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m&m PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1956 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr.. Owner Entered a? second-class matter December 6, 1937 a \ 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 Another cemetery! I attended the burial service of an old Colored tenant. Twenty six years he lived on my land and he was stricken in the field. He was a good man, respected by everybody for his sterling qualities and his quiet manner. James Chandler Richbourg recalled in his last days that I once told him to stay wdth me until one of us died; then, whichever of us survived, he would attend the funeral of the other. And so I went to Taw Caw church cemetery for the funeral. There were scores of Colored people at the funeral. All were well dressed and many came in fine new cars. I might remind our trouble-making friends that Taw r Caw church is a very large building, once the church of the white people. When the White Baptist people built a church in the Town of Summerton they sold this excellent build ing to Colored Baptists. There stands the Church—Taw r Caw—in a large area of pines, a restful place, just off Highway 301, about two miles from Surnmerton. I met many colored friends at the funeral, some came up to speak; and others saluted from a distance. Some had lived on my land; we never had a “cross word”. This, is just out of Summerton, Summerton, one of the choicest places in our State. A few mischief-makers have not em bittered the races there. AMATEUR RADIO “ham*” play a key role la alertiny civil de fense unite to natural disasters, and maintaining vital commoni* cations when telephone lines are down. This Marion, Ind., oper ator flashed the first word of that city's tornado to Indiana civil defense headquarters, which immediately rushed aid. Most “ham” operators are linked to civil defense through the RMtr Amateur Civil Emergency Service, sponsored by the Federal Civil Defense Administration to supplement regular channels. ctcda photo > mm ■ Have the Japanese injured our textile business? Certainly. When a man like Mr. Walter Regnery speaks we know that he is measuring his words. And I N have some figures just received from Mr. E. J. McMillian, President of the South ern States Industrial council: “While we appreciate the fact that sound international relations between our country and other nations are strengthened by a two-way trade in which exports are bal anced by imports, we also realize that American industry cannot be protected against serious injury unless there is a limit on such trade that will protect American producers and workers from unreasonable and unfair competition cheap foreign labor. That is why council advocates the elimination of tariff making under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), wjhich we have been backed into by the unauth orized action of the government, and explains why we urge defeat of the President’s proposal to have our country ap prove the Organization for Trade Cooperation. I have already brought this matter to your attention with particular reference to the unfair competition imposed upon the textile industry by Japanese imports. Perhaps the best example of how serious this Japanese competition is, is found in the action of the State of South Carolina in en acting a law that requires stores handling Japanese textiles to post signs to inform the public * Japanese textiles sold here’. • : > The reaction of the Japanese to this effort to protect Am erican textiles s probably a natural one. They are opposed to the South Carolina statute and are particularly perturb ed over the report that South Carolna is asking 20 other states to join in enacting such legislation. They reiterate that they have no intention of flooding American markets with Japanese goods and refer to the voluntary controls recently imposed by Japan on cotton textiles for shipment to American markets. The figures show differently. In 1955, Japan shipped 5,754,000 square yards of velveteens into our country. Up to that time the whole U. S. production was 7,308,000—so Japan practically shut down all our velveteen mills. In 1955, Japan shipped 46,699,000 square yards of ginghams to this country. During December alone she shipped 10,767,- 000 square yards—that was 20 per cent of our home pro duction. In 1954, Japan shipped in blouses and shirts—189,- 000 dozen; in 1955, 4,234,000 dozen, which was over one- third of our domestic production. The information we have indicates that the Administra tion in Washington is not too concerned about State laws like that in South Carolina for it is felt that the Federal courts will make short work in disposing of these statutes. But, and here is the nub: since the Supreme court entered the legislative field and destroyed the right of the States to control their own schools, and since the decision of that court in holding the Pennsylvania Sedition Statute inopera tive, there has been a resurgence of interest in the Consti tutional right of the states to control their internal affairs without Federal meddling; the news reports say the Ad ministration is afraid an effort by the Government to over-ride the South Carolina law dealing with the sale of Japanese goods will add new fuel to the States Rights flame and will strengthen the effort to have Congress adopt the Bricker amendment to the Constitution. Adoption of the Bricker amendment would be an open recognition of a truth we have too long ignored. As was said by General Isenhower (speaking at Des Moines, Iowa, 1952), ‘The Federal government did not create the States of this Republic. The States created the Federal govern ment. The creation should not supersede the creator. For if the States lose their meaning, our entire system of gov- the centralized National State, in which the seeds of autoc racy can take root and grow.” Our national government has wooed other countries in a paternalistic attitude that amounts to babying them. As I see it, our members of congress should take the bull by the horns and stop all this