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PAGE TWO T IE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1965 nn 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 The President, having invoked the Constitution as the reason for vetoing the Appropriation for something more than a billion dollars for construction; and an item restraining the President from closing or abandoning naval, army stations, etc., is seems op portune to observe that the pow er and prerogative of the Presi dent has been strained so much the time is here for a study of the President’s lawful attributes. As is known, the President is Commander-in-Chief of the arm ed forces. What does that mean? It means that he is the ranking commander of the armed forces. Mark you, he is Commander-in- Chief of the Armed forces, not installations, but armed forces, troops, sailors, marines—MEN in the service. The Constitution is explicit: it ties the President hand and foot. Hear this: The Congress shall have the power: To provide for the Common De fense and general welfare of the United States; to declare war; to raise and support Armies, to make rules for the government and reg ulation of the land and naval forces—to provide for training the miliitia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exer cise authority for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards, and other needful buildings —to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into exeeirtion the foregoing pow ers, and all other powers vested in any department of offices thereof. So now, where does the Pres ident find the authority he seems to invoke ? The Constitution, having been torn into shreds I marvel that anyone in high position remem bers it or regards it as more than a memorandum to be regarded or disregarded at will. Look w T hat’s here now: Three hundred years of dis crimination! My! My! This is 1965 so three hundred years ago was 1665. Charleston’s first settlement was in 1670 and moved in 1680 to Oyster Point, the present site; Jamestown, Virginia was settled 1607; Massachusetts 1620|r It is clear then, that this racial dis crimination must have been in Virginia and Massachusetts in the very beginning, eh? The slaves at that time—and for generations following were either savages, or once removed, more or less. So those erudite Sociologists who act as tutors to the President are at sea, aren’t they? One hun dred years ago the colored people were unprepared for the burdens and obligations of citi~'nship, so the three hundred year twaddle might just as well be a report that Moses discriminated as he came down from Sinai with the Tablets of the Ten Command ments. If that can be proved then the President should challenge our Jewish brethren too for a show down. The President, as a Texan, is more likely of Mexican flavor than of the South for Mexico governed and controlled Texas until about 1847. So now, according to the inexorable law of simple arithme tic a Texan is much closer to Mex ican law than our colored people are to Southern law—and the President is a statesman from Texas which joins Mexico, after crossing the Rio Grande. I have spent much time in the North, part of it as a student of New York City, as well as Boston, fairly well. I do not jump at con clusions and condemn either city because of hoodlums; I know the high character and culture of the North and don’t run off half- cocked into believing that those good people are wicked. But some Northern folk think we of the South are lawless, bloodthirsty— avaricious, malevolent—and what not. Where has the colored man pros pered most? Up North? No; down South And for the most part , almost every colored family has white friends. We still have our colored friends, notwithstanding trouble-makers who assume or af fect a superior virtue not visible to any right thinking person. I intended to quote textually a new r s dispatch from Washington which said that some so-called in vestigators and wild-eyed dream ers filed a report predicting more intensified racial violence because of racial discriminations during 300 years! My word! 300 years! SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE Farmers in the Squeeze U. S. AGRICULTURE is sad dled with a paradox: the farmer is producing more and enjoying less. POOR HARVESTS, the his torical curse of those who till the soil, is not the problem of U. S. farmers. In th last 40 years, agricultural productivity of each farm worker has in creased 500% One American farm worker feeds more than 2^2 times the number of people he did 20 years ago. The in creased productivity of U. S. industry has bee.