Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PAGE POUR I • ; •tin 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By ARMFIELD BROTHERS Entered a£ 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 Did you ever receive an unexpected letter or card from friends of long-ago? A card has come to me from Invernes- shire, Scotland. Three friends of my Peruvian days signed it: the Reverend John Calvin MacKay, Mrs. MacKay and the third signs herself as Sorrel-Top, a nickname I gave her because of her flaming hair. Well you can’t beat the Scots, can you? All three signed the one card! But they know me and recognize in me a kindred spirit; not that I am close, you know, but definitely conservative, as my friend George Brutsch says of me. Says the parson, ^spending the afternoon with friends brings to mind many unforgettable, unforgotten, experiences and friends.” Yes, indeed; and that man, a gentle, lovable soldier of the Cross, when we were a month together in the Andes, used to come to my room at bed time and sit on the edge of the little cot and read a chapter of the Old Book and offer a prayer. How green is the recollection of that group in my heart. And the good wife says “What about coming across for the coronation?” As you know, Queen Elizabeth will be crowned next year, and all the glory and glamour, the fanfare and trumpets, the blazing pageantry of Britain will celebrate the formal crowning of the Queen. I know that these choice spirits will some day have their coronation in Glory, with a glad welcome from the angelic hosts as they greet the Master they have served so well. I have many recollections of those dear people and of the splendid associates in their work, but I’ll tell of two: A Brit ish traveller came to Cajamarca and the MacKays invited me to dinner with him. Mrs. MacKay had a pot-roast, with gravy—the first gravy I had seen in a year! And she made the most delicious orange marmalade. That MacKay home had all the essentials of a home, notably the most beautiful spirit of love for everybody. I was then a regional director of the Government, with a territory from Ecuador to Lima and from the Pacific to Brazil, embracing the region of the great Amazon Valley for hundreds of miles. Later, when I was Director General, stationed in Lima, I arranged for seats in the Cathedral for Mrs. MacKay and others, including a lovely little girl, Catita. This little child had heard her gracious parents speak kindly of me so she was not impressed by the Archbishop and assisting bishops, nor the numerous other high dignitaries of the Church; nor did she marvel at the great organ and the fine Choir of Franciscans; nor yet was she carried away by the glitter of the diplomats in their brilliance; nor yet by the greatness of the President of the Republic and all the martial array of gaily epauleted officers with shining and clanking swords; she had heard her father and mother speak well of a man and she looked for that man, a mere speck in the august ceremonial, but when she saw him come in she paid him his highest honor: “Mother, there is daddy’s friend.” And “Dad dy’s friend” has held this tribute in grateful remembrance through the years and through all the experiences that have come. . i« We are fortunate when our leaders of business or indus try or finance speak to us. They are accustomed to big prob lems and they approach the problems of the State and Na tion with clear perception and sound judgment. I quote Mr. John A. Campbell, President of the big fam ily of banks known as The South Carolina National Bank. Mr. Campbell’s addressed the Rotarians of Orangeburg. “The banking resources of South Carolina at the close of last year amounted to $852,114,000. There were 149 sep- % arate banks, and including branches there were 203. During the last 5 years banking resources in this State increased more than $200,000,000. They were only $651,817,000 in 1946. There is a terrific increase in purchasing power in dicated by those figures. You will recall that up until a very few years ago most of the large financial transactions took place in the North. The banks in this State were not big enough to handle the business of some of the larger and more important indus tries. Today there is rarely found a business which has to leave the State to make its financial arrangements. An outstanding example is a transaction which is now in process in one of the banks in this state. It will involve a loan of over $9 million to a South Carolina business. While no bank in this State can itself lend as much as $9 million to any one borrower, the large banks and insurance companies in the North and East are glad to participate with the banks in this State in making the money available. This is fre quently done, but my point is that from the borrower’s standpoint, he is able to complete his financing within the state. It is interesting to recall that- the capital investment in manufacturing plants in this State was $495,000,000 in 1945. In 1950 it was $775,982,000 an increase of over $280,000,- 000 in 5 years. The value of products manufactured during THE NEWBERRY SUN PALS those 5 years increased by more than $600,000,000. In 1950, the manufactured products