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America’s Birth of Freedom
". . . that these colonies are, and of a
right ought to be, free and independ
ent."
America’s Birth of Freedom is cele
brated each year on July 4. This year
_ 1967 — those freedoms which we
have been privileged to enjoy these 191
years are being challenged from many
sources.
America is being taxed to the limit
in Southeast Asia. In Cuba, Commu
nism is on our very doorsteps. The ad
vent of the hydrogen bomb in Red
A Safe Fourth of July
With the Fourth of July holiday
coming up, it seems an appropriate
time to remind motorists of the added
danger that thousands of fun-seekers
and vacationers will add to the high
ways during this period.
Several accidents were reported in
Chattooga County during the past
It's About Time
The House of Representatives is get
ting a good start in correcting some of
the abuses that have been present in
official travel for members.
Starting July 1, House members will
do their traveling under new rules
that discourage these abuses.
Official credit cards will be discon
tinued and prior authorization will be
required.
The new expense rules were imposed
II h ere Violence Leads
(From Chattanooga News-Fre^ Press)
Arrest in New York of 16 Negro rad
icals on charges they plotted assassina
tion of less militant Negro leaders
brings to light an alarming situation,
showing where an attitude of violence
can lead.
Those arrested include members of
pro-Castro and pro-Red China groups
such as the Revolutionary Action
Movement (RAM) and the Black
Brotherhood Improvement Associa
tion. which grew out of the Black Lib
eration Front.
If there are some who tend to take
these groups lightly, it should be re
called that onetime RAM leader Robert
Williams, who once headed the NAACP
Hani to Justify Tax Exemptions
Advocates ot public ownership in the
electric power field appear to be pur
suing a new line of argument to
achieve their goals. They say that if
public power systems are unable to ob
tain cheap, wholesale power and ade
quate transmission from either the
federal government projects or the in
vestor-owned systems, the public sys
tems - which serve about 20 per cent
of the customers — will be forced to
raise their rates or sell out to the giants
of the industry.
They say that competition, the yard
stick which the public systems have
offered through the years and which
has been mainly responsible for keep
ing electric power rates of the investor
owned companies in line, will be de
creased, if not altogether eliminated. Is
one to infer from this that state and
federal regulatory agencies that con
trol the rates of the investor-owned
II lull Becomes of the Individual?
We are going to great lengths to de
velop a workable society in which vast
multitudes of people of all races, creeds
and colors can live amicable and in
comfort It is a worthy goal. The ques
tion is, can it be achieved at the ex
pense of basic principles of human lib
erty?
Everywhere we turn, compulsion is
being substituted for free choice, and
over all — we hear the dick of the
computers sorting and cataloging peo
ple like they were so many nuts and
olhp £>ummpnrille News
JAMES D ESPY Managing Editor
DAVID T ESPY JR General Manager
WINSTON E ESPY Co-Publisher
WILLIAM T ESPY Advertising Manager
WOODROW W ESPY News Editor
China poses a serious threat to the free
world.
In our own country, there are many
who would destroy our freedom
through dubious guises. Sinister forces
are at work under false banners.
On this anniversary of our nation’s
independence, we must rededicate our
selves to the principles set forth by the
framers of our Constitution.
We must ever remember that among
these basic freedoms are . . . “Life, Lib
erty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
week and, already, three persons have
been killed in traffic accidents in our
county this year.
So, when you take off to the beaches,
the mountains, or to grandma’s, be a
little extra careful—have a safe Fourth
of July.
as a result of the Adam Clayton Powell
affair. The regulations were drafted by
the Committee on House Administra
tion, which also took steps to enforce
them, hiring —for the first time —
an accountant whose job it will be to
inspect every voucher.
These regulatory devices have long
been overdue. It’s time somebody did
something about this disgraceful prac
tice.
of Monroe, N. C., in 1961 was charged
with kidnaping a man and a woman,
and then skipped to Red Cuba and is
now living in Red China. The Black
Liberation Front was involved in the
bizarre plot to blow up the Washing
ton Monument, the Liberty Bell and
the Statue of Liberty.
