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4 REGISTRATION BOOKS HERE There will be little excuse for any one not being registered to vote in the June 9 Laurens County Democratic Primary. The books are now open six days a week in the Registrar’s Office in the Laurens County Courthouse. In case you can’t get to Laurens to register the books will be brought to Clinton on April 30, May 1 and 2. The books will be available for voter registration at the old Hamilton Jewelers Building in downtown Clin ton. The deadline for voter registration for the June 9 primary is May 9. Laurens County in general and Clinton in particular have not covered themselves with glory in the field of voter participation in recent years. We hope more interest will be shown in the forthcoming primary and general election. Laurens Coun ty voters are going to elect the coun ty’s first County Council. The men who are elected to that office will be the ones who will be directly respon sible for the operation of the county. If the voters turn out, we are confi dent they will select the most quali fied men for these vital jobs. LEARNING ABOUT LIFE On occasion we spot a ray of hope beaming from amidst the murky clouds of immorality, drugs, dropouts and general alienation that seems to darken the lives of too many youth in our society. One sage has predicted that because of the permissive behav ior of modern youth, they will, when they attain maturity, turn out to be among the most strict parental gene rations in recent history. We hope that this turns out to be the case; and there are some signs to indicate that maybe he is right. In the March 23rd edition of the National Observer, there was a report on a visit to a so-called “commune” in the State of Washington. The report er was greeted at the door of the most elaborate house in the commune by a nude young man. They entered the living room for the interview, where they were joined by his wife, also nak ed. During the discussion the young couple displayed the typical, and pre dictable, “anti-establishment” motiva tions. They claimed to be both anti capitalist and anti-communist; they just don’t want to live under any au thority of any kind. But the most interesting—and we believe, significant—part of the re ported conversation was the fact that many of the things that society has learned over the years to be best for all, are now being “discovered” by the commune residents. They confessed to the reporter that their experimental ventures into mate swapping and “group marriages” had failed. “Monogamy seems to create the least amount of tensions and pro vides more stability for raising chil dren” is the way one resident put it. Now, isn’t that a remarkable “discov ery” for a college graduate! On the theory of sharing all: a fe male resident told of the utter and complete failure of the system. ‘True communial life just didn’t work out,” she said. “Everyone contributed ac cording to his ability, all right; but those who had less ability seemed to have more needs.” She noted that a worker would chop firewood to heat the house—and a drone would leave all the doors open. On drugs: addicts with drugs in vaded the commune a while back and didn’t work at all. Now some of the residents will not even take aspirin or coffee, much less liquor. THE BUSY SENATORS There has been and probably al ways will be a lot of joshing about the “easy life” led by our distinguished United States Senators. And, too, the Senate comes in for its share of criti cism. The fact is that glamorous as the United States Senate seat may be, there is much hard work, long hours, and perplexing problems inherent in the job. And the record shows that this year the Senators are working longer and harder than ever. During the 1969 session, beginning in January, it was not until mid-Sep tember that the Senate had 72 record votes. This year, from mid-January to the first of March, the Senate has already had 72 record votes. Among the 88 bills to be passed by the Senate thus far in the second ses sion of the 91st Congress are the fol lowing: Controlled Dangerous Substances Act—Organized Crime Control Act- Dairy Products Donation—Egg Prod ucts Inspection Act—Tomato Promo tion — Continuing Appropriations through February 28, 1970—Foreign Aid Appropriations, 1970 — Labor- HEW Appropriations, 1970 — Credit Unions: Independent Agency Status- Federal National Mortgage Associa- tion—Newspaper Preservation Act- Railroad Retirement — Discriminatory State Taxation of Interstate Carriers —Urban Mass Transportation Assist ance Act—Foreign Service Retirement System Adjustments—Legislation to Implement the Convention on Recog nition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards—American Prisoners of War in South-East Asia—Elemen tary and Secondary Education Amend ments—Executive Protection Service —School Lunch and Child Nutrition Acts Amendments—Conference Report on Medical Libraries Assistance—Air port and Airways Development Act— Community Mental Health Centers Amendments—Intellectual and Indus trial Property Conventions. Sometimes raised is the question as to whether letters to the Senators from grass-roots constituents are wel comed or read. Consider: how would you have voted on each one of the measures listed—to say nothing of 66 others not listed—? Would you have voted for, or against? If you were in Washington, having to make up your mind on each bill, would you not ap preciate a few letters from your home state letting you know how the voters