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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1962 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By ARMFIELD BROTHERS Entered aa gecond-claas 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., *1.60 per year in advance outside S. C., *2.00 per year in advance. Five Star Review COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS | By SPECTATOR “What is truth?” That question, you well remember, was asked by Pontius Pilate of Jesus. Jesus emphasized the truth, saying to a group, some days before his arrest, “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” I need not ramble about in a religious discuss ion of what is meant by “truth,” but as one of the millions of ordinary people I frequently wonder what “the truth” is in matters of public concern. This nation, like most other nations is so full of press agents and others, giving one side, or a part of one side of any question, that we of the rank and file hardly know where we are, or why. Out in Idaho there is a great hue and cry for and against Public Power. The Federal Government has fall en into the hands of a lot of zealous partisans of Govern ment power and from the bureaucrats we hear one story, while the advocates of private power, private investment, tell another. Of course I need not go out to Idaho: here in South Carolina a very handsome and elegant gentleman, great friend of mine, tells me that we have a shortage of power here, and that I do not know what I am talking about when I say that we have abundant power. If my friend is right, then I ask “what is truth,” for not only the Power Companies but our Commissioner J. Roy Jones assure us that we have abundant power. So, why go so far as Idaho? In Idaho, as part and parcel of the public power question, is the idea of cheap fertilizers through cheap power. That idea of cheap fertilizer, cheap nitrates, was at the bottom of the Muscle Shoals develop ment, which started out as a war idea and grew or swell ed into the gigantic T.V.A. The T.V.A. was to develop water power, after doing many other things, along with production of nitrates for explosives and agriculture. To day T.V.A. is building mammoth steam plants, to use a hundred cars of coal a day. So, if you ask “What is T. V.A.?” I might have to borrow the words of Pilate and ask “What is truth!” The Idaho tangle has so many phases that I might quote the latest: “The Idaho Farm Bureau Federation claimed Wednesday that electric power from the Hell’s Canyon dam, brought into Southern' Idaho on government transmission lines, will not reduce the cost of supertriple phosphate fertilizer, even if the power could be sold at 2.5 mills per kilowatt hour. Rather, it said, the cost will be about $10 per ton higher than it is when made by the wet process.” - “Charts accompanying the article go into detail on the cost of producing triple-super commerical fertilizer by the wet process, the electric furnace process and the blast furnace method. All costs were figured for plants in southern Idaho with the same capacity and with the same capital investment. Manufacturing costs are as follows, the farm bureau said: Wet process, *52.21; electric furnace, $62.85; and blast furnace, $66.47. The two electric methods were fig ured on the basis of 2.5 mill power, the bureau said ‘is not and cannot become a reality in southern Idaho!’ An electric furnace with the same capacity as a wet process plant will cost about three times as much to build, it add ed. ‘This is but another example of how the farmers of Idaho are being misled into giving up their water right for electric power that will be of no benefit to them’.” Why should aluminum, or anything else, be produced and sold at a loss? Why should the Government sub sidize the production of aluminum? It would be ju^ as reasonable for the Government to sell beef at i loss of fifty per cent, since beef is so rich in protein. I don’t mean to provoke any food specialist into a discussion of vegetable and animal proteins: I’m just assuming that the British, having established so great an empire on beef and mutton, those meats may be classified as full of em pire vitamins. Beef, washed down with tea, hot tea, at all hours, morning, noon and night, must be outstanding as a diet for heroic builders. I’ve read several good*books recently, in addition to those books of The Richland County Public Library, for which I am in constant debt, both physical and spiritual, for almost every time I return a book I’m greeted by a sweet smile and gentle admonition that the book is “overdue” and that dereliction carries a penalty of two cents, six, eight, ten or twenty cents. I must mend my ways. That very friendly and attractive gentleman, Mr. Able, of The Electric Cooperatives, lent me a readable and in formative book which I marked so freely that he humored my weakness by giving me the book. My greatly esteem ed friend, Mr. Regnery of Chicago, sent me a fine and time ly book; then my brother, the Doctor, in Anderson, sent me an awakening book; and now my friend Mr. B. M. Edwards has given me a book “How to Keep Our Liberty.” This book is by Raymond Moley, the first and ablest of the Roosevelt Brain-trust—that group of persuasive men sur rounding Mr. Roosevelt and thinking smart things for him to say and