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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1956
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Is America to be a Socialist Nation ? Are we playing
with Socialism, or is Socialism playing with us?
Do you remember the man who had lost some money
buying stocks? Perhaps, as a matter of fact, at least sev
eral lost a bit of money trying to show themselves big
boys. At any rate a friend met our man X and said, “X,
I hear you have been playing the market.” “No, indeed,”
said X. “I did not play the market; I was serious all the
time. The market played with me.” Well, are we playing,
toying and disporting ourselves with Socialism, or is So
cialism making monkeys of us?
In South Carolina, according to my learned friend, the
Editor of The Columbia Record, we have a plan or practice
of governing by synonyms. It was many years ago, as I
recall, perhaps in the days of my callow youth, that Edi
tor Buchanan pointed out that prize-fighting was unlawful,
but boxing matches were permissible. And so on.
Most Americans are opposed to Socialism; most are vig
orously bitter against Communism but millions have swal
lowed Socialism, even phases of Communism, although un
der another name. Well, now, a rose by whatever name,
you know, smells just as sweet.
Mr. Roosevelt came along just in time to make palatable
enough quack ideas to suit even the Russians. He started
by trying to kill the Electric power industry, substituting
Government owned, operated or financed power enterprises.
The outstanding Roosevelt power scheme was the T.V.A.
Well T.V.A. now has become such a large boy that he has
outgrown his knee pants and is strutting about with all
the swank and swagger of a sport.
Here’s something just received from New York:
“Comptroller General Joseph Campbell disclosed that
the Tennessee Valley Authority has embarked on a $178
million program to expand its capacity 13 per cent without
authority from Congress or the Budget Bureau.
The Comptroller General, who acts as a financial ‘watch
dog* for Congress, made his disclosure in reply to a request
from Rep. Taber (R., N. Y.) for data on T.V.A. power
plants.
Mr. Taber is the ranking G.O.P. member of the House
Appropriations Committee, which earlier this month direct.-
ed T.V.A. to use its own power revenues to finance addi
tional generating capacity in the year starting July 1. Re
publicans attacked this action, declaring that Congress in
1948 had prohibited T.V.A. from using its revenues for
new units unless specifically approved by Congress. Demo
crats replied, however, that the prohobition applied only to
new projects and not to additional units in existing projects.
On this crucial question of interpreting existing law, Mr.
Campbell hedged in his letter to Mr. Taber. He said all he
could report was that present law is very unclear on this
point, and that Congress should amend the law ‘to clearly
state its intent . . .*
He added that he felt present law did not give Congress
effective control over T.V.A. spending, and that Congress
could best get this control by requiring T.V.A. to get spe
cific appropriations for its spending plans. And even if
Congress wants T.V.A. to use its power revenues or funds
from any other sources—such as bonds—to get new power
facilities, it should still require T.V.A. to obtain prior and
specific authorization /from Congress for such facilities,
Mr. Campbell said.
At any rate, the Comptroller General reported, the T.V.A.
oard of directors has issued letters of intent to buy major
quipment to add seven additional generating units at
iree existing plants. The seven units, he declared, would
dd 1,170,000 kilowatts of capacity to the T.V.A.’s present
ipacity of 9,219,985 kilowatts. The letters of intent, Mr.
aber was told, cover some $30 million of equipment, and
le seven units would ultimately cost about $178 milllion.
he Comptroller General said the letters of intent provide
>r T.V.A. to pay certain cancellation costs, ‘which are now
ecruing,’ if the proposed transactions are not carried out.
‘The expansion program,’ Mr. Campbell wrote, ‘has not
een reviewed or approved by the Congress, -and further,
includes four units which have not been approved by
le Bureau of the Budget’. Mr. Taber said the Comptroller
eneral’s report was ‘astounding’ and ‘discloses the utter
isregard T.V.A. holds for the Congress of the United
bates-
The Administration had asked Congress to appropriate
$3,500,000 in the coming fiscal year to start work on a new
power unit at the John Sevier steam plant and said the
rest of the money needed to build this plant and two other
new units at the Johnsonville steam plant should be sup
plied by revenue bonds issued by T.V.A. under legislation
now pending in Congress.
In other words, Mr. Campbell said, these three units,
which were five units which T.V.A. had submitted to the
Budget Bureau for the coming year, did have Budget Bu
reau approval. He noted that the Budget Bureau did not
approve the other two units proposed by T.V.A., to be in-
ANOTHER GUIDED MISSILES PROGRAM
stalled at the Gallatin steam plant.
However, the Comptroller General continued, even before
the Budget Bureau had acted, the T.V.A. board last Sep
tember by a two-to-one vote had issued letters of intent
to buy major equipment for the John Sevier unit, and on
January 17 by a two-to-nothing vote had authorized letters
of intent for equipment for six additional units—four at
Johnsonville and two at Gallatin. The board had acted on
the advice of its general counsel that it could do this. Pre
sumably T.V.A. Chairman Herbert D. Vogel was the board
member not approving the letters.
