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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1963 un 1218 College Street, Newberry. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina. 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. Any man, with his Model T who could pull up Ballard’s Hill in high would tell the story and strut like a peacock. Once a well- known official of our County rode with others from Pinewood to •fanning. As we approached Pax- ville I glanced back and saw that my friend had his foot in the door to prop it open so that he might leap for safety at any moment as we were running at great speed—about 25 miles per hour. Great days, weren’t they? THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN SPECTATORS Did you learn to drive in the days of the ‘‘Model T?”I think we might have a National Assoc iation of Model T drivers. Henry Ford will be regarded in history as one of the great con structive figures in the life of mankind. John D. Rockefeller, the first one, made oil lamps avail able in a day of tallow candles and lightwood knots and so he must rate along with Ford as one of the world’s benefactors. In the same group would be Thomas A. Edison, of course. Those men brought a new idea to the world and the idea carried a convincing symbol of practical application. Many men have somewhat fanci ful ideas 4>}it never develop any thing. Naturally I must include the Wright brothers. When we think of practical ach ievements I am reminded not so much of Benjamin Franklin’s playing with lightning as I am of Franklin’s making a stove, some thing to conserve, yet carry heat, along with cooking the meals we want three times a day. Of course the inventive or adaptive genius of men has perfected all those early contraptions, but the idea, with practical application was the great service. By the way, if you have lived in a rural neightborhood with for ests abounding you have heard of lightwood. That was resinous pine used to give both heat and light to our great grandfathers. Let’s get back to the Model T, Henry Ford’s masterpiece, the car that put America on wheels— and many other countries, too. A man told me that he had driven his Model T in a burst of speed, at the rate of 42 miles an hour. Now that fellow was flying; or dinarily the speed of the Model T was about 25 miles an hour. Over in Kershaw and Sumter Counties men told tales of their cars. There was a branch, water you know, on the road between Sumter and Camden. Starting at the branch was Ballard’s Hill. AU those living on the coast knew that the tide comes in six hour? and recedes six hours. Ships of great size enter ports at high tide because the deep water facilitates the operation. There is a tide in the affairs of men, we are told. At this moment I think of what may happen when the tide of Kennedy usurpation flows out. Never in the history of our nation have we had such ill-con ceived, drastic and disastrous pro grams as some af the Kennedy campaigns to turn the tide from its normal course in human af fairs to such a course as Mr. Kennedy hope to bring about. Not even following the Civil war. Realizing the frequent turn in our politics I wonder what disas ters are in store for us when the tide turns. When I was in Peru a brilliant American Engineer convinced President Leguia to undertake a vast project; to turn Westward the Maranon river so that it might flow through the Andes mountains and convert the Olmos desert in to a fruitful area. A word of ex planation may help. The vast Am azon river does not rise in Brazil, but in Peru and is fed by the Mar anon river as well as other streams. Of course it flows East ward toward the Atlantic. To turn the great Maranon riv er so that it might flow through the impregnable barrier of the Andes mountains would be a stu- penrous undertaking, vastly ex ceeding the construction of the Panama Canal, I think. By way of thinking about the Amazon river I may remind you 'that ships from England once steamed up the Amazon 2700 miles to the town of Iquitos, Peru, at one time a great port for the export of rubber. Mr. Kennedy is no engineer; rather he seems an unpractical I visionary, who either doesn’t know 1 history, psychology or biology or who fancies himself unfettered by knowledge. JAFETY OF VOUR SAVINGS INSURED UP TO v%>N$iaooo >£$7 Wcii^r Pay YOURSELF each month The average person pays someone else each month, never paying himself anything. Let's look at it this way—don't you deserve to have something from your hard-earned dol lars in the way of security. Then—why not lay a portion of your savings aside each pay day. As little as $5.00 will open an account and you can add any amount at any time. Your savings are Insured to $10,000 by the Federal Sav ings and Loan Insurance Corporation, Washington, D. C. 4% (CURRENT