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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOV. 10, ^ nn 1218 Collftg* Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfieid, Jr., Owner Second-Class postage paid at Newberry, South Carolina. \ . SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN ANP THINGS We Americans thrive on ex citement, but we have had an overdose of it in recent months. Daring 1960 we had old Khrush chev to annoy us—and we still have him, but we have not Khrus- chev still; he is never still. In cidentally ours is a wonderful language. Consider the use of the word “still." We still have old Khrushchev but we haven’t him atill, and he will never be still until he breathes his last breath. mit no advantage to men who dis honor it. Efforts are being made to put an end to the secrecy which has grown up in big government. Con gress has a powerful weapon in the Government Accounting Of fice. This agency is not part of the executive branch, but is an arm of Congress, s£t up for the specific purpose of auditing pub lic funds, to see if all the money was spent as Congress said. This That word still is quite a study agency has an almost impossible of adjectives and adverbs, but I task, but it is making great head- may let the teachers of English W ay. It has to deal with simple dishonesty in government, with honest confusion, and with secrecy where there is no good reason for secrecy. Recently the General Account ing office has been trying to turn the light on the very dark spaces behind the pretty fences hiding foreign aid. When they went into one foreign country, to ask proper questions of public officials about public money, they were told by representatives of the State De partment that they could not use American Government property old for their inquiries. Of course Am- and erican public agencies could not use the property of a foreign coun try for official inquiries, so there they were. They finally won that contest and the prohibition was withdrawn, but you can guess how much time was wasted and how much good investigation was left behind by those blocking tactics. Fortunately, there are in Con gress several committees working on this crucial problem. The House Committee on Governmental Op erations is watching closely what the General Accounting Office is finding out, and not finding out— because someone is resisting them. This means the General Account ing Office is no longer behind the eight ball, in a bureaucratic maze, ft is again what it was meant to be, and arm of the Congress, bringing the public business into the light. Another Committee of Congress is working directly on secrecy in government, by investigating the Grammar wrestle with it I’m reminded of the subtle use “still" by a man who was ask- •ed his opinion of two singers. His reply was: “I liked Miss X; bat I liked Miss Y better still. So you take a turn at the word and mean ing. A Frenchman once remarked that our language is not only illogical, but confusing. He said what does cough spell? Well, then, dough? and rough? What about plough? So. . . I ask you? Going back to the calm of the days when we had only Khrushchev to irritate us keep our minds from other pro blems, we had a wild scramble among Democrats and Republi cans in the four-year rough and tumble to pick the candidates of the Parties. Just as we seemed to settle down to a choke be tween Messrs. Nixon and Kennedy t>u> tumult and the shouting be- £an all over the Nation. I have no doubt that both Mr. Nixon and Mr. Kennedy are good citizens, sound Americans and likable gentlemen. But not so dur ing the campaign. Nay, my bro ther, not so. •But while the country was lis tening to the proud boasts of both Parties and their unbounded pro mises of good things to ^ come {most of which will ruin tiie na tion if carried out) along comes Castro and raves and rants and steals our factories in Cuba. And here we are with Nixon, Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on our hands! rules for classifying documents as Even then the football rivalry | secret, top secret, and the rest. us ! You have all heard the hilarious Verily life in our 1 great repub- stories like the one about the lie is never calm and, placid. If! scientist who could not get a re- nothing else annoys, irritates, or port on bows and arrows, though oppresies us we read