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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
SPECTATOR
THE GREATEST RESOURCE WE HAVE is our people.
That is the theme the admired Edgefield Advertiser dis
cussed recently.
We may have the greatest people in the world, we Amer
icans. And our Southern people are the most American of
all Americans.
Much of our good fortune is due to the wisdom of the men
of the period fi'om 1776 to 1800. They decided what the 13
colonies should fight for; and then they formed a govern
ment - that built a partly Sovereign Nation out of 13 Sover
eign States (or Nations) which voluntarily renounced cer
tain of their Sovereign rights in order to make possible a
central government, but a central government of limited
powers, those powers delegated # to it by the State.
Under our form of government we have prospered.
It is not straining the point to say that we are departing
. from the legal condition that made, us the foremost nation
of all the world and of all time.
Just now the Congress enacts laws that conflict with
the reserved rights of the States; and the Commissions ex
ercise powers that are an invasion of the rights of the
States; and the Supreme Court of the United States is
making law by embodying theories and sociological non
sense into decisions, thus depriving us of knowing what is
the law, since the vagaries of the Judges may validly upset
all legal precedents.
What we need is a stern, clear, irrefutable and irrevoc
able reaffirmation of the scope of the National Government
with a sweeping invalidation of all encroachments on the
States.
If all Southern Representatives and Senators in Congress
would stoutly contend and unremittingly contend for a re
surgence of loyalty to the principles of our Constitution we
could produce results.
Are we people back home prepared for that? Well, we
might lose some hand-outs, but are we gaining anything
by swapping principles for hand-outs? *
Who knows? Perhaps the great government which has
thrown away fifty billion on foreigners might some day
think a few billion would win friends right here at home.
And we would be worth more than Europe, Asia, Africa,
and South America combined.
What about the small farmer? Well, what about him?
How can he live on a few acres of cotton and one acre of
tobacco? You might retaliate by saying that if every farmer
should produce as he pleases there would be no living since
the prices would be negligible. And that is true. So what,
now? ' - 1 ■ I '■
If all Southern farmers produce beef and pork what will
become of Western farmers? And in California farmers pro
duce three bales of cotton to the acre on unlimited acreage
where will the Carolina farmer “come in”?
A few years ago our government showed us how to pro
duce more per acre and now we must produce less per acre
or drastically reduce the acres planted. It is a sad story.
Of course our Government lends and gives money all over
the world so that people may buy coal and oil and cotton
and wheat from us. Where or when will all this end?
The South Carolina Congressmen don’t know what to do;
certainly I don’t ,so perhaps you know. Who knows? Hav
ing entangled ourselves how shall we disentagle ourselves?
- Did you ever meet a man of so much enthusiasm that he
swept you along as though you had fallen into a swift
mountain torrent? Well, I called on a friend a short time
ago, Mr. T. W. Thornhill, affectionately known to thousands
as “Buddy.” Mr. Thornhill is not only a big oil man—head
of the Charleston Oil company, but his great hobby is soil
(and water) conservation. He knows his subject and he can
make it glow with all the irridescence of a high power illu
mination.
Mr. Thornhill can make you see that the big dams are
not only uneconomical, but a very grave potential menace;
whereas the best use of water would suggest small reser
vations, small dams, many small dams, rather than one
mammoth dam.
I have an interest in farming but I have never asked to
be favored with cheap or cheaper rates or prices because
of my tie-up with Agriculture.
I no more believe in Government power or Government
preferences than I advocate Government production of cot
ton and corn. If, for any reason whatsoever, the Government
produces power, or contributesto the production of power,
the price for that power should cover all the costs of produc
tion and distribution, including wear and tear, as well as
depreciations, obsolescence and also all taxes chargeable
against any concern doing that sort of business.
Here is something on the general subject; I take from
The Evening Post of Charleston:
“Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton’s attempt to raise
the rates for power sold to the Reynolds Metals company by
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a public agency in the Southwest has placed Federal power
advocates and the Rayburn-Johnson Texas dynasty on Cap
itol Hill in an embarrassing predicament. -
When Seaton announced a rate increase for individual
customers of the Southwest Power Administration a few
months ago, the liberals declared he was discriminating
against ‘the little fellows’ a cry which Adlai Stevenson
voiced in the presidential campaign. They charged him with
favoring the ‘special interests,’ and asked why he did not
boost charges to the Reynolds firm.
