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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—
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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
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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
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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
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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
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