saving of 13 billion dollars is incredible folly and no one, whether a Dean with academic, theoretical approach, or a mere dreamer with fantastic illusions can convincingly advocate or defend that. I must beg leave to take issue about the Dean’s definition of a subsidy as a “grant of funds or property to an individual to aid him in operating a business or enterprise deemed ben eficial to the public.’’ If that be so, then name any business which is not deemed of benefit to the public. A dry cleaning plant for restoring a man’s suit for Sunday use; a tonsorial artist who makes a man presentable to his family and the public; an automobile mechanic; a County newspaper; just run the gamut of a thousand ane one activities of our daily living. All of us are to be fed with a Government spoon. This nation was built largely by the use of sweat and blood, individual work and sacrifice. Our great enterprises, were not, as a rule, recipients of subsidies directly. Rail roads ,as a means of developing service for pioneers, were somewhat like the building of wagon roads. But in general our nation was not built on subsidies and some subsidies are indefensible. If our government would step aside and not hamper the farmers and industrialists by financing foreign competitors the issue of subsidies would not, or need not, arise. The Dean is indulging in what is called Academic freedom but all of us who ever taught learned that “discretion is the better part of valor.” I may remind the Dean that he is not entirely free to dis cuss phases of our political and economic life. He is connect ed with an institution which owes its life to taxpayers and that the rank and file of taxpayers do not thrive on subsi dies. Nor can a nation develop sturdily on grants of taxpay ers money. As a taxpayer, a very small fry at that, I am always con cerned about my taxes to the State and Federal Govern ments. Our men of large affairs and our great business en terprises are always under the handicap of harsh taxation. Is that for subsidies? The Dean or a Dean of Clemson, a South Carolina State institution supported by taxation, need not ramble about for a subject to discuss; he might find many others. But the pressing need is to take the shackles from business of all kinds and leave the road to progress and prosperity open, subject only to such mild measures as may assure an open road. The road to healthy development and substantial pro gress and prosperity is not through subsidies, but through individual dedication and resourcefulness. I quote part of an address by Congressman Bryan Dorn before the Sons of Confederate Veterans: “The greatest single political issue before the American people this fall will be a rampaging unbridled power-mad Supreme Court. In this country today we no longer enjoy Constitutional Government, as written by the Founding Fa thers and amended in the manner prescribed by the Consti tution. We do not have a government of checks and balances. The legislative powers of Congress have been usurped by the Supreme Court and even the Executive Branch shoved aside for a virtual Supreme Court dictatorship over the Am erican people. Yes, it will be a political issue and the degree of assurance given the American people this fall by the two parties could well determine the outcome of the national election next fall. In the next four to eight years, the President of the United States, whoever he may be, will very likely appoint a Chief Justice and a majority of the Justices of the Supreme Court. The American people are now well aware of this fact. The American people are going to demand of the Presidential candidates before the November election that better men be appointed to the Supreme Court. They are going to de mand Justices with much experience in the field of legal jurisprudence; men who are dedicated to the private enter prise system; men who are devoted to the Constitution, as written; and who are steeped in the traditions of our great American heritage. We must bear in mind that "the Chief Justice and the Justices of the Supreme Court are appointed by the Presi dent of the United States for life. They are not elected by the people. They are not responsible to the people. The only assurance the American people have that these Justices will be loyal Americans, men of integrity and character is the assurance that can only be given by their candidates for President.” Congressman Dorn is a worthy Representative of all that is best in our American way of living, (or what used to be our American way of living.) We are well represented in Congress and we South Caro linians may feel proud of our men in Congress. The Nation is w r ell served by our Carolina representatives in the Con gress. (The SUN certainly does not go along 100 per cent with this statement.