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THE NEWBERRY SUN PAGE FOUR 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By ARMFIELD BROTHERS Entered as second-class matter December 6. 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, undei the Act cf Congress of March 3. 1379. 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 Gov. Byrnes Follows Middle Of Road Was the South Carolina Democratic Convention a cut and dried affair? Was the result a pre-arranged agree ment to endorse the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket? Is the Stevenson ticket a Truman ticket, conceived and born in the White House, an offspring of the Trumanites? Well, if the dominant leaders of the Party in this State call ed for support of the Stevenson ticket have they changer heart since 1948? Or, were they merely submerged in 1948 by the onslaughts of Strom Thurmond, George War ren and others? A review of 1948 will show that the leaders, who today urge support of the regular ticket, took no active part for the States Rights campaign of 1948. They have not changed, in effect; they have de nounced Truman and Trumanism;. but they were regular in 1948; they are regular today. What has happened is that the real effectiveness of 1948 is lost because Strom Thurmond and his staff are not in power. Certainly every argument for separation in 1948 ap plies today if we care to think straight. The water is muddied because Senator Maybank anc Senator Johnston, in -all good conscience, regard their chairmanships as of paramount importance. And many others are equally impelled to support the Stevenson tick et by reason of some political side-issue, which, to an outsider, is largely a confusion of thought and a regret table misconception of the fundamental issue. South Carolina, as I find the people, are leaning to Eisenhower. As to the Convention: The accoustics of the hall are very bad. As my Spanish friends would say—atrez-atroc- ious. And many of the speakers were like muffled drums. Governor Byrnes could hardly be understood by me, though he is accustomed to speak. Governor Byrnes was sincere in an attitude of wait-and-see, but he lost the opportunity to become a leader. Leadership is based on postive con viction, high courage and unswerving purpose. The Gbv- ernor adopts a respectable middle-of-the-road position, but it is not leadership. Here I should like to speak of the fairness and liberal ity of the Chairman, John I. Rice. Senator Brown moved endorsement of the Stevenson ticket, but did not greatly elaborate. R. M. Kennedy of Camden; Baskin of Lee; Thomas P. Stoney of Charleston; Douglas McKay of Co lumbia; Carroll Nance of Cross Hill; George Warren of Hampton; spoke vigorously against the Stevenson tick et. Senators Maybank and Johnston spoke for it. They don’t like some things, but they will support the ticket. Conclusion: Here we stand, the South Carolina dele gates. Everyone wonders where the people stand. Are the people for^ the office-holders and their chief supporters? Or, are the people ready to think and act independently ? Are we for the loaves and fishes, only, the proverbial mess of pottage? Or are the people desirous of cleaning house? Do they rebuke the entrenched mink-coaters, and percentage favorites? Do they want to win the war in Korea and live in peace and quiet? Or do they want a perpetual succession of scares, emergencies, profligate extravagance and ruinous taxation? Should Scorn Influence Of Politicans “Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not de file himself with the portion of the King’s meat.” So we read in The Book. The world has applauded Daniel through the centuries. Then we were taught to admire and praise John Hampden for refusing to pay an unlawfully levied tax and, later, for stoutly resisting payment of the ship- money. Men of that stamp were the prophets and priests of political liberty. In the spirit of Daniel, who had defied real lions, spoke Carroll Nance, Thomas Stoney, George Warren, R. M. Kennedy and Mr. Baskin, and the Mayor of Mt. Pleasant. They spoke against the slavery of political bondage; they spoke with the vigor and conviction of men who have re solved to take a stand for right and truth, in the face of prejudice and personal associations. When you reflect on this well, you will conclude that they are of the stuff of our early heroes. Nor would I deny my word of praise to Governor Byrnes. Considering that he has spent his long life in the hurly burly of political activity he stood with courage in even declaring that he was not definitely and definitively com mitted. Although he would have shown greater and more heroic stature if he had clearly and forthrightly challenged all the Convention to follow a course of decision, still he assumed an attitude of open-mindedness that was far be yond the attitude and vote of the Convention. The Gover nor was adroit, sagacious, some-what elusive, but not hide-bound: he was refreshing, but he missed the op- BOTH IN SAME STREAM portunity to be remembered with the great deliverers. Nothing in recent history has been