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I kUiottaiU. A UNITY OF PURPOSE The Law of Diminishing Returns 2-B—THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., May 7, 1970 President Nixon’s decision to send U.S. troops across the Cambodian bor der to clear out the Viet Cong opera tional centers was a bold one. It took Americans by surprise and created some uneasiness. The Viet nam war is not a popular one and now we have moved across a border into still another country. However, one thing impresses us about the move. President Nixon staked his political career on this war decision. He said that some advisors have told him the decision could make him a “one-term president” but that he had to cast aside political consid erations and take the action which he feels is necessary. The war has crossed both of our political parties and our leaders have continued to act with firmness in their handling of the war. The agreements which eventually got us involved in Vietnam were made during Republican President Dwight Eisenhower’s administration. Demo cratic President John F. Kennedy sent the first military advisors into Viet nam. Democratic President Lyndon Johnson stepped up the pace of the war, sending in large numbers of troops and starting heavy bombing. Now Republican ^-esident Richard Nixon has sent our troops across the border into the Viet Ocxng nesting places. Richard Nixon and Lyndon John son are politically orientated men. Al though they are on opposite sides of the political fence, they have reacted the same way when faced with tough decisions about Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson forfeited his can didacy for re-election in an effort to bring the North Vietnamese to the ne gotiation table. If the Cambodian battle is unsuccessful, Richard Nixon will have forfeited his second term as president. The point is: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon all have been con vinced that South Vietnam is worth defending. They were the best in formed men in the free world about the Vietnam situation and they made decisions which might be unpopular but which they felt were necessary and above partisan politics. Considering the background, we feel our administration deserves the support and faith of the American people in this bold move. President Nixon is not a war monger. When they occupied the highest office in the land, Eisenhow er, Kennedy and Johnson were not warmongers. When presented with all of the facts in the situation, these men decided on the course which they felt this nation must follow and all four followed a similar line although the individual actions have been dif ferent. All would have preferred that we didn’t have to get involved but all ap parently decided that we couldn’t af ford to take the easy way out. NITPICKERS In a letter to the editor of the Se attle Times, a reader, Mr. L. F. Buch anan, says that he is “disgusted with nitpickers and with Ralph Nader in particular.” “In 1922,” wrote Mr. Buchanan, “I paid $34 for an automobile battery and it lasted 18 months—maybe. Now the battery that comes with the car lasts for years. “In 1922 I had to have an engine overhaul at 10,000 miles. Now I drive 60,000 to 75,000 miles without a ma jor overhaul. A tire that went 4,000 miles in those days was good. Now I get 30,000 to 40,000 miles. Vibration then held my speed to 40 miles an hour. Today I sail along at 70. “I don’t believe Nader nitpickers were responsible for those changes. Nor do I need Nader to tell me when I am being ‘rooked’ on a product. I know a business fails or prospers through services rendered. That is why we have the highest standard of living and more conveniences than any other people on earth—and I know this was not brought about by the nit pickers. “My shoes last longer than they did a few years ago. My electricity costs less per unit and service is more dependable by far. My radio in 1924 cost $138. It had three tuning dials and batteries. Tuning in a station was quite an accomplishment. Now I can get a portable for $26 and it does a much greater job. “I feel people should be told much more about the history of such ac complishments than about faults found by the nitpickers. Mr. Buchanan has a point. We would add this: it seems to us that Mr. Nader has what might be called a fairly safe operation. Improvements have not only been made in the past; they will continue to be made in the future. These improvements will come about because of the built-in impera tive of business to satisfy the needs and demands of the consumers in a free competitive economy, where peo ple have the right to choose the beet buy at the best price. None of this will be the result of anything said or done by Nader’s noisy raiders — but what is to prevent him from making that claim? Parson Jones Says Young Speak 'In Tongues' Dear Mr. Publisher: I had the funniest dream the other night I dreamed I was at this gathering with hundreds of fellas. They all had long hair and beards, and were walking around bare-footed. After a while they started what I thought was singing. But, the