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PAGE 2 — The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. Thursday, March 7, 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 By J. K. BREEDIN The noblest, figure that ever stood in the fort-front of a Nation's lift'. Someone said that or something very much in the spirit and 1 am paraphra-me it. If I havo misijujtt'-d it 1 would readily and happily ac eopt it as my trilmt-- to (le-irpe Wash ! net on. I know that 'In- L’Lbid of Feb ruary was the pi '-at man’s hirthday, hut this nation .ou!u i i-adrly recall Wasiiinpton every day. Why did Was! 11 net on --1 a ne out, an impos,:ny; f ipure, in ai y eatherme? He wa- not tin- richest man, nor wa - he the most learned of the early statesmen. Thomas .Irffersrtn was probalily t he eera! e- t n telh-ct in this proup of patriots who founded this nation: Jef ferson seemed to know every thing that the erudite minds of the day had written. But the compelling distinction oi W ashmgton was his sound judgment. his commandine common sense. He seldom spoke, but when he did his words seemed the very pearls of wfsdom. As an illustration of his sound thinking, let us remem ber the occasion when the first government of the l'. S. seem ed about to collapse from in ternal weakness, lack of co hesive strength. Those men, after many weeks of painstaking consideration, had prepared and formulated a Constitution to submit to the States. Amazed a> they were l-> the boldness of the adopted plan, the delegates seemed to taller, to waver. In tie- midst of the confusion Wa.hingtoti sp‘>ke and hear t he consumai e \\ is dom. Ills poise, as always, wa. m-table. Said he " I f we do not adopt a document which we our-elve approve how can defend it ? " Yea, \ . ril\ . Tha' calm w i.-dom . that u ui u 11 lee po i e. 111 si • tii the occ a s a i n a no th'-se few word- won attention ami acceptance True that t her. w en- im n of greater lea-rung among; those pat i nd - but no one o com pel 1 mgly t om manded i - - p e c t a> did tlm a 11 t u d • and words of the inimitable \\ ,i mgton. How he Would loom today amid the confusion of mail minds now hading' u- into one fiasco after anothei ; from bankruptcy to a military de feat m Asia. booking hack and cout.em plating Washington how .'inali are the big figures of today! Veritable midgets befor-- a giant! Alas and alack! There is no Washington on the ground, nor any on the Hor izon; nor does his great spirit seem to animate the small fig ures trying to look big. The world still stands lie- fore his tomb at Mt. Vernon but his spirit seems to have left us and we are noor indeed! Where art' the train.-..' How often I have ridden from Sum ter to Columbia on the Coast Line; and from Sumter to Augusta! Where is the tram from Charleston to Augusta? It was the offshoot of the oldest rail road in South Carolina: it ran from Charleston to Hamburg, this side of the Savannah river from Augusta, (leorgia. It ran at first from Charleston by Branchville, then later had a train from Branchville to Au gusta and the big train from Charleston to Columbia and then to Cincinnati, the Carolina Special! Ala.-, no more! Ail over the nation the trains ai e being taken off. Well. it-Cs get to something right here at home. We used to liavi cotton every when 1 . Be fore t hat w e had i ice in our Stole. Now we must watch our tep; we must adjust ourselves to changed conditions. Ill’s see: " Bet ter take care of vour old con.m sports shirts. Any new uiie you buy now may not (eel (jiiite the same. And it may not last as long. For mills making the switch for part of their output—and some insist they aren’t—the poorer grades of yarn mean more difficulties in weaving a broad spectrum of textile pro duct.-. The long-staple cottons, as the longer varieties are known, are less likely to break on the loom, according to in dustry specialists. More important to the ulti mate consumer, any fabrics made from shorter-staple cot tons are more apt to tear than textiles made from the longer, premium lengths, says Konald K. Kvans, a vice president of Riegel Textile Corp. J. B. Cohlberg, a textile industry consultant, noted also that the ‘results aren’t quite as attrac tive’ because materials made from shorter fibres lack the smoothness, evenness and lus ter of long-staple goods. Help, though, is on the way The Ibpartment of Agrieiiltun ha slated incentives for this \ear’s crop to boost output ot 1 he wanted long staple vai ie tie-. Some mdii-t r\ of ficials predict the t mlit apply sit ua !;m;i ma \ be i a ed by year end. That hortage began de \ el o pi eg a b, m t two years ago. It wa then that Federal farm plan ners, tb et 11 :m about t h e raw e o; 111 n ,a i ry i w e r t hat hi t a r' ciird 17 iniTon hale of boo pi11;■.d each, in government and i.ri\ a: e hand' on A ugust 1 . Fa dr,, ri •jiggered the nop di - WHATSOEVER THINGS” By DONALD E. WILDMON You may have seen it. It was in the papers a few weeks ago. The story of a young man saving the life of his baby sis ter and it costing him his own life. Walter Pittman was his name. He and his family lived down in Mississippi in a little town called Columbia. The account said the home of Loon Johnson caught on fire and that he, his wife, and theii four children and four grand children fled the fiery dwelling when the fire was discovered They were standing in the yard when young Walter apparently discovered that his sister was not in the group and remained trapped in the house. Walter darted unnoticed back into the house and managed to lead his three-year-old sister into the hallway of the eight- room house. There they became separated and he was