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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Clinton, S. Thursday, August IS, If Cloak of Deception It would be a grave — perhaps fatal — error for any citizen of the United States, whether he is black or white, red or yellow, to accept the idea that the basic purpose of the so-called “Civil Rights Bill of 1963” is to eradicate racial discrimination. This legislation is ten percent civil rights and 90 percent extension of Federal control And it is fair to presume that the Administration" presents this bill at this Time and goes all out in pressing Congress for its adoption in the expectation that the current racial hysteria will provide a cloak to obscure its true significance. Under this cloak of civil rights, the President is seeking power: . Power to control every home, every school, every business, every farm, every bank — every citizen who owns a share of stock or casts a vote. . Power to call, foreclose or refuse loans; to exclude individuals and businesses from Federal programs, activities, subsi dies, benefits — and without notice of hearing. . Power to tell the owners of every business whom they may hire, fire, pro mote or demote. . Power to blacklist banks, contractors, schools, businesses and individuals — all without notice of hearing. These are vast powers, far more sweep ing and arbirtrary than any President has ever before sought in our history. If Con gress, in the fearsome shadows cast by that cloak of civil rights, grants these powers, it will have curtailed the tradition- spearhead its infiltration of Latin Ameri ca.” Opr gifts to the Poles, he says, ‘‘en abled them to send flS-million worth of aid to Castro’s Cuba and $16-million worth to North Vietnam . . The latter is said to include arms for shooting American sol diers in South Vietnam. • The briefest recital (even without TV presentation) of the ill-will and geo-phy sical embarrassment we have purchased at unbelievable cost should stir every Ameri can to violent protest and the demand that Congress put an end to foreign aid. The .time has come not merely to cut it, but to cut it out! Stories Behind Words WIIHam by S. Penfield Barry Gets The Invitations Much to the chagrin ,of New York’s Governor Nelson Rockefeller — once the leading GOP contender for next year’s Presidential nomination — political ob servers report GoWwater sentiment is growing in the Empire State, particularly Among Young Republicans, and even in lib eral New York City. And somehow, Rocky’s blast at Senator Geldwater, associating him with the ‘‘radi cal right lunatic fringe” and a “sectional” movement restricted to the South and West And excluding the industrial North, seems not to have been heard in Ohio, Pennsyl vania and New Jersey. At least, the Re publican state chairmen in these bailiwicks have asked the Arizonan to help in their fund-raising. Gymnasium The ancient city-state of Athens produced some of the greatest thinkers the world has ever known. How ever, Athenians did not emphasize mental development at the expense of physical development. They stressed both. . , ; ■ ..-j : re public places were set aside as areas where make could exercise and participate in athletic contests. To facilitate bodily movement the athletes compet ed or exercised in the nude. Athenians called a {dace set aside for athletic games a “gymnasion”—a place to train naked—from “gymnos,” naked, and “gymnazien,” to train naked. The Greek word gymnasion passed into the English language as “gymnasium.” From The Chronicle Files Babson Urges We al rights of trial by jury and of appeal. Prepare For Changes It will have virtually erased state lines, sLLL — — nullified state.' rights and placed octree late B * w b i“" .Ty as the re°£lt7t men in the keeping of a swam of Federal an unexpected heart attack, we had been talking overseers appointed by Washington. If Congress grants these powers, it will have provided the machinery by which contempt proceedings — the word of a judge from which there is no appeal — replaces trial by jury for all who are charged with civil rights violations. And on this base, this Administration or succeeding ones may pro ceed at leisure to build an all-encompassing control of every aspect of American life. Cut It OUT — Not Down The most searing indictment of our for eign aid program “after going through ten different administrations, five major reorganizations and more than 100 billion tax dollars” — comes, logically enough, from the man who probably knows it best. In his article, “Let’s Stop Sending US Dollars to Aid Our Enemies,” in the Au gust Reader’s Digest, Author Charles Ste venson quotes the' summing-up of Chair man Otto E. Passman of the House Appro- priations Committee after 1,000 hours of official hearings: “The trouble is,” says Rep. Passman, “that too much of our foriegn aid has de teriorated into a subsidy of Communist takeover. And the spenders are so power- hungry, they so withhold the truth from the public, they are so beyond the normal controls of Congress, that there seems no way to confine assistance to helping people help themselves unless we kill the entire operation and start over.” But, as Mr. Stevenson says, in spite of the mountainous evidence that our “aid” largesse has done us more harm than good, President Kennedy is insisting that Con gress provide $4.6 billion more for another year, and Secretary of State Rusk charges that anyone who tries to cut down this re quest is playing the Communist game! And yet the record, as revealed by Chairman Harry F. Byrd of the Senate Fi nance