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THE “SPECTATOR S” COLUMN
I think we need not be over
anxious because some Generals
and Admirals think we should
all hip, hip hoorah over the
blundering affair in Vietnam:
us into war.
As I see it, and I’ve spent
time in Europe and South.Am
erica and in nearly all of our
States, we should be fundamen-
to
they were trained—and well | tally and primarily absorbed in
making this great country as
great as she can be for her own
people.
Let us cut loose from the U.
N. and any and all treaties that
may embroil us into war.
What is done with the hund
reds of millions authorized ev
ery year for the Army? Even
though we have hundreds of
retired officers on the payroll
the total for them for a year
would hardly exceed a million
dollars. Calculated at an aver
age of $10,600 a year that
would take care of a hundred,
so lets make it two million a
year. But even that is small
change when taken from an
annual appropriation of bil
lions. V
What is the expenses of the
day: we find ourselves short of
men, short of ammunition, short
of about every weapon we
might need. v
It is the usual cry: we are
unprepared. Why ?
If we have-'two million men
at $100 a month each that is,
roughly $2,000,000,000, a month
or $24,000,000,000 a year—still
small potatoes.
Whatbecomes of the other
hundreds of millions ? Forts
and what not, another hundred
million—still leaves hundreds
of millions. That is spend for
trained to wage war, not
discuss national policy.
I recall a little incident in our
recent history: An investiga
tion was being held relative to
the suitability of a certain port.
Among those to be heard were
half a dozen Naval officers.
One, the ranking officer, said
to the Committee: “Call me
first; I’m for your project and
if I endorse it the subordinate
officers are less likely to find
serious fault.”
That was the fellowship of
the Navy and doesn’t astound
anyone. And so these retired
four-star Generals and Admir
als aren’t likely to find serious
fault in our statesmanship. But
you and I don’t belong to that
Admiral fellowship—so let us
express our doubts freely: that
is the essence of freedom and
we are citizens, small-time sov
ereigns in this great nation—
not subordinates of the ruling
hierarchy in Washington.
Every citizen has a right to
ask why we are in Vietnam.
What can we accomplish? Are
we as profoundly interested in
the Government’s course in this
country? That is our para
mount interest—to make this
a happy place to live, to do
business, to rear families im
bued with the spirit of George
Washington, Robert E. Lee and [weapons?
Since the government has
sold millions of dollars of sur
plus materials what has been
done what that money? And,
judging by our history, we
should buy it back at double or
triple the price.
What has become of Ameri
can ingenuity?
I had the pleasure of organiz
ing the campaign which com
pelled legislators to refund the
extra pay of some years ago.
A few of us invited that fine
gentleman, Judge A. W. Holl-
man, to challenge all tnis in
court.
I think I may promise a suit
to knock the latest grab on the
State Treasury into a cocked
hat.
the great men who still stand
in the forefront of our history.
It is unthinkable, yet true,
that any President can plunge
W*tf,\ since we are always
short?-^nvhat weapons, which
weapons ?
I’m not counting the Navy
SENATOR 1
STROM*
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HURMOND
Reports
PEOPLE
Fanning the Fires of Inflation
' THE VERY midst of pros-
. . .ty, signs of economic strain
coming to the surface. Re-
. .osible economists all over
country are viewing infla-
i as a real and present
« . ~er. With 1‘itle more than
nod of acknowledgement,
. ever, the Administration
: : rnely adheres to fiscal pol-
which both fan and feed
' flames of inflation.
~ASED ON total productive
c . p’Jt, or the monetary value
*hat output, the United
still unquestionably re-
.....ins the center of world eeo-
iic power. This is no reason,
Mjivever, for either complacency
c/r a false sense of security.
^ ;r nations before us have
^ - ;pied this enviable position,
.3 either because of misman-
•• cement or miscalculation of
the state or consequences of in
flation have passed from the
scene of world power and lead
ership into the category of
“have little” or “have-not” na
tions.
CONTEMPORARY econo-
mists, who serve as advisory
“planners” for the Government,
row insist that the traditional
ebb and flew of economic cycles
are under control,' and that
^either a “crash” nor a serious
downturn can occur. The
“nlanned economy." however,
features and actually promotes
inflation to the extent of 2 per
cent per year. It is this delib
erately planned inflation which,
over the last ten years, has
pr+en away at savings accounts,
life insurance benefits, retire
ment plans and children’s edu
cation funds at the average rate
of 1.6 percent per year. Even
less noticed by the average
citizen is the fact that the
“nlanned” economy also results
in the Government creating
money at a rate that increases
twice as fast as our population
growth.
