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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1961 1218 College 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- vhfm’p six months, $1.25. SENATOR STROM RMOND THE LEAST WE CAN DO DURING THE WEEK in which we celebrate Independence Day, we Americans should give more than a little thought to our na tional and individual liberties which were proclaimed for us 185 years ago in the immortal Dec laration of Independence and later won on the battlefields of the American Revolution. TODAY WE HAVE become so accustomed to liberty that we take liberty for granted, much as we do the conven ience of elec- t r i c i t y. We have the feel ing that be cause liberty * 3 guaranteed JB in this country K Jl# JHi by the Consti tution that it will always be with us. Other peoples in other na tions have had this same foolish idea, but their liberties have long since vanished because they did not appreciate Voltaire’s old tru ism that “Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty.” We seem to have forgotten that liberty must be earned, and once it is earned— as it was for us by our fore fathers—then it must be pre served, not just for our enjoy ment, but as a legacy for unborn generations of Americans. IN PACT, liberty is supposed to be the highest end of govern ment. However, in viewing our government bureaucracy today, with all its controls, red tape, and its ever-growing centralized pow er apparatus, it is easy to get the idea that perhaps government j has some other end to serve—such as accumulation of power. MAN CANNOT have liberty unless he accepts the moral task it imposes. It is a combination of self-assertion and self-denial, of; independence and responsibility, i For instance, in gran+ : as the blessing of self-government, our forefathers contemplated that the ! people would take sufficient inter est in educating themselves on affairs of government to govern themselves intelligently and that they would be so concerned with j the preservation of liberty that they would reject selfish, propos als which would res'r.ct their libertits. - SOME MISGUIDED intellec tuals, whose principal aim for government is creation of a o cialistic welfare state, would lead the people to believe that they can have liberty and socialism and that the welfare state will rid them of the onerous burden of trying to govern themselves. As a matter of fact, capitalism, which is no more and no less than eco nomic liberty, is the only eco nomic system which will work in a free society, and liberty can only be preserved when power is decentralized in the hands of the people and local government. OUR LIBERTIES are in danger today as never before, both from the threat of communist aggres sion and also from the threat of welfare statism, with its attend ant big government and big spending policies. SINCE COMING to the Senate in 1955, my principal preoccupa tion has been the preservation of our liberties, not in just one par ticular area but all across the board. In doing so, I have been voting against much legislation in order to vote for preservation of liberty. I believe that preser vation of liberty is the principal interest of the people, but, un fortunately, too many—as I men tioned above—are taking liberty for granted and are not looking its threats in the eye. Some, too, have been deluded by the socialist fallacy that we can have welfare statism and liberty too — and, most unfortunately, there are some who do not fear communist aggressive aims because they are not basically opposed to the prin ciples of socialism and commu nism. BECAUSE WE STILL live in a relatively free society, although our liberties are being constricted with every increase in govern ment growth and e.ery new wel fare program, we, the people, still have the power of choice. We can insure our liberty “for ourselves and our posterity” or we can make the choice to release it all at once or a little at a time. OUR FOREFATHERS at Lex ington, Concord, and King’s Moun tain fought and died to obtain lib erty for us. The Founding Fa thers exercised the utmost in hu man wisdom to secure it for us in the Constitution and its Bill of Rights. Thr hast ire can dn is preserve what is left of that pre cious legacy which had its begin nings on July 4, ITTfi. Sincerely, (Not ]>rinled at government expense) ACROSS the DESK IDEAS FROM OTHER EDITORS Frees The Waverly Sun-Bee ord er, Wsveriy, New York: At regu lar intervals the question of “spread”—which is the difference between what the farmer gets for his crops and what the consumer pays at the grocery store—be comes a subject of heated dis cussion. At present, the farmer gets 40 per cent of the consumer’s food dollar, and numbers of peo ple think there is something rotten in Denmark. Sylvia Porter, the well-known