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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1964 1218 College St., Newberry, S. C. 29108 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield, Jr., Owner Second-Class Postage Paid at Newberry. Soutn Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $2.00 per year in ad vance :Six Months $1.25. THE “SPECTATOR'S” COLUMN Being kept at home with a broken shoulder the Christmas season seems to have passed me by, but as a matter of fact it has caused me to do a great deal of very sober thinking. We have so many good people in the world and the Christ mas season brings a lots of kindliness to the surface. During my 12 days in the hospital I was bound to be deep ly impressed by the very many floral tributes that came to my room. I don’t remember ever to have seen so many beau tiful arrangements of flowers, all attesting to the gracious friendliness of our people. Since I have been in bed at home the mail has brought me scores of nice tributes and good wishes. Although more-or- less out of the race, I have kept all my radio engagements and expect to do so through the courtesy of Manager Roper of the Manning Radio Station, WYMB and the efficient and energetic collaboration of my niece and secretary, Mrs. So phie Drayton. As a matter of fact, I seem to have drawn help from many sources, notably Mr. Roper and my nephews, Harry Drayton and Alfred Breedin. One can use a time in bed for sober thinking, except when the pain becomes almost unbearable. I have been thinking. I love my country, I love the State of South Carolina; and I love the little town where I live. When I speak of my appreciation of the United States I am not unaware of much that is going on which I cannot endorse. Our government is meddling in many things in a manner that may lead to confusion. When I say I love my country I have in mind the time I have spent in England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Holland, Canada and Mexico. Along with that I spent 10 years in South America. Ivl> appreciation of my own country comes, then by com paring it with other countries, for I have traveled over the United States from Florida to Maine and from the Atlantic to the Pacific and I know my country. Americans are the most generous people in the world, the most gracious in their intentions and the most misguided in actual perfomance. if we were trying to study the foreign policy of the United States we might well wonder what we hope to do by our inept policy in Cuba, our blundering in Asia and Africa. Americans have genius for building America, but we are the greatest blunderers in dealing with other nations. We are blundering in a sort of hopeless confusion here at home, because our national government seems to be wander ing so far astray from the principles of our constitution that the very foundations of the nation are being undermined. I quote again an excellent article by Raymond Moley. Mr. Moley is a scholar and a thinker and a patriot and is deeply concerned over the present trend of our national policy. As I have said before, Mr. Moley was a scholar who had a major part in the first years of President Franklin Roose velt and he is today a cautious, thoughtful critic of much that is being done, even by the Democrats. * I quote from Newsweek: “Dissent from popular decision always involves painful soul-searching by a judge, a legislator, or a journalist. And when the decision may claim moral justification, opposition is doubly hard. That is why this piece is written with the greatest reluctance. I have little doubt that Justices Stewart and Harlan un derwent such soul-searching before they agreed to make the decision in ‘Heart of Atlanta’ case unanimous. I surmise that in the years ahead (which I pray may be allowed them) they may regret their expressed belief that the extension of the interstate-commerce clause in the Constitution was nec essary to achieve integration in restaurants, motels, and hotels operating exclusively in a local area. For this decision, along with the preporterous decision commanding the states to negate all prosecutions for viola tions which when committed were clearly unlawful, gives a great deal of validity to Peter Finley Dunne’s claim that the Supreme Court follows the election returns. President Johnson apparently believes not only that the Dunne aphor ism defined a prevailing custom but that it is right. For he said on the day the decisions were handed down that ‘the nation has spoken with a single voice on the question of equal rights and equal opportunity’. When the civil-rights bill was before Congress, I believed that most of its objectives were right and that most of its provisions embodied a valid use of Federal authroity. But it seemed to me then, and it seems to me now, that the use of the constitutional authority ‘to regulate commerce .... among the several states’ to apply to restaurants, hotels, and motels was unnecessary and perilous to our whole con stitutional edifice. It was wrong because it was a preference for a quick and dubious way to right a wrong. It dismissed the clear alterna tive of enacting a constitutional amendment. And it opened the way to a substantial nullification of practically the whole range of responsibilities which belong to the states by grant of the Constitution, by immemorial practice, and by the dic tates of right reason. It invited the creation of an entirely new order, in which authority would become a monopoly of a central government. What everyone knew before Title II of the bill was en acted was that an overwhelming majority of both houses of Congress would have proposed a specific amendment for the purpose and that three-fourths of the states would have ratified it. This would have been the orderly way to enforce a moral right. But the Kennedy Administration, as in most cases, was in a hurry, and political pressures were strong upon the Democratic party. And so Congress hurriedly ad opted the act in an election year and the new President ac cepted it. The interstate-commerce clause has been stretched before with more plausible justification. But this decision places no limit at all on Federal power. The affirmation by the Supreme Court involves not merely a detail; it disastrously impairs, if not destroys the whole concept of a republic in which power is divided between the states and the Federal establishment. In 1787 there could have been no new Constitution at all if it had not been clear that such a reservation of power in the states was forever to be observed. As I once wrote: ‘As if the authors (of the Bill of Rights) were prone to linger on the theme and sum up everything in a sentence, the 10th Amendment embodies an all-inclusive stricture: ‘The pow ers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people’.