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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1954
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
^y SPECTATOR
I think the Congress should adopt the so-called Bricker
Amendment. Why? Because the rights of American Citi
zens should be founded in the fundamental law and should
be solidly buttressed by inviolable law.
What is this all about? Years ago we had the Constitu
tion of the United States as the Supreme law of the land.
And there was a time when the Supreme Court was com
posed of lawyers, men who had achieved some degree of
distinction in the practice of law. Today we have a practice
of appointing men to judicial position who are hardly known
as lawyers, even in this day of part-time practitioners. And
so we cannot recognize in the membership of our Supreme
Court that degree of legal learning we think appropriate to
appoint on the August bench. But, to make things worse,
we now have an organization known as the United Nations,
which explores every nook and corner of the universe, med
dling with this, that, and the other—all and sundry and what
it does may supersede our Constitutional rights as American
citizens.
Senator Bricker wants to put a curb on that; he wishes
our rights as citizens to be outside the pale of the smart-
alecks who conduct our international affairs. Certainly
I agree with him.
Secretary of State Dulles once thought as I now think. And
he said so clearly. But today, as Secretary of State, he
thinks we should trust him and the bureaucrats to do what
is right. Is that a sound theory? Or could that not be a very
unsound practice?
The Constitution of the United States says: “This Con
stitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be
made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, pr which
shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall
be the supreme law of the land.”
Seccetary Dulles thinks that his office should be permit
ted to negotiate treaties without hindrance; and that we
should be without redress at law. His idea is that the citi-
,zens should put themselves under his protection, with full
faith in his good intentions. Are we, as citizens dependent
for our rights on the good intentions of our Aministration
in Washington? iTien why have a constitution? Why not
leave everything to the good intention of the Government ?
I refrain from suggesting that there is a place paved with
good intentions, according to general belief.
A California Court, however, has already declared that
a State law has been nullified by a treaty made by Wash
ington with a foreign government.
Those who implicitly believe in the late President Roose
velt, as well as those who don’t ascribe all the wisdom of
the ages to him, must agree that our country has been
taken for a ride by some of the other nations. At any rate,
our rights as citizens should not depend on the sagacity of
Mr. Roosevelt, or the astuteness of Mr. Truman, or the per
spicacity of Mr. Eisenhower; nor yet the ingenuity of Mr.
Acheson or the good faith and suavity of Mr. Dulles. Our
rights should be above and beyond any civil or the machina
tions of the bureaucracy, whether lilly-fingered or honey
handed.
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‘To provide the industrial facilities necessary for our high
living standards calls for huge investment. More than $150
billion has been spent for this purpose in the post war per
iod. For every worker in this country there is an average
capital of $10,000 in machinery, equipment, and plant. The
investment of capital always involves the possibility of loss,
and no business can afford for long to incur risks without
the prospect of profits. The average net return on capital
investment for all manufacturing enterprise in this country
has been around only 5 percent over the past two decades,
and this is small compensation for the hazards assumed.
The achievements of free enterprise under the driving
force of private initiative have |ar surpassed those of any
other system in the history of civilization. With less than
7 percent of the world’s population, the United States ac
counts for more than 40 percent of the world’s goods and na
tional income. While this outstanding performance may be
attributed to several factors, the predominant one is that, as
compared with the rest of the world, the American work
man is far better equipped with power-driven tools. The
electric power produced per worker in this country is ten
♦
times as great as for the rest of the world, and our income is
correspondingly higher.
Power-driven machines have lifted the burdens from the
backs of workers so that substantially less human energy
is now required for a greatly increased volume of output. A
century ago, men and animals supplied an estimated 94 per
cent of the energy for work, and machines 6 percent, wdiile
today machines supply 90 percent of. the energy we use and
turn out five times as much per man-hour of work. A work
man today gets more pay per hour running a machine than
he did for a 12-hour day in 1850.
An'economic system of such outstanding performance re
quires intelligent managers, workers, and consumers. To
ward this objective, more money is spent on education in this
country than in all of the rest of the world combined. There
are now ten times as many persons in this country with a
high school education as there were in 1920. Enrollment in
our colleges has increased over ten-fold since 1900. or about
ten times the rate of increase in our population. Despite the
expansion, there is urgent need for more school facilities to
relieve overcrowding and an increase in expenditures to
make the teaching profession more attractive.
