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Any man, with his Model T who
could pull up Ballard’s Hill in
high would tell the story and
strut like a peacock. Once a well-
known official of our County rode
with others from Pinewood to
•fanning. As we approached Pax-
ville I glanced back and saw that
my friend had his foot in the
door to prop it open so that he
might leap for safety at any
moment as we were running at
great speed—about 25 miles per
hour. Great days, weren’t they?
THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN
SPECTATORS
Did you learn to drive in the
days of the ‘‘Model T?”I think
we might have a National Assoc
iation of Model T drivers.
Henry Ford will be regarded in
history as one of the great con
structive figures in the life of
mankind. John D. Rockefeller, the
first one, made oil lamps avail
able in a day of tallow candles and
lightwood knots and so he must
rate along with Ford as one of
the world’s benefactors. In the
same group would be Thomas A.
Edison, of course. Those men
brought a new idea to the world
and the idea carried a convincing
symbol of practical application.
Many men have somewhat fanci
ful ideas 4>}it never develop any
thing. Naturally I must include
the Wright brothers.
When we think of practical ach
ievements I am reminded not so
much of Benjamin Franklin’s
playing with lightning as I am of
Franklin’s making a stove, some
thing to conserve, yet carry heat,
along with cooking the meals we
want three times a day. Of course
the inventive or adaptive genius
of men has perfected all those
early contraptions, but the idea,
with practical application was the
great service.
By the way, if you have lived
in a rural neightborhood with for
ests abounding you have heard of
lightwood. That was resinous pine
used to give both heat and light
to our great grandfathers.
Let’s get back to the Model T,
Henry Ford’s masterpiece, the
car that put America on wheels—
and many other countries, too. A
man told me that he had driven
his Model T in a burst of speed,
at the rate of 42 miles an hour.
Now that fellow was flying; or
dinarily the speed of the Model T
was about 25 miles an hour.
Over in Kershaw and Sumter
Counties men told tales of their
cars. There was a branch, water
you know, on the road between
Sumter and Camden. Starting at
the branch was Ballard’s Hill.
AU those living on the coast
knew that the tide comes in six
hour? and recedes six hours.
Ships of great size enter ports at
high tide because the deep water
facilitates the operation. There
is a tide in the affairs of men, we
are told. At this moment I think
of what may happen when the
tide of Kennedy usurpation flows
out. Never in the history of our
nation have we had such ill-con
ceived, drastic and disastrous pro
grams as some af the Kennedy
campaigns to turn the tide from
its normal course in human af
fairs to such a course as Mr.
Kennedy hope to bring about. Not
even following the Civil war.
Realizing the frequent turn in
our politics I wonder what disas
ters are in store for us when the
tide turns.
When I was in Peru a brilliant
American Engineer convinced
President Leguia to undertake a
vast project; to turn Westward
the Maranon river so that it might
flow through the Andes mountains
and convert the Olmos desert in
to a fruitful area. A word of ex
planation may help. The vast Am
azon river does not rise in Brazil,
but in Peru and is fed by the Mar
anon river as well as other
streams. Of course it flows East
ward toward the Atlantic.
To turn the great Maranon riv
er so that it might flow through
the impregnable barrier of the
Andes mountains would be a stu-
penrous undertaking, vastly ex
ceeding the construction of the
Panama Canal, I think.
By way of thinking about the
Amazon river I may remind you
'that ships from England once
steamed up the Amazon 2700
miles to the town of Iquitos, Peru,
at one time a great port for the
export of rubber.
Mr. Kennedy is no engineer;
rather he seems an unpractical
I visionary, who either doesn’t know
1 history, psychology or biology or
who fancies himself unfettered by
knowledge.
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E. B. PURCELL
W. C. HUFFMAN
We have had real cotton weath
er. I’ve often thought that we
men of the South should plant a
row of cotton in our back yards.
Then when the nights seem in
sufferably hot we could rejoice
in the thriving of the cotton plants.
I am reminded of a summer in
Anderson. The people of that
great county subscribed a hundred
thousand dollars for a college.
