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THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1966 THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE THREE Looking A. head ... by Dr. G#org* S. B«nson HESIDEHT—NATIONAL EDUCATION JEOCRAM Truth About Communism Prominent Americans who continue to advocate American acceptance of the Communist dictatorships in Russia China, Cuba and Viet Nam seek to create an altogether distorted image of the Red bosses and the brutal police states they operate. Their utterances are iull of mischievous assertions about “the expanding religious life” under the “New Com munism,” the “expansion of personal freedom, and the “apparent” desire of the Reds to be friendly, neighborly and nice. But the continuing stream of refugees fleeing from these “nice communists” at every point where the Red empires touch a land of free dom, dramatizes the truth. Valeriy Tarsis, noted Russian author, came out of Soviet Russia just a few weeks ago after having smuggled out manuscripts of two books ex posing some of the truth. Fol lowing is a part of his story, as told to the National Press Club in Washington—and rec ommended for those who are today advocating a neighborly alliance with the Communist dictators: “Warning To Mankind” “The soul of the Russian poet is broad and impulsive. It is given to meditation and fantasy. It thrives in the air of freedom and simply cannot exist without it. The poet’s soul is unable to lie, nor can it be creative without truth and justice. It is in such at mosphere that I craved to live. “It is only in the West, and especially in America, that I realized with great sadness and horror that I have not been living before, just exist ing. I was suffocating in a cell without lights or air. Now my only consolation and justifica tion before God’s judgment and my own conscious is that I did not side with evil. I refused to submit to the dictates of a ruthless government. I did not betray my ideals. “I grew up in a world that has been brutally deceived by cheats and oppressors. They duped and enslaved the people in the name of freedom and the brotherhood of men. Dazed and daunted the people were made to follow their treacher ous shepherds to nowhere. Like a lost herd, blinded by foul weather, one - third of the world population (under Com munism is driven by them to day onto a slippery, dangerous path along the very brink of a precipice. I saw and under stood the threat and I felt that I had to shout a warning to mankind. The Police State “For this, the Soviet Govern ment labled me a traitor, a criminal, and finally, pro claimed me insane. Then it stripped me of my citizvrt- ship.” In his warning to Americans, Tarsis, now 59, described the Stalin years: “When I looked around and saw the cruelty, beastality, corruption, and lies which — like a cobweb —en veloped Russia ever tighter, I felt I could no longer follow the path of the kowtowing, servile Soviet writers ... I knew I had to tell the truth about those terrible years, when millions of the best peo ple were suffering in jails and concentration camps, when even children stopped smiling . . . a monstrous machine of mass extermination was de veloped in the Soviet Union. The urge to describe all this became obsessive, irresistable. I knew this was my duty under God. He kept his descriptive manuscripts in a trunk and, in 1962, smuggled them out to England. After publication there the “New” Communist bosses arrested him and placed him in the Kaschenko Mental Hospital. There in the asylum, a second book took shape in his mind, exposing the present day dictatorship. “There, as in a mirror,” he told the Press Club audience, “I saw all Russia — my great and ill-fated motherland, upon whom the Communists villians have thrust an iron straight- •iQplrpf- ** “Help Fight This Evil” Tarsis said that since the war the Russian people’s dis content with the Communist system has grown “ever stronger and stronger. In re cent years, he pointed out, “this resistance expressed it self in mass riots, strikes and demonstrations.” He said “the people are now squaring their shoulders in battle. They are becoming ever more determin ed to shake off the shackles of a half century of slavery.” He asked for American help—not an alliance of our nation with the dictators holding the Russian people in slavery, but the very opposite, a fight, in concert with the Russian peo ple, against the evil Commu nist system. “For the sake of all the Russian people,” Tarsis begged, “protest, protest! Do not give in. It will bring closer the victory of freedom-loving men over the enslaving co horts of Communism. God will help us.” How can prominent Ameri cans who agitate for accept ance of the “reality” of a Communist China ignore