‘In effect,’ Mr. Campbell said, ‘the T.V.A. board of direc
tors has authorized the initiation of a major expansion pro
gram which will add l,17d',000 kilowatts of installed capacity
to its system and will cost an estimated $178 million.’ He
noted that this additional capacity equals 45 per cent of the
entire T.V.A. capacity as of June 30, 1948.”
As will be seen we now have a vast power scheme, rather
than flood control and navigation, as we supposed.
The naked truth is that Mr. Roosevelt deliberately mis
led the Congress and the Nation as to the scheme for So-
cialistic power; he asked for approval for something else.
And now most of the Democrats feel that they must sup
port Mr. Roosevelt’s socialistic program because they are
strong Democrats, even if somewhat poor Americans.
I recall the story of the old deacon w»ho would not en
dorse a welcome service for the new pastor of one of the
churches. His pastor very earnestly urged him to endorse
the resolution to welcome the new minister, but the deacon
was “sot in his ways”, as we used to hear. Finally, he blurt
ed out “Brother Bill, I may be a poor Christian, but I’m a
powerful ’ well I’d better put a period.
Our Country needs nothing so much as a fresh indoctri
nation in the eternal verities. Or, we might use the lan
guage of the street and say that our nation needs a fresh
baptism in the fundamental principles of sound govern
ment.
Here’s something about the most malodorous squander
ings of our playboys in the National Government, quoted
from The Bulletin of The Southern State Industrial Coun
cil.
“The advocates of a continuing foreign aid program will
decry any desire on the part of the American people to end
the prodigal spending that has characterized our foreign
aid programs. However, the action of the Congress is pro
viding for a liquidation of economic foreign aid by June
30, 1956 and military foreign aid by June 30, 1957, as
well as its refusal since 1953 to appropriate the full amount
of funds demanded by the administration, are clearly in
response to the demand of our people that this squandering
of our money be stopped.
It is high time. The cost of our foreign aid programs, ac
cording to the International Cooperative Administration, for
1945 through 1955 totaled $51.4 billion, to which (accord
ing to the Congressional Quarterly) should be added $16
billion in authorizations to expend public debt and $4 billion
in authorizations to transfer agricultural surpluses, mili
tary vessels and other surplus property—making a grand
total of $71,346,793,323,000. Add to this the $40 billion
spent on lend lease and you have a grand total of $111,-
346,793,323,000, a sum considerably in excess of one-third
of our huge National debt.
Our foreign aid prograrh began in July 1946, with a 3
and 3-4 billion loan to Great Britain. The Southern States
Industrial Council opposed that loan, as well as the Marshall
Plan and other schemes under which our money has been
funneled to foreign countries. Consequently, we were grati
fied with the statement on foreign aid which appeared in
the 1952 Republican Platform, “We shall not allow ourselves
to be isolated and economically strangled, and we shall not
let ourselves go bankrupt. Sums available by this test, if
competently used, will be more effective than vastly larg
er sums incompetently spent for vague and endless purposes.
We shall not try to buy good will. We shall earn it by
sound, constructive, self-respecting policies and action.”
The Congress apparently accepted this policy at face
value and since 1953 has consistently cut administration
requests for foreign aid. In addition it placed the time limit
on continuing foreign aid which I have mentioned. However,
the program recently proposed by the President would void
these limitations and continue the pouring out of millions
upon millions of American dollars in foreign aid spending.
It appears that when once the Government has started a
policy of spending, there is no way to end it. Conditions in
Europe and other areas no longer justify a continuation of
a foreign aid program, so the administration seeks now
areas and it is now proposed that the American taxpayers
provide $4 billion per annum to meet the “cold war” condi-
From the Whiteside Sentinel,
Morrison, Illinois: Once, as Aesop
told the story, a dog found a big
marrow bone in the woods. The
dog snatched up this treasure and
started home with it.
On his way he crossed a nar
row foot bridge. Glancing into the
water he saw his own reflection
and mistook it for another dog.
carrying a bone even larger and
more delectable than the one he
had found.
The dog resolved immediately
to go after the bigger one. He let
the bone in his mouth drop into
the water so he could curl back
his lips in a snarl and go into a
fighting crouch. But when the
bone hit the stream, the dog in
the water disappeared in a big
splash, bone and alL
Are we taxpayers, many of us,
like the dog on the bridge: Do we
sometimes give away the good
things we have for grandoise
plans that are nothing more than
shadows?
Take the federal road program
. . talked about in Washington.
It’s easy to look on it as a bonanza
or windfall on the theory that
somebody else will pay for it.