about some he had made the study for the gov- marvellous new discovery and do- ernment in the first place. Theie velopment in pharmaceu ti c a 1 are many examples of folly m the chemistry and forthwith the diag-! use of secrecy in government. But nosis of ailments to call for it. remember the important point In very truth a full life we Americans live. Even if tranquillity should reign throughout our vast do main our Supreme Court in Wash ington would break out on a nev> rampage and rewrite the history of our Nation, discovering rea sons* why—in their acute judg- Declaration of Inde where government secrecy is in effect, the dishonest, the irrespon sible, the power-seeking and the Mistaken will try to get shelter for their deadly work. ’ The English-speaking people learned to distrust the idea that government was the government’s business. They decided it was pub lic business, and must be kept ac- ment the , the e° unta ble to the public. The colo pendence was wives i uists' had learned the lesson well S“ 8t " U *”lvil U .cd fellows in the m the bloody rebellions against j the tyranny of the btuart kings. ! They had to learn it again in their $ale of inebriated fellows taverns of Philadelphia. We thrive on hysim-ia conflicts with the Royal Govern- * . • ,wvirvr.!«t<5 knew 01 ' s sen t over by George III, to “The American colonists hnew 11T , c tavt fnv tkn t from bitter experience how ne- cesary it was to end secrecy in government. They knew that the best place to establish account ability is when the people, through government the money it ^works with. That is what the colonists meant when they told the Royal Governors, “No taxation without representation.’ American officials gladly ad hered to that .doctrine for over 1B0 years. But our control of pub lic money and public records has been lost. As government grew trigger it became even harder to make clear what the government WBB doing. With each step of in flation, it became more difficult to be accurate about what money meant. Most officials were trying very hard to adhere to our Ameri can principles, but the few "^bo truly loved power saw that here was a shadowy place in which they could operate unobserved spend public money for pur poses the public never knew. It is the duty of free people to dose the door to any misuse of public money, including the use of pretty, blurred, words and meaningless figures, which let a few irresponsible men follow their own unhindered way. We owe it to the millions of honest and de voted government servants to give every advantage to men who obey die Constitutional code, arfd per- eheck their upstart demand for the same liberties as Englishmen. Our Founding Fathers based the Constitution on full and pub lic accountability for all public of ficials. They stated our national policies in the finest state papers with the clearest language ever used by any nation. The seciecy of big government has grown at a monstrous rate in our country in the last 25 years, but that means it is not deeply rooted. It has not had time to send strong roots down, for below the surface, where we cannot tear them out. We can not waste time. If we love our Constitution we must abide by the whole compact. We must rest all our public actions on full and hon est information. We can be sure that, in this effort, we shall have the cooperation of the vast ma jority of men and women in public office.” • PUERTO RICANS OLDTIMERS The Puerto Rico National Guard may well be the oldest “territorial militia" organization in the western hemisphere. It was first organized in 1598 by the Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon. In 1797 the militiamen defended San Juan against the English. Today, the National Guard of Puerto Rico is an el ement of the U. S. defense team WA5HJNGTON A ND t ' f A A A 1 I t SMALL BU • By C ^1F s S I S H C A R D E R In a governmental system such as that of the United States where the will of the people is supposed to prevail, it is perhaps an enigma that many things are done which are at cross purposes with the current feelings. On Jeverafr occasions, in a nationwide poll of the nation’s inde pendent busi ness and pro- f e s sional people, the National Fed- eration of Independent Business has found opin ions varying C. W. Harder widely with present national policies. * a * In addition, many Congress men have also been polling their constituents on their opin ions on a wide variety of ques tions: • The results of many of these have been previously re ported in this column. * « * The latest one is the results of a poll taken off his con stituents by Congressman Tom Johnson of Maryland. He re ports that the returns in vol ume he received were in his opinion an adequate cross sec tion of his district. * * .