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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
You have read that our Nation has given hundreds of
millions of dollars to Japan and Western Germany for re
building, specifically to repair the ravages of war.
The Japanese had stolen a march on us and sunk a
hundred million dollars worth of our ships and killed many
thousands of our men; the Germans, likewise, killed thous
ands of men of all the services. Now, we in a spirit of
marvellous benevolence, have literally poured billions of
dollars to help Germany and Japan.
Furthermore, we have made it possible for Japan to
make textiles with the American machinery and ship
them here, competing with our mills and our workers. All
that is modem reconstruction.
But time means nothing; our nation is taking an active
part against a people who have held territory thirteen
hundred years! Why? Because of political interests here;
a matter of votes!
Well, just ninety years ago the South lay desolate and
desolated; it had honorably surrendered on the .field of
battle.
And then billions of dollars should have come from our
generous victors, eh ? That beneficence characterized our
attitude with Germany, Japan and Italy. Did we receive it?
Not so; on the contrary, sunk in poverty, the South was
robbed and plundered and pillaged by carpet-baggers who
prospered under the protection of Federal bayonets. Our
White men were denied the right to vote and the ex-slaves
became ruling and governing citizens—all under Federal
protection!
I don ot wish to fan the flames of prejudice, nor create
illfeeling. But today our Northern friends would carry
further the work of destruction so guilefully referred to as
Re-Construction, as applied to South Carolina after the
war.
The bitterness in the South is not because of the Civil
War, but it is the stinging memory of eleven years of hard
ship, indignity, insult after the war.
Our people, so insulted, are descendants of those who
forced King John to sign the Magna Carta; they claim kin
ship with those who wrung the acceptance of the Petition
of Rights from King Charles 1st. and they sprang from
those who gave us the Habeas Corpus Act; and compelled
William and Mary to sign the Declaration of Rights, set
ting forth all the ancient and cherished rights and liberties
of Englishmen.
Those men of America pioneered on this side of the At
lantic. They gave to the world the first substantial repre
sentative government, they gave the Declaration of Inde
pendence, the Constitution of the United States and the
attached Bill of Rights—the first ten Amendments. The
sons and grandsons of the foremost men of free institu
tions in all the world must bow to political quackery of the
most despicable type!
I love my Northern friends and I greatly admire the as
tonishing achievements of Northerners in developing the
resources of our Nation. It is not the Northern people but
politicians who would now impose their subtle and nefar
ious devilment on a free people. Unhappily there-are
Southerners who go along with them. But, then, did not
our fathers and grandfathers find some Southerners will
ing to swallow everything for a mess of pottage? They
were called Scalawags. Ever hear about them?
A man who will live in the memory of our people is
Charles F. Kettering, the great man of practical achieve
ment in science. He writes a great appeal to young people
as an advertisement.
“When a man’s life has been a great and wondrous ad
venture, he often looks back in search of the turning point
—that single moment which opened the door to his great
adventure. For me that moment came more than 60 years
ago, in a small Ohio school house, when an enthusiastic
country school teacher awoke in me a burning interest in
the fascinating world of science. He ignited a spark that
led me to a wonderful and rewarding career in automotive
engineering, in basic scientific research and now in the
battle against cancer.
“As rich as. my life has been, today’s exciting era of
rapid discovery and almost unbelievable technological prog
ress offers young people with inquisitive minds—and a good
education—scores of richly rewarding opportunities that
were not even dreamt of in my youth. One Thomas Edison
in a generation is no longer enough to sustain our kind of
progress—today we literally need thousands of well-edu
cated young people with the kind of vision, imagination and
courage that took Edison on his lifelong conquest of the
unknown.
This is why I am constantly urging boys and girls to go
on to as full an education as possible—not only in science
and engineering, but in the arts, the social sciences, the hu
manities or any other field that fits their talent. -
“Right now, however, I am frankly trying to guide as
many youngsters as possible toward science and engineer-
GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY
ing—not only because these fields have been so good to me
^not only because present-day America offers such won
derful opportunities in these fields, but becatise a very real
shortage of young scientists and engineers exists today.
“The number of engineers and scientists now being grad
uated is barely enough to cover replacement requirements.
But at our rate of progress, the needs of industry, govern
ment and education are skyrocketing every day.
