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THE NEWBERRY SUN | ! FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1948 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. O. F. Arm field 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 The Supreme Court of the United States having declared that the Negro shall be received into the South Carolina Demo cratic Party it is clear that the Democratic Party is a mere name and no longer the Party of our fathers. Shall the South Carolina White men submit to this, or will they promote some pther plan of White unity? It is conceivable that a White Political Action Committee might be formed and that the White Democrats might be guided by it. The C.I.O. has such a Com mittee and the Northern Demo crats have one. It is hardly conceivable that the President or the Courts could declare a Negro to be a White man, even though he may be a Democrat according to National Democra- tic leaders. The Capitol and all State of fices were agog over the deci sion of the United States Su preme Court which virtually de clares the negroes entitled to vote in the Primary. It was suggested that the word “De mocrat” has lost its meaning if the Federal Courts may in tervene on behalf of the Negro. Democracy in South Carolina, it was pointed out, means the White man’s Party. What is to be done? That was on all tongues. Some sug gested that the solution might be to call a convention of White people. White, mark you—and have the White peo ple propose a ticket. Objection was made that a half dozen white people might fight a- mong themselves. That, howev er, was not so strong an objec tion as to be beyond cure, in the thought of others. The White people, as White peo ple, might thresh out their dif ferences and then either con firm the choice in a Democratic Convention, or, else, proceed di rectly to the General Election. Just at the moment it ap pears that a preliminary com petition among White people, confirmed by a Democratic Con vention might eliminate the Negro, for while a packed Court may regard a Negro as a Demo crat; and while President Tru man may welcome him eager ly as a Democrat, even a Jeffer sonian. Jacksonian, Rooseveltian Democrat, it is not possible for Mr. Truman or the Supreme Court to declare a Negro a White man. By whatever means, the South will not yield to this. All this officiousness is serving only to embroil the nation in strife and promote racial animosities to the point of overt acts of dire ful hostility. The outbreak in Bogota, Co lombia. South America, was, ap parently, an affair planned to the Nations of this part of the world, all the nations which impress the world. Why? Well, compose what is called the Pan- American Union, are having a conference in Bogota. The dis orders and bloodshed appear to have been timed to prove that the Western Nations are not solidly opposed to Communism. The outbreak, then, was inspir ed by Communists. That seems true. Bogota is not an industrial ized city; it sits remote from the great currents of commerce back in a remote setting, up in the Andes Mountains. It has the reputation of speaking the purest Spanish spoken outside of Spain. In fact it is pure Castilian. Bogota owes that to the circumstances of its aloof ness; it is not corrupted by other tongues, as is notably true of Buenos Aires, of the Argen tine, where Spanish is so badly mixed with Italian that one of my Peruvian friends asked an Argentinian to speak English so that he might understand him. There is no all-the-way train service from the coast to Bo gota; but whether one travels from the ports of Cartagena, Barranquilla, Buenaventura, or other port, one travels by sev eral means on the climb to Bo gota. In Latin countries, both of Europe and the Americas, the University students have been the most easily aroused. In recent years the unrest among the workers has found expres sion there also. The Latin has a greater fondness for theor etical formulas than we; he is happiest in discussion, particu larly in the intellectual aspects, the unapplied phases, abstract ideas. The Latin rejoices in an idea; he clothes it with all the charm of his beautiful lan guage and totally mesmerizes himself. With that quality of dramatics, which enables him to act on all occasions, the La tin completely loses himself in the idea, or becomes a vivid, persuasive, vociferous exponent, in a measure logical, compell ing and engaging. Life isn’t logical; life is an effort to bring diverse groups or individuals to some common ground. The Latin is so* thrill ed with his abstract idea that he becomes oratorical declam atory, or literary. As a great engineer said to me: “He can put on paper a perfect railroad; but he can’t lay a cross-tie.” Communism seems to thrive among the intellectuals; they can expound theories without regard to the cold facts or the circumstances. It is an intel lectual exercise; an opportuni ty to indulge in the beauties of language, the nobility of programs, and the complete rapture of deep conviction. I like the Latins; they are bright, lively, quick, fervid, courtly and gracious. We seem to them to be cold, unemotional, lacking in that sensitivity which makes all Latins poets at heart. It seems to me that General Marshall was quite right in proceeding with the conference, regardless of rumors of impend ing trouble by Communists. I Neither the United States, nor any other nation, should allow More Truw than ‘Poetry 9 The verse is from a musical comedy song-hit of the late 30 s. It brought the house down—very possibly because there was much more than a grain of truth in it! For money saved up can mean many of the things that make life sunnier—a home of your own, education for your children, a long vacation trip. That’s why it’s smart to start now on a plan of regular, systematic, and automatic saving for the future. There are two plans for doing this, through the purchase of U. S. Savings Bonds. If you’re on wages or salary, you are eligible for the Payroll Savings Plan. If you’re not, but have a bank account, you are eligible for the Bond-A-Month Plan. Join the millions who are saving for security through one or the other of these savings plans. You’ll be helping America to stabilize its economy . . . and helping yourself to a secure and sunnier future. Sign up now! Or, if you’re already signed up, see if you can’t step up your “savings for security.” SECURITY BONDS STABILIZE THE ECONOMY Every Bond dollar that is built up in your Govern ment’s Treasury is used to retire a dollar of the national debt that is potentially inflationary. MiSGtCA's secvRrry /s ‘/our secvRnr SECURITY