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THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1947 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA O. F. ARIMFIELD Editor and Publisher Published Every Friday in the Year Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937, at the postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year in advance; Out side S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. CLASSIFIED - ^ATES: One cent per word, minimum of 35c; three insertions for price of two. Long term classified rates on request. The SPECTATOR Nine years ago the President of a big enterprise said to me “Since our people spend eighteen million dollars a year for liquors I can’t complain about high taxes.” $18,- 000,000—eighteen million dollars— My! What an enormuos bill for liquors!! Surely it was a colossal squandering of money. The late J. J. Lawton circulated a statement all over South Carolina about it. That statement prompted my textile friend to speak the words I quoted. $18,000,000!! Now Governor Wil liams tells us that the South Caro lina bill for liquors—legal liquors •—for 194 was $108,000,000-—one hundred and eight millions!! Six times as much as Mr. Lawton told us about. About $50 for every man, woman and child, White and Color ed, in South Carolina. Since the children didin’t drink it—and a few women drink—every man has spent $150. Since many men don’t drink, how much liquor did a drinking man drink? It is true that our bill for public schools looks small when compared with the liquor bill—about a fifth as much, when you add the moon shine liqur to the legal liquor. But the liquor consumers are not the people who pay the tax bills. They pay only liquor taxes; they do not pay the bills for police, penitentiary and jails. Who pays the taxes? The heav iest taxpayers are the Rail Roads, Power companies, and Manufactur ing enterprises. A Rail Road does not drink liquor a Power Company drinks no liquor; The factories con sume great quantities of water, but no liquor. So there is no logical argument from liquor-drinking to school budgets, unless one could persuade a man to contribute a dol lar to the schools with every dollar spent for liquor. The heavy legal spending for li quor is not the total by any means. The Federal Government tells us that Federal Agents seized 1002 stills in this State in 1946. One thousand and two stills seized!! Well, how many more were operat ing? Mark you: Several thousand stills operating while whiskey, beer, wine, gin, rum, brandy—all could be had in virtually every town of iny size; and beer and wine can be bought at hundreds of stores and more hundreds of filling stations. It is appalling! Considering this as a matter of values, what did our State receive for all that money? I don’t mean the State government, but the people, the people in their private character. Regardless of whether you like a ‘toddy”; leaving out every factor oxcept that of value, aren’t we grossly misspending vast sums of money? The Georgia squabble over the governorship is something growing jut of the Constitution of Georgia. One important lesson might be learned from it: that each State has its own Constitution, its own Sta tutes, and its own court decisions md legal traditions. That is all very simple, but time after time some one tries to do something in this State because it is done in some other State. The Constitution of South Caro lina prescribes that the electors of the State (registered voters) shall elect the Governor and that the Lieutenant Governor “shall be chosen at the same time, in the same manner,” etc. as the Governor. When we choose a new Governor his election (by the voters) shall be certified by the Secretary of State to the Speaker of the House. “During the first week of the ses sion, or as soon as the General As sembly shall have organized by the election of the presiding officers of the two houses, the Speaker shall open and publish them (the re turns of the election) In the pres ence of both houses. Our Legislature has no discretion in the matter; the election is by the people. However, “if two or more shall be equal, and highest in votes, the General Assembly shall during the same session, in the House of Representatives, choose one of them Governor” . . . We have always assumed that the death of a Governor-elect would automatically promote the Lieu tenant Governor to the Governor ship. A fresh reading of our Con stitution leaves a gap open in South Carolina because the Constitution of our State refers to the elevation of a Lieutenant-Governor in case of the removal from office of the Gov ernor, by impeachment, death, re signation, disqualification, • disabili 40,000^ GOOD JOBS A MONTH i IRfhere? In the Regular Army — now charged with the vital task of guarding the peace. The Army has announced that 40,000 jobs monthly will be open to young men who can meet its physical and mental requirements. These jobs offer excellent pay, travel, valuable training in skills and trades. The qualified volunteer will be in the thick of the newest technical and scientific discoveries. He will have a chance for rapid advancement. And, if he makes the Army a career, he can retire with a lifetime income while still a young man. A 3-year enlistment allows a choice of branch of service, among those with quotas to be filled, and a choice of overseas theater, among those still open. You can find out about the high "take- home” pay, educational benefits under the GI Bill of Rights and many other advantages, at your nearest LJ. S. Army Recruiting Station. ' THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE IS PUBLISHED IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST BY: C. D. Coleman Co. “DEPENDABLE SERVICE” Phone 400 ty, or removal from the State. Ob serve that the Lieutenant-Governor succeeds to the