THE FACT of incessant in
flation cannot be hidden from
the American housewife, who
feels the impact on the family
budget. Nor is the housewife’s
pain relieved by the knowledge
that the Govemmen 4 policy
makers view this “planned”
level of inflation as “healthy”
for the economy. The fact re
main* that a pound of bacon,
for which the average house
wife paid 66 cents in 1955, now
costs, on the average. $1.06 per
pound. The price of bread is up
17%; the price of milk, up
14%; the price of men’s suits,
up 23% and laundry services
on the average are up 43% in
the same period. Food prices
have climbed 3.7% in the last
year alone, accounting for the
major portion of the 2% rise in
over-all costs of living last
year.
THE WHOLESALE price in
dex, covering some 2000 items,
spiraled upwards by 3.4% last
year—the sharpest surge in
nine years. Other danger sig
nals are surfacing. The demand
for textiles, spurred on by de
fense orders occasioned by the
war, now tax the capacity of
our industry to produce. The
woolen industry, heavily eroded
by imports, finds itself with too
narrow a production base to
meet both wartime and domes
tic needs. _ , •
DE^ITE the obviously ex
cessive inflationary pressures
created by ballooning domestic
Government spending, at a time
when defense spending has
jumped to a wartime rate, the
President insists on escalating
the “Great Society” spending
programs. The few reductions
recommended in his budget fall
mostly in politically popular
programs such as milk for the
school lunches, which no realist
expects this Congress to cut
The President did recommend
that the withholding rates for
income taxes be increased, and
that some of the excise tax cuts
made last year be restored
There are hints, of course, that
a general increase in taxes may
have to come later in the year,
and one can only speculate that
it will fall after the November
elections
THE CRUEL hoax of Infla
tion gains additional impact
from tho fact that the 2.8% In
crease In the cost of living,
which has taken place since the
tax cut of 1964, falls on top of
an increased b*te out of pay-
checks foe social security taxes
beginning this past January.
CLEARLY, this Administra
tion. whico is calling for re
straint on the part of busi
nesses, self-control on the part
of labor, and the blind faith of
the people, should prescribe
something, preferably fiscal re--
sponsibility, . for itself. Disci
pline. like charity, should begin
at home.
Our little county of Barnwell
has given to the State many
able and patriotic leaders. I
won’t name all of them, one a
sprightly young cavalier of 81
years, has no need of my ap
preciation for ne seeks no office
but I may remind Barnwell
that she is a part—an import
ant part of South Carolina and
might consider a great servant
of the State.
I have long enjoyed a com
radeship with Edgar and Sol
—the greatest pair we’ve had.
Among men of great value
is Jim Aycock who was born
in Clarendon and finds him
self an outstanding figure, not
only in Sumter county, but in
our State. Jim is a businessman,
not a politician; and as a bus
inessman he acts very import
antly for the whole State as
Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee of the House.
The world is full of small
men, not because of the short
legs, but because they are so
engrossed in small affairs that
they, too, become dwarfed
So, at times I read something
from some of those old boys
whose stuff has withstood the
fiery visissitudes of our turbu
lent days, howbeit we spend so
muc htime running about aim
lessly dittering.
So here is a bit or two hits
of solid old stuff that real men
used to ponder: Polybius is
talking:
“In certain circumstances,
the genius of one man is more
effective than any number
what-”
“So true it is that one man
and one intellect, properly qual
ified for the particular under
taking is a host in itself and of
extraoidinary efficacy.”
Builders rules
at Health Dept.
Moultrie Q. Roberts, Sanitar
ian with the Newberry County
Health Department, announced
today that all persons interest
ed in opening Sub-Develop
ments should contact the local
Health Department first in
order that they can become fa
miliar with the proper channels
of procedure and acquaint
themselves with the specifica
tion for developing building
sites.
The Newberry County Health
Department has available some
instruction sheets stating the
necessary requirements to meet
the approval of the County
Health Department and the
South Carolina State Board of
Health. If their sub-division
requirements are followed,
builders can be assured of ap
proval of building sites, lot
size, and proper water and
sewage disposal.
The matter of taxing the El
ectric Coops is up again. Elec
tric Coops run over several
miles of my land but they are
beating the bushes looking for
some reason for being. They
make money; they spend lots
of money on television and rad
io; they give big parties, so
why should they enjoy special
exemptions and privileges?
