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«r -v: -'jif^i _ V4 ••fC.*' ?■ vv MI • •• m w :Pf A* •■: -■ >.35«Pfc2s sJ« THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1955 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. r COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Week by week I read the South Carolina Methodist Advo cate, which is handsomely presented. The issue of February 16 is not entirely clear to me; at least I hesitate to draw conclusions. Being myself a lay man (a Baptist layman) I wonder if the first editorial in The Advocate is a wee bit hard on the laymen. I quote the editorial: “A LESSON FROM THE PRESBYTERIANS For months now, the secular and religious press have been carrying articles PRO and CON on the proposed union of the Presbyterian Church, U. S., the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A., and the United Presbyterian Church. These articles will subside now, for the plan of union was defeated by the Southern Presbyterian Church in the U. S. whose presbyteries failed to vote the necessary three-forths ma jority. The one thing that stood out in all this was the split between the thinking of the Presbyterian ministers and the Presbyterian laymen in the South. One Presbyterian minister told us that approximately 85 per cent of the southern Presbyterian ministers were in favor of union. On the other hand, the majority of their laymen were op posed to union. There is a lesson here that transcends the immediate is sue of Presbyterian union. By and large Protestant laymen everywhere are lagging behind their ministers in their un derstanding of the Christian faith. This is true as regards biblical studies, race relations, modern theological trends, and in ecumenical understanding and experience. It is a trend that warrants the concern of every Protestant leader, whether lawman or minister. Mi V* : T\ You've heard it said that life is just one thing after another, haven’t you? Well, how about your water pipes during the recent freeze? Let us hope you were not among those frantically calling for a plumber while the water poured out uncontrolled, or else, wouldn’t pour at all. ■ a • * I spent two hours observing the resourceful maneuvers and manipulations of my old reliable whose skill makes me his debtor. Even, so, after all his labor, we had to summon a plumber. Have you had such an experience? Well, it makes life so happy when normal service is restored. After catching wa ter for all the tubs, basins, sinks, pots and pans, how joyful is your emotion when the water comes and goes at your will. Well, suppose you had to bring the water in buckets, all the waterYou never had that experience; wejl grand father probably drew the water from a well, bucket by bucket. We of our time have so many conveniences; we have no smelly oil lamps to fill and clean; and we have abundant water everywhere, all the time. Soon we shall have nothing to worry about, because life is so placid. How dull it will be with nothing to worry about! t*- • ; . /Sr.' . .V Mi yfe: Rggi v-'v-K / Wk t I.- ■ • I like to talk about the consumption of electricity because it is the story of industrial progress and home comforts and conveniences. By the end of 1954, 51,200,000 Customers were being serv ed electricity.. One million, three hundred thousand were added during 1954. Electricity is now in reach of nearly every American home, with about 98 per cent of occupied homes, both urban and rural, enjoying electric services. Growth in number of customers during the year was due mainly to construction and population increase. Average consumption of electricity in the home increased by 194 kwh, the largest annual gain on record. Total average use by the householder was 2540 kwhr for the year. Use of electricity by domestic consumers now accounts for 26.4 per cent of all electricity sales. The very substantial increasing use of electricity in homes brought the average revenue per kilowatthour to domestic customers 2.69 cents, as compared with 2.74 cents in 1953. Starting at 25 cents per kwhr in 1882, the average price to domestic customers was 10.5 cents in 1907. It was to 5.6 cents per kwhr in 1932 and 4 cents in 1939.” In South Carolina the average is about .0246, lower'" as you see, than the National avearge. “By the end of 1954, an estimated 5,090,000 farms had electric service, 94.6 per cent of the over-all farm figure. All but 2 per cent of the nation’s occupied farms now either have electric service or have it readily available.” Recently the Extension Service made a study entitled “South Carolina Rural Line Statistics, showing the miles cf lines of each Company or Cooperative operating in this State. That statement shows that “R.E.A. Cooperatives” serve 114,039 customers; the private Companies serve 121,- HANDS ACROSS THE SEA 398 rural customers. I recall the statement of a New England industrialist, that electric power in New England costs him nearly three times as much as it costs our industries in South Carolina. Some more about taxes; it is a live subject for live people; the dead may escape worry but the living must pay for them, too. “During the first 137 years of its existence, this country got along without subjecting the income of its people to any tax by the Federal Government. The Federal income was adopted by Constitutional Amendment in 1913. The maximum for individuals is at a confiscatory 91% on the top income bracket. In the salary range of a majority of higher corporate executives, the top rate runs from 56% to 84 %. On taxable income in the $32,000-$36,000 bracket for joint returns the rate is 50%.” , “The menacing growth in Government spending in the last 20 years is not generally known. v < Federal taxes of all kinds aggregated $70 billion in fiscal 1953, as compared with $66 billion the year before and $51 billion in fiscal 1951. Taxes per capita were almost $450 in the year ended with last June, or $190 more than in the year just before Korea. Today the American people are paying more