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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1955
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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.
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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.”
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^ 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.
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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.
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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.
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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 . . . Bob Hazle,
heavy hitter called np by Cincin
nati from Nashville of 4he Southern
Association late in the past base
ball season, hit .315 with 29 homers
for the Tennessee team.
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