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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
The South and Southwest are growing rich from oil and
related products, or derivatives. Out there oil and natural
gas are building new industrial gians.
“Clustered along the Texas-Louisiana coast is the heart
of what is probably the fastest growing industry in the U.S.
today.
It’s the "petrochemicals’ industry. Petrochemicals is a
coined name. covering 200 or more chemicals made from
natural gas and oil refinery byproduct gases. Terrifically
in demand the past 10 years, they’re still rising fast in
popularity for making untold thousands of finished pro
ducts. They figure prominently in the manufacture of syn
thetic rubber, plastics, ‘miracle’ fibres and ‘soapless soap’
to name a few major uses.
Back in 1940 U.S. output of petrochemicals was com
paratively puny at four billion pounds. It jumped to 10
billion at the close of World War II, to 15 billion in 1950
and will top 17 billion this year—over four times the pre
war rate. Industry crystal-gazers* see another four-fold
gain by 10 years from now, to an annual rate of around
64 billion pounds.
An estimated 85% of U.S. producing capacity is now lo
cated in a crescent-shaped area from Baton Rouge La., to
Brownsville, Texas. Over 40 big plants dot this Gulf Coast
flatland where prior to 1941 there were only three. Some
20 plants sprang up during World War II; about an equal
number -have gone into operation since. Tey’re providing
a yearly payroll of about $120 million for nearly 30,000
workers. Today, a majority of the plants are expanding
pell-mell, and over a dozen new ones are rising or will be
under construction soon.
What’s this area’s pulling power?
Mainly a superabundance of natural gas and a concentra
tion of oil refineries, providing dependable supplies of raw
materials at stable prices. The Gulf Cpast of Texas and
Louisiana produces more than one-third of the nation’s
natural gas and has nearly a third of its oil refinery capac
ity. It’s a storehouse, too, of other key chemical ingredients
like salt and sulfur. Added attractions are availability of
cheap water transportation, an adequate labor force and
ample fresh water (from deep wells, rivers and reservoirs)
to slake the tremendous thirst of chemical plants.
A little gas apparently goes a long way; one million cubic
feet of gas could make 90,000 pounds of petrochemicals. On
that basis, Gulf Coast gas production for just two weeks
and two days could supply enough raw materials for all
the petrochemicals produced in the U.S. in a whole year.
Whether using natural gas or refinery gases, petrochemi
cal plants put these raw materials through some pretty
involved processes. The techniques may include combina
tions of heat, pressure, exposure to air, water or other
chemical mixtures. Petrochemicals are the.parents of sup
er-large families of other chemicals.
Petrochemicals usually are produced, at least in one
stage or another, as gases, liquids or semi-solids. But you’ll
likely never see a petrochemical in a petrochemical plant.
Push-button controls guide them through labrinths of pipes
and towers and more pipes to storage tanks.
While the Gulf Coast dominates output of petrochemicals,
only a dribble of consumer products made from them comes
out of the region. Probably 90% or more of Gulf Coast
petrochemicals output is shipped out in bulk, by ships,
barges and rail tank cars, to products makers in denser
population centers, mainly in the East and Middle West.
They’re moved by ships, barges and railroad tank cars.
Transportation charges are considerably less for bulk ship
ments than for finished products.
By one informed estimate, textiles take more pethochemi-
cals than any other group of products—21 % of the total
output. Next in rank are automotive uses, and plastics and
resins, with 19% apiece. Then comes paint, taking 9%.
The food and metal-processing industries get about 5 % each.
This is the new year; 1952 is now of the past, at one
» with Nineveh and Tyre, as used to be said. Nineveh and Tyre
were great cities, but are now of the dim past.
If my memory is not playing tricks with me, a ruler
had a sign hanging where he would always see it, and it
read: “Remember that you, too, are mortal.” King’s and
presidents. Emperors and Dictators, aye, the German
Fuehrer and II Duce of Italy—all strut across the stage of
life; and all die. They have played their little part and are
no more. However, Moses saw life in its true proportions
and claimed “The eternal God is our refuge;” and only
God is eternal. As Tennyson says in “In Memoriam” “Our
little systems have their day; They have their day and cease
to be; They are but broken lights of thee. And thou, O
Lord, art more than they.”
