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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
There seems to be quite a movement on the part of our
Baptist brethren to challenge some activities of the South
ern Baptist Convention.
For the information of those who are not Baptists I of
fer a word of explanation. Each Baptist church is wholly
independent, with no strings of any kind. Baptist, churches
have Associations and Conventions but they represent only
a purely voluntary cooperation of Baptist churches for the
general promotion of all the interests fostered by Baptists.
But these Associations and Conventions have no authority
over any Baptist Church. This essential democracy is a
fundamental of Baptist policy.
No resolution of any kind by any Convention has bind
ing effect on even the remotest and smallest Baptist church
except that church which accepts the resolution or adopts
it as its own. So when the Southern Baptist Convention dis
cusses church integration it is merely a matter of opinion
and without binding effect.
The Baptists of our State, however, are taking note of
the unsurpations by the Federal Supreme Court in State
matters and are resolved to assert and reaffirm explicitly
the time honored attitude of Baptists, in matters of local in
dependence.
We now understand the statements recently adopted by
Baptist churches of Orangeburg and Manning. The Man
ning statement I quote:
“We are constrained to believe that the Southern Baptist
Convention is too large, too all-embracing, to be either
Southern or deliberative.
“We hold in respect and Christian tolerance our brethren
of the North and the West, but for greater practical, inti
mate and effectual collaboration in the program of Christ
ian service we suggest that the Southern Baptist Conven
tion, or some other body, be composed of delegates from the
States recognized as Southern.
Because of conditions peculiar to the South we regard
as ungracious the persistent endorsement and support of
racial integration in our schools, and we repudiate the idea
of so integrating our Baptist Churches.
We regard the suggested integration as entirely extran
eous to the proper agenda of a religious convention whose
primary purpose should be to unify the efforts of hundreds
of independent churches in their contribution to further the
broad program of generally understood and recognized re
ligious work. v
The Colored people of the South have made notable, even
unprecedented, progress within a hundred years. This has
been due in large measure to association with White people,
together with the active and helpful cooperation of their
white neighbors.
The relations between the White and Colored people has
steadily improved; as also the economic condition of both
races, growing out of practical cooperation, until political
\ manipulators began systematically and adroitly to corrall
the Colored political potential. This campaign is believed
to have been either initiated by, or fomented by, the Rus
sian Bolshevists, who exploit every opportunity and occa
sion to sow seeds of discord.
, Segregation of races was instituted by God Himself with
the Jewish people. ,
The Colored man is building a society of his own; he
neither wishes to join White congregations nor have White
people seek membership in Colored churches.
We recommend very earnestly and urgently that a De
partment or School of Theology be created within Furman
University and that South Carolina Baptists offer to their
brethren an opportunity to prepare for the ministry with
out racial comingling. This in mo sense disparages Colored
students for the ministry as they have schools of their own
or may have, as they wish.
The Manning Baptist Church is willing to cooperate with
other Baptist Churches in the South, of like principle of ra
cial segregation and racial integrity, in establishing and
maintaining agencies for the Lord’s Knigdom throughout
the world.”
The one new feature of the Manning statement is the rec
ommendation that Furman University * (a Baptist institu
tion) create a new Baptist Theological Department. I believe
that the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, now of
Louisville, Kentucky, was founded and operated in Green
ville years ago.
Speaking for myself now I interpret the attitude of the
Baptist brotherhood, concerning racial integration in the
churches as not being a concern of the churches, but many
South Carolina Baptists object to bringing such political
questions before a religious body, especially a body compos
ed of widely divergent groups bound together in Christian
fellowship in spiritual matters, but of very different social
tradition.
Many Baptists believe that proposed integration is not
fundamentally the concern of the churches, but, rather,
is a piece of political chicanery, bordering on clap-trap, to
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beguile thousands of voters into competitive partisan poli
tical affiliation.
A Baptist church may designate its contributions to ex
clude agencies fostering integration of races, so far as may
be practicable, hoping to cooperate with other Baptist con
gregations to promote and establish such agencies as may
comport with the general plan of maintaining racial integ
rity. /
along with state righ.
meet situations withoi:
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Q—Are farm prices rising this year?
