The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, January 20, 1966, Image 2

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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1966 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Ar/nfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry. SoutH Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. •••••••••• Dean Manion THE m % i & A - MANION FORUM •••••••••••••••••< AROUND THE WORLD IN THIRTY DAYS Is wanderlust contagious? Or is it coincidence that an epi demic of globe trotting has broken out during the last four weeks? Important people have been flying to important places so often and so swiftly that nobody isquite up to date on who went where. President Johnson’s “peace envoys” have been skittering about the earth since Christ mas time, in an effort to get the enemy to negotiate in Viet Nam. The feelers failed, pos sibly because there is nothing to negotiate. Our purpose and the Communist purpose are mutually exclusive. The Reds want us to get out and let the Viet Cong pursue its aims; our goal is that South Viet Nam be free of Red infiltration, terror and aggression. Only one of these two goals may be attained; there is no “half way point” between freedom and slavery. Nevertheless, Messrs Harri- man, Goldberg, Bundy and Wil liams person sent their voices instead. American peaceniks mailed taped radio programs to the Communists in North Viet Nam to be beamed into the ears of our forces in the South. The programs are designed to con vince our soldiers to stop fighting the Communists. In another day, this sort of thing would have been called treason —but in 1966 nobody raised an eyebrow. While this was going on, Communists from all over the world flew to Havana for a conference, at which the Soviet delegate announced that Rus sia was backing “National Liberation Movements” in Ven ezuela, Guatemala, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Puer to Rico. Peking’s representative called for a “people’s war on a greater scale” in order to assure the “final defeat of Yan kee imperialism.” He warned that the United States “will not fall unless it is felled.” And the Soviets confirmed to the assembly the fact that they are giving planes and ammuni tion to North Viet Nam. Meanwhile, Soviet Aleksandr Shelepin arrived in Hanoi with a group of experts on arma ments and missiles. He told a rally that “there is no force in the world capable of making the Vietnamese people give up their revolution.” and said that the “cohesion of the ranks of the world Communist move ment is more necessary than ever before in the face of Am erican aggression.” Almost lost in the network >f jetstreams were the stories some would-be travelers who ere grounded. Stefan Cardinal yszynski, who had planned to isit the Vatican, was barred the Communist Government >f Poland from leaving his 1966 TAX T NOTICE ;y, real property, new build- ■rs, and poll tax are to be Offoce beginning: ruary Z8th, 1966 All able-bodied male citizens between the ages of twen ty-one and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax. All returns are to be made by Tax Districts. Your fail ure to make return calls for penalty as prescribed by law. RALPH B. BLACK, Auditor Newberry County \ JZ m i dam ARE YOU A SAFE DRIVER Then weVe placed you on a pedestal when it comes to the rate on your automobile in surance. If you have a good driving record, you are entitled to a lower premium. For the details, simply pick up the phone and give us a call* There's no obligation. "YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS" 1418 M**" Street Phone 276-1422 • : ■■■■ ■ ■ SPECTATOR What think you of all the hullabaloo of so-called re-ap portionment? Expressing my thought at random I can’t see why the Federal government has an., legal authority to in tervene in this matter; nor do I see t)he Constitutional warrant for the Federal Court to dic tate to a State. Anyone who has studied the history of our nation from 1776 to 1940 will understand that the Sovereignty of the States is not a proper concern of the Federal Government which is itself the creature of the States. Constitutionally the Federal Government should see to it that the States have a Repub lican form of government. And that is all. Today a mob of meddlers forced its way into a small movie theatre and the mob was aided and abetted by two men said to be F.B.I. men and act ing officially. That should make John C. Calhoun and all the Virginia and Massachusetts members of the Constitutional Convention rise up from the dead in solemn protest and re buke. Why respect a Constitution? We South Carolinians don’t res pect our supreme law all the time. Now then: I read that the result of this so-called re-ap portionment will be to have states legislators devote them selves exclusively to matters of State concern. But what about the Constitution we have; the Constitution of 1895? It stern ly forbids the administrative meddling with County affairs. Read it: Isn’t this clear en ough? Will a new Constitu tion be respected more than this ? The Constitution said that no person from one department Shall serve in another depart ment. It means that there are country. And three defectors from Communism, flying in an un armed plane from Matsu to Formosa, were shot down by Red Chinese jets; death inter rupted their flight to freedom. Ye<t we still seek to convince ourselves that the Communists are willing to give freedom to their captives. When will we ever learn ? three departments: Legislative, Judicial and Administrative— so it explicitly enjoins any member of the Executive De partment from serving in the Legislative Department and vice versa. So the practice of the legislative delegation from the County, acting as