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>• ■ «. VI V' ' : THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1981 >tw 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Armfield 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 Congrress 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 Power, electric power: is there a shortage of electric power in South Carolina? There is no shortage of electric power in South Carolina. That Is not an opinion; that is a fact. In this State we can quickly arrange for all the surplus flower of any one Company or all the Compan ies so that the total power pro duction of all plants can be made available for any need. The South Carolina Public Ser vice Commission can show from its records that Santee-Cooper has sold 160,000,000 kilowatt hours a year to the three private Compan ies doing, business here, but those same companies had all the facilities necessary to pro duce all that they needed: they found, it advantagexms to buy a part rather than to use all their own steam facilities. When San tee-Cooper failed to carry out its contract—because of low water — the private companies proceeded at * once to generate for themselves all that they need ed. Today the private Compan ies have so much more capacity that the increased demand for power is easily met and a large margin of safety is maintained. So today, we have enormously increase private capacity, and Santee-Cooper also, as well as the early prospect of Clarks Hill pow er. We not only have all the power we need today but we ship power sell it to other States. The Pub lic Commission of the State will confirm this, I think. But what of the future? Duke. Carolina Power & Light and The South Carolina Electric & Gas not only have large reserves today but are spending perhaps a hundred mil lion dollars for more production within the next two or three years. They have to look far ahead; great generators can’t be built and delivered In a day or even a year. But all the Comp anies are building so far ahead in order to have enough power and a margin, a large margin, in reserve. Now is it true that a great con cern did not come here because of lack of power? Frankly I do not know, but as a businessman using a few gruins of coihmon business sense let us look into Mechanical Tiger that, just exploring the situation there are some types of plants that require incredible power. If such a plant suddenly, within a few days, should require as much power as five hundred new cot ton mills, would any Company be expected within reason to main tain that margin? Hardly; but South Carolina could get it easily because all the surplus of all the power plants, public and private, is interconected and so made quickly available. Now if a Bank in a town of two thou sand people were suddenly called on for fifty million dollars would it have the money? What would it do with all that money in ordinary times? It would “break itself” carrying so much unnec essary money. However, if there were a sound need tor fifty mil lions that small bank could tap the surplus millions of other banks. Of course that is the very element of storage of our great family of South Carolina banks: all its great resources are avail able to any one of its members. But the small, individaul bank could not reasonably carry such a surplus. It is clear that no concern carries a stock of pro ductive capacity unreasonably be^ yond the probabilities of demand. It must not be lost sight of that the great power companies live by sales; they don’t want to be short of power. I mention this in detail because great damage can be done by the statement that we did not have enough available power for a great aluminum plant. The truth probably is that we have avail able today, through interconnec tions if necessary, enough power, surplus power, to take care of a dozen aluminum plants; and the margin of reserve will still be ready for emergencies. I am not referring to the re port filed with the House of Rep resentatives, nor with the address in the Senate of my distinguished friend from Barnwell: I am using information which any cit izen can get for himself. Millions and hundreds of mil lions of dollars are being contri buted by our people to carry on the work of the churches. Probab ly the more liberal gifts are due Tank crew has given artistic touch in form of snarling tiger to front of their M-46 tank. The paint job is almost sure to scare some Chinese or North Korean troops to death, without the use of armament. Crew members are, 1 to r, (below): Pfc. Doyle Boone, Purcell, Okla.: CpL David Lees, Pittsburgh, Pa.; 1 to r, (above): CpL Thomas Meritt, Mineral Wells, Texas; Sgt. Callen Burris. Tishomingo, Okla.: Cpl. Robert L. Faulkner, Bowie, Texas. to regular giving and to a con viction that we are favored bountifully by an abounding Pro vidence and should be willing to give more readily though a quickened sense of appreciation. I do not wish to sound a callous note by wondering if anything may be due to the exemptions from taxation. It may be that more and more of our people find that their help comes from Above, their only reliable, su staining help. If I may quote the Psalmist with a small change we may speak as he spoke: “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills. From whence cometh my help? My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.” The Psalmist means that though he may look at the streng th and rugged endurance of the hills they are but mute symbols of a great builder; his help came from the Builder Himself. He looked to the hills; then he ask ed a question; then he answer ed: “My help cometh from the Ijord.’* In the King James version, with all its stately style, blended of simplicity and wondrous imag ery, this reads “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help.” But the incorrectness of that is brought out clearly by the follow ing which is a denial of the first. I have been—and am—greatly indebted to many people. Years ago I was a guest in many Methodist, Baptist and Presbyter ian parsonages. I knew many Ministers in their homes. I learn ed much from them, the men who were proclaiming the truth and applying it day by day. One of those ministers pointed out to me the error in the Psalm. I remember him with special gradi- tude. you 9 re at your loveliest when wearing In a report before me I find what I now quote: “God’s billion U. S. Protestants gave more than a billion dollars to their churches last year—and all-time high. A report published last fort night by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. disclosed that 48 com munions, with a combined mem bership of 36,117,171, upped their gifts in 1960 to *1,104,677,184— about $122 million higher than 1949. While membership of the reporting churches increased only 2.1% last year, per capita giving jumped 11% (from $27.43 to $30.