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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
By SPECTATOR^..
COMMENTS
on
MEN AND THINGS
Whenever a South Carolina
Company or a son of South Car’
olina accomplishes something
out of the ordinary or is recog
nized for an achievement I re
joice in being a son of South
Carolina and feel happy in call
ing attention to the good work.
Although I am somewhat
aware of what is going on I found
in the newspapers a record made
by our South Carolina Electric
& Gas Co. I quote the letter from
Mr. Theodore Baumeister of Co
lumbia University, New York:
* “The people of South Carolina
— especially the residents of
Charleston and Columbia—can
SENATOR
STRO
URMOND
Reports
PEOPLE
»
Owe-As-Yob-Go
THERE ONCE WAS a time
boa the U.S. Government op-
ersted on • nay-aa-you-sro basis.
as Sooth Carolina
ing lor years. The National Gov
ernment hasn’t been paying as
we’ve boon going, however, in 28
of the last 84 years (including
the current fiscal year). The
balanced budget is a goal which
amny profess to support in polit
ical campaigns. However, after
the elections, this idea is junked
for the old theme of “spend and
spend and elect and elect’’ In
fact, both national parties write
a plank in their platforms about
balanced budgets, but neither do
much toward delivering what the
public opinion polls have always
indicated the people want with
overwhelm ing enthusiasm . — a
balsnnul budoet
NOW THE COUNTRY ft be-
that pay-as-you-go is
and that the way to
— at least
through the new
-you-ga. la ether
deficits are good
for the easwfusy. regardless of
they may uMaa for
FOR THE COMING fiscal
year we’re being given a whop
ping-big, planned deficit of $11J
billion in a budget of $984 bil
lon, ee $122.6 billion on a cash
baste (including Social
r, ate.). This proposed
deficit is minimal. It is based on
mme rosy hopes
a projected $500
for the current
a deficit of $84
k a
ALONG WITH THIS large
deficit and this highest
figure in history, them
for the American
e cut The tax cut
M.
i are topped
and II to feund that this
teHto
the gain expected from the low
er tax rates. For many this wfll
be similar to a pay raise which
the military once got, only to
he small jncmtas in
basic pay. which is subject to
taxation, and the reduction in
quarters allowances ended up
costing instead of helping their
pocketbooks.
THERE IS NO law of eco
nomics which says a man’s debts
do act have to be faced up to
someday. The deficit fer the
coating year wfll be $15-20 bil
lion at a minim am, raising tbs
nations! debt to $820 billioa or
more.
I HAVE BEEN advocating
mom realistic tax rates for some
time, but it would be the height
of fiscal folly to reduce taxes by
$18.5 billion, or the net figure cf.
$10 billion if the "reforms” am
enacted, without a corresponding
or nearly corresponding reduc
tion in government expenditures.
This may mean dosing some
government agencies or post
poning some proposed programs.
This can be done on the non
defense side of the budget with
out the nsceaslty of impairing
our defense and space programs,
which affect our survival as a
nation. It is true that dsflanm
and space expenditures for the
next fiscal year, will be op ever
last year, but so will non-defsneo
spending. Howevef, taking the
long view of defense versos non-
defense spending since World
War II, we find that defense out
lays have gone down $26 billion,
while non-defense Hems have in
creased by $96 MIHea.
THE COUNTRY would be the
winner rather than tee toasr k
reducing government bumeoe-
racy and power while maintain
ing a supremacy of utiUtary
power and forging abend in tea
race fer eontrol of space k tea
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be proud of the record of their
power company in "the thermal
performance figures just relens-,
ed by the Federal Power Com
mission (Electric World Jan. 28)-
These figures show that for the
year 1961, the South Carolina
Electric and Gas Co., was out
standing in its thermal efficien
cy. There are only seven multi
ple-plant power systems in the
USA where efficiency, in con
verting the raw energy of fuel in
to saleable electric power, ex
ceeds that of the local system.
