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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1961 1218 College Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. K. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class postage paid at Ne’vberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad v/ance, six months. $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS By Spectator Has a merchant any rights? Has a well-behaved, quiet, in dustrious citizen any rights ? Has the taxpayer any rights? I read and hear about rights for this group and that group, all claiming something at the expen se of tne taxpayers, but who pre sents the claim of the taxpayer? Organized groups, even when only small minorities, bombard the Congress and the General Assembly and receive special con sideration at the expense of the taxpayers. This is a day for the bellicose, pugnacious and unremitting as sertion of Rights; so I wonder if the taxpayer has any rights or whether the tax-eater has all the rights. I may weary you by repeating from time to time by calling at tention to that Communist- inspir ed income tax, by which the Gov ernment is not content with the larger yield of a big income but must charge the taxpayer with a higher percentage until the whole thing is confiscatory. We should not supinely accept a mischievous tax scheme which charges one man 20 per cent and another 50 per cent and another up to 91 per cent. When a law is so grievously unequitable the whole nation should rise in protest. That is, of course .assuming that the taxpay er has any rights. Furthermore, a Corporation In come tax of 52 per cent is so ob viously bad—52 per cent!— that the Congress might more profit ably—and more justly correct these iniquities than throw away billions of dollars in the Congo. This government is not an or ganization for charity; the taxes imposed on the citizens are for the necessary operation of the Government in this country. Re gardless of our missionary ideals and ideas and impulses we do not ask—or authorize our government to become and uplift society of do- gooders. Within the government it self are many millions of dollars misspent, or needlessly spent. We could start wi ,h the Congress it self and lop off hundreds of thous ands of dollars. And then we could revamp the hundreds of Federal Commissions "nd save mil lions. Ifwe leave cna-diy to the private organizations we can save billions—always cutting off the wild and childish dream prompt ing the Foreign aid. The idea of studying State and County spending—perhaps munici pal also—desei'ves consideration. A well-known county official re cently remarked in private that several hundred thousand dollars could be trimmed from his office budget, although his delegation is planning a five-mill increase to increase the budget of an insti tution. Again I ask: Does nobody rep resent the taxpayer? Should we have—at the taxpayer’s expense —all the good people may think desirable ? Every time two men in a drunk- enbrawl slash each other; or when a drunken driver smashes a car and, sometimes a precious life, the drunkards are rushed to a hospital. Who pays for that? Why should the taxpayer pay for that ? If you go to a hospital you find the charges high, don’t you ? I do not presume to say that the charges are too high, but all those who have talked to me say that the rates they paid did not seem to indicate that they were recipients of charity. Who.then, are the charity ben eficiaries and who determines their claim to charity at public expense ? And now about certain politic al rights pr rights of citizenship: I observed recently in Columbia picketing of several stores having restaurant service. Picketing is a breach of the peace and is a conspiracy to pro- vpke a breach of the peace. Some of our people are * con fused by the assertion of certain fundamental rights, notably the Right to assemble peacefully. The right to assemble is not a right to conduct a program of picketing. A group of picketers is a nuisance to all orderly citi zens. But the right to assemble is far removed from picketing and the cities should consult their lawyers, remembering that a thousand quiet, peaceable, orderly citizens are annoyed by a snr ll group of persistent and asrertive picketers. So far as picketing stores with in our State is concerned there is no Federal question, for the whole matter is purely a matter of the local police and the dignity of the City and State. Since, however, so much is said about the right to assemble, let us see w-hat the Federal and the State Constitutions have to say: The Constitution of the United States says: “Congress