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PAGE TWO ■i .:■ ?■■. THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROIJNA •AY, 1218 Goikce Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVEKY THURSDA O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner * * lY Second-Class postage paid at Newbei Carolina. rry, South SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per y vmnee; six months, $L25. ear in ad- COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS Where do we go from here? ae uneone oratorically asked. There is something wrong with people; that is responsible for half-baked men so often to i found in public life. But it i't confined to men ir. public life fctic men are fom d in pri- life, too. What is being taught? After wrestling with Economics and In ternational Finance in a'' gr*at Morthern university I am almost disposed to recommend that the fundamentals of our way of liv ing, individualism, private busi ness be deeply, carefully, vigor- eusly indoctrinated m one or two lessons. There are so many theories that a student is lost in the maze of theoretical abstractions. What is meant by sound money? What are the inevitable results of Socialism ? What is the dif ference between a Federal , Re public and a Federal democracy ? What have we in the U.S.? America needs teachers; I mean •men and women who know their subjects and ai 3 themselves thor oughly imbued with the American spirit—or what was once the Am erican spirit. At the risk of having someone throw a rock at me, I venture to believe that not every man of post graduate degrees is a competent teacher. Many very able teachers have not explored the moon or the illimitable distances of the deserts but are highly proficient in their limited sphere. That is also true of teachers in the com mon schools. I have sat in classes of men having doctorates and also have known intimately men without the doctorate. The test to be ap plied should be the ability to teach his subject rather than to stand appalled at the excursions he has made into the vast and vague reaches of recondite schol arship. It is possible that we should decide exactly^ what should be taught and how it is to be taught. Something else: should we pre pare a man to do something or to be something ? Not every man will be a law yer or physician or dentist, but every man must make or earn his bread and meat. I do not suggest that a train ing should neglect the cultural phases. Every man should know something of history, literature, and the elements of chemistry and physics, along with geology and, obviously, something of mathematics. But some have an astonishing predeliction for geol ogy, or chemistry. Let them con centrate on the subjects of ser ious concern. 'It is possible that a small pri vate school of real teachers would produce the best results. Who knows today the so-called jtights of our citizens? Ipiights? What rights? Do our people know anything of our his tory? Have they thought of Eng- lands Magna Carta and what it means even to us ? Have they read t thoughtfully the Constitu tion of the United States and the first ten Amendments ? Of course ft seems now of only' historical value since the manhandling it bas received from the United States Supreme court. But do the Senators and Representatives in Congress know the Supreme law? and helpfully in its own commun ity and be a sort of power house of service, instead of merely spending a half hour over a les son once a week. 1 No one can measure the re source of knowledge and exper ience in a group. To make avail able, as needed, the individual or composite knowledge and exper ience of all those men would be to throw a light on almost any problem or need. It seems likely that the Dem ocrats of South Carolina will not follow blindly any Tom, Dick or Harry who may be choseiw to lead the Democracy in the Presi dential election. On the other side Mr. Nixon does not arouse or in spire our confidence, for he is a second Eisenhower, but without Ike’s charm and war record. Ike may not be a great general of the school of Alexander the Great or Napoleon, but he was commander of our greatest afmy and victory was won by that army so we need not' quibble; but victory or no victory, Mr. Eisen hower sold the South down the river. Our Senators Johnston and Thurmond have upheld the great Southern tradition valiantly. Senator Richard Russell, Geor gia, is leading the fight against the so-called Rights bill and most Southern Senators are loy ally and capably supporting him. There is hardly a doubt that the proposed Rights bill is repug nant to the Constitution but it is equally beyond doubt that the present Supreme Court will de clare such a law constitutional. The Congress should have' cur tailed the assumed powers of the Court; it is nq,w a great agency of oppression. Our only hope is that time, the great healer and corrector, may prove the fallacy and the folly of the present trend. As I’ve said before, as one man turned our course into other chan nels we may some day rear an other man with the same blandish ments who will have respect for the foundation principles of our Nation and lead us back into the right way. One man started all this trouble; let