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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MARCH 116, 1: 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class postage paid at Newberry, Sputii Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year m ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS Let’s stand by our South Car olina enterprises. If we don’t, then who will? Recently I’ve read in South Carolina papers inquiries as to the suitability of certain utili ties for investment. A company in Ar.'/ona was mentioned and one in Florida. The papers receive this service from Now York or elsewhere and are not informed jlhont South Carolina. In South Carolina three excel- lem Power Companies operate. 'Fhe Duke company, witn head quarters in Charlotte, North Car- o'ina, operates also throughout the South Caiclina Piedmont area and is one of the soundest utili ses in the United States. I have ro connection with Duke, lut what I’ve said is common know ledge. We have a second company operating among us largely and it, too is a North Carolina com pany—Carolina Light & Power company. And we have a third company—our own South Caroli na Electric and Gas company with an investment among us of some three hundred million dollars, di rected by South Carolinians and under the presidency of the ablest utility engineer and guidance of a Clemson graduate and former Fairfield county lad from the farm. Surely w’e are not compelled to invest in Florida or Arizona. Do our papers not know of the great growth of South Carolina and of the three splendid utilities serving our State so well ? Are your vitamins costing too much? You can run down to Charleston and get enough vita mins to last a year. Just that easy. But thereby hangs a tale, as Shakespeare says. My esteem ed friends and comrades, Mr. War ing of the News & Courier, and Mr. Hitt of The Charleston Even ing Post, must not know of this, for they are sailing around in a sea of wealth far more fabulously rich than the famous acres of diamonds. I know a man who had all sorts of ailments, including arthritis— which, by itself, is enough to make life a prolonged agony and misery. My friend seemed feeble and walked without the sprightliness of youth. His wife who reads and has the spirit of exploration, in vention and experimentation, per suaded him to go to Charleston— there, of course, for the air—and then to Folly Beach. Some miles out—say ten—they scooped up a few gallons of the Atlantic ocean, brought the water home, boiled it for ten minutes and then drank about three tablespoons early in the morning. This simple treat ment has so invigorated him that his wife no has to keep an eye on him, after four months of the sea water. What about this water? It con tains about 46 minerals, the lady tells me; and one goes out from the shore to avoid contamination. This is no myth; the man walks among us and proclaims the ef ficacy of the sea water. Naturally one might need a seaworthy boat to avoid being engulfed by the great billows; and he should keep his eyes open to avoid sharks and whales. But those are simple details which could he solved by buying ten gal lons of sea water from a fishing boat. I am not prepared to say that this tonic water is found only near Charleston; nor have the Charleston papers and commercial propagandists learned of this wonderful elixir. South Carolina was at one time the Iodine State; now we have something more abundant and more efficacious. I’m reminded of the story of the old woman who in her poverty and stern abnegation was taken to the seashore. Her friends thought she would marvel at the great billows as the tide came in, but the old woman remarked— ‘I’m sure glad to see enough of something.” I think I might suggest to Congressman Rivers who is always alert and alive that he have some regulation about unrestricted dip ping of seawater. For example, he might allow dipping only at high tide so that the depth might not be too low T at “the Bar” for vast sea-going ships. Perhaps my words might be beyond mis understanding if I referred to the depth of the channel at the jet ties, instead of speaking about “the Bar,” for many things have happened on board at “the Bar.” The ingenious publicity man of our grand old city will probably proclaim Charleston as a modern or modernized Pool of Siloam. Looking Ahead ... by Dr. George S. Benson PRESIDENT—NATIONAL ky^r/ EDUCATION PROGRAM Searcy, Arkansas SENATOR STROM RMOND A Flexible, Strong Defense Force ^ THE KENNEDY Administra tion has made some commendable moves to bolster our defense forces to make certain that from the standpoint of national de fense we are “second to none.” President Kennedy has taken these important steps: (1) ac celerated our entire missile pro gram; (2) ordered earlier produc tion of more nuclear-powered submarines carrying 16 Polaris solid-propellant missiles each; <3) increased training and per sonnel for Army Special Forces {guerrilla warfare); (4) ordered greater airlift capacity; and (5) initiated studies and evaluations to be made of every aspect of our defense program. ONE OF THE studies ordered by the President is now pending on his desk and should re ceive presiden tial action by the middle of March. This study, with specific recom