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I PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1961 COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR i A fall-out shelter, a refuge from an atomic blast, a sort! r ^ le Newberr\ Sun, of hiding place. Well: what for? What are we trying to es-j k e ny> S. C. cape? If we would build a kind of impregnable fortress on a Dear Sir: small scale we must think of the vast range of concussion from an Atomic bomb. The average cement blocks, even four or five thick and as much or more overhead, would merely crumble from an Atormc bomb, even if exploding in the air a mile away. If w*e are trying to escape the gasses released we must have an air-tight* 1 building, provided with water, food, iaiel, refrigeration for several weeks. Since each person averages 175 gallons a day, of four in a shelter would need 700 gallons of water or 4,900 for a week. * - The nearest to approximate security in this area bf mid dle Carolina might be a cave cut 100 feet deep into the side of a hill near Stateburg. A hundred feet of tight earth over head would probably be adequate. You might need a well within the shelter, plenty of fuel, and food. Ventilation might be provided by long range tubes with air pumped in. I’m no engineer, but coal miners could teach us quite a bit. I once owned a bit of land on or near the Wateree River and remember that there were few wells in that area for te nants. r LETTERS TO THE EDITOR October 10, 1961 ories connected with it. Sincerely, (Writer of this letter known to publisher but name withheld^ Very seldom do I ever write a letter of this kind. I’d much | rather congratulate than condemn. However I must tell you that it has made me very sad to see the way in which you have allowed your paper to be used to bring an unwarranted attack on one of the oldest and finest churches in the world. I refer to the article by one vyho calls herself Doris Sanders, in which she says mpet unhuriti *nd untrue things about the highest court of the Presbyterian Church, and about its official magazine;: ! could'^i& that she were better informed both on Theology and on the objects and aims of commun ism. As a former citizen of your city I have many happy mem- we need billions in improvements right now!” Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia is a man respected by everyone/ he predicts that by 1965 our National budget will run up to $165,000,000,000—one hundred sixty-five billion dollars. He proves his point by the figures. Those who think we may safely spend and spend, willy- nilly, find comfort in such figures as the following: “If you’re one of those people who’s concerned about the state of the American economy and what the future holds in store, just read these facts— MORE PRODUCTION—U. S. production doubles every 20 years. Our annual output is due to rise $300 billion by 1971! MORE RESEARCH—We’re now spending $12 billion a year—and that’s expected to double during the Sixties! MORE INCOME—Today’s $6,500 a family represents an all-time high! MORE JOBS—There are 15 million more jobs than in 1939—will be 22 million more by 1975! MORE EDUCATION—By 1970 we’ll have 20 million more high school graduates than today, and 3 million more college graduates. They’ll earn more, live better. MORE LEISURE--40 million Americans get paid vaca tions, and there are 16 million people over 65, many of them with retirement income to spend. MORE MARKETS—U. S. exports, plus output of U. S. owned plants overseas, already account for over $50 billion in sales! MORE NEEDS—Schools, hospitals, highways, homes— 1 DAY ONLY Newberry Fair Grounds OCTOBER • 4 & 8 P.M. SHOWS • Doors Open 3 & 7 P. M. SPONSORED BY NEWBERRY CO. SHRINE CLUB GLEAMING AND GLITTERING WITH GOLD AND WONDROUS SURPRISES FOR YOUNG AND OLD A TRIUMPH OF COLOSSAL ACHIEVEMENTS! 150 PERFORMERS ★ 200 WILD ANIMALS * CLYDE BEATTY* IN PERSON! BATTLING 20 LIONS AND BENGAL TIGERS * LANORMA ★ RADIANT STAR OF THE SWINGING, SWIRLING HIGH TRAPEZE Astounding GALLASO STANDS ON ONE FINGER CAPT. ASTRONAUT SHOT FROM A CANNON 220 FEET The World-Famous 4 PALUSTRES THRILLING SPANISH AERI ALISTS A BLOOD SWEATING HIPPOPOTAMUS — 15 ELEPHANTS $1,750,000 CAPITAL INVESTED — $8,500 DAILY EXPENSES TWICE DAILY 4 & 8 P.M, DOORS OPEN 3 7 P.M, A $1.90 TICKET ADMITS ADULTS 12 YEARS $1.00 RESERVED &. ADMISSION TICKETS ON SALE CIRCUS DAY AT CENTRAL DRUG STORE Happy-go-lucky budget making reminds me of an exper ience as a trustee of a college. The President submitted a budget to the Board, calling for $500,000—five hundred thousand dollars. He expected an income from receipts of $500,000. He recommended expenses—contracts with teach ers, among other contracts, and the total was $500,000. I offered the suggestion that the Board had no iron-clad guarantee of receiving $500,000, but was responsible for the authorized expenses of $500,000. I further advised that a safer course would be to leave room for a margin over and above expenses. The President couldn’t see that at all. President Kennedy is afflicted with the same blindness. Just ponder this: “We read that more people were hired by our federal gov ernment during the first five months of the present admin istration than in any comparable period since 1953. Scattered in every quarter of the globe, 2,435,806 civilian employees are drawing $1.1 billion a month, $13.2 billion a year, with a further increase of 3,000 to 5,000, perhaps more, by the end of the year. In Washington alone, 10,000 more jobs were created from February through June; all this has created a demand for more office buildings, more office space. Just think how much tax money could be saved if this huge force was reduced 10 percent per year, and how much more your taxes could be reduced if they went to work in private industry to help you pay the tax load.” There has been quite a bit of discussion of the tax situa tion in South Carolina. I venture to suggest that the first thing to recommend is that all businesses should be treated equally, meaning that all should be taxed on the same basis. Frankly I see no solu tion if any changes to be made should apply only to those who now pay taxes, leaving millions of dollars of income un taxed. As I see it, the present taxes are high and some taxes wholly unfair, such as the generation tax. But in all the dis cussion I fear that these matters will not be resolved and that those now operating exempt businesses will continue to enjoy exemption while those w r ho now pay will continue to carry the load. Equality before the law should mean equality of obliga tion as well as equality of opportunity. Every man enjoys the protection of the law and every man should pay his part. Likewise all enjoy the benefits which flow from our pub lic school system, so everyone should bear his appropriate part of the school cost. Mr. Wa, °r Regnery, in one of his sound and readable art icles in The T oanna Way, offers some timely bits of advice, which I quote: “The nation’s total tax bill has been mounting steadily. Taxes are now the number one item in family expenses. Food—traditionally the biggest item of family spending— is now far outstripped by taxes, according to the Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc. In 1960, the country’s tax bill was $112 billion, compared to a food bill of $75 1-2 billion. This reverses the situation of 1939, when the food bill was $15.7 billion and the tax bill came to only $12.4 billion—a figure which seems almost un believable today. Now the tax bill is at least 50 percent great- (The publisher assumes no responsibility for charges made against persons or organizations in the following letter.) Route 1 Martinsburg, W. V. October 6, 1961 Mrs. Doris A. Sanders THE SUN f 218 College Street. Newberry, S. C. Dear Doris: Let me say first of all that I enjoy your column and read it each week. Usually it is excellent. Your comments a couple weeks ago about Miss Gertrude Reader brought back many memories. Ordinarily the things you say are splendid. However, I was extremely disappointed with your column for September 28 and October 5. Both the direction of your attack and your method are disappointing. Were I a total strapger I would feel your own words best describe the au thor of those two columns: “ignorant to the point of stupid ity.” But having known you and respected you for many years I know this not to be the case. We are all human and all subject to error. 1 prefer to feel that in these two columns i j* you simply erred. Next to the Christian faith the freedoms we enjoy in this land are our most cherished possession. But one must be'res ponsible in his use of freedom. To make wholesale and un documented charges against a church—or any organiza tion—and its leadership is irresponsible use of one’s freedom. This is the sort of mistrust and suspicion in which Commun ism can breed and grow. In the area of the country in which I am presently living we are not under the affliction of the John Birch Society. So I cannot speak from personal experience of their methods and integrity. But minister friends of mine living in Texas tell me that their tactics are to spread malicious rumors and lies about the personal conduct of men with whom they hap pen to