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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
The Easley Progress carried an editorial last week which
I quote: “We see by the pen of Dave Tillinghast that the
government, after spending $78 million for Clark’s Hill
Dam, finds it is now faced with the problem of keeping
it from filling up with red mud. What was to be beautiful
Isaqueena Lake in western Pickens County turned out to
be a trap for Six Mile red mud. The government had built
artistic stone bath houses for the tourists expected to visit
limpid blue Isaqueena, but the water of the dam remained
the red of Red Hills and Cotton, or the red hills that
cotton makes. When the government saw that it would
have to build a pool to wash off the Six Mile mud and a
laundry to wash bathing suits, it just let some hunters
build a fire in the bath house and burn the roof off. An
engineer and distinguished graduate of Clemson says the
Hartwell Dam w’ould make a stinking mud flat at Clemson
because it would catch the mud that Clark’s Hill ought to
get. To learn how quick one of these dams can fill up, look
at Isaqueena—almost full in fifteen years, or Portman
Shoals—just about full in forty years. The Tillinghast rem
edy is Green Pastures—fine, but what’s to keep them green,
years like 1952? Perhaps the best answer is to leave off
the dams and put the river bottoms in green pastures.”
The Editor of The Easley Progress, J. D. Wyatt, is one
of the independent thinkers of our State. We have many of
them, notably among the brethren of the press.
We’ve had wars to end wars and profligate spending of
public ‘money in order -to make prosperity; and prohibitively
big taxes in order to promote business—all being a great
illusion or delusion or, perchance, an hallucination; but now,
Mr. Wyatt raises the question whether more dams are
needed in order to protect dams. Are we to be dammed
all over the State? Please observe the spelling: I am not in
dulging in theological speculations, nor invoking fire and
brimstone on the advocates of a wasteful and subversive
National program. Spectator is merely treating the subject
in a mild and innocent manner, raising a pertinent question
and referring to pent-up water, not iniquity. The dammed
waters in one place befoul the water somewhere else. Again
please observe how the word “dammed” is spelled and its
chaste meaning.
As to much that is being done—and as to the people who
have been done; I find my mind in a whirl. Sometimes I
don’t know what is what, or what is which, or which is what.
The Mexicans have an expression “Quien sabe,” which is
very convenient. Instead of saying “I don’t know,” they
frequently say “quien sabe,” which means who knows ? It is
told of an American tourist in Mexico that his questions
“who is that?” “What is that?” usually received a response,
“Quien sabe.” He didn’t know what quein sabe” meant.
Then when he inquired about the time for anything he was
told “Manana.”- Now “Manana” means many things to a
Spaniard. It means tomorrow, but frequently it really
means that nothing will be done today, but the whole mat
ter in an impenetrable mist of uncertainty. So our friend
having heard “quien sabe” and “Manana” all the time, stop
ped to observe a funeral procession. Jfe nudged a man and
tried by gestures and facial contorious to ask who was dead.
The usual reply came: “Quien sabe?” Our tourist said,
“Well I’m glad “quien sabe” is dead and I hope “Manana”
will die soon.”
When I read the speeches ,and interviews and press re
leases from Washington I think “Quien sabe” is holding
forth there, for there will appear so many confusing state
ments that our small minds can’t cope with the profound
wisdom of Washington. And our old friend “Manana” is
in power there, too. Take this for a fine illustration: Gen
eral Van Fleet says that our army in Korea is—and has
been—short of ammunition. Just off-hand, now, doesn’t it
seem that General Van Fleet would know ? He was the field
commander, not a swivel-chair strategist in Washington,
building up a healthy expense account by riding around.
But the swivel-chair generals are going to prove that abun
dant ammunition was there. I suspect that General Manana
was in charge of the ammunition. That’s the same sort of
logic as tells us that we are not now in war in Korea. I
woncfer if the men who have been killed are dead, don’t you ?
It is possible that General Van Fleet had all the ammuni
tion he needed, but didn’t know what he had? And in the
face of all this confusion the wise men tell us that no in
vestigation of the Korean “dispute” should be undertaken
for fear that it might endanger our strategy!! Save the
mark! What strategy? The only strategy that I can see is
a plan to pull our punches for fear that we might offend
the Chinese. So we pour in more men and suffer casualties
long drawn out, rather than to wage war in the good old
American tradition.
We’ve learned something from the political-soldiers, or
the soldier-politicians. Now we have hot-wars, warm-wars,
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tepid-wars, and cold-wars. But the lad who is maimed or
crippled, or killed, has paid a full measure of devotion and
laid his body on the altar of our Country.
