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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1949
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
What’s going on in South
Carolina? Well, in the politi
cal field we are observing, just
looking around. The overwhel
ming call has not been heard,
though many are listening in
tently. There may be murmurs,
a still, small voice, perhaps,
but the aspirants have ampli
fiers more powerful than those
in a radio station, and with
these acute aids to hearing the
softest trickle sounds like a
mountain torrent.
In other fields we are pro
gressing What do you think of
this item? — “South Carolina
ranked second in the nation in
‘value added by manufacture,’
the census of manufacturers
shows. South Carolina’s in
crease from 1939 to 1947, in
value added by manufacture,
was 370 per cent. Between 1939
and 1947 the number of pro
duction workers in this state
increased 50,000 to a total of
40 per cent increase. The big
gest job provider for South
Carolina’s 189,000 factory em
ployees was the textile indus
try, which accounted for 65.9
per ent. Next in line were
lumber, 11.5 per cent; food 4.3
per cent, and paper, 3.1 per ct.
That is something to think
about. We enjoy our politics,
but this is the news which
counts most, or this is the ham-
and egg phase of our living.
In the same paper, on the
same page, I read that South
ern Cotton mills paid wage
rates as high as ninety four
cents an hour in 1948. I note
also that there was in increase
of five per cent in the Southern
scale, whereas New England
had no increase.
You have read of the cam
paign to have congress raise
the minimum rate to “seventy-
five cents an hour. The mills
have been paying more than
75 cents, but that is no argu
ment for a law establishing 75
cents as the minimum.
Although I am sure that this
is not properly within the
scope of the Federal govern
ment, or even the State gov
ernment, I am arguing the
point now as to the economic
asppect of the question. Wages
are not the concern of any
government; the workers are
organized and can negotiate
for wages and conditions of
work. The government should
hold the balance so that equal
ly before the law is maintain
ed. That is all.
When industries flourish, the
mills pay what they can, be
cause their prosperity depends
upon sales, on production. Mills
and farmers and offices ara
alike in this; they want all
the help they can use profit
ably; and all pay as much as
their business will permit if
necessary to get the help. So,
when the mills can sell their
output at good prices they pay
high wages, when the sales fall
off and prices go down the
mills will close rather than
operate at a loss.
Only the government can
spend and spend without limit,
because it can tax and tax to
cover up its losses, its ignor
ance and its blundering. Private
business cannot do that. A mill
can easily have a weekly pay
roll of fifty thousand dollars.
In four weeks that would be
$200,000. If we add the other
items of operation for a month
the cost of operating during
four weeks might be $300,000.
Where would the mill find the
$300,000, if business falls down?
There are not many banks that
will lend $300,000 when the
mill is virtually at a standstill.
Bankers are not easy about
lending money in dull times.
They can’t afford to take long
chances with their depositor’s
money.
You’ve heard it said that a
banker will lend you money
when you don’t need it, but
will freeze you out when you
do need it. That is a sort of
misleading statement, a half-
truth. But it really means this
—the banker will lend money
when he sees some reasonable
prospect of repayment. That,
of course is his business. But
he isn’t likely to lend you mon
ey when there is no security
and no liklihood of repayment.
The banker maintains the same
attitude toward big business
that he maintains toward you
and me. He doesn’t operate a
Welfare Department or a Gov
ernment agency.
If a law should require in
dustry to pay a high minimum
.wage industry will have to
suspend work when it cannot
pay that wage and earn a prof
it. That is commonsense; it
cannot draw on the air or
hake the trees for money.
When a mill closes who prif-
jts? Does idleness pay the
worker?
There is one scource of help
for an industry during a dull
time: its reserves, its surplus,
unpaid profits saved over the
years. That surplus is money
which belongs to the stock
holders; it is the profit which
belongs to trem but was never
paid to trem. Now, in emerg
ency, it is drawn on for wages,
to keep the organization to
gether when the sales do not
cover the cost of • operating.
