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I PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY ,DECEMBER 6, 1956 rvv >-• 'f- m'x 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, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS , By SPECTATOR Looking into the future and dreaming dreams is a pleasur able pastime. How does this impress you, especially the young men planning to become devoted husbands, eating three meals every day at home, every day, every month and every year, including leap year? That's the way we raised men for the Revolutionary War: they became the great soldiers of George Washington, by eating at home — made men strong and sturdy and tough, eh ? “If the approach of meal time puts you in a flop maybe you’ll be interested in some of the changes designers are planning in appliances for cooking. For instance, instead of having a series of heating elements in a range or built-in unit as at present, the food cooking or preparation area may consist of a counter with a series of electrical outlets into which individual cooking units are plugged. ‘Cooking by controlled heat will eliminate pot-watching’, explains one engineer. Tt also eliminaites guessing and the need for those old-fashioned skills our mothers and grand mothers acquired through long hours and hard work over hot stoves. It will mean that even the newest bride will be able to cook as ’well as her mother’. If you think these things sound pretty fanciful, wait till you hear some of the things engineers see in the more dis tant future. T can envision the day’, says one engineer-designer with a straight face, ‘when a simplified computer will do a number of household chores. Such a machine, for instance, could be programming to adjust the thermostat in the morning, turn on the radio to awaken you, start the coffee, turn on the lights, close the garage doors after you’ve driven out, start the dinner on time and turn it off when cooked, kirn on the porch light at the correct time each evening and turn on the automatic washer in the wee hours of the morning so there won’t be a drain on the hot water at bath or dishwashing time’. v i Would you like a bedcovering that will not only keep you warm in winter but comfortably cool in summer? Or as appliance that at the turn of a tap will give you a choice of hot water, soda or hot instant coffee ? Or a kitchen incinerator which disposes of combustible materials — food,'paper, cartons and the like — without, odor, smoke or ash? Well these and a lot more eyebrow-raising household gad gets are being planned for you by industrial designers and appliance company engineers. Many are already taking shape on factory drawing boards and in designers’ model shops around the country. Some of them are closer than you think; others are more remote. What will be the effect on the homemaker of work-savers which gradually take away the opportunity for expressing initiative, creativeness and ingenuity? Are we slowly breeding a race of package cooks and bored homemakers ? Air conditioning won’t be necessary for a peaceful night’s sleep on hot, sultry, summer evenings of the future. West- inghouse foresees the day when an,electric bedcovering or blanket will not only keep you warm during the winter but pleasantly cool during the summer. It is predicted that instead of blankets, beds in the home of tomorrow will have heat-producing radiant canopies.” ALONG THE RUBBER TIRE CHRISTMAS TRAIL i-x'yi'jA ft The threat or menace to Clemson College, due to the proposed Hartwell Dam, has aroused the people of our State. The question is pertinent, whether water-power has become out of date. Years ago Mr. Duke sponsored great water-power pro jects, but more recently the Dukes have built great steam plants. That is true also of The South Carolina Electric & Gas Co., which built the great Saluda Dam. That Company since then has spent a hundred million dollars on steam plants, as I understand. As to so-called Public Power, we can cite both our own Santee-Cooper, with its mammoth new Steam plant, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, which has spent more than a hundred million on steam plants, I’m told. If it be true, as has been said, that electric power by steam is cheaper, as well as more dependable, than power by water, what reason can there be for flooding hundreds of thousands of acres of land for water-power? Within ten years the likelihood is that nuclear power may be used, or something else may be brought into avail ability, that would make new water-power not only waste ful but somewhat ridiculous. Says The Greenville News: “Is it too late to prevent the damage that will be done to Clemson College’s campus and teaching program if the Hartwell Dam project on the Savannah River is completed according to present plans. “Is it too late to abandon, or extensively modify the pro ject if the review we hope is going to be made indicates that it should be done? Again the answer is an emphatic 'NOT -.Igiliil “Conditions have changed considerably since the Army Engineers first recommended construction of the dam as • • m part of the development of the Savannah valley. They have changed since Congress first authorized its beginning. “If changing conditions have made Hartwell no longer feasible, it would be far cheaper to abandon it, or complete it as a low-level dam for irrigation, flood control and rec reation purposes as part of a modified watershed develop ment prjoect. Only a few millions have been pledged for Hartwell thus far. Completion will cost $100 million more, and to prevent irreparable. damage to Clemson will add to that. “The full realization of the damage that Clemson would suffer has served to reopen the issue of Hartwell. And that alone is sufficient reason for drastic modification, or even abandonment. Clemson has shown beyond the possibility of contradic tion that its campus and experimental farms will be ruin ed unless: “1. The maximum water level is lowered by at least 50 to 60 feet. Since the dam is to be about 660 feet above mean sea level, it may fall into the low-elevl class with that change. Fifty feet, we would guess, would make a vast difference in the dam’s hydro-electric power poten tial; or, “2. The Seneca River is diverted into a new channel, by means of a canal and retaining dams to save more than 1,- 000 acres of the most valuable experimental farm lands. This would cost an estimated $8 million, and could cost more. It would require construction and perpetual operation of a huge pumping station to drain the natural drainage basin that would thus be obstructed. “It has been estimated that Clemson stands to incur damages amounting to about $20 million dollars. Rather unofficial assurances again are being offered that Clemson would be ‘compensated.’ “To pay Clemson for the lands and other facilities it would lose is one thing. To replace them is quite another. “A man can be ‘compensated’ for the loss of a limb or an eye in an industrial accident, but the limb or the eye can’t be replaced. “Clemson can’t replace its experimental farm lands at any price and it can’t duplicate certain other agricultural and engineering teaching facilities within a reasonable and practical distance of the campus. “But Clemson should not be made the ‘dog in the man ger’ or the sole factor in bringing about modification or abandonment of Hartwell. “Everi if Clemson were not in the picture, which it ap parently wasn’t in a practical sense when the project was born, it still would be open to serious questions and grave doubts. “The aids to ‘navigation’ claimed for it are a farce. The flood control purposes probably could be served far better by local watershed development. The ‘irrigation’ idea is far-fetched and hope’essly hedged about by restrictions placed on taking water from a government dam, even if it could be transported er-piped to the farms needing it. “As for the general, jn of power, we pose a hypothetical question: Would a private power company, which would have to pay taxes, a. ept it as a gift and operate it? “If the present n tices of both public and private pow er enterprises are ary indication, the answer is: Not with out a couple of steir r generating plants thrown in. “Private compan>< now use their hydroelectric installa tions for meeting ‘ cak* power loads during short periods of operation. A st am plant which will produce as much power as Hartwell, or more, can be built for a fraction of its cost. “Furthermore, the Tennessee Valley Authority, with its vast system of da~~s, has had to build steam plants and is begging Congress for money to build more. Santee-Cooper, with one steam plant, is talking about borrowing money to build another. “And this leaves entirely out of consideration the fact that the era of generating electricity by means of atomic energy may have arrived before Hartwell is completed. The project is not without its merits, of course. It would provide cheap power for a favored few, when the water supply is sufficient. And it is dear to the hearts of its promoters who have labored long and hard to get Congress to approve it, and see in it a monument to their efforts. But the taxpay ers would save a lot of money by building for them a much simpler monument, say on the comparatively modest pro portions of Washington Monument or the Lincoln Me morial.” I need not quote “The State” or “The Record” of Co lumbia on this; nor need I cite “The News & Courier” and “The Evening Post” of Charleston, for most of my radio audience read those great papers. S PURRED by tile need to boost their volume of sales to pay fixed costs and family living ex penses with lower farm prices, farmers have succeeded, by work ing longer hours, increasing use of fertilizer and through other means, in boosting farm produc tion so that 1956 may set an all- time high record. This seems ap parent in spite of serious drouth in large sections of the west and sharp reductions of acerage for crops under marketing quotas. Although Secretary of Agricul ture Ezra Taft Benson has not at this writing called a meeting of tiie Annual Outlook Conference in which the nation’s leading farm economists gather to predict the year ahead for agriculture, the agricultural picture ahead is not bright. It will be remembered that this annual conference formerly held in October, was postponed by Secretary Benson after the 1954 election when depressing predic tions were made. In spite of this postponement these facts have been revealed by the Department of Agriculture: Farm prices dropped two points, or 1% in the month ending October 13, the fourth month in a row that farm prices have^ dropped; farm costs set an all-time high record for October; the farmers share of the consumers retail food dollar is down to about 40c as compared to 47c in 1952, and the Department predicts it will drop further in 1957; and the parity ratio is at 82%, or the same as in October 1955. The Wall Street Journal, in a staff report on price and, produc tion trends affecting industry, has this to say of the Agriculture picture ahead: “Federal experts predict total 1956 farm production will set a record at 113% of the 1947-49 av erage. That would edge the old high of 112% hi£ last year. Production of livestock and live stock products is expected to climb to a record 125% of the base period, 2% over last year. Hog slaughter is due to rise 5%, cattle 4%. Livestock bounty will offset a tiny dip in crop volume. While output of cotton, tobacco, hay and peanuts may fall short of last year, com and wheat pros pects are up 4% and soybeans a thumping 27%. This year, under federal curbs, farmers planted only 350 million acres, the small est since 1941. For drought and other reasons they won’t harvest crops on 20-million-plus acres. But fields in non-drought areas are thriving. And fertilizer, irriga tion, insecticides and other tools of modem agriculture have helped to wring huge per-a ere yields from land that is harvested. This year’s average crop yield per acre shapes up to equal the 1948 record and 33% greater than the pre-war 1935-39 average.’’ < The indications are that this year’s emergency subsidy on the soil bank program will give way to a flat and non-remunerative effort to reduce farm production in an effort to reduce surpluses. There will be no publicity about it, but the administration, unless Congress rules otherwise, will not continue a subsidy for over-pro duction or inefficient family-type farm operation. The best farmers can expect is farm income not far from the 1954 level. And that is based on the present level of continued prosperity of all other phases of the nation’s economy. 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ANSWERS *»iqipa ’« tsvn«oja •* •«nis no *i Can the Democrats hold South Carolina? If the relatively heavy vote cast i for the Republican Party means anything— and it does—then the Democrats will meet strong Republi can opposition hereafter, in South Carolina. It has been suggested that the Independents may remain in the Democratic Party, crowding out the Democratic leadership of 1956. If the Republican vote and the Independent vote should develop into one faction it would control the tSate. As is well known, those two, together, far outnumber the Demo crats of 1956 (137,820 to 163,859). If a fusion of Independents and Republicans, would be effective, let them be realistic and win at the polls. ideas From other editors From the East Oklahoma Trib une, Vlan, Oklahoma: Like a giant, threadbare ball that’s been pommeled, unmercifully, the civi lized world seems to be splitting at the seams. Russia has been the Captain of one team, the Satellites. Uncle fcam has been calling signals for me Western power squad. But now we find both sides breaking training rules. In a sin gle urge the players on both sides seem to have begun throwing dust in the eyes of their respective captains. Poland and Hungary laid down the law to their Big Bear coach until he can no longer control their play* peaceably, so he’s try ing other tactics. v John Bull and France caUed a special huddle and came up with fantastic plays, deliberately cal culated to catch their trusting captain unawares. On one end plajr they teamed together to tvai interference for Israeli, and in effect, became the aggressors in what may touch off disastrous losses. Incidentally, these two team mates which Uncle Sam hay trust ed so faithfully, have diverted world attention from a losing Big Bear squad to this unheard of re volt against their captain and con fidant. If they lose the crucial game, it will be because they beat themselves. They not only disre garded their captain’s caution, but defied his coaching brazenly. Deep down. Uncle Sam has spoiled his adopted brats as well as half the people of the crazily spinning universe. He’s ladled out billions to them, including some of the gear used in ‘this new conr test. Sadly, their gratitude has turned to deceit and scorn . . • From the Dove Creek Press, Dove Creek, Colorado: Judging by news reports of automobile ac cidents, modern cars with, their multi-hundred horsepower engines wnd super-sonic speeds react in strange ways to the temperaments of their drivers. Almost daily one reads “car left highway on curve, crashed into tree and killed driv er.” Or “car pulled out of traffic line without warning, struck on coming car head on—occupants of both cars dead.” Or “car went out of qontrol and rolled over bank into river—bodies not yet found.” Owners must be protected from the irresponsible actions of cars or it will soon be suicide to drive one of them. One way to show your car you are boss when .it shows signs of taking the “bit into its teeth” is to cut its feed supply and spur it with well adjusted brakes—that might teach it a lesson, if you live through the experiment. Q—Can yon tell me if the Gerald D. Morgan, recently named special counsel to President Elsenhower Is the same Morgan who was with the National Tax Equality Association? A—Yes, he was a registered lobbyist for NTEA seeking to tax patronage refunds paid by Farmer Cooperatives to their customers. Q—Can yon tell me why Dr. Martha M. Eliot resigned her post as chief of the Childrens Bureau of the Department of Health, Education ' and Welfare? A—The announced reason was to accept a position at Harvard Univer sity. Q—Can yon give me number of cases of polio this year as compared to 1955? A—Number of cases of poliomyelitis reported to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for 1955, all types totaled 27,090. For 1955, with about a month to go, only 14,152 cases have been re ported. Q—Do all U. S. paper earreneles boar the pictures of Presidents? A—No. The $10,000 bill bears the picture of Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln. Q—Can you tell me the name by which Arkansas is called, and when it was admitted to the union. A—Arkansas is called the “Wonder State.” It is a part of the Louisiana purchase, was organized as a territory in 1819 and admitted to the union in 1836, as the 25th state. Q—When was the Erie canal opened? A—The first boat on the Erie canal left Buffalo October 26, 1825, and arrived in New York the following November 4. li* RED BIG THREE . . . Soviet foreign minister Shepilov, his deputy Kuznetsov (left) and. soviet UN permanent delegate Sobolev (right) heard U. S. tell UN of merciless Russian suppression of Hungarian freedom revolt. •rfl This an’ That ' Charley Grimm, new vice presi dent of the Chicago Cubs has said there will be no “front office run ning of the baU dub.” Grimm, » determined fellow, says there wffl be no excuses about “rebuilding” during the 1967 season. “We’re out to win,” he told a quarterback club . . . Turnabout is fair In any sport, so sixteen yosr old Atie Voohi), Netherlands swimmer, captured the world record for the 1M meters butterfly swim which was taken away from her by American Shelley Mann of Arling ton, Va., Atie waa docked In 1:10.5. Her previous 1:11.9, which Miss Mann tered by one-tenth of a Bobby Maastd, former partner of Jack Dempsey years an East m * led at Tyler, Texas . • • on a tour of the U. 8. in of a car for his first entry In the Indianapolis 500. x r i (left) of La Ovva^waa^as s' At j ml . -Li.-