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Thursday, November 26, 1953 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Paee Three COMMENT ON MEN AND THINGS By The Spectator Now’s the time to get out and get business. During recent years we have been able to sit back and re ceive orders, sometimes having too much business. The old way, the way of our fathers, was to go after, the business. There was a Time when we dodged insurance agents, if you re-1 member; and that included agents for life and fire. Now we run them down: we have learned that insur ance is the average man’s oppor tunity to build an estate for his loved ones; and we have learned that it costs a lot of money to re build after a fire. But the insur ance agents were great go-getters; .they worked many years trying to persuade men to spend a few dol lars a month or week or year in or der to leave something for their ■widows and children. We might profitably emulate their hard work and maintain our prosperity by selling. Business is buying and selling, at bottom, with hundreds of other ac tivities closely related to it. Let us keep in mind that we must pro duce and we must sell our product at a profit. And if business slows up or slows down we must gird our selves for selling, and then sell. Selling is an art. Many sales are made without any aparent effort to sell: something is done which acts on the mind of the public. I heard of a man in Orangeburg who paint ed his house when business was dull. ^ That so impressed everyone that more business came to him. i People like to do business where business is being done: they don’t like to go to a place that looks dead. , Well, that’s off my mind, so what have we? • * • A headline in a big daily paper says: ‘Republican lawmakers may behave more like Democrats”. That means the Truman brand of Demo cracy. I think Mr. Truman is a good American and loves his country. He would not deliberately do harm to our nation. And that may be said of many others. But that does not mean that all men are wisely pariotic or helpfully loyal. I think Mr. Truman was sometimes misin formed and sometimes the misin- tormation was honestly given and as honestly believed. Seldom do we find a man all- wrong or all-right; and rarely is any man always wrong or always right. We are usually creatures governed by circumstances; we in cline to agree with our friends and to dissent from those we do not Lke, unless we ourselves have spec ial and complete knowledge of something; and even then we soft- pedal it rather than offend or con tradict our friends. Isn’t that true? The average person is not willing to make statements under oath. At once we find flaws; he really has no knowledge, but has repeated ru mors, or given voice to mere sus picion. In acting like Democrats, let us credit the Democrats with good in tentions; they frequently tried to do what any body or everybody sug gested. They killed hbgs and they bred hogs; they stored American farm produce as surplus, and yet bought foreign produce. They met themselves coming and going. We have not solved any problem, considering the basic problems. If a million men be given twenty mil lion dollars a week it provides something for immediate needs, but solves nothing; the problem must be to make them self-supporting. It is like pushing or pulling a man’s car down the road; it may be a finei service for the moment, but you) can’t push him around every day ! for all his trips. I fully understand the problems of our farmers. When they havej .crops selling at no profit to them they are face to face with the need for money, or something that will relieve the difficulty at the mo ment. # A man in pain doesn't want to her a lecture on long-range cures or preventives: he wants something right then to ease the pain. At the same time a long-range plan might be to lift the hand of the I government from al business. John Lewis is quoted as favoring the re moval of all labor laws. If so, take the shackles off all business. * * * I was reminding you of the im ponderables a short time ago—the unforseen, uncalculated factors that seem just to happen, sometimes to our great gain. Here is a story of oil: "Back in the twenties these oil pools gushed so freely the Osage In dians earned the title of ‘world's richest people’. Tribal income in 1923 was over $30 million and Okla homans say, perhaps with some ex aggeration, that when a brave’s car ran out of gas he left it at the side of the road and bought another. Then in a few years the flow of black gold all but died. Income in 1933 fell to $15 million and the tribe sank back toward poverty. Oil men said the fields were finish ed. But look what’s afoot on the res ervation now. North Burbank field, which had been producing 3,910 barrels back in 1949 has risen to 4,600 barrels daily. The Woolaroc pool jumped from 16 barrels daily to 143 in a similar interval. Wild- horse field is pumpmg out 479 bar rels daily compared with 76 bar rels not long age. Secondary recovery—a term that means new life for old oil fields— plus better conservation and more efficient production from new ones. Secondary ’ recovery boasts sev eral techniques, but basically they all do the same thing. They put energy back into an oil deposit. Most usuai and cheapest method is to force millions of barrels of water into an oil field, thus pressuring the oil out of the oil sand to a point where a pump can take over. Water flooding and similar meth ods such as gas injection are not new techniques; they’ve been used in the venerable oil fields of Penn sylvania for decades. But as the cost of discovering new oil rises, more and more oil companies are eyeing their old oil fields and decid ing it would be cheaper to force more production out of them than it would be to find new ones. And they've found some new ways of doing it. The North Burbank field, be lieved to contain the world's larg est water-flood project, has a re serve recoverable by secondary methods of an estimated 140 mil lion barrels. According to the American Petroleum Institute, "the chance of discovering a new field with a potential of even 100 million barrels is one in 991 tries. Osage county isn’t alone in find ing its fields reborn. Texas has 200 secondary recovery projects under way, Illinois has over 150, and, in all, oil is being produced by sec ondary methods in about 35 states. He adds tha tthe number of water flood projects alone has just about doubled in the past two years. The most conservative estimate of the amount of oil which can now be recovered from fields once thought to be depleted is better than seven billion barrels. If all deposits were considered ’it is possible that the oil physi cally recoverable by the application of known secondary methods in the United States will amount to twice that figure’. Ernest O. Thompson, chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, of fers the spectaculer figure of 100 billion barrels as his estimate of the J amount of oil left in pools which at one time were considered deplet- ed. If even 25 per cent of that can be recovered by present secondary methods—which is not unlikely— the~ nation would boost by 75 per cent its present proven liquid pe troleum reserves of 3 billion bar rels. The expense of finding new pro duction has made secondary recov ery especially attractive to small er operators who can’t afford the overhead of an exploration staff. In growing numbers they are hunt ing depleted fields suitable for sec ondary recovery, rather than drill ing wildcat wells.’’ Letter Carriers To Solicit Friday For Muscular Dystrophy One hundred thousand letter car riers across the country will be on the march the day after Thanksgiv ing, ringing door bells to collect contributions to help victims of America's “most mysterious di sease”—muscular dystrophy. Car riers from the Clinton post office will participate. Theirs is an errand of mercy, for the funds they will collect across the land will go toward therapy and research into a disease afflict ing hundreds of thousands of per- sons, most of them children, who are condemned to death unless a cure is found. The drive is being conducted undre the auspices of the Muscular Dystrophy Associa tions of America, Inc. 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