mendations , was submitted recently by Defense Secre tary McNamara so the President could decide what immediate changes should be made in the ISsenhower defense budge*, which was presented to Congress in January before President Ken nedy took office. SECRETARY McNamara has Made several important defense SWBMunendations to the President. V approved and translated into these proposals should do to bolster our national MOST IMPORTANT of these reported recommendations is one calling for increased emphasis on conventional forces in order to balance our defense strength to ba prepared adequately to cope with either a general or a limited {brush fire) war. The ground jforces of both the Army and Ma xines require more personnel and snore modem equipment and fire power to be able to perform their missions effectively. The previ ous Administration took the view point that conventional forces could be reduced—and they were reduced—and that principal re liance should be placed on our nu clear retaliatory capabilities (mis siles and aircraft with nuclear weapons). THE IDEA of preparing mainly for a nuclear war leaves our coun try with little or no flexibility in meeting enemy aggression and ignores the fact that since World War II there have been 21 limited wars in various hotspots around the world. We must not put our selves in the dangerous position of having to respond to any lim ited aggressive acts with nuclear or thermonuclear weapons which would touch off a thermonuclear holocaust. SECRETARY McNamara is also reported to have made these recommendations: (1) a better alert program for the Strategic Air Command; (2) an increase in the solid-propellant Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program; and (3) an immediate start toward production of cer tain component parts of the Nike Zeus anti-ICBM missile so as to save time when the highly im portant Nike Zeus system is fi nally put into full production for operational purposes. WHETHER the President will agree to the McNamara recom mendations is a matter of con jecture. Judging from his state ments both before and since tak ing office, there are good indica tions that he will go along with some or most of them, particular ly the proposal to beef up our conventional forces. TO PUT THESE recommenda tions into effect will cost more money, millions or even billions more. Expense is always a con cern to me, as is indicated by my record of having ranked first last year among Senate Democrats in voting for economy in govern ment spending. However, we must allocate as much as is neces sary to national defense to make certain that our people are se cure from armed aggression of any type—limited or general. To do this we must pare down or eliminate non-defense programs which are not of an essential na ture. In other words, a decision must be made between insuring our liberties and our survival as against personal economic secur ity and government paternalism. It should not be such a tough choice for our people to make. Sincerely, “Communism” lias become just a word with many people; per haps we would make our meaning clearer if we referred to Soviet- izing or “Russianizing” our na tion. Since the days of Franklin Roosevelt the idea of driving in vestors or power companies out of business has grown; we declare for equal opportunities, equal rights, protection of property— and we go steadily forward using taxpayers money for power plants and lend money for less than the Government pays for it. And then we establish a group of pre ferred customers! The money of all taxpayers is used to build power plants, which will pay little or no taxes; and then the power is' sold (with no taxes to a preferred group in com petition with powrr by investors who pay billions of dollars in taxes! And this is America! Mr. Roo sevelt seized any idea or plan, however un-American, and we re joice in it because we hold our hands out for the crumbs! Think for a moment! The aver age customer pays very little for electric power; it is one of his cheapest purchases. But the pow er companies pay enormous sums in taxes! Who will support the govern ment and all the agencies of gov ernment if we become a nation of Government power? Now comes President Kennedy with a program to give something to everybody, even, apparently, to destroy the greatest industry we have. Consider this: The Presi dent appointed an ex-TVA man to be Chairman of the Federal Pow er Commission! “Mr. Swidler is a dedicated Socialist and a public power eult- ist. Placing him in position to pass on the facts of privately owned electric or gas utilities is as incongruous as it would be to name the president of Consolidat ed Edison to the TVA board of di rectors. This is a matter of dele gating to a wolf the matter of minding the sheep. It is also the President’s gift to the State of Texas for its support of him and Vice-president Johnson in the November election. When Swidler gets through with the privately- owned electric and gas utilities, they will emerge as skeletons and in all likelihood ready to offer their property to some branch of government at a cheap price in the pattern of national socialism. It is true that the president in his campaign committed himself to a further development by gov ernment of the