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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
When we call on Congress or the Federal Executive de
partments of our National government we say to them and
to the world, by necessary implication, that they are clothed
with the necessary authority to act as we petition. By every
reason the National Government assumes that if it may
act in local matters on our petition it is equally empowered
to act in local matters on its own initiative; and whether
we approve such a course or not.
We have called and petitioned so often, and our Sen
ators and Representatives likewise have sought Federal
help for us that we have virtually estopped ourselves from
challenging the Federal Government even for meddling.
My attention to this has been called by the following
story in The News and Courier recently:
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested
to examine fragments of the ancient Indian canoe found
on Kiawah Island in an effort to determine whether an
explosion caused the craft to disintegrate.
County Police asked the FBI to conduct the tests to satis
fy persons interested in the historical find, Marion J.
Schwartz, director, said last night.
Fragments are being sent to the FBI for the tests, said
Schwartz. When the dugout was found damaged a few
days after its discovery, many persons advanced the theory
it was blown up by an explosive.
However, Lt. Rudolph W. Knight and Detective L. M.
Louthian, who checked the canoe area, discounted such
theories. The canoe was located near a tidal creek.
‘We found nothing to back up a belief an explosive was
used,’ said Knight. ‘We feel the tide did it.’
Police will be happy to have the opinion of the FBI in
the matter, Schwartz said. He pointed out they have equip
ment that can determine if an explosive was involved.
‘We could be wrong, and if we are right, the persons
giving their time and effort to salvage the canoe should
have the satisfaction of knowing the loss was not due to
vandalism,’ said the director. Removal of the remaining
portion of the canoe is anticipated about the middle of
the week, E. Milby Burton, Museum director, stated.”
I do not mean to exaggerate the significance of this,
but, as a matter of law, let’s look at t. This is a matter of
interest locally; it is a matter for Charleston County. Not
even the State need be called on. Now if the FBI - a Fed
eral agency, is invited to participate, what shall my Charle
ston brethern say if the same FBI should, of its own initia
tive, investigate some other purely local matter? We can’t
sat our cake and have it too, can we ?
Here weare,in many instances, crying aloud for the Gov
ernment to act in our affairs, while at the same time de
nouncing the assumption of local powers by the sprawling
Federal bureaucracy, not forgetting the Federal Supreme
Court which nowadays may intervene in any matter, how
ever local, even if basing its authority on the magic pro
perties of syrup of squills and C. C. pills.
Is there anything, any plan that is relatively stable? As
men asked a few years ago, is there anything which once
is put out or ordained or agreed upon “‘will stay put?”
I was brought up in the legal tradition of South Carolina
and Virginia. As a matter of fact, that was the tradition
of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania also, as well as most
of the thirteen States which formed our. Republic. Don’t
you remember the Hartford Convention of 1814? The New
England states romped all over the national government
and did as much vociferating as any Southern State did
in 1860 and 1861.There was this difference: the Southern
States did not back down.
Since the formative days of this Nation the dominant idea
4 and principle was a clear recognition of the full sovereignty
of the States, except so far as the States themselves had
expressly and explicitly conferred a small portion of their
sovereignty on the National Government.
These b^ days of strange doings. I was taught that a
Baptist church is a completely independent, self-governing
body. A Baptist church of fifty members is as independent
as The Citadel Square Baptist Church of Charleston or the
Charles Street Baptist church of Beaufort or The First Bap
tist Church of Columbia. And that complete independence
was beyond any challenge.
A Baptist church may associate with and coooperate with
other Baptist churches, or it may stand aloof and proceed
absolutely alone. There is no higher authority to rebuke it
or compel it to cooperate.
That is part and parcel of a Baptist church. Now comes
somebody in the Southern Baptist Convention and dreams
a dream like the Washington bureaucrats; he seems to think
that a Baptist church owes its existence to the Convention!
Well, well! “O times O customs,”! as Cicero said, as I recall.
You remember Cicero when he thundered against Cataline?
O tempora, O mores! Yea, verily.
Now, even if they steal all our States rights and local
selfgovernment, shall we let them put our Baptist churches
under ecclesiastical bureaucrats?
Nothing seems to stand, eh? When I walked through an-
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other cemetery recently, that of the old Charles Street Bap
tist church of Beaufort, I almost wondered that many of
those sturdy and faithful departed didn’t come forth in
indignant protest at the rumors from Kansas City.
