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l^pc^y-p7 * -..» •*' PAGE TWO SENATOR - ' ' , -‘- A, fA*?' ■T'l**-- HOPE IS NOT ENOUGH THE SUPREME COURT has gi ven the people of this country some reason to continue to hope and to back up that hope with public reaction against an ava lanche of left-wing decisions and actions in Washington. After ten years of litigation, the Court has finally found that the Communist Party of the USA is directed, dominated, and controlled by the Soviet Union. This information may be “old hat” to most Ameri cans, but not to the Supreme Court—and not by any wide mar gin, either. BY THE ALMOST usual 5-4 vote, the Court has in two recent decisions up held the valid ity of anti- Communist laws which make it a cr»me to be an active member of any group advocating vi- i ©lent o v e r - m* JKtM t h r o w of the U. S. Government and which re quire Red groups to register with the Government. .No dqubt the Court must have been helped along in making this astonishing, finding by public criticism and by re bukes from the American Bar Association and the Conference of Chief Justices and also by a few close calls on Senate votes. WHILE THE COURT was re lenting a little on its pro-Red de cisions, there was little indication that the Communist plan for world conquest was being slowed any in its momentum. After Messrs. Kennedy and Khrushchev reached only one agreement at the Vienna summit meeting—that there should on an immediate ceasefire in Laos—the Commu nists promptly launched a new offensive in this Southeast Asian country now mostly under Red domination. This insured that the Red record on agreements would be kept intact. THE VIENNA MEETING also proved how foolish our Govern ment is to continue our 32-month- old self-imposed ban on nuclear testing. Even some “liberals” are now yelling for an end, but so far it appears that no end is in sight. FIDEL CASTRO, still riding high on his April triumph over the mighty USA, is getting full cooperation from an ^unofficial” presidentially inspired and sup ported committee in working out arrangements in his tractor- bulldozer blackmail deal. This action is serving not only to hu miliate our nation further, but it should also strengthen Castro economically and militarily and boost him power-wise on the world scene. THEN THERE is the Walker investigation, which, like the Cas tro deal, has generated 100% op position in mail coming to my office. Many Americans had been very impressed with the General’s courage to speak up for Ameri canism and against Communism among his troops, particularly in this time when patriotism has been effectively shelved by the Communists as a “crackpot” idea. If he was indiscreet in some re marks—and this still hasn’t been detailed—no doubt he had reached the end of his patience with left- wing supremacy in this country. Perhaps before long, enough Americans will also lose their patience and do what a man in uniform cannot do—take effective political action to reverse the socialistic tide now sweeping America. IT IS ALSO distressing that the CORE agitator riders continue to be dupes of the Communists by stirring up racial strife and dis cord. J. Edgar Hoover pointed out in his book. Masters of Deceit, that racial agitation is the num ber one goal of USA Communists. In March he told the House Ap propriations Committee that the Communists backed and exploited the sit-in movement sponsored by CORE. This ride-in movement would not be nearly so distressing if it had not originally had the blessing of key Administration leaders. IF THE AMERICAN people are as concerned about the future of this country as my mail indi cates—and I believe this feeling is now radiating out to every corner of the United States—then we are going to have to do more than just hope. We are going to have to take effective political action— and soon. Sincerely, f3mo"s Church >><?• >4a ■" _ ^ >44-'s <4&*k. ‘ ' ! ACROSS the DESK IDEAS FROM OTHER EDITORS From The Lincoln Times, Lin coln ton, N. C.: Is fourth grader Johnny learning his arithmetic any better than—or even as well as—his parents did? He should do better than his parents—there’s little room for argument on that score. Arith metic long has been the most poorly learned and least liked subject in elementary school. If you doubt this, just look at the way high school students avoid mathematics. Now comes news of a new pro gram that is proving that Johnny can learn arithmetic better and faster than children ever have in the past, and enjoy it in the proc ess. The progiam, already in use in some 1.500 schools, was de vised by two college professors of mathematics and education, Mau rice Hartung and Henry Van Engen, who believe that grade schools should emphasize basic mathematics ideas that will carry over to high