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PAGE TWO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1953 THE NEWBERRY SUN Sl'/M; 1) Csi •ttn 1218 Colleg-e Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, unde? 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 Teachers know the value of repetition. As we read in the Bible: “For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little”. Mere repetition may not accomplish the best results, though even a sing-song repeating, over and over, will make an impression, though tiresome. If the teacher will hold the puple’s attention and say to him, man to man, X plus Y is Z; X is Z, looking him in the eye, the lad will probably remember. Of course there are times when the teacher must almost explode in the face of a wandering mind to make an impression. I recall a professor in a class in Criminal Law. Sounds bad, doesn’t it — class in Criminal Law? Well, then, let’s say “Crimionlogy”, which sounds better, but is not the same thing. That teacher was a retired lawyer who had attained great eminence in Virginia, a State, or Commonwealth, of very able lawyers. He had a young man standing during the entire period — an hour. He stated a case and asked whether a man would be guilty of manslaughter or mur- , der. The student’s mind rambled around for a while in what the student regarded as thinking. He then answered “Man slaughter”. The old lawyer stood near him and screamed one'word: “Murder! That blasted away all the fog and cobwebs in our minds. That’s what he did: he blasted our minds. I know that this will shock all the fond mothers whose aittle boys obey strictly and never forget. The little boys of today are, then, better than they used to be. Some years ago nice, obedient, industrious, clean, clean, little boys were so rare that indulgent parents were afraid they would die young. Well, what’s all this about? As a friend of mine asks, *'What's all this to do ^ith the high cost of living”? For tunately electricity is still cheap and electric power is abun dant; and our banks have plenty of money. T used to know a man who, when repeating something the second or third time, would look you in the eye and say: “Now what I mean to say is this”. What I mean to repeat is this: “Sharing the feeling of most of my fellow citizens that wdth the election of General Eisenhower, honor and dig nity will be restored to their rightful place in the Federal government, I have lately been reading about the enormity of the tasks before him. In this connection probably the staggering national debt presents his greatest problem. Of all the suggested reme dies, none has seemed to me to have the merits of that sug gested by Mr.Charles E. .Wilson, former Director of De fense Mobilization. He proposes the sale of government power and water projects to private owners. He estimates that approximately $27 billion could be realized from such sales, which if applied in reduction of the debt would reduce it by some 10 percent. Such reductions, he reasons, would reduce the annual interest payable by the Treasury about 1-2 billion dollars. Further, says he, these properties, if well managed in private hands should yield $1 billion in annual tax revenues.” Our Government should not be in the power business, or the banking business. And certainly the Government should not have preferred customers. The courts should knock all this in the head. We Americans have been adopting all sorts of measures from Europe. Well, did you ever hear of millions of Ameri cans leaving for Europe every year? Oh, yes, but they are' tourists, travelling with ample money and able to come back. Yet strangely enough, millions of people of Europe want to come here. Let’s be American and stay so. I didn’t see anything in Europe thatl would rather have, did you? Let’s put on a little highbrow stuff for a moment: A few words about Atomic power. I may be like my Peruvian friend who said he would explain something in “Cuatro palabras” — four words; but strung out these “four” words over fifteen minutes. “Atomic Energy is part of a marvelous scientific develop ment. The part which started in war can of course make life very dangerous. But there is a lot more to science than that — and even to the part of it we call atomic energy. Its contribution to weapons is small compared to its con tribution to human welfare, said Dr. J. Robert Oppen- heimer a few weeks ago as he sat behind the well-polished conference table in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Says David E. Lilienthal former AEG Chairman: ‘Peo ple have been misled into thinking the atom is a weapon and nothing else. The truth is, here is a great new field of knowledge which can be converted to the peaceful service of humankind’. * The atom and its energy are no great mysteries. Every thing — the chairs people sit in, the clothes they wear and even the air they breathe — is made up of invisible tiny particles called atoms. The various parts of the atom are held together by ar^ invisible, binding force. This binding force is nuclear or atomic energy. Born of war, atomic energy continues to be predominant ly a military project. When international accord on the at°m appeared impossible, the US determined to stay ahead in atomic research, Hence Dr. Oppenheimer estimates ‘per haps 90 percent of all money spent on the atom is for mili tary objectives. Of the thousands of scientists, engineers and technicians presently engaged in atomic research and development, about 60 percent work on war projects. President Walker Cisier of Detroit Edison has just told the Society of Engineers: ‘The greatest commercial peace time use appears to be in electric power production.’ Clearly, atomic energy has broad social, economic and political implications. The horror of atomic weapons has altered the relations between nations. Dr Oppenheimer points out: ‘The vastly increased powers of destruction that atomic weapons give us have brought with them a profound change in the balance between national and international interests. The common interest of all in the prevention of atomic warefare would seem immensely to overshadow any purely national interest’. These are grave problems but perhaps the expected change in Government attitude towards business and in dustry will also extend to the atom. Properly handled, there is little reason why commercial development of atomic energy cannot proceed side-by-side with military advances. And at the same time America’s secrets can be secure. The Savannah River Plant in South Carolina is still un der construction and when finished will be the world's largest atomic plant. Built and operated by duPont it has been called 'the great construction project in world history’. Total cost: $1.25 billion. Like Hanford, this plant will make materials for bombs. ♦ To the businessman, atoms can mean better products, cheaper and easier production methods. Example: Standard Oil of California has estimated radioisotopes helped it ac complish 60 years research work in seven at a cost of only $35,000 instead of $1,000,000. To the consumer it can mean a healthier, happier and more comfortable life at less cost. One example: under a grant from Nash-Kelvinator, the University of Michigan hopes to use atomic energy to ‘preserve foods for a very long period of time’. To the investor it offers a chance to get in on the ground floor of a new industry. A chance which can be compared to the beginnings of the automobile or radio or aviation industries — and a chance which necessarily relies heavily on judgment and luck. But all these happy dreams will not become reality over a week-end. For one thing 90 percent of all the money being spent on atomic energy is for defense. Radioistopes are atoms which have been made radioac tive through artificial means. Of the 92 natural elements only a few like uranium, thorium and radium are radioat- tive. All three are in short supply and prohibitively expen sive. One gram of radium costs $20,000. It is this energy (ie, radiation) which makes radioiso topes so valuable to industry. But since no one can see radioisotopes, it is the sound of the radiation picked up and recorded which betrays their presence. In many industries like paper and plastics, there are frequently parallel uses. For example, both use radioiso topes to measure and control thickness of their product. Or there are interrelated uses such as chemical companies using radioactive tracers to learn about the cleansing ac tion of detergents; textile makers use them to study the reaction of fabrics to various detergents. Food and drug companies also benefit from the magic of radioisotopes, hope to use them for cold sterilization of food and drugs, to chart fermation processes, etc. And not long ago physicists Ernest Pollard of Yale suggested ‘atom-split- ting techniques be applied to the study of germs in order to learn the mechanics of bacteria and viruses’. Such a study could conceivably bring about a cure for the common cold and mean millions of dollars for drug makers. CHANGES. For every industrial change wrought direct ly by the atom there will be one brought about indirectly. Example: the use of isotopes has become a transportation problem. One happy solution has been devised by the Bri tish who outfit their transport planes so radioactive iso topes can be carried in the wing tips. The cost of shipping them has been reduced 60 percent. Right now some agricultural research in centered on explaining one of the most fascinating mysteries of all time — photosynthesis. This is the fundamental process by which green plants use energy from the sun to form Test Your I. Q. 1. Is there such a thing as ab solute zero? 2. Name the jockey who has ridden four winners in the Ken- 'kv Derby. 3. Testing the fact that gentle men prefer blondes, how many “Miss America” Contest winners vince 1940 have been blonde? 4. Which state is known as the "Sooner State”? 5. What is the name of the world’s largest encyclopedia? ANSWERS TO Test Your I. Q. 1. Yes, minus 459.6 degrees Fahrenheit or minus 273.15 centi grade. 2. Eddie Arcaro in 1938, 1941, 1945 and 1948. 3. One. Colleen Kay Hutchins of Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1952. 4. Oklahoma. 5. “Yung La Ta Tien,” consist ing of 11,095 volumes, was pub lished in 1408. Forty-one original volumes of this set are in the Li brary af Congress. STRICTLY FRESH A CROOK complained about the jail’s bean diet but refused to be extradited till shown a fake home-town jail menu. His first meal back home was a beef sand wich instead of roast chicken. Bet now he’s beefing about his beef! * * * Sliding into the river, an empty Milwaukee, Wis., car was pulled to shore by a fire tug named Del uge. Bet the owner flooded Deluge with thanks! Library fine collectors in a California town opened a young lady’s letter enclosing $5 for “One Night of Love.” She meant an overdue library book about music. To the boys it was just a sweet note turned sour. I REMEMBER" BY THE OLD TIMERS From Ester Anderson, 523 Le- baron Street, Mesa, Arizona: I re member when grandmother had a calf butchered and she hung chunks of beef in front of the fire place to dry. She made a hole in the chunk with an ice pick, placed a string through the hole. We had dried beef in every shape and form for the whole winter. From Mrs. Raymond Shelden, Ekalaka, Montana: I remember when treadmills furnished the pow er to run threshing machines. Two horses were tied into a «ontraption like a loading chute, which had a revolving slot floor. They stood there walking for hours making a wheel go round that was attached by pulleys to the threshing ma chine. A fresh lean, was used ev- v ery few hours. It was fascinating to watch the horses walk and walk and never get anywhere. From Mrs. Bertha Williams, Fort Recovery, Ohio: I remember when my mother made her own yeast from the hops that vined high on a pole by the garden gate. There was a saying that to make good bread with the yeast the hops should be picked before the September wind blew on them From Mrs. Lola B. McComb, Welsonville, Nebraska: I remem ber when we went to town to buy groceries. Sugar was scooped out of an open barrel and weighed on an old fashion scale. Crackers came in pine boxes. Coffee came to us unroasted. Pickles came in barrels and tea was weighed out by the pound. From Mrs. G. M. Houch, Hast ings, Pa.: I remember when we used to make grape wine and we used “foot power” to press the grapes The grapes would be put in a large wooden barrel, a few at a time, and the children would take turn about trampling the fruit with their bare feet. Sixty per cent of America’s mo tor vehicle traffic is concentrated on 7 per cent of the road mileage. Yet two-thirds of the nation’s main highways are regarded as short of safe driving standards. It is estimated that 60 million Americans use automobiles to get to and from work or school every day. When the wood gutter on the White House was replaced in 1727 it was found still serviceable after 110 years of use. It is estimated that U. S. rail roads have in place about one bil lion wooden ties, and over nine million lineal feet of timber trestle. ■■■" i ■ ——— . ■ ■ -H i WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE ■" ' ' — ... Former President Here’s the Answer HORIZONTAL VERTICAL 1 Pictured former president of Venezuela 9 Roves 14 Idle 15 Heron 16 Permit 17 Winged 19 Age 20 Lieutenant (ab.) 21 Qualified 22 Hoax 24 Symbol for erbium 25 Malt drink 26 Term used in cribbage 28 Direction 30 Back of neck 33 Tube 34 Genus of shrubs 35 Roman road 36 Civil wrong 37 Fiber knots 39 Male child 40 Pair (ab.) 42 Short barb 45 Sea (Fr.) 46 Ambary 48 Swiss river 50 He also is internationally known as a 52 Point 53 Discolor 55 Visionaries 57 Canvas shelters 68 Appraise 1 Branchia 2 Dill 3 Column 4 Lower case (ab.) 5 Storehouse 6*Gilding 7 Egg 8 Hardens 9 Fortification 10 Giant king of Bashan 11 Exist 12 Simple 13 Heaven’y body 18 Exclamation 21 Changed ■ P= »*■■■ 23 Kind of lizard 25 Tremulous 27 Wand 28 Roof finial 29 River isle 31 Through 32 Dine 38 Chessmen 39 Seraglio 40 Time gone by 41 Proportion 43 Railroad (ab.) 44 Ocean movement 45 Encounter 46 Filth 47 Church part 49 Sped 51 Transposes (ab.) 52 Beverage 54 That thing 56 Millimeter (ab.) sugar, starch, cellulose and other carbon compounds needed and used by man. Still in the elementary stages of research, despite eye- catchiqg publicity, is the use of radioactive isotopes in the treatment of cancer and other diseases. For one thing only eight radioactive isotopes are now used experimentally by the medical profession. One of these is radioactive iodine which is used to treat just one kind of cancer — thyroid cancer. Popular name for the radioactive iodine which is taken by mouth is ‘atomic cocktail’. An increasingly big problem is what to do with by-pro ducts. One of the factors which recently led Dr. James B. Conant to a pessimistic appraisal of the outlook for atomic energy is the problem of coping with fission by-products. For example the Hanford plant cannot toss ifs waste pro ducts into the Columbia River because the radioactive part icles would kill valuable salmon.*’ DaleCarnegie “ H0W T0 STOP WORRYING AND STARTIIVING" ^ Before and during the war Eva St. Charles. 1960 Santa Fe Avenue, Long Beach. California, and her family operated several restaurants. They made a lot of money but she detested the business. She had once been away from it for several years and when she had returned to it she had forgotten how she really felt about it. By and by she and her husband bought a restaurant. She says she can hardly excuse herself for not knowing better than to go into it. but here she was in the same business she had promised herself she never would go into again. A few days after they took over the restaurant, she began to question her sanity. A state of depres sion settled on her which steadily became worse. Instead of looking forward to each new day with cheerful thoughts that might lift her out of this mental state, she let morbid, unhappy thoughts take pos session and they would last through the day. The only relief she had from this terrible suffocating feel ing was when she was asleep. She wondered if she ever would be able to overcome it and be happy again. Then someone gave her a copy of a book on Worry. As she read it, her slant on life gradually changed. She started applying to her life some of the rules contained in the book. Soon she felt like a new person and she declares she is happier now than she has been in a long time. Here are some of the rules: the application of which she says is transforming her life: 1. When you are inclined to worry, lose yourself in action. 2. Cooperate with the inevitable. 3. Don’t permit trifles to irritate you. 4. Think cheerful thoughts; act cheerful. 5. L^arn to relax—preferably out of doors. 