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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1953 v'lto/"/,/. 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By ARMFIELD BROTHERS Entered as second-class matter December b 1937, at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, undei the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., H .50 per year in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Would you like to build a new world ! Would you like to make the world over again? There are men and women who are in a great hurry to refashion the world; to change the habits and customs of people; to transform the poor into rich and the rich into poor. Many of us might like to “take a turn” at re-making the w 7 orld. When I read of what our Government is doing both here and abroad; and when I hear of the program of the so-called United Nations, I think I should like to throw 7 some things overboard; I yearn for the opportunity to uproot somethings. The idea of a Central meeting place for the Nations is excellent, but it should be merely a convenient place to main tain cordial relations, based on informative exchanges. In my way of thinking the United Nations organization should consist of one member from each nation and a general Sec retary with tw 7 o or three clerks and interpreters. Just a clubby meeting and association in order to promote under standing. Behold w 7 hat we have: an organization of three thousand employees! And this organization is meddling with every thing, from race relations to oil lands, sales—and whatnot. It is also telling the world what to do about its internal af fairs and has a plan to recreate mankind in a new image, more or less. So I should like to be able to reorganize the so-called United Nations, adopting the simple idea I’ve indicated. And it should have no authority of any kind; just a cordial association for the purpose of promoting a better under standing among the nations. While using my little hatchet I should take several chops at the great octopus in Washington, our own Government. There is so much to chop aw 7 ay that I should try my hand at just a few things. For example, I should like to encourage sensible people to w T ork for the Government: se n sible people are in a minority everywhere, of course, but w 7 e should try to encourage sound-thinking people to hang on and t not be disheartened by the hordes of half-cracked theorists and world-reformers who throng so many of the offices today, especially in Washington and abroad. For those Federal, State, County and Town officials at work in this State I have great regard and respect: they are not visionaries; they are workers; but w 7 e seem afflicted with so many wild-eyed people in Washington and abroad. Some bureaucrats don’t do anything—and that does no >harm; but some have dominant ambitions to create a new Heaven and a new earth. I’m reminded of the slow 7 processes of the Plan of Salvation. Here we are—nineteen hundred years and so much yet to be done! Those do-gooders w 7 ould have dressed up all the poor in purple and fine linen in one generation, eh ? Or, why take so long as a generation ? The greatest of all Teachers said: “For ye have the poor always with you.”. Even He did not wave a magic wand to redeem humanity. Rather, by the slow process of teach ing did He call the individual to Salvation. What irks me is our rushing all over the earth, pouring out money to lift people from the customs of their ancestors. Do you suppose an Indian wants to live like the rest of us? Not today. Perhaps tomorrow or two generations from now. But we run around throwing money about entirely ignorant at times of what we are doing. * I once saw some American experts at w r ork in a foreign land. A Government invited our State Department to recom mend some experts to advise it on its budget: the truth is that the budget was imbalanced: that’s a nice word to say that the Government was in debt and sinking steadily. This American, totally ignorant of that country, at once sug gested separation of church and State; and that the Government make no further contribution to the established church. That being the custom here he thought it was the solution. He thought all countries must adopt our pattern. And there would have been a revolution in thirty days! He was an expert! I recall another expert: he was con sulted about a Constitution for a country which had no more idea of three equal departments of government than I have of nuclear fission and the potentiality and impact of a hydrogen bomb. But he advised nevertheless, charging a big fee for an utterly unsuitable proposal. His plan w r as simple; as simple as he was: he merely copied the Constitu tion of the United States, changing the name. I still marvel at some of our experts whom we export to expert. There are bureaucrats and bureaucrats. I may have told this story: President Leguia of Peru cherished the Museo Bolivariano (Museum devoted to Simon Bolivar and San Martin, the two