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THE NEWBERRY SUN . ^ f* •' " * • ■ , : V* 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. 0. F. Armfikld Eaitor 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 fn advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS BY SPECTATOR Discussing the powers of the the cumbre at 1300 feet, and drop- President and the Congress I re call this: “No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law That means that a bill to authorize spending money must specify something then and there. The practice of appropriating great sums of public money loosely designated so that they may be used by a lot of bureaucrats for making grants for this, that and the other, in their discretion, is not in harmony with the Constitution; nor is this practice a sound meth od of conducting the government al affairs of the Nation. Did you ever nave too much money? Has your money ever been a great burden to you? “Im not thinking of what someone said about present-day food pric es. Yqu may remember that a map said that he used to take a pocketful of money to buy a bag of groceries, but that now he takes a bag of money to buy a pocketful of groceries. And so it is. While I was In Peru—the first eighteen months—I was high up in the Andes. If I had wanted to go to a bank I should have rid den horse-back two days, climbing ping down, to 3000 feet where the Rail Road began Then a day to the coast at Pacasmayo At Pacasmayo I could wait for a ship; it might be a week; or I might have chartered a car foi $76 to go over the desert, about six hours in low gear, if going to Chiclayo; or taking another car South to Chocope,. riding the beach for milee and dodging the rocks and breakers. At Chocope the train started for Trujillo. So, going and returning, with all the hazards, made banking impracti cable except for great hacendados whose transactions were with the exporters and on a large scale. About the. time I arrived, the Government of Peru introduced coins, because the Cholos, or. In dians, didn’t have confidence in paper bills Up in the mountains the • hacendados and merchants carried their balances in British gold. ; The Government decided to put the coins in circulation by pay ing Government salaries in coin. The unit of Peru today is the Sol- worth about twenty cents in our money in my time. The Sol was as large and heavy as the Ameri can Silver Dollar; so a.man with ten dollars- in Peruvian money carried a weight of fifty Silver Dollars—enough, surely, to dis courage spending Didn’t Lycur- gus, the Spartan, make the mon ey of iron in order to discourage trade and spending? Perhaps Congress would take the hint and let Mr. Truman throw away only money made of iron. What I have in mind was an amusing incident. One of the Americans resigned and asked tor a settlement The Government owed him about $2000, or 10,000 Soles. Strangely enough my friend’s name is Cash Mr. Cash presented his libramiento (that’s a warrant) at the Caja Fiscal (paying office) and was told to come back at three o’clock for his dlnero (money) Mr. Cash un derstood. by the word dinero that he was to be given several kegs of Soles—10,000 Soles—so he ch artered a truck and went to the Caja Fiscal for his kegs of money. The paying clerk upon learning that Mr. Cash was fully prepared to handle the kegs of money, gave him a check. Some of our cotton mills “paid off” in Silver Dollars in Decem ber. Many a man knew for the first time how heavy fifty Silver Dollars are; but try to imagine that fifty dollar payment in 260 Peruvian Soles; then imagine how my friend Cash felt at the prospect of ten thousand Soles! looking for a chance to support the unsound policies of recent years, I should earnestly advo cate a challenge in court of the policy of appropriating billions of dollars for such general use as the National bureaucracy may decide on. We . might have known that someone would feel like an American type of Alexander the Great and try to throw our dol lars around the world and cry when, nobody else wanted our money! . Mr. Truman believes in unity, whatever that is in his under standing, but he has gone all over the earth wearing a mantle of sweet charity, while slapping in the face the stalwart sons of the South who made and sustained the Democratic Party, as a ser vice, not as a chance to build a personal following on the jobs and grants and favors of Federal power. The President has spoken. Everybody seems to be speaking all the time, including the Presi dent. What Mr. Truman says carries very little weight with us. We know that the Federal debt is $256,602,605,557 and that on Janu ary 1st. the Government had col lected since July, $17,954,213,762 and had spent more than eighteen billions. That, of course, does not tell the story: the Govern ment has authorized many other billions and will pour out the billions during the next few months. Although most of us think that all this turmoil is due to Mr. Truman’s pdor leadership, he has the Nation in a corner: there is nothing for us to do but fight. But we observe no prudent sav ing by Mr. Truman; day by day we hear of grants and loans for ah' sorts of things that are not pressing. If we could expect the Supreme Court to think soberly about the Constitution, instead of The General Assembly of the State is now in session. The