Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1965 Dean Manton Wm& « • w" :W THE MANION FORUM “All’s fair in love and war.” We are at war—hot war— with the Communists in Viet Nam. Yet at home, we have to be “fair” to the Commun ists. On November 15, the Su preme Court declared that it is unconstitutional to make Reds register with the Jus tice Department. The recent Court decision was the latest in a whole series of rulings which serve to let U. S. Communists off the hook. Only last month, a Federal District Court held that the Government could not enforce a law forbidding Communists to work in a defense industry. It has become almost impossible to convict a Communist because he is a Communist. The Reds have what amounts to diplomatic immunity. Yet, in South Viet Nam, American boys are killed every day by the Communist enemy. And in the United States, Communists participate in the get-out-of- Viet Nam drive. Admitted Marxists announce they hope the Viet Cong will win. Can you imagine such benevolence tow r ard the enemy dur ing World War II ? What would have happened if ten thous and pro-Germans marched on Washington then? At the time, thousands of innocent Japanese-American citizens were herded away from their West Coast homes into the in terior of the country. Their crime? They were of Japanese ancestry and we were fighting Japan. What a far cry from today’s treatment of the Communists! The files of the FBI, the House Committee on Un-Ameri can Activities, and the Senate Internal Subcommittee are full of evidence regarding internal Communist subversion. Why must we ignore this evidence? Left free to practice what they preach, what could Com munists do in America? M. Stanton Evans, speaking over the Manion Forum on November 28, made this observation: “When President Kennedy went to Dallas in November of 1963, steps were taken to hunt down, isolate and keep un der surveillance known Right Wing agitators in Dallas. No such steps were taken to maintain surveillance over Lee Harvey Oswald, the Marxist and defector to the Soviet Un ion. And that strange contrast, I think, is illustrative of this rather warped view of what the real danger is in the United States today. “The reaction,” continued Evans, “despite the fact that Oswald was a dedicated Marxist by his own testimony, that he had defected to the Soviet Union, that he was a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, was that somehow, nevertheless, the fact that he had shot Kennedy was attri butable to the Right Wing. This was repeated over and over again in a kind of litany without any relationship to the ob servable evidence.” The so-called “Right Wing” has never sought to overthrow the government—but international communism means to do just that. The Constitution says that giving aid and com* fort to the enemy is treason. If we are still governed by that Constitution, there are traitors in our midst today. Raps Southern Association RICHMOND, VA. (UPI), Dec. 1—The Richmand News- Leader suggested editorially Tuesday that Southern States should outlaw the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The organization in meeting here for its 70th annual ses sion as an accrediting agency the newspaper was clearly disappointed that a dramatic encounter between the organ ization and the state government of North Carolina had failed to come to pass. The legislature in North Carolina ran afoul of the SACS when it adopted a law which, i neffect, assumed for the General Assembly, powers of censorship. The newspaper said “in the grand world of might-have- beens, we had projected a dramatic encounter this week between the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the North Carolina General Assembly. “In a great ceremony of huff-and-puff, the SACS would announce to a startled world that the once-noble University of North Carolina no longer merited academic accreditation. Famous professors would leave, the student ranks would thin out, the buildings would fall into decay. And all because the North Carolina legislators, in a fit of pique over aca demic irresponsibility, had passed a silly law in 1963 bann ing Communist speak ers from state universities,” the edi torial said. The newspaper continued, “two weeks ago, the General Assembly, thoroughly cowed by the matriaarchal dominance of the academicians, convened in special session at Raleigh and averted the impending catastrophe. For all practical purposes, Communists may once more hold forth at Chapel Hill ...” The newspaper, an old hand at advocating “interposition,” advocated “that the Southern States individually ought to pass laws forbidding any state supported school or college from belonging to or paying dues to the SACS. If all the Southern states withheld as a body, accreditation would be shown up for the blackmail racket it is—a device of the schoolmen to make state legislatures knuckle down to their wishes.” The editorial continued, “as a bit of student high jinks, bringing a Communist to campus is in the same class as putting a cow in the belfry. Seriously, it is hard to believe that Communist speakers on a campus can do any worse that a few of the regularly engaged professors. But when the professors begin to assert a sacred right to engage what ever speaker they wish without regard to the feelings of the people who are paying