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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Feb. 22, 1968 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in advance. Six months $1.25. on Men & Things B> J. K. BREKDIN As I understand—those brave North Koreans have spit on us, but that didn’t offend us; then they kicked us on the shins and we smiled it off; then, just to show how weak we are, how utterly fragile, impotent, you know, they stole our baby and baby cart,—and we seem to indicate mildly that we don’t care for that sort of unkind treatment. And what’s what? I am no swashbuckler; nor do I advocate hunting trouble, or meddling with others. No sir: I advocate attending to our own affairs. So I not only marvel at the extremely char itable attitude of our Govern ment but I fear the Koreans may become rough some day— then what ? Are we just weak in re sources, or are we weak in administration ? By the way, we have the greatest fleet of war vessels in the world not far from Ko rea. Are we afraid of using them ? I have been impressed al* my life with our unprepared ness. How, why! Between wars we spend—for what? billions of dollars ostensibly to main tain our fighting forces, but usually we are unprepared. Just now, how man planes have we? Are they in good condi tion? Or are they primarily for travel, here, there and else where? Have we ammunition? Have we weapons? Why are we always unprepared and what is done with all the bil- lions spent since World War II ended—about 1946? I ask you ? We Americans once were re spected, though never admired by all the world. Today we are on a par with good will mis sionaries even in the matter of national dignity. There are times when we must show our force if we would command the respect of trouble-makers. I presume to call again to the offended State dignity by the Federal assumption of supervision power in many State matters. There was a time when the Government of South Carolina would speak on the invasion of States’ Sovereign prerogatives Alas and alack all that died out about the time of nullifi cation. We don’t have to nullify a Federal lav of decree in order to asset and maintain our State dignity. Perhaps if we stopped going to Washington, hat in hand, for money we should have respect there. My appreciated old friend, Tom O’Connor has paid a grave price because of this little skirmish in Vietnam, for they declare we are not at war. Tom has lost a son in battle may the Great Jehovah bless his family. By the way, Tom invokes Divine guidance for our Na tion in the recent issues of his readable papers from Hamp ton and Allendale. I am reminded of something: Down in Peru official commu nications were concluded “Dies guarde a ust”—meaning may God guide and guard you. An American was in my of fice in Peru while I was sign ing a batch (Dios puarde s ust.) The American said what in the world is that? When I told him he said: “Well all I have to say is that people having business here need all the help and guidance the Great God can give them. Nevertheless, we who believe in the mercy and solicitude of Jehovah are wonderfully sus tained in this life of trials, tribulations and vexations Even so. I fear the citizens of this country have become doubtful of our national ideals. I am in no sense a party to the confusion relative to a University in Charleston; nor do I declare myself a partisan of the Governor of my old friend and chum John Cauthen. Ithink we hold a University in somewhat small esteem in trying to throw one of two colleges together and call the result a University or an Uni versity, as you please. What we need above all is a teaching staff of men who can teach and who can awake, arouse, stimulate students to study, to think, to investigate. Merely calling an institution a University does not mean anything. What about the Massachu setts Institute of Technology? Would it add to ite prestige, influence or achievement by calling itself a University? Is Wofford College less es teemed than Furman Univer sity? Would it magnify Ers- kine and Newberry colleges to be called a University? A University should be an institution somewhat above the average so-called Univer sity. Would it enhance The Cita del to be called The Military University ? The effort to build a second Medical College is another ef fort to aggrandize a big town, but what we need is a Medical College of the grade of Duke or Johns Hopkins. A new grou pof buildings won’t be a University; a Uni versity’ is a body of scholars in an atmosphere of investiga tion. Take a good look at New berry. Have you thought of Newberry principally because of the excellent college of our Lutheran brethren? Well now, here's something else. Read it: “Yes, eggs by the millions (76,400,000 in 1966) are pro duced annually in Newberry county. Thanks to the initia tive and planning of Newberry County citizens, our