And the margin is less than 6 per
cent in any case.
Technologically, this is a re
markable record because all the
advantages rest with the giants
like Detroit Edison, Southern
California Edison, and the TVA.
Despite the inhepffit^ficlvantages
for the big competitors, the smal
ler South Carolina Electric and
Gas system] more than holds its
own.
This high conversion eficiency
of heat int» power is a tribute
to the compentence of the design
and operatlhg standards which
prevail on the SCE&G system.
It is a featm£ in thl cap of all
South Carolinians^tBid takes its
rightful place beside the record,
established only af ew years ago,
Lake Murray was the most effi
cient steam power plant among
the 500, in the entire USA.”
As a South Carolinian I feel
special pride in the fact that the
resourceful head of the great
power company is a native son of
South Carolina, bom in Fairfield
County and trained by Clemson
College, S. C. McMeekin. And,
like a real executive he has as as
sociates very able men, the Gen
eral Manager, F. R. McMeekin
is also a native son, though not
related to the President.
The unusual occurrence of two
outstanding engineers by the
same name, in the same Com
pany, without ties of blood rela
tionship, reminds me of the Mc
Kays I knew in Peru. Five Mc
Kays served the same Anglo-
Peruano institutions and no two
were related. I began to think that
Scotland not only had hundreds
of thousands of sons named An
gus, but also a million McKays.
However, all the McKays shed
luster on old Scotia, jute as the
McMeekins bring distinction to
Fairfield and South Carolina.
Some days ago I went into* a
Columbia instituton and met two
unrelated Smiths, then went out
and met a Smith next door. I no
longer wonder about the immi
grant lad just from Germany
who walked about in New York
asking everyone he met if he
knew his “Uncle Schmidt.”
You may not know it, but in a
comer of Orangeburg County
you meet the Shulers; in Aiken
you meet the'Gantts; in Santuc
you meet the Jeters and the Gees.
So now, do you know South
uto Safety Facts
Seven states new issue “safety” license plates,
tag* coated wMi a material that reflect head
lights of approaching cars. These plates, which
can be seen from almost a half a mile away at
night, reduce nighttime accidents.
Professional driver train
ing schools were asked
fer safety suggestionst
One: Why don’t cars have
rear-window wipers, so
drivers also can see
through rear windows dur
ing a rain storm?
The National Safety Council claims
that 5,000 live* a year could be saved
if drivers and'passengers ased seat
belts.
Carolina? In Clarendon you find
the Hodges.
e e *
One cannot be proud of the
political activities of the Ken
nedy Administration. I am not
interested in their social ambi
tion but, think over what Sen
ator Williams of Delaware said
about the tie-up between the Ken
nedy Administration and Powell.
I quote, in part, the Washing Dis
patch, the Senator, apparently
devoting two days to this:
“Teeing off with near-unprece
dented harshness against a fel
low member of Congress, Sen.
John J. Williams R-Del., today
denounced Rep. Adam Clayton
Powell, D-N.Y., and the admin
istrations ‘shovelling the taxpay
ers money out’ to the Harlem
lawmaker . . .
As critical as he was of Pow
ell’s own activities, the Delaware
Senator was more angrily so
of the manner in which the Ken
nedy administration has been fi
nancing Powell’s operations
while failing to collect his back
taxes.
’During the past 12 months
various agencies of the govern
ment have been scrambling
around to see who could give
Poewll the most favorable deal’,
Williams charged. He named the
State Department of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare, and the hous-
y
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nig and home - finance agency as
especially guilty. And he said:
‘While these three agencies
were shovelling out the taxpay
ers dollars to Powell and his nu
merous operations, we find that
the Treasury Department, over
on the other side of the street,
was still carrying Powell on its
books as delinquent in his fed
eral income taxes’ for seven of
the nine years since 1949. Wil
liams said.
