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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1954 m utt 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. 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: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. : is . ’ i COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Called For New Leadership The recent election can now be discussed calmly; time is a great healer and we can use our minds, our critical faculty, and let our emotions rest in peace. . The astonishing success of the campaign of Mr. Thurmond was more than the success of Mr. Thurmond, as he modestly admits; it was deeper than that: it was something from the very depths. What was it that so moved our people? To be honest, I have said before that I thought the Com mittee acted within the law and that the Committee was in a state of confusion growing out the letter from the Secre tary of State. There was time for a Primary even after I said so. I think many of us saw things more clearly a week or two after the Committee acted. Many who saw the light afterwards thought the Committee should have met again and ordered a Primary, even though the winner in the Pri mary would be a write-in candidate. Tile popular feeling was more thoroughly aroused, or ganized and made effective by the press of the State. No one can fail to see that. The newspapers were never so pre dominantly effective in South Carolina affairs. That can not be denied. As a journalistic achievement it was pheno menal. That so many citizens wrote the name of Mr. Thurmond was not only unprecedented and amazing, but was an in spiring instance of popular feeling carried out successfully. Our people believed that they were being rail-roaded, de nied their right of suffrage. The influence of Governor Byrnes was very marked; the people trust the Governor and regard him as a sound, wise and serene patriot who has no axe to grind and seeks no per sonal favor or advantage. ' Then, again, the people are calling for new leadership. That I found in a trip around the State. It is not that they draw an indictment against our public men so much as it is that they seek a change. Pm reminded of an election in Greece, as I recall, in the days of simplicity, high thinking and devotion to the public interest. One candidate was Aris tides, so good and great that he was known as Aristides the Just. One voter, speaking to Aristides himself, whom he didn't know, expressed a wish to vote against Aristides. “Why?” Asked Aristides. “What has he done to offend you?” “Nothing,” said the citizen; “Pm tired of hearing about Aristides the Just.” So, perhaps, with our people. Mr. Thurmond Jias been called to high service, he comes from a long line of Edgefield men who have served the pub lic. If we think of Senator Tillman and Lieutenant-Governor Tillman, we also have Governor John C. Sheppard and Lieu tenant-Governor James 0. Sheppard; and we have General Mart Gary—and a host of others, not forgetting Judge George Bell Timmerman and the Governor-elect, George Bell Timmerman, Junior, son and grandson of Dr. Timmerman of Edgefield, once State Treasurer. Mr. Thurmond is son of J. William Thurmond of Edge- field, a well known figure in our public service. J. Strom Thurmond himself is no stranger, having served in many po sitions of honor, dignity and responsibility, including the Governorship of our State. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the State. Mr. Thurmond is now the Junior Senator from South Carolina, ready to serve the State and all its, citizens. Surely all must wish him sucess and happiness as our Senator As to a Party regularity or Party loyalty, our people were ii different. That can be explained from several points of view; No one knows,what distinguishes one Party from the <ther, so far as political patforms are concerned. In the formulation of policies Democratic National Administrations have either shown a tendency to Socialism, or, at least, have seemed friendly to Socialists and Socialism, together with a marked toleration of Communists, even if not of Commun ism. *T 1 ' ' - . General Eisenhower has offended us grievously on his so cial practices; perhaps he has done more harm than even Truman, though Truman carried on the vicious policies he inherited. I respect Mr. Eisenhower as a good man, sincere and hon est, but he is doing great mischief. And the Supreme Court has practiced politics instead of practicing and interpret ing law. South Carolina will probably hold its fire until it sees the v aite» of their eyes, as we used to say of our Revolution ary riflemen. We are Democrats, but South Carolina Democrats, fearless and independent. If' ' \ '1 '' k * '' From the Chickasha Star, Chlck- asha. Oklahoma: Due to the drouth, low price of cattle and other eco nomic let-downs, a lot of businesses are taking steps to make their operation more efficient. This will give you an idea of some of the drastic measures some firms are taking. It appeared on the bulletin board of a large firm recently TO ALL EMPLOYEES: Due to increased competition and a keen desire to remain in business, we find it necessary to institute a new policy—effective immediately. We are asking that somewhere between starting and quitting time and without infringing too much on the time