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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1961 u« 1218 ColWye Street MEWBERRY. 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- M?ue: months, $1.25. Straight Talk. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS The election of Charles E. Boineau, Jr. to the Legislature from Richland county is being generally interpreted as a repudiation of the extravagant ideas of President Kennedy. Many citizens are uneasy about the colossal National debt and the extravagant program which Congress is rather lamely adopting. Since the Constitution vests the Congress with the power to curb the President and the Supreme Court Congress must be charged with gross dereliction for failing to exercise its powers. The plan to draw billions from the Treasury under a blank and blanket authorization, by-passing Congress year by year, it is a dangerous plan which began with Mr. Roosevelt. If the Congress authorizes billions to be drawn from the Treasury as the President may wish makes one think that the Congress itself is an unnecessary body and of no real value. If all the Congress does is to approve, willy-nilly, all that the President wishes then let’s do away with Congress. Men from Texas are aroused and I have just read two let ters from that great State, one from Paris, Texas; and the other from Beaumont, Texas. I might point out that Texas recently elected a Republican to the United States Senate to succeed Vice President Johnson. It was a notable declaration of independence and a sharp rebuke to the Kfetltfedy Adminis tration .After years of Ljmdon Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn all the candidates, Democrat and Republican, ran as Conservatives. Letter number one from Paris: “About the Federal effort to block the operation of long term, tax-free trusts leads me to suggest that the Federal people might w’ell be alarmed about the growth of tax-shelt ered cooperatives and their ultimate possible effects on taxes. Through'their partial freedom from taxes paid by competing enterprises, they could eventually destroy the entire tax base of some competing enterprises. Atrip through western Kansas and Oklahoma last fall fur nished striking visual evidence of one example. Time atter time I saw a huge grain elevator with the sign of some co op on it; nearby there would be an abandoned elevator beanng the barely legible name of some individual or firm, and loo • ing like the derelict it was.’ . . i, Somewhat akin to the letter from Paris, Texas, is the letter from Beaumont: , T ^ 1 ^ .... ,. A , “Mr H M. Burrows stated that Rural ElectidJication Ad ministration loans were first offered private ies and were refused. I feel compelled to disagf^i*^^ this statement. . . In May, 1935, the utility companies were asked4#Absent a plan for rural construction by Moris L. Cooke, h^a -Of the REA. On July 25, the day after he received the plan, Cooke announced that preference for REA loans would be given to ‘applications from municipalities and other agencies of the state and to non-profit associations such as cooperatives . This statement was a complete reversal of what the privately- owned companies had been led to believe. Cooke had told them that the bulk of the appropriation would be available to_ the power companies since they had physical facilities and trained personnel to do the job. Grover Neff of Wisconsin Power and Light company, de termined to apply for a loan regardless of new' policy, sub mitted an application in August 1935. The application was un der consideration for three months. On November 5. it was rejected. The application was revised and submitted again. Cooke did not bother to answer his letter. Granted REA has served a purpose. However, rural cooper atives are now' seeking to move into cities where they will be in direct competition with tax-paying, investor-owned com panics.” Henry Hazlitt in Newsweek tells the story of our National financial folly: “The President told Congress that in order to improve our posture with regard to the defense of Berlin we need to spend $3.5 billion more ‘n this fiscal year. This is a total increase in the defense budget of $6 billion since January. Suppose we accept the need for this $6 billion. \\ hy w*as it not asked for in May, w'hen Mr. Kennedy requested only 82.5 billion addi tional?? The objective situation has not