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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Oct. 5, 1967 THE MANION FORUM Ry MARILYN MANION 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in advance Six months $1.25. COMMENT on Men & Things By J. K. BREEDIN Well, it appears that almost o\i ryhody is on strike, except the M imsters; and they, C'ath- ulic, Protestant, Jewish, and all others are still at work, very still you might say. Hven the teachers are on strike in many places. I, a former t eaeh- er, m both ordinary si diools and colleges, tmver imagined a ,t! .k e by teachers. Well why net ? If all « d a s s e s of iaboi , skill rd, llli.-kii led, and all else, may go on s trike \v h y s Imu Id t lie teachers not strike? I den’! : approve it, but this is a day of weak loyalties; a n d that seems to apply to most. But, frankly s peaking and fair- ly the great mass of office woi'l- ,ers don’t go on strik e, so far as I know. K\ •en so. Th lousands of workers are on st ri k e. That means that tens of thousands of men in related enterprises may be laid off. K Veil SO. Our nation is in a turmoil; a preat part of it is due to the preat (government of the 1’. S. It seems to me that we have deliberately upset the Nation. As we used to say, we havw up set the apple cart. Our entire nation is upset and nervously awaitinp the next wild notion that may inspire the National (lovernment. And this confus ion and misdirection spreads over the Nation, to States, Counties, Towns, Schools and ( 11 i e s. o. for the prand old days of peace and harmony; when we were poor and hard woikmp Today for want of work; most seem to make a motion, but our pi andfathers would disow n n. t of us. The most widespread set- t ever between C. S. school te.,e 1 o rs and their employers a e • ruptinp the start of the sene. , ear. The confrontations are ns : - d by the fiercest teacher in.etancy yet seen, in- ckidinp tiie use in some places of what could prove a potent new barpaininp weapon—the mass n.-ipnation. In Florida, a majority of the teachers ;n four counties have submitted resipnations, and tei munitions from other coun ties are reported poimnp in. A total of . r >i).(KK> Florida teach er.-, pu.ded ly the Florida Fducatioii A Sociation and th.e National Fducat.on Association are confroiitinp state officials w.th an uppiade or sluit down' ultimatum. In New York City, more than a million school children apparently will he without their repular teacheis whin classes stait Monday, as a result of a st nipple between the school board and the I'nit- ed Federation of Teachers un ion o'-er issues ranpinp from salary and teacher assipnment to proiualures for handlmp un ruly students. 1 his week l k 1 officials rejected a proposal for wape and benefit pains total- inp $12') million over 1(1 years. Close to 500,000 Michipan younpsters are still on summer vacation because some 20,000 teachers in 25 communities, in- cludinp Detnut, refused to start work this week atter school boards failed to meet demands for higher wages, smaller classes and shorter school years.” If someone should ask the familiar question—Are we go- inp crazy? We might well say “ \Ye have been crazy some time; it just breaks out in new places now and then.” Verily, verily. And I am speaking seriously. You may recall the woman who named her son “Verily.” When a neighbor expressed sur prise at that name the font mother said “Whv That’s a 1 >iblo name; he was one of the most important men in the days of our Ford. Don’t you remem ber he was very close to the Ford and frequently the Mas ter said: "Verily, Verily, I say unto you.” That’s why I named my boy "Verily.” Suppose theArmy and Navy, tlie Marine Corps and the Air Force should go on strike. Wouldn’t that be a problem? Suppose all the employees of a Power Company should go on strike for a week? There would be thousands of unshaved men, thousands of untouched lips and cheeks, eh? And worse, great plants and small plants would shut down; and thousands of families would have to live on sardines and crackers. Fancy that now. It would be like the days of a poor student who had no money and had to subsist on a few cans of stuff, eh? Perhaps you don’t know about that, but great numbers of boys were hard-up one time. We Americans are the best fed, the most abundantly fed, at any rate, and a heavy meal is regarded as justt that - and nothing else. Down in Cuzco, Peru, a big dinner was expected and fre quently all sat at the table four hou is. 1 lived in Peru 10 years but never sat to that four hour ta ble D is a fact and is not re lated to that story of a banana as large as my leg. 1 had heard quite a bit about such bananas being available in iquitos, but something alwavs intervened to prevent such bananas reach ing me. Incidentally let me tell you mnethmg of the vast Amazon river. It flows many miles thru Peru and in the early days of rubber great ship- came from Fiverponl, across the broad At lantic and then 2700 miles up the Amazon river to Iquitos the great rubber port of early doys. Did you catch that? 2700 miles up the Amazon i v- r During my time m Cajam- area. Peru I had Occasion to cross the Andes mountain on hor ebaek six times, climbing the nartow trail cut at the side of the mountain going up or down We climbed 10,0(H) feet to the tip. Now they have a road in place of the one-horse t rail. Atomic power! That is now the subject of millions for At omic Power is the latest de velopment of power. 