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THE NEWBERRY SUN
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FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1948
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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
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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.
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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. Her only ornament was
an antique locket brought from
Scotland by her great-grand
mother Murdaugh.
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