visibly changed. Khruschev w r as threatening Berlin in May. \\ e already knew then that he w'ould threaten Berlin again and probably half a dozen other places. The new request gives an air of improv isation to the May request. It raises the question whether the present request may not also be improvised. Is Mr. Kennedy going to ask for new billions every time Khrushchev makes a new threat? That would give the Russian a cheap and easy way to lure us into spending ourselves into runaway inflation or crushing taxation. . “The President’s new requests raise his total defense bud get to $47.5 billion. Whenever any serious investigation has been made of military spending—by the Hoover commission or a Congressional committee—it has turned up huge w^aste and duplication. It is discouraging that Mr. Kennedy's? review's of the military budget have suggested no offsetting economics of any importance. a We now’ come to the non-defense budget. The overwhelm ing bulk of discussion consistently forgets that this is tre mendous. The total Federal spending budget, including social security, exceeds $100 billion. Non-defense expenditures ex ceed $50 billion, or more than half. Yet not only has Mr. Ken nedy not suggested any offsetting economics in any of .these; he has poured into Congress since he came into office some 50 messages, nearly all of w’hich have called for more "spend ing in some new' direction. In this $50 billion of non-defense expenditures, covering every conceivable activity, from aiding ‘depressed areas’ to landing a man on the moon, there are in finitely rich opportunities for economy. Probably $3.5 billion could profitably be cut out of either crop supports or foreign aid alone.” “Yet the President looks with complacency upon a budget deficit of more than $5 billion in the current fiscal year (which still has nearly eleven months to run) on top of that of nearly $4 billion for the fiscal year just closed. Not until the fiscal year 1963 does he promise a budget ‘strictly in bal ance’. Even this balance, he hints, is to be achieved not by economics but by ‘an increase in taxes’. Thus the President would put even more burdens on the already overburdened taxpayer. He neither asks nor hints at any sacrifices what ever for the multitudinous pressure groups that are now par asitic on the taxpayer.” Reversing a long line of deci-' open Supreme Court sessions with i sions, the Supreme Court recently prayer and our Supreme Court | handed down a decision ruling has decreed that God has no place ! that it is unconstitutional for the in the schoQlroom. It might of- i Federal Government, or any state,; fend some of our world brothers ' to require a “belief in the exist- who favor atheism or Voodooism. ! ence of God’’ as a qualification for Why are we in this fix? Well- public office. They based this de- meaning, non-Communist church | cision on the First Amendment of leaders have played a major role. Freedom of Religion. Are all the In a recent article, one of our I oaths taken heretofore by public most prominent church leaders,, j officials null and void? A law Dr. Nels F. S. Ferre, said that ; passed in 1884 provides that “the his “hope and goal is that the oath to be taken by any person Christian forces disassociate' elected or appointed to any office themselves from capitalist idea- of honor or profit, either in the Civil, Military or Naval Service,” must include the words “So Help Swedish Me God.” In the ruling, the Warren Court said that “belief in the existence of God” as a qualification for pub lic office “unconstitutionally in vades the appellant’s freedom of belief and religion and therefore cannot be enforced against him.” Our national motto is “In God We Trust,” and this motto ap pears upon all of our currency and coins. Will all of this currency, and these coins be unconstitution al as legal tender? In 1954 we changed the Pledge of Allegiance and added the words “under God.” Does this Pledge of Allegiance now violate the Constitution? If we can’t trust in God, whom can we trust in? Certainly not in the politicians on the Supreme Court. The Declaration of Independence refers four times to the existence of the Creator. This “outdated” ology.” He holds up Socialist Swe den as the model for us, plugs “maturity . . . f&r the Christian forces in America.” I saw that “Swedish maturity” first hand, in late 1958. About half the people of