school courses. Most important, the program’s ultimate goal is to teach children to suc ceed with story type problems. Teachers know tl^ the biggest v eakness both of children and adults is problem solving. They c. n “figure” very well when they j are told to divide or multiply bu j if ...ey mu., dec.de for themselves | which process to use. they are lost. In Chicago, recently, 54 out of 55 high school seniors were able to divide 234 by 13; but over 40 were unable to “state what per cent of 60 makes 12.” They didn’t know they were supposed to divide 12 by 60. No one told them! Meeting this weakness head-on. the Hartung-Van Engen program begins teaching basic mathemat ics to first graders. They explore the “why’s” behind the miles, in stead of blindly memorizing what the teacher or the book says. Third graders start using equa tions to solve problems. By the time these youngsters get to sixth grade, they succeed with percents, ratios, and other topics usually taught in seven :h or eighth grade. They understand what they're doing, are proud of their ability, and their teachers are confident they will be eager beavers for high school math. In an age when the country needs so many scientists and en gineers with good mathematical backgrounds, this is doubly im portant. Parents owe a vote of thanks to school educators who are using this new method m irder to give our children the b possible training. THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1961 By THOMAS COLLINS Moving when you retire? Plan some activity, too I_I ERE is a firsthand report on ^ how retirement usually be gins for the couple that move to the sunshine when the pension comes. North, and have enough cash money to buy a new one for v e- tirement. They are easy to sell if the real estate office has a house The town is in one of the well- known retirement areas of the country. It is a pleasant and fairly typical place. The report does not seek to prove anything. It intends only to lay out what things are like . . . without any trimmings, so you can decide what you want to do. The couple (call them Mr. and Mrs. Smith) arrive in the town without much real knowledge about it. They don’t know its his tory, where its money comes irom, where its sewage goes or what specialized taxes will hit them. A former neighbor or business friend who now lives here lured them down. Or possibly they heard or read somewhere that this town was a friendly and com fortable place for a pension. May be they’ve visited here before. The odds are that they know somebody, for few retired couples like to move into p town full of strangers. Mr. and Mrs. Smith drive into the town in their car. They reg ister at a motel, contact their former friend, go to the local Chamber of Commerce, and in a couple of days wind up at a real estate office. People like this are known in most real estate offices in retire ment country as gold-plated pros pects. They probably have al- ready sold their home back in the | tionf N pw York n, N. Y. Abraham Lincoln In Kentucky III* that fits their resources and af fords some friendly neighbors. They also are a quick sell be cause che couple want to get out from under the bill they are run ning up at the motel, and have to get their furniture out of the house up north. The Smiths are gold-plated pros pects not only to the realtor but to the town as a whole. They have no small children who will further crowd the local schools. They’re not agitators (at their age they are not about to worry the police.) Perhaps most important of all the Smiths, if they can be happily settled in the town, will start writ ing letters to every 65-year-old couple they ever knew, extolling its virtues. They become a more effective advertising agency than the Chamber of Commerce. For two months or so they find they are treated as celebrities of sorts. Delightful stranger^ call at their home to introduce them selves as friends, to give them welcoming gifts from the local merchants and to invite them to church, club meetings or what have you. They are the prime topic of con versation in their immediate neighborhood and as a rule can be assured of at least half a dozen invitations to dinner that is if they are nice people with friendly reactions. For a copy of the new Golden Year* booklet by Thomas Collins, send 35 rents in coin (no stamps) to Dept. NWNS, Box 1672, Grand Central Sta- Lincoln Homestead Park, Springfield, Ky. Repository of fact, legend and relic of Abraham Lincoln’s child hood in Kentucky is Lincoln Homestead State Park, Springfield, and surrounding country. As the Commonwealth and Nation celebrated the 150th birth anni versary of the Civil War president throughout 1959, Lincoln land marks, such as this park, become meccas for historically minded Americans In this park are replicas