feel? Indeed you would; the more letters the better! You can help your Representative in Washington, by writing a SHORT letter as often as you can, telling them how you feel about specific decisions which he must make. But remember —snake your letters short, to the point ... and most of all let him know that you are depending on him to do a job to you and to our country. to cause things to hap- STRICTLY FRESH The most expensive thing about a fur coat for the wife is jhe wardrobe of things to go with it. 0 0 0 An okUimer is a fellow who recall when you had to trot down to the bosement and Ofpit the water heater before taking a bath. • * * People who claim cats are dumb have rarely displayed >» any ability themselves to get three squares a day and fedlss of love just by purr ing. * I'": • • 1 e .v ', m 1 ; nm-^ « me flower cnuaren nave been around long'enough for <*» V ^ "Oh, it's so upsetting! These kids mixed up with drugs-now where're my tranquilizers..." 2-B—THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., April 23, 1970 Senate Shows Sectional Bias BY THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President Southern States Industrial Council The U.S. Senate’s rejection of Judge G. Harrold Carswell as a nominee for the Supreme Court reveals the low estate to which that body has fallen under the domination of a bipartisan Lib eral coalition. The action also ex poses the almost pathological ha tred the Liberal camp has for the Southern part of the United States, the region that played a leading role in the establishment of the republic and whose people always have been so ready to de fend their country. The Senate’s action was the result of undiluted sectional bias. President Nixon “told it like it is’ when he declared after Judge Carswell’s defeat that the Senate, ‘as it is presently constituted,’ will not approve a Southerner. when men like Judges Carswell and Haynsworth can and will sit on the high court. It is the shame of the Senate that it would turn down the Presi dent s nominees for a judicial post because, as Mr. Nixon said, of “the accident of their birth, the fact that they were born in the South. It should be profound ly shocking to Americans of good will, wherever they live, that the Liberal coalition in the Senate sould be so determined to punish the people of one section and con- - fine them to second-class status in the nation. Apparently South erners are good enough to fight and die in Vietnam and defend their country on other fronts. But when it comes to placing them in posts of responsibility at home, the sectional bitterness of the Liberals bars Southerners from key posts. That certainly, is a strange way to promote “unity" in this country. In a moving and forthright For Southerners, the most statement Mr. Nixon said: “I shocking aspect of the rejection understand the bitter feeling of of Judge Carswell was the action millions of Americans who live of a handful of senators from in the South about the act of re- Southern states who turned their gional discrimination that took back on their region and joined place in the Senate. They have my with the Liberal pack trying to assurance that the day will come humiliate the South. eview By Lennart Pearson Head Librarian Presbyterian College THE QUEST FOR PEACE The Quest For Peace; The Story of the Nobel Awards. By Mortimer Lipaky. 281 Pages. A. S. Barnes. 1966. “My factories,” said Alfred Nobel, the invent or of dynamite, “may well put an end to war . . . The day when two army corps can annihilate one another in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.” Not in his wildest dreams could Nobel have anticipated the extent to which the twentieth century would subscribe to this “horror theory of peace”. By 1895, however, the year his will was drawn, Nobel had had second thoughts: My hope was that the terrible effects of dynamite would keep men from war, but now I see to my utter dismay that my life work amounts to nothing . . . High explosives will not deter men from waging war . . . Nobody will profit by my inventions except manufac turers of war materials, some generals, admi rals, and diplomats. Mankind on the whole will be the loser. That sentiment, too, has found its supporters, and it expresses roughly what the Americans and the Russians are trying to talk over these days in Vienna. Nobel’s award for peace was one of five to be given out yearly to persons rendering the greatest services to mankind. Under the terms of his will, discoveries in physics, chemistry, and medicine, and outstanding achievement in literature were to be recognized, and also the person “who shall have done the moat or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promoting of peace congresses.” The peace award, for which a committee nam ed by the Norwegian Parliament is responsible, has sometimes gone to amateurs: Jane Adams (1931), Albert Schweitzer (1952), Father Dominique Georges Pi re (1968), George C. Marshall (1953), Dag Hammarsicjold (1961); sometimes to organ ized bodies: American Friends Service Committee (1947); International Red Cross (1963); UNICEF (1966); Martin Luther King (1964), prize-winner at thirty-five was younger by eleven years than any other recipient. Eighteen times in its sixty- eight year history, the peace prize has not been awarded at all. Lipsky’s account is absorbing reading. He has wisely concentrated on the major figures, describ ing what it was about their work that commended them to the imagination of the selection