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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1957
1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, S. C.
Published every Thursday
O. F. Armfield, Jr*, Owner
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at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Hon. James F. Byrnes delivered a masterful exposition of
the Constitutional questions involved in the more or less
ridiculous decision of the United States Supreme Court in
the so-called School case. Judge Byrnes, speaking to the
Illinois Bar Association, marshalled all the decisions appli
cable to his excellent refutation of the court’s position.
Every man, whether lawyer or layman, can easily follow
Mr. Byrnes’ argument in all its clarity and pungency.
Mr. Byrnes has again rendered a very valuable service
to'all America, not solely to the South; nor is his presenta
tion only relative to the racial issue: he broadly and lucidly
expounds the great Constitution.
The Georgia Senate has boldly challenged the validity
of the 14th and 15th Amendments to theConstitution,
charging that both amendments were unlawfully declared
adopted.
As I recall, the Senators and Representatives from some
Southern States were accepted as fully accredited when
voting for the Amendments but were not regarded as law
fully seated for other purpose^
Strangely enough, the Government of our Nation is try
ing to straighten out the problems of Israel and the Arabs—
more than a thousand years old—but brazenly persists in
the unlawful acts to our own people!
“President Eisenhower again raised the possibility of
Federal controls over business and labor, creating much con
fusion both inside and outside Washington. At his press
conference, the President voiced his strongest warning yet
that the Government may, ultimately, be forced to control
wages - and prices unless business and labor exercise re
straint.
Twice before in the last few weeks—in messages to Con
gress—Mr. Eisenhower had voiced the threat of Govern?
ment regulation. Again yesterday his remarks raised the
question in the minds of some people whether controls
would come soon. But White House aides emphasized that
the President is not thinking of immediate action.”
Is our President trying to wield a “big stick”, in the
Theodore Roosevelt manner?
Observe all these threats and warnings. Are we under
the thumb or under the heel of our Government? Perhaps
our President needs some sound advice and some admoni
tion.
The Government is not absolute; nor must it threaten
us.
A handsomely prepared book on the Schools, and auxil
iary school facilities of Orangeburg County has come into
my possession. How splendidly Governor Byrnes could
have used a thousand copies in Illinois!
. Looking over the pictures I saw my sturdy friend, W. B.
Bookhart, a trustee of the Elloree District. Orangeburg is
a grand County of wonderful people.
Glorious dreams or visions of business prophets: We must
step lively so as to keep up with the procession.
“Several studies, notably that by the President’s Ma
terials Policy Commission, conclude that by 1975, only
eighteen years from now, the total production of all goods
and services by American business—our Gross National
Product, as it is called—will be double what it was in 1950.
This has now been substantiated by The Joint Committee
on the Economic Report, U. S. Congress, which predicts a
tremendous growth of the economy, including a 64 percent
growth in corporate profits, by 1965—in only 8 years.
It means that American business is beginning to grow
with remarkable force. Right now it is in the process of
growing as much more in a short 25 years as it grew in
the entire 175 years since the birth of the nation.
In the future we shall have more of everything—more
things to use and enjoy, more houses, automobiles, house
hold furnishings and accessories, radio and television sets,
good food and entertainment, more income with which to
buy these things, and throughout the nation and the en :
tirfe world more people, many more people, who will need
the products of American enterprise.
The conclusion that our Gross National Product will have
doubled by 1975 rests on tw'o basic facts.
First: American business has an inherent dynamic com
pulsion that has manifested itself since the middle of the
19th century by doubling its volume every twenty to thir
ty years. A momentum has thus developed which apparent
ly will not be denied, and which can logically be expected to
continue up to and well beyond 1975.
Second: The rapid expansion of population is a world
wide phenomenon. World estimates very because of inade
quate data, but such as we have indicate that the popula
tion of the world will be around 3V£ billion by 1975, a
twenty-five year growth of one billion. The population of
the U. S., according to the Bureau of the Census, will be
THE NEED IS GREAT—GIVE!