county leads the state in egg produc tion again this year. Newberry Federal is pleased and happy to be a part of a community with such accom plishments, and offers congrat ulations to the industry. Sales of $2,744,000 were recorded last year. M^y this healthy growth continue in the years ahead.” All this says The Newberry Sun, the excellent weekly of my Armfield brethren ( and sister). -Can you think of a better appeal? Eggs! ($2,744,- 000) of eggs, eggs, last year. “WHATSOEVER THINGS” By DONALD E. WILDMON It’s a confusing world we live in. There is such an ex isting paradox in the world that makes the world hard to understand at times. Let me share what I am speaking of. Some fellow, a little better off financially than the aver age fellow, goes over to the club and has a fewdrinks. Be fore long he is tight and his buddies, themselves staggering, have to take him home. What he did is kinda frowned upon by afew and laughed about by several. But you let a poor uneducated country boy drunk the same stuff and get the same way and we are hard and harsh on the “uncouth country hick.” Now to an un biased observer it appears that both of them have done the same act and committed the same deed. But one is cursed and condemned because he hag neither money nor education. It seems as though if one has money and education his breaking of the Creator’s law, and man’s, is played down. But if one lacks money and educa tion, his breaking of the same law of both Creator and man Nothing is said about that famous and illustrious couple Ham & Eggs! If Newberry has ten thousand hams! Laurens and Clinton are near —can they supply all the hogs for all the hams needed to match Newberry. 76,400,000 eggs ? Lets have no mistake! We are talking of hen eggs, chicken eggs, not fish eggs, as in Beaufort; no birds’ eggs. Chicken eggs, hen eggs. Would you think, just glanc ing at Newberry that it pro duced seventy-six million, four hundred thousand eggs in one year? You never can tell, just looking at a Newberry citizen, that his county produced nearly 77,000,000 eggs—because some were consumed at home! As to our lack of prepared ness I cite and quote, in part, a dispatch from the Wall St. Journal’s Washington office. “The confrontation with N. Korea, whether or not it leads to war, is pounding home a lesson for Administration pol icy makers: The U. S., strug gling with the burdens of Viet nam, isn’t prepared to come quickly with any second con flict. As a result the planners may be growing more willing to do something about present short comings, if and as budget strains permit. One indication is last week’s call-up of re serve airmen, even though it may have been mainly a war- of-nerves move. The call-up may be followed by a summons to some Army reserve units. Even if the Korean affair fades soon, these reservists may be kept on active duty to aid the Vietnam war effort or ease the general strain on military manpower. Or some of their equipment may be commandeered for active forces. Despite reassurances from President Johnson, defense chief McNamara and others, the lack of full readiness for the second-conflict contingency seems evident in both military and economic planning, but more plainly and more urgent ly in the military area. It is this situation, basically, that brought a weekend warning from Richard Nixon that the U. S. can’t afford major troop commitments elsewhere than Vietnam. And it is this situa tion, among other things, that is tending to deter the Admin istration from seeking any military solution to the ship- seizure crisis.” is a sign of his “sorriness.” Personally, I see a drunk as a drunk if he is a scholar or a bum. I can’t see where a rich, educated drunk is any better than a poor, uneducated drunk. And I don’t think the Creator does, either. One would think there is a difference by just looking. If a fellow is reading Playboy he is sophisticated. But if whal he is reading is just a two-bit girlie book he is crude and coarse. Really, I can’t see where lust is any better if it is dressed up a little or just in a cheap form. And I don’t think the Creator does, either. The world we are living in today has tried to do away with sin. They have dressed it up and called it by another name—freedom, art, law—but sin remains sin by whatever name you call it. Just because we have renamed it and dress ed it up to a sophisticated state has not done away with it. You can’t get rid of sin simply by calling it another name anymore than you can rid the world of communism by calling it the People’s Par ty. The great danger is that we don’t recognize it for what it is. With all it’s new clothes and respected advertising, sin has taken a new aspect. It has become the respected thing to do. And one isn’t really edu cated until they can throv grandmother’s morals out the window and swing with the “in” gang. There is a story in