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PAGE 4 THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, MAY 28, 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 I have great respect for the protest made by many church of ficials because of the Supreme Court’s decision apparently for bidding prayers in public schools. I do not think the Court had any lawful jurisdiction in that matter and I join those who re buke the Court for its decision which is just another instance of the Court assuming authority be yond the scope of its lawful pre rogative. I quote the Constitution: “Con gress shall make no law respect ing an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the free dom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the the Government for a redress of grievance.” That is article 1, the first am endment of the Constitution. Our great Federal Supreme Court seems uninformed on the language and purport of the Con stitution. The matter of school prayers came up in New York. The Con situation explicitly limited the Congress: forbade the Congress to take action. Our Court seems to think that it is a Supreme Auth ority over the United States, al though it is only a Supreme court to hear appeals from Federal courts, and that within a limited scope. The establishment of religion, forbidden to the Congress, mark you, and definitely and precisely applies to congress. By the estab lishment of religion is meant that the congress is forbidden to spon sor any denomination such as the Church of England. Even at that the Constitution refers to the Congress, leaving the States at liberty to act differently. Frankly I doubt the religious value of perfunctory prayers.. A prayer being a communion with the Supreme Being should not be a mere form; just as the grace at table is frequently an idle ges ture delegated to a child, instead of being an act of thanksgiving by the one to whom the blessing was given, being the father, the bread-winner of the family. The Great Giver of all, the Father, must smile with compas sion when merely perfunctory prayers are offered. I recall the story of a newspa per report of a great religious service in Boston, as I remember. The reporter inadvertantly was right, perchance, in referring to a visiting Minister who prayed, said: “It was the most eloquent prayer ever made to a Boston audience.” Yea, verily; but what did the aug ust Father of all mankind, think of that prayer offered to a Boston audience ? I have no doubt that many teachers are devout and thankful for all the mercies and blessings received from the Throne of grace. But, in any case, the Sup reme Court had no authority to sit in judgment on the prayer or the act of praying. As a matter of constitutional interpretation I think the Amend ment assured the right of hold ing religious services as churches; no one thought of public, free schools, for there were not any at that time. Nevertheless the strict prohibition leaves the mat ter exclusively to the states. The great Court ran afoui of the First Amendment in recent in terpretations of the last clau in that Amendment. It says that no law by Congress “shall abridge the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Observe the language, for law yers (and even judges) are sup posed to study the wording. “The right of the people peace ably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Hundreds of arrests in the South were not in cases of peace able assembling, but riotous and turbulant disorder and not to pe tition the Government (the Cons titution means the Federal Gov ernment) not to petition th,e Gov ernment but to apply mass action and intimidation and riotous dis order of flagrant viciousness in local communities. y- The Supreme Court has pre sumed to arrogate to itself spheres of authority not only Hot- contemplated by Constitutional framers but, as read, in cases ex pressly denied to the Federal Au thority. Does the Court presume- to act in cases explicitly forbidden' to the Congress ? that the Government in Washing ton rests upon law and the laws are made by the Congress. Read or listen to President Johnson: “President Johnson said he would consider calling Congress back into session after the pol itical conventions this summer if the lawmakers fail to act before then on his civil rights bill and other major