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Milford chronicle., 1963-12-06
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Church School GAS am.
Morning Worship n:00 am.
Junior Fellowship 500 pm.
Youth Fellowship TOO pm.
The Junior Fellowship met at
TOO pm. tonight at the parson-
age.
The MYF will meet at 500
Sunday for their Dinner Meeting.
Next Sunday the MYF will have
their ub-district meeting at
Magnolia Methodist Church at
TOO pm.
Our Fourth-Quarterly Confer
ance will be held here on Thurs
day January 23rd, at 1880 pm.
Saxton Charge, Bowers Beach.
Worship hour $50 am. Church
school = 1890 am.
Sardis Charge, Thompsonville.
Church school 200 pm. Wor-
ship hour 2:45 pm.
Mrs. Rachel Boone and daugh-
ter Miss Fay Boone, entertained
at family reunion dinner, Sun
day, her children, Mr.. and Mrs.
Laurence Boone and family,
Houston, Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad
Fassel and family, Delmar, Mr..
and Mrs. George Lane and fam
lily, Harrington, Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Boone and family, Smyrna,
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Boone
and family. Dover and John
Bsebe.
Mrs. R. Boone and daughter,
Fay, were Thanksgiving dinner
guests Of her children, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Lane and family,
Harrington.
Mrs. Lulu Wilson was last
weeks guest Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bennett, Wilmington.
Mrs. Lima Flanagan spent last
week with her children, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Flanagan and son,
Mickey. Their dinner guests on
Thanksgiving Day we're their sis
ter and husband, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jimmie Hopkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bennett
were Thanksgiving Day dinner
guests Of their children, Mr.. and
Mrs. Zeks Dill and sons. The
BENEFITS we're Thursday evening
visitors Of Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam Lindale, Milford. The Ben
netts entertained Saturday even
Ing, Mr.. and Mrs. william Dono-
phan Of town and Mr.. and Mrs.
william Lindale Of Milford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Matlack,
Mr.. Jesse Collum and Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Warren were
Thanksgiving Day dinner guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Hires,
Thorofare, N. J.
Mr.. and Mrs. william Seacord
spent the holiday weekend with
their children, Mr.. and Mrs. Bill
Looley and children Renee and
Billy Of Willow Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Dolan
we're Monday morning visitors
OF Mrs. Bessie Clendaniel and
family. Mrs. Clendaniel is on
the sick list.
Mrs. Laura Webb was Thanks-
giving Day dinner guests OF hor
children, Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin
Albeit OF Lynch Heights.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Flana-
gan Jr., and family, enjoyed
their Thanksgiving dinner at
ManshD Church on Thursday.
Mr.. Claude Strom, Washington,
D. G, was a guest two days
this weak with his sister and
husband, Mfr. and Mrs. Henry
Wiled.
Miss Debra Rash, Smyrna
spent Thanksgiving holiday week
end with her grandmother, Mrs.
Milford chronicle., 1963-12-06


