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t i PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1954 xm 1218 Collecre Street NEWBERRY. S. C. ANOTHER CONQUEST OF MT. EVEREST PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. 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 vance; six months, $1.25. $2.00 per year in ad- COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Statehood For Hawaii Unwise Senator Maybank is entirely right, as I see it, in opposing statehood for Hawaii and Alaska. Clearly our union should be a compact geographical re lationship of territory closely affiliated with us racially and nationally, as well as by physical proximity. America, or the United States, should grant the fullest measure of local self-government to Hawaii, or liberate Hawaii completely, as we did the Philippines and Cuba. But we are proceeding unwisely, I think, in even suggesting Statehood. Too Much Propaganda From Capital Don't you get tired of all the propaganda from Washing ton ? Most of the statements are more or less propaganda. For my part I am tired of the press accounts and special reportings of much that Mr. Dulles says, or what Senator this, or Representative that, or Commissioner somebody else thinks or suggests or hints or conjectures. There is something wrong somewhere, somehow and by somebody. In the press I have read that 590 people were dismissed as security risks by Government agencies and 291 of them were re-employed by other Government ser vices. Now what sort of foolishness is that? Does that in spire confidence? That is why people are supporting Senator McCarthy: he seems to be on the trail of men and women who are either disloyal or unloyal to our Nation. I quite agree that a man has the right to think for him self, but no man has a right to hold a Government position unless he is a loyal adherent of our form of government. To my way of thinking that is as clear as the sun. We need a fresh baptism of Americanism. What makes America great? What makes a man an American? Merely being born here; or the fact of living here doesn't make a man a loyal American. What shall we do with these unloyal or disloyal people? One hesitates to advocate throwing them out, because this country proudly proclaims freedom of thought, speech and action; but any act or plan of disloyalty is a perversion of the freedom we enjoy. One of our troubles today is that we have become cheap ly political; unworthily and narrowly partisan. One thing 1 have learned in living abroad, as well as studying up North: No nation, no political party, no religious group has a monopoly of virtue, patriotism or fervent spiritual qualities. Throughout our Nation are Republicans and Democrats of the highest character; and there are members of all faiths deeply consecrated to the Most High. : IAH-M OMS yr 5TftU<?{?LIA/Grf ItfOMtOUAi. eCDOCTtOM /S/till! 1 L32£&ULJ Who Defends The Constitution? I am sorry that our men in both Senate and House didn’t cooperate to defend our people against the headlong policy of President Eisenhower at times; their meek acquiescence is the amazing fact of present-day national politics. Am I merely fanning the breeze, or wasting my breath and your time ? We find Presidents violating the Constitution, with the convivance of the Senate; and today, instead of making our Constitution supreme in fact, beyond any peradventure or misconstructure or perversion, or evasion, or subterfuge, we align ourselves as supporters of Mr. Eisenhower or Mr. Dulles. Who fights for our Constitution and the rights of our people? Tamely, timidly, mistakenly, we become such Party or personal partisans that we betray the next generation by our supineness, or our lackadaisical attitude, or our inertia. Electricity—Our Greatest Servant “When Thomas A. Edison’s work with electricity and his invention of the incandescent lamp culminated seventy-one years ago in the establishment of the Pearl Street Station in New York City, an entirely new industry was born. In the short space of a man’s lifetime, the electric industry has advanced amazingly from that beginning and is now a corn erstone of our modern civilization, providing electric ser vice to every segment of American life and playing an in dispensable role in our unparalleled standard of living, our prodigious industrial production, and our hopes for even greater progress in the future. The knowledge of electricity which finds its invaluable ex pression in the industry of today is the result of some 2500 years of human curiosity, experimentation, courage and achievement. But it was not until 1831, when Michael Faraday dem onstrated the first dynamo, by which electricity could be produced mechanically, that there was born the possibility that electricity might some day greatly benefit mankind the world over. During the 1870’s, arc lighting gradually came into promi nence, utilizing as elettricity sources generators based on Faraday’s invention. But it was apparent that lighting of this kind was suitable only for street illumination and in large open places and auditoriums. The problem of devising a smaller, more efficient method of electric illumination that could be used for interior lighting was solved some seventy-five years ago, when Thomas Alva Edison dem onstrated the first practical incandescent lamp on October 21, 1879. In order to make possible widespread use of his new in vention Edison had to develop an unprecedented generating and distribution system, complete in every detail from dyna mos to fuses and sockets. With this prodigious task ac complished, Edison started the first central station at Pearl street in New York City, ushering in the modern electric era on September 4, 1882. On that historic day, 59 customers received electricity for their new incandescent lamps. Within fourteen months, 508 customers’ houses had been wired, and 12,732 lamps were on the circuit. Edison’s central station system was not the only electric lighting scheme to be devised, either before or after the suc cessful inauguration of his plant at Pearl Street. But his conception was so sound and his plans had been so care fully worked out that today the Edison type of system is the only one that survives. Edison’s dynamos, for example, then known as ‘Jumbos’ because of their great size and