What would they say, the long departed saints of Salk-
ehatchie church now, or formerly in Barnwell County? And
think of the spirits which must hover about the old High
Hills Church of Sumter County—wfhat a thunderous pro
test they would have made under Richard Furman. Well,
well!!
Raymond Moley, remembered as one of the original Brain
Trust of Mr. Roosevelt, is a scholar, a thinker, and a man
who grapples with facts with comprehension of the mean
ing and application of the facts.
I quote from Mr. Moley in Newsweek:
“The decision of the Supreme Court cutting back the
Nebraska ‘right to work’ law is the most recent of a series
of rulings which have denied to the states much of their
traditional power and authority. The most notable of these
was the school segregation decision in 1954.
Many |lawyers have since called attention to the signif
icant and ominous fact that Chief Justice Warren cited as
his major ‘authority’ certain writings of sociologists and
psychologists. One of the most notable criticisms of the
use of ‘evidence’ of that sort appears in the April number
of the American Bar Association Journal under the names
of Eugene Cook, attorney general of Georgia, and William
I. Potter of Kansas City.
The insubstantial and unscientific character of most mod
ern sociological and psychological writings has recently been
revealed in a powerful book, ‘Fads and Foibles in Modern
Sociology,’ by a distinguished student of sociology, Pitirim
A. Sorokin. Lawyers disturbed by the Warren opinion
might well examine this book.
The naive reliance of the Court upon sociological and psy
chological writings is a logical outcome of a delusion which
swept a number of major law schools in the 1920’s. Many
law teachers, who should be the most rational of men, swal
lowed—hook, line, and sinker—a body of information which
a famous sociologist, more frank than others, called ‘any
thing that’s interesting’. The Grand Design was to create
a new ‘sociological jurisprudence’. Among the early victims
of this infection were Professors Douglas and Frankfurter,
(now on the Supreme Bench).
Prior to the 1954 decision, in a case involving the Uni
versity of Texas, the Court rejected the doctrine of ‘sepa
rate but equal facilities’ on the basis of intangible factors
‘incapable of objective measurement.’ It remained for the
Warren opinion to cite sociological ‘authority’ for those in
tangibles.
The Chief Justice stated that ‘we cannot turn the clock
back’ to the Plessy vs. Ferguson case of 1896. But to over
turn the law established at time it was obviously necessary
to find new facts or to throw new and significant light upon
old facts. The only obvious new facts were the great prog
ress pf the Negro 1 the South and a distinct improvement
in race relations urder state control of education. The Court
rejected these ar ^ turned to the intangibles of what are
called psychosocia- Lata.
The new ‘authc: "v’ which the Chief Justice cited specifi
cally consists of e‘ ht books and articles not offered in evi
dence in the lowe 1 ' r aurts. Moreover, the Court could scarce
ly have cited thes^ had it looked into the qualifications of
some of the auth' s. One was a social scientist employed
by the agency wMch was acting for the plaintiff. Another
who was cited ‘g nerally’ was a Swedish socialist, Gunnar
Mrydal. Myrdal’s book on the Negro question says that the
Constitution of the United States is ‘impractical and un
suited to modern conditions’. Thus Myrdal would not, to
use a Warrenphrase, ‘turn the clock back’ to the Constitu
tion. The real Constitution therefore becomes not only
‘what the judges say it is’ but what Myrdal says it is.
brain budi
1. Meretricious means (a) trivial; (b) measured; (c) gaudy.
*. Dissident means (a) harmful; (b) varying:; (c) ailing:.
3. Refulgent means (a) distasteful; (b) luminous; (c) wasted.
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ideas from other editors
From the Cedar Rapids Tribune,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The number
of stills being captured and the
number of moonshiners being
caught, is evidence of the volume
of tax evasions in progress con
cerning alcoholic beverages.
The other day we came upon an
incident which was slightly dif
ferent from the usual run of boot
legging cases.
It seems that two investigators
of the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit
were driving merrily along the
highway near Louisville, Ky. They
spotted a man who had a fiat tire
and who- faced a job of changing
it alone. The two Federal officers
pulled over to the side of the road
and offered him help.
