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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1953
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'WOW, WHAT A MELON!'
COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Mr. B. M. Edwards, the well known banker, delivered
an address to “The South Carolina Plant Food Educational
Society” at Clemson House recently; it is a very quotable
speech, some of which I cite. For example, just considering
facts of special interest:
“In 1951 South Carolina was first in the United States in
percentage increase of farm income, with a gain of 60 % ;
the total farm income being $387,865,000. We have in
creased our pastureland as the basis of a great cattle in
dustry, in six years, from 250,000 to 750,000 acres. We have
gone into the field of turkey production, with an annual
crop of 1,250,000 birds.
South Carolina and the Southeast are developing indus
trially faster than any other section of the United States.
Formerly the textile industry in this State was confined al
most exclusively to coarse goods. However, during recent
years a number of fine goods plants, finishing plants and
synthetic fibre plants have been established in this State.
This trend is bringing about a much needed diversity within
the field of textiles.
The mild winters in South Carolina mean lower fuel
costs and happier, healthier workers and steadier time on
the job. - <
Since January 1, 1945 new industrial plants have been
established in South Carolina involving a capital outlay of
$458,578,000. and expansions to existing plants have
amounted to $334,126,000, or a total capital outlay of $792,-
704,000. This of course does not include any expenditure
of the Atomic Energy plant in Aiken County.
The new industries employ more than 55,000 people
who earn about $138,000,000 a year. Existing industries
which have expanded will add an estimated 40,000 new
jobs and pay more than an additional $100,000,000, so this
wil bring into the State nearly $240,000,000. And then
industry must spend for raw materials, services, utilities,
taxes and many other things, both directly and indirectly,
further contributing to the good of the economy of the State.
Here are some of the things we make mention of:
It was first in the nation in per capita income gains in
1951, with an increase of 20%.
It was first in the nation in per capita income gains from
1929 to 1951, with a 29% increase.
U.S. Customs collections for the South Carolina district
totaled $2,967,458 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952,
six times greater than five years ago.
Motor vehicle registration increases in South Carolina in
1951 led all other states, with a 12% gain.
South Carolina had the lowest percentage of business fail
ures in the nation in 1950, with only 4.7 failures per 10,000
concerns, compared with a national rate of 34.3.
From 1939 to 1950, bank deposits in South Carolina in
creased 310% compared with a national increase of 158%,
and business telephones increased 200'% compared with
90'% for the nation.
I would like to say something here about the banking
situation in South Carolina which I think will be encourag
ing and of interest to you. In my opinion, the banks in
South Carolina are in most excellent financial condition,
probably about the best of any state in the Union. The ag
gregate loans in all the banking institutions in South Caro
lina are less than 25% of their deposits, and this is a very
healthful condition, and you may be assured that tha banks
have ample finances available to take care of any reason
able request they may have for credit that is justified and
a safe, reasonable risk. In a large portion of the entire
United States the banks are lending heavily and there is
a scarcity of money throughout the country, but that is not
true with the banks of South Carolina. The Federal Govern
ment is having some difficulty in financing its budget and
the tremendous costs of the military and preparation for
defense. The result is that interest rates have risen con
siderably and some of the radio announcers who always want
to be sensational and, as a matter of fact, some of our good
citizens who want to be recognized as leaders, have been
criticizing the Treasury Department in connection wdth the
increase of interest rates and also possibly the scarcity of
money. The Treasury Department had nothing on earth
to do with it. In this money situation we have run into
the old law and rule of ‘supply and demand.’ The Roose
velt and Truman Administrations had just about scraped
out the bottom of the barrel before the Republicans took
charge, and that is why interest rates have risen.
I would also like to say a word about the experience of
banks %in lending to farmers and to agriculture in South
Carolina. The institution with which I am connected has
always believed in the farmer and in agriculture. So far
as I know, we have never declined an application for a loan
of one of our farmer customers when he was entitled to re
ceive it and the bank could help him and at the same time
assure itself that there was a reasonable chance of collec
tion. As a class, farmers are among the best borrowers
in the nation. They live at home; in most cases they own
their property, and they aren’t going to be here today and
gone tomorrow, but instead they will work hard and make
every possible effort to save their home—and they are
just as honest a group of people as you can find in the en
tire world. During the past twenty years I would say
that we have loaned to farmers and for agricultural pur
poses in excess of $20,000,000. I think I can safely claim
that we haven’t lost or failed to collect as much as $5,000 of
the total amount loaned, and I believe you will agree with
me that this is about as nearly a perfect record as any
business could possibly claim.
