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THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN
A respected member of the
South Carolina House of Repre
sentatives did me the honor to
write a good letter expressing his
dissent from some remarks of
mine. I think he reads my Specta
tor as an earnest student, agree
ing with me sometimes; disagree
ing at other times. I appreciated
a candid critic because if he is not
right I have the opportunity to
offer an explanation; if he is
right he may convince me and be
of service to me.
I suggested, as I recall, that we
have too many agencies at work
in our effort to appropriate mon
ey. My friend, Ithink, dissents a-
bout that. As you know, the
State Budget Commission, now
called by another name, invites
all State agencies to submit a
proposed budget. The State Com
mission, composed of the Gover
nor, to officials of the General
Assembly, and others, threshes
out all the proposals and makes
recommendation to the General
Assembly. All that is Point 1. A
week or so before the General
Assembly meets the Ways and
Means Committee of the House
meets for special study of the
proposed budget. All is threshed
out again, with or without change,
The Ways and Means Committee
adopts a proposed budget and
submits it to the House. The
House debates it and acts inde
pendently, then sends the budget
as adopted by the the House to
the Senate.
The Senate refers the proposed
bill to its Finance Committee
which holds the bill in cold storage
for some w r eeks and then it sub
mits the bill, as modified by that
Senate Committee, to the Senate.
Then the whole Senate acts up
on it.
I think the point my friend
makes is that unless the members
of the House and Senate have the
right and privilege to amend the
bill as proposed by the Committ
ees and Budget Commission the
members are denied the oppor
tunity to exefeise their rights and
privilege as members. I do not
deny or challenge that: it would
be a government by selected
groups (Committees) if the mem
bers were denied the right to act
according to their judgment by
proposing amendments. He is
right; we do not want a govern
ment by the few; every member
has an obligation to act according
to his judgment in voting, or pro
posing amendments.
As to my frequent remark that
the Budget Commission is an or
ganization in express violation of
the Constitution I cite and quote
the Constitution: Sec. 14 of Art.
1: “In the government of this
State the legislative, executive and
judicial powers of the Govern-
ment shall be forever separate
and distinct from each other, and
no person or persons exercising
the functions of one of said de
partments shall assume or dis
charge the duties of any other.”
I need not dwell on that, how
ever, for we can find other infrac
tions, as Art. 4, Sec. 17, as to the
Governor: “He shall commission
all officers of the State.” That
was based on the Constitution of
the United States and vests in
the Governo’’ all appointments.
I need not insist on declaring
that legislators are State officials:
they are State officials, but they
usually dictate to County offi
cials and are really a super-gov
ernment. The grip that a legisla
tor has over his county is, in part,
based on the so-called County
Supply bill, the County budget,
which is prepared in Columbia and
which passes through House and
Senate and bears the Governor’s
signature, though the people back
home have little, if any knowledge
of the details until they call on
the County Treasurer to pay
taxes.
Are you tired of discussing
County and State matters? That
is our trouble; we don’t know and
don t care about such things. In
some counties the County Supply
bill is quite a secret. I’m told: it
is not filed for public information
nor is it available, many tell me.
So there we are. Our lack of
information is amazing. Now and
then I read of some Commission
in Washington making a grant
of hundreds of thousands of dol
lars to some purely local public
service. I wonder if we might ask
our Congressmen for a list of
Government agencies which have
discretionary power to make these
grants. What say you?
Just talking at random about
the Constitution, have we thought
of Section 30 of Article 3, which
says: “The General Assembly
shall never grant extra compen
sation, fee, or allowance to any
public officer, agent, servant or
contractor after service rendered.”
Browsing around, “M using
there an hour alone, I dreamed
that Greece might still (or yet)
be free,” as I think Byron said.
So there, I was musing there won
dering if our Constitution might
still (or yet) be in effect, I found
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15 Rank
16 Puccini
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17 Invade
19 Aquatic
mammal
20 Corporate:
abbr.