That help was appreciated, it
seems, and soon the tire was
affixed to the wheel. However,
the driver of the car who had ex
perienced the fiat tire was in
somewhat of a quandary. He did
not want to put his flat tire into
the trunk of the car. Therefore,
he opened the door and threw it
into the back seat.
The Federal officers were a lit
tle interested in this maneuver
and decided to take a look in the
trunk, where they found seven
teen gallons of moonshine.
The moral of this story is not
that moonshiners should keep good
tires on their cars. Nor is it that
moonshiners should leave enough
space in their trunks for their
spare tire. The moral is that one
should not engage in hauling
moonshine, but, if he does, it
would be wise to use an automo
bile with good tires.
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From the Independent, Fuquay
Springs, N. C.: The family doctor
will still be around for a while,
as many families will be glad to
know. The lure of medical spe
cialization, of big hospitals and
city research facilities have capti
vated some of the young doctors,
but not all
The University of Minnesota
medical school reports that of all
the graduates of the period 1930
to 1954 still in active practice,
54 per cent are in general prac
tice. The figure for the whole
country is 46 per cent
The trend in the number of
Minnecttta graduates entering
general practice at the start is
higher now than 25 years ago.
Physicians with specialties are
extremely useful. They know more
in their complicated fields and
thus can provide expert knowl
edge and skills. But for the fam
ily with the average run of ail
ments—particularly if they live in
a small town or rural area which
can’t support the specialists—the
good old family doctor, modern
version, fills the need.
Q—Can yon tell me if the war veteran population is growing or
receding?
A—According to the Veterans Administration veterans of all wars in
civil life at the end of April 1956 totaled 22,291,000 as compared
to 21,695,000 a year ago. However World War H veterans are
diminishing. There were 32,000 less veterans of world war II on
April 30, 1956 than the same date in 1955, and there were 85,000
less veterans of World War I in the same period.
Q—When did Congress provide that a new star be added to the flag
upon admission of a new state?
A—This was an act of Congress of April 4, 1818.
Q—What was the main difference between the government under the
old Articles of Confederation, and that established by the Consti
tution.
A—Under the articles of Confederation, the government was called
a union of States or a Confederation, with each state considering
itself supreme in many ways. Under the Constitution, the Govern
ment becomes a union of people elevated above sectional or state
interests, all united into a nation with a common aim and destiny.
Q—Is there a statue of Christopher Columbus In Washington?
A—Yes, it is a large fountain statue on a plaza adjacent to the Union
railroad station looking toward the Capitol Building.
Q—Where does the words ‘The United States of America** first appear
officially?
A—In the articles of Confederation. Article 1 reads: ’The Stile of this
Confederacy shall be The United States of America’ **.
'T'HE REA and the TVA both
won close and unexpected
victories in Congress recently, the
first in several years for these
two organizations which provide
cheaper power to farmers and
to both farmers and business in
the Tennessee valley area.
Over the determined battle of
private utility lobbyists, the Sen
ate passed a bill which gives the
State of New York right to harness
the waterpower of Niagara Falls
for electric power, and gives coops
and municipally owned utilities
first chance to buy this electric
power.
Over in the House a conference
committee voted to up-hold House
action, which would give TVA
authority to invest its profits in
new generating capacity to meet
increased demands from REA
coops and other business firms in
the Tennessee Valley system. The
conference committee vote broke
a month-long deadlock, when Sen
ator Young, North Dakota,
switched to the TVO side, off-set
ting a vote against TVA by Senator
Ellender, of Louisiana.
For several years the fight has
been going on in and out of the
Congress for the right to control
the tremendous power potential
of the Niagara Falls. During pre
vious Congresses, the House voted
to give it .away to five large elec
trie companies. Other less direct
attempts have been made to turn
the , project over to New York
State, but under conditions fav
orable to mbnopoly control by pri
vate utilities. The “Public Prefer
ence Clause” was offered by
Senator Lehman, New York, with
his colleague, Senator Ives, New
York, opposing the section giving
first chance to coops and munici
pally owned electric plants. -
On the key issue, Senator Lyn
don Johnson, Majority leader in
the Senate made the vote a party
issue and he rallied 48' votes
against killing the bill, with Sena- t
tors Byrd and Robertson, of Vir
ginia, and Holland, of Florida,
voting on the Republican side,
and Senators Aiken, Vermont;
Smith, Maine; Case, New Jersey;
Langer, North Dakota and Kuchel,
California, crossing over to the
Democratic side. Something like
175,000 farmer-members of REA
Coops live within transmission
distance of Niagara Falls, many
beyond the borders of New York
State.
