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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1981
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NEWBERRY, S. C.
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Entered as second-class matter December 6. 1937,
at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congrress of March 3, 1879.
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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.
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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. Dukes, New
berry; Mrs. Joella Seay Neel of
Newberry; Claridge Walter Sum
mer, Newberry Juniors: El
eanor Freda Blumberg, Newberr-
ry; Doris Segar Dominick, daugh
ter of Hon. and Mrs. Fred H.
Dominick, Newberry; Sopomore
Victor W. Bradley of Newberry;
Freshmen, Barabara Frankie Joye,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Joye, Newberry.
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