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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1957 1218 Coilejre 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 'he 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 What about inflation? Everybody is either inflationing or integrating or automating, for the topics of the day which permit us to affect great wisdom are Inflation, In tegration and automation. DARKEST DAY IN HISTORY pEAVEMtf/ VW Play Football im yoor wew TcvA^ fc CAW’T You CYC.R LEARU lb TAKE CARR OR Vou* TWlNO-R O O WELL— Ybu’RR. <&O.W«- -to LRARW WOW Iff * y As/O MORC WEfcKLV ALLOWAWC*. fOR You UNTIL IT4DDS UP TO ^ AslOTWCR dbcknt Outfit for Scwooc /I VO / // WHAT A tflOMT f f -ixy '&SW ITDUO YOU WOT Tb CHOOL CIOTWP.R | AKlO NOW LOOK // 1 recall that Economists were gravely disparaged, dis credited and disregarded during the days of Franklin the First; then that continued throughout the spacious era of Harry the First; now in the splendor of Ike the First we have Integration and Automation. Automation is a natural development as surely as the printing press took away the news letters of the monks. Indeed, we find the massive trucks of today running seventy miles an hour on the highways as they carry ten tons of freight, with one driver, taking the place of ten drivers and ten wagons and twenty horses. Even so. And we have one radio brother talking to hundreds of thousands instead of several hundred men in hundreds of halls talking the same message, or advertising the same wonderful elixirs that can transform a puny, anaemic man into a robust, muscular giant. And without reading a million newspapers we know all about the games in the big leagues. As to inflation: Well what about it? Is it inflationary to raise wages, or increase prices, or declare extra dividends, or increase the pastor’s stipend, or magnify the contributions to foreign missions? Is inflation something to talk about? Or is it something for specialists to confuse us with? Once we had a gold standard and a gold basis. In the gracious reign of Franklin we “got off” the gold standard. We are still off; and most of us are so far off that we depend entirely on jewels from the ten cent stores. At the risk of incurring the scorn of the type of men who brought the offerings of gold, frankincense and myrrh let me observe that we do business on faith, just as we walk by faith, not by sight, as the Great Apostle tells us. When most men look forward and plan and go forward in faith there is a high tide, even a flood tide of confidence, good living, joy and gladness. But just as soon as money cir culates freely and people live the abundant life, some learn ed be-spectacled prophet warns us of doom and freezes the very marrow in our bones. I think we might approach the problem in plain, old- fashioned speech, avoiding all the frills and furbelos of pretentious pedantioism. Nobody understands Economics. I once specialized in that. Now, however, I am to lie pitied. 1 specialized in the Constitution and the Supreme Court knocked all that into a cocked hat; and now I think of Economics and that, too, is so sadly manhandled that I no longer know any thing about that. It is really a sad story, friends. What is our trouble, boiled down to the language of the street? We spend too much? Well, who says so? We Amer icans want everything and the whole country is running hog-wild. A family that would never have dreamed of having a horse and carriage must of necessity have a $3000 car— and then some!! Legs have gone out of fashion, though generously displayed: Nobody can walk. If they go three blocks they ride in a modest conveyance: they must have a splendiferous XXX of enough horsepower to put in the shade all the horses in the old livery stable. Nor need we pay now. Every radio, every newspaper carries the invitatkin to buy now; use your credit; your credit is good. So X borrows money (it is so easy) ; and he buys nearly every thing on time except groceries. And the wife and daughters have accounts at every store and buy and buy and buy. How shall we stop that reckless living? Surely we don’t want the Government to interfere!! Foolish credit may do us a lot of harm, but nobody thinks of that as inflation ary. Well, let’s forget that word and stay on the ground. I can’t see how the Federal Reserve can correct the disease without killing or crippling the patient. So far as I know, bankers are prudent men, cautious in lending. But if easy credit at the banks is the trouble it is not entirely desirable to freeze credit, if the borrower has adequate collateral. Of course bankers must consider a borrower’s background as much as his collateral. What I fear is that we may swing to the extreme and restrain unduly the constructive plans of sober investors and bring about a recession that will feed on feaivnot prud ence. If we act too precipitately we cause every man to hoard his money. Then we destroy wages, profits, trade and faith. The old time merchant did not throw goods at the head of Tom, Dick