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PAGE FOtTA FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1952 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By ARMFIELD BROTHERS Entered as eecond-cla&e 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. f 31.60 per year in advance outside S. C., 82.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Missed Chance To End Tolice Action’ H. B. Mag-ill, a newspaper brother of St. George, was cool and calm when I dropped in for a word with him. It was a hot day! How the sun seemed to pour the heat, THE NEWBERRY SUN Not content with merely trying to cure all of man’s ills, medical science today is attempting to curb his old age. A hint that researchers may be on the track of an effective ‘anti-senescene’ (against growing old) factor was revealed over the weekend with the first published reports of a New York doctor’s clincial work with a new lipotropic formula. Methischol, to reduce the high contents of fat in the blood.” I use just a little of that, for the next paragraph finds words of so many syllables that they leave u! flabbergast ed. The article reminds me of my visit to Holland. I think the Dutch use several words to make one word; and the new word, the result of the combination, is a word of such length that you think you see the good ship Caronia steaming into port bringing home a great gentleman of Charleston who has been seeing the sights of foreign Capitals and becoming more convinced every day that the best of life is lived in South Carolina, certainly in seven teen communities, though the very acme of living is pre eminently the gracious fellowship he has with Charleston. So I omit the words of nine syllables. Why don’t the Medi cos talk English? Big Business Justified iAN fiarat NEVER FORGETS liquid heat, for it certainly made us feel more than moist. But Brother Magill is so even-tempered that the heat was just a phase of the day, nothing to turn a hair, you know, though most hair was plastered down by the heat. Editor Thomas R. Waring of Charleston did not find the heat oppressive, for he now has plushly offices of great elegance, with air-conditioning; cold lemonade, etc., served at frequent intervals. The intense heat gave us a topic for conversation and kept our thoughts from the Truman-Korean Police Action and the terrific war in the Republican and Democratic Parties. The Republicans will nominate a candidate for * President and that will restore peace in their ranks, leaving plenty of battle fervor for their war on the Democrats. The Democrats will have their forces in bat tle array, with all necessary ammunition. By the way, the Republicans have so much war-like zeal that they have waged war for months among them selves. And the Democrats, likewise, have emulated Mac beth in his celebrated cry : “Lay on McDuff: and cursed be he who first cries, Hold, enough!” I can’t resist the temptation to make Shakespeare less vitriolic since Spec tator is read by so many leaders of the churches. What amazes me is that the Democrats and Republicans in Congress have not had sufficient martial ardor to bring to a successful conclusion the little “Police Action” of our President, the trouble in Korea, you know. If one half the belligerence of our presidential cam paign could have been used in Korea that sore spot would have been healed long ago. We are now bombing some centers of Korean supplies two years after the up-and-down see-saw operations. When General McArthur drove the North Koreans back to the Manchurian Hne, that was the time to bring the war to a close. Our dreamers and Fabians of Washington were afraid to displease the Chinese! Many thousands of American men have been killed by the Chinese but we timidly, absurdly, disastrous- lyly held back, lest we irk the Chinese and provoke re taliation! Ridiculous! Now, two years later we take the step, haltingly, perhaps, and just partially. ' Now we swoop down on them, after they’ve had two years to organize, train and equip land and air forces. It may be too late; who knows? But what think you of the kind of thinking that paralyzed our initiative and frustrated our soldiers ? What do the Asiatics think of us ? What do the Europeans think of us? What do we think of ourselves? And what price in blood and manhood have we paid, and still must pay? We’ve had blundering, fumbling, so constantly that we have become accustomed to the queer slants of mind that inspire or make our decisions and govern our affairs. I do not wish to be like Cato the Censor, the stem old Roman who, seeing the threat to Roman supremacy in the growing might of Carthage, is said to have included in every speech this statement: “And, moreover, Carthage must be destroyed.” I do say again that we have some thing to preserve far more precious than the Democratic label; we have a nation, a land dedicated to liberty, a people once consecrated to promote a great idea of opportunity for all, equality before the law! What have we? A scheme of wise planners, men who think they know so much more than we know that they would order and regulate our affairs for us. What shall a man profit though he gain the whole world and lose his own Soul? Life is more than meat and raiment. That invincible spirit, that high faith in ourselves and reliance upon Jehovah—that irresistible and resourceful dash and zeal that made us, must not be quenched or benumbed by the skim-milk paternalism and debilitating favors of presumptuous politicians, spending our own money. “This Nation, under God,” as Lincoln said. Well this Nation should again seek His guidance. Old Age May Be Thing Of Past You want to remain young all your days? I can’t promise it, of course, and you would be lonely if all your friends died of old age, leaving you spry and frolic some. However, let me quote something: “The middle age bulge and the slow-gaited walk synony mous with old, tired, aching bones may soon become a thing of the past. At least science hops so. Heres something about American business. David Lilen- thal, once the most favored head of T.V.A.