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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1956 1218 College 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. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Some days ago I had the pleasure of visiting Camp Bob Cooper. My friend, Mr. B. M. Edwards was to address the delegates attending the South Carolina Grange and several of us went along for the trip. Do you remember Dr. D. W. Watkins? Well, after a long and distinguished service as^ director of the Extension Agri cultural Service of Clemson Dr. Watkins retired. But re tiring did not mean inaction or withdrawal from active par ticipation in agrculture; rather, he forthwith associated with the State Grange and is now continuing his fruitful service to South Carolina as State Master of the Grange. Dr. Watkins and Mrs. Watkins were charming to us visi tors and we were greatly impressed by the program of the Grange. ' Dr. B. M. Edwards, the well known banker is equally well known for his readiness to collaborate in promoting or fur thering all good movements. Dr. Edwards had with him on the trip Mr. D. S. Vandiver," Jr., a brother of the banking fraternty; and Mr. Marion Edwards, another banker; but two of us, not bankers, joined the banking fraternity for the trip—Mr. Charles H. Flory and I—Mr. Flory being our well-known and appreciated State Forester. I don’t know how the word got abroad about the big sup per to be served, but upon arriving we quickly espied the State Commissioner of Agriculture, Mr. Harrelson, and the Deputy Commissioner, Mr. C. R. Sprott, a native son of old Clarendon. Camp Bob Cooper, you know, is a beautiful place on Wyboo, a part of Santee, near the big dam of San- tee-Cooper—the Camp being in Clarendon County. Mr. Edwards, as always, began his address in very happy vein, telling several stories; but he became very serious when he spoke of our general affairs. I quote him, in part: Agriculture is, and always has been, one of the major in dustries of our nation. In the beginning, when our fore fathers landed on 6ur soil, there was no other business in which they could engage, except probably a little hunting of game in the forest and fishing in the streams. That was true with respect to the first permanent settlers at Jamestown, and later when the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock—and so on down the coastal area of South Carolina. Agriculture has made prpgress—in fact, it has kept pace with these other things. There was a time, a couple of centuries ago, when it required the time and hard work of a very large percentage of our population to produce suf ficient food and other necessities of life to keep our people provided, but today, by intelligent planning, improved farm machinery, fertilizers and seed, the situation is entirely reversed and only a small portion of our population is re quired to keep the country flive and going. Such men as Dr. Watkins have made this possible. I recall that about the only fertilizer the farmer knew was one that carried the trade brand ‘8-3-3’. The best def inition or explanation I can give you as to the ingredients of this mixture was that it constituted or contained 8 parts sand, 3 points trash, and another 3 points of sand. We had quite a similar situation about seed, and the farmer gen erally sowed what he had or could find and took a chance on what he would get in return. Clemson College—and largely through the intelligent and faithful work of Dr. Watkins—set this fertilizer business straight, and today a farmer who buys fertilizer will find on it an inspection tag of Clemson College—and he can well be assured that he will get a good product and be paying for what he gets. The same thing has happened with seed ; there has been a remarkable improvemnt in the character and quality of all seed. The Coker people over pe ople over in Hartsville have done a great job in helping out i the seed industry. The diarying industry in the state has grown'today to the egree that it is one of the most important businesses in the tate. The dairy cattle have very little resemblence to the cruhby, poor breeds that we had years ago, and, to a consid- rable degree, this improvement is due to the great work one by Clemson .College and it’s Extension Department ’his also applies to beef cattle, hogs, chickens, and all the vestock raised in the state. Agriculture is rolling along nd making great progress. The farmer does’nt get a square deal. He never has. Other usinesses seem to have better organizations looking after and promoting their best interests; particularly the Labor istanee of the federal government in my opinion are bring ing about conditions that are most unfavorable to the agri- Unions of this country today, with the absolute and full ass- cultural interests. Many of £hese Labor leaders advance the argument that the farmer should assist the Labor Unions in continuing this over and over spiral of increased wages. They say that the more is paid, the greater will be the amo unt they have to spend for the products of the farmers. Maybe there is some truth to that; at least there is an arg ument, and naturally we want everyone to have a reasonable income to enable them to buy the nessities of life. But you can’t get away from