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\ N i PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1953 1218 Collepre Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 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 Life is a struggle for survival; and it is as true in busi ness as it is in the animal world. As we used to say, a man has to be on his toes, in order to “get ahead.” He has to be alert and progressive even to maintain his position, or to hold his own. It may be that life is like a story of two famous characters in the cartoons. They were running down a country road and paused now and then to inquire how far it was to the next town. Four or five times they were told that the next towm was six miles away. You know all about this, I suppose. The little fel^w said “Well, the world may be moving fast on its axis but w r e are keep ing up with it.”- How' shall w r e keep up? Well, here’s one w r ay: “Research is the best means of assuring higher living standards and of meeting the challenge of changing con ditions. In addition to the development of new r products, the principles of research can be effectively applied to all phases of business operations, such as reducing costs through new processes and methods, improving the quality of products, and providing for diversity of output. By using the available facilities, we can magnify our productiveness, open up new frontiers, and pilot the dynamic and irresistible forces into constructive channels. The shape of things to come wall depend in large measure upon how wisely we plot our course. By revitalizing our enterprise system all along the line we shall be able to muster the strength and resourcefulness to meet the challenging pro blems before us. So says The First National Bank of Bos ton. The wants of our people are insatiable. The extent to which these wants can be satisfied depends upon our ability to maintain a fairly well-balanced relationship among the various -groups in our economy, and to provide adequate incentives for risk taking.” We find that chemists are always at work; and w r e have immeasurably improved our living through the resourceful ness of our men of the laboratories, usually silent, patient, persistent, workers, generally unsung heroes of progress. Consider this: “Cotton researchers have developed a process for treat ing raw cotton with one of the synthetic fibre chemicals— and think the result may be a ‘new family of textile fibres/ The chemical is the basic ingredient of Acrilan, Orion and Dynel, the new wool-like fibres. Wken it reacts with cotton, the results are claimed to be permanent resistance to mildrew and bacteria, stronger resistance to abrasion,' greater receptivity to dye, greater strength and elasticity, and higher resistance to heat. The claims were put forward at a chemical finishing conference, sponsored by the National Cotton Council, by Dr. Jack Compton, technical director of the Institute of Textile Technology, Charlottesville, Va., which developed the pro cess. The process is still in the laboratory and pilot stage, Dr. Compton indicated, and just how important it will prove re mains to be seen. Due to the low cost of cotton, the new fibre probably will have to offer a substantial number of ‘plus properties’ if it is to become an important textile in gredient. As for price, Dr. Compton explained that ‘Due to the changing price, it is difficult to estimate accurately the cost of producing cotton products at this time. With the price of the chemical being equal to or less than that of cotton, however, the cost of cotton products will probably exceed the cost of similar cotton products only by the handling and recovery cost of the chemical. Acrylonite has been selling at around 42 cents a pound, but recently it was reduced to about 36 cents. Because it is poisonous, inflammable, and liable to explode when mixed with air, it has to be handled in a closed, controlled atmos phere. Offsetting this is the easier dyeing property im parted to the fibre. Still, it is estimated as much as 15 cents a pound might be added to the cost of cotton by the treatment. The process resembles an earlier development, which also promised mildew resistance and greater strength.” We must look ahead, all the time; our country is growing all the time. Consider the new birthrate—3.8 million in 1951. “An advance guard of older brothers and sisters is already causing a record boom in the business of supplying schools with thousands of wares from floor wax to gym equip ment, textbooks to potato peelers, window panes to pictures of George Washington. They’re also already providing a record overcrowding headache for school boards. Says the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.’s statistical bureau: ‘As of midyear 1953, there were 34,775,000 chil dren from 5 to 17 in the U. S.; in the next seven years