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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, July 18, 1968 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolinj SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in advance Six months $1.25. ..tr■ jju hi.■ iAr■ 1 m COMMENT on Men & Things By J. K. BREED IN Beauty abounds in South Carolina. Some seem to think that it is concentrated in Charleston. Much of it is in and near the ^rand old city, but what do you know of other places? The State as a whole first We are washed by the ^reat Atlantic at Charleston, George town, Beaufort (Port Royal) and Myrtle Beach. True we have a lot of water near Char leston, especially counting a! the rivers nearby. We also have some attrac tive level land near the center of tlie State; wi also have roll- iny plains and hills, as well as mountains. You can travel ir your car from the Atlantic t< the mountains in a few hours lets’ say eight hours — from Charleston to the mountains o’. Pickens county. What of floral beauty? A lot of it can be seen all over the State. Have you seen the residen tial areas of Columbia? There are many miles of flowers, of all kinds, and that applies to most of the State. Have you seen Brooks St. in Manning, or parts of Church Street in that attractive small city ? Have you visited Sumter? But I thought of telling you of Charleston first. Charleston a- l-ounds in parks. Let’s see some of them: Kntering Charleston from the west, say coming in from Columbia >011 observt formal parks and other areas of restful appeal. Travelling eastward o n Meeting street \ou meet an old park a whole bmek— Wragg Park a restful appeal it offers. A bit f 1111 le r > ou come t< a pat k-l 1 k r a Tea fronting tin Si run d I'm: bytrrian church. at 01 1C t mu Known po pu larly a L 1 y 111 n's c lunch, 1 sup poSc' fur 1 mu !'"! uilar, minister of y r a l's ay t I . ( n\ 111 a mtu: lirytuici (a! hoar, s’ f. ft (n m M< rr: mg >t reel 1 you ('.'Mil' ' i > tar < dty park at Broad s t I’rrt, v’m 1 c the f c 1 u r l Ol IK'I r> 1 na vr thr city hall, the < 1 iuat y i oii ft house and Git y 1 L. do ral 1 po: Uof ficr ami the !' a n 10! 1 s Saint M ichaci s 1 ■ipis- ( 1 >pa 1 chi 1 reh, At the 1 a st rin end of Meet- mg st roe t you come to the Bat- tor \, an unre luallcd park for many hh H’ks, counting not only Dm g fas sy a reas hut the on- tiro ; 1 ro; 1 wa lied to keep out the A s h 1 ey r iver, as it f lows to foi •m ('liar lesion harbor and running t hen to the Atlan tic. Inei den tally near Mee ■ting st ivrt hr gin thr great brii dges ac mss the Gi aoper river run- ning to Mt. Pleasant. Those great hr idges are so high in order to permit war vessel s to steam up to the Naval station at all times—about six or seven miles. We must not bottle up the Navy, you know. The Battery—all of it—will gladden your eyes as you watch the waves washing the land, and across the way you see Fort Sumter, James Island, Morris Island and the appro aches of the broad Atlantic— about seven miles of watei from Charleston. Charleston has much in com mon with England, the British like privacy and seclusion, as do our friends of the old city many of w f hom have spacious loveliness in their yards, awa> from the view of us visitors. If you enter Charleston by Rutledge Avenue you see sev eral small parks and then you come to Hampton park, a whole array of flowery beauty. That is one of the finest parks in the South. Just to the rear of Hampton park is The Citadel, the Mil itary College of South Caroii na, an even more impressive arrangement, I think, than that of the great U. S. Military C allege of West Point, on thm Hudson river, you know. Continuing eastward on Rut ledge you come (at Cal hour street) to a beautiful park which holds the Museum. Some blocks on you come tc The Pond, as the lake is known. Beyond the Lake you finally come to the Battery again. If you have crossed to Mt. Pleasant on the great bridge over the Cooper river you can cross the city and travel over two other bridges, these too cross the Ashley river and carry you to several flourish ing suburban cities which lead us to some popular watering places. ^ cars ago there were ships that plied regularly between Charleston, Mt. Pleasant and Sullivan’s Island.Now you ride over the bridges. And there were steamers which offered sight-seekers a view of the harbor Fort Sumter-, the Wan- do river and stretches of the Ashley—about as far- as the approach to Magnolia Gard ens, said to be the most beau tiful park in the world. There are parts of Rutledge avenue which seem to breathe a (piiet dignity, instead of all the huhbuh and fury of lift on East Bay street, beyom Calhoun (and a few others too) are some fine old Mansions which seem to breathe the at mosphere of early ease ant comfort. Broad street, once the center of big hanking and insurance, 1- not so impressively expan sive today, for banks flourish in all parts. In truth we seem to have a race between banks ami gasoline filling stations, for both art 1 going up by leaps and hounds. If you wish to see Charles ton in all its splendor y o u must go in a boat up and down, taking in all the harbor, parts of Wando river, the Cooper and Ashley rivers. America for Americans! Let’s get up on big Party pol itics. I sympathize with crafty old DeGaulle. As he looks over France he sees Americans and British like the sands of the sea. On every hand DeGaulle sees signs of America, and Great Britain. I think he is right to want France for the French. Now let us take a leaf from DeGaull’s book and proclaim to the world America for Am ericans! One important step is to restrict immigration. We have more foreign blood than we can possibiy assimilate within a century ot two. Another step is to eliminatt all the folly of foreign aid. Dc business all over the world but have no more foreign aid. I’ve never known who initiat ed the foolishment we have as foreign aid. Don’t we know, as a matter of common knowledge that as soon as any aid, easy credit, or other hand-out is available we