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CLINTON. S. THURSDAY. JULY 10. 1958
Crime Is Crime
The FBI reports that last year juveniles
under 18 accounted for an astounding 47.2
]ht com of all the people airested for suph
major crimes as murder, rape, robbery, ag
gravated assault, and so on.
This grim hit of information caused the
Wall Street Journal to inquire into the pos
sible causes behind the soaring juvenile
crime rate. One. it believes, lies in* the in-
. reased assumption by the state of respon
sibility for children and the consequent les
sening of parental responsibility— that is
"the schools now undertake to teach things
that ought to he taught at home.” And the
emphasis-on-the progressive theory of edu
cation has undoubtedly undermined .self-dis-
cipHne and respect for authority. »
The Journal also points to another far-
reaching change, in our society: ‘‘Somehow
we have allowed the age of a criminal to so !
tip the balance that a'hideous crime by a per
son old enough to vote l>ecomes the bewild
ered act of an unfortunate child if he is young
enough to fit within the juvenile laws. Can
it l»e that this attitude of softness is itself an
invitation to juvenile crime?”
Society, in self-defense if for no other rea
son. will have to realize that crime is crime,
no matter what the age of the offender, and
act accordingly. To quote the Journal again,
there will be small chance of improvement in
this intolerable situation . . . “until young
sters are held more responsible for their
crimes and until parents again become more
responsible for their youngsters.”
The Anti-Government
Competition Act
How can we materially cut the cost of gov
ernment without imperilling or eliminating
any activity which the country really needs?;
There is one good answer to that all-im
portant question. It is this: By getting the
government out of tax-exempt business-type
activities which can and should be carried on
by taxpaying private enterprise.
Bills designed to do just that are now* pend
ing in both House and Senate. They are
known as the Anti-Government Competition
Act, and they would direct all the federal
agencies to get out and stay out of most bus
iness-type activities not specifically author
ized by statutes.
In a letter to members urging support of
these bills, the President of the Chamber of
Commerce of Del Rio, Texas, said: “Our free
enterprise system depends on you and me.
Its very life is being snuffed out by subsidiz
ed government com petit ion.” That is not an
exaggeration — government has gone into
business on a far greater scale than is gen
erally understood, and the cost to the tax
payers runs far into the billions. Congress
could do no greater sendee to the country
than to reverse that trend.
There is something hidden and far
more sinister back of the Sherman
Adams vicuna coat sensation than
has been put, or is likely to be put,
on public display.
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Compared with the multi-ntillion
dollar a year racket engaged in by
several hundred professional in
fluence peddlers, the vicuna coat and
other gratuities bestowed on Adams
by Boston industrialist Bernard
Goldfine are strictly peanuts.
Goldfine undoubtedly was follow-*
ing what he believed to be a normal
practice of getting what he wanted
in Washington. Adams was accomo
dating a long-time, generous feiend.
Both were, to say the least, in
discreet.
The number of people who make
a fat living as Washington ‘‘repre
sentatives'’ is not known, but a
generally accepted estimate is be
tween 5,000 and 6,000. That does
not include the 500 or more associa
tions and organizations maintaining
legitimate representatives of their
interests.
Many Are Phonies
The influence peddlers operate
behind the scenes, and they have
lavish expense accounts. They claim
to “know the right people,” or to be
able to get legislation passed through
devious methods. Many of them are
100 per cent phonies.
At an example, a few yeara ago
we knew a lawyer who had nothing
to do with getting a new tax formula
adopted, but who looked over hit
list of clients the new formula would
help and billed them for up to
$45,000 each. He collected.
In more than 20 years of close
association with congressmen and
administrative officials wc have
knowh only a handful of govern
ment officials who would yield to
influence. The vast majority resent
efforts to influence their actions.
«
('•ongrrms Should InvcNtigute
Congress has spent millions of
dollars investigating all kinds of
business and labor racketeering.
Numerous committees have held
extensive hearings, both in Wash
ington and across the country.
Some of their findings have made
headlines.
But some of the worst racketeer
ing in the country goes on right
under the noses of congressmen.
Many of the influence peddlers are
known to the congressmen, al
though not favorably.
These racketeers operate within
the law, or at least within the shadow
of it. Quite a few former congress
men have become Washington
representative^ who legitimately sell
their intimate knowledge of how
Congress operates.
The practice of selling influence
is far more widespread than the re
latively innocent giving of gratuities.
Most of the latter are simply an ex- -
pression of appreciation for hocest
performance of duty by a govern
ment official.
There is need for some code of
ethics, however, which public
officials can follow as a guide in
accepting entertainment and gifts
from those with whom they deal
in the performance of their duties.
partmmt at ( Union High School
July 7 nnd I.
Mrs. Roily Bannister,
plained the purpose of the
was to acquaint each officer and
chairman with her duties and re
sponsibilities in the organisation
Luncheon was served at midday
In the afternoon each chairman
worked on committer activities for
the coming year. •
'V Burnett
Dies Near Joanna
Joanna — Funeral services for
Johnnie R. Burnett, 15, who died
Friday night at his home near Jo
anna after several months of ill
ness, were conducted Sunday at
4:00 p. m. at the Joanna Baptist
Church by the Rev. J. B. Mitchell
and the Rev. Allen Wertz. Burial
was in Rosemont cemetery.
Pallbearers were Furman Camp-
t>ell, Donny Devare, Brantley Bish
op, Donny Brown, Wayne Crouch,
Julian Adams, Jimmy Johnson,
J
Jerry R
of J. L. Abrams, D. V.