The National Council of Far
mer Cooperatives has urged the
Department of Agriculture to in
crease the appropriation for the
Farmer Cooperative Service to an
amount sufficient "to bring the
Service on a par with the in
creases which have been consist
ently made in recent years in other
research agencies of the Depart
ment.”
Homer L. Brinkley, executive
vice-president of NCFC, told Sec
retary Benson the present farm
cost-price squeeze is the great
central fact in our modern econo
my as it affects agriculture.
“Our need is real and growing,”
he said. “We can see no reason
why this service should be con
sidered in any different light than
any other of the services in a sim
ilar field of work. All research
and service is designed to serve
the needs of farmers. Cooperatives
are merely a conduit through
which this particular Service can
and should serve the broad needs
of farmers in the marketing and
purchasing fields.”
The assumption by the Court that these psychosocial
writings constitute firm and lasting facts determined by
scientific methods is nonsense. Much of sociology and psy
chology consists of miscellaneous and sometimes useful in
formation. But as Raymond Poincare, a notable mathema
tician and statesman, commented: ‘An accumulation of
facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house’.
It is of such extraordinary stuff that this Court chooses
to fashion the law of the land.”
DaleCarnegie
^ AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING’' ^
T WELVE years ago while in the Navy Howard H. Green, P. O.
Box 456, Union Springs, Alabama, was stricken with what the
Naval doctors diagnosed as a perforated stomach ulcer and recom
mended immediate surgery. When they slit his stomach open they
found that the ulcer had not perforated, but had formed a sack in
the tube leading from the stomach to the smaU intestine, and they
thought it best to leave it as it was and treat him
with medicines and special diet. After several
weeks they gave him a medical discharge and sent
him home.
For nine years he stayed on a strict diet and
took all the latest medicines without any improve
ment. Three years ago he went to a hospital where
they removed seventy-five per cent of his stomach.
Before they let him come home they told him that
he would be forced to take a good bit of rest and
take it easy for at least two years, but that he would
be able to eat anything he wanted. This care has cre-
CARNEGIE
ated such improvement in his condition that he believes if he had followed
it the preceding nine years he probably would not have had to have the
operation, but he gives even greater credit for his improvement to books
and articles he has read on how to conquer worry. He believes that had he
concentrated on this subject twelve years ago he could have saved him
self untold hours of misery, not to count several hundred dollars in
money, for he says he has found out that it was not. what he was
eating, but what was eating him that caused his trouble.
PALS AGAIN . . . YngesUy Pres. Tlte (toft) to weloemed In Mos
cow by Soviet Pres. Klementi Voroshilov and Communist party
chief Nikita Khrushchev.
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WINS “5#t” ... P»t Flaherty, 36,
of Chicago, averaged 128.49 mph
to 46th animal Indianapolis auto
rane marked by tea crashes.
Pat, shown with his wife (left)
and film actress Virginia Mayo,
received 637,666 of 663,816 total
his car won.
This an' That
Pat Flaherty won the
a polls “500** race with a “cast-off**
car—one that had been built for
defending champion Bob Swcikert.
The car was built by A. J. Watson,
who prepared Sweikert’s winning
ear In 1955, and Is 206 pounds
lighter thy* other new cars of
recent years. It Is also longer and
narrower than conventional Speed
way roadsters. When Swelkert de
cided not to ^rive the racer, Flah
erty took over the John Zink Spe
cial and won his first “560** In five
attempts. Swelkert can now join
Eddie Arcaro in the “wrong
choice** circle. In 1942, Arcaro
was given his choice of Devil
Diver and Shut Out for the famed
Kentucky Derby. Arcaro picked
Devil Diver—Shirt Out won the
race ... Major league players
who have more than 3,666 hits to
their credit Include Ty Cobb,
4,191, Cap Anson, 6,524, Trls
Speaker, 3,515, Homs Wagner,
3,430, Eddie Collins, 2,612, Nap
i La Jo i«, 3,251, and P»nl Wsner.
;3,152 . . . The Australian Athletic
Union recently ruled Olympic
Champion Shi
held amateur
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accepted no money for having
tpiotare on th