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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1954 1218 College 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 We are talking ourselves into a business recession. If we would understand that re-adjustments take place all the time, we should not harp on recessions. We have always had re-adjustments, but we can scare ourselves into grave difficulties. What is happening? General Motors and Ford are driv ing ahead. If they and thousands of others should become alarmed and cut down on production we would really have recession, of course. When hundreds of thousands of men go off the payroll that drastically reduces their purchas ing power; and you can follow that up and dowm the line. Even w r hen one’s income is not reduced he can be frightened into that degree of caution w^hich virtually freezes his buy ing. Let’s imagine a case: X goes off the payroll; he has a few weeks of unemployment relief. He postpones the visit to the dentist—which starts a recession for the dentist. Then the dentist decides to postpone buying a car; and re cession comes to the dealer. Then the dealer postpones build ing the extra room to his home. That brings recession to carpenters, brick-masons, plumbers, electricians, painters. That defers his spending for furniture. So recession strikes the furniture man. Then all those men and all their em ployees reduce .their buying at the grocery stores and mark ets. Then last year’s wardrobe must last the wife and children. And so on. It is an endless chain. The timid, the faint-hearted, the people of little faith, al ways lose; robust faith prompted the Rockefellers to buy when good stocks were falling. I recall a statement by the great oil billionaire, John D. Rockefeller the first. During the worst of the Depression he said that he and his son were getting great values by buying when most people had lost confidence. The greatest stock in the w T orld dropped from 300 to 70 1/4. All those men of faith who bought at 70,80, 90, 100, find it today more than 150—and it has been a tower of strength all the time. Look at the basic factors: we have more money, more people at work, more buying and selling than in the most prosperous days a while back. And we are growing so fast that this nation is adding each year more than the population of South Carolina. The population of South Carolina has a buying power of six million people of Europe, or twelve mil lion people of Asia. Yet we run all over the earth seeking every possible little outlet for our goods, though the world’s greatest market is here at home. I can understand, and everybody else can understand, that foreign markets are desirable, but why be pessimistic? America is still the unexhausted, unsupplied market. We still have millions on scanty fare and millions with shoddy clothes. And there are millions who have not tasted the richness of our standard of living. Instead of so much prophesying, let’s go out and stir up business. The Rockefellers built mammoth and grandiose Rockefell er Center during the Depression. They had faith and vision. Let us, too, have faith; and let us put our faith to work. Nobody can foretell with exactitude what will happen to morrow. Suppose we should discover oil or uranium in our swamps. Suppose all the billows of sand should be used for some special purpose at a high price. One day I consulted a specialist on stocks. I asked “What will the market do?—Decline?” “No,” he said, “the records show that it usually advances at this time.” The next day The Associated Press carried this story: “Stock Market shows disappointing drop.” So there you are. Are we to blame for the weather? “At the beginning of the century, there was a scientist who felt that, as a result of the great expansion of the in dustrial age, the world was burning coal and other fuels at such a rate that it was definitely changing the composition of the atmosphere. It was found in many areas that there was a 10% increase in the carbon dioxide content of the air, and that carbon dioxide definitely made the atmosphere warmer. Dr. Gilbert Plass of Washington, D. C., told the American Geophysical Union that ‘The large increase in industrial activity during the present century is discharging so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that the average tem perature is rising at the rate of l 1 /^ degrees per century.’ When studies show that two of the most affected areas in regard to higher temperatures and drought are near the equator in South America and in the jungles of Africa, in addition to the areas around the Artie Circle, one is some what skeptical of the carbon dioxide theory. There are ho factories to speak of in these affected areas. A good part of the increased heat and lack of sufficient water in the western world is due to the activities of man. For example between the filthy poisonous odors given off by ; the smokestacks in our leading cities and the exhaust gases of trucks, buses and automobiles, we have undoubtedly created a carbon dioxide atmosphere that not only is not' GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY TUE BlC NlCHT WHEN +US +06H- 9C+AOOL 'BA9KET BALL IfeAfA WALLOPED TdElR. fJtTTERRNAL^AMD ~| HE WAS HOTTER TWAW A PlSTOL I With ms JUMP SWOTS', AMD HE ! kMEW TWE COACW fl^OM SfaTE GdLLKE —was ScoonwG- -win\ wnw- j_ AM ATHLETIC SCHOLAVLSWrP *- - W»SPoC<ETjii!f fit ‘for man or beast’, but which holds the heat longer, as shown by the scientists. Then, too, in the ruthless de struction of our forests we have not only destroyed nature’s way of holding water, but also destroyed a good part of na ture’s way of keeping the earth cool. I doubt if nature ever intended that we human beings should live like cliff-dwellers in steel and concrete buildings that hold the heat during the summer months for days. Now, on this question of the work of man in bringing higher temperatures into the world, one of the best students of the subject is a leading aircraft executive. He writes that the increase in mean temperature all over the world is not a transient phenomenon, but is caused by the change in the face of the earth brought about by humanity itself. The weather in Kansas is usually very pleasant in the spring, up to the time that the wheat ripens. As the harvest spreads across the state, the climate changes completely and hot, dry winds start to blow which last the rest of the summer, except when cold air masses from Canada come across the state. These hot, dry winds are really proof of the above reasoning. The farmer has learned that the ground should be plowed as quickly as possible after harvest in order to benefit next year’s crop. For that reason, no weeds grow up in place of the wheat.” “The brilliant Huntington found that a rise of 4 degrees could have almost disastrous consequences for mankind. In measuring the rise in temperature that is recently occurring, too many professionals in the weather business stress how the annual temperature has changed. But the important thing to remember is that the increase in temperature is not spread evenly oVer the year, but the greatest part of it ilKoc- curring during the winter-months, not only here, but in Canada, Russia, and all the northern parts of the world. Now, the chances are that if you are in business, you have been living in one of the ‘fortunate energy zones’ of the United States, where the climate has been such as to make you feql full of pep all the time and, therefore, a large producer of wealth. The most important factor contributing to this ‘pep’ is the fact that you are lucky enough to live in an in vigorating climate. , / L History is full of instances of ‘lucky’ people who, for a time, had the proper amount of rain, winds, and tempera ture that made their cities energetic and their standards of living high. But ‘ruthless nature’ is constantly on the move and in area after area, these cities are abandoned, or are but a shell of their former existence. As these once lucky areas where the new climate enabled them to produce increased Wealth.” “Air conditioning to give indoor protection against out door heat has become a widespread practice as people have come to appreciate these profound effects of heat upon their minds and bodies. It is now realized that proper control over body heat loss pays real performance and health divi dends. This is especially true in those lines of activity in volving keen mental functioning, or close coordination and Q—Do territorial delegates to the U. S. Congress have the same rights and privileges as Congressmen? A—Yes, except that they may not vote. The Delegates from Alaska and Hawaii, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, may introduce bills, be assigned to committees, speak on the floor, and participate in all actions of the House except voting, either on the floor or in committee. # Q—How many of the members of President Eisenhower’s cabinet have | served in Congress? A Two. and both served in the Senate by appointment. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (R N. Y.) served in 1949 and Secretary of Commerce Sinclan Weeks (R Mass.) in 1944. Of the remaining eight Cabinet members, two had prior service in elective offices. Attorney General Herbert. Brownell, Jr. (R N. Y.) served in the state legislature, and Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay «R Ore.) has been state legislator, mayor and governor. As finally signed into law, does the special immigration act provide for the admission of non-refugees? Ye although most of the visas will be issued to refugees, escapees, j and expellees The Senate bowed to the House in allowing for some non refugees who have close relatives in the U. S. Refugees escapees, and expellees are defined broadly to include such cate .juries as victims of the Holland floods, former residents of the old Italian colonies ' and persons uprooted by the Greek civil war. ?.,w much money did Congress save by changing the free mail sys tem Aug. I? bill does not cut expenditures. Through revised bookkeeping it relieves the Post Office Department from charging the costs o r | : nke I mail ag. inst its appropriations. Instead, Members of Co’, l ess and government agencies sending out free mail will cha n costs against their own appropriations, trimming the Po»t . dice dencit <Coy>ricbt 1953, Cuncresslooal quarterly> \ RECENT SURVEY made to determine U. S. attitudes to ward the great issues of U S. participation in international or ganizations. war and peace, anc our relations with the rest of the world, brought announcement o:' the fact that nearly three-quarters of the people in the United States feel that the surest and wisest way to strive for peace is either to work along with the Unitec Nations or to strengthen it. A scant nine per cent of those polled believe we should pursue a strict isolationist course The study was underwritten by an anonymous manufacturer of de fense products who did so in the express hope of “finding out, if it is possible to do so. what the American people can and will do that will help to put me out of the armaments business.*’ Of the 73 per cent who favor the United Nations in its present or strengthened form. 21 per cent feel ,we should continue to work with all international organiza tions in the present vein; 35 per cent feel our best chance for peace lies in a stronger United Nations; 11 per cent feel we should work for a form of world government such as a federation of all nations to constitute a single government. The nine per cent who favor iso lationism feel we have already gone too far, should pull out of all international alliances and commitments. • American people are not com pletely pessimistic, but 53 per cent of the people feel that another war is certain—at least within the next 25 to 30 years. Our chances of becoming involved in another world conflict vary according to where the war begins. If it comes in Europe. 81 per cent believe we cannot possibly avoid joining in. If it comes in Asia. 61 per cent feel we must get involved. In general, most Americans feel we have made three constructive moves to avoid World War III: our programs of foreign aid; our efforts to support international organization; and our rearmament program. However, 28 per cent say we are not to be successful in our efforts to avert war by “giving away too much to other peo ples,” “cutting military strength" “Too much appeasement to Rus sia,” etc. Where the atom bomb is con cerned. 82 per cent agree that another war will bring the United States serious destruction from atom bombing. About 34 per cent feel that the Russians have enough atom power to launch an attack; 35 per cent feel they do not. • But, does Russia want war? Most observers and writers feel that Russia does not. The princi pal reason, they say, is that the Soviet will never risk a war she is not certain to win. And. military weapons and troops are not the entire reason for this attitude. Russia is afraid of her own people. Millions of Red sol diers either deserted or allowed themselves to be captured by the Nazis in World War II. Two mil lion of these refused repatriation after the war, although many were forcibly returned. The Soviet cannot afford war at this time. Too many citizens might sympathize with the enemy and only during time of war could a successful people’s revolt bo car ried out behind the iron curtain DaleCarnegie ★ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" ★ S H. LAWRENCE, M. D., 156% Screenland Drive, Burbank, Califor- • nia, says that after he graduated from high school he became a college addict, a chronic collegian. At the end of ten years of educa tion he decided to make the break which must inevitably come and finally divorced himself from college. He went to New York City and got a job with a research organiza tion. Here he was working with some of the best scientific minds in the country, and it didn’t take him long to develop a real inferiority complex. The men there had developed the policy of asking each other to watch over their departments for oc casional periods while they were away. He began to worry for fear they would ask him to do this. Then he would be asked questions that he couldn’t answer and his ignorance would be brought to everyone’s attention. He worked many unnecessary hours just so he wouldn’t become ’indebted to anyone. Many CARNEGIE nights he couldn’t fall asleep because the thought kept running through his mind. “I hope no one asks me to cover for him tomorrow.” Finally he took stock of himself, and decided that if this went on he would never learn anything new and he would in addition become a chronic worrier. So he started to accept strange situations as a chal lenge. He volunteered to watch over the other men’s work for them. He found himself in many strange situations and he was asked many ques tions he could not answer, but no one seemed to take that seriously. He stopped worrying and greatly to his satisfaction he found himself popular with the men. Soon he was broadening his knowledge and fields of interest surprisingly. KEEPING TINES CLEAN . . . It’s easy to keep pitchfork tines clean and free from rust and at the same time prevent any possi ble injury