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PAGE 2 THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1964 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. 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 The practice of our State is too loose to be allowed to continue. The House meets early and adopts a bill somewhat in keeping with the recommendations of the Bud get Commission. Then the Senate begins toplay with it, increasing this or that and adding new mat ter. So far as the Budget Com mission is concerned it might as well be abolished and the gate opened for whatever someone may think of. What we urgently need is a sharp, drastic use of the veto power of the Governor; he may veto any item or items and stem the tide to annual prodigality, a sort of play-boy practice. Governing a city, a county, a State, or a nation should be a serious matter and proposals for the expenditure of public money, taxpayer^’ hard-earned contribu tion for the general welfare. The sober-minded citizen, asking no favors, is sometimes disgusted by the insidious efforts to divert the public money to special uses. Anyone at all familiar with the State government could readily point to items of no urgent nec essity, oftentimes of no real ser vice. • The grab game sometimes seen is unworthy of a self-governing people. Why can’t we provide adequate ly for necessary public service without pandering to this group, or that group, or some other ag gregation ? I quote an excellent reminder from The Joanna Way, the very excellent magazine of the Joanna Cotton Mills Co., of Joanna, S. C., a group under the wise and gen erous management of Walter Reg- nery, son of one of our greatest industrialists—and even a greater man—the late William H. Reg- nery. “Mark Twain (the famous au thor of Tom Sawyer and Huckle berry Finn) arrived in a small town where he was scheduled to make a talk. Noticing that his lecture was poorly billed, he step ped into a store and said: ‘Good evening, friend. Any en tertainment here tonight to help a stranger while away this even ing?’ The storekeeper straightened up, wiped his hands, and said: *1 ex pect there’s going to be a lecture. I’ve been selling eggs all day.’ There have been quite a few changes made since that day. Al though the price of eggs may pro hibit their use as indoor guided missiles, we have become so well- to-do as a nation that we have a guilt complex about it. Conform ity is sweeping the country. And while more and more people want to get seats in the grandstand, fewer and fewer want to sweat it out down on the field. More and more youngsters who come in looking for jobs are asking ‘What can you do for me?’ rather than, ‘What can I do for you?’ They want to discuss the extras they’re going to get rather than the ex tras they’re going to give. They want to know how cool it is going to be in summer. And how warm in winter. And how safe at all times of the year. And when they go to w T ork, they hasten to hide their light in the security of a committee, where there is safety in numbers. The progress may be slow and the glory may be small, but the w'ork is steady. Their eyes are on the clock rather than on the calendar. The coffee break is more important than the Big Break. We have always had our share of free-loaders in this country. And, as Channing Pollock once said, every generation produces its squads of moderns who march with peashooters against Gibral tar. But only in the past quarter century, it seems to me, has non involvement become an accepted way of life. For when we were poor, we had to sweat it out. We couldn’t afford detachment from the life and fate of our country. And one of the great dangers of affluence is that it permits such detachment. I’m going to talk quite a bit a- bout a six-letter word today. Why six letters ? Because modem lit erature has snapped up all the four- and-five-letter words as its own. The word is ‘Square.’ A Square Deal Back in Mark Twain’s day, it was one of the finest words in our language. You gave a man a square deal if you were honest. And you gave him a square meal when . he was hungry. You stood four-square for the right, as you Saw it, and square against every thing else. When you got out of debt, you were square with the world.* And that was when you could look your fellowman square in the eye. Then a lot of strange charac ters got hold of this honest, wholesome word, bent it all out of shape, and gave it back to our children. Convicts gave it the first twist. To them a Square was on inmate who would not conform to the convict code. From the pri sons it was flashed across the country on the marijuana circuit The other day, I am told by a who doesn’t have to stop at a bar on his way to the train at night because he’s all fired up and full of juice already. A slob who still gets all choked up when the band plays ‘America the Beautiful.’ A Square, and strictly from Square- ville. H is tribe isn’t thriving too well in the current climate. He doesn’t fit too neatly into the current group of angle players, corner- cutters, sharpshooters and goof- offers. He doesn’t believe in op ening all the packages before Christmas. He doesn’t want to fly now and pay later. He’s burd ened down with old-fashioned id eas of honesty, loyalty, courage, and thrift. And he may already be on his way to extinction. Patriotism on Decline He and all the rest of us are living in a country that is quite different from the one that we were taught to love. Parents have successfully defended in court their children’s right to ignore the flag salute. Faculties and stu dent bodies have found it dis tasteful to publicly take an oath of loyalty to their country. And the United States Military Acad emy has found it necessary to place a sign beside its parade grounds at West Point reminding spectators that it is customary for men to remove their hats at the passing of the banner that was once unashamedly referred to as ‘Old Glory’. The force of government is now directed more fully toward the security of the weak than the en couragement of the strong. In business, it is said the way to survive is to emulate the turtle— grow a hard shell and never stick your neck out. We have come quite a way since Theodore Roosevelt told us: ‘Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suf fer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows no vic tory or defeat.’ What has happened to us, I think, is that we have changed from an exporting country to an importing country. The United States of America was once the greatest exporter of ideas the world has ever known. We created and sold abroad the idea of individual dignity, res ponsibility, and freedom. We cre ated and sold abroad the idea of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. An idea that is still being bought to day. What’s In It For Me It is hard to find a basic idea that America has exported since you and I were young. We have, I think, bought in the bazaars of Asia Minor the idea that an honest man is either a fool or a liar. From our most mortal enemy we have bought the idea of a strong government for weak peo ple. We have bought abroad the ideas of ‘Let Jack do it,’ or ‘What’s in it for me?’ and the gesture of the neatly shrugged shoulder. ARE YOU LISTENING? The two baseball teams had gone through their preliminary warm up, and soon the game would be gin. There were 18 men to be on the field that afternoon. Two of those men were personal friends of the umpire. They slipped down to the locker room of the umpire and said to him: “We need to win this game in order to become the champions of the league. Since we are such good friends of yours, we want to ask that you make the close decisions in our favor rather than in favor of the other team.” The umpire looked at those play ers with disgust. They were tak ing advantage of his friendship by asking him to be dishonest in or der that they might achieve their own personal gain. To them he said, “If you want to win this game go out there on the field and play like a winner. I will be no part of your own selfish scheme.” Jesus must have felt like this when two of his closest friends asked for preference above all of the other disciples. He answered their request by saying: “And whosoever of you will be chiefest, shall be servant of all.” In our day many honors are handed out on the basis of favorit ism and to gain political support, but the Bible teaches that this will not be true in the kingdom of heaven. In Christs’ sight, the greatest person is the one who has been of service to the least person. Are you listening ? Looking Ahead ,..by Dr. Georgs S. Benson PRESIDENT—NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Seercy, Arkenm of the bopster and hipsters. Now everyone knows what a Square is. He is the man who never learned to get away with it. A Joe who volunteers when he doesn’t have to. A guy who gets kicks from trying to do something better than anyone else can. A boob who gets so lost in his work that he has to be reminded to go home. A guy friend, his young son came home from his progressive school proud ly exhibiting a book that he had won for excellence in Natural history. ‘However did you do that?’ the delighted father asked. ‘The teacher’, answered the son, ‘asked how many legs an ostritch has, and I said three.’ wu/eL dMi I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. —Isaiah 29:14 The message in these words is clear: Christ is the power and the power and the wisdom of God. If we understand this, we are not continually searching for some miracle or sign to make our faith real and lasting. It is possible, as Paul told the Corintmans, for man to become so engrossed in his search for knowledge that he overlooks the obvious truths that are before his very eyes. The accomplishments of our modem times have ceased to amaze us. We are not surprised at the rapidity of progress. What is surprising is that some tend to forget how such things are possible. Read your BIBLE daily and GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY TRANSFERS PROPERTY Newberry No. 1 Richard L. Baker to the City of Newberry, one lot on Friend St., $10. M. Foster Farley and Ethel M. Farley to Fred L. Vigodsky and Brenda C. Vigodsky, one lot on Henry Ave., $5. Newberry No. 1 Outside The Kendall Company to Leona K. Abrams, one lot on First St., $800. Leona K. Abrams to Willie Mae T. Drummond, one lot, $5. Silverstreet No. 2 Willie Faye S. Lewis to T. J. Ruff and Juanita Ruff, one lot, $5. Whitmire No. 4 Lyles Whitener and Gertrude Whitener to Daisy Mae Whitener, two lots and one building, $5 love and affection. Whitmire No. 4 Outside Christopher Henderson and Georgia L. Byrd to H. M. Hentz and W. S. Hentz, 72.94 and 18.73 acres and one building, $6,000. Prosperity No. 7 Elizabeth N. Brown (Mrs. Geo.) to the Town of Prosperty, 3 acres $1000. James E. Miskelly to B. E. Riley two lots $5. J. E. . Grant to Ralph Williams, 123 lots $5. D. A. Bedenbaugh to George A. Agnew and Mildred N. Agnew, 18 acres and one building $6. T. Burley Hunter to Frank A. Courtney and Pamela H. Courtney 1. 