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THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1964
THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
ARE YOU
LISTENING?
BY
EARL
WILSON
Today I drove through a section
tof a near-by city which would be
commonly called by many “Nig
ger Town.” Here I saw people
really enjoying life. One Negro
man was eating a hotdog and good
naturedly begging a driver of a
soft drink truck for a sample. Be
hind this scene a shoeshine boy
could be seen keeping time to a
Bosanova number, being played on
the radio, by popping his shine rag
against the shoes of his customer.
Two men sat playing checkers on
.a home made board, and one was
laughing loudly because he had
just gotten a good jump on the
mother. Little Negro children were
running in the street, playing with
the simplest of toys as though they
were the best that money could
huy. It was a pleasant scene. One
that I have witnessed hundreds of
times, but this time it spoke to me
with a husky voice.
Today I saw Negroes acting like
Negroes and having the time of
their lives. No doubt but that the
rent was overdue for some time.
Others perhaps did not have en
ough food for the coming week.
The children, according to latest
statistics, are not enrolled in any
school, but they were happy. They
were so happy that not one in the
whole neighbohood is likely to die
of a heart attack. Not one will
suffer from ulcers. Not one will
suffer from physical or mental
breakdown caused by hyperten
sion or worry. Yes, today I wit
nessed some real happy people.
They were happy because they
were acting like themselves.
With this scene in mind I be
gan to remember some of the ugly
pictures of 1963. I saw Negro and
white children, absent from school,
picketing for things they will
never understand. I saw Negro
pastors being dragged to police
patrol cars by their heels. I saw
a bombed church and mothers gri
eving over their murdered daugh
ters. I saw a confused and heart
sick world that I call home, and
my heart ached to think that all
of this was for nothing.
Today I'learned a great lesson.
For the first time I saw that the
Negro who acts like a Negro-is
really a happy person, but when
he starts acting like a white man
he becomes unhappy, greedy, sel
fish, and domineering. It is wrong
for him to want to be like the
white, but it is even more wrong
for the white to lead the Negro
away from true happiness by the
influence that we have over them.
Tonight when I pray I will
thank God for making me a white
man, but I will also pray that He
will give me the strength to set a
good example before my colored
brethren that will help them thank
Him for making them Negro.
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Most Americans at the Christ
mas season just past have no
doubt considered the fact that the
predominating thought at Christ
mas 1963 was not the birth of
Christ but the death of President
Kennedy. It is sacrilegious, of
course, to relate the tragedy of
the President’s assassination to
the tragedy of the Cross, but the
fact remains, that measured by
current newspaper lineage, the
dramatic death in Dallas is now
far ahead of the miraculous birth
at Bethlehem.
Nevertheless, the actual relat
ionship between these two historic
events is much deeper and far less
profane than it sounds. The birth
of Christ could have prevented the
cruel assassination of our Presi
dent, if the light and truth that
Christ brought into the world had
been seen and understood by this
generation as clearly and as uni
versally as it was meant to be.
What killed President Kennedy
was Communism. What nurtured
the Communism that killed the
President was the prevailing in
difference of the people of the
world, and of the American people
more recently and particularly, to
the insidious growth of this dia
bolical anti-Christ, antiGod cult
of violence which now sustains an
advancing campaign to conquer
the world.
Since the birth of Christ, 1963
years ago, nothing has appeared
on earth that is comparable to the
sweeping tide of tyranny, terror
and deceit that comprises this
current Communist conquest.
Pagans, agnostics, schismatics
and heretics have rolled back and
forth through the civilized world
since the day Christ was born, but
not until now, not until our own
day and generation has activated
atheism—hell-bent and hell-born—
set up its goal of ruthless world
domination and successfully mar
ched more than one-third of the
way to that godless goal line.
For the conquering Communists
the crucifixion of Christ is not an
isolated historical event, but the
living, working principle which
motivates all and every official
Communist project. As one schol
arly analyst of Communist ideolo
gy says: “The rejection of religion
is the very essence of Communist
thinking. For Communist, God is
man’s own invention and in reality
there is nothing beyond matter . .
matter and motion. Things spirit
ual are merely a reflection of
things material. The Communist
have self-assurance and confid
ence because of their belief that
they can know and eventually can
control everything because there
is no God, and no Creation.” (“The
Communist Ideology,” by Gerhart
Niemeyer, Facts on Communism,
Vol. 1, U. S. Government Printing
Office.)
