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PAGE TWO THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRf, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1965 THE “SPECTATOR’S” COLUMN Did you ever see a sandwich? What is a sandwich? Strangely enough even simple things may have a history The story is that Lord Sandwich, the Earl of Sandwich, of England, having occasion to seek for nourishment and being a very busy man, tried this expedient to stave off the pangs of hunger. He put a slice of meat or cheese between two slices of bread and presto! The pangs of hunger were assauged. Now r it so happens that there are sandwiches and sandwiches, some are fairly adequate strips of meat or cheese or jelly between two ordinary slices of breadsome are tw'o thick slices of bread surrounding a sort of hint or suggestion of meat. Sandwiches may be two ordinary slices of bread freshly cut or they may envelop tw T o pieces of bread toasted. Who craves a sandwich? Not a man going to a feast of chicken, turkey, goose or a whole ham boiled to a delicious cohsistency. Nay, nay; a sandwich appeases a very busy man somew'hat short of money at the moment. Is a sandwhich a menace? Does it portend grave danger at any time? In my travels through Europe, South Am erica, Canada, Mexico and this great country of ours I have observed sandwiches, usually at a safe distance, but I held them in esteem as safe improvisations, never imagining them as a menace to the public peace or order. But I’ve waked up. And thereby hangs a tale. A building of mine, for sometime a gasoline station, was overhauled for an ice cream stand, facing and touching the sidewalk. A fine lady from Canada operates the stand and up to this time I’ve never seen the town firemen, or police or our vig ilant Sheriff anywhere near. So I consulted my insurance friend, thinking ice cream was almost innocuous and the in surance rate would be almost nothing. Jerushy Jane! The rate had considerately increased! Car- amba! and the Peruvians say. I consulted the State Insur ance Commissioner as to the rate and he told me about sandwiches! Now, now! Any man sitting down to turkey, chicken, lobster, rich, succulent steaks, probably never stooped to a sandwhich in all his days. And I got no comfort from him. In fact I chided him about the inherent potential of dynamite or uranium in sandwhiches which caused the insurance rate to be so high. The Commissioner replied once and his assistant replied once but their letters left me with the conviction that those gentlemen never stooped to a sandwhich and really had a mere academic understanding of the subject. Wouldn’t you think a sandwich stand on the sidewalk would be safer than a gasoline station ? I ask to know, as the old codger said. When you pass a stand where sandwiches are stacked and exposed for sale watch you step: life is so full of hazards from reckless drivers that when being on the alert to avoid a sad fatality have a care lest a sandwich should explode and end your career then and there. A judge in Alabama has ruled that the Federal Act re lating to voting rights is unconstitutional. I quote the news ? paper report: “An Alabama circuit judge ruled Monday that the Fed eral Voting Rights Act of 1965 is unconstitutional. Circuit Judge James Hare, ruling on an injunction request by the State of Alabama, held that the new Federal voting law violated the provision of the U. S. Constitution allowing the States to set up their own voting requirements 'so long as there is no discrimination’, and also violated the ‘equal footing of states’ doctrine of the U. S. Supreme Court. Hare issued the ruling in granting an injunction requested by the State of Alabama through Gov. George C. Wallace. The injunction asked that the court enjoin the probate judge of Dallas county from certifying as voters lists of persons approved by Federal voting examiners. The injunction referred to examiners in Selma, Ala.” I agree fully with the Alabama judge. If we study the early days of the American Union we find that many men of today, including many judges, congressmen, Federal Ad ministrative Officials and others, seem to disregard the plainly set forth facts of our early history. Let us look into our beginnings; Thirteen Colonies fought and won our independence. Wfe were not a nation, but 13 Colonies in a common cause, to be come independent of Great Briatin. The so-called Congress was legally only a group of delegates speaking for their respective colonies. Following the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, the King of Great Britain recognized the independence of the 13 colonies, recognizing each separately and indepen dently as a State. A State is a sovereign government, as Britain, France and Spain are, in fact States today. The 13 States, with sound commonsense decided to co operate in certain matters such as sending Ambasadors abroad. At first the jealousy of the separate states brought about some confusion, so the States met in Philadelphia to study the problem of working together. So, after some time - of study and debate a Constitution was proposed, that being an agreement of collaboration. Immediately some of the States protested because the Constitution was not clear and explicit as to the rights, prerogatives