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/ THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, tw 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. O. F. Armfield 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. penalize and hamstring every farmer who has more than his neighbor? Shall we require all men to live in houses of one price and style? The logical result of all this nonsense is the very essence of Communism. Mr Truman has* swallowed it because the Communists have been pour ing out that sort of stuff for years. People who want a good living without hard work jump at all this twaddle. Our country is not perfect; its inequities cry aloud for correction: but it is heaven it self as compared with the other countries of the world. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR How much piffle can the Am erican people stand? Mr. Tru man sank to low levels when he attacked Wall Street. The audience of workers could not be so ignorant as to be im pressed by Mr. Truman. Mr. Truman’s attacks on the Re publicans for passing the Taft- Hartley Labor bill are ridicu lous in view of the fact that the bill could not have been passed had not a great num ber of Democrats voted for it. Senator Maybank and all Six Representatives from this State voted to overrule the Presi dent. Senator Barkley, a very able and lovable man, sank ‘o the same level when he denounced the Republicans for overruling the President’s veto of the re duction in income taxes. Again the Republicans had the sup port of many Democrats. If Mr. Truman's turn toward mea sures that are Communistic cannot command the support of the Democrats of 1946-1943 why does he expect Democrats or anybody else to support his Russian ideas of a Police State in 1949? In very truth the most constant supporter of Mr. Truman are those whose so- called liberality savors strong ly of Communism. I have no wish to charge Mr. Truman with any inleqtional turn to foreign doctrines; Mr. Truman and many others are deluding themselves. TThough they love America as much as we do they are dangerous be cause of ignorance, or blind ness. or a childish faith in dreams, signs and portents, ru mors and crystal balls. Mr. Barkley repeated the foolishness of Mr. Truman when he declared that the. .in come tax reduction granted more relief to the rich than to the poor. It may be true, but let’s analyze it: There may be a thousand men with incomes cf a million each; and there may be a hundred thousand men with incomes five thou sand each. The thousand mil lionaires have a total of a bil lion dollars: the hundred thou sand $5000 have a total of five hundred million dollars. The law allowed the $5000 man a reduction of 30%, but allowed the rich man only ten per cent. Do you think we men, we little fellows of the $5000 class, don’t want a 30% reduction in our taxes because Mr. Rocke feller 'has more than w? have, after only a ten per cent re duction? No indeed. I have four mules on a farm. One of my neighbors has one mule; another neighbor has twenty mules. Does the one- mule man insist on paying high taxes in order to make me pay? Do I refuse a re duction in order to make the 20-mule man pay dearly? Does the 50-acre farmer re fuse a cut of ten mills because the 1000-acre farmer will save too much? Don’t you see how silly is the reasoning of Mr. Truman and Mr. Barkley? Now just what is tne real point? They say that the big fellows will have too much left after paying taxes, even though their reduction is only ten per cent, while we little fellows will have a thirty per cent reduction! Well, is that idea American, or is it Com munistic? Shall we level everybody? Shall we hold all farmers to ths same income? There are many small farmers. Shall we A reader of Spectator writes this request: “Please explain in local language what Com munism is.” Because I know well the writer of that card I can take a liberty with him. His request reminds me of something that happened to Carl Metz, the well known bandmaster. When “Tipperary” was being played and sung everywhere and all the time, the Metz band came to Man ning for a day. Mr. Metz, al ways obliging and genial, had played Tipperary at least three times within an hour, and had just sounded the last note of that stirring music, when a lady approached and asked, “Do you play Tipperary? I would like to hear it.” And our friend Carl treated us to Tipperary again. So, this old friend reader of mine, wants me to tell just what Com munism is. Well, “Perry,” here goes Tipperary again; Wfe have individualism. So cialism and Communism. Am erica was built on individual ism. That is the individual being more or less the master of himself. He works where he wants to work and he quits when he pleases. He may move to town or live on the farm. He may save his money or he may spend it. He may be fru gal and buy land, furniture and whatever his savings will permit, or he may throw it away. Under the American plan of individualism a man had a right to decide whether he would be a carpenter, a lawyer a physician, a Minister, a gro cer, a druggist, a banker—or anything else. And his son i might become a great man. j Socialism is ownership of