Belts and family were Mr.. anc
Mrs. Roy Booker and family,
Norfolk, Va, Wednesday until
Sunday morning. The Thanks
giving dinner guests Of the Belts
family and guests were his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Louder
Belts, her mother, Mrs. Maud
Merrill, her brother and wife,
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob KEELING, their
daughter and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ronnie Jester and daugh-
ter, Tammie, FELTON,. The testers
are spending this week at her
parents with Miss Marsha and
Burton Belts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Linwood Clark
and children, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Moore and children,
Wilmington, were Thursday din
ner guests Of their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Everett Robbins. Mrs.
Robbins went home with her
children for the week end, while
Eddie Clark and Eric Moore
stayed with their grandfather,
Mr.. Robbins, until Saturday
when they joined the boys fam
ilies. Mr.. and Mrs. Robbins re-
turned home Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Webb Sr.,
and daughter and family, Mr..
and Mrs. James H. Morris, Jr.,
and son, Michael Dean, were
Thanksgiving dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Webb Jr. and
family, Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Rice,
Prospect Park, Pa, spent the
weekend with their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Poore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wiled
spent the Holiday weekend with
her sister, Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam Peterman, visiting with her
brother, Mr.. Claude Strom and
nephew, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
man entertained at a family din
ner Thanksgiving Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rawlins Scotton
were Thursday dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. David Hands near
Harrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scotch were
Sunday dinner guests at her sis
ter's Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Reed
and family, Smyrna.
Miss JoAnn Thomas, Miss
Sarah Jane Matlack and Miss
Dee Belts, all spent Thanksgiv-
ing week end In New York. 10
Ann with Mr.. and Mrs. Jack
Thornton and children, New York.
Dee and Sarah Jane were guests
Of Dee's grandparents Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Henderson and daugh-
ter, Miss Doris Henderson,
Flushing, J.. 1, N. Y. The Hen
dersonS and guests were Thanks
giving dinner guests of another
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Tony
Vasko and family, North Port,
L. !. The three girls returned
home together Sunday night.
Mr.. Edward Sharp, Dover, was
Sunday visitor with his mother
Mrs. Evelyn Sharp.
Mr.. and Mrs. GoodeR Warren
and family, Wyoming, were
Thursday dinner guests of their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Zora Tat
man and family.
Thursday guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. L. Rawlins, were their
mother, Mrs. Sallie Williams,
Of town and Mrs. Ruth Hall,
Dover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles +.
Clark, Rochester, N. Y, were
guests from Wednesday until Sun
day, Of their father, Mr.. Arch
Lank. They we're Thanksgiving
guests Of their daughter and sis
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Rowe Plea
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Pearl Rash. Their Sunday dinner
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Nell
son Rash, Harrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Belts
and son Robert, were Sunday
afternoon guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
William T. Wiley, Dover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Belts,
Sr., and son, entertained at a
family dinner Saturday, their
children, Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford
Moore Of Newark, and grand
children, Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry
Soboleski and daughters of
Meriden, Conn.
Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson en-
tertained at dinner on Thanks
giving Day, Mr.. and Mrs. Gene
Stayton and son John, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Holleger and Miss
Mildred Coverdale.
Mrs. Claude Fisher, Mrs. VIII
liam Thomas and Miss Polly
Webb we're Friday shoppers at
Cherry Hill, N. j.
Mrs. Ellen Belts and grand
daughter Ruthie Trfbbitt were
Saturday dinner guests of her
daughter and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Hemphill and
children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Langrell,
Wayne, N. j., were Thur sday and
Friday guests of his mother and
husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Donovan. The Donovans were
Sunday guests Of Mrs. Nora
Argo, Milton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Cham
bers and family, Baltimore, Md,
we're Thur sday dinner guests Of
his mother and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Green and daugh-
ter and Mr.. and Mrs. Haley.
The Green's Sunday guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Miller
and Mrs. KnottS, all of Phila.
Thursday afternoon, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Bishop we're
visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Hubbard, Goldsboro, Md. Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Hubbard, Dover,
we're Sunday guests OF the Bish-
ops.
DR.. and Mrs. Homer T. Hop
kinS and daughter Miss Becky
Hopkins, Beltsville, Md, spent
Thursday with their mother,
Mrs. Lillian Hopkins. They all
enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner at
the Manship Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Belts
we're Thursday evening visitors
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Flanagan
Jr., and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Ellis
and children we're Thur sday din
ner guests OF her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Finley Mcfarland,
Henderson, Md.
The W.S.C.S. Of Trinity Church
held their Christmas Party meet
Ing on Tuesday. The members
exchanged gifts. An enjoyable
evening was had by all.
Mrs. Avis Farley, Primary
Class teacher at Trinity, will
take the children In her class
to see the pictures at the MIL
ford Theater, Milford, Decem-
ber Ia.
THE Ladies Auxiliary and
Ftremen Of Frederick, attended
the morning worship service at
Trinity Methodist Church, In
body on December l.
Mrs. Elsie Fisher, entertain
ed at a family dinner Thanks
giving Day, Mr.. and Mrs. G. H.
Nashold and sons and Miss
Lillian Fisher, Town, and Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Fisher and fam
lily, FELTON,.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Belts are
vacationing this week In Miami,
Florida. Leaving Sunday.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1963-08-01

