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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1965 s Jhnt 1218 College St., Newberry. S. C. 22108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry. Soutfi Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN Home again! After many weeks in a hospital under the direction of my physician and four nurses I am back on the firing line, a bit groggy but with rifle oiled and loaded and aim slightly wavering, but fairly steady and sure. “Misfortunes nee’r come singly, but in battalions” as Shakespeare says. Within four years I have suffered a broken hip, then a bro- shoulder and then a chip off my back. Quite a son of misfortune, eh? But rir^few weeks i na hospi tal can give one “furiously to think,” as someone said. But the gentle ministration of four special purses, with sympathetic under standing of all, from the head nurse to all the nurse-aids and down to all the orderlies softened the blow and pain so far as gentle ministrations could. So here I am, a sort of veteran but full of vigor, fire and purpose. Even so. I am grateful to all; and I shall always treasure the sweet mes sages of sympathy and concern. My brethren of the radio have held open my time and I am great ly beholden to them. So now! We have the Congress and our State Legislature in ses sion. I do not enjoy these gentle men: they probably do as seems advisable, though the political tur moil is often characterized by small concerns because of so-call ed loyalty to Party and other rea sons of small politics at the ex pense of real statesmanship. Such items as the matter of sell ing Santee-Cooper, for example: As I recall the details, every ob jection to the sale or lease to the private companies was met in the negotiation. I say that advisedly; every sound objection, even af fection more or less mythical, was considered seriously by the three companies. As I’ve said before, I live near the great Santee river and feel a deep interest in it; I know that no small electric enterprise can stand on its feet today. Nor does San tee Cooper, if it paid 4 per cent or 4 1-2 per cent for money, then charged off depreciation and a fair dividend to the State and the counties. As I said, I’ve read the tenta tive offers to buy and our State would be fully protected by those offers would enjoy better ser vice, as well as considerable tax money. Most thrifty men set aside something for a “rainy day.” Our people thriftily followed that pol icy. Hundreds of thousands of our men carry life insurance, many $25,000 and more. My idea is that a State or a Nation should practice thrift as well as an individual. As we Americans are spending we are riding for a fall, and a hard fall at that. In my own case, three hospital bills in four years. As our fathers tried to live on their earnings and savings so should we. And so should our State and counties. Lay by something! Rainy weather may overtake us arv day, so let’s have some of the riches of prosperity for the days of shortage. No State should spend more than 75 per cent of its income. I’ve heard an interesting story SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE Voting Bill Provision* THE CONGRESS is giving priority consideration to the President’s "Voting Rights Act of 1965." Hearings are being held in both the House and the Senate, deadlines have been set, and overwhelming majorities in both Houses have announced support for the measure. The BUI provides: (1) That in States and coun ties which fall within the pro visions of the BUI, “tests or de vices,** formerly imposed as pre requisites for voting, shall be in valid; (2) “Tests or devices** are de fined as requirements that any person (a) demonstrate ability to read, write, understand or interpret any matter; (b) dem onstrate any educational achieve ment or knowledge; (c) possess good moral character, or (d) prove qualifications by a voucher of registered voters. (8) “Tests or devices** are banned in those States or coun ties in which the Attorney Gen eral determines that a “test or device’* was maintained as a prerequisite to voting on No vember 1, 1964, and in which less than 60% of the persons of voting age either were register ed or voted in the Presidential election of 1964. (4) That suits under this Act, for any purpose, may be brought only in the District Court in the District of Columbia, Washing ton, D. C. (6) That States and counties to which the Attorney General rules the Act applies may only escape its provisions by proving to the D. C. District Court that for 10 years there has been no discrimination with regard to voting in the State or county. (6) That if any Federal Court has found or hereafter finds that there has been discrimination with regard to voting in a State or county affected by the Act, no declaratory judgment permit ting escape may be issued by the Court until 10 years after the previous finding. (7) That where the Attorney General finds that “tests or de vices” invalidcted by the Act are being used to Jeny persons the right to vote, the Civil Sen- ice Commission shall appoint Federal “examiners” to register voters in the State or county in question. (8) That the “qualifications” of those persons to be registered by the Federal “examiners” shall be prescribed by the Civil Service Commission, “after con- (Not peopor* ot printod et sultation with tho Attosney Gen eral.’