University of South Carolina Libraries
THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1965 THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE THREE Dean Manion « THE MANION FORUM An old saw says that people who stand for nothing are ready to fall for anything. i Those who doubt the truth of this maxim need only to look at our existing state of irresolution in the presence of our Communist enemies, and to trace the construction of that irresolution through the sequences of unprincipled .sophistries of that convenient political philosophy, known as ^“existentialism” as offered by one Jean Paul Sarte. That philosophy teaches that God is dead; that there are no absolute values, man is responsible only to hijnself. His job is to exist. But in a quarrelsome world, to exist means to co-exist—with Communism or anything else. We might then call our official doctrine for current management of the -cold war “co-existentialism.” 1 r More and more people apparently feel that the Commun ists are going to be around for a long time and that disputes with and about them are as useless as they are disturbing, nnd that it is better to be Red than dead. The trouble with government officials and others who urge a broadening policy of co-existence with Communists, is that they have never been face to face with our Red ene mies on the Communists’ home grounds—without telephones, cameras, or anything or anybody to help them except the strength of their own unshakable personal convictions. Many Americans and others have been in that position .and some have lived to escape and tell about their exper iences. They recount arrests and imprisonment, without any formal charges having been placed. The fact that a man is arrested proves to the Communist captors that he is guilty of something. The continuing efforts of our own government officials and others to “sell” all of us on the proposition that we should leave no stone unturned in our search for possible benefits “to all humanity” make it increasingly difficult for the average citizen to stand upright against the wily “winds of change” blown at him constantly through every medium of communication. Silverstreet School News BY HARRIET BURGESS Mrs. Marguerite H. Havird, with the 3rd and 4th grades, pre sented a very interesting program (on the month of February) in Chapel Thursday, February 25. A large number of visitors were present to enjoy the special pro gram with us. Miss Coleman, our 7th grade uome room teacher, was very surprised on Friday, February 26. The 7th and 8th grades gave her a surprise birthday party. Re freshments were served and games were played. The president of the 8th grade class, Debbie Epting, presented Miss Coleman a beau tiful blue sweater in the name of the sponsoring grades. The total action was indeed a pleasant sur prise and deeply apreciated by Miss Coleman. / We were very happy to have Miss Sarah Folk back with us on March 1. We really missed her while she was ill. We are delight ed that she is with us again. The girl’s 4-H club met Wed nesday, i March 3, in the 5th grade classroom. Diane Longshore was in charge of the devotional period. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Then Mrs. Bussey, Assistant Home Demonstration Agent, collected the homework from last month. Her demonstration was on room ideas. She showed us how to make different things for our room to keep it clean and at tractive. We were reminded of Club Achievement next month. The meeting was then adjourned. What was clearly recognized ten years ago as the essen tially evil nature of Communism, is now in all but total eclipse. What we are witnessing now is not just an absence of conviction about Communism, but the progressive collapse of all conviction straight across the board of what was once called “objective truth.” Conviction is the fixed conclusion of the mind on the truth of a thing. Cynics will tell you that there is no such thing as truth. Pontius Pilate expressed some doubts about truth, but his place in history is some what less exhalted than the high places now occupied by our Founding Fathers of our United States of America. If we are to have a war on poverty, let us fight it first against our spreading poverty of irresolution and against the doubt and decadence that now lays waste to our whole supporting structure of moral conviction. Each member of the 1st grade wrote a letter to Little Jack just after the Dental Health show had been presented at our school. Everyone had tried to learn and practice the rules for having good teeth. Each member of the class was very thrilled to get a reply, addressed to them per sonally. The Junior Beta Club held their regular meeting Wednesday, Mar. 3, at 2:15 in Miss Coleman’s room. The attendance was 100 per cent. The minutes were read and ap proved as read. When the roll was called each person answered with their anticipated vocation of the future. Local men on S&L committees national trade org^nizatipn for the savings and lean business and represents more than 5100 sav ings associations. CHICAGO.