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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1956
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the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
. What many of our people, even some congressmen, fail
to grasp is that the cry for help from Washington for all
sorts of things, clothes the Washington bureaucrats with
more power, until we find ourselves today running to
WASHINGTON half the time and RUNNING FROM
WASHINGTON the other half.
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Dr John S. Lade
announces his platform
FOR SHERIFF
Newberry County
Courteous Service, efficiency and economy, based on twenty-five years of pub
lic Service.
I will abide by the Court’s decision in all cases.
I am asking for four years to clean up Newberry county. Your vote and
will be appreciated.
VOTE TUESDAY
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