*, out-stripped by farming by 2% times. THE INCREASED productiv ity has not been balanced, how ever, by proportions?s rewards for the farmer. Since 1950 the farmers share of the dollar for which his food products have sold in the market place has de clined by 10%. During the same period, the ratio of the farmer’s production costs to his gross in come has increased 10%. THL CONSEQUENCES of the squeeze are reflected in the 11% decrease in cropland in the last decade. Even more significant is the decrease in the number of persons engaged in farm work. Since 1930, the annual average of farm labor employment has been cut in half. In 1965, it is estimated that the number of persons engaged in farm work will decrease by 8% from the level of 1964. THE FULL implications of this squeeze are not confined to the economic areas, but they spill over into the political sphere as well Declining rural population, emboldened the Su- premt Court to pronounce its “one man, one vote” rationale, upon which was based the court’s drive to reapportion State legis latures. The extent of the changes in rural population on the national political i>cene is illustrated by the successful re sistance to date of all efforts in the Congress to impose some reasonable limits on the Su preme Court’s attempt to play “upset the fruit-basket” with the political structure of the United States. ALREADY, there are evi dences that forces are at work m the Congress tc enact legis lation which will mske the farm er’s lot even worse ' This year, progress has been made on leg islation which would take the first #te toward bringing agri culture under the National Gov ernment’s wage and hour con trols. THE WAGE and hour control laws of the National Govern ment were designed to meet the conditions of industrial employ ment. Historically, it has been acknowledged bj the Congress that the nature of agricultural employment is fundamentally different; and therefore, it is impractical to subject farm em ployment to the controls de signed for industrial labor. SEVERAL factors make it both inappropriate and imprac tical to apply wage and hour controls to agricultural employ ment or even to most of the re lated fields of agricultural proc essing. Such employment, in the first place, is seasonal. Labor requirements multiply in plant ing, and particularly, in harvest seasons of specific crops. No amount of management plan ning and foresight can eliminate or even minimize the necessity for peaks and valleys in the curve of farm labor require ments. Additionally, farm labor is of such a nature that a sub stantial portion of it can be per formed by unskilled, or marginal workers. These two factors are responsible for the fact that most farm workers are not regu larly attached t^ the nation’s labor force. Almost half of those who are employed in farm work are employed for less than 25 days. Almost one-third are stu dents working part-time. IN THE FACE of such fac tors. the House Labor Commit tee has reported a bill which would subject a portion of farm labor to wage controls and ag ricultural processing to both minimum wage and hour con trols. This “meager*' beginning follows the pattern of the “grad ualism” approach used in the past to expand the bite of the wage and hour law THE IMPOSITION of wage and hour controls on agriculture will further decrease the amount of farm employment and drive more and more farmers out of business. UNLESS the American public rises up and puts a stop to the efforts to make the farmer pay penalties for his efficiency, the horn of plenty which has blessed the American society may. in the future, be found only in the history books. ‘The breakdown of the Negro family structure,’ the President said in a June speech, is exerting an ‘influence radiating to every part of life.’ A staggeringly long roll of melancholy statistics chart that breakdown. To take one at random: A just-released Govern ment study discloses that no hus band is present in 21 per cent of the homes of ‘nonwhite’ mar ried women (mostly Negroes) be tween the ages of 20 and 44, up from only 15 per cent in 1940. The comparable rate among white women of the same age is 4 per cent—and it has changed hardly a decimal point in the last 25 years. Legal and private efforts to in crease Negro educational, job and housing opportunties aim to re duce the feeling of hopelessness that many sociologists believe traces to these social ill—and spawns a predeliction to violence. But this is a discouragingly long-term struggle and many soc iologists fear it is too late to save many of the Negro youths whose minds already have been warped in today’s slums. Indeed, some have a nagging fear that civil rights laws may temporarily—though surely unin tentionally—make the situation worse. As some Negroes rise, they say, the feelings of others who have been left behind—and led to expect better things—may become even more inflamed. ‘The history of revolution shows that when conditions get better people become more openly dissat isfied,’ warns Seymour Levent- man, assistant professor of socio logy at the University of Pennsyl vania. ‘The disparity between their lot and others’ becomes more evi dent. So it’s not accidental that rioting is occuring after the civil rights legislation.” was leave the country. They ex plained that the Communists wanted him to go away. “What is the United States fighting for?” queried Wessin. “Is it fighting for Democracy or for Communism in the world ?” Brig. Gen. Juan de Los Santos- Cespedes, chief of staff of the Dominican air force, told Dubois that he was offered $300,000 by j White House representatives last May. His part of the bargain was to leave the Dominican Republic. | “I told them,” the general said, “that I was not interested in their money, that the only thing I was interested in was to rid my coun try of the Communist menace . . . and that I intended to continue in my post to prevent them from seizing power and no money could buy my patriotism.” The Communist have suffered one defeat because neither general would accept the bribes from the United States. But why were the offers made, and why must we appease the Communists ? A close look at Mr. Godoy’s government will reveal