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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1955 1218 Collegre Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered 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 Myrtle Beach Revisited I Have you been to Myrtle Beach? I hadn’t been .there since I went with J^r. B. M. Edwards several years ago, to tflie Banker’s convention, at that time under the Presidency of Mr. John A* * Campbell. Mr. Edwards and I roamed all over tjhe territory and saw everything and everybody. t . ■*;- . ; > 1 '. ' '■ . : ; Since that happy visit the Great Hazel had visited Myrtle Beach. Hazel is the name of the hurricane which carried havoc over a great territory. I wondered whether Hazel had clipped the wings of my up-and-doing booster friends of Myrtle Beach, but I had the pleasure of meeting Ex-Governor and Mrs. Ransom Williams jast as I was about to go on the air in Columbia. Governor Williams, you may recall, is a walking Chamber of Com merce for Myrtle Beach. I learned that Myrtle Beach was on the march, as usual, though with quickened pace. I set out for Myrtle Beach, stopping in old Georgetown for a visit to the new building of the South Carolina Natio nal Bank. There I met Mr. Jeter from Santuc, the Mana ger. I also met the Manager of the Federal Savings associa tion and a most courteous and accommodating pharmacist of the Winyah drug store. I dropped in on Editor Hinds, but he was out, busy mov ing his plant. However a gracious lady welcomed me and gladdened my heart by remembering me over Charleston’s TV of WCSC. I intended to call on C. E. Prescott of the Myrtle Beach News. I did so, but Brther Prescott was out of town. I was received graciously by three members of the force. The Editor was in the Chamber of Commerce, he being the main drive of that up-and-doing organization which, like Britain’s flag, shines all twenty four hours of the day, I met a booster of the purest ray serene: Bill Reason- over, Editor of the Myrtle Beach Sun. Bill is a native of Camden but came to Myrtle Beach from Bennettsville a month or so ago. Mr. Reasonover just pours out the in formation that proves the never-die spirit of Myrtle Beach. Here are items that I gleaned from him: a thousand Masons were expected to attend the 218th Annual Communication of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Masons of South Carolina the last of April; that Bank de posits are up about a milion dollars between April of this year and April of last year, due primarily to rebuilding of the Air Base and the natural growth of business; that organ music from Myrtle Beach may be heard all over the U. S. » “If the plans of Musichron, Inc., of Chicago work out, the music of the old band organ at the amusement park in Myr tle Beach will be heard all over the United States. This week Arthur J. Mars of Evanston, 111., recorded nine hours of music by tape and in time these tapes of organ music will be sold to amusement parks and carnival operators thru- out the country. » • • • } • . The tone quality of this old organ, made in Germany in the early 1900s, is symbolic with the American idea of car nival and amusement park music. There are few records on the market which can duplicate this music and thus the Chicago firm hopes to be able to sell tape recordings to en tertain people. To record the music coming from the organ, two micro phones were set up, one inside the organ and one in front of it. On each tape that goes out will be information to the effect that the music was recorded from the organ here at Myrtle Beach. Mr. Mans, on leave of absence as radio engineer from the Columbia Broadcasting company out of Chicago, was thrill ed over the organ. He says that at the present time there are only two others like it in the world in operation. One is in Los Angeles while the other is in New York.” Brother Reasonover quoted a figure that is not true of the Nation: that the residential electric rate (the National average) is .0274; it is .0269. The South Carolina Gas and Electric company receives as residential rate .0246 accord ing to the annual report of that company. I have just read in the News and Courier that The S. C. Electric and Gas Co. paid in taxes for 1954 six million, five hundred forty thous and, nine hundred and sixty four dollars. Mr. Reasonover was enthusiastic over a sumptous Motel which cost $750,000. I asked what effect the hurricane Hazel had on mortgage- payments on houses. Mr. Reasonover said that the local Savings association reported that not a single customer failed to make payments when due. Even more interesting was this: men and women brought money for deposit, mon ey which was soaked with water, money which had been saved and kept at home. But the hurricane convinced them that money was not safe at home. One man brought in a bucket full of coins with sea water in the bucket. Bill says that Myrtle Beach can accommodate two thous and more guests this year than last year. I had intended to meet my old chum, W. A. Kimbel, but the best I could do was to see his picture in the paper. Myrtle Beach is a puzzle to me. As in the case of Sum merville, I never know where I am, or how to get to the next place. When I drive into Summerville I trust to luck to get out. Like Christopher Columbus, I hardly know where I’m