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' PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1965 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. 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. Dean Manion IP THE MANION FORUM LET GEORGE DO IT What happens when you let someone shoulder a job that you know is your own respon sibility ? No doubt, you feel just a little guilty. But it would be easier the second time. And by the third time around, you might even forget that the res ponsibility was yours in the first place. Ultimately, you would depend upon that “some body else to perform what was originally your personal task. What happens when the gov ernment offers to shoulder people’s responsibilities for them? Little by little, those people become dependent up on the government. This pro cess is speeded up when the government encourages the idea that self reliance is a:: old fashioned myth. M. Stantton Evans, the young editor of the Indianapolis News explored this theory over the Manion Forum network on December 5. Commented Evans: “I think that the relativist philosophy, the idea that all values—questions of right and wrong—really depends upon the point of view that there are no absolute standards of right and wrong. This philosophy has contributed both to a moral de cline in the country and to a rise of this monolithic govern mental power, because as peo ple become less self-reliant morally, as they become less concerned to stand on their own two feet, to think for themselves, to guide their own behavior by some kind of in- teriorized system of values, then they are more willing to consign all these responsibili ties to the government. And the process feeds upon itself— it contributes to the decline of individual responsibility and to the rise of governmental coerc ion. « moral system that emanates from religious belief n.ay be right or w r rong or relative. And who says it’s “right” to sug gest that a man ought to work for his livelihood? Perhaps the world, instead, owes him a liv ing. Dependency is fostered by Federal Aid. Said Mr. Evans: “Federal Aid is the great phil- osophens’ stone of Liberalism by which any aspect of our lives can be transported to the realm of Federal domination. Because if any program or group is given aid by the Fed eral Government, it necessarily becomes a sort of department of Federal responsibility and thus is under Federal control in one way or another. This is the chief method by which the establishment seeks to bring various phases of American life under Federal control . . . Fed eral Aid is the great opening, the aperture through which this whole apparatus of Fed eral power is being thrust.” Federal Aid does for people what they could do for them selves. The Aid can be—and is —used as a club to force re cipients into obedience and con formity with the Government’s ideas. All of this is a far cry from the free society our fore fathers envisioned for their posterity. Looking A. bead ff Relativism and dependency thus nurture each other, and they are both fostered by the Federal government. The Su preme Court forbids children to pray in school; after all, the fact of an Almighty God may PROPERTY TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Ruth T. Armfield to W. F. Wells, one lot on Lincoln Ct., 1-2 undivided interest $10. Mary Wheeler as trustee to James B. Wheeler, one lot and one building 1219 Hunt street, $5 love and affection. Claude W. Werts and Ada Lou Werts to George C. Kanipe and Bertha S. Kanipe, one lot and one building, 808 O’Neal street, $5. Silverstreet No. 2 Elsie D. Epting to C. Boyd Epting, 57.8 acres $1425. E. Maxcy Stone, Special Ref eree, to C. Boyd Epting, 57.8 acres $1425. Bush River No. 3 D. H. McCullough to Jalapa Hunting Club, one lot $1. Whitmire No. 4 Outside J. Leland Welling Jr. and Elizabeth H. Welling to E. O. Shealy and Willene W. Shealy, 2 1-2 and 20 acres $10. Prosperity No. 7 Caldwell Price to Frazier Pulpwood Co., Inc. of Fairfield County, 46 acres, $5. W. M. Hardis to Ettta Logue, or may not be true, and the one lot and one building $2550. 