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■ THE NEWBERRY BUN FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1946 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARMFIELD Editor and Publisher Published Every Friday In The Year Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at tht poetoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Comments On Men And Things By SPECTATOR Just musing over the Fourth of July. What was it all about? Why all the fuss and fury? Were the Americans of 1776 just a quarrel some lot of men, ever ready to magnify trifles, to make much ado over nothing? What had the King of England done to them? Perhaps it would not cause a war today, a rebellion, for the Ameri can Patriots were rebels, accord ing to law; they denounced and defied their Soverign Lord, the King. Today we cry aloud in the press, some papers will take a stand; a few radio commentators will discuss the issues; but most Americans will swallow any medi cine if it be given them by their political party. The King of England had levied some taxes—which were not heavy; he asserted the right to try Ameri cans in the Courts of England. If you read the indictment against the King, which is the bas s of our Declaration of Independence, you will find that Thomas Jefferson set out in detail the reason for a break with the English Crown. It is rather a long indictment, indi cating that the King had “refus ed hig assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good”. That “He has erect ed a multitude of new offices, and officers to harass our people and eat out their substance”. “He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws . . . ”. “He has excit ed domestic insurrection among us . . . ”.—and the conclusion in cludes these sentences: “That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be set free and independ ent states.” This year, 1949; a hundred and seventy years after the Great Dec laration, how goes it with America? When the American colonists took the bold step in 1776, declar ing all mandkind to b e free and equal, they meant, of course, that all men were entitled to the equal protection of. the law; that all men stood on the same level for justice. That became a basic prin ciple of our law, of our govern ment—the Equal Protection of the Law for all. That is really the greatest achievement of the found ing fathers. Let us compare the grievances of 1776 with the conditions of 1946. There are no grievances today be cause there is no King to rule over us; whatever we may complain of is a condition due to ourselves, a condition which we can correct if we feel the urge to act. Briefly reviewing the afflictions of 1776 we find that the really large issues were taxation without representation and a general arro gance that virtually held he colo nists in contempt. A little diplo macy would have smoothed things over, for the colonies did not plan to revolt. Today, 1946, we have no enemy from the outside to harrow our spirits or lay the heavy hand of compulsion on us. But we have enemies within our gates, and they are ating at the heart of the great republic which so bravely declared itself when just a small body of patriotic spirits. Do you recall the Trojan Horse? Helen with her lovely self had brought on war with Greece. The Greeks beseiged the City of Troy ten years without success, until a great wooden horse was built and filled with soldiers. The Trojans took the horse within the walls of the city and the hidden soldiers slipped out and opened the gates of Troy to the Greek Army. And the enemies who entered our gates seeking liberty, seeking the oppor tunity which i s America—those enemies are Socialists and Com munists by name; and hundreds of thousands of Americans who are blind or cowardly are hand-in- glova with them. Most of us carry life insurance; we wish to provide for our families when we no longer can bring home the weekly wage envelope or the salary check. We are looking to the future of those who have a claim on us; we wish to provide against many contingencies. But the best insurance we can provide, in a broad, national sense, is a revived spirit of liberty, of equality. And not only a revived spirit of equal ity before the law, but a revival of that fact, a revival of the equal ity itself, in all aspects of our cit izenship. A little property, a few dollars, can quickly make cowards of some men. Instead of daring to do all that may become a man, as Mac beth said, they refuse to stick their necks out. “Safety first” has be come the refuge of men who hold fast to the present, with craven fear lest they suffer for any act of real public welfare. They proudly suffer the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”, rather than take up the cudgels to correct a- buses and restore the heritage of freedom to work, to live, to build, to succeed. Those of us who know of the in fluences at work, the P.A.C., and the others; who, see our Govern ment in Washington toadying to Communistic elements;—where is our Americanism, that we tamely submit to this? Who is it that is trying to in flame the negroes and bring about a clash in the South? The spon sors of all that are the CIO; and our Government eagerly adopts the CIO planks and platforms be cause we are living in a day of votes. Principles of government— the basic equality before the law— have been thrown overboard; we have sinister influences at work seeking power; scheming to under mine and overthrow this “land of the Pilgrims’ pride”. And even the President of the United States the Congress and the Supreme Court are made to feel the power of an arrogant political oligarchy which masquerades as a Labor Un ion. Some of my South Carolina friends must wonder at this, for in this state we have no such la bor government. Indeed we have some real patriots in the Unions of South Carolina. But the threat is coming even here, just a s the fact is established in Washington. Spectator is not a nervous, excit able calamity-howler; he sees only what is clear to most men who read the news of the day. I quote an editorial from The Charlotte Observer of July third: “Revulsion against Communists and left-wingers leads the head of union local at Philadelphia to call a conference to consider gettting out the CIO. Even some members of CIO unons are so