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THE NEWBERRY SUN
Friday, mAy 4, i95i
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
Summer Wells, one of the
bright men who served in Wash
ington, has written a book in
which he declares that our Gov
ernor Byrnes didn’t know his
way around the world. Summer
may be right that Jimmy didn’t
know the countries bordering on
the Black Sea; that is not such
woeful ignorance; he had a hun
dred men who knew that. Per
haps Summer knows many such
facts and yet may not know what
to do with his facts. A farmer
needn’t be a surveyor, yet he may
know what to do with the land;
many a successful merchant does
not know how to fabricate the
merchandise he sells. Most of
us don't understand all the de
tails of a car, but we drive and
drive well. Perhaps we drive
better than the mechanies who
understand every bolt and nut
and screw.
Summer seems to be sour; he
never rose to the dignity of Sec
retary of State though he was
confident of his superior mind
and his spacious knowledge.
One fact in Governor Byrnes’
career which no one has chal
lenged: he has always been alert
intellectually that he has never
failed to land on his leet. Work
ing side by side with Mr. Byrnes
Mr. Summer Wells was never
regarded as the abler man.
Did the South Carolina Gen
eral Assembly “go off half-cock
ed?" Not by a jugful; it fired
both barrels fuly cocked and
then brought in more guns. It
wasn’t a parsimonious Legis
lature; it didn’t do anything half
way; it went all the way and
then continued to go. Some Leg
islators being Deacons, others
Stewards, some Elders, perhaps,
may have misunderstood the
Good Book, thinking that it forc
ed to go one mile you should
show the spirit of accomodation
by going two mles. So far
from pinching pennies, our lead
ers showed a generous spirit that
leads us to hope that when we
have bled the people white we
shall find a plan to pluck money
from the air.
The first over-generous act was
the three-percent Sales Tax. This
was supposed to be for schools.
Since about ten millions may
be used for salaries, about three
million more mav be used to pay
interest on the $76,000,000 school-
bond issue. If the State should
retire the bonds in ten years that
would be an additional seven mil
lion and a half dollars, with less
interest every year as the bonds
are paid. That still leaves a
few millions to throw around.
What about that $75,000,000
bond issue? If flatly violates the
State Constitution. The Con
stitution says: “To the end that
the public debt of South Carolina
may not hereafter be Increased
without the due consideration and
free consent of the people of the
State, the General Assembly is
hereby forbidden to create any
further debt or obligation, either
bv the loan of the credit of the
State, by guaranty, endorsement
or otherwise, except for the ordi
nary and current business of
the State, without first submit
ting the question as to the crea
tion of such new debt, etc: to the
qualified electors of this State at
a general State election; and un
less two thirds voting on
the Question shall be in favor
none shall be created or
made.’’ Article 9: Section 11.
That is clear enough. Any man
of intelligence can understand it.
I know that our Court validated
the Highway bond issue of 1929,
but read the Constitution for
v.
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This man does, so he is careful to drown his campfire.
A good sportsman, he knows that good fishing depends
on fire prevention. He knows one fire, started by a
careless act, can bum a forest, leaving behind dead
trees, dried-up streams, and eroding hillsides. That’s
why he is always careful with fire in the woods. Are you?
FAIRFIELD
FOREST PRODUCTS CO.
N«wb«rry, S. C.
yourselves.
In this we might inquire whe
ther our highways have all been
built; or whether we have spent
$65,000,000. We have excellent
highways and we receive good
value for what we spend. The
point I am making is not against
the building of highways but I
am emphasizing that our ten
dency to kick the Constitution
around like an old “hound-dog”
is the wrong way. Our court
undertook to make out of the
bond issue a current debt: it is
still operating, after 22 years!
Well the current debt has been
running now twenty two years,
which is strong for any current,
debt or other floater.
If I admit, as I do, that we
have received full value for our
Highway bond-money, that does
not argue that a Government
under a Constitution should throw
the Consttuton out of the wndow
because we may fear the op-
positon of the people at the polls.
If the rght of the people to reg
ister their will is disregarded by
the governing authorities we have
denied the doctrine of popular
sovereignty; we have .trampled
on the basic charter of the peo
ple.
I think I am as unwilling as
ard most people to get tangled
up with Federal Courts in State
matters, yet I still think the de
cision of our State Supreme
Court in the Highway bond mat
ter should have been carried to
the Federal Courts since it pass
ed over the Constitutional prohi
bition that should be a conclu
sive restraint on our General
Assembly.