But that’s an illusion: It’s like
the image the dog saw in the
stream. If you want to know who
will pay for this federal highway
program or any other government
program—look in the mirror. You
will pay for it. You and the other
taxpayers of your state. They’ve
already got you marked for a
whopping increase in your federal
gasoline tax to finance this pro
posed program and the expanded
bureaucracy that will go with it.
The dog on the bridge lost the
good bone he had. Suppose we sur
render control over our highway
system for a gigantic federal road
program—dictated to us by Wash
ington. We will get good roads,
but wiU they be the kind of roads
we want? Or will we pay a higher
gasoline tax on aU our driving to
buhd to few miles of picture-book
highways that fit the taste of
traffic needs of our state?
From the Etowah New*-Journal,
Attala, Alabama: The person who
registers a vow to do a good deed
every day is one who should be
approached, when necessary to go
near, as cautiously as possible.
We feel much safer in the com
pany of one who does good spon
taneously. naturally, when a suit
able opportunity presents itself.
No true gentleman needs to make
a vow to act like a gentleman.
Bad people frequently do good
in order that they may more
readily accomplish some evil pur
pose. Others are inspired by mer
cenary hopes or pusillanimous
fears. The motive, not the deed,
determines whether the doer de
serves applause or criticism.
PaieCarotgii
AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING"
■yVES PICARD, 39B St. Louis Street, Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada
says he conquered belligerency in dogs by conquering his own feai
of them. Being a commercial traveller for a large firm he was nevei
able to attend to his business alone in the country. It was not tha -
he could not deal with farmers. He liked farmers and he liked doinj
business with them. But they edl had dogs, big dogs.
Every time he got out of his car to enter a farm
er’s home, he heard that mad song “Whouflf Whouflf
Whoufl.”
One day he encountered a beast of a dog on a
porch—and the eternal “Whouflf Whouflf Whouflf.”
Fear or not it was an urgent matter to get protec
tion. He had with him a sample of Hardwood Base
Board, so repeating to himself, “I am not afraid;
I sun not afraid,” and carried on. To his great sur
prise, for the first time in his life, his enemy, the
dog, lowered his head and ran away.
He believes that whenever you are afraid of dogs CARNEGIE
you should show them that you are stronger th*n they are they
will respect you.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
PUZZLE N«. 88*
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5 Go by
9 Genus of S.
African
garter snakes
14 Novel by
Zola
18 Unruly out
break
16 Tag
17 Against
18 Great Lake
19 Rugged crest
of mountain
range
20 Tantalizes
22 Part of
camera
24 Thrice in a
day (abbr.)
25 Nights before
an event
27 Abhors
29 Arrived at
decision by
systematic
thinking
33 Cravat
34 A Chinese
dynasty
35 Heating
vessels
87 Grade
41 God of love
43 Painful spots
45 To cut. after
snick
46 To abrogate
48 Carouse
50 Malay pewter
coin
51 Radical
53 Delegates
55 More sugary
59 Frog genus
60 Unit of
electrical
resistance
61 Rip
63 Cause to
remember
67 Unfastened
19 Genus of
rails
71 Indigent
72 Part of
church
73 Rhymster
74 Heraldry:
grafted
75 Tall marsb
grasses
76 Widgeon
1 Insect
2 Narrow road
3 A pilaster
4 Raised plat
forms
5 Gifts
6 Atmosphere
7 Earth
8 Spirited horse
9 Stretchy
fabric
10 Malay
gibbon
11 Aids
12 Small
13 Winter
vehicles
21 Cry of
Bacchanals
23 Seine
26 Spanish title
28 Elongated
fish (pi.)
29 Ostrlch-llke
bird
30 Merit
31 After awhile
32 Challenged
36 To cut
38 Against
39 Withered
40 Body of
water (pi.)
42 Certain
44 Disjoin
47 Missives
49 Hawk’s leash
52 River of
England
54 Pounded
down
55 Of the sun
56 Entire
57 To exhibit
feeling
58 Heavy files
62 Space
64 A Tertiary
formation of
California
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66 — Scot
decision
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tions existing in Asia, and some officials are complaining
that this overall program does not go far enough.
Actually .what is recommended is that $4.4 billion be ap
propriated for 1956-57 fiscal year, with a $7.1 billion carry
over appropriated but not obligated, and the program to
continue until at least 1960. The situation seems to be that
we are governed by our fears and this whole foreign aid
program is based upon the necessity of trying to meet
Russian promises of aid with the hard cash of the Ameri
can taxpayer. There is a grave question whether economic
aid should be continued on any basis. This the Congress has
recognized. What wfc need most in this country is a balanc
ed budget and relief from our tax burden.”.
