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PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1963 1218 College Street, Newberry, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at New'berry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN Tom Anderson of the well-known | and more barmaids than college Farm and Ranch, agricultural girls. One million girls are infect- magazine, you know, looks over ed O.ne out of five marriages ends our great men of today with in divorce. One million babies are something less than admiration, j born in illegitimacy yearly. There And it was a useful hat. It was Abraham Lincoln’s desk and mem orandum book during his days as a successful young lawyer in Springfield. On it he wrote his briefs, his correspendence, h i s memoranda, “toted up’—in typical casual fashion—his accounts. Into its 3-inch wide hatband, he tucked letters and notes and papers of all sorts. Neighbor boys tried once to knock the hat off by rigging a hat-high string across Lincoln’s path. When it tumbled, spilling papers and envelopes everywhere Lincoln bent down to recover them and found boys clambering and pounding on him from every di rection, until he went down, long legs and arms flying, laughing in a tangle of boys and bills. Yet, as useful and as symbolic as The Hat was, at one point dur- with the moon if we succeed in making a visit? Shall we operate a ferry to the moon? I know that knowledge is power ; but we have failed so badly in dealing with our own people, as well as the people of other nations what should we do with the moon ? Even through we gain in know ledge by our fabulous efforts is the knowledge worth the cost? I am not being flippant when I say that we have not yet mas tered the earth. Who dreamed a few years ago of the vast oil re serves of Asia and Africa. And let us come nearer home: what of the vast potential of our swamps and sandhills? Up to this time the moon has not sent any expeditions to study us, so let’s be about our own busi ness. Mr. Anderson does find a man specially worthy of his approval. I quote him: “We do have a few great men in public life. In the Senate there is a giant walking among pygmies, a man of unimpeachable character, outstanding knowledge and abil ity, dauntless courage. His name is Strom Thurmond”. Strom does stand out as a man of character and force among a gathering of many weaklings. Fortunately we still have a few, though very few, statesmen. Tom fires a heavy charge a- gainst conditions:: “What could be the future of a nation which spends more on alcohol than on education? What’s the destiny of a nation which spends about one-third as much for comic books and pornographic material as it does for school construction ? Last year Americ ans read 285 million paper-back books, mostly murders, westerns and sex of all imaginable, and some unimaginable, varieties. Fif teen million sex magazines are read monthly by a third of the na tion. There are three times as many criminals as college students are 60 suicides in America every day, one murder every 40 minutes and one major crime every twenty two seconds. One hundred thous and unapprehended murderers are walking the streets. Seventeen- year-olds are the largest criminal group. Fifty-five percent of all burglaries, 58 per cent of auto thefts, 51 per cent of all larcenies and 19.5 per cent of all arrests for rape are teep-agers. Arrests of persons under 18 have increased 55 per cent since 1952.” What is the matter with us ? Are we becoming so amiable that we have no standards ? Do we stand for nothing; or, should I say that we stand for anything and everything? ing the Civil war it almost cost j Do you understand that after a I have before me an incident of the Civil war. , “Lincoln’s famous stovepipe hat was desk, file, postbox, * and, one fateful day, a target; for enemy fire! It’s a tall hat, about 8 inches tall, stiff and awkward-lcoking, somehow oddly suited to its owner, who himself measured six feet, four inches. Together, The Man and The Hat towered to an un gainly height of almost 7 feet. SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE visit to the moon—a mere 200,000 miles—we shall next visit the sun—93,000,000 miles? Or shall we just call on Venus for the sake of romantic chivalry? Just now we have Cuba laughing at us; and we have Red China, as well as Russia, hoping to “gob ble us up.” So why run about reaching for the moon? Once upon a time we spoke lightly of mooning and star-gaz ing, not appreciating the scienti fic aspects of mooning and star gazing; so what about it? him his life. The time: July 12, 1864, Jubal Early’s Confederate troops were marching on Washington. Com munication lines had been cut. The Capitol waited apprehensively in midsummer heat as