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Published Every Friday In The Year at NewOerry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Entered as second-class matter December «, 1937, at tht postoflice
SPECTATOR
Mr. E. L. Herrington, President of
the South Carolina Federation of
Labor, speaks with pride of the good
record of Labor during the war.
There were no strikes, he tells us,
in the South Carolina units of the
Federation last year.
The Commissioner of Labor, Mr.
R. L. Gamble, also spoke to the dele
gates; to tide convention Of the
South Carolina unit of the American
Federation of Labor, known, I be
lieve, as the South Carolina Federa
tion of Labor. Mr. Herrington has
good cause for pride in this record.
None of us should strike, of course.
Each one of us has some part to
play, whether as civilians or as
fighters. No South Carolina man
has refused to fight, so far as I
know; and no Carolina man has re
fused to enten- the fighting services
when called, so far as I’ve heard.
courage, the persistence U* utilize
„ne unusual physical facts of the
two great coastal rivers, flowing ' to
the sea at such widely different al
titudes, within 26 miles of each
other.
Great leadership makes a great
nation. This.' nation of ours wafe
born in greatness because of its
great leaders.
The Texas Bar association repre
sents the legal profession of that
great state.
We have, you know, several
sources of law. The supreme law
is the Federal Constitution. The
Federal Constitution is not supposed
to cover everything for the States
reserved some powers for themselves.
Then come the Acts of Congress.
But here, again, the National law is
not supposed to cover everything.
Next comes the State Constitution.
But it does not completely cover the
ground. Then come the Acts of the
General Assembly. As you know, the
Jbet
_ General Assembly can’t pass
As a state we have a good quality any sort of law, although it seems
of people in most of the activities bent on doing that some time. sue.
of life. We are an easy-going peo
iple, but we are seldom guilty of
anything grievously bad.
Our people are our greatest asset.
We have many natural resources,
such as land and timber; and we have
rivers and underground water. We
have good soil and climate, a costal
plain and mountains, but our peo
ple are ouf greatest and best re
source. It is no fresh discovery of
mine that the men and women of a
country are worth more than all the
coal and gold of the land.
Mr. Herrington is a business lead
er of a great airmy of our fellow
citizens, men who are engaged in
many different fields of enterprise.
We have many associations of
men. Most men are members . of
Churches. So if we find a hundred
thousand South Carolinians in the
Federation of Labor, they are led by
our friend, Mr. Herrington, in their
business association, they are led by
many pastors of churches in spiritual
interest; and they have a dozen other
interests. But, with all our diverse
occupations, we are citizens of the
state and of the great republic.
All our people have been affected
alike by the war. The buck private,
whose father is the big business
leader at home, may 'be serving un
der a captain, whose father is fore
man for the business leader. It' is
the sort of democracy which made
America great.
The “Glorious Fourth” has just
gone around the corner. If we cele
brated it by eating, it should not_ be
forgotten that the “Fourth” stands
for freedom to WORK, freedom "to
SAVE, freedom to ENJOY our
EARNINGS, as well as ail the other
freedoms.
iSo far, no one has seriously chal
lenged our freedom of worship, but
the Government shows a disposition
to exercise too much control over the
radio.
Oongress should forever reproach
itself for the wholesale grants of
power to bureaucrats, without clear
ly defining the_ appropriate scope of
ultimate fault
errors, are due more to zeal to any
purpose to disregard constitutional
restraints. My friends of the Leg-
islalture may justify themselves by
saying that nobody knows what the
Constitution means.
There is another source of law.
Hundreds of years ago customs of
English people were accepted as law.
Even today we have the Common
Law. So our courts 1 often decide
cases on the basis of previous deci
sions going back many generations.
Each decision is a legal precedent.
Likewise the Courts have decided con
stitutional questions, adding deci
sion until a great precedent has been
established. The lawyers, in study
ing cases, in advising their clienjr?,
are guided by the decisions of toe
courts over a period of years.
If the Constitution should say that
no man be tried twice for the same
a ct—and it does say .that—hhe courts
may construe that to mean by a com
petent court; and declare that a sec
ond trial before a different court is
valid. !
I need not argue this as a matter
of technical procedure. The only
point I am making is that if the
courts declare the law to be one
thing, the lawyers accept that, re
gardless of what they may think
about the decision.
