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. S'. M &a $mW TBS NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, IS »tm m. 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, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. Comments On Men And Things . . . Spectator Wonders If Congress Hysterical As President Truman Christmas in old England in spired the pen of many writers. The big houses, the house-parties, the coming and going, the big dinner—all the features that glad den the festive occasion thrilled me as a boy reading of “Merria England." Then the sweet carols proclaiming the joyous event. ' Englishmen in those spacious days lived in the country. An Englishman, even if a lawyer, went to his estate for the week end. And the home was not on a railroad or main throughfare, for the old-time Englishman sought privacy; he lived amid his flowers. ^ - The English like to walk; often the lawyer or businessman comes back from the City and walks three or four miles to his estate. Most of the' picture of the old days is of the England of the rich or the well-to-do; the family with a butler, parlor-maid, house maids, gardeners, several cooks and a coachman. Those were resplendent days, but the glamor ous days were npt the days of the poor. Even so, the poor had their celebrations, too, and ate and drank heartily. Today the England of Elizabeth and Victoria is reduced to a dreary make- believe of the old-time revelry. The Christmas season lasts from about the 20th of December until the 1st. of January. I used to have the thrill of coming home for “the holidays.” When I came back my mother and father had something specal, you know. Have you read of the prepara tions the German housewives made for the Yuletide? Days of mixing and baking and then a pantry heaped with cakes and cookies, pies, cbffee-cake and wickel - kuchen. That wickel- kuchen is something I used to buy in Charleston: it was a somewhat flat sweet bread, with raisins, citron and, perhaps, cherries. I had a childhood of varied ex perience and look back upon the German friends of Charleston, and some Irish friends. The Charleston bakeries of years ago were numerous and their products were many. I see the old Washington pie today, as it was then, but I don’t see any / hcrse-cakes. Sad, sad is my story when I say that the rank and file of Charlestonians grew up without horse-cakes. I wonder if some sedate banker of Broad Street can recall the old woman on a stool with a tray of horsecakes or groundnut cakes, fanning the flies away. and his helpers, planned some thing special, over in Prance, it was not always an achievement that brought glory to the flag, though it seemed to inspire men to heroic, even frenzied, daring in battle, because they had to take it out on somebody! In the United States Christmas is in the air. Almost immediately following Thanksgiving the very air seems charged with a spirit that is different. Not so in South America. I’ve told about living in the Andes Mountains and that the children had no Santa Claus. There was no fruit cake or mince pie. for no cake or pie was known there except a simple sort of tea-wafer or a fourth cousin to a thin qweet bread. And the turkey was not the King bird; and when I bought one my cook loaded it with garlic. When I tasted the turkey I said: Ud. ha arruinada mi pave — You have ruined my turkey. As I’ve told you, I tried to teach them how to make a fruit cake and a mince pie. It was a sad story and an even sadder bit of cookery. To be wholly truth ful, it was not as good as some products of the skill of the Company cook. When the Captain and the Mess Sergeant, the cook So much money is being authorized by Congress that it makes me wonder whether the Congress has become as hysteri cal as the President and his ad visers. Lewis Douglas made a sound statement recently, which I quote: v “The volume of Government spending currently planned threat ens the future of the nation’s eco nomy, Lewis W. Douglas, former Ambassador to Great Britain, declared. The contemplated high level of Government spending ‘will mean over many years a system of taxation so high that the for mation of capital will be impeded if not prevented, and the techni cal progress which has so far characterized American industry will begin to wane,’ he said. Mr. Douglas, who now is chair man of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, spoke before a meeting of the Rational Associa tion of Insurance Commissioners in New York City. He questioned whether ‘in our anxiety to make ourselves invul nerable from without, we are making ourselves vulnerable to danger from within.’ The rearma ment drive, he continued, ‘is pro ducing painful strains on the economies of the Western World. In the United States, the cost of living has mounted to new high, levels and the burden of taxa tion has soared to a grinding, painful and debilitating total. ‘Abroad, the evidences of strain are even more striking. Much of the advance that has been made toward reconstruction through the Marshall Plan is, or so it appears to an ordinary citi zen, now being lost. Bankruptcy, or impending bankruptcy, faces all governments.’ Mr. Douglas said the ‘way out of this troublesome dilemma de pends largely on our best and calmest, our shrewdest and wisest estimate of Soviet intentions.’ He questioned whether Russia would use force to obtain its ob jectives. ‘May it not be more probable,’ he asked, ‘that this period would be marked by civil wfcrs, rebellions, discontent, stim ulated uprisings, cold war mixed with minor hot ones, on the periphery of the more stable part of the world? Mr. Douglas said ‘any calm, cool assessment of the available evidence of Soviet intentions! should also be related to a wise and considerate comparison of the! risks that face us from without with the risks that face us from without with the risks that an excessive volume of public ex penditures create for us from within.’ ‘In view of the danger of great spending to freedom,’ he said, ‘we should make sure that no more is spent than is really essential. We must, of course, do our utmost to defend ourselves from the wicked and the godless and take risks to do so if need be. But let us be certain that no more is spent than is necessary, and that what is spent is for the most effective methods of de fending ourselves.” It’s the same old ptory: Ameri ca must put up more money; Europe complains of a short age of dollars. I think I could easily find some Americans who are short of dollars,—certainly after the Christmas bills come in. “Atlantic pact planners figure $500 million of yearly defense pro duction is going to waste here by failure to utilize Italy’s exis ting arms capacity. About 35% of this nation’s me chanical industries are lying idle. Its modern auto industry is work ing only a 24-hour week. There are idle shipyards. And more than two million men are unem ployed, nearly half of them in dustrial workers. Without any tooling up at all, Italy can turn out aircraft motor parts, jeeps, textiles and electrical equipment, according to American officials here. They note, too, that Italy is self-sufficient in most types of steel and machine- tools, unlike most other Atlantic pact nations. In France, too armaments works are working at as little as 30% of capacity. Light arms factories in Belgium and muni tions plants in some other pact countries also have idle capacity. Paradoxically, this situation e» ists at a time when Western pact defense planners are prodding for more arms producton. While parallel to the situation of the wasted German steel potential, the cause is quite different. In the pact countries the problem is working out a way of paying for arms which could be produced by a nation with idle arms capacity. Italy, for example/ can turn out for more armaments than its own troops consume. The Scandinavian countries need arms their own plants can’t sup ply. Producers like Italy and France refused to get production underway unless payment could be guaranteed. Potential buyers, on the other hand, shied at com mitting themselves until they got a firm commitment on how much U. S. aid they would get—so they could be* sure they’d be able to pay for their purchases. The matter stalled there. The only country which is de livering military equipment with out payment is the U. S. The Honor Degrees Be Conferred On Newberry Grads At the December semi-annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of Newberry college honorary degrees were awarded to a min ister and a retired chemist The joint faculty-board committee rec ommended the Rev. James Albert Keisler, Jr. of Charleston, for the. Doctor of Divinity degree (D.D.) and Doctor Virgil Bernard Sease of Parlin, N. J. for the Doctor of Science degree (Dr.Sci.). The board of trustees, in session De cember 12th, approved both de grees recommendations to be awarded at the college commence ment June 1952. The Rev. James Albert Keisler, Jr. is a native of Lexington coun ty and graduated from Newberry College In 1932 with the Bachelor of Arts degree. The Reverend Keisler is at present a member of the Board of Trustees of Newberry college. He is married to the former Violet Kathleen'Huffman and they have one daughter, Katherine Diane, ten years old. Mr. Virgil Bernard Sease is a native of Newberry county and graduated from Newberry college in 1908 with the Bachelor of Arts degree. At college he was out standing in oratory and debate and won several medals for his attainments. Mr. Sease is a prominent Lutheran layman and has served on various church committees and boards. At pre sent he is on the Executive Board of the United Lutheran Church in America. His wife is the former Rosalyn Summer of Newberry county and they have one son, Dr. John W. Sease who resides in Connecticut. Doctor Virgil Sease is a brother of Dr. Claude Sease and Miss Elberta Sease of Little Mountain, S. C. 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S. officials here. ‘If there’s one spot which is all geared up for work and can turn it • out fast, it’s Italy,’ says one American de- Jense planner. ‘But you need Capital to activate it and where *can you get it except from America?’. American officials say one pur- pose of the planned ‘offshore purchasing’ program is to pump sorely needed dollars into the economies of the Europeans. They admit, however, that it will pro vide only temporary relief for Europe’s ills.” There are rumors that Mr. Tru man will dictate the nomination of Chief Justice Vinson for Presi dent if Mr. Truman doesn’t try for it himself. It is my convic tion that we don’t want Mr. Tru man or anyone else of his way of thinking. After the close of Business December 31,1951 We must get the Federal Gov ernment out of our local affairs. Today everything is more or less under the Government’s control either directly or indirectly. 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