money in taxes than v they pay for all their food and shelter. The real price of a $2000 automobile is but $1375; the remainder is tax. Within each wrapper of bread are 151 separate and distinct tabces; 475 different taxes must be paid on the materials and construction costs of a house, 165 taxes are involved in the price of a lady’s hat. If your income in 1952 was $4500, you pknd out $455 direct and $1,03£J more in hidden taxes; on $7500, you paid $869 plus $1,932 in unseen levies; $15,000 you paid $2,606 and up to $4,012 in taxes you can’t see! All of us pay more than the cost of the article itself on each pack of cigerattes (12c out of 21c to taxes). —gallon of gas (14c out of 26c) ' # —and ton of coal (where taxes nip $15 of your $24!) So long as we permit that power (to tax) to be used in this deceptive fashion, it can — and will — destroy us. THE NATIONAL DEBT — We are headed for a $300 pil lion debt. If you stood on the corner of Main Street in your city and gave out a crisp hundred dollar bill every second ($6,000 a minute) 8 hours a day, every day in the year, you would be at the corner almost 310 years to match a National Debt of $300 billion. Think of it!” “Do you realize that corporations generally have been paying out nearly twice as much in taxes as they are paying in dividends to stockholders? , For each dollar paid to the stockholders of an average Company in its 1954 fiscal year, more than $2.30 was paid in taxes. To be specific, the company paid $6.35 per share of common stock in taxes, while the stockholder received $2.75.” D URING the 1952 campaign the question of Tidelands oil be came a political issue. Under the old theory of states rights, the states won in their battle against the federal government when the Congress overturned a decision of the Supreme Court and wrote into law a division of the Tidelands. Under this law, the state of Texas was given all lands extend ing three leagues, or ten miles out to sea, while Louisiana was given title to lands extending three miles out. The rest of the con tinental shelf stretching out in some cases as far as 100 miles was reserved for the Federal Gov ernment. The State of Louisiana, how ever, has brought suit to claim lands extending 27 miles out. The ^ point is however, that^the division of the lands is becoming more of a bonanza for the Federal govern ment than for the States involved, since the exploring Companies are finding most of the oil in the Fed eral government territory and not in the state territories. As an instance, the Government recently asked for bids on drilling on 199 tracts of land off the Lou isiana coast, the tracts running about 5,000 acres each. They ex pected the bids to run about £50 million dollars for the lot. Instead, the government received bids total ling $121 million for only 97 tracts and the other 102 tracts were withdrawn because of the law suit- brought by Louisiana. The federal government now expects to reap (bout a billion dollars for 'leasing ome 460,000 acres which is less han 3 per cent of the total acre- tge which has been surveyed as # oil-bearing. In addition the gov ernment will get 16% per cent royalty on all oil produced and the geological survey estimates there are about 11 or more billion bar rels of oil there, which at pre vailing prices would mean royal ties for the federal government of about $5 billions more. This money now will go into the general fund of the federal treas ury.. It could be used for balanc ing the budget, but it will Hot like ly be so used since there are mem bers of Congress who are watch ing this development jealously. It will be remembered that dur ing the last session of the Con gress, Senator John Sparkman of ' Alabama spearheaded a drive to use the tidelands oil money for- educational purposes. 'the “Oil For Education" bill passed the Senate, but it was stymied in the House. Now Senator Sparkman is ex pected to press again for passage of this bill as a substitute for the Eisenhower School program bill, which is expected to be along the lines of his road construction measure, namely set up a federal agency and issue * government guaranteed bonces for construction of schools. And as this huge oil windfall builds up in the federal Treasury there is sure to be other attempts to raid the treasury for other measures, probably for such plans as health insurance or other nation-wide projects. While the government has real ized a total of $141 millions for the tracts leased, the States of Texas and Louisiana only received $65 million as their share of the loot. ■ n g t o ■ / —Does the Congress have authority to assign any non-jndidal duties to members of the judiciary? A—No. This has been established since 1792 when Congress directed judges of the circuit courts to act as pension commissioners. They refused to accept the duties and were upheld by the Supreme Court. Q—How many bridges cross the Potomac River In Washington? A—Seven. The Sousa Bridge at Pennsylvania Avenue, The South Capi tal Street Bridge, Chain Bridge above Georgetown, Key Bridge, between Georgetown and Rosslyn, Virginia; The Memorial Bridge at Arlington cemetery and two bridges at Fourteenth Street. Two more bridges have been approved, one at Constitution Avenue and another across to Alexandria. Another bridge, the 11th Street Bridge, crosses the Anacostia river. Q—Do men who have received decorations have any special privileges for enlistment in the army? > A—Men who have received the silver star, or higher decorations may enlist without, regard to age until their 55th year. Q—Does a member of congress receive an annuity upon retirement? A—Yes. He receives an annuity amounting to 2% per cent of his average salary multiplied by his number of years in congressional service. • > ! Q—How is pay of congressional employees fixed? i A—As a matter of policy the salaries are fixed by law, although as a matter of principle, it has been decided that each House shall be intrusted by the other to regulate the number and pay of its own employees. 