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W'l PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1955 X S>. ' ' 1218 Collcgpe 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^ $1.25. FRIDAY EVENING A! THE 'SUPER' COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR South Carolina Shows Steady Growth South Carolina is growing; it is not growing too fast, but steadily moving forward. We shouldn’t care to grow so fast that our Charleston and Beaufort comrades would talk like a Boston scholar; rather, let us absorb the Bostonians and teach them the graces of our liquid tongue. Says The News & Courier: “SOUTH CAROLINA picked up 121,000 residents in the four years prior to the middle of 1954, the Charleston field office of the U. S. Department of Commerce estimates. “This reflects a 5.7 per cent gain since the 1950 census, or a rise from 2,117,027 to 2,238,000 total population. “Florida led the Southeast and had the third largest gain numerically in the nation, 752,000. Figures compiled by the Bureau of Census shows the area’s total population, includ ing armed forces, increased more than 6.8 per cent during the period. North Carolina gained 4.6 per cent new residents for an estimated population of 4,250,000, Georgia 6.2 per cent to 3,660,000, and Florida, 27.1 per cent to 3,524,000.” ! M**Vr A flBUXk' SusCS. ID zsr UStm*! ] Koo k»/cM' ICAi/rooir 1 wnu fiotm ! *■»$ an/MY X16UT KlOOtT-} cnuaa I WK.U*// wutr ICPCUPOS] w W? JHuawO TO MSVf M* IT wwrr 1 m»olJ MMMf—■r'Mvrr . r a „ m "ttSeMx] 1! >OKi Great Textile Center South Carolina has become a great textile center; we are proud of the textile leadership and the development of tex tiles in our state. It would be wise and prudent to keep taxes as low as pos sible because on our encouragement of our great electric power business we make possible the coming of more indus tries, for electric power is a prime consideration in inducing industries to come here. The textile business, like all other business, is one of buy ing and selling, along with manufacturing, or the conver sion of raw products into new commodities, whether finish ed or partially finished. That is a simple statement but involves a thousand details of management. We cannot fix the price of raw cotton, but we can exercise care in the buying of cotton; we use discretion in employ ing our personnel because steady, reliable personnel are vital to consistent operation and long-time successful operation. Buildings must be suitable and the machinery the most ef ficient. These statements also are almost too broad and simple, though most problems may be reduced to simple terms. A clear, accurate statement, or understanding, as sists in arriving at clear conclusions. There has been great progress in South Carolina in re cent years; we have more of the essential elements than formerly; and, perhaps, we have more than in some older textile centers. Contented help contributes greatly to reward the efforts of capable management. At bottom, the problem of all business is fundamentally the same: to hold down the costs and widen the market. % Here we have problems that arise every day. No item is too small if it will enable one to reduce the cost of operating without sacrificing quality, or otherwise injuring any neces sary factor in production. This might involve a study of fuels—electricity, coal, oil, or natural gas ; it might also involve the use of plant and machinery on schedules which reduce operating costs * chargeable to the use of the plant. In selling, even in shipping the products, a careful re examination is desirable at frequent intervals, for selling is life blood, just as manufacture is bone and sinew. Some years ago there was a pronounced sentiment for controlled production. We didn’t call it that; it was known as curtailment; many manufacturers agreed to it. It seemed to many that we had a vast market at home and abroad. Until everyone has all the textiles he can use there is a market. There, again, may seem an over-simplification, but we have to survey the field and explore the possibilities. No man can say that the average person will spend just so much for textiles. The truth is that all products are com petitive within a range. One man may buy a car and not buy a new winter outfit for himself and family; another may forego a trip in order to invest in something quite different. And there are the whims of people, their vagaries, or merely a different emphasis at the moment. Men having goods to sell must seek new markets, as well as expanding the established markets. As long as there are people with unsatisfied wants there is a potential market. In this wondrous America are millions of people who lack adequate clothing; and there are millions who now wear three shirts a week instead of one; also many wearing a change everyday. As our scale of living advances the mighty market at home offers a vast and compelling opportunity. | claim.” Mammoth Corporation Making Diamond^ In a great daily which is devoted to business I read that a mammoth Corporation now makes diamonds. We shall not buy them “cheap” however. “The centuries-long search for the man-made diamond ap parently has come to a successful conclusion at the labora tories of General Electric company here. “G. E. scientists have produced stones which meet all the same scientific tests as natural diamonds. The stones pro duced thus far, some 100 in all, are small and of the lower, industrial diamond quality widely used in cutting and boring tools. ‘Any conclusion we are about to make diamonds of a size and quality suitable for gem use is decidedly prema ture,” said G. E^ But it is studying the problem of making larger diamonds and is now interested in eventual produc