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i -t PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1955 »wn 1218 Collegre Street NEWBERRY. S. C PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. 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. Be* r / §®Ss COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS America is prospering; South Carolina is prosperous, but the old story still may be told: in the land of plenty; in a period of prosperity, there are many who are scraping the bottom of the barrel. Let us see the bright side: “Employment in September was the highest for that month on record. The number of persons at work last month according to estimates by the Department of Commerce and Labor, was 64.7 million. This represented a gain of 2.6 mil- lion over a year ago. Unemployment- last month declined to 2.1 million, the lowest level in nearly two years, ^and com pares with 3.1 million for the same period in 1954. Factory weekly wages averaged $77.90 in September, the highest on record, and represent an increase of $6 above September of last year. The gain is the result of higher hourly rates and the lengthening of the work week Consumers are spending freely. Not only is disposable in come at an unprecedentedly high level but savings are being heavily drawn upon and there is a steady increase in borrov/ ings to a new high mark. Total sales of retail stores in Sep tember are estimated at nearly $15.9 billion, as against Somewhat over the $14.1 billion in September 1954. For the first nine months, scales aggregated $134.5 billion, or 10.5 per cent above the same period last year. This condition is not altogether a happy one for the econ omy, or the people, as a whole. For the record shows that the people are spending their high vwages and withdrawing savings and borrowing more money. Everybody knows that many people operate on borrowed money; money when used to buy or build something as an investment is quite differ ent from money borrowed to buy perishable things. Easy creditis the pitfall of many people; in matters of business or finance some are as easily mistaken as an old friend of mine who consolidated all his debts with a loan from the - bank and said he didn’t owe anything, Many of us fail to use or apply sirtiple arithmetic in our daily planning. “Naughts a naught and one’s a figger’’ i$ still true. One and one are still two and not four, athough folk have either such speculative minds or such amazing faith in happy events that they indulge in financial sprees .as though debts could be settled by the dew of the morning. Have you ever ridden on a train, a railroad train? I have n’t been on a train in a long time. Some years ago I went to the Union station in Columbia with a lad who was brought up in the automobile era; who had ridden thousands of miles in cars, but had never been in or on a train. I think he thought he had to enter by way of the locomotive and pay his fare to the engineer or the fireman. The railroads are operating on a large scale and are still our principal long-distance haulers; but now we have buses, airplanes, cars, etc, also. What makes the mare go?AVe don’t hear that expression often today, though it was once very commonly used. Let us change it by asking what of the future? So far as the business outlook may be concerned I find that the great enterprises of America are continung to plan for future on a colossal scale. One great enterprise has budgeted one billion, two hundred million for expansions and develop- fnents in 1956; another will spend a billion. America is still a young and growing country. •;s . * a ? »w. >n < > The Great Jehovah did not make anything that is without potential use and value. Within this generation we have dis covered l^rge-apalp pses for natural gas and uranium; I still think of sand ifilS swamps as storehouses of great wealth, ahhbugh we hive not discovered these sources of’ ATTENTION, PLEASE ■HEY, MoN\ A*!© TX4t> , CWLV THREE- WERK.S To Po Your. CUQ,\STMA9 Shoppkmg-// WEVe eBEH boOKrt** lfs» ALL Ol/ft SVoRBV AW© KWoto/ Yoo CWN PILL M_l_ Your. HTBpr g\GWT ACRE OUR Home ToWm / m ' • Li*t c f'k I. i j n of sea* water ? “The long-time dream of scientists for a commercially- feasible way to make salt water fit to drink is approaching, reality in north Texas. ; ^ uo a t A utility whose day-to-day job is to supply householders and industries hereabouts with electric‘bowei 4 ,has been ex- • i > 0 r.Q n’H .ft -T Hi- •! perimenting with an electrical device for freshening brack*: ish or saline water. This water is not nearly so salty as sea water, to be sure. But there’s no questioh that the process works. For more than a year, this pilot operation has beep’ turning