193 to 200 million, up 42 to 49 million from 1950. The en
tire significance is not, however, in the fact of greater num
bers, but also in an aroused world-wide demand for a bet
ter standard of living; for more things to use and consume.
This aggressive demand must be met, for the most part,
by the productive capacity of the Western world, parti
cularly by that of the United States. It will provide us,
for many years, with a rapidly expanding market, both at
home and abroad.
If you consider that discretionary spending power in this
country multiplied more than 3 times in the past 16 years—
from $76.1 billion in 1940 to an estimated $285.8 billion in
3956—and that it could conceivably multiply at an equally
rapid rate in the next twenty years, it is obvious that there
will undoubtedly be ample demand and ample purchasing
power to support a Gross National Product in 1975 which
will be twice as big as it is today.
What will this, our growing giant, required Essentially
the same as it does today, except—except that it will need
more, much more, of nearly everything—particularly
More Raw Materials; More Houses;
More Power; More Roads;
More Plants and Tools; More Food;
More Transportation.
America’s appetite for raw ipaterials, a prodigious 2,-
700,000,000 tons in 1950, about half of the free* world's
supply, will become a Gargantuan 4,300,000,000 tons by
1975.
Nearly half of the 1950 consumption consisted of mineral
fuel which was used for power, light and heat. Three-quar
ter billions of a ton consisted of construction materials.
There were 450 million \ons of agricultural products, and
an equal tonnage of metallic and non-metallic materials.
It is estimated that by 1975 the consumption of mineral
fuels will have practically doubled. Materials used in con
struction will be up 35% to well over a billion tons. Agricul
tural products will increase 39%, forest products only
17%. This latter figure reflects the growing use of min
eral products for building and heating.. The consumption
of metals, except gold, will nearly double—up 90%—with
the ferrous metals and alloys up 75% and the non-ferrous
up 85%. Non-metallic minerals will show the sharpest ad
vance of any group of materials—133%.
There is significance-we believe, not only in the tremen
dous volume of raw materials which will be needed, but
in the kinds of minerals which will be used by industry in
the years ahead.
The basic metals, such as iron, copper, lead, zinc and
tin, will still be the basic metals of our 1975 economy. The
use of iron will expand at least 75%. Copper and lead, 43%
and 53 % re. .jectively. But there will be startling increases
in the use oi certain other minerals. The consumption of
chromium and nickel, for instance, will double. The use of
cobalt will increase 344'r , of molybedenum 170%, of baux
ite (aluminum) 291titanium and cadmium will ex
pand 324%, some obsc. .^ s think even more. And the in
creased use of magne . ... will top 1,845 % !
It has been said th. t .. e are entering the Age of Chem
istry, meaning that . a. industrial processes will hence
forth rest largely Oi multitude of new, synthetic ma
terials and alloys w... .. ure emerging in a steady stream
from the chemists’ ... .stories.
Some 90-odd elemc. .6 combine in nature to form several
hundred thousand t .o unces. More than one hundred
thousands have alrea y ^een identified. Bpt the chemists
are now regrouping tuc atoms of those 90-odd elements to
make entirely new ; tances. In addition, they are dup
licating synthetically many of the products found in na
ture, and are doing more cheaply than they can be ex
tracted.
The chemical industry is already synthesizing 99% of
the product used in the dye industry, 95% of the plastics,
75% ofall drugs, 65 ')< of all rubber products, 50% of all
paint, and 20% of the textile fibres. And this is only the
beginning.
T F YOU could drill beneath the
facade of entertainments, re
ceptions, meetings with VIPs
both in and out of government,
and back-of-the-scenes conferen
ces incident to the visit of His
Majesty King Saud Ibn Abdii
Aziz A1 Saud of Saudi Arabia to
this country , . . you would strike
oil.
For there is scads of oil be
neath the desert sands of that
Arab Kingdom, enough to com
prise about one-sixth of the
world’s supply. And if you swept
away the cobwebs of double-talk
about security of the Mid-East
and the frightening prospect that
the Soviet Union is about to over
run or subvert the Arabs of Saud’s
country, you would find the giant
Arabian American Oil Company.
