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■ .• t THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1950 &un 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Arm field Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS Spedaior How can we get an idea across? That is not the speech of a scholar, but that warding has the saving grace of being understood by everyone. Of course one might be more lit erary and (phrase dt like this: How can we present this sug gestion so as to impress it with force upon your consciousness? At any rate let’s get an idea so clear and so clearly present ed that he who runs may read and he who intended to listen to the crack of Joe Dimaggio’s bat will forget Joe for the moment. I must he ambitious, but here we have our power people, public and private, in a slugging match, and you are the umpire. We wish to treat the “lumps” right—no pop 'bottles or cat calls. The Good Book tell us that in teaching “Precept must be upon precept, precept upon pre cept; line upon line, line upon .x. 1 - irevent floods PMde irrigation water provide domestic wafer Wl provide water power FAIRFIELD FOREST PRODUCTS CO. line; here a little and there a little.” And so it is. The tr.acher drills and drills and drills—and the Ittle boys sometimes forget, if they ever “got” it at all. Wiere you ever in a class dm College listening to a long, tedious, dreary ex position of a point, when, just as the learned professor spoke the last word, pausing for the world to stand in amazement at his learning, a bright lad asked “Well, Professor, how about so-and-so?”, the very thing the profound thinker had just presented so fully, clearly, and 'persuasively, if not tedious- ly. Well, writing and speaking meet with the same fate. Some one will asik you a question that you have answered 1 so many times, etc. Well, again now, did you read in The State what the Secre tary of the Interior said about the power business? Robert S. Allen tells of Secretary Chap man in The State. It seems that two private power Com panies made a contract with the Federal Southwest Power Administration, six months ago, but Mir. Chapman has refused to approve the contracts. Why? This is what Secretary Chap man told a Commfiittee of the Senate; that he was (guided -by five basic precepts in his pow er policy: “1. To market power from government—build' dams at the lowest possible rates consistent with sound business principles. 2. To encourage the widest possible use of such govemmenii. power. 3. To give preference to com munities and to Co-operatives. 4. To inter-connect the trans mission lines of government power projects. 5. To carry the power to load centers of preferred wholesale customers.” When Senator Thomas of Ok lahoma reminded Secretary Chapman that these contracts between public and private power companies had been ne gotiated and signed six months ago by an official of the In terior Department on (behalf of the Government, the Secretary admitted that, but remarked that these contracts were against the policy of the Truman Ad ministration. In other words, very plainly, the Truman Ad ministration does not approve of dealings between Public Power with Private Power. And Mr. Chapman cited the possibility of Public Power en terprises supplying municipali ties and wholesome customers. After [pondering all that, I have come to some conclusions: “I have lived too long. I have read too much of the history of England and America. I have wasted years studying the Con stitution of the United States. I have been guilty of teaching myths to thousands of young men and young women in Co lumbia Charleston, Orangeburg, Aiken, Anderson and 'Edgefield. And to tens of thousands whom I have addressed. We are openly committed to a policy of Socialism and there lis lacking the intelligent patri- otstm in Congress to put this Government back into the true road. Nobody connected with the Santee-Cooper is a Socialist. No A-tltey’s OIL. BASE FLAT WALL one would more stoutly and indignantly repudiate Socialism than my friends of Santee- Goofper. And my Coop breth ren are the very salt of the earth, farmers being our main defence against the foolishness and whims that have crept into our Government. But we are adopting Socialism, while loud ly proclaiming our indepen dence. We who have farm ties are being beguiled by sugar- coated pills, but the nasty taste will come when the sugar melts. I fully believe in the sincerity of my Co-op associates, but the course is steadily toward Gov ernment control, which is So cialism; and' the working of So cialism can 'be seen in Engllano. and Europe, -but with this dif ference: nobody will give uo billions to offset the stupidity of our politicians. I know most of the leadens of business and government ana politics in South Carolina. 