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PAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1962 FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS By C. D. Smith Do Parents Teach Children Enough? THE WEEK’S LETTER: “Why don’t parents teach teenagers some of the things I read in your column? For example, the article about what girls would do about “bothersome’’ boys was quite in teresting. Teenagers aren’t al lowed to drink beer (in this State, they must be 21) but are per mitted to become parents at 16. Why? OUR REPLY: Most parents do teach their children the things they should know. Some do not do it effectively, or thoroughly. Often, there is difficulty because of what we might term “poor communications.” Teenagers don’t take problems to their par ents the way they should; parents are not always ready to listen. They say, “See me later’’ or “We’ll talk about it tomorrow’’— and that’s the end of it. There are a few parents who just don’t want to be bothered. They are concerned with their own activities and don’t have time to worry about their children. The kids can date all they want; stay out late; ignore studies, bring home poor grades — so long as they do nothing to inconvenience their parents or put them in an uncomfortable position. This situ ation is prevalent in “broken homes’’ where there is but one parent, because of the tragedy of death or the tragedy of divorce. Parents who exercise no con trol over their children make it extremely difficult for parents who /ire trying to raise their chil dren properly. How many times do parents hear something like this? “Well, Susie’s folks let her date every night and she’s not even sixteen!” Every State has a law which sets a minimum age requirement for the purchase of any kind of alcoholic beverages. But a law is not enough in itself. Our bet is that you personally know teen agers who drink beer despite the law. They were not taught proper respect for this particular law ... or made to understand it is wrong for children to drink at all. If 7*a h»T« m teenar* problem yea waat to Sloe ass or aa observation to make, address year letter to FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS, NATION* AL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERV ICE. FRANKFORT. KY. Original wood engraving by B. Bruaaal-SmiUi A Time To Remember Who We Are Let us be grateful for our heritage. For a little pride is the wellspring of courage. Let us endure unflinchingly whatever sacrifices we are called upon to make to defend our free institutions from the night of communism, which is bent on undermining our faith in ourselves. Let us rely not only on the gold in our vaults, but the iron in our blood. And let us cling like ivy to the faith of our fathers until, in God's good time, all men are free. CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE 4 y/ per /O ANNUM (Compounded Semi-Annually) & AvjjvGS and Loan Association A SAVINGS fNSTITUTlON FOUNDED 1935 1»8B COZ.X.BGS BTBBBT, MBWBBHRY, »- O. J. F. CLARKSON M. O. SUMMER DIRECTORS G. K. DOMINICK E. B. PURCELL J. K. WILLINGHAM W. C. HUFFMAN BRANCH OFFICE — Bafesburg, S. C. Dean Manion MANION FORUM Blackmail is the worst kind of criminal extortion. The chance for successful blackmail is predicated upon the cal culated weakness of the victim rather than upon the strength of the criminal who practices it. The most notorious blackmailer of modern times is Nikita Khrushchev. Brazenly, he and the criminal Communuist conspiracy have bluffed their way into undisputed control of the world by waving the threat of nuclear war as the in evitable alternative to our continued compliance with his regular ever increasing demands upon the United States and the steadily shrinking remnant of the Free World. When Khrushchev puts his nuclear blackmail devices into our plain view in Cuba so we could look at them while he made his demands upon us at Berlin, in Korea, the Formosa Straits, South Vietnam and the Panama Canal, this was pure blackmail, but he stepped back from these visible Cuban bases upon our promise that his Communist bastion in Cuba would not be invaded and liberated. For more than 25 years we have been paying blackmail to the Communists beginning with the diplomatic recogni tion of the Kremlin in 1933. This countinued to the tune of more than 11 billion dollars during World War II when Stalin threatened to make separate peace with Hitler. At Yalta, in order to get the Communists into the United Nations, we agreed that Soviet Russia would have three votes to our one, and because of Stalin’s threats, Poland’s freedom and independence were betrayed at that Yalta meeting. From then until now the constant threat of war with the Soviets and our determination to avoid that war has ex torted a sustained stream of concessions to the oppressed people all over the world. This fatuous fawning upon the blitzed and battered Soviet Union by the United States, strongest military power in the world at the time of the Yalta meeting, and the only power that had a complete monopoly on the atomic bomb, surpasses all understanding. Stalin had no illusions about the possibilities of the U. N. but he shrewdly seized upon our President’s devotion to it as a club which he used to blackmail the President out of everything the Reds wanted at the war’s end. For instance, under the Yalta agreement, General Eisenhower handed over to the Soviet police more than two million anti-Cornmun- ist Ukranians, Ruthenians, Balts, Poles, Hungarians and others who had fled from Russian-occupied territory. A discerning reporter in these post war years observed: “Self-deception is a dreadful disease. Even when the victim recovers his