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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
I read a remarkable statement in the newspapers recently:
Let me quote it.Says the report :
“The South Carolina Electric & Gas Company says in its
report for the year: Sales of electricity totaled an all-time
record of 2.8 billion killowatt hours, an increase of almost
16 per cent over the previous year. There were 6,155 new
residential, commercial and industrial customers added to
company lines last year, bringing the total served to a record
171,388.
The average cost of electricity to SCE & G’s residential
customers last year was 2.34 cent per killowatt hour, which
was 10 per cent below the national average of 2.60 cents.
And these residential customers used an average of 4,088
killowatt hours of electricity in 1956, more than 37 per cent
over national average.
$8.4 million was spent last year on construction, of new 7
power facilities to serve growing demand, out of total con
struction expenditures of some $10 million. SCE & G system’s
electric generating capability is now 615,000 KW, of whiqh
some 75 per cent is alw 7 ays available, dependable steam
generation not dependent on stream flow. 298 pole miles of
distribution and transmission lines were added to SCE’G’s
great network which now totals 8,584 miles throughout its
23-county service area.
A record of 5.3 billion cubic feet of Natural Gas was
sold last year to 31,314 £as customers. This was a giant
387 per cent increase over 1955. There were 2,941 customers
last year and 78 miles of distribution mains were added to
the system.
15.7 million passengers were carried on bus lines in Col-
umbia and Charleston in 1956. This was 15 per cent fewer
passengers than the^ previous year, reflecting the downward
trend in bus usage throughout the country because of in-
greasing numbers of private automobiles.
QRiere were 1,834 employees on the company’s payroll
$rho received $8.4 million in wages and salaries during last
year. Owners of the company, the stockholders who invested
their savings to provide the capital for expansion of facilit
ies, totaled more than 30,000 in 1956.
A record $9.6 million was provided for taxes against
Operations by the company in 1956, 25 per cent more than
the previous year. This money goes to help support the
schools, hospitals and other public services in the counties
and towns in wdiich the company operates and for State
and Federal government services just as your tax
dollars do.
To provide plenty of power for South Carolina’s expand
ing industrial economy, SCE & G’s management has set
up a three-year construction budget of more than $75 mil
lion, some $29 million for 1957, $32 million fer 1958, and
«$14 million for 1959. This includes funds for the giant new
McMeekin Steam Generating Station, now under construc-
tioii, which will add 275,000 KW capability to the system
when the first two units are completed in 1958.”
What impresses me is this: the Company paid higher
wages and more wages; it paid somewhat more to the
stockholders; it paid much more in taxes—more than nine
million dollars—to be exact, $9,600,000; and it paid more
for everything it bought, from wire to coal; and it reduced
the price of electricity! Is that a miracle, or not?
The idea of something being cheaper today than last
year is almost beyond belief, eh? And yet the record
shows that it is not only cheaper than the average price
in other States, but has been reduced, made cheaper, year
after year, during the last eighteen years!
Don't you wish you could eat and wear electricity ?
“By 1967 we must have:
7,500,000 new homes to meet the demands of a growing
population.
7,000,000 new homes to replace demolished substandard
and wornout homes.
500,000 new homes to replace those destroyed by fire,
flood and other causes.
1,000,000 additional homes for our rapidly increasing old-
age population.
These are minimum requirements. Not what we ought
to have. Not what it would be nice to have. These are the
things we must have simply to keep pace with the new
population now in existence.”
“Many people are not much concerned over big federal
spending for civilian programs—^because of a mistaken be
lief that citizens in the higher income brackets are paying
the freight.
Actually, the high incomes provide only a small frac
tion of incom^ tax revenues—even though the rates, up to
D1 per cent—come close to confiscation in the top brackets.
The extreme rates make average tax payers feel they are
‘getting off easy’—by contrast.
About 75 cents out of every federal income tax dollar is
paid by people with taxable incomes of $6,000 or less. And
81 cents of income tax dollar comes from those whose tax
able income is less than $10,000.
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High-bracket taxpayers have had it: they can’t be squeez
ed much more. Corporate taxes must, in the end, be paid by
consumers. So when federal spending goes up, make no
mistake about it—the tax bell tolls for you.”
Regardless of whether we think the 12th grade worth
maintaining let us not overlook the fact that Senator
Edgar Brown has made a notable fight to prevent increase
in taxes. If we are in favor of higher incomes taxes, or
higher sales taxes then we do not agree with Senator Brown,,
nor do we endorse his efforts to hold down taxes.
It would be interesting to know what the taxpayers think
about this.
“Atomic Quest.”—A new study.