RATE) ©hr pgr avijvgs and Loan Association INSTITUTION POUNDED 1935 isaa coubos sibbbt, wbwbbhby, ». c. J. F. CLARKSON M. O. SUMMER DIRECTORS G. K. DOMINICK J. K. WILLINGHAM BRANCH OFFICE — Bafesburg, S. C. E. B. PURCELL W. C. HUFFMAN We have had real cotton weath er. I’ve often thought that we men of the South should plant a row of cotton in our back yards. Then when the nights seem in sufferably hot we could rejoice in the thriving of the cotton plants. I am reminded of a summer in Anderson. The people of that great county subscribed a hundred thousand dollars for a college. Money was money in those days: that hundred thousand would bring probably three times as much as today, keeping in minds our present-day extravagant no tions. In July I suggested that we proceed to collect the money. The trustees said no, that because of extreme heat and lack of rain the farmers did not expect a half crop. So the trustees signed a joint personal note for $50,000 and so began building. Toward November. I again suggested that we proceed to collect the notes. The trustees again refused, ex plaining that the farmers had made a crop and a half and the price was low. I’ve always rem embered that: Cotton thrives in hot, dry weather. If it suffers at all it must be to prevent the far mers from harvesting three bales to the acre, with disastrous re sult to the price. In places in the West some farmers harvest three bales of cotton per acre. I mention that just in case you might suspect me of dreaming. “ . . . The picture of business as consisting of or dominated by | a few giant corporations is quite false. Let us look at the situation j concerning corporations alone. ! In 1959 more than a million of them—1,074,120 to be exact—fil ed income-tax returns. True, there giants among them. As many as 2,319 had assets of more than $50 million each. But 590,000, or more than half, had assets of less than $100,000 each. In addition to these million cor porations there were 949,000 ac tive partnerships, and 9,142,000 businesses and farms under a sole proprietor. Nor were the contri butions of these unincorporated enterprises negligible. Where cor porations reported a net income of $47 billion in 1959, unincorpor ated enterprises reported $46 bil lion. Nor do small businesses, wheth er incorporated or not, make a negligible contribution to employ ment. In 1959 there were, in fact, more than 3.3 million separate employers reporting under the Social Security Act. Of these only 54,000 employed 100 or more per sons each. More than 1.9 million employed only three or fewer each. About 3 million employed fewer than 20 persons each, yet these small firms provided more than a fourth of total employment in commerce and industry. This is how American business is made up. It consists of literally millions of employers, literally millions of risk takers. These small risk takers have no automatic assurance of success. At the beginning of 1961, a fairly typical year, there were 4,7 mil lion firms in operation. The extent to which these mil lions of small risk takers start new ventures and create new jobs depends on their estimate of the chances of making and keeping a profit compared with the risk of losing their whole capital. These are the people the poli ticians and planners should keep in mind, and not only the heads of a few giant corporations, in order to recognize the need of maintaining a climate of ‘busi ness confidence’.” “When Senate GOP Leader Ev erett Dirksen surprised President Kennedy recently by showing him SENATOR^ ■STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE THE $64 QUESTION TESTIMONY on the Moscow test ban treaty, both in public and secret sessions, reveals that there is one awesome question on which the whole issue pre cariously hangs. The Question— Do we dare risk the entire na tional security of the United States on the validity of our official intelligence estimates? ALL OF THE INTELLI GENCE experts admit freely that our intelligence is poorest on what is happening in the Soviet Union and in Red China. By comparison, Cuba is an open hook. Our official intelligence es timates do not have a history that exactly inspires confidence. Consider the record. WHEN THE SOVIETS came up with the atomic bomb, it was a complete surprise to the U.S. Official estimates took the posi tion that the Soviets could not master the atomic bomb before the mid-1950’s, but they tested on August 19, 1949. IN THE FALL of 1949, Just after the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb, the U.S. was con sidering whether to develop a thermonuclear weapon. The of ficial intelligence estimate, even after being fooled by the Soviets on the atomic bomb a few weeks earlier, said the Soviets could not develop the thermonuclear weapon until the late 1950 f s. All the scientists, except