And to Aramco, trouble in the
Mid-East is the fact that the
blocked Suez Canal is bottling up
its oil production, or causing long
expensive transport around the
southern tip of Africa to reach
markets.
Aramco is owned by four of the
largest American Oil Companies—
Standard Oil of New Jersey, Stan
dard Oil of California, Texaco and
the Socony-Mobil Oil Company.
This Oil Company virtually finan
ces the Saudi Arabian government
through the millions of dollars in
royalties paid to King Saud for
the oil concessions ... it finances
the King’s fleet of Cadillacs, his
many palaces and his 10,000-mem
ber household. So King Saud’s
main interest is Oil and in keep
ing those royalties on Oil coming
in. If he does not, he is* a bank
rupt king, insofar as living in the
manner to which he has become
accustomed.
The Arabian King made his
trip to the United Statas at the
invitation of President Eisenhow
er, and the White House issued
a statement on acceptance by the
King which ended with this sen
tence:
“The President and the King are
expected to discuss the problems
of the Middle East area which are
of mutual interests to the two
countries.”
And at the first meeting between
the two heads of State, newspa
pers carried the story that the
guest list at dinner was liberally
sprinkled with representatives of
the oil companies involved.
In the area involved in the Mid
dle East, British Petroleum dnd
the Royal Dutch Shell, with a
scattering of other lesser inter
ests, split the oil concessions with
one another. So in reality the
men and companies which control
the Oil in these Mid-East countries,
in turn control the economy and
the foreign policy of the entire
Arab and Middle Eastern World.
As a matter of fact, shortage of
oil is now curtailing the economic
growth of all of Europe and aside
from United Nations action, fear
that the United States might cut
oft oil shipments to Western Eu
rope played a part in driving
Britain and France into reneging
on their policy of holding and
operating the Suez canal by force
of arms.
President Eisenhower, in line
with Administration policy of
turning. various functions over to
private industry has named a 15-
man committee of representatives
of the largest American oil com
panies to handle the problem of
shipment of Oil to Europe. Their
decision will not only affect Eu
ropean economy, it will affect
American economy, and has al
ready brought about a boost in
Oil prices in some areas of this
country.
FIGHTER-TRAINER . . . First photo of new F-104B shows initial
flight of ultrasonic two-seater Lockheed Starfighter.
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L Calimachus Teas (a) an.Italian painter; fl» magician; (c)
Greek sculptor.
2. a famous American writer, philosophers (a) John James
Thoreau; (b) William Henry Thorean; (c) Henry David
Thoreau.
S. Early name for Fort Pitt was (a) Fort Pickens; (b) Fort
Orange; (e) Fort Duqnesne.
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Several chemical and mineral substances are being ex
plored which may actually be revolutionary. For instance,
there is hydrazine, a chemical cousin of ammonia. Just as
the organic hydrocarbons led to a vast family of more than
a half-million marketable chemicals, hydrazine may lead
to an equally large marketable family of hydronitrogens
which will be used for power and explosives, in metal pro
cessing in agriculture, in pharmaceuticals, in textiles and
in other fields.”
Q—My son has a scholarship granted by the Atomic Energy Com
mission. He also is eligible for benefits under the War Orphans
education program. Can he keep his Atomic Energy Scholarship
and also draw War Orphans allowances?
A—No. The monthly allowances under the War Orphans program
would constitute a duplication of benefits paid from the Federal
treasury. Such duplication is prohibited by law.
Q—Can you give me some figures on crop production in 1956? Also
on the Commodity Credit Surplus crop holdings?
A—All-farm production set an all-time record in 1956, 13% above
the 1947-1949 average, and 4% above 1952. Total livestock and
livestock products also set an all-time high in 1956, 23% above the
average and 11% greater than in 1952. Total surplus stocks pledged
for loans or in CCC inventory on Dec. 31, 1952 was $2.4 billions. Th+
latest figures as of Oct. 31, 1956 give total surplus of $8.1 billion.
Cost of all government price support operations from Oct 17, 1983
through December 31, 1952 was $1,064 billion. Government costs
from Jan. 1, 1953 thru Oct 31, 1956 was $2,665 billion, or a total cost
of price supports to that date of $3,729 billion.