financial columnist, dealt with the spread problem recently in an interview with a leading authority on food processing and distribu tion. “Actually, the spread is re markably low,” he said, “in view of the rapid increase in rates for wages, taxes and transportation. These are the cost factors which make up most of the spread. Moreover, the services for which the spread pays, are a tribute to America’s mass production and mass distribution system. Without ‘price spread’ your steak would be another steer on i western range, macaroni would be durum wheat in the Dakota plains, cheese would be milk in a New York tarmer’s pail. Without spread the farmer would be virtually out of business.” In addition, the day has long since passed when consumers bought almost all foods in a raw or nearly raw state. The demand for foods with “built-in maid service” grows heavier all the time. And the processing, pack aging, freezing and other tech niques involved in meeting this demand mean more labor, ware housing, transportation and other costs. The authority interviewed brought up another point. The government’s Retail Food Price Index is a combined measure of grocery store prices plus res taurant prices. The restaurant part of the index has increased 18 per cent since January, 1953; the grocery store part has remained stable. The intense competition in food retailing—which holds the profits of major chains to as little as one cent on the dollar, guaran tees top value for the food budget. Without our system of mass production and mass retailing it is anybody’s guess what the con sumer would pay for food and other necessities which he enjoys in such abundance. Looking A. bead v ... by Dr. Georg* S. Benson PRESIDENT—NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Seercy, Arkenses ‘Well, well—feeling a little better this morning. I see.” WA stttgJLiofc and "SMALL I By C. WILSON HARDER At this point, there is no way of predicting what, if any, tax reform will come out of this session of Congress. * * * The nationwide membership of the National Federation of Independent Business has brought to the attention of Congress that both ma jor political parties have pledged in their plat forms to pro vide indepen dent business with tax in centives to c. W. Harder expand, to improve facilities to compete. * * * At the present time, it ap pears that if tax concessions are made in one direction, there must be additional in come raised. Thus there is talk of closing loopholes, such as eliminating the first $50 of divi dends or interest income as tax free, or making it law that no salesman can spend more than $25 per day for travel expenses, regardless of conditions under which he must operate, or mak ing it federal edict a Christmas gift to a customer or client shall not be over $10. ♦ * * This probably is nit picking in its extreme sense, as the extra taxes realized in this manner would perhaps not fi nance one day of the foreign give away schemes. * * * On this subject of more bil lions down the rathole. Rep. John Dowdy says “If we can not get enough votes to elimi nate the fraudulent foreign aid program, our government ought or at least reduce it.” * * * But Congressman Tom John- 'c'i X:if i.itial re.!. ration of Independent Business son of Maryland, in discussing the subject, is not after pea nuts. He says. “The closing of tax loopholes would permit the granting of tax incentives to small business. Small business represents the broad base on which entire economy rests.” * * * But his idea of closing loop holes is the big ones, mainly the vast, huge profits of Amer ican companies in their foreign subsidiaries which go virtually, or completely tax free. * * * His contention is U. S. is los ing billions in taxes on more than $30 billion invested by U. S. firms overseas. * * * A leading business publica tion recently estimated Colgate- Palmolive now gets 53% of its business and 75% of its profit overseas. Standard Oil (N. J.) gets over 50% of its business, 66% of its profits overseas. * * * —~ It is indeed ironical that re cently Hickman Price Jr., as sistant secretary of commerce, in a speech, chided American business for trying to compete for world trade with machine tools made before 1946, while practically all machine tools in Europe and Japan were made since 1950. He also an nounced with pride that he took part in this government’s give away programs to build up more efficient foreign produc tion, which he feels has caused the drain of gold from the U. S. It’s astounding that it does not get through to him that you cannot tax U. S. business to building up foreign competitors, and expect American business to be able to afford the mod ernization to compete. It’s somewhat like a bookkeeper embezzling the firm’s working funds, then accusing the boss of trying to operate on too lim