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...Hiwassee River in Calhoun, Tenn. last week, the South passed an important milestone in its fast industrial growth. The milestone: dedication of a $60 million newsprint plant that will provide 750 jobs and an important outlet for one of Dixie's most abundant natural resources-southern pine. Outside the long, low buildings, some 450 visiting publishers and their wives inspected a giant man-made pond, as big as the Yale Bowl and capable of storing 30,000 cords of wood under water to guard against decay. Inside, they looked over two huge papermaking machines producing at the rate...
Then Yale Theology Professor Robert L. Calhoun, a Congregationalist, rose to speak for the more here-and-now point of view commonly found in the U.S. What is often called "American activism." said Calhoun, owes its origins partly to "frontier evangelism . . . among the log cabins, in the forests and prairies . . . [with] little use for theological subtlety," and partly to the "social gospel" that came with the "growth of cities, industrialization, scientific and technical advance and development of state-supported schools and universities that exclude dogmatic religious instruction...
Rebel Rose, by Ishbel Ross (Harper; $4), tells the fascinating story of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a Maryland beauty whose charm helped her into highest Washington society, and whose Dixie devotion landed her in jail as a Confederate spy. Her political mentor was Calhoun. "Wild Rose" picked up such valuable information that President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee expressed their thanks to her. But Allan Pinkerton, head of the Chicago detective agency, finally caught her with some elementary spy work of his own (he peered through a window of her Washington home, saw a Union officer hand...
SOUTHERN NEWSPRINT production will be stepped up by the opening of one of the South's biggest newsprint mills. From fast-growing southern pine, Britain's Bowaters Southern Paper Corp.'s new, $60 million plant at Calhoun, Tenn. will turn out 130,000 tons of newsprint and 55,000 tons of kraft pulp a year. More than 100 Southern publishers have signed up to buy the mill's entire output for the next 15 years...
...reign of the great sectional leaders of American politics did not pass with Calhoun, Webster and Clay. One of the most powerful in history died just last year: Robert A. Taft. The Republican parties of the twenty-odd states that make up the heartland of America followed him to the point of devotion. Because of this it was he, more than any other man, who stopped the New Deal dead in its tracks after the Second World War and begrudged the nation a bipartisan policy of world leadership...