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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
We’ve heard so much about Yalta; someone has hinted
that our men were so bemused they , didn’t know what was
going on. Well this may throw a light on some of our so-
called diplomatic junkets:
“Enough has not been told concerning the disgraceful
Yalta conference. Some weeks back I prepared a manuscript
summarizing both published and unpublished facts dealing
with this diabolical episode.
Now' comes a book by one Laurence S. Kuter, who was
at Yalta during the conference as a representative of the
military air force. Among other things, Mr. Kuter des
cribes some of the menus, as follows:
‘The first course of the breakfast was set forth in a med
ium sized tumbler containing what appeared to be apple
juice. When breakfast was opened with toasts to the sev
eral allied military commanders, the ‘apple juice’ proved
to be cinamon brandy.
Following the opening toasts and the brandy were re
peated servings of caviar and vodka. With the successive
vodkas came toasts to lesser allied military luminaries, ev
entually getting well down the scale.
‘With the cold cuts, a white wine was served. Following
the cold cuts, and with more white wine, came a curd cake
with sour cream sauce. Finally, small hard Crimean apples
were served and with them bountiful glasses of a quite
sweet Crimean champagne.
With the champagne came still more toasts, and by this
time American staff officers were called upon to return
toasts by Russian staff officers.
The final course of this breakfast consisted of tall thin
tumblers of boiling hot tea with which brandy was served
in snifters.
That was just breakfast!
How could any man with his stomach full of the above
described stuffings make one rational or logical decision in
relationship to the welfare of the United States of America?
It must be remembered that even Elliott Roosevelt, who
went with his father to the conference, said that practically
everyone wjas drunk.”
Here is something from the Bamberg Herald which may
prove illuminating:
“MISSISSIPPI ‘VIOLENCE. ,
Some Negro advisors would have Mississippi expelled
from the Union or Bend federal troops to that state to
‘protect’ the rights of the colored people. Ail of this stems
from the alleged murder of a colored youth from Chicago
who assumed jthe privilege of insulting a white women. But
from an isolated murder (the jury acquitted the white men
accused of it) the NAACP now includes the whole state—
and other states—in wholesale mistreatment of the Negro
population. -
Congressman John Bell Williams has dug into the crime
record in Mississippi, and finds that six negroes were killed
by white persons in 1954 and eight white persons were killed
by negroes in the same period. But 182 negroes were killed
in 1954 by members of THEIR OWN RACE.
There is too much crime and too many killings in Missi-
ppi; likewise, there is too much crime in every state of the
Union. Considering the percentage of negro population
to white pouplation in Mississippi, the 1954 record of racial
crimes is amazingly low. Congressman Williams is render
ing the South and the nation a real service in deflating a
common calumny against the people of his state.’’
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Coal men concede they’re bound to lose part of their pow
er market to the atom. But they deplore ‘unwarranted op
timism’ over atomic energy as a source for commercial
power. If atom power comes into wiide use soon, they main
tain, it will be only because of Government subsidy. And
coal men flare up at this prospect.
‘There now exists no substantial reason for headlong de
velopment of a big government subsidized industry to gen
erate atomic fueled electricity for commercial purposes,’
says a statement prepared by the National Coal association.
“Report sent to congress by Tennessee Valley Authority
stated that it will be faced with a power shortage by the
end of 1958—unless it obtains additional construction funds.
It would prefer the old system of direct advances voted out
of the US Treasury by Congress, but even the democratic-
controlled Congress has ‘nixed’ the idea of any more Treas
ury cash for the building of stearn^ generating plants. Un
der contemplation at Washington now is the proposal to
authorize issuance of revenue bonds by TVA.
The figures coming out of TVA, by the way, reveal in
startling clarity the fact that the Valley Authority is charg
ing its customers much more for electricity than is charged
by Booneville Power Administration. The facts covering
this disclosure will be reached in a few moments.
TVA indicated to congress that a generation shortage
amounting to 500,000 kilowatts may develop before the end
of 1958. To thwart it the Authority wishes to have con
struction of additional steam plants started at once.