America’s progress has been shared by all groups. For
the past two decades the proportion of national income going
to employees each year has been within a narrow margin of
two thirds of the total. The expansion of real income of the
workers has corresponded very closely with increased pro
ductivity. In the long run, this must be so in order that the
mass output of our factories may be absorbed in consumers’
channels. That income is distributed on a broad basis is
evidenced by the large number of modern facilities, such as
automobiles, radios, refrigerators, telephones, and television
sets owned by the people of the United States.
In the course of a century, the average working time
per week has been cut nearly in half. In consequence, there
are now many more hours of leisure for the enjoyment of
the fruits of labor. Facilities for recreation have increased
%
manyfold in the course of the last three decades. There are
over 125 million radio sets in the United States, or more
than in all of the other countries combined. At the end of
1952, there were an estimated 21 million television sets in
use in this country, a gain of 40 percent over the preced
ing year, while it is predicted that there will be around 60
million sets within five years or so. The total amount spent
for personal recreation in 1952 was nearly $^2 billion, a
threefold increase over 1929, according to the Department
of Commerce.
Under a free economy the American enterprise system has
givep our people a living standard beyond the experience and
even the dreams of most other countries of the world. We
are now in a period of business adjustment. Barring war
or any other unforeseen catastrophe, this is but an inter
lude in the long upward march of American progress. The
forces set in motion by modern technology, and accelerated
by the warfare irresistible. We are on the threshold of the
atomic age, with its limitless possibilities, through research,
for the preservation of our national security, and for high
er living standards everywhere. Invention and science will
march on, and we must make the necessary adaptations.
There is no end to progress, as human wants are insatiable
and can be fulfilled at an encouraging rate if we but use
the instruments of creation and the vast storehouse of ac
cumulated knowledge at our command.
By maintaining our freedom in all segments of our society,
and holding firmly to the fundamental principles that have
made this country great, the economic and social strength of
America can continue to grow.”
I have been quoting from The New England Letter, of The
First National Bank of Boston.
RESSIONAL
Q—How many Americans are eligible to vote?
A—Exact figures are unavailable, as many states do not require reg
istration in certain communities, and some which do, do not publish
figures. The Census Bureau estimates that persons of voting age
numbered about 100 million in 1952, 96 million in 1950 and 93 million
in 1948. The Associated Press, shortly before the 1952 election,
estimated there were about 76.2 million persons registered to vote.
In 1950 and 1948, respectively, the Republican National Committee
estimated 69.5 and 66.8 million persons were registered. Voting for
President totaled about 61 million in 1952, about 49 million in I£48.
Q—Did President Eisenhower run far ahead of Re jublican nominees
for Congress in 1952?
A—The President polled about 33.8 million votes, while Democrat Adlai
Stevenson garnered about 27.3 million. GOP candidates for the
House only slightly outpolled the Democrats, 28.4 to 28.3* million.
The President “carried” 295 Congressional districts in his race
against Stevenson, while GOP House nominees beat Democratic
candidates, or were unopposed, in only 221.
Q—Why must a bill or resolution be read three times before either
branch of Congress may vote on its approval?
A—Most of the rules under which Congress operates date back to those
originally adopted in 1789. These, in turn, were based on those
used in the Continental Congress, and can be traced to the English
House of Commons of the 18th Century and earlier. Some historians
say the practice of reading a bill aloud three times beiore passage
was begun in medieval times because few legislators could read.
Today, unless a Member objects, the first and third readings usual
ly are of the title of the bill only.
(Cspjrrifht 1953, CcufreMUnal Qaartorly)
Beautiful Oakley Park Stands
As Shrine To Red Shirt Heroes
EDGEFIELD—Oakley Park, a beautiful old homestead
with a grove of massive oaks, stands today as a shrine to the
Red Shirts, the heroes who rescued South Carolina from
carpetbag rule after the Reconstruction.
