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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1963 FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS by C. D. Smith Do Girls With Makeup Get All Yhe Boys? THE WEEK’S LETTER: “In your article, “Some Girls Use Too Much Paint,” you say that they look like ‘fugitives from a war dance.’ I am in my freshman year and I once wore all this makeup— until I decided it made me look like a ‘fake.’ But one thing bothers me and I am sure it concerns some other girls as well. Why do these girls who wear this makeup attract all of the boys’ attention? Some girls, such as myself are never really noticed by that one important boy, except when some help is needed with an algebra problem.” OUR REPLY: The girl who wears the most p/int does not al ways get the most attention from the boys, and certainly is seldom the girl that an “important” boy would wish to introduce to his mother. It’s true that girls who wear an abundance of makeup will attract “whistles” and attention. But it is this writer’s opinion that a pound or two of the makeup would be taken off immediately if these girls could hear the comments boys make about them after the “whisUe.” Sometimes a boy will unhesi- tantly tell a girl she wears too much “goo.” The wise girl gets the message and begins to use cosmetics as they should be used —to compliment rather than dis guise her natural appearance. The girl who wears too much makeup in order to attract attention does not care what people say, so long as she continues to attract atten tion. Makeup, however used, isn’t enough to hold the attention of any boy for long. The average boy is more interested in general ap pearance, personality, reputation, and a number of far more impor tant recommendations. If you have a teenage problem yea want to discuss, or an observation to make, address your letter to FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS, NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERVICE, FRANKFORT, KY. 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HUFFMAN THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN The parade of a hundred thous and, or five hundred thousand, was an effort to impose the crowd on the Congress. The Kennedys may be enthusiastic about the demonstration but it was an or ganized demand that makes one think of the mass movements in Ancient Rome that indicated the decadence of that empire and the crumbling of the stability of the nation. The colored people are not en slaved; they are the most pros perous Colored people in the world —they are drumming up demands that are not soundly conceived and are grossly exaggerated for effect. Now lets look into this mass psychology. If 200,000 Colored people can impose their will on Congress and some weak-kneed politicians let’s see what w T e may expect. Everybody knows that our taxes are exorbitant and that our nation is squandering money all over the world, as well as here. And we know that the graduated income tax is unfair. If the Constitution meant anything it would never have been made a law. You will clearly see that equity, just common justice and fair-deal ing should forbid that our Nation should try to penalyze a citizen because of his wealth. But that is the law; we borrowed the idea from Communists in the effort to confiscate wealth. If it be fair to impose a tax of 25 per cent then all should pay 25 per cent. The ordinary citizen and From Mrs. Stephen Lambert- son, Hazlet, New Jersey: I re member when as a child the neighbors would gather at our house in the winter evenings. My mother would play her guitar and they would all sing. Dad would go down to the milk room in the cel lar for homemade crullers and pears. We children would go sleigh rid ing on the nearby hills, by the light of lanterns my father would place at the top and bottom of the hill. In summer, and on the Fourth of July the family traditionally had a picnic. Dad would have the ice cream truck drop off five Gal lons. I remember how the driver would stop and roll the five gallon can across the front lawn. In the evening, we children had bags of fireworks—and loads of fun. • • • From Mrs. Maude Davis, Per sia, Tennessee: I remember when farmers raised everything they ate and there were no food sec tions in the grocery stores where one could buy everything ready for the table. There were no food freezers, no cars to dash across the coun try. Travel was on foot, horse back, or in a buggy and folks had time to stop and exchange greet ings with neighbors along the way. It is not the same any more. Everyone is in a big rush and it doesn’t seem like the good old days when everyone was so happy and contented. (Send contributions to