At the end of the last fiscal year, June 30, 1955, TVA
had 7.8 million kw of generating capacity, 1.7 kw of which
was added during the year. Since that date the total gen
erating capability is said to have grown to more then 9
million kw. In* the fiscal year the agency’s facilities gen
erated 42.5 billion kws and it purchased 3.6 billion addi
tional kwh. The Atomic Energy Commission took almost
exactly half of the power TVA generated in its own'plants,
amount being 21.8 billion kwh.
“Old King Cole is laying battle plans to beat off the
atom’s rising—though still distant—challenge to the power
generating empire coal has dominated for a long time.
The chief strategy is to keep the cost of coal-produced
power as far as possible out of atomic electricity’s reach.
To do this, coal men are pushing mine mechanization, lur
ing power plants to settle close to mines, trying to hold
down coal freight rates and seeking to squeeze more power
out of each pound of coal.
Coal men, plainly concerned about the coming of the atom
drew little consolation from the report by a panel of private
citizens that tended to pooh-pooh coal industry fears of new
dislocations. They insist that what the panel called a slight
possibility—big atom power gains between 1965 and 1975—
is, in fact, highly possible. And they don’t want to sit
idly by.
The spectre of the atom isn’t the only stimulus for coal’s
current campaign; the post-World War II advance of oil
and gas into its domain rankles too. But the increasing price
of oil and gas-produced power diminishes their threat, coal
men figure, and the atom poses the real long-term danger.
The prize in the developing atom-coal rivalry is a hand
some one. Today, coal provides the raw material for more
than 50 per cent of all electricity produced in the U. S. and
for better than 66 per cent of the fuel-produced power.
Power-plant furnaces consumed 115 million tons of coal
in 1954 and 137 million tons last year. This year, they’re
expected to burn up over 142 million tons.
America owes its greatness to men of vision, faith and
courage. We like to think of Henry Ford, the amazing in
dustrialist; and we have had men of vision in South Car
olina, not visionaries, idly dreaming, mildly speculative and
ineffective. Something in the daily papers this week im
pressed me deeply. It was the announcement of great pro
jects of construction by the South Carolina Electric and
Gas company—a total of new construction for three years
aggregating 73 million 250 thousand dollars.
Whose vision led to that? That is the plan adopted by the
Directors of that great company, a group of level-headed,
resourceful, clear-thinking men who study conditions and
act on facts which are the foundation of abiding faith in
the development of South Carolina. I think you would like
to know who those extraordinary men are. Not including
the directors, who are of the administrative staff, here
they are—all men of large responsibilities and all success
ful in managing interests of great magnitude:
p. M. Edwards; John C. B. Smith; W. i. Keenan, Jr.;
these of Columbia; Maier Triest; A. F. Heinsohn; J. B. Ma
honey; of Charleston; J. B. Guess,Jr., Denmark; D. H.
Banks, St. Matthews; J, H. Epting, Leesville; and S. R.
McMaster of Winnsboro.
The directors acted on a plan which had been studied
broadly, deeply, economically, electrically, technically, fin
ancially. Who prepared and submitted the plan? The pres
ident of this great company, a native South Carolinian, a
Clemson college graduate, born and reared in Fairfield
county—Silas C. McMeekin.
To tell in one sentence about Mr. McMeekin, I was re
cently told by an accountant that this company, during
eight years of Mr. McMeekins leadership has increased its
investments in our State one hundred million dollars—
from $81,000,000 to $181,000,000. It is more than that to
day—and I’ve spoken of the new construction to cost 73 1-4
million dollars within three years.
Ponder the figures and the achievement accomplished,
not merely planned. I callattention again to the great in
vestment, planned and directed by an executive of remark
able qualities and endorsed by a great Board of Directors.
I have not consulted our State authorities, but this enor
mous investment for public service and convenience—
about 200 million dollars—must be South Carolina’s great
est investment.
I quote Mr. McMeekin’s statement that was carried by
The “State” newspaper:
P ASSAGE of the so-called Harris
natural gas bill which takes the
regulation of natural gas prices
out from control of the Inter-State
Commerce Commission, and hands
it over to the various State Pub
lic Service Commissions for con
trol, will do three things:
(1) It will undoubtedly increase
the price of natural gas to some
25,000,000 consumers eventually:
(2) It will likely cause a split
in the heretofore unified ranks of
the Democratic party; and,
(3) It will place the Democratic
party in the position of being a
party to the “give-a-ways” for
which they have so furiously con
demned the Republican party.
