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/ PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1955 Utt 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. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS SPECTATOR Joanna always goes forward; The Joanna Mills, under the able leadership of Mr. Walter Regnery, recently nailed some joyful news on the Company’s bulletin board. Here is what “The Joanna Way” says: “Joanna plant bulletin board notices made good reading when information was posted that Joanna Mills company had announced an upward revision of wages for all employees effective Monday, August 22. The adjustment amounted to an over-all increase of 5 cents. All of Joanna’s more than 1,600 employees benefitted from the general pay raise, which followed the pattern set by mills in our area. Much has been written in newspapers and other period icals abput higher textile wages in New England in com parison with pay of Southern textile employees, with little emphasis placed on the higher living costs in the New Eng land area. A study of latest U. S. Labor Department stulies of industry-wide wages indicates that Joannians, with the new pay boost in effect, are receiving pay equal to, and in several categories more than, the New England average. Let us recall this statement . . . “Joannians, with the new pay boost in effect, are receiving pay equal to, AND IN SEVERAL INSTANCES MORE THAN, the New England average.’ I commend this to the attention of my esteemed Boston friends—and others. HALLOWEEN SPOOKS The. Edgefield Advertiser comes to us on book paper! Editor Mims maintains an editorial integrity worthy of the family, which is saying much, and worthy of the best traditions of journalism anywhere. As a matter of fact Edgefield county has two papers, one in Johnston, both of which are edited by clear-headed men. Mr. Mims and Mr. Aull keep old Edgefield on the map. I haven’t space or time to do justice to my brethren of the quill. Consider The Calhoun Times, The Bishopville Leader, The Beaufort Gazette, The Clinton Chronicle, The Darlington News and Press, The Press and Standard of Walterboro, The Georgetown Times, The Sumterltem, The Newberry Sun, The Myrtle Beach News—-well, now, don’t you see? The Berkely Democrat, The Allendale and Hampton papers of Tom O’connor, The Barnwell People-Senthiel—we are for tunate in our editors. The Manning Times, Editor Magill of St. George, The Bamberg Herald—and many, many more. Lucky people that we are. ' I’ve said nothing about our dailies and our Associated Press brethren, and the special reporters. My silence does not spring from lack of appreciation but from lack of words to portray adequately my regard for them. And The Beau fort Gazette and The County Record. Then there are my radio brethren, a knightly group who honar me with their indulgence. And then we have Editors Wyatt and Hiott of Pickens and The Greenville Observer. From whatever angle. South Carolina is a fortunate state. The Government is headed toward the greatest pork-bar rel squandering in our history. How is this: i “The Government is plunging into a little noticed but far- flung public works program that promises to roll up a multi billion dollar bill for the taxpayers in the next few years. Between now and next July, the two big Federal pick- and shovel brigades—the Army corps of engineers and the Interior department’s Reclamation bureau—will start or resume work on 109 sizable projects for irrigation, flood control, harbor improvement, beach erosion and power gen eration. The total number of ‘new starts’ for the two agen cies is triple that of the fiscal year ended last June, and the greatest since World War H. These starts may be the lar gest ever. Nearly every state in £he union, plus Alaska and Hawaii, will feel some imprint of this bustle of activity. Projects being started range from a $20,000 effort to deepen. St. Patrick’s creek in Maryland to the giant Trinity river pro ject in Northern California,, expected eventually to cost $219 million. The roster also includes work on the Painted Rock Reservoir in Arizona, Nawiliwili Harbor in HawSaii, Hamm- onasset Beach in Connecticut, Apalachicola Bay,in Florida and McGee Bend Dam in Texas. What’s more, there’s every reason to believe that next year Congress is going to pile expansion on top of expansion. The present program doesn’t include a penny for the $923 million Upper Colorado River project, already passed by the Senate and high on the Administration’s ‘must’ list or for the proposed but not yet authorized $173 million Frying pan-Arkansas project. The big expansion voted by congress this year was