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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1957 Utl 1218 Coll*ire Street NEWBERRY. S. C- PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937 at tiie 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 President Eisenhower is not being frank in his repeated declarations that reductions in his monstrous budget would imperil the safety of the Nation. The budget contains many items of no great importance and recommends the spend ing of billions of new programs entirely unrelated to the safety of the Nation. Secretary Wilson is a man of proved ability but even he seems unable to cut off much of the out-dated plans and pro grams. However, suppose we leave the items for defense as they appear in the budget and apply the pruning knife vig orously to other items. Senator Harry Byrd, whom all respect, suggests that six and a half b i 11 i ons be lopped off; I think all the misguided zeal for elevating other nations might well be turned into channels nearer home. Behold our great nation, the Pilgrims’ Pride, Land of our Fathers, Light of the w r orld -- and' all that. Here we have grave need for a campaign to preserve our liberties at home. Instead of maintaining the rights of Americans at the source we are running all over the earth waving bags of gold and begging backward nations to accept grants and loans from America. And in the meantime we need to conserve, replace, rebuild and build anew the very foundations of our Economic life and our political liberty at home. Our distinguished citizen, James F. Byrnes, continues to speak lucidly, learnedly and forcefully on the problems of the Nation. Mr. Byrnes contributes to a clear understanding of the grave trends of the Supreme Court toward utterly un- American attitudes. In all the expositions offered by Mr. Byrnes he speaks with dignity and and with the full power of truth for he presents his criticisms with the authority of time-honored Supreme Court decisions now. crystallized into characters of liberty as highly regarded by our people as the ancient landmarks of our rights, even going back to Runny- mede and the year 1215 when John faced the angry barons and was forced to grant the Magna Carta. Cotton was King when it sold for ten cents a pound; today at thirty-odd cents a pound cotton is so far from being a King that it can’t even rate a back seat when Kings meet. How is that? Today thirty-cent cotton leaves the farmer in debt; ten- cent cotton, years ago, was in an era of simple living and relatively cheap production. That is true of all business, too. Today the Companies handle more money and deal in large figures but when the mist clears where is the money ? Friends, you can’t eat figures; what counts is what you have left. Let me cite a very clear illustration published by one of the great enterprises of America. The Company published this statement in National magazines and sent it to its hun dred thousand stock-holders: ?< Almost anywhere you go you can get into a lively and in teresting discussion by bringing up business and profits. Try it some time. Then listen to the variety of opinions - and so often, the absence of facts. Most people are naturally interested in business, what bus iness does with the money it takes in, how much of that money is profit, and what happens to the profit. ^ We want you to know the facts about our company. That’s why we publish this report each year for the information of dur customers, our friends and neighbors in Midwest and Rocky Mountain states. It tells you exactly wdiat happened to the money that we took in last year. You can do us a favor by reading it .... and by passing a- long some of the information you read here the next time a discussion starts about business and profits. 1. Things we bought and used ... 58.7 per cent. Most of the money went for things w r e had to buy, such as crude oil, materials and services, plus charges made for wear and tear. Our company is one of America’s largest buy ers of goods and services from other companies. We buy everything from paper clips to structural steel from more than 32,000 independent companies in hundreds of American communities. 2. Wages, salaries, benefits .... 16.0 per cent. Then there were wages, salaries and benefits for our 52,000 employees. Our employees enjoy one of the broadest, most progressive employee benefit programs in any industry. More than 94 per cent of our eligible employees are partici pating in savings plans to which the company contributes. 3. Taxes paid .... 18.6 per cent. The tax collector got his share, too. We paid national, state and local governments $89,130,000 in 1956. In addition, there were the many ‘hidden’ taxes everyone pays, and the direct taxes placed on gasoline. These total direct taxes which w r e collected from customers and paid to government agencies amounted to $326,779,000. 4. Profits paid to owners ... 2.5 per cent. After all operating expenses and taxes were paid, 6.7 per CAUSE AND EFFECT cent v T as left. This is called profit. A part of this or 2.5 per cent of our total income, w T ent as dividends to our 143,200 shareholder-owmers. 5. Profits used for improvement 4.2 per cent.. To serve you better, all the rest of our profits, or 4.2 per cent of our total income, w’as plowed back into new’ facilities such as oil wells, refineries, research laborities, transporta tion equipment and service stations. Since the end of World War 11, w’e have spent about $2,3000,000 to help meet the growth in demand and to bring you new and constantly im proved products. 