A—There has been a slight rise in the over-all average of farm prices,
that is the average prices farmers got for their produce in the past
three months. However, the cost of what the farmer has to pay
for the things he buys has gone up so that the Department of Agri
culture says that purchasing power of farm commodities in June,
1957, sagged to the lowest point in 17 years. According to the report
of the Department, prices received by farmers averaged 82 per
cent of parity in the month ending June 15, or 4 points below the
average of 88 per cent in June 1956, and the lowest for any June
since 1940. ,
Q—How do the Steel Companies justify increased prices ef steel to $a
per ton following so closely on an $3.50 boost a year age as a result
of an escalator clause pay Increase due to Increased living costs?
A—Some authorities claim the Steel Companies cannot justify the
price boosts, since the raise they are giving their workers now is
part of a deal made about a year ago for a three-year-no-strike
pledge by the Unions. However Companies claim “in order to main
tain production and safeguard jobs of employees" obsolescent and
worn out equipment must be replaced. Under the tax laws the com
panies can recover, as depreciation, only original cost of equip
ment, some of it bought as long as 30 years ago, so replacement of
equipment costs three times its original costs and cannot be cov
ered by depreciation, so must be paid for out of profits. Of course
under this theory, if consumers are to pay for plant equipment and
construction, eventually the companies will get their plants paid
for without any out-of-pocket investment.
Q—What is the “well" of the House I read about in the papers?
A—The “well” of the House is the space between the Clerk’s desk im
mediately in front of the Speaker’s rostrum, and the first row of
seats.
I think Indiana must be typical of the best American
spirit. I have great admiration for Indiana.
A letter from the governor of that state impresses me
very much. Here it is, in part:
“T commend to your attention my resolution, which by
uninimous consent was made a part of the record at the
a
final executive session of the Governors’ Conference . at
Williamsburg. It was not available to the press at that
time, and 1 had previously not released it because the reso
lution committee directed that it be considered by the entire
conference in closed session.
This resolution expresses the overwhelming sentiment of
the people of the sovereign state of Indiana regarding fed
eral grants in aid, and summarizes resolutions repeatedly
passed by the Indiana Legislature, as well as by the legisla
tures of a number of other states.
The resolution is concerned with existing grants now ac
cepted because the people of each state send millions of
dollars to Washington in federal taxes, leaving no other al
ternative for recovery. Gasoline, tire and auto taxes paid
by the motorists constitute highway funds. The school
lunch program is an emergency arrangement to help reduce
food surpluses. Federal help for land-grant colleges is
only a partial and subordinate contribution directed toward
research. Flood control and conservation efforts are
rightly an interstate program.
But, as the resolution clearly sets forth, the trend of
federal government of recent years has been to curtail state
and local control of ih.merous rights and functions. The
people of Indiana rec nize that state responsibilities go
and they are able and willing to
ederal domination or interference.
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not ‘afraid of the federal gov-
e. But we do not hesitate to rec
ognize the fact that individualism and home rule are being
stifled by the continue encroachment of the federal gov
ernment upon the rese , powers of the states as guar
anteed by the United St. . .> Constitution.
President Eisenhower ano recognized this trend in his
address at Williamsburg. I regard the conclusive part of
my resolution as implementing his views. Merely to shift
administration of certain strvices from the federal budget to
state budgets without acc mpanying economy and efficien
cy, and without cutting th grants-in-aid fat out of the na
tional budget, will not reduce the current excessive demands
on taxpayers.
We feel that federal grants and federal controls cannot
be separated. In Indiana we have had the courage to in
crease our state and local taxes to meet the needs of our
people. We have watched super-government grow like
Topsy until it has become the biggest operator in every field
of American activity, and we do not propose to be smothered
in the Washington featherbed.
America can be made safe and secure only by strength at
the grass roots. And those grass roots have always grown
back home, and never in Washington.
Harold W. Handley,
Governor, State of Indiana.’
ideas from other editors
From the Granite State News,
tVolfeboro, N. H.: From time to
time we hear folks moaning about
the high cost of various types of
automobile insurance.
