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Ctttoa, S. C, Tkaniajr, 8«»<—h» M, IMS To Keep of Trouble If children were taught in the home by their permits and in the schools and Sunday schools by their teachers, one sim ple little rule of action, think of the sorrow and suffering it would save, not to men tion the countless millions of dollars. This rule of action wouldn’t require any , new laws, it wouldn’t cost a dime of tax payers’ money, and it would reduce the cost at law enforcement and court trials. Re- ' spect for the rule would eventually become automatic with most children as they grew " up. There wouldn’t be so many news re ports of murder, robbery, kidnapping, rape, purse snatching, automobile stealing, etc., etc. And what is the rule of action that would reduce our vicious crime record, if it became part of the thinking of children when it was taught them daily by their pa rents and schools, along with suitable illus trations of what it meant? . Rule—“Keep your hands off other peo ple and other people’s property.” It’s that simple to keep out of trouble. scene: **... Liberalism has to an increasing extent adopted the policy of dictating the actions of citizens, and, by consequence, di minishing the range throughout which their actions remain free . . .” These words were used by the author in tracing fundamental differences between the political parties in the England of his time. As David Lawrence concluded, “There is today a struggle in England over' these same issues, and in the United States we see the Congress exercising unprecedented powers in disregard of our written Consti- tution, as the members go along with what they think is the tide. We see also the Su preme Court Justices upholding the doc trines of expediency, as they themselves undertake to amend the Constitution with out the consent of the people, who alone should ratify or reject any proposed chang es .. . We can see the handwriting on the wall—a new despotism. It will last until the people themselves rise up to recover their inherent and ‘unalienable’ rights to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ THE A MERICAN WAY Wan That Mutt Be Postponed James F. Byrnes, now 86, is one of the nation’s true Elder Statesmen. His career has been a remarkable one—Secretary of State, Supreme Court Justice, Governor of South Carolina. The other day, speaking to the Amercian Legion’s national conven tion in Portland, Oregon, he gave the coun try some valuable advice: “If you must fight another world war against North Viet Nam and other Communist countries, we must postpone the war against poverty, the Appalachian war, the expansion of re creational facilities, and many other wel fare programs deemed desirable in time of peace.” This nation, rich as it is, cannot do ev erything. The cost of the war in Viet Nem, even if it remains confined to that country which is by no means sure, is des tined to reach enormous proportion*. The special appropriations so far made, though Urge, are only of a stop-gap nature and will meet only a small part of the bill The result will be budget, deficits far beyond any so far forecast. And no one can fore see the end. If, with this, domeirfk programs of un precedented scope and cost are also poshed ahead, the only predictable result will be major inflation—or regimentation of the resources and energies of the nation, paid for in the brutal coin of kwt freedom and undermined intiative. Babson’s Point of View On Our Stake 19 In Latin America By ROGER W. BARSON Babson Park, Mass., September 30—Now that peace of a sort has come to the sorely troubled Dominican Republic, our attention is focused more cloeely upon Asia and the sub-continent of India. Yet the United States can no more disen gage itself from Latin America than from Asia or Europe. Our stake in the nations to the south of us is high and our commitment there is for ever. POVERTY AMID PLENTY No one who has visited Latin America with open eyes could fail to be deeply affected by the contrasts encountered. The great cities rival our own in their fine buildings, their variety of enter prise and commerce, and their prosperity. Yet, hand in hand with these evidences of power and wealth, one sees grinding poverty as distressing de-humanizing as any experienced In Asia or Africa. Although rich in potential resources, the coun tries of Latin America are for the most part poor. This is the result of deficiencies in gov ernment, in technological development, and in agricultural know-how. And these deficiencies stem from deep-rooted Injustices and inequities ns well as from educational limitations. Govern ments are at best unstable, frequently incompe- tent, sometimes downright corrupt. Cur rencies are not rsadily convertible between the various Latin nations; their bonds are not easily salable in world markets; and credit is generaDy poor. Economic and social problems are aggra vated by haphazard official restrictions, which vary widely from country to country but which are similar in their harassment of husinoss. WHY COMMUNISTS BATE MADE OA1M Of course social and economic reform is rec ognized as the long-term solution to Latin Ameri cans ills. But the obstacles are many ’But Keep Out of My Back Yard!’ Stories Behind Words kf- WlDfaun & Pen field in all six fair counties, ths Fair Association mm! Spartanburg Garden Club Council. L U. T. C. To Bogin In October * The L. U. T. C. will begin their second year Monday ning, October IS, at 7:30 at the Liberty Life Building in rens. All agents interested contact Fred Reese, Assoc. Mgr. of Life of Virginia or Charles Teague, Agent for Pilot life Ins. Co., by September 17 . School District M School Lunch Menu Week ef October 44 MONDAY Milk, sliced ham, pimiento cheese ssstdwiches, chilled can taloupe, carrot sticks, potato sal ad, and butter. TUESDAY Milk, beef hash, lettuce and to mato salad, rice, biscuit, butter, and apple pie. WEDNESDAY Milk, steak with gravy, sliced CREDITORS* NOTICE . . All persons having claims asrginst the estate of Bessie S. Mauney, deceased, are hereby notified to file the same duly verified, with the undersigned, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment like wise. ODETTA MAUNEY, Administratrix Sept. 34, 1965 S304c-O14 Sacrilege The