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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.
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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
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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
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Come in and see ns on any
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have a wide selection of
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Help Stop
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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.
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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,