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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1966 \xn 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner and the Air Force. In every war we areface to face with our amazing unpreparedness. Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, Soutii Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. THE “SPECTATOR S” COLUMN I think we need not be over anxious because some Generals and Admirals think we should all hip, hip hoorah over the blundering affair in Vietnam: us into war. As I see it, and I’ve spent time in Europe and South.Am erica and in nearly all of our States, we should be fundamen- to they were trained—and well | tally and primarily absorbed in making this great country as great as she can be for her own people. Let us cut loose from the U. N. and any and all treaties that may embroil us into war. What is done with the hund reds of millions authorized ev ery year for the Army? Even though we have hundreds of retired officers on the payroll the total for them for a year would hardly exceed a million dollars. Calculated at an aver age of $10,600 a year that would take care of a hundred, so lets make it two million a year. But even that is small change when taken from an annual appropriation of bil lions. V What is the expenses of the day: we find ourselves short of men, short of ammunition, short of about every weapon we might need. v It is the usual cry: we are unprepared. Why ? If we have-'two million men at $100 a month each that is, roughly $2,000,000,000, a month or $24,000,000,000 a year—still small potatoes. Whatbecomes of the other hundreds of millions ? Forts and what not, another hundred million—still leaves hundreds of millions. That is spend for trained to wage war, not discuss national policy. I recall a little incident in our recent history: An investiga tion was being held relative to the suitability of a certain port. Among those to be heard were half a dozen Naval officers. One, the ranking officer, said to the Committee: “Call me first; I’m for your project and if I endorse it the subordinate officers are less likely to find serious fault.” That was the fellowship of the Navy and doesn’t astound anyone. And so these retired four-star Generals and Admir als aren’t likely to find serious fault in our statesmanship. But you and I don’t belong to that Admiral fellowship—so let us express our doubts freely: that is the essence of freedom and we are citizens, small-time sov ereigns in this great nation— not subordinates of the ruling hierarchy in Washington. Every citizen has a right to ask why we are in Vietnam. What can we accomplish? Are we as profoundly interested in the Government’s course in this country? That is our para mount interest—to make this a happy place to live, to do business, to rear families im bued with the spirit of George Washington, Robert E. Lee and [weapons? Since the government has sold millions of dollars of sur plus materials what has been done what that money? And, judging by our history, we should buy it back at double or triple the price. What has become of Ameri can ingenuity? I had the pleasure of organiz ing the campaign which com pelled legislators to refund the extra pay of some years ago. A few of us invited that fine gentleman, Judge A. W. Holl- man, to challenge all tnis in court. I think I may promise a suit to knock the latest grab on the State Treasury into a cocked hat. the great men who still stand in the forefront of our history. It is unthinkable, yet true, that any President can plunge W*tf,\ since we are always short?-^nvhat weapons, which weapons ? I’m not counting the Navy SENATOR 1 STROM* ->*Vv: v HURMOND Reports PEOPLE Fanning the Fires of Inflation ' THE VERY midst of pros- . . .ty, signs of economic strain coming to the surface. Re- . .osible economists all over country are viewing infla- i as a real and present « . ~er. With 1‘itle more than nod of acknowledgement, . ever, the Administration : : rnely adheres to fiscal pol- which both fan and feed ' flames of inflation. ~ASED ON total productive c . p’Jt, or the monetary value *hat output, the United still unquestionably re- .....ins the center of world eeo- iic power. This is no reason, Mjivever, for either complacency c/r a false sense of security. ^ ;r nations before us have ^ - ;pied this enviable position, .3 either because of misman- •• cement or miscalculation of the state or consequences of in flation have passed from the scene of world power and lead ership into the category of “have little” or “have-not” na tions. CONTEMPORARY econo- mists, who serve as advisory “planners” for the Government, row insist that the traditional ebb and flew of economic cycles are under control,' and that ^either a “crash” nor a serious downturn can occur. The “nlanned economy." however, features and actually promotes inflation to the extent of 2 per cent per year. It is this delib erately planned inflation which, over the last ten years, has pr+en away at