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PAGE ¥#0 : ' ■ THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1966 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. • LOOKING AHEAD PERSONAL PROBLEM —ACHIEVEMENT Pressure and force are not the instruments through which the Negroes of . America, or any other group ih any other nation, can hope to achieve lasting economic and social gains. The preachments by some of the most publicized Negvo “leaders” that massive economic and political pres sure and even the stirring of violence will bring fulfillment of the aspirations of their fol lowers, are the tactics of agi tators, not leaders. They are tactics of warfare, not of social progress. The Negro photographed carrying a TV set out of a looted Cleveland apliance store in the midst of burning and rioting degraded himself. But he has dramatized the essence of the fraudulent preachments. In his criminal act, caught by the lens of the news photo graphers, the Cleveland looter symbolizes the quality of this “Civil Rights” declaration— “If American society doesn’t give us what’s coming to us, w r e will take it.” This is the threat intended in the “non violent” open housing marches. It is the threat brandished by the Negroes violently demand ing the firing of a Jew school principal in Brooklyn and his replacement by a Negro. These threats and violent actions won’t work to achieve any last ing good for anybody. No Easy Road There is no automatic or easy road to the achievement of worthwhile advancements— for an individual, a group, race or community. A child doesn’t take his first step in life—in Bombay, or Capetown, or Boston—by asserting his dig nity or rights. He crawls, and falters, and falls, and takes many a hard knock. Only then does he walk. Even the very best parents^ can’t get him there any other way! Building character and' confidence in oneself is ‘another personal challenge that no “system” or “society” can bring about for you. \ .#*■ There are sober - thinking leaders vmhin our .Negro com munity in America who are worried about the growth of the radical “pressure and force” teachings. One is Bryce C. Porter, who directs the work of Heritage Groups, Inc., in New York’s Harlem. He says: “To give a Negro child the impression that he is go ing to get a better education by the mere process of sitting beside some distant white child must certainly under mine an already impoverished image and must, therefore, be destructive.” “Within Oneself” “Many of the most essential elements of the solution of our —the Negroes’ — problems,”-; he says, “lie. within our own capacities and within our own communities , . . Ultimately only self-help is going to solve our problems . . . The short changing Negfo politician is a luxury which w r e at this junc ture in our history simply can not afford.” Mr. Porter’s group is trying to spread such' a philosophy throughout Harlem, then ex tend it outward across the country. His present work is among Harlem youth. He has overwhelming opposition from many publicity-minded ‘spokes man’ in the “Civil Rights” and “Poverty War” movements. “Millions of dollars are squandered through misused, misguided and frequently mis conceived poverty programs,” he says. “The ‘leaders’ lament that the heat and duration of the season can only be cooled and modified with more federal appropriations — welfare be- SOAAE PEOPLE ARE JUST BORN LEAPERS..ARENT THEY, AUNT r EVELYN ifj TAKE MV BOV FRIEND, TOR IN STANCE „ ANY TI/AE Y THE KIPS AT SCHOOL HAVE A PROBLEM.. soldier used to be a dawn-to- dark worker at the polls here every November. Here are a few of the things he told us about the September 11 elec tions in South Viet Nam. “Today was election day. The Saigon papers have been full of the many atrocities employ ed by the Viet Cong in order to dissuade the Vietnamese voters from going to the polls. As this day drew near, the violence was intensified until conditions were such that in some areas, to vote would re quire the same courage as is necessary while patrolling an enemy area. “But I drove through town yesterday, and to my surprise, every house along the road dis played the South Viet Nam flag. This show of patriotism by the local people was an ob vious indication that they in tended to vote, and with these flags they hoped to encourage others to do the same.” Some time later, our service man write more comments on the elections: “Of course we all know the results of the elections. The overwhelming success under such conditions has been a cruching defeat against the Viet Cong. As I understand it, the leading network commenta tors and editorial experts who take great pride in their efforts toward a peace offensive have all said that the elections would never be held. Now they will probably say that the elections don’t mean anything anyway But to me the most significant j aspect of the whole election here was the sign of genuine ;concern. “ .Icould not help but com pare this to an election day in the States, where an Amer j ican flag is seldom raised, and where apathy and indifference hold the voting percentages far below the gallant showing of the Vietnamese people as they defied the violent obstacles of the Viet Cong and polled an amazing 81 per cent of the eligible voters.” We have inherited liberty, so we take it for granted. But those who are heirs only to war and slavery are willing to risk their lives for freedom. How long OUR liberties will last unless we change our ways is anybody’s guess. Hopefully, until next election day. i HALF-PAST TIEN NAW.'MARKS CAR ISNTAIR CONP/T/ONED. HE JUST DRIVES WITH THE WINDOWS SHUT AS SORT OF A STATUS SYMBOL. V-'V Mr. and Mrs. Carl