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"Whatsoever Things
By DONALD E WILDMON
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COMMENT
on
Men & Things
Bv J. K. BKl.r.lUN
The discussions today in
Congress cannot attain a high
level, because the whole ad
ministration is Republican anc
a majority rule of Congress is
Democratic. That could w'ork
very wholesomely for the pub
lic in that it prevents ill con
sidered measures, but the ad
ministration controls the for
eign service and many other
things.
I have read and listened to
a great deal of talk about the
need of a new State Constitu
tion. Even the most easua'
reading will convince anyone
that our existing State Cons
titution has out-lived its use
fulness. Well, well—what about
it? The fact that we may need
a new State Constitution is by
no means an absolute proof
that we need to adopt some
body’s suggestion for a new
constitution.
The Constitution of 1895, ir
the course of years, has been
burdened with a lot of local
stuff which does not properly
belong to a State Constitution.
If we mean to adopt a new
constitution we shall have to
tear this one to shreds. That
might not be so bad, but I
question the legal ability of
the present State General As
sembly to prepare for consid
eration a new Constitution,
and I am equally aware of the
general confusion of thought
throughout the state. We could
prepare a forthright Constitu
tion, bringing together the
fundamental rights of a citizen
and we might submit it for
adoption, a brief, clear, precise,
statement that a real lawyer
could endorse.
The so-called Governor’s pro
gram opens wide the door for
gross mismanagement in the
finances of the State. As I see
it, I think the best course
would be to shejve that whole
program and for the leaders
of finance to adopt a state
budget with all the fat trimmed
off.
As I have noticed for years,
men of small means and sharp
ly limited experience usually
do most of the crying for more
spending.
New estimated
tax forms sent
Completely new estimated
tax forms for reporting and
paying estimated tax for 1969
will be mailed about February
1 to approximately 10 ™jiij on
taxpayers, H. M. McLeod, Dir
ector of Internal Revenue for
South Carolina, announced to
day.
A taxpayer should not as
sume that he is required to file
or pay estimated tax simply be
cause he receives the new pack
age, Mr. McLeod said. Anyone
receiving the new forms pack
age should read the instruc
tions very carefully to determ
ine whether he is required to
file an estimate.
No declaration is required, in
any event, if the estimated tax
not subject to withholding can
reasonably be expected to be
less than $40.
Many taxpayers, McLeod said
choose to avoid filing declara
tions and making quarterly
payments by increasing the
amount withheld from their
wages.
He said that the distribution
of estimated tax forms is being
made somewhat later than usual
because of the introduction of
some new features designed to
reduce problems in crediting
payments to estimated tax ac
counts. The new forms and in
structions, which were prev
iously a part of the income tax
pamphlets, will be mailed sep
arately this year.
The new package will include
the necessary forms, instruc
tions and four payment “vouch
ers” and pre-addressed return
envelopes. The new package
will be sent to all taxpayers
whose prior year records in
dicate that they may be liable
for filing an estimated tax dec
laration in 1969.
Mr .McLeod said the form
and payment vouchers will be
imprinted with the taxpayer's
name, address and social sec
urity number exactly as they
appear on the Internal Revenue
Master File. The imprinted
forms will provide assurance
that the taxpayer is properly
identified and that his pay
ments are credited to the cor
rect account.
The little five-year-old boy came
home after playing with several of
his friends. Speaking of one of his
little playmates, he told his father that
his small friend had used a bad word.
"What did he say, son?” asked his
father. The little boy replied: "He
said nigger.”
You see, the small boy had beer,
taught to say “negro” and not “nig
ger”. He had been taught that he
should respect his fellowman. Many
times he had been corrected when he
mispronounced the word. He had come
to know that there was a proper way
of pronouncing the word and a slurring
method.
Couldn’t we all use a little more of
what the little boy had? Respect, I
mean. Wouldn’t it be a better world if
the white man would treat the colored
man with more respect? And wouldn’t
our relationship be so much better if
the colored man would treat the white
man with that same respect?
It doesn’t cost anything to be nice,
and it solves so many problems. There
is so much hatred, and ugliness, and
disrespect in our world that there just
isn’t room for any more. And certain
ly we don’t need any more. We don’t
trust each other, we try to cheat each
other, we show contempt for each
other. It has become so very expen
sive to go this route. Saying “negro”
doesn’t require any extra effort, just
a little respect. And “whitey” coming
from the lips of a colored person does
n’t make them any bigger or better.
