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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Two items
especially, c. W. Harder
so far, are of great interest as
a comment on contemporary
times and business mores.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The records show that this
stamp company alone is owed
more than $600 thousand.
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‘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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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