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SEC. A, PAGE 12—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thurs., Dec. 25, 1969 BY THE WAY By DORIS A. SANDERS ALL RIGHT, YOUTH- (Conclusion of an artido by John Ed Poarco.) You protest that the govern ment lies conceals and compro mises. But ideals alone are often an inadequate vessel for the rough trip through the rap ids of international politics. And since neither Washington, Mos cow nor Peking is run by holy men, survival sometimes re quires compromise with full candor. Neither is Washington run, let me add, by men of om niscience or omnipotence. It is run by human beings, as are the newspapers and great cor porations you regard so bitterly. Sometimes they don’t know; sometimes they make mistakes, even, alas, as you and I. You say that you have been dumped into a world you never made. Frankly, I cannot recall a generation having been given the privilege of choosing the shape of the world into which it was born. It has been said that yours is the first genera tion to grow up unsure that il RITZ THEATRE WEDNESDAY, THURS DAY, FRIDAY & SATUR DAY DON’T DRINK THE WATER Jackie Gleason Estelle Parsons (G) MONDAY TUESDAY MARLOWE James Garner Gayle Hunnicut (M) .WEDNESDAY, THURS* DAY, FRIDAY & SATUR DAY CHRISTMAS TREE William Holden Virna Lisi (G) CLOVER LEAF DRIVE-IN FRIDAY & SATURDAY DADDY’S GONE A HUNTING Carol White Scott Hylands SUNDAY JACK OF DIAMONDS George Hamilton Joe Cotton Always A Color Cartoon The Drive-In Will Be Closed On Monday, Tuesday, Wed nesday And Thursday For The Winter Months. will have a world to live in to morrow. It has its tension, of course, as have all eras; we feel them as keenly as you. But in an individual sense (which may be the only rele vant one) this has been true of all men since the spear. Wheth er because of the plague, the Hun or the hydrogen bomb, man has always lived with some lurking fear, and with no as surance that he will have a tomorrow. But before you be come paranoid in your fear of nuclear doomsday, remember that we share this fear, and the danger behind it, and your determination that this force must be tamed. You are not alone in opposing the arms race, the ABM, the overbalance on defense spending. You will have help in your fight to control this violence. But remember that man has had these weapons for a generation now, and his fear of them has, in part, kept the great powers from falling on each other. You insist we have given you a rotten system. It is not rotten and we have not given it to you. No generation gives power to the next. You will grow into it, regardless of us. You will con trol its production and wealth as rapidly as your talents en able you to fight your way to control. You will become its political leaders and set its pol icies as rapidly as you can con vince people that your judg ment is sound and your poli cies preferable. I would be dis appointed if you were not im patient with the slow working of representative democracy. It may, indeed, be as bad as you say; Winston Churchill correct ly declared that it is an im possible system of government but the best that man has yet devised. We worry about you because you seem more intent on des troying the system than in cor recting it. Your willingness to resort to violence to force the will of your minority on the majority smacks more of the storm trooper than of the re former. Your intolerance makes me wonder who your reforms are designed to benefit, just as your tactics make me doubtful that you will succeed. The min ority that seeks to enforce its will invites the retaliation of the greater violence of the maj ority. Believe me, I am glad to see your anger at discovering want and injustice. It speaks of some thing good in you. It will spur you, I hope, to make changes. At the same time, I suggest that much of your shock comes from a delayed collision with reality. You recoil 3t want be cause you have never lived in its midst. You resent injustice, violence and suffering because you have grown up in a com fortable