1 think they are as opposed to •socialism and Communism, as 1 am, but some of our people al low themselves to -be hoodwink ed by one thing or another and they lose sight of the main is sue. No leader in South Carolina public life has met this issue squarely. We who seek no favors; we who have no axe to grind; we men of the farm and the streets, w© must do something ourselves. Politicians are afraid; let us take a posi tion and use our strength at the polls. That is the langu age understood! by men seek ing .public office. Let us get down to brass- tacks. Why not -take the pow er of Saniee^Cooper and deiver it to the Coops over the exist ing lines, at any rate, and under any condition agreealbe to thq Coops? I am not interested m what was argued or suggested or refused two or three years ago. What can we do now, is what I want to know. If I -waJik into a clothing (Store in October to buy a winter suit and the clerk asks $90 for it shall I be angry and in a huff if he offers it to me for $60 next April? Let’s 'be big enough to act like busdnessnen and act on what we can do today. ' Even though I accept the as>- siunamces of my Coop friends and the Santee-Cooper directors as to their plan I have not the same confidence in the men who have wormed ihedr way into the Federal Government like tenmlites; they may compel the Coops and the Santee-Coop er to dance bureaucracy’s music at any time. PAINT wiiU tUai JluKusuf, JlooJz! k\m\u jiatWai, • 50 Shades from Pasfels to Deep Tones • Insist on ATHEY’S Manufactured by THE C. M. ATHEY PAINT CO., BALTIMORE 30, MD. You can't hurt an A they surface! FLAT WALL PAINT In some counties matters* of County and City government are dealt with as though the taxpayers had no right to know what is going on. Some coun ties do not pu/blish a statement of expenditures; and some mun icipalities operate in the same general secrecy. But there are other items the public should know. Who receive Welfare benefits whether monthly pen sions, or other aids? Then, again, County treasurers might tell us all tine special accounts they have, including, of course, school district accounts. I have seen a political adver tisement in a County paper that “took my eye.” A candi date for. the State Senate asks these questions in a paid poli tical display— Ad: “Do you know why the Coun ty Poor House has 'been abol ished and the old, sack, and helpless people sent away from our County, their old homes and kinsfolk, to languish and die among strangers? Do you know that there has been no County Attorney dur- in the term of office of the present Senator 'because he would not approve the attorney selected by the Board of Coun ty Commissioners-? Do you know that under the 1949 County Appropriations Act the Board of County Commis sioners cannot make a purchase in excess of Fi ve Hundred Dol lars ($500.00) without the writ ten approval of the County Senator? Would you like to have a Senator who would perform his constitutional duties as a Leg islature and leave the adminis tration of local matters to the County Officers elected by the people? ■Do you know what rule or yardstick has 'been used to lo cate the ihardsurfaoed highways allotted to our County under the farm to market highways program? Would you like to have the hardsurfaced highways hereaf ter allotted to our County lo cated not by political boon-dog' gling 'but so as to serve best the needs of all the people of the County? D you .think it is a whole some situation for three men who are aH kinsmen and public officers to undertake to say who can and who cannot be elected to public office in our County? Respectfully submitted for the consideration of the voters of my county.” period of Truman-Socialism will pass as a bad dream. Here is the proof of the pud ding: “America’s electricity makers are betting more billions that the nation’s record thirst for electric power wild keep on growing. .When the war ended ‘juice’ men expected to spend about $6 billion through 1950 for ex panding output. Then a year ago they revised their figures upward to $10 billion for new plants through 1951. Now they’re raising -their sights again. New target: $14 ihillian of generators, power lines, build ings and other equipment to be oought by 1954 to meet a de mand that’s still growling at -the fastest pace in the industry’s 70th history. Thus far in their big expansion program, electric companies have spent about $7 billion—so another $7 billion expenditure is ahead 'between now and 1954. They have add ed six million new customers to the 39 million they were serving at the war’s end. Elec tricity consumptions as measur ed by the industiy’s kilowatt- hour yardstick, has leaped from 190 billion, kilowatt-hours in 1945 to 291 billion today. Optiknistic is Curtis E. Cald- er, chairman of Electric Bond & Share