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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.
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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
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MAN IN A HURRY
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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
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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.
HAT FASHION . . . this cha
peau has been caUed Top Hat
by its designer, Schiaparelli.
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25 Small child
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28 Earth goddess
29 Notary public
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30 Musical note
31 Snaky fish
33 Babylonian
deity
34 New (comb,
form)
36 Footlike part
37 “Tar Heel
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38 Cured meat
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43 Poem
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