Benjamin Setzler of Newberry announce the engagements of their daughters, Claudia Coleman (upper photograph) to Dr. Francis James O’Basky, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank O’Basky of Newark, New Jersey; and Elizabeth Suber to John Keister Willingham, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John Keister Willingham, Sr. of Newberry. / The double wedding will take place on Friday/ December 30, 1966 at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. comes a way of life . . . Poverty War Fund “Here one must protest the prostitution of the term ‘self- help’ as seen in the perform ance and non-performance of some of the poverty programs swinging alternately between indescribable corruption and waste on the one hand, and equally indescribable childish ness and inefficiency on the other. ” This Negro citizen, who has watched the agitators at work and the protective police ac tivities in Negro-populated ’Harlem, makes tnis significant statementt: “Toe state of open warfare physically or psycno- ligically which exists against the police in virtually every large city in the United States is an intolerable condition and must ultimately work to our disadvantage if uncorrected . . it 1 most be understood that, in our society, the role of the police is basic, essential and indispensable,” On this vital subject, former U. S. Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Whit taker recently said in analyz ing “non-violent” demonstra tions and “marches:” “That conduct cannot honest ly be termed ‘peaceable,’ for its avowed purpose was and is to force direct action outside the law.'” And his colleague, Justice Hugo Black observed: “Fprce leads to violence, vio lence to mob conflict, and these to rule by the strongest groups with control of the most deadly weapons.” We must strive te make the words of THE LAND OF THE FREE— AND THE APATHETIC Election day, U.S.A.—a time of dawn-to-dusk activity for politically-minded Americans. Volunteer workers hire baby sitters or even take the day off from their employment. They man the polling places, drive voters to the polls, and hand out the never-ending stream of cards. But much of their day is spent standing by empty voting booths, waiting for people to spare five minutes of THEIR “busy day.” Waiting for voters who never come. A large percentage of eligi ble voters in this country do 'not bother to use their ballot. They are even known to com plain bitterly about election day, because the all-night news coverage interferes with their favorite television programs. Many of them don’t know who is running for what, and they couldn’t care less. Our correspondent in Viet Nam—a soldier stationed there —wrote to us not long ago des cribing election day in that war torn country. This particular SPECTATOR Why are we fighting in Viet Nam? Why have we spent 12 billions a year in Viet Nam? What justifies the sacrifice of possibly six thousand men ? What and Why? While we are sacrificing Am erican men and throwing a- way so many billions of dollars we are face to face with fin ancial difficulties here at home! I may be at sea;if so I’m wallowing in the briny deep almost about to sink. American people are said io be fifty per cent against our wild plunge in Asia and I ven ture to believe that the other fifty per cent are in as ignor ance as the members of the Congress. Some day we may be at pe&ce, but some addlepate will be crying aloud for heavy spending to relieve the peanut- venders who find business dull, and why not ? If we are so solicitous for any group why not give thought to the peanut venders ? Why are we waging war in Viet Nam? Do you know? Does anyone know? ' If we are so desirous of rec tifying affairs in Asia why do we not take a hand in Cuba? Cur policy in Cuba is a mys tery. But our foray in Asia is more of a mystery. Justice Whittaker, Justice Black ,and Bryce Porter the voice of the majority. Today, they are drowned out by the voices of radicalism. Well, here’s some straight talk from a straight shooter. I find this from the pen, pencil or typewriter of Tom Ander son in The South Carolina Farm Grower: Neither government, infla tion, easy money, increased wages, nor all combined created our prosperity. New inventions, mass production and the profit incentive did. Over the long pull, government can spend us to prosperity just like a drunk can drink himself sober. Deficit spending, which ev ery Administration has resort ed to since Franklin D. Roose velt got himself elected for a lifetime, is a main cause of inflation. No president since Herbert Hoover has even tried to balance the budget. The farmer sells his lettuce for four cents a head and the consumer pays 27 cents for it. Not for processing, but for la bor mostly—to transport, clean, display, promote, sell and pay taxes on. Sixty-one percent of the cost of food bought in the grocery store is added after it leaves the farm. But this doesn’t mean the middleman is making a killing. Chain groc ery stores average only about 1.8 per cent profit on sales. Prices go higher and higher and workers scream for more pay without corresponding in crease in productivity. That’s like screaming: ‘Fire! Fire! Pour on the gasoline!' The way some food prices are going up, it may soon be cheaper to eat money—partic ularly those sandwich coins. While blaming the housewife, farmers, foreign travel, war, etc., the Democrat Administra tion added 91,582 workers to the federal payroll, from Jan uary 1965 to January 1966. Your federal government now spends $22 billion a year on payroll alone and has amassed a debt which eats up $22,000 in interest costs alone every minute around the clock. Johnson