There are all sorts of inciters, rang
ing from these plotters to the Stokely
Carmichaels and the Martin Luther
Kings. None can be safely tolerated.
It is time for general public demand
by all good citizens, both Negroes and
whites, that the criminality that has
grown up under the banner of “civil
rights” be condemned and punished.
companies are incompetent or derelict
in their duty?
It is difficult to justify the claim
that tax-subsidized public power offers
any sort of a fair yardstick for taxpay
ing, investor-owned utility rates. Ap
proximately 22 cents out of every rev
enue dollar that the private utility in
dustry receives goes for the payment of
taxes — contrasted to a feu' cents of
every revenue dollar paid by govern
ment-subsidized utilities. Moreover,
government supported utilities enjoy
low interest rates for loans at the tax
payer's expense, while private utilities
must pay commercial interest rates.
Public power projects — so long as
they enjoy special privileges which are
denied private citizens — will continue
to pose a threat to the taxpaying, in
vestor-owned industry with which they
“compete.”
bolts mere components of a great,
complicated social machine.
What may become of the machine
itself, built on a structure of man-made
laws that defy natural laws?
It is well to recall the words of John
Locke, who lived in the seventeenth
century: “The end of the law is not to
abolish or restrain, but to preserve and
enlarge freedom.”
The preservation of individual free
dom should remain the highest goal of
human existence.
INDEPENDENCE DAY
JULY 4
TH AT ALL MEN .. .
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Sensing the News
Aware of increasing public concern
about crime in America, the Johnson
administration is pushing hard for en
actment of a safe streets and crime
control bill. As usual, the Great Society
is trying to solve problems of human
behavior with vast expenditures. It
proposes that $1.35 billion be spent on
grant-in-aid programs to the cities of
the nation. These grants would be
used for anti-crime research and im
proving police facilities.
Now it is certainly true that police
facilities need updating. U. S. towns
and cities long have erred in failing
to devote sufficient attention and
funs to police forces. American police
men. in most communities, are poorly
paid. The result is that law enforce
ment is not attractive employment.
The solution to this problem, and it
is developing in well-managed commu
nities, is for the towns and cities them
selves to spend more on police func
tions. Upgrading the police does not
require vast federal outlays. In fact,
one can be sure that if the federal gov
ernment starts financing the local po
lice, then it is only a matter of time be
fore the U. S. has a national police
force. Such a force is not the kind of
tool that should be given to Big Gov
ernment. The FBI, under director J.
Edgar Hoover, has wisely resisted ef
forts to turn the bureau into that kind
of national police agency.
Even if the federal expenditure on
police facilities are justified, the ad
ministration plan is deficient in one
serious area. That is, the governors of
states haven’t any voice in saying how
the federal funds are to be spent.
Republicans on the House Judiciary
Committee have tried to give the gov
ernors an advisory voice in matters af
fecting the states, but the administra
tion backers have resisted this pro
posal.
The GOP representatives are on the
right track, however. Governors, after
all, are the chief magistrates in the
states. They have the ultimate respon
sibility for the public peace. It is
wrong, therefore, for the administra
tion to deny them a voice in planning
for police facilities in the states. More
over, police problems in one commu-
RIVERTOWN (WYOMING*
RANGER — The advance of
knowledge and technology
isn't outdistancing just those
whose jobs are threatened by
it Supposedly educated peo
ple are shocked to find
themselves virtually illiter
ate in many fields because
of the advance of knowledge
MILLINGTON (TEN NJ
STAR — Almost daily the
charge is made that Ameri
cans are losing one more
freedom Freedom of the
press is being dangerously
tampered with — from high
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By Thurman Sensing
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
Southern States Industrial Council
Anti-Crime Measures
GRASSROOTS OPINION
from the nation’s press
places where secrecy is pre
ferred — and where an idea
is created that people are
not smart enough to know
the whole truth. There is
little question that many
freedoms have gone by the
board — such as freedom
from taxation without rep
resentation, which covers
many areas today of federal
spending
STORM LAKE 11OWA । PI
LOT-TRIBUNE — It makes
little dfiference to the U S
Supreme Court how the pub
lic feels about some of the
decisions of recent months
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nity usually have a bearing on police
problems in other communities. Thus
state government has a legitimate con
cern for the overall pattern of law en
forcement in towns and cities.
