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TAGE SIX THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA Locking A. bead ...by Dr. Gtorg* S. B«nson PRESI DENT—N ATI ON AL OUCATIOK PROGRAM Smtc/i ArkftMM FREEDOM TO SPEAK OUT The question might be asked why more of our prominent nat ional leaders do not speak out whenever such events occur as the recent turmoil and student rebel lion at the University of Califor nia at Berkeley. Ostensibly, the fuss was about freedom of speech. Yet, most American leadership, J which we hope has a sane and bal-* anced position about this kind of Marxist practice-run for revolu tion, chooses to remain silent. Must we ignore the danger ? What’s wrong with speaking up about it? Somebody besides the student orators at UC had better exercise the privilege of free speech, it seems to me. The turmoil at Berkeley involv ed only a minute faction of nearly 26,000 students. The dedicated stu dents and scholarly faculty large ly ignored it, according to reports. And even of those activists involv ed, relatively few are said to have any direct ties of racial, political «r Marxist nature. But Ed Mont gomery, reporting for the Los An geles Herald Examiner, found that many were being duped unwit tingly or otherwise by trained agi tators, most of whom were not Students at all. A well-organized ; t coalition of foreign ideologies, he reported, was behind the Marxist dominated demonstrations. A Few Can Agitate Even President Clark Kerr of the University said that most of the demonstrators were not stu dents and that “up to 40 per cent of the hard-core leaders” were adherents of the Mao -Red Chi nese Communist ideology. These agitators were traced by Report er Montgomery to the Progressive Labor Movement, a fairly new front that is making quite an orbit about the country. This outfit in Berkeley is headed by Mortimer Scheer, who has only a couple of strong campus contacts and has himself been working on campus with the rebellion leaders. The Young Socialist Alliance was also found to be active in the disorders. The YSA follows th e Trotsky line of Communism and leans toward Castro. It is a branch of the Socialist Workers Party, once cited by Attorney General Tom Clark as subversive. The largest faction, however, was found to be the W. E. B. DuBois Clubs of America, advocating the Moscow line. National headquar ters of this group is in San Fran cisco. An East Bay chapter in cludes UC students and profes sional hangers-on. Their ex-officio advisor is “Mickey” Lima, chair man of the Communist Party for Northern California, who was photographed on campus during the FSM demonstrations. A New Facade Aware of this group, FBI Dir ector J. Edgar Hoover said last October “This academic year will undoubtedly see intensive Com munist Party efforts to erect its newest facade in the nation’s campuses to draw young blood for the vampire which is interna tional Communism. In its contin uing drive to attract young Am ericans, the Communist Party U. S. A. spawned a new national Marxist youth organization in June 1964—the W. E. B. DuBois Clubs of America” These were spawned in San Francisco, named for the NAACP founder, and put into action for the Communist cause. Within six months they were trying their wiles in Berke ley. These tactics are likely to be tried on other campuses also. Agi tation may not center around FSM but the ultimate objective of re cruiting youth for Communism is the same. DuBois Clubs are being formed on other West Coast cam puses. With the help of PLM and the YSA (and funds from Mos cow and Peking), professional, non-student revolutionaries are ready to be called in as soon as some kind of cause can be discov ered or concocted. Those who dis miss the rebellion at UC as re action against the “factory” im personality of the big university are going to have to revise their viewpoint. How Silent Are We? 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DOMINICK THE “SPECTATOR'S” COLUMN “For more than half a century there have been two forms of government intervention in the business of producing and distri buting electric power. One has been represented by the regula tors, who would leave the business in private ownership but impose strict regulations over service and prices by government agencies— local, state, and Federal. The other has been sought by the sta tists, who would have government enter the business by owning and operating it. Over tne years regulation has been more generally accepted, and from 80 to 85 per cent of the elec tric power produced comes from private companies owned by pri vate investors. Methods of govern ment regulation have steadily im proved, and the companies have come to accept them as a piatter of course. But there survives a viriW type of reformer who believes that the public gets better service at a lower price when government or a cooperative association own the facilities of generation and distri bution. The mental process by which these reformers arrive at their conclusions is difficult to justify on practical grounds. For the test is the consumer’s satis faction. To