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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN 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 i By SPECTATOR The Facts Come Hard We shall never know exactly what the REA costs the Na tion, or has cost in recent years. I’ve recently read that a total of eighty million dollars has been lost to the Nation through certain expenses of various kinds. It is always difficult to get the facts, all the facts, about public expenditures. Brown ‘Stood Up’ For The League Edgar A. Brown is a self-made man; he is a man of much charm. Mr. Brown will not be lost in Washington; he will be popular and effective. Let me tell a little story. In the days of the Farmers and Taxpayers League some one in the Senate tried to throw cold water on the League by demanding the names of the contributors to its campaign. I had the pleasure of writing the statement; and I gave the reasons for the League. As the reading clerk of the Senate read our reply one senator rose and moved that our reply be expunged from the record, as being propaganda. Naturally that amazed me, that anyone should confuse a straightforward reply with propaganda. However, Senator Brown, who was really one of our sup porters, rose and said, “You asked for it; now you have it; publish it in the journal.” And Senator Brown was great ly amused by the embarrassment of the other Senators. Methodist On Segregation Some time ago I quoted in full the resolution adopted by the Manning Methodist church. Incidentally let me say that the author of the resolution was Mr. Rogers, recently elected to the House from Clarendon County. Mr. Rogers is a man of character and ability and will be a valuable public ser vant. < I now quote a recent resolution of St. Paul’s Methodist Church of St. Matthews: “Whereas* the General Conference of 1952 of the Metho dist Church has branded racial segregation as being an evil institution practiced against the teaching of Christ and calls on members of The Methodist Church to end this practice, and ' - § “Whereas, various Protestant denominations and groups have passed resolutions stating their position as concerns this vital question, “We, the Official Board of St. Paul Methodist Church of St. Matthews, therefore do hereby resolve that the official position of our church is contained in the doctrine that racial segregation does not violate the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ. We further agree that we are shocked and con cerned over the position taken by our General Conference as regards racial segregation and that we, as a church, are diametrically opposed to this position. The Official Board does hereby declare that its policy as regards racial segrega tion will be to use its influence and voting power to main tain our segregated churches and do hereby urge the South Carolina Annual Conference not to take any action that would recommend a change of the present policies on racial segregation.” Tribute To Senator Maybank The death of Senator Burnett Rhett Maybank took away a man still in the prime of life, though he had been a promi nent public figure for twenty years. Even those who did not see eye to eye with Mr. Maybank found him a serious man and steadfastly dedicated to the public interest, as he saw it. Mr. Maybank was a man of great energy; he was above the petty things of politics; a man who was interested in the rich and the poor; and ready to espouse and promote any program for the betterment of the State and Nation. The vacancies occasioned by the Senator’s death have ✓ stirred our people deeply. Drink With Assurance A lady writes about the water for drinking purposes, ex pressing great concern. It has been my boast for years (since I shuddered at the water in Europe and South America) that in any town of three thousand people in the United States you can drink the water with full assurance. The Frenchman seldom drinks water—and I can imagine the reason. If the neighborhood washing, the laundering, and foot-washing are done in the streams and canals; and if the cows and horses, sheep '^nd hogs, all drink that water, one might feel a mild degree of hesitation about drinking it. Of course, after the average Frenchman hand les the grapes you might think there was little to choose. Still, if one drinks enough wine he will not think about the handling of the grapes. Pure drinking-water is a vital matter for all people in this country, for all use it, rich and poor; and the health of the THURSDAY, SEPT. 2a, 1954 THIS GUIDING LIGHT MUST NOT FAIL . ** >V-.. rM, its'*** C VfWtC. •» ' NAi * a i ft “\0 \ rvTXinn community depends on the quality of the water. Here in South Carolina, sturdy, sober, peaceful