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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Feb. 15, 1968 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 advance Six months $.1.25. COMMENT on Men & Things B> J. K. BREEDIN Rack yonder, in the distant and remote aeo of our fathers and grandfathers, wood was the fuel and ome elderly men of today can n member how- am i win ui the v M \\' ung the axe, if not m tin for est certainly i n thr back \ ard. Although I am Still in robust youth I, too r- i- aa t boo day of vino i'i ms |V| 1 7 . a, \ r ; i 1 y. 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Lot this -ink in now: • ‘ Tim ■c bun dl'rd t rainload s of ri.nl will he pureha .'d annually h\ tin South < a ro! i na 1'lleet rie A- fins ro,n pan y to p rov uh t ml for its ttiree major steam pen - erati tip plants, aceordmp to N'irpil Summer, vice presid cut of operations. '1’he unit trains, of 72 cars each and containing at least ri.OOO tons of coal, hepan ar- rivinp at f’anadys in Colleton county. Plant rrquhart in Ai ken county and at Plant Me- M.ekin at l.ake Murray last week. Summer .aid that the com pany had contracted to huy l.r.nnuno tons of coal a \ear from mines principally in east ern Kentucky and western \ ir- wmia Coal i.- luoupht from thi 1 mines hy three railroads —the Clmchfield, the Chesapeake <5: t )hio and the Louisville A’ Xash- vi 11 • and passed alonp to the Sealioard ('oastline for delivery tu the three plants. Special equipment is used to unload the coal to conveyor holts which lift it to storupe areas fn>m which other convey or, take the coal into the pen- oratmp plants. Before tin* company entered mtii the contracts for unit trains, coal was delivered in un oven lots as tin 1 railroads also arned shipments of other poods in the same train. Now the entire train is devoted to coal, all of it helonpinp to the Klectric & Cas company. Summer said that he estim ated a savinps in freipht of he tween 10 and 15 per cent an nually hy use of the unit traini and he cited the new arrange ment as another effort on tin nart of the company to con- inue to provide electricity at o\v rates. 'Because of risinp costs in many otlu'r f iclds, we must make economies, such as this to “YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS” 1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422 keep the price of electricity at the present level’, Summer said. Joe Ford, fuel coordinator, said he gives the mines and rail roads seven days notice prior to the required shipment date and allows three to four days for transit. Railroads notify him when the train will arrive and specially trained power comp any crews begin the unloading as soon as the train arrives. The company has 16 hours to complete the unloading but so far has accomplished it in much less time.” Three hundred train loads,— not carloads; a train of coal may have 72 big gondolas which may contain five thousand tons of coal each. That great company uses every means which a resource ful experience can suggest to oawe its vast company of pat rons at the lowest possible cost. We art' a people difficult to understand. At least our gov- ernment is difficult to under stand. For example,, we are -pending billions of dollars, thousands of young lives, more than a thousand planes—and only tlie fjreat Jehovah knows the full extent of our spending. If we are trying to curb com munism why go to Asia when Cuba is at our door? If we try to wage war why don’t we devite our vast re sources to puprosefel battle? If we have great fleets at hand why didn’t we take a firm hand with Korea? Can you im agine a more wavering, wishy- washy policy than that of our leaders? Are we tying the hand- of Admirals and Gener als? Are we waging wa» from desks in W ashington? It is difficult to reconcile ou»' coarse with real war. One hesitates to impu‘e er ror to Commanders in the field but why was that lone little gunboat in Korean waters? and why did not the Command in' call for aid at the first in dication of hostility? And now that we have sent the mammoth Enterprise to Korea one or two bombs or mines may disable it. What is the trouble with us; we act like weak people. Even in Vietnam, why are we carry ing on a sort of limited war fare? Why limited? Why aren’t we using full force if we are there at all? What, why and how? Ask yourself, each one of you. I wish the American Com mando)' of the ship captured at Korea h; ;ni 1 had a few grains of the old- ! :: nr trac iition al s punk. such as D ewev had. He would have go IU ■ down sho( iting. If the ('apt: litl of the mammofh Lnterpri ■ would havt * St ‘ nt an of fit U' W! th this message : Re- lease tin shin am d nn ii and re- turn thr m safe and so und w i t h - in Jn minutes or I'll i. 1 (> w every ship y" {i have to d amn at am. But alas and alar k. Th osr brave day- ati over. T k ida v we an’ more tin a i i Ike! y to S end floW- • rs and i ■oni i'll :merit s to I he Koreans. I thin k the A mm i( ■an -pi rit nmi- a h it of bi- a r i n y '. a good. .