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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1945
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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.
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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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