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'j'f: '• PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1953 1218 College Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner 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: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. MAIN STREET ROULETTE... COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Senators Maybank and Johnston have been widely quoted recently because of speeches and writings. Senator May- bank has spoken sharply against Government by crises and Government by emergencies. The Senator very properly condemned the F.E.P.C. clause in the contracts for Com modity loans to farmers. I need not discuss the merit or demerit of the so-called FEPC as a piece of political clap-trap, to catch votes. Even if one thought the general proposition had merit he would recognize the all-pervading political hypocrisy of it, and would know that it is simply and entirely a scheme to woo a bloc of votes. But assuredly the inclusion of such a clause in farm-loan contracts was ridiculous. Senator Maybank had in mind, probably, the practice in Washington of declaring a State of emergency as justifi cation for some executive usurpation of authority never dreamed of in our basic law T . Senator Johnston has been firing his heaviest guns at President Eisenhow r er. This heavy cannonading may clear the air and do good; it is helpful to the cause of good govern ment to keep the group in power on its best behavior. My friend, Senator Johnston, and my friend, Senator Maybank, are usually regarded as staunch advocates of 'what is known as Public Power; that is the building of power dams and generating plants with Federal funds. Someone seems to have given Johnston some inaccurate figures, un less my memory is at fault. If so, I will gladly make a cor rection. A distinguished friend in Virginia has sent me a copy of The Congressional Record of August 3rd, containing an extensive and laudatory account of the benefits from pub lic power in an article by Senator Johnston. I am not taking exception except to one or two points which seem to me obscure, or innocently misleading, because the Senator is not trying to mislead us, I know. But the first question I raise is this, in the third paragraph; “Federal power . . . . has been a worthwhile force in breaking down the re straints of monopoly price-fixing,” of electricity. The Senator did not refer specifically to South Carolina, so my question may be unnecessary. However, so far as this State is concerned, who fixes the rates? The South Carolina Public Service Commission. If Federal power is cheaper it raises several questions: Why? Because Federal power escapes taxation, for the most part. How do we support the Federal Government, the Counties and the schools? By taxation. Then shall we take off the taxes from the private power companies and order them to compete with those that pay almost no taxes? I have farming interests and have connection with a Coop. If the Government sells me power for less than my town friends, that is not fair to them. Then shall the Government control all the power, and sell to everybody, so as to treat all citizens alike, according to our American doctrine of equality before the law? Shall we confiscate all private investments? Of course the Senator knows that most of the coopera tives in South Carolina are served by private power compan ies. I think that is a correct statement, though I invite cor rection, if I’m in error. Senator Johnston probably is a fine example of what we call private enterprise, individual initiative and self-reliance; he made his own way; he battled against the tides of dis couragement and adversity and won his place in the world without Government help. So I make the point that the Government should get out of all business, or take over all business, including the farms and politics, as in Russia. A Russian knows exactly where he stands. He doesn’t stand. Still, if a little Government money is helpful, why not more? And if Government participation in one business is good, then why not in all? And if one group is specially favored, why not all? And if one business is built with Federal Government money, yet pays no Federal tax at all— and very little of any other taxes—why shouldn’t all of us have tax-exemption? How, then, would we operate the Government? I don’t know. Do you? And how about the schools? One feature of Senator Johnston’s article in the Congres sional Record I want to praise; he was really advertising the South, as compared with New England. In general, as between us and New England, the Senator was giving us a great boost. He might have helped the cause, however, if he had had time to get all the facts. For example, he says in the last paragraph of page 1, “Rural electric cooperatives in ;my State are securing their power supply at about three- quarters of a cent per kilowatt-hour, and a number of them are paying the South