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Page Two THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDEY, MAY 2, 1963 1218 College Street, Newberry, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Annfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN “When I behold the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the sun and the moon which thou hast ordained; What is man that thou art mindful of him”? When we think of tne wondrous creations of Jehovah “our little systems,” in truth, “have their day, but cease to be; they are but broken lights of thee; and thou, O Lord, are more than they,” as Tennyson tells us in the eloquence of “In Memoriam.” I looked at the nut trees in my yard about the middle of March and they appeared dead. All a- round I saw the glory of azaleas and dog-wood trees; but the nut trees seemed beyond hope. Now, three weeks later those dead-looking trees are showing signs of renewed life and fruitage. ■''O, instead of taking paid in that verbal barrage in our State sen ate, I point to something really significant. Of course I am aware that the Clemson affair was not an accident, nor yet merely an in cident. A bundled State troopers didn’t just happen to be in that remote institution, though the presence of State troopers appear ed to show lack of faith in the Sheriff and others who normally function in that bailiwick. How ever, the Highest Authority said that “Heaven and Earth may pass ; the light; and with no language but a cry”, if we may again invoke Tennyson. Yea, verily, all these things shall pass away. away . so even the Clemson trouble may be forgotten when all of us are “one with Nineveh or Tyre”; or, else, otherwise in obliv ion, for the occasion as of today leaves us as the “Infant crying in the night; an infant crying for Now let’s look at the real achi evements of lasting service. As to the early days of America and the Economics of that era be fore learned scholars discoursed interminably on the spiritual qual ities of our Government for it has left the earth and all the mathe matics revolving around the pro foundly intricate study of 2 and 2 being only 4. If you seek beauty you might ride through Manning. But unless you have visited a hundred streets of Columbia—off from the busi ness centers—you nave a revela tion aw r aiting you. Likewise in Charleston; leave the business centers and visit the parks and homes. There is a lot of beauty in South Carolina; every city and town has its floral grandeur. Easter reminds us of new life, “that new life where sin shall be no more,” in the words of the appealing Episcopal hymn, “An gels of Jesus, singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night.” As the trees and flowers freshly bloom, so we, too, shall rise in the newness of the higher life. “When you visit Philadelphia history comes alive. You will be in the midst of a bustling, 20th century metropolis (fourth larg est in the U. S.) but you will also be in the center of a Colonial city where our nation w T as born back in 1776. The city itself is almost a cen tury older than the U. S. William Penn established it in the 1680’s. While Penn’s town was destined to become the capital of the revo lution, Penn himself most likely had nothing but kindly thoughts for the British. After all, the En glish king had given him what is now the whole state of Pennsyl vania. Penn referred to Philadelphia as a ‘greene countrie towne’ and it prospered to the point where it was the largest city in the 13 Col onies when the Revolution began. Naturally, it became the gather ing place for soldiers, statesmen, and politicians of the day. You can follow in their illustrious foot steps as you take a walking tour of the old part of the town. Old Philadelphia is perfect for those who like to do their sight seeing leisurely, on foot. After all, the city was planned with foot traffic in mind. A short walk down any of the narrow streets will bring you to dozens of historic landmarks. The Delaware river waterfront is a good place to start. Indeed, the waterfront is where the city started. It was, and still is, a ma jor seaport. The Atlantic is 90 mileh down the Delaware. Close to the docks isElfreth’s Alley, a narrow, picturesque little byway lined with tiny, centuries- old houses. They are not museums. People still live there and like it. A few steps further on wall bring you to the home of that most famous seamstress, Betsy Ross, who stitched the first ver sion of Old Glory. In the very next block, you can visit one of the early Quaker meeting houses, and a block further on is Old Christ church cemetery. Here, and in the nearby church yard, lie the re mains of Benjamin Franklin and seven other signei's of the Decla ration of Independence. Inside the church itself, restored to its Colonial beauty, you will se the pews once occupied by Franklin and by George Washington. Another short walk and you’re at Carpenter’s Hall (so named be cause it was a meeting hall for carpenters) where the First Con tinental Congress met in 1774. Just down Chestnut street is that mecca for Americans, Independ ence Hall where the Declaration of Independence was written, the Constitution adopted, and where the famed Liberty Bell is display ed. The Hall now dominates a long and impressive mall. Since you’re in the neighborhod be sure to visit the Powell House on 3rd street near Spruce. This was ‘living in the grand manner’— Revolutionary style. Samuel Pow ell was mayor when Independence was declared and his house was the most elegant in tow;;. It is completely restored and, fortun ately for you, it is open to the public. Like other fashionable homes in the district (appropriate ly named ‘Society Hill’) the house has its own ballroom. To twist a phrase ‘George Washington danc ed here’. Many of Colonial Philadelphia’s wealthy set lived on Society Hill, but even then they fled to the sub urbs on the weekends. One didn’t have to flee far in those days. Many of the great country houses, now open to visitors, are preserv ed in their original glory, in Fair mont Park along the historic and lovely Schuylkill River. (Pro nounce it Skool’-kill). A few miles upstream on the Schuylkill (and just off the Penn sylvania Turnpike) is another Am erican shrine, Valley Forge. When you see it abloom this spring (it’s now a state park), it will take a bit of imagining to see it as Wash ington’s suffering troops saw it as they shivered through a bitter winter encampment m 1777-78. The Philadelphia S;ory makes interesting reading but it iraues more interesting living. Take one Giant Step backward and walk the ancient streets for yourself. You are sure to come away with a fresh appreciation for your Am erican heritage, and a new feeling of kinship with the Colonial he roes who forged so much of that heritage . . right in Philadelphia.” “In Old Frontier Virginia Act ing Governor Sir Thomas Dale found out the hard way that ‘mar tial law did not grow corn’. He finally resorted to turning over the cultivable plots to individual families, and—to use a suspect phrase—to private enterprise, with considerable success. Later, in Plymouth, Pilgrim Governor William Bradford also reversed economic course, having learned that communal planting of crops not only incurred ‘tiranie and op pression’ but led to starvation and ruin. Thus did the infant American economy, its fingers already burned by a brand of pre-Marx Marxism, learn to grow. The west ward movement somehow started long before the establishment of the U. S. Department of the In terior (created in 1849); com merce and industry got going without the aegis of the Depart ment of Commerce (setup in 1903) and working people worked and, wonder of wonders, saw their wages climb steadily throughout the 18th, 19th, and early 20th cen turies without benefit of the Department of Labor (established in 1913) and without even benefit of a strong trade union movement (the Norris-LaGuardia Act was passed in 1932, the Wagner Act in 1935, and U. S. Factories were not organized by labor until the great sit-down strikes of the late 1930s.) Here is sweeping and highly ef fective development free from cen tral direction and compulsion, and here is welfare galore, free, at least until the New Deal, from the welfare state. In fact, well before the turn of the 20th cen tury, the American economy had already emerged as the greatest industrial and agricultural cor nucopia the world had ever seen, and, at that, under freedom, with scarcely any public sector at all. Not surprisingly then John Chamberlain’s book is peopled with heroes ether than Presid ents, Senators, Cab'net officers, Supreme Court Justices, generals and admirals—people whose ex ploits dominate history textbooks and whose likenesses are glorified in the statuary in state capitals and the District of Columbia. Mr. Chamberlain’s heroes are simply ‘the enterprising Americ ans’—entrepreneurs who under took risk ventures, who combined labor, capital and natural resour ces into creative enterprises. ‘Communism and its kindred ideologies offer to organize the 1 world by force. The market econ omy offers a superior form or organization through freedom. Its success has been made plain