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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1957 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 I talk quite a bit about new industries; of course I do not forget those we have. New, what is a new industry worth to a community? Editorially The Joanna Way, a handsome monthly maga zine of The Joanna Cotton Mills Company of Joanna, South Carolina, presents some most illuminating facts. Incidentally the editor is Mrs. Edna Foy. Mrs. Foy produces an excel lent magazine every month. ! Before citing the information data I would pay my re spects to that modest, retiring, but extraordinary effective gentlemen who so graciously guides and inspires that great textile enterprise, as well as the entire community—Mr. Walter Regnery. Mr. Regnery’s record at Joanna has been a brilliant achievement in every phase of operations, includ ing the highly dseerved devoted loyalty of everybody. Let me quote from The Joanna Way: “WHAT INDUSTRY MEANS TO A COMMUNITY. “Frequently our attention is focused on the fact that com munities want and make strong concerted efforts to get new industries. We may read that New England is fighting the losing of some of its industries to the South; we hear that representatives of city governments and chambers of com merce have made trips to distant places to try to ‘sell’ some industry on the idea of locating in their community. Though we have vague ideas that industrial establishments pay taxes and turn loose fat payrolls, we may perhaps wonder why, specifically, industries are so desirable. Here are some concrete facts that resulted from a survey of nine fairly comparable counties throughout the United States, during a recent period. In these counties it was found that 100 new industrial jobs resulted in: “296 more people; 51 more children; $270,000 more bank deposits; 174 more workers employed; 4 more retail estab lishments; 112 more households; $590,000 more personal income per year; 107 more passenger cars registered; $360,- 000 more retail sales per year. “Joanna Cotton Mills Company employs 1,600 people. To see what Joanna’s operations mean to this locality and im mediate area, multiply the* above figures by 16. The as tounding, conservative figures are as follow^: “4,736 people; 816 children; $4,320,000 bank deposits; 1,712 passenger cars registered; 2,784 workers employed; 64 retail establishments'; $5,760,000 retail sales per year; 1,792 households; $9,440,000 personal income per year. “Did you realize that your company meant so much to the community.and the surrounding areas?” How can a business operate if it is bled by taxation ? The very unwise, even foolish, attitude of our National Govern ment really reflects the unsound thinking of millions of our people. The Government is doing what many want it to do; or it does what many will applaud, whether it be wise or un wise; sound or unsound. After all is said we might as well understand that a conspicuous weakness in a so-called de- * mocracy is that expediency rules; and by expediency I mean that the controlling factor is votes. We can all understand thfit but we can as readily understand that if a mammoth business, such as U. S. Steel, or Standard Oil (any of the Standards) or General Electric or Du Pont were operated as we operate the Government that business would fade away in a few years. As Grover Cleveland once said, in his ponderous style, it would pass into innocuous desuetude, whatever that is. And yet our Government is a many times larger operation than all those concerns combined. I have before me an advertisement of a great company of Ohio. It is not one of the giants, such as those I just men tioned; this is a modest affair. The property and plant are listed as $224,218,000; its revenue last year was $73,527,- 000, on which it earned $10,0000,000. Sounds attractive doesn’t it? Boiled down that means that the Company earned about $3.80 on each common share. But that Com pany pays $5.92 a share in taxes. Tell me, why should we play along with Government ownership when the Government can collect so much in taxes, without any investment, any risk, any vexation? Not all this was Federal, it is trpe, but most of it was. Another instance—and this is very ‘common—a Company paid about $6.00' a share in taxes but paid its stockholders only $2.25. As you know, many people are standing in line, as it were, waiting for Government handouts. What do you think of this? “The Federal Government is making an all-out effort to get rid of the surplus commodities it has accumulated under the farm program, and in the quarter, July-September, ‘do nations to domestic and foreign recipients totaled 705 mil lion pounds’ of foodstuffs, almost 2 1-2 times the amount moved under the give-away program during the same per iod of 1955. Of this total, 210 million pounds of food was donated to ‘eligible recipients’ in this country, 93 percent STRATOSPHERE BALANCING ACT more than in the same period for last year. This is a give away program that makes other something-for-nothing schemes suffer by comparison. According to a release of the U. S. Department of Agri culture dated November 2, 1956, the foods were distributed to about 3,500,000 ‘needy persons’ in family units in the 38 states currently taking part in the program. It is worth noting that the latest information shows that fewer than 2,000,000 of our citizens are unemployed! Whatever you do with these figures you always .come up with the same answer: a lot of folks who can’t qualify as ‘needy’ by any stretch of the imagination, are practicing the old art of ‘free-loading’ at the expense of their neighbors. According to the Department of Agriculture release $91 million worth of food was distributed to these ‘needy’ per sons in fiscal 1956, and $22 million in the first quarter of fiscal 1957. Who got it? The Department of Agriculture release gives this information, too. You naturally expect New York, the state with the largest population, to lead in the number of recipients, but not so. The state with the greatest number of ‘needy’ during September, 1956 was Pennsylvania, with 963,725 eligibles and 813,867 actually receiving food. Really the New York State figures are surprising. In the month mentioned New York had only 72,862 eligibles with 56,572 participating. One person reports that in Pennsylvania the government was so anxious to give away groceries that all you had to do was to walk up and stick out your hand. No questions asked. This is apparently common practice with government give-aways. A similar report was made from a Western state on the handling of the ‘soil bank’ program, where one recipient said the government’s only interest was to give them the money. It is only fair to say that the states and counties fix the eligibility rules in the food give-away program. One thing is sure—the average American is being ‘done in.’ He pays his taxes and sees a considerable part of this tax money used by the government to protect the price of farm products, thus increasing the price he has to pay on the market for these commodities; and then, to fill his cup to over-flowing, the government gives the food it has bought with his money to people who are in no sense ‘needy.’ Sure ly ‘charity shall cover a multitude of sins.’ But you should not be surprised. It is the old, old story of the government meddling in affairs for which there is ‘neither rhyme nor reason’.” Is the President unaware of this? Now that we talk about Pennsylvania, what do we know about South Carolina? What do you know about your own County ? What is going on in Washington? President Eisenhower seems to have changed rem.a ivably, or, else he is leaving too much to men who talk pe ...asively but do not know that a dollar has just 100 cen... If they have heard that then* they believe in rubber .. ..;vs. And it appears that our Government is spendi 0 t of its consideration on tax- eaters, forgetting tha. ... .. avers make the Nation. Our Nation needs ... ..e ..j-ers, more earners, more real producers, more peop.t _ instructive ideas and boldness in putting the construe a o x n grams into execution. Anybody can spend money, nc. a.\,*ays well, or helpfully, but spend it, particularly if thi .. i :.....iing carries no strict accounta bility for useful res;. . Certainly the spending spirit is rampant in the Govei.....ent and among the people. There must be a reckoning, v. ay not think now rather than suffer later? Of course that isn . popular and I must sound like a frog croaking in the svamp. Even so. “President Eisenhc; devotes increasing time to foreign policy. He delegates m ; h more responsibility in domestic affairs to lesser officii s. The Cabinet loses influence. The White House staff ascends as the Cabinet declines. The two domestic conservatives, Treasury Secretary Humphrey and Commerce Secretary Weeks, lack the sway they once had. And with the changing order come signs that Mr. Eisen hower loses his contact with domestic matters. He is not an avid newspaper reader. Though the No. 1 politician in the country’s No. 1 political job, the President has little direct touch with politicians. He seldom sees members of his own party in Congress. State chairman and national committee men almost never come to the White House. These changes, of course, come slowly and quietly. Neither the President nor anyone else has announced them. But the unmistakable pattern of the changing order can be seen by closely studying happenings at 1600 Pennsyl vania Avenue. - * * Less dramatically, Mr. Eisenhower’s daily schedule em T HE Senate Resolution pre sented by President Eisenhow er asking a blank check to use American armed forces in the Middle East and to spend $200 million for economic and military assistance in that area is no longer a blank check. Not only were safeguards thrown about the use of troops and money, but the President and his adminis tration came in for some cutting criticism on U. S. foreign policy in the Middle East, or rather for lack of it. Senator Theodore F. Green, of Rhode Island in present ing the amended Committee reso lution on the floor of the Senate spoke, rather - chidingly, it must be admitted, about “past mis takes" in the middle East He also said: “In calling upon the executive branch to develop Middle East policies which will help achieve our peaceful objective there, I must remind the Department of State of the evidence developed during the hearing of the joint committee that the State Depart ment machinery and procedures have been at times extremely faulty. It is to be hoped that no more instances will come to light in which the United States Ambas sador in a country in the Middle East will lean\ from the 4ocal newspapers of the announcement of United States policies of great concern to the country to which he is accredited.” “. . . We must insist that the ex ecutive branch develop construc tive foreign policies. The Commit tee on Armed Services and For eign Relations must insist on a response by the executive branch to the request which we have made for documents and other material which will provide a full and fair picture of United States- involvement in the Middle East during the past several years . . .” Instead of an outright authoriza tion to the President, the Commit tee resolution reads that if the President determines the neces sity thereof, “The United States is prepared to use armed forces to assist any nation requesting as sistance against armed aggression from any country controlled by international Communism.” Instead of giving a blank check on use of the $200 million for eco nomic and military assistance, the Committee resolution says that “no money shall be used until 15 days after the Foreign Relations and Appropriations committees of the Senate and the Foreign Affairs and Appropriations Committee of the House” receive a report and approve, where military assist ance is involved. The Eisenhower resolution had no termination date, and the Committee put the termi nation either upon the President’s view the emergency is past, or a “concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress.” Several Senators, as this is writ ten have further Amendments to be offered from the floor, including O’Mahoney, Wyoming; Morse, Ore gon; Mansfield, Montana; Douglas, Illinois,' and others. On a proposed amendment will be a clear defini tion of “military assistance.” An other will withhold funds from any Mid-East nation which makes ag gressive war upon another: An other likely will limit military funds received for “Defense only.” FRATERNAL CHAT . . . Robt. F. Kennedy (left), counsel of U. S. senate committee on racketeering, talks with his brothp* md committee member. Sen. John F. Kennedy (Mass.). 