shall make no law . . . abriding the right of the peo ple peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances’’. (Amend ment 1—last clause). Says the Constitution of South Carolina (Article 1, Section four, last clause). “The General Assembly shall make no law ... to abridge the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Gov ernment or any department there of for a redress of grievance”. The people may assemble peace ably in a church, school, park or lot and petition the Government. Petition the Government, not op erate mischievously up and down the sidewalks in front of stores, calling on people to assert so- called rights in cases wherein there is no right, only a fancied and as sumed privilege. Petition the Government in a mass meeting. That is not authorization for mis using side-w-alks for hours and hours. That is a conspiracy to commit a breach of the peace and is in itself a breach of the peace. Just under Section 4 we find a clause in Section 5—“ . . .nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws.” Now, now; see where we are: One group asserts as a grievance a privilege w r hich is not a law and a privilege that is private and not of any government. And the merchant who pays a City tax and Federal and State tax has a legal right to operate quietly and peaceably and w-ith the full pro tection of the law-s. We have considered the legal status of the picketer as far re moved from any constitutional right; and we have considered the merchant and his constitu tional right, but w T hat shall we say of the rights of several thous and law-abiding citizens who are denied service for which they have full legal rights ? If this were a question of polit ical right I w’ould say that ihe number of voters sometimes over rides the fundamental question; but this boils dowm to the property rights of a private citizen to op erate a private business; and this right of private property and pri vate business is so fundamental in our jurisprudence that w r e should not fail to emphasize it. Private, w r ell-intentioned citi zens and all taxpayers, especially men in business, are being pushed about by pressure groups so often that w r e need not dignify this co ercive picketing as a petition to the Government for a redress of grievances. It is nothing more nor less than an offensive breach of the peace. erats pooh-hoohed Nixon’s claim as just so much campaign oratory. But they offered no estimate of their own. And the curious fact is that in recent w'eeks^.as the Pres ident has sent his programs to ! Congress one by one, he was avoiding putting price tags on them. In the first tw r o months of the Administration no member of the New Frontier w r as walling to admit that he had any idea—as yet, anyway, wb't the total Ad ministration program will finally tally. What gave the question urgency w r as a growing feeling in Wash ington that a substantial portion of the American people are far from being in sympathy with all of the President’s domestic pro posals. Education—5.6 billion over five years. Housing 3.8 billion over ten years. Depressed areas—$394,000.00. Medical Care—1.5 billion per year. Peace Corps—40 million first year. Foreign Aid—3.6 billion. Farm 5.1 billion.” Oh for good old Grover Cleve land! By the w-ay he was born on March 18th. I grow a bit weary of reading that “this is a must”, meanmg that the president is holding a whip hand over the Congress. That was a favorite device of Mr. Roosevelt and his successors have adopted it. For the sake of the dignity and authority of Congress I w r ould be tempted to disregard such proposals entirely. Did you ever hear of the Congress send ing a “must” to the President? Says the Constitution: The President “shall from time to time give to the Congress infor mation of the State of the Union, and recommend to their consider ation such measures as he shall judge necessary- and expedient.” No musts in that. It is the Cong ress which must be responsible for legislative programs, although Congress seems quite feeble now. Incidentally the Constitution says that “the President shall comm ission all the officers of the Unit ed States”. No one challenges that. The Constitution of our State says the Governor “shall commission all officers of the State” but the Legislature has virtually taken aw T ay all author- HOSPITAL PATIENTS Newberry County Memorial Hospital Mrs. Lucia E. Brown and baby girl, 508 Jefferson St., Saluda. Mrs. Madge Bowles and baby boy, Rt. 1, Silverstreet. Holland Bedenbaugh, Little Mountain. Rev. Arthur W. Ballentine, Rt. 3. Charles E. Bedenbaugh, College St. Extn. Mrs. Cora Burns, 706 Boundary St. Eugene