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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1957
1218 College Street
NEWBERRY. S. C.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner
There is a hymn I find in the Episcopal hymnal
“God bless our native land;
Firm may she ever stand
Through storm and night;
When the wild tempests rave,
Ruler of wind and wave,
Do thou our country save
By thy great might.
For her our prayers shall rise
To God, above the skies;
On him we wait;
Thou who are ever nigh,
guarding with watchful eye,
To thee aloud we cry,
God save the state!”
Yea, verily, God save the State.
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When I was at Washington and Lee I had a class-mate
of oratorical moods and style. He delighted in repeating
the closing words of a political orator of his native Florida.
Said that orator, in perfervid exclamation: “If that be jus
tice God save the Commonweath.”
I today make that my lament when I take note of what
is going on.
You have been reading of that young spldier Girard, who*
is to be tried by a Japanese court. I do not know the sol
dier; and I may not be informed fully, but certain facts
stand out clearly. That young man was in service; he was
on a military reservation; he shot a woman who was on
the reservation.
I do not express an opinion on the rightness of the
shooting; nor do I presume to say that it should escape
thorough investigation and, possibly, severe punishment.
What I do wonder about is this: it seems that our Presi
dent made a sort of gentlemen’s agreement that Americans
might be tried in Japanese Courts. If the soldier had
committed a crime in the streets of a city, outside of a
military reservation, that might be a horse of another
color.
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Now as to the so-called Executive Agreement, let’s see
about that.
The Constitution of the United States says this: “He (the
President) shall have power by and with the advice and con
sent of the Senate to make treaties, provided two-thirds of
'Private Enterprise' and Venture Capital'
Entered as second-class matter December 6, 1937
at the Postuffice at Newberry, South Carolina, under
the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
We have inherited a great land; those fervent, sturdy
men and women of the pioneering days made a wonderful
nation. By^ the way, we must not think they merely took
what was lying at their feet, riches untold, just for the
taking. It is quite possible that Brazil may have greater
stores of undeveloped wealth than those which greeted the
hardy sons of early days, whose intrepid spirits blazed
trails into the unknown regions.
The greatest contribution of the first settlers was to
build a land of freedom. And we, their sons, have become
fat and slothful, rejoicing in plenty and indifferent to ideals
of liberty.
I have before me a fine letter from Mr. Albert Watson of
Columbia. Let me quote the letter; it breathes the spirit
of liberty.
“The right to a jury trial in any matter which could con
ceivably find a citizen deprived of liberty and thrown into
prison as a common criminal has always been laid up in my
mind and philosophy among the sacred fundamentals of
the law and our heritage. Nearly eight hundred years ago,
deep in the roots of democracy, the Magna Carta (Article
39) provided that no free man should be deprived of life or
liberty (‘nor will we go upon him nor send upon him’)
without a trial by his peers. This principle was preserved
in the spirit of our Constitution; watered in the blood of
patriots; fed in the soil of freedom, and handed down to
us as a sacred trust. Have we fertilized the field of demo
cracy in vain in the blood of our patriots to now suffer their
dessecration at the hands of a monkey-see-monkey-db Con
gress?
First, in recent years we found the bureaucrats of the
Executive branch, and caught them red-handed, monkey
ing and tampering with our States’ rights, steathily slip
ping them away under bur very noses, amending the Consti
tution by regulation and executive order. Theh, the Su
preme Court got into the act, amending the Constitution
by interpretation, recklessly disregarding precept as well as
precedent by the 1954 debacle, and now, the Congress joins
the festivities, amending the. Constitution freely by legisla
tion. Who will bell the cat; bridle the court; challenge the
bureaucrats; stop the Congress? All are fairly drunk in
their own gluttenous power, enlarged and bloated beyond
recognition to the fearful apprehension and indignation of
all true disciples of freedom and liberty. Where will it end?”
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the Senators present concur.” There must be a quorum,
of course; so this means at least two-thirds of a quorum.
All negotiations between nations are for the making of a
treaty or treaties. There is no authority conferred on the
President to make “agreements” unless the matter be sub
mitted to the Senate and formalized concurrence into a
treaty.