Life moves on: we cannot sit in vain repining; if we made
mistakes in 1952 let us try to learn the lesson and avoid
THE NEWBERRY SUN
Old Friends—Old Problem
the mistakes, remembering that “men may rise on stepping
stones of their dead selves to higher things.”
I have never claimed much foresight; but I try to have
good hindsight; for if we can look back and see our mis
takes, and then never repeat them, we shall be among the
wisest of people, for most people make the same mistakes
again and again. Since few have the prophetic quality to
look into the future we may all cultivate hind-sight. Hind
sight could be immensely profitable in all relationships of
life, in business as well as in pleasure; in the Church, in
the spiritual concerns, too, as truly as in the laboratory, ex
ploring, testing, correcting, trying again.
The ne wyear offers a fresh opportunity. We might do
as the Apostle Paul said, “Forgetting those things which
are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are
before, I press toward the mark” etc.
So, indeed, let us have aims, ambitions, lofty purposes;
let us make high resolves, freshly dedicating ourselves,
pressing forward to the mark in unswerving progress to
ward the goal of our ambition.
Ambition is not all bad by any means. Shakespeare
makes Cardinal Woolsey say “Cromwell, I charge thee fling
away ambition; by that sin fell the angels: how can man,
then, the image of his maker, hope to win by it ?” . . . . “Had
I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King,
He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine en
emies.”
Ambition may guide a life usefully, helpfully, toward
splendid achievement: it is not necessarily a perversion of
great qualities for meanly selfish advantage. It may, in
deed, be a noble and constructive zeal that will enrich
humanity.
Many businessmen say: “I wonder about 1953.” Why?
We ourselves may make a difference by doubting and hesi
tating. But if all go forward, without regard to the year,
why shouldn’t everything be favorable? By our misgivings
we sow the seed of fear; and fear is contagious.
Do you recall that the Children of Israel, while fleeing
from the Egyptians were in terror as the enemy approach
ed and further flight seemed cut off by the sea and cried
out against Moses and God ? And God said to Moses: Why
criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel,
that they go forward.”
And we recall the promise of Jehovah, after the flood
had covered the earth: “While the earth remaineth, seed
time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and win
ter, and day and night shall not cease.”
With all the splendor of God’s providence why should not
we take courage (that means to have a stout heart) for
what more can He say than to you He hath said, in the
words of the hymn! And it goes on: “‘Fear not, I am
with thee, O be not dismayed, For I am thy God, I will still
give thee aid; I’ll strengthen thee, help thee and cause thee
to stand, upheld by my gracious, omnipotent hand.”
Test Your Intelligence
Score yourself 10 points for each correct answer in the first sbf
questions.
1. One of the following men is not a playwright. Can you name
him?
—Elmer Rice —Norman Thomas —Robert Sherwood
—Maxwell Anderson
2. Coffee is ground from which of the following’
—Pollen —Berries —Roots —Leaves
3. Which of these four documents was written first?
—The Bill of Rights -—The Constitution
—The Declaration of Independence
—The Emancipation Proclamation
4. Which of the following words does not match the other three
used to describe parts of the eye?
—Iris —Retina —Fovea —Ventricle
5. Thomas Jefferson's home was called
—Monticello —Mount Vernon —The Hermitage
—Shangri-la
6. Which of the following boxers won a decision over Joe Louis?
—Randy Turpin —Maxie Rosenbloom
—Max Schmeling —Sugar Ray Robinson
7. Match the following canals with the bodies of water which they
connect. Score yourself 10 points for each correct combination.
(A) Suez Canal —Aegean Sea and Ionian Sea
(B) Panama Canal —Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea
(C) Sault St. Marie —Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
(D) Corinth Canal —Lake Superior and Lake Huron
Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80,
superior; 90-100, very superior.
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’TPHE SUPREME COURT has
been asked to decide whether
having separate schools for Negro
and white children violates the
Constitution.
The defenders of the present sys
tem say that if both races receive
equal facilities in the public schools
of a state, there is no discrimina
tion.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
which is leading the fight against
segregated schools, declares that
“Segregation impairs the educa
tional development of its victims.