In this proosped bond issue of
a County. Now where are those
roads built? To serve those who
vote right or command a lot
of votes. Well, what do we mean
by “voting right?” You would
never be able to guess that, could
you? Have you ever seen such
roads almost without farms and
hardjy going to market? Of
course they might eventually
reach a market. Not, of course,
that there would be any poli
tics in this!! Nay, Nay; all is
as white and pure as the “driven
snow'.’*
So what do you expect of the
school building if we don’t en
force the Constitution? Well,
soon, perhaps after Governor
Byrnes retires to the peace and
quiet of his Spartanburg peach
es, the up-and-doing legislators of
acquisitive zeal with sell all the
old school houses to the State;
and have the State assume all
the old bond-issues. Then the
schools will be., built in com
munities where the boys vote
right, or may be persuaded to get
right.
Do you think I find any plea
sure in this diatribe? Assuredly
I do not; I mention all this with
profound sadnes6: but we are
running willy-nilly as we please,
impatient of restraints, confident
that we should do as we think
may be right, without being
hampered by a Constitution. We
want to be a group of men suf
ficient unto ourselves.
The Congress, likewise, wants
to go ahead under full steam;
and often the program is a good
one, though the trend is bad.
You read that a Committee of
Congress has cited Dr. Rumely
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$75,000,000 for schools, we Pro-1 for contem f* of ,
bably • need the schools, but we was convicted in a Federal
need respect for law even more. ^ f
If the Constitution can be dis- t° **11 the names t
regarded in one matter of popular bought his pamp * „ oitl
interest It can be disregarded In tut IO nal .Government. As a ,cltl ;
others.
As a matter of respect for our
Courts this $76,000,000 should be
challenged in our State Courts;
if validated by our State Courts
a Federal question could be made
out and the challenge carried to
a Federal Jurisdiction. When a
State Government deliberately
nullifies the express prohibition
of its Constitution, a prohibition
on its rights to involve the State
in debt, it might be .said that it
is violating that provision pf the
Constitution of the United States
which guarantees a Repcblican
form of government to the
States—that is a Constitutional
government.
I haven’t the most complete
confidence in the use of the
$75,000,000. Experience is a great
teacher. What happened in the
case of the State Highway bonds?
The General Assembly intended a
great and progressive step; I
gladly admit that: but wheq the
Legislature, of its own motion,
and without regard to the Con
stitution, authorized the issue of
$65,000,000 in bonds to construct
State highways what happened
next? The Legislature began to
take over County bonds for roads,
and the total of County bonds, as
I recall, was about $42,000,000.
Some of these County bonds paid
4 Vi percent interest and were
non-callable. I think the State
is still paying interest on some
of them, though the State could
have borrowed millions at one
half that rate of interest. The
men who conceived the idea of
the State bond issue thought of
a great public service, but we
live in an age of’ exaggerated
self-interest or local interest.
Those men who were pioneers of
this great road program created
a State Commission to carry out
the program.
That Commission was expected
to look over the State and to act
for the State. Well, what have
we? Super-highways in certain
locations and highways not so
super in other places. Why is
that? We now have Commis
sioners chosen by legislators from
a region. Such a Commissioner
is enthusiastic for his region, so
where are we?
The next step was to set up
a program. for farm-to-market
roads, apparently controlled by
the Legislative Delegation from
it’s
WILD BILL
HICKOK
and hi*
adventures qf the West
featuring
GUY MADISON
and
ANDY DIVINE
SUNDAY NIGHT AT
9:30
MUTUAL
BROADCASTING
COMPANY
zen of this country ponder this:
What right has the Congress to
.require such information? Have
l we no privacy in this country?
Merely because a Committee of
Congress is serving a good pur
pose—and this one is doing that
—does not abridge the privileges
or immunities of Sovereign citi
zens. I do not know why Dr.
Rumely refused to answer: per
haps the purpose of the question
was to ascertain who supported
his campaign. But if publishing
a pamphlet and selling it in
wholesale lots is a crime because
it is an effort to influence Con
gress, what would you say about
newspaper editorials? What about
the radio commentators? If we
have a right to print and publish,
then the sale by wholesale is
not a crime. But the Congress,
in a wholesome and praiseworthy
campaign seems to sse to be
transgressing on this man’s rights
as a Citizen. Those racketeers
of New York could thumb their
noses at a Congressional Com
mittee by saying “I will not
answer that because it might in
criminate me.*’ Gamblers, swind
lers of all kinds found refuge
in the guarantees of the Consti
tution—and impoperly so, usual
ly; but this honorable man, try
ing to serve the Nation, he has
no refuge. Don’t you see how
firmly we should hold to the
Constitution? And do you see
why this State should have a
new Constitution? Something else
to kick about? We are trying to
govern by-a Constitution; we are
trying to evade the Constitution!
