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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,