The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, October 05, 1951, Image 7
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1961
THE NEWBERRY SUN
Make Your Plans Now
To Inspect
The New Oakland Mill
Open House Days
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Next
Tuesday and Wednesday
See A
Modem Mill
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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.
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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
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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