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* .•VV-NA* 4 . 1 «. ‘ **•**«/ .* O * A • / 4 » • 4 A A. * 4 i X i. i » 4 £ £ ** J* & 4-X,# a i 4*. m j 18 THK CLINTON CBRON1CLB Clinton, S. C., Thursday, October 19,1967 . 4CWNTQN, p., W, |W doknt wn-pp^. Mfur»«nuMM 1M§ PUBLISHED EVERY THUB6PAY flY THpt CffRONlCLB COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable ^ Advance) Out-of-County Olfc Year, *4.00; Six Moptbs, $2.59 On? Year, S5.0p Second Class Postage paid ft Clinton, S. C. POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to CUnton Chronicle. Clinton, S. C. 29325 Member: South Carolina Press Association. National Editorial Association AMERICAN PRESS ASSOClATJOtf National Advertising Representative: ro. Detroit Philadelphia V "Poys, V/a'^ Beftpr Find AnpfW Carnfaign Song For '68. 'Happy Days Are Here Again Just Doesn't Hpve It..." The Two Sides Of League of Women Voters' Survey Our congratulations to the Provisional League of Women Voters of Laurens County on its recently completed sur vey of the county. This s u r v e y contains information which covers all governmental aspects of life in the county. Want to know how the county’s budget is drawn up? The answer ip ip the survey. What are the responsijbiU- ties of the county’s legislative delega tion? See the survey report. Wfucfr courts have jurisdiction over what type of trials? See the survey. What is the Babson’s Point of View On: Brain Drain BABSON PARK, MASS.—Morp and morp we have been hearing the complaint that tal ented people from all over the world, bift specially from Europe, are lured to the Unit ed States by the prestige of our educational facilities. WESTWARD FLOW This talent drain is nothing new. Ca nadians have long deplored the fact thqt many of their most promising young people have come to the U. S. for greater education al or job opportunities, and then elected to remain here. The exodus from Canada has included some world-renowned artists, mu sicians, scientists, and businessmen. ' ’ | i In more recent years there has been an increasing flow to the U. S. of very tal ented people from many other countries. Britain, especially, has felt keenly the loss of outstanding men and women in a variety of fields who have sought permanent resi dence herp or actually become U. S. citizens. Nowhere is this American attraction of tal ent'- more manifest than in medicine. In hospitals throughout the length and breadth of our land today, you will find a prepon derance of residents and interns who havp come here to complete their medical educa tion or to engage in research. ’ STRONG URBAN PULL But even within the United Statps and among our own people, the brafn drain has become quite a problem. Urbanization * has proceeded at a very rapid pace and is still going on. The number of residents in our standard metropolitan statistical areas— by definition, least one central city of no less than 50.000 persons together with the sur rounding area ecomonically oriented to it— increased by 10.4 per cent from April, 1960, it to July, 1965. From the farms and from the more isolated small towns, people have been mov ing in ever greater numbers to the larger urban and suburban areas. This migration has been most keenly felt in rural areas, where scarcity of teachers, managerial per sonnel, and medical talent has been espec ially pronounced. FROM CORE CITIES Almost simultaneous with the migration of people from farms to urban areas has been migration from the core cities of those who have* forsaken the large cities metropolitan areas. In the very vanguard of for residence in the suburbs have been the more successful and talented, whose afflu ence permitted greater freedom of choice than was available to their less fortunate neighbors. Thus have the large cities lost what they need most—persons of vision and ability, with an interest in city problems and a will to make personal contributons and the sacri fice necessary to implement solutions. NEGLECT OF GIFTED Ilk today’s fast-changing, highly mobile world, we can’t possibly insulate ourselves againsi drains of talent from particular com- munitiet or areas within our borders. But there it another and perhaps more serious brain drain that we can take steps to reme dy. It Is reliably estimated that, in the U- S. alone, five million talented and creative young paople of school age just aren’t re- * ceiving flrom their teachers the attention and challenga they need to develop their full po tential. No ona knows how much talent has been lost to the nation because of our neglect of the gifted child. To give such children educational break they deserve will involve a good deal of planning and an increase in expenditure. Smaller classes, more sym- - pathetic and creative teachers following a more modern and realistic curriculum, will be needed. It is indeed time for pH of us to ask ourselves: What is my community doing to help its gifted children educationally, What vlll.it do? The answer deppods on our interest and ondthe depth of our concern. administrative set-up in the school sys tem ? The survey has the answer. f This* survey should be an exception- 1 ally valuable source of information for newcomei^ to the area. It answers many of the questions which they may ask. It woulf) be a nice bit of public rela tions for local industries to present cop ies pf the report to pew workers who are moving iptp the area. Anf}, WP’N bet that folks who are na tives of this area all of their lives will Jearn something from reading the sur vey report. 