Although the Supreme # Court of the United States does
not agree with that statement, the difference is not between
a small potato like me and the august Court; it is, rather,
the failure of the Court to apply the law, as it is plainly
set forth in the Constitution. Read Article 2, Section 2,
paragraph 2 of the Constitution.
Incidentally, the President is not the Commander in-Chief
of the Nation, as some seem to think, but of the Army and
Navy (and of, course the Marines and the Air Force).
Nor has the President any inherent Sovereign powers;
his powers are defined by the Constitution which itself is
a document of limited powers.
If I must make a case against the usurpation of power
by the Executive let me cite further that the President,
even as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy is more
or less the actual tactical officer of field stategy, more or
less, since the Constitution very impressively confers on the
Congress the power “to make rules for the government and
regulation of the land and naval forces. See Article 1, Sec
tion 8.
It may be timely to remind our people that Section 1 of
Article 1 of the Constitution says: “All legislative powers
herein granted shall be vested in a Congress”. Herein
granted; there are no inherent powers; no Sovereign pow-
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ers; the powers herein granted.
It is not for the Executive Department to assume powers
not literally (or by necessary implication) conferred; the
President is to be governed by the Constitution. So must the
Congress and the Courts. It is not the prerogative of the
Courts to construe or interpret or apply the Constitution
except as the Supreme Law requires.
It is worth every sacrifice to restore our government to a
Constitutional basis.
However noble, patriotic and idealistic a President may be
we find in the case oi Ir‘. Eisenhower that a good man may
do great harm and m. chief, on the advice of close asso
ciates.
Some political thinLcr has said that a bad King is good
for a Country if he is enough, meaning that his evil or
mischievous course wL stir up such opposition as will re
sult in wholesome chant '.
What about the supp.^ of oil? Last week I quoted an
authority on oil and the possible early depletion of our
supply unless we draw L cavily on the imports from other
countries, particularly the Near East.
Let’s consider the questmn a bit further:
“The fact is that oil is becoming increasingly difficult
to find in this country. The ratio of dry holes to the total
number of wells drilled has been rising, and because wells
must be drilled deeper, the cost of bringing in new reserves
is increasing. Moreover, experience indicates that the
prospects for discovering major new fields are not ehcour-
aging. The biggest field ever discovered in this country
was East Texas in 1930 with about 6 billion barrels. By
comparison, one of the largest new oil fields discovered in
the United States last year—the Aneth field in southeast
Utah—is estimated to have about 100 million barrels.
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Q—How can Congress curb the constitutional powers of the Supreme
Court?
A—Congress cannot pass a law taking away any constitutional
power of the Supreme Court However the Congress can offer
amendments to the Constitution, which of course must be rati
fied by two-thirds of the State legislatures before becoming effec
tive.
Q—Do you have any figures on the number of foreign cars sold in
the American market?
A—Percentage-wise foreign cars in April this year were sold to
approximately 2 per cent of the car buyers of the country. On
a basis of 5,500,000 cars sold in 1956 this would be about 110,000
cars, or about the same percentage of the market as American
Motors, or 1% more than Studebaker-Packard.
Q—Did Cengreas eliminate the cost-sharing features of the Agricul
tural Program for 1958?
A—No. Congress specifically wrote into the Act that the Department
of Agriculture was to make no changes te restrict eligibility
requirements or delete cost-sharing practices in the 1968 ACP.
Q—My hnsband, a World War II veteran, bought a house with a GI
loan. He died afterward from a service-connected condition. As
an un-remarried widow would I still be entitled to a GI loan
even though my hnsband used his benefit before his death?
A—Yes.
Q—What is Che cost of printing a $10,000 bin?
A—The Bureau of Printing ii Engraving says it is approximately .008
cent, the same as the cost of printing a $1 bill
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From the Canton Independent-
Sentinel, Canton. Penna.: Every
citizen should ask himself, from
time to time, where he is headed
gnd exactly what he is doing with
his life. We do not pose as one
who knows it all, or as a great
moralizer who can tell everyone
else how to live his life or her life.
On the other hand, we are ad
mittedly idealistic enough to feel
that the human race was put on
the earth for some purpose. And,
likewise, we believe mat every
citizen has an obligation to con
tribute something as he travels
the road of life.
In small towns, large towns and
in rural areas, there are many who
spend one hundred per cent of
their time seeking pleasure, self-
indulgence and self-entertainment.