'T'RE Agricultural Act of 1956 as
^ it passed the senate is a jum
bled mismash of conflicting opin
ions. It is a mixture of 90 per cent
and flexible parity, of two-price
and single price guarantees, of at
tempts to appease all factions and
all segments of the agricultural
industry, without pleasing any one
segment. And the House is still to
have a go at it. What it will look
like when it emerges from the
House and a conference commit
tee, nobody knows. It will look
nothing like the original Eisenhow
er program, nor the bill presented
by the Senate Committee on Agril-
ture.
Murray D. Lincoln, of Columbus,
Ohio, is a top figure in American
Agriculture. He is president of the
Cooperative League of the U. S. A*,
President of CARE (Cooperative
- for American Remittance Every
where), a great organization; he
is a trustee of the National Plan
ning Association, and of the In
ternational Cooperative Alliance;
he was for 8 years a member of
the board of directors of the
American Farm Bureau Federa
tion; he is president of the coop
eratively oriented National Insur
ance ^organization at Columbus,
Ohio.
Recently, he told the Joint Com
mittee on the Economic Report in
Congress that it’s now time for
Americans to leaj-n to live with
plenty. Not with scarcity.
“To me, too much is happening
today that hac the look and sound
of where I came in 30 years ago.
And in all sincerity I say that un
less we find the answer to today’s
farm problem now, our whole econ
omy will again be depressed as it
was in the thirties. I am afraid
the process may already have
started.’’
Here are some of his premises:
“I cannot accept the premise that
our vast surpluses are an unmiti
gated evil. On the contrary, I
think that the ability to produce an
abundance of food and fibre is one
of our most priceless assets; we
should shift our economy, its pro
cedures, programs and policies
from those based on scarcities to
those that are based on plenty;
livlhg with plenty means we must
do the opposite of much we are do
ing now. Now we plan NOT to use
our resources; that essentially is
what is planned in the soil bank
program; to live with plenty means
taking an opposite course, to use
all our resources intelligently with
the goal of satisfying all the needs
of people everywhere.
Scarcity devices are deeply im
bedded in our economy, in business
with its monopolies, its fair trade
laws, its tariffs, its trade agree
ments; labor with its feather-bed
ding, its closed shop, its limits on
workers productivity; and Agricul
ture with all the devices now
planned, allotments, quotas and
other devices. The purpose of pro
duction has been perverted when
farmers grow for warehouses and
not for consumption.
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Q—Can tell me anything about a robe* weatbet stattaa recently
invented?
A—The National Bureau of Standards some time ago announced the
development of a marine weather station that automatically reports
weather data by radio. The unit is incorporated in a buoy that can
be anchored in remote locations and left unattended for periods up
to six months. At regular intervals through the day, the station
automatically broadcasts the air temperature, water temperature,
barometric pressure and wind speed and direction. The automatic
.broadcasts are in continental code and the radio has a rang# of
up to 800 miles.
Q—Does the lumber and ferestry favor provisions for tree planting
as proposed in the Agricultural sell bank proposal?
A—The National Lumbers Manufacturers Association says the soil
bank forestry provisions of the omnibus farm bill are “unwise,
impractical and wasteful” Their forest economists, A. Z. Nelson,
says the provisions will “burden the farmers with more federal
controls . . .penalized ‘self-financed tree planters . . .waste tax
payers money . . . and discourage private forestry responsibility
and enterprise.” Nelson says the argument that tree planting
subsidies are necessary to prevent future timber shortages is
“false and misleading.’’
Q—Can you give me the acreage included in the Capitol grounds?
A—Area of the Capitol grounds now totals 131.1 acres.
Q—How did the term “Capitol Hill” come about?
A—Because the Capitol building is on a slight plateau or rise 88 feet
above the level of the Potomac river.
TOP RACERS . . . Juan Fangio,
Argentina, and Eugenio Castellot-
ti, Italy, won International Grand
Prlx 12-hour sports car race at
Sebring, Fla. They won by two
laps and set new record of 194
laps or 1,088.8 miles, driving a
Ferrari.
This an’ That
Bert Weaver, the Texan whs
won the $5,000 Gulf Coast luvit
tational Golfing Tournament gave
credit to a “lot of breaks.” The
Louisiana State University senloi
said that most of the tourney
breaks were bad, but his fortune
was such that the breaks “hap
pened to other gays.” Weaver is
the second amateur to win
tournament. Two professionals
veteran Charley Harper and new
comer Howie Johnson tied for
second place at 285, one stroke
behind Weaver . . . Bobby Bragau
says his Pittsburgh club may lose
more games than It wins this
year but “The fans in Pittsburgh
won’t have to be ashamed of the
kind of baseball they are going to
see” . . . Harmon Killebraw could
be Jack-of-all trades for Chuck
Dressen’s Washington senators.
Daring the. spring. Killebraw
played every infield position with
the exception of shortstop . . .
The first shutout game iu baseball
occurred In 1278 fat the National
League when Chicago topped Louis
ville by 4 to 0.