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THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1966
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Looking A bead
...by Or. George S. Benson
PRESIDENT-NATIONAL
EDUCATION PROGRAM
Seercy, Arkensee
away from distrust of Soviet
Communism and toward (very
close to) trust and acceptance
of the Kremlin bosses as world 1
partners
ticians refuse to face. The Am
erican people should have stop
ped this in the late 1940’s.
The $1.5-billion wartime ex
cise tax which Mr. Truman re-
THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN
This is a great nation. Nearly
everybody says that, but do
they know it.
Compare us with Mexico, Bra
zil, the Argentine, our neigh
bors.
Across the sea are the Eng
lish and the Scots and the Irish
and the Welsh.The English dif
fer from the Scots; the Welsh
and the Irish.
You may remember the story
of a Scotch businessman who
went to London on a business
trip. Upon his return he was
asked his opinion of the Eng
lish. He said, “I had business
only with top men and all were
Scotch”. Even so
I once observed that British
ships seemed to have English
Captains, but Scotch Engineers.
Perhaps an Irish seaman was
mate, or something other than
Captain or Chief Engineer. I
thought the Scot was expected
to conserve fuel, being econom
ical with coal and oil.
The British owe much to their
Scotch, Welsh and Irish people
and there were some French
in Northern England and Scot
land.
Here, then, we are, a com
posite of English, Scotch, Irish,
German, and occasionally a fur
ther infusion.
In my own case, my father
was a Virginian of the Valley
as the Shenandoah is called.
His father was Enoch Cart
wright Breedin, his mother was
Lucy Singleton. Sounds rather
English, unless there was a
dash of Scotch.
My mother was of the Welsh-
German, from the Welsh Neck
of Darlington county; old So
ciety Hill. Her father was John
Kolb Meigs and her grandfather
was John Kolb Meigs. The
German Kolb came into tha
family before the American
Revolution, for all of us do
homage-to Col Kolb who was
murdered by Tory neighbors
while he was home on leave. He
is buried across the Pee Dee
river from Society HilL
So we Americans are a com
posite people, cherishing quali
ties of many strains.
Within 75 years we have ab
sorbed thousands of Italians,
Greeks, Syrians, French, and
Germans, of course, as well as
Swedes. So you see.
A characteristic of Americans
is a sense of humor; he can
make a jest of mishaps and mis
fortunes. In France our Gov
ernment had pegged the Franc
at 17c. An American buying a
newspaper for a half franc
would receive a handful of
coins in return. Rather than
have his pocket cluttered up
with a lot of coins of small val
ue he would frequently give the
change to the woman selling
the papers, or to a child. That
won for Americans the reputa
tion for great liberality. As to
the habit of making light of
mishaps that was, and is, quite
habitual.
I was on a bus from Green
ville to Columbia when a bus
driver came aboard near Col
umbia going into town to be
gin his “run”. He was looking
“down in the mouth” and said
to the driver: “I have put out
two hundred dollars in the
last two years to a dozen
friends ; all good fellows and
ready to repay me at any min
ute.” I needed a few dollars
this week and Icould not find
a man with a dollar; every man
was deeply sorry but he had
just spent nis last dollar. I
couldn’t fi’.id a dollar.”
The bus driver and I smiled.
We were familiar with all that.
Not that all Americans are of
that type, but all Americans
will smile over that experience.
We even laugh over more
serious troubles a day or a
week later. That is typically
American.
Candidate Cards
COMMISSIONER DIST. 1
I hereby announce myself a
candidate for nomination to the
office of Commissioner District
1 in the Democratic Primary
and pledge myself to abide the
results of said primary.
LUKE HART
FOR HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
I hereby announce myself a
candidate for re-election to the
House of Representatives from
Newberry County and pledge
myself to abide the results of
the Democratic primary elec
tion..
D. P. (Jabbo) FOLK
FOR PROBATE JUDGE
I hereby announce myself a
candidate for re-election to the
office of Probate Judge, and
pledge myself to abide the re
sults of the Democratic primary
election.
FRAiNK H. WARD
FOR COMMISSIONER NO. 1
I hereby announce myself a
candidate for re-election to
the office of Commissioner of
District No. 1 and pledge my
self to abide the results of the
Democratic primary election.
BEN F. DAWKINS
COMMISSIONER DIST. 2
I hereby announce myself a
candidate for nomination to the
office of Commissioner District
2, and pledge myself to abide
the results of the Democratic
primary.
ROSS GEORGE
FOR COMMISSIONER""
I hereby announce myself a
candidate for nomination to
theoffice of Commissioner Dis-
trist 1 in the Democratic pri
mary, and pledge myself to
abide the results of the Dem
ocratic primary.
SEASE DOWD
I rejoice in the quality of
most of our South Carolina
papers, both county and daily.
