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NEWBERRY, S. C.
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By ARMFIELD BROTHERS
Entered as second-class matter December 6. 1937,
at the Postoffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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Comments On Men And Things
Treaties Made In Violation Of
Constitution Should Be Invalid
1952 is here. A new year has
come and the wheels turn about as
usual. Perhaps we fret too much
about the New Year, wondering
what it will bring forth. Why
shouldn’t we glide into the new
year as smoothly as a fine car
moves along with grace and
power? The new year may be as
sociated with Federal, taxes, but
taxation doesn’t produce business:
let us keep going under full steam,
taking the taxes in our stride.
That doesn’t mean that taxes are
not too high; they are too high;
they seem to discourage prudent
management; they seem almost to
take the heart out of the investor;
but there is some return for the
work; the Government doesn’t get
all the profit. I point that out
becausd we seem to have many
men who hope that the Govern
ment will some day take all the
profit; in fact, that all of us shall
be in the employ of the Govern
ment. We are not in the employ
of the Government yet; we still
come and go at will: the Govern
ment only takes most of the earn
ings. So, let’s be thankful for
what we have; what we keep; and
then let us highly resolve to de
flate the Government, literally
take the wind out of it, and re
build it on the ancient founda
tions of sound policy—of truth, in
tegrity, simplicity, economy.
“There are 58 companies in this
country with assets of more than
1 billion dollars each. Their com
bined assets totaled $147,782,000,-
000 on Dec. 31, 1950. On that
same day the Government’s out
standing debt amounted to $256,-
708,000,000. WHICH Big Busi
ness do you mean.”
That—I am taking from the
magazine of The Duke Power Co.
The war in Korea has cost at
least $25,000,000,000—so far.
The News & Courier of
Charleston published a dispatch
from Washington giving that fig
ure as an estimate. Twenty five
billions of dollars! The First World
War cost this nation $27,000,000,-
000. That was undeF Woodrow
Wilson; the Second World War
cost this country four hundred
billion dollars. Mr. Truman has
spent twenty five billions on what
he calls a “police action.” It is a
puny affair, in money, compared
with the two hundred and sixty
billions spent by Mr. Truman from
July, 1945 to July 1, 1951. The Na
tion wil survive that, even with
Mr. Truman spreading dollars all
over the earth and the Seven Seas.
But the thousands of maimed and
mangled men; the thousands of
lives lost; the thousands of wid
ows and orphans; the thousands of
wrecked homes — they are the
price beyond all calculation; and
that loss cannot be covered by any
political talk or any other appeal
of a slippery tongue: nothing but
Divine grace can smoothe over
those furrows in the hearts of
thousands.
How far can the Congress go,,
in legislating? May it lawfully in
vade the field of the State in pure
ly intra-State matters? Everybody
knows what the powers of Con
gress are, in general; but Con
gress has been leaving the trail
and rambling all over the earth.
The latest departure from the anci
ent law is the United Nations’
charter. Most of us have thought
favorably of some kind of associa
tion of the Nations for Mutual pro
tection: but this United Nations
organization is so organized that
it wants to reform the land laws
of all the Nations; and do a thou
sand other things which are not
the concern of the Congress of the
United States. All this is being
done, and is said to be binding on
us, because the Senate ratified the
treaty by which the United States
became a member of the United
Nations. And they argue now that
the treaties are binding on us over
and above our State laws because
the Constitution of the United
States makes the Constitution and
treaties the supreme law of the
land. I don’t believe any such
twaddle; if a treaty between this
Nation and any other nation vio
lates the spirit of our Constitution
including the reserved powers of
the States, such treaty is itself
invalid because it rests upon an
unconstitutional Act of Congress.
And, if necessary, the people
should re-affirm the powers and
lack of powers of the Congress.
This matter of Segregation is
not a matter for the Congress of
the United States. What we are
faced with is a lot of judge-made
law. Incidentally, the most un
democratic part of the American
system of government is the un
regulated, uncontroled tyranny of
the courts. The citizenry of this
Nation may have to demand that
the scope of the Executive, the
Courts and the Congress shall be
fixed, determined and circumscrib
ed so that the liberties of the in
dividual and the prerogatives of
the States shall be set forth in
clarity and precision; and that the
present forays into the rights of
all shall be defeated as decisively
as were the Austrian armies by
Napoleon.
I’ve read in The States’ Righter
an account of a decision in the
City of Washington and the re
marks of the District Judge, in
answering the Supreme Court. I
quote:
“Judge Matthew F. McGuire, of
the U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia, has vigorous
ly defended before the Supreme
Court his refusal to order a special
three-judge court to rule on the
constitutionality * of segregated 1
schools in the District of Colum
bia.
The District case is one of three
initiated by the NAACP in an ef
fort to upset the 1896 Supreme
Court decision, never reversed,
sustaining the constitutionality of
‘separate but equal’ school facil
ities. The NAACP is campaign
ing for a reversal of that doctrine,
trying to establish that segrega
tion is of itself unconstitutional,
without refrence to whether sepai>
ate and equal facilities are availa
ble.
