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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 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 How About The Stockholders Well, you never can tell how your words will impress your readers or your hearers. We who write or talk—or do both—shoot a bow at a venture, as the Bible speaks of the chance shot which killed King Ahab. A venture, indeed, for who can tell? Two weeks ago I quoted a statement that for 1953 The South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. paid in taxes $5,477,- 512. Ordinarily that item might not have attracted at tention, but a great industrialist, a man who himself pays heavy taxes, wrote to me about my statement. Here is what he said: “I was very much interested in reading your this week’s Spectator to see the figures on the taxes paid by The South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. One wonders how they have anything left for the stockholders after such a heavy outlay as this.” And there was more in the letter. Consider the second paragraph:“.... There was a gentleman in our office about two months ago, who manages a cotton mill in Massachuset ts. He told us that they bought electric power to run this mill, who which they paid 17 mills per kilowatt hour. This is twice as much as either Duke (Power Co.) or The South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. charge in this State.” Now follows the third paragraph: “The power companies in addition to ad valorem tax have to pay a generating tax, and I was wondering if this applied to all of the power generated, or was confined to the hydro end of it.” .A. aCiUli. More Jobs Through Technology “Technical progress is the foundation of modern economic civilization, and largely accounts for the difference between living conditions today and those in the cave-man period. Not only has research made outstanding contributions in pro" viding more goods for more people but also it has been the chief source in creating new jobs. In 1939, it is estimated that about one third of the number employed had jobs that .were based upon inventions, scientific discoveries, and de velopments. In the relatively short war period there were compressed more scientific • developmnts than ordinarily take place in decades, and these in consequence have so ex panded the opportunities for work that it is estimated that now possibly one half of all employment in the United States is based upon products which came from research laboratories. The forces set in motion by modern technology and ac celerated by war are irresistible. We are on the threshold of j the atomic age with its limitless possibilities. As President Eisenhower in a recent speech before the United Nations said: ‘The United States knows that peaceful power from atomic energy is no dream of the future. That capability, already proved, is here—now—today. Who can doubt, if the entire body of the world’s scientists and engineers had adequate amounts of fissionable material with which to test and develop their ideas, that this capability would rapidly be transformed into universal, efficient, and eco nomic usage.’ A study made by the Atomic Energy Commis sion indicated that, between 1960 and 1970, nuclear power plants will account for 10 to 20 percent of electric capacity put in place. It is estimated that world reserves of atomic fuel are equivalent in energy to twenty times those reserves of coal and oil. Managemeqt makes a vital contribution since it is the driving force behind progress. Many foreign exports have come to this country in the post war period to find out why the American system is so superior. Almost without exception, their conclusion has been that it is because of the predominant role played by American management, which is chosen on the basis of competence to mobilize men, ma terials, and money, into a profitable combination. By virtue of its position, management serves as the trustee for the common good, with responsibility to adopt modern methods and procedures and pass the benefits on to the consumers. There is no royal road to progress. There is no short cut to an abundant life. But by mobilizing our man-power and scientific resources we can provide for an expanding and vigorous economy. There is always work to be done as long as human wants are unsatisfied. We are the inheritors of generations of invention and science—instrumentalities that will open new trails to the future and make for profitable enterprise and higher living standards.” Summing Up The Population How shall we judge our towns and cities? Recently Mr. D. Hugh Marchant of Orangeburg published some interest ing facts in The News & Courier. Let me quote in part: “South Carolina’s four largest cities in 1890 are still de cidedly the state’s chief cities. The next four in size and importance have for 