To prove the futility of some
of their work let us take Clar
endon county. On the road from
Manning to Paxville live two
fine gentlemen — outstanding
citizens, one our county treas
urer. The Treasurer is served
by a Coop; but his cousin
across the road is served by the
Carolina Power & Light Com
pany and I am told that the big
company sells power for less
than the Coops Recently a
young lawyer built a home next
to the Treasurer and refused
Coop service, on the grounds
that if he had a complaint the
Power company would correct
everything in short order.
“Another birth date observ
ance for one of the country’s
greatest men slipped by last
Tuesday.
It was the 234th birthday of
George Washington.
The cherry tree story not
withstanding, Washington’s
role in the birth and embryonic
development of the United
States is generally well under
stood and accepted. His work,
character, ability and contri
butions have stood the 'test of
time well.
Knowing the place history
has given him, it’s even more
interesting to know how he was
rated in his time. Such an eval
uation was jjiver by Thomas
Jefferson, a man of equal stat
ure and ability, whose dispas
sionate, perceptive, description
was given 15 years after Wash
ington’s death. He wrote of
Washington:
‘His mind was great and
powerful, without being of the
very first order; his penetra
tion strong, though not so ac
ute as that of Newton, Bacon,
of Locke; and as far as he saw,
no judgment was ever sounder.
It was slow in operation, being
little aided by invention or im
agination, but sure in conclu
sion.
Perhaps the strongest feature
in his character was prudence,
neve? acting until every circum
stance, every consideration,
was mutually weighed; refrain
ing when he saw a doubt, but,
when once decided, going thru
with his purpose whatever ob
stacles opposed.
His integrity was most pure,
his justice the most inflexible
I have ever known, no motives
or interest or consanguinity, of
friendship or hatred, being able
to bias his decision. He was in
deed, in every sense of the
words, a wise, a good and a
great man.
On the whole his character
was, in its mass, perfect, in
nothing bad, in few points in
different; and it may truly be
said, that never did nature and
fortune combine more perfect
ly to make a man great, and
to place him in the same con
stellation with whatever wor
thies have merited from man an
everlasting remembrance/
Fighting The "Flu’’
Influenza by any name—and it has several—is an uncom
fortable. acutely contagious respiratory infection. Sometimes
called grippe, or “English Sweat”, and usually simply re
ferred to as “flu”, it has been o
one of mankind’s biggest banes.
World-wide pandemics (wide
spread epidemics) seem to oc
cur in 20 to
Looking A. bead
...by Dr. G*org« S. B«nion
PRESIDENT-NATIONAL
EDUCATION PROGRAM
SMrcy, AtUmm
Nurses needed
by Vet agency
Examination for Career-
Conditional appointment to the
following position was announc
ed today by the Veterans Ad
ministration:
Licensed Practical Nurse —
GS-3, $4149 P.A.
Vacancies to be filled are lo
cated at Veterans Administra
tion Hospital, Columbia. Com
petitors in this examination wil
be rated on the basis of their
education and training.
Further information and ap
plication blanks may be ob
tained from the Executive Sec-
tually may have been ready to | retary, Board of U. S. Civi
accept such a hard, but useful Service Examiners, Veterans
discipline as long as he him- Administration Hospital, Col-
self did not have to initiate it. umbia, S. C.; any postoffice or
The obvious slap at federal the Atlanta Region, U. S. Civi
spending for the Great Society, Service Commission, The Mer-
the shock of enforcing public (chandise Mart, 240 Peachtree
attention upon inflation’s dan- Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia
gers, the prospect of reducing' 30303.
the federal government’s share Applications may be received
Certain pertinent reflections
are now possible upon the Dec
ember “rub” between the
White House and the Federal
Reserve Board, when the Board
took action in raising interest
rates it asks of banks. Despite
the dim view Mr. Johnson took
of this anti-inflation move by
the Reserve Board, it begins to
appear that the President ac-
50 year cycles
with minor
local epidem
ics occurring
every two to
three years.
The most re-
Z cent flu crisis
was in 1957-1963 when the so-
called “Asian Flu”, which orig
inated in Hong Kong, swept
the entii’e world. The Surgeon
General of the United States
Public Health Service indicates
that this probably will be an
other “flu” year.
Medicine has come a long way
since 1918 when 10 million died
throughout the world as a re
sult of having influenza. No
country was spared. 450 thou
sand deaths occurred among
20 million cases of flu in the
United States in the 1918-1919
epidemic.
While there is no modern
“cure”, there are definite pre
ventive measures to be taken.