—Pinckney N. Ab rams, secretary-treasurer of State Building and Loan Association, and John F. Clarkson, president of Newberry Federal Savings & Loan Association, Newberry, have been appointed to 1965 committees of the United States Savings and loan League. The appointments were an nounced by John W. Stadtler of Washington, D. C., president oif the U. S. League, which is the Mr. Abrams will serve on the Trends and Economic Policies committee, and Mr. Clarkson will serve on the Insurance committee. The objective of the Trends and Economic Policies committee is to encourage the dissemination of factual and informed opinion on the policy phases of the savings and loan business, and the com mittee also serves as the coordi nating committee for the broad research activities of the League. ,ct L \e> ( 1 1 HARD TO UNDERSTAND The contents of most insurance policies are written in legal terms which no layman can be expected to understand. But don't include your independent insurance agent. He can analyze a policy . . . tell you what is good and what's bad and then advise you on the right one to buy from any of a group of companies. This service is available from only an independent agent who is under no obligations to any particular home office. His only desire is to see that you get the most for your money. Ml *M yOU/l PRIVATE BANKERS’ 1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422 Mr. J. V. Kneece, Superinten dent of Newberry High school visited Mr. Long, Principal, and the 8th grade Thursday morning, March 4. He talked about entering high school next session. Also, explanations were given concern ing subject offerings during the 1965-66 school session. We ap preciated his visit and are looking forward to the time when we will visit the high school in April to get better acquainted with the general set-up. The student body and faculty are looking forward to two basket ball games that will be played in the local gym Tuesday, March 9, beginning at 1:45 P.M. The 7th grade girls will play the 8th grade girls. The 6th grade boys will play the 7th grade boys. The referee will be Mr. Bill Montgom ery. The scorekeeper will be Mr. Jakie Arant. i The boy’s 4-H club meeting was held simultaneously with the girl’s club in Mr. Long’s room. David Dorroh was in charge of the devotional period. After roll call and the reading and appro val of minutes of the last meet ing Mr. Tom Bryson, Assistant County Agent, instructed the boys how to prune shrubbery. On Wednesday morning, March 3, Dr. Von Long, Mrs. Foy and Mrs. Eargle, were at Silverstreet school to conduct a pre-school clinic,. The Parent-Teacher Association has presented the school with an additional $50 to be applied on the purchase of more needed lib rary books. Some parents, along with Mr. Long, viewed one of the special classes on Modern Math (for par ents) on Tuesday night, Febru ary 23, in the schoolhouse, at 8:30 o’clock, over chanel 29, open cir cuit, Greenville, S. C. Mr. Long says he will make this program available every Tuesday night un til the completion of the series. Mr. Long reports that he at tended a meeting of Elementary School Principals in Mr. Watkin’s office on Monday afternoon, Mar. 1. Also, he attended a meeting of Boy Scout Leaders at Whitmire on February 25. Looking A. head ...by Or. G«org. S. 6«nson PRESIDENT—NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM SMrcy, AritMM* LOOK FIRST, LEAP LATER So often, in the advent of today’s creeping socialism, you hear the propaganda that this or that is a sure thing, ac cording to the polls. Your favorite lobby has won its battle, friends, if the pundits hint that it’s as good as in. And so, it appears, with Medicare. With Congressman Mills having relented to offer tentative approval, the American Medical Association actually proposing a “government” plan, and LBJ making his bill first priority-—well, the nation is going to get it whether it wants it or needs it or not. And it seems to be only the beginning. The population group of over 65 is said to be one of the wealthiest categories of citizens in the nation, but we cannot stop to quibble about that. Everyone