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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
BY SPECTATOR
Well, you can never tell, can you? Guess what I have
done, or left undone. Some weeks#ago, in writing about
the early struggles to “form a more perfect Union” with
out impairing the Sovereignty of the thirteen States, I
named the thirteen Colonies which Great Britain recog
nized as Independent States and I omitted South Carolina!!
Can you imagine that? I was intent on showing that our
Northern bretheren had a large part in preparing and a-
dopting the Constitution that I overlooked South Carolina!
Surely that is incredible! I am tempted to dodge behind
my secretary though she is too slim to hide me. Still, a part
of a secretary’s duty is to shield her boss by assuming
blame for all mistakes.
A close reader of my weekly Spectator—which, perhaps,
I should now spell “weekly”, who “lives and moves and has
his being” in Roebuck, South Carolina, called my attention
to the oversight in a very gracious letter; then another
friend, Mr. W. P. Legg of Manning, called me on the tele
phone, to inquire, diplomatically whether he might be in
error.
Well, my bretheren, here we are, with profound regret
and deep abasement for an act of omission: The Constitut
ion was ratified by Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Car
olina. New Hampshire, Virginia, New York. The Constitut
ion was declared adopted the first Wednesday in 1789
(March 4th) after that North Carolina came in (Nov. 21,
1789) ; Rhode Island, (May 29, 1790) Vermont, ‘Jan. 10,
1790, and was declared by Congress (Feb. 19, 1791) to be
the 14th State.
Since my thought is on the Constitution I have concluded
that President Eisenhower must have three or four speech-
writers who do not compare notes; and whose versatility
is so remarkable that they cause the President to speak
yea and nay on many matters.
Of course this does not reflect credit on the President,
for he should read the speeches and keep them at least
masurably consistent in no other way is it possible to under
stand Mr. Eisenhower unless we assume a wide divergency
among his speech-writers.
Thinking of Mr. Eisenhower, one may be reminded of
the Whiskey Rebellion, in the Administration of President
Washington. General Washington sent a commission to
to plead with the stubborn Pennsylvanians and, finally, asked
the Governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland. New Jersey, and
Virginia to send troops to Pennsylvania.
It may be noted that there is no authority in the Constit
ution to declare invalid an Act of Congress. That authority
was assumed by the Court. No other Court in the world,
1 think, presumes to invalidate a Legislative Act. In the
British jurisprudence an Act of Parliament is Supreme, un
less vetoed by the Soverign—a prerogative of the Soverign
virtually in disuse.
I shall invite two distinguished editors to contribute to
Spectator, if space permits: Let us hear Editor Buchanan
of The Columbia Record.
V “There is grave doubt that any order of the federal
courts undertaking to enforce segregation in the schools
is either legal or constitutional!.
The Supreme Court’s decision in the desegration cases
was based on the Warren court’s construction of the Four
teenth Amendment, a construction that amounted to a re
pudiation of all previous constructions of the amendment
and which violated the rules of constitutional interpretat
ion by disregarding the intent of the Congress which sub
mitted the amendment and the states which ratified.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was never
legally ratified and it was illegally and unconstitutionally
proclaimed a part of the Constitution by Secretary of State
Seward in July, 1808.
In such circumstances no decision based upon any inter
pretation of the Fourteenth Amendment can be a legal
and constitutional decision until the Supremo Court of the
United States decides, as it never has decided, that the
Fourteenth Amendment is actually a part of the Constitut
Ion,
When the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
was submitted there were 37 states in the union, so rntificn
Ion by at least was necessary to make the amendment
an integral part of the Constitution. Actually onh 21 states
legally ratified it as C. S. News and World Report points
nut,
In the South It' states Tevas, Arkansas. \ tegmia. North
racolioa. South Catalina, Georgia, Alabama. Florida, Miss
iasippi and Louisiana by formal aetion ot then lemslat
lOVs rejected it tinder all that was necessan <o prevent
ihe amendment's being imitated in the Constitution, hut
dv states outside the South New Jersey, Ohio, Keutoekv,
['altforuta, Delaware amid Maryland also railed to raLt\
the proposed amendment ,
Arkanaasv which Is the state tn which Gov Or\al Fauhos
called m\ the National Guard to preserve older by prevent
THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1967;
A GROWING INFANT INDUSTRY
ing the integration of studenst at Little Rock’s Central
High School, was one of the states which declined to ratify
the Fourteenth Amendment.
After the Southern state governments, established in
accordance with the President’s amnesty proclamation, had
been set up they ratified the Thirteenth Amendment abolish
ing slavery. This amendment was written into the Constitut
ion. But the same state governments rejected the Four
teenth Amendment. Military occupation governments were
up in South and the Congress then undertook to declare
that the Southern states could not claim their seats in
either House or Senate until they ratified the Fourteenth
Amendment. Under this unconstiautional compulsion the
Fourteenth Amendment was ‘ratified’ by the.se military
governments.
