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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1954 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. 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. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By SPECTATOR Controversy stirs Up Bureaucrats The Senatorial inquiry about Senator McCarthy and the Army is about as trivial as anything I’ve heard of. Senator McCarthy has stirred up a lot of bureaucrats; and he is rough, almost too rough. But should we coddle Communists in the Government? If Senator McCarthy requested special consideration for a soldier that is what most Congressmen do; and they do that at the very earnest and persistent request of the peo ple "back home. In the case of the soldier, he may be highly educated and very helpful to Senator McCarthy’s Committee. If that is true, Mr. McCarthy’s interest is quite understand able. At any rate, it seems foolish for a Senate Committee to spend so much time on a small matter while questions of real importance are disregarded. Hectic Days Of Politics Long Gone Our State Democratic campaign does not draw' crowds, nor attract any attention otherwise. It is difficult to under stand the reason. We are taking our politics very casually. Gone are the hectic days of B. R. Tillman, Cole L. Blease, Cotton-Ed Smith; today we are unmoved, going quietly about our af fairs. The feverish warmth of partisanship is felt no more; no body is ready to fight for or against a candidate. There may come a day of intense feeling; a day of sharp ly-drawn differences. This Segregation issue is full of po litical dynamite; and the tranquillity of today may quickly become the wildest political hysteria we have known. Nobody Knows The Law It is a pity that the politicians have used the Constitu tion of the United States as a means to acquire power and exercise control. They have stretched and strained the Constitution until it is warped and torn and cracked at the seams. I’ve been saying it—and I repeat it with unction—that our American representative government got off on the wrong foot by permitting a tyranny of the courts, while try ing to curb the despotism of the executive. In some degree, that follows from a failure to foressee the powers of an un bridled judiciary. In Great Britain the so-called Constitu tion is a mass of custom developing from practices, charters and grants throughout eight hundred years. The parlia ment—principally the House of Commons—can do as it pleases, not being legally bound or restricted by a written constitution. We are somewhat like the British, except that our Supreme Court may apply, misapply or cite, the consti tution as it pleases. When it accepts, or assumes jurisdic tion, we can only grovel and growl. The Court looks over the field and applies the Constitution to cases and instances not contemplated originally, either in word or spirit. Behold the weakness of a system of government under which no one can know the law! Even after the court speaks, the whole trend may be changed by the same court. As is generally known, we have laws from many sources: we have Statutes, or laws enacted by the State legislatures or Congress; then we have judicial decisions, frequently based on decisions in other States, both sides citing judicial decisions of other State courts to sustain their contention. Sometimes we base our claim on the English law, when coun sel has the energy and imagination to look that far. Here we have great batteries of learned lawyers, all throw ing legal lore at the court f and when the first court decides the point, the game has just begun—if the client has the wherewithal. If the client can provide the sinews of war, his cause may slowly move through all the courts; and even then someone may halt him with a few injunctions. Read the Constitution of the United States; read all the decisions before, during and for fifty years after the Civil War. Did the court ever consider Federal intervention with schools, operated by the States? Can you reconcile Fed eral assumption or regulation with Constitutional law or coifstitutional theory? Well, then, a bit of politics has seep ed in, beyond a doubt. Our constitutional rights are largely influenced or determined by our political perspicacity or political pressure. How does the great court calmly ignore Article 10 of the Constitution ? Says Article 10, the Tenth Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. ,, The Tenth Amendment was adopted in order to clarify the Constitution; in order to assure and guarantee the rights of the States against encroachments by Congress, though Congress has since run wild, under the leading of the Execu tive. Today it is the judiciary that holds sovereign sway 'BITTER HURRY, BUD!' over the Nation. This is a nation of laws and a people under law, but no body knows the law! I refer to a Washington report: “The fate of Taft-Hartley Law revision at this session of Congress probably hinges on whether the Senate gets to vote on—and whether it passes—an amendment that would give the states much greater power to regulate labor dis putes. President Eisenhower will suffer a setback because he’s given Congress a set of recommendations that, while con taining features sought by both unions and business, on the whole favor the unions. He has asked Congress to pass a states rights provision that would give the states much less power than the proposals sponsored by Senator Gold- water. Mr. Goldwater will offer his amendment and try to make it the pending business right after Chairman Smith of the Labor Committee Unishes his explanation of the committee’s bill. The bill contains some 12 points, closely following the President’s recommendations. Among other