6. You’re the boss All the money w r e took in has been accounted for. At our service stations, our plans and our investments face the final test .... for our millions of customers are the bosses. To make high quality petroleum products more easily available to Our customers, last year alone w r e spent more than $37million on bulk plants, warehouses, service stations. * What makes a company a good citizen? Well, one quality of good citizenship is frankness—with employees, stockholders, customers, the public. Because we believe that frankness prevents misunderstandings, w T e publish reports to our neighbors in advertising like this so that you will know how we work, something about our family, and the part we play in the economic well-being of the communities in which we live and work.” Observe some items: That Company paid in wages, sal aries and benefits 16 per cent of all money taken in; and it paid 18.6 per cent in taxes. Mere in taxes than in wages!! But it spent 4.2 per cent in improvements—to continue to meet competition; to continue to pay taxes and wages; but how much did it pay to the owners—the men, and wo men whose savings made possible that great v concern ? 2i/ 2 % ! ! Think it out: Wages 16 per cent; taxes 18.6 per cent !!! Dividends (to those who own the Company) 2.5 per cent! ! ! When you consider such facts—and they are true df all great enterprises—why should anyone advocate Soc ialism? Here is a vast Company, operating on the money of American me and women, paying in taxes more than seven times as much as it paid its stockholders!!! The Government has no risk, puts up no money; just sits back and skims off the cream, leaving a small percentage to those whose savings made possible the giant Company. ! ! ! In South Carolina one Company last year paid nine mill ion six hundred thousand dollars in taxes, (The South Car olina Electric and Gas Co.) while paying $4,114,000 to more than thirty two thousai.d stockholders. Why should anyone advocate Government ownership, concerns built with taxpayers money and paying virtually no taxes, when the Government can calmly collect twcie as much in taxes as the owners receive? It takes a lot of money to keep this great Country in apple- pie condition, does’nt it? I am not thinking of our prodigal Government; my thought is of our vast industries. I pointed out a building of tremendous size and asked a builder what w’ould it cost today to buy the land, the build ing lot, and build just another such building. My friend looked w r ith criticial eye and appraised the building as of today. “Well”, he said, “1 suppose a million would cover it.” A million today, but thirty years ago $250,000 was the amount spent. And if 5 per cent were set aside for replace ment that sum would be about four hundred thousand to day. Let us overshoot the mark and say that the replace- LASTING CULVERT . . . Two used hot-water tanka, placed end-to-end in a ditch provides excellent and lasting culvert for farm lane. Ends of each tank are removed with catting torch. TELL US V0UR PR0BLEIU « LIT W PASS IT OM TO MILT *TMUS M SOLVMC DMMtV 8Y JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND Today'* Problems Unfair Criticism ERE is the way late Dale Car negie once met drastic criti cism of him and his work. When a man receives as much acclaim as once he did and had a book, the sales of which outnumbered every book of non-flctlon except the Holy Bible, there was bound to be some who would scoff and scorn and try to belittle his efforts. Wrote one critic, “What is there so wonderful about your book, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People’? There is nothing original in it; everything in it has been copied from some other writer or lecturer.” Said Mr Carnegie in reply: “My dear Mr. Blank: “Thank you for your letter. In replying, I want to admit that you are absolutely right in your summing up of my latest book which you mention. Yes, you are absolutely right, for there is nothing, on the pages of this book that has not been said by someone before me. Although the methods of expression are mine, what I have said -has been said by Jesus Christ, by Aristotle, by Socrates, and by dozens of em inently successful and learned men, many of them the lead ing men in our country. “I only hope you have bene- fltted as much by the sayings of these wise and learned men as I have.” What happened next? That very same critic wrote Mr. Carnegie again enumerating the passages in the book which he said had literal ly transformed his life, and he closed his letter by asking God’s blessings on Mr. Carnegie for the wonderful help he was giving tc others * From the Lincoln Times, Lin- colnton, N.C.: If you are planning to kill some of your fellow citizens in an automobile in the near future, or even if you are not planning to, it would be wise to heed the follow ing facts, which have just been made available in a timely booklet on highway deaths in the United States. The record for 1956 is not a very pretty one. There were 40,000 deaths on the highways of the United States last year, 2,200 more than in 1955. There were 2,368.000 injuries in 1956, 210* 0 more than in 1955. There were 233,080 pedestrian cas ualties in 1956, 2,680 more than in 1955. An interesting addition to the statistical list is the fact that al most forty-two per cent of the 40,000 deaths in 1956 occurred on the weekends. And, it should be noted that eighty per cent of the accident* occurred on dry roads, in clear weather, and better than four out of five of them resulted from driver errors. The worst time for automobile accidents, figured in the hours of the day, is apparently between four in the afternoon and eight in the evening. This is the time when aaany people are going home from work, perhaps in a hurry, anc' later on, when they are going ou for the night. In these hours, abou 'twenty-five per cent of the