21 Anglo-Saxon
' slave
22 Pewter coin
23 A direction
24 Cooked
26 Turf
28 —- and
downs
29 Shine
32 Allotment
35 Muck
36 Swedish
coin
37 Lively song
38 Exchanges
39 Develop
40 Fitting
41 Shadow
42 Surmise
43 Time limit
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51 Measure \
53 Greeted
54 Direction
55 Lip
56 Arose
(2 wds.)
58 Dodking toll
60 Idolize
61 Jot
62 College
Eng.
63 Discourage
64 Bustles
85 Green (obs.)
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1 Pueblo
Indians
2 About
3 Therefore
4 Form of
to be
5 Morgans
6 Impofo
7 Ceremony
8 Poem
9 Cache
10 Potassium
carbonate
12 High cards
13 Unusual
18 Cajole
22 Prunes
25 Uncle's wife
26 Grumble
27 Nest-egg
29 Dandy
30 Cupid
31 Tidings
32 Pleased
33 Mellow
34 Raised
structure
35 Long necked
birds
38 Transfer
39 Brief blast
41 Stringpiece
42 Great relish
44 Coy
45 Engages
47 "IPSO "
48 Furious
49 Strength
50 Correct
51 Knight's oath
52 Style
54 Tennyson
character
57 Small child
58 Medical
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motor
this: “The provisions of the Cons-J word
titution shall be taken, deemed' Carolina. Since so much of
and construed to be mandatory,
published news deals with
etc.”
Just think of that! Wouldn’t it
be a good idea to require Presi
dents, Senators and Representa
tives in Congress to read the
Constitution ?
All officials of counties, cities
and of the State swear solemnly
to “preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution of this State.”
So what?
Shall we talk about money? We
talk about money all the time,
don’t we? We don’t know much
about it and it doesn’t stay with
us long enough to enable us to
become intimate, you might say.
Still, here is something about
money, going back to those days
when we almost regretted that
the Latin books were not burned,
buried and forgotten along with
Caesar, Cicero and all those
worthies who once made the old
City in the Tyber the invincible
capital of the world.
“Four thousand years ago, the
earliest known record of a loan
was made, inscribed, and baked
into a clay tablet of Babylon. The
borrowing and lending of money,
and the safeguarding of valuables
have been taking place almost
since the dawn of civilization.
These functions were common
centuries before the coinage of
money. (The word shekels, refers
not to coins but to a given weight
of silver. Shekels as coins did not
exist until the 17th century B.C.)
The age of the financial busi
ness is revealed in the origin of
its language. For example, a tell
er is not aperson who goes about
telling things. Rather, he is prin
cipally occupied in counting, as
was the case centuries ago when
the Anglo-Saxon word “tellan”
meant to count. The Dutch tellen,
the Greek zablen, the old High
German ze’len, the old Norse
telja, and the Danish taelle have
the same meaning.
The first money that a teller
counted was minted in the an
cient temple of June at Rome.
Juno was popularly known as
Moneta, a name that has given
us the two words, money and
mint. In an agrarian society, a
man’s wealth was measured by
the number of cattle he owned.
Our word, pecuniary, is derived
from the Latin word Pecus which
means cattle. And the term cap
ital comes from caput, a word
meaning head. The capital of a
pastoral people was measured by
the number of head of cattle pos
sessed.”
I’ve cited and quoted Raymond
Moley frequently: he was the
guiding intellect of the Franklin
Roosevelt regime in the days in
Albany and then in Washington.
Mr. Moley is a man of ripe
scholarship with practical grasp
of the policies, programs and pre
tensions of government.
I quote him:
New Orleans—Without offering
any invidious c«nny>arisons among
the Southern states which I have
visited on this trip, a special
should be said about South
the
con
flicts, the quiet which has pre
vailed in race relations in South
Carolina has scarcely been noted
in the past three years. Without
surrendering the basic principle
of state sovereignty expounded
many years ago by its most dis
tinguished son, John C. Calhoun,
South Carolina has remained
reasonable and progressive.
