Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PACK POUR 'Srf)j^s^9un College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA (again, in South Carolina, each par ty, any group, or any individual, may propose or vote a ballot for any eight men The only point to be mentioned l^re is that our state law (Code, Vol. 2, Section 2304) pre scribes three ballots for a state elec tion. none of which-the state pro-, _ „ viries. There is one ballot for amend- Published Every Friday In The Year ments to the Constitution; one for : — — state officers; one for presidential Entered as second-class matter i electors and Senators and Represen- December fl, 1037. at tht postoffice; stives in Congress. There is quife at Newberry, South Carolina, under ; an issue over the one ballot provi- O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SPECTATOR sion. Some contend that this re quires that the New I>ealers, the Re- rniblicans and the Southern Demo crats shall all use the same ballot. .HE NEWBERRY SUN ^‘WILD. LIFE 3 OUftl CAft OL1NA IN with pftQPTRftifftiR 3HNJMAN I wiod-eoewsoK CQi.i.lW-o»vt o* zoouocv DRAGON-FLIES We often call him “Mosquito- hawk,’’ “Darning-needle” or “Snajce- doctor”,'but bis ’common name is Dragon-fly. His head is round, his eyes large, his body slender and his four filmy wings are thickly netted with “veins.” Probably 125 species occur in S. C., though we have only It would then contain three separate in- 8 T ' 0 “ ps °, n _ ot } e shee t °_ r ^boTt 70 on “record Some of these insects have small er heads and eyes that bulge more at We live in a day of so many m- a n j ce legal question, which might terests that our attention seldom is become a constitutional problem in more than superficial except in close election. Can we compel the cases of immediate personal concern. stete to print amJ issue the ballot? 8el ^ ncR) ou , L UIC alc ...» Some people chide us for our fleet- Y ou can’t compel a state to do any- more roun d-headed type and fly with sides, fly timidly apd a re called Dam- sel-slics, but the majority are the ing attention to what goes on about thing. That may not agree with the us. You walk down the street think- United States Supreme Court or At- ing of your business, of what you torney-General Biddle, but that is a will do, or have done; or what some- sound constitutional pmiciple. A body will do to you, or has done to ^ sovereign is under no legal compul- you. Perhaps you may have your! s j on . the states delegated powers to mind on sickness at home, or the the Union, they derived no powers movie you want to take your wife to.! from the Union. But there is noth- The war is an overwhelming thought j n) j, to prevent the preparation of a because of the broad range of opera-; single halot containing New Dealers, tions and the immensity of the forces Republicans, and Southern Demo- engaged. Few of us follow the bat- C rats. We should have to distribute ties beyond the headlines and a few ;t > j ug t as the parties do now. paragraphs. In general, how goes j fbe Electoral College never meets; the war in each theater. Are we the presidential electors of each state winning? That’s what we wls h to i meet in the state capital and may know. Our deep solicitude is involv-1 vo t e f or whom they please. They ed, however, a s we think of our men are rgqujrgd to vote separately and in the fighting services. 11 0 send their vote to the President of I know nothing about our ration- ; tjh e Senate in Washington. The elec- ing, or “points”, or expiration dates. | toj, s chosen by the New Dealers in That department of my existence is Columbia may legally vote for John great speed. No kind of insect can fly until it reaches the adult stage. Dragon-flies eat small insects which they catch in flight; they de stroy many mosquitoes, and are con sidered quite beneficial. In flight they fold the legs beneath them, forming “baskets” in which insects are caught. Occasionally dragon flies wander far from water. . The eggs are laid in or near water. They hatch to a stout-bodied nymph which remotely resembles the adult. It lives below water surface, crawl ing about and devouring smaller pley. Because nature must feel that they need all six legs for secure footing in water-currents, dragon fly nymphs possess one peculiar appendage; a very elongated lower lip, hinged near the middle and with rarity which not even the profession al entomologist would have expected to be in your locality. HOME COMING AT ST. PAULS “Home Coming’’ will be observed at St. Paul’s Lutheran church, Po- maria, August 20 with dinner on the grounds. .The sermon will be preached at 11:16 a. m. by the Rev. P. D. Risinger of Silverstreet. The afternoon service will be in honor of our men and women who are in the armed forces o four coun try. Chaplain E. Bryan Keisler of Fort Jackson, will deliver the ad dress. Former pastors