—Ed.) As to our poor, poverty-stricken nation, let me quote Henry Hazlitt, in Newsweek: “The anti-poverty law—or the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, to use its official title—is primarily a Demo cratic campaign document and a vote-buying device. It is designed to give the impression that for hte first time in our history the Federal FGovernment has become aware of the existence of poverty and is doing something about it. Actually we have been piling one 'anti-poverty’ program on top of another since the New Deal began 30 years ago. The excellent Republican minority report on the bill to the House listed 42 individual programs ‘designed to combat and overcome the causes of poverty’ already in existence. These programs cost a total of $31.8 billion in the fiscal year 1964. According to the Social Security Bulletin for Novem ber 1963, a total of $66.5 billion was spent by all levels of government for ‘social welfare purposes in 1962. During the same year, an additional $33.5 billion was spent by pri vate organizations for the same purpose. Compared with this total of $100 billion, the new law’s appropriation of just ‘under $1 billion makes it a merely token (and in no sense new r ) ‘war on poverty.’ Nearly all of the ‘new’ programs duplicate or compete with existing Federal programs. The so-called ‘Job Corps’ pro viding for work camps will cost $190 million in the first year for only 40,000 enrollees, or $4,700 per enrollee. The first- year cost of the ‘work training’ program is another $150 million. Both programs heavily overlap the 1963 Vocational Education Act and the expanded Manpower Act. The $72.5 million ‘work-study’ program will give more assistance to the very same college students now being aided by the mas sive student-loan program under the National Defense Ed ucation Act. Direct loans to low-income farm families dup licate a huge existing Farmers Home Administration pro gram. Loans under Title IV would duplicate what the Small Business Administration is already doing. And so on. The first year’s price tag on this new measure—$947.5 million is relatively small as current spending goes. But it will carry us a giant step deeper into a paternalistic welfare state. Its ultimate effect will be to create a good deal more poverty than it cures. We Can be sure that its cost will in crease each year. The cost, if paid for out of bigger taxes, will increase the burden on private enterprise and the deter rents to production. If it is added to the deficit, it will in crease inflation, an invisible but destructive tax with its crudest impact on the poor. As the House minority report pointed out, no society in the history of the world has so effectively overcome the cruel grasp of poverty as has the United States. In terms of a ‘war against poverty’, the whole history of America has been a history of sustained and spectacular accomplish ment. In 1929 (using 1962 dollars as a standard) more than 50 per cent of American families had an annual income of less than $3000. By 1947 this figure had fallen to 30 per cent, and by 1962 to 21 per cent. In this same period, American families having an annual income of $6,000 or more rose from 15 per cent to 48 per cent. Americans earn more, own more, consume more, and live better than any other people on earth. And we have achieved this result, not by government ‘anti-poverty’ programs of which we have had proportion ately less than most nations, but by our system of free, pri vate, competitive enterprise, which provides maximum in centives to production.” Then don't put up with a heating plant that doesn't heat for one more winter. An invest ment in a modern furnace will make your home more comfortable, more livable, more salable. . . See your heating contractor about the cost. Then see us about the financing It's easy to arrange. YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS 1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422 Baptists honor early organizer About 22,000,000 Baptists in the United States were looking to a quiet tomb near Saluda as the shrine of the man who more than any other, created the organized Baptist work in North America. On September 6, at the tomb of Luther Rice in the cemetery of Pine Pleasant church, Baptists of this and other states gathered for a memorial service and mis sionary rally to commemorate the ^150th anniversary of the organ ization of co-operating Baptist work in the United States. The speaker at the 3:30 P. M. out - door rally was the present director of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, Dr. Baker James Cauthen of Richmond, Va. Dr. Cauthen now directs for the Southern Baptists one of the four Baptist divisions which trace their origins to the organizational efforts of the Massachusetts farm boy who traveled tens of thous ands of miles over the young Re public to call independent and in dividualistic Baptists together for the propogation of the gospel thru out the world. The other three divisions which Rice helped to bring into exist ence were agencies now known as the Home Mission Board, the Sun day School Board and the net work of Baptist colleges and sem inaries throughout the U. S. Rice went to India as a mis sionary in 1812 supported by a denomination which had some doctrinal differences with Bap tists. Rice, while studying the Bible, became convinced that the Baptist position on these things was correct, and was baptized a Baptist in India. Baptists in the United States had no organization outside of the local church to support mis sionaries. Rice returned to the United States to solicit their sup port for foreign mission activities. One day while riding his horse between Fredericksburg, Peters burg and Richmond, Va., he con ceived the idea of local associa tions of Baptist churches organ izing into state conventions, and a national convention. He placed this idea before such men as Dr. Richard Furman of South Carolina and