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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN Utt \ » 1218 Street NEWBERRY, S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F.. Armfield, Jr., Owner Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937 at 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 By SPECTATOR Government by injunction should not be tolerated in America except in a few instances. The Tennessee Judge who is trying to throw an injunction around a vast area is clearly in error. Incidentally someone has inquired whether it is a requisite that a Judge should be a lawyer. So far as I know President Eisenhower could appoint to the bench, even to the Supreme bench, a man of no knowledge of law—and he may have done so, following in the footsteps of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. • ' The Supreme Court of today does not command the re spect of lawyers or clients, or people, generally. As the Texas Federal Judge said recently, the Supreme Court did not base its anti-segregation edict on law; it cited a lot of crackpot and addle-pated conclusions of a few muddle-head ed theorists as the authority for its decision, and disre garded all the law of the land, as established more than fifty years. It is becoming desirable that we formulate rules for the guidance and governance of the Federal Supreme Court. The Supreme Court was created by the Constitution which provides: “Judicial power—tenure—compensation. The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensationf which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office. 2. (1) Judicial power—to what cases it extends. The judi cial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity, aris ing under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority: to all cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls; to all cases of Admiralty and Mari time Jurisdiction; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States; between a State and citizens of another State; between citizens of different States; between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State, or the citizens thereof, and foreign States, citizens or subjects. (2) Original jurisdiction of Supreme Court—appellate. In all cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make. (3) Trial by jury, except, etc.—trial, where. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the State whjere the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not com mitted within any State, the trial shall be at such place or plapes as the Congress may by law have directed.’ Observe that the Constitution has not been amended with regard to the sections I have cited and quoted. Nothing is said about the qualifications necessary to pre pare a man to sit on the bench* Of course it was assumed by the eminent lawyers who prepared the Constitution that only lawyers would be appointed; and, beyond a doubt, they were confident that only lawyers in fact, men who had won their spurs, as lawyers who practiced law in the full glare of sterm trial judges, and knew law by actual court experiences, that only such men would be called to the bench. I think some Federal courts (outside of South Caro lina, of course) have men on the bench who are eligible, but not qualified. As Senator Tillman is reputed to have said to a candidate who remarked that he was qualified for an office, “You are eligible, according to the rules but only God can qualify you/ ARE YOU A 'WACKY WALKER" TME S’ORT WttO CROVSBS A BUSY CTREET BETJ/ES* INTEKS'ECTfcOVS SPECIALLY WrtfeN YOOfc ARE vuu. op ■Bundles,a*/d rr IS A RAINY,SLIPPED DW ■ GBgi *2* Injunctions are only for such emergencies of immediate nature as affect individual rights—to prevent irreparable harm while a matter is before the courts, or to be brought to the courts at once. r ■ ‘ " We Americans are letting the Federal Government run over us; it is not peculiarly a southern matter; it is of the gravest importance that we rebuke the arrogance of the courts and that we put the courts back to the line where they belong. The saddest part of our present difficulty is the absence of men of such stature who could compel attention by their knowledge of law; their zeal and resourcefulness in leader ship; and their unsewerving devotion to Constitutional government and the maintenance of individual liberty. “Since the fleeting spirit of Geneva died, the wistful idea of cutting back military manpower has faded away. Rou tine expenses, such as pay and living allowances for 2,800,- 000 men and allotments to their dependents, climb remorse lessly. More important, price tags constantly increase on the new and