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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1957
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Do you know anything about farming? Pm thinking of
agriculture.
About the time President Franklin Roosevelt was trying
to remake, re-shape, rebuild and otherwise invigorate the
ancient labor of cultivating the soil for a livelihood, my part
ner and I began our farm operations.
As the Psalmist says, Surely goodness and mercy have
followed me all the days of my life, for it has been my rare
fortune to be associated with men who commanded my ad*
miration and respect.
I count some Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian and Bap
tist Ministers as the inspiring influences of my boyhood and
youth. But that wasn’t farming, was it?
I recall that when we began, or were about ready to begin,
we had no mules, so I planned to buy a tractor. Again I
became indebted to the experience and wisdom of a neigh
bor. He reminded me that a mule would thrive as readily on
corn at twenty five cents a bushel, as on corn at $3.50. Corn
was then a, glut on the market, even at twenty-five cents.
So we decided to buy mules, corn, oats and hay from our
fellow farmers, instead of at a gasoline station. The mules
didn’t realize that they were growing fat on cheap food, or
feed. Perhaps the mules are more fortunate than we because
they don’t worry over trivialities. As said of the lillies of the
field, that toil not nor spin and yet are provided for, the
mule eats his corn, oats and fodder and calls it a day.
Now since those days we have heard of the experiments
of President Roosevelt. Here is the story from the State
of Washington:
“The 20-year-old Columbia Basin Project, once a glorious
vision of Government planners, still has not fully material
ized. * —
Despite continuing efforts by Federal agencies to help
them, some farmers settled on reclaimed land here along
the Columbia River are giving up and moving out. Others
are barely hanging on. The farmers claim the planners are
to blame for their failure.
This was the Government’s dream project, but it’s be
come our nightmare, says a farmer, climbing on his tractor.
T made $900 to live on last year. The only way I can make
a go is to plant hay and get a job driving a school bus.’
The basic trouble is that the plan has stood still while time
and the technology of farming have moved on. Acreage ir
rigated by the U. S. and allotted to settlers was carefully
carved to suit the method of the 1930’s—a maximum of 160
acres per family and an average of about half that. Since
then, of course, new—and expensive—machinery has been
developed and new methods have come along; the invest
ment necessary to work a farm has soared.
*By the time you-buy the machinery for an 80-acre farm,
you need 16 Oacres to pay for it/ grumbles one typical farm
er. Booms a stentorian-voiced farmer: Tf a farmer nets
$3,600 a year for his wages and interest on his capital, he’s
lucky. Yet he has to invest $25,000 to $40,000 in one of these
farms. It’s impossible.”
^ To understand the plight facing settlers here in central
Washington, it’s necessary to go back to the 1930’s, to days
of horse-farming depression and the New Deal. It was then
that building of the giant Grand Coulee Dam got under way.
As part of the $760 million enterprise, it was planned to ir
rigate a million acres of the Columbia Basin, a dry plateau
half the size of Massachussets. This land would be sold at
low prices to families blown out of the Great Plains dust
bowl and to unemployed farmers in the cities.
The plan was complete to the last detail. One of the larg
est surveys in history helped decide placement of canals.
Some 8,000 soil samples were analyzed. Sample budgets far
farmers included such items as $67 for a horse harness,
$2.50 a year for horse-shoeing, $27 for a walking plow, $75
for a wagon and an automobile at $1,000.
The planning went beyond the farms themselves. One
1941 publication of the Department of the Interior, then
headed by Harold Ickes, urged planning ‘the location, and
insofar as practicable, the improvement of sites for rural
schools, churches, community halls, market centers, athletic
fields and the like/
Things have not worked out quite as planned, sad to re
late. But the project hardly could be called a flat failure. To
day, 15 years after Grand Coulee’s completion, irrigation is
available for 350,000 acres on 4,500 farms. By 1961, it is
expected the irrigated total will pass 500,000 acres. Even
tually, the planners say, some 13,000 to 14,000 farms will-
gulp enough irrigation water to supply the domestic de
mand for half the homes in the U. S.
Drive through the project today and the first thing you
notice is that many farmers aren't home. But they probably
aren’t loafing, either.
t Boeing Airplane Co. reports ‘numerous’ farmers are
amon# its 1,000 employes at the Moses Lake Flight Test
Center. A Phillips 66 service station attendant in Othello
Wash., notes, ‘Farmers came in here begging for work last
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air base reports a mother of four. ‘Sale of milk meets the
payments we owe on the farm but we live on my husband’s
$3,800-a-year salary.’