“This is why America’s greatest need is also your great
est opportunity! We are looking to you and to every boy or
girl who has ever dreamt of inventing a better automobile
engine ... of building a magic kitchen ... of curing a
dread disease ... of harnessing a new source of power . . .
or of searching for the riches lying under land and sea.
“But remember, only you can make these dreams come
true! You must start right now—by working hard on your
High School course in mathematics, chemistry, physics or
biology—if you want to take your place as one of the
admired and respected scientific leaders who will guide us
all to a better tomorrow.
“Take it from an old engineer—making your country’s
progress your profession is an exciting and rewarding way
to spend your life.”
Throughout the years men have dreamed of using the
force of the ocean tides to generate electricity. Some time
ago I mentioned that the tide on the St. Lawrence at Que
bec, several hundred miles from the Atlantic, rises from
ten to twenty feet twice a day, coming in six hours twice
a day and of course receding six hours. That certainly stirs
the imagination. If a puny river of a few feet of fall can
count so much for power, why not the force of the tides?
Of course the solution may be in storing power, some sort
of superlative improvement on a vast dry battery.
In France there is a plan now underway.
“The hookup is to be a dam thrown across the Fance
River a few miles upstream from this ancient port on the
Brittany coast in northwest France. Built into the dam,
well below the watrline, will be a battery of power genera
tors with specially-designed two-way turbines to capture
the ceaseless thrust of the tides as they ebb and flow
through the river mouth under the impetus of the moon
and sun.
The hoped-for result, barring an upset in present plans:
An added 800 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year
by 1963 to feed into the nation’s power lines. That’s
enoftgh juice to light every home in France for two months
of every year. Folks also are counting on the dam to lure
industry into Brittany, now solely dependent on farming,
fishing and tourism.
“We’ll Le selling electricty even before we’ve closed the
middle of the dam,” predicts the engineering chief at St.
Malo field headquarters. Seven of the dam’s 38 turbo
generators will be churning out kilowatts in 1961, he esti
mates.
Americans may cock a skeptical eye at this French proj
ect. Since the mid-,0’s, similar schemes to generates
moon power from the surging tides of Maine’s Passama-
quoddy Bay have come to naught. Cooked up by the New
Deal, an early plan T Aa3 abandoned as uneconomical. True,
the idea is now getting a fresh study under a $3 million
authorization from 0 ngress but chances of U. S. action
any time soon are snni indeed.
Why are the French reaching for the moon when atom
power seems so much closer at hand?
The answer, according to a disquieting report from the 17-
nation Organization fcr European Cooperation, is that atom-
powered generatng plants won’t be able to supply more
than a fraction of the electricty needs of France—or the
rest of Europe—for several decades.
BIGGEST FAMILY IN U. S. . . . Gerrit Kooienga, 51, and wife
Johana, 49, of Zeeland, Mich., visit Chicago with their 21 chil
dren, ages 7 to 31.
ACCORDING to records of the
■CV. Department of Agriculture,
farm mortgage debt secured by
farm real estate now tops the $9
billion mark, an increase of more
than 25% over the approximate
$6.5 billions in 1952. On June 5,
1956 The Farm Credit Admini
stration announced that “Farm
owners borrowed $2.3 billion on
farm mortgage security in 1955,
the largest amount since 1923.”
^ And these huge borrowings by
the farmers have been made at
interest rates which have driven
up the cost of loans with rates
ranging from %% up to 1V4%
higher than at any time during
the past twenty years.
For instance the effect of in
creased interest rates can be
shown by applying to the $9 bil
lion farm mortgage debt the cost
of increases. A one per cent in
crease would amount to $90 mil
lion in highej interest costs; a
1%% interest rate boost would
total up some $135 million in addi
tional farm costs. For these farm
ers were forced to pay interest
rates at whatever the going rate
in their community was, as high
as 8% in some instances, accord
ing to reports.
The 84 th Congress, however
sought to establish a yardstick on
farm mortgage interest rates and
under HR 11544 which was adopted
by«the congress, the new act pro
vides that where a farm family
cannot obtain adequate credit
from usual commercial and co
operative sources at not more
than 5% interest, that family is
eligible to receive a loan from the
Farmers Home Administration.
It will be remembered that this
Act was passed over the stiff op
position of the “tight money”
faction in the Congress which
recommended the interest rate be
the “prevailing rate in the local
community” whatever it was. The
Act gives the Farmers Home Ad
ministration authority to refinance
existing indebtedness, gives larger
authorizations for various types
of loans, and directs the Execu
tive branch to tailor repayment
schedules to fit characteristics of
such needed credit.