6acres $5. James Henry Summer and Mary Frances Summer to Joan B. Mills, one lot and one building $10. Hiram A. Wilburn to Ruby E. Barnes, one lot $2500. Tom B. Stockman to Lillie Ruth Gary, one lot $300. COUNTY BUILDING PERMITS Jackson B. Davis, 1711 Wheeler Street (Prosperity) one three- room cement block cabin $1500. Frank and George Senn, Route 3, Newberry, one metal frame poultry house $4000. ‘But an ostritch has only two legs,’ the father protested. ‘I know,’ said the boy, ‘but I came closest. All the other kids said four.’ Need For Remedial Thinking This may be funny. But it is not so funny that our colleges are loaded today with youngsters who are hardly prepared for high school—kids who cannot do sim ple arithmetic and who cannot spell simple words. This, too, was an import—the idea that the dull discipline of the three R’s was disturbing to liU’e Johnny’s ego. So we got real scientific and went to work on the Poor Little Kid and his IQ with the result that today hardly any school that really is a school is without a class in remedial reading. It would save considerable money if the class were held in the very high est level of our teacher's colleges and were called ‘Remedial Think ing.’ For surely we ought to know as much as chickens, ducks, and monkeys know—there is no learn ing without discipline. Our museums today are exhibit ing on their walls painting by people who never learned to paint. It used to be a sort of joke that you could tell which was the top and which was the bottom, but recently a museum did hang a bit of modern art upside down. Once we were a laughing nation. The corn may have been as high as an elephant’s eye, but we laughed, and it was good for us.” Among others, Richard Nixon has made quips about President Johnson’s war on poverty. He re marked that Mr. Johnson was able to use at the same time both pros perity and poverty to advance his political fortunes. (Was there a glint of admiration behind his wit?) With voters this year be ing offered this double come-on, Mr. Johnson will probably be hard to beat. The whole basic appeal is time-tested from New Deal days, that the government can make, maintain or restore prosperity. Of course, the validity of it remains to be proven. That doesn’t prevent a politician from making a play with it. The President also has insisted that he is a believer in free enter prise. But when he shows that he favors socialistic schemes to be sponsored by the federal govern ment one wonders. Mr. Johnson may not be concerned whether he is consistent. He is not the first to borrow from socialist sources. In this instance, Sargent Shriver’s chief idea man, who operates op enly as a socialist, is reputed to have put across the plans for the “poverty war”. This socialist was a consultant for the plan long be fore it was even presented to the Congress. Leave It To The Government He is Michael Harrington,whose assumptions about poverty in his book, “The Other America” can be seriously challenged. His picture of 50 million poverty-stricken Am ericans in the midst of general prosperity has probably shaken some American readers and made aghast our friends abroad. Fifty million is a highly inflated figure, even with a most liberal definition of what poverty is. Nevertheless, Mr. Harrington’s socialist remedy for American problems has been too much for practical politicians to resist. Mr. Harrington has said: “There is only one institution in the society capable of acting to abolish poverty. That is the fed eral government.” So the admin istration proposes to spend $962.5 million in this particular action, calling it a war on poverty. If the U. S. really has 50 million paupers, more than it had in the Great De pression’ a billion dollars will not be nearly enough to accomplish the feat of making them well-off by government fiat. This is a fact the liberals recognize, for they are saying that many, many bil lions more will be required. Wrong Picture When the President, echoing Harrington, tells the world that 25 per cent of our people live in miserable conditions, this mislead ing and generalized view is enough to upset the belief of some people in the American Dream. If free enterprise can’t beat that, the Frenchman might conclude, then France may as well go all the way into collectivism. If Americans are poor through no fault of their own, an Italian could say, my cousins will leave that unjust land and return to the old country. If the government has to make work to keep Americans from starving, the Swede would add, then social ism has proved its superiority. If the American Dream, a hope for generations past of Europe’s tired and poor, must condemn one out of five to a destitute exist ence, should the System be con tinued? Such a question comes you see, from this distorted picture that includes no reference to the wonderful opportunities that do exist in America. It is a miserable disservice, if politics in Aemrica requires this kind of talk to elect and reelect. For political parties to requisition billions of public spending to get votes in this man ner is a tragic betrayal of public responsibility. Spending Won’t Do It Neither does a call for billions of welfare-state spending in the midst of untold prosperity make much sense. Moreover, the whole idea is suspect