us hope that one may appear on the scene resolved to revive and restore the tradi tions of that noble band that founded this republic. DEED TRANSFERS By-the-way, a Man’s Sunday School class la considering a plan that is unique. The basic idea is that within that class of seventy men there is a composite wisdom and practical knowledge that ||ggbt be brought to bear on the problems and needs of their com- munity.. For example, let us. as- that in the class are: one r, one teacher, thirty farm ers, several merchants, one or two insurance men, a physician, a .veterinary surgeon, a lumber man, a man of broad experience vrith cattle, ; twenty ex-service men—all branches—several retir ed men of practical road-build ing experience, one or two auto- mobile salesmen, one of two auto- perts on car bodies, etc—you see what a wealth of knowledge and experience may be found in that group. • The idea is to make available to anyone needing advice or in formation all the resources of that varied and broad experience, underlying' idea is that the ( should function practically This country was born in a re volt against the act of King George. The thirteen colonies re solved to assert and maintain their rights as their ancestors had won and cherished those rights. In those days of the simple life, without daily papers and a thousand magazines and such other distractions as the score or more of diverting interests that so engage us that we have no time to think. Our nearest ap proach to thinking is the read or listen to someone’s remarks and then express agreement or dis- agreement—all on the spur of the moment, with littie information to guide us. Our men of 1776 and earlier days remembered and cherished the demands their forefathers made of old King John at Runny- mede, England in the year 1215, as I recall. King John was bent on govern-* ing according to his own ideas or whims, but those sturdy men asserted aggressively certain an cient rights of Englishmen and the bull-headed King bowed to the demands and granted a charter of rights and liberties which is known up to this time as The Great Charter ((Magna Carta). In course of time those valiant subjects of the English Sovereign won other concessions, such as the Writ of Habeas Corpus, by which a man held under arrest may demand a hearing to deter mine whether he is lawfull detain ed or not. I mention just these concessions wrung from a usurping monarch to show that there v as a time when men did not meekly submit either to domineering Kings or misguided Parliaments. And in this country of ours a band of men dared to defy the King over a tax on tea. A great war followed and we are a free and self-governing people. We must make our will known and also make it effective at the polls, for we are being dominated and victimized by all sorts of Newberry No. 1 O. |fVX|mfield Sr., to Virgil Gilliam ancP'Frances Smith Gil liam, one lot and one building, Crosson ’and Academy Sts., $6.00 and other valuable considerations. E. E. Epting to Naomi R. Ept- ing, one lot and one building, 158 Douglas St., $5.00 love and affec tion. Newberry No. 1 Outside Fred F. Myers Jr., to James Pearl- Wicker, two lots and one building, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. Maggaline C. Cromer to Adam D. Mills, two lots, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. R. Derrill Smith to Joe H. Bonds, one lot, Glenn St. and Derrill Ave., $5.00 and other val uable considerations. J. F. Hawkins to Oliver H. Da vis, four lots, $5.00 and other val uable considerations. Minnie Lucile Sanders to Wil liam Wilson, et al, one lot and one building, $5.00. Willie Wilson, et al to Ozzie W. Goggans, one lot and one build ing, $5.00 and other valuable con siderations. E. E. Epting to H. H. Ruff, 224 acres, $5.00 and exchange of nroperty. t H. H. Raff to E. E. Epting, 194 acres, $5.00 and exchange of prop erty. v- ; Mwitreet No, 2 Frank Addy, Eugene Blease, W. M. Cromlsy ^r., to Willie Lee Sawyer^’William Black Sawyer and Robert Lee Sawyer, M.D., one lofedHMfcg&w Basil River No. 3 Whitener Lumber Company, Inc., tq Carolina .Tree Farms, Inc., 127 acres, ^lO.OO. Whitmire No. 4 1 P. P. Stevens and Company to Claude E. Singley, one lot, $45.00. Bessie A. Duckett to Newberry Federal Savings and Loan Asso ciation, one lot and one building, 1104 Sinclair St., $5.00 and can cellation of a mortgage. Newberry Federal Savings and Loan Association to Thomas D. Hueblc and Dorothy M. Hueble, one lot and one building, 1104 Sinclair St., $5.00 and assumption of a mortgage. ’ Dorothy S. Baker and Annie £5. Dickert to Charles Frederick jSteen, one lot and one building on Spring St., $5.00 and assumption of a mortgage. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Carl Baker and Dorothy S. Baker to James Leland Smith and Metzie B. Smith, one lot and one building, $8200. Ray Edward Morris, et al to Jack H. Wilson, two lots and one building, $i'.00 and other val uable considerations. R. M. Duckett Jr., to Joe H. Bonds, one lot, $200. Pomaria No. 5 C. V H. Ragsdale to Helen R. Counts, 200 acres, $5.00. Mamie G. Smith to Antionette S. Miller and James T. Miller, 51 acres, $5.00 love and affection. Daniel C. Wicker, et al to Charles B. Durham, nine acres, $400. E. E. Epting to H. H. Ruff, 2 and 3.76 acres, $5.00 and exchange of property. Little Mountain No. 6 South Carolina Electric and Gas Company to W. . Kenneth Swygert and Howard B. Shealy, 12.2 and 29.2 acres, $16,100. Ruth T. Armfield to Elbert J. Dickert and Ernest H. Layton, one lot, $5.00 and premises. Prosperity No. 7 J. Earl Bozard to W. R. Koon, one lot, $500. Dr. E- N. Kibler to Dr. William Leslie Mills, one lot, $5.00 and other valuable considerations. Pomaria No. 5 Laura W. Gibson to Istalena S. Wilfe u, one acre, $300. Recep Marriages Clyde Thomas Mize and Dora Bell Jones of Newberry were married on March 26 at Newber ry by Rev. James R. Grigsby. C. Ashley Abel of Newberry and Martha Kay Newman of Prosperity were married at Pros perity on March 27 by Rev. Ben M. Clark. Richard H. Paris and Anne Robbins of Newberry were mar ried by Rev. Thurman Vickery at Newberry on March 27. Verdie Elroy Edwards Jr., Rt. 2, Kinards and Carolyn Louise Pace, Rt. 1, Kinards, were mar ried on April 1st at Newberry by Probate Judge E. Maxcy Stone. J. H. Grant and Mildred Mc Carty of Saluda were married at Newberry by Probate Judge E. Maxcy Stone on April 1st. Durward Belmont Brinkley and Nellie Owens of Newberry were married at Newbeiry on April 4th by Probate 3 udge E. Maxcy Stone. manipulations, demands and exac tions. I cannot conceive of a more ut terly ridiculous piece of nonsense than the demand that we give billions of dollars abroad while heavily in debt ourselves and compelled to increase postage rates. Thing of it seriously: Isn’t that about as completely foolishas any proposal you ever heard? For To Fluoridation (The following information is fnap “an np-to-date revisttti of a broadside originally pre pared by the Citizens Commit tee Against FluorhUthNn, _ La Crosse, Wia.” and was furnish ed The Sun by I. Schissell. A large portion of the leaflet is being omitted because most of the information contained has been printed in other articles heretofore. Those items 'from the pamphlet which have not been as much publicized are re printed here. Hie Sun will pub lish any information furnished by proponents or opponents of fluoridation, but assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or authenticity of source of any item submitted.—Ed.) Has either the American. Dental 1955; against what they termed ‘the relentless promotional activi ties of the Michigan State Health Department” for fluoridation. It should be noted, also, that medi cal associations are slowly waking op and refesinc to oodono flaori- ma f/ "Se dition notably, the Texas Medical ta «*•“• «*» >***» Association, and the Association of American Physicians and Sur geons. Others are reconsidering their previous approval, such as the Multnomah County (Oreg.) Medical Association. Has anything beneficial been proved to be due to fluoridation? Nothing in scientific literature can be found which shows fluo rine, the “wild cat” or “villian” of the chemical world, to be a beneficial agent to human biol ogy. Ev«p the delay in dental . . cavities which is Attributed fcrfe 1 J? the ingestion of fluorine has been said by Dr. Paul Manning, D.MJ)., . or diseased anp^|^|paorine. And Mr. K. K. Paluev, an experienced analyst of experimental data, Fellow of the American . Institute of Electrical or American Medical Association Engineers, states that any appipr done any original scientific re search in regard to the effects of artificially-fluoridated water upon teeth or the organs of the hu man body? * There is no record in scientific literature of their having done so. They seem to be merely echoing the opinions of a group of public health officials from the U. S. Public Health Service, who, likewise, h^.ve done no con clusive research. Who is behind fluoridation, and who stands to profit? \ Oscar Ewing, attorney for the Aluminum Company of America, which has sodium flouride as a waste product, gave the fluorida tion movement its big push when he became Federal Security Ad ministrator. He left. $750,000 a year with the Aluminum Company to take $17,500 a year as F.S.A. head. In 1951 his agency asked for two million dollars for fluor ine propaganda alone. He also had millions of dollars to give out to dental and medical colleges, state departments of health, as money grants. Of course, these money grants are given only to those dental and medical colleges and state health departments which foster and promote the pro grams of the U. S. Public Health Service. It all fits together like a gloVe! Thus the price of so dium fluoride jumped from 1% cents a pound when sold as a rat poison up to as much as 15 cents.a pound when sold for hu man consumption in drinking wa ter, and chemical firms, therefore, have a very real financial inter est in the promotion of the sale. Equipment firms also, which sup ply feeding machinery, are profit ing hugely, and we find in some instances that the promoters of fluoridation are relatives of the heads of ‘ these equipment com panies. What methods are used to pro mote fluoridation ? All the techniques of propagan da, the “band-wagon method” (that lists all the towns fluori dating, even though' some may not be); the “prestige method” (that gives the names of organi