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'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.
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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.
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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
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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
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