The two other cases were
brought in South Carolina and
Kansas, and special three-judge
courts ruled in both, in line with
the long standing high court de
cision, that segregation is not of
itself unconstitutional.
Both these cases have been ap
pealed to the Supreme Court, but
Statement of Condition
of the
Newberry County
Bank
Newberry, S. C.
Joanna, S. C.
CLOSE OF BUSINESS, DECEMBER 31, 1951
Resources
Cash and Due from
Banks 566,721.00
Liabilities
..
U. S. Government
Securities
741,396.13
DEPOSITS $1,846,787.16
Reserve for Taxes 5,764.88
Other Reserves 6,491.47
South Carolina, State,
H County and City
Bonds
Loans and Discounts ....
Furniture and Fix
tures
90,781.19
619,692.00
10,700.00
Other Assets None
Common Capital 125,000.00
Surplus 20,000.00
Undivided Profits 15,246.81
Reserve for Losses 11,000.00
Sec: 6209 U. S. Revenue
Code
Total $2,029,290.32
Total .....$2,029,290.32
"The Friendly Bank In The Friendly City”
the court has not yet announced
whether it would agree to review
them.
In the District case, however.
Judge McGuire denied a motion
for a special three-judge court
holding that ‘no substantial con
stitutional question’ was involved.
Decisions of such special courts
may be appealed directly to the
Supreme Court, by-passing the
Court of Appeals.
The District case was dismissed
by District Judge Walter M. Bas-
tian, and the NAACP has already
appealed to the Court of Appeals.
But Attorneys for the Negroes in
volved in the District case, mean
while asked the Supreme Court to
order District Judge McGuire to
set up a special court to hear the
case.
As one of its first orders of the
current term, the Supreme Court
directed Judge McGuire to show
cause why he should not be order
ed M> set up such a court.
Judge McGuire's defense of his
position was in his brief filed with
the Supreme Court in response to
that order.
He told the Supreme Court that
in denying the request for a three-
judge court, he properly followed
local law and the established Su
preme Court doctrine of separate
but equal facilities. A ^district
court judge, he argued, is more
than a ‘mere ministerial officer,’
and has the duty as well* as the
power to decide as a judge
whether a request for a three-
judge court involves a substantial
question of the type which can
properly be referred to .such a
court.
Even if the complaint raised an
otherwise constitutional question,
he said, it should not be referred
to a special court because the
school segregation policy of the
District is based on an act of Con
gress which applies only to the
District.
He also argued that establish
ment of a three-judge court would
‘put a serious drain upon the Fed
eral judicial system.’ Furthermore,
he said, petitioners in the case
have not been denied their right
of appeal to higher courts on the
merits of the case.
Judge McGuire said the appel
lants, in seeking Supreme Court
action to force establishement of
a three-judge court, went beyond
the ‘purely and simply’ procedural
issue, and were in fact making ‘a
thinly veiled effort to obtain an
expression from the Supreme
Court on the merits of the ques
tion raised in their complaint in
the District Court.’ ‘The question
of the constitutional validity of
laws requiring seperate schools for
white and Negro children of the
District,’ Judge McGuire’s brief
said, ‘has been- settled by the
United States Court of Appeals for
the District, and the Supreme
Court has many times expressed
itself upon validity of separation
of the races in wholly equal facil
ities.’
These findings, it added, are
binding on a district court judge
in determining whether a three-
judge court should be set up to
decide issues of that kind.”
Speaking of the tyranny of the
Courts, do you recall the decis
ion of a Federal District Judge,
that the porter of a country bank
was under the Federal wage-hour
MAC CHAPPELL TO
•TUDY EX-RAY
Mac Chappell, son of Mrs. J.
M. Chappell, Pope street, this city,
began a year’s study as an Ex-Ray
Techinician in the Columbia Hos
pital on Wednesday of this week.
Mr, Chappell, a World War II
veteran, was a member of the
Marine Corps for two years, part
of which time was spent on active
duty in the Pacific theatre.
His wife the former Sadie
Franklin, now employed by the
Wertz Music and Appliance Com
pany on W. Main srteet, will join
her husband in Columbia the lat
ter part of this month, where they
will make their home.
law because he carried letters of
the bank to the post office, some
of which letters went out of the
State? Incidentally, Congress had
no valid authority for passing any
of the Social legislation that we
have. Lawyers of America should
have been able to convince Con
gress and the Courts. However,
neither Congress nor anybody else
wants to stand up squarely for a
principle, if that heroic stand will
cost a lot of votes. Men will not
“put their necks out.” That cow
ardly attitude is first cQusiii to the
safety-first propaganda. Every sen
sible person believes in safe driv
ing, but the world is the rich
heritage handed down to us / by
men and women who did not
cower and hide; but who met
threats and dangers with firm res
olution, dying, perhaps, but be
queathing to mankind the noble
example of unswerving pursuit of
a goal.