Too often, money and a good time
are the only goals that amount to
much in the lives of many of us.
If you can show nothing for
your life, If you have dedicated it
to nothing in particular, and if
you have not sincerely tried to
leave just a little mark on your
commui^ity, to create just a little
good, to help your fellowmen in
some small way, then we suspect
that the life hereafter will be an
empty one. The happiest people
we have known, and the richest,
are those who have done some
thing for their fellowmen, and who
have stood for something in their
community.
We are here for a purpose and
we must answer the test and de
cide what we will do with our
lives.
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From the Page News and Cour
ier, Luray, Virginia: A lot of com
plaisant individuals in the U. S.
were set on their ears recently
when a top Russian official in a
TV interview said our grandchil
dren would enjoy the blessings of
socialism.
Instead of the Russians bring
ing us state socialism (commu
nism) it will come from within
our own country, if it comes. We
have already accepted the fore
runners of the socialist state—
government in many lines of busi
ness. Elected public officials are
seeking to extend its field of ac
tivity. They attack our capitalis
tic system (private enterprise) and
promise the people their God-giv
en rights under non-profit govern
ment enterprise. A lot of people
fall for that baloney and cast an
other vote for the promoters of
socialism.
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KEEPS TITLE . . . Heavyweight
boxing champion Floyd Patter
son, 22, (above) retained title
in first defense against Tommy
(Hurricane) Jackson, 25, by TKO
in 19tb round after knocking him
down in 1st, 2nd and 9th dounds.
This an # That
Maybe baseball could find the
secret to the problem of “stop
ping the Yankees'* if the game
! took np a draft system of the
type used by professional foot
ball. Such a prospect Isn't likely,
of coarse, bat baseball leagues
would certainly be better balanced
if the low-standing chibs could gist
first crack at the top talent avail
able ... A Colorado boy and a
Brooklyn girl won the 1957 juve
nile boys' and girls' figures titles
of the Amateur Roller-Skating
Championships at Oakland, Cali
fornia. Winners were Gary Wal
lace of Greely and Joy Guarner of
New York . . . Rafer Johnson,
United States decathlon champion
recently visited Yugoslavia where
he lectured to Belgrade ' high
school athletes and showed films
on decathlon training in the United
States . . . The 1958 major league .
all-star game will be played in
Baltimore's Memorial Stadium,
probably sa July 8. This will be
the 25th game in the All-Star se
ries which started in 1933 and will.
mark the first time that Balti
more has played host to the clas
sic.
Now contrast this situation with that in the Middle East.
It is estimated that the Persian Gulf area has about three
times as much oil as the rest of* the free world combined.
Despite this, however, to further diversify theirsources
of crude, American oil companies are pushing the search
for new fields into every part of the world. All in all, more
than 100 American operators are now involved in explora
tion or producing in more than thirty foreign countries.
'This global hunt for new petroleum reserves necessitates
a huge expenditure of time, manpower, and—most import
antly—money. Not only must the oil be found ahd produc
ed, there must be pipelines or tankers to transport it to es
tablished markets, and manufacturing facilities to process
it. During the past ten years the world petroleum industry
has invested more than $42 billion in the United States and
almost $20 billion abroad. These total capital expenditures
of $62 billion since 1946 are larger, by far, than the invest
ment program carried out by any industry other than pub
lic utilities.
If the worldwide demand for petroleum is to be met, it
now appears that the industry will be required to invest
another $60 billion—not during the next ten years—but
during the next five years, and nearly half of this must
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be invested abroad.
A N AURA of foreboding hangs
over Washington, the Feder
al City. The annual influx of visi
tors and tourists, particularly the
thousands of school children who
flock to the city just before the
summer vacation, take the sight
seeing tours and see the world’s
most beautiful city . . . snow
white, classic government build
ings, historic shrines, wide, clean
tree-lined streets, beautiful parks,
rank with flowers and blooming
shrubs, a kaleidoscope of color.
Thousands of convention visitors
—for Washington is today one of
the leading convention cities—vis
it the Halls of Congress, romance
over the beautiful embassies and
churches of all the denominations
of the world—the great Cathedrals
and institutions of learning; the
museums and aj*t galleries, the
maelstrom of people from every
nation and clime; hotels are full,
streets are full, traffic is terrific
. $ . all visitors.