the reality of this colossal evil, existing not only in Russia but also in China, and Cuba, and North Viet Nam—in all Com munist-held nations? Vets get more preference under GI bill While most of the interest shown in the so-called GI Bill of Rights has been concerned with educational benefits, there are certain little-noted provis ions that give the 4-million vet erans affected under the new law certain Civil Service job preferences. They get five points added to their scores in Civil Service SPECTATOR You’ve heard it said that travel broadens you. Well it may deepen you also. I didn’t go to Boston to learn of baked beans, but I did learn in Vir ginia that when you were ask ed to “pass the spread”, the spread was any jelly, preserves or syrup that you might spread on your bread. Over in France I did not eat snake, but I saw horse-meat hanging in the butcher shops. I don”t know whether I ever ate horse meat or frog legs but I’m not sure. If I did I have recovered, tests and 10 points if they are fc-fter drinking gallons of tea in ANDERSONS MARK 50TH ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. W. Roy Ander son observed their 50th wed ding anniversary June 28 with a family dinner at their home at 2015 Harper St. Attending were their son, daughter and son-in-law, W Roy Anderson Jr. of Savannah and Mr. and Mrs. James Fulp and daughter, Cathy; Mrs. An derson’s sister, Mrs. Elma disabled or were awarded the Purple Heart, Fred H. Boyd, Personnel Officer of the VA Regional Office in Columbia, said. In addition to the actual 5 or 10 points being added to their Civil Service test score, those veterans who have served since January 1965 thus become eligible for veterans’ preference in job selection. Prior to the enactment of the new GI Bill, veterans who served in 1955 did not receive veterans’ job preference even though they rated high on the tests. BUILDING PERMITS Construction and repair per mits issued by the City last week totaled $42,060. They were issued to: Security Realty, erect dwell ing, Lot 12, Preston Road; Glenn Street Baptist Church, erect parsonage, Glenn street; . , ,, J _ A. B. Laundrymat, addition, Waite; and Mr. and Mrs. Bose Boundary stre et. Etheredge of Anderson, brother Juanita Walker, 715 South street; Teressa Ru(ff Fant^ and sister-in-law of Mrs. An derson. Several friends called during the afternoon. The couple was married in 1916 at First Baptist Church of Greenwood with Rev. B. H. Dement officiating. Mrs. An derson is the former Ruth Eth eridge.' Both are natives of Greenwood. Mr. Andersonis retired from .insurance work. Mrs. Anderson, a past department president of the American Legion Auxiliary of the state, is district Child Welfare chairman for the Am erican Legion. She is commun ity missions chairman for Reedy River Baptist Associa tion. 821 Hunter street; May R. Chapman, 1806 College street; DeWitt McCarty, 614 Rodel- sperger street; Beatrice Bax ter, 606 Caldwell street; Robert E. Reynolds, 2125 Adelaide street; Mrs. Bennie Burn, 946 Cornelia street; Ida M. Long shore, 953 Gilder street, and Luther Dennis, 2333 Emory street, repairs. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Barron and family have moved from Joanna to their recently-con- strusted home in the country. Prof, and Mrs. Kibler Will iamson and family left last week for a tour of Europe. They will return late in August. Whatever you deliver, CHEVY’S GOT YOU COVERED! Choose the low-cost Chevy-Van...pick from a pair of panels...or 11 basic Step-Van models. If you’ve got a load to keep under cover—any size load from 175 cubic feet to 497 cubic feet—Chevy's equipped to handle it for you in the most econom ical manner. In fact, your Chevrolet dealer offers the widest range of covered delivery vehicles on the market. All delivering lower costs because of famous Chevrolet engine efficiency—and because of tough chassis and body construction that helps reduce maintenance expense. For any type or length of route—city or rural, thruway or alleyway —a Chevy can cover your delivery needs best. See your Chevrolet dealer and save. CHEVROLET* Select from the most complete line of covered delivery trucks.. .at your Chevrolet dealer’s. 89 6088 KEMPER CHEVROLET COMPANY England. I don”t know what I ate in Holland but I was the guest of two Dutch businessmen who had business in New York. We were dining at the Hague— the finest beef I had ever eaten. If that was horse-meat, then I’m all for it. I ate plentifully of the art icles of fruit down in Peru - Chirimoya and papaya. The chirimoya is a real fruit pudd ing, but with such a delicate kind of skin it probably doesn’t lend itself to shipping, even when refrigerated. I’ve read so many advertise ments of the papaya recently that I like to tell a