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m ’ v v ^■ • PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN m •tin THE EVER HOPEFUL DOVE THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1965 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. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS COURT DEPARTS FROM ACCEPTED LAW Do we respect the law? Men sometimes step outside the law' in order to accomplish their purpose; but far worse is it when the Government itself goes around, circumvents, the law r , as we say. You have heard some lawyers refer to “stare decisis.” Well, what is that. It may be defined as the law as determined and settled by decisions over a period so that those decisions settle the point beyond peradventure or cavil. So we say that the Supreme Court of the United States even in the period of bitter and persistent sectional bad feel ing, decided certain phases and applications of the Four teenth amendment. By those decisions we have known as a matter of settled legal interpretation and administrative policy exactly what the Fourteenth amendment covered. Now comes the present court, a body of justices of rather meager judicial foundational training and experience and decides something else, something radically departing from the accepted law of nearly 60 years. And this court bases its decisions largely on purely extraneous matter. Some of the theoretical stuff which inspired the profound conclu sions of the illustrous justices was about as inapplicable as would have been some heralded tonic for weak minds, or something else guaranteed to renew the lustrous hair of youth to a head already bald and shiney. * i We are not. prepared or preparing to meet this issue; rather, we are relying on Lady Luck, or something equally fatuous. The occasion calls fbr such preparation as would enable us to carry on, regardless of the court’s purpose, but still without inviting reprisals, injunctions or other decrees of the Court, or courts. Merely by closing our schools does not solve any problem; it is not, it cannot be, our purpose to rear a generation in ignorance in order to avoid intermingling. Our State will not gain anything merely by spreading ignorance among both races. It is to our interests that both white and colored may have educational opportunities—but how?. There is no need to wait; we can assume that within a year some one will invoke the courts. So what then? Do you expect the District court to tell the Supreme court that it is in error? Let’s not be childish. You and I know that the Supreme Court is clearly wrong* but our opinion won’t change the Supreme Court’s decision. t What must be considered is the political aspect; the Court is reflecting a political opinion; it is a matter of votes. Our people will not accept the Court s idea and the polit ical ideal of mixed schools; there will be trouble; some men will suffer and feelings will be inflamed. But why wait for all of that? Why do we not plan to operate schools for white and colored without a conflict with the Court? Can it be done? Let’s authorize private schools and colleges, leasing present buildings or selling; and granting subven tions, acordinfc to prescribed standards. The States have at least as much lawful right to make grants as the congress or administration has. Nothing in the Constitution authorizes the Congress to make grants, or to legislate for or against any set of people, or to dis criminate for or against citizens. But the Tenth amendment empowers the States to act, since this is a reserved power. This school problem should arouse business men every where because the National Boards and Commissions have assumed, and are assuming, vast powers which are really usurpations of State authority. It may be assumed that schools will operate during the session of 1955 and 1956 as heretofore, but we should be ready, DOWN TO THE LAST NAIL to operate thereafter without a day’s interruption in scholastic work. We people of the South are victims of BOTH political parties, so we should organize ourselves as political INDE PENDENTS, then both major parties would seek our favor and support. From the days of the civil war we. have been Democrats. True it is that we did not know a Democrat from a Republican; nor do we know today what distinguish es a Democrat from a Republican. Among Democrats we jfiave Senator George of Georgia and Senator Byrd of Vir ginia; then we have Senator Lehman of New York—and others. The Republicans had Robert Taft, who was unlike most other Republicans. As a so-called Democrat, we had Franklin Roosevelt and then we had Senator Carter Glass. Really the Parties, as Parties, hold a name and conduct elections, but principles mean little; nearly everybody is rushing, around trying to corrall voices. If the Republicans advocate something, the Democrats try to offer more. We cannot rely on Political Platforms; they are usually insincere, flambouyant and bambastic effusions which are adopted to beguile us