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PAGE FOUR 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 By SPECTATOR I have a friend, a warm-hearted man who takes time to be just human. In his office I saw this poem, which is worth sharing witli you: “THE MAN IN THE GLASS When you get what you want in your struggle for gain, And the world makes you King for a day, Just go to the mirror and look at yourself And see what that man has to say. It isn’t your father, or mother, or wife. Whose judgment you must pass, The one whose verdit counts most in your life, Is the one staring back in the glass. He’s the one you must satisfy beyond all the rest, For he’s with you, right up to the end . . . And you have passed your most difficult test, If the man in the glass is your friend. ' You may be one who got a good break And think you’re a wonderful guy, But the man in the glass says you’re only a fake If you can’t look him straight in the eye. You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years, And get pats on your back as you pass, But your final reward will be heartaches and tears If you’ve cheated the man in the glass.’’ / * Calhoun Man Of Broad Vision John C. Calhoun did not devote all his great intellect to “Nullification.” Here in the South we think of Cal houn as a gigantic figure, but we do not always remem ber on what his fame rests. Calhoun was not a narrowly sectional man; he was an honor man of Yale and knew at first hand the problems of the Nation on a National scale. He served as Secretary of War, Secretary of State and Vice President of the United States. His ser vice as a Senator from South Carolina did not limit his vision of National greatness, nor of National perils. How great his vision was can be seen from this quotation from a speech of his in the Senate: , . . “ ‘Mr. President, there is something ominous in the expression ‘The Secretary of the Interior.’ This gov ernment . . . was made to take charge of the exterior re lations of the states. And if there had been no exterior \ relations, the federal government would never have ex isted . . . (This) monstrous bill . . . will turn over the whole interior affairs of the country to this department, and it is one of the greatest steps that has ever been made in my timd to absorb all the remaining power of the states.’ “Daniel Webster, Jefferson Davis, and the other U. S. Senators who heard John C. Calhoun’s remonstrance that bitter day in 1849 evidently thought their colleague had mistaken a molehill for a mountain. The states, in mid nineteenth century, seemed more than a match for the federal government; ‘the whole interior affairs of the country’ were then mainly a matter of preserving a few beleaguered outposts on the perimeter of an ocean of land, and the proposed agency, far from being omnipotent, seemed to have no more power than any other heap of ill-assorted functions and responsibilities. Time, however, has since given his words a disquieting reality. The Department of the Interior, next month to celebrate its hundred-and-third anniversary, is an authori tarian colossus. Spending $600 million a year, maintain ing a payroll of 63,000 employees, Interior holds the eco nomies of many western states in the palm of its hand and exerts a decisive influence on the entire region. “The Government” Means Water people speak of ‘the government,’ they mean the Interior Department: Its Bureau of Reclamation parcels out that life-or-death commodity, water, on a fifth of the nation’s irrigated acreage. Interior’s Bureau of Land Management controls 68 per cent of the land in Nevada, 48 per cent in Utah, 28 per cent in Wyoming, and in general, the department says who shall mine, and who shall graze, on a total of 35 per cent of the area of the eleven far-western states. The Bureau of Indian Affairs regulates the lives of 435,000 Indians, most of them living on a complex of res ervations bigger than all of New England. The National Park Service administers 16,600,000 acres of national parks and monuments, ranging in size from the house where Lincoln died (2,178 square feet) to two- million-acre principalities like Yellowst^e and Death Val ley. The office of Territories supplies the rum industry in the Virgin Islands, runs the railroads in Alaska, and shapes the destiny of three million people spread all the way from Puerto Rico to the sweltering Trust islands in the Pacific. The power instrumentalities, Reclamation, Southwestern, Southeastern, Booneville, market 26 million kilowatt-hours a year, an output equal to that of the eight biggest pri vate hydroelectric producers in the country.” THE NEWBERRY SUN While Congress Fiddles About That Fee As to my remarks two weeks ago about the Hartwell Dam: The Anderson Independent is a conspicuously excellent newspaper; the editor is one of South Carolina’s most eminently