Geared into this atheistical phil
osophy is the basic attitude or un
compromising hostility to all non-
Communist societies.
Last November 22, this “matter
in motion”—this evil complex of
stratagems, maneuvers, illegal
methods and subterfuges—^mana
ged to kill the Commander in
Chief of Communism’s main target
and most powerful opponent,
namely, the United States of Am
erica.
On Saturday, November 23, Dal
las Police Chief Curry told the
Associated Press that the assassin
readily admitted “he is a Com
munist’ ’and a member of the
Communist party.
. It is as unfortunate as it is
significant, that the great weight
of editorial comment and commen
tary on the assassination of the
President continues to dismiss that
deliberate crime as the irrational
act of an eccentric “mad man”
while it seeks to turn blame upon
the “mink-stole fanatics” who are
alleged to have insulted Senator
Johnson and his wife in Dallas in
1960 and the woman who, in the
same city, poked Adlai Stevenson
with a cardboard sign some time
ago.
If the Communist enemy is now
behind our lines, and in position
to order and obtain the destruc
tion of our leaders, why should
this fact be withheld from the
American people?
On November 26, the Commun
ist Worker proposed an investi
gating committee to uncover all
the facts involved in the assassina
tion, to be headed by the Chief
Justice. Three days later, Presi
dent Johnson announced that the
Chief Justice would lead a special
Commission to conduct the in
vestigation. The Committee is to
report its findings, but apparently
not its evidence, to the world.
There will be no public hearings
and no public disclosures.
Before He was crucified, Jesus
Christ warned us that we should
know the truth and that the truth
would make us free. But the
THE
We are in the Christmas season. I power through lines in North Car-
for the days from the 20th of olina, South Carolina and Virginia
December to the 1st of January \ for the first time Monday,
are the holiday season. In Janu
ary, of course, for some unac
countable reason we wonder what
the world will do; what we will
do; and what our business willdo.
So then: What de we learn from
Christmas? Just exchange of
Gifts and singing carols? Christ
mas means vastly more than that.
It commemorates the coming of
the Son of God to reveal to us the
great love, mercy and compassion
of the Father. We learn that God
is a father, understanding, com
passionate, merciful.
Why did Jesus come to the Jew
ish race? Why didn’t He come to
the Romans, the rulers of the
world of His time, as we think
of the world in a restricted sense.
Only the Jews had a background
that could accept and use a reve
lation from the Great Jehovah.
The Jews had Abraham, Issac, Ja
cob, all the prophets, Moses, the
transcendent figure, law-giver,
leader, ruler under God; the lead
er trained spiritually under the
Jews, militarily under the Egyp
tians, prepared for a revelation of
God and from God.
Behind all the years of the pro
phets was the indoctrination of
the Jews, a Chosen people, pre
pared as no other peoples to re
ceive the mission of Jesus.
The Greek with his philosophy,
his conceit of intellect, would have
scorned the meek and lowly Jesus.
The Roman, in the pride of
pomp and power, worshipping the
material , things could not have
grasped the spiritual mission of
the Saviour.
But the humble, lowly Jew, rich
in the traditions of the Most High,
even he, even Peter, could not
fully comprehend the Messianic
mission, but it unfolded to their
simple minds and spirits and grew
into a rich fruition as the descen-
dents of Abraham prayed to the
Lord who guided Moses, who de
veloped David, who gave John the
Baptist to the world, John who re
ceived that noble tribute from
Jesus: “Of man that was bom of
woman there hath not been a
greater than John the Baptist.”
The electricity was produced by
a chain reaction set off at 1:59
A.M. and flowed into the lines of
South Carolina Electric and Gas
Company. Later, it was connected
into systems throughout associ
ates’ three-state area.
The Parr reactor was designed
and built in cooperation with the
Atomic Energy Commission by
the associates’ member companies
—Carolina Light and Power Co.,
Duke Power Company, S. C. Elec
tric and Gas Co. and Virginia El
ectric Power company.
