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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16,1964
THE MAILMAN'S NIGHTMARE
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
A new honor has been awarded my friend Mr. B. M. Ed
wards, the distinguished banker. Months ago the University
of South Carolina awarded the doctorate to Mr. Edwards, in
recognition of great public service, but just the other day,
Mr. John A. Campbell, President of The South Carolina Na
tional Bank, announced that Dr. Edwards had just been com
missioned as full Colonel in the Air Corps of the Southern
Confederacy and is henceforth entitled to all the recogni
tion, respect, privileges and emoluments of his rank.
I happened to be a caller at the Bank that day and joined
in a. cording Colonel Edwards the military salute befitting
his new honor.
I wonder at this commission for Colonel Edwards is wide
ly known as a man with both feet on the ground; he never
takes a “flier”, nor even indulges in flights of fancy.
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What is free enterprise?
Since the days of the great depression the papers and
books have been full of discussions of free enterprise; ora
tors, too, have discussed the theme and all sorts and condi
tions of clubs have had the subject for discussion. And then
it branched out to include tax-paying businesses as com
pared with those not paying taxes.. Well, what's all this
about, this free enterprise and tax-paying? Most people
may be hazy about it.
Most people don’t like to pay taxes; most people are
quite willing to get things “free”.
Our fathers and grandfathers were not greatly concerned
about all this; they knew that a man engaged in business
with his own money, whether^much or little, whether it was
his capital, saved through the years, or money borrowed from
Uncle Tom or grandfather. And everybody paid taxes. A
man went to the County Court house and reported to the
Auditor that he had ft home or farm, two mules, a horse,
wagon and buggy, several plows, and a dog or two, and so
on, including household goods, furniture, etc. We still do
that, more or less.
Later we evolved the idea of letting the Government do
things for us. Then men talked of Socialism. What is Social-
ism ? It is having the Government to engage in business.
I can understand how Socialism grew so rapidly in this
country. Of course the Socialists deny that it is Socialism,
just as a man may declare himself a tee-totoller, while drink-
Jng all sorts of liquors in the guise of tonic and cures. And
another man may gamble for high stakes and call it a “game”
or “sport”. Some people may not drink “branch-water”,
though they drink water from a branch. And so on.
Our Government—every sort of Government—operates
on taxes.
Our schools, our law-enforcement—all public services are
made possible by taxes. Who pays the taxes? Does every
man pay taxes? Does every business pay taxes; Why pay
n taxes ? Banks, Power Companies, Stores of all ’ kinds—all
business—all pay taxes. But not quite; .I’m running too
fast. We have many concerns which are built with Govern
ment money and operate at a profit, but pay little or nothing
to support the Government, although they quickly claim
and enjoy alk the protection and services of the Government.
These citizens operate with Government money, compete
with their fellow citizens but pay little or no taxes.
Just off-hand, now, don’t you think we should all be fed
with the same spoon? Imagine a family, father, mother and
six sons. Three sons receive loans or gifts from the father
and operate on dad’s money, but pay no board; the other
three put up their own money for their business and pay a
heavy board bill—paying the part consumed or enjoyed by
‘the three family pets. How does that strike you? It is as
foolfsli—‘-and as conclusive—as the story I heard of an Eng
lishman supervising the digging of a ditch in China—years
ago. The Englishman sat on the ditch-bank, under a large
umbrella, while the Chinaman sweated and toiled in the
ditch. The Chinaman asked: “Why don’t you dig, too?”
Said the Englishman, “One man up here is worth ten down
there”. The Chinaman labored on while his slow mind
wrestled with the Englishman’s reply. Then he jumped up
beside the Englishman and sat at ease. The Englishman
harshly demanded the reason. The Chinaman said “Two
men up here worth twenty men down there”—but, as you
see, nobody was left to dig the ditch. So, if all of us were
pampered and petted equally nobody would pay taxes and
all Government, all protection, police and fire, all schools—
all public service would stop. So you see, some work and feed
the others who sit by the fire and dream. But if all dream
who will pay the butcher, the baker, and the candle-stick-
maker 9 Yes, who will build and support schools, police, fire
men, street men—and all others ?
Everybody should earn his way. Do you thjnk business,
for example, is all profit?
Let’s see:
What makes this great country “tick”? In other worda
what is the basis of our vast development and our amaz
ing wealth as a nation? Are we Americans born superior to
other people? Or is this country just naturally richer than
other countries ?
