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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C\, Thursday, May 23, 1968 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owne- Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolim SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in advance Six months^ $-l-25. Why we can’t turn the li^ht on our blunders is one of the mysteries of the day. We seem to live in darkness throughout —even our courts have run off the track and roll alony in deep mud instead of a clear route with well defined pat hs. I think a definition of our proper course should be of yreat benefit to us as a nation. 1 am not merely shoutiny in the dark 1 have observed the course of some others, notaldy Western (iermany since the u a r. We are floundering in th( abyss of ignorance and misdi rection. I quote from two very fine papers. The Marlboro Herald-Advo- ( ate: “South Carolina suffered the heaviest forest fire losses in the past Id years, as 12,281’ wildfires burned 4b,85b acres of woodland in South Carolina last month. This was the larg est acreage burned in March since 055, and was the largest number of fires ever recorded in the month of March, accord- irirr to S. C. State Commission of Forestry records. During; the month, Marlboro had 5b fires which burned 874 acres. Unusually dry weather dur ing March created critical for est fire hazards, and Forestry Commission equipment and manpower were strained to the utmost to hold down forest fire losses, said State Forester John R. Tiller. Mr. Tiller com mended pulp and paper com- panies and other forest land Just What Is A LOCAL INDEPENDENT INSURANCE AGENT? LOCAL . . . means he is a member of your community . . . probably a neighbor down the street. He pays taxes, serves on commit tees, helps raise money for worthy causes. INDEPENDENT . . . means that he works for no company on a salary, but represents many on a commission basis. He's strictly in dependent and represents your interests when you have a claitn. SERVICE . . . means something when you call your independent agent. You get action and you get it fast. WE ARE LOCAL. INDEPENDENT AGENTS “YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS” 1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422 COMMENT on Men & Things By J. K. BREED!N “Where ignorance is bliss ’tis folly to be wise”. I may not quote that exactly but it expresses w r ith great clarity my meaning, as well as the appli cation thereof. As I read and as I see what is going on 1 think this quotation tells lucidly and with total * xactitude the attitude of our Washington Adm inis t ration. In much that is done and much that seems in the air I think anyone with a clear mind and an ordinary grasp of the needs and problems of the Nation would be hopelessly at a loss amid the prevailing con fusion of thought characteris tic of our national administra tion. From start to finish I third our national administratior needs a complete examinatioi so as to determine what is o! service in promoting our wel fare and what should be thrown on the waste files. We have lost the clear-sight ed appreciation of what makes a nation and wo have run after a will of the wisp” because some fanatic dreamer has tried to build himself a reputatior on the decayed foundations or, else, has disregarded the foun dations entirely and now seems to chase a shadow for the sub stance. owners wno cooperated in con trolling many of the 2,282 March wildfires. Deliberately set fires and careless burning of trash and debris caused most of the March wildfires. In the last nine months, 6,- 115 wildfires have burned 94- 484 acres of woodland in S. C., compared to 3,833 fires that burned 37,047 acres in the cor responding nine - month per iod last year.” Really now; can it be possible that Marlboro, the home of the 550 bushels of corn to an acre, thatrich old Marlboro, has a shortage of food? I can’t be lieve it. A shortage of trees, per haps, but not a shortage of food in that opulent county. The Clinton Chronicle brings some astonishing news: “When Gov. Robert E. Mc Nair asked the General Assem bly to hold the line on spend ing this year, he was well aware cf the realities. They have emerged in the ancient pattern of some law makers making political hay while others groan and w r arn that wrong is being done. It is generally forgiven a legislator his attempt to pla cate some constituents by ask ing for funds that are not there. In the usual case, if he should get a favorable vote, the item is later deleted by the usual conference committee that gets the bill in the end. This way he can blame tht committee for ripping up hi: efforts and place the blame oi it. And the target is often Sen. Edgar A. Brown of Barnwell. Almost 80 now, Brown has guided the fiscal course of the state for years beyond mem ory, as he presides in the powerful position of chairman of the Senate Finance Com mittee. He says he’s long since got ten used to the bill winding up with a load of political amend ments. Tve