Cook, 518 Main St. Mrs. Maebelle Counts, Rt. 4. Mrs. Adelaide Dawkins, Rt. 2, Prosperity. Baby Girl Dominick, Rt. 3, Sa luda. Mrs. Geneva Hawkins, Rt. 2, Prosperity. Law r rence Hawkins, Rt. 1, Pros perity. George Mayer, 1218 Summer St. Mrs. Victoria Mitchell, 1328 Mil ligan St. Mrs. Joan Mills, Prosperity. Mrs. Bessie Metze, Little Moun tain. Mrs. Euna Mize, Rt. 1. Louis Morris, 2012 Main St. Mrs. Minie Perry, Rt. 5, Sa luda. Danny Lee Phillips, 607 Pope Circle. Mrs. Ellie Paysinger, Rt. 2, Prosperity. Mrs. Vera Mae Riley, Rt. 5, Sa luda. S. Eugene Senn, 1720 Lindsay St. Mrs. Emma Summer, .Rt. 1, Chappells. Mrs. Elizabeth Shannon and baby boy, 923 Fair St. Mrs. Bessie Sanders, 1300 Fourth St. C. Pinckney Teague, Rt. 3. Walter Terry Wise, Rt. 2. Mrs. Mattie WLeeler, Little Mountain. Mrs. Betty Yochem, 1302 Jeffer son St. FARMS & FOLKS (By L. C. Hamilton, Clemson Extension Information Specialist) Shades of wild onions! Lawms full of them. They are along the road shoulders and in pastures. I have seen places w-here they give a full green color to the landscape. This is their season. Why do they multiply so fast? Why so hard to eradicate ? Simple, our Clemson weed ad viser E. C. Turner says, “they grow seeds at both ends.” That’s a bad combination to beat, especially if you have con trol measures in mind. But there are some ways to beat the onions if you’re willing to stick wi th the job for two to four years. Where yi5u have only a few onions, perhaps the easiest con trol method is roughing them out by hand. Be sure to get the little bulb. It is the seat of the onion’s propagating ability. If the thought of hand work discourages you, try the chemical control method. It’s pretty ef fective if you make several ap plications of chemical. Clemson recommends 2,4-D used according to the recommendations on the label and mixed at 2-3 ounce of material for each gallon of water. For larger areas, such as a pasture, use 1 1-2 pounds of material to each acre. Remember that dormant bulbs in the soil will not be killed by spraying. They will grow up this fall or winter. That is why you will have to repeat the spraying— perhaps for as much as three sea sons. Actually, most of our wild on ions are really wild garlic. We often call both wild onions. How ever, there is a difference. You can see it by close examination. Wild onions bear a flower clus ter at the top of solia spear-like leaves. These clusters will bear small green bulbs which fall to the ground and grow later. That’s the seed at the other end that Mr. Turner was speaking of. Wild garlic has a hollow leaf. It will also grow a small bulb near the tip of the leaf. Garlic produces several additional bulbs at the basal end each year too. Mr. Turner didn't mention this, but the onion has another defense, unless you have an insensible nose —you know what I mean. If not, may be you will be reminded when you mow the lawn this spring. Your county agent or vo-ag teacher will be able to give you some additional pointers on this subject. destined to be the domain of the soybean—they are not the have it exclusively. More plantings were made in the Piedmont last year. Yields in the Up Country were just as good as those grown on the plains east of Columbia. As a general rule, Piedmont farmers don’t have the large, smooth fields found elsewhere in the State, but there are some. Soybean growing is something that is almost completely mechan- izdH—f,nd * having k large, level fields is a help. Anderson is one of the counties anticipating an increase in soy bean acreage this spring, accord ing to County Agent H. D. Mer- ett. A crushing plant at Spartan- - burg has generated some of th® interest in soybeans Up State. Several counties in a 75 mile rad ius are responding with product ion increases. Watt Smith, II, is leader of Orangeburg’s new 4-H automo tive club which has just organiz ed. Better car safety and care will be the club’s goal. Pickens coynty cc^nunitjfc. clubs..