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THE NEWBERRY SUN i FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1948 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Armfield Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY 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 outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR Seven Governors have turned definitely against the renomina tion of Mr. Truman. One notes that the Governor of North Carolina and the Governor of Florida were then on the side lines. The Governor of Florida has come over. Johnson has de clared wholeheartedly for Gen eral Eisenhower for President. The point has been raised. Is General Eisenhower in sympathy with us? Nothing would be gained, absolutely nothing, by swapping Mr. Truman for Gen eral Eisenhower unless the Gen eral is for us and against the program of Mr. Truman. Does Senator Johnston know this to be true? Mr. Truman can smile as broadly as the Eisenhower grin, but we want more than a beaming countenance; we want a man who will defend the Constitutional rights of the States to govern themselves in the local police matters. We want someone who will not re gard the Federal Government as a vast uplift society for the re distribution of the wealth of the people; and as the Santa Claus of the world. Politically the nomination of General Eisenhower would make him the target for all the at tacks on our war campaigns. The Republicans would have a delightful time pointing to the gross blunders of strategy and tactics of our leadership in the war. Instead of trying to cap italize General Ike’s popularity of the moment, it might be wiser to think of his weak spots as well as our ignorance of his political principles. Nor do we need men like Mr. Farley. What we need is a man who thinks straight and whose re cord is not that of a resource ful lieutenant of the New Deal, but, rather, a man who has known all along that no coun try can spend itself into riches nor coddle the unthrifty into ease and plenty. Some writer says that no helpful result will attend the Southern revolt because the re volt springs from politicians in stead of the masses. That ob servation is not entirely true, for the masses have been alarm ed, disgusted and aroused for sometime. It is the politicians who are slow to see the trends. However, the politicians have seen a great light and now they are running with the ball, hop ing to make a touchdown. One of the urgent needs of the day is to muzzle all those in Washington who give out statements to the press and radio commentators. We are working up a great war scare, largely because of statements and inspired comments. Just recently the heads of our war services were in conference ov er defense plans. That is the business of a military staff. But why was that reported from Washington with a lot of bom bastic insinuation, that this is serious? Are we trying to talk ourselves into a war? Or are we trying to scare Rusia with ballyhoo? Don’t we know that there are thousands of men and women in America who tell the Rusians more about us than we know ourselves? The American foreign policy at times seems like a childish procedure. Notice of TAX PENALTY After the close of business on . MARCH 31st, 1948, a V Penalty of will be added to all unpaid 1947 State and County Taxes. After April 15 all taxes go into execution with 3 per cent collec tion cost added. J. Ray Dawkins What have we learned about [ Rusia? Anything new? No; i just the same old European practice of lying and stealing. Instead of our playing smart politics, and heading for dis aster, we should have cleared our decks for action; we should have kept our navy in fighting trim; and the air force at top form. We spend enough for all this, but we get the least for our money of any people in the world. Blundering through three years since the close of active warfare, we are preparing today to pour out the resources of our Nation, the tax-payers’ money, our great national heritage, to fight the advances of Russia. We ought to ask ourselves some questions: Is it our duty to protect the nations of Eu rope and Asia? If so, how shall we do it? Shall we pour money and supplies, much of it wasted utterly; or shall we tell Russia that we stand in her path with all the might of* an embattled nation? Senator George Warren of Hampton County, writing for the Hampton Guardian, argues for a Southern attitude of po litical self defense. In this con nection, it is timely to present the Southern contention in more detail: The Union grew out of a voluntary association of thir teen Sovereign States. These States had waged and won the Revolution and their indepen dence had been recognized by the King of England as thirteen Sovereign States, each as com pletely independent as England herself. For their common