their number will rise by more than one-fifth, reaching a total of 42,244,000 in 1960/ As today’s babies grow to school age and beyond, they’ll THE $64 QUESTION do more than aggravate the overcrowded classroom pro blem and swell the sales of school equipment vendors. They’ll also grow into a lush new market for businessmen selling clothing and foodstuffs, and later for makers of autos, appliances and other products. Firms making sew ing machines, gas ranges and home freezers are busily try ing to cultivate this market early by distributing special promotional material through the schools, aimed at familiar izing pupils with their products. ‘The onset of babies since 1946 is creating the beginning of such a wave of new student enrollment that even our most competent statisticians are having difficulty predicting its effects,’ says Vernon L. Heath,' chairman of the education committee of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce. He figures his state will need 12,165 more classrooms by 1960. There are already close to 600,000 American children undergoing ‘hot seat’ education—going to school in double shifts because there aren’t enough rooms or teachers to go around. Others are attending classes in cafeterias, hall ways, lobbies and on auditorium stages. In New York and Chicago suburban communities like Tarrytown, N. Y., and Palatine, 111., school boards have had to rent space in churches to house the overflow. ‘This fall,’ says the U.S. Office of Education, ‘the United States is short about 345,000 public elementary and sec ondary school classrooms. Three classrooms out of every five are overcrowded (30 students per room is. a happy norm).’ The 26,931,000 tots who trooped into public and private elementary schools in September were 1,500,000 more than a year ago. The high schools, just now graduating the last of the subnormal baby crop of the depression-afflicted mid thirties, experienced a gain of about 300,000 with an enroll ment of 7,302,000. With the school population now promising to rise much more steeply in the next few years, spending on new school construction and new school equipment is climbing fast— though not fast enough to keep pace with the influx of new students, educators fear. The nation’s 66,216 public school districts spent about $3 billion in 1946 on equipment, maintenance, teachers’ salaries and other items, excluding new construction. This year the figure is estimated to have risen to $6 billion. Add another $1.5 billion for new construction plus what publicly supported colleges and universities spend and the 1953 spending total comes to about $9.6 billion.” All this means more consumption of food and goods, more production, too, of course. We have been estimating the growth of population from 1950 to 1960 as about 28,000,000. But as in 1951 we had a 3.8 million increase we may find our population in 1960 35,000,000 more. Certainly America is a land with a future. And this great future will be made by men of pioneering, inventive and resourceful habit, if let alone. But if our leaders and law-makers continue to glue their eyes on votes they will equalize everybody and reduce the general level to utter mediocrity. A few venturesome spirits blaze the way for progress. We follow them and enjoy their work. But they must see an opportunity to work and to achieve something and to en joy the fruits of their genius or ingenuity or risks. When ever you level-off the people you destroy the spirit of pro gress. Are accidents expensive? “A truck, roaring over a Kentucky road, sideswiped another truck. No one was fiurt badly. The accident was a common one. A safety director decided to find out just how much the smashup cost. His answer may surprise lots of businessmen who think accidents don’t cost much. At first glance it looked like the sideswipe cost $3,098, the bill for fixing the truck. ‘First, the driver was off three days. His medical ex penses and compensation costs were $70. The truck was in the shop for 60 days, and it cost $4,000 to rent another truck during that period. We lost $500 worth of cargo. Finally, there was $2,950 property damage to the other truck. Our insurance carrier paid that bill, but the in surance money has to come out eventually, so it is part of the accident costs. That one accident, a so-called ‘minor’ one, cost $10,618 without even trying to add on intangible losses.’ Below-the-surface, accident probing like this isn’t very frequent. But it is far from unique because in recent years more and more businessmen have found how expensive it is to ‘let accidents happen/ Now they’re putting the find ings to work, pouring out money, talent and time to cut accident losses.” L AST week the background of the Harry Dexter White case was discussed in this column. At torney Genera] Herbert Brownell charged that the Truman admini stration was lax in its handling of the case and implied that the former President’s actions were harmful to the security of the United States At this point the House Un- American Activities Committee en tered the picture by subpoenaing Mr Truman to answer charges before it that he had been lax in his handling the case Mr. Truman accepted the subpoena, but later refused to honor it on the grounds it would shatter the constitutional doctrine of presidential independ- ehce of Congress Up until this point Attorney Gen eral Brownell had been telling his side of the controversy, that is. that White was a Communist spy and the Truman administration kept him in office even when his officials knew of his (White’s) Communist activities Then Mr Truman made o radio and television speech, that has been termed one of the most bitter in the history of American politics, in which he told his side of the story Truman claimed White was kept in the government to further aid an F B I investigation o' White and a number of other persons under suspicion at that time He told of talks between high govern ment officials concerning the case and said the ttnal decision was his own. A discussion of this case, about which volumes have already been written, could go on forever Who was right and who was wrong? Who has won the battle of words? Not even the most ardent Demo crats will deny that their party has not emerged unscathed from the argument. But on the other hand many Republicans believe that Brownell weakened his cause when his charge against Truman was ultimately limited to ’’laxity” instead of betrayal as was so strongly hinted in the beginning. One Republican observer has said that Brownell made the wrong charge at the wrong place at the wrong time Those observers who have looked as objectively at the case as is possible under the circumstances, believe that no one has won And, they add, the American people have lost. The wild charges of one side, the wilder charges on the other, the hysterica] cries of politicians at all levels of goversment, have convinced most Europeans, includ ing those friendly to the United States, that Americans have gone crazy And the average American on the Main Streets of the nation is so disgusted with the exhibition that he is ready to wipe off the whole thing ”as just politics ” It seems that no one has won and the American people have suffered Old Goose Creek Church Near Charleston Was Built In 1711 CHARLESTON — The place of worship of the earliest Anglican congregation in South Carolina outside the city of Charleston is St. James Goose Creek Church, built in 1711. The parish itself was organized about 1706 by the con gregation of the Barbadians, the Goose Creek Men. These were the first of the famed Low Country planters and the back-bone of the group which established the Church of England in the Old Province. The church is a handsome rough-cast brick building with four arched windows and a door on each side. A stucco cherub is on each key-stone. Over the west door is a stucco pelican, emblem of the Peli can Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the old mis sionary society which helped supply early South Carolina with clergymen. Dale Carnegie ★ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" ★ C HARLES LUDOVICO. 602 E. Price Street. Philadelphia. Pennsyl vania. loved his father dearly, more them anyone else in this world, and his father had been taken to the hospital, seriously ill. All he could think about was what if his father should die? He was afraid and he was terribly worried. He would gladly have exchanged places with his father if it had been possible. Each day he would get into his car and drive to a lonely spot in the country. There he would talk to God. He begged, and begged—and prayed. He said, “Dear God, please, please, let me keep my father.*’ He promised he would do anything in return, and he felt he could hear God answering him in his thoughts and in his feelings. Then one afternoon came a telephone call from the hospital “Come immediately.” No one could ever imagine his agony. It took him five minutes to get to the hospital in his car, and while on the way, a phrase came into his mind: ‘‘Let it be done unto me according to Thy will” The world seemed suddenly to be changed. He walked Into the hospital room in which his father lay uncon scious and felt that his father had been waiting for him. The older man slowly opened his eyes, looked at his son and grasped his hand as he said very slowly, ‘‘Charles, take care of your mother.” Then he closed his eyes again as if he were going to sleep—and he was gone. Charles could do no more; he was through. But that phrase ‘‘Let it be done unto me according to Thy will” helped him through the crisis and has done much to help him through other troubles since CARNEGIE Q—It seems that a number of men have been appointed to O. S. Senate seats since the start