world. You remind me somewhat of the child who dis covers that his parents have lied to him about Santa Claus and is furious at them, ignoring the reality of daddy behind the myth. You say the school-book view of America is false, that demo cracy, equality, brotherhood, li berty and justice for all are myths. You are wrong. They are the ideals, the goals, the vision put before us by the men who started all this. Is our demo cracy less than a reality because some (your militants, for exam ple) abuse its privileges? Are the ideals of liberty and justice for all less inspiring, less wor thy, less believable because we, being human and fallible, fall short of them? You reject our middle-class values, but then define them yourselves as being material ism, greed, conformity and an obsession with security, which is like our implying that your attitude toward Vietnam is bas ed on cowardice. It is not easy to pinpoint our values, but among them are freedom from fear, want and oppression, the right to rear one’s children in love and conscience, to choose one’s leaders and change one’s government as times dictate, to b£ free to reach as far as our talents will permit,and to live in our homes in dignity, peace and security. I think it is important for you to be aware of our attitudes and our experience for several reasons. It is good to know where you have been so that you can better decide where you want to go. And it is well for a man to think well of his fore bears, those who went before him and give him life. For, as the saying goes, the apple does not fall far from the tree, and the traits you have inherited are those on which you must depend as you begin your work. As a generation, you have good qualities, I think, from which to draw strength in time of stress. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dec. 28: Mrs. James Smith, Jr., Mrs. Elbert Dickert, Mrs. Fay Murray Gray, Mrs. F. Scott Elliott, Gates Beckwith. Dec. 29: Mrs. Dave L. Hayes, David Langford. Dec. 30: Mrs. V. V. Pearsall, Mrs. Virginia S. Senn, Mrs. H. 0. Stone, Lyn Altman. Dec. 31: Mrs. G. V. Clamp, Mrs. Eddie 0. Graham, Mac Brooks, D. B. Dawkins, Emily Lake. Jan. 1, 1970: John Harrison Ragland, George B. Brooks. Jan. 2: Mary Fulmer Wells, Ben Pressley Stewart, Jr., Ruth Cannon. Jan. 3: Carter Abrams, E. Kirby Lominack, Dick Neel Sam P. Boland, Mrs. Mary Rin ger. FEATURE EVENT The Rose Bowl football game was instituted in 1916, and has come to be a perma nent feature on New Year’s Day. It is estimated that over a million and a half watch both the parade and the Rose Bowl football game between eastern and western teams. HOSPITAL PATIENTS Andrews, Charlie, City Baker, Mrs. Jewell M., City Blair, Raymond E., City Clamp, George, Prosperity Chapman, William Anthony, of Clinton Clark, Roland, City Culclasure, Francis E., City Dean, Ella Kinard, City Dominick, Miss Mazie, City Dominick, Thomas J., City Eddy, Willie R., City Eigner, Will, Pomaria Elkins, Mrs. Alice, City Fouche, Mrs. Margaret P., City Frye, Master Robert Alan, City Free, John A., City Fulmer, Elizabeth C., Leesville Goodson, Thelma C., Collins,Ga. Graham, James H., Joanna Green, Henry, City Griffin, Mrs. Gertrude M., City Hardy, Mrs. Frances M., Pros perity Hardy, John, Pomaria Harris, Cora C., City Hawkins, Ray, Columbia Hazel, Annie M., Saluda Hazel, Grace 0., City Hentz, Miss Lois, Pomaria Hiller, Mary Alice, City Johnson, Miss Alice E., Kinards Joiner, Master William Carl, City Kessler, Lucy, Little Mountain Kinard, Annie S., City Kinard, Mrs. Tommie Lee, Pros perity Livingston, Aryan T., City Livingston, James E., City Lominick, Mrs. Jettie, Pomaria Longshore, Mrs. Mattie A., City Martin, Ansel R., City Miller, Jacob S., City Nichols, Laura Mae, City Padgett, Annie Corley, City Perkins, Vera R, City Riley, Mrs. Jessie Lee, City Rogers, Mrs. Laura, Kinards Sease, Mrs. Ruth, Leesville Shealy, Larry Wayne, City Shealy, Sallie F., City Sligh, Olin W., City * Stephen, Miss Annie Pearl, Pros perity Stockman, Mrs. Mary K., City Taylor, Kate B., Prosperity Van De Luyster, Mrs. Helene