But before the amendment could be proclaimed on the
basis of this unconstitutional procedure, which has never
been sanctioned or upheld by the Supreme Court of the
United States, the legislatures of two Northern states—
Ohio and New Jersey—had reversed their decisions for
ratification and had revoked their ratification of the amend
ment. The right of a state, by action of its legislature, to
change its mind any time before the final proclamation
of ratification has been confined in connection with other
constitutional amendments. Three months after the Secre
tary of State’s proclamation the Oregon legislature passed
a recinding resolution, contending that the supposed rat
ification of the amendment by the Southern states was
‘usurpations, unconstitutional, revolutionary and void.’
The Supreme Court itself has never passed upon this!
ussue. Every historian worthy of the designation, North and
South, agrees that the Fourteenth Amendment was never
constitutionally written into the Constitution.
The decision of the Warren Supreme Court can, of course,
evade the fundamental issue of whether the Constitution
be anticipated. It will undoubtedly find a way either to
can be unconstitutionally amended or will hold, contrary
to the fact, that the Fourteenth Amendment w'as legally
ratified.’
Mr. Buchanan is the son of the South, though a man
of scholarly habit andd studious practice.
What think you of this:
“South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. this week petit
ioned the State Public Service Commission for authority
to issue ami sell $10 million of bonds bearing an interest
rate of five and one-half percent.
Records at the commission showed that the last time the
power company sold bonds they had to pay an interest rate
of only three and one-half percent. That was in June, 1955
when the company sold $5 million worth of bonds.
J. M. Costello, executive vice president of the power comp
any. said in reply to a question as to whether the increased
cost of money would affect the company’s rates, said:
The fact that we have to pay five and one-half percent
on this $10,000,000 issue in itself will not have any effect
bn rates, but if this interest rate continues on future of
ferings together with the inflationary costs of doing bus
iness, this could lead to an increase in rates.’
In its petition, the company said, proceeds of the bonds
are to finance new construction and to repay temporary
bank loans of $4 million already /ncurred or to be incurred
to finance this construction.
The power company estimated earlier tn the year it
would spend about $75 million on new construction tn the
three years. 1957-58-69, of which an estimated $29 million
will be spent this year. The company expects to finish
const ruction of two steam generating units at Plant McMeek-
in in the fall of 1968, a spokesman said today,
The bonds. First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, would
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From The Beacon, Lake Char
les, Louisiana: Some congressmen
are saying that they “cut the
budget” from nearly $72 billion to
$67 billion. The White House es
timates that the effective cut was
less than a billion, and the Budget
Director figures it at about three.
The citizen begins to wonder if
anyone really knows. No one does.
It all depends. It depends on how
much Congress has to appropriate
later to. meet expenses that are
authorized under standing laws.
It depends on whether some carry
over funds or reimbursements can
be re-allocated to neyr needs. It
depends on how much the cost of
things the government must buy
rises above estimates.
A family operating on a house
hold budget properly splits up big
occasional expenditures, as for a
car or fur coat, on a pro rata
basis. But it does not “charge”
this month’s food costs or rent
against next rponth’s budget It
may even set aside for Jane’s col
lege next year the money saved
when this year’s vacation was cut
short. But the money isn’t handed
over to Jane to buy books; it’s
carefully earmarked for tuition.
The federal government does
things differently. Some of the
things it has to buy—like dams or
aircraft carriers—are purchased
over a period of years, but may
increase in cost before completed.
And even though Congress knows
the postal service wiH cost several
hundred thousands more than it
gives the Post Office it “charges”
this regular deficit against a defi
ciency appropriation—^which does
not show in the budget.
This year Congress cut $200 mil
lion from the veterans* pension
fund, but did not change the law
to reduce the obligation to pay
pensions. That is like cutting the
budget item for rent without get
ting any assurance from the land
lord that it won’t be raised.
Last year the Defense Depart
ment spent several billion more
than the budget called for—the
money coming out of carry-over
funds. For all the federal agencies
such unexpended appropriations
amounted to $70 billion when the
new budget was offered last Jan
uary. The plan for annual appro
priations would help this situation
somewhat But the public will not
know what a budget means until
better checks are established on
carry-overs and “charge' ac
counts.”
TELL US VOUR
PROBLEITI
M» UT tt IT «N TO ML* «1*W» M MkWM WMM.
•Y JOHN and JANE STRICKLAND
TODAY’S PROBLEM!
Turning away wrath
VER on New York’s East side
there are numerous coop
erative apartment houses, oc
cupied by people who want to
own their own domicile, and to
make sure that their neighbors
are congenial. Accustomed to the
service usually given those of their
financial standing, they are like
ly to be impatient when such serv
ice is not rendered.
A postal employe delivering
registered letters was met in the
hallway l>y an impatient man on
the lookout for a registered let
ter of importance. It would seem
that there was none, so he went
his way downtown and the post
man continued his rounds. To his
dismay, ha discovered when he
got to the bottom of his pack, that
there was a letter for the man who
had approached him. It was
stamped “To be signed for by ad
dressee only,” so he took it back
to the postoffice and telephoned
later in the day to learn when the
addressee would be at home. And
maybe he wasn't disconcerted over
facing this man and admitting his
fault SO he began with a sincere,
humble and heartfelt apology.
