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lifts THE CLBVTON CHRONICLE STRO PEOPLE THB ASSASSINATION of tb« 88th PMddont of tho Unit- od StatM hu abockad and and* danad Americana of all politkal persuasions. This act af perfi dy dosed a brilliant politkal career of one of the moat per sonable and popular Presidents ever to serve our nation. There were many disagreements with President John F. Kennedy’s policies and proposals, bat his personal popularity, according to opinion polls, continaed at an unusually high level. THIS TRAGEDY contains ■any lessons. Sense, who have sought to mix blame with their grief, credit the asaasehiat to all who have dissented from the policies of the New Fron tier. Actually, the fatal shots were apparently fired by a com mankt This man had renounced American dtisenship to the U. S. Embassy in Moscow upon moving to the Soviet Union a few years ago. When, however, he wanted to return here, oar embassy was tolerant of his anti- American views and his pro- communist sympathies, and thus loaned him S4S5 to return to America. On his return, he dis tributed leaflets and spoke out for Castro, being very active in the pro-communist Fair Play for Cuba Committee. In June of this year, the State Department issued him a new passport de spite has background which also tn$Med an undesirable dis charge from the U. S. Marine Corps. TO A COMMUN1S1 the life of any individual is not woilh much because it is society -the planned sodety which counts most To an American who cher ishes freedom and individual rights, a life is indeed dear, even where deep political differences exist Undo the American sys tem we settle oui differences at the ballot box. Under the com munist system ideological dlf ferences are. settled with a bloodbath individually and col lectively This is lust one of many reasons why we cannot continue to tolerate the com munist ideology especially in our own midst AS A CONSKtJItKMCK of the tragic murder of President Ken nedy, ws now have a new na tional loader. President Lyndon Johnson is one of tho most ca pable and experienced publk of- Ja I knew. My rslatioaahipa hritb him In the Senate, whom he baa aerved as Majority Land er and Vice President, have bean pleaaant. oven though wo havo not agreed onfall issues. IN VIEW OF his anaeuaead plana to pnah for enactment af tka so-called dvil righto legists- ties and the tax legislation aa proposed, I am certain we wfD be in disagreement go mare e» caaUos. I was vary favorably Imprssasd. however, to beer the President recently give on tele vision an eloquent testimony in support ef our form of govern ment with Its unique systmu ef divided and separated powers and our thriving “capitalist,’' free enterprise economy. I was par ticularly pleased with his prakt ef our “capitalist’* economy because all tee many have bean shamed by commankt propa ganda is to looking npoa “capi talism” as a bad word connoting exploitation. IN THIS INTERVIEW, tbs President, then Vice President, alio expressed s strong moosurs of devotion to our country and to the importance of preserving our freedoms. Likewise brought out in this interview were his background and interest in our defense and space programs.' In the Senate he served as chairman of both the Prepared ness Investigating Subcommit tee and the Space Committee, having in effect fathered our present space exploration pro gram IT IS DIFFICULT to assess what course the new President’s administration will >et for our nation nntil he has had the time to chart his coarse aside from the policies he has Inherited. 1 hope that his main aim will be the preservation of freedom at home and the extension of free dom around the world. If so, he will have the strong support of an overwhelming majority of Americans Sincerely. dom to tho peoples of tbs captive itions of Eastern Europe. If Unhappily,, two forces arai working against protection of American interests in the wheat trade deal. The qtit force is the administration’s pat idea that the Soviet Union is “mellowing” and that the way to mellow it further Is to make massive concessions, including trade agreements sought by Nikita Khrushchev. The second hurtful force is greed. The desire to turn a quick buck is inherent in the trade deal. But for every grain dealer who makes an easy, immediate profit, other citizens will pay a heavy price over the years. But the Russians believe that they can bribe the capitalist sys- a and make it soil out it* rang* advantages for paltry profits. This is thsir technique in Europe where they are offering cut-rate oil to Western countries. The Reds don’t mind losing money for a few years in order to make the anti-commun- 1st West become part of the com munist trading pattern. Nor do they mind spending a lot of gold in order to make American farm ers look to MOSCOW for ennqol purchasses of wheat. For if they could accomplish that,, they would have gone a very long way toward gaining their political ob jectives in the United States. The United States needs high- Xtxeww- ’t&juLrvnyyj&ixJi SENSING THE NEWS By Thurman Sensing Executive Vlee-Preskkat Southern States Industrial Council SELLING PRINCIPLES FOR PROFIT President Kennedy’s drive to seek a broadscale accommoda tion with the Soviet Union was stepped up when he approved sale of 4 million metric tons of wheat to the world’s most powerful communist nation. But this act of approval, taken over the ob jection of great numbers of citi zens, may be only the first step. Mr. Kennedy intimated that the wheat deal might be followed by Russian bids for other U. S. agri cultural commodities. During the last 15 years we have spent more than $100 billion in foreign aid to shore up the free world against communism. During these same years we have spent $600 billion for defense pur poses to protect ourselves from communism. Now we are shor ing up the communist economy by selling them our wheat — and possibly other agricultural products. This simply does not make sense. The communists have not abandoned — and by their very nature cannot abandon — their efforts to destroy our way of life and substitute com munism in its stead. There is no such thing as peaceful coexist- nece with communism. Event ually either freedom or com munism must give way. What this whole wheat deal boils down to, therefore, is that we are selling our principles for profit — that we are spending billions and billions of dollars to defeat communism on the one hand, and selling the communists wheat to help them defeat us on the other hand. The arguments of the apologists for massive trade with commun ism fall flat when closely exam ined. They argue that the stor age of millions of dollars of sur- plus wheat is a costly burden to the U. S. Well, the way to get rid of storage costs is to get rid of the price support system that is a waste of public money. They argue that the sale to the Soviet Union Would help redress the critical balance of payments Mtuation. Here again, this situa tion can best be helped by dts- oontimifaig wasteful foreign and by discontinuing —vH»g the taxpayers’ dollars by the billions to socialist and Bu ttons as we have been ridiculous ly doing for many years. If the administration is dster- . to trade with the Soviets, I least it could say to them is I if they have access to our ■urphisso, toon flay — certain political cen- tbsy must first get their the Russians have a critical need for U. S. wheat, they may meet those conditions. If they refuse to meet them, then it makes no sense to conduct a sale that bene fits only a tyrannical enemy gov ernment. SAVE 10% NOW! minded leadswhip in the wheat belt and in Washington. Tragic ally, there are liberals in Con gress who don’t see the long- range danger of Russian econom ic warfare. Even more tragic is the fact that the administration^ which is supposed to guide the nation in the cold war struggle, is playing right into the hands of Nikita Khrushchev. 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Bryson were in Atlanta, Ga., with their daughter and son-ta-law, Col. and Mrs. J. L. Culp, for the holi days. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Forth of Columbia^ spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Miller. T. aiiiT Mrs. L. P.. Burns vis ited in Gaffney recently. Mrs. Charles Bannister was a patiene for several days recently in Bailey Memorial Hospital with a throat infection. After spending several weeks in Georgetown, Mrs. Rhett Bry son was accompanied to her home here by her granddaugh ter, Mrs. Bill Howard. Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Miller, ac companied by Mrs. Miller’s mother, Mrs. M. D. Smith, spent Sunday in Laurens with their daughter, Mrs.. Evelyn M. Dra- go, and daughters, Misses Janice and Lynn Shouse. Also visiting Mrs. Drago and family were Miss Caroline Burns and Miss Linda Goodman. Miss Lynn Thomason, a stu dent at Erskine College, Due West, spent the past week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. 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