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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1953 1218 Colleg-e Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. 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 That joyful news I’ve been proclaiming from the house tops with so much gusto—here’s a bit more of it: The ex cellent Clinton Chronicle of Wilson Harris has something of interest on the first page. Here is the item. “The total levy for district 55 last year was 53 mills, or 9 more than this year.’’ That is indeed something for rejoicing. I have a very special respect for my brother of the pen, Mr. Harris; he is the real head of his business and is not subservient to his telephone. I take off my hat to the man who will not run out on his friends or customers just to answer a telephone. I was with Mr. Harris one day. He was looking over a form. I mean what is called a form in a printery. The Sec retary called to say that the telephone was calling Mr. Harris. He and I were probably in a lively discussion of some public question so Mr. Harris said that he was busy. I was so accustomed to seeing men run to the telephone as though the house were afire that I marvelled. Soon after wards the persevering Secretary called out “It’s long-dis tance.’’ “Well, take the number,’’ said my friend. He refused to be stamped. I’ve never forgotten that; that’s a man and there are few like him. I have some more of the good news: In the town of Man ning the Auditor of the County of Clarendon saw me on the street and said “Can’t you tell about Cladendon as well as Aiken?’’ Well, what about it? According to Francis Taylor in The News & Courier, Treasurer Herman Ridgill of Clarendon jumped on him, just as Auditor Raymond Wells took me to task. Here is the story: TAX CUTTING — Herman Ridgill, Clarendon County treasurer, writes from MANNING that I needn’t think CHESTERFIELD County is alone in biting a big chunk out of the tax levy. The latter place whittled 11 mills off, using the state surplus. Mr. Ridgill says his bailiwick has sliced off 10 mills and still has the piece of state surplus pie intact. Besides that, he remarks ‘We have paid off most of the county indebtedness.’ ” Well what other County has something to boast of? Let’s not be modest: tell the story. Do you know the wonders of oil ? “This is an era which has been variously called the Oil Age, the Chemical Age—and the Atom Age. Each is a re stricted term which belies the intricate and intergrated na ture of our civilization. No segment of the U.S. economy stands alone. And in the last analysis, each advance in science, technique and knowledge must mean the corelated progress of all industry—and all mankind. Nevertheless, no one can discount the profound and funda mental effects of petroleum upon the American way of life. As a cheap, convenient and plentiful source of power, oil to day supplies 63% of total US energy requirements. Last year it took 2.6 billion barrels of petroleum products to fill domestic demand—an average of 714 gallons a citizen, com pared with 53 gallons in 1946. Such is the tremendous achievement of an industry which started less than a century ago when Colonel Edward Laurentine Drake drilled the first oil well in Titusville, Pa. x Because of petroleum, the US is a nation on wheels and and tracks. Its 3,300,000 miles of highways, streets and turnpikes are jammed with 44,000,000 passenger cars, plus 9,000,000 trucks and. buses. Some 90,000 civil aircraft, not counting warplanes, skim the skyways; 21,000 dieSel locomotives acount for 65% of the gross ton-miles of U.S. railroads. On the nation’s farms, oil powers 4,200,000 tract ors, 887,000 combines and 588,000 corn pickers. And as mankind gains in knowledge, the applications of petroleum reach further into every facet of American life. Oil helps make plastics, synthetic rubber and textiles, de tergents, insecticides and fertilizer. Just as significant is the trend toward replacement of other raw materials. The industry foots an annual bill of $130,000,000 for pure research, employs 20,000 scientists and technicians to pull new tricks out of petroleum’s hydrocarbon molecule. Though petrochemicals may be a bulwarrk of the future, they are now only a ‘highly profitable’ adjunct of the indus try’s big business of producing, refining and marketing oil. Motor fuels and heating oils use about 64% of pe troleum liquids these days. In almost any other industry, such a clear-cut outlook would seem wondrous indeed. Still and all it does not com pare with the fast increase in demand between 1946 and 1951. And to an industry which has almost tripled in size in the past 20 years, the horizon harbors plenty of problems. Biggest reason is the current world-wide surplus of oil. Even without Iran, the Free World produces around 12,000,- 000 barrels of crude a day; in the US alone, a record 6,500,- 000 barrles of crude and gas condensate flow daily from the nation’s 485,000 producing wells. At the same time, around 1,000,000 barrels of crude and GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY petroleum products were imported every day, mostly from In Texas, source of 40% of all US oil, May production was 2,894,000 barrels a day or 465,000 barrels below the No vember 1952 peak. Things have picked up since, for July is 3,047,000 barrels.’’ What flows under our swamps and sand hills? If we bore ten thousand feet what may be found in South Caro lina? Such an enterprise would cost hundreds of thou sands of dollars. Some day, perhaps. Are we tied to Great Britain? It is confusing when we read that Britain’s trade with Red, or Communist, China was three times greater during the first five months of this year than in a like period of 1952. “The Board of Trade released figures showing Britain’s business in non-strategic goods with Red China is climbing— despite American congressional complaints. At the same time, the Foreign Office reaffirmed, it is Britain’s policy to continue and develop such non-strategic trade with the Peiping government and any other Communist nations; and a spokesman for a private British group which negotiated in Peiping with Communist authorities said in London that a team of British businessmen will come out of Peiping in a few days withe contracts worth $33.6 million. The Board of Trade disclosed Britain and Red China did $15,680,000 worth of business with each other in the first five months of this year. This almost trebled a total of $5,900,000 in the like period of 1952. British exports to China, a spokesman stressed, were entirely non-strategic. He listed the main items involved as woolen goods, chemi cals and fertilizers, machinery mainly for textiles and semi finished iron, steel and non-ferrous goods. China’s main exports to Britain were raw hair, bristles, fats and oils and some animal and food products. Britain bought about $8,400,000 worth of Chinese goods up to the end of May this year and sold $7,280,000 worth of British goods. Comparable figures for the like period last year were $5 million and $900,000.” And now let us look at France: “The French government squelched a move by private businessmen to revive trade with Red China and ship stra tegic goods to the Communists. The move got under way May 19, when 16 French businessmen left for Peking to sound out Chinese officials on possibilities of more trade. They returned recently—after three weeks of talks—with a plan providing for the equivalent of $28.5 million of new trade annually each way between France and Red China. France’s Ministry of conomic Affairs however, has re fused export licenses for the bulk of the proposed trade. French officials disclosed this was in line with promises by Foreign Minister Georges Bidault at the recent Western Big Three ministers’ meeting in Washington, that France would embargo shipments of strategic steel products to the Reds. Such products made up much of the proposed French- Chinese trade accord. It i& now expected the upshot of the private trade talks will be only the exchange of not much more than equivalent $100,000 of French fertilizer for equal value of Chinese tea and other products. French officials declared the matter is closed and voiced the opinion that a truce in Korea wouldn’t alter their ‘po sition.” Then let us look at this: “American aid to France and the French Union has totaled over $10.5 billion since the World War II, the American Mutual Security Office reported. The figure was contained in a bulletin published by the mission, which administers the M.S.A. program in France. This aid approximately equals the total present French budget for one year. Of the total of $10,501,300,000 in aid, $2,175,600,00 was in long term loans at low interest. The rest was in outright grants, the biggest $5,100,000,000 for finished military pro ducts supplied to France, including recent shipments to Indo-China. Don’t you think we would do well to build America? We are throwing away a lot of money. PRINTED TO ORDER SALESBOOKS We are agents for Moore Business Forms and have a complete line of Salesbooks, Garage Repair Shop Forms, Register Tickets and Order books. Call No. 1 for fast service. THE NEWBERRY SUN College St. Phone 1 Q—How much red tape—literally—does the federal government use? A—The General Services Administration has reported that the govern ment bought slightly more than 366 miles of five-sixteenths inch cotton red tape, paying $4,700 for the 8,950 spools, last year. The tape is used mainly to tie up documents for storage. Q—Does the term “senior Senator” apply to age, or to length of service? A—It refers to relative length of service of the Senators from the same state. The one with the longest continuous service is known as his state’s “senior” Senator; his colleague is the “junior” Senator. Q—What happened to the resolution to impeach Supreme Court Justice Douglas? A—The House Judiciary Committee July 7 tabled the resolution, after holding a one-day hearing. The impeachment measure was intro duced by Rep. W. M. (Don) Wheeler (D., Ga.) after Justice William O. Douglas stayed the execution of atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, pending settlement of a legal question. The Court set aside the stay, June 19, and the Rosenbergs were executed. Q—Does Congress set the boundaries of Congressional Districts? A—No. After each decennial census. Congress apportions the mem bership of the House—in other words, says how many seats each state shall have. But each state’s legislature determines whether the state will be redistricted, and when and how. If a state is en titled to more representation but does not redistrict, a Representa tive is elected from the state at large. L IKE last year’s apparel con gressional investigating com mittees are not