this eolnma to The Old Timer, Box 89, Frankfort, Kentucky.) From Mrs. Urton Hayes, Pecu liar, Missouri: I remember when people had time to walk to a neighbor’s house and sit ’til bed time, visiting, singing, popping corn or making candy. The young people building brush fires out on the ice in the winter enjoying evening skating and roasting weiners or marshmallows . . . when people lived for people and not for the dollar. One neighbor was ahrays ready to help another, with whatever work was to be done, never a thought of counting hours or for pay, but for love of humanity. When children walking home from school, laughing, singing or visiting aa they carried one an other’s books and ate the remain der of their lunches. I remember good community days at the schoolhouses, churches, etc., where large baskets of food were spread on makeshift tables. We had such a good time enjoying our friends. Again, there were the days of “patriotism.” Friends for miles aruood would meet at a park or in some beautiful clearing with bas kets filled with food. Someone brought an organ or a piano. We listened to speeches, sang songs of our country and the flag while tiie younger ones had their games and fireworks. Mother, father and children all worked, played and worshipped together. When sickness did strike, we knew neighbors would come to hefc> care for us and, if need be, ait Erring the nights for days or weeks. People had time for people, home, children, God and Country. WtweMrtblMsed with push but tons, motors, ete^ which are won derful thfogs if they are not abused. Give me time te really Reel the millionaire. Why charge one man 25 per cent and another man 91 per cent. It is no business of a free country to penr.lyze wealth. Rath er we should encourage every cit izen to earn and enjoy all that his ability and thrift and honorable opportunity may make possible. Suppose we have a march on Congress of several hundred thousand citizens who are exces sively taxed. Would that demon stration arouse the Congress to enact laws of fair taxation? Suppose we organize a march of 200,000 Southern citizens as a demand for the repeal of many laws of Congress and many deci sions of the Courts which are clearly not in the spirit of the Constitution ? Suppose we organize a march of 200,000 as a protest against the present trend of the Federal courts following the Earl Warren court of 1954? Suppose we organize a mass demonstration in demand for res pect for the 9th and 10th Amend ments to the Constitution of the United States. Suppose we muster 200,000 as a protest against citing the 14th Amendment and demanding that the courts disavow it as never properly, lawfully, validly adopt ed. Suppose we muster 200,000 and demand a recount of the vote by which Mr. Kennedy claims the presidency. I cannot call names but a well known and respected citizen o f South Carolina told me that he knew that 10,000 votes were either miscounted or manipulated in this State’s presidential vote and that Mr. Nixon really was South Car olina’s choice for the presidency. I do not assert as a matter of my knowledge or suspicion that Mr. Nixon carried South Carolina but that would justify a demonstra tion about as validly based as was the march on Washington recently. I do not urge or even suggest a march or demonstration to terrify the Congress or repudiate the Kennedy program; I am showing that if our nation is to be govern ed or swerved or influenced b y marches or demonstrations then we quiet, peaceable, law-abiding and suffering citizens have excus es for many marches or demon strations. Well now: since demonstrations are the rule of the day and the politicians are expected to be ruled, persuaded and governed by the mass marches observe a big headline in the Aiken Standard & Review: “KU KLUX BORROWS TACTICS FROM NAACF” So you see. And the Ku Klux chief says t hat memberships are com ing in so fast he can’t keep up with them. Well, now! The Standard and Review pub lished a United Press dispatch from Columbia which I quote: “The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, now claiming 285,000 mem bers may borrow some of the tac tics of the NAACP.” So don’t you see? ? The Clinton Chronicle is a sound paper and usually treats its readers to a clear exposition of public problems. I quote a recent editorial. “I once thought the Co-op bre thren used all the Government fa vors in order to sell electric pow- says that memberships are com panies. But some of the Co-ops in Clarendon say that isn’t true. Two prominent citizens living across the same highway tell me that the Co-op rate is higher than the private company’s rate. A lady of the county tells me that her sister’s Co-op bill is much higher than the