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THURSDEY, MAY 2, 1963
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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*
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