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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.
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