Persons of all ages are at
tacked, but the incidence is
highest in young adults. Flu
inoculations are recommended,
with booster shots for “high-
risk” groups — people 1 whhse
very lives may be endangered
by the complications associated
with influenza. This group in
cludes anyone over 45, pregnant
women, and persons suffering
from chronic heart disease,
bronchitis, asthma, diabetes,
and nursing-home patients. The
initial immunization should con
sist of two doses about two
months apart.
Influenza symptoms are sud
den in onset and include high
fever, headache and muscular
pains, prostration, congestion
and some sneezing.
When influenza is suspected,
consultation with your family
physician is mandatory, for the
above symptoms require medi
cal diagnosis and treatment.
Sore throats constitute an
other winter health hazard.
Again, because a sort throat
may be the first indication of a
more severe illness, one should
seek the advice of his family
physician whenever a sore
throat is persistent, accom
panied by high feVer or other
complications. But, for prompt
temporary relief from the pain
and discomfort of throat sore
ness due to colds or other minor
conditions, I recommend Chlora-
septic, an anesthetic-antiseptic
oral solution.' Chloraseptic is
a non-prescription medication
available only in pharmacies.
IT'S A FACT!
of boom taxes—all these ob
viously annoyed the President.
Moreover, since the federal
treasury is perhaps the nat
ion’s biggest borrower, higher
interest rates cause the treas
ury’s debt service expense to
zoom. Further, if war needs
are to escalate shortly, new
debt will surely have to be ar
ranged in 1966, perhaps even
$10 billion of it. The govern
ment itself was taking its own
bitter pill.
Action Was Needed
Eventually, Mr Johnson will
be making a replacement ap
pointment to the Federal Re
serve Board. Considering that
U. S. Presidents as accustomed
to placing in major positions
men who see things their way,
observers are expecting Mr.
Johnson to put in an “easy
money” man who would tip
the vote his way. Yet, in view
of • the FRB’s somewhat poli
tically insulated position as the
“independent” body that Con
gress established, the Presi
dent may have some motivation
for appointing a more conser
vative banker, who will do what
needs doing.
Comment from financial cir
cles around the country and in
world capitals seems clearly to
applaud the Federal Reserve
Board’s action. Many econom
ists see the move not as en
dangering the nation’s pros
perity but as balancing the
in the office of the Executive
Secretary, Board of U. S. Civil
Service Examiners at the Vet
erans Administration Hospital,
Columbia, S. C., until further
notice.
boom so as to keep more steady j program.
Post Office has
Medicare forms
• ■>
Postmaster Harry Moose of
Newberry announced today that
application blanks for supple
mental Medicare benefits are
available at the money order
window of the Newberry Post
Office.
The application blanks are
being made available as the So
cial Security Administration
seeks to contact 3.1 million
senior citizens before the March
21 deadline imposed by the
Medicare law.
Initially, some two and one-
half million application blanks
were distributed to nearly 34,-
000 main postoffices through
out the 50 states. Additional
forms are available as needed.
Through direct mailings and
other means, the Social Secur
ity Administration has had con
tact with 16 of the 19.1 million
citizens who will be 65 or over
on July 1. Of the 16 million
who replied, less than one mill
ion said they did not want to
sign up for the supplemental
STATE FAIRS
The first California State Fair in 1854 had
such remarkable “home grown” food on
display—a 39-inch long carrot that
weighed 10 pounds, 73-pound beets and
man-sized melons—that the rest of the
world did not believe it
wY
As proof to the world,
a Fair delegation carried
some of these Gold Med
al winners to Europe and
returned with awards
from many countries. It
was then internationally
established that the Cal-
Kornia awards went only
to the best of foods.
ScUU^
HSWGHETTI
SAUCE
MIX .
jCl
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: This year, California’s Gold Medal
for Product Excellence was given
I to the Schilling Spaghetti Sauce
„ Mix. The 1300fudgesthat sampled
CJ , the Schilling Mix agreed that the
quality was excellent.
The supplemental program
costs $3 a month and provides
doctor bill and other benefits.
Everyone over 65 is eligible for
the basic hospital benefits un
der Medicare.
the economic growth of the
coming year. If the Adminis
tration has to avoid taking
politically risky measures to
halt inflationary trends, it is
well that the Board can make
these, adjustments.
Not Hero Always
However, while the FRB may
have taken the role of hero
this time, it has for many
years allowed itself to be co-
villian in the continual overex
pansion of our money supply.
