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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Clinton, S. C n Thursday, December 31, I%5
For 'the New Year
14:35, “And in the fourth watch
the night Jesus went unto them, walk
ing on the sea.”
Matt. 14:81, “And he said, Come. And
when Peter was come down out of the ship,
he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
“But when he saw the wind boisterous,
he was afnaid; and beginning to sink, he
cried, saying. Lord, save me.
“And immediately Jesus stretched forth
his hand, and caught him, and said unto
him, 0 thou of little faith, wherefore didst
thou doubt?”
The miracles which are recorded in many
passages of the Bible had a profound effect
upon those whose lives were touched by
them because they woe done with a calm
authority and confidence that spoke elo
quently of their divine origin. They were
a challenge to the followers of Jesus during
His ministry as a physical presence and to
us today to have faith in God’s Messiah
and act according to His word.
Jesus did not write His teachings on
golden tablets to be enshrined in great tem
ples which, time would destroy. He wrote
them deep in the hearts and minds of
men and women where His message could
not be stamped into oblivion by any sort
of ruthless oppression nor worn away by
the impartial attrition of time. This is the
strength of Christianity—that it needs no
outward trappings. With its message of
hope and concern for the dignity and worth
of each human being, it brings the great
est comfort and burns the brightest with
in those most sorely oppressed. As 1966
begins let us all pause once more to furbish
anew our thoughts of Him who came to
build a Kingdom in our hearts. His teach
ings lend meaning to the humdrum life, dig
nity to the unfortunate, hope to people who
have none and courage to those who must
do the impossible. This troubled new year
all men would do well to remember His
outstretched hand and His words to (me
who was sinking into a stormy sea: “Oh
thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou
doubt?”
ace and many more yet undreamed of,
however, by having Congress “settle, once
and for all, the question of the powers and
limitations of the U. S. Supreme Court.”
Gordon, Nebr., Journal: A leading
economist fears a period of inflation may
be just around the comer.’ That’s com
parable to a man standing in waist-deep
water fearing his feet may get wet.”
Ocean City., N. J., Sentinel-Ledger:
‘‘One thing the United States Supreme
Court cannot do is declare the United
States Constitution unconstitutional. If the
court could do so, it might attack the
make-up of the United States Senate which,
with two senators fro meach state regard
less of size, is clearly defying the Court’s
fiat 'that representation in state legisla
tures must be on the basis of population.”
The Attack On
Conservatism
By THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
States Indastrial CmbcU
ert S. Cooper and Rev. John R.
Waters. Burial was in Forest
Lawn Cemetery.
Mrs. Berry
Mrs. Ruth Lawton Barnes Ber
ry, 62, widow of A. Walter Berry,
of Rossville, Ga., died Friday
morning at the home of her sis-
etr, Mrs. Katie Butler, 113 Gor
don St., after several weeks of
illness.
A native of Augusta, Ga., she
was a daughter of the late Wal
lace Miller and Mary Lawton
Barnes.
Surviving are two sisters,
Mrs. Butler of Clinton and Mrs.
Ann Brown of Savannah, Ga.;
and « brother, Wallace Miller
Barnes of Estill.
Funeral services were con
ducted Saturday at 11 a.m. at
Calvary Baptist Church by Rev.
j. W. Spillers. Burial was in
Rossville Cemetery at Rossville,
Ga., Sunday at 2 p.m.
Revolt In
Congress
Star performer at the recent Philadel
phia convention of the American Farm Bu
reau Federation wae the venerable, white-
haired, senior senator from Vermont,
Fanner George David Aiken, who begins
his 26th year at his Saute desk.
Branding the Supreme Court’s “one-
man, one-vote” decision on reapportionment
of State legislatures an “infringement of
democratic rights,” the Senator demanded
that his hearers ‘‘rise up on (your) hind
legs . . And the speaker assured them
that he was prepared to start fighting as
soon as the doors of Congress open.
The Senator will fight, he said, for a
Constitutional amendment to overturn the
Court’s ruling and establish the right of
each state to decide for itself whether seats
in both houses shall be apportioned by pop
ulation, such as was passed by the House
last session, but killed by the Senate.
Allowed to stand, the decision could only
result in a Congress controlled by city
members and the loss to agriculture of
“much of the protection and srevicee it
now receives under federal law. “An ur-
ban-cxmtrolled Congress,” he declared with
unassailable logic, “would be interested in
food an fiber of the highest quality at the
cheapest price, regardless of how or where
produced.”
Legislatures representing both area and
population have constituted, he said, “one
of the most cogent reasons for the rapid
growth and development of the U. S.”
And, he asked, if the Court’s decision
stands, “is there any reason to doubt that
a move to reorganize the U. S. Senate on a
population-only basis is not far off f’
Evidently the Senators did not think of
that—why not, we wouldn't know—when
they voted down the corrective wnend-
ment that would undoubtedly take a lot of
■team oat of the inevitable drive to reform
the “most exclusive club in the world.”
Senator Aiken would take care of this men-
Stirred by the narrow win of John F. Kennedy
to the presidency in 1900, the liberals — that is
to say, the blood brothers of the socialists and the
communist accomodators — began feverishly to
determine how they might best break down what
they deemed the “conservative rebellion” that
was going on In the country. They could envision
an end to their ambitions if this were not done.