more they moved their mouths, the more I realised I coukfe’t understand a word they were saying. Then it dawned on me, “I must be back in Bible times and every one is speaking in tongues.” ta my dream I kept naming from fella to fella trying to get somebody to interpret it for me. -They all told me I should be able fo understand it if I was turned > on. It wasn’t long til I vascry- v fee, caase obviously I must be a listened real careful. I coulcta’t understand what they were sing ing, even when I was awake. Great guns! Were those kids singing through their nose, or were they really speaking in tongues? My wife always said they weren’t teaching writing in school any more - I wonder if they’ve dropped English too. I know the yoonguns ain’t gon na like this, but I’m telling it like it is. They’re harping about not being able to understand the old folks, well Sir, the shoe fits both feet They don’t want to be treated like kids anymore, so I might as well take my kid gloves off. I have run out of paper, and out of courage, so I gotta sign off. So until next time - yabe doll mok eby grasy ding - ya, ya - Snok. Know what I mean? Paraon Jones * • . * There are at feast 40 Ptl- Stafera who have ac- tha rtmarkabfe age of 100 or more. SENATOR STROM THURMOND REPORTS TO THE PEOPLE URBAN GUERRILLAS Lenin Left Hate Heritage STRICTLY FRESH People who chase rainbows are heading toward stormy weather. t * * Plans for early retirement are thwarted when gabby neighbors drop in. BY THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President Southern States Industrial Council On April 22nd, communists throughout the world celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. L Lenin, the first dictator of the Soviet Union and the founder of the communist totalitarian system that holds the Russian people in bondage. The centenary celebration of Lenin’s birth will continue for a full year, and Americans can be sure that the celebration will be in the form of political deeds as well as speeches and pub lication of histories. It is important that the American people understand Lenin and Leninism, for the heritage he left lives to en danger the United States and its institutions and free people ev erywhere. Lenin was the son of a school official under the Czarist gov ernment, a member of the minor nobility. He turned to revolu tionary action after his older brother was executed for joining in an assassination attempt a- gainst Czar Alexander HI. For much of his adult life Lenin lived abroad, mostly in Swit zerland. He managed to mani pulate revolutionary elements in Russia, and by 1903 -- at the Marxist Congress -- he had de fined his doctrine and his me thod. It was Lenin who shaped Mar xist doctrines to the Russian experience. He created the armed doctrine that is com munism today. He made the Communist Party a semi-mili tary organization with total dis cipline. He envisioned the idea of dictatorial rule until the com ing of the final socialist utopia, as envisioned by communists. This rather mild appearing man, who led a quiet personal life, was the organizer of the most ruthless totalitarian sys tem in history. He fastened on the Russian people a tyranny far more total than anything imagined by the Czars. Lenin also conceived the new Red im perialism which, over the last half century, has come to de stroy ancient, independent na tions and hold hundreds of mil lions of people in thralldom. The heritage Lenin left is a heritage of hate -- hatred of constitutional government, the capitalist system, and the tra ditional freedoms we enjoy in the United States. His message of hate still blinds millions of people and has a perverse at traction as indicated by the e- mergence of the New Left in the U.S. in recent years. The young revolutionaries who have blown up ROTC build ings on college campuses and planted bombs in corporate headquarters in New York City are heirs to the Leninist tra dition — the tradition of terror and destruction. Some of Len in’s followers belong to the or thodox Communist Party. Many more belong to a variety of New Left groups which are in- disciplined from the regular communist standpoint but which are permeated by Leninist ha tred of republican institutions. The West still does not ap preciate the seriousness of the Leninist threat. It does not grasp the depth of the deceit that Lenin taught to all com munists. For example, re pent debates in the U.S. Senate on the Strategic Arms Limita tion Talks in Vienna revealed the prevailing ignorance of Len inism. A number of ‘liberal” senators expressed the view that the Russian delegation to the SALT talks would be rea sonable and businesslike and would bargain in good faith. Good faith bargaining and rea sonableness is impossible fora good Leninist, as the Russian delegates most certainly are. The Russians see the Vienna talks as an opportunity to soften up the United States and to per suade the U. S. to abandon its weapon systems. No doubt, the Russians will be willing to sign an agreement, to affix their names to a scrap of paper. Lenin taught actions of that sort, all the