savings accounts, life insurance benefits, retire ment plans and children’s edu cation funds at the average rate of 1.6 percent per year. Even less noticed by the average citizen is the fact that the “nlanned” economy also results in the Government creating money at a rate that increases twice as fast as our population growth. THE FACT of incessant in flation cannot be hidden from the American housewife, who feels the impact on the family budget. Nor is the housewife’s pain relieved by the knowledge that the Govemmen 4 policy makers view this “planned” level of inflation as “healthy” for the economy. The fact re main* that a pound of bacon, for which the average house wife paid 66 cents in 1955, now costs, on the average. $1.06 per pound. The price of bread is up 17%; the price of milk, up 14%; the price of men’s suits, up 23% and laundry services on the average are up 43% in the same period. Food prices have climbed 3.7% in the last year alone, accounting for the major portion of the 2% rise in over-all costs of living last year. THE WHOLESALE price in dex, covering some 2000 items, spiraled upwards by 3.4% last year—the sharpest surge in nine years. Other danger sig nals are surfacing. The demand for textiles, spurred on by de fense orders occasioned by the war, now tax the capacity of our industry to produce. The woolen industry, heavily eroded by imports, finds itself with too narrow a production base to meet both wartime and domes tic needs. _ , • DE^ITE the obviously ex cessive inflationary pressures created by ballooning domestic Government spending, at a time when defense spending has jumped to a wartime rate, the President insists on escalating the “Great Society” spending programs. The few reductions recommended in his budget fall mostly in politically popular programs such as milk for the school lunches, which no realist expects this Congress to cut The President did recommend that the withholding rates for income taxes be increased, and that some of the excise tax cuts made last year be restored There are hints, of course, that a general increase in taxes may have to come later in the year, and one can only speculate that it will fall after the November elections THE CRUEL hoax of Infla tion gains additional impact from tho fact that the 2.8% In crease In the cost of living, which has taken place since the tax cut of 1964, falls on top of an increased b*te out of pay- checks foe social security taxes beginning this past January. CLEARLY, this Administra tion. whico is calling for re straint on the part of busi nesses, self-control on the part of labor, and the blind faith of the people, should prescribe something, preferably fiscal re-- sponsibility, . for itself. Disci pline. like charity, should begin at home. Our little county of Barnwell has given to the State many able and patriotic leaders. I won’t name all of them, one a sprightly young cavalier of 81 years, has no need of my ap preciation for ne seeks no office but I may remind Barnwell that she is a part—an import ant part of South Carolina and might consider a great servant of the State. I have long enjoyed a com radeship with Edgar and Sol —the greatest pair we’ve had. Among men of great value is Jim Aycock who was born in Clarendon and finds him self an outstanding figure, not only in Sumter county, but in our State. Jim is a businessman, not a politician; and as a bus inessman he acts very import antly for the whole State as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House. The world is full of small men, not because of the short legs, but because they are so engrossed in small affairs that they, too, become dwarfed So, at times I read something from some of those old boys whose stuff has withstood the fiery visissitudes of our turbu lent days, howbeit we spend so muc htime running about aim lessly dittering. So here is a bit or two hits of solid old stuff that real men used to ponder: Polybius is talking: “In certain circumstances, the genius of one man is more effective than any number what-” “So true it is that one man and one intellect, properly qual ified for the particular under taking is a host in itself and of extraoidinary efficacy.” Builders rules at Health Dept. Moultrie Q. Roberts, Sanitar ian with the Newberry County Health Department, announced today that all persons interest ed in opening Sub-Develop ments should contact the local Health Department first in order that they can become fa miliar with the proper channels of procedure and acquaint themselves with the specifica tion for developing building sites. The Newberry County Health Department has available some instruction sheets stating the necessary requirements to meet the approval of the County Health Department and the South Carolina State Board of Health. If their sub-division requirements are followed, builders can be assured of ap proval of building sites, lot size, and proper water and sewage disposal. The matter of taxing the El ectric Coops is up again. Elec tric Coops run over several