thru two and a half centuries on the North American continent. Given the right framework, that success could be extended everywhere'.” MILLS CLINIC PATIENTS Margaret Rinehart, West Co lumbia. Mrs. Mary Lee Smith, Bates- burg Mrs. Victoria Stockman, Pros perity Building Permits April 26—L. V. Ringer, one five room dwelling, brick veneer, on Orchard street in Buena Vista, $14,500. April 26—F. J. Rutherford, re pairs to dwelling, 1621 Co’lege street, $250. April 27—L. H. Koon, add two rooms to dwelling, 1902 Piedmont street, $200. April 30—Mrs. R. D. Smith, re pairs to dwelling, 1822 Main St., $125. Miss Bessie Long, Prosperity Mrs. Mary Kelley, Joanna Cecil West, Saluda Mrs. Josephine Horn, Leesville Mrs. Nellie Mae Hiller and baby boy, Batesburg. Miss Lalla Martin, Newberry Mrs. Alma Eleazer, Chapin Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Hartley, Batesburg. New Arrivals Recent arrivals at Newberry County Memorial Hospital include: Debra Kaye, four pound, 11 ounce daughter born April 23 to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Grady Ringer, Route 2, Pomaria. Mrs. Ringer is the former Mattie Pearl Bobo. Karl Stephen, eight pound son bom April 24 to Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Ernest Brehmer, Route 6, Box 282, Rock Hill. Mrs. Brehmer is the former Louella Hamm. Tammy Elizabeth, eight pound, three ounce daughter born April 24 to Mr. and Mrs. Dock Rodgers, Route 1, Ward. Mrs. Rodgers is the former Lola Mae Turner. Scott Franklin, seven pound, 11 ounce son bom April 30 to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Franklin Crapps, Route 4, Leesville. Mrs. Crapps is the fonner Martha Jean Sherbert. SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE Laos: Going, Going... Or Gone? LAOS KEEPS BOBBING to the top in international tensions to haunt and plague the U. S., belying long-standing State De partment policy to treat Laos as just another “little nation whose freedom is threatened.” As President Kennedy admitted last week, this poverty-ridden, land-locked country of 2.5 mil lion people is the key to the struggle for all Southeast Asia, for it runs vertically dowm the Indochina peninsula from China to Cambodia, bordering North and South Vietnam, as well as Thailand. THE “GOVERNMENT” has switched hands frequently in the last decade among the three “forces” in Laos. The pro-west ern elements, headed by General Phoumi, who, except for brief intervals, held the reins of “gov ernment” until July, 19G2, were opposed by the communist Pa- thet Lao, under Souphanouvong, and the “neutralists” under his half-brother, Souvanna Phouma, whose military chief is Capt. Kong Le. AT THE 1961 VIENNA sum mit, the U. S. and Soviets agreed on “peace” and a coali tion government for Laos. Pro- western General Phoumi resist ed U. S. pressures to go along, such as the cutoff of U. S. aid, and in the summer of 1962, the U. S. threatened Phoumi with a cutoff of military support. Phoumi didn’t react to this U. S. decision, but the Reds did. Knowing now the U. S. wouldn’t take a hand, the Red forces, with Chinese and Viet Cong in the vanguard* overran Laos. Phoumi was thereby forced into the coalition government, estab lished formally by the 14 na tion Geneva Accord in July, 1962. With neutralist Souvanna Phouma as Premier, the coali tion government left actual con trol divided geographically among the three forces. COALITION GOVERN MENTS have historically been most effective communis 4 , instru ments for take-over as demon strated by China, Poland, Hun gary, Rumania and Bulgaria. To U. S. policymakers, however, Soviet “cooperation” for a coali tion government in Laos was a sign that the Soviets had “mel lowed,” and' wanted to check the nasty, war-like Red Chinese, with whom they had “split.” THE SOVIETS HAD nothing to lose and much to gain in the coalition government. Pursuant to the Geneva Accord, the U. S. withdrew its military forces, but the Reds didn’t. The real Red gain, however, was the $40 mil lion annual aid which the U. S. committed to the coalition gov ernment—about $16 per capita for each Laotian, in a country in which the annual per capita income was $40 before U. S. aid began. At the same time, the communists continued to con trol the strategic route by which to funnel men and supplies from North Vietnam against the flank of South Vietnam. THE “CEASE FIRE” in Laos, which came with the coalition government, predictably proved but a repetition of this success ful communist tactic, permitting the communist forces to re group, and re-supply without fear of counter attack. The Soviets