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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6th, 1955 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS Will President Eisenhower be a candidate to succeed him self? Probably so; one seldom refuses a second term. Can he carry the South? That is very, very doubtful. Can he carry South Carolina? That is even more doubtful. I have great respect for Mr. Eisenhower and regard him as much better than the Democratic leaders of the moment. The country is probably safer with Mr. Eisenhower than with the Democrats who are now regarded as leaders. I wish there were a third party that could appeal to sound people, people who are not asking favors and who would like their sons to inherit the nation without the frills and fur- belos of Roosevelt and without the taint of Communism which seems to be within the ranks of some others. I dont’ know how much rottenness there is in our National life, though I think a strong odor seems to pervade much of our officialdom. I have a feeling that we are throwing aw r ay billions of dollars and making ourselves ridiculous throughout the world. Much of this was started by Mr. Roosevelt; much by Truman; and Mr. Eisenhower has not the discernment nor the resolution to curb our recklessness. At home the Federal Government is trying to do every thing. Hardly a day passes without some utterance from the President or vice-president covering every subject from the years of high school to the proper inflation of a bicycle tire. We have brought all this on ourselves. In Mr. Roose velt’s time all of us stood perplexed, amazed, stupefied, ag hast, befuddled and Mr. Roosevelt stood ready to try any course or expedient ,even moving goods North to South and shipping them back again. Mr. Roosevelt didn’t seem to have any firmly rooted ideas so he tried anything and everything that anybody suggested. Such a condition always attracts crackpots and dreamers—and they flourished. The trouble is that we still have them. Our politicians run to Washington for everything and thfen we condemn Washington for meddling. The average man in Congress is interested in building a political following; we have very little statesmanship. The Federal Supreme Court is playing politics and re lying on a lot of half-baked sociologists for the foundations of judicial decisions, instead of on the recognized law of the land. ' * We need a fresh baptism in law and government. We need a clear definition of Federal power as well as State power; we need an understandable definition of the appell ate prerogative of the Supreme court. We need a Supreme court, but we need the Sovereign States. The rights of the States should not depend on the whim or caprice or vagary of the court; nor should the Court presume to rely for law on patent medicine ads or suggestions for vitamins, nor even on theories of sociologists. ! Are Senators Olin Johnston and Strom Thurmond to be without opposition next year? It seems to be assumed that Senator Thurmond will resign and run again, unopposed; and the general assumption is that someone will contest the seat of Senator Johnston. Several men are being mentioned up and down the state but no one has decided to run, so far as I have heard. Of course there may be several stand ing out “in the weather,” hoping that the lightning will strike them, but the lightning seems to be too far away just now. # I’ve been asked recently why I don’t discuss politics oft- ener. One reason is that there isn’t much to discuss; and I don’t like to fan the breeze with a lot of surmises and un founded prophesies. The only real political news of the day is the decision of Speaker Solomon Blatt to withdraw from the race'for Chief Justice. Mr. Blatt is an able man, a sound lawyer and a sound thinker; he is a forthright man whom I’ve appreciated throughout a long friendship. He would be a good man on the bench; he is a capable and useful man anywhere. MESSAGE FOR NEWSPAPER WEEK In all the categories examined Tennessee has fallen be hind in productivity. One hundred and eight million dollars have gone down there annually mostly from other states to pay 22,796 TV A employees an average of nearly $5000 apiece, plus millions in doles granted by the Federal government. The most startling failure of TVA is that it does not produce sufficient power for the people it serves. So TVA never will be able, selling electricity at half price, to earn enough to expand to meet the need of a growing community. That’s why Tennessee growth is slowed up. There is a shortage. What value is lowed priced electricity when it cannot be had at any price? This is the universal character istic of socialism everywhere. Besides all this, TVA is completely exempt from all taxes. It does not contribute a dime to national defense, not even toward the salaries of the President and the Congress that do all the nice things for it. Finally, TVA was made asham ed by the complaints of the local people in the adjoining municipalities that educated- the TVA children, provided police and streets and hauled away their garbage free of taxes to them. So TVA condescended to volunteer to make a contribution of about a tenth of what it should toward the expenses it had thrust upon itsneighbors. But it may decide to quit at any time. Had TVA paid taxes at the same rate paid by private power companies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, such taxes would have amounted to about $80 million; re sulting in a loss in operations of about $57 million. If TVA were required to pay interest on the appropriations granted it by Congress that loss would have been increased by another $24 million, which figure, does not include the $10 million more for amortization. Thus if TVA were run as an honest business enterprise, its books on June 30, 1953, would not show a credit balance of $19 million but a deficit balance of $91 million. Yet, even with that deficit repre senting a subsidy paid by the Nation’s taxpayers, the TVA system cannot produce enough cheap power to satisfy the demands of the consumers it was designed to serve. There is no similar shortage of power in other parts of the country where private companies are the