miles of my land but they are beating the bushes looking for some reason for being. They make money; they spend lots of money on television and rad io; they give big parties, so why should they enjoy special exemptions and privileges? To prove the futility of some of their work let us take Clar endon county. On the road from Manning to Paxville live two fine gentlemen — outstanding citizens, one our county treas urer. The Treasurer is served by a Coop; but his cousin across the road is served by the Carolina Power & Light Com pany and I am told that the big company sells power for less than the Coops Recently a young lawyer built a home next to the Treasurer and refused Coop service, on the grounds that if he had a complaint the Power company would correct everything in short order. “Another birth date observ ance for one of the country’s greatest men slipped by last Tuesday. It was the 234th birthday of George Washington. The cherry tree story not withstanding, Washington’s role in the birth and embryonic development of the United States is generally well under stood and accepted. His work, character, ability and contri butions have stood the 'test of time well. Knowing the place history has given him, it’s even more interesting to know how he was rated in his time. Such an eval uation was jjiver by Thomas Jefferson, a man of equal stat ure and ability, whose dispas sionate, perceptive, description was given 15 years after Wash ington’s death. He wrote of Washington: ‘His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetra tion strong, though not so ac ute as that of Newton, Bacon, of Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or im agination, but sure in conclu sion. Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, neve? acting until every circum stance, every consideration, was mutually weighed; refrain ing when he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going thru with his purpose whatever ob stacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives or interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was in deed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good and a great man. On the whole his character was, in its mass, perfect, in nothing bad, in few points in different; and it may truly be said, that never did nature and fortune combine more perfect ly to make a man great, and to place him in the same con stellation with whatever wor thies have merited from man an everlasting remembrance/ Fighting The "Flu’’ Influenza by any name—and it has several—is an uncom fortable. acutely contagious respiratory infection. Sometimes called grippe, or “English Sweat”, and usually simply re ferred to as “flu”, it has been o one of mankind’s biggest banes. World-wide pandemics (wide spread epidemics) seem to oc cur in 20 to Looking A. bead ...by Dr. G*org« S. B«nion PRESIDENT-NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM SMrcy, AtUmm Nurses needed by Vet agency Examination for Career- Conditional appointment to the following position was announc ed today by the Veterans Ad ministration: Licensed Practical Nurse — GS-3, $4149 P.A. Vacancies to be filled are lo cated at Veterans Administra tion Hospital, Columbia. Com petitors in this examination wil be rated on the basis of their education and training. Further information and ap plication blanks may be ob tained from the Executive Sec- tually may have been ready to | retary, Board of U. S. Civi accept such a hard, but useful Service Examiners, Veterans discipline as long as he him- Administration Hospital, Col- self did not have to initiate it. umbia, S. C.; any postoffice or The obvious slap at federal the Atlanta Region, U. S. Civi spending for the Great Society, Service Commission, The Mer- the shock of enforcing public (chandise Mart, 240 Peachtree attention upon inflation’s dan- Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia gers, the prospect of reducing' 30303. the federal government’s share Applications may be received Certain pertinent reflections are now possible upon the Dec ember “rub” between the White House and the Federal Reserve Board, when the Board took action in raising interest rates it asks of banks. Despite the dim view Mr. Johnson took of this anti-inflation move by the Reserve Board, it begins to appear that the President ac- 50 year cycles with minor local epidem ics occurring every two to three years. The most re- Z cent flu crisis was in 1957-1963 when the so- called “Asian Flu”, which orig inated in Hong Kong, swept the entii’e world. The Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service indicates that this probably will be an other “flu” year. Medicine has come a long way since 1918 when 10 million died throughout the world as a re sult of having influenza. No country was spared. 