It is this process that sets the
whole stage for creeping, if not
galloping, inflation. The Board
actually will doubtless continue
to provide lavish amounts of
new dollars for the pumping up
of the money supply, as long as ! t
neither the Congress nor th^ ^nitely withiRahd aMaHjlte*
President will make any ser- f keep economic taws from fimc-r'
ious effort to balance the bud
get. Various segments of the
economy may well bask in the
hothouse of a swelling cur
rency, but it is dangerous to
invite an explosion.
Distress and calamity are
surely reserved for any nation
that disdains caution and pur
sues the course df Inflation.
The Board undoubtedly has
been right in its majority in
terpretation of the dangers the
nation currently endures. The
time to act against inflation,
as Chairman Martin noted, is
before it is too late. “The ef
fective time to act against in
flationary pressures is when
they are in the development
state—before they have become
full-blown and the damage has
been done,” he has said. These
are words that make sense.
The Real Requirement
Is the recent action enough?
No one yet knows how much
control over the economy gov
ernment bodies may exercise
without courting disaster. The
free market has shown rettiaxk«4
able strength under duness,'but{
neither it nor the fiscal ays-
em that supports it can itidef-
tioning.
It will be foolish to suppose
that a single governmental de
cision of one agency can stop
inflation. Higher interest rates
cannot get at the causes of in
flation for trouble may crop
up elsewhere before ink -on the
edict is dry. The export of our
inflation to Europe and Asia
apparently cannot be continued,
for soon they will have more
dollars and gold than we. The
push of wages and prices at'
home will be fierce. Neverthe
less, the most required action
is not yet in sight: a federal
policy that allows the govern
ment to spend no more than it-
takes in and avoids monetizing
the general debt.
Postal rates
are increased
Increases in money orders,
insurance, registry, certified
mail and COD rates will become
effective March 26, 1966 Post
master Harry E. Moose said
today.
The cost of operating these
five special services now ex
ceeds revenues by —$60 million
annually. The fee increase will
narrow the cost-revenue gap by
$36 million, based on business
handled in fiscal 1865. v
Fees for money orders, reg
istry and COD were last chang
ed in 1961; insurance' and cer
tified mail in 1957;
The fee changes, announced
in the January ,11th Federal
Register and confirmed in the
register on February, 25, are
put into effect updef the ex
isting administrative authority
of the Postmaster General.
The increases include:
Money Order. Fe4fel Domestic
and international money order
fees will be increases by 58.
Insurance Rates: The mini
mum fee bracket wilf&be-- in
creased from $10 to $15 and
the minimum fee will /be 20c
iifStead of 10c. The revised in
surance fees will be as follows:
$1-$15—20c; $15.01-$50.00—
30c; $50.01-$100—40c; $100.01-
$150—50c; $150.01-$200—60c.
Registry Fees: The present
60c and 75c fees will be com
bined into a single fee at 75c
for values up to $100. Registry
fees for articles valued in ex
cess of $100 will remain un
changed.
GOD Fees: The present 40c
and 50c fee brackets will be
combined into one fee bracket
at 60c for amounts up to $10.
There will be no change in the
fees covering items valued a- J
hove $10.
Certified Mail: The Fee will
be increased 10c from the pres
ent 20c per item to 30c.
Losses incurred in the oper
ation of special services are
paid from funds drawn from
the Federal Treasury. The fee
increases will shift a substan
tial portion of the special ser
vice cost borne by the public
to users of these services.
k by Cooper
be published
A book on the current con
troversy regarding the so-call
ed “death of God” is being
written by Prof John C Cooper
of Newberry college
It is entitled “Divine Death
and Historical Resurrection,"
and will be published in 1967 by
Westminster Press, according
to Prof Cooper, an assistant
professor of philosophy.
Another book written by
Prof Cooper, “The Christian
and Politics,” will be released^
this spring by The Lutheran
Church Press.
“The Witness of Paul Tillich”
an article written by Professor
Cooper, appears in the March
issue of “Resource,” the mag
azine for church school teach
ers published by the Lutheran
Church in America. The Feb
ruary issue of this magazine
carried Cooper’s article on St.
Paul, “In Christ;” and future
issues this year will feature
other articles by Cooper on
Reinhold Niebuhr and Rudolph
Bultmann.
Prof. Cooper has been asked
to contribute articles to the
next two issues of “The Lu-
heran Quarterly,” the publica
tion of the Lutheran Theolog
ical Seminaries in the United
States and Canada.
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