Many farms under cultivation haven’t any homes built
on them. The theory of the Columbia Basin Project called
for family-size farms—with a family on every farm. But
many absentee owners have decided it’s more profitable to
lease their acreage and let someone else develop the land.
What’s the average net income of all settlers? Figures
aren’t available. However, the. Bureau of Reclamation re-
elased one recent study of 21 single-farm operations, cover
ing a three-year period, in which the average net farm in
come was only $2,316. In the 1930’s, after a study of farms
in Kansas, North Dakota, Oregon and Washington, the Co
lumbia Basin planners concluded families ‘will not readily
adjust to any income objective of less than $1,000’. Actually,
a $1,400 a year net based on 1935-36 prices became the goal.
Later, this was boosted to $1,845 based on the 1939-44 per
iod and today the goal is $4,660 a year.
A pattern of success and failure greets you as you drive
through the project. Conversing in a front room without
curtains and with unfinished floors, Mrs. Saron K. Mindon
counts up: ‘We’re the only ones left out of five neighbors
who started here in 1952’.” , ’
Well, the only thing cheaper now than back in those days
is electricity; it gets better and cheaper all the time. Even
so, but since we can’t feed the mules electricity, or pour
cheap electric power into tractors—what shall we do?
If only we South Carolinians could boast as our Dallas
friends boast. How’s this? “Spendable income, by defini
tion, is what’s left after taxes. Dalas, Texas has no state in
come tax, no local or state sales taxes. Local school and
property taxes are among the nation’s lowest. Lower hous
ing costs and generally lower cost of living added to this tax
picture means this: more spendable income, a higher stand
ard of living. Find out more about this and other advantages
of a career.
We are having v
in our high scho-
ed not only by
professionally, 11: r
have urged the ixu
lively discussion about the 12th grade
’ 'ertainly the question has been enliven-
ms groups who approach the problem
•uite a number of prominent citizens
Uion of the 12th grade more or less be
cause they fear that dropping the 12th grade might signal
ize a trend with unfortunate results.
I have rea ! many letters
citizens who insist upon the
but those opposed have dor.
have seen.
As Senator Edgar Bro^
nestly I asked him to te
r • most worthy and excellent
c r. [ huation of the 12th grade,
v y little writing, so far as I
him. I shall qi^ote the S?
opposition clearly presen
follows:
“Maybe if we can’t :
pulsory requirement f
It is just short of a ci m:
allows election from d :
a child credits enou[ t
sense enough to entei r
I must have hit tin
12th grade.
I am reliably infer n
University failed fhs
basic training in the
were either dismisset
en training at the Un>
ed in the 11th and n
higher percentage of c
12th grade are failing tl
I do know that at Cle
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. ow the problem impresses
r. the interest of having the
nator Brown writes me as
f ish the 12th grade we can get com-
:’s - u jects above the 9th grade,
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mrip’ courses, which will give
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t some 1500 freshmen at the
'ter work because of lack of
jols and these boys and girls
m probation and are being giv-
which they should have receiv-
des. I am also advised that a
e freshmen coming out of the
tailed from the old 11th grade,
n we are having as much trouble
with freshmen failures as we had when children came there
from the 11th grade. *
Most of my mail is over-whelmingly in favor of abolish
ing the 12th grade or requiring basic subjects taught
through high school and you would be amazed to know
how many people are in favor of a 200 day teaching year
as against the 180 days or less than half the ways in the
year which the teachers now work.”
There is reason to believe that good will result from a dis
cussion based on full information.
Senator Brown is himself a self-made man, a man who
graduated with a great distinction from the University of
Hard-knocks and self-help. His interest is a deeply sincere
ideas from other editors
From the Suburban List, Essex
Junction, Vermont: W. Arthur
Simpson, Commissioner of Social
Welfare, hits a strong point in a
letter about “Why Boys Get in
Trouble.” He does not like the
rigid law regulations in regard to
boys working in factories, garages,
or even on the road. Three para
graphs from his letter are as fol
lows:
*‘A boy of sixteen can take driv
er's training, get his junior license
and drive the car he has (filled
with teen-age boys) all over the
county but he cannot drive for
hire for an adult who would ac
company him.
“He cannot work on construc
tion for he might get hurt, but
he can join the armed forces,
handle hand grenades, tanks i»i*d
jump from airplanes attached to
a parachute or help build roads
or bridges for file engineers. He
cannot work in a garage but be
can go to Korea and wallow in the
mud and repair tanint and trucks.
“Wouldn't it be better to give
those boys a job on road construc
tion (ht building or whatever they
are interested in, and make them
feel like the men they really are,
than like a child who might pound
his fingers if he were given a ham
mer.”