450 thou sand deaths occurred among 20 million cases of flu in the United States in the 1918-1919 epidemic. While there is no modern “cure”, there are definite pre ventive measures to be taken. Persons of all ages are at tacked, but the incidence is highest in young adults. Flu inoculations are recommended, with booster shots for “high- risk” groups — people 1 whhse very lives may be endangered by the complications associated with influenza. This group in cludes anyone over 45, pregnant women, and persons suffering from chronic heart disease, bronchitis, asthma, diabetes, and nursing-home patients. The initial immunization should con sist of two doses about two months apart. Influenza symptoms are sud den in onset and include high fever, headache and muscular pains, prostration, congestion and some sneezing. When influenza is suspected, consultation with your family physician is mandatory, for the above symptoms require medi cal diagnosis and treatment. Sore throats constitute an other winter health hazard. Again, because a sort throat may be the first indication of a more severe illness, one should seek the advice of his family physician whenever a sore throat is persistent, accom panied by high feVer or other complications. But, for prompt temporary relief from the pain and discomfort of throat sore ness due to colds or other minor conditions, I recommend Chlora- septic, an anesthetic-antiseptic oral solution.' Chloraseptic is a non-prescription medication available only in pharmacies. IT'S A FACT! of boom taxes—all these ob viously annoyed the President. Moreover, since the federal treasury is perhaps the nat ion’s biggest borrower, higher interest rates cause the treas ury’s debt service expense to zoom. Further, if war needs are to escalate shortly, new debt will surely have to be ar ranged in 1966, perhaps even $10 billion of it. The govern ment itself was taking its own bitter pill. Action Was Needed Eventually, Mr Johnson will be making a replacement ap pointment to the Federal Re serve Board. Considering that U. S. Presidents as accustomed to placing in major positions men who see things their way, observers are expecting Mr. Johnson to put in an “easy money” man who would tip the vote his way. Yet, in view of • the FRB’s somewhat poli tically insulated position as the “independent” body that Con gress established, the Presi dent may have some motivation for appointing a more conser vative banker, who will do what needs doing. Comment from financial cir cles around the country and in world capitals seems clearly to applaud the Federal Reserve Board’s action. Many econom ists see the move not as en dangering the nation’s pros perity but as balancing the in the office of the Executive Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners at the Vet erans Administration Hospital, Columbia, S. C., until further notice. boom so as to keep more steady j program. Post Office has Medicare forms • ■> Postmaster Harry Moose of Newberry announced today that application blanks for supple mental Medicare benefits are available at the money order window of the Newberry Post Office. The application blanks are being made available as the So cial Security Administration seeks to contact 3.1 million senior citizens before the March 21 deadline imposed by the Medicare law. Initially, some two and one- half million application blanks were distributed to nearly 34,- 000 main postoffices through out the 50 states. Additional forms are available as needed. Through direct mailings and other means, the Social Secur ity Administration has had con tact with 16 of the 19.1 million citizens who will be 65 or over on July 1. Of the 16 million who replied, less than one mill ion said they did not want to sign up for the supplemental STATE FAIRS The first California State Fair in 1854 had such remarkable “home grown” food on display—a 39-inch long carrot that weighed 10 pounds, 73-pound beets and man-sized melons—that the rest of the world did not believe it wY As proof to the world, a Fair delegation carried some of these Gold Med al winners to Europe and returned with awards from many countries. It was then internationally established that the Cal- Kornia awards went only to the best of foods. ScUU^ HSWGHETTI SAUCE MIX . jCl o : This year, California’s Gold Medal for Product Excellence was given I to the Schilling Spaghetti Sauce „ Mix. The 1300fudgesthat sampled CJ , the Schilling Mix agreed that the quality was excellent. The supplemental program costs $3 a month and provides doctor bill and other benefits. Everyone over 65 is eligible for the basic hospital benefits un der Medicare. the economic growth of the coming year. If the Adminis tration has to avoid taking politically risky measures to halt inflationary trends, it is well that the Board can make these, adjustments. Not Hero Always However, while the FRB may have taken the role of hero this time, it has for many years allowed itself to be co- villian in the continual overex pansion of our money supply. It is this process that sets the whole stage for creeping, if not galloping, inflation. The Board actually will doubtless continue to provide lavish amounts of new dollars for the pumping up of the money supply, as