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PAGE TWA THE NEWBERRY SUN 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDA > 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937 at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Are you a mathematician? Were you “good at figures” in school? Even if you were fairly proficient in Algebra Geometry, “Trig” and Calculus, do you really believe that one and one are two? The world has never suffered because of our deficiency in the higher branches of Mathematics, but mankind has been grievously afflicted with the pre vailing ignorance of simple addition — that one and one are two, just two, seldom three and almost never four. Some folk have a Mathematical imagination and they be come great mathematical philosophers, as, for example, Einstein and the late Colonel Bond of The Citidel. But there are others whose mathematical imagination causes them to spend $200, when they have only $150. Our country is full of people who spend more than they have. They mis calculate, don't they? Or are they like Mr. Micawber, who was sure something good would turn up? Recently I read of a new machine to calculate. I thought that might serve backward students in College, but I was in error: the machine will rent for about $12,000 a month: that will put it beyond most students. This calculator is for that kind of mathematics which is in the clouds or down deep in the earth: it doesn’t apply to us ordinary mortals. Still here’s what they tell us: “International Business Machines Corp. has taken the wraps off its new electronic calculator, designed to shatter the time barrier confronting technicians working on vital atomic and airplane projects. These electronic data-processing machines, to rent for $11,900 or more monthly, will be used to calculate atomic radiation effects and to compute the many statistical things scientists need to know about planes, guided missies and rocket engines. It will be a technical computing bureau for organizations that have such math problems to figure out as interpreting production-cost data. A staff of scientists already has spent two years plan ning the economical solution of typical problems. One re sult of this work, according to the company, is that users of the machine need no longer be concerned with tracing the position of the decimal point through problems involv ing thouasnds of millions of arithmetical steps. The machine was designed for scientific and research purposes, but its parts are adaptable for accounting and record-keeping. It is said to be capable of doing each second more than 16,000 addition or subtraction operations or some 2,000 multiplication operations. In solving a typical problem it averages 14,000 mathematical operations a second. It is toiling for the Government. It waits about eagerly at New York headquarters for commercial customers. A Chemical concern has a cost-accounting problem now being programmed. When the machine starts working the chemical firm will be billed for time in use at $300 an hour. It can engage the machine for as short a period as an hour, but this particular problem will run about 100 hours. Asked how long it would take a man to work out the problem on a hand-calculator: ‘Two thousand five hundred years", the reply was.” [ So far as I am concerned I do not need a machine that will save me two thousand five hundred years, do you? But isn’t this a wonderful era? And yet men and women will continue to believe firmly that two and two are only four, regardless of the weather or the smile of the merchant. I have great respect for Iowa: it produces fine people. So I feel deep concern over the problem of low prices for cattle. Here is an interesting account: “The first fresh green of spring is beginning to touch the rich, rolling farmlands around this town in the heart of the Iowa cattle-feeding country. But blue is the prevailing mood, both among the feeders and the merchants of Neola, Iowa. The mood could spread. What’s happening to the rich farm market hereabouts under the impact of profitless farming could be instructive to many businessmen from Pittsburg steelmakers to Oregon lumbermen. Farmer Walt. Wellman summed up the view of many farmers: I’ve justf got to curtail my buying. I was going to get a new tractor and might have purchased a new car, but they’re out now’. About 90 percent of the farmers here in Pottawattamie County are cattle feeders. They buy calves weighing about 400 pounds and fatten them for a year or more; they also purchase heavier beeves (700 to 900 pounds) and fatten them for six months or so before shipping them to market. They raise most of the com the cattle eat. This has been a highly profitable operation during most of the post-war period. But since late last summer cattle prices have flopped hard. From a price of 31 cents a pound in September, only five cents below the postwar high, slaughter steers have fallen to about 21 cents.” A Clarendon County farmer sold his cattle for less than twenty one cents. Our Iowa friends will sympathize with the cotton far mer who finds the price below his expectations. A great secretary makes a great chief, I used to hear. There is a lot of truth in that. A top executive may become so absorbed in the big problems that he forgets many little things. And the little things count. The capable secretary keeps her finger on details — Mr. X’s