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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,
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Statement of Condition
Newberry Federal Savings &
Loan Association
Newberry, South Carolina
result is that almost every pact
country is depending largely on
the U. S. for its supplies.
At the Atlantic Pact meeting
held here last week. American of-
ficals made it known that they
were about to use $550 million of
aid funds already appropriated to
finance arms production in some
idle European plants. Some of
the munitions will go to American
forces, but most of it to other
pact allies.
Nowhere is the opportunity for
such ‘offshore purchasing’ more
obvious than here in Italy, say
U. 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. We
are breaking up the plan of local
self-government, which is Ameri
ca's greatest contribution to the
world. It is also the bedrock of
our American plan of government.
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