The companies began the pro
ject in 1956 and the reactor began
operating last March 30. It has
been providing data prior to the
actual generation of electricity.”
Our own native son, S. C. Mc-
Meekin, is the prime moving spirit
in this notable enterprise. He
hails from Fairfield county and
is a graduate of Clemson college.
Two great industrialists, both
from counties still awaiting full
development, though producing
two great men, at least—I refer
to James C. Self of old Edgefield
and Silas C. McMeekin of old
Fairfield.
Is this a fair question? Is a
Senator bound by reasons of per-
onal integrity and patriotism to
hink of and plan for the well-be-
ng of the Nation? Or is his prime
bligation to boost the president
,nd sacrifice the fiscal cpndition
if the Nation because measures of
conomy may be regarded as im
pairing the standing of the Presi-
lent?
Behold the scholarly patriot,
Senator Humphrey who argues a-
;ainst cuts in foreign aid waste
>ecause he thinks the President’s
restige requires the additional
nillions. Indeed, Indeed! Oi*r nat-
onal prestige calls for solvency!
The New York Herald-Tribune
publishes an account of the career
of a colored man who has achieved
wealth and prominence in busi
ness.
Quoting the Herald-Tribune:
“The Negroes of the U. S. must
blame their ‘lack of initiative,
courage, integrity, loyalty and
wisdom’ for their limited oppor
tunities, according the S. B. Full
er, one of the country’s leading
Negro business men.
He spoke at a nanel discussion
before the National Association of
Manufacturers 68th annual Con
gress of American Industry at the
Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
‘The Negro believes that the
lack of civil rights legislation and
the lack of integration have kept
him back, but this is not true. If
he would learn to use the laws of
observation, concentration, mem
ory, reason and action, he would
realize that there is a world of
opportunity right in his own back
yard.”
S. B. Fuller, who is president of
the $10 million dollar Fuller Pro
ducts company, a cosmetics firm
with 10 subsidiaries, started the
company in 1935 with $25 working
capital.
‘The Negro must learn how to
think,’ he said. ‘You can’t change
the system to accommodate the
Negro. You have to change the
Negro to fit the system. Yqu
can’t legislate equality.’
The business man also attacked
the approach of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People. A questioner asked
him what the NAACP was doing
for the individual Negro.
‘Nothing,’ he answered. ‘They
are trying to change the white
man, not the Negro.’
The audience applauded.
He also accused the American
Negro of lethargy. He said that
many a Negro, with an ancestral
slave background, ‘learned to hate
work, and is not enthusiastic about
doing anything for himself.’
‘The Negro must pool his capital
in order to help himself,’ he de
clared.
‘If the Negro filMi the amount of
initiative, courage, and imagina
tion required, he could control the
retail selling in his own com
munity.
‘Since our capitalistic system is
a competitive system, the Negro
must learn to compete with his
fellow man. He must not only
seek jobs, but he must own es
tablishments which will give jobs
to others.
A vice president of NAM reeled
off Fuller’s business accomplish
ments and added, ‘he was 15 years
old before he knew there were
more white men in this country
than black.’ Fuller was born of
poor parents in Louisiana and went
to school only through the 6th
grade.”
It is refreshing to read the sug
gestion of a Colored man who has
achieved success in the big world
of affairs. I know some Colored
farmers in this state who have
succeeded notably.
A refreshing idea is the one of
fered by S. B. Fuller: “The Negro,
he said, must learn to think; you
can’t change the system to ac
commodate the Colored man; you
have to change the Colored man
to fit the system.” “You can’t
legislate equality.”
The underlying truth of that
observation applies to the white
man also. Thousands of white
men who seem to bewail conditions
need to change themselves rather
than the conditions.
TEEN AGE DANCE
TO BE SATURDAY
The dance sponsored by the Sen
ior Teen ciuo wnich was to be
held on New Year’s Eve and was
cancelled because of the weather,
has been rescheduled for the Speer
Street Youth Center for Satur
day night, January 11, from 8:00
o’clock until midnight.
Music for the dance will be
played by the Caravelles from
Clemson college. . .
