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I am a Rob ert Taft, Goldwater, Thurmond, Byrd, Tower, Alger, Utt, Rousse- lot, General Mac Arthur, Walker brand of extremist. 1 even still be lieve that the Constitution of the United States is the greatest freedom document ever devised by man. 1 disagree with middle-of- the-roader Fulbright, who would scrap our “out-dated” agrarian Constitution, give more power to the President and most of our sov ereignty to the United Nations. But I’m not so extreme that I think Fulbright should be defeated —he should be impeached. Middle-of-the;roadism is for mid dling people, like Dwight Eisen hower. I most certainly do not a- gree that Eisenhower was ever a conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy. I don’t think he was capable of any intrigue off the golf course. On receiving the Order of Vic tory from Marshall Gregory K. Zhukov at Frankfort on the Main, Germany, June 10, 1945, middle- -of-the-roader Eisenhower said: “That means peace. Speaking for the Allied Forces, I say we are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. “On two occasions now I have had the great honor of meeting high officials of the Soviet Gov ernment. It is my feeling that in the basic desires of ail of us they are one with us. Regardless of the methods by which we arrive at that goal, that is what we are struggling for.” At a Moscow press conference August 14, 1945, Eisenhower said: “I see nothing in the future that would prevent Russia and the United States from being the clos est friends.” General Eisenhower, before he was elected President, was so mid- dle-of-the-roadish, objective, and fairminded he didn’t know what church or what political party, among other things and people, he belonged to. He was one of those who kept General Patton from tak ing Berlin, doubtless because Eis enhower didn’t know whom it be longed to either. General Douglas MacArthur has said: “There can be no compromise with Atheistic Communism — no halfway in the preservation of freedom and religion. It must be all or nothing.” Many people worship, not prin ciple, but the middle-of-the-road wherever it is. A middle-of-the- roader is one who has no principles he’ll stand up for. Pontius Pilate was a middle-of-the-roader. He didn’t dare make the decision to crucify Christ. He let the mob de cide—the “democratic” thing to do. The Leftists and middle-of-the- roaders claim the “super-patriots” are “dividing and confusing” the American people and diverting at tention from the “real menace of critical Communist gains in Asia, Africa and Latin America.” Who caused the Communist gains, from within and from without? Let’s look at the score. Domestically and internationally, who brought us to our present perilous position ? Roosevelt, Hopkins, Truman, \che- son, Eisenhower, Warren, and their “middle-of-the-road” ilk. It certainly wasn’t the “rightist” fa natics Taft, MacArthur, Byrd, Thurmond, Alger, Utt, Goldwater. Our problem is not Communists hiding under the beds. Our prob lem is the errand boys for the Com- ■ munists, standing behind micro phones and sitting behind desks. Our problem is not how many Communists there are, but where they are. Communists don’t take nation? with numbers. No people have ever voted for Communism in a free election. The Communist mass is not the menace. The menace is the fanati cal few. In all the world there are less than 20 million Communists— ruthless, power-mad tyrants who have enslaved nearly 900 million people. This relatively small group of organized evil is enslaving the world by subversion with the help of do-gooders, fatheads, and fools _ in high places. There are very few Communists in America. I believe our F.B.I. not only knows nearly every one of them, but knows where they went last night. We Will never have to be concerned with out-voting the Communists in America. Nor will any other coun try. Communists don’t take over by voting. They take ver by get ting the Liberals, Soci. : Jts, paci fists, and halfbrights to ^rry out their programs. In the past few months ”r middle-of - the - readers approved and financed the United Nations’ attacks on the anti-Communist government of Katanga; trained Communist Yugoslav a.rmen at a Texas air base so that they could fly jet planes we are giving them; failed to lift a finger to help Tru jillo’s anti-Communist Dominican government, ■which may be taken over by Communists, from with in; “received”, entertained and promised foreign aid (by the President and State Department) to Dr. Cheddi Jagan, the pro-Com- munist minister of British Guiana; slapped the face of the anti-Com munist government of South Af rica, in the U.N.; kicked in the shins the anti-Communist Portu guese; maneuvered to admit Rus sia’s Outer Mongolia to the UN..; planned to give nuclear reactors to Communist Czechslovakia and Yugoslavia; sent Under-Secretary of State “Soapy” Williams to con ferences in Tunisia with the pro- Communist Algerian rebel govern ment. The middle-of-the-roaders, for merly known as the Lunatic Left, are not only not patriotic,, they’re anti-patriotism. The one-world bubbleheads are not