of the 83rd Congress. Bow many vacancies haye been filled (his way? A—Three, since the beginning of the session on Jan. 3. Another—Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel (R. Calif.) was sworn in Jan. 2 to take the place of then-Vice President-elect Richard M. Nixon (R.). The other ap pointments to this Congress: Alton A Lennon (D. N. C.), sworn in July 15 in place of the late Willis Smith (D.); Robert W. Upton CR. N. H.), appointed Aug. 14 in place of the late Charles W. Tobey (R.); Thomas A Burke (D. Ohio), appointed Oct 12 in place of the late Robert A Taft (R.). Q—How many Judges make up the federal Judiciary? A—Three hundred and seven in the six federal court systems, excluding the Territorial Courts. The makeup: Supreme Court, nine; Courts of Appeals. 65; District Courts, 214; Customs Court, nine; Court of Claims, five; Court of'Customs and Patent Appeals, five. Legisla tion on which Congress almost agreed in 1953 and probably will complete in 1954 would add from 29 to 36 judges. Q—When were voting machines first used in America? A—A mechanical vote tabulator similar to those now in use was first used in a Lockport, N. Y., election in 1892, according to George Stimpson's ‘‘Book About American Politics.” They are now in wide spread use in more than 25 states. The first patent obtained by Thomas A Edison, in 1868, was for a voting machine. (Copyright 1953. Congressional Quarterly) FLIES FROM TOKYO .. . Susan Ann Noah, 3, flew 7,000 miles from Tokyo, Japan, to San Francisco, to Join uncle In Cedar Rapids, Iowa. With her Is stewardess Marjorie Upham. At the east end is a large window before whicji is the chancel where stands the altar, pulpit and reading desk. Over the window is the Royal Arms of England. At the foot of the altar is the final resting place of Dr. Francis Le Jau, founder of the church. The sides of the altar are ornamented by four Corinthian pilasters supporting a cornice. Between them are the Tables of the Decalogue, Apostles’ Creed and Lord’s Prayer. Four Doric columns support the roof of the church, and on the walls are several marble tablets in memory of early members of the congregation. From the Auguste Guette, Au gusta, Kansas: Notice to subsfcrib- ers: ‘If you want this paper to give you a good send-off when you expire, better get in and pay your subscription before it expires.* • • • From t&e Altoona News, Altoona, Kansaa: Sometime, some driver is going to beat a train to the RR crossing and that will be news. • • • From the Hays News, Hays, Kan sas: The heart has been removed from big dailies. Can’t be bothered with just folks. • • • From the Madrid Register-News, Madrid, Iowa: Actually complaints from readers can be credited to two things. It is either something the paper said, or something the paper didn’t say. • • • From the Holyrood Gazette, Holy- rood, Kansas: A pleasant part about publishing a weekly newspa per is the justified criticism people do not make when involved in a mistake or blunder in the news. • • • From the Kanawha Reporter, Kanawha, Iowa: A fellow may have more money than brains, but not for long. • • • Also from the Holyrood Gazette, Holyrood, Kansas: A small town is a place where if all the “news” that goes over the backyard fence went into the home-town paper, it would cease publication—but quick. • • • From the Leader, Bridgeport, Illinois: Old gardeners never die; they just spade away. * • • • From the Tribune, Rockwell, Iowa: Isn’t it funny how women can talk on and on about things that left them speechless? | WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Here’s the Answer HORIZONTAL 1 Pictured laugh-maker, Morey —— 9 Fewer 13 Holding device 14 Shield bearing 15 Winged 16 Individual. 17 Greeted 19 Nautical term 20 Butterfly 21 Fish 22 Pedal digit 24 Rough lava 25 Sleeping vision 27 Trap * 29 Is seated 30 Toiletry case 31 Down 32 Exempli gratia (ab.) 33 Forward 35 Percussion instrument 37 More painful 38 Weird 40 Transpose <ab.) 41 Narrow inlet 43 Winter vehicle 45 Symbol for sodium / 46 Indonesian of Mindanao 46 Overlaid with gold 50 It is (contr.) 51 Promontory Is* 53 Paradise 54 Bacchanals* 55 Chemist’s weight 56 He is one of v radio's—— VERTICAL 1 Shim 2 Non-adults 3 Compass point 4 Symbol for tellurium 5 Bellow 6 Fall in drops 7 Entire 8 Encounter 9 Musical note 10 Note in Guido’s scale 11 African caravan 12 Bristles 17 Amateurs (slang) CidniflE] UUPJ Q L’JUJ *EIEJ ohdoei ’HMrnn HflU* KJEinF] BEJCJCIIJ ujiaxco RnHOr uuuu nwsi n I n rs 1 oi V ■a EI3EB unoo noon K fid F1H FIDO LTEIIDB ia >31311 SstHBEI DO ISIS 18 Portion of medicine 21 On? who provides food 23 Penetrated 26 Sea duck 28 Prophet 33 Carrier 34 Journey 35 Act 36 Fawning favorite 37 Booth for business 39 Facilitates 42 Fish sauee 43 Plant part 44 Unaspirated 47 Man’s name 49 Bustle 50 Tennessee Valley Au-i thority (ab.) 52 Symbol for samarium 54 East Indies (ab.)