Respect means we have to be res
pectable. All of us could learn from
that. Instead of trying to place the
blame on another race, we could be
gin by making our selves a little more
respectable. I’m speaking about all of
us, all races. If we want another race
to respect us it means that we are go
ing to have to be respectable. It means
that we must make ourselves so wor
thy of respect that people cannot keep
from respecting us.
Where there is hatred, we must re
place it with love. Where there is pre
judice, we must replace it with justice.
Where there is disrespect, we must
replace it with respectability. Now ac
complishing this is no easy job. But
He can help us do it. And we will never
be able to accomplish it without His
help. Burning cities isn’t going to
make our country any better, neither
is relegating any group of people to a
second-class role. But He can make
our country better, if we will allow
Him to make us better. It is certain
that our country will never be any
better unless we are.
The story about the five-year-old
is true. The boy’s father was real
proud of the boy, too. I know. You
see, he’s my son.
—Five Star Features
I wonder sometimes if I am
really crazy or just off the
track. There are times when I
think thinps are all out of
joint. It may be that my 20
weeks in three hospitals has so
upset me that I can neither see
nor think as is customary, so,
then, I think I had better get
a bag of peanuts and offer
peanuts for sale so that I may
contact the real commonsense
of the neighborhood.
The
County Agents
Column
CROP MEETING
Thursday, February 13. Make
that your lucky day, if you’re
farming this year. Get the
latest know-how on Crop Pro
duction at our big meeting on
this date. Our Clemson Special
ists will be on hand to tel! you
how to make top crops and
more profit this year.
This meeting begins at 10
a.m. at the National Guard
Armory. There’s plenty of park
ing space and a good, warm
Winter Golf
The South plays host to many
of America’s nine million golfers
who leave snow patches to visit
sand traps and greens. The above
is part of a photogenic, 50-mile
strip known as the “Golf Coast”
in South Carolina.
place to meet. A mighty good
barbecue lunch will be served
and some door prizes will be
given, thanks to our commer
cial sponsors.
In addition to our Clemson
specialists, we plan to have
several of our Newberry farm
ers to tell how they made good
crop yields last year.
A lot of your friends will be
there, so don’t miss it. Let’s
get and use all the know-how
we can to make 1969 a good
crop year.
Lime, Key To Profit
Clemson has been urging the
use of more lime for years.
Now, the big fertilizer compan
ies are joining this chorus,
even through they don’t sell
lime. Strange as this may
seem, the reason is simple.
They know for certain that
their fertilizer will grow better
crops if the land has first been
limed.
At a meeting in Newberry
county last week, an agronomist
of one of the leading fertilizer
companies urged soil testing
and increased use of lime.
Everything else you do the re
mainder of this crop year is
limited, he said, if your soil
is too acid and lime is not
applied.
Get a lime and fertilizer pre
scription for your crops this
year. Soil sample boxes are
available at our County Agent’s
office.
Feed Getting Short
It’s been a hard winter for
livestock and spring is not yet
sprung. Silos are getting empty
on many dairy farms and the
hayloft is empty too. Many
farmers are wondering how
their big supply of silage dis
appeared so fast That’s what
happens when silage is good
quality and cows like it. The
silos get empty in a hurry.
And you know, we’ve finally
learned that good quality sil
age is about the best and the
cheapest feed there is.
If your silage is getting low,
do two things. Stretch your re
maining silage by feeding ex
tra grain or citrus pulp. This
by-product of the citrus indus-
does start jumping. Don’t ex-
try is now in a favorable price
ange and cows love it.
Next, sock the nitrogen to
those winter pastures or annual
grazing crops. With good mois
ture conditions that we now
have, grass will jump in only
a few days following a good
feeding with nitrogen. One
word of caution when the grass
pect cows to milk heavy on
grass alone. Lush grazing is a
good milk stimulant, but mak
ing a cow milk on grass alone
is like making a man work
hard all day on nothing but
soup to eat. In addition to
grass a high producing cow
needs plenty of grain and some
hay or silage too.
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