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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1957 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. 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 Let’s try to think out or think through this TV A and public power. Public Power, or power produced with tax-money, doesn’t help me. If the Government will finance and build factories for the making of shoes and clothing I might shout with joy, too, even if my neighbors had to pay the bill. That is the essence of the public power. So let the Government sell me shoes for $5 that cost my neighbor $15; let me have clothing for $25 that cost my neighbor $50. Let the Gov ernment take taxes from my neighbor to cover the differ ence and let me go Scotfree. Very appealing, don’t you think? That’s the way the Pubilc Power works. Why not shoes and clothing? Why only Electric Power? Why not oil and gas and gasoline? We used to hear a lot about “Equality before the law.” Well, where is it? . We have followed a course of special favors to favored groups. Is that democratic? Is it fair? Think it over. “When the legality of TVA was at issue, those represent ing TVA in the courts, including the United States Sup reme Court, took the position that TVA had no legal aut hority to generate electricity by steam. In the fiscal year ending with June 1956, approximately 80 percent of the power generated by TVA plants was generated by steam plants. There is a great deal of discussion as to whether TVA pays interest on the funds invested in its power program. In the early days of TVA it issued $65,000,000 in bonds on which interest was paid. These bonds have now been paid off. How r ever, as of June 1956 there was invested in TVA power production facilities, completed under construction, the sum of $1,219,000,000, which funds were supplied from the United States Treas ury. On these funds TVA pays no interest. These payments are scheduled on a 40 year retirement basis and presently TVA is ahead of schedule in making repayments. In the fiscal year ending June 1956 TVA paid into the general fund of the Federal Treasury $45,000,000. This would amount to 3.7percent on the funds invested in its power program. How ever, these funds are used to reduce TVA’s debt without paying any interest. The TVA repayment to the Federal Treasury should be applied to the payment of the cost to the Federal Govern ment of suppling these funds to TVA (interest) and then if any money is left over that money applied to the reduct ion or retirement of the advances made to TVA from the Federal Treasury. The Federal Government and no other borrower can treat interest payment as retirement. The Comptroller General of the United State in his audit for 1955, and as in previous audits, strongly recommends that repayments by TVA bq first applied to payment of the cost of providing money for TVA and any balance left over then applied to retirement of the amounts advanced. The point can be simply illustrated in this way. If an in dividual borrows $100 from a bank and at the end of a year pays the ,bank $6.00 in interest the bank will not reduce the borrower’^ debt to $94.00. A great deal is said about payments in lieu of taxes made by TVA, TVA does pay 5 percent of its gross revenue (from sales other than to other federal agencies) as payments in lieu of taxes. The electric utility industry pays over 23 percent of its gross revenue in taxes. In the fiscal year ending June 1956 TVA paid $4,148,000 in lieu of taxes. In the year 1956 the Duke Power Company paid $31,233,000 in taxes, or over 7.5 times the payment made by TVA. In the fiscal year ending June 1956 TVA sold 22 billion KWH of electricity to customers other than federal agencies. In the year 1956 Duke Power Company sold 10.4 billion KWH of electricity, or less than one-half of TVA sales. In other words, with less than one-half TVA. sales Duke paid over seven times the taxes paid by TVA.” THINK IT OVER Labor Day SHOULD ASAM KEMDJD US THAT WORK IS THE HGOTTITO AIM OF MAM ! THAT HE SHOULD, HOT ONLY BE ■WHAINff TO LABOR, BUT THAT HE SHOULD USE EVERY EFFORT ^ TO SO DEVELOP HIS ABILITY AS TO ACHIEVE HIS BEST FOR. HIMSELF, HIS FAMILY AND FOR HIS COUNTRY i Our noble Government—President, Congress and Court— seems to go to any ridiculous extreme to carry favor with half-savage people or unprogressive people, or near-Commun- ists, all over the world, but stupidly offends, traduces and afflicts one fourth of its own people. And they the most genuine Americans in all America!!! Would you call New York City American? Hardly; well Chicago is more nearly American by blood, but miles ajvay in spirit. The hope for the new America must be the far West, unless the Japanese and Chinese take it over. The most peaceful part of America today, is the South; and South Carolina the quietist of all. X # President Eisenhower is a man of attractive qualities, but he runs off the track when he intimates he may call a special session of Congress if Congress refuses to vote all the billions that' our State Department bureaucrats wish to throw away in their folly of paving the way with gold. A special session might be justified in some grave emergency, but giving away billions of taxpayers money is not a grave emergency. Rather it is a praiseworthy course and deserving a general applause. Or is it? The Congress is the body charged with theauthority and responsibility of the Nation’s purse. 