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wm •? >' - ■■ xm mGZysg - PAGE FOUR THE NEWBERRY SUN FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1952 inn w*m 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 in advance outside S. C., $2.00 per year in advance. Same Act-New Front **** < ‘^-‘^*~- ---r TVijriii ■ M , r* COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR What is the F.E.P.C. ? Tom Lindler of Georgia, in discussing the F.E.P.C., said in a recent bulletin: “Under the American Constitution, including the bill of rights, it is imposible for one citizen to have a right that deprives another citizen of a right given him by the Con stitution. The Constitution is the act of the people of the states acting through their legislators. Statute law is the act of the people of the states acting through their rep resentatives in Congress. Under the Constitution, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is guaranteed to each and every citizen. The right to accumulate and own property is guaranteed to every citizen and the free and peaceful use of that property is guaranteed to each citizen regardless of race or creed. It therefore necessarily follows that if an Indian owns a piece of land he has the constitutional, right to limit the use of that land to those of his own choice. If he so desires he can say that none but an Indian can live on that land. If he runs a hotel or a boarding house he can say whether or not anyone other than an Indian can live there. If he needs hired help he can say that ‘I will hire no one but Indians,’ and all the powers of the Federal Government are staid. There is no authority in this country that can tell him ‘nay’ without themselves violating the Constitution and the laws. If the supreme court undertakes to rule otherwise, it has ceased to be a court in the true sense and has become the puppet of some creed, political party or pres sure group. If a Negro owns a piece of land he has a right to do every thing the Indian has a right to do, and there is no power having the right to interfere so long as he violates no law of the country. It should be taken for granted that if the Indian has these rights and a Negro has these rights that a white man should have the same rights. If our laws and our con stitutional rights apply without regard to our race, then we must assume that the white man has as much right as anybody else. It necessarily follows that any FEPC or other law which would undertake to tell a man whom he can employ or cannot employ, or tell him for whom he can or cannot work, it is a nullity assuming there is a supreme court worthy of the name.” Mr. Linder is Commissioner of Agriculture of Georgia and speaks from a background of ample knowledge and ex perience. Our courts have departed from sound applications of the Constitution. I have insisted for some time that FEPC is not only the proper concern of Congress, but is not a proper concern of the States. An employer has a Constitutional right to choose his “help” according to his own judgment. The Socialists and the Communists and other theorists have thrown the Constitution overboard and persuaded many of our people that this mischievous and utterly per verted theory is a sound policy. Apply it to your home or your farm. Must you employ people you don’t want; or must you accept Tom, Dick and Harry because some fellow in the clouds says you must not prefer one man over another. Are we deliberately prostituting our great basic law for political effect ? General Eisenhower was received with great enthusiasm. HPerhaps a hundred thousand 'South Carolinians greeted him with a hearty welcome. Governor Byrnes said in his speech of welcome: “In introducing General Eisenhower, Byrnes called him ‘a son of the South, born in Texas.’ The governor, a life long Democrat, said ‘South Carolina is out of the bag.’ He referred to assumptions that Southern states normally are in the Democratic bag. He said of General Eisenhower: ‘In this hour of peril, I would rather have a professional soldier than a profession al politician as president of the United States.’ Touching one of the main campaign issues, Byrnes de clared, ‘The people of South Carolina know the job of clean ing up the ‘mess’ cannot be entrusted to the men who made the ‘mess’.’ i General Eisenhower spoke from a flag-decked rostrum on the steps of the capitol. He wore a gray summer suit and he waved and smiled and gestured to the crowd, ask- nowledging the tumultuous salute.” Thousands of our people were afraid of the probable traffic difficulties and remained at home listening to our Governor Byrnes and General Eisenhower over the radio. The total audience was probably a half million. General Eisenhower, in reply, said: “Our deepest desire—the desire of every Amrican—is for a just and lasting peace; for the end of war and the threats of war. It was not for national ambition or ag grandizement, but solely to win such a peace that we fought • ——— " m ■ " " " in World War II. Yet today, seven years after that war was won, it is not the promise of peace, but the DANGER OF WAR (with emphasis) that fills the future. Our economy is a war economy; our so-called prosperity is a war prosperity. The uncertainties that