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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, JUNE 30
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1218 College 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.
RENEWED MESSAGE FOR THIS "FOURTH"
COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
Pays Tribute To Editor Harris
Our state has suffered a great loss in the death of Wilson
W. Harris of Clinton, editor of The Clinton Chronicle. Those
who knew Mr. Harris cherished him as a friend and comrade.
He was a man of principle, safe, sane and sound, an editor
of keen insight, breadth, vigor and courage.
Mr. Harris made of his paper_a journal of news and edi
torial leadership.
I have enjoyed telling this on Mr. Harris, with my tribute
of respect and admiration: he was the only man I ever knew
who put the telephone in its place. We Americans bow and
scrape to the telephone; we interrupt anybody, anywhere,
to answer the telephone. Not so, Wilson Harris. I was with
him one day and he refused to answer local or long distance
messages because he was busy. I marvelled. Everytime the
secretary ran back to the composing room where we were,
he gave her the same word: “I’m busy; get the number, I'll
call back.” Wonderful man! Most people rush to the tel
ephone, as though the house were on fire, leaving their call
ers dangling in the air, as it were.
Our State has other editors of the same characteristics
as Mr. Harris exemplified. That, surely, is a part of our good
fortune. During the years I have had the happy exper
ience of associating with many editors; and, in recent years,
many fine spirits have come into my life through my radio
brethren; and my friendships among business men have
been stimulating and inspiring. What a lucky man am I.
Nor would I forget scores of worthy and substantial friends
of other walks of life whose good will and encouragement are
as the very salt of the earth to me.
Ladies Of Eighty Gay Lassies
The ladies have decided that people should eat and drink
foods and beverages that make sylph-like figures, so that
when you see a lady on the street you can’t tell whether she
is coming or going. This bids fair to be a terrific strain on
the eyes of men. And then the prevailing thought is that
we should eat those foods which will prolong our days, mak
ing it likely that soon our towns will be full of very slim
men and women of eighty or ninety, all with the agility and
sparkle of lads and lassies of twenty.
Surplus Products Investment High
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“On March 31, 1955, the Commodity Credit Corporation
had a total of almost $7.3 billion invested in surplus farm
products, more than $1 billion more than on the correspond
ing date of 1954. Almost $4 billion of this cache was owned
outright by the Government, while $3.3 billion was being
held under loan. The major items of the CCC investment as
of March 31 were: more than a billion bushels of wheat val
ued at $2.6 billion; more than eight million bales of upland
cotton valued at $1.4 billion; roughly 870 million bushels of
com valued at $1.4 billion; 815 million pounds of tobacco
valued at $227 million; 407 million pounds of cheese valued
at $164 million; 99 million bushels of,barley valued at $112
million; 'and 152 million pounds of wool valued at $101
million.” ■ • > , * •
We ARK AAAIKT
WITH THE NECESSITY OP ASSERTING ANEW THE FUNDAMENTAL
RMUT OF FREE MEN TO MAKE THEIR OWN LAMS AMR CHOOSE THEIR
OWN ALLEOIAMCShiOR ELSE PERMIT HUMANITY 1* RECOME
VICTIM or A RUTHLESS AMRlTION THAT IS DiYERMIMUO TO
DESTROY WHAT IT CANNOT
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American Enterprise Best System
“After having gone a long way down the road to social
ism, this country is showing signs of turning its back on
what has been termed the ‘Ramshackle Paradise.* The Hoo
ver commission’s vigorous campaign to get the Federal gov
ernment out of competition with private enterprise is bring
ing results. At long last, the public is awakening to the fact
that the American system with its incentives and opportu
nities for personal initiative is the best in the promotion of
economic and social welfare. ,
Big government has had a mushroom growth in this coun
try. In the last quarter of a century the number of Federal
workers has increased FOURFOLD and Federal expendi
tures EIGHTEENFOLD. From 1929 to 1948, public wealth
increased 278 percent as against a gain of only 79 per cent
for private wealth, according to the House Committee on
Government Operations. The estimated value of the assets
of Government corporations and credit agencies as of June
30, 1954, is placed at around $40 billion. There are between
2,000 and 3,000 Federal agencies which compete with pri
vate enterprise.