zations as endorsing fluorida tion, even though such endorse ments are empty anc( meaning less when not backed up by sci entific data); the “glittering generality” method (of making statements that sound good, bdt when analyzed mean nothing' and say nothing); the “name calling” method (that calls all those who oppose polluted water such names as “crackpots”, “fearmongers”, etc.); the “fic titious story” method (that re lates stories intended to make peo ple who oppose poisoned water appear to be simple and ignor ant)—all these propaganda tech niques and others are used. Are many cities rejecting flouri- dation ? About 1100 communities in the United States have ‘ rejected fluoridation so far, with more being added all the time. Cities such as Seattle, Cincinnati, Talla hassee, San Diego, Detroit, Co lumbus, and Greensboro, to name only a few, have turned thumbs down on fluoridation after study ing the pros and cons. Likewise, foreign countries such as Sweden, Switzerland, France, England and West Germany have rejected it as a dangerofis practice. Why are so many doctors and dentists favoring fluoridation ? It seems to be a matter of as sociation , control. Medical and dental colleges, as well as state health departments, receive large grants of money from the U. S. Public Health Service, which is promoting fluoridation. These money grants are given on the condition that the programs of the USPHS are fostered. Further more, it is considered unethical for an individual doctor or dentist to publicly oppose a program Which his association has endors ed. However, 123 of the 151 den tists of Worchester, Mass., in 1953 petitioned and demanded that the approval of fluoridation by the Worchester District Dental Society be rescinded. Also, 83 doc tors and dentists in Michigan joined in a protest to the Gov ernor of that State on March 31, ent benefits, as claimed by the promoters of fluoridation, are due to delays in detection of dental defects, and to errors in methods of statistical calculation. He says: “A short delay in the ap pearance of tooth decay was mis taken for a radical and permanent reduction in the number of afflict ed teeth.” Can the people who want Rj0orida4^obtain them .without hav ing the city water supply fluori dated? ■ Yes, there is a tablet, now available at drugstores, Which when dropped in a quart of water or milk will give the exact pro posed ration of Ippm of fluor ide. What about the subversive as pects of fluoridation? There is a school of thought now delevoping considerable fol lowing that fluoridation is Com munist-inspired. Former Com munists have stated that fluori dation is known to Communists as a method of Red warfare. Con sidering the recently-exposed in filtration of the many departments of our Federal Government by Communists, it is not unreason able to suppose that the fluorida tion program could be subversive, since the U. S. Public Health Service has mothered the fluori dation program in the United States. Herbert A. Philbrick, not ed ex-spy-investigator, who went underground for several years with the organization to get first hand knowledge of their activities, says in the New York Herald- Tribune of March 18, 1956: “The Communists, who have been pub licly urging that sodium fluoride be placed in our public water sup ply, are currently intensifying their campaign for this measure.” On March 13, 1956, The Daily Worker, the leading Communist newspaper, under the headline “Facts Spur Campaign for Flu oridation Here”, concluded th*» article with this statement: “Politicians in the City Council (New York) and Board of Esti mate are timid men who are cat ering to misguided sentiment, outmoded tradition and backward (Continued on page 3) Spock, Dr. Thomas Parran, Dr. Howard Rusk, Df. Peter Marshall Murray, Dr. George Baehr, Dr. Bela Schick, Dr Robert Loeb, Dr. Morris Fishbein, Dr. Jonas Salk, say one part fluoride per million parts water is effective and safe, I think I had better take their word for the scientific aspects. We‘must rest on the statements of the expects whom the profes sion recognize as such, not on those who talk loud or sound good. The top men are the authorities to trust. No public health measure has ever been tested on such a scaled nor with more conservative pre cautions, to obtain results than scientific work on polio was fine, but according to one authority, this work was no better and no where near as extensive as on fluoridation. But the public was educated with a wonderful pro gram. scien tific discovery as reported by rec ognized medical and health experts and we have benefitted by polio shots. But with fluoridation the public seems not to have been as well educated to the facts. This has beepithe goal of a group of young mothers here in Newberry over the past four months—to edu cate the people here to the good of a fluoridation program. It seems to have come to the point where we need to know bet tor whom to trust. I do not mean one individual against another in our city, but rather the sources from which these individuals have gotten their information. Shall we be informed by a “Citizens CodL^ttee jApsinst Fluoridation” or by the Americal Medical A*$Jfe elation ? Shall we believe state