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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1954 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr.. Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6. 19b7 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 Unsegregated Segregation Can we maintain a sort of unsegregated Segregation? The Constitution itself denies to the Federal Courts any jurisdiction in such matters as State-supported schools. I cited the Constitution, both as to the powers of the Federal Courts; and as to the denial of certain powers to the States. Furthermore, as I pointed out, the ninth and tenth amend ments expressly and specifically exclude the National Gov ernment from the exercise of powers not granted to it, nor yet denied to the States. All that contention I heartily re peat now. Our difficulty is that we have allowed the Court to aggrandize itself at the expense of the States. I think it might be desirable to have a curb on the power of the Federal judiciary. Perhaps the Supreme Court of the United States might be required to invite the Supreme Court of any State or States to sit with equal vote in any case challenging the Constitutionality of a State law. The Con gress has the authority to require this. Section 2 of Article 2 of the Constitution of the United States, in prescribing nett R. Maybank and know that he loves South Carolina with all his heart. I know that the Senator did not intend to scare off new industries by an inaccurate statement, though I fear his statement might have that effect—and that would be far from his purpose. Boiled down to essentials, I think our friend saw money flowing from the Treasury to Western States and he was anxious to get some for his beloved State. However, in a second statement, Senator Maybank expressed his admira tion for what had been done—and what is being done by The South Carolina Electric and Gas Co., which serves Charleston, Richland, Colleton, Aiken, Barnwell, Beaufort, Calhoun, Lexington, Hampton, Allendale and thirteen or fourteen other Counties. the powers of the Federal Courts later refers to “In all the other cases before mentioned, and says “and under such regulations as the Congress shall make." The death of a few Supreme Court justices might of itself change all the decision, but that would still leave too much to the mere whim of a few men. Our Country should not be arbitrarily governed by the Supreme Court even if it be ri g ht - .... 1 « Private Schools A Solution If the Court’s decision be applied, as seems inevitable, to compel all colors, races and conditions to be admitted to the same tax-supported schools and colleges, is there a way out? There is. In some countries where no non-segregation is known by law they still have segregation in fact. Such countries have public schools under direct Government Sup port, control and operation; but private schools and colleges abound. Even the so-called National Universities are self- governing or autonomous. The Government prescribes courses of study; and the Government appoints all ex aminers. Teachers do not conduct the examinations; all examina-; tions are conducted by a Committee of three sent to each school or college. For example, Catholics, Anglicans, and others maintain schools and colleges at their own expense, but the students are examined by Government examiners in order to give the work official value. Then, again, hundreds of private schools, are given subsidies by the Government, provided they conform to the minimum requirements of the Government. The actual conduct of the schools is entirely private, each school determining its own enrollment, employing its own teachers and being visited and inspected by Government inspectors. Bringing this home to us: in each County we might have a Board of Education which might lease to educational or ganizations such buildings as we have, but on terms which are equal, considering size and value of the property. The State might prescribe the qualifications of the teachers, establish standards for the schools, and fix a grant per pupil and, perhaps, a bonus based on some other feature, provid ing that all are eligible if they meet the conditions. Of course every private school might have to operate un-. der a license in order to assure conformity with standard requirements. Are we prosperous? If so, how prosperous, to use the language of the street. Even so, one may ask “how” prosper ous; also to what degree are we prosperous? If we’ve settled that, let us proceed; week after week The Wall Street Journal has an item “Trade Indicators,” and gives the figures for the output of electricity throughout the nation. Let me quote the latest: “County-wide electric output of the utility industry was 8,380,000,000 kilowatt-hours in the week ended May 15, the Edison Electric Institute reported. That was less than any week this year except for the two weeks ended April 17 and April 24. It was 5.3% over the output in the corresponding week of last year, as com pared with a gain of 6.9% recorded for the previous week. Slippage in the week’s rate of gain over last year was gen eral throughout the country, except for the Southeast. In that area, w^hich includes almost all the territory east of the Mississippi and South of the Ohio and Potomac rivers, last week’s output was 19.8% over the 1953 level, as compared with a 19.2% gain the previous week. Electric Power Plentiful In S. C. Have we