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THE NEWBERRY SUN MC. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1950 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Armfikld 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 BY SPECTATOR When cotton was selling here for 38c a pound it was selling for 66c in Mexico, and Brazil, 60c in India and Turkey and 75c in Egypt. And American money was used by those countries in pay ing those prices. So says Tom Lindler, Commissioner of Agricul ture of the State of Georgia. Mr. Lindler tells us that sev eral men of great wealth and high standing accepted Federal appointments so that they might flim-flam the American farmer. I wish someone would tell us all aoout this, if Mr. Lindler is in error. The Georgia Farmers’ Bul letin is widely circulated and is open to challenge if its state ments are incorrect. I do not know that men always seek their own advantage selfish ly; perhaps they become so ab sorbed in their own concerns that they forget all about other people. What would happen here if cotton were selling for 60 or 66 cents a pound? Perhaps we who plant a little would feel rich for one year. Then would we not price cotton out of the market? Wouldn't we lose about all our cotton business to our competi tors? Wouldn’t our cotton mills have to turn to rayon and other substitutes? It is an old law of Economics that the lower the price the more buyers; and the more who buy the greater will be the demand for the product. The other side is equally true: the higher the price the fewer who can buy. If automobiles now selling for $1800 were increased to $3000 fewer would be sold; but if the $1800 car could be sold for $1000 many more could buy it. Cotton is in strong demand to day, but it could easily become a glut on the market either because of overproduction or too high a price. If we should produce six teen million bales a year for two years we would find rayon about to put cotton out of use. My opin ion is that the cotton planter will be hurt if he produces 16,000,000 bales in 1951 and he will be crushed if he repeats it in 1952. We seem to have the Washing ton bureaucrats on the one hand and the boll weevil on the other. This is near the end of 1960. Five and a half years ago the Germans surrendered; six years ago France was redeemed; nearly seven years ago Northern Africa and Italy were clear of Germans. After all these years America Is still pouring billions of dollars in to Europe and Britain. Either our policy of reconstruction has been a stupid bungling, or those peo ple are not trying to revive their National economy. If we had act ed with intelligence every one of those Nations should have har vested crops within one year and rebuilt much of their industries in two years. What does history teach us? Why is the South still so sore at the North? If we men of the South still feel resentful because of the Reconstruction period of 1865 to 1867 what will be the feeling among the Germans? We Southerners should think about that. If we can’t devise a plan to let the Germans rebuild their own country without rebuilding their army and other war serv ices we are not resourceful think ers. And now comes Mr. Gray, an adviser to Mr. Truman, and rec ommends that the wastefulness of the Marshall Plan be extended to Asia and South America. What destruction was done in Asia and South America by us or our Allies? Why is it that so many men in public life have lost their com mon sense? (Most of them have not lost it Spectator—they just never had it.—Ed.) Do you know that 2500 prod ucts are made from petroleum? Cooking fats, paraffin, detergents, shaving cream, face cream, can dles, paints, medicines, inks, etc All started with petroleum re search. Would you like to hunt oil. It isn’t very easy: “Finding and developing new oil sources is the nation’s biggest industrial gamble. Since the end of the war the petroleum industry has spent over $100 million a month to keep proven reserves ahead of the steadily rising de mand. This year a record 42,200 wells will be drilled in the United States alone. Next year the total will probably be upped by anoth er thousand if enough steel is available. v Though finding oil is a gamble science and new techniques have helped the industry whittle down the adverse odds. During the past decade locating oil without such help has been a 16 to 1 shot; with it, the odds have been cut to 5 to 1. With drilling and prd^ duction costs going up, oil men are more interested than ever in pushing the odds still further. Before drilling to prove the actual existence of oil can start, prospectors have to locate and map areas where oil may be found. One of the most widely