‘New discoveries nearly always disturb man’s way of
life. The release of the atom’s energy was not the first to
sdo so. Ancient legend reflects similar experiences and what
they have done to men/
The author cites the legend of the opening of Pan
dora’s box and comments, ‘The first product of new and in
complete knowledge is often suspicion, fear, and malice.
And so often, too, when boldly the truth is learned new
and unexpected hope appears. . . Here at last is an import
ant reason for writing the present book, the belief that if
the motivations of those who have gained this atomic
strength are more fully understood a certain suspicion may
be allayed. Perhaps if a typical American tells from his
heart how he views his nation’s place in the age of atomic
power, it may be that his own people and those of other
lands may find new ground, for hope.’
The second legend is that of Prometheus who stole fire
from Olympus and brought it as a gift to man. In spite of
his terrific punishment, the rebel hero remained insistent
that men should share Olympic powers. And what is the
reward of the atmoic scientist for his gift to man? ‘The
scientist is now a national asset. The quiet of a scholar
is upset. The voice of duty compels him to go where he
can best serve his country. Not only his actions, but his
private thoughts may affect the lives of millions. Rather
than honor he finds suspicion. From motives high and
low, every corner of his life is investigated and opened
mercilessly to public gaze. . . Yet like Prometheus, the
atomic scientist shoV/s the spirit of the eternal rebel. No
one shall take from him his soul. He continues to seek new
truth, that men may have a greater freedom.’
The third legend concerns Daedalus who learned from
the gods the secret of making steel and fashioned a sword
and gave it to the king. His neighbors objected that it
would not bring happiness but strife. ‘It is not my purpose
to make you happy’ was Daedalus’ reply, T would make
you great . .
The laboratory for the design and construction of the
atomic bomb was started at Los Alamos late in 1952 after
the selection of Robert Oppenheimer as the able director.
Another decision of importance at this time was the seek
ing of industrial help on a large scale and the enlistment
of the Du Pont Company to build the production plants for
uranium.
Beginning with the selection of the sites at Oak Ridge,
Hanford, and Los Alamos, the rapid construction of plants
and new cities is described. The decision to build the water-
cooled graphite reactor was made. Measures taken through
out the project at this time to protect the workers against
radioactivity of previously unimagined intensity, are shown
to have resulted in an extraordinary record of safety.
The Chemical achievements under the leadership of Glenn
Seaborg were phenomenal. The chemistry of new man
made elements neptunium and plutonium had to be worked
out starting with quantities of the elements so small that
they could not be seen. After following the chemical steps
by radioactivity, a quantity of plutonium was obtained
sufficient to be seen under the microscope. Then the pilot
plant at Oak Ridge was built, but before it went into op
eration, the huge Hanford processing plant for separating
plutonium from uranium and its fission products had to
be designed. The scaling up of chemical engineering plants
chances for failure, but so well had the chemists and en
gineers planned that the separation was completely success
ful.
One of the many dramatic incidents was the early and
unexpected neutron poisoning of the Hanford production
reactors soon after starting up. One of the fission products,
Xenon 135, has an extraordinary great absorption- for neu
trons which reduced the ability to propagate the nuclear
chain reaction. Fortunately, the Du Pont engineer had
over-designed the reactor so that it was just possible to
override this poisoning effect.”
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I S Congress losing control of the
Government’s purse strings?
When appointed officials, such as
the Postmaster General and the
Chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission can thumb their noses
at the power of the Congress,
ivhich has the sole authority under
the constitution to appropriate the
axpayers’ money, and get away
ivith it with the approval in ad
vance, of the president of the
United States, it looks very much
like the Congressional control is
slipping.
Mr. Arthur E. Summerfield, the
Postmaster General, flouted both
the budget law and the antidefici
ency law, and forced Congress to
its knees to get an additional $41
millions dollars to run his depart
ment until the end of the fiscal
year June 30, 1957. And President
Eisenhower told his press confer
ence, he had approved the action
in advance,
Herels what happened. Last year
at budget time, Summerfield came
before the appropriations commit
tee and asked for $2,118,000,000 to
run his department during the
fiscal year 1957 ending June 30.
Congress gave him over $3 billion.
Under the budget Act -this money
is allocated by quarters, and it is
the duty of the Executive official
to spend it that way. But Summer-
field borrowed from the second
quarter for his first quarter and
so on through the year. When he
saw he would not have enough
money left to run out the fourth
quarter, he went, to Percival Brun-
dage, director of the Budget, for
deficiency estimates to bail him
out. Brundage time and again told
him he would have to live with the
money Congress gave him. Finally
however, with the President’s ap
proval, Brundage yielded and sent
a deficiency estimate of $47 million
to the House although Summerfield
still had more than a half billion
dollars of bis original appropria
tion.
