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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Clinton, S. C n Thursday, March 26, j»64
UlO gesture and offer is met with a crude re-
Watchword The other problem is that Castro can-
A Congressman in Washington is a sit- not possibly have taken this step without
ting duck for anyone with a Cause. Be- the urging and support of his Soviet mas-
aides, he has a certain position to maintain tens. He was recently received in the So-
—and usually a family. Nor is it cheap to viet Union with elaborate ceremony and
live in the Capital or its suburbs. Thus, he there, no doubt, the orders were given. The
can generally make out a pretty good case effort to create a major Soviet bloc in this
of need for that $10,000 raise he voted him- hemisphere is thus intensified. It is ail
self out of the other day. effort that we cannot ignore.
But whether rejection or the $646 mil-
lion pay bill in the House by a vote of 182- Lawyers, constitutional and otherwise,
222 should be credited to statesmanship axe beginning to wonder about the Supreme
or the roll-call vote, it dashed the hopes of Court’s ruling last month that Congression
al! other Federal workers for a raise. With- a i districts within each state must have ap-
in days, however, the wheels were in mo- proximately equal- population. By this
tion for a new bill for action this year, but yardstick, only 37 out of 435 Congressmen
excluding members of Congress. appear to have been legally elected. Do
Senate Republican Leader Dirksen, how- W e, then, legally have a Congress? Could a
ever, announced a scheme to revive the non-existent House of Representatives have
original bill in the Senate. On approval, it passed the Civil Rights Bill? Is there
could then go to the House in a conference really a Federal tax cut after all?
report which would relieve the benefici-
aries of the embarrassment of a roll-call.
We can rest assured, however, that
President Johnson, after cutting the White
House electric bill, would give this half
billion dollar expense item a quick veto.
Wouldn’t you think?
'Babaon Discusses The
Information Revolution
The Real Enemy
The Adiminstration’s war on poverty
should not blind us to the need for another
assault—an all-out war on federal prodi
gality.
Wasteful spending of taxpayers’ funds
is the arch enemy of national well-being
and we strongly recommend that the Con
gress mount a hard-hitting, unrelenting
campaign to rout it
To launch its offensive with telling
force the Congress could make very good
use of the National Association of Manu
facturers’ authoritative budget study
which holds that President Johnson's re
quest for $103.7 billion in spending author
ity could be cut by $6.5 billion without less
ening defense exependiturae or having any
thing but a beneficial effect on American
living standards. Such a reduction, the
NAM says, would bring a $3.9 billion slash
in the President’s 1966 administrative
budget—reducing it from $97.9 billion to
an even $94 billion. The balance of the cut
would apply to futur eyeors.
In pointing up the need for the cuts.
Babson Park, Mass., March 26—Many invests
ment advisers complain because the portfolios of
investors, especially women, have so much tele
phone stock. At the present time there are only
two large telephone companies—American Tele
phone ft Telegraph Co. with its manufacturing
subsidiary Western Electric Corporation with its
progressive electronics manufacturing subsid
iary Sylvania Electric. But readers must not
think these two control the entire telephone In
dustry of the United States. There are seven
teen different telephone companies in Florida
alone, and several thousand “independents" in
the United States.
NEW TELEPHONE DEVELOPMENTS
Many tilings are being developed for else
and convenience in using the telephone. ‘ For
instance, there is the newly
introduced Rapidialer. This
works somewhat as follows:
The Rapidialer enables a tele
phone user to record on a re
volving magnetic tape over two
hundred and fifty phone num
bers (including long-distance
numbers frequently called). I
understand this represents the
different stations the average
person calls. Telephone num-
zers can be added or erased in a matter of sec
onds. This is a time saver, making references
to the directory less necessary.
I have already referred to my friend "Jay”
Freke-Hayes of Babson Park, Florida—father of
the telephone answering service. This device
enables a doctor, lawyer, salesman, etc., to re
ceive calls when he is away from the office
the NAM said they must be made to com
pensate for the tax reduction; to prevent through a small machine which he can carry to
a build-up in spending in fiscal years
after 1965, and to assure final spending
in 1966 below the President’s estimate.
The deepest cuts would be made in
spending for foreign aid, agriculture, space,
education and public wetfaer.
