Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Strom j Iurmond South Wins Hard Jury Trial Fight After four weeks of debate on the so-called civil rights bill, the South has won a hard-fought battle on the issue of trial by jury when a person is charged with criminal contempt of a court order involving a violation of a person’s right to vote. The vote on this vital issue came early Friday morn ing—about 15 minutes after midnight Thursday—in an at mosphere of tense expectancy. Twelve Republicans joined 39 Democrats for a total of 51 votes in favor of trial by jury. Nine Democrats joined 33 Republicans for a total of 42 votes against the right of trial by jury. The vacancy in the Senate created by the death of Sena tor McCarthy meant that a total of 95 votes could have been cast. Actually, 93 Senators voted, the two not voting being Senator Neeley of West Virginia, a Democrat, and Senator Bridges of New Hampshire, a Republican. Russell’s Experience, Skill Invaluable Foremost among the Senators who have debated so skill fully during the fight over the so-called civil rights bill is, of course, Senator Russell of Georgia. He has been the leader of plans and strategy of our group of Southerners who have battled at every turn of the legislative wheel. His previous experience in similar situations and his unexcelled knowledge of parliamentary procedure and the rules of the Senate have been invaluable to all of us. In describing the bill in the Senate, Senator Russell de clared :| “The bill has, perhaps, more multifarious and far-reach ing provisions of a strange nature, unknown ordinarily to the American system of laws, than has any other bill that has ever been brought before the Senate. Its provisions were shrouded in secrecy. Members of the Senate, very frankly, do not now understand the detailed powers confer red by the bill. “Only today,’ Senator Russell continued, “I developed in the course of my study, one new aspect of Part IV which has not come to my attention after the most exhaustive previous fitudy.” Those are strong words of Senator Russell condemning the bill for its deviousness and for its far-reaching effects. Senators Engage In Friendly Questioning Another of the most active members of the Senate against the bill has been Senator Ervin of North Carolina. During my address on Wednesday against the bill, Senator Ervin engaged in asking me a series of questions to point up the dangers of the measure. One of his questions was: “In the judgment of the Senator from South Carolina, will not the constitutional liberty of Americans die at the precise moment when Congress passes a law which will en able a judge to prevent a jury from acquitting a defendant in any kind of case?” And my answer was “I am certainly of that opinion . . . The right to trial by jury is one of the great bulwarks of the democracy of this Nation. The right to trial by jury is guaranteed in the Constitution. It is further assured in the Bill of Rights. It is a right which every American has heretofore held, and to which he is entitled. It would be a sad day in this country if that right were to be taken away from American citizens.” “Mortgage On Freedom” At the beginning of my address, I stated that denial^ of the right of trial by jury in election cases “would place a mortgage on the freedom of every citizen, marked payable on demand at election time to the Attorney General of the United States.” The friendly questions asked of me by Senators Ervin, Sparkman, Talmadge, Smathers, Gore and Yarborough all helped to bring out points of importance against the so-call ed civil rights bill. All of these men have helped make it possible for the. country to receive a full description of the bill’s dangers. Southerners Effective In Debate Senators who have scored very effectively in the de bate, in addition to those I have just mentioned, include Senators Byrd, Hill, McClellan, and Stennis. In many ways and at all hours of the day and night, all of these men, an<5 others too, have devoted themselves to a searching analysis of the bill. I wish it were possible to describe all the work which has gone into the battle against this ball, but space will not permit. vot/e to) 1. Elutriate means (a) refer to; (b) fj tor waafain*. Z. A falchion Is (a) a support; (b) a bird; (e) a sword. S. Scansorlal means (a) adapted to dbnbinff; (b) to) leading to ANSWERS ‘SvMvn* •» *•*«**▼ ** *! XO Xjuaj *1 MILK FLOWN Into the Lampasas, Texas, disaster area in the wake of a flash flood is distributed to children by Lampasas County Civil Defense Chair man Joe Bozarth. The milk was the .first in Lam pasas in three days. Bozarth and many others were trapoed downtown during’ the flood. (FCDA Photo) IpL , m - , ■ • m 4t : V ' # S ] | ill ■ i <;• S. S >. I it k i isf i 11 # r i i i Pill * I * - ' : ' ■: V S'? .... iKv... *'*■■■ • I Wmm mm- ^ If •? * : , >■■■■ mmm BARRISTERS ALL . . . U. S. Chief Justice Earl Warren (standing, left) addresses ft,AM delegates to American Bar Assn, convention in Westminster Hall, London. British Lord Chancellor Kllwinfe delivered welcoming address. ASK SELF-RULE . . . Cypriots march through walled Greek quarters of Nicosia demanding return of Archbishop