All big enterprises have these
surpluses, the money which
should have been paid to the
owners of the business. Read
the bank statement. You see
these items: Capital $100,000;
surplus $50,000; reserved for
contingencies $10,000. What
does that mean? Nowadays we
have invented something else—
Capital Surplus. But for illus
tration, the firgures I’ve used
mean that the bank did not
pay all the profits to the men
who own the bank; it held
back a part, which became
surplus, etc.
Now you and I in our small
way can get the real feeling
of that if some one were to
hold out a half of our pay and
call it our surplus. It might
sound imposing: John Doe
Clerk. Salary $175 a month,
surplus $50. Wife couldn’t use
that surplus on a fur, nor
daughter on a trousseau, nor
son on a car. But there it
stands.
In almost every business of
any size the management
holds back part of the profits.
Later that money is used as
a cushion against shocks and
losses.
This so-called surplus is
just as much the stockholder’s
money, the profit due him, as
is a bail of cotton the property
of the farmer. If somebody
would take half of the farmer’s
crop and hold it in his name
then the farmer might have
the same kind of surplus,
though the farmer couldn’t use
it to pay for his tractor.
Other wonder drugs have
come to my attention. We’ve
had penicillin and streptomysin
and Chloromycetin. I wonder
how much more wonderful they
are than calomel and quinine.
I need not go so far back as
to talk about portafillin, blue
mass, rhubarb, ipecac and
other delights of one’s child
hood, not forgetting syrup of
squills. But in the family of
anti-biotics we must list other
products of mold. I wonder
how valuable the blue mold
will become some day. Today
it drives the tobacco farmer
into a mild frenzy every Spring.
Some day he may plant to
bacco just to attract or deve
lop blue mold and sell the
blue mold for fabulous prices.
Frankly, I’m just speculating
wildly, though you never can
tell.
Now we find Aureomycin and
Bacitracin. What are they good
for?
Three powerful new dis
ease fighters are rolling into
mass production. Like famed
penicillin and streptomycin,
these new “wonder drugs” are
produced from molds. Drug
men call them “anti-biotics and
aureomycin. One of the first
triumphs scored by aureomycin
was to cure a small boy living
near the Lederle plant at Pearl
River, N. Y., who was afflicted
with a case of Rocky Mountain
spotted fever. This rickettsiae-
caused disease formerly killed
one ot every five suffers and
no effective treatment was
known.
Aureomycin cured in a week
an employe of the American
Cyanamid Co., who came down
with a case of Friedlander’s
pnuemonia; this malady, re
sistant to penicillin and sulfa,
has up to now been fatal in
about 95 percent of all cases.
The list of ailments against
which aureomycin gets results
is now long and growing stead
ily. The drug has successfully
treated parrot fever (psitta
cosis). rabbit fever (tularemia),
a wide variety of skin dieseses
including impetigo, and many
“strep” infections which are
unaffected by either penicillin
or streptomycin. It appears to
be one of the most effective
drugs yet used to treat undu-
lant fever, which is transmitted
in the milk of infected cows.
Among the advantages of the
drug are greater potency and
speed than penicillin in acting
against certain diseases. It can
also be given by mouth, an
advantage over the injection
method generally used for ad
ministering penicillin. When
penicillin is given orally, much
larger doses are needed because
its strength is partially dissi
pated in the stomach.
Bacitracin is taken by mouth
in capsules and lozenges—with
nose drops available soon, and
seems to have no ill after-ef
fects. Although it has not scor
ed the dramatic results of
aureomycin, it appears to have
a number of special uses.
Its nost remarkable feat
so far has been to cure amoe
bic dysentery, a disease of the
intestines widely prevalent in
the southern states as well as
tropical countries. The drug
has demonstrated another in
teresting value in apparently
shortening the duration of a
head cold. It does not attack
the virus which causes the
cold originally but wars on the
germs that follow the virus and
cause a cold to drag on for
weeks. Still another important
use for bacitracin is in curing,
as an ointment, various skin
infections such as boils, acne,
carbuncles and impetigo. It
also provides an effective treat
ment for infected wounds and
acute cases of “pink eye” of
conjunctivitis.