used instruments for oil prospect ing is the seismograph, developed originally to record earthquakes, it has become invaluable in the search for oil. Using the seismograph is com paratively simple. A charge of dynamite is set off in a shorhole. The waves from the explosion travel downward until • they hit certain rock formations and are reflected back to the surface. By checking the time required for the round trip, geologists deter mine the type and general char acteristics of the land structure and the possibility of oil or gas. Outlays for this type of explora tion currently total more than Surest Gift Way to a Woman’s Heart! Ken more 12-Speed ELECTRIC MIXER $•• Display ia Year Stars Order Office Yes, here’s the surest way tb a woman's heart. Here’s easier, quicker, better meal- making ... a gift she’ll cherish for years to come. Favorite Kenmore has 12 kitchen- tested mixing speeds. Convenient portable head lifts off easily. Powerful motor handles all her mixing tasks. Complete with two bowls and iuicer. A gift buy at $29.50. SEARS r?'- TZ m s “" • Aromatic Electric B lanlntt U*e Sear* Eosy p °ymenf pj 0n . ROEBUCK AND CO ORDER OFFICE m ^ fc V 1210 Caldwell St. Telephone .430 * • 4 i •. • ■ i ” ?• $60 million a year. Since the war, oil - men have taken to the air to find and map possible oil-bearing areas with a flying magnetometer. A ” lineal descendant of the old “dip-needle” used centuries ago in exploring for iron and other magnetic? ores, the airborne magnetometer is the only practical means of making magnetic prospecting surveys over water areas which may hold great oil reserves. Originated by an oil company just prior to World War II, it was adopted by the Navy and used success fully as a submarine dectector. Improvements since then have greately stepped up its efficiency in oil prospecting. Trailed on a 65-foot cable from an airplane, the magnetometer measures the earth’s magnetic reactions electronically as the plane flies along a pre-determined course. These are translated into magnetic contour maps which provide valuable informa tion on the structure of the base* ment rock up to thousands of feet below the surface. The airborne magnetometer al so has a wide use over jungle and marsh areas. With it, a single air crew can map 46 miles of profile daily, compared with 50 miles by surface magneto meter crews w-orking in fairly open country. To date, over 109 million acres of land in the United States and 19 million in Canada have been surveyed from the air in this way. In its search for oil and gas, the petroleum industry has al ready leased some 206 million acres of land in the United States—more than one-tenth of all the land and inland water areas in the country. But find ing and mapping possible oil bearing areas iif only the first step in the hunt. In spite of years of reasearch, there is still no way to prove that dll- is actually present except by drill ing. Although a number of large oil companies do their own drilling more than half of the wells that open new oil fields are drilled by independent contractors using rotary drills. There are about 765 such contractors in the United States. With over 2,000 drilling rigs now in operation this is a million-dollar-a-day busi ness. Costs of drilling ‘wild-cat’ or exploratory vary greatly. Since four out of every five such holes are dry ones, finding a producer in an unexplored area may cost over $250,000. In some instances a wild-cat has cost as much as $1 million. Even in proved areas, only three out of four wells turn up oil in commercial quantities. I read two advertisements re cently that impressed me because’ they have so much meat. This tells something we should remember about our great coun try: “The biggest material fact in the world today is American pro duction—the ability of this na tion, with only one-sixteenth of the world's population, to pro duce more than a third of the world’s goods. FARMS AND FOLKS COTTON SEED SCARCE The - price of cotton seed was so attractive at gining time that most of them went right to the oil mills. That’s what our certi fied seed man. Bob Garrison, and our cotton specialist, Harry Boylston, both tell me. Now the word is calling for a big -cotton crop. And folks are wohdering where the seed will come from. The seed over most of the Eastern Belt were of poor ger- ination the past season. So now Back of this capacity to pro duce are * workers, management, plants, macherinery, raw mater ials and capital. This is AmerD can Industry, increasing in power through the talents and resourc es of millions of people. Mass investment made production possible. American industry is owned by millions of stockholders. They share the risks and rewards of