Our development, our prosperity—our astonishing prog
ress—rest on the plan which has been our guide from the
beginning.
A thoughtful man decided to ask a few questions in order
to find out what the man in the street thinks.
“People today don’t know about business, don’t know
about earnings, don’t know about profits, don’t know about
production costs. They don’t know about wages and they
dont know about all the other multitude of elements that
make up our free enterprise system. That dramatically has
been shown in something that happened in New Jersey two
years ago.
Two hundred people in Camden, New o ey, were stop
ped on the street at random, and they were asked a simple
question, and that was this: ‘Out of every dollar of sales that
comes into your company, how much do ybu think goes in
to the pocket of the boss?’ The lowest estimate was’ 25
cents out of every dollar, and the top estimate was 50 cents.
That’s what the people of America think about our free
enterprise system.
Three thousand or four thousand employees together'in
a large auditorium, and one of the vice-presidents of a com
pany was called up on the platform, and he said to them:
‘We would like to report to you what happened in this com-
pany last year, and we are going to do it in what we con
sider an understandable fashion. He took out 100 silver
dollars and put them on the table. He said, ‘This represents
the income of our company last year. Let me tell you where
we expended those dollars’. He took a few off the top and
said, ‘Those represent the cost of maintaining the plant to
which each of us comes to work each day.’
He took a few more dollars off, and said, ‘Those repre
sent the raw v materials from which we manufacture the
product that we sell.’
He took a few more off and said, ‘Those represent the
cost of the machines to fabricate the product that we sell’
—and he went down to the last dollar.
Then, as I said, he had one dollar left, and it was neces
sary for him to make change; so he brought out one hund
red copper pennes ^nd put them on the table.
And when he was down to only about twelve pennies that
he had left, you could have heard a pin drop in the room. He
said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, these represent the return to
the individuals who, once upon a time went down into their
savings in order to build this plant that we all work in so
that we might come to work each day and have the fulfill
ment of our ambitions and ideals. Those twelve pennies be
long to those people’. (Stockholders.)
Well, you could have heard a pin drop in that room. Fin
ally an old man got up way in the back of the room, and
he said, T think those guys are getting gypped.’ *
Now, that is economic education. It sounds simple.
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on the Hartford Road. Winning the TV service call, courtesy George N. Martin Radio & TV Service was Preston j«u-
Alhaney, 713 Boundary Street. Harold Folk, Route 1, wins a one year subscription to The Sun. The following will re
ceive one free ticket fropi the Wells, Ritz or Clover Leaf Drive-In Theatre: Preston Kunkle, Route 1; Mrs. Aubrey
Davis, Route 4; Mrs. George Stone, Route 1; Mrs. W. C. Huges, Route 4; Wyman Williams, 712 Green Street; George
Halfacre, 1125 Douglas Street; Ray Taylor, 1312 Johnstone Street, and Tom Clark, 1220 Player street. Winners are
asked to call by The Sun office for their awards.
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««npRADE, not aid,” might well
be the slogan of a joint move
ment which is spreading across
the country, as between’ REA co
operatives, private electric utili
ties and manufacturers of electric
appliances, which has for its ob
jective an increased use of elec
tricity by fanners, both in the
farm homes and on the farms
themselves.
The name of this cooperative
movement is the “Inter-Industry
Farm Electric Utilization Council”
and its officers are busy setting
up state-group areas, each with its
own officers.
' * The parent Council’s officers
elected at a recent meeting in
Chicago include: Fred H. Strong,
Deputy Administrator of the Rural
Electric Administration, in Wash
ington, who serves as non-voting
chairman:
J. K. Smith. Kentucky Associa-
tion of Rural Electric / Coopera
tives, and Oliver Kimbrough, of
the Farmers Electric Cooperative
of New Mexico—representing the
rural cooperatives:
E. W. McClure, Vice President,
Kansas Power and Light Company,
and C. V. Sorenson, vice president
and general manager, Indiana &
Michigan Electric Company—rep
resenting private electric com
panies:
W. E. Saylor, Kelvinator Divi
sion, American Motors Corpora
tion, and Walter Hemker, Westing-
house Electric Corp — representing
the electric appliance industry,
through the National Electrical
Manufacturers Association; and
Russell Gingles, of the NEMA,
serving as secretary and non-vot
ing member.
Ancher Nelsen, National Admin
istrator of REA, had this to say
of the new organization: “As I
see it, the Council’s program
stands to help everybody. It will
help the farmer who will be able
to farm more efficiently and there-
by increase his income. It will
help to raise the rural standard of
living and it will strengthen our
national economy, which is the
real purpose of the Rural Electri
fication Act.”