people that we are, we drink water, pure, sparkling water; and we live sober lives and think sober thoughts. Even our recent Democratic Committee meeting was calm, all being full of clear, whole some water. If that meeting had been in France or Italy there would have been knock-downs, drag-outs, flagellations, excoriations, macerations, excerebrations, exaggerations and scintillations, instead of a calm,, get-together, almost as anemic as though the water were excessively charged with debilitating fluorides. Irrigation—Hope Of Agriculture Irrigation, by whatever means, is the hope of our agri culture. A well known businessman of Sou^th Carolina told me some months ago that he was feeding four cows on one acre of irrigated land, instead of one cow on four acres. And he said that the four cows did not exhaust the grass on the one acre. Here is the same story, as it comes from Missouri: . i. “On 70 acres of farmland, a few miles from the Missis sippi, the corn stands green and *as high as an elphant’s eye.’ On another 55 acres of the same farm—and on neighbor ing farms—cornfields are withered by searing drought. On many stalks in these fields there are no ears at all; on others, when the husk is pulled back from what looks like a healthy ear, you’ll find nothing but cob and a few scattered grains of corn. The green acres got that way by generous and ti«|e6r use of ‘pushbutton rain’—more commonly called portable sprinkler irrigation, ^ater is applied to the fields from giant rotating sprinklers very much like the smaller sprink lers vyou water your lawn with. The water is pumped to the sprinklers from a creek through 20-foot lengths of alumi num pipe coupled together. ‘This irrigation will give 30 bushels of corn extra—make the crop run 75 to 80 bushels an acre on the irrigated land,’ asserts a tennant on the farm. The super-sprinklers will help many a farmer beat not only the drought but Government acreage controls. In an effort to curtail the huge crop surpluses encouraged by Federal price supports, the Agriculture Department has be gun to issue orders for drastic cutbacks in acreage planted next year to major crops—for instance, corn, wheat and cot ton. But a farmer using the new irrigation techniques may in many instances be able to grow more on his reduced acre age than he has previously produced on the full expanse of his farm. The abundances that follow sprinkler irrigation often de rive from more than just the added water. The irrigators frequently plant crops thicker and lay on more fertilizer, too. But, if it weren’t for the extra moisture, irrigation engineers say, the other tactics wouldn’t pay off as they do. , The sprinkler systems do have their limitation. They de pend on an adequate supply of water in a nearby pond, stream or well—something that isn’t available in some dry party of the country. On the 'other hand, sprinkler men say, their systems .outdo conventional surface irrigation where water is plentiful enough for that. W. A. Wolff, manager of western operation of John Bean division of Food Machinery, notes sales in the 34 states the division covers this year are ‘about the same as in 1953.’ The pattern of sales has changed, though, with drought areas taking a higher percentage of the total. ‘In 1953, 60% of our Shur-Rane sales were in the Western states, 20% were in the Midwest and 20% in the Northeastern states,’ Mr. Wolff reports. ‘In 1954 to date 30% of our sales have been in the West, 30 % in the Midwest and 40 % in the Northeast.’ An even greater boest than drought to the future of sprinkler irrigation came from Congress this year with the passage .of a bill to extend the benefits of the Water Facilit ies Act from 17 Western states to all states. The bill was signed by the President two weeks ago. The bill, according to Mississippi’s Sen. James O. East- land, its sponsor, ‘contemplates loans to individual farmers or to small associations of farmers to provide sufficient capital for the installation of irrigation equipment; for the drilling of wells and the purchase of pipe.’ The loans, to be repaid over a period of years, in some instances 20 years, at the interest rate of 3%,’ will be made by the Farmers Home Administration. It’s the regularity of water application by sprinkler Sys tem, plus the ability to have water when a crop can best use it, that makes sprinkler irrigation pay off, its backers mm Good Hunting O F CONSIDERABLE Interest in the news is the announcement from the State Department regard ing public hearings on proposals for revision of the General Agree ment on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). This agreement was consum mated after World War n by the United States and 33 other coun tries in an effort t© reduce world trade barriers. Almost xq conjunc tion, President ELenhower let it be known from Denver that he will ask the 84th Congress to place foreign trade legislation high on the list of pressing business when it convenes neat January I. As a matter of fact the Presi dent's foreign economic program was one area In the 83rd Congress where Mr. Eisenhower took a beat ing from the high tariff advocates within his party and he only re>- cently himself raised the tariff on imported Swiss watch works at the behest of the large American watch manufacturers and over the stul> born protests of more than fifty smaller watch manufacturers. It will be remembered thaj early in the Spring of 1953 the President announced what was termed a new foreign economic policy to re duce world trade barriers and he told the United States Chamber of Commercte that the nation’s pros perity, it’s very security was de pendent upon more trade with other nations and that such a policy was the very basis for his administra tion’s whole foreign policy. This policy was to be the culmination of the slogan “Trade, not Aid.*’ The president, through the Con gress, set up a 11-man committee headed by Clarence Randall which came through with a recommenda tion for lower tariffs and a three- year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Act. The Congress however refused to accept any of the rec ommendations of this committee, and the president was forced to settle with a bare one-year exten sion of Recipiocal Trade Act, somewhat watered down. The ac tion of the Congress proved con clusively that the high tariff ad vocates, long the traditional stand of the Republican party, were firmly in the saddle- and refused to be budged.. The President,, now, although he believes the nation’s whole foreign policy rests upon the elimination of further trade barriers and many high tariffs which £ire a subsidy for some American business firins, is put in the paradoxical' position of seeking the reelection of these very members of the Congress who so ruthlessly shredded his foreign eco nomic program in the 83rd' Con gress. •Some of the features of the pro posed Eisenhower program in cluded simplification of the cus- ' toms machinery, repeal of the “Buy America’’ act, elimmation of the quota system which are gov ernment controls on imports at the market place, convertibility of cur rencies as among reciprocal trade nations and gradual and substan tial lowering of tariffs among the trade nations in GATT. Readers will hear more about the Dixon-Yates contract which President Eisenhower ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to make,, over the protest of a ma jority of the Commission. The Administration says the whole deal was merely a question of policy, that is to buy power from a private utility instead of the TVA where AEC has been buying, most all of its power. Dale Carnegie ■ ,1 - •••. • ^ \ ' , i. 1 ijL'l?? : f Vv • M ' V < .V r; ★ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING” tJ OWARD C. RYMER, 8415 N. Claremont Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, *■ ’•* says that five years ago he was the most worried man in the entire world. He was so worried that he was on the point of going to see a psychiatrist. He couldn't sleep. Night after night he would go to bed at a reasonable hour and lie there awake, one hour, two hours, three hours. Then he would get up, walk the floor, smoke, read and perhaps after two or three tries finally drop off to sleep from exhaustion. He was worried because he was becoming a physical wreck. Then he stumbled across a magazine article writ ten by J. P. McEvoy, entitled “How to go to Sleep.” The entire promise of Mr. McEvoy’s system of going to sleep was based on the theory that a person cannot think of two things at one time. So evolved a method whereby you must consciously think of relax ing. By doing this you cannot think of whatever may be troubling you. Howard tried this and found that it ^worked. He lies on the bed and “makes himself feel like a dishrag.” Hands lying heavily on the bed he drops his head back and allows the muscles of his jaw to drop, as well as the muscles of his entire body. His thighs, his legs, his feet, each member is relaxed. The first thing he knows— or rather doesn’t know—is that he is asleep. Some time the next day he thinks of it and says to himself, “Well, what do you know! It worked.” And all he does is to relax! CARNEGIE From the Shamokin Citizen, Shamokin, Pennsylvania: While there should be no cessation of our efforts to obtain more industries, we should be certain that nothing we do wiD relage our own home- own industries into the