and Harry and beg him to buy, and buy with out payment and to run his debt one year, two years, three years. People are like children: most people persist in eating stuff which disagrees with them, then buy, buy, buy, be- tuse everybody else is doing that, too. What we need. I think, is restraint, rather than Federal ction. I’m told that many persons in small towns have :harge accounts” in Columbia, Charleston, Charlotte, At- nta, Augusta and Savannah. If there is danger it is that we are on a credit-buying spree and the sky is the limit. But let us keep in mind that this is still a growing Country a land of vast developed and undeveloped possibilities. This nation may house and feed and clothe three times as many people as we have; and our commerce, even among our selves, is a wondrous interest to contemplate. We must keep our faith alive. The difference between America and Brazil is that America is the land of hope, of opportunity, of faith, of vision; let us keep it So. I sometimes think that we should be greatly benefitted if all the experts could be muffled for a year and then let conservative businessmen proceed quitely about their bus iness. It appears that the Governor of Arkansas has virtually surrendered. When he concedes that the decision of the Supreme Court is the law of the land and that integration of races will be carried out he bows to an order of rank usurpation and does not challenge the Court on its as sumption of power not conferred and not even contemp- laed by the Constitution. When the Constitution clearly, explicitly says: “The Congress shall have power to ”: and then expressly indicates the area of Congressional power, it is not for the court to legislate in furtherance of larger and different areas of jurisdiction. Obviously we urgently need a rededication to the Con stitution of the United States; and that rededication should be based on a fresh study of the great document and the conditions and circumstances which clarified it by ten Amendments almost immediately. Some day Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Cali fornia may have grievous problems of their own. They will piously petition us to help them maintain their laws and standards. And nothing short of a calamity will open their eyes to the mischief done to us by them and others. Just to point out how confused we are, had you thought of this: the Courts have decreed a course of action and the President is conferring with the Governor about it. Has the President any lawful authority to postpone the execution of a court decree? Is it within his power to ne gotiate about it? Naturally most of us think this whole matter a piece of gross usurpation; and in such a case it is the duty of a responsible State to challenge in every manner an unlaw ful decree, even, if necessary by calling the other States in special conference. W r e seem to be about as meek and mild as the New Eng landers in the Hartford Convention. They talked and re solved and published resolutions declaring that the States must themselves decide upon their course when Congress enacts laws not in harmony with the Constitution—and then they quitely slipped out and went home. The issues today are by no means merely racial differen ces : every businessman knows that questions arise frequent ly that result from conflicts between State and Federal Jurisdictions. And these cases will continue to baffle, annoy, irritate and confuse us. What shall we do? “To be or not to be; that is the ques tion”. Well, surely Shakespeare must have looked a long way ahead in order to see us in 1957. As an old man is quoted as saying: “We have met the enemy and we are his’n”. So may the Governor of Arkansas proclaim. SNARK TAKES OFF . . . U. S. Air Force reveals Northrop Snark SM-62 guided missile with underwing fuel tanks to give greater distance. F OR once the Private Power In dustry and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association are agreed on a piece of legisla tion patted by the Congress . . . in this Instance the measure set ting up procedure and a pattern for the Rural Electric Coopera tives in the field of atomic energy for electric power. The measure in question was a bill providing that the Atomic Energy Commission contract with manufacturers directly for con struction of power reactors, pay for them and keep title to the reactors in the Government. This would be done after the Cooperatives proposed a type and concept of a reactor of the capacl ty of electrical power fitting its needs and the proposal was ac cepted by the Commission. The Cooperative then would apply for , a regular REA loan from the Rural Electrification Administra tion at 2% to pay for the conven tional part of the power plant. If approved by REA the Coop would construct this conventional part of the plant, the turbo-generator, boilers, etc., and after the nuclear reactor was hooked up, would con tract with the AEC to operate the plant and pay the AEC for steam from the reactor at prices for con ventional steam in that area, the AEC