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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.
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THIS IS THE NEW TOUCH TONE PHONE . . . with
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■wwiiiug, or sending the children off to school. A telephone
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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.
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