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PAGE POUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1952 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By ARMFIELD BROTHERS Entered a* second-class matter December 6. 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR We Americans are building on the sand in pouring bil lions of dollars into Europe and Asia. There is no as surance that France and Italy will not turn completely Communist; they are so heavily Communist now that we venture unwisely in relying on them. The result is not merely that we may find them against us, but that we shall find them armed and equipped by us, yet turning our own weapons upon us. Since this Second World War got under way, and even before Pearl Harbor—our country has acted foolishly, even childishly, improvidently, wastefully, most of the time. The record of blunders, mismanagement, prodigal extravag ance, utter and reckless abandon of all. prudence, sound judgment, even commonsense, is appalling to the degree of stupefaction. So far as I can see, there is so little de serving of endorsement that our ineptitude makes the misdoings of Harding’s Administration seem like petty pilfering of the peanut variety. I make this arraigment with a feeling of shame. Only if you live in a foreign land can you look upon your coun try, the land of your fathers, with a sentiment of loyalty almost overwhelming. Well, there has been* little to be proud of recently, except that the heart of the people is sound. The heart—yes; but what has happened to our heads? Where are the brains? Our foreign policy has amazingly neglected the real foundation of a foreign influence—strength at home. Day after day we read of our weakness; we lack planes, we lack arms; we ration bullets; we have nothing but beggarly pleas to Congress by the Armed Services, though Congress has authorized so many billions that we seemed to be shooting money, not bullets. We can’t command the respect of Russia; China laughs at us. China! Would you have believed it? And we are told that we are too weak to end the Truman police action in Korea; we can’t do^anything but have speeches by Mr. Truman and Mr. Acheson; and sad stories by the Generals and the Admirals! What has been done with all the billions since Mr. Tru man came upon the scene as the hope of the world. Congress now and then shows a little spirit, but far too little. The Nation is in the hands of politicians and elec tions mean more to politicians than great principles of government, or, even true National greatness. We are playing with fire; we are gambling with the country which we must transmit to the lads of today. The first thing is to be strong at home in heart and purpose and resources; then to be strong in the respect of the rest of the world because of the rectitude of our courses—A Nation of character. The basic weakness of our Country is the pressure sys tem, a group for this and a group for that, each threaten ing Congress or the Administration; and all so cocky in their political influence that the majority of us are not even thought of. This Country yielded to great pressures of one small group and lost for America the sympathy, confidence and respect of the whole Moslem world, per haps two hundred million people. I do not measure the blunder merely by two hundred million people, for to be right is worth more than two hundred million people; but we yielded to the constant pressure of a part of one group and adopted a course that coddled votes in this country at the expense of a people friendly to us. We have played a brand of statesmanship that still rises to challenge us and our security. And we deliberately threw away China and her hundreds of millions by the same stupidity that seems to characterize our diplomacy in recent years. So much has been lost, and we grope in the darkness of Stygian gloom seeking a way out, perhaps as the Poet says: “We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of the things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness; let it grow.” Is there any hope in all this failure, in all this “en circling gloom?” Well, as the beautiful hymn sings: “One step enough for me.” And what is that step? We must combat Communism as an idea: We must meet ideas with ideas: We must proclaim the truth as compellingly, as persuasively, as covincingly, as the Communists propagate their- program and so called principles. Nothing moves so irresistingly as an idea: it breaks through iron gates; it floats above walls; it enters the hovel as well as the mansion. Men and women respond to an idea which seems incarnate in its propagandists; ideas cherished warmly and aggressively maintained. What have we to tell the world that will sweep men off their feet? In days of oppression the idea of liberty moved men deeply and emboldened them to defy Kings and tyrants: America once stirred the world with the — MAN IN A HURRY •■c 1 . . of men in all nations. The month of July is sacred to freedom from the thralldom of Kings and despotism. The Fourth of July here; then the 14th. in France; and all through the Latin Countries South of us. America had hurled its idea invincibly to mankind and it awoke a re sponse from the chilling blasts of the frozen North to the luxuriant tropics and South Seas. .We were poor in re sources but rich in spirit. Today we have only dollars and deals though we still have among us the finest men and women of all the world. I do not despair: we need the chastening that may come before reform. I am not croaking. I do not adopt as my thought this verse from The Raven, which you may have repeated in school, the melody of Edgar Allan Poe: “And the Raven,, never flitting, still is sitting, Still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o’er him' streaming throws his shadow on the floor; - And my Soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the foor Shall be lifted—never more!” Gloomy, wasn’t he? Enough men and women talk every day to the Most High to assure that we shall some day find the path. So, perhaps, I may fall back on Tennyson again and appropriate his devout spirit for our people: Forgive these wild and wandering cries, Confusions of a wasted youth; Forgive them where they fail in truth* And in thy wisdom make me wise.” Something about