On the same day that the Uni
ted States Supreme Court outlaw
ed prayers and ceremonial read
ing of the Bible in public school
programs, the Court handed down
another decision on religion,
which ought not to be overlooked
or neglected.
In the prayer decision, the
Court broadened and strengthen
ed that part of the First Amend
ment fOrbedding government
establishing" of religion. In the
other decision-the one given less
public attention-the Court broad
ened and strengthened that part
of the amendment which forbids
government interference with the
free exercise" of religion.
The free exercise" case involv-
ed a woman in South Carolina
who was denied unemployment
benefits by the state on the
ground that she refused to accept
"suitabe work" when it was Of
fered to her.
The rejected jobs required work
on Saturday, day regarded as
the Sabbath by the Seventh-day
Adventist Church and day on
which members of the church are
prohibited from working. The
woman in the case was a member
of that church.
The Supreme Court found that
the policy of the state forced the
woman Ito choose between follow
ing the precepts of her religitn
and forteiting benefits, on the one
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1963-08-01
All ShouId-WeII, Some Will Be Interested In
THE DECLINE OF LIBERALISM

Liberalism and rugged individ-
ualism were originally synony-
nous but, somewhere along the
line, they parted company and are
now regarded as the antithesis of
each other Everyone in the Uni
ted States-except Barry Gold
water-fancies himself a liberal
and one of the main intellectual
pursuits of our time is dreaming
up new definitions for Liberalism.
Permit us to air our views.
Liberalism is a good word. 1t
stems from the same root as liber-
ty. Liberal, as an adjective, means
free from narrowness and pre-
judice"; as a noun, it means lone
who advocates maximum of in
dividual freedom" Unfortunately
liberalism has veered away from
these concepts toward paternal-
ism, RECOMMENDATION and confisca-
tory taxes.
Political opportunists, masquer-
aiding as liberals, have copied
Robin Hood and Jesse James who,
legend has it, robbed the rich and
gave to the poor These great lib
erals were also strong believers in
the redistribution of wealth. Luck
lily, there are many genuine liber-
ais holding public office today al
though, generally speaking, they
are not the ones making the most
noise.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1963-08-01

Perhaps we can ask a few basic
questions to help identify false or
non-liberal liberals: Cd When
person claims to have all the
answers, and the only answers, is
he liberal? ca When a person
StirS up strife and hatred among
his fellow men, is he a liberal?
90 When a person engenders false
opers or false fears a ong
those incapable of discernment, is
he a liberal? "a When a person
uses his position to obtain special
privileges for himself and his
friends, is he liberal? 60 When
an entrenched political machine
appropriates the money of one
group to buy the votes of another
group, is that liberalism?
A true liberal, of course, does
not attempt to right wrongs by
perpetuating other wrongs. He be-
lieves in Give and let live" and
the Golden Rule. He seeks justice
for all knowing tn a t human
rights and property rights are i'd
entical. He respects the opinions
and beliefs of others, no matter
how different from his own. In the
words of Americas greatest liberal
he harbOrs malice toward none
and is sincerely charitable to all.
In short, real liberal is a real
fine PRESENTATIONS Progress.
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We Also Believe The
COURT SPOKE TWICE ON RELIGION

hand, and abandoning one of the
precepts of her religion to accept
work, on the other hand"
Governmental imposition of
such a CHOICE" the Court said,
puts the same kind of burden upon
the free exercise of religion as
would fine imposed against APP
pellant for her Saturday worship"
The burden on the free exercise
of religion, the court said, is not
justified in this case by any
compelling state interest"
The Court shows no less zeal in
this case in preventing govern
ment from burdening the exercise
of religion than it does in the
prayer case in preventing govern
ment from espousing religi on
through officially promulgated
prayers and Bible reading in the
public schools.
Under the First Amendment, the
Court says, the government is
obliged to protect religious rights
without fostering state religion;
the "free exercise" of rtligion must
be respected, even as the "estab-
lishment'' of religion is to be
avoided.
Considered together, as it was
obviously intended that t h y
should be, these decisions give an
impression of Court much more
understanding of, and even favor
ably disposed toward, Americas
religious tradition than some of it's
critics would credit it with being.
Denver Post.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1963-08-01

