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A good name_i;—i;:“—e:_t;; precious ol;tme,nt,
and the day of death than the day of ones birth.—
—FEecclesiastes 7:1.
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washingten Correspondent
WASHINGTON. — (NEA) — A preview on the
fac.s of life in 1975 has just been made by Presi
dent Truman’s Materials Policy Commission. This
tive-man group headed by William S. Paley of Co
lumbia Broadcasting Company has had a staff of
over 100 experts at work for 15 months.
Its job has been to make a long-range survey on
V. S. requirements, shortages, supply and demand
for such basie materials as steel, copper, lead and
wine, electrie power and petroleum products, coal,
gas and timber.
The Paley Commission report, covering 800 pages
tn five huge volumes, will be sold by Government -
Printing Oftice for $6.25 a set. But for other reasons
than its high price, it will probably be ignored more
than #t deservey, It ls released just when Congress
is trying o adjourn and when politics and Ingrid
Berman’e twins are the only subjects of popular
interest.
The far-reaching Paley Commission recommenda
tions for conservation practices, new legislation on
import policies, the need for greater technological
research &nd prospecting for new sources of mate
rials will probably be criticized as another Truman
«f ort to bring “planning” into the economy.
But when, in the next 25 years, materials short
aces are even worse than they are today, the Paley
Commission reports may be dug up and used as
they should be. :
RECOMMENDS AGENCY TO TAKE ACTION
While the Paley Commission goes out of exist
en-e when it hands its report to the President, Mr,
Paley says that he for one intends to try to keep
the subject alive. He believes that some govern
ment agency like National Security Resources
Board should immediately start to carry out various
vecommendations that require no congressional
aciion.
Industry groups, trade associations and private
vas=arch organizations like Ford Foundation have
also expressed an interest in further studies and
action to see that the U. S. is not caught short on
iuture supplies of energy and basic materials.
The Paley Commission . forecast projections on
v a‘erials demand start with the U. S. Bureau of
Coansus estimates that U. S. population in 1975 will
be about 193 million. This is an increase of 40 mil
lion in 25 years. The number of families will be
in-reased from today’s 43 million to over 62 mil
lion.
This is interpreted to mean that 19 million new
houses and apartments must be built in the next 25
years. Considering replacenvent of old housing, it
means & need of up to 1.8 million new dwelling
units a year. This compares with the peak of 1.4
million new units in 1950.
In automobiles, it is assumed that the number_of
cars will increase from today’s average of one car
for every three adults to one car for every two to
two and & half adults.
That means 62 million cars on the road by 1975.
It means annual automobile production of up to 7.5
mrillion cars a year, as compared to the 6.6 million
manufactured in 1950.
CONSUMER DEMAND WILL BE DOUBLED
If consumer expenditures for durable goods and
household appliances like air conditioners and
dishwashers continue to increase at present rates,
the demand for them will be 50 percent greater in
1975 than today. The possibility of two TV sets in
the average home is mentinned.
The use of materials by railroads is projected as
increasing by 100 percent in the next 25 years. But
for such new-fangled things as aircraft, plastics
and synthetic fibers, the economists give up. There
is no basis for forecasting how much their use will
grow in the next generation. The only thing possi
ble is a rough guess that these industries mray in
crease by as much as 400 percent in 25 years.
With 82 million workers in the U. S. labor force,
instead of today’s 62 million, it is estimated that
the average work week will be about 15 percent
less than it is today, or 34 hours instead of 40.
Productivity per worker is expected to increase
at the rate of 2% percent a year, or 62'%2 percent
over the 25-year period.
All this increased production means that the
amount of industrial materials “chewed up” may
be nearly doubled by 1975. The rates vary from 10
percent more timber to 40 percent more agricul~
tural products and 2,000 percent more magnesium.
Demand for energy of all forms—electric power,
coal and petroleum products—is expected to dou
ble.
The Paley Commission made no attempt to pre
dict what the 1975 wage levels would be. But a
number of factors are cited to indicate that the
price of everything will be higher,
There are certain things huppening in this coun
try that are right down the alley that M. Stalin
wants us to go. Let’s stop it.—President Harry 8.
Truman.
World situation is called a cold war. Even so, it
could use a draft of pure, fresh air,
Shorter and more frequent marriages boeom busi
ness for jewelersf But they do not promote sale of
golden wedding gifts.