successful men. Because of these facts I might expect to be challenged in debate on the issues, not on personalities. Any amount which I may have received as a consultant from any power Company does not make or change facts. Either the facts are as I stated, or they are not. Let’s have facts. Even a high school boy knows that the argumentum ad hominem is the resort of a debater whose assumptions wont stand up. Since his position is unsound or wobbly he throws mud on the other man. When I called attention to what had happened to the Santee River I was stating a fact. I might also have elaborated somewhat and made an argument from that fact. I might have said that “the big reservoirs destroy huge tracts of land, not only by back-water sedimentation but by direct inundation, and they always gobble up the bottom lands—the most fertile and productive soil. .In the case of the T.V.A., the permanent flooding jof such rich land is greater in extent than was the temporary flooding before it was built. I might also say that steam plants are now being built by many public power projects, notably T.V.A. It disappoints me that so progressive and resource ful an editor should dodge the facts and attack me, personally. Personally, I am not the Santee River, nor the Savannah River. No fee received by me will decrease the volume of water on the Savannah River, nor yet af fect it in any other way. Nor can my distinguished friend draw off hundreds of gallons of water into mammoth res ervoirs without virtually draining the Savannah River. Of course this is immaterial, perhaps, because the H-bomb plant will be in operation long before the reservoir could draw off much water. I am stating a case which engineers can discuss; my statement that the Hartwell Project is a camouflaged pub lic power enterprise, now masquerading as a water sup ply for the H-bomb plant, is not denied. I have great respect for the public spirit and public service of the able editor of Anderson; I am entirely con fident that he is prompted by a broad and magnanimous attitude of general patriotism. However, he must not ex pect me to think that all men are so generously altruistic. Does not my friend know of cases in which my fee would be like a sardine in a sea of whales? I’m sure he has some information that would be illuminating. I could write a book about some public figures, and not exclusively in high praise. So I marvel that so big a man as my friend is, and I gladly admit it, should resort to so paltry an item as my fee when he knows a thing or two that he might have mentioned about some pub lic power champions, or does he suggest that I do so? My respect and regard for you, Mr. Editor, continue unabated, but I hope we shall debate the issues, not per sonalities. Test Your Intelligence Score 10 points for each correct answer In the first six questions: 1. What kind of bird was shot by the “Ancient Mariner” in the poem: —eagle —condor —albatross —pigeon 2. What is the galley of a ship: —front —rear —mast i —-kitchen 3. The Republic of Liberia is in: —Africa —Asia —Europe —South America 4. Which of the following is not a musical instrument: —tambourine —oboe —buffoon —balalaika 5. In an airplane, the tachometer indicates: —how fast the propeller is turning —rate of climb —ceiling —weather conditions 6. In Britain a pillar-box is used for: —rubbish —mail —games —watering horses 7. Listed below are four famous trophies and opposite them, scrambled up, the sports in which they are awarded. Match them, scoring 10 points for each correct answer. (A) Thompson —Tennis (B) Stanley —Motor Boating (C) Harmsworth —Aviation (D) Davis —Hockey Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average * 70-80, superior; 90-100, very superior. (Answers On Page Six) • • asHngtoa W ITH PASSAGE by the senate of the bill to give the oil-rich un der sea lands to the adjacent states, despite two decisions of the United States supreme court that me federal government has para mount jurisdiction over these areas beyond the low tide mark, this con gress has again put the matter up to President Truman. It will be re membered that the President vetoed such a measure in 1946, and he is expected to do so again. The senate turned down any com promise on the matter, such ad a split authority between the states and the federal government and turning the royalties into an educa tional fund for the public school system. Vote on Am measure was 50 to 89. Certain exceptions were set up in the measure providing that states which had not already done so might extend their bound aries to the three-mile limit. In the case of the gulf coast of Flori da and the coast of Texas, the boundaries were recognized as three Spanish leagues (10 miles) seaward. Title to the land further out on the continental shelf was not decided by the measure. • • • The Senate has approved a bill to