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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
There are many kinds
English. English, as we Am
ericans know it, is not exact
ly the same as the English of
Oxford; nor is the English of
Oxford just like the language
of Treadneedle Street, London.
The English of Oxford and the
English of Harvard may have
close kinship, though both lack
the charm of Charleston’s Eng
lish.
No one can say that English
is English, for even discount
ing the influence of the Bow
ery on American speech, we
still have baseball language,
football speech, street slang,
school and college distortions
and automobile perversions.
But, as a great admirer of Co
lumbia, I protest against a
market report of last week.
Few words were used, but how
arresting was this item; “Co
lumbia eggs stronger.” A par
ticularly unhappy characteriza
tion, even if true. I felt reas
sured, however, when I read |
“Orangeburg hogs steady and
unchanged”—nice, reliable, de
pendable creatures, not moody
and fickle nor affected by ev
ery breeze, but firm, staunch,
unwavering, like old Stonewall
at Bull Run.
Glancing over the report of
the New York Stock Exchange
one read “Prices Scrambled.”
We Americans play with
words; words are in fashion,
just as wear-nothing clothing is
becoming the vogue. Several
years ago nearly every speak
er and writer “co-ordinated”
all the time. We next “im
plemented” — speakers urged
that we implement this or that.
Now we are “integrating.” An
Englishman coming here for a
visit might find himself con
fused by our magic of expres
sion, about like the subject of
his Majesty who asked what
disposition would be made of
of i thousands of tomatoes ripening
rapidly. When told that we
eat what we can and can what
we can’t he was hopelessly be
mused, at this American mode
of expression, for he would
have said “We eat what we
can and tin what we carn’t.”
Imagine what an Oxford don
would say, on reading about
Columbia eggs being stronger
and Orangeburg hogs being
steady and unchanged. Fancy!
My word, what!!
In the same paper I read
a news item from Washington
that “The cost of residential
electric service has gone down
substantially all over the
United States, but the drop is
more pronounced in the South
than in the country generally,
a survey by the Federal Pow
er Commission showed. The
average electric bill showed a
drop of a shade more than six
per cent. But in most Southern
States the percentage cut was
greater than the National level
—and in all Southern States
except Florida and Virginia,
the average bill was less than
the National average, FPC’s
figures showed. South Caro
lina met the National average
with a cut of slightly more
than six per cent . . It was
astonishing to read that the
rates in Massachusetts. Rhode
Island, ermont and South Da
kota are hieher than here.
leges, and gave an intellectual
tone to America equalled only
by the contribution by Virginia,
South Carolina and Pennsyl
vania. That gentleman said,
“I have sold everything and
am going to Florida. Massa
chusetts is being over-taxed.”
Since then some Northern man
has told his fellow manufac
turers that the South’s prog
ress is not due entirely to cli
mate; but that the South now
has better management, includ
ing better machinery and bet
ter labor, as I recall.
The South is progressing, but
we must be alert lest we lose
step in the rapid march. South
Carolina, too, has made notable
advances, but all the Southern
States are wide-awake. Vir
ginia, North Carolina and Geor
gia are working all the time
for new enterprises, but Ala
bama and Texas are never
asleep. We must not congrat
ulate ourselves on what we
have achieved; there is no
time to relax: we must have
something to offer that exceeds
the appeal Of our neighbors.
Wte have good relations be
tween management and work
ers in South Carolina, most of
our workers being native Caro
linians, at home with friends
and relatives, pleasantly ac
quainted with all others in the
work, from managers to the
telephone ladies.
I have such great respect for
Massachusetts that such« an
item makes me wonde Some
weeks ago I met a Massachu
setts man in a fine car as he
stopped at a filling station. Af
ter admiring the car I paid a
little tribute to the great Com
monwealth of the Puritans —
those who as Separatists came
to Plymouth Rock on the May
flower, men who founded col-
RUNNING INTERFERENCE
for your family
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I speak often of bureaucrats,
but no reference is intended to
officials in this State. In the
Federal and State service one
might say that the public ser
vice in South Carolina is or
ganized to serve the individual.
Of course I do not mean that
the form or structure is per-
f. Jt; I mean that it is a pleas
ure to deal with all our offi
cials, and that they readily do
whatever they can. At least e
hundred times I have gone with
some indignant man to a pub
lic office and everytime he
came away feeling better; he
had been graciously received
and everything was either made
clear or corrected, if wrong.
