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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1955
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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.
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vance; six months, $1.25.
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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.
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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’
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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'?
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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.
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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.
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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
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opportunities,
paper
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work -
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to
how
to Succeed
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Mr. Theodora S. Reppller
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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 ?
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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
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It l* rtfll not . wen known
fact throughout most of even the
free world.
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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
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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
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“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
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43 Deface
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creature
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diameters to
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