stock ownership... .in the auto motive, steel, chemical, transpor tation, textile and mining fields ... .in all the enterprises that make up American industry, in cluding eleqtric power.” folks from other states haver been combing South Carolina, and other areas too, I guess, for good planting seed in quant ity. And they have found very few, I am told. Those who will need cotton planting seed might do well to look around and lo cate their needs before it is too late. In view of this situa tion, there will likely be a lot of speculation in good planting seed. And you know what that does to the price. INDUSTRY ON THE FARM The past summer Walter Rawl industrious farmer of ILexington, put up 46,000 cases of okra and tomatoes at the cannery out there on his farm. He grew most of it and his neighbors the; balance. Irrigation multiplied the harvest on his. And he can ned some other things too. Farm processing; “We need to do more of that,” says Director Watkins. Producer of raw pro ducts have usually fared poorly. As we process products and fin ish them for human use they be come more stable and profits arei more likely. Another advertisement tells of the patience and expense of in-' dustrial reasearch: . “In research.. .it’s a long time between pay days. Pay Day is a favorite spot on anybody’s calendar. If you go into business for yourself, your first pay day^may be a long way off—and there’s no guarantee of regular pay days to follow. How long you can wait for pay day depends on how much capital you have. Some businesses by their very nature must wait long er than others. When a company engages in chemical research it cannot expect a quick return on its investment. Bringing a new product to the point where it can be sold takes a long time and a lot of money. Take nylon, for example. Du Pont began the . first research leading to this product in 1928. Thirteen years and $27,000,000 later, pay day arrived. In developing the manufacture of synthetic anmonia, $27,000,000 was staked. On this product there was a ten-year wait before profits offset accumulated losses. •Orion’ acrylic fiber is a new pro duct that seems highly promising. HORSE RACING Up East there must be more interest in horse racing than I knew. It seemed that every mass' f ew minutes our car radio would go into exciting eyewitness re^ ports of races in progress, just finished, and of others coming up. It was all in the lingo of the track that I did not under stand. Then, far to the south, at New Orleans I saw similar interest* The papers there carried a quart er page racing results in very fine print. Young folks must be the principal readers for it would sure take good eyes to read that stuff. It is a big world, and there are many interests. HATCHING EGGS IN OCONEE County Agent Griffin called a meeting of Oconee farmers to discuss the production of hatch* ing eggs. Something like 260 came, and 62 signed up to pro duce them from about 30,000 hens for a large hatchery at Gainsville, Georgia. For years they have had a major 4-H poultry there with original chicks furnished by Sears-Roebuck. This h|is put many good chickens over thq country in addition to those they already had. Surplus chickens in the county have been sold in cooperative shipments^ 19,661 pounds for $5,710.54 so far this season, according to Griffin’s rec ords. More than eight years and mil- concludes ^MORE GRASS THAN CATTLE “More interest than ever be fore is being shown in planting pastures,” says pounty Agent Me* Laurin of Marlboro. “In fact there are more pastures in sight than cattle to graze them,” he lions of dollars were invested before much of the new fiber Good for that! All too often in the past we have gotten the cat- had reached the trade and before tle before the grass. And that many people had ever seen ‘Or loti.’ Pay day for this product has not yet arrived. It is being made in Camden.” TO MAKC A LOVELY LADY EVEN LOVELIER • * * »^ . <f > * Sheer magic—the way you look, the way you feel when you use Evening in • • Parisj Delightful bath accessories to refresh you ,.. flattering make-up to enhance your loveliness . . . the / fragrance of romance to surround you with enchantment. » O U R J O I S 1212 MAIN ST. PHONE 610 won’t work any better than the cart before the horse. But when we put the needed money in these modern pastures, we need to have enough cattle to market that grass through, un less we are growing pasture just because it looks pretty. “Yes, graze. But don’t over- (Continued on facing page) Choir Singing CONTEST} ^Program SUNDAY Sunday 3:30 P. M. 1240 kc WKDK We don’t mean to scare you. paper is advancing almost daily. Check up The Sun. 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