Newberry Lumber Co. Newberry Dairy Co-op T. Roy Summer Gilder & Weeks Newberry Coca Cola Bottling Co. Carpenter’s itself to be frightened by Com munists. We must put on a bold front and stand four-square for what we believe to be right. Even if every delegate to that Conference had been killed, the Nation should feel that courage is as desirable in peace as in battle. Whether the Government of Colombia took all appropriate measures, one cannot say. In a free country the people them selves maintain the National standard Of order. Only in despotic nations are there e- nough police and soldiery to hold the populace in subjec tion. How would the police, or the police and the Molitia, act in the City of Columbia, South Carolina, if ten or twenty thou sand p>eople rose against the City government? Columbia’s police force was not organized to hold the City in hand, but to arrest the occasional man who gets out of bounds. That is so in Bogota. There is this difference: in the United States the citizens would support the police, if called on to do so. Therefore, we have the majority always on the side of the public peace. We do not regard the police as oppressors, but as agents to maintain the rights of the great majority, since the bad element is not numerous: and usually not violent. Among the countries South of us, a Government mulst be able to maintain itself by superior force, or it will soon be over thrown. Mr. Trunian owes no thing to the Army or to the Washington police; it is quite otherwise in other countries. Senators Maybank and John ston were quoted by a Wash ington correspondent on the an ti-Truman campaign. Referring to Senator Maybank we find this: “Senator Burnet R. May- bank. (D-S.C.) returning today from South Carolina, said his state was still ‘one hundred per cent opposed to Truman.’ Mr. Maybank said there was no change in the attitude of the South Carolinians toward the civil rights proposal and ‘the man who made- them.’ He added that he was looking for ward to defeating FEPC and an ti-lynching legislation which, he said, was slated to come be fore the senate within the month.” The statement of Senator Johnston followte: “I have re nounced Candidate Truman and many of the policies which he advocates,” said Mr. Johnston. ‘In this I am sincere, I am de termined.” Mr. Johnston added that a choice between Mr. Tru man and a Republican is “the choice between Satan and Be elzebub” and declared that he would have none of either. There are patronage hungry fol lowers of Truman who won’t quit the Truman through,” Mr. Johnston said. ‘There may be enough of them within the party to subdue us. and nominate Tru man, but never will they seduce us. Mir. Johnston said that if Mr. Truman is nominated, it will be without a single South Carolina vote. He further said that Mr. Truman could do the party and the Southern people a service by naming those in the South “who have never left him. Let’s see how many dele gates he gets in the South Caro lina Democratic convention, on May 19.” Mr. Johnston said.” NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF NEWBERRY Pursuant to the terms of the mortgage given by Tracy H. Kreps to Newberry County Bank on July 29, 1947, and re corded in the office of the Clerk of Court for Newberry County in Chattel Mortgage Book 122 at page 25, the undersigned will sell the folio wing describ ed goods and chattels at 901 Main Street, Newberry, S. C., at public sale for cash, to the highest bidder, at ten o’clock a. m. on Monday, May 17, 1948. These articles will be sold in place as now connected and it shall be the responsibility of the purchaser to disconnect and remove the same. The follow ing articles will be offered for sale; One (1) Bendix automatic dryer, serial No. 107-E-847, One (1) Bendix automatic dryer, serial No. lll-E-896. One (1) General Electric roll er ironer. serial No. 0-311-365. NEWBERRY COUNTY BANK By Thomas H. Pope 2tc. Attorney NOTICE OF ELECTION A petition having been filed with the County Board of Edu cation asking for an election in Prosperity School District, No. 14, for the purpose of vot ing an additional 10-mill school levy and retaining the present 5-mill bond levy (due to ex pire in 1949), to be used for im provement^ repairs, mainten ance, transportation, and general school purposes, the said peti tion is hereby granted and the election ordered held May 11, 1948, between the hours of 8:00 a. m„ and 4 p. m., at the Town Hall in Prosperity. The trus tees of school District No. 14 to act as managers of said election. Only persons returning real or personal property for tax ation shall be eligible to vote and shall present a registration certificate and his tax receipt for the preceding year as is re quired in general elections. Newberry County Board of Education 4-29 5-6 y A distinguished friend of mine, who is an informed citi zen, asks if I know what basis, if any, there m/ay be for the prediction that either Eisenho wer or Taft would sweep the Southern States, if nominated (I presume—by the Republi cans. I quote the observation, as reported in a Supplement to “Human Events.”) “Among the Southern dele gations in Washington, angry boasts of a Truman defeat are more frequent than explana tions of how such an event can come about. We found one prominent Senator, however, whose choler resolved itself into a more intelligible thesis than the rest. This man, who thinks he knows what Eisenhower stands for, says that the General would sweep all Southern states with the exception of Louisiana. “And so would Taft,” he add ed. “if the GOP named him. Vandenberg—well, probably a- bout half the Southern States. His views on domestic questions are not very clear. But if the GOP names Stassen or Dewey, then the South will re luctantly vote for Truman. The reason for this is that Dewey or Stassen would be for Feder al enforcemenit of FEPC. Taft opposes compulsory FEPC; so does Eisenhower. It is FEPC on which the Southern votes will hinge.” Well, let the prophets pro phesy. Who nows? CANDY! CANDY!—Headquar ters for the best camdy. Ship ments coming in every day. Pe ter Paul Mounds, Almond Joys, Hersheys, Milky Ways, etc. j Beechnut Chewing Gum. Come to see us ait our warehouse, lo wer Main St. R. Derrill Smith & Son. Inc., Wholesale Grocers, Newberry, S. C. 7-4tc. NOW AT HALF PRICE! RIOULAR PRICE «1 • rtf 'rius tax7 Lovely women depend on this famous cosmetic deodorant to guard their charm, their clothe*. You wfH, tea. Gentle to the skin and to the finest fabrics. Leave* a haunting fragrance. Stays creamy longer. Hurry to get your ’far. 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