disagree, to twist the truth and words of these men into unrecognizable falsehoods, and even to make threaten ing phone calls to the individual, his wife and family. Per haps this fits in with your idea of Democracy. It certainly does not fit mine. The resolution introduced by Dr. Boggs, one of the finest and most sincere of our Presbyterian ministers, was intend ed to tell all the world that so far as the General Assembly knows there are no Communists within the clergy of our church. If there are our church is prepared to hear the char ges. Part of the genius of the Presbyterian Church is its system of ascending courts. Each minister is a member of a Presbytery. The Presbytery is the court responsible for trying him on any charge introduced against him, just as the session is the court responsible for the conduct of indivi dual church members. This resolution asks that anyone who can name a name and deliver evidence do so, and this will be turned over to the court having jurisdiction for investigation and trial. If unwilling or unable to meet this request people are expected to remain silent with their irresponsible char ges. The effect this resolution had was shown by the front page editorial in the Dallas paper the following morning, ridiculing the resolution and making more irresponsible charges, but giving no names and no evidence. The Lord himself has since silenced that “columtator.” Our local radio station inflicts this area with the program of that silvery tongued prevaricator, Dr. Carl McIntyre. He spends quite a bit of time talking about the Communist in filtration of our country. It is amazing the intelligent people who feel that because he professes to be an anti-Communist he tells the whole truth. His irresponsible charges, half- truths, statements out of context, etc., are sickening. All this he does in the name of anti-Communism. Another statement adopted by this same General Assem bly reads, “The technique of making false accusations, sow ing distrust, creating suspicion, circulating slanders, mani pulating words and using quotations out of context, and other distortions of facts is adopting the very methods of Communists.” (P. 108, Minutes Gen’l Assembly, 1961) This is what Dr. McIntyre and the John Birch Society do, and what I feel you have done in these two columns. By it used in the production of this film. In prfeting the picture of the pickets at the missile plant the Survey did not advocate this as the best or only form of Christiaik^wR 11688 * 11 #- It merely observed that these and many osiers consider this part of their Christian witness. I dare all of such picket lines put together have not slow ed dowif our missile program much as has one labor strike. As fo^ the statement on immigration, the Survey merely printed under the heading of “NEWS” a statement origin ing with the Religious News Service and printed in many. magazines and papers—both chu^ch^—and spcula^. No edi torial comment was made. I for*di>0 am gratefujypyttii'free from censorship a$d arotfree w&eadatiie even that part with which we ta • ;v. w ; • .v . The Article on a synod;^s|iB^Nnng the admisswjp^jfj Red China was .pot a synod of bur church. It was mbrny^Att item of news^caming from RNS and printed as such. One does not have\to,endorse every item of news he reads. I* we have ministers capable of writing excellent heritage as Presbyterians still reaches back to ly Loch and the polaris submarines have been neWs lately. It seems rather timely to give to ' lers some of thb^hinking of the Scottis)i clef- ibject. You only JggljBled part of “the minister's troubled world. ^Hcfniade this suggestioiyto the le in his congregation. It wasn’jy|pr'pidcet. It Cer f v, sermon Scot! much the Su gy on answe Chris was could In yj a mei seeks re, to pray, to i ir give at such a id editorial you a super-patriot loteAmerk ition answer pf course is noth! Communist-methods it rheri fri being group f The stoops to it pro- the. vw ^ fesses tq defend. The Comhiumsts themselves promise fr^g dom and peace—but their kind. That is what is disturbing about the John Birch Society and other Such groups which use these methods. " As for the Survey and the NAACP I can’t recall an article promoting the specific policies of the NAACP. That is, un less quoting our Lord or defining Christian love is what you mean by promoting and publicizing the policies of the NAA CP. If tb- 3 what you mean, then the Lord be praised for it. Perhaps I have sounded somewhat disturbed. If so, it is because I am. I am a minister in the Presbyterian Church, U. S. which I love dearly. The Presbyterian Survey is the of