bitter, mineral-laden water into a dfinkable liquid, at a cost of about 50 cents a thousand gallons. The aim from here on is to attain high-volumo output at lower cost. ' Salt water can be converted into fresh by several differ ent methods, but all are relatively costly, ranging generally from $1.20 to $1.50 a thousand gallons. A few U. S. cities have paid as much as 30 cents a thousand gallons for muni cipal water, but a cost of five to ten cents a thousand gallons is about the highest that’s economically acceptable. In desert regions, of course, where drinking water has to be brought in, higher prices can be justified. Texas Electric officials concede they still have a way to go before the device they’re testing can be used on a large scale. But they’re sufficiently intrigued by its prospects to spend a wad of shareholder’s funds for further engineering and development. / kt i■ / ■ i ■'li t /-. ■ The workability of the electrical water-purifying process depends on the fact that the impurities in Sea water—sod ium, chlorine and soipe 40 other el^nepp?—ape Th the water in ionic form: that is, they have either positive or negative electric charges.’* 5 ' ♦‘fllatefiiV ms §otf|f When I w&s in Peru an American engineer persuaded Pres ident Leguia to authorize a gigantic project to asshre waffrt 4 tbe.de^rl o5 Peru. Tfeft&BfaM *« turn the Maranon river, a main feeder of the mighty Amas- zon, from its eastward course, leading it westward through the Andes mountains. , , . . . r . ; r - v .t Before the dream could even approach reality President; Leguia fell—his fall in some measure due to the heavy ex penditures without such visible results as average men could appreciate. f ■ ' ^ “While Texas has its share of water troubles, the problem is far from a local one. Many cities and towns across the country are plagued with brackish waters, unfit for use in industrial processes and unpalatable for human consump tion. ‘ . , 1 . •*. ' i- : ; • 'I *T l:; . » ■ ; i.j •' r'*> • The hope of de-salting sea water to make the deserts bloom is ages old, though this grandiose goal is still far from achievement. But scientists are stepping up their ef forts for ways to get more fresh water because demand is continually increasing. Present national usage, says the U. S. Geological Survey, is about 200 billion gallons daily. By 1975, this daily rate of consumption is expected to have risen to 400 billion gallons. The problem in every water-freshening system is the cost of the fuel or energy required for the conversion job. Scientists have known for hundreds of years how to distill water on a small scale, but big stills are costly to operate and salty water corrodes pipes and boilers. Natives of sea- girdled islands have learned to trap rain water in cisterns, but such supplies are limited to the available storage cap acity. Q—Can yon tell me. what Is the Bay City experiment in school teach ing'? ^ v '4 /i J 3* i A—It It an experiment introduced tn the elementary schools of Bay City. Michigan, whereby the school board hfretf a number of s6- cailed teacher aides to relieve classroom teachers of all clerical, housekeeping and other nonprofesslca tasks, leaving the teacher ■ tffi time tor the children In tbm cirifejQQm. A survey had found that the average school teacher spent from 21 to 69% of each school L^M^en extra-curricular tasks and ettly 31 to 79% of the time Actual- >W ly teaching and counselling children. The aides took the following tesks from tile teacher’s shoulders; tnfc-Jny roll caQ; d lunch TpoTiyy- •feeiTsnrlnr flniks listing >g papeet. IneejUng records. jaip displays, giving ftrSt aid. haJping jq period, haivtiing visitors ■ n d messengers. from the sun in „ have worked on convertihg cooker is now sold in India tor fid. a erode l. The theory is much the same as hydrogen in the hydrogen bomb. «* had tor 91. I * troni ■>y &**■ f: During a #s duration. the From the Sonth Pasadena Re view, South Pasadena, California: The penny piggy bank isn’t in de mand as it once was, because,-say iucers, “the penny hag> Br* 1 si . -a penny buys so very little, they ex plain,'meek children have no ap preciation for anythin# less thsn a dime. Well, the kids can’t be| ■ " - J "'leir waning interest in .they shouldn’t be al- believe that they have no value, at alL Pennies can pack quite a ' financial wallop. There was a Calitomisi minister, for instance, who started a panny cam paign to buy a new organ for his efctirch. Three hundred thousand pennies were needed. The little coin, started to^ron^ln.^not^«dy pennies piled in a heap, hoped-for organ quickly a reality. " ■ m From the Catskill Mountain Star, Sangerties, NOW York: Much has been said and much more has been written about newspaper boys. Closely associated h^A^been slogan B«y* .A *< To that can be add< ‘Newspaper Boys Have Better Ad vantage!.