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THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1954
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Is the Governor of South Carolina properly concerned
about the constitutionality of Acts passed by the General
Assembly ? Or is the General Assembly itself concerned
about it ? Shall the Governor and Legislators have no respon
sibility in this matter? May they approve any measure and
sit back until some citizen goes into court, at heavy ex
pense, and challenges the Act as repugnant to the Constitu
tion? And suppose the Court tells him that the Act does
not affect him and that he has, therefore, no standing in
court ?
Is the Constitution binding on anybody? What says the
Constitution? The Governor takes this oath of office: “. . . .
I will, to the best of my ability, .... preserve, protect, and
defend the Constitution of this State and of the United
States.”
Members of the General Assembly, likewise, take that
oath.
All lawyers take that oath, as do all officials. As you know,
lawyers are officers of the court.
How can anyone preserve, protect and defend the Con
stitution by flaunting it? Is he hoping that a bad law will
“get by” because no one challenges it in court?
I’ve said it often before, and I repeat: virtually every
County supply bill contains provisions violative of the Con
stitution.
Has not a citizen, any citizen, a high prescriptive interest
in the Constitution? Is it not the charter of his liberty?
May he not properly challenge in court any Act or regu
lation which conflicts with the palladium of our liberties?
If anyone should think that I am talking loosely, just
talking at random, let us consider Section 14 of Artcile 1 of
our South Carolina Constitution. It says: “In the govern*
ment of this State the legislative, executive and judicial
powers of the Government shall be forever separate and dis
tinct from each other, and no person or persons exercising
the functions of one of said departments shall assume or dis
charge the duties of any other.”
That should invalidate all County supply bills which re
quire sanction before hand or approval of administrative
procedures.
The reading of that section indicates a close relation
ship to Section 2 of Article 2 which provides: “. . . . But no
person shall hold two offices of honor or profit at the same
time.” ■ '*■' *
Along with that we may cite Section 29 of Article 1: “The
provisions of the Constitution shall be taken, deemed
and construed to be mandatory and prohibitory, and not
merely directory, except where expressly made directory or
permissory by its own terms.”
CHIPPING AT THE CORNERSTONE
The Reclamation Bureau has asked money to determine
the need for rehabilitating existing projects, the committee
declared. It declared its behalf that once a project has
been completed and turned over to the users, the bureau
should assume that the users can take care of things from
then on.
The committee report said that present law requires that
states, municipalities or other interests requesting investi
gations from the Bureau of Reclamation shall pay half the
cost of the investigations. Nonetheless, it declared, only
one of 142 investigations proposed in the 1955 budget meets
this requirement. ‘Obviously/ it declared, ‘little or no effort
has been made to conform with the law/
Another committee criticism centered on the fact that the
Reclamation Bureau spends approximately one-fourth of its
construction funds for personal services. It declared that
this is almost double the percentage allowed for engineer
ing and .supervision services in large scale enginering and
construction activities by private companies.
‘Reluctance on the part of the bureau to finally wind up
a project and turn it over to the w'ater users for operation
is still very much in evidence/ the committee declared at
another point. ‘It is also apparent that a number of the
user organizations have not been overly aggressive in their
demands that projects be turned over to them, so long as it
appears that the bureau can obtain funds for operation and
maintenance. The apparent inertia of the bureau in this
matter leaves the committee with no alternative but to
force the issue by curtailing the operation and maintenance
funds requested.’
With respect to the Booneville Power Program, the com
mittee said it was concerned that ‘unit costs on a number
of facilities appear to be considerably in excess of costs of
private utilities for comparable work/
The Committee also said that in many instances in re
cent years power rates have been established and put into
effect without review by the Federal Power Commission, in
direct violation of the present law.
‘The Department of the Interior has in the past ignored
this provision of the law/ the committee said, ‘and has
made the most flimsy explanation of their reasons for hav
ing done so. The committee, in the future, will regard any
expenditure of appropriations on any other basis than
strict compliance with the law as illegal expenditures!!”
Socialism may yet be halted in these United States. It is
so easy to call on the Government, especially by those of
us who dream dreams but have nothing more substantial
than mere vaporings, or thought waves, even illusions and
hallucinations. We do not mean to burrow and dig and then
build on our work: we have a hunch, sometimes a cloudy
misty notion, and think it should be given a trial, at no
cost to ourselves. It is an attractive theory; if successful,
the proponent struts about; but if it fall flat, it w!as just
another blunder of the bureaucrats.
Well, the Appropriations Committee of the House of
Representatives has said something of importance. Let
us see what is what:
“The committee accused the Interior Department of ‘going
out of its way to justify projects that cannot be justified,
reluctance to finally wind up projects, a tendency to ‘over-
design’ facilities, spending too much of construction funds
on personnel services and failure to abide by a provision of
law requiring Federal Power Commission approval of power
rates.