—a sort of glorified effort to recreate the world,—Mr. Lilienthal has written a series of articles on “Big Business,” show ing that America needs big business. Most of the things we enjoy are made by great factories which are able to provide the Cauital for the great machines which make things for so much less than the cost by old methods. Hear this: “We often hear demagogues, rail and rant about *big business’ as if it were something to be feared and dread ed. As a matter of fact, 'big business’ in this country ist one of the things of which the American people can be most proud. Ours is a big country with a big economy that justifies big business; we have a big standard of living, the biggest the world has ever known, and big busi ness is one of the main factors that has made this possible. But all these facts do not stop the little men with little minds and even littler principles who will continue to attempt to hoodwink the American people by con tinuing to expound on the hoary old charges about 'greedy corporate giants’ which 'exploit the workers' and are owned by the 'privileged few.’ It is high time such snares and delusions were cleared from the minds of the American people. This can be done by giving the people the facts, because the American people as a whole, as George Wash ington pointed out back in the early days of our nation, can be counted on to do the right thing whenever they can obtain a ‘right understanding’ of matters. Many individual corporations are already doing a good job along this line—witness the fine publicity received by the one millionth stockholder of the American Tele phone and Telegraph Company in recent months. How ever, the people need to be more fully informed on the question of ‘big business’ as a whole—the fact that it is the combination of big business and little business work ing together that has made the American economy what it is and what it could not possibly have been otherwise, the fact that ‘big business’ is not owned by a 'privileged few’ but by literally millions of individual Americans. Fortunately, more information is now available con cerning the composition and ownership of big business in America than ever before. Let’s consider some of the figures for the year 1951. At the end of 1951 the 100 largest manufacturing orf ganizations in the United States reported total assets ag- . gregating $60,128 miMion. This is an average of $601 million per corporation. The average employment last year was about 42,000 persons per company, so that these total assets represented an average investment of $14,000 per employee. Now, let’s see who put up the capital to furnish these jobs. It would no doubt surprise many people to learn that the average number of shareholders in these 100 largest corporations is 54,000. In other words, for every four employees there are five shareholders. Unfortunately, these shareholders now have to turn over to 'big government’ a large portion of the income which their capital investment yields from the operation of these corporations. The modern corporation has become not only an agency for the mass production of goods but also for the mass collection of taxes. Last year these 100 industries organizations each paid an average of $67 million in federal income and excess profits taxes, and $42 million in other federal, state, local, and foreign government taxes. The total average tax bill of $109 million per corporation was nearly four times the average cash dividend disbursement of $28 million to the share holders.” ' ~ / I wonder why the power generated with money of all the tax-payers should be sold to “preference customers?” In a government of. equal rights, equality before the law —and all those ancient maxims, why should the tax-money of the Nation produce something to be sold to “preference customers?” Do we rejoice in a citizenship and boast of a policy which means that the Government has favored sons among its citizens? Is that what we call the equal protection of the law, a sacred principle of our juris prudence ? Perhaps you’ve seen a slender, mild-mannered physician look over his specs and throw a fourteen-syllable word at you. In that case you pay the bill and stagger out, thankful that the ailment was no worse. Dale Carnegie AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" Accepting Fate Helps You Relax 1JENRY GOTTLIEB, St. Albans, Long Island, got out of bed one morning and fell back. The room started spinning, he was very ’dizzy, and had to lie down. After a few moments of not believing what had happened, he tried to get up again. This tune he fell back for sure, his whole body throbbing, the furniture in the room spinning in front of him. What he didn’t'know at the time was that the previous several years