largely approved over and above Administration requests. In the budget proposed to congress last January, Presi dent Eisenhower called for appropriations to start or re sume work on 41 Engineer and Reclamation projects. Con gress’ approval of 109 was more than two and a half times the Administration’s request: President Eisenhower signed the bill authorizing the projects only under protest. ‘We can only guess’, he said, ‘what their total cost to the taxpayers will ultimately be because of lack of detailed en gineering studies on many of them’. But the expansion promises increasingly acute spending problems for the Administration in the fiscal year year starting next July and in the following year. The total even tual cost of the 109 new projects is now reckoned at $1.8 billion; they alone likely will require about $500 million a year of Federal spending in each of the next few years, aside from outlays to complete projects begun in. the past few years and to start any new jobs Congress may authorize. The current increase in spending for new projects springs from what one Congressional critic calls the ‘foot-in-the- door’ technique. Rep. Davis (R., Wis.) who led a Congres sional fight to hold down the appropriations, noted that this year’s bill contained only $1 million for the Ice Harbor dam project in the Pacific Northwest. But, he added, this dam is due to cost $142 million before completion. ‘There is, no use completing the Ice Harbor project unless you are going to commit yourself to the other three on the Snake river,’ he stated,‘so that one little million dollars involved in this bill means the‘commitment of about $400 million for the taxpayers of this country. The giant step-up now beginning was touched off by Con gress in an appropriation bill passed near the end of the session. New starts for the Engineers and the Reclamation bureau had been held down ever since the Korean war Ije- gan, and Congress wias out to get the program back on the free-spending track. By the time the bill passed, it was a giant pork-barrel measure, critics charged. Rep. Davis maintained that while the House tacked on quite a few projects that weren‘t too desirable, the Senate ‘really scraped the bottom of the barrel of the authorized projects’. He charged that lawmakers from the Mississippi valley and the Northwest and Midwest had made a pact to vote for each other’s projects.” We should authorize the president to veto any item in an appropriation bill. Just now he must approve all or veto the whole bill—good and bad. And then we need a president who will curb the squandering of public funds. That governor who challenges the authority of Congress to give awlay ta-money is thinking along sound lines, al though the steam-roller will crush him. Citizens have suggested that I either revive the Farmers & Taxpayers league or organize something like it. I fully agree that something should be done, but THAT “something” would require quite a lot of financial support, as well as very hard work. I am not seeking it, I assure you. National employment climbed to 65.5 mHlion in August, which was the fourth consecutive month of new high rec ords. There were 3.2 million more workers than in the year earlier. Unemployment last month declined to 2.2 million, the* lowest since November, 1953. This brought the number | out of work down to 3.3 per cent of the labor force as against around 5 per cent, the high point of last year. The high level of employment, and the rise in wage rates, are largely responsible for the total personal income ex ceeding the yearly rate of $300 billion for three consecutive months, vtith the amount for July reported at over $304. billion. With record personal income, the consumers in a spending mood, the trend of retail sales, and a seasonally adjusted ba sis, has been upward since the early part of 1954. The rate of consumer spending is about $20 billion. aboye 1953, with sales of durable goods running 18 per cent and soft goods ) 5 per cent above that year. Propects are that fall and winter trade will be the best ever recorded. That is, of course, made possible by the unprecendentedly high volume of consumer credit, a development that is causing growing concern.” T;' |l " ■' vovz 1. Cnprecoos means (a) fickle; <b) Uke copper; (o) Wghty. 