- These people don’t see the real
Washington, the Citizens who live
here, have their homes and fam
ilies here, pay ^xes, pay the high
est prices, go to and from work
here, go to school here; they don’t
see the slums, the blighted areas,
the areas that are slowly but ir
revocably becoming new slums—
they don’t hear the muttering*,
the open rebellion, the clash of
opinions; they don’t see the
schools, vandalized, but integrated;
they don’t read the reports of
health-center clinics that there
have been 190 pregnancies among
teen-age girls from Sept 1956 to
April 1957; that 178 are among
negro girls, 12 among white and
that 129 of these were in junior
high schools, 53 in high schools.
and 8, in elementary schools.
They don’t see the worried looks
of home-owners as thousands
choose to sell their homes at bar
gain prices and move to the sub
urbs; the value of property in
these neighborhoods invariably
goes down and soon will be reflected
in the tax duplicates; they don’t
see the harassed City Commis
sioners, plagued by losses in tax
revenues and at the same time
the encroachments of the Feder
al government for. more serv
ices, building more buildings, tak
ing more property from the tax
rolls for which there is not ade
quate compensation in appropri
ations from the Congress.
For Washington is a city where
civil rights, about which there is
such a hullabaloo in the Congress
today, are unknown. It is a city
of “taxation without representa
tion,*' wholly at the mercy of a
transient Congress. Taxpayers
can’t vote here.
With population of the city prop
er, in the district of Columbia now
crowding the million mark, the
metropolitan area including the
adjacent communities in Virginia
and Maryland over 1,500,000, and
still growing. Sincere efforts to
eradicate slum areas under the
Urban Renewal Federal program
are hamstrung by Congress and a
multiple of governing bodies over
which the Board of Commissioners
have no control; Citizens watch
other areas dsy-by-day irrevoca
bly becoming more slum areas.
But all a visitor has to do is drive
out 13th street in Washington to
see it happening. For Sale signs
litter the once fashionable 18th St
and it will not be long until the
same pattern will show up there.
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BY JOHN ond JANE STRICKLAND
TODAY’S PROBLEM:
Which Way to Torn.
L yman edgerton, 3717 old
J Pali Road, Honolulu, T. H;.,
says he wasn’t really “brought
up,’’ he just grew. His parents
died when he was two years did
and he was sent to»live with rela
tives who had so "many children
of their own that little attention
was paid to him.' In due time he
went to school But no one had
given thought to his personal ap
pearance and the teacher would
send him out to wash his face
and hands as soon as school as
sembled. He didn't mind that; it
gave him a chance to stay out of
doors a little longer. But there
were other evidences that he did
not have the care at home that
the other children did. He learned,
by and by, tc take care of many
of the problems himself, but even
when he had reached the age of
seventeen he still was not a well
groomed lad. The girls would
have nothing to do with him, wifi:
the exception of one kind hearted
lass. So he promptly fell love
with her. A year or so later, he
told her about it She repulsed
him. “I wanted to help you," she
told him. “but I am not in love
with you; there’s somebody else
I like better."
iTiis hurt his pride terribly.
Crushed, he answered that he
supposed no girl ever would love
him. Then this kindly girl told
him she thought that would be the
case if ha didfi’t look after him
self better. That was a surprise
to him, but he knew it must be
true. However, he didn't know how
to improve himself. His relatives
never thought much of one's ap
pearance.
But it set him to thinking, and
to acting. He went to his Sunday
School teacher with his problem.'
and this teacher gave him just the
advice he needed. Also he took an
interest in Lyzxlan in other partic
ulars. “You’ll never get any
where," said he. “unless you make
a good impression.” Lyman lis
tened, and Lyman reacted to the
advice. Now, the teacher became
truly interested; took Lyman in
hand. Within a couple of years
Lyman had so improved that the.
teacher recommended him to a
college in the United States that
had a few scholarships to give
away. Lyman was awarded one,
and in addition given a job that
would enable him to buy the neces
sities.
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Stonehenge, prise British White bull, at royal agricultural show
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sise 16 feet of PFC John Amp of Trenton, N. J. John's been
wearing sandals because army shoes stop at sise 14.
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