Carolina Public Service Authority only a little over half a mill per kilowatt hour.” and further “The Greenwood County Commission ... is able to offer rural electric cooperatives a power supply at three-quarters of a cent per kilowatt hour.” Following the above, the Senator says that the private power companies in South M-‘ { m Carolina have fallen in line with this progressive policy.” As I said, the Senator‘‘was speaking of conditions through out the nation. But only so that we may keep the record clear—and I am relying on my memory—is it not true that The South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. gave a rate of five and a half mills to Cooperatives three or four years ago? It was the lowest ever given, I read. At that time didn’t the papers carry a story about that five-and-a-half-mill rate? Or was it a page ad by The Power Co.? And then my friends of Santee-Cooper made contracts with the Coops at 6.2 mills? I do not think any Company can sell power, even at 6.2 mills, today and break even, considering the high prices of everything. The Senator will understand that my discussion of the philosophy of Government Power is a permissible difference between friends; and that the figures I have cited from memory will strengthen his fine effort to prove that South Carolina is the golden spot of the world. Both Senators Maybank and Johnston have protested strongly against Government purchases from New Eng land Cotton Mills because New England may have un employment problems. Our Senators are contending that the Government should treat all alike, according to the principle of equality before the law. They are entirely right and nobody can challenge the soundness of that contention. A “One hundred years ago the American people had no fear of what their government might do, because they were determined that their government should serve them. The fiber of the people has changed, has grown soft and afraid. Today we are fearful of our Supreme Court. We are fearful of the laws passed by Congress and the acts of the Chief Executive. Why should we be afraid of our own servants, men in public office? I hear people ask what will we do if the Supreme Court holds that segregation in schools is unconstitutional. What would your fathers and grandfathers have done under the same circumstances? The Supreme Court knows that the 14th amendment to the Federal Constitution was never adopted by the qualified voters of the states, nor their law ful representatives; that is not validly a part of the Con stitution and has no place in it. I hear people say, what shall we do about taxes? What will we do about this of that? Many speak as though they were living under King George III, under a Caesar or some other dictator.” I quote Mr. Linder with approval; and at the same time I gladly admit that President Eisenhower is trying to cor rect the condition Mr. Linder complains of, but our Con gress has grown accustomed to subservience. In the papers I recently read statements by Senators, Senators, mark you, that they didn’t think the President would ask this tax or that tax, or some other tax. It is the duty, it is the duty of the Congress to “lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises;” and it is not the duty of Congress to gravel in the dust before the bureaucrats. Now and then I read the Constitution. I spent many months trying to learn the great basic law, but I sometimes feel as the boy did who decided to leave the farm and*be come a lawyer. He worked in a lawyer’s office a month and returned to the farm, explaining that he didn’t like law and was sorry that he had learned it. What a lad, eh? Page one of my brethren of the Bar and let’s see if we can get a rise out of him! What says my friend Mr. Callison, our dignified Attorney General of South Carolina? ■ I wonder sometimes about this: “. . . .No appropriation of money (for armies) shall be for a longer term than two years.” This, too, “The Congress shall have power to de clare war. Yet we have spent thousands of lives and bil lions of dollars without Congress knowing anything but what appeared in the newspapers!” Under the authority “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes” we have a Federal assertion of power that reaches into the States and lays hand on almost everything and everybody. It was not intended to be so. It is legaslistic manipulation by the courts that would make Houdini proud. And the Congress has tamely followed that arrogance of the Courts and the Executive. Our Nation having supported the claims of Israel against oppression of a thousand years n^ay we not hope that our Republic may correct some practices within its own borders ? RESSIONAL Q—The Democratic Congressman from my district toid me the other day that the Republicans are undermining Civil Service by taking away job protection and opening positions to patronage appoint ments by calling them “policy-making jobs.” How many federal jobs have lost