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I PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1964 nn 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 0. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry, South Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN How’s this for a starter; or should I ask “How’s this for a startler?’’ Brace yourself for a shock: “The debts of America’s states and towns have rocketed 448 per cent since World War II. This increase in the little-notic ed indebtedness of states and mu nicipalities has far outstripped the growth of the highly publi cized Federal debt, which has ed ged up on 13 per cent in the same period. States and cities now account for 22 per cent of all public debt, up from 5 per cent in 1946. ‘The growth of this debt in the last few years has been phenom enal’, declares Arthur Levitt, New York’s comptroller. Mr. Levitt contends that many bonds cur rently being issued by states vio late their constitutions’ require ments that bond issues be approv ed by voters. I State and local debt ((generally lumped together as ‘municipal’ debt) would have grown even faster, say bankers, without a sharp rise in aid from the Fed eral Government; this aid has en abled many states and towns to avoid issuing their own bonds to finance such improvements as highways and housing. Federal aid payments to states and cities rose to more than $7 billion last year from $855 million in 1946, according to the Tax Foundation a non-profit research organiza tion. Most municipal debt is in the form of bonds issued by states, school districts, water and sewage authorities and towns. In 1963, $10,1 billion of these bonds were issued and about $3.9 billion were ; repaid; the net increase was $6.9 ] billion. The latest figures avail able show that individuals and I trust funds own about $32 bil- j lion of municipal bonds, or more l than a third of those outstanding. | Commercial banks own $30 mil- j lion, insurance companies own $15 billion and corporations and other investors own the rest. Municipal bonds have long been favorite investments of wealthy individuals in high income brack ets, because interest paid on them is exempt from Federal income taxes. Interest on Fede;-al Gov ernment and corporate bonds, by contrast, is fully taxable. And al though the amount of municipal bonds issued each year has doub led since 1952, investors' demand has been keeping pace. Education is the purpose for which much state and local debt exists. Nearly one-third of the $10.1 billion of municipal bonds sold last year were to finance school buildings. A fifth were for water and sewer lines, a tenth for highways and refunding of previous bonds, and the rest for miscellaneous purposes. This growing debt also tends to raise state and local taxes. Tax revenues must be used to main tain and operate most of the faci lities built with the proceeds of bond issues, as well as to pay in terest on and eventually to retire the bonds. State and local taxes have climbed 326 per cent since 1946, the Tax Foundation esti mates.” I’ve said before that much of my early work was time more or less wasted. I approached the Federal Cons- SENATOR STRO HURMOND Reports PEOPLE The Privilege of Voting SOUTH CAROLINIANS have demonstrated that they do not believe in denying the vote to qualified persons. Since 1957 when it was created, the Civil Rights Commission has not re ceived one sworn voting com plaint from South Carolina. The U. S. Attorney General launched investigations in sev eral counties, but could find nothing on which to base even one suit. STRICTLY SPEAKING, the exercise of the ballot is not a * “civil right;” it is a privilege. Nevertheless, there seems to have been established a prece dent that voting provisions are an essential ingredient of ANY so-called civil rights bill. THE BILL before the Senate follows the precedent. Both Ti tles I and VIII deal with vot ing. These provisions would: (1) specify what matters are mate rial in determining voter eligi- '< bility; (2) establish conditions under which a literacy test could be given; (8) establish a pre sumption that anyone who com pletes 6 years of school meets State literacy requirements; (4) provide for voting cases to be tried by special 3-judge Federal courts; and (5) authorize the compiling of voting statistics by race in only those areas selected by the Civil Rights Commission. WHILE THESE provisions are less alarming than some of the titles of the bill, the; are un constitutional, unneeded, dis criminatory, and ill-conceived for the purposes attributed to them by their proponents. ARTICLE I, Section 2 of the Constitution establishes the qual ifications of those who vote for federal officers as those “requi site for electors (voters) of the most numerous branch of the State legislature.” Subsequent amendments to the Constitution provided that these qualifica tions cannot be based on race, color, or sex, but did not alter the basic qualifications. Indeed, 