improved weapons necessary for survival in a Buck Rogers age. Each supersonic B-58 will cost far more than the obsolescent B-47, each nuclear submarine twice as much as its oil-propelled predecessor. Even more stag gering is the financial burden of hatching such war birds of tomorrow as guided missiles. Whatever the success of Secretary Wilson’s efforts to end costly inter-service rival ries, the annual Air Force outlay for. its Atlas, Thor and other pilotless craft already tops a billion dollars, and is heading ever higher. Next fiscal year the winged service will need, for this and other projects, some $3 billion more than its current allotment. Since the Army and Navy have not abandoned their struggle for a bigger share in defense, aggretate Pentagon spending in fiscal 1958 may rise by some 12 per cent, to more than $40 billion. Foreign mili tary aid and the Atomic Energy Commission’s defense dis bursements will add another $5 billion. Clearly, the only possible offset is a tightened grip on the civilian purse strings. America’s resources in money, ma- terals and manpower, after all, are not unlimited. Even today a prosperous U. S. is facing bottlenecks—in dollars, in cement, steel, nickel, and in labor. Next year, barring in flation, the Gross National Product may be expected at best to increase by 3 per cent, or $13 billion. The projected rise in military costs would eat up one-third of that in crease, and the normal growth of consumption the rest. Without new taxes on the consumer, then, there is no lee way at all for non-essential civilian spending. UndismayeJ by such things in the same old brought no momentous the Administration perri atop those it presented t call for resolute effor In a dangrous age, the and, if possible, augm . logic, Washington continues doing way, as though recent weeks had changes. In seeming complacency, :cs in piling new domestic measures Congress last year. Yet the times - > prune every deferrable expense, r ation’s first duty is to preserve t its strength. Surely the watch- IS V0UR BLERl OH TOJICIF OTHERS M IOLVMC THEWS. and JANE STRICKLAND' The Congress should lay down strict rules for the Court. You took not that the Supreme Court has. appellate juris diction except in cases affecting Ambassadors etc. Appellate means to hear the case on appeal and to sustain or reverse the decision of the inferior court according to the law of the land. Under the Supreme law creating the Supreme Court that court has no authority for exploring social theo ries; or indulging in fishing expeditions throughout the intellectual vegaries of the world. It is supposed to ad here strictly to the recognized law of the land. % As to injunctions: the courts claim certain powers as in herent; but there are no such powers when the Constitu tion prescribes the course of action. “The trial of all crimes . . . shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes have been committed . ..” L awrence peter so* was f called to the Boss’s oHce in a large oil company one d-iy and told that he was fired f >m the job he had worked so har- 1 to pro cure and afterward to h d. One of the executives wanted his son in that position, and L wrence was to be sent to a subsidiary company in the West where there was, however, little chance for advancement. He was $o heartbroken that he couldn’t even talk about his demo tion. He left the office with his head down. The hardest thing of all was to tell his wife. She had made a place for herself and their children in the town where they lived, and they all were very hap py there. He didn’t have the cour age to tell his wife that night, nor the next. But on the third night, he telephoned his wife that he would be late and walked for an hour around the town, trying to talk with the friends he met as if there were no news whatever about his affairs. An hour later he went home. His wife greeted him with a smile and the news that it was a bang-up dinner for to night. He smiled to show that he was pleased, went out and worked in the garden until he was called to dinner. As he had worked, he had thought: it had to be faced so he would get it over 'with as soon as possible. After dinner he helped his wife with the dishes. Then, the chil dren having gone to bed, he broke the news of the disaster. How did hia wife receive the heart-breaking news? “I’ve just been worrying about the high school here,” she told him, “and 'since we are going to be near a big city in our new home, I won’t have to be con cerned about that, anymore. The children will be able to get a much better education there than here.” “But your friends?” he replied. “You’ve made so many here.” “People are the same every