The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 25, 1969, Image 12
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
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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.
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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