a shortage of electric power in South Carolina? I have a warm regard for our United States Senator Bur- The reply of President S. C. McMeekin of the power Co. is interesting as well as informative so I quote his state ment as it was published in the daily papers: “We were amazed to see the statement attributed to Sen. Maybank by a special correspondent in the press of May 20th in which it is stated that the Carolinas and Georgia are starving for electricity for industrial purposes. It is evident that Sen. Maybank has been grossly misin formed as both the Carolinas and Georgia have an abun dant supply of power—in fact a surplus of power. It is a well established fact that there has been no power short age in the service areas of the private utilities. Our Company, South Carolina Electric & Gas Co., has al ways met its power demands including supplying all of the power for the construction of the vast H-Bomb plant on the Savannah River. It is now supplying a large quantity of power for the operation of this project. In addition, it is de livering large quantities of power to neighboring companies in North Carolina and Georgia, an still has an adequate re serve capacity which stands as an invitation to new industry. Another indiction of the abundance of power in South Carolina is the fact that Santee-Cooper’s new steam plant has been standing idle for months. Apparently the Senator has not been informed of the fact that our company alone, which operates in only a third of the State, has spent more than $65,000,000 in expanding its power facilities during the past five years, and that our total investment in power facilities at the beginning of this year was in excess of $136,000,000. During this time the capacity of Plant Hagood at Charleston was increased from 25,000 kilowatts to 100,000 kilowatts, and the first two units (150,000 kilowatts) were installed at Urquhart Steam Sta tion, our huge new plant on the Savannah River. When the third unit (100,000 kilowatts) now under construction, is placed on the line some time next year, this one unit alone will have the capability of producing more firm power than the combined firm output of the Clark Hill Development and the proposed Hartwell Development. We have publicly an nounced that our construction program for the next three years is approximately $62,000,000. South Carolina has an abundance of low-cost dependable power and we join with many others in welcomming new industries to our State.” The State Planning Board has been publishing large ad vertisements all last year and this year telling the world that South Carolina has abundant electric power. Has the Planning Board mistated the condition, or is our Senator in error ? > TOOL CARRIER . . . Here Is s handy, easily constructed rack that serves a useful pnrpose. Just hook the rack on the tractor frame and take the whole kit alone when yon need tools In the Held. Plan slse of rack by measuring length and width of yonr tool ben. T HE then nine-month old Small Business Administration, under fire from some Senators as too conservative in its loan policy, at the end of April had made dis bursements on 37 small business loans. SBA, established by Congress last July in terminating the Small Defense Plants Administration and the Reconstruction Finance Corpo ration, has stepped up the pace of its loan approvals. A total of 261 business loans had been ap proved by May, the ligure not in cluding disaster loans, which SBA also handles. The total of 261 loans approved was $15,777,000, and Wendell Barnes, SBA Administrator told the Senate Select Committee on Small Business that loan applications are now being received at the rate of 400 a month. Chairman Edward J. Thye, (R Minn.) told Barnes the SBA should adopt a more “liberal” lending attitude. Other Senators also ques tioned SBA policies, but Sen. Barry Goldwater (R Ariz.) ir^jeated that he believed SBA wa^ carrying out the intent of the act by which Congress created it. The act empowered the agency to: Make loans, from a revolving fund authorized to run as high as $150 million, to small businesses unable to obtain credit from pri vate sources, within an upper limit of $150,000 for any loans. Loans n ay be either direct, with the SBA supplying all the funds, or partici pation loans in which private sources and SBA noth share. SBA's part being limited to 90 per cent. Help small concerns get govern ment contracts, and take up to $100 million in prime contracts from defense procurement agencies for parceling out among small sup pliers. Make disaster loans up to a total of $25 million. Congress’ SBA appropriation for fiscal 1954 was $55 million. Chairman Thye said that under the first administrator, William D. Mitchell, SBA failed to “get air borne.” When Mitchell resigned on Oct. 20. no loans had been ap proved. In part, observers say. the slow start may have been due to administrative delays coincident with the establishment of a new agency, but two other factors may have been: Caution on the part of the new Administration lest the so-called RFC scandals be repeated, and Reservations, among some top Eisenhower Administration leaders and supporters, as to the suitability of the lending business as a gov ernment function. Barnes, former general counsel of SBA, became head of the agency in November. On Nov. 13 the first two loans were approved, and on Nov 16 a new loan policy was an nounced, that “any small business enterprise with a good