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Fitting Men, Issues To Labels
Sidetracks Realistic Thinking
More and more it becomes a necessity to speak
out against thinking in terms of labels, of thrusting
men and issues into neat [iles. Surely this is the
great temptation in a time when we are besieged
by chaos on every hand. Still it is a lure we mrust
try to resist.
There are really no simple men, fitting easily into
well-marked categories. We are all a great mixture,
driven by cemplex motives, some of which we may
not realize ourselves. Most of the things we do have
a powerful emotional basis, though we always
manage to find a rational explanation for our be
havior.
For example, President Truman today finds himr
self the champion of many causes which he be
lieves deserves the “liberal” label, But Mr. Tru
man’s personal history makes it thoroughly appar
ent that in many basic respects he is one of the
most conservative of men. Any effort to character
ize the President by a few simple strokes of the pen
is doomed to utter failure.
He may have simple tastes, live by what he re
gards as a simple code, and give others an impres
sion the very opposite of a complex nature. Yet he
is not a simple man to gauge.
Nor is Senator Taft, or General Eisenhower, or
Bernard M. Baruch, or Charles E. Wilson of Gen
eral Electric.
If we try to dispose of these men mentally by
tabbing them as if they were to be tucked into a
file cabinet with a sort of elemental precision, we
will only be misled. We cannot measure our publie
figures, or anyone we know, so easily.
By the sanre token, we cannot wade through the
great issues that dominate our present day lives,
slapping on labels right and left. So“prevalent has
this practice become that some men now are out
raged when solutiong proposed to particular prob
lems do not fit readily into the categories they have
established in their minds.
There was a time, just after World War 11, when
a lot of people had the juvenile audacity to suggest
that anyone who did not favor Henry Wallace for
secretary of commerce was thereby an enemy of
full employment.
The Truman administration now likes to suggest
that anybody who doesn’t favor FEPC cannot pos
sibly wish equality of opportunity for people of all
races; that anybody who wants to keep the essence
of the Taft-Hartley act is automatically anti-labor;
that anybody who doesn’t like the government’s
health plan is in favor of sickness.
Now it is just possible that sound-thinking men
might devise solutions in these major fields which
depart in important ways from the things symbol
ized by those celebrated labels.
Similarly, a good many Republicans want to make
the “Truman-Acheson foreign policy” a ternr of
complete contempt, and to treat with scorn, if not
as an out-and-out traitor, anyone who suggests this
policy was less than a disaster to the nation. Yet
important features of that poiicy were first enacted
by the Republican 80th Congress, to the high credit
of thta body.
1t is time to say that thinking in labels isn’t really
thinking at all. It's not even & good substitute. All
that we achieve by this capsule technique is to con
tuse people, to divert them from the underlying
realities, to misinform them about the men and
issues they must judge accurately if they are to
govern themselves well. i
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Outranks Pentagon
The Pentagon has decided that the rule against
military men participating in political activity does
not apply to a man on inactive status, like General
MacArthur.
We may never know whether this edict is based
upon the sober good sense of the Pentagon, or upon
what is often reported to be the fear that even
high-ranking officers there are said to hold of Mac-
Arthur.,
Since the venerable general outranks them all,
telling him what he can or cannot do is something
like school pupils advising teacher there will be no
class tomorrow.
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Tips For Tanners
Recognizing that getting a coat of tan is now as
much a health fad as taking vitamins, various how
to-keep-well columnists and health authorities
continue to issue official and semi-official tips for
tanners. The advice invariably is accomrpanied by
warnings that the invisible ultra violet rays, which
do the tanning, also have the power to burn and
that such a burn does not differ in quality or pos
sible serious consequences from one caused by
scalding water or stearn. .
“Natural blonds,” says one medical savant, mak
ing a distinction between the real and the syn
thetic, “and red heads in general burn more readily
than others because of their more delicate slin.
Brunettes tan more easily than they burn, There
are persons with extremely sensitive skins who
should expose themselves to as little direct sun
light as possible.”
Urging moderation, a columnist suggests that sun
should be taken in small doses of not more than
ten minutes at first,
I would like to see the Constitution and the Dec
laration of Independence hung in every schoolroom
as constant reminders of our rich heritage. — Mrs.