ited capital. The Cold War Titans President Kennedy's visit with Mr. Khrushchev in Vienna has by now been evaluated and re evaluated many times. The im age of Communism that is retain ed in the minds of the American people may have been little alter ed by~The meeting, but the na ture of that image r is most im portant for' our future security. Did we view the meeting as that of two great world leaders, Ti tans both, keeping cool contact while measuring each other’s nerve and intent about the future of the cold war? Both apparent ly want to keep the war as cold as possible. But it is war, nonetheless, and it is a kind of war that is most profitable to Mr. Khrushchev. Communist leaders have made no attempts to conceal their satis faction about the way this war is going, and they have been im mensely pleased with this cold By C A. Dean, M. D. MEDITOR1AL: When discuss ing the relationship of smoking and lung cancer, the question of proof comes up frequently. Proof that smoking causes lung cancer is almost impossible to find. For years, however, there has been strong evidence to support this theory and now some new findings linking smoking with cancer have been reported. For five years the lungs of over 409 men who died from any cause were examined. Sections from many parts of the lungs were stud ied by pathologists (medical doc tors trained especially in this type of examination). Their findings were unbiased as they did not know from what patient each spec imen came. — —. /< Their results showed that not only lung cancer but lung condi tions which lead to cancer depend almost entirely on the number of cigarettes smoked. All the victims of lung concer were smokers. Even the heavy smokers who didn’t die of lung cancer showed other serious abnormal lung con ditions. The heavier they smoked the more cancer-like changes were found in the lung tissues. And there were one or more small er cancers found in several of the men who died of lung cancer in addition to the one which killed them. Many have asked me why doc tors don’t give up smoking. A recent survey of 5,000 doctors in Massachusetts showed that in the last five years the rate of smokers among them has dropped from 52 per cent to 39 per'cent, with half of these using less then a pack a day. I feel that as the young doc tors come up this percentage will become even lower i G Child's Arm Turns Hard, S Medical Treatment Slows Process Christine Versluis, who is nine and lives on the shores of Lake Ontario at Hilton, N.Y., is unable to straighten her right arm because of rheumatic disease. Her arm and parts of both shoulders are becom ing increasingly calcified, which means change of the muscle tissue into a hard stonv substance. This somber-faced child is the tragic victim of dermato- myositis, one of the forms of rheumatic disease. Another form is rheumatoid arthritis. The majority of people don’t know that children .suffer from arthritis; they believe mistak enly that arthritis afflicts only the aging—someone’s grand father or grandmother, surely not the very young. But there is urgent reason today why grownups and par ents especially should be intel ligently informed about arthri tis among children. Dr. William S. Clark, director of medical care of The National Founda tion, whose expanded program embraces arthritis, birth de fects and continued work in polio, said this week: “Rheumatoid arthritis is a tvpe that can make children very ill indeed. They may be come severely crippled. Their joints may ‘freeze.’ Happily, we can now demonstrate today that with proper treatment and care, most of the crippling caused by juvenile rheumatoid arthritis can be prevented.” But the cardinal point. Dr. Clark emphasizes, is that thou sands of children have rheu matoid arthritis without know ing what the disease they suffer from really is. Their parents may dismiss the aching in neck, knees, wrists or elbows (or, more rarely, in all these joints simultaneously) as “growing pains”; or for a vari- Nine-year-old Christine Versluis must hold her right arm in this awkward upright position because it is turning into hard, stony substance. But there's hope for her in research sponsored by The National Foundation. ety of other reasons, the right diagnosis is not made. “We now estimate that in the United States, more than 50,000 adults who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis had their actual onset of the disease in childhood,” Dr. Clark added. “Had they received modern treatment at that time, most of the crippling in maturity could have been prevented. That’s one reason why The National Foundation’s program in ar thritis and patient aid for the young is so significant.” Child victims of rheumatoid arthritis are estimated to total 30,000 in this country alone, with 16,000 a year ill enough to need medical