hang over every Ameri can family are bred of war and the threats of war. Is that tragic prospect the fault of you, the people? Are you to blame for allowing nation after nation to fall to the Communists, to increase their manpower and swell the re sources of their slave empire? • Are you to blame that today, as a result of these sur renders, the dtiemies of freedom have built and heavily man ned a threatening line across the middle of once-free Europe ? Are you to blame for the fact ihat seven years after winning the Second World War, our country still has no clear, positive, practical program for peace? You know the answers to those questions. You know that this long record of failure in the case of peace is not your failure; it is the failure of an administration too long in power. That is a record, my friends, which calls for a change. Today, our country is involved—and our sons are fighting —in a major war in Korea. The long shadow of that war reaches into more and more of our homes. Is that the fault of you, the people ? You know that that war is a tragic chapter in the record of this administra tion. You also know that, today, America still lacks a pro gram which will promise to end the growing list of casu alties in that conflict. Isn’t that reason enough for a change? The American people want a government which merits their trust because, from top to bottom it is trustworthy. What have we got instead? We have an administration which may go down in history as the ‘Scandal-a-Day Ad ministration.’ As bad or worse than the scandals, them selves, is the attitude of those in high office who—faced with these revelations—have, too often, first denied them, then condoned them and, when public pressure became too great, reluctantly has undertaken to do something about them. Let me read you what Democrat Senator William J. Fulbright of Arkansas had to say about this at the con clusion on his own inquiry: ‘What seems to be new about these scandals is the moral blindness or callousness which allows those in responsible positions to accept the practices which the facts reveal. It is bad enough for us to have corruption in our midst, but it is worse if it is to be condoned and accepted as inevitable.’ Is that record the fault of you, the people? Are they your standards and your priciples that are being currently prac ticed in Washington? * For years—for far too many years—we have had in Wash ington a new breed of political philosophers—new, that is for America. They have had practically no faith in the people and almost total faith in government. They have ac cepted the principle of government for the people that is as long as* they were the govrnment—and out of their little faith, they have rejected the prior principle of government, of and by the people. As for the great advance in our progress, our people have looked, first, to themselves, then to their local communities, then to their state governments. Now this, we. are told, is a new era and it calls for a new look. Now we are told that we must look to Washington and that, if we do, Wash ington will look after us. And Washington will-^far more than we want. For example, I believe wholeheartedly and without any ‘ifs’ or ‘buts’ in federal programs to stabilize farm prices, including the present program insuring 90 percent of parity on all basic commodities. I believe that the farmers should obtain their full share of the national income. I anl for programs to put a firm foundation under farm prosperity and to strengthen the family farm as the mainstay of our agricultural production, including soil conservation, research, rural electrification, rural telephones, farm credit, farmer cooperatives, farm to market roads. Farmers should obtain their fair share of the national income. After the 1948 election, the head of the present national administration declared at a press conference that he was proud he had won that election without the support of the Solid South. As Republican candidate for President, I want you to know that I am proud to come here and ask for the help of the Solid South to win this election for America. ashington By WALTER SHEAD A N OBJECTIVE appraisal\0f the . presidential campaign at this stage of the race would indicate that General Eisenhower, nation ally known to every man, woman and child in the country, has an edge. This advantage of Eisenhower over Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, who is still unknown na tionally to many people, is the difference in the campaign. So Gov ernor 'Stevenson has the uphill fight. This column still believes, as was pointed out several weeks ago, that the final electoral vote will not be close . . . that it will be a land slide for one or the other of the two candidates. It is too early to predict which w&y. • • • Certainly Senator Nixon,' Ike’s running mate, has added a new handicap to the five-star general for accepting an $18,000 expense fund from private citizens, repre senting oil, and other interests in California. Whether Senator Nixon is on or off the GOP ticket, whether he violated or did not violate any law or regulation, this Nixon fund must be differentiated from the acceptance of funds for campaign purposes. The money accepted by Senator Nixon, he