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* 5* /OUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1945 <£utt 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA a F. ARM FI ELD Editor and Publisher Published Every Friday In The Year Entered as second-class matter December 1937, at tht postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SOUTHERN FARM VERSE PATTON SAYS ARM OR FACE DESTRUCTION Plainly spoken rural friends Are thinking thus about the trends: PARITY All we want, we say again, Is equal chance with other men. Take your documents in hand, Measure income, man with man. Measure bonds, or even try— (Balance off with things we buy. “Yes, but there is parity,” they say— “A cure for all our ills today, It evens up the buy and sell”— A claim that has its birth in—well, lx’s half the story, half the truth But maybe you want further proof. Here’s what parity and such Forgot to figure in the rush: Labor costs for now—and then, Does not compare in rates or men; Farms that once made splendid gain Have weakened through financial strain; Thirty years of tilth and toil Have left a much depleted soil; Yet they take the year of ’10 And try to base it as of then. Society now has forty ways To tax, compared to those old days. Its toll it takes in hidden cost And of these things all sight is lost. Things that seem to be in doubt They solve by meroly leaving out! To top it all they can’t agree Just what it means—this parity. JAPS AS MERCENARIES Tne Japanese beyond doubt are brave fighters (physical courage is not denied by nature to any race or people) and it may be that in time to come some of the civilized nations may hire Japanese armies to fight for them.—Charleston News and Courier. Bad Nauheim, Germany, Oct. 12— Gen George S. Patton, Jr., in a form al statement issued at his new 15th Army headquarters, put on record to day his belief that “there will be more wars” and that “unless we are armed and prepared the next war v'U probably destroy us.” Advocating universal military training for America, the veteran Army commander, transferred from command of the Third Army early this month after charges that he was slow about ousting Nazis from office in Bavaria, said: “The one hope for a peaceful world is in a powerful America, and the only means of producing a powerful America is to initiate and maintain adequate means instantly to check aggressors.” Patton first expresed his views at an off-the-record news conference held at the height of the flurrv over his Bavarian administration. He put them on the record today. Describing himself as a man who has “studied and practiced war all my life,” Patton asserted he was ut terly opposed to it, but I am not an ostrich.” “Wars are not the results of a set of logical circumstances,” he said. “Almost invariably wars are pro duced through the efforts of a few unbalanced people who play on the many by exploiting thwarted ambi tions and emotions of avarice or re venge.” “Since one can not determine when or where such unbalanced in dividuals will appear, it is impos sible tt> prophesy when or whom we shall next fight,” he added. Pointing out that the United States has been in nine wars ~ in 133 years, eight of them involving fighting outside the country, Patton said: “After each previous war and ap parently at the present moment, we have been induced as a nation to subscribe to the doctrine that ‘in weakness there is strength,’ that you prevent wars by disarming—just as you prevent fires by abolishing the fire department. “As a result of this policy of un preparedness we have always had to improvise armies . . In two World wars, \merica has come from be hind to insure victory. Everyone knows this; and the next time a war is thrust upon us our opponents, whoever they may be, will see to 40,000,000 COULD BE KILLED IN ONE ATOMIC RAID, CONGRESS TOLD Washington, Oct. 17— Congress \ was told today that 40,000,000 Ameri cans could be killed in one overnight atomic raid if there is “one false move in international diplomacy.” Dr. H. J. Curtis, one of the men who helped i~ake the atom bomb, called for a “miracle” in interna tional relations to prevent a “war too horrible to contemplate.” He said the impelling motives for a miraculous improvement in diplo macy “should be just as strong as those which moved us to create the atomic bomb.” Dr. Curtis testified at a joint Senate Military-Commerce sub committee hearing on behalf of the Association of Oak Ridge scientists. The hearings are on a proposed national science foundation to ex plore the atom and other scientific developments. Another witness, Dr. J. R. Oppen- heimer of the New Mexico atomic laboratories, testified “I am afraid it is” when a sked if it was true that a single night’s raid on Amer ica could kill 40,000,000 persons in congested cities. Curtis predicted that the sci entists’ suggestion for international control might be scoffed at as vis ionary. “In reply,” he said, “I will simply state that the possibility of develop ing atomic energy was also so label ed a scant