from the sharp tines. A bag of sand or ashes will do the trick. Fill bag about two-thirds full, tie open end securely, then place in convenient spot. dexterity. This principle is coming to be well recognized where financial profits are involved, but it remains still largely neglected in the fields where greatest benefit would accrue—in the nation’s educational and research institutions. The deepest thought processes—those involving reasoning and originality—are most sharply curtailed by prolonged difficulty in body heat loss.” “It appears that in the southern parts of the country, not on]y in the homes, stores and offices, but! in many other fields, air-conditioning is going to be a MUST, as the heat zone moves northward. In time the problem of cost will be solved, just as it was in South Africa where American air-conditioning helped to take out a wealth of minerals, working at over a mile beneath the surface of the earth. Some businessmen are deceiving themselves when they do not install air-conditioning under the present climate con- d'Uons. Don’t forget, rents are high todays labor is high— nd you simply can’t expect the workers to have energy when the therm''meter soars in the 90’s.” However, I think we need not rush away. From the Claremont News, Clare mont. Minnesota: Secretary of Ag riculture Benson has been under fire for some time and his oppo nents have been crying that he is trying to sink agriculture by tak ing away practically all of the farm price supports We haven’t been worried about this so far as the present law carried through 1954 and Benson publicly stated that whatever pro gram may come, it is vital that the government be responsible for preventing agricultural distress. Benson refused the request of the Livestock men led to Washing ton by former Secretary Brannan. to set support on livestock. A cer tain Henry Wallace tried this at one time and many of us remember how hogs were slaughtered and buried in trenches. The Farm Bu reau Federation has stated, “Di rect price supports would unques tionably lead to government con trol of the cattle industry and a dangerous step toward socialization of American agriculture ” We do not think the farm prob lem will ever be settled by the Secretary of Agriculture We think this question can only be settled by the Department of Commerce The farm worker and the industrial worker must be brought closer to gether in working hours and hourly earnings. By adding four hours a week to industrial workers at the same rate of weekly pay would cut at least ten per cent from what the farmer has to pay for their product and open a wider export market. The seniority rule in union labor should be scrapped and the worker paid according to his ability to produce. The picket line should be made illegal to allow all those who want to work to do so All of these ideas are actually a part of our constitution but have been ignored bv politicians more anxious to buy the vote of organ ized labor than to provide for the welfare of the people as a whole. Its obvious result has been the pyramiding of the national debt • • • From Italy News - Herald, Italy, Texas: The Farm Bureau Acreage Retirement Plan appears t® us to be the most sound approach to farm production problems that has been advanced during all the years government has taken a hand in the matter. We think it should be given a trial This plan is definitely a farmer development, too. Make no mistake about that. It has been evolved by farm leaders from suggestion® originating at the grass roots. For too long the farmer has been planned and regulated by politi cally-inspired proposals that have cost the taxpayers billions of dol lars. and virtually destroyed the American farmers’ markets ago. Oldtimers here estimate the tree’s age at more than 250 years. Its trunk measures 21 feet in circumference; its branches spread over a distance of 114 feet in diameter. Legend has it that George Washington tied his horse to the tree on his Southern tour down the King’s Highway (now U.S. Route 17). Washington, the story goes, rested near the tree after a precarious crossing of Little River In let. This story led the hqtel keeper at Little River to tack to the tree a sign saying, “George Washington’s Horse Slept Here, 1791.” During the deep-sea and river fishing season from May 1 to Thanksgiving the ancient oak provides shade for hun dreds of fishermen, spectators,, tourists and boat captains. The tree’s shade is made denser by an estimated five tons of Spanish moss hanging from its massive limbs. Since the river was widened in the digging of the Inland Waterway about v20 years ago, erosion gradually has ex posed the tree’s roots on the river side. Now the exposed tentacles make ideal “lounging” benches for sailors and visit ing fishermen. WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE ) Radio Vocalist Here’s the Answer HORIZONTAL 1,8 Pictured singer 13 Expungers 14 Embellished 15 Tree fluid 16 Baby’s toy 18 Born IS Tuberculosis (ab.) 20 Snake 21 Tatters 23 Ream (ab.) 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