as fashionable as they once were. There was a time when congressmen were fighting to get on a committee that con tinued to make headlines But of late, Washington observers have noted that congressional commit tees are getting bad press notices and it is becoming unfashionable— that is. unwise politically — to be associated with them Three Investigating committees have Just had themselves a ses sion of bad press releases and it appears that as a result a number of committees will have their ac tivities restricted in the near future. Senator McCarthy’s group, of course, heads the list. The senator received a mild spanking when he was stopped in his proposed inves tigation of the Central Intelligence Agency, when Democratic mem bers of his committee resigned and refused his Invitation to return, and when GOP leaders told him blunt ly to tone down his antics. Trouble has also developed In Representative Clare E. Hoffman’s House Government Operations Committee when members refused to let him record their remarks. Committee members voted to strip the chairman of authority to start investigations. Later Hoffman wanted to record their remarks. This caused a stormy session in which a microphone was hurled from the committee table The re sult: Hoffman’s power has been curtailed and as he said. “This cuts my throat.” The other committee that finds it self in a difficult position is the House Un - American Activities Committee. The recent hearing at which Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam testified revealed that the commit tee was not always fair in its questioning or gathering and re lease of material Many termed the hearing “more like a Russian trial’’ than a democratic hearing in the congress of the United States As a result of the hearing it be came evident that the committee has, for months, been in error on most of the charges hurled at Bish op Oxnam and has been most un fair in coUecting and releasing the materials in its files The committee itself was in a row over the final outcome of the hearing. It obsolved the Bishop of Communists party affiliation and then disagreed later whether it had done so or not • It wasn’t played up much in the daily press, but many govern ment officials are disturbed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest report that the nation’s living costs are at a new all-time high Food prices pushed the index kept by the bureau to 114.5 per cent of the 1947-49 average It means that in mid-June the house wife paid nearly $1.15 for purchases she got for a dollar in the 1947-49 period. 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ANSWERS •**n*ras>w v •*»8 p»»a *2 ■«*aJ»A3 -j From the Shamokin Citizen, Sha- mokin, Pennsylvania: Of all the men who have come in conflict with the House Un-American Ac tivities Committee, none has ac quitted himself so well as Method ist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. Angry because he believed pub licity released by the committee xrom a file kept on his activities suggested he was a Communist sympathizer, the bishop requested the hearing to clear up “inaccur acies and misrepresentations.” Usually the advance publicity given to men who are to appear before the committee puts them at a severe disadvantage. Frustrated by quasi-judicial procedure that puts the burden on them to prove themselves free of the Communist taint, many explode in emotional tirades against the committee, di recting more suspicion against themselves. The applause that greeted the bishop’s jabs against the methods of the committee in dicated his fiery defense of his ac tivities had won the spectators’ support The bishop did not quibble about the question of Communism. He did not seek the shelter of the Fifth Amendment against Incriminating himself. He definitely stated that he was no Communist He made no apology for his membership in or ganization^ which he believed were helping to free people from op pressors. He pointed out that or ganizations in which he was active were not listed as subversive at the time. From news accounts published of the hearing, it would appear that the committee has nothing material to back up charges that the Methodist leader is now or ever was either a Communist or a Com munist sympathizer The infiltration techniques de veloped by the Communist party are capable of bringing into ill re pute many fine organizations whose purposes are wholly commendable, whose leadership is devoted to causes worthy of the support of loyal Americans. Declaring an in dividual guilty by association can further the Communist aim of dis rupting democratic procedures and undermining American institutions. These major criticisms of cer tain practices of the Un-American Activities Committee have been made before, sometimes by de votees of communism as a means of protecting their underground or ganizations from investigation, but more often by loyal Americans se riously concerned about the in dividual’s rights to a fair hearing. Bishop Oxnam in the forthright defense of himself and indirectly of the religious denomination he rep resents. has brought more serious attention to the issue than any pre vious critic. IUieCarnegie AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" J AMES W. ROXIN, 7838 Laurel Grove Avenue, North Hollywood. California, gives you a story that he believes will help those who are carrying heavy loads. Thirteen