# are to have a county steering com mittee. “The formation of a countjr council of community clubs is nosr underway,” J. R. Wood, the county" agent, informed us. Glenda Brown, Rt. 1, Batesburg. Carrie Mae Davis, Rt. 3, Pros perity. Christine Grey, Rt. 2, Newber- ity, leaving the commissioning more or less a clerical function. ry- Willis Mays, Rt. 1, Box 233. Mary Ruff, Silverstreet. Sam Smith, Rt. 3, Prosperity. Ella Setzler, Rt. 2, Whitmire. Celestine Suber, Rt. 1. Inez Young, Rt. 4. Mills Clinic Patients Mrs. Bonnie Cockrell and baby girl, Batesburg. Mrs. Estelle Wicker and baby boy, Pomaria. Mrs. Betty Norris, Prosperity. Clinton Shealy, Prosperity. Mrs. Bessie Smith, Newberry. Mrs. Violet Marier, Newberry. Carl Epting, Prosperity. Miss Lalla Martin, Newberry. O. C. Wicker, Newberry. Mrs. Fanny Whitten and baby boy, Newberry. Mrs. Mary Ellen Epting, Cha pin. Mrs. Shelby Seibert, Prosperity. Mi's. Claudia Fellers, Prosperity.! Progress with livestock — you can see it at the shows and sales. Better hogs and better cattle were seen at the recent B 1 u e r Ridge Livestock Show and Sale at Spartanburg. If you don't be lieve it, compare them with live stock five or ten years ago. Shows and sales are educational. They also serve in promoting the livestock business. As such, we’ll give them a good bit of credit for the nice gains we’ve made in up grading livestock in recent years. One of the features of the Blue Ridge Show was a ham sale. It attracted a great deal of attention and points up one of the specialized phases of the busi ness. Quite a few farmers over the state are curing hams for sale. Monetta rural development club in Aiken county has voted to ex tend its efforts by promoting oth er community development work. Renovation of a community center is now underway, J. H. Evans, the county agent, says. Although the low country is new light on today’s NEWS LIFE LINE WAYNE POUCHEK a NEW CONCEPT OF WHS ANALYSIS IS PRESENTED EACH DAY starting April 10th 1:15 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. Presented by Joanna Mills —ON— WKDK SENATOR STROM The grave question is “Shall the Congress prove equally as ex uberant in pouring out the tax payer’s money as President Ken nedy proposes?” Here are some highlights in the President’s plan to rebuild the nation and redeem the world. So far as one can guess here is what Mr. Kennedy wants Con gress to authorize, possibly thir teen billion more than Mr. Eisen- hour recommended, as Mr. Nixon estimated. Mr. Eisenhower, with all his splendid qualities, was not lacking in enthusiasm for uplift ing the world at our expense. But Mr. Kennedy out-herods Herod in all this. In the main, contemplate this, as Mr. Kennedy plans: “All through official Washing ton—at after-hour cocktail par ties no less than in the cloakrooms on Capitol Hill—a new question was beginning to be asked last week: What will be the cost of all these Jack Kennedy programs ? It was, indeed, a question crop ping up across the nation. During the last year’s presid ential campaign, Richard Nixon contended over and over that if all the programs outlined in the ambitious Democratic platform were enacted into law, it would cost the U. S. taxpayers some thin 0, lik ■ 13 billion m ’■ - d pi a year. At the time, the D.uno- The Federal Dollar & Control A LARGE MAJORITY of South- erners—I, for one—believe fer vently that separation of the races in certain activities is best for our people and that we, at the State level, have the right to implement such a policy under the powers re served to the States by the Con stitution. In other parts of the country the official policies are contrary, although there is con siderable doubt whether the ma jority of people are sympathetic to those policies and also whether those policies are in fact being carried out where there are size able numbers of non-whites in a given locality. Nevertheless, we respect their right to segregate, desegregate, or integrate accord ing to their wishes, provided, of course, that they do not try to force their policies on us. IN NATIONAL politics, how ever, the South’s segregation sys- t e m is fair game to shoot at in order to curry the votes of minority bloc elements in the large metropolitan areas. For each non - Southern politician — and particular ly for a Southerner—who can de vise some new scheme for forcing the South to conform to the will of the integrationists, there is the possibility of a call to high na tional office. REALIZING YEARS AGO that the integrationists were having their problems ramming “civil rights” laws through the Con gress, Justice Frankfurter advised the NAACP leaders to try an end run via the Supreme Court. This ruse worked beautifully in 1954 when the Court found little or no pangs of conscience in rewriting the Constitution and legal deci sions of long standing by adopt ing the NAACP brief and the find ings of a Swedish sociologist, Gunnar Myrdal, as the “law of the land.” Since that time, the South has lost virtually every fed eral court battle. IN THE PAST year or two, the integrationists have tasted some victories outside the courts with their sit-in and kneel-in demon s', rations and other agitations. T 1 -’' • Client' ( f p •q 1 irr 1 --Qr> which overrules private property rights and the liberties of others, and they thrive on martyrdom. OF LATE, THEY