more refreshing than the enthusiasm of the people for a thorough house-clean ing. Men in office, whether National, State, County or Party, will not lead against the Party: leadership must come from those who have no affiliations, no ties, that bind them to the Party organization; no personal interest that oeclouds their judgement and confuses the issue. Men on the outside can look at the problem with clear view and with a finer spiritual vision: they are not wedded to their idols, as The Book tells us of Ephraim. The Trumanites—and Mr. Stevenson—tell us of the South that we * must get rid of our prejudices, though founded in traditions of long standing. Let us take a leaf out of their book and get rid of some political prejudices of long standing. I admit the inaccuracy of the worn ‘prejudice:’’ we hold certain predelections as a sacred mem ory of our heroic grandfathers, but the very foundations of our belief, the rock of our faith,—all have been destroy ed by the Political Party of our fathers which has today nothing that our fathers respected. Ask yourself, each one of you, why have we been rock- ribbed supporters of the National Democratic Party. You will think of Reconstruction, of the forcing on us of many things obnoxious to us. Well, that is today being done, but by the very Party we have been supporting. Do we pledge our allegiance to a Party label, regard less of its platform and practice; or, do we stand foiuv square for*the traditions and ideals of our people? Political orators tell us to look at the record. I invite 11 you to look at the record, the record of F.E.P.C., the record of courts meddling in all our local affairs, of political and Labor bosses, of strangled business, of ruinous taxation, of spiritual wickedness in high places. Yes, look at the record: it is more than loaves and fishes; more than a mess of pottage that we need; this Nation needs a re-birth, a re-baptism, a fresh consecration, a refreshment of our spirit and purpose. The rank and file of politicians can’t even under stand that: to them that is all foolishness: but to the un fettered spirit of free Americans that is the bread of life, the upsurge of the human spirit seeking something worth dying for. Upon the altar of sacrifice; for the cleansing of our aims; for the enrichment of the human spirit: for the promotion of righteousness; for the rebuke of spiritual wickedness in high places—these are foundations of all the churches of every creed; and these are the intangibles of life that lift us from the mere gluttony of unrelieved physical emphasis on the abundance of goods which one possesses. We need a revival of wholesome faith. I do not expect miracles from any man: I do think the spirit of our people is wholesome and is founded in faith. If I may quote a noble passage which all recall, “By faith Abel; By faith Enoch; By faith Noah; By faith Abraham; By faith Isaac; By faith Jacob; By faith Joseph; By faith Moses; By faith Gideon, Samson, Samuel, David”—yes and the Apostles and Martyrs and our fathers and mothers. What about that faith? “Who through faith subdued Kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stop ped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the Aliens.” I am not preaching: the Word of Life is for us, though we too often think it belongs only to the preachers and our Mothers. The great Apostle summed it up concisely yet beyond dis pute: “That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” It is this repudiation of the assumed wisdom of men that I find most exhilarating. If there is anyone whose influence we should scorn at the moment it is the practical politician who walks by sight and not by faith; whose spirit does hot rise above the flesh pots. In London I heard the great preacher, Dr. Jowett, preach to the text—not from it—“When the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?” This was the question of the Master himself? We may answer in the words of the Ajpostle: “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” All great leaders have been men of faith, of vision. To lift the level of life they did not concentrate on the things of the moment, that blow away like the du^t, but on the ennoblement and re-dedication of the spirit that links us .with the Infinite Power. South’s Oldest Paper Says It Likes Ike (The Augusta Chronicle) The Chronicle breaks tradi tion to give its support to Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican nominee for President of the United States. Our decision was not made hastily or precipitately, but was reached after long, sober, indeed prayerful, consideration of what we thought would be the best course to take in the interest of our country. The Chronicle is fully conscious of the fact that our decision to support the Re publican candidate breaks pre cedent. Ours being the oldest newspaper in the South, we have been traditionally Democratic in our political leanings over the years, and as far as we know this is the first time in history that The Chronicle has supported a Republican for the presidency. Rut in this election, we can