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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.
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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.
We Are Pleased To
Present
ANNUAL REPORT
For 1964
ASSETS
SAVINGS
MORTGAGE
RESERVES
LOANS
INCREASE 1964
$2,269,844.47
1,548,994.14
1,720,599.90
188,575.49
TOTAL
$22,663,660.17
19,276,692.60
19,980,262.89
1,791,525.59
The Association paid $717,173.55 in Dividends to its 9,500
Investors during the year 1964 at a Current Rate of 4%,
compounded semi-annually. Savings are Insured to $10,-
000.00 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Cor
poration, Washington, D. C.
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