increase the base pay of all armed services personnel by three' per cent and allowances by varying amounts and to provide a $45-a- month combat pay for fighters in Korea. The bill was a complete re vision of a house-passed measure which permitted a straight 10 per cent increase in all pay and allow ances without addition to combat pay. Total cost of the senate ver sion is expected to be $471,000,000 annually, while the house bill was estimated to cost $850,000,000, Sen ator Richard B. Russell, Georgia, chairman of the armed services committee said the senate measure was designed to meet the increased cost of living without changing the basic pay system fixed by con gress in 1949. • • • The Senate also passed a bill in creasing monthly rates of compen sation and pensions to veterans and their dependents. The measure would provide a 15 per cent in crease in compensation for service- connected disability to veterans of all wars who are rated between 50 and 100 per cent disabled, and a five per cent increase for those rated between 10 and 49 per cent disabled. A house - passed bill did not include veterans of the Spanish-American, Civil and Indian wars. Another veterans increase measure was passed by the senate on voice vote, after already hav ing passed the house, which would increase the annual income limita tions governing payments of pen sions to veterans with non-service- connected disabilities. The measure raises the income limitations from $1,100 to $1,200 for single persons and $2,500 to $2,600 for married persons. • • • After beating down all efforts to increase funds, the house passed the army civil functions appropria tions measure just as it was rec ommended by th appropriations committee, carrying $492,434,900 for fiscal year 1953. It gives the corps of engineers $472,295,400; Panama Canal $16,139,500 and the quarter master corps $4,000,000. The corps of engineers fund was broken down into $221,232,400 for flood control projects and $187,450,000 for rivers and harbors projects. The house even rejected, in the face of the disastrous Kansas-Missouri floods, funds to start the Tuttle creek res ervoir in Kansas, recommended my President Truman in his Jan. 21 budget message. The House agricultural commit tee recommended the agricultural department appropriations bill, cut ting only three per cent from re quests of the department, for a to tal appropriation of $724,003,699. The committee rejected recom mendations of the American farm bureau federation and the national grange and allowed most of the funds requested for soil conserva tion. The committee warned that the country would face a serious food shortage in 1975 if conserva tion activities were not strength ened. The farm bureau had recom mended that the budget request for $256,500,000 for conservation pay ments be cut to $100,000,000 and the committee allowed $250,000,000. DaueCarnegh AUTHOR UF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND STARTIIVING” m Discuss Your Worries VuVARUS ROBINSON, Princeton, Ind., was a flight dispatcher for * * an aviation company, and one of his duties was to prepare a daily listing of the aircraft available for fly-away, and teletype that listing to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, at 3:30 P.M. precisely every working day. The air forces required a daily minimum listing of at least 14 aircraft at that time. He worried about that time deadline before he even started on the job, and sure enough, the very first day he was in charge of the operation only 11 aircraft were available for listing. More over, he was not able to list the minimum quota any one day for the entire first week. By that time he was so worried he couldn’t do anything right. He felt pretty sure that company was watching his performance closely and he was Camerie darned certain the army was watching even more *** closely. His greatest worry, however, was the fact that the planes ! were needed—badly needed—overseas! In desperation, he asked his supervisor to call a meeting of all hangar superintendents and flight-line crew chiefs. He briefly explained to them the problems and bottle-necks which were be ing encountered and they had a roimd-table discussion concern ing them right then and there. The very next working day the listing was 16 planes, two ovei the quota, and for the remainder of the time he was on the job they never failed to make their minimum, barring accidents and unavoidable production delays, although the minimum listing was later increased. " Mar us believes firmly that if you discuss your problems and worries with someone, for instance your doctor, your lawyer, your minister or your folks at home, in fact anyone who will listen to you, you will clarify your mind and your worries will diminish, often to the vanishing point. ' . ' 4> . ‘ WINDOW WASHING . . . Lever Brothers building, New