simpletons at home. Where is Southern leadership or who is the Southern leader? If we could hope for any remedy from the Demo crats let us remember that the Democrats are today in control of both the Senate and the House. If the Democrats would breathe a few sobering ideas into the President’s ear he could be brought to book because he can do nothing with out Democratic help. But where are the Demorats ? I re peat the question: WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS? Let us proceed with a carefully elaborated plan so that when the time is most propitious we shall be ready to op erate above and beyond all legal quibbles or challenges. HEARTACHES FOR ST. LAWRENCE DWELLERS “The St. Lawrence Seaway will bring ocean steamers to the mid-west and cheaper power to factories and homes in a 500 mile radius of Cornwall, Ontario. But to thousands of tradesmen and farmers in this area it spells only heartache. Like the Arcadians—Canadians of another day immortal ized in Longfellow’s poem Evangeline—they are being up rooted from their homes and shops by order of the State. When a dam and a 2.2 million horsepower hydroelectric generating plant are completed here, the waters of the St. Lawrence will back up behind the dam in a giant lake, overflow the present river banks and sweep over homes, stores and land—some of which have belonged to the same families for five or six generations. ‘The Seaway may be a wonderful thing for the next gen eration, but it isn’t for us, says a ruddy, round-faced pro prietor of the 100-year-old Bradfield hardware store in nearby Morrisburg, Ont. At 67, he is forced to move, along Record, wndweed, MM# Who lose* with other business men in his community. wh * n ™**±*°* * T wish they would just let me alone,’ says 75-yaSr-old F* based*on^soieu^ncept*? 18 H. Broder, retired reevg (mayor) of Morrisburg. Mr. Bfo- der sadly shakes his head as he sits* on the front porch of his neat, two-story brick home overlooking the river. Across the St. Lawrence in the U. S., earthmoving ma chines are beginning excavation work for the Long Sault Canal which will be parallel to the river. Some 3,500 men already are employed here and nearby as construction moves ahead on both Cornwall’s generating plant and the canal. There will be 19,000 men on the twin job before the $1 billion Seaway and power project opens in 1958. pEOPLE are always asking ques- F tions in Washington. Senate committees are constanUy probing. Researchers and statisticians are compiling information on every thing from beans to the national „ budget. The new $64 puzzler (re placing the "What happened to the polio vaccine program?”) isn't new at all. it’s just more puzzling. The big question, of course, is '^What is Russia up to now?” Sen ators and statesmen on Crpitol Hill have greeted one another with this query for years. It’s been a 1 real exciting game. Just about the time someone came up with the probable answer, the Kremlin leaders about-faced and veered oft in another direction. Observers who have long re garded Russia’s feVr peaceful ges- , tures as only a feint in preparation for a roundhouse right are asking themselves if German rearmament has caused the change to "sweet- talk” tactics—or—if some under current within the Kremlin is building up for a new tidal wave of fierce and oppressive opposition to Free, World efforts for peace. Past events have shown that any softness of Kremlin policy went before or immediately followed some head-rolling. The last bounce was givfn to Stalin’s successor. Premier Georgi Malenkov, Febru ary 8. After Malenkov, as sour and immovable as Stalin was sour and stubborn, the Kremlin policy be came softer instead of tougher and the recent show of friendliness and cooperation has apparently touch ed off no new explosions behind the Iron Curtain. It appears on the surface then, that the Kremlin has realized the impossibility of keeping the West ern Allies unarmed and West Germany neutralized. They lost any hope for this when Stalin’s top- tough policy allowed the Korean War to shove the West into a stronger alliance with Germany being permitted to rearm and join the partnership. Most observers believe Malenkov lost only because of a fierce strug gle for power, but it might be that the Russians realized a new face would have to come forth with any new tactics. Losing with Stalin’s tactics, and making no greater headway with Malenkov., the Kremlin has now put into the limelight two more "attractive” leaders. Primier Nikolai Bulganin, with his velvety beard, looks at much like a musician as a politi cian. Nikita Kruschev, credited with being the "boss”, can bubble with enthusiasm and good-will, as he did when he visited Yugoslavia. It could be that the Kremlin has at last decided that threats and dire warnings became obsolete and outmoded when the .Allies qui: squabbling among themselves and let the Germans have arms again. The change in the Russian attitude became* more and more apparent after December 30 when the