16 20 24 29 Our great and wonderful country! “In 1965 our population should be 190 millions, an in crease of about 27.5 millions, v/hich means that in 11 years j our gain in population will be about twice the present popu lation of Canada, and that we will add yearly — on the aver age — a number roughly equal to the present population of Philadelphia — the third largest city in the country. Such an increase in population will be the largest ever* re corded in any decade of our history.” kf %, ■ A . . w- : s I have just-seen some figures that are interesting on the subject of the use of electric power. I have this data relative to consumption of power by customers of The South Caro lina Electric & Gas Co: “The increase in power usage in our service territory is also significant. SCE&G’S average residential customer is using thirty-seven per cent more electricity than the national average (3,477 KWHvs. the national average of 2,540 KWH for the twelve-month period ending December 31). And the average residential customer we serve pays almost nine per cent less for his electricity than the national average (2.46 cents 'per KWH vs. the national average of 2.69 cents per KWH for the twelve-month period ending December 31.” I take this from a report by Mr. S. C. McMeekin, the able head of that great Company. 36 CROSSWORD PUZZLE 1 17 21 30 31 18 38 14 8 52 64 28 39 no 70 6S 15 19 11 12 AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING ANO START LIVING'' ^ \/fRS. E. L. BARLOW of 125 Northern Avenue, Apt. 3, Decatur, ‘‘-’^Georgia, who teaches at Murphy High School, Atlanta, says that ll she believes there is only one way under high Heaven to get anybody J| to do anything—by making the other person want to do it. Once as she was trying to interest an evening class of adults in • high school course entitled Social Problems, they were studying the unit on Personality. But it just did not click. Those * people were tired from having worked all day. Some were husky men with families to support, but determined to get their high school diplomas. It was a trying situation for Mrs. Barlow and she read everything she could that she thought might give her a little light. Finally she ran across something containing her belief above. She de cided to go on that assumption. So she dropped the study of Personality, and did the unit on Jobs. She 1 opened the unit by asking each on* to ten about his job. A big, blond, air-conditioning mechanic. ‘ who had been the least interested before, held the class spellbound for an entire class period, and when the bell rang, he agreed to continue the following night his discourse on the workings of air-conditioning units. This subject of jobs was something they knew, and wanted to || talk about. Each one told about his job, they asked questions, and got information which they wanted. After the Job Unit, they were willing to study units on Culture and Personality. That belief she formed worked wonders and made of a discouraged class a very happy one. From ; the Shamokin Citizen, Shamokin, Pennsylvania: As men try to order their own affairs, they become entangled in the legal istic phrases that confuse their intentions and subject their stat utes, no matter how deliberately they plan their enactment, to end less interpretations. Too often the laws man makes for himself are : expedients designed to bypass some temporary impasse; they are I left on the statute books long after they have fulfilled their temporary purpose only to create future ob structions to justice. Because man sees in part and does not under stand all that he sees, he cannot write a law that is just to all men. His laws are filled with con- 'tradictions and absurdities to which he is not blind. He persistently tries to correct his imperfections by enacting more laws and just as regularly compounds! Ms own errors. Those who pass through the por tals of man's hall of justice can gaze at th£ bronze plaque of the Ted .Commandments and be re minded of the teachings of their faith. God’s law is a simple law, brief in content so that its mean ing can be kept alive in the minds of men. There has never been need to revise the Ten C6mmand- ments to fit the changing ways of man even though there have been various interpretations. Theologi ans’ efforts have been not to change the word of God but to determine more' exactly from tho study at ancient writings the Tea Commandments as God gave them to Moses. * • • From the Independent Wildwood, New Jersey: The house and its horrors are fast; the ing out from the American However, the problem of suitable home for the old still a big one. Most of sire to be Independent and to live by themselves and not a burden or to disturb their dren. So-called homes for the are springing up all over th lion. But they are expensive, the aged turning over vfhat they have saved for the of their life care. Some of are happy homes, some are When sickness overtakes th< sent to hospitals with all money gone. What then? Old age Federal assistance sion now averages $51.39 - But to get it one must be tically destitute. 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Adding height $8 a fence can be accomplished by stapling stew wire to and then joining pieces together by nsing ordinary hoi rings over stay wires and close with pliers made for ■ v This on' That When pitcher Bob his 195$ contract It 17th pact between the fastball ex pert and the Cleveland Indians. Feller joined the tribe in 19M ss a 17-year-old Iowa farm hey. The American Leagne’s oldest player in point of service. Feller holds mere wins than any other a “ major league htnrler. He and Newhooser are toe only active big leaguers with more than 2di vic tories ... If you’ve ing where to hay it—meaning thing in the way of sporting plies—C. C. Spink 4b Sen, St. Missouri, have released the edition sf Sporting Goods Tx Directory, 939 pages which list sf sources of supply f< ;ems sold sporting goods stores. In addition. 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