usually devoted to lunch period, coffee breaks, rest period, story telling, ticket-selling, vaca tioning. and rehashing yesterday’s TV programs—each employee to find some time which can be set aside as the “Work Break.” To some this may seem a rad ical innovation but we honestly be lieve this idea has great possibili ties It can conceivably be an aid to steady employment and it might also be a means of assuring pay checks. While the adoption of the "Work Break” plan is not compulsory, it is hoped that each employee will have time to give it a fair triaL It is hoped that those employees not in favor of its adoption will have fully completed their vacation plans • • • , » From the Jeffersonian. Jeffers- town, Kentucky: It is well enough to say that something has to be done. But it is weU. too. to remem ber that that something has to be paid for We’ve been talking progress and growth, big figures and vast dimensions. All right, now we are in the midst of it. The dance is on. And the fiddler is waiting, as always, for his check—to be signed by John Q. Public Is the weary old citizen ready with the dpugh’ • • • From the Davis Enterprise, Davis, Caltfornia: One of the most moving tributes ever paid to this great country of ours came re cently when a German-born, nat uralized American who left his estate of $70,000 to the government of the United States. The reason for the gift was “my wife and I are so much indebted for the bless ings we have enjoyed as citizens of this country.” How much do those of us who have always lived here appreciate the blessings we enjoy? Consumer Market On Increase What is the prospect for business? We make our bread and meat, even if we have to live on the cheaper cuts ground and tenderized. How does this great need impress you ? “School building, even at all-time record rates, is not quite halfway catching up with actual needs. Streets, highways and bridges are over-loaded with 24,000,000 more motor vehicles than the nation was operating in 1945. Many com mercial airports are short of adequate ground facilities. Electric utilities plan to double 1953 capacity by 1963; the chemical industry expects a 75 per cent expansion in the same period. A consumer market increasing by 225,000 per sons every month demands increased, enlarged, improved factories; more and better stores and shopping centers. Many cities are short of office space. Fast growing com munities require churches, hospitals, recreation centers, com munity services. Americans have the money, the will to build bigger and better than ever before; barring a shooting war, they will do it. Non-residential construction should pile up record activity in the next few years.” “Technical progress is the foundation of modern civiliza tion and accounts largely for the differences between living conditions today and those in the cave-man period. This de velopment in the early stages proceeded at snail’s pace, but progress has been accelerated with the passage of time. Research has made great contributions in the medical field. It is said that the scientific developments in the past decade and a half have added, on the average, eight more years of life for the adult American. The life span has been extended from 47 years in 1900 to 60 years in 1937, and to 68 years in 1950. Railroads, too, are applying research to cut costs and improve service. The emphasis on research stems from the fact that since 1939 the costs of fuel and labor have ad vanced much more rapidly than transportation. rates. As a consequence of scientific exploration, 75 percent of the freight is now hauled by diesel-powered locomotives as against only 10 percent a decade ago. Crawford H. Greenewalt, President of E. T. du Pont de Nemours & Company, has recently predicted that, twenty- five years from now, half of the working force will be mak ing or selling products unknown to us today. We stand at the threshold of atomic power with its limit- ess possibilities. While most of the efforts are now for de- vV . ■ fense purposes, there is a growing realization of the es sential need for atomic energy to provide power for our dynamic and expanding economy, and for reducing the de pletion of our natural resources. It has been pointed out that, while our population is increasing at the annual rate of 2 percent, the demands of our utility system are increasing between 7 and 8 percent a year. The urgency of finding sub stitutes for the fuel now being used for the development of electrical power was . stressed in the Paley Report of 1952. This report pointed out; ‘More coal, oil and natural gas have been burned up in the past 50 years than in all previous his tory. It took nature over 500 million years to store in the ground these stockpiles of fossil fuels which civilization is now consuming in a flash of geologic time. The pressure of rising demand against the limits of known reserves and known technology presents the possibility of energy short ages and mounting real costs which could impair the na tion’s economic growth and security. The remaining reserves of gas and oil that are known to exist in the United States are no match for the demands of the next 25 years.” . Men, how much does a passable shirt cost today? Cer tainly you don’t see these shirts selling for less than $4.50. And what do you pay for your