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THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE TWO 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. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Ben Franklin Was Versatile Figure The birthday of Benjamin Franklin is now in the past and our memory may fail to bring him vividly to mind. Franklin may not have had the moral grandeur and per sonal majesty of George Washington and he may never have reached the heights of such men as Washington, Jef ferson and Robert E. Lee, but Franklin was a genius in many walks of life and one of the most useful men of America; he was the common man lifted to high levels of service by his eminently practical mind. Franklin was the helpful father raised to the Nth power, because he could have mended all the household utensils or invented sub stitutes far superior. Remembering Franklin, as history tells of him, he could regulate a carburetor today, mount tubeless tires, soften or correct all the noises of a car; devise numerous gadgets to save gasoline — and all that. Franklin, if living today, could tone up a T.V. or F.M., or take the squeaks out of your electric range or your deep freezer. Franklin could have entered the mechanical de partment of The Newberry Sun and felt entirely at home making the paper ready for the press. Franklin could have talked electrical engineering with a genius like Mr. S. C. McMeekin and Mr. McMeekin and Franklin would have enjoyed the hours. Franklin could have written this Spectator and made it a treasure in eivery home, office, shop or on the streets; he could have talked finance with B. M. Edwards and John A. Campbell and all would have been kindred spirits; he could have swapped ideas with postmaster Goza and felt at home. Franklin was a printer, a book publisher, an author, diplomat and scientist, with a rich and racy philosophy of the homey order. Franklin could have talked about heaters, stoves, furnaces; he in vented the stove, you know. Franklin was one of the Committee appointed to draw up the Declaration of In dependence; he was a member of the Convention which adopted the Constitution of the United States. What a man; what a man! Franklin organized savings societies; his was a mind of tremendous energy, coupled with an imagination which soared far, high and wide, coming down to earth with something simple, practical and very useful. Father Of Country Never Equalled George Washington! His birthday is a while ahead of us. As time passes it becomes increasingly difficult to write of him because the dignity of his life and the splendor of his services made others seem like small figures. When others balked, or quailed, or were timorous, Washington stood like a monumental figure in the majesty of his incomparable sublimity. No one can ever adequately measure the value of Wash ington: first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his country-men. Nothing, as I recall, fits Washington better than his stately utterance before the Convention’s final approval of the Constitution. No one had authorized those delegates to prepare a new constitution to supersede the Articles of Confederation, the compact which held the thirteen States in a loose union. The delegates, when their new constitution was before them, began to fear what the people might say or think. .That was just the time for Washington. With his usual calm And poi§e, his customary clearness of vision, his natural resolution to do his best, as the circumstances might permit, Washington resolved all the doubts, quib bles and misgivings in language about like this: “It is for us to do the best we can do, leaving the outcome in the hands of God.” How is that for simple faith? Washington would not have borrowed New Deal stuff ♦ in order to steal the opposition’s stuff or spike his guns. Washington would not have wavered, leaning to the left because some millions of votes might be wooed and won by taxing one group to pamper, pet and spoil another. Truly, we’ve had no more Washingtons. Puerto Rico Offers Advantages ' Read this advertisement: “In a dramatic bid to raise the standard of living in Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth Government is now offer ing U. S. manufacturers such overwhelming incentives that more than three hundred new factories have already jbeen established in this sun-drenched island 961 miles off the Florida Coast. First and most compelling incentive is a completely tax- free period of ten years for most manufacturers who set up new plants in Puerto Rico. For example, if your company is now making a net profit after taxes of $53,500, your net profit in Puerto Rico would be $100,000 — a gain of 87 per cent as a re sult of non-applicability of U. S. Corporate Income Tax in Puerto Rico. A Recent analysis for one Ohio firm revealed that due to tax exemption and operating economies it will increase its net profit from $187,000 to $442,000 a year by locating its new plant in Puerto Rico. Your dividends in Puerto Rico from a corporation there could be $50,000 against $25,000 net in the U. S. — thanks to the non-applicability of the U. S. Income Tax. Puerto Rico’s labor reservoir of 650,000 men an d women has developed remarkable levels of productivity and ef ficiency — thanks, in part, to the Commonwealth’s vo cational training schools. These schools also offer special courses for managers and supervisors. The progress made in technical skills may be guaged from the fact that there are now twenty-eight factories producing delicate electronic equipment. Listen to what L. H. Christensen, Vice President of St. Regis Paper says: ‘The climate is probably as close to para dise as man will ever see. I find Puerto Ricans in general extremely friendly, courteous and cooperative. This plant in Puerto Rico is one of our most efficient operations, in both quality and output. Our labor hag responded well to all situations.’ Mr. Christensen might have, added that the climate is magnificent, with temperatures in t he 70’s twelve months a year. You live out-doors. t The swimming, sailing and fishing are out of this world. And your wife will rejoice to hear domestic help is abun dant. If you decide to locate your next plant in Puerto Rico, you will not only get the economic advantages of tax exemp tion and government assistance. You will also find it im mensely stimulating to be a part of Operation Bootstrap; to share in the upsurge of one of the fastest growing com munities in the Western Hemisphere. * This is, perhaps, Puerto Rico’s finest hour. And the U. S. manufacturers who decide to become a part of it will not go unrewarded, financially or spiritually.” I am not advertising Puerto Rico: I want to advertise South Carolina. What have we to offer? Of course South Carolina is attracting new industries; and South Carolina is encouraging* the expansion of the in dustries which have been here some time. Since Puerto Rico enjoys so many advantages of kinship with us how can she escape Federal taxes? What I have in mind is this: industries are valuable to us far more socially than for reasons of taxation. If an in dustry on one industrial plant can give employment to five hundred people it does far more to build that community than merely by paying taxes. Many communities have made gifts and grants, exceptions and exemptions in order to in duce industries to build and operate in their communities. Just to take a sort of casual look at this, let us imagine a new industry in the County of Clarendon, one employing five hundred people. If the average wage were thirty dol lars a week, $15,000 fresh capital would be circulated each week. The stores of ail kinds, filling stations, and all other groups, would eventually receive something. It would mean a more or less steady earning for many who now earn little or nothing, or, at best, have sporadic employment. Now' when Puerto Rico invites hundreds of industries she is laying the foundation for a higher standard of living: — more things for more people. ' It is far more constructive and far more enduring and satisfactory, to enable men to earn wages than to feed, the people with a Government spoon. If two men of millions wished to help two communities, each, man setting aside five million dollars, which would help more: the one who invested his millions in productive enterprises in one town; or the one who gave all the five million in hand-outs? In ten years the handouts would be of the long-forgotten past, whereas the productive investment would still be assisting men, women and children to live by their work, retaining a sense of usefulness and independence. So I think Puerto Rico has seized an opportunity, cer tainly a sound plan, socially and economically. Now, Brother Arthur, what say you from your office high up in the rarefied air? U'CONOMISTS, both government *- J and private, predict an in crease in unemployment in 1955, some say in the summer. Some say it will not materialize until Fall. Predictions of unemployment range from three to five million. On top of this Government ad mits, and private economists agree that farm income, now down to a five year low, will drop another four to five per cent in 1955. And yet there is a continuous paean of optimism for. business from top government officials and from government and most all pri vate economists that 1955 will be a boom year, at least a “second best” year, that production will reach new highs ... all in spite of a shaky stock market. This country is growing in popu lation at a rate of 2.5 million per year. In 1955 more than one mil lion young folks will be added to the labor force. In 1956 another million and a half. By 1960 there will be almost 10 million more in the job market. - Most economists agree that the country is now recovering from the recession which hit the country in the fourth quarter of 1953 and continued on into the first and second quarters of 1 954. But the most optimistic estimates on the fourth quarter of 1954 only indi cate the come-back a about one per cent above the third quarter. In other words the facts do not seem to bear out the claims that the recent months have registered any distinct or notable economic upsurge, other than a good Christ mas business. The total national output through 1954 has been rela tively constant and will add up to something like $356 billion. 'Not only did 1954 see sharp decreases in employment and increases in unemployment, and a drop in pro duction, but it saw sharp curtail ment of profits, in spite of elimina tion of excess profits and cuts in other business taxes. According to one school of thought, to restore full employment and full production in 1955 will re quire a total output of near $400 billion or about $42 billion above the estimate for the annual rate today. To bring about this increase in the national product would require an increase of federal spending, and increase in domestic invest ment in plant and equipment, a tremendous boost in inventory ac cumulation instead of inventory liquidation and an increase in pub lic consumption of something like $20 to $25 billion. And according to the economists, none of these increases are in the cards at this time. The other school, believefc that the country must move ahead to provide money for consumption, that production then must measure up to consumption, and that if consumption can be measured off against production, consumption will be the measure of prosperity. , rather than the production of goods; that a country growing as fast as this one, population wise, must move ahead, that if it only keeps even with the board, we have lost, not gained in the na tional economy as a whole, and that with mass unemployment and a sick farm economy, business generally cannot be healthy; that and end to deficit