tenure protection in this way? A—From April 1. when President Eisenhower ordered the transfer of some jobs from protected to unprotected status, until Aug. 28, a total of 527 positions were placed in Schedule C—the policy-making category The Civil Service Commission rejected 627 additional re quests for transfer. Q—Sen. John M. Butler (R. Md.) complained recently that veterans of the armed forces are not getting the employment breaks they should in the federal government. What proportion of federal civilian employees are veterans? A—Latest figures (for March) show that 48 per cent of the federal government’s civilian employees throughout the world are veterans. In the continental U. S., 1,072,412 male veterans work for the gov ernment, constituting 61 per cent of the domestic federal payrolL In addition, 47,772 women employees—eight per cent of all women in federal service—enjoy veterans’ status, either as veterans them selves or as wives or widows of veterans. Q—Which members of the cabinet have served in Congress? A—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks (both Republicans), each served less than a year in the Senate under appointments to seats vacated in mid-term. Dulles represented New York, Weeks Massachusetts. Q—What happens to fields prepared for wheat seeding before acreage allotments and marketing quotas were put into effect? A—Wheat farmers in designated areas may apply for permission to plant winter wheat in excess of their allotments provided they do not let it mature, but instead use it for pasture, hay, silage, or cover crop purposes to combat wind erosion. IOiieCarnegie ^ . AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" ^ G LADYS WOLFE, 121 Nelson Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey, says that she awoke one morning and realized that she had lost her re ligion. The preceding evening she had attended funeral services for her family doctor. To her he had been much more than the family doctor. He had been friend, confidant and buddy. He had succumbed at the age of 44 because he had ignored his own serious heart ail ment, and had continued to work long hard hours to keep people well and healthy. Why had this won derful man been taken, when thieves, murderers and dope peddlers walked the streets in good health? Was this the will of a good and just God? Her an swer was “No!” and she turned her back to her church and to her religion. During the days following she found it difficult to concentrate on her work. At night she lay awake pondering and worrying about her loss of faith. She felt inferior to her fellowman, and she did not wish to confide In anyone because she was ashamed ot her thoughts. Months passed without the happening of any incident to change her feelings. Then Good Friday arrived. That afternoon, for the want of something else to do, she found herself walking into church. She sat down, watched the worshippers coming and going, and presently felt herself relaxing in the quiet, serene atmosphere. As she sat there, a phrase kept running through her mind—“The Lord in wondrous ways. His miracles doth perform.'* All at once she realized that she would never know a moment’s peace until she stopped trying to find cold scientific. answers to ques tions concerning matters over which she had no controL She walked out of church that afternoon five years ago with a feeling of buoyancy that she had never before experienced. She realizes now that religious faith satisfies a craving in man kind that no other form of self-expression can equal; that when ad versity causes material things to be swept away, and friends prove to be false, religious faith is the only thing to which we can cling and find strength and solace. CARNEGIE From the Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kansas: While the nation’s wheat producers voted in marketing quo tas by a wide margin, there was a quality of reluctance In the de cision not readily reflected in the results. Many Americans living out side the country’s bread basket will get the hasty Impress that wheat farmers rushed indiscriminately to the federal trough. This will be an unfortunate interpretation tor actu ally considerable sold searching to place. But under toe circum stances. the wheat areas had no other choice. It was a matter of sticking with an imperfect, frustrating machine or watching the jalopy shake it self to pieces before your eyes, taking you down with it. Given the alternatives of survival or salva tion. the farmer chose to live. But it is a mark of his growing social literacy that up to and after mark ing his ballot he continues to wres tle with the larger philosophical question of government subsidies and regimentation. And so the farmer has invited the government to tell him how much wheat he may raise and sell, roughly 20 per cent under his ‘pres ent output. He doesn’t like it. In deed. it is this unmistakable under current of apology and dissatisfac tion that should impress