Milford chronicle., 1961-10-06
COP IN SOUTH CAROLINA

graves For the first time since Reconstruct
ton days. Republican has been elected to
office in South Carolina. Charles E. Boin
eau a 31-year-old business man with war
record has been elected to the state House
of Representatives, defeating Democrat
and write-in States Rights candidate IN
Richand County.
Republican strength has been growing
in South Carolina, as in the rest of the
South In 1852 General Eisenhower came
within 5000 of the Democratic vote cast for
Adlai E. Stevenson. Yet such exhibitions of
COP strength have been only at the presi-
Dental level Though the COP has carried
several Southern states in the last three
presidential elections, it holds only seven
seats in the House and none in the Senate.
In Southern state legislatures Republicans
make hardly any better showing.
Many SOuthernerS are really Republi-
cans in belief but vote Democratic, partly
through habit and partly because the Re-
publicans were for many years the party
of the Negro. Now the Negroes largely vote
Democratic, but that news does not seem to
have zone very deep in the South. Even so,
the COP is gaining here and there.
ONE FALSE STEP
There is a ong-held fear that World War
Ill might be set off by miscaculation-by
aggressor that could conceivably lead to the
death of civilization we understand it.
That danger was recently stressed by
Lord Home, Britain's Foreign Secretary.
Specifically, he said that Russian false
step in Berlin could easily plunge Europe
into war"
There is a chilling item in the July 81
issue of U. S. News and World Report. Ac-
cording to it, Soviet Ambassador Menshi-
kov said, at a recent diplomatic reception:
"In the final analysis, when the chips are
down, the American people won't fight for
Berlin
That view-whch has been held in
some friendly circles, as we'll as unfriendly
has resulted, in part at least, from the air
of indecision which has hung over Washing
ton. Brave words have not been implement
ed by action. Now, however a change seems
to be taking place. 1t is being made clear
that we will retreat no farther so far as
Berlin is concerned
There can be no doubt that this kind of
resolve motivates the great majority of Am
orleans Let us hope that is understood ev-
erywhere. For that kind of understanding,
in this age of unbelievable weapons offers
the last best hope of avoiding war
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GROWING OLD
Growing old is something which some
times is done graciously. All of us hope
that we will be able to perform this feat
graciOusly.
Of course, in the United States it is
sometimes hard to be around for the pro-
cess With automobiles killing several thou
sand each month, with so many men work
ing themselves up to a heart attack or
stroke, and with other diseases taking their
toll, it is sometimes difficult to make the
grade.
Several who come to mind are Bernard
Baruch, for example, who is 80 years old,
and is still hale and hearty, and seeing the
world and offering advice. He has been adj
vising u. S. presidents for many decades.
Another is Sir Winston Churchill, who
often gets together with Baruch, who is
almost as old as Baruch, and Churchill is
still active, painting, writing or making
speeches and travelling around the world
Still another is Chancellor Konrad Ad-
enauer of Germany, who once said he in
tended to remain as Chancellor until 1862,
even though he is we'll up in his eighties.
In the mad scramble to meet headlines
pay bills, and keep up with the Joneses, we
should more often take the necessary time
to consider the later years, the real values
of life, and the really, important things to
be concentrated on.
If we will do this, and slow down, and
develop a sensible philosophy, might al
so live to be 80 and we might be able to
kick up our heels and go around the world
at 88, and see the sights
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YOU CAN PASS A LAW-BUT!
On September 3-the new and expanded
federal Wage-HOur Law went into effect.
Many millions of workers, mainly in retail
ing, who were not previously covered will
then be included.
Without going into the pros and cons of
the advisablity of this, the new law pro-
vides and demonstrates the costly, time
consuming and confusing complications
which arise when the hand of government
goes deeper and deeper into the peoples
affairs.
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