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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAT, MARCH 29, 1946
1218 Oolle*® Street
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
O. F. ARM FI ELD
Editor and Publisher
Published Every Friday In The Year
Entered as second-class matter
December 6, 1937, at tht postoffice
at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Spectator Addresses
Hotel Managers
A talk by Spectator to the State
Hotel Association is reproduced be
low. Spectator is not discussing
the technical problems of a hotel (of
which he knows nothing) but a few
rando - ideas for men at work.
I wondered why I was given the
honor of speaking to you and con
cluded that my suggestion that hotel
managers take a nap in the after
noon was so happily received as to
cause all those gentlemen to think
well of me. Some, perhaps, took a
nap while I was speaking.
The word ‘organize”, like the
words “co-ordinate” and “co-oper
ate”, is being overworked, the idea,
however, is good; men can accom
plish more, usually, by pooling their
strength and ability than by the
lone-wolf attitude.
Simple, very simple, illustrations
fro mour early days at school fre
quently embody great wisdom. Your
teacher probably told you to test
the strength of a cord, then two
cords, and up to perhaps a hundred.
The rope made of a hundred strands
was stronger than a hundred sepa
rate strands.
In the First World War we learn
ed a lesson in fighting together—
facing the enemy with the combin
ed strength of all, instead of being
fought and defeated one at a time.
In the Second World War we began
with the idea of united strength.
Even the enemy tried that with
great success when he used submar
ines in packs, instead of each one
fighting alone.
I wish to avoid controversial top
ics, but may use illustrations, at
least, of matters of current interest.
Wc have and have had an epidemic
of strikes. We who will pay the bill
for all this are in the majority, yet
we stand helpless before the might
of men who have the discipline of
one purpose, steadfastly carried out.
Before a united minority we have
seen the great majority inert, impo
tent, complaining, wondering what
to do, though the power to correct
conditions was there for the major
ity, if it should become a cohesive
force, through united purpose and
effort.
This practice of associating in a
••ommon cause is developing new
ingles, some amusing, some serious,
some disastrous.
I was driving beyond Asheville
some time ago. As my car turned
and twisted around the massive
rock-flanked roads I saw ahead at
a turnout a big truck, standing alone,
unguarded. It looked as inert as
the ageless formations all around it.
I thought of a wreck, a disaster,
crushed men, bereft families. But
my mind was relieved as I stopped
at the truck, for as I stopped at
the truck, four empty ‘dope” bottles
stood at the front, silently^ testify
ing that all was well.
The News and Courier carried a
story recently by its very capable
roving reporter and commentator,
Major Workman, relative to a strike
in Rock Hill. Busses and taxis do
not wish to go to the mill which is
under strike; even the bottling
plants do not wish to send their
trucks or their bottled drinks there
all for fear that they might be
boycotted now, or later, by the strik
ers. I assume that the Managers
may do without taxis, but how can
the Strike go on without a plentiful
supply of bottled drinks ? It doesn’t
sound American, does it?
Just imagine the possibilities
suggested by that Rock Hill develop
ment: If the Legislature should
try to annoy you, the hotels could
refuse to bed and board the mem
bers, calling for a sympatheic atti
tude by all the restaurants, cafes,
cafeterias, drug stores and bottlers
(soft drinks, of course). The Legis
lature would go into innocuous des
uetude, as Grover Cleveland once
said, to indicate a complete person
al oblivion or blackout.
We may assume that the need for
a get-t.olg!ether, an association for
the promotion and defense of the
hotel interests, is clear. Certainly
the whole world is becoming a
great number of groups. And the
lone man, the one business, the one
hotel, won’t command much atten
tion.
If I go into the General Assembly
as an individual I wont rate any
thing beyond a few nods and hand
shakes; but if I go with a united
group behind me, a firmly knit,
group, an alert and fighting group,
I can stand in the lobby surrounded
by legislators. Phillip Murray is
just one man, but he cuts a wide
swath in Washington because the
President and the Congressmen
think he has a great following.
Your need for united action, for
close association, may not be politi
cal, though in this day of priorities,
ceilings, FEPC, allotments—and all
that—you live, you do business, in
an atmosphere of politics, beginning
with your city administration, your
County, including, very much so, the
Federal Government.
The world is changing so fast that
one hesitates to predict what may
haippen. You may have UNO or
UNRA or the World Bank, or what
not among you. Perhaps you feel
about that as my filling station
friend expressed it: “Id rather pay
half that I make than have to speak
Japanese”. Perhaps Russian and
Chinese might be thrown in for good
measure.
Most of you have dining rooms,
some employing girls. One city re
quired h^ir nets; that the girls wear
hair-nets. About every two months
the inspectors clamored for hair
nets, for within two months the
entire force of girls had been renew
ed perhaps at least twice. There
wasn’t enough priority to get suf
ficient hair nets for the waitresses
of that town!