do. Raymond Moley is not a politician, but a student, scholar, thinker and patriot. He does not seem to be a trumanite and discusses the threat of Socialism with a clear and de tached mind. Our people have read or heard so much about Socialism that the book is timely. It is the type of book that might profitably be includ ed in reading by clubs and those who like to have a sound basis for their thinking. My friend, in giving me this book, may have thought that I was showing signs of wobbly thinking, due to the heat, or lack of concrete il lustrations. However, I will let you sample the meat in the Book. On “Welfare” we read: “The rising costs of welfare since 1930 not only show the present burden our economic system bears for non productive purposes, but indicate what the future may bring—or rather, take. According to L. Robert Driver, the payments in 1930 by Federal, state, and local governments for direct relief, unemployment insurance, pensions and other expenses, including military pensions, were $1,010,- 000,000. In 1950, they were $14,330,000,00o. The sum in 1950 was nearly double the amount of corporate dividends paid in that year. It was more than the farm income of that year. ‘Welfare,’ as now interpreted by statist philosophy, in cludes almost every activity of the government except armament, foreign gifts and loans, service of the debt, and a few other items. As we have seen, the Supreme Court has interpreted ‘the general welfare’ as an almost unlimited sanction for Congress to expand these activities. Any effort to figure the ultimate costs mtist fail, because the ultimate is hidden in the mists of conjecture.” * “When the government pays the cost of maintaining old people, it must convince younger people that they are ’re lieved of that burden themselves, and it must assure those who are growing older that they need not save. But some body .pays the cost and pays for government, too. When government imposes higher and higher payroll taxes, it pacifies the worker-contributor by imposing a larger tax on the employer. The employer calmly accepts the tax and passes it along to the consumer in higher prices. Nothing is created. In fact, less is produced than be fore, because incentives to‘work longer hours and more years and to work more efficiently and to risk money in new enterprises are gone. All that is done is to redistri bute in complex ways and with deceptive appearances whatever wealth there is.” As to Government in the money-lending' business he says: “In 1950 and 1951 the Fulbright Senate subcommittee created a national sensation by its revelations of favoritism, gross incompetence, and some acts at least closely border ing upon criminal activity in the granting of loans by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. This agency, created in 1932 under President Hoover, fulfilled an excellent func tion in a depressed time. It was also used during the war to make loans for worthy defense purposes. But it also extended its operations to direct lending of all sorts. Many, if not most, of these loans were clearly not in the public interest. Some of them were made under direct political pressure, and some revealed shockingly bad business judg ment. Greater than the danger of favoritism, corruption and incompetence is that of distorting the economic system through vast government holdings in many lines of busi ness. Socialistic policies are extended through the use of government credit. Government money is used to foster unfair competition with private companies that the Ad ministration may decide to punish. Companies can be told to accept the money and expand certain lines or else their competitors will receive it. Vast business properties could be owned by the banker-government. A prominent New Dealer has admitted that government lending at low rates of interest will end in the government owning ‘most of the productive resources of the country.’ This assertion by a well-known and high official of the United States Government merely underlines the intent of statism to control first the credit and then the productive enterprises of the nation. As we have seen, such ‘centrali zation of credit in the hads of the state’ is the fifth point of the Marx-Engels program in the COMMUNIST MAN- DaieCarnegie ^ AUTHOR OF "HOW-TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" ^ Importance of Relaxing TX7HILE SERVING in the army, Raymond P. Wilson, Mupcie, In- ™ diana, was transferred from Seattle, Washington, to Phoenix, Arizona. All his friends had shipped put to other sections, so he found himself all alone. Now for the first time in his life, he was going to have the opportunity to do the things that required solitude. But he found it terribly hard to avoid people, and he continued to have too many friends. Up to the time of his discharge he still hadn’t arrived at what he was seeking. He was wasting a lot of time. A year later he arrived at his goal. But, it was like a raging fire he couldn’t put out. He went into business for himself and began working day and night. He got to the point where he was always in a hurry, and when he would meet friends, they could feel his great rush and went on. He would deliberately avoid people and their glances on the street. He even became bored with people and would pick out their faults and dwell