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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1949
Vhnecessarg Sugar Shortage
In a letter to the Sumter Item, M. B.
Morrow, well known Sumter citizens,
calls attention to' a situation regarding
sugar which may adversely affect all con
sumers.
Mr. Morrow, who is president of the
Royal Crown Bottling company and who
Is well known in Camden, is naturally in
terested in the sugar situation, but, os he
says, not only the soft drink industry should
be interested in but every one else since
everybody uses sugar.
“The world has produced this year the
greatest sugar o»utput in history, yet, para
doxically, our own supplies in this country
have been held down throughout the year
to a hand-to-mouth basis," says Mr. Mor
row. “The Secretary of Agriculture—
through his power under the Sugar Act
to set up marketing limits—has in effect
so throttled the flow of sugar into our
markets as to force a very serious drain
on our reserves."
Then the Sumter man makes this very
alarming statement:
“Recent government figures show
that stocks of raw and refinod sugar
this year have been substantially
below thoee carried in IMS and bd-
low even thoee in 1M7, when sugar
was still being officially rationed.
What is particularly alarming is that
most of the Cuban sugar to which we
have traditionally looked to get uf out
of tight spots has boon sold in world
markets. Hence when we turn to the
Cuban sugar bowl to fill our own, wo
shall find that it, too, is practically
empty. ^ . .. t .... . •
“Furthermore the problem is not mere
ly to get through this calendar year which
is the basis for current administration of
the Sugar Act; it is also to assure adequate
future supplies. Unless we end the year
with a sufficient carryover there will be
no sugar to meet our normal requirements
during January and February, the ‘dead*
months during which Cuba's new crops are
ground and sent on their way to American
markets."
Mr. Morrow then goes on to explain the
present situation which he says was
brought on by the Secretary of Agricul
ture underestimating our sugar require
ments by over a quarter of a million tons.
He first estimated that we would require
7,280,000 tons and not until September
13, did he raise it to 7,500,000 tons. In
the meantime our consumption of sugar
had suBstantally increased over last year’s
rate and the most recent figures show that
up to Sept. 24, we had used some 260,000
tons more than we had in the same period
last year.
At the same time, Mr. Morrow says
that the Secretary has been equally slow
in adjusting for production deficits that
have developed in several of the producing
areas upon which we depend for our sugar
supplies. The delay has stimulated Cuban
producers to sell in world markets rather
than to take a chance on eventual permis
sion to sell in the American market.
Just another case of governmental
bungling in Washington, it seems to us,
and the people will have to suffer for it
as they have to suffer much in the past
because of it. The administration’s idea
seems to be to create a scarcity in every
thing and they may succeed beyond th^ir
fondest dreams in the case of sugar.
Secretary of Agriculture Brannan was
probably so busy trying to push his social
istic Brannan plan for agriculture through
Congress that he didn’t have time to prop
erly consider the sugar situation.
, If you have to do without sugar any
time within the next six months you’ll
know whom to blame.
The figures given in Tuesday’s Chronicle
regarding the increase in number of man
ufacturing industries in Kerthaw county,
their payrolls and the value of their man
ufactured products were rather surprising.
A much greater increase will be shown in
the next 8-year period, however.
Violating Lottery Law
. One of the many vexatious problems
with which a newspaper has to contend
is watching out for news or advertise
ments that violate a law which prohibits
publication of anything that pertains to
a lottery.
A merchant will decide that he want#
to stimulate trade by offering a prize to
be awarded to the person holding ^the
lucky number when a drawing is held.
The numbers will have been given out
with purchases of merchandise. This
makes it a lottery in the eyes of the post-
office department. An automobile is fre
quently given away at baseball games to
persons who hold the lucky number. To
print this fact constitutes a violation of
the lottery law.
People do not understand these, things
and often they become sore at the news
paper. There are some papers that will
take a chance and print them and they
may get by with it—and then again they
may not.
A newspaper out in Illinois had been
taking a chance and had been getting by
with it until some two weeks ago. A postal
inspector happened to be in town the day
one issue went to press, saw the lottery
item in the paper and had the publisher
arrested.
The Publishers Auxiliary, a newspaper
for newspaper folks, last week carried an
editorial on the matter which makes sound
sense.