Dr. William Johnson ^f Sav annah, Ga. These men called to gether 33 messengers from eleven states and the District of Colum bia in May of 1814 at Philadelphia. At this meeting “The General Missionary Convention of the Bap tist denomination in the United States of America” was organized and Rice was named its general agent charged with the respon sibility of traveling throughout the United States organizing and soliciting support for foreign mis sions. His salary was $8 a week and he had to supply his own horse. Added to this responsibility in later years was the task of de veloping interest and support a- mong Baptists in missions thru- out the expanding west and a col lege to supply a trained ministry for this work. To help him in this Rice began publishing a newspaper. The Col umbian Star, the first family news paper published by Bap tists in the United States, and pamphlets, the forerunner of the vast publishing activities of the Baptist Press, Broadman Publish ing Co., and the Sunday School Board. Up and down eastern North America and as far west as Ken tucky, Rice traveled, visiting small country churches and large city congregations, talking to scholars and illiterate farm hands, always with the same plea, the needs of the unevangelized people of the world. It was on one of these trips, while traveling through South Carolina’s Ridge section, that Luther Rice died in the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. G. Mays. Lumber from May’s home was salvaged to build a Sunday School addition to the Pine Pleasant church. The church building in which his funeral was conducted is still standing, and was the scene of a memorial service for this pioneer on September 6. BIRTHS « TAYLOR Mr. and Mrs. John Edward Tay lor Jr., Little Mountain, announce the birth of a seven pound, eight ounce son, Edward Lee, on Aug ust 26 at New berry County Mem orial hospital. Mrs. Taylor is the former Slyvia Catherine Bush. LEOPARD Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bernard Leopard, 1314 Washington street, announce the birth of a nine pound, one ounce daughter, Donna Sue, on August 26 at Newbeny County Memorial hospjtal. Mrs. Leopard is the former Annie Mar garet Millstead. CRONK Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Seymour Cronk, 2506 Johnstone street, announce the birth of a five pound eight ounce son, Mark Allen, on August 27 at Newberry County Memorial hospital. Mvs. Cronk is the former Marie Wise. SHEALY Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Rudolph Shealy, Little Mountain, announce the birth of an eight pound, one ounce son, Jacob Rudolph Jr. on August 28 at Newberry Memorial hospital. Mrs. Shealy is the form er Shelby Jean Richardson. WICKER Mr. and Mrs. Donald Richard Wicker of the city announce the birth of a seven pound, 3 ounce son, Richard Allen, on August 29 at Newberry Memorial hospital. Mrs. Wicker is the former Mar jorie Allen Bedenbaugh. HIPP Mr. and Mrs. Bobby William Hipp of Route 1, Saluda, announce the birth of an eight pound, 15 ounce son, Dean William, on Aug ust 29 at Newberry County Mem orial hospital. Mrs. Hipp is the former Doris Johnette Whitman. Building Permits Jesse Dominick, repairs to dwelling. Pink Means, repairs to dwelling at 949 Gilder street. Carrie Lee Whitner, repairs to dwelling, 802 Floyd street. James Meeks, repairs to dwell ing, 895 Fair street. Walter Hiller, repairs to dwell ing, 414 Rodelsperger street. Merle Norman Studio, repairs to studio, 1109 Caldwell street. Henry Miller, repairs to dwell ing, 708 Coates street. Clifford Waits, addition to dwelling, 2306 Henry street. E. S. Sutherland, alterations to dwelling, 2006 Luther street. Ted Willingham, locate house trailer, Alex Avenue. John W. Waldrop, repairs to dwelling, 1226 Walnut street. Total cost listed with city for above repairs $13,570. COUNTY BUILDING PERMITSI Marvin Hamm, Route 4, one implement building, $1200. N. V. Boozer, Route 2, Pros perity, four-room brick-veneer dwelling $7000. Prayer for Today “All this day I am going to be a child of God. His love is round about me. Underneath are the everlasting arms. I am going to be honest and true in all events of life and I believe that to those who love the Lord all things work to gether for good. I am going to rise above all worry, fretting, fear and hatred, and live in an atmosphere of spiritual serenity. Behind all that comes, God’s love and wis dom will be present to strength en and sustain.”—Albert W. Palmer. McCarthy infant died Wednesday Judith Mae McCarthy, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Waldo McCarthy died Wednesday night at the Mills clinic in Pros perity. She is survived by her parents, Ray W. and Ruby Ellen Summer McCarthy of Little Mountain; one brother, James F. McCarthy; two sisters, Margaret S. McCarthy and Debora Ann McCarthy of the home; her grandparents, Mrs. M. O. McCarthy, Chapin and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Summer, of Little Mountain. Funeral services were conducted Thursday from the graveside in St. Peter’s Pineywoods Lutheran church with Rev. John D. Zeigler conducting the service. 5 AFC TV jr YOUR SAVINGS INSURED I Don’t Know ... but I’ll find out Many people when discussing investing and home ownership, use our service by professional counsel which is furnished by the association. 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