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I * A (i K 2 Th(* NowIxmtv Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, April 9, 1970 1^18 C’ollege St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY (). F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina "Whatsoever Things'' By DONALD E WILDMON Minister LEE ACRES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH TUPELO. MISSISSIPPI GETTING USE TO THE DARKNESS SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $3.00 per year in advance. Six Months $2.00. I went to the movies the other day. First time in about a year that I had been. I’m not about to spend my hard earned two dollars to see filth and trash presented as though it was the ideal. But there was a Walt Disney production playing so I took the chil dren and enjoyed the movie. As I entered the theater, it was dark, and I could hardly see. I moved slow ly down the aisle, found a row where a seat was empty—I thought! But after sitting in someone else’s lap for a split second, I fumbled on down the row till there was an empty seat. Talk about being dark, it was dark in that movie-house! Accustomed To It But you know, something happened to the darkness in that theater. After I had been in the darkness a short period, I began to get accustomed to it. Why, I could even make out w r hich seats were empty! It wasn’t long be fore that theater wasn’t too dark at all. I could find my way around with out a bit of trouble. Something like this has happened in our society. The darkness seems so dark at first, but if you sit in it long enough, you get the impression that it is getting brighter. Time was when sin was called sir, when you could tell the good from the bad, but for many that time is slowly disappearing now. We have sat in the darkness until we have gotten use to it, even get the false impression that new light is breaking. An alcoholic isn’t a drunkard now. He has a new name, and the darkness has given him a new position. An al coholic now is a sick man, not a sinful one. His alcoholism has no moral over tones about it. We use to call it sin, but now it is a disease. A disease which we manufacture, bottle, adver tise, sell from an open counter, regu late (?) by the state, and collect taxes to build a better society on! Getting use to the darkness, aren’t we? Free Love Adultry now has a new name—free love! And it has several advocates, both in and out of the Church. It isn’t sin anymore, it is situational ethics. And a movie star can have a baby out of wedlock one week and gain the admiration of millions on national tele vision the next week! Getting use to the darkness, aren’t we? Murder will get you a hung jury, three years in the pen at the most. And if you can provide the money to get the right lawyer, you still go scott free. We are a little more civilized than our forefathers. We believe in being lenient. The darkness is looking brighter now. Strange, isn’t it, that you can’t get use to the darkness all at once. You have to sit in it awhile. And then it doesn’t look dark anymore. Slowly, lit tle by little, we get use to it. But the Light of the world is still in the world, and men who love good and hate evil are still attracted to Him. And strange as it may seem, men who love evil still hate the Light. For you see, when the Light comes thev have no place to hide. —FIVE STAR COMMENT on Men & Things B> J. K. BREEDIN How does Uncle Sam keep an account of his money? Several hundred thousands of people, far more than that, issue checks on the Government. Since these men who draw the checks are in thousands of offices, don’t you wonder when they get their account organized'.' 1 I do not include the post of fice employes because thy op erate from known centers. Not only do 1 think of the great mul titude of special accounts, 1 think of a great multitude of cases, as for example, the many calls which are not accorded to any known budget There are times when 1 think I could regulate some of this but I would bring the ax down on everything not strictly a mat ter of government. How many special and discretionary claims are paid by the government are charged to the government 1 cannot imagine. As a small beginning 1 would recommend the elimination of all grants which are not strictly a necessary function of the gov ernment, such as every contri bution which is not according to a law. Since the 10*h Amendment to the Constitution reserves to the states all matters not exclusive ly Federal, by that I mean the Federal Government should not meddle with the public schools of the States and should not be sending money to the States for a multitude of causes. If we confine the Federal gov ernment to its purely federal obligations w-e should make enormous savings. Among other things we have grants to States; Colleges and many other institutions. Lawlessness and the most vio lent breaches of the peace seem to be growing more common every day. In every part of our Nation it seems that the law is not respected and that men take into their own hands the right to do as they please. It is very easy to say that the police can restore order. Regardless of the loyalty of the police the available police force seems unable to cope with the situation. Because of this a sentiment is growing to enlist citizens in the defense of their country. It is part of our obligation as citizens to participate when we are needed to defend the rights of all citizens. It is not only to join an organization but it is the ancient law that all citizens may be summoned to protect the peace. The open defiance of thou sands of men in various parts of the nation presents an ex tremely urgent occasion just whatever that should be. ARE DEFEATED Newberry College’s golf squad came away from the Furman Collegiate golf tournament Fri day and Saturday with a little more experience and a defeat. The quintet posted a 36-hole total of 869; East Tennessee State of Johnson City paced the 21 teams in the tourney with a low score of 760. Individual scores for the golf ers were John Sease. 171; Bill Murray. 171; Frank Turner, 172; Harry Ward, 172; and Charles Smoak, 201. The golfers' next match is against Erskine and Western Carolina at Erskine on April 10. Paper company to build plant in Bulldozers are clearing ground near here as the first step toward the construction of a $10 million forest products manufacturing complex by the U. S. Plywood Division of U. S. Plywood-Champion Papers, Inc. C. R. Kelley, U. S. Plywood’s vice president and general man ager for southern pine manu facturing operations, who is bas ed in Atlanta, said today that once the site is leveled and grad ed, engineering studies would get under way as the final pre liminary to the actual construct ion. Plans call for a plywood man ufacturing facility with an an nual initial capacity of 70 million square feet (3-8 inch basis) with provisions for expansion to over 150 million square feet. In addi tion, a chipping facility will be able to convert 140,000 cords of pulpwood annually into chips for the company’s paper mill in Canton. N. C. Also planned for the site is a softwood lumber mill with an annual capacity of 30 million board feet. Studies are being made of the feasibility of add ing a mill for hardwood lumber. The new complex will be lo cated in Newberry County on a 150-acre tract some five miles west of the town of Silverstreet. The Little and Saluda rivers meet at the mill site. The main line of the Southern Railroad passes through there. Mr. Kelley said that the com plex will employ some 200 work ers and generate an annual pay roll of nearly $1 million. The company expects to draw its wood supply from some 90,000 acres of land it owns in the immediate area, from some 200,000 acres it owns within a 75-mile radius of the site, and from private sources. Time To Talk To Us about HAIL INSURANCE “YOUR PRIVATE BANKERS” 1418 Main Street Phone 276-1422 TIME FOR NEW LIFE IN THE OLD SOUTH! New growth, new color and a soft new air spread across the South. It starts along Mississippi, Georgia and Florida shores, wings up through Alabama, catches the ocean breeze of South Carolina, caps mountains and fills valleys in Tennessee. And Southerners every where pick up the pace, weary of winter and ready for spring. Your neighbors in the brewing industry are aware of the beauty of the season, too. We want to see nature kept natural (we support the Keep America Beautiful campaign). We want our region to thrive (our economic contribution helps). And we want our product to be a pleas ant part of it all (we care where it's served). UNITED STATES BREWERS ASSOCIATION, INC. P O Box 6247. Columbia, S C. 29206