I can’t call all the names,
there are so many fine men,
but a typical case I can tell
of a great gentleman, long an
ornament of the service, but
now in honored retirement. A
friend of mine was having a
long correspondence over some
point of the income tax require
ments. I thought my friend
had failed to state his case
clearly, so I called on my es
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make. Nylon was aided great
ly because the Company had
long been engaged in produc
ing synthetic ammonia.
I was for some years a mem
ber of the Committee on Scien
tific Research of the National
Cotton Council. We members
were not chemists; nor did we
contribute anything to the
work. We heard at first hand
what the chemists were try
ing to learn about cotton, cot
ton seed, hulls, linters, stalk.
One great National laboratory
kept five laboratory technicians
at work studying cotton for at
least five years. In the mean
time many other laboratories
are studying cottonf There is
a never-ending competition be
tween cotton and the synthetic,
or manufactured fibers, such
as rayon, nylon and many oth
ers. We cannot sit back and
say that cotton is cotton and
wool is wool and that each is
beyond substitution. Every fi
ber, natural and manufactured,
is in the hottest competition
all the time.
would the businessmen of the
Coops borrow just for the fun
of it? Some engineers tell me
that eight million is not
enough; at least twenty mil
lion will be necessary. Is a
man hiding in the woodpile?
So I still wonder why the
Coops want to borrow eight
million dollars needlessly; and
why they want to pay eight
millions and then give the
property to the Santee-Cooper.
It is too thick for me. No
good businessman borrows un
der a mortgage if he can avoid
it.
NATION PREPARED FOR
SOVIET BOMB DISCOVERY
Recently I read an excellent
advertisement in The Aiken’
Standard and Review by the
Aiken Electric Cooperative.
Although I read the advertise
ment with appreciation I seem
ed to see all the time the en
ergetic and dynamic efforts of
Monson Morris of Aiken. He
must be the father of the work
in this State. In our days to
gether in the South Carolina
Farm Council (Mr. Morris was
the never failing worker for
rural electrification.
Many farms—and farm homes
-enjoy electricity because of
the REA. No private power
company could afford to con
struct lines unless with some
hope of breaking even, at least.
Men who invest their money—
many investors are widows and
unmarried working women—are
dependent on their investments;
they are not able to spend large
sums on long chances. The
REA has been able to do that
—and is doing that. I can
not understand, however, why
the Coops do not accept the
offer of the South Carolina
Electric & Gas Co., rather than
to mortgage themselves for
eight million dollars for the
benefit of the Santee-Cooper.
Every time I think of that of
fer I wonder why the sound
business men of the Coops
don’t jump at it.
Let’s rehash this: I am as-
New York, Sept. 23.—Leslie
R. Groves, one of the builders
of the first atomic bomb, said
today that the United Stafies
has been preparing for some
time for news that Russia has
found out how to make atoms
explode.
Groves, retired Army lieu
tenant general and head of
wartime atomic project, said
there was no need for panic in
President Truman’s announce
ment.
“I thought about the an
nouncement for a minute when
I heard about it,” he said.
“Then I forgot about it. I’m
not going • to lose any sleep
over it.”
In fact, he said, he hadn’t
thought about it again until he
was met by reporters at La
Guardia Airport when he ar
rived here from Washington.
Groves, who now is working
with the Atomic Energy Com-
SEES FINE OUTLOOK
FOR TEXTILE MILLS
York Harbor, Me., Sept. 22—
The demand for cotton and
rayon goods “may easily run
ahead of the supply,” the pres
ident of the National Associa
tion of Cotton Manufacturers
said today.
Russell T. Fisher of Boston
said at the association’s 95th
annual meeting that there was
a seasonal increase in produc
tion in the third quarter of
this year.
“There are also indications,”
he added, “of sharply increas
ed activity for the mills in the
last quarter.”
“Adjustment in the produc
tion of cotton and rayon goods
has continued up to the pres
ent time,” he said. “Like most
adjustments the pendulum has
swung too far with the retail
ers underestimating their cur
rent and future needs.
“As a consequence,” said
Fisher, who was reelected pres
ident for a 13th successive
term. “Cotton and rayon mills
are now entering a period
where demand may easily run
ahead of supply.”
The devaluation of the Brit-,
ish pound sterling and the con-1
sequent readjustment in the
currency of most European na
tions “raises very grave prob
lems for the fine goods sec
tions of our industry, most of
which is located in New Eng
land,” Fisher added.