tion of industrial types in commercial quantities. Stones of 1-4 carat are in greatest demand for precision tools and other industrial use, though smaller ones find a ready industrial market, and there’s heavy consumption of powdered diamonds. Prices range widely from about $2.50 a carat for diamonds to be crushed into powder to as much as $50 a carat for some used in grinding wheels. Other precious stones have been produced by man, of course, and the price of the one most widely used in in dustry has declined sharply as production has increased. That’s the synthetic sapphire, produced by Linde Air Products division of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. and used for such things as bearings and phonograph needles. When Linde started production in 1943 raw synthetic sapphires sold for about three cents a carat; the current price is one cent a carat.” Water-Shedding Shoes Then the same paper carried a story about water-shed- ding shoes: “Shoes that shed water but keep your feet as comfortable as if you were wearing conventional leather footwear will soon be put on the market. “Secret of the footwear is leather treated in the tanning process. Used in the shoe ‘uppers’, this leather continues to ‘breathe’ even while it excludes water. The breathing is what keeps your feet comfortable in regular leather shoes. Add waterproof uppers to properly sealed seams and you come up with nearly waterproof shoes, the shoe makers MM D^ieCarmegie AUTHOR OF “Hovno STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" ^ M If we presevere day by day in the effort to make usable goods at less cost we thereby further enlarge our market by bringing goods within the reach of more people; and more goods can be bought by the same people. . • If we curtail production we virtually freeze a bad condi tion. That will inevitably attract fresh blood and capital of a bolder, more venturesome spirit. Many a man succeeds because he never surrenders. In this great America of ours men of faith press forward un afraid and reap rewards for daring; the timid souls try to hold things as they are: that is impossible for the world is always moving. A T ABOUT the same time the President sent his $7 billion dollar school program to the Con gress, he sent up a supplementary appropriation measure asking for almost a billion dollars for govern ment agencies which ran short of money before the end of their fiscal year, due to cuts made by the last Congress, or to faulty esti mates of their needs. This $8 billion dollar bite follows closely the President's request for a $25 billion dollar 10-year toad program. But the road program, and the school program money would be raised largely through the issuance of revenue bonds guar anteed by the government, and clear outside the Federal budget. The Eisenhower school program calls for Federal participation in setting up state school building agencies, which would in turn issue bonds and build $6 billion worth of schools for lease-purchase to local public school units. It also provides for $200 million in federal grants to be matched by states whose school districts are too poor to qualify for loans; also up to $750,000,000 in federal funds to buy bonds from school districts unable to market their revenue bopds at 3% per cent, or at a reasonable interest rate. In all, the federal participation would be about $1,120,000,000. There are sev eral flies in this ointment. The first is that a good many more school units than could be taken care of with $200,000,000 are too poor to qualify for loans. Another is that many southern states, and possibly a few northern states, would not qualify for federal as sistance if they sidestep the su preme court decision against school segregation, and the meas ure puts a $6 billion burden on the states and only about $1 billion on the federal government. Democrats in the Congress, led by Senator Harry Byrd have al ready turned thumbs down on the method of sidestepping the federal budget by the issuance of revenue bonds, such as is contemplated by the President in both the road and school programs. The President’s economic advi sors have sold him on the revenue bond method of raising money, simply because to provide jmch money in the regular budget would mean an increase hi the constitu tional debt limit. And while the President has as good a board of advisors in his present Council of Economic Advisors as either of his predecessors had, the trouble with all these boards is that they are named by the President and are removable by the president, so it making reports on what the President wants to do, it can hardly recommend the opposite of what the administration has done, or of what it knows the admini stration wants to do either for economic or political reasons. This administration has been notable for its rapid-fire changes in fiscal and monetary measures . . . under the. theory as expressed in the Economic report to the RS. JOE BATES. 