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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY. MAY 18, 1945
121S College Street
NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA
O. F. ARMFIELD
Editor and Publisher
Published Every Friday In The Year
Entered as second-class matter
December 6, lf>37, at tht postoflice
at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
SPECTATOR
Which is better—America as a
representative democracy, deriving
its governmental powers from the
Constitution ? Or, America as a Na
tion governed by executive boards,
whose orders have the force of law?
We believe in the America which
developed under the Constitution as
it was interpreted and applied dur
ing our formative period—for one
hundred and forty years.
The thirteen original States form
ed the Union, providing through the
Constitution for broad National Sov
ereignty! in National and Internation
al affairs but the States wisely re
tained full powers in intra-State af
fairs. (All, this is set out clearly in
the Constitution of the United States.
Read 9th and 10th. amendments.)
(Because of the question of slavery
many citizens in recent years have
thought of States Rights as a mat
ter concerning racial interests, ex
clusively States’ Rights, or State au
tonomy or local self-government—
by whatever name—means that this
American democracy is founded on
Government by the People, the units
of government being small so as to
provide for local participation. So
we have State, County and munici
pal units. It is a prime principle of
democracy that the majority shall be
able to express itself effectively. For
that reason the National Government
is neither democratic nor efficient in
intervening in local matters. More
over, the forty eight states have var
ied and dissimilar interests and con
ditions within their borders.
The constant assumption of local
affairs by the National Government
fosters control by aggressive special
pressure groups, since the public at
large cannot make its desires known
so far from home.
Constitutional application of the
General Welfare and Inter-State
Commerce provisions needs urgently
to return to the interpretations of
the founders of our Republic, the
fxamers of our Constitution and the
Courts, prior to 1934.
The general growth and develop
ment of this nation owed their gen
erative power to the spirit of risk,
the creative urge of a robust people,
whose impulses were not controlled
by vexatious regulations.
The social effort to equalize peo
ple may lift a few, even many, but
it establishes a level which holds
down or crushes the spirit of initia
tive, which is the handmaiden f
progress.
Men work for rewards; , they are
inspired by hope of results. When
society rests on a dead level the
dominant motive of achievement is
frustrated—and society degenerates
and disintegrates.
We are fighting for a revival of
the opportunities which resulted in
our great industries; our high stand
ard of living, and the door to leader
ship or fortune being kept wide open
to the youth of America.
No man, no group of men, is wise
enough to ‘plan the life, or business,
of the men and women of this na
tion.
Genius is individual, and must have
the fertile soil of unimpeded expres
sion. America if built by the con
tributing skill of unfettered individ
ualism, will become a composite of
native skill.
Let us declaie for the full sweep
of a free America, with only such
government as properly to protect
each man in his right to work and
in the enjoyment of the fruits of his
labor.
men, who would like to reduce taxes
on one hand ana give liberally to all
good causes and institutions. That
is also said to be the best political
strategy. It is a solution of- the
age-long problem of how to eat your
cake and have it, too.
Members of our Legislature are
under terrific pressure from those
who want something, while those of
us don’t want anything sit back on
the side lines growling and develop
ing a grouchy cynicism. Sometimes
we speak lightly of our public men
instead of lending them a hand.
Why did not the Legislature do
something about the State Ballot?
It is quite conceivable that if the
accepted leadership of the Senate and
House were to advocate a simple
measure it would be quickly adopted.
Instead of that the leadership isnt in
terested Perhaps it may be said
that the leadership is opposed to any
measure, because any bill could be
quickly amended to meet the approval
of the leaders. So we flounder along,
not because the Legislature is oppos
ed to the matter but because the
leadership is not sympathetic.
Sometimes, under great pressure,
measures are introduced—and al
lowed to die on the calendar.
One of the advantages of a law
yer in a legislative body is his nim
bleness of mind agility on his feet
and fluency of speech. Of course
some lawyers have not that combina
tion, being the steady, office type,
thinking twice before speaking once.
That is a bit too slow for a great
parliamentary debate. The man who
speks twice and thinks once has the
advantage in a tussle on the floor.
Serving in the Legislature is a
tedious job; most of us wouldn’t like
it. The wonder is that capable men
are willing to spend long months
every year in attendance.
There should be safe quides, lead
ers of commanding ability; and we
should have a program of public ser
vice based on what the State needs.