“While it is true,” he said,
“that British and Western Eu
ropean mills are unable to sup
ply their customary foreign
REGISTRATION FOR
GENERAL ELECTION
The Supervisor of Registra
tion has been ordered by the
City Council of the City of
Newberry to open the books of
registration 90 days prior to the
election and keep the same
open until ten days prior to the
general election for Mayor and
Aldermen in December.
Any person applying for a
Municipal Registration Certifi
cate must show that he has a
Newberry County Registration
Certificate, has resided within
the corporate limits of the City
of Newberry for a perior of
four months, or more, prior to
the election, and has paid the
1948 poll tax, if such tax was
assessed against him.
D. L. NANCE,
Supervisor of Registration.
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M O M I . O r 9 I C S .• ATLANTA
1101 1-2 Caldwell St. Diftrict Office
teemed friend’ Mr. W R. suming that the power Com-
Bradley, the Director. With his Pany’s offer still holds; and I
usual alertness he saw through Assume that the Company will
all the maze of correspondence gi ve reasonable guarantees. If
at once; and the sun shone so ; h® re is the offer, as I re-
again for my angry friend. Al- ca li 't- the power people will
though my friend Bradley is transmit over their lines all
an unusual man, he was ex- the power of the Santee-Coop-
emplifying the spirit I have * or a modest rental, letting
always found in our public ser- the Santee-Cooper fix the rates
v j ce , and deal directly with the Co-
' ops; or the Power Company
Everybody wonders how bus- will operate th Santee-Cooper
iness is developping. In this without a profit, paying to the
great country something new State and Counties all the prof-
is invented or discovered every its: and this would be directly
time we need a forward push, under the superivision of the
Have you thought of the great South Carolina Public Commis-
part the automobiles and trucks s *°?~ an a 8 enc y ot the State,
play in our prosperity? This When you can get all you
nation owes its renewed or sus- want without borrowing money,
tained vigor to those who labor
to produce something.
Do you know that our great
industries spend hundred mil
lions of dollars every year on
laboratory work? One great
concern tells of its experience
and observation in research. In
1914 about 528 scientists were
employed by industry in lab
oratory work; today more than
758,000 are on the payroll. One
great Company tells an amaz
ing story: that of its sales of
a billion dollars a year at
least half of the items sold
were not sold commercially
twenty years ago; and that 20,-
000 of its 75,000 workers are*
engaged in making things that
were not known twelve years
ago!!
It is said that Nylon was c
laboratory pet for ten years,
after six million dollars had
been spent on experiments. 230
Chemists, engineers, and others
worked on it.
When the chemist starts he
does not know how many inci
dental discoveries he may
now is how good an atomic
explosion can Russia make, not
does she have the bomb?
“Anyone with any, intelli
gence knew they would devel
op' an atomic bomb,” he said.
“I know nothing about the
President’s announcement ex
cept that the announcement, if
made by the President was
done with competent advice or
by people who know or are
familiar with the situation.”
Asked how the President’s
statement would change U. S.
defense plans, Groves said that
the U. S. has been preparing
for this eventuality for some
time.
“In August, 1945, some ra-
them to take special measures *
to sell more of their output
in the American market.
“While it is too early as yet
to foresee accurately the effect
of these currency measures, it
is obvious that the situation
reqquires careful watching,” he
said.
iher distinguished men said
that Russia would have the
bomb in six months,” he said.
Others estimated a later date.
The real thing is, not whether
they have the bomb or ex
plode one, but how they stand
in comparison with the United
States.”
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To The Citizens of
Newberry;
I wish to take this means of introducing myself
to you.
I am 43 years of age, married and have 3 chil
dren.
I have been a law-abiding citizen of Newberry
all my life.
I am a home owner and a tax-payer.
I am in the well construction business and have
been engaged in this trade for 20 years.
I am an active member of the Associate Reform
ed Presbyterian church of this city, and also a mem
ber of several other organizations which ARE NOT
connected with politics.
I heartily endorse the City Manager plan and
will work hard to make it a success.
I advocate quarterly reports, accounting for all
money received and paid out be published in our
newspapers.
I also advocate OPEN COUNCIL MEETINGS
where interested citizens and newspaper reporters
may keep the public informed as to Die issues which
are being acted upon.
If elected your alderman I will cooperate with
the City Manager and Council in trying to induce
new industries to locate in our city.
Your vote and support will be appreciated.
T. C. (TED)
McDowell
Candidate For Alderman WARD 1
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