sanity he cannot prove it without confessing that he has been a fool.” It would be the part of wisdom at long last to confess that we were fools to give Eastern Europe to Soviet Russia and the write the Soviets into Far Eastern war when Japan was already defeated and had approached, among others, the Soviet Government itself to mediate a peace with the United States. We were fools to fall for Mao Tse-tung’s “agarian reform” and side with t he Chinese Communists against our ally Chaing Kai-shek. We were fools to call off our impending victory in the Korean war and miss the opportunity to liberate China with the aid of Chiang Kai-shek merely because we feared a possible collision with Soviet Russia. We have been fools to expect fruitful agreements to result from negotiations with Communist gangsters who lack the moral capacity to make binding contracts and who engage in diplomatic contacts with us merely to create an internat ional image of respectability, to establish any bases in free territory and to convince their tortured subjects that by this official recognition of their Communist masters we have abandoned them to perpetual slavery. We are at war with this sinister conspiracy. Every Com munist today must be considered our enemy, wherever he may be, at home or abroad. A “soft” approach toward the menace of Communism can lead only to national disaster. What are the choices before us? Shall we continue to pay this unscrupulous blackmailer until we fall helpless into mor al, political and financial bankruptcy where our enemy can pick up our wreckage as an official part of his Red domain ? And if we are no longer to pay the blackmailer, shall we then attempt to kill him with nuclear rockets and invite the world- There is a third alternative. We can tell the truth about The re is a third alternative. We can tell the truth about Communism and we can send home the so-called diplomats of countries where people are shot or electrocuted when they try to get out. We can tell the Cubans, the Poles, the East Germans, Hungarians and the others that we are heartily sorry for having sold them down the river but that the next time around we will have the moral and physical courage to help them back to freedom. This is the truth that will make us free from the unholy fear of the Communist blackmailers. In 1776 we freed the United States with a great declaration of truth—now is the time to do the same for all mankind. We may appear to accept Russia’s words and promises, but let us not relax our vigilance and our preparations. A faleshood is not an evil thing to Russians; they use deception as part of general intrigue. By all means let us maintain an attitude of constant alert ness; let us not offer an opportunity for a submarine disas ter at our doors. We Americans usually wake up after some catastrophe. Beware of the Russians. As Theodore Roosevelt said “Let us walk softly but carry a big stick.’” HUSBAND AND WIFE CLASH ON WHAT TO DO AFTER 65 S AYS the husband: * 4 1 want to retire to the south coast of Texas. For the last seven years I have planned to retire there. After working for 45 years and supporting my wife for 40 I don’t think I should get any back talk about it . . ” Says the wife: “I have about as much interest in moving to the south coast of Texas as I have in moving to Turkey. Why should I have to move anywhere? Because my husband is about to get a pension? Because he wants to? Those aren’t reasons enough to break up a way of life that has served us well for over 20 years . . ” The husband: *This is the argu ment I’ve been getting for the last year. My wife has rights, and even she will tell you that in our 40 years together I have given them. But does she have a right to deny her husband, after all his years of work, the right to choose the place on earth where he wants to spend his remaining days? I think not . . The wife: **I would rather sepa rate than go to Texas. And I think there will be money enough for it because I can live with the children . . .” The husband: *Tm beginning to think my wife WOULD rather . . And it’s one of the tragic side bars to retirement. While the hus band has been working through the last difficult years of his career, his wife has been cultivat ing the children and grandchil dren She IS attached to them when the husband retires much more than he is She also is more attached to toe neighbor hood. . . .” The wife: “I would prefer my husband to my children and grandchildren. I would prefer him to this way of life and these friends and neighbors I treasure. He is dear to me too. But why must I move to Texas to keep him? It will cost us maybe $1,000 to execute the move, and even then I will have to give up many of our possessions. And do you know why he wants to go? It’s because he lived about 80 miles away from the south Texas coast when he was a boy. He went there once on vacation and flirted with girls. Through the years since he has been back to fish. It’s nothing real to him. It’s a mirage. It’s romance. It’s adventure .” The husband: “No master what it is, it is what 1 want. And that’s reason enough to go. Why should a husband struggle toward a pen sion and freedom unless he can do, finally, what he wants to do? A self-centered wife, $1,000 mov ing costs, some dishes and chairs — retirement would be a sorry promise if such things could deter a man from what be wants his final years of life to be . The wife: “Self-centered? WHO’S self-centered? . . • • • When a man and his wife dis agree on where they will go and what they will do in retirement, the one who is doing the retiring— the man—has the argument on his side. But it is his duty to sell his wishes to his wife, to