merely So cialists, they’re violently anti capitalist. Captitalism, and the Constitution, are old hat, say the New Frontiersmen. The way the modern Republicans and New Frontiersmen propose to beat Communism is with middle-of-the- road Socialism. The middle-of-the- road has been moving to the left for 25 years. Three and a half months before Killer Khruschev visited the U.S. he said: We cannot expect the Americans to jump from Capital ism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of Socialism until they suddenly a- wake to find they have Commun ism.” We won’t have Communism here unless we have Socialism first. The way to beat Communism is to beat Socialism. The way to beat Socialism is to beat the So cialists in our government. The rapidly growing “National In dignation Conventions” have be come nationwide. This grassroots movement, which was started as a result of the revelation that the U.S. Air Force was training Com munist pilots for Yugoslavia, is proof that ths moral indignation of the American people is being awakened. Our representatives in Washington cannot long ignore the strength of the movement. • i- Recent Births Recent arrivals at Newberry County Memorial Hospital: Melanie Joyce, six pound, seven ounce daughter, born Jan. 14 to Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Henry Smith, 1109 Fair St. Mrs. Smith is the former Bobbie Joyce Ro land. Linda, seven pound, 12 ounce daughter born Jam 15 to Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Turner, Rt. 4. Mrs. Turner is the former Dorothy Dean Smith. Karen Kay, seven pound, one ounce daughter born Jan. 17 to Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Eugene Merchant, 412 Green St. Mrs. Merchant is the former Mary Frances Bartley. Maurice Grant, seven pound, 14 ounce son born Jan. 18 to Mr. and Mrs. John Patrick Griffith, Po rn aria. Mrs. Griffith is the for mer Miss Priscilla Anne Grant. Allen Wayne, seven pound, four ounce son born Jan. 19 to Mr. and Mrs. Lester Leroy Freeman, kl. 1, Batesburg. Mrs. Freeman is the former Letha Allen. William Porter, eight pound, 14 ounce son born Jan. 19 to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Porter Vereen, Rt. 2. Mrs. \ ereen is the former Jessie Lee Cockrell. Alison, five pound, 12 ounce baby born Jan. 19 to Mr. and Mrs. Brabham Martin Hester, 2801 Clyde Ave. Mrs. Hester is the for mer Beverly Anne Johnson. John Jesse, five pound, one ounce son born Jan. 19 to Mr. and Mrs. John Edward Taylor Jr., Rt. 1* Mrs. Taylor is the former Syl via Catherine Bush. MOTES : MANION : : FORUM | There is no such thing as an “internal vs. external” threat to the United States from Commun ism. The threat to this country from within and from without is a completely unified and carefully co-ordinatsd assault upon the en tire world. Communist tactics, strategy and objectives for each and all of the areas of the earth are carefully tailored in Russia to fit into the grand design for an ultimate and absolute Commu nist dictatorship over everything and everybody everywhere. This is the fundamental fact about Communist operations. It nas been fully documented by all of the studies of the Communist conspiracy that have been made public. It has been verified in the experience of Herbert Philbrick and of everybody else who has been deep inside the Red appara tus and who has later emerged to tell his or her story to the world. Nevertheless, it is the same bas ic fact which those who have man aged our war against Communism have refused for 20 years to ac knowledge and act upon. During our long series of expensive enga gements with the Reds on widely separated battlefields, the Com munists have expended their slave empire from the borders of Czar- ist Russia to an area equal to about half of the earth’s surface. No conquest in history has ever moved so far so fast and yet dur ing this entire period there was never a time when the military power and the economic resour ces of the anti-Communist world were not many times greater than those of the enemy. More money has been spent by the United States in the course of our retreat before the advance of Communism than it cost to win complete and total military victory in World W’ar II. The time has come for Ameri can citizens to ask our top man agement a few basic questions. First, Just what is our govern ment going to do about the war the Communist are waging against us ? Are we trying to win ? ? The second question is, Are we deliberately trying to lose? We may draw our own conclusions from the progressive deteriora tion our our moral, material and military positions in, the many areas of our conflict with the enemy. We should have known 20 years a^u that it is sheel perversity not to acknowledge that the strategy of reaction to Communist action is made to order by the enemy to insure our continuous defeat and our ultimate collapse. The react ionary, defensive policy has been called the “strategy of crisis.” It works this way: when the Communists have completed plans to advance in the east they make a loud noise in the West. We promptly mobilize all our diplo matic and economic resources to meet this new “crisis” in the west and we count ourselves fortunate when we give the Reds something less at that point than they first demanded. The Kremlin is there upon praised for “moderation” and we award ourselves laurels for “flexibility” and the stage is cleared for the next “crisis.” But while all this has been go ing on with world attention riveted upon the “crisis” in the West, the planned Communist penetration in the East has been quietly complet ed. Lnder ^hese established ground rules, the Reds are free to boil up all kir s of trouble in Venezuela, Angola or South Vietnam but we are restrained from exploiting the hatred of tk Last German people for the Soviu puppets who call themselves the East German gov ernment. This humiliating self-defeating policy of retreat before the bluff, blackmail and ridicule of the Com munist command was spawned in the degrading illicit love affair that now goes on between the Uni ted Nations Organization and the American State department. For instance, in December 1960, the Lmted States declined to vote on a I N resolution that urged im mediate steps to grant full inde pendence to all African colonial areas whether they were ready for self-government or not. Three months later, on March 15, 1961, the Communist in Angola touched off large scale violence timed to influence UN debate that day on the demand that Portugal be made to abide by the December resolu tion. While frenzied mobs swept mto Angola butchering men, wo men and children, white and black Adlai Stevenson voted with the Soviets to reprimand our NATO ally, Portugal. Our commitments to the UN blocked our military plans to pre- By COUNTY AGENTS Hog Production Meeting Newberry County farmers are becoming more and more aware that growing hogs can be a profit able farm enterprise. This is good because more and more of our countys agriculture is based on a livestock economy. For many years hogs have been called the “mortgage-lifters” of the farm. Now we believe they can be more aptly called “profit mak ers” for many more of our farm ers. Here’s why: We still grow lots of grain including corn, small grains and milo in Newberry County. The price of purchased feed for hog rations remains at a favorable level. Also the amount of investment required for hog production is not as great as for most other farming enterprises, and last but not least, there are ready markets locally for both, market hogs and feeder pigs. Because it appears that hog pro duction offers a good profit oppor tunity to our farmers, we have scheduled a meeting on Hog Pro duction and Management Practices to be held next Thursday evening, February 1st. The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the Ag riculture Building here in Newber ry. Several of our livestock spec ialists from Clemson College will be on hand to discuss more fully the various aspects of hog pro duction and management. All Newberry County farmers who are interested in hog production are urged to attend. Farm Management Meetings Farmers will need to plan and organize their business in order to cope with the changing conditions both today and in the future. Agriculture has undergone great change during the past 20 years. Farming has changed from a way of life to a highly technical busi ness. Science is constantly bring ing new research findings to the farm that results in increased production. In recent years, farm production has outrun consump tion. Fewer resources, particularly labor, are needed to produce the farm products to feed and clothe our nation. A modern up-to-date farmer now produces enough for himself and over 25 other people, more than twice that of 20 years ago. Change is taking place all around us that requires changes by farmers if they are to stay in the farming game. It is expensive to farm to day. It takes a lot of money and the risks are great. It is easy to go broke farming today. All these things add up to the fact that farming today is a complicated business. Thus we firmly believe that farmers more than ever be fore must apply those proven business principles to farming in order to stay ahead in such a sit uation. In order to help our farmers do just that, we have scheduled a se ries of Farm Management meet ings to begin on February 8th. One meeting will be held each week for a total of four or possib ly five meetings. Subjects to be covered will include, “The Import ance and Uses of Farm Records”, “Balancing the Farm Operation”, “Efficiency and Future Profits in Farming”, “Income-Tax Manage ment for the Farm” and “Wise Use of Credit in Farming.” We sincerely hope many of our farm ers will take advantage of this opportunity to improve their man agement “know-how” through these meetings. The complete schedule of meetings will be given at the first meeting on the 8th. Plan to attend! Beef Bull Sale Need a new beef bull? Then be sure to plan to attend the First South Carolina all breed bull sale to be held at the Orangeburg County Fairgrounds on February 20th. Seventy-five top quality bulls have been selected by a spec ial committee composed of Lewis Cato and John Wise of Clemson and Bill Miller of the Hereford