not see our way clear to do other wise. The Chronicle is not joining the Republican party. We are an independent newspaper, and will continue to remain so, but we expect to do in the future wh’at we are doing today—^putting the welfare of our country before that of any political party. The most compelling argu ment in favor of Tke’ Eisenhow er, as we see it, is that • the country needs a change in the administration of its affairs. We need a fresh approach to the crucial problems that beset us. new faces, new men, new ideas. There is a musty atmosphere in Washington that needs to be dispelled. The national Administration, under the Democrats, has grown stale, stodgy, and arrogant, ob sessed with the idea of seizing more and more power and author ity to add to that which has accured to it during the tw'o decades that it has uninterrupted ly held sway. Although Adlai Stevenson might be a man of genuine intellecutal stature, with a capacity for lead ership, he is a captive of the same forces which now rule the Democratic party and which have done so much harm to the wel fare of the country. If elected he would inherit all of the evils, and he would not be able to get rid of them because he is be holden to President Truman, the Ug city political bosses, the union czars, and all of the other left wing elements which combined to make him the choice of the Democratic party. He cannot di vorce himself from their influence. His candidacy is merely the window dressing for their cause. Furthermore, he would be un able to turn out of office the members of that vast bureaucracy which has fastened itself upon the country, which is entrenched, and which feels that it has a vested interest in the govern ment of the United States. Many of those who belong to it are crooked and corrupt; others are Communist sympathizers, with their loyalty in doubt. Most if not all of them believe In the philoso phy of socialism, are enemies of the rights, privileges and freedom of the individual, are proponents of centralzed government, and are parties to the free spending and the waste of the people’s money. This crowd has got to be swept out, and there is no substitute for a broom in the performance of this long overdue Job. We conceive the social revolu tion which has been going on in this country for the past twenty years to be at its peak. It has run its course, and it is time for the leveling off process. Yet, those in control in Washington to day, those who would continue In the driver’s seat if the Demo crats win, are determined to continue moving toward the left until the American people, in the end, are deprived of every sem blance of freedom, and until statism is firmly ensconced as a national party. We would not be so foolhardy From Maude Kendall. Hoovem, Ohio: I remember when I was just a barefoot little girl I would watch and wait for our old uncle to visit us. When I would see him com ing, I’d always get his low chair for him to sit in the shade. Then he would tell us old stories we loved to hear. He would always have green leaves in his hat to keep his head cooL When he started back tor home. I’d ask, “May I get the leaves for your hat?'* He'd say, “Yes, Sissy.’’ So I would run to the woods and gather leaves and fix them in his hat. One time I mixed in some poison ivy. He never came back for a jfing time and I never gathered any more leaves for his hat. From Mrs. N. C. Henshaw, Pomona, Kans.: I remember when I was a little girl in Grant county, Kan sas, only about 50 or 60 years ago. This being a hot political year, I am reminded of the red-hot politi cians of those days. “Sockless Jerry” and “Prince Hal” and all the rest. The faithful came for miles and miles to hear them speak. There were hay-rack parades, flags and bunting, glee clubs and fiery oratory even as now, but without benefit of radio and television. Those were the good old days. From William Agnew, Kanaas City, Mo.: I remember when neither party would think its campaign was complete without a series of torch light parades all over the land. From Harvey Johnson, Cincinnati: I remember when we kids used to cut out windows in shoe boxes, put candles in the boxes, make several boxes into a train, and drag them along the street at night, playing they were lighted cars. From Theodore Mastin, Lexington, Ky.: My mother used to buy some sort of pine tar extract, mix it with sugar and make pine tar syrup with which to treat us children for coughs and colds. (Mail your memories to THE OLD TIMER. National Weekly Newspa per Service, 210 Deaplaines St., Chi cago 6, 111.) or so stupid as to advocate a re turn to things as they were twenty years ago. We are not a reactionary, or a backward-looker, and we want to cling to the pro gress which has been made in the interest of all. But it is not progress when those who make our national policies flirt with socialism, and bankruptcy, and pursue a course which leads inevitably to the de struction of individual freedom. “Ike” Eisenhower comes before the American people as a tried and trusted leader, a man whose thinking and actions would not be