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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1956 The Great Give-Away By TOM ANDERSON in Farm & Ranch “WE’VE got billions to giveaway all over the world—so they can afford to give some to me—charity begins at home.” We’ve gotten many letters like that-—from farmers who think 100 percent parity should come before foreign aid; from veterans who think there should be a lifetime mone tary reward for service to country; and from others who claim that, when the government gravy bowl is running over, why should they have a fork when foreigners are using a spoon? What is foreign aid? What part charity, what part se curity, what part defense? It has been called every thing from Marshall plan to Putting Spats on Canibals. Canibals like those in the cartoon in The New Yorker: They were sitting in a circle in a thatched hut. The leader said, “Now, here’s the plan. We let word out that we’re in a state of political ferment. Russia smells an opportunity and makes overtures. The West gets worried. They make overtures. Russia asks to send cultural ambassadors, and we let them. The West asks fop equal representation, and we invite them. Then, when we’ve got them all here, we eat them.” In 1945 we were stronger than the world combined. Rus sia was licking her wounds and was no match for us. Since then the Soviet Union and Communist China have gobbled •up the largest area of land and the largest number of people ever controlled by one power. And we handed it to ’em. Since 1945 we have spent, invested or poured down the international rat hole over $55 billion and authorized over $20 billion more which we haven’t yet found a way to spend. Thirty-four agencies of the government have been handling it out to 55 countries, through 2,000 different projects. And yet we’ve lost ground. The Communist conspiracy has cap- . tured .a third of the world and now threatens to break us, enslave us, and exterminate us. Tito Teetered Back—Naturally Tito teetered back. Your leaders gave the Yugoslav Com munist butcher over a billion dollars of your money trying to buy him. And now he’s back in, the Russian camp and some day the weapons we gave him may be killing Ameri can boys. We gave $11 billion to Russia—since the Revolution our greatest enemy. We made her, not a friend, but the second greatest power in the world. We made her the monster which can possibly destroy us. Our great and good friend and ally, jolly old England, bas—as Senator Byrd pointed out—used our aid to reduce her taxes. But OUR taxes go up constantly. In Denmark our economic aid was qsed to pay off the public debt. OUR debt—over $275 billion, is at an all-time high. Are we making friends or competitors? We’ve already practically Point-Foured ourselves out of the world cotton market. Now that the backward nations have the know how, the land and millions of serfs, why should they buy cotton from us ? They can produce it cheaper. It’s not that collective defense is wrong. Nor that eco nomic cooperation with other countries is wrong. But it’s wrong to pick up nearly all the checks and pay all the tips. It’s wrong to be a sucker! Can we*buy security? Are other peoples going to join us if we’re attacked because they have a friendly feeling toward us? They won’t risk atomic annihilation for friendship. If they join America, it’ll be because we’re strong. Because we’re the potential winner. If we waste our substance and go broke through interminable international boondoggling, we’lllose allies, not gain them. If we go broke, Russia will take the world, including the U. S. If we stop this foreign spending we can balance the budget and reduce taxes across the board by 5 1-2 per cent. A strong and rich U.S.A. is a better guarantee of peace. Where, ao$ when, and how do we stop? v Go it alone? No, let’s go it, together. Dutch treat! Not with any cut-throat we can find, as we did in World War II, and since—but with peoples who understand freedom and democracy, and are willing to spend, wo^k afid fight for them, with us. We should put the lid back on the gravy, bowl. • Foreign aid should not be allocated as the President wants, on a ten-year or any other long-range plan. Congress should determine it from year to year, with the knowledge, understanding and approval of the people. It should not be unconditioned aid. We should get value received in return: economic, political or strategic products or advantages—or harbor rights, air bases. We should aid friends only. Some Congressmen tried to bar American assistance to any country which ships stra tegic materials to the Reds. The Administration blocked that. International friendship, like any other friendship, can neither be forced nor bought. It has to be earned. We can’t stop Communism with dollars. We can stop it with trade, travel and education; with ideals and ideas, written, spoken, and broadcast to the people (not the rulers) of the world. Auctioneer’s Chant: Sold to American! Why more aid now? Because there’s a new deal in Rus sia. Russia used to give only to her satellites. Now she’s trying to buy friends and allies away from us. It’s an auc tion sale. The “neutrals” are on the block. Maybe we ought to call the bluff of the