Perhaps w r e have had a cold war with our Northern
breathren since General Lee surrendered at Appomatox;
that might explain things—“Quien sabe?’ I used that old
fellow again; and, perhaps, we’ll know the truth “Manana.”
In wet weather one thinks of wet shoes, wet feet, colds,
“flu,” discomforts and such things. A wise man wears over
shoes; they protect his shoes and protect his health. Well
a new shoe leather will keep your feet dry on rainy dayes.
A chemist has developed a product that admits air but re
pels water. How does this impress you?
“Shoes made of new T ‘miracle’ leather that keeps the
wearer’s feet dry in wet weather without the burden of rub
bers may be available before long.
Since leather consists of a fine fabric that permits the
passage of air, it allows foot perspiration to evaporate and
so is ideal for shoes. But even its staunchest supporters ad
mit the regular material is no good at keeping out rain and
slush.
Now a group of scientists, working at different spots
across the country, have come up with a leather—the real
thing, not a synthetic—that they claim is waterproof.
The first clue to the development was discovered by a
chemist, while working in his small basement laboratory at
Niagara Falls, N. Y. What he managed to produce was a
chemical treating agent that would make the pores of leath
er repellent to water without affecting its ability to ‘breathe’
air.
He then set about finding a practical way to waterproof
leather with his new agent, and last fall experimental pro
duction was launched at a pilot plant.
After being treated with the agent, each leather sample
is subject to hours-long mechanical bending and flexing—a
strain said to be equal to walking 2,500 miles on an ordinary
pair of shoes. Then the leather is placed in water-filled
trays for days at a time. Results, the researchers report,
are excellent.
The process of waterproofing, that leather men have been
hunting for years, seems to be ready for use.
Besides doing away with wearing cumbersome rubbers
and galoshes, leather men think the new find may mean
healthier feet. Rubbers, they say, keep feet hot and in
crease perspiration—a good way to develop corns and cal
luses. Dampness, too, they report, is a prime cause for
athlete’s feet.”
Have you observed how many trailer-cabins are parked in
or near your city? Nearly two million people live in
trailers; and nearly a hundred thousand trailers are made
in a year. I’m dust a bit over the mark, allowing for pheno-
mental industrial expansion that can always be expected
in America. It is an interesting story.
“Besides getting bigger, trailers are getting fancier.
Practically all are now made with complete bathrooms,
against no more than 10% only three years ago. They con
tain a widening array of household appliances from air-
conditioners to garbage disposal units. Some boast two
bedrooms.
An official of the trailer makers group estimate the pro
portion of the industry’s sales going to retired couples has
gone to about 17 % from about 10 % three years ago. Manu
facturers here say this trend is continuing. Up until re
cently they used cute young girls as models for advertising
photos. Now they are beginning to use models who are over
45 years old as an advertising angle, aimed at the retired
market.
The rapid expansion of the industry has gone hand in
hand with the drastic changes in the living units them
selves. Prior to World War II, trailer dwellers were pretty
cramped for space. The highway homes then were usually
less than 20 feet long, squeezing bedroom, living room and
kitchen all in one. They had few of the conveniences of a
permanent residence. More than likely they were the pro
perty of vacationists and sportsmen, who used them no
more than a few weeks or months out of a year.
The majority of trailers are 25. to 40 feet long, ranging
in price from $2,000 to $8,000. The average rolling resi
dence is probably a little over 30 feet long, eight feet wide
and seven feet high. The average price is around $4,000.
That price compares to around $3,000 in 1948. Prices gen-
' erally are about unchanged from a year ago. The rise since
1948 is due to increased materials costs, plushier interiors
and added furnishings and appliances, manufacturers say.
Today’s typical trailer home is a relatively roomy, elaborate-
Dale Carnegie
^ TO STOP WjMSlllG ANDSTARHIVBM!” \
pHOMAS C DYKE. 2305 Bell Street. Columbus, Georgia, believes
that uncontrollable fear was developed in him when he had to quit
school at the age of thirteen and go to work in the coal mines to help
his dad make a living. .
He always wanted to be a mining or civil engineer and the
only way to get the education was by Correspondence Courses. He was
laughed at for wasting his time studying correspond
ence courses rather than being out having a good
time with the rest of the boys who said, “Whoever
heard of a coal miner being anything but a coal
miner.” He was even called a 2*4 Correspondence
School Engineer by a famous lawyer before the Court
of Claims. All this had a bad effect. However, he
thinks the one thing that had the greatest effect in
bringing on chronic fear, a fear of people, was a lack
of association with his fellow men.
