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ROSCOE DRUMMOND The World The Richest Man In Nixon Repairing SATURDAY MORNING MAY 24 1969 The Chief Justice Appointee be that great It Copyright 1969 les Angeles Times Syndicate DAVID LAWRENCE Kennedy Off and Running individual or Nomination in 1972 nominees''1 Plush along LETTERS TO THE EDITOR scr To I he editor: To the editor: use your paper encouraging in support of in Charleston President faces responsibilities court able men the court generation or that reason a few more awesome than to place on the to the prestige take as long as of a com badly Guardsmen Employers Thanked Weekly Months 1 Year doubt that Mr Nixon will Mr Kort as a dearly superior DISTRIBUTORS OR IN NEWSPAPERBOYS for aggrieved Senate liberals brother stubbed his toe so the of no his his have un But the Thomas Simmons Captain MPC Commanding your deep concern mallei' and 1 hope Administration will hour will not be the day we land on the moon but the day education is left to the states and law enforcement officers are unshackled was elected in 1964 he obtained the highest vote of any Democratic candidate for the Senate in that state in a long time In order for Senator Kennedy to get the Presidential nomina tion there would have to be a feeling among the delegates that he had a good chance of winning the Presidency and he would have to count on a united party after he was nominated These men were confronted with trying circumstances rom the time we left lorence on Monday morning until we returned the next Monday night every man was given either on duty or catching what little nominees to the court as though it fault On Saturday May 4 1969 the 132d Military Police Com pany of the South Carolina Army National Guard home station in lorence was alerted for state duty civil authorities South Carolina As this letter is being typed American a a arc orbiting the moon for the se cond time We as a nation have made tremendous scientific ad vances in the last decade Our remarkable success in the space race can be attributed to the effectiveness of the Public School System and other educa tional institutions in this coun try America is still a young nation and has set a fine example to the rest of the world in education Good educational op portunities is a must before developing nations can become self supporting Campus unrest and subversive elements which have crept into our student bodies and faculty are threatening to destroy the progress made in education in this country Unless something is done immediately great harm is going to be done to the minds and bodies of the fine young people in this nation If we are going to preserve a great nation for our children and grandchildren we must lift our voices as one man and demand that we be allowed to run our own schools without outside interference Our finest During his campaign for the Presidency Mr Nixon promised to appointments to the Supreme Court whose constitutional viewsare closer to the letter of the Constitution than have been some ofthe opinions handed down by thecourt in recent years In the appointment of Warren Ear Burger as Chief Justice to succeed Earl Warren upon his retirement he has apparently made good on that promise While no one can judge the performance of a justice in advance of performance itself what is known of the Chief Justice appointee suggests that he will be less inclined to liberalize on the Constitution than have some present members of the court If subsequent Nixon ap pointees and there may be several hold similar constitutional views the court should now be entering upon a period in which opinions will be more judicial than legislative in character and consequence The care and objectivity with which the President has approached court appointments reflects his own sense of history concerning the role of the judiciary and its effect on national life As stated in his appointment announcement the long time con sequences of Supreme Court decisions on the life of all Americans gives the court an eminence superior to the Presidency Presidents come and go but major court decisions remain to become a permanent part of the national structure A dairyman in Vidalia (la who has a herd of 400 hoistcin cows has installed carpeting throughout his barns in all milking slanchions feeding stalls alleyways and en trances SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL IN UhtlWtN DEPENDENT But before disastrous educational fragmentation can be finally remov ed a great deal more public educa tion in how a true system of higher education can serve the best inter ests of the state may be necessary In the meantime the Pee very obvious higher education deficiency should not awaiting the educate the go uncorreclcd while success of an effort to public so vulnerable very of just one justice throughout is carrying this tentment business a bit far To the editor: I have received hundreds of telegrams and letters from the people of lorence County con cerning the proposals made by the Department of Health Education and Welfare for your school system Because of the huge volume of mail I have received I have not found it practical Io answer each letter as I would like to therefore I am taking the liberty of acknowledging in this way I want all to know that I have repeatedly impressed upon both the President a Secretary inch that the policy currently being pursued will have disastrous consequences in 1 he public schools of South Carolina I have forwarded all the telegrams and letters I have received to the White House in hopes that the Administration will be further impressed by the widespread opposition to the dangerous and impractical pro posals which have been ad vanced I share about this that this adopt a policy in line with the President's position during the campaign which was that freedom of choice i subterfuge to maintain segrega tion is an acceptable policy Please be assured that 1 am doing everything I can to see that the totally unreasonable demands of the Department of HEW are hanged Strom Thurmond Washington Should the sins of Mr ortas anointing the Master's feet with costly perfume It was no coin cident that Judas was treasurer of band disciples and it was also coincident that in the end greed caused him to betray Lord for thirty pieces of silver If your husband is thoughtless and selfish even though he pro fesses to be a Christian that is wrong But if you are magni fying these things in your mind and would rather he would spend the time and money that belongs to the church on you then