Makarios and abandonment of NATO bases in Cyprus. WORDS v last Being Honan H’thoughts mu. ALL P/&HT ( r VJOfJT Buy ITl VLTuers rate irf uJhenj/bo wanna Cinch it, torn on the water RADIOLOGICAL MONITORING team checks a damaged area for “radioactive'fallout** Just as would be dime after a real nuclear attack. Similar teams also carried out simulated missions in vari ous parts of the nation during the July 8-19 Operation Alert 1957, a nationwide training exercise to strengthen the country’s'' tary defense against possible attack. The man at left is using a radiological “survey meter,” while his partner Is recording the in tensity ef radiation from the simulated fallout. (FCDA Photo) FARMS AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson Extension Information Specialist FARM AND HOME WEEK Yes it’s Farm and Home Week again at Clemson, next week, Aug. 12-16. ‘ The full and continuous program starts at noon on Monday and runs through Friday. No matter what your special farm and homemaking interest is, you will likely find it covered by exhibits, lectures, demonstrations, and field tours during the week. You can fikely see the full pro gram at your county or home agent’s office. And we will give you a copy of it when you reg ister. So you can get thfe most out of Farm and Home Week, let me suggest this. Go over the program and mark the things you specially want to see or hear. It is a big program and unless you do some thing like that you are sure to miss some of the things that would have interested you most. AROMATIC TOBACCO IN McCORMICK County Agent Bonnette tells me the few- carefully supervised dem onstrations with Aromatic Turk ish tobacco they have had in re cent years have led to enlarging it this year. They now have JL6 farmers with 35 acres of this new money ftjrop. They are using the hot-air cur ing and 4-row tractor planters worked out by Clemson. In the past this crop, of which we have imported all of our needs, was laboriously handled by hand and sun cured.' Clemson has assisted with breeding better strains and in developing safer and faster way of curing by using inclosed barns and heat. This country uses many millions pounds of this high priced leaf in making its manufactured blends of cigarettes. Clemson is cooper ating with Duke University and several other states in this area the do g and th e blind man who m the development of th.s new (ounded the Seeing Eye, now at money crop. It seems specially suited to the lighter lands of the upper Piedmont and to small ac reages that can be handled by family labor. Clemson has two specialists in the field to hel$ farmers with all angles of grow ing it. They are G. D. Butler of Greenville and D. P. Matheson of Oconee, each attached to the of fice of the local county agent. TOO BIG FOR ME • BOYS ARE I THAT WAY By J. M. ELEAZER As a kid, there were two men I was frantically afraid of. One was a much older cousin who always teased me. And the oth er a drunkard from down the road. They said of him, W was raised on a bottle and never gave it up, just changed the brand. I avoided that cousin at every turn. If I heard he was coming, I hid out. And on big-road or byways, if I saw him first, he never had a chance to see me. On occasions though he had me cornered and I couldn’t get away. I now know he didn’t just pick on me. He teased all kids, in the absence of anything else to do. Man I was timid! And I had no defense when he teas ed. So I just avoided him at all hazards. I’m sure he didn’t know how that teasing cut me. For he was a good man. But that drunkard from down the road. I had nightmares about him. Not that he picked on Vm. I just feared him as I would have a bear or spook. I had seen him drive by home in a wild delirium, whipping his lathered horse, and yelling like an Indian on the war path. One Christmas he jerked his horse to an abrupt stop there where the dim road passed through our front yard. He caught us three kids flatfooted there by the welL And he told us to come to him. In fear and trembling, we went. He got out, .staggered' to the bag of the buggy, pulled the flap up, and opened a burlap bag. It had abmit a bushel or more of coconuts and several dozen cans of sardines in it. He gave each of us (me of each, got back in the buggy, and without a word to the horse, gave It a resounding whock with the whip. With a jerk that almost 1 broke the traces and singletree, and also almost toppled him from the buggy, he was off down the road, reeling and rock ing. The buggy barely missed the corner post to our lot. We later learned he had sold his last remnant of cotton and bought liquor, coconuts and sardines, when he should have been get ting some Christmas things for his poor folks. With all of the room that’s in this world, it’s hard to under stand why folks will pile up as they do in the great cities. Iknow there are reasons, but it looks like they could be overcome. Look at greater New York City. They tell me it uses 6.5 million eggs a day, five million quarts of milk, 15 million pounds of fruits and vegetables, and 2,000 tons of meat daily. 