neutrals and let ’em go Communist. The most we’ve gotten for our billions is not friendship, but neutralism. We’re at an all-time low in global good will. This is a struggle for the world. A struggle between nations who believe and practice freedom of the individual against those who believe the state is God and the individ ual is nothing. Dante said, “The hottest fires of hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, remain neutral.” Maybe we ought to let the neutrals go to hell. Black Monday By TOM ANDERSON in Farm & Ranch In its “Black. Monday” decision the Supreme Court was evidently more concerned with w T orld opiiiion, sociological textbooks and professional agitators than in following the precedents set down by former Supreme Courts and our Founding Fathers. The Court based its decision in part on the testimony of certain “modern authorities on psychol ogy,” some of whom are Socialists’ or Communist sympa thizers. Chief Justice Warren, who as governor of Califor nia was for socialized medicine, cited as a leading source of the Court’s findings a book on modern psychology written by a Swedish socialist named Dr. Gunner Myrdal. In the book, “An American Dilemma,” Byrdal - freely expresses his contempt for the principles on which the U. S. was founded. Myrdal stated that the Constitution of the U. S. was “im practical and unsuited to modern conditions,” and that its adoption was “nearly a plot against the common people.” Thus an alien who ridicules the American form of govern ment is cited by the Supreme .Court of the U. S. as one of its authorities for its desegregation decision! During the Prohibition monstrosity, millions of Ameri cans voted dry and drank wet. The 18th Amendment failed because it couldn’t be enforced. It couldn’t be enforced be cause a majority of the people didn’t really want it enforced. The people voted it in and the people voted it out—a majority of the people in three-fourths of the states. The great majority of the people—including many who piously plead from beneath their halos that all men are created equal—don’t practice integration. They just preach it, for others. Many white integration eager-beavers either live in a state where there are few Negros or are able to buy their own segregation in private schools and clubs and in their cloistered lives. The Constitution says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to' the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” All rights not specifically granted to the Federal government are reserved to the states and to the people. And the Constitution doesn’t mention education. Our representative form of government* is in danger when either the executive or the judicial branch can rewrite the Constitution to suit “the trend of the times” without being checked by the same sovereign states which gave limited power in the first, place to the central government. It’s up H. D. AGENT SCHEDULE The county home agents Mrs. Margie D. Freeman and Mrs. Margaret R. Coleman announce the following schedule for the week of July 30th through Aug ust fourth. The following County 4-H Coun cil officers and Mrs. Coleman, asst, home agent, will attend State 4-H Council meeting at Camp Bob Cooper July 30 through August 3: Jerry Satterwhite, president, Bush River; Sophie McCullough, vice president, Po- mnria; Susan Crooks, secretary, Pomaria; Robert Glymph, treas urer, Pomaria and Catherine Sease, president, Junior Leader ship club. Mrs. Margie D. Freeman will be in the office. # The following Home Demon stration clubs will have picnics: Thursday, August 2, Jolly Street at the school at 5:00 p. m. Members bring picnic lunch and tea. Friday, August 3, Vaughnville club at Greenwood State Park, shed No. 2. Supper at 6:00 p. m. Saturday, August 4, Bush River picnic at the pond of Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Smith. Bring * picnic lunch and tea. Supper at 7:15 p. m. Mrs. Epps Suffers Attack In Georgia Mrs. George L. Epps, Sr., suf fered a slight heart attack .at the home of her son, Dr. George L. Epps, Jr., in Columbus) Ga. Sun day afterpoon. She is now a pa tient in the Columbus city hospi tal and is reported to be doing nicely. Dr. Epps is Radiologist at the Columbus hospital. His moth er arrived there last Saturday for a visit. "I REMEMBER SY THE OLD TIMERS ff From • Mrs. Rhodes Ingerton, Center, Texas: As a little girl, how well I remember the “quilt ing bee’s” which were given, it seems to me, most often at Grand mother Rankin’s home down on the Cumberland river in Kentucky. to the Southern States to lead the way in forcing the Su- She had the best cook 111 ^ whole preme Court to again reverse itself. I say again because wlth it5 huge open urepiace-an as there was ample room for two or three frames to be set up at the same time. The crowd con sisted of women from every nook and corner in the county. They gathered early, along with their children, in order that the whole process of assembling the lining, padding and the finished top, which could be The Double Irish Chain, The Wedding Ring or a gorgeous display of appliqued American beauty roses, leaves, stems (even the thorns) In order to turn out the finished product before the day ended. POZNAN VICTIM . . . Mourners