* The expression ‘or to the people’ in the Tenth Amend ment, or the reservations in the 9th Amendment, had never been exactly determined. But these reservations of rights ‘to the people’ certainly were never before intended to apply to a popular majority given to a president and after a cam paign which never seemed to come to grips with specifics. In this instance, even a ‘mandate’ to the president is mean ingless. Certainly there was no mandate to the Supreme Court in this election.” Without being especially faultfinding I think it is timely to observe two recent instances of agents disregarding and overriding their principals. The first case I referred to re cently was that of the Trustees of Furman University dis regarding a clear mandate from the Baptist State Con vention of South Carolina. I am assuming that the full title to Furman University is vested in Baptist of South Carolina. The second case I might refer to is the decision of the Board of Directors of Santee Cooper not to sell or lease the Santee-Cooper. Quite apart from the merit of the proposal of the three power companies the outstanding fact is that the Santee-Cooper, as the property of the State of South Carolina is, or must be, responsive to the decisions of the State Legislature. The Directors are only temporary admin istrators. Senator Edgar Brown has raised a question that must be looked into—namely whether the national government has a lien on the Santee-Cooper. If it has the government could easily be persuaded to cancel their lien, even if we resort to that spirit which gives from four to seven billion dollars a year to foreign nations. •••••••••• Dean Manion THE MANION FORUM \ What should the United States do about South Vietnam; about the Panama Canal; about the Congo; about the im pending moral and financial bankruptcy of the United Na tions; about the rapid production of nuclear bombs in Red China, and about Communism in Cuba? The late Senator Robert A. Taft warned us, shortly before his death, that this country could do little on the domestic front until it came to grips with our foreign policy, “upon which all other policies depend.” This was the most phophetic declaration of our time. Since the Senator’s death, we have not come to grips with our for eign policy and our problems all over the world have multi plied. On the domestic front we have done little except spend the taxpayers’ money, establish new restrictions upon pri vate enterprise, and increase the Federa debt by more than 53 billion dollars. * For the past 25 years, we have refused to learn from past mistakes and the re-employment of our tired, old formula for failure has become an established American routine. Anyone who suggests that changes are necessary for our survival, is immediately branded as “an irresponsible war monger, who is addicted to simplisaic solutions for the ex tremely complicated questions now confronting the modern world.” The accusation does accurately state the case against the foreign policy now employed. For years we have reacted in exactly the same way to a variety of crises in every part of the world. Without question, this is certainly the most sim plistic course of action to be found in the entire inventory of simplism. A simple and concise statement of our present foreign policy is this: When any injury is inflicted upon American interests, American property or American nationals in for eign countries, our government protests, then pays the dam ages and, last, carefully avoids any incidental confrontation with Soviet Russia. If the problem persists, we take one more step: retreat from our originally stated position and/or shift the burden of adjustment to the United Nations. The United States has used this four-step formula for so long that every government on earth now knows exactly what to expect when it stones our embassy, desecrates our flag or jails our unoffending citizens who carry official Uni ted States passports. It is very late, but not too late, for this administration to heed the dying declaration of Senator Taft. Our new presi dent and the new Congress should be convinced that none of the bright hopes and pretty promises can be fulfilled until we come to grips with Communism just as resolutely as Communism has come to grips with freedom. Club studies two composers “A Study of Composers And Their Styles” is the theme of the program for the Newberry Music club this year. The fourth of the series was presented at the Jan uary meeting by Miss Julie Ham- iter, program chairman. The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. P. K. Harmon. Mrs. H. B. Wilson, president, called the meeting to order after which the club collect was read in unison by the members. Hymn chairman, Mrs. Julia Kibler, in troduced the hymn of the month, “From Glory Unto Glory” written by Frances Ridley Havergal. All this members joined in singing; they were accompanied by Prof. Darr Wise. Schubert and Schumann were the subjects for study for January. Franz Peter Schubert was born in 1797 in a suburb of Vienna and was the son of a schoolmaster. His beautiful soprono voice gain ed him admittance to the imperial chapel and school where the court singers were trained. When he left school he tried to follow in his father’s footsteps, but the lure of music was too strong and he re turned to his attic and immersed himself in reading the lyric poets and in composing. He died at the age of 31, but had written over GOO songs during these years. Schubert stood at the confluence of the classic and romantic eras. His symphonies show him to be heir to the classical tradition .while in his songs and piano pieces he was wholly the roman tic. To illustrate Schubert’s most gratifying venture into Sonata form, Mrs. Paul Savko played “Sonata in C Major.” Schubert thought almost entirely in melodic terms, particularly the kind of melodies that lend a happy ex pression to his songs. Bill Whee ler, a student at Newberry college, also played a lovely sonata, “Son ata in A Minor.” Robert Schuman was born in Saxony in 1810 and was the son of a bookseller whose love for literature was reflected in him. He studied law at the University of Heidelberg, but his ambition was to be a pianist and finally his mother consented. He went to Leipzig to study and it was there he met Clara, who later became his wife. In his haste to develop technics he injured his fourth finger. This closed a concert career. Schumann died in a mental hospital in 1856. Clara continued her concert coreer and did much to bring her hus band’s music to public favor. Robert Schumann was well known both as a composer and critic. He was the master of the short lyric forms—the art song and the piano piece. Schumann often grouped h i s piano pieces in series or as cycles. The Dichterliebe (Poet’s Love) is a song cycle composed in the first year of his marriage to Clara. Lyrics are by Heinrich Hein. Mrs. Savko sang part of this song cy cle accompanied by Prof. Wise. In these song cycles the piano ac companiment is just as important as the vocal line. During the social hour Mrs. Harmon was assisted in entertain ing by Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Harmon, Mrs. Kemper Lake, and Miss Vivian Ellis. Holloway Dies At Chappells Julian Leroy Holloway, 85, merchant and farmer of Chappells, died at 7:30 p.m. Friday following a brief illness. A native of Chappells ,he was a son of the late Dr. W. J. Hol loway and Mrs. Vicie Jennings Holloway. He was a member of Chappells Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Essie Holley Holloway; one daughter, Miss Inez Holloway of the home; two sons, Carl Hollo way of Greenwood and Ernest Hol loway of Chappells; three grand children and five great-grandchil dren. 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