the Confed erates marched toward Fort Stevens, manned by 20,000 raw troops and convalescing soldiers. Lincoln decided to see the fight ing for himself. He felt a deep and tragic sense of personal re sponsibility for this effect of the war. Now he rode out to Fort Stevens to see the battle of Wash ington. As he stood, gaunt and tall, on the parapets of the Fort, he seem ed, according to General Horatio Wright, ‘unconscious of his own danger’ watching with ‘grave and passive countenance’ the bloody skirmish below. The first brigade of Wright’s soldiers moved out to “Taxes are like golf. You drive close with Early’s troopers, and|y<?u r h eart out for the green and marched right into a withering w i n J U P i n om®* burst of Confederate fire General | Wright ‘cleared the mrnpets and asked Lincoln to leave, but the President remained, watching. Then, as the Union forces ad vanced, another whistle of bullets and burst of cannon broke the air. An officer three feet away from Lincoln fell dead from a sharp shooter’s bullet. The President could have touched him. Below, a young Union military aide looked up to see a tall silk hat, popping like a jack-in-the box about the parapets, with a tall man beneath. The 23-year old of ficer’s temperament was that of “In economic geography you learn that almost all countries touch the USA” Yes, touch, and then some! “The tongue weighs practically nothing. Yet it’s surprising how few people can hold it.” Dollar Diplomacy Flops Again THE COMMUNIST takeover of Cuba brought about a new packaging of U. S. foreign pol icy for Latin America. Tradi- ditional dollar diplomacy was changed by adding more dollars and a new title—Alliance for Progress. Quite predictably, U. S. policy for the Americas is still a flop. ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE has little or no effect against communist subversion and vio lence. Properly applied and ad ministered, economic assistance in a couple of decades might increase the economic potential of some Latin countries to help defend themselves. The Reds, unfortunately, give no indica tion they will work that slowly. AS ADMINISTERED, how ever, the program is nothing more than an Alliance for So cialism. Its assistance is “gov ernment to government” orient ed, and little more than an oc casional “verbal nod” is given to the private sector of Latin economies. As a condition of receiving assistance under the Alliance, programs for drastic social, economic and political re form by the Latin governments are required. Principal among these is “land reform,” usually taking the form of confiscation and redistribution, rather than the more moderate methods, such as special taxes on idle lands. THE VERY TYPE of reforms on which Alliance assistance is conditioned is the type which has been advocated by commu nists and other far-left groups in Latin America for years. In seeking and supporting govern ments which will institute such drastic programs, the U. S. finds, of course, the most en thusiasm among the govern ments furthest to the left. TRADITIONALLY, the mili tary establishments of Latin countries have generally been the dominant source of power. In the absence of other stable political institutions, rule by anyone has usually been at the sufferance of the military. Mili tary power is sometimes used to protect the people from des pots, sometimes to install des pots in power. In most Latin countries, the military leaders have been trained in U. S. mili tary schools, and they are gen erally anticommunist and im patient with radical programs. BECAUSE THE ALLIANCE sought out and encouraged drastic and radical programs, most welcome to leftist-orient ed governments, it was inevi table that where strong military establishments existed, such radical governments would be overthrown, regardless of whether they wen put in ini tially by elections or by the very same military establish ment. Where the military is not strong, or not anticommunist the governments go further to the left and into active coopera tion with the Reds. SINCE THE ALLIANCE be gan, there have been 7 military coup d’etats in Latin America. The latest were in Honduras and the Dominican Republic. THE U. S. RECOGNIZED the tradition of military coups and the increased potential for them through the Alliance in Latin -America. Therefore, we have assisted in creating in many of these countries “national police forces,” in an effort to keep “democratic” governments *u power and to offset the power of the military. In the Domini can Republic, this U. S.