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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1962
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the State.
hi i M'O tiie Supreme Court of
tiir l niteu States, coneiuding a
ei.-ai content begun in the Dis-
i .r; ( ourt of t’ne Territory of Utah
in IbST, held that the National
government had ‘a perfect right
to prohibit pioiygamy and all other
i • Pei offences against the enlight-
er.ed sentiment of mankind, not-
V,.ihstanding the pretense of re-
: g ou.' convictions by which they
may he advocated and practiced!”
Let it be borne in mind that all
hie first ten Amendments are of
\ational effect and not binding
upon the States ...”
I Jocassee had news, but no word
j from Pumpkin Town.
I passed up the news from Lib
erty and Dacusville and scanned
Cateechee items, Mountain Grove
and Mountain View, but no word
from Pumpkin Town gladdened
the eye and invigorated the spirit,
though the gentle murmur of the
Oolinoy river soothes the sturdy
citizenry of Pumpkin Town.
Looki119 A. bead
/Si, *
...by Dr. George S. Benson
PRESIDENT—NATIONAL
EDUCATION PROGRAM
Searcy, Arkansas
COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
“In the name of the great Je
hovah and the Continental Con
gress”. Remember that? When we
first had lessons in American his
tory we heard of the early victor
ies of our American colonists ag
ainst the British. Ethan Allen de
manded the surrender of the pow
erful fortress of Ticonderoga
which had 200 cannon and stood
on guard between the valleys of
the St. Lawrence and the Hudson
rivers.
That surrender came just three
weeks after the battle of Lexing
ton in which the “embattled farm
ers fired the shots heard around
the world.”
“In the name of the great Je
hovah”. Our people of that time
believed in the “Maker of all
things, Judge of all men, in know
ledge of whom stands our eternal
life.”
When the delegates to the Con
stitutional Convention wavered
over the great document they had
prepared it was the majestic
Washington who said “Let us
raise a standard to which the wise
and the honest can repair; the
event (the result of the outcome)
is in the hand of God”.
In the Declaration of Indepen
dence we read: “In firm reliance
on the protection of Divine Prov
idence”.
Our people of Colonial times re
membered oppressive English laws
such as the Test act which requir
ed every one to swear to protect
and support the established church.
That was the reason for the First
amendment to our Constitution—
“Congress shall make no law res
pecting an establishment of re- j
ligion, or prohibiting the free ex-1
ercise thereof”.
Our Federal Supreme court in
citing this First amendment as the 1
reason for the ridiculous decision
about the school prayer plumed
the depths of presumption and ar
rogance, if not ignorance of the
law.
“The established church of Eng
land had been set up in several of
the Colonies and taxes were levied
for its support.
Madison and Jefferson had wag
ed (1784) a battle in Virginia
against the establishment, finally
securing the passage of a law de
claring that any interference by
the civil authority with religious
opinion is against natural right.
A clause like this failed of ad
option in the Constitutional Con
vention. As a number of the first
House of Representatives under the
new Constitution, Modison thought
up this Amendment. After the
house had adopted it the Senate
rejected it, but it was later rein
stated by that body.
When Madison became President
he vetoed (1811) a bill passed oy
Congress for incorporating a
church organization because he
held it contrary to this Amend
ment, and shortly thereafter he
vetoed another which would make
a gift of public lands to a church.
Before the Constitutional Con
vention sat several of the States
had nut in their Constitutions
clauses for religious freedom. All
of them have such clauses now.
The prohibition under considera
tion is against the Nation and not
The Press and Standard, that
very line County paper of Col
leton in an excellent account of
bringing of natural gas to Wal-
terboro, tells not only that this
service for Walterboro has cost
the South Carolina Electric and
Gas company more than a million
dollars, but quotes Mr. S. C. Mc-
Meekin, President of the great
company as saying that when all
the installations of the S. C. Elec
tric and Gas’ company are in oper
ation that company will pay to
Colleton county in taxes about
three hundred thousand dollars a
year. That is the most persuasive
and conclusive argument for pri
vate enterprise:—it pays taxes!
I’m disappointed; since a visit
to my brother’s home and clinic
a few miles from Pumpkin Town,
Pickens county, I’ve felt a keen
interest in Pumpkin Town and all
the vast, majestic encircling pan
orama of Pickens county.
Pickens county is the home of
two excellent newspapers: The
Easley Progress of Easley, which
I associate with a very capable
gentleman, the late J. D. W’yatt;
and the Pickens Sentinel, which
shows the accomplished touch of
Mrs. Gary Hiott.
