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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1953
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Do you know Jasper County? Just a few years ago Jasp
er County seceded from the National Democratic Party. I
attended the big meeting and was inspired by those patriotic
citizens. Klugh Purdy was the leader and he had many able
associates. I have a letter from one of them — Edward
Huguenin, now a member of the House of Representatives
from the Independent Republic of Jasper.
What do you suppose inspired the pen of my friend Hu
guenin? Here is what he says, including a gracious com
mendation which I publish with many blushes, of course:
“Several weeks ago I read an article of yours in which
you lauded a county for reducing the mills levied against
property. To this select few you can now add the name of
‘Independent Jasper.’ Last year’s rate was 60—this year
1953-54—54—a decrease of 6. The surplus that we got
from the ‘Legislative Watermelon Cutting’ helped a great
deal. I, personally, along with our Senator Y. C. Weathersbee,
opposed the grant on principle. The counties should support
the state. The reverse is not true and sets a bad precedent.
To me its a lot like some of our devout ‘States righters’ who
scream for help either from Columbia or Washington every-
time a local fiscal insolvency threatens or some great need
is presented, but can’t be accomplished because all the money
has been frittered away on questionable needs. I enjoy your
articles very much, you always say what I’d like to say.”
You observe that this stalwart son of Jasper County has
principles and “speaks his mind.”
There’s something in a name. The County of Jasper bears
the name of a hero—Sergeant Jasper. Now you mustn’t
think that all the heroes were chivalrous Knights of the
First World War, nor yet embattled sons of America in the
Second World War, nor unheralded but valiant warriors of
Mr. Trumans so-called “police-action” in Korea. No, indeed;
we’ve had intrepid sons in every war.
Sergeant Jasper was the man who went out to pick up
and replace our flag which had been shot down by the
British fleet during the days of the Revolutionary era, the
28th of June, as I recall from the poem that Governor
Byrnes recited when he was a small boy in the old city school
of Charleston.
So the spirit of Sergeant Jasper yet moves the hearts of
men from Charleston to Savannah, including old Beaufort
where Calhoun Thomas once shone with oratorical splendor
when he was in public life resounding from Whale Branch
to the vast Atlantic.
You know something of X-rays. Well the X-ray has long
been used by the physicians, but now it is being used by
industry.
“Industry’s X-ray eye is getting bigger, seeing better, and
starting to do something about what it sees. Industrial X-ray
machines are peering into and through thousands of di
verse products on production lines and in assembly shops.
Primarily an inspection tool, X-rays focus on tank hulls and
cellophane, beer cans and hand grenades, peanuts and—
-experimentally—pork chops.
About 4,000 plants now use some kind of industrial X-ray
apparatus. Factory X-ray has boomed with defense mo
bilization, and some equipment builders expect a slump when
Urovernment contracts are cut back. Still, the manufactur
ers feel there’s a solid base for further peacetime growth
and that any slump will be short-lived. ‘The next 10 years
will see industrial X-ray sales go up another 500%,’ Mr.
Hill predicts.
Aside from inspection requirements in defense contracts,
what is behind industrial X-ray’s boom?
‘Quality control and cost reduction are the two main
reasons,’ explains Richard F. Hoiste, another G.E.industrial
X-ray official. ‘For many products, all the way from heavy
castings to food, X-ray inspection is the only way to guaran
tee that finished goods meet standards they’re supposed
to.. Or ta'ke the question of costs. Hundreds of man-hours
and thousands of dollars can go into machining a defective
casting before an internal flaw is found. X-raying the cast
ing before machining would save this money. And without
X-ray, the hidden defect might not turn up until the cast
ing is in use. That gets back to quality control, plus, cost
reduction.”
What about France? The new Prime Minister plans high
er taxes rather than reduced spending.
An outstanding American who always studies these pro
blems writes that the French National debt, per capita, is
much less than our American debt, per capita; and he nat
urally wonders why we pour our tax money down a rat-hole.