proposals. He raised the threat of an extended congressional session at perhaps the most unusual news conference in White House annals —an out-of-doors affair graced by reporters and their families, rang ing down to 3-month-old children. About 1000 people were jammed on the White House lawn. He seems to think that he is the government, a dictator whose will must prevail, regardless of the Congress. And in this era of su pine bowing and scraping by the Congress to the President he may j be right: he is, then, a dictator. Are we a government by des potism or tryanny? Or i» this a Government of law? For fear that our readers of the newspapers and avid patrons of the radio and TV may forget Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn, for whom I have much appreciation, reported re cently the interview he had with General McArthur. I quote only a small part, for the time is past to use the masterful strategy of the great general. Our policy of stupidity in foreign entanglements has reaped a whirlwind of trouble for us. “McArthur thought of the Red aggression in the Far East as only one phase of their global de signs. MacArthur did not draw a line between Europe and Asia. He looked upon the whole as Eurassia. He felt that if we did not win in the Far East, eventually these overwhelming potential resources and manpower would be assembled, Western Europe would be out flanked by way of northern Afri ca, and we would lose Western Europe. We asked General Mac Arthur at this conference about Russian intervention. MacArthur expressed the opinion that Russia would never be that stupid mili tarily. They had no stockpile of atomic bombs at that time. They had only one railroad leading from Moscow to the Vladivostok, a long railroad which could be cut in a thousand places by air power. It would be impossible for Russia to supply a large army in Siberia or Manchuria at that time. Rus sia, too, needed time to rehabili tate its war-tom economy and de velop its nuclear potential. Rus sia, China, North Korea, all des perately needed more time and by a truce or stalemate, we were simply giving them the precious time. ^ v . ,, y MacArtfctuv during this inter view, mentioned the possibility' and desirability if necessary, of using Japanese troops. Japan had been a traditional military power, but now many of its tra.ined officers and men were unemployed veter ans of the Pacific conflict. Mac Arthur felt that under the right auspices these men could be used on a voluntary basis, thus saving American manpower for use in other key areas of the world. Mac Arthur had a high regard for the Japanese soldier, and he felt that this was as much their war as it was ours. MacArthur was not bitter. The men at the front lines were bit ter. Our Air Force pilots who came in from dogfights near the Yalu River were bitter. Some of them complained to me with tears in their eyes that they had pur sued Russian Migs to the Yalu and then had to circle and watch them land on the ground in the bright sunshine, refuel their planes with gasoline, and seplen- ish their ammunition supply and come back across the Yalu to shoot at them again. The Marines were hitter, the Navy was bitter, every general, every soldier, every airman, and every seaman with whom I talked was bitter about not being permitted to win the war. MacArthur only reflected the opinion of the men under his command—the people and Gov ernment of Korea, the Japanese, and the Chinese on Formosa. MacArthur said, ‘The first law of nature is self-defense; and re gardless of policy, when people are shooting at you trying to kill you, then something should be done and it ceases to be a matter of policy but is military and a question of survival.’ General MacArthur said , that Formosa was just as important to the United States and the de fense of the free world as France. Formosa was the center of the defense chain in the Pacific. If the Reds were permitted to take Formosa, the entire free world defense chain in the Pacific would be broken .at its center. MacArthur did deplore the greed of the Socialist government of Britain which permitted busi ness as usual with Red China while American and even some British boys were dying in Korea. MacArthur felt it unthinkable and incredible that any nation fight ing under the United Nations flag could trade with China after its armies mercilessly and ruth lessly attacked United Nations troops in Korea.” County Permits F. H. McConnell, 2808 Clyde Ave., one garage, cement block, $800. James Earl Wise, Route 3, five- room brick veneer dwelling, $8,- 000. CHAPTER MEETS TUESDAY NIGHT Calvin Crozier Chapter, U.D.C., will meet at the home of Mrs. James Smith Jr., 1235 Calhopm Street, op Tuesday evening, June 2 at 8 p.m. M Hostesses will, be Mrs. Thomp son Price, Mrs. James Smith Sr., Mrs. D. L. Nance, Mrs. Floyd Bradley, Mrs. Phil "Brooks, Mrs. W. W. Parr and Mrs. Ed' Haynie. PROPERTY TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Janie Nunnery to Joseph A. j Jackson and Margie N. Jackson, five lots, $5 love and affection. Janie Nunnery to Willie L. Scott Sr., two lots on Long St., $5. William W. Riser Jr. and Mary C. Riser to D. A. Reighley, one lot, $5. James Lindsay to Ernest H. Layton, one lot and one building on Taylor St., $ 5and assumption of a mortgage. Lucille Lindsay to Ernest H. Layton, one lot and one building, $5 and assumption of a mortgage. Frank H. Ward, Master, to George Thomas Riggin Jr. and Jane Grimison Riggin, one lot and one building fronting on Nance St., $5. Merle H. Purcell to Magnolia Pitts, one lot and one building, $5. Hal Kohn to W. Fulmer Wells, one lot in Coateswood, $5. W. Fulmer Wells, to Hal Kohn, one lot, $5. Newberry No. 1 Outside Harold C. Perkins and Pansy E. Perkins to Sam W. Berry, one lot and one building, $5. Maxcy Speicer and Pearl Spei- cer to Mid-State Homes Inc., its successors and assigns, one lot, $5. Bush River No. 3 Burke M. Wise, Clerk of Court of Common Pleas, to Carol F. Ept- ing, 50 acres and one building, $5 and consideration of said prem- isos. Sula S. Miller to Charles G. Whitmire and Mary Rowell Whit mire, 1.50 acres, $10. Whitmire No. 4 Louise T. Vollins to Ardie R. Campbell, two lots, $10. Billy Jo Tankersley and Nellie B. Tankersley to Kenneth L. Cole man and Martha H. Coleman, one lot and one building on Tidmarsh Drive, $10. Mary Lane and Willie Jeter to David Lane and Mary G. Lane, one lot, $10 and exchange of deed. Mary G. Lane and Willie Jeter to Willie Jeter and Helen Lane Jeter, one lot, $10 and exchange of deed. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Louise T. Collins to Ordie R. Campbell, one lot, $10. Pomaria No. 5 Helen R. Counts to William N. Henderson, 34.5 acres, $5. Prosperity Np. 7 Lawrence V. Livingston to Dor othy L. Rose, 29.6jl acres, $5, PATIENTS IN THE HOSPITAL i ‘William F. Vleth of Union and' Barbara •Rochester' ; of Whitmire were married on Ma^r 22 at Whit mire' by Rev. Arthur' W. Nichols. NEWBERRY COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Berley R. Bouknight, Newberry Mrs. Katherine Black, Batesburg Mrs. Ruth Suit Berry, Newberry Rev. Arthur W. Ballentine, New berry Mrs. Bessie Boland, Little Moun tain Mrs. Eva Ballentine, Newberry Mrs. Brenda Bedenbaugh, Pros perity Mrs. Ruby Cutshall, Kinards Haskell Anderson Crumpton, Newberry Baby Allan Houseal Crumpton, N ewberry Harold Lee Cromer, Newberry Mrs. Lalla J. Dorroh, Silver- street. Thomas Moore Gilliam, Pomaria Mrs. Peggie A. Harmon, Pros perity Mrs. Mary Haltiwanger, Chapin Robert Lee A. Huffstetler, Lt. Mountain Mrs. Josephine Harris, Newber ry Miss Grace Hazel, Newberry Mrs. Minnie Lee Koon, Pomaria John Leopard, Newberry John Henry Ldpford, Kinards Charles N. Martin, Newberry Mrs. John A. Mayer, Newberry Earl Norris, Newberry Miss Jo Ann Pitts, Silverstr6et Mrs. Marie Gary Pope, Newber ry Claude Edward Porter, Newber- ry Mrs. Virginia C. Renwick, New berry Mrs. Nida M. Ratterree, Rocx Hill Mrs. Carrie Sanford, Newberry Mrs. Ruth Bradley Seymore, Newberry Miss Jenny Lee Shealy, Prosper ity Mrs. Claudia C. Suber, Newber ry Boyd Shealy, Chapin Miss Leona Shealy, Little Moun tain Mrs. Mittie Summer, Newberry Mrs. Julia Sawyer, Columbia Mrs. Martha B. Turner, Pros perity Charles Pinckney Teague, New berry Homer L. Wicker, Newberry Mrs. Veda Leavell Wilson, Chappells Quincy Williams, Newberry Miss Mattie. Bell Carter, Kin- ards . x Mrs. Bell Cha-friin, Newberry Johnny Cooper, Newberry y • — • * pi’" " Mr^. Fa: mire George O. Morray Maybin, i' FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS By C. D. Smith Mother Won’t Let Her Even Talk To Boys Tk Eympk, (/ ’And let all the angels of God worship him.