going, or'where I am, or where I have been, or why. Returning from Myrtle Beach and Georgetown, I called at the office of the Record in fCingstree and had the pleas ure of a few words with the gracious editor. "DO-IT-YOURSELF" HITS OUR TOWN Suburban Life More Popular “The first important movement to the suburbs began soon after the end of World War I. From 1940 to 1953, the num ber of persons living in the suburbs increased from 18 mil lion to 30 million, a gain of 67 per cent, as compared with a gain of only 20 per cent for the total population. The amount spent in this country for basic needs—food, clothing, and shelter—in 1939 aggregated $46 billion. With total disposable personal income at $70.4 billion, this left a margin of $24.4 billion for discretionary spending, or the equivalent of 35 per cent of total disposable income. In 1933 discretionary spending amounted to $96 billion, or 38 per cent of disposable income. In other words, the total amount of discretionary consumer spending in 1953 was four times as much as in the pre-war period 1939. For the years 1946 through 1954, this Country has produc ed in the aggregate approximately 43 million radios. These figures are eloquent testimony of the incomparably high American standard that have been made possible by personal initiative, ingenuity, and unprecedented productivity, as well as freedom and opportunities for advancement.” Eku Carnegie ^ AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYIHG AND START LIVING" tefcrsffo,' V.. W! Spending Should Be Stopped Now We Americans and we South Carolinians might as well face the truth: we must reducex our public spending. You may add that .we must reduce our private spending also. As we used to hear, a dollar haa only 100 cents. Governments, like* inlividuals, should spend less than they hope to receive so that emergencies may be cared for. Governments should not impose heavy taxes; no exactions should be excessively difficult to meet. In our national spending, we are too much engaged in providing for other countries. The first duty of the National Government is to care for our own people; furthermore, the first concern of the Government should be for the tax-PAY- ER, not for the tax-EATER. A ✓ All the talk of undeveloped foreign areas is based largely on ignorance of those areas. Recently, here in South Carolina I passed a ‘house worth about $300 and was amazed to ob serve that the people had a television. Are they underde veloped? Probably so, but by whose standard? Are they happy ? Probably so. Ajnd jit may be that we are being im posed upon by do-gooders whose inpulses are generous but whose judgment is woefully lacking. The Cholo of . Peru, coming from the Andes with his burro for a fiesta may be undeveloped, as surely he is, but he wants nothing for the moment but a bundle of alfalfa for his burro and a bit of simple food for himself. Shall we lift him from his poverty ? Well, if you knew him, would you say that he is less happy than many a miserable person whose bank account is stag gering in its abundance? . Millions of people here in America may be undernourished and underprivileged. Lets build our own foundations for we must be an example, an inspiration, to people everywhere, rather than a bountiful provider of meat and potatoes for the moment. I think we should take the bull by the horns and cut our spending by billions, on a National scale, and by millions here in South Carolina. THE ONLY WAY TO RETRENCH IS TO RETRENCH. We are spending too much; lets cut now and cut deeply; do it NOW! J OHN Foster Dulles, President Ei senhower’s much-'traveled Sec retary of state, is the butt of ev£r- increasing criticism from segments of both parties in the Congress for his seeming vacillating policies par ticularly applicable to the Asian situation. He has been especially singled out for censure by the so- called China-firsters in the Con gress. headed by Republican lead er William F. Knowland. These criticisms of Secretary Dulles are reminiscent of the same sort of tactics which were used against Dean Ache son. Secretary of State under the regime of^ President Tru man. It was Acheson who brought Dulles into the State Department as an advisor and. consultant, par ticularly on far eastern affairs. These criticisms of Mr. Dulles come at a time when President Eisenhower is faced with decisions which mean peace or war in the world, and while the President has not in any way Joined in attacks against his Secretary of State, he has not been particularly vocal in his defense. Which recalls a state ment of President Truman when he was in a similar position at tempting to keep the Communist off-balance about the intentions of our country even though there was evidence of disunity among the members of Congress. “Because our freedom is in dan ger, we are united in its defense. Let our aggressor think we are divided. Our great strength is the loyalty and fellowship of a free people. We pull together yrhen we are in trouble, and we do it by our own choice, not out of fear, Wit out of love for the great values in our American life, -that we all have a share in.” * * * Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Republican ranking member of both the Senate Appro priations and Armed Services Com mittee is heading a move for the purchase of land in