Congress balked. Summerfield
told them he would shut down the
postal service, and did on Friday
night April 12, discontinued mail
service on Saturday April 13, alortg
with some other functions, for the
first time in the history of the na
tion. Not to save Summerfield, but
for the protection of the taxpayers
and the mail users and particular
ly for business dependent for its
very life on mail service, Con
gress rushed through an appropri
ation bill giving Summerfield $41
of the $47 million h^ had de
manded.
Congressman Clarence Cannon,
chairman of the up-to-now power
ful appropriations committee tells
it this way: “No one can deny that
the Postmaster General knew all
along that he was overspending
and his continued support of ex*
travagant programs was every
month making a deficiency im
perative and inescapable. His con
tinued application to the Bureau
of the Budget for a deficiency esti
mate is proof positive of that. The
Postmaster’s violation has been
deliberate. He knew last July that
he didn’t have enough money to go
through the year at the rate at
which he wanted to operate. He
could have cut down a slight
amount then, spread the reduction
over the entire year and come out
within the money given him.
Much has been made of the fact
that Summerfield paid millions of
dollars into the treasury. The law
requires that every nickel taken in
by any department of government
go directly into the general treas
ury. From there it is allocated by
Congress for the expenses of run
ning the departments.
TELL US VQUR
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BY JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND
I N selling something tangible, you
can probably develop enthusi
asm for it if you like what you
are selling and are sure of its being
a helpful article. If you can’t pos
sibly make yourself like selling,
then don’t sell, get into some other
line for which nature ban adapted
you.
Thomas Merritt, 542 Kenilworth
Road, Bay Village. Ohio, says an
old, and long-time-retired, friend
handed him a slip of paper the day
after he reported that he had ob
tained his first job. He wants us
to pass the contents of that slip of
paper on to you. Primarily it has
to do with selling, and Mr. Merritt
declares that everyone of us has
something to sell, even though it
be personality.
1. Know thoroughly whatever you
have to selL If it is a utility, work
with it, find out what it can do for
a purchaser. If it is something in
tangible, make a study of how that
intangible quality can be helpful
2. Practice your sales talk; learn
to speak easily, and above all, with
conviction, of the merits of what
you have to selL
3. If possible, in selling an arti
cle, have one with you and “show”,
don’t “tell” what it can do for a
customer.
4. Remember the names of the
people you do business with. If you
are not good at this, take a course
in memory training. This you can
give to yourself, merely by prac
ticing how to recall a person! Note
what he looks like as you associate
his features with your product, and
above all, with his expressed de
sires. Do this while with him and
after you have parted from him.
5. Be courteous to a receptionist,
a secretary, an office boy. Often
these workers can hinder or help.
Would you rather be announced as
“a very nice man” or “there’s a
person outside.”
6. Don’t talk too much; instead
encourage your prospect to talk.
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name
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aweather
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16 Repast
17 The book
palm
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dwarf
negritoes
19 Part of
book
20 Breathes
loudly asleep
22 Of a place
famous in
events of a
nation’s past
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26 Expensive
27 Mineral
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tainers
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measure (pL)
38 Pronoun
37 Breaks
suddenly
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40 Rodents
42 Welcome
44 Prim a donna
45 Trojan hero
47 Tardier
49 Make
incision
50 Boat (pi.)
52 Early arctic
explorer ,
53 Golf mound
54 Drinks with
tongue
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weight (pL)
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Simpletons
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70 Flower
71 Of one of the
Great Lakes
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containing
cafflene
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name
74 Dispatches
75 Scorch
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affirmation
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ornament
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foreign
source
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priestly
caste of
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appendage
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instrument
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show
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41 Marine
creature
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48 TaU
marsh
grass
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for super
structure (pL)
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57 Hazards
58 Lower
house of
Irish
legislature
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dolphinlike
cetaceans
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expression
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Indian
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VISIT SHRINE . . . Emperor Hirohito and Empress of Japan
make rare public appearance to offer prayers for soldiers burled
at Yasukuni Shrine.
ideas from other editors
From the Tallassee Tribune,
Tallassee, Alabama: “The State
Department told us nobody would
make a profit. I took the job at an
absolute minimum. It was worth
it, because the trip fostered good
relations. I was a patriot to do it”
Those are the immortal Words of
a character named John (Dizzy)
Gillespie, whom the United States
government paid $100,839 to take
his troupe of sixteen musicians on
a so-called good-will mission to
Middle Eastern and Balkan coun
tries last year.