The committee’s criticism came as it reported out the
department’s appropriations bill for the coming fiscal year,
starting July 1. The Committee recommended appropria
tions of $363.4 million, about $58.7 million or not quite 14%
below the Budget Bureau’s request for the agency.
Heaviest cut was handed to the Booneville Power Ad
ministration, whose appropriations were slashed almost 40
percent, while most of the department’s other power pro
jects, also were cut deeply.
' Here are some other samples of the committee’s comments
on the department’s activities:
With reference to the Bureau of Reclamation’s program
for investigating the feasibility of new conservation and
power projects, the committee said that ‘the bureau’s ef
forts are scattered in all directions in an effort to investi
gate every conceivable possibility for a project, and in many
instances to go back to once abandoned projects in an ef
fort to bring them into the realm of feasibility.’
It said that tax money will not be spent where private
or public utilities or R.E.A. cooperatives have expressed a
willingness to provide the service needed.’
Is the recession over? A great magazine of business asks
that. Then it proceeds to discuss the matter.
“A respectable case can be made that the 1953-54 busi
ness readjustment may be about over. To be sure, industrial
production has ebbed 12 per cent since last summer, and
some cities and industries are feeling the unpleasant after
effects of that decline. But in the economy as a whole, pro
duction appears to be leveling and should soon rise. Steel
use, for example, is now outrunning production by 16 per
cent. A foundation is being laid for a new economic ad
vance.
What complicates matters, of course, is that the nation
has also been readjusting from a part-war to a peace econo
my.
Unemployment, of course, is the answer. But there is
one fact about the present unemployment situation worth
nothing. The present range of 3,400,000 to 3,700',000 unem
ployed is remarkably low for a year of business decline. In
the 1949-50 recession the work force was smaller and un
employment rose considerably higher—i.e., to 4,700,000. We
have probably 3,000,000 more workers since then.
Despite all the recession talk, a substantial number of
corporations have announced impressive expansion pro
grams. According to the F.W. Dodge reports, new construc
tion awards rose to an all-time high for the first two months
of the year, and nonresidential construction awards were up
21 percent from a year ago. General Motors’ billion-dollar
pledge of faith in the economy and in its own ability to ex
pand sales beyond the $ 10-billion level naturally made the
biggest headlines.
But there were other sizable corporate bets being placed
on continued industrial growth and prosperity. General
Electric planned to spend $160 million on expansion in 1954
and a like amount in 1955; Standard Oil of Indiana ear
marked half a billion dollars for expansion in the next two
years; Standard of California mapped a $275-million ex
pansion and drilling program for 1954. The Bell system
companies will lay out $1.4 billion; the electric utilities $3
billion as compared with $2.8 billion last year. Steel firms,
despite all the forebodings of the Cassandras, plan to in
vest another three-quarters of a billion dollars in moderniza
tion and added capacity in 1954.
Dale Carnegie
★ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING': ★
N T. PAYNE, Darlington, Alabama, for the past three years has had
• a bad heart condition. Last fall his wife was operated on for the
temoval of a lung cancer; this was her second operation for cancer
in two and one-half years.
•He was so worried that he became extremely nervous and lost
weight. He couldn’t sleep; he could not concentrate on his work To
ward the first of December he read a book on
Worry, and in this book he found what he so badly
needed. He began living in a day-tight compart
ment; began counting his blessings.
Each morning as soon as he wakened he thanked
God for giving him and his wife another day Among
his blessings were his home, his family and his
friends. He thought of each of his friends and of the
many fine qualities that each possessed. Soon he
found that whereas once he was in the haoit of find
ing fault with them, he now found only fine qualities.
Soon he experienced a glow of happiness that
stayed with him all day long. His wife soon joined in this program and
has been uplifted by it. Recently she was examined by her doctor who
was amazed at the fine condition she was in, and Mr Payne believes
that she has a splendid chance for a complete recovery. His own
physical condition has also greatly improved, and their home is now
a happy place.
All due to one simple discovery. . * ,
yard, Illinois: An interesting
“graphichart” in the Chicago Sun-
Tirnes . . . reminds us that Harvard
has a rather patriotic layout for
its system of streets.
Our town has memorialized in its
street names seven of the 13 Re
publican presidents — Lincoln,
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison,
McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Added to these we have Washing
ton and Jefferson well represented,
giving us a total of nine of the 34
men to serve thus far in the White
House.