We must sacrifice something, if
necessary, in order to maintain a
united front.
We need only to look about us to
see the effect of mass action. But
there is something else: You devote
very little time to associational int
erest: Most of your time is devoted
to your hotel, the business under
your hand and eye.
The first factor of importance in
your hotel is yourself. You are the
Spring from which flows all the cur
rents. You may be calm and quiet
all day, or you may be beset by a
thousand irritations, leaving you too
upset to do your best. So, then, plan
your work by whatever arrangement
careful thinking and observation
may suggest. Your brain is what
your job needs; and your brain de
pends on your emotions. When you
are calm in spirit things usually go
well; but when you start off with a
headache or indigestion or worry,
everything works against you. It
all looks wrong to you and you go
wrong yourself.
You are in a business full of an
noyances, but all men are who deal
with the public, even the ministers.
You are the hotel—your brain, your
spirit, your manner. Give your
best, meaning be at your best.
Plan daily work on a schedule, but
allow for interruptions; take a nap
and as you doze let your work come
before you in its proper proportion.
To clear your head, bathe your face
in ice water and go off and sit down
by yourself. Perhaps you might
read something. Take thirty min
utes; it is a good investment.
I am myself the most blood
thirsty and murderous man who
never even shot a sparrow. I read
detective stories and get out of the
routine of living altogether. I walk
alone and refresh my spirit. Even
where you sit, close your eyes and
doze.
So, now; let us organize ourselves
our time, our spirits; then organize
our work; then associate with
those who have the same interests,
making our United Strength a bul
wark of protection, as well as a
formidable force to promote all the
legitimate interests of our ancient
and honorable calling.
What about the OP A? A great
number of our people think we
should maintain the OPA. They say
that rents must be held down, and
prices, too. Are these people in
favor of holding down wages ?
Years ago some of our bright
minds advocated the elimination of
profits. The profit-motive (as they
called it) was all wrong. It wasn’t
clear to me how you would induce
people to invest money, or to go
into business without the hope of
making profit. But, of course, I
felt that his grand idea of business
wihout a profit was just a bit of wis
dom too deep for me. In my inno
cence it seemed to me that business
without a profit would mean , loans
without interest, work without
wages, sales without commissions,
professional services without fees
and all the other allurements of the
new philosophy of economics. Won
derful, isn’t it? Houses without
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Better Farming Briefs
Gathered from County Agents of
Clemson College Extension Service.
Greenwood T. M. Clyburn—There
is a growing interest in home or
chards, a- expressed by many far
mers see! _ advice on pruning, fer
tilization, and varieties. More work
along these lines would be done but
for the lack of labor.
Dorchester, E. H. Jordan—We
helped three farmers install tile
potato hotbeds. Two other farmers
put in these beds without help. Pres
ent plans call for a considerable in
crease in sweet potatoes, especially
early ones.
Chesterfield, J. L. King—Some
preliminary work has been done on
a milk route in the county as soon
as the Monroe plant is ready. A
milk route operator has agreed to
establish a route through the north-
em section of the county.
Newberry, P. B. Ezell—Whole
milk and cream marketing is m
fine shajpe in the county. Small
producers are patronizing cream
routes or Borden milk routes and
rent, property without taxes.
The OPA may be a desirable or-
ganizaion in theory but it acts so
foolishly at times that you wonder
if it is deliberaely trying to irritate
the public, or whether it is ignorant
ly ridiculous and obstructive.
Ever since the Communists be
came dominant in our Government
we have had addle-pated and crack-
brained plans to rock the American
people in the cradle of a bureaucrat
ic nursery.
The nation is concerned witn
prices, not with profits. If it can
buy any one of three cars at a com
petitive price, value beiing relative
ly the same, it does not interest me
whether the manufacturer made a
profit of $25 or $150 on the car. It
is the price I pay which counts, not
the profit. But this Communist
crowd in Washington are so inter
ested in killing the profit that the
whole public suffers through
restricted production. On fewer
cars we pay more, for each car, or
receive less value for the price paid.
The Saturday Evening Post tells
of the experience of Henry Ford, as
told by him to the OPA. Mr. Ford
was supplied by a manufacturer with
something. The supplier asked the
OPA to allow him to charge Mr.
Ford sixty-one cents. Mr. Ford
was willing. The bright minds of
the OPA fixed a ceiling of fifty-
four cents. The manufacturer went
out of business. Now the Ford
Company pays new manufacturers
eighty-two and eighty-four cents—
all with the approval and blessing
of the OPA.
By whatever name you call it,
that is something suggestive of as-
ininity. I saw the same bemused
attitude in this State. In a certain
city a well known drink sells for six
grade A producers will soon be op
erating their processing and distri
buting cooperative.