ficial magazine of my church and I feel is doing a splendid job. Many of those who work with it are my personal friends whom I know to be sincere. I cannot help but resent the ir responsible njanner in which you have cast reflection on me as a Presbyterian minister, and the church 1 love, and there by the Lord I serve. By so doing you have given aid and com fort to the cause of Comunism. This I regret. ' (Signed) Lamar F. Neville P.S. When I sat down to write I didn’t intend to be this leng thy. If you care to print this sq your readers can see the other sidef please do. All I Adk^is that you respect my con- victions and not lift statements out bf context. er than the food bill, and the difference is growing larger. “Out of every five dollars you spend at the grocery mark- creating an atmosphere of distrust and suspicion you have et, tax collectors take at least one dollar. This dollar goes for a variety of taxes, necessarily included in the end price, paid by the whole team of people who co-operated in bring ing food from farm to table. To list all these taxes fully, GMA says, would take a price tag the size of a barn door! Big government 'eats’ more of your money than you do. The New Frontiersmen like to spend everywhere—it ain’t all for national defense; don’t let them fool you. If you don’t like your money squandered, tell your Con gressman, Senator—even the President.” Mr. Regnery is not only a patriot but a manager of extra ordinary ability. He has the vision of a great manager and with vision ho nas the wisdom to handle affairs on the plane of meritorious practicality. The Joanna family is a notably happy and prosperous family. It is a family of fine people and they w r ork with a gen ius who knows his job and loves his people. Serving on a jury is one of the most responsible duties of citizenship. Sometimes w T e find men who really stultify them selves and prostitute the service. Sometime ago a suit for damages w^as brought in the Fed eral Court against a citizen of our State. It was a suit for damages, too often an excuse to fleece someone under the protection of the courts. Although the Judge told the jurors the case had no merit, the jury brought in a verdict for heavy damages. One of the jurors told a friend: “Oh, we knew the case wasn’t sound but the defendant was insured and the wrnman (plaintiff) needed the money.” What say you to that? Not justice, but an opportunity to hand out money. That is why so many cases are settled out of court. plowed the ground so that the seeds of Communism can be sow r n. Let me just run down your column making a few obser vations. The ministers of the church wdio are not in favor of capital punishment, among w T hom I am one, are neither preaching the Comunist line—w r hich certainly seems by all I read to practice capital punishment—nor trying to make a travesty of American justice. We are sincere men who feel that Christ has showm us a more excellent way. As for the Communist line advocating complete integra tion of the races I do not have a Communist handbook, so cannot speak for the Communists here. However, your use of the phrase here seems to indicate to me that you use the same tactics as many professed “anti-Communists.” That is, to call everyone with whom you disagree a Communist, and any statement with w r hich you disagree is part of the “Com munist line.” This, to say the least, is a rather undemocratic and w r eak method of trying to uphold one’s view’s. I have not seen “Operation Abolition,” but men whose op inions I respect seem to indicate that it tells something less than the whole truth. There is enough truth in Democwicy to commend itself without having to resort to the methods of the Communists themselves. The article on Page 22 of the May issue does not advocate “have all citizens become completely dependent on govern ment agencies for their every need,to assure a faster ap proach to a socialistic state.” It, rather, is an excellent arti cle pointing out w r ays a local church can make its aging citi zens happier. The “agencies” the article mentions are not li mited to government agencies, though some of these exist. The “facts” about “Operation Abolition” are available from the National Council of Churches w’hich is disturbed that an agency of our government will stoop to the distortion THANK YOU! 1 The management of the Newberry- Saluda County Fair wishes to ex press its appreciation to the people of this area for their wonderful sup port o fthe 1961 fair. We have made a record in every way, of which we are proud, thanks to you! 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