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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1948
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
The great Southern Anti-Tru
man rally in Mississippi seemed
to me a complete success. It
was not a Convention of elect
ed delegates; it was a rally,
a popular effort to arouse the
South, to promote Southern
solidarity. Thirteen hundred
men and women agreed in prin
ciple. That was something; all
those men and women were
strongly opposed to Mr. Tru
man and his civil rights pro
gram; that was specific. No
one could foresee or plan every
detail beyond that. It was the
purpose to take all apppropri-
ate measures to make the South
effective in National affairs.
Obviously the most effective
means is the electoral college.
National Conventions are not
a part of the law; presidents
are elected by the Electors, cho
sen for that purpose. They are
independent, legally, and not
controlled by nominations made
by a Convention. So if the
South should have even a few
independent electoral votes, e-
ven forty or fifty, th§y might
determine the election in a
closely contested race. Every ef
fort, then, to weld the South,
or a part of it, into a fighting
unit is good strategy—and de
cidedly worthwhile.
The rally in Mississippi ad
dressed the nation; it indulged
in no dramatics and n» small
time heroics.
This nation must be saved
from its reformers. In the
guise of reform the reformers
are introducing essentials which
generate Communism. A people
ruled by administrative decrees,
proclamations and regulations,
and looking to the government
all the time, is bartering its
inheritance of liberty for a
mess of pottage. It is prefer
ring bondage in ease (at the
moment) rather than rely on
the strenuous liberty, which
makes men.
Fundamentally, the F. E. P.
C. is utterly un-American be
cause it strikes at the liberty
to employ. Efficient manage
ment depends primarily upon
the abibty to choose compe
tent workers, workers who will
make a team of co-workers, co-
laborators in the enterprise.
Although the South has its
on problem, the danger of the
F. E. P. C. is a National dan
ger.
We must get the Govern
ment off our necks, and let
the real American spirit have
free course, with only such
governmental intervention as
may assure a fair field to all,
as each may have the ability
to operate.
The South Carolina State
Convention of the Democratic
Party met recently. The air
was tense: what would be the
attitude of the Convention to
ward Mr. Truman? It is al
most a certainty that Mr.
Truman will be nominated so
the South Carolina party might
“if” and “and” but the facts
can’t be blinked.
It might be said that the is
sue was the American way of
living and working, against the
new scheme of Government-
planned living, or a Bureaucra
tic domination.
The County Conventions had
spoken against Mr Truman very
conclusively; the Democratic
rally in Mississippi had promp
ted unity of Southerners for
the reign of the Constitution,
instead of a planned State, or
Police State.
Alabama and Florida had al
ready chosen Presidential e-
lectors who would not vote for
Mir. Truman. Hoty would South
Carolina act?
What the Convention did:
Endorsed the Governor for the
presidency; advocated the Se
cret Ballot, on motion of Sena
tor Nash from the floor, after
the Resolutions Committee had
decided against it; decided to
give notice to the National
Convention that South Carolina
will not support Mr. Truman
or anyone else of like mind;
and that South Carolina re
pudiates the so-called Civil
Rights Program. If the Na
tional Convention does not ac
cept the South Carolina dele
gates on these terms, then
South Carolina will withdraw.
First primary, August 10;
second primary, August 24.
Minimum age for voting, twen
ty-one years.
Delegates to Democratic Na
tional Convention to vote a-
gainst nomination of Mr. Tru
man.
Presidential electors, to vote
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Re-asserts Individual rights
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surpation of authority by the
National Bureaucracy. Advo
cates equality before the law
for all, special privileges for
none.
Endorsed universal military
training and selective draft.
I do not dwell on the Miss
issippi rally because our South
Carolina Democratic Conven
tion recently began its long
session with a keynote address
and other addresses, as well as
resolutions, which were essen
tially the same as the domi
nant note sounded in Jackson,
Mississippi, nine days before.
So I pass to the meeting in
Columbia, an official meeting,
a Convention With authority,
and speaking officially.
The morning session was 1
very quiet and proceeded ac
cording to plan. All the fight
ing spirit was reserved for
the afternoon.