six jears ago, and yet today it is a reality. “We have concluded,” he went on, “that the best interests of this country will be served by turning over control of atomic energy to an international authority whose func tion will be to so regulate the de velopment of atomic energy that the ; atomic bomb will be used only by a world authority if necessary for the enforcement of peace.” President Truman talked at the White House with legislative leaders during the day about the future use and control of atomic energy. SECRET ELECTION BALLOT SOUGHT Columbia, Oct. 17—Aid of a state board in- obtaining a secret general election ballot for South Carolina as an attraction te new industry was being sought today. Mrs. Cornelia Dabney Tucker of Chaileston, who has lobbied at many legislative sessions for a single bal lot law for the state, said the state’s new Research, Planning and De velopment board would be asked to recommend such a law to the 1946 general assembly. “Nothing the board,” which was created to advance the state’s in dustrial development, “could do for industrial development could be more importnat than getting be hind this drive,” Mrs. Tucker said. She and M. L. Carter of St. An- drewls parish near CHarleston are seeking 100 signatures from each of the state’s 46 counties to a •pe tition asking the board to make the recommendation to the legislature. They said they had signatures from Charleston, Barnwell, George town, Orangeburg, Greenville, Col leton and Beaufort counties. The state law provides for po litical parties to furnish their own individual ballots. A voter asks at the polls for a democratic, republi can, or other political party ticket, and must vote the straight ticket for which he, asks. Only by preparing an individual ballot conforming to statutory speci fications can a voter split his bal lot among several parties’ candi dates. DIES IN FLORIDA it to the best of their ability that the arsenal of democracy is de stroyed or critically damaged before it can become effective. “ . . My thesis is that, had we been prepared, several of those wars we have engaged in would not have J happened and all of them would j have been much shorter and less [ bloody. Clinton, Oct. 17—Dr. J. Dillard Jacobs, Sr., 72, well konwn doctor and business man of Atlanta, Ga., died Wednesday morning at 10:55 o’clock at Daytona Beach, Fla., after several years of declining health. ye was a native of Clinton, a son of the late Dr. Wm. Plumer Jacobs and Mary Jane Dillard Jacobs, both old and priminent families of this state. He is survived by one son, John Dillard Jacobs, Jr., also two broth ers, Dr. Thornwell Jacobs and R. Wm. States Jacobs. The body will be brought to Clin ton Thursday night where funeral services will be held at the resi dence of his nephew, J. F. Jacobs, Sr., on Calvert Ave., at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon. Interment will be in the Presbyterian cemetery. BOARD OF TRADE It’s a real Board of Trade ... the train board you see in every Southern Railway station... For it heralds the arrival and departure of the buyers and sellers who make trade possible in your community. It's a symbol, too, of all the other trains which carry the merchandise, food, fuel, clothing; the raw materials for busy factories; their myriad products; the imple ments and supplies needed by productive farms; the varied crops they produce; all the thousands of things which constitute trade. In short, it’s these trains that enable your community to trade the things it makes and grows for the products of other communities like yours all over the land. Thus, the train board in your station is truly a board of trade... a master key to growth and prosperity for your community. It means that you can aim confidently toward an ever-expanding volume of trade. It means that the Southern Railway System will be ready to supply dependable, efficient, all-weather trans portation service on which all trade lives — and thrives. I - Fidudaut SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM ( The Spectator Is the Democratic Party of South Carolina subject to Federal control? May Federal courts intervene and direct that the Party shall admit to membership any man or woman who applies? What is a Political Party? Is it a necessary instrumentality in our government ? Is it recognized as a necessary device of the State or na tion? Is it the only means by which the popular will be ascertained ind made effective? The Associated Press has this to say of a recent meetng of Colored •people held in Columbia: “A meet ing of the National Council of Negro Democrats held today was told to •pin its fight for admission into the ranks of the Democratic Party on “rights guaranteed under the United States Constitution:’ What rights are guaranteed by the Constitution which the colored people may invoke? We a re accustomed to very careless references to the Con stitution. Some wag has said that the Bible proves its Divine inspira tion by withstanding the interpreta- strife.” The negroes may think that