nation’s natural resources. Thi Drought him all of the public power support. He did not say anything however, in his campaign speeches, about an in tention to destroy the private concerns which now serve most of the country. The seating of Mr. Swidler in this office bespeaks such an intention on the part of the Kennedy administration.” (Xot printed at government expense) A very interesting incident rec ently was the complaint of some students that the professors were devoting more time to outside work, extra work not connected with their classes. The usual observation of busi ness men, the so-called practical men of the street, the men who work productively in the sense of having a trial balance of dollars | and cents. Most professors see very little immediate results, al though ten years later a student, former student, may gladden the professor by crediting the college course with his success. ^ ery often the hard-headed man of affairs regards the academic i' brethren as not only theorists but i utterly removed from the actual- * ities and practicalities of life. The Manila, The Philippines. —The Communists are working with a plan here in the strategic Philip pine islands precisely like the one used to bring Castro to power in Cuba—a pattern or blueprint for conquest that they are carrying on with very little variation in nations throughout the world. Through channels of contacts which cannot be revealed, I have received a copy of a highly sec ret Communist document con taining the basic strategy for eventual conquest of the Philip pines without a Russian or Chi nese soldier being in action. The Reds propose to conquer the Philippines by agitating for “Nationalism” and gaining con trol of the movement as it moves toward decisive power. The Com munist document I obtained is more than 90 pages long. It is en titled “A Call to Unity for Inde pendence, Prosperity and Peace.” From it, all the thousands of Communist agents, working in the press, the government, schools and colleges, the labor unions, in professional and religious groups, and elsewhere, must take their cues for pi’opaganda and action. Guide For Action The document is very much like! a textbook for Communist revolu tionaries. It sets forth voluminous arguments for all the points con sidered pertinent for propaganda, agitation, influencing the thoughts of the masses, controlling the ac tions of the epople. Americans, who established most of the pro duction facilities of the Philip pines and whose investments have lifted the country a substantial j degree out of its one time abject poverty, are labeled “foreigners” and “capitalists” exploiting the resources and the people of the island for purely mercenary pur poses. It is important for all Amer icans to know just what kind of enemy confronts us world-wide, and how he is outsmarting us at every turn. Thus some excerpts from this secret Communist doc ument are in order: “The exploi tation of Filipinos by aliens has not stopped in spite of the grant of independence. Seventy per cent of the domestic trade, 80 per cent of the foreign trade and 75 per cent of the manufacturing indus tries are held by aliens. The wealth exploited from the sweat of the Filipinos totaled over P2 billion a year, equivalent to the income of ten million Filipinos. Each foreign capitalist in the Philippines makes about P100,- 000 (33,000) a year, while each Filipino receives on P220 ($66) annually.” Red Demagogues This is the line the Commun ist publication feeds to the farm and industry workers: “The life of the Filipino worker confirms the sayings that, ‘We did the planting, milling and cooking, while the foreigners and their stooges fattened themselves eat ing the food. The Filipinos are hungry slaves in their own coun try which is described as free!” “It is naturally unbearable for the exploiting aliens to see the vague, absent-minded professor who heard a noise and said “Don’t I hear someone?” and was reas sured by the burglar, who answer ed “No, professor nobody is here,” that old scholar is held up as far removed from two and two, as four. Having served as one of the nebulous teachers I can indulge the idea of the man of the street by saying that outside his office, in the political arena, in the hurly-burly of actualities in poli tics our business men are as fre quently adrift and at sea as the professor doing business in a bank. Be all that as it may, our varied life of immediate exigen cies has a place for the theorist and the hard-headed realist of stern executive type. It interests me to be reminded that some professors, Academic specialists practice their profess ion not only as instructors but as participants in all the application of their branches of science. Ideally, perhaps, the specialist should be a better guide for his experience in the day-by-day ap plication of his proficiency in man-to-man woi^k. I’ve known of professors of law who never had a real contract; or a deed of conveyance; or mortga ge of real estate; or a will. The students heard or read about wills and deeds and mortgages—and all that, without ever seeing the real thing, a document of actual use. So the professor who leaves the cloistered retreat at times t o mingle with the men who bring things to pass should be a greater