Our competent and veteran solici
tor, Mr. McLeod 1 , would not know
how to draw an indictment if bur
State Supreme court were declaring
one thing today and something else
next year. So I read what the State
Bar Association, or the lawyers of
Texas, have to say, quoting the As
sociated Press dispatch from Fort
Worth:
“The United States Supreme Court
has rendered it impossible for the
practicing lawyer to advise his client
as to what the law is today, or even
to offer a GUESS as to what it will
be TOMORROW, a resolution adopted
by the State bar of Texas declares.
‘The Court has repeatedly overruled
decisions, precedents and landmarks
of the law of long standing, without
assigning any valid reason therefor’
read the resolution adopted yester-
It is not straining the point to
say that we have great issues before
us. We are called on to act with in
telligence tnd decision. There is no
100 per cent right or wrong man;
so we need not prattle about that.
Either our people are for this New
Deal or they are against it. Those
who are for it should say so; and
those who are against it'should stand
in the clear, like old Joshua.
I recall the candidate who asked
to declare himself on Prohibition. "He
replied; “Well, I tell you, there’s a
lot to be said on both sides.” All
right; hut which side was he on? "Or,
as our Courts declare in civil mat
ters, “On which side is the prepon
derance of the evidence?”
Our fathers’ God, to Thee,
Author of Liberty,
Too Thee we sing.
Long may our land be bright
With freedom’s holy light,
Protect us by they might,
Great God, our King.
This Is About
Women!
GO INTO BERLIN, PERSHING
ADVICE
Tells DeGaulle Such Trip In 1918
Might Have Averted This War
Washington, July 7—Gen. John J.
Pershing, 83-year-old commander of
the World war A. E. F., told Gen.
Charles DeGaulle in a dramatic in
terview today that he believes the
present struggle is nearing its end.
The aged and ailing Pershing re
ceived the leader of the French Na
tional committee in his room at
the Army’s Walter Reed hospital.
Pershing rose despite his illness
to greet DeGaulle. They exchanged
views on the war and when Pershing
was asked whether he believed “we
are nearing the end of the world con
flict,” he replied, “I do.”
Pershing said that if we had gone
on to Berlin in the last war perhaps
we wouldn’t be in the fight now.
General DeGaulle replied vigorously,
“At least this time we’ll go through.”
DeGaulle asked Pershing if he was
surprised ait the fighting quality of
the Russians, and Pershing replied,
‘No, >n my opinion they have always
been good soldiers.”
Pershing asked DeGaulle when he
last saw Marshall Retain, with whom
Pershing worked in 1917-18. <Pe-
tain is now chief of state of the
Vichy government in Nazi-Occupied
France.) DeGaulle said June, 1940
was the last time and in response
to Pershing’s question about Petain’s
health, DeGaulle said that consider
ing his age the marshal was very
well.
The two men spoke frely and in-
formally about this walr and the
last an dithey were optimistic about
the trend of the war which Persh
ing said was definitely in favor of
the Allies.
DeGaulle jokingly quoted Mo
hammed as saying that the world
without a war would stagnate.
Pershing shot back with “we have
never bad ‘peace long enough •to
know whether the work! would stag
nate.”
“Well,” said DeGaulle, “Gen
is there to see that it doesn’t.”
We have often wondered what it
is that comes over a woman that
makes her want to shed her clothes
just time she heads for the beach.
We. can understand why she should
want to undress down to the mini
mum for swimming purposes, but
considering what some of them have
to show, what is it mahes them want
to do a strip tease just for parading
purposes ?
It seems, however, that the smell
of salt water, or even just the
thoughts of it, has a peculiar effect
on some women. They can’t wait
till they get to the beach to undrape,
but as soon as they leave home they
start shedding garments just as. a
snake sheds his skin, and by the
time they actually reach the water
they are down to the ‘bare (and we
use the word advisedly) necessities
in the way of clothing. It’s not so
bad to see females at the beach
wearing little more than the tradi
tional fig leaf; we’ve about gotten
used to that. But when they start
unclothing over about Charlotte and
then continue the process all the way,
when they reach Bennettsville they
are certainly not examples of what
the well-dressed woman should wear.
And it seems they take a pleasure in
going into our restaurants, dmg
stores, etc., and parading our streets
with hardly enough apparel on to
keep them from being jailed, for in
decent exposure.
No one could 1 accuse us of being
prudish, but we do like for bur
women to mix a little more mystery
with their blandishments, and not
to reveal too many of their charms.