Committee, shows the administrators have not been able, since 1968, to spend the aid money they have been given, and had, in fact, amassed the staggering sum of $21,273,000,000 as of last June in unex pended balance. This, the Senator pointed out, would keep the aid spenders busy for years without another cent from Congress. Mr. Stevenson, in the report that Read er’s Digest is now filming for TV presenta tion, cites the fantastic history of our for eign aid blunders in India, Poland* Yugv- slavia, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, Brazil, Egypt, Algeria, Indonesia — and notes that: “What we do has so eased the pres sure on Russia to feed its dependent states that it is able now to use its own wheat to about the great changes we had noticed in only the past few years. CHANGES IN TRAVEL At the time he learned of my wife’s death, my grandson, Roger Weber, was eating lunch in Paris. He hopped on a jet plane and in seven hours was at my side in Boston. It seems that some of the airlines run specials from Paris to Boston every day. This is common knowledge; but we forget the many different lines of business affected thereby. RAILROAD STRIKE 1 1 have no fear of a railroad strike; but what one could mean to every super-market and house hold is unimaginable. In three days the shelves of most super markets would be bare. We would be completely in the hands of the Teamsters Union and their president, James Hof- fa. OTHER LABOR UNIONS As companies and their stock holders continue to combine in to larger units, the wage-work- w. BataM ers are sure to do the same. Hence, to avoid a dictatorship in this country, the laws designed to prevent and break up monopo lies must be amended to include labor unions. This is something for which the President’s brother, Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General—should be responsible. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION With the possible exception of old-fashioned hotels in our large cities, the days of the hotels are slowly coming to an end. At present they are being changed over into apartments. But they will gradually be torn down and their sites used for the building of motels of one or two stories. What will come after the “motels,” I do not know; but some new change will follow. With the increase in superhighways and supermarkets, more people are living In the suburbs and the mo tels are merging into motel apartments. In fact, I visualize these bordering the main highways be tween elites on land which is now barren, or else taking the place of small farms lining routes block away from the main highways. The typical frame houses now being built in most suburbs will be torn down. Zoning laws will be enacted to prevent the building of such single wooden houses. LAND NEAR OCEAN As I have heretofore emphasized, land between a superhighway and the ocean or near to large lakes or rivers will continue to become more valu able. For many hundreds of years there will be a surplus of ordinary land, but the supply of land bordering navigable waters will constantly be come scarcer and more in demand. Don’t put al your money into stocks and bonds. Well-located land and well-behaved “kids” will become the best investments, whatever our form of govern ment. PREPARE FOR CHANGES I think it was Presdient Franklin Roosevelt who stated, “The only thing we can count on as permanent is change.” Hence this is my thought this week: The form of schools and colleges will completely change. Many patients, clients, and customers now with independent doctors, law yers, and “Indian Chiefs” wOl become more so cialistic. Taxes will be higher, but the average householder will get more for his money. It will be harder to live on inherited money. The old saying, ‘The rich get richer and the poor get poorer,’ ’will be revised. Our children and grandchildren will prosper according to what they contribute in honest labor to the general wel fare of all. Things are really popping around Clinton this week with he varied activity of Swift Strike III. But what was this week like in the past? Take a ook through the files of The Chronicle. 44 Tears Ago Announcement is made by Dr. . C. Hays that a new charter has been secured for the hospital and lat in the future it will be con- < ucted under the name of Dr. lay’s Hospital with Dr. and Mrs. Hays in charge. Announce is also made that a nurses’ training school is to be operated In connection with the nstitution, giving a limited num ber of young ladies an opportun- ty to pursue their hospital train ing here. At the commercial club meet ing: “. . . One of the features of teh meeting which added im- mensly to the evening’s pleasure, was a musical program render ed during the serving of the din ner. Mrs. J. F. Jacobs, Jr., pre- Looking Backward sided at the piano as accompan ist, Dr. Felder Smith with the saxaphone and Misses Collete Griffin and Maude Ellis sang very sweetly several soprano solos. The program as rendered was throughly enjoyed and the club was enthusiastic and liberal in its encores.” 