The house built about 1832 by Daniel Byrd, member of
the famous Virginia Byrd family, who marrietf Miss Lucinda
Brooks of Edgefield. The house was sold several times and
came into the possession of Gen. Martin Witherspoon Gary,
who gave it the name of Oakley Park.
It was in the general’s lifetime that the house became a
meeting place for the Red "Shirts in their battle against
radical rule. General Gary, the “Bald Eagle” was one of the
leaders in the movement that led to Wade Hampton’s election
as governor and the overthrow of the carpetbaggers.
Douschka Pickens, a girl of 17 who led a troop of Red
Shirts, sat her horse in the Park’s oak grove as her men
paraded at one of the Red Shirt rallies.
The late Gov. John Gary Evans acceeded to the wishes of
the Edgefield Chapter, United Daughters of the Confed
eracy, and made possible the present Red Shirt Shrine at
Oakley Park. .
The UDC has made the park into a place of beauty. Many
rare pieces of furniture and relics have been contributed to
it. The annual picnics held under the oak trees are famous
far and wide.
The place is open to the public on Tuesdays and Fridays
of each week with visiting hours from 9:30 to 11 a.m. and
3:30 to 5 p.m.
CROSS /4,
id*as from other editors
From (he Dearborn Independent,
Dearborn, Michigan: Have you
ever heard it argued that the way
to meet the cost of government
is to soak the corporations harder
and let them pay the bill?
If so you should be interested
in this fact: If all the profits, after
taxes, earned by all the corpora
tions in the country in 1952 had
been confiscated in toto. the result-
ng revenue would have met govern
ment expenditures for only 72 days
—a little more than two months;
• + •
From The Brookfield Courier,
Brookfield. New York: During the
last fiscal year, the states collected
$10,500,000,000 from their citizens—
which works out to $68 for every
man. woman and child in the
country.
This comes to a total of $478.04
per capita, or close to $2,000 a
year for a family of four—and it
doesn’t include local taxes, for
which figures are not available.
The point is that taxes, direct
and indirect, are the biggest single
expense borne by a great number
of our ousinesses There is an end
less amount of grumbling over the
high cost of living. There should
be an equal amount over the high
cost of government
• • •
From the Newark Courier - Ga-
aette, Newark, New York: The Ad
ministration did a good job cutting
about $6,000,000,000 from the Tru
man budget for the year. The
country accepted the *view that
huge programs authorized by the
outgoing regime made it impossible
to balance Federal expenditures
and revenue.
But It was disturbing to hear
Treasury Secretary Humphrey — a
strong advocate of economy—say
recently that “the habit of extrava
gance” is ingrained so deeply in
gov^-nment that the deficit for
1955 may be nearly $9,000,000,000.
Mr. Humphrey was correct in
saying our government is steeped
in the habit of extravagance. That’s
one reason why the people voted
for a change in 1952.
If the Eisenhower Administration
cannot ckrb the demands of the
entrenched Federal bureaucracy
and deal courageously with pres
sure groups asking handouts, its
failure will be its own. Future
deficits cannot be blamed on past
Administrations.
• • •
From the South Pasadena Re
view, South Pasadena, California:
Ten years ago (1942) total taxes
were only one-fourth of what they
were in 1952. And as to spending,
it is estimated that the federal
government spent twice as much
last year yas in 1942. despite the
fact that we were in a shooting war
a decade ago. Gad! Think of the
expense if we ever got to a genuine
peace.
DaueCarnegie
^ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING” ^
S OME TIME ago Tobias J. Davis, 118 Orange Street, Rochester,
New York, received a request from a client, a lodal psychiatrist,
tc sit in consultation on one of his cases. He was faced with a most
unique type of problem. A patient he had had under observation for
about six weeks was in a constant state of fear and was sick with
worry. Because of his unhappy condition the fellow had been com
pelled to take leave of absence from his job as fore
man in a large industrial plant. In addition he com
plained of having been unable to sleep for three
weeks. It was obvious that the man had a mental
disturbance of a most unpleasant sort.