And tfcere are too many of them who
yield to the temptation to parade
themselves while 90 per cent disrobed
who only succeed in establishing the
fact that they have very few charms
to display. We spent an entire sum
mer at the beach several years ago,
and we saw enough fat female fan
nies, thighs, hocks and calves to do
us a lifetime—not to mention the
bulging tummies and other overdevel
oped or overfed parts of the human
anatomy. Then too there were the
. lean and scrawny ones, looking as if
they had just migrated from famine
j area. But all seemed proud of what
, nature had given them, regardless of
Whether she had been lavish or nig-
jgardly in her gifts. We often wished
i some of them could have seen pic-
| lures of themselves, and that some’ of
i these pictures could be published in
the hack-home oapers. It might be a
I god idea if the beaches would appoint
a competent judge of pulchritude to
j decide what charms a woman has
j'that are worth displaying and just
1 how fueh of those dhartms she would
;be allowed to place on exhibition.
I It has always been an amazing
and unexplainable thing to us that a
woman will voluntarily show herself
in public (provided there is a tea-
spoonful of salt water anywhere in a
few hundred miles) with so little
clothes on that if a man were to
enter her room and catch her in the
same state of undress she would yell
for the police and want him lynched.
Of course, we don’t pretend to un
derstand women, though.
However, women are not the oi ly
offenders in this respect. It is not
at all unusual to see a man in the
surf and parading on the beach clad
only in' a pair of shorts, with gobs of
fat showing around the equator and
other places on his canvass, spots
of hair' and splotches of brawn or
yellow liberally scattered over his
body and making him look like some
prehistoric animal. He is not a very
pretty sight either, but few of them
seem to realize it. Some mure of
that photography might also do some
good here.
Of course we don’t set ourselves
up a* an authority on dress, but we
do believe we are pretty good judges
of when too much of a person’s epi
dermis is showing—especially wom'en.
And, by the way, if that job ' of
Judge of Pulchritude is ever estab
lished, we want the position. Natu
rally we would have an assistant* to
weed out the more homely before
they reached our sanctum.
J. B. COWARD
The Monument Man
Candidate For
MAGISTRATE DIST. 2
Invites your investigation of life and
record as a citizen of Newberry county.
Then vote your honest convictions.
“GAD ABOUT”
jurisdiction. The ultimate fault is
that of Congress, for not only did ^ ay> ‘dismissing the question with' a
Congress give away vast powers, but wave 0 f the hand, and contenting, it-
it has not taken them back. If we se if w ith the assertion that these
blame bureaucrats for misuse _ of precedents have been ERODED "BY
power, the Congress is primarily to THE PROCESS OF THE YEARS; or
blame for granting the power. No Ka.ing jt s decision on casuistry and
specious reasoning can get around SO phia.try rather than by logic! The
bhat. resolution added that by this con-
So the “Fourth” should have been ,j uct alM i controversies within its
an occasion for re-asserting Ameri- own personnel, the Count has subeot-
canism—what America really stands gd itself to the suspicion, widely held,
for.
It should be said, and repeated
with emphasis, that our forefathers
fought oven what we regard as a
trifle today. It should also be em
phasized that we live in a day when
PRINCIPLES of government; PRIN
CIPLES of conduct, and PRINCI
PLES of religion are not highly es
teemed, or regarded as being worth
fighting for.
It may be that we are broad-mind
ed. The expression “broad-minded”
nowadays seems to mean a lack of
interest; a lack of the fervor of ear
lier generations. Politically, princi
ples don’t seem to count; religiously,
too, there is the same let-down. Per
haps we are such a peaceable people
that we must be stung into action
There is much to be said for peace,
hut the greatest of all teachers, the
One called 1 the Prince of Peace, said
“I came not to bring peace, but a
sword,” meaning that He and His
teachings, He and His principles,
would divide men, would separate
the good from the bad, like sheep
from goats.
The peace which is based on ac-
quiesence in wrong is cowardice.
The merely compliant person who
glosses over wrong-doing is not a
strong character, but a weakling.
There is no lesson in history clear
er than this: That the courage of a
few men lifts the whole mass of hu
manity. The supreme lesson is that
a few do the thinking and planning;
a few have the vision to plan; only
a few have the will to achieve. Just
as the eleven Apostles preached the
New Dispensation, so a small groi
or one man, blazes the trail,
great Santee-Cooper development
was the dream of T. C. Williams, and
T. C. Williams started -with one fact,
that the Santee River is 42 feet
higher than the Cooper river. Not
many people knew that; not many
that it speaks, or undertakes to ^
speak, in the voice of the aippoint- when they’re needin’ beans and
{nrr rwvxzrav f f O r» f VtXl OT ^ i n ",
ing power, rather than the voice of
the law.”