says, was used for expenses of his office after he was elected to the Senate, and not for campaign purposes. For these office expenses Senator Nixon used more than $60,000 an nually from public money for op eration of his office, plus $2,500 tax free money for other expenses, phis his salary of $12,500. There is not doubt but that many mem bers of the Congress add to their income by outside work, such as lectures and writing, and these funds received from these outside sources are subject to income tax and must be reported as such. • * • Which brings the issue down to the double standard which now exists between the legislative and executive branches of the govern ment. There is a regulation of long standing in the executive branch which is designed to prevent any appointed Government employee from accepting any gift, favor or other emolument from private sources. So he must live on his salary. There is no such standard in the Congress of the United States, and it is this branch of the government which is probing the executive branch of the govern ment on charges of doing the same thing members of the Congress do without restraint. So the Nixon case is likely to point up this issue for the passage of some legislation which may pre vent acceptance of such funds in the future by members of the Con gress. Such a law has been rec- omended by the Fulbright com mittee and has long been advo cated by Senator Morse of Oregon. • • • Looking at the campaign at this stage, this column sees these ob stacles and assets on behalf of both candidates: General Eisenhower, obstacles: He is a life-time military man . . . the big Negro vote in the north . . . organized labor vote . . . pos sible defections because of support of senators such as Jenner of In diana and McCarthy of Wisconsin . . . loss of some liberal votes be cause of his accord with Senator Taft . . his unfamiliarity with domestic problems. Ike’s assets: He is a national military hero . . . his sincerity and personality . . . better party imity because of his peace with Taft . . . his repudiation of GOP farm plank in bid for farm votes . . . the is sues of change and corruption in government. Governor Stevenson, obstacles: he is unkown nationally . . . cor ruption in government issue . . . the issue of change . . . possible southern defection in his party . . unfamiliarity with foreign issues. Adlai’s assets: He is a great ora tor and a master of humorous ridi cule his independence . . organized labor vote . . Negro vote in northern cities . . the southern vote his fine record as governor of Illinois his familiarity with domestic issues . his sincerity and personality . . national prosperity and high personal income, and President Harry S. Truman. VOLCANO ERUPTION FORMS ISLE ... A small ielan* Is being formed by a volcanic eruption 150 miles south of Tokyo. Explosions threw pumice stone and sulphur 1,500 feet above Paoiflo Ocean. And when we have won this election for America—as we will win it—Washington will have a new moral climate, America will have a new sense of direction and you and I— all of us—will have a renewed faith in ourselves, in each other and in the future.” The General was greeted with great enthusiasm during his address and along the streets as he rode with Governor Byrnes. What did your fathers and your grandfathers and their grandfathers do? Though loyal subjects of the British Crown they forced King John to sign a charter of rights in 1215; they condemned James the Second’s abuses and drew up a statement of British political principles known as the Bill of Rights; they beheaded King Charles the First; they fought King George the Third and broke with Great Britain. Everyone of those acts was treason! Then they set up a nation; in 1861 they broke with that nation—that nation created in great part by South Carolina one of the 13 States which formed the Union; in 1948 South Carolina withdrew from the National Democratic Party. So why is it so bad that we break again? Are we ashamed of our ancestors ? Don’t we hold in honor our men and women of the Revolution and our men and wo men of the Civil War ? Are we slaves of the label ?• We are still Democrats — South Carolina Democrats, but we are Americans first and we follow in the steps and in the spirit of our people and break away from Truman and Trumanism. We stand for a principle of Government, not for just any Pendergastian Apostle who calls himself a Democrat. We have been thrown out of our father’s house by enemies; we shall not crawl back in. We support Eisenhower as an agent to clean up the mess. AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND STARtt-IVING’ Different Mental Attitude Helps \T7TLLIAM KERMIT MONROE, Lumberton, North Carolina, lost his wife and was left with two little children, one two years of age and the other seven days old when its mother died. The older child was at home with him while the younger was still at the hospital. The doctor said they would keep him there until arrangements could be made to have him somewhere else. In the meantime William Monroe faced a lot of expense; doctor bills, hospital bills, three spe cial nurses to pay, funeral expense, and also a housekeeper and a nurse for the two year old boy at home. He