him, whether he is an immense manufacturer or a houseowner, the test is efficient service at a fair cost. The source of the service would seem, on logical grounds, to be immaterial. And to the taxpayer, who is all of us, private ownership under regulation is decidedly bet ter. For private producers are taxpayers, too—big ones—and the outlays of government money, sometimes obvious and mostly hidden in the subsidies and prefer ences that go into government op eration, are absent in private own ership. The statist mentality, however, persists in believing that some virtue inheres when everybody, through a government agency or a cooperative, owns the source of service. A choice between the two forms of intervention is now before the Federal Power Commission—itself an example of regulation—in the case of an application of the Duke Power company to spend $700 million in a combined hydro and steam electric power develop ment in the hills and mountains of southwestern North Carolina. This is known as the Keowee- Toxaway project. „ After Duke filed its application with the Federal Power commiss ion, a formal petition to intervene came from the Tri-State Power Committee. This committee rep resents a number of electric co operatives in North and South Carolina and Georgia. The cooper atives’ committee wants the FPC to reject the Duke application and to recommend that the United States Congress authorise and ap propriate money for the Federal construction of the project. This brings out not only the old argument between regulated private development and govern ment ownership, but a number of new conditions which have arisen since the conflict began half a century ago. 1. There is the fact that the Federal government now requires very much more revenue than it did years ago. And when private investors build a big enterprise, there is an immense tax yield to Federal, state and local govern ments. 2. The capacity and instrumen talities of regulation are now de veloped to a point at which fair ness is assured to investors and consumers alike. If regulation is not efficient, then government should make it so. 3. There is a demand for elec tricity now immensely greater than was dreamed of 50 years ago. 4. Electric companies’ efficien cy has been sharpened by new com petition with natural gas and oil. So far as the cooperatives are concerned, they are not endanger ed. They could buy for their needs from the Duke project. If the FPC should reject the Duke application and recommend that Congress provide for build ing the project, years would be lost in getting the authorization, then getting the appropriations, then letting the contracts, and fin ally, building the facilities. Duke proposes to proceed at once. It hna acquired the land. Only the outmoded statist men tality, surviving from earlier days, stands in the way.” (Raymond Moley in Newsweek.) come to us in this day of excite ment. We have in the U. S. all kinds of people; probably several thousand, at least, from every large country in the world. As 1 President Wilson once said “We have more Hebrews than are in Jerusalem; more Italians than are in Rome; probably more Greeks than there are in Athens, “though I‘m not sure of that.” President Wilson also remarked that we have more colored people ia New York and Chicago than can be found in New Orleans. Yet so far as I know we have not passed special laws for the mil lions of Germans, Greeks, Itali ans, and others who have been playing an active part, even a constructive part, in the develop ment of America during one hun dred years. But we now strain and stretch and struggle to show spec ial favors and privileges to that one part of our population which came out of the direst slavery just one hundred years ago. I do not wish to strain the point unduly when I credit the white people who came from foreign lands—as the Germans— with being great constructive people; but lam sure that the struggle and strain of today to prove the marvelous contribution of the colored people have made to Am erican life is deeply rooted in the cheapest politics we have ever had in a country long familiar with every phase of bunk and punk and every other phase of political chicanery. If you wish to see a rampart exhibition of political skull dug- gery: infamous transgression a- gainst the common law of man, let me invite your attention to this official document which to my mind is steeped in political in famy. Just let your mind play on this for a while and then let me see you raise your hat in profound respect to the great masters of our destiny who hold forth in Washington “County and state officials of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service have been ordered to search for qualified Negroes to hire for positions be coming open on ASCS staffs. The agriculture department di rective, made public in Wash ington recently, is aimed speci fically at states where Negroes make up more than 10 per cent of the farmer population. The 11 states of the old Confederacy comprise the group. The new policy, outlined to county ASCS officers the past few days, seeks to have Negroes employed on ASCS staffs in pro portion to the number of Negro farmers in each county. There have been no Negroes a- mong the agency’s permanent em ployees in South Carolina. Some 750 additional employes hired each year on a temporary basis have been white. ‘This does not mean that anyone will lose his job*, stressed C. E. Foy, state executive director of the ASC. ‘Qualified Negroes will be hired for permanent positions when those positions become va cant.’ Foy said. Efforts are under way, he said, to find qualified Negroes now for many of the 750 temporary po sitions involving field and office work as crop preparations begin. The 1959 farm census showed South Carolina’s farm population was 60 per cent white and 40 per cent Negro. The Negro farm pop ulation in the counties ranged from a low of three per cent in Pickens county to a high of 75 per cent in Beaufort county. Work on the 1964 farm census will be completed soon. It is ex pected to show a smaller per cen- tage of Negro farmers. ‘If a county’s farm population is 20 per cent non-white and 80 per cent white, the ultimate goal is to have 20 per cent non- white employment’, Foy said. Horace D. Godfrey, ASC ad ministrator in Washington, issued the directive to ASC committees, which administer federal farm programs. Godfrey’s directive also ordered the state ASCS committees to es tablish an advisory committee of capable Negroes to assist the ASCS state committees in assur ing equal employment opportuni ty to participate in ASCS pro grams a,nd full participation in community and county committee elections.” (The News & Courier, Charleston, 4-10-65.) Strange and wonderful things agitators either here or abroad are safer from U. S. scorn than almost any kind of mischief mak er. Are we so mesmerized by Mos cow, Peking and Havana that we have nothing to say? One would think that the President of the U. S. might well have taken the opportunity to show native Reds his Texas mettle. Is he restrained by political considerations ? Or has the Fulbright line tied the tongues of our leaders in high places? If our leadership does not speak out, there may come a time when it cannot speak at all. Or has that time, in fact ,arrived? JUNIOR MADE A DRESSER TRAY HEAVY CC*T HANGER wire IN56RTEP IN HOLES GLUE FELT TD BOTTOM JIGSAW TCP PIKE GLUE TO BOTTOM PlSCE. 6HEUAC ANP VARNISH^ THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1965 Her. EGBERT H. HARPER PUCK AND MEMORIES "p ecently I made a trip by auto- mobile to scenes of my col lege days and I came to the con clusion that people make our memories. Past our State capital where I had lived a number of years, we drove north along a railroad, by places I could people with memories and reached a small station where I had waited for the little tap train out to my college town. Thence we turned east and drove to the parish seat You would call it the county seat. There is the old-time courthouse with its columns and the lawyers’ row across the street on one side. There were churches of several denominations and of worthy de sign. There were the buildings of a former Presbyterian college. But the charm of all was the memory of people who had dwelt there. Then retracing past the little station to which I have referred, we came to the old college town where I spent some happy years. How the memories crowded upon me then. There is the church where I was married to the lady of my heart But the old college is gone. Only the west wing re mains, where the stately main building, with its huge Doric col umns, is grown up in bushes and small trees. I could weep but for the fact that the college itself is . thriving elsewhere. I can people the old site with memories that have lived beyond the years. And I trust to be true to the best that I have known. BY LINDA NORRIS Although Judy Garland’s televi- sion show was a weekly show case for top entertainers, it was the Garland magic that attracted viewers into the studio and around TV sets . . . Throughout the sea son, Judy added a number of new songs to her repertoire and Capitol technicians were on hand to re cord most of them ... The result was Just for Openers, an album containing 12 of the best (re corded live) all-new Garland songs . . . Among the songs heard are It’s a Good Day, That’s All, More, Fly Me to the Moon, and Battle Hymn of the Republic. Contrary to what some people may believe, The Beatles are not the only English artists who have carved a niche in America . . . Prior to their invasion, England provided this country with a num ber of other talents including Norrie Paramor ... Par amor was introduced on records to America in 1956 with an album titled In London, In Love ... It was is sued on the Capitol of the World series and through the years it has become one of the series’ two top-selling LP’s. In London—In Love Again is a follow-up to that first LP and in it Norrie utilizes (as he did in the previous album) the voice of Patricia Clark, who is more a member of the ensemble than a soloist . . . Her appearances are brief, just enough to remind music lovers of the wonderful lyrics in such songs as