-> When he asked the question “Do you favor legislation to protect American job oppor- tunitiCis by increased tariff or quota restrictions?” the ma jority . of th^se possessing an opinion on this question voted in the affirmative. ♦ * * On several occasions the na tion’s businessmen, pr”ed by the National Federation of In- © National Federation of Indeptnd-nt Buslnem dependent Business, have tak en same stand on grounds that scuttling of 17. S. protective tariffs in past few years have wreaked havoc with American business and labor. * * * On the question as to whether the foreign give away pro grams should be reduced, 60% voted in favor of such a move, only 25% voted in the negative, with 12% expressing no opinion. * e • Here again is a question on which on several occasions the National Federation of Inde pendent Business has found na tion’s independent business and professional people heavily fa vor redaction or elimination. ' * ♦ * On the question of whether legislation should be enacted to definitely set up a system to reduce the national debt, 68% of Rep. Johnson’s constituents voted in favor of such a move. * * • This same sentiment has also been expressed by the nation’a independent business and pro- I fessional people voting through the National Federation of In dependent Business. * ♦ * The poll by Rep. Johnson is just one of many taken by Con gressmen all over the nation in the past few months. * * * While the polls of the Ra tional Feaeration of Indepen dent Business are confined, to independent business and pro fessional people, while the Con gressmen’s polls cover a much wider scope, if Is interesting to note in all these results how, closeiy the sentiments of the people as a whole coincide with the independent business peo ple. There seems little donbt a direct 'referendum on issues would change many things. t r the DESK FROM OTHER EDITORS From the Sooth view. South Pasadena, Calif.: Featherbcid uig on the railroads is said to cost some 500 million a year. This as not only money from the railroads but from each and every customer across the nation. An example of how feather bedding runs up the cost is that a train pulling out at Los Angeles has to change the crew every one to two hundred miles. This was about the distance that a train could make back in 1900, so the unions want that as a day’s work. Take the aviation industry; the airlines, altho a few years ago they also had to refuel every hundred miles or so, now they expect the same crew to take the whole flight to New York or Europe. Not that the one crew on a railroad should take it all the way, but they should have a 7 or 3 hour day. At the present time it takes about 20 crews to take a train across the country and even if this could be cut down 10% it would be a great help to every consumer When a train pulls out, on the front end of a diesel they have an engineer, a fireman, and a <ront end brakeman and some times a front end conductor. It this were changed so that there were TWO engineers and the one NOT rooming the train do all the CXyTRa rure* D0xHk XuG ZaODv brakeman, or conductor, then the . opera tkxa would be that mud gimpinr phw die fact that them would be two enginerrs to operate the train for a safer yun. They expect the Dining car crew to go all the way, steward, cooks, waiters, as do the pafthnan porters, but the engineers, fire men, brakemen, conductors, all are only capable at making a run of 100 miles. The truck competition has put in sleeper cabs so that one driver „ can sleep while the other drives to keep the truck moving across the highway, without having to stop while the crew rests. The barge lines operate as a ship at sea and the barges are pushed continuously up and down the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. They did this in the main to give serv ice so that they could take the ^ freight away from the railroads, by scheduled delivery. And in the case of the barge lines on the Mississippi the railroad