redoubtable heroes of all South Amer ica). The President heard that the Eucalyptus trees in the patio of the museum were dying for want of water. It was a matter of urgency and in a regio n where rain falls about once in ten years! I called an engineer of my office and told him to get water to the trees. He replied that he would prepare a plan at once. I asked how long it would require to make an ex- NEW RAIL SPLITTER ploration and suggest a plan. By great diligence he was sure he could have a plan in ten days! Ten days! Think of that—ten days! But I knew the people; and so I thanked him and told him to proceed. I then called my ever-faithful former Secretary—Senor Santolalla—who had known me and my yankee ways for five years. I said to him; “Alcalde, get water to those trees.” The next day he came, eyes bloodshot, clothes bedraggled, black beard unchecked, and said in his precise, school-book English: “Senor Director General, we have the water.” He had not slept a wink! If I have held up the short-comings of one bureaucrat, I have shown the devotion and achievement of another. I’m going to tell you a secret: Senor Santolalla and the Senorita Irene Silva were in my office in Cajamarca, in the Andes. They are natives of Cajamarca. When I was trans ferred as Regional Director of the North to Lambayeque, they went with me; later, as Director General I took them to Lima. They married. That lovely young woman has recently been lecturing in the United States as the guest of the United Nations! Well, well, well! One day, in the home in which I lived in Cajamarca a fine young Peruvian gentleman asked me at the dinner table: “Senor Breedin, how 7 do you call a pretty girl in the United States?” (Come se llama una bonita nina en los Estados Unidos) He asked in Spanish. I replied “Melocoton” (mean ing “peach”) “Ah, entences in Spanish. I replied all of us called Irene (Irene) “Miss Peach,” even her husband. And today my former stenographer (Miss Peach) is lecturing around the big w 7 orld. I saw a picture of her recently: She is still the same “Miss Peach.” . AUTHOR OF 'lHOW TO STOP WORRVlHG AND STARTtiyiNG" The Friendly Smirk TT ERE TN BRIEF is a practice that it will benefit every one of us to A 1 apply. Frances Marjory Seeley, 12 Depot Street, Middletown, New York, says she decided to practice smiling for one week and note the results. Tuesday, Election Day, she smiled and greeted all those she knew and called them by name—the mailman, the watchers of the election board. The next day she was called in to help out at a Rummage Sale. As this was her day off and no work, she did not relish the idea, but thought it a good way to put over some of her theories. In charge of socks, shirts and pants, she demonstrated the goods at low prices. A good business resulted. Wednesday, it rained all day but she went to work with renewed determination to keep smiling. She asked the other girls to help her out with smiling. Thursday, after work, she had a choir rehearsal, and put more vim and vigor into singing by really opening her mouth and smiling. Friday, she attended a committee meeting now and then connected with her church. For once she did not sit and listen but questioned and suggested the Christmas Party. And she kept on smiling, Saturday, when she totaled up the score, she found the week had fairly flown. The sales at the store sowed a good increase- over the last year, due, she believes, to a pleasant and smiling attitude. CARNEGIE a few ideas for Test Your Intelligence Score yourself 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions. 1. Which of these four men served two non-consecutive terms as President of the United States? —Harding —Hoover —Cleveland —Franklin Roosevelt 2. One of the main sources of the drug opium is which of the four plants named below? —Hemlock —Fir —Poppy —Pineapple 3. One of the following words does not match the other thr<*e. Which one? —Clipper —Ketch —Trawler —Trolley * 4. The Atomic Age began in which of the following cities? —San Francisco —Hiroshima —Las Vegas —Chicago 5. Which of the following countries is communistic, yet anti- Russian? —Czechoslovakia —China —Yugoslavia —Albania 6. Which year did the Indianapolis Memorial Day 500-mile-race meet for the first time? —1918 —1900 —1911 —1394 7. The following animals were associated with several famous peo ple. Can you match each to his man? Score yourself 10 points for each correct choice. (A) Dove (B) Elephant (C) Lion (D) Raven Total your points. A score of superior; 90-100, very superior. —Hannibal —Elijah —Noah —Androcles -20 is poor; 30-60, average; 70-80, ANSWERS TO INTELLIGENCE TEST „ *q«fna (a) •sapoapuy O) ‘iBqjmreH (fl) (V)—L *1161—* -apfBAOis -oipaz3—s x>Seojqo—t -Xanbaj,—g Xddoj—z *pueiaA»io—i CROSS M, ideas from other editors From The Fallon Eagle, Fallon, Nev.: On Friday the citizens of Church ill county were invited to inspect their schools irom tne primary grades up through high school. It is sincerely hoped that a goodly number of parents showed interest