care. About 5,000 or 6,000 of these may re quire treatment as intensive as the rehabilitation needed for those stricken by paralytic polio. There are at least 11 millions in the nation today who suffer from some form of rheumatic disease, including arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis victims total about 1,500,000. The dis ease is the nation’s No. 1 crip- pler. To return to Christine, the little girl with the arm and shoulders turning into a stony element, she is receiving treat ment at the March of Dimes- supoorted Arthritis Study Cen ter at the University of Roch ester School of Medicine—one of four National Foundation arthritis centers around the country. Her doctors hope they are slowing the advance of calcification but the outlook at this time is not certain. Uncertainty, then, is the dis quieting prospect facing this little girl. Her mother, Mrs. Eugene Versluis, hopes that if enough people support Nation al Foundation research, per haps in time Christine’s right arm will fall back where it belongs and the stoniness w ’’ disappear; and that eventuaLy the appalling figure of 30,000 children with crippling rheu matoid arthritis each year will decline. war (peaceful co-existence) for many months. Too many of our leaders, in the government and out of it, have not realized the nature of this threat to our fu ture, to the future of freedom everywhere. Same Old Tactics It is notable that Mr. Kennedy, upon his return, described the Communist threat as “new and different.” While it may be true that missiles and troops are now more evenly matched on each side, there is little new in the Communist technique of using local conflicts with guerillas, inf .surgents, and subversion. The!’' President must surely be aware that he did not have to go to Vi enna to find that out. These me thods have been practiced by in ternational Communism since the end of World War II all over the world as well as in the Unit ed States. Infiltration -every where has been ordered by Mos cow, and they have had great suc cess with it. This is the story .essentially, that we have been trying to tell in some of our recent films and filmstrips. (It is this story, inci dentally, that Mr. Norman Thom as objects to our telling, so much that he suceeded in getting the Pentagon to stop showing certain 1 of these materials to the armed forces.) If the President’s talks at Vienna have helped him -to see what the nature of the Commun ist threat is, and if he can inform the American people, the trip' was indeed worthwhile. Socialist Victory In Sight On January 6, 1961, N. S. Krus- chev spoke to a gathering of Com munist Party leaders on the topic “For New Victories for the World Communist Movement.” Please consider some choice lines from this speech, from the World Marxist Review for January, 1961: “The day is not far off when Marxism-Leninism will dom inate the minds of the majority of the population of the globe . The main distinguishing feature of our time is the fact that the socialist world system is becom ing the decisive factor in the de velopment of human society. “. . . Victory for the Soviet Union in its economic competition with the United States, and vic tory for the socialist system as r. whole over the capitalist system, will be a major turning point in history . . . The most important thing today is to win time in the economic competition with capit alism. The faster our economic development, the strong we shall be economically and politically, and the greater will be the influ ence of the socialist camp on the trend and fate of development, on the future of the world.” A Continuing Crisis Describing the Cuban vfetory of Castro as a war of “liberation,” or an uprising against U. S. Im perialism, he says: “The Commun ists support just wars of this kind wholeheartedly and without res ervations and they march in the van of the peoples fighting for liberation . . . The victory of so cialism on a world scale, inevitable by virtue of the laws of history, is no longer far off. War between countries ~Is not needed for this victory.” Mr. Khrushchev then spends much space proclaiming that the Soviet Union wants peace, because he says, “peaceful coexistence pro motes the growth of .he forces of progress, of the foi es fighting for socialism.” This, jf course, is an “intense struggle” that the pro letariat will win against the ag gressive forces of imperialism which have had to fall back on the defensive and whose “prestige and international influence have never been^ aslow as..they are (Continued on^page 3) By THOMAS COLLINS What About Schools to Teach Retirement? •HAVINGS * Years: from the Golden “The average person spends 12 .without warning, my husband band’s pension could handle it. •Three months ago, virtually years in grade schools and often, several years in college