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I I ZMtAxdU HELP SAVE JOBS Excessive textile and apparel im ports, particularly from low-wage Far Eastern countries, continue to be a special concern of the domestic tex tile and apparel industries in the Unit ed States. Although cotton textile im ports have been subject to a 30-nation international agreement since 1961, United States imports of textiles and apparel made of wool, man-made fibers fibers have been completely unregu lated and have been increasing at a high rate. At the direction of President Nix on more than a year ago, the Adminis tration undertook determined inter national etiorts to secure voluntary agreements which would apply reason able quantitative ( limits to these im ports. Numerous appeals were made to the major exporting nations, and particularly Japan, requesting their cooperation in developing an appropri ate international agreement. These efforts have been fruitless. As a con sequence, legislation to acconlplish' similar purpose hase been introduced by Representative Wilbur B. Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. This Bill (HR 16920) would estab lish reasonable limitations on all tex tile and apparel imports (other than cotton, which continues to be regulat ed by the international agreement) and would allow for upward or down ward ajustment in relation to the in crease or decrease in domestic textile consumption. To date more than 250 Congressmen have joined in support of this legislation. In terms of jobs and growth of the American economy, we believe that HR 16720 represents sound and reasonable legislation. Our textile and apparel industries directly provide jobs for more than 2 million people. The United States is the only major importing country which does not re strain imports of wool and man-made fiber textiles, either through interna tional agreements, import quotas or other governmental controls. As a consequence of our open market, we are accepting far more than our fair share of the exports of the low-wage producers. The proposed legislation is a major development important to Clinton, the State of South Carolina and the na tion. We encourage you to write Con gressman James R. Mann this week to express your appreciation for his ac tive support of HR 16920. A short, simple note will do. The address: The Honorable James R. Mann U. S. House of Representatives Washington, D. C. 20515 AWARD-WINNING EDITORIAL WHERE THE ACTION IS NOT Dr. M. A. Macdonald, ThornwelTs president, this year was one of 27 South Carolina citizens and organiza tions named as winner of Freedoms Foundation Awards for 1969. Dr. Macdonald received an honor medal for his editorial “Where the Action Is Not.” The Freedoms Foundation, founded in 1949, annually honors indi viduals, institutions and organizations that have promoted a better under standing of the American way of life through the things written, said or done. Dr. Macdonald’s editorial is re printed below: In a cartoon recently, there was a deliveryman “on the double” with a tray of instant coffee, one minute po tatoes, quick starch and minute meal; but mixed with mirth over the elo quent expression of this rushed life o. ours was a deep-lying feeling of weari ness. In all the advertising todstv we are urged to “get with it, come alive, join the peppy generation, get with the crowd, hurry, go where the action is.” On the screen, in TV, the commerc ials all give the idea of being frantic. People are rushing hither and thither, urging everyone to live to the hilt. The commercials urge people to pur chase merchandise often totally un related to the activities in which they are depicted which are very, tiring to hear. Most people want peace and re- 1 a x a t i o n and we find ourselves at | times in desperate need of beihg wherfe the action is not. In religious and church life the same thoughts, actions, and programs are not only suggested but actually perpetrated against traditional church programs which have been in good us age for hundreds of years. When you go where this so-called action is, you are keenly disappointed. by Government officials, all of whom believe that the Government pork bar rel is inexhaustible; thus eroding the fine principles of hard work and disci pline and sacrifice which have made our country great, because they be lieve their Government owes them a living. When you go where the action is in the entertainment field you discover a degree of permissiveness that never existed before, which degradation you see portrayed on the screen and which is not typical of the real America. When you go where the action is in Colleges and Universities you discover a militant minority on campuses who have given all the rest of our young people, the fine upstanding youth of America, a bad name by insisting upon their rights while denying these same rights to other studepts who are go ing to College to secure an education and training for life. EVEN IN THE MINISTRY Even in the ministry you find cer tain indiviudals who believe that pro test is a way of theological and socio logical relevance