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\ THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1965 THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE THREE THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN The Government asks for only $1,700,000,000—one billion, seven hundred million dollars! Don’t let familiarit\ w ith big figures make you indifferent to colossal expenditures. There was a time when a billion dollars was real money. A billion dollars? Say that’s just chicken feed today. What’s a billion dol lars. To you and me that is a sum in big figures; that s real money. Now our little excursion to Vietnam will probably call for mere and more billions. Say, do you know why we went so far to pick a fight; or horn in on a fight? Cuba is right at our doors, but we go eight thousand miles to fight Communism in Asia, while Cuba holds us in scorn. “Ammonia supplies nitrogen to the soil as one of the three 'vital plant nutrients; the other are potash and phosphate. Ammonia is sprinkled directly on the soil as a liquid or in combination with other chemicals. About 70 per cent or more of the ammonia produced in the U. S. goes into fertilizer. The rest is used in industry as refrigerant gas and to make other chemicals, such as pes ticides, explosives and rocket fuel. Monsanto Co., for instance uses about 40 per cent of its annual capacity of 800,000 tons mostly for making acrylic fibers and nylon. Dean Manion THE MANION FORUM • ••••••••••••••••A* “The continuing controversy over the cost of funerals is liaving an unexpected side effect: More people are willing their bodies to medical schools. An ample supply of bodies for dissecting is vital for train ing in anatomy and for medical research, the schools say. The recent increase in bequests of bodies is an especially welcome surprise to medical school staffs because most had feared an impending shortage. These fears were based partly on rapidly growing demand for bodies created by rising medical school enrollments, ex panding research and new dental and nursing schools which offer laboratory anatomy courses. Meanwhile the number of unclaimed bodies from city morgues and state institutions, the traditional sources, has been shrinking as living stand ards rise the burial benefits become more widely available under various private and public programs. But now the trend toward willing of bodies has grown so much that Dr. Charles Sawyer, professor of anatomy at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical School, says he is forced to turn down bequests daily. ‘We have so many wills on file that we open our donations program for only a few weeks a year’, he says. Dr. Russell Fisher, Mary land state medical examiner, adds: ‘The number of willed Bodies being received by medical schools must have increas ed ten fold in the last five years’. Most schools say they still can use all the bodies being offered and a few, particularly in large Eastern cities, still report a severe shortage. But even most of these schools ^re confident increased publicity about body bequests soon will solve their problem. The University of Michigan Medical School five years ago had only a handful of donations on file; today it has nearly 1,000. U. S. medical, dental and nursing students require more than 3000 bodies each year for anatomy study, it is esti mated. Most are used by first-year medical students; typi cally, one body is needed for every four students. Dr. O. P. Jones, professor of anatomy at the University of Buffalo, remarked: ‘Many of the people writing us to donate their bodies say they are doing it so they won’t con tribute to keeping the embalmers and undertakers in plush living.’ Undertakers, of course, have hotly denied charges that funeral costs are too high or that their incomes are excessive. For some donors of limited incomes, a medical school be quest in a way to spare a family big funeral expenses, ana tomists say. But many people in middle and upper income brackets also will their bodies. Jim Erwin, a Dallas publicist, Is giving his body to Texas Southwestern Medical School. He complains of ‘the high cost of dying’ and notes that ‘the medical schools need the bodies.’ Medical schools officials still are bothered by the erron eous conception among many people that they can sell their bodies to science. Although body snatching from cem eteries and sale of bodies were not uncommon in the 18th century, it is presently illegal in all states to purchase cada vers. Nevertheless, one anatomist tells of an old man who walked into his office with a suitcase in which he hoped to carry home money for his body. ‘He demanded $10,000, the .anatomist recalls. ‘When I told him we Am’t buy bodies, he .got mad, said he had a steel plate in hfl head which made bim a bargain at that price and then insisted that a friend of his had ‘property of Yale Medical School’ stamped on his back for $15,000’.” When Arthur Goldberg succeeded the late Adlai Stevenson as our Ambassa dor to the United Nations he assumed a pledge to work in that assignment for the es tablishment of peace under international law. However, without a clear definition of the kind of peace that is sought, and exact specifica tions for the international law which is to maintain it,the noble quest may be ab orted by the complete des-truction of this country. Lawyers and most laymen know that for the adjudication of every enforcable law, there must be a competent and duly authorized court. When we think of international law, we naturally think of the World Court, so-called. The name World Court is a misnomer. The “court” was a creature of the United Nations, and was established by the charter of that organization. The charter provides for a court of 15 judges to be elected by a majority vote in the General Assembly and a majority of the Security Couricil, voting separately. A judgment of this court is final and unappealable. The objection to the selection of the judges that has been made often and continuously by Americans