interest these States collaborated in the formation of a Federal Union, under explicit provisions which enabled the Federal Govern ment to operate but within cir cumscribed bounds, while re serving powers to the States. The great charter of the Union is the Constitution; it sets forth briefly but clearly the broad outlines of National and State jurisdiction. The powers of the Congress are defined in seven teen clauses, together with the eighteenth, which confers such power as may be necessary to carry into execution the pow ers conferred in the seventeen clauses. The Constitution also abridges the exercise of State Sovereign ty in some provisions, but the fundamental law was clear that the States retain all powers not conferred on the National Gov ernment nor denied to the States. (Tenth amendment) The Civil War, with the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, made the Ne gro a citizen of the Nation and of the State, but the Constitu tion remains the franchise of American States rights and is in full force and virtue, though evaded, invaded, encroached up on, distorted and disregarded. In stead of constituting a scope of relative functions, it has been used to enlarge the Federal power to the constant dispar agement of the States. The States understood the dis tribution of powers in 1879, but they were re-assured by the Bill of Rights—the first ten Amendments—in 1790, among these the Tenth Amendment, which reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor pro hibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respec tively, or to the people.” Following the Civil War the Supreme Court of the Nation approved racial separation on trains—(Plessy v Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537) and decided that the right to send to school was a State matter exclusively; and distinguished between a citizen of the Nation and the citizen of a State, holding in the Slaughter House cases—16 Wal lace 72—that a law under con sideration operated on the ci tizen of the State only, and not as citizens of the United States. Other decisions of the great Court held that not all Civil Rights cases were for the Na tional GoVelmment—Slaughter House Cases—>16—Wallace 77. The Court in handing down some of those decisions had 1 before it the 14th and 15th I amendments. It was the basic principle of the federalized union that the Nation should operate with in the defined scope of its attributions and that the States should be self-governing and supreme in domestic matters, including the maintenance of the public peace and order, with all correlative police functions, save only as the Nation might have the right to enforce meas ures enacted under the general agreement, where a Federal question was involved. New theories of government and social order; new experi ments in the economy of the world; new concepts of political mass influence and concerted action do not validate Federal interference with the orderly processes of the administration of State laws, nor give sound lawful sanction to Federal as sumptions cf the right to wipe out ethnical prejudices or tra ditions cherished by our people through the centuries. The Nation, as originally plan ned, was the essence of a Demo cratic republic, for the citizens in local units were regarded as more efficient in local concerns than the mighty, vast, sprawling nation. When local matters be come the concern of the nation al Government, the army of bureaucracy swells and govern ment 'becomes a distant, unin formed, bungling organism im posing on us the weight of of ficial incompetency. Now we call on our sister States to re-assert the right of local self-government; and we urge that the States stand to gether in demanding that the Federal Government shall re spect the Constitution in all the amplitude of the States’ pre rogative. All the States have in com mon the protection of their local authority. The issue may be raised in one way today and in another way tomorrow; the issue may be one thing in South Carolina and something else in Massachusetts, but every State is vitally affected by the med dling of the Federal Govern ment. This is a good time for the States to challenge effec tively the presumptions and usurpations of the Washington bureaucracy. The South accepted the harsh result of the Civil War; and during the years has provided liberally for the education of the negroes, devoting to such purpose much more than the taxes for all purposes paid by the negroes. The advancement or devel opment of the negroes has been in the favorable # environment of Southern White people, the race which settled this country, which planned and built its in stitutions, which conceived and formulated the laws, the race which provided the means and the intelligence to develop our splendid economic order. To ask that a