private company’s rate. So now, what what — and why? I think the committee of the House which is investigating the Tax Commission made an unusual start. We must assume that the House thinks there is a reason for the investigation. Therefore the complaints should be made so that the Commission would have some definite indictment to ans wer. •By hearing the Commission first the Commission will have to be heard again on whatever charge or allegations may be against it. There have been so many alle gations of harsh, despotic and un constitutional procedure by the Commission and some Agents that the indictment should be heard first. Our governor is studying the problem of shortening the session of the Legislature. As a lawyer the Governor knows that the Constitution prescribes 40 days, but the Governor may be too young to remember that the Leg islature used to meet on Monday and adjourn on Saturday. That would bring about more serious devotion to work than now prevails. Then, again, if the Legislature buckled down to work for a short period there would not be so many bright schemes for spending the taxpayers’ money. The Wall Street Journal carries an account of the Kennedy pro gram: “Employers trying to open up more jobs to Negroes are running into a new problem—charges by white porkers that they’re being discriminated against. White resentment over prefer ence allegedly shown Negroes has already flared into the open. White plumbers in Cleveland re cently complained bitterly that ‘special privilege’ was involved in the hiring of two Negro plumbers for a public constnzction project. White post office employees in Dallas are protesting that three Negroes raised to supervisory po sitions w'ere promoted ‘over the heads’ of better qualified candi dates. At Westehn Electric Com- pauj the manufacturing affiliate of American Telephone & Tele- gru ;>h Company, a number of white clerical workers are uphap- py about what they consider fav ored treatment for Negroes in hiring and promotion.” Our nation is plunging headlong and heedlessly in debt. One day the President calls for economy and the next day he advocates spending more billions. The Congress likewise; and the State of South Carolina does the same, though in a smaller plane. Let’s take a peek at Congress: “Along busy Independence Ave nue, a massive marble palace is jutting into the Capital’s skyline. By completion time next summer, the block-long, 10-story colossus will have cost more than $83 mil lion. The sum is said to be the most ever spent on a government building in the U. S., perhaps in the world. Big Government spend ing? Indeed so, more specifically, big Congressional spending. The elegant edifice, which will provide new office space for mem bers of the House of Representa tives, is costing more than the combined sum spent for building the Capitol and four other Con gressional office structures now in use. It illustrates a significant but little-observed trend in Gov ernment finance: Spending for Congress and its affiliated agen cies, while still tiny alongside total Federal outlays, is rising at a faster rate than for the big ex-, ecutive branch. Some members are East deals; both sides vulnerable* NORTH ♦ A + 109743 WEST EAST ^ 4 J 4 3 2 4 10 4 5 i? '' 4 J 4 J 0 7 S 3 4 KQ19842 4 Q 6 5 4 A K J 8 2 SOUTH 4 AK980 4 AK07042 4« 4- The bidding: East South West North 14 44 pass pass 5 4 5 4 64 double pass 6 4 pass pass d’bie re-d’ble pass pass Opening lead: Jack of diamonds. COMMENT: South had no prob- blem with this hand. He set up the spade suit by trumping the fourth round of spades and there fore made an easy overtrick. North and South should have reached a contract of seven. Both were partially to blame, however South put North on the spot with the jump bid of four hearts. If South had merely overcalled with one spade, he could have shown the strength of his hand later and would have had a chance to find out something about North’s hand. No one vulnerable. North deals. NORTH 4 AJ84 V J 4Q9843 4K«2 WEST EAST 4 KSS 4Q1970S V A 40S 410702 4 A J 4 A10 8 S 3 4QJ07 SOUTH 40 4KQ10 987432 4KS *4 The Bidding: North East Sooth West pass pass 4 4 pass pass pass Opening lead: Ace of hearts. After seeing the board, West returned a small diamond which East won with the ace. East re turned jack of diamonds, which was covered by the king in the closed hand. South cleared trumps in one more round, then led to the ace of spades on the board. South then sluffed the small club on the queen of diamonds, making oat over contract COMMENT: Both East and West were in a spot when they had to lead. West made a good choice with the opening lead in order to see the board. South had an easy four if West had chosen to lead the ace of