C., City Werts, Mrs. Ada W., City Wicker, Allene F., City Wicker, Louise L., City Wilson, Charley L., Prosperity Worthy, Mrs. Ethel, City Hayne Morris rites Friday Hayne Morris, 77, died Wed nesday afternoon at the Veter ans Hospital in Columbia. He was born in Newberry County, the son of the late Thompson and Ella Bedenbaugh Morris. He was a retired farm er, a veteran of World War I, and a member of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church. Surviving are a step-daughter, Mrs. Dudley Hunter of Prosper ity; two brothers, Ernest Mor ris of Newberry and Monroe H. Morris of Prosperity; four sif ters, Miss Leena Morris, Miss Cora Morris, Miss Nannie Belle Morris and Mrs. F. M. Warren, all of Prosperity, and eight step-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Friday from St. Luke’s Church with Rev. J. Hilton Roof con ducting. Burial followed in the church cemetery. S. J. Harmon service Friday John Simpson Harmon, 72, of Route 2, Prosperity, died Thurs day morning at Mills Clinic. Bom in this county, he was a son of the late John Simpson and Elizabeth Robertson Har mon. He was a retired employee of Boyd Lumber Co., and a member of Cannons Creek ARP Church. Mr. Harmon was twice married, first to the late Gussie Mills Harmon, secondly to Peg gy Sligh Harmon. Surviving, in addition to his wife, are a daughter, Miss Dianne Harmon of Prosperity; four sisters, Mrs. Beulah Haw kins and Mrs. Janie Dawkins, both of Newberry, Mrs. Ruby Bedenbaugh of Kinards and Mrs. Pearl Wessinger of Pros perity; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held Friday from his Church with the Rev. E. L. Bland and the Rev.James Barker conducting. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Killed in crash near Newberry Dennis Forshey, of Barnwell, a football player at Furman University, was killed in an accident near Newberry on In terstate 26 Wednesday. According to C. W. Jones, De puty Coroner for Newberry County, Forshey was riding in a car that slammed into the rear of a parked tractor-trailer truck and then collided with a second car. Wayne Hall of Col umbia was treated at the New berry Memorial Hospital and released. Both Forshey and Hall were football players at Furman. Ac cording to Jones, they had been studying all night and were en route from Columbia to Furman when the accident occurred. Jones said the driver of the second car and the truck were not injured. He said an inquest would be held at a date to be announced. Young mother dies in wreck A young mother of two child ren was killed instantly near here Saturday at 11:30 a.m. when her car ran off a straight stretch of road on Highway 121, plunged 15 feet down an em bankment and hit a tree, New berry County Coroner George R. Summer said. He identified the victim as Mrs. Margaret Craig Henley, 28, of Grovetown, Ga., wife of Staff Sgt. Jack Henley who is stationed in Vietnam. The coroner said Mrs. Henley was on her way back to Georgia from Matthews, N. C., when her 1968 Ford Torino left the road on the left hand side some seven miles north of Newberry. He said no inquest is planned. WANT ADS FOR SALE—Maytag automatic washer, G. E. refrigerator, ster eos, televisions, reconditioned deep freezer, radios, new and used, electric and gas ranges, lovely mahogany 10-piece din ing suite like new. Special: 7- piece living room group $139.95. Visit us today. Buy on comfort able terms. J. J. LANGFORD & SON, Newberry, S. C. WANTED: Reliable man to as sume responsibility as foreman of poultry processing plant. Needs some knowledge of pro cessing and labor management. Excellent salary plus fringe benefits. Good position for right man. Call 445-3221, Saluda, S. C. for appointment. FOR COMPLETE Termite & P.egt Control -"—Cull—— Lonnie Gilliam Telephone 276-5113 Newberry, S. C. Notice Of Second Reading Notice is hereby given that The City Council of The City of Newberry will hold Second Reading on the 1970 Business License Ordinance in Coun cil Room, City Hall, Newberry, S. C. on December 30, 1969 at 7:30 P.M. Mayor & City Council