125 years after the Constitution was adopted, the same verbiage on qualifications to vote were repeated in the 17th Amend ment. Thus the States, when they fix the qualifications of voters to elect the members of the State legislature, automat ically fix the qualifications of voters for federal officers. THE CONSTITUTION re serves to the States the power to regulate the “time, place, and manner” of electing Senators and Representatives. The Con gress is given the power to change the time and manner, but it is given no power to fix or alter voter qualifications. This could only be done by amending the Constitution. Despite the Constitution, this bill would have the Congress fix voter qualifications. A State can im pose a literacy standard requir ing a high school, or even a col lege education, and any attempt by the Congress' to substitute a 6th grade standard for all States is unconstitutional. Similarly, the power of a State to prescribe a literacy test includes the pow er to prescribe how it will be given, and so long as the State law does not provide different tests for different races, colors, or sexes, Congress has no con stitutional power to interfere. BY DEFINING a “federal election” as one held “solely or in part” to elect federal officers, this bill would be made appli cable even to State elections in South Carolina and 45 other States. THE VOTING provisions are unneeded, because there are al ready 15 federal statutes on the books protecting the pri ' ge of voting, in addition to all the State laws. Under the 1957 law, the U. S. Attorney General can even bring a suit in the name of the U. S. to protect a person’s voting privileges. „ BY AUTHORIZING the Civil Rights Commission to select the areas in which voting statistics are to be compiled, rather than having them compiled over the entire country, the authors of the bill hope ultimately to de prive the South of its fair share of representation in Congress. This is discrimination at its worst in what purports to be an “anti-discrimination” bill. THE VOTING provisions would not help members of min ority groups to vote if they are illegally denied that privilege. Under present law, a person must go into court to protect or enforce his right to vote if it is denied. If the bill were passed, a person illegally denied the right to vote would still have to go into court for his remedy. THERE IS out one real effect of passage of these voting pro visions—the vesting of uncon stitutional power over voting in the Federal Government and thus federal control of elections. » Sincerely, titution with great respect: I held somewhat in reverence the 1895 Constitution of South Carolina, although it is a jumble of con flicting provisions. But both Con stitutions now rest in glass cases and are read, if at all, only by lawyers hoping to find a loop hole for dubious cases; legisla tors in Congress and in Columbia don’t waste their time studying Constitutions. The student of my early days 1 would marvel at almost every pre sent-day act of the Federal Gov ernment. Today the President plunges us into military expedi tions and hundreds of millions of dollars as a sort of Executive whim. Apparently no Act of Con gress is necessary. Congress feeb ly stumbles along, following the President, then Congress at the behest of the President imposes taxes on everything; more or less; and taxes not only what is paid in wages before the wage-earner re ceives it, but takes another step and compells other taxpayers to estimate their income for a year in advance and then to pay the Federal tax on that estimate quarterly in advance. No authority on the Constitut ion or fiscal finance ever imagin ed this even in his most fervent dreams. Mr. Roosevelt was the master-mind who grasped at every suggestion for more power. Today the Federal Government moves in every direction to assume and exercise more power. If the Prebident can’t suggest new t^urdens, new encroachments, some bright mind in Congress will have a nightmare, all tending to aggrandize the Federal power, sometimes under the pretext of giving help. This so-called Rights Bill is a flagrant example of a weak-kneed Congress meekly and supinely following a bombastic pretension to larger liberty for all the people. In other words a hundred and eighty million people will be denied their liberty in or der to curry favor with twenty million people who' are blatantly represented by a few thousand as piring and would-be leaders. This _ a rather disgusting example of tft*. political power of a few who claim to represent many of the twenty million who know virtually nothing about all this pow-wow. America is a country which has prospuered largely through com petent business leadership. But even America can suffer from the politicians who hope to become known as gladiators of the down trodden poor- man. It may amaze you but what we need is more strong, successful men. That we have kindly consid eration for the poor and the weak is part and parcel of our religion. But