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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
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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.
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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.
CARNEGIE
However, there have been many times since when trials and ob
stacles beset her when she has remembered that instructor's admoni
tion, and knows that God will give us the courage and the means to
overcome every hardship and burden if we just put our complete trust
in Him.
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ACROSS
1 Grape refuse
5 Brilliant
display
rThe rain tree
14 Tune
15 Shore bird
16 Unaccompa
nied
17 Rodents
18 Sea Eagles
18 Sea eagle
19 Feminine
name
30 Censured
harshly
22 To pound
down
24 Turf
25 Ireland
27 Part of flower
(pU
29 Balconies
33 Nahoor sheep
34 Fourth calif.
35 Condition
37 Quarrels
41 Agreement
43 Greek grave
stone
45 Cooky
46 Scoff
48 Stops
50 Prefix:
51 Seine
53
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55 Kind of can
non (pL)
59 Undraped
60 Silkworm
(var.)
61 Valley
63 To boil
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Thrice
67 To scorch
69 Man's name
71 Wharf
72 Chief gods of
Teutonic ~
pantheon
73 Size of type
74 Makes
mistake
75 Winter
vehicles
76 Of an age
77
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1 Defaces
2 Russian lake
3 Feminine
name
4 Holler on a
» f& v .Un.
6 Rowing
implement.
7 Place where
money is
coined
8 Petitions
9 Chinese boats
10 Wing
11 American
Inventor
12 Negatively
charged
narticlo
13 Requires
21 Period of time
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23 Mountains
(abbr.)
26 Contraction
of beneath
28 Charts
29 Military |
signal,
lights out
30 Ardor
31 Cereal grain
SI Visible
vapor
36 Girl’s name
38 Against
29 The book
40 Rotate
42 Canvas
shelter
44 Native of
Etruria
47 Elementary
textbooks
49 Border
52 Malay
coin
54 Intensity
55 Tsl
56 Bay
57 Wash In
water
58 Slumbered
62 American
Indian
64 To wea
65 Wife of I
66 Formerly
sheep
70 Frozqp water
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