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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
The Government lost about
599 million dollars on Ameri
can farmers during the fiscal
year which ended June 30,
1949. That is quite a sum of
money — $599,000,000. That is
the loss. The Government had
assumed a liability of $3,400,-
000,000 under the support pro
gram, and under that program
had made loans amounting to
$2,179,000,000; and the Govern
ment bought from the farmers
$648,000,000 more, as I read it.
After all the buying, selling,
and all that, the Government
shows a loss of $599,000,000 or
little more than fifteen per
cent. All this one gathers from
the report of (he Commodity
Credit Corporation’s ffeport.
That is a lot of money—$599,-
000,000—but I do not know
whether that should be called a
loss. Years ago if a merchant
sold a man two hundred dol
lars worth of groceries and the
man did not pay his bill we
should have said that the two
hundred was a bad debt, a
loss. But not so today. Today
some man with an acute social
consciousness, (or is it a social
conscience?) will rise up to say
that the $200 enabled that man
to work so that he earned $400
for his family, increasing the
world’s wealth. These folk of
the Social Mind, these who live
in a rarified atmosphere of
larger considerations, they have
us ordinary people so bewil
dered that we flounder around
like one who has decided to
drink himself into a new State
of being. At any rate, what
about that merchant?
No mathemetician can calcu
late the Social benefit, the
great Economic uplift, which
resulted from the $599,000,000
which the Government lost on
the farmer. Surely our Gov
ernment should support the
farmer; has it not poured out
enormous sums of money in
Europe so that Europe may be
revived? And of all the mil
lions spent no greater value
has resulted than the quicken
ing of the great American well
being, through the farmer.
How much have the Truman
Star-gazers given to Europe?
That is what I want you to
think about. Study this: $5,-
169,000,000—five billions, mark
you, was the total of foreign
aid for the last fiscal year—
the year in which the Govern
ment lost $599,000,000 on the
American farmers. And the
previous year we gave to Eu
rope more than two billions—
$2,693,000,000. The total of Am
erican gifts to foreign countries
since the end of the war is
$13,260,000,000—thirteen billions.
And $10,800,000,000, nearly ele
ven billions, in loans since 1945.
I feel as though I were drunk
on dollars, don’t you?
Just about the time I began
to absorb all this monumental
arithmetic, twenty three billions
—and more, I remembered the
forty billions we gave away as
“Lease-lend,” and the ten bil
lions we wrote off the books
from the First World War; and
now comes The Columbia State
with an item from the Associ
ated Press telling us that “A
vast $7,124,000,000 program oi
economic aid and military sup
port for the world’s democra
cies” was almost ready for the
President’s signature. Some
more billions, something new
again.
We are completely crazy. But
the farmers must not be mem
bers of a democracy; this mon
ey goes to great democracies
like England, France, Belgium,
Greece, Italy, while the Ameri
can farmer must belong to the
great and rich plutocracies.
I’ve travelled many thou
sands of miles on the seas, and
have spent many hours on the
Pacific, becalmed, just wallow
ing in the trough of the mighty
billows, but these figures make
me more giddy than the sea
did, whether calm or rough.
Once I was on the Pacific,
which isn’t always pacific, go
ing from Pacas—mayo to Eten,
and the air was as still as an
August night in the cotton belt;
and the gasoline engines went
dead. Just imagine that. I
can hint this delicately, very
delicately: I did not crave food.
Seventeen hours of pitching
and tossing with no desire for
ham and eggs, or liver and ba
con, or hot cakes and syrup,
and with pangs, wondering
about the breakfast of yester
day—well, never mind.
Let me make this point: the
Government lost on the Ameri
can farmer just a wee bit more
than fifteen per cent, even be
ing secured pretty well, but
how much will the Govern
ment lose on all this mountain
of billions to the whole world?
It lost $599,000,000 on the farm
ers of America and will lose
nearly all those billions on Eu
rope.
I don’t believe we can “take
in” what is going on. While
Germany was being dismantled
and cramped and hemmed in,
so she could hardly wiggle, we
sent hundreds of millions of
dollars there. And we con
tinue that plan: We tear down
and destroy what they have
and then we send them hun
dreds of millions of our mon
ey.
Wte are stupified. I don’t
believe the Congress is faith
fully serving America; while
I think the Truman Administra
tion is more unsound than At-
lee. What is still the glory of
America is what we inherited;
we of today are throwing away
the great heritage, or letting
Mr. Truman and Congress do
it
Like k the little dog which
chases the big train out of the
station, I have done my bark
ing; so now let’s look at some
thing else.