on the face of it. In the 30 years past we HAVE spent billions on welfare of the people. At present, federal, state and local governments spend an nually some $40 billions for wel fare, a figure that does not include spending for education, private charities, and various other out lays for the people. We are actual ly spending at least $1,000 per capita for “poor” Americans. What could a national leader say, instead of testifying about perpetual poverty amidst our greatest prosperity and parroting the socialist aphorisms ? If a president of the U. S. really wants to reduce economic distress, let him recognize that the real ans wer to poverty in the nation is a greater measure of economic free dom, not political demagoguery. Let him recognize that our free market economy, operating by its own rules and principles, makes room for everyone to reach his highest level. LETTERS Ton* THE EDITOR IBI Editor, The Sun: As a former resident of New berry county I feel it my duty to write this letter. On Friday, June 27, I participated in the anti-Wal lace Civil Rights demonstrations at Columbia Airport and at town ship auditorium in Columbia. The fact that these demonstrations were the first intergrated (sic) ac-1 tion against Mr. Wallace taken in a Southern State is significant, i South Carolinians, at least reason ing South Carolinians, are no long er tolerating the type of hypoc risy Gov. Wallace stands for. The bombastic oration of Mr. Wallace (27 June, Township Auditorium) was filled with rabble-rousing em otionalism with a minimum of logical evidence in his position. What seemed to be overlooked by the majority of the audience was that during Mr. Wallace's extoll ing of the glory of our cherished American standard, the only U. S. flag visible was on the podium as opposed to numerous full-sized Confederate flags scattered thru the auditorium. Also noteworthy is the fact that, while most of the Wallace supporters shouted unpub lishable remarks at the anti-Wal- 1 lace picketeers, the demonstrat- I ors remained silent. Perhaps some of Mr. Wallace’s “fans” would like to know that though they referred to the picketeers as “commies” and bums in highly ungrammati cal English, not one of the dem onstrators has had less than one semester of college training, a number are graduates and grad uate students. Approximately 95 per cent or more of the anti-Wal- laceites are native South Caro linians, many of whose families have lived in South Carolina since the earliest years of the colony. The real purpose of this letter is to arouse the citizens of New berry county from their indolence and outright intolerance before the hour is too late. Understanding to day can pre-empt a time when understanding alone can no longer be an answer. People who suppos edly profess Christianity should try removing a few logs from their own eyes. When Americans throws (rocks) and dirt in the faces of their fellow Americans the time for action has already passed. Agreed, this letter is filled with emotion, but we must fight Wal lace in his own ground. But then if we are South Carolinians before we are Americans, why not go back to 1860? Richard R. Cooper, Box 8A, Cornell Arms, Columbia, S. C. THE KARINE BUILDS MEN! U. s! MARINE RECRUITER ITEM: The season’s newest look for the table is really the oldest— the floor length round cloth. Deco rators advise that the round table, covered with a floor length col ored cloth, gives a change of pace to many different styles of deco rating. When choosing colors keep in mind that vat dyed tableclothes (whatever shape) are best for colorfastness in general use. • • • ITEM: If you’re having trouble with your house plants, fertilizing alone may not be the answer. It could be too much water, too much or too little light, too high temperature, or even gas fumes. Check them all.. * * • ITEM: Press table linens, quite damp, vith a hot iron—first on the wrong side, then on the right side for luster. To reduce wear, change the fold lines from time to time. Or roll linens on card board cylinders to eliminate all creases. • * • ITEM: Eggs are a top-class pro tein food, in the class with meat and milk for building and repair ing body tissues. Also, eggs are outstanding for two of the B vita mins, thiamine and riboflavin, and for vitamins A and D A message to the 35 million Savers in Savings & Loan Associations and an invitation to you SAFETY: In the 30 years since Congress established the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corpora tion, no one has ever lost a penny in a Savings Ac count in our type of institution. SIZE: Today, more than 4,400 Insured Savings and Loan Associations serve 35 Million Savers in prac tically every community in the United States -and its territories. They make more home loans to Am erican families than all other financial institutions. SERVICE: Your savings with us are “dollars on the move” helping your community to grow—and busi ness to prosper. INVITATION: We are grateful to you for your pa tronage in making our association one of the larg est in South Carolina. Why not drop in and add to your Savings Account today? Or, if you do not have an account—open one today—or by the 10th of July and earn a full six months’ Dividend on De cember 31st, 1964. 'avjjvgs ajvd Loan Ass o cjation ^ I T U T I O fsi * O U N D L D J. F. CLARKSON M. O. SUMMER DIRECTORS G. K. DOMINICK J. K. WILLINGHAM BRANCH OFFICE —Batesburg, S. C. WMMMMYi 9. O. E. B. PURCELL W. C. HUFFMAN