of this State were valued at $1,- 708,000,000. Think of the purchasing power of this volume! The farm products of the state were valued at $87,370,- 000 in 1940 and their value was nearly 3 times as much, be ing $213,562,000, in 1950. And speaking of farms and farm products, tremendous strides have been made toward reduc ing physical effort on the farms and making farming more profitable. In round figures, there were 139,000 farms in this state during the 10-year period 1940-1950. Of those farms, only 28,764 had electricity in 1940, but 95,025 had electricity in 1950. Only 4,267 had a telephone in 1940; 11,901 had telephones in 1950. Only 4,285 farms out of the total of 139,000 had tractors in 1940 but in 1950 this had increased to 23,499! Purchasing power has raised the stand ard of living. The installed electric generating capacity in this state at the end of 1949 was 813,035 kilowatts. By June 30, 1952 this had been increased to 1,096,840 kilowatts. Not included in this generating capacity are the plants at Clarks Hill, built by the Government, Plant Urqhart, being built by the South Carolina Electric & Gas Company, both on the Savannah river; and the Santee Cooper Steam Plant. When these plants come into production the generating capacity will be increased by 660,000 kilowatts. It is interesting to know that power for domestic elec tric service in South Carolina is less expensive than it is on the average in the United States. In South Qarolina the average cost is 2.32 cents per kilowatt hour and for the United States it is 2.81 cents per kilowatt hour. And there is plenty of power for industry. At the present time there are 272,306 telephones in this State of which 39,830 are de scribed as rural stations. This represents an increase of 50,000 telephones within the past 3 years! We must not overlook the abnormal buying power which exists because of the activity in the Savannah River Pro ject area. Millions of dollars are being released each month from this “H-Bomb” area. You may not know that the Sa vannah River Project, which the DuPont Company is build ing for the Government^ is the largest single construction project ever undertaken on the face of the earth. I have had the privilege of going over this project and I am glad to tell you that the work is being done effectively. I saw no waste, either in manpower or materials, and those in charge ob viously know their business. We may say, “Why should there be any industrial ex pansion and why should South Carolina feel that it can look toward industrial growth?” Industry will expand so long as research and American ingenuity continue to operate on the profit system—the basis of the only lasting and successful economy—and so long as the American people continue to demand further improvement in their standard of living. It is the job of each of us to encourage desirable industry to locate in this state. We can do it by creating and main taining a social and economic climate attractive to new busi ness. By that I mean we must want to keep the state gov ernment in good financial condition; we must want to wel come new business; we must want to cooperate with the strangers who are locating in the state; and we must want to see that tax structure is fair and we must want to dis courage discriminatory legislation (such as the 1-2 mill per kilowatt hour tax on the production of electric energy by privately owned concerns). This fall the people of our country will have an oppor tunity to decide which of two men they will have for Presi dent. The result of their choice will have a direct effect on the whole economy. In fact, it will have an impact on the world. For practical purposes, the same crowd has been running us and our government for 20. years and our gov ernment has become largely government by bureaucrats, high pressure groups and organized minorities. Political expediences seem to transcend all else. The dignity of our government ,both at home and abroad, is at a deplorably low ebb. We must want to do something about that, too!” Our Governor Byrnes has announced his intention to vote for Eisenhower, voting as a South Carolina Democrat. The governor’s excellent statement has been given na tional publicity; he thinks that all the confusion in Wash ington and the bungling will be eliminated by switching from Trumanites to Eisenhower. This independence in South Carolina is a most notable political occurrence. We are tired of machines, machine-politicians, smart- IHleCarnegie ^ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND STARniVING" Day-Tight Compartments X^fRS. SAMUEL ROSENTHAL, Newark, N.J., says she can never remember the time when things, however insignificant, didn’t bother her. She worried constantly. In fact she declares she was the “coward who dies a thousand deaths.” When die was told that her mental attitude had brought severe hypertension she was sure that this would inevitably bring about heart trouble. So sure was she that on the day she did suffer a heart attack she knew what it was before the results of a cardiograph were known. * While in the hospital she was warned that her worrying would prevent recovery, but by that time she was lost in a whirlpool of