60 years kept up a close race for fifth place and they are so nearly equal in size that it will re- Pain in the Neck mM ( quire the official census in 1960 to determine which has the largest population. Sumter was fifth in 1890 and 1900. Anderson in 1910 and in 1940, while Rock Hill reached It in 1950. Florence was in sixth place in 1890 and again in 1950. The combined postof fice receipts for 1953 for these four cities exceeded a mil lion dollars. The nearness to each other in size now is shown in, the following tabulation which also includes three other cities, the postoffice receipts being for 1953 and the number of telephone subscribers as of Dec. 31, 1953: P.O. R’cpts Phones Rock Hill $279,103 7,806 Florence 273,150 8,865 Sumter 271,709 5,032 Anderson 253,985 10,000 Greenwood 192,322 9,534 Oranbegurg 163,360 5,671 Aiken 173,194 5,301 Incidentally Anderson, upon reaching the 10,000 num ber in telephones at the close of business the last day of the year, staged a big celebration. Due to the bomb plant no one is surprised that Aiken has quit company with the long list of good cities under 10,000 population and joined our second group of the state’s largest six cities next after the big four. Figures for all other cities under ten and over five thou sand were not available but we can report Hartsville our twelfth city with postoffice business of $144,311. Only other places doing more than $100,0Q0 were Lancaster and Waiter- boro, both coming under $110,000. None of them had as many as 4,000 telephones, but Lancaster, Gaffney, Camden, and Hartsville have above 3,500. As for our three chief cities, both Greenville and Charles ton have more than 36,000 telephones listed and Columbia 44,000. All three did more than a million dollars post-office business. Spartanburg’s phones numbered 21,295.” It is interesting to observe the number of telephones. Why Anderson has 10,000 telephones as compared with Sumter’s 5,032 can be explained by the numerous villages near Anderson. Sumter has $271,709 in postal receipts as compared with Anderson’s $253,985. Greenwood, with $192,- 322 in postal business, has 9,534 telephones. Shall we as sume that the people of Sumter write letters, while the peo ple of Anderson communicate by telephone? Aiken, with $173,194 in postal business has 5301 telephones. Walterboro’s volume of postoffice business surprises me. Perhaps every tourist buys stamps for all the trip North and South. Certainly that is conclusive proof of Waiter- boro being quite a commercial and tourist center, since it is not industrialized like Lancaster, for example. One is surprised that Spartanburg falls so far below Greenville in telephones. Charleston’s 36,000 telephones must average one for every home, in addition to business phones; Columbia’s 44,000 telephones include West Columbia and Cayce, prosperous and thriving centers, on one side, with Fort Jackson and the Veterans’ Hospital on the other. Generation Tax A Handicap I am informed by a great electrical engineer: “The generation tax applies to all power generated or purchased by South Carolina companies The generation tax is a serious handicap to South Caro lina companies when competing with neighboring States for new industries. None of the neighboring States have such a tax.” Business Outlook—Good News What oLthe outlook for business ? McGraw-Hill tell us: “Here is news—remarkably good news—which sets a new precedent for American business. Manufacturing compan ies are now planning to invest as much in new plants and equipment as they did in 1953, an all-time record-breaking year. They are planning to do this even though they ex pect sales to be lower—2% lower on the average—than they were in 1953. “Heretofore, lower sales always have meant lower invest ment. But this year manufacturers are planning to add 4% to their capacity, in the face of a sales decline. They are still building for the future. That the decline from 1953's record-breaking high was so slight was generally hailed as very good news. But over the intervening months manufacturing companies have raised, not lowered, their investment sights.” AS THE Army-Senator McCarthy YYdispute droned on and on, one question was pondered more and more by observers of the political scene: How has the affair affected the popularity of Joe McCarthy? It is impossible to say for cer tain, but most veteran observers seem to feel that many McCarthy supporters dropped off the line dur ing the lengthy hearings. Those who so believe say the hearings alone didn’t cause Joe a loss in following, the consensus being that the Senator hurt kimself most by openly challenging and defying the President. While the hearings developed in evitably into a conflict between the Administration and the Senator, Ei senhower very carefully avoided a puolic showdown with the Wiscon sin Senator. The President’s most decisive