electricity ? I ran across this interesting item from The New York Tribune; “White shirts 39 cents. Unlaundered shirts, re-enforced linen bosoms and bands and fully finished—39 cents. Electricity was 24 cents per kilowatt hour. Now when was that ? The advertisement appeared in The New York Tribune October 16,1882. Today such a shirt is $4.00-$4.50 or more; electricity is $.254 in South Carolina—just an eyelash over 2^ cents. Shirts 10 times as much; electricity 1/10 as much!! And electric rates here in this city are cheaper than the nation al rates. VT’OU may look for new moves 1 in the next Congress to protect the United States Civil Service Commission in administering the civil service law strictly-on a merit basis without regard to politics, insofar as career employees of the Federal. Government are con cerned. The City of Washington and its environs, spreading over into Maryland and Virginia, are “up in arms’* against the edicts of the Eisenhower administration. The first act of the administration a “reductipn in force” of federal employees was a blow at not only the federal employees, but to busi ness in the Washington metropoli tan area generally. As a result, for the first time in more than 15 years, there are “for rent” signs and “for sale” signs up and down almost every street in Washing ton and in the towns of Alexandria and Arlington, Virginia, and in Silver Spring, Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Hyattsville and other nearby towns in Maryland. Mer chants have suffered a severe blow^ in a loss of business as a result. However, the second blow came when the President vetoed a gen eral pay raise bill passed by the Congress, on the theoretical ground that no accompanying tax increase had been made by the Congress to offset the employee pay increase. The Federal em ployees had hardly recovered from the smart of this set-back when an entirely new procedure went- into effect, which if carried out may wreck the entire procedure of the Civil Service Commissibn. This action, emanating from the White House, sets up the Republi- ■ m can National Committee as the agency to fill federal patronage, by-passing the Civil Service Com mission. In other words, the Civil Service Commission is to be run on a non-partisan basis, so long as all job applicants are Re publicans, and the merit system 1 is .to be the sole criterion for a job, so long as the applicants have a suitable GOP endorsement. The new personnel procurement procedure will affect every civil service grade from top to bottom not only in Washington, but throughout the country, and will apply to all such agencies as the Tennessee Valley Authority and the .Foreign Operations Adminis tration and other independent gov ernment agencies, from which po litical patronage is barred by statute. The order, sent out to top governmental officials on White House stationery, makes the GOP national committee the major re cruiting agency for the federal service, directs federal agencies to report job vacancies to that committee, and to make sure that these agencies do not Jay any •‘in advertence” revert to the merit system, orders the agencies to make weekly and monthly reports to the GOP national Committee on how their job vacancies are being filled. As a matter of fact, however the Administration per sists in making unctuous promises to protect the civil service, while wrecking its principles in practice. President Eisenhower, .in a recent news conference defeniied the ac tion on the grounds the program is merely to procure the best pos sible men and women for the fed eral service T Award 4-H’ers Chicago Congress Trips J. McCarter, Jr. Grace Mabry Hazel McPhail Bobbie Thomas A LL-EXPENSE trips to the 33rd National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago have gone to South Carolina Club members who have distinguished theihselves in the 1954 National 4-H Canning, Dairy Achievement, Garden, and Dress Revue programs. Summaries of achievements of the state winners are as follows: Excellent work in dairy produc tion and management has brought recognition in South Carolina to J. Leonard McCarter, Jr., 19, of Clover. Leonard, as Dairy Achievement winner, will attend the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago as guest of the Na tional Committee on Boys and Girls Club Work. A 4-H Club member for ten years, Leonard’s projects included Crops, Swine, Tractor and Dairy. He now hns four cows and three heifers. He has been a member of the county and state judging teams. He has exhibited his ani mals at seven county fairs, one state fair and has won honors in showmanship. He is selling milk- and expects i to work into the grade A business soon. Leonard is president of the County 4-H Council, member of the County- Wide Club, and has held many of fices in his club. . • • • • The 4-H Dress Revue award for South Carolina went to Grace Mabry, 18, of Landrum, who re ceived a trip to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago as the guest of Simplicity Pattern Co. Her dress revue outfit was a red cotton jacket-dress trimmed in chartreuse. The dress has prin cess lines running into box pleats in the skirt, an empire waistline with cap sleeves and peter pan collar. The jacket has rather full lines, three-quarter sleeves with a button edged with chartreuse on each