Laurens, C. B. Cannon—We have
spent much time with 4-H club
boys having beef calves who expect
to show in the Fat Cattle Shew and
Sale in Fountain Inn March 29. The
calves are coming along very nicely
and will be ready.
Pickens, T. A. Bowen—We have
placed all of our wilt-resistant cot
ton seed in this state. The demand
has been much greater for wilt-resis
tant seed than for the non-wilt seed.
Jasper, N. R. Davis, Jr.—Orders
have been received for aproximately
70 cows for farmers to supply milk
to a new route established by Co
burg Dairies. Plans for dairy
barns have been furnished to 14
farmers during the month.
Calhoun, O. W. Cain.—At the T. C.
Moss annual Poland China sale on
February 6, 30 bred gilts sold for
$4,250.00, or an average of $141.67,
ana 8 boars for $560.00, or an av
erage of $70.00.
Clarendon, A. D. Grainger.—Inter
est •in planting permanent pastures
has been very good this year.
Twenty-two farmers have secured
pasture mixtures through the Mar
ket Bureau alone this year.
Williamsburg, L. B. Harrington.—
Some farmers are reseeding carpet
grass pastures with Dallis grass,
white Dutch clover, and common
lespedeza. Farmers who ars putting
in pastures have more than doubled
the number of rattle or hogs.
Beaufort, P H. Sams.— Frederick
Ewing is very proud of hu winter
grazing of small grain and Crimson
clover. He has practically carried
h'.« large heta of Hereford cattle
through the winter on fields seeded
last fall to tine crop.
Lancaster, T. B. Lee.—Interest in
the county dairy program is being
maintained at a high level. Fifteen
farmers have entered the pasture
development contest sponsored by
the County Farm Bureau.
Berkeley, M. C Mason.—In view
of the feed shortage and the high
cost, the growing of hay crops, corn,
and grain sorghums withr velvet
beans or soyneans interplanted, and
soybeans and Pearl Millet for sum
mer grazing is being pushed.
cents, seven cents, eight cents_ and
ten cents—all with OPA sanction.
Why? Because the dealer must not
raise his price or increase his pro
fit after a certain day. The aston
ishing result is that the same ar
ticle may be lawfully sold for one
price by one man and at a higher
price by his next-door neighbor.
These cases are typical of a de
parture from commonsense. They are
part and parcel of a foreign attitude
in America—the effort to dictate
and manage our affairs from the
office of some bureaucrat. Why
do we tolerate this ? Why don’t
our Congressmen stop it?
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Presents Its 54th Annual Statement
and Invites Your Attention to the Following
Interesting Facts:
As of December 31, 1945, the Company had in force
2,925,220 policies for $324,637,856.00 of insurance.
Of the Company’s $19,746,896.49 assets, 32 per cent
was invested in United States Government securities—
41 per cent in municipal, railroad and utility bonds—5
per cent in mortgage loans, which is evidence that these
funds are contributing daily to the maintenance, im
provement, and progress of your community, its rail-
xoads, schools, highways, public utilities and homes.
Not a single investment is in default as to principal or
interest.
The Company has over and above all liabilities (in
cluding reserve liability) $7,462,908,56 for the addi
tional protection of policyholders. For each $1.00 of
liability, it had $1.61 in assets of proved quality.
The Company, during 1945, increased the policies
in number by 311,147 and the amount of insurance by
$72,494,455.00—increased its assets by $5,007,150.62
— paid beneficiaries of the deceased policy-holders
$1,868,464.00—paid living policy-holders in sickness
and accident claims $3,109,937.87—gave employment
directly to more than 2,300 persons.
Financial Statement
December 31, 1945 • Compiled from Annual Report filed with Insurance Departments
ADMITTED ASSETS
U. S. Government Securities $ 6,402,544.00
State, County and Municipal Bonds . . . 5,681,680.55
Railroad and Utility Bonds 2,433,585.33
Stocks 1,669,754.00
Mortgages (First liens) 1,042,945.81
Real Estate (Home Office) 306,587.63
Cash 1,958,898.72
Interest due and accrued 121,057.75
Premiums in course of collection .... . 129,842.70
Total admitted Assets $19,746,896.49
LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS
Policy Reserves $10,286,562.80
Reserve for Sickness and Accident Claims . 208,182.55
Death Claims Reported but pending proof . 68,958.75
Reserve for Unreported Claims 50,000.00
Premiums paid in advance 525,805.23
Estimated amount due or accrued for taxes 327,905.54
Reserve for payment to inactive employees 401,593.40
Miscellaneous liabilities 414,979.66
Total liabilities except capital $12,283,987.93
Voluntary contingency Reserves, surplus funds, and capital for further protection of policyholders.
General Contingency Reserve $ 1,200,000.00
Morbidity Fluctuation Reserve 250,000.00
Unassigned Surplus Funds 3,012,908.56
Capital Stock t. .. 3,000,000.00
$ 7,462.908.56
$19,746,896.49
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