you are the one in the wrong Only you are in a posi tion Io judge has been our view all that the state needs to strengthen the universities create a system of two year community colleges build four yea colleges as needed under a statewide system and fully develop a post high school technical and voca tional educational program state missed the boat a few years ago when a community college plan worked out by a study com niittec was scrapped It missed another one this year More chaos in higher education is the prospect unless someone comes up with an unexpected rescue plan" An attempted rescue is apparent in a reported amendment by the Senate inance Committee to the general appropriations bill which would revive the college board bill to include three four ycar colleges nominees THE KENNEDY AMI LY of course has ample financial resources for political cam paigns and has been successful in gaining the support of many local organizations primarily in the cities throughout the country w'here the Democrats are in control Senator Edward Kennedy comes up for re elec tion in Massachusetts for his present seat in 1970 When he lorence Jlnrnirr fHnrnhtg 3miij5 South Irby St 29501 Member of The Associated Press Audit Bureau of Circulation and Southern Newspapers Publishers The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for publication of all the local news In this newspaper The lorence Morning News desires to be notified promptly of errors in any of Its reports All newspapers and Independent distributors are independent contractors and the lorence Morning News will not be responsible for advance payments unless made at the office of the lorence Morning News ortas Damage WASHINGTON President Nixon is showing himself acutely aware of the need to repair just as rapidly as possible and just as fully as possible the grievous damage which the ortas affair is doing to the moral authority of the Supreme Court The quality of his appointments will do more than anything else to accomplish this This is why the President announced ahead of the planned retirement of the Chief Justice next month that one man of integrity Justice Earl Warren will be replaced by another man of integrity with mature judicial experience Judge Warren Burger of the Circuit Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Mr Nixon has begun the process of restoration none too soon He has begun it well The need now is to ceose rehashing the past Mr ortas helped by resigning speedily and now the politicians ought to quit trying to make political capital out of his grave and insensitive offense There are some including judges and lawyers who believe that the damage is so great that it might to rectify it The damage may not take that long to dissolve it But the Mr I ortas has done to the court than what he has done to himself fully committed to the meaning in tent and function of the Constitution Happily Mr Nixon has ruled out friendship and politics as con siderations in appointments While neither need be disregarded when they do not supersede basic re quirements for cither to be decisive is to betray public trust and make a mockery of the court itself The apparent cronyism associated with former President ap pointment of Abe ortas as a justice and his subsequent ill fated attempt to elevate him to the chief justiceship further undermined confidence in the Johnson Administration and rendered the court suspect Mr Nixon acted wisely in tnrnin to the lower judiciary in search of a Chief Justice There may be in stances in which judicial experience is not a prime requisite but certainly such experience contributes to public confidence in the thoroughness and fairness of court decisions Big Drawback one existing and two proposed at lorence and Charleston Mr Burger has the earmarks of a person well qualified to be Chief Justice Not the least of these is a distinguished appearance He looks more like a Chief Justice than any man since Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes He has Jong ex perience as a sitting judge His record marks him as one neither archly conservative nor radically liberal If this is born out in performance the court will be less inclined to far out decisions than in recent years and American jurisprudence will begin again to reflect that much needed balance written into the Constitution may not harm winch is far more important sleep he could No one was given' a minute off for en tertainment They were sub jected to some physical abuse much verbal abuse and most of all hard work They were subject to duty for many long hours without a break or rest however their performance was superb The most amazing thing to me was the fact that not one of these men complained about anything even when they were near physical exhaustion Again many thanks to the employers of the men of this unit the only position in mountainous areas which has been attacked by American forces paratroops who took the hill found communication wires and other evidence that it was a major headquarters for the North Vietnamese and was link ed lo Laos and to Communist positions in South Vietnam UNDOUBTEDLY Mr Ken nedy is well aware that the comments he has made are bound lo be popular with an tiwar segments of the electorate and that he might thereby at tract votes from both parties But history reveals that this type of campaign can backfire Many voters who are unin formed may be enthusiastic about such a program But tho who are familiar with what happened prior lo World War I and World War II will wonder whether this kind of isolationism would nut eventually drag the United States into World War HL Politically speaking anvbody who starts out early in a contest for the Presidential nomination runs the risk of antagonizing other members of hiy own par ly some of whom at present are in favor of Senator McCarthy or Senator Muskie or former Nice President Humphrey In Hie presidential primaries that preceded the last election there were plenty of Democrats who did not vote for Senator Robert Kennedy of New York because of his delay in entering Hie race It seems plausible that his brother the Massachusetts senator has taken into account the necesity for getting a start ahead of all other possible would have cost more American lives than we lost on the lull" got its nickname as officers said because chews people up like II has been a vital of offensive WASHINGTON Senator Edward Kennedy has alrea dy begun his campaign to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 Many Dem ocrats as well as Republicans however think