ments of “The Fluoridation Edu cation Society of the Carolinas, Inc.” or of the American Dental Association? Are we tp take wj word of a “Pure Water Associa tion” or of the U. S. 3f%blic Health Service? Even«the U. S. P. H. S. and the A. D. A. would not recommend fluoridation until the results of controlled studies proved beyond reasonable doubt that the measure was «afe and ef fective. There are a quarter million physicians and 'about one hund red thousand dentists in our coun try. Occasionally we will find a doctor who expresses reservations on the subject of fluoridation, but he finds few of his colleagues in agreement with Sim. The few eminent physicians and scholars who express caution have made no direct contribution to fluoridation research. And some scientists in the light of newer developments have withdrawn their previous ob jections. Among these who once opposed fluoridation and now fav or it is Dr. Howard V. Smith whom Mr. T. L. Hill says is “a world expert in fluoridation”! The list of national groups and recognized - medical g His interest in the with young The advocates of seek to make it appear crackpots and ignorant pose fluoridation. I physicians and sc but they do not wish to public altercation with emmental bureaucrats, who ways use the smear technique thus scare many ethical phj from public comment. gRfee of the greatest surg*™™ « the world is Dr. Alton ^ | New Orleans, and I with some of his cox Yours very W. On being questioned, ner restated his opposition to fluoridation of public plies. : men supporting fluoridation is long and impressive. They repre sent knowledge of the fluoridation question based on accurate scien tific research data. They say that one part fluoride per million parts water is safe and effective. How can we say otherwise? I ask that you learn the facts for yourself. - Carefully evaluate the sources of your information— ask yourself: Is this information from a well-known professional organization and is it up-to-date? Talk with your family doctor. Talk with your dentist. Think about the issue with an open mind. Decide for yourself. Don’t be frightened into forming an opinion without learning the facts. .Carolina H. Hawkins. ATLANTA MAYOR . . . (Continued from page 1) some years ago, defeated it in a public referendum. £ The paid bureaucrats of the U. S. Public Health Service are push ing this matter and supplying lit erature printed at taxpayers’ ex pense. They usually direct their fire at newspapers, P. T. /L. or ganizations, and the Junior Cham ber of Commerce, the latter or ganizations consisting of people commit New ~ dates back several years was a member of a investigate whether should fluoridate its “I am no authority hi fluo: tion, but during our I became convinced that tion of water would reduce caries. I consulted Dr. C, Bass, dean emeritus of University, wi ested in the pathol of teeth for 40 years . . . told me that from his inv tions he was con caries are decreased by fli tion, but he also believed much more serious disease, odontoclasia, which teeth to loosen, is caus “If Dr. Baas have faith in his rity—and since fluoridation is venting caries only the teeth are that the logical to give pills to swal the entire popul dated water.” He said he fell fects” of offset the lanta Journal, Feb. 20, by good '•7; it's a is more than a symbol reality-si Bank Serving Carolina’s ;§S: *3 MRS. HAWKINS WRITES . . . (Continued from page 1) learn the facts and not be fright ened by exaggerated claims into rejecting an idea potentially bene ficial to so many people. What is the frightening aspect of fluoridation? It is a poison. The connotaton of the word “poi son” is death in multiple forms. Will it get into my blood, my heart, my kidneys, my liver, my glapds, my bones, and eventually kill me? To find the answer for myself I would have to be first a scientist, next a doctor, then a researcher. I would have to con duct tests and experiments for months and years. Then from my own conclusions, I would arrive at my answer and I would know my conclusion to be true since I had seen it with my own eyes. Now, I am neither a scientist, nor a doc tor nor a researcher, and I have not done any of these things. Yet I am wholeheartedly in favor of fluoridating Newberry’s water supply, my family, and the entire population of the city. And I am actively working to educate more people toward supporting a fluor idation program in Newberry. How can I be so confident that fluoridation is safe for every one? Because I have confidence in the sources of my information. My in formation has come from known OgrilMaities.and from the U. S. ; R|||b'|fI«llS$h Service, from the American Medical Association, from the American Dental Asso ciation-all of which are recog nized professional organizations. I feel that the authorities to trust are those public health and medi cal authorities who are them selves recognized by their own professions. We mast turn on professional matters to the men who stand highest in their own professions. They alone know how to evaluate scientific evidence; they know what research is required and how much; they know what re search is honest and what is not. 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