2. Dulse refers to (a) a stapid person; (b) (c) thick doth. a* Efflorescence means (a) foil flowering; ever young. (b) well lit; (c) ANSWERS 'SatiajMg n*J f *p»941*»8 •iqiPSI *g *JS<do» »qn *1 DaieCarmegie ^ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING-'- O NE day Doris M. Weller, 126 S. Erie Street, Mercer, Pennsylvania, heard a pronouncement that seemed a condemnation. Her best friend—the best pal she had, her mother—condemned to death. Nat urally she was stunned. The doctor said she would ha?e from six months to two years at the most. ' Doris didn't see how she could endure living with that weighty se cret on her mind. How could she take care of her mother over that long period of time? She would find herself thinking, on a beautiful spring day or at the first snowfall, “Mother won’t be here this time next year to enjoy this beautiful day.” At last she made up her mind to ©ne thing: She was going to make the remaining days for her moth er as pleasant and as happy as it was humanly pos sible. And she did. She says now that she would not have changed a day in the way she took care of her —and that she was actdally happy during that time. She was doing the one thing she wanted most to do —and enjoyed doing. She was so busy making her CARNEGIE mother h’appy she had no time to think. And she was much more able to accept the inevitable than she had thought she could ever do. A saying of her mother’s constanUy comes to her mind which has helped her greatly: “The Lord will never give us a too difficult prob lem, nor too heavy a burden to carry.” i From the Southern Standard, Arkadelphia, Arkansas: The Rus sian farm expert had quite a time during their much-publicized tour of lush Iowa. The latchstrings were out in the traditional American way, and they found friendliness and hospitality everywhere. They also received some big surprises. Apparently our methods of do ing the work of the farm are be yond the Russian’s ken. Writing in Newsweek, Russian-speaking journalist Leon Volkov said: “To Russian eyes, Iowa, U. S. A., is a fabulous land of plenty in which nobody has to work. They tried to hide their amaze ment but they never quite sue ceeded. At first, the Russians kept asking each other where the farm workers were. They had a hard time believing that one man could work a 150-acre farm all by him self with the aid of machinery.’’ Now there’s human work to be done on even the most advanced American farm, and plenty of it. But farm equipment has greatly reduced the amount of arduous la bor required, even as it has vastly increased farm efficiency and pro ductivity. We all know the story of mechanization of industry, and we are all hearing about the new est step along that road—automa tion. But many of us don’t realize that a mechanical revolution has been taking place in agriculture as well There are no push-button farms. Maybe there never will be. But the machine has made it possible for both farm and factory people to get far more return for their work than their forefathers would have believed possible. That’s what the visiting Russians learned in envious amazement. From the Chickasha Star, Okla homa: There is a fairly widespread notion that the growth of big busi ness in this country has been made possible by the absorption and de struction of small business. In 1900 there were 21 independ ent establishments per 1,000 popu lation—half a century later there were 27. And big business needs and supports small business. One of our biggest businesses has over 33,000 suppliers and sub-contrac tors, most of them small. Another buys goods and services from 21,000 independent suppliers. In some lines big business can do a job best—in others small business is superior. The 'country has to have both. i n c t o n j. Q—Is the support program for wool the same thing as the so-called 7 Brannan Plan? A—Yes, it is basically the same. Wool growers sell their product on the market in competition with imported wooL Then the Govem- 1 ment pays them the difference to make a full parity return. The Brannan plan contemplated farmers selling their product on the open market at competitive prices, with the government making up the difference in direct payments for fun parity. Q—Is the date now observed for Thanksgiving the traditional date? A—No. There may be variations from tradition which set Thanksgiving as the last Thursday in November. In 1941, the Congress passed an act requiring the Federal Government to observe the fourth Thurs day in November as Thanksgiving day. The fourth Thursday may not always be the last Thursday. Q—Also Is there a nation-wide date set for Memorial Day? A—No. In the north, most states observe May 30 -as Memorial Day, the practice originating with Gen. John A. Logan in 1868. However in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, April 26 is Memorial Day. In North and South Carolina the date is May 10. In Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee, June 3. Q—How and Why was file Eagle chosen as our national