These two excellent papers are
before me and I look in vain for
the political reactions in Pumpkin
Town. I read the news from Pet
er’s Creek and Glassy Mountain;
and then turned to reports from
Big Eastatoe and Midway to Con
cord. I then roamed about Cres
cent Hill, but no Pumpkin Town.
I learned that many of these
communities are church centers,
such as Blue Ridge and Seccna.
Mother Doesn’t Approve of Boyfriend
THE WEEK’S LETTER: “I am
writing to seek information and
a few facts about my problem. I
have a boyfriend who is actually
very nice and he is very hand
some also. My mother doesn’t
like him because of his parents.
His father is a drunk and his
mother isn’t much better. So,
mother doesn’t want me to asso
ciate with him. I have sought help
and advice from relatives, but
mother doesn’t agree with any
thing they say. My cousin has told
her several times not to judge a
person by his or her family or,
as the old saying goes, ‘never
judge a book by its cover.’ An
other boy lives up the street. He
likes me, but I don’t care for him.
Mother likes him a lot and she
thinks he is the best boy for me,
but I think she should let-me make
up my own mind.
OUR REPLY: Your mother
should, indeed, let you make up
your own mind ... yet she has an
obligation as a parent to give you
advice and guidance. She should
not select your future husband,
but it will be helpful if she ap
proves
We should not, of course, judge
an individual except on his or her
personal merits. Great men and
women have risen from a variety
of backgrounds. Nonetheless, this
boy you prefer has two strikes
against him. This does not mean
the situation is hopeless; it means
that he must put forth extra effort
to really prove himself. If your
judgment of this boy is accurate,
and your relatives seem to indi
cate that they think it reasonably
so, then he has “bested” his en
vironment rather than letting it
get the best of him. If so, he will
continue to “prove himself’ and
to offset the handicap of parents
whose reputation in the commu
nity is not outstanding.
Our advice is to “take it easy.”
Look at the problem from your
mother’s viewpoint. Try to con
vince her that this boy is really
the fine person you believe him to
be. And remember, your relatives
can be more lenient than your
mother—they are not as close to
the problem as she is, nor as
greatly concerned.
If you have a teenage problem yon
want to discuss, or an observation to
make, address yonr letter to FOB
and about teenagers, nation-
AL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERV
ICE, FRANKFORT, KT.
"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy
Uieu, and l will give you rest'” St. Matthew 11:23
'TpENSION is the key word
**■ in the description of our
environment.
It builds up within the indi
vidual as the pace of living in
creases; it builds within one in
making family, career and job
decisions; it mushrooms in pro
portion to our ego.
Eventually it may reach a
point that the individual ex
plodes in violence or collapses
in exhaustion.
One cannot live, however,
Without tension. Life is like a
violin string. There is no mu
sic without tension. The prob
lem is to achieve the proper
balance.
The church offers you the
moment to find this balance in
prayer, meditation and faith.
Read your BIBLE daily
and
GO TO CHURCH
SUNDAY
Communists leaders are power
fully helped by those who are
|| spending this nation into bank
ruptcy as well as those who are
frittering away our military
strength by advocating in a dozen
small fields throughout the world.
We are dividing our forces, mul
tiplying our obligations r’-d sap
ping our strength.
The place for our concentrated
strength in within the United
States; outside of our own land
we have no reliable allies; unfor
tunately even within our land our
leaders seem so world-minded that
in a moment of need we shall stand
| alone, if able to stand at all.
“In the summer of 1959, college
presidents, deans, editors, mem
bers of Congress, governors, law
yers, teachers and businessmen
gathered at the National War
College and heard lectures by 55
top experts. Deeply moved by what
they learned, many participants
felt urged to alert their own areas.
With the guidance of such organ
izations as the Institute for Am
erican Strategy, they organized
weekend strategy seminars for
which nearby Army posts made
available their dormitories and as
sembly halls.
In the last three years, more
than 50 of these forums have
brought together 60,000 persons
for intensive education about the
enemys methods and’ goals. In
rare instances .speakers have slip
ped off the track into intemperate
remarks—but this has happened
only because the discussions have
been carried on in such a frank
and free atmosphere.
The public’s understanding of
communism was further sharpen
ed by revelations made in Congres
sional committees. Defectors from
Russia’s intelligence system ap
peared before our legislators and
explained the Kremlin’s sordid
techniques of blackmail and mur
der. The Federal Bureau of In
vestigation unveiled the plans of
the U. S. Communist Party mem
bers, obeying Moscow orders, to
infiltrate and influence American
youth.