master race, a race of conquering, civilizing and educating men should sub mit to impositions of equality of employment is to ignore the plain lessons of history, and to substitute a harsh and des potic order resting on legal en actments, but doing violence to every sentiment of ethnical sense. The South has voluntarily ad mitted negroes to all economic rights, encouraging him and helping him to that degree of development Which is aston ishing to every student of his tory. No race, especially one just four score years from slavery and complete depen dence, could show so marked a degree of growth save under the auspices of favoring factors, such as sympathetic neighbors. Those neighbors are the white people. Although the hypocrisy of political chicanery prompts the pro-negro measures, notably the F. E. P. C., the issue is larger than that of race. The right of the Government, any govern ment under our constitution, to intrude in domestic affairs, eco nomic affairs at that, is one that should arouse true Ameri- | cans everywhere, for it strikes at the liberty to employ, the Announcing the opening of City Generator Service JENKINS STREET Behind Smith Motor Co. GENUINE Generator & Starter Service We Rebuild Any Make All work guaranteed to please our County Treasurer customer H. A. ROBERTS 0 Of Social Interest PAYSINGER-SHEELY Rev. Albert Stemmermann officiated at the double ring ceremony on March 13 when Miss- Sarah Sheely of Little Mountain and Columbia became the bride of _John Benjamin Paysinger, Jr., of Columbia. The rites were performed in Holy Trinity Lutheran church, Little Mountain. Traditional green and white decoratons were used in the church, with cathedral tapers in candelebra forming a soft light in which the vows were spoken. White satin bows marked the liberty to manage one’s private business, and savors not of America, but of Communism. So we appeal to all America, to join us in maintaining the na tion bequeathed to us and hal lowed by the blood of all those who have suffered or died in war. If the National Govern ment may intervene in our police and local economic af fairs: if it may of its own mo tion determine for itself an unlimited scope of power, we have no liberty, but are the creatures of a National Police System as abhorrent to Ameri cans as is the practice of Com munistic despotism. family pews. Nuptial music was furnished by Miss Belvin Sease of Win- throp College, pianist, and Mrs. L. C. Derrick of Little Moun tain, soprano. Mrs. Derrick sang Ave Maria (Schubert) and Because (D’Hardelot) before the ceremony, and The Lord’s Pray er (Malotte) as a benediction, Miss Sease played Clair de Lune (Debussy), Romance in E Flat (Rbbenstein) and Liebestraum (Listz.) Traditional wedding marches were used, and during the ceremony, the pianist ren dered O Perfect Love (Barnby). Preston McAlhaney of New berry served as best man, and ushers were James Sheely of Clemson College, brother of the bride, and Colie Lowman of Chapin. Mrs. Ed Blanton of Columbia, sister of the bride, and Miss Juanita Feagle of Columbia were bridesmaids. Their dress es were designed with basque bodices and off the shoulder bertha collars. The full sweep ing skirts had pleated drapery and bustle backs. Mrs. Blan ton’s costume was of blue taffe ta, Miss Feagle’s was yellow taffeta. Miss Mertie Sheely was her sister’s maid of honor. She was gowned in soft pink net fash ioned with a basque waist and full skirt ending in a slight train. Building Supplies Beautiful 2 panel Western Fir doors, ALL sizes. Glass Doors. Windows, All Sizes, check and plain raii 210 lb shingles, all colors, at 6.75 square Asbestos siding, Nails, Masonite Rock lathe. Celoitex Ceiling Tile, 16” x 32” Plaster, Cement, Mortar Mix. Anything in Building Material We deliver truck load lots. M. W. Crouch & Son Get our prices. Johnston, S. C. Phone 14-J I have purchased the stock and fixtures of the Stokes Drug Store Corner Main and McKibben Streets and will assume active management of the business on * Friday, March 26 This Drug Firm in the future will be operated under the name of Newberry Drug Co. Signed Jesse L. Dickert The attendants carried arm bouquets of pastel flowers tied with satin bows matching their dresses. Flowers in their hair and mitts to match their dress es. completed their costumes. The bride entered the church with her father, Jacob Elonzo Sheely, by whom she was gi ven in marriage, She was loVely in her wedding dress of ivory duchess satin featuring a tightly fitted bodice, long sleeves with glove points, a very full billowy skirt extending into a lengthy train. Her veil of bridal il lusion fell frrom a coronet of orange blossoms, and she carried a bouquet of white roses center ed with a purple orchid and showered with net and hyacinth bells. 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