and members to gether with other interested visitors and friends are cordially invited to worship with us. FRIDAY, AUOU8T It, 1144 mat department ox my Columbia may legally vote for John Wens at the end. The whole mouth managed by my wife. All the reams , anti Rjchaird Roe, for the letter | ” v ^ somewhat as we use of paper and the tons of ink leave me an( j ^j, e a pj r i(; 0 f our Constitution re unimpressed. But I, too, have sent q U ,j re independence on the part of out reams of paper and hours of ra- j.j le presidential electors, dio talk on subjects which have been | gome ask what will be the ef- as little understood as the rationing feet of a few presidential electoral points. I tickets for Byrd or O'Daniel. Un- Have you had occasion to study ] es3 Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Dewey re- the matter of a State ballot, tor ce jves a majority of a ll electors, or two years I a lone presented the ques- ; 266 votes, the House of Representa tion repeatedly over six radio sta- ^ tives will elect a president, each state tions, through my Spectator letters, j joying one vote. That happened, and through the bulletins of Organiz-1 y 0u w jjj reca ij ) j n Tlilce between ed Business, Inc. In spite of all that, j , rj lomaa Jefferson and Aaron Burr, several of the leading lawyers of the ea ch of whom had received 73 votes. General Assembly and great num our arm and hand. With its lower lip folded against the lower surface of bead, the nymph reaches out and siezes is victim with this lower lip. I do not know of any other insects, or higher animal, with so lethal a lower lip. Some adults have little special wing markings; others have very handsome wings, prettily spotted or barred in yellow, White, brown, or some other color. Dragon flies ha bitually rest with the wings at full length horizontally. Collectors soon learn that dragon- . . It is of special interest to us that bers of other unusually competent ^ Electoral Colege of 1824 elected f lies are fcX pert flyers, often dodging citizens felt that something radical j^ri C. Calhoun of South Carolina 'insect-nets only to appear covering and dangerous was proposed. • y^g president, but falied to elect a You know that we have po State p res j(]e nt . No one had a majority, ballot; that when you go to the P°“ s , though Andrew Jackson had the for the General Election in Novem- largest number of votes. Henry Clay, ber, you will take and vote a ballot leader of the House, declared himself printed and distributed by the regu- j or John Quincy Adams and Adams lar, or New Deal Democrats, the j received the votes of 13 states, Jack- Republicans, or the Southern Demo- ^ Crawford 4. crats. The state calls and advertises j n jgye Samuel J. Tilden, a Demo- the election, appoints the U 0 ™ 111118 " j crat, had 184 electoral votes with- sioners, manages the election, de- ou ^ counting South Carolina, Florida termines the eligibility of the vot- j an( j Louisiana, which were under ers, receives and counts the ballots, carpet-baggers. He also had a pop- and declares the result; but the state u j ar ma jority of a quarter of a mfl- furnishes no ballots; they are pro- Ron votes. Even conceding to Hayes vided by the respective parties, or. South Carolina and Florida, Tilden The second in a series of five L... slivvixlriia.lc' TirVwi \Xm f.P O 03.1 lot 1T1 J _ Am 4-*r in T All ■ onQ A m A-il _ tu — -..111 t-A cviirA*! V\T7 m mid-air at the same spot when the net has swung past. But if you are interested in collecting them, by patience and practice you may, with in a year or two, gather a majority of the species in your neighborhood. But there Will long be rare species not yet taken. You may capture a Army- Textile Rally Here Tonight by individuals who write a ballot; in ^ popuhu- majority in Louisiana, ink. • For two years, I tried to in-1 g ut Louisiana’s electoral vote was duce the Legislature to direct the gj ven to Hayes by a Commission of Secretary of State to prepare the 2 negroes and 2 whites, ballots. That one small detail seeui-1 j n t j, e Teddy Roosevelt-Alton B. ed to summon the goblins from every p ar l<er 'election of 1904, Maryland nook and corner. I prepared a sim- cas t se ven electoral votes for Parker pie joint resolution to cover the an< j on iy one for Roosevelt, though omission and Chief Sensony of Char- Roosevelt had the majority of the leston put the resolution in the form popular vote by the slight margin of of a bai, but nothing could quiet the 109,497 to 109,446. fears of our friends. Incndentally, j j n the Taft-Bryan contest of 1908, Army-Textile rallies will be given by a group of men from Camp Gordon at the High school auditorium (to night) Thursday, August 17, at 8 o’clock. A varied program will be presented which will provide enter tainment for all and promises to be even better than the first one which was pronounced