snarled up by past associations with those who have brought dis honor upon themselves and the nation, who have brought us to the brink of socialism or worse, and who have squandered the peo ple’s money in a most profligate manner. By his words and by his record, we know him to be a true patriot, a leader who will hew to the middle of the road, who will be inspirational in his lead ership, who will govern in the interest of all the people rather than for the selfish interests of clamorous groups and minorities and to the detriment of all other Americans. Above all, he will unite the county and put an end to the senseless and morale-shat tering campaign of hatred which pits race against race and class against class in the ceaseless warfare now being promoted by those in authority. Dwight Eisenhower has said that he believes in states’ rights and in individual rights, and we believe he means what he says. Make no mistake about it, America stands at the crossroads in this presidential election. Either we are to remain a free people, or surrender piecemeal Test Your Intelligence | Score 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions: 1. Which of the following famous authors was an American: —Coleridge - —Conrad . —Wordsworth —Melville 2. The first name of the man who is said to have founded the game of baseball is: —Zeke —Abner —Luke —Frank Congress tried to impeach only one president; who was he: 3. 4. 5. 6. —Truman * —Monroe —Johnson —Taylor The capital of Texas is: —Austin —Dallas —Houston —Galveston The Allison Trophy is awarded to: —jet pilots —scholars —dentists —boxers The vernal equinox is the beginning of: —Winter —Spring —^Summer —Autumn Listed below, at left, are four titles of church or state and’opposite them, mixed up, salutations used in greeting holders of those titles. Match them scoring 10 points for each correct answer. (A) Emperor (B) Duke (C) Cardinal <D) Ambassador 0-20 Total your points. A score of superior; 90-100, very superior. ANSWERS ON PAGE SIX —Your Grace —Your Excellency —Your Imperial Majesty —Your Eminence is poor; 30-00, average; 70-80, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1962 ashington e ee e eeeeeeeeeeeeee By WALTER SHE AD G OVERNOR Adlai Stevenson of Illinois emerged as winner of the Democratic presidential nomi nation, the object of a true draft, much in the same position as Eisen hower, who became the GOP stand ard bearer. Both must heal the wounds of intra-party strife before either can get down to the real campaign issues. There is little doubt that the Democratic convention picked the strongest man from its list of can didates . . . for, as the successful Governor of Illinois in the heart of the great mid-west, Stevenson is the one man best fitted to hold that im portant sector of the electorate for the Democrats in November. It was this great farm belt in 1948 which carried President Truman to victory ... Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Mixmesota, Ohio, Tennessee, Wis consin and Missouri . . . with 123 electoral votes. • • • Democratic leaders at Chicago took a calculated risk when they forced through a loyalty pledge which delegates must take if they want to return to the 1956 conven- tion. They believe that even if they lose the same four southern states lost in 1948—South Carolina, Alaba ma, - Mississippi, and Louisiana, with 39 votes and possibly Texas or Virginia, a total of 72 electoral votes —they will more than overcome that handicap with a win in either New York with its 47 votes or Pennsyl vania with 35 and New Jersey with 16. It will be remembered that the Democratic ticket would have car ried New York and probably New Jersey In 1948 had it not been for the splinter party headed by Henry A. Wallace. One obvious result from both con ventions is that the southern states ara to become political battlefields in this election for the first time sinca the civil war. For it is ap parent that Eisenhower has strength in the South far exceeding any Re publican candidate in a generation. It will mean the birth of a two- party system in the South. In the Democratic convention the dele gates told the southern leaders such as Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia, Governor James Byrnes of South Carolina and Governor Robert Kennon, of Louisiana: “You art here by suffrance of the other delegates of this convention, and you cannot participate in the nomination of a ticket in this con vention %nd then go home and use the Democratic party label for any other ticket.” That’s what the loy alty pledge means which was adopted as a permanent rule of the convention. It is expected to effectively pre vent those states from doing what they did in 1948—namely putting the Dixiecrat ticket, or any other ticket under the party emblem of the “rooster” and forcing write-in votes for the nominees of the con vention. • • • These southern leaders are mad, they were humiliated, and for this reason the administration will ML to it that for the first time in tory a real national campaign be conducted in southern states. The Republican convention