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. Orlttor 1. 1W» mt cumm ctiikwh i t is By SPECTATOR.. COMMENTS on MEN AND THINGS We Americans have lost our horse .venae, we should reopen the old liv ery stables and rent a horse now and then so as to recapture, regain or re vive our ancient equanimity, which was Yankee shrewdness, hard com- \ e t mon sense. We Southerners don’t enjoy being called “Yankees,” though we have always respected the notable prac ticality of our Northern brethren and their addiction to sound values; but woe to the nation for the North ern politicians and their Western brethren have joined many South erners in the most fantastic tomfool ery any nation could practice. There is such a thing as human nature; it seeks its own first, quite naturally; and it cannot be bought. It respects ceratin qualities, such as strength and vigor, but it yields only lip service to handouts Behold our nation: The Congress *has reduced the Foreign Aid about $333,000,000, according to reports from Washington. Wonderful, mar velous, a splendid gesture of econ omy by our Congress. But it leaves $3,556,000,000 as a ceiling for the handout, the give-away, the foolish effort to beguile other nations; the childish faith in their loyalty, co operation and support. Think this over: Our nation is in debt about $282,000,000,000 — two hundred eighty-two billion dollars; and we had a deficit the last fiscal year of $13,000,000,000 and we have nearly four billions to give away!! We have a ruinous, entirely unfair income tax; an extortionate corpora tion tax more than half the profits; and we have vexatious, restrictive ^»nd excessive other impositions, yet we, in all our debt, and in our cur rent defecit, we have billions to give away!! It is a monstrosity. There is something wrong, some thing pernicious, something ridicu lously absurd in the national govern ment, and it pervades not only the learned Supreme Court, but the Congress and the Presidency Reduce this iniquity to simple terips. Imagine a man with an in come of $6,000 a year, who owes $2,500 and has a deficit at the en< of the year of $1,500, yet gives heavily to finance people he hopes to impress with his squandering prodigality, but in whom he can have only a sort of dubious and re mote hope of grateful cooperation. ^There are such people, of course, but what do you think of them? Did our great country develop and thrive on any such wasteful folly as this? Lee County has reduced the tax by two mills (2 Mills) and Marlboro has added five mills, while the City of Bennettsville has added fifteen mills <15 mills), making the new burden to citizens of Bennettsville 20 mills. Why? No doubt public services re quire that. • • Since 1 am not & citizen of Ben nettsville, I can’t have an opinion because 1 don't know the condition. But I’ll read the Marlboro Herald- Advocate with special interest to ob serve the repercussion. • • # South Carolina has abundant wa llas been growing increasingly se rious and has been affecting more areas as water consumption gro^rs along with population and industrial growth. In California, the problem- worsened by one of the driest years on record—is fast coming to a head, and bringing with it a host of far- reaching political and economic im plications. Moreover, Californians are deplet ing at an alarming rate their ground water resources—sub-surface water :'ed mostly from such sources as rain and subterranean streams. Ironically, California ^actually has plenty of water, but most of it flows unusued into the sea. Says Harvey Banks, director of the Department of Water Resourc es: 'California has more water than we can hope to intelligently use In the foreseeable future, but the trou ble is, Mother Nature put nearly all of it in the wrong places.’ The Feather River project is de signed to correct this imbalance by taking water fom Northern Califor nia, where it is plentiful, and trans porting it to Southern California, where it is scarce, and, along the way, making it available to the vil lages and farms—on the dry, west side of the San Joaquin Valley.” The revolt against President Le- guia of Peru, was largely due to a great scheme of an American engin eer to change the Maranon River from its eastward course, forming part of the vast Amazon River, and to turn it westward through the Andes Mountains and so irrigate the Olmos Desert. It was a vast under taking but the country was appalled by the stupendous cost. “Change and decay in all around I see,” says the beautiful hymn, “Lead, Kindly Light,” and man has battled through all the ages to com bat corrosion, rust, or deterioration by the elements, as distinguished from normal wear and tear. So it comes as a natural development that the genuis of man in the fields of chemistry, metallurgy and kin dred science should be applied to a study of how to protect industry and industrial machines and products from the corrosion nature. "At Kure Beach, N. <^., a salty gust of wind whips across the white sand and swirls around a strange- looking object—a rack holding some 30,000 small pieces of metal. Pe riodically, a group of men arrive, huddle over the rack awhile, mak ing notations, then drive off. These men are metallurgists of the International Nickel Co., and are studying a nagging and costly prob lem: Corrosion. The metal speci mens comprise various alloys and anti-corrosion coatings and the data indicates the sort of one might expect for them under long expos ure to punishing atmospheric con ditions International Nickel’s research points up a growing concern in U. S. industry over an old enemy. The battle against corrosion has resulted in some recent spectaculer success es, promising improvement of such corrosion-prone consumer products as automobile mufflers and home ter. I‘m informed, but California is water heaters. W so highly favored as we are. In broadest sense, corrosion is • In the rugged canyon of the *he gradual deterioration of a ma- Feather River about 80 miles north terial * most commonly a metal, of here, construction crews armed through a chemical or an electro- with heavy machinery are busily re- chemical process. An acid, salt or routing railroad tracks, highways, other chemical in the a mosphert and utility lines to make room for cat into the metal. Or moisture, what eventually will become the or an Adjacent material might 15,000 acre reservoir of Oroville coupled with minute impurities in dam—the first major segment of one of the largest construction projects ever undertaken. “Further south, along the arid west side of the San Joaquin Valley, state agents are beginning to ne gotiate for the purchase of the land necessary for a huge aqueduct sys tem, dam and storage basin. “And at the Tehachapl Mountains, a formidable range that cuts acrpss the lower half of the state from the High Sierras on the east to the Pa cific Ocean on the west, planners envision the boring of a seven-mile tunnel at a height of some 3,500 feet to . extend one large aqueduct through to populous and highly-in dustrialized southern California. “Behind these grandiose designs looms a shortage, real now in some areas and feared for the future in others, of a vital commodity—water. To meet the problem ,the Feather River project, a $2 billion-plus be hemoth, was approved last week by California’s legislature after a five- year fight. Feather River promises to dwarf even such lavish spending programs as th Tennessee VaDey Authority, which cost U. S. taxpayers $1.5 bil lion, and the St. Lawrence Seaway, which $1.1 billion has been spent Ei date. Water shortages, of course, are net an exclusive California problem. Nearly ever year shortages of one kind or another plague cities, states and even larger areas around'the nation. This national water problem a metal s structure, might start an electric current flowing from the metal. Microscopic bits of metal flow wkh the current, combining on the surface with oxygen to form the material which on iron-based metals is known as rust. Usually, there must be a good bit of moisture present before an ap preciable oxidation can take place. With iron, for example, 40% hu midity is needed at ordinary tem peratures before oxidation will oc cur. This is why an old jalopy won’t rust as fast in a climate such as Arizona’s where the air is dry, as in the Florida Keys, where the air is not only extremely humid, but also contains a great deal of salt, a ma jor corrosive agent. Thus, in Inter national Nickel’s research at Kure Beach, the pieces of metal are being tested under conditions highly con ducive to corrosion.” • • • The government closed fiscal 1969 with expenditurs about $12tt billion in excess of revenues, pro ducing the largest peacetime deficit in the nation’s history. During the year the Federal debt rose by about $9 billion: and its composition, ma turity distribution, and ownership changed sharply. The Treasury found it increasingly difficult to sell bonds in the open market and was obliged to rely almost entirely on short-term issues. 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