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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1942
Legislature Deserves Some Praise For
What It Did Not Do!
BY SPECTATOR
Governor Harley died last week.
I had not seen him since one day
about three years ago when I drop
per in at his home in Barnwell. He
was in bed, but we talked about mat
ters before the Senate, of which he
was the President. During the con
versation I asked who would appoint
the Free Conference Committee on
the Appropriation bill. He replied, as
I well remember, “I am going to Co
lumbia Tuesday to tell the Senate
that Senator Stukes should make the
appointments. I think it’s only fair,
since he has presided most of fhe
time.”
I have had three friends in Barn
well whom I usually swapped the
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time of day with; Mr. Harley was
one of them. In the days of the
crusading tax-leaguers, Mr. Harley
was one of us and we did not forget
it. He always was a quiet, safe,
sound man in whatever office he held.
Much has been said about the
Barnwell ring; and when Mr. Harley
presided over the Senate men some
times talked of a ring of Barnwell,
including Mr. Harley. I have writ
ten several times about the consid
eration of the Barnwell leaders for
one another, which makes for har
mony and effective cooperation in
their public work. Mr. Harley, how
ever, was usually outside of this for
he did not serve as a Representative
of Barnwell, but of the State. He
took that very seriously, as he did
all his obligations. He was like an
old time statesman.
Recently, the Governor vetoed an
Act though all the Barnwell delega
tion favored it. He thought it might
prove unwise. His public statement
assuming the responsibility for an
increased salary was thoroughly
typical of him; he didn’t dodge res
ponsibility or try to evade an issue.
During his brief service as Gover
nor Mr. Harley impressed our people
as level-headed, sober-minded and
sound. He had all the old-time vir
tues: he was of strict integrity both
personally and politically. That of it
self is rare, for many men who are
honorable and trustwothy in private
life are so shifty and grasping in
public life as to seem two different
men. Mr. Harley was a patriot of
the old school; not a flag-waver nor
a drum-beater, nor yet the type of
orator who makes the eagle soar and
scream in tpublic discourse, while
really striving only for effect, recog
nition or reward.
Governor Harley was not a man of
the showy or flashy type; he was
studious and refleative. Whatever
came before him commanded his
careful attention. Just as he an
nounced, upon assuming the presi
dency of the Senate, that he would
not sign bob-tailed bills, so he gave
to each problem, as it arose, the con
sideration he thought it merited.
Many of us have lost a friend, but
our State has lost a high-minded son
who gave his best to her service and,
finally, died in her service.
The Budget^ Commission has broad
powers. It never used its preroga
tives, even when by so doing it
might have averted a deficit of two
million dollars. But the power to
reduce any or all appropriations is
vested in thh Budget Commission by
statute. It is re-enacted every year
in the General Appropriation Act
and is a broad grant of power, un
less we regard it as a solemn farce
for the purpose of hoodwinking the
BEER BENEFITS THE
NON DRINKER, TOO!
BEER TAXES
SWELL TREASURY f / { r
RECEIPTS, AND /. fV/
REDUCE THE COSTS
OF GOVERNMENT
TO ALL OTHER
SOUTH CAROLINA
TAXPAYERS... BY
% 1,668,000 A YEAR
WAGES-INSTEAD OF THE
COST OF KEEPING
THOUSANDS ON RELIEF!
How does beer help the non-drinker?
The answer’s easy:
j Taxes on beer — $1,668,000 a year in
: South Carolina alone, a million dollars
1 a day nation-wide — reach back into
every community.
| These taxes in South Carolina help
support the School Aid Fund. They
! help pay costs of government in the
cities of 46 counties. Over the nation,
they help pay for public works, fam
ily relief, education ... and to lift a
burden that would otherwise rest
directly on every individual taxpayer
in the country.
Local merchants know that legal beer
has provided 3,500 honest jobs in
South Carolina, with an annual pay
roll of $3,500,000. This money is spent
for food, clothing, homes . . . right in
this State . .. and thus beer makes all
good business better!