of them must have it. The State of South Dakota is reported to have identified 349 cases of need. Other states may have fewer, depending on the population and the standards you use. Certainly one should not assume, as the Administration bill does, that everyone of our 19 million Americans over 65 needs this help, even if costs have soared. The Kerr-Mills program must be helping the needy, since it and similar programs spent more than a billion in 1964. But Mr. Johnson ignores this. Eventually, Everyone Despite the dismal record of socialized medicine in Britain, West Germany, Canada, and other countries where much public dissatisfaction is found with it, we Americans allow ourselves to be marched right into the trap. U. S. News & World Report has published an extensively documented ar ticle showing that one-fourth of U. S. health care is already being provided by the government (federal, state and local.) Some 30 million persons, or about one-sixth of our pop ulation, already are eligible for treatment in government hospitals and clinics, the article says. In addition, 16 million others fall under health plans in force that are partially un der federal and state auspices. The Johnson hospital care plan for those 65 and older would cover 19 million more, at the outset. Eventually, the remainder of the population would fall under the system. Counting Costs The President, appearing to take Mr. McNamara’s “sav ings” of perhaps a half-billion, makes it appear that for only a few hundred millions the U. S. can set up a wide health pro gram that will whip every dread disease—with no emphasis on the fact that his program would be costing billions by 1970. Not many people will object to conquering disease, whether the money used is public or private, but we ought not to allow that kind of budgetary “backdoor” behavior, in which the costs as well as the socialization creep upon us from behind. As for the Johnson “medicare” plan itself, which largely will come out of the pockets of taxpayers themselves and their employers, some $2 billions will be required in its first full year. Social Security taxes would be raised from 7 1-4 per cent of wages to 10.4 per cent, and the base on which it is taxed from $4,800 to $5,600. This means the Social Secur ity tax on $5,600 income would go up from $348 to $582.40, and would only be the beginning of the bite out of paycheck withholding. For many a wage earner, this would mean another payroll tax about as high as his federal income tax. How Much Higher? And nobody doubts that it would keep on going higher than that. Experience has been, generally, that costs soar when the government system takes over. And it is being made most clear that if the Administration plan is passed, only a little push would be required to have it cover medical and surgical costs as well as hospital care, and even to spread it to include those under 65 years. Nobody seems to ask whether the general population, a growing number of whom have private p’^ns, wants socialized medicine. But once the J ection is charted, and it clearly has been, the destination will be the same: socialized medicine for the whole nation. We are not convinced that even medicare is wanted by Mr. Johnon’s “almost half the aged” who have no insurance; surely very few of the more than half who do have insurance wouM welcome the added costs and doubtful benefits of medicare. We are convinced that the general public does not want to put the health services of the whole country under government operation and make our basic doctor-patient relationship a matter of government sponsor ship. It is the modern “medicine men” of our time, the poli ticians, who insist on doing that. The Newberry Cooperative Breeding Association staged a pancake supper and held a busi ness meeting in the school cafe teria on Wednesday night, Feb. 24. A special poultry meeting will be held in the school auditorium on March 11 to follow up the first such meeting which was held in the Silverstreet School auditorium on the night of March 5. The 5th, 6th and 7th grades put on a magazine campaign cov ering three weeks in February. They set their goal at $375. How ever, they ended up with total sales of $535.51. Many prizes have been presented. Other prizes and numerous awards will be ready for presentation in a week or so. We hope to supply some of the profits towards the pur chase of either an opaque or over head projector for the school. Twenty seven students and four teachers enjoyed an ice cream party in celebration of the most successful campaign of its type ever sponsored by the elementary