Such illustrious names ought to
merit legible street signs. (Here
we go again!) After hearing re
peated stories of how strangers
wander through the city hunting
for the homes they are wanting
to visit, and spending a half hour
or more in the process, the city
council might be taking the more
popular move to place the street
signs No. 1 on their priority list
Let’s get those street signs and
save the presidents from oblivion.
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From the Holyrood Gazette. Holy-
rood, Kansas: If it’s all the same.
I would just as soon not pay any
attention to the criticisms of Bush-
ton News subscribers who are per
turbed because of the items from
Holyrood appearing in its columns.
It is merely the offsetting of the
suited from the appearance of
Bushton items in The Gazette.
• • •
From The Enterprise, Ferndale,
California: It’s amazing after all
these years of astronomical taxes,
that there are still people who
believe that the Federal Govern
ment has some mysterious source
of income of its own, other than
the paychecks of Joe and Maizie
California and their fellow citizens
in 47 other states.
• • •
Fsom the Seville Chronicle.
Seville, Ohio: A fairly good test o!
whether or not you are a gone
citizen can be made by noting
where you leave your spring clean
ing debris at the village dump,
or in the nearest ditch or creek.
• • •
From the Webster Times. Web
ster, Massachusetts: One of the
greatest and most far-reaching
American achievements lies in ag
gressive selling of ideas and prod
ucts The time is nearly ended
when almost limitless farm sur
pluses can be piled up in ware
houses at an ever increasing cost
to the taxpayers. All precedent in
dicates that intelligent advertising
and other promotional effort can
go a long way toward selling us
out of the farm surplus problem.
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2. Arlington National Cemetery la (a) at Fort Myer, Va.; (b)
in Washington, D. C.; (c) at Arlington, Mass.
3. Father’s Day was founded in (a) 1934; (b) 1927;(c) 1910.
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the Empire State Building.
The U. S. purchased the Virgin Islands from
(Denmark) (England).
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(barograph) (seismograph).
The capital of Wisconsin is (Madison) (Mil
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Businessmen do not invest such large sums in expansion
unless they expect their sales to increase. Nor do they com
mit such sums if they believe new plant is going to become
much cheaper than it is today. And consumers do not keep
spending as freely as they have been if they expect their in
comes or prices to drop substantially. Thus, by their actions
to date, both businessmen and consumers have demonstrated
considerably steadier nerves than have the political and pro
fessional prophets.
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W HAT is out military “New
Look?’’ What is meant by “in
stant retaliation?’’
According to Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles, it is a “basic
decision ... to depend primarily
upon a great capacity to retaliate,
instantly, by means and at places
of our own choosing.’’ Admiral
Arthur W. Radford, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, once re
ferred to the New Look as prepara
tion “for the long pull; not a year-
of-crisis.’’ Both these explana-
tions, made some months ago,
have been considerably retouched
in s' series of explanations.
Secretary Dulles later said this:
“Initially this reshaping of the
military program was miscon
strued in various respects.” He
emphasized then that the U. S.
does not intend to rely wholly on
large-scale strategic bombing; in
sisted that the program is by no
means a move away from collec
tive security; explained that while
some troop withdrawals are ap
propriate following the end of the
Korean fighting, the striking force
of those remaining is still great;
and there is no intention of pull
ing U. S. troops out of Europe.
Senate Majority Leader William
F. Knowland has been quoted this
version of the New Look: “Instant
retaliation means that if and when
‘he United States .national inter-
t requires active resistance to
her Communist aggression, re
prisal would be appropriate to the
area and the objective.”
In more general terms, President
Eisenhower told a news conference
that the New Look is only an at
tempt by intelligent people to keep
abreast of the times.
Representative of doubts in the
minds of foreign leaders was the
warning by Canadian Secretary
for External Affairs Lester B.
Pearson that means for working to
gether must be found “in any new
defense policy ... if the great
coalition which we have formed
for peace is not to be replaced
by an entrenched continentalism.”
Mr. Pearson made his remarks
in Washington, as a prelude to dis
cussions of the Joint Economic
Board of the U. S.—Canadian Com
mission on Trade and Economics.
He wished to emphasize, he de
clared “the uneasiness that enters
into the minds of some Canadians
who realize that they are quite un
able to escape the consequences
of what you (the Americans) do—
or don’t do.”
• The dock strike in New York
could be considered a big show
down. Most observers concluded
that the problem was primarily
induced by a small corrupt group
of racketeers seeking to retain
their lush pickings. The showdown
and its importance lies in one
great indication: the days of mob
rule on the waterfront are definite
ly numbered.