suppliers. The reason for this is that the private power companies, being run on sound and honest business principles, have antici pated the increased demand fort electrical energy. At this time the private power companies are undertaking a $2.5 billion expansion program of their facilities. The original excuse for the law creating TVA, viz, to control floods and to aid navigation on the Tennessee river, has turned out to be a joke and a fraud of extensive pro portions. Instead of stopping floods is has actually perman ently flooded 660,000 acres—an area as big as Rhode Island —out of a million acres it owns and controls. This great Tennessee river bottom, according to army engineers would not seriously flood more than once in 500 years. The bot tom lands did sustain some overflow in the spring, as most river bottom lands do. It benefited the land by leaving a fer tile sediment. Crops thrived. Annual production was about $27 million. That is now all destroyed, and there is water, water everywhere. \ There is another loss even more important than the $2 billion that have been poured into this monumental blight of Tennessee and drain on the other states. The people of Tennessee lost their political freedom when they became dependent upon TVA. Their governor is compelled to come is*; mm: "MIP m W % ■a i mmmmmmmmmm r-rr-r-rrT-raac im mm r u ' s®. i What about the Tennessee Valley Authority? Congressman Gwinn of New York has discussed it in a manner to make us think. Hesaid: “We have had 23 years of experience with our first soc ialist experiment. The United States Chamber of Commerce has compared Tennessee with 10 Southwestern States which use private power. In 1930, before the advent of TVA, the population of Tennessee ranked fourth among the ten states. In 1950 she still ranked fourth. In 1933, just a year prior to operation of TVA, the re ceipts from farm marketing ranked Tennessee fifth, while in 1950 she dropped to eighth place. The retail sales payroll in 1935 put Tennessee in third place; in 1946 she had dropped to fifth place. Retail sales in 1929 had Tennessee in second place; in 1948 she had dropped to fifth. In value added by manufacture Tennessee ranked third in 1933; fourth in 1947. In gross postal receipts she ranked third in 1933; down to fourth in 1951. LOW ROOF VENTILATOR . . . One answer to problem of ventll- ating low roof stock shed is this improvised ventilator. Vent is an open-ended box made of 1x12 lumber, two sides being 2 in. longer ihn.it the others. Top end is covered with sheet metal. Cut hole in roof next to a rafter to which ventilator may be nailed. Q—Can you teU me which are the three most prevalent communicable diseases in the country today? A—As ot September 1, 1955, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare reported the following as the most prevalent communicable disease as of that week: Poliomyelitis, 2,279 cases; Scarlet Fever and streptococcul sore throat, 1,303 cases; whooping cough, 998 eases. Over a five year average, Polio, whooping cough and measles lead the field. Q—When is the White House conference on education scheduled to dis cuss what to do about school construction needs? A—President Eisenhower has set the conference for November 28 through December 1, 1955. Q—On what does the Secretary of the Treasury predicate a possible balanced budget next year? A-—On an expected increase in corporation income and excess profits taxes of about $900 million; an expected individual income tax in crease of $1.2 billion and a possible cut in government expendi tures. Q—Can you tell us the major achievements of organised labor daring 1955? A—Most labor leaders believe two events achieved by labor during 1955 gave most cause for celebration on Labor day. They were the agreement to merge between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress for Industrial Organization, and winning recog nition for the principle of the guaranteed annual age by Walter Reuther of the United Automobile Workers. Q—Is there a record of who the first woman was, employed by the Government? A—It is generally believed that Miss Jennie Douglas, who was hired by F. E. Spinner, treasurer of the United States on October 9, 1862, to cut and trim paper currency, was the first woman in govern ment. Women today outnumber men workers in government. F OOD experts throughout the world are depending largely upon atomic energy to provide food for some billion and a half additional hungry mouths on this old planet twenty-five years from today. This was one of the facts of life stressed by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organiza tion at the recent atoms-for-peace conference in Geneva, Switzer land. This food factor is a major prob lem even today, when every day of our lives there are an addition al 100,000 people to feed as world population races on from its pres- . ent 2.5 billion to an expected 4 billion in 1980. That’s within the life span of most of us here today. FAO believes it is technically possible to achieve the necessary production of increased foodstuffs and basic raw materials to meet world needs for this foreseeable future in the myriad uses of atomic energy. And to start, the organization has recommended to world 'gbvemments to aim at in creased production of one to two per cent greater than their an ticipated population growth. Three main lines of attack will be utilized in this increased pro duction: 1—Use of atomic energy to re duce the present heavy losses in foodstuffs at all stages of produc tion, storage and distribution. Atomic energy will be used to kill insect and rodent pests; to elimi nate disease in animal and plant life; and to preserve for longer periods of time perishables now lost in spoilage, and from other causes. 2—Use of atomic energy and its by-products to increase the productivity of land now under cultivation; to develop new strains of disease resistant and heavier bearing grains and other food and fibre; to increase production of animal and fish foods through im-- proved technical methods; and to intensify production of forest re sources. 