the Book that for years the world’s best seller (unfortunately the com munist Manifesto is now the world’s best seller) that I love to read over and over again. It is the story of a boy who wanted a license to sin. He made his father give him his share of the property. He went into a far country. You know the story. There is one sentence I wish to pass along: “When he came to himself, he said ... I have sinned.” That is as stark and as plain as it can be. “When he came to himself, he said . . I have sin ned.” Make no mistake about it, my friend, sin is sin. Call it whatever you wish, but recog nize it for what it is. And if mythology is correct only One can forgive sin. Maybe one day we will come to ourself. hear so much about) and other Washington bureaucracies and bureaucrats, using tax * mon ies, are never satisfied unless they stir up strife and discon tent, and thru their devious channels make every effort to divert such monstrous waste materials to some sort of use and find a few, so they claim, health uses, They never tell us about the opposite and dan gerous effects. I will not attempt to go into detail about the many and var ious aspects of this attempted pollution of our good Newberry water supply at this time. Suf fice it to say that we are on the alert and we are NOT on the defensive either. We, who are against fluoridation of our water supply have NOTHING to sell—we have no poisonous chemicals to offer and profit thereby^—we have no expensive machinery to sell that puts this toxic chemical into the water, AND we don’t have any “axes to grind” for any one. Yes, we are too, interested in the health, education and welfare of children, but we are also deeply • concerned about the health and welfare of the young, the middled aged, and the old as well. We are also concerned about those many who are suffering with kidney and bladder diseases, diabetics, those with ulcerated stomachs, heart diseases and ailments, allergies, etc., who will be harmed and affected by the in gestion of this poison even in the smallest accumulative quan tities. The newspapers have given the Newberry public a report of the proposal given to City Council by the protagonists of this fluoridation of our waters. That is only one side of the question. Anyone interested in the other side, or even both sides should get all the infor mation possible before form ing an opinion. Anyone inter ested in opposing fluoridation of our water supply, or wants any information, or desires to help us stamp out this scheme, can get in touch with the wri ter, and can be assured of no regrets. Mr. Editor, I thank you sincerely for the use of the columns in your paper and I trust you will be as generous in the future, as I am certain that the public will need and want more information, and what better source than our democratic newspapers. Sincerely, ISADORE SCHISSELL 2012 Main Street Newberry, S. C. 29108 Dial 276-1211 Opposed to Fluoridation Editor, Newberry Sun: Again I ask the use of the columns of your paper, and it seems to me it is always a question of fluoridation. I learned that, very quietly and without the usual fanfai#, several groups and their lead ers approached and stormed City Council and, from infor mation given me, tried to put over this diabolical scheme of adding sodium fluoride, a very toxic poison, to our City water supply. Thanks to our good and alert mayor and members of City Council, their plot was nipped in the bud, but the mat ter will be pursued in following meetings of City Council. Newberry went through a similar organized and agoniz ing campaign, I believe in 1960 and the purveyors of this poi son were so roundly rebuffed they stayed in the background for eight years. It would ap pear they should leave good enough alone and use their funds, talents and energies for useful and helpful purposes, but no such luck. The P.H.S. and H.E.W. (of which we More involved in 1-car accidents The one-vehicle accident prov ed to be the biggest killer on South Carolina’s highways dur ing January, the State Highway Department has revealed. Preliminary statistics show that 25 persons were killed when their automobiles over turned or left roadways and struck stationary objects such as a tree. Contributing to this toll was icy weather which made some roads slippery over one weekend. Holding the No. 2 spot in January was the two-car collis ion which accounted for 11 fatalities. Pedestrian accidents ranked third with eight persons killed as a result of being struck by motor vehicles. Twx> victims were claimed in collisions between trucks and automobiles, and one died as a result of a collision involving 2 trucks. During January there were no motorcycle or bicycle fatal ities reported in South Caro lina. Overall 47 persons were kill ed in traffic accidents during the month. This represents an encouraging improvement over the previous year.