** Deuteronomy 32:43 a,** • - 1 St. Paul reminded in his teachings that the things long foretold by the prophets were fulfilled in the life of Christ upon earth. God spoke through the prophets, later through the example of the living Christ. Christ was “greater than the angels,” yet showed everyone the true meaning of such words as dignity, obedience and de votion. Christ pointed the way for all men to see. In these modem times, all of us, as practicing Christians, can liye a life of purpose and in some small measure set an ex ample of our own. Read your BIBLE daily and GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY XM \\ £UT MOTHER WONY EVE'N LET ME TALK TO A BOY-.. THE WEEK’S LETTER: “I am 15 years old and there are boys who want to talk to me and who want me to be their “steady,” but my mother says “NO!” She won’t even let me talk to a boy. The other day, I was talking to a boy in front of the house and she comes out and tells me to get right into the house. It embar rasses me. I don't know whether the boy will speak to me again or not He didn’t even say “good bye.” I am frequently asked to go to the show with girlfriends and their dates, but I always have to refuse since my mother won’t even let me talk to a boy. I feel I should learn how to conduct myself and how to carry on a conversation with boys without waiting until I am seventeen or eighteen years old. By then, I won’t even know what to say.” OUR REPLY: You will, by the time you are seventeen, know wnat to say to boys. Perhaps the reason your mother is so strict, is to be found in the opening sen tence of your letter. You aren’t even dating yet, and still some boys have asked you to go steady. Because you are young, you may feel that parents who love their children give them more “freedom,” let them date and go steady at an early age. As you grow older, you will realize that your mother is not so “strict” as she appears and that she is more conscious of her responsibility as a parent than she is concerned with the fact that other girls your age are having dates and going steady. Your mother is in terested in you, in whai is right for you and for your future wel fare. If roa hara a taamafa problem 70a waat to ducam. or aa obaerration to maka. address roar lattor to FOK AND ABOUT TEENAGERS. COMMUNITY AND SUB URBAN PBESS SERVICE. FRANK- FORT. KY. GO BE' AN EXPERT ON 1899— IF YOU REACH 65 THIS YEAR P EOPLE coming up to age 65 and retirement this year were born in 1899. Which wasn’t a bad year. Maybe you can do something with it, if nobody is hanging around to give you a $20,000 con sultant job when you retire. Or if, in fact, you have nothing to do. Wallace A. Stephens, who is 65 and will retire July 1, discovered 1899 about two years ago. He has been studying it since, and plans to make a second career of it. “I think I could make some money with my rather odd-ball project,” he says, “and I have no doubt I have stumbled upon some thing that will absorb me for the next 20 years. But I didn’t start it for either reason. I just got curious about what the world was like in that wonderful year when I was born . . A dinner-table conversation about President Teddy Roosevelt was the beginning. It led to an argument over when he became Vice President, which led to the name of Garret A. Hobart who preceded Roosevelt as Vice Presi dent, and was holding the office in 1899. Mr. Stephens, having lost the argument, pursued the subject fur ther the next day and discovered that also in the year 1899 an Iowan named David B. Henderson was Speaker of the U.S. House of Rep resentatives, and Henderson was a distant relative of the Stephens family. With that, he was off and run ning. And over the next year he read all the books he could find on the period from the Gay Nine ties to about 1910. But always he drifted back to the clean-up of the Spanish-American War, the close out of a Century, and his year of 1899. Mrs. Stephens encouraged him. She gave him a couple of books that were published in 1899. She picked up for him a few coins minted in that year. She wrote letters for him to relatives all over, seeking family letters and family Bibles covering the 1899 period. “With this, I moved into collect ing,” Mr. Stephens says. “I got particularly interested in the 1899 magazines, some of which I found in bound volumes. I began looking for picture prints, other