He charged the State Depart
ment with having had ‘no excuse’
for having financed, last sum
mer, ‘Powell’s European vaca
tion with his lady friends, where
he attended all the night spots
of the European capitals on a
tax-paid junket.’ But, he added
‘other agencies were determined
not to be outdone’ by state.
He noted that HEW had made
an outright $250,000 grant to Po
well and his aides to establish
in Harlem the nucleus of a do
mestic Peace Corps, although
Congress has not approved such
a corps . . .
Williams also reported that
HHFA has made three low-in-in
terst loans totalling $10,838,000
to 'Powell and his aides for con
struction of a housing develop
ment and (he purchase of two
hotels, although the cost of these,
by HHFA’s own records was to
be $1,250,000 less than the amount
of the loans.
‘And as further evidence of the
administrations philanthropy’,
Williams continued, ‘It endorsed
a bill which would provide com
plete exemption from all real
estate taxes on one of these pro
preties as long as it was owned
and controlled by Powell’s out
fit’.”
Of course we’ve had small poli
tics and large politics before, but
I cannot jgecall anything compar
able tb this!
As a simple-minded man of no
experience in these broad fields
of human endeavor, I innocently
wonder what can be the reason
for all.this. The Reverend Powell
is pastor of a large church in
New York, as well is a Congress
man, arid one.may wonder whe
ther the President favors Con
gressman Powell because he en
joys hearing him preach
In two great wars America
went to the support of France,
contributing billions of dollars
and, perhaps, a million men, not
counting those hundreds of thous
ands maimed and treated in Vet
erans’ hospitals throughout the
nation.
In the First World War Ameri
cans turned the tide twice at
crucial moments. Of course
America went over to save Great
Britain but the fighting was at
sea and in France, for the most
-ftPCt ^
And France turns the cheek to
day? I’m glad of it; if it makes
us stay on this side it will be a
glorious thing for us.
If we bring home all the Air
Force, ships of war, soldiers,
special diplomats and hundreds
of thousands of our do-gooders,
we could command that respect
which great power at a distance
usually enjoys.
The truth is that the world has
grown tired of Americans and we
should confine our means and
brains to this side of the world
— arid* north of the Rio Grande.
Let us stay within our own bord
ers. , %
• * . •
As you may have noticed, I am
greatly interested in the notable
work of our medical and surgi
cal practitioners. Now they are
studying the possible effects of
special diets to prevent heart at
tacks.
This, as you. know, is q, fast
age. When I travel at a slow sixty
miles per hour everybody passes
me, even truck loads of hogs, not
forgetting young mothers with
speedsters have urgent or im
portant business? r
“The first stage of what may
become one of the world’s most
extensive medical experiments,
involving 100,000 volunteers, is
getting under way in an effort to
answer conclusively the contro
versial question of whether
changes in diet can help prevent
heart attacks.
As a first step. 1.500 middle-
age American men now are being
ihfyof ’
selected to test the feasibility
the larger study. They will eat
uu u • ^ . specially prepared foods for the
children hanging around their next 12 month Research-
necks—old men, young men. el- '
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eminds me of fhe Chinese Am- over a lonj ; Tbe
basador, Mr. Wu, many years nature of these foods is being kept
confidential, but generally they
At the time a great traqy triad, are ones in which the so-called
_ schedule of eighteen hours fromvsaturated or hard fats, such as
Vew York to Chicago- 1 -! recall, lard, shortening, egg yolks and
Mr. Wu was quite a popular fi- butter, have been reduced. Medi-
gure then somewhat of a phil- ; cally, they want to determine
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said: “I'm not so much interest- significant effect on the amount
ed in the speed of the 'train: I of dbolestrol and other fatty sub
wonder what the people will do stances in the bipod
when they get there.” So do I. vT
Dr. Charles E. Burts, a, great
man. lovable and fervent spirit,
once told the story of a man try
ing to sell a machine to feed hogs
rapidly. Said the farmer ^What’s
time to a hog?” How many
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