Wright. Jr„ Dr. D. H. McFadden,
L. Z. Willingham. Billy Nabors,
Walt Rice. Norman Case, J. &. Me-
Minn and Ansel McMinn
Surviving are his parents,- Mr.
and Mrs. James R. (Margaret
Hughes) Burnett of near Joanna; a
brother, Tommie Burnett of the
home: his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Burnett, Sr.,‘ of Clinton;
Ralph Hughes of Joanna; and Mrs.
life.
Ida Fowler of Texas
He was a native of Lai
ty where he spent hii
He had attended the Jc _
and was a member of the ninth
grade at Clinton High School.
He was a nephew of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Burnett and Mr. and
Mrs ^red Burnett. Jr., of Clinton.
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Funeral Services
For Mrs. Holland On
Sunday Afternoon
Work Break
The folkiwmg memxirandum wap written
hv a frustrated buaineaa man who thought
hi* employe* weren't woriung a* hard aa they
might
“Due to imTcaaed competition and a keen
ilnure to remain m buaineaa. we find it necea-
%an to matitute a new polKT-EFFWTIVE
IMMEDIATELY!
“We are aakmg that auenewhere between
starting and quitting time, and without in*
fringing too much •*» the time uaunDy denot
ed to lunch penod. atory toiling, coffee
f reak*. re*t period*, ticket aelling. the re-
hashing of veaterdaya TV programa. and
dimuaaion of engagement nnga. that
rmpk>\ e try to find some time that can be set
a*Hie and known a* WORK BREAK/
"To some, thia may seem a radical
turn. But we honestly believe the idea
great puasibilitiea. It can conceivably be an
aid to Steady employment, and it
fie a means of assuring steady
While the adoption of the 'WORK BREAK*
plan ia not compulsory. w * hope each
will fmd time to give it a fair trial.”
Beaver Falls, Pa., News-Tribune: “Gov
ernment financing is puzzling to the average
citizen under any circumstances. It is espe- ^un^al service* for Mrs Mattie
rmlly difficult trying to figur, out how uxe., £
could be cut. more billions spent and the temoon at 5 $o. ronduoted b> the
Rev! H D Taylor aad the Rev
George H Hodges Burial was in
Lees ville
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v nurvn
j Mr* Holland, the widow of Tha-
ma* Hampton Holland died at
11 70 P ni , Saturday at Blalock
Clinic after *everal years of de
clining health and a mtcial
of three
Budget balanced all at one time.
SENSING THE NEWS
By THURMAN SENSING
Southern Methodist
Training Day For
Clinton F. H. A/s
The officers and committee mem
bers of the Clinton F. H. A. chap
ter met in the Home Economics De
MIDWAY
CLINTON. S. C.
An Unsung Hero
A medical missionary named Roy C«.n>ell
i* one of the unsung heroes of America.
Everybody should know about him. but few
have ever heard his name.
In the spring of 1967 Dr. Cornell was prac
ticing in the new Seventh Day Adventiat mis
sion hospital he had helped to construct in
Benghazi. Libya. This was the realization of
a dream he had had since student days in
Seattle—the dream of serving mankind in
Africa.
Fearing that the missionaries and their
children at Benghazi might contract paraly
tic polio (the native population had a high de-
FRI. & SAT. JULY 11-12
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ANTHONY GEORGE
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Mem to be ronfiiMd to the leodenhip of
liucal pony—os to Jwt what pnttgate
will do for me.
Pint, the idea wot to rebuild the world from the
ra\ag« of the Second World War with American do!
Ian. Then it was to gain friends and influence peo
pies, to strengthen allies in a common defense ogams!
communism, to win the cold war—which at times is |
not so cold. Then—and just lately—the main idea.
seems to be that we must continue to borrow at least
$4 billion a year and increase our debt by that
amount and give the money away in order that the
money may perhaps be spent here and thus sustain i
what seems to be our slipping economy.
Our political leaders tell us we must continue to
do this or our economic condition would worsen ra
pidly, that millions of American jobs depend on what
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gree of natural immunity) Dr. Cornell order-j we borrow to spend on foreign aid. If, say, the jobs
ed a shipment of Salk vaccine from the Unit
ed States. When it came he discovered that
it was one dose short. - *
Somebody at the Banghazi mission had to
forego vaccination. Dr. Cornell decided that
that somebody should be himself.
* On May 19, 1957, he was stricken with
acute paralytic polio. He lost even the power
to speak or breathe and was kept alive in an
iron lung. ‘
Last summer*he was flown to the March
of Dimes-supported Northwest Respirator
Center in Seattle. Though hia dream of serv
ing mankind has turned to^shes, he is still
unvanquished in spirit as he makes the gruel
ling fight to recover whatever muscle power
t here may still be left in hia body. ,
You do not have to make Dr. CorneU’s de
cision. Today, in America, there ia enough
Salk vaccine for everybody. You can get pro
tection against polio pnralyaia without hero
ism or pan> and at
of four million American workers depend on $4 bil
lion in foreign aid, as is claimed, why not triple our
foreign aid and wipe out all unemployment in the
United States? Why not give away $40 billion in dol
lars and goods -each year and create untold prospe
rity in this country? How crazy can we get?
The inflation facing us in the years as a result of
our increasing debt, our deficit financing, our artifi
cial “easy money” policy, our "give away” andL “wet
nursing” the world policy, our attitude of demand
ing welfare state benefits for which we are not wil
ling to pay, is terrible to contemplate. Under such
policies, inflation is sure and certain, and neither
the nation nor its people can, escape the penalty.
i We have heard at times (jfver the years, and will
no doubt continue to hear at times, that the danger
of inflation is no longer with us, but without a com
plete reformation in character of our political lead
ership—which is extremely unlikely—such a state
ment will simply not be so. The reason such reforma
tion is unlikely is because government, as such, as
Thomas Jefferson pointed out in our early days, is
that cannot be trusted, it must always be
the control of the people
» people of this country lost that central mi im
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