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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1956 1218 Coliegre 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, 187S. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad- • vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Life is made up of small happenings, little incidents. Sometimes the failure to salute a man may have calami tous results. But Pm not dealing with catastrophies or anything of sinister aspect or grievous possibilities. On a trip recently I saw a car which seemed to have stall ed while trying to climb a steep embankment. The car was uninjured, apparently but was almost upright as though trying to climb. That was near Green Pond. Know where that is? After a long hot day in a car without refrigeration, or air-conditioning, I felt as though the “unwearied sun from day to day' had sapped all my vitality and left me dried out, if not dessicated, you kn9W. The condition called for relief. If I had been riding with a certain cavalier he would have suggested some sort of cola, probably with a sardine or two. But I was ambitious and adventurous and decided on something that I could tell you about. So I drank a glass of cocoanut milk and followed that with a glass of papaya juice. And thereby hangs a tale, as the Bard of Avon says; or, perchance, two tales. I was adroitly framing up on you so that I might tell two stories of my quiet and uneventful life. Papaya juice. Years ago, in South America, I had a di- gestic disorder. An assistant suggested that the papaya (amelon like a cantaloupe or muskmelon) would prove a help to indigestion. The papaya has a tang and is said to be full of pepsin. It did the work. So I bought a glass of culd papaya juice. It didn’t seem like the melon; probably it was I, not the papaya who had changed. And as to cocoanut milk: there again. Makes me think of Banana cake with no flavor of bananas; or cocoanut ice cream without a trace of cocoanut. On a ship coming back we spent a couple of days at Guay aquil,Ecuador. A lady on the boat told me of the marvelous allure of cocoanut ice cream, a poem of refreshment—and all that, in the exuberance of a lady’s admiration and gusta tory delight—if you know what I mean. I then and there—and thereafter—set out to find this grand and exhilarating confection which could banish dull care and fillone with inexpressible goodwill to all the world. Well, I tried and tried at various ports of call and when neither Ecuador nor Colombia, Panama nor the Canal Zone provided cocoanut ice ccream I resigned myself to a life without cocoanut ice cream, in spite of all the perfervid prognostication of that lady. Life has its turnings, you know. As I walked down the street in Havana, all forgetful of cocoanut and cocoanuts, however arranged to beguile the unwary I saw the sign Helados de coca. There it was: Cocoanut Ice Cream. Of course I made a mess of the occasion. Havana has—or had— a Cerveceria—a beer place, serving free beer. It was a pop ular retreat, even a hang-out. Not being a beer man my intoxication would not be bibulous exactly, although ice cream quickly liquifies. I ordered a dish of cocoanut ice cream and a big segment of cocoanut cake. That combina tion neutralized each element and I derived no thrill from either, not even the taste. But I learned something: the best cocoanut ice cream I ever ate was sold by a man in Columbia, alas no longer in business. Whenever you want the best, try it at home. I ife- \ Si E is mm What are the Medicos up to now? When I was a small boy I heard a physiciann talking to a young lady. He was speaking of the “idiosyncracies” of people, discussing learn edly the so-called pecularities or special susceptibilities or allergies, you know. I had never heard that word “idiosyn- cracy” and I was much impressed, as was the young lady. The good physicians of today don’t work magic charms, but they sometimes overwhelm us or over-awe us by the words of many syllables. . In fact there is a discussion of that in a recent issue of Newsweek. Says the editor: “Why do patients fail to follow their doctor’s instruc tions ? One reason, perhaps, is that the doctors do not always i make themselves clear. Even M. D.’s are belatedly realizing that unwillingness to cooperate may actually be an v inability to comprehend. As one practitioner put it last week: Tn promulgating eso teric cogtations, the doctor may resort to platitudinous pon derosity, jejune babblement, asinine affectations, and ven- triloquial high jinks/ Or, as Disraeli once said of Glad stone, perhaps the doctor is nothing more than ‘a sophisti cal rhetorcian, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity/ To test this theory of patient-obfuscation, doctors at a Florida hospital recently made a study of the vocabulary understanding of 106 women patients from 15 to 46 years old, half with elementary—and half with high school edu cation. Each was given a list of twenty wiords commonly used by doctors in talking to patients. None knew all twen ty: only 17 per cent understood sixteen or more, and the average number of words known was only twelve. UNCHAINED Least familiar terms: Anemia, rickets, hemoglobin, en riched and protein. To most of the patients, ‘maternity’ meant a type of dress. ‘Anemia’ was defined as ‘enama’; vitamins stood for pills, but not as related to food or nutri tion. Yet, 80 per cent of these women read magazines and newspapers regularly and listened to medical news on the radio. Rural or city living had no effect on the score. How can doctors brides this gap between professional intent and patient appreciation? ‘Let the doctors’ extempo raneous descantings have intelligibility without thrasoni cal bombast’.” As a mere layman I should not venture into a discussion of physicians, but I think the advice about simplicity of speech will cau sethe loss of much psychological effect. If the Medicos use simple language and suggest simple and cheap remedies they will lose the curative potentiality of ponderous words, evil-smelling