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PAGE 2 THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1964 n 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 SPECTATOR — What is a Southerner? What is the quality that entitles a man to regard himself a Southerner? Once upon a time I had more than a vague notion of the distinctive attributes of a Southerner. I recall the words of General Robert E. Lee, with regard to his resigning as an officer of the United States army. You will re call that General Winfield Scott urged that General Lee remain in the United States army and to be made the Commanding General of the Army. Said General Lee, after long years of service as Superintendent of West Point, la ter as a calvary officer and Chief of Staff in our army in Mexico, “Save in defense of my native State, I hope never again to draw my sword.” General Lee was a Virginian and true to Virginia. No one could deny that Virginia was a fore most State in the formation of our republic and in the prepara tion and adoption of our Consti tution. We could not expect the same attitude on the part of Mr. Ken nedy because his ancestors were subjects of Great Britain, living in Ireland when our people won the independence of the thirteen colonies and formed a nation with the rights of the States carefully declared, then and emphatically re-affirmed and fortified by the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to our Constitution. At the time of the formation of our Nation as a republic under a Constitution a vast area of ter ritory to the West of us was part of Mexico. Most of the peo ple there were Mexicans, spoke Spanish and knew nothing of our republican government and the Constitution. Nearly 70 years later a vast part of the Mexican area known as Texas was admitted to the Union. Whereas most of us were indoc trinated with British law our Texas neighbors were speaking •md thinking in Spanish and with no back-ground of liberty or con stitutional government. In the course of time we had Presidents who had no background *>f constitutional government; to day we have a native of Texas as President. I do not think he has a consti tutional fellowship with General Lee or George Washington, Thom as Jefferson, James Madison, John C. Calhoun, the Adamses of Mass achusetts or other forthies, in cluding Daniel Webster, Robert Y. Hayne and Alexander Hamilton and others; his background just a hundred years or so is Spanish- Mexican. The Greenville News reminds us of how great men change their minds, for example: “The Greenville News points out that the fortunes of politics and the wielding of power make a man change his viewpoint. The news is oh-so-right. Take the case of Lyndon B. Johnson. Speaking May 22, 1948 at a rally in Austin, Texas, he said: ‘This civil rights program, about which you have heard so much, is a farce and a sham—an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. I am opposed to that program. I fought it in the Congress.’ But speaking the other day at a convention of the United Auto Workers in Atlantic City, Presi dent ‘Linen’ remarked: ‘We are going to pass a civil rights bill if it takes all sum mer’.” So now; what say you? they want to, can have more time to spend with their families or with their hobbies. The next ques tion is, are you, as one of Am erica’s housewives, making the most of your spare time ? Are you expanding your inter ests, developing your hobbies and joining in the fun of the do-it- yourself trend? Good! 'But, most important of all, are you using the time to get to know your hus band and your children better, and giving them a chance to really get to know you ? There’s no better way of spending your spare time if you are.” Here’s where Robert Stein rushes in where angels fear to tread. I’ve just read someone’s remark that women live longer than men because women never retire, but carry on as long as they live, though “hubby” retires after so long a time and wears himself out doing nothing. “Do housewives lead more ex citing lives than their husbands ? Housewives, a brave American claims, lead more exciting lives than their husbands do. Magazine editor Robert Stein told the General Federation of Women’s clubs that the house wife was ‘playing a direct and in dispensable part in shaping her children’s lives’, while her husband was ‘involved in meaningless work in order to feed and clothe them.’ Despite this praise, American housewives are seething indig nantly. Household chores, they claim, are boring. And, to make matters worse, are likely to start at 7:30 A. M. and not end until the last dinner dish is washed— seven days a week. From clearing the table to the final kitchen wipe-up, hand wash ing takes an average of about 30 minutes. Dish washing machines can cut this time in half, saving about half an hour a day, or seven full days a year. No field of housekeeping offers more timesaving tricks than clean ing. It is estimated that thi? av erage family spends 17 hours a week in vacuuming, keeping win dows and mirrors spotless, dusting furniture, polishing floors and other household cleanups.. Even those who have the latest wonder appliances often squander minutes and footwork by using them in efficiently. A typical American housewife cooks more than 57,000 meals in her lifetime. She also walks more than 300 miles in her own home., No wonder she doesn’t gladly a- gree with Mr. Stein. The monotony of housework is such a common complaint that the American Institute of Family Relations has a special course for bored housewives called ‘less work, more fun, for houseworkers’. All American housewives, if What is the condition of our ag riculture. Ponder this: “They tell in brief a good deal about the famous farm problem and how it is steadily worsening: In fiscal 1955 the Department of Agriculture spent $4.6 billion; in 1963, $7.7 billion. In fiscal 1955 direct government payments to farmers came to $229 million; in 1963 to $1.8 bil lion. In calendar 1955 net farm in come was $11.5 billion; in 1964 it is estimated at $11.6 billion. 1 At the end of fiscal 1955 sur-1 pluses amounted to $6.7 billion; at the end of 1963, $7.3 billion. And while the farm population declined by nearly five million from 1955 to 1962, the number of Agriculture Department employ ees increased from over 85,000 in 1955 to an estimated 115,000 in 1964. The figures, all from govern ment sources. The statistical point hardly needs laboring; something is radically wrong when taxpayer costs, surpluses and bureaurrc rise without increasing genr.al farm well-being. To begin with the more or less obvious, there is no single prob lem. Farming and farms are high ly varied; for convenience, how ever two broad categories are rec ognized—commercial and small- scale. Both types are still mainly fam ily operations, though it is the small-scale variety that the poli ticians usually have in mind when they talk about the ‘farm family.’ Commercial farms represent only about 40 per cent of the total and yet sell almost 90 per cent of the products; the other 60 per cent of the farms sell only a little more than 10 per cent.” ARE YOU LISTENING? The Bible does not neglect to teach that hatred and hostility do exist. Because of this fact Christ ians are instructed to love those that they want to hate, and to do good to those who create hostility. Not only are they to love them but they are also to carry the gos pel to them. It is possible for a person to put on such a front that he com pletely fools the world as to his real self. But no person can put on such a front that will deceive himself or his family. A man can be a hypocrite in front of the world but not to himself. The same thing is true in the church family. A Christian’s faith is re vealed by his attitude toward his church and his willingness to be of Christian service to his com munity. Our faith is really put to the test in our daily problems and the needs which arise right here at those who tried to settle there. During the early years of the 19th century, hunters, traders and trappers came in increasing num bers. After the Mexican war end ed in 1848 and with the Gadsden Purchase in 1854, the territory be longed to the United States. The struggle for admission to the Un ion as a state began in 1877, but it was 35 years later, in 1912 before Arizona made it as the 48th state. Arizona’s climate is one of her greatest resources. It is indeed the Sun Country, where Old Sol gives a command performance almost every day. Phoenix claims about 85 per cent sunny days. Summers are cool in the high mountain areas of northern and eastern Ar izona, and in the Southern parts ( f the State the winters are faithfully dry and mild. This fine climate has made Arizona both a summer and winter tourist attraction. It is claimed that ‘there is something for everyone in the ‘Grand Canyon State.’ For the artist and nature lover, there is the unsurpassed natural color and beauty, the Grand Canyon, the Painted Desert, mountains, mesas and wide open spaces.-The out- doorsman is offered game hunting, fishing, boating, riding, hiking. Students of history and archeology have a wealth of old missions, pre historic cliff dwellings and petri fied porests to see and study.” home. It is one thing to talk a- bout being a Christian when you are not being tested. It is quite another thing to stand firm for Christ when you faith is being j put to the test. A study of the Bible reveals that if we are strangers to our brothers, we are 1 also strangers to Christ. This is | a hard truth, but it is still the truth. Paul, in his letter to the Ro mans, and James, the brother of Jesus, teach us that mere mem bership in the church is no guar antee of faith. Our generation has been referred to as the “paper age of Christianity.” By this it is meant that we make great claims and