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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1956 1218 Gollegpe Street NEWBERRY, S. C. * PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937 at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR This is J. K. Breedin, now renewing his admiration for our neighbors to the North, the sturdy, steadfast Canadians, whose vast country, the queen’s priceless Dominion, com prises everything, from the rugged mountain peaks, to the sublimity of the great St. Lawrence River. I am quite prepared to stand in wonderment at all that I see. In my early days in Peru I lived high in the Andes, travelling horseback from the rail head to, and over, the cumbre, the backbone of the Andes, thirteen thousand feet up. Then I was in frequent touch with the vast Amazon River, which rises in Peru. Ocean steamers came from Liv erpool direct to Iquitos—2700 miles up the great river. Canada has more grandeur in her mighty St. Lawrence than Peru has in the Amazon; and Canada has a splendor of landscape transcending the juiigles of the Amazon. The Canadian cities are English and Scotch, strongly flav ored with Yankee customs, we citizens of the United States —all of us—being the Yankees. In other countries we are all known as Yankees. If I were in Russia or China, spying out the land, as I’m doing in Canada, the police would put me in jail, but Can ada is English, or British, with Britain’s easy-going manner of accepting sti*aqgers. Of course the City of Quebec is still strongly, robustly and unchangeably French. When I speak of Quebec, does it carry you back to your, school days? Champlain, the great explorer, established a trading post on a rocky cliff overlooking the majestic St. Lawrence and named it Quebec. You may recall that the Colonies Massach usetts and New York were bent on destroying Quebec be cause of Indian ravafies inspired by the Governor of Can ada, Frontenac. That Indian was lasted, off and on, sev enty years. To us, you recall, the most memorable happenings about Quebec was the storming of the fortress on the heights and plains of Abraham and the death of the illustrious General Wolfe in the moment of victory. Does that refresh your memory ? , Here I am at Quebec. The City is on a promontory in an angle made by the junction of the Saint Charles River with the Saint Lawrence. On a plateau about seven miles from Quebec the renowned French General Montcalm stood with his army of French, Canadians and Indians; not far away the British and Continentals under General Wolfe scaled the supposed inaccessible heights of Abraham, which had been left unguarded, and fell upon Montcalm. General Wolfe was killed, and in his last breath said “Now God be praised, I shall die in peace.” General Mont calm also was a casqalty and his last words were: “So much the better; I am happy that I shall not live to see the sur render of Quebec.” Generals in that day were out in front on horseback. You may recall the story of an American soldier in the First World War; he was being carried far back to a hospital and asked “Am I as far back as G.H.Q.? Well, then, I’m safe How.’* ‘ ~ The body of the great Frenqh General rests beneath the floor of the Ursuline Convent, in a grave partially made by a bursting shell. Montcalm is regarded by some historians as the greatest Frenchman ever to set foot on American soil. The battle of Quebec was one of the most important fought in America in any w r ar. All that struggle between England and France for mas tery in the new world was ended by bloody and expensive warfare; and the results were confirmed by the Treaty of Paris, in 1763. That treaty stands out virtually alone and pre-eminent for the magnitude of its land transfers. Eng land, having taken Cuba and the Philippines from Spain be cause Spain had aided France, now, under the Treaty of Paris, ceded Cuba and the Philippines back to Spain, and received Florida n exchange. France ceded New Orleans and Louisiana to Spain for the loss of Florida—all that vast territory west of the Mississippi River, later bought by Thomas Jefferson for the United States—that magnificant domain, known as the Louisiana Purchase. As you recall, we bought it from Napolean, Emporer of the French. (About 828,000 sq. miles of land). France surrendered to Great Bri tain, under the Treaty of Paris, all the rest of her North American possessions, consisting of Canada, the Ohio Val ley, Cape Breton, £nd all her islands except two. The British are a wonderful people, but Quebec remains French in language, thought and habit, though under the supreme control of the government of Her Majesty’s Domin ion of Canada. Since Canada is British I am reminded of the steady de