• • •
The Veterans Administration
plans to start a nation-wide study
on the effect of the so-called new
transquilizing drugs on mental
patients in 37 VA administration
hospitals under the direction of
the Administration’s psychiatry
and neurology service. The nation
wide study is designed to test the
effectiveness of the drugs and
their toxicity, what dosage is
desirable and how long it should
be continued. Two of the tran-
quilizing drugs now in ) clinical
study will b? used first on about
1,000 patients with acute and
chronic schizophrenia, popularly
caUed “split-personality.”
With the Veterans as guinea
pigs, the doctors believe that al
though studies have been made
on a small scale for more than a
year, the wide spread use under
rigidly controlled conditions, with
each hospital following the same
procedure, results of the effects
of the drugs may be more ac
curately evaluated. As of now a
three-months treatment will be
undertaken, but the time may be
extended as condition of the pa
tients may indicate.
FREE SATELITES . . . Yugoslavia’s Pres. Tito (left) chats with
two Roumanian communist party delegates in Belgrade. Tito set
pattern for independence from Soviet domination.
ACROSS
1 Cooled lava
3 Lawn
8 Symbol for
barium
10 Halt
13 Dormouse
14 Ladle water
from boat
18 Anglo-Saxon
coin
17 Storehouse
18 Sum up
19 Island in
Mediterran
ean
21 Flowers
23 Even (poet.)
24 Swimming
bird
28 Get away
29 Opposed
33 Edible seed
34 American
Indians
38 Hearing
organ
37 Siamese coin
38 Landed
properties
41 Compass
point
42 Letter of
alphabet
43 Province of
India
44 Part of body
45 Dreadful
49 Part of
flower (pi.)
81 V-form gutter
at eaves
62 Pitch
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53 Wager
55 Silkworms
58 Assist
59 Compound
ether
63 As it stands
(mus.)
64 Metal con
tainers
65 Bore
66 Repair
68 Paid notice
69 Inane
70 Depart
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1 While
2 Kind of
bomb
3 The
a painting
by Millet
4 To soak
5 A macaw
6 Bribe
7 Cubic meters
8 Invites
9 Mulberry
11 Anglo-Saxon
coin
12 Upper bract
in grasses
14 Sacks on
v baU field
15 American
author
20 Indian tent
22 Japanese
sash
24 Lubricates
25 Ceases from
labor
26 Excess of
solar year
27 Mediterran
ean vessel
28 Provide a
of
CT Iy
30 American
electrician
born in
Yugoslavia
31 Artist’s
stand
32 Lees
35 Ancient
of Italy
39 Wind blowin
from the e
40 Smirch
46 Electric
race
catfish (pi.)
47 To annoy
48 Propagates
50 Geometric
figure
53 Stated
54 Metal con
tainer
56 Goddess ot
discord
57 Warbled
60 Fortunate
(India)
61 The
sesame
62 Cloth
measure
64 Symbol for
tantalum
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Answer te Pessle Ne. 419
The study predicts that Europe will need the energy
equivalent of 1.2 billion tons of coal twenty years hence,
compared with the equivalent of 730 million tons consumed
in 1955. Overworked European coal mines are close to
their productive ceiling and the best dam sites have been
taken, the report notes, concluding that conventional sources
of energy can be expected to generate no more than the
equivalent of 755 million tons of coal a year by 1975—^leav
ing a 455 million ton ‘energy gap.’ At present prices, im
porting that much coal or oil would cost European coun
tries $5 billion yearly, more than two-and-a-half times the
present foreign fuel bill.”
From the Catskill Mountain
Star, Saagerties, N. Y.: One of
the amazing facets of modern
life is the failure of many people
—men, women, and even chil
dren—to take a personal interest
in the development of a happy,
safe and intelligent family.
Men who are wizards in the busi
ness world often make miserable
failures as husbands and fathers.
Mothers, who are attractive in
looks and intelligent hi activities,
also often fail dismally in making
their homes duplicate these at
tributes. Children who amaze
strangers by their good qualities
rarely exhibit these virtues within
the family circle.
Let us make it plain that we
are not talking about dissolute,
profligate or worthless people. We
are referring to the people who
are considered the backbone of
local society and the pace-setters
of local affairs in their communi
ties. Nor do we intend to assert
that charming family life does
not exist in this area. What we
call attention to is that, too often,
it is not to be found in the homes
where one would ekpect to find 1
the utmost felicity.
