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ihe Act of Congress of March H, 187U,
SUBSCRU y nON RATES: $200 per year m mi-
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
SPECTATOR
The governing powers of our State are alert to the uigent
need to encourage industry in South Carolina. Undoubtedly
the leaders are studying our laws so that no law shall stand
in the way of our development. 1 hope they may consider
every factor for a half billion dollars in new industr ies and in
development of those we now have and fully appreciate
would mean infinitely more for our people and all units of
government than the possible loss of a few dollars at this mo
ment. In other words, just as businessmen invest millions,
looking to the future, so may our State wisely remove any
barriers we now’ have so that, like an investment, it may
bring forth abundant fruit in time.
One thing that I’ve heard of (and there may be others) is
that a Company from North Carolina or Georgia may deliver
power to enterprises in South Carolina without paying the
same taxes paid by a South Carolina company. I’m sure no
one means to do harm to our South Carolina electric power
business, but our own people have to compete under adverse
conditions with our neighboring States.
We must bring hundreds of millions of dollars to this
State and we must be ready to compete in dollars and cents
to do that.
“interposition Doctrine Sound” is the opinion of Governor
Timmerman, as quoted by the daily papers. What is “inter
position”? That is a long story but let us refresh our mem
ories. Quoting freely and at length from Henry William El-
son of Philadelphia, one of the most readable historians,
(and I should say here that he makes special acknowledge
ment to eminent scholars of New York and Pennsylvania)
(and no Southerner.)
Let us get a start by re-stating foundational facts:
“The governments of the Nation and of the State differ
in two important respects. 1. The powers of the Nation^re
delegated powers, and did not exist before the Union was
formed in 1789; while the powers of the State are inherent
and date back to colonial times. 2. The Federal Government
has no power beyond that which is given it in the Constitu
tion, that which affects the whole people; while a State has
absolute power over its own people and its own Territory,
except, of course, that which is delegated to the Nation.
It is true a State is forbidden a few things by the Federal
Constitution, such as granting titles of nobility, passing ex
post facto laws, adopting other than a republican form of
government, denying a man tho right to vote on account of
race or color, and the like; but aside from these and a few
others a State has absolute control over its own affairs.
States’ Rights are as sacred and inviolable as National
rights; and the Nation has no more authority to overthrow
the State governments or to encroach upon States’ Rights,
beyond that granted by the Constitution, than the States
have to overthrow its authority. In either case it would be
revolution. 1 * 1 4 !£ T,n.«S
A State, therefore, is independent of the Federal Gov
ernment in its own domain, nor does it derive its powers from
the latter; but the moment it gets beyond its own bound
ary its authority ceases, and it comes in contact with Fed
eral authority. In fact, a State has no power whatever be
yond its own bounds. It cannot even pursue and bring back
an escaped criminal from another State without National
authority; it cannot deny to citizens from another State the
privileges and immunities extended to its own citizens.
The General Government; it has real authority over the
whole people, but that authority is limited, is delegated,
and exists only by the virtue of a written bond. .
The power of the States comes down to us from colonial
days, the State constitutions being but modifications of the
royal charters, while the powers of the Federal Govern
ment, though conferred at a later date, were nevertheless
necessary.
On the other hand, a unified, consolidated government
would be equally impossible. The country is too vast, and
the people too well educated and too independent and jeal
ous of their liberties to submit to any central all-pervading
authority, or to permit their local affairs to be managed
by other hands than their own.
Be it remembered that only a part of the vast power of
the people has been delegated to the General Government.
Every true-hearted American who studies this intricate
problem, the relation of the States and the Nation, will
plainly see that the hand of Providence has been over it all,
and while he will rejoice in our grand and glorious Union,
he will take scarcely less pride in States’ Rights, the great
palladium of our liberty.
Before the close of the year 1798, and While the obnox
ious Alien and Sedition laws were still in force, and Ken
tucky legislature passed a series of resolutions severely
condemning the Alien and Sedition Laws. A few weeks
later the legislature of Virginia adopted a series of very
similar resolutions, but somewhat milder in tone. These
expressions from these two legislative bodies attracted
much attention and became famous in American history.
THE NEW UK HR Y SIN
BIGGEST QUIZ QUESTION OF 'Si
It was not known at the time who wrote them; but it was
found many years afterward that Thomas Jefferson was
the author of the Kentucky Resolutions, and James Madison
of the Virginia Resolutions.
The Virginia Resolutions were eight in number. They
declared if Congress enacted laws that were unconstitu
tional, it was the right and duty of the States to interpose
and arrest the progress of the evil.