-finan- ced and trained force joined in the coup. In Honduras, the “civil guard,” as it is called, contested the military coup, and was easily defeated by trained and organized troops of the military. NOW U. S. policymakers are emotionally indignant. They avow that the U. S. will not recognize the new governments resulting from military coups. Some legislators even advocate the use of Marines against the juntas, although they cry out against even the threat of force against Cuba. It does not seem to matter to our policymakers whether the military action was for protection of the country by deposing a would-be despot or potential Castro, or whether it was a simple power grab by the military. IT MAKES a big difference, however. In Peru and in Guate mala, even the State Depart ment recognizes that the mili tary juntas have made more progress on actual reforms than had the “democratic” govern ments they deposed. The recent coup in the Dominican Republic appears to have been necessary to prevent President Bosch from following Castro’s road to com munism. IF THE U. S. follows a blind policy of refusing recognition to governments established by military forces in Latin Amer ica — and there have already been 7 — the U. S. may find that the Alliance for Progress funds go only to those far left governments where no internal force is strong enough to de pose them. CAN A PROGRAM of for eign aid which is limited to those who are most cooperative with the communists be justi fied? Sincerely, itsCann** i^juLruyvvJOriul W. P. Shealy, 92, Died Saturday William Pickens Shealy, 92, prominent farmer and one of the county’s oldest citizens, died early Saturday night after a period of decliiifing health. Mr. Shealy was born July 13, 1871, in the Pineywoods section of Lexington county and for the past 35 years had made his home on Route three, Newberry. He was a man of action, and the figure a member of St. James Lutheran he saw standing there presented a danger to his position. ‘Get down, you d fool’, he shouted, ‘before you get shot*. Lincoln fell back surprised, and now aware of his needless expos ure to danger. But he did not leave the Fort. On into the long-shadow ed afternoon he sat, his back to the parapet, waiting until Jubal Early’s troops had retreated, and the wounded had been brought in. < HARVEST CARNIVAL AT Only then did he leave; and, in' SILVERSTREET church and was a life member of the church council. Survivors include his wife, ^rs. Mary Elizabeth Bickley Shealy, with whom he would have cele brated his 70th wedding anniver sary on NOv. 2; three daughters, Miss Cora Shealy, Mrs. Burr Jas. Kibler and Mrs. G. Herman Wise, leaving, exhibit his characteristic human quality of warmth and hu mor. Seeking out the Captain, the Commander-in-Chief told him, ‘Captain, I’m glad you know how to talk to a civilian.’ Who was the Captain who spoke so impulsively to a stranger who turned out to be the President of the United States? He could have been just another soldier, his iden tity kept alive by his anecdote. But, as it happens, he was young Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr; later to become the famous Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Holmes’ judicial decisions were to be handed down with the same kind of common sense and empha sis he .demonstrated that day in 1864, when he yelled at The Man in The Hat.” Apparently the men can’t sur vive the strain of the day. The women now have so much leisure with all the conveniences available that they set a pace too brisk and fast for the men. As I recall, women stockholders are more numerous than men, ac tually holding title today to what they’ve been bossing for many years, the men having fallen by the wayside, succumbing to the frightful pace set by the ladies. I know a little city with fifty four widows within about 20 blocks. Over in Bamberg county the men are becoming alarmed, it ap pears from the newsy 'Bamberg Herald runs a two-column headline on the first page saying “Number of single males in county higher than unmarried females.” Elabor ating, they say “These figures do not include men and women who have been divorced or widowed.” Why not? Our Bamberg neighbors must have heard of widows and divorced ladies being marriageable eh? Bamberg isn’t that far from “the maddening crowds ignoble strife,” to quote the redoubtable Shakespeare. Nay, nay; Bamberg is in the main current, even if the handsome editor won’t admit it. Alas, my brethren, we have be come the weaker sex: it is the same story everywhere. While the men labor and strive with a razor at home the women gain new strength by hours in the Beauty Parlor. I doubt whether our trips to the moon are worth the cost; billions of dollars! Now what shall we do The Eighth grade of the Silver- street Elementary school will sponsor a Harvest Carnival Fri day night, November 8, in the Sil- verstreet gymnasium building. Some of the activities will be bin- go, fish-pond, exhibit room, calf raffle, door prizes, cake walk, etc. Hot dogs, hamburgers, cakes, pies, soft drinks, and other drinks and eats will be served in the school cafeteria. The cafeteria will be open at 6:30 while the Harvest Carnival will begin at 7:30. Come out and enjoy a refreshing evening of fun and fellowship. You will be helping, at the same time, the 8th grade with several worth while projects. 