commit tee. To Lipsky, the history of this award is a chronicle of our times—naivette, holocaust, hope, genocide, wariness, detente, cold war, refugees, the Bomb. On the whole, he is not optimistic about the outcome of it all. Still, to despair is to sur render in advance to the forces of barbarism. The award itself represents a triumph of conscience over invention, and that is what needs to be emu lated. Who wants to be first? Five senators stand out. These are Democratic Senators Al bert Gore of Tennessee, Ralph Yarborough of Texas, William B. Spong Jr., of Virginia, and J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, and Republican Marlow Cook of Kentucky. Their names--and act- ions--no doubt will live in the memory of Southerners who are appalled at their line-up with those seeking humiliation of a great region of the UmtedStates. Senators Cook, Spong and Ful bright are not up for reelection this year. But the voters "f Ten nessee and Texas will have an < p- portunity this year to regis ter their views regarding the anti-Carswell votes of Senat rs Gore and Yarborough. There is likely to be a groundswell f righteous indignation against Senators Gore and Yarborough for deserting their region and making comm<« cause with those who want to downgrade it. If there ever was any doubt as to the real political allegiance of Senators Gore and Yarbor ugh, their votes against Judge Cars well should have cleared it up. Seantor Gore is an extreme ‘dove' on Vietnam and a lead er of the defeatist element in the Senate. Senator Yarborough is a favorite of the union monopolists who consider their national union organizations as a virtual state within a state. By voting against Judge Carswell, they showed in a conclusive manner that they place the values and political ambitions of the Liberal coalition ahead of the interests of their states. Parson Jones Says We Neglect Ones Who Fit Dear Mr. Publisher: I’m convinced that today’s so ciety is suffering from “one- track-minditus”. That’s a high - class word I invented for getting in a rut. I’ll show you what I mean. We’ve got so hung-iqi on socie ties mis-fits, that we’re neglect ing the ones that do fit. At the rate we’re going everybody will soon be a mis-fit on account of our neglect of the masses. We spend all our energies on one and neglect 99. Right off somebody’s gonna say that’s what Jesus told us to do. After all didn’t he say “leave the 99 and go after the lost"? And didto’t he say “there’s more joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents than over 99 just persons who need no re pen tence’? But that shows our “one-track-minditus” again. The idea was to bring ’em back to the fold, not run all and ignore the fold. If we spend all our time quite a few of them to be ob viously going to seed. dumb clucks are to be called “chick- One of the most beneficial exercises for a young man who hopes to keep fit in the business world is the con stant shutting of the mouth. * • • running after the one, the other 99 might run off and then we’d have a hundred to look for. The Good Book also says “bring a child up in the ways he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it”. An ounce of prevention is still worth a pound of cure. Keeping people from be ing alcoholics is better than cur ing alcoholics. Making sure kids don’t get on dope is better than stopping ’em after they’re con firmed doppers. Making a good home is better than trying to patch ig) a broken one. The medical profession learned a longtime ago preventing is a lot easier and cheaper than curing. I know a fella with five child ren who spent all his time with run-away kids. While he was do ing it, his five younguns went to the dogs. Mr. Publisher, I’m not saying we oughta neglect the misfits;but we should use a little common sense and spend some time with people before they get missed up. I gotta close for now and go work in my garden. I want to make sure it gets a good start. Parson Jones And The Senate Disposes King Feature* Syndicate CttOfWIY- CHOW- CHOW! mm om?\ chomp; CHOMP! mrnmrnmmm Southerners, to be sure, simply want a responsible, conservative court. They will support a sound jurist whether he comes from California, Oregon, Indiana, or any other state. They aren 't ask ing for a regional balance on the Supreme Court. But Southerners understandably resent deliberate efforts to exclude qualified men from the South and to deny them preferment. They also resent the hypocrisy of the Liberals who preach endlessly about “equal justice” and then gang up on Southern jurists to make sure that a native of one part of the country is denied a place on the highest court in the land. That such a narrow and partisan view pre vails in the U. S. Senate should be a source of sadness to A- mericans living in all 50 states of the Union. The U. S. Senate, which has played so many noble roles in American history, must be res cued from the Liberal coalition now in charge. Responsible citi zens in both parties and all re gions of the country no doubt will wish President Nixon to go to the country this fall and explain the need for truly fair-minded senators to be elected. * * * Set your minds on things that are above.—(Col. 3:2). As we grow in spiritual un derstanding, we come to view ourselves and our life differ ently. We view others differ ently. We are no longer com placent or unconcerned, We feel a real desire to express the God-self in us, while we work with our fellow-man. , ttKWOMQWWQWMKKWyMKV. -3* -a** ^ - v- -