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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.
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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-
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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.
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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. The Carolingians were rulers of (a) England; (b) France;
(c) Scotland.
3. The greatest number of immigrants admitted to the U. S.
in a single fiscal year was in (a) 1900; (b) 1907; (c) 1913.
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