This is virtually the same bill
passed by the Congress original
ly! under the name of the Kerr
bill, for Senator Robert S. Kerr
of Oklahoma, and which Presi
dent Truman vetoed. Last year
under a new version it was re
introduced in the House by Rep
resentative Harris of Arkansas, a
Democrat, and Just skinned through
the house with heavy Republican
support, and somewhat lighter
Democratic support, but enough
to pass it. The companion bill
was introduced in the Senate by
Senator William Fulbright, Demo
crat of Arkansas, and was made
one of the “must” bills by Sen
ator Lyndon Johnson, the Majority
leader in the Senate.
One of the heaviest lobbies in
history has congregated in Wash
ington to bring about passage of
the bill throughout the debate.
Opposition to the bill has been
spearheaded by Senator Paul
Douglas. Democrat, of Illinois, and
he sought several crippling amend
ments to the measure, one of
which would eliminate the 27 Vi
per cent depletion allowance
granted the oil corporations, and
another which would have elimi
nated the tax deductibility of cost
of drilling a dry well which the oil
companies enjoy.
Proponents of the measure de
clare that the present bill has been
provided with safeguards to pro
tect consumers. However the op
ponents still maintain that the pas
sage would cost consumers as high
as $800,000,000 annually in in
creased cost of natural gas, and
that the so-called safeguards are
purely of the paper variety and
that a breakdown of federal reg
ulation of prices at the well-head
will mean large price increase
at the other end of the pipeline in
the mlddlewest and eastern states.
There has been no statement
of polic/ from the executive
branch of the government as to the
possibility of a presidential veto.
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The Nation^ college and univer
sity enrollment this year will top
the three-million mark for the first
time in history, according to a
report of S. M. Brownell, Federal
Commissioner of Education.
Institutions reporting the largest
enrollment include: University of*
California. 38,594; State University
of New York, 33,634; New York
University. 31,867; City College of
the City of New York, 26,426; Co
lumbia University. 25,887; Univer
sity of Illinois, 24,120; University
of Michigan, 23,765; The Univer
sity of Minnesota, 23,393; Ohio
State University, 21,744 and Uni
versity of Wisconsin, 20,110. Total
enrollment includes 1,784,000 men
and 937,000 women. *
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24 To incite
26 To discolor
27 A doloy
28 Grain fungus
30 Make mistake
31 French river
32 Silkworm
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men
35 Multiplies
37 Portion
38 Ediblo seeds
41 Climbing plant
43 Excavation
45 Scorch
47 Mine entrance
48 Article of
faith
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51 Met* I
52 Mendicants
54 Dance step
55 Combining
form: dawn
56 Fur neckpieces
57 Debatable
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scale
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three
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getelle
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poker stoke
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calcium
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3 Number (pi.)
4 Short articles
6 Mature
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Europo
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doity
10 Trail of a
wild animal
12 Country of
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success stories
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craft guild
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22 Making lees
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bout
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“The years ahead promise a continuation at an accelerat
ed rate of the extensive industrial expansion which has
taken place throughout the state and particularly in the
area served by the South Carolina Electric and Gas Co.
Keeping up with the residential, commercial, and industrial
growth means that the company must solve its production,
transmission, and distribution problems years in advance
of the actual demand for electric and gas service. Behind
every kilowatt-hour of electricity and every cubic foot of
natural gas the company delivers, there are years of study
in anticipation of the increased needs of our fast-growing
list of customers. Preparations must be made not only for
anticipated influx of new and expanded industries but also
for the increased acceptance of new equipment such as elec-
trie and gas clothes dryers and all-year ’round air condi
tioners in the many thousands of homes in our service area,”
the power company executive declared. “The company’s last
three-year forecast of construction expenditures amounted
to some $57 million (1965 through 1957). Today for a like
period of time it has increased to more than $73 million;
here is convincing evidence of the company’s confidence
in South Carolina’s future development, with particular
emphasis on the 23 counties which we are privileged to
I li S T 0 n
Q—Can yon tell me wbat the Wild Life Refugee ProteoUon'RH1 pro
vides?
