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Communists Active In South Carolina BY SPECTATOR The Lancaster News recently ran in its edi torial columns the following statement by a sol. dier: “When 1 was discharged from the Army, 1 got a job through the government employ ment agency but 1 had to join the CIO. Is the government employment agency working for the CIO? One month after going to work, I was assessed $5 to support OPA; the next month $5 for organization work in the South and then $2 for flowers for Hillman’s funeral. If 1 don’t pay,’I am told I will be barred from work any where and my wife and child beg or starve. Is this a free country?” And the editor of The News makes this comment: “Talking about slavery, if the working men and women of this country are not being held in slavery by the CIO we do not know the meaning of the word." Nothing further need be said. The ex-soldier scales hit case clearly and the editor comments briefly and impressively. Ponder this, fellow Americans, you citizens of the land of the free. One may wonder whether America has become "the home of the brave", meaning the CIO managing group and our National leaders. "The land of the free" is becoming the land wherein specially favored groups are licenced to prey on their fellow men. If America’s freedom is the freedom of the CIO to impose itself on all workers, with Government encouragement and sanction, then let this become again the home of the brave—a citizenship brave enough to restore equality of opportunity, equal p r otection « of the law. No man can challenge successfully the prin ciple, the very mudsills of America, that a man must enjoy full liberty to-solicit work and hold jobs without membership in any Union or other organization. In employing men in in dustry we do not require that they shall be Democrats or Republicans, Baptists or Metho dists, New Dealers or Old Dealers. A man’s job, his right to work, his opportunity to earn his bread and meat, should not be a political mat ter, whether Party politics, or Union politics. Whether we be followers of Mr. Roosevelt, or Mr. Truman, Mr. Hoover, Mr. A1 Smith or Mr. TaR Mr. Wilson, Mr. Bryan or Mr. Cleve land, we have one vital interest in common, for we, all, love our country, and that interest is to maintain the freedom of the individual. The in dividual!! To protect him in all his liberty— that is American policy since 1 776. Are we *o swap the Declaration of Independence for a Dec laration of compulsory membership in the CIO? Does a Congressman owe special allegiance to a President? Mr. Truman seems to have that idea. His call on the Missouri voters to oust Congressman Slaughter is based on what he regards as opposition to him by Mr. Slaugh ter. I don't know anything about Mr. Slaugh ter and hold no brief for him; I raise the ques tion because the National Government is com posed of three co-ordinate departments—the Legislative, Executive and Judicial. A con gressman is supposed to use his judgement and to obey his own conscience. That is the theory of our National policy; no law requires that a Congressman shall sacrifice his judgement for that of the President. Nor is it thoroughly American for a President to denounce and de feat a Congressman. When Mr. Truman twice vetoed important bills he was within his Con stitutional authority, even though some students of government challenge the use of a veto when the Act of Congress is clear and not a violation of some great basic tradition. However, let us grant the right of the President to veto the Acts; he was deliberately thwarting the clear purpose of the Congress in legislative matters. Mr. Slaughter had not opposed Mr. Truman in Mr. Truman’s field of executive authority; he mere ly did not agree with Mr. Truman in Mr. Tru man's recommendations to Congress. I go into all this detail because intelligent opinion must be based on facts. Shall the Congress now retaliate on Mr. Tru man by prganizing to prevent both his.nomina tion and election? That would be repaying the President in the same coin. Our Government is not like that of Great Britain. Over there the members of the Cab inet are usually members of the Parliament, ap pointed by the King. But the King appoints those who are suggested to him by the majority Party; the majority Party is in control, then, of both the Executive and Legislative Depart ments, working together. It is the Cabinet, as members of Parliament, that introduces legis lation. There is no separation, in practice, be tween the Executive and Legislative Depart ments; they are the same. But we have no such arrangement in this country. THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1946 Is Communism flourishing in South Carolina? The State has something to say about it. The State is the least excitable of papers, enduring placidly all manner of affliction rather than fly to evils which it knows not of. The State has taken notice of the threat, the menace, the very presence of Communism among us, even as The Charlotte Observer has. Says The