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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
How like Americans! The
Associated Press tells us that
America may send rice and
wheat to Communist-China to
feed the hungry- Well, surely,
not just wheat and rice: that
would be such a dry, one-sided
diet. Some bright American
will remember that we have
millions of pounds of butter;
and then we have millions of
pounds of egg powder; we must
have billions of pounds of po
tatoes; and then what about
hog-meat? And when all the
bright minds conclude their
planning some one will remem
ber that we have billions of
dollars and should send some
money, too.
Wte Americans are planning
to feed the hungry Commun
ists. Why not? All they hope
to do is to destroy us. Some
one will point out that this is
a broad attitude of compas
sion. Too broad, perhaps, for
the Great Jehovah and The Re
deemer call for repentance,
meaning a new way of think
ing and acting. We need not
be so childish as to insist' that
they denounce their former
words and attitude; but they
should bring forth fruits meet
for repentance. In pther words
they should break away from
Communism. But Americans
are successful only in America;
and at their own private busi
ness. In foreign affairs we are
“childred crying in the night;
and with no language but a
cry,” to quote freely from Ten
nyson. Well, I’m certainly all
wron about that: it is the rest
of the world that has not lan
guage but a cry, and a loud,
persistent cry, then a squawk:
while we rush over with all we
have. Sometimes I fear we
are over-working Europeans by
requiring them to write so
many lists of what they want.
This whole thing strikes me at
times like the free-spending
home when the new mailorder
catalog comes.
Governor Thurmond has act
ed courageously in speaking
against Federal aid for schools.
It is said that this will cost
some votes. But are we to
count everything by votes and
dollars? Is not there an obli
gation on us to do what we
may regard as right? Nor do
I charge the Governor with in
consistency; the greatest con
cern must be to do what is
Iteb&iHg JttuitatumH
right, regardless of what we
said or did yesterday. There
was a time when it seemed the
smart thing to grab Federal
money; but we see now the
frequent intervention of the
Federal Government; and it
should be a warning to put
the National Government back
in its proper place.
It is proper to ask how many
School Superintendents have
said, m effect to their teachers:
“Write to your Congressman
and to the two Senators, urg
ing them to vote for Federal
aid!” As I’ve heard it, some
have added something like this
—“or else.”
We are developing pressure
groups everywhere, aren’t we?
We used to think that there
was a special dignity in a pro
fession. Well, have we lost it?
Some day some laymen may
decide to investigate our Col
leges and schools—what they
teach and how they teach it.
All too frequently children and
college students are being
taught with accents against the
South or against American free
opportunity. Sometimes when
the teaching is not anti-Ameri
can or anti-Carolinian it is not
distinctly, emphatically for
South Carolina or the American
way of living, governing and
doing business. Perhaps you
will remember the telegram to
Senator Olin Johnstone from a
hundred or more students of
our University, urging him to
vote for the FEFC. What I
wonder about is this: What
positive instruction is being
given to prove the soundness
of our traditions? What do we
require of those who teach?
We do not approve the Rus
sian theory nor the Russian
method, but they would not
let any anti-Communist teach
in their schools, would they?
We need not require our peo
ple to join any group, but we
should teach the truth in all its
amplitude, all its length,
breadth and thickness. If our
people disregard the truth,
clearly presented, then that is
their privilege.
Have you read that our tex- 1
tile mills, our railroads, our ;
power companies—and others—
are spending millions and mil
lions of dollars here in South
Carolina? Where do they get
the money? If it be money
saved by the enterprise it
means that it is money which
the owners never drew out; it
was profit left in the business.
The Companies paid taxes, in
surance, wages regularly, but
the owners didn’t get all the
profit. I once owned for five
years a few shares of one of
the greatest concerns in Ameri
ca. It didn’t pay a dollar for
years to those who owned the
company. It paid wages and
salaries, but the salaried men
didn’t own the Company. A
great investment has been made
in Camden recently by a Com
pany from outside. With what
money? By its profits which
the owners didn’t spend or
even receive. It’s exactly like
father drawing $2000 from his
savings account in order to buy
a car for mother and the girls.
Son is probably running dad’s
car to bits, but letting dad have
it occasionally, though only in
the daytimes.
Frequently the Company has
to borrow money, sell bonds,
in order to get the fresh capi
tal needed to increase facilities.
Do we teach these simple
truths to those who are look
ing out on the world? Capital
reproduces itself in earnings,
if successful, it provides a lot
of jobs. It is no favor to a
man to be given work; nor do
the owners and managers think
any such nonsense: they res
pect the dignity of the workers
because business is a real Co
op; it is actually cooperating:
the workers could not turn out
his product without the tools,
purchasing power, sales force—
and all that—of the owners.
And the owner would be help
less without the worker to use
the tools and other facilities.
There is a real mutuality, since
each dej/ends on the other.
If we did not have great tex
tile mills we could still have
cloth. But what would it cost
to produce it? And since only
a small number of yards would
be produced the price would be
very high. The word manufac
ture means made by hand, but
we have learned to do the work
faster, better and cheaper by
machinery. So millions of peo
ple enjoy the product made by
a machine.
Think of making an automo
bile by hand. It could be done,
but a flivver would cost prob
ably twenty thousand dollars.
And there would be no replace
ments sold in every village.
And only the Big-WUg could
buy a car!