things, it would permit states to enforce “emergency strike laws.” At the moment I am not interested in what Senator Gold- water may have in the back of his mind. I do not hesitate to say that the right of a State to police itself is inherent in the State and does not need any Act of Congress. Congress has no right to legislate except in matters of in terstate commence. The making of any article is a local af fair, even if it be intended fqr another State. That is purely incidental. I know that our courts have stretched the pow ers of the national Government, but that is my very point: we must challenge these encroachments and vigorously re assert the full police powers of the States. The aggrandizement of our National Government should not be meekly and supinely accepted. Every American has a vital interest in upholding full State authority in local matters. Billions For Research Chemists have contributed enormously to make this a happy and prosperous nation. But that statement is not the whole story: America is .far ahead of even Germany and yet Germany has long surpassed in chemistry. In America we have great chemistss, but the businessman is due much of the credit. He supports an idea: Years and years may be devoted to research and experimentation at the heavy expense of the corporation employing the chem ists. : “Top managment, busy swinging the cost-cutting ax in many departments, is hiking its spending on the white- coated gentlemen in its research laboratories.” Some firms are banking on their scientists to produce new sales-boosting products and cost-cutting methods to fight the current business slowdown. Others, confident the down turn will be short-lived, are plowing in funds for the longer pull. Top researchers for more than 100 companies, represent-^* ing such diverse industries as oil, soap, rubber and appli ances, gathered to talk over problems and progress. A top researcher for a big steel company, for example, said his 1954 budget us up 10% to 15% from 1953. An oil company scientist reported his firm’s research department is getting a 5 % to 6 % increase in funds this year. A DuPont researcher declared :* “Research tends to snow ball. Your company grows, and you’re led into new avenues of research. Our research program grows 10% to 15% a year while the company grows about 7 %.” Last year industry spent a record $1.5 billion on research. As recently as 1947, such spending totaled about $1 billion and in prewar 1941 fan about $510 million.' Of course, such* spending doesn’t represent all the research and development done by industry. It does almost as much work for the Government, on contract, as it does in its own behalf. Last year, for example, industry did a total $2.7 billion worth of research, including Government work. More competitive conditions is the reason advanced for higher industry research budgets. There’s a reasson why industry is upping its research budgets—the increasing com plexity of research, Take, for instance, the problem of getting a higher-octane gasoline. Standard Oil had three scientists and a dozen as sistants working on the problem when the Burton process was invented years ago. Last year when Standard of In diana came out with its ultra-forming process it was the re sult of several years’ research by 200' people.” M OST Americans — and many foreigners—long ago decided for themselves whether Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) is a hero or a villain. Probably very few will find anything in the Mc- Carthy-Army TV dramatic test to bring about a complete change of mind. As batting practice leads to home runs—and sometimes strikeouts— a Senator’s speeches and politick ing reach their climax each time he votes. National publicity, good or bad, received by a Senator as a member of a committee does not put him on the spot with his fel low party members as much as his voting record. In party unity, McCarthy’s vot ing average for seven and a quar ter years is 85 per cent. In 1953, the average for Republican Sena tors was 82 per cent. This yard stick is one measure of a Sena tor’s solidarity with his party on votes when the majority of Re publicans disagree with the ma jority of Democrats. It shows what percentage of the time—if he votes or announces his stand—a Senator sides with most of the oth er members of his party. McCarthy’s career-long party voting score is 62 per cent, while Senate Republicans averaged 70 -er cent in 1953. Party voting ■'easures a Senator’s party alle- iance on all roll calls, whether • not Democrats and Republicans ’it. Only actual votes, not an- unced stands, are counted. Fail- e to vote lowers the score. How often has McCarthy gone >n record, either by voting or an nouncing his stand? Eighty-six per cent of the time, compared to the 1953 average of 90 per cent for all Senators of both parties. How often did he actually vote “yea” or “nay,” excluding an nounced stands? His voting par ticipation score is 76 per cent. Sen ators of both parties averaged 84 per cent in 1953. From Mr. Eisenhower’s inaugura tion through the first quarter of 1954, McCarthy voted “with” the President on 62 per cent of the “Eisenhower-issue” roll calls— when he actually voted. This is relative support, and Republican Senators averaged 78 per cent in- backing the President when they voted in 1953. When failures to vote are count ed as “hitless times at bat” Sen. McCarthy’s score for 1953-54 be comes 48 per cent. During 1953 the arevarge GOP Senator scored 88 per cent ia such effective sup port. Bipartisan support helps judge a Senator’s record of siding with the majority when most members of both parties vote alike. It shows the percentage of the time—when he records his position—that he votes with the majority on such