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BY THE WAY By DORIS A. SANDERS THE BEST The best I have seen in the way of magazine advertising is that of the Warner & Swasey Company which appears regu larly in the U. S. News & World Report, and perhaps in other magazines. The company devotes its ads to explaining and defending the free enter prise system. A reader of this column was favorably impressed by one of the recent ads and brought it in for possible republication. Perhaps the W&S Company will not mind if I reprint it. Entit led “Commencement Address— 1970”, it follows: Is it too much to hope some college president might address his graduating class this way next month: — “As you Commence your new life I wish to remind you of some of the things you carry into it from your past here. “First, you owe your parents (or. if you were on scholarship, you owe Society) on average about $15,000. As you begin earning I hope you will repay parents or society for the things they did without, to send you here. “Second, you owe to your country the freedom which en abled you to come here and learn preparation for—I hope— a full, happy life. If you want your children to have that same privilege you must repay that debt—by military service, or a life of political service, or an earnest, honest citizenship de voted to preserving and improv ing this nation. “Finally, you owe your years here to the profit system. Peo ple first built and now main tain this institution out of pro fits they have made in business or out of taxes they pay from business income. “Most Commencement Add resses are all about the glories awaiting you. Whatever those glories are, you yourself will create them. And if you will repay those debts of yours I have listed, you will be build ing a character which will make your future very glorious in deed. That, I promise. Be on your way!" MANY LETTERS The Greenville News has pub lished many letters, pro and con, concerning the statements made by Dr Bob Jones, Jr., concerning the Kent State riot 1 thought one in particular gave a clear analysis of the situation. It was written by Jessica B Morris of Greenville The statements of Dr Bob Jones. Jr on the Kent State not have been challenged in a num ber of letters printed recently in your columns. Some accuse the president of Bob Jones Un iversity of being full of hate, un-Christian, or a hypocrite None quoted this from his speech: ‘They were comn g at the guardsmen with iron oars and everyting else. If you had a gun and a fellow came at you with an iron bar to hit you over the head and crack your skull and spill your brains, wouldn’t you shoot if you were a law enforcement officer 9 ’ Or this equally sensible statement: Tm sorry for those young peo ple who are being duped and doped and taken in; but if they are going to set themselves against society, they ought to (Continued on Page 10) Vol. 34—No. 6 Newberry ,S. C. 29108, Thursday, May 28, 1970 $3 PER YEAR College to award 146 degrees Sunday To Receive Honorary Degrees Club presents book to library The county library was start ed through the efforts of several members of the Woman’s Club in 1904. Undergraduate college careers will end for 146 seniors at New berry College Sunday, May 31 when they will receive their bachelor of science or arts de grees in Commencement acti vities at 5 p.m. in the A.G.D. Wiles Chapel on the campus. At the final event for the seniors, the Rev. Harvey L. Huntley, president of the South eastern Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, will de liver the charge to the degree candidates; he wall speak on “Where Will You Live?’’ He and three other Lutheran ministers are slated to receive the honorary degree of doctor of divinity during the after noon’s program. The three others are the Rev. Herman W. Cauble, secretary of the South Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church in America; the Rev. John Milton Frick, pastor of St. Stephen’s Evan gelical Lutheran Church in Lex ington, S. C.; and the Rev. Robert E. Grefe, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church in Hollywood, Fla. The day’s ceremonies begin with the traditional baccalau reate services at 11 a.m. in the Chapel with the Rev. Grefe de livering the message. Returning alumni will have a chance for their annual class reunions following the Bacca laureate services. Special guests of the College’s Alumni Associ ation at a luncheon Sunday noon will be the graduates of 1920 or earlier. Newberry College seniors, their parents and friends will be honored at a reception Sun day afternoon at the President’s home before the 5 p.m. Comm encement Services. (Continued on Page 10) Court after trial The May term of Criminal court concluded here last Thurs day with a jury returning a verdict of innocent in the case of George R. Wertz, who was charged with murder in the Jan uary shooting of Ernest “Pap” Heller. The jury deliberated about an hour and 15 minutes before re turning the verdict. Werts, 28, father of four child ren and proprietor of a cafe in Newberry where the shooting occurred, testified that he shot at Heller three times after Hell er had threatened him and pull ed a knife on him. He said he had warned Heller several times to leave the es tablishment. Wertz said he had called the police before t h e shooting when Heller aimed a fire extinguisher at him. He said that Heller had “got ten mad” when he called the police and that he was afraid of Heller. Dr. W. W. King, Jr. testifed Thursday that Heller died of two bullet wounds in the chest. Other guilty pleas taken dur ing the session were: Diane Hawkins Chaplin and Sarah Williams, shoplifting, six months or $600, suspended on service of two months or $250 and probation 18 months; Bren da Hawkins, shoplifting, six mos. or $600, suspended to two months or $200 and probation 18 mos. J. W. Counts, petty larceny, 30 days concurrent with another sentence; Ernest Lyles, non-sup port, one year suspended; Mack Scurry, non-support, sentencing deferred because of defendants health;Tommie Hunnicutt, as sault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, nine months suspended and probation one year; William Sims, driving un der influence of intoxicants, one year or $1,000, suspended on 2 (Continued on Page 10) Mrs. Fred H. Dominick, re tiring club president; Mrs. F. Scott Elliott, Sr., chairman of the Library Committee and Mrs. James C. Kinard, a mem ber of the committee of The Womans Club presented the book, Old South Carolina Chur ches to Mrs. Edgar Shinn, act ing librarian of Newberry-Sal- uda Regional Library, on May 22 This gift was the effort of the Woman’s Club to be in cluded in the Tricentennial pro jects of Newberry. The book was published in 1941 and was written by Helen Crowson Sellers of Burlington, N. C\, who is a native of Winns- boro. It includes pen and ink drawings of 61 old churches, in cluding all denominations and areas of the state. These churches built before the Con federate War include those on the coast “half-hidden amid moss-hung groves of immemor ial oaks and the dignified city churches”, with their spires pointing heavenward. Valuable historical information accom panies the sketches. Mrs. Sellers did a similar book on churches in North Carolina, entitled Faith of Our Fathers. HONOR GRADUATES—Seventeen New berry High School seniors completed four years of high school with overall averages of 92 or better. Those honored were, first row from left, Diane Bowers, Mary Baker, Caroline Smith, Karen Kelly, Karen At- kison; second row, Dana Werts, Trudy Force, Debbie Wicker, Connie Farb, Mac Montgomery; third row, Clayton Shealy, Jimmy McEntire, Paul Folk, Jimmy But ler, Ricky Nelson, and Robert Amick. (Sunphoto),