■' Reviewing his case history, it was found that this
man, aged 38, had a wile and three children whom
he was supporting on his earnings of five hundred
dollars a month, and in addition taking care of his
father and mother, who were 74 and 71 years old,
respectively. Upon questioning the patient it was
discovered that he was worrying about the prospect
of “living too long” and becoming a burden, as in the case of his par
ents who were dependent upon him. •
As a solution to his difficulties, it was proposed that he purchase a
life annuity which would pay him an income as long as he lived. The
virtue of such a plan had a ready appeal to him, and he immediately
agreed to purchase it It was wonderful to see the almost miraculous
change in this man’s personality. There seemed to be a look of real
happiness in his face. The look of worry and anguish disappeared com
pletely his step seemed youthful and confident and he seemed to
exude a spirit of well-being. , .
A recent check on this man’s present status found him happily at
work nn d with no recurrence of his former condition.
CARNEGIE
Polio Patients Still in Need
Of 'Dimes Aid Sets Record
A new and tragic record was
set when 1954 started with the
largest number of polio patients
ever reported who still required
March of Dimes aid in paying
treatment costs. On Jan. 1, some
66,000 polio victims stricken in
1953 or previous years were re
ceiving such help from March of
Dimes funds. This is the longest
list of carry-over patients in his
tory.
Continued high polio incidence
rates year after year have re
sulted in each year starting with
a greater number of “old ,r cases
than the year before. At the bp-
ginning of 1953, there were ;60.000
cases from earlier years, while
1952 started with a patient load
of 45,000 “old” cases.
Long-term ‘Lung* Patients
Some of these are longtime iron
lung patients; others still require
regular physical therapy while
some need orthopedic surgery to
restore use of their crippled limbs.
A survey made in March of last
J rear revealed that 98 per cent of
ongterm respirator patients had
polio before January of 1953.
No polio patient who can bene
fit from farther treatment ever
is refused aid by the National
Foundation, regardless of when
the disease struck. Four patients
who received March of Dimes as
sistance in 195S had had polio
back in the 1899’s. Also, 17 per
cent had had the initial onset of
the disease at least five years be
fore.
However, new techniques of
treatment are constantly being
developed through March ox
Dimes research and training pro
grams, so new hope often can be
given to “old” cases. Patients once
considered hopelessly crippled
have been enabled to work again.
This is one extra dividend of the
dimes you give.
No 'Forgotten Men*
The National Foundation and
its 3,100 chapters have pledged
that there will be no “forgotten
men” on the roster of polio vic
tims. As a result, the March of
Dimes pays more hospital bills
than any other voluntary health
organization supported by public
contributions.
Since the patient aid program
started, the National Foundation
has spent $174,000,000 for this
ourpose alone. This is 68 per cent
Dr. Fred Cummings of Seattle,
Wash, it back in buaineas at a vete
rinarian after being paralyzed by
polio in 1948. Still forced to depend
on a cheat respirator to breathe, ahd
having only the use of the finger*
on hie right hand. Dr. Cumminga
fought a 20-month battle just to got
out of an Iron lung. The March of
Dimes has spent almost $30,000
aiding hie 7-year fight for health.
Now ha Is self-supporting through
hla re-opened practice.
of all the funds used by the March
of Dimes since it began. The
money has provided necessary aid
to 270,009 polio patients.
While it is hoped the new polio
prevention program will spell ul
timate victory over polio, the tens
of thousands of past victims of
this crippling disease cannot be
forgotten. More dimes than ever
before will be needed this year to
insure that there are no forgott
men among past and present pol
sufferers while prevention
niques are worked out.
The 1954 March of Dimes is
now under way and will continue
till the end of January. More of
your dimes and dollars are needed
now—they are the ammunition in
this crucial battle affecting us all.
Make January the month of real
giving.
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PLANE HITS HOUSE . . . Pilot Ronald Neece walked down stairs
after his CAP plane crashed through roof of home in Williamsport,
Pa. Nobody was hurt.
WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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26 Bridge
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opening
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12 and 20
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37 From
38 Diminutive of
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of Mister
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51 Biblical city
52 Charge
53 Expunger
55 Sick
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cylindrical
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5 Pause
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unaspirated
9 Chemical
suffix
10 Perch
11 Tax
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Belgium
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