bipartisan issues. McCarthy’s score over seven and a quarter years is 78 per cent. In 1953, the average Republican Senator tallied 83 per cent. McCarthy has generally sup ported foreign aid, though he voted for reduction of funds several times since 1950. On the matter of farm supports, he voted against high rigid supports in 1948. since then has generally endorsed them. ★ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING” W HEN the young son Jerry, of George W. Meyer, 309 San Jose Ave nue, Los Gatos, California, brought home his first report card for the first semester, George and his wife realized they had one of those hard-to-handle, adolescent-age problems on their hands. The report was a disgrace to the boy as well as a reflection upon his parents. So George and his wife fell into the common err^r of scolding and punishing in an effort to stimulate the son into doing better wo^k at school. But things went from bad to worse—even the “hand of fellowship” applied to the **seat of learning” pro duced no good results. When the second, and equally disgraceful, report card was in their hands, they be came desperately concerned, for they knew Jerry would have to repeat the year’s work if he did not improve. Then they decided to change their approach from the negative to the positive. The fact that they did 'not try it sooner, George says, was an indication of their own stupidity. They began showing sympathy in the boy’s inter ests and listening to what he had to say—for a change. Soon they found themselves in a position to “motivate” Jerry to interested effort in his own behalf. Today, because he is finding satisfaction in doing something he really wants to do, Jerry is one of the top ten in his class. He is hap pier, and a source of real joy to his mother and father. 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Apparently human beings react similarly to the lure of easy money in the huge government spending programs. A few years ago there was evidence of fraud and corrup tion in many of the veteran schools that sprang up following World War II It was found in the veteran housing program, in the grain stor age plan, in potato production, and now the lid has blown off the Federal Housing Administration, with indications that the govern ment may have been defrauded of as much as a half billion dollars by individuals who could not resist nibbling at the vast sums within reach. Having had some experience dur ing the war with government red tape and the multitude of reports required, it has always been amaz ing to us how these frauds can be perpetrated. The government atti tude has always seemed largely to be one wherein everyone is con sidered a crook until proven honest, what wi^h threats of $10,000 fines and imprisonment emblazoned on virtually every form that must be filled out. The reports required would appear to give an absolute check on every item. The finger printing investigation of people en. tering government service would appear to preclude the possibility of any suspicious character getting a job. Despite all these precautions, however, subversives do get into government jobs with appaaently greater ease than in private business. Apparently the scent of vast gov ernment funds is a powerful bait that makes men forget the barbed hook. From the Hunterdon County Democrat, Flemington, New Jersey: Fear of McCarthyisna Is at best academic—certainly so long as men shout in fulsome voices that they are too terrified to shout. Fear of goon squads employed by organi zations with vested privileges and the ability to coerce workers, em ployers and even public officials is tangible. It can be as much of an evil on the country roads of Hunter don County as on the Hudson River waterfronts. The question upper most in the minds of the people of this law-abiding county is whether our traditional liberties are going to be protected by the men we have elected for that purpose. RESSIONAL Q—Are there any Congressional committees that are not controlled by Republican majorities? A—Republicans lack a majority on one House committee and two Senate committees. The House Veterans Affairs Committee has 14 Republican and 14 Democratic members. Republicans and Democrats are also evenly divided on the Senate Public Works and District of Columbia Committees, but Sen. Wayne Morse (I-Ore.) is a member of both groups. Q—Are there any ordained ministers in Congress? A Two members of the House have been ordained. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (D-N. Y.) is minister of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City. He holds a D.D. degree from Shaw University. Rep. Dewey Short (R-Mo.) was ordained a preacher of the Methodist Church when he was 19. He officiated in church .services for a few months. Q—What is the proposed item veto for federal legislation? A—An item veto, if enacted, would allow the President to approve parts of measures, veto others, subject to overriding by two-thirds of both houses. At least 10 bills to provide for an item veto have v been introduced in this Congress. At present bills approved by Congress must be signed or vetoed by the President in toto, or he can let them become law without his signature. But, if he dis agrees with any part of a bill, he cannot veto that part and have the remainder become law. Most Presidents therefore signed some bills, particularly appropriations measures, even though they dis agreed with certain of the provisions. , (Copyright 1864, Congressional Quarterly) INTEL Check the correct word. y &idL GRAMI 1. (Sparkman) (Russell) was Adlai Stevenson’s running mate.in the 1952 election campaign. 2. (Colorado) (Arizona) is the source of the Colorado River. 3. 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