South Carolina made much of these resolutions, fathered
by the great Jefferson, the Democratic idol, when adopting
her Nullification Ordinance in 1882. The school of Southern
statesmen, led by Calhoun, based their doctrine of State
sovereignty largely on the same ground.” •
In 1814 the Legislature of Massachusetts called a conven
tion of New England States. That Hartford convention de
clared :
“That acts of Congress in violation of the Constitution
are absolutely void,” and that the “states which have no
common umpire must be their own judges and execute
their own decisions.”
The casual reader may think that all this is mere ver
biage, but a hundred years is but a short time in the life
of a nation. If Mr. Roosevelt could twist and subvert the
Constitution; and if the present Supreme Court can so read
ily disregard established judicial decisions of long stand
ing and base its decisions on books, pamphlets, hypotheses,
giving all this extraneous stuff the force of law, surely then
the moment is opportune for a fresh study of the founda
tions of our American Constitutional government, with its
checks and balances and its distribution of powers so that
national development need not be brought about by an en
croachment on the prerogatives of the States.
The case at bar is not exclusively a racial question, but
the far broader consideration of the proper distribution of
powers.
FOUR IMPORTANT REASONS
By Allen Wishert
U NDER the'scorching heat of a
western mid-day sun, Dan Kel
ler rode' into the almost ghost
town of Wrangler. The scent of
water coming from the stock
drinking trough quickened the lag
ging steps of his pony; burying
its head eyes deep while satisfy
ing several hours of torturing
thirst
Dan threw a leg over the sad-
dle-horn and took a look-see of his
surroundings; a dusty, sweltering
street a half starved dog reeling
toward the trough, a couple of
cow ponies, heads drooping, tied
to the hitch-rail in front of the
Buck Horn saloon. Not one human
in sight unpainted, decaying build
ings lining the street
“Limbo,’* said Dan. directing
his remark to his pony. “Looks as
If we’ve landed right in the mid
dle of your namesake. If ever
there was a Limbo on earth, we've
ridden smack-dab into it"
Limbo whinnied in agreement
The two sagging horses at the
hitch-rail didn’t so much as switch
a taiL
Hearing hoof beats, Dan swiveled
in his saddle and saw a buckboard
approaching, in the spring seat
sat a girl. The sprinting pintos
rushed for the watering trough,
and like Limbo, dived their heads
deep.
The girl seemingly searching,
glanced at Dan.
•“Howdy Miss,” he said. Lifting
his hat
“How do you do?" she replied.
Her smile wasn't what Dan would
call heart-warming, it was unfeel
ing. hard-like. “I wonder if you’re
the man?”
“Well,” said Dan. *Tve taken
chances before, so, if you want me
to be whoever he is, Til ride along
with it”
“Are you Denial Keller, our new
foreman?”
“If your father's name is Met-
calf, I am.”
“It is. I am Katie Metcalf,
you're to come with me. Father
received your letter telling him
you would be in Wrangler today.
He sent me for you.*'
“Mighty thoughtful." replied
Dan.
“It’s eight miles to the ranch,’’
she continued. “Your pony looks
weary, tie him to the end gate and
you may ride here beside me.’’
Nothing eventful occured on the
trip, however, Dan learned that
Katie Metcalf was a much spoiled
girL
Dan Keller was a capable fore
man and had the outfit running
smoothly. Katie at every oppor
tunity threw herself in his path,
and found herself in love with the
handsome brute. Dan's attentions
were merely cordial, nothing more.
She became provoked, every man
on the range had, practically,
thrown themselves at her feet She
led them on, deriving pleasure in
dropping them like a red-hot
branding iron. Now, metaphorical
ly, the shoe was on the other foot;
Dan Keller was holding the brand
ing iron and his unconcerned at
titude intrigued her, she vowed to
win his love, or know the reason
why.
Several days later, not having
made any progress in her selfish
desire, she had a heart-to-heart
talk with her father; boldly told
him of her love for his foreman,
and confessed that Dan was at
tentive, but not enough to cause
a girl to hope.
“Katie,” said her dad, who had
never denied her a wish, glanced
far out over the barren prairie.
He knew this situation was beyond
his effort or controL “My child.
I am afraid this time you’re bark
in’ up the wrong tree.’’
“Always I have managed to get
what I wanted, the prevailing in
cident is no exception. I do not
know of one reason why I cannot
have him.”
"Maybe hot one,” grinned old
man Metcalf. “However, I car
name four.”