pendability of the British, as I knew of them in South America. I have been to England and Scotland, but far away from Europe the British can be “sized up” by two ex pressions: “Hora Inglesa” and “Palabra Inglesa.” When a Sou& American wishes to speak solemnly, with HIGHWAY OASIS exact regard for the “sober truth,” he says “Palabra In glesa”—English word: and if he means to set a precise time he says “Hora Inglesa”—English hour. I was impressed by the confidence in the British when I found that Hacendados of the Andean area invested their surplus or savings in British gold. Most of our people have forgotten that an American Army, under General Richard Montgomery, pressed North ward in 1775 into Canada and captured Montreal, the big gest city of Canada, which I am now visiting. We planned that year another attack on Canada and in the second campaign, this one against Quebec, Benedict Ar nold was Commander and Aaron Burr was of the expedition. That ended disastrously. Those two campaigns were before the Declaration of In dependence. ’ ' Riding along the placid routes of travel today one forgets the strife, struggle, battle, sacrifice and bloodshed which paid the price for the peace and prosperity of both the United States and the Dominion of Canada. ' It is said that General Wolfe repeated the sweet, moving lines of Gray’s Elegy in a Country Church Yard the night before his victory and his death, and declared that he would rather be the author of “The Elegy” than the Conqueror of Quebec. “The paths of glory lead but to the grave,” he repeated. Some foreigners don’t like us Americans; in the first place, all nations of North, Central,, and South America are just as “American” as we are. So we appear a bit presump tuous in calling ourselves “Americans”, as though Cana dians were not “Americans”. Of course Canadians are not “foreigners”; they are neigh bors who speak English, though not always as we speak it. Quebec, I repeat, speaks French. < I crossed Lake Ontario on the way to Toronto; and on shipboard I had a taste of the scorn of some Canadians for us. While far out in the deep our ship rescued several people whose little cruiser had wallowed in the lake for a day and night, with a dead engine. The rescued people were taken to the Bar and served with lots of hot coffee^ I asked for a cup of coffee. “Coffee”? asked the man at the counter. “Yes, Coffee,” I replied. “Why you people don’t drink cof fee in the States; you drink chicory.” Well, now; I didn’t know the difference; I learned the difference in New Or leans. Do you recall that the English had coffee-houses many i years ago and coffee became quite a fad? Someone introduc ed a bill in Parliament, or started quite a movement, to pro hibit the drinking of coffee. Well the reason given was that coffee is so stimulating that it makes everyone quick witted, bright, you know. My remembered friend and critic, Colonel H. Gordon Kenna, awill cut me off the air and exclaim in disgust, “That’s a calmuny; no such rdiculous thing was ever consid ered.’ ’ True though. ' Naturally I spen a night in Washington just to see if President Eisenhov.' i- has destroyed all the foundations of the Nation, as son._ j of my Democratic brethren believe. Everything seemen about as usual, though the Solomonic speeches are still i verberating. Even the Supreme Court bulding didn’t shov the ravages I expected to see. As long as Andre v Jackson sits on his horse across from the White House 1 i.ope for the best. Washington is a < "ty of such beauty that I shall not un dertake to describe it; you must see it for yourself, friend. When Congress i not in session Washington is so tame you hardly recognize t. Of course the swarming hordes of bureaucrats are the e, planning some great program to con sume the taxpayers' money. If they can’t think of anything else, I expect them to build a couple of artificial mountains with a great valley between them and then start a clamor to use the power-potential so as to get an appropriation of a hundred million or billion, for power, any kind of power, whether atomic or hydro-electric. Just so the boys can make a showing and tell us poor fellows of the mighty ef fort to solve our problems. Still, the boys must' have some thing to talk about, or all that speech pent up, bottled up, you know, would result in a catastrophe that would make the eruption of Vesuvius seem just a small affair. Even the air is still charged with the eloquence of paternalistic dogooders. I renewed my zeal for the Constitution in Philadelphia, al- thoug hthe Constitution has only historical value now- Q—Is a newly-naturalized citizen eligible to vote In all local, state and national elections? A—To qualify to vote the new citizen