-tiff do t • of ataui -rd s nitiment ; wr havt become vie! i ms of a profoum: ! inertia. t hat has en- freolrd m Where is the s udr :t of t he leaders w ho call. ■d oi t th e e n - rmv to . mi rrender "In tile name of the groat Jehovah and the ('out mental (’ongress. " I > thoro a Robert F. Lee. a Stonewall Jackson, a Jeb Stuart in our leadership today? Or are we paralyzed by the in ertia of desk leaders? We have a great navy and a mighty flotilla of planes; and we spend billions every year on defense, but at the first breath of war we find ourselves impotent. Why? Why do we have reserves if they are not subject to call in emergency ? Mr. afid Mrs. Charles B. Payne have moved to 1524 B. Martin street to make theii home. “WHATSOEVER THINGS” By DONALD E. WILDMON We have three children. Timmy is our oldest. Angela is next and Donna Lou is the baby. Donna Lou is two. Timmy will be five on March 6 and Angela will be four on the same day. We love our children and like most parents have dreams for them. On June 1, 1963 I wrote a letter to Timmy which is today also a letter to his two younger sisters. In it is included my dream for all our children. Timmy was three months old the day I wrote it. I would like to share it with you. “Dear Timmy—Today you are three months old. Not very old to have brought us as much happiness as you already have to your mother and me. One day before long I will look into your eyes and see a grown man. Now when I look at you I al ways see a little laugh upon your face. I pray that you will remain laughing all your life. May you not grow to accept the world hut to make it a better place to live. May you face enough disappointment to ap preciate happiness and enough happiness to overcome disap pointment. May you be rich in the material blessings of lift 1 hut in love for your fellowman. May you trust in God hut not depend upon Him to do the work He depends upon you to do. May you be strong not only in body, but in mind and spirit and love of God’s wonderful world. May you never forget that there are people in this world who are not as fortunate as you and that they, in a real sense, depend upon you to help them better themselves. I hope, son, that you will accomplish the things I fail, yet he an in dividual unto yourself. Be brave —yet cautious. Re strong—yet gentle. Be true and honest and harm no man because he, too, is a child of God. Yes, son, now you are small and depend upon your mother and me. And when we lift you up you laugh. You are worth more to us than all the gold in the world. Yet some day you will grow to be a man. Accept the responsibility and protect your rights. Little Tim—that’s what w r e call you now—will be a man some day and your mother and I pray that he will be good and just and true. Any thing less would not be what God expects. I love you, son. Daddy.” That letter doesn’t mean much to our children now. They are too young to understand. May be when they are old enough to realize that they are living in an imperfect veorld with im perfect people it will help to keep their values straight. And you know, if we can keep their values straight other things will have a way of falling into place. It could he that we adults need to take another look at our values. Some of them seem a little confused. Have you looked at yours lately? ON DFTY IN ENGLAND A L('ON BURY, ENGLAND: Technical Sergeant James J. Da veil putt, whose wife, Come, is the daughter of Mrs. Geneva Long, Route 3, Prosperity, has arrived for duty at Alconbury RAF Station, England. Sergeant Davenport, a main tenance scheduler, is assigned to a unit of the U. S. Air Forces in Europe. He previous ly served at Webb AFR, Tex. The sergeant attended Bush River High School. STEADFAST...LOYAL ... THRIFTY! This month, we celebrate the birthdays of George Wash ington and Abraham Lincoln. Great men. whose steadfast loyalty in the face of ad versity has inspired Americans ever since Both men also emphasized the Importance of husbanding part of today’s resources for tomorrow. The greatest honor we can pay these illustrious fore fathers is to imitate their virtues—steadfastness, loyalty, and thrift! Building and Loan Association 1117 Boyce Street Newberry, 8. C. Dial 276-5660 DIRECTORS: Ralph B. Baker Pinckney N. Abrams C. Floyd Thomas H. Pope R. Anbrey Harley