en- ' terprises by the State, or Na tion. If our State or Nation owns and operates a cotton mill, that is SociaAsm. Communism means the own ership of everything by the State. Russia. for example, owns all the land and every business. There the people be long to the State or Nation; Next Week is the big week of the County Fair Hundreds Upon Hundreds of Exhibits FINEST MIDWAY IN THE COUNTRY Plenty of Parking- Space Spectacular Free Acts! NEWBERRY’S FAIR IS GROWING BIGGER AND BETTER BY THE YEAR Now is the time to order your WINTER’S SUPPLY of Coal while we have a big supply Farmers Ice & Fuel Company 618 Drayton St Phone 155 and the Nation may tell them where to work. The theory is that the Nation will provide for everybody; the practice is for the Nation to control every body hand and foot. When a Communist govern ment operates, who operates it? You and I may think that we could manage everybody better than they can manage themselves, but ard’ we willing to let somebody manage Cis? Do we want to go and come as we please? Or do we wish to have our nation like a regi ment, subject to orders from reveille to taps, with men on guard all night? Do we want to succeed and fail by our own exertions in an open field; or do we want to be regulated, ordered about like men an a ship at sea? A suit may be in preparation against the State Treasurer and the Comptroller General, according to the papers. Here is the story: Wlhen Judge A. W. Holman of Columbia, repre senting James B. Scroggie, ap pealed to the Courts to enjoin or prohibit the payment of $700 as expense money to each legislator, he notified the State Treasuier and the Comptriller General that he was appealing to the Courts an<j that he might sue them on their official bonds if they made the payments. Those gentlemen are zealous officials and desirous of pro ceeding according to law. So they consulted the Attorney* General who advised them that a statute is presumed to be valid and that they should re spect the Statute as the law. They paid as directed by the Statute. I share the general regard and esteem for both officials but raise several questions as matters of law. Since it ap pears that the money—about $119,000—was withdrawn from the banks and arranged in packets of $700 each, before the bill was signed by the Gov ernor, one may wonder by what authority of law the war rant was drawn for $119,000. Although it as perfectly ap parent that the >$700 would be authorizzed how was it with drawn and held in cash even before the Act was signed? The record proves that the time too, the wildest scramble took place to get the money. And the money was there, rea dy and counted, as is general ly reported. There was no wrongdoing, but one merely wonders about the money being so readily available, even before the law became effective. The factof the invalidity needn’t concern us, for administrative officers are not authorized to sit in judg ment on the Legislature. There are weak spots in our administration of justice. Our Supreme Court declared the payments, alleged to be for “official expenses,” to be vio lations of the Constitution. Now. then', what happens? If the two officials made pay ments as directed by a Statute are they liable on their bonds for making the payments? That looks like a screw loose in our legal system, doesn’t it? And what about th e members who received the money? They are not courts, either; so where are we? Or are the officials liable for not demanding a re fund? Now the question is: Shall the Attorney General of the State su e for the recovery of the money? Shall he sue the members who received the $700 and did not return it? Or, shall he sue the Comptroller General and the Treasurer? As a matter of law whom does the Attorney General represent in this case? Is he to represent the legislature, or enforce the implied mandate of the Court? And there we are again: the court declared the law but didn’t issue any order. Must there be an order? Or may we just laugh at the court? As a matter of fact, we seem to be making fun of the Constitu tion. A layman is often confused. It is an awful secret, but law yers are often as much at sea as laymen are. Observe this: in the nearly- forgotten Grimball case, the Special Supreme Court decided as a matter of Constitutional law, that the salary of a Judge might not be diminshed during his term. The Constitution says of the Justices and Judges: that they “shall each receive compensa tion for their services . . . which shall not be increased or diminshed during men con tinuance in office. They shall not be allowed any fees or per quisites of office.” The Legislature having re duced the pay of Judges, Judge Grimball sued for his original salary. The Special court not only decided the case in the J udges favor—as was clearly correct in law—but issued a writ of mandamus ordering the Comptroller General to pay all the claims of like nature. This always impressed me as an un precedented and indefensible procedure—that a court should order payments by the State’s Executive Department without an appropriation by the Gen eral Assembly. So one special court rebuked the General Assembly and ig nored its solemn and peculiar powers; and another special court modestly confines itself to declaring the law, though it did that admirably. Now, if no court issues an order of payment, then it re- Cover Crops Reduce Soil Erosion Losses Research Tests Show Four Main Advantages How cover crops' seeded in corn and other row crops could help farmers fight erosion, build up the soil’s organic matter and add to the nitrogen supply, is indicated in studies by research men of Iowa agricultural experiment station. Four major advantages are cited: 1 Cover crops protect the soil • from August to May. One- fourth of the annual soil loss occurs during this period.