You probably saw an article in the daily papers just a few
days ago where our noble Governor had taken a position
with respect to the new Lending Agreement that the De
partment of Agriculture proposes to put into effect in con
nection with the loans made by the Commodity Credit Cor
poration under the Price Support Plan. They have writ
ten into that contract what is known as the FEPC regula
tion, and I quote it: ‘Agency, (this means the bank or
other lending agent) in the performance of this Agree
ment, shall not discriminate against any employee or ap
plicant for employment because of race, creed, color or
national origin, and shall include a similar provision in all
sub-contracts entered into in connection with the provis
ions of this Agreement.’ \
I do not attempt to guess how far this would go or operate.
It might mean that the banks are required to exact from the
farmer borrower a similar agreement that they will abide
by FEPC. It is the first time that the Department of Agri
culture has imposed any such requirements, and in my opin
ion the banks generally will not subscribe to it. So far as
the farmers and agriculture are concerned, I warn and
admonish you with all the power at my command that you
do not consent or agree to any such requirement. If you
do in this one instance, you may be letting down the bars
that will bring down on our heads possibly an attempt to
completely regiment the agricultural industry of America.
I appeal to you, that we show the courage and fortitude of
our ancestors in dealing with this or any other inroads in
to our rights and privileges. So long as our people possess
the courage and fortitude to do that, v/e may have no fears
of the present or for the future, and South Carolina will
continue to march forward in the front ranks!”
Very manly, very forthright, very admirable and worthy
of the best statesmen of our history.
If Southern men in the Senate and House would stand
resolutely against this wild frenzy the National Administra
tion would see a great light. Because so many of us sup
ported General Eisenhower doesn’t mean that we are in
his vest pocket; or that we shal condone or acquiesce in
just any sort of tomfoolery. This latest foolishness deserves
not only a rebuke but a resolute stand of united patriots
even if they must adopt an attitude of all-out opposition on
all matters in order to maintain an important, even vital,
principle of government.
“Williamsburg County’s tax rate for 1953 has been set
at 57 mills, a reduction of 13 mills from last year’s rate of
70 mills.
A spokesman for the county delegation said that the re
duction was made possible by reduction in expenditure.
The rate was set in a meeting of the county delegation
composed of L. G. Mishoe, V. G. Arnette and J. J. Snow;
Donald Montgomery, auditor and H. A. Wheeler, treasurer.”
CHICKEN WATERER . . . Old automobile wheel rims have found
many uses around farms. A chicken waterer placed in an old rim
tends to keep the poultry from crowding and makes it less likely
the water will be capsized.
Q Aside from Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates, who drew
the largest vote ever cast for an individual running for public office
in this country?
A—According to a study by Rep. Gordon L. McDonough (R., Calif.),
Sen. William F. Knowland (R., Calif.) holds that distinction. Un
opposed by a major party, Knowland received 3,982,448 votes for
Senator in 1952.
Q—Compared to President Eisenhower, how successful was former
President Truman in winning favorable action on his proposals to
Congress?
A--President Eisenhower racked up a success score of 72.7 per cent on
his 44 proposals to the first session. During his last six years in office,
Mr. Truman won favorable action on 42.9 per cent of his legislative
requests.
Q—Have any of the current petitions to discharge House committees
from consideration of bills, in order to force them to the floor, round
ed up close to the required 218 signatures?
A--By unofficial counts, the petition on the Townsend Plan old-age pen
sion bill lea^ls with 163 signatures. The House does not reveal an
official tally but reports are that five other discharge petitions have
from 17 to 115 signers each. Although filed during the first session,
the six petitions will remain alive throughout the second. One, how
ever. seems dead for all practical purposes unless a special session
of Congress is convened before January. It concerns a bill to ad
vance personal income tax reductions from Jan. 1, 1954, to July 1
1953.
PaieCarmigie
★ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING’’ ^
TTTHEN it seemed evident that her husband, Tod Kuntzelman, 4161
v V Cass Street, Omaha, Nebraska, would be drafted, Mrs. Kuntzelman
says they discussed it as sensibly as possible and decided that aside
from the fact they would be apart, things wouldn’t be too bad. Their
two children were of school age; her mother lived with them so there
would be her companionship. They were buying theif home and by
renting a room and with the allotment she would
receive from the Government they could live com
fortably and still meet the payments on the house,
plus their insurance obligations.