of business worry and strain had suddenly climaxed itself, and that morning let go with a blast at his body. From then on, in Spite of the six “good doc tors who had attended him, he grew steadily worse. This decline went on for about six months with his not being able to eat, constantly vomit ing, and getting very little sleep. The .sardonic moments came, when as pre scriptions, doctors would say, “nothing wrong with you; go home and forget about it.” In spite of the fact that there was “nothing wrong with him’ 1 ’ he became steadily worse, until he seemed to reach the lowest ebb. Weakness had overtaken him for such a long time that he began to think end was near. Worry had brought him to this condition, fear of his health kept him there. At last he felt that if he were going to die anyway, the devil with it all, let it come. He accepted that fact, tragic as it seemed. Then he relaxed. No miracle took place, but it was the definite turning point. From then on he recovered in spite of all the pills and doctors. He thanks God that he is now back to normal again. He .doesn’t have to be told-not to worry, for as you can see he has plenty of evidence to show the tragic effects worry can cause. Today he has a good business, his own home, is married and has a fine young son, and it is difficult to realize that he ever in dulged in his former mental attitude. Carnegie BRUTAL. SCENE . . . American soldier examines North Korean prisoner murdered daring: recent Korean riots by Commie officers because he wanted to surrended to U.N. gruards. Test Your Intelligence Score 10 points for each correct answer in the fir»t tlx questions: 1. The Hanging Carder* one of the seven wonders of the anoient world, were in: —Greece —Egypt —Babylon —Carthage 2. The capital of Albania la: s —Sofia —Tirana —Bucharest —Durazzo S. The famous “Cross of Cold” political convention speech was made by: —A1 Smith —Eugene Debs --Clarence Darrow —William Jennings Bryan 4. In baseball a “balk” can be committed only by a: —pitcher —catcher —outfielder —manager 5. The second president of the United States was: —Thomas Jefferson —James Madison . ' —John Adams —James Monroe 6. The state of Georgia is famous for its large forests of: —maple —pine —oak —ash 7. Listed below are four states and opposite them, jumbled up, a de scription of the men for whom they were named. Match them, •coring 10 points for each correct answer. (A) Louisiana —British duke (C) New York (D) Pennsylvania Total your points. A score of superior; 90-100, very superior. —British king —French king -20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-81 (answers on page six) •#•••••••••••••••• *pHIS COLUMN has Information that Governor Stevenson will accept the Democratic nomination . . . that the only thing which has been holding back an unqualified answer is his health . . . that he has undergone an operation for kidney stones and is now promised good health . . . that he Is the choice of a large majority of Democratic leaders. Upcoming as a strong choice is Averell Harriman, the New Deal-Fair Dealer, who polled a 4 to 1 vets against Senator Kef- auver in the Democratic primary in Washington. As a result Senator Kefauver, who has been knocking down straw men in a score of primaries is caught up short, and the record is ^hat where he has run up against •cal flesh-and-blood presidential candidates he has lost three out of four Russell beat him in Florida; 'Jarriman beat him in the District ">f Columbia, and he won over Sen- itor Kerr In Nebraska, but came p short on delegates from that f ate. The likeable and sincere Tennes sean thus is relegated to at least hird place in the Democratic free- or-all at Chicago starting July 21, nd it is likely that by the end of he second ballAt most of his dele gate strength will have melted way. * * • \What will happen to civil rights nT the platforms • of the two con ventions? In 1948 the Republicans advocated abolition of poll tax, de clared for right of equal opportun- : ty to work favored enactment and enforcement of federal legislation necessary to maintain that right. Hie Democrats in 1948 called ipon congress for support of full and equal political participation in lections and. on FEPC, endorsed ight to equal opportunity of em- loyment. But since that time, either party took any definite ac- :on. A majority of both parties in the house voted 273 to 116 to abolish the poll tax as a requisite of voting in 1949, but the senate took no ac tion. In 1950, a poll tax rider on the oleo bill was tabled 59 to 17, the vote being 44 Democrats and 15 Re publicans for tabliog and 17 Repub licans against. In 1951 and 1952 ho action'of any kind was taken de spite repeated messages by the President asking for action. On FEPC both Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly ap proved an FEPC with investigating and recommending powers only in the house, and the senate took no action after two failures to invoke cloture on a motion to take up the FEPC bill. In 195L and 1952 there was no action at all. So both par- tie* -failed to -uphold their platform planks on the poll tax as a voting necessity and FEPC to guarantee civil rights to minorities. v: This year millions of citizens will watch both national conventions television. As a matter of fact, conventions and political pai are not provided for by the Cc tution and federal elections supervise them only to extent checking money