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THE NEWBERRY SUN 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By ARMFIELD BROTHERS Entered as second-class matter December b 1937. at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, unriei the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., *1.50 per yea, in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance Comments On Men And Things . . . Science Predicts Man-Made Weather, Cold Cure By 1970 Chemistry and electricity have made possible much of our standard of living. All of us use the results of long experi mentation but most of us don’t know enough to appreciate the marvels of yesterday which are in common use today. Most of us drive cars but we know very little about the cars, what makes the car “go”; and sometimes what makes it “not go”, but we enjoy the wonderful car, don’t v/e? Behind it are the years of patient toil, experimentation, fail_ ure, more failure, then success, little by little. Once I had a County paper.— that’s why I understand many of the problems of the County editor. In summer the rubber on the ink roller would melt or become a gluey mass because of the heat. We then had special rollers for summer and winter. I think my respected friend,, Mr. H. G. Osteen, of The Sumter Item, told me some years ago that he had found a roller that would serve in both hot and cold weather. Well, just think of a rubber tire that withstands the terrific heat of hundreds of miles, at a speed . of sixty or seventy miles an hour! That is something the chemist has pro duced. This is chemistry week; scholars are honoring the service of chemistry. In gasgline and oil alone think of this: 8,179 new oil inventions patented in five years. These inventions dealt with some phase of making improved gaso line and heating oils, lubricants, etc., according to American {Portrait of a Young Executive Eagerness . . . competence . . vitality 7 . . this portrait of a young industrial executive radi ates the glow and character of the living subject with the fi delity to be found only in a jSfichold Portrait Petroleum Institute. In the past twenty years the dollar volume of the products turned out by the chemical in- dusty has jumped fom eight bil lion to forty seven billion dol lars. So they speak of Chemistry ^s the builder of a better future. “Even more important than this almost fantastic rate of growth, have been the great con tributions that chemistry has made to a better standard of living. In medicine, agriculture, in dustry of all type.. . .in dozens of fields that shape out daily lives, chemistry has continued to make products better, faster, cheaper. Nowhere is this better demon strated than in the textile field in - the revolutionary develop ment of chemical fibers from which the cloth is woven and the clothing made that provides the American public with economical wardrobes of a lasting beauty, wearability, and infinite variety undreamed of 25 years ago.” That I quote from an advertise ment. Pathfinder magazine tells us pari of an interesting story: “We are people who like new and better things. Whenever science develops a new 'discovery to a point where it becomes use ful, all sorts of activity begins. Industry manufactures the pro_ duct. Stores advertise and sell it. People buy and use it. New jobs appear. Government taxes the earnings. Along came detergents for home use about 1946. Practically every American housewife uses them now. Frozen foods are al most as new and are almost as widely used. Few villages remain where grocers do not carry a well-stocked frozen foods cabinet. Penicillin, a wartime scientific development, has swiftly become an everyday miracle. The drug gist now puts it on the shelf next to the aspirin. The demand for the still newer cortisone greatly exceeds the capacity of manu facturers to produce the drug. Television aerials today shoot up from 13 million homes as compared with 600,000 threq years ago. Looking further back ward, many can recall how quick ly radio caught on. So it was that automobiles, electric lights, and telephones won almost uni versal acceptance once they were perfected and priced within rea son. Plastics have become a huge industry. Everyone who makes money from plastics or enjoys their contributions to convenience owes his thanks to a few basic scientific discoveries. Every such product traces back to some previous scientific ad vance. The atom bomb, most dramatic of recent achievements, had to wait until many scientific facts had been proven. Further progress and still newer things can come only as ‘fast as the storehouse of scientific facts in- QPC! RESEARCH is simply an ef fort to find new facts about nature’s materials and nature’s laws. Discovery results when man learns how to obey nature’s laws. The researcher who works in fundamental science does not always look for a specific practi cal result. He looks for a new fact. He may just be trying to find out how lightning bugs turn on their lamps. If he finds the answer, some other scientist may put that fact with some others and turn up with something bet> ter than electricity for illumina tion, or with a cure for the common cold. Dr. Vannevar Bush has said that ‘scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown.’ Industry pays for more than two thirds of all scientific research. Government pays for about a fifth, while universities, nonprofit institutions and indi viduals do the rest. Industry cannot do much funda mental research. It has to dig for the practical applications which reduce costs or bring out new products to sell. Much of Govern ment research also is ’applied’ rather than fundamental. It looks for something to use quickly, rather than for new basic facts. But without new fundamental facts, applied research will run dry.” Great industries kre spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year in chemical research; and new products come on the market every year. Nyon, rayon, orlon, penecillin, streptomysin, aureomysin, terrymysin, the sul phur drugs, all the derivatives from coal—these came to us from the chemical laboratory. And now we are taking vitamins and enriching our foods—and all that. Unfortunately the man heavily charged with vitamins in his food, and with bottles of vitamins at hand all the time; and with all the riches of chemistry, whether in drugs or industry—he is about the same man, isnt he? We never say that "Brother Ex” is a pious, liberal, gracious man, a community builder, a pillar of society, a notable spirit in all that makes for real progress in spiritual living,—bebcause of his vitamin tablets and enriched bread, do we? As Robert Burns says, “A man’s a man for all that;—and I might quote or try to remember Poe’s Raven: “Simply that and nothing more.” “While the American Chemical Society was getting ready for its 75th birthday party in Manhattan next week, some of its members were already thinking about the 75 years ahead, or the diamond jubilee issue of Chemical and Engineering News, they described a brave new universe where every home will have two-way wireless, space ships will circle the moon and the scientists will inherit the earth. Among wonders the citi zens of 2026 will take for grant ed: (1) Atomic-powered furances, refrigerators and other house hold appliances. (2) Man-made weather to suit any taste. (3) Cures or preventives for infantile paralysis, mental ills and the common cold. (4) An accumula tion of scientific knowledge so great that it will require thou sands of workers just to service the machines that will keep the records and search for further information. But in the next three-quarters of a century, predicted the chemists, some things will be just the same. At least one of the prophets could not bring him self to look beyond 1976. After that, said he, ‘anything can hap pen’.” If I may ask, will they be able to restore the full glory of a man’s hair, so that the smooth and shiny ball-head will lose its luster but regain the ampli tude that is part of the crowning distinction of musicians and foot ball stars ? W® are going to the dogs, aren't we? 1 read something like that in a book written two hundred years ago. Why do we “pick on” the dogs? 'They don’t want anything we have except something to eat and a little at tention now and then, just a kind word. So why “wish off” the world on the dogs? But our na tion ia running headlong into trouble. One man sums it up like this: “The President is asking for 10 Billion additional in personal income taxes. The Secretary of the Treasury recommends: An increase from the present 7% to 20% on new automobiles. An increase from the present 10% to 25% on refrigerators, television sets, radios, phono graphs, records, etc. An increase from the present $9 to $12 a gallon on whiskey. An increase from the present $8 to $12 a barrel on beer. An increase from the present 7 cents to 10 cents a pack on cigarettes. An increase from the present 1%% to 3% on gasoline. These increases to lay an add ed tax burden of $2 Billion 925 Million. Since 1940 the Government has paid out $103 Billions for Foreign Aid of various sorts. In the same time it has loaned to oth r countries $12 Billions— that will never be paid—and $1% Billion in international credits. This does not include BIL LIONS spent for U. S. defense pur poses in foreign countries. The President is now asking for an additional $8 % Billions for military and economic aid for foreign countries. This will mak® a grand total of ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR BILLION DOLLARS expended for foreign aid. SOMETHING FOR NOTHING! There is no such thing for us. What about the much publicized Federal ‘Grants- in-Aid* to the States?” It is a sad story, but Congress is the authority over the Nation’s money-bags; it is Congress which lops off only a billion from a wasteful $70,000,000; it is Con gress which is following a foolish leadership. 