running along each bank is being “feath er-bedded out of competition / Refresh With Iced Instant Coffee m In warm weather the refreshment at iced instant coffee. No need to put the kettle on; just dissolve instant coffee in tap Enjoy it between meals and with a summer with delicious water, and add ice. favorite, such as cantaloupe a la cookies, easily made from a cake mix. To make iced coffee just measure the instant coffee into glasses or a pitcher allowing about one heaping teaspoon erf* coffee and about % cup of tap water for each serving. Add a little of the water, stirring to cfiseolve, then add remaining water gradually. Add ice cubes or pour the coffee over ice cubes or cracked ice. To make the cookies just follow these simple directions. Sugar Maple Refrigerator Cookies 1 package sugar maple cake mix 2 tablespoons finely chopped candied ginger or 2 tablespoons finely chopped nuts legg % cup butter (at room temperature) Empty half of cake mix into a large bowl. Add remaining ingre dients and blend well. Then add rest of cake mix grndually, blending thoroughly. Form into 2 rolls, 1 inch thick. Chill about an hour. Cut % inch thick with sharp knife. Bake in moderate oven (375°F.) 18 to 20 minutes. Makes 8 dozen cookies. College Park, Georgia College Park, Georgia has all the advantages of a large city, while it preserves the neighborliness of a hdme town. This is typified in the slogan: “A City of Business and Friendly People.” College Park en compasses an area of 7.8 square miles, with approximately 23.00C persons in the city limits, is just six miles southwest of Atlanta, the State Capital. A large part of the land on which College .Park now stands was granted in 1846 to Alexander Ratteree, whose descendants are now prominent in the life of the city. According to the best records available, the next settler who built a home here did not arrive until 1881,. When the first store was erected. In 1890 a railroad spur reached the section and a town was /established and given the name “Atlantic City,” which was later changed to Manchester. In 1894 a college for yoymg women was founded and this led the leading citizens to seek a name more fitting *a college town. The result. College Park Some years later the college closed. Where its ornate buildings once stood there ; is today a modern civic center. Bui, the college ‘atmosphere” remains, perpetuaiod in such street names as Rugby, Mercer, Cambridge, Yale, Harvard and Oxford. College Park has no college, but it boasts nine elementary schools and two high schools, and is the home of Georgia Military College, a private . educational institution with an enrollment of 900, from many States in the Union and and several foreign countries. Closely affiliated with College Park, adjoining the city limits ie the Atlanta Municipal Air -tort, one of the busiest in the world. II ranks eighth in passenger traffic, third in transport departures with some 532 schedules daily. When Daughters Grow Up Sun Satellites may come and moon rockets may go, .but teen agers and their problems go on forever. Yes, these problems are old. But the grown-up’s serious ef forts to solve them are com paratively new- and it is good to know that 'there sire even some corporations donating, their' know-how in specific fields to help smooth some of the rough spots in young peo ple’s otherwise glorious lives. The director of education of one of these companies—Patri cia Gail Morrison of Personal Products Corporation—has been working for a number of years with teen and pre-teen programs and projects. A good many of her ideas have gone into two excellent full-color booklets: One called “Growing Up and Liking It’’ for girls from 9-14 ; and another, “How Shall I Tell My Daughter?” for mothers of young girls. Both booklets have been prepared under the guid ance of medical and educational experts. “Growing Up and Lilting It” explains in a most skillful, wholesome manner, many of the biological and emotional changes which take place dur ing the teens. In addition, it gives helpful pointers on good looks end good groom ..ig. The whole approach is aimed at building a poised., natural atti tude toward the exiting busi ness of yrowinn '"i- As its title suggests, “Low Shall I Tell My Daughter?” helps clarify the often baffling, sometimes downright embar rassing, situation faced * by every mother as she begins to realize that her baby girl is a baby no longer. Many mothers take an I’ll-think-about-that- tomorrow approach — and it’s easy to sympathize with them. But this mother-daughter book let is of real, practical use in guiding girls through the diffi cult years of pre-adolescence and adolescence with knowl edge, understanding and no erry bari^asment. Girls and their parents may have these booklets free of charge by wmiting to Patricia Gail Morrison, Director of Ed ucation, Box E. L., Personal Products Corporation, Miiltown, ■\T CX T y? T*-i*»CC*V CROSSWORD PUZZLE 1 2 3 4 ii 6 7 8 9 1 3P 10 1) 12 13 14 §i| il 16 m 17 18 19 . 