death, and injuries occurred in 1956. If you are interested in the man ner in which people are killed or the highways, you will be inter ested to know that last year, more than 15,000 persons were killed in automobile collisions. Only 10,000 died in non-collision accidents. Al most as many, 8.080, pedestrians were killed. Accidents involving automobile and a fixed object accounted for 4,120 deaths and those involving a train accounted for 1,280 deaths It is somewhat surprising to learn that 480 deaths resulted from colli sions between automobiles and bicycles. And, finally, injuries in 1956 soared to 1,686,000 from automobile collisions, while a considerably smaller figure, 260,500, were in jured in non-collision accidents. Some 225,000 pedestrians were injured and 125,500 persons were injured in collisions involving auto mobiles and a fixed object Over 52,000 persons were injured in acci dents involving automobiles and bicycles, and some 7,100 were in jured as a result of a collision be tween an automobile and a train T HE big question now is, “Will the Senate restore the soil bank program?” The House knocked the farm program higher than a kite by killing the acreage reserve plan after the end of the present crop year. The vote came on an Administration request for an advance pledge of funds for Acreage Reserve payments in the 1958 crop year which would have to come out of the 1959 fiscal year budget. This advance pledge is made by Congress when it is nec essary for government authorities to contract for payments before the budget can be approved for the fiscal year in which payments are to be made. In this case con tracts for the 1958 crop year acre age reserve would have to be signed this Fall in the case of winter wheat. So the House refused to approve the advance pledge. It left the conservation reserve phase of the soil bank intact, at a maxi mum rate of $250 million per year in payments. Actually the 1956 soil bank pay ments did not have the effect of increasing the farm income, nor did the soil bank in 1956 cut down on total production. For instance the average payment to corn farmers was $527 and the average set-aside per corn farm was 14 acres or about $37 per acre. The corn farmer certainly lost money on that deal. In the meantime Sec retary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson told the House Agriculture Committee that he wants a farm program for basics, the same as now in effect for soy beans and secondary feed grains. In other words he wants “full flexibility” which would give him the author ity to cut supports as low as he wanted. The House trimmed about $300 million out of the Benson budget and held funds for experiment sta tions, extension service and re search at the 1957 level. Since 1952 the agricultural experiment station appropriations have been upped 138 per cent, from $12.7 to $29.5 mil lions; the extension service has been boosted 56%, from $32.1 to $43.9 million. The House Commit tee in denying increases said: “To continue rapid intensification of agricultural production, with added depletion of the soil of the nation, seems to the Committee to be at cross purposes with other policies.” * • • A grassroots movement to curb inflation has moved into Washing ton in the National Citizens’ Com mittee to Curb Inflation and has set up a national conference at the Mayflower Hotel for June 24 and 25. The movement is headed by Paul C. Stark, of the Stark Nurseries ip Missouri, and is the outgrowth of a movement for local communi ty Improvement chairmaned by W. F. Rockwell, Jr., President of the Rockwell Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. Some of the top financial men in and out of government, including government economists, will speak before the two-day conference, and a number of panels, manned by members of Congress and Busi ness Leaders will hear various phases of the budget, inflation, efficiency, states rights and a half- dozen other subjects discussed. Non-partisan in nature, Stark and his committee members have been received by Congress with open arms, as the first group in years to come down to Washington, not to pressure Congress, but to save money. ment fund today would amount to $500,000, Today the concern would lack $500,000 to replace that same building. That is what faces all great factories today. Our great country is growing and developing rapidly. So much that we face great problems in order to be fully prepared for both the multiplying population and the com mensurate facilities that will not only maintain our high standard of living but provide adequately for yet higher standards. HATCH AS HATCH CAN By Don Wood J IM BAGSBY shoved his fists deep into his coat pockets as he forced himself to climb the Col- man County court house steps. Hat jammed tight against the March wind, he told a passing sparrow, “If I never see another chicken it will be too soon.” Chickens and women, he glumly opined, made life frustrating. He made a mental note to leave full instructions for his successor be fore offering his resignation to the county supervisors. Six weeks ago he had been a different man. His re-election as county Prosecuting Attorney had seemed assured. That was before his secretary, who was to have soon been Mrs. Jim Bagsby, had attended a farm auction and had purchased a Rhode Island Red hen. Installing the hen in the court house attic as a temporary meas ure had been Ellen’s idea, he re membered. The arrival of six fluffy chicks some time later had been the hen’s. He had stormed at the whole episode. It was downright unconstitutional. Ellen had been firm. Her ring, now resting in his pocket close to his fist, showed just how firm she haq been. “I won’t.let you move a mother at a time like