continued without inter ruption their air-lifts of mili tary supplies to the communist forces* NEW FIGHTING IN LAOS is now reported between the communists and the “neutral ists,” who are commanded by Capt. Kong Le, the man who overthrew pro-western General Phoumi in August, 1960, and later joined with the commu nist Pathet Lao. THE U. S. FEARS now that the coalition government may fall, and once again has order ed military forces sent to neigh boring Thailand. There is official surprise and indignation that Russia refuses to cooperate in quieting the situation. SO FAR AS THE strategic value of Laos is concerned, there is no cause to fear that Laos is going, for it has long since gone. THE CURRENT RED offen sives are aimed at the immedi ate goals of expanding commu nist control, and particularly at drawing out and destroying the independent-minded Meo tribes men. The longer range Red goal is to heighten existing U. S. fears of escalation of the war in Southeast Asia, thereby pres suring the U. S. toward accept ance of Soviet disarmament terms which the Soviets hope to present in a summer Sum mit conference. THE REDS ARE NOT likely to intentionally topple the coali tion government in Laos, how ever, for they—Pathet Lao, Red Chinese and Soviets alike— never had it so good. Under f he coalition government, they h. a full use of the strategic terri- f tory of Laos, a ready-made situ ation to put pressure on the U. S. at a moment’s notice, and to top it all, the U. S. is foot ing the bill for the whole fiasco to the tune of $40 million per year. Sincerely, m ££uULnsvy*JOri\jJL “He that glorieth, let him glory in God.** —Jeremiah 9:24 Is it not true that sometimes wise men are confounded by the foolish things of this world? Do not men sometimes do foolish things in their efforts to achieve glory, fame or riches? Whatever recognition may come to any mortal must still be insig nificant when compared to the glory of the life of Christ upon earth. Christ came to do the chosen will of God upon earth. He suf fered pain, humiliation—and death—because it was God’s wish that mankind be shown the road to eternal salvation. The glory of earthly achieve ments is short-lived; the glory of God is eternal. R«ad your BltLI daily and GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS By C. D. Smith When Letter-Writers Get 'Serious 1 THE WEEK’S LETTER: “I am a girl of seventeen and write regu larly to a boy, 20, who is in the Army. We haven't seen each oth er, although we have been writing to one another for 14 months. In all of his letters, he tells me how much he loves me and I feel the same way about him. (We have pictures of each other.) Do you think that we should be telling each other how we feel, since we have never met face to face”? OUR REPLY: It is a simple thing for “pen pals” to become “carried away” and progress from friendly notes to the writing of ’love letters.” Quite often it is a mistake that ends where it be gan, with the well-known “Dear John” letter. Sometimes, a hoy and girl may “write” for months, then finally meet — only to dis cover the only thing they have in common is the ability to write in teresting letters. One does not fall “in love” with a letter or a photograph, but with a real, live person. If letters and a photograph represent the in dividuals truthfully, then letter writing is an excellent beginning —but only a beginning. Certainly, exchanging letters helps two peo ple discover the things they have in common, their mutual likes and dislikes, and this is important. However, it is not enough to mere ly like to do the same things, or to like the same foods, etc. When the showdown comes, two people who enjoy the same things may not enjoy doing them together. One picture and thousands of words are not sufficient assurance that two people really “know” one another. It is, as noted above, only a “beginning.” If yta h»T* m teenmge problem yoo want to di*cu*«, or an observation to make, address your lettor t* FOB AND ABOUT TEENAGERS, NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERVICE. FRANKFORT, KY. .:.y.v.«.v.-.v.v. m Mli®i .. IliilPiiliiiiiiliiiiii f M ■ §1 7-’ • . VUr ■' 7. , .. ^ ^ - Woman makes the home...we make the loan A woman’s touch makes a home, but good financing makes it a happier home to own. Want to buy or build this year? Let us help with the financing. For a home loan tailored to your needs, come in and ask to see one of our home loan specialists. CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE PER ANNUM (Compounded Semi-Annually) *)?ew. 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