no nation can be strong with out strong men: we need strong, resourceful, vigorous men of im agination and courage in order to buildand maintain a nation which can do something for the poor and the unfortunate. But if we dis hearten the great business build ers we shall all be too poor to help one another. Dean Manion FARM fj NOTESluBrs In books we find the treasures of great minds and great spirits how refreshing to commune with the thinkers and executives of proved ability and notable achieve ment. However, I suggest that we not become merely bookish, for that enfeebles the mind rath er than strengthening it: we must use books to awaken or stimulate the full power we can generate. Don’t you like to turn aside from the grim obligations of our citizenship and our daily labors in business? Well, I thought I would enjoy browsing among my books for a bit of intellectual re freshment. Unfortunately my books haven’t recovered from my absence in Europe and South Am erica: they fill space, but in con fusion. I thought I might profit ably and happily browse a bit with some of the wise men of the past, as they once impressed me and caused me to mark some passages. Now I go back to schol astic thrills for a bit. Let u s see whether you enjoy this with me for a change. William Caxton, the first Eng lish printer: let us drink of wis dom: “Also a knight ought to be wise, liberal, true, strong, and full of mercy and pity, and keeper of the people, and of the law, and right as chivalry passeth other in virtue, in dignity, in honor, and in reverence, right so ought he to surmount all other in virtue; for honor is nothing else but to do reverence to another person for the good and virtuous disposition that is in him.” You remember Sir Walter Ral eigh, the courtly knight who threw the coat to the ground for Queen Elizabeth to walk over. Says he: “For there is no man so assured of his honor, of his riches, health, or life but that he may be deprived of either, or all, the very next hour or day to come.” Francis Bacon, one of the great est intellects of history spoke words of wisdom: “Defer not charities till death; for, certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man’s than of his own.” “Men of age object too much, THE MANION FORUM The standard established by long lines of previous court decisions, known to the legal profession as the doctrine of stare decisis, is the only lamp that li.rhts the lawyer’s way through the oractice of his profession. That doctrine has not lost its value in the field ol Con stitutional law. Unless conscientious, Constitu tional lawyers in the United States Senate can manage, against tre mendous political pressures, to prevail, the odds are overwhelm ingly that every one of the pro visions of the so-called “Civil Rights” bill will be fully enforced exactly as written, the Constitu tion to the contrary notwithstand ing The very first sentence of the bill says: “A bill to enforce the Constitutional right to vote.” Everybody is for that. But what is this “right to vote” that is said to be protected by the Con stitution ? The Constitution provides for the popular election of members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives but it leaves the qualification of those who vote for these officials to the laws of the several states. These voters, says the Constitution, “shall have the qualifications requisite for Elector's of the most numerous Branch of the State legislature.” Thus if you can vote under the state law for a member of the lower House of your State legis lature, you are automatically qual ified to vote for your Congress man or Senator. Beyond this, you have no “Constitutional right to vote.” Voter qualifications are left to state law, with some im portant restrictions set up in the 14th, 15th and 19th Amendments. The 14th Amendment says that when any state deprives any male citizen of the United States, who is 21 years of age, and not a con victed criminal, of the right to vote, the representation of that state in Congress shall be cut down in the proportion that such disfranchised persons bears to the whole number of male citiz ens 21 years of age in such state. For some reason, Congress has never enforced that provision and it is not proposed in the present Civil Rights Bill. But the 14th Amendment certainly does not give anybody “the Constitutional right to vote.” The 15th Amendment says that citizens of the United States shall not be denied the right to vote by any state on account of race or color. If any state attempts to establish a color qualification for voting, Congress can and should pass legislation to prevent such a qualification. But the Civil Rights Bill does not do that. It says no thing about people who are de prived of the right to vote on ac count of color or sex (which would be prohibited by the 19th Amend ment) but simply sets up Fed eral machinery for the enforce ment of state voting and regis tration laws. The basic designation of this legislation as “A