The far-flung activities of the Government threaten the
existence of our free economy, breed unfair competition with
business enterprise, increase the cost and decrease the ef
ficiency of the proper functions of Government , and de
prive the 'treasury of several billions in tax money. More
over, this invasion dampens the spirit of private of private
initiative that has been largely responsible for our great
ness as a nation.
Not only is government competition with business detri
mental to our best interests but also there is confusion, dup
lication, and unnecessary multiplication of effort. The find-
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ings of the Hoover commission reveal shocking waste, over
lapping, and gross inefficiency in the multitudinous govern
ment agencies and commissions, and antiquated and sloth
ful methods of accounting. If any private business had car
ried on its business in as slipshod manner, it would have
gone broke and been subject to prosecution for juggling
figures. In case of Federal agencies, for instance, CAPITAL
FUNDS are borrowed from the Treasury, thereby by-pass
ing appropriations committees and hence beyond their con
trol.
The Federal government is the biggest lending and in
suring outfit in the world, but a drastic overhauling is now
under way. According to the Hoover commission, there are
37 or so agencies engaged in these financing operations.
Credit and lending operations of the Federal government
have far outstripped emergency needs and are expected to
reach a combined total of $57.7 billion by the end of this
fiscal year, June 30, 1955. This latter figure nearly equals
the total loans of all Federal Reserve member banks.
The government is in the insurance business on a broad
scale. Government insurance covers risks not ordinarily in
surable through regular private channels, and in addition it
competes directly with private insurance companies. It is
estimated that at the end of 1953 the amount of life insur
ance in force sponsored by the Federal government was
over $309 billion, as compared with $316 billion by pri
vate firms. The most serious inroads made by the Federal
government in the rightful area of private enterprise are
in the production, distribution, and marketing of electrical
energy. When the government first entered this field, it
was for the ostensible purpose of irrigation, flood control,
and aid to navigation. But these objectives have become of
secqndary consideration. Much of the power from the hydro
electric plants is sold in unfair competition with private
enterprise. The government's greatest venture in this field
is the Tennessee Valley Authority. This was set up to be a
‘power yardstick.' The argument of the proponents was that
TV A could sell power more cheaply than, private enterprise.
But according to a study by the Chamber of Commerce of
The United States, TVA rates would have to be nearly dou
bled if they were to compete on an equal basis with those
of private utilities in the same region. Private utilities are
being squeezed out by tax-free Government projects, while
local government suffer a substantial loss in revenue. Two
decades ago the Federal government was producing only
about one half of one percent of all the electricity generated
in the United States, while today it is around 15 percent of
the total. If the state and local government production is in
cluded, the proportion increases to nearly 24 percent. The
Federal electric power facilities should be sold to private
investors.
While encouraging progress is being made by the Hoover
commission in its gigantic task of reorganizing our govern
ment, much remains to be done in the face ofpowerful re
sistance by pressure groups.
The staggering governmental burden and gross ineffi
ciencies that constitute a menace to our national security,
and impose such a strain and an undermining influence
upon our economy, must be reduced. An aroused public
should insist upon positive action by congress.”
AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING' ^
J OHN CLAYTON. 3518 W. Almeria Road. Phoenix, Orizona. had wor
ried for months and years about his wife’s illness, and his worry
increased when the doctor said that she should undergo an operation,
but that he didn’t know whether her heart condition would permit it.
Also a cancerous condition might be revealed. However, an operation
was decided upon and she entered the hospital for an operation four
days later. John Clayton was so worried he hardly
knew what was going on around him.
Sometime during the first part of the week the
Scripture found in the first verse of the 18th chap
ter of Luke came to him, that "men ought always
to pray, and not to faint." He had been praying,
but he had been fainting also, to the extent of his
worried outlook. But from then on as he prayed
he took a more optimistic attitude.
When they were preparing to take his wife to the
operating room she said. "If I don’t come through _^
this, you all will just have to do the best you can." CARNKQIK
If she had said this three or four days earlier, he says, he doesn't
know what he would have said or done, but now he calmly told her
she was going to be all right. After they took her away, ha seemed to
want to be alone and he spent a good deal of time standing on the
front steps. Suddenly he'seemed to feel the presence of God because
he never felt less alone in his life, even though no human being was
near.
The operation was a splendid success in spite of the long duration
of his wife’s illness and her weakened condition before his wife was
restored to him and to her home.
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The Federal
Department of Agriculture recent
ly published a booklet in which it
finds that one-fourth of the fami
lies who live on American farms
still have cash incomes of less
than $1,000 a year/ That booklet
represented more than a year of
study and preparation.