of the cabin of Lincoln’s grandmother, Bersheba, and the house where lived Nancy Hanks when wooed by the president’s father, Thomas. Bersheba Lincoln built her cabin shortly after moving to Washing ton County and in it raised five children, including the president’s father. The square, one-room rep lica has a loft, where slept the Lincoln children, a fireplace and massive stone chimney. The other two-story building is a replica of the house of Francis Berry, who gave a home to his cousin, Nancy Hanks, when she was 10. She lived here until her marriage to Thomas Lincoln in 1806. The Berry home was located at nearby Beechland and only re cently was taken down and recon structed in the park. A wooden stool before the fireplace was ac tually used by Nancy Hanks. Some say Thomas and Nancy were married in the Berry house; others claim the marriage took place in a cabin at Beech Fork, now moved to Harrodsburg. In the county clerk’s office in Washington County Court House, Springfield, are the marriage bond of Thomas Lincoln, signed by him, and the minister’s certificate of the Rev. Jesse Head, who per formed the ceremony. Other rec ords include tax lists and original signatures and marriage bonds of other members of the Lincoln family. At the county clerk’s office at Bardstown, Nelson County, is filed an official document showing the president’s grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, was a resident of Wash ington County when he was killed by an Indian. This is an appraise ment of his estate made in 1789. At that time. Washington Count: was a part of Nelson County. Snapshots: Crossing The River wmm mm \ footbridge across a roaring stream, a cabin nestled against the side of the hill—this might be a scene from earlier times It isn t, of course. It’s not far from this picturesque spot to and all the other conveniences of modern civilization. This P 1 * 0 * 0 shows a footbridge across the Spokane River which permits pick- nickers at Riverside State Park to select a luncheon site on either side of the river. The view is a short distance upr»ver th « “Bowl and Pitcher’* rock formation in Riverside State Park, 5 miles northwest of Spokane. Washington. 1218 Coil«g« Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, 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 AND THINGS Everyone must regret the tension now felt between the white people an«I some color ed people who claim to speak for the millions of colored people. Up to this time all the organized effort, all the ag gressive demonstration, all the political furore has been by a few colored men and a few white collaborationists. Sooner or later there will be organizations of Southern white men to act with all the vigor and vim of the NAACP and that will intensify the present manufactured bitter ness and result in distress for many people who are, and will be, mere innocent bystanders. It is indeed lamentable that the steady progress of the col ored people, living side by side with the white people, may be interrupted by the few so-called leaders who are liv ing in the clouds. Has the colored man suffer ed by his association with the white people? In some indi vidual cases both colored and white men have been victims of harsh men. I repeat, not only colored men but white men, too. If we are thinking of_ the colored people as a race, their association with the whites within one hundred years has enabled them to show a de gree of progress surpassing any other people in all the history of the world. I say that advisedly. I quote with approval and with pleasure a factual ac count which was prepared by a Northern man who has studied the records. “Soviet propagandists have made effective use of lies a- bout capitalist exploitation of American Negros.Unqu«stioii- ably the distortions have been accepted by many in Africa and India. The truth seldom overtakes the canard, but U. S. News and World Report has compiled some statistics which might be surprising to many in this country. For ex ample: The 19,000,000 negroes in the U. S. are estimated to have had income of more than $20 billion—$1000 a year few every negro man, woman and child in the country. Not a fortune by American stand ards but easily that compar ed to the $200 to $300 per capita income of Russians or the $50 to $100 of people in Red China. It exceeds the average for Western Europe—$650 — and for the individual countries of France and West Germany. It is roughly the same aver age per capita income of the Britons. The comparison with the average African’s income is far more striking of course. In Senegal, it*s $182.” “The U. S. Department of labor estimates negroes who worked the full year in 1958 had a medium income (half got more, half less) of $3368 —well above the average of the British worker, $2334 