“Race as a factor in the selec
tion of students for admission to
public schools," the association
contends, “is a constitutional ir
relevance, which cannot be justi
fied as a classification based upon
any real difference which has per
tinence to a valid legislative ob
jective.”
Segregation in itself Is discrim
ination, the association argues,
and therefore violates the 14th
' Amendment to the Constitution,
which says no state may deny any
person the equal protection of the
laws.
• • •
Harry Truman may not have
shown much political acumen when
he called the high-flying Ike a
demagogue for going to Korea. But
you cannot doubt the President’s
sincerity or that he spoke his truth
feelings. Here are a reporter’s
questions and Truman’s direct an
swers in which he called Ike a
demagogue:
Q.—Mr. President, I want to get
it straight. You said you thought it
would serve no good purpose, it
was just a piece of demagoguery
and that is what it turned out to bel
A.—That was correct, that was
correct.
Q.—The current trip that is on
now is a piece of demagoguery!
A.—Yes, the announcement of
that trip was a piece of dema
goguery and then, of course, he
(General Eisenhower) had to make
it. He had made the statement and
he had to take the trip.
• * •
Mrs. Roosevelt was not being
catty when she said that Mamie
Eisenhower would be better dressed
than she was when she went into
the White House. What Mrs. Roose
velt meant was that now the coun
try enjoys more prosperity than it
did when the Roosevelts entered
the White House—in the middle of
a Hoover depression.
• • •
Adlai Stevenson received a let
ter informing him that the reason
he was defeated by Ike was that
Ike has more sex appeal than Ad
lai and all the women voted for
the general. This letter was pub
licized by a column in a Chicago
newspaper. Now that columnist’s
desk is piled high with letters from
women declaring that Stevenson
has more sex appeal than Ike. One
woman says, “I think Adlai is as
cute as a bug’s ear.”
WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE ]
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HORIZONTAL
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S3 Radiated
14 Artist’s frame
15 Be seated
16Pedagogue
18 Lamprey
19 Woody plant
21 Half (prefix)
22 Head covers
23 Names (ab.)
25 Rough lava
26 Petty malice
29 Garden tool
6 Followers
7 Surrender
8 First man
9 Musical note
10 On the ocean
11 Retain
12 Cloth
measures
14 And (Latin)
17 Symbol for
nickel
20 Lured
22 Whimsey
24 Birds’ homes
25 Flower
26 Seaport (ab.)
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34 Attempter 28 Man’s name
35 Brochure
36 Sea duck
37 Electrical unit
38 Red Cross
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39 Footless
animal
42 East Indian
woody vine
46 Heroic
50 Tear
51 Ideal state
52 Man’s name
54 Approaches
56 Fragments
58 Shield bearing
59 Steel crossbow
'VERTICAL
1 Waistcoat
2 Prince
8 Ratio
4 Preposition
5 Short sleep
30 Help
31 Friglish river
32 Go astray
'39 Italian river
40 Wharf
41 Gem
42 On time (ab.)
43 Girl's name
44 Mimicker
45 Tree part
47 Window glass
48 Devotees
49 She has been
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roles
51 We
52 Collection of
sayings
55 Of the thing
57 Morindin dye
We were reared in the nurture Rnd admonition of the
Lord; He is the same and we surely need Him!
The world shall not starve. Down at bottom we may
crave luxury and show, ease and indulgence, riotous profus
ion, but the underlying fear is that we may lack food. Je
hovah has promised it; and the Master taught us to pray
“Give us this day, our daily bread.” Not filet mignon or
hams in brandy, not mink coats nor Russians sables—but
just the simple food to sustain life.
We might catch the spirit of Longfellow and make it ours:
“Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.”
AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND STARTtlVING"
This, Tog, Will Pass
A NDREW BABAYAN, Chicago, left Iran and came to America
to make his home. But all did not go well. He was homesick
and he worried about the job that he left in Persia which he
really loved. He had been a successful dentist in his own country
and had everything that average people would like to have to-
make their lives comfortable and happy. He
owned his own home, a car, had a good posi
tion, and a very good business of which he was
proud because it was the result of his hard work
for fifteen years.