Unfortunately we are occupied by
pressure groups. Most of the work
of this session has been in response
to a steady campaign and pressure
running through the years. Strange
ly enough, the campaign for the
State liquor stores has been con
ducted from within the ranks. That
is, the Governor advocated it and
Senator Warren sponsored it. In this
connection all the lobby, probably,
has been against the store plan. Sen-
tor Warren charges that a big liquor
slush fund has been raised to defeat
his bill. He may be right. If he
affirms that as a matter of definite
knowledge, I won’t question it, for
Senator Warren is one of the ablest
and most independent men in public
life. I have great respect for him,
as well as warm personal regard; but
I am opposed to the State Store plan
because it would, I think, lead to a
political liquor ring—in courses of
time—; a liquor domination of our
public life.
It is exceedingly mortifying to
contend for something which may
have such a bad odor; I do not con
tend for it; but I fear to jump from
the mire on this side to a probable
deeper* mire on the other side. I am
not defending or advocating the sale
of liquor by any means; the question
before us is whether to suffer the
evils we know or rush into greater
evils which appear to be in prospect.
Even today we have rings, or rul
ing groups. In every county you
will find that. Mr. X gets one re
sult and Mr. Y may or may not.
Then we have dominant groups in the
General Assembly and dominant
groups in the South Carolina Demo
cratic hierachy. These groups do
not always work together, but there
are times when they do. If we
should have a State political ring,
founded on liquor control, then we
should have a welded State organiza
tion ofi political bossism which would
make the old Dispensaryites turn
over in their graves with envy and
chagrin. Certainly nobody is so un-
l sophisticated as to doubt that we
have acquired within, a generation an
amazing aptitude for all the tricks
of politic! manipulation and skull
duggery.
The Southern Democratic Party
broke the ice and made it possible to
vote a protest without leaving the
ranks. About 150,000 of those who
registered made their protest by not
voting at all. That method, however,
is ineffective: we are governed by a
majority whether it be 100 or 100,-
000; so thase who protested by stay
ing at home might just as well have
voted for the other side.
«^WILD LIFE
SOUTH CAP PUNA
with PROF FRANKLIN 5HERMAN
HBAD-CUeMSOM COLLMC-Dart oe ZOOLOGY
COACHWHIP SNAKE
This snake has the body long,
slender, gradually tapering, and the
hinder portion has a braided or pleat
ed appearance, hence its name Coach-
whip.
Among the 47 species of snakes
known in South Carolina its nearest
of kin is the black racer, and the two
share several features in common,
esipecially the slender build and swift
ness of movement
Looked at from above thq forward
part of the body is black, hinder por
tion light brown of braided appear
ance; belly mostly white or yellow
ish, the scales of the body are smooth,
not keeled as in many other snakes;
slender, tailportion long; attaining
length of 6 to 8 feet, perhaps our
longest snake. It climbs into bushes
and low trees to some extent.
As with other snakes there are
erroneous ideas and traditions about
Coachwhip. A well-intentioned and
serious Glemson student warned me
that if opportunity offered this snake
would wrap around my leg and whip
me to death with its tail. No snake
is known to do any such thing. There
are snakes which will wrap round a
victim and squeeze (constrict) it to
death but Coachwhip doesn't <jo that
even with the small animals upon
which it feeds.
In this state we have records of it
from Walhalla to Charleston, but no
records from our higher mountain
localities and it is not recorded north
of Virginia. The longest one we have
measured was 6 ft. 8 inches from tip
to tip, and was taken *t Clemson.
All persons are not alike in dis
position—nor are all snakes, even
of the same species. Coachwhip is
often rather docile, but old ones are
likely to be surly and vicious. One
which would we kept alive for some
time showed bad temper, would hiss
loudly and would strike the side of
its cage in effort to reach the spec
tator. But it is not a venomous spe
cies, no venom-glands and no venom-
fangs, only the usual small sharp
teeth of the non-venomous snakes.
Its principal food is rats, mice,
other small mammals, birds, eggs,
and other (smaller) snakes. It repro
duces by the laying of eggs, from 12
to 24 being laid by one female.
If you are sure of your identifica
tion, we would like to have your
careful measurements of large ones;
i.e., total length from tip of snout
to tip of tail, and, length of tail, from
rectum to tip.
Under the leadership of Represen
tative W. R. Keels of Sumter Coun
ty the House declared itself against
accepting additional money at this
session. Certainly the House has
taken the right position. It is right
in law, and it is right in principle.