As an aside, let it be noted that by_con-
stant attack on the word “conservative” itself,
they have since then convinced even some of
sound conservative philosophy that the term
should be dropped and some other word used in
its stead, that it has now come about that the
term “conservative” has a certain stigma at
tached to it and that it would be harmful to con
tinue using it. '
The trouble is not with the word “conserva
tive”; the trouble is that those who believe in the
conservative philosophy simply haven’t got what
they mean by “conservative” across to the peo
ple generally. As far as I am concerned, I like
the word conservative. Conservatism is patriat-
ism. To be a conservative is to he one who wants
to conserve what is best of the past and build on
it for the future; is to be one who believes that
the principles enunciated and adopted by the men
who founded our government are just as true now
as they were then, and will be just as true a
thousand years from now as they are today.
A liberal, on the other hand, believes that
there is nothing in the past worth conserving,
that the principles on which our government was
founded are now outmoded and outworn, and
must be replaced by other principles. These
other principles, as identified by the so-called lib
erals, always turn out to he the principles of
socialism. They seem to think these socialist
principles are new, whereas they are actually
much older than conservative principles. They
have been tried time and time again throughout
history and have always failed.
Abraham Lincoln did not use the words con
servative and liberal, but he stated the problem
quite well when he said;
“If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must
be its author and its finisher. As a nation of free
men, we must live through all time or die by
suicide.”
If we adopt the principles of liberalism we will
no longer be free men, and we shall Indeed he
committing suicide. However, the attack on con
servatism has gone on with intensified vigor that
past four years, and is continuing.
The most dangerous attack, due to the fi
nancial and political power back of it, was in
stigated by the Reuther Memorandum. In the
Fall of 1961, Walter and Victor Reuther called on
Attorney General Robert Kennedy and laid out
an oral plan on how to destroy the “conservative
rebellion.” Mr. Kennedy requested that the plan
be submitted in writing, which was done on
December 19th. Except for distribution to a
chosen few, the memo was kept secret tar almost
two years. Some at the courses of action they
recommended the Government take were (1)
Muzzle the military by issuing orders against
speeches or articles opposing Communism; (2)
Stop listing pro-communist organizations ex
clusively as subversive and ad the names of
conservative organizations; (3) Stop the flow of
funds to conservative organizations by finding
some pretext for removing tax-exemption; (4)
Use the power of the FCC to investigate radio
and television stations carrying conservative pro
grams; and (5) Curb the activitves at J. Edgar
Hoover who “exaggerates the domestic Commun
ist menace at every turn and contributes to the
public’s frame of mind.” At least four of thes«>
suggestions are in operation now, and the proof
is overwhelming.
This attack on conservatism is being actively
carried on by Group Research, Inc., an arm of
the AFL-CIO’s Committee on Political Educa
tion, and by the recently formed National Coun
cil for Civic Responsibility, sponsored by the tax-
exempt Public Affairs Institute. Both these or
ganizations are doing their best to destroy the
conservative philosophy in this country.
All patriotic citizens shoudl he aware of what
is going on, and resist with all the vigor at their
command the efforts being made to destroy the
principles that have made the United States a
great nation, and that must be maintained if we
are to remain a great nation.
No Rett for The Wemj
Stories
Behind
Words
*
William a Pcnfleid
Ambulance
During the wars of the French revolutionary period
the use of portable field hospitals was introduced.
These covered vehicles were mounted on wheels
and contained cots tor the wounded and the necessary
supplies to render rudimentary treatment, after which
the wounded were transported to places for more com
pete treatment
The French called such a mobile hospital a “hopital
ambulant”—a moving or traveling hospital, from the
Latin verb “ambulare,” to walk. Later they referred
to the vehicles as “ambulances volantes"—flying trav
elers.
When the British started using mobile hospitals,
they shortened the French i>ame to “ambulances.”
Mrs. Spearman
Laurens — Mrs. Letha Bolt
Spearman, 62 of 208 Linden Ave.,
died at Laurens District Hospi
tal early Saturday after sever
al years’ declining health and a
serious illness of five weeks.
A native of Laurens County,
she was a daughter of the late
Jim and Minnie Tumblin Bolt
and was a member of the First
Baptist Church and a member
of the Pitts Sunday Schol class.
Survivors include three daugh
ters, Mrs. Clarence (Marcella)
Kuykendall and Mrs. Marion R.
(Kathleen) Brownlee, both of
Laurens, and Mrs. W. H. (Sybil)
Jeffords of Hickory Tavern; a
son. Jack W. Spearman of Lau
rens; a brother, James Bolt of
Atlanta; two sisters, Mrs. Jen
nie Boyter of Ware Shoals and
Mrs. Clara Gilliam of Laurens
and eight grandchildren.
Funeral services were con
duct at Kennedy Mortuary Cha
pel at 3 p.m. Sunday by Dr. Rob-
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Time to *oy goodbye to 1964, and we do so
with some regret. It *^s a good year, full of progress
and change. It was a year in which we made many
new friendships and cemented many old ones. It was
the forerunner, we hope, of many more good years in
a fine, fast-growing community.
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