bill to enforce the Constitutional right to vote” is a dishonest, unconstitutional, usurpation of a vital function that consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with mediocrity.” “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writ ing an exact man.” John Milton was a great schol ar, as well as a great thinker: “I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform just ly, skillfully and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.” Dryden on Shakespeare says a lot in a few words: “To begin, then, with Shakes peare. He was the man who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the im ages of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not lab oriously, but luckily. When he describes anything, you more than see it—you feel it too. Those who accused him to have wanted learn ing, give him the greater commen dation. He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found • her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so. I should do him in jury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high &- bove the rest of the poets.” •'liHiiiiiiiiimiiii Now It’s Spring? We thought it was. But last week has about changed our mind. Too bad the state’s peach crop appears wiped out. Lots of folks look forward each year to some good eatin’ of South Carolina peaches. But that’s what the far mer is always up against. Flood, hail, freeze, or pestilence can wipe him out in a minute, but each spring he always bounces back with the feeling of “this year’s gonna’ be better than last year.” May it ever be so! Crop Goals For 1964 While this year seems a good year not to have peaches as our main cash crop, let’s consider some of the crops we will be planting shortly. COTTON is still the most im portant crop on many of our farms. But let’s face the facts. Our yield per acre is still too low on most of our farms. Yet last year was not an especially good cotton year, and still a few of our cotton farmers averaged over a bale per acre. Twenty-one New berry county farmers enrolled in the 5 Acre Cotton Contest averag ed right at a bale and a half per acre. Their secret?’ It’s available to everybody. In short, it’s using adequate fertilizer plus positive insect control along with other proven practices of good seed, proper planting, cultivation, etc. These farmers have found it takes about 1000 pounds of fertilizer, including topdressing and 10 to 14 applications of poison applied on schedule. Too expensive, some will argue. Yes, it is expensive, but the returns per acre have also proven greater and those who stay in the cotton growing business will no doubt be those who follow this high cost but high return sys tem. COfcN continues an important crop, especially for silage here in Newberry county. But we can’t help but wonder how some of our farmers, year after year, make 15 to 20 tons of com silage per acre while many others can’t seem to get over 6 or 8 tons. Here again we’re pretty well convinced that heavy fertilization along with thick planting of proper varieties have a lot to do with high yields. Beware of some of these so-called “Silage Varieties” of corn. Gen erally the corn that makes the most bushels of com per acre will also make the best silage, at least from a quality standpoint. Also, if you are not equipped to irrigate better try to plant early and may be use one of the early maturing varieties. Also you may want to plant some extra acres or sorg hum as insurance against the dry weather cutting the com crop short. Now let’s consider HAY. We’re pretty sure there are a good many livestock farmers right now who wish they had more of it. It seems to us that hay making is still too much of a hit or miss proposition when you consider how much we depend on it for an adequate feed supply. That’s why we’re so keen on Coastal Bermuda. With ade quate fertilization, it grows rapid ly with normal rainfall and pro duces more hay than anything else during dry weather. On our test plots at Sand Hills Farms, for the past three years Coastal has consistently averaged better than eight tons of hay per acre where we put down $75 worth of fertilizer and lime. On the check plots that received approximately $30 worth of fertilizer per acre yields have averaged close to five tons of hay per acre. But best of all, hay has never been in short supply at Sand Hills Farms since they first “set-out” Coastal four years ago. Now SOYBEANS have become an important crop to us in New berry county. Here again we’ve had too much variation in yields. Those farmers who generally av erage 20 bushels per acre or bet ter have found that good land a- long with being careful to select the right variety at the time of planting can definitely influence yields. Innoculation of seed and liming your land can be import ant, too. So let’s aim for profitable pro duction on all our crops this year. But don’t leave it all up to the weather. Weather can certain ly influence crop yields, but our successful farmers have