the fact that when any one group gets more than their share, some other group suffers. Every VOU ARE A LAWBREAKER IF YOU BRAZENLY VIOLATE. TRAFFIC SAFETY LAW9 time the steel worker, coal miner, the automobile worker, or any and all, get these increases, the farmer pays a large part of it. Prices of farm machinery and the price of farm labor -and the price and or cost of any and everything that the farmer requires or uses in his business --rises, and some where there must be an end to it. These argicultural associations are not new. I am told that the Beech Island Agricultural Association is the oldest in the entire United States that has continued without interr uption since it’s organization about 134 years ago. I am told they have only missed one meeting in that entire period, which was the occasion when Sherman’s Army marched into South Carolina and everybody ran to the swamps or some place and missed the meeting scheduled at that time. We have some associations in the state that had their origin even before the Beech Island Association, or at least I am told there is one in Charleston and possibly another in Georgetown that antedate the others, but they were out of business and held no meetings for a good many years or quite some time possibly after the War between the States. However, I am happy to say they have all been reorganized and are back in business and functioning. Life on the farm is altogether different from what it was when I was a boy. Then the farm had very few conveniences, and it was the great ambition of every farmer who had a boy comng along to make some plans to get him off the farm and send him to the city. That does’nt happen any more, and one of the principal reasons, as I have said in the beginning, is that Clemson College, along with some of the federal agencies, have made life on the farm a much better deal. Today, throughout the entire country we have rural electrification supplying a very large percentage of the farm homes. There are all the facilities and improvements that you find in the city homes, and a much healthier climate and much better living conditions in many respects. Agri culture today is just as much a science as any other business in the country, and many of the boys who left the farms years ago would now choose to return. I have been in the banking business for nearly 40 years, and I should like to pay my respects to the honesty and in tegrity, thecharacter and dependability of the average farmers. They own their homes and do not do as is the story of the Arab — ‘fold their tents and silently steal away’. They are just as good pay as any business or individual with whom we do business. During the past 40 years I have had a part in lending to the agricultural interests of this state, and that of course includes many things other than cotton, tobacco and corn. We have a great peach industry and a substantial pecan industry, and I think I would be safe in say ng that in the past 15 or 20 years we have loaned to farmers and agricultural intests in this state somewhere in the neighborhood of $25 million. The rec ord of collections and payments have been outstanding; I don’t believe we have failed to collect more than $5,000 out of the entire $25 million. This is a record that could hardly be matched b> any other line of business, character or group of people. Notwithstanding the fact that the figures indicate that there is an # unsatisi . vory situation oday as between the prices received by me farmer and the prices he pays, I still have full and c< :n :ete confidence in the farmer and the agricultural busine^ in the state. This nation of ours; in fact, no nation o:: earth has in the past or ever will exist without a sound ec n rnic agricultural policy. Somewhere in this land of our we have people who will correct these inequalites. If for no other reason, they will do it because they know it must e done.” T HE convention system of nom inating our candidates for pres ident and vice president and the adoption of a party platform has, over the years become part and parcel of our national election proc ess. It is an expensive process— expensive to the party treasuries and expensive to the delegates who attend. And these elected delegates expect, or expected up to now, to have some say in what went on at these conventions. With the advent of television however, and with a made to order national audience of millions of viewers, the television networks have taken over the operation of party conventions, reaping millions of dollars in advertising revenue from sponsors willing to spend the money to get the benefit of this cap tive audience. There is a good chance that the American elec torate will violently react against political conventions being run by television and theatrical and ad vertising producers, instead of by the leaders of the political parties. The Republican convention at San Francisco' was a television spectacular, produced, timed, with the actors carefully selected, the {dot carefully built around Presi dent Eisenhower for the benefit of the television sponsors and the viewing audience. The producers made but one slip-up. President Elsenhower threw the schedule out of gear when his plane arrived one day early and late at that, in San Francisco. Just when some top