French Chamber of Deputies voted for German Independence and rearma ment This is not the first "new face” the Kremlin has shown to the Free World and it should not be taken as indication that their apparent show of cooperation and friendli ness, or any willingness to "talk things over”, will close the gap between Communisn and the res; of the world. LAST TRIP TO THE PLATE By James D. Harsh H ANK SAMUELR squatted down in the on deck circle and sur veyed the situation with a little touch of saddness. It was the bot tom of the ninth In a scoreless ball game. Ha saw his team mate go clown on strflros. rtmking his head in admiration at the skinny youth on the mound. Tbsn Hank walked to the plate slowly, a fa miliar plate. Its whiteness show ing clean where the umpire bed Just brushed it This was to be his last time at bet. At flortjr-three he felt old. He had worked bis way up to the majors and then bad gone the long way back to ftte frettom at forty-three. His kianlrlss ware gnarled *»mI hie legs achsd when ever he lowered Me huge body be hind the plate to receive the pitch er** delivery. He had decided with an unimpressive betting average of .196 that he’d stick strictly to managing gad let the younger, more brilliant kfcla fill the playing field. So, after playing for twenty- two years, he stepped to the plate end looked saddly toward the mound. The kid’s eyes met his. Old Hank knew it, the fens knew it; the kid was one out away from e no-hitter. It was the kid’s first professional ball game. He- had been taken from the high school ranks and hajl joined the PlainsviUe team of the Class D league. He had come with a string of press clippings. The kid looked like a pro. Maybe he didn’t know he was next to hie no-hitter, thought Sam uels, squaring his shoulders, the timber resting easily across his ready shohlder. But Hank was thinking about that last time at toe plate. The kid had gotten him on a grounder, a strike out, and a long, fly to center field. Hank want ed desperately to give the fans something to remember him by. He wanted to sew up toe game, he wanted to pound out one more four-bagger before he hung up his playing gear for toe last time. , The kid was set and the ball was «ast and inside. “Ball one I” the uxnp called. The count rose to three and cm when the pitcher floated a slow side curve. Hank rose meet the ball, toe sound was to him. He knew without the patch of the ball that tt gone, gone into oblivion, riding with the hero's force, 960 the left field walL Hank trotted slowly around the He listened carefully to tbs of the fans, toe loyal fans who had traveled the short distance to the PlainsviUe homo diamond. He listened carefully, bo-; cause he would never hear sound again. He wanted to ber that moment, hold on to It though It ware son trophy presented to him by friends. He was glad he had tea Hutchin's something Shorn and something to remain- r ber. * Old Hank had showered and on 1 Ms way out of the dressing room, he paused at the door reserved toe PlainsviUe team. It was moat empty except for toe kid sitting on the bench, a around Ms shoulders. Hank there for a full minute wat the figure, bead sagging, ders towered. "Great game,” he said slowly,! and toe kid’s eyes turned up to* meet toe old catcher. “If S' you,** he said slowly, wanted to strike you out. I that more than anything else.** "I know It, I knew tt " ^ Something made it come out way.” The kid stood and to dress. "You’ve got a great Hank said. "I’ve seen a pitchers work in my day. You came close to i great triumph to day. but that’s baseball It isn’t a gold plated road. Maybe it hav£ been too good a start if gotten the no-hittej* today. You got to learn to take the bitter with the sweet, and you’ll be aU toe better for having learned it early.” .1 i«« r mm- — ■nr-r-'r g-r g ~ r » " n ■ ■ r ■ ■ ■ M r i I M M W t I g ■ Unlike the Arcadians, whose deportatioh by the British took place two centuries ago this year, today’s uprooted Canadians will neither be sent to another land nor have their property confiscated. Government agencies will lay out new villages for them, and provide new schools utilities, post offices and other community buildings. The homes of some of the residents will be picked up and moved to these new towns; other residents will be paid compensation which they can use towgrd building new homes in the new towns. The crux of the resettlement problem is found in the eight doomed towns strung for 35 miles along the bank up river on the Canadian side. This area accounts for about $75 million of the $100 million resettlemeAt and land acqui sition problem faced by the Hydroelectric Power commiss ion of Ontario and New Yory State Power Authority. The two agencies are jointly sharing the bill for shifting folks from the reservoir sites.” > \ ★ AUTHOR OF hUn 10 SI Ur rtUKKYIr That $64 question has bean an- * swered in a report, prepared a* the cabinet level, by the Presiden tial Advisory Committee on Trans port Policy and Organization. The report