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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY. JULY 25. 1947
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NEWBERRY, S. C.
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SPECTATOR
A thoughtful citizen makes
this point: “A person born in
the United States must live
here twenty-one years before he
is permitted to vote, whereas
one who arrives here from a
foreign land, filled with foreign
ideas, is permitted to cast his
vote within five years from the
time of his arrival. Perhaps
it is too much to expect that
our several States will ever
compel a foreigner to be here
twenty one years before he can
vote.” Let your mind ponder
that awhile. A boy bom here,
son of parents born here, even
of grandparents and great
grandparents who were born
here, he must be twenty one
years old in order to vote—and
twenty one seems early enough.
But this boy was bom ana
reared in the atmosphere ot
America, in the spirit of Ameri
ca. He attended school here,
played with other young Ameri
cans, became steeped in all that
is America. A foreigner can
not possibly understand America
in five years. He will draw oui
high wages, enjoy America’s
comforts and opportunities, but
he is not of the warp and woof
of America.
An Englishman or a Scotch
man, an Irishman, a Swede, a
Norwegian a Dane, might enter
into the American spirit more
readily than others. Franl*iess
compels us to say that the Ger
mans were a valuable element
in our National development, but
even all the Nations mentioned
are far apart from the American
way of living. Most others are
almost hopelessly incapable of
fully developing the American
spirit.
It is not that a foreigner of
thirty is not more developed
than a n American of twenty one;
he is; but his development along
different lines only increases the
difficulty in becoming in very
truth an American.
What kind of America would
we have if only naturalized cit
izens lived here?
The time is ripe to build a
fence around our garden, this
great nation. And it is time to
“chop out” some of the weeds
which threaten to choke the
plants.
We Americans must quit theo
rizing about mankind and learn
to study facts. The most im
pressive fact is that we have
nutured a fine garden and open
ed the gates for all the “strays”
to come in and uproot the flow
ers.
There is something here, this
America of ours, which we
should cherish as beyond price
and beyond the despoiling hand
of vote-hunters. Every national
election shows how un-American
influences are increasing their
power in our public life. Each
success multiplies the power to
dominate the Nation. We have
today strongly organized groups
of Naturalized citizens whose
first loyalty is to some other
country, though they enjoy all
the benefits of this country.
We cannot save America by
embracing those who seek only
to fatten on our land. We have
enough people here now. Let’s
make Americans of them before
we admit any more.
How quickly we accept for
eign ideas! The President of
the United States argued against
the Tax-reduction bill on the
ground that the men of wealth
would have too large a “take-
home” income, even after the
tax. Is that a sound point? If
a man pays his part of the bur
den of taxation why should the
Government try to regulate his
spendable income? Mr. Roose
velt borrowed the idea from the
Communists, that no man should
have more than $25,000 a year.
Well, let’s put it this way: the
great majority of our people
have an income of less than
$1200 a year. Shall we hold ev
erybody down to that?
It is not the business of our
Government to regulate our liv
ing, except to guarantee police
protection to all and to keep
the door of opportunity open.
The Government does not owe
me a house, a good living or a
good job. That is rank Com
munism. The Government owes
me nothing but protection and a
fair, open road. •
Even newspapers are repeat
ing Mr. Truman’s argument. As
I see it, they have but one goal:
to win an election. All the
principles of government are
thrown overboard because one
man, ONE MAN, tells us in lan
guage of the Communists that
he vetoed a tax-reduction bill
because the man who pays a
20% tax will still have more
than the man who pays only
10% tax.
By the logic of Mr. Truman’s
Communistic reasoning a loaf
of bread should sell for five
cents six cents, and on up to
twenty five cents, because the
man who pays twenty five cents
has more money than the man
who pays five cents.
The argument of the Presi
dent is even worse than that:
the man who pays twenty five
cents should pay much more,
apparently paying so much
more for what he buys each
week that he will be on the lev
el with the poor man who pays
five cents for a loaf of bread.
In other words, neither taxes
nor merchandise can have a
steady, stable valuation; every
thing must be so calculated as
to take all that you have.
Is that the sort of idea that
made this a great country?
What makes America great is
that every woman with an or
dinary ice box is dreaming of
great mechanical freezers of all
sorts. All of us who ride in
small cars want the way open
to own a big car, the sweet,
smooth, lovely car that will
make you turn green with envy
as we roll by and give traffic
policeman the shock of his life.
That’s America: — Ambition,
aspiration, an urge to get to the
top. We don’t want anybody to
level us off, to make us of the
same pattern, to feed us out of
the same spoon. No, Siree! We
want our own spoon, our own
pattern.
Let me tell you of a man who
was typical of the American
who lifts up his head and works
with a vision.
Years ago there lived in And
erson County, South Carolina, a
young man, a farmer-boy. Back
in the days when money was
scarce, whe n a dollar was as big
as ail the outside, this lad work
ed on the farm, worked hard.
Though he performed all the
duties, even all the drudgery of
those days, he had a dream; he
r went about his work day-by-day,
' year-by-year, dreaming of a big
house, with a golden dome. I
did not know him in the days of
his struggles; when I knew ’ im
he had achieved success; he was
one of the men who refused to
put aside his dream; it sustained
him through the years.
When I knew this gentlemen
he had built his big house, and
it was topped by a golden dome
—the dream came true. That
was America in the very es
sence. No man made this as
piring man to fit in a groove;
he dreamed a dream—how truly
American. What others could
do, he could do. At least he
asked for a fair field, just a
chance to match his energy, his
zeal, against the difficulties, the
vexations, the heart-breaking
disappointments. And out of all
that emerged the reality of his
dream! Under Communism men
don’t have such dreams. Only
the ruling group dreams, dreams
of more power for themselves,
a glorified, grasping, sordid bu
reaucracy, bowing and scraping
to one man and his satellites.
America is the land in Which
most of those who have emerg
ed from the mass rose by their
own work. They had visions
and dreams in the land of great
visions and dreams. Let us keep
it so. The man today, or his
son tomorrow or his grandson
may reach the very top. Only in
America is that true in the larg
est measure.
The idea of a guarantee of
sixty or sixty five cents an hour
by law, is open to many objec
tions. Most industries pay more
than that now, pay it voluntar
ily, because operations are prof
itable. But if operations are
not profitable the industries
may shut down. Let wages be
fluid, as prosperous operations
make possible.
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Most of the great experiences
have been written in books. A
library is a treasure house of
active, fruitful minds.
There are men of books; and
there are bookish men. The per
son who reads or studies all the
time, but does not use what he
reads or studies is likely to be
come only a selfish gleaner in
the field of life without sowing
any seed.
Newspapermen and ministers
especially have to keep their
knowledge and their reading
ready for use.
Of course there is such a
thing as reading just for pleas
ure. I read a Scotland Yard
story every night as a sleep in
ducer, but that is pleasure, that
is selfish pleasure. I read Jim
Farley’s account of his break
with President Roosevelt for
whatever light it may throw on
that hectic period of dictatorial
power, though nothing so far
increases my admiration for Mr.
Farley. Admiral Halsey, whom
we admire as a fighting man,
strains to defend Admiral Kim-
mel and General Short.
We must admire the courage
of Admiral Halsey and his loy
alty, but we must not conclude
that army and navy officers
may be caught napping without
blame. Any farmer or merchant
of Fairfield would tell you at
once that the most elementary
precautions would have lessened
the losses, lessened them at
least.
Great as may have been the
fault in Washington, no officer
in command on the spot can ex
cuse himself for being entirely
unprepared. However, hats off
to the gallant, fighting “Bull”
Halsey; he stands by his friends.
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