4 The President should not crack down on the Congress; he may veto any bill that he does not approve, but he has no right to coerce the Congress. If the President wishes to show himself a strong man, a President resolute and resourceful, as well as a man imbued with sound princip les of Economics let him veto all this public power business. What can be more unsound Economically, more ridiculous financially, than using billions of dollars of tax-money *to build enormous plants and then forgive those petted babies their taxes and e\en interest, while at the very same time the Government collects heavy taxs from plants built and operated by its own citizens with their own money? On the one hand the Government pours out hundreds of millions of tax dolla s to build plants in competition with plants built by citiz. regulated by National and State Governments, even a > rates, and paying 23 percent of their income in taxes. id even then the Government sets one group of citizens ve the others by giving them preferential rights ana ial favors otherwise? Let us assume a cona -Le case: If the Government spon sors a project it may co . :> hundred million dollars—money poured out from the moi c; /aid in by taxpayers. The Govern ment will receive noth . If private capital builds the same plant it will cost ably not more than 75,000,000 and will pay in taxes pr Lably several million dollars a year; and it will operate ira.ier State supervision and sell at rates approved by the Se.’ ate. It is Socialism pure and j i nple, or, perhaps, impure and not simple, but, rather, e mplicated. I have never been favorably impressed by our attitude toward Russia and Soviet polices. Let us be strong, invin cibly strong and we need not fear Russia. Russia fears our strength and that is whac deters the bloody butchers of Moscow. We are neither wise nor dignified in running around handing out money. We appear to the world as a lot of people with nothing but money. What have we gained? I quote with approval: “One does not ordinarily expect Presidents to talk of extraordinary sessions of Congress except to meet grave situations. And what is it that has provoked President Eisenhower into hinting at a special session this fall? The provocation is Congress’ action on the Mutual Security Polite, diplomatic language does not always express the idea pungency and power, but I can say elegantly, perhaps, that our Government in increasing the rate of postage so Program. The President asked for an authorization to as to produce five hundred million dollars, while throwing i spend another $3.9 billion for aid to other countries. The i n •ii* \ _ii u <65/1 Viillirm anrJ it mav flnnrrmrifltp away three billion (billions, mark you) all over the world is acting with a degree of wisdom that borders on colossal assininity. It is exceedingly difficult to understand the utter stupidity or political tomfoolery of the Congress and the Executive. I really marvel at our tame acquiescence. This blundering policy of throwing American tax-money around makes the proverbial drunken sailor seem a model of thrift and sobriety. If our Senator Olin Johnston had never done anything else but oppose this unmeasured prodigality he would de serve well of the Nation. Speaking of Senators, both Senators Johnston and Thur mond have been energetically and resourcefully active in combatting bills for arbitrary misgovernment, such as the so-called Rights Bill. Congress authorized $3.4 billion and it may appropriate less. This difference caused the President to call an im promptu press conference and warn that he may have to call Congress back. Mr. Eisenhower offered ‘the really prayerful hope’ that $3.4 billion would be enough, ‘but there is no disguising the fact that the effjects of the $500 million cut will be serious.’ Reductions in foreign aid, he said, may put the interests of the United States ‘in real jeopardy.’ Then he would have no recourse but a special session. Now this is grave talk indeed Tt is the kind of talk that would certainly be appropriate if an irresponsible Con gress had left the Government without funds for our armed forces; in view of the President’s opinion about foreign aid, it might have been expected from him if Con- Q—Can yon tell me the total amount of oatstanding consumer credit debt? A—The total amount, including installment and non-installment credit outstanding at the end of May, 1957, was $41,707,000,000, an increase y of $2,788,000,000 over May, 1956. Q--Is there a state In the Union where there are no private power or electric corporations? A—Yes, Nebraska. There are no private electric utilities in Nebraska. All electric utilities, known as Consumers Public Powar Districts, are divisions of the State Government, operating under a State law, but owned by the consumers. The consumers elect a board of directors, and the board is authorized by law to fix rates. The Districts are financed by revenue bonds sold on the open private bond market. Bonds are widely held by banks, insurance companies, individuals, trust funds and other investors. The Districts are free of federal regulation and no federal money is invested in them. Q-—What reeommcndathwia did the President’s Commission on In creased Industrial Uses of Agricultural Products make? A -The Commission’s recommendations which have been