supreme executive authority in that county, is absolutely repug nant to the Constitution. As to re-apportionment: As a man in the street I think the existing arrangement fairly equitable: Each county has a Senator. Each county has one member of the House, but many have more, depending on the population. Each County, then, has one Senator, Calhoun and Green ville and so on. But Greenville has about eight times as many representatives, because of the population. In our national affairs each state has two Senators, New York—two, Rhode Island, two, and so on. But the Representa tives in Congress are according to the number of the population —New York probably has 20 times as many as Rhode Island. Now if that arrangement is equitable for the Nation, why all this hallabaloo in intra state matters ? Each county should have a Cenral Board. Well, we have it: The County Commissioners. The Senator has a controlling interest because he is the au thority for the budget since the county budget must be au thorized by Act of the General Assembly—a thoroughly bad arrangement. Now is the two Senators are enough for New York, though Rhode Island has two, why not give New York about fifty Senators. I fall back on my first im pression: We could leave well enough alone except that a Federal Court has assumed jurisdiction. Wtoy doesn’t the Congress declare the functions of the Courts and the matter of jurisdiction? As you may know, the Gov ernor was supposed to appoint all officials. But he is now largely reduced to the status of a peripatetic orator. Likewise the General As sembly was supposed to make appropriations; now a small Commission has broad discre tionary powers. So you see, Constitutions are l i STRO URMOND Reports PEOPLE l First Order of Business ' AT THE BEGINNING of the second session, the 89th Con gress is confronted with the ne cessity of immediately making some hard reassessments of the problems facing the nation. To a major extent, all other prob lems can only be put into per spective after the prospect for the war in Southeast Asia is calculated. THE FIRST ORDER of busi ness mast be, therefore, a care ful and realistic reassessment of the conduct and cost of the war. Each of the basic assump tions which have heretofore guided the conduct of the war need re-examination. DESPITE the urgency of the need for a re-evaluation of the ; war, Congress has only con- i vened, not really commenced. ’ Military spending requests, which must be the first order of business, have not been sent to the Congress, but are being held in abeyance, awaiting the outcome of the “peace oflen- sive.” If the communists were to give an indication of interest in “negotiations,” it is apparent that the Administration would drastically scale down the mil itary appropriation requests to avoid presenting Congress with a choice between guns and but- rer l THERE is obvlpusly an as sumption that any "'response by the communists in Hanoi to the “peace offensive” Would in dicate an interest by them in an early negotiated settlement of the war. This is the first as sumption which needs to be re examined. THERE ARE other factors than a desire for a “negotiated peace” which could prompt them to give some signals In dicating an Interest in negotia tions. A part of the “peace of fensive” Is the cessation off bombing of North Viet-Nam. The Reds recognize the possi bility that when and if the bombing Is resumed. It will be at an Increased level. If signs of Interest, without even negotiat ing, much less accepting a truce, can keep the (7.8. “peace offensive” alive, a communist military build-up and re-supply can be accomplished without In terference by air strikes from O.S. planes IT 18 ALSO generally as sumed that North VJet-Nam** lack of interest in peace or ne gotiations is a result of Red China’s influence in HanoL This assumption may also be errone ous. It is increasingly clear that the great preponderance of the hardware and other resources on which North Viet-Nam de pends to wage the war comes not from China, but by sea from the Soviet Union and her eastern European satellites. There is a steady stream of ships plying the 7,500-mile water route between Odessa and Haiphong, carrying every thing from machine tools to railroad rails, from dump trucks to missiles, from marine mo tors to petroleum. The Soviets make no secret of their assist ance to North Viet-Nam. Prav- da, the official Soviet Commu nist Party paper, recently pointed out that “the USSR does its utmost -for the de liveries of Soviet military ma terial, arms, engineering facil ities. and the necessary ammu nition to be made accurately and according to schedule.” If Russia cut off the supplies, Han oi would be forced to negoti ate or be defeated militarily EVEN THE assumption that the communist purpose in South Viet-Nam is to get the U.S. military out so that Hanoi or Peking can rule the whole of Viet-Nam is of questionable val idity. An equally strong or stronger case can be made for an assumption that the princi pal communist objective is to get the U.S. Involved to the maximum extent in a ground war of attrition in Asia in which our superiority in tech nology and modern weaponry remains unused. ERRONEOUS ' assumptions, relating both to the conduct and financing of the war. and inexcusable delays in correcting such assumptions, have seri ously Impaired our war efforts to date. Congress has the im perative responsibility — with the help of the executive, if available; without, if necessary —to begin immediately on studies and hearings that will permit a realistic evaluation of the war and sensible planning to avoid the haphazard, make shift, day-to-day approach which baa largely prevailed so far. Sincerely; honored in the breach. The Saints have departed and even