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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
How weak can coffee be and still be coffee? That may
'be important because if coffee climbs and then takes to the
air we may add so much water to the morning cup that it
will be a weak mess that really spoils the good water. If
we are not to have good coffee then let us have good water.
What is good coffee? Most of us don't know, perhaps.
Some people enjoy a drink that has the power of the
Atomic bomb. Such a drink is the famous coffee of New
Orleans; then, again, some people like mild brew; while
others enjoy a scarcely flavored water that has a darkish
color, but no pick up.
Some folk like the coffee that is served in France; I
don’t remember anything about it, but I have drunk some
Peruvian coffee that almost lifted my scalp. So, you see,
we don’t agree on coffee. Some people drink it sweetened
to a syrup, while there are others who take no sugar.
Years ago I ordered coffee on a ship crossing Lake Onta
rio. I should like to say that there are ships on Lake Onta
rio. A lady was about to challenge me for saying that I
went down Loch Lomond (Scotland) in a boat. But she
found out that there was a boat during the Summer. I
knew I had not swum or waded the length of Loch Lom
ond. I had to go down to the Bar for the coffee. Strange
how many things are sold or dispensed in Bars and Barber
shops on ships, isn't it?
The bar man said, “Did you say coffee?’’ You Americans
don’t drink coffee; you drink Chicory”. Well, even so; per
haps we do, but do we, now?
I’ve read that when coffee was introduced into England
it became so popular that the English almost forsook ale
and beer for coffee. A bill was introduced in Parlament to
forbid or penalyse the sale of coffee, on the ground that
coffee was so stimulating that the people would all become
intellectually awake and alert and that would break down
social distinctions — or something of the sort. With that
fine and accommodating spirit of Compromise or adjust
ment that characterizes our English brethern, they adopted
tea as the National beverage.
This is no coffee advertisement, but even if coffee be
so stimplating as to be exhilarating it has never been
known to build up enough Dutch courage to bring about
crime. On the other hand, if it be so reviving and invigorat
ing as to lift the National intelligence it should be served
copiously and without charge, for we need some sort of
mental awakening don’t you think?
We are prone to repeat with unction what some one
says, especially if he be a person “visible”, as the Spaniards
say, meaning an outstanding person.
With tremendous earnestness men are saying “We must
not reduce taxes until we balance the budget”. That sounds
like the orotund voice of a profound thinker, doesn’t it?
Then the Executive Department of the Government can't
agree on reducing taxes until all the bureaucrats agree to
reduce spending. Does that really seam esnsible? Has any
one in authority considered the taxpayer? Is he not more
important than any bureaucrat’s program? Are we not
face-to-face with solemn consequences of our free spending.
Some people think this prodigality in spending is for the
benefit of the people. That is rather ignorant and certainly
very limited in outlook. Our rapidly increasing population
will require more jobs. How do we make jobs? By encourag
ing people to invest their savings in new enterprises and
in expanding enterprises. Consider this illustration because
it is an everyday experience. A new development in or near
a town is planned. It will have five hundrend homes, a
school, one or two churches, streets. The first service they
call for is electricity. Electricity for the homes, the
churches, the schools, the streets. Of course water, sewer
age, policing and fire protection. I mention electricity be
cause that is usually a Company formed by and owned by
men and women who put their savings into the project.
They invest their savings because they want dividends (like
interest) on the money. If the taxes are so high that in
dustry cannot prosper, people will not risk their savings
and we shall virtually choke off the development of busi
ness. Now in the case cited, the Company would probably
have to employ additional men and women. That is how
jobs are made. If the people do not invest their savings
there will be no jobs. It is as plain as that.
Look around you: if a hundred men and women decide
to invest in a new store, the store employs clerks, and other
“help”. So we create jobs; so soma more people earn their
bread and meat.
This very wise talk about balancing the budget some
times makes us think that it is the same as reduction in
spending; but not so; even in South Carolina, some years
ago, we had to insist on reducing taxes because the gentle
men who earnestly talked of balancing the budget meant
to increase the taxes! Certainly, if a budget must be ba
lanced, and spending is not curtailed, we must balance the
budget by increasing the taxes. If we want to come nearer
home, we South Carolinians balanced our budget by col
lecting forty million dollars in a sales tax, didn’t we? Then
we became so rich that today the vexing problem is to ba-
MURDER IN THE BACK YARD
lance the balance. We have learned how to spend, which any
child can do; but have we learned how to husband our re
sources wiesly and prudently?