whole State is talking about the poor pay of the teachers, and the discussion grows more animated all the time. Just what the teach ers receive - is not commonly known. In order to clear up som^ of this it might be desirable to let the State pay the teachers and take that off the Counties and districts. As it stands, a teacher receives so much from the State and so much from the district—and so on. If the State means to provide for the schools let us stop the piece-meal nolir and go all the way. But let us take the burden off the counties and districts. In this connection I suggest that the State Department of Edu cation needs a searching investi gation. It is too big to operate without sharp scrutiny from the outside. It is no more proper for it to be a teachers’ organization than for the Highway Depart ment to become a contractors’ club. ,o,. ’ * j. Tlm# Many of our people, including some of Senatpr Johnston’s sup porters. are wondering why he supported a Public Power scheme in Virginia and North Carolina when the Senators -from Virginia and North Carolina opposed it.’ It appears that Senator Johnston broke the tie and defeated the offer of the private Company to build the line, according to The Charlotte Observer. If the Senator would like to discuss the matter Spectator would be glad to cfcrry his state ment. MAPI OHlt WITH THt -t; rOLLOWlNO CAST ION*— '' e Via Air Mall . 9 Pint dart Mafl • tearlat Oalhrary • Air EartsI Pact • tatara Paatas# It- i- • ftatara Racal#f jX FEBUj Priatad Malta# • Praftla. • Hoad Stamp Oatp • Rap lata rad Mad a Da Nat taad Has the President the lawful power to send an army to Eu rope? Did he have the Consti tutional power to engage in war In Korea? Ha* he the preroga tive to make agreements With Britain, France and other Na tions by which this Nation is committed to defend Europe? He has no such authority. Senator Taft raised the question, though it is a bit tardy .The necessary, curb on Presidential usurpation and arrogance is nine years over due, perhaps ten years. Unfor tunately Congress is a body of politicians, not statesmen; Cob- For Expert Repair Bring Your Radio and Television Mmzm f GEO. N. MARTIN Radio and Talovision Service mm* jbBiMiP m SSW BALES and SERVICE BOYCE STREET Opposite County library 24 HOUR SERVICE Telephone 311 „ MULTUM DATER. Solidly built die^lste dster. One operation and your papers are marked with all essential information. *3.75 TIMESAVER BAND STAMP. Here U the greatest automatic stamp designed in years. For day to day business use this “13 Stamps in One” eliminates the need for * l Choir Singing CONTEST/ ^Program gress will overlook anything, or almost anything, done by a Presi dent of the same Party. ^ Now let's see what the law is. Remember this: whenever the Congress virtually hands unlimit ed power to a President the Con gress is itself violating the Con stitution, as the Court ruled in N.R.A., you may recall. Now what Is the law? “The President shall be Commander-ln Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when callfed Into the actual Ser vice of the United States.” The intent of the Constitution was to have one person responsible for the actual operations of the Army and Navy; that Is as far as the Constitution Intended; it dealt with the armed forces and their employment under the general authority of Congress. For ex ample, the President might change the garrison from Fort X to Fort Y, but he has no authority to commit the Nation to any sort of policy; that would require an Act of Congress. Let us see if the Constitution says anything about the making of promises or obligations by the President. “He (the President) shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Con sent of the Senate ,to make Treat ies, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur.'* This provision has been so flagrantly violated within recent years that the Congress should re-assert its powers and restrain the Presi dent. So Important is the matter of treaties, or dealing with other Nations, that the Constitutional Convention debated this at length. Even Alexander Hamilton, who was an advocate of a strong ex ecutive power said; “ the vast importance of the trust and the operation of the treaties as laws plead strongly for the part icipation of the whole, or a por tion of the Legislative body." The only lawful agreement the President can make with another Nation is by a treaty; and that treaty must be ratified by the Senate. Congress has no right to delegate that authority any more than it has the right to let the President decide issues of law which belong to the Supreme Court. Certainly the Senate must be consulted, but the House also, when the proposed arrangements require expenditures of money. Today Mr. Truman runs wild; and the Congress becomes a party to the gross violation of the basic law because the Congress is play ing politics. If America had to choose, which is worth more tb us, the great game of politics and partisan loyalty, or Constitutional government, faithfully carried out? The Congress shall have Power: “To declare War." Quite clearly the Constitution confers thle power on the Congress, not the President. The President has been acting as though all the power of the Government were vested in him and subject to his whim and pleasure. 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