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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1957
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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medicine
23 Noah’s
boat
25 Measure of
Tripoli
27 To hoax
28 American
composer
29 Ran discon
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motor
31 Tree yield
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32 Path
33 Sadness
34 Extra tire
36 Disputable
41 Rodent
43 Bodily
appetites
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48 Birdbeak
50 Southern
European
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Arthur's
lance
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tellers
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of an
individual
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60 Cord
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Italy
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pedal
digits
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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
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•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.”
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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.