on them. , At night he could worry about the problems of the morrow, Eventually he found himself unable to concentrate, or to think clearly. Hia mind seemed to be behind him in everything he did. Finally, he took a firm hold on himself, gave himself a good talking to and began reading everything he could get his hands on that would help his situation. One day he read an article about relaxing; he began practicing. While lying in bed at night he would start at the top of his head and relax every single part of.his body, down to and including his toes. Also, closing his eyes tightly he imagined he could see nothing but black, to help erase the visions of the day and yesterdays. Next he took a course in public speaking and found to his surprise that it emphasized the importance of making friends, and that he had an asset he hadn’t valued. Carnegie VEW POW COMPOUNDS ... A POW work detail trudges by a orest of poles outlining the area where new POW compounds will t>e erected on Koje island. Each new compound will hold 50# >risoners. — IFESTO.” Speaking of Cooperatives (not particularly of Electric; Coops) Dr. Moley says: / “There is nowhere any disposition to destroy co-opera tives as such. They have performed a valuable service in the lives of many millions ofpeople, and, with a fair bal ance of advantages with private business, they can be a part of a free economy. The essential danger is that co-operatives will depend upon an ever growing government for competitive privilege, and for what really amounts to a subsidy from the tax payer. The unfairness toward and the danger to private enter prise is especially notable when co-operatives move into fields only remotely related- to the original purpose for which they were created. No reasonable person can quarrel with the propriety or fairness of a group of dairymen pool ing their individual businesses in t;he marketing of their product, even to the extent of owning and operating a large fleet of trucks for that purpose. If, however, such a co-operative establishes a manufacturing enterprise for the purpose of selling trucks to all sorts of businesses, and thus moves into competition with manufacturers in that same business who enjoy none of the exemptions of the co-operative, a wholly now problem of competition is in volved. Such a business should then be placed on the same legal footing as its competitors. And in every case the public should be protected against monopoly. Score 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions: 1. The distance by air between Berlin and London is: —1018 miles —2000 miles —1452 miles —575 miles 2. The capital of South Carolina is: —Durham —Columbia —Spartanburg —Charleston 3. The 1945 baseball world championship was won by the: ^ —N. Y. Giants —St. Louis Browns —Detroit Tigers —N. Y. Yankees 4. The president of France is: —Vincent Auriol —Rene Pleven —Antoine Pinay —Charles de Gaulle 5. What famous military leader crossed the Alps with elephants: —^Alexander —Pericles —Hannibal —Charlemagne 6. The chemical symbol H2S04 means: —water —sulfuric acid —chlorine —hydrochloric acid 7. Listed below are four universities and opposite them the states in which they are located. Match them, scoring 10 points for each correcf’hnswer. (A) Harvard —Connecticut (B) Columbia —Iowa (C) Yale —New York (D) Drake —Massachusetts Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-80, average; 70-80, superior; 90-100, very superior. ANSWERS ON PAGE SIX W ITH THE BATTLE of Abilene safely out of the way, candidate Ike Eisenhower has been holding open house for delegates, turning on his well-known charm and per sonality. While bosses of the Eis enhower campaign deny that any expenses, travel or otherwise, of these delegates, is being paid by the national organization of the Eis enhower campaign, the question re mains as to just who is passing the hat to raise expense money for these junkets to meet and talk to Ike. It ooste plenty of money for a trip to New York or Denver or wherever General Ike is holding forth. Observers who have attend ed national political conventions in the past believe that the average expense of a delegate amounts to possibly $1,000 each including the ante many have to subscribe to get on the delegate list. Some delegates don't have that kind of money to 5 pend, let alone enough to make additional trips visiting esndidstes beforehand. Democrats here in Washington are "making book” on whether or not the Taft-Eisenhower feud win reach third-party proportions. Cer tainly the bitter recriminations on both sides have reached the point where perty unity is threatened even after the convention. The National Foundation for Con sumer Credit, which put on an all- out but losing campaign for repeal of consumer credit controls under Regulation W administered by the Federal Reserve Board, now comes forth with a new program aimed at better educating buyers on the use of installment credit. While admitting extension of the installment system of purchasing is purely selfish, the foundation is op posed to "abuses” of installment credit either on the part of the ouyer who overloads himself and cannot pay out or the seller who overeoU* by tricky and deceptive advertising or with inferior mer chandise with heavy carrying clauses. The foundation warns against the so-called "fringe” dealers