and functions reserved by the States in forming a general government. The States created, organized and made the Union; the Union was the creature of the States. In order to make clear beyond any doubt or quibble they reserved, Sovereign rights of the States, ten Amendments to the Constitution were forthwith adopted. The essence of the whole matter is that the States were sovereign, intended to remain sovereign and put it down in black and white. Today we find that National Government trampling all over the Constitution and strutting about with an arrogant assumption of supreme powers. Today it meddles in any thing and everything and weak-kneed Congressmen join in with a hip, hip, hurrah, regardless of clear violations of the Constitution, both express and clearly implied. Today the Congress legislates in any field, more or less, and the Courts assume jurisdiction as they please; and the Looking A. head C _ ^ ...by Ur. G«'->rg* S. B*n$on PRESIDENT-NATIONAL EDUCATION ?ROGRAM S*«rcy, Ariunsu CAN THE WORKINGMAN REMAIN FREE? Whatever has happened to the 14 (b) dispute (right to work) by now in the Senate, where a heavy majority of more than 2 to 1 generally gets what LBJ wants, the fate of the right to work principle can provide a good test of the state of the nation in its maturity of thought and action. If right to work goes out, something essential is lost. Some two dozen Senators are preparing, as this goes to press, to face the logrollers. There remains some hope that the Sen ate will not fall victim to the White House lob 1 asts or to the threats of union bosses. Those Senators sho./f g strength of principle will merit the regard of every citizen. Some of the most reprehensible political eye-balling has been undertaken by LBJ’s team with HHH doing some of the hatchet work. Legislators from farm states were made to undertsand that if they wanted a good farm bill, they could vote for the unions. This technique is no way to pass laws that are sensible, beneficial, or right, much less acceptable to the “consensus.” Way of Compulsion President Johnson, who in 1948 vowed never to vote for repeal of the eseential provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act, finds himself president “of all the people.” He apparently misreads the consensus on this one, for he is cracking the whip for repeal through his assistants. The American people, however, have no love for coercion and compulsion, even when it is recommended by organized labor, whose general objectives have found almost unanimous ap proval. Eliminating the right to join or not join unions ero des the basic and essential freedoms that all enjoy. Congressman Ashbrook of Ohio drew an interesting anal logy when the House was swooshing the repealer bill through back in the summer. The compulsion that labor’s bigwigs want, he said, was like the idea of the Berlin Wall that forces everyone behind it to enjoy whatever is there for them. Peo ple should have the right, as he says, to make choices to be in or out, on whatever moral or other grounds they choose. It is certainly a compliment to the people of the nation that, outside union headquarters the demand for repeal is almost nil. The Economic Angle Actually, it is very evident what the union officials want; more money in union treasuries. If dues in unions average $4 a month and initiations average $10 that’s a kitty increase of almost $30 millions if 500,000 unaffiliated workers are forced into unions. Special assessments on these workers could bring in other millions to labor’s treasury, some of it for political purposes. With federal protection comes power. With power comes seurity, prestige, wealth. What is sought, therefore, is power but at the expense of freedom and liberty. Columnist David Lawrence has recently cited the percep tive, even prophetic, essays written more than a century ago by Herbert Spencer, the English philosopher. Spencer out lined the basic requirements of a free society, showing how accumulations of coercive power in politics tend to deprive men of liberty. Men can become slaves by electing despots for themselves, he said, even when they substittue trade- unions for kings, for the individual is then subservient in his dependence for fear of having work denied to him. The New Despotism Lawrence draws some interesting parallels with our own situation, in which power is being requested increasingly, so that a new despotism continually challenges our people to keep their own rights to “life, liberty, and pursuit of happi ness” as well as to recover those rights which have been for feited. There seems no question but that right to work re strictions set up by Congress do seriously limit and curtail individaul freedoms. The free society should have no place for the compulsion that limits the voluntary way of doing things. This controversy therefore suggests the larger problem that faces our age. The concepts of modern Statism that un derlie collectivist doctrines are all founded on the idea that people as individauls have no rights of their own which the State, or some agency of it, must respect. In a period in which so much has been said about securing civil rights, eliminat ing discriminatory poll taxes, and insuring various kinds of human rights it would seem that our