Best of all, the study offers some very
sound guidelines for achievement of the
economy moves. They are:
1. Stringent congressional screening and
reduction of executive requests for new
spending authority.
2. Congressional refusal to enact legis
lation which would increase federal partici
pation in areas of state-local, or private,
functions and responaibilty.^
3. Executive and congressional action
to curtail the scope and improve the man
agement of existing programs.
his pocket. Many other development* are on
the drawing boards and in the laboratories. This
leads me to believe that women who are buying
telephone stock may be showing more sense than
the investment advisers who claim they have
too much. As long as the Federal Government
does not take over such companies, their ef
ficiency and earnings should continue to improve.
MORE ABOUT COMPUTERS
The telephone industry will gradually profit
from the use of computers. When I am asked
what will be the next big industry, I suggest
that the computer industry should lead the list.
Among companies now in the forefront of this
field are International Business Machines, Mtn-
neapolis-Honeywell, R.C.A., Sperry-Rand, and
Control Data Corporation. Do not write me ask
ing which of the five is the best bet. Nobody
knows. You might put an equal amount of mon
ey into each of these five.
I am told that one of the newer models now
being offered works 30% faster than the one pres-
The computer manufacturers claim
Stories
Behind
Words
William
J*
S. Penfield
Stadium
The English word ‘‘stadium” is derived from ‘‘sta-
dion,” the ancient Greeks* principal measure of dis
tance.
A “st&dion” designated a distance of 125 Roman
paces or 630 English feet - --y-
The Greeks were fond of athletic contests. One
of their athletic events was a foot race run over a
course that was a stadion length. Because of its
length, the race was called a “stadion.”
The race and other athletic contests were held on
fields enclosed on three sides by terraces on which
sat spectators.
Eventually the name of the race was applied to
these large outdoor arenas. ‘‘Stadion” passed into
Latin as "Stadium,” and into English with no further
change. , —
SENSING
■NEWS
By ThtriMMl
THE NOC ANB fBE CtflL
ently in use.
_ that in one second their new machines can do
We’re hoping that the first shot in the additions and substractions, 178,000 mul
tiplications, or 102,000 divisions.
WHAT ABOUT LASERS?
One of my M. I. T. friends, Professor Charles
Townes, is a pioneer in this field. Laser tech
nology endeavors to harness light and sound
waves and concentrate these into "coherent”
beams. The greatest immediate probable ap
plication lies in communications. A laser beam
can be the carrier of millions of telephone mes-
mo Bay, and the announced decision to sages all at once. Or. it can transmit simul-
ultimately take over the base by an undie- t ‘ n ' ou * 1 i ^ progr«in». in»te«d
. m.. ^ i . , °f requiring a single carrier for each program.
closed means. This time Fidel pastro went Laser technology may become valuable for
too far. space communications and distance measuring.
The base’s necessary water will be sup- The8e powerful beams can also be used for cut-
plied by deliveries from tankers, and by de- “° g ’, , " ch “ surgery. lndu.tri^ cuttins, weld-
17..- , . v . , ’ . ing. Laser technology is definitely forging ahead.
war on prodigality will soon be fired.
Bear Tamer Needed
One thing can be said of Cuba’s action
in cutting off the water supply to the old-
established U. S. Marine base on Guantana-
vices which freshen sea water. Addition
ally, new sanctions have been put into force
against Cuba’s communist government. It
if dear that the patience of this nation has
been strained to the utmost
We have here two problems. One has
bMM a failure of our own government’s
foreign policy. This has been, in a funda-
way, an honorable failure. We have
to attempt peaceful means to settle
rather than to apply the brute
force we possess. But there can come an
Mid to the best of intentions, when every
INFORMATION REVOLUTION
Let me close by summarizing a recent talk at
Tampa, Florida, by Dr. George L. Haller, vice-
president of General Electric. ‘‘The primary
human need for the next 20 years will be for
machines to help us organize and handle great
quantities of information without being swamp
by it. We win need machines and systems to
help us think, to solve problems, to store infor
mation in small space . .
Dr. Haller also added that the machines will
help retrieve any particular information. “Home-
computers” would keep track of everything—
grocery lists, appointments, anniversaries, etc.