regrets and a hopeless outlook for the future. Then her daughter happened to bring from the library a book, recommended by the librari an. She didn’t expect to glean anything from “just a book”. The days were long in the hospital and when she began to read to fill in the weary hours, words of wisdom in the book seemed to be written just for her. She read that book over again, and now that she is recuperating at home, she still refers to it. CARNEGIE She says it has wrought for her what well meaning advice from various people, what warnings from doctors, and what her own conscience told her, could never do. And the most valuable piece of advice—for her—that the book contained was to live in day-tight-compartments, and the advice she would pass on to the rest of us is to live each day by itself and not allow worry to enter. HAND ACROSS CENTURIES . . . American teen-ager in Dublin elasps hands with man who had been dead 1,000 years. Corpse in ancient Irish cemetery is mysteriously mummified. [ WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Cinema Star HORIZONTAL !£ Pictured actress 10 Aroma 11 Eagle’s nest 12 Moccasin 14 Paths 16 Pigpen 19 God of love 21 Vend 22 She is a screen 23 Flowers 25 Prison rooms 26 Existed 27 Russian city 28 Within 5 Weep 6 Shout 7 Written form of Mistress 8 Three-toed sloth * 9 Cuddle 12 Through 13 In a row * 15 An (Scot.) 17 Great in stature 18 Years (ab.) 20 Continued stories 22 Serious addresses 24 Faculty Here’s the Answer 11 25 Cures by salting 30 Italian river 31 Dormant 33 Substance 34 Silkworm 35 Boat paddle 37 Work unit 40 Asseverate 41 Chinese weight 42 Lampreys 45 Cleaning tool 46 Tree fluid 49 On account (ab.) 39 Quantity of medicine 51 Symbol for tantalum 29 Ream (ab.) 30 Sorrowful cry 32 Alaskan city 35 Papal cape 36 Trap 38 Emmets 39 River valley 43 Bustle 44 Fish eggs 45 She performs in the 47 Label 48 Hangman’s knot 50 Tardy 52 Candle 53 Mast* VERTICAL 1 Jocular 2 Paid notice 3 Negative word 4 Strays alecks and pressure groups. A clean man of good purpose, a real patriot, can serve us by his very simplicity of life and forthrightness. When we hear the argument against breaking with the national group I wonder how these esteemed fellow citizens of ours defend the break with King George, or the break with the great Nation of George Washington and the foot sore and ragged soldiers of Valley Forge. And far back be yond King George our ancestors may have cornered old King John at Runnymede and forced him to sign the great charter; and, some of our people tnay have had a part in be heading King Charles. We are a people who have not sur rendered ourselvs unreservedly to any King or President. So it has a strange sound when we hear that our break with Trumanism is a sort of unforgivable act of duplicity. Save the mark! We are proud of our heroic ancestors: may the next generation have reason to think well of us for our courage. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1952 Jj • • • ashingtm •••••••••••••••••A By WALTER SHE AD N OT ONLY ARE th« two presi dential candidates wooing the farmers of the country as essen tial to political success, but busi ness generally is planning one of the biggeat campaigns of all time to get farm business. Reason is that coast-to-coast the farm market la where folks have the most expendable money. Figures of the Federal Reserve Board, the Department of Agri culture and the Department of Commerce indicate there Is in the pockets of the 23 million folks now living on farms in this country a potential cash market of more than $20 billions of dollars, money that is available to buy most every thing from fertilizers to eoil chem icals to farm equipment, home freezers, air conditioners, all kinds of electrical consumer goods, tractors, trucks, furniture, tele visions and many other items. • • • This farm market has been neg lected by some of the big busineae concerns of the country end the records indicate that only seven out of the top 20 big consumer goods manufacturers have made any se rious effort to reach this market with the necessary specialized pro grams and finances to do a selling job. However there is every Indica tion this year that fall and winter campaigns are to be undertaken to reach this twin market, a twin market because the farm not only buys industrial but consumer prod ucts as well. So it is a different market than any other and can be reached only through special media and special technique in selling. • • • A study of the department of Commerce census on national in come shows this definite pattern— that where farms are most pros- oerous, urban income is highest in that area and that farm pros perity-’follows in the wake of farm electrification and is in direct ratio to percentage of electrified farms in a given area. • • * For example, the area of highest total income in the country is in the middle Atlantic states of Penn sylvania, New York and New Jer sey with a total spendable income of $59.8 billions. The 296,000 farms in these three states are 92.5 per cent electrified und the farmers own a larger percentage of autos, washing machines, home freezers and other modern equipment than in any other area. Next highest expendable income