has to fulfill state and local require ments, too. In 15 states he has to take a literacy test before he can use the ballot. And like everyone else, he often has to establish a state, county, city, parish or election district residence. The num ber of newly-naturalized citizens this year brings to 104,600,000 the total of men and women eligible to vote in the fall Q—When did General Sherman say "War is hell?” A—Historians generally agree that General William Tecumseh Sherman said, “War is hell,” when he was at the heighth of his fame during the Civil War, but there is little substantial evidence to support that assumptkm. One Iowa officer, aide-de-camp to General E. E. Win slow of the Fourth Iowa Calvary, reported in 1918, 55 years after the alleged event, that he overheard Sherman make the famous remark as his troops were crossing the Feral River at Jackson, Mississippi, soon after the fall of Vicksburg. Q—What Is the eldest college in the United States? A—Harvard University, which has been continuously operated since 1636. From the Hunterdon County Jemocrat, Flemington, New Jersey: Since the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission called the nation’s attention a few months, ago to the fact that the Russians are training more young men in technological subjects than America, there has been quite a stir about this question. Large corporations have been stepping up their scholarship aid to the colleges and educators have been on the hot seat with respect to lack of interest in mathematics and the sciences oo the part of students. Scholarship aid on the collegiate or graduate level is a splendid way to assist gifted students who other wise would lack the wherewithal to pursue scientific studies. But this puts emphasis on the wrong end. If we are to have more scien tifically trained people it is im perative that we interest them while they are at the high school level. How better can this be done than to make it possible to employ superior teachers—men and women who will inspire an interest in scientific subjects — while the youngster is developing an interest in such hobbies as electricity, chemistry and mechanical engi- nWring. It instead of concentrating their grants at the upper levels the in dustrial companies which are aid ing education would give some oi their money to the secondary schools, the final result would be more in line with America’s in creasing demand for technol ogists and engineers. For example, a chemical industry might well subsidize superior instruction In that subject to the end that chil dren who show special aptitude and interest may be encouraged to intensify their academic efforts —not alone in chemistry but in mathematics and the liberal arts courses which will be necessary if they are to qualify for college. Many a student capable of superi or college or technical school work has drifted thru high school or been allowed to fall by the wayside because no teacher has challenged Mm to get to work and use his time in school to best advantage. Where Industries have decen tralized their operations, their managers might well give atten tion to the desirability of doing more for the public schools communities where plants are lo cated than just paying taxes, ^hey can manifest an interest in the schools to a point where the re turns will more than Justify the investment. The secondary school level is the place where more emphasis is needed. 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Since the days of old Ben Franklin we have built ma chines rather than men. New York is New York; I have memories of that unique City. Some days ago Mr. Charles Walters of Greenwood and I talked of our (jays in the universities there. That would be one part of the City for me. And from there I sailed to Europe and back and to South America several times. In the great days I travelled a few times from Charleston by adays. O tempora, O Mores, as Cicero exclaimed, when denounc ing Cataline. Instead of studying law a young man aspir ing to a post of dignity on the Federal Bench might save the Clyde Line. Upon returning once from South America, in mid-winter, I walked along Broadway near Wall Street and saw oysters and hot cakes in a restaurant window. I hadnt thought of oysters and hot cakes for a long time, so ; • v .' •» 7 ? ) • «i . ‘ #' 7 2,«10 MILES IN » HOURS . . . H-21 light car** heUcopter (left) Is refueled at 5,666 feet in first non-stop transcontinental flight, San Diego to Washington, D. C. 1. Innocuous means (a) free from disease; (b) unchanging. 