The Convention organized by
electing George Warren of
Harrtpton as the keynote speak
er, on motion of Governor
Thurmond.
Mr. Warren delivered a real
ly fine address, a stirring ap
peal, a stern and eloquent ar
raignment' of Federal encroach
ments.
William P. Baskin was elec
ted Chairman of the Executive
Committee Mr. Baskin is a
thoughtful, studious, painstak
ing man—safe, modest and
thorough.
What is the use? Does this
agitation avail anything; or.
are we beating our wings a-
gainst a wall? Lives of great
leaders all remind us that no
effort is lost . All progress is
built on purposeful action, per
sistent,resolute action.
We who cherish the Magna
Carta, the Petition of Rights,
the Bill of Rights, Habeas
Corpus, the heroic example of
John Hampden, the intrepid
Americans of 1776—we should
know that the manly assertion
of a principle is like seed in
fertile soil.
It is refreshing to read the
words of George Warren, a
man in the mold of a redoubt
able men who challenged Kings
when such challenges meant
the executionerls axe.
I quote from Mr. Warren’s
masterly utterance because it
breathes the very air and pur-
pose of the South Carolina De
mocracy:
“Ordinarily, the key-noter
points with pride to the ac
complishments of his Party,
and views with alarm the dan
gers imminent if the other Par
ty should win.
‘•Today that ordinary pro
gram cannot be followed. We
can point with pride, however,
to our Senators and Congress
men for the excellent work
they have done in Congress on
behalf of the preservation of
our constitutional ideals and
the presentation to the world
of our views. And we can
point with pride to our State
officials and Party officials, for
the very fine manner in which
they have rushed to the res
cue of our fundamental con
cepts of government in the
prelsent crisis. But when this
is done, our pointing with
pride comes to an end and we
are forced to point with scorn.
“President Truman, the pres
ent head of the National Demo
cratic Party, in a recent mes
sage to Congress has proposed
legislation which is directly in
conflict with the Constitution
and violative of the fundamen
tal principles and ocncepts
which we hold necessary to
preserve our system of govern-
mfer.t.
The grave problems invol
ved of necessity affect every
state in the Union, from Maine
to California, from Oregon to
Florida. We would have those
states know that our fight is
their fight. We battle for state
Yardley of London
announces
the appointment of
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sovereignty, free enterpHse,
local home rule, and for the
preservation of Constitutional
government. Our battle should
be their battle.
That leadership would have
the Congress usurp the sover
eign rights of the states in
direct opposition to the funda
mental principles upon which
the nation was established.
They have recommended pas
sage of laws in direct confliat
with the Constitution. They
would assume to the Federal
Government powers it does not
now possess. They would im
pose upon the* several states,
laws in restraint of free en
terprise.
They would have the Con
gress take over the power of
granting suffrage—a power sole
ly vested in the states.
Under the guise of a civil
rights program, which would
be better called civil distur
bance, they would abolish all
segregation laws enacted by
the States—a field exclusively
possessed ^y the States.
They would suspend the op
eration of all such State laws
and create within the Federal
Department of Justice an agen
cy to erect “a multitude of
new offices” and “send hither
swarms of officers to harass
our people.” They would “Sub
ject us to a jurisdiction foreign
to our Constitution, and unac
knowledged by our laws.”
On such matters as the al
leged Fair Employment Practi
ces Act, they would “deprive
us of trial by jury” and “trans
port us beyond” the borders
of our respective states for
hearings before other officers
of the same Department of
Justice.
We, therefore, the represen
tatives of the South in Conven
tion assembled, “appealing to
the Supreme Judge of the
World for the rectitude of our
intentions,” should solemnly
publish and declare that we
owe no allegiance to any man
or set of men who would in
vade our State sovereignty, de
prive us of access to the Courts
of our own State, violate our
Constitutional rights, establish
precedents constituting a total
departure from the fundamen
tal principles upon which the
government of the United
States was founded, and visit
upon us all of the potential
evils of the police state. They
have deserted us. We owe
them no allegiance.