have turned to a new and more powerful weapon to work their will on non conformist Southern States—the power of the almighty federal dollar. President Kennedy has proved by his actions in the Civil War Centennial activities in Charleston that he stands behind the new theory that anywhere there is federal activity or money there must be integration, regard less of private rights or State and local laws. THE LIBRARY of Congress re cently prepared a research paper on the authority of the Executive Branch to withhold from segre gated activities all federal assist ance to education under existing programs. This paper shows that the stage has been set in the courts for appi’oval of Executive Orders for a shutoff of funds in practically all existing programs. THE SAME SITUATION ap plies to such areas as housing, hospitals, libraries, recreational activities, transportation, and agricultural activities (Agricul ture Secretary Freeman is now trying to force integration in the Extension Service throughout the South). NEW PROGRAMS and expan sions of old ones are being pushed—mainly by the integra tionists, and this is no mere coin cidence. A federal aid to educa tion bill providing money for school construction and teachers’ Salaries will soon be considered in the Senate. The strategy will be to whip it through without a de segregation rider so Southerners can vote for it before an Execu tive Order or an appropriations rider later cuts off funds to non conformist Southern schools. THOSE IN THE SOUTH who ask for and support new and ex panded federal grant-in-aid pro grams must recognize that fed eral and State funds come from the same source, the taxpayer. The main difference is that the federal wringer takes a higher toll in getting the dollar back to the taxpayer, and when the tax payer gets it back through a grant-in-aid program, he will find behind every federal dollar a measure of federal control. Sincerely, isTaxed at a Rate 5 Times as Hi as Diamonds? OUTH CAROLINA, YOU PAY *l!2 TAX ON lO GALLONS OF GASOLINE Gasoline taxes will be lowered — if the latest temporary Federal gasoline tax increase expires on June 30th as scheduled by the 1959 Federal Highway Act. Along with all good citizens, we are in favor of building the roads that the motoring public needs. But, in the last 10 years alone, Federal and State taxes nationwide on gasoline have skyrocketed 5/%—sky rocketed to a point where gasoline, a basic commodity, is actually taxed at a rate five times as high as luxuries uke diamonds and mink coats. Must gasoline taxes be so high? Most people believe that gasoline taxes are high because the money is needed to pay for our national highway program. This is not so. The fact is that out of every highway-user tax dollar collected last year by the Federal government, more than 40 cents w as diverted to non-highway purposes.. If these highway-user tax revenues were spent for high ways—as they should be—gasoline taxes could be lowered, and the highway program given a boost. In fact, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1959 provides that when the added temporary Federal gasoline tax ex pires on June 30th, 1961, as scheduled, some $802 mil lion a year in highway-user taxes—now diverted to the U. S. Treasury’s general fund—will instead be deposited in the Highway Trust Fund. As a result, if the latest Federal temporary gasoline tax increase expires on June 30th as scheduled—the national highway program will actually get $225 million more each year than it now receives from the latest Federal temporary gasoline tax increase. In January of this year, after an exhaustive 2-year sur vey of national transportation policy, a special U. S. Senate study group confirmed the wisdom of this decision. This will be good news for you. You will be able to enjoy a steadily improving highway system, at a lower gasoline tax-rate. HERE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT TODAY'S HIGH GASOLINE TAXES e In South Carolina, you pay $L10 tax on 10 gallons of gasoline. • You pay 11£ tax a gallon—in Federal taxes plus 7£ in State taxes. • Gasoline is taxed at a rate 5 times as high as diamonds. • The average South Carolina motor vehicle owner pays $89 a year in gasoline taxes. • Since 1951 there have been three increases in the Federal gasoline tax alone. • In the last 10 years, gasoline taxes nation wide have skyrocketed 51%—yet the national- average price of gasoline itself has risen only 5.5% during the same period. The Gasoline You Buy Is Taxed Too High! Presented in the public interest by the Gasoline Tax Education Committee, 575 Lexington Avenue, New York 22, N. Y. ■rrn m 1 >3