their votes would not be counted in the General Election; they may fear fraud there. Well it is a fact that the General Election of 1944 was tinctured with fraud in some coun ties, as is well known, but the de liberate denial of a citizen’s rights was more often practiced against White men than against Negroes. So the political frauds of 1944 were I not based on Color; they were ex.' pressions of ring rule. Do the Colored people think they would be more fortunate inside the South Carolina Democratic Party ? Have they never heard the rumors that a certain candidate for high of fice was counted out in the South Carolina Democratic Primary last year because a little group of high- powered political Engineers didn’t approve his platform? Our Pri maries are not what they should be. That isn’t because of the law, but because the political manipulators are both alert and resourceful, while the law-abiding people are far from the “madding crowd’s ignoble General Assembly shall never grant extra compensation, fee or allow ance to any public officer, agent, servant or contractor, after service rendered or contract made, nor au thorize payment or part payment of any claim under any contract not authorized by law.’’ The court was mindful of not onjy the clear language of the Constitu tion, but the implications of .the statute authorizing the payment of the bonus or re-imbursement. Observe the clarity of this Con stitutional provision; and then try to explain why the General Assembly, with all its lawyers, would pass it; and why the Governor should sign it. tions of the wicked as well as the righteous; the ignorant as well as the seeker after truth In somewhat the same manner the Federal Con stitution has suffered—friends and foes alike have manhandled and mangled it. During the recent war we heard much of the war powers, of the President; he was proclaimed the Commander-in-chief of the nation, civilians as well as the armed forces. Tha,t myth was sedulously propagat ed as an excuse foi* a degree of dic tatorship which was not only incon sistent with the Constitution but in express, point-blank contradiction, of clear provisions of that great docu ment. This claim of the colored people to invoke the Federal Constitution to gain for them admission into the South Carolina Democratic Party re minds me of an experience I had in South America, if you will indulge me; and it proves again the readiness of people to base their claims on “rights” which do not exist. The Congress of a country in South America was considering a bill to do certain things. A score of the most distinguished lawyers join ed the Rector of the National Univer sity in challenging the Constitution ality of such a law, if enacted. I was asked to read the brief because it affected my office. To my amaze ment I found that no citation was applicable. Those gentlmen based their contention on the Constitution of that country, on the Civil Law and on certain special organic laws forming a code and known as the Ley Organica I read every citation and found them without any bearing at all on the case at issue. So, now, I find the same practice in this mat ter of the Negroes who wish to come into the South Carolina Democratic P&rty by some sort of comnulsion of the Federal courts. Thev rely on what they allege to be “rights guar anteed by the United States Consti tution.” The Constitution of the United States prescribes the legal processes for certain elections, leaving other decisions to the States. This State, in turn, has a General Election which chooses certain officials We do not elect any official in a Democratic Primary; officials are elected in a General Election; and this is true even of aldermen in a small town. The Constitution says nothing of Political Parties. The Democratic Party did not exist at the time of the Constitutional convention. The Con stitution did not contemplate Politi cal Parties. Political Parties are organizations of citizens, contrived by them as a means of exercising and enjoying their Constitutional rights. A Political Party is like a club; it is a private association, without constitutional rights, privi leges or obligations. No man has a Political Party right under ^ the Constitution; and no court has a valid excuse for assmuing jurisdic tion in Political Party matters, so long as the Party is not a necessary part of the legal, Constitutional pro. cesses. The South Carolina Democratic Party is completely separate from the General Election. It conducts a preferential primary so that all members of the Party may indicate their choices for office; but the election—the only official and de termining process—is the General Election, which the State orders, controls, declares and enforces. The Constitution of the United States refers to the privileges and immunities of citizens and it pro hibits discrimination because of race, color or previous condition of servi tude. Now this applies not only, to negroes, but to Chinese, Hindus and any other group; but it is clearly a matter dealing with certain