It may be that a cash income
of $1,000 a year is what the in
vestigators came up with. -I didn’t
get the booklet so cannot analyze
how such figures were arrived at.
However, I doubt that so large a
number of farm families have so
small a cash income.
Just note that is stated as cash
income. That is entirely different
than the total income of a farmer.
Pretty much an farm families get
a large part of their living from
their own land. They don’t have
to* buy vegetables, some fruit and
many of them get beef and pork
from their own efforts.
The amazing thing is the pro
posal of the federal government
to assist these farmers by educat
ing them to get off the farm. It
would tum them into laborers or
mechanics instead of trying to
help them be better farmers with
a large income.
In all my life, with considerable
knowledge of farm conditions, I
never heard such as asinine pro*
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NEW wonder of the world will
soon rise above New York’s* nogrsphers and interpreters, the
Pennsylvania Station—at a cost of
more than $100,000,000.
Without interrupting the flow of
689 trains s day, or causing any
inconvenience to the 110,000,000
passengers a year utilizing the
rapid transit facilities here in New
York’s transportation hub, private
industry will erect the biggest
building in the world. Appropri
ately named the Palace of Prog
ress, the enormous structure will
be a permanent World’s Fair and
an international merchandise mart
designed to stimulate and exhibit
the products of trade, commerce
and industry in the Free World.
Showman Billy Rose will be presi
dent and general manager of the
"Palace.”
Rooted and roofed over the pres
ent site of Penn Station, the build
ing will be two blocks wide and
will contain approximately 70 mil
lion more cubic feet than the 84
million cubic feet Pentagon. In
terms of floor space, including the
terminal facilities below street
level, the Palace of Progress will
measure almost 7 million square
feet, surpassing the Pentagon and
Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, more
than three times the space in the
Empire State Building.
The monumental undertaking is
a projecj of Webb & Knapp, Inc.,
William Zeckendorf, president, and
will be operated and merchandised
by Palace of Progress, Inc., a
wholly owned subsidiary, with
Rose in the key operational post.
Complete with restaurants, pri
vate dining rooms, a pool of ste-
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posal made. It is worse than
pid or silly. And there is
realistic about it.
If one-fourth of the farmers
this nation are taken away fr
production, agriculture would
to a serious point. Here in Vermont
it would just about destroy
life.
What in the world are the
emment officials talking about
taking a farmer and putting ‘
into industry. Where in the
could a farmer, 45, 50 or •$
old get a job? No matter what
ability, he would not be hired
account of his age. Then there
many, many farmers who are o
00 years old.
Many of the smaller dairy
ers in Vermont get soru
from their ch%lren. They manage
to work along without paying
much if any for labor. Some
th—» got income from c
ucts besides milk. They manage
to get along and pay their bill*
because they know the value oC
a' dollar. They ^ know that valun p
because it is hard to get.
it is my idea that this plan of
educating farmers to be indu- at
workers was conceived in JiR:
minds of some swivel - ehah ex
perts (?) who know nothing & ill
about farm operations and .till
less about how, the small farmers
get along.
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Palace of Progress will provide a
permanent, central point - of - sale
contact between consumer, manu
facturer and distributor. The struc
ture can best be visualized as four
distinct layers. The upper segment
will be given over to office space
for resident buyers, brokers, im
porters and exporters, and com
mercial attaches of foreign gov
ernments. An additional 2,000,000
square feet of space will be de
voted to a merchandise mart on
the wholesale level. It will be de
partmentalized and will include
modem facilities for the display
and sale of merchandise.
On the first floor will be a single
piece of exhibit space approxi
mately six times the size of the
arena at Madison Square Garden;
on the first six or seven floors, ap
proximately 2,000,000 square feet
will be devoted to the public ex
hibition of goods and services by
private concerns and foreign gov
ernments.
The foundation segment of the
Palace of Progress will be Penn
sylvania Station, which will also
be streamlined and air conditioned,
incorporating the most modern
ideas in ticket-selling and passen
ger-servicing. The station will car
ry on as usual, with no interrup
tions in trains or service while
the enormous .structure is being
constructed. Basic segments oi
the building will be suspended
from massive girders rooted be-,
tween the tracks below ground
level.
