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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
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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!
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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
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I aha did just that, and she
it getting ppid to worry.
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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
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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
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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