With Henry J. Kaiser’s aluminum holdings, the Virginia
company was aided in its metals expansion by FDR, in order
to increase competition with the Mellon family, which con
tributed a cabinet member to the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover
administrations.
Although Seaton advanced no explanation at the time, he
had to delay action against Reynolds because its rates had
been fixed at what he regards as too low a figure in a 30
year contract negotiated by Oscar Chapman, Truman’s
Secretary of The Interior. Seaton had to obtain legal ad
vice before deciding to bring suit.
In other words, if there was any favoritism* in fixing cor
porate charges, as the public power bloc states, it was ex
tended by their own New Deal administrators, not in an
Eisenhower effort to ‘gouge the little man’ for the benefit
of the ‘special interests.’
But now that Seaton plans to try to break the Chapman-
Reynolds contract and raise the company’s rates, the lib
erals maintain that he is engaging in ‘political reprisal.’
They blame him now after criticising him for failing to
include Reynolds in his earlier demand for a general in
crease. i ' ‘ i
The Reynolds people, according to this accusation, are
being ‘punished’ because they contributed $41,520 to Demo-
ocratic candidates in the recent election, while giving no
thing to the Republicans. By contrast, the Mellons gave $99,-
150 to the GOP, and not a cent to the Democrats.
‘The Mellons’, said a recent article in ‘Labor, the railroad
union’s New Dealish newspaper, ‘have always had a huge
advantage in fantastically cheap power from the Niagara
river. No one can compete with them in the aluminum in
dustry without cheap power.
‘Seaton’s move to raise the "rates paid by Reynolds ob-
vously would handicap Reynolds and help the Mellons. Is
it any wonder that some observers ask whether a Republi
can administration is using Seaton to punish a big giver
to the Democrats, and to reward a still bigger giver to the
Republicans?’
The plain fact is that Presdent Eisenhower feels the
rates fixed by the Truman-Ickes-Chapman public power
group are so i w as to be ‘unrealistic and uneconomic.’ They
were kept cheap, in his opinion, for political reasons, not
only in the Southwest, but also in other areas. It was a
means of making good will at the general expense of the
taxpayers.
In fact, Eisenhower Ip pt August vetoed a bill which would
have frozen current Sn + iwest Power Administration rates
until next June 30. L a.s memo, the President said the
moratorium would h.p leant a loss of $2,167,000 in one
year. SPA’s power cha .s, he added, do not even pay the
interest on construct * costs of hydroelectric facilities.
The bureaucrats ri n ..ne government. When we protest
against any plan or i am or course of action we arouse
our Congressmen, pc . s, but usually the whole thing is
part of a general pr # un authorized by Congress. Now
when it comes to pur: g all this into effect the fine plans
are prepared and carrle 1 out by the bureaucrats, the per
manent staff, who i • liy operate behind the scenes and
don’t know or care what; yve think or want or don’t want.
We are about as thoroughly hamstrung by our Washington
bureaucrats as the Russians are by.the Soviet bosses.
U. S. average are grown at “Tibaitata,” 1,500 acre experimental
farm run by Rockefeller Foundation near Bogota, Colombia.
C AN President Eisenhower re
make the Republican party
unto his own image and likeness?
He is going to try and believes
he has made much progress in
the four years he has been in
office.
But the American electorate
obviously did not believe so, judg
ing by the amazing election re
sults which for the first time in
the history of the nation, a Presi
dent running on his own record,
a popular national hero, was re
elected by a smashing nine mil
lion majority and yet failed to
carry Congress with him. As a
matter of fact this year’s election
was the second time this popular
President failed to persuade the
American people to give him a
Congress 'controlled by his own
party, for in 1954 President Eisen
hower campaigned for the elec
tion of a Republican Congress,
but failed to carry a majority in
on his coat tails.
This is not the first time Presi
dents have been faced with a Con
gress of opposite political faith,
either wholly or in one of the
Houses—either the House or Sen
ate. It has happened nine times—
with Grant, Hayes. Arthur, Cleve
land, Harrison, Taft, Wilson,
Hoover and Truman, all of whom
lost control of Congress at the
congressional elections in their
mid-terms.
And it has been 108 years since
a winning President, has failed to
take with him a congress con
trolled by his own party. This was
in 1848, when another war hero.
