The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, January 08, 1959, Image 2
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By SPECTATOR
Well, here I am snowed' under and sleeted under as I write
this script. It makes me think of my days in Virginia and
some days in Philadelphia and New York.
Even WYMB, the radio station in Maning, was off the air
because the power was “off”. I spent some time with my
friend Harry Hyman as we passed an hour waiting for elec
tric current. Russ Melette. was standing guard while Harry
and Jim Nesbitt explored the surrounding area.
This snow was a white elephant, in very truth, but it
means much to the farmers, since a good harvest follows a
good snow.
By the way, you’ve heard of a White elephant, haven’t
you? I always understood that a man w T ould spend all of his
money buying enough food to satisfy the appetite of an ele
phant. Well, here‘s what The Manning Times tells us about a
White elephant:
“An old time King of Siam had a nasty way of getting
even with any noble he happened to dislike. He would give
the man a white elephant.
Since the white elephant was sacred to the Siamese anyone
who happened to own such a beast was required to keep it in
style. In fact, the cost of maintaining a white elephant was so
great that any noble who received one was automatically con
demned to ruin.
What brings this to mind is the national highway pro
gram, now in its second year. Has this program become a
white elephant to America’s car and truck owners ?
At the time of the program’s adoption, motor vehicle own
ers were hit with some jolting tax increases - - a 50 percent
boost in the federal gasoline tax and steep new levies on
trucks and buses. But they were led to believe that these add
ed taxes were all that would be needed to carry out the pro
jected 13-year construction program.
Now they’re getting a different story. The program has
been enlarged and revised so it will be much bigger than its
original scope and cost. And the financing plan has broken
down. There isn’t enough money in the federal highway till
to keep the program going, we are told by Washington.
This is true only because the federal highway program is
being systematically short—changed. While the experts are
predicting a $9 million shortage next year, more than a bil
lion and a half dollars of federalautomotiv e tax revenue will
be funneled into the general fund, not even taken into ac
count in the highway program’s financing. That’s why the
program is technically running in the red.
Despite this open bamboozling of the motorist, reports
from Washington indicate that Congress will shortly be ask
ed to jack up the gasoline tax again. In combination with the
statk tax on the same product, this levy already costs the US
motorist a cool 9 cents a gallon.
It doesn’t have to be that way. This road program needn’t
become a white elephant for motorists if it is reasonably
handled. There won’t be any shortage of funds to carry out
present plans if all federal automotive taxes are used to fi
nance the program. And there won’t be any future break
downs if Congress resists the temptation to keep expanding
the program until automotive taxes rise to even more ruin
ous rates.
But if things keep on the way they’ve been going in the
program’s first two years, a project that was presented as a
• boon to the nation’s <jar and truck owners will turn into the
biggest and costliest white elephant ever wished on a group
of suffering taxpayers.”
The greatest industrial business in South Carolina is the
yast textile enterprise. Hundreds of. millions of dollars are in
vested in textile plants in our State and many thousands of
. citizens - - men and women, are employed in those great es-
- tablishments. The big mills pay millions in taxes and their
employees pay millions in sales taxes, as well as other taxes.
But the vast textile business has been ill—treated by our
other—worldly minded Government. Today our Cotton tex
tiles are treated both ignorantly and disastrously.
Even The Saturday Evening Post understands the problem
much more clearly than does our Government. Hear The
Post:
“Most Americans respond favorably to the general purpose
behind the Adminstration’s effort to expand international
trade. However, when you get down to cases and understand
how the reciprocal—trade program works in specific in-
' stances, approval is considerably short of unanimous. The
' plight of the textile—manufacturing industry, which in
volves an investment of $8,000,000,000 and provides employ-
♦ ment for more than a million individuals, plus another mil
lion workers and $4,000,000,000 investment in the apparel in-
dustry, is a case in point. The threat to the cotton—textile in
dustry is a weird combination of obstacles before which any
American industry might quail.
First, the textile manufacturer who uses cotton yarn must
buy his raw cotton at the price fixed under the agricultural-
support program. In the meantime the Government, stuck
with cotton which it has accumulated at the support price,
sells it in the world market, where the price is about 20 per
cent under the American ‘kept’ price. Thus the manufacturer
in Japan, Italy or Indonesia is able to buy his major raw ma-
!
THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1969
FARMS AND FOLKS
By J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information Specialist
THAT NEW POTATO
I was at Clemson’s Edisto Sta
tion during the sweet potato dig
ging season in the fall. Was inter
ested in seeing how that promis
ing new variety they developed
there, the CaroGold, had perform
ed in '58.
Found it had lived fully up to
its past performance and was far
ahead of all other existing vari
eties with which it was compared.
Mr. Rogers, the superintendent
there, told me they have another
very promising new variety of
sweet potatoes coming along. It
looks mighty good in their tests
so far and might develop into the
best one yet after a little more re
fining and testing.