The National Government has some legal obligations,
such as bond interest; and some moral obligations, as to
our Service Men; but it will never balance anything unless
we reduce the revenue; we must reduce the taxes and stern
ly examine the spending of every dollar. Perhaps all ad
ministrative jobs in Washington, except personnel, should
be manned by capable and honest civilians. Sometimes a
man is both capable and honest; it isn’t always necessary
to take two men in order to find those two qualities. Oc
casionally we may become confused, and we may think like
the little boy who visited a cemetery with his father. “Dad,
why did they bury two men in this grave?” asked the boy.
He read the inscription: “Here lies an XYZ and an honest
man”.
Frozen foods have caught the housewife’s eye. How’s
this: “Frozen Foods have moved out of the luxury class
into the grocery staple category. And their prices are be
having just like produce prices.
Stiff competition has cut frozen food prices an average
of 10 percent below December, 1950, levels, while canned
foods were increasing 8 percent in the same period, accord
ing to the Department of Agriculture.
The American housewife has been appreciative, to say
the least. From 400 million pounds in 1940, consumption
of frozen edibles has increased every year, to about 3 bil
lion pounds in 1952.
Frozen orange juice concentrate, setting the pace, last
year topped the fresh fruit for the first time in sales to
the housewife, and by the third quarter had captured 55
percent of the market from canned and fresh citrus.
Peas, the leader among frozen vegetables, set a new re
cord with 204 million pounds frozen in 1952, a quantity
equal to 47 percent of the canned pack for last year. As
paragus, cut corn, strawberries and spinach also set new
sales records last year.
December and January figures, the latest available to
the Department of Agriculture, gave a rosy look to 1953
sales prospects for the freezers. In those months, 44 per
cent more corn, 13 percent more peas, 56 percent more snap
beans, 38 percent more strawberries, and 18 percent more
peaches were sold in frozen containers than a year earlier.
Chop suey, waffles, and pet food, among hundreds of
other frozen specialties, are now on the market, too.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down
some interesting decisions recently. One was an appeal from
Virginia. I quote the Associated Press dispatch from Wash
ington: “The Supreme Court today upheld the right of
Virginia courts to halt peaceful picketing if it conflicts with
the state’s right-to-work law. The Virginia law says the
right to work may not be denied, because of membership
or non-membership in a labor union. It makes illegal any
agreement between an employer and a union by which a
non-union worker is barred from working.”
Another interesting decision was in the strange case of
The Virginia Company to spend about $30 ; 000,000 develop
ing certain water-electric project. The confusing aspect of
the case was that the Federal Power Commission autho
rized the project five years ago but was challenged by the
Secretary of the Interior.' Two Federal authorities locked
horns. The matter was clearly within the power of the
Federal Power Commission, but some of our Socialist-mind
ed bureaucrats challenged the Government itself in court.
The lower courts sustained the Power Commission and now
the Supreme Court sustains them. In the meantime a delay
of five years has held up everything with an expensive and
tedious series of battles in Court.
1. What is the traditional international limit of territorial
waters? (a) Three miles; (b) Six miles; (c) Ten miles.
2. The new Russian Premier is: (a) Voroshilov; (b) Malen
kov; (c) Khruschev?
3. What is the population of Russia? (a) About 150,000,000;
(b) About 300,000,000; (c) About 200,000,000.
ANSWERS
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Dale Carnegie
^ AUtHffBgf “HOW TO STOP.WORRJING AND STARPLIVING"
C. LEGGETT, III. 821 E. Mulberry Street, Evansville,
1 Indiana, says he is making considerable progress in overcoming
worry in his everyday work. He had always had the worrying habit,
but after reading a common sense sort of book on worry h<* decided
to try two suggestiofis he found in it for preventing worry and fatigue.
One was to do things in the order of their importance. The other was
to collect the necessary facts and make immediate
decisions.
To these two suggested habits he added an idea
of his own. He bought a pocket size loose leaf notebook
to keep notes of each transaction or call that he
handled each day. In his work he has to keep up with
many small details, fill orders, make estimates, and
order parts. Previously he had always tried to re
member all these details or else he would make notes
on small pieces of paper and stuff them into a pocket,
later having to go through three or four pockets to CARNEGIE
find the one he wanted.