area is^in the east north central states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin with total expendable income of $57.6 billions. The 885,000 farms in this area are 91.7 percent electrified and farm ers own next highest percentage of autos, telephones and modern elec trical equipment. Third highest segment in total Income is in Pacific coast states of Washington, Oregon and Cali fornia with a total income of $30.1 bill inns and 266,800 farms in these states are 91.4 percent electrified. • • • Next comes the south Atlantic states with total income of $29 bil lions; west north central with billions; west south central $20.5 billions; New England $16.7 billions; east south ce with $11.7 billions and mountain states with $&3 billions. Only , where pattern is broken is in England where 103,200 farms 90.7 percent electrified mountain states where 1 farms are only 79.8 percent trifled. Mountain state farms hoi ever have a big percentage of ran< and grassland acreage. The farm market not only is a good market today, but it will con tinue good since there is to be con tinued all-out production to keep up with rapidly increasing population expected to increase by 30 in next 20 years, which means to maintain present stanc farmers must raise 20 more crops on virtually acreage. In 12 years the farmer has more than tripled his equity in his prop erty and plant and today has total assets of approximately $169 bil lions as compared to $54 billions in 1940. The Courier-Gazette, New ark, N.Y.: Miss Rose Williams, dealer in antiques, has a gripe, and a good <me, to report She found a dead bird in front of her home Tuesday at the foot of Price’s Hill on Route 88 and upon examination found ft to be a Sora Rail. She said it was a rare species which does more running than flying. The South End neighbor reasoned that the bird was killed by a care less motorist who was in such a hurry that the feathered friend had no chance of crossing the highway. She also disclosed that three cock pheasants have been killed by ears at the hill’s summit. “Good shooting went with the wind of the automobile,” protested Miss Williams who asks for a little more consideration from motorists. She admitted that oftentimes birds would fly blindly into cars but there was no reason for the killing of the Sora Rail. • • • From The Clinton County Repub lican News, St. Johns, Mich.: There are those who say that it is obvious that the issues of the coming campaign will not be found in platforms ‘ and the idle prattle of professional politicians. - The bigger, deeper, more real, fess easily definable issues are within ourselves. The issues are to be found in the hearts of our cit izens, in our own faith and hopes and aspirations. The issues are in our own intuition, in our longing for something better, a hunger for am more dignity in government, in the removal of our own sense of guilt for having struggled too long selfish pressure-group instead of working for the good. The Issues are how big we are, how strong we are, how loudly will we clamor to be heard, how strong are the convictions of our people,- our own reaction to character and to men. • • » From the News Herald, Morning Sim, Iowa: It would be fine if the baseball season could be brought to a close by the time school opens in the fall. It is mighty rough on the youthful baseball fans who have to be away from radio and television when their favorite team is driving hard for the pennant. And when the World Series comes along the or deal is more than any youngster should be required to endure. • • * From Cstekill Mountain Sta Saugerties, N.Y.: A late news bulletin advises tb a couple of Boston scientists ai on their way to Alaska to leai whether a white whale’s hea works as hard as a man’s. Amo: the things we’d like to know is who holds the whale while they vestigate, why do they insist on white one, and is their control a^ big-hearted man or one of those human worms? The cost of such an excursion would send a bunch kids to camp for a couple of w . . . and provide even more val uable research data on hearts. . Test Your InteNigence Score yourself 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions. L The American statesman who decided to use the atomic bomb was; —Sen. Robert A. Taft --President Harry S. Truman —Franklin D. Roosevelt - —Sen. Joseph McCarthy 2. Law once prohibiting sale of alcohoUc beverages in the U. S. was: —The Volstead Act —The Taft-Hartley Law —The Hatch Act —The Mundt-Nixon Bill 3. The Statue of Liberty was made in which of the following places: —Brooklyn —France —Italy —Switzerland 4. Who painted the Mona Lisa? —Leonardo Da Vinci —Michelangelo —John Singer Sargent —Raphael 5. Italy’s famous leaning tower is in which city? —Rome —Genoa -Pisa —Milan 6. William Tell is said to have shot an apple off the head of: —his wife —his king ' —his grandson —his son 7. Match these fictional characters with their occupations. Score yourself 10 points for each correct choice: (A) Sinbad —salesman (B) Silas Marner —collar factory worker (C) Clyde Griffiths —weaver (D) Willy Loman —sailor Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average: 70-80. superior; 90-100, very superior. ^ (Answers on Page Six)