Sumter County has a delegation
which speaks and acts for the best
thought of the county. Those gen
tlemen are among the soundest men
in the General Assembly—a body
which has many safe and sound mem
bers. Sometimes the members of
most experience in life are incliijed
to so much caution and deliberation
that the less able have their way,
through sheer aggressiveness. But
the deliberate man of calm reflection
is the man who saves the day.
The decision of the court which
allowed expense money is one which
has never commended itself to the
people; and it is a decision which
might be overruled if the issue were
presented again.
If one may compare our Legisla
ture to that of North Carolina or
Georgia he may wonder why our
law-makers require so much more
time than those of our neighbors.
North Carolina and Georgia are
larger, moer wealthy than South
Carolina, yet their public business is
concluded in much less time than is
ours. It is not by any means because
of superior ability in those States,
rather apparently because of more
expeditious methods.
Our Senate and House do not de
liberately kill time; as is true of
most parliamentary bodies, true of
Conventions, even, and Church Con
ferences, the majority sit back and
wait for the leaders to move. For
tunately so, perhaps or we should
have endless confusion, if all were
leaders and trying to lead. Most
members are quiet, modest gentle-
EXPERTS TALK SOUTH’S GAINS
Conference Told Of Great New Val
ues In Fish and Progress In Cotton
Chapel Hill, N. C., May 11—Fer
tilizing the ocean waters along Amer
ica’s coasts to double or triple the
amount of fish was proposed at the
University of North Carolina sesqui-
centennial here today by Dr. Hayden
F. Taylor, New York biologist.
Dr. Taylor is one of the world’s
leading practical fish propagation
authorities. He was until recently
president of the Atlantic Coast
Fisheries company. In World War I,
as an emergency food measure, he
established the first quick-freeze
NOTICE OF TAX SALES BY
TOWN OF NEWBERRY
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Try Retonga If You Feel
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Loss of Appetite, Acid Indigestion
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“I suffered a lot of distress from
acid indigestion and sluggish elimi
nation for the past couple of years,
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man of 1503 Madison Ave., Greensbo
ro, N. C. Discussing this noted herbal
stomachic and Vitamin B-l medicine,
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of fish enterprise.
Sea water can be fertilized, he
declared, by dumping into coastal |
sounds carloads of nitrates, phos
phates and silicates.
The project is not a scientific
dream. Its possibilities he .said al
ready have been proven in small
lochs of salt water in Scotland.
There he stated the fertilizer dis
appeared completely in thre to four
days to be followed speedily by a
huge increase in the microscopical,
marine near-surface plants on which
fishes feed.
New uses for cotton, new methods
of production, and of harvesting that
will keep this crop great, even if not
king in the South, were predicted by
George J. Wilds Jr., president of
Coker’s Pedigreed Seed Company,
Hartsville, S. C.
“It took the war to bring us to
our senses,” Wilds said. “Within the
past two years we have heard more
about mechanized cotton than in all
the years previous. For the past
two years one of the largest Missis
sippi delta plantations has gone com
pletely mechanized. They plant and
cultivate with fourrow power equip
ment, control weeds with a flame
thrower chop with a mechanical chop
per, control insects and defoliate with
an airplane, harvest with seven mech-1
unical harvesters. Costs of produc- 1
tion have been reduced several cents j
a pound.”'
This, he said, is only one phase
of cotton’s comeback. Breeders are
developing varieties of higher yields,
higher line percentage earlier maturi
ty and disease resistance, also strong
er and finer fibers and greater fiber
uniformity.
David E. Lilienthal, chairman of
Tennessee Valley Authority, warned
the scientists that technology alone
is not enough.
“Research,” he declared, “that is
only enormously developed intelli
gence, research that leaves out the
primary driving force in human ai-
fairs—the spirit of men—can lead
only to one catastrophe after an
other, each more horrible and me
chanically perfect than its prede
cessor, to the exploitation and dev
astation of natural resources, and
finally to the most terrible catas
trophe of all a non-moral rather
than a moral world.”
TWO-CAMPAIGN MEN NOT GO
ING TO THE PACIFIC
Paris, May 11—American combat
soldiers who have fought in both Eu
rope and North Africa will not be
sent to the Pacific war zone on or
ders from Gen. Eisenhower, it was
revealed tonight
In a letter to generals of his com
mand today, Eisenhower said:
“We must be sure that no soldier
is sent to the Pacific who has fought
in both North Africa and Europe.
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