3tc. NO TRESPASSING SIGNS. Big ll”xl4” size. The Sun Office. Ph. 276-5800. JSLitrilwUd jrw* BOSTON LOS ANGELES LONDON CHICAGO Interesting Accurate Complete International Now* Coverage The Christian Science Monitor One Norway St., Boston 15, Moss. S«nd your newspaper for the time checked. Enclosed find my check or money order. □ 1 y* ar $22. □ 6 months $11 □ 3 months $5.50 Name Address City Zone State PB-1C John C. Price Service Friday John Clinton Price, 59, of Pope street, died last Wednesday, Oct. 16, at his home. He was born in White county, Georgia, son of the late David L. and Anna Adams Price. Before his retirement, he was employed by Newberry Mills. He was a member of Aveleigh Presbyterian church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Alice McClellan Price; a daughter, Mrs. Evelyn McGaha of Newberry; two brothers, David L. of Ander son and Wade of Charleston; a half-brother, Oscar Price of Aus tell, Georgia and four grandchild ren. Funeral services were conducted Friday at Whitaker Funeral home by Dr. Neil Truesdell. Burial was in East View cemetery, at Honea Path. WHAT IS AMERICA? AMERICA means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans —it is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories, or mines, magnificent cities, or mil lions of automobiles and radios. It is more than the traditions of the great tide westward from Europe which pioneered the con quest of a continent. It is more than our literature our music, our poetry. Other nations have these things also. Maybe the intangible we cannot describe lies in the personal ex perience and the living of each of us rather than in phrase, however inspiring. The meaning of our word “AMERICA” flows from one pure spring. The soul of our America is its freedom of mind and spirit in man. There alone are the windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream, but an accomplishment. —Herbert Hoover. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT I will make a final settlement of the estate of J. L. Koon, Sr. in the Probate Court for Newberry County, S. C., on Saturday the 23rd day of November, 1963, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, and will immediately thereafter ask for my discharge as Executrix of said estate. j* Mrs. Betty Agnes Koon, > Executrix. Oct. 23, 1963 27-4tc CLASSIFIED! ’A ADS ' WE SHARPEN — Hair Clipper Blades to cut like new. Enclose 68c with each set of blades only. S & D SHARPENING, 1909 Main, Columbia, S. C. Dept. NS. NO HUNTING or trespassing on the FLOYD PLACE on Belfast Road. R. C. FLOYD, DR. STAN LEY BAKER, Jr. 27-3tc POSTER BOARD—Many colors— at The Sun Office, 1218 College St. Phone 276-5800. FOR SALE—1963 Zigzag sewing machine like new. We paid $269.50. Will sacrifice for $149.50. Makes buttonholes^ sews on buttons. Write, SEWING MACHINE, Box 429, Newberry, S. C. 27-3tc Even 12 year old Johnny can beau tify vinyl floors with long lasting Seal Gloss. Whitaker Floor Cover ings. f Amy s2m of typo on any sise RUBBER STAMP from the very smallest to the very inequality RUBBER STAMPS raggedly built to last you years and years longer* Faster service at prices far below what yon would ordi narily expect to pay. Come in and see ns on any RUBBER STAMP needs that yon may have. We also have a wide selection of MARKING DEVICES for your business and private needs. I OUR WOODLANDS ARE VERY DRY AND SUBJECT TO DISASTROUS FOREST FIRES! YOU ARE URGED TORE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL WITH V* SMOKES, MATCHES & CAMPFIRES DURING THIS CRITICAL PEDI0D. Help Stop Woods Fires! Mrs. Fred S. Mayfield of New berry announces the engage ment of her daughter, Susan Ann, to Mr. Lawrence Edward Browder, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Crawley Browder, of Andrews. Miss Mayfield received her B. S. degree in chemistry from Newberry college and has done graduate work at Furman Uni versity and the University of North' Carolina. She has taught r— dll of Newberry; four grandchild ren, Mrs. Donald Fulmer and Jas. William Kibler, both of Columbia, and Prof. Darr Wise and Mrs. J. Richard Lominick Jr. both of Newberry, and two great-grand children. He is the last surviving member of his immediate family. Funeral services were held on Monday from St. James Lutheran church with his pastor, Rev. John L. Heyer, officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery. in the public schools of