2. Lassitude means (a) weakness; (b) endurance; (e) ness. 3. The linnet is (a) a four-footed animal; (b) bird; (e) ; (c) ANSWERS •PJIH X •«mn*w»2t •* » 1X71TH the National conventions W out of the way, the American people may feel confident that the Government of the United States ivill be in good hands which ever vay the electorate decides, to go this coming November. There is no question but that both parties put forth their strong est tickets. On the Democratic side, Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver will make a strong com bination of vote getters. Steven son, this column believes, has gained stature during the four years since the 1952 convention and he displayed this stature at the Chicago convention when he set a national precedent in leav ing the vice-presidency wide open and up to the choice of the dele gates. It was a nip and tuck and an exciting race between Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator Kefauver, the latter pulling away in the fading min utes of second roll call Hereto fore it had been considered that the vice-presidency was a person al choice by the presidential nom inee. Stevenson had made such a run-a-way race of the Presidential nomination, that his electrifying action before the convention, did more to heal up wounds and sore spots, particularly in the South, than any thing which could have happened. / All-in-all the Democratic con tention was probably the best that party has held in modern politics, insofar as unity and party har mony was concerned. Certainly it was in wide contrast to the ending of the Democratic convention in 1952 which broke the party wide open and resulted in the loss of four Southern states. At San Francisco, too, there was apparent unity inspite of the pre convention fight to oust vice-presi dent Nixon, led by Harold Stassen, the President’s peace ambasaador. President Eisenhower’s decision to attend the convention a day earli er than he first anticipated did much to pour oil over any trou bled waters that were broiled, and the Republican organisation, un der control of National Chairman Len Hall worked smoothly. At Chicago, there was one man who made a slightly pitifuh figure of himself. This was former Presi dent Harry Truman. Mr. Truman, had he taken his stand against Stevenson as he did, and for Averell Harriman and lost his fight on those lines, he would have come through the con vention, as a losing fighter., But he went one step too far. He made Adlai Stevenson mad when he said that Stevenson couldn’t win in November. It may be a true statement, but not one for a party leader and elder statesman to make concerning the leading can didate at a convention. It was pure ly and simply another inept Tru man blunder and he paid for it. The Stevenson forces just walked over Mr. Tniman, and then in the general spirit of harmony, Stev enson picked Mr. Truman up again, took him to the platform and tried to take the hurt out of the whipping Mr. Truman had received. It was a sporting move for Steven son to make and the convention recognized it, as did the chastened Mr. Truman. The forgotten man at Chicago was Ohio’s governor Frank Lau- sche. He is a perennial Governor of Ohio, and the Democratic nom inee for U. S. Senator against Senator George Bender, Republi can, of Ohio. He was an announced favorite son candidate for presi dent His name was never placed into, nomination. ■ y DOUBLE WINNER . . • Mrs. Pat McCormick, 26, of Los Angelee, won her place on U. S. Olympic swim team with victories In 3- meter springboard diving and 16-meter highboard. Pat was member of 1952 Olympic squad. This an’ That Jerry Reichow, Iowa quarter back now playing for the Detroit Lions, never saw a professional football team In action until he played for the College All-Stars against the Cleveland Browns . . . If he were still alive, the great Babe Ruth would have been among the fans pulling for Mickey Mantle to hit 60 home runs daring the 1966 season. Babe died eight years ago, but during his retired years he never resented it when an athlete posed a threat to one of his records and nothing would probably have pleased him more titan to have his 60-homer record matched or topped by another Yankee. Whenever questioned about his many marks in the game. Babe often replied, “Records are made to be broken,’* and he believed it. In addition to the 60 home runs in one season, there are 63 assorted records still on the book with Ruth’s name be side them. The legend of Babe Ruth is certain to last as long as the game of baseball . . . The purse for the October running of the Garden Stakes at Camden, N. J. is expected to be nearly $296,606 by the time the field of two-year-old thoroughbreds start the event I went in and renewed my taste for them and then had a dish of ice cream! Think of that!! But if you spend time far away in the Mountains you will be thrilled on seeing ice cream.