Money was money in those days:
that hundred thousand would
bring probably three times as
much as today, keeping in minds
our present-day extravagant no
tions. In July I suggested that we
proceed to collect the money. The
trustees said no, that because of
extreme heat and lack of rain the
farmers did not expect a half
crop. So the trustees signed a
joint personal note for $50,000
and so began building. Toward
November. I again suggested that
we proceed to collect the notes.
The trustees again refused, ex
plaining that the farmers had
made a crop and a half and the
price was low. I’ve always rem
embered that: Cotton thrives in
hot, dry weather. If it suffers at
all it must be to prevent the far
mers from harvesting three bales
to the acre, with disastrous re
sult to the price.
In places in the West some
farmers harvest three bales of
cotton per acre. I mention that
just in case you might suspect me
of dreaming.
“ . . . The picture of business
as consisting of or dominated by
| a few giant corporations is quite
false. Let us look at the situation
j concerning corporations alone.
! In 1959 more than a million of
them—1,074,120 to be exact—fil
ed income-tax returns. True, there
giants among them. As many as
2,319 had assets of more than $50
million each. But 590,000, or more
than half, had assets of less than
$100,000 each.
In addition to these million cor
porations there were 949,000 ac
tive partnerships, and 9,142,000
businesses and farms under a sole
proprietor. Nor were the contri
butions of these unincorporated
enterprises negligible. Where cor
porations reported a net income
of $47 billion in 1959, unincorpor
ated enterprises reported $46 bil
lion.
Nor do small businesses, wheth
er incorporated or not, make a
negligible contribution to employ
ment. In 1959 there were, in fact,
more than 3.3 million separate
employers reporting under the
Social Security Act. Of these only
54,000 employed 100 or more per
sons each. More than 1.9 million
employed only three or fewer
each. About 3 million employed
fewer than 20 persons each, yet
these small firms provided more
than a fourth of total employment
in commerce and industry.
This is how American business
is made up. It consists of literally
millions of employers, literally
millions of risk takers.
These small risk takers have no
automatic assurance of success.
At the beginning of 1961, a fairly
typical year, there were 4,7 mil
lion firms in operation.
The extent to which these mil
lions of small risk takers start
new ventures and create new jobs
depends on their estimate of the
chances of making and keeping
a profit compared with the risk
of losing their whole capital.
These are the people the poli
ticians and planners should keep
in mind, and not only the heads
of a few giant corporations, in
order to recognize the need of
maintaining a climate of ‘busi
ness confidence’.”
“When Senate GOP Leader Ev
erett Dirksen surprised President
Kennedy recently by showing him
SENATOR^
■STRO
HURMOND
Reports
PEOPLE
THE $64 QUESTION
TESTIMONY on the Moscow
test ban treaty, both in public
and secret sessions, reveals that
there is one awesome question
on which the whole issue pre
cariously hangs. The Question—
Do we dare risk the entire na
tional security of the United
States on the validity of our
official intelligence estimates?
ALL OF THE INTELLI
GENCE experts admit freely
that our intelligence is poorest
on what is happening in the
Soviet Union and in Red China.
By comparison, Cuba is an open
hook. Our official intelligence es
timates do not have a history
that exactly inspires confidence.
Consider the record.
WHEN THE SOVIETS came
up with the atomic bomb, it was
a complete surprise to the U.S.
Official estimates took the posi
tion that the Soviets could not
master the atomic bomb before
the mid-1950’s, but they tested
on August 19, 1949.
IN THE FALL of 1949, Just
after the Soviets detonated an
atomic bomb, the U.S. was con
sidering whether to develop a
thermonuclear weapon. The of
ficial intelligence estimate, even
after being fooled by the Soviets
on the atomic bomb a few weeks
earlier, said the Soviets could
not develop the thermonuclear
weapon until the late 1950 f s. All
the scientists, except one, agreed
with the estimate, and opposed
U.S. construction of a thermo
nuclear bomb. The one exception
was Dr. Edward Teller, who, in
October, 1949, urged that if the
U.S. didn’t hurry with the de
velopment of the H-bomb, the
Soviets would get one first. For
tunately, President Truman de
cided against the official esti
mate and with Dr. Teller’s lone
scientific opinion. The estimate
was wrong; Dr. Teller’s was
right. We exploded a thermo
nuclear bomb on October 31,
1952; the Soviets followed on
August 12, 1953, with a hydro
gen bomb explosion.
