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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, AUGUST 2.7, 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’S” COLUMN Everybody wishes to be patriotic; everybody wishes to sup port the Government in defense of our dignity as a great nation; everybody endorses the orders to chastise the at tackers on our naval forces. So we are in a sort of squeeze play; we must support the Government in the measures of retaliation in Asia. But why are we in Asia? We have forces in Japan; we have military outposts in Okinawa; we have the great battle fleet protecting Formosa and restraining China, but why are we fighting in Vietnam? Can it be that we are so re solved to combat and repel Communism that we engage in war, undeclared war, all over the world ? How utterly incon sistent is our National policy: We are at peace with Russia, the Patron Saint of world-wide Communism; we are court ing some other of strong Communist taint, as our billions to Yugoslavia and Tito prove; and we are dilly-dallying with Cuba, at our very doors. How do you explain our policy, or do you understand it? We maintain strong forces in France, Western Germany and Britain to restrain Russia; and a powerful fleet cruises the Mediterranean, but why not protect ourselves by hand ling Cuba? We have been pussy-footing in Cuba and Latin America will marvel at our timidity or our blundering; and we our selves don’t understand the National policy of fighting Com munism in Vietnam while hobnobbing with Russia; giving billions to Yugoslavia and treading the waters meekly, afraid to enter Cuba. We foster a grave hazard at our doors while operating extensively thousands of miles away. Why not withdraw our forces from Britain, France, Ger many, Italy and elsewhere and concentrate in the ports, gar risons and air fields within the United States? Just a glance at what the prophets of business have to say: “Business in general is extremely good across the na tion—and showing signs of getting better. There’s every in dication that the uptrend will continue for at least another year. Motive force is being supplied bythe stepped up rate of consumer spending and outlays by business for plant and equipment. U. S. corporations appear to be well on their way toward the goal of a 12 per cent increase in expenditures this year over 1963 as indicated earlier expansion plans. Consumer spending is setting new records now thaFre- tail trade has gathered momentum after the brief hesitation at taxpaying time. Steel production will break existing rec ords this year; autos continue in brisk demand; building is in a boom phase nationally; corporate profit margins con tinue to widen. Broadly, the tax cut is currently being translated into higher levels of business activity, and prosperity. Prices, nevertheless, remain relatively stable. While cer tain essentials such as transportation and clothing are heading higher, few observers see a threat of real inflation. There is hope that price cuts in high-profit, high-productiv- ity industries will offset increases elsewhere. It’s ironic that despite record activity and high numerical employment, total unemployment remains at painfully ele vated levels, and a problem that no one apparently can solve.” ; ^ ^'Research reveals that all men are just as short at the end of the month as anybody else.” “When you think your mind is getting broader, it may be your conscience stretching.” “Boom and Inflation Ahead — And What Can You do About It: The next few years will see the biggest boom this country has ever known. And with it . . . inflation. Those who prepare for the boom times ahead will reap big dividends for their foresight . . . and avoid the blunders others will make.” What shall we eat ? Do you think well of an all-meat diet ? Well here’s what the explorer Stefansson says: “During the long, adventurous career, the Artie Explorer Vilhajalmur Stefansson had to battle more than savage forces of nature. Some of the most violent opponents were his anthropological colleagues and a skeptical, disbelieving public. Many of these people ridiculed his discoveries, often calling him liar and fraud. Forty years after locating a tribe of blond Eskimos on Victoria Island his actual views on that remarkable event were still being misrepresented. In his recently published autobiography Stef, as he was always called, makes it abundantly clear that his final rep utation as a top authority on the Artie and its people came about primarily through ‘unlearning’ the supposed science of his predecessors. He takes a substantial part of the book, completed just before his death in 1962, at the age of 82, to set the record straight. One part of the record concerns his views on human nu trition. The great explorer always maintained—against the scientific opinion universally prevailing at the time, and still widely held today—that an all-meat diet was healthful for human beings. That had been his diet on many Artie journeys; he insisted it had benefits for everyone. As to choice of meat, we were free to eat any fresh meat we liked so long as it had not been chemically preserved or overcooked. We knew that we would be getting more than Are You Listening? By EARL WILSON Do you know what the fifth amendment is? It is a part of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America, and it says, “No man shall be Compelled to be a witness against himself.’’ By invoking this amendment, a person, be he Communist, labor leader, secretary for a pol itical party, or an ever-day, run-of-the-mill citizen can refuse to tell what he believes in or for what he stands. If he is Communist we clench our fist and say, “They ought to de port every one of them back toRussia.’Tf he is a labor leader and we are not particularly fond of the organization for which he stands, we feel that they should throw him in pri son forever. If he is the secretary for the majority in Con gress, and that happens to be our party, then we feel that he did nothing wrong; but if he represents the other party we feel him to be rogue and a rascal. By invoking the Fifth Amendment they rebel against the government of our na tion and refuse to say anything that might tend to incrim inate themselves. This condition is not limited to government alone. At the center of man’s relationship to God there is a deep rebellion. God, through the Holy Bible, commands his followers “to go,” “to witness,” “to win the lost for him,” but many are invoking the Fifth Amendment by refusing to take their stand for him. They are afraid for their neighbors, their fel low employees, their friends to discover that they claim to be a follower of Christ. They feel that they will not be ac cepted by the crowd if they are “too religious.” This genera tion is reaping the angry harvest of rebellion against God. Most people today treat the church as though it were a necessary evil, and they give as little time to it as they can possibly get by with. Our nation is playing fast and loose with its morals and we have put the future in the hands of men rather than in the hands of God, and our chickens are coming home to roost. Over half of the hospital beds in our country today are filled with mental patients, and doctors say the only reason is because of lowered morals and loose living. They have invoked the fifth amendment and refused to stand for Christ. Jesus said, “If you are ashamed of me and refuse to stand for me before your friends and neighbors then I will be ashamed of you and refuse to recognize you before my Father which is in Heaven.” Are you listening? . GalFour calories from animal fat, the rest from animal lean. The total intake would be variable. One of the jobs of the technicians and nurses would be to determine what pfopor^ tion of fat and lean we consumed. The purpose of our test was to learn the truth, but we did pay some attention to theories. We kept the controversial ones constantly in mind. This was at a time when lean meat was looked upon by many as unwholesome. Animal protein was supposed to promote hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, and breakdown of the kidneys—in short, to bring on premature old age. For this reason the technicians were particularly concerned with the lean portion of our diet, especially the muscle tissue. I had forecast that we would be getting more than half our calories from fat. Most of us were surprised at the final computation, which was that about 80 per cent of the calor ies came from fat and 20 per cent from lean. The daily intake varied between 2600 and 2800 calories. There was, of course, no carbohydrate except what is normally contained in whole meat, perhaps 50 calories per day. If it is true that liver is higher in carbohydrates than are other meats. I repeat that we seldom ate liver. Some of the committee urged liver upon us, while others suggested that we avoid it. We probably ate no other organs except perhaps an occasional kidney. The evidence and opinions of the group of physicians ob serving us were summarized by Dr. Lieb in The American Journal of Digestion and Nutrition as ‘A Year’s Exclusive Meat Diet and Seven Years Later.’ Here Lieb points out that my periods of exclusive meat diet total about nine years and that during these my ‘sense of physical and mental well being was at its best.’ Lieb adds: ‘He found that the exclu sive meat diet worked as well when he was inactive as when active and as well in hot weather as in cold.” dirty. Why fight carbon smudge and smear on copies, hands and clothing. Buy NCR Paper forms and you'll never have to handle messy carbon paper—ever! NCR Paper produces multiple copies without carbon paper. Insertion, extraction and disposal problems with carbons are eliminated. With NCR Paper forms, original and copies are picked up as a complete unit, ready to process. You can pro* duce up to five handwritten copies; 8 or more wMi your business machine. 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Some of the Re publicans are learning the power of words. Words Without Meaning In our time, perhaps the most atrocious twists and contortions of language have been undertaken by the socialists, Communist type and otherwise. Anyone opposing them for very long has felt the injus tice of the applied label, smear, and innuendo. The front organiza tions in America are especially ad ept at it, and they have taught pressure groups and special in terests how to use the old heave- ho, with words only. Most labor publications have mastered the technique. The fighting goes on in a mass of jumbled words, most of which say either NO or YES, yet mean nothing altogether. The semantics problem is also evident among the intellectuals. Take for example the Center for the Study of Democratic Institu tions, headed by Robert M. Hutch ins and led by famous and learned Americans who probably should apply their talents to better use. Millions of words pour out of