York, is mostly glass. Device for washing windows runs on tracks around building with a gondola suspended from it that can be lowered out side windows of desired floor. FfclDAY, APRIL 25, 1952 A.THOUGHTFUL FRIEND My friend Fred Gardiner, who, by-th-way, is a gardner, brings me a gob of different English papers ever now and then which I read with much relish. And a perusal of these sheets heightens my already considerable regard for those sturdy cousins of ours across the drink. Fred has been in this country a long time and was out in the west when that section was being tamed. He, with a brother went to California to seek work. The brother left the city in which they located to seek work elsewhere and from that day, 40 years ago, Fred has never heard from him. My friend has many tales of his early experiences in this country and some day I may get them out of him and set them down here. PRETTY YARDS This seems to be a good year for tulips. They are blooming beautifully in many yards but nowhere more so than in the small yard of the Swindlers just behind the Whitaker Funeral home. Other flowers bloom ing along with the tulips show a keen sense of ar rangement. It is altogether beautiful, or was a week ago. Another yard which is always beautiful is that of the Nichols’ in the Wells development. Somebody in that house is certainly heavily endowed with the green thumb. Even in dry weather the lawn, flowers and phrubs look so green and inviting one would just like to stretch out there and sleep for an eon. up. • i*;.' .si\ % V “A. ■'iO'fL- ■ \ SPEEDY CHINK A Chinaman applying for a stenographic job in country wrote: “Me Chinese Bing. For drive typewriter with hell of noise and my English is it. Last job left self from me for simple reason that big man was dead oi account of not my fault. So what of it? If you anxious like me I will arrive on day as you can guess.’ 99 '.tm SUCKERS—GARDEN VARIETY * Joe Serra: “Nobody likes a wise guy, a braggart. With our biggity, free-spending type of government, I we have made many friends world-wide—fair weather type, that is—but to the very ones that we imagine we are impressing with our superior and lavish grand ness, we are garden variety suckers .... We know as well as we know 2 and 2 that Washington and Jeffer son and Franklin knew what they were talking about. They said we should mind our own business—their method was as simple as that—it worked. Look at us now—our tail over the dashboard—an income tax gent * around every corner—still acting half pixilated—and in debt up to our collar buttons. -"$5 ms >2 GIRDLES FOR CONGRESSMEN * ***** **•-*■ In February a shirts-for-Congressmen campaign was started in California. The originator of the idea told an audience, “To my congressman I say: ‘You are taking now in taxes everything but my shirt. You might as well have that too.” He then yanked off his shirt and others followed suit. The campaign was enlivened by a woman who sent her congressman her girdle with a note suggesting a little more “figure control” in congress. POINT OF NO RETURNS, MAYBE! ‘Somewhere there is a point at which earnings can be knocked down by taxation to the point where they are inadequate to pay the taxes. Which is to ask, what happens to the milker when the cow goes dry?”— Oskaloosa (Iowa) Herald. LIFE IN THE PARSONAGE Friends here of a former pastor of O’Neal Methodist church will enjoy this little story from Will Lou Culbert son’s column in the Sunday Anderson Independent: “Like most preachers, the Rev. M. M. Brooks, pastor of the. Calhoun Falls Methodist Church, gives all his marriage fees to his wife, Mrs. Brooks, but because he is so gen erous minded, it often happens that her earnings are lean. Mr. Brooks told with some amusement this week about the time, when he was pastor of the Methodist Church at Ninety Six, and Mrs. Brooks got right put out with him over his so-called generosity. “Right after we settled at Ninety Six, I told the pretty girls at the church that I would charge only a kiss as a marrying fee to the first young lady I married at the church. .“One morning a young lady called from Greenwood and made arrangements to get married. After the ceremony the groom laid down a $10 bill. That was more than I usually got for marrying couples, so I looked at the bill and I looked at the girl, not particularly pretty, and I remem bered my promise. I looked at Mrs. Brooks and she looked right back at me. It was a critical moment. “I finally decided that I had to stick to my promise, so I gave back the bill and kissed the bride. Later Mrs. Brooks pointed out that I had kissed away her rightful $10, so I had to give her $10 to ease her feelings. The way I figure, that free marriage fee boast of mine cost me $20, so I’m a little more cautious about that sort of thing nowadays. * 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 99