performers were scheduled for appearance on the rostrum—the members of the cabinet—the Co lumbine arrived at the airport. Then the television cameras were switched away from the cow pal ace and the convention to cover Ike’s arrival in town atyj his tri umphal procession through the streets of San Francisco to the St. Francis, hotel. The audience didn’t get to hear or see the mem bers of the cabinet perform. During the Democratic conven tion at Chicago the delegates got a run for their money in their bal loting both on the presidential nom inations and the race for vice pres ident. There were numerous floor fights. There were demonstrations for candidates, there were numer ous caucus battles. But still the convention was pitched to please the television networks and their money-spending sponsors. The political leaders of both par ties say that unanimity of feeling at both conventions played a part in lack of delegate interest Tele vision should cover the national conventions, as other publicity media does, but the conventions should not be staged or “produced” solely for the benefit of the net works or the advertising sponsors. Then again maybe the American electorate does not take its poli tics so seriously. ■maiwinu;! PROBLEm AMD LTT n PAM IT ON TO MLP OTMUB M MLVDM TNMO. BY JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND O NE of the greatest leaders of industry of this country had a problem to solve that had baffled his foreman for some time. This man was Charles M. Schwab, Chairman of the Board of the Beth lehem Steel Company. Smoking on the job was forbid den in the steel mills, bul the in dependently - minded - Americans working in one of the mills paid little attention to that rule, nor even so much as glanced at the big sign in capital letters, NO SMOKING, placed where all could see it. Their attitude amounted almost to in subordination. Several times the matter was brought to the attention of Mr. Schwab, who knew that something had to be done about it, for smok ing was decidedly a fire menace; great disaster might result. One day, he took from his draw er a box of expensive cigars and, tucking it under his arm, went among the men. He followed his usual custom of talking to the workers in a friendly manner, call ing most of them by name, con|- mentiug on the good work that they were doing, and then, bringing the box of cigars into prominence, he said, “Boys, I just got in a new lot of cigars. I think you might enjoy, some of them. I’ll appreciate it if you won’t smoke them until you get outside. Do you think those men smoked in the mill after that? Well, Mr. Schwab said he never heard of it CROSSWORD PUZZLE p ACROSS 1 Charts S Part of foot ball shoe 10 Girl student 14 Tune 15 Depart 16 Unusual 17 Lease 18 Philippine dwarf negrltos 19 Anglo-Saxon slave 20 Provides supply of 22 Located 24 Bribes 26 For fear that 27 Pouch 30 Occupies a chair 32 Condescends 36 Atmosphere 37 Cuts In one stroke m 39 Move furtively 40 Former Russian ruler 42 Coarsely ground hominy 44 One of the two wolves of Odin 45 Part of church 47 Percolates 49 Japanese com PUZZLE Ne. 412 60 Required 52 Followed eat ing regimen 53 Worm 54 Old roman date 56 Close by 58 Agreeable 62 Causes to flow out 66 American actor 67 Untied 69 Implement of trade 70 Poker stake 71 Mistake 72 Fancy carrying case 73 Golf mounds 74 Tears as under 78 Disembark DOWN 1 Grape refuse 2 Extent of land 3 Half a quart 4 Satiates 5 Grasping 6 Confederate general 7 Consumes 8 To be of use 9 Tried out 10 Originating 11 Kiln 12 Sea eagle 13 Accomplish ment 21 Inventor of U. S. flag 23 Employs 25 Agitates 27 The devil 28 Theater passageway 29 To box 31 Watched secretly 33 Bird (pi.) 34 Openings in nose 35 Pelts 38 Drinking vessel 41 Diffuses 43 Traffic violators 46 Radicals 48 Asterisk 01 One who distributes the cards 55 Breathe loudly asleep 07 Badgerlike - animal 08 Plan 59 Hawk’s leash 60 Heraldry: 61 63 64 grafted HU pped Greek letter Name of person, place, 65 Skidded 68 Turf raacuiau qoqugH ■frinnnu ihomukjI nu OHRHl UUIlki UD rann nnnnnnn nrjn □ [•HJL-J (JliUKliD LjUKJki mnnnn ulhj □ljul’Lj □ LI U11 □ _ Li LSUULJ 15 □nnnrjriiiRn 14 LiLI LIU U -£itM3E E rcnrjnn uim eiieei? nransi uhlihih mule nnn ulhjuljljli loii nra jjhod debb ed K aunan dqubpi ■ aCTUHU DBQEBHfl Answer te Pnssle Ne. 411 As to the Democratic Convention of South Carolina, and what has followed, I can be brief, and yet state the case: The South Carolina Democratic Convention did as I ex pected; I am surprised only by the large vote of those op*> posed to Stevenson and Kefauver. I have no quarrel with my fellow Carolinians who cling to the Party; they can swallow more than some of us, but as th£ Latins said “Concerning tastes there is no disput ing.” (De guestibus non es disputandum, or something From the Chlckasha Star, Chick- Oklahoma: When James A. Farley was Postmaster General he ordered two sets of books kept on his department One set showed the amount of postage paid on first class mail and other classes that paid postage, and the cost of de livery of it The other set of books showed the amount of mail sent by federal departments and the cost of delivery. This manner of bookkeeping proved that mail matter that paid postage was paying its way, and that the deficit of the department was caused by