This self-styled “patriot” picked
up $2,150 a week out of the deal,
or $227 a week more than the
President of the United States re
ceives for his services. It was later
reported that the State Department
gave this character a $40,000 sub
sidy to tour South America.
This newspaper enthusiajtically
supported President Eisenhower in
1952, specifically because we were
fed up with Roosevelt and Truman
throwing money to the four winds.
We voted for the President again
in 1956, less enthusiastically to be
sure, but in the main because we
felt he had done a creditable job
aryi because we could not enter
tain the thought of having a junior
grade George Gobel in the White
House.
But if the President, with a
straight face, can eloquently plead
that the nation’s schools are in
peril unless a huge building pro
gram is started and on the other
hand sanction Secretary Dulles
throwing our tax money down a
rat hole like the Gillespie project,
we have had it.
And if modern-day patriots come
at $2,150 a week, we say the price
is too high. Let’s give it back to
the Indians.
From the Granite State News,
Wolfevoro, New Hampshire: It is
very fair to ask if the American
buying public does not value pow
er and style and color and speed
more than safety.
The merchandising of automo
biles is the greatest and hardest
and most frightening job in the
business world when the final deci
sions are made. An error in judg
ment and a model does not sell
well and production lags' and mil
lions and millions are lost.
The men behind automobile de
sign research' ^ public opinion as
much as is humanly possible to
find out just what the great Amer
ican buying public. North and
South, East and West, really wants
to purchase.
We assume that the men in the
wrecking business know as much
about crashes as any one. That is
their specialty. And they vote foe
belts and padded dashboards.
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Does the Postofflce Department pay a subsidy to railroads for
carrying second, third and fourth class mail?
The Citizens Advisory Committee of the Senate Post Office Com
mittee has recently filed a report going back over a number of
years to the effect that the Postal Department is paying the rail
roads an overpayment of approximately $100 million annually for
carrying these three types of mail. Under the Mail P a y '^■ c *
1916 the Post Office Department is entitled to mail rates from the
railroads at prices not greater than charged to the express com
pany for similar service. In 1955 the PO paid the railroads 80 cents
per equated car-mile to carry second, third and fourth class maiL
The Express Company, owned by the railroads, paid 40 cents for
cimiior service. So total overpayment to the railroads by the Post
Office was fixed at $121,041,950 by the Committee.
What is the deadline for finishing vocational rehabilitation train
ing under Public Law 894 for disabled Korean conflict veterans?
If you were discharged before August 20, 1954, you have until
August 20, 1963 to complete your training. If your discharge was
after August 20, 1954, your deadline is January 31, 1964, or nine
years from discharge, whichever is earlier. . ^ ^ •
Can you tell me how many ruling Kings there are left in the
world. Also women heads of State? ...
There are fourteen ruling kings as of Jan. 1, 1957—Afghanistan,
Belgium, Cambodia, Denmark, Greece, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Ne
pal. Norway, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Thailand and Yemen. In
Japan and Ethiopia, *fae rulers are Emperors. There are two
queens—in Britain and The Netherlands. A woman rules Luxem
burg, as a Grand Duchess. Monaco and Liechtenstein have Princes
as rulers. Morocco and Muscat are ruled by Sultans, Iran by a
Shah, and Tunisia by a Bey.
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TIGER BOSS Six days after
election as Detroit Tigers’ presi
dent, lumberman Harvey Hansen
(above) accepted resignation of
Walter O. (Spike) Briggs Jr.
Briggs, with clnb 29 years, was
executive vice-president and gen
eral manager.
This an' That
Japan has received official certi
fication for participation in next
September’s Global World Series
of semi-pro-ball baseball to' bo
played at Detroit *.. Morris Har
vey College, Charleston, W. Va.,
has voted to drop intercollegiate
football... Herman Taylor, one of
the nation’s leading promoters, in
active since the “doped orange**
bout between Harold Johnson and
Julio Mederos two years ago, baa
applied to the Pennsylvania State
Athletic Commission for a license
... Roger Becker, England’s No.
1-ranked Davis Club player, has
drawn a reprimand for his “unsat
isfactory deportment” while play
ing in Florida this spring. Florida
officials complained they were
“thoroughly disgusted with Beck
er’s play** and accused him of not
caring whether he won or lost • • •
Auburn’s football coach, Ralph
Jordan has dropped two football
players from the roster for “schol-
astic and disciplinary reasons’*.
One of them is aoe junior quarter
back Jimmy Cook.
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