while understanding secret ly that no agreement would be respected unless it suited the needs of the communist regime. Lenin made the Bolshevik re volutionary faction the domi nant faction by tactics of de ceitful negotiation. He was rea dy to make any sort of inter- faction agreement because he utterly rejected any standard of truth or good faith. The me thods Lenin developed for Rus sia’s internal situation are the methods his followers have em ployed. The only real conces sion a Leninist will make is a concession of words, for tac tical purposes. Always the Leninist --the communist -- goal is de struction of the capitalist coun tries. Nikita Khrushchev said to the United States: “We will bury you.” He meant it. And so do to day’s communists, both the party hierarchy in Mos cow and the delegates to the SALT talks in Vienna. If the American people don’t understand the grim reality, if they don’t grasp the brutal mes sage that V. L Lenin delivered in his lifetime, tbeir chances of survival against a formidable adversary will not be good. Thus it is essential that the American people and their leaders com prehend the threatening mes sage of hatred and evil that is Leninism. • ••••••••••• •• Mj Neighbors In recent weeks and months we have been watching the rise of a grave new threat to our nation’s internal security. In city after city, and even in some college towns, groups of men and women have banded to gether to form a guerrilla move ment dedicated to the disruption of civil order and to the ulti mate overthrow of our form of government. The acts of terrorism which have been rising in intensity are not the work of “mad bombers” releasing pent-up per sonal frustrations. They are the work of what may best be de scribed as a "movement,”—that is, a nation-wide underground of individuals and organizations dedicated to the ideology of violent revolution. BOND OF UNITY Although small in numbers, revolutionaries are united by a bond of thinking and strategy, perpetuated by their own pub lications and pamphlets. Fur thermore, at least some of the most prominent among them have received training together in guerrilla warfare in training camps abroad. Moreover, there are certain organizations, with identifiable leaders and mem bership, which maintain various kinds of control over the move ment. Most Americans think of guer rilla warfare as something pos sible only in jungle or moun tainous terrain. Nevertheless, it has been highly successful in urban centers, leading to the overthrow of established gov ernments in China, Algeria, Latin America, and elsewhere. The technique of the urban guerrilla is to remain always on the offensive, with surprise at tacks intended to incite terror and uncertainty. Such attacks need not be centrally coordi nated. The urban guerrilla manuals now in wide circula tion in the United States em ph asize that it is only necessary to have a generally rising level of intensity of disruption. In deed, great emphasis is place on the initiative of local groups to plan their own attacks with out a complicated hierarchy of command. DEDICATION TO VIOLENCE Thus, in recent weeks the nation has noted the explosion of individual "bomb factories' and other explosions in which the bombers themselves were de stroyed. Those who profess to see no central conspiracy in such explosions miss the essen tial bond of ideology and the ntensive cross-fertilization of nformation and strategy. Those concerned share a com mon dedication to the core of Marxism-Leninism, although some may protest that their real doctrine is anarchism, or dedi cation to Mao Tse-Tung, Che Guevarra. Trotsky, or a host of other terrorists. All of them agree in the overthrow of our government, and their activities mutually assist each other. The techniques of the urban guerrillas include bombing, threats of bombing, arson, plane hi-jacking, kidnapping, and niper activity. Urban guerrilla warfare is distinguished from riots and general anarchy by the political motivation of it- ■cted targets, which include the police, the courts, hanks, and the offices of corporations which upport our national defense. The aim is to create hav e !> th with our system of law and order and with symbolic targets of private property and our capitalist economy. Other techniques include hank robbery for funds, and roblx-rv f arms and ammunition from arsenals and stores. Both -.uch crimes have been rising rapidly in the C. S. REMEDIES There are two remedies avail • hlc to defend our nation against the-e lawless crmunaN President Nixon has called for strong legislation (S. .'in.'>u > again.