As a result of all this activity,
anti-communism developed into a
dynamic enlightened force in Am
erica—a movement so powerful
that Khruschev had to try to de
stroy it.
Evidence of the Kremlin’s con
cern was a meeting held in Mos
cow in late 1960. Eighty-one com
munists chieftains huddled for
close to a month, then issued a
startling manifesto which describ
ed the anti-communist movement
as ‘the principal ideological wea
pon’ of communist opponents and
called on communists around the
world to participate in ‘exposing
anti-communism.’
On January 6, 1961, Khruschev
summoned before him the elite of
Communism’s psychological-war
fare experts. He told them that
the rising anti-communist move
ment had to be destroyed and
stressed the ‘necessity of estab
lishing contacts with those circles
of the bourgeoisie which gravitate
toward pacifism.’ His most reveal
ing words: ‘W r e must use ‘prudent’
representatives of the bourgeoisie.’
Communist use of legitimate
liberals, conservatives and paci
fists should be a matter of con
cern, not blame. They are equally
victims of the devious mechanism
which 60 years of communist ex
perience have perfected for mov
ing the Party’s ideas deep into
free societies. This transmission
system functions through four
rings, which are ‘like ripples from
a stone dropped in water,’ as one
expert puts it. Ring One consists
of actual communist fronts linked
closely with the Kremlin. Ring
Two is made up of blind pacifists
and fuzzy intellectuals who occa
sionally aid Red aims. Ring Three
nears the mark that Moscow
wishes to hit, the ‘innocents’; re
spected citizens who have influen
tial connections but who are of
ten professional protesters and
crusaders, career ‘cause’ people
whose idealism is both genuine and
naive. Ring Four is compbsed of
opinion-makers: editorial writers,
news analysts, commentators,
preachers, editors, educators. The
ultimate objective of all this at
tention is the general public.
Isn’t it time we stopped such
senseless suppression of respons
ible education about Khruschev’s
plan to bury us? Unless the Am
erican people can realistically
analyze to gether this total com
munist threat, the Kremlin will
watch its plan to paralyze us suc
ceed, as we divide into a bitter
civil war of words that will wreck
our national unity. We must re
gain the real balance iieeded to
allow all citizens to study com
munist maneuvers and learn how
to cope with them.’”
RETURNS HOME
FROM HOSPITAL
Mrs. Carl Setzler, who has been
critically ill at Newberry County
Memorial Hospital, returned to
her home at 3241 College Street
Monday and is recuperating nice
ly.
Despite its bad showing in var
ious polls, as well as frequent re
jection in its own referendums, the
Department of Agriculture goes
on its merry way trying to find
' political solutions to our f a r m
J "problems,” many of which have
j been of its own making. Scandals
j continue to pile up as a result of
the ridiculous, bureaucratic super
structure already imposed upon
agriculture, but the Administra
tion is always sure the next con
gress will do something for the
farmer and pass its farm bill, thus
saving the farmer for sure. The
truth is that the American farmer
doesn’t want to be protected, cod
dled, babied, or bullied. Se wants
to manage his own affairs, which
he understands better than anyone
else.
Nobody .apparently, believes the
farmer when he says just that.
The latest Farm Journal poll, on
ly a little more decisive than a
similar finding some years back,
reveals again that more than half
the farmers want the government
out entirely. Only 4 pe.r cent of
the more than 50,000 who took
part in the voluntary poll favored
the measures in the legislation
that were pushed so hard by the
Administration and narrowly de
feated in the House. But the gov
ernment does not want to get out
of agriculture.
It’s Fighting To Get In
Although the poultrymen have
been in some trouble, with the gov
ernment talking about marketing
orders, they voted 70 per cent in
favor of getting the federal gov
ernment out of their business. Al
though a vote for controls would
have pushed upward the depressed
prices on the turkey market, the
nation’s turkey growers have re
jected controls in balloting that
must have stunned the Washing
ton planners. In short, the faim-
ers prefer freedom over regimen
tation.
These polls and referendums as
well as the recent defeat of the
Kennedy farm bill constitute a
strong message to the govern
ment that complicated tinkering
with production and marketing
creates more problems than it
solves. What our bumbling bureau
cracy and promising politicos
never seem to grasp it that people
know what they want. The nat
ion’s farmers believe this kind of
intervention erodes and finally
destroys freedom, and they are
quick to express their desire to
manage their own business and
'make their own decisions.