he is making a mistake by some of the criticism he is directing against the Nixon Administration Within the last few days the Massachusetts senator has open ly questioned tlie tactics of Hie American military chiefs in Hie midst of a war He spoke for instance of the Hie full scale near the Lao tian border and challenged President Nixon lo issue new orders to his field commanders lo cut back offensives of that kind He said that such opera tions are meaningless and that it is sc I cs and to continue them 'the commanders in Saigon are amazed at this One ofthem said: we had wauled to let Hie enemy stay on the hill then we would have had to call off the entire operation And that would have invited the enemy to stockpile supplies for new ragmentation a ragmentation is the chief thing wrong with higher education in South Carolina today in the opinion of the Greenville News Reacting to defeat in the House Education and Public Works Committee of the bill which would have created an omnibus college board the News says in part: universities arc fragmented There is no rational statewide plan for orderly development of munity colleges which arc needed Jlnrme Minting Nms Published by The lorence Printing Company John James A Rogers President and Publisher Editor I would like to to express my personal ap preciation to all the employers ho so graciously released their employees for this duty 1 am sure that there was some in convenience caused to an employer for every man who left lorence yet I heard no complaints or this I thank them New Note of Sternness Noted We note a new sternness in Hie recent public statements of figures who have sought support among the young and dispossessed The two Democratic leaders who headed their ticket last fall Hubert Humphrey and Edmund 8 Muskie have spoken out decisively against the threat of intemperate tactics to compel institutional change Evett Theodore Sorenson adviser to the Kcnnedys and obviously sympathetic toward urban young demands in voked the late Sen Robert words condemning that was in the name of the as well as violence in defiance of 1hc Indeed these men could not have spoken otherwise in discuss ing todays disturbing trends in the tactics of change Repetitious though it may be the case against resort to violence and ascist tactics must continue to be It seems lie decided to carpet his cow quarters about a year ago after one of his prize hoist eins slipped on wet concrete and broke her hip while chocking in for a milking session carpeting was selected As a result according to a news release the cows well adjusted cue confident and productive Keeping Bossy contented is thing But carpeting her quarters con Doily Dail Sunoay Sundry35 15 50 900 300 13 1800 7 80 2600 pushed In Berkeley the Students for a Democratic Society have been carrying on for a month a hate and harassment campaign against a faculty member who published a con troversial study on race and in telligence The campaign an uglv personal affront as well as an attack the not WHY IS the Supreme Court vulnerable that the misconduct forcing him to resign one out of the 100 justices who have served in the whole history of the court some to fear for its future? a reason Because the court has done more than cither the President or Congress to change the face of the nation during the past decade and a half the court is quite properly the target of earnest nationwide controversy We doubt that any series of actions has done so much to affect the shape of American society as the sequence of major decisions the court has made since 1954 public school desegregation one man one vote expanding protection lor the rights of the in connection with the police These are monumental decisions and they derstandably evoked monumental controversy controversy has for the most part concerned the merits of the decisions not the merits of the court The ortas affair puts a sledge hammer in the hands of those who want to denigrate the court as a means of undermining public acceptance of its decisions There is another reason why any impairing of the' court hurts the nation at this particular time The violent minded tend to win recruits to violence by attacking the Establishment as so that it has to be destroyed It corrupt to any such degree but there can be little doubt that the ortas matter adds relished ammunition to the armory of the radicals on academic freedom has justification Obviously venomoiisness of such tactics has yet been ell enough exposed There are however The grow ing articulateness of moderates and liberals despite the fatigue of endless committee hours is having its effect on the campus At Harvard tlie SDS unit has voted down another office seizure like the one that provoked a police bash a month ago But the battle for a legitimate process of change must go on The Christian Scicncc Monitor THERE IS no reason why Senate liberals should leel frustrated and let down by this sad affair Mr rotas did not do what he did because he is a liberal he did it because he is Abe ortas But some libei ais promise a savage for any Nixon were the President's lie visited on Mr NLxon Or on the court? Or on upcoming nominees''1 Is such a course calculated lo rehabilitate the court? will it enhance public confidence in the system of justice now under assault? It won't It Is a time for some quiet and calm' lhe President in line with his let's lowcr our voiccs mood set the right standard when he summoned Republican congressional leaders to the White House and successfully imposed sober silence and ended the screams for ini pcaciimeni nis is no time to take a decision: I'm going to tri) There is no reason to name as a replacement for and distinguished man This is crucial if the public faith is f(1 be restored in a Supreme Court which: will be free ol scandals and free of the suspicion ot scandal Billy Graham Answers My husband even though ac tive in the eh is very thoughtless of his family seifish with his income and possessions How can he claim to he a Christian? Of course no Christian should be thoughtless of his family or selfish with his possessions The Bible says that pro videth not for his family is worse than an But not having heard his side of the story may I ask you if you are jealous of the time tie spends in church work and envious of the money he gives lo Hie Lord's work? Hemember there was a man by the name of Judas who objected to Mary Thurmond Responds to Messages Return School System To The States Awake! People our sleeping is costing our children dearly Lawrence Bell lorence A I In rvl.