The answer is obvious. Collision
is so high because when a driver
dents one of these new cars a
major repair job is indicated.
Time was in the days of the fa
mous old Model Ts and A’s, the
fine functional Chevs, the good rug
ged Dodges and old solid Euicks, it
was possible to replace a fender,
a bumper, or a windshield with
out major financing. If a fender
was crushed, why a fender was
crushed, and that was that. Now
when a fender receives a major
damage, a good portion of the side
of the car has to come too, id
order to be replaced. The bumper
has given way to a complex grille.
A headlight is no longer a simple
headlight but is sunk into the
fender or mudguard, requiring a
major operation for replacement,
alonjj with the fender.
The same holds true of bodily
injury. Ever since a jury awarded
a young man better than ninety
thousand dollars for loss of a leg,
when his motorcycle was in con
tact with a car, no thinking per
son who owns more than a camp
and a hen coop dares go aboard
without the maximum coverage.
But basically we set our own
insurance rates. When a member
of a jury votes a big award, say
ing to himself “The insurance
company will pay for this” what
he is really saying is “A little bit
of this will come out of my own
pelt next year.” T f the rates do
not go up in proportion to the
awaxds the insurance compaliies
go out of business. It is an old
banking practice that if you check
more out of your account than
you deposit, you get an overdraft,
protested checks and activity
stops.
In essence, the public sets its
own rate for all types of insur
ance, public liability, property
damage, collision, fire and theft.
From The Cats kill Mountain
Star, ( Saugerties, N. Y.: In the
course, of an average married
life, a wife spends he* time as fol
lows:
Dishwashing, 10,000 hours
Care of house, 13,500 hours
Marketing, 4,500 hours
Washing, ironing, mending, car
ing for clothes 13,000 hours
Caring for members of the fami
ly, 10,025 hours
In addition, an electronic brain
has computed that the average
married woman walks 300 miles
a year around the house; washes
25,2p0 dishes a year; and still
finds time to look her best when
hubby comes home from work.
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Milwaukee and Chicago housewives, incidentally, have
inadvertently done their bit to boost the potency of their
cities’ plant food product.# The swing to detergents in re
cent years has boosted the percentage of phosphoric acid,
one of the sources of plant nourishment.
The Chicago Fertilizer Co., which contracts for the
Windy City’s sewage sludge, sells most of the product to
Southern plant food manufacturers, who mix it with chemi
cals for truck-farm use. About 25 percent winds up on
home lawns and gardens.”
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W HAT is the future of the Ten
nessee Valley Authority?
Will it remain a vital element
in the continued development of
the Tennessee valley and adjacent
territory?
Or will the wings of the Authority
be clipped by a governing board
who are in opposition to the origi
nal aims of TV A as a multi-pur
pose agency dedicated to the re
gional development of a multi-state
area—including flood control, rec
reational development, land Im
provement and cheap public pow
er?
Friends of TV A fcre fearful that
President Eisenhower's latest ap
pointment to the board will tip
the scales against further devel
opment and, if he is confirmed by
the Senate, the future of -this
agency which is being Copied in
numero.us river valley develop
ments in other nations of the
■world, may henceforth deteriorate
in value to the region it has served.
Arnold' V. Jones, an assistant
director of the Bureau pf the
Budget, from Kansas State College,
is the President’s new appointee
to the three-man Bqard of TVA,
succeeding Dr. Harry A. Curtis.
The other Eisenhower appointee
on the board, Brig. General Herb
ert D. Vogel, an open foe of public
power, has given TVA and its
friends a rough time since his ap
pointment as chairman of the
board. It leaves only one man on
the board who can be called a
friend of TVA objectives ... Dr
Raymond R*. Paty, an Appointee
of former President Truman. .
No one as yet quite knows where
Mr. Jones actually stands on the
question of a vitalized TVA, hence
the widespread interest in the Sen
ate hearings ever his confirmation.
What little public information there
is about Mr. Jones adds up to
this: He is a Kansas Republican
on leave from Kansas State Col
lege where he took a post in 1945
at the request of Milton Eisen
hower, the President's brother. In
April 1956 he came to Washington.
