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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 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. SITBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance: six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Well, don't you see what the Federal Government is do ing to us? Don’t think that we of the South are the only ones should be on guard; the assurances given by the President and even some guarantees incorporated into the so-called Civil Rights bill have been quickly disregarded. The Government may some day reach Out and meddle with all the agencies it is subsidizing. We would do well to put our house in order and steer clear of the Government in our power business, as well as in our farming. Hear the Saturday Evening Post, the weekly founded by Benjamin Franklin, and sending out two or three mil lion copies a week from Philadelphia and going from Dan to Beer-Sheba, as the Scripture says meaning from A to Z, you *you. “Although it is four years since President Eisenhower described the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as an example of ‘creeping socialism’, nothing much has been done to reverse the trend. On the contrary, the danger is that the trend will get worse. In 1948 the Eightieth Congress attempted to stem the tide by passing an act requiring TVA to pay into the Federal Treasury over a forty-year period the amount which it had received in appropriations for the part of its operation devoted to electric-power development. As of 1955, that sum, which can be described as the ‘Investment’ of the taxpayers’ money in TVA, amounted to $1,231,387,039. Some part of this sum has been repaid into the Treasury. The effect of this provision is to cut down to some extent the gap between the cost of electric power produced by pri vate, taxpaying corporations and the cost of public power developed by publicly supported, nontaxpaying governmen tal units. Nevertheless, the differential still favors public power. Congress has had before it several bills designed to deal with the TVA situation. Senator Kerr, of Oklahoma, is the author of one bill which would not only have wiped out the Government’s billion-dollar equity in TVA but would also give TVA the right to issue bonds at its own discretion. The present requirement that Congress must approve such bor rowings would be eliminated. Another bill was introduced by Senator Martin, of Penn sylvania. This bill, while authorizing the issue of TVA bonds under certain limitations, would continue the require ment that TVA make annual payments on the profitless bil lion-dollar investment Congress has made in TVA, plus int erest on the amount outstanding. The Martin bill did not get to first base. Although the Martin bill would not altogether equalize the position of TVA and that of private power companies, the bill would make the favoritism shown subsidized elec tric power less glaring than it now is. What millions of Americans have scarcely noticed is the development of TVA from a Federal project to utilize water power for a variety of purposes into a gigantic power mon opoly dependent for more' than half its output on steam 'plants and not on water power at all. Just why the tax payers of the nation should be expected to finance the ex pansion of steam-produced electric power in competition with private industry cannot be explained by the purposes for which TVA was created—namely, development of the hydro-electric resources of the area. Certainly any ex pansion of steam-power production should be confined to the present area served by TVA and remain under congres sional supervision. The current indifference to what happens to the tax payers’ investment in public power plants, in contrast to the strictness with which private companies are expected to account for the money they receive‘from the public, is not the only woe of the private power industry. There is also the ‘preference clause’ which gives to cooperatives, municipalities and other public bodies a prior claim to the power generated by Government-owned dams. This means, in effect, that the customers of a private power company, which buys its power from a Government- owned installation, can be theoretically, and perhaps ac tually, deprived of their power should a municipality owned distributing system be set up in a continguous area. Congress has passed and the President hqs signed a bill providing for the erection by the Government of four atomic- reactors, the energy from which would be supplied to public power systems. While the statute limits such projects to those specifically named, it does create a precedent for further invasion of private power by the Government. A string of little TVA’s, each required to favor municipally owned distributors, could be the last straw. In view of the extraordinary technical progress now being made by private industry in the electric-power field, it is difficult to see any reason why the Government should invade it." The Baptist Associations are meeting throughout the State; and soon the South Carolina State Convention of Baptists will meet in annual session. Now, then what’s what ? 'LOOK, LADY!' Let me quote the Newberry brethren of the Baptist denomination; “After hearing the report of the committee the following resolutions were adopted: WHEREAS, this nation of ours, the United States of America, was founded on the principle of freedom of wor ship by our forefathers who came to this new land because they were prohibited from going elsewhere; and WHEREAS, from the beginning of the United States of America, until May 17, 1954, this nation made far more progress in industry, education, science, social welfare and Christianity than any other nation of the world ever dream ed of; and, WHEREAS, it is our belief that this progress was largely due to the fact that each man, woman, and child had the right of free worship of any faith and with whomsoever he or she may have desired; and, WHEREAS, since the United States Supreme Court de cision of May 17, 1954, which ruled that segregation of the races in the public schools is unconstitutional and some of the churches of America, including the Southern Baptist Convention, have indicated their desire to apply this doc trine to the church, the church school and other organi