3—To increase supplies through developing new areas and re sources and land utilization, ad mittedly the most difficult since the areas and resources most easi ly developed are already being utilized. However within the lifetime of this generation, scientists predict that seawater, purified through the use of atomic energy, will be used to make the deserts bloom; that present losses of foodstuffs in both grain and meat, in, vegetables and root crops which rims into the billions of dollars annually, in some hot and humid countries as much as 25% of harvests, wjll be eliminated through void pasteuriza tion and sterilization by irradiation with atomic energy; that fungal and bacterial infection, losses due to depredation of weevils and eth er insect pests in both foodstuffs and livestock will b^ a thing of the past after treatment with atomic energy; that the canning industry will be revolutionized through cold pasteurization of food stuffs. . ^ In the United States alone losses to growing crops caused by in serts, weeds, plant disease ac count for losses in farm output equivalent to 13 billion dollars This loss, or most of it can read ily be avoided by timely applica tion of ccntrol measures to kill disease and pestilence. T r TOP AMATEUR . . . Harvle Ward, 29, of Tarboro, N. C., won National Amateur Golf championship by beating Wm. Hyndman 9 and 8 at Richmond, Va. Ward, shown with his wife, is first southerner to take title Bobby Jones' victory in This an' That Army Major Ben C. Curtis of Chattanooga fired a record-break ing 290 out of 300 to become the first man since 1921 to repeat as national service pistol champion . . . The Baltimore Orioles are sending 10 farm players to South America so they can continue to play all winter . . . Only one two- year-old money winning champ has ever won the Kentucky Derby. That waa Whirlaway, in 1941 . . . Bad minton originated in India where it was called "Poona." The Eng lish took it to England and from there it spread, achieving its great est popularity in the English- speaking countries • . . Rube Mar- quard of the New York Giants set a pitching record when he won 19 straight games in 1912 . . . The length of a regulation bowling alley is 62 feet 1054 inches from the foul line to the edge of the pit and 60 feet from the foul line to the center of the No. 1 pin ... Walter Camp, himself a former Yale star, picked the first All- American team in 1889, naming 11 players and calling them the great est at their positions. to Washington, hat in hand, predicting dire consequences for his people if the dole i# shut off. The people of Tennessee must live under whatever rules Congress promulgates and those rules effect not only the rates charged for power, but touch every aspect of the state's economy as has been pointed out. They have lost their productivity.” What is really wrong with us Americans? Is it that we seek selfish advantage and hug to our bosoms any program that may mean a dollar to us even though it may tear down the great America of our fathers? CROSS From the Etowah News-Jour nal, Attala, Alabama: The biggest and best game on earth is played by the Golden Rule. Two or more can play at the same time. To begin the game right, there is one basic rule that you must always remember. You move first. Another interesting thing about the game is that you do not have to beat to win. In this game you win when you make a friend, and the only way you can make or hold a friend is by first being one. You move first. «■ Some people try to reverse this rule—try to play the game back ward. Then it ceases to be a game and proves to be a gamble, where you are pretty sure to lose. The happiest homes in the coun try are playing the game. The • biggest business houses are crazy •about the game. This game will eventually become so popular that few people will be left who prefer to beat themselves at solitary. The solitary player looks so lean and lank! Their lives are as unpro ductive as those spent in digging in the bottom of a pool for the bright stars reflected on its sur • face. This is a busy planet and the peo ple who win are the folks who have friendliness in their hearts \ and a sincere desire to help their neighbors up ^ the hilL The people who win the biggest blessings this world has to offer —health, love, understanding—are living in accordance with the rules of the great game of Live: “Do un to others as you would have them do unto you." . . * * * From the South Pasadena Re view, South Pasadena, California: One of the things which is unique to American business is the ele ment of risk. In many countries the economic systems appear similar to ours, but in reality they are far dif ferent. Government programs, price controls, regulations, restrictive legislation—all designed to pro tect thi* group or that from loss can be found. The government pays the losses by taxation. There can be no true profit— which results In raising the stand ard of living—unless free meh are willing to take a loss. In the U. S. we have,' in most industries, been able to preserve the element of risk, the striving for profit The elepient of risk has pre vented those working in the free enterprise system from becoming complacent It has • encouraged progress through competition, and every citizen has benefitted from the progress achieved. , HaieCarmegbei -if AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AHD START LIVING" ^ - T EliRY FULHAM, 420 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, says she was worrying one day in her German class when the instructor stopped and said abruptly, “Terry, I thought you were a Christian.” “I am,” she stated .emphatically, but she says no doubt her ex pression revealed that she was* both startled and angry. The instructor continued, “A true believer in Christ believes that He is perfectly capable of han dling every situation—^without any help from us. He firmly believes that ‘All things work together for gof>d to those who love the Lord.’ Your worry and stewing axe proof that your- faith is not very strong.” Because that Instructor and the other pupils of' the class were members of another faith, she made no reply. But she was seething inside. She felt that the instructor had made a spectacle of her because she did not belong to her Church. 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