We think about cotton and the problems involved in pro
ducing cotton. We may have to sell cotton at a lower price
in order to compete with synthetics. The practical question
HOME WORK
is “How can a pound of cotton be produced and marketed at
a lower price, yet yield a profit that will make the crop a
profitable one? Is mechanization the solution of the pro
blem? The farmer is confronted by the same problem that
concerns industry. Industry tries all the time to reduce the
cost of making goods or articles, realizing a satisfactory
profit from the total sales. You see the problem as it is
solved in electricity: if we followed the methods of 1900 your
home electric bill would be three or four times greater. In
fact, most of us would not have electricity because we
could not afford it, even for lighting. Now we have lights
and refrigerators and kitchen ranges and fans, radios, tele
vision, and a dozen other home uses, including air-condition
ers. We don’t worry about the electric or gas bill because it
is less than the bill for gasoline for pleasure-driving.
How do we get so much for the money? That is what all
industry tries to bring about—a lower price but a great
volume.
How do you suppose you can buy a daily paper for five
cents? Probably it costs at least a dollar to produce the
paper. How do you ride on a city bus for a few cents? It
is much cheaper than driving your car.
It is costing you about 1/3 of one cent to listen to this, al
though that high cost will be pro-rated among two or three,
if so many listen to one radio. You may think the cost ex
cessive—1/3 of one cent—and I may have overestimated the
expense, not having that mathematical shark, “Rip” Sand
ers, to do the arithmetic involved, but, at any rate, I’ll give
you something else to worry about, and so will take your
mind off the old stale worries for a few minutes.
But now. about the cotton:
“Machines are taking over from mulepower and man
power in the cotton patch, and lower prices for the fibre may
accelerate the rush to mechanize.
Cotton requires more labor than any other major Ameri
can crop but tobacco. So this mechanization means some
sizable cuts in the cost of production sheet-and-shirt-making
fibre.
Startling mechanization gains have been made since the
end of World War II. In 1946 only 0.4% of the U.S. cotton
crop was mechanically harvested; last year 25% of the crop
was machine-picked. Last year 88 % of the country’s cotton
land was prepared for planting by tractor power; in 1946
the proportion was 60'% and in 1939 it was a puny 30'/U
Tractor use in planting and cultivating showed similar gains.
‘Despite the gains we’ve alread made,’ says a cotton farm
er, ‘we must mechanize our operations more fully if we are
to be competitive and still produce cotton at a profit. We
just can’t afford the expensive ways of our daddy’s days
any more.’
The cotton farmer is vitally interested in profitable, low-
cost production of the white fibre that’s been used by man
kind for at least 5,000 years—particularly when he looks at
today’s cotton prices, some 20% under a year ago. Other
interested parties are cotton users like the auto maker, who
uses cotton in upholstery, tires and convertible tops;, the
housewife who has to buy sheets and baby’s diapers; and
the factory hand wearing cotton work clothes.
In a partly-mechanized operation production costs are 22.1
cents a pdund and under a fully mechanized operation it
drops to 13.5 cents. In each case the figure does not in
clude land and management cost. The difference in costs re
flects entirely the degree of mechanization.
In the Mid-south and in the South east—where more
than half all U.S. cotton is grown—mechanization lags far
behind. Tractors provide only 65% to 80% of the power
used in the Mid-South for plowing, planting and cultivation;
a little less than one pound of cotton in 10 is picked mechani
cally. In the South-east pre-harvest tractor power use
ranges from 45% to 65% and only around 2% of the crop
was harvested by machinery last year.
Mechanization has advanced much faster in the Western
section of the Cotton Belt for a number of reasons. ‘The
main one is that they had no old system to undo before going
into mechanical production; they went into cotton growing
fresh.’ Many western farmers have only gone into cotton in
recent years.
On a man-and-mule farm it takes 160 hours of man labor
to grow and harvest a bale of cotton. In current ‘fully
mechanized’ operations, with average weather, this is cut
to 30 hours. But of this 30 hours, about 20 back-breaking
hoe-labor hours are needed to control weeds and grass/’
' I 'HE expense of the Korean war
in the lives of American youths
was fully realized with the De
fense Department’s report that tne
conflict cost the U. S. a toll of
142,277 casualties, including 25.604
dead.