The recipient of the delayed let
ter looked at him a moment and
his mood changed. “I make mis
takes myself,he admitted;
"come in.” There followed a brief
conversation, mostly about the
service and the pay therefor, then
a query as to whether the post
man had a family.
“A wife and two sons," he an
swered, and sighed, as he recalled
his two unhappy little boys who
wanted a bicycle—one between
them was all they asked.
The man who had been so dis
gruntled a few minutes before
now asked about those two boys,
their desires, their father’s am
bition for them.
When that postman returned
home that evening he carried with
him a check covering the cost of
two bicycles, plus the memory of
a gracious man who had been hap
py to make others happy.
When at fault: a sincere and
heartfelt apology!
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T HE appointment by Wisconsin
Senator William Proxmire, of
Robert G. Lewis, editor of the Na
tional Farmers Union Washing
ton Newsletter, as his administra
tive assistant, passed as a routine
bit of news in the press of the
country.
However Lewis* “Swan song"
in the current issue of the Wash
ington Newsletter in telling why
he quit to go to work for the new
Wisconsin Senator, gives an in
side story at the upset election in
Republican Wisconsin and a slant
on the brand of Wisconsin liberal
ism which brought that election
results, plus a new insight in an
analysis of what he calls the “Wis
consin Idea.”
Lewis writes: "There is an un
usual attachment between Wis
consin and many of its sous, which
helps greatly to explain why they
behave as they do.” Lewis, a na
tive at Wisconsin himself, con
tinues:
“The attraction is less for the
place—which we love very much
the same as anyone else loves his
own home—than for what is called
the “Wisconsin idea.” This is an
idea of public service, of govern
ment and of democracy.
“It is very splendidly represent
ed by the career of our ‘fighting
Bob,* the great Senator Robert
LaFolIette, Sr., who was ac
claimed last year (by the Sen
ate) as one of the five outstand
ing Senators of all time.
“The Wisconsin idea” is that the
public interest should have first
claim always upon a citizen’s tal
ent, energy and strength; that
government and its agencies are
' the possession of the people, to he
harnessed to their service; that
the people are sovereign, and
therefore entitled to know all the
truth about matters of common
concern, and to decide, among
thetnselves upon the disposition
of all questions that effect the
general welfare.
“. . . This is a tradition that
questions answers Just as agres-
sively as it seeks to answer ques
tions. It looks sacred cows in the
teeth with matter-of-fact irrever
ence, and it boldly challenges the
rightness of privilege, no matter
how encrusted with general ac
ceptance. It is audaciously skepti
cal, and it is invariably discom- -
forting to those who ere sure they
know all the answers . . This is
the tradition that fired my imagi
nation and formed my habits when
I was young;! it is the familiar
air toward whence I homeward
turn.
“The farm problem is the most
important thing in my inheritance.
Some families pass on their heir
looms; some transfer e business, -
or great wealth from father to
son; but. for nearly a hundred
years in* this country my tribe
has wrestled Yrith the farm prob
lem, one generation after another.
My greet-grejet grandfather, fi
farmer-preedher-pioneer, came
from Norway! to the homestead
where l grew up. My own father
and mother, after despairing of
their attempt* to make a farm
out of eoutheaatem Montana sod.
moved their baMes to the old
home in Wisconsin. And there, in
the l««rs and
tha 1030's, the farm
problem was dese at hand, tbe
first thia^ to notice when X be
came aware jdf the world. The
depression was an absorbing, ob
sessing experience.
1. Seism refers to (a) a religion; (b) an earthquake; (e) a
legal right.
2. Spitxenburg refers te (a) a German town; (b) famous
scientists; (o) apples.
3. la Medicine, typhlools refers te (a) staper; (b) bUadaeas;
(o) anemia.
ANSWERS
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Q—Can yon tell me where I can get a oepy of the IMY Cnaservatten
Directory? '
A—At The National Wtidlifo Federation. $32 Carroll Street, N W.
Washington 13. D C. at 80c per copy
Q—Can yen tell me briefly what the prepeeed new regntatleaa an
possession and purchasa of firearms would require?
A—That all firearm* be Imprinted with serial number; that manu
facturers and dealers maintain permanent records on production,
disposition snd sale of all pistol snd revolver ammunition; that
persons buying firearms acknowledge receipt In their own band
writing. and records be permanently kept; that Federal afenta
would have authority to examine without warrant, hooka, stoeka
and premises of aU license* affected by the regulations
4—How has civil fiervloo changed its regulntbn and when wtU thn
Drat examinatloa ke heM far Federal Service Entrance?
A—The CivU Service Commission has added college juniors in
Uon to senior* and graduates to those eligible for the examina-
tion, the first of which will be hold November ifi, IIP?. The mk!
exam will be te January. AppUcanta have until October 11 Is
file (or the Nov. id written teat
Q—Who te preoeatly Under Seat alary ef Stele?
A—Christian A. Hertert tenner Governor of Maatachuaette,
Q~Whe are ten Majority find MteaHty wtdyo te tee Berne of tnxrt
aentatlveef
Oklahoma, and tee Minority or Republican Whip te
Leslie C Arends, ef Ulteete.
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