“Very well, name them and FI
overcome them. Just what are thi
four reasons?"
“His wife and three kids.**
\ S THE second seas Urn of the
IMth Congress convenes, prob
ably the paramount issue to be
solved is the pbyht of the Amer
ican farmer, which includes about
23 million people deriving their in
come hum agriculture. The income
of these people has dropped horn
about g% to about i.% of the total
national income.
Often the argument is used to
day that this income drop is leas
dangerous to the nation’* whole
economy than it was, say in 1339,
because the term population has
dropped from about one-fourth to
about one-seventh of our total pop
ulation. The |eot is however, that
In 1954 farm spending for the bus
iness of farming was T.I15 of our
total national spending, about th%
sama proportion aa it waa in 1180
despite the tremendous drop in
farm population. And farm spend
ing tor capital goods, that ia for
dwellings, farm buildings, cars,
trucks, machinery and equipment
was 8.1% of tha national total
spent for capital goods, aa com
pared to 6.6% of the national total
for such goods In 1989.
Farmers buy a considerable por
tion of their hard goods and moat
of their soft goods from smell mer
chants in their home communitiee.
How these small firms are hurt by
the spread between low farm prices
and high consumer retail prices ia
indicated by the statistics which
show that corporations with assets
of more then 100 million dollars
showed increased net incomes aft
er taxes from 6.1 billion dollars
in 1952 to 7.4 billions in 1954. Dur
ing the seme period small firms
With assets between one-quarter
million and a million dollars
showed a steady decline from 479
million m 1933 to less then A0U mil
lion iloUai'S in 1934.
Much of this debate over the
steady decline In farm income will
binge over the question of sur
pluses held by the Commodity
Credit Corporation These sur
pluses today are valued at about
$7 billions, according to the De
partment of Agriculture, although
this is not wholly correct, since
about $8.1 billion represents loans
to farmers, much of which may be
repaid.
The farm surplus is represented
aa farm output which exceeds de
mand. Actually, tha more correct
representation would be output
which exceeds ability to buy. So
aa a matter of fact farm aurpluaaa
redact under-consumption and not
over-production, for millions of
people, not only in this country,
but throughout the world, are hun
gry and need this food.
la this surplus dangerous to out
economy end la It coating too
much, will be one of the questions
the Congress must answsr. One
means of measuring surplus ia tha
extant by which annual farm pro
duction in any given year exceeds
domestic consumption, phis ax-
port consumption. For the eight
years from 1947 through 1954 the
average annual “surplus” of all
farm products lumped together
has been about 1.6% of annual pro
duction. In recent years. 1958
through 1954 this surplus has been
about 3%. with a high of 4.2% in
1953 and a low of 2.1% in 1954.
Major industries, even in times of
high prosperity, regard as desir
able a gap of 5 to 10% between
their productive capacity and their
actual production.
Q—1 am a Korean veteran and have $10,066 In Insurance with a pri
vate firm. Will this bar me from getting Gl Insurance?
A—No. Insurance held with a private company has no bearing on
amount of GI insurance you can get A veteran may get up to $10,00$
t tn Korean GI term insurance, minus only whatever other forma of
GI insurance he might have.
Q—I bought a house with my GI lean a few years ago. My family has
grown since. My wife le a veteran toe. Would she he entitled to nee
her GI loan benefit to buy a larger house?
A—Yes. The fact you used your GI loan benefit would not deny your
wife the right to use hers.
0—Can you toll ma how much of a drop there has been in hog prices?
Is overproduction the cause of the price drop?
A—As of mid-December top price for hogs in Chicago was 612.25 a hun
dred. A year ago the price was $28.75. Estimated pork production
for 1955 ia 10.9 billion pounds. It was 9.9 billion pounds in 1954; 10.1
in 1953; 11.5 billion in both 1952 and 1951 and 10.7 billion in 1950.
Q—What Is the status of the Hells Canyon Dam?
A—The National Hells Canyon Association has filed an appeal brief from
the ruling of the Federal Power Commission, in the Federal District
Court here in Washington. The FPC ruling gave the Idaho Power
Co. authority to construct two small dams, instead of one high dam
as proposed first by the Interior Department, and later repudiated
by Interior Secretary Douglas McKay.
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THURSbAY. JANUARY 12. IQ56
Frum the W*rr*«i Kw'iml. W»r-
rental*. North Carolina i Wo wtwro
MKkotl a taw day* ago why
wo cUdn*i write an editorial jump
ing on tho Highway Patrol and
other ameers to stop speeding on
our highways. We told the friend
that the reason that speeding has
not been stopped was because our
people don’t want It stopped.