zations ; and WHEREAS, it is our belief that if this practice is contin ued it will be the downfall of the Southern Baptist Conven tion. Be it resolved, that we are opposed to the use of any material in Vacation Bible School, Sunday School and Bap tist Training Union which advocates the mixing of the races. Be it further resolved, that we disapprove of the ad mission of Negroes to the white colleges and seminaries supported by the Southern Baptist Convention. Be it further resolved, that we have faith in the com mon sense of our people and in the final triumph of our right to worship God according to the command of our conscience. Let us pray that it is our God’s will that this struggle for freedom of conscience and liberty of association will be won. Let us stand steadfast, yield not once inch, not be ter rified and beaten back by the sinister forces of evil now ram pant throughout the land. If we will do these things, then the victory will be ours. Be it further resolved, that it L, the sense of this church that if such practices are continued by the Southern Baptist Convention, it will be for the best interest of the Baptist Churches of the real Southern States to withdraw from the so-called Southern Baptist Convention and organ ize an association of Churches that share the view herein expressed. It is hoped, hov/ever, that this will not be nec essary. This church has cooperated with the State Conven tion and with the Southern Baptist Convention in all of their activities for the promotion of the Kingdom of God, and we would like to be able to continue to do that.’’ jyili smmm Wi fNSTEAp of reducing surpluses, * the present program for Agri culture is not only increasing sur pluses, but the millions being paid out in soil bank payments do not actually add to the farmers' income. These payments at best are only a substitute for money he would have received had he not retired his acreage from produc tion. A look at the inventory of the Commodity Credit Corporation from 1952 to the end of the fiscal year 1957. not counting the amount of crops under loan show these figures: 1952 inventory amounted to $1.4 billion; in 1953 $2,338 bil lion; 1954, $3,368 billion; 1955, $4,922 billion; 1956. $5,972 billion and as of June 30, 1957, $5,371 bil lion. And don't be tooled by the reduction shown in the inventory of about $600 million in 1957 under 1956. Thf total value of reserves set up for losses in 1956 was $2,529 billion, whereas the loss reserve for fiscal 1957 is set at $2,712 bil lion. more than $200 million high er than in 1956. This is due to severe losses on the foreign bar ter program set up by Secretary of Agriculture Benson in which ! the CCC took a solid beating in accepting counterpart funds or commodity for stockpiling, in or der to cut down on surpluses So the inventory surplus was de creased by shipping some sur plus to foreign countries while tha loans to American farmers on price supports was reduced from $2,285 billion in fiscal 1956 to $1,966 billion in 1967. Thus de crease in inventory was obtained at the expense of $200 million more in losses and $319 million less loans to American farmers in fiscal 1957 compared to fiscal 1956. And in the meantime the inventory from which surpluses are figured climbed from $1.4 bil lion in 1952 to $5.9 in 1957, an in crease of $4.5 billions. The theory under which the present farm program is operat ing, that is, less and less price supports, is that it will reduce surpluses; that retirement of acre age under the soil bank program under which the government is paying out from $140 million to $300 million per year, would also reduce protection. It doesn't work out that way. Neither do acreage allotments. Acreage allotments — "By re stricting land available for major cash crops, more intensive farm ing has been encouraged through more fertilizer, insecticides and supplemental irrigation. The yield of cotton, for example rose from 273 pounds per harvested acre in the pre-allotment period 1945-1949 to 408 pounds in 1956.” ' The Soil Bank—"has encouraged more intensive use of farmland. In addition the soil bank is making available rather substantial sums of cash which can be used to ex pand production on acreage out side the bank And the agri cultural conservation payments program undoubtedly has contrib uted to the expansion of our agri cultural capacity.” "Government policies have at tracted excess capital into the agricultural plant and expanded dur production capacity beyond the market needs. The price sup port program in itself has been an important stimulus to produc tion, because the guarantee re duces risks.” The AFBF believes the popula tion Increase will help in the agri cultural adjustment but that it is a fallacy to assume such growth is in itself a solution. From the Newark, N. Y. Cour- ier-Gamette: There is at least one approach to the farm surplus problem "that makes sense”—and it is found in the concept of an expanding animal agriculture. This, view comes from an officer of the American Meat Institute. He points out that in animal ag riculture we have a built-in for mula of checks and balances that doesn't exist in many other fields of farming. To take a striking example, animal agriculture has built into it the principle which underlies the soil bank. Animals are converters of hay and grain, and remarkably efficient ones. If you have bacon and eggs for breakfast you have consumed the equivalent of four pounds of corn. If you ate the same amount of com in the form of com-meal mush, you’d consume two gallons —an obvious impossibility. Ac cording to the Institute spokes man, if 10 per cent of the land currently used for food and in dustrial crops was shifted over onto the large proportion of our land already used for livestock, the result would be a balance be tween agricultural production and consumption. This is n long-range concept, and it cannot be achieved easily. Yet it looks like the logical next step in the revolution that has so greatly changed the science of ag riculture in a very short space of time. • • • From the Page News and Couri er, Luray, Virginia: The batter who gets on first or second base has a chance to go places. But if he is to score he also must get past third. The same principle holds for polio vaccination. Here’s the way it works." The Salk vaccine sets