absorbing the difference be tween the price of nuclear gen erated steam and steam from con ventional fuels, coal, gas or oil. The procedure adopted by the Congress literally scrapped con tracts which had been in negotia tion for almost two years by the AEC and the Cooperatives by which the AEC still paid for and retained title to the reactors, but the Coops contracted for and built the reactors themselves, and then operated them under Commission contract. Since government money was involved throughout, Congress thought this procedure was deal ing from under the table, that there was a good chance the Coops would go broke, since there is no indication at this time the reactors will be economically competitive with fossil fueled power, particu larly since these are all small reactors of love kw capacity. Under the present set-up the Coops run no danger of losing money of their stockholders, the Coops get into the nuclear power business and learn it from ground up and from the operating stand point, and the Commission proves out the concept and the economics of the various types of reactors. The concensus in the private power industry is that they also want to see these various concepts tried out even though they are of small power capacity ranging from 10,000 to 40,000 kw, but the pattern also keeps the Coops out of the power generating business and in the basic business of buy ing power and transmitting or dis tributing it over their own lines. As a mater of fact the deal worked out in this bill by the Con gress is identical with that already given to private power industries In several instances, notably at Shippingsport, Pa., where the Commission is building and re tains title to the reactor and sells steam to the Duquesne Electric Light Company at Pittsburgh; at Santa Susana, California, where the Commission built and owns the reactor and sells steam to the Southern Pacific Power Company, and at West Milton, N. Y., where the Commission sold steam from a Federally owned prototype reactor to the Niagara Power Company. Q Can you tell me what Federal Agencies are represented by the letters RRB and DATA? A RRB is the Railroad Retirement Board and DATA is Defense Air Transport Administration. Q When did Philadelphia cease to be the Capitol City of the United States? A On June 10, 1800. Q How long has the District of Columbia had its present form of Government? A Since 1878, when Congress created the Commission form of three members, two to be residents of the District, the third detailed from the Corps of Army Engineers, all three to be named by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Q What and when were the so-called “Four Freedoms’” enunciated? A In an address to Congress on January 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said. ‘‘In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression, every where in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world The third is freedom from want—which translated into world terms, means economic undertandings which will secure to every nation a healthy, peaceful life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear—which translated into wor’d terms, means a worldwide reduction in armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.” CROSSWORD PUZZLE PUZZLE No. 467 ACROSS 1 Kind of wine 5 Young hog 10 Expense 14 Sandarac tree 15 Cut In two 16 Spanish Jar 17 A walking stick 18 Kind of duck 19 Tidy 20 Defame 22 Bird <pl.) 24 Was exces sively fond of 26 Anger 2Y Secret agents 30 Sots 35 Smiled 37 Wing 38 Noose 39 Lubricating liquid 40 Weight of India 42 Cloth mea sure 44 The gums 45 Pronoun (pl.l 47 Prohibit 49 Wooer 51 United in a league 54 Cubic meter 55 Parcel of land 56 Queen of spades In solo 58 Goddess of the moon 61 Designate for consider ation again 65 Man's name 06 A thicket 69 Golf club 70 Loose ravelllngs 71 One who runs at an easy gait 72 The dill 73 Legal charges 74 Paradises 75 Swelling DOWN 1 Moccasins 2 Spoken 3 Genus of frogs 4 Took a particular direction 6 Large thin piece 6 Having hirsute adornment 7 Ancient 8 Farewell 9 Ends 10 Hide 11 Genus of olives 12 Sliced cabbage 13 Makes lace edging 21 Administers medicine 23 Noah’s boat 25 Measure of Tripoli 27 To hoax 28 American composer 29 Ran discon nected as a motor 31 Tree yield ing caucho 32 Path 33 Sadness 34 Extra tire 36 Disputable 41 Rodent 43 Bodily appetites 46 Chooses 48 Birdbeak 50 Southern European 62 King Arthur's lance 53 To obscure 57 Fortune tellers 58 Entire person of an individual 59 Great Lake 60 Cord 62 River of Italy 63 Having pedal digits 54 Heraldry: grafted 67 Measure of length 68 Mimic f A D S £ T n T H M 0 A Tr A T T toiHr N LI a|t|| LUC Mo Answer le Pottle No. 466 From The Arvada Enterprise, Arvada, Colorado: AU branches of the armed forces are finding but—painfully—that the men who are being drafted for duty or those who enlist because they are about to be drafted are not accepting some of the “guff" put out by in structors and officers. The many cases filed by recruits In the Ma rines against their