The News & Courier and the
Evening Post of Charleston,
The State and Record of Col
umbia. I do not overlook the
fine daily of Aiken which has
an excellent editorial page ev
ery day. Just at this moment I
am thinking of the Lee County
Messenger, which I now quote:
“A bill now before the Leg
islature would require electric
co-ops to pay taxes. The am
ount would be approximately
$300,000 annually which is a
far cry from the figure of $2,-
000,000 recommended by the
Tax Study Commission which
went into the matter thoroughly
during recent months. We cer
tainly have no desire to see the
co-ops punished by the imposi
tion of excessive taxes. How
ever, the payment of so-called
‘token-taxes’ certainly will not
still the voices of investor-own
ed companies, and others. Fair
play is fair play and we hope
electric co-ops will agree to pay
fair taxes, essentially on the
same level as those paid by in
vestor-owned companies. If rate
revisions are necessary to en
able the payment of taxes we
see no reason why co-op served
customers should object to pay
ing their part of the tax bur
den.”
And now I come to my friend
of The Berkeley Democrat and
I commend his forthright and
vigorous editorial, which I
quote:
“We wish that President
Johnson could forget the 1966
and 1968 elections in these
critical times and realize that
saving the country from a
financial break-down is much
more important than who is or
is not elected to office. Even in
the face of the heavy cost of
the Viet Nam war, he still in
sists in one welfare program
after another. Many of these
could and should be dropped and
our money saved for the war.
Spectator calls the President’s
fiscal policy ‘highly inexped
ient’, This puts it mildly. Dan
gerous is a better word. Mr.
Johnson claims that the country
is rich enough to carry the ex
pense of the war and at the
same time pay for his numer
ous Great Society projects.
Many of our students of gov
ernment finance affairs disag
ree with him and warn of the
serious dangers facing the
country. But Mr. Johnson list
ens to none of them and seems
to be determined to have his
way, regardless of consequen
ces. And have his way, he does.
Congress is reluctant to deny
any request and approves the
money asked for. The only ap
parent hope for the country is
that in November the people
will defeat many of the high-
spending members of Congress
and replace them with men who
will use better judgment in
spending public money.”
My friend is right in thinking
my characterization too mild;-
LESSONS FROM MISTAKES
How much has the thinking
of Americans changed in 20
years? What has been the dir
ection of the change? We need
to examine these questions.
They are important to our fu
ture. For the changed thinking
has, in the aggregate, been ex
tensive and significant. The di
rection has been away from in
dividual liberty and toward col
lectivism, away from personal
responsibility and tow T ard de
pendence upon Government
(something personified by the
white buildings in Washington)
the occasion calls for just such
a vigorous commentary as that
of Brother Hucks.
Twenty years ago we had quested Congress in 1946 to
just come out of a war that keep in force for 18 months,
had been terribly costly in was not cut back until twenty
lives and resources. To main-, years later, and then only par-
tain Federal Governmental ser-! tially; and now Mr. Johnson
vices and supply our forces at | has asked for restoration of the
war, on two continents and in levies. Mr. Truman’s 1947 bud-
all the oceans, our Federal bud- j get was for $37.5-billion—four
get had gone from $9,055,000,- j times greater than the last
000 (1940) to $98,416,000,000 : peacetime year. The budget
the last war year (1945). More | should have been cut to $10
than 126,000 Americans gave ' or $15 billion and reduced still
their lives fighting the expan-j further the next year. Our col-
sionist designs of Hitler and umn, written at the time, sug-
Tojo, and another 235,000 were ' gested drastic cuts. But a $33-
wounded.
Public Memory Short
The New York Times
of
billion budget survived, and the
Federal government began to
assume a dominant role in the
“Federal Plan Will Enroll
17,000,000:
The number of older people
signing up for voluntary doctor-
bill insurance under the Fed
eral medicare program is ex
pected to approach 17,000,000
by the March 31 deadline. (The
deadline has been extended to
May 31.—Ed.) That would be
85 percent of the estimated 18,-
000,000 people eligible to par
ticipate.
Under the medicare law, cit
izens who will be 65 or older
by March 31 may enroll for $3
a month, with the fee being de
ducted from their Social Se
curity benefits. Insurance ben
efits include payment of eighty
per cent of doctors’ bills after
the first $50 in one year and up
to 100 home visits a year by
trained health workers—expen
ses not covered by medicare.
Although the law states that
eligible people who don’t sign
up by March 31 will have to
wait two years for another
chance to enroll, it’s likely that
an extension of the deadline
will be made after a lapse of
60 to 90 days. Os of March first
more than 14,600,000 people had
signed up for doctor-bill cov
erage.”
January 1 through January 8, e c° non iic as well as the poli-
1947 (20 years ago) shed light, our nation,
on some actions and events that j Beginning of Disaster
should have served as lasting! The Truman budget of 1947,
lessons for us as a nation but a year, represented
w'hich we have all but forgot- • a ^ ax burden upon each Amer-
ten. Through their Congress, j * can four times greater
theAmerican people had given j than it had been seven years
the wartime President virtual ear her, before the war. In the
dictatorial powers. Food had seven years the population had
been rationed, prices and wages > increased nine per cent, the
controlled, emergency taxes ' Federal budget 360 per cent,
levied, farm subsidies carried nex t week's column we shall
examine what deficit spending,
emerging as a peace-time pol
icy of our government in the
late 1940’s, has meant to dol
lar purchasing power and the
financial stability of our na-
over from depression years—
to mention a few of the war
powers which our President had
asked for and received.