where most of his favors have been bestowed. He has turned over the radio and television channels to Commun ists and leftists, many of whom are reported to be the same in dividuals who incited the April riots. He appointed Domingo de la Mota, the former chief of the Le Vaga command inside the Com munist sector, to be director of sports, a post which deals with the physical training of Domini can youth. The rebels have pledged to con tinue their drive for a “war of liberation,” and there is evidence that Castorites are laying plans for a guerrilla war. On July 25, over the Manion Forum, Mr. Harold Lord Varney 1 predicted that Godoy would be in stalled as President. Mr. Varney went on to say that “This ar rangement purchases a few months of temporary peace at the price of delivering the Dominican Republic . . into the permanent control of the Communists Before the United States began its ser ies of blunders, the Communists had no colorful leader around whom they could rally . . . Caam- ano has now stepped into the breach . . . He will be elected pres ident. “If we had shown an iota of intelligence, we would have des troyed Caamano and his Commun ist stronghold in the first days of the intervention. We could eas ily have done so. He was an un known and powerless man. Instead we have pampered him . . until now he has grown up into a for midable symbol” Mark Mr. Varney’s words. Then ask youdself: “Whose side ARE we on?” “Why worry about what other people think of you unless you have more confidence in their op inion than your own.” “The easiest way to make the grade is on the level.” “The wonderful thing about a vacation is that it makes you feel good enough to go back to work and poor enough so you have to.” “Time is so powerful a medi cine that God has wisely given it to us only in small doses.” looking Ahead ...by Dr. Gturg* S. Benson PRESIDENT—NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Sotrcr, ArkansM Itiol nrmnarma ot .prifUtd «l goV*rninenl •xiHuut) Dean Manion THE MANION FORUM •••••••••••••••••A# BUNGLING AND BRIBERY: — OUR POLICY IN THE DOMINI CAN REPUBLIC. The establishment of a provis ional government in the battle- scarred Dominican Republic was supposed to delight everybody. “The way has been opened for the end to strife.” proclaimed Presid ent Johnson. Newsmen hurried down to Santo Domingo to have a look at President Hector Garcia Godoy, and to wire back that he was a wise choice. A wave of re lief started to roll across the Na tion; another crisis was over. •But the wave was still just a ripple emanating from the White House press room when rumors of intrigue and scandal began to roil the water. Reports that U. S. of ficials had tried to bribe certain anti-Communist leaders in the Dominician Republic reached the ears of the American public, and the ears pricked up for more in formation. Brig. Gen. Wessin y Wessin told The Chicago Tribune reporter Jules Dubois that, early in Sep tember, two U. S. embassy aides offered him a trip to the United States, an excursion to Panama, and $50,000 for his house and lot (which the general said are worth half that sum.) All the friendly Americans wanted Wessin to do GOVERNMENT BY DEFICIT This i sthe time of year for re ports on- the federal government’s excess of outgo over intake, as the tallies at the end of the fiscal year are announced. The overall deficit is being estimated as in excess of $3.5 billions. This am ount at least can be added (the treasury says it’s twice that) to our accumulation of national debt of more than $300 billions. This growing burden also is ceremon- ialized each summer when Con gress pushes the debe limit a bit higher. Congress seems no more worried about the billions required to service the debt than about the billions it votes to give away. The read-’em-and-weep resort of federal finances does nothing to cool the long, hot summer. As politicians, however our leaders, must touch up the public images” they seek to maintain. President Johnson, that White House light- bill saver, has recently called in his department heads and fiscal officers to say that he intends to spend whatever is necessary to fight the war in Vietnam and pay for all the new and “necessary” programs, but not a penny more. Bravo, except it is a matter of opinion which federal programs adopted and proposed are really essential to the nation’s well-be ing.. A Word For The Public With shrewd insight and some irony, Mr. Johnson also remarked that when it came to proposing new programs, he found little want of imagination. He must be commended for adding this advice to his top officials: “I would urge you to be equally ingenious in looking for areas of savings and examining alternative least - cost ways to achieve your agencies’ ob jectives.” He went on to explain that budget planning for next year would be increasingly diffi cult because of new spending pro grams and increased defense re quirements. These things are being said largely for public consumption. They are good, as far as they go, but they do not reflect the whole reality. The President and his financial advisors know well en ough, even if they do not say so, how their huge spending programs are going to be paid for in the face of tax cuts that were suppos ed to be so beneficial in fueling the boom. The deficit will be cov ered, as it has been for a quarter of a century, by inflating the na tion’s money and taking purchas ing