MISS HARMON HONORED
AT GRADUATION
At the class day exercises of
Mary Washington college of the
University of Virginia, the Na
tional Arion Foundation music
award was given to Miss Mu
riel Harmon. A medal is being
presented each year to the se
nior who has contributed the
most to music during her four
years residence at the college.
Miss Harmon, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. P. K. Harmon,
has been treasurer of the coUege
band, vice president of the
choir, and prominent in mus-
cal organizations.
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Farms &
Folks
County Agent Lemmon and
some of his progressive far
mers of Fairfield had a vision
of grass and cattle away back
almost 30 years ago when the
boll weevil arrived. And they
have never lost sight of it.
Today Fairfield is a county
of grass and cattle and pines.
Its glory with cotton faded.
But a new litster grows there
as cattle graze.
I was over there the other
day and told Lemmon, “Let’s
visit in new directions.” I had
been in several sections of the
county. But there were several
that I had not seen. We lit
out.
We traveled through a lot
of beautiful rolling grass land,
where cattle grazed on every
side. We stopped at W. M.
Clowney^s place. Since Dec. 15
25 cows and calves, 10 sheep,
29 hogs, and 2 horses had been
on his 20 acres of crimson clo
ver, Italian rye grass, English
rye grass, barley, cheat, and
white clover. And the grazing
was still excellent. His feed
bill was cut in half when he
put his dairy cows on that
grazing and the milk produc
tion picked up.
We went towards Ridgeway.
E. G. Palmier told us he had
400 beef cattle on his fine pas
tures. He grows some cotton,
too—about 300 acres.
Back in the hills we went to
see John Hood. He’s develop
ing fine pastures in rugged hills
that washed with cotton. Has
300 cattle, and has started with
Brahmans. He has 2 bulls of
that breed and 9 pure Brahman
heifers. His pride was a 4-H
short course certificate from
Clemson dated 1919 that hung
in a frame over the fireplace.
It was signed by the late Dr.
W. M. Riggs and L. L. Baker,
late’ state 4-H club agent. He
was growin a field of fescue
for seed with which to extend
his plantings.
And these are not all who
are on their way with beef
cattle in the Ridgeway section.
For there is Walter Ruff, A.
J. VanExum, V. E. Barnett, J.
S. Fldmunds, Heines and Ed
munds. John Stewart, Jim Cook,
Bill Kennedy, Larry Thompson,
and perhaps others that I don’t
recall.
The more I go over Fair-
field the more I feel that they
know where they are going.
And they are on their way.
Out of 31 bulls sold in the
state Hereford sales in , 1937
they bought 8 of them, and 7
out of this year’s 27 that were
sold.
WHY KILL ’EM.
Saw where some men killed
a large alligator in the Low
Country the other day.
He wais full of garfish.
Those garfish are the main
enemies of edible fish in our
streams, we are told. Alliga
tors are nature’s means of con
trolling them. In fact, they
seem to be the main food of
the alligator.
In past yars the gators have
just about all been killed out
of Georgians coastal streams.
And the fishing shrank to just
about zero, we are told. The
streams became filled with use
less garfish. Unchecked, they
cleaned up the game fish. Now
that state is introducing alli
gators in its streams and T>ro-
tecting them. Fishing is im
proving. I am told.
Our once great fishing streams
of the Low Country still have
pretty good fishing in them.
But if every hunter and fisher
man is to kill every harmless
gator he sees, it won’t be long
before those beautiful streams
will be nothing but the homes
of countless garfish.
So, I say, why kill an alliga
tor anyway? Have never heard
of one harming a person, and -
Nature put them in our streams
for a purpose, a purpose we
will feel when they are all kill
ed out.
BOYS ARE THAT WAY *
Continuing last week’s story:
I hadn’t detected those short
tailed shirts my sister made for
me when I went to Clemson in
1912 until I got to college.
When I put the first one on,
I noticed it did not give that
secure and satisfied tfeeling
that a normal shirt does when
you get its tail stuffed down
where it belongs.
Soon I pased a group of boys
there On the campus, and I
heard them laughing. One of
them sang out the old saying,
“Goody, goody, gout, your
shirt tail’s out.” In those days
it was about as embarrassing
a thing as could happen to a
boy for his shirt tail to be out.
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