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Cttatoo, S. C, Thuraday, October 7. 1966 THE CLINTON CHB0N1CLE • * • COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS Recently we noticed that FBI agents were studying (lies re lating to private schools. Our curiosity being aroused, we asked the purpose of this searcB and received civil but non - committal answers. A check with neighboring news- papers indicated that the search was similar and simul taneous throughout the region. One does not have to be a gifted detective to surmise the reason back of this interest in private schools. Someone in Washington has instructed the FBI to assign its agents to this subject as part of the ‘civil rights' movement. Their time —normally devoted to running down criminals »nd other use ful work for the public niterest „ —is being utilized for investi gation of a subject heretofore held in general esteem, but above all as a private concern of the proprietors and clients of the schools. What possible interest could the federal government have in private schools of the South? (We are assuming, without even troubling to inquire, that no such search is in progress in the North). Atj-in wc rdy on surmise in seeking a rea son. In our opinion, the federal government is determined to discourage development of pri vate schools in the South as a refuge for white children whose parents do not wish to send them, for racial or other rea sons, to predominantly Negro public schools. Whether the government has legal power to interfere with private schools is another question., We shall not attempt to answer it today . . . The use of FBI agents as in vestigators or legal action to integrate private schools to us would be regrettable—and we are using the most restrained term that comes to mind . . . I have quoted from the great morning daily of Charleston, The News and Courier. I had heard of this from a citizen who expressed indigna tion. Frankly I may speak as a lawyer and say that the Fed eral government has no right or reason to investigate the private schools or those who $ send children to private schools. There is no legal' au thority to prevent the Colored citizens from organizing and maintaining private schools, if they should care to do so. And, by the same tokne, there is no legal authority or Justifica tion for meddling with or in vestigating private schools or ganized and maintained by White citizens. I have had an unusual expe rience in a somewhat analo gous case. As Director Gen eral, in Peru, all Government schools and colleges were di rectly under my office; and all private schools and colleges operated by my license of my office, though we did not ex amine the patrons. That gen eral authority included The Catholic University of Lima and The Normal School of the Ursuline Mothers. But Peru is a far call from the United States, yet I never dreamed of investigating the patrons of private schools and colleges. I am amazed at this develop ment in “The land of the Pil grims Pride." My thoughts roam aoout and I find myself wondering. Will our government send FBI specialists to' investigate our churches on the eve of calling pastors; or will it investigate the ministers? Shall the government investi gate a County Grand Jury? Shall we have Federal inves tigation of teachers, lawyers, physicians? What does this mean? Where is the Congress while the ex- e c u t i v e department brushes aside all the age-old rights, privileges and liberties of our Constitutional guarantees? Are we to enjoy the liberties won from old King John at Runnymede in 1215 and all the Kings since? Or are the labors and sacrifices of our American patriots now just a memory, a sort of Fourth of July flour ish? In all seriousness I call upon the Congress of the United States to curb the executive and to reassure the citi zens of our nation that we still enjoy all the freedom won by our ancestors. • • • Drying up of church activity is not uncommon these days. A severe shortage of clergymen has, by one estimate, left al most 89,000 Protestant and Jewish congregations in the U. S. without a full-time minister or rabbi. Every Jewish temple selects its own rabbi, and many Protestant denomina tions similarly leave each con gregation free to hire its own minister or ministers, though regional or national church or ganizations often help to find qualified men. For some faiths, empty pul pits are less of a problem. In the Methodist and ’ Evangelical United Brethren Protestant de nominations, for instance, an nual district conference select ministers for member church es, and can shift clergymen from one congregation to an other. In the Roman Catholic Church no parish can operate without a priest, as only' the priest can oiler mass, which is central to all Catholic worship; diocesan offices have full pow er to assign priests to parishes to keep every pulpit filled. But the scarcity of clergy men is hurting these faiths, too. Among Catholics, for ex ample, ecclesiastical authori ties have been unable to cor rect some extreme inequities that have developed in pastoral wort; loads. In Clemson, one Catholic church has two priests for 900 parishioners. .But at Good Shepherd Parish in New Tort, six priests minister to 17,0000 Catholics — an average of only one priest for over'~2,-~ 800 communicants . . . • • • Where is Cuba? And where is San Domingo? Cuba lies ninety miles east of Florida—too near, in fact for comfort. There are other islands near us, to the East, but they are in safe hands, at least for the present. On my way from New York to Peru I went through the Panama Canal; that saves sev eral thousand miles by avoid ing the long trip down the At lantic to the tip of South America and then northward a long way to Callao, Peru. * * 3) I sailed from New York, traveling south and going east around Cuba toward the Canal. That came near Santo Domin- to, which lies with Haiti just off our route. On another trip we sailed by Havana, Cuba, and spent some hours in that city. Leaving Ha vana, we sailed somewhat west and then south to the Panama Canal. As a matter of strategy we must defend the Canal. Going by the canal saves a lot of time and fuel on a trip to Los Angeles (San Pedros), and San Francisco. If communism gets a grip on Panama we might be se riously involved and greatly injured. , We built the Canal, you know, spending millions upon millions of dollars; and we must protect it. 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