spent. Each pa makes its own convention rules, electing delegates, for instance, Democratic party gives each two votes for each of its senat and representatives and a bonus four votes if the state went cratic in 1948. At the Democ convention there will be more egates than votes, because delegates will have only vote. The Republicans give four to -each state, plus six if the went Republican In 1948, plus vote for each congressional casting 1,000 GOP votes in 1948, a bonus of one more for 10,000 publican votes. There are no vote delegates. So Republicans ge: 1,206 votes with 604 necessary foi nomination. Everyone Likes Babies M AYBE that’s why so many of them are born. Every nine seconds, on an average, a baby is born in the United States. , In the lobby of the Department of Commerce building in Washington -before the fireplace, D.C. is a huge map of the United States. Every nine seconds a blue light biinks cm the map, showing that a baby has been born some where in the country. At 21 second wants to live on memories? We intervals a purple light flashes, in dicating a death.—South Pasadena (Calif.).. Review. * Big Boy Dennis comes in with a good one this week. He says that Bill Lindsey and Lige Henry* were i fishing on Doug Baker’s fish pond. After sitting for a long time*on the v bank, they got up, and just then a big snake dived into the pond, then stuck his head out of the water, gasping for breath. It seems that Bill had been sitting'on the snake for thirty minutes.—“Dirty Digs’* in The Tallahassee (Ala.) Tribune. We’d ill like to be skillful at ath letes, but unfortunately, we aren’t all endowed with the necessary at tributes, so, we must get our ath- Atetic satisfaction vicariously. When our ‘Town” team wins, we share a portion of their glory—but (and this is unfortunate from the stand point of the participating athlete), we can deny any connection when ..the team loses, thus avoiding any of the responsibility of defeat.-—Eu- fanda (Ala.) Tribune. Hot Rod Grandma Gals become Mom’s at a right early age, but this is the heyday of about her age, she is the s; the modern age. We are li the age of jet-propelled Gran Back in the days when to be Grandmother was a little to most Gals and you were pected to sit around with a lace offtpring’s baby, or just for life to pass* All Cranny left was the memories of her active days. And, who pray m want to live for today, and not the days gone by.' County Gazette, Waterloo, Neb. It took but three short weeks for the first cotton bloom of the season to 'be reported after the first squares were brought in to Tha Gazette. The squares came from just northeast of Darnell bloom came in from the upper end of the parish, Concord community. Now will come the green bolls and the open bolls; then it will be harvest time again.—“Rambling” in The West Carroll Gaxette, Oak lih Grove, La. As this is written, it’s been throa weeks since a rain in this area. Nights have been muggy, and sleep fitful. Despite all this. I’m sitting hem thiuking noble thoughts . . . Lika that local radio stations should look into hiring more physically handi capped persons . . . like deaf mutaa for disk jockeys, for instance. Then, later on, when everyone realised how great was the improvement, maybe the present yakity-yak fal lows they’re using on tha early morning programs could be con verted to the new silent models. ‘Tales of The Town” in The S*- Grandma. She no longer worries I ville (Ohio) Chronicle. S.C BODY SUBMITS PLATFORM The South Carolina State Chamber of Commerce has sent to all South Carolina delegates to the Republican and Demo cratic national conventions a nine-point “Platform for Better Federal Government” which it recommended for inclusion in the 1952 campaign platforms . of both major political parties. The nine “planks,” which the Chamber said would represent a constructive approach to better government at the Federal level, cover the following ofejeetives: ' (1) Business-like operation of essential Federal services and the elimination of those “of doubtful necessity:” (2) strengthening of the legislative machinery of Con gress; (3) a broad-based Federal taxing system which will safe guard the incentive of individuals and industry to produce under a free market economy; (4) trans fer of uneconomically managed Federal business enterprises to “taxpaying private ownership” in the interest of better services to the people; (5) strengthening of local self-government; (6) with drawal of the Federal Government from the use of tax sources on which State and local govern ments rely, and curbing of Fed eral grant-in-aid programs; (7) return to local tax rolls of Fed erally-owned real estate not being used in the performance of es- jg sential Government functions; (8) curtailment of Federal subsidies to private enterprise, and (9) a cooperative effort by all branches of the Government to reduce Fed eral spending and tax burdens. In a letter accompanying copies of the proposals, General Manager John C. Floyd, said: “We be lieve the nine-point platform here presented will appeal to all con vention delegates who stand . for the improvement of our Ameri can society of free men. The antithesis of these nine points would be the further concentra tion of economic and political power in Washington, the domi nance of the Federal bureaucracy over representative rule, and the gradual strangulation of local self-government and the free market system.”