The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, June 08, 1967, Image 2
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COMMENT
on
Men & Things
By J. K. BREED1N
What is the outlook for the
farmers? The eotton looks
small ami unpromising, doesn’t
it ? And m the low count ies,
t he 1 Ve I »ee ri pm>n. toiau-eo
doesn’t cheer us at the moment.
At the moment, 1 remind you,
for >ome of you may romemher
the ytar
1911. So let
me tell
\ "ii ahoii
t 1911.
1911 w;
is a dry year;
a -ing-
ular fact
m deeply eiigi
aved on
my memory.
I had 1
iccii elected Dean am
Tica.'Uicr
of tile ]
iroposet
( '"llcgc
in Anderson,
Soutl
< anduia.
I he proposed
eollegi
was the
outcome of a
populat
campaign
to provide
for a
college. A
you are not
i nterest-
ed m the college i’ll
conf im
myself to
the weather.
1 went
to An dor son
in Jum
11» 1 1 , a d i y period.
Soon after my arrival in
Anderson I suppested to tin
trustees that we undertake t<
collect the hundred thousand
dollars pledped hy the people
of Anderson County.
In June and July 1‘Jll it was
dry, so dry that the trustees
of that college in the preat
cotton county said to me "Pon’t
mention mornyv; it is so dry the
farmers won’t make anything
so don’t mention money.”
Those pentlemen borrowed fift\
thousand dollars on their
personal credit and we bepan
the huildinp.
I was busy all the tune with
all the details but about No
vember I suppest' (1 apain that
we ask for the payment of the
pledpes. The trustees said
"Iion't mention money." Well,
now; in June and July the dry,
dry year the farmers had no
prospect of a harvest; in No-
\ ember the harvest had been so
plentiful that they couldn't
"make any money." So there
you are: in July no prospect
hut in March, 1!»1 L’ t housamis
of farmers weie plow inp up
cotton so as to plant for the
eiop of lord.
1 ha\ eii’t iie n cock uis about
t ue weat her or farm pro pet t.-
. nice t hae\ en; f n 1 lull.
So no w : I hea i that t lie fa rm-
e rwon’; make a ny t h, np, but
m> * hoUp ht iun- back to lull.
I haul a bit of experience on
m\- farm ni ludl or Itr’.'J Apain
x 1 , e had a lonp d ■ y tune. ()u r
fa rim r at that tin- plant ed
pea • for a crop of peas and hay
.a the autum
It was dry. dr>'. di\. Mer
chants who had boupht thou
sands of bushels of peas sold at
a loss for the farmers said it
was too dry.
I had all the advantape of
ipnorance: I was not a practical
farmer hut I was too pip-headed
and hull-headed to act on the
wisdom and lonp experience of
our best farmers; I rushed in
where and when anpels would
fear to trod; my farm partner
and I planted several thousand
bushels of peas — in all the dry
weather and dry land. Then—
after several weeks—came the
rain. We had about the only
hay in our mdphborhood, we
who had brushed aside the
wisdom of our best farmers and
plunped in, we prospered in our
ipnorance.
So you see: there 1 are times
when experience and sound
judpment seem to profit not-
hinp, whereas someone in ip
norance rushes in and reaps a
benefit. Even so.
Iton’t misumier-tam! me;
now. today, I have profound re
perl and repaid for the exper
ience of successful im n, Out you
i an't a I w a \ I ell, ran you ?
Sen let i nn - an ip mua nt man
phinpe.- m and .-ucceeds.
1 med not remind you that
younp' men take chances that
elderly men avoid. The cautious
spirit of ape hesitates before
the perils ami .handicaps of
chance; whereas the adventure
some impulse of youth may
overrule obstacles. The world
advances because men try new
methods or just seem to defy
opposition.
1 need not remind you that
oftentimes the do-or-die spirit
of adventure rushes headlonp
to disaster; nevertheless the
world propresses throuph the
spirit of
adventure
Men of great
achievement
usually
rest on
othi
■r men.
Sometinn
•s a great le;
uier can
draw out
the supe
rior
qualities
of their
assistant s
W he
reus the
leader m
ay not fully grasp all
the detai
Is; the a
ssistant mav
he ouManding as
A s s i
stant, as
.'.econd- in
-command
1.
whereas
once givi
■n comma
ml they fad.
Many a
general o
\Yt S
much to
his < ■ h;e f
of staff
w he
reas the
chief of Maff fails
W lie
n he he-
comes t h
e commander.
Thi> is
ak'O true
in 1 iiisiness.
in many
eases.
I have
t hough'
},
;t about
t\\o outs
tanding i
•ha r:
inters in
the B1 h 11 ■
; David ;
iml 1
[Vt.u-
Je- us warned IV
ter o
f Ins ;m-
pending 1
ictraval, 1
lilt I’
eter was
. 1 >ek ■ u r<
that he
W OH
Id never
deny his
Lord But
IV'
er foully
di n ed hi
s I.urd 'h
ree t
: me a' d
id Wore '
'hat
he . In :
know ,T
su- But
win
m J i -'
came f r<
mi the !
i m i h
he w: .
"<io tell
my d'.-eip
les a
ml Bet' r
to meet
me in (
ladle
e." Ami
Peter, the coward, developed in
to the Great Preacher, the chief
hero of our Catholic brethren.
What did Jesus see in Peter?
He saw the failure and then the
superlative preacher.
Aral there was David: he
committed a crime so foul that
he could not hold up his head in
any decent community today.
But he became “the man a r ter
God’s heart.”
There is a lesson for us,
surely: we frequently don't
measure accurately the cap
abilities or the possibilities of
our fellow men.
And Saul of Tarsus our preat
Apostle Paul: what did Jesus
see in Paul?
And now we may well con
sider the Apostle Paul. He was
stand inp by while Stephen was
stoned to death. Paul was a
strict Pharisee and observed all
the Jewish law. Jesus called
him, you’ll recall, on his way to
Damascus, a journey to perse
cute the followers of Jesus.
Jesus saw depths and poss
ibilities and called Paul on the
road.
“I am Jesus whom thou per-
secuteth.” Jesus saw the vast
potential service of Paul: to
present the Gospel in Aramaic,
Hebrew, Greek and Latin, the
most helpful way to introduce
the Gospel as a world relipion,
a call to all mankind!
“South Carolina may lie be
low the national averape in
ome thinps but when it comes
to usinp electricity in the area
served by the South Carolina
Electric and Gas Company—it’s
way above averape! The resid
ential customers in this 23-
county area used an averape of
more than 71 hundred kilowatt
hours of electricity durinp 190(1
— 33 per cent more than the
national averape! For this
si' r v lee this same averapt
i evidential customer pays less
than she did the year before:
1.9‘J cents per kilowatt hour—or
9 per cent less than the national
averape. Perhaps this hiphet
averape use is because of this
lower averape price.”
“Accordinp to statistics, the
averape American moves once
m four years. What’s new about
movinp these days is what you
can move with you. And that’s
almost everythinp. Thinps you
previously had to leave behind
when you moved—like closets,
bookcases, dishwashers—now
can easily be moved from one
house or apartment to another
Shelves and cabinets and brac
ket to movable poles cost less
than carpentry and are much
easier to move. Storape walls
and modular units can be re-
arranped to your convenience
and you can adapt easily to new
floor plans. Foldinp screens,
foldinp chairs and tables, small
arca-rups and anythinp on
wheels are important to the
movable room idea—which
brinps us back to the movable
d .hwasher. They're electric, of
course, and will do all that the
lebudt ins can accomplish. If
ym; are a movinp, averape
American, see the new movable
d.Mnvavhers on today’s market
enjoy the modern wav to da
tlm d,s h os."
Local man’s
father dies
Hudie I.. Gardner of Joanna
died I uesday at a Clinton hos
pital after a lonp illness. Am-
i np his survivors is a son,
Robert A. Gardner of Newber
ry. funeral services were con
ducted Wednesday at First
Baptist church by Dr. L. B.
Harbin. Burial followed in
f rederick Memorial Gardens,
Gaffney.
All The Things You Are
It’s not what you have, but
what you Jo with it that counts
Everything about you combines
to create your image. The trick
is to take stock of yourself and
always put your best face forward
So maybe your nose is a trifle
long—or a trifle short—or even a
little crooked. Don’t panic' I earn
to focus attention on your best
features. You can do it with your
personality and with a little extra
beauty care.
T and C Dry Cleaners
"SECOND TO NONE”
Attention Friends and Customers:
You all have seen the same old advertisement
such as: MASTER DRY CLEANING, MOTH
PROOFING, etc., etc.
Professional Dry Cleaning
IS MORE THAN REMOVING DIRT. Let us pro-
vide you courteous service, and the care in Dry
Cleaning that you deserve.
EASY DRIVE-IN PARKING
For PICK-UP and DELIVERY Call 276-4096
1508 NANCE STREET NEWBERRY, S. C.
Powell E. Way, Owner
Highway Safety Action
The “compulsory” vehicle in
spection bill, just signed into
law, brings to seven the total
number of highway safety
measures clearing the Legisla
ture this year .
This development, in our op
inion, marks the 1967 General
Assembly as the most product
ive one in recent years with
respect to safety legislation.
Only one other recommendation
in our “safety package” pre
sented in January has failed to
gain approval—the Implied
Consent Law. Hopefully this
measure also will be adopted
before adjuornment.
We have known for sometime
in South Carolina that automo
bile insurance rates cannot ap
preciably he lowered until we
cut down on accidents. Now
we have put some teeth into
our motor vehicle laws which
should aid us in this problem.
The real results of this year’s
actions may not show up im
mediately, but, as least, we
have made a good start in the
right direction.
In the meantime, South Caro
linians can look forward to the
day when needless deaths and
injuries no longer blacken our
record to the extent of absolute
inexeusability.
Chief Highway Commissioner
Silas N. Pearman has termed
the inspection law “the one
measure that will do more than
anything else to reduce our fat
ality rate.”
The law goes into effect in
1969. This will give our gar
ages and our people the oppor
tunity to prepare themselves
for compliance. Tbe legislation
is designed to avoid working
any hardships on the garages.
Don’t Forget The Insurance
In storage, on the road or in the water
your boat and accessories are subject to
fire, theft or loss of some kind.
Give your investment the protection it
deserves. Insurance, including liability,
is available in any combination at a
reasonable rate.
“YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS”
1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422
but the inspection fees will not
be high enough to give them a
profit.
We are grateful that they
are cooperating in this matter
by preparing to handle inspec
tions. In the meantime, we urge
all motorists to have their ve
hicles inspected voluntarily un
til the law goes into effect.
STRIKING—The dress takes a
jacket and the result is a ver
satile ensemble for the woman
on the go. Woven cotton in a
bold zigzag pattern shapes the
slightly fitted jacket and the
simply constructed dress under
neath. By Bert Geiger for
Campioni.