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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, June 18, 1970 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina rr "Whatsoever Things By DONALD E WILDMON (Tour the Holy Land with Mr. Wildmon. Nov. 24 - Dec. 3. $630. Term*. For mor« info, write him at Box 1368, Tupelo, Miss. 38801) A FATHER’S INFLUENCE (Copyright, 1970, Donald E. Wildmon) SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $3.00 per year in advance. Six Months $2.00. Dear Daddy: Once every year they have a special day lor fellows like you. They call it Fathers Day. And on that day we children are supposed to honor you. Somehow that just doesn’t seem right. Oh, not that you shouldn’t be honored. You deserve that. But that we should have a special day to do it. Somehow I have an idea that every day is, for fathers like you, a Fathers Day. For everyday folks like myself go through life, make decisions, pass judgments, and in general live out our lives on principles that our fathers taught us. Problem Solved Often I think about what would have happened to me if I ever started looking to the bottle to solve some of my problems. I know many people who have. They used to say that one per son in every sixteen who drink became an alcoholic. The figure is probably a little higher than that now-a-days. But I don’t have to worry about becoming an alcoholic for the simple reason that you taught me not to drink. I remem ber very clearly, when I was but a youngster, asking you about drinking. You told me thr t, you never did. That solved the thi :g for me—then and there. If you didn’t, then I knew I shouldn’t. I sincerely try to treat people fair and honest—to treat them like I would like to be treated. In other words, I try to apply the Golden Rule to my life. Where did I learn this? Not so much from my Sunday School teacher or preacher as from you. Oh, I know you never sat me down and made me memorize it. But I learned it from you as I saw you practice it in your daily life. And memorizing it wouldn’t have helped much unless I saw you prac- tcing it. A Good Name You never gave us children much money, for the simple reason that you didn’t have much. You would have given us your last penny if we had needed it. I know that. But you gave us something worth many times over the value of money. You gave us a good name. I have always been proud to carry a part of your name. I do so with head held high. Seems like I remember that somewhere in the Good Book it says a good name is to chosen rather than great riches. I believe that. As I grow older in the years I grow continually more thankful for your in fluence on me. I cannot knowingly cheat a man, or tell a lie, or do any other thing which is wrong for the simple reason that as a growing boy you taught me a better way of living. Most folks measure success today by how high you rise, or how much money you make, or how powerful you are. Those criteria are false. And those who measure success by them are fools. The successful people are people like yourself. They are people who give their children real riches—spiri tual riches. I have many ambitions in this life, Daddy. You know that. But ranking high on the list is this one: To be as good a father to my children as you were to yours. If I can do it, I, too, can be successful. Thanks for giving me a good start. —FIVE STAR COMMENT on Men & Things B> J. K. BREED!\ We Americans are so confus ed that our grandfathers would be at a loss to know just what it is that makes an American and entitles him to equality with all other Americans. 1 as an old school man, ac customed to deal with different races, suggest that a practical approach to our public schools might be this in the South there should be a complete equality in everything, letting all races to mingle, for that is what our Northern friends seem to wish and advocate. But they only want that to apply to us of the South Now let’s see what we can suggest for New York: equal ity of all races, such as this for example: having a list pre pared to include Porto Ricans and all people of this side of the world such as Mexicans, Central Americans, South Am ericans, Canadians; and then making sure that everyone in New York and Boston stand on the same level, so as to insist on what they wish to put on the South. I must not forget all the children from the West Ind ies, all colors. To make sure to include ever body remember to include child ren of every race in New York, that would include many repre sentatives from more than a million Hebrews in New York and a million or more foreign ers who cannot speak English; and perhaps two million who know nothing of our history and are entirely uninformed about George Wasington, Thomas Jef ferson, James Madison, John Marshall and the hundreds of other great men who formed this nation. If you have not been to New York City go there and take a subway about nine A. M. and you will have an experience like one I had: I stepped on a sub way one morning and several men laughed. I was so irritated that one of the men apologized and said—these men and I wag ered that no native born Amer ican would get on this train within a number of miles and here you are, a clearly native born American. So you see, our biggest city is so un-American that he may for sometime not see a single American; and they tell us of the South what to do! Have we a common standard of intelligence in the United States so that there is a big intellectual difference in consid ering pupils of north and south, east and west? One might think so because of the differences which our government seems to think it has found in the differ ent parts of the Union and it has adopted rules, regulations and laws which might cause an Englishman to think that our country has more differences than Europe, Asia and Mexico. Wreckers may use red lights Wreckers may now use mount ed oscillating, rotating or flash ing red lights at the scene of an accident according to a law enacted during the recent legis lative' session. Heretofore, wreckers were not allowed to use this type light at am time because a mounted red oscillating, rotating or a Hashing red light is designated for the use* of emuTgency ve hicle's only. The 1 wrecker still has to be at the scene of an aemdemt bedore' it is lawful for it to use* this type light. According to S. State' High- wa> De-art me*nt officials, a w re'ckeT is now edassifie'd as an e uiergemcy v e 1 h i c 1 e emce it ivaches the scene of aeciek :t. The wrecker is necessary to re move vehicles involved in an aecielent out of the roadway or may perhaps be ne*eued to re move ex-cupants who are pin ned or trapped inside wrecked vehicles. County Building Permits Denny Collins, Woodland Way eight room brick veneer dwell ing $24,500. Ken-Lin Enterprises, Route 2, Pomaria, five room dwelling, $15,000. Pauline Deneal, three room cabin, Prosperity tax district, $2,700. Beulah Oxner, Pomaria, five room frame dwelling, $11,000. Watkins Martin, Route 3, two chicken houses, $20,000. Gerald H. Kesler, Route 1, Silverstreet, three chicken houses, $10,000. Jacqueline G. Inman, Route 1, six room brick veneer dwell ing, $15,000. S. C. National Bank as Trust ee under Will of Floride C.Bur- ney, two room masonry build ing, “Dairy Queen” on College Street Extension, $39,000. 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