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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1953
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
In a book of Queen Elizabeth’s time one great importer
spoke of coffee; listen to his remark:
“There is a new Turkish product, new to us at least,
that he inqures if he should export. It’s coffee. He
says it’s a hot drink, black-colored and supposed to be very
good for expelling poisons from raw meats and herbs. They
have houses in Constantinople where it is sold the way we
sell ale and wine. I’d like to have some sent for my personal
use out of curiosity, but whether it would be worth shipping
on a large scale as a novelty I don't know. I rather doubt its
being worth the price.”
The remark reminds me that I read a long time ago that i
there was a strong campaign to forbid the sale of coffee in
Britain because coffee is so stimulating that it makes even
dull minds bright and would wipe out differences or dis
tinctions among men and all would be so “bright” that
it would upset the social order.
EARTHQUAKE TREMORS
great nation. Although I mean to include everybody of use
ful service, I want to mention the forces of the law, the
teachers, the Mnisters and press—everybody. Of course the
mother in the home and dad out in the daily struggle.
Whom can we leave out? The filling-station men, the bus
drivers, my radio brethren? No, indeed; all make this
America of ours. Why, then, try to defend a practice of
showing a preference to one group over another?
Someone said that the passage of The Bible which had al
ways impressed him was this: “For every tub shall sit on its
own bottom.”
It is sound doctrine but the Bible didn’t say that.
The only way to reduce is to reduce. Those who have
had experience with budgets know that it is difficult to
eliminate items. Why is that? It is simple to understand.
Consider this: how did that item or service get into the bud
get? By chance? Not by a long sight; someone, sortie
group, working long and vigorously, succeeded in getting
Congress (or the Legislature) to act favorably. It is al
most certain that the proposal had merit. Nothng is advo
cated merely to kill time or impose on the public: Certainly
the advocates thought the proposal a sound one. Then
by various means, pressures, favors, influence, swapping—
all the usual political methods—the item finally w$,s in
cluded. Then, year by year, it was increased. The public
having become accustomed to the idea, it was no longer so
difficult to magnify it, swell it, sometimes.
The T. V. A. is a good example. On paper it was to do
wonderful things; the idea was given to the public by all
the arts and blandishments of persuasive methods. Today
the T.V.A. is not exactly what it was to be, back there in
1933. But we are accustomed to it—and there you are.
A few years ago a community would denounce the sale of
liquors and the community would almost rise in wrathful
indignation when a liquor place was suggested. Today we
seem quiescent, even acquiescent. The Demon Rum has
lost none of his power, but he has lulled the opposition to
tranquil acceptance. Time smoothes over many things, ap
parently. I am only commentiiig on the trends.
There is a feature of the T.V.A. that I wonder about: the
very foundation of our American plan of government is
equality before the law. Of course it didn’t mean equality
of brains, or aptitude, or birth or beauty, or strength: Not
all men are equal to one another in strength or brains; not
all have the same home-training; not all have the same
happy and prosperous homes. Not all the ladies are equally
beautiful or equally endowed. Some can cook and some
can’t; some try to cook and persevere even through genera
tions though their skill in cookery is quite debatable, some
times depending on just how desperate is your hunger. And
the ladies observe that sometimes the high-salaried boss
is really only a stuffed shirt. Well that about evens every
thing.
Equality, in our American living, means that every
person is entitled to equal justice in the courts and equal
justice by his government. Yet we find that the law it
self establishes preferred customers of T.V.A. Certainly
these preferences violate the American principle of equality.
And how do we act, we American citizens? We seem to be
eager for any preference that operates in our favor. So
then, we are governing the 1 nation by favor; we are dis
criminating in favor of this group over that group. But
it also results in discriminataing against various groups
at the same time.
We have our hands out; and we can be so plausible in our
arguments.
We are one people, or should be. We are not farmers or
cotton mill operatives, or mechanics, or merchants, or bank
ers: we are one great body. The Orangeburg County or
Marlboro cotton farmer neetis the great cotton mills, just
as the mill operative needs the cotton. The merchant has
his place and so has the banker. We operate as a team.
Socially and politically it is of the highest importance that
we have the farms maintained; the farmer is still our in
dependent thinker, the very backbone of our Nation. But
the politicians, both agricultural and political manipulators,
talk too much. The real farmer is making his own way.
He still works early and late and lives in close communion
with nature. He can appreciate fair chance, but he is not
crying and begging for hand-outs; he stands forth in the
dignity and majesty of his manhood and carries his burden.