Q—Can organizations use rooms in the Capitol for meetingsT
A—Any Senator may reserve the Senate caucus room, which seats 300
to 400 people, for any group of which the Senator is a member,
according to the Senate Custodian. The House Caucus Room, ac
cording to the Clerk’s Office, is under the Speaker's jurisdiction. It
is “seldom, if ever, used by outside groups.” said a spokesman
for the Clerk.
Q—Why do at least two states claim that the Republican Party was
born within their borders?
A—The Party, 100 years old in 1954, did not at first emerge on a na
tional scale. According to the Dictionary of American History the
name Republican was adopted by a meeting in Ripon, Wls.. on
Feb. 28. 1854. A state convention in Jackson. Mich., formally
adopted the name on July 6, 1854. Gaining adherents from Whigs,
Free Soilers, Abolitionists and anti-Kansas-Nebraska-Act Demo
crats, the Republican Party grew rapidly as various local con
ventions met, accepted the name and adopted platforms.
Q—My son enlisted in the regular Army last year. They say he can’t
vote in his home state of Texas and 1 want to know why.
A—Texas is the only state that does not allow members of the regu
lar military establishments to vote, although it permits voting by
draftees and reservists. Laws in several states make it difficult
for servicemen to vote by absentee ballot. New Mexico permits
no absentee voting by members of the armed forces, and soma
states permit no absentee voting in primaries. President Eisen
hower has asked Congress to cooperate with the states in making
it easier for servicemen stationed overseas to vote in November.
(Copyright ISM. Coagroosioiukl Quarterly) •
A MAN CAN'T WIN
By Irma Reitci
g-Tl THAT’S a Texas leaguer,
W Ed?"
I swallow my bacon without
chewing it. I’ve been married to
Bertha for ten years, but she still
manages to catch me off guard.
I sigh. That flushed look means
only one thing. Bertha is about to
launch another hobby.
“When did you hear from your
sister?" I ask.
This question is not beside the
point. Bertha’s hobbies always
originate with her sister Grace,
who lives in California. Whatever
hobby Grace can’t get organized
via mail, she saves up for Bertha’s
annual visit. Only this year I put
my foot down on Bertha going to
California.
“I had a letter from Grace, yes
terday," Bertha informs me non
chalantly. “But, let me tell you
about Trudy’s grand idea—"
That does it. Trudy’s husband,
Gus, is my partner in the plumb
ing business, so I know Trudy.
She never had an idea in her life,
let alone a grand one.
“Trudy says.” Bertha continues,
“that it’s our Civic duty to sup
port our Milwaukee Braves.”
I groan. This could be even
worse than Bertha's crocheting
spree last year. For months it
wasn’t safe to sit down anywhere.
I see I have to do some quick
thinking. “You girls wouldn’t en
joy the games. You don’t know a
thing about baseball,” I protest.
“We can learn,” Bertha answers
frostily. “You can explain the
games to us while we’re watch
ing.”
“Here’s a picture of the team,”
Bertha says dreamily, paging
through the morning paper. “Aren’t
the boys handsome? Oh. we’ll have
the grandest time this summer.—”
I shudder. My idea of a grand
time doesn’t include listening to
Bertha and Trudy exchanging
redoes for sauer braten while I’m
trying to concentrate on Ed Math
ew’s fielding.
Pm beating my brains looking
for an out, when I get an idea.
“How is Grace those days?" I ask
exploringly.
“She’s fine." Bertha answers
shortly.
I quickly play flay trump card.
“The Los Angeles Angels are a
mighty fine baseball team. You and
Grace would enjoy watching them."
“It would be nice to see Grace,”
Bertha says, gazing off into space,
‘Td have to give up baseball,
though—"
“Give up baseball?” I gasp.
“Gr^ce detests baseball,” Bertha
says airily. “But, I suppose. I
could learn about baseball next
year just as well.” She smiles
sweetly at me, “Oh, Ed. you have
the most marvelous ideas. I just
can’t wait to see Grace, again."
“But, for Pete’s sake," I ask.
completely bewildered, “how come
your sudden interest in baseball
when Grace hates it?”
“I was just trying to be a pal
to you.” Bertha pouts.
“I give up,” I groan.
“If I stay at Grace’s a month,
that ought to give you enough
time,” Bertha continues, ignoring
my groan.
“Time? For what?” I stammer.
“Why to fix up that room in the
attic. Six cages ought to be enough
to start with—”
“Cages?” I manage, trying to
ignore my blood pressure.
“Grace says they’re the easiest
thing in the world to raise,” Bertha
continues.
“They?” I don’t expect an an
swer. The word just slips out.
“Why, budgies, of course.” Bertha
says. “You know, parakeets. I
think we’ll start with three pair.
Oh, they’re the cutest things, Ed.
I just know you’ll love them,”
What’s the use? A man can’t
win.
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