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K * r- ?■ Kr'-.'' m Ppe *. W:: m PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1955 nn 1218 Collegre 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 President Is On Right Path President Eisenhower acts properly in consulting Con gress about the use of our armed forces in Asia. The power to declare war resides in the Congress; all the talk about the President’s prerogative as Commander-in-chief is en tirely unsound and repugnant to the Constitution, but we Every concern has Investors and workers. The investors let Mr. Truman play at being a one-man ruler; and we were, ma y b e teachers, preachers, lawyers, doctors, widows, or- JOB FOR THE MIRACLE MAN victimized by Mr. Roosevelt’s vision of personal grandeur. I feel impelled to say that Mr. Eisenhower is slow, very slow. Sometimes one may encourage an enemy by being long-suffering. However, Mr. Eisenhower is acting properly though a bit slowly. Down at bottom he is right to weigh every fact and factor carefully, for war is no sport to be engaged in casually. When this thing cools of flet’s examine ourselves and our commitments to see whether we are too soft and flabby and too easily prevailed upon to guarantee every thing to everybody all over the world. Spectator Defends Segregation I have a deep-seated conviction that the Colored teachers and Ministers are just as desirous of maintain ing Colored schools and Colored churches as the White people are desirous of maintaining White institutions. Frankly I am thoroughly Southern, a native of South Caro lina and a grandson Pf Virginia. But the Colored people phans, each investing savings. Their money builds the enterprise. Then come the workers, from the President down to the lad who may have a little job — all are workers. If the Company does not earn profits the whole thing will become rust and rot, for nobody will put up more money. But if the workers are skilled and competent, from President on down, the people who own the plant are glad to pay; they rather pay good wages for good service and good earnings than to pay wages for bad service, and lose everything in bankruptcy. \ So, after all, the opportunity to operate at a profit is the basis of wages: the more profit the more wages. But it isn’t the Government. I Believes Teaching Hard Work Governor George Bell Timmerman, Junior, has started well; theGeneral Assembly is well disposed and does not play small politics. The Governor’s recommendations are well conceived; the have made very notable progress under their own leaders, j n putting them into practical application. and usually with the sympathetic cooperation of their White neighbors. So when I think of the plans of so-called integra tion I would oppose them if I were a Colored man; I should prefer to see my race continue its progress as a separate race. And now as to schools: Although the courts have disre garded the 10th. Amendment to the Constitution — a pro vision expressly reserving powers to the States — we seem to have to bow to a manifest usurpation of our prerogative by the Federal Government in all its branches. What can we do? It seems to me that a simple plan would be: (1) To abolish our public school system; (2) Repeal compulsory attendance law; (3) Charter schools, colleges and universities. Let the State prescribe the, standards and have the State conduct the examinations in order to recognize their work, officially. The schools, colleges, uni versities would be as independent as are our de nominational schools today. Of course the same right to a charter would be enjoyed by all races; (4) Local County Boards could let the school buildings on equitable terms, all races having a fair op portunity to rent buildings; * And here comes the rub: schools don’t operate at finan cial profit; how should we grant aid? aid fairly to all. I am not advocating anything as a subterfuge, but as a measure, open and above board, to meet a condition. Nor do I suggest a veiled scheme to deny equal consideration to pupils and teachers of all races: teachers of equal qualifi cation would fare equally; likewise the actual work in the schools, the number of pupils, etc., would be evaluated by a common standard. » I say again: I am not advocating a discrimination against anybody; my idea is to»conserve what belongs to all races rand people and remain beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal courts, bureaucrats and sky-gazing politicians. We still have the Federal Government arrogantly medd ling in man}* things, wage-rates and a thousand things. Un less the Government is prepared to guarantee a profit how can it legally require minimum wages? If a Company can’t earn the minimum it will close up; but if it can pay high wages it does so, in order to hold its workers. Don’t virtual ly all big concerns in our nation pay more today than the minimum? They do. Why? Because they can and because it is good management to pay all you can. If X pays 75 cents an hour and Y pays 85 cents the competition for help regulates wages. Should the Government guarantee a certain price to the butcher, the baker, the grocer? Should the Government guarantee to every man a living? American labor and American management are the finest team in the world; no other country can match that team. But it isn’t our Government which makes skilled and productive labor; nor is it our Government which makes resourceful and efficient management. Why not let Labor and management work together as they do now, without the Government always trying to make it appear that the A problem confronting mokt States, including ours, is that of providing adequately for that school-training we commonly call “Education”. One difficulty is to house the pupils: that is a matter of dollars and cents and a little time. Another problem is to provide teachers: but the greatest problem is to find teachers who can teach; teachers who can do effective work with boys and girls. Generalizihg somewhat, I think we are fortunate if ten per cent of the teachers can really produce results in the classroom. Teaching is not easy; assuming adequate academic prep aration for the task, the average teacher is unable to pro duce results. I have known men and women of excellent academic prep aration who were virtually failures as teachers. They wait ed to teach; they prepared the lessons carefully; but they couldn’t impress the pupils. It is of small avail that the teacher be scholarly and studious if the teacher can’t teach. Money can’t make teachers; it may help keep some real teachers, but we don’t solve the problem merely by bringing thousands into the calling. Teaching is a profession, in some cases; a mere temporary job in most others. A real teacher, an effective teacher is beyond all price. Teaching is hard work -even for capable, successful teachers; it is a steady, constant nervous strain five or six The State could prescribe the bases for aid, granting that hours a day. In comparison with the nervous output of a teacher most other work is easy. How can we keep the successful teachers? How can we attract to teaching men and women of force and personality ? Wants States’ Rights Guarded The Governor’s suggestion that Congress should limit the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States is very interesting, provided the Supreme Court did not find a way to circumvent the Act of Con gress. For the layman let us consider this: the Constitution says “In all the other cases mentioned the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exception, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make”. But the Constitution also says: “The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States and treaties made, or y which shall be made, under their authori ty”. That is a broad grant of jurisdiction. As I see it, the Tenth Amendment expressly safeguards the States and under any scheme of legal interpretation supersedes any and all clauses, which are inconsistent with it. Here it is: “The powers not delegated to the United States by ithe Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people” — meaning the people of the States. Said the Supreme Court of the United States in 1911: Among the powers of the State not surrendered — is the power to so regulate the relative rights and duties of all within its jurisdiction as to guard the public morals, the ORECEDENT-shaking events of L tremendous historical signifi cance which will be felt in the capitals of the world as well as here in Washington and this na tion, resulting from the fast-break ing Congressional action on Presi dent Eisenhower’s request for ap proval of his resolution setting out the intent of the United States in connection with Formosa and For mosa strait. First — Probably never before has such unity been evidenced on a major foreign policy decision as between a congress of one politi cal party and the President of another, when within a week the precedent-breaking resolution sailed through both House and Senate with only three opposing votes in each house. Second — The adoption of the re solution has ended the period of bluff On the part of our country toward Red China and cut the Gordian knot which has stymied our Asian policy. Third — The President now has safely tucked away a pre-dated declaration of war which he may use as he sees fit against Red China, and which the Congress in an unparalleled expression of faith left up to the President’s personal decision to use and, Fourth, Jrom a political stand point the President forestalled any criticism which could come from the Democrats yet he should de cide in his own mind the necessity of commiting United States troops either to the defense of off-shore Chinese Islands now held by the Chinese nationalists,, br even an attack upon the mainland of China. This latter consideration may have a tremendous impact on the 1956 election, for it will be re membered the criticism levelled at President Truman for not con sulting Congress before commiting U. S. forces in the Korean war probably cost the Democrats the 1952 election. Republicans have called it Truman’^ war, and have declared the former President overstepped his consitutional au thority when he so committed our troops to the Korean war without advise or consent of official Con gressional action. However in his message to the Congress accompanying the Reso lution of approval. President Ei senhower took some of the sting out of this criticism of President Truman when he pointed to the prompt action of President Tru man as necessary, and reiterated the Truman statement that the Seventh fleet was ordered to pro tect Formosa. There is no doubt but that the resolution adopted by the Congress is all-inclusive and will permit the President on his own decision, to commit the Air Force, the Navy and the Army to the defense of Formosa and to even attack the China mainland under the clause which reads, “Unhappily the dan ger of armed attack directed against this area * compels us to take into account closely related localities and actions, which, un der current conditions, might de termine the failure or the success of such an attack. The authority that may be accorded by tiie Con gress would be used in situations which are recognizable of, or defi nite preliminaries to ah attack against the main positions of For mosa and the Pescadores.’