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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, .1952 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., 31.50 per year in advance outside S. C., 82.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Is the proposed Hartwell Dam necessary? Years ago Christie Benet told me that it would damage the property of Clemson College. A short time ago I was told that many citizens of Anderson were opposed to the project. In the September issue of “The South Carolina Farmer/' the paper of the South Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, appears an editorial opposing the proposed Hartwell Dam. I quote the editorial: “Under the constitution, the federal government can build a dam for navigation purposes but cannot build one for power purposes only. Maybe that is the reason for so much propaganda about soil conservation, flood control and stabilizing the water supply for the H-Bomb operation be low Augusta in connection with pressure on Congress for appropriations to build ‘Hartwell Dam/ , Although Federal power production is the real motive, lit tle is said about it. The fact that the $20 million Duke Steam Plant near Williams ton produces more power than the $100 million Clark's Hill project raises some doubt as to the expediency of Hartwell Dam purely for power pro duction. As a soil conservation measure, it has no value. The basin is either to be under water or left untouched. As a flood control measure, it has no value if it is to be used for power production. A full reservoir cannot regulate floods and an empty reservoir cannot generate power. As a menace to our beloved Clemson, there is no doubt. Most of Clemson’s best lands and pastures would be forever lost in exchange for a stinky mud bank. As a source of recreation projects, if we are to be guided by developments at Clark’s Hill down the river on the South Carolina side, it is worthless. It is a positive menace to land-owners in and adjacent to the basin. Its building would mean certain driving out of good citizens against their will and taking their lands at prices that would not permit them to re-establish themselves elsewhere. The upper Savannah Valley could be best developed by construction of a series of small dams. They would likely be even more adequate for power production, certainly more adequate for flood control and a stabilized water flow. Irrigation here is in its infancy; but no thinking person doubts that it is of growing importance to this area. To have ‘Uncle Sam’ say some day, ‘Son, you can’t use that water for irrigation, the public needs it for power produc tion,’ would forever cripple this area in making its contri bution toward feeding a rapidly growing population. The way to stabilize the flow of the Savannah river is simple—blanket its basin with forests and grasslands ana small ponds. That’s the way to get flood control, soil con servation, recreation and power production, pplus farm production. I am told that the H-Bomb plant will have its own powei plant patterned after the Williamston steam plant." If so, much of the argument advanced for Hartwell Dam is pure baloney. As yet, no appropriation has been made by Congress for actual construction of Hartwell Dam. Once started, it will be too late to fight. It is high time Clemson and the farmers of this area wake up and go to work to stop this thing before it is tc late. The public seems to have been lulled into unconscious ness by repeatedly taking the pills of publicity propaganda. Only one side of this thing has been'presented—the side of those who want it. It is time for those who don’t to speak.” Where are the Clemson men? Thousands and thousands of former Clemson men, ranging from twenty to seventy five years of age, live in our State. I had always thought of the Clemson men as militant supporters and boosters. If this proposed Hartwell project endangers Clemson in any degree; or if it encroaches on Clemson property, I should have expected a great uprising of old Clemson graduates. If they are taking this lying down there must not be any danger to Clemson. Then, again, our public officials are quick to espy political clouds and they don’t see any clouds. Or can it be that Clemson roars only at football clashes with Carolina.? As a Carolina man I i^call that Clemson once packed a terrific punch and came to Columbia with all the irresistible sway of conquerors. So my farmer brethren must be in error surely, for no threat to Clemson’ sacred soil would fail to arouse those aggressive and invincible old boys of football glory, as well as their mighty sons of today. B. M. Edwards, the distinguished banker, gives gene] ously of his time and means to many worthy causes; he i also a citizen who takes his citizenship seriously, regarc ing it as a high privilege and one to be cherished and d< fended. In a recent speech in Walterboro Mr. Edward said: . I #!’