found that we usually get enough of the right kind of weather, if the other things that also influence crop yields are carried out. PATIENTS IN THE HOSPITAL Joseph E. Allman, Clinton. Mrs. Florence S. Addison, New berry. Miss Annie Bynum, Newberry. Mrs. Lucia Bryson, Newberry. Mrs. Victoria Bradley, Newber ry. Mrs. Sallie R. Brown, New berry. Mrs. Hazel E. Blair, Pros perity. Wayne Beck, Newberry. Mrs. Mary E. Busby and baby girl, Newberry. Mrs. Mary L. Baker and baby girl, Newberry. Horace L. Boozer Jr., Newberry. Mrs. Bessie Buzhardt, Newber ry. Olin Crumpton, Newberry. Felton W. Crapps, Kinards. John D. Cordle, Newberry. Mrs. Elmina Coleman, Saluda. Richard B. Caldwell, Newberry. Will Clopton, Newberry. Master William C. Dorroh, Jr., Silverstreet. Mrs. Shirley B. Fellers, Pros perity. Mrs. Ruth B. Gollion, Newberry. Truman W. Gaines, Laurens. Mrs. Mary Gaines, Newberry. Mrs. Leona Green, Enoree. John S. Harmon, Prosperity. Mrs. Doris C. Higgins, New berry. Mrs. Evelyn H. Hayes, Newber ry. Darling D. Johnson, Saluda. Mrs. Jacquelin Kelly, Newber ry. J. Carroll Long, Little Mtn. David Long, Chapin. Joe E. Lake, Prosperity. Mrs. John A. Mayer, Pomaria. Mrs. Kathryn Mills, Newberry. To Perforin The Newbery College Singers, an a cappella choir of 60 voices, under the direction of Lr. Milton Moore will present the Cantata Stabat Mater by Pergoles, April 12 at 4:00 P.M. in the MacLean gymnasium at Newberry college. Soloist for the choral work will be Sherry McClosky, Charlene Gol- cien, and Marcia Mills; sopranv. ; and Ruth Ann Hartley, contralto. Darr Wise, Assistant Professor of Music, will serve as accompanist. Mrs. Dolly L. Ochiltree, New berry. Mrs. Marie G. Pope, Neberry. Mrs. Janie S. Satterwhite, New berry. Oscar Schumpert, Newberry. Mrs. Olivia B. Sowell, New berry. Joe C. Snipes, Newberry. Mrs. Mecie T. Senn, Newberry. Mrs. Mary Swindler, Saluda. Mrs. Katherine Ware, New berry. D. Clyde Wilson, Prosperity. James R. Womack, Ninety Six. Mrs. Raye Homes, Newberry. Mrs. Y-Genia H. Crossland, Newberry. Eugene Sligh, Newberry. Mrs. Lula D. Wilson, Newberry. John Werts, Prosperity. Mrs. Carrie A. Tobe, Pomaria. Leonard Pitts, Newberry. L. B. Praylow, Prosperity. Mrs. Delores Nance, Newberry. Mrs. Ella Mendenhall, New berry. Mrs. Mattie Longshore, New berry. George Lyles, Newberry. Mrs. Miria M. Jones, Newberry. Henry Green, Newberry, Miss Gladys Epps, Whitmire. James DeWalt, Prosperity. Lillie Bell Caldwell, Newberry. William Cureton, Newberry. Services Friday For Mrs. Reeves Mrs. Vivian Stofer Reeves, 62, widow of the late Horace Reeves died Wednesday morning at the Newberry County Memorial hospi tal after several years of declin ing health. Mrs. Reeves wa'' bom and rear ed in Greer and w s the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stofer. She had made her home on Glenn street in Newberry for a number of years. She was a member of Glenn Street Baptist church and taught a Sunday school class for over 30 years and was active as long as her health per mitted. Mrs. Reeves is survived by two sons, Sgt. Max Reeves, Anchorage, Alaska and Airman 1c Horace Wayne Reeves, USAF, England; two daughters, Mrs. E. L. Shealy Jr., of Newberry and Mrs. Rich ard Morris, Newberry; her step mother, Mrs. Ida Stofer, Ruther- fordton, N. C.; one sister Mrs. Helen Burgess, Bessemer City, N. C.; three half-sisters, Mrs. Willard Hardin, Mrs. Reed Humphries and Mrs. Arnold Gilbert, all of Ruth- erf ordton; one half-brother, Earl Stofer, Rutherfordtou. Funeral services were conducted Friday from Glenn Street church, with Rev. J. W. King, Rev. R. E. Rhyne and Dr. C. K. Derrick con ducting the service. Interment wa» in Newberry Memorial Gardens. Active pallbearers were Connie Gowan, Eaton Smith, Jack King, Thurman Smith, Herbert Stutts, and Nature Reeves. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Chavis are residing at 2111 Ola street. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Pardue have moved to 1412 Poplar street. • the Constitution leaves entirely within control of the state gov ernment. This is the scope of the bill’s first title, and there are eleven titles in all, running through near ly 100 printed pages. The debate in the House on the bill reflected the sad state of misunderstanding that Socialist propagandists have created throughout the country on the mooted question of “rights.” =0Tngs SAFETY OF YOUR fAVINOf INSURED 40 Earning Years AND HE MISSED THE GOOD SHIP OLD AGE INDEPENDENCE Over your 40 earning years from age 26 fo 65, you’ll earn a fortune. For example: $3,000 a year mounts up to $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" to guarantee this—when you save a definite amount each month with a definite goal in view. (CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE i PER ANNUM (Compounded Twice a Year) teact avijvos and Loan Association •YRRST* RRWRRRRT# 9. 9*' J. F. CLARKSON M. O. SUMMER DIRECTORS G. K. DOMINICK J. K. WILLINGHAM BRANCH OFFICE — Batnburg, S. C. E. & PURCELL W. C HUFFMAN