grades. Building Permits Building permits, most of them for repairs to dwellings, were is sued by the City last week in the amount of $7615. They were: Murray Garber, re pairs to store, Main street; R. E. Reynolds, erect garage, 2125 Ade laide street; and the remainder, repair to dwellings: Ralph Mc- Intire, 1424 Ebenezer Road, Geo. Sligh, Main street; Viola Wells, Wallace street; Mrs. Wallace, 1503 Evans street; Frank Sligh, 1908 Charles street; W. E. Hamilton, 2003 Main street; D. E. Folk, 812 Pope street and 1808 Harper St.; Tolbert and Coppock, 2035 Ade laide street; William Graham, 20- 17 Adelaide street; George Wall, 2133 Mower street. Marriages... James Gordon Shealy of New berry and Janice Gale Nix, of I Whitmire, were married March 7 at Whitmire by Rev. B. R. Nich ols. PATIENTS IN THE HOSPITAL Mrs. Rhoda L. Amick, Pros- i perity. Mrs. Curtis R. Bush, Kinards Mrs. Joyce Bedenbaugh, New berry. Miss Annie Bynum, Newberry. Mrs. Kathleen Brown, Newberry Mrs. Doris Brown, Newberry Mrs. Eunice A. Bradley, City Mrs. Corine L. Berry, City Mrs. Wilma Cromer, City Mrs. Ida Cromer, Pomaria Mrs. Reba Chapman, Pros perity Mrs. dice R. Cothran, City Mrs. Narvis Cook, City Miss Fannie Mae Carwile, City Mrs. Shirley Fellers, Prosperity James Floyd, Silverstreet Mrs. Bessie Floyd, Newberry Mrs. Shelby K. Gilliam, Pros perity Mrs. Cora E. Gilliam, Whitmire Mrs. Willie Mae Hentz, City Mrs. Olivia Jones and Baby boy, Saluda Mrs Rubye H. Jordan, Whitmire David P. Kinard, City Charlie King, City Ira Koon, City Alton Otis Livingston Sr, City Mrs. Loree Lunceford, City Fred N. Ledford, City Mrs. Josie Me Albany, City Edward F. McConnell, City Mrs. Addie Mae McConrfell, City Rev. James McKittrick, Kinards Sam L. Marlowe, City Calvin T. Millstead, City Thomas M. Nichols, City Mrs. lone Nichols, Saluda Mrs. Florence Nobles, City Tommy Plumbee, City Mrs. Evelyn Reed, City Mro. Evelyn Rister, City Mrs. Mae Ruff, City Mrs. Margaret Rinehart, City Wilson Rowe, City Holland Ruff N,ewberry Floyd Smith, City Rev. Walter Shealy, City Paul Taylor, City Roy Lawson, City Ira Taylor, City Mrs. .Veda L. Wilson, Chappells Mrs. Thelma E. Woodyard, City Mrs. Faye Wilson, City S. T. Boyd, Prosperity David Dp Walt, Prosperity Mrs. Mary Lou Greeley, Little Mountain. : ;• William Gibbs, Jr., City si Mary Alice Hiller, City trford, Pomaria. Williams, Silver- liss Mildred Cooper, City. Miss Betty Jo Farrow, City Mrs. Elizabeth Glymph, City Mrs. Bertha Hiller, City Local woman’s father dies Frank Boone Kirby, 66, of 641 Glenwood Dr., Spartanburg, died at the Mary Black Hospital o it Sunday morning after a long ill ness. ‘ He was a native of Spartanburg County, and was the son of the late Moses and Janie Allen Kirby. He was a member of the New l Hope .4j^aptist Church. r Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Nora Beck Kirby; one daughter,. Mrs. Gordon Leslie of Newberry; three brothers, S. L. Kirby of Spartanburg and A. A. and J. C. Kirby, both of Columbia. Funeral services were conducted Monday at 3 p.m. from the J. P. Floyd Mortuary. Interment was in the Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. SETTLEMENT IN GEORGIA Mrs. George L. Epps, Sr M left over the weekend for Columbus, Ga. for a visit with her son. Dr. George L. Epps and family. I will make a final settlement of the estate of Ella Marie Cook in Probate Court for Newberry County, S. C., on Tuesday the 16th day of March, 1965, at 10 o’clock ^ in the forenoon, and will immed- ( iately thereafter ask for my dis charge as executor of said es tate. :• ' X' Virgil W. Cook, 1255 Kinard St. Newberry* S. C., Executor Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mayes are now residing at 1221 Glenn St. Mr. and Mrs. William Cassidy Jr. have moved to 1616 Calhoua street to make their home. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Floyd are now residing at 1604 Park View Court. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jones have moved to 1403 Third street. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bigby have moved to their new home on Har rington street. .W.1 • ' KM Since 1934, wl Savings and ever lost a penny in of America’s ESLLd Associations. We excellent earnings, too! mny lost :s established the Federal :e Corporation, no one has savings accounts in any tsured Savings and Loan ,I.C.-Insured, and we offer make a difference! NSURED !•• • BRANCH OFFICE—BATESBURG, S. C. ^ fjivrjros and Loan Association IM I O U N D L D WzTrV i • •?». * ’5. *T‘ r, »Bw»ammY, •. DIRECTORS JOHN F. CLARKS0O M. O. SUMMER W. C. HUFFMAN ' • J. K WILLINGHAM E. B. PURCELL G. K. DOMINICK