little story. I happened to be in the little oil town of Lambayeque, Northern Peru, and felt a lot of uneasiness of the sort we call stomachache. Years ago, in this country. I was subject to dizzy spells, known as Vertigo. One day I felt much pain and remarked to the Secretary. She asked “Did you ever eat papaya-” I had never heard of papaya, but I would be will ing to eat a burro from the Andes if it offered relief. So I bought a papaya. It looked like a cantaloupe even when cut open. But it was not sweet, though not objectionable. I ate the whole mellon and my pain passed away. I think papaya is full of pepsin. Recently I have heard a lot about the papaya in advertise ments especially. I’ve just laid aside an advertisement telling us: “PaPaya - the magical melon of the tropics - Famous as an Aid to Digestion. What is Papaya? Papaya is a luscious melon-shaped frui tthat grows in clusters on short palm trees. It grows only in the tropics where the natives have valued it as both food and medicine for centuries. As the fruit ripens the skin turns from green to an orange yellow while the sweet juicy meat be comes a deep yellow. The smooth flesh contains little fibre, and has a characteristic aroma and flavor delicately tropical and delicious. The papaya is frequently referred to as the “Medicine Tree” be cause nearly every part of the plant contains some medicinal properties. Papaya offers prop erties not found in any other fruit or vegetable. The legendary ‘Fountain of Youth’ has long been sought - but always without success. But now scientists may prove this strange tropical fruit possesses one of the most re markable influences of any natural food. So delicate that it can rarely be shipped, the Papaya is the one food mentioned often in the writings of the ancient ex plorers. Columbus reported its wonders on his return to Spain. Vasca de Gama called it ‘The Golden Tree of Life’. Marco Polo gave Papaya to his sailors, and the famed Magel lan, on his first voyage around the world, described Papaya as a food of great value. Ponce de Leon said the natives he en countered called it Vanti, which meant “keep well.” He covered the Papaya’s great health value when he observed that the natives of the Carib bean could eat, apparently without harm, great quantities of meat and fish if they top ped off their meal with gener ous quantities of Papaya. The natives knew from experience that this fruit could aid protein digestion. Ask any resident of the tropics about Papaya and be prepared to listen to amazing stories. No other food has been the center of so many fantastic Legends. The young lady who suggest ed papaya to me later was elected a Senator in the Peruvian Congress - the only woman ever elected to the Peruvian Congress; later she came to New York as the out standing woman in the six teen countries on this side of the world. She was La Senorita Irene Silva and now is La Senora Irene Silva de San- tolalla. the success of ExuGlovernor Rollings in his race for the Senate against Donald Russ ell was astonishing only be cause of the heavy vote for Mr. Rollings as against Mr. Russell. I have no doubt that the questionable appointment of Mr. Russell by Governor McNair played quite a part though the greater popularity of Mr. Rollings is beyond question. Mr. Russell, you will re member, was Governor when the death of Senator Olin Johnston left a vacancy to be filled by the Governor. Gover nor Russell resigned as Gover nor and Mr. McNair who be came Governor immediately appointed Mr. Russell to the Senate. This has not been for gotten and probably will al ways be remembered against Mr. Russell and Mr. McNair. The election had its sur prises and miscalculations, but there has been no challenge of the results, so far as I have heard. SENATOR ^ STRO ^THURMOND Reports ">W * THt PEOPLE COLLEGE STREET EXTENSION NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA The recent Democratic Pri mary brought some surprises, We are tired of political campaigns though fresh spells are just ahead of us. I think we may find it refreshing to think over some wonders, near by wonders, that reveal the majesty of the Great Maker o ngs. Here’s something about the Great Smokies: ’’The Great Smokies, so nam ed for the bluish haze that rises from their peaks on warm days, from the lofty- pole of our southern Appala chian ranges. And in the very heart of this range stands Great Smoky Mountains Nat ional Park, 54 miles long and 15 miles wide - an area of more than 800 square miles. Forests cover more than 95 per cent of the acreage of Great Smoky Mountains Nat ional Park. Virgin red spruce 'grow to lush thickness in this protected wonderland. Chest nuts, buckeyes, red maples, black cherries, hemllocks, yellow birches and tulip