points out that thare has been a "transportation revolu tion” in toe past 35 years. Where the railroads once had a virtual ^ monopoly of Intercity transporta tion, but business has become in tensely competitive. It then says: "During this same period government has failed to keep pace with this change and has, in fact, intensified its regula tions of transportation. Paradoxi cally, the underlying concept of this regulation has continued to be based on the historic assumption that transportation is monopolistic, despite the fact that toe power of individual transportation enter prises to exercise monoply control has been rapidly eliminated by the growth of pervasive competi tion. The dislocations which have emerged from this intensified com petition, on the f iber hand, and the restraining effects of public regulation on the other, have borne heavily on the common carrier segment of the transport industry. The shipper and ultimately tha consuming public pay tha costs of this dislocation. The consequent loss to tha public, while Incapable of exact estimate is believed to . amount to billions of dollars per tfyear. * In other words, it's we, the peo ple, who must pay whan laws and policies prevent any /basic enter prises from making toe most of its advantages and capabilities. Horse - and • buggy transportation regulation is a costly, unnecessary and dangerous burden on the whole nation. • • • * From the Summerville Scene, Summerville, 8.C.: We agree and yet we disagree with toe upion campaign for a guaranteed wage. We think that year-round employ ment is desirable. In our style of budgeting, it is essentiaL But we see nothing sound in paying sea sonably employed people for the time they don’t work, no matter how pleasant it might be not to work. Now if the CONSUMERS and the MANUFACTURERS and toe UN ION can agree that it would be better to work out a more sensible system of introducing new models and maintaining steady production and working steadily we would be strongly fpr the type at steady wage that would result. ■ill ■r * » VU •*- •W- Y 4 V ' ^ fly RIDDANCE . . . Here’s a sUck way to MR files. F9I a eMek waterer with molasses, water, and (me of the new fly kflfc- ers, diaxinon or malatoioa. Be sure to place It in a safe pbum. away from chOdreu or livestock. CROSSWORD PUZZLE nr G eraldine alderson, xos Mnung Drive, sas, says tost when her husband was killed as Ms ear collided with a train their son was two years eld end their little daughter only two months. She felt as If toe worries of the world had suddenly been put upon her shoulders, and the well meant advice of her friends almost tore her apart* One afternoon after a partlctdaxty trying session with one of these Mends she felt as If die was not capable of toe Job of bringing up her children Mona. She went to her room, laid down across tea bad and eried until she could cry no more. Her weeping brought relief to bar troubled mind. What Is my biggest problem, she asked herself. Shan I stay at bonoe with my children while they are still small, or shall X go to work to make R easier for myself. She prayed for wisdom and guidance; she counted her blessings and they were many. She says she can’t describe toe feeling of peace that suddenly came upon her. Her decision was to stay at home possible give toe children a normal home life. From that day on she began to sleep at night, her health improved and her outlook on life became f happier one. She says that die knows now that no one la alone; teat God is Wtttl US. CARNEGIE and as near How many fingerprints are an file at Federal Bureau sf tton headquarters? As of April 11, 1954—more than a year ago—there were 130,400,252 fingerprint cards on file with the F.B.L Identification Division. When J. Edgar Hoover took office in 1924, there was no centralized fingerprint collection. One of his first moves was to bring together toe Collection housed at Fort Leavenworth by toe Federal Govern ment and toe' fingerprints being maintained by toe International Association of Police Chiefs in Washington. Starting with a nucleus of slightly more than 810 fingerprints, toe file contained 10,000,000 prints by 1939. r What tat the fee far registering a "trade mark*’? The fee for the original application is $25, and for renewals, 925, with lesser toes for corrections, amendments, abstracts of title end other services. Trade marks are registered for 20 years and may be renewed for periods of 20 years if still in use in commerce regulated by Congress, unless previously cancelled or surrendered. A trade mark is defined by Act of Congress as "any word,” name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant to identify Ms goods and distin guish them from those manufactured or sold by others.** Who wrote ’The American’s Creed”? It was written by William Tyler Page, Clerk of toe U. S. House of Representatives in 1917. and adopted and promulgated by the Gov ernment’s Committee on Publication. 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