action‘in the matter, that of placing a ban on testimony about a high-level Executive meeting, drew strong fire from McCarthy, who said the President was ill-ad vised. Some considered this a back- handed slap at the Administration in general and at the same time not a compliment to the President. A great number of the American people decided two things about the hearings. The first was that the hearings will do the Repub lican Party no good. The second, despite the charges and counter charges, Senator McCarthy was very much on trial. Many citizens opened up a conversation (or an argument) with the words: “Are you for, or against McCarthy?” Is the American Indian in dan ger of being scalped or about to be emancipated? A raft of bills are now pending be fore Congress to end federal ad ministration of Indian Adairs in 14 states. Their backers say the time has come to give the Indians the same rights and responsibilities as other U.S. citizens. The National Congress of Amer ican Indians, probably the largest of the Indian lobby groups, and a number of law firms representing Indian tribes are on the warpath against most of the bills. Congress last year adopted a res olution declaring it was the policy of Congress “as rapidly as possi ble to make the Indian . . sub ject to the same laws” as other citizens and “end their status as wards of the United States. “ In compliance with this resolu tion, the Interior Departmen* draft ed a series of bills providing for withdrawal of federal supervision in eight tribal jurisdictions. Later other bills were introduced that would affect tribes in California, Florida, Kansas, Montana, Nebras ka, North and South Dakota, New York, Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin. The end of federal trusteeship would halt such services to Indi ans as roads, health and education. Spokesmen for the tribes say tax ation of their trust property—now tax free in most states—would cause them to lose their land and, if not protected, lesser-educated Ir dians might be cheated out of such resources of tribal lands, as oil, uranium, rich timber and graz ing areas. From the Catskill Mountain Star, Saugerties, New York: He brushed his teeth twice daily with a nation ally advertised tooth paste. The doctor examined him twice yearly. He wore overshoes when needed. He stuck to a strict diet. He had his tonsils and appendix removed. He never smoked, drank or lost his tamper. He did his daily dozen and slept eight hours nightly. Funeral services will be held Wednesday. He is survived by 18 specialists, 4 health institutions, 6 gymnasiums and numerous manufacturers of health foods and antiseptics. Death occurred when he forgot to stop, look and listen at a grade cross ing. • • • From The Republican-News. St. Johns, Michigan: A man in a neighboring community recently found liable in a damage suit will have to pay $14,000 as the result of the jury’s verdict This man had only $5,000 liability Insurance on his car. He will be om $9,000. The difference in insur ance cost between $5,000 liability and $25,000 liability is about $5.75 on the average car For $7.05 more, he could have been insured for' $50,000 liability. Since jury verdicts are higher than they used to be, a damage suit can easily wreck a life-time of sav ing if you aren’t insured A mo ment’s carelessness on the highway can cancel out years of hard work in accumulating what money and property you have. It’s a big gam ble. to save $5.75 • • • From the Seville Chronicle, Se ville, Ohio: Quite a bit of criticism of the Chronicle’s new local tem perature reports has reached my ears. A numbei- of readers think it’s not logical that SevQle' should have daily high temperatures in the 30’s and 40’s and low tempera tures in the 70’s and 80’s I must talk to our thermometer watching editor about this Of course, it may be awhile be fore he can be contacted: he was the same one who set a holstein story under a Boy Scout headline on page 6 last week, and he has not yet returned from Siberia • • • From the Suburban List, Essex Junction, Vermont: Hie editor got a lot of kidding last week when a little item was printed that a wom an in Bellow Falls was 193 years old. Telephone calls were numer ous and there were a lot of letters. The honey in the milk for the edi tor was that he knows a lot of peo ple read hiaapaper and particularly the small items ( WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE ] ■ ■ — — ■ ' ■■ ■ TV Personality Here's the Answer HORIZONTAL. 