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PAGE TWO THE NKWBEBRY SUN THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 1W 1218 Colteg* StrMt 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 Match 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS SPECTATOR “Wasteful Socialism in Action,” is the heading over an editorial in The News & Courier. I reproduce that editoria with my full endorsement. “The Clark Hill dispute boils down to a further attempt by public power advocates to socialize all electricity in the Southeast. Rep. Chudoff (D-Pa.), who has demanded the resigna tion of Interior Department officials, is an immoderate spokesman for the socialists. In the past, he has refusec even to listen to arguments of free enterprise power offi cials in South Carolina and Georgia. ChudofFs partner in the attempt to socialize power in the Southeast is actually * member of the Eisenhower administration, Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell. | The situation is complicated, but it is important for taxpayers to understand the details. Clark Hill is a federal power project. Half of its power is supposed to be sold in South Carolina and half in Georgia. Under federal law, as interpreted by Atty. Brownell, rural cooperatives are supposed to get the first chance to buy the power. Rural electric cooperatives in Georgia want to buy al of Georgias share of the Clark Hill current. And under the Brownell ruling, the REAs’ are entitled to do so. But the Georgia REAs have no trunk line connections with Clark Hill. So the interior department worked out an entirely sen sible scheme. Georgia’s share of the Clark Hill production would be sold to the Georgia Power Co., which agreed to deliver and re-sell the current WITHOUT PROFIT to the Georgia co-ops. Nothing could be fairer to the co-ops. But the public power advocates don’t like that. Why ? Simply because, no matter what it costs the taxpayers or the co-op subscribers, they want socialized power. Even if they can get the power delivered to the REA lines without profit, they don’t want the power because it happens to /pass through non-socialized trunk lines. Mr. Brownell’s ruling, which we think is ridiculous, goes so far as to say Clark Hill has to sell current directly to the Georgia REAs, even though the REAs have no trunk line connection with Clark Hill. He saps in effect that since Georgia co-ops want to buy the current directly from Clark Hill, a connection must be , built directly from Clark Hill to the co-ops. And who is to pay for the connection? The taxpayers, of course. So here is the situation, which now becomes a matter of general policy under the Brownell ruling: Whenever the government produces power for sale, co ops must be given preferential treatment in buying the power. And if the co-ops have no way to get the power di rectly, the way must be provided—over their own lines, not over the existing lines of any taxpaying public utility. * The News & Courier thinks either that Mr. Brownell is off base or that the law should be changed. We think that the government shouldn’t be in the business of producing power; that if the government does produce power the electricity should be sold to the highest bidder, and that it is foolhardy to build duplicating, unneeded trunk lines simply because REA officials don’t want to use any electri city ‘contaminated’ by having passed over the lines of free- enterprise, taxpaying companies.” y As a citizen I try to rise above considerations I might claim because I am interested in farming. The Government should treat all citizens alike; there should be no prefer ences, no discriminations for or against any man or any calling. During the war, or on account of the war the Govern ment very properly offered inducements to farmers, manu facturers and others because of the gravity of a special condition of the moment. I think we should challenge in court all preferences and discriminations and insist on equality and fairness. Of course there w^ould be no likelihood of a just decision at this time; but if we ever have a Supreme Court of lawyers trained in the law, we should knock all our Socialistic pro grams into a cocked hat. Charleston has the lowest debt of any South Carolina City, says our friend Mr. Waring. It is refreshing to read good news, isn’t it? “It cost a citizen of Charleston $8.78 for his police pro tection, $5.53 for fire protection, $3.52 for street mainten ance and $7.14 for sanitation during the fiscal year which ended in 1954. The figures were obtained from a U. S. Department of Commerce publication received yesterday by C. W. Martin at the local bureau office. The Commerce Department study covered 481 cities in the nation having a population of over 25,000. Charleston, with Columbia and Greenville, were classed with 123 other KUD AND HEM VOTE NOV. 8,1955 OMTV4S PBMLMt AMO CACRC.D DUTY or EACH MPfVtDUAL CmZEH CAYTIN* MIS ■ALLOT AT KVMY ■LtCTtOM, WHCTMftS LOCAL,STATS OH MATIOMAL* UT- M/ncfl m i ’ -A it cities in one population gpoup. Expenses for Charleston’s sister cities were: Police—Greenville, $9.68; Columbia, $7.93. Fire—Green ville, $6.21; Columbia, $5.55. Streets—Greenville, $6.48; Columbia, $6.65. Sanitation—Greenville, $17.90; Columbia, $10.59. ' Charleston’s citizens had the lowest debt outstanding of the other South Carolina cities. The city debt here totaled $4,253,000, or $56.19 per citizen. In Greenville the debt was $141.73 a citizen and in Columbia, $81.21. Local residents paid $30.01 each in taxes while Green ville citizens paid $36.12. Columbia residents paid the low est rate, $27.87 per person. Charleston operated on the lowest margin of deficit of the three cities, expenditures coming to $1.14 more per person than revenue per person. In Columbia this difference was $6.69 and in Greenville, $7.13.” Would you like to see America as the men of vision see it a few years ahead? Here’s what I find in “The age of Dynamic Expansion of Standard & Poor: . “It has been said that we are entering the age of Chem istry, meaning that our industrial processes will henceforth rest largely on the multitude of new synthetic materials and alloys which are emerging in a steady stream from the chemists’ laboratories. Some 90-odd elements combine in nature to form sev eral hundred thousand substances. More than one hundred thousand have already been identified. But the chemists are now regrouping the atoms of these ninety-odd elements to make entirely new substances. In addition, they are dupli cating synthetically many of the products found in nature, and are doing it more cheaply than they can be extracted. The chemical industry is already synthesizing 99 per cent of the product used in the dye industry, 95 per cent of the plastics, 75 per cent of all drugs, 65 per cent of all rub ber products, 50 per cent of all paint, and 20 per cent of the textile fibres. And this is only the beginning. Several chemical and mineral substances are being explor ed which may actually be revolutionary. For instance, there is hydrazine, a chemical cousin of ammonia. Just as the or ganic hydrocarbons led to a vast family of more than a half million marketable chemicals, hydrazine may lead to an equally large marketable family of hydronitrogens which will be used for power and explosives, in metal processing, in agriculture, in pharmaceuticals^ in textiles, and in count less other fields. Two minueral substances with assured future are glass and titanium. The market for glass fibre alone increased 4,275 per cent from 1939 to 1954—from $4 million to $175 million. In 1955 it is expected to jump to almost $200 mil lion—a gain of 14 per cent in a single year! No estimates have beep made of the use of silicates in 1975, but it certain ly will be immense. f The mineral titanium, it is believed, will be a very import ant factor in the metal industries by 1975. It is not only plen tiful, but is now extracted at a commercially practical cost. Because of it extreme lightness and toughness, it is expect ed to find a rapidly growing use in transportation and con struction. Its expanding production in the next two or three decades could possibly be as rapid as was that of aluminum after 1920. , Iij the opinion of industrial scientists, there is no foresee able limit to the number of new marketable products which chemists and metallurgists will be able to develop in the next few| years. Some of them will undoubtedly produce revolutionary changes in industry. If we are to double our production by 1975, we shall have to increase our supply of energy enormously. The consump tion of power in the United States is phenomenal as it is. With only 7 per cent of the world’s population, we consume a huge 45 per cent of the world’s total energy, and it is sky rocketing.” * , i ‘ -1 jg! fa) Mi are; ft) fa) t. Caehet S. Cavil (a) kMtas Plaea; <*) saal; fa) fa) to die; (b) to qpribbla; fa) ANSWERS ’•|qqi*b *S l«®8 *« tarabanpvvao *1 B Y THIS time almo»t qvqry atate in tha Union has hold a atato confaronco on education and its delegates arq ready lor the White House Conference on Education to be held in Washington Novem ber M through December 1, fol lowing tbe celebration of Amer ican Education Week November • to 12. President Eisenhower’s proclam ation some time ago calling this White House Conference on Educa tion poined out that the American people have a right “to taka spe cial pride in our nation’s educa tional system.” However, as will be shown at the conference, there likely will be some who will take iaeue with whether we have a right to take pride, or whether we should feel ashamed at what many educators declare is a lowering in educa tional standards which is hot good for the youngsters of the country. ■van by use of the word ‘‘edu cator" to describe some of our school' officials, you can gat an argument Thera la one school of thought which saya soma school heads, school leaders or teachers are ‘‘educators” but that most of them are "educationists.” It seems that an "educator” wants to teach the basics and fundament- hls like the four “Rs" and the basis sciences including higher mathematics, chemistry, physics and perhaps some of the other sciences. The “Educationists” would teach the influence of these basics on the child’s life, but not the basics themselves. It seems that some teachers in the ‘‘educa tionists” class believe that self- expression and self-realization is | the goal of education, and not real knowledge in fundamentals. Then this White House confer- • ence will hear much about the best way to finance our schoola. Shall they be flnaneed at tha state, local and or federal level? Whet about a big federal Bond issue? What about local state bond is sues? Or shall we continue to as sess taxes on the basis of school districts. Pour advisors have been named to preaent divergent views to tha conference on this question of finance. They include: Arthur A. Elder, International Ladies Garment Workers Union, AIT.; Prank W. Hubbard. National Edu cation Association; John R. Milas. U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and Roger W. Freeman, Commission for Intergovernmental Relations. There is actually no major , goal set up for this edcuational confer ence, but there will have been many widespread questions ’ Set tled at least within state delega tions before they are aired at the national level. The real objective is to get people, the parents and taxpayers interested in the pub lic school system, to turn the spot light of publicity upon our schools, . to get people to realize the schoola are their own problems, at what ever level of taxation. Traditionally the public school system his been held to be the sole responsibility of each sover eign state. With the troublesome question of segregation before school and state officials at the moment, many states, particularly in the south are jealously guard ing that sovereignty over their public schools. PRO NATTER . . . Taay Tra- bert, *S, keidar af U. 8. and Wlmblsdsn HHae and rated werlffia heal ftennle player. This an' That Al Kattne, the Detroit Tiger's St-year-old right fielder la the third major league sophomore to load both leagues la hitting. Ka- Itao’s MO average makes him the paawgeat soph ever to wia a bat ting title. Only others to lead both laagnea hi their second year were George Stone, who won the Amer- loan League batting title in 19M with n .358 average for tha 84. Leals Browns, and Stan Mesial, Who hit .357 as a soph for the 84. Louis Cardinals in 1943. Paul Waner af the Pirates and Pete Reiser of the Dodgers wen hat ting title« aa sophomores, hat failed to lead both leagues . , Wrlgley Field, home of the Chi cago Cabo, was onoo tha home of tho Chicago Whales of the early Federal League . . . Stan Mnaial la 10th in Ufetime homo ran stand ings. Al Simmons previously held the No. 10 spot with 397 homers ... The college football tenant all members of tho Osuthern CROSSWORD PUZZLE • been very Her ho had one trait that thing to tho last die everything at to. Add her worry to conquer worry, alyse her prshlstn realised that she a Secondly, oho al Thirdly. It was at aaon i got arouno •uggesuon to I aha did just that, and she it getting ppid to worry. if She began going to work In a happier frame of CARNEGIE mind, worked very hard and did tha very beat she eould. letting each tomorrow taka care of itself. From that day on bar Ufa aoamod transformed. Not only was An happier but aha made others around bar happier. of Rees in automobile ooBlakna. Contrary to what most people think, and daspRo tho foot that total casualties op the highways are rising, tbs porosutago of deaths, measured by the miles . ' M m « / m 2 1 _ n • One reason there is reason to be lieve that tho percentage fatality rate can be decreased further is the introduction of safety belts on cars . . . and the increasing use of soft padding on tha dashboards of cars. In addition, many auto mobiles have been strengthened ao that tha roof will stand up bet ter in case of a turnover In this respect, tt is interesting to point out that some manufac turers who have removed center posts in sports models have setu- afly reinforced the top, deRdto removal of this brace, more than —mtigh to offset removal of the center poet Harvard . .... W latkm to keep the public ergo. Be won't have to iboqt It very much. That public tebt, now of 395 billion dollars* not likely opinion If debt as that la necessary to pro vide savings and charitable in? | stttutkms as well as individuals an outlet for investment of money. He told a lot of bankers tifat "the public debt is the backbone- of out monetary and banking system.” If that statement can be accepted as true, then there need not be much worry about whaf the government Whitehall. Wlsooashi: Too many Aiwi-t^ana, in this matter of guard? bog tha interests of tho public, are to “Lot George Do It.” not realizing that "George” died ’ several decades ago Q-4 am a ia aa bUnd, Would I he m of sight A—Yes. So long as you have a service-connected disability you may be entitled to YA aids for the blind, oven though the 4 Mindnssi itself is not service-conascted. . ' a - Oau you ten am hew many homes have boon poichiood by Yet. enuas through the OX taut program? A—As of September L GI home loans guaranteed by the Yeterane