one, agreed with the estimate, and opposed U.S. construction of a thermo nuclear bomb. The one exception was Dr. Edward Teller, who, in October, 1949, urged that if the U.S. didn’t hurry with the de velopment of the H-bomb, the Soviets would get one first. For tunately, President Truman de cided against the official esti mate and with Dr. Teller’s lone scientific opinion. The estimate was wrong; Dr. Teller’s was right. We exploded a thermo nuclear bomb on October 31, 1952; the Soviets followed on August 12, 1953, with a hydro gen bomb explosion. WHEN THE COMMUNISTS invaded South Korea in June 1950, the U.S. was caught off guard. Official intelligence esti mates took the position that it wouldn’t happen. On the basis of those estimates, U.S. military forces had been withdrawn from the area, making the attack pos sible. WHEN THE SOVIETS launched Sputnik I in October 1957, the U.S. was caught by complete surprise. Official intel ligence estimates had let us down again. ALONG IN 1958, official intel ligence estimates said the So viets had a multitude of ballistic missiles, and thus was born the “missile gap.” It was such a scare that it became a major issue in the 1960 Presidential election. It then turned out that the whole estimate was phoney; the estimates were wrong, and the “missile gap” was a fraud. ON SEPTEMBER 19, 1962, an official intelligence estimate was issued which took the posi tion that there were no Soviet missiles in Cuba, and that the Soviets would not put any mis siles in Cuba. This one got dis proved in a hurry. Now it is ad mitted that missiles were in Cuba when the estimate was written. THE OFFICIAL ESTIMATES now admit that the Soviets are ahead of us in some fields of nuclear technology. They also admit that we don’t have much hard information on which to base our estimates. In the areas of technology where we have most information, official esti mates admit the Soviets are ahead; in areas of technology where we have the least infor mation, official estimates assume that the U.S. is ahead. GENERAL CURTIS LEMAY, who knows something about our intelligence methods in this field, has little confidence in our in telligence estimates. He stated that if the treaty were not al ready signed, he would recom mend don't eign it! GENERAL THOMAS POW ER, who commands the Strategic Air Command, and is even closer to the problem, says the esti mates are wrong, and that it’s far too dangerous to sign the treaty. The Soviets might well have a clear superiority in tech nology now. General Bernard Schriever, who commands our missile development, says he can’t do his job properly if the treaty is ratified. DR. TELLER, who has the best experience in the nuclear field, and who has a history of making correct judgments, says the intelligence estimates are wrong. WHAT IS THE DIFFER ENCE? If the treaty is ratified, and any significant part of the estimates is wrong again, the U.S. is finished. Russia will have us hands-down in the nuclear field, and the only choice that would be left to us then is sur render or be wiped out. Sincerely, a key marked “White House— Back Door’, it was only the latest episode in a 5000 year old story full of odd twists. Keys are at least that old. They have been found in the most ancient Egyptian tombs. Famous Biblical passages mention keys. Keys have been used to hunt for witches, cure colds and nosebleeds —even divorce an unwanted mate. Superstitious folk have had a field day with keys. In France it was once believed that a were wolf would instantly return to human form if struck between the eyes with a key. In Norway a big iron key was hung oVer the stalls of sick cat tle to cure them. Mothers in the Mediterranean countries still place keys in their babies to ward off convulsions. Religion attaches symbolic value to the key as the power to open the heavens and hell. ‘And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulders; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.’ (Isaiah 22-22.) Keys have always been a status symbol. In ancient Rome, a bride was given the keys to her house hold and was considered divorced if her keys were taken away. In the 15th and 16th centuries, keys were entrusted only to important officials. Their possession was a mark of power and prestige. Moral of it all? Don’t lost your keys! “It’s costing us more to make history than the stuff is worth.” Building Permits Aug. 22—Mrs. Clara Wertz, in stall cabinets i;i kitchen of dwell ing, 1105-Speer street $400. Aug. 23—Cornelia Sligh, repairs to roof of dwelling, 712 Hunt St., $100. Aug. 24—Roy Caldwell, general repairs to dwelling, 524 Main St., $3000. Aug. 26—Bessie 'Bobo, general repairs to dwelling, 642 Morgan street. Aug. 26—H. H. Connelly, re pairs to dwelling, 1403 Nance St., $50.00. Aug. 27—McCoy’s Service Sta tion, construction of 20x20 foot brick service station on College street $5500. Recent Marriages Mr. and Mrs. William Garland have moved to 1715 Drayton St. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Mills are now making their home at 723 Drayton street. •••••••••• Dean Manion THE MANION FORUM •••••••••••••••••• The White House, State Depart ment Disarmament Agency, and the news media are telling us of the partial test ban treaty nego tiated in Moscow and of its ad vantages. Little or nothing has been said officially about the new risks it creates. Unless Mr. Khrushchev is a madman, and he is not, he sees advantages for the Soviet Union and Communism in it. He sees the treaty as advancing the Commun ist goal of world domin: tion, not retarding it. Another reason for a second look at these risks to the free world is to dispel the feeling of euphoria it is sure to create. People will tend to regard it as evidencing an easy solvability of East-West re lationships. Pressures will mount for concessions all along the line. First, a non-aggression declara tion, next a summit conference, then other concessions which will not add up to a solution of the problems, but will result in a tragic shift of strategic superior ity to Communist hands. Wishful thinkers view the highly publicized Moscow-Peiping dispute as a fundamental split in Communist ranks. This is simply not true. Realistically, it concerns in no way whether America and the West shall be buried. Only in dispute are the subsidiary ques tions of: How? and When? United States progress in high yield 30 to 100 megaton weapons will be paralyzed at a time when the Soviets have already achieved this capability. Our consequent in ability to mete out destruction to Soviet military installations with more powerful warheads will de crease the credibility of our deter rent force in. direct ratio to in creases in Soviet base hardening. As Soviet bases harden progress ively, we will be left threatening only empty launching pads and indestructible fortifications. Additionally, the partial test ban will either greatly slow down or paralyze completely our pro gress in anti-missile defense. The Soviets claim to have solved the anti-missile defense problem and they are no doubt telling the truth about this. The absence of American anti missile capability permits the Soviet first strike, surprise attack to get through, destroy our det errent forces before they can be put in operation an dthus further reduce our power to deter Soviet button pushers with a credible threat to impose unacceptable, re taliatory damage upon their coun try. The partial test ban treaty will introduce a completely new hazard and risk of “surprise abrogation.” This is the situation where, under the cover of treaty, Russian nu clear weapons scientists might be put to work intensively in many clandestine laboratories behind the secrecy of the Iron Curtain. Such a period of preparation in secret which might last for years, our own laboratory work would have deteriorated in quality and quantity; and the net effect would give the Soviets a large jump a- head which might well give them the decisive nuclear superiority. Under such conditions, we could expect at the worst a “nuclear Pearl Harbor” and at best a “sur render or die” ultimatum. We can be certain that the rel ative weakening of our own mil itary might will encourage Com munists leaders to intensify ef forts in the cold war areas of con flict between East and West. This weakening is ceriain to ac celerate, rather than decelerate efforts of other countries to ob tain their own national nuclear deterrent capabilities. Up to now, the policy our country has follow ed against dissemination of nu clear weapons to numerous coun tries has been a matter of nat ional discretion. The proposed treaty will commit us to that pol icy, even though future events may dictate we change it; the treaty would prevent us from us ing our own judgment in the matter without serious interna tional complications. As the test ban treaty saps our deterrent capabilities, Europeans will become less and less inclined to follow our leadership. The dis solution of NATO could result. This has been one of Khrushchev’s priority objectives for years. If the Soviets can drive a wedge be tween the nations in NATO, it would be a victory for Commun ism. Recent Marriages Milton Dennis and Judi Diane Morris of Prosperity, were mar ried by Rev. George E. Strait at Legal Holiday Notice MONDAY, Sept. 2 (LABOR DAY) Being a Legal Holiday The Institutions Listed Below Will Not Be Open for Business. The public is urged to take notice of this and arrange all business accordingly. Newberry County Bank Newberry Joanna The South Carolina National Bank Newberry Federal Savings & Loan Assn. The State Building & Loan Assn. The Bank of Commerce , PROSPERITY, S. C. CHAPIN, S. C.