skirmishing: What they should do is to make an all-out, frontal attack on all phases of Nat ional paternalism and socialism and fight to the last ditch to bring the government back into line. Ail this foreign aid, whether military or economic, is beyond the lawful authority of congress; an utter perver sion of the responsibility of the law-makers to ,the taxpayers. Religious missionary and evangelical pre-occupation with all the peoples of the earth’ is quite within the scope of the churches, but not of the government. If we shall be fair and just, strong and resourceful we shall be respected; and that respect will give us weight and influence throughout the world. Admission to the Kingdom of Heaven; and the equality of all men—on their respective merits—before the Most High, do not imply obliteration of the social order. A well- studied opinion on integration by the Rev. E. B. Guerry com mends itself to me so strongly that I quote a part of it, as reprinted from “The Living church,” the weekly journal of the Episopal church of the United States, in The Sumter Item of May 1: It follows: “THE LONE CHECK Interposition seems to be, in the minds of many who are experts in this field of constitutional law, the only check: This is a resolution of Interposition. The word seems to frighten you (Delegate Whitehead). It does not frighten me. It is a good word. It was employed in this contex by the author of the Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jeffer son of Virginia) and by ‘the Father of the Constitution’ (James Madison of Virginia). In the sense in which they used it, and in which it is used in the resolution, I understand it to mean an action x taken in behalf of a state by one of its departments seeking to protect the state and its people from the invasion of the reserved power of the state by some de partment of the Federal government. That right I believe we have. That right the resolution would invoke.’ Resolutions proclaiming some form of interposition have already been passed by some states and are being seriously considered in others. Many Southern people believe that interposition is not secession, nor rebellion, nor unlawful de fiance, nor unjustified resistance. No Southern governor has any idea of calling out the militia of his state in coopera tion with other Southern governors to form another Coii- federate Army to stand guard on the banks of the Potomac. However, a majority of the Supreme court decision is un authorized judicial legslation, and is itself unconstitutional. The constitutional crisis which has arisen in this conflict of laws by the assertion of state and federal power is one of the first magnitude. Many free men in the nation today, especially in the South, believe interposition is a lawful ap peal from the courts decision to the final source of author ity, i.e., the peop^ of the United States. It is a request that if the constitution is to be rewritten, it must be done by the people through their elected representatives in the Congress and in the various state legislatures. We are protected by a written Constitution which lives only in its written pre cepts which are spelled out in the plain words of the Eng lish language along with a definite way of amending the same. Many American citizens shudder to think of what may hap pen to our beloved country should the historic means of amending the Constitution be disregarded by judicial in discretion and assumption of unlawful authority. If the peo ple fail to rewrite the Constitution, then it should not be rewritten by any president or court. Is not this ‘a govern ment of the people, by the people, and for the people?’ pii Thus, we see that the issue far transcends the question of segregation.” The constantly growing power of the Federal government is a development that springs from the idea that the Con gress may legislate on any matter. The Executive depart ments have the same idea; and the various Government Commissions set themselves up as fully empowered to deal as arbitrarily as old Stalin did, in his prime. I read in the papers that thi sor that Commission HAS AUTHORIZED this, that and the other; or that it has DENTED this, that, or the other. I frequently mull over all this and wonder why the Government has assumed some functions. Even though some of the Commissions may pro ceed by Act of Congress, the question still persists: why? ■ l§tf£n IVf RB! . ns 1 ir p % * j. •'sap Sr •'sap CROSSWORD PUZZLE TROUGH LINER ... Watering' or feeding trough Uae •lumimcm Is easily cleaned and aluminum will neror deteriorate from exposure to weather. Use aluminum nai te fasten sheet aluminum In place. d with sheet rust, ret or ernment loses its meaning and the next step is the rise of I read in the papers recently that a certain cooporate en terprise in South Carolina, operating within South Carolina, hed been granted permission to use Natural gas, instead of coal, or with coal, to “get up” steam. Now, in the best legal tradition, how can a Federal commission have any “say-so” in this ? Why may not any enterprise use bottled gas, natural gas, hard coal, soft coal, oak wood or pine wood or cypress or juniper, or charcoal, or fuel oil, or corn stalks, or what not? Can it be because Natural gas comes from another State? Well, even if that be so, shall the Government reg ulate our food because it may come from Battle Creek, in Michigan ? Shall the government assume authority to regulate the sale of cord wood or hickory knots, or pine stumps? Even if, in any given case, the Government permit be wise and beneficent, we must beware of government inter vention because the “power to tax is the powr to destroy,” as Chief Justice Marshall said, as I recall. » By the same token, or reasoning, the unlawful assumption of pow’er to do a good service carries with it the power to interfere in a harmful, even mischievous, manner. We have been lulled into profound slumber by Government entering some fields of possible helpfulness. The gradual approach has become a fully developed assertion of power. . 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