Atlanta, Georgia, and is presently teach-; ing at Carolina High school in Greenvillq. Mr. Browder received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry from Clemson college. At the present time he is completing requirements for the Ph.D. de gree at Clemson. A February wedding is plann ed at the First Baptist church in Newberry. Active pallbearers were Charles Wise, Homer Long, Harold Long, Carl Amick, H. B. Huffstetler and Ernest Bickley. Honorary escort was C. B. Parr, Oscar Johnson, Benny Sease, Paul Long, Hugh Eoting, Robert Long. Oscar Mayer, Harvey Wise, Othel Miller, Fred Coats, William Bal- lentine,' Herman Morris, L. F. Derrick, J. F. Hawkins, Frank Lominick Sr., and members of St. James Church council. ■; ! SENATOR STRO URMOND Reports PEOPLE The Biased Umpire A DETERMINED EFFORT is being made by the Executive Branch of the National Govern ment to discourage the flow of industry to the South and to unionize all business establish ments in the South. The pur pose behind this calculated plan is threefold: first, to ctop the loss of industry in the north east; second, to gain or recover political strength through bloc voting dictation of union bosses; and third, to repay the union bosses for their national politi cal support. THIS ATTITUDE has been quite evident for the past few years in actions of the National Labor Relations Board in over turning almost every labor elec tion in South Carolina where the employees rejected union representation. In some cases, precedents of NLRB law and regulations have been thrown out by the NLRB, to make *+ virtually impossible for the un ion organizers to lose. Last week the NLRB reversed 2 more elec tion decisions on flimsy grounds, in Aiken and Florence. Recently the NLRB's regional office rec ommended that an election vote against a union in Orangeburg be vacated because a local news paper and radio station editori alized against the union. PERHAPS the most flagrant example of attempted govern ment interference in the indus trial development of South Caro lina was brought to light last year, when the Interior Depart ment cancelled its 40-year-old contract with the Fouke Fur Company of Greenville for proc essing Alaska sealskin furs. This was done because Fouke moved from St. Louis, Missouri, to new, modern facilities in Greenville. When invitations were opened for a new contract. Interior officials illegally rigged their contract procedures to give the award, which amounted to a guaranteed profit of $177,400 per year, to a Chicago joint venture which promised to lo cate in St. Louis and use union labor. THIS ORGANIZATION, called Supara, was given the prized award without any price competition, without having any experience, any facilities, any employees, or even any equip ment In fact, there is even a serious question as to whether Supara was legally in existence when the contract award was made in March, 1963. The offi cials negotiated with one legal entity and made the award to another. All this has been offi cially reported in an opinion is sued last week by the Comp troller General of the United States after a 7-month investi gation by the General Account ing Office, at my request. THE COMPTROLLER GEN ERAL informed me the award was “in violation of law and reg ulations and should therefore be rescinded.” The report also stat ed that Interior officials had act ed in “an improper or highly questionable” manner. The in vestigators even found that the standards Supara had to meet under the contract had been re laxed, where they could not measure up to the “superior” work of Fouke. It was held that Fouke had violated no contrac- jural arrangements. Indeed, the Fouke Co. has long been the world’s number one pi cessor of sealskins and its reputation for quality is unexcelled. THE INTERIOR OFFICIALS were not content, however, with just rigging the award against Fouke. They even tried to black list Fouke in the world market and attempted to intimidate a manufacturer into supplying to Supara machinery which had been especially built for Fouke. THESE ACTIONS ON the part of the Interior Department were illegal, vindicative, and contrary to the public interest. This, together with the pro-on ion NLRB actions and similar recent acts of government dis crimination, provide substantial evidence that the Executive Branch, instead of playing the role of an impartial umpire in administering the national laws, is dealing from the bottom of the deck against justice and the public interest, where there is a possibility of political gain. ARBITRARY POLITICAL acts of this nature are inherent in big government and serve to emphasize once again the im portant truism that “that gov ernment which governs least governs best” — and, I might add, with less political bias. Sincerely,