emblem? A—The Continental Congress adopted the American bald Eagle as fixe national emblem on June 20, 1872. Many ancient nations chose the Eagle as symbolic of grandeur, sublimity, vigilance and courage. At the meeting, William Barton, a Philadelphian, insisted on a crested Eagle which is not found in the U. S. Benjamin Franklin ' recommended a turkey as the emblem. Final choice was the Amer ican bald eagle. Q—How many presidents have died in office? A—Seven. William Hairy Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, McKin ley, Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt Only two—Harrison and Taylor died la the White House. iii91 fifiT-rr—r-rrTTT • mmt mm : :.r?. ’! fill r l iif»t mm* % k M I'iglfiMfiNfiMftMMM “■r-.r-’rg-rpnfifi r ■«« Wf 'Pv w 'u 1 Ban TIRE CHAIN REPAIR . . . Links on old fire chains often be come separated and no longer effective. An inexpensive and dur able repair Job can be accomplished by replacing with rubber links W HAT has happened to the for eign policy of the United States since the summit confer ence at Geneva when western propaganda led the world to be lieve a new era of good feeling as between the Reds and the free world was in .the making? What has happened to free world unity and the western allies since that memorable conference when the President, since stricken with a ‘heart attack, made his offer of reciprocal, aerial arms inspection as between the Soviet Union and the United States? What has happened to the west ern position that there is no alter native to NATO and a United Ger many since the Geneva confer ence? The answers to these three ques tions do not make pleasant read ing ns our world diplomacy fa cts are is concerned, but the these: 1.—NATO itself Is threatened by fixe likely withdrawal of Greece. Turkey, France and even the un likely participation of western Ger many itself in fills North Atlantic Treaty Organization which the free woi;ld deems the first essential of a free Europe. ’ > 2—Our two allies, Greece and Turkey are at the breaking point in their diplomatic relations. Both these countries are vital to even the containment, let alone any concessions on the part of Russia, since they set astride the Darda nelles and the Bosphorus, Russia’s long sought outlet from the Black Sea and a warm water route to the East and West. 3—France, one of the Big Three allied powers, has virtually with drawn from its NATO commit ments, pulling its contingents out of Europe to hold its North African colonial empire in submission. More important likely, is the French withdrawal or at least boy cott of the United Nations over a vote chi the Algerian problem in North Africa, endangering the ef fectiveness of the United Nations itself. If France persists in its present stand, it may mean more withdrawals and a possible break up of UN as an effective world organisation for peace. 4. While talking peace at Gen eva, Russia has flatly turned down the President’s proposal for an' arms inspection plan and in tun is fa«j«ting that the United States give up its foreign military bases, carefully built up ever a ten-year period. As a token of its supposed sincerity, Russia has returned , Porkkala, a military base to Fin land, and to put added pressure on the United States, the Soviets are offering to return Habomai and Shikotan Islands, just north of JSpan, to Japan, as an incen- < tive for the* U. S. to give up its Far Eastern bases. 5—Also while talking peace, the Soviets have frankly admitted they have offered arms to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria, and in the case of Egypt, a complete prefabricated arms plant to turn out rifles, ma- ’ chine guns *hd light artillery. - V -,5 '■T4 W This an’ That r * RDS’ GM . . . Frank Lane t >ove) was signed to 3-year ntract as general manager of .. Louis Cardinal baseball club : v owner August Bosch. Lane dgned same Job with Chicago White Sox after 7 years. The Dodgers won the World Se ries but the Yankee* took some laurels. Yogi Berra was the stead iest performer, getting at least one bit In each game for a series av erage of .417, tops-for both teams. Billy Martin, Yankee second base man, appearing in his fourth World Series, hit .32S in the series to emerge with the best ord for Series play am< participants. In his four Martin baa 25 bite for 72 trips to the plate, an average of .347 . • The Philadelphia Phillies have un conditionally released Eddie Waitkss and Harry' note” Lowery • • • Eleven players in the Baltimore Oriole organiza tion are playing winter baseball In the Colombian League at Barran- quills, Colombia . . . 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