who sell for "a-dollar-down-and a-dollar-a- week” and against buying appli ances where cash, and installment price are obviously too far apart. The foundation denounced all the “no money down" boys. They warn that where terms are better than "10 to 15 per cent down and about 18 months to pay the balance, there is usually something fishy." Just for the sake of the record— General Eisenhower Is NOT a civ ilian. He is still a five-star genera] of the army and has use of two aides although he voluntarily waived his salary. ( Only way he can become civilian is to resign from the army. Now he only has retired status. The congress has passed a bil- llon-dollar highway construction bill providing for $500,000,000 a year for two years, which meana the states will put up an equal amount on a matching basis. The foreign aid compromise Mil also was passed and sent to the White House calling for approx imately $6,447,000,000. Conference committee upped the house figure and cut the senate figure to reach the compromise. The President’s request however was for $7,9 billion and a billion-dollar slash was of the meat axe variety. The National Farmers Union is conducting a campaign urging "write your Congressman" for percent of parity of farm supports. The present act is for a sliding scale with most crops ported at 90 percent of parity. The Fair Trade act in the sent was being jostled around, althouf Congressman McGuire, its author, predicted eventual passage, bill, which seeks to spell out non-signer clauses of state trade acts are NOT in restraint trade, passed the house on a vote of 196 to 10. Such a vote, how ever, is not particularly since obviously it Is not a of the 435 members of the house. But since It was not a record roll call vote it stands as officiaL The Miller-Tydings act did not specif ically declare the clause a viola tion of the anti-trust act, according to observers, hence the recent Su preme Court ruling. The bill has a fifty-fifty chance to pass the senate. Although Memorial Day is past, the entire column this week is giv en to an editorial entitled, "Coun try Cemetery on Memorial Day” which appeared in the Dnncannon Record, Duncannon, Pennsylvania. The editorial is an example of the fine writing that often comes from the pens of ths nation's country editors: "Too far to walk, the heavy boots of armed men descend from autos pulled beneath the shading trees. The cemetery, dark, about the wooden church, stands hill-top high above the rolling meadow-land. And, out from town, the neighbors come by car, drawn here this slow Memorial Day with one accord—to honor sons. The crisp grass, newly cut tthis morning by the deacon, cushions the gentle tread of those returned these few sparse moments. “The color-guard pulls straps, and hitching belts, bring the Post’s new polished guns to shoulder. From the thin line of hedge that holds the meadow from the citadel of shade, they move centrally, vortex of khaki and white helmets, clumping in aelf-conscious ranks toward the Soldiers’ Plot. The bu gler slyly purses lip and touches horn to mouth in expectation. “Small boys whisper among the boiling mounds and tow-heads dit to, quizzically, the rain-washed an cient stones. Their voices hushed with awe waiting for the fina punctuation of the service, they only hope to catch the spent brass casings from the guns, but know ' withal, that something here is done too great for them to comprehend “The sergeant barks a half-for- gotten order and the straggling line of men wavers to a halt, lined up along the open hollow of the Plot a tan side of a square held taut by men and women who were never there, but know the sadness that the battlefield has brought. The chaplain, eldest spokesman of the valley’s church, opens the pages of lis book to the place well-marked by thumb, and reads tbe passage there entombed . . . "Beneath a vivid sky, pock marked .with cloud, the eye Is caught and dilated by the sun and only sees the bright flag that ruffles with a curious-fingered breeze. The whole world seems focused to the pin-point, here, of time. For a mo ment those who stand in silence seem to capture all the knowledge of eternity. One brilliant moment, sticking from the stream of time as. moist black rock from brook, reveals the utter tragedy of man, and also the bittersweet of breath of life. Intermingled and demand ing and so full of all the answers that a few seconds later ar# lost in the onsweep of current "The preacher brings voice to halt, and the honey-bee subsides, calling a draw. The soldier-ranks straighten slightly the small boys spit grass blades from green- stained teeth, and crouch eagerly The order given, the guns point to ward the sky and the scattered vol ley echoes and echoes out over the wavering earthline. The bugler chatters the first chord of Taps, and then, assured of noble ending, sweetly sighs the rest. “And the car-doors tear the si lence with their clang, and motors bnish the solitude before depart-9 ing. The last blue-hazed smudge of gasoline disperses, and the Sol diers’ Plot, the turf-bound lot, the paint-flaked church settle, satis fied. to wait the next year out.” COW TOWN . . . Abilene, widely known In western history as » wide-open cow town, looked like this as it welcomed home a native son, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower,