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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. CED Scans Reasons for Failures ^ ® — Impartial Groups Attempt Study of Business Flaws Baukhage By BAUKHAGE Sews Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—The favorite game in Washington to day is a new version of “button, button, who’s got the button.” Only for “button” read: Depression, recession, shake- down, readjustment or what have you—if you have anything. Sen. Robert Taft, as chairman of congress’ joint committee on the eco nomic report, had a questionnaire sent out to a long list of business men. The gist of the report seemed to be that there was going to be a business recession, but it was going to be in the other fellow's business. Frequently it is too much faith in^- the other fellow’s tailings and too little regard for one’s own that causes business failures. This is especially true of small busi nesses. Locating some of these “failures" and [preventing them was the job re- cenUy undertak- en and reported on by the Com- mittee for Eco nomic Develop- ment, a non-gov ernment, non- partisan group which makes studies of this nature. Just as this organization was completing its work, another some what similar group was setting a task for itself in the hope of straightening out some of the other kinks in the business world. This was the National Planning associa tion, which is out to discover how the many firms which steadfasUy year-in and year-out maintain good relations with their employees do the trick. Both propositions are highly interesting. CED Furnishe* Fair Reports The Committee for Economic De velopment has for its chairman Paul Hoffman who, in private life, ie president of Studebaker corpora tion. Directing its research and pol icy division is Raymond Rubicam, the well-known advertising man. This organization is highly re spected. It has a staff of top- notchers doing the research, and its members lean over backwards to be non-partisan. In fact, at a news conference called here to discuss the re port’s findings, one reporter be came pretty riled because he couldn’t get Hoffman to com ment on the tax situation, one of the hot-spot political issues of the moment. There are two reasons why CED’s latest report (on small business) is financing, taxes and competitive opportunity. There are very definite ways in which the business man might be helped in solving these problems, particularly the problem of management The CED report mentions these: Through advice and counsel from his suppliers; through guidance available from the large trade associations; by means of pro grams instituted by his own com munity; through special services which could be provided by estab lished counselling and market re search agencies within the means of the small enterprise; more ex tended research supported by busi ness men and foundations; special courses in universities, colleges and secondary schools, and expansion of the present services offered free by the department of commerce. These are graphically illustrated in the diagram. Meeting Needs Of Business But the greatest problem is how to place before the highly-individ- ualistic, hard-to-get-at small busi ness man the facts, both as to his needs and how to satisfy them. That is up to the individuals in each community who will take enough interest to read the report (available without charge from the Committee for Economic Develop ment, 285 Madison avenue. New York City) and bring it to the atten tion of the local business men’s clubs, chambers of commerce and similar groups. The other proposition which Is in the making, and which likewise has a purely objective aim, is being carried on by the National Planning association, which is also a non-political, non - profit organization. The NPA states as its purpose: “Planning by Americans in agriculture, business, labor and government.” Its study, which will probably take a year, is entitled “The Causes of Industrial Peace under Collective Bargaining." The project is under direction of two special committees composed UNUSUAL GRADUATION TRIO . . . Three members of the Sevin family received degrees at graduation exercises at the Los Angeles campus of University of California. Mrs. Sonya Sevin (center), a 49-year-old grandmother, completed her college course in five years. Shown with her are her daughter, Lois, 21, and her married son, Marshall, 23, also graduates. NEWS REVIEW Labor Act Is Effective; Weather Hits Corn Crop Verging on mental and political exhaustion after a bit ter two-day fight, weary senators voted 68 to 25 to override President Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley labor bill. The action, sustaining a wallop-^ ing 331 to 83 house vote to pass the bill over the veto, came on the heels of a final presidential plea to Sen. Alben Barkley (Dem., Ky.) to muster all possible forces in the senate “to prevent this bill from becoming law.” Opponents of the measure needed 32 votes to uphold the veto, and they waged a desperate, last-ditch batUe to attain their objective. Final result, however, was a smash ing defeat for Mr. Truman at the hands of the Republican-controlled congress. Highlights of a tooth-and-tongue opposition fight to delay the senate vote as long as possible in order to gain suppdrt was an all-night ses- ADVISORY SERVICES FROM SUPPLIERS SPECIAL COURSES AND RESEARCH I ■. T fcT 5 enn rrm m SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES zr nl * M m GREATER & AVAILABILITY OF RESEARCH FINDINGS U.S. D«pt. of Comm*rc* TiT BP ::: • ••••• |::: CLEARING HOUSE FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICES AND INFORMATION Chart illustrates how comprehensive CED program will aid in solving problems of small businesses. significant. One: Like all CED re ports, it represents the cooperative efforts of top men in the highly practical field of business and top men in the field of science—political economy; a cooperative effort whose sole purpose is to make America a better place in which to live. There are no axes to grind. The second reason the report is important to all of us is that today more than ever, in a world of com peting ideologies, the perpetuation of our democracy, our system, de pends upon the fostering of small business. Although small business needs assistance, that assistance is diffi cult to proffer, because small busi ness isn’t an "it”—it is three and a half million small business men, all highly individualistic; all as inde pendent and hard to influence as a monkey at the top of a cocoanut palm. And these disunited, sink-or- swim, cock-of-the-walkers make up 96 per cent of the firms operating in this country today. As the CED report puts It: “Small business is more vir ile and more durable than might be deduced from the hue and cry heard for many years as to the disadvantages under which it labors. Nonetheless, small businesses are confronted with special problems and diffi culties that are very real. It is vital to all business and to all citizens that conditions unfavor able to small business be rem edied wherever possible.” The repast finds that the prob lems of thAmall business man fall into four categories: management, of both NPA members and non members. One is a sponsorship committee composed of 40 business and labor leaders. The other is the research committee made up of 26 experts in the field. The idea was explained to a group of us by Clinton Golden, who will direct the research. Golden explained that what his committee was after was a differ ent approach to the question of labor-management relations. PROTEST STRIKES With the Taft-Hartley act In force only a few hours, scat tered protest strikes suddenly blossomed into a full-scale walk out of 186,000 soft coal miners. At least 41 mines were closed in 10 states.. The walkout ap peared to be a spontaneous re action on the part of the min ers to the new labor law. sion during which Sen. Glen H. Tay lor (Dem., Idaho) held the floor for eight hours and 20 minutes and Sen. Wayne Morse (Rep., Ore.) talked for 10 hours and two minutes. It was the longest filibuster in mod ern congressional history. The Taft-Hartley act, which con stitutes a wholesale revision of the Wagner act of 1934, was termed by President Truirian in his veto mes sage a “shocking piece of legisla tion.” He asserted that the measure would “cause more strikes, not fewer,” and would put the country a long step on the dangerous road toward “a totally managed econ omy.” "This legislation would encourage distrust, suspicion and arbitrary attitudes,” the President told con gress. FLOODED OUT: Ao Bumper Crop Experts who recently predicted a three billion bushel corn crop this year were hastily revising their es timates in the light of continuing torrential rains and widespread floods which have transformed much of the Midwest into a soggy mass of mud. Damage has been particularly heavy in Iowa, extending from one end of the state to the other. Flood ing of river bottom lands is only part of the loss. Thousands of acres of crops have been washed out, and the loss is considered irreparable. It is too late to replant with anything except for- Eisenhower age crops and possibly buckwheat if seed is available. On upland farms, ponds and lakes overflowing their boundaries also will cut seriously into com yields. All in all, a bumper com crop is considered extremely unlikely, even with a favorable growing season up to October. Some authorities have begun to believe that the government’s grain export program should be re-exam ined in view of conditions existing on the nation’s farms at present. 1 * IKE RESIGNS: Goes Academic General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower has resigned as army chief of staff to accept the presi dency of Columbia university in New York, effective early next year. His decision to step out as top man in the nation's military hier archy to take the academic post was announced in a statement by Maj. Gen. Floyd L. Parks, chief of the war department’s public relations d i v i s i on. The statement s a id that Eisenhower accepted the Co lumbia presiden cy with the approval of the Presi dent and the secretary of war. His resignation will become effective “at such time as his superiors may release him from active duty in the army.” The man who mapped the strat egy which brought victory to Allied forces in Europe in World War II will retain his rank as a five-star general for life and continue to re ceive a compensation of about $15,000 a year. Initial speculation on a successor to General Eisenhower as chief of staff centered on Gen. Omar N. Bradley, now Vet erans’ administra tion chief, who commanded the a f m y ground forces in Europe during the war. Other high-ranking generals under con sideration for the position were Gen. Jacob L. Devers, forces chief, and Lt. Gen. J. Lawton Collins, chief of army public infor mation. As president of Columbia, Eisen hower will be the successor to Nicholas Murray Butler who retired in 1945 and is now Columbia’s president emeritus. The general has also been elected a member of the university’s board of trustees. Bradley army ground RAPID GROWTH Industry Expands in Far West NEW YORK.—The Far West sec-^ tion of the United States has grown greatly in recent years in popula tion, income, industrial stature and international importance, accord ing to a study in the Index, a quar terly publication of the New York Trust company, just published. “World War H,” the study says, “telescoped into a few years an in dustrial expansion in the Far West which might have taken several decades to accomplish even at the relatively fast rate of development some parts of the area had been enjoying.’’ The war, it is pointed out, brought new factories and facilities to the region, accelerated develop ment of its raw materials, expand ed its power supply and increased its population, thereby adding both to its market potential and its labor supply. With its vast store of natu ral resources and its rapidly in creasing population, the Far West looks forward to a continuing post war industrial growth through de velopment of new products and new markets.” The seven states included in the study are Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington. “The Far West,” according to the article, "made the largest relative gains in population and income of all the areas of the United States during World War II, and has grown faster than the nation as a whole since 1939, increasing its population by 31 per cent as com pared with a 7 per cent increase for the entire United States. Factory jobs in the Far West in the same period rose 68 per cent as com pared with 46 per cent for the na tion. In food production, the in crease in the Far West amounted to 25 per cent as compared with 23 per cent for the United States as a whole. “Continued expansion of industry appears to be of primary impor tance to the progress of the Far West,” the article concludes. “Its abundant natural resources, its cli mate, its forest riches, its excellent harbors and its scenic beauties have been the chief contributing factors to its rapid growth in the past. To accommodate and support a population increase in the future comparable to that enjoyed so far in this century and particularly ill the World War II period, would seem to require the broader econ omy which its sustained industrial growth is furnishing." Historic Data Found in Vault Washington Letters Are Included Among ‘Rare Items in Collection. ST. PAUL. MINN.—A treasure of historical documents and rare books, including four original let ters by George Washington, has been given up by a dusty vault on the campus of MacAlester college where they have been sealed for half a century. Disclosure of the find was made by Pres. Charles J. Turck of Mac Alester, who said other rare items included an original letter from William Penn, a note written by Abraham Lincoln for a Civil war veteran who was seeking work, and several 15th and 16th century books. All of the items were found among the 900-volume book coUec- tion bequeathed to the college by its first president, Edward Neill, who died in 1893, and who was once a secretarial aid of President Lin coln. A provision in Neill’s will had specified the books were to be kept in storage and away from public use until the college could provide a special memorial room for them. Unaware of Treasure. Dr. Turck said that the coUege, unaware that the collection con tained rare books and manuscripts, had delayed providing special quar ters for them until this year. The memorial room was com pleted recently. The Washington letters were found by Miss Mabel Franklin, a librarian cataloguing the collection. They cover a period from 1774 to 1796. Dr. Turck said the “most inter esting” letter was one Washington had written while at camp