Association. Bulls to be offered for sale include Angus, Horned Here ford, Polled Herefords, Santa Ger- trudis and Shorthorn. This will be the largest offering of bulls ever assembled in South Carolina. This sale should offer livestock producers the opportunity to ob tain a good bull to improve the grade and quality of their calves. Let us know if £ you’re interested in attending this sale. Livestock Mechanization Meeting Livestock mechanization will be featured in a big 2-day event dis playing latest machinery and feed ing system layouts at the Orange burg County Fairgrounds Febru ary 27th and 28th. M. C. McKenzie, Extension Ag-1 ricultural Engineer and chairmen of the exhibits committee for the South Carolina Farm Electrifica tion Council, says many of the na tion’s leading manufacturers of feed processing and handling equipment are planning to display their latest machinery. A similar event held in Georgia recently at tracted 15,000 persons, he said. McKenzie says, “Beef Cattle producers, dairymen, poultry and Log producers will be interested in seeing the many advanced sys tems of machines for more effi cient and more sanitary livestock production. Mechanized, and in some cases fully automatic, sys tems for feeding processing and handling as well as improved methods for more sanitary hand ling of animal products and wastes will be featured.” Discussion panels on the plan ning and operation of successful livestock proauction systems will be presented by the Clemson Col lege research staff, eommerciai specialists and farmers presently using such systems. The State Farm Electrification Council, which is made up of offi cials of private and cooperative electric power organizations, edu cational agencies, municipalities, manufacturers and distributors of electrical equipment, is headed by E. B. Rogers of the Agricultural Engineering Department, Clemson. Permits To Build Jan. 22: Frank N. Cousins, gen eral repairs to dwelling, 97 Cald well St., $6000. Mrs. Gruber, 81, Rites Tuesday Mrs. Daisy H. Gruber, 81, wi dow of Noah Drayton Gruber, died Saturday night at the winter home of her daughter, Mrs. Lu cille G. Hume, of Neptune Beach, Fla., after a short illness. Mrs. Gruber was born in New berry County, the daughter of the late Newton Thomas and Susan Darby Hogge. She was a member of the First Baptist Ilyirch. Surviving are two Mrs. Lucile G. Hume of Ni Beach, Fla., and Mrs. Mi Cogburn of Atlantic Beach, and two sisters, Mrs. Willie Hitt and Mr** Eugenia Mayfield, both of Newberry. Funeral services were conduct ed at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Hume on the Country Club Road by the Rev. C. O. Lamoreux. Interment was in Rosemont Cemetery. Active pallbearers were Jim Park, BucK Minick, Bill Dominick, Sam Beam, Henry Anderson, Her man Langford. ——a. — vent Castro’s conquest of Cubt, and prevented air and sea support for the unfortunate Cuban invas ion. Now the UN is preparing to superintend the disarmament of this country so that the Utopian plan to have the UN military force the only one left on earth will be effected. If this happens, this country will be as helpless as Ka tanga now is. The remedy is that we should get us out of this evil association now, as soon as Con gress convenes. When such a reso lution is introduced, tell your con gressman to support it. WASHINGTON AND SMALL BUSINESS By C. WHS ON HARDER If the wheat farmers of the United States for a whole year neither planted a single xcre, nor harvested a single acre, there would still be in govern ment storage an amount of wheat more than the entire crop for any year, with the ex ception of three bumper crop years, in the past thirty years. * * * That is Just one of the startling facts brought out in the report issued by the Joint Com mittee on Re duct i o n of Non - Essen tial Federal Expenditures c# w . Harder headed by Senator Harry Byrd. * * * As of July 31, altogether the government had in stockpiles materials with a total acquisi tion cost of $14% billion dollars. * * * By far the largest share of this stockpile total is in sur plus farm products, including items as honey, peanuts, grains, dairy products, cotton. * » * During the fiscal year end ing on July 31, it had cost the taxpayers almost a half billion dollars for storage costs alone. * * ♦ Thus, the taxpayers in one year had invested for them $6 billion in surplus farm prod ucts, much of which is already spoiled from prolonged storage. * * * While $6 billion may sound quite small alongside of other figures, it is equal to almost 15% of the total of $41 billion that was withheld in 1960 from ^ Nsfinrul FV ’ rsMon of Ir.ieuer.dent Business employees pay checks for in come and social security taxes. It is equal to almost one-third the entire income tax paid by corporations. » * * Or to state it in another way, this amount is almost equal to all federal tax collections fr jm all tax sources for the Boston region which takes in all of New England. *00 There is enough butter in storage to give every U. S. household over four pounds. ooo There is enough dried milk that represented before drying, sufficient gallonage to give every household 