1.6 TV personality 11 He is an ——— in his line 13 Interstice 14 Meadow 15 Goes by steamer 17 Obtain It Symbol for tantalum It Witticism 30 Greek letter 21 Volcano in Sicily 24 At all times 26 Colors 27 Creeping plant 28 Right <ab.) 29 Wile 30 Sheltered side 31 The gods 32 Den 33 Shade trees 36 Annexes 37 Ratify 38 Doctor of Divinity (ab.) 39 Mineral spring 42 Symbol for selenium 43 Low haunt 45 French river 47 Goddess of infatuation 48 Satiric 50 Part of foot 52 Compound ether 53 Flies aloft VERTICAL 1 Seasoned 2 Diplomatic p agreement 3 Japanese outcast 4 Diminutive of Vivian 5 Worm • Art (Latin) 7 Football position (ab.) • Ship's record • Simple substance 10 Essence 12 Scottish cap 13 Altitude (ab.) 16 T>pe of butterfly 22 Nymph of the sea 23 Flowers f-SrcCiHUI t-JintiFi — ii:-] ns a uiraon stirati DBHHSr' “ N3TIV 3A3JS XI 24 Avoids 25 Masterful 30 Scaling devices 32 Scottish youth 34 Subdue 35 Reposes 39 Dry, as wine 40 Jumbled type 41 Blackbird of cuckoo family 44 Negative word 45 Courtesy title 46 Abstract being 47 Indonesian of Mindanao 49 Compass point 51 Thus GUIDED MIS5LE ★ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING” ★ C HARLES WILLIAM JACKSON. Anaheim. California, says he once worked for a Road Improvement company owned by two brothers in a small central Illinois town. It was a prospering company and the two brothers were quite wealthy. The youngest brother’s name was Hal and the older was George Hal was a nervous type. Always on the go, never seemed to relax. Everything was- business with Hal, and it all had to be just so or he would be running around like a chicken with his head cut off. George, the older one. was different. He never got excited, was never in a hurry. He would walk around in an old pair of overalls with a chew of tobacco in his mouth, not seeming to care whether or not the sun set. About twice a year Hai would get in such a frenzy he would take a two week trip to the Mayo Brothers Clinic in Minnesota fo^ a rest. It puzzled Charles Jackson why Hal would have to go for a rest while Geofge always seemed to be the saipe year after year. One day, as Hal was preparing to leave for the Clinic, Charles said to George, “George why is it that Hal takes these trips to the Clinic all the time? I never see you going up there.” Said George, *T’ll tell •you. Hal has always been a worrier. Even at night he takes his troubles - right to bed with him and fights with them all night long. But 1 try a different way. At night before I go to bed I walk through the kitchen and leave my troubles right on the kitchen table, then in the morning when I get up I come out and pick them up again with a fresh and clear mind.” And that is why a man .five years older than his brother looks and acts five years younger. Q—How long has Washington, D. C., been the Capital ef the U. 8.7 A—Since 1800. The First Congress met in New York, and from 1791 to 1799, Congress met in Philadelphia. The second session of the Sixth Congress and all succeeding mat in Washington. From time to time, there have been proposals to move the Capital to cities further West, such as Denver, but no concentrated effort to do this has materialized. Q—What are foreign tax credits? A—To avoid double taxation, federal law] permits U. S. corporations operating overseas to subtract certain business taxes paid to for eign governments from their American corporation-income tax bills. The effect usually is to limit the total tax—foreign plus domestic— to the sum which would be paid if the overseas firm were operating at home. As the foreign tax rises, the U. S. tax declines. Other tax concessions also benefit overseas investments, and President Eisen hower Jan. 21 proposed that Congress liberalize the laws further Q—Does recommittal kill a bill? A—Recommittal — a floor vote to send a bill back to committee — is a device for killing a bill’s chances for passage, except when the committee is instructed specifically to report it back to the floor (for example, with changes approved in debate). The bill remain* alive in a technical sense in the absence of such instructions, but in practice it usually is then dead. (Capjrrifbt 1954. Caaftrsulanal Quarterly) Check the correct word.' 1. Rain (is) (is not) a determining factor in’ the war in Indo-China. 2. The canonization of Pope Pitts X' (did) (did not) attract the greatest assemblage of worshipers to Rome fat modern history. 3. It is best to acquire your summer’s tan (by degrees) (as soon as possible). 4. Despite summer’s heat, the average person , (does) (does not) require one hot meal a day. 5. This (is) (is not) the last July 4th when fire works can be shipped freely in interstate commerce. 6. Yellow light (will) (will not). repeMmgs at night. 7. You (should) (should not) wait a consider able time after eating before swimming. 8. Unwise speed (is) (is not) the major factor in fatal accidents. 9. Trains (may) (may not) departbeforeisclied• uled time. 10. The Great Lakes (do) (do not)4iave«a>Ude. Check your answers, scoring yourself 10 points foe each correct choice. A score of 0*20 is poor; 30-60, aver age; 70-80, superior, and 90-100, very superior. i Decoded TRteifigram *0(1—01 loa AeiR—6 si—e —i. iniki—9 n—«.feoa—• -saump za—$ -phi—t