gotten to the point’, he said, ‘that 1 let them put any thing they want to in it, and they use me as their whipping hoy. This is the way a lot of them get re-elected, even the good fellows’. No one disputes the wisdom of the senator or his words on how a state budget gets so badly out of line despite pleas by the governor and legisla tors who have nightmares a- bout putting the state in the hole. The citizenry appears either careless or unknowing about this fact of legislative life. Yet, if it did not cheer the lawmaker who deliberately sets out to upset state finan ces, if it saw him as using the occasion for his own benefit, the practice would end quickly. It is difficult for his oppon ent to point all this out. If he says that Sen. John Doe should not have tried to get his dis trict that multi-million dollar biidge because it would topple the fiscal responsibility of the state, Sen. Doe merely throws up his hands and says h i s opponent is against doing things for his district. Tin* politically honest man knows that the final aim of a state legislature should be the state—not one county or dis trict. No one area should ben efit to the detriment of others. But it appears to too many to be only a little white lie to slip in a sop for the folks back home, and far more than one lawmaker has been known tc tell that little white lie. There could be a little set of rules for the watchful citi zen who doesnt’ like a fibber He might ask himself—and hi: representative—some question: like this: Did he consider that vote- oriented move of his to be not only in the interest of his area but of the whole state? ‘‘WHATSOEVER THINGS” By DONALD E. WILDMON A lady by the name of Ethel- wyn Wetherald sat down one day and wrote a little poenr.. It expresses a beautiful thought that we need. Here is what she wrote: My orders are to fight; Then if I bleed, or fail, Or strongly win, w r hat matters it? God only doth prevail. The servant craveth naught Except to serve with might. I was not told to win or lose, My orders are to fight. It is good to remember that today in the world in which we live. It seems the measure of a man today is not that he fight for what is right, but that he succeed. Success, that’s what we all want and many are willing to pay dearly for. Success, that’s what makes a man. Success, that’s what rules the world. Funny how we can take things and twist them to suit us and our conceptions, isn’t it? The coach who is the great est success today is the one who wins the most games, not the one who teaches sportsman ship and clean play and love of the game. The doctor who is a success today is the one who drives the biggest car and lives in the largest mansion. The business man who is a success today is the one who can have the biggest store or make the most money off of a product. The politician who is a suc cess today is the one who can get elected the most times to a higher office. Even the Did he think of the impact it might have on the state budget, which belongs to al 1 the people ? Did he try it with the cer tain knowledge that, if he got it passed, it would be cut out later by the conference com mittee ? Did he try to kid someone— the legislature a little and the home folks a lot? preacner oi today is not a suc cess unless he serves the larg- est church. One man, who was counted a failure by the standards of the world, once said that the way to success was to serve. “The greatest among you shall be the one who serves the most,” He said. And we have taken this and made it imply that we had to win. Win t at all cost, win! You are a failure if you do not win. I think we need to go back and get a few things in pro per perspective about the faith of the Nazarene. He never once told us that we could ex pect success as the world meas ures success. He didn’t even hint at it. If anything, we can expect the world to laugh at us and call us crazy, and old- fashioned, and prudish, and stupid, and about anything else they can think to call us. But we think we have to win. And this has brought about a damaging and often damning attitude of compromise. W e can’t rid the w r orld of liquor or stop some people from drinking it, so make it attrac tive. We can’t rid the world of lust so let’s dress it up and put it in an expensive maga zine and put it on the stands for all to buy. We can’t keep men from using the name of God in vain, so let’s use it in the movies and on the air and in all our speech. Compromis ing is one of the deadliest sins of our day. A man named Abraham Lincoln once said it in these w'ords: “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live up to what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, standwith him while he is right, and part with hiu. when he goes wrong.” Is it any wonder we say he w r as a great man ? with sTcin CD’s Earn 5^ Interest on SCN certificates of deposit. 60 days to one year $5 f OOG minimum SOUTH CAROLINA NATIONAL tk ^ MtiwWi* Federal DepeiK Cerperetiee, 1116 BOYCE ST. 1118 HARRINGTON »T. 3133 COLLEGE ST.