Eggs, what about eggs? The
Government is in the egg busi
ness; it holds twelve thousand
tons of eggs in storage in Kan
sas. Not twelve thousand doz
en, but 12,000 tons of eggs,
dried, powdered eggs, held by
the Government to help main
tain the price of eggs. It is
this support of the egg market
which keeps the prices up. That
is just as reasonable as sup
port for any other commodity,
and much better than throw
ing away billions in Europe.
The days of ham and eggs for
a quarter are far behind us,
along with the ten-cent break
fast.
Economists tell us that the
Government bought one egg of
every twenty laid by the hens
—all together 56,000,000 pounds
when in dried form, or two
billion eggs.
Not all the eggs are stored
in Kansas: Minnesota, Illinois,
and Texas are storage places.
There is plenty of room in
Texas. You could “store’’ all
the eggs, the hens, roosters,
pulletts and biddies in a small
corner of Texas.
Governor Tuck of Virginia
is quite a man; he doesn’t
mean to let Labor bosses boss
the Old Dominion, he says.
Men have a right to strke; oth
er men have a right to work.
Whenever the maintenance of
my rights encroaches on the
rights of another man I am
asking too much. The right
of a man to strike is not more
sacred than the right to work.
If we maintain the principle
that a man may not be forced
to work we must be equally
concerned to maintain the right
to work. Every man has a
right to work; and he has a
right to join, or refuse to join,
other workers. If we contend
for the dignity of work, and
the value of the individual, we
must protect each man in his
rights. I have no right to im-
popse my will on my fellow
man: let him work or not. And
let the Government stay out,
except to protect every man
in his legitimate business.
Did you ever watch a bull
dozer at work? Say, why did
they name this machine of
power a bull-dozer? “Bull-doz
ing” used to mean bluffing; we
said “Oh, that fellow is just
bull-dozing you—bluffing you,
pulling your leg, you know, as
the English say. Well the ma
chines called bull-dozers don’t
bluff; and as for leg-pulling,
if your leg gets too close it
will pull it off, I’m sure.
A day or two ago I saw two
bull-dozers open three streets,
a distance of at least three city
blocks. They did the work in
two hours.
It wasn’t easy work. The
Clarendon County Supervisor
saw these big machines idle
for a few hours and forthwith
negotiated for several hours’
work. They tore into tangles
of matted trees and vines, up
rooted trees, and cut fifty-foot
roads. Our Supervisor is never
happier than when he can get
on a big job and hustle it
through. And Suppervisor Du-
Bose was full of pep as he di
rected a fine piece of work.
If our Supervisor had relied
on the chain gang, or even day
labor with axe and pick and
shovel, he would probably
have struggled a full week to
get done what two bulldozers
and six men accomplished in
two hours. And thereby hangs
a tale, as Shakespeare says.
My esteemed friend, Edwin G.
Seibels, understands that I am
citing the play ascribed to
Shakespear, and not taking
sides against the high claims
of Vere de Vere as the real
author of the plays commonly
credited to Shakespear.
The bulldozer proves that our
friends of Labor are not en
tirely right in claiming that La
bor deserves everything. If
those two bulldozers with six
men did the work of fifty men
then the bulldozers represent
stored up labor, saved money
which was necessary to buy the
giant machines. And that
brings to mind that every great
business constantly puts out or
puts up new money, fresh mon
ey, in order to continue in bus
iness. I think I mentioned that
a great Company showed a pro
fit of many millions last year.
By the time the total profit of
millions was divided by the
number of shares of stock the
profit didn’t look so big. But
that wasn’t all the story. Each
share of stock had earned $5.00.
But did each stockholder re
ceive $5.00 for each $50.00
share? Well, no! Each stock
holder received $1.50 a share.
Wthy was that? Because the
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THE NEWBERRY SUN
Rogers-Wilson
From The Westfield Leader,
Westfield, N. J.
Miss Jane Caroline Rogers,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Irving Henry Rogers of 550 Al-
den avenue, was married Sat
urday at 4 p.m. in the chapel
of the Crescent Avenue Pres
byterian Church, Plainfield, to
Ensign William Drayton Wil
son, son of Mrs. Clemson May
er Wilson of Newberry, S. C.,
Company treasury retained $3.50
a share for improvements. So
it is clear that our great con
cerns spend much of their
earnings in order to maintain
their place in business.
In the United States nine bil
lions were spent by business
enterprises in the first six
months of this year for renew
ing enlarging #nd adding equip
ment and facilities; an estimat
ed additional nine billions will
have been spent at the end 0 f
the second half of the year—>
and even that is 7% less than
last year’s new investment in
established concerns. Rail roads
Electric and Gas companies are
spending more this year than in
1948.
