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THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1948 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. 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 race of mpst general in terest this year is that of Presi dent, Vice-President, naturally, but the South Carolina race which will stir the boys from the Atlantic Ocean, and its broad strands, to Caesar’s Head and the rugged peaks, is our campaign for the United States Senate. Five stout men will wage political warfare for the Senatorial toga: Burnett R. Maybank, who now holds the seat; Marcus Stone of Florence; William Jennings Bryan Dorn now a Representative in Con gress: Alan Johnstone, until re cently General Counsel for the Federal Works Authority; and Neville Bennett of Marlboro is the fifth aspirant. Mr. Stone is a business man, formerly a candidate for Governor. The five stout gentlemen are sturdy campaigners and not fat men, though all have a pros perous appearance. None of them has that lean and hungry look that is dangerous, as Cae sar said of Cassius. The gen tlemen will speak for them selves of course, but one may BARBECUE WE’RE GOING! Are ,You The Whole Family Is Going To ADAMS CAMP Sunday JULY FOURTH For Their Famous Annual Fine Eats BARBECUE Striped suntan dress with button-on bolero for office or town. White ric-rac circles • the smooth waist. Sanforized cotton in blue, brown, red. 10-18 sizes. Carpenters wonder about the campaigns of Messrs. Maybank and Alan Johnstone: both have been ad vocates of Federal power. Mr. Maybank is opposed to Mr. Truman and his special drive for colored votes; Mr. Alan Johnstone has served until this week as an official under Mr. Truman. Mr. Dorn has dis sented from much that has been done by Mr. Truman and is commonly regarded as in sym pathy with the Southern revolt. A prominent businessman of Charleston said to me in Colum bia this week: “That new oath will defeat XY.” I asked what new oath he was talking a- bout. “Why the oath to sup port Truman if he is nomina ted.” I told him that there was no such oath; that since 1936 one pledges his support to the nominee of the State and Coun ty primaries, but that we have no presidential primary in South Carolina. He seemed amazed. To give a case in point: In 1944 E. D. Smith and Olin D. Johnston were candi dates for the Senate; Frank lin D. Roosevelt was a candi date for the Presidency. All those who voted in the Pri maries were under obligation to support Olin D. Johnston in the General election, because he was the nominee of the Pri mary; but many of those did not support Mr. Roosevelt; all this was made possible by the change in rule 32 of the Party in 1936. Under the new rule since that time the allegiance has been to the Democratic Party of South Carolina, leav ing us independent in National allegiance. There has been quite a bit of discussion of the recent state Democratic Convention. The published comments have been adverse. Perhaps much of the criticism is due to misinforma tion. Obviously we can find flaws, but that is usually true. Would it be an exaggeration to say that seventy five per cent of the people, White and Colored, are in favor of separ ate churches for White and Col ored? The Colored people do not want us in their churches. Ask the Colored ministers; and the White people for the most part do not want a mingling in their churches. Probably no one connected with the resolutions committee knew that any great church brotherhood had White and Colored members in the same church. Most of us knew that before the Civil War White NEED MONEY? SEE US FOR A QUICK CONFIDENTIAL PERSONAL LOAN, AT . . . 1307 Friend St. HANDY FINANCE CO. AYE/ LADDIE, HERE’S NEW OUTBOARD RELIABILITY! New, for the first time, you can buy an outboard motor with the kind of performance and reliability you have expected only from fine motor cars. Scott-Atwater’s new 1948 motors give you one-pull start ing every time. M ile an hour trolling, speeds up to 12 to 20 miles an hour, depending on model. Bother-free, all-weather oper ation! One demonstra tion will convince you that here’s the I motor for you at a price you can af ford. See it now* Scott^ Atwater Mi $121.70 Scott-Atwater 1-12 Deluxe Single h. p. (O.I.C C.rtifi.d @ 4,000 r.p.m.) Alternate Firing Twin 1-20 alto available. ADAMS CAMP on Lake Murray churches had balconies for their Colored members. In Beaufort, as I recall, the Colored mem bers outnumlbered the White communicants. Why did all that