Many times he came home from work tired, disgusted, and just
about ready to give it up as a bad job. He has wakened in the middle
of the night more than once and suddenly remembering something very
important that he should have done but had completely forgotten. This
worrying and trying to keep up with so many things had just about
convinced hihn that he wasn’t capable of doing his job. He repeatedly
found himself confused and his time was wasted in trying to decide
what to do next. Since about seventy per cent of his business is done
over the phone it is very easy for him to put off decisions and estimates,
by merely telling the caller that he will check and call him back.
But not any more does he follow this slipshod practice. He now
makes a list each day of the things he wants to accomplish and the
order of their importance. Then he concentrates on getting them done,
and he finds that by writing everything down in his book he can often
finish the transaction right then and get it off his mind.
By applying these habits he has gained confidence in himself because
he has succeeded in increasing his efficiency and decreasing his worrying.
From the Webster Times, Web
ster, Massachusetts: A good ques
tion for today is this: Just how
much of a dollar have we got 9
For some time now, it has been
well bandied about that a dollar
is worth only 52 cents. Complain-
ers are apparently comparing the
purchase-ability of today’s long
green with that of about 20 years
ago.
Maybe in the early ‘30’s a dollar
did buy nearly twice as much as it
does today, but the old-timer’s re
flection is worth pondering. “I re
member the time,” he says, ‘‘when
you could buy a ham sandwich for
a nickel.” Pause. ‘‘But nobody had
a confounded nickel!”
Today’s dollar seems to have
stretched on the one end and
shrunk on the other. The period at
the end of the last sentence had
hardly been put on the decontrol
measure recently, when price in
creases were reported on cigar
ettes, gasoline and copper.
On the other hand, farm and
cattle prices have been dropping
regularly for the past six months;
farm prices are about 17 per cent
below the record high of February.
1951.
• • •
From The Herington Advertiser-
Times, Herington, Kansas:
Quite naturally, farmers and
farm organizations are greatly con
cerned with the declines that have
recently occurred in the market
prices of livestock and certain other
agricultural commodities. The fear
has been expressed that the de
clines might become so great as to
bring on an agricultural depres
sion.
Forecasting the future is an ex
ceedingly risky business, and no
one can say with certainty what
will happen to farm commodity
prices next month or next year.
But it should be recorded that
rany 'students of agricultural
trends feel that the present situa
tion is not as serious as some have
painted it.
Secretar3' of Agriculture Benson
is one of these—he recently denied
that the price declines had reached
‘‘the proportions of an emergency.”
And the Minneapolis Morning Trib
une expressed a widely-held opm-
ion when it said editorially that
‘‘the outlook may not be so alarm
ing as it seems.”
The Tribune found several rays
of light on the price horizon. One
is of a political character—the gov
ernment’s price support program,
whatever one’s opinion of its wis
dom, will carry through the 1954
crop year in its present form.
Others are economic. On the sub
ject of livestock, for instance, the
paper said, ‘‘Most spectacular de
cline of all has been the drop in
meat cattle prices. But there is no
mystery about this development.
Many cattlemen saw it coming a
year ago as cattle numbers were
building up to the highest point in
history. Existence of price ceilings
no doubt accelerated herd build
ups at a time when more animals
should have been moving to feed-
lots or slaughtering stations . . .
There may be some further de
clines in meat prices but they
should level off soon.
T HE ATTACKS by Russian planes
on British and American air
craft in Europe are causing more
concern in Washington than the gen
eral public realizes. The question
is: What is the Communist objec
tive?
A number of Western diplomats
have indicated that it may be a de
liberate get-tough pattern ordered
by the Kremlin to feel out the West.
Or it may be the means by which
the Russian leaders hope to divert
the attention of the Communist peo
ples from the recent death of Pre
mier Stalin and their internal prob
lems. In other words, a deliberate
move to give the little Communists
something else to think about.
Reaction in congress over the
acts of violence have been of two
rather extreme views. Senator Fer
guson of Michigan represents one
view and expresses it: ‘Tt behoves
i us and our allies to act with caution
but firmness and to use wisdom and
clear thinking rather than emotions.
This does not mean that we must
withdraw and appease, but it does
call for an alert firmness.”
The less cautious view is teken by
Congressman Short of Missouri,
chairman of the House Armed Serv
ices Qommittee: ‘‘When they come
across the border in our territory
we should shoot the hell o rt of them
and if they fire on our planes from
their own territory we should shoot
back.”