Said the Auxiliary:
“Difficulties with lottery stories and
ads, banned by postal laws and regu
lations, are nothing new.
“The plight of Lowell Nye, Harv
ard (111.) Herald publisher, is similar
to that encountered by non-metropoli
tan newspapermen several times a
year.
“A story about a lottery is printed,
the postal inspector drops in, there is
* embarrassment and confusion, every
one worries although usually nothing
serious happens.
"Unfortunately, while one editor*
explains to his readers—in and out of
print—that postal regulations forbid
the publicizing of a lottery, the editor
of a nearby paper prints all he wants
about a similar drawing in his com
munity—and gets away with it.
“Hr. Nye proposed, before the
Illinois Press association convention
last toeek-end, a reBohition '; which
would exempt not-for-profit communi
ty organizations from the restrictions
imposed on newspapers by the post
Office department.
“That isn’t a bad idea but it doesn’t
solve everything.
“Somewhere along the line there
must be a standardized enforcement
of the postal regulations on lottery
publicity. One paper must not be
permitted to break the rule' while an
other loses prestige among his readers
by observing the letter of the law.
“Better still, rescind the rule.
“If something is legal—and the in
dividual ethics consider it moral—
then, it is advertisable.
“If it isn’t legal, it won’t stand in
spection in print.
“Most important, small town news
papers can’t afford to be hamstringed
by rigid lottery laws. They can even
less afford the ragged enforcement
which accidentally favors the offend
ers and penalizes those who conform."
The law* should either be enforced more
strictly or rescinded.- It is not fair for
some papers to take “chances” and get
by while others live up to the law.
A Billion Dollars
Are you going to take the children to
The people of this country now speak
of a billion dollars in the same terms they
formerly spoke of a million dollars. A
billion dollars doesn’t seem to mean any
thing to them. . *
But have you ever stopped to think just
what a billion dollars is? Well here’s some
facts about it that might make you think!
If you put a billion dollars together
side by side, they would stretch out 96,908
miles—which is equal to almost four times
around the circumference of the w r orld.
If you put a billion one dollar bills one
on top of the other it would make a stack
that towered sixty-four and one-foalf miles
into the sky.
On today’s 40-hour week, it would take
a man 2,935 years to run a billion one-
dollar bills off the press. v
If a person spent $10 a day, it would
take 273,974 years to expend a billion
dollars. If he decided to speed up the
process and get rid of a dollar a minute
day and night, it would take 1,902 years
to get rid of the money.
But Congress doesn’t fiddle around with
a dollar a minute day and night It does
things in a big way.
Thinkinq Out Loud
Isn’t .it a blessing that motor-
don’t run as fair as they
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like they are running?
This is such an uncertain age.
that yoqcan’t tell in advance how
a football game is going to come
out
“good egg” now, you ai
in effect that 12 of him
worth 75 cents. -
In the case of some women
when their hair
dye.
turns gray, they
Nobody seems to know whether
this country is enjoying a boom.
experiencing a recession or float
ing along with
inflation.
When people make .
of themselves they ought to be
able to see themselves as others
see them.
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The old fashioned woman who
was ^ood at tatting has a daughter
who la good at tattling.
It has always seemed to us that
a man who has water on the knee
6ught to wear pumps.
Mr. Vishinkfeky says that the
conviction of those 11-Communist
leaders in this country was a vio
lation of their “human rights.”
What rights does a human have
in Russia?
He met her in Friendship, Mo.,
saw her again at Kissimmee’ Fla.]
her to Love, Va., and
followed . _ _ T „
asked her to name the date at
Ring, Ark. They were married at
Church, Iowa, and settled down
at Home, Oregon. She left him at
Quitman, Ga.
ths
slz« of grapefruit Ml in Rom* re
cently. Don’t they know that they
are likely to force senators from
Texas t* vote against the Italian
aid program out of sheer Jealousy ■-
—Bt. Louis Stat-Thnes.
Amohg the not surpriskvg dis
closures of the time is that Hon.