Of course behind the Council’s
plan is an increase in the use of
electricity on the farms, which
will help the Coops, and the pri
vate power companies serving ru
ral areas, and the manufacturers
want to sell more equipment.
From the standpoint of the REA
itself, it is deeply concerned about
the loans issue to REA coops . . .
More use of electricity means
more business for the coop com
panies, or revenue for the bor
rowers and more security for the
REA loans.
On June 30, 1954, REA loans to
coops totaled $2.8 billion. On that
date its 1,000 borrowers served
4,093,437 rural consumers. Of these,
2,695,315 or 65% were farffis. Ap
proximately 54% of the 4,965,962
farms in the country which are
now electrified are served by REA-
financed facilities.
The Council’s first meeting was
held at St. Paul, Minn., for rep
resentatives from north-central
states; the second at Denver, for
western states; a third meeting
was at Columbus, Ohio, for north
eastern states; the fourth at Ft.
Worth, Texas, for the southwest,
and the fifth at Nashville, for the
southeastern states.
It is planned to make the Coun
cil a permanent organization, and
steps toward this action were tak-
_en at a Chicago meeting.
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'A' AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIV
\17TLLIAM H. TALLEY. 39()0 16th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.,
VV regained consciousness about three and a half days after the
“Battle of the Bulge” on a cot in an Army field hospital in Belgium.
Where his feet should have been there was nothing except the ends of
two plaster casts on his legs. The first picture that flashed into his
mind was that of a legless man strapped to a little platform fitted
with roller-skate wheels, sitting on the comer in
his hometown selling pencils. He became almost
frantic with woi*ry and self-pity. Would he ever
walk again? Would he be an invalid all his life?
How would his wife and his mother take this terrible
news? Why had this happened to him?
Luckily he had sense enough to realize that he had
to get hold of himself.’ He forced himself to think
rationally. His feet were gone—what could he do
about it? Nothing. For some reason fate had de
creed that he should loose his feet, and all the worry
in the world wouldn't bring them back. Then and
there he made up his mind to accept the facta as they were.
He began to analyze what he had left with which to fight the bat
tie of life. It added up to a great deal more than he had realised
before. He had life, which many of his Army friends no longer had;
he had youth, strength, hope, ambition to get ahead, to help build
a better world, and he had a beautiful little wife who would help him
with whatever he wanted to do! What did he really have to worry about?
The answer again was nothing!
He had accepted his fate and ceuntad hit Nasstags instead of hit
troubles, and he found he had a great deal left, ond ho knew that It Is
never what we have lost that counts, bat what we have left.
mentarily
the theme “a program to
juvenile delinquency,** hot . . .
that’s a wrong approach whan you
come to dealing directly with
youth. Tell a bunch of kids you're
doing something to prevent them
from becoming delinquents, and
they'll shy away aa they would
from smallpox.
Actually the problem—or at any
rate the better approach—is simply
to see that youth is kept interested
in. and active at, something that
is reasonably wholesome and con
structive.
There may be a difference of
opinion as to the best solution.
Some folk ***"* a Youth Center to
serve the entire area, or separate
Youth Centers for the separate
communities, would .supply the an
swer. Professional opinion has
been consulted and has tended to
emphasize the need for trained,
paid leadership which will insure
a continuing ftW< ^ well-aimed pro
gram, as more essential than physi
cal facilities.
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From the
Gazette, Rockland,
The great advertising agencies
recognize the fact that a weekly
is read from first page to last,
every item, every advertisement.
If you see a newspaper discarded
in a bus or waste can. it la always
the big daily, read through hastily
and laid aside—never the weekly
which is taken home to be shown
with pride to a neighbor where ft
speaks of Unde Doc*s new housellf
or the "piece” about Junior's rew
ord in arithmetic.
As a result, the agencies place
a high value on the advertising
of the country papers
their intimate, homely
of all the items "up our
The country press has a
disregard of the national crimes
and scandals so valued by the
metropolitan subscriber.
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nism is out to conquer the
A small group in 1917 has grown
to an enslavement of over 800,000- ^
000 people and has 5.000,00b
ened, strictly disciplined
tors working in 60 non-Communist
countries. Recentiy Attorney Gen*
eral Brownell was asked what the
FBI thinks of Communists in
United States. He
thidk it is a greater
than at any time as they
organized
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