concoctions and expensive shots. All the words and medicines we don’t understand are a stimulus to our faith;; and faith is a wonderful restora tive. Town Journal Editorial carries a stimulating editorial which I copy: “The genius of progress. The other day General Motors dedicated a new Technical Center near Detroit. There, on a 330-acre campus some 4,000 scientists, engineers and tech nicians experiment with all sorts of things from nuclear energy to the elusive secret of a car clock that will keep time, and a car that will run on such fuels as peanut oil. General Electric’s famous research facilities are expand ed every year. Out of Chrysler’s laboratories came an ex perimental car with no pistons that lately crossed the country. The Ford Motor company has an immense re search organization. U. S. Steel has just announced plans for a giant new research center near Pittsburgh, and has 44 existing research facilities of its own. The great chemi cal company laboratories have advanced American progress in thousands of ways. > The Technical Centers, the research laboratories are for ever making changes in our ways of living, changes for the better. An old and large pharmaceutical concern reports that more than half of its sales are being jpade with items which only eight years ago did not exist. Look at the items in your own home, and in your town stores, that could not have been there ten years ago! Cloth ing, food, medicine, equipment—nearly everything has been improved by research. Research itself has become a $5 billion industry in the United States, and is growing fast. It grows because it pays. Ever new products which serve human health and comfort also make ever new jobs and businesses for the growing population.' Can’t we ever be satisfied with what we have? Certainly not!! Who wants to go back tofhe ‘good old days,’ even of 1940—when we had no antibiotics, very little nylon and no television ? Mankind lives poorly through long centuries because all people were ignora t of the resources about them. What little work could be done had to be done with muscles. No one had figured out how steam or petroleum or electricity could multiply energy. Nothing was known about chemistry, so it was impossu e to separate or combine the abundant elements of earth and air to make the marvels that are commonplace toda. . Average life was short because so little was known about the body itself. We live in a new and different world. As long as there are research laboratories and Technical Centers investing in tomorrows, living can keep on changing for the better. And enormous foundation of scientific knowledge has been built. Upon it new discoveries and new advances will develop. No Discovery in science seems to be final. Each one opens up new questions, and when those are answered others appear. Science performs no miracles; it only accomplishes new understanding. Research is an endless quest for facts about X. A kfflick is (a) * carriage; (b) small anchor; (c) kiln. S. To peculate is to (a) steal; (b) gamble; («) act peculiar. &> Typhoeus (Or. Myth.) was (a) a king; (b) monster; (e) huge bird. ANSWERS - ' ** *a«qa«rv *x From the Ravens wood News, Ravenswood, W. Va.: The fairly vital question of “Row fast is too fast?" is no longer a problem of highway construction or of auto mobile design, of horsepower or brake effectiveness. It’s gotten way beyond that into the speculative realm of the human' mechanism and its responses. As matters stand, the car can take considerably more than the driver. Hence, the differing no tions of what speed limits should be: 80 miles an hour on the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Turn pikes, 65 on the new Ohio Turn pike and 55 on most of our other super-highways. On modern, "trou ble-free" roads, with wide-swept curves, gentle grades and excep tional range of vision, the steady, uninterrupted pace keeps creeping up somehow as the unaccustomed sense of security slows {town the reflexes. As the minutes and miles go by, the sense of speed dimin ishes and with it the awareness of bow rapidly dower vehicles are being overtaken, and the distance required fbr stopping. "Highway hypnosis/* they call it. And at night the conditions are magnified, complicated by oncom ing headlights and roadside shad ows. “Night-vision" varies widely among drivers, and the same per son’s night-vision may be excellent or poor, depending on his state of health. Rut, day or night, if a vehicle on the road up ahead is presumed to be moving when it is actually stopped, the scene is set for trag edy. The very instant a car or truck or bus is disabled on a busy high-speed highway, that vehicle should be so distinguished. Too many truck drivers, for instance, have been killed by oncoming traf fic while in the act of putting put or taking in the pot torches, red electric lanterns or portable re flectors required by law. • • • From the Catskill Mountain Star, Saugertles, New York: To fear that automation will create widespread unemployment flies in the face of history. Every improvement in production methods, along with ev ery invention of importance has ultimately produced not fewer Jobe, but more and better Jobs. The automobile destroyed the horse and buggy businesses—but an almost infinite increase in em ployment and opportunity followed. More recently, prophets of doom forecast that dial telephones would bring a catastrophic degree of un employment among operators. Yet there are seventy per cent more phone operators than there were ten years ago. Automation is to be welcomed, not Feared. >V ’""I igfii ■■““rr-“r-'rrTY“r«BE-Rr”X” , rR-rFnB« r ■ a a »»■* r r-M *%* ’ns. ! mm 'tmmrn -* n» v ■ 'it ^bbiibb 1 •*» i . n* ? ^ ^ m w i«if: t **.