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[r 1^: 1 ■•f. THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1964 THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA Local Students Get Awards Awards Day at Newberry Col lege was held Monday in Holland Hall with the president, Dr. Wiles, presiding. The program included the pre sentation of Scholarship Awards, Key Awards, Who’s Who Certifi cates and the Bachman Honor So ciety Certificates. Newberry County students hon ored included: The Newberry Business and Professional Women’s Club Schol arship, Miss Nita D. Longshore, Kinards. The Emma Vogelgesang Hay- A student government associa- maker Scholarship in German to Miss Margaret E. Kelly. The Sease Memorial Scholarship to Miss Virginia Roberta Cooper. The Dr. James C. Kinard Schol arship to Miss Carolyn Mae Shea- ly of Chapin. The Julie Bredenberg Wright Memorial Scholarship to Miss Margaret E. Kelly. J. William Dominick of Silver- street received the Chi Beta Phi Key. Chi Beta Phi National Scien tific Fraternity furnishes each chapter annually a key to be pre sented to the member who is se lected by the chapter as the most I outstanding member during the , year. j tion Key was presented to Miss I Mildred E. Derrick, chairman of the Women’s Council. THE “SPECTATOR'S” COLUMN mm 11 mm mm mm mm® Ml ta I:**: m §m mm THE CAREFREE DRESS THAT SPANS THE SEASONS — SPARES THE IRON Our new collection of fresh Strollers has just ar rived. These are the dresses that go on in a min ute, live effortlessly, remain wearable forever. Designed in jersey of DuPont Nylon, they wash, drip dry, shed wrinkles, need no ironing. ■N 1. the on-in-a-jiffy-zipper or button front 2. the generously cut full skirt 3. two Si'de pockets 4. proportion fit sizes: 10 to 20, 12 1-2 to 22 1-2 $12.95 CARPENTER’S How does Florida provide space for all the cars that go there? My home is in a large lot fac ing highway 301. As I drive either east or west four days a week I drive out of my yard to enter highway 301. I have no idea how many cars went South by 301. I recall that many years ago my Walterboro friends said that nine hundred out-of-State cars passed through Walterboro every day. I didn’t count or even esti mate the number of cars passing through Manning over highway 301. I had heard that the cars were as thick as hops, but on Sat urday I s^w for myself. At 12 o’clock—noon—the traffic was so heavy —bumper-to-bumper— that I could not drive out of my yard, though waiting half-hour. Twelve o’clock, mind you! for the traffic was heavy all night Friday and throughout Saturday. I’m told that the traffic was about that heavy day and night since Easter, or five days. I assume that some cars still come by Ridgeland and Walter boro, so where do the Florida people prepare parking space for all the cars that come from Can ada, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and many other states ? So dense and constant was the traffic that my gracious and ac commodating gasoline buddy call ed to let me know that if I could back my car into my yard he Would try to get it whenever the car could cross the road. Well we are a nation on wheels, aren’t we ? At one time we thought of Am erica as a land of opportunity, a nation under God, as Abraham Lincoln said time after time. But we are rich today and have for saken the path of the founders; now, under the influence of wealth and the Federal Supreme Court we are so broad that we are bro thers in a great spiritual fellow ship with all people, tribes, na tions and religions. Did I say “spiritual fellowship?” I err grievously for we are the world’s great leaders in the mammon of casual religion. We might read the great old Prophet Isaiah some time and partake of his spirit as he wrote that fortieth chapter, verses 22 to the end, particularly verses 28 through 31. “Those that wait on the Lord.” Let your mind think on this: “Have ye not known that the everlasting God, Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary. Even the youths shall faint and be weary; and the young men shall utterly fall; But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up as with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk and not be faint.” “The poor ye have with you always” says the Sacred Scrip tures, citing and quoting the Lord, the Saviour of all. Of course we have become wise in our own conceit. As the writer I shall quote implies, the poor and pov erty are a new discovery and politicians will try to look wise and righteous and seek public office on their new-found solici tude for the poor. “It’s truly astounding how much poverty has boomed in this coun try since the accession of Presi dent Johnson. Of course poverty has never been a stranger to us. Even the most affluent society has its dispossessed ,those who for one reason or another find themselves apart from the general prosper ity. Some by their own doing. Some by inadequacies of mind or spirit beyond their power to rectify. Some by misfortune which they neither caused nor can cor rect. All of them, even the slothful, are worthy of compassion and have a call on the help of good men. In this country the response to that call has always been phe nomenal, not only for our own unfortunates but for those in far away places. But for all that, the poor have never been so much with us, or at least so much in the mouths of politicians. You can hardly pick up a newspaper or tune in the TV set without hearing about this blight of poverty, usually presented as some enormous new discovery made betwi* last Nov ember and last night. So that the proverbial man from Mars, or even a worldly reader in Paris or Moscow, might well con clude that poverty is seeping like a plague through this rich, cap italist country. You can well im agine what pleasant reading it must be for those whose job it is to tell bleak masses elsewhere how terrible life is in the United States. Almost everybody knows that this is a distorted image, but hardly anybody dares say so for fear of being dammed as a heart less wretch. This is what makes the poverty boom such a marvel ous political play. But it doesn’t make it any more honest. For the implication in all this political propaganda is not simply that there are those poor amid l plenty, which is true, or that there j are those who for whatever rea- I son are