gather at burial of Polish student, one of 38 persons killed in revolt against communist government. less th^n three years ago the Supreme Court ruled that ideal setting for a “quilting bee “separate but equal” was constitutional. Has the Constitu- ^ tion changed, or just the Court? Did the court INTERPRET the Constitution or AMEND it? The intergrationists have won two decisions in the present Supreme Court. Segrega tionists have won many decisions from better, unpacked courts which had not been brainwashed in leftwing ideolo gies. For 86 years after the 14th amendment became law the Supreme Court, federal and state courts, Congress, the presidents, governors and state legislatures all evidently figured that the Constitution gave each state the right to control its owm public schools. Maybe the South’s most effective weapon is “interposi tion” (the lefthanded theory that since it takes three fourths of the states to amend the Constitution, that 13 states should be able to prevent the Supreme Court ruling from being car ried out.) Or, the answer may lie in converting the white public schools of* the South into private school^. Force and violence and hate are certainly not the answer. The Consti tutional way, the American way, Freedom’s way, is for the states which want to integrate to do it. And for those who don’t want to, to be free to handle their owtn domestic af fairs. Final power in a free nation belongs to the people. 'Negroes, according lo the second “Black Monday” decision of the court on Marck 5, must not be barred on account of race from any TAX-S JPPORTED school or college. Would n’t a logical succeedir ^ conclusion of the Court be that TAX- EXEMPT schools must accept Negroes on the same basis as whites? Most pn ..ce schools are non-profit, endowed in stitutions and as su h are exempt from most taxes. Or, to put it another way. they are in effect TAX-SUPPORTED. If the Court should rule that private schools and colleges in tegrate or pay the same taxes proft-making institutions pay, most private schoo's would have no choice: do it or go broke. This is just the t ginning—unless we find legal ways to stop it. After the pressure groups, do-gooders, hate peddlers, Communists, and unscrupulous politicians integrate ALL schools and colleges public and private, next assaults will be on businesses, private clubs, fraternities, 4-H clubs, FFA, and Boy Scouts. That leaves the home. WfDE, WONDERFUL WORLD By FRANKLIN J. MEINE Editor, The Americas Peoples Encyclopedia I T’S ALMOST impossible to sep arate the recreational and hob- byfield from the ‘ ‘do-it-yourself’ ’ activities. But it’s worthy of note that the recreational and hobby field grew from the $10 million mark in 1945 to $200 million in 1955. The “do-it-yourself” program amounted to $10 billion in 1955. It catered to the apartment dwel ler aa much as the home owner. A survey indicated that 69 per cent of home owners planned to /io their own remodeling. Tile, paint and wood paneling were tops in the list of items which were first to be used. Although these per sonally used items were first offered to males, the lady of the house came into her own, with manufacturers making materials and tools light enough for any woman to handle. • * • If you don’t know where your wife (or husband) is during the weekly night out, remember that more than 50,000 players entered contract bridge tournaments spon sored by the American Contract Bridge League last year. For the first time—and shame on the 50,000 American tournament players— the U. S. lost the world’s cham pionship to a team of British play ers. m. - Mrs. Ilin Inabinet wins a TV Service call (fburtsy George N. Marti.. Radio & TV for identifying Mystery Farm No. 45 as that of E. C. Folk. Other winners were R^rs. Carl Amick and Mrs. James D. Brown, who each receive one ticket to the Wells theater, and Mrs. Bill Attaway, who receives a tick et to the Ritz Theater. Tickets must be picked up at The Sun office by noon, Monday, July 30. — V i-i: < V m If 111 mm HHi! Illpi Wmm “Your Blood Helped Save My Daddy’s Life' “My Daddy was hurt when the mine caved in. But he’s home with us now because the doctor gave him blood that other people had saved up. I’d like to give blood, too, but I have to wait till I grow up. Will you give blood now so it will be ready wheq someone else’s Daddy needs it? IS Many lives right here at home are saved every year by blood stored for just such emergencies. The blood you give now may some time save a life in your family—perhaps even your own life. it NATIONAL BLOOD PROGRAM ★ mm BLOOD NOW! G/ve ft Again and Again! wmsmmm Give when the Red Cross Bloodmobile visits in Newberry, Wednesday, August 1. Place: Lutheran Church of the Re deemer. Time: 2 until 8 p. m. Quota: 100 Pints. Sponsored by The Exchange Club of Newberry. THIS AD IS SPONSORED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY: Newberry Creamery ‘Newberry Maid Butter 916 Harrington St. Phone 14 » - Service, Inc. Wholesale Distributors Complete line of auto parts and ac cessories. 2505 E. Main St. Phone 924 Newberry, S. C. Hellers Service Station GROCERIES — GAS and OIL 2604 E. Main St. Phone 1574 Werts Plumbing ' Service ' Plumbing & Supplies 2417 E. Main St. Phone 997-J m.