Furthermore, one will find a
large number of people, who la
spite of statistics and reason to
the contrary, still Insist that speed
ing to not the main cause of the
shameful slaughter on our high
ways.
Thst people don't want speeding
stepped, largely because It will
stop their own speeding, to borne
out by the lech of cooperation
members of the Highway Patrol
receive from the genera] public.
This to not only borne out by the
fight made to tho lest General As
sembly upon the whammy end the
difficulty of obtaining convictions
in the cou>t, but by the general
attitude ofljthe public regarding
the whammy, one of the Highway
Patrol's most effective weapons.
It to not unusual to meet ears and
trucks on our teeming highways
with blinking lights, sometimes
sounding horns, warning motor
ists thst s highway patrol ear or
whammy ia around the next comer
or over the next htU, If this does
not show m sympathy tar speed
ers and » lack of understanding
of the dangers of high speed, we
hardly know what would show it.
We will admit that a modem
car, racing at 70 miles an hour
may be under better control than
was the old Model T at 40. but
this does not remove the fact that
such car colliding with another
running at 50, within the speed
limit, has a total impact of 180
miles an hour, and that when two.
tons of steel collide st 180 miles
an hour the Impact to something
terrific. Unfortunately such head-
on collisions ore not too rare.
Few people stop to think thst
on automobile traveling st 60 miles
an hour to going at the rate of 66
feet s second. No reaction to fast
enough to suddenly check this
speed, and If it were th« momentum
would cause abrious injury to tha
passengers. Cats, dogs, o'potsums
and hens dally meet ihelr death on
highways because they dash Into
the path of motorists who unwill
ingly kill them. Usually the motor
ist knows s second or more before
he strikes such animal or fowl
that he is going to do so. but to
powerless to prevent the collision.
The same would hold true shoutr!
a child dart into the highway, ,>
should other emergency arise.
—
AUTHOtt Of "HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START L1V
L AWRENCE BRATTON, whose address I have been asked to withhold.
* says thst there came e time in his life when everything seemed to
happen for the worst First his baby son drew hie last breath. A month
later, his wife said she wanted a divorce, and left within the week.
When his wile left this automatically severed the friendships he had
formed with other married couples, and he felt completely alone, 500
miles from his home town. 700 miles from where he
had lived before coming to the present home seven
years before.
Fear, worry and self condemnation? He lived with
those enemies for all of one winter. He was even
afraid of the wind howling in the weather stripping.
He couldn’t sleep at night; phenobarbital became a
part of his diet by day and sodium smytal by night
Twenty-four hours a day be asked himself what
could he have done to save the baby who had
gone on.
He turned night into day in order to occupy the
long winter evenings by being transferred to the night shift
he started building H O gage model railroad cars, sometimes
tag eight consecutive hours assembling and painting a
modern railroad.
Nature too came through with a blessing in disguise. Snowfall that:
winter broke all records. So he not only shovelled the driveway
but also 100 feet up the street to toe top of the hill, and on weekends
wore himself out physically on the .end of a shovel.
AH this physical effort helped to put him to condition, and to the
spring he met a lovely and loyal lady whom he later married. TRiey
now have two boys, one aged two years and the other one month, and
his worry is behind him.
HANDY FILLER . . < One farmer solved the problem ef e*M»g
gaa tanks in the field by monnttag a tank on pMrtrap as shewn
above. Salvaged hose and nossle saves climbing np ea track mUI
makes fining tanks easy.
This an # That
John (Bonus) Wagner, the all-
time great shortstop, played more
games than any other National
Leaguer In history—8,785—-and had
the most times at bat—10,487. He
made the most total hits—the most
one base hits—the most doubles—
and the most triples. He also held |
another record, the most base
stolen In a world series—six. t
addition, he was one of the first
players elected to the baseball Hall
of Fame at Cooperstown, N. Y„
and the first National Leaguer to
receive that honor ... The average
age of- a rookie In major leagne
baseball Is 83.6 years and the aver
age player stays to the majors from
five to six years. Average salary
of a major leaguer Id $18,000, al
though the great stars often earn
np to the maximum of $166,000.
The hunttag oddity for the 1955 sea
son took place near Ann Arbor,
Michigan, when n haater took n
shot nt what he thonght to be n
PIN CHAMP . . .
88, wen Chicago’s All Star bowl
ing contest with 364.80 Petsraon
and 18,166 plan lor H
average ef 861.
petals and 13,182