^ A A . There is a spupd reason for this fact Never before in the expert- && of business has there been a g*iater tor men who can ae* 1 - cept responsibility and for men ’ who aie' willing to work hat'd. ; Newspaper boys cannot help but acquire experience and training t of a vital nature. Their day to «ar ^ work teaches them the value of . ! public contacts, good-will. relln» : t bility, accounting, selling, and the results that follow enterprise and , effort h'S'til '‘rii -i udT v®b There is evident in this country , a trend to make life easier. Sm-,, players Are constantly faced with, the facgi,that lobs and am P*ore concerned in the benefits JMu they Are in I •*rV; ■•^WVTVTn 1 opportunities, paper W !L • work - v>.w*p to how to Succeed m , « .Ji HqOgoJoiHQ Mr. Theodora S. Reppller »» wealth. 1< Vas drilled near New Orleans to a depth of 21,471 feet—nearly four miles deep. It took 855 days and $1,500,000 to drill that well. This is in search of gas and oik Suppose such a depth were drilled svramps; or evert our sandhills! Who knows ? m our ,- 4 . ,>>>;• Where does the water come from? Every time I pass a filling station and see the water used for washing cars I think of the problem of water. Most of you have either used town water or good well water and you have had no water problem. In most coun tries you drink water at your peril. I spent three or four months in a town below the equator whose water supply would not appeal to any of you. In fact, I had to buy distilled water from a brewery—about a hun dred gallons a week, to supplement the regular supply. This water was brought to me in casks across the backs of bur ros. Just think of the millions of gallons of water used in a day by the homes and filling stations of Columbia and Charleston. Even the small towns must provide an abund ance of wholesome water. I am not now thinking of the in dustries and their great use of water. But think of all the water in the sea; surely we shall always have plenty of wlater .Well, what about the saltiness iOklflCARNEGIE Yt AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING' W HEN Victor A. CaDop, BrucrvHIe, Tnrttona, wax 14 years old be gathered with a group of boys to have some fun. They decided to road expecting not be able to pass, would do. After the logs logs across a main traveled gravel with a home and buggy to come »iong and rera curious to see what the drivei In place they hid behind the high fence rowi on either side of the road. They had been waiting only a short time when down the road they heard an automobile coming. This was unexpected be cause autos were not common at that time. The car was traveling at a moderate speed and the lights were not very good. As the driver approached the logs he did not check his speed and hit the logs with a terrible crash. Until this time their adven ture had been much more successful than they had expected, but when the man finally managed to un tangle himself from a lap robe in which he had his feet wrapped, and got out of the ear, they could see that it was the County Sheriff. One quick glance and all scattered and made tor their next three or tour days were spent in suspense as he surely to be apprehended and stand trial and maybe go to the penitentiary. Of course all this worry was in vain for there was very ths Sheriff could have done to the boys, and knowing the boys, he pcukK ably would not have dona anything about the prank even had he able. of New York, President of the Ad Vertiiing Council, recently re turned from a trip around the world to study the Idea war, from our own standpoint and from the standpoint of what the commu nists are doing from their Krem lin fortress in Moscow. He re turns with this conclusion: The American people aM the free world are up against a “dev ilishly clever and ruthless oppo nent, staging the biggest aad best organized attempt at mass con version in the history of the world.” : *i We are fighting it with "pop gun” technique and , with stingy appropriations through our Unit ed States Information Agency, and it*, Voice of America. USIA is doing a tremendous Job with the tools it has at, hand. In addition “ *>*oWn* are pegging away its satellite coun- rm: Radio at Russia ; ; iItoT ,o {T ffTTIT THF It l* rtfll not . wen known fact throughout most of even the free world. J (LiU not certainly the iron Curtain, that we in country and in most of the West ern Hemisphere are living under a system of free government pro viding more comforts, more ne cessities to more people than any society man has produced; that our society rests on the funda mentals that every man is equal