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THE NEWBERRY SUN
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1951
1218 College Street
NEWBERRY, S. C.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
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.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In S. C., $1.50 per year
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS . . .
VOICES FROM THE TOMB
POINT TO OUR PERIL
“A voice from the grave” came to me recently. I didn’t
hear it; I read it. A friend in Charleston sent this to
me; it is a sort of farewell to the American people by
“Al” Smith, the man who began life as a boy working in
the Fulton Fish Market of New York, and served as,
Governor of the State of New York four times.
One might think that election to political office is not
always proof of great qualities, since the element of popu
larity enters so largely, but Al Smith, when serving as a
delegate to the Convention which prepared a new Con
stitution for New York, was regarded by Elihu Root as the
best informed man in the Convention. Mr. Root was a
great lawyer and a Republican; Al Smith was a Democrat
who rose from poverty to eminence by hard work and un
aided study. In his last days Al Smith, a man of wealth
and position, looked back over the years and spoke from
study, observation and ripe experience. So the words of
Al Smith which I quote tod^y are like a voice from the
Other World. Hear him:
“What are these dangers that I see? The first is the
arraignment of class against class. It has been freely
predicted that if we were ever to have civil strife again in
this country, it would come from the appeal to passion and
prejudices that comes from the demagogues that would in
cite one class of our people against the other.’
“A GOVERNMENT BY BUREAUCRATS
The next thing that I view as being dangerous to our
national well-being is government by bureaucracy instead
of what we have been taught to look for, government by
law.”
I have spoken of that almost beyond your endurance.
But it is the crowning menace of the day.
“In 34 months we have built up new instruments of pub
lic power in the hands of the people’s government. This
power is wholesome and proper, but in the hands of politi
cal puppets of an economic autocracy, such power would
provide shackles for the liberties of our people.”
Verily how true, indeed! A well known newspaper said
editorially last week that the Truman Administration has
on hand almost seven billion dollars of unspent money
for aiding other Nations. Why, then, ask for seven bil
lions more? Some time ago I quoted an authority as say-
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BY EDNA MILES
T HE fashions of the Twenties are on their way back. This
probably is bad news to the women who wore middy
blouses and skimpy, pleated skirts way back then. But to
a younger .generation, these new fashions will be fun.
Actually, there’s a great difference between the 1952 sil
houette and the boxy, graceless look of the Twenties. True,
there’s a dropped waistline this year but it’s a waistline
that’s molded to the figure.
- Ostrich boas are back, floating as gracefully as they did
in the drawing-rooms of silent movies. The cloche, never
really out, is back in many versions: shallow, deep, narrow-
brimmed, wide-brimmed.
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This doesn’t mean that the only silhouette for the year is
found in the flapper look of 1925. There are also high waist
lines, rounded hiplines, half-belts placed very high. And
there are normal waistlines with no hint of the Twenties.
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ing that the Truman Administration now has on hand
unspent appropriations about equal to the vast amount
it now asks from Congress. Don’t you see that all this
gives to that horde of bureaucrats vast. power without
going again to Congress; it means that Congress is los
ing its grip. ’
“The next danger that is apparent to me is the vast
building up of new bureaus of government, draining re
sources of our people in a common pool of redistributing
them, not by any process of law, but by the whim of a
bureaucratic autocracy.”
“Al” was a prophet, wasn’t he?
“That was pretty plain. That was a recognition in the
national convention of the rights of the States. But how
is it interpreted ? The Federal Government took over
most of the relief problems, some of them useful and most
of .them useless.” (Relief to be through the States)
Weil, we can’t deny that, can we?
“And the sin of this whole thing, and the part of it that
worries me and gives me concern, is that this haphazard,
hurry-up passage of legislation is never going to accomplish
the purposes for which it was designed and—bear this in
mind, follow the platform—under State laws.”
“Al” was right; the Federal Government so firmly con
trols all this that the Chairman of one such Board wrote
to me that although he agreed with a suggestion of mine
he was afraid to adopt it for fear of losing Federal Aid.
And so we proceed on the merry way of Strangling the
States and local self-government.
“Let’s see how it was carried out. Make a test for
yourselves. Just get the platform of the Democratic Party,
and get the platform of the Socialist Party, and lay them
down on your dining room table, side by side, and get
a heavy lead pencil, and scratch out the word ‘Demo
crat’, and scratch out the word ‘Socialist,’ and let the two
platforms lie there.”
“Now I am going to let you in on something else. How
do you suppose all this happened? Here is the way it hap
pened. The young Brain Trusters caught the Socialists in
swimming and they ran away with their clothes.”
“Now what is worrying me, where does that leave me as
a Democrat? My mind is now fixed upon the Convention.
The Committee on resolutions is about to report, and the
preamble to the platform applauds everything.
“What happens to the disciples of Jackson and Cleveland
when that resolution is read out? Why, for us it is a
washout. There is only one of two things we can do. We
can either take on the mantle of hypocrisy or we can take
a walk, and we will probably do the latter.”
“There is a principle, and in the interest of brevity I
will read it. I can read it quicker than talk it. ‘First, a
Federal Government, strictly limited in its powers, with
all other powers except those expressly mentioned, reserved
to the States and to the people,so as to insure State’s
rights, guarantee home rule, and preserve freedom of in
dividual initiative and Ideal control.’ ”
“Stop attempting to altar the form and structure of our
Government without recourse to the people themselves, as:
provided in their own Constitution. This country belongs
to the people, and it doesn’t belong to any Administration.”
“Stop! Stop wasting your substance in a foreign land,
and come back to your Father’s house.”
South Carolina voted for Al Smith for the presidency in.
1928. Measured by the leadership the Democrats now
have Al seems almost an oracle, an inspired voice, calling
his beloved country back to the path of truth and sound
thinking. . ' ,
W arng of Party Power
For her role in “The Winning:
Team,’’ actress Doris- Day wears
a tailored street dress of the
Twenties.
If, however, you’ve hoarded a wardrobe since 1927, think
ing that fashion might complete a cycle, you’re out of luck.
Fashion, even in revival,- changes and improves so much
that it would be impossible to wear 1925*8 evening gown to
anything blit a fancy-dress party In 1952.
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generally.
We have seen great changes 'merely by the whim of
bureaucrats and the arrogance of Judges.
“The Common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of
party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of
a wise people to discourage and restrain it.”
We see this today and we must rise above Party in
order to preserve the integrity of our Country.
“If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution of modi-
ficiation of the constitutional powers be in any particular
wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way
which the Constitution designates. But let there be no
change by usurpation; for, though this, in one instance,
may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon
by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent
must always greatly over-balance in permanent evil any
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partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time
yield.”
This is the very essence of wisdom. The course that
has been followed has done great harm.
“As a very important source of strength and security,
cherish public credit, not ungenerously throwing upon
posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.”
That is timely, though it is late to think about it.
“A passionate attachment of one nation for another
produces a variety of evils, sympathy for the favorite na
tion, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common in
terest in cases where no real common interest exists.”
. “Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I con
jure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of
a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history
and experience proe that foreign influence is one of the
most baneful foes of republican government.”
“Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by
interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe
entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European
ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?”
We have heara the words of Al Smith, and the words of
George Washington. Both were the distilled wisdom of.
long and honorable careers, spoken when the sun had set
and the evening shadows had come upon them. Perhaps I
might sum it up in the parting words of David to Salo
mon: “I go the way of all* the earth f be strong therefore
and show thyself a man.
Dorn Forestry Bill
Signed By Truman
The Dorn forestry bill enabling
many South Carolina landowners
to reclaim land erroneously
acquired by the Federal Forest
Service recently passed the Sen
ate ’and .has been signed by the
President.
This measure, authored by Rep
resentative Dorn, of South Caro
lina, overwhelmingly passed the
House last year and, with the
President’s signature, has become
Public Law 2«4 82nd Congress.
Under this new law landowners
have an "additional ten years- in
which to adjust old disputed land
boundaries with the Federal Gov
ernment.
The U. S. Forest Service back
ed the bill and rendered Mr.
Dorn invaluable service in push
ing the measure through the
Congress.
Winner In State
Corn Contest
Y. L. Addy of Newberry was
second place district winner in
the South Carolina corn contest,
according to announcement made
March 19.
Mr. Addy planted Dixie 17
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Dixie
ie. Home, Sweet Home.
There’s No Place Like Home
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great figures, but one stands apart, unequalled, the superb
character who met every occasion with dignity and wisdom.
George Washington, the towering character which over
shadowed all others even in a period of great men.
Let Washington speak to us:
“I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in
the State, with particular reference to the founding of them
on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more
comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn
manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party,
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