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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 1953
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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?
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