long as ! t neither the Congress nor th^ ^nitely withiRahd aMaHjlte* President will make any ser- f keep economic taws from fimc-r' ious effort to balance the bud get. Various segments of the economy may well bask in the hothouse of a swelling cur rency, but it is dangerous to invite an explosion. Distress and calamity are surely reserved for any nation that disdains caution and pur sues the course df Inflation. The Board undoubtedly has been right in its majority in terpretation of the dangers the nation currently endures. The time to act against inflation, as Chairman Martin noted, is before it is too late. “The ef fective time to act against in flationary pressures is when they are in the development state—before they have become full-blown and the damage has been done,” he has said. These are words that make sense. The Real Requirement Is the recent action enough? No one yet knows how much control over the economy gov ernment bodies may exercise without courting disaster. The free market has shown rettiaxk«4 able strength under duness,'but{ neither it nor the fiscal ays- em that supports it can itidef- tioning. It will be foolish to suppose that a single governmental de cision of one agency can stop inflation. Higher interest rates cannot get at the causes of in flation for trouble may crop up elsewhere before ink -on the edict is dry. The export of our inflation to Europe and Asia apparently cannot be continued, for soon they will have more dollars and gold than we. The push of wages and prices at' home will be fierce. Neverthe less, the most required action is not yet in sight: a federal policy that allows the govern ment to spend no more than it- takes in and avoids monetizing the general debt. Postal rates are increased Increases in money orders, insurance, registry, certified mail and COD rates will become effective March 26, 1966 Post master Harry E. Moose said today. The cost of operating these five special services now ex ceeds revenues by —$60 million annually. The fee increase will narrow the cost-revenue gap by $36 million, based on business handled in fiscal 1865. v Fees for money orders, reg istry and COD were last chang ed in 1961; insurance' and cer tified mail in 1957; The fee changes, announced in the January ,11th Federal Register and confirmed in the register on February, 25, are put into effect updef the ex isting administrative authority of the Postmaster General. The increases include: Money Order. Fe4fel Domestic and international money order fees will be increases by 58. Insurance Rates: The mini mum fee bracket wilf&be-- in creased from $10 to $15 and the minimum fee will /be 20c iifStead of 10c. The revised in surance fees will be as follows: $1-$15—20c; $15.01-$50.00— 30c; $50.01-$100—40c; $100.01- $150—50c; $150.01-$200—60c. Registry Fees: The present 60c and 75c fees will be com bined into a single fee at 75c for values up to $100. Registry fees for articles valued in ex cess of $100 will remain un changed. GOD Fees: The present 40c and 50c fee brackets will be combined into one fee bracket at 60c for amounts up to $10. There will be no change in the fees covering items valued a- J hove $10. Certified Mail: The Fee will be increased 10c from the pres ent 20c per item to 30c. Losses incurred in the oper ation of special services are paid from funds drawn from the Federal Treasury. The fee increases will shift a substan tial portion of the special ser vice cost borne by the public to users of these services. k by Cooper be published A book on the current con troversy regarding the so-call ed “death of God” is being written by Prof John C Cooper of Newberry college It is entitled “Divine Death and Historical Resurrection," and will be published in 1967 by Westminster Press, according to Prof Cooper, an assistant professor of philosophy. Another book written by Prof Cooper, “The Christian and Politics,” will be released^ this spring by The Lutheran Church Press. “The Witness of Paul Tillich” an article written by Professor Cooper, appears in the March issue of “Resource,” the mag azine for church school teach ers published by the Lutheran Church in America. The Feb ruary issue of this magazine carried Cooper’s article on St. Paul, “In Christ;” and future issues this year will feature other articles by Cooper on Reinhold Niebuhr and Rudolph Bultmann. Prof. Cooper has been asked to contribute articles to the next two issues of “The Lu- heran Quarterly,” the publica tion of the Lutheran Theolog ical Seminaries in the United States and Canada. Are Your Insurance Agents Working IN THE DARK? V • -* - A ' . 1 If you divide your insurance business among several agents, you divide the responsibility for your program of protection. You can overinsure • • • pay for duplicate coverage. You can be underinsured with no protection in important areas. It is simply common sense to hold one person accountable for a plan that fits youjr needs. We would like to be your agent! *## 1418 Main YOU* PRIVATE BANKERS 1 PhMM 274-1422 ilft . —-