management record and able to give reasonable assurance of repayment is eligible to apply to SBA for a business loan.” From the Audubon County Jour nal, Extra, Iowa: Ask any grade school teacher and she will definitely agree that one never knows what is going on in a small kiddie’s head, but sooner or later it comes out. School days are filled with poign ant memories, for both pupils and teachers. There is no doubt that teachers are aware of many deep dark family secrets whispered to them in confidence which would make the parents have bad dreams. (If they knew.) • • • From the Sonth Pasadena Re view, South Pasadena, California: “Oh. today’s kids are just demons. They drive us nuts.” Many adults voice this sentiment. The point is, because a few children, or even a gdod number'Of them, scribble on walls or cock a snook at adults, are elders justified in labelling them as demons 7 Children are children all over the world; at all times in history Many a times they are indeed exasperat ing, because they do a lot of un adult things — things to which adults are allergic We have to reckon with the follies and foibles of children. But we can not blame them for the very good reason that once we ourselves were children, and did similar things We cannot blame them, because they are the bearers of the heri tage we inherited and enriched. Demons do not carry on the rich heritage of a society. If there is a streak of the demon in children, there is in them a richer vein of the angelic, too. To try to bring out this fine quality and thus make them better than we oursqlves are is our duty. Only then can we expect them to be better carriers of the heritage, and in the course of generations man kind to be nearer the dream world which all children always live in. » * * From the Aztec Independent— Review, Aztec, Colorado—Speaking about money, the kids won’t swal low a nickle these days as it’s not worth the trouble. • * • From the Bassett and Henry County Journal, Bassett, Virginia: With the woods and the papers full of economists and other types of wiseacres pontificating about the business outlook, the man on the street is apt to become confused. After pondering as best we might any number of long and scholarly treatises on business, its present and future, we gave hearty wel come to a prediction that came from a most successful sales man ager “Boys, the way 1 figure it, there’ll still be plenty of apples this year but you’re gonna have to knock “em.” WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Colonial Flag Here’s the Answer HORIZONTAL VERTICAL 1 Depicted is the flag of —— 8 This British colony consists of a of islands 13 Wakened 14 Slow (music) 15 Uncooked 16 Puff up 18 Eternity 19 Exists , 20 Prime minister 22 Mixed type 23 Drop of eye fluid 25 Iroquoian Indian 27 Therefore 28 Beverages 29 Measure of area 30 Bone 31 Sun god of Egypt 32 Artificial language 33 Impale 35 Allowance -or waste 38 Step 39 Volcano in Sicily *40 Not (prefix) 41 Tasted ,47 Tungsten (ab.) 48 Rodent 50 Parts in. plays 51 Vase 52 Oak seed 54 Small ring 56Email (comb. ’ form) 57 Tents 1 Mineral 2 Expunger 3 Paddle a boat 4 Greek letter 5 Employer 6 Remove 7 First man 8 Mirth 9 Concerning 10 Unit 11 Ideal state 12 Small horses 17 Palm lily 20 Distributes fairly 21 Replied sharply 24 Fungus FiFii=irn FlFlEira rziPiraai rapi^w nrcnuFi wro HW nnFiPi Finmpi P4f=]»yjfin FlIIPK-i inm. m pm Pint ipp ■i rr^ pi fi n ra pi n «i ■ ■ iT K F ] pp n B1 fi ^ n P1 wpiraFiH ■ c-iFinraMPin pnrBKraw I nHmmPFin 26 It is a popular vacation 33 Helical 34 King’s home 36 Dinner course 37 Baits 42 Italian river 43 “Show Me State” (ab.) 44 Scheme 45 Smooth and unaspirated 46 Domestic slave 49 Peak 51 Diminutive suffix 53 Right (ab.) 55 Preposition Dau Carnegie AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING” ^ E DDIE ABEL. 1840 Lincoln, Denver. Colorado, was going home from work one afternoon when he was approached by a young man whom he knew only by sight. But slight acquaintance did not deter the young man from asking for a small loan. When Eddie questioned him he learned the chap had just lost his job, was broke, and had no place to stay Consequently, he took him home and made arrangements whereby the new friend went to work the next day— and continued to live with Eddie! Supposed to pay I his share of the rent, which was twenty-five dollars, ( on the 10th of the month which would be in about a week. When the time came for the rent to be paid, the young man packed what little he had and left. 1 taking with him also ten dollars which belonged to Eddie and which he had left carelessly on the dresser. Through the shop foreman it was learned plans had been made by him to go to a certain mine in the mountains Eddie figured that it could not possibly cost him more than three cents, so he wrote a letter praising his recent guest for the honest man that he had thought he was, and that he wanted him to be sure to understand that he — Eddie — wasn’t in the Jeast fearful of regaining his ten dollars He explained in detail that hd could understand how an upright, honest individual might be forced to borrow ten dollars without the consent of the owner, and added that he was once forced to do the same thing He ended with an explanation of his own financial condition, and said that he had no doubt as to whether or not he would be paid back: all he wanted to know was when, so that he might voice his obligations to his creditors in accordance. Do you know what happened? It worked Eddie Abel got his money back. Q—News stories sometimes say that “tax hilts always saigtiMtto tm Ct» House of Representatives.