at Cam bridge, Mass., August 30, 1775, dur ing the siege of Boston after he had been made commander-in-chief of the Colonial army. The letter was addressed to Caesar Rodney and Thomas Mc Kean, and in it Washington com mented that he had "endeavoured to pay the best attention in my power to your recommendation of Mr. Parke, by making him an as sistant to the quartermaster gen eral” Washington also expressed re grets that he had been unable to commission more Pennsylvania vol unteers “who, at their own expense, have travelled, and now continue here.” Dr. Turck said the other letters were addressed to “the Hon. Geo. W. Fairfax.” Wrote in Detail. One dated August, 1774, was an itemized account Washington had kept in connection with a sale con ducted for him. In a letter dated Sept. 8, 1794, Washington wrote in detail concern ing some legal difficulties Fairfax had encountered in connection with a "Doctr. Savage” estate. Writing to Fairfax in January, 1796, Washington apparently still was concerned about the legal diffi culties which Fairfax was encoun tering in the “Doctr. Savage” mat ter, and Washington said he desired that good legal talent be engaged. *1 do not know that more could have been done,” he wrote, “than you have attempted to do; but it is exceedingly to be regretted, that villainy, chicanery and every spe cies of delay, should bring justice in such jeopardy, if it is not entirely defeated by them. . . . “I am of opinion that good policy dictates the propriety of assuring them a handsome fee, or rather a certain percentage if they succeed —nothing if they do not. ’Tryfling fees are thrown away upon a lawyer of any eminence, for they excite no exertion.” Uranium Ora Discovered in Basin of Colorado River WASHINGTON.—The largest de posits of uranium ore yet found in the United States have been discov ered in the Colorado river basin area, a senate source said. The atomic energy commission, it was learned, has been urged to push development of these deposits in the hope of making the United States independent of foreign sup plies. Uranium is the stuff of which atomic bombs are made. It and thorium are the only naturally oc curring elements which can be made to undergo atomic fission in a chain reaction. Most of the uranium used in this country’s two million dollar atomic energy project comes from the Great Bear lake region of northern Canada. Another important source is the Belgian Congo. Open Windows Induce Colds, Medical Instructor Insists BOSTON. — If you like to sleep with the bedroom windows wide open, an instructor at Harvard Medical school has a word of ad vice. Dr. Theodore L. Badger says don’t do it. He says it leads to colds. Instead, he gave the Massachusetts Medical society his own prescrip tion for good sleeping. Here it is: Air and cool bedroom about 10 minutes before bedtime. Then close the windows. After that, says Dr. Badger, just leave the bedroom doors open so warm air may enter from other parts of the house. HOBBY PAYS OFF . . . Two Atlanta school children examine a new school design, built in miniature by R. F. Snyder, Atlanta business man. Snyder’s model-building avocation resulted in this revolution ary school design which has been converted to full-scale construction of rural schools in the South. NO MORE ‘HOOKEY’ Inventive Salesman Perfects Revolutionary School Design ATLANTA, GA.—An inventive salesman who is neither parent nor educator paradoxically has devised a rural school from which even the most recalcitrant children may be less loathe to play “hookey” in future. He is R. F. (Russ) Snyder, Atlanta businessman, who teamed up his business with a hobby to produce a school design In miniature that has since been <*- translated into full-scale construc tion. The feature calculated to hold the interest of pupils is that class rooms are almost as “outdoors” as the play-yard. Several months ago Snyder at tended the southeastern school con ference in the interests of Libbey- Owens-Ford Glass company and came home with an idea buzzing in. his head. “Most kids don’t Uke to stay indoors,” he reasoned, “espe cially when the weather is nice outdoors. So why not bring the outdoors in to them?” He sat up nights for two months, he says, building in his workshop a two-room school model. “I opened up the walls to all out doors with the biggest windows pos sible. And I found that twice or three times more daylight could be supplied to some of the desks than in traditional school design. Daylight has an important bearing on children’s eyesight. “The sun, you know, also can be used to help heat the school during cold months. And the large win dows dispel that cooped-up feeling and give spaciousness to rooms.” Snyder set up his completed mod el in the company’s display rooms and invited Atlanta architects and educational officials to inspect it. Enthused with his idea, he began addressing architects' meetings throughout the state and explain ing his plans to parents’ organiza tions and child welfare groups. His school model featured a whole wall of glass to the south, with the roof extended to shield the big win dow against the sun in the extreme ly hot school months. Opposite, without sacrificing blackboard space, he placed a clerestory win dow high up under the roof to ad mit north light. In the north room, he reversed the window arrangement and glazed the south clerestory window with heat-absorbing and glare-reducing glass to assure balanced lighting. Today, rural schools pat terned after Snyder’s design to “engineer” the greatest possi ble amount of daylight into classrooms are actually under construction in the South. Snyder has a quotation, too. from one of the world’s authorities on lighting to bolster his theory: “If from the age of five years,” it says, “children did their reading and performed their other tasks of near vision in the abundant light of a window in daytime, there would be fewer wearing or needing eye glasses when they finished school.” He figures he may have a hand in putting a good many of the nation’s children in that “abundant” light in the years to come. Personality Coarse Offered in School NEW YORK, N. Y.—Personality courses, designed to teach students how to acquire a “pleasant man ner,” are being offered in 27 voca tional high schools here. The program was started on rec ommendation of employers who said that “a far greater percentage of persons lose their jobs because of personality difficulties than be cause of inefficiency,” George F. Pigott Jr., assistant superintendent, explained. Even Faces Are Red At This Fire Alarm ANGELS CAMP, CALIF. — Al though the whole volunteer fire de partment, 20 men strong, rushed out to Charles Kendall’s blazing house trailer, the vehicle was a total loss. The boys forgot to bring the fire trucks. The trucks had been moved to an auxiliary building and the vol unteers, seeing the old garage emp ty, assumed earlier comers had tak en the trucks. AVIATION NOTES Airport Chatter Establishment of an “air-age" class in Kent, Wash., high school is planned from proceeds of the city’s first Sky Fair, staged at the Kent airport under auspices of the Lions club. Highlights of the program in cluded formation flying by 30 navy planes, stunt flying, an air style show for women, exhibitions of air craft and military equipment, para chute jumps and a helicopter dem onstration. . . . Colorado communi ties seeking airport improvements will be aided by a new state pro gram calling for state contributions to help the local communitities match federal funds allocated un der the 1947 airport program. De spite budget cuts, Colorado still is eligible for about $250,000 of federal grants. Communities seeking air port improvements are Trinidad, Gunnison, Rifle, Monte Vista and Greeley. ... A tour of the U. S. dryland field station at Akron, Colo., was arranged for Colorado flying farmers. The farmers and ranchers, most of whom piloted their own planes, were guests at a flight breakfast after their arrival in Akron. * • • A lawsuit on file in Santa Mon ica, Calif., court accuses heli copter pilots of using their ma chines to peep at women sun bathers “attired either scantily or not at all” at a swank beach club. The snit, seeking an in junction against the flying “peeping Toms,” named as de fendant the Los Angeles Air ways, Die., whose helicopter mail route passes near the club. • * • Military aviation appropriations after World War I made possible the first air mail service, the start of aerial forest patrol, crop dusting and aerial mapping. ANOTHER FIRST . . . Miss Ann Kirk Shaw, 23, of Sonthport, Conn., who is shown at the con trols in the cockpit of a helicop ter, ranks as the first woman to solo a "flying windmill.” • • • Need Small Fields To accommodate the personal flier who has use for light planes as a means of transportation, a “tre mendous” number of little airports are needed throughout the nation, according to William T. Piper, plane manufacturer and “father” of light plane flying. Piper reports that personal flying is increasing in the Middle West, where farmers and ranchers have found that it solves their transportation prob lems in the spaces where roads are few and weather equable. Practical Instructions For the Home Nurse Giving First Aid A CCIDENTS are bound to hap- pen in any household. Be pre pared! It’s a rare summer day" that at least one of the, children! doesn’t come home with a wound of some kind. Do you know how to cleanse a scraped knee? Remove dirt or other objects from, an eye? Stop a nosebleed? Send for our: Weekly Newspaper Service booklet No. 81. It tells how to meet emergencies, nurse a bed patient, care for the new baby*; and more. Send 25c (coin) for “Prac tical Instruction for the Home Nurse" to Weekly Newspaper Service, 243 West 17th St., New York 11 ( N. Y. Print name, address, booklet title and No. 81. 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