a big success by these present The men will arrive in the after noon in time to take a swim at Mar- REVOLUTION OR RESIGNATION “Anything which facilitates ambi tion towards paternalism obstructs democracy, and nothing could contrib ute more to this end than the im pounding of the earnings of the peo ple by a government which preten tiously proposes to support them,” says the Hon. V. J. Strieker, Judge of the Chancery Court, Mississippi. “In democratic ages tyranny al ways begins wit hbenevolence, and this benevolence, feeding upon itself, is supplied through exactions from the people . . . whatever the inten tion. this process gets beyond con- trol, and with compulsive force, de feats itself in direct proportion as the demand for charity comes to ex ceed the demand for liberty. In their inevitable order, indolence, poverty and vice advance in succesoin, until revolution defeats the system, or resignation enslaves the people.” if my resolution or Chief bensenys Maryland electors again ignored thelg. aret Hunter park, after which sup- bill had been passed, there would , will 0 f the people by voting six to 1 have been no possibility of a South- . two for Bryan, though Taft got a em Democratic Party. Surefy’s ; cij^e slight edge of the popular vote there’s a Divinity that shapes, .our b y 116,513 to 115,908. ends, rough-hew them how we will. | California electors split their vote But to prove my contention, did ; n the 1942 Wilson-Taft-Roosevelt you ever hear of. all the fight over fight by a two to 11 vote in the Elec- the State ballot? I objected to the toral College for no particular rea- term. SECRET ballot, because the son . Wilson ran second in the popu- word “secret*’ suggested something i ar vote, with Rosevelt first, hut two under cover, undemocratic, pernici- electors disregarded this and voted ous, and un-American, such as the f or Wilson anyway, political engineering at the recent | History is dotted with isolated Chicago New Deal Convention. My cases where a few electors bolted the knowledge of the public mind told .wishes of the people of their state me that the term AUSTRALIAN and voted as they pleased. ballot would be confused with some thing foreign, something which Mr Chur •'hill had put over on Mr. Roo- In the McKinley-Bryan contest of 1896, one California elector plumped for Bryan, though the people of the sevelt. And it was as I had feared, state voted 'for McKinley. One Kem- So we would do well to. speak of a: tuckian did the same thing in the “state ballog’- rosje by another name. There is another matter of much discussion today—the ELECTORAL COLLEGE. Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi threaten to cast some of their elec toral votes for a ticket of two Southerners, Harry Byrd and same election. Michigan in 1892 saw only nine of its electors vote for Benamin Har rison carried the state by a slender margin. Jones. Florida has already chosen several electors pledged to Byrd. But South Carolina was the first state to propose a« electoral independence of Mr. Roosevelt. Our illustrious friend, Dr. W. W. Ball, first pro posed; and Mr. C. Norwood Hastie first proposed the formation of a Southern bloc. Everybody knows that a presi dent is elected by the vote of the Electoral College, but few have le veled any thought to the plan of election. As a matter of law, all Ithe double-dealing, hocus-pocus and film flaming of the Chicago convention may amount to nothing at all, for the men who will cast the ballot for president are yet to be elected. When the Constitution was being prepared, the great ouestion was: “How_ shall the President be chos en?” “Shall the Congress elect him? Well, he would then be subservient to, or under obligations to, the Con gress. If Mr. Roosevelt bad to seek re-election at the hands of the Con gress, he would play ball with Con gress like a star on the diamond. It was suggested that the United States, being a federation of sover eign states, the states should choose the president. This was agreed to. but how should the states proceed ? Then it was decided that each state should choose as many Presidential Electors as it has Senators and Rep resentatives in Congress. South Car olina has eight. These men are nom inated by the respective parties and submitted to the people in the Nov ember General Election. Here, The platform of the Chicago con vention, whidh the New Dealers taeit- S® n ' ly accept and proclaim, contains such choice planks os the following: “We believe that RACIAL and re ligious minorities have the right LIVE, develop, and VOTE ACTUAL LY with all citizens and share the rights that are guaranteed by our Constitution. CONGRESS SHOULD EXERT ITS FULL CONSTITUTION AL POWERS TO PROTECT THOSE RIGHTS.” The implication of this is clearly sopy and a pledge to the colored voters. One astute New Deal lawyer has publicized an interpretation