Sweden belong to the Lutheran Church which is the of» ficial state church. They don’t tithe, in fact most of them don’t voluntarily participate in the church at all. Their dues are de ducted like checked-off union dues, social security, or withhold ing tax. They don’t go to church, they just belong. While driving with a Swedish co-op official to visit some farms, I asked: “What church do you go to?” “Well, I don’t go to any. 1 be long to the Lutheran. The last time I went was six and one-half years ago when my boy was chris tened. But I think church is good for special occasions—funerals, marriages, christenings.” Socialism Is Materialism document also refers to the Su-j It was during that visit to the preme Judge of the W orld and. Socialist nations of Western Eu- pledges our Nation to support the rope that I realized fully what Declaration “with a firm' reliance; Socialism really is. I had called it on the, protection of divine provi-1 the halfway house to Communism; dence.” | Communism without the firing Our government has agreed j squad. But those definitions were good reason to) inadequate. Socialism is material- ism. Socialism is the philosophy ^ that there’s ne “But the necessity for reducing ; both government expenditures and ; taxes does not rest primarily on the argument for equity or fair ne essential for promoting, instead | of retarding, increased capital ac cumulation, production, and eco nomic growth. W"e need to abolish all personal income tax rates ab ove 50 per cent. These bring in barely enough revenue to support | the government for half a week.” So far as anyone may under stand the sentiment of South Car olina today it is Conservative; we ; are disgusted with glamorous peo- j pie of prodigal tendencies and we are not favors. of the equal belly. In the Social ist State, all bellies must be equal, except the bellies of those in| r. ^ charge. The Socialist man lives,! ess. it rests on the far stronger , , , , ,, o-i vtnimon fUo* .1 ; j • and votes, by bread alone. Social- igument that this reduction is ; , I . • ism anc Atheism are kissing cou sins. W’here the state is big and the individual is little, material ism thrives. People in the Social ist nations are confused. They have been taught “idealistic real ism,” “humanized theism,” “so cialized democracy” and other mixed-up theories denying God, the profit motive, and individual freedom. Sweden’s suicide rate is the world’s highest and percent age of illegitimate children is pro- , , • i . bably not exceeded in any “civil- f "vor° g W °' 1 y pr ° m,ses of! ized” nation. Open cohabitation rp, ^ , j. .,. without benefit of cleigy is com- Thousands of our citizens, men letel ac table social| jn a . and women, of all occupations, are moral Sweden | seriously concerned at the cons-! ° D T JoVn Xnnett, Dean of the tani, increase in public spending; i e • u and the ever-constant threat of plainTed thft r Sem,na, ' y l increased taxation. We begin to hl'fw^ h Communism ts the yearn for the simple life wheniTld ?° “d one may live and work and enjov o * Sh ° Ul H J T "'‘h ii- • . °ur Russian brothers, heln them J his earnings without sacrificing v ^ his: hihn>- f,,,- uv 6 e 'oi\ v\aj \\e can, and march I h n r k multitudinous hand-to-hand to a One-World non- ! horde of bureaucrats. , profit Socialist brotherhood Quoting again from Captain r Contrary to P 0 P uIar opinion— | Rickenbacker: * Communism and Fascism are not “Government money means gov- ThevVe L-f extremt \ s ' eminent power, and in 1912 most N P ^ ^ same P od - ! of the government money belong-' f h ° p th f mean dictatorships backed by |ed to the States, counties, citiesj T ^ ‘I “bberal” at and towns These local govern-i f h , ®° abroad "l* 10 advocates ments in 1912 spent more than the total transfer of P oll tcal po- | two-thirds of all taxes collected Wer from the indmdual to in the United States, while the ernment , the forced redistribution Federal government controlled and I 0 J wealth and the denial of in- ! spent less than one-third Most of i dl 'idual freedom is knowingly or the Federal revenue came f r o m ! unknowinglydenyingGod — is P r °- customs duties and from taxes oJ Claimmg with socialist Walter liquor and tobacco. The average citizen rarely had contact with the Federal government in 1912. \\ hen V» oodrow Wilson told us of the evils of concentrated pow er Jess than nine per cent of our entire