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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1966 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Ar/nfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, Soutb Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. Looking A bead Afv** 1, ...by Ur. Georg* S. Benton PRESIDENT —NATIONAL. EDUCATION PROGRAM Searcy, Arkantat THE REAL AMERICAN CHALLENGE The crisis in Rhodesia and the emotional preoccupation with it at the U. N. (our own official position included) again attest to a sort of moral bank ruptcy that is rampant throu- out the world. Such bankruptcy dictates that anything resemb ling racism or colonialism must be unacceptable, per se, because the liberal catechism says so. Among all the standard, out standing evils in the world, amid all the other personal and public intolerances and injus tices, there’s no shibboleth that can excite demogogs like “white supremacy” or “black rule.” Nobody, almost nobody, dares speak up for temperate, hum anitarian balance and behavior. And so, the career agitators prevail, spreading more hate and violence than anybody knows what to do with. On the world scene, the Red capitals are jockeying to see which Communist faction can do the most to make sure the free w T orld gets the jitters and loses the peace. One would think the U. S. had suffered enough of this kind of defeat not to fall into the Red-baited trap for revolution that is now We’re against discrimination For Civil Rights We, too, favor “civil rights.” We’reagainst discrimin ation and intolerance. We also favor as much freedom as men of any color can become responsi ble enough to accept. But we do not believe that the U. N., the black African states, or even our own State Department should tear down an emerging state merely because it pro claims itself white. Rhodesia has shown that it can civilize its savage tribes, alleviate hun ger, conquer disease, provide a flourishing economy and gov ern itself. Would that all Af rican states could show as much. Must we become so anti-rac ist where black peoples are in volved that we approve socie ties like Zanzibar and Burundi while condemning Rhodesia and South Africa? Now that the Portugese have civilized Ango la must they get out? Whose land is it? Must we turn the U. S. back to the Indians, along with Congress and the Chase Manhattan? What kind of one- man-one-vote thinking is this, when we recognize no inter play of other factors, so that decisions on outright racist bases are required? Same Goal In America Now, fhe truth of it is that the anti-freedom portion of the ■world—the Communist block— -supported by its socialist-Marx- ist complement, has used these developments to embarrass the western world- The Soviet Union and Red China care no thing for the destiny of the Negro race in Africa or any where else. Our bumbling lib erals have again fallen into line with the anti-freedom for ces, tripping over their own idealism. If the U. S., alone or with the U. N., tries to compel “democracy” in Rhodesia or South Africa, the strife will only profit the Communists. This is in no wise different from the role the Communists has been playing for some years in America. Negro lead ers in this nation’s civil rights movement were encouraged, in cited, and to some extent fin anced by Communist agencies, according to reports. Their ef ficient behind the scenes con trol has provided much impetus to Negro unrest. The liberal politicos have thought to use this dissatisfaction, but they may live to regret it. .Their Real Purpose Our moral strength has been sapped, our legal safeguards weakened, our responsibility for order and restraint shaken. Our highest leaders. have be come propagandists and dog matists, urging us on toward revolution and the personal de nial of everything but material ism. George Schuyler, a res- journalist but no Or. self-appointed apos tle of ‘^non-violence” has writ ten clearly of these “career agitators” and described mass demonstrations correctly -as Communist inspired and part of a world-wide pattern that most Negroes know nothing about. And so it is in Africa. The Soviet Union wants no free re publics or truly democratic so cieties. Communist propagand ists blame colonialism. They then incite racism, feeding the unrest to their paid agents of Marxist class struggle. Afri cans who understand, of what ever race, must preserve what ever mviiization they have, fortunate is the nation that maintains personal freedom plus economic opportunity. The socialist and Communist acti vists are out to end freedom in Africa. What they really want is to destroy capitalism on that continent and substitute social ist despotism. OUR VIETNIK OBJECTORS As 25,000 genuinely patriotic demonstrators, anti Communist almost to a man, marched in New York last month, and a similar number of Vietniks marched in Washing-ton, the Southeast Asian Communists celebrated the occasion by re leasing a couple of American soldiers captured two years ago. These men are reported to have said in interviews (later denied) that they were anxious to return to the U. S.. so as to help explain the futility of the Vietnam conflict and persuade their fellow Americans to press the U. S. Government to pull out of South