littlers who sit in the seats of the
scOrners. They themselves would
never get into the market place
or into the arena. They have no
stomach for the patient drudgery
and the unglamorous Flooding and
grubbing which public service SO
often entails.
But how quick they are, with
their criticism! Do you recognize
these Monday-morning quarter
backs, these artists in denigration,
who dip their pens in gall and
shave with their tongues? They
are never within earshOt when
volunteers are called up for vital
community tasks. But they are
everywhere available when the
opportunity opens to drive barbed
shafts into the motives of those
who never spare themselves in the
community interest.
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The Harm Thot Good Men Do
SOULS OF CHALK

public service, we get the fantas-
tically mept kind of leadership
that has become SO common? We
listen to their banalities; we shud-
der at their antics. And we ask,
How did they ever get there?"
In truth did they are there because
they have had the stamina which
the more sensitive have lacked.
But the oversensitive resign and
leave the field to the men whom
they despise. And we get the sur
vival of the unfitteSt.
Monday Morning OBS
There is time for but one other
category. This is the group of be-
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THE Shine BOY HAS THE DREAM

regiOnaliSm and SectiOnaliSm and
the growth of prejudice through
out the nation. This was nicely
summed up In a letter from a
Minister of God addressed to
Ralph (Rastus) McGill" recently
The minister said: II am Mis-
sissippian first, SOutherner sec
ond, an American third" Pre-
sumably, he was Christian
fourth. To borrow phrase from
P. D. East, this Christian is ass
backwards in his values.
At the conclusion of Black Like
Me, fearing intergroup violence, ]
wrote: IF some spark does set
the keg afire, it will be sense
less tragedy of ignorant against
ignorant "a holocaust that will
drag down the innocent and right
thinking masses of human beings
Then we will all pay for not hav-
ing cried justice long ago" / wish
I could say that fear is now OBJ
solete. No, the danger of racial
holocaust is greater now than it
was then. The true issues are
evaded in newspapers and other
mass communications m a.
States still seriously claim that
they have the right to do wrong.
There is still a vast confusion in
the public's mind about the con-
tradistinction between inalienab1e
rights and human positive law.
Few realize that our problem is
not one of race, but of racism;
anti and that this
problem affects every American
regardless of fermentation.
How can the necessary commu-
nication, the dialogue, be estab-
lished? Can it ever be established
as long as truths offend tn e
whites? The Negroes? How can
these two blocks of humanity keep
from crashing into one another?
I have pondered this until I
dream of it at night In one of the
dreams I drew up a 265 point pro-
gram. AS I finished tipping it, a
delegation of men from the xxx
and the White Citizens Councils
along with one distinguished wO-
man from venerable-li lineage So
ciety called on me. We discussed
humanity and justice. The woman
finally spat out in distaste: But
they breed just like animals" In
my dream I answered: "And just
how do you breed, MADAME" Then
l presented my 265 point program.
They were indignant A well in
formed southern governor said:
1.-TWO hundred and tx y- fiv e
points! Who do you think you
are? Why, Son, even God handed
down only ten commandments,
and the great Bill of Rights only
contained ten points" And in my
dream, I told him, eff you'll live
by either or both, I'll throw away
my two hundred and sixty-five."
(The Texas Observer)
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1963-08-01