up pro tecting antibodies in the blood stream that prevent the polio virus from destroying the nerve cells, thus paralyzing the mus cles. One shot of vaccine sets up an tibodies in some people. Two shots set up antibodies in people who did not react to the first shot. Three shots set up antibodies in about 90 per cent of the people and provide maximum immunity— that is, the most protection for the longest time. If you’re one of the more than 70 million people who have had your first shot, remember this: three are essential. Like a base ball batter, you must be "safe on third” before you can score in the polio war. And if you’re one ol the 39 million under 40 years of age who have had no shots at all, you’d better got to bat at once. I know our people are not Socialists at heart, nor by in tention and understanding. And this sturdy citizenship of old South Carolina is even farther from Communism. In spite of all that, we have gone a long way toward a brand of Socialism that borders on Communism. Did you know what the Socialists planned back in 1923? Here it is: “States under the direction of this Socialist Program, and finally the Nation, will take over one after the other of the public utilities, mines, railroads, power plants, communi cation systems, waterways and forests. All of this may be done by methods perfectly legal and constitutional. 1923—Here is the program for seizing control of the Electric Power Industry. 1. Inter-connect the 2,318 muni cipally-owned electric light and power plants. 2. Tie into the system the 11 hydro-electric power plants owned and oper ated by the U. S. Government. 3. Enlarge and expand all of these units. 4. Develop as rapidly as practical the hydro electric power of all rivers. 5. Coordinate the work of flood control, irrigation, navigation, and hydro-electric develop ment. 6. Coordinate steam driven plants with hydro-electric plants. 7. Buy out existing systems. 8. Secure the neces sary capital at low interest rates by use of public credit. Just 14 years after the Socialists had announced their plan to ‘take over’ the electric power industry, a solid nuc leus of government-built hydro-electric projects were being installed on the major rivers of the U. S. Under the discriminating preference clauses of the var ious laws, enacted at the behest of the planners, control of the power output from these projects is held tightly in the hands of the public power advocates in the Department of the Interior. Time and again that Department has demon- Q—Can yon fir® me any deUOa of sale of surplus Government dried milk? A—If you mean the sale of approximately half a billion pounds of dried skim milk In mid-1954, it was sold by the Department of Agriculture oo negotiated prices of from 3V& to 4c per pound to several feed dealers on condition it would be used only for animal food. It comprised the entire government supply at that time and the price was approximately one-fifth of rftarket value. No. There were no competitive bids. Q»-Has Senator William Frexmire, of Wisconsin, announced the name of his Administrative Assistant? A—Yes. He is Mr. Robert O. Lewis, formerly Editor of the Farmers Union Washington News Letter and a native of Wisconsin. Q—Can yon give any figures on per capita meat oonsnmptioo in the world? A—Not on total amount The International Federation of Agricultural Producers says Argentianians are heaviest meat eaters, averag ing 255 pounds per person. Next are New Zealanders at 224 pounds, Australians at 218 pounds and the United States at 167 pounds per person. Q—What share of the United Nations budget does the United States pay? A—As of now the USA pays 33.3% of the U. N. budget. It formerly paid 39.8% from time of organization until 1954. Our member of the budget committee Is today seeking to reduce USA share to a flat 30%: Although the USA has only one vote, Russia, with three votes, pays only 16%. strated that the government produced power will be sold— not in the interest .of either the local user or the American taxpayer—but under conditions that promote the schemes of those who seek a federally-owned and politically-operated national transmission System.” TELL US VOUR PROBLEm $T JOHN oiid JANE STRICKLAND TODAY’S PROBLEM: Routing Fear H arold stazer, 168 sumzrjt Avenue, Wollaston, Massa chusetts, says he thinks he was bom through Fe ir. At least, as a child he heard his mother relate the various incidents which had struck fear to her h eart 111 tb* months before he was bom. The stories repeated ovdr and over left him each time a little more afraid of life than before. She had been afraid of thunder storms, afraid of an acckWnd every time she went out'in • ear, afraid something had happened to one of the children if a few min utes late coming from school, afraid her husband would lose his job and they wouldn't have enough to eat. afraid the neighbor's dogs would attack her own poodle. De spite the fact that none of these catastrophies befell her, she car ried fear of them right along. One day in school the teacher asked Harold. "What are you afraid of?" 'He didn’t know ha was afraid. he had thought of himself as "cau tious.”) # “When you come to class you seem afraid! When I give you a test you seem afraid to answer, although your work is very good. When you leave at toe end of the day, you look around as if in doubt which road to take.** Then she took him in hand, walked home from school with Mm, atvf finally unearthed the foundation of his fear—his moth er's attitude. "Walk into the room,” she advised, "every morn ing saying ’everything's all right, everything's all right'" Next he was to follow in class with toe thought *Tm sure I know that** which he usually did. At home he was to look ahead and say. "I have always been safe.” They selected other fears—all minor—that had beset him and conquered them one by one. Be fore the first term ended, Harold had gained confidence, was more aggressive, and above all he says, "I had learned how to be happy. That I think is the most valuable lesson I ever learned. I have never since been afraid of life ” • CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS X To aelact from S Deflated tire • Lores color 14 Tune 15 Overhensins roof edge 16 Climbing plant 17 Portion 18 Solar disk 19 Inner (anat.) 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