solidity, represented amazing improvement over other contemporary installations. Each ‘Jumbo’, with its capacity of 120 kilo watts and an efficiency of 90 per cent, was more than twice as powerful and efficient as any of the previous ‘large’ gen erators. In addition, only about 10 pounds of coal were required to produce a kilowatt hour of electricity in Edison’s plant, while in arc-lighting plants of the day as much as 30 pounds of coal were needed per kilowatt hour. Today the most ef ficient plant requires less than 3/4 of a pound of coal to pro duce one kilowatt hour. The constantly growing acceptance of electric appliances in the home has contributed largely to the gain in average residential kilowatthour consumption, which has more than doubled in the past ten years. Since the end of World War II, for instance, more than 18 million families introduced re frigerators into their homes and 19 million acquired televi sion sets. The home consumer of 1952 used almost 5 times as much electricity as in 1927, but the average revenue per kilowatt- hour has been reduced by more than half. Since the end of World War II, millions of Americans have welcomed an increasing number of electrical appliances of all kinds into their homes. Light types of appliances— radio, iron, refrigerator, electric clock, electric washer, toaster, vacuum cleaner, and coffee maker—now serve the majority of domestic customers. In addition, numerous ap plications have found wide acceptance in recent years, in cluding steam irons, electric bed coverings, broilers, and dishwashers. Government Should Quit Meddling Perhaps I’m an isolationist: If that is letting other coun tries decide their own affairs then I am becoming an isola tionist. As I’ve said before, I spent some time in England and Europe, as well as in Mexico, Cuba and South America; and I don’t want American blood spilled there; nor do I endorse spending American tax-money there. Years ago we lived in peace when Russia had a Czar, Turkey had a Sultan, Germany had a Kaiser, Japan had a Mikado and China had an Emperor. Today we think they should think as we think and do as we do. We rush to Korea with thousands of gallons of fine blood and more thousands of fine bodies; and hundreds of millions of dollars. We say we were defending Korea from Com munism, though we don’t attack Communism at the base. Now when Russia helps spread Communism we call down fires from heaven. You and I think the Russian type of Communism some thing particularly vile and abhorrent, but Franklin Roose velt deliberately welcomed Soviet Russia into brotherhood. And we endorsed it, didn’t we? This is exactly the same Russia as then, so why all this hue and cry? If the rest of the world wants something strange and foolish let them choose for themselves. Again I cite the Divine wisdom and forbearance, tolerance and compassion. Sinners, heretics, agnostics are not struck dead by light ning. The Great God of the Universe lets us find our- ffM/mr//, C'UND cuts and GOP policy have more than apparently ear marked a smaller role for the Tennessee Valley Authority and some observers feel that after 20 years and $2 billion, TVA has just about “had it,’’ both on the re gional and national scene. TVA directly affects the seven states it touches, which are Ten nessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Geor gia, Virginia, North Carolina and Mississippi. It also supplies power to the Atomic Energy Commis sion, munitions materials for de fense, and fertilizers for farm- education programs in 36 states. TVA activities include the gener ation, transmission and sale of power, resource development, navi gation, flood control, fertilizer and munitions programs. President Eisenhower has cited TVA as an example of “creeping socialism” and has hinted broadly that the entire valley has its hand out. While maintaining that he has no desire to damage TVA, the president has shown marked impa tience with the fact that too many people too often try to get the Fed eral Government to expand the power facilities of TVA. He feels that cities in the valley lean too heavily in this direction instead of growing industrially on their own strength. Memphis, for example, has been plugging for a steam plant, to be located on the Missis sippi River above the city. The president’s suggestion that they should be able to build their own is a good indicator of what’s in store for TVA in the days ahead. TVA backers point out that since 1933 the percentage of Valley farms electrified increased from three to 90 per cent; that TVA supplies power to an 80,000 square mile area, distributing to 1.3 billion consumers; TVA supplied 60 per cent of the pure elemental phos phorous used by the Armed Forces in World War II; and that in no other region of the country is so great a proportion of total power supply being devoted to national defense — primarily to atomic plants. Those who feel TVA should be cut down, point out that it started in 1933 with 45 employees and had 22,406 workers on its payroll at the end of fiscal year 1953. In the 20-year period, $2,660,427,000 was made available to TVA through appropriations, and revenues from such TVA operations as »ele of power. From this, TVA made gross expenditures of $2,253,853,000 and had total assets of $1,149,539,000. Another $210 million was being in vested in construction and at the start of its 21st year, TVA’s 20th dam and seventh steam plant were under construction. TVA supporters, like Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss) say TVA is on a “starvation diet.” The facts are that sharp cuts were made in TVA resource development appro priations for fiscal 1954, which ends this June 30, which could affect TVA effectiveness as a regional agency; that the president made comparatively low new money re quests for TVA in 1955—$141.8 mil lion; that the fiscal 1955 budget in eluded no money for TVA con struction of new generating units. DaieCarnigie OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING” AT ONE period in his life E. B. Wright, R. F. D. #4, Roanoke, Vir- ginia, was a nervous wreck. His mind would go blank in the midst of a conversation and he would forget what he was talking about. It was most embarrassing. One day he went to see a doctor who told him that forgetting what he was talking about was