lure her into it instead of forcing her. It is the duty of the wife to try to under stand. It is the duty of both to start getting together on the mat ter five or six years beiore retire meat. Adequate entry closet space is often a problem in small or older homes. Here’s an idea that has proved useful and decora tive. A box, with sliding doors, is installed on steel supports and used as a room divider. A standard size is 5 feet wide, six feet high and 30 inches deep. When sus pended on the steel sup ports about nine inches from the floor, it makes an entry hall and provides space for guest’s coat and hat. It’s also a good place for the Put sliding doors on your “box’ family to keep coats and odds and decorate to fit your decor, and ends. The problem of a closet in the living room or den can be turned into an as set, especially if the loca tion is at the center of a Wail. One home decorator, who owned a rather old house, found a way to hide her television set anu make a bookcase out of a closet that had al ways been useless be cause of its location. A modern molding was put around the door frame and louvered doors, two at the top and two at the bottom, that swung back against the wall, were installed. Shelves were added, one es pecially large to hold her tele vision set. „ 4,ft; ''^ ■- The smaller shelves were ar ranged to hold books and nick- nacks. Presto. When company came the doors were shut and the television disappeared behind an From E. M. Newhall, Loma, Montana: I remember my mother telling that she was left an orphan when a small child and that her uncle took and raised her until she was 18, then told her she was old enough to earn her own living. He took her to Lynn, Mass., where - she got a job in a shoe factory and met my father. They were mar ried when she was twenty. They worked in the factory till they earned quite a little money, then took Horace Greeley’s advice and went west to grow up with the country. They went to Minnesota and bought a farm, which they were to pay for with number one wheat. Drought and grasshoppers kept them from growing number one wheat, so they lost their farm. They went to South Dakota in 1879 and filed on a homestead nine miles southwest of Parker. They moved to Parker in 1880 and got some land broken and raised some corn and got ready for winter, which proved to be • hard one, so much that it is al ways referred to as “the hard winter.” There was much snow, and it was not all melted until May. It was impossible for people to get to town, so they lived mostly on boiled and parched corn. Fuel was very scarce so folks got up and ate corn till they were tired of it and then went back to bed to keep warm. Mother said I was horn the next summer, July 20,1881.1 guess the rugged way the folks had to live must have helped to make me kind of a tough guy. At any rate, here I am 80 years old and still doing a lot of farm work. From E. Foster Atkinson, Box 67, Goodland, Florida: I remem ber, as a youth, a good part of my spending money came from the local dump. There would be “beat-up” old brass lamps, dented and crooked lead pipe, leaky copper bottom cooking kettles and wash boilers as well as wash boards with a zinc rubbing surface. Any of these items could be traded in at the local hardware store for bb shot for my air rifle. Or, the man would pay in pennies, which would promptly find their way to the local grocery or con fectionery store and parted with for “Boston Baked Beans” (brown candy-coated peanuts, measured in a miniature bean pot) or six assorted penny candies for five cents. The hardware man would also pay a penny for two empty pint whiskey bottles so he would have containers for small quan tities of turpentine and the like. These bottles I could find in some of the alleys and behind the build ings about town. Kids today have to devise more modern ways to line their pockets with ready cash. In later years nostalgia drew me to city dumps in various parts of the country. Conditions seemed about the same everywhere. There would he a man in charge. He would keep a fire going mosv of the time, consuming everything that would bum. He would have the exclusive right to salvage any thing that was worth it, usually old auto casings. You could bring anything in, take nothing out. Contents of the dump was largely tin cans, broken jelly and pickle jars, crushed cardboard boxes as well as bits of wood and twisted rusty iron. Had I looked closely, no doubt there was lots of plastic, too. Gone were the brass lamps, copper kettles, lead pipe, wash ITEM. If yon have a definite sav ing plan, it might be wise to shop around before putting your money in a particular investment or project. For instance, during Hie past several years more Ameri cans have purchased stocks than at any time in our history. Good common stocks have been return ing an average dividend of about 3 per cent, while, on the other baud, many federal insured sav ings and loan associations are paying as high as 444 per cent. • • • ITEM. Economists report that pressures on prices are starting to build up and that, as a result, living costs will be high in the last half of this year. This will require extensive shopping by the family manager who expects to operate on his or her present budget ITEM. There is an indication, the oil industry says, that prices are sagging in the gasoline market In recent days a price war in St Louis, Detroit, Kansas City and San Antonio has slashed prices as much as 10 cents a gallon. Near record production and big inven tories is blamed. • • • ITEM. The cost of eating will be more in 1962 than last year. The price tag is set at $398 for the average American. Last year it was $392.