force of stimulation and inspira tion than the man living in shelt ered isolation, remote and re moved from the slings and ar- | rows of outrageous fortune. exploited people become free and prosperous. How many revolts staged by the Filipinos were cru elly -suppressed by tl e Spanish friars before victory was achiev ed in 1896? How much force and deception were used by the im perialistic Americans to wrest away the freedom of the Filipi nos for which they invested their blood and their lives?” This is precisely the hue and cry used by Castro in Cuba, still being used by Castro and h i s Moscow agents. The objective for accomplishment is a state of mind among the Filipinos that will per mit the Communists activist groups to succeed in their agita tion for socialist government measures, nationalizing of indus tries, “Philippines for the Filipi nos,” agrarian reforms and all the other pacemakers for Communist take-over. “Hate America!” “The Imperialistic Americans”, the document says, “took advan tage of the weak and hard-press ed condition of the Philippines, the hospitable attitude of the Fil ipinos toward the American sol dier, the prestige of the late (Continued on page 3) Straight Talk. by Y “WELL, what’re you going to be against this month?” my friend inquired. “I’ll bet you couldn’t possibly come up with another page telling what you’re FOR.” As the fellow who had to ride with his mother-in-law at his wife’s funeral said to the undertaker: “I’ll do it, but it’s going to ruin my whole day.” I’m for “urban renewal for all cities who want to pay all the cost themselves. For Harry Truman for a psychiatrist’s couch. For ridiculing beatnicks—phonies who make a fad out of failure. For getting out of tire UN and getting into a world organization composed only of those nations who believe in and practice the freedom and dignity of the in dividual. For encouraging those who would “rather crawl on their knes to Moscow than to die under an atom bomb” to start crawling, and god riddance. For remembering the Cold War abroad and the Cold War at home are directly related; and that we cannot possibly win the Cold War abroad unless we win the Cold War at home; that although Moscow could possibly destroy us, Washington is more likely to do it. Stop Stealing From Children I’m for beginning, now, regular payments on the national debt, which is the largest any nation has ever known. For paying it off ourselves rather than stealing from cur chil dren’s children. I’m for allowing gangsters arrested while in peaceful, pri vate assembly like those in Appalachin, N. Y., the same Constitutional immunities as are granted our Communist citizen criminals. The gangsters were arrested and jailed on mere suspicion, with no evidence that they were planning a job bigger than a bridge tournament or a course in flower arrangement. Yet other known criminals, Communist ded icated to the overthrow of our country are untouchable! If, touched, our touched Supreme Court turns ’em loose. - I’m for replacing politicians who vote for whatever their constituents want, right or wrong, with voting machines. This would be a real economy. And in many cases the voting machine would give us better representation. For publishing, periodically, the salaries and expense accounts of public em ployees. For preventing public employees from spending any government money, time or equipment in any political cam paign. For restricting political contributions to INDIVID UALS—no corporations, co-ops, or unions. Defining The “Neu Frontier” I’m for farmers deciding what the farm program will be —only when we let Reuther decide what the labor program will be, when we let the oil companies decide what the de pletion allowance will be, and when we let magazine pub lishers decide what postage rates will be. For defining how John Kennedy’s “New Frontier” differs from Socialism, Mussolini and Hitler also had their “New Frontiers.” They made the trains run on time, went “forward” to unheard of production goals. I’m for moral law above expediency. For PRACTICING what you preach. As National Cotton Council’s Ed Lipscomb says, “Just as the temperance lec turer who gets drunk is a greater liability to his cause than is the admitted barfly, so the business man who preaches free enterprise while he participates in programs of political intervention is a greater liability than the admitted socialist.” For making radio and TV stations who’re still fighting Nazism and Fascism give “equal time” to fighting the “New Frontier”—Socialism-Communism. For making display of the hammer and sickle an equal crime with display of the swastika. For according Facists eqqual “human rights” with Communists. For revival of the old slogan: “Buy American.” And for adding: “Be American, Think American, Act Am erican.” For revising Hull’s outdated Reciprocal Trade agree ments to make our foreign trade really reciprocal. For trad- give care. • give hope • • fight crippling! ing to win, not to lose. For changing government policies which have ruined or are ruining our watch, coal, textile, glass, cutlery, steel, chinaware (87 per cent of the china- ware bought in the U. S. last year was produced by foreignv countries) and many other industries. I’m for halting the flight of American investment