What happened in the Budget
Bureau in connection with TVA is
now an open book, for it was here
that the Dixon-Yates deal was
cooked up which would have
pumped private power into the
TVA system and made impossible
further development of TVA facil
ities. Finally after two senatorial
committee probes, the Dixon-Yates
combine became such a liability
that the Administration scuttled
the deal.
The White House maintains that
all this had happened before Mr.
Jones came to the Bureau from
the Kansas College. However, be
cause it is known that Presidential
Assistant Sherman Adams was di
rectly connected with the Dixon-
Yates affair, and that he is defi
nitely opposed to TVA and that
any appointee must pass before
Mr. Adams first, it is conceded
that Mr. Jones’ views are at least
known to Sherman Adams.
With a new board in charge of
TVA whose two new members are
directly opposed to the concept of
the original TVA, it is no wonder
that private power interests now
come forward with a 10-point pro
gram to sell out TV^ to private
utilities. *
However, Jones must get past
the Senate Public Works Commit
tee, with a sub-committee headed
by Senator Albert Gore of Tennes
see, #onp of TVA’s most ardent
supporters, on the way to his con
firmation.
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Glancing over the June Bulletin of the New York
Chamber of Commerce I found some nuggets of value. Now,
do you know that:
If living standards are to be maintained in the face of a
tremendous growth in population, if the current high level
of industrial activity is to be sustained, the petroleum re
quirements of the free world are going to increase even
more sharply. Demand in the United States in 1956 was
about 8.8 million barrels a day; and in 1965, domestic
consumption is expected to reach a level of approximately
12.1 million barrels a day—almost 40 per cent above the
present level.
An even greater increase will occur among the free for
eign nations. Demand outside the United States among
these countries in 1956 was some 6.8 million barrels a day;
by 1960, this will be about 9.8 million barrels a day; and in
1965, it is expected to climb to perhaps 14.6 million bar
rels a day—a rise of 115 percent over the current rate.
Since it is difficult to visualize this tremendous growth
in terms of barrels of oil, let me put it another way. By
1965 t^ie free world consumption of petroleum will have
risen to roughly five times the level prior to World War II.
The big question is: where is all the oil coming from?
On the basis of everything that we know now, there is only’
one answer to that question. The projected increase in de
mand for petroleum will be met primarily from foreign
production, principally that in the Middle East.
Perhaps the most significant factor in the international
petroleum industry since World War H has been the shift to
that parfe of the globe as the major source of the world’s
petroleum. Proven reserves in the Eastern Hemisphere—
according to conservative estimates—have quadrupled in
the postwar period and now constitute about 75 percent of
the free world total. By comparison, Western Hemisphere
reserves are up only about 60 per cent and now constitute
only one-fourth of the world total.’
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TODAY’S PROBLEM:
A Firm Foundation
YY7HEIC MARTHA WORMSER,
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but now resides at Rochester, New
York) lost bar husband, she had
two small boys and a printing busi
ness in which she had worked with
her husband. She felt that die
knew enough about it to carry on
and support those little ones.
She went through the books. The
liabilities exceeded the assets!
There were many debts. These
were small debts but they loomed
up big to Mrs. Wormser.
Should she sell the business? But
a business in die financial straits
of hers was not desirable. She
could go into bankruptcy and start
all over again under another name.
But she had been brought up in a
God-fearing family!
Since this was the only business
she knew, she wanted to hold it
She had the shop and the machines
to work with.
Finally she decided on a coarse
that proved to be the very one she
could beat pursue. She went in
person, or wrote letters, to every
creditor relating her -ircumstances.
She said she would pay off a little
each month, if only a dollar, unto
every bill was settled.
To her great relief she found all
of them encouraging and receptive.
It was better than the alternative,
“nothing.** And the way was made
easier for her by her creditors
giving her business that they
might have placed elsewhere ex
cept for her straightforward at
titude. It was nearly four years
before all those bills were paid,
but pay them she did. Not only
that, during that time she built
up a better business than even she
and her husband bad looked for
ward to in such a short period of
time.
Martha's motto, which she doesn’t
flaunt before others but which she
declares she never loses sight
is “Honesty, Integrity.^ It pays
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