# | “We Democrats of South Carolina are being considei ably criticized by the Trumanites for what we are tryin /to do. This is absolutely unfair and unreasonable. The rea son we have a United States of America today is due to the fact that our forefathers had the courage and fortitude to rise up and rebel against oppression, and I hope the time will never come that there will not be people in America who will do it again and stand up for the rights of them selves and their fellow men. We realize that everyone doesn’t agree with us, but we aren’t going to make a personal issue of it or break friend ship with these people. Here in South Carolina we have many who are going to follow the old way of doing things and vote for and support what we consider to be these Trumanite candidates. The majority of them are outstand ing and good citizens, and we reserve to them the right to vote for whom they choose. Likewise, we ask that they reserve to us that same right and privilege. Quoting A1 Smith, ‘It is not easy for me to stand up here and talk to the American people against the Demo cratic Administration. It hurts me. But I can call upon in numerable witnesses to testify to the fact that during my whole public life, I put patriotism above partisanship. And when I see danger, I say danger, that is, the Stop, Look and Listen to the fundamental principles upon which this Government of ours was organized, it is difficult for me to refrain from speaking up. What are these dangers that I see? The first is the arraignment of class against class. It has been freely predicted that if we were ever * to have civil strife again in this country, it would come from the appeal to passion and prejudices that comes from the demagogues that would incite one class of our people against the other.’ As to our having it better today than ever before,' let’s see what has happened. In 1940 a dollar was worth a dollar, and you could take it and go out and buy something and get back some change; but what is the situation now and how does it affect you? A statement was published recently under my name and appeared in some of the leading papers in South Carolina, and a good many throughout America, in which I made the statement that at the pre sent rate of decline the dollar would not be worth more chan 28c by 1965. I have had a few people take issue with regard to that statement and say that my estimate is too high, that if we keep going at the rate that has happened during the past twelve years, the dollar will be worth con- siderbaly less than 28c. Anyway, let’s face a few facts: A person in Washington, D. C. saw that article and has writ ten and sent me some information which is really astound ing. He says that if you are now receiving an income of $3000 per year, it is equivalent to an income of $1,420 as of 1940. If your income is $5,000, it is equivalent to $2,265 in 1941. If your income is $7,000, it is equivalent to $3,130 in 1940. If your income is $10,000, it is equivalent to $4,420 in 1940. And if you are receiving as much as $15,000, it is equivalent to $6,315. The higher your income goes, the lesser proportion you have remaining. These conditions are caused by higher taxes. For instance ,if your income was $3,000 in 1940 and you had two dependents, you paid $25 to the Government for federal taxes. To offset that today, and taking into consideration the diminishing pur chasing power of the dollar, you would require an income of $6,700 and you pay the Federal Government $1,090 in taxes. This of course does not include ‘hidden taxes’ such as sales tax etc. We all know of course that practical ly everything we purchase and use today is loaded down with indirect and/or ‘hidden’ taxes. It isn’t hard to understand. It is comparable to taking a loaf of bread in 1940 of the standard size of that time. You remake that loaf into four smaller loaves; the Government takes a good part of the loaves that are left and they hand you back maybe 2V6 or 3 of the smaller loaves and tell you: ‘Look, how much more you have!’ when in the aggregate you have much less. A great deal has been said about Communism and sub versive elements in our Government. There is no ques tion about it, folks, it has been there, and I don’t believe it has been completely removed. Let me quote some state ments by some of those who held some of the top positions: Mr. Blanchard of the State Department: ‘Having once cap tured the government and shelved the Supreme Court, we socialists would nationalize as many large industries as we could chew. We would do it peacefully, if possible, and otherwise, if necessary.’ Mr. Sitton of the Interior Depart ment: ‘The whole capitalistic shell game can sink and be damned. Tell them we’ve got a war on—a war to establish a workers’ government/ This country has produced many heroes and many cour ageous men and women. I think we will still continue to produce them, and I thank God that the people of South Carolina have shown their courage and fortitude to take a position such as was taken by A1 Smith when he said that he would place patriotism above partisanship. Now, about the corruption in Government and what is going to happen to us. There is a building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington known as the Archives Building, on the front of which there is an inscription something like this: ‘THAT WHICH WAS IS PROLOGUE.’ A taxicab driver was asked sometime ago just what that building was and what on earth that particular inscription meant. His reply was: “I don’t know exactly, but I think what they are trying to tell us is that if the Democrats remain in power for another four years and run things in Washing ton and throughout the country, ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet!’ Another taxi driver was asked whom he was going to vote for, and he said ‘Stevenson.’ When he was asked if he had thought anything about all of the corruption and graft that was going on in the Government, his reply was that he had, but that under the Republican Administra tion they had one or two of the top brass who stole some money, and under the Democratic Administration everybody wsa allowed to steal, and he wanted to be in the group. “Mr. Truman must think that Stevenson is his candidate. ' From what we see in the newspapers and hear over the radio, he apparently has just about taken charge of the campaign, and he is going out over the country on his plan of ‘Whistle Stop’ campaign. I have always heard that where there is a lot of smoke, there is bound to be some fire, and I most certainly think that President Truman intends to do everything within his power to keep in continuance these things that have been going on in Washington for the past several years. We need leaders who have effective policies to bring us nearer to peace and away from war. We need leaders of unquestioned integrity. We need leaders whose objective is the freedom and opportunity of liberal democracy and not paternalism. We need leaders who seek national unity of thought and action. We need leaders who really want to preserve good money of stable value and will follow vigorous and sound fiscal and mone tary policies. We need leaders who have a vision of con tinued dynamic progress for our country based on indivi dual initiative. We need leaders who put the long term well-being of all ahead of short term political advantage. At a time like this, our most important duty is to decide what we want, and how much we want it, and use our in fluence to bring it to pass.” K QM The Lincoln Times, Lin- klnton, N. C.: When you walk into a depart ment store these days, there is hustling activity all over the place. People are looking and buying and the cash registers are jingling. So it's quite natural to assume that the stores are doing exceedingly well indeed and that the store keeper Is living in something re sembling an economic Shangri-La. The truth is, however, that this Shangri-La, from the store opera tor's viewpoint, has flaws in it— some very serious. A short time ago a statistical summary at the financial experi ence of 345 department and spe cialty stores with gross sales total ing about 1734,000,000 during the first quarter of the year was made public. For the department stores involved, net profit from mer chandising operations averaged only one per cent of sales—a de cline of more than 28 per cent as against the same period last year. For the specialty stores, the mer chandising profits averaged 1.9 per cent of sales—a drop of 24 per cent. Forty per cent of the department stores actually sustained losses from merchandising operations during the quarter. This poor profit performance was due primarily to reduced margins and increased operating expenses. In a word, the cost of carrying on the business has outrun the price increases we consumers are al ways kicking about. It is common for stores to make less clear prof it cm an item now than when prices ware far below present levels. So, if you think the merchants are the beneficiaries of inflation and its attendant disease, think again. Like you, they are also vic tims. • • • From The Fairfax Standard, Falla Church, Va: Who stole the copy from our of fice desk? We covered the Vienna Zoning Appeals Board meeting Tuesday evening and prepared a follow-up story for this week’s is sue of The STANDARD. When we arrived at the office Wednesday morning the copy was not there. To keep the records straight: IT WAS THERE 1 a.m. Wednesday because the writer processed for the printer at that time. Here’s hoping the one with the “sticky fingers” has a good, sound acci dent insurance policy! • • • From The Douglas County Ga zette, Waterloo, Neb.: It might be a little difficult to tell what’s playing over at Johnny Fischer’s theatre when we ask the boys, but for the Mrs. and myself it is a lead-pipe cinch, without a spoken word other than our origi nal question. If they make a basketball hoop out of their arms and pucker up ! their lips we know its a love pic ture. If, after this pantomine per formance, they scowl or frown, we can tell its a really genuine love picture, so full of love, in fact, that they don’t want to go. If they draw phantom 44’s and hit a couple of boyish off-tune high notes its either Gene Autry or Roy Rogers in a cowboy special that is I currently playing. BARN WINDOW CONTROL . . . Dairy barn windows may bo opened, closed and held in position with an auto differential, some pipe, a few hinges, some flat iron and an old steering wheel* rigged together ae Illustrated. Daie Carnegie AUTHOR Of '‘HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START UVING’ How to Control PoopJft f^NE SUNDAY AFTERNOON Roy L. Gladwell, Montreal, Cana- ^ da, had a friend call with his cocker spaniel pup. As was to be expected, the children made a fuss over the dog and everything went smoothly—for a while. It developed that the dog's master fancied himself as a dog trainer, and was anxious to demonstrate how quickly his puppy had mas tered the trick of retrieving a thrown balL As it happened he had just the right type of “bouncy” ball in his pocket! With appropriate fanfare the ball was tossed the length of the living room by the guest Nothing happened. Then Robert Gladwell, aged .five, went after the ball, picked it up and held on to it He had no intention of retrieving it! “Throw the ball for the puppy, Robert” said his mother. “No!” “Give the ball to Mr. Bordeau,” ventured Roy. “No!” • This caused an embarrassing predicament with which most