Then just a month before Tod received his “official
greetings’’ something happened they hadn’t bar
gained for. To Mrs. Kuntzelman it would be any
thing but a blessed event. She was afraid and she im
agined things that couldn’t possibly ever happen.
Physically she wasn’t ill a single day, but mentally
she had some pretty rough times.
Finally came the day when they cabled to Pearl
Harbor that they had a new little daughter and all
Two months later the baby was brought home. By then Mrs. Kuntzel
man had regained strength and had begun to realize that little bundle
in her arms was not the hardship she had imagined, but one of the
greatest blessings she has ever known. A large percentage of the gap
her husband had left was filled as she was kept busy from 6:00 in the
morniirg until 10:00 at night.
Since then when troubles come her way, she refuses to worry. She
is certain there is a Supreme Being who knows better than she what is
best for her.
CARNEGIE
was well.
From The Cedar Rapids Tribune,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The announce
ment by Soviet Premier Malenkov
that Russia has the hydrogen
bomb came a few weeks after the
Congress of the United States cut
appropriations for civil defense to
$46% million for the year that be
gan July 1.
Former President Truman had
requested $150 million for the Civil
Defense Administration, or about
$1 for every man. woman and child
in America. President Eisenhower
asked for $125.2 million, or about
83 cents per person. But the “econ
omy bloc.” in control of the Senate
and House, saw fit to appropriate
only about 30 cents a head for pro
tection against an attack against
this country that could make Pearl
Harbor look like fireworks display
at a country fair.
The “economizers'* are afraid
the money will be wasted. We hope
it won’t have to be used.
But we can’t take chances. If the
nation ever needs civil defense it
will need more than 30-cents-a-head
worth.
From Che Encinitas Coast Dis
patch, Encinitas, California: An old
but ever-accurate truism holds that
in the long run a people get the
kind of government they want and
deserve.
For instance, public desires and
public pressures will determine
whether we will have sufficient,
economical government— or prodi
gal, drunken-sailor government.
Representative Norris of New
Hampshire touched on this by in
direction when he said. “We have
reached that point in the session
when the full impact of protests
against appropriation cuts really
hit us. It is at this point we always
begin to wonder whether folks
really want economy, or only think
they do.”
The future of our government
will be decided in the grass roots,
not in Washington.
• • •
From The Southern Standard,
Arkadeiphia, Arkansas: The action
of the Senate Finance Committee
in refusing, by a vote of 11 to 4 to
approve raising the federal debt
limit, in spite of urgent requests
by the President and other top ad
ministration officials, indicates the
present temper of national thinking.
Without going into the pros and
cons involved in this specific ques
tion. it is obvious that the Ameri
can people want and demand rigor
ous economy in government, and
Congress, naturally, has begun to
reflect that attitude. The era when
the taxpayers would accept un
bridled spending with hardly a
complaint has come to an end.
Ticklers
By George
‘Dad's new electric razor is lots of fun! We just made a
vAhra mrt of the neighbor’s cat!'*
M ONEY AND figures have been
making the news in Washing
ton for the past week or so. Some
of the news was good and some
of it bad.
The bad news for the public was
the fact that the nation’s living
costs increased for the second
straight month. Higher prices for
food, rent, medical care, gasoline
and motor oil were cited by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics as the
chief factor in the cost-of-living
increase.
Living costs reached a peak last
November, from which they de
clined during the winter. They be
gan rising again in the spring and
early summer and reached a new
high in mid-June. The mid-June
figure was 114.5 per cent of the
1947-49 average. The latest index,
reflecting mid-July prices and es
tablishing another record, was
114.7.
• # •
• The good news for the nation
was the announcement by Treasury
Secretary Humphrey that the U. S.
has reached the turning point to
ward a balanced budget. He an
nounced the government will spend
$72,100,000,000 in the fiscal year
1954 and have net receipts of $68.-
300,000,000. It will wind up the
year with a deficit of $3,800,000,000
and a national debt of $271,-
100,000,000.
These figures mean that the na
tional debt will be $1,900,000,000
lower than the administration pre
dicted in July.