years ago on a cold February night an explosion shook the little town of Cass Lake, Minnesota, and with it snuffed out the lives of three men, three men who happened to be friends of James •Rnxin, men he had worked with side by side for three years. He had parted from them just fifteen minutes before the explosiom A huge stationary boiler in the boiler room had undergone extensive repair for two months previously. In testing the boiler for possible leaks at high pressure, the saiety valve had been screwed down tight, and the respon sible person for this test failed to unscrew the safety valve when tests were completed. That night a fire was started in the firebox to build up steam, and as James went by the boiler on his way home, a glance CARNEGIE out of the comer of his eye at the steam gauge told him the needle was beyond the safety point But he didn’t stop to analyze the gauge. He was interested in the fun he was going to have after he got home. For two years after this he says he wasn’t much good to anyone, including himself. Grief and a guilty conscience weighed him down. He says he will never forget the tragedy—it will remain in his sub-conscious mind so long as he lives. But he knows he must go on. he can’t stop living. But he has found something that gives him peace of mind—something he has tried and found good. That is meditation^ meditation with Someone greater than himself, and which he believes to be the greatest Peacemaker the world has ever known. DON’T HURRY YOUR LOVE By Elizabeth Hall J OEY Blake stepped out onto the front porch and let the screen door swing listlessly shut behind him. Aunt Em’s worried blue eyes studied his dark face, tight lines ringing his mouth. No nineteen- year-old should have such unhappy lines, such dull eyes. “Joey, what’s wrong?” she asked. “Wouldn’t it help to talk about it?” “I don’t know exactly what is wrong.” Joey’s young voice was low and troubled, more as if he were talking to himself. “I haven’t seen Sue alone for three weeks. She seems glad to see me when I go over but there’s always a gang around. I never really get a chance to be with her.” “Sue is still In high school, Joey,” she said. You graduated last spring and have worked ever since. You know you will soon have to enter the army. You have an adult’s outlook now. But Sue’s viewpoint Is still that of a child. You shouldn’t want it any other way. She shouldn’t be robbed of her last happy year of schoti. care free and untroubled.” Aunt Em held Joey with a wise compassionate gaze and continued, “You’ve grown so intense, so full of urgency to get to the business of loving and living that subconsci ously she Is frightened. I think Sue loves you but she is not ready for the adult love you feeL Keeping a crowd of her friends around makes her feel safer.” “But. Aunt Em. you know I would never do anything to hurt Sue. She ought to know that too.” “Yes Joey,” Aunt Em said gen tly. “But you would hurt her if you forced her to grow up too fast. If you could make her feel all tied up in knots like you have been the last few weeks, you would be hurt ing her.” “But, Aunt Em, what can I do?” he asked desperately. *Tm afraid I’ll lose her. I turn cold all over when I think of it.” “Go back. If you can, to the friendly gay relationship you two have had for four years.” Aunt Em advised. “Sue won’t avoid you when the tension relaxes. Then when the time comes, when she gets out of school next year she’ll be ready to return to the deeper feeling you want from her. Keep It light, Joey, keep it easy. She loves you I’m sure. Just stop rushing her.” “I’ll try. Tm going over to Sue’s now. I won’t be late.” Joey spoke happily, and leaped down the steps to the walk. At the Traynor house Joey heard the record-player going full blast as usuaL Conviction that Aunt Em was possessed of unusual wisdom grew in him. Fastening a wide carefree grin on his face. Joey tapped on the door. One of the gang let him In but he saw Sue across the room, wide alert gray eyes meeting his warily. Sue was golden haired, peach-skinned, with a tiny slender figure curved just right for the school-girl skirts and sweaters she usually wore. Joey's heart turned over as it always did at the sight of her. Determinedly he kept the grin in place and flipped a care less hand in her direction. His as sumed ease became real as he saw the tension relax in bar face. During two records, to which some of the gang jitter-bugged. Joey carried his share of the specula tive argument about the chances of this season’s football team and never let hit gay expression slip. Smiling, Sue firmly turned off the record-player. “That’s all for tonight, kids,” she said. ‘Tve a date with Joey.” “Hello, Joey.” Sue said softly when they were alone. “You’ve been a stranger lately. Fm glad to have you back.” Joey struggled desperately for a light remark but came up with nothing better than a lame invita tion. “Want to walk down to the drugstore for a malt?” "Yes,” Sue answered and Joey's heart stood still for a long moment as briefly her hand nestled against his cheek as lightly as a butterfly. Then turning swiftly toward the door, swinging their hands children, they went out. We are too young a nation to have many national instincts, but it is instinctive for an American boy to like rifles an£ hand-guns. No other nation has quite this same natural love of firearms.—Sports Afield.