* . | '<■ - •-* '*• **»•£*» v***- l gill canopy GREASE DRUMS METPL WHEEL SHEET METRL BOTTOM " HOG FEEDER . . . Piece Of sheet metal is welded to one side of old metal wheel. Next, two grease drums with ends removed are welded together and to spokes of the wheel. Canopy from d^eartied electric chick brooder serves as a rain shield. Daie Carnegie AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" + . * h ; H ELENE DU GUAY, 5 Tudor City Place, New York. New York, says that when, without warning, her mother had to have her eye re moved, her mother accepted it bravely, but Helene did not. While her mother was in the hospital Helene tried to make her visits gay, but her heart was heavy and she dreaded the day they would remove the bondage. The day her mother was dismissed from the hos pital she went with her to get an artificial eye. Cowardly, Helene sat in an adjoining room while her mother was being fitted. Soon the doctor called her in. There was her brave little mother looking anxiously towards her to see her reaction! Hold ing back her tears, she said, “Ybu look marvelous Mother!” "The eye will have to be bathed every four hours,” said the doctor. ’’You, Helene, will have to take the artificial eye out for the first few days!** Helene froze, but she could not hurt her mother. The doctor, sensing her fear, said, “Here. Take It out now! Cold wa ter seemed to be pouring down her back and silently she cried: "Dear God, give me courage; don’t let Mother know how frightened I km!” Then she took the eye out and put it back in—and she Conquered Fear! Q ■ Can you tell me what distinction the oburta have made as to where the line is drawn as between agricultural commodities and tnred products in regard to regulation of public carriers by the Interstate Commerce Commissioa? A—On April 23, 1856, the Supreme Court ruled that fresh and frozen dressed poultry is an agricultural commodity and not a manufac tured product and as such was not subject to Interstate Commerce Regulation in transit. On May 7, 1956, a three-judge Federal Court in the State of Washington ruled that frozen fruits and frozen vege tables were agricultural commodities and not manufactured prod ucts. In its April decision, the Supreme Court said: “At some point processing and manufacturing will merge. But where the commod ity retains a continuing substantial identity through the processing stage we cannot say that it has been ‘manufactured* within the meaning of Sec. 203." The Court held that frozen poultry had “be come marketable by incidental processing.** Q—What are the prices fixed under the new international Wheat agree ment? / . ; A—Fifty nations have signed the agreement, a new three-year pact, setting a minimum price of $1.50 and a maximum of $2 per bushel basis on No. 1 Manitoba northern wheat in store in bulk at Fort William-Port Arthur, Canada. The United States guaranteed ex port under the agreement would be cut from 197 million to 132 mil lion bushels. the materials of Nature, for facts about the laws of Nature, and for knowledge as to how to obey these laws. We are all fortunate that free American industries can- invest profits in the search for facts which make for better living. Research itself is a product of freedom. The freedom of scientists to inquire, and to seek answers, is the genius of progress/’ CARNEGIE T HE attitude of Business gen erally as spearheaded by the United States Chamber of Com merce and Business Trade organ izations is that the Federal gov ernment has no business in busi ness . . . that when Uncle Sam goes into any kind of business op eration, he is competing with pri vate enterprise and losing reve nue from taxes that would be col lected if the business in question was run by an individual, a Com pany or corporation. But there is another side of this coin. It seems that down through the years, starting with the postal service, when Uncle Sam has en tered into a business enterprise like manufacture of paint for the Navy, or uniforms for the armed forces, or shoes, or any of scores of business enterprises in which the government is engaged, it has been because the procurement offi cers have proved to Congress that the Government can get more for the taxpayers dollar by doing it himself than by paying private business to do it for him. It may not be true of an business, but it certainly has been the rule with most, that whan they are dealing with Unde Sam and public money there is little compunction about piling on what have come to be known as "unconscionable” prof its. In debate ever extension of the se-caned Renegotiation Act, where in the Renegotiation Board has the power to renegotiate contracts with firms doing business with the Gov ernment, these “unconscionable profits*’ were glaring examples of how private business “rooksd” the government. Here are some exam ples taken from the public rec ords: A company making tractor saws in 1952 had renegotiable sales to the Government of $1,163,325. He charged the Government $261,000 profits. The Board said $200,000 of these was excessive and allowed the company only $61,000; on a contract for screw machine prod ucts, sales to the Government were $426,795; the company charged profits of $72,357. The Board took away $40,000, leaving the company $32,357. A contract for bobbing machines totaled $1,183,- 469. The company charged $691,- 469 .profits. The Board took away $400,000, leaving $291,469. A con tract for aircraft parts totaled $674,728, with claimed profits of $132,425. The Board allowed only $72,425. On an aircraft contract on renegotiable sales of $2,410,685, the company claimed $406,018. ‘’The Board said $75,900 of that was ex cessive. On aircraft fuel tanka, the contract was $4,064,001 with a prof, it of $800,711. The Board said ef this amount $08,800 was excessive. These are but a few examples of the hundreds of cases which have come before the Renegotiation board. In 1000. for instance, the Renegotiation Board reviewed 8.001 contracts and called for refunds from these companies totaling $107,206,200 at an expense to the Government ef 04,400,728. These compthloe have the right of appeal from the Renegotiation Board's review to the United States Tax Courts. Several caaas have been appealed, but for some rea* son or another none have eves come to trial, the eases being with* drawn before toe trial date. 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