The preliminary total, which will
be revised from time to time,
makes the three-year Korean con
flict the fourth most costly war
in the history of the United States
as far as casualties are concerned
The total compares with 364,800
American battle casualties in World
War I and 1,143,694 in World War II
Communist casualties are esti
mated to have been between 1,-
500,000 and 2,000,000 with about
half of these suffered by th# Red
Chinese.
• Senator Joseph McCarthy of
Wisconsin has injected the issue
of newspaper postage rates into
his running fight with the Wash
ington Post.
The Post criticized McCarthy re
cently for what the newspaper
called the intensive interrogation
of editor James A Wechsler of
the New York Post concerning
an editorial in that paper critical
to Senator McCarthy
McCarthy has denied the charge
Then in his latest blast McCarthy
said: "This subject becomes of
more than academic interest when
i- is remembered that the Postal
Department requested $240,000,000
for the current year to make up
the difference between what was
paid by newspapers, magazines,
etc., for postage and the actual
cost of handling such publications
by the Post Office.
“I am sure you will agree that
the Congress and the tax
payers would be strongly op
posed to having his money used to
disseminate falsehoods "
Replied Philip L Graham, pub
lisher of the Washington Post:
“We do not agree with Senator
McCarthy that newspapers should
be compliant to a senator’s de
mands just because the Congress
has voted mail rates that may pro
vide subsidy to newspapers We
have consistently stated In our
editorials that newspapers should
b charged the full cost of mail
service Senator McCarthy
has given no evidence that he is
qualified to become chief censor
of what news may be sent In the
mail.’’
• Reports from many sections
of the country indicates that the
1954 congressional campaign is al
ready underway Members of the
Hpuse and Senate are home again
fence-mending and feeling for the
public pulse.
Even at this early date. It Is re
ported that the campaign next
year will be the hardest fought in
many years. The Republicans are
driving for control of the House
and Senate In the final two years
of President Eisenhower’s term
They won control of both houses
by the narrowest of margins In
1952.
Victory in 1954 Is also vital to the
Democrats. They see it as a step
ping stone to 1956, when they hope
to put a Democrat back in the
White House
There is going to be a lot of
campaigning between now and
January.
DaieCariegie
•jr AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING’-
*«npHREE years ago,” says Jack Roberts, Box 55. Shelbyville. Ken-
tucky, “the doctor told me I would have to change my way of liv
ing. I had stomach ulcers! He told me I would have to go on a special
diet; I would have to stop smoking; I would have to stop drinking-
no alcohol whatever.”
He tried to follow these instructions but accomplished nothing
He worried all the time because he couldn’t ll^e
the way he wanted to live, and because his stomach
condition didn’t improve. He had X-Rays made and
learned that his stomach was very little better if
there was any improvement at alL He went home
truly worried sick.
That night he came across • quotation by Rob
ert Louis Stevenson: "Anyone can carry his bur
den, however hard, until nightfalL”
He thought maybe this was the answer to his
problem. “1 will try it.” So when he wanted a ciga- CARNEGIE
rette he would say to himself, "Jack, you can do
without that cigarette just for today.” And he would not smoke it.
When he left his work in the afternoon, hot and tired, and passed
one of the local bars, and felt he would enjoy a beer, he would say
to himspif, "Jack you can do without that beer just for today ” And he
would not drink it
When he sat down at the table to eat and his wile had some de
licious looking food on the table that he always enjoyed eating, he
would say to himself. "Jack you can do without that food just for this
meal” And he would not eat it Then he would tell himself that he
could eat the food prescribed for him "just this time." Then he found
It not so difficult to eat the “baby food” and the brofled meat, and
easier to drink his milk. Result? Why it doesn’t bother him at all any
more to follow instructions and his improvement is most noticeable.
From the Catskill Mountain Star,
Saugerties, New York: The state
of Georgia has reduced its voting
age minimum to 18 years, the first
of the states to do so. President
Eisenhower and Vice President
Nixon are strongly in favor of re
ducing the voting age. Chairman
Leonard W. Hall of the Republican
National Committee, reports.