Q—I would like to know who hits made the longest continuous fili
buster speech in the snnnsls of Congress.
A—Senator Wayne Morse, of Oregon, on April 24-25, 1953 spoke con
tinuously for 22 hours and 26 minutes on the Tidelands Oil Bin,
The runner-up record was 15 hours and 35 . minutes by the late
Senator Huey Long, of Louisiana on extension of the NRA in 1935.
Q—How are the roles of procedures in Congress determined?
A—The Constitution provides that each House may determine fts
own rules of procedure.
BOATING BEAUTIES . . . Rosemary Merhant, Marilyn Larkin,
Joanne Boyne and Blanche Kos pose aboard cabin cruiser
powtered by twin 35 hp outboard motors at Chicago's boat show.
tdoqs from other editors
From the Whiteside Sentinel,
Morrison, Illinois: An executive
of one of the leading farm equip
ment manufacturers says: **As
I see it, this country may be
faced with two problems that are
rather paradoxical For the short
range we have the problem of
surplus; for the long range we
may have the problem of shortage
of food.”
The reason for this paradox, of
course, is die rapid rise in popu
lation—not only in this country,
but throughout the world. World
population is increasing at the
rate of about 36.5 million a year,
and some scientists believe that
the “explosion point," where
known resources would no longer
suffice to feed all human life
could be reached as soon as 1987.
There are many possibilities
for solving the food problem, run
ning the gamut from scientifical
ly controlled weather \o the use
of plankton and algae hi which
the seas abound. Whether or not
such revolutionary steps will
prove feasible or possible is now
a question mark. However, as
the spokesman for the equipment
maker said,, “ there is one
avenue of improving food supplies
that we can be sure holds prom
ise. That is the avenue of con
tinued research to improve farm
ing techniques and Inc
yields cm land now under
tion. This approach to the
lem will call for ctmtinued
search to develop better
hardier plants and animals,
search to develop better fertiliz
ers, research to point, the wa
to more economical farming prac
tices, and research to provide
ter farm machinery.”
We don’t have to run the risk of
eventual famine here!
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From tibe Chickasha Star, Chick-
asha, Oklahoma: Each second the
world tots up a net population gai
(births minus deaths) of a lit
more than one person. Every day
there are another llO.OOO mouths
to be fed. To assure the world
an adequate diet, 150 square miles
of new farm land should go into
cultivation each day.
- This cast a new light on the
farm surplus problem, in file
United States. That problem* dif
ficult as it is, seems to be a tem
porary one. In the long pull, U. S.
farmers will have their jobs cut
out to meet the needs of our soar*
ing population.
In the less developed countries,
it is true, great quantities of new
farm lands eventually can be
brought under cultivation. That is
certainly not a possibility here.
ENTERS SHRINE . . . Joe
McCarthy, 69, ex-manager of
Cubs, Yankees and Red Sox,
was elected to baseball’s Hall
of Fame. He won National
League pennant with Cubs in
1929, followed by t American
League pennants and 7 World
Series titles with Yanks, 1932-
1942.
This an' That
Jim Campbell of Chicago, who
had never won an outdoor title
before, swept te victory in the
senior men's division of the North
American Speed Skating Cham
pionships at Detroit • • . At Her-
shey. Pa., sixteen-year-old Carol
Wanek took the Eastern regional
figure skating championship with
a masterful display of fancy skat
ing • • • Chick Harbert, Detroit
pro, recently won the $5,069 Puerto
Rico open with a seven-under-par
281 • • • At Havana, Patty Berg
tied her own world record In win
ning the Havana Bfitmore wom
en's invitational tournament with
a six-under par 210 .. . *Two
right-handed rookie pitchers on
tiie Baltimore Oriole’s roster for
1957 are Bob Harrison and Char
ley Locke. Harrison will be get
ting his third crack at big league
ball. He set a Western League rec
ord for strikeouts with 270 during
1955. Locke worked for Vancouv
er and San Antonio last
had a combined 9-17
ord.