Co. He notes growing uses for electric power in ai$ oondiitioning, electric cooking, food freezers, clothes dryers, television, electric blankets, and water heaters. Such new uses alone, he dlaiims, add up to 3 potential market twice as large) as present electricity sales. Utility men point to a recent survey of the Edison Institute which showed that the indus try’s generating capacity is in creasing at the rate of 52% for peak demand is increasing at any a 37% rate. According to the E.E.I. survey, the industry’s margin of reserve generating capacity over anticipated peak demands, which amounted to <£* scant 5.4% in 1947, will reach 15.9% by the end of -this year and 19% by 1952. ExpansdonHmdinded utility men admit they’re not happy about all aspects of their boom. One •big worry is that they are lay ing out huge amounts for new equipment in times of record costs. But one notes: ‘It’s axiomatic in our industry that we cah’t afford to be caught shout of power. When someone presses the switch, the electricity has to be .there. But even more im portant, in these days of in creasing government encroach ment in the power business, we just can’t leave a vacuum foy the further spread of govern ment power.’ Thus far in 1950, power sales are fulfilling the hopes of the optimiisits. Latest monthly fig ures show re-Hdential sales of electricity are running 14.9% ahead of a year ago, while com mercial sales are up 7.2% and For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio GEO. N. MARTIN Radio Service SALES and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Opposite County Library 24 HOURS SERVICE Telephone 311W DO YOU WANT $1000 ? BAR-B-Q WHEN? 4th of JULY ADAMS CAMP OF COURSE 11:00 AJ4.—11:00 PJM. Pork, Fish, Rice Hash and All The Works ALL FOOD COOKED IN NEW STAINLESS STEEL KITCHEN industrial sales are 4.6% higher than a year ago. Only last De cember, industrial sales were 3.7% under the previous year’s level Residential customers, who account for 37% of total reve nues, are considered the back bone of -the industry because of the stability of this load in good times as well as bad. Indus*- trial sales, on* ‘the other hand, account for 27% of revenues. Utilities look on industrial sales as thedr best index to their profit prosperity. InduStnai sales drop quickly in tunes ot recession: it takes about two years for hard times to show up in home sales of juice, util ity men say.” SAVING ... ONE OF THE STEPS TO SUCCESS Take a step in the right directum by coming in to open YOUR insured savings account at this Association. Then, add to savings regularly. Earn liberal dividends, too. a HEAR NEWBERRY J federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWBERRY J. K. Willingham, Sec*y Newberry, S. STROM Remember? Thurmond Candidate for the United States Senate Every Tuesday Night On Your Favorite Radio Station Remember what a time you had getting coal this past winter? Of'course you do, and you wouldn't want to go through with that ordeal again. *1*18 R. M. Lominack Hardware Annual Jolly Street Barbecue! 1 JULY 4th State and County Campaign Speakers BASEBALL Newberry and Jolly Street Don’t Miss The Famous Jolly Street Meeting Serving Starts at 11:30 This is a great and growing Oounfry. No one thing is need ed so much as power. So it is interesting to know that the private power interests are steadily going forward, building and building, spending and spending, all ‘in faith, believing that the good sense of America will assert itself and that this . Imu um iiuj SALES AND SERVICE FORD Tractors and DEARBORN IMPLEMENTS Farm Machinery Repairing Phone or Call By For A Demonstration Announcement of Formal Opening Will Be Made Soon. 1 Mile Out on Greenwood-Saluda Highway Phone 133-6 LEON C. DENNIS, MANAGER FORTUNATELY right now we have a stock of GOOD QUALITY COAL and can make prompt deliveries. , f ' 1 * t ’ ^ : ' 'i Let us put in at least a part of your winter re quirements now while you can get coal of GOOD QUALITY. Remember, you get much more Heat out of good coal. \ FARMERS Ice If Fuel Co. TELEPHONE 155 GEORGE MARTIN, Manager Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S . . Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 hll — For Re-Election to U. S. SEN. Sound. Olin Johnston is seek, ing re-election to the United States Senate on his own merits and the record he has mode Governor and United States Senator. All Democrats of South Carolina are urged to learn the facts of the work Ohn Johnston has done by; LISTENING Over the following sttartions each M o n d a ^ night beginning June 5: Newberry—WKDK—7:30 to 7:45 p.m.—July 10, 7:30-7:45 Columbia—WIS— -^July 10, 7:80-7:45 Columbia—WCOS—6:45 to 7:00 p.m. — July 10, 7:30-7:45 Columbia—WIMSC—7:15 to 7:30 p.m.—July 10, 7:45-8:00 Columbia—WNOK—7:30 to 7:45 pm.—July 10, 7:30-7:45 .