These are benefits which every public-
minded citizen knows are worth pre
serving. The South Carolina beer in
dustry pledges its cooperation in
keepirfk the places that sell beer as
wholesome as beer itself.
HOW YOU CAN HELP 'X,
Patronize only legal and reputable
places selling beer; they’re the great
majority. Report others to responsible
enforcement authorities.
SOUTH CAROLINA
BEER WHOLESALERS
citizens of the State. The commis
sion is also empowered to survey the
State Government in order to propose
reorganization, prevent duplication,
multiplication and all that. It ii a
very wise grant of power, but a sort
of lackadaisical power over all State
operations is that of the Budget Com
mission. Through it, the Governor
and his two associates, really can
effectively participate in all the
functions of the State government
and all its institutions.
Within recent years the Legisla
ture has usurped most of the power
of the Supreme Executixe Authori
ty, as the constitution calls the
Governor, but it is due largely to
the acquiescence of the Governors in
an unsound procedure. While our
State Constitution shows a strange
confusion of purpose, almost appear
ing to be the work of two or three
groups at cross-purposes, there is
enough authority vested in the Gov
ernor to make him a real factor in
the Government of the State. Of
course, if the Governor asserts his
Constitutional prerogative he will
clash with the Legislature; and, un
fortunately, the courts may feel
closer to the Legislature than to the
Governor. But public opinion might
become the determining factor, since
the public looks with much disfavor
on many of the practices of the law
makers, particularly in such matters
as extra pay, extra mileage, and
equally, because of the election by
the Legislature of its members to
all the positions, from judgeships
down. And there is a growing and
deep resentment because the resolu
tion to ratify the people’s will and
mandate for biennial sessions has
merely been played with and shunt
ed about, as though the people’s voice
in three solemn elections were of no
importance whatsoever. There will
be questions about Punitive Dam
ages. It is hardly likely that the
people of this State, business and
labor uniting for restriction of Puni
tive Damages, will just sit down with
folded hands and do nothing. The
Legislature has done nothing; its
members, for the most part, have
even declined to express themselves.
Well, after all that has been said
and witten about Punitive Damages;
and after the demonstration in the
House by a thousand citizens of the
State, it is a safe guess that every
candidate will meet that question in
his race next summer. His own
constituents may want an explana
tion, for this issue has been raised in
every county.
A man snid to me last week: ‘‘Well
the Legislature hasn’t done anything,
after ail.” I think my friend a bit
unfair to the legislators and I told
him so. Of course, if you judge a
Legislature or a Congress by the
standards of a Board of Directos
you will not think highly of our
method of dispatching public busi
ness. It may be said that all that
has been accomplished so far might
have been done in three or four
meetings of directors, if the details
had been threshed out in Committee,
as was done for the House and Sen
ate. In Directors’ meetings oratory
is not encouraged, or even permitted;
nor are the affairs of the corporation
regarded as a sort of game. So we
need not expect a legislative body
to get down to brass tacks like a
business group. But a legislature
may do its most useful service some
times by doing nothing. Legislatures
are like people; some people are al
ways in a FIDGIT, runnng about in
circles, constantly doing something.
Frequently they would be more
useful if they were not so active. It
is true of the Legislature, likewise.
A hundred pestiferous bills might
have been introduced which were not
introduced; and a number of bills
were introduced which have been
put to sleep in Committee. So the
Legislature deserves some praise for
what it did not do. Of course, it is
true that some good matters have
been put to sleep. We still are not
allowed credit on our income taxes
for the income taxes paid to the Fed-
eral Government; nor are we allowed
to deduct our gasoline taxes; nor has
anything really been done about bien
nial session or punitive damages. In
holding down undesirable le'' slation
we have also been denied some very
desirable measures.