Thus, at the very least, the admini
stration anti-crime bill should make
allowance for the responsibilities of
the governors. Indeed it would be wise
and proper if the bill were changed so
as to give the governors authority to
veto anti-crime proposals which they
know to be hurtful to the best interests
of law enforcement in their states. The
states shouldn’t be subjected to any
federal guidelines on law enforcement.
Fighting crime, however, can be
done in other ways. Specifically, the
police need to have their authority up
held—authority which has been sharp
ly eroded by decisions of the U. S. Su
preme Court. The federal judiciary is
making it harder and harder for the
police to protect American communi
ties or for prosecutors to prepare an
adequate case.
Recently, however, Sen. John Mc-
Clellan (D-Ark ), chairman of the sub
committee on criminal laws of the Ju
diciary Committee, introduced a much
needed bill, S. 674. This bill provides
that any confessions shall be admitted
in evidence if it is voluntarily given.
Trial judges would determine whether
a confession is truly voluntary in char
acter.
This Senate bill is designed to cor
rect the U. S. Supreme Court decision
in the notorious Miranda case, which
made it virtually impossible to secure
a conviction of self-confessed criminals
in cases where the prosecution must
rely upon voluntary confessions of
guilt. By its act, the Supreme Court
virtually assured the freedom of mur
derers. for example, who killed without
observers and who didn’t leave any
fingerprints or other evidence.
Passage of the McClellan bill and
similar reform measures is the best
way to conduct an anti-crime crusade
in this country. What is needed is a
strengthening of the law, plus greater
local and state police action. Crime
cannot be fought simply by vast expen
diture of dollars from the U. S. Treas
ury.
which are declared to favor
criminals and make their
arrest and conviction more
difficult. The justices are
appointed for life. The voters
haven’t had an opportunity
to cast ballots either for or
against them.
INTERNATIONAL FALLS
(MINN.) JOURNAL—One of
the disturbing facts about
the increase of death toll in
traffic accidents throughout
the country is the fact that
rural deaths are gaining,
while city deaths decline.
This is true in the bigger
states It Indicates that ed
ucation and law enforce
ment are having their effect
in urban centers, but not
widely enough implanted on
country roads, where access
Is unprotected
Thursday — 6
COMMENT
By WOODROW ESPY
D “fe Wepe^fnce W, July 4, 1967. is an ex
cellent chance to show our boys who are fighting and
Sa in Viet Nam that an overwhelming majority of
KmerYcan public is wholeheartedly behind them.
Nothing could make a better show than for
everyone to fly the American Flag on this day.
In the wake of the many instances of flag burn
ings Pete Wheeler, state veterans director, is calling
on all Georgians to fly the American Flag ; a hen
homes and places of business on Tuesday, July 4
Displaying the flag would be a showing of the
unity of the American people on this Independence
Day With a great display of Old Glory in front of
every home and place of business, this Fourth of July
observance could be an unforgettable demonstration
of Americanism, at a time when it is gieatly needed,
the director said.
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Heavy Traffic ... .
The Dial-a-Prayer service is now back in op
eration after being out-of-order for several days for
the third time since its installation, due to the heavy
volume of calls.
Bill Hotchkiss reports that the service is averag
ing about 2,000 calls per week, with a peak of 2,500.
Bill says he is happy to get the number back in
service. A lady approached him several days ago and
asked him if he had “forgotten how to pray.
