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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1955
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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
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AUTHOR OF “Hovno STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" ^
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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