A distinguished member of the
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General Assembly tells with lamen
tation that among the numerous
employees in the service of the Se
nate are several young men whose
chief business it is to move about in
the lobby and say to tie grave and
dignified conscript fathers “ Won’t
you please come in to the Senate
Chamber”? Well, if the young men
are successful I hope the matters I
have referred to may recieve a little
attention.
If the plan of making a deep
bow and in courtly manner soliciting
the presence of a Senator should
prove efficacious I hope it will be
tried by the House. As an experi
ment it might be tried out on the
Judiciary Committee, whose hard
working Chairman so seldom can
count a quorum present for the public
business.
WE HAVE A NEW GOVERNOR
—RICHARD MANNING JEFFRIES.
Mr. Jeffries has represented Colle
ton County in the Senate for some
years. He has been regarded for
years as a leader, even before as
suming the Chairmanship of the Fin
ance Committee, or the Presidency
of the Senate. Governor Jeffries is
a man of intellectual power, and he
is what used to be called a go-getter.
That is, he is energetic and unwav
ering of purpose in carrying out any
plan or program which he formu
lates. As Chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee he has steered
that Committee and the Senate in the
path of sound financing.
GOVERNOR JEFFRIES is a man
of independent thought. It is well to
know that in this period of tense war
emotion, he is quiet and calm-and
not likely to be swept off his feet by
any clamorous appeal or degree of
hysteria.
The assumption of the Governor
ship by Mr. Jeffries will have import
ant results in our State operations.
The most powerful authority in
South Carolina is the State Budget
Commission It is composed of the
Governor, the Chairman of the Fin
ance Committee of the Senate and
the Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee of the house. Mr.
Jeffries, who as chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee was a
member of the Budget Commission,
becomes Chairman of the Commission
as Governor. But two vacancies
were left When Mr. Winchester
Smith was elected a Public Service
Commissioner and Mr. Jeffries be
came Governor. The two gentlemen
who may be chosen as Chairman of
the two Committees w'ill become
members of the Budget Commission.
Dr. Thomas H. Dreher of St. Mat
hews has handed in his last manu
script and joined the hosts beyond
the River. I did not know the Doc
tor as a physician, but all of us knew
him as a frank writer, an editor 1
whose courage and straightforward
ness lifted him from the ranks. Edi
tors of Dr. Dreher’s type are too
rare; the country needs them as al
most never before.
SAVING AND SERVING
Are you one of the 15 million Americans who are already ar
ranging voluntary to save something set aside from your enve
lope or pay check every pay day?
The Payroll Savings Plan for buying Defense Savings Bonds
is sweeping the country, with 14,000 firms cooperating.
People who always knew they ought to save a litle money,
but somehow never did, now find it easy to request their em
ployer to hold out a little each pay day so be used to buy a De
fense Bond when the amount islargeenough.
In that way they are able regularly to save money help fin
ance the war, and combat inflation.
It’s the regularity that does it.
The treasury has set as its goal the enlistment of all the
country’s 40,000,000 regularly employed workers in this volun
tary plan.
It is part of the fight, and part of the price of victory.—Green
ville Piedmont.
WHAT DO WE VALUE MOST?
Yes the picture is dark and dreary and our path is beset by
deadly peril, but the darkest hour is always just before the dawn.
We will lose this war if we love any one thing more than we do
liberty—and if we lose liberty, we also lose that one thing that
we love more.—Williston Way.
POULTRY LOADING
Colored Hens, lb
17c
Leghorn Hens, lb
13c
Roosters, lb
7c
Will Pay Market Prices tor Turkeys!
Ducks and Geese, lb ... .
8c
Capons, lb
18c
Here Every Thursday from 8 until
10
a.m. Near Lake’s Machine Shop
Greenville Poultry Co.
Quality is the first rule in buying things
to eat and drink at home. Nobody
wants less. Coca-Cola has quality,
— the quality of genuine goodness.
Its taste has a thrill that is pleasantly
exciting. Its refreshment satisfies.
You trust its quality
plus tax
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