If we would bring these fig
ures home to each of us in sim
ple manner, have you observed
the many rebuilt stores, many
handsomely rebuilt, refurnished,
many greatly enlarged? Hawe
you read of a South Carolina
store which has just received
a permit to rebuilt its structure
at a cost of $200,000? This is
money freshly put into the bus
iness. America keeps abreast
of the times by constantly put
ting back into business the
profits it did not spend, but
carefully saved.
When we have a storm and
the lines are twisted and the
ppoles down, and a tangle of
confusion generally, how is or
der so quickly restored? Good
organization, of course, but dol
lars, thousands and thousands
of dollars, are put back into
the business. That is the mon
ey the owners didn’t receive;
they let it remain in the Com
pany for emergencies. So we
patrons sometimes receive much
more than we pay for.
and the late Mr. Wilson. The
double-ring ceremony was per
formed by Rev. Ralph T. Haas
and was followed by a recep
tion in the junior room of the
church.
The bride, given in marriage
by her father, wore a gown of
off-white taffeta with a fitted
bodice coming to a point in
front and a shawl collar trim
med with Alencon lace. The
skirt of the gown was straight
in front and formed a bustle
bow effect and full court train
in back. She wore matching
mitts. Her fingertip French il
lusion veil was held by a Juli
et cap with an off-the-face cor
onet of Alencon lace. She car
ried a bouquet of Eucharist
lilies and stephanotis.
Miss Edith Rogers was her
sister’s maid of honor. She
wore a dusty rose taffeta gown
with a full skirt, peplum front,
pointed back and a short train.
She also wore a matching stole
and carried a fan bouquet of
blue delphinum, roses and
small chrysanthemums with a
wheat background. She wore
similar flowers in her hair.
The bridesmaids, Mrs. Guy
Robert Hopper of Westfield and
Mrs. George Hoobler of Eliz
abeth, wore gowns like that of
the honor attendant and car
ried similar flowers in various
shades of pink.
Best man was Ensign Robert
H. Dunn Jr., of Philadelphia,
Pa., and ushers were Ensign
Dalton Hoskins of Portland,
Ore., and Ensign Bert Wteaver
of New Orleans, La.
For traveling the bride wore
a beige *gaDardine suit . with
black accessories and a corsage
of PinnocchiO and white roses.
After a two-week wedding trip
to the Adirondack Mountains,
the couplpe will reside at Great
Lakes Naval Station in Illinois.
The bride is a graduate of
Wtestfield High School and at
tended Russell Sage College,
Troy, N. Y., where she major
ed in home economics.
Mr. Wilson was graduated in
1948 from the U. S. Naval Aca
demy and received the Bache
lor of Civil Engineering degree
this month from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.
Y. He has been assigned to
duty at Great Lakes Naval
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MRS. LUCY C. NOBLES
Mrs. Lucy Chapman Nobles,
77, died late Friday evening at
the residence of her son, Ern
est L. Nobles, in the St. Luke’s
section of Newberry county.
She had been in declining
health for the past three years,
but was seriously ill for the
past five weeks.
She was bom and reared in
Newberry county and was the
daughter of the late Arch and
Carolyn Griffin Nobles. She
was a former member of Can
non’s Creek Associate Reform
ed Presbyterian church, but
after her marriage she became
a member of St. Luke’s Luther-
an church where she was a
faithful and devoted member.
Mrs. Nobles was the widow of
John S. Nobles.
Funeral services were con
ducted at 4 o’clock Saturday
afternoon from St. Luke’s Lu
theran church with the Rev.
C. E. Seastrunk conducting the
services. Interment followed
in the church cemetery.
She is survived by three chil
dren, Mrs. Marvin Pugh, Ern
est Nobles and R. S. Nobles,
all of Prosperity; one twin bro
ther, Luther E. Chapman of
Newberry; seven grandchildren
and eight great-grandchildren.
Base in October.
House guests here for the
wedding included Mrs. Clem
son M. Wilson, Mrs. Fanny Mc-
Laurin and Mrs. Hoyt Hen
dricks.
Following the wedding re
hearsal Friday evening, a din
ner was held at the Millbum
Inn by Mr. and Mrs. Irving
Rogers.
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
OF NEWBERRY
J. K. Willingham, Sec’y Newberry, S. C.
I THANK YOU
To those citizens that voted for me, I extend my most
sincere heart-felt thanks. I THANK EACH OF YOU.
To those who voted for my opponent, that was your
privilege, the right to choose our officials, at the ballot
box is what makes America great
Mr Boozer, I CONGRATULATE YOU!
CITIZENS, Register for the GENERAL ELECTION
and SUPPORT the NOMINEES of the primary elec
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Or the army as a whole
But the everlasting team work
Of every bloomin’ soul.”
Faithfully your for a BETTER and BIGGER Newberry,
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