Multitudes of others help to carry the burdens of the
day. The efficient, but unsung merchants, clerks, office
workers, the physicians and nurses, the telephone and power
forces—and the teeming millions of others—all make this
Recently I had the pleasure of telling of the liberal va
cation arrangement of the Management of The Joanna Mills.
I have more good news of that kind: The Greenwood Mills
(Mr. James C. Self) also gives the week of the Fourth of
July to their employees of six months’ service. .Those of
longer service also receive four per cent of the yearly wage.
Senator Maybank can use The Joanna and Greenwood
Mills as great South Carolina enterprises which have plea
sant relations all the time, splendid examples of the. South
of today*
“New Jersey has the lower per capital state tax burden
of any of the 48 states, according to a survey of state govern
ment finances in 1952.
Last year New Jersey tax payments amounted to $35.83
a person.
The average state tax burden for the United States last
year was $64.61 per capita.
There is a considerable range in state ta.± assessments.
Fourteen of the states collect less than $60 per capita.
Twenty-five of the states fall in the range of $60 to $80
per capita. They are South Dakota, West Virginia, Mary
land^ Maine, Montana, Indiana, Iowa, Connecticut, Idaho,
Georgia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, North Carolina,
Kansas, New York, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Delaware,
North Dakota, Vermont, Uj;ah> Michigan, Colorado, Florida
and Minnesota.”
“The Country’s power systems plan this year to in
stall nearly 14 million kilowatts of generating capability at a
cost of around $4 billion, according to the latest survey by
the Edison Electric Institute. That would boost national
capacity by over 17%.
In the four years 1953-56, over $12 billion is scheduled
to be spent to boost U.S. capacity to about 125 million kilo
watts. That would be an increase of more than 50% from
the end-of-1952 generating ability, and it would be almost
two and a half times the capacity at the close of World
War II.
What are the driving forces behind this expansion spree?
A powerful one, of course, is the continuing electrification
of the American home. Since World War II U.S. manufact
urers have sold 89 million radios, 30 million refrigerators,
27 million washing machnes, 26 million television sets and
23 million vacuum cleaners.
Today 90% of American farms have electricity, up from
only 50% at the end of 1945. Since the war, 7.5 million
new houses have sprouted on U.S. soil, almost all of them
electrified. Though the rate of formation of new house
holds is now declining, the national birth rate is toppling
records. And the first three months of this year witnessed
an average monthly increase of 157 kilowatt-hours in resi
dential electric use from a year earlier.”
1. A high Soviet official has been purged. He ip (*p Georgi
Malenkov; (b) V. M. Moltov; (©) Lavrenti Beria.
2. Which of the following countries was not represented at the
Big Three conference in Washington recently?, (g) Erapce; (b)
Italy; (c) United States; (d) Great
ANSWERS
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paMAvx 1
J B. MATTHEWS, a profession-
• al Communist investigator, who
is employed by Sen. Joe Mc
Carthy’s investigating committee,
has kicked up a row on Capital
Hill that is not likely to die down
quickly and, many believe, may
cause a tremendous explosion when
the full force of the controversy
reaches the general public.
Matthews, writing in the July
American Mercury, made some
shocking charges against the
Protestant clergy that they form
“the largest single group support
ing the Communist apparatus in
the United States.” He even went
so far as to name the figure 7,000.
His sweeping charge was based
on no given evidence. He did show
that a relatively small number of
Protestant clergymen in the U.S.
have backed “peace petitions” that
were circulated by Communist or
ganization. but were more or less
disguised.
Washington observers are saying
that his charges are sq sweeping
and ridiculous they appear amus
ing until one stops to think about
them And prominent Protestant
clergymen are protesting the state
ment to anyone and everyone who
will listen. They are pointing out
that men of pacifist faith are some
times hoodwinked by cunning prop
agandists, but it does not make
them fellow travelers.
By the same token, they report
that because a Springfield, Mass.,
Catholic clergyman visited Moscow
in 1944 and returned to repeat Rus
sian propaganda does not mean
that the Catholic clergy as a whole,
or any part of it, are fellow trav
elers. .
The explosion that has followed
Matthews’ article is having its po
litical repercussions, also. Political
observers are pointing out that
Senator McCarthy immediately
came to the defense of his inves
tigator. This was ill-advised, ob
servers are saying, since the Wis
consin senator is a prominent
Catholic layman.