882 Cedar Street, Abilene. Texas, says she often heard as a child, “Look at those children, not a worry in th*| world.” But she remembers that even before she started to school, she worried for fear something would happen to her mother. Her. father died when she was eighteen months old. so her mother was her little world. After she started to school, she had other worries. She was afraid she wouldn't pass in her school work. During her sophomore year in high school, the doc tor told her mother that she was going to have a nervous breakdown if she did not get away from her school work tor a while. So her mother took her on a two week vacation. This helped, but after a few weeks she fell into the same old rut of worry. She graduated and thus ended that line of worry, didn’t seem to help her condition, tor when she went to work for the telephone company she was worried for fear she wouldn't do her work Just right. She had two nervous breakdowns while working there. Why? Worry! Then the one thing she had feared most, happened. Her _ ^ died. Her world was shattered, but she was made to realise that no how much she grieved or worried about her mother's death. tt would not bring her back. \ Finally she ran across a book on worry which illustrated so many situations wfawiinr to hers, and which showed her how futile it is to worry, that she began thinking differently. Now. when she starts to worry, she breathes a prayer to God to take her worries from and He has never fafled her SS /4: ideas from other ediK Congress that 'fiscal and monetary measures fostered an expectation of , improving economic conditions and encouraged people to maintain a high rate of ex penditure." Man Who Transformed The World Once upon a time there was a man and that man trans formed the world. That is not exaggerated praise; nor do I mean that all the refinements came from the brain of one man. Thomas A. Edison served mankind more generously, more helpfully, than any other one man, so far as I can remember the great achievements of all the truly surpassing geniuses and benefactors of all time. “Few, if any, great scientific discoveries are to be credr ited to Edison, but he has triumphed over almost insur mountable difficulties, and by his skill and ingenuity brought to practical use and the advancement of civilization What had often been suggested by some scientific investigatorfaiK able to bring it to a successful outcome or practical realiza tion.” * As a boy he liked to reaji and experiment. He gave so much to enrich life that we fail to recall all the fruits of his labor. >r ■ ^ Q—Can you give me the eventge salary of school teachers tat the natiou? A—The Tax Foundation has recently conducted a survey aqd finds that average beginning salary of teachers with a college degree in cities is $3,115 with the average maximum with a Doctor’s degree is $5,805. Generally the lowest salaries are in the south and In rural areas salaries are generally below the averages. Q—Has the “Oil for Education" bill been introduced in the Senate? A—Yes, by Senator Lister Hilt Alabama, and 35 other sponsors, includ- r ing 30 Democrats, five Republicans, one independent. It would ear mark royalties on publicly owned ofl reserves in the continental shelf for educational purposes and asks $1 billion for emergency relief in construction funds. Q—What was the first state to ratify the conatitutlon^ A—^Delaware on Dec. 7, 1787. Next in order came Pennsylvaxfia, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Caro lina, New Hampshire. Virginia, New York, North Carolina and then came Rhode Island, May 29, 1790. Q—What day is observed as Pan-American Day? A—April 14. It was on that date in 1890 when the first international conference of American states met in Washington and formed the Pan-American Union. Q—May newspapermen attending the President's press conference quote him? A—No. Only when the President gives direct permission. Otherwise they are limited to indirect quotations. Q—Why do members of the Senate address the Vice President ns “Mr. President?" A—Because the Vice President is technically the president of the Senate. CROSSWORD PUZZLE From the Claremont News, Claremont, Minnesota: It is plainly evident that the billions of dollars we have spent in playing Santa Claus to the rest of the world has been in vain. About all we have to show tor it is a tremendous tax burden. Industrial leaders are shouting themselveq hoarse with pep talks about coming prosperity but the toothache lingers on and fr actual ly getting close to the breaking point. There is a remedy short of an actual depression but it would hurt the same as having a tooth pulled. When" our nation switched from its democratic form to a govern ment by subsidies, it started down ,the road to Socialism and has now gone even farther, to creep ing Communism. Getting subsidies means either borrowing money or getting money some one else has earned, r The present generation does not know the meaning of the basic reasons on which this republic was formed, that of permitting its citi zens to enjoy the greatest rewards this life can give — Contentment and Happiness. : You are really rich when the rewards of your labors bring you Happiness. With it you can j laugh easily and heartily, you make. a new friend, your heart swells when you forgive someone, you pass over the little slights that really do not matter,' you see the of God hr your opportunities, happiness is evident when a child smiles at you or a dog looks up at you and tan. We need to shake loose the' did, grasping ideas that have elled our mentality and rest born again—if it isn’t too late. • ' • i imi From the Catokfll Saugerties, New York: With i attempt to understand the ' it. some nations look up achievement of the world’s standard of living as a luck. It isn’t, of course. We worked hard, risked much, duced much—the growth factor our economy averages about 3 cent per year. We have been to produce more because of stant new technological i ments, investments in new tories, management ability employee skills. We were once an country ourselves we success formula to any country that will accept it And to main tain and strengthen tt here at home, we can hope and ward a long-rknfe “tax for economic growth" which diminish present tax rate nesses and at the same courage economic growth development feAt*, mmm 1 lllll M wm *w riai UPf - gsis.' Mr LAFF OF THE 14 17 115 45 8 po” 11 \i- 13 1 ** 19 IS 71 . 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