was already in debt about $2,000.00 and going in debt more each month since he was making only $2400.00 a year as a postal employee. He worried until he could not sleep at night; he smoked too many cigarettes, and was becoming a nervous wreck. He could not keep both of his babies at home and provide nurses for them, and they were too young to enter an orphanage. Some friends wanted to adopt them, but more than anything else he wanted to rear them together and keep them with him. On day he decided to talk to his minister. When he stated his problems to the minister, he was told of a similar experience. He said that it was a problem that could not be worked out in a day or two, that it would take some time. And he advised Mr. Monroe to live one day at a time and let tomorrow take care of itself. Accepting this advice brought about a different mental atti tude and a change in Mr. Monroe’s life, and things began to work out all right. His nervous condition disappeared and his health returned to normal. CARNEGIE 1 CROSS d. idecis from other ad itors -rpROM The Iron Ore, East Lan- •F sins, Mich.: Too often many of' our citizens (including us) have criticized our more public spirited men, who have held and are now holding offices in our city government. The men we are writing about are our aldermen. They were elect ed by the free will of the people and we know they strive to enact means and ways whereby our city and theirs is a better place in which to live. But how often do we praise them few some of the tilings they have accomplished? We know that all of the people can not be in harmony with their way of thinking, it is not possible to please all of the people all of the time. Our aldermen and public officials do not gain any special favor or means by holding office. All of them hold full time jobs or are en gaged in some business in this city. Many are the evenings they would like to spend with their family or friends, but instead they attend meetings pertaining to the opera tion of our city and weighing both sides of this or that complaint. We are quick to criticize and slow to praise, but we know that these men, even though they do not benefit in a material way, they have an inner satisfaction, in know ing they are serving their commu- nity. So let’s give them a pat dn the back once in a while and give them our whole hearted coopera tion. * * • From The Fort Mill, S.C. Times: It use to be said that “Light ning never strikes in the same place twiee.” But it seems that this theory, like almost everything eh has undergone a change. Now seems that lightning follows some people around. Take .George Bacot, for instance. A couple of weeks ago, a few days after he moved his family to Co lumbia from Fort Mill, light struck the dwelling on Spi which he had just vacated, twic< during one thunderstorm and did severe damage to the home. About 10 days later lightning struck the home in Columbia which he and his family had just occupied. It knocked a chandelier from the ceil ing and sent it crashing to the floor. • • • From Redwood Journal Press Dispatch, Ukiah, Calif.: Americans are a forthright pie to most respects and usu very impatient of unnecessary lay. Perhaps before the nation’s next presidential election, they will streamline campaign procedures, eliminate the sadly outdated and efficient “electoral college’’ begin the long needed task of signing state primaries that give tiie electorate a direct unencumbered choice in selec our presidents. The arrival of television, speedy publishing methods and rapid com munications has done much to make government more personal for Americans. Perhaps elimina tion of unnecessary and expensive^ time lags in our political proced ures will help us eliminate out moded complications and restore vigorous interest to government where it really counts—at the voter leveL m- DRAMA AT MURDER TRIAL ... Billy Austin, 8, looks over hack of high seat at Detroit murder trial. Mother in Marion Austin, is charged with fc*mng husband. Test Your Intelligence Score yourself 10 points for each correct answer in the first six questions. 1. Which of the following games was originally, sometimes still is, played on a green? —Tennis —Tiddly winks —Bowling —Ping-Pong 2. Which of the following is the thigh bone? —Digit —Cranium —Femur —Fibula 3. Two states bordering on Canada have territory on peninsulas reachable only by crossing Canadian territory. One of them is named below. Can you find it? —Maine —Minnesota —Michigan —Montana 4. Which of the following men led the “Rough Riders’* in Cuba during, the Spanish-American War? —Stonewall Jackson —John J. Pershing —Garcia —Theodore Roosevelt Pick out the following word which does not match the other three. —Mold —Fungus —Mildew —Trichinosis Which of the following writers became famous for books which were not written in his native tongue? —Joseph Conrad —Honore de Balzac —William Faulkner —Sinclair Lewis Match the following leaders with their respective countries. Score yourself 10 points for each correct choice. (A) Peron (B) Tito (C) Schuman (D) Adenauer Total your points. A score of 0-20 is poor; superior; 90-100, very superior. 5. 6. 7. —France —Argentina —Germany —Yugoslavia 30-60, average; 70-80, (Answers on Page Six) MM V,