Oscar Ahlgren, president of the Generdl Federation
of Women's Clubs.
Forced to jump out of ihe way of a speeding au
tomobile, a Connecticut citizen followed the driver
to a parking lot and punched him in the eye. The
worm is turning.
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
|deal Atomic Communify Actually
Isn't The Surface Dream It Seems
By HAL BOYLE
LOS ALAMOS, N. M. -——(AP)
—There is no cemetery here in the
birthplace of the atom bomb.
That fact is a clue to the biggest
defect of living in a government
built community that is ideal in
many ways.
As one of the 12,800 workers in
this heart center of America’s
atomic weapon research put it:
“People come, people go. But no
body really feels it is home. Very
few expect to die here, and I guess
that is why there isn't any com
etery.”
Unusual Community -
Los Alamos today is perhaps the
most unusual community in the
nation. When it was conceived in
1945 it was though it would never
grow beyond a population of 700.
Now it is a small city of nearly
13,000 scientists and technicians,
sprawling over several mesas in an
isolated, 86,000-acre, closely-guard
ed reservation in the Jemez Moun
tains of northern New Mexico. It
is still growing rapidly, anß work
is under way on a new $l2O mil
lion laboratory.
The chief industry of this stran
ge city is to develop better instru
ments for widespread atomic death
yet by most yardsticks of sociology
it is a dream city.
There are no slums here, There
is no unemployment. The city has
a fine school system. It has won
derful recrecation facilities, in
cluding a baseball field, swimming
pool, ice skating rink, ski lift, and
its own small symphony orchestra.
Unlike most other cities through
out the land, it has no major park
ing problem. The crime rate is un
believably low. The intelligence
level of its citizens is perhaps the
highest achieved by any city in
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history. At least 28 have earned
Ph. D. degrees.
There are more than 80 social
and professional organization.
There are 14 organized church
- groups. .
The happy shouts of children
and the barking of dogs ring ac
ross the neat, well-tended lawns
all day long.
Claims To Fame
“We are famous for babies dogs
and bombs—in that order,” one
Atomic Energy Commission em
ploye said. “This is a wonderful
place to raise children, and we
have one of the highest birth
rates in the country.
“About 15 per cent of the pop
lation is under five years of age.
The average age here is 25—eight
years younger than the national
average, which is 33. There are
:(r)xly about 410 persons here over
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Why, then, isn’t Los Alamos a
perfect place to live? Is it be
cause the families here feel they
dwell in a guarded fishbowl?
“No, not any more,” one em
ploye said. “There people have
learned to live with secrecy, and
it is no longer the shadow over
them that it was a few years ago.
“As a matter of fact, those who
live here now are about equally
divided over whether they like or
dislike it. There is a shortage of
housing, and families have to wait
their turn to move into the dis
trict which has the best homes.”
This district is known locally as
“Snob Hill” by those who don’t
live there. ;
A major source of discontent is
that nobody can own his own hom2
in Los Alamos. He can only rent
it from the government. Many
workers leave because of this.
They want to settle down in a
place where they can own their
own house.
Airline Official
Believes Added
Routes Needed
WASHINGTON June 25 —(AP)
—An airline consultant testified
Tuesday there is a growing need
for short of feeder airline service
in Mississippi, South Carolina and
other Southern states.
James A. Ray, Washington, tes
tified in the case in which South
ern Airways Inc., Atlanta, seeks
renewal of its authority to provide
air service to some 30 towns in six
Southern states.
It also is asking an extension
of its feeder service to include
Pensacola and Panama City, Fla,,
and Dothan, Ala.
In addition several towns in the
area are asking service by South
ern. These include Monroe, La.,
Greenwood, Miss., and Auburn,
Opelika, Ala., and Rock Hill, Ches
ter, Columbia, and Aiken, S, C.
In the proceedings before the
Civil Aeronautics Board, Eastern
Air Lines opposes Southern’s ap
plication and Delta Air Lines op
poses some of the proposed ex
tensions.
The hearing is before CAB Ex
aminer Fredinand Moran, who will
made recommendations to the
board. Previously he conducted
hearings in the case in Birming
ham.
