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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1966
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• 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-
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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.
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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.
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