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'M& Page Four THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1963 1218 College Street, Newberry, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, 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 meant something to the South. It was our refuge in the days of Re construction; it was an effective means to assure white supremacy. Today white supremacy is being throttled and stabbed by the Dem ocratic party. It is no argument to point to the Republicans of the Reconstruction era; nor am I un mindful of the threat and usurpa tion of the Little Rock episode in the days of President Eisenhower. We did not expect much consider ation from Republicans, but our Southern people were and had been the foundation of the Dem- acratic party. Now that the Dem- 1 ocrats are our chief menace and oppression all former loyalty to the Democratic party has been in- gloriously forfeited and we of the South must face the truth and re solve to act in our own interest as of today and not subserviently follow and support the party of our fathers which has betrayed us and rejoices in that betrayal. The South should make such terms as may be in the interest of the South and repudiate the Democratic party. So far as the party may serve within the State, it has no pro gram except in name. But it has the machinery and is a sort of convenience. We are not Demo crats except in name and extrav agance, but we can have some de gree of influence within the state, in state matters. Let us adhere to the rule of 1936: Vote Democratic within the state if you please, and vote as we please in national af fairs, without restriction. All our present troubles grew out of the Democratic party. What more do we want? To be kicked about, spat upon and cheated ? protect each state against invas ion: not by Washington, of course and on application of the Legis lature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot beconven- ed) against domestic violence.” W T ell, now; Does an Act of con gress abrogptft' the Constitution? *, . f u. So General Eisenhower thinks that General‘JMeade should have followed GenerflilXee and destroy ed Lee’s antty^urffer Gettysburg? A hundred years after the war! General Meade might have lost his army (Does: General Eisen hower forget Chancellorsville ? General Eisenhower never faced a leader like General Lee nor an army like the veterans of North ern Virginia. 1 • I hold no brief for General Meade but his prudence may have saved his army,and the Union. Lee waited for Meade follow ing the battle of Gettysburg, but Meade was dmitious. If Meade /fras' attacked Lee, Stuart would .have been th j with his calvary. While studying strat egy one might ask General Eisen hower why he concentrated enor mous forces in North Africa and sacrificed so many in Italy, hun dreds of miles from Germany and the main German armies. Even tually the Americans went across from England and met the Ger mans in France ^.Eventually! Yes, why? 'f What abbutr th'e battle of the Bulge? That looked like a serious miscalculation [\ in both strategy and tactics. The Allies won, with overwhelm ing resources. Victory wipes out criticism. Of course the general strategy was planned by Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt and think of the col- i ossal cost of that war while it was being fought and the incalculable costs and blunders growing out of the settlement. ( We could have fought two more major wars for less than we have spent since the surrender of the Germans. General Meade as Commander at Gettysburg was like Gene Tun- ney the boxer, in his clashes with Dempsey: he couldn’t take risks: he was face to face with disaster and he thought wisdom suggested _ that he conserve his victory lest an attack might wipe out his vic tory and his army. 1 am not “carried away” by my loyalty to the South, but calmly, as a student of history, I suggest that General Eisenhower never faced the same degree of timidity that kept General Meade from rushing into destruction. We must believe that the Great Jehovah intervenes at times; and but for Longstreet’s delay and Stuart’s absence would have lost the battle of Gettysburg; and al most surely if Stonewall Jackson had been alive General Lee would have won the battle. As Napoleon is quoted as saying —“Let him who has commanded from behind-the-scenes peace making, he finally appealed to the convention to uphold or reject his stand. The 12,900 ‘messengers’ or delegates, voiced their approval. Though peace was preserved, it may prove short-lived. Funda mentalists summoned e nough strength to elect as president their most prominent spokesman, the Rev. Dr. K. Owen White, of Houston. A year ago, at their tumultuous assembly in San Francisco, the Southern Baptists adopted the Rev. Dr. White’s resolution op- ••••••••• Dean Manion THE MANION FORUM There is a big collection of things posing ‘the dissemination of theo- ^ nown i n White House but logical views which would under mine (our) faith in the historical accuracy and doctrinal integrity of the Bible.’ Earlier he had branded the book that started it all — The Message of Genesis, by former Midwestern Seminary Prof. Ralph H. Elliott ‘a poison that can lead to confusion, unbelief, deteriora tion, and ultimate disintegration’ of the Baptist faith. Dr. Elliott, since then dismissed from his post at the seminary, suggested in the book that the story of creation in Genesis might be a meaningful legend, not the literal truth. After the Rev. Dr. White’s elec tion, he pledged that he would continue his attack on ‘liberalism’ in Baptist seminaries and schools. Some 30 per cent of all Protestant theological students are enrolled in Baptist seminaries. Said the 60 year old London born pastor: T in a hunderd battles advise me.” I feel that liberalism weakens the i L 1 1 1 1 1 /• TT j “For two years the bugle of Southern Baptism has been emit ting sounds of theological discord. Fundamentalists and ‘liberals’ have divided sharply over how the Bible should be interpreted. Many of the 10,193,000-member denomination, the nation’s largest Protestant body, expected the cli max to come at last week’s con vention in Kansas City, Mo. But despite several motions, a cry of ‘heresy’ on the floor, and com plaints about ‘gag rule’, the cli max never came. The outgoing Southem Baptist president, the Rev. Dr. Herschel H. Hobbs, repeatedly squelched threats of an open split by ruling motions on the issue out of order. Christian. It causes a person to lose his strength of conviction and evangelistic fire.’ PREYATT Mr. and Mrs. James Daniel Prevatt, 79 Glenn street, announce the birth of an eight pound dau ghter, Tammy Lynn, on May 23 at the Newberry County Memor- not known to the American peo ple, and this includes a magic for mula in the field of economics which cancels out the principles of simple arithmetic. Included also are things that control our rela tionship with Soviet Russia and Cuba—things that we, the people, are unable or unwilling to learn. It is understandable that tie President shows a trace of im patience with the sad state of public ignorance that still afflicts many of the newspaper editors who heard him last April 19th. The obvious trouble with all this White House information is that the President and his advisors know too many things that aren’t so. For his statistical anchorage in calculating the advantages of in creasing Federal spending while reducing Federal income, the Pres ident used his favorite free-float ing dock, namely, the Gross Nat ional product. There is a widely prevailing im pression that the GNP, so called, is as the title suggests, the total amount of goods produced in the United States each year. In fact, it is nothing of the sort. —The Statistical Abstract of the United States (1962, page_ 310) describes the Gross National Pro duct as the grand total ofmoney spent every year for services and ial hospital. Mrs. Prevatt is the r eiy year lor seL-vices and former Judy Faye Mills. ?, 0 ® ds ever y bod y including the Federal government. Federal ex- JAMES Mr. and Mrs. Gerald James of 2111 Ola street announce the birth of a six pound, five ounce son, Dpnald William, on May 24 at the Newberry County Memorial Exhausted from asevere cold and! hospital. Mrs. James is the form- penditures now constitute approx imately 20 per cent of the Gross National Product which is the highest percentage point ever reached in any peace time year in the nation’s history. The GNP is not in any sense a production figure. On the contrary it is t.ie totalization of expendi tures by everybody in the country for goods and labor. The relationship of the GNP to the profits of American industry or to the national income of the American people, before or after taxes, is purely relative, widely variable and entirely speculative. To refer to this Gross National Product figure as if it were a re liable measure of our industrial growth or a guage to determine when the Federal debt ceiling is “reasonable” or “un-ealistic” is to skirt the margin of deliberate deception. In his speech to the editors on last April 19, the President said: “Since 1953 . . . while the Federal budget has gone up the Gross National Product has risen in the same proportion.” If this was meant to state the obvious, namely, that increased Federal spending automatically in creases the sum of all spending, the observation was pointless and unnecessary. But if the clear implication was intended, namely, that increased Federal spending goes arm-in arm with the increased productiv ity of the American industrial plant, then the President is misin formed about the components of what is called the Gross National Product and he does himself and the nation a disservice by publicly confusing the point. We know that in 1940, after 7 successive years of massive Fed eral spending that exceeded the Federal income by more than 48 per cent it took a world war to absorb the nine million unemploy ed workers who had haunted President Roosevelt’s New Deal continuously since the day of his first inauguration. Every dollar of decific spending that Congress permits for the next fiscal year will increase the ten billion dollar interest charge