Washington for the construction of a new Capi tol building. The theory i? that the present Capitol built in 1800 is ob solete and uneconomical as h home for the Congress. He would construct a new mod ern building on a site selected cm Capitol Hill. Immediately upon his suggestion a storm of opposition stemmed from scores of organiza tions in Washington and through out the country, who have some reverence for the traditions. The cornerstone of the present capital was laid on Sept. 18, 1793 and the building was occupied when the government was moved from Phil adelphia in 1800. The building was burned by the British in the war of ISIS, when interior of both the north and south wings were gutted by lire on August t\ 1814. Restor ation waa completed by ISIS. The original conetmetion waa not fully completed untTlStt end It was not until 1881 when the present Senate and House wings wore started. The present House chamber waa occu pied for legislative purposes De cember 16, 1887 and the Senate * wing on January 4, 1858. Since then there have been several peri ods of modernizations including new roofs, a new dome completed in 1865 and the building is now v completely air conditioned. It oc cupies a floor area of 14 acres, has 435 rooms. ILL.IAM JACKSON, 124 Cleveland Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri, says that after he entered service in the armed forces, be had many conflicting problems in dealing with other men. In civilian life he had been able to rationalize his inability to get along with people by his ability to play golf, which made him feel important. He wore good clothes, had the best set of golf clubs money could buy, and played a fairly decent game, so he felt he had a lit tle something on the next fellow, and that relieved him of the responsibility of getting along with his fellow men. But he says he now knows that he was disobeying the most important rule of group living by making the other fellow feel inferior while only making up for his own complex. As a Private he did all the dirty work. His Master Sergeant used all his powers to show authority, every thought being of himself. 'When he talked, which was not too often, he told of something im portant he did, or something he wanted to do, or else it was an order making someone else do the tilings he didn’t to do. Soon William Jackson waa about to become his slave. So he his troubles. Then he decided to try another tactic. When he waa to pick up the mail, he acted as if he waa glad to do a favor for Master Sergeant. If he got jumped on for some trivial thing; he sincerely sorry and would “make it a point not to let it happen These things gave the Sergeant Just exactly what he waa trying to by being hard boiled old Army Sergeant which he wasn’t at Aftef a few days of this new treatment he waa flabergasted. It wasn't long before the Sergeant was smiling occasionally, William wasn’t getting so many dirty Jobs. After that flrst smile, and “good morning,’* he never once made the Sergeant feel though his commands were immaterial; it worked miracles. CARNEGIE. i n g t o n Q. I read in the papers that the Congress is planning a* Office bnilding. Can yen Ml me when the present erected. The present Senate Office building was started in 1906 a fad the wing was completed and occupied March 5, 1909. The First wing was completed in June, 1933. Cost of the Completed bi was $8,390,892. The ‘new building, across the street on First was provided for by act of Congress in 1948 which limited the site to $l,100,0p0, and 820,600,000 for construction and ment. Ground breaking was started op the new building 1995. Can yen Ml me hew many speakers ef In 188 sessions, hicluding the flrst session of the 84th Congress, sepsrate men iRvtf served as speaker of the House. Most grosses have two sessions, but 28 Congresses have had three sions and one, the 88th Congress, had four, sessions^ Rayburn haa served longer than any other man. He is in his seerioh. Starting In the third session of the 78th Congress. Ja 1940, ha sarved continuously through six sessions of the 77th, and Ttth Congresses. He became speaker January 8» 1948, served through flour sessions of the 81st and 82m! again became speaker Jan. 5, 1865, at the first session at Close fleconds to Speaker Rayburn wars Joseph through 10 sessions of the 58th. 59th. 60th end 81st Cob* and Champ Clark, who served through 11 sessions of mm ? _ ; REST CURE FOR SURE By Joe Ringland . L; . . .IT ts From the Brookfield Courier, Brookfield, New York: The surest way to develop the local commu nity and create permanent pros perity is to encourage the building up of steady payrolls. Information that shows the in* dividual his interest in productive enterprise is indispensable to the . sound solution of questions that encourage ^ the establishment or growth of industries and business. Just as industries bring business to every store so do they make possible advertising and subscrib ers upon which the local newspati per depends, and > herein lies the interest of editors in the problems of industry. That this philosophy is sound End has a direct bearing on the prosperity of every community, every business and every individ ual is evidenced by figures re leased by the Chamber of Com merce of the United States cover ing the period from 1940 to 1950. They show that