WHEN THE COMMUNISTS
invaded South Korea in June
1950, the U.S. was caught off
guard. Official intelligence esti
mates took the position that it
wouldn’t happen. On the basis of
those estimates, U.S. military
forces had been withdrawn from
the area, making the attack pos
sible.
WHEN THE SOVIETS
launched Sputnik I in October
1957, the U.S. was caught by
complete surprise. Official intel
ligence estimates had let us
down again.
ALONG IN 1958, official intel
ligence estimates said the So
viets had a multitude of ballistic
missiles, and thus was born the
“missile gap.” It was such a
scare that it became a major
issue in the 1960 Presidential
election. It then turned out that
the whole estimate was phoney;
the estimates were wrong, and
the “missile gap” was a fraud.
ON SEPTEMBER 19, 1962,
an official intelligence estimate
was issued which took the posi
tion that there were no Soviet
missiles in Cuba, and that the
Soviets would not put any mis
siles in Cuba. This one got dis
proved in a hurry. Now it is ad
mitted that missiles were in
Cuba when the estimate was
written.
THE OFFICIAL ESTIMATES
now admit that the Soviets are
ahead of us in some fields of
nuclear technology. They also
admit that we don’t have much
hard information on which to
base our estimates. In the areas
of technology where we have
most information, official esti
mates admit the Soviets are
ahead; in areas of technology
where we have the least infor
mation, official estimates assume
that the U.S. is ahead.
GENERAL CURTIS LEMAY,
who knows something about our
intelligence methods in this field,
has little confidence in our in
telligence estimates. He stated
that if the treaty were not al
ready signed, he would recom
mend don't eign it!
GENERAL THOMAS POW
ER, who commands the Strategic
Air Command, and is even closer
to the problem, says the esti
mates are wrong, and that it’s
far too dangerous to sign the
treaty. The Soviets might well
have a clear superiority in tech
nology now. General Bernard
Schriever, who commands our
missile development, says he
can’t do his job properly if the
treaty is ratified.
DR. TELLER, who has the
best experience in the nuclear
field, and who has a history of
making correct judgments, says
the intelligence estimates are
wrong.
WHAT IS THE DIFFER
ENCE? If the treaty is ratified,
and any significant part of the
estimates is wrong again, the
U.S. is finished. Russia will have
us hands-down in the nuclear
field, and the only choice that
would be left to us then is sur
render or be wiped out.
Sincerely,
a key marked “White House—
Back Door’, it was only the latest
episode in a 5000 year old story
full of odd twists.
Keys are at least that old.
They have been found in the most
ancient Egyptian tombs. Famous
Biblical passages mention keys.
Keys have been used to hunt for
witches, cure colds and nosebleeds
—even divorce an unwanted mate.
Superstitious folk have had a
field day with keys. In France
it was once believed that a were
wolf would instantly return to
human form if struck between the
eyes with a key.
In Norway a big iron key was
hung oVer the stalls of sick cat
tle to cure them. Mothers in the
Mediterranean countries still
place keys in their babies to ward
off convulsions.
Religion attaches symbolic value
to the key as the power to open
the heavens and hell. ‘And the key
of the house of David will I lay
upon his shoulders; so he shall
open, and none shall shut; and he
shall shut, and none shall open.’
(Isaiah 22-22.)
Keys have always been a status
symbol. In ancient Rome, a bride
was given the keys to her house
hold and was considered divorced
if her keys were taken away. In
the 15th and 16th centuries, keys
were entrusted only to important
officials. Their possession was a
mark of power and prestige.
Moral of it all? Don’t lost your
keys!
“It’s costing us more to make
history than the stuff is worth.”
Building Permits
Aug. 22—Mrs. Clara Wertz, in
stall cabinets i;i kitchen of dwell
ing, 1105-Speer street $400.
Aug. 23—Cornelia Sligh, repairs
to roof of dwelling, 712 Hunt St.,
$100.
Aug. 24—Roy Caldwell, general
repairs to dwelling, 524 Main St.,
$3000.
Aug. 26—Bessie 'Bobo, general
repairs to dwelling, 642 Morgan
street.
Aug. 26—H. H. Connelly, re
pairs to dwelling, 1403 Nance St.,
$50.00.