Vietnam. The im mediate reaction around the country was that these two soldiers had endured the kind of brainwashing that American prisoners received in Korea. Perhaps a few Americans no ticed, however, that the releas ed soldiers were saying only the same things that our Vietnik peacenicks on these shores were saying. Some of their ideas, in deed, were being loudly ex pressed by prominent U. S. Senators and other celebrated leftists. We were waiting for responsible commentators to re mark that surely most of our peacenik demonstrators had been brainwashed. There was something about freedom for dissent and the effect of world opinion, but nothing at all a- bout any overt acts of patriot ism on the part of the demon strators. Counter Marchers The sponsoring organizations out in Berkeley wanted the stop-the-war demonstrations to seem pacifist rather than pro- Viet Cong. So did the North Vietnamese, who had provided as much advice and strategy as possible. A handful of South Vietnamese students has been touring American campuses, only to find that explaining the viewpoint of Saigon toward Hanoi was not easy on many campuses. At the University of California at Berkeley, where it is said that free speech orig inated, the delegation was put off repeatedly. It was to be expected that Young Americans for Freedom and other groups would attempt to present counter tactics. The YAF was sponsoring debates, and programs of blood dona tions, mailing cards and gifts, and sending petitions were de veloping. All over the nation, the American public was show ing that it was fed up with all the foolishness of draft card burnings and other near treas onous activity. Such develop ments will not convert the na tive Reds, of course, but will do much to encourage any Am erican leadership which appears irresolute. Political Confusion > The political effects of our apparent confusion are unde niable. President Johnson reads the polls and finds most of us with him, but Hanoi watches polls too. They find encourage ment in suicides and peace pro posals, believing that their war as a “people’s war” and that the Almerican people will force a change in U. S. policy. They see us arguing about bombing Hanoi and blockading Haiph ong. How can we do the latter, they think, as loqg as we let Canada ship wheat? The result of our confusion is that Hanoi is confused also, and misled as to our purposes. Does not-the Americans for Democratic Action virtually de clare war on. Mr. Johnson for bombing. the Viet Cong ? Do wm A? LATIN AMERICA: NEXT IN LINE? The number one conern of all Americans today is the war in Viet Nam. Not even the most apathetic citizen can close his mind to the fact that our boys are be ing killed in far-off land, in a war that seems to promise no early end. But what most Americans do not relize is that Viet Nam is part of a world-wide plan. The Communist war there is a “war of national liberation.’ It is not the first such war—and it is not the last. For instance, at a January convocation of Communists from all over the world, held in Havana, Cuba, the Russian delegate made a significant an nouncement. He said that the Soviet Union is supporting “w 7 ars of liberation” in Guat emala, Venezuela, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Puer to Rico. In other words, we may soon be faced with a “Viet Nam” very close to home. The threat of Communism in Latin America is sadly mis understood by most people in the United States. Our officials appear to subscribe to the “belly” theory of Communism —which holds that poverty is the cause of Communism; that if we want to defeat Commun ism we must defeat poverty first; and that the way to end poverty in Latin America is to stage a revolutionary sort of land reform through govern- ment-to-government aid. Such a program adds up to Socialism. Can Socialism pre vent Communism? Mr. Jules Dubois, Latin America corres pondent for the Chicago Trib une answered that question for the Manion Forum audience in a recent broadcast. Said he: “There is a very extreme, thin dividing line between So cialism and Communism. If we succeed in establishing Social ist governments, where statism prevails over private enterprise and the freedom of free men to operate where capital has no nationality, then we are go ing to open the door to Fascist- Communist takeovers, because the Latin Americans are nor mally autocratic. Autocracy will follow, and Communists, who are infiltrated everywhere, including the Christian Demo cratic and Social Christian par ties, will be able to step in easily and seize governments.” “Christian Democratic” par ties sound admirable on the surface. But are the actually Christian or Democratic? Here is what Mr. Dubois said to that: “The Christian Democratic parties in Latin America open their doors to people of all faiths and even to agnostics and atheists. The way they have been acting in some of these countries, they have earned for themselves the title of being ’the little red fishes who swan about in holy water.’ ” A look at the record shows that we are fooling ourselves when we think we can stop Communism with Socialism. A reshaping of our Latin Ameri can policy is in order — and soon — if we are to prevent “wars of liberation” south of the border. not certain professors, ADA members and otherwise, bitter ly assail U. S. foreign policy? There has been some aggress ive counteraction taken against the dissention of “a small but vociferous group” that snipes at American efforts in South Vietnam. This group of compe tent scholars has published an open letter asserting the facts overlooked by the Vietniks and placing the finger on North Vietnam for its Communist ag gression to the South. David Lawrence has referred to the treasonous aspects of Communist sympathizers in this country who, in the words, of the Constitution, are found “adhering to their enemies, giv ing them aid and comfort.” Misguided persons there are, doubtless, who unwittingly give aid and comfort, who have joined causes they are unfam iliar with or who join demon strations without checking to find what is back of the ex citement. The Congress, he be lieves, must serve the nation by defining Communist activi ties and describing treasonous relationships. He favors full disclosure of subversive movements inside this country that are financed by foreign governments. Lack ing Supreme Court backing of the intent of Congress to hav$ Communist Party members, register, the nation should ex plore other ways to protect its sovereignty and its people with in. SPECTATOR Only twelve billion, 700 mil lion! That is all we need to carry on the war in Vietnam. That’s all—a measly twelve billion, seven hundred million. I do not ask why or what we shall gain by this campaign thousands of miles away. I did not mention the thousands of lives that will be a part, the largest part, of the expense. I am not casting reflections, or writing merely to fill space and time. I know that we have many of our best men who regard the expedition and loss of life and billions of dollars as a sort of heroic effort be yond criticism. There is a feel ing that no one should chal lenge this military foray. I think a democracy is always open to challenge for we are a nation of free men and have all the rights of ou,. citizenship. We should do several things very soon, for the time is run ning against us. We should de fine the jurisdiction of the Federal Supreme Court, as the Constitution provides. Let me quote Abraham Lin coln: “Study the Constitution: let every American, every lover of liberty, every well- wisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the coun try, and never to tolerate their violation by others. As the pat riots of ’76 did to the support of the Declaration of Independ ence, so to the support of the Constitution and laws let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor. Let every man remem ber that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children’s liberty. Let it be taught in schools, in spelling boks and in almanacs, let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the poli tical religion of the nation, and, in particular, a reverence for the Constitution.” The present Supreme Court does not respect or feel bound by prior decisions of the court. For example: that section which prohibits any law which does not seem to apply equally to all was said by the court in 1883: “An Act of Congress fixing punishment for three or more persons conspiring to de prive another of the equal pro tection of the law was held val id by the Supreme Court (1883) because the Fourteenth Amend ment is a limitation upon the State and not upon persons.” It may be said again that the so-called Fourteenth Am endment was never validly ad opted. “The judicial power shall ex tend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Con stitution, the Laws of the Unit ed States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority.” After setting forth the juris diction of the Court the Con stitution says: “All other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jur isdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.” Now what regulations has the Congress made? “How many times have you heard Mrs. Homemaker say that housework is harder than holding down a job? Well, her statement has scientific sup port. the department of physi cal medicine in a Chicago hos pital made a study that shows light housekeeping isn’t light at all. Measurements prove that household chores require as) much energy as many heavy male occupations. A woman mopping a floor, for example, exerts more energy than a brick layer. Making beds takes more effort than shoe repair- ing.lt takes more out of you to beat a carpet than to push a wheelbarrow with 115-pound cargo. Cleaning windows uses up 3.7 calories per minute of energy expenditure. Driving a taxi just 2.8 calories. As the S. C. Electric & Gas Company sees it, the only flaw in this scientific study is that it is based on OLD FASHION ED homemaking methods—el ectricity wasn’t helping to do the job. And it's electricity that takes the work out of house work. Amen.” A Harvard professor has ad vocated drinking, it would seem. ♦‘A Harvard psychiatrist pro poses that a new course be taught in the nation’s schools and colleges—‘practice drink ing.’ The psychiatrist. Dr. Morris Ohafetz, told a. conference We^ nesday on ‘Alcohol and Food i Health and Disease’ that the purpose of the course would be to instruct young people how to drink socially under super vised conditions. ‘Alcohol is here to stay’, he said, ‘ and people must learn to develop a healthy attitude toward it.’ Chafetz suggested that ‘prac tice drinking’ be initiated at a very early age, in elementary school, and continue through college. He said that the young est children should be given very weak drinks at first, per haps sherry in water, with the alcoholic contents gradually in creased for older students. Chafetz, as assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Har vard, is also director of the Alcoholic Clinic and Acute Alcoholic Psychiatric Service of Massachusetts General Hospi tal in Boston. He told the conference that the home is not the place to teach youngsters how to hold their liquor because many par ents have guilt feelings about their own drinking. In school, he said, the young people could be instructed on, the hazards of improper use of alcohol. Chafetz contended that the drinking would not encourage heavy consumption but would reduce it because there would be fewer heavy drinkers. By drinking small amounts with others, he said, the young would learn how to form relationships and derive a sense of relax ation and well-being from the experience.” Doesn’t hat offend your commonsense? Isn’t it utterly repugnant to all the experience of men and women? “A husband is broken in when he can understand every word his wife isn’t saying.” “The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” “The average girl needs more beauty than brains because the average man can see better than he can think.” “The deepest principle in hu man nature is the craving to be appreciated.” Coming back to that Harvard Professor who advocates drink ing little by little I, who am no scientist, nor yet a philosopher, have had a large experience as sociating with men who drink. In a little town I know or have known many who enjoyed a drink, but I’ve never known any one to build solidly for the fu- ture : on liquors. It probably is the greatest curse of the day. I don’t know the erudite ed ucator who launched out into a set of utter and engulfing so cial fantasy. Perhaps my asso ciates were not so lost in the mist and fog of academic spec ulations. However, even in the realm of profound philosophic research need man disregard the experience of our fellow men. Of course thedanger to the race and to all mankind is hardly sufficient to bridle the dreamers who close their eyes to facts and soar into the clouds. It is customary to hold up professors as subjects for rid icule and this seems to be something not quite deserving of serious thought. I have been associated with college and uni versity Presidents, Deans and Professors, but I don’t remem ber anyone who struck out in any ridiculous manner, as it somewhat associated with dreamers of that sort, though we connonly think of Profess ors as men who cruise around in a sea of nebulosity. AUDITOR’S 1966 Tax Assessment Notice I, or an authorized agent, will. be at the following ripces on the dates given elow for the purpose of taking tax returns on all personal property, boats, motors, trailers and mobile homes; also real property, new buildings, and real es tate transfers. Persons owning property in more than one district must make returns for each dist- rict. M All able-bodied citizens between the ages of twen ty-one and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll tax. At the Auditor's Office to March 1st., after which a penalty of 10 per cent will be added. Ralph B. Black, Auditor Newberry County 12-30 NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE MENT I will make final settlement of the estate of Joseph M. Hove in the Probate Court for New berry County, S. C., on Wed nesday, the 9th day of Febru ary, 1966 at 10:00 o’clock in the forenoon, and will immed iately ask for my discharge as Executrix, of saijT estate. CAROLINE J, HOVE, Executrix January 18, 1966 l-20-4tc PROPERTY TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Mre. Rebecca W. Hall to M. L. Youmans, one lot and one building, (store) on Main St. $5.00. Hazel W. Halfacre to Woo ten Corporation of Wilmington, two lots on Benedict street and one lot on Benedictt and Hunt streets $5. Robert C. Mayes to John S. Hammond and Carolyn O. Ham mond, one lot and one building on Harper street $5. Thomas P. Wicker to M. L. Youmans, one lot $5. Leroy S. Whiting to Horace T. Buffington, Joe Lee Buff ington, Hammond B. Buffing ton and Sherril Buffington, one lot and one building, $100 and assumption of a mortgage. Newberry No. 1 Outside Guy V. Whitener Sr. to Ann W. Smith, one lot in Pine Hill Estates $5. Willye M. Huinter to Bessie S. Burton, one lot and one building on Boundary St. $5.00 love and affection. Edison Burton to Bessie S. Parton, one lot and one build ing on Boundary street $5 love and affection. Jacob S. Fulmer and Mil dred T. Fulmer to Frank E. Bartley, two lots on Caldwe 1 ! street $5. Forest L. Powell to James L. Beard and Thomas O. Summer, one lot and one building on Priscilla street $5. Silverstreet No. 2 Mrs. Rebecca Wicker Hall, et al to Mrs. Louise Wicker Cobb, two acres, $5 love and affection. x Ruth C. McCord to Boyce W. Waldrop, Jr., 102.75 acres $5. Bush River No. 3 Louise Horton to James R. 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