The National Geographic Society
says cabbage was popular many,
centuries before Christ.
FULMER-RENWICK
In a ceremony, marked by quiet
dignity and simplicity Miss Annie
Vernetha Fulmer of Leesville and
Newberry and Robert M. Rei^-
wick of Newberry were united in
marriage at 5:30 p.m. April 8 at
St. Mark’s Lutheran church in
Leesville. The Rev. H. B. Watson,
pastor of the bride, officiated
using the double ring ceremony.
The vows were spoken before
a background of Southern smi-
lax, white gladioli and seven-
branched candelabra.
A program of wedding music
was presented by Mrs. G. A.
Lindler of Saluda, pianist, and
J. B. Fulmer of Newberry, so
loist.
The bride was attended by her
sister. Miss Maytrude Fulmer of
Leesville. Her gown of dusty
blue satin was styled with fitted
bodice and bertha collar. She
wore matching mitts and a strand
of baby pearls, a gift of the bride
groom. She carried an arm bou-
, Quet of red roses.
The ushers were Gerald Fulm
er, brother Of the bride, Carl
Aull, cousin of the bride, John
and Charles Renwick, brothers
of .the bridegroom.
James S. Renwick, father of
the bridegroom, was best man.
The bride, who was given in
marriage by her father, William
J. Fulmer, wore a gown of
white satin fashioned with sweet
heart neckline, fitted bodice and
leg o’mutton sleeves fastened
snugly at the wrists with cover
ed buttons corresponding to the
ones that ran full length of the
front bodice. Her fingertip veil
of bridal illusion- fell from a
tiara of valley lilies. She car
ried a satin covered Bible topped
with a white orchid and shower
ed with white satin streamers
and valley lilies. The bride’s
only ornament was a strand of
pearls, a gift of the bridegroom.
Mrs. Fulmer, mother of the
bride, wore a navy dress with
navy and white accessories and
a corsage of red carnations.
Mrs. Renwick, stepmother of
the bridegroom, wore an aqua
dress with black accessories and
a corsage of pink carnations.
Immediately after the cere
mony the wedding party and par
ents of the bride and bridegroom
received In the vestibule of the
church.
The bride is a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Fulmer
of Leesville. She was graduated
from O’Neall high school and
completed a business course at
Newberry college. At present
she is employed as stenographer
for the Newberry County Depart
ment of Public Welfare.
The bridegroom is a son of
Mr. James S. Renwick and the
late Mrs. Renwick of Newberry.-
He was graduated from Newber
ry high school and is now em
ployed with the Newberry Coca-
Cola Bottling company.
The young couple wll make
their home in Newberry.
PRENVENTION AN CONTROL
OF MASTITIS
“The Prenvention and Control
of Mastitis” will be: the subject
of a lecture to be given by Dr.
George H. Hopson, consulting
Veterinatian of the De Laval
Company, New York, New York
and national authority on Mastitis
control and milking machine op
eration, at a meeting of dairy
farmers at the Monticello High
School Auditorium at Salem
Crossroads on April 20, accord
ing to an announcement made
here by County Agent P. B. Ezell.
now at
half
price I
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PHONE 610
Dr. Hopson was brought up on
a dairy farm in northern New
York State and is a graduate of
the College of Veterinary Medi
cine of Cornell University. For
several years following gradua
tion, he had a successful practice
of his own. He then joined the
Borden Farm Products Company
as a Milk Inspector and later de
voted his entire time to the train
ing of other Milk Inspectors.
Prior to the time Dr. Hopson
became associated with the De
Laval Company in 1940, he spent
four years as Milk Sanitarian
with the Milk Commission, Kings
County Medical Society, Brooklyn,
New York, and was closely as
sociated with the Certified Milk
Producers Association of Ameri
ca.
The meeting, which is sponsor
ed Jointly by the dairy depart
ment of the Clemson extension
service and the South Carolina
Dairy Association, will begin at
10:00 a.m. and end at 12:80 p.m.
All dairy farmers in Newberry
County are invited to attend this
meeting and hear Dr. Hopson dis
cuss the latest methods of con
trolling mastitis. Mr. Ezell sug
gests that dairymen wishing to
attend this meeting, meet at the
Agricultural Building at 9:00 a.m.
This is in order to double up in
cars, reducing unnecessary trans
portation.
THE REMOVAL OF
F E N N E lift’ S
JEWELRY STORE
From College Street To
1505 Main Street
Newberry, S. C.
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We are now carrying the Silfll
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