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEWBERRY
BY E. MAXCY STONE, PROBATE
JUDGE:
WHEREAS, Mrs. Mildred Walk
er hath made suit to me to grant
her Letters of Administration of
the Estate and effects of Lillian
Nix Steele deceased.
THESE ARE, THEREFORE, to
cite and admonish all and singu
lar the Kindred and Creditors of
the said Lillian Nix Steele de
ceased, that they be and appear
before me, in the Court of Pro
bate, to be held at Newberry, S.
C., on Saturday, Jan. 12 next,
after publication hereof, at 10
o’clock in the forenoon, to show
cause, if any they have, why the
said Administration should not
be granted.
GIVEN under my hand this 3rd
day of January Anno Domini 1952.
E. MAXCY STONE,
Probate Judge, Newberry County
35-2tp.
NOTICE
Strengthen our faith. Moses
spoke of the people as “a very
forward generation, children in
whom is no faith.
I’ve recently read a book from
the Richland County Library on
faith in life; faith as a constant
dynamic. I owe quite a lot to the
Richland County Library and to
all the staff, from the gracious
librarian on through the whole:
personnel—all gracious and fine.
I attended Westminister Chapel
in London on Sunday and heard
the great preacjher, Dr. Jowett,
preach from the text; "When the
Son of man cometh, shall he find
faith on the earth?” Jesus con
stantly spoke of faith; nor did:
He use the word always in a pure
ly religious sense, as we think
of the church. Jesus built not
only the church, but life, human
life, in all its fullness: “that they
might have life, and that they
might have it more abundantly.”
When the disciples asked why
they could not cast out a devil,
Jesus replied “Because of your un
belief.” “If ye have faith as a grain
of mustard seed,.ye shall say to
this mountain, remove hence to
yonder place; and it shall remove;
anjd nothing shall be impossible
unto you.” Faith In God and His
Son and deep-rooted belief that
His power moves through our
hands. Faith, belief, vast power
within our reach. So, little changes
in the calendar should not dis
may us: we should move forward,
confident, strong in the faith, tri
umphant; men who rise above cir
cumstances; men who create the
circumstances, as Napoleon said
he did.
AUDITOR’S 1952 TAX
ASSESSMENT NOTICE
I, or an authorized agent, will
be at the following places on
the dates given below for the
purpose of taking tax returns on
all personal property, new build
ings and real estate transfers.
Persons owning property in
more than one district must make
returns for each district.
All able bodied male citizens
between the ages of twenty-one
and sixty are liable to $1.00 poll
tax. All persons between the
ages of twenty-one and fifty out
side of incorporated towns and
cities are liable to pay com
mutation (road) tax of $1.00. All
dogs are to be taxed at $1.00
each. v
WHITMIRE
City Hall, Wednesday, January
2, 1952.
Aragon-Baldwin MiU, Thursday
and Friday, January 3 and 4,
1962.
G. M. & R. E. NEEL STORE
Monday, January 7, 1952 from
9 until 12.
SILVERSTREET
Monday, January 7, 1962, from
2 until 5.
CHAPPELLS
Tuesday, January 8, 1952'.
HOLLINGSWORTH’S STORE
Wednesday, January 9, 1952,
from 9 until 12.
KINARD8
Wednesday, January 9, 1952,
from 2 until 5.
PROSPERITY
Thursday, January 10, 1962.
ST. LUKE’S
Friday, January 11, 1952, from
9 until 12.
O’NEALL
Friday, January 11, 1962, from
2 until 5
LITTLE MOUNTAIN
Monday, January 14, 1952.
PEAK
Tuesday, January 15, 1952.
POMARIA
Wednesday, January 16, 1952.
JAMES HOMER CROOKS STORE
Thursday, January 17, 1952,
from 9 ui til 12.
A. E. A R. E. REESE STORE
Thursday, January 17, 1952,
from 2 until 6.
At Auditor’s Office to March
1st, after which a penalty of 10
percent will be added.
PINCKNEY N. ABRAMS
Auditor Newberry County
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NOTICE
BUICK OWNERS
Contrary to reports, w$ are still handling Buick
parts and servicing Buick automobiles. We have in
stock several thousand dollars worth of fast-moving
Buick parts—the parts that are most needed in case
of emergency, and we will continue to stock these
parts in the future. Any other parts needed can be
secured immediately.
At present we are not selling Buick cars, but are
handling all service for them. There has been no
change in our endeavor to render the best service
avavilable in Newberry. We have special Buick tools
an dequipment, and our mechanics are trained and ex
perienced in servicing Buicks. Buick and Chevrolet
are their pride and joy, where service is concerned.
They have always been loyal to these cars and will
continue so.
Regardless of the make car or truck you own,
Kemper Chevrolet Co. solicits your business. We ap
preciate our old customers’ patronage, and invite new
customers to our Service Department. Mr. Epting,
our Parts Manager, and Mr. Hite, our Service Mana
ger, are ready to serve your needs cheerfully and ef
ficiently.
Kemper Chevrolet Co
1515-1517 Main Street
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