They would take care of you finances, bank bal
ances, even pay household Mils!
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ASSOCIATION
A* the mass agitation groups
in the (nation step up theor cam
paign to ram the Civil Rltfits
Act through the U. S. Senate,
their drive will have the full sup
port of the bureaucracy of the
National Osuhril of Churches. In
short, the NCC will be a feB-
time partner of the Congress of
Racial Equality, the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, the
Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee and other groups
that are seeking to impose a new
pattern of regimentation on
Americans and strip them of
constitutional rights.
The General Assembly of the
NCC, meeting in Philadelphia
early last December, passed a
resolution calling upon Congress
to take every step necessary
to ensure the earliest possible
passage of the Civil Righto Act.”
Robert W. Spike, Executive Di
rector of the Commission on
Race of the NCC, wrote a letter
to the Executives of State Coun
cils of Churches outlining the
NCC’s lobbying activities in be
half of this force Mil. When the
bill reaches the Senate, he said,
“A massive letter writing cam
paign will be necessary. Remind
everyone that their letters tele
phone calls, and visits have
made the progress of the bill
possible.” .
Point 4 of Mr. Spikes’ letter
states: “We plan round-the-clock
church services in Washington
at the time the bill comes to
the Senate and during any fili
buster which develops.” Eh then
asked: “Will you send us a list
of clergymen whom you know
would be willing to serve as a
kind of preaching mission in our
church services in Washington
at the time of the filibuster?”
The NCC — wMch claim* to
speak fpr 40,000,000 Protestants
but which very definitely does
not—isn’t th^ only church or
ganization backing the Mil that
is acurately characterized as a
“civil wrongs” bill. For in
stance, the Council of the Na
tional Conference of the Metho
dist Youth Fellowship at a meet
ing in Nashville, Tenn., adopted
a statement saying, “Specifical
ly we support the passage of all
provisions of the present Civil
Righto bill.”
It is fantastic that the NCC,
the Methodist Youth Conference,
or any other church group would
lend support to thi*
To find religious organizations
supporting a bill that would im
pose totalitarianism measures
on the United States is as in
credible as it is tragic. It cai
only be concluded that they do
90 either through tgnm^itM^ or
because they want to destroy our
constitutional republican form of
government. It is probably most
ly the former, because it it not
to be believed that many people
really know what the Civil
Righto Act would do. Among oth
ers, it would deny
The right of freedom of speech
and freedom of the press con
cerning “discrfeninatiob or seg
regation of any kind”; the right
of homeowners to rent, lease or
sell their hemes a* Individuals;
the right of banks, savings and
loan associations, etc. to
loans and extend credits in ac
cordance with their best jodg
the right of employers
to hire or discharge any indi
vidual”; the seniority righto of
labor union members* the right
of labor unions to cheoae their
members; the right of farmera
to freely choose their tenants
and employees; the right of a
ko»i»ess man to control Ms own
business; and so on ad nauseum.
The sum and subotanee of the
tetag supported by the
NNC to that it provides tor n
regimented way of life in the
United States. Thouh
by ito
bin,*
concerned with the teking away
of righto. It would constitute a
legal blackjack aimed at the
beads of citizens who do not be
lieve that their personal fives
be ordered by the execu
tive power in the federal govern-
ment.
It to hard to understand how
any citizen who believes in per
sonal liberty and the Mstoric
American freedom can support
either the Civil Righto Act or the
NCC, wMch is lobbying for it.
Even if the bill were a good one,
which it is not, an interdenomi
nation agency is in scandalous
position when it acts as a power
bloc trying ta bring pressure on
Congress.
Ralph L. Sufiiron
Ralph Lee Sullivan, 67, died
Sunday afternoon in a Columbia
hospital after two weeks of ill
ness. - -
A native of Anderson County,
where he spent most of Ms life,
he made his home at Joanna 19
years. He was the son of the
lato William R. and Mamie Bur
ton Sullivan.
Surviving are a son, Wood-
row L. Sullivan of New York
City; a daughter, Mrs. E. M.
Davis of Rt. 1 Cross Hill; and
their grandchildren, i
Funeral services were conduc
ted at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Gray
Funeral Home by Rev. W. M.
Ussery. Burial was in Rose-
mont Cemetery.
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