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SENATOR
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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
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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
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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
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\ 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.
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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”.
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1961 Will Receive Earnings
From July 1st.
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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
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