the bills, we can understand why the North Carolina legislators sat down in 1963 in a mood of exasperation. The time has come to call the high-handed bluff. No state needs the solomonic wisdom o fthe SACS to decide whether one flourescent tube or two constitutes enlighted educa tion.” SPECTATOR As I grow older I know less and less; just what I may know when I become old, I can’t imagine. In recent months I have spent three periods in a hospital—eight months, then two months, then six months. In each case I’ve been nursed at home for many weeks. So I’ve told my friends that of I were twenty five years older I should regard my accidents as due to my age. But I can still go about my business, afflicting my friends with my weekly Spectator and my indulgent public with my radio talks ev ery week over six or seven sta tions, one station being some what in and out, making seven. So now, I’ve wondered and wondered, calmly reflecting you know, about the world, the flesh and the wicked old Satan who spends a lot of. time work ing on me. I don’t meddle with other people’s affairs, but the State and Federal governments are said to be our servants. That’s a far cry from the truth, I know, but we like to deceive ourselves and be deceived. Now then, I casually try to fathom the intellectual process es of our leaders. For example, I have before me a statement that our National Government has recently sold 56 thousand tons of “Surplus Zinc.” I quote the statement from Washing ton, as published in The Wall Street Journal: Tw'o hundred thousand tons from the stockpile that the gov ernment has. Why did the government buy that zinc ? What need was there ? It was bought as an emergency measure, of course. Well, now, what emergency? Today we are operating a pe culiar style of war using a great fleet and nearly three hundred thousand men. And the Secretary of Defense has just told the nation that the war in Asia is expanding. Well now, when did we have a greater emergency in recent years than we have today? “The Government sold 56,- 000 tons of surplus sinz from its stockpile to 22 producers and importers. It had offered to sell 65,000 tons. The General Services Admin istration said the 8,999 tons unsold in this offering will be added to an additional 10,000- ton offering to domestic con-, sumers, dealers and distribu tors who can justify their bids on the basis of hardship or special need. The GSA will re ceive bids to buy this added tonnage through tomorrow. The combined offering of 75,- 000 tons was authorized by leg islation that President Johnson signed early this month that allows disposal of 200,000 tons of stockpiled zinc.” And the government is sell ing thousands of tons of Alum inum and Copper. What else I do not know. But if it is not needed today why was it ever bought? Very likely the Government, meddling with private business is trying to hold down prices by selling thousands of tons of material bought athigh prices, probably. Of course I can plain ly understand as a very ordi nary, unsophisticated, man in the street that many of our in dustrialists will be served help fully by holding off advances in the price of aluminum, cop per and zinc; and I rejoice with them, but the Government prob ably had quite a part in high prices when the Government bought. Why did the Government so grievously miscalculate the WHY YOU SHOULD BUY BUSINESS FORMS Efaiiiio** the fm* and bother of nwy oorboo paper in yovr bu*»- ftoss for ns systen. 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We prepare for war—or de fense—by laying in store the elements we need, or thought we needed, or might need; and yet when we are actually en gaged in combat thousands of miles away, with a great fleet of warships cruising about and nearly three hundred thousand men ashore in battle, or pre pared for battle, we sell thous ands of tons of materials we bought and stored away. Do vou understand this? My dear friends, we do not require the wisdom of Solomon, or the learning of Epictetus to know that things are not what they seem to be; yea, verily, there is someone in the woodpile. Getting down to basic con siderations there is some sort of gross ehxaggeration or pro found misconception among our leaders which causes us to won der if they think well of using ordinary common sense. As a Spaniard once said: “Sentido comnn!? Es el mas raro de todos sentidos.” Translated from the Spanish: “Common- sense! It is the rarest of all senses.” Yea, verily. Imagination is the hope of the world. What would be our condition if men had not dream ed or imagined of things of our everyday enjoyment which our grandfathers never thought of. I like to dream about some swamp areas I have, that lying far under the mud may be treasures which may enrich our people fifty years from now. We don’t know what potential wealth may be in our swamps and sandhills. Someone has put to the test his dream of wealth from trees. Of course the price of lumber today might suggest the most immediate enrichment of those who own trees, but now we find someone going beyond that; this man makes vanilla and molasses, among other things. “TheMidwest’s meat packers long have bragged that they can sell all of a hog except the squeal. Now, in the nation’s woodlands, forest products companies are wringing ever- increasing profits from the tree —a forest