have thousands ready with hands out in a manner of supplication. We know that. I think our trouble is that we have very few peo ple who really know ^he value of a dollar. And in public life it is easy to give a million dollars or a hundred million because the average man in public life never had so much so he regards all gifts beyond a hundred dollars as about the same. Why should he worry or even think of the gift of a hundred million? He never saw, or handled or really came in con tact with anything beyond a thousand or two thousand dol lars, so he can as readily vote for several million or a hund red million; it is all the same to him. I think it is beyond dispute that we are suffering from the blinders of housands of citizens who don’t know the value of American history or tradition and who don’t even speak a few words of our lan guage. I could never be a good Frenchman for I don’t know the traditions or the language. One cannot become a French man because he can speak a few words of French. I speak English and have taught English history but I am far from being an English man; so with hundreds of thousands in New York. They are not Americans. America is to them a land of easy living. So I advocate an America for Americans; If we would have a nation of Americans let us close our gates and undertake to make real Americans within two or three generations who not only speak the language but are indoctrinated with American tradition. PROPERTY TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Mabel B. Shealy to Paul N Shealy and Willie Mae Shealy, one lot and one building on Charles street, $1150.00. Leland L. Wilson to Helen Wilson, 3 lots, $5 love and af fection. Newberry No. 1 Outside J. B. Brock to Elberta M. Brock 0.97 acres, $ olove and affection T. Gerald Manemann and J. L. Manneman to David Thomas one lot and one building $5 Silverstreet No. 2 Jimmy Knight and Dorothy K. Knight to Thomas R. Fant and Sylvia S. Fant, one lot and one building, $3,700 and assumption of mortgage. Bush River No. 3 A. J. Tinsley to Henry M. Tinsley, -1 acres. $5 love and affection Pomaria No. 5 Charlie C. Dominick and Elizabeth S. Dominick to Marie Sease Leitzsey 1.88 acres, $5 and exchange of deed. Little Mountain No. 6 S. C. Electric & Gas Com pany to F. E McLemore 110 acres, $1 Mrs. Lillian S. Fulmer to Reba F Epting and Homer 0. Epting, two acres, $5 love and affection. Mrs. Lillian S. Fulmer to John L Fulmer and Adelaide W. Fulmer, 580 acres $5 love and affection. Prosperity No. 7 Lillian A. Chapman to Har- riette E. Epting and Harold Epting, one lo and one build ing, $5 love ai. affection. Marvin E. Bouknight to Ver non D. Force and Alma T. Force, one lot and one building $500. THINGS” By DONALD E. WILDMON Little things aren’t too im portant, are they? No, most of the time they aren’t. Or at least we don’t think they are. Robert Romano of Staten Is land would have probably agreed to such a statement a- bout little things up to a short time ago. Then some thing happened. Romano was driving home early one day when, at a de serted intersection, his car ran ever a small nail in the road. A tire blew, Romano lost con trol of his car, and it hit a street lamp. The impact bent the street lamp double. The auto careened off the lamp- post and snapped off a fire hydrant, causing flooding un der the street. The deluge undermined the intersection, which collapsed, leaving a 50 foot crater in the street. The cave-in ruptured a gas main and police in hip- boots evacuated 17 nearby res idents to safety. Luckily, there were no injuries to anyone in volved. Little things not too import ant? One little nail, at the wrong place at the right time, caused every bit of that to happen. Guess we better say that all little things except little nails aren’t too important. But that won’t hold water, either. Best we admit the truth and say that little things are important. Marriages Frank Thomas Suber and Toni Yvonne Mars, Whitmire, were married at Whitmire on June 30th. Henry H. Giles III and Betty N. Reardon of Newberry were married on June 29 at New berry. Tony Edward Willbanks of Whitmire and Ruby Rebecca Medlock of Joanna, were mar ried at Greenville on July 2nd. We are sorry for the damage done in the accident caused by the one little-bitty nail, but we are glad it was there. It made us stop and think and get some of our values back in line. It reminded us, in a dramatic way, that little things do count and count a lot. You know, we will find life that way. Little things count ing, I mean. Remember the time we looked over the shoul der of the classmate in front of us and nut their work down for our own when we didn’t know the answer? It counted, alright. And remember the time we took that first little sip because we wanted to be one of the crowd? It counted. Sure did. And then there was the time when we took that one little, measly dollar wich the full intention of paying it back later. That counted, too. Little things, you see, still count in this world. They count because they are important. They may seem too small to be of significance but they count. Sometimes there appears in life little nails which we had not considered important. And we learn, sometimes, the hard way, that little things are important. Oh, how important sometimes! “You have been fruitful in managing small amounts, so I will put you in charge of large amounts. Come on in and share my happiness-” That’s what He said. And He is the one who makes little things im ortant. Our job, you see, is to be good caretakers over the little we have. It doesn’t really matter in this life how much we have. But it matters a lot h >w we manage what little we do have. Are little things important? Ask Robert Ramano. Better, yet, as the Galilian Carpenter. Then watch for the little nails in the roadway of life. They are there. DO.VT FORGET to take along some insurance on that boat and accessories. Fire, theft and liability is available in any combination at a reasonable rate. 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