before his creator and before the law, and is entitled as a matter of inheritance to basic fundamen tal rights. Most of the people of the world know of our system as American Democracy, or merely as “De mocracy.” But half the world's population has run up against “Democracy” as a sort of pater nalistic colonialism as, practiced by the so-called Democracies of Europe—England, France, 11 Netherlands, Belgium and Italy’ c: And they don’t like that kind of Democracy. Furthermore our capitalistic sys tem has been painted in more, colors than there are spectnims in the rainbow by the Communists as a decadent,. dating system. Un der it people have suffered and under It ’people have al4o < lived in colonialism. Even in our own country capitalism has been prae- * ticed in the past AS a “trodder- down” of labor and has been pic tured in caricature as > an over- fad • monster labeled with dollar ffi®*** ’“.tvuinled ni HloooAm He points out that over the part yeterf our system has progressed j, and grown In vibrant attune to the W’'; IWPlSfNiWv .culou, fact, a&fflgrM) M HARCIA LAYDEN waited hope fully toi Bard’s footstep. She could always tell in that short distance from the car, up the walk, to the patio, how A staccato step tqld be*, happy. The deliberate step like metronome thoughts, a Abe had trotted off with him to all points of the world. Outlandish places with out landish names, and filth and super stitions; wherever his fob as sanitary engineer had taken them. Always they had talked of a home -if their own someday nil l some* .dSlii OK is I. to u But Bare was a perfectionist, al- ways striving to be more and more peeCetant. to his field- Afraid h* i wasn’t good aneugh Art* tb* Brings* Aotoarty ha was dapth of competition of vory poor arkl rich havo shrunk almost to the vanishing potot; ,: ' ! ' fTrTrni Mn; 2—That capital for expansion of our system comes not from a few rich hankers, but from the people. Nearly every American either owns lift insurance, or has money in toe bank, or belongs to a pension plan, and much of those funds are Invested to More than 7 million people own common stocks; millions of em ployees are company stockholders. Even some Labor Unions invert funds in industry. In short; the people are the capitalists . . . • new great world. This morning rite had told •U yon do get the Job to Haiti yon go alone, darting. 1 want to settle down.” She didn’t tort him why. feto didn’t ever want trim to teal the baby held him bade from get- tteg the experience he ttoSMHladi jfjqotq :mj oj He had taken her to bis arms than' and smoothed her hair back with his big hand, the way he had of doing. “But Marcia,” he’d pleaded, his brown eyes searching tote hers. "This is a good oppor tunity. One that might help me Bard. •rooked little Bard had to your way, smiled hack a baby foe, someday city engineer Job, and I happen to know-not one for Haiti.” Bard dropped a kiss on her forehead and left with a dark frown twist ing his brows. It was a long day. The phone remained mute. Of course if she told Bard about the baby he’d give up Haiti and settle for what he could find. But then he’d always think of tits, baby as a handicap. The one tbipg M ^at held him back No. Bard must be free to work ‘ F'to Stand up against ototo- 4 petition^ 0 ' Iuri boon' >; -saa oh. bow wotdd she ever tto' 1 tollve for dressy mootito with- < out him. Why did it haws to be would teal qualified for the fctty engineer's post Not Bard: Would ’ anything ever make hlm fMl he * fit enough? 'H..K »(1 no «i. >q*j Then she '^heazd the ear door .ton. She Sstened breathieeat9> far the rhythm ef hie step upon ’ the walk ahd on tbo stair; IS was the staccato step of happteossl Bard approached her with shin ing; dancing eyes. In a swoop he raised her from the floor and swung' her around in his arms. .. h “When I thought of Haiti with out you . when I remembered tiie tears in your eyes • . -> I didn’t want to go to. Haiti.” h i “Bard!’* • r ’’Se l applied for the city Job » •; . ^ it.*; f * •; ' I ■ i * / j('.: 'MB*:/! “Yes? Ob teB me, toll me. This , “They said they’d thought about me front the beginning. ThouthS X was sn hxvoterate globe trotter, t got it Just for toe asking!” * At long last she freed and With a smile, bom of com plete happiness, said: “And now darting I* m going to teB you some thing that Will make your pemto- r . nent Job even more wonderful!” 1 ! 5)if j “tot tmi d 1 to ft< i* I nil R mm - 5s? y l P-rt.of ■pole Not fresh 10 Kill 14 Highest point External part 19 of^ flow 16 Thin pi ^ ^ J>^ece o£' r wSSfiS ' 22 in desert 30 Spread for drying S Performed Tell tales » Large tub Excavation 51 TOTm alntn SS Strang winds 8S The heart (anat.) 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