national income was enough to keep all the Federal and local governments going. As I men tioned, the Federal government took less than one-third of all the taxes—in other words, one-third of the nine per cent collected in 1912. How do we stand today? In 1960, all local and Federal taxes took one-third of all our earnings, against only nine per cent 50 short two years ago, and the Federal government took, controll ed, and spend 70 per cent of that. The liberals say that the Federal government has grown along with the population, which is a clever way of saying it has strangled us. Back in 1912 the Federal gov ernment took and spent $7 for every person in the population. In 1960 it took and spent $450 for every man, woman, and child m the country. Thus the Federal government takes and spends to day about 65 times as much, per person, as it did 50 shorts vears ago. Of course, this disastrous in- Reuther, that “Man is God.” Men fought, bled and died for centuries for freedom—God-given individual freedom. It is the in alienable right of man to be let alone—as long as he is not harm ing his neighbor. People are born, not equal, but free. Man is born free to choose, free to exercise, his own will, to develop his own personality—as long as he does not injure his fellow man. A slave is a person whose will is in the possession of another. The more decisions the government denies to us, the nearer we are to slavery. The Great Issue of Our Time The great issue of our time is not economic, it’s moral. The U.S. has many problems. But one over shadows all others. That problem is morality. We try to bribe and buy the world. America is losing its sense of moral indignation. Co existence is immoral. America is losing its guts. Pinks are people who’re too yellow to be red. Government compulsion is es sentially evil. God made men free. Without freedom morality can’t survive, without morality freedom can’t survive. America has a great mission to perform: to save the world from slavery; to save the world for Christianity. What can YOU do? If our RE- crease in Federal taxation has ser- PUBLIC can be saved from be- iously injured every American’s comia g a Socialist-welfare dicta- power to spend or save what he tors hip k can only be saved the or she has earned. But there is a same wa T it was founded: by re- deeper and more dangerous injurv. hellious patriots. By a grassroots For government money is govern- evolution bent on unseating, de ment power, and the- Federal gov-', featin g> impeaching these cynical ernment today has 65 times as, manipulators of our lives. By re- much power to invade the per- sponsible citizens demanding a re- sonal liberty of every American turn to the Constitution, the great- citizen as it had in 1912!” i est freedom document ever devis- SENATOR STROM RMOND Socialism and Censorship FOR SOME years it has been obvious that the efforts of our government to win the protracted conflict against communism have been repeatedly frustrated. Many Americans have concluded that “something is bad wrong” but have been unable to put their finger on the trouble. They have witnessed the outward signs and have labeled them as signs of “appeasement” or a “soft-on-com- munism” attitude. THERE ARE those, both out side and within the government, who, although rarely in top positions, are able to exer cise great in fluence on pol icies. Attempts to ferret out “commu n i s t s in govern ment” will not expose these people, for they are not commu nists. They are dangerous, how ever, and to them must be attrib uted the frustration of effective conduct of our policies and actions in the protracted conflict. SO SUCCESSFUL have the frustrators been in crippling our cold war effectiveness that some of them are now venturing into the open in order to spread their influence more widely. One of their favorite themes is to the effect that “the welfare state is the best defense against com munism.” This statement is a key to their exposure, for it reveals their philosophy. G. D. H. COLE, a leading so cialist spokesman, wrote an ar ticle in the communist publica tion, Masses and Mainstream, en titled “Is There Common Ground ?” In this article he delineated the “common ground” between so cialists and communists. The sec ond of the four points of “com mon gi’ound” listed by Cole is: “Secondly, communists and so cialists agree in seeking to estab lish for all peoples