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PAGE 2—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Oct. 24, 1968 xm 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, SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE THE CHANGE IS UNDERWAY As this session of Congress ends, an undeniable spirit of change is already underway. A number of stunning victories in the Senate in the past few months reflect the new mood of the country. Those who have fought the sometimes lonely battle for a return to Constitu tional principles and individual responsibility now find them selves vindicated. IMPRESSIVE VICTORY The most impressive victory, of course, is the withdrawal of the nomination of Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice of the United States. Intensive questioning in the Senate Judiciary Committee revealed the manner in which the nominee’s court decisions were tearing apart the fabric of society, particularly in the fields of criminal procedure and por nography. The hearings brought out the unhealthy relationship between the President and the Associate Justice. Moreover, the manner in which the nomination was presented by the President confronted the Senate with an apparent demand for a rubber- stamp approval. The extended committee hear ings provided the Senate with the opportunity to scrutinize the record, and to examine the nominee’s sense of respect for the standards of independenct required of a Justice of the Supreme Court. The fact that the nominee’s standards left something to be desired is in- NOTICE TO VOTERS OF DISTRICT No. 2 You are entitled to two votes for County Hoard of Education. Vote for a man whose past record proves his inteiest in younir people's education for Newberry County. Hunter Caldwell has Id years ex perience' on the 1 County Board of Ed ucation, and is fully eiualified to rep resent the citizens of Newberry County. Hunter Caldwell is in favor of main taining community hii^h schools and hiring only qualified teachers. Vote in the General Election No vember 5th for W. HUNTER CALDWELL County Board of Education D/s/. No. 2 "Whatsoever Things By DONALD E. WILDMON dicated by the refusal of the Senate to limit debate on the topic. Although a two-thirds vote is required to limit debate, a clear majority of those re corded for or against the pro posal declined to shut off the discussions on the floor. This significant tally showed that all sections of the country are equally concerned about the di rection taken by the Supreme Court. Another sign of change was the defeat of proposals for the registration and licensing of guns at the national level. The Senate Judiciary Committee is where these proposals were stopped. No less than 5 amend ments were attached to the final gun bill so as to protect the legitimate ownership and use of guns by sportsmen and other law-abiding citizens. The Com mittee action was later uphelc by the Senate. ABM AND FOREIGN RELATIONS In the area of defense, a thin line anti-ballistic missile aeienst was authorized for deployment. The proposal is scarcely more than a beginning, and it comes long after the Soviets began work on their own ABM. Last minute attempts were made in the Senate to defeat ABM ap propriations, but the Senate overwhelmingly approved the funds—5 years after the debate started. We all want to be successful. And there isn’t one thing wrong with that. He made us that way, implanted that desire in us when He breathed into us the breath of life. And it would be an awful dull existence if we didn’t have that desire about us. For it causes us to do our best, to go to the highest, to shoot for the top. Far from repressing this desire, He encouraged it, kindled it, and set us afire with it. The trouble comes, you see, when we misuse this desire, turn it’s energies in the wrong direction, seek it’s out lets in the wrong ways. For somehow we think that to be successful means that we have to do so according to the standards of those around us. Let me share with you a story worth passing along. In 1928 a group of the world’s most successful men—according to society’s standards—met at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in ('hicago. Among those present were a member of the Presi dent’s cabinet, the president of the Bank of International Settlements, the head of the world’s greatest monopoly, the president of the largest independ- ent steel company in the world, the greatest wheat speculator, and the greatest “bear” on Wall Street plus the president of the New York Stock Exchange. Their meeting attracted national attention. People watched ♦ hem in awe, stunned by the magic they had about them. They were en vied by vast numbers of people. Some quarter of a century later some snoopy reporter had to get in volved in the thing. He decided to see what had happened during the past 25 years to these men of success. He spoiled the happy ending to the story with his findings. He found that Albert Fall, the member of the Presi dent’s cabinet, was released from prison so he could die at home. The utility operator, Samuel Insulle, died in virtual exile. The head of the world’s greatest monoply, Ivar Krue ger, committed suicide. The president of the steel company, Charles Schwab, lived on borrowed money the last five years of his life and died broke. The wheat speculator, Arthur Patton, died abroad, insolvent. The greatest “bear” on Wall Street, Jesse Livermore, com mitted suicide. And the president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney, had served a term in Sing Sing Federal Prison. I guess many times w r e close the book without reading the final chap ter. And when we do this we don’t always get the full story. We call it a game in the fifth inning with four more innings to go. We quit singing- on the third verse with two verses left. We could get the real picture if we would read the final chapter, play the last inning, sing the final verse. I guess the reason He w T as hung on that ugly tree was that He dared to judge by different standards. This up set the “successful” people, you know. Made them angry, set them against Him. So they tried to destroy Him only to find that Truth is eternal. Whether one is successful or not depends on what standards he uses to measure success. That’s the reason He wasn’t impressed by their defini tion. He had a better one. And He still does. —FIVE STAR FEATURES The treaties proposed last year to give away the Panama Cana*, have died a quiet death. The disorder surrounding the Panamanian elections last spring bore out the predictions of those who opposed the treaties. This fact, coupled with the introduc tion into Congress of bills to modernize the present facilities under the old treaties, led the Administration to back off from its efforts at ratification. In the same way, the proposed treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons was over taken by events. In August, only one Senator was on record in opposition to it. Today, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslo vakia has drastically altered the balance of power in Europe and convinced many that the Soviet real of dominating the world ruis not been altered. SOCIAL LEGISLATION Positive legislation was en acted to help cure some of the social evils which are disturbing the domestic peace. The Senate accepted the Thurmond Anti- Riot Amendment as a means of curbing those who cross State lines to incite or participate ir riots. The need for such legisla tion has become even clearer since the recent events in Chi cago demonstrated not only that the techniques of insurrection have been perfected to a re markable degree, but also that such agitators cross state lines. Finally, amendments were added to the Vocational Educa tion Act to modernize its pro grams. Such programs will help people get better jobs and be come less dependent upon wel fare. At the beginning of the year few would have predicted that this session would have brought about such important reforms in the political process. They indi cate the beginning of construc tive change. Almost 29 million Americans re quiring regular medication will take more than 37 billion doses of medi cine this year. Although these pa tients will take their doses for vary ing diseases, doctors say they all have one symptom ^mmon-forgetful- ness. More than 1,000,000,000 pre scriptions are filled annually! 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