C. Watlgren did not forget the
grip and remained in good stand
ing in the “Democratic” fraternity
‘ Mch Mr
TriismIl Mr. BoyiRy mc*
Grath and others are prominoat
brothers. Another bro&er who
has been remembered is Mr.
time senator of New
hnan has been
_ the fraternity
the initiation cere
monies are an excruciating or
deal) he is assured of good years
in Washington in which he will
never lack a dinner and a drink.
Of prominent citizens who have
been kicked out and kicked in Mr.
Wallgren is the conspicuous speci
men visible today. In due time
The Gold Fort
The legend, of
Confederate gold"
son area ‘
historical
of man-hours of
It’s nice to talk about gold
if one doesn't have any of
stuff, and that brings up the
Leland Olds, Esq^now the prin
cipal martyr in the dugout, will
be raised again to lofty heights.
He is a member of the fraternity
in good standing. — News and
Courier. ^ .
the
DrOC€SS€S Ox Old HEBR. v ‘t
p So there’s the Fountain of Youth
coming to life again, and
i are Dr. Frantzefl is much
closer to the secret than Ponce de
Loon. Maybe in the next 100
years.—Anderson Independent
the "missing
in the Aader-
d an for
and
the
brings up
tion: How much gold is buried at
f« -
ort Knox, Ky.?
Your Unde Sam is supposed to
a4,808^87,934!57 salted
in underground vaults. But
TSSLZ FT"
“gesuL—Anderson
deesbe have it all?
Hran,
Their Next Move
“Greece is now
in ruins
and
de
hunger reigns everywhere,
the Greek guerilla army, in
It is the ambition of the aver
age boy to marry a fire-building,
lawn • mowing, biscuit - making
wife.
A perusal Of the sports pages
over the weekend would lead to
the belief that football is really
developing into a kidring game.
The coach of the Kentucky team
kicked about the officiating in the
of the 1
SMU
the coach
Mis-
I U game,
sissippi team kicked about the
elating t ‘
officiating in the TCU game and
North Carolina kicked because
Louisiana State watered the field
before the game there.
Another
stitution—i
nap --seems
got to be gbl
automobile
American m-
We see where a man and wom
an who had been going together
for 48 years got married the oth
er day. The old fellow was prob-
too weak to resbrt any longer.
medical writer says that
many people permanently injure
themselves and sometimes even
die as a result of dieting them-
sehraai And this reminds us of the
Irishman who was placed on a
strict diet by his physician. Call
ing on him one day, the doctor
found his condition worse. “Your
husband’s not so well today, Mrs.
Maloney," the doctor said to his
wife, “is he sticking to the simple
diet I prescribed?" "He is not
sir,” Mrs. Maloney replied, "he
says he’ll not be starvin’ himself
to death just for the sake of liv
ing a few years longer.”
A former Dutch circus hand,
Jan Gerrit Klifman, 50. eats news-
at his home in Amsterdam,
Holland, fvery day. With the
newspapers he eats ten ounces of
sugar and a pound of pears. He
says the sugar sweetens the news
but doesn’t explain what the pears
are for. We have an idea he eats
a pear to make the newspaper ap
pear good.
A communist has no Urge to go
to church on Sunday.
People ought to think things
through, says a writer. Ye*, thaVs
M A A — A. * -*• - * » - » «
fontpelier, Vermont
did, because his
what that
man, evidently 11U>
XL f ? tested, that he had been
thinking of buying her a mink
coat for 25 years.
Another one of, life’s mysteries
is why friends, when they call
upon you, will ring your doorbell
or knock at the door very timidly,
while salesmen will knock loudly
and at length or keep up a regu
lar buzz until you get to the door.
dares
announcing the cessation of ope
rations, “to order to avoid the
total destruction of Greece.”
The proclamation of the Com
munist army does not mean that
the effort to overthrow the Greek
government has been abandoned.
It simply means that the Greek
army, which has been tremend
ously aided by American assist
ance, has been able to drive the
guerrillas out of the country and
that, against these odds, the
rebels are unable to continue
warfare.
Rumors in international capi
tals suggest that the Greek revo
lutionists, now reorganizing in Al
bania, may be transferred to the
borders of Yugoslavia. They will
follow the same tactics adopted in
Greece, try to take a border town
and then set up a “people’s gov
ernment.” The invasion will not
represent an uprising of the peo
ple of Yugoslavia but an attempt,
on the part of foreigners, to over
throw toe government of Marshal
Tito. — Orangeburg Times and
Democrat
The Fountain Of Youth
Since man came to realize that
his years on earth were limited
there have been efforts to find
the key to longer life.