high-sounding resolu tions on paper, but that they make little or no change in our lives. The Bible says “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.” Are you listening? BIRTHS « RAGLAND Mr. and Mrs. Charles Emerson Ragland, 2026 Main street, an nounce the birth of an eight pound, 12 ounce son, Christopher Robert, on June 30 at Newberry County Memorial hospital. Mrs. Ragland is the former Jane Harriet Sum mer. JOHNSON Mr. and Mrs. Scott Holmes Johnson, Jr., 2303 Osborne Ave., announce the birth of a nine pound daughter, Anne Marie, on July 4 at Newberry county Memorial hos pital. Mrs. Johnson is the former Frances Loretta Ivey. COOK Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Douglas Cook of Route 2, announce the birth of a six pound, one ounce daughter, Jacqueline Nanette, on July 5 at Newberry County Mem orial hospital. Mrs. Cook is the former Amy Helen Sims. PRICE Mr. and Mrs. Willie Lee Price of Route 3, announce the birth of a six ; pound, 14 ounce son, John Earl, on July 5 at Newberry County Memorial hospital. Mrs. Price is the former Ella Brown. Did you ever travel out West? Some time drive out to Arizona and New Mexico, dropping down into Mexico now and then. “Arizona, the Grand Canyon State, is often referred to as the ‘land of desert cacti, copper and canyons’, for it is a sun-drenched land of desert vegetation, its mountains rich in copper ore, and gutted by bottomless canyons, the most famous of which is Grand Canyon of the Colorado river. Even though Arizona was am ong the first of the West’s lands to be settled, many elements re sisted the advancing white man. There were formidable natural barriers such as mountains, desert and canyons. Hostile Indians also presented an effective deterrent to SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE 'God resiateth the proud, ord giveth grace to the humble* —Proverbs 3:34 How often it happens in life that the man of truly great wealth is not impressed by his riches; that the men of achieve ment thank others for helping them to succeed. Pride can be a truly false vir tue. The man who boasts to the world about riches or success may be inwardly discontent be cause he feels he should have done better—and holds resent ment for those who have achieved greater fame or riches. There is much more to be said for humility. The individual who practices humility does not pre tend to be something which he is not. Humility eliminates the need for pretense and brings with it a sense of real pride in what we are and what we have. Read your BIBLE daily and GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY ‘War on Poverty’— Federal Education, No. II TITLE I of the “war on pov erty” bUl now pending m both houses of Congress would estab lish 3 federal youth programs— ' a Job Corps, a Work-Training i program, and a Work-Study pro gram. WITHIN 2 YEARS, the Job Corps would put 100,000 boys and girls between 16 and 21 years of age in conservation camps to provide them work, vocational training, and educa tion. The cost woidd be $4,706 per youth per year. UNDER THE Work-Training program, agreements would be made with public or nonprofit private organizations to pay aD or part of the wages of unem ployed young people to work for the organizations. Hie bill does not specify what type of work, bat provides only that it cannot be on “facilities” to be used “soUly” for religious purposes. This program is scheduled for 200,060 youths at a cost of $150 million. THE WORK-STUDY program would cost $72.5 million the first year, to be used to pay part of the salaries for part-time jobs for graduate and undergraduate college students from “low in come” families. THE WORDS which best de scribe this Title of the bill are “duplicative and dangerous.” THE JOB CORPS cannot be justified by the usual, but hol low, claim of the power concen trators that the “States are not doing the job.” The States are doing the job—better and cheap er, and without the dangerous potentials of the “war on pov erty” approach. South Carolina provides a good example. SOUTH CAROLINA has a successful and effective technical education system. Eight schools are now graduating approxi mately 1,000 students each month, all of whom are employ able in their own local commu nities, something to which no thought has been given in de signing the Job Corps. The cost of these technical schools, which train both technicians and crafts men, is only $440 per student per year, of which the student f«yu $144, as compared to $4,700! CVot vrtpartd or printed per student per year in the Job Corps, all of which is paid by the Government. THE FEDERAL Government has many programs already es tablished which accomplish the ostensible purpose of the Work- Training programs. One is .the Vocational Education Program, for which almost $57 million was appropriated in 1964, and an other is the $165 million Man power Development and Train ing Act and its