Sooner or later all the states
will have to make a decision on
this issue. In favor of 18-year-olds
voting is the argument that anyone
old enough to fight is old enough
to vote, and entitled to a voice
in a national policy which may
send him overseas to fight.
Also some feel that adding young
voters to the rolls will bring in a
youthful and idealistic group who
may neutralize to some extent the
conservation of the mature voter.
Take time to think out your
stand on this Issue, so that if and
when it comes before you at some
future election, you will know just
where you stand.
• • •
From the Newark Courier-Ga
zette, Newark, New York: Retail
ers "can’t get along” without news
paper advertising and "they’d bet
ter not try.” Those words didn’t
emninate from an advertising so
licitor, but from a retailer, J. C.
Penny, chairman of the board of
the company that bears his name.
and a man who knows how to sell
merchandise
"We can’t do oustness without
newspaper advertising,” said Mr.
Penny "The newspapers are our
market place where we come to
cry our wares “
In thousands of communities the
local newspapers reach millions of
readers regularly with a visual
record of news and advertising
that is not matched by any other
means of communication.
• • •
From the Oconomowoe Enter
prise, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin: A
store is overstocked. It puts on a
sale. It clears its shelves. It learns
a lesson the hard way and becomes
better for it
An industry over-produces It
collectively or separately puts on
mass drives to sell the surplus
This if frequently done in over
production of perishable products
Under government operation the
surplus is taken off the market or
destroyed at the cost of the tax
payers. There is no incentive for
initiative. It’s cold loss figures in
government, as against sound busi
ness practices of free enterprise.
One road, free enterprise, is the
road to a future, the other, gov
ernment control or ownership—an
other name for socialism, is a road
to dry rot
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Q—How many times did Sen. Taft try for the office his father, the late
President Howard Taft, held?
A—The late Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. Ohio) unsuccessfully sought the
Republican nomination for the nation’s highest oflice Uiree times—
in 1940. 1948 and 1952.
—What’s happened to the Administration’s proposed postal rate raise;
will I have to pay more for stamps this year?
A—Probably not this year. The House Post Office and Civil Service
Committee July 28 postponed until 1954 consideration of the Ad
ministration’s requested legislation to hike postal rates. But the
issue is expected to come up again next year, since the Administra
tion put it on the "must’’ list for enactment.
Q—What will be done with the revenues from mineral leases on sub
merged lands of the outer continental shelf which Congress placed
under jurisdiction of the 11. S.?
A—As specified in the so-called Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
passed by Congress July 30. “all rentals, royalties and other sums
paid to the (U S.) under any lease in the outer Continental Shelf
for the period from June 5. 1950. to date was thereafter shall be
deposited in the Treasury of the United States and credited to
miscellaneous receipts.” A provision to devote the revenues to,
first, national defense ,for three years, then grant* in aid to edu
cation, was dropped from the bill
Q—1 hear we need more judges all over the country. Ha* Congress
created any more Judgeships this year?
A—Both Houses this year passed bills for additional Judgeships but
they did not become law because members said, the House refused
to make any concessions to the Senate. The Senate passed a bill
providing for 35 new Federal District judgeships and four Circuit
Judgeships The House bill called for 23 more District and three
more Circuit judges But conferees failed to work out an agreement.
(Copyright 1963, Confresslonal Quarterly)
THE GIMMICK
By Norman A. Disher
I ’VE never believed in this love
and the girl next door stuff,
but I’ll be darned if the gal that
just moved in next door isn’t the
prettiest thing I’ve ever seen.
Trouble is, she won’t even give
me sf* glance. I’ve stood on my
head, done somersaults off the
porch, and dashed about the yard
looking masculine. No dice! What
I need is a gimmick. You know,
something to make her admire
me. I’ve never had this trouble
before but she is worth it. Just
to think about her makes me feel
nice all over.
I suppose I ought Xfi act more
grown-up about this, but when a
guy Is eighteen he should be al
lowed to be a little adolescent
when it comes to things like love.
It must be love. It must be love;
I don’t know why else I would
go so far out of my way to at
tract a girL
There she is now.
