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vr*?' ■ • THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, u» 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 . . . Miracle Drugs Used In Animal Feeding Increases Production Spectator Shows Concern Over Socialistic Trend Thin, even scrawny—that’s the ruling idea of the day. Nobody wants to look cheerfully stout; the clothes should hang haggily and the face should have a hat- chet look and a razor edge; and instead of a well-fed bulge anywhere there should be cavern ous sinks. So any advice about adding to one’s weight will not be popular nor well received. In view of all that worldly wisdom I shall mention the latest suc cesses of anti-biotics, only in re lation to fattening ducks and tur keys. The anti-biotics, you know, are Penicillin, Streptomysin, Aureo- mysin, Chlormycetin, Terrymycin, and other “mysins.” Like many other laymen I wonder about these antibiotics and the rising scale of fees. A man of no means may groan with rheumatism, but if his wages per mit he will suffer from arthritis or neuritis. Then if he be in comfortable circumstances his arthritis will become rheumatoid arthritis, or something long and unpronounceable, but correspond ingly expensive. At the first symptom a shot of a half mil lion something will be* given. '* Now no man could expect to get a half million of anything “cheap.” No, No; when you hear about the half-million you are prepared with a grand “build-up” for a real fee. Fortunately for the turkeys and ducks, they don’t know about the half million shot, nor the heavy Charge oh the purse. Now this story comes from Missouri, but needn’t be doubted because of that. Gray Summit, Missouri, wherever that is. And nothing is said about this being a scheme of any Missouri politician, some of whom are not in good stand ing with us. “Americans eat some 22 bil lion pounds of meat yearly. They eat two-thirds of a billion broiler chickens. And some 60 billion eggs. To put this mountain of eatables on the market, about 10 million farm hands stoke the nation’s livestock population with million of tons of feed grains yearly. But farm-hand labor grows more costly. And corn that sold for less than 60 cents a bushel in Chicago just before World War II now brings nearly $2.00. What's needed, say the animal-making wizards are techni ques to produce a given amount of animal with less grain and fewer hours of work. And they are rapidly evolving such tech niques. You can see them in action on a big farm near this tiny Jdis souri town. It’s function is to experiment with animal diets pre pared to make meat in a hurry- and at minimum cost. Example: It grows a three-pound broiler in nine weeks on nine pounds of feed. That’s one pound of feed and one week of growing time below the 1946 national average— five to seven pounds of feed and seven weeks of growing time be low the average of 16 years ago. You hear a lot about antibiotics around here—the ‘wonder drugs’ like aureomycin, bacitracin, pent cillin, and streptomycin. But they’re not referred to medicinal ly. The feed experts use them in their make-meat-faster pro^ cesses. By adding the proper type and level of antibiotics to the feed of turkeys the birds at 26 weeks of age have been two pounds heavier than they would have been without antibiotics in their diets. It has been found that when antibiotics are added to a hog’s ration, the animal will require 20 less pounds of feed to reach 210 pounds of weight than a hog on rations without antibiotics. It is not by antibiotics alone, however, that the feed scientists gain their ends. It has been found that, with a straight corn diet, 12 bushels of grain are re quired to obtain 100 pounds of hog in 10 months. But with the addition of 60 pounds of sup plement (special feed containing proteins, minerals, vitamins and pig; 1 ONE GREASE ■ FOR all ' Lubrication lobs! other nutrients) to the diet, only 5.5 bushels of corn are necessary to grow 100 pounds of hog in 6.6 months. A visitor at Gray Summit can almost see a duck grow before his eyes. Ducks are the fastest growing poultry on the farm. A six-pound one is raised here in nine weeks on 22 pounds of feed. Compare this with the growth rate of 25 years ago when it took 30 to 36 pounds of feed, and 12 to 14 weeks of growing time, to produce* a five-pound duck. •Calves raised on this farm don’t waste any time getting big. While the normal growth of in fant Holsteins brings them to 250 pounds at four months, the average weight of the Holsteins here at that age is 307 .pounds (the heaviest was 390 pounds). For Guernseys the normal weight is 177 pounds at four months, but this farm’s Guernseys average 223 pounds at four months (the largest was 308 pounds). What improved diets, along with better flock management have done for egg production in this country is already evident. At the present time national pro duction averages about 170 eggs per hen a year. This is a big jump from -the average output of 152 eggs for each hen in 1945 and about 113 eggs per hen in 1926, but it still is far below the 238.6 eggs per hen a year produced at Gray Summit. A White Holland Turkey hen here turned out 251 eggs in a year and some of the other prize hens had output records of 206 to 245 eggs in a year. The farm's yearly average, however, is 189 turkey eggs. The performance of