and who are practic ing and preaching doctrines and teachings that are not acceptable to the people to whom they minister and are not producing results in the salva- tior\ of souls for which they are en- gagetk We can say that much that is taking place within our church today is not minding the things of God, but the things of Satan. The tolerance and patience of many people have about become exhausted with these strange doings which are seeking to captivate the life of Ameri ca. We need strong leadership based upon God’s Word, prayer, the truth of Jesus Christ and the message of the Gospel of our Saviour proclaimed with courage and faith. ONE OF THE TRAGEDIES Not only in religion but in the his tory of the United States one of the tragedies of our time is the fact that hundreds of years were required to build our country from nothing to a position of tremendous influence and one of the most powerful nations in has required only a few years to cause the world. During the past decade it has required only a few years to cause our great nation to be torn down to a position of ridicule. When you go where the action is you find that the philosophy of many has to do with civil disobedience^ which has given our nation the reputation ter taiog the most vlolant people in all * I ' yon go where the action ^ wiaortty |F<W* who are bring our nation to the wo • We need to get back to the time when the flag passes by that we will stand up straight and salute Old Glory, which is the symbol of justice and might and democracy, and experience a lump in our throat and a feeling of goodness in our hearts and get rid of the people who refuse to saluate the flag, who stomp it underground and burn it. We need to get back to control, to discipline, to patriotism, to respect b. policemen and law and authority. We need to get away from where the action is to where the action is not and that is where the Bible is, where Christ is, where God is, where the truth is, whe^e the traditional con cepts that have been responsible for the building of our Kingdom and Church and World for the past 800 yean is located. We need the old- fashioned religion and ministries with courage and fortitude enough to pro claim its way and troth and wisdom. Star In The East 2-R—THE CHRONICLE, CUaton, 8. C., June 18, 1970 SENATOR STROM THURMOND REPORTS TO THE PEOPLE PRESIDENTIAL CRITICS Using The Kids BY THURMAN SENSING Executive Vice President Southern States Industrial Council Of all the sham techniques in the liberal-leftist bag, no thing is more shabby than the endless references to “the kids," meaning the campus de monstrators and protesters. In the first place, the radi calized element in the country isn’t made up of children - the group to which the label “the kids” truly belongs. We have today in this country a new class of professional or per manent students, as Latin A- merica has had for generations. Many of today’s militant “stu dents” are in their late twen ties, thirties or even forties. University fellowships and grants are so abundant that shrewd, once-young people manage to hang around college and university campuses for years and years. They “study" revolution and disruption while millions of other Americans, who have to work for a living, are employed in offices, in fac tories and on the farms of the nation. These “old” youths affect the wears and manners and dress of college students and speak in a special jargon that is supposed to be youthful. The cult ofyouth is carefully developed by many individuals whose own youth has long since passed. This kind of posing is tragic in a sense and also hurtful and misleading, for it involves deceit. Then, too, this element with its artful poses also has pro duced a new breed of sympathe tic commentator whose end lessly repeated slogan is “youth.” Nothing is more ab surd than the over-age TV com mentator attired in extreme “mod” fashion and whose thin ning hair is dressed by a youth stylist. The liberal-leftist refer ences to “the kids” are delib erate and purposeful. They are aimed at promoting the idea that there are two Americas with utterly different sets of values -- the young Americans who want radical change and the middle-age and older Ameri cans who allegedly represent a dying society. One hears this theme stressed on television all the time. It is what has been called the Big Lie technique. The condition of anarchy fac ing some parts of the country today isn’t the result ofAmeri- can youth turning its back on America. Actually, the current disorders have their roots in the old radicalism of the '40s, 50s and '60s. Many of the planners of contemporary protests are men and women who have been involved in communist and fel low-traveling organizations since the 1930s. David Dellin ger, one of the notorious "Chi cago 7," is one of these in dividuals. As for the doctrines of the New Left, these are Rus sian anarchist and nihilist no tions first enunciated a century ago in Czarist times. The New Left hasn't turned up a single really new social or philosophi cal doctrine. What is so wrong and mis leading about the