"Hello,” I say. real friendly.
"Hello.” she replies coldly.
“Nice evening, isn’t it?”
•'Yes.” She answers disinterest
edly.
"Where are you from?" I ask.
my voice eager.
"We’re from up north, near
Yacoma.” She’s warming a lit
tle. This is better.
"Where is Yacoma?” I asked.
"Well it’s—” she starts to ex
plain but an authoritative voice
calls her.
"I have to go now. goodnight,”
•he says dashing into her house..
Darn! Just when I’m making
progress! Oh, well, tomorrow is
Saturday and I shall make plans.
Today is Saturday and my plans
are made. I have a gimmick! Ah!
There she Is. sitting on the front
lawn.
"Hello.” 1 say, feeling clever.
"Hello.” she replies. She is smil
ing today!
"1 hope you won’t think me
rude, but may I sit and talk awhile?
Since we’re neighbors we ought
to be neighborly ”
"I think that would be alee."
She smiles again.
I look deep into her brown eyes.
I think she is melting.
“Well?” she asks.
"Oh?—er. oh yes. I play foot
ball!"
"That’s nice." It didn’t Impress
her. *
I am desperate. "Do you like
books?”
"Why yes. 1 do What sort do
you like?”
"Adventure.” I answer, "glori
ous adventure a^id dark mystery."!
| "That’s fine, but I like romance."
"I like romance too. 4’m not all
muscle and courage. I have my
sensitive side." I can tell this
makes an impression. “In fact I
have a copy of Peryl Callings-
worth’s latest novel. The Tearful
Woman on my desk. It’s great!"
"I like her books very much,
may I see it?” she asks.
"You certainly may.” I reply,
jumping up and bounding off across
the lawn like a young panther. I
approach the hedge and turn a lit
tle to see If she Is watching my
jumping form. She Is.
I spring Into the air. deer-like,
but my foot catches on the top of
the hedge and I come crashing
to the ground on the other side.
The ground resents my Intrusion
and slaps me firmly on tne jaw I
remember no more, all is darkness.
Out of the darkness comes a
sweet melodious voice: “Are you
all right, are you hurt?”
‘*1 don’t know,” I reply. Then
1 realize my head is on the lap of
the girl next door so I relax and
groan. Such* pain!
“Oh, you poor thing,” she is
saying.
•TU be all right,” I say She
holds me closer. I groan again.
She is worried. I sigh. She strikes
my head and smiles down at me.
“Thank *7011.” I say. “you’re so
kind.”
She knows I am better now. but
she does not move. I feel wonder
ful, I even forget my gimmick.
Who needs a gimmick? Tonight
we shall go dancing.
I
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WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Young Actress
Here’s the
HORIZONTAL
1,7 Pictured
actress
12 Penitence
13 Made over
15 Higlv peak
16 Retainer
18 Large cask
19 Street (ab.)
20 Solar disk
21 Symbol for
cobalt
22 Egret
26 Urns
29 Native of /
Denmark
30 Wapiti (p!.>
31 Underworld
god
32 African worm
33 Tumult
34 Against
36 Middays
37 Bamboolike
grasses
39 Diminutive of
Edward
40 Lounge about
44 Eye (Scot.)
45 Observe
47 Sewing tool
49 Pillar
50 Traps
52 Antennae
54 Snares
55 Lumps
VERTICAL
1 Thawed
2 Little demon
3 Universal
language
4 Irritate
5 On the ocean
6 Encounter
7 Song bird
8 Over (contr.)
9 Long meter
(ab.)
10 Obese
11 Evolves
12 Headstrong
14 Son of Seth
(Bib.)
17 Hebrew letter
23 She performs
on the ——
24 Vegetable
25 Birds' homes
26 Pertaining to
the palate
27 Solitary
28 Ray
33 Rodent
35 Perfect
standards •
36 Promontory
38 Hardens
40 Not as much
41 Whirlwind
42 First man
43 Insect
46 Auricle
47 Fiber knol
48 Bitter vet<
49 New Guin
port
51 Sun god
53 Exists