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m ■ PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1964 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN There is a remarkable variety of information floating about, as well as a notable mingling of mere clap-trap with gossip and news, real and so-called. I happen to be a teetotaller though I cherish warm friendship with many who claim that they are cheered up by sipping some thing other than water. Incident ally water can cheer you when nothing else can. DLid you ever have a real thirst? We Americans are blessed above all others for you can find safe water to drink in virtually any town of five thousand people here. That isn’t true of any other coun try that I know, including Great Britain, Europe, Mexico and Cen tral and South America. In ome of those countries it may be said, as was told of a Kentucky Colonel of long ago. Speaking of water as a drink, the Colonel is said to have remarked “It may be all right; I’ve never tried it. but no gentle man would drink it.” In France the men gather in or in front of a small shop and sit for hours sipping a glass of wine and swapping neighborhood gossip and scandal. As to beverages I found recently in my mail an interesting story about Charlemagne, the renowned Emperor of the Franks, one of the colossal figures of the middle ages. Charlemagne was so great that to his name Charles was added Magnue, meaning great, you re call, and all was made into one name Charlemagne. As the Kentucky Colonel intim ated, the ancients and tnose of later years didn’t rely on water for refreshment. “The Roman origins of some beverages are probable and the Romans had also a ‘mulsum’ of honey, wine and water, boiled to gether, and the beverage of Chau cer’s time was wine mixed with honey and spices. The Britannica says, ‘To the ancients honey was of very great importance as an article of diet, being almost their only available source of sugar. It was valued by them also for its medicinal virtues. Honey is mildly laxative in effect. An extract made from the root of an herb was fre quently used in both liquors and medicines. Being plentiful, it was found in many formulas. Some ■ attributed remarkable properties to it, and who knows but that the beverage of which Charlemagne was so fond may have contained this mystic herb ? So much we know of the sweet drinks of yore but with coming of ample supply of sugar and spices set up by the trade with the East, together with improved methods of fermentation and distillation, this sort of bev erage has been vastly improved and we no longer take it as med icine. It was toward the end of the power of Rome that some bever ages were brought to France and other parts of Europe, and no doubt Charlemagne did have much to do with it. Charles the Great, or Charlemagne, was born in 742 or 743, the eldest son of Pepin III and died in 814. He was a very busy man. His first relations were established with the papasy in 774 w r hen he visited Rome for the Easter Festival. In 775 he reduced Pavia, after a long blockade, and Desiderius, who was there, ended his days as a monk at Corbie on the Somme. Charles took the title King of the Lombards. Later he acquired the Greek provinces of Italy, Venetia, Istria and Dalma tia. In his fights with the Saxons he took the Harz country, the We- ser and elbe basins. At Verden he put the sword to some 4,500 Sax ons in one day. At Tassilo, Bav aria renewed fealtv in 781 and again did so in 787. Thrice during the time between 774 and 779 Charles went back to Italy and in 800 he was crown ed as Emperor of Rome by Leo III. Leo had been in a monastery in Roman territory, though Char lemagne certainly had much to do with a number of monasteries at various times. This great man’s life was not all blood and conquest. It is said that during his reign he cultivat ed all of the arts. Those of illumi nation, goldsmith’s work, ivory carving etc. were revived. The Emperor’s chapel at Aachen, now called Aix la Chapelle, was ad orned with beautiful pillars and bronze portals brought from Rome and Ravenna. Scholarship was en couraged and the clergy wene stimulated to further efforts. Charles was even a scholar of Lat in and astronomy himself. Palaces and chapels were built in Aachen, Ingelheim, Nymwegen and Regensburg, but Aachen was really his home. There he could hunt and bathe in the hot springs. It is recorded that he loved simple, heavy meals of venison and the like. He drank well but not too heavily for his head was always clear for prompt, methodical and laborious business of administra tion. Even in death he was strong for it is said that when the slap mark ed ‘Carlo Magno’ was removed from his tomb by Otto III in 1000 A. D. he was found seated in a marble chair, which was removed and long used for coronations. It is still in the gallery of the Rom anesque Octagon begun in 796 and consecrated by his old friend Leo III in 805.” Quite a man was Charlemagne; the Emperors and Kings of re cent centuries seem puny beside him. I live in a home of some age. It is of the kind men tell about, built of stout timbers, nothing flimsy about it like some apparent strongholds of today. A man who prefers the com forts and conveniences of today writes about the days of several generations ago and treats the old mansions with scant respect. Ponder this now; “Look at those walls—over two /Ml [¥| m II u JK Is l A new home is every woman’s dream. Perhaps the best substitute is an all-new kitchen, quite un derstandable since