books and newspapers with the 1899 imprint. “When I discovered that such glamor boys as Fred Astaire and Charles Bpyer were born along with me iii 1899, and that Hoagy Carmichael and Pat O’Brien got their diapers then too, I decided I was riding in fine company with my project.. Until now, Mr. Stephens has collected autographs of famous people living in 1899, glassware and small pieces of furniture made then (though he says he’s having a rough time pinning down dates on these), all sorts of time-pieces, and any and all small bells. He wanted to get into wagons and buggies, but has no place to keep them. He did get into railroads and is now trying to compile evi dence on what trains ran where, when, and how fast—in 1899. What Mr. Stephens is doing will seem like pablum to some men who are coming up to retirement this year, and with vim and vigor are going out to slay some dragons. But they might keep it in mind for that day when they learn that the dragon doesn’t want to be slain. yew GOLDEN YEARS 36-pmt* book'd now rcadjr. Send 50d in coin (no staaipe). to Dept. CSPS, Box 1C73. Grand Central Station. Now York IT. N. Y. Building Permits F. M. Schumpert, re-locating dwelling on Kinard street. Waldrop Feed Mill office, new office building, 2063 Alexander street, ^ Mrs. Curtis Harris* repairs to dwelling, 514'Main street. * ' Billy Senn, repairs to ' dwelling 2230 Johnstone street: ’ ; *• Mrs. Mary Gardehhire, repairs t6 dwelling, 1000 College street. Oliver Gallman, repairs to dwelling, 527 Gallman street Homer Richardson, repairs to dwelling, 1813 Montgomery St Faith Lutheran church, repairs to church, 1505 Wilson street. Harry Senn, repairs to dwelling, 1909 Tanyard street B. M. Mack, repairs to dwelling 1408 Poplar street Vester Teague, add one room to dwelling, 922 Bess street. Total for the above permits $14,000.00. SKEET SCOOP Walt Cousins with 50x50 was high gun for the week's skeet shooting at thb Newberry Gun Club this week. Abe Chapman was second with 49x60. . 1 •mwkw&z Chariia Jtpps 4^ Jim !fcdd 47/Roy - ^ Mills 40, ................ ” targets,, scopes w^rb Pr. Elbert Dickert 24, Dr/W. W, Xing 24, .Henry Sowell 20 and Jonelle De hart 11. v,v . Out of town shooters were A1 Morrison, member of. the all Ma rine team and Spencer Greenhill of Augusta, Ga. Mrs. Marilyn Whitener Pate, who recently underwent surgery in a Columbia hospital, has re turned to her home in Columbia and is recuperating nicely. FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS By C« D. Smith She Can’t ‘Go’ Without Younger Sisters PL.ACE & WITHOUT 1 HE.SE K\DS... ’ THE WEEK’S LETTER: “I have two younger sisters and they want to go everywhere I go. Even when kids my own age ask me to go to the show with them, I can’t go because of my sisters. How can t tell my father and mother to let me go places without these kids? And, without making them mad? They say that I am old enough to go places, but they don’t let me go. What is the answer?” OUR REPLY: Your parents feel, probably, that you are old enough to go to some places, such as a movie, and properly look after your two younger sisters. They do not want to let you go to movies by yourself, or with only the company of children your own Confusing? Not really. Your parents feel that you are old enough to accept responsibility— that of “looking after” your sis ters. They feel that this responsi bility is good for you. Should they permit you to go places alone, or with others your own age, they would be “worrying” about you the whole time you were gone. When you take the younger sis ters with you, they feel secure— they know your sense of responsi bility will direct you there and see to it that you—and they—re turn home promptly. The simple truth of the matter is that being an older sister car ries responsibility with it And, contrary to what is the belief of many teenagers — “growing up” means continually taking on more and more responsibilities. However, when you grow older, you will discover that the respon sibility of “taking the kids” will fall to the next sister in line. Your own freedom will grow with the years—and with your maturity and sense of responsibility. a jm. *r aa obaerratiom to . — raw latter to FOB AND ABOUT TKKNACKRS. COMMUNITY AND SUB URBAN PBESS SEE VICE. FRANK FORT. KY. 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