Aug. 27—McCoy’s Service Sta
tion, construction of 20x20 foot
brick service station on College
street $5500.
Recent Marriages
Mr. and Mrs. William Garland
have moved to 1715 Drayton St.
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Mills are
now making their home at 723
Drayton street.
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Dean Manion
THE
MANION
FORUM
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The White House, State Depart
ment Disarmament Agency, and
the news media are telling us of
the partial test ban treaty nego
tiated in Moscow and of its ad
vantages. Little or nothing has
been said officially about the new
risks it creates.
Unless Mr. Khrushchev is a
madman, and he is not, he sees
advantages for the Soviet Union
and Communism in it. He sees the
treaty as advancing the Commun
ist goal of world domin: tion, not
retarding it.
Another reason for a second look
at these risks to the free world is
to dispel the feeling of euphoria
it is sure to create. People will
tend to regard it as evidencing an
easy solvability of East-West re
lationships. Pressures will mount
for concessions all along the line.
First, a non-aggression declara
tion, next a summit conference,
then other concessions which will
not add up to a solution of the
problems, but will result in a
tragic shift of strategic superior
ity to Communist hands.
Wishful thinkers view the
highly publicized Moscow-Peiping
dispute as a fundamental split in
Communist ranks. This is simply
not true. Realistically, it concerns
in no way whether America and
the West shall be buried. Only in
dispute are the subsidiary ques
tions of: How? and When?
United States progress in high
yield 30 to 100 megaton weapons
will be paralyzed at a time when
the Soviets have already achieved
this capability. Our consequent in
ability to mete out destruction to
Soviet military installations with
more powerful warheads will de
crease the credibility of our deter
rent force in. direct ratio to in
creases in Soviet base hardening.
As Soviet bases harden progress
ively, we will be left threatening
only empty launching pads and
indestructible fortifications.
Additionally, the partial test
ban will either greatly slow down
or paralyze completely our pro
gress in anti-missile defense. The
Soviets claim to have solved the
anti-missile defense problem and
they are no doubt telling the
truth about this.
The absence of American anti
missile capability permits the
Soviet first strike, surprise attack
to get through, destroy our det
errent forces before they can be
put in operation an dthus further
reduce our power to deter Soviet
button pushers with a credible
threat to impose unacceptable, re
taliatory damage upon their coun
try.
The partial test ban treaty will
introduce a completely new hazard
and risk of “surprise abrogation.”
This is the situation where, under
the cover of treaty, Russian nu
clear weapons scientists might be
put to work intensively in many
clandestine laboratories behind
the secrecy of the Iron Curtain.
Such a period of preparation in
secret which might last for years,
our own laboratory work would
have deteriorated in quality and
quantity; and the net effect would
give the Soviets a large jump a-
head which might well give them
the decisive nuclear superiority.
Under such conditions, we could
expect at the worst a “nuclear
Pearl Harbor” and at best a “sur
render or die” ultimatum.
We can be certain that the rel
ative weakening of our own mil
itary might will encourage Com
munists leaders to intensify ef
forts in the cold war areas of con
flict between East and West.
This weakening is ceriain to ac
celerate, rather than decelerate
efforts of other countries to ob
tain their own national nuclear
deterrent capabilities. Up to now,
the policy our country has follow
ed against dissemination of nu
clear weapons to numerous coun
tries has been a matter of nat
ional discretion. The proposed
treaty will commit us to that pol
icy, even though future events
may dictate we change it; the
treaty would prevent us from us
ing our own judgment in the
matter without serious interna
tional complications.
As the test ban treaty saps our
deterrent capabilities, Europeans
will become less and less inclined
to follow our leadership. The dis
solution of NATO could result.
This has been one of Khrushchev’s
priority objectives for years. If
the Soviets can drive a wedge be
tween the nations in NATO, it
would be a victory for Commun
ism.
Recent Marriages
Milton Dennis and Judi Diane
Morris of Prosperity, were mar
ried by Rev. George E. Strait at
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(LABOR DAY)
Being a Legal Holiday
The Institutions Listed Below Will Not Be
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The public is urged to take notice of this and
arrange all business accordingly.
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The South Carolina National Bank
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The State Building & Loan Assn.
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