background. Many of our local industries have weathered stormy times. A lot have suffered setbacks, periods of reces sion. But they have deep roots and today they continue to operate as major factors In our economic well being , Vj. All off us can do more than we have been doing to preserve our local industries. By giving them our full support, we will not only be protecting home industries; we wiD be making it possible for them to expand their operations and employ more people. It has been said that we don't appreciate what we have unto it is taken away from us. Let’s con tinue the campaign for additional industries, but let’s appreciate what we’ve got and hold on to it. • • • From the Harvard Herald, Har vard, Illinois: If every car, new suit of men’s clothes, new hat, dress, shoes, radio sets,' television sets, drugs, gasoline and tires, hardware, heating plants, produce and feeds, groceries, printing and other items used or needed in ev eryday living and business were to be bought from local suppliers, you would notice some of these things begin to happen: Your local printer would have to add a man or two to handle the printing; your clothing dealer would need an extra clerk, maybe more; your filling stations would put on more men; your radio and TV dealers would need more help, and could offer even better services: your hardware and other lineq dealers would sell more cars, more cars would require servicing, and more mechanics—and so on down the list • • • From the CatSkiU Mountain Star: If you wish to understand “com- nr unity service” and be a good citi zen of your community, just follow these simple rules, individually or as part of a group. First take an active personal interest in the community as a group of families and people whose welfare is a matter of common interest. Second, study the community’s needs and problems, help to meet and solve them. Third, draw public attention to possible measures for meeting com munity needs ^ not already cared for. ' Fourth, serve as an example to the youth of the community, and aid them in every way say. Even though we may say flippantly that we are f^om Missouri, meaning that we are doubtful, here are facts and facts are said to be inescapable, though we may recall the politician who exclaimed angrily on the stump, “I deny the fact;” whereupon his opponent said: “Yes, my distinguish ed friend has been denying and dodging the facts all his life.” WPKSHAHT, HOUSE -wv/es i\l I I D G T 0 n Q—What is the educational exchange program of Oto^ttate Ar—It is our Government's program of sending Americans abroa< bringing people to this country from more than 70 other coi to study, teach and absorb the meaning of each other’s ways of life. The United States believes that these direct personal contact? fat \ connection with projects of benefit to us and to each of the other participating countries win improve our international relation* by building real understanding and mutual respect. Q—What and where is statuary hall In the capltol building? A—Statuary Hall is in the south wing of the Capitol near comprising a room where the House formerly convened. Since when the room was reconstructed it has been designated i room where every state is permitted to exhibit two statues or tu ous deceased citizens. However of a recent date only 43 states cm exhibition there since the tremendous weight forced placing some other statueein other sections of the building. States not yet repre sented include Wyoming. North Dakota. Nevada. New Mexico, Mon tana and Ccdoradc^. * Q—Is the statue on the Capitol dome that of an Indian? A—No. The bronze figure represents Liberty and is that of a woman. It is 19% feet high and weighs 14,985 pounds. It was cast in Rome and was mounted on the dome Dec. 2. 1863. WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE 1 - ■ . 9 J T / • v • m J Breed of Canine HORIZONTAL 3 Compass point 1,7 Depicted 4 Pronoun breed of dog 5 Ocean current 12 Scottish girl 6 At this place 7 Antler ROn time (ab.) IS Melancholy SShoshonean 17 Period of time Indian 18 Letter addition 16 Roman (ab.) emperor »***« , » 11 Drachm 5' U * W *13 Orlwital 16 Diminutive 2»Wei«ht of "SSSS? f Edward « India Cp»> 2 ^*25Mightiest 39 Cicatrix outcast 22 Precludes 41 Skin affection 51 Yale 31 Military 6 ^ 24 Gets up 42 Separate pillar 53 Out ol (prefix) 28 East Indian 45 Bristle 46 Twirl 471 25 Stations (ab.) 43 Lord (ab > 32 Grandparental 33 Former Russian ruler 34 Milk wheys, 36 Lampreys 36 Symbol for tin 37 Ocean vessel (ab.) 38Rupees (ab.) 40 Greatest fan stature 46 Senior (ab.) 48 Playing can) 50 Scheme 51 Roof finial 52 Obvious 54 Style of 58 Vestige 57 This breed tracks animals by scent GOOD GATE ‘“o'* Into ptoo. wto