1 quote from an article by IF IF Pitkm as carried by Am erican Fegion Magazine, the Veteran's Magazine, you know. "With a quarter century be hind it, the atomic age has run up quite a history of its own without using any more bombs. A simple catalog of the things that atomic energy in various forms is doing, can do today, and is on the verge of doing, could hardly fail to am- AN OLD PROBLEM—AND A TIME-TESTED SOLUTION An ancient specter still haunts the world. Despite man’s mastery of science, hunger today threatens millions of human lives. Some observers predict an unavoid able and devastating famine within the next several years, not only in India, but in other underdeveloped countries as well. “Overpopulation plus un derproduction” is the unlucky combination that is said to produce hunger. What with all of the attention given to re ducing the population explo sion, one is led to conclude that the experts have given up on the problem of production— that their only hope is to reduce the number of people who must eat. But the earth is full of yet untouched natural resources. Is there not some way to de velop these riches in order tc feed the world’s people? A recent guest on the Manion Forum radio program says that, yes, there IS a way Charles B. Shuman, President of the American Farm Bureau Federation, offered this con structive explanation of the food shortage: "If you look around the world to find the places where people are hungry, you almost invariably find that these same countries have adequate nat ural resources to produce all the food that the people need. “India, for instance, could produce enough food to feed all of its millions of people and have an exportable surplus— if they used the resources that they have, the land and the water and the manpower and everything else, in a wa> aze anyone, though a mere list ing would run right out the end of this magazine. Here’s a small sample of the variety such a list would contain: Safely blast a new canal thru Panama at a fraction of the cost of any other excavation method. Find a leak in an under ground pipe. Operate an unmanned radio sea. Fight your home (millions of people around the world who don't realize it are using atomic power every time they flick a switch at home.) Produce millions of gallons per day of fresh water from beacon at the bottom of the sea water cheaply. Preserve a piece of ham at room temperature for half a year. Find and identify a deep tumor, giving the surgeon an exact picture of its size and lo cation—and cure some cancer without surgery. Break up millions of tons of ore deep in the earth for min ing, or shale for the extraction of oil in it. In 25 years, atomic energy has gone far beyond any sim ple notion of it as a source of gnat power. Knergy, whether fast in a bomb or slow in a reactor for a city electric plant or other use, is ony a small part of the story. Yet atomic power production is quite a story. The atomic age began with power, so perhaps we should begin with it too. Two Southern outfits that never had atomic power are starting off with two reactors at once—Florida Power and Light at Turkey Point, Florida, and Duke Power Co. at Clem- son, S. C. The TVA plans three at Decati r, Ala. Only a fev r years ago, if was felt that atomic power would never compete in cost with coal and oil forpublic power production.” which would get the maximum production. “This causes you, then, to try to find out why they don’t get production in a country that’s rich with soil and min eral and other resources like India. The only conclusion that you can come up with is that India has devoted itself to a system of government manage ment of agriculture and of the economy that’s copied very much after the Soviet system. This management reduces in centives that come when you have free production on the part of farmers looking for profit in the market. “I have said that Socialism and hunger are twin brothers. Everywhere you go, you find this to be true in the world to day. It’s only where markets are allowed to function and where incentive of profit, and the danger of loss both, are free to operate, that you get adequate production for human needs. They can’t do it by plan ning. The only way they can do it is by letting the free forces of the market operate, as well as the incentives that free men have to gain by their production. Here is something that many observers have noted about the agriculture of many of the countries that are not pro ducing enough food for their own people: When they have price controls, a price-ceiling imposed by the government the farmer tends to hang on to his little tract of land and t° produce for his family and his relatives who gather around him. But he uses his extra time, NOT to produce food, but to work in other occupa tions which will reward him better for his time. The result is that they reduce and strangle food production by trying to produce only for their own needs.” Free enterprise, in other words, is a proven system un der which food CAN be pro duced in sufficient abundance to feed a nation. Perhaps the “experts” ought to consider it. WITH COUNTY Mrs. Betty Werts has accept ed a position as clerk in the office of the County Treasurer. She was formerly employed at S. C. National Bank. Vet students get increase Veterans now in school will soon receive automatic in creases in their G. I. Bill edu cation checks, J. H. Wither spoon, Adjudication Officer of the Columbia Veterans Admin istration Regional Office, an nounced today. Effective October 1, the new amounts will be included ill checks scheduled to arrive in November. The rate increases were pro vided in Public Law 90-77, signed last month by the pres ident. Single veterans taking full-time courses have been in creased from $100 to $130, vet erans with one dependent from $125 to $155, and veterans with two dependents from $150 to $175. An additional $10 will be provided monthly for each dependent in excess of two. Proportionately smaller al- lo-wances will be paid for part- time training, Witherspoon said. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Oct. 8: Barbara Susan Sheeley, Collier Neel, Jr., Hoyt Boland, Colie Hogge, Ralph Griffith. Oct. 9: David Senn, Guy V. Whitener, Sr., Mrs. George P. Boozer, Gene Epting, Vera C. Creekmore, Mildred Werts. Oct. 10: Mrs. Sarah Wall ace, Mrs. W. L. Buzhardt, Geo rge Moore, Frank R. Ruff, Bruce Graham. Oct. 11: Mrs. A. H. Dick- ert, Bill Attaway, William E. Dufford, Mrs. Trudie Epting, W. C. Dorroh. Oct. 12: Elbert C. Umg, J. E. Wiseman, Sr., Mrs. Carl Shealy, Paul H. Long, Martha Moore Summer, David Schum- pert. Oct. 13: Steve Griffith Mrs. K. L. Martin, Virgil W. Rinehart, W. H. Ashbaugh, Mack Montgomery, Estelle Martin, Mrs. Mattie L. Fellers. Oct. 14: David Lee Gart ner, Mrs. 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Mrs. H. 0. Hentz, Mrs. Woff ord Cooper, Murray Shull. 4.50 s CURRENT DIVIDEND Insurance of building and loan sav ings accounFs ceiling increased to $15,000 \\ e pay you to save at State Building and Loan . . . and the pay is getting better all the time. Th# STATE Building & Loan Association 1117 Boyce Street Newberry, S. C. Dial 276-5660 Ralph B. Baker Pinckney N. Abrams Louis C. Floyd Thomas H. Pope R. Aubrey Harley