use of the term “the kids” is that is sug gests all American young peo ple belong in the radicalized camp. Some of them are in that camp, especially the affluent protesters who can afford to at tend Ivy League schools and travel around the country to various trouble spots, using credit cards supplied by per missive parents. But millions of young people -- the real youth of America-- believe in the national ethic of work, saving, home ownership, a happy marriage, and service to community and nation. You don’t read about these respon sible “kids" in “Look Maga zine.” You don’t find them get ting the attention of “Time" or “Life” or the TV networks. Almost all the space and net- HOW MUCH MORE CAN WE STAND? work time are reserved for the kooks, the haters, and the de- structionists. The liberal pundits aren’t in terested in the example ofyouth achievers, young businessmen who are creating new enter prises. They would rather talk in sympathetic terms about those who threaten to burn down everything if they don’t get their way. Ask yourself how many in terviews you have seen on TV with young construction work ers marching in support of the President? How many inter views have been taped showing patriotic “Strike Back’ stu dents on campus who back their country and who oppose closing down universities? How much attention isgive®to young people generally who believe in the American sys tem, who embody its fine values and who stand up for America? The truth is that the liberals don't want to talk about these “kids." The liberals are en gaged in a conspiracy of silence against young people who pro mote a sane society based on free enterprise and consti tutional government. The liberal technique is to lavish attention on the young SDS members and ignore the young people who believe in their country. It’s time the public spoke up when the lib erals start their deceptive talk about “the kids’ -- their own special variety, that is. The latest Gallup poll shows that President Nixon has stead ily gained support among the people at large during the Cam bodian operation. - Since March, the President has increased his popularity by six percentage points. An overwhelming ma jority of 59 per cent approve his policies, while only 29 per cent disagree. During the same period, the President’s critics have grown more vocal and more strident. They have escalated screaming dissent to a new height, and plunged the country into turmoil and disruption. PEOPLE SATISFIED Yet, if one were to pay atten tion only to the liberal news media and to the statements of some prominent political leaders, educators, and clergymen, one would come to the conclusion that the President was isolated and aloof from the people, ignor ing the popular will and the precepts of morality. The fact is that the PresMeat shows a greater awareness sf the feelings of the penple than do his critics. Despite the dift- rult times of the worW tsdsy. the pdll shows that the people are satisfied with the way he has been handling basic issue*. They like his Vietaauiiaatieu program; they like the deeisive- ness of his Cambndiau drive; they like his plan far bringing American soldiers Name safely, instead of giving in I* tbe easy temptation of ordering a dis astrous withdrawal. His successful handling of these issues has increased the frustration of those who hoped he would fail. This feeling of frustration is particularly strong among the self-styled intellectuals whose pet schemes have come to nothing. Such indi viduals often have a smooth facility for words, and they are able to express themselves strongly and pungently, giving their views an undeserved prominence But words do not ^olve real problems. ( RITIC8 WRONG In short, the Gallup poll shows that most people believe that the critics are wrong and the I’rcsidcnt is right. More over, the tactics of the critics have served only to broaden tba gulf between themselves and the ordinary man. The typical citizen is too patriotic to asso ciate himself with people who throw contempt upon the Flag, upon the office of President, and upon the National honor. Rightly or wrongly, many peo ple have concluded that if higher education makes many students, professors, and clergy men profane their country, then education has exceeded its po tential. This attitude may be unfair tu tbe Many right-minded stu dents and dedicated teachers wbu ere ashamed of some of the aetWM ef their colleagues. Nevertheless, it represents a healthy trend. The liberals who held power for nearly a decade have been discredited by their failure to reconstruct the nation and the world. They plunged the Mtiea into unparalleled social chaos and into a war which dis regarded the basic premises of military strategy and tactics. The nation is rightly rejecting theae principles. Proof of the new attitude is seen not only in the Gallup poll, but also in such spontaneous demonstrations as those staged in New York by the construction workers. These events were not merely political demonstrations to support the President; they also stood for a rejection of the liberal mentality and its threats