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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1948
1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, S. C.
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Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937,
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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
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Sunday
JULY FOURTH
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Give your present car that “new look.”
Satisfaction of price and workman
ship quaranteed.
V
Lipscomb Motor Co.
1418 College St Phone 707
You have only one more week in which
to enroll to vote in the summer primary.
The enrollment books close Tuesday,
June 22nd, so enroll today.
L. M. GRAHAM