State editorially: "If any one thinks the Communist party is not active in this state, trying its best, under smart direction, to upset the people and to win converts to its cause, then that person has a rude awakening. For a long time there have been evidences of communistic influences in this section, but the work has not been so out in the open. Now, however, it is different. The Communist party, USA", as it styles itself, has set up a Carolina committee which is distributing litera ture, with names of individual leaders and with a postoffice address in one of the larger cities of the two states. Thus the danger of Communism—something that regardless of rumors seemed far, far from our own state—is very definitely upon us. One of the first aims of the Communist party is to di vide us, to stir up racial strife, to align the poor against the rich, and to hit good government below the belt. For years the Communist party has been a very real threat in other parts of the country, but not down here in the South. Now, with every evidence of playing to prejudice and stirring up strife by creating all the imiginary ills possible and pitting class against class, per son against person, the Communist party not hiding, but out in the open—begins an aggres sive campaign right in our own state. How long this work has been going on, we do not know, but that an organized drive is being set up now is a very definitely established fact. We have seen the literature and read one of the propa- tyanda sheets beine f distributed. VETERANS OF Newberry County * We Are Supporting JAMES McLEOD For Governor Communists are stirring up White people against Colored, and Colored against White. Our Colored people have .nade more progress, sane, sound, stable progress,* than any other people in the history of the world, for the same number of years. This proves not only good qualities among the masses of the Colored people, but it proves the kindly, helpful, tol erant, indulgent attitude of the White people of the South. Observe what is going on in Europe ana Asia: not a question of leadership by a dorr ,iant race, as here in the South, but the bitterest hat red and constant antagonism in every contact. Our Southern negroes—ninety per cent of them—are working happily and prosperously. No hand is against them. They live in peace and cordiality with the White people, both in town and Country. We need not forget that the Negro enjoys today what our fathers won on bloody fields over thousands of years. In Eur ope and Asia White people of illustrous history are beaten, starved, terrorized because of racial clashes, though all of them are White. The human race does not make progress in dramatic exhibitions. Such exhibitions may only prove the slow, steady, sure progress. We are hearing too much about the Negro and his rights today. All this upheaval serves more to emphasize our differences than to promote harmony. Poli ticians are ramming the negro down our throat. The result can only be a deplorable racial em- bitterment. Communists are striving to make this a country like Russia. When you want to lift your head in Russia you ask Stalin. You don’t criticise ML Stalin; you obey him. In this coun try we don't like much government; we believe (as Jefferson did) that the government should not meddle in everything; we are self-governing people. BECAUSE... He is a veteran of World War I and II He advocates adequate educational facilities and opportunity for those desiring further education He advocates every possible assistance for disabled Veterans He advocates full recognition of the debt owed to the wid ows and orphans of those men who made the supreme sacrifice for their country , J \ He advocates full consideration to be given the service ren dered by Veterans within the power of the Governor He advocates hospital and medical care for Veterans As president of. the S. C. Medical Association an agreement was made with the Veterans Administration to give Vet erans medical care m their own communities Communism will never make much headway in the rural districts, for the farmer is still our individualist; but it may—and will catch many town people who have no stake in the land, no interest in the future, no thought but the vision ary idea of getting something for nothing. But the future belongs to all alike, for the poo* man of today may be the father of the leader of to morrow. The Independent (Anderson) tells us edi torially that Mr. Truman was "all-out" against Congreissman Slaughter because Mr. Slaughter was “all-out” against the pet scheme of an F. E. P. C. law. In order to defeat Congressman Slaughter Mr. Truman made common cause with the Pen- dergast Ring, the C. I. O.—and other ele ments not specially Democratic, though sailing under Democratic colors. Spectator is so old-fashioned that he would like to have the presidency restored to its an cient dignity and less embroiled in cheap politics. Vot Fo James McLeod i ' - \ The Veterans Friend % Political adv. paid for by the Veterans of Newberry County