preparing* for a career. This same person spends very little time preparing for retirement. Yet retirement is as important in his life as starting to work. “Pension plans and Social Se curity do a good job in helping people make financial prepara tions for retirement. But what about psychological preparation?” Remarks—Industry is coming around to the. idea that just as it must teach ilp young employees how to' work, 5 it must teach the old ones how to quit But what do. you teach? Butterfly catching and snapshots' can’t fill the void left by a paying job. And loafiug can’t fil} anything but a ham mock The only answer as I see it is for the worker at age 60 to start learning a new trade or a new ca reer that wifi provide him a pay ing job .. . orielse retirement must be put on a -voluntary basis that „ allqws .the worker to cafry on un til he drops if he chooses. The educational system and not the worker’s company may eventually take over. the. problem. ‘*My husband retired in April, 1959, And 'wC came to a spot in central Kentucky that had been our dream tot 15 years. We spent more of bur savings than we in tended In order to acquire the country place that had been our vision. We put a five-year mort- zasje on the property and my hus *h. died. < . “I was left with enough mcnoy to get by. But 1 was left with a house that was not intended for • widow alone and with a way of life that has no appeal for one- half of a couple. But there is no path open for escape. . The life that went before was cashed in in order to get this one.” Remarks—This is one of the tragic chapters of retirement that keeps recurring. Yet nobody at re tirement time ever thinks it will happen to them. Every major retirement project particularly those that involve moving to a new environment to live, must take into account the fiiture of the one spouse should the other spouse die. * # • • “In the war between the sexes that seems to rage on until our hair turns gray there is one factor on the side of the man that is usually overlooked. When the man retires from his job, he usually starts drifting away from his friends almost at once because most of his friends are connected in some way with his business or his job. The wife, on the other hand, who has been cultivating her friends in the neighborhood over many years does hot lose a single one of them when her hus band retires.” cents lm coin (n*' newspaper}, U#* station. Maw York l». (Macs of S Coatrai ^ >r ’ To All Dog Owners s. Pursuant to action taken by City Council in its regular meeting June II, 1961, effective July 15, 1961 the following City Ordinance will be STRICTLY ENFORCED: SECTION 4-12: Impoundment of uninoculated or untagged dogs: de~ aemption of impounded dogs; disposition of unredeemed dogs. It shall be the duty of the Police Department to impound and kill all dogs unless inoculated as required by Section 4-1 I (Section 4-11 being set out below) and wearing an inoculation tag; provided,‘however, that in the event any dog which has been properly inoculated shall be im pounded by the Police Department because not found wearing the ino culation tag, the owner or keeper thereof may redeem the dog by fur nishing proper evidence of such inoculation to the Police Department within four days after his dog has been impounded, and upon the owner or keeper thereof paying the sum of one dollar for each day's upkeep of such dog, the dog shall be released to the owner or keeper; provid ed further, that the owner or keeper of any uninoculated dog so im pounded may within four days after the impounding, obtain the release thereof, by inoculating the dog, and paying the sum of one dollar for each day or part of day the dog has been impounded, and provided, further, that if any dog so impounded is not released to the owner or keeper thereof within four days after such impounding, the police de partment shall have the authority to kill the dog. SECTION 4-11: Inoculation for rabies—Required for dogs over six months running at large; annual inoculation; receipt to be furnished by veterinarian. It shall be unlawful for the owner or keeper of any dog which is six months or older to allow such dog to roam at large, on the streets, roadways or highways of the city, or off the premise? of the owner or keeper of the dog, unless the <fog shal[;wear around his neck a tag evi dencing that such dog has been inoculated against rabies by a quali fied veterinarian, licensed to do business in the County. Such inocula tion must be made once each year. Upon the inoculation being made, the veterinarian shall furnish to the owner or keeper of the dog a receipt showing such inoculation and shall file a copy of the same with the city clerk. Such inoculation shall be good for a period of one year from the date of the inoculation. City of Newberry Police Dept.