change? Did the White people expell the Negroes? Or is it not a fact that the Negroes wlith developing race consci ousness, drew away in order to build on their on plans? And, without regard to pre judice, is it not true that their evolution demands separation so that they might progress thru hardy spiritual growth rather than cling like weaklings to the White Man’s church? Some of those who speak often about discrimination against the Ne groes are in communication with certain ambitious Colored peo ple and deeply and sensitively impressionable White people, but perhaps not in common touch with either the masses of White or Colored people. There is small likelihood that a State Convention will be called, notwithstanding rumors. A group of Greenville Demo crats, and one or two other groups, are demanding that the State Democracy repudiate the recent Convention. This free speech is thoroughly Democra tic, though somewhat confusing. Conceivably another \ group might rebel if the action of the recent Convention is set aside. The Southern Democratic Party •polled the largest independent vote ever polled in this State within three generations. The leaders of that group cooperat ed wholeheartedly with the South Carolina Democracy in the recent Convention. If the dissenters of Greenville and elsewhere succeed in overturn ing the recent conventions work there is a very real problem of meeting opposition from a re vived Southern Democratic Par ty, which made its campaign on the issue of the White man’s government. Leaders of that Party will not support Mr. Tru man. If the Southern Demo crats bring out a ticket like the one of 1944, they might be come the dominant political force of South Carolina. There is respectable opinion in favor of letting well enough alone. In essentials the South Carolina people are opposed to Mr. Truman, and resolved to maintain the government of and by White men. There is always a minority in opposition. Some times the minority is right, but still the minority. History may owe most to mi norities, but how many minori ties, since we who repudiate Mr. Truman are a minority—at least until the votes are counted. This declaration in favor of separate churches — church buildings—for Whites and Ne groes is not a violation of any constitutional right, the right to exercise or enjoy one’s religious belief. This Party matter has no more claim than would a declaration by the Knights of Esau against Sharp practices and hard bargains. Several publications have come to my table recently, re freshing me on the F. E. P. C. One is a great farm magazine of the South, but two are from New York. No finer arguments have come to my attention than the bulletins issued by the Em pire Trust Co. and Laird, Bis- sell and Meeds, cotton people. In a vein of heavy sarcasm the Empire Trust’s letter says: “If the judges of the Supreme Court are too old, let execu tive interpretation determine the meaning of the law. If Congress is too slow and un wieldy in formulating tariff schedules, let the White House do it; ... . ” That, says the letter, is what people now call “progress.” Says the bulletin “Cotton and Other Problems”: “In 1947 there was only one (lynching).” The President’s Committee says that a single lynching is one too many. Wouldn’t it be grand if this committee could do as well with outrages in New York for example, where in 1946 there were 325 murders? The record for the Nation in 1946 showed 12,117 cases of rape, a nd 357,991 reported burglaries. Re ported murders in 1946 were 8,444.” But the Trumanites, under the spell of the Negro vote are obsessed with the idea of one lynching; and would distort and pervert the Consti tution because of it!! What the President proposes may be studied in his own words: ‘A civil rights division with regional offices through out the County. . . They would make it possible to undertake investigations of suspected civil rights violations, without wait ing for complaints.” Officious, official. Federal snoopers!! The gravest danger to our liberty comes from our own people, not from Russia or the Communists. We are on guard against the perils from the out side; and we are awaking to the prowling people among us who are unbalanced and chasing false gods with all the zeal of glamorous mischief; but those of our people who betray real Americanism are those who sac rifice the principles of our American way of living for some immediate benefit. It is essentially what Esau did; and the world has rung the chang es on poor Esau through