There will be some people who
read this and realize that their
family, as a social unit, is happy,,
harmonious, cooperative and em
inently successful by any stand
ard. These families are to be
admired. Whether they know it
or not, they are a great deal
more fortunate than many others.
There will be other men and
women who will instantly admit
to themselves that their own
home life and its development of
admirable family traits is not as
it might have been or could be.
What is the reason?
Boiled down, let’s call it plain
selfishness, and then think the
problem through on this basis.
The solution of many a family fend
and the end of many blood bat
tle will be the result of such solid,
sincere thinking, and a determina
tion to do something about it.
• • •
From the Waverly Son, Waver-
ly, N. Y.: There were few juris
dictional worries in colonial times.
IT a man’s home was attacked by
Indiana, be and his family had to
fight for their lives with what
help they could get from neigh
bors.
Then came the age of speciali
zation and delegation. The trend
of responsibility was away from
the family and community.
War and disaster were among
the problems delegated to the
specialists. We felt the Impact in
multiplying crosses in national
cemeteries, but war’s destruction,
for all except those who served,
was no closer than a movia
screen.
TELL US VOUR
PRORLEm
BY JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND
D ALE WILSON, 298 Davidson
Street, Buffalo, New York,
once headed a department in a
large store. Those under him
worked well—he “wouldn’t keep
them there if they didn’t”—and
they were well enough paid that
he was rarely handed a resigna
tion. But a friend who 'headed
another department was just as
successful in keeping his employ
es, the while the sales in his de
partment made a much better
showing at the end of the year.
No logical reason for this condi
tion that Dale Wilson could see.
So he began studying the other
department. The first thing he
noticed was that the clerks in
that department seemed happier
than those who worked under him.
They smiled pleasantly at the
customers, and at each other.
One day when he met his friend
entering the building, he noticed
that he greeted practically ev
eryone he met with a smile—a
broad smile—and a word of greet
ing. So Dale snooped on him and
then throughout the day, saw that
he smiled when he talked to his
employees too. And they smiled
back.
Surely just smiling couldn’t
make a whole department hap
pier, nor make a customer spend
money. After a week he decided
that that was just what a smile
could do. So he began entering the
building with a smile, and speak
ing pleasantly to those of the em
ployes whom he knew; he even
smiled at some he didn’t know.
As for his department, every
clerk he encountered got a
smile from him if the occasion
warranted it By and by, not the
first day, however, those clerks
were smiling back, and smiling
at each other. The year was half t
gone by now, but the second half
showed a sizeable increase in
sales. Next he tried smiling at
his wife and children; the family
seemed to be happier than former
ly. Now he found that he liked
smiling.
“A smile,” he declares, “can
be one of man’s most valuable
commodities.”
bin, U. S. delegate James Wadsworth and Soviet adviser Julian
Varontsov discuss Pres. Eisenhower’s new atoms-for-peace agency.
TOP COACH . . . Bud Wilkin
son, Oklahoma grid coach, bids
fair to gain second consecutive
national championship with 5
victories, including 4B-B win
ever Notie Dame. Sooners had
10-0 record in 1955 and also
beat Maryland 254 in Orange
BowL
This on' That
There was little donbt toward
the end of the baseball season
that Cincinnati’s Frhnk Robinson
would be an almost unanimous
choice for National League Rook
ie of the Year Honors. The fresh
man outfielder’s barrage of S8
homo runs tied- a major league
record for a rookie, set In 1930 by
Wally Berger of the Boston
Braves. Robinson also batted
.290, had 83 RJB.I.’s eight stolen
bases, six triples and 27 doubles
—quite a year ... The U. S. Olym
pic track and field team bettered
four world records and two Ameri
can marks in the first of a series
of meets before the Olympic
games . . . Bay Mueller, former
“iron man” catcher, resigned his
job as bnllpen coach of the New
York Giants . . . Dale Mitchell,
major league outfielder 18 years
with Cleveland and more recent
ly with Brooklyn, says he is quit
ting baseball and will join an oO
equipment company . . . Mikhail
Krtvonosov, Russia's hope for an
Olympic track and field gold med
al, broke the world hammer throw
record with a tremendous heave
cf 22$ feet, 10% Inches in London.