* (9) That no State or county to which tiie Attorney General has determined that the Act ap plies can enforce any new State law which prescribes voting re quirements different than those in effect on November 1, 1964, unless and until it has brought a suit and obtained prior ap proval from the District Court for the District of Columbia. (10) That any person who gages or attempts to engage ftl voting discrimination would be subject to fines of $1,000 or fan* prisonment of I years, or both. The difference fat the propoeed criminal statutes from those now on the books is that the pro* posed statutes do not require the prosecuting attorney to prove “intent** to intimidate, as does the current law. ACCORDING TO the Attorney; General, the provisions of the bill would apply to the States of Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia. It would also, according to the Attorney General, apply to 84 counties in North Carolina, and one county each in the States of Arizona, Maine, and Idaho. IN ATTEMPTING to justify the formula used in the bfll, which determines which States and counties are affected, the Attorney General testified that “of the six southern states in which tests and devices would be banned statewide by Section 3(a), voting discrimination has unquestionably been widespread in all but South Carolina and Virginia, and other forms of racial discrimination, suggestive of voting discrimination, are general in both of those states.** EVEN THE Attorney General does not claim that this bill is necessary just to provide a remedy of equality in voting rights. The Attorney General stated, however, that it is no longer enough that all persons be treated equally when apply ing to vote; nor would it be enough if the registration books were wiped clean, and everyone was re-registered without re gard to race or color The At torney General states it is not nuw enough to let qualified Ne groes vote—a// Negroes must be allowed to vote. IN THE words of the At torney General, the South should be made to do “penance.” Sincerely, Dean Manion THE MANION FORUM The Soviet government rulers are making evermore frequent references to their vested protec tive interests in all so-called Soc ialist countries. These declarations coupled with rapid developments here and all over the world, make it necessary for everyone to un derstand the close association be tween Socialism and Communism. There is a direct relationship between the two, and one can in clude Fascism and Fabian Social ism in the same group. All are characterized by mutual assault upon individual liberties and pri vate property and by an insistence upon rule by an oligarchical elite. All are fundamentally interested in reactionary movements. They seek to return to the planned, reg imented, stratified society of med ieval days. There is little awareness on the part of too many people of this relationship between the sev eral branches of collectivism. Some ask, if this is true, why do these groups fight one another? It is much the same as the feuding and fighting that goes on among different mobs or gangs in the underworld. They fight each other unless they are attacked from without, when they show a great adaptability in moving together to meet a common enemy. Perhaps the most effective com mon interests these various groups have now is the indoctrina tion of young people, who is a very few years will be running our government. Every generation is a new people, and young people inherit neither an instinct for liberty nor for Socialism. They are indoctrinated or educated to these respective positions. Because of this fact, for more than half a century, the Socialist groups have gone in heavily on capturing the young minds, especially those on college campuses. They have gained faculty posts, set up numerous campus organiza tions and worked steadily and with devotion to their liberal cau ses. These Socialist groups far outnumber the Conservative groups and they have been working much longer. They have done a very impressive job because the gen eral public has not recognized the threat these groups represent. In many places, especially on the larger campuses, the so-called “Liberal” groups outnumber the Conservative groups by about five to one. These groups are genarally led by one or more of the Social ist-minded professors, who man age to put over their point that any opposition to Socialism comes from the backward students, who are not aware of the progress that is being made in the fields of soc ial welfare. They purport to be furthering the cause of the un derprivileged and oppressed, and they are the leaders of the civil rights movement on the campus. What they, and the Conservative groups have failed to note, is that their brand of “civil rights” can do nothing but lose all such rights for all of us, including them selves. DON'T IUWC ACCIDENTS s.c. mmc urm chnoi. »c of a man ill in a hospital in this State. He left the hospital day after day, apparently with a des tination in mind, somewhere in the same town as his hospital. But strangely enough, though not a dreamer at home, nor a wanderer ordinarily yet frequently left the hospital and roamed about, often times thinking he was far from the hospital but invariably he was in or near the hospital all the time, whether he entered from the north, south, east or west. And by all that is wonderful, he always found himself in his own hospital room at the end of the day. His physician referred to this wander er as one who roamed and trav elled but never went anywhere, nor spent a dime. What travel luck, eh? Looking A head ' ...by Ur. Geo r g. S. B.non ^ PRESIDENT—NATIONAL EDUCATION .VOGRAM S*arcy, Arkansas NEWBERRY HIGH SCHOOL COOL WORDS AND HOT BULLETS In the world-wide propaganda struggle being waged with words, Defense Secretary McNamara has described the Vietnam situation, declaring that both Peking and Moscow can be expected to stir up as much trouble as they can “whenever and wherever they can do so safely without a head-on collision with the United States military power.” This is so pat ently true and recognizable to every earnest student of Commun ism, for it reflects innumerable Marxist pronouncements of both theory and practice. What all Communists want, despite the fac tions, is world control. Unfortunately, some American lads are having hot steel hurled at them, not words. For them it is no longer a cold war. They know perhaps better than we do, or any in Washington, something of the intent of the Communists. Out where the infiltrator’s mortar fire rips runways and destroys planes, where suicide saboteurs blow bar racks apart, where U. S. military advisors put their lives on the line —some words, such as McNamaras are understood. It