financing and the advent of a balanced budget will not necessarily bring about healthy business. From The Claude News, Claude, Texas: Though we call ourselves a Christian nation, it is actually not true in the narrow, dogmatic sense of church doctrine, because equal freedom of thought is al lowed the Jew, Mohammedan, Sin- to, athiest or others. Our premise then, becomes “one nation, under God.” Christ was not concerned about world governments and, therefore, avoided teaching a narrow “na tionalism.” He neither advocated or criticized governments. He was concerned with the human heart. There will never be a world government or world peace until all minds and hearts are united on a solid foundation of what is “right.” In fact, # the whole basis of hu man love, good, right, or devil, hate, evil can be bound up in those bundles of nerves we call the brain. , Actually there are only two de sires that spark all the manifesta tions of life, one a “memory” and one, “to survive.” Search where you will, build any hypothesis you wish, the whole chain of thought and action can be traced back to the “wish” of one of these two, “memory” or “survivaL” One has in it the element of death, the oth er of life. Each bears upon the human consciousness and our re action to these impulses are la beled the personality . . . • • • From the South Pasadena Re view, South Pasadena, California: It's a puzzling thing that some peo ple who are most careful to save their money are surprisingly lax about where they keep it. We are not referring primarily to those who use the mattress or a loose floor board as their “bank,”al- though, heaven knows, they cer tainly invite disaster by theft or fire. At the moment we have in mind those individuals who are constantly shopping arouhd for the highest interest rate available —usually in early January or July —without realizing that all finan cial institutions where money may be placed are not the same. For instance, in certain types of institutions other than banks, the so-called depositor isn’t a de positor at all, but a shareholder. And as such his position is con siderably different from that of a bank depositor. He does not have the same withdrawal rights as a bank depositor, and while this may not be vital under normal condi tions, it could be vastly impor tant in time of widespread econ omic stress, should such occur. The important thing is not how much interest one’s money earns, but how available it is under all circumstances. A T ONE time his blood pressure was up near the boiling poin^ and - his morale was down near freezing says George A. Mozealous, 14941 Artesian Road, Detroit, Michigan. He had an examination, and the country doctor prescribed, “no meat, no coffee, see me in a week.” A week later he went back to the doctor still low in spirits and apparently with a case of hives, his body loaded with blimps. The doctor looked him over and commented, “You have the blankety bl&nketest set of nerves!” Acute Amer- icanitis he called it, then he proceeded to give him a dressing down about work and worry. George went out of the building and down the street to St. Aloysius Church. There he knelt and prayed, then sat and pondered. Out of his reflec tions there came an increasing awareness that if he continuously sought God’s guidance rather than keep all concern within himself that He would show ‘L W S just that. . CARNEGIE An analysis of his worries showed that they were the common gar- en variety; concern over past decisions, anxiety about things that light or might not occur.- In the peacefulness of that sanctuary his Emses of tension seemed to take flight and there flowed a feeling of ositiveness, a feeling that if the Lord would be permitted to lead the ay, what was there to be concerned about? Mr. Mozealous says he has tried to pursue that course ever since, lit of course there have been slight lapses, but none like the one Sheet Metal Contractor—Heating—Air Conditioning Licensed Gas Fitters CAROLINA METAL WORKS College Street Extension A. G. McCanghrin, Pres. & Treas. Phone 115 Q—Can yon tell me how many veterans of the Korean today? A—As of November 1954, the latest date for which figures are avail able, there were 3,315,000 Korean war veterans. Q—Are there statistics available an births and deaths for 1954 ss yet? A—There are as yet no complete statistics. However based upon plete reports for first ten months, 1954 likely will show annual birth rate, topping 4 mminw mark for first time, and lowest death rate In history, at .possibly 9.2 per 1,000 populal or lower. Marriage rate, however was lowest in several Q—Can yon give seme idea mi the namber mi Mils veteed by tin dents? A—Considering the thousands of bills tntroducsd at sach session of Congress, the number is relatively few. Far instance Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was president slightly more than 11 years vetoed only 631 bills. President Truman in a little leas than eight 250; Woodrow Wilson, sight years. 44 bills: President vetoed 6 bills; President Cooiidge, 50; President Hoover, 37; dent Cleveland in two terms vetoed 584 bills, 238 of them vetoes, and most of them private pension bills, in the 83rd Congress vetoed. 10 bills, president of the United States had thevi William Henry Harrison. Hs died in office a month after his inauguration on March 4. 1841. m ■ .• 11 §1 M FRANCO-GERMAN ACCORD . . . French Premier M< ^ (left) and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, meeting Baden, Germany, agreed on Saar plebescite and new trade while continuing European arms pool discussion. -rtr • M f r^rrTT t a iff ■ X 'is if: .v.v.v.v.v ^■fr.v.v.v.v.XvXva iv.v.v.v i ■.v.v.v.v.v. m r.v.y ,v.v v.v.v.v.y.y.* '.V.V.V/.V.V.* $$1 tTv lull *. IP FEED SAVER ... A dividing rail mounted lengthwise center of a feed trough will keep out hogs and prevent then wasting feed. 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