the greater part of her work- meals, cleaning up after ward. With more and more families eating one or more meals each day in the kitchen area as well, this room becomes a real cen ter of family activity. Size and shape determine what can be done to make an all- new kitchen more liveable. An effective arrangement for a long, narrow kitchen is shown in the accompanying illustration. fr) m 1 jJ Placing sink away from wall per mits dining space in window area, yet low windows still provide an outside view for housewife at dish washing time. FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS Girl Thinks She’s 0|d Enough To By C. D. Smith Hove Company ARE 'rtXJ lEXPECTINO* COMPANY THE WEEK’S LETTER: “I am 15 years old. A friend of mine lives in another state. She came to see me. We talked about lots of things and then she asked me if I was expecting company. I said, ‘no.’ Then she told me we were old enough to have company. I told her I thought I was too young. My mother said I was too young, also. Right or wrong?” OUR REPLY: Don’t be in a hurry to have company and to get aboard the dating merry-go-round. Your mother is right and so are you. Don’t concern yourself with what others do. There is a pretty standard argu ment teenagers give when their parents tell them they are too young to have dates or go steady. It goes something like this, “Why not? Jeanne and Jill have dates and they are no older than I am.” This is no argument. Maybe Jeanne and Jill have dates with out their parents being aware of the fact. Maybe their parents know it and don’t care. This is a sad state of affairs. This writer is unable to understand how a teen ager can be happy with the knowl edge that his or her parents just don’t care what they do, or what happens to them. Most parents do care, fortu nately, and that is why one of the biggest problems a teenager faces is becoming “old enough” to date with parental approval. At fifteen, a girl is old enough to go to parties and socials that are properly chaperoned. Whether she is old enough to have “dates” is another question entirely. If you have a teenage problem yon want -to diicasa, or an observation to make, address your letter to FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS. NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERVICE, FRANKFORT. KY. FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS By C D. Smith Girl Should Talk Things Over With Mother THE WEEK'S LETTER: “I am thirteen years old. I have a prob lem. I want to talk to my mother about things, but I am afraid to start asking questions. My mother and I are very close and I don’t want anything to happen between us. What should I do?” OUR REPLY: “You are fortu nate to feel that you have a close relationship with your mother— and worrying needlessly about this relationship being endan gered in any way because you “ask questions.” Chances are high that your mother has some things she wants to talk to you about and has just been waiting for the right oppor tunity to come along. Give her that opportunity. There is nothing complicated about getting such a conversation started. Simply go to your mother and say, “Mom, I have some things that bother me. I want to ask you about them.” You will find your mother most ready and willing to listen to what you have to say. She is most interested. Your problems are her problems, and this is something you should remember. Problems have a way of multi plying. They also seem to grow “out of proportion” if we continue to live with them and do nothing about them. Take your problems to your mother. You’ll feel much better about them as quickly as you tell her what they are. And, when you have talked them ,over, you will find that your relationship is even more “close” than you realized. If jron have a teenage problem yoa want to discnss, or an observation to make, address yonr letter to FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS. NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERVICE, FRANKFORT, KY. feet thick—and those timbers are held together with wooden pegs— not a nail in the place,’ the guide said, rubbing his hand lovingly over the stones of the old fire place as he addressed the group of tourists. ‘No siree,’ he exclaim ed, concluding his lecture, ‘they just don’t build houses like they did in the good old days.” Indeed they don’t, and most modern home owners are glad there’ve been some changes in home construction. Almost everyone has visited one of the homes of yesteryear . . . anything from a log cabin to a Southern plantation house. With the guide’s enthusiastic dialogue ringing in your ears, there’s often a tug of nostalgia that makes the visitor wish he might step back in time and re-live some of the romance and adventure associated with the old homesteads. On second thought, however, he is usually pretty happy he wasn’t bom a century or two too soon. The log cabin’s disadvantages are fairly obvious. Generally there was just one room which was, most moderns agree, going a bit far where ‘togetherness’ and ‘open planning’ are concerned. The floors tended to be dirty because that’s what they were—just dirt! ‘Running water’ meant that a small boy ran back and forth be tween cabin and well (or spring- with bucket in hand. ‘Central heating’ was the fireplace. It warmed the body (one side at the time) and inspired the soul, and periodically it brought tears to your eyes, not because it was all so picturesque or romantic, but because it often belched forth smoke, soot, and fumes. The fireplace was also mama’s ‘built in stove and oven’. Here she spent many happy hours prepar ing meals in heavy grime-covered cauldrons. ‘Air conditioning’ meant opening the window and letting the breeze (and assorted bugs) fly through the cabin. Very likely, your cabin would have been a ‘split level.’ That is, when bedtime came (and it came awfully early in those pre-tele vision, pre-radio, pre-light bulb days( you’d climb a ladder to a loft under the roof rafters. That’s where most of the children went at night. That’s where most of the fireplace smoke went, too. Ah, but how about that roman tic old plantation, rising majestic ally beside the river, its lofty pil lars shimmering in moonlight fil tering through moss hung oaks? There was real living. True, there were more rooms; as many as 40 of them in some of the old manor houses. The kitchen was generally not in the house at all. It was a sep arate building so that the cooking wouldn’t heat up the rest of the house. Bedrooms were a far cry from the log cabin loft. They were big, with windows on one side and the central hall on the other to pro vide maximum cross ventilation. (Air conditioning was still a matter of opening the window.) There were huge attics not so much for storage as for insulation against the sun. Roofs extended well beyond the house to keep the sun’s rays out of the rooms. The bathroom? It was down back of the garden, the elegant Greek Revival structure behind the well pruned yew hedge. At their very best, the homes of yesterday ran a poor second to even the most modest homes of today. Every conceivable conven ience is built in to make modem living fun living. There’s more living in less house. A couple of inches of-insulation obviates the need for tremendous attics, for example. With modem refrigera tor-freezers, there’s no need for a fruit cellar, and today’s thermo statically controlled heating and air conditioning plants have done away with coal bins and keep us at an even 72 degrees the year around. Steel beams and nails have done away with the hand- hewn beams and trunnels (wood en pegs). And best of all, this comfortable kind of living is now within reach of the very many in stead of the very few.” It must be said of those stout and sturdy homes: they reared men in those days and one doubts about the wear and tear of their boards and cardboard. ••••••••••• Z Dean Manion THE MANION FORUM A number of United Nations treaties are now pending for rati fication in our Senate. The dis cussions, pro and con, about them reminds many of us that it is time new for a renewed interest in the history of the Bricker Amend ment which was the subject of much debate and much publicity from 1948 to 1954. Some of us re member that it was defeated by a single vote in the Senate. Many people sincerely believe that no treaty made between the United States and a foreign coun try can take away any right guar anteed Americans by their Con stitution. But this is wrong. Con stitutional lawyers are well aware that the Supreme Court of the United States has said that a treaty made under the authority of the United States supercedes the Constitution and becomes sup erior to it. The then Secretary of State said publicly in 1952 that “Under our Constitution treaties become the Supreme Law of the Land ... (treaties) can take pow ers from the state and give them to the Federal Government, or to some international body and they can cut across rights given the people by the Constitutional Bill of Rights.” Take a look at some of the re lated provisions in our own Con stitution and the silmilar provis ions in the Unitetd Nations cove nants . Our Constitution says: Con- HUSBAND WORN OUT AT 65T— A PLAN TO PROVE HE’S NOT ti'T'HE closer my husband gets A to retirement, the more fear ful I become. . . .” This is how a moderately well- to-do wife this week expressed her sentiments. . “It’s not money that concerns me,” she said. “My husband will have a pension of about $300 a month, and we have our house and some savings. My fear is the blank wall we are going to be facing the day he comes home. “He doesn’t want to find any new work after he retires. He has no hobbies and says he doesn’t want any. Apparently he <ias not a single interest in life except going to the meetings of the American Legion and his iodge. “He has been drifting toward this nothingness over the last sev eral years. But he has had his job o occupy his mind and about nine uours of his day. There has been reason to go on trying and living. When he retires there will be no reason—no future, no plans, no dreams, no enthusiasm, nothing even to talk about. “What can I do with this dis mal picture?” This wife, and others of you facing a similar problem, can do the following: 1. Understand that human spirit ;s not dead at 65. The urge to do, to win, to explore, to achieve may have been driven underground by unhappy experiences. But it is alive. Search for the key to re vive it. 2. Realize that one thing you do will lead to another thing you do —always. So make a start toward snapping your husband out of his doldrums, even if it’s wrong. Another idea will come to you out of it Or to him. To do nothing, in hopes that a solution will come in off the street, is to fade away and die. With these matters out of the way, the wife might consider some practical steps: Take the children into your con fidence, saying you’re afraid Dad is heading for a miserable retire ment and asking for suggestions. A visit by you and Dad to any of the children