You’ve been reading that the
Columbia and Charleston pow
er companies have joined under
one ownership and have a con
struction program of thirty four
million dollars within five
years. I think I remember read
ing that nearly twelve millions
are being spent this year. Why
is that? Power Companies are
the life blood of modern living.
When ten thousand new ranges
are installed, ten thousand
bathroom heaters, ten thousand
electric refrigerators, ten thou
sand hot-water heaters — well,
the power companies take all
that in their stride; now sup
pose a hundred small indus
tries come, and ten thousand
new homes are wired! The
companies must have a margin,
a surplus, so that whatever
may come the power will be
ready plentiful, steady, reliable,
cheap — that makes America.
That is to say that the genius
of America uses that to make
this the greatest country in the
world.
Where will the Company get
all this money? That’s a lot
of money. It can’t go to the
Government and get a loan,
limitless Federal money, as the
TVA did and does; it pays
about three million dollars a
year in taxes—as the TVA does
not, except a sort of token. It
borrows the money. Well, if
the Company is doing well to
day why not leave well-enough
alone? Because this is a grow
ing country and we must be
ready to meet all the needs of
a growing country. Wte may
have a thousand new indus
trial plants large and small,
within five years, and we must
be ready, ready even before
they decide to come, for they
must know that the power is
available.
If the South Carolina Plan
ning Board continues its fine
advertising; and if all the Pow
er enterprises continue their
splendid efforts, we shall need
all the power that foresight and
capital can provide.
Do you read the advertise
ments of South Carolina? This
should give us an understand
ing of why the Power Com
panies here and in Charleston
are spending $34,000,000. “South
Carolina ranked second among
the States of the Nation in the
percentage increase from 1939
to 1947, in value added by man
ufacturing. Against an aver
age increase of 204 per cent for
the Country as a whole, South
Carolina registered a gain of
370 per cent. If we measure
from 1929 to 1947, South Caro
lina’s increase through manu
facture was 399 per cent, the
highest in the Nation, against
a National average of 133 per
cent. The gain here was large-
due to our textile industry,
which made 72% of that indus
trial increase.
We are fortunate in having
abundant power in this State;
and the new expenditures make
it certain that there will al
ways be power for any indus
trial development. It is pleas
ant to note that the private
power companies are so well
managed throughout the nation
that they “give farmers more
for their money than the REA
Cooperatives^ and pay taxes
besides.”
In the latest REA report it
appears that the REA Co-ops
paid 1.53 cents and 1.16 cents
to other Co-ops that did their
own generating, but bought
from private Companies at 0.97
cents. Somewhere in the West
the REA buys so-called cheap
Government power and resells
it to farmers for 4.32 cents.
There is pending, I recall, an
offer to transmit all the power
of the Santee-Cooper wanted
by coops, at any price fixed by
the Santee-Cooper. A private
Company has made that offer,
so as to avoid the needless
building of' parallel lines at a
cost of probafbly $15,000,000.
And I remember that the South
Carolina Electric & Gas Co. has
offered to sell power to the
Co-ops even below the contract
with the Santee-Cooper.
We have need for all the
power of all the Companies;
there is no need for hostility;
all serve the same State.
seau”—as I recall the spelling.
I might as well have been
speaking Chinese for all he un
derstood. Finally, when the
crowd had collected, and we
spoke or sang together; “Rue
d’Aggaseau, Rue d’Aggaseau”
many times, one man, looking
up to the skies like a Banker
considering your plea for more
time on your overdraft, gushed
‘®ue d’Aggaseau! Rue d’Ag
gaseau! Ah aui! Rue d’Agga
seau!” But the next time I
tried it, with the same twist of
the nose, it fell flat again: a
dead failure!
We Americans, in France,
could understand the French of
one another, but the French
couldn’t understand it! Would
it be permissible to conclude
that we are intellectually more
alert than the French. Probab
ly not, though many thousands
of former “doughboys” will in
sist that we are superior to the
French.
It is very mortifying to com
pose some noble thought in
chaste and beautiful words, say
in Spanish, and hear in res
ponse “No entiendo Ingles,
Senor”—I do not understand
English, Sir.
If we who have labored with
French, Spanish and Dutch,
where those languages are
spoken, have had all these dif
ficulties, how would our Greek
scholars and Latinists fare
speaking those classic tongues?
Would Aristotle recognize the
Greek or Cicero the Latin? I
do not challenge our brethren
of the ministry about Itair
Greek.
We may be comforted by the
remark of the American sol
dier in France: *T aint got
time to fool with that frog lan
guage; . they don’t understand
it themselves; and I’ll prove it.
When two old women meet at
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1950
the market A says something
to B. B says Oui; then A re
peats it B says oui, oui. Thei?
A says it the third time; and
© says ah, oui!! I ain’t got
time to say it three times.”
RUFF INFANT
The infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank R. Ruff died
Friday morning at the New
berry County Memorial Hospi
tal.
Funereal services were held
Friday at 5:30 p.m. at the
graveside in St. Phillips Lu
theran church cemetery with
Rev. C. H. Stucke officiating.
She is survived by her par
ents, Frank R. and Mrs. Ther
esa Wise Ruff; her paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
David B. Ruff; her maternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Perry Wicker, all of Newberry,
and great-grandmother, Mis.
Annie Bedenbaugh.
are printed
on Trees
Whether I can spqak English
like an Englishman may be a
question, but I can’t speak
French like a Frenchman, nor
Spanish like a Spaniard.
I’ll always remember asking
the policeman in Paris to di
rect me to the “Rue d’Aggas-
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