factory yielding a flood of chemicals useful to thousands of consumers from housewives to cattlemen. Oncetrees were regarded prin cipally as sources of lumber, paper and naval stores such as turpentine. Paper companies discarded most of what was left after extracting those pro ducts, little knowing that they were literally ppuring down the drain materials worth millions of dollars. But then researchers began finding compound after compound locked in wood, and companies began tapping this natural chemical storehouse. One researcher estimates that 2600 of these chemicals have been identified to date; they are extracted from sawdust, bark, wood chips, the fluid left after pulping operations, and other sources. West Virginia Pulp and Paper company added $12.5 million in sales to its total volume last year from conversion of pulp liquors into useful chemicals. Thanks to chemical production, one plant of Georgia-Pacific Corporation now can convert 75 per cent of a wood chip into cash com pared with 50 per cent a decade ago. Some cattle are eating reed fortified with molasses pro cessed from wood sugars; it is priced at about two-thirds the I amount charged for regular cane molasses. The syrup, Mas- of a problem; cattle feed pro duct from the manufacture of hardboard panels by Masonite Corp. The president concedes that marketing has been a bit o fa problem; cattle feed pro cessors find it hard to believe that a molasses made cut of wood has the same nutritional value as the cane-derived sup plies they usually use. Another company, in partnership with a chemical concern, is working on developing a cattle feed from sawdust.” Every yearin the U. S. spend ing by public and private ag encies on social purposes totals mqre than $200 billion. The source of that immense figure is Alfred G. Neal, president of the Committee for Economic Development, a business-sup ported research group. What worries Mr. Neal is not that so much money is expended for schools, welfare and similar undertakings, but that so much of the total is blindly or badly spent. Perhaps the trouble is most glaringly evident at the Federal level, where there has been little inclination to learn from past failures or, for that matter, to try very hard to assess how, why or even whe ther past spending has failed to advance its purpose. But the difficulty is much broader than that. As the CED’s Mr. Neal said in a recent speech, most of the nation’s social expendi- 1 (9-inch) baked pastry shell I-t/3 cups (15-oz. can) Eagle Brand sweet ened condensed milk 1 (1 lb. 2-oz.) can Comstock pumpkin pie-filling tures, whether from public or private sources, ‘are made al most entire!y on the faith that they will, somehow and in time move us toward our national goals of a healthier, better ed ucated and more prosperous so ciety. This is true to a large ex tent of the individual, who of ten bases his support of social programs more on habit or friendship for solicitors than on any interest in the programs’ objectives oi knowledge of their effectiveness. With far less excuse, many busines firms are equally aimless in allocating their efforts and their funds.” 1 tablespoon (1 envelope) unflavored gelatine 2 tablespoons cold water 2 cups (Ipint) heavy cream Pecan halves; optional Preserved crystallized ginger; optional In a large bowl, gradually stir condensed milk into pumpkin pie filling; blend thoroughly. Add gelatine to water. Let stand 5 min utes to soften. Dissolve the softened gelatine over boiling water. Gradually stir gelatine into pumpkin mixture. Whip 1 cup of the heavy cream until stiff. Gently fold cream into pumpkin mixture. Place mixture over ice water; chill until it mounds slightly when dropped from a spoon. Turn into prepared pastry shell. Chill in refrigerator about 4-5 hours or until well set. To serve: whip re maining 1 cup heavy cream until stiff. Attach an Ateco #6 Star pastry tube to a decorating bag. Fill with whipped cream. Pipe cream around edge of pie. If desired, garnish each cream mound with pecan halves or pieces of crystallized ginger. Best Of Tradition And Today Some cooks toss aside holiday traditions. Wiser ones keep the best of two worlds—the heritage of a pumpkin pie streamlined in the making with a modern convenient canned pie-filling. Imagine, no paring, cooking, or mashing; just blending, folding and chill ing. In this Borden Kitchen recipe, the magic of sweetened con densed milk even produces a no-cook filling. Pumpkin Chiffon Pio (Makes one 9-inch pie) I IT'S NO BURDEN FOR SANTA WITH A CHRISTMAS CLUB CHECK FROM Newberry County Bank Small savings each week add up to a sizeable check by the time the Christmas Season approaches. Joining a Christmas Savings Club at Newberry County Bank is the easiest way to have the cash when it’s needed for those many Christmas gifts for friends, acquaintences and, most important, the children. And it’s a relief to know that the bills won’t be piling up after the first of the year. With a Newberry County Bank Savings Club, you decide the amount of cash you will need for Christ mas, and leave the rest to Newberry County Bank. Before Christmas you will receive a check for the amount you have saved. It’s easy to save by mail or in person. Ask one of the friendly people at the friend ly bank how to start your account. Newberry Bank NEWBERRY, S. C. JOANtfA, S. C.