D.I.’s and the recent case of the 20-year-old Colo rado airman who refused to get a “white sidewall" haircut aro caaes in point. To have an efficient add well trained military machine, obedi ence is one of the prime requisites. However, there must be a line drawn somewhere against being obedient to strictly military orders and those that are only the wishes or whims, of individuals. For Instance, the airman was not defying a military order. He had a regulation air force hair cut, but he refused to get the type that the commander of the honor guard desired hie men to wear A little common sense might have prevented the incident from growing out of proportion, but common sense in the military is sometimes as hard to find as it is in civilian life. From The Independent, Fuquay Springs, N. C.: Once upon a time, a two-hour baseball game was viewed as a long one. Today, a two-hour baseball game Is not only a short game, but would also be considered as near miraculous. There la increasing discussion of the length of major league games. Efforts have been made to short' en the time of games. For in stance, a new rule was adopted for this season requiring the pitch er to make his pitch within 20 seconds when there are no men on bases. But umpires have found this to be an unenforceable rule. The Uvely ball, the frequent change* in pitchers, the conferences on the mound, the preambulations of manager* from dugout to pitcher’* mound to dugout are all reason* why ball games are now longer than they used to be There is one more reason Th* sponsors of telecast boll games are paying to advertise their wares. They want between-the-in- nings commercials. And if thay are to get what they pay for then the between-the-innings change of teams and warmup must be long enough to provide for the beer and cigarette pitch. The short ball game is an ancient memory of the age of the streetcar TELL US VOUR PROBLEm AMD LIT W NM If SB TO NU.P OTMMt M Ml VMS TMMt. •Y JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND TODAY’S PROBLEM: Arthritis. E THEL O'FLAHERTY. 396 Wash ington Avenue, New York City, says hers is a story that some won’t believe; that some will even scoff at. All she has to say it is that it is true. She developed pains in her legs, in her back; never felt very well and went to bed tired out, to toss restlessly half the night before sleep came. Naturally she went to the doc tor, a specialist at the Medical Center, and paid him twenty hard- earned and much needed dollars, to be told that she had arthritis. Most discouraging for she knew others who were suffering from this non-lethal but painful ailment. The doctor felt he could cure her but she knew she couldn’t pay his charges. She wasn't eligible for treatment in a Free Clinic since she owned property, the small in come from which helped to suport herself and her aged mother. She could get help from another doctor at the Medical Center but even then she would have to pay $16 a visit. Her eye caught an article in m magazine that declared arthritis and all other forms of rheumatism to be the results of poisons in tha system, usually caused by eating foods that created acidity, and by worry. This was something to work # on- She went to the library, got ma terial on the subject, made a list of the foods that created acidity and another list of those which did not. She armed herself with a large bottle of Milk of Magnesia which she took daily over a course of a couple of weeks. During this time she partook only of the non-acid foods. Martha saya, "No one haa to be lieve it; I am the one it concerns most; but I give you my word that within ten day* I felt better; in six weeks I had no pains, I slept well and my mental attitude was sqch that I was happy again, for my arthritis had been licked.” ARABS MEET . . . K«ng Saud of Sand: Arabia <K ■;) is g ectcd by Syrian Pres. Shukri Al-Kuwatly at Damascus ccnfc:er.ee for A.ah DOUBLE CHAMP . . . Welter weight champion Carmen Basil- to, 30, won split decision over Sugar Ray Robfnson, 37, to take middleweight title at Yankee Stadium. This An' That The Baltimore Orioles have pur chased Eddie Mlksla, 31-year-old utility player from the St. Louis Cardinals. Mlksla batted .211 in 48 games with the Cardinals. There was no announcement of the sale price . . . The Cardinals acquired Bob Kuzava from the Columbus Jets of the International League . . . The Philadelphia Phillies signed Dick Foreman of Detroit, a shortstop who starred as a fresh man for the Olivet College Base ball team. He will play for the Phillies’ Salt Lake City affiliate In the Class C Pioneer League . . . Bobby Gordon, a two-time letter- man, Is the biggest tailback Ten nessee has had for some time. He weighs 190 and stands 6 feet. One of the nation’s leading punters last year, he averaged 47.1 yards per kick ... Pugilism gets its name from the Latin "pugii” which means "one who fights with his fists” . . . The first minor leagues in baseball were the International Association and the League Alli ance, which both started play in 1877.