Civil rights. No man can claim member ship in a Political Party as a Civil right guaranteed by the Constitu tion. South Carolina indulges in a bit of loose practice which really oper ates in favor of the negroes, if they care to use it. As you know, we have no State ballot in the General Election. Any registered citizen has the right to prepare and distribute a ballot and to vote it, in the Gen eral Election. Ten thousand negroes could not affect the result of a State Democratic Primary, so even if they were admitted to the Primary they wouldn’t count unless they were corralled by some unscrupulous White man, masquerading as a Dem ocrat; but ten thousand Negroes could vote their own ticket in a Gen eral Election. The bars are down; any one can distribute and vote his ^ ticket in the General Election; whereas a Democratic Primary would j merely swallow the negro vote and then bar them from voting in the ' INVOLUNTARY CHARITY I have tried to “reason this out” calmly, on the basis of the Constitu tion I am not so ignorant as to be unaware of the trend of Federal Administrative practice . We South, ern people are acting like a lot of weaklings Why don’t we assert in positive terms that we shall main tain our traditional rights? Why do we sit like timid souls while the federal agencies trample on us? Could we force ourselves into a fraternal order, even if its members should vote alike? Would we demand admission into a Workers’ Organi zation, even though they voted alike? could we call on the courts to com pel the P A. C. to admit us, even though it is a political organization and as such is frankly, publicly and widely proclaimed ? The P. A. C, is quite frankly a political organiza tion; it is the Political Action Com mittee of a great workers’ organiza tion. Could one of us force our way in? Certainly not; the Workers’ Union is a private affair, even though a strike may be of grave national concern; the P. A. C. is a private organization though it op erates in many States in a well-ad vertised campaign for or against candidates. The workers contend that they are within their rights, and that the Natinal Manufacturers Association may organize a political Committee i if it chooses to do so And, of course, it could. So, the private character of the Democratic Party, or the Republican Party, is as unassailable on Consti tutional grounds as that of any other organization, regardless of its scope, wealth or program. The South should not merely take a defensive position, with retreats all the time. Let us organic ourselves and put the Northern politicians on the run. We accomplish nothing by ducking and dodging and shadow boxing; we must stand to the line and then go forward. I’ve seen a decision by our State Supreme Court, arising from a suit in Union County. The Court was divided on some points, but the pre vailing opinion was by Mr. Justice Stukes. In 1939 the Union County Legisla tive Delegation put the County of ficials on salary and required that the fees should be turned over to the County. This was done. But in 1943 a different Delegation had the Legislature to enact a bill re-im- bursing the officials for the differ ence between the salaries and the fees. The total so drawn from the county treasury was $15,299.74. The Supreme Court, on appeal, sustained Judge J. Henry Johnson of the Cir cuit Court, resting its decision main ly on section 30 of Article 3 of the State Constitution, which reads: The Reading of the variety of schemes and plans of government for the uplifting and toplcftying of the population, the establishment of the “right” of every man to a job, of “social gains” for all sorts and con ditions of men, we arrive at the conclusion that the common Ameri can taxpayers wil probably be runty of involuntary charity.— Charleston News and Courier. WANTED—A wardrobe trunk. Must be in good condition. Call Mrs. James R. Leavell. Phone 270. LOST—Large male setter, white, answers to name of “Duke”. Strayed from home of Dr. Ride night of 16th. Please notify Dr. Lide or O. W. Coleman, Silverstregt. Reward-3 FOR SALE—Hardwood for heaters or fireplace, sawed any length de sired. Order yours now before the bad weather comes in order to get prompt delivery. Phone Saluda 2656. O. W. COLEMAN, Silverstreet. 4t WANTED—HOGS—will pay $14.40 ceiling price for top hogs. Will buy anything from 100 to 300 lbs. Price according to grade. THE NEWBERRY ABATTOIR. FOR SALE—1 two horse wagon, 1 McCormick mower, runs in oil and in good shape. Seed oats, barley and wheat. H. O. Long & Sons, Silverstreet, S. C. REGISTRATION FOR GENERAL ELECTION The supervisor of registration has been ordered by the Council of the Town of Newberry to open the books of registration September 12, 1946, to remain open until ten days ■be fore the general election of mayor and aldermen in December. Required for registration, tax re ceipts showing payment of all tax es for 1942 and County and State registration certificate. D. L. NANCE, Supervisor of Registration. 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