theft of anything sacred from a temple car ried a stiff penalty in ancient Rome. The rule covered even bits of food left over from a sacrifice. If a poor half-starved person stole any of these bits of food, he committed a crime. If the offender was a member of the high class, he was banished to some colony. But if he was a member of one of the lower classes, he was put to death in public in some horrible manner. The spectacle was a warning to others. The Romans called theft from the temple “sacri- legium”—from “eacer,” sacred, and “leger,” to take. “Sacrilegium” became “sacrilege” in English, and re fers to the violation of anything sacred. Farm Credit Needs Increase In State v- Despotism Spencer, the great English philosopher, wrote a book in 1861 which dealt with the “conditions of human hap piness.” In it he made dear the funda mental prindple that society should be or ganized on the basis of voluntary coopera tion, not on the bads of compulsory coope ration. He established the prindple of in dividualism as against Statism undo: which the dtizen has no rights which the State is bound to respect David Lawrence, writing in U. S. News * World Report, observes that Herbert Spencer’s book reads as if it were written and published this year. He then says, “... we must recognize that an age-old but still unsolved controversy on funamental law is affecting the Uvea of all of us. Whether it be in the field of ‘dvil rights,’ where conformity by coercion is conspicu ous nowadays, or whether it concerns the bill that may be passed at this or the next session of Congress compelling, in effect a worker to join a union in order to be eligible for a job in America, the basic ap proach is the same—compulsion rather than volition.” The great irony is that the compulsions being hn posed today are advocated by so- called liberals. Mr. Lawrence quotes a pas sage from Herbert Spencer’s work of more than a century ago which applies with haunting accuracy to the contemporary Associations of Fairs, Piedmont President Black pointed out that the fair and its hundreds of thou sands of patrons “celebrate with an appreciation of our illustrious ing from dictatorial governments which general- More than 7,400 South Carolina past, our mutual interest in our ly tend to be inept rather than evil, through fanners were being served with glorious present and for the po- wealthy landowners, to .pca#ant lenders whose over 95 mUton In short aad to- werful future ahead of us.’’ extreme nationalism too often .defeats their termediate term «eMt m July piedmont’s traditional and worthy goals. The U. S. must make Latins more SI, 1665 by the 17 Production Cn- i^g famous and popular six fully aware of the need to halt the deterioration dR Associations throughout South counties House of Flowers again of order in their countries, hut ws must walk Carolina, according to L. B. Be- w m ^ among many fair fea- warily and persuade rather than dictate. For denbaugh, general tures, Mrs. George B. Moore, i //A'nmxxi TODAY, FRL, SAT. Roiiiijoff If, Latin American distrust of democracy, and of the Clinton Production Credit As- chairman, announces the great 1 -ttns to the north, is strong- sort at ion. „„ The Communists have gained friends, and Mr . Bedenbaugh, who has just influence, and prestige in Latin America because returned from a maeting of PCA -with admirable singleness of purpo«P*hey executive committeemen and have planned it that way. They have succeeded credit personnel held in Colum- because they have worked diligently to acquire *>“. reported that the loan vol- a rapport with the masses; but mostly because umc of these farmer-owned and their agents are better equipped than w« to sell operatedersdit cooperatives in the people a bill of goods. Most of the popular South Carolina has increased by nationalist movements in Latin America are not mor * t “* n 4 million during the Communist, or even Communist-inspired. But P** 4 iT ar i? meetin * R** in ' they are easily infiltrated by Bed agents who creased credit needs of agricul- subvert them for their own ends. tu ™ “ l ■***•• - r ,_ Ths role of directors, mans- LANGUAGE EAEEIKE gers, aad credit men of produc- We are losing round against the Communist ^ auocutions In credit conspiracy to Latin America and we are losing administration was the nrinoioal ground against the competition of other nations subset rl at the meeting for the markets of Latin America. Our lack of ^ Mr Bedenbaush said. “It 1s real success—despite hard work and the expend!- necessary that South Carolina tureof large sums of money-can be laid directly farmers employ more good man- to the language barrier. amsnt on their farms and do Only a handful of top U. 8. diplomats to Latin more sound jn America art really expert to the Spanish or the onfer to handle the H Portuguese language. Many of the man sent by amount of capital required on U. S. companies that have large investments south Carolina farms today *’ there have only the barest smattering of the Henry M. Simons, Jr., vice languages in which they must do business. president, manager, Agricultural WESTERN HEMISPHERE UNITY Department, Wachovia Bank and Yet, no matter how frustrating our attempts Trust Co., Charlotte, N. C., was may have been to keep Latta America from Com- U* guest speaker at the meeting munist enslavement, we cannot abandon our sud spoke on “Financing Modern neighbors. To do so would be to invite our Agriculture.” enemies to prepare, to safety, for our eventual Hr* Bedenbaugh was accom- buriaL panied to the meeting by two The over-all need to Latin America is for < i th * Clinton Associa- continental economic Integration. A healthy, Spartanburg Fair To Open Oct. 11 The six counties and two states regional Piedmont Interstate Fair will open its 1965 gates at Spartanburg Oct 11 for six days and nights. Paid Black announced today. Co-Starring Jack Kelly and Kristin Nelsdn Features: 3:80, 5:25, 7:15, 9:10 Saturday Starts 1:90 pan. M0N.-TUE8.-WED. OCTOBER 4-5-6 vigorous Latin American common market one day be forged. If the U. S. does not provide the needed capital and credit for such a venture, some other power will ... and our hopes for Western Hemisphere unity wffl be dashed. CLINTON S. 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