birthday; the death of Mr. Y’s wife; Mr. A’s new job; Mr. B’s invitation to play golf; and dozens of other things, the little attentions' that make up life for so many. Many a man owes a great debt to his secretary. Well secretaries of the Number One variety are hard to find; most of them are already em ployed. One night several of us were talking and one man told us what he thought of heaven. He covered the subject so well, thought ponderously, that I tried to approach from another angle. So I told him that the ancients conceived of heaven as the ideal, the farthest reach of the imagination in terms of happiness. Then I mentioned the stalwart Norsemen who thought of heaven, Valhalla, as the place where they would rise in the morning to engage in bloody, hand-to-hand battle, but at sundown the fighters, both dead and alive, responded to the bugle call to cease fight ing and one and all were revived and spent hours drinking until they fell under the table. I said, “on that ground I could imagine the happy land to be a place where one might find a stenographer who could take dictation rapidly and accurately and could trans cribe it nicely, cleanly, and in good style, also spelling, pun ctuating, capitalizing, paragraphing, quoting — everything correctly done”. There are such people, as you know, but they are rare. So ponder this: “Almost everybody these days is shorthanded on short hand. So says the president of one large New York concern with branches in most major cities. His remarks pretty well sums up the findings of a cross-country check on the secretarial supply situation. Talks with executives, employ ment agencies and secretaries themselves indicate that the efficient well-trained ‘Girl’ can pick her job and working conditions most places. A Los Angeles employer offers free vitamins to secre taries in an effort to keep them on his payroll. ‘When it comes to secretaries, we can offer you quantity, but not quality’, says a St. Louis employment service manager. ‘It’s a bargaining proposition, with the good secretaries naming their own terms’. The secretary to a Detroit auto executive says a large Michigan chemical firm “is pestering the life out of me. They’ll pay my transportation, my room and board for two weeks, and they promise to wine and dine me — if only I’ll work for them.’ A look at Census figures gives a national view. Between 1940 and 1950 the total U. S. population rose from 131.7 millian to 150.7 million. But the number of females age 20 years to 24 years remained stationary at 5.9 million for both years. The number of girls between age 15 years and age 19 actually was lower in 1950 than in 1940. There were 6.2 million in 1940, only 5.4 million in 1950. There are exceptions, of course, to the general trend of good secretaries being hard to find. Most employment agencies agree they’re scarce. Si do a majority of employ ers, although a fairly large minority claim they have no trouble meeting their needs. More typical, however, is this comment: ‘When a guy loses a secretary around here, it’s a major tragedy’,” PIG CAST . . . It Is always difficult ta mare a baaifc af pigs. This type cart, which mast aay fanner eaa build, wffll make the Jet easy. The gate Is at the end and put aa with hiagee. I T IS becoming increasingly clear to Washington observers that Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wiscon sin is becoming a serious problem for the Eisenhower administration. And it is becoming more evident with each passing day that eventu ally the Pres'dent is going to be forced, if he is to retain a firm grip on the reins of his administra tion, to “smack down" the senator from Wisconsin. The Bohlen incident and agree ment with Greek ship owners, the latter being a case where McCar thy took credit for much good work previously done by the State De partment, points up the fact that McCarthy is the leader of a small group who are anti-Eisenhower. It is reliably reported that Pres ident Eisenhower was very angry at the dangerous split that the two incidents caused within the party and the administration. The Presi dent did everything in his power to keep the peace. But many observ ers say he has been pushed just as far as he will go and that a showdown is in the making This showdown is likely to come when Senator McCarthy turns all his guns on Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Because McCarthy is reported to have stated we’re going to get Dulles’ head. In other words, after having made a repu tation with his attacks upon Dean Acheson, he is prepared to go for ward with attacks upon Mr. Dulles. It is impossible to believe President Eisenhower will sit on the sidelines during such an at tack. He is a man of great deter mination once his mind is made up and in the resulting explosion some one is going to get hurt: Mr. Dulles, the President, Mr. McCarthy, one and all, to say nothing of the Re- mihlican party and the nation. • Farm prices are still much in the news. And they are likely to be so for considerable time to come. The man who must solve farm problems is Agriculture Sec retary Ezra Taft Benson. As Congressional Quarterly | points out, Mr. Benson, who got a salty taste of political storms dur ing his first month in office, has extensive administrative powers at his command and already has used some of them in past crisis. Benson reported March 7 that he had checked a two-year decline in cattle prices without using gov ernment financial aid. He said he turned the trick by working to end price ceilings, increase beef con sumption and encourage more or derly cattle marketing. February 27, dealing with sag ging butter prices, he took a dif ferent tack, and announced he would continue for another year the government program of buying butter at 90 per cent of parity The Agriculture Act of 1949 and related statutes give the Agricul ture Secretary broad authority to keep up farm prices. In part the actions he can take are required by law. But the statutes leave many to his discretion. He is required to support the prices of certain commodities—the six “basics,” which are corn, cot ton, wheat, rice, peanuts, and to bacco, and these “designated non basics”: wool and mohair, tung nuts, honey, milk, butterfat, and milk and butterfat products. . At present the required price support level for the “basics” is 90 per cent of parity. The support level of the designated “nonbas ics” may vary within a prescribed range, set by law at 60 to 90 per cent, at the discretion of the Agri- , culture Secretary fWbtcL INTELEIGRAMI Check the correct word. 1. Brigham Yaung had (19) (50) wives. 2. Gypsies speak (Romany) (Hindi). 3. (N. Y. state) (Canada) has a larger population. 4. Istanbul is a city in (Turkey) (Bulgaria). 5. (Mayans) (Chinese) predated Spaniards in Mexico. 6. Digit means (number) (stiffened). 7. Eddie Arcaro is a (golfer) (jockey). 8. (Covent Garden) (The Castle) is London’s Opera House. 9. The Sorbonne is a (university) (fortress). 10. Crepe suzette is,(pastry) (fabric). 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. 1—19. 2—Romany. 3—N, Y. state. 4—Turkey. 5—Mayans. 6— Number. 7—Jockey. 8—Covent Garden. 9—University. 10—Pastry. UXB.l3in 9 1 a l papOD3fl[ It’s a Girl By Hannah Smith I T WAS downright silly, after fourteen years, for Laura to break down and cry. That’s what her husband Joe pointed out to her as he stood at the window with her looking out at the cause of her tears — their fourteen - year - old daughter, Rosalie. Not that anyone ever called her that. Ever since Rosalie was three and kicked the minister behind his pink clerical ear, she had been known to all and sundry as Butch. “Butch.” Laura took one more hopeless look at the jeansclad fig ure hanging upside down from the tree branch and groaned. “When I think how much I dreamed of having a girl!” After three boys, it had seemed like a miracle that morning in the hospital when the nurse brought her the joyous news—“It’s a girl!” And such a pretty little girl. Lying there in bed, Laura had dreamed happily. Of pink pina fores, of dancing school’and piano lessor, of fairy costumes for school plays. -When Butch was four, Laura had given the last of* the ragged, grass- stained pinafores to the Good Will and bought six pairs of blue jeans with reinforced knees. When Butch was eight, after the fist fight at the tap dance recital, Laura took her out of dancing school and let her take the swim ming lessons she begged for. And at eleven, in the sixth grade play, while the other little girls flittered daintily in gilt-splashed white crepe paper, Butch had been the Hairy Ogre in a black* wig. a foot-long beard and a mouthful of horrible snaggle teeth. *'I kept hoping and hoping,” Laura said almost to herself, “that she’d grow out of it.” "I don’t see why you’re so up set all of a sudden,” Joe said. “She’s always been this way. What set you off right now?” "Don’t laugh, but I guess it was seeing that boy—the one who moved in next door yesterday. He’s an awfully good looking kid. In a cou ple of years—well, she could go to dances and—” She broke off, mop ping fresh tears. “Oh, well,” Joe said, comfort ingly if not convincingly. “Two years is a long time. She can change, I guess.” “Not Butch. When the other girls are dancing, she’ll probably be under a car fixing a plugged gas line or—” “This the new boy?” Joe asked, as a tall, black-haired boy in grey flannels and a yellow sweater strolled toward the noisy group around the tree. Laura groaned and nodded. Just as the newcomer approached. Butch swung her legs above her head and did a neat double flip over the tree branch. Laura’s groan stretched to a wail. “Look at her! Just look! Blonde hair a witch mop. Plaid shirt tail flying. Dirty jeans. And barefoot. Barefoot!” “Watch out belowwww!” yelled Butch, letting go of the branch. Laura shut her eyes. She turned her back to the window. “Butch, ’ she whispered in tones of undiluted tragedy. Joe was still watching. “Guess that flop shook her up a little,” he said. “She’s coming in.” The door opened. Ollie Williams was ahead. He was.looking back over his shoulder, round-eyed. Over Butch’s head, Laura saw that the other boys were staring at the pair in the doorway with the same round-eyed bewilderment. Laura stared, too. The girl was leaning hard on die yellow shoulder. Her blue eyes looked wide, sweet, limpid. She seemed frail, small, even ethereal. “Does It hurt much?” Ollie was asking, in a strange new voice. "‘How many times do I have to tell you. Ollie Williams,” said Laura’s daughter, as the tall, dark haired boy led her gently toward a chair, “that my name Is Rosalie?” FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1953 DaleCarnegk |UJK0|JF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING ANDSTARTtIVING" + M RS. ALICE