parents are familiar. Then occurred for Roy Gladwell an inspiration. “Robert,” would you like to see the puppy run after the balir’ “Yes!” Robert beamed all over his baby face. “Then throw the ball.” The ball came bouncing down the room. So Roy was happy, Robert was happy, the dog's master was happy, and the puppy was happy! For the first time in his life, says Roy, he had succeeded in persuading somebody, admittedly only a child—but a very stub born one—to do something he wanted done, by arousing in that person an eager want. >■ v- - Score yourself 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions. / 1. Only one president-elect ever received the unanimous vote of the electoral college. Pick him out below. —Thomas Jefferson —George Washington —Franklin D. Roosevelt —Chester A. Arthur 2. Which of the following countries does not have two official lan guages? —Canada —Union of South Africa —Belgium —Spain 3. Which of the following men is credited with inventing the steam boat? —De Witt Clinton —Thomas Edison —Robert —Eli Whitney 4. Which of these four men was the son of David, king of Isr —Saul —Uriah —Solomon --Samuel 5. Pick the non-Southern state named below. —Georgia —South Carolina —South Dakota —Louisiana 6. Which of the following men is a fictional character? —Capt. John Smith —Thomas a Beckett —Sherlock Holmes —Samuel Clemens 7. Match the following sports with the pieces of equipment com used in each sport. Score yourself 10 points for each correct (A) Badminton —mallet <B) Golf _ —helmet (CK Croquet —bird . (D) Football —tee Total your- points. A score of 0-30 is poor; 30-00, average; superior; 90-100, very superior. he ■ liW (Answers on Page Six) • e ashington r eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee By WALTER SHE AD . T HE BIG QUESTION in farm circles here in Washington to day is will the leadership of the two largest farm organizations become mere bystanders iq this election, with their pet theories on farm price supports trampled underfoot by General Dwight Elsenhower. Despite the fact Ike repudiated both Allan Kline, president of the American Farm Bureau Federa tion, and Herschell Newson, master of the National Grange, and their sliding scale of farm supports in favor of the present rigid 90 per cent of party support law, there has been no rumble of disapproval from either of these two sources. Eisenhower in his farm policy speech at Kasson, Minn., not only repudiated Kline and Newiom, but he kicked out the farm plank in the GOP platform which both Kline and Newsom kad a hand In writ ing, and sided with Congressman Clifford Hope of Kansae, ranking GOP member of the House agricul tural committee, and against Sen ator George Aiken of Vermont, ranking member of the Senate agricultural committee, who also espouses the sliding scale of farm price supports. Eisenhower, not only went for the 90 percent figure but declared that, ih obtaining a full share of the national income, the farmers deserve “not merely 90 percent of parity, but full parity.” In declaring, however that the Republican party now stands be hind the present 90 percent rigid parity law Eisenhower went con trary to the record. “I say to you that I stand be hind—and the Republican party stands behind—the price support laws now on the statute books,” Eisenhower said. As a matter of fact extension of the 90 percent rigid party sup port was voted by this Congress in its closing days in the House by a vote of 207 to 121. The vote was 133 Democrats for, and 35 Demo crats against, and 74 Republicans for and 85 Republicans against. So a majority of House GOP congress men voted against the 90 percent ■ of party law now on the books Vote in the Senate for passage was by voice vote after Democrats had beaten back the sliding scale program over opposition of Re publicans. - • • • Governor Adlai Stevenson’s farm policy speech on the same day at Kasson was a complete acceptance of the farm plank In the Demo cratic platform. ‘1 am running on-the Demo cratic platform. I believe it is a good platform. I believe its agri cultural plank is clear, definite and sound. I can stand on it without squirming. I feel no need to modi fy this provision or that, to explain or to re-interpret, to dodge or to hedge.” Governor Stevenson said he be lieved price supports were doing a good job for basie crops on which loan and storage operations were now in effect “But for perishables,” he said, “Such as hogs, dairy products, fruits and vegetables, these loan and storage operations don’t seem to work very well. Yet these prod ucts provide about three-lourths of all the income received-by our farmers.” Declaring that the first line of defense behind peri&hables is a strong economic policy to in sure high employment and pur chasing power, Governor Stevenson said: “But behind this there should be protection against unreasonably low prices for those producers of perishables who need It. They should know that they can expand production and that the public that benefits from it will share part of the risks.” • • * The Federal Reserve Board has recently published a booklet show ing the status of the farmer today as compared to 12 years ago, and the most outstanding feature is the fact that the American farmer to day could pay off all his debts in cash for the first time in history. The census shows farmers have de posits and currency totalling $15. 200,000,000 while total debt, both real estate and non-real estate totals only $14,149,000,000.