is that the char ter provides that only one jurge from anw one nation at any one time can be on the court, which means that while we could have only one judge there is no limit provided for the number of judges from the ten nations behind the iron cur tain. Since the beginning of the Court, the Iron Curtain countries have had two judges while we have but one, and there is no guarantee that we have even one. The one protection we have had under the present juris diction of the so-called World Court is to be found in the Connally Reservation which periodically is challenged by the advocates of absolute power of the court to determine questions of international law, because the Connally Reser vation reserved the right to determine what matters are purely domestic and what ones are international, to the de termination of the United States. If the Connally Reservation should be removed from our document of acceptance of the jurisdiction of the World Court, we could expect an expansion of the World Court’s jurisdiction by its own interpretation of the terms “inter national” and “domestic”. It is easy to see the disastrous consequences that would result if a court, with a majority of Iron Curtain judges, were permitted to decide whether a question before it is an international matter. If the Connally Reservation is ever repealed, the door will be wide open to th invasion of all of our domsetic institutions and our very right of self-determination. Such repeal could very well be the end of our freedom as we have known it. County Permits Mrs. Gunter dies at nursing home “There are 19 states where right-to-work laws are in force, 31 states which permit compulsory unionism. The evi dence is that right-to-work laws have not proved to be "slave-labor or ‘union busting’ statutes. Under them unions have continued to grow. And these basic facts from the U. S. Department of Labor and Commerce, compiled by the National Right to Work Committee, speak for themselves. From 1953 to 1963, hourly earnings of manufacturing workers increased by 46.7 per cent in right-to-work states, by 42.4 percent in those without such laws. * New manufacturing jobs rose 12.2 percent in the right- to-work states, fell 7.6 percent in all others. Unemployment rate in right-to-work states as of 1962 was 4.6 percent; in others, 5.6 per cent. Per capita personal income rose by 43.7 percent in right- to-work states, 35.4 per cent in all others. The right-to-work states outstripped all others by wide margins in the increased value of added manufacturiiig, capital expenditures, bank deposits, motor vehicle registra tions, annual retail payrolls, retail sales and many other in dicators of economic progress. Right-to-work laws have not been primarily responsible for this progress, but they may well have contributed to it.” WELL-COVERED « You are when we handle your aufomobife insurance. We will suggest limits that are realistic in the light of today's damage claims and place your policy In one of the best com* panies in America. Rates are competitive* > cdlifsi »## "YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS’ 1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422 Clyde Hill, repairs to dwelling, 229 Drayton street. Ed Floyd, repairs to dwelling, 712 Bates street. B. C. Cannon, repairs to dwell ing, 709 Wise street. Wright Cannon, repairs to dwelling, 712 Caldwell street. E. G. Griffith, erect dwelling on Griffith street. Mary Singley, repairs to dwelling, 1611 Vincent street. Ronald Williams, repairs to dwelling, 1517 Simpkins street. Lillie T. Penn, repairs to dwell ing. Robert C. Odell, repairs to dwelling, 2305 College street. J. G. Shealy, repairs to dwelling 23 Glenn street. Claude P. Summer, alterations to dwelling on Harrington street. Arthur Eargle, repairs to dwell ing! 1320 Summer street. Durwood Bost, erect dwelling on Hutto Avenue. Janies Williams, repairs to dwelling, 1240 Player street. Pearl Shealy, repairs to dwell ing, Brown street. C. P. Williams, repairs to dwelling, 2018 Rivers street. Total for above permits $35,- 615.00. Mrs. Allie* Mae Burkett Gunter, 79, died Monday night at a local nursing home. Daughter of the late Andrew and Emma Burkett and widow of Ernest Gunter, she was a native of Lexington County, but lived in West Columbia most of her life. She was a member of Samaria Baptist Church near Batesburg. Surviving are three sons, James, A. Gunter of New Ellen- ton, 6urtis A. Gunter of West Columbia and Alvin C. Gunter of Seattle, Wash.; two daughters, Mrs. Ola Mae Rinehart of West Columbia and Mrs. Irene Boland of Newberry; three sisters, Mrs. Cora Cockrell of Batesburg, Mrs. Ada Busby of West Columbia and Mrs. Effie Durst of Leesville; three brothers, Clarence Burkett of Augusta, Ga., Percy Burkett of West Columbia, and Robert Burkett of Leesville; 15 grandchil dren and 22 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Mt. Ebal Baptist Church near Bates burg by Rev. M. B. Lee and Rev. Ted Sims. Burial was in the church cemetery. Clarence Pitts died Tuesday at Greenwood Clarence Wister Pitts, 60, died Tuesday afternoon at a Green wood hospital after several years of declining health. Born and reared in Newberry County, son of the late William David and Lydia Pitts, he lived in Ninety Six and Joanna sever al years. Surviving are six sisters, Mrs. Maybelle Werts and Mrs. A. R- (Emmie) Kyser of Newberry, Mrs. Earl (Dessa) Holsonback of Joanna, Mrs. Nora Hastings of Ninety Six, Mrs. Hennie Jones of Boston, Mass., and Mrs. Oleen Pilot of Miami, Fla.; and a broth er, Lewis Pilot of Leacock, Pa. Funeral services will be conduct ed at 11 a.m. today (Thursday) at Me Swain Funeral Home by Rev. M. B. Fryga. Burial will be in Trinity Methodist Church Ce metery. July bond sales Combined Series E and H Sav ings Bonds sales for July in this county totaled $14,310 reports Joe M. Roberts, County Savings Bonds Chairman. In South Carolina, combined E and H sales totaled $2,193,310, re ports Robert G. 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