to freedom. Similarly, the elec toral victory of former Governor Wallace of Alabama is another sign that the nation and the President are going in the same direction. Moreover, every part of the country found so-called ■'peace” candidates rejected in favar of moderation and reason. President Nixon is making good on his promise “to bring us together.” His critics are becoming more and more iso lated, even if they are becoming louder and more belligerent. Most Americans are once again finding the sense of dignity and national purpose that comes with good leadership. They are stirring from the grassroots to throw off the yoke of outworn liberal ideologies. Despite the attempt of the liberal news media to show otherwise, the people are uniting behind the President. t not |/r< ;*rrrf .,r vrtntrM ml rmmt ml rwprnmri Parson Janos Says We Worry About Being Relevant Dear Mr. Publisher: Everybody these days are worried about being retenat. That’s the sane thmj as belsf sure you don’t put a egaare peg in a round hole. I wdersUad ants are awful intelligent - I wonder if they ever worry a- bout being relevaut. h short, I wonder if they ever woofer what the grasshoppers dunk about ’em. The men’s group at church is really getting rele vant these days. They held a meeting tbe other Bight to deal with all the gaps in this cone- try. Brother George opened the meeting by tell lag how his pew used to cut his hair and gap it all up. He used this little pe- rable to point out thpt gups ain’t a pretty sight George al lowed as bow everybody aeeeaed to be yelling at one another. He REVERSE ART NEEDED— Quoted that Scripture about how A house divided ‘g^nl it self can not stand*, and poiehad out that we’re not only aoeety divided, but our divisions are being multiplied, and you shouldn’t ever mix dilhend kinds of arithmetic. Anyway, the meetfeg was cal led to bring us all together aftia. “First*, says George, “lets feilae the problem*. Well Sir, that wasal hard to do. Big Slim said it was the war in Vietanm. Dr. Chargewright swore it was inflation. Heze- kiah allowed that it was the re- votti of our young people. A- aother Is 11a said it was recism- ffcmtwards and backwards. Pretty soon fee room was shak ing with disagreement. Brother Gdorge shouted for order, “Geutlemen, if we can’t get to gether, how. can we bring others together.’ Everybody agreed, and decided it might be less controversial to discuss the so- lutions instead of the problems. Hr. Publisher, when they got °* to the eolations I thought World War Three had broke out. They finally set UP a committee to study the matter farther - tat they eoukfc’t agree on the so they set up two Hope tolly they will 9 urith suggestions on how to bring us together again. Well, good-by and God bigss us all - it Parson Jones “Taxation is the art of picking the goose to secure the maxi mum amount of feathers with the minimum amount of squawking. We appear to be living in an age When the ac cent is on spending rather than saving. At every level of gov ernment there are those who spend sleepless nights attempt ing to think up ways of ex tracting more money from tax payers, many of whom have “Protection of the integrity of the institution, its role and already reached the limit of relationship to society, and its bask mission of service to the their ability to pay. Let’s spend people of the state, are areas of faculty and student concern, some waking hours giving but not of faculty and student expertise. These are areas for some thought to ways of spend- the governing board and administration. And my whole point ing less, thus obviating the that academic govemauee must be studied in depth and need for additional taxes.”— reorganized so that authority apd responsibility in these areas Rep. George Goodling, (R-Pa.) can be pinpointed far mare accurately than they now are.” —Glean 81 Dvmkc, Chancellar.Tfca California State Colleges. Quotes • • • Wish I’d Said That It seems to most of us “Our society and system in the United States have become so complex that all parts are dependent on each other. To con tinue to fragment various groups into polarised positions can only add to the grave schisma that are developing. One of the areas of developing polarisation is the issue of consumerism. Steps are occurring to place manufacturers on the defensive oi ux * * n one * rroup ’ * n< * •Uefhdly flim-flammed and confused con- iust decision is one that lets ! Umer8 in the other 1 this is dangerous to the just decision is one tnat lets future of our nation ^ unoeCMWiry » The Langford (S.D.) Bugle. J h * p hilHps, President, It J. Reynolds Foods, Inc. “Be careful about calling “It is the responsibility of CongreM to decide what funds yourself an expert. An “ex” is shall be appropriated. No doubt thara will he some further a has-been,” and a “spurt” is reurangingof priorities. But I btUeva weijuist make an all-out a drip under pressure. — Ed effort to proceed with restraint and caution and hold authori- Kummer, The Eaton (Colo.) zations and appropriations as low as reasonably possible.” Herald. —Ceag. Guarga *. Mahon (D.-Tex.)