This CaroGold is a high yielder
of uniform chunky marketable po
tatoes. It is highly disease-resist
ant, smooth, resistant to cracking,
and has deep orange flesh. It
makes good stocky sprouts, but
not over about half as many per
bushel. This is the main draw
back. And it’s a little late. But its
high yielding and other desirable
features mark it as a potato to be
reckoned with in the future.
CHARCOAL __
Charcoal has of late become a
popular item in the grocery stores
of the country. Outdoor cooking,
charcoal broiling of meats, ac
counts for this. Seldom has a cus
tom grown so fast. Most homes
now have a charcoal grill.
I wondered where all of that
charcoal comes from. Found some
of it is made in this state. Mr.
Dargan , of Dargan Lumber Co.,
Conway, tells me they have made
it for some years. They use the
old rough woods, unsuited for
lumber, in making it.
New uses for products of the
woodland! Here’s another one. Mr.
Dargan also pioneered in the de
barking and chipping of slabs fo/
sale to the paper mills. Now that
is becoming a rather general cus
tom over the state. It remains to
find a use for bark and sawdust.
Then the utilization of a tree will
be complete.
Mr. Dargan showed me a piece
of paper made from sawdust. It
didn’t have much strength, but it
looked like it might make a good
blotter. Research-minded folks
will likely find a use for sawdust
arid bark yet.
KILLING RATS IN HORRY
When I was with County Agent
Johnston of Horry in the fall they,
were in the midst of their county
wide rat-killing campaign. The
4—H and FFA boys in all parts of
the county were aiding in the dis
tribution of the poisoned bait. By
getting it in quantity through the
U. S. Wildlife Service, it came at
4 pounds for$1.25. This Johnston
said, was was enough to properly
bait the premises on the average
farm.
Rat-killing campaigns were con
ducted in practically all counties,
and the agents and farmers I’ve
talked with report good results.
terial for 20 percent less than his American competitor has
to pay.
Why, it may be asked, doesn’t the American manufacturer
go into the world market for his cotton? The Cotton farmers’
lobby and its political henchmen have taken care of this pos
sible loophole by placing an import quota on raw cotton. Al
though most raw—cotton imports are prohibited by the
quota, the present duty on cloth, dresses, shirts and under
pants made from our exported cotton does not close the gap
between the world price and the higher American legislated
price.
Another major threat to the textile industry is the differ
ence between American high wages, to a large extent com
pulsory under various l^ws and regulations, and the low
wages prevailing in competing areas, especially Japan and
Hong Kong. The classical free—trade position - - advanced
by supporters of the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade
is that consumers are entitled to the benefits of low costs in
other countries and that, if the American producer cannot
meet the competition, he ought to go into some other trade.
But, argue the American producers, even if it were desirable
to junk the American standard of living in order to boost
standards of living elsewhere, it couldn’t be done without the
repeal of minimum—wage and maximum—hours laws and
other protections which the American worker now enjoys.
Furthermore the U. S. textile man points out, our Inter
national Co-operation Administration and other distributors
of foreign aid have made the lot of our foreign competitors
even easier by helping to equip them with brand—new plants
and the latest machinery to go with them. Modernization of
the American industry, while impressive, has been hamper
ed by inadequate depreciation allowances.
As of now, imports of all textiles are but a small fraction
of the total textile production in this country. Furthermore,
the American industry exports more textiles than it imports.
However, the manufacturer of one category of textiles, ging
hams or velveteens for example, heavily hit by low-cost im
ports, does not benefit because the manufacturer of another
variety, like industrial webbing, is unscathed. The ration of
textile imports to exports is far less in favor of exports than
it once was, for the obvious reason that our foreign custom
ers are being taken from us by competitors blessed with the
advantages already mentioned.
Obviously we cannot build a non-scalable tariff wall around
the textile industry. However, it does not seem unreasonable
to suggest a compensating import duty on goods made from
the cotton which we supply to foreign processors at a 20 per
cent discount. After all, American flour mills are protected
against imports of flour made from wheat sold abroad for
less than the support price. A little less enthusiasm for set
ting up still more textile industries abroad with American
money would also contribute. There would still remain the
wide difference between American and Asiatic wages in the
affected industries. Probably there is no cure for this except
an enforceable quota which should be liberal enough to give
the Japanese and foreign industry generally a reasonable
share of the market, but drastic enough to prevent disaster
to the domestic industry.”
I wish we could concentrate for a few years on the needs of
our own people. The well-intended folly of ministering to
everybody else'while utterly neglecting our country and its
interests has tended to dry up America at the source.
We have been victimized for a quarter of a century by
theoretical planners, socialists, other-world people and bung
lers generally.
Isn’t it a treat to have electric light ? The current was off
the day I do most of my writing and I worked in some degree
of gloom. When the current came on, some hours later, it
was, indeed most welcome; and the “encircling gloom” was
transformed into cheery cheerful and stimulating light.
Remember, folks, you can really
kill rats now. The bait used really
seems to attract them and no
trouble is reported in getting
them to eat it.
There is one very important
angle in killing rats that folks
need to take into account, our
Carl Nettles tells me. And that is
to remember rats migrate around.