1965 TAX NOTICE After the Close of Business on JANUARY 3rd, 1966 ONE PER CENT PENALTY will be added to all UNPAID 1965 TAXES J. RAY DAWKINS, Treasurer Newberry County V ... by Ur. Georg* S. Benson PRESIDENT-NATIONAL EDUCATION .PROGRAM Searcy, Arkaruee AN UNDEVELOPED NATION? It is a pity how far off the! path of sound governmental ac- j tion we have strayed, simply because Washington has list ened to some plainly bad ad vice from socialist-tinged eco nomists and power-hungry pol iticians, both groups of whom \ have lacked the wisdom to guide the U. S. into a firm po sition as the secure leader among free world nations. To take a move positive angle, this country must launch out on some basic principles that the world needs, even requires, for progress, well-being and free dom. What revisions of view point, what programs of ac tion, will get this job under way ? That perspicacious little jour nal, U.S.A., published by Alice Widener, has played on some of these themes in a series of revealing studies that deserves wide attention, particularly from the nation’s leadership. It does no good to complain about what’s wrong with the U. S. unless one can come up with some positive suggestions. This has been done by Mrs. Widener, in a series of solidly- researched articles with George Fowler that deive into the do mestic and international conse quences of practicing sound ec onomical policies along with common sense. W T hile Lipp mann bemoans our sad state, Mrs. Widener wakes us to glorious yet realistic destiny. Free Market Not Dead It takes your breath away, to envision what progress and achievement could become pos sible in this strife-torn world — even our own land — should men ever discover how to put to use the principles of basic free market economics and let freedom of enterprise work. And what an amazing inotru- mentality the U. S. should be come in showing the way, as in fact it already has except to those who are blinded in their own delusion. What ironic tragedy must follow neglect, if this nation, having the keys in its grasp, fails to use its power and insight to open the doors for mankind! With the greatest sweep of vision, the study goes on to show how science and technol ogy, in a frame of free enter prise, can make the free world self-dependent. The articles demonstrate conclusively, through research of available data and its con- | sequent logic, that socialists- I communists systems of under production are either miserable failures already or headed that way. The fascination of some of our own leaders, especially when the U. S. was hit by de pression, led to too ready an acceptance of false interpreta tions of data as well as ideol ogy. These flirtations with so cialist notions have not proved out. Yet some refuse to learn, and, amazingly enough, remain entrenched in the government in strategic positions of leader ship. The June 1965 reports of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, the articles show, “make a mockery of Commun ist economic predictions and boasts.” These facts should put to flight the Walt Rostows, Gunnar Myrdals, Victor Per- lows and anyone else who let the Soviet braggarts sell him a bill of goods. There is en ough in these studies to form the basis for revisions in both U. S. domestic and foreign pol icy. While we develop our na tion, we can let the Commun ist economy “stew in its own juice” until they choose to join the freedom side. But Strengthen the Free World Our nation, these articles suggest, must continue to strengthen our third of the world, despite the tragedy of the other two-thirds that can not or will not produce. Writes Mr. Fowler: “It is a tragedy for all the peoples of the world that two-thirds of its area suf fers from underproduction. The most urgently needed liberation today is that of the peoples be ing deprived of a high level of living through the stubborn ad herence of a small group, of dictators to a tried-and-failed economic system.” In short, it is socialist under-production that curses two-thirds of the world. As this century arrives at the point, as of 1965, when all the touted goals of socialist production schemes were to have peaked out, we find noth ing but failure prevalent. In some Communist nations we find starvation and misery. It (Continued on next page) Special Announcement To Newbervy Federal Savers As of December 30th, Newberry Federal will have distributed $750,000 during 1965 to its investors at a current Divident Rate of 4%. In looking forward to 1966, and in keeping with Newberry Federal s 30- year policy of paying the highest return on savings commensurate with large reserves and sound conservative operation, your Board of Directors has, hy resolution, decided that for the period beginning January 1,1966, the associa tion’s anticipated Dividend Rate will be 4 COMPOUNDED SEMI-ANNUALLY The Anticipated Rate Will Apply To the Dividend To Be Paid June 30,1966 This action by our Board of Directors reflects a continuation of the policy of more than 30 years of paying to our saving members as high a dividend as is possible with due regard to maximum safety and the building of large re serves. DIRECT REDUCTION HOME LOANS avijvgs and Loan Association A S AV I N G S INS I. O N FOUNDED 1935 DIRECTORS JOHN F. CLARKSON M. O. SUMMER W. C. HUFFMAN J. K WILUNGHAM E B. PURCELL G. K. DOMINICK