General Zachary Taylor, hero of
the Mexican war, was elected as
a Whig, but found a Democratic
Congress on Capitol Hill. It was
only a few years until the Whig
party passed o\it of existence and
the Republican party took its
place.
The affection of the voters for
President Eisenhower as a “Peace
and Prosperity” president was not
enough to extend even to some of
his closest friends, such as former
Governor Eanglie of Washington,
keynoter at the GOP convention.
Governor Dan Thornton in Colo
rado, Duff of Pennsylvania and
former Secretary of the Interior
Douglas McKay of Oregon, all de
feated by Democrats for the Sen
ate.
Then how did the President
amass that record breaking vote?
Here are some of the reasons: He
drew several million votes from
Negro citizens, who pulled out of
the Democratic party over the
civil rights and segregation issues.
But they were largely confined to
Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania,
Indiana, Ohio and California,
which he would have carried any
way. The negro vote merely added
to his majority. He polled a huge
ethnic origin vote on the issue of
peace in these same states. And
throughout the south other negroes
voted Republican for the first
time, added to the growing Repub
lican vote in the south sufficiently
to carry such states as Florida,
Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Oklahoma and Virginia and oth
ers.
THREE DOUBLES . . . Three pairs of twins arrived in one day
to set record at Beverley Community Hospital in Montebello, Cali
fornia.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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5 Fleeced
10 Dog
14 Word of
sorrow
15 Indian boat
16 Italian
coin (pi.)
17 Remainder
18 Century
plant
19 Persia \
20 Country
22 Dregs
24 Child for
“mother”
25 Symbol for
tellurium
26 Part of foot
ball shoo (pL)
30 Bribe
33 Narrow
opening
37 To warm
38 Musical
instrument
40 To anger
41 Alleviate
42 Wrath
43 Wan
44 An enzyme
45 To frighten
46 River of
Siberia
47 Narrate
49 Combining
form: feast
day
50 Fragments
52 Cooled lava
54 Correlative
of either
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61 Steps over
fence
65 Overhanging
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66 The same
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68 Dreadful
69 Level
70 Africarf
antelope
71 Bite off
little by
little
72 Saucy
73 Leases
74 Elongated
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4 Rate
5 Read
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woman
7 Tlerra del
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Indians
8 To wander
9 Require
10 Regions
11 Employ
12 Algerian
seaport
13-Departed
21 Cereal grain
23 Pronoun
26 To swindle
27 Rent
28 Artist’s
stand
29 Involuntary
musole
contraction
30 Icelandic
tales
31 Extraor
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32 Small open
ings in skin
34 Climbing
plant
35 Lowest deck
of vessel
36 Certain age
group
39 Peruvian
Indian
43 A hodgepodge
48 Dormant
51 Small bed
53 By
55 Look slyly
56 To wash
57 To state
58 German rivei
59 To annoy
60 Musial’s
nickname
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turf
62 Cover inner
surface of
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HOMEWARD BOUND . . . British soldiers of Royal West Kent
Regiment wave farewell as they board troopship at Port Said
In evacuation of Suez Canal sone.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1956
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From the Houston Herald,
Dothan, Alabama: The recent
election was no victory for the Re
publicans. It was a victory for IKE
and the Democrats. And more and
more people are beginning to see
something this newspaper pro
pounded many months ago. That is,
IKE is no politician—not a Demo
crat—not a Republican—not an In
dependent. He is simply an Ameri
can. And had the Democratic par
ty been on the rocks—like the Re
publican party was four years ago
—Ike would have accepted the
Democratic nomination without
hesitation. He is a firm believer
in the two party system—and in
order to have two parties—it is
necessary for the two major par
ties to be in balance. Four years
ago the imbalance between the
Democrats and Republicans was
noticeable to everyone. And
alarming to most.
This is changed today—although
there is a noticeable gap still to
be reckoned with between the par
ties. However, merely to give
strength to the Republican party
was not IKE’S goal He saw the
many shortcomings, politically
speaking, of the Republicans. He
has done away with its narrow
minded, conservative views on
foreign policy. He has infused it
with “Americanism^ when it
comes to domestic policies. And
though it still bears the “Taint”
of friend of big business when it
comes to shaping the economics
of the nation, this no longer is a
major issue. IKE has had to turn
to {he liberals of both parties in
order to put his program across.
And this factor, more than all
others, was instrumental in IKE
having a majority of Democrats
in both houses of Congress.