“ Why Is this the case? A — A provision of the U. S. Constitution states: •‘All bills for raising revenues shall originate to the House of Representatives.** (Artida L Section 7) The provision adds, "but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments, as on others bills.** The principle In volved. and which had been established to England, is that the national purse strings should be held by a body directly responsible to the people Originally. Members oi the Senate were chosen by the state legislatures rather than by direct vote of the people. Q—I’ve heard the phrase ‘‘supreme law oi the land." What la that? ^ The supreme law of the land** is the Constitution, Laws made ‘Tn pursuance of*’ the Constitution, and treaties made nr»d»r proper authority Judges throughout the U. S. are bound by them, irrespeo live of anything in state constitutions or laws to the contrary.^ Q—Have many U. S. Presidents been froja states west of the Mississipni River? A Orily three Have been. Herbert G. Hoover was born in Iowa mr * M elected to the Presidency from California. Harry S. Truman la a native Missourian Dwight D Eisenhower was born in Texas, ■r»4 lived in Kansas before entering the Army. All of tile other 30 U. S. Presidents were born east of the MississippL Three states have been birthplaces of more Presidents than the entire area west o< the Mississippi has produced Eight Presidents were natives of Virginia, seven were born in Ohio, and four in New York — of them before their areas became states. <C*pyrtfbt IMS-IBM. C«a*re**looal T|n>iMitj| THE SHORT TRIP By F. L Rowley M! R. OELIE JENSON was a cau-i "Bank robbers!" sputtered Giles. L tious man. He peered Into the I “Up and at 'em!’’ cried Bill as future—with safety glasses. Some I he wiped some of Giles' coffee said he was eccentric—others em- from the back of his neck ployed terms even more unkind. It wa3 a merry chase. Some of Ollie built a boat in his attic—just Hillcrest’s finest joined in the fun. in case a flash flood might hit the mischievous lads up front area. There isn’t a river to over- were go^ runners. Giles found flow, or a lake to rise, within himself wondering where they were twenty miles of Hillcrest: yet Ollie headed. 1113 boat _. .. n "They’re making for the brush," That was years ago. Since then Bm EvJms Ollie’s boat has been removed to I ^ rT ... , the barn to make way tor the G Hj s 8™ med H ' dl ?" room, built Into the attic. It wa. 10“ The thieves could lose in the barn untU about a week ago. themselves m no time now-dark Ollie wa. returning home one « « T"^ hlde evening from one of hi. rare train ><x>‘ *° r * tu ™ ,OT “ U “ r _ „ rides. He has just left the Hill- “I’ve got my flashlight, sheriff. ^ crest Station when he heard voices I said Bill. It s right here —young voices. Stepping off the "Wait!” Giles cautioned. “Lefa road to investigate he came upon a follow them by sound for awhile, half-dozen urchins tussling noisily This brush is dry We’ll hear them to Stump's Swamp. Now Stump’s easily—unless they stop." Swamp is a wee body of water I The self-appointed posse of dti- hardly bigger than a tennis court. zenr y dropped back Chasing band it is muddy and shallow. Its re- down the open road was one moval has been in campaign thing; creeping up on them to the speeches ever since the Civil War. Kmfh was quite another. Giles "How would you young’uns like an d his deputy proceeded cau- to have a ship to sail in tills tiously. boundless sea?" asked Ollie smil- .^h at > s ^ noise?" asked Bfll tog at the mud spattered catching Giles* sleeve. It sounds You can surmise the answer. I wat -_ M Willing young hands assisted Ollie *.. .... .. m „ nt to dragging the boat from its Playing ^ ^ ighX strange moorings to the barn, set-1 ting it up on wheels, and trundling h* 1 * ar ^ t the cumbersome craft to Stump’s I they’ll never forget. The • Swamp. Once afloat she sailed ^o bank robbers wer« in Olbe proudly, although noisily, across Jenson’s old boat The man who a stretch of water scarcely three stood to the bow waved his fist times her length. defiantly at Giles. The other rowed The townsfolk looked upon Ollie I furiously. He didn t realize it but with more respect He had done tb* 9^°^ bad already nudged the them a real service; no more I opposite bank. muddy overalls or water-Jbaked Giles’ hearty laughter brought shoes were observed on the streets out the curious group of people of Hillcrest that bad fallen back. With joyous Then came the bank robbery. shouts they surrounded the would- The night was black. Sheriff be sailors. The two men scowled at Giles and his deputy Bill Evans their captors. were drinking coffee in Art’s place. “Short trip, wasn’t It boys?" Giles’ eyes snapped wide open I grinned the sheriff. ’^Thanks to when he saw two scalliwags streak Ollie Jenson and his boat we’ve around a corner of the Hillcrest recovered both the loot and the Bank. * | thieves. Yes sir—*a short trip." Quality Photo Finishing Quality Is still our first consideration. Although our photo finiahing business hat grown tremendously, we still give In dividual attention to every print we make, firing us your next pictures for developing. We’re sure you’ll be pleased with the results. And, too, we’re always glad to offer helpful suggestions in picture taking. NICHOLS STUDIO