included in a bill introduced in the House and Senate simultaneously, (5.2306 and H.R.8186) suggested: 1—that participation by private and public institutions in an effective research network be increased; 2— greatly expanded basic research on use of farm products; 3— In creased use of grants, fellowships and scholarships to increase na tion’s supply of scientists; 4—Place more emphasis on government- industry sharing of research costs; 5—Expand research and de velopment of new crops; 6—Make wider use of commercial-scale trials of new products, and 7—Offer economic incentives to growers and processors to bridge the gap between research and established uses of crops. The Commission urged an increase in appropriatior. of money for industrial research in the Department of Agriculture. TELL US VQUR PRQBLEm AMO LIT » r-U IT OM TO MOLT OTMttt P (OLTM01 BY JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND' TODAY’S PROBLEM: Self-Discipline ARRIS MILTON, 1810 West Livingston Street, Allentown, Pa., was the fifth child in his family and eight years younger than his next older brother. Being the baby of the family, he thought himself abused when his older brothers and sisters ‘‘bossed him around,” and when he was not allowed the privileges of the older ones. His father was the type of fath er who buried himself in his career and gave little time te any of his children. Only his mother could be counted upon to stand by, and truly she gave him double measure. He learned early to ‘‘tell it to mama” which habit he car ried through his school and col lege years and even into his mar ried life. He didn’t make friends readily nor did he keep long those he did make. He loaned too much • on his mother to develop self- confidence, and her attitude cf protection robbed him of any chance for self-discipline. After marriage his lack of self- discipline continued as a Bug bear, and it was not long before his wife realized that his mother came first and that she followed second . . . way down the line. Finally after several months of anything but a happy married life, with her husband running to his mother to solve their problems, she told him if he felt more married to his mother than to her that he should go back to his mother’s home. In a huff, he did Just that. His wife got a job to support herself, and was all set to give up the home they had es tablished together when she was to become a mother. By this time her mother-in-law had found that she was no longer making her son happy in his old home and when she heard the news that her son was to become a father she had the good sense to place responsibility upon him for the first time in his life. That done, Harris went back to his wife, finding her most happy to have him back. The new responsibility made Harris feel at last that he was a man; his wife now locked to him, and the biggest problem that had ever come to him was on its way to being solved. i CROSSWORD PUZZLE PUZZLE No. 4fi> ACROSS 1 Odd job 6 A lance 11 To cut off 14 Hindu queen 15 Theater passageway 16 Collection facts 17 Symbol for gold 18 Plan ol town site 20 Woodland deity 21 Occupied a seat 22 Vessel’s curved planking 24 Agitate 26 Kind of wine 28 To walk 30 Man’s name 32 To lift 35 God of war 37 Vigor 39 Obstacle 40 Billiard shot 42 Spanish title 44 Ship’s boat 45 While 46 Femhle relative 48 Profit 50 Earth goddess 51 Doctrine 53 Ralls 55 Vegetable tdish) 57 Peruse 59 Prohibit 80 Dodecanese Island 61 Animai 63 Heap 65 Let fall 68 Duck 70 Metal 72 Feminine name 73 Beverage 75 Encountered 77 Southwest wind 79 Land measure 80 Weight of India 81 Aches 83 Accomplish ments 85 Dance step 86 Cleave 87 Indian tent DOWN 1 Coarse 2 To frequent 3 Preposition 4 Corded cloth 5 Elongated fish <pl.> 6 Rich fabric 7 Exclamation of greeting 8 Snake 9 Move to and fro 10 Singing voice 11 Enduring 12 South American Indian 13 Stroke lightly 19 The sweet- sop 23 365 days 25 Wander 27 Ethiooian > i title 29 South Seas’ canoe 31 Warbles 33 Sheeplike antelope of Siberia 34 Incited 36 Ostrichlike birds 38 Extinct bird 40 City of Egypt 41 Item of property 42 Leather strip 43 To get up 47 Blow on head 49 An ointment 52 Is of impor- 54 Seed coa u: , 56 Knowledge 58 River of England 60 Part of book 62 Inclined walks 64 Smallest portion 66 Egg-shaped 67 Analyze gram- maticaUy 69 Jump 71 Skillful 73 Snake \ , 74 Meadow 76 The sesame 78 Female ruff 82 Symbol for nickel 84 News agenc: <abbr.) p 1 3 i t J R 0 0 E A T IZ] S E E 's V B 1 A s N C T C T E E A R A 1 E M E F it D A L T 0 M 71 r E S A S’ □ ■□DO0 uirjwni ralrinn aaaad E E 0 R r, “ S 1 N BBS] A Answer to Pazsle No tee gress had suddenly abolished the whole program. •But thiS is not what happened. Three billion dollars, and more, is no small sum. And Mr. Eisenhower is not merely arguing that more would be better. He is saying that even a few millions less can be a life-and-death-matter for our national interests, a question of such great urgency that it may not wait between August and January. It is almost impossible to find this credible.” From The Independent, Fuquay Springs, N. C.: It Is a well known dictum that one man’s right to swing his fists ends where his neighbor’s nose begins. That is al ways the limiting factor on our individual liberties. These Liber ties precious as they are. should never be regarded as license to act exactly as we please no mat ter whom it hurts. The idea of curbing our fist swinging before we whack a neigh bor has many applications. Some of them are especially pertinent during the summer months, when open windows and backyard chairs put us much closer to our neighbors than we are In the win ter. Consider Jones. He has a high fidelity phonograph, and he likes his Beethoven loud. On one side of Jones lives Brown, who hates classical music but enjoys the late.movies—at full decibel strength. Nearby lives Plunkett, whose idea cf a pleasant summer evening is to have several friends in for beer and loud chatter. And just beyond Plunkett there’s Bol ling, who likes to sit quietly on his back porch reading philosophy. Jones.’ Beethoven at full volume is going to exasperate Brown. And when the late, late inanity begins to bellow forth from Brown’s TV set, Jones will doubtless lie in bed clenching his fists and hoping that that Brown TV will blow a tube. Both Jones and Brown may build up a towering rage against Plun kett If his guests insist upon wise cracking at the top of their voices long past midnight. And as for poor Bolling, he will need all the philosophy he can muster, just to keep his temper Whether it is high fidelity Bee thoven or low fidelity Hollywood, the old dictum remains valid: One man’s right to swing his fists ends where his neighbor’s nose begins. From The Herington Advertiser- Times, Herington, Kansas: You can’t plant oil. Only nature can do that and it takes her millions of years. 11117 simply means that when sa oil well finally runs dry, as they all do. it must be replaced with a new well, if this country’s known re serves are to be kept at the levels necessary to the national security and economic welfare. And re placement is a mighty expensive proposition. Since 1948, the cost of exploration has tripled—while, incidentally, crude oil prices have risen less than 20 per cent. To make matters riskier, of every nine wildcat wells drilled, eight turn out te be dry and worthless. m ... . F ROM a humanitarian stand point there can be no such thing as a clean atomic or hydro gen bomb in the megaton class. The only logical reason for pro ducing a bomb without the so- called “fall-out,” would be to pre vent killing a few more civilians in a war-time bombing. But the only logical excuse for dropping a bomb of any descrip tion, clean or dirty, would be for mass destruction iff a heavy in dustrial area to knock-out enemy potential for making war. For'this you need a megaton bomb. And in any heavy industrial areq there is always heavy industrial civil ian population, within a radius of of ten or fifteen miles. A bomb of the ■ size contemplated for such bombing would kill, maim or harm every living person, pre sumably within such a radius, clean or dirty. A half dozen such bombs dropped over New York City or Paris or Rome, or Mos cow or Berlin would kill hundreds of thousands of civilians.. This is mass bombing. We do not need this size bombs for pin-point bombing, for instance to knock out o gun factory or a ship-building yard or a tank fac tory. And no matter how some folks might talk, you simply can not build an atomic bomb or a hydrogen bomb that does not have plenty of deadly nuclear radiation in it when it explodes. You would not need a metagon bomb to sink a ship at sea. What you do need in a nuclear war, if you want to be humanitarian about a war, is to concentrate on smaller tactical nuclear war heads and bombs and have such a stock pile, that will allow the free use of them, without depending on a few huge bombs running into the tons and tons of TNT equivalent. Congressman Carl T. Durham, North Carolina, chairman of ths Joint Committee on Atomic Ener gy was highly critical of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense tor the lack of small weapons, or tactical atomic bombs and war heads. He said it appeared to him the Department of Defense was gear ing its weapons program to the amount of plutonium for bomb manufacture on the present amount of plutonium production from nuclear reactors which had been operating 14 years. He be lieved the Cbmmission needs more plutonium reactors and to date the Commission has made no move to build more relying on the production at Savannah River and Hanford. So his new bill orders the Commission to build a new plutonium reactor at Hanford, Washington and provides the funds for its construction. “I am disturbed over the lack of a realistic program for small weapons or any consideration of the necessity for ultimately es tablishing a stockpile of plutonium for weapons or peacetime 'pur poses. Any such activity would re quire substantial increases in pro ductive capacity,” the^ Congress man said. The joint committee on a strict party vote castigated the Com mission also for what they termed a “bankrupt policy” on civilian uses of Atomic Energy and or dered the Commission to change its policies and program particu larly toward Rural Cooperatives, as a policy of “subterfuge and farce,” in that after two years of negotiation not even one con tract has yet been signed with a rural electrical cooperative for a nuclear power reactor. There are five applications. LAUNCH FLAT-TOP . . . Super aircraft carrier USS Ranger commissioned at Norfolk, Va. The Ranger is 1,046 feet long., y e MU % ■ : m ALL BEDS HERE Soviet depety premier Mikoyan review hi East German communist chief Watther Ulbrichi (left) and pr Otto GrotewohL