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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-
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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. It is helping
ease the Soivet Union’s internal
agricultural problems and, at the
same time, promoting U. S. de
pendence on Russian purchases.
This tragic lack of cision spells
danger to the United ’StalW?.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. W. 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-
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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
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