After all, to get a technical education by corre
spondence requires a tremendous amount of time,
and the exclusion of practically everything else He put his heart and
soul into his work and into research and study to become an Engineer
He would work in the mines all day and study at night Many times
he stayed up all night studying.
But by persistent diligent effort he reached his goal and established
himself as an Engineer. The next problem to conquer was fear He read
Dr. Emerson Fosdick’s book on “Being a Real Person” and “Personal
Achievement, by Roberts, as well as all other available data Still he
was afraid—of people! Then he decided on a night course in public
speaking, where he had to stand on his feet night after night facing
those fearsome people. The first time, he didn’t do so well, nor the
second nor the third. Then he began comparing notes on himself at
each gathering. Why even the third time he did a little better than the
first—and those people didn’t seem so fearsome after all Suddenly he
realized they were not so different from himself He was one of this
world of people. And once that idea filtered through his brain, he was
no longer afraid of people. Certainly not—he was one of theml
CARNEGIE
From the Fort Mill Times, Fort
Mill, South Carolina: Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles made an
interesting statement during a tele
vision interview the other night.
Mr. Dulles was asked, “Have you
read any good books lately?”
“What are they,” his interroga
tor continued. “The Bible,” Mr.
Dulles said firmly. “Everytime I
want to read a good book I read
my Bible.”
• « •
From The Brewton Standard,
Brewton, Alabama: A lawyer
friend passed this true story on to
me the other day. (It actually hap
pened in a Chicago courtroom): A
case involving the death of a man
was being tried and a physician
was on the witness stand. One of
the lawyers asked him to tell the
jury in simple words the cause
of the man’s death.
•‘Well,” said the doctor, “in plain
language the proxima causa mortis
was odema of the brain following
cerebral thrombosis, or possibly
an embolism that followed arterio
sclerosis, combined with a gan
grenous chloecystitis.”
As the witness concluded, one
of the jurors who had been intently
trying to follow the testimony came
out with a healthy and spontane
ous: “Well, I’ll be damned!”
The judge banged his gavel,
looked at the juror and said: “You
know I don’t permit the use of that
kind of language in my court. Ordi
narily I would fine you for con
tempt. But under the circumstances
I am going to thank you—you ex
pressed my sentiment's exactly.”
• • •
From the DePere Journal-Demo
crat, DePere, Wisconsin: If the edi
tors would tell the truth in the obit-
uraries they write, it would be the
most wholesome influence that I
can think of for people living the
kind of lives they should live.
• • »
From The Talladega Daily Home,
Talladega, Alabama: A pretty good
way to end discrimination is to be
the sorty of buy that nobody wants
to discriminate against.
• • •
From County Clipper, Ashland,
Kansas: The world is divided into
three groups. The small group who
makes things happen, the larger
group who watches things happen,
and the multitude who never know
what happens.
tf'T'HE tyrant is dead! Long live
A the tyrant!”
With these words one newspaper
described the death of Premier
Joseph Stalin of Russia and the
announcement that Georgi M. Mal
enkov would replace him. That
was probably the most correct de
scription of the events in Russia,
which still has the western world
speculating and guessing, of any
given.
Because Joseph Stalin was a
tyrant. He was a bank robber, an
agitator, oppressor and murderer
of millions—the total number of
people killed by his direct orders
will never be known. As for his
successor, authorities on Russian
government and personalities de
scribe him as a cunning, plotting,
cruel, ruthless paper pusher. And
it is feared he lacks Stalin’s pa
tience and may plunge the world
in a blood-bath that will be its
destruction.
• The free world waits with fear
and uncertainty for a glimpse at
the new regime’s policies and fu
ture plans. There has been no
shedding of tears over Stalin. But
neither has there been jubilation.
The future is too uncertain.
There is not likely to be any
early indication of future policy for
this regime which consists of Mal
enkov as Prime Minister. Marshal
Klementi Voroshilov as Soviet
Presidium, and L. P, Beria, V. M.
Molotov. Nikolai Bulganin and
Lazar M. Dagonovich as deputy
chairmen of the Council of Min
isters.
It does appear, however, that
Malenkov will spend considerable
time consolidating b'' position
and absolute authority. After that
it la anyone’s guess.
Too much has already been writ
ten about the man Stalin and the
trail of death and misery he left
behind him. It is the future that
concerns the free world, and par
ticularly, the future of Russia.
At present this seems to be the
situation in Moscow:
1. The men in the Kremlin were
concerned, and still are, about the
reaction of the Russian people
over Stalin’s death and the appoint
ment of Malenkov. That becomes
evident as they have continuously
broadcast an appeal to the people
to stand by the Communist Party.