clubs before the dia mond lead. SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE Superiority or Surrender DEBATE in the U. S. Senate over ratification of the Moscow test ban treaty is waxing hotter and is now boiling down to a basic question of whether politi cal or military considerations are of more importance to our Na tion. The Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee has indorsed the treaty in a report which is filled with rosy observations about Soviet intentions in pro posing the treaty. FOLLOWING issuance of this report, the Senate Armed Serv ices Committee’s Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, of which I am a member, also filed a report with the Senate. The report states that based on ex tensive evidence presented by military and scientific witnesses in closed door sessions, the Sub committee has concluded that “the proposed treaty will, affect adversely the future quality of this Nation’s arms, and that it will result in serious, and per haps formidable, military and technical disadvantages.” THE PREPAREDNESS re port lists 8 principal disadvan tages which would flow to the United States by ratification of the treaty. They are as follows: (1) We probably will be unable to duplicate Soviet achievements in very high yield weapon tech nology; (2) We will be unable to acquire necessary d*>ta on the effects of very high yield atmos pheric explosions. (3) We will be unable to ac quire data on high altitude nu clear weapons effects; (4) We will be unable to determine with confidence the performance and reliability of an anti-ballistic missile system developed without benefit of atmospheric opera tional system tests; (5) We will be unable to verify the ability of our hardened underground sec ond-strike missile systems to survive close-in high-yield nu clear explosions. (6) We will be unable to verify the ability of our missile reentry bodies under defensive nuclear attack to survive and to pene trate to the target without the opportunity to test nose cone and warhead designs in a nuclear en vironment under dynamic reen try conditions; (7) The treaty Trill provide the Soviet Union an opportunity to equal United States accomplishments in sub megaton weapon technology; and (8) The treaty would diminish our capability to learn of Soviet advancements in technology. » WHAT THE Preparedness Subcommittee is particularly concerned with is preservation of U. S. nuclear superiority in the cold war. In fact, tin's su periority must be of an over whelming nature, not only to our satisfaction but also in the judg ment of the USSR, especially in view of the fact that our leaders have made it known to the world that we will accept the first blow in a nuclear exchange. All our plans are bottomed on the idea that we will be able to absorb the USSR’s first strike capabil ity, and then retaliate with enough power to destroy the en emy and win the war. SINCE WE HAVE spotted the enemy the first strike, we must be absolutely certain that we can indeed absorb the first blow, and have left enough strategic nu clear weapons to win. The So viets, therefore, don’t need to test as much as we to ascertain weapons effects. In addition, they may have already learned enough to exploit our vulner abilities so as to neutralize our second strike capabilities in un derground ICBMs and in under water Polaris missiles, to such an extent that they can win in a nuclear exchange or that they can demand U. S. surrender. There is deep concern that the Soviet superbomb either has, or shortly will have, the capability to neutralize many or most of onr underground missiles, and that the already-deployed Soviet anti-ballistic missile system may be able to stop U. S. retaliation by Polaris missiles. FOR THESE REASONS—and I can think of nothing more im portant than national security considerations — I am opposing this treaty, even though I realize that to refuse to ratify the treaty, since it was signed with out the advice of the Senate, may cause some international re percussions. However, I share the view of Dr. Edward Teller when he warned that “if you re ject the treaty this will be a small mistake ... If you ratify this treaty, I think you will have committed an enormously big ger mistake . • . You will have given away the future safety of this country.” Sincerely, feeling pangs of conscience, but most seem blithely unconcerned. Whereas the nation’s legislative budget totaled $59 million 10 years ago, the lawmakers now are con sidering outlays of $168 million for the fiscal year begxin July 1. During this same span, total bud get spending has increased from $65.2 billion to an unexpected $98.9 billion. 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