pop lars reach giant proportions In the forests, wildlife has been coaxed back toward its original state. Black bears, white-tailed deer, red and gray foxes, raccoons, wild turkeys, ruffed grouse and ev en bobcats abound in these woods. In 1763 Spain and France were beaten; parts of their em pires were handed over to Britain. Yet, instead of bring ing peace, this victory ushered in the bloodiest years in the history of the Great Smoky mountains. A strong-minded population was moving in, with little love for the Indians or their British rulers. These were Scotch-Irish pioneers, folk of enegy and a passion for freedom. Daniel Boone sprang from one of these clans, and so did Andrew Jackson and the forefathers of several more of our Presidents. After World War I life be gan to change abruptly in much of the mountain country. Roads and automobiles batter ed down the old isolation. Radio brought outside ideas into the remote cottages, TV A displac ed hundreds of families and gave them jobs. Then the most modern industry of all settled down at Oak Ridge in Tenn essee on once-idle acres, bring ing in thousands of new work ers and scientists to explore the potentials of the atom. Motorists who plan to cross the Appalachians by way of the National Park are offered a large choice of attractions on the way. Gatlinburg, Tennessee’s gate way to the National Park, is a town famed for its many ser vices to tourists. With a popu lation of less than 2000, it offers an excellent choice of hotels and motels, as well as shops and sights. Craftsmen excell in weaving, pottery-mak ing, and in basket-furniture and woodworking. From the town’s main street a Sky- Lift rises by cable chair to the top of a summit 2500 feet high. Great Smokies Park, which is entered at Gatlinburg’s town limits over US Highway 441, is open all year.” Luther League meeting here A Luther League Leadership School will be held on the Newberry College campus July 10-15. Some 80 Luther League mem bers from South Carolina and 14 adult counselors are ex pected to attend the school. Bible studies, worship services, planning sessions, devotions, and recreation activities are planned for the five-day per iod. almost constant Congressional activity and frequent emct- ment The proposals advanced and passed demonstrate a variety of approaches that deal with many facets of our so ciety ONE THINO all the “civil rights" proposals have in common - an expansion of power of the National Govern ment. and in most cases, an expansion which exceeds the limits placed on that power by rh® Constitution BY AND LAKOE. the ex pansions of Federal power be yond Constitutional limits tinder the guise of “olvll rights” have been pfeeemeal. hut each success has encouraged ever holder excursions toward un limited power. The Civil Rights Act of I9B4. which contained such far-reaching, unconstltu tional sections as public ac commodations, federal fund withholding and FEPC ap peared to he as excessive as the imagination could compre hend. The “Voting Rights Act off 1965.” another so called “civil rights” proposal, went even further In surpassing Con stitutional limits by assuming to the National Government the power to substitute in par ticular States criteris for vot ing. and specifically authorlalng Illiterates to vote In violation of State laws. EVEN IN THIS context, and in view of the history of such excesses, the “Civil Rights Act of 1966,” proposed to Congress by the President, represents an astonishingly bold grab for power by the National Govern ment. Major portions of the bill embody a new departure in the field of so-called “dvii rights.” THIS NEW departure Is based on a theory of the Fourteenth Amendment which theory is utterly alien to any common understanding and construction of the English language. The pertinent provi sions of the Fourteenth Amendment say “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privi leges or Immunities of citizens of the United States: nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal pro tection of the laws " OVER THE YEARS, this THE POLITICS OF PERVERSION SINCE 1957, so-called ‘civil language has Ijesn unlTormly rights” have be?n a subject of i construed to prevent State ac tion fudged to K e prpf:ii , '* , alk to ctt’T^ns of s 4 ji*ps. The Snpremf Court >»*v oiled the longm'-’e o* the Amendment to atrP'e "o- oo 4 ments of Stn*e to Ino'r** r-Tm'-'-ds ^!. 1*6*^ftV ^ **r?d to tn*» of S t a * 4 —' -• «, hut h-*s never AfYI OT 'd-n tt nt te —V ..—P*,7 rv'e* oet’o*' „ s •« *> - o —i <■ Court h«ia r**-'" - ' 4 - - * 4 '’' *»«•*-*• “Xt Is Strife se 4 ' , on of n n--' 4 o choraoter thet fa Individual l-*v*a , ou e* f—-u-.