the centuries. , Esau was hot, tired, thristy, and hungry; and the kitchen appeal was wafted to his sen sitive nostrils in overpowering strength. What was an estate a half century later, when his very vitals craved the savory dish? Craved it now—at what ever cost!! If you’ve never been hungry, hungry like the man who has tramped a swamp all day, without food or water; or as the men suffered the pangs THE BEST PLACE FOR Buick & Chevrolet Service IS Davis Motor Company 1515-1517 Main Street A FRIENDLY HANDSHAKE Thats our low cost auto loan service. No embarassing- questions. No long- de lays. When you need money, come to see us. We will make a quick and satisfac tory loan. Do not borrow from your friends or relatives. Your private banker will take care of your AUTO LOAN needs. PURCELLS “Your Private Banker” Exchange Bank Building E. B. PURCELL, Manager Phone 197 ' Barbecue!! Saturday July 3 Jolly Street The County campaign meeting 1 'date. Baseball g’ame in the afternoon, be tween Jolly Street and Chapin in a regularly scheduled Dutch Fork game. Benefit Jolly Street baseball club. The public is cordially invited to attend. SIR CHRISTOPHER ROSE POINT *'(oownoiM0tw<4> WALLACE PATTER! are unmu/c/iee/ W. E> Turner, Jeweler By Ted Kesting DON’T FORGET Leading Republican presiden tial candidates gave their views on conservation recently in an exclusive story by Washington Reporter Michael Hudoba. The following are excerpts from their statements. Senator Robert A. Taft em phasized the need for conserva tion and restoration of water re sources and a program of pollu tion abatement. “Today nothing is more important than the re clamation and irrigation projects with the incidental power cre ated,” he stated. Harold E. Stassen declared “. . . there must be a broad na tional program backed by strong conservation measures which safeguard the future of . . .re sources but which preserve to the maximum our individual right to full enjoyment of the hunting, fishing and other pleas ures of the great outdoors.” Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin, Jr., said: “This na tion must now enter into a broad resource conservation pro gram, and alertly guard against needless waste, depletion and unnecessary exploitation . . . There should be closer co-op eration with the States.” Governor Earl Warren of Cal ifornia said: “The great open spaces of our country are cap able of producing all the wild life necessary for the pleasure of 24 million licensed sportsmen in America. It is the responsi bility of the government to make this outlet available to our people.” Senator Leverett Saltonstall stated: “A progressive conser vation policy, based on the best technical information available, to preserve and develop the na tural beauties and recreational opportunities of our nation must be constantly fostered by each and every one of us.’ Dwight H. Green, governor of Illinois, advocates a two point program. First, the actual work of reforestation, re-stocking, etc. and second, an educational pro gram to show people the need (Continued on Back Page) in the front lines; then you don’t know how Esau felt. But the world since immemorial an tiquity has sat in stem judg ment on him. We want everything and we want it now. Whether the re sult be Socialism or Commu nism is disregarded. “After us the deluge,” verily. That is the impulse of our childishness, resisting and overmastering ev ery restraint of our mature thinking. Re-opening! Saturday, June 19 under completely new management Newberry Laundromat Vke friendly, tolled J4al{j-J4our Self-Service J^aundry 901 MAIN STREET Saturday, June 19 will be Open House day at the New Laundromat. Come down and visit us. Be sure to bring some of your dirty cloths with you, Because from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. Saturday, each visiting family will be invited to wash a machine load of cloths completely free . . . and we will furnish free the Westinghouse tested laundry powder which has been developed to make your cloths wash cleaner. We will appreciate your filling out and bringing with you the coupon below. Starting Monday, June 21st, we will be open for business from 8:00 a. m. to 8:00 p. m. daily except Sunday, , Newberry Laundromat Name —Phone Address Lipscomb Motor Co. announces that Mr. P. W. (Pink) Hawkins is now handling the Body_& Paint Department Mrs. P. W. Hawkins is handling the interior trim work of seat covers, side panels and overhead lining. 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