nothing unusual. He then drew a circle as to why and how a person’s mind would work. He said if one were talking about something and suddenly thought of a forgotten appointment, and the tele phone rang at the same moment he looked up and saw a man standing there who had been waiting for him, that, one’s mind simply would be running around in a circle. To all this Mr. Wright responded, “Doc tor, you are using very good psychology but I still think I am losing my mind.” The doctor replied that if he would listen he would be surprised how quickly he would recover, but if he did not listen that he would be surprised how quickly he would go to the insane asylum or the grave. That just about scared him to death, so he said he would listen. The doctor started him walking two miles the first day and in creased i + one mile a day until he was walking ten miles a day. Then he started him to trot until he could tret ten miles a day. This sounded ridiculous but Mr. Wright was desperate. To his surprise, his business got along better without him than with him and he gained fifteen pounds within a few weeks. Moreover that cancerous stomach he thought he had proved to be nothing at all. Now, completely well, he says he does not worry one bit. CARNEGIE ■K * WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE ! Music-Makers HORIZONTAL VERTICAL l Depicted musical instruments 6 They are sounded by a or hammer 43 Constellation 14 Female star 13 Knock 16 Living 18 Greek letter 19 While 20 Iberian 32 Hypothetical structural unit 23 Group of players 25 Land measure 27 Therefore 28 Equal 29 Diminutive suffix 30 Per annum (ah.) 31 “Granite . 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I should like to stay out of Asia and Africa and Europe and Mexico and South America with our men and our tax- money. The Government of this country is not an impress ive success within our own borders: let’s quit meddling as perennial do-gooders who usually receive the enmity, scorn and hatred of the rest of the world. CQNiGR ESS IONA Q—What determines whether a Post Office is first class or fourth class? A—The postal revenue taken in by the office. Fourth-class offices take in up to $1,500 a year. There were 17,890 of them on Jan. 1. Other classes, the amount of revenue and the number of Post Offices: Third-class, from $1,500 to $8,000 (13.082); second-class, $8,000 to $40,000 (6,157); first-class, above $40,000 (3,001). Q—What are the qualifications for serving in Congress? A—The Constitution states that a Representative must be at least 25 years old, a citizen for at least seven years and at the time of election, a resident of the state he represents. A Senator must be at least 30 years old, a citizen for at least nine years, and a resi dent of his state at the time of election. A former Senator, Rush D. Holt (D-W. Va.), now a Republican, was only 29 when elected in 1934 for a term beginning Jan. 3, 1935. He did not take his seat until June 21, 1935, two days after his 30th birthday. Q—When will the primary elections be held this year? A—Illinois voters will be the first to select candidates in a primary this year on April 13. They will ballot for nominees for various offices, including the U. S. Senate seat now held by Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D). New Jersey’s primary April 20 will be next. Alabama, Florida, Indiana, New Mexico, and Ohio will vote for party candidates May 4. Other primaries will occur later in May and in June, July, August and September. In most states the major parties will nomi nate their Congressional candidates in primaries but in some they will be named in conventions. (Copyright 1WV4, Congressional Quarterly) From the Suburban Press, Shar- onville, Ohio: Over the years American Retailing has made enormous advances in its serv ices to the consumer—there is simply no comparison between the typical store of today and that of the past. Its employment policies have shown considerable progress. An amusing and significant ex ample is found in a set of rules posted in an Illinois store back in 1880. These included the fol lowing: Store must be open until 9 P.M. the year ’round; store must be swept; counters, shelves and showcases dusted, lamps trimmed, filled, and chimneys cleaned; doors and windows opened; a pail of wa ter and a bucket of coal brought in before breakfast. The employee who is in the habit of smoking Spanish cigars, going to dances and other places of amusement, will assuredly give his employer reason to be suspicious of his in tegrity and honesty. Each em ployee must not pay less than $5 a year to the church and must at tend Sunday School regularly. Men employees are given one evening each week for courting.” That was the situation 73 years ago. From the Lincoln Times, Lin- colnton. North Carolina: The time has come for another comment on the underfed models of our era. We cannot look on quietly as the pretty young things in the large cities are induced to half starve themselves to become models. Yet that is what is occurring and we continue to see underfed and skinny models showing off the lat est fashion both in the newspapers and on film. This is because clothes designers want their clothes to hang without bulges or bumps or too many curves, believing that the latter will draw attention from the dress, or materials, itself. The cold hard facts are, how ever, girls, that the average male finds the skinny female unattrac tive: Of course, there are excep tions especially concerning young sters of this era. who are out for ultra-sophistication, and therefore tend to copy the fashion models. On the whole, however, the skin- and-bones type has little sex appeal and is certainly less healthy and vivacious than the properly formed female. The tendency of many pretty things of this generation to emulate the models of this day by starving themselves and by attempting to remain underweight is an unfortu nate mode of the times. Our vener able advice to the members of the fairer sex. especially the younger ones, is for them to eat normally, live normally and enjoy life as healthy individuals, steering clear of the example set by today’s fashion models. 1. The largest state east of the Mississippi is (a) New York; (b) Pennsylvania; (c) Georgia. 2. 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