There is a lot of sense to that.
Pretty much all boys, after they
get through school, want a job.
The labor laws prevent them
from working at certain trades.
And yet, those same boys are ac
cepted for military service where
the hazards are a great deal more.
Of course, there is nothing to
prevent a boy from working on
his own father’s farm. And, possi
bly that is the reason that there
are a smaller number of boys in
the country who get into trouble
than there are from the larger cen
ters.
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From the TaUassee Tribune, Tai
ls ssee, Alabama: We welcome
back one faithful reader, name un
known, who apparently has beat
on the sick list because we missed
him a few weeks last month.
Although, as stated above, his
name is unknown to us, we gave
him the name of “Willie, the Wash
er” sometime back,, because of
his habit of putting a washer in
our honor box for his paper in
stead of the customary nickel.
Willie had us worried for a few
weeks because we couldn't decide
whether he was ill or whether we
had written something that of
fended him. But he’s back now,
the usual washer turning up last
week when we robbed our boxes,
so everything's normal again.
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Are application* for GI Home Loans falling off?
Yee, considerably. Applications for February 1957 totaled 25,773.
This compares to 41,412 in February 1956 and 55,621 in Feb. 1955.
How are appointments made to the Military and Naval Academiedff
Bach Senator enri Representative in Congress is allotted four
appointments to the military academy at West Point. For each
he may nominate a principal »nd three alternates. The Vice-
president each senator, representative and delegate in Con
gress, is allowed a maximum of five midshipmen at the naval
academy at Annapolis at any one time. The President may appoint
75 at large each year to sons and adopted sons of personnel of
the military forces, army, navy, air force, marine corps. Actual
appointment in every case is made by the President. Entrance ex
aminations are given at times and places designated by the acad
emies. The exams include physical, as well as aptitude and other
tests. Graduates of the two academies as well as the Coast Guard
Academy are awarded Bachelor of Science Degrees. In certain
instances sons ci. enlisted servicemen may be admitted without
nomination by congressmen. Ten nominwtlona to the Air Force
Academy in Colorado are permitted each Senator and Congress
man.
ire the functions of the Solicitor General of the United StateeT
iks .second to the Attorney General in the Department of
justice, the latter’s duties in his absence. He represents
Jn cases before the supreme court, and may
appear in lower courts. He must authorise any appeal by fee
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one as all must admit.
In this matter the Senator is not seeking to destroy, but to
improve.
I can speak as one who has taught in country schools,
high schools, junior colleges, and, finally, at The Citadel. I
think we should encourage a thorough discussion of our pub
lic institutions for they mean much to all of us, and should
always be under close scrutiny.
Let’s argue the question on its merits. I must say for
Senator Brown that he has always been a champion of all
the public services of our State.
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DRESS UP FOR LOVE
By Lillace M. Mitchell
C LIE emptied the coffee grounds
on the Spartan rose ahd eyed
the ground around the plant as it
drank the liquid almost thirstily.
Although she did not look next
door she could see, out of the
corner of her purple eyes, Charley
Cornell polishing his convertible.
“Hoo boo!" he said suddenly.
“Hoo hoo yourself,” she re
torted. She laughed gaily and went
back into the kitchen.
“I wish you’d press my blue
nylon. Sis,” Emmy said. “It only
takes a whisper of the iron but—
Fm really in a rush.”
“Go on! My white shoes have
to be whitened,” Jimmy cut in.
The other two sisters looked at
the sink full of breakfast dishes
distastefully. “My stars, when we
all get up late on these holiday
mornings,” grumbled Grace, “it
puts everything back—I simply
can’t take time to help with the
dishes, Lulie.” •
Lulie noticed now that the old
est sister, Marcia, was already
decked out in her “little cotton”
that was skilfully cut and had cost
forty-two-flfty at the dress shop.
Lulie stood there for a few mom
ents after they had all left the
room, her eyes studying the dish
es, the nylon dress that needed
only the Whisper of the iron and
the white shoes that would need
at least three coats ef whitening
—to look white.
Out in the yard next door she
could hear Charley Cornell whis
tling tunelessly: a little sound feat
always pulled her heartstrings.
For Charley Cornell had always
whistled like feat when he had
been waiting to take her to the
Prom or on a class picnic when
they were in high school. Since
graduation Charley Cornell has
asked her for a dozen dates but
Lulie remembered dully that she
seemed never to be through with
her tasks and she had refused
him almost crossly. She was sor
ry now as she remembered back:
after all, it wasn’t his fault if
the work was all too much for one
slim girl to handle.
