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the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS . . .
Spectator Colums Round Out 16
Years Of Service To Carolina
Spectator, meaning the week
ly column, is of h^gh school age,
being about sixteen years old.
The writer of Spectator is in the
full effervescence of perpetual
youth, even if not efflorescent.
However here is a note written
by Major William D. Workman
which I am vain enough to pub
lish.
“For more than 10 years now,
you have been kind enough to
send me copies of ‘Spectator’, and
it is high time that I make some
acknowledgement of their value.
They have served me, and no
doubt many another South Caro
linian, % as constant reminders of
those problems, local, national
and international, which warrant
our attention. The -solutions you
propose have in many instances
been those I would have suggest
ed; in other instances, our re
actions have differed—but that is
beside the point. The real value
has been in the awakening of
thought—and it is a rare problem
which cannot be solved after a
fashion through the application
of good sense and good will.
Here's hoping that you’ll be
turning out ‘Spectator’ for a long
time to come—and that my name
will stay on your mailing list.”
When I first knew ‘‘Bill” he
was program Director of a radio
station out in the marshes, on the
edge of Charleston. I went down
once a week and spoke, slipping
away, leaving Bill to take the
blame until I perpetrated another
talk.
This Spectator of mine was
first written on the suggestion of
Ira B. Armfield of Newberry, now
a newspaper brother of North
Carolina. So Ira and O. F. (Arm-
field) were the first to palm off
Spectator on the public. They
are hoping to be forgiven. As for
“Bill”, he quit the radio busi
ness and fought the Germans, re
garding combat service as less
arduous and hazardous than
standing up for my radio talks.
Even so.
Oil, the new giant of industry!
Some time ago I talked about
coal; here is something about
qil:
“Shortages of materials had dis
rupted many American industries
in 1951. It was not that way with
oil. “Record civilian and substan
tial military needs were fully sup
plied when, as and where requir
ed. The emergency created in ex
port markets by the stoppage of
oil flow from Iran was firmly
met and quickly abrogated.
“American oil companies mean
while conducted the most inten
sive search for new sources of
crude oil in their history. Re
serves were increased and notab
ly from domestic fields. At the
year end domestic crude poten
tial was in excess of current con-
oumption by a comfortable mar
gin. Modern refinery capacity
was concurrently expanded and
modernized to provide a safety
factor against expected further
increases in oil consumer require
ments.
The industry's 1951 perform
mance was with a minimum of
government control or interfer
ence, which < ould in part ac
count for its excellence. Manage
ments, stockholders, workers,
customers and the public at large
had a fine opportunity to see
competitive enterprise in action,
swift and efficient. Competition
within the oil industry has always
been keen. There are tens of
thousands of units within the
United States bidding for avail
able business and no one has
more than about one seventh of
the tatal market
The expenditures which Ameri
can oil companies made in their
record drilling drive last year
were staggering to the imagina
tion. About 44,500 wells were
sunk, 1,200 more than the former
record set in 1950. Well drilling
costs range from a low of around
$45,000 to $250,000 $500,000 and
even as much as $1,000,000 apiece
depending on depth and geo
graphical location.
It is a risky business this
search for oil. Of the total wells
drilled in 1951, no less than 16,-
000 were dry holes, a majority of
them in acres regarded as proven
by skilled geologists and geo
physicists.
Projects for expanding refinery
capacity popped up almost daily
in 1951. Those under way, in
cluding plants for production of
all types of products, are cost
ing the industry at least $1,000,-
000,000, and by mid-1953 will have
added another 1,000,000 barrels
daily processing capacity. The
American Petroleum Institute
only recently issued its estimate
of refining capacity in the United
States. On December 31, 1951,
it was 7,228,000 barrels a day.
By March 31 this year refining
capacity is due to reach 7,272,*
500 barrels daily; by June 30,
7,333,500 barrels and by Sept.
30, 7,365,000 barrels a day.
Further progress in dieseliza-
tion of the nation’s railroads,
great strides in the mushrooming
petro-chemical industry, new rec
ords • in production and use of
liquefied petroleum gas, intensi
fied studies looking to the utiliza
tion, when required, of enormous
oil reserves now locked in shale,
coal asphalt and tar deposits,
and research results comparable
with any former year, could be
the subject for other chapters in
the oil industry’s record of
achievement in the year just end
ed.”
Private enterprise! Scanning
some of our papers last week I
found this little poem in The I
Timmonsville Times, taken from
an Arkansas paper:
“The power to choose the work
we do,
To grow and have the larger
view, *
To know and feel that we are
free
To stand erect, not bow the knee,
To be not chattel of the State,
To be the master of our fate.
To dare, to risk, to lose, to win.
To make our own career begin.
To serve the world in our own
way,
To gain in wisdom, day by day,
With hope and zest to climb, to
rise;
That is PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.”
Well, that’s about it, isn’t it?
I don’t know a paper in Soqth
Carolina which isn’t on the. side
of good government and sound
economics. Some are more vig
orous than others, but the editors
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THE NEWBERRY SUN
have not lost their perspective.
If Moses had put the Children
of Israel on the Welfare rolls
and had continued that support
until now the cost would be less
than President Truman has spent
since July 1st. 1945. I had all
that calculated some months ago.
Now comes a Professor of Eco
nomics of New York University
and tries his hand on the budget
which Mr. Truman has presented
to Congress for the next fiscal
year, beginning July 1st.
Here is what the Professor
says:
“Your editorial of January 22,
describes Mr. Truman’s ’52-’53
budget as ‘too big for compre
hension.’ I sympathize with the
‘frustration’ you experienced at
the difficulties involved in giving
it meaning. Yet we cannot give
up; we must try to give it mean
ing—'Win, lose or draw.