- 68). Biggest total contribution by any one sect came from 8,792,669 Methodists who gave $229,297,111 —*an average of $26.08 per mem ber. Best per capita record: The 40,231 -Free •Methodists, one of the small Holiness sects, gave an average of $169.11.” Cotton? I thought I was shoot ing in the dark when I said that cotton must be worth a dollar and fifty cents a pound In order to be on a level with other things, but I didn’t shoot high enough. Listen to this: Cali fornia has become so wild about cotton that cotton land is now selling as high as $600 an acre; and is renting as high as $100 per acre! Where do you suppose I read that? In the speech of some farm leader treating the farmers to a lot of ballyhoo? Oh, No! In the Wall Street Journal! In all such matters The Wall Street Journal is as reliable as The Bap tist Courier or our Methodist Ad vocate, Californians are planning a great increase of acreage and people are even planting small back yards in cotton. Those Western men are fereat spirits. I don’t doubt that they will plant every corner because when they start they go all the way. They are not going the whole hog, but the whole cotton. In Oklahoma I’ve seen oil der ricks in a man’s back yard. They seemed a bit out of place but if I had oil I suppose I’d pump it even through the kitchen, if nec essary, though one could move the kitchen. In the Tobacco Belt, where I live, I’ve heard of men paying a rent of $100 per acre for tobacco land. As you know, we have al lotments: we can plant just so much. And since the number of acres a man may plant in to bacco is a strange compounding of crop-history and agricultural politics among the farmers them selves some men have allotments that have a certain odor that is not one of sanctity, while others are frozen out. When they came into the world they didn’t have the right fathers, or failed to make friends at the right time, in the right places. The Equal Pnotection of the Law is not equal anywhere, though it has a good sound and is sound stuff to talk about. I’m told that our cotton mills don’t like cotton produced on ir rigated land. I am not a cotton expert, nor a weaving or spinning technician; I don’t know just what is what. Our leaders in Washington ahd many of the small-fry up there —talk, talk, talk, all the time. If there is any secret they have n’t told I wish they would tell it and get it done with. I have never known so much talk all the time until now: One man, or # a score of men predict all sorts *of things, from laws to new regula tions; then another crowd starts in to scare us to death. I’m real ly wondering whether we need any of the new rules, regulations, controls and all the fol-de-rol con jured up by the bureaucracy and the economic soothsayers and prophets, both major and minor specimens of the prohetic broth erhood. Why could we not quiet ly re-arm a year ago, or two years ago, without all this fan fare? We have cost our people billions of dollars in needless ex pense through sky-rocketing prices; and the Government it self has incurred heavy addition al expense of many billions through its scare-policy, its Emer gency policy and all the fuss. We are menaced by all the controls of war when there is no war; nor need we afflict the people with all the hardships of a war when we hesitate and meander about as though no one knows what it is all about. Why didn’t we quietly take out of moth balls all our fleet a year ago? Why didn’t we arm the Chinese Nationals and let them fight? Why don’t.we arm them now? And again let us ask where are the billions of dollars of war materials which never even left the United States just five years age? Are we to smile that off? We spent the money; where are the munitions? It seems just elementary com mon sense to require Mr. Tru man to respect the Constitution. I do not say that Congress should require Mr. Truman to reduce his budget; that Is childish; it is the Congress which holds the purse and the responsibility is th6 re- spansibllity of Congress. Mr. Tru man can propose and suggest and request as he pleases, byt the lawful authority is in the Congress and the solemn duty to protect the Nation is the solemn duty of Congress. We are verily cursed by poli- 4-MILLION MAN ARMY HINTED WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—De fense Secretary Marshall hinted tonight that the armed forces may have to be raised to four million men and charged that failure to draft 18-year-olds would block attainment of this goal. At the same time. Senator Morse (R-Ore) accused the mili tary of “wasting manpower” and said he will seek an armed forces ceiling of three million, 100 thou sand men. Congress removed ceilings on the size of the armed forces last summer. An armed force of four mlllinon men would be 538,000 above the 3,462,000 which the Defense De partment currently plans to build up to by yxt July 1 or earlier. Marshall^ and Gen. Omar N. Bradley declared in letters to the Senate preparedness subcommit tee that they oppose the move to set the draft limit at 1& and one- half years instead of 18. The Defense Secretary said “we would be 246,000 below the minimum (draft) pool ... if the military establishment has to go to four million men.” He added: “We are hopeful that it will not be necessary to make any upward revision in our present three and one-half mil lion figure, but there Is no cer tainty in a situation as tense as the one that now confronts us.” NEWBERRY STUDENTS ON COLLEGE HONOR LIST The honor list for the first se mester of the 1950-51 session at Newberry College has been releas ed by Registrar James C. Ab rams, and the following from Newberry and the county are on the list: Seniors, Clyde Eugene» Bedenbaugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jones M. Bedenbaugh of Prosper ity; Charles Barrymore Dawkins, son of Treasurer and Mrs. Ray Dawkins, Newberry; Joan Segai* Dominick, daughter of Hon. and Mrs: Fred H. Dominick, Newber ry; Charles Ernest Dukes, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. 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