capital from'this country by offering more freedom and a better deal at home. We’ve given TWO MILLION JOBS to foreign friends and enemies with the 21 billion dollars we’ve put into foreign factories since 1945. I’m for “free trade” with the world, just as soon as we regain our freedoms at home—ending union more pay-less work racketeering, confiscatory taxation and fed eral strangulation of free enterprise. I’m for a notation on each of Drew Pearson’s columns showing what he scored on the lie detector test for that , day’s coluxpn. I’m for the right to be prejudiced. People are individuals endowed with God-given freedom to arrive at different conclusions and prejudices from whatever facts they want to explore. Or to say, like the dear old lady: *‘Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up.” Before Any Summit Before having any summit—two-man or 20 man—I’m for making the Kremlin prove its claims to wanting peace by doing these things: (1) Life the iron curtain to let everybody out who wants out. Freedom to LEAVE is th essence of democracy. Any country that does not allow its citizens to LEAVE is a slave state. (2) Agree to free elections in all the satellite countries. (3) Allow East Germany and West Germany to vote on reunification. (4) Withdra wChinese Communist troops from North Korea and agree to free elections and unification. (5) Free all enslaved states; free elections, fredom of religion, assembly, press. I’m for killing foreign aid to all enemies like Tito and Gromulka; and to all “neutrals” like Nehru, unless the U. S. gets strategic materials, war bases or other concrete “value received.” For severing relations with ALL Communist gov ernments, Fo rthe original Bricker Amendment, outlawing secret, unconstitutional Presidential treaties not ratified by Con gress. For ending all Federal Aid to education. For vesting strict control and support of the public schools in state and local governments. For schools which invest in teachers instead of elevators and gymnasiums. For schools which edu cate not society but INDIVIDUALS. For the right of states to give the pro rata cost of tuition to the school choses by each child^s parent : private, public, segregated, Integrated- Catholic, Protestant, Jewish. I’m for freedom of CHOICE! Radio** heart beat of main street World, Carolina, Local Sports Weather Sportscast 7:35 A.M. and 6:35 A.M. —ON— WKDK 1240 Kc. remember to do it TODAY! - 11' H£ip!s %1 ? CRIPPIED CMItORtN r' Once again 'Whittier, Cali fornia, has come into the news. This suburban town eafst of Los Angeles, founded by Quakers, is the home bailiwick of Ronald Cameron, a member of the Leg islature of California, who has introduced quite a far reaching bill in the hopper of the current session of the Golden State’s Solons in Sacra- mento. * * * This bill, if it becomes law, will re quire all re tailers who give trading stamps, to of- C. W. Harder fer their customers the choice of stamps, or cash discounts. * * » Legislator Cameron, on intro ducing his bill said the new la w he seeks “would free the reluc tant customer from the trading stamp hoax.” • * * It is his contention, based on his studies of the situation, that merchants pay from 2 to 3 per cent for the stamps and that this percentage is added onto the price of merchandise. * * * He points out that a large drug chain deducts three per cent from the sales price of all merchandise returned by a cus tomer unless the customer re turns stamps he received on purchase of the goods. * * * He also states flatly there is no intention to outlaw stamps, as he feels that people who want to continue to buy stamps should be able to do so. “If you want 200 stamps with $20 worth of groceries, you can have them by paying $20. But if you don’t want stamps, you only have to ViMnn.l F.rVntlan of Irdenendfnt Biulcetl or 9 per cent loss for not buying the stamps along with the groceries.”. In another Westeggiftate, Wy oming, the matter of trading stamps is also again in the spotlight as one of the nation’s largest stamp operators has asked the Wyoming Supreme Court to review the decision reached at year’s end uphold ing the constitutionality of a state law outlawing stamps. * * * The Supreme Court also up held the ordinance passed by the city government in Casper, Wyoming, outlawing stamps. * * * In still another Western state, Arizona, the Supreme Court came to another decision. * * * On a question involving state sales tax matters, the Arizona Supreme Court rules trading stamps are not cash discounts. * * * In handing down its decision, the court issued a very inter-- esting viewpoint on the ques tion of trading stamps. so * For the court ruled that trad ing stamps are a “promotion scheme to indace the public to purchase merchandise from its dealers exclusively.” * * * The Arizona court did not touch upon the matter as to whether or not this constituted an attempt at restraint of trade as this question was not raised in the case. * * * But it is indeed interesting that there is a judicial opinion that the operators of a stamp plan seek to sew up the con sumers trade exclusively with the retailers handling their stamps. It would thus appear there is grounds to investigate if these plans enter into the il legal area of restraint of trade.