-t the interstate transpor t ition of explosives intended to destroy property or life, false bomb threats by mail or tele phone, and the destruction of government property. Sanctions would range up to the death penalty when* death results. The other remedy is the re- invigoration of the Subversive Activities Control Board. Con trary to the impression given in the press, the recent Supreme Court decision against the SAC B involved onlv the ques tion of mere membership in the C ommunist Party. The Supreme Court ha- up held the right of the SACB t" lal>el Communist action organi zations and to label individual- who are knowingly involved in Communist activities. What i- needed now i> an Executive Order from the President au thorizing the SACB to judge all i iolcnt-actmii organizations, in stead of only those .formally aligned with ^ iMl #<tf^feunist Part v * - - i c&L'-vovw 'rut J,r. parr ,i ,.r ),rin(ril n( yiu < r*m. nr . j-jirn*. j bUr eview K4 & / Our Girl Friday says she lost her mind over a new boy friend and we’re not sur prised, because such a small thing is mighty easy to lose. Keeping your head while others lose theirs was quite a trick during the French rev olution. * * * Hurry up and brag of your accomplishment nefore someone finds something wrong with it. Students' Dress Vue Flgtre The figure of a cock is used in many weather vanes because, by a papal enact ment in the 9th century, such a figure was set up on every church steeple as the emblem of St Peter, in allu sion to his denial of Christ thrice before the cock THE EDITOR: I wonder bow many of you, if yoo saw a bad wreck, would go oo by for fear of getting involved if you stopped to help. Due to several incidents oc curring at our schools about the students’ dress, I think it’s time we an got involved. What’s wrong with wearing a pantsdress, culottes, or a scooter skirt to school? At least the girls have a little protec tion between their legs. I can understand reprimanding a stu dent for wearing something too tight or too short but to me these other garments are not indecent I simply cannot see refusing to let a sixth grade child call her Mother because she bad worn a scooter skirt to school, then make the child walk eight blocks or more home to change the skirt There are many rules concerning clothes set down for Junior High and High School students that are very ridicu lous. To me the principals, superintendent, teachers, and school board should be more concerned over our childrens academic work, not their wear ing apparel. DON’T YOU THINK IT’S TIME YOU DID YOUR PARTIN FINDING OUT WHAT’S GOING ON AT SCHOOL AND WHY? WHY SHOULD A SCHOOL SYS TEM CARE LESS ABOUT WHAT A CHILD LEARNS AND MORE ABOUT WHAT HE WEARS? Mrs. Robert Satterfield Clinton “I’m not so much hawk or dove aa just plain chicken!” And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.— (Gen. 1:31). In Genesis we find that there was a plan of order in the crea tion as envisioned by the in THURSDAY'S CHILD By Lennart Pearson Head Librarian Presbyterian College Thursday’s Child Has Far to Go. By Kath leen Lukens and Carol Pan ter. 248 pages. Pren tice-Hall. 1969. Today, there is a handicapped child in one out of every nine families. By 1976, according to the authors, there will be 76 million children in America and there will be nine million with chronic handicaps: enough to populate New Jer sey. These are Thursday’s children. The reason that each has far to go has to do, of course, with his own personal handicap. But it is also true that the distance is determined to a large extent by the “normal” world with which he has to learn to cope as well as his own. It cannot be denied that tin recent years great progress has been made in making the pub lic aware of the problems of exceptionality. This is no small thing, considering the depth of our cultural commitment to the values of “conform ity, respectability, success, education and good health.” Awareness, however, is not enough. To shorten the distance for Thursday’s child re quires a much greater degree of acceptance and understanding for the handicapped, which will lead in turn to an insistance on opportunities and and services far beyond what is now available. It takes an uncommon commitment to human values on the part of society to urge the fullest development of even the least of its members. This book contains four stories, fictionalized versions of actual situations, which convey with surprising success the feeling of those caught up in the problems of Thursday’s children. David is a brain-damaged child whose parents have to find a way to keep him from retreating from a world with which he can barely communicate. “The Chirping of a Sparrow” is about an eleven year old girl, a diabetic, whose parents are terri fied about what people will think if they find out about Jane’s syringe. Patsy’s mother finds her self up against society’s power to reject both of them, and the ignorance of people who ought to know better. Julie and Harold have just become the parents of an orthopedically handicapped advised by both in-laws and specialists, spired writers of this book, to®? learn that there are no pat solutions and that Order is basic to the founds- guilt is the painful concomitant of choice, tion of man’s world. Divine Anyone interested in knowing a little more order in our human relations about what handicap is like, these four stories should prove to be enlightening. They represent well tti« reaJitiea and the ffiuaiom with which one family in nine has to come to grips. makes us a harmonious, con tributing part of our world. Let there be divine order.