the turkey hens here indicates the potential of producing turkey eggs on a year-around basis. Turkeys nor mally lay eggs only in the spring. But here, through proper feeding, lighting and other management practices they are induced to pro duce eggs at any season of the year.” When I harp on the danger of Socialism I am the more deep ly concerned because the young people are either not interested or, else, are leaning toward Socialism because of some text books and some teachers. A wide ly known and greatly respected citizen of Charleston calls atten tion to this: that at certain grass roots meetings in Charleston, call ed for the purpose of opposing the trend to Socialism, there was no one present under thirty two years of age. Pathfinder Maga zine tells a story of the Idaho brand of National Socialistic politics. “Protest meetings and public opinion polls have made the sentiment clear. The sturdy people of Idaho’s Snake River Valley don’t like socialism in any guise. And they do like their Idaho Power Co., which has electrified nearly 99 percent of the area’s 27,000 farms—at rates 42 percent below, the national average. Yet last week Idaho Power faced a fight for its very future as public power men sought des perately to frustrate its expan sion. By the simple device of holding back a construction license, the Federal Power Commission has stalled for four years Idaho Power’s proposal to build a hydro electric dam at Oxbow, a Snake River site owned by the company ’or more than 30 years. Reason: The U. S. Bureau of Reclama tion doesn’t want Idaho Power to build the dam (and four others jroposed for Brownlee, Sturgill, Bayhorse Rapids and Hell’s Can yon). Instead, it wants a single dam „ at Hell’s Canyon. Cost of the Federal dam: a minimum of $357 million, paid for entirely with taxpayers’ mon ey and not subject to taxation upon completion. Cost of the five smaller Idaho Power dams: Less than $200 million, financed entirely by private capital and taxpaying upon completion. If the Federal dam goes up, it will not only take t^ae Hell's Canyon site but also will flood Idaho Power’s four other sites. Why do other areas of the Northwest need this extra power anyway? they ask. Invariably the answer points to aluminum- makers, induced Northwest ‘by public power men. ‘With the de liberate intention.’ Snake Valley people say, ‘of creating such a power shortage that Congress would approve the building of more public dams.’ Public power men weren’t stop ped even when Congress rejected their request for money to build the Hell’s Canyon dam. ‘It’s still part of our basic plan,’ said Bon neville’s Morgan D. DuBrow last week. Should taxpayers have to foot bills for projects private industry would build? Should Government be allowed to thwart development of any area—perhaps yours?”. The Investor’s Reader tells an interesting story; “One example of the cost dif ferential in public and private power is tucked away in a recent engineers report prepared for New York City. Wrote the engin eers: ‘In a typical Ihrge modern high-pressure, steam-power sta tion of 330,000 kw capacity the personnel required is 132 on a 40-hour week. Four years before it earned twice as much on sales of $37,240,000. Things are still dreary with a $53,000 loss for the September nine mopths, the worst since any one cares to recall. Mute evidence of operating difficulties* is the Y Company which operates 73 cafeterias and once a junior blue chip. The chain served 44,000,000 customers in 1950, rang up sales of $15,678,- 000 but lost $248,000 in the pro cess. Back in 1943 with almost identical sales profits were $811,- 000. Restaurant men agreed on the ailment: costs on the increase and selling price squashed be tween price ceilings and con sumer resistance. The problem is compounded since the average check in restaurants is less than 30c, even with inflation. Reason: many customers drop in for only a cup of coffee or a glass of water and a toothpick.” Of course, a man who can order a steak, just so, should have his picture in the papers, like Babe Ruth knocking a home run over the right field bleachers. Based on their recent record, the banks will struggle through somehow — and probably make more money in the process. In the five years since War II, the nation’s bank assets have under gone some significant changes. By the end of 1945 the com mercial banks alone owned $90 billion in Government securities. On this huge investment the banks earned less than 2% a Treasury’s year because of the cheap money policy. An interesting postwar change is the growth of certain bank ing areas. For two decades the big New York City banks have lost ground in their proportionate share of total deposits, an in dication that banks in smallei 4 spots handled local needs. In 1941 New York banks accounted for 30.3% of all deposit holdings. ’uve Money On now ‘This Home Mixed ly above r^rowth'.Cough Syrup Second Natit*, No Cooking. So Easy, has lncreasea. nrised how quickly end easily since 1941, the **ughs due to colds, when Dallas is up 200 %Vd recipe. It gives, you California giant*ch cough medkiy ous America deposits have a®*”* ** * ,u ^ 250% and Security-First Nat* ^nutated Is up 160%.” «>°ki . On the other hand in the City’s 74th Street plant which has less than half this capacity there are a total 433 persons working 48 hours weekly.’ The City now buys about 28% of the power required for its vast rapid transit system. In the later fiscal year it paid Con solidated Edison 1.1c a kwh for power v 1.4c as the cost of city generated power. Moreover Con Ed gave the city a $682,000 ‘kick- back’ in the form of taxes. Con cluded the New York Times: ‘ the City should go out of the power business entirely.’J Are we all crazy; or should sensible people arouse themselves and correct the foolish course? Even the Bankers have trou bles; it must be a sad world. “Operating earnings 'of most banks above 1950 but not good enough to show a reasonable re* turn on capital compared with many other business. Naturally the results varied widely among the 14,000 > banks (including 6,800 members of the Federal Reserve system). % Despite their better prosperity, many bankers are not altogether happy. They groaned at the bite of taxes; they are plainly wor ried about the high, rate of Government expenditures; they ponder what will happen late in 1962 when the US Treasury must sell many more bonds to finance its deficits. In what direction is this Nation growing? Maine, 'Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Mississip pi, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Ne braska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas have very small growth. New York, the Carolinas, Wisconsin, Illinois, In diana, Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, West Virginia has less than average gain, but growing substantially; Virginia, Connecti- cutt, Michigan, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and Texas are above average in development; but Dela ware, Maryland, Florida, all tbs Pacific coast, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico are booming. AUDITOR’S 1952 TAX ASSESSMENT NOTICE Returns Of personal prop erty, new buildings and real estate transfers, and poll tax, are to be made at the Coun ty Auditor’s Office begin ning: January 1st, 1952 * through February 29th, 1952 All able bodied male citi zens between the ages of twenty-one and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax. All returns are to be made by School Districts. Your failure to make return calls for penalty as prescribed by law. PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS Auditor Newberry County When you order a steak you think the life of a cafe or restau rant operator is the life of Riley, don’t you? I have a fine old friend in Columbia who has a cafe. Nearly every time I see him he is at his cash register. All this time I’ve thought he was always busy putting in money; perhaps he was taking it out. How does this impress you: “The $7 Billion A Year restau rant business is in the soup. This is the sad fact even though national income is at an all-time high and many an industry rings dp record profits. But the men and women who run 350,000 US eating places serve 65,000,000 meals a day and get little for their work but slim earnings— and often losses.” “X has 53 restaurants mostly in New Yorjc City. In 1950 it Re ported sales of $40,946,000 and profits of $1,032,000 (93c a share). With just one grease, Sinclair Litholine, you can lubricate chassis, wheel bearings, water pumps, universal joints... of your car, truck or tractor... winter or summer. Farmers find it does a better job at each lubrication point than the '‘specialized” greases they formerly used. PARK1 ADVANTAGES at-a-glance: 1. A finer grecso of e very point. 2. Less danger of applying the wrong grease. 5. Quicker greasing operations. 4. Smaller grease stocks — one instead of 3 or 4. 5. Fewer grease guns. 6. Less waste. W« d*livr dirtet to farms. Phone or write us. Strother C. Paysinger Suppliers of Sinclair Prod. Newberry, S. C. M UlTI-PURP0SE ;.0JIIASE MONEY TO LEND A client of mine has some money to loan on im proved farm lands and on improved city property. Also, on bank and cotton mill stock and* on govern ment bonds. Any one loan not to be over sixty (60) per cent, of the recognized market value of the security offered. Rate of interest six per cent, per annum, payable annually. Loan to be secured by note or bond of borrower with first mortgage on real property and by collateral note with assignment of stocks and bonds. Call to see the undersigned. H. C. Holloway, Attorney Dr. James L. Biber Announces the Opening of Offices for the practice of Optometry Offices 304 Exchange Bank Building Telephone 144 en pi m «P f medi* . action. r children .iold of e othes the % Keep Your 's sorenew f proven ? welU si hi and d if it Self Confidence - - T HEW M PINI m It’s amazing how one reflects in business, and social life as well . . . the way you feel about your outward ■ appearance. Wear clothes from Carpenter’s to be always at your best. Carpenter’s Newberry, S. C. . mm ms* * - ■ - v . '••S'- V • T" mi mmmmm ■-M m - in seven days, the pint of blood this Washington, D. C. man has given could be saving a G. L’s life in Ko rea. Red Cross nurse’s aids help out at the blood cen ter. You can sign up today at the Red Cross office in the Court House to donate blood Tuesday, February 26. Your blood is badly needed. This advertisement is sponsored in the interest of Newberry County Hood Bank by Newberry Federal Savings and Loan Association of Newberry -..y. JOHN F. CLARKSON, Pres. J. K. WILLINGHAM, Seey.-Treas. .3' ■ ■' v- Sm! fx ':n . :