This condition has not been ac
cidental. It has been man-made.
During the past three decades
South Carolina has sent no dem
agogues to Congress and no dem
agogue has occupied the gover
nor’s office. The sociologists’ at
tribution of poverty as the major
cause of social unrest cannot be
relied upon because South Caro
lina, in average income, is one of
the least opulent of the States.
Nor is the relative freedom from
incidents due to lack of threats
XT' are between the ages of,
say, 58 and 65. You are pre
paring yourself mentally for the
retirement you know must come
soon after your 65th birthday.
You’re having a little trouble
with it.
<Ycu were born between 1898
and 1905. You finished high school
from about 1916 to 1923. That is,
if You were lucky you did. Many
bays in that era weren’t able to
finish high school. You got your
college diploma from about 1920
to 1927. Except that you probably
didn’t. Very few men now ap
proaching retirement got a college
education.
This frets you as you try to sell
yourself the idea that your retire
ment is a good, natural, and posi
tive thing. Because you see all
around you men with college de
grees, eager-beavers who are
pushing and pushing—sometimes
making you look silly and always
bucking for your job. You come to
think that you are an old fogy,
used up and washed out, and so
outclassed by the privileged men,
that you are fit only for the re
tirement you have been sentenced
to.
Be consoled by the knowledge
that it has always been this way.
You, with a high school diploma,
pushed the man ahead of you who
had finished only the fifth grade.
Just as the man with the college
diploma (and there are lots of
them since the G.I. Bill of World
War II) now pushes you.
But the eager-beavers who make
you feel inferior are already feel
ing a hot breath down their necks
—from the boys who came along
later and got not just a college
diploma but a Master’s Degree.
by pro integration organizations.
While they have made threats,
they have realized that there
would be very limited response to
their efforts to kindle passions
and create disorderly demonstra
tions among South Carolina’s
negroes.
Izaak Walton left some obser
vations of his wisdom:
“But, my worthy friend, as 1
would rather prove myself a
gentleman by being learned and
humble, valiant and inoffensive,
virtuous and communicable, than
by any fond ostentation of riches;
or, wanting those virtues myself,
boast that these were in my an
cestors (and yet I grant that
where a noble and ancient des
cent and such merit meet in any
man, it is a double dignification
of that person.”)
And on that, I shall tell you
that in ancient times a debate
hath arisen, and it remains yet
unresolved: whether the happi-
So, if you feel obsolete and sus
pect this is why you are being re
tired, be reminded that you are a
natural link in the progressing
pattern of life. What is happen
ing to you has been, is, and will
be, happening to everybody else.
And since you are able to sub
scribe to a newspaper—or you
wouldn’t be reading this—you
have done pretty well with your
life, in your time upon the stage.
Figures from the Institute of Life
Insurance show just how well:
The average income of Ameri
can men who had less than eight
years of schooling is $3,483 a year
You make more than that.
(All these figures are based on
1961 U.S. Census reports, and
cover men 25 to 64 years old.)
The average income of those
who completed one to three years
of high school is $5,305, or $102 a
week. You beat that.
And for those with a high school
diploma the average is $6,102, or
about $118 a week. Again prob
ably less than you’ve been mak
ing.
Many of you have probably been
making around $150 a week. The
Institute of Life Insurance study
shows that this is more than the
average income of all men who
have finished one to three years
of college, which is about $142 a
week. Some of you have been
making up to $183 a week, which
is the average income of men who
have won a college diploma.
And a goodly number of you
never got beyond the seventh
grade in school. Because you had
to help Pa on the farm.
JVew GOLDEN YEARS 36-page booklet
now ready. Send 50# in coin (no stamps),
to Dept. CSPS, Box 1672, Grand Central
Station, New York 17, N. Y.
A BETTER PERSPECTIVE
FOR MEN NOW 58 TO 65
ARE YOU
LISTENING?