for every 100 new industrial workers in nine coun ties surveyed by the Chamber, re tail sales zoomed $260,000,. per sonal, income $590,000 and bank deposits $270,000. An increase of 100 industrial workers meant 174 new jobs in other lines of work, 112 more households and a population in crease of 296—new purchases of all manner of goods and services. The survey covered a ten yeyar period and was designed to meas ure the impact of new industry on local business. The problems of industry are the problems of the people. They involve the welfare of the publish er, who is the spokesman for the people and every business in the community. * * * From the Harvard Herald, Har vard, niiaeia: If a survey made by the Opinion Research Corporation among seniors in 86 high schools, scattered across the, country, is correct, there is something alarm ingly wrong , with American educa- According to the results, 82 per cent of these students do not be lieve we have competition in busi ness; 60 per cent feel ownerii get too large a share of the profits; 61 per cent reject the profit motive as necessary to the survival of our free system; 55 per cent accept the classic communist doctrine of “from each according to ability, ' to each according to needs,’’ and 60 per cent think a worker should not produce all he can. This should make the men in the Kremlin and our other idealogical enemies happy. For, if such views are widely held and acted upon by our citizens of tomorrow, we wil} destroy this nation from witliin— which is what the Communists want beyond anything else. D EVOURING toast and washing it down with burning / coffee is a hard habit to break. I had for gotten how enjoyable a leisurely breakfast could be. My wife glanced at the clock while preparing cereal for our chil dren. “It’s a quarter of eight dear.’’ I put more jam on my toast. *T*m catching a cold, Mary. Need rest. I’m not going to work today.’’ She laughed. “Think you can rest here?’’ “Where else? You know it’s the best way to break a cold.’ She poured a second cup of cof fee for me. “Do you think you could handle the boys if I went shopping?’’ “What’s to handle?’* She smiled. “There’s something different every day. 1 While she fed the children I went to my favorite chair and relaxed with a good book. I hardly heard her leave. The bullet wound Inflicted by Snake Eye Willie, the criminal of my book, disappeared along with my sense of well-being when a racket which sounded Uke wagons without tires vibrated tty nerves. - I Jumped up and lurched to the door. It was wagons. Two of them raced by at a tremendous speed. The one with three in it was mine. I watched tin they reached the bottom of our hDl. Walking to the front sidewalk I said, “Hey! One at a time in thgt wagon and stay on tine level.’* I had Just settled down when I heard someone crying. Outside, once more, I noticed a leg caught in the wheel of a tricycle. Two of the kids had apparentiy met head on. “Now look, gang. Bumping into each other may be fun, but it’s hard on tike equipment; so watch it“ ' A loud crash came from the back. I ran out. The neighbor boy didn’t seem to think garage win dows were necessary. He looked at me innocently as if to say, “Ac cidents will happen,, won’t they?” 1 knew something had to be said and firmly. I cleared my throat. “The time has long past since you children have needed constant care. Some of you are well in your sixes. You should know that people don’t go around throwing rocks, Se he carefuL” I moved the car to tike street and began sweeping the 1 broken glass out of the garage. What was that? Notiiing. The quietness dis turbed me. I ventured out front. Empty wagons, tricycles, scooters were an over; but not a ghflrf in sight j i Then I saw my car moving. I ran Uke crazy as it gained mo mentum, knowing whatever hap pened would before I got there. - It Jumped the curb with two wheels and came to an abrupt halt with a crunch of fender against i Everyone remained quiet as I climbed in and drove back to the garage. I was afraid to speak. I went back to my comfortable chair tp Max. but I felt taunt aa a jammed gear shift Then it came. At first I couldn’t Relieve my ears. The tempo in creased and I knew it was true. It was wagons again coaxing down the hill on their rims. My hands felt like steel daws at my sides. I was closing in on the children when I noticed my wife coming. Deciding to talk it over with her before doing any thing drastic, I retreated to the house, feeling like a garage win dow in a backstop. Mary came quickly. Well, it looks like you’ve about had it Any trouble?” I slumped. “Not a bit but there is one thing that puzzles me. “What’s that, dear?” “Where are the tires for aU tike wagons in this neighborhood?” “The hills wears them out Noth ing soft can survive around here for long.” Did she think I was soft? Didn’t she know a man belongs in a man’s world? I stood up and took a deep . breath. “My cold is gone, Mary. } I’m going to the office now.” . t * 4 CATTLE GUARD . . . There’s “bed springs” cattle guard fas pi slats, anchor chains reduce to dig n — ■k-. "&J. This An’That gH i Tom Gola, La guile’s tha National DISTANCE MARX . Hamamura, 28, law dent from Japan, won S90i nual Boston A. A. record time ef 2:18:22. lowered eld time 2! 28 mile, 885 yard draft . . . tip that might be above » good