Mr. Truman gave them all up
with a swish of the presidential
pen; but then, the very next I Bon. And in the following col-
day he or his advisors began ' umn we will look again at page
planning how to keep the war-! one the January 8, 1947,
time excise tax ($1.5-billion) New York Times, to a disas-
and farm subsidies; and, urged trous history-making statement
on by Walter Reuther of the by General George C. Marshall,
CIO, and other union leaders, 1 rr,, ..
, ’ ^ ,. J Mr. Truman s special envoy to
how to postpone the ending of i
wage and price controls.
Could Have Cut Excesses
The farm crop subsidies, be-
China. R eturning from the As
ian nation to become Truman’s
Secretary of State, General
gun in 1933 for production and , Marshall said that “the salva-
entirely unnecessary in the post tion „ of China red the
war America of 1947, were nev-
7 I A- * y-. J? 1 J 1-.* *
er-the-less continued. What
Rabies clinic
schedule
Following as the rabies clinic
schedule for the week April
25-29:
Monday, April 25: McAdams
Service Station, Chappells, 2-
2:45 p.m.; Murray Sheppard’s
Store, Silverstreet, 3-4 p.m.;
M. S. Lester’s Store, Newberry
Silverstreet highway, 4:15 to
4:45 p.m.
Tuesday, April 26:
Chapman’s Store, 2:45
L. M. Shealy’s Home,
Mountain, 3:15-3:30
Shealy Service Station,
Mountain, 3:45-4:45 p.m.; Es
so Station, Slighs, 5-5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 27: City
Hall, Whitmire, 1:30-5 p.m.
Thursday, April 28: Neel’s
Store, Belfast Road, 2:3 p. m.;
H. P. Lindsay Store, Bush River
Road, 3:16 to 3:46 p.m.
Friday, April 29: Richard
son’s Store, Jolly St. Road, 2-
2:30 p.m.; Ruff Brothers Store
Pomaria Road, 2:46-3:45 p.m.;
Dickert’s Store, Pomaria high
way 76, 4-4:16 p.m.
MUSIC STUDENTS TO
PRESENT RECITAL
Eight Newberry College mu
sic students will be presented
in a recital at 8:30 p.m. April
26 in Holland Hall auditorium.
They are: Doris Phillips,
Lancaster, Margaret Busbee,
Columbia, Gail Phillips, New
berry, Connie Caylor, Ashburn,
Va., sopranos; Lynn Walden,
Matthews, Ga., mezzo soprano;
Steve Lovelace, Prosperity,
baritone; Jimmy Ingram, Lex
ington, organist; and Jill Van-
divier, Oxon Hill, Md., pianist.
Accompanists will be Julia
Richardson, Gaffney, and Bill
Wheeler, Saluda.
The public is invited to at
tend the recital.
Peak:
p.m.;
Little
p.m.;
Little
blunder our government lead
ership made in postponing the
end of farm subsidies back
there 20 years ago! The gov
ernment now has spent more
than $45-billion on the subsidy
program, has partially enslaved
American agric: ire and cre
ated a grave and g wing poli
tical problem which most poli-
BEGINNING
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1966
New Business
Hours
In line with most other building
and loans in our State and in order
to keep our hours on a basis compe
titive with many other businesses and
industries in our city, thus enabling
us to mantain a staff of employees of
very high caliber, the State Building
and Loan Association of Newberry
will observe new business hours
starting Friday, April 22,1966.
These New Hours Will Be:
MONDAY through THURSDAY:
9 : 00 to 4:00
FRIDAYS: 9:00 to 6:00
SATURDAYS:
Not Open For Business
No legal holidays will be observed except those rep
resenting: Jan. 1, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and
Christmas.
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NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
re
sumption of leadership in the
government by liberals.” And
among the “liberals” he made
it clear he meant the Chinese
Communists. America not only
ceased effective help to the
Chinese government fighting
the Communists, but actually
put an embargo on arms, and
China fell to the Reds.
B. B. Counts
dies Sunday
Bachman Brooks Counts, 84,
of Route one, Prosperity, died
Sunday night at his home af
ter an extended illness.
A native of this county, he
was the son of the late Walter
I and Mary Hawkins Counts.
Prior to his retirement, he was
a farmer and carpenter. He
was a member of Zion Meth
odist church.
Surviving are his wife; four
sons, J. W. Counts of New
berry; Earl M. Counts of Ware
I Shoals; and Clarence B. and
Virgil Counts of Prosperity;; a
sister, Mrs. Melinda Pugh of
Prosperity.
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HOURS
In line with most other banks in our state and in order to keep our hours
on a basis competitive with many other businesses and industries in our city,
thus enabling us to maintain a staff of employees of very high caliber, the
banks of Newberry will observe new banking hours for Fridays and Satur
days starting Friday, April 22,1966.
These new hours will be:
MON. thru THURS. 9:00 to 1:00
InstaUment Loan Department open from 9:00 to 5 : 00 P. M.
FRiemYS:
• •
9:00 to 1:00 and 4:00 to 6:00
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9 A. M. to 6 P. M.
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July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and ChristmaSi
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