2. With every day it becomes
more evident that anyone who
thinks a revolution # will break out
is engaging in wishful thinking.
All indications are that Beria has
the nation firmly under the control
of his secret police and Malenkov
control over the government be
comes stronger with each passing
day.
The most ironic thing about the
whole situation, from the time
Stalin’s illness was announced until
his death, was the actions of the
Russian people themselves. They
flocked to church—those that are
officially allowed—to pray for a
man who neither believed in God
or the Church and who did every
thing in his power to discourage
worship In Russia.
It becomes evident, then, that
the Communist masters of Russia
have been unable to remove from
the average Russian that religious
spark and need for spiritual guid
ance for which they have been
noted in the past As long as it
persists, perhaps there is after all
some hope for Russia and the Rus
sian people.
ly-furnished job designed for year-round living in just
about any climate. It has an ‘outer skin’ of aluminum—
it’s insulated, has wood-paneled walls, picture windows,
drapes and inlaid linoleum floors. The newer mobile domici
les are neatly compartmented into a living room-dinette, one
or two bedrooms, built-in kitchen and a complete bath.”
Fort Hill at Clemson
Has Historic Past
Fort Hill in Clemson College was
the home of John C. Calhoun.
The home was built originally in
1803 by the Reverend James
Mcllheeny, pastor of the Old
Stone Church, and called Clergy
Hall. After the miiiister’s death,
the home was added to the estate
of Mrs. Calhoun’s father. In 1825,
Calhoun brought his family to live
on the old ♦plantation, and re
named the home Fort Hill, to
commemorate a post built in
1776. Calhoun lived there until
his death in 1850.
In 1838, Thomas G. Clemson
married Calhoun’s daughter, who
inherited Fort Hill. Clemson grant
ed the plantation and all the land
around it to the state for the pur
pose of founding an agricultural
and mechanical school. In 1889,
Clemson College was founded.
In the plantation house are
several interesting old pieces,
some original and some reproduc
tions. One original mahogany side
board was made from pieces of the
frigate “Constitution”, famous in
the War of 1812. This sideboard /
was presented to Henry Clav and
he in turn presented it to Calhoun
after the latter’s speech in defense
of the Federal Constitution.
On the grounds are a few trees
which were presented to John C.
Calhoun by famous men. Stephen
Decatur brought a varnish tree
to Calhoun from Madagascar;
Daniel Webster, the great orator,
gave Calhoun a hemlock from his
home state; and an arbor vitae in
the grove is from Henry Clay. The
cedars were planted by the family
in hopes of warding off the deadly
miasma—the vapor that sup
posedly brought malaria up from
the swamps. On the grounds near
by is an interesting little separate
building, Calhoun’s study, where
he did much of his work.
Worlds Oldest Cargo Ship
Found in Mediterranean Sea
The world’s oldest cargo ship
was discovered recently off the
southern coast of France and is
now being raised by a National
Geographic Society expedition. It is
a Greco-Roman vessel sunk in the
third century before Christ.
Already divers have brought to
the surface one of the rarest finds
of archeological treasure In re
cent years. Almost 1,000 large
amphoras 1 —pottery vessels used to
carry the liquid cargoes of the
ancients—have been recovered.
Some, still corked, contained wine
more than 2,100 years old.
Among the treasures taken from
the sunken ship has been 1,400
pieces of fine export dinnerware
which experts say probably were
made in the Greek province of
Latium, now Campania, Italy.
Archeologists believe the ship,
110-foot and 600 ton, was sunk
around 230 B. C. Code letters on
the amphoras reveal that the ship
and cargo was owned by Marcus
Sestius.
Historians report much is al
ready known of this merchant. Rec
ords survive to show that he was a j
Roman who was naturalized •
Greek citizen in the year 240. and)
who made his headquarters on the
Greek Island of Delos. Pitus Livus
wrote of him as a “powerful poli
tician” sent to prepare Greece for
Roman conquest.
The ship will be cleared of cargo
and mud by late spring of this
year. ’Then we will raise her,** an
expedition spokesman said. "We
plan to duplicate her exactly and
actually sail her on her last course
—Delos to Latium to the scene of
her foundering—using only replicas
of her original fittings, rigging, and
navigational instruments.”
The expedition’s discoveries are ‘
adding much to the world’s knowl
edge of the ancients.
After the present work is com
pleted. the group which Js headed
by Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau,
will start on an extensive around-
the-world oceanographic expedi
tion. This expedition is also being
sportsored by the National Geo
graphic Society.
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