The gap between liberal Demo
crats and liberal Republicans is
very slight Both wings recognize
the fact that prosperity, to have
any meaning at «li ( must encom
pass all Americans. And both big
business and the American people
are' becoming more and more *
aware of the fact that prosperity
is directly related to them. Big
business cannot be prosperous if
the people are in want And more
or less, vice-versa.
Big business has fought prosper!*
ty for one major reason. Prosperi
ty lets people assert their inde
pendence. A man with a good job
and a little money in the bank—
is freer than a man in debt—and
beholden to his epaployer for Job-
security. Worker independence and
general prosperity does work
hardships of a kind on a few of
our people. It means that the rich
find if hard to get their grass cut
Q—Does the flag fly over the White House when the President is away?
A—That heretofore been a hard-fast rule, even if the President is
gone overnight. However President Eisenhower has been absent
from the White House so much of the time, the rule apparently
has been abandoned, for it files everyday, even though ttie Presi
dent is away.
Q—Did the electoral college ever vote unanimously for a President?
A—Yes. Washington, the first President received the unanimous vote.
In 1820 one delegate voted against President Monroe. Since that
time, the vote has been split more along party lines, representing
winning state delegations to the college.
Q—Whom would the President notify if he should submit his resigna
tion?
A—The Secretary of State.
Q—Under what circumstances may the President call a special session
of Congress?
A—Under the Constitution (Art. H, Sec. 3) the President may convene
Congress, or either House “cm extraordinary occasions.”
A—No. The constitution empowers the President to adjourn Congress
“at such time as he may think proper” when the House and Senate
disagree with respect to time of adjournment
Q—Has a Vice President ever refused to meet with the Cabinet?
A—Vice-President q. Dawes declined to sit with the cabined
although he was invited by President Codlidge to participate la
cabinet meetings.
TELL US VO UR
PROBLEFT,
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BY JOHN ond
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STRICKLAND
P ERRY WESTLAKE. 6096 Cen
tre Avenue, Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania, says there was a time
after fifteen years of a happy home
life that everything seemed
changed. He became dissatisfied
with liis wife, the children were
ornery, and he awoke eVery morn
ing to find himself in a disgrun
tled mood, spent toe day acting
pretty much as a confirmed
“Grouch”, and came home in a
mood that spoiled the dinner hour
for the entire family.
Well, that's a good deal of re
sponsibility to lay on one's own
shoulders, and only a very gener
ous type of man would take so
much blame.
What happened when he began
blaming himself? Why things
changed, of course. Acknowledg
ing that toe fault lay with him, he
set about to correct it.
Maybe it was physical l So he .
began a course of dieting, eating
a lot of fruits' and vegetables
(toe very things he had always
avoided). Next, he dug out a rake
and hoe from where they had been
in disuse all winter and began
working an hour every evening
after Tie came home from his sit
ting down job. In a week he felt
much better physically; In two
weeks he had stopped grouching.
In three weeks he and his family
were back to a happy home life.
And that’s one very simple way
of solving a problem that if al
lowed to continue and grow could
wreck the life not only of the chief
protagonist but of others near
and dear to him.
YOUNG CHAMP . . . NEW
York’s Floyd Patterson, 21,
knocked out Archie Moore, 39, in
5th round of Chicago fcput to be
come youngest world's heavy
weight champion.
This an' That
The first Brooklyn Dodger to
ink a contract for the next base
ball season was toe ever-popnlar
Pee Wee Reese, who signed for a
figure estimated at close to $46,000.
The oldest player in the National
League in point of service (since
ageless Enos Slaughter trans
ferred to the American League)
Pee Wee had one of his best years
in 1956, despite a spring training
back injury which hampered him
considerably at the start of the
season. The 38-year-old Reese has
been with the Dodgers for 14 sea
sons, not counting three years
sprat in military service • • •
Charles Peete, the Omaha Cardi
nals baseball player killed in a
Venezuelan plane crash, was set
for a major league chance next
year. Peete was the Triple-A
American Association batting
champion last year with a .350
batting average. He had been
placed on the spring training ros
ter by the parent St. Louis Car
dinals and was on his way to join
the Valencia Club in Venesuela
. . . Navy has announced its 1957
football schedule, and four new
teams appear on the slate. They
are North Carolina, California,
Georgia and George Washington.
They replace Cornell. Tnlane, Cin
cinnati and Virginia. •