should be overwhelmingly grate-
full to us for it and bide their time
while we good whites" think OF
something else to help them, some
new ingredient for the soup.
James Baldwin admirably ex-.
pressed the Negroes growing dis
gust when he remarked, "AI OF
Africa's going to be free before we
can get lousy cup of coffee"
Or again, consider the difficulty OF
establishing any kind of rapport
between Negroes and whites on a
local level when a Negro tells a
white as Baldwin did recently that
a white man should not ask, do
you want your daughter to marry
a Negro?" A white man, Baldwin
says, should specify. that he means
daughters he has had by his white
wife, Because, Gentlemen, we've
been marrying your daughters for
generations.
Another point of misunder-
standing that encounter more
and more frequently is a good
whites" bewilderment that when
he smiles and acts "brotherly,"
Negro does not fall on his shout
ders grateful to have Great
White Buddy. In many Negroes
experience, white man who is
Immediately and overly friendly
usually wants something-for a
Negro to share his wife or his girl
friend or to get him date with
a Negro woman. Even worse, Ne
groes are offended to see that they
are being loved because of their
pigment a racial discrimination as
offensive as any other.
There is a SOLDERING schism now
in Negro leadership. Young Ne
groes are revolving against the
established leadership. Two years
ago. the Black Muslin movement
could make no Roadway in the
South, because southern Negroes
still had some illusions. Today,
the advocates of non-viOlent re-
sistance are losing ground to the
black racists. This can be attrib-
uted to one cause-Negroes' loss
of hope that white men will ever
throw off the chains OF raclsm;
that they will ever do the right
thing. A year ago, on national
radio program, I condemned the
Black Muslin movement as an
evil that perpetrated the very
racism from which the Negro in
America has suffered so terribly.
This year, with the rapid growth
of such hate-movements all over
the u. S., the same holds true; but
we must look to causes, frankly
face the TACT that We are drlVlnS
many Negroes to desperation, and
admit that they resisted a long,
long time before they decided to
withdraw from further participa-
ton in the American Dream.
This withdrawal is not yet
stampede, but it is one of the large
lines of the movement, one that
we are doing little to help correct.
We are still telling Negroes that
they must learn" their rights. This
makes no sense when they see
that PhD.'s are denied, because
of augmentation, rights that we
unhesitatingly accord even the
most degraded white. We are still
talking about Americanism and
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1963-08-01


Of Brandeis University, who
spoke at the First Unitarian
Church in st. Louis.)
The longer I go on in public
service, the firmer becomes my
conviction that we must focus
some very heavy artillery on the
so-called good people of every
community - the indifferent, the
slothful, the oversensitive, the
cynical, the tired liberals, the
refugees from responsibility.
Some years ago, Bertrand Russ
sell wrote a provocative essay
which he titled "The Harm That
Good Men Do" He was not pri-
marily concerned with the patent
scoundrels and takers. Russell was
more troubled by the respectable
elements, the pillars of society,
the smugly righteous who would
be outraged if they were bracketed
with the anti-social elements. Yet
it is these who wear out the pa
tience and the courage and the
vision of those who, with great
dedication, devote themselves TO
the service of their community.
The first are the good people
whom Walt Whitman once excori-
ated as men with "hearts of rags
and souls of chalk" They find the
world beyond repair and wish to
retire to their ivory towers. They
believe that we are now so over
Whelmed by forces which we cam
not control-vast impersonal eco
nomic, political and military forces
that there is no point in trying
to fight back.
Understandable Nostalgia
What is the good of study,
where is there any relevance in
application to history Or phllCso-
ply, the humanities Or the Gre
alive arts, when tomorrow you are
to be siphoned out to devote the
best young years of life to the
sterility of militarism? Paul VAL
cry has summarized the mood in
a memorable phrase. He said, "The
trouble with our times is that the
future is not what it used to be-"
There is a second, much more
numerous company. This group,
not at all cynical or defeatist, is
just unwilling to be tempted into
any kind of aggravation.. These
are the people who above all seek
peace of mind. This quest, which
normally is worthy and whole
some, has become an overwhelm-
ing fetish.
Too many of us look back nos
talgically to our earlier history
when we did not have to worry
about billions in taxation in order
to buttress the lettering struc-
lures of European societies; when
we could forget for the moment
who would be the new prime min
lister of France or what the out
come was likely to be in an
Italian election. This is an under
standable nostalgia. But we can
not forget that America now has
attained primacy in the world.
When one of our statemen drops
an indiscreet statement, as he
usually does, the chancellries OF
the world react at once, for every
public utterance in America has
an impact everywhere.
Resent Aggravations
OF course our isOlatiOns holds
fast to our primacy. They are
proud the map of the world has
been colored American in such a
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