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Now Part of History ...
The sleepy, college town of Glassboro, in the
heart of the South Jersey farmland, was struggling
back to normalcy this week, but things will probably
never be the same since the historic meeting between
President Johnson and Soviet Premier Kosygin.
“Hollybush,” the 118-year-old fieldstone man
sion of the president of Glassboro State College
where the world leaders met — may someday become
a national shrine. .
An interesting sidelight to the historic meeting
is that this is the town where whisky became known
as “booze.” _
Glassboro was started in 1775 by a German wom
an and her seven sons, who built a glass factory. The
bottles produced by the widow and her family were
filled by a Philadelphia distiller named E. C. Booz.
The bottles later became know as "Booz” bottles
and, eventually, “booze” crept into the American lan
guage as a synonym for whisky.
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Quote of Note . . .
“Still if you will not fight for the right when you
can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not
fight when your victory will be sure and not too cost
ly; you may come to the moment when you will have
to fight with all the odds against you and only a pre
carious chance of survival. There may be even a
worse case. You may have to fight when there is no
hope of victory; because it is better to perish than to
live as slaves.”—Winston Churchill.
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(Minister Speaks'
By DON GRIBBLE
Pastor, Pleasant Grove
Baptist Church
There is a new song out
entitled, "Don’t Blame It On
the Children.” We are seeing
and hearing daily of an in
crease in juveniles being in
volved in immoral acts, un
patriotic deeds, riots, dem
onstrations, and many more
similar things. I have be
come more and more aware
since becoming a minister
that the youth of today are
what they are and do what
they do because of the ex
amples set and the attitudes
held by their parents and
other influential adults.
Most of the responsibility
of bringing that child up in
the right manner remains in
the home with the parents.
No other institution, school^
church, club or activities,
can take the place of the
home and family in this
task.
One of the characters in
the cartoon series “Peanuts"
is named Linus. Linus will
always have his thumb In
his mouth and his baby
blanket in the other hand.
Linus lacks security and
love from normal sources,
therefore, he hangs onto the
best substitute which he
can find. Many parents do
not know how to love and
give their child a sense of
security. Often the mother
and father work outside the
home and try to make up for
their absence by giving the
child things instead of tak
ing time to understand his
more basic needs. Some par
ents feel that if they whip
their child, he will hate
them. The Bible says, "He
that spareth his rod hatetn
his son: but he that loveth
him chasteneth him be
times.” (Prov. 13:24). The
Heavenly Father sets the
example by chastening those
whom He loves. It is the re
sponsibility of the parents
to teach children the proper
use of sex, time, money, and
talents. The home is the
place that they should learn
how to work, play, study and
most of all, about God.
Truly, the responsibility is
too great for parents to han
dle alone. Therefore, they
must rely upon greater re
sources such as God's Word
and Spirit. Let's not blame
the children until we as
adults have done everything
possible to lead them in the
right way.
REMEMBER'#
^^BY THE OLD TIMER '
From Mrs. L. J. Brock, Car
rollton, Georgia: I remember as
a child my wonderful experiences
with my maternal grandfather
who was a doctor in a small
Georgia town. I enjoyed so much
helping him hitch old Cora, our
horse, to the buggy and go with
him on his calls to the sick.
Some lived miles from our home
and he never failed to go because
of bad weather or the prospect
of no fee.
1 have seen him go out on
cold winter nights to make a call
for which he knew he would not
be paid. My mother would heat
a brick and wrap it and put it
under his feet in the buggy.
He received only $5.00 for
delivering a baby and many
times this was not paid. He pre
pared medicine for his patients
for no extra charge.
I remember when a cousin
was hooked through the mouth
by our cow. My grandfather sat
on a chair on the back porch
and sewed his lip without the use
of anesthetic. There were no ill
effects and no sears within a few
years.
I remember how much I
enjoyed holding the lantern as I
went with him to prayer
meetings.
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