Market Rigging
The planners believe that the
government can rig the markets
for this or that commodity, so as
to control the economy piecemeal
and please everybody, even the
conflicting interests, fight off
recessions, and then get elected
again and again. But what t h q
planners do not notice, being
blind to such matters, is that free
dom takes a licking, the looters
and fast-buck boys have a field-
day, and the taxpayers have to
pick up the check. These planners,
you see, don’t mind a few doses
of State Socialism as long as it
is not called by that name.
While the Estes case is still
sizzling, other shenanigans are
coming to light in government
pricing programs. The illegal sale
of Federal rice planting quotas
was being investigated in Texas.
The General Accounting Office
was charging that private cotton
brokers, with the help of the
Department of Agriculture, sold
$400 million worth of government
cotton to themselves at below the
market price, then resold it and
pocketed the profits. Some fantas
tic lobbying among foreign and
domestic sugar producers was
being looked into, as a result of
Uncle Sam’s sweetening subsidies.
Big Opportunities
What do we have? We have the
government empowered to enter
markets that we usually consider
more or less free, for the express
purpose of rigging them. The De
partment of Agriculture, for ex
ample, employs more than 100,000
persons, spends $6 billion a year,
and gets in everybody’s business.
It is entrusted with stockpiles
worth some $8 billion. (One won
ders who’ll purchase Billie Sol’s
elevators for a song and then
whether taxpayers will have to
pay for hauling back the grain
that the Department so self-right-
eously removed from the Estes
bins.)
As long as we have big govern
ment reaching out to touch every
facet o* life, that long shall we
have opportunity for favors, pay
offs, abuses, and racketteering.
The party in power may try to
keep as clean as the proverbial
hound’s tooth, but the system will
not allow it. Add all the loss of
freedom, actual and potential, and
you have a situation inimical to
the American way of life. The
people do not want this. It is
high time Washington recognized
it.
Mrs. Robert Pryor and son
Greg of Warner Robins, Ga., are
visiting in the home of Mrs. Pry
or’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hayne
HOSPITAL
PATIENTS
N EWIIER RY CO U NTY
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Mrs. Toy Beatrice Amick, Rt. 1,
Prosperity
Chevis I. Boozer, Rt. 2
Mst. Michael Bostic, 1155 Leita
St.
Mrs. Aletha Bedenbaugh, Rt. 3
Mrs. Carrie Bedenbaugh, 27 G
Springhill Apt.
Mrs. Sadie Brinule and baby
boy, Rt. 1, Chappells
Harold Lee Cromer Sr Rt. 1
Leon Clark, 2218 Harper St.
Francis A. Dennis, 1103 Purcell
St.
Graham S. Dellinger, Rt. 1, Pu
ma ri a
Mrs. Lucia Duckett, 84 Glenn St.
Mrs. Louise Davis, 816 Pauline
St.
Miss Maude Lee Franklin, 1812
Milligan St.
Lang Euston Farr Sr., Little
Mountain
T. E. Fowler, Rt. 1
Mrs. Dos’ C. Hitchcock, 120
S. Edge wo Jr.. Stateburg, Ga.
Mrs. Jove Johnson and baby boy,
Rt. 1
James E. Kibler. Prosperity
Mrs. Genell Lambert, 103 Blu-
ford Lxt.. Clinton
Mrs. Ruby S. Longshore, 1531
Calhoun St.
John Lee, Rt. 2. Clinton
Mrs. Julia Lake, 2900 Milwood
Ave., Columbia
Mrs. Nettie B. Lester, 1225 Hunt
Mrs. Darlene Ringer, Rt. 1, Po-
maria.
Silas O. Bundrick, 1403 Trent
St.
Guy T. Nichols, Rt. 1, Saluda
Addie Wheeler Baxter and baby
girl, Rt. 4
Lillie Mae Chaplin, 2537 Johnson
St.
Helen Chapin, 638 Hill St.
Dorothy Wilson and baby girl,
211 Hardeman St.
Nathan Dawkins, Rt. 2, Whit
mire
St.
Lawton S. Long, Hampton
M iss Mildred Miller, Batesburg.
Louis Morris, 2012 Main St.
Mrs. Della Parrott, Rt. 1
Mrs. Mary Rinehart, 68 Glenn
St.
John Earl Smith Jr., Rt. 1, Kin-
ards
Mrs. Bertha Mae Wicker, 2033
Piedmont St.