power from the citizens. Those fiscal wizards are only foolish who think this a painless way of exploiting sources of revenue. Who Loses? You Such sources as these are, of course, wage earners and fixed- income persons who never are able to take effective measures to defend themselves soon enough. The government may think to give labor a hand with its “guide line” increases. But only a few will prosper from inflation, and the prime victims will be the ma jority of our citizens whose in comes are relatively fixed. The chief profiteer from this high way robbery scheme is the per petrator: the federal government itself. Nobody presumes that its purchasing power will be reduced just because is spends more than it takes in. It won’t. But yours and mine will be decreased. The tax cut that the nation was supposed to enjoy was itself an inflationary device simply because the treasury cannot possibly allow its outgo of money to be more than it takes in and must bor row, or create, what it requires. Deficit spending, in reality,, can not prevail without huge amounts of borrowing from banks, a pro cess that increases the money sup ply through the medium of the Federal Reserve System. Just how much “bank money” will be injected into the nation’s money stream is hard to say, but the way Congress is acting some econo mists see it as $15 billions or more annually within a few years. A Grand Hoax As our money supply is increas ed, inflation will inch ahead. Prices invariably rise with the money supply, and wages can hardly ever keep pace. Moreover, the increase in prices will bring lower purchasing power to. the people who need it most. The government, in fact, can spend nothing that it does not take from its citizens, either through taxes, confiscation, debasing the currency, or bank borrowing. The said result is the same: the peo ple have to pay by relinquishing their purchasing power. This is the curse of inflation. The immorality of a government that promises to do more for its people, and yet carries on this way, is obvious. Wildlife Dept, sets dove shoots Columbia—The Wildlife Resour ces Department is again putting on public dove hunts without cost in some of the upstate counties, 27 fields being open the first day of the season, September 13, and on either Wednesday or Saturday thereafter. The program, now in its third year, was set upto show land- owners how they could get some income by planting their fields for doves and charging for the privilege of shooting, and also to provide some shooting in areas where game is not abundant. The fields include the following in Newberry county: J. W. Abrams, 5 miles West of Newberry on Bush River Road, Wednesday. SCWRD, Indians Creek, Satur day. The above fields were establish ed under cooperation with private landowners. Please observe the no-hunting zones around houses, buildings and livestock. Respect the owner’s rights regarding crops and fences. Park in designated areas or along roads if suitable. Former airmen may be enlisted Men with prior military service who have encountered difficulty in enlisting in the Air Force because of the low number of openings are encouraged to try again this month. Sergeant Bill Knight, Air Force Recruiter for Newberry County has announced. Sgt. Knight said that this month, the Air Force can accept three times as many prior service men as it can in a usual month. The sergeant pointed out there is usually a long waiting list for the Air Force prior service program, which will come as little news to those who sought to enlist earlier this year. To enter the Air Force . under this program, a prior serviceman must have a specialty included on the Air Force needed list. Ser geant Knight has full information at his office at 1404 Gervais St. m Columbia, but will tell a prior serviceman if his specialty is on the needed list if the applicant calls him at the Newberry Selec tive Service Office on Wednesdays between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. ‘For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? -St. Matthew 16:26 Present a house plan to a con tractor and he will give you a reasonable estimate of what it will cost vou to build a new home. But, ask a man how much his soul is worth and you have posed an entirely different type of problem. . , Through the centuries, the words quoted above have caused men to stop, think and consider carefully actions and proposi tions of endless nature. The les son in the words is clear and simple and if we but try, we understand that the value of any achievement or recognition is di rectly related to the manner in which it is accomplished. Modem Christians should re call these words often. They may bring strength when strength is needed, when we may seem in clined to forget that the price of something we want is far more than we should be willing to pay. R«ad your BIBLE daily and GO TO CHURCH SUNDAY Permanent Peace of Mind Those who save with us have permanent peace of mind, because they know every dol lar they place with us is insured against every possible loss. They know, too, that we have been in business for 30 years and have always paid a good return on their savings. You, too, can have permanent peace of mind if yon save with us. BRANCH OFFICE—BATESBURG, S. C. | i AVTfr&s AJVD Loan Association *••• . •tmamt, o. •> DIRECTORS JOHN F. CLARKSON W M. O. SUMMER W. C. HUFFMAN J. K, WILLINGHAM E. B. PURCELL G. K. DOMINICK