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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1964
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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
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Mr^. Fa:
mire
George
O. Morray Maybin,
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FOR AND ABOUT TEENAGERS
By C. D. Smith
Mother Won’t Let Her Even Talk To Boys
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’And let all the angels of God worship him.**
Deuteronomy 32:43
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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
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£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
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Chariia Jtpps 4^ Jim !fcdd 47/Roy
- ^ Mills 40,
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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.
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— raw latter to FOB AND ABOUT
TKKNACKRS. COMMUNITY AND SUB
URBAN PBESS SEE VICE. FRANK
FORT. KY.
ACROSS
1 Giains
6 Trans
gressions
10 Dank
14 Creek
15 Man's name
16 Arabian
chieftain
17 Money: si.
18 California
city
19 Snap
20 Puts in
writing
22 Galleries
24 Pierces
26 Newest
27 Captivate
30 Before
31 Contest
32 Resides on
east coast
37 Curve
38 Swiftest
40 Gold: Span.
41 Practiced
43 Song
44 Performed
45 Helmsmen
48 Strive for
51 Grin
52 Sables
54 Approve
58 Mixture
59 Quality,
activity
or state
61 Animate
62 So. African
gun
63 Orient
64 Majestic
65 Terminates
66 Mineral
. springs
67 Machine
guns
DORN
1 Dodecanese
island
2 Biblical
country
3 Electrical
force
4 Please
5 Machine
pvt
6 Nonsensical
7 — Gershwin
8 Thatching
palm
9 Reds
10 Contender
11 Chemical
compound
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n
r?
12 Particles
13 Advance
on wages
21 Agr
23 Proof
reader's
mark
25 Severe
critics
27 Son of Miled
28 Organ of
smell
29 Exclamation
33 Dregs
34 Standard
35 Iroquoian
Indian
36 Brown horse
38 Lalssez -----
39 Forest
of --------
42 Redactors
43 Small area
46 — Rose
47 Seniors
48 Love: Italian
49 Drawing
room
50 Peered
53 Cleanser
55 Blaster
56 M&'s name
57 Congers
60 America: abbr.