Her Mother bad broken down
under the strain and had been in
the hospital for three months. No
one else ever seemed inclined to
shoulder any of the burden and
somehow Lulie had found hersalf
“elected” to the job.
“Hoo, hoo! Where you going, for
Pete’s sake?” called Charley.
She looked over at him and
smiled tantalizingly. "Did you
have any special place in mind,
Charley?”
He blinked. “ME? You mean
you’re going placep wife ME?”
“Oh, didn’t you intend your
kind words as an invitation, Char
ley? Excuse me!”
He shook his polishing rag un
easily. “Gee, I thought I was
poison—*r something. You kept
turning me down every time I
asked you. You want to go places
today. Lulie?”
“Why not?” she asked simply.
From the upstairs bedroom the
sisters shared, Emmy called shril
ly, “Bring my nylon up. Sis. Fm
ready for it now.”
Lulie looked up and waved care
lessly. “It isn’t ironed, darling.
Charley and I are going places—”
Jimmy crawled out his bedroom
window onto fee roof over the kit
chen porch. “It’s mutiny!” he
howled. “Mutiny on the Bounty!
It’s mutiny, feat's what—”
"fe’m,” laughed Charley loudly.
”1 thought Lulie was going to be
MUTE all the rest of her life
while you-all walked back and
forth over her stretched-out body!
Come along, l ulie—let’s get going
—I sure got sick and tired of those
old cotton kitchen dresses you’ve
been living in.”
“I s’pose you’re wanting to buy
her real dress-up dresses, huh?”
Jimmy yelled down angrily.
“It’s a right good idea. Buddy,”
said Charley. “Glad you men
tioned it It’ll smooth the proposal
for me—later in the day. Eh,
Lulie?”
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M R. W. RANDOLPH BURGESS,
Undersecretary of the Treas
ury, former Board Chairman of the
City Bank Farmers Trust-Com
pany of New York, told the an
nual conference of the Savings
and Mortgage Division of the
American Bankers Association in
New York March 11 that:
“The United States is today en
joying one of fee finest prosperi
ties of its history. A revival of fee
principles of economic freedom,
under which America grew to
greatness in the past, has helped
to create more jobs, more income,
and more leisure and more edu
cation and more capacity to ap
preciate the good things of life
for the American people than they
have ever had before.”
But there must be something
wrong somewhere, for fee Insti
tute of Life Insurance, 488 Madi
son Ave., New York, don’t like
Mr. Burgess’ brand of prosperity
and economic freedom. The Insti
tute of Life Insurance looks at
the billions of dollars of invest
ments by Life Insurance com
panies in the farms, the Bonds of
Federal and State -Governments
and in other assets safeguarding
the policies of 106 million life in
surance policyholders. The Insti
tute is fearful. The Institute be
lieves we are over-spending; Gov
ernment is over-spending, Feder
al, State and Local government;
The Institute does not believe that
the inflationary spiral the nation
is in, is the mark of continuing
prosperity.
“106 million policyholders have
made life insurance America’s
most widely used form of thrift.
In the interest of these policy
holders—in the interest of all of
as—the life insurance companies
feel they have a duty to help pre
serve fee purchasing power of the
dollar.” This is fee basis for an
appeal The Institute of Life In
surance is making in a dramatic
attempt to halt fee kind of pros
perity Mr. Burgess is talking
about—a prosperity built upon fee
quicksands of inflation.
In 527 daily newspapers across
fee country and in several na
tional magazines, The Institute of
i.ifA Insurance is placing 'a series
of paid ads to reach more than 50
million people appealing to them
to “save an extra nickel out of
every dollar” to halt rising prices
anH to produce billions of dollars
in savings.
“As a second step,” the adver
tising says, “to fight inflation, all
of us should support every rea
sonable move to reduce govern
ment spending—federal, state and
local.”
The Institute fixes no blame
anywhere in Mr. Burgess’ Treas
ury Department, nor in fee Admin
istration. It’s past that time. But
The Institute comes this close: It
says:
“This is no time for name-call
ing or finger-pointing, or ‘letting
George do it.” It’s a time for all of
usi to join in a spirit of mutual
respect and determination to work
out this problem togefeer.”
The Institute suggests: 1—That
Management offer better products
for the same prices, or fee same
products at lower prices; 2—that
employees make every dollar re
ceived, a dollar earned. Unless he
does, his paycheck may be bigger,
but it will buy less; 3—All of us
need to support reduction in gov
ernment spending—its our money
fee government spends. If we
keep asking for services, we keep
paying—in higher taxes.
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