Admission price for members is
$1 per couple, 50c for stag; f° r
non-members, $1.50 per couple;
$1 for stag.
Governor Russell very appro-
riately calls attention to the in-
ustrial expansion in South Car
ina. The figures are impressive:
New plant construction $154,-
59,000.
Expansion $108,634,000.
Said the Governor: “This was
fth consecutive year of indus-
•ial development. The five year
alue of new and refreshed indus-
rialization was more than a bil-
on dollars with 70,000 new jobs.”
I have heard a radio broadcast
f our great South Carolina Com-
any, The South Carolina Electric
nd Gas company, which is a four
undred million dollar investment
i South Carolina and which, ac-
jrding to a recent talk over the
idio, will spend more than seven-
f-four million dollars during 1963,
364, and 1965 for new work, re-*
uilding and everything necessary
> provide all the power needed
Liring those years. Whenever a
reat enterprise comes to our
tate the power must be available
> planning and building marches
ir ahead of immediate needs so
lat future needs are provided
>ng in advance.
This great company not only
mploys nearly two thousand men
nd women but pays in taxes
early 16 million dollars a year.
Throughout our State new in-
estments have been made, heavy
»esh spending, notably by our
reat textile plants, the greatest
usiness we have in South Caro-
na.
Great operations, such as the
lammoth Joanna Cotton Mills,
ave been our principal source of
conomic progress during many
ears. They employ many thous-
nds of our people, provide a
larket for our cotton and pay
undreds of millions of dollars in
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NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
After the Close of Business December 31,1963
By-theway- our Nuclear plant,
our Atomic energy plant, is now
in operation.
I quote from a news dispatch
from Parr;
“The Carolinas-Virginia Nuclear
Power Associates’ plant here sent
electricity produced from atomic
truth is being deliberately obscur
ed. Perhaps this is the reason why
freedom is disappearing and why
Communist slavery is moving for
ward so fast on this anniversary of
Christ’s birthday.
ASSETS
FIRST MORTGAGE LOANS $4,657,105.29
Well secured loans on properties in
Newberry and vicinity being retired
in monthly payments.
SHARE LOANS 53,102.23
Loans secured by Savings and In
vestment Share Accounts of the
Association.
REAL ESTATE SOLD ON CON
TRACT 3,415.37
REAL ESTATE OWNED 5,700.80
OFFIC E BUILDING 41,377.11
Less Depreciation.
MISCELLANEOUS ASSETS 25,456.70
This consists of furniture and fix
tures owned by the Association, and
certain expenses prepaid.
FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK
STOCK 60,500.00
Our membership in this Bank Sys
tem places at the disposal of this
Association $2,000,000. of additional
funds if desired.
U. S. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES 300,000.00
OTHER INVESTMENTS 9,419.20
CASH ON HAND & IN BANKS 383,748.34
This amount provides ample funds
to cover all approved loan applica
tions as submitted and accepted.
$5,539,825.04
LIABILITIES
SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT
SHARE ACCOUNTS - --- $5,003,141.05
Funds placed into the Association
savings and investments.
ADVANCES FROM FEDERAL
)ME LOAN BANK 200,000.00
LOANS IN PROCESS 44,321.61
Ui^lrawn balances on construction,
repair and modernization of homes.
Also, deposits for the purchase of
homes.
RESERVES & UNDIVIDED PROFITS 290,547.82
These reserves insure the stability
of this Association and protect mem
bers against all possible or contin
gent losses.
OTHER LIABILITIES 1,814.56
$5,539,825.04
HOME LOANS
INSURED SAVINGS
Current Dividend Rate 4 per. ct. Per Annum, Payable Semi-Annually
All funds placed with the State Building and Loan Association by the 10th of each month will receive earnings
from the first of that month. Each savings account insured up to $10,000.00 by the Federal Savings and Loan
Insurance Corporation, Washington, D. C.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
R. B. BAKER, President ✓
J. DAVE CALDWELL, Vice President 1 *
PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS, Secretary-Treasurer
THOMAS H. POPE LOUIS C. FLOYD
R. AUBREY HARLEY
—MEMBER—
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Federal Home Loan Bank System
United States Savings and Loan League
South Carolina Savings and Loan League