is very plain in South Vietnam, the would-be conquerers have found those who stand in their way. In no hurry to tip his hand to negotiators, President Johnson ap parently wants to talk only from strength, if there is any talking done.Whether he may fear being called a “war hawk,” having very nearly followed the policies of Barry Goldwater, his actions have shown courage. The State Depart ment White Paper lays violations of the accords of 1954 and 1962 clearly at Hanoi’s door. North Vietnam, as Secretary of State Rusk clearly points out, is not leaving its neighbors alone. Opinion at home appears to be slowly crystalizing. Polls have shown Congressional leaders be lieving the “war” will have to go on, with the U. S. trying all the while for improvement of its po sition. The Gallup Poll in late February was reporting some two- thirds of the American people be lieving the U. S. is in the right to continue its efforts in South Vietnam, including air reprisals on north Vietnam. The pessimism and frustration of recent months can yet be turned into hope, if we confront the Communists purpose with strength and fortitude. Other Viewpoints However, mail being received by Congressmen is reported to «how many people favoring immediate efforts to negotiate. Negotiate what is hardly ever the point, for the question of all-out war with the Red Chinese is still a moot consideration. A few Senators are raising noisy objections to a show of U. S. strength. They beg the question like U. Thant of the U. N., that it is not a question whe ther the U. S. will pull out, but when. They argue that the prob lem does not call for military solu tions, but offer no apology for the use of force by the Communists in Southeast Asia. What we have here is a repeti tion of Communist expansion, the old story of takeover by stages of pressure. China was lost in an earlier crisis by weakness and be- caue of infiltration, some of both of these in Washington. Korea was divided under the Truman doc trine of limited warfare. The Communists, being held at bay by the redoubtable MacArthur, were told that this country would not bomb their supply depots and other strategic war-making poten tial. President Johnson apparently does not intend to repeat this mistake. Politically orientated as Presi dent Johnson is ,he will of course be looking to elections and cam paign issues as he makes his choicesin South Vietnam. Either way things go, hot or cold, his opposition can make an issue of his conduct of foreign affairs. As it is, however, the position of weakness is found in his own par ty where voices of appeasment are to be heard. The Republicans are largely with him for showing strength in Southeast Asia. Some of his incessant needlers, talking as usual about the fear of nuclear holocaust, are the liberals. Why should America present a weak showing before Communist world pressure ? It makes no sense to knuckle under for one takeover after another, to weakly acquiesce to world conquest by Marxism. The world is waiting for us to give the word. As the cold war reaches a climax, we cannot allow the Red international conspiracy the power to box the free nations of the world into a helpless posi tion. CAMPUS COMMENTS By Gail Phillips and Barry Shealy “Double, double, toil and trou ble” was the cry of the seniors of NH3 last week as they took the final test on Shakespeare’s Mac beth. But it wasn’t all “trouble” for the senior class cut the first two periods of the day on Tues day of last week in order to see the film Macbeth before the big test on Wednesday. The winners of the annual Sci ence Fair arc as follows: Grand prize: Tie between Kath erine McCullough and Cynthia Lake. Senior Division Winners Physics, 1st, Jimmy Sheely, au tomobile streamlining; 2nd, James Mack, solar system; 3rd John Summer, generators. Chemistry, 1st, Katherine Mc Cullough, fluorescence; 2nd, David Folk, anesthetics “Laughing gas”; 3rd, tie between Mary Helen Smith milk, and Michael Price, electro plating. Biology, 1st, Cynthia Lake, ef fects of various conditions on to mato seed; 2nd, tie between Frank Lee, cancer and June Marrett, vit amin deficiency in rats; 3rd, Dav id Lewis, chicken-egg. Junior Division Winners Biology-Chemistry: 1st, Larry Jennings, reptiles, amphibians; 2nd, Elaine Smith, the lungs; 3rd, David Humphries, outer space. Physics, 1st, Keith Nichols, nu clear energy; 2nd, Harriette Hedgepath, volcanoes; 3rd, Faye Crumpton, atomic pile. Last week we stated that base ball season was in full swing at NHS. Well, we goofed—or rather the rain goofed for us. The first game of the season was rained out and, as of Monday, March 29, had not been made up. As soon as the game is played, we w ill print the scores. Until next week remember: “Parents spend the first half of a child’s life encouraging him to walk and talk. The rest of his childhood they spend in getting him to sit down and shut up.” BY LLOYD BIRMINGHAM HOW JUNIOR MADE A STRING DISPENSER BORE HOLE TOFEEP 6TWN& THKCU&H / TAPE PIGPENSER1D aVf* r\eC& OP STOCK- 1935 1965 30 YEARS ... and 23 Million Dollars Later “20 Years and $23 MOlion Dollars Later” is an all- American story. The story of a dream come true. A fantastic financial story — in a small town — Newber ry, S. C. — the story of Newberry Federal Savings and Loan Association organized in 1935. This growth did not happen by accident — it hap pened by design, dedicated effort, and a desire of thous ands of our fellow Americans to own a home and have a safe place to save their hard-earned dollars. In our great industry, competition is ever present. That very competition is why our industry is great. To our fellow Americans who have made our fan tastic growth posable, we say: “Thank you for your trust and confidence.” What makes Newberry Federal different? You do. Because the finest people in the world are New- berrians. So, as we always say, “Where you Save does make a difference.” BRANCH OFFICE—BATESBURG, S. C. r #U/A avinqs and Loan AssociATioff ; A V I N G JOHN F. CLARKSON M. O. SUMMER W. C. HUFFMAN J. K. WILLINGHAM E.B.