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I quote from a statement sent out by the Cen tral of Georgia Rail Road: “The average revenue per ton-mile Is only 47.8% higher than in 1939. The power people must be wiz ards, for their rates are lower today than in 1939. (continued from page one) Personals Pfc. George Elbert Hipp of Fort Bragg, spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hipp. Miss Erin 'I’aylor, who under went an operation at the Colum bia Hospital two weeks ago, came to Prosperity Tuesday and will spend a month with her sister, Mrs. Byrd Gibson, before going to her home in the St. Phillips community. Mrs. C. D. Parker and her lit tle daughter, Channcey Delores, of Columbia, and John Taylor spent Sunday with their par ents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Taylor. Elton C. Sease and his son Johnny of Columbia spent Sun-t day with Mrs. J. A. Sease. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Woodle of Savannah, Ga. were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hendrix and Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Chappell. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ballentine Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Ballentine, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Leaphart, Jr. attended the Silver Wedding An niversary of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Grout in Gilbert Sunday after noon. Mrs. Grout is the sister of W. A. Ballentine. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cox and their two sons, Charles and George, of Charlotte, N. C. were weekend guests of Mrs. J. S. Wheeler, Sr. and Mr. and Mrs. Jake Wheeler. Miss Marguerite Wise of Co lumbia spent the weekend in the home of her brother, P. E. Wise and family. j Mr. and Mrs. Robert Alexander and their small son Robin, have returned to their home in Wash ington, D. C. after a three weeks’ visit with Mrs. Alexander’s moth er, Mrs. H. E. Counts, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Foster of Newberry College spent Sunday with Mrs. Foster’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Counts. Mrs. Corrie Me Waters of Co lumbia spent Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. H. E. Counts, Sr. She was present for the baptism of her great grandson, Robin Alexander which was performed Sunday morning after services at Grace Lutheran Church. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Callahan of Columbia were weekend guests of Mrs. Callahan’s mother, Mrs. P. C. Singley. Mrs. F. Goggans of Columbia spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. C. T. Wyche. Guests Thursday of Mrs. John Stockman were Mrs. W. J. Hentz, Mrs. H. M. Hentz, and Miss Eunice Adams of Newberry. Mr. and Mrs. Sid Cook of Wil liamson visited Mrs. H. J. Kin- ard Thursday. Mrs. Kinard re turned home with them for a few days’ visit. Weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Merchant were Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Givens and their son, and Mrs. George Havird of Sumter. Mr. Press Hawkins of Chapin has been visiting his daughter, Mrs. H. L. Shealy and Mr< Shealy. Pfc. John Seibert of Fort Jack- son spent a short furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Seibert before leaving for train ing in Hawaii. ✓ Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gurdon W. Counts were Mrs. A. K. Epting, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reagin and their son, Earl, of Greenwood. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Holley of Irmo spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Newman. Flowers and Gifts for All Occasions CARTER’S Day Phone 719 — Night 6212 Take Your “DISCOVERY DRIVE” KEMPER Telephone 982 MOTOR COMPANY 1515-17 Mein St. AVOID NEXT WINTER’S UNCERTAINTIES BUY COAL NOW at the lowest price it will be all year! V^PATSY COAL,. TTiand / 7bzo Processed and refined. Impurities are removed. Patsy is purified! You get pure, dean-burning coaL Order today! FARMERS Ice & Fuel Company Geo. W. Martin Phone Manager Pn&be+itL. . . ic\\NlST QUAt/py made to meet and beat all tests of weather and wear t c ~ c t \ dr. No matter what your viewpoint... no matter how you lool^ at it... this new REVERSIBLE (all rayon box check with four harness rayon gabardine) Weathercrest jacket gives you all the style, value and lightweight comfort your money can buy! 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