A—H.R. 5306, introduced by Congressman Lee Metcail, ol Montana,
provides basically that it is the policy of Congress to maintain and
preserve the national wild life refuges, and would require prior
Congressional approval before any part or all of a wild life refuge
could be disposed of or relinquished by the Secretary of the In
terior. Companion bills have been introduced by Senator Hubert
Humphrey, of Minnesota, and Congressman Henry S. Reuss. of
Wisconsin.
q—How many presidents have come 'from states weal of the Miaale-
sippl River?
A—Three. Herbert Hoover, born in Iowa and elected from Calif onus;
Harry S. Truman, born in Missouri, and President Eisenhower,
bom in Texas, and living in Kansas before entering military service.
Q—De widows of Presidents gel pensions?
A—-Not as a matter of law, but by special acta of Congress annual
pensions of $0,000 hava bean granted to the widows of Presidents
Tyler, Polk, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Cleveland. Benjamin Har-
rison, McKinley. Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson and Coolidfe.
nl salary dees the vice-president receive?
A—lie receives 880.000 per year, plus an expense allowance of WOO*.
Prom the Dove Greek Press,
Deve Greek,
'Brain
washing" Joined the English tan-
guaga* shortly after the first Amer
ican captives of the Korean con
flict were returned in the prisoner
exchange. The term refers to tha
actions of their enemy captors as
the Communist forces attempted
to sway their' American captives
to their line of thinking.
However, without Identification
of the action as such, segments
of America's population have been
undergoing “brainwashing" for
more than ,20 years!
AU too frequently, the news on
the national scene is filled with
stories of labor violence and strife.
Why? Simply because the organ
ized laborer in the factory, the
shop, or the store has undergone
so much “brainwashing" from the
union hois and the cooperative
governmental bureaucrat that he’s
convinced that management owes
him his job
This “brainwashmg of the
American laborer is reflected fur
ther into the quality of his work.
The poor quality of workmanship
in the so-caUed “famous names"
of household appliances, television
sets, and automobiles has be
come a serious problem in the of
fice* of the big manufacturers to
day.
Yet. what can be done about
it as long as the man on the as
sembly line has substituted "this
outfit owea me my job 1 ’ for pride
of workmanship?
But, let's leave the factory and
head for the open country where
we'U find the same thing hap
pening on the farms of America.
Although some of jhe farm and
Uvestock organizations have been
fighting government .eglmentatioa
for several years, still there is
that portion of the farm population
that believes that "the govern
ment owos me a living."
And, thanks to oversea lous po
litical aspirants, the American
farmer is practically In ** posi
tion where It is impossible fur
him to help himself—he has to de
pend on the government for that!
The solution to these problems.
If there is any. wdn't be easy and
won’t be painless. The question
is—can anything be done to cor
rect these situations or is It al
ready too Late?
The individual who believes that
the government owes him a liv
ing wlU wake up some day to find
that he owes his living to the gov
ernment
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From the Etowah Newe-Jenmal,
Attala, Alabama: To become a
convincing talker, keep both hands
in your pocket while telling your
audience of the fish that got away
DaueCarmegh
AUTHOR OP “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START l\\
TNOROTHY N. EPPERSON, Rt. 2, Neoshow, Missouri, has written us
not a story but an Inspiring letter about her parents. If what the
says about them could be said about all parents, there would be .Httle
juvenile delinquency in the world and much more happiness. Here
is the gist of her letter:
"My mother and my father were profuse in their praise of anything
well done, and more advisory than critical of any
faults in their children. Their advice to their chil
dren was always given in a manner suggestive of
the belief in the one advised and his or her ability
and desire to improve. I cannot recall a single word
of harsh criticism ever made by either of them.
“My parents lived to be eighty years old, hav
ing reared five children who have given them many
grandchildren, and the entire family was devoted
to them. A favorite saying of my mother’s was.
The biggest room in the world is the room for
self-improvement. * "
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