and four times the $800 made by the average Soviet worker.” “American negroes own 4,- 500,000 automobiles; they fav or models in the middle and upper price range. Thus there is one automobile for every five negroes in America; on ly one for 350 people in Rus sia and most of these are state-owned or belong to top party officials.” Almost every negro child between the ages of 7 and 13 is enrolled in a grade school; 8 out of 10 are in the high school age group. Dr. Am brose Caliver, negro chief of the adult education section of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare says ‘The quality of education for negroes is increasing phenom enally as equipment facili ties -.nd the number of train ed t teachers increases’.” It is in the Southern states (U. S. News observes) where the segregation fight is cen tered and where most of the schools are still segregated that the greatest efforts have been made to improve negro education. Run - down, one- room schoolhouses for negros still exist in some rural aroas, as also do they for white pu pils. But school budgets show that these backward facilities are rapidly giving way to up- to-date consolidated schools in much of the South.” “Negroes, many of them educated in the South, are finding good skilled and semi skilled jobs in industry, white collar jobs in business and government. They own banks and businesses. There are 53 negro-owned life insurance companies with assets total ing $230,000,000.” “In short, American negroes have it better than most Eu ropeans and far better than others of their race anywhere. In the century of evolution from slavery the vilified white South has played a major part and paid a huge price.” This is the kind of infor mation the country should be spreading about instead of ab ject apologies for isolated, insignificant incidents.” Isn’t that conclusive? Have our critics observed the cars at a colored funeral? Have they observed Radio & TY in homes of apparent pov erty, but where all have abun dant food? Have they observ ed that our colored people have the privilege of operat ing hotels, restaurants, stores taxis and every other occupa tion, including farming and the professionals? Now, certain self - styled leaders of the colored people, aided, abetted and stimulated by certain renegade whites, wish to storm the institutions built by white men. instead of encouraging the colored peo ple to build institutions and businesses of their own. There are thousands of schools and colleges for color ed people in the South. How many were built and financed by colored people? And in the case of State institutions for colored people, built and sup- , ported by taxation, how much was contributed by colored taxpayers? Consider the Income taxes paid by' white and colored teachers: it is well known that the colored people are not paying their fair share of taxes. Why not have or develop a Colored Leadership for the de velopment of the race by thrift, saving and investment, instead of instigating disor der? The marvelous develop ment of the colored in the South is in very small meas ure due to colored leadership —if at all. If you think I am speaking merely t6 say some>b;ng I’ll tell you* how some colored people are progressing: During the years I have sold farms to three colored, men: houses in town to twelve or more; building loU to 30 or 40 'and have given sites for the colored Masons and the colored Legion. So have some thousands of white people tried to be helpful friends. All through the years we have worked together, our relations have always been pleasant; and I have the pleasure of seeing these people owning their homes and farms. That is how some are steadily pro gressing; that is also how white men have rebuilt the South. A year ago a well-known , and substantial colored man conferred with me several times about an old colored man who was in urgent need. Several white friends were helping in some degree, so I asked my colored friend—un old citizen he he is— why the colored bible class didn’t make regular contributions to help the afflicted man, as is the practice of white churches. He skniled and said “The col ored people don’t do things like that”. F r We Are Pleased To Announce Our Semi-Annual Dividend Payable As Of June 30, 1961 At Our Current Rate Of per annum Each Account Insured by Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corp. Up To $10,000.00 Funds Received Here By July 10, 1961 Will Receive Earnings From July 1st. The State Building & Loan Association 1117 Boyce Street Newberry, S. C. Telephone 189 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS R. B. BAKER, President J. DAVE CALDWELL, Vice President PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS, Secretary-Treasurer THOMAS- H. POPE R. AUBREY HARLEY LOUIS C. FLOYD T