enforces his price guidelines on business while looking the other way when union racketeers escalate their gouge. (The union racketeers control more votes than busi ness men do.) Not the farmers, not the housewife, not business, but only the Federal Government can manufacture inflation and then successfully blame it on somebody else. The present tax take, in cluding all taxes, hidden and obvious, confiscates more than 1-3 of the average person’s in come. But not 1-3 from the su per rich. The super rich arelittle both ered by taxes, or even inflation. Take the Kennedy’s for exam ple if you can. The family is reportedly worth something like $400 million. Suppose just half of that was in federal and municipal tax-free bonds av eraging 4 per cent interest. That would amount of $8 mil lion tax-free dollars per year. The Palm Beach and Hyannis- port Villas can scrape along middling well on that while the Kennedys’ hearts bleed for the disadvantaged. If every American dollar were backed by gold—as they were until F.D.R. reneged on the pledge, we would not be in trouble. When we resorted to printing press money, we in vited trouble. And when we took away the silver certifi cates, we created ‘fiat money’ -money that has no real value. History shows that fiat (print ing press) money always ends in financial ruin. Paper dollars. silver dollars, commodity dol lars, managed dollars, slipped coins, sandwich coins—all have been tried throughout history. None has worked. Gold has worked for 2000 years and the sooner we get back to it the better. How do we stop infla tion? Stop the presses! The money presses, that is.” That is straight from the shoulder; it is worth reading and studying. Infant rites at graveside Well, here’s something— from Walter Damtoft in The National Observer: “Cones grow by the million on the pines that flourish on the soil of this coastal plain country. Yet the premature dislodging of just one pf them recently brought a frown of concern to the face of forester Orion Peevy. The 30 to 50 seeds within that cone now would never sprout into trees. And it was a very special \one, har boring potentially.^ highly val uable seed that Mr. ?eevy and scores of foresters and pap^hv makers hoped would groM into ‘supertrees.’ • ■*. At the turn of the century, each of 76,000,000 Americiths used, on the average, a little more than 50 pounds ”bf piper a year; this year each of t now more than 190,000,00 them will use nearly 500 ranging from new items like paper dresses to such Standbys as newspapers, wljiich no longer have much secondary use ‘ as fish wrappers ^because j^riost fish now come**'''packaged in their own paperboariT bo'xes. It takes trees, lots of trees, to make paper. For example, to manufacture enough paper for just one edition of a 60- page daily paper with a circu lation of 500,000 requires some thing like all the adult trees on 30 of the 500,000,000 acres of commercial forest land in the United States. To meet this growing de mand for paper, the papermak- ers of the Southeast have re lied heavily on often nondesc ript pine grown from the seed found in random harvests of run-of-the-forest cones. Thru extensive and intensive plant ing of their own land and by encouraging individual land owners to turn to tree farming, the companies managed ’ to keep timber growth ahead ‘ of use. But forest land slowly is being pre-empted fornew Graveside services for the infant son of Robin M. and Katherine Boozer West were conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at Rosemont cemetery by Rev. J. Anderson Bass. Besides his parents he is survived by his paternal grand mother, Mi's. Gertie W. West of Newberry; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Boozer of Newberry; and his maternal great-grandmoth ers, Mrs. J. R. Boozer of New berry and Mrs. George F. Mc Allister of Mt. Pleasant, N. C. homes, stores, and factories to serve a growing population. In evitably, with dwindling land and rising demand, the con sumption of trees would begin to exceed new growth and a supply crisis would exist. A way to avoid the inevita ble, however, would be to grow trees bigger, faster or closer together. Twelve paper manu facturers, in 1956, organized and financed a co-operative venture—headquartered at N. C. State University in Raleigh —to try to develop super Southern pines that would do all three. They sought out the biggest and best mature pine speci mens in the forests of the southeast. Thus far 1800 spec imens have met rigid standards qualifying them as clearly sup* erior to the best of their neighboring trees. Forester- marksmen literally have used rifles to force these superior trees into marriages in seed orchards like the one Mr. Peevy supervises in Washing ton, N. C.” Friends, ham costs so much, steak costs so much, virtually all food and wearing apparel is now so high that we can barely touch it without finger tips if we stand on a ladder. But there is hope! If only we could eat and drink elec tricity! That would save the day, for that is about the only thing we consume that hasn’t skyrocketed into the distant, dismal far reaches. We use el ectricity for a multitude of common needs, as well as the uncommon and rare ones. FIRST STEP TO WISE INVESTING KNOW THE INSTITUTION AND WHAT TO EXPECT OF IT... Ask if your investment is Insured against every possible loss. Ask if it earns a good rate of return. Ask how long the savings institution has been in business. Ask if it has a high ratio of reserves to assets. If these questions are answered to your satisfac tion — you have a good investment. Anticipated Dividend Rate 41/2% Effective July 1st, 1966 INSURED AV7NOS AND LoAN ASSOCIATION