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PACiK The Nf‘\vl)cn'y Sun, NS'wImutv, S. (., Thursday, June G, 1968 No one can estimate our vast debt to the inventive geniu.- and unresting toil of our genius iuses. 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: Six months $1.25. COMMENT on Men & Things ' By J. K. BREED IN Now, where are we? Here’s a man who dares take liberties with thi- illustrious hard of Avon : “Given a choice, though, l>r Wright would rath* r watch Shakespeare than read him, for he maintains that Shake.-- peace wrote hi.' plays to be performed and -ecn, not to stand as literary ma-terpieces, Allot 111'! y roup with whi eh ho ha-, lit!] r patl cnee, t he i •of, >re. are thus*' win i rig; ii'd e v cry line as > acred. 'Like any 1 Himan being, Shakes pea l'e luu l hi> dull spo ts.’ he say.-. ‘I used to think I Yricle.- for ox: tmplo, was the worst play Shakes peare ever did until 1 saw it performed. It was superb.' Prompted to recite his fav orite Shakespearean verses, Dr Wright demurs. 'It just happens that early in life I developed a complex that pre vents me from reciting poetry —anyone’s poetry,’ he says. 'I was a timid youngster and a teacher asked me to recit* Marc Antony’s speech ovei dead Caesar. 1 got as far as ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen' and that’s as far as I’ve evet been able to go.’ Who dares take liberties with Shakespeare? Inventions hv Goldmark: $2.00 per year in advance “Now and then the president of CHS Laboratories likes tc gaze at a panel of designs ir his office, optical illusions in which the CHS eye seems to follow the observer around the room. Watch out, competitors. Peter Carl Goldmark is think ing about three-dimensional television. That sounds pretty far out. Hut as rival firms have learned at great expense, the things ttu.'- U1 -year old physicist thinks about have a way ol h'mmmg reality. A specialist ; n the fields of sight and ound, lie i> wholly or partially ; esnon-. 1 ile for more than lot. inventions, among '.hem t h e f rst practical color T\ system and the first practical long- playing record. He is now re fining another development wno.-e prospects seem nothing L■ >s than revolutionary. 11 's called Kleet ronic \ ide< Recording (KVK). With it a TV set owner will soon In able to play through his re ceiver films of cultural a n e, other events not offered by commercial television; existinp home playback devices usin; videotape are far more expen sive than the estimated cost of FYR and at present can only be used to tape the pro graming offered by television, for later playback. Mr. Gold- mark doesn’t tout FYR as tin greatest invention since the wheel. But it seems clear that it holds potenti: ' y great im-i pact not only r television but also for tn. movie indus try, publishing, teaching and (if its inventor is correct) door-to-door selling. ” r miu.i i tn takr ulnilii sornr uisunithi 1 nil that hnul and <haa ssorirs. ! irr. tlicit and liahdit \ is anuliddr m an\ <ornhinalu>n at a reasonable rate. I alk to ns. YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS MIS Main Street Phone 276-1 122 “On a typical afternoon Frank Grant and a visiting journalist are making the rounds with Owen Wilkerson, a truant officer for West Kin- m*y Junior High school. Truant officers are pretty relevant to ghetto problems—the 13 year old arrested in Newark was one of four boys of his age charged by the police for ar son last week, the other three in Washington, D. C.. A 25-year old graduate of West Virginia State College, where he maj ored in sociology, Mr. Wilker son is a cheerful extrovertec man who plans to run for the city council as a representa tive of the Central Ward, heart of the ghetto. On the way to one stop, they’re stopped by a man we shall call ‘Hondo’—a short very black man with a broad, flat face, who has just gotten high on heroin. Hondo has a middle-distance stare in his eyes, and is having some trou ble putting his thoughts to gether. He has been fired from his job as a porter because of his police record (‘From here to the corner,’ says Frank) and that is probably why he is high. Frank gives Hondo an address where he will be next morning, and promises to get him a job.” Are we so lenient with crimt and criminals that we a r i cutting away the very founda tions of society? Hear Mr. Nixon on our len iency toward law-breakers: “The key domestic issue of the Presidential campaign may prove to be crime—its pervasi veness, its causes, and cures. Last week, in the strongest statement yet by a major can didate, Republican frontrunner Richard M. Nixon excoriated the Johnston administration and the Supreme Court for letting America become a law less society. Mr. Nixon said the Admin istration had been ‘lame tind ineffectual’ in curtailing crime partly because it wrongly ascribes crime’s growth to pov erty. The administration ‘bean- major responsibility for per petuation of this myth. The success of criminals in this country plays a far greater role m the rising crime rate than any consideration of pov erty.’ While the crime rate has been rising by 88 per cent over the past seven years, Mr. Nix on said, the population has in creased by only 10 per cent Only one crime in eight b .-uccessfully prosecuted, he as serted, partly because key Supreme Court decisions have emboldened criminals and ham strung' lawmen. If the present crime spiral continues, Mr. Nixon’s thOliO word 'position paper’ warned, 'then the city jungle will cease to be a metaphor. It will be come a barbaric reality, and the brutal society that now flourishes in the core cities of America will annex the afflu ent subu rbs. This nation will then be what it is fast becom- ,ng - an armed camp of 200,- 000,000 Americans living in fear.’ Mr. Nixon enumerated several proposals. The major ones are already contained in the omni bus bill now before the Senate. Mr. Nixon advocates and the Justice Department opposes— allowing electronic surveillance under court supervision in major crime cases as well as national-security matters. He proposes—and the Administra tion and Senate liberals oppose —letting state judges and jur ies decide the admissibility of confessions, rather than relying on tin 1 Supreme Court guide lines in recent decisions.” By mistaken charity we are undermining the gery founda tions of public order and lit- “WHATSOEVER THINGS” By DONALD E. WILDMON There was a lady who came Go back again and read what to the United States not too she said. “When I became a long ago. Her coming caused grown-up person I found it quite a stir among some peo- impossible to exist without God pie here. Some welcomed her in one’s heart.” Maybe our and some cursed her upon her trouble is that we have never arrival. But regardless of what become “grown-up” persons, people thought about her she Oh, we may be six foot tall set her mind to come to this physically, but we could still country and did so. have failed to grow up. Some She had to slip away from of the most childish people any. her native country. Had the where are giants physically, authorities there known she J hen, again, notice that she was planning on coming here had a solution to the worlds’ they would have certainly pul problems. ”... people must a stop to it. And her coming work together for the progress greatly endangered her family of humanity. Another person and friends in the country she once said that we should “love left behind. one another.” I wonder if this There are some interesting isn’t what the lady with the things about this lady that new country was saying? the ordinary person doesn’t And she goes on to say that know. First, she was a member there is “good . . . and bad, of the aristocracy of the coun- honest or dishonest.” Let us try she left behind. And she give thanks for someone who had, according to their stand- can still see good and bad and ards, a “good” life where she isn’t confused by all the gray was. Also, she left behind a matter. son, 21, and a daughter, 15. In case you are wondering This lady left her country, about the power of the Creator, strangely enough, because of wonder no farther. The lady we her religious beliefs. She said have written about is proof she came to seek “freedom of positive that He still works in expression” for herself. The this struggling world. For if “expression” she wanted to He can reach a lady like this exercise was stated by her in lady, He can reach any who these words: ’’When I became seem hopeless, a grown-up person I found h The lady’s name is Svetlana impossible to exist without God Stalina. If that doesn’t ring a in one’s heart. Instead of hell with you, you might recog- struggling and causing unnec- n i ze her better as the daugh- essary bloodshed, people must ter and only surviving child of work together for the progress Josef Stalin. of humanity . . . There are no Ipj L“ •I T* capitalists or communists for l^QllIlFV flUllflllKy me. There are good people and * O bad peonle, honest or dishon- MJ *1. - est.” i crmits — . ——— - ———— erally digging un the founda- Preston Cartwright, Prosper- tion of our nation. ^ four rooni cement block dwelling $2000. STATE pays you to SAVE... 5.25% Slate's Maximum Yield Certificates earn 5.25'r per year and may be purchased in amounts of S10.000 or n ore. First Maturity date December 31, l'J68. Earn from date of investment. 5.00% State’s High Yield Certificates earn S.OOG per year and may be purchased in amounts of 5.'),000 or more. First Maturity date December 31, 1%8. 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