nauseated with what they see that they can’t stand it much longer. Many people —and they are not all members of the National Association of Manu facturers—have a lively fear that the open co-operation between the government and the CIO will re sult in the latter taking over the. government. Worse than that is in prospect. If the Communists take over the CIO that would mean the Reds taking over the government. Taking over is a mild word. It would mean over throw of the American system oi government and everything else. It isn’t strange that the union lead er calls for a conference to meei this -menace. The record of Com munism i s that among the first to be overthrown and liquidated are the misguided sympathizers who help them attain power. They have reason to fear. The shadow of Communism is the shadow of death.” No one will deny that this is one of the great papers of Ameri ca; nor will anyone accuse it of being a wild paper. We have something worth cher ishing. The sturdy men who chal- langed a mighty King were men of affairs, men of vision, men of wisdom, men who risked their property and their lives for prin ciples of government. Those sign ers of the Declaration were not just glib talkers, men of no stake. Of the illustrious names signed to the Declaration of Independence, many were businessmen, several of them being merchants. They were not professional politicians or vote- seekers. It is a challange to men of substance to use their ability to conserve the untrammelled oppor tunity which made possible their own rise in life. Today the great nation which was built on the thirteen Colonies which became States, is trying through our courts and through laws and decrees to destroy the States. Through judicial usurpa tion the Inter-State Commerce clause is being made the weapon to obliterate the States. Why did the Colonies declare themselves to be “States”, not provinces? What does the word “State” mean? The word “State” means an independent country, a sovereign nation, as free and self- governing as was Britain herself in all her pomp and majesty. The America" Union was a voluntary associa m of Sovereign powers, calling themselves “States”. They were recognized as independent States by the King. In a nation so vast, of so many varied interests, the States were independent in their local or dom estic affairs, the National Govern ment assuming only the duties common to all the States, such as providing for the Common defense. And the States made a bargain, drew up an agreement, called the Constitution of the United States, which expressly declares that the Nation has only the prerogatives mentioned in the Constitution; and that all other s are reserved to the States, or to the people. Just as our forefathers left Eu rope for a larger opportupity so may any man or men leave a State and move to another State. It is not the function of the United States Government to strain at and stretch the Constitution so as to usurp the reserved Sovereign pre rogatives of the States. What is undermining the States is not any consideration of effi cient administration, but owes its greatest, most powerful impulse to scheming men who are subverting the fundamental rights and liber ties of citizens of the States for the glorification of themselves, the en trenchment of their personal pow er even at the cost of communistic despotism. Announcing The Arrival OF THE NEW 1946 Packard Clipper The public is invited to see and drive this new eight-cylinder Packard demon strator. The new Packard Clipper is being shown for the present at Baker-Summer Ga rage on McKibben Street, next door to the Newberry Recapping Company. Our permanent location at 913 Friend Street is now undergoing repairs and re modeling and when ready for occupancy will offer a complete SERVICE & REPAIR DEPARTMENT The repair department will be under the management of A. S. Pruitt of Anderson, who has had over twenty years experience in motor car maintenance. Sease Motor Co. PACKARD DEALER 913 Friend Street Newberry, S. C. HENDRIX-CROMER Miss Dorothy Amelia Hendrix and George Haygood Cromer were married on Saturday, June 29 in the St. Luke’s parsonage in Pros perity by the Rev. C. E. Seastrunk. Mrs. Cromer Is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tiller Hendrix of Newberry. She has been employed at the Oakland plant of The Kendall mills in Newberry. Mr. Cromer is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cromer of Po- maria. He is employed at the Rock Quarry in Newberry. After a short wedding trip to North Carolina, the young couple are making their home in Newber ry. white accessories and a corsage of pink rosebuds. Mrs. Bedenbaugh is the daugh ter of Mrs. Eva McKissick and the late William McKissick of Newber ry. She received her education in the city schools, and is now em ployed as cashier at the Little Star grocery store. Mr. Bedenbaugh is the 'son of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Bedenbaugh of Newberry. He is employed with the City Construction Company in i Newberry. FULLER-BLALOCK Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Fuller of Clinton announce the marriage of their daughter. Ruby Agnes, to William Moore Blalock on Sunday, the thirteenth of June, nineteen hundred and forty-six, in North Augusta, S. C. McKISSICK-BEDENBAUGH Miss Mary Frances McKissick and William Grady Bedenbaugh were married Tuesday evening, July 9th at 8:30 o’clock at the home of the bride’s pastor, the Rev. H. C. Ritter. Miss Edith Chappell and William McKissick were the only attend ants. The bride choose for her wed ding a dress of light blue with I profoundly deplore the fact that more of this has been done by our own party than was done by all others since the first days of the republic. At the same time I am happy to observe the manly course of our Senators and Representa tives who are waking to the menace of Socialism and Communism and are standing for the full heritage of a free people. NIXON The Practical Educator Candidate for STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION TRAINED FOR THE OFFICE THROUGH: £ Educational Background ^ Professional Experience 0 Civic Responsibilities £ Military Service 0 Ability in Public Rela tions Since 1916, except for service in both World Wars, W. D. 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