HODGE, Roscoe, New York, was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. As far as she was concerned, she was just over-tired and very, very irritable. She was trying to help run the large furniture business while caring for three young children at the sama time—two real jobs for one person! But she managed to keep going until her grandmother died. Then she was all done! She didn’t eat and she couldn’t sleep. Every doctor said the same thing: “Rest, rela^ take it easy; go away on a nice long vacation.” Fighting words when they are an impossibility! Month after month passed and she went from bad to worse. Then one day she met an old family friend and he invited her to lunch. After listening to her cares an’d woes for a while, he said, “How about some advice from an old duffer? The first thing that I would do if I were you, is to try to forget about all these things that you can’t possibly do anything about and try to accept the things that you must face. Few people can live their lives exactly CARNEGIE the way they would like to live them. Besides, you have a job to do. Maybe it is a little bigger than the job* most people fill, but I suspect you are not doing it well right now as you should— nor as you could.” Of all the people Alice Hodge had seen and talked with, this max was the only one who came up with a common sense answer to her problems. R was all the medicine she needed. From that time on she tried to live constructively instead of destructively and, although it was a long process, she gradually found herself feeling better and better. Not only that, but she says she knows she became a much nicer person to live with. From the Ravenswood News, Ravenswood, West Virginia. If, as the federal reserve board appears to suspect, “you are as rich as you feel,” Americans are pretty darn well heeled. To measure this mental attitude, this financial con fidence of the nation, the board has had the University of Mich igan interview 2,400 people in 66 different test areas during January and February. This is the eighth such annual survey the board has made and if their sampling technique is cor rect: More people are planning to buy new carj', new homes, new furni ture, T-V sets and washing ma chines this year than in 1952. The same number, approximately, plan to buy refrigerators. And. natural ly, more people think this is a good time for major purchases than did a year ago. Eighty per cent are unworried about prices, believing they will remain at present levels or go down this year. In early 1951 and 1952, more than half ex pected them to go up. And ev'-n though experts are pointing with alarm to the $23,700,- 000,000 the American public owes the installment man, those who have to get it up are feeling no pain. We still wonder who these people are who get surveyed. Did you ever get the treatment. We never did. • • • From the Catskill Mountain Star, Saugerties, New York: The fellow with the loudest mouth is usually the one with the smallest brain and seldom fails to advertise that fact for some strange reason. * • • From the Dallas Part Cities News, Dallas, Texas: The most potent force we can have toward combatting Communism is a cit izenry aware of the workings and dangers of Communism ... by keeping tab on the propaganda line as set forth in the party’s known organs, we would be better able recognize . . its more subtle guise. * • v From the Denver Mining Record, Denver, Colorado: The events lead ing up to . . . the nationalization of gold . . . actually amounted to the robbery of a trusting, hard working people who have as a re sult lost not only their gold but more than half the value of their savings, pensions, life insurance, etc. The government had not one more whit of right to seize gold than it had to seize the steel prop erties. • * * From the Garden City News, Garden City, N. Y.: America is a little Noah’s Ark. It is sailing somn uncharged and dangerous seas. And the passengers have come from every land in the world. For us the promotion of brotherhood is a necessity. With our heterogen eous population we must actively try to be tolerant, to see others’ point of view—or we will a If be in peril. CROSSWORD PUZZLE HORIZONTAL 1 Pouch 4 Eskimo boat 9 Meadow 12 Gold, in S. American countries 13 Feminine name 14 Native metal 15 Variegated with spots 17 Vegetable 19 20 21 23 Electrified particle Narrow openings Merriment Hawaiian wreath Armed galley of old North men Cover Obese Kind of shrub Cooled lava Obtained Cunning Note of scale 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Breathe loudly asleep 36 A bribe 37 Part of boat 38 Withered 35 Occupied a seat 40 Irish Gaelic 41 To hinder 43 Cereal grata 44 Planted 46 Wing 49 To mistake 50 Challenges 52 Vessel’s curv ed planking 53 Form of ‘to be* 84 Trap 56 Golf mound VERTICAL 1 Turf 2 A macaw 3 Patterned 4 Oven 5 Form of to be 8 Old pronoun 7 A lizard • Card gam* 9 Untied 10 Sea eagle 11 Roman br 16 American 16 20 To place 21 Mirror 32 Climbing plant 23 Buddti pillar PUZZLE NO. 2S4 25 Slaves 26 Island in Mediterranean 28 Enemy 29 High mountain 31 Cupidity 32 Drunkard 35 Commands 36 Sixty-sixties, a Babylonian numeral 37 Painter 38 Kind of ear 40 To bring forth 42 Spreads for drying 43 River of Europe 44 To stitch 45 Period of time 46 Through 47 Number 42 Brood of ^ pheasants Answer te Fuels Ne. 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