the angels dwell no longer with us. Travelling over the western states we read signs that might cause the innocent or the ignor ant to imagine that once the Saints dwelt there. Let us see and try to imagine a saint there. Before going afar I took a look near home and found the little community of St. Paul in Clarendon county. Looking around one can hardly strain his mind to believe that St. Paul ever visited there. Then across the Santee I find St. Stephen. Now that venerable Saint was beaten to death and Paul stood looking on. Paul wasn’t a Saint then, but he continues a close proximity to Stephen for St. Paul of Claren don and St. Stephen of Berke- ; ley are commemorated in close proximity. That’s as far as I found the Saints in my bailiwick. Let us look farther away: If we cross the Mississippi we find Saints almost everywhere. Before we call the Saints there is Corpus Christi—body of Christ—in Texas. Going far ther in Texas we find San An tonio—Saint Anthony. Leaving Texas for a moment we carry on and come to SantaFe— Holy faith. That town in the long stretches of sand must have been founded on faith, though slight evidence re mains. The City of Laredo must have had Spanish origin, but makes no claim to faith or San ctity and I saw nothing of that kind there. It is a border town on the Rio Grande leading into Mexico. Leaving Texas again we ar rive in California and find our selves in San Diego. I have no information about that Saint— and no one else claims him. California was a favorite of the Saints and claims angels, too. •San Francisco—Saint Francis was a noble and notable monk. If he left his mark on the city of his name I find no worthy shrine commemorating his life of toil and abnegation. Los Angeles must have been a transcendently noble and pure city for the name — Los Ajngeles, means The Angels. I spent a week there and trav elled all around but I did not see or hear of an angel. Cer tainly those I met did not seem to be of angelic character or angelic loveliness and appeal. I must conclude that the angels moved out of the city as it became infested with wicked people. Alas and alack Los Angeles is only a name and no angel lives there now. Of course up the great Miss issippi is Saint Louis, the great giant of commerce, but no By Mary Whitman Are you a hobbyist who likes to putter? Maybe you do paper sculpture, needlepoint or decora tions for the children’s room. If so, artistry may lead you into unexpected paths. It can also enrich family life. Take Virginia Tiffany. She al ways liked to work with pebbles, paint pots, yarn and rope. After receiving an art degree, she did store display, later pottery work, more painting, more experiment ing. Then she branched out. Stitchery caught her eye when she read a book about it. A free< wheeling approach to needle work, stitchery allows the artist full freedom. A furry beanbag was her first success. Made into a figure, it started a demand among college students. Hundreds of beanbags were sold. A museum director decided to animate them. Vir ginia’s “jumping beanbags” drew 1500 visitors a day to Manhat tan’s Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Galleries and dealers ex hibited her stitchery. But you needn’t go to a museum to see her work. A new book called Tell Me Cat, from Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wis., com bines stitchery by Virginia Tif fany, verses by Ellen Fisher, and photographs of cats. Children will be captivated by the lay outs, done with thread, yarn and rope on burlap and photo graphed. “I work with many materials ” says the artist. Right now she is practicing netlike stitches and trying out old timbers as a back ground for her work. Virginia and her film-producer husband live in Madison, Wisconsin. To gether they help son Steve, 7, make tin-can robots or card board castles. “Nothing gets thrown away,” she says, “we all like to see what we can do.” Children who leaf through the new book may develop the same creative urge. The young est browser is sure to gain in art appreciation as he pores over a rich array of pages, practicing his reading. Saint. Verily I found no Saint or brother of a saint; all the saints have left. I just recall Saint George, in Dorchester county of South Car olina. But nothing I ev^r heard of that thriving city suggests that a Saint even passed that way. I am reminded of a Com munity—Saint Charles — In Sumter county. But if any Saint ever spent an hour there nothing proves it today. It’s a sad world: all the Saints and angels departed long ago and today we strive and struggle without their inspira tion and comradeship. The Saints, San Francisco, San Antonio; and the name Los Angeles are all Spanish and reflect the Spanish influence in our country. Although the British finally had the strongest influence, the Dutch and the French had in fluence, the Notre Dame Uni versity reflects French. Notre Dame means “Our Lady” and refers to the Virgin Mary. The Spanish made the profoundest impression in the beginning. Observe the names of States in the West: Although Louisiana and New Orleans reflect French influence; Louisiana for King Louis and New Orleans for the city of Orleans in France, made memorable by the maid of Orleans, who was burned as a witch and is the patron saint of France today. California, New Mexico, Col orado, Montana, are Spanish names. Texas—called Tejas— was Spanish, of Mexican flavor. On the Atlantic coast, the Carolinas, Georgia, New York, New Hampshire, show English ancestry, but Pennsylvania was invented, being a gift to Wil liam Penn, and sylvania denot ing forests. Virginia was for PROPERTY TRANSFERS C. Eugene Buzhardt to Rob ert R. Beck, one lot fronting on Glenn street $5. Thurmond L. 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