cuff. SjJtie chose black shoes, bag, and hat, and a chartreuse flower for her accessories. The to tal cost of her outfit was $17.24. She ’ was chosen Spartanburg County’s 4-H Club girl of the year f in 1963, was elected president of the 4-H County Council, and has been active in club work for eight years. Gardening, a favorite project ,with Hazel McPhail, 17, of Seneca, has brought her statewide recog nition in the 4-H Garden awards program. Her‘trip award to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago was provided by Allis- Chalmers Mfg. Co. For five years Hazel had a one- acre garden, which in the ’last four years has grown until it is now three acres. During this time she has cleared almost $4,000 on her produce, and provided the family with 15 different kinds of vegetables. Her mother is leader of the Pine Grove Busy Bee Club and Hazel has held every office in the club, including Junior Lead er. Hazel has also interested her self in several other projects, can ning 5,892 quarts, freezing 360m packages, and preparing 5,147 meals. , v • • • • State honors in the 4-H Can ning program for 1954 in South Carolina were awarded to Bobbie Thomas, 17, of Wagner, who put up 3,124 quarts of fruit and veg etables in her nine years in club work. Much of the food preserved was grown in her own 4-H gar den. Kerr Glass provided her all- expenie trip to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago. During her 4-H membership she has given 24 demonstrations in canning, served as a club officer six years, given 26 talks, written 52 news stories and won 31 rib bons besides bonds and cash awards. Bobbie’s canning project has helped the family food budget and given variety and balance to the meals. AH these programs are conducted under the direction of the Coop- five Extension Service. r»rat Applications Q—How does an author obtain copyright? A—The Copyright office Is in the Library of Congress should be made to the Register of Copyrights. Q—What Is the function and responsibility of the Weather Bureau? A—The weather bureau issues weather forecasts; in addition the Bureau has the responsibility of providing storm, cold-wave, frost, forest* fire, and flood warnings. Q—Is the Weather Bureau the only organization to forecast weather conditions in the government? A—No. The United States Coast Guard, the Navy, and the Air Force each have weather services which meet the specific requirements of these services. The Air Weather Service of the Department of Air, for example, makes studies of hurricanes and typhoons and fly ing conditions over polar regions. All weather experts in these de partments work together in meterology and in weather forecasting. Q—What is the purpose of the department of Labor? A—This department ostensibly Is supposed to foster and promote the welfare of wage earners, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. However, the agency is largely the so called “step-child” in government and operates mostly as a statistical agency, reporting on employment and cost-of-living statistics. ^ AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING” ^ D R NORMAN VINCENT PEALE. allows me to give you a condon ation of an inspiring article he wrote for his magazine “Guide- posts.” Pawling, New York. One day a famous trapeze artist was instructing his students how to perform on the high trapeze bar.' Finally, having given full explana tions and instruction in this skfiL be told them to demonstrate their ability. One student, looking up at the insecure perch upon which he must perform, was suddenly filled .with fear. He froze completely, with a terrifying vision of himself falling to the ground. **1 can’t do lit I can’t do it!” he gasped. The instructor put his arm around the boy's shoulder and said. “Son. you can do it, and I will tell you how.” Then he made one of the wisest re* marks I have ever heard. He said. 'Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.** Dr. Peale hopes you will copy that sentence on a. card and put it in your pocket; place it under, the glass on your desk top; tack it up on your wall; stick it in your shaving mirror. Better still, write it on your mind, you who really want to do something with life. It’s packed with power, 'that sentence. "Throw your heart over the bar,” means to throw your faith over your difficulty, throw your affirmation over every barrier, throw your visualization over your obstacles. In other words, throw the spiritual essence of you over the bar and your material self win follow. Expect tee best, not the worst, and you win attain your heart’s desire. It is what is in the heart of you. either good or bad. strong or weak, that finally comes to you. CARNEGIE im I ■ r-.r-'r «*» (■, /S —i TBT’IBB I ■■■: i r n ~N»*iigBb m i - I • WEATHER STRIPPING . . . for swinging or sliding barn or garage doors is strips of inner-tube rubber to the lower edge of on outside, strips keep out cold air, rain and i by BggtfJ •• ‘‘ ' V : : xVly j , '.. mMMmm mmm CONGRESS* NEW BOSSES . . . U. 8. Sen. Lyndon J< visits Rep. Sam Rayburn at his Bonham, Tex., heme, U Democratic strategy in dew Congress. Johnson is nei majority leader, and Rayburn resumes old post of speaker CROSSWORD PUZZLE r t ' ■ mm* — 1 2 3 4 14 17 20 "■*! - 45 lie TT* 13“ — ■ p ' ! 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