Joe R. Wheeler, Rt. 5, Saluda
Mrs. Annie R. Corder, Ethridge
St., Batesburg.
Mrs. Winifred Jacobs, 770 Pope
St.
Mrs. Luvenia Beck, 207 Glenn
St.
Mary Alice Harmon, Rt. 2
Baby boy Henderson, Rt. 4
Polly Raye, Route 4
Mary Shelton, Rt. 4.
FT. BRAGG, N. C. (AHTNC)—
Cadet John W. Cooper, 22, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Luther G. Cooper,
1800 College St., completed six
weeks of training at the Reserve
Officer Training Corps (ROTC)
sumer camp at Fort Bragg, N. C.
Cadet Cooper is active in the
ROTC program at Clemson Agri
cultural College.
He was graduated from Elloree
High School in 1957.
: OR AND ABOUT TEENAGtRS
By C. D. Smith
Every Girl Wants To Be Popular
•••Vis*
THE WEEK’S LETTER: I hope
you can help me with my prob
lems. 1.) Should beer be served
at a party with boys 16-17-18 and
girls 15-16-17? Maybe I can con
vince my parents with your help.
I have not approached them with
the subject. 2.) How does a girl
get to be popular? lam popular,
but in the wrong way. (Every
date I go on I hear it a week later
by a boy who is a very good
friend. Also, I hear his view on
the subject. I ask him how he
knows and he says it is all over
schooL I go to an all-girl school.
he goes to a public high school
with most of the boys I go out
with.) 3.) I go to quite a few
dances with and without dates.
This has not happened but there is
always a first time. What if it’s
“ladies’ choice” and you ask a
boy to dance and he gives some
silly excuse—what is a real sharp
answer to throw back at him if
he’s in a crowd and starts laugh
ing (it happened to my girlfriend
and I was very annoyed at them
for it because she is shy.)”
OUR REPLY: Beer, nor any
other alcoholic beverage should
not be served at a party attended
by 15 to 18 year old boys and girls.
We don’t know about the laws in
your state, but in many cities
across the land you can go to jail
for making beer or any other alco
holic beverage available to any
one under 18 years of age. You
do not need beer to make a party
a success—and if you follow a
crowd that believes in “drinking,”
you are most likely headed for
trouble.
Girls have the reputation for
being "talkers,” but boys talk just
as much, especially about girls.
A girl becomes popular by mak
ing the boys say the right kind of
things about her. What are the
right things? “She is friendly, in
telligent, a good dancer, fun on
a date—and she’s a ‘lady’ and
lets you know it.”
There is no one “sharp” remark
that would take care of any situa
tion. The best thing a girl can do
is maintain her composure and
shrug it off with some remark
such as, “I am sorry. Someone
told me that you could dance.”
If you h»ve a teenage preblem yea
want to disc ms, or an observation to
make, address year letter to FOR
AND ABOUT TEENAGERS, NATION
AL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERV
ICE. FRANKFORT. KY.
SEVEN THINGS every
family should have
I- A DOCTOR ... A physician who is thoroughly familiar with the
family's medical history may save your life, or that of a loved one.
2. A CLERGYMAN . . . Young and old, there are times in our lives
when we need spiritual guidance and comfort.
3. AN INSURED SAVINGS ACCOUNT . . . Saving is the shortest
path between wanting and having. Whenever you need money for
something special, it's mighty nice to have it in your INSURED SAV
INGS ACCOUNT.
4. A SOUND INSURANCE PROGRAM . . . You need insurance pro
tection on the V'e of each member of the family; on your home; on
your car; your furniture and your health.
5. A LONG RANGE PLAN TO OWN YOUR HOME .. . Every couple
would like to start married life with a home of their own. Wishing
won't do it, you must save a regular amount each month from your
income for the down payment—we will do the rest.
6. A HOUSEHOLD INVENTORY . . . Most families are richer than
they think. Make a list of the things in your home, itemize each item
and you will be surprised at the value. This list is especially val
uable in case you have a fire.
7. A RECORD OF VITAL INFORMATION ... It is necessary that
every person know the exact location of his will, his life insurance
policies, deeds, bank books and all other documents relating to his
financial status.
PER
A ANNUM
1880 COLLBOB 8TBBBT, MBWBBRRY, 0. C.
Directors
J. F. CLARKSON G. K. DOMINICK . B. B. PURCELL
M. a SUMMER J. K. WILLINGHAM W. C. HUFFMAN
BRANCH OFFICE — Bafetburg, S.C.