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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1961 THE NEWBERRY SUN Make Your Plans Now To Inspect The New Oakland Mill Open House Days # Next Tuesday and Wednesday See A Modem Mill * ■ . In Full Operation WELLS THEATRE Fulmer Wells All Of The People Of Newberry County Are Invited To Attend Oakland’s Open House Event Next Tuesday and Wednesday City Filling Station Next To The Postoffice and Just as Reliable” “Straw” Paysinger Commenfs On Men And Things . . . Asiatics Want 'No Part’ American Ideology But Accept Wheat Loan America Is the land of miracle men. One evidence is our won derful automobile production. An advertisement of a great bank scms it up in these words: “The amazing story of an in dustry that put a world on wheels. At the turn of the cen tury, it took an entire year to produce 360 automobiles. There were some 4000 cars on the road. By 1950, automobile production averaged 660,000 cars a month— more than double that of the rest of the world. The 40-miUion pas senger cars being operated to day could carry every man, wo man and child in the United States at one time! The vast automotive industry has, in turn, created a huge crop of small businesses—over 100,000 dealers and garages, nearly 260,- 000 filling stations. iiuiomoDiie manuiacturers in l3i>u employed aoa.uuo people, iiad saxes of $12,i)zo,0u0,000 and paid *i,o70,000,000 in corporate income taxes. Jb'ew industries nave had sucn a profound effect on tne ine of a nation. rne tremendous investment in lactury, xaooratory and field test ing lacinties, and tne ideas and ability oi tne men benind them, nave made ‘ the automotive in- austry a symbol oi the productive power of American industry. une of our country’s greatest assets never appears on the U. fc>. Treasury’s balance sheet—in dustrious men, working together under a free system.’’ The story l’v$ just told is all the more remar&able to me when i recall a conversation with one or our Navy’s best men. Ue told me that Italy and France had oetter internal-combustion engines tnan we have; and we know that tne Germans surpassed us in Chemistry. The British had steel, tne Germans had steel—well, why didn’t Germany lead the world in the manufacture of cars? Are we disposed to think that America’s ^industrial greatness is just an accident, a sort of hap- pen-so? Clearly genius develop ed our industry, a few men who were pioneers, who took great chances; who won after long years of hard work. Sometimes, even frequently, today’s success is partly built on yesterday’s fail ures, perhaps, of a score of nlen who had a dream. Where are the greatest hos pitals in the world? I don’t know; but I do know that every large town in America has a good pub lic hospital, as well as excellent private hospitals. Vienna was once regarded as the home of transcendent genius in Medicine and Surgery. The French and ^ the Germans had great men of Medicine, but throughout America every community has, at least in large measure, the institutions which are found only in spots in other countries. How do you account for it? The most indi vidualistic business in the world is the practice of medicine: the trusted physician is usually alone, wrestling with life and death. This country has been a fruitful field for the application of all the knowledge of all the world. It isn’t our soil or the air we breathe; it isn’t by any means that we are abler men than the British or the Dutch or the Spaniards. We even lack the brilliance of the Latin, the verve, the intellectual energy, the ex traordinary sweep of imagination, that characterize our brethren of the Romance languages; but in America a man has had an op portunity to build and to achieve. That’s the America you and I inherited; and that’s what we are losing to Washington Socialists. I am trying to decide whether our Government is crazy, or whether I am crazy. Consider this which comes from The Southern States Industrial Council: “HOW DUMB CAN WE GET? Anent the Point IV program for Asia, it was stated in this space on November 1, 1960: The Asiatics themselves, while in a receptive mood for several billion dollars’ worth of American machinery and commodities, nevertheless want it distinctly understood that there are no strings attached—such as, for ex ample, a pledge on their part to side with us—or at least not against us—in a war with Russia. At a recent meeting of various Asiatic and Western groups held in Lucknow, the American dele gates were told in no uncertain terms that while our material aid would be accepted, the Social ist governments of India and Pak istan wanted no part of our Capitalist ideology or policy of ‘containing’ Communism. Since that time, Congress has voted a $190,000,000 ‘loan’ to India to enable her to buy 2,000,- 000 tons of American wheat. The State Department wanted to send the wheat as an outright gift, but Congress insisted that it should be in the form of a long term loan. As it worked out, the terms are 35 years to pay and 2% percent interest. By con trast, Soviet Russia and Red China made a barter deal where by they are to supply Socialist India with 630,000 tons of wheat and receive an exjuivalent value in cash and strategic materials. India has also received— $663,000 in Point Four aid. $8,500,000 in the form of an EGA subsidy to purchase grain sorghums here at less than the market price. Loans aggregating $62,500,000 from the World Bank, one-third of the capital of which was pro vided by the U. S. A. In addition, it is reported that India is to receive some $65,000,- 000 in grants this year under he Foreign Aid program. Her latest rebuff to this country in boy cotting the Jap peace tready con ference conceivably might jolt the State Department into adopt ing a change of policy. On the other hand, you never cam tell. AGRARIAN REFORMERS: Ac cording to dispatches from Ge neva where UNESCO is currently meeting, the American Delegation will soon introduce a resolution calling for a redistribution of land in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. ‘Fundamental to the whole U. S. approach,’ we are told, ‘is the belief that the security of the United States is not assured so long as the yield of land to the person engaged in agriculture is on a scale of 25 in the U. S. and Canada to 6 in South Ameri ca, 2 in Asia, and 1 in Africa—dif ferences in basic productivity too enormous to be consistent with anything but tension, distrust, and hostility between those regions and the Atlantic Community.’ Will the American tax payers be compelled to compensate the dispossed owners?” Can anybody tell me why we should try to re-distribute the land of other countries? Why not redistribute our own land? Why not say that % a family may have so many rooms in a house and let the neighbors move in? Does that sound foolish? Cer tainly it does, but not more silly than our meddling all over the world. Our Spreme Guide is Jehovah; and our Supreme Teacher of truth is the Redeemer. In the Parable of the Talents we find distinctions, degrees of ability aqd differences in rewards. Throughout the Scriptures we find only one reference to a com mon level and that was not in money or goods; not in flocks and herds; not in intellectual ability, nor physical health; not in op portunity or promotion; that one level was the love of the Father and His readiness to receive “whosoever will.” A lady in Charleston suggested that I discuss the Bible and Re ligion. It is amazing to take note that so many religionists are advocates of Socialism or Communism. It is a bit hard to understand, for the Bible doesn’t advocate either. On the con trary, we read of the Supreme Being, together with the Son and Holy Spirit. Then we read of Angels and Archangels, and the Seraphims and the Cherubims. They are the Heavenly group of the highest rank. The Social ists and the Communisto may answer that they also have men in authority. That is true; and that suggests this: that most advocates of Socialism or Com munism either have nothing, or they hope to set themselves up as rulers over us. There is a bit of conceit in most of us which suggests to us that we could manage the other man’s af fairs better than the other man himself can. The man who spends every dollar as fast as he gets it; who isn’t willing to deny himself, or his craving for the foibles and baubles of life; that man would gladly advocate a re-distribution of wealth, taking to himself the fruits of his neighbor’s toil. He would be like a farmer who would share his neighbor’s crop. A Streamlined Member of an Illustrous Family OAKLAND has long been a member of the Kendall chain of progressive mills. Its en larged capacity, its air-conditioned building and over-all appointments now ranks it with the best in an illustrous family. NEWBERRY is proud to have been select ed as the site for Kendall expansion. x G. B. Summer & Sons Someone has said that no successful busi ness was ever built without having been dreamed about in the beginning. The New Oakland was no doubt in the . % •. ' '. "V minds of the Kendall people and now they can look with pride upon a splendid accomplish ment. Likewise Newberrians share the pride of the owners. Their co-operation may be de pended upon. R. M. Lominack Hdwe. R. M. Lominick J. Forrest Lominack W. Henry Lominack Kirby Lominack . Charlie Force J. W. Longshore Ida D. Underwood