15 quarts. * a * Obviously, there is no possi bility of these surpluses being converted into cash. In fact, with each succeeding year, the amount of stored surplus farm products increases, thus in creasing annual storage bill. * * * Throwing the surpluses on the open market at whatever price they could bring would also o v ’ousiy wreck both the nation’^ larms and many busi ness operations. * * * Yet every dime taken from the paycheck of every person in the entire state of Oregon, for example, for income and social security taxes, goes to pay for storage alone. * * * Thus, it appears It would be far better to burn the surpluses now and at least get rid of the storage costs. As it is now it is worse than throwing good mon ey after bad. It is more like throwing good money on sur pluses going bad. SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE ‘Integrate’ Right With Left ONE OF THE big questions which usually crops up in po litical discussions is how Presi dent Kennedy can enjoy such high popularity ratings in the opinion polls and yet his legis lative proposals and executive actions lag behind. The answer lies in the fact that the Presi dent and his family have cap tured the hearts of most Amer icans, but his programs have not The President is a man of many admirable qualities, and his personal charm and appear ance make him quite an attrac tive personality. WHILE President Kennedy’s policies are based more on hi? own personal decisions than were President Eisenhower’s policies based on Eisenhower’s personal decisions, the Presi dent’s advisers are dominated by shades of opinion to the left of center, differing only in de gree. Unfortunately, the Presi dent doesn’t get the well-rounded viewpoints so important in mak ing sound judgments in this critical period of history. IN A RECENT series of arti cles, The Los Angeles Times pointed out that there are ap proximately 37 members of Americans for Democratic Ac tion in key positions in the Ad ministration. This number does not include more officials who share the ADA radical outlook but who have not joined ADA for various reasons. The ADA has a socialist-oriented view point on domestic matters and leads the field in pushing for adoption of soft, appeasement policies in foreign affairs. It has less than 50,000 members, but wields a tragically dispro portionate power in national political affairs. While a Sen ator, the President refused to join ADA because “I’m not comfortable with those people.” THERE ARE seme in the Ad ministration who fight f>r a hard line in foreign policy, but they are sadly outnumbered as has been indicated by decisions on Cuba, Berlin and other hot spots. On defense, however, the President evidently is getting good advice. He himself is a strong believer in maintaining a defense force “second to none.” ON THE domestic front, I am not aware of many Admin istration advocates of soun!, conservative fiscal policies or defenders of the rights of State and local governments. In his State of the Union message, the President proposed aid — an 1 with aid must go a measure cf control — for practically every aspect of life. He said we must provide for the future of our young people. My talks to and with young people in the past few years convince me, how ever, that most of our young people are more concerned with preserving opportunity, liberty, and fiscal integrity. They are beginning to resent their elders living off their sustenance by government credit card. Also, many wonder where the money would come from, if they should be called on to fight a hot war. SENATOR BYRD (D-Va.) has revealed that the President and his advisers are having to ask for a 10-billion-dollar in crease in the national debt limit to $308 billion to enable our government to pay its bills. The Senator has promised the people an investigation of our deteriorating financial position, which is certain to worsen if the President gets his legisla tive way on the many costly programs he has requested. CHIEF WHITE House Aide Ted Sorenson remarked on a TV program recently that the President is reading more criti cism of his policies and enjoying it less. He could remedy this if he would “integrate” his Ad ministration with some “right- wing extremists” to effect some semblance of “equality” with his “left-wing extremists.” Sincerely, ifcuMVL- ‘t&juLnsroJOrnd. . m • A 'LglLjl ■n *■ %■■■ • * r~ ’ ‘V. -’iL-f'-vj rest <§||P n, P&4 (Not printed at gvvern.uent expense) Auditor’s 1962 Tax Assessment Notice Returns of personal property, real property, new build ings and real estate transfers, and poll tax are to be made at the County Auditor's Office beginning: JANUARY 2nd, 1962 through FEBRUARY 28ih, I &2 All able-bodied male citizens between the ages of twen ty-one and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax. All returns are to be made by Tax Districts. Your fail ure to make return calls for penalty as prescribed by law. RALPH B. BLACK, Auditor Newberry County / >.4 «£ M Notice At the close of business on January 31,1962 A 2 per cent PENALTY will be added to all f unpaid 1961 State and County TAXES J. Ray Dawins, Treasurer.