leaders in Congress would all join the two-dozen senators who appear willing to stand for principle. Executive is the Grand Supreme Dictator before whom all bow and scrape. As seems to be true of many others, I wonder why we are meddling in Vietnam. We smile to smile on Cuba, with Cas tro, but send hundreds of thousands of fighting men eight thousand miles away to assume and assert a leadership that has no constitutional foundation. We still have troops and military bases in England, France, Germany;; and we are pouring out billions of dollars all over the world. The real problem of the day is to restrict our Federal Government to its constitutional functions, that meaning attending to its proper functions within the United States. We are in debt 323 billion dollars and throwing money a- bout like drunken American tourists in South America or Asia. We have here at home a state of violence growing out of the pampering of disgruntled elements by our vote-seeking Federal Administration. A really disgraceful turbulence fos tered by our Government for political reasons. Aiken Standard & Review, Friday, tells that The South Carolina Electric and Gas paid as taxes to Aiken county this year $529,418.85. Well now, what did the Coops pay to Aiken county? The South Carolina Electric & Gas paid 20 per cent of all the County Taxes in Aiken county. “An allowance is what you pay your children to live with you.” REV. ROBERT H. HARPER MISS UNIVERSE T ORD BYRON wrote of the night before Waterloo, when a ball in Brussels had been ar ranged with the hope of distract ing the attention of the people from the approach of Napoleon, who had quitted Elba, taken up his abode in Paris as the Em peror of the French and, after the Hundred Days, had taken the field once more against allied Europe — There was a sound of revelry by night And Belgium’s capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry. This ‘’revelry by night”, though followed by a battle which has passed into a proverb, neverthe less reminds me of the revelry by night at Miami which I watched on TV some days ago. Certainly the wide world, and not the capital of Belgium only, had gathered her beauty and her chivalry. And the purpose of it was to select and crown the most beautiful woman in the world. But almost immediately I found in my limited circle that there are some women who do not agree with the decision of the judges at Miami. And we are left to sur mise that the judges of the wide world have a world-wide view which locals do not and that the choice of beauty springs in the heart of the beholder. 7k versed abroad: he hath given to the poor. He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever. —Psalms 112:9 We have all heard the expres sion that “God loves a cheerful giver.” Some of us think it refers only to the money we give to worthy causes. No matter how rich or poor we may be as individuals, each of us has much to give. We can give hope, happiness and a helping hand to someone in need. We can give to children the great example of a good Chris tian life. We can give to friends and associates a measure of good faith in the conduct of our busi ness and sociai! activities. We can give happiness, some times, at the cost of nothing more than a smile. We can give hope, sometimes, at the cost of nothing more than a friendly word. Whenever we give, whatever we give, we unfailingly get some thing in return—happiness and hope for ourselves. Read your BIBLE dally and 60 TO CHURCH SUNDAY BY HELEN HALE Serve with Easy Flair Blend a half an envelope of leek soup mix with an 8-ounce carton of dairy sour cream and a dash of pepper. It’s good with potato chips. Spicy cheese dip mixed with oil and vinegar will give a pi quant note when tossed with broken, bite-size greens in a big bowl for a buffet salad. Blend 8 ounces of cream cheese with 5 tablespoons of heavy cream, whipped with % cup pow dered sugar and a dash of vanilla and nutmeg. Spoon over wedges of lemon flavored angel food cake. Spoon custard into pastry tart shells, top with a half of a canned peach and glaze the fruit with melted currant jelly for a ’scrumptious dessert. Add some mandarin orange sections to cole slaw and top w'ith jellied cranberry sauce. It’s pretty! Make small pancakes, stack them high and serve with warm honey (1 cup) blended with 1 stick of butter. Use 1 to 2 table spoons of thin batter for each ^ke. East and West vulnerable. South deals. NORTH A KQ82 ¥ A Q 7 4 A A J86 A K WEST A 10 6 3 ¥ K 8 4 Q 10 7 5 4 A Q 6 2 SOUTH EAST A A 9 7 5 4 ¥ — ♦ K 3 2 A 10 9 7 4 3 A J ¥J 10 96532 ♦ 9 A A J85 The bidding: South West North East 3 ¥ pass 4 no tramp pass 5 A pass 6 ¥ pass pass pass Opening lead: five of diamonds. The opening lead was won with the ace in the dummy. South re turned to the closed hand by trumping another diamond. South then ran the trumps twice, fines sing West’s king. A low spade from the board fell to East’s ace and East returned a club. South ruffed two clubs on the king and queen of spades and returned to the closed hand by trumping another diamond. At this point the closed hand contained only the ace of clubs and the remain ing trumps. Comment: East could have made things didicult by holding ip on the ace of spades. 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