where; we will have friends there, too.” And he had spent a miserable 48 hours worrying over something that did not happen. i n c t o n When was the corner-stone of the Capitol Building laid and when was the building completed? The cornerstone was laid on Sept. 18, 1793 for the first building, or central section. A southern section, now occupied by Statutory Hall was completed in 1807. The North wing was finished in 1800 and the south wing in 1811, with a wooden passageway connecting the two buildings. The interior of both buildings were bum ad by the British on August 24, 1814. Work of reconstruction was begun immediately and restoration was completed in 1829. During the work of restoration Congress met in Blodgett's hotel at 7th and Easts for its first session after the fire, and in a new building erected for the purpose on the site of the present Supreme Court Building, and remained there until 1819. The buildings of the Pres ent House and Senate wings were started kx 1851. The House chamber was occupied in 1857 and the Senate in 1859. Then the construction of a new dome was started, the old dome having been wooden, covered with copper. The dome was completed in 1865, and is of cast iron. So from the cornerstone-laying until the build ing was finally completed took 72 years. The building has a floor area of 14 acres. It has been remodeled and modernized from time to time since its completion, the first major alterations in 90 years, however were in the Senate and House chambers during the period 1949 to 1951. In 1956 legislation was passed for extension, reconstruction and replacement of the east central portion of die original building. An initial appropria tion of $5,000,000 was made available for the project and prelimi nary studies are now in progress. 0—I have a Korean GI term insurance policy. Will I get a yearly dividend, the same as my brother who is a World War II veteran? A—No. Your Korean GI insurance is nonparticipating. It does not pay dividends. However premiums on this type of insurance gen erally are lower than world War n GI premiums. cross A ideas from other editors From the Union Times, Junction City, Arkansas: Last week in the news columns of The Times, we reported a local rumpus in a Junction City home caused by the husband’s failure to remove his shoes before removing his pants. His wife objected to this proced ure, on the grounds that it created an unnecessary cleaning or laund ering problem. This started the row. We sympathize with the wife realizing full well the difficulties of laundering, even with modem appliances, when added to normal home cleaning, cooking, sewing and other activities. However, there is a matter of principle involved which is im portant not only in Junction City but throughout the United States, or perhaps in all nations of the world in these troubled times. It is the principle of individual liber ty. In defense of which our fore fathers battled the wilderness, wild animals, Indians, cold, hung er and privation as they fought their way to Arkansas and Louisi ana to clear land and carve out homesteads in this wonderful land. Today there is precious little in- dividaul liberty left to a man. The various governments, state, federal and local, have gradually taken control of his business, his labor, his income and other phases of his life, so that today the only two areas remaining fairly free are home and Church. And we feel that every man should draw the battle line here, prepared to fight to the bitter end for his last re maining shred of individual free dom. It matters not v/hether it is con trol of his manner of removing pants, or some other seemingly trival matter, the important point is that at some stage of enslave ment a man must turn and fight back. Cowards may disagree, but wher$ a spark of courage remains men know it is better to die on their feet than to live on their knees. So, men, let us draw the battle line here and now. And let the chips fall where they may! • • • • • From the Chtchawha Star, Chi- ckulut, Oklahoma: Publishing a great home-owned newspaper like the Chickasha Star is no picnic. If we print jokes, people say we’re silly. If we don’t they say we’re to serious. If we stick to the office all day, we ought to be out hunt ing stories and revenue. It we go out and try to hustle, there are those who say we’re never in when they try to reach us. If we don’t accept contributions, we don’t appreciate genius. If we print them the paper’s full of junk. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Young horse 5 Ocean shore line 10 Angers 14 Tune 15 Command 16 Kind of tide 17 To lease 18 Din 19 Container for flowers 20 Folds 22 Pottered fruitlessly 24 Regretted 26 Summer drinks 27 Fabulous bird 30 Kind of cheese 32 Bird dog 36 Entire 37 Levels 39 Depart . • 40 Blood vessel 42 Public store house 44 Colorless 45 Overhanging roof edges 47 Mine escava- tion 49 Kind of fish 50 Moves tir- tively 52 Period of time (pi.) 53 Seine 54 Indian tent (var.) 56 Melody 58 Avoiding 62 Dormice 66 Wan 67 Lift 69 Unruly outbreak 70 God of war 71 Bar of cast metal 72 Italian com mime 73 Headland 74 Tries out 75 Profound DOWN 1 Fish 2 Russian city 3 Cord 4 Mongol 5 Husband 6 Gold in South American countries 7 Mine entrance 8 Genus of clearwing moths 9 Inclinations 10 Laid out money to se cure an income 11 Raise 12 Alleviate 13 Went fast 21 Tunnel for underground railroad PUZZLE Ne. 488 23 Part of ship 25 Follows eat ing regimen 27 Rants 28 City in New York 29 British gen eral and statesman 31 Growing out 33 European siskin 34 Elude 35 Wager again 38 Frolic 41 Tidiness 43 Shoulder ornaments 46 Epidermis 48 Anglo-Saxon slave 51 Ardor 55 Fatuous 57 Made mistake 53 Reach across 59 Rabbit 60 Trees yield- 61 ing caucho SWi ps boat (pL) 63 River of France 64 To carry 65 Walk 68 Dunkard Answer to Pnssle Ne. 487 rr nnno CK1DG word today should be: “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute’—either to pressure groups or to political shibboleths.” THURSDAY, J, 10 — C ommercial com, producers in their nation-wide referenda last Dec. 11 decided one basic is sue . . . they would prefer to leave the corn price support policy in the hands of Congress than to give Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson full power to fix com prices. Although a majority of these com growers favored the Benson plan, the two-third vote necessary to put it over failed to material ize. Thus com remains a “basic commodity” and it now remains to be seen what Congress will do in the matter of increasing allot ments over the base "acreage as set out in the Benson plan. Ac cording to farm leaders in Wash ington, promises have been made by members of the Senate Agri cultural Committee to boost these allotments and to fix a price around $1.36 per bushel for the 1957 crop. • * » The Federal Reserve Board haa reported that debts of farmers has jumped about 6% from mid-1955 to June 30, 1956, to ; a whopping $18% billion. This is* more than double the total farm debt in 1947 when the last survey was made, and is in spite of the fact there are 20 per cent less farmers today than in 1947. The board fixed or estimated total farm assets at $176 billion, and said that aver age interest rfttes paid were 6.4% on loans not secured by real estate and 5.4% on real estate-secured mortgages. Who wins on the increase in % interest rates on home mort gages? The Administration or dered a boost of %% in FHA mortgage rates bringing it up to 5% in arr effort to or in other words to home building. Buildei interest rate is need* more building since bs loan money for the But moffe building woi inflation. But if monej at the 5% rate it wc boost of about $1,000 $10,000 30 year FHA' also is inflation. But ^ boost bring more me FHA home mortgage the answer is that ance and other 1c tions can get rates higher thi economists say rates simply more com; amount of loi would boost and add to the The banks Associations thorized to on savings, will also seel on loans and There is a wpy to boost the loan rate on GI Congress and the ers Association gress to let est rates be rigid controls to economic levc Life Assure the Bigs on gage financing, rate will not attri for home long run, only the the home- ers lose, and flationary spiral — HUNGARIANS STRIKE . . . Budapest closed street car station in protest leaders by Soviet puppet premier Janos — a Vice of-staff Gen. Nathan Twining Aircraft Co. with twin Col 1<Aa MW; • m — u This cm' That Chuck Moser, coach of the de fending Texas schoolboy football champion Abilene, who refused to be considered for the post of head coach at the University of Mia- ouri, has a consecutive victory streak of 36 games with the Texas high school team . . . National Champion Shirley June Fry holds the No. 1 ranking in the American women’s tennis for 1956* with Al thea Gibson ranked second. The two players dominated American and International women’s tennis to the extent that there was little stiff competition for them—but it , was Miss Fry, from Akrin, Ohio who won the big ones ... Heavy weight Champion Floyd Patterson hopes to make an exhibition tour of Europe in February. Patter son’s manager, Gus D’ said he also Is interested in ing propositions from Latin lean entrepreneurs . .. One of the side trips for the Reee Bend teams of Iowa and Oregon Stele wee’a GRID ACE by the Batttanere Orioles.