Those brethren of Texas are right.
Even some of the eminent justices of
the Supreme Court have said almost
the same words. The worst thing
about the entire Rosevelt regime is
the suspected loyalty of the Supreme
Court to Mr. Roosevelt and his New
Deal. Congress can handle the New
Deal, if it has the courage; but the
court wraps itself with the mantle
of sanctity and runs things around
Congress.
Unfortunately the court is compos
ed of theoretical philasphers of a
fantastic jurisprudence, and practical
iptobticians of very limited knowledge
of law, and even less actual practice.
It sems to have misconceived its
function. It is bad enough to find
the Administration honey-combed
with all these sycophants, who are
making this nation a country of Eu
ropean bureaucracy, without having
the Supreme Court resolve itself into
an organization to promote the New
Deal.
Probably when Attorney-General
Daniel and Governor Johnston de
clare themselves less than 100 per
cent New Dealers they reserve the
right to differ from the conclusions
of the Supreme Court. But we have
arrived at a time when god citizen
ship calls for e. definite stand.
“Choose you this day whom ye will
serve; whether the Gods which your
fathers served that were on the
other side of the flood', or the Gods
of the Amorites, in whose land ye
dwell; but as for ME and MY
HOUSE, we will serve the Lord”. So
called Joshua to bis people when they
semed' forgetful of the guidance of
Jehovah and wanted to run after
false gods.
Joshua g«ve a divisive call. It
Next to the lady Eleanor,
The most traveled bird you’ll see
Is a guy called Henry Wallace,
Our most honorable V. P.
He really likes to run around,
While we the bill are paying,
Tho what I think about his trips,
v The law prevents my saying.
He’s traveled South America,
Argentine to Peru.
Steamboats were far too slow for
him.
And so naturally he flew.
Now to-day he’s eyeing China,
Land of coolies, rice and silk,
And he’s dreamin’ and he’s sdhemin
Ways and means to peddle milk.
Milk for all those million coolies,
Plagued by lice and flies an
flees,
bullets,
Guns to fi^ht the Niponese.
WILL CONDUCT CONFERENCES
know it now; but of those who kneiw meamt to separate the loyal from the
it, T. C. Williams 'had the vision, the others.
in the fall.
Holy Trinity church, Little M
tain, the Rev. Albert Stemmem
pastor, and for Friday, July 14, 8:30
|p. m. in the church of the Redeemer,
Newberyr. The Rev. R. A. Goodman,
pastor. Also participating in th<
coaching divisions of these confer
emces will be Mrs. J. B. Morse of Co
lumbia and Mrs. J. V. Long of Pros
perity. Every Lutheran Church
Newberry county is expected to send
workers to one of these conferences.
The Parish and Church School
boards of the U. L. C. A., the Ameri
can Lutheran church and the Augus-
tana Synod have prepared a new
series of Sunday school lessons
known as the “Christian Growth
Scries.” At these meetings this new
material will be explained and after
a general session three coaching
groups will be held.
Not only Sunday school teachers
and officers but all members of con
gregations who are interested
welcome to attend.
.TAKING NURSING COURSE IN
NEW YORK
Miss Cornelia Clary, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Clary, is taking
a seven week’s course in nursing at
Riverside church in New York. She
is also attending the Columbia Uni
versity in the afternoons while in
New York.
The
South Carolina National Bank
Condensed Statement of Condition !
June 30, 1944
ASSETS
Cash and Due from Banks
$ 45,380,434.14 j
U. S. Government Bonds
42,358,391.06
State and Municipal Bonds
751,223.24 '
Federal Reserve Bank Stock
89,700.00
Loans and Discounts
17,062,022.53
Banking Houses (11) $503,875.00
Less: Reserve for Depreciation 83,625.75
420,249.25
Furniture and Fixtures
112,230.99
Other Real Estate
1.00
Other Assets
312,172.23
$106,486,424.44 !
LIABILITIES
Capital-Common
$ 1,320,000.00
Capital-Preferred
845,000.00
Surplus
850,000.00
Undivided Profits
636,426.49
Reserve-Retirement Stock
381,605.00
Reserve-Contingencies
250,000.00
Reserve-For Taxes, etc
217,262.38
Deposits
. 101,986,130.57
$106,486,424.44
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation