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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1961 un 1218 Collage Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner 0* Second-Class postage paid at Newberry, South Carolina. the so-called Fourteenth Amend ment was never validly adopted that so-called Amendment is con cluded with this paragraph: “The Congress shall have power to en force, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.” Not the President, not the Supreme Court, but the Congress! Now will anyone show me any Act of Congress that applied all this to the schools in Louisiana or Arkansas ? Did the Congress leg islate for those meddlers to come South and invade bus stations? Or have we conferred on young attor ney Kennedy full power to browse i around and meddle with our af fairs? SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance; six months, $1.25. COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS July is a month associated with free institutions and individual liberty. Our great nation remem bers, if somewhat vaguely, that body of men who prepared and proclaimed the Declaration of In dependence in July 1776 and the From those simple beginnings have come the mischievous as sumption of Federal judicial auth ority to meddle in such details as whether a business enterprise is a monopoly, although operating in competition with all the world, in- 1 Well, now, what about the vast wealth of the sea? Now if the wealth of the land ultimately washes to the ocean by a parity of reasoning may we assume that the riches of our affluent piedmont have come to Lake Murray? “Chemists have known for cen turies that in the vast ocean there are dissolved almost all the im : portant chemical elements. It is estimated that each cubic mile “Glorious Fourth" is thought of eluding, of course, vast and re ., contains about 200,000,000 tons of sourceful competitors here at ! them-.ca compounds including ele as our National birthday. France, you recall, celebrates July 14th. Some of our neighbors to the South of us, under the inspiration and leadership of Simon Bolivar, declared independence of Spain in July. We Americans, that is we Am ericans living between Canada and Mexico, might do well to think about the government as planned by those resolute patriots and the government as we have it today. The men who led us in the form ative days were sons and grand sons of men who had struggled in England to curb the power of the King and to assert and establish the power of the people, as repre sented in Parliament. home. Now we have the Congress, the ments like gold, silver, magnes ium, aluminum, radium, barium, nomine, iodine, sulfur, and many President and the Courts meddling o ; hers ^ jth k ; ow i edg ; that the with school affairs in Louisiana. As a piece of political chicanery we find stern legislative acts, sol emn decrees, and political maneuv ering by Presidents to curb, stifle or strangle business mergers and combinations w'hile defending, pro tecting and promoting nation-wide combinations of other organiza tions which can and do hamstring and stifle legitimate commerce. ocean serves as a mixing bowl for the mineral elements wasned from ihe land, it is readily understood why marine plants and animals face no deficiencies. In time they take these mineral elements and assimilate Lliem into organic com binations which are, in turn, need ed by lanu inhabitants to prevent and cure ceLcency diseases. Lilt i caches its richest abundance and Then, again, we, a nation found-1 ils most varied forms in the sea. ed in law; dedicated to defend the equality of all before the law, pro vide taxpayers’ money to finance some citizens in enterprises di- We had some weak-kneed peo- rectly competing with taxpayers. pie in those days too, they kept their ears to the ground and were alarmed by even every caterpillar in its noisy crawl. The early patriots were con cerned primarily with the arrog ance of the Executive and the need for a strong body of elected men to challenge the King. So in preparing the Constitution the members of the Convention thought first of the Sovereign character and authority of the 13 States, each fully self-governing, and gave little thought to the Courts for Courts were not in tended to assume political author ity. Under our Constitution the Congress is supreme; the Cong ress may impeach the President and the Congress may impeach a Judge; furthermore the Congress may prescribe the jurisdiction of the Courts. In practice today the President assumes vast powers and virtually runs roughshod over Congress by means of favors, or the threat or fear of a denial of favors. At bottom this is the fault of Congress for it has the Con stitutional power to put the Pres ident on a back seat. The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Marshall, asserted and assumed powers never intend ed for the Court to exercise, not ably the power to invalidate an Act of Congress. No British Court would dare invalidate an Act of Parliament, nor, for that matter, will the Sovereign exercise the power of veto. Ithink the men who prepared the Constitution intended for ques tions of Constitutionality to be resolved either by the Congress or by Special Conventions of States. Under the Constitution the Fed- <eral power was not to act in intra .state affairs; the matter of inter state exchange of goods suggest ed that the Federal power regulate such exchanges so that one State might not be harshly and arbi trarily tax goods from another State. Here it is: fifty million people paying taxes and fifty million peo ple borrowing that tax money at less than even the Government pays for borrowed money and then lets them operate virtually with out paying taxes! And this is the land of the free! Free to tax one group harshly, ar bitrarily, confiscatorially, while From ji.-all creatures invisible to the naked eye—teeming millions of them in a t ubic inch of water— to the great whales, ru ts the ani mal life of the sea. Its tropical and semi-iropical waters are lay er upon layer of life communities, starting at the very bottom of the sea and extending to the surface. Equally i ich in abundance of form and s'ze with the sea’s ani mal life is its plant life. It too starts with tiny forms visible only with the microscope apd continues up to the great tree of the sia, the giving or lending that money to a| giant kelp, favored group and for the benefit Feeding in their marine pasture, of a preferred element of our peo- sea animals are supplied with food ( pie. Do you wonder that many citi zens have their hands out, always trying to get something before the politicians give it all to someone else ? And now we have another type of misgovernment: the direct giv ing away of fifty billion dollars of tax money in fifteen years to foreign people. We impose and continue to col lect taxes which discourage thrift and investment, still to the incred ible extent of 52%—more than half the earnings of a corporate enterprise; and with a wholly uni- quitous and indefensible personal income tax rising to 91% of in come! That was an inspiration we re ceived from the Communists in the diabolical plan to take from a man most of his earnings and so to dis hearten him that he would become a Socialist and a Communist. And so has sunk the great land of the Pilgrims pride! I would not leave the subject with that doleful tune. Other na tions have risen from the ashes of their dead selves to higher things. So may we ! There may be some boy in so abundant, so rich in vital ele ments that theip rate of increase is many times greater than that of land-dwelling creatures. Why does life flourish so much more abund antly in the sea than on the land? Why are people whose diet in cludes much seafood practically free from certain disturbances to which others are subject? The answer lies in the complete ness of the sea’s supply of mineral matter needed for health. Sea plants grow in a mineral-rich med ium. They lake from this source and store up these important min erals. When seafood, either plant or animal, is eaten, these minerals are reabsorbed and perform their marvelous chemical functions of regulation and correction. The numerous elements coming from the sea, cne of the most important of which is iodine, furnish too fi nal essential link in the balanced aiet. The most essential mineral ele ments of the body composition, in the c.'.er of their apparent import ance, are iodine, copper, calcium, phosphoius, manganese, sodium, potasium, magnesium, chlorine, and sulfur. All but the first of these, iodine, which is a native of the sea, have their source in the soil. We would naturally suppose school today who will lead this nation back to some degree of sim-j that when we eat products of the plicity, guided by the spirit of soil we should secure an ample the Most High and highly resolved to rebuild our nation on the en during foundations of truth and justice. I must say again that although ACROSS From The Barnesboro Star, Barnesboro, Pa.: In this age of supersonic rockets and jets, it is not a cliche to say the world is shrinking. Because as you look around, lots of things on our planet ac tually are shrinking. In recent years—even months— something has happened to ties, cars, turkeys, radios, telephones, cereal boxes. They’re getting smaller, narrower, thinner . . . shrinking. Take compact cars. They twist and fit into parking spaces the old time cars couldn’t even enter end wise. Or take one of your ties and put it next to the neckwear you wore a year or two ago. It’s half the width. And look at most hat brims. They used to be about three inches wide, even more. Now they’re less than two. Speaking about clothes, your old suits would look peculiar if you wore them today. The modem lapel is half the width of a few years ago. And the bulky shoulders are now passe—hail the slender “natural” shoulders! IDEAS FROM OTHER EDITORS But the process of miniaturiza tion doesn’t stop there. As Alice in Wonderland would say, “My, my! Everything’s getting littler and littler!” Turkeys are “reduced” — and how! The one-time husky 10 or 12 pound birds that could feed a family for a week around Thanks giving time are nix. Today’s “fam ily-size birds are two or three pounds. You can consume them easily at one meal. The fat round cigars are now “cigarillos.” Radios are so small you don’t merely carry them in your pocket—you can fit some of them into your wallet! . . . And look around in the modern grocery. Cereals now come in “in dividual serving” boxes, not big containers. You can buy a loaf of bread with but eight slices; or a can of vegetables to provide one serving. Frankfurters come in “cocktail” size . . . Not to mention—and we do so with a distinct note of sadness— the shrinking dollar. For those who long for the good old days— this is the one sad note in the j whole story. supply of them. That is no doubt what Nature intended. But Nature did not forsee that man would re move the trees and other growth, allowing the rains to erode the soil, leaching out the essential minerals and, by means of our creeks and rivers, carrying them down to the sea. The result has been mineral-starveu soils, in turn producing mineral-starved foods. The obvious result is that hu mans, who depend upon these min eral-starved foods for our supply of minerals, are literally starving in the midst of plenty.” TRANSFERS OF REALTY Newberry No. 1 Donald E. Morris to Cecil E. Merchant Jr., one lot and one building, 412 Green St., $5.00 and other valuable considerations. Thomasena Boozer Price to Carnell Sims, one lot and one building, S. Main St., $800. Mary Emma Owens to William C. Armfield and Doris Jean G. Armfield, one lot and one building on Market St., $10.00 and other valuable considerations. Prosperity No. 7 William G. Pitts and Dorothy J. Pitts to T. J. McNease, one lot $5.00 and other valuable consid erations. C. S. Holland to Boyd L. Jor dan, one lot, $5.00 and other val uable considerations. R. C. Lake Sr., to William C. Armfield and Doris Jean G. Arm- field, one lot, $10.00 and other valuable considerations. 