whipped southern states in lin adoption of the “fair play*’ rule and addition of the incentive rule on the national committee giving recognition and membership those states which get in the ning column. It means patronage hungry “rotten and “absentee landlord” Republican leaders in the ended and that if southern want equal representation national committee with states, they must get out for the honor, work to win. • • • Action of both conventions an end to the denial of a vote by both parties insofar i national ticket is concert southern states. On the GOP i they have everything to nothing to lose by their disci action. And as we have poi the Democrats believe they more in the north and western i than they lose in the south they do lose any southern states. m ' A N EDITORIAL entitled “The ■ Parable of the Runt” which appeared in the New Castle Cour ier-Times, New Castle, Indiana, carries a message that is worthy of consideration throughout the na tion. It reads: “Once upon a time in a neigh borhood not far from here there was a runt who liked to play ball with the other fellows on the corner lot. “He was perhaps a year, or so younger, his short legs didn’t carry him so fast around the bases, and his arms were not so long in reach ing fgr the balls. “Now, there was nothing wrong with his vocal facilities, and he com plained long and loud to the other boys that he was being treated un fairly. He kept at them until they finally agreed that he should have i four strikes at bat as ra sort of handicap. “Well, the summer passed and other summers came and went, and the runt grew into a big, strapping 6-footer. His arms and legs were as long as the other boys’ and he could hit the ball as well as any of them, but do you think he would give up his four strikes at bat? “No, sir. That was his by right. “He is a grown man now. The corner lot has a building on it, and there aren’t any more ball games there, but he’s still demanding four strikes at bat. “ T Ie’s a businessman who seeks special privilege from th^ legisla ture. “He’s a laborer who w.mu» pay for days he doesn't work. “He’s a farmer who tp'r-s Gov ernment checks for things doesn’t raise. “Life Is just a big lollipop, privileges and no respo “Like the runt, we forget that every privilege, somebody must sume a responsibility. “A home in which everybody to eat but nobody wants to wo headed for financial and mori bankruptcy. So is such a nation. “Only as we render services and accept responsibility in our home are we entitled to its privileges, and it is the same in any group; the place where we work, the co nity in which we live, and the at large. “Isn’t it about time we began to appreciate the things that other folks do for us; the teacher who en dures and inspires our children; the boss who spends a lot of sleepless nights making the businesses go that provides us with a good job; the employe who is proud of his work and sees it through; the wife who puts up with all our peculiarities and binds our wi at the end of a discouraging day; a God who pours out his mercy be yond anything we deserve.- “Only as we are thankful for all that is done for us and accept our responsibilities shall we overcome the childish notion that we are en titled to four strikes at bat and stand before God and our own con science as a man in all that the word implies.” • • • From the Canton Independent- Sentinel, Canton, Pa.: “Life has no secrets that a teen ager can’t read about in some of the magazines offered for sale.” Expanded Journalism Program Added To Winthrop Curriculum ROCK HILL, Aug. 19 — Con struction now in progress at Win throp College will result in mod ern and convenient facilities for its program in journalism next school year. and by degrees those rights and freedoms which were handed down to us by our forefathers and which have been preserved until the Socialist experimenters be gan to take them from us, one by one. We believe that by electing Dwight Eisenhower as President, the American people can regain those freedoms which have been taken from them, and preserve those which have not yet been lost. These are the chief reasons which have compelled The Chroni cle to bfeak precedent and advo cate the candidacy of “Ike” Eisen hower. We call upon those who feel as we do to join in the good tight. Kenneth D. Frick Gets Scholarship From Univ. Of S. C. The award of 26 scholarships for the fall term of 1952 to stu dents of the University of South Carolina was announced today by Professor K. L. F. deGravellines, director of student activities. Kenneth David Frick, of New berry, is recipient of one of the 26 scholarships. The scholarships are given to students who show unusual prom ise of creditable scholastic achievement, Prof. deGravellines said. They include both upper classmen and student entering for the first time, and are subject to renewal. Located in adjoining rooms on the ground floor of the Admini stration Building will be a well- equipped radio studio, journalism classroom-writing laboratory, stu dent newspaper office, news ser vice office, photography studio, and two darkrooms.