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Recalls Days In Peru
Recently I had the pleasure of making a little talk to quite
a number of young priests of the Catholic church at the
American Legion home in Kingstree.
I was invited to tell the priests something of our State,
the invitation to me coming froiq the Rev. Joseph L. Ber-
nardin, vice chancellor of the Catholic diocese of Charleston.
Our Catholic brethren have a Bishop whose official resi
dence is in Charleston,so the whole diocese, meaning the I
State, is known as the diocese of Charleston, the Cathedral
there being the Bishop's seat.
I enjoyed my visit to Kingstree, as I always do. This oc
casion carried me back in thought to my years in Peru.
Among my many duties, I was president of the Examining
Board of the Catholic university of Lima, U an institution
whose Rector, as the Spanish call the head of a university,
was a retired Bishop and he was the handsomest man I
ever knew—Monsenor Pedro Pablo Drinot.
Year after year I devoted some hours, after office hours
and early in the morning, to the examinations, which were
oral, being conducted by me and my two assistants without
any participation by the faculty of the university. My ap
proval gave the course official recognition, as I was the
government's representative. I had the pleasure of an hour
with the Bishop, a charming gentleman as well as a great
man of God. , , ,
L OOKING across the barren squad
room with th4 solitary light
bulb hanging, from the ceiling,
Walter Detrick could see Mul-
rooney muttering oyer an arrest
sheet. The big cop had just broken
his third pencil
!"Don’t make 'em as strong as
they usta," grumbled Mulrooney.
He tossed the fragments of the
pencil across the room. Walter
grinned. It reminded him of the
day he and Mulrooney had hem
hired, years ago.
Walter had looked at himself in
the mirror that morning and fig
ured he hadn’t a chance of being
hired aa a cop. ‘Tm such a little
runt," he muttered.
"Wear the best suit, booty," his
wits told him.
He had felt his confidence oozing
down into his shoes as ho walked
UP too yrorn stone steps of the
City HalL The desk sergeant gave
him a hard stare and pointed an
indifferent finger down the hall
whore the final interviews were
being held!
"Come in. Detrick,” said the
Chief. Walter walked uncertainly
intovthe big smoke filled room and
took a straight backed chair along
the wan. He tried to look as though
ho belonged there. The Chief was
worried about the tough kids in
Irontown; breaking and entering
and doing general mischief. The
situation was getting out of hand.
The Chief was doing something
about It—he was hiring cops.
"Gotta 'nother pencil. Chief?”
asked the big man who was trying
to fiU out his papers. He held a
broken pencil in one big paw.
The Chief took the pencil and
looked at the big man.
"Don’t make ’em as strong as
they usta,” said the Chief with a
short laugh. The rest of the men
in the room laughed loudly.
The Chief tossed the broken pen-
en In the wastebasket and the ac
tion seemed to help him make up
"An you feUows can go
exception of Rogers,
his mind,
with the
Able, and Mulrooney," he said.
Then he hesitated.
Walter started for the door. Thai
was that He wondered what h«
would teU his Wife.
"Detrick!” said the Chief.
"Yes, sir," said Walter.
"You stay,” said the ChieL
The upshot of the interview was
that Walter was hired. After a few
minutes of questioning the Chief
made Detrick-a cop and he’d been,
a cop ever since. But most of his
work had been with boys. He had
always prided himself that he had
done a good job even though he
had never been tough like the rest
of the men on the force.
Later, Walter asked, "How come
you picked me. Chief?”,
“I needed tyg, tuugh guys Iflce
Mulrooney and the other two and
they've made floe cops for me,"
said the Chief slowly.
"But I needed another type and
I figured you were it."/he contin
ued.
"How come?” persisted Walter.'
“Knew you wouldn’t be hard on
pencils," the Chief said slowly.
Then the Chief looked serious
"We had a problem in those days
with tough kids—same problem to
day to a certain extent—I knew
you Hked boys.”
“How did you know I liked
boys," Walter asked.
“I could see throegh you, Wal
ter," answered the Chief blandly.
"Oh?"
"Remember that fancy silk shirt
you wore, yon old dude? Well, I
saw right through' it—right on
through to that undershirt you
were wearing. Know what was on
that undershirt. Officer Detrick?”
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The Chief laughed loudly and fyls
laungh rang through the barren
halls of the Police Station.
"Counselor — Sunnyside Boy's
Camp!” howled the Chief,
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