6. Stop thinking about people you don’t like. 7 Count your blessings every day CARNEGIE From the Duncannon Record, Duncannon, Pa.: Once upon a time, long, long ago, bc.ng in business was a simple matter. A man was able to compute his profits at the end of the year by a record of in come and expenditures, and the difference in inventory at the close of the year. He paid his income tax, and the rest was his. Maybe the net result is still the same—we wouldn’t know. We do know that it is no longer a simple process. Now a businessman col lects the income tax from his em ployees, and turns it over to the gov ernment. He must file a quarterly return on this tax. He not only col lects the employees’ share of social security and turns it over to the government, he also contributes a like amount. For this job, he must also submit a quarterly return to the government. He must give each employee a statement of his earn ings, tax withheld, social security deducted, number of dependents, etc., etc. Unemployment compen sation insurance is also compul sory. For this, too, quarterly re ports are required. Don’t get us wrong. We are heart ily in favor of social security, un employment insurance, and hospi talization. We wouldn’t want to be without them. But we’re not in favor of having a report waiting to be filled out every time we turn around. Here are some statistics asked for a report we’re struggling with now: Capital invested; days in operation; rated horsepower of motors driven by purchased cur rent; total primary horsepower; total number of electric motors and horsepower; wage earners, nationality; wage earners, sex and wages paid; salaried persons and office force, and total salaries for year; cost of materials, cost of fuel, cost of purchased electric en ergy, cost of contract work done for you. Add these all up. throw in the headaches of labor turnover, sky- high prices, wage stabilization and a few dozen other agencies, and there you are. Sittin’ on top of the world, a business of your own— even if a couple dozen governmen tal agencies know more about it than you do. This is Utopia? • • * From the Lamar County Echo, Lamar, Texas: Our neighbors have two pet rabbits which are kept in a cage about four feet square. Ev ery morning another rabbit hops up to yie cage for a “visit” and then, when he sights a dog or other dan ger, scampers off to safety. Why do we have an item like in an edito rial column? Simply to illustrate the difference between “security” and “freedom.” The pets are un doubtedly secure—no harm can come to them, but they have no freedom. 'Which do the people of this country prefer—security or freedom? • • • From the Herington Advertiser- Times, Herington, Kansas: The press has sometimes been criti cized for squawking too much about their own freedom. But it is not their own freedom in question, it is the freedom of the people who have a press which can give them all the facts on the news of the day without being subject to censorship. • If there were ever any doubts that President Eisenhower would not carry out his promise of econ omy and efficiency in government, they have now been dispelled. Washington is being shaken to the very foundations these days—like it hasn’t been shaken for 20 years. Beginning with his first State of the Union Message to congress and a series of executive orders immediately afterwards, the Presi dent has shown he means business. A number of the points touched upon in his address to congress have seen fast action. As an example: 1. He said there no longer was any “sense or logic” in the use of the Seventh Fleet to shield Red China. He immediately ordered the fleet to stop its screening. This opens the way for Nationalist forces to attack the Communist-held main land if they so desire. That China doesn’t like the idea was apparent the following day when Red lead ers began asking for renewal of the hopeless peace talks in Korea. 2. The first order of domestic business should be to balance the budget, .after which a reduction in taxation would be in order. This statement was followed by orders freezing, hiring and strict econ omy in government expenditures. 3. Aid to Europe would be con tinued with the Allies required to be full partners matching United States contributions according to their capabilities. Immediately afterwards Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, on his visit to Eu rope. told big Western European powers they have 75 days to show real progress in setting up a uni fied defense or they faced cuts in American military and economic aid. • One of the most talked about moves of the administration is t^e killing of the Defense Production Administration. Its functions have been taken over by the Office of Defense Mobilization. The move Is the first step to end controls on materials and products except for highly essential defense items. This swing to free-economy, which the Republican party has long advocated, is the forerunner of decontrol of prices and wages. The administration may face some opposition in that many in con gress want a stand-by organization ready in the event prices and wages get out of hand. It is gen erally believed, however, that Eis enhower will have his way. • After the first weeks his ad- * ministration has been in power, there is a general feeling, in Wash ington that any collision between the White House and congress is yet in the distant future. The rea son: the President’s prestige is vast and his political power is over whelming. No one or group, as yet, has had the courage to seriously cross him. The Democrats are actually beginning to believe Jhey can get along with him much bet ter' than they supposed. And al though a number of Republicans are developing signs of congres sional independence, none of them, including Senator Taft, are likely to get far out of line in the near future.