this privately supported institution in Santa Barbara, Calif., yearly in the guise of saving the Republic. From the vantage of the ordinary citizen, however, the words of these “heavy” thinkers if accepted by enough people, could destroy democracy. Fortunately, they are only words. Totally New World A Center bulletin has published these polished words from Mr. Hutchins: “If one thing is clear it is that the idea of government as a policeman, referee, night- watchman or competitor with other forces is dead, and that the idea that all we need to ask about government is how we protect our selves against it is deader still. The world we are living in is to tally new. Since the world is tot ally new, and since it has become so overnight, our ideas are obso lescent. In every aspect of our lives, we are living without theory, or, what is worse, we are living on the debris of outw’orn or dis proved theory. Our minds are like attics filled with abandoned and useless furniture.” Some of Mr. Hutchins’ associ ates at the Center, all of whom claim to be interested in “preserv ing democracy and the dignity of the individual,” have amplified this need for change. W. H. Ferry contends that the federal structure of the U. S. is faulty, that our so cial system is outmoded, that the Constitution is an obstacle to equality and citizenship, and the States are “an anachronism.” Har vey Wheeler agrees with Mr. Fer ry that scientific enterprise ought to be treated as a political plan ning problem and a federal agen cy created to make the decisions. Challenging All Values Robert Heilbroner says we must “de-economize society—to get the market-place back from the cen ter of things.” We need, he says, higher taxes and control of con sumption. Michael Harrington in sists that national planning, can end poverty, and we will need “some distribution of wealth.” “some distribution of wealth.” These are other peculiar views from scholars at the Center seem to show hostility to the American system. These socialist - tinged suggestions seem rather severe, including the challenging of ALL values and pruning away, t h e Constitution. Strange indeed that they should enanate from a Cen ter pretending to preserve the re public and its institutions. One might insist that these are typical examples from Ameri ca’s leftwing extremists. They may or may not be. Insofar as they are pertinent to current is sues, we can hope these views, if widely held, will be debated well in the coming weeks. But it will not avail if the public is content only with the throwing of labels and the tacking of metaphor on to personalities. We must expect more of our leadership than that they will save democracy by word of mouth. NOTICE OF JURY DRAWING We, the undersigned Jury Com missioners of Newberry County, shall on Wednesday, September 9, 1964, at 9 o’clock , A. M., in the office of the Clerk of Court, op enly and publicly, draw the names of thirty-six (36) men to serve as Petit Jurors for the Court of General Sessions (Criminal) which will convene in the Newberry County Courthouse o r i Monday, September 21st, 1964, at ten o’clock A. M. Burke M. Wise, Clerk of Court Ralph B. Black, Auditor J. Ray Dawkins, Treasurer. August 26th, 1964 Newberry, S. C. County Permits David C. Waldrop, Silverstreet, one wood frame chicken house. Boyce Cotney, Route 1, New berry, add one room to dwelling, $2500. Gene Broon, one six room ply wood siding dwelling. Lake home. Prosperity District No. 7, $13,- 000. Rifle program seeks members Memberships are being accepted in the Recreation Department’s. Pistol and Rifle program. Any person, male or female, who wishes to join may do so by purchasing a membership card. Membership fee from now until December 31 will be $1.50. Parents who wish to bring their sons or daughters may do so. Any person 17 years or under will be in the Junior Div ision of the program. The purpose of this program is to promote better, safer, a n d proper use of fire arms, sports manship and general recreational shooting. It is hoped that the interest will be big enough to foster team competition each week. Plans are to place permanent fixtures at the range, but more interest must be shown before these improve ments will be made. The range will be open each THURSDAY night from 6 P. M. until 9 P. M., Awning Needs For Your CARPORTS Wrought Iron Shutters Quality REYNOLDS Aluminum WB GUARANTEE TO SATE YOU 20% No money down—local bank financing. For information see Dempsey Bonner’s Awning Co. Route 1 Phone 276-5252 NEWBERRY, S. C. Phillip, given assistantship Benjamin Henry Phillips, Jr., 1964 graduate of Newberry col lege, was awarded a graduate re search assistantship in the De partment of Agronomy and Soils at Clemson clloge. He will major in agronomy and minor in chem istry. Phillips, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Phillips of Newberry, Route 1, majored in chemistry at Newberry college. He was a mem ber of the college band, the college all-state band, Chi Beta Phi, nat ional honorary science fraternity for undergraduates, and received the Chemical Rubber Company physics achievement award. Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth Sprouse of Knoxville, Tenn., spent several days this week with Mrs. Sprouse’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Sum mer on Harper St. Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Werts have moved to 1300 Kinard street. Mrs. Corrine Kibler is now re siding at 1531 Caldwell street.