Ray testified that Mississippi,
South Carolina, and other South
ern states are developing indus
trially and commercially and need
connecting air service. This need,
he said, is growing.
Before Ray testified William L.
Rice, chief traffic supervisor for
the Atomic Energy Commission,
supported the petition of Aiken for
air service. He said air service
would be a great help to supervi
sory officials of the AFC Savan
nah River Plant.
Asks Rate Hik
ATLANTA, June 25 —(AP)—
The Georgia Power Company
Monday asked the Public Service
Commission for rate increases up
to 10.5 per cent.
The utility’s appeal was a re
opening of a rate case pending be
fore the Commission since June
22, 1981
At that time the company asked
—and the commission denied—
rate increases to effect increased
operating expenses.
The rate schedule which the
company wants to put into effect
would hike the bills of residential
uvsers by 10.5 per cent. Industrial
users would pay 10 per cent more
and commercial customers 2.6 per
cent.
Harlee Branch jr., utility presi
dent, said that since the commis
sion last declined a rate hike, the
company’s operating expenses’
have increased considerably.
Branch said a new wage agree
ment with employes hiked payroll
costs by $1.200,000 annually and
that two recent freight rate in
creases alone would cost $260,000.
The power company chief exe
cutive also noted that the firm is
embarked on a 130 million dol
lar expansion to be completed in
1954.
L. M. Shadgett, Vice President
and Athens Division Manager of
the Georgia Power Company said
Tuesday that no big block of the
expansion figure would be used in
the Athens Division.
“The only part of these funds
now scheduled to be used in Ath
ens will be for normal develop
ment and expansion,” said Mr.
Shadgett.
Branch said the company
planned to issue 42 million in
stocks and bonds by January, 1953,
and that without *“seme reasonable
assurance of adequate earnings the
company cannot raise this needed
capital at reasonable rates.”
He estimated that the proposed
rate increase would produce $4,-
620,000 annually and that taxes
would consume $2,503,000 of this.
For small consumers using less
than 20 kilowatt hours a month,
Branch continued, the rate 'would
be unchanged.
For customers using 40 kilo
watt hours a month under the new
rate, the cost would be SI.BO, or
five cents more than at present.
For 100 kilowatt hours the in
crease would be from $3.36 to
$3.70, or 35 cents, and for 250 kilo
watt hours the increase would be
from $5.85 to $6.45, or 6 cents.
A flat increase of 30 cents per
month in water heater rates for
all but minimum use customers is
proposed.
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SALE!
We have the following reliable
Used Cars on our lot at reduced
prices:
1949 Ford Deluxe Club Coupe; clean and in
good condition, excellent transportation.
1949 Nash 600 2-door Sedan; radio, heater,
overdrive, one local owner, excellent con.
dition, low cost operation at a reasonable
price.
1946 Ford Station Wagon; radio, heater, good
condition throughout, extia removable
seat — you can carry all your vacation
needs in this one.
1951 Plymouth Cranbrook 4-door Sedan: low
mileage, like new, buy this one at 2 sav
ing.
1950 Ford Panel Truck "2 Ton; heater, above
the average condition, just the thing for
delivery service.
1946 Chrysler Windsor Club Coupe; radio,
heater, automatic trans, new paint, a
nice car with miles of service ahead.
1949 Chrysler Windsor Club Coupe; radio,
heater, automatic trans, we delivered
this one new.
1948 Oldsmobile Club Sedan; radio, heater,
hydramatic trans, one owner, low mile
age, in excellent condition.
1947 DeSoto Custom 4-door; radio, heater,
seat covers clean and in fine condition,
this one will give many miles of trouble
free service and the price is right.
1946 Packard Clipper Deluxe Coupe Sedan:
radio and heater, good condition, priced
to sell.
1946 DeSoto Custom 2-door; radio, heater, au
tomatic trans, good condition thrughout.
1949 Chrysler Royal Club Coupe; radio, heater,
seat covers, automatic trans, one local
owner, excellent condition, be sure and
see this one.
1946 Ford Tudor; radio, heater, seat covers
new paint, a nice looking car at a low
price.
1949 Dodge Coronet 4-door; radio, heater, seat
covers, automatic trans, new paint. You
must see this one to appreciate it.
We can fill your vacation transportation
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234 W. Hancock Ave.
Phone 2736
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1952