enough in their schools to pay this visit. Certainly there is no institution so vital to the future of this coun try, state or nation than our schools for the students of today will be the public leaders of tomorrow It is in the public school that our youth are molded in the ways of freedom and the learning they re ceive there will have most to do with their future lives. It is for this reason that the pub lic must be interested in their schools—to see that we have good teachers, good courses of study, conscientious administrators, prop er discipline and adequate room. The Fallon schools, like others in the state and nation, are faced with crowded conditions and too little in the way of additional funds to do anything about it. Despite this fact, students from this area al ways have ranked high scholastical ly when entering institutions of higher learning and this is definitely a mark of credit to our teachers and educators who make do with what is provided. From the Parkersburg, Eclipse, Parkersburg, Iowa: Those attending the third Annual Safety Institute in New York re cently heard an expert testify that the most dangerous room in the house is the kitchen This is true because of appliances which often require a constant flame and others which are also dangerous. Home - owners were warned against the use of certain cleaning fluids, in the kitchen, the wearing of frilly thinks by the housewife, who works near a stove, and the placing of inflammable materials near the range. They were also cautioned to keep at least one fire - extinguisher handy in the kitchen. We have often observed that the kitchen could be a very dangerous place for careless hands. Not only is there a major danger of burn ing, but too often there is a danger that children might somehow lock themselves irrside a refrigerator. Thus, of all the rooms in your house, the kitchen probably de mands more thought and more at tention from you if you would make your home as safe as possible. Most people unfortunately, think about it too late • • • From The Wall Street Journal, New York City: Within the Republican Party there are differences of opinion but in no case do these differences represent a wide cleavage on any matter of principle. It would be most unfortunate— for the party for the incoming ad ministration and for the country— if personal antipathies were 'al lowed to create two Republican factions bent on warfare rather than compromise. Such a situation is certainly sug gested by the statement of Sena- to. Taft strongly objecting to the appointment of Mr Martin Durkin. TO ALL THE WORLD . . . Pope Pius XII recites Rosary over a world-wide radio network for all the world to hear. SLATS • • • Slats over hotbeds permit ample sunshine to reach seedlings but also allow plantk to benefit from shade at noon. They form traveling shadows to give alternate periods of sunshine and shadow. WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZL Here’s the Answer HORIZONTAL 1,4 Pictured cinema actor 10 Rail bird 11 Wakens 13 Lair 14 Meal 16 Falsehood 18 Press 20 Remove 21 Killed 22 Deputy 24 Cooking device 3 Boat paddle 4 Yawn 5 Spoken 6 Flower 7 Sliced 8 Plural suffix 9 Color 10 Fabric 12 Sift 3 13 Double 15 Editor (ab.) 17 Pitcher 19 Hires 21 Runners (bot.) 23 Taut 24 He also has acted on the 29 Bridge 30 Belief 31 Changes 33 Oil 34 Twists 35 Is seated 39 Partner 40 Aid 41 Neat 42 Symbol for tin 45 Vehicle 46 Stitch 49 Good (prefix) 51 Concerning 25 Shelf 26 Tall structure 27 Any 28 Boy’s nickname 29 Male deer (pi.) 32 Ruminants 36 Volcano 37 Boredom 38 Insects 39 Tangles 43 Classify 44 Born 45 Huts^ 17 Those in power 48 Handled 50 Sea eagles 52 Certainty ' 53 Moist VERTICAL 1 Yearned S Comparative suffix ashingtoa •••••••••••••••••• A RTICLE XIV of the Bill of Rights states: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or prop erty without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.’’ This article has not always been upheld in our nation but the fol lowing victories were achieved in 1952 by the opponents of discrimi nation and segregation: A Federal Court jury convicted three police officers, including the police chief, of conspiracy to deny Harvey E. Clark, Jr. his civil rights in the Cicero, Illinois inci dent in which Clark was denied protection of the law because he was a Negro attempting to move into a largely hostile white neigh borhood. Rioting broke out. Maxi mum sentences under the Civil Rights Law were recommended. After informal intervention by the president of the New York City Council, the Metropolitan Life In surance Company agreed to drop eviction proceedings against 19 iamilies in its giant Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper housing projects who had been active in the fight to permit Negroes as tenants in the developments. The insurance company also agreed to stop discrimination against Negro applicants for tenancy. In spite of violence and threats in Cairo, Illinois, the transfer of Negro children to previously all- white schools was