When I Fall in Love, Love Walked In, As Time Goes By, These Foolish Things, All the Way and many more. Sentimental Zither is the latest addition to Ruth Welcome’s grow ing zither repertoire for Capitol and proves to be a nostalgic mood album in which she plays a dozen romantic ballads accompanied by the well-known organist, Dick Hyman ... Included are My Fool- ish Heart, Over the Rainbow, Young At Heart and September Song. ONLY A SKELETON ... re mains of the Old Times Tower, Times Square, New York City. The 1904 building has been stripped to the frame and will get a completely new appearance. SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE An Adequate Military Reserve ON DECEMBER 12, 1964, the Secretary of Defense an nounced a plan to merge the Army Reserve with the Army National Guard. Congress has set the paid drill strength of the Army Reserve at 800,000 and that of the National Guard at 400,000. The proposal by the De fense Department would reduce the total paid drill strength by about 150,000, and the remainder of the personnel would be placed in the National Guard. DESPITE THE preliminary steps begun almost immediately by the Defense Department to Implement the “re-organization” of the Reserve forces of the Army, it was never in doubt that only the Congress, under the Constitution, had the authority to change the composition and strength of the Reserve forces. Hearings on the proposed changes in the Reserve forces were begun by Committees in both Houses of Congress early this year. SINCE DECEMBER, events have developed which have graphically demonstrated the critical nature of any proposal to reduce the strength of Re servo forces. In a few months, demands for U. S. ground forces have grown to proportions which exceed even those which existed in 1961, when many Reserve units were called to active duty in tire Berlin crisis. THE UNITED STATES has 16 Army divisions and 8 Marine divisions. Of these, 6 Army di visions are tied down in Europe, and 2 mors divisions are tied down in Korea. This constitutes a commitment of H of our Army divisions. Developments in Viet- Nam have necessitated the com mitment of increasing numbers of U. S. forces. The level of our ground forces there has been ap proximately doubled in the last 2 months, so that we now have about 45,000 personnel in Viet- Nam, with requirements still in creasing. In the midst of these demands on U. S. ground forces, the Dominican crisis erupted, re quiring the commitment of ap proximately 25,000 troops to this Caribbean Island. DURING ALL of this, some U. S. forces must be held back for possible new contingencies, including ontbreaks in new areas where trouble ia anticipated. THE CONCLUSION that our ground forces are spread thin is inescapable. IT IS AGAINST this back ground that Congress must weigh the proposed re-organization and reduction of Ai;*ny Reserve % forces. In judging the plan, Con gress will be just as concerned with “readiness” of the Reserves as with gross strength. REPEATEDLY, Congress has urged that Reserve Forces be equipped and trained for quick utilization when necessary. Much ia left to be desired in the prog ress toward equipping Reserve units. The problem of buying' and distributing the necessary equipment for the Reserves will not be simplified by re-organiza tions. ANOTHER FACTOR which greatly influences the readiness of Reserve forces is the active- duty experience level of its per sonnel. This is a major factor involved iu the proposed “re organization.* THE RE - ORGANIZATION plan ia designed to be imple mented with a minimum of ac tion by Congress. Therefore,. Army Reserve units will not be transferred to the National Guard, but will bo “disestab lished,* and corresponding units will bo organized in the National Guard. Since only Congress could authorize the direct transfer of personnel from the Reserve to the Guard, the proposed re-or ganization would depend on per sonnel in existing Reserve units “volunteering* to transfer to the Guard. OF THE 270,600 enlisted melt in the Army Reserve, approxi mately 201i006 have a ready Re serve obligation. According to a preliminary survey made by the Department of Defense, and ex tracted from the Department by Congressional Committees, only about 30,000 of the 201,000 would voluntarily* transfer to the Na tional Guard. The effect on ex perience levels, and thereby, ow “readiness^* of the Reserve forces, is oovlons. IN THE FINAL analysis, the decision of the composition of the Reserve, as well as the ac tive military forces of the Unit ed States must be made by Con gress. The basis for the decision must be the interest of national security, which can only be served by a sufficient number of experienced, trained, equipped, and ready Reserve forces, com posed of both a strong National Guard and Army Reserve. Sincerely, Mtatatwl was organised as a territory, April 17, 1718. The 9m Francisco earthquake made world hoadHios, April 17, 1988. Pierre Laval formed a bow cabinet in Vitky, France, —— title of diet of government, April 17,1HL Bn the same day, UA. 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