some sort of welfare state or society.” Clearly, a welfare state is not only no defense against communism, but is part and parcel of communism. SOCIALISM is a philosophy which embraces government own ership of the principal tools of production and transportation. It deplores, and seeks to end, pri vate property rights and the (Not printed at government expense) T WASHINGTON SMALL BUSINESS By C. WILSON HARDER There appears to be gather ing force on Capitol Hill a grow ing but determined band of patriots bent on stopping the outflow of tax dollars to sup port and comfort the enemy. * * * For some time men such as Rep. John Dowdy of Texas have deplored the practice of the State Dept, where by any nation that wants to dip into U. S. foreign give away funds only has to make protes tations that unless this c . W. Harder cumshaw is paid, they are go ing to have to go communist. * * * Recently Rep. Dowdy had bitter things to say about ran som negotiations that were car ried on with Castro. * * * Although this venture was not launched as an official gov ernment project, it did high light fact there are people in this country who are willing to negotiate blackmail. * * * And there are signs that Congress is getting more and more wary of letting the bur eaucrats swing as much power as they have been doing. Rep. Richard Roudebush of Indiana, said recently on the Edward Yellin case, “It is discouraging that government agencies need prodding by Congressional com mittees before they can act in flagrant cases involving per sons whose loyalty to the U. S. is questionable.” * * * Rep. Roudebush was refer ring to the recent scene in Washington when the House Spice Committee held hearings which forced the National Sci ence Foundation to cancel the awarding of a $3,800 tax paid © National Federation of Independent Business scientific f '!lowship to Edward Yellin, 33, a University of Illin ois student. * * * In 1958, before a Congress ional Committee, Yellin re fused to say whether or not he was a communist. He was convicted of contempt of Cong ress, and the verdict was up held by a U. S. Court. * * * Yet against this background, the bureaucrats of the National Science Foundation gave him a two year scholarship in ad vanced engineering and re fused to rescind the error un til forced by Congress. * * * There seems to be a tendency in certain professional educa tion circles to brand any in quiry into a man’s belief on communism as “anti-intellec- tualism.” * * * This phenomena is a peculi arly American one. In Russia there does not seem to exist this “anti-intellectual” hue and cry when someone gives strong suspicion of being a capital ist. If he is lucky enough to escape a hole in the head, it is a certainty the Russian purse is not going to be used to sub sidize him to get an education. * * * The terrifying aspect of all this is that National Science Foundation has awarded some 18,000 of scholarships at cost to taxpayers of some $45,000,000. # * • The public can only wonder if this bureau “goofed” on other appointments. As Rep. Roude bush says “A communist in a college community is a cancer that cannot be tolerated, as one communist on a college cam pus, well-trained and disci plined in communist tactics, can attract and influence good American students who may be politically naive.” There seems little rhyme or reason for taxes to support such people. profit motive. Private property right* cannot be destroyed with out destroying political rights, and, indeed, all liberty. If you de stroy economic freedom, all other liberty must fall, for liberty is indivisible. Thus the precepts of socialism, if embraced in America, will destroy our liberty and estab lish a centralized authoritarian government. Will bondage be any less onerous to Americans because their bonds were forged by social ists rather than communists? THERE NOW appears evidence that the dangers of socialist in fluence in this country go much deeper than the advancement of “welfare state” programs, which by their nature are goals shared by communist philosophy. The “common ground” shared by the “2” isms must breed a distaste in socialists for U. S. nationalism and militant a n t i - communism. Their attitude is reflected and their power of influence is proved by the pattern of censorship of speeches of U. S. officials. THESE ARE some of the ex pressions which have been con sistently censored from