living in another city might strike a spark in him. Draw out some of the savings and make a trip together. Not to Pike’s Peak, but to a place that may inspire him to start living again. To a seaport if he has lived inland, to New York if he’s a small town man, or to something strange like a lumber camp in Canada. Use all your wiles to get him to attend an adult evening school. Not because he wants to learn anything but because a classroom is a garden of ideas. And an idea 1 that will revive your husband is your goal. Can the local commander of the American Legion do something to make your husband catch fire? Or the head of that lodge? Tell your husband, calmly, that you simply aren’t going to sit around and vegetate with him. Either he gets out and does some thing worthwhile, or you will. Then look into a job as a real estate saleslady. yew GOLDEN Y EARS 36-page booklet now ready. Send 50<^ in coin (no stamps), to Dept. CSPS, Box 1672, Grand Central Station. New Y'ork 17. N. Y. gress shall make no law respect ing an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof: or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peacably to as semble and to petition for a re dress of grievances.” That provision docs not imply that the Constitution is granting these rights to us. It clearly as sumes that we already have these rights, and the Constitution com mands the government not to try to take these rights away from us, or to interfere with our en joyment of them in any way. Article 13 of the U.N.covenant says: “Freedom to manifest one’s religious beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are pur suant to law.” According to this, you have the right to practice your religion only if the law—un doubtedly meaning world law— will permit you to do so. The U. N. covenant further pro vides: “(Art. 15) The right ■ to seek, receive, and impart informa tion carries with it special duties and responsibilities and may there for be subject to certain penalties, liabilities and restrictions” but adds “these restrictions shall only be such as are provided by law-” Those who favored the passage of the Bricker Amendment rec ognized these “covenants” for what they are: an attempt to con tradict our concept of government that our rights are natural, God- given, and that government is not to interfere with them, and to substitute a United Nations con cept of government as holding that rights are not God-given but come from the government, i A true friend of the United Na tions and a true friend of 1 our own country would want some such guarantee of protection, of our national independence such as ARE YOU LISTENING? BY EARL WILSON A few weeks ago we decided we were in need of more closet space, and so we took it upon ourselves to clean out and rearrange them. Little by little we pulled every thing out into the floor, and once the closet was completely empty, we swept them clean and began putting things back. Before long, we could see that we had not done away with a single thir g that had been in the closet in the first place. All that we had done was to rearrange things, putting them in a little more orderly fashion. This should be a parable that would Speak ve?*y loudly to our lives. • This is the way that we treat the Lord. When we first ac cepted him as our Lord and Sav iour we were quite ready to put away some of the sinful acts that we had been doing. One by one we pulled them out into the light so that we could get a closer look at them, and then one by one we be gan putting them right back into our lives again. We may have put them in a little more orderly fash ion, but just the same, we had not was intended by the Bricker Am endment. We want our natural God-given rights “protected” and not /‘granted” by our government or any international governme.it. discarded a single one of them. If this is true in your life then this passage of scripture is speak ing to you. “And why call me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” In other words, “Why do you call me Lord and continue doing the things that I am against?” Listen to these words of God: “Not everyone that speaketh the name Lord, shall en ter into the kingdom of heaven; but only those that do the will of my Father which is in heaven.” - In cleaning out the closets of our lives let us do away with the things that are preventing our do ing the will of God. Are you listening ? Longshore Dies In New York Andrew Cauthen Longshore, 59, died Saturday in a New York Hospital. He was born in Newberry coun ty, the son of the late Wilson E. and Henrietta Longshore. He was a veteran of World War II and had lived in New York for many years. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Agnes Longshore, and one son, of New York; five sisters, Mrs. F. W. Martin, Mrs. R. F. Weeks, Mrs. J. N. Suber, and Mrs. F. H. Sat- terwhite, all of Newberry, and Mrs. M. B. Gist of Del Rio, Tex.; one brother, W. W. Longshore of Silverstreet and one half-brother, R. F. Longshore of Newberry. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at Simsenson’s Funeral Home in Long Island, N. Y. Interment was on Wednesday in National Cemetery in Long Island, New York. JAFFTY >F VOVA fAVIWOS INSURED •IF TO 5«aooo For Reputation Newberry Federal has earned a reputation for absolute reliability during its twenty-nine years of sound, yet dynamic growth. Today, Newberry Fed eral is recognized as one of the leading and strong est savings and loan associations. 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