* IHueCari ^ AUTHOR OF "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" O 1 > .7 iNE day, on his way to college, S. S. Gularie. C/O 1/59, Sikh Lines, Kirkee. (Poona-3) India, learned that his sisters had been hooted at by fellow students. That enraged him and he warned them that if they continued, the matter would be reported to the police. Instead of desisting, this act compelled them to strike back for the injury he had inflicted to their precious pride. So on the second day, while he was waiting for the train to pull in and take them to Kirkee where all of them lived, they came straight toward him with the intention of injuring him. But before they could ask anything, the first thing Mr. Gularie did was give them a smiling welcome. In the meantime, while their voices fell on his ears like hammers, denouncing and abusing him. the train pulled in, he took his seat and requested the leader of the gang to sit beside him “Let us rea son together,” he began. “Don’t you want that girl to like you?” His answer was “yes.” “Have you been ... able to accomplish this by hooting at and reviling her before others?” His answer was “no.” “Can you not ha ire that girl by your side it you approach her with sincerity end frankness of speech?” He didOPt answer this, but Mr. Gularie assured him that he could acoompltah this if he would but change his method of approach. As the train approached the station anger subsided and he nodded goodbye with a warm smile. As the years have gone by ship fostered. From the Bell County Record, Temple, Texas: It really doesn’t matter what you think about the idea, it is still necessary for a citizen ... to have a poll tax receipt if he wants to go to the polls and help to make the choices presented to the voters. A fellow doesn’t have much room to gripe and complain about the way things are run ... If he doesn’t take part in the elec tions. A fellow doesn’t have much right to criticize anything that takes place as the result of an election ... if he didn’t vote. A fellow has little control over the future of his home town, county, state, or nation ... if he doesn’t take advantage of the opportunity to express his opinion at the polls at the proper time. So, your right to find fault with things as they are, and your only chance to have a hand in doing something about it is to arm your self with one of those little poll tax receipts. It gives you the same privilege, advantage and pleasure that every other voter has. It gives you a voice in the govern ment at all levels. What do you think? It’s all right to say that you do not believe in having to pay for the right to vote: but the fact remains that you can’t change the procedure unless you have a poll tax receipt in hand when you go to the polls to express your ideas. That’s just the way it works. And, come Tuesday morning, if yea don’t have that poll tax paid, you are going to miss a lot of the fun. You might even get sad dled with something you don’t like. There’s not going to be much yoq can say about it, either, if you can’t produce that poll tax receipt; because the fellow who paid his tax and voted isn’t going to spend much time listening to yqu. • • • From the Suburban List, Essex Junction, Vermont: When women get together and start a crusade, the fur flies. This is shown by the action of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs of which there are 16,000 spread across the nation. In a well organized drive these club women started in to clean the hprror comics off the news stands. They have been working in many central states and west ern cities with definite good re sults. Their influence has been so great that thousands - at dealers are refusing to stock these comic books. The drive was very effective in Omaha, Nebraska, and in that state it has been extended to 300 other cities and towns. The cru sade extended to many other' states and the good work is just begin ning to show. Q—Can yen teO me the Eisenhower budget Fiscal year Ifgg for soil conservstion. Farmers Home A< Won, School Lunch. Crop Insurance. REA and service? A—All were cut under the 1955 fiscal year appropriations with tion of extension services and REA. Budget requests were: services. $24.5 million. ‘ up $1 million; FHA ownership millions, down $6 million; FHA housing loans, nothing, down million; Sofl Conservation service. $55.3 million, down $3.7 lion; School lunch. $68 million, down $15.5 million; services. $49.3 million, up $7.5 million; REA, including $237.8 million, down $14.7 miTUon. However new loan a tion for REA is up about $10 million over 1955. Q—What has became of the drive te get fee geverameat out of petltloB wife private iudestry? A—The Budget Director, only recently issued a directive to all of government to prepare an inventory of all commercial a ties and an evaluation of ^11 manufacturing activities this inventory. The directive says that each agency will pec ted to discontinue all commercial activities unless it shown it would not be in the public Interest to procure fee or services from private industry. Q—Is there any limit mi the staff of < ' tees? “ | A—The legislative reorganization act provisions entitle every committee to a staff of four professional employees a staff of six. However, all committees are not held rightly iiS public safety, and the public health, as well as to promote politicians and the bureaucrats are the friends of every-1 the public convenience and the common good”. Chicago body? vs McGuire 219 U. S. 549 (I think). FUTURE FARMERS . . . Pres. Eisenhower meets wife aatleaal of ficers of Future Farmers of America: Philip Brouilletie, Richferd, Va.; W. Jay Wright, Alamo, Nev.; Robt. Futrelle, Mt. Olive, N. C.; Pres. Wm. Gunter, Live Oak, Fla.; LoweU Gisselbeck, Watertown, 8. D., and Cham. Anken, Holland Patent, N. T. voi/% 1. The WAAC (Women’s Army Ushed in (a) 1917; <b) IMS; (c) 1944. 2. Sound travels faster fta (n) fee in iron er steel. S. Which state ranks highest In (h) Texas; (c) California. r; (e) i: (•) lip ■ “4 •T? '.Til BLOOD GIVES LIFE D. 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