Everyone knows the legend of
Ponce de Leon and how he came
to the Ntw World to March of a
mythical Fountain of Youth. But
poor old Ponca de Leon died like
other men, and just as soon.
Now from 572-year-old Upsala
University comes word Of X-ray
methods that promise epochal re-
"what 40-year old Dr. Arne
Franteell has done to tha last
eight yean it to develop X-ray
photography ao that soft'parts of
the bodyTSw 1 m
_. such as muscles, fat and
skin around the bones, now can
be pictured to ffreat detail.
This opens up entirely fresh
possibilities to ah branches of
e. Indeed, Dr. Fn
medicine.
Frantzell
even suggests that it may lead to
toward understand-
some advance
Kidneys Must
Work Well*
For You To Feel Well '
S4 baon •▼•cjr day. f dayi
vaak, mvw (topping, tka kidnM
waatt matur fro» tia Wood
If man paopU wart awara of how tha
■Maura moat eonatantly ramora aur-
pina laid, onaaa aeida and otbar waata
■MMW Um* cannot atajr in tha blood
Without injury to haaltn, thara would
ba batter —■*—■—-* '
la upaat
of why tha
kidntyn fail
to function proparty!
. acanty or too ffaquant urina-
Buraing
on aoa
ia wrong
tion aometimea
rang. Yon ■
wmrna that aomething
r auffar nagging back-
disainaaa, rheumatic
pains, gattin^up^at nights, awalling.
Why
ba using a medicine recommended tha
not try Doan’$ pilUl You wtl
count
tion
try*over. Daan'a stimulate thafunc^
of the ‘‘
tha kidneys and help them to
-—■ -ft poison oua waata from the
Waod. They contain nothing harmful.
Get boon’s today. Use with
At all drug storaa.
Doans Pills
what a calloused Repub-
one Rep. Kearns of Pa^
to know. Says he:
"Yeah, like everybody rise. I
know how much we’re supposed
to have, and I know $12,500,000,-
000 is supposed to be stored at
Fort Knox, but how do I know it
is really there, or how much is
really there?”
The New Orleans Item recalls
that the late columnist, Heywood
Broun, used to tell of the awful
disaster that befell the little coun
try of Graustark which once upon
a time had the soundest currency
on earth, backed up by a big
cache of grid buried on a small
WilntMl-
Afler years of prosperity,
Graustark needed a little of the
grid—probably to fill the king's
teeth—and sent a crew to fetch
some of it
The crew found, to its dismay,
that the island had disappeared
But as
and with it all the gold.
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real
Wouldn't that be tain«.
ful chance? WhaTtfn^^*
cnance? What if
That would caUfo. £***,
mg or Me Out committee, and
<» and on.
at the
ways a
to let a rL^
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The tone value of four telephone can be measured
only to the many different ways k serves you—4a
the convenience and pleasure it adds to drily life.
by day as the mwber ef friends and relatives you
can call keeps growing larger, and service becomes
faster and better.
Yet the cost is low. Low in oomparison to most
other things you buy. Low in comparison to our
costs of supplying service. Your telephone is at your
service twenty-four hours every day—for only a few
cents a day. (
When you stop to think how much it does for you,
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Some men have to stay in the
A moralist observes that there
are times when almost every one
is tempted to throw off restraints.
You’ve probably heard the story
°f the three old maids who de
cided to be reckless and have a
gay time. So they chipped in and
bought a car and started out on a
trip-They saw a tavern and went
m. What 11 you have?" asked the
bartender. “PU have a sarsparilla
soda "said the first "HI risk it
too, 111 have sarsparilla,” said the
second. “And I’ll have sarsparilla,
too,” said the third. "Oh, no,”
•rid the other two, "you stick to
bulk. Remember, youre driving.”
Replying to our statement that
n old timer is oi
an old tuner is one who can re
member when a town had a re
publican
tribus he
den had a
and
office with
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or
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Pablic demand for
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