on the present national debt. The some $98.8 billion requested in the President’s proposed budget for next year doesn’t tell the whole story either. Senator Harry Byrd (D.Va.) gave a statement to the press on March 29th, that revealed that the President’s requested new appro- PROPERTY TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Azelee C. Henderson to Emma D. Miller, one lot on Wheeler St. $5.00. Newberry Federal Savings and Loan Association to George Long, one lot and ^ne building $5.. Newberry No. 1 Outside Gertie W. West and Robin M. priations, along with other auth ority to obligate Federal borrow ing and backdoor spending, totals 107.9 billion dollars. The White House news managers haven’t told you that. This country is moving fast in the direction of complete financial collapse. There is no use talking to the President and to his soph isticated professors. They know too many things that aren’t so. The remedy is already pepared for consideration by Congress in the form of Senate Resolution No. 12 which will reform the whole budgetary procedure and outlaw deficit spending. Interested peo ple can support this bill. West to J. G. Haile, 1.28 acres $5. Silverstreet No. 2 Rancher’s Life Insurance Co., to J. Madison Longshore, et al, 1.3 acres $ Sand quit claim. Whitmire No. 4 J. T. Nelson to Martin C. Con ner, one lot on Duncan St. $360. Prosperity No. 7 Mildred B. Hentz and Annie Long, executrix of the estate of Sarah C. Kinaid, to T, Frank Sease, 12 acres and one building, $2500. Robert Wayne Boozer to Peggy Ann Hipp Boozer, 19.1 acres and one building, $5 love and affec tion. Ishmael E. Chapman and Mil dred H. Chapman to Betty B. Hal- tiwanger, one lor $10. JONES Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Virgil Jones of Route 2 announce the birth of an eight pound, one ounce son, Mickey Dwayne, on May 25 at the Newberry County Memorial hos pital. Mrs. Jones is the former Reba Viola Hawkins. School’s Outl you’ll need more Pet...you bet! The President may “mean well” I in sending troops to Alabama, but j the sovereignty of the State of I Alabama is being violated. This is j not a question of Democracy, but a I question of the status of a Sov-1 ereign state, under our Constitu tion. Citizens of this republic should ponder the effect of this assumption of power by the Pres ident. It is as much a question for Wisconsin, California, New York and Oregon as it is of Alabama. What a President may do will be come a precedent. We must consider gravely whe ther to surrender our state sov ereignty at the whim of a Presi dent, or whether to demand full respect for the dignity of a sov ereign state. The evils of our national govern ment spring from the charm and usurpations of Mr. Roosevelt, magnified by Mr. Truman and multiplied by Mr. Kennedy. Within our state Democratic party is just a State-wide mechan ism of office-holders and candi dates: the party once was the means of defending and saving 'our civilization—today it means mothing but a sort of expedient machinery without plan or pur pose. All the evils we suffer from were imposed by the National Democratic party which lamely and tamely sang a me-too chorus for the three presidents. In South Carolina we’ve had three dominant figures in our political life: Hampton, Tillman and Blease. All were defeated. There is no absolute title to any office. What about the Constitution ? Does it still exist? If so, it has mellowed and decayed under the blight of ignorance in all depart ments of the national government. I say ignorance because I wish to be charitable, for there is no Sen ator Borah today to thunder in debate, extolling the Constitution and enlightening the Senate. Today so-called party loyalty counts, even when the Adminis tration, the Supreme Court, and the Congress itself run slip-shod over the once-respected Constitu tion. One man says that the Cons titution'. provides that Federal troops may police a state only when the Governor of the state asks for help. Another says that Presideht Kennedy is authorized under an Act of Congress to in tervene in’ Alabama with troops. Would an act of Congress super sede the Constitution? Yes, I think so, though it ipust make the bones of the old Statesmen rattle in their graves. Just by way of refreshing our memory of the great unremember ed charter of our liberties, once cherished by our fathers, but dis regarded by the brilliant leaders of today who hover about in spir itual and sociological realms, un restricted and uncontaminated by any provisions of the ancient Constitution. What does it say ? Says that venerable document: The Federal government . . shall A— < \ A* ip. I tX The “PRICE IS RIGHT" on Kingsberry Homes WELLS HEIGHTS Subdivision "X I Watch “The Price Is RighV*^i to findouthowyoucanwin fSS the Kingsberry “l FRIDAY - 9:30 P.M. ON WIS-TV Tune in Friday night for ‘The Price Is Right” and you’ll get all the details on the Sweepstakes. It’s easy to enter. You’ll need the exact price of the Kingsberry “Stratford.” Get it at the model home in Wells Heights Subdivision. 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