speeches of U. S. officials: “Communist conspiracy directed toward abso lute domination of the world”; “the steady advance of commu- nUm”; “Soviets have not relented in tne slightest in their determi nation to dominate the world”; “Nothing has happened to indi cate that the goals of internation al communism have changed.” THERE CAN be no valid rea son for censoring such expres sions if the censors embrace the American economic and political systems. If, however, there are socialists among the censors, or in a position to influence the cen sors, such actions are understand able, and the dangers apparent. THIS PATTERN of censorship is but one means by which the policies which would advance our efforts in the protracted conflict against communism are frus trated. It is really of little con sequence if socialists within this country are motivated by desire for socialist goals rather than sympathy for communism, if the result is frustration of our fight against communism. Motivations , are beside the point; it is results that count. Our liberty is at stake, j*. Sincerely, 1, ; J 3 -r SUPERVISOR’S QUARTERLY REPORT FOURTH QUARTER—1960-1961 SALARIES $27,444.96 COUNTY HOME: Salaries 559.00 Lights 71.22 Fertilizer 185.25 Supplies 50.06 Veterinary Service 9.00 ♦ J*F ' Breeding Services 7.00 Seed 83.50 Livestock feed 61.30 Lakeside Rest Home 120.00 Machine Hire 64.00 CHAIN GANG: Salaries 4,399.73 Food 632.55 Stripes — Clothing 527.23 Medical 453.25 Supplies T 185.16 Gas — Cook Stove 187.46 ROAD MAINTENANCE: f Salaries 2,368.00 Wages 9,141.75 Topsoil 247.25 Lumber — 2,291.70 Concrete Pipe \ 2,180.31 Repairs—Truck parts and welding 875.00 Gas, Oil and Greases : 4,218.98 Tires and Tubes 1,646.78 Supplies 1,424.10 Grades blades and parts machinery 1,121.64 Electricity i . 87.87 Travel, expense—Supervisor 8.00 Creosote 518.57 MISCELLANEOUS CONTINGENT: National Guard—Newberry and Whitmire 3,300.00 Deputy Sheriff’s office expense 255.00 Board of Assessors 1,391.30 Retirement contribution paid by county employees 1,129.41 Hospitalization insurance, employees 483.02 Demonstration Agent — Salary and Supplies 330.88 County Agent—Salary and Supplies 181.37 Colored Demonstration Agent—Salary and rent 355.63 County Health Department—Salary 1,168.03 Radio Maintenance 90.00 Colored County Agent—Salary and Supplies 378.90 Quarterly Report 88.00 Social Security—County portion 1,383.30 Child welfare 159.46 Bond Premiums 110.00 4-H Clubs—Girls x 57.55 Artificial ^reeding Association, 249.96 -Travel Expense—Coroner 75.00 Httsgp^LANEOUS CONTINGENJ—2F: . Cffe^aPHUlp — I-_L! 57.74 Expense, Sheriff’s office, and miscellaneous expense 83.20 Magistrate’s phone and office rent 60.00 Magistrate’s Dieting 35.68 Safe protection 94.50 Pauper’s funeral 225.00 Commissioner of Election 600.00 SHERIFF’S DIETING: Dieting prisoners 1,536.80 POST MORTEM AND LUNACY: Lunacy Examinations 150.00 Post rtem examinations 139.00 Coroner’s inquest 24.50 Assistant Coroner 20.00 COURT EXPENSES: Juror pay bills 575.10 Coroner’s jury pay bills 24.00 Magistrate’! trials 4.00 Library books 189.50 Witness fees 36.65 Sheriff’s travel, miscellaneous expense 219.48 REPAIR TO PUBLIC BUILDINGS: Coal 44.03 Water, lights 737.88 Telephone 961.49 Fuel — Jail 237.56 Repairs ^and Supplies—Court House and Jail 867.52 Fuel, Liegro Agent; Gas stove, Jail and Agri Bldg. 151.11 Janitor Supplies r - 183.26 Ice 43.71 ^hitmisB Library — * 88.25 BOOKS, STATIONERY, POSTAGE, PRINTING: Sumps- , 20.00 'f’vintihg and advertising $98.41 P. O. Box rent ^ 90.00 plies 174.29 and fillers 533.44 Maintenance service 282.60 ed by man. What can ONE PER SON do? You can stand up and be counted—else you’ll soon b e counted out. You can believe in your God, in your country, and in yourself—and IN THAT ORDER. You can GO TO WORK, for God and country. Maybe one man can’t save the country—but he can TRY. Mr. and Mrs. Harper Wherry and daughter, Margaret, and Mary Ruth Armfield spent the weekend at Myrtle Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Ander^n and son, Eddie, spent several dairs the first of the week at Pawley’s Island. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Fennell, Jr. H^AO-ON COLLISIONS I VOUlL GET THE SHOCK OF YOUR LIFE! C4AP MAY3£ yfXJR LACTf) “It never troubles the wolf how have moved to Newberry and are many the sheep may be.” [ now residing at 1325 College St.- M TOUCH AN£L£C-1 TWC APfLlANCS mi£ V£Tf