si/ccessfully completed. The transfer was prompted by the threat of with drawal of state funds from the local school system in segregation -outlawed by a 1941 state law— continued. After initial violence against the Negro community, in cluding bombings, a special Grand Jury indicted seven of the Negro leaders (including NAACP officers) for conspiring to endanger the lives of children. The indictments were later quashed for lack of evidence. In Illinois and California, the State Employment Services an nounced abandonment of the policy of taking discriminatory requests from employers for workers. In Illinois, too, all racial references were stricken from records. The California Supreme Court ruled as violative of the Fourteenth Amendment a 1920 law which barred aliens ineligible for citizen ship (principally Japanese) from owning land. The court termed the law an outright discriminatory one. Through action by the Philadel phia Civil Liberties Union, a local swimming pool that refused entry to Negroes was taken over by the city, which proceeded to operate it on a non-segregated basis. The New York State legislature passed a law extending the power of the State’s Commission against discrimination to cover public places, such as restaurants and hotels, etc. A similar bill was intro duced in Rhode Island. The Delaware Court of Chancery ruled that a local white school must admit Negro children on the basis that segregation per se is not “equal.” The court called on the U.S Supreme Court, however, to issue a definitive ruling on the constitutionality of segregation — an issue which, it appeared, might be settled when the Supreme Court accepted for review four cases of school segregation in which the practice itself is being challenged. In Baltimore, Md., the Board of School Commissioners admitted the first Negro to a special accelerated course for gifted students in the local Polytechnic Institute. The Board turned down the opportunity to open an “equal” course in an ali-Negr^ school. 1. Which state has a one-house legislature: (a) Maine, (b) Ne braska, (c) Kentucky? 2. A sachet makes you think of which sense: (a) smell, (b) taste, (c) hearing? 3. A bathroom window should be which: (a) translucent, (b) transparent, (c) opaque? 4. An “ism” is most suggestive of which: (a) cult, (b) clan, (c) clique? ANSWERS <«)—» luaonisutsax (*)—S •(Iwq aumjjad) nauis («)—Z ••jstsjqajj <q)—j KNOW SOUTH CAROLINA By GEORGE MacNABB CHIEF OF PUBLIC RELATIONS SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH. PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD Old Stone Church and Cemetery stand In silent tribute to the devotion, courage and leroism of our first settlers and to many of South Carolina's most distinguished citizens and soldiers, who are buried there. OLD STONE CHURCH NEAR PENDLETON Many of the pioneers who settled in. this territory a few years previous to the building of Old Stone Church came over the mountains from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina to make their homes in this beautiful savage wil derness. Many of them were of Scotch-Irish descent and, once they had set up their homes, they set about establishing a church and school, for with them religion and learning go hand-in-hand. The first site of the church was about one mile from the present structure. The congregation wor shipped in the old log building for several years. The foundations of Old Stone Church were laid in 1797 on approximately 17 acres of land given by John Miller, better known as Printer John Miller. John Miller was an English printer, who origi nally settled in Charleston and later came to Pendleton to establish Miller’s Weekly, which was eventu ally known as the Pendleton Mes senger. The files of this paper are eagerly sought today as excellent histone reference. The building was completed in 1802. The architect and contractor for the Church was John Rusk, father of Thomas Jefferson Rusk, soldier. Chief Jus tice and Senator from Texas. The first pastor was the Reverend Thomas Reese, first South Carolina minister to receive the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Thomas Reese and his sqp, Sidney; General An drew Pickens and his son, Andrew; Printer John Miller, who donated the land for the church and ceme tery; Reverend James McElhenny, D.D., one of the pastors and the builder of Calhoun’s mansion at Fort Hill; Andrew F. Lewis and John Maxwell, signers of the Ordi nance of Secession^ are but a few of the “illustrious” who are buried in the Old Cemetery. Old Stone Church is located on a paved road leading south from U.S. Highway No. 76, from a point midway between Pendleton' and Clemson. The field stone building is a well preserved specimen of frontier workmanship. Old Stone Church and Cemetery is adminis tered by a non-sectarian, self- perpetuating commission, chartered under the laws of South Carolina. The cemetery is maintained by a small income from a small endow ment. The upkeep of the Church depends upon the interest of the public.