BY
EARL
WILSON
The sa 1 vation which comes into
a person’s life is extremely per
sonal. It is such a close union with
God that it causes that person to
feel that he is the only one to
have received this fulness in
Christ. This feeling of oneness in
Christ is the source of strength
for the Christian. It makes him
feel that God has given all his
time and wisdom in personal care
for him alone. Once such a union
is formed it is one that will last
forever. Many ties that are made
on earth are' easily broken. Mar
riages can end in divorce; busi
nesses can be dissolved; partner
ships can cease; but this is not
true of the union which exists be
tween a man and Christ.
Does this mean that a person
can no longer sin ? By no means.
Christian do sin, but they do not
have to go through God to be sav
ed again. When we were saved we
were saved forever. We may be
out of fellowship with God, but
we will never be out of relation
ship with him. God is always the
father of the Christian. We may
be out of communion with him
ness of man in this world doth
consist more in contemplation or
action?”.
but we are never out of union with
God. We will always be a mem
ber of his family once we have
given our all to him. The sin
ning Christian may lose his joy
but never his salvation. The grace
of God is greater than all the sin
in the world, and his grace is suf-
licient to keep us in his love. If
you have repented of your sins,
believed on the only begotten son
of God, and confessed him as
your Saviour before men, then
you have all the assurance of
God’s word that you have passed
from death unto life. The Bible
says: “And this is the record,
that God hath given to us eternal
life, and this life is in his Son. He
that hath the Son hath life; and
he that hath not the Son of God
hath not life. These things have
I written unto you that believe on
the name of the Son of God; that
ye may know that ye have eternal
life, and that ye may believe on
the name of the Son of God.”
Are you listening?
MEN IN SERVICE
FORT BLISS, TEX. (AHTNC)
—Pvt. James B. Carter, son of
William H. Carter, 1109 Amelia
street, completed advanced train
ing as an operations and intelli
gence assistant under the Reserve
Enlistment program at the Army
Air Defense School, Fort Bliss,
Tex., March 13.
Carter was trained in crypto
graphy, radio communications,
map reading and dissemination of
radar information.
The 22-year-old soldier com
pleted basic training at Fort
Jackson.
A 1959 graduate of Newberry
High school, he attended Wofford
college, Spartanburg.
BIRTHS «
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COLEMAN
Mr. and Mrs. George Mellwood
Coleman, Route 5, Saluda an
nounce the birth of an eight
pound, 14 ounce daughter, Helen,
on March 19 at Newberry County
Memorial hospital. Mrs. Coleman
is the former Dorothy Elinor
Mills.
SHEALY
Mr. anu Mrs. Stephen Russell
Shealy of Little Mountain an
nounce the birth of an eight pound
six ounce son, Bradley Carroll, on
March at Newberry County Mem
orial hospital. Mrs. Shealy is the
former Carolyn Louise Koon.
HENDRIX
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Arthur
Hendrix of Route 1 announce the
birth of a seven pound daughter,
Linda Gaill on March 21 at the
Newberry County Memorial hos
pital. Mrs. Hendrix is the former
Linda Jeanette Ginn.
KINARD
Mr. and Mrs. William Harvey
Kinard of Route 1 announce the
birth of a six pound, 10 ounce
son, William Travis, on March 22
at the Newberry County Memor
ial hospital. Mrs. Kinard is the
former Mary Maxine Brigmam
HITE .
Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Wendell
Hite of Route 2 announce the
birth of a seven pound, 13 ounce
son, Travis Dion, on March 24 at
Newberry County Memorial hos
pital. Mrs. Hite is the former Ed
ith Ruth Connelly.
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Over your 40 earning years from age 26 to 65, you'll
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$120,000. Income of $6,000 a year totals $240,000. Many
make much more than that. Think of it, a quarter-mil-
lion Dollars!
How much have you saved for yourself? How much do
you wish you had saved?
We have a plan to guarantee independence for you wheth
er you "Live" to see your plan completed or "Die" before
completing it. Our monthly savings plan can be "Insured"
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