burned to death. You wonder, reading a story like that, about what we call courage and what we call fear. I have a notion that Walter feared that fire like all of us would. What made him go then ? Most of us make a mistake when we try to rid ourselves of fear. We think it is cowardly and even sissy sometimes to he afraid. So we pretend we are not and the psychiatrist has a couch full of people. Our mis take is that we are trying to rid ourselves of something that we are supposed to have! You see, we are made with fear. It is built inside of us just like the other emotions we have. There is nothing wrong with it. It is, in itself, basically good. It is only when we mis use it, twist it, ignore it that we make a mistake. We are supposed to be afraid some times. It is one of the surest safeguards we humans have against danger. Who isn’t afr aid if a loaded gun is pointed toward them? Who doesn’t seek cover if a tornado heads their way? Who doesn’t mind mix ing gas and matches? Only the foolish. We have been making our mistake by trying to rid our selves of this thing called fear. I’lie Creator gave it to us. He gave it to us to help us. He did not intend us to rid our selves of it hut to use it. And that’s what we should do with last August and only some one million bab's by early Febru ary . ’’ As to the war--of course there is no war, as the big men tells as. We are spending Fil ls m - of doll a is, t hoiisatuls of men, thousands of planes hew, why? Is thi- just a prac over shrank from the August IPod record of 17 million hales to IL’.'J million hales in August IPt'iT. By next Augmt. accord ing to CoverntHcnt forecasts, it will he cut in half to about n.7 million hales, less than C. S. mills consume in 'J months' 11 me. The shriveling of the surplus has been ever more dramatic at ('ommodity Credit Corpora tion, the Covernment's hoard- keeper. From an August HMiti high of IL’.'J million hales, the supply owned by the agency slimmed to 5.7 million hales and w by ? How have the mighty fallen! We haven't settled even tin 1 seizure of our ship by Koreans and th“ imprisonment of our men! My word! Will some well- informed man or woman tell me just what is what? How and why did we get en tangled in Vietnam? If we win what will we have 171 r victory? If wc win we lose and if we lose—then what? Upon what have our masterminds based all their conclusions? it. Control it. Channel it. Com mand it. A lot of our sickness today is brought about by fear. Peo ple haven’t learned to use it. They have never realized that we were endowed with that built-in safety device by our Creator. So they go on, day in and day out, fearing something to the point where fear con- rols them. Courage, you - see, isn’t the absence of fear. Far from it. Courage is the proper control over fear. So quit trying to rid yourself of fear. Just conquer it. Take the example from Wol- ter Pittman who learned early how to conquer fear. You see, Walter Pittman, the young man who gave his life saving his little sister, was only four years old! Hendrix seeks renomination as Supervisor Harold B. Hendrix, currently completing his second term as Newberry County Supervisor, is seeking re-election to the office in the June Democratic I’rima ry. Prior to his election as Sup ervisor in P.MiO, Hendrix servod as vocational agriculture teach er. Mr. Hendrix was born and reared in Lexington County, is a graduate of Lexington High school and C’lemson Uni versity and did graduate work at the University of South Carolina. Ho taught vocational agriculture in Little Mountain and Pomaria schools for five years, and in Prosperity and Mid-Carolina High schools for 17 years. He is superintendent of the Sunday school and a member of the Church Council of Grace Lutheran church, a member of the Farm Bureau, the Grange, Prosperity Civitan Club and the Chamber of Commerce, Hendrix is married to the former Miss Edith Brooks of Columbia and has two child ren, a son Bill, and a daughter, now Mrs. J. H. Barnes. Both are graduates of Newberry col lege. In his announcement for the office, Hendrix said: “Under the new system of County Gov ernment many added responsi bilities, previously administer ed by the County Delegation, are now under the jurisdiction of the Supervisor and Com missioners. Realizing the im portance of this office and af ter prayerful consideration, I feel 1 should continue to make my services and experience av ailable to the people of New berry county.” When adding line to line on your fishing reel, use a blood knot. Sports Afield \ I'l ■- ; >n pi ne, ram tn u-t nut t ire man rave r ” II it j' < t. T u re is a call for more men 1 fit • i ■sui t s e \ ■ i • \ I D V Ft ankly. I d HI't under.- land it, •at :«> I i F* '. I’rniim t urn slumped n do you ? T1 ere is a govern- ] !" h to P.5 million bale > f ron men t in Nor th \ letnam and a 1 1 t million the year before gi >\n •i mm ml i n S outh V et nam ? 1. n voar. with a majoi asm st But win >m t re We fi glit ing ? fm in t hi weather and the boll And win •> U r >Y 1. mtput slumped still M y fet •bio bra in does not op- fur til or o a scant 7 V. million erat e in this. W! en F a war not ba les th e lowe.st since 1S'.»5, a w ar ? I 51 i- bo th vears, the D. S. was T, ■chni •ally . if we art • not at U si t't-r and exporting more cot- war and tile! e h is been no dec ton • hat it produced. As a laiation of wai , how are we ICS uit, that ‘worrisome’ carry- lega l!y i nvob red What 's what GROW &S FAST *$ your PASSBOOK SWINGS heru Little brother is a lot like passbook savings here—starting small, but always growing bigger and stronger. 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