The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 28, 1951, Image 2

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tHE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1961 &un 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By ARMFIELD BROTHERS Entered as second-class matter December 6 1937 at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, undei the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per yeai in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. Comments On Men And Things . . . Are Our Young People In School Being Influenced To Communism? Is God very real to us? Are we resolutely opposed to Com munism? A great man of America who honors me with his friendly re gard sent me a book “God and Man at Yale.” A brilliant young graduate of Yale takes his great University to task and writes an arraignment of its policy. My most intimate Yale friend is a man, true and tried, a man of sound Economics, a man of marked loyalty to the church— so Yale has two sides—as have all other institutions. That, however, does not make the ques tion less urgent. The Author quotes from ad dresses of the President of the University, evidently a devout man of the church and an ex ample of Godly living; but the author quotes from many of the faculty to prove that some of them refer to our religion as a myth. The influence of two or three professors far outweights the influence of a President on the minds of adolescent students. Probably one attractive instruc tor is more effective than the President. So, while the Presi dent may be devout and may prove his piety and devotion in occasional addresses—as well as in his manner of living—the im pact on the youthful mind is that of the daily routine of the class room. The adolescent mind is quick to become skeptical; all the teach ing of home seems just an un critical acceptance not worthy of a budding intelligence. It is all too common even in high schools, that the solemn prayers of the parents and the Minister are regarded as out of date. That skepticism in religion is equally true of what we called Individualism in our Economics. We like to name great men who have done great things. But we have many instructors who have done great things. But we have many instructors w r ho have never done great things and they think it proves a ripe scholarship to dis parage what has been done. We would do well to examine just wdiat is being taught. God has nothing to fear from feeble fel lows who scoff at Him in class; nor has America any reason ta endorse Socialism. Are you interested in alumi num? Then this may attract you: “The present expansion boom in the aluminum industry calls for lifting its pre-Korean capacity of 775,000 tons a year to over 1,400,000 tons by early 1953. Of this 625,000-ton expansion, Texas Louisiana, and Arkansas have snared an annual 370,000 tons of new capacity. That amount is about three times the additional aluminum making capacity earmarked for Washington and Oregon, now the top producing area. The 500,000- ton capacity expected for this area by early 1953 compares with some 400,000 tons indicated for the Northwest by that time. The big Point Comfort plant is now in the midst of a 60 per cent expansion—from its present 57,000-tons-a-year capacity to 92,- 000 tons annually. That’s as much aluminum as goes into 7,500 fight er planes. The Point Comfort plant was the first aluminum plant in the country to burn natural gas ex clusively for producing its electri city; now others are following suit. ‘ This fuel supply seems far more certain than the flow of the other main source of power for aluminum—water pow’er, used in the Northwest and in upstate New York. Recently lack of rain in the Northwest forced a cut in aluminum output there, and de fense officials threatened to move the plants to other areas. On top of its abundance of fuel, this region is blessed with easy access to plentiful sources of bauxite ore, the main raw material of aluminum. In the first, half of this year, 97 per cent of this country’s bauxite out put, or about 960,000 tons, was dug from the soil of Arkansas. In that same period, it’s true, the U. S. imported more bauxite than it produced, the in-shipments amounting to about 1,500,000 tons. But about 84 percent of the imports came from Surinam, or Dutch Guiana. That’s only about 3,500 miles from Port Lavaca, across the Gulf of Mexi co and the Caribbean Sea. Surinam, which mined some 2,200,000 tons of the ore last year, is the world’s top producer. But there are other bauxite sources not far away—British Guiana, Brazil, Jamaica, Trinidad, Haiti and the Dominican Repub lic. The main process of aluminum metal manufacture consists of electrical cooking of alumina, a white powder derived from the bauxite ore. Other ingredients include baked carbon and a min eral called cryolite. The resulting aluminum is poured into molds and cooled. The molded ‘pigs’ vary in weight from 50 to 1,500 pounds. It’s this cooking process that takes so much electricity— 10 kilowatt hours for each pound of metal. Here at the Point Com fort works are three mammoth power plants, each capable of generating 40,000 kilowatts and each supplying four of the ‘pot rooms.’ The plants produce an earsplitting roar and a ground shaking vibration that suggests the warming up of a dozen B-36 bombers. Each power plant has 40 gas- fueled engines driving electric generators. One plant alone can eat up 10 million cubic feet of natural gas in a day. Small Amount of Plant Food Will Keep Needles on Tree If you have the type of a tree- holder that permits the tree trunk to rest in water, you will find that a small amount of plant food dissolved in the water will aid in retaining the needles on the tree, and keep the needles green. If you use a peb ble or rock-filled pail to support the tree, cover the pebbles or rock with a plant food solution. 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G. B. SUMMER & SONS Furniture M. O. Slimmer A. M. Summer G. R. Summer James H. Dennis Boyd Epting United States Top Buyer and Supplier In Tree Industry The United States is the world’s leading source of supply as well as the top buyer in the Christmas tree industry—a better than $50,000,000 business. The majority of our Christmas trees come from New England, New York and Pennsylvania, the north Middlewest, and the Northwest Pacific regions. In recent years, New Jersey has annually marketed around 100,000 trees for local use. Most of the trees for Christmas sales are cut early in the fall and the trees are kept green with plenty of water until shipped to distribution centers. Some mass producers, however, cut trees early in the new year, and treat them with preservatives and coloring solutions for storage in chilled warehouses. Christmas ♦ Quotes ♦ “Christmas is the time you de cide to pay your doctor something on account. You know you will need him the day after.” —Walter Pulitzer. “What do people mean by send ing you a dozen Christmas cards during the festive season, and not deigning to send you three lines by way of a letter the rest of the year?” —J. Ashby-Sterry. “At every Christmas party. Just as things are beginning to get good, someone shuts his eyes, puts his head back and moans softly: ‘Ah, well, this isn’t like the good old days. We don’t seem to have any good old-fashioned Christmases any more.” —Robert Benchley. 'Good Old' Yule “How I would long to see just one more ’old-fashioned Christ mas.’ ” These ara familiar words at this time of the year. Before the Yule- tide season is over, some member of the family, grandfather or grand mother, probably, is certain to pass that remark, as they have dona each Christmas of the past And yet If we search back into the records ... to the turn of the century, say ... we find that even then, someone was wishing for ”an old-fashioned Christmas.” It is then that we realize that the celebration of the birth of Christ has not changed greatly with the passage of centuries. Basically, Christmas is the same, year after year. It is only the world and the people who are not the same. He may not admit it, but when grandfather first began to raise a family, he overheard his elders musing over the changing Christ mas customs and heralding the approach to ’’completa commercial ism” of the Yuletide celebration. Even then they were worried. No one can deny that Christmas has been greatly “commercialized” since the days of early America. Yet, so has the entire nation. In the days of our ancestors there were none of the vast trading cen ters and commercial marts that we know today. Our very way of life has been greatly changed with modernization. Our holidays, and Christmas is the principal one, have managed to keep abreast -Still, without reservation, Christ mas is basically unchanged in Its true meaning as a celebration of the birth of the Christ-Child re deemer, come to save the world. No matter how great or how small the presents piled beneath the tree, each Christian heart never ceases to remember that Christmas is Christ’s day. 4^/ hmt fet/L JOlLV pRisms THE FRipf&LY CAFE 1217 Nance Street Newberry TAX NOTICE Alter the close of business on January 2,1952 A ONE PER CENT PENALTY will be added to all unpaid 1951 State and County Taxes J. Ray Dawkins Treasurer HOLIDAY NOTICE Following Banks will be Closed Tuesday and Wednesday December 25th. and 26th. 1951 for the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS Tuesday, January 1,1952 NEW YEAR'S DAY V -- - ;■.•* a The South Carolina National Bank Newberry Newberry County Bank Newberry Joanna I §’ I I I I I I I I o< 9 000 out ** '' e0 ‘L*es tV " S Seos 00 \W® GOODYEAR Main Street N