As a result the United States has
ordered its fliers to shoot back
when fired upon. Washington natur
ally is worried because a few more
of these incidents, shooting by both
sides, could set off another World
War.
• Another big move to cut ex
penditures was the Eisenhower ad
ministration’s order that the armed
services reduce their civilian pay
rolls by 39,346 employees by the end
of May.
According to the Defense Depart
ment the number of civilians em
ployed by the armed forces at pres
ent is slightly more than 1,327,000.
Under the new program the
Army’s payroll will be cut from
536,917 to 521,000; the Navy’s from
474,662 to 460,600; and the Air
Force’s from 315,967 to 306,600.
• Declining farm prices are now
having the expected reaction in
other fields, although many people
are not aware of it at the moment.
The farmers have taken a big tuck
in their purse strings and are not
buying tractors, feed, fencing, ferti
lizer and other agricultural necessi
ties at the same rate as last sum
mer. In fact, sales of most of these
items have been off since last fall.
One of the nation’s largest farm
machinery makers reports that
sales are off by about 10 per cent.
Others in the field also report de
clines.
As this, is being written, steers,
choice grade are selling at $24.50 a
hundred in Chicago against $37.25 a
year ago. Grain prices have tum
bled even with government price
supports. This is the obvious reason
for the penny-pinching now being
practiced by the American farmer.
And it is expected to continue for
the time being.
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1953
First U.S. Drama Theater
Built in Charleston
The Dock Street Theater, was the
first playhouse in the United States
constructed solely for the purpose
of giving dramatic productions.
The theater opened on Feb
ruary 12th, 1736, with George
Farquhar’s play, “The Recruiting
Officer.” Repeat performances of
this play, and several other popu
lar plays were produced in .the en
suing year. May 21, 1737 brought
the first recorded presentation of a
Shakespearean production on this
continent. The “Song of Mad
Tom”, presumably an excerpt
from “King Lear” was the play,
accompanying the fourth perform
ance of the “Recruiting Officer.”
In 1740, fire damaged the the
ater, and it was rebuilt on the site.
On October 7, 1754, the second
Dock Street Theater opened with
Rowe’s “The Fair Penitent.” This
theater survived the Revolution-
ary'shelling, only to be destroyed
again by fire in 1782. In 1809, the
Planters Hotel was built on the
site, and later, in 1835, the hotel
was remodeled to include the
theater.
This last theater was restored
by the Federal Government in the
1930’s, faithfully following the
original model. The theater has
the prescribed thirteen boxes, each
accommodating eight people. In
the pit, arms and backs have been
added to traditional benches for
comfort. The interior is panelled
in cypress, and all around the
walls are electrical fixtures resem
bling the original candelabra. The
third Dock Street Theater was re-
openfed on November 26, 1937,
with the performance of the initial
play, “The Recruiting Officer.”
The Dock Street Players has be
come one of South Carolina’s lead
ing little theater organizations,
giving performances in their home
theater, and occasionally offering
excellent road productions for the
rest of the state.
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INTELEIGRAM
Do you know the missing words?
1. Kentucky’s capital is
Birthstone for April is the
The largest planet is
The greatest spectator sport is .
Anna made milk baths famous.
If “myopic,” you are
is a bishop’s staff.
8. contain^ more caffeine than coffee.
9. Gibraltar is a colony.
10. The palm tree is a plant.
Now from the words below, insert the proper one in each
of the 10 blanks of the Intelligram.
(1) Frankfort, Louisville. (2) Opal, Diamond.
(3) Saturn, Jupiter; (4) Basketball, Baseball. (5)
Held, Christie. (6) Nearsighted, Farsighted. (7)
Crozier, Crook. (8) Tea, Beer. (9) British, Span
ish. (10) Tropical, Winter.
Total your points, scoring yourself 10 points for each
correct choice. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average;
70-80, superior; 90-100, very superior.
Decoded Intelligram
GRAIN TROUGH ... To save feed, the above drawing shows hew
a trough can be built under a feed rack. It will save that feed that
normally falls on the ground and Is thus lost.
FIRST WOMAN ARMY MEDIC . . . First Lft. Fae M. Adams of
San Jeee, CaL, is first woman physician te be commissi—ted in
regular army. Oath was administered in Washington by Maj. Levis
H. Fevbare (left), as Maj. Gen. George E. Armstrong looked on. i