this,” she had said. Some chickens might be discreet under these circumstances, Jim told himself savagely. Not Henri etta. She had gleefully clucked Out her motherhood to the world. Ellen had aided and abetted the noise by rearranging a stack of sheet metal frames in the attic, to suit the hen’s desires. The sheet metal, long an item of concern by the supervisors, was not a thing you willingly brought to their atten tion. The supervisors had pur chased the frames for some un known use years ago, and had tried in vain to sell them ever since. Yesterday had been the final ► blow. A reporter from the Colman Banner had been in Jim’s office, and the clucking noise upstairs had been at its usual peak. You couldn’t expect a newsman to ignore the matter, even to save a prosecutor who was up for re-election. He hadn’t had the heart to buy a paper today. For that matter, h-a didn’t need to. He could have writ ten the headlines himself . . . “County Prosecutor harbors refu gee hen in court house attic.” He pushed hard on the court house door. It was jerked open from within. Someone called out, “Here he comes.” A flashbulb blinded his eyes. From the crowd ed corridor he heard a voice Ray “The board is proud of you . . . fine work . .. your election is sure.” It was a long walk to his office. Ellen sat at her desk, a copy of the Banner spread before her. Over the shoulder of wellwishers he caught the headlines . . . “Pro secutor solves sale of surplus sheet metal % Proves frames ideal for chicken brooder use by unique research.” Jim closed the door on his last visitor. His arm was lame from being pumphandled. Ellen sat look ing out the window. He coughed, “Someone must have helped the Banner write that story. You?” Ellen nodded, still not looking his way. His arms slid around her shoul ders. Her fingers squeezed his as he slipped her diamond back in place. “Is our June date back on the agenda?” Ellen turned to let the light catch the glint of the ring. She slipped one dainty ankle over the other. “Might be, on certain conditions.” “Name ’em.” “Well, it seems to me that one good hen deserves another. I think I’d like to live in the country. Have a place large enough to put on* of these brooders the supervisors are placing on sale.” Jim grinned. “Know something?” “UM?” “Suddenly I sgem to have taken a liking to all chickens, including even Henrietta.” Q. Is Federal Regulstiea of basineaa sad Commerce a modern tread? When was Ike first major piece off federal regalation passed? A The first major regulation Act was passed almost s century sfio in the National Banking Act of 1868. Following closely was the National Currency Act of 188$, Ike Act cl March 3, 1888 which ordered taxation of state Bask Issues. The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 was the next regulaior? Act, then the Sherman Anti trust Act of 1880, the Clayton Act of 1814, and the Federal Trade Commission Act. also of 1914 were the principal milestones In Federal regulation. Q last what Is the fanctlsa of the General Accounting Office and Is it sn important federal agency? A The GAO Is one of the most Important federal agencies and Is the auditing agency for all federal agencies. It is headed by the Comptroller General, whose duty is to adjust and settle claims or demands against die Federal Government, and to settle money accounts in which die Government is concerned. GAO audits the books of all federal officers spending and collecting money. Q- What Is Ike function of the Tax Coart of the United States? A. The Tax court ifc mostly what its name implies, having jurisdic tion over deficiencies or over-payment if income, profits and cer tain other taxes, and refunds of processing and excess profits taxes. It also is die appeal coart lor settlement of renegotiated contracts as between purchasing agencies and business firms on war or defense contracts with the government. In most it is a final court, but in some Instances its decisions are review^ able by a U. S. Court of Appeals. The Tax Court comprises 18 judges. _ Mrs. South Carolina’s Chocolate Bavarian Pie ' bor that she **’ charming La- 13 nice Heist of G r eenville, chosen Mrs* South Carolina at the recent Mrs. America state finals in Charlotte, shares with us her recipe for Chocolate Ba varian Pie. At the na tional contest in Fort Lau derdale, Flori da, Mrs. Heist' upholds the reputation of South Carolina cookery against skillful . _ homemakers from 47 other states and the District of Columbia in a Baker’s Choco late Dessert Contest. Her dessert was a favorite of the family long before it was known as: Mrs. South Carolina*# 1 tablespoon (1 envelope) unflavored gelatin 1/4 cup cold water 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt • 1 cup milk, scalded 1-1/2 squares (1-1/2 ounces) unsweetened chocolate Chocolate Bavarian Pie 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup whipping cream 1 egg white, stiffly beaten 1 unbaked 9-inch Chocolate Wafer Crumb Crust Sweetened whipped cream Grated unsweetened chocolate Soften gelatin in cold water; set aside. Combine egg yolks, sugar and salt. Add scalded milk, a little at a time, stirring constantly. Cook over boiling water until mixture coats a silver spoon. Stir in softened gelatin. Chill until partly set. Melt chocolate and cool. Add to chilled mixture. Fold in vanilla. Whip 1 cup whipping cream. Fold into chocolate mixture. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into Chocolate Wafer Crumb Crust. Chill. Garnish with sweetened whipped cream and grated chocolate. To make Chocolate Wafer Crumb Cruet, combine 1-1/4 cups choc olate wafer crumbs and 1/3 cup butter or margarine, melted. Press onto bottoms and sides of a greased 9-inch pie plats. Chill befors filling. I