of this language as indicating that Con gress must protect the states—such as ours—in their attitude toward negro participation in our politics. This language is clear and needs no lawyer to understand it. Of course, it nvav be a lot of insincere words, but the Northern New Deal Demo crats are using that plank to corrall the negro vote. If one must interpret the racial plank of the New Deal platform, here is what Vice-Presidential candi date. Truman, told the correspondent of the Washington Afro-American in his private suite at the Stevens Hotel on the morning following his nomination: “Of course, colored Americans will lose nothing by my nomination as vice president.” The Afro-American in its issue of July 29 says that it understands that the racial plank was wired to the convention by President Roosevelt. It also commends Mr. Truman for sup porting the FEPC and the Anti- Lynching bill, as well as for oppos ing our poll tax. per will be served by .he Mollohon Girl Scouts At 7:45 at the High school sever al numbers will be played by the band under the direction of CWO Schurr while the crowd assembles. Captain J. L. Trebilcock will serve as master of ceremonies and will ipresent several talented entertain ers who will give a number of spec ialty acts He will then introduce Mr. G. K| Dominick who will give isome interesting facts about textiles in the war. A World War II veteran will give some of his experiences, followed by a band number and an other specialty act by a soldier en tertainer. After this there will be shown two interesting films, “Life line”, taken by our'own cameramen under fire and “The Nazis Strike”, showing the Nazis as they pillage Warsaw, Austria, and Czechoslova kia. There is no admission charge and the public is cordially invited to at tend rallies Which are both enter taining and instructive. Program Band music while crowd assem bles. Remarks by master of ceremonies. Band number. Specialty acts by soldier - enter tainers. Main speaker. World War II veteran. Specialty act. Band number Film: “Lifeline.” Film: “The Nazis Strike”. Band: National Anthem. NOTICE OF SALE Pursuant to an order passed by Honorable C. C. Featherstone, Judge of the 8th Judicial Circuit, in the case of Henry C. Havird and Lee E. Havird against John Oliver Hav ird on August' 9, 1944, I will sell on Sales day, September 4, 1944 at 11:00 a. m. in front of the Court House in Newberry, South Carolina the following described property: All the right title and inter est of John Oliver Havird in and to all and singular that piece, parcel or tract of land lying and being situate in the Town of Newberry, County of Newberry and State of South Carolina,con taining twenty-five (25) aieres more or less, and bounded now or formerly by Boundary Street, by a street which separates it from lands formerly of C. LL Havird and by lands formerly of Miss Elizabeth Langford et al. The interest of the said John Ol iver Havird is a one-fifth undivi- ed interest. Terms of sale: Cash. The success ful bidder will be required to pay for revenue stamps and deed and will be required to deposit immediately five (5) per cent of his bid, and which shall be forfeited as liquidated dam ages in case of failure by the said successful bidder to fully comply with his bid within ten days after said sale. The sale will be final. Aug. 11, 18, 25. NEAL W. WORKMAN, Probate Judge for Newberry County Newberry CitySchools Begin Session of 1944-1945 Pupils in the Newberry City Schools are asked to report to their respective schools on Friday morn ing, September 1st, at nine o’clock for lesson assignments and other preliminary work. Conditioned stu dents and new students are expected to report for examination and class ification on Wednesday morning and Thursday morning, August 30th and 31st. All first grade pupils and other pupils coming from other schools should register at the office of the Superintendent before September 1st. Under the laws of the State pu pils are not permitted to enroll un less they have been successfully vac cinated against smallpox. Please have this matter attended to before you send your children to school. 0. B. Cannon, Supt. Atlani't Compmn* -Bri0*r<4» im Atlanta, Charlotu, Chattamoopa, Norfolk, Orlando EDEE lubrication rlvEE charts - ft R ‘ C M I 0 n SlNCt’MR FOR TRUCK AND TRACTOR By following a Sinclair Lubrication Chart for your tractor and truck you’ll save time, wear and break downs. Sinclair Charts are prepared by Sinclair engineers in cooperation with tractor and truck manufacturers. They show what parts need lubri cating, how often to lubricate and what lubricants to use. Phone or write us the make and model of your tractor and truck and we’ll gladly give you a free chart for each. SINCLAIR FARM OILS L€T Me DeUVER TO TOUR FARM S. C. Paysinger, Agent NEWBERRY, S. C. . 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