Nearly every month research
scientists come up with a new
anti-biotic drug to be further
explored in the commercial
laboratories and clinics. One,
called mycomycin, has acted
against virulent tuberculosis
in test tubes so far. Another,
named borrelindin, in early
experiments appears to step up
the effectiveness of penicillin
against certain diseases in
CENSUS EXPECTED TO
SHOW 150.000,000
Washington, July 31 —. The
Census Bureau tonight was
busy laying the groundwork
for the biggest nose-counting in
the nation’s history—a $70,000,-
000 project which may have
an important bearing on thq
way you live.
It is the government’s de
cennial census, a once-every-10
years operation in which an
army of 150,000 canvassers will
cover every household in the
nation and its possessions.
When it’s all over, the Cen
sus Bureau expects to know
how many people there are in
the nation, how and where
they live, what they do for a
living, and scores of other
facts that have a direct bear
ing on American economic and
social life.
Census bureau officials esti
mate the population of con
tinental United States will top
150,000,000 in 1950. In the last
official census nine years ago
it was 131,662,275.
Officials believe this will be
the first census to show a fe
male majority in the United
States. Men had the edge in
1940 by about 500,000, but 1945
estimates showed that the wo
men had gained a majority of
some 300,000.
In addition to the 150,000
enumerators, who will earn an
average of $10 a day for a
month or two, the Census Bu
reau expects to bring its Wash
ington staff of 3,000 up to 10,-
000 to correlate the informa
tion.
They will be aided by com
plex machines, punch cards
and other modern methods of
analyzing information. Census
Bureau employes will work in-
animals. Drug makers are not
afraid the newcomers will
shove established ones off the
map. Penicillin is now being
made at the rate of 60,000
pounds yearly and output is
steadily increasing. About
24,000 pounds of streptomycin
are being turned out annually.
Meanwhile, the sulfa drugs, the
first weapons to be found
against pneumonia and blood
poisoning, are selling at the
rate of 6 million pounds a year
compared with less than 2
million pounds yearly before
the war.
In the mystery of the Uni
verse so much is hidden. Provi
dence lights the way as we are
psepared to read the signs and
walk in the way.
to 1953 analyzing and publish
ing their findings.
While the whole job will
cost about $70,000,000 only $40,
000,000 of it has been appro
priated by Congress. The rest
must be made available later.
The Census Bureau has un
til December 1, 1950, to report
to the President on the popu
lation of each of the 48 states
and the possessions. The Pres
ident then must report the
findings to Congress in Janu
ary, and Congress will have
15 days to decide whether they
want to increase the size of
the House of Representatives.
Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions
CARTER’S
Day Phone 719 — Night 6212
ICE COLD
Watermelons
FARMERS
Ice and Fuel Co
Phone 155
THE BEST PLACE
FOR
Buick & Chevrolet Service
is
Davis Motor Company
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1515-1517 Main Street
WOOD is still the favorite of HomeBuilders
Forests provided materials for the rude huts of the first colonists
and the log cabins of west-moving pioneers. As America’s forest
| industries grew, the woodlands furnished material for classic man
sions, picturesque town houses and attractive cottages. The abund
ance of our forests gave the world a new architecture. After 300
years, many descendants of these pioneer builders are still living in
these houses. • Today’s builders are converting the produce of our
forests into modern homes of charm and utility unmatched elsewhere
in the world today.
So that tomorrow’s generations may enjoy the advantages of an
adequate supply of wood, America’s forest products industries stress
the .fact that trees are a crop. By managing our lands as we do to
grow corn or cotton, we may enjoy an abundance of wood—forever.
Chapman Lumber Co.
PARKING METERS
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stealing 33 parking meters. Said the culprit, “I
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