'j r / hA A 1 j <? < j i <; c. ” u * O b < D E R Of more than passing interest is some of the testimony being taken in the hearings by a Fed eral examiner of the affairs of Fox Markets, now operating under Chapter XI of the Bank ruptcy Act. * • * This 45 unit food chain In Los Angeles recently found Itself unable to pay more than $10 million owed princi pally to pack- e r s and wholesalers. mm* Two items especially, c. W. Harder so far, are of great interest as a comment on contemporary times and business mores. « • • Edwin J. Fox has already testified that one of the nation's largest dairy operations made it possible for him to get a half million dollar bank loan. * * « Asked why the dairy com pany “cooperated” to make it possible for him to get this loan, Mr. Fox said “I was able to put their products into Fox Markets.” * * m Thus, it hi established, that until the dairy company “co operated” it was seemingly im possible for Mr. Fox to stock their products in Fox Markets. * * * Mr. Fox himself testifies in his opinion that the biggest fac tor in the chain getting into dis tress was trading stamps. His markets handed out the old est nationally known trading stamps, while most of his com petitors give out Blue Chip stamps. * m m Blue Chip stamps are owned and controlled by a number of O National I''eil?r»tlon ul Independent Business market operators in California and was presumably set up to drive other trading stamps out of the market and eventually eliminate trading stamps. As Blue Chip stamps are operated without any desire for a profit, it is reputed they give more value per stamp than their competitors. * * • Mr. Fox said he underesti mated the power that Blue Chip stamps would have in the Los Angeles market, with the result that his markets did not draw the volume of patronage he h?d projected. V'Y” * * * It is interesting to note in the list of published creditors that the largest creditor, by a substantial margin, with the exception of a bank loan. Is the trading stamps company with which Fox Markets did busi ness. * * * The records show that this stamp company alone is owed more than $600 thousand. * * * ‘Tills then shows np one of the merchandising fallacies of the times. One is the widespread feeling spread among consum ers that trading stamps are a “something for nothing” de vice. * * * As illustrated by the Fox ex ample, when stamps are given out, they are a major part of store overhead and must be passed on to the consumer in some rpanner. * * v A business depending on a build up there is being given something for nothing is built on shifting sands, as it will col lapse when anyone comes along and sells the idea they will give even more for nothing. Perhaps it could be said that Fox was out-foxed. NECKS IN LINE . . . Newsstand operated by Mrs. Anna-Lisa Sc harp at Stockholm, Sweden, caters to swans, but not as regular customers, Mrs. Scharp supplements their meager winter diet with handouts. -- 0W NEW MODEL . . . Workman at J. Tarrant & Sons in Killarney, Ireland, puts the finishing touches on this latest ‘model of a “jaunt ing car,” used to transport tourists on sightseeing trips. by Tom Dorr TAKE MV BOV FRIEND, FOR INSTANCE..ANY TIME THE KIDS AT SCHOOL HAVE A PROBLEM- Announcements FOR MAYOR I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Mayor and pledge myself to abide the re sults of the City Democratic Pri mary. CHARLIE ALTMAN 1 I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Mayor and pledge myself to abide the re- [ suits of the City Democratic Pri- i mary. J. HOWARD COOK, JR. ( ’ I hereby announce myself a can didate for re-election to the of fice of Mayor, and pledge myself to abide the results of the Demo- 1 cratic primary. ERNEST H. LAYTON ALDERMAN WARD 1 I hereby announce myself a can didate for re-electjon to the posi tion of Alderman, Ward 1, and pledge myself to abide the results of the Democratic Primary. O. F, ARMFIELD, JR. ALDERMAN, WARD 2 didate for the office of Alderman, didate for the office of Alderman, Ward 2, and pledge myself to abide the results of the Democratic Pri mary. GEORGE W. HELLER I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the of fice of Alderman, Ward 2 and pledge myself to abide the results of the City Democratic Primary. C. A. DUFFORD, SR. The National Safety Council says: Be sure your wind shield wiper blades and arms are in perfect condition. You -eed one ounce of arm oressure for each inch of rub ber blade length to sweep rain or road spray, instead of sliding over it and causing poor visibility. .ALDERMAN WARD 3 I hereby announce myself a can didate for re-election to the posi tion of Alderman, Ward ,3,_ and pledge myself to abide the results of the Democratic Primary, CLARENCE A. SHEALY, JR.’ I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Al derman, Ward 3 and pledge myself to abide the results of the Demo cratic Primary. S. D. (BOZO) PAYSINGER ALDERMAN WARD 4 I hereby announce myself a can- diate for election to the position of Alderman, Ward 4, and pledge myself to abide the results of the Democratic primary. JIMMIE B. DAVENPORT FOR ALDERMAN WARD 4 I hereby announce myself a can didate for reelection to the office of alderman Ward 4 and pledge myself to abide the results of the democratic primary election. CLARENCE B. DeHART. ALDERMAN WARD 5 I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the of fice of Alderman, Ward 5, and pledge myself to abide the results of the Democratic primary. CECIL E. MERCHANT ALDERMAN, WARD 5~ I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Al derman Ward 5 and pledge my self to abide the results of the Democratic Primary. CECIL E. KINARD FOR ALDERMAN WARD 6 I hereby announce myself a can didate for reelection to the office of alderman Ward 6 and pledge myself to abide the results of the democratic primary election. D. W. JONES. 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