'jThis survey also should be required reading for school children, particularly those ip civics classes. j This report gives a thorough, accu rate picture of governmental operations at the grass roots level and that, after all, is where our form of government be gins. In the report’s foreword, it is pointed out, ‘The League of Women- Voters of the Lnited States is a non-partisan or ganization whose purpose is to promote political responsibility through informed and active participation in government.” The county • League has rendered an outstanding service to the county in pre sentation of this report. We hope that th,e report will be used to its best advan tage. Servicemen At Christmas Planping to send a Christmas gift to * * * • ^ r 111 ifil< 'ZsL&ttOteT Article Stirs Storm > Congress a serviceman overseas? ing. The deadline for delivery by Christ mas is approaching. It’s all according to how you plan to' send the package, but the Post Otfice deadlines for assurng delivery by Christ mas range from Nov. 11 to Dec. 11. It the package is going by surface trans portation ( ship) it must be mailed be tween Oct. 15 and Nov. 11. If it’s goin* on p “space available” basis, the dead line is Dec. 1. “Space available” means that the package will be sent to a port and then will be shipped overseas when ever space is available. There is a five pound maximum on these packages. If you’rp going to send the package airmail, it is suggested that you send it between Dec. 1 and Dec. II if you want to be assured it will arrive overseas prior to Christmas. The same applies for cards and let ters. Don’t forget our servicemen who are serving overseas in strange lands at Christmas time. And remember them in time to brighten their Christmas. Timeless Topic Combing through The Chronicle files, Then get crack- Confessmen, personnel of of the International Revenue By THE CHRONICLE'S CAPITOL BUREA WASHINGTON, D with let- Revenue Service and others are still suffering from a fallout of feelings as a result of a bomb of criticism about IRS ex ploded in The Readers Digest n August. A hearing on charges level- ?d at IRS in the article was leld bv a subcommittee of he House Appropriations Committee has done nothing o settle the troubled air. In act, say Capitol News Bur- jau sources, it has boosted he controversy further into irbit. The Digest article took IRS inundated my desk ters blistering the Service’s collection practices. They show it is frequently the small taxpayer who is hurt worst in his attempt to deal with a giant bureaucracy like IRS’’. Barron cites several cases of the small taxpayers who were tagged “it” in the In ternal Revepue game. H.e pi- tactics and so cites two large companies irs. who owed the government millions in back taxes and whq did not even . have their wrists slapped as the govern ment wrote off the taxes as uncollectable. Probably one of the more flagrant examples was the case of a Tennessee busiftess- srnarting under the attack. And while officials are still running around trying to justify their actions and their agents the Digest charges are still hanging on the line like so much dirty laundry. Meanwhile the Digest, Ed itor Barron, Congress, memr hers of the Senate judiciary subcommittee on administra tive practice and procedure and Internal Revenue Service officials have been inundated by an avalance of protest mail from irate and indignant citizens. What the final outcome will be cannot be predicted. But if leaders such as Dirksen, Long, Smith and a few others, have their way, there will be some changes made to pro tect the small taxpayer from the embarrassing pressure harassment by There are two sides to the “New Morality” code which Is being widely discussed in "bull sessions on college cam puses, according to Louis Cassels, veteran United Press International correspondent. He states that this new mor ality has been enthusiastical ly promoted by Play-boy Magazine “with an assist from certain theologians who are not noted for their re ticence about publicity.” He quotes from a report in the journal of the American Medical Association by Dr. Seymore Hallfck, director of student psychiatry at the Un- versity of Wisconsin. He said that 70 per cent of the coeds who responded to a confid ential questionnaire affirmed the belief that there is “noth ing wrong” with premarital sexual intercourse. ^However, he said only 22 per cent said they had actually engaged in intercourse. Cassels then quotes the Rev. Paul F. Bosch, Lutheran campus chaplain at Syracuse Univer sity, who sets forth counter arguments which should be presented to young people who secretly admire and ap prove the new morality. Bosch contends that this new morality can be shown to be false at almost every point. He then proceeds to dissect “the four arguments most frequently mentioned by exponents of the ‘new mor ality.” No. 1 — Sex is simply a game, like tennis, “As long as no one gets hurt, and no one takes it seriously, it’s fun and there’s no harm in it.” He says that this light hearted _ view may make some sense for boys, but not much to girls as there is “a vast difference between male sexuality and female sexuali ty.” He notes that women have much more at stake in this experience, and take it much more seriously. Sub consciously they realize that they are gambling with their future. No. 2 -j- “Sex is merely an appetite like hunger, and should be satisfied as matter- of-faetly as any other normal human need.” EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By DR. HERBERT SPAJJGH Counter - arguments con cedes there is some truth in this, but observes that the premise that human happi ness consists in pfompt Sat isfaction of ail appetites isn’t true. Only spoiled children expect to have their wants gratified. Their ability to dis cipline appetites, including “sex is simply a matter of getting to know you.” Bosqh grants that sex does perform that function, but states that to know someone intimately is to put him or her in a po sition of vulnerability, in a position of getting hurt, with out the security of total com mitment on all levels of life. No. 3 — “Sex is simply a matter of getting to know you.!’ Bosch grants that sex does perform that fupctipn, but states that to know some one intimately is to put )n m or her in a position ot vulner ability, in a position of get ting hurt, without the security of total commitment on nil levels of life. No. 4 — Sex is simply an expression of Iqve, a sign or symbol of affection, that Christians uphold as the ideal basis of all human relation ships. • Here is the understanding of the true meaning of loye. The English language has on ly one word, love, “to cover a range of human emo tions.” The Greeks used five different verbs to express love: (1) physical love, (2) love of friendship, (3) love of parents for children and chil dren for parents, (4) conjugal love (5) sacrificial love. The latter is the kind of love which Christ commanded His followers to show to all per sons, including their ene mies. It is pure, unselfish love which has nothing to do with sexual expressions of love. The chaplain concludes that “for the Christian, all of life is an expression of love. to task for some of the high- man. An IRS agent rifled aanded antics of its agents in through his mall and found a ’ollecting taxes. Entitled letter linking the man with Tyranny in the Interna) another woman. He made a Revenue Service,’’ the articlp copy of the letter and showed ook IRS to task for some of it to the man’s wife in hopes the highhanded antics of its agents in collecting taxes. Entitled “Tyranny in the In ternal Revenue Service,” the article documents with sever al cases its charge that IRS “has bullied, degraded, and crushed innocent citizens in the name of collecting taxes.” JOHN BARRON, Digest as sociate editor, th.e author she would become ' so angry she would inform against her husband. IRS officials excused this as just bad judgment on the agent’s part and said that disciplinary action had been taken. Unfortunately the rec ord is not given on the dis position of the man’s case — nor the disposition of his wife. The charges were bad enough, say Washington sources, but what made it traveled over 5,000 miles we came across the following editorial/ and interviewed over 600 per- written by the late W. W. Harris in the ^ ons in his research for the May 22, 1952, edition. The names of the * est plece - f f , „ ... u „ senators have been deleted since both are Barron says ’ “ A11 this ma y w u orse y et was the “whitwash” senators nave been aeietea since o e sound incredible ^ th0S g whQ thp snhmmm.ttpp i» deceased: have not yet been victimized “Senator , speaking in by IRS 1 was skeptical too— Greenville this week, said ‘Wild spend- at first But the P roof has been piled high by court rul- actions, unrefuted sworn testimony, documented com- The Senator is about 16 years late f' aint ^ t0 Con g res s and by ing, unless halted, will bankrupt the United States.’ the admissions of cials themselves. IRS offi- It is so overwhelming that concern section of in denouncing free spending and deficit financing. During tShe New Deal and Fair Deal administrations, like Senator n0 w grips a 'cross and (other) congress- Congress. men of the state, he has had a promi- “More than half the Senate nent part in the spending and hand- membership has gone on rec- grabbing. ord calling for something to t ^ r . , , , , , be done about the way f small- Time to get on the mourners’ bench taxpayers are abused by passed long ago.” irs.” 1 all. Times haven’t changed much, after Two M; Neighbors the subcommittee applied in its hearing. Only IRS offi cials were called to testify Barron was not called and neither were any of the har- rassed taxpayers cited in Barron’s article. CONGRESSMAN James Smith of Oklahoma got hoo ping mad, first about the facts as pointed out in the article, then the subcommit tee’s half-hearted hearing and the IRS rebuttal. * He took to the floor of Con gress later in August to enter into the Congressional Rec ord the Digest’s rebuttal to the IRS rebuttal and asked that the committee be re convened to conduct a proper investigation and in his scathing address he observ ed: .u * j , ., . . “IRS has . . .revealed in- threetened reputable citizens, formation more damaeinR to itself than the Digest reported years ago, a Senate subcommittee conducted hearings where it was reveal ed IRS has defied court or ders, criminally picked Jocks, stolen records and illegally tapped . telephones* seized, opened and read per sonal letters, all ili its zeal to collect taxes frbm the lit tle man. L_ - Barron quotes Sen. Edward V. Long (D-Mo ), chairman of the Senate subcommittee: “IRS has become morally and while berating the Read er’s Digest for allegedly be ing wrong in 15 of 16 cases, IRS in many of these cases simply confirms what the Digest said. “I deeply resent a commit tee of Congress being swerv- corrupted by the enormous ed from its primary constitu- power with which we in Con- tional responsibility of “Can’t you set it to come up with only hopeful predic* tionsr gress have unwisely en trusted it. Too often it acts like a Gestapo preying upon defenselses citizens.” pro viding checks and balances between the various branches of government, and instead be allowed to be used for .. . self-serving propaganda by SENATE Minority Loader the bureaucracy.” Everett Dirksen added: Mighty hard words, say "Outraged constituents have Capitol sources. IRS is still i. A4...V • •.• •••• •*••.* ’ < ' ,~.r : f jig ■i&mi \ 1 L*i S&J'W:*:..* v. 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