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Scan his schedule for recent weeks: with few exceptions, most visi tors were there to ponder with him the problems of foreign policy or the related question of national defense. The Mideast crisis accounts for much of the new em phasis. Q—Were there any basic principles debated in the Constitutional Con gress upon which there was no dispute and unanimity of agree ment? A—Yes. There were six basic principles upon which there was no recorded dispute. 1—AH States would be equal; 2—AU persons ' were to be equal before the Law; 3—There would be three branch es of government, one to make the laws; another to execute them and a third to settle questions of law. 4—The Government is a government of laws, not men; 5—The People can change the authority of the government by changing the constitution, and 6—the Constitution, the Acts of Congress and United States treaties are the highest law, over and above any State law. Q—Can a member of Congress transmit free mail to any foreign countries? A—Yes, to most countries in the western hemisphere, except Air Mail Two exceptions are Argentine and Brazil. The courtesy to U. S. Mails are also extended to the reciprocating countries for their congressional members. * Q—I note there is a large box-like structure in the basement of the Capitol covered with a black dloth. Can yon tell me what it is? A—It is a catafalque originally intended for the permanent tomb of George Washington. Washington, however provided in his will for burial at Mount Vernon. The catafalque was used in 1865 to support the casket of Lincoln and has since been used for every person laid in state in the Capital rotunda, ft is kept in the sub basement directly beneath the rotunda! Q—What is the oldest Federal Building in Washington? A—The White House, begun in 1792. It was not quite finished in 1800 when John Adams moved in as the first occupant The interior and part of the walls were destroyed by fire by the British in 1812. It was rebuilt immediately and then was not touched except for minor repairs until 1949-52 when President Truman had it com pletely renovated, even to new foundations, but retaining of original design. From the Cantosi Independent^ Sentinel, Canton, Pa.; Many Amer icans complain they have trouble sleeping at night They resort to all sorts of drugs, sleeping pills, and other remedies, some of which are not necessary and some of which do not "do the body any good. Experts have unanimously agreed that difficulty in getting to sleep at night is rarely due to a physical disorder or ailment. Insomnia, if you have it, can usually be prevented if you will use your thinking process a bit and if you can discipline your self to refrain from worry at night, putting ofl( your problems until the morning. The first task, relaxing, is par tially dependent on disciplining yourself to starting yourself each day, tackling your problems in the morning and not worrying about them all night. If you will remember that worry never ac complishes anything, except to destroy your health and your hap piness, you will soon learn to dis card worry and to tackle your problems each day as they arise. Experts say that if you wish to avoid insomnia, you should give yourself an opportunity to relax and unwind before going to sleep. They suggest listening to quite music, reading an easy- to-read-novel, taking a warm bath leisurely, or pursuing some other hobby or relaxation which will quite you down. A combination of resorting to uselessly worry over life's prob lems at night and calming your self down before you go to bed will produce * better results than drugs, sleeping pills and artifical sleeprpakers. Also, it will save you money • • • From the Suburban List, Essex Junction, Vermont: Colleges are. turning out thousands of students who get higher education but criticism is made they are lack ing in some fundamentals. The Dean of Jthe Law School at Columbia University in New York City says that the inability of college students to read and write is growing by leaps and bounds. He Wants to have courses established in writing and gram mar instruction which, is sup posed to be thoroughly taught in the high schools. Dr. William Warren makes this criticism and he might have also included spelling. How true it is that many college students are not able to write with a clear ness that is understood. They use long involved sentences that have little or no meaning. 1. Royal Gorge Is to (a) Arison^; <b) Utah; (c) Colorado. 8. Malaga Is a seaport of (a) Mexico; (b) Italy; (c) Spain, ft. Rhinitis affects the (a) nose; (b) foot; (c) ear. ANSWERS •MOM f -V!«*S * IT* SKATE CHAMP... Carol Helss, 17, of (Hone Park, N. Y., won her second consecutive figure skating title over 19 challengers from 9 countries at Colorado Springs. This an' That Line conch Mel Hein has been rehired by head coach Don Clark of the University of California football staff. Hein served six years under former California coach Jess Hill . . . Sportscaster Mel Allen, who served as first vice president last year, was elected president of the Sports Broadcasters Association for the third time in its 16-year history . . Everette Wright of Somers, Conn., rode his motorcycle np a 42-foot, 60-degree incline at Day tona Beach, Fla., to win a hill climbing contest . . . Just Rite Ros, a three-year-old bitch, won the National Shooting Dog States at Union Springs, Ala. Owner of the animal is R. R. Waugh, Peo ria, Illinois . . . Reports that Con gress would kill a five-milUon- dollar appropriation for the Pan American Games hi 1959 brought charges from Games President Douglas F. Roby that the U. S. ie on the verge of vintsmationally disgracing” itself ... A heart attack suffered during a Phoenix workout has ended the career of Bill Sami, first string catcher for the New York Giants.