Special Training for Economic Progress. Under this latter program alone, ad ministered by the States, South Carolina has a total of 22 schools teaching everything from read ing and arithmetie to bricklay ing and chambermaiding. Nearly 85% of those finishing the courses have been employed. THE SO-CALLED Work- Study program is a wide-open, thinly-veiled federal aid to edu cation program which is not limited to public colleges, but can be used without limitation for aid to private and religious colleges as well. THE POVERTY CZAR would have almost unlimited power over these programs. Not even the type of training or education is specified in the bill, mnch less the curricula to be taught The bill does not even attempt to set standards of admission which could prevent the job camps from becoming “racial ghettos” or camps for juvenile criminals. The only certain understanding about the programs is that they will be completely integrated. NONE OF THE programs in this title would require the Pov erty Czar to consult or co-oper ate with State, local, or com munity officials. Under the Work- Training program, he would have the anthority to pay the salaries for young people to work for the NAACP. CORE, the Nation al Council of Chnrehes, or even the Black Muslims. TITLE I of the “war on pov erty” bill would create a new and separate education system in the United States, to be op erated and controlled by a Fed eral Government bureaucrat with unprecedented powers. Sincerely, Dean Manion ; THE MANION FORUM Not many Americans have read or even heard about State Depart ment Bulletin 7277 which provides for complete United States dis armament in nine years. It pro vides for a police force under the U. N. to keep the peace of the world. Under the program outlined in the Bulletin,‘the United States and all othe*' powers would be dis armed. Only^pelice forces to pro vide internal security would be permitted. A study called the Phoenix study financed in part by foundation funds ard in part by the U„ S'. Disarmament Commission, sug gests a union of the United States and Russia to keep the world’s peace. It is replete with tech niques to effect accommodations with Russian dictators. Two of our Air Force planes have been shot down recently for inadvertently flying over Com munist territory in eastern Eur ope. As an example of the extent of our accommodation with the Kremlin, our radar detection sys tem was ordered to reverse its search direction by 180 degrees, so that instead of searching the air for Russian trespassers in free territory air space, it now searches the air approaches to the west in order to warn our own planes not to fly over Russian territory. Another example of our accom modation was the White House decision on March 11, 1961, not to build any more strategic bomb ers. The decision was made with the hope that it would lessen ten sions between the Communist and the United States, although the Russians made no such promise to us. Such a promise on their part would, of course, have been no good. We also agreed to ban nuclear testings in certain respects al though Russia had completed much of their testing and we had not. Civilian planners in the State and Defense departments seek to reduce our own striking forces so as to achieve parity with those of the Communists. They do this knowing full well that it is most probable that the Communists are not only not re ducing their military force, but are likely increasing it. This concept of achieving parity in striking power to avoid war runs contrary to human exper ience. Peace, experience teaches, is achieved through strength ra ther than weakness. World War II would never have happened if in the 1930’s, Britain, France and the United States had built air- power stronger than the Luft waffe. The medicine for all our problems, both domestic and for eign, seems to be dollars. Even now our plan for Southeast Asia is principally more financial aid. But it is clear to those who have a good understanding of the prob lems in that area that American dollars and the present American leadership cannot guarantee that the Vietnamese will fight an all- out war and our own military of ficers are forced to sit by and watch all of Southeast Asia slowly slip into the Communist camp. Their hands are completely tied by the absence of a sound United States foreign policy. The only foreign policy we seem to have is to appropriate more millions to pour into the area in the form of foreign aid. It has been clear for a long time that this is an area where we cannot buy our way out of trouble. Men In Service : FORT SILL, OKLA. (AHTNC) —Pvt. Joseph W. Kinard, son of Mrs. Isabell M. Kinard, Route 3, Prosperity, completed advanced training as a Cannoneer at the Army Artillery and Missile Gen- ter, Fort Sill, July 6. Kinard was trained as a mem ber of artillery gun or howitzer crews. 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