1 j Yes, they live just a few days from starvation all the tim v Trainloads and hundreds of truck- loads of food are rolling | to it night and day, all the time. I’ve been there with our 4-H Sweet Po tato Champions and . saw their car of fine “sweets” arrive at mid night in a freezing gale. We got up early and saw those same po tatoes displayed in the great sup ermarkets when they opened next morning. Fast food work there. (And I want to tell you, you would have been proud Of those fine South Carolina 4-H sweet po tatoes as compared with the sorry ones we saw in the other bins.) Those cities, too big for me. They make my feet hurt. And I wouldn’t like to be so far; from the source of my rations. Too many things could happen in this atomic age. GOOD READING At The Library Non-Fiction “Silver Platter” by Ellin Berlin is the biography of the author’s grandmother, Louise Mackay, who rose from the obscurity of a Ne vada mining town to a place among the elite of international society. “First Lady of the Seeing Eye” by Frank Morris is the story of Morristown, New Jersey. “The Twelve” by Edgar Good- speed is the story of Christ’s apostles, how they lived, where they labored rand how they died. “The Innocent Ambassadors” by Philip Wylie is the account of a trip around the wotld by the auth or and his wife. “Turn of the Tide” by Sir Ar thur Bryant is a history of the war years of World War II, bas ed on the diaries of Field-Marshall Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. “Alias O. Henry” by Gerald Langford is a ‘biography of Wil liam Sidney Porter. “The Day Christ Died” by James Bishop gives the whole back ground of Jesus’ life and the Jew ish and Roman worlds in which he lived. “Fun With Stunts” by Effa Preston is a collection of short skits, sketches, stuntb, and other entertainment written for presen tation by teen-agers and adults. Fiction “The Big Drum” by Elizabeth Boatwright Coker is a historical novel which has for its setting the London of Charles II, the lush is land of Barbados, the lively new city of Charles Town, and the great wilderness of Carolina. “The Wapshot Chronicle” by John Cheever is a novel that fol lows the fortunes of the Wap- shots, an old New England sea faring famijy. “The Short Reign of Pippin IV” by JoWn Steinbeck is a satirical novel about “what happened in the year 19— when France ran out of material for coalition gov ernments and restored the mon archy. “Black Obelisk” by Erich Rem arque is a novel set in inflation- ridden Germany of the 1920’s. “Proving Flight” by David Beaty is a novel which traces the test flight 'of a giant airplane from London Airport to Idlewild, N. Y. “The Lady” by Conrad Richter is a first person novel which tells of the rivalry between sheepmen and cattlemen in early twentieth- century New Mexico. “The Odyssey of Thaddeus Bax ter” by Robert Lund is an amus ing tale of the West in f!fe 1870’s. “The Conqueror’s Wife” by Noel Gerson is the story of a mar riage during the time when Wil liam and Harold of England pit ted strength and wits, with the throne of Edward the Confessor the stake. “The Wild Swan” by Margaret Kennedy is a novel in which the heroine “is a Victorian poet whose life story is told through a series of flash backs, as a modern movie company sets about' making a film based on her rather sad and empty life.” “Silver Spoon” by Edwin Gil bert is the story of a young wo man photographer whose special assignment to photograph a weal thy family brings a solution to her problems. “They Hanged My Saintly Bil ly” by Robert Graves is a fic tionalized reconstruction of a 19th century British murder trial. Mysteries and Westerns My Kingdom for a Hearse, Craig. 1] Rice. Black Mirror, Ben Benson. Deeds of Dr. Deadcert, Joan Fleming. Underdog, William Burnett. - Hell Bent Kid, Charles Locke. The Megstone Plot, £aul Win- terton. .•* Youth Francie Comes Home, Emily Hahn. Mexican Road Race, Leonard Wibberley. Trudy Wells, R. N., Dorothy Deming. Orchids for Paril, Marjorie Freer. Janey’s Fortune, Levinia Davis. Francis Marion; Swamp Fox, Beryl Epstein. Toupours Diane, Eliabeth Head- Iflj* >- Down River, Richard Church. Juvenile Miracles on Maple Hill, Vir ginia Sorensen. Jets Away!, Rutherford Mont gomery. Not A Little Monkey, Charlotte a Zolotow. 'Abraham Lincoln, Ingri Aul- aire. Lady, Ladybug, Robert Kraus. r ! I lag. MIBS CHAMP . . . Stan Herald of Summersville, W. Va., won National Marbles Championship in tonraament at Asbury Park, New Jersey. \ v - know yo Stati fell . iCarolina farkish loft Turkish tobacco, growing on South Carolina hills, is a crop < relatively new to the state but ideally adapted to small farms and the use of family labor. This aromatic tobacco is wide ly used in cigarette blends. If current- plantings are successful, the need of importing millions of dollars worth of the leaf will end and bring addi tional income to South Carolina. In agriculturally rich South Caro lina the United States Brewers Foundation works constantly to en courage maintenance of wholesome conditions wherever beer and ale are sold. As in other states, the program calls for close cooperation between law-enforcement officials and beer licensees throughout South Carolina. Beer belongs... enjoy it. United State* Brewers Foundation South Carolina Div., Columbia, S.G. The beveraae of moderation