- 2 Well-fertilized legumes and • grasses add organic matter to the soil that helps resist erosion during the Mav and June period. This is the time when one-half of the annual soil losses occur. 3 Cover crops add nitrogen to the soil, especially when legumes are a part or all of the mixture. 4 The yield of com will be slightly • increased in the year following the seeding of cover crops. Research workers have developed a plan that licks the problem of seed ing the cover crops. Just before Good field of corn secured from proper plant food. laying by the com, they broadcast the seed with an endgate seeder. Weeders are attached to the culti vator to help cover the seed and better growuh results. Clover and Alfalfa Need Limed, Fertilized Soil Sweet clover and alfalfa will do a good job of increasing the soil’s sup ply of nitrogen and vitally needed organic matter if they are well fed. Legumes are heavy eaters of phos phate and potash. They thrive best in a soil that has been limed to cor rect acidity and to furnish calcium. WELL-FED LfcJHES DO A BETTER JOB Irl iJ When legumes get a full quota of needed nutrients they will pro duce top results. That was shown in tests with sweet clover at the Newton soil experiment field in Il linois. The accompanying chart sum marizes results. Sweet clover grown on soil that had been limed and fer tilized with phosphate and potash produced 63 pounds more nitrogen and a ton more organic matter per acre than that grown on soil that had received only lime. Another advantage of well-fed legumes comes in improved soil tilth. The sturdy tap roots of well-fed sweet clover and alfalfa drive i through plow sole compactions and push mineralized organic paauer deep into the soil. They open tight soil to air and moisture. The added organic matter and better tilth 18 to 25 inches deep enable crops follow ing in the rotation to make more effi- ciqjit use of the plant food, available in the soil. . solves itself into “airy nothing,” “a local habitation and a name” as Shakespeare says. A -gentleman said to me on a street in Columbia, “I won’t vote unless I can put Burnett Maybank on the ticket.” Well, naturally, Senator Maybank’s name will be on all Democratic tickets whether Thurmond Democrat or Truman Demo crat, because the Senator was declared the Democratic nom inee. Our law (Section 2304 of Volume 2, of the Code of 1942) says about this; “There shall be three ballots in the General election: One ballot for United State Senator, Re presentatives in Congress and presidential electors . . . and three boxes. Each of three said boxes to be appropriately labelled: which ballots shpll be of plain white paper and of such width and length as to contain the names of the of ficer or officers and question or questions to be voted for or upon, clear and even cut, without ornament, designation, mutilation, symbol or mark of any kind whatsoever, except! the name or names of the per son or persons voted for and the office to which such per son or persons are intended to be chosen.” I am aware of the cloudiness of the Statute, but we are ac customed to the mistiness and even fog of statutory phrase ology, though, like good mar iners, we have learned to chart a course, notwithstanding. TIMBER IS A CROP TOO! There will be lots of fcrop" exhibits at the Fair, but one crop which is growing- in importance in the minds of farmers will not be on exhibit . . . that is the TIMBER Crop! Our farmers have become more “timber conscious” and our organization is on the job at all times to help him get the most from his timber growth.- Our long , years of experience in timber growing is at the dis posal of timber owners in Newberry County and we would deem it a pleasure to help you when we can. * ' I Consult us for the sale of timber or stumpage. We furnish experienced timber markers for selective cut ting of pulpwood on private owned lands free of charge to land owners. COME TO THE COUNTY FAIR NEXT WEEK AND COME TO SEE US WHEN YOU WANT TO “TALK TIMBER” Fairfield Forest Products Co. Newberry, S. C. Subsidiary of the Champion Paper & Fibre Co., - Canton, N. C. , : - £ WHERE YOU MEET YOUR OLD FRIENDS ... AND MAKE NEW ONES That’s The County Fair! Bring the Women folks and the Kids. Everyone en joys a Fair. The Fair is educational and entertaining. v. • _ - LEGION POST No. 24 is sponsoring the Fair and this means that everything will be just as it should be. Join Your Neighbors \ In Newberry Next Week for the Big County Fair You’ll Be Glad You Did! OCTOBER 11 to OCTOBER 16 ARE THE BIG DATES Spartan Grain & Mill Company