Several attempts to illustrate
the magnitude of Mr. Truman’s
budget are given below. •
(!)• Suppose, on the day of
Christ’s birth, you had hired 10,-
000 men at $10 a day. Suppose
you had paid this amount uay
after day, year after year, century
after century, up to the present
time. You would not yet have
spent $85 billion until the year
2329.
(2) Suppose, back in 1945 on
the day Mr. Truman was inaugu
rated you had hired three million
men at $10 per day. Suppose
they were paid, day in, day out,
seven days a week. • You would
not have spent $86 billion until
SERGEANT SWEAT AWARDED
^BRONZE STAR MEDAL
Sergeant First Class James A.
Sweat, whose wife, Ara, lives
at 1400 Poplar street, has been
awarded the Bronze Star Medal
for meritorious service during 12
months of Korean combat.
Sergeant Sweat rotated to the
United States last November. He
January, 1953.
(3) Let us suppose that, in
1952, the median income per tern-
ployed person will be $4,000. The
$85 billion, therefore, represents
the full time employment, for one
year, of 21 1/4 million people.
The remarkable fact in all this
is not that we have what is loose
ly called ‘inflation.’ Instead, it
is remarkable that the ‘inflation’
has not proceeded even further."
The leadership of Mr. Truman
is a calamity but sober thinking
men are remembering that Con
gress must bear its part of the
responsibility. Let us take note
of what Congress is doing. It
serves no useful purpose to de
nounce Mr. Truman for ex
travagance if that extravagance
and the pernicious sway of
bureaucrats are supported by
even our own Congressmen whom
we joyfully support. If Congress
men will do their duty we can
curb Mr. Truman. In planning to
leave Mr.. Truman at home let us
study the records of our men in
Congress; perhaps some of them
might be kept at home so as to
enjoy citizenship from the out
side rather than perquisites on
the inside.
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1952
was a member of the 39th Field
Artillery Batalion, Headquarters,
3rd Infantry Division.
The decoration was presented
in recognition of Sergeant Sweat’s
service between November 11,
1950, and November 8, 1951.
MAJOR McCRACKIN SLATED
FOR DUTY IN KOREA
(Major Ed McCrackin, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McCrackin,
left St. Petersburg, Fla., Monday
for California, enroute to Korea
for active duty.
Major McCrackin was stationed
in St. Petersburg three weeks
before he received his orders for
overseas duty. Prior to going to
Florida, he was an Engineer In
structor at Fort Belvoir, Va., and,
before being transfered to Fort
Belvoir, (Major McCrackin was an
instructor at the Florida Mili
tary Academy.
Mrs. McCrackin and their
daughter, Gwinn, plan to make
their home at St. Petersburg
Beach, while Major McCrackin is
on duty overseas.
The Major McCrackins were re
cent visitors in the home of the
McCrackins on College street.
NEWBERRY COLLEGE
STUDENTS ATTEND
YOUTH CONFERENCE
Miss Jean Dawkins, Miss Patsy
Kinard and Guy Kennedy, New
berry College students, represent
ed the college at the Methodist
Youth Conference, which was
held at Wofford College, Spartan
burg, on Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, February 22-24th.
Prizes Offered
To Workers In
Concert Drive
The Community Concert Asso.
announces big incentive prizes to
be given its workers in the mem
bership drive next week. To the
worker who sells highest in value
of memberships above a minimum
of $60 will receive a prize of $16;
second high $12, third high $7.50;
4th 5th and 6th prizes will be an
adult membership in the Concert
Asso. for next season—five ex
cellent concerts! And there will
be three student memberships of
fered to the students who sell
the most memberships—if they
do not win one of the cash
awards.
That’s not all. In Carpenter’s
window this weekend will be
shown a barrel full of gifts to be
given to workers on the Concert
Asso. Membership Drive. There
will be a first and second pria^p
for ladies, gentlemen, girls and
boys—who se* the highest and
second highest value in member-
ships in the Concert Asso. Every*
one is elegible to win both the
cash awards and the merchandise
gifts. Among the free gifts are
ladies cosmetics sets, sheer hose,
2 deck tibit server, men’s bath
accessories, men’s sport shirt,
boys sport shirt, argyle hose,
Flower ’n Tye, etc. See them
in Carpenter’s window. . .
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Deed Transfers
Newberry No. 1
Newberry Life and Health In
surance Company to George
Wayne Martin, one lot and
building, near Glenn street, $12,-
000. ^ 4
Bryan B. Livingston and Aman
da A. Livingston to Alton O.
Livingston, Jr., one lot 94’xl50 on
Charles street, $500.
Fred Eugene Boland to Velerie
P. Rushing, one lot and one
building, 617 O’Neal street, $4260.
Newberry No. 1 Outside
J. C. Dominick to W. L. Shep*-
pard, one lot contains one acre,
$400.
I. Aubrey Davis to Tommie E.
Harmon and Margaret D. Har
mon, 48 acres (East Adelaide
street Extension), $1000.
Howard Cromer to Rube Har
mon 8.76 acres, $1500.
Bush River No. 3
Walton B. Halfacre to J. Ralph
Williams, 60 acres, $1500.
Whitmire No. 4
Rebe H. Stone to Hugh E.
Tankersley and Vallie W. Tanker-
sley, one lot and one building,
113 I^eed Avenue, $5.00 and other
considerations.
Whitmire No! 4 Outside
Hugh E. Tankersley To Reba
H. Stone and Robert C. Stone,
one lot and one building near
Whitmire-Clinton Highway, $5.00
and other considerations.
Little Mountain
John R. Hall to William Harold
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has trained millions in first aid and home nursing for the better
protection erf themselves, their families, and their neighbors. But much
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cooperation and energy. And generous giving of money, too—for
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