office only when the Governor leaves the office, as stated. Under the working cited it is conceivable that precisely the same conflict might arise in South Carolina that is embroiling Geor gia. A Governor who dies before assuming office is not in office. As a matter of highest law he cannot assume office until after the Speak er has opened and published the returns in the presence of both houses, after the organization of both Senate and House. This surprises me, but there is the Constitution. Even the Feder al Constitution should be amended so as to clarify this point. It speaks of the removal, death etc. of “a President”; it says nothing of a President-elect. This is not a mere quibble because the President and Vice President elect qualify only after the counting of the Electoral vote in the Senate. The Electors from each State meet on the first Monday after the Second Wednes day in December to vote for Presi dent and Vice President. They send their votes to the President of the Senate. The ballots are then count ed before the joint session of Senate and House. Congress meets on January 6th for that purpose. Now until then WHO is President? If it appears that all this is a quibble, behold the State of Geor gia. If we had an intense parti sanship as in former days, all such possibilities might be fully explor ed and exploited. It is just as well to fill us the gaps. As to the constant sniping at our kind of America, let me quote from The Congressional Record, of Jan uary 13: “The War Department advises that the following individuals re presenting the following institu tions, listed the text in question as first, second, or third choice and it was thereby selected: Prof. Harvey A. Wooster, Oberline College, Ohio; Pauline Woodard, Vanderbilt Uni versity, Nashville, Tenn.; Dean R. E. Glos, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; Prof. Dudley F. Pegrum, Uni versity of California, at Los Ange les; Prof. Shorey Peterson, acting chairman. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich; Dean Calvin B. Hoover, Duke University, Califor nia; Dean D. D. Carroll, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Prof. C. W. Hasek, Pennsylvania State College; Prof. Donald English, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; Prof. Jesse S. Robinson, Carle ton College, Northfield, Minn.; Prof. F H. Elwell, the University of Wis consin, at Madison; Dean Elmore Peterson, University of Colorado at Boulder; Prof. Clair Wilcox, 9 NURSES ELIGIBLE COMMISSION IN U. S. ARMY NURSE CORPS Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania; and Prof. Lloyd P. Rice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. This makes one wonder just how far the Com munists have infiltrated the Ameri can educational system, when books recommended by such people re presenting the American Council on Education can turn up to Com munist to the core. I have the names of others involved which I make available to the committee. On pages 315-316 we find some advice to the armed forces which is designed to help avoid the pit- falls of half-hearted planning: It would seem that a choice must be made between a capitalistic economy and a planned economy, for extensive economic planning could scarcely be carried on under capitalism, in a planned economy a governfnental board or commis sion, appointed or elected, would di rect the economic activities of the country. With assistance of local agencies throughout the country, and aided by a great mass of statist ical data, the central board would decide what goods to produce and in what quantities. Most economists agree that such economic planning is impossible unless society as a whole, through the government owns all the nonhuman resources oi production. That is, land and cap ital must be socialized if national economic planning is to be effec tive.” All right; having equalized oppor tunity what would you do with it? This is equality of poverty. What I wonder about is this: What would anyone do with "Equal ity of opportunity" under Commun ism? Of course that equality could be found in poverty or in jail. No opportunity for a real America can come through Communism. Registered nurses who are grad uates of a recognized school have the opportunity of doning an Army Nurse Corps uniform with a second lieutenant’s bar on the shoulder. That’s the word from Lt. Col. Agnes Maley, Chief of the Nursing Division, Medical Section, Head quarters, Seventh Army, in At lanta, who explains that the need for Army nurses has opened the way for qualified civilian nurses to obtain commissions in the Army of the UnUited States. To be eligible for initial appoint ment, the graduate-nurse appli cant must be unmarried, a citizen of the United Stats, under 34 years of age, without dependents under 14 years of age and must pass an Army physical examination. Appointments of successful ap plicants will be for : 1) an unlimit ed period; 2) for two years; 3) for 18 months, according to the catego ry which the applicant selects. There may be a trip abroad for those who are successful, as Army nurses are subject to overseas duty. Complete information may be ob tained by addressing a letter to Col. Maley, or calling on her in person. VIRGINIA GAIL SINCLAIR Virginia Gail Sinclair, four weeks old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel- vni Sinclair, died Friday at the home of her parents in Whitmire. Funeral services were held at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon from the residence at 26 Gary street in Whitmire, conducted by the Rev. Connally Gamble. Interment follow ed in the Whitmire cemetery. She is survived by her parents: her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sinclair and her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Vera McKain Whisonant. 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