20 if 21 |1 22 ! §1 n n 23 9 24 Pi 25 26 27 n 28 29 n 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Up 37 38 39. 40 if 41 n 42 43 44 In 45 46 Pi 47 if 48 4 m 49 50 n n 51 52 53 it 54 55 56 57 n 58 > 59 [ ■ 60 P 61 l ™ ' n 62 63 m Mi 65 PUZZLE No. 419 ACROSS 1 Beverage (pi.) 5 Strike 10 Tear apart 14 Unusaal 15 Ethical 16 Notion 17 Shortened 19 Utopian 20 Paid notices 21 Winter vehicle 22 Occurrences 23 Mimics 24 A festival and sale (pi.) 25 Smut 28 Tantalizes 30 By 32 Blackbirds 34 Gloves (var.) 35 Form of “to be” 36 Anglo-Saxon coin (pL) 37 Feminine name 30 Ravine 40 To write 41 Facial expression 42 Lassoes 44 Teutonic deity 45 Inclinations 47 Kind of bee 48 Sumptuous 49 Goddess of discord 51 Vegetable dish <pl.) 53 Muse of history 54 Gun (slang) 57 To take out 58 Practice of 1 rending rock by explosives (Pi.) 60 Narrow road 61 Cosmetic 62 Novel by Zola 63 Is suitable: as for size 64 Bower covered with vines etc. 65 Move DOWN 1 Alms box 2 Praise 3 Makes ■ mistake 4 Place 5 To be propitious 6 Annoy 7 Angered 8 SmaU boy 2 North Syrian deity 10 Appendage to a document (pi.) 11 Paradise (Pi.) 12 Tidy 13 Pigeon pea (Pi.) 18 Tremulous y 19 Climbing plant (pi.) 22 Annual church celebration 23 Core for fashioning hoUow metal object (pL) 24 Well-pleased 25 To feel 26 More unusual 27 Man’s name 29 To correct 30 Of the planet Mars 31 Taut 33 Warning sig nal devices 35 Singing voice 38 Outer coating of fruit 39 Pikelike fish (pL) 41. Class 43 Simpleton 45 Swaps 46 Genus of low heathlike African shrubs 48 Flash 50 Upright part of stair step 51 Of the same material 52 Turkish regiment 55 A cudgel 54 Small insect 55 Vedlc fire god 56 Former Rue- slan ruler 58 Borough _ (•bbrTT 59 Those in office 01 Sun god □ anra tinra n aaaarjat’jwcinni Wt 4* NOy/iE'S MOT WAY OUT iM THE YARD-JUST WAY OUT. BUTIETME SEE /F X' CAN MAKE A CONTACT. f\ ■ ■ r > 1 r NT* In almost munRy _ —y.,. . ... , PacHPrepitf.. is locator's® ■■j heart of the legendary Red River Valley. If is the county Lunar County and has a population which has increased from 18, people in 19«0 to an estimated 24,088 in 1958. Six miles northeast of Faria, j population has increased in Turner County can be found one at the greatest phenomenon of our time. It is the Gambill Winter Home for Greater Canada Geese. In October, 1922, a twelve Canada Geese stopped their annual migration south tofeed on John C. Gambia’s farm. Mr. Gambill fed the geese and made sure they were not disturbed. As a result of bis hospitality, this number has increased, over the years until over three thousand ' geese make their winter home on John C. GambilTs farm. On juai about any day from October until mid-March, John Gambill can be seen walking among some of the largest and wildest birds on the North American continent. _ . Paris, is typical, growing Amer ican community. Since 1940. its 18,000 to almost 25.000. 35 manufacturing and ing plants, employing over Produ^a to wooden, lafop^arti® .. parts, boats, paper bags, crete ^products, and card* cartons. ^ Farming is also a major Indus* try in Paris. Major money c in Lamar County exceeded Si 5 million last year. Cotton is tbs principal money crop and more . than 40,000 baDs were produced in Lamar County last year. Other products include hay, tomatoes- com, peanuts, sesame. Weum bers, clover seed, and sweet po- tatoes. If you’re ever around that way stop by and see Paris, “The North Star of Texas.” mm TIE RANDY FAMILY BY non % mm® Answer to Puzzle No. 618 THE N0TEI LEFT FUR THE MILKMAN BLEW/WV/ WHAT YOU HAN& ON IAR3E CUP. woecMp GRTHN • PLASTIC 6HBET f NOTE f*D 7-i Yj ,1X0*0 iff > j £ 1 S&F - A £d\ J m m by Q Tom Dorr (suns, PI6C0N? I CANDY, IS THAT BOV ALWAYS T \ ill m MOTHER SAYS H ■ ME WE FINALLY eScKMNSB TI 5 i