the free, or franked, mail sent out by Congressmen and other departments. Now, here is a point to consider: Nearly all of the mail sent out by Congressmen is designed pri marily to secure votes, to keep the Congressman in office. It costs the federal government money to carry and deliver this mail. We have a law in Oklahoma that says candidates for office must account for all expenses by themselves, or others, to promote their candida cies. This franked mail sent out by Congressmen to promote their candidacies would come under this provision of law. we" wonder how many wifi include this in making their reports. And another point. Mr. Farley proved that if this free mailing was stopped the postal department would be self-sustaining, there would be no deficit. • • • From the Lincoln Times, Lin- colnton, N. C.: We Americans ha' e a high regard for speed. The fact that we make things faster and distribute them faster than other him a great deal to do with our economic strength. In sports we like fast moving games. For most of us life is geared to a pret ty fast tempo. I But there’s a place for every thing—including speed. And tip staggering toll of traffic deaths^ plus the fact that speed is involved in a majority of them, makes it plain that speed has no place on the highway. It’s rather interesting to note that safety authorities are concerned with more than just exceeding the speed limit They list failure to give the right of way, passing with out caution, driving too fast for road, traffic and weather condi tions, and following the car ahead too closely as symptomatic of the “in a hurry** complex that causes accidents . . . This newspaper accepts Slow Down and Live as its Slogan for the highways. If our readers want to follow suit—then welcome to the chib. —■ ’ • , ’ • .tv Q—Did both political parties adopt a plank relating to farm Cooper atives? A—Yes. The Republican plank pledges “full support to farmer-owned and farmer controlled cooperatives.’* The Democratic plank pledges the party to “Encourage bona fide farm cooperatives which help farmers reduce the cost-price squeeze, and protect such cooperatives against punitive taxation.’* Q—Can yon give me the personnel of the Commission named by Presi dent Eisenhower to'find more industrial uses for farm products? A—The chairman of the five-man commission is J. Leroy Welsh, Omaha, Neb.' grain operator and member of board of regents of University of Nebraska. Other members Include George Henry Coppers, Englewood, N. J M President of the National Biscuit Co.; Dr. Karl Butler, agricultural consultant to AVCO Manufacturing Co.; Dr. Frank J. Welch, Lexington, Ky., Dean of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, and Dr. Charles R. Sayre, Scott, r.'v Miss., President of Delta A Pine Land Co. Q—How many National Parka are there? A—There are now 28. President Eisenhower recently signed a bill creating the Virgin Islands National Park, occupying most of the Island of St. John, smallest of the Virgin Islands. Q—Which Is the oldest park in Washington? A—Lafayette park la probably, the oldest. Incidentally, 1957 will be celebrated by the French government as Lafayette year, marking the 200th anniversary of his birth. President Rene Coty of France will send invitations to the mayors of 42 cities in the United States named after Lafayette to participate in “Lafayette de Paris Week” June 28 to July 4, 1957. Focal point of interest will be the Chateau de Chavagnac, Lafayette’s birthplace In the Auvergne region of France. RED POWER ... Russian army tankmen parade in Oranien- burg, Germany, as part of big show signalising departure of Red air force from Germany. LEADING GOLFER . . . Marlene Baker Hagge shot world’s record 284* to win Mile High women’s open tournament nt Denver. It was Marlene’s seventh major title for 1956. This an’ That Pitcher Roger Craig of the Dodp- ers Is a good pitch, no hit man. Roger’s batting average at the end of 52 trips to the plate was a big sere • • • Johnny Pierson, a wingman who came oat of re tirement midway through the last National Hookey League season, has signed a 1958-57 contract with the Boston Brains . • . Dan Orllch of Reno, Nev., won the Clay Tar get Championship of America at the Vandalla, Ohio 'Grand Amer ican Trapshoot with a 199/208 score • • - The Baltimore Orioles have signed Donald 17-year- old shortstop from Little Rock, Ark., to a contract with the Class C. Aberdeen, S. D., club. McMul- lan hit .875 last season tat Amer ican Legion ball . . . Verne Ullom, football Una coach at the Univer sity of Virginia has resigned to succeed Robert Peck as head baak- etbaO coach and football line coach at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. Peck Is now director of athletics at Mitchell Air Force Base, N. Y. FOOD FOR INDIA . . . U. S. ambassador to India John 8. Cooper (left), agriculture Sec. Esra T. Benson (center) and India minister J. K. Atal chat after signing agreement for India to buy 5360,009,000 of U. 8. food surplus. like that). However, we do not have to swallow the vile medicine they think so necessary for the good of the Nation. Let us do something about it! e • o jctMJbDcui juuaupa-AtnesiiiSAUt* a 16-year-old Polish student has bet tered the women’s broad Jump world record with a Jump of 20 feet, 10 Inches.