Two weeks after arriving in this country,
he had to face the fact that he could not be a
dentist anymore because he couldn’t get a license.
He didn’t know what he was going to do in a
country where he had no friends and no business
acquaintances. An optimist by nature, he now
fell to such depths of desperation that life became
a living Hell. He could think of nothing but his
job and position—both lost. He saw no hope for the future. Even
his family life was near the breaking point, because his wife was
the cause of their leaving Iran. So he accused her of that. He
neither wanted to see anyone nor to leave his house.
CARNEGIE
With these dark thoughts he kept to his bed for a whole week.
At the end of the week he started to realize that he could not
endure life like this any longer. He said to himself, “Andy, if you
continue to see your life in ,such dark colors, you’ll‘be Ipst. Make
an end to this. Think about your wife and your beautiful
daughter. Remember what you used to tell others: Take it easy.
Time is the best physician. The worry will go with the passing of
time.’ ” Then he decided to get a job—any kind of job only to
keep busy and so not have time to worry. He decided to make
friends in order not to be alone with his thoughts. He decided to
forget what he once was and to face what he had become, re
membering the words of the ancient Persian kings who said.
“This too will pass.”
He declares that he is now one of the happiest human beings
on earth.
From the Toledo Union Leader,
Toledo, Ohio.
A fascinating human • interest
drama unfolded in the federal court
in Toledo the other day. It ap
peared that one George W. Spon-
sler had pleaded guilty to taking
$7,500 from the bank for which he
had worked and had ultimately re
paid it but the judge was more
angry with the accuser than the
accused.
Judge Kloeb noted that Sponsler
had worked for the First National
Bank of North Baltimore, Ohio for
32 years. He began at $20 a week
and in 1942 his salary had increased
to the magnificent sum of $36.50.
Between 1920 and 1941, Sponsler
took small sums from the bank
which he used to keep his family
going.
Judge Frank Kloeb was so in
censed at the officials of the bank
who. kept Sponsler “living like a
pauper," that he let loose: "If I
had the authority I would sentence
the bank’s officials to read the
story of Scrooge at Christmas
time." And the Judge went on to
observe, “If the bank was decent,
when this shortage was discovered
it would have marked off the loss
from its surplus funds without any
publicity or embarrassment to
this man." And to Sponsler, he
said, "I am sorry you are here.”
Judge Kloeb placed the defend
ant on indefinite probation.
All of which means that paying
miserly wages, that taking undue
advantage of other human beings
in financial affairs and placing
corporate and personal profit ahead .
of the welfare of people, can be
as great a crime as theft.
• • •
From The Advertiser, Saranac,
Michigan:
Perhaps you have been one of,
many people interested in the thrill
ing Swiss mountain climbing at
tempt of Mt. Everest—the uncon
quered mountain of India.
We have learned via reports last
weekend that the group, which
started their climb on November
20. failed short of its goal by only
150 feet
This is the furthest that anyone
has ever climbed the gigantic
mountain, estimated to be almost
30,000 feet in height
We have been particularly In
terested in the efforts of one fel
low, Raymond Lambert who like
other ‘ ‘Gets-in-my-blood' ’ mountain
climbers, had an obsession to reach
the top of the mount
Although others must have been
saddened by their defeat at the
hands of terrific adverse elements
of nature, Lambert must have been
especially crestfallen.
Lambert a headstrong German,
who has spent his life—outside of
fighting in German wars—climbing
mountains, wanted to reach the
top of the mount more than any
thing else. He failed before.
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1. The Taft-Dee rift was recently widened by Ike's appoint
ment ef which: (a) Dulles, (b) Durkin, (c) Aldrich?
2. The Taft faction accuses Ike of being influenced too muck
by whieh (a) Harry Truman, (b) Thomas Dewey, (e) Joe Mc
Carthy?
3. According to Truman, Eisenhower is which: (a) a philan
thropist, (b) a humanitarian, (c) a demagogue?
4. Segregation of school pupils is claimed to be a violation
of which Amendment: (a) 13th, (b) 12th, (c) 14th?
ANSWERS
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