the churches: “If you’re a building contractor with idle men and equipment, it may be worth your while to stop after church Sunday and have a chat with the deacon. There’s over $1 billion worth of work on Protestant church buildings alone in architects’ offices, awaiting con struction starts. With church income running at record levels, many a congregation is putting up new buildings. For the past two years total church income in the U. S. has been run ning about $1.2 billion annually. That compares with about $888 million in 1929 and only about $400 million dur ing the depression years. There are currently about 285,000 churches of all faiths in the U.S., with a total value of close to $5,235 million. Counting in ministerial residences, church schools and homes, their value exceeds $7 billion. Expense of operating and maintaining these buildings is estimated at about $1 billion a year. About 60% of the U.S. population is af- fliated with some religious group. Estimates of the size of different ones vary, but one standard source lists, roughly, 28,600,000 Roman Catholics; 16,700,000 Baptists; 11,100,000 Methodists. 6,093,000 Lutherans; 4,500,- 900 members of Jewish Congregations; and 3,600,000 Pres byterians, among the lav;; ;st groups. Many city churches ha, e found that their congregations have moved to the suI.vrLs, and often the church is sold and a new one built in a suburb. In many communities, where the population has become stabilized and isn’t likely to increase, new churches are going up because the congre gations want up-to-date buildings. Much of the work con sists of remodeling old churches. Costs of church building have shot up in recent years, of course. A church which seats 500 cost about $75,000 to build, five years ago; it now costs $200,000. Church building is g.lvg at an equally rapid pace in both big cities and sma.l towns, architects report. In a small city or town, if one church puts up a new building, all the others in town have to build or remodel, to keep up with the first one. Young people nowadays aren’t intere** 0 ^ so much in the differences in church theology, as t / are in what the church has to offer in other ways. The competition in towns of 50,000 to 100,000 is really keen. Certain features of church buildings are changing. Gym nasiums are passing out of the picture. They’re being replaced by fellowship halls. Churches are offering social ashington ••••••••••••••«••• recreation, rather than athletics. Chapel are now con- Declaration of Independence; it swept through the ranks sidered almost essential for Sunday Schools. No longer T HERE is little question that the lower house made a political football of the country’s security in its cutting of the foreign aid mon eys, and that the more responsible senate body was ready to remedy to a large extent the house action. This is an election year, and many house members squght a chance here to show the taxpayers they were economy minded—they made speeches against commu nism, and at the same time tied the hands of the fighters against communism with their foreign aid bill slashes. Senator Tom Connally, chairman if the senate foreign relations com- rnitte, exerted every possible effort to put the funds back into the emasculated bill. The house also back-tracked on its action of last year, before the effective date, to save its own hide from income tax increases. Last year, the members eliminated their tax free feature, effective January 3, 1953. But on May 15, they agreed to a proposal to let congressmen deduct their Washington living costs from their income tax. This would save enough to make up for last year's action on the $2,500 tax free expense allowance. But the senate is not so sure. Probably most senators favor it, but want a limit so that $500 and $600-a-month apartments couldn’t be written off. • • • With only 295 groups and organi zations reporting as compared to 340 last year, total lobby expendi tures for 1951 for influencing con gress on legislation amounted to $9,488,099' according to a survey compiled by congressional Quar terly, a non-partisan reporting serv ice. This sum compares to $10,- 303,000 spent in 1950. But the top spender in the entire dst was the American Farm Bu reau Federation which replaced the American Medical Association as the biggest lobby. As a matter of fact, AM A dropped back to third place with the National Association of Electric Companies a close fourth. According to the survey, the Farm Bureau Federation spent $1,- 595,815.74 for all purposes duriqg the year while the Committee for Constitutional Government apent $773,957.59; the AMA spent $450,- 373.57, and the electric companies spent $434,325.91. Twenty-three or ganizations spent more than $100,- 000 according to their reports filed under the lobbying act • • • It will be remembered that last year Dr. Albert A. Rumeley, who heads up the Committee for Con stitutional Government, was found guilty of contempt of congress for refusal to turn over some books of his organization. However, on ap peal, Dr. Rumeley wag freed of the charges, the court holding that congress had no power to supoena certain material. • The U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent only $116,382.90 out of a re ported income of $3,014,058.91. The Farm Bureau spending for “all purposes’’ increased sharply from its 1950 listing of $819,821. • • * With Senator Taft slightly in the lead on delegate strength over Gen eral Eisenhower at this writing, the split in the Republican party is reminiscent of the Taft-Roosevelt campaign of .40 years ago. Then as now, Taft—William Howard, father of the present Senator. Robert A. —controlled the Republican party machinery. Theodore Roosevelt had been capturing the presidential primaries and the popular fancy of the people, but he failed to get the nomination in the convention of 1912. So badly was the party split that Roosevelt headed up a “Bull Moose’* party as it’s .nominee against Taft on the regular Repub lican ticket, resulting in the elec tion/ of Woodrow Wilson for his first term on the Democratic ticket Since this is an election year, despite the house defeat of a bill to increase old age benefits under the social security act, another at- j tempt is being made to get the measure through before the con gress adjourns