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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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
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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.
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—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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. It behooves all
us to find some better way of
making the last years of the old
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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
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thing in the way of sporting
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