To get telling results, therefore, it
is necessary for most of the folks
in a given area to all poison them
at the same time. Otherwise your
place will soon have them again,
if just you alone put out the
poison.
In the fall is the logical time to
hit ’em, before the fresh harvest
is in for them to eat and contam
inate. If you are interested next
summer, I’m sure your county
agent will be glad to hear from
you about a campaign for the fall.
PROSPERITY
NEWS
Mrs. S. A. Quattlebaum was
hostess to the William Lester
chapter of the U. D. C. Friday af
ternoon. Mrs. Vida C. Thomason,
presided and used the ritualistic
opening.
Songs and music of the Confed
eracy on the record player prov
ed interesting to the members.
Mrs. Quattlebaum read an article,
“The Confederacy’s Great Seal
More Symbolic than the Flag.”
After the business session the
hostess assisted by her daughter,
Mrs. Wofford Cooper, served a
salad plate with coffee.
BOYS ARE
THAT WAY
By J. M. ELEAZER
When I was a kid in the Stone
Hills of Dutch Fork, we had to
“break in” every pair of new
shoes, much as we did a young
mule in taming him to plow and
wagon.
I don’t know if shoes were just
not made as accurately to fit the
foot then as now. Or if it was be
cause we went barefooted 7 or 8
months of the year and our feet
became so untamed. But I know
this; it was always torture for m«
to break in a new pair of shoes.
They got ’em plenty big, for our
feet grew so fast. I remember a
time or two my brother took
rtiercy on me'and broke in a pair
for me. To do that, he just
wore ’em a few days, got them
stretched and loosened up at the
right places, and after that they
felt fine.
Our shoes were usually what we
called “brogans.” They were sim
ple shoes, made of rawhide black
unfinished leather without a shine
to it. Nor did they have toes or
tape on them. The sole was hard,
stiff, thick leather that would
give very little. That was a good
support to the foot and they were
very comfortable after they be-
Saturday supper guests of Rev.
and Mrs. Paul Scott were Mr. and
Mrs. J. D. Hughey, their daugh
ters, Carol and Bess, and their
son, Dean, of Belvedere, and Mr.
and Mrs. William Hunter and
their daughter, Diane, of New
berry.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Davis of
Fort Wayne, Ind., were guests
Friday of Mr. Davis’s uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Luther.
The Sorosis will met Friday af
ternoon, Jan. 9 at 3:30 with Mrs.
J. Frank Browne.
came well broken in and fitted to
your feet.
These shoes were easy to get
into. The stiff leather stood open
at the top, and you could step
from the bed into them. And there
was no lacing, just a buckle to
latch shut there in front, and you
were ready to go.
They did not fit tight around the
ankle and were rather hard to
open around the leg at the top.
One cold winter day Ben arrived
at school almost frozen, A Mg
lightwood fire was raging there in
the 8-foot rock fireplace at the
end of the hoom thawing us kids Mr.^an^ Mrs. I>. O.
out It popped and a big spark fell
in the top of Ben’s shoe. We
always said that was the quickest
a shoe was ever taken off. He tore
the buckle off in doing it, for he
had no time to unloose it.
Some of us kept laughing about
that after “books” were called,
and the teacher made us stand in
the corner.
Rev. and Mrs. Paul Scott and
Mrs. A. B. Hunt spent Tuesday
at Woodford near Orangeburg.
Mrs. J. Frank Browne and Mrs.
P. W. Smith visited Mr, and Mrs.
Spence Wise in Union last Friday.
Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Wessinger
and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Beden-
baugh attended the L. S. U.-Clem-
son game in New Orleans last
Thursday.
Marion Wedborn Jr.,, of Ander
son' has been visitin^ nis cousin,
Danny Hamm.
Mr. and Mrs. William Scott and
their daughter. Sherry Lynn, of
Hickory, N. C.' spent l&st Monday
with Mr. Scott’s parents, ReV. and
Mrs. Paul C. Scott
Miss Harriette Koon of Irmo
has been visiting Miss Sara Scott
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hamm Sr.,
visited relatives in Princeton
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Sober of
Anderson were supper guests of
the D. H. HatniMB Jr., Sunday.
Mesdames J. F. Browne, Gebfge
W. Harmon, P. W. Smith and
Frank McMillan, were guests of
Misses Erin and Nolle Kohn in
Columbia last Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hendrix of
EstMl were guests of the A- R,
Chappells several days last wpek.
Mrs: W. D. Moore Wm
visited . Misses Susie and
Langford last Thursday and J|*i-
day. _ .
Miss Joy Thomason has
ed to her school duties in
mond, Va., after a two
cation with her mother, Mrs:
C. Thomason.
Miss Ellen Wheeler 'of
rop College spent ~ ‘
Mrs. J. Frank Browne
P. W. Smith and visited
friends td
Mr. and Mrs. W. U Mills
last Tuesday in Wood**#
their son-in-law. and
Hr. and Mr*. S. C. BrUaia
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