for the conventions General Eisenhower is being censured in some circles for his announced approval of the tide- lands bill, since the genera] is known to have the financial back ing of powerful oil interests in Texas. President Truman has dc nounced the Tideland measure as robbery of the nation’s resources “in broad daylight” DaleCarnegh AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING' Conquer the Worry Habit TPINLEY McDONELL., Niagara Falls, Ont., says that during 18 years as a goaltender his first 11 years were filled with worry and fear. First, he would worry over the possibilities of injuries, of which he had received his share. He had seen fnany of the hockey players hurt seriously by high sticks, sharp skates, flying pucks, and above all uncalled-for body checks. Many of the players had received injuries for life. He would lie inched at night worrying over the outcome of a game which he had to play the following night. Whoa game time arrived, he would be so tired and nervous from worrying, and his initiative to play the game that was expeefed of him would be al most cut in two. Consequently, due to fear and worry, he lost many a game, the reason for which only he knew. . Suddenly there came an all-important playoff game and as all games were discussed between player and coach, he had heard from round-about circles that he was neither coach nor players’ choice to play this game. He had accepted the inevitable, but when the time came to board the bus which was to take the team to its destination he found that he was the only goaltender aboard. That meant just one thing! He had to play. He resolved to do the best he could and not wo/ry. The game he played that night will live long in his memory even though they lost, because he had given his best, and from the results he had a chance to try out for a professional hockey club the follow ing fall. From then on he just ceased to worry about any game and has eliminated most of his worries in his social life. By conquering his worry habit, he feels better, sleeps better, and is able to enjoy life as it comes, instead of worrying about the future over which he has no control. Carnegie Test Your Intelligence Score 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions: 1. Aesop is famous for his: —recipes —beard —music —fables The surrender at Appomattox came at the end of the: —^American Revolution —U. S. Civil War —World War I —Thirty Years War You'd be likely to find endive in a: —restaurant —gas station —Jail brewery Sherwood Forest was the scene of many of the adventures of: —Count of Monte Cristo —Alexander —Hercules —Robin Hood Which of the following is not 4a drink: —Creme de Cacao —armangnac —absinthe pate de foie gras 6. The famous singer Jenny Lind was: —Irish —Swedish —British —Italian 7. Lasted below are four national capitals and opposite them, scram- bled up, rivers on which they are situated. Match them, scorinv 10 points for each correct answer: (A) Paris. (B) Vienna (C) Rome (D) Washington 5. —Tiber —Potomac —Seine —Danube Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60. average* 70-80 superior; 90-100, very superior. average, /u ou . Answers to Quiz on Page Six) are classes hel ~ t locker rooms. Children need more than just a textu Many churches are including din ing rooms, with adjoining kitchenettes, for church sup pers; ladies’ parlors are being furnished with rugs and easy chairs.” CROSS T HE EDITOR of the Lincoln Times, Lincolnton, N.C., had a few words to say about the recent ‘panty raids’ at a number of uni versities throughout the country. The editorial pretty well sums up the opinion of the matured people of the country: “A series of ‘panty raids’ by male students on girls’ dormitories, has broken out in some of the nation’s major universities and colleges, including our own University of North Carolina. “In some of the schools, the un derwear-snatching became so vi olent that police and National Guardsmen had to be called in to maintain order. “Who are the students taking part in this weird, senseless fad? Are some of them the young men that are so brilliant-minded that they are draft-exempt, while the less fortunate, ’less-intelligent’ men con tinue to give up years of their lives to serve their country—maybe to lose their lives in some lonely hole like Korea? "How many parents are proud now that their son is attending one of the schools involved in the wave of sex-madness? The parents who could not afford to send their boys to school, are and should be, proud that they have a man in the service of their country. “Should these boys stay in col lege, stealing panties,- while even married men continue to leave heme in defense of their country? “The Associated Press says the psychiatrists are blaming the raids on everything from sex to simple- nindness. These men are staying out of the army because they re putedly are so brilliant that they can serve their country better when they get a degree. Psychiatrists should know better than to call them simple-minded. "// tbt colUgt mtn art to an xious to make raids, why not U$ them do it In a comtr of tbt %vorld wbtrt tbtir prty will bt enemies of their country—tbt hind that can fight bach—instead of tbt supposedly weaker test-— women.” Anarchy at Its Wont From the Bassett Journal, Bas sett, Virginia: When the outbreak of students happens in foreign countries the cry goes up that communism Is re sponsible, and perhaps It is, but when such things take place in America it is, of course, credited with a semblance of unruly young sters. But what happened at Yale University, the supposed school of the ‘elite’, a few days ago, to our way of sizing it up, is neither com munistic, nor is it classed under the heading of unruly students. In sim ple English it is nothing more nor less than anarchy of its sort, notwithstanding the claim that Yale is the alumnus of millions of America’s honored citizens and their offspring. It does not reflect credit to the more than 1,800 students who staged a riot because they w< prived’of their fource of ice for a couple of hours . . < anarchy at its worst. . . ** WANTS PET . . . Dawn Duncan, 7, Beraardevilie, N.J., fondles fawn found by her father, writes governor asking permission to keep animal for pet. 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