itself most cogently on the nation’s political and farm leaders. They must re double their research tor a solu tion to the farm problem which will be morally patable to toe farmers themselves. • • • From toe Rutherford ton News, Rutoerfordton, N. C.: How much longer the American people win stand for millions to be spent on TV A, which is a Socialistic move- ment, we do not know. The best thing would be for Uncle Sam to seD out TVA to private power com panies. The latter w6uld develop and carry on without spending mil lions of the taxpayers* money yearly. • • • From the Bfilbank Herald Ad vance, BfUbank, S. D.: People who are tor a more economic govern ment must be heard above those who are asking special considera tion. There cannot be any genuine economy without a lot of groups and a lot of individuals having to make a small sacrifice in the na tional interest • • • From the Brownsville Telegraph, Brownsville, Pa.: The rank and file of the people are demanding tax reduction but it’s hard to achieve that objective when all sorts of groups are still looking for hand outs and special privileges. brain budi 1. Babylonia was once the name of (a) Turkey; fb) Iran; (e) Iraq. 2. The highest temperature recorded in toe United State* was in (a) New Mexico; (b) Texas; (c) Arizona. 3. The coldest temperature recorded in the U. 8. was in (a) Minnesota; (b) Wisconsin; (c) North Dakota. ANSWERS *«voi|xv i •tHUI •! A CCORDING to a recent poll by Congressional Quarterly mem bers of the 83rd congress give top billing to Korea, tax reduction, and economy in government as the key issues of 1954 election campaigns. Of 223 senators and representa tives who responded, 85 per cent picked Korea as a major issue in the coming campaign from a list of 40 potential 1954 topics. Tax reduction was the issue next most frequently selected, polling 75 per cent of the vote. Seventy- three per cent of those who re sponded — 112 Democrats and 109 Republicans — ranked economy in government as the third hotest topic. Broken down the poll shows some variation which can be attributed to party affiliations. For instance. Republicans rated Korea first, but scored economy in government in second spot, followed by tax re duction, budget balancing and tax revision. Derriocrats also gave top priority to Korea, but they selected tax re duction next, farm and livestock prices third, farm price supports fourth, and economy in government they dropped to fifth. One Democrat who was polled said that the “issues will be falling farm prices, tight money and a giveaway of natural resources to the new ’preferred customers’. *’ A Republican said he expected “the one overriding issue will be the support of President Eisen hower.” It is difficult, sideline observers say. to predict which of the two groups more accurately reflect pub lic thinking. The answer, of course, will be expressed in the 1954 election. • • • • The resignation of Martin P. Durkin as Secretary of Labor, is believed by some quarters to end the “honeymoon” of labor and th* new Republican administration. Durkin resigned, according to a statement, because the White House staff members had, in his opinion broken an agreement to press for 19 Taft-Hartley Act amendments. Some Democrats and union offi cials immediately made propagan da over Durkin’s resignation. They claim his exit as evidence of big- ( business domination of the Eisen-; bower Administration. They hope to make the Taft-Hartley Labor Law a major issue in next year*k congressional election. * * * ! • Stephen A. Mitchell, chairman of the Democratic National Co^n* mittee, has made it plain that <?>na of the issues the Democrats intend to hammer a f during the 1954 cam paign is the Eisenhower farm policy. ' The issue of declining farm prjfce* has been the only pne on wl?ich the Democrats in congress—South erners, and non-Southerners alike —have been able thus far to genuine unity. ! Reliable sources report that President Eisenhower has tafeen very little part in planning his ad ministration’s farm policy. He teas left this in the hand of his hard working, hard-praying Secretary of 1. *L Agriculture. Ezra Taft Benson. fWirtcL INTELoGRAMi Check correct word in these sentences: 1. The Black Death that killed thousands in Eng land was a (German weapon) (an epidemic). 2. Puce is a (color) (tropical fruit). 3. Hong Kong belongs to (Communist China) (Great Britain) (French Indo-China). 4. A Saluki is an (Abyssinian prince) a (breed of dog). 5. A nautical mile is (longer) (shorter) than a statute or land mile. 6. Harriet Quimby is famed as (America’s first woman pilot) a (suffragette leader). 7. Stotinki is a (Finnish seaport) (Bulgarian coin). 8. A refectory is a (kind of mirror) (dining hall). 9. Tamarack is a (tree) (musical instrument). 10. Classification of animals and plants is called (taxidermy) (taxonomy). Check your answers, scoring yourself 10 points tor each correct choice. 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