* rights Is not of ff'e nmeudme-t ” NEVERTHELESS. <n »he Civil Rights Act of 191" ♦h-'-e is an attempt to expand the Fourteenth Amendment to give the Federal Government power over the conduct of the indi vidual. rather than just the conduct of State governments and their political subdivisions. ONE AREA of personal ac tion sought to be regulated concerns the sale and rental of r*»al estate by private individ uals. The biil would also estab lish a new class of crimes and provide punishment for personal actions directed at persons who are engaged in so-called civil rights activities. PREVIOUS ACTS off Con gress which nailed under “civil rights” ttfles do deal with In dividual actions, off coarse. Examples are the “ffalr employ ment” provisions and “public aceommodntions” provisions. Snob expansions off power were Instilled hy nerverslons off the commerce danse off the Con stitution. however, and even this danse has limitations. If the power off the Federal Gov ernment Is extended to private activities under the Four teenth Amendment, and the precedent established, there will be no rational stopping point ffor the surge off Federal power over the Individual Uvea and conduct off private citizens. AFTER THE PASSAGE of a mere 190 vears since the first “Independence Day” on July 4, 1776, we are once again faced with the concentration of power in an authoritarian govern ment which comprises the seeds of tyranny Americans in 1966. like those in 1776, may well Ind the burden intolerable. 20TH CENTURY TORTURE CHAMBERS REVEALED » Readers of this column last week will recall our discussion about the current line that “Communism is mellowing.” We suggested that you clip ar ticles from newspapers and magazines that support this “mellowing” theory. If you have done your home work, you know that the pop ular political cry these days is that we should trade with the governments of the Eastern European Communist coun tries.. It is important to em phasize the word governments as opposed to the people of those nations; remember that emphasis as you read on. What is happening behind the Iron Curtain as we prepare to become ever more friendly with those in power there? The best answer comes from those who have just been in one of these Communist na tions. A recent arrival in this country from Rumania, Rev. Richard Wurmbrand, told us his own story over the Manion Forum radio and television programs. Rev. Wurmbrand, a Lutheran minister, spent 14 years as a Communist prisoner in Rumania. He was released just over a year ago. Here are his words: “The conditions of imprison ment have been horrible with us in Rumania. The Christians and the others were tortured, beaten and starved. We had times when we had one slice of bread a week. And then, the mockery, things which are hardly believable for Western ers, I know, but we must say the truth as it happened. I can say before God that I say much less than the truth be cause the whole truth you could not bear to hear.. Christian prisoners have been tied to crosses for four days and four nights. The crosses were put on the floor other prisoners beaten and tor tured and made to fulfill their necessities upon the faces and bodies of the crucified ones. And then the crosses were er ected again with the Commun ists standing around jeering and mocking: “Look, your Christ, how beautiful He is, adore Him, worship Him, He brings you fragrances from Heaven.’ “Christian priests were forc ed to use the dirt of a hundred other pxisoners, wdth excre ments, one was urine, given into their hands and they were obliged to say the Holy Mass over these elements and they did it. They were half mad, they didn’t know any more what they did, they had been tortured so. I asked one. of them, ‘Father, why have you not preferred to die than do this thing?’ He answered: ‘Brother, don’t judge me, I have suffered more than Christ.’ I could say without end these atrocities and cruelties com mitted against the Christians, with the complicity of the West which speaks about peaceful co-existence with such men who commit such crimes.” Space prevents our including all of Rev. Wurmbrand’s words. This horror story is factual; moreover, it is in the present tense. The Red gov ernments to whom our politi cians wish to give trade are the torturers of innocent hu man beings. It is time that Americans told their leaders that it is the people behind the Iron Curtain who need our help—not their despotic, sadistic rulers. Order a copy of Rev. Wunnbrand’s testimony over the Manion Forum and send it to your Congressman. VISIT TEXAS Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Atchison, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bennett, Jan Bennett and Elgin Atchi son are spending this week in Fort Worth and El Faso, Texas, where they will attend the twice a day and a hundred Flags Over Texas pageant.