The new figures place the budget
almost in balance next July 30,
considering straight cash income
to the government and cash outgo.
• • •
• The government also an
nounced that the public paid a
record amount of taxes in the last
fiscal year—$69,687,000,000. Total
collections were 7.2 per cent higher
than in the previous year.
Corporation taxes increased by
the smallest percentage of ,any
classification. Corporations paid in
come and profits taxes amounting
to $21,467,000,000 in fiscal 1952 and
$21,595,000,000 in fiscal 1953.
The increase in personal income
and employment taxes was 10.4
per cent. Individuals paid $33,738,-
000,000 in 1952. In fiscal 1953 they
paid $37,255,000,000 This made in
dividual tax payments the biggest
single source of revenue.
Manufacturers paid $2,296,000,000
in excise taxes in 1952 and $2,863,-
000,000 in 1953. Alcohol taxes
totaled $2,781,000,000.
YOU DON'T LOVE ME
By Norman Disher
JQARLING?”
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‘Yes, dear?” Bill dropped
his paper and looked across at his
wife. “What is it?”
“Darling, do you really love
me?” The small blonde head tilted
to one side and the light blue eyes
looked at Bill with that sad, St.
Bernardish expression.
“Of course I love you. We’ve
been married five years now. Isn’t
that proof enough?”
“But I mean do you really love
me like you used to before we were
married?”
“Yes dear, certainly.” Bill turned
back to his paper and wondered
what in the devil got into women
some times. Silly questions!
“Bin—BILL!”
“What do you want and do you
have to shout so loudly?”
“Well, why don’t you listen to
me! Bill Wilson you’re getting to
be a good-for-nothing husband. I
am a paper-widow, that’s what.
You think more of that old piece
of paper than you do of me!”
“Now honey—”
“Don’t, now honey me. I’m get
ting sick and tired of sitting here
night after night while you stick
your face in the paper.”
“But dear, I only wanted to read
the sport page. Now that’s nothing
to get excited about. Is it?”
“Nothing to get excited about, he
says. How would you like it if I
just sat here and sewed!”
“But Marty, that’s not true.”
“You’re tired of me and you want
to get rid of me, well let me tell
you a thing or two, Mister Wil
son—” Marty started to cry. She
jumped up and fled into the kitchen.
“Oh for Pete’s sake Marty!
Grow up!” Bill shouted as he flung
the paper to the floor and stomped
out onto the porch.
“Holy smokes,” Bill muttered.
“If I treat her nice she’s sus
picious, if I treat her mean, I’m a
bully. Sometimes I wonder if it’s
worth it!”
His thoughts went back to the
time when he’d met Marty at a
skating party. She was the nicest
girl there. A pretty little pug-
nosed blonde. They had skated
together for awhile and then Billj
had asked if he might take her]
home. She wouldn’t go at first, bu(|
after they became better acquaint
ed she decided he was a nice f«
and she let hiifi escort her hom<
So he’d taken Marty home
kissed her on the front porch,
was surprised, but she wasn’t
actly mad about it.
Bill grinned to himself when
thought of their first real date
how they'd gone on a picnic am
had rained. He thought of his
posal and how happy her mot
and father had been when
found out about it. He lai _
when he thought of their wed^
day when his friends had kidnai,
him and he was late getting to,
church. Marty was certain
would be left waiting on the chtj
steps; she was afraid he’d get
feet and back out.
He turned and opened the
door to walk back into the .
room but he ran into Marty
had a suitcase in her hand
furious look on her face.
"Look out. I’m leaving,’
all she said.
“Hey! Wait a minute,” Billj
her, “You’re doing nothing
sort!”
“Yes, I am. You don’t love]
you don’t pay any attention
so I won’t stay.” She tried
around Bill but he reached
took the suitcase from her
put it down on the steps,
her up, and carried her int
front room. He sat on the arm<
placed her across his km
spanked her soundly.
She cried and shoute<
screamed until Bill let her gt
he kissed her tenderly. She ]
a little and then relaxed.
“Oh Bill, you do love me|
you!”
“I certainly do. Now go ui
and put that suitcase back
you got it and behave youi^
“I don’t have to,” Marty
ered, “it’s empty.”
Bill started to turn her ov«
knee again but then decided
her instead.
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44 Superlative
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47 Finish
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