2t Tears Ago Miss Martha Wood of Salters has been selected as Bible in structor in the Clinton high school for the session beginning in September. A canvass was recently made in the community by committees from the city churches to raise funds to pro vide for the course. The Boy Scouts who attended Camp Old Indian last week came steaming back Tuesday at noon “under their own power,” or ra ther by the grace of Bobby Plax- ico’s run-about, in which the trip was made. Ferdie Jacobs was unable to attend as previously re ported, but Clinton still had six representatives, the sixth being Alvin Bagwell, who has attended camp for three years and had the distinction of bring the only Clin ton boy to be inducted into tt» nation-wide Scouting Order of the Arrow. Observations: “Gone to War” states a sign on a pen case in one of the local stores, and from the looks of most cases it is an all out effort . . . paper cups, too, have almost disappeared from the fountains and there is a no ticeable shortage of carbonated water,_ It Tears Age On a trip to Haiti some time ago, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Giles brought back a coffee bean which was planted at Giles Chevrolet Co. The plant has thrived, now measures five feet and has seven “pods” of coffee . Neil Dailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Dailey and Phil Rod dy, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Roddy, scouts of local troop 111, left Sunday for the sixth annual Smoky Mountain expedition. S. Taylor Martin of Newberry has joined the faculty of Presby terian College, president Mar shall W. Brown announced yes terday. Martin, who for the past several years has beaded the mathematics department at New berry college, will serve as as sociate professor of mathema tics at PC. 5 Tears Ago Plans are underway to built a 00-bed hospital in Clinton to cost in excess of $1,000,000, it was dis closed Monday night at a meet ing held at Hotel Mary Musgrove. Plans include the formation of a hospital district coinciding with the boundaries of Laurens Coun ty School District 56. Mrs. Wilmot Shealy announces this week that she has purchased Johnson’s Floral Shop. Presbyterian College complet ed its new $230,000 student center this week. It will be ready for students starting the fall semes ter. The building will be named in honor of Dr. D. M. Douglas, one of the institution’s foremost presidents, and dedicated as a memorial to PC alumni who lost their lives in World War II and the Korean War. Social Securiiy Question—I get $40 social se curity check every month, aai my wife gets 920. This is not enough to pay the hills. I haven’t worked since ! put in for my pay ments. Can I get my check rais ed? Answer—No. Topr check is based on your earnings when you worked under Social Security. Question—I am disabled and can’t work anymore. If I put in for disability benefits under So cial Security, would my check be cut because I am now only 45 years rid? Answer—No. Your disability check would not be reduced be cause of your age. Question—I get a widow’s pen sion from the Railroad Retire ment Board for myself and my two children. Before my husband died he paid social security on his farm earnings. Can I dm ms social security j Answer—Your husband’s sodall security work was added in wtthl his railroad work. TUs gave yaul and your children a larger check] each month than you would have {I gotten from his railroad #ork| alone. You won’t get a separate] social security check. Question—I am 67 but have not! put in for my social security be cause 1 am still working. I make i about $140 a month. I was told I would be able to get some pay-; ments. Is this possible? Answer—Yes, you can drawl all but $240 of your social se curity benefit* each year. IF TOU DON’T «cai> THE CHRONICLE YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS PHONE S3S-6541 YOUR mOAMKi - v ' • ^ iwpnl-* PROGRAM ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Today - FrL - Sat. Aug. 15-17 TJnmMMMaSruTmSYoTTM AMAZINQ Mitn-GflMwyi-filiytf With Chuck Connors, Luke Hatpin and Flipper Features: 3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20 Saturday: Starts at 1:00 Mon. - Tues. Aug. 19-20 Telephone Talk »y T. M. YOUNGBLOOD Your Telephone IF YOU’RE A DOODLER, be careful of the kind of ga»i» you leave around wink making phone calls. You may give away some personal secrets. According to psychologists, if you doodle animals or birds, you’re aliec- tkxude and understanding. Squares and checks show logic and emotional stability. Circles mean you’re a daydreamer; stairsteps mean you’re ambitious. • • • a • choice Jc Starts Wed. Aug. 21 BYE-BYE BIRDIE THIS IS THE NEW TOUCH TONE PHONE . . . with buttons instead of a dial and musical tones for each signal sent! The new phone has undergone two years of testing, and users are so enthusiastic it will be introduced to the public on a limited basis some time in the next couple of yean. One of its chief advantages is faster dialing ... as one test-user said, “It’s like magic!” The Touch Tone Phone another result of continuing Bell System research and development. • * • * • FROM LUXURY TO NECESSITY . . . that’s the kind of progress your tekphone has made. Back in the late 1800’s when telephones were first coming into use, s phone call anywhere at aU was a big event! Today, phone caOs are as much a part of life as going to work m the ■wwiiiug, or sending the children off to school. A telephone caE is no longer a major project! It’s simply an easy, pleasant, low-cost way to get things done, keep friendships warm, stay in touch with the world. Use your telephone ... lor an it’s worth. I know you’ve heard the old saying “Haste makes waste,” and sometimes this is so true when dialing a telephone number. You get the wrong number, temper rises, and you have to start all over again. I’ve been thinking, lately, that a lot of folks could save all this if they take time to be sure they have the right number, listen for dial tone, and dial carefully. Try it and see . . . believe me, it works. CLINTON, 8. 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