But more important, it has
caused the first split within the
McCarthy committee itself. Three
members of the committee. Sena
tors McClelland of Arkansas, Sym
ington of Missouri and Jackson of
Washington, are demanding
Matthews’ -^scalp. They may not
get it, observers say, but a lively
fight is in prospect on the issue.
Matthews article makes an even
more ridiculous charge against
Protestant clergymen than that of
many supporting the Communist
apparatus in the U. S. He shows
that some Protestant clergymen
have objected to the McCarran Act.
What is so ridiculous about this
implication, observers say, is that
the President of the United States.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, himself has
objected to the McCarran Act and
at the moment is insisting upon its
amendment. ^
This unpleasant and unsupported
article by a paid investigator who
is supported by Senator McCarthy
may have more far reaching re
sults than he or anyone else
thought.
• Senator Aiken of Vermont,
chairman of the Senate Agricul
ture Committee, recently made a
prediction that most Washington
observers are willing to accept He
predicts the Republican adminis
tration will face the voters next
year with a farm price support
program about like that now on
the statute books. He thinks there
may be some changes in the law,
but docs not expect major re
vision.
“There probably will be an ef
fort to place permanent price sup
ports on the books, but I think con
gress will want to keep its finger
on that situation,” he says.
From the Cedar Springs Clipper,
Cedar Springs, Michigan: A print
er’s devil is a term common to
newspaper offices, but what about
snakes?
Last week a blow snake wiggled
its way the 100-foot length of The
Clipper print shop, from back door
to front, unconcerned and unafraid.
But not so The Clipper staff. Agnes
Behrendt, linotype operator, and
Susie Anderson, office assistant,
climbed screaming atop nearest
chairs, while Bob Spicer and Os
car Goller, printers, cheered.
The Clipper editor was in Butter-
worth hospital, the advertising ex
ecutive in Detroit, or they prob
ably would have been suspended
from the ceiling as Mr. Blow
Snake took over.
• • •
From The Herington Advertiser-
Times, Herington, Kansas: The
Sixteenth Amendment to the Con
stitution which became effective
in 1913 and gave the federal gov
ernment the power to lay a direct
tax on the incomes of the people,
was the seed from which the social
istic welfare state idea grew in
this country. Actually, not one of
us has a constitutional right re
maining to one penny of our in
come.
The unlimited power to tax the
incomes of the people reversed the
basic concept of government on
which our republic is founded. It
made government master of the
people, rather than their servant.
Most of us, still startled by the
tremendous chunks of our income
that went to pay federal taxes last
year, begin to agree with the idea
that the only way to prevent con
fiscatory taxation is to now limit,
by Constitutional amendment, the
income taxing power of govern
ment. This is the only way we can
hope to preserve representative
government and a free economy.
Relief will never come from tax
collectors but only through changes
forced by taxpayers.
• • •
From the Somerset American,
Somerset, Pa.: John L. Lewis has
called upon congress to develop
new uses for coal. The head of the
United Mine Workers points out
that gasoline may be made out of
coal and that for the national de
fense, it should be.
The question arises, should con
gress be the agency through which
coal is converted into gasoline?
That which is done by the gov
ernment is done uneconomically,
often wastefully. That which is
done by private corporations is
done more efficiently and at less
cost.
The Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal
company has done a great deal to
ward the development of new uses
for coal and has probably done a
better job than the government
would have done.
WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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Q—How many Members of Congress are veterans of the armed force*?
A—Three hundred and nine—64 in the Senate and 245 in the House.
Q—How much has the U. S. spent for foreign aid since 1940?
A—U. S. foreign aid from 1940 through 1952 totaled $90.3 billion, $41 bil
lion of it since the end of World War II. Net expenditures, however,
total $78.6 billion because $11.7 billion has been paid back to the U. S.
Q—Has the greater part of U. S. postwar foreign aid been economic or
military?
A—Economic, by a ratio of $35 billion to $6 billion through 1952. The
emphasis recently has shifted, however. In 1952, military aid ex
ceeded economic assistance for the first time since the end of World
War H.
Q—How deep in the hole has the Post Office Department been going?
A—The latest firm figures available, for fiscal 1952. show the deficit
was about $727 million. The Senate Appropriations Committee esti
mates that the fiscal 1953 deficit will prove to be about $642 million.
Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield June 25 predicted the
deficit for fiscal 1954 would be about $594 million. He has asked for
rate increases to bring in $241 million annually, and has put into
effect other measures for reducing the deficit.
(Copyright 1953. Congressional Quarterly!
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