without much hope of im- 1 proving their lot, which is also true. The implication is, first of all, that misery embraces a fifth or more of the whole population and ! that the word ‘poverty’ here used describes the same condition as poverty in Asia, Africa or even parts of Latin America. The sec ond implicatipn is that in all the years of this country, until this Congressional session, nobody has done anything about it. If you want to see how dishon est this is, spend a few days in one of the slums in New York, or any other of our great cities. There, believe us, you will find poverty by the standards of the greater part of the nation. But there also, believe us, you will find the tempest-tossed from oth er lands to whom this ‘poverty’ is something they fled to from something worse. If you don’t be lieve that, go from the Latin slums of New York to the slums of Latin America. Or take a tour through the poorest section of the barren Ap- palachain hills. If you have com passion, this will nurture it. But match this with a visit to the poor of almost any of the lands where our Peace Corps is now working; better yet, match it if you can with a journey through the by-ways of the Iron Curtain countries. There you will see mis ery of a wholly different order. And while you are thus jour neying, try one across your own country. Not one of these airplane trips that whisk you across a con tinent in a few hours but a slow journey by car or bus. Then ask yourself if a fifth of the nation is, really, ground down in the hopeless circle of poverty. These same journeys will also give you a better idea of what Am erica has done to war on, if in deed not yet to conquer, the af fliction of the dispossessed. The welfare payments in a New York slum give yet a standard of liv ing that millions in the world would deny. Moreover, for years now Americans have taxed them selves to rebuild cities, some times even whole countrysides, as in the Tennessee valley. Look, as you journey, at the houses, hospi tals, schools, colleges and camps sprouting like mushrooms over the landscape. Look, most of all, at what the American economic system, with all its creaks and groams, has done to make our definition of what is poor a marvel of the world. In no other place does the laborer in the factory, the clerk in the counting house, the waitress in the coffee house, the drayman on the road or the long shoreman on his pier—all those who before and elsewhere have been numbered among the poor— enjoy so much as the reward for their labor. We have our poor, indeed we do, and no good man would halt our efforts to make them fewer. Yet what is this new poverty program, hatched by the Administration in a hundred days amid the distract ions of Vietnam and Panama? Search it as you will and you will find nothing new in it, save for the creation of a new com missar of poverty. Whatever the arguments about outdoor camps for boys, urban renewal, labor re training programs, Federal aid to education, area redevelopment, work relief, loans to farm famil ies and all the rest, the program does not ‘chart a new course.’ This is what is claimed for it by President Johnston, while oth-, ers assure us it is the first salva in an all-out attack that is going to obliterate poverty forever. Any-' one who questions the honesty of the advertising is as bereft of political friends as lonesome. George. What the same government i doing to worsen the lot of th poor will hardly be mentioned a all. Only old fogies today a r concerned by continuous billion dollar deficits and the steady ero4 sion of the dollar to pay for them,' A little inflation, so we’re told, is just a price we have to pay foi? prosperity. Yet if, as Walter Heller says, all those with income less than $3000 are poor by American standards, what will sooner make poorer those handicapped in life than a still further cheapening of those dollars? What more cruel to those who must live on Social Security, a pension, an insurance policy or a lifetime’s savings? Still, we find this poverty pro gram utterly fascinating. First time we ever heard- of a party running for re-election by runn ing down what it’s done for the country and telling the folk they never had it so bad.” athlete named Abner Doubleday has now been generally discounted by serious students of the' game. Robert Henderson of the New York Public Library, in his book called “Ball, Bat and Bishop,” traces the origin of baseball and other sports back to the Egyptians around 2000 B.C. An ancient fer tility rite included the first rec orded contest in which bats and balls were used. A far cry from baseball as we know it, perhaps but Henderson, an eminent sports scholar, maintains that all bat and ball gamesof today can be traced to this same source. The ceremonial contest was car ried to Africa by the Saracens a- round 700 A.D. and from there the neighboring Moors adopted it and transplanted it to Spain. An English variation of the contest evolved into a game called stoolball. In this game the batter stood in front of one stool, after hitting the ball with a stick or club, ran from stool to stool, much as present-day players run from base to base. This game is record ed back as far as 1344 and is said to be the father of cricket and the great-grandfather of America’s baseball. Early English settlers brought their game of cricket to America along with another game called rounders, a bat and ball game which got its name from round stakes used as bases. It is interesting to note that an Englishman’s description of rounders dated 1829, and an Am erican description of baseball, dated 1834, contain practically the PAGE THREE same rules and an identical dia gram. The word baseball itself is oluer than we think, having appeared in print for at least 250 years- In 1700, a disapproving clergy- man wrote, T have seen Morris dancing, cudgel playing, baseball and cricketts, and many other sports on the Lord’s day’.” One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. Baseball is an American insti tution. I recall camps in France (1st World War, A.E.F.) in which one might see “Doughboys” whil ing away the tedium of camp by throwing baseballs around. Where did it all begin? The widespread American legend that baseball was invented in 1839 at Cooperstown, N. 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