The State from Columbia, South Carolina • 16

Take Both of Us to Handle State 0 CHARLES WICKENEERG JR Executive News Editor WILLIAM IX WORKMAN JR Editor Romney Withdratval Could Help Reagan Nixon Must Switch Tactics By Paul Scott three smaller Despite all and in two 16-A Colombia Thursday March 7 1968 Protecting Civil Rights Conviction of that particular offense is punishable by a fine ranging from $100 to $2000 or by imprisonment from six months to two years or both Another code section obligates constable sheriff or to take all legal means necessary to protect the property of an individual who has notified such authority that he knows of a gathering or intending to attack his property That particular section (16-103) makes no distinction as to whether the mob action was initiated to suppress or to exercise civil rights And still other sections provide for the recovery of mob-caused damages from the county in which the property was located These South Carolina statutes along with others in the Code chapter which embraces Against the seem quite adequate to safeguard a constitutional and statutory rights privileges and property Furthermore they obviously are applicable to destruction and disturbance irrespective of whether wrought in behalf or in denial of those emotion-laden words To that extent the South Carolina laws seem far more equitable than those now being considered in LAWMAKERS as well as lawbreakers all to frequently go about their deeds (and misdeeds) without knowing precisely what laws already exist in a given area of action We refer specifically at this particular juncture to the well-publicized efforts of members of Congress to enact another batch of federal statutes designed especially to protect civil rights worked Although we cannot speak knowledgeably of other states we suspect that most of them like South Carolina have adequate state laws for that purpose Here in South Carolina for example a venerable statute dating from the Reconstruction days of 1871 clearly prohibits (and provides punishment for) violating a civil rights Here is the meat of Section 16-101 as it appears in the 1962 Code: any two or more persons shall band or conspire together or go in disguise upon the public highway or upon the premises of another with intent to injure oppress or violate the person or property of any citizen because of his political opinion or his expression or exercise of the same or shall hinder prevent or obstruct the free exercise and enjoyment of any right or privilege such persons shall be guilty of a misde the big Rockefeller headlines Governor Ronald Reagan could turn out to be Just as big a gainer from Governor George early withdrawal from the GOP presidential race the private opinion of Republican congressional leaders who have carefully refrained from publicly committing themselves to any of the hopefuls According to Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen RrllL Romney's political debacle will strengthen position as a leading kingmaker The California governor he figures will go to the convention with enough committed delegates to or former Vice President Nixon Here's bow the political arithmetic of Senator Dirksen and tire other Republican legislators adds up: Regardless of what happens in May 28 primary Nixon wiU go to Miami with between 500 and 525 votes -inducting the uncontested New Hampshire Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries not enough to win the nomination on the first ballot That would require 667 votes Since Nixon will be able to pick up only a few delegates from the big states of New York (92 delegates) Pennsylvania (64) Ohio (58) Michigan (48 and New Jersey (40) he will need at least the del-gations from California (86) and Texas (56) to obtain the margin for mwwhnition Reagan who will go to Miami as favorite-son will control a majority of the Texas delegates as well as those from South Carolina (22) He will also have considerable strength in the 56-member Illinois delegation ftatp As these GOP legislative leaders see it the comparable strength of Nixon and Rocke- feller leaves Reagan with his 150 to 200 delegates in a strategic political position Nixon will have to either turn to the California governor for the votes to win on an early ballot or face a deadlock with Governor Rockefeller In return the California governor could ask for a Nixon-Reagan ticket Or if Nixon stumbled by losing In Oregon Reagan could demand top place on that ticket Sfoce Romney's withdrawal Nixon has said privately that if he fails to make it Reagan wiU very probably get the nomination and he will assist him Nixon now believes Rockefeller will challenge him openly in Oregon by not asking that his name be ramoved from the primary He does not expect Rockefeller to enter other primaries Until Governor Romney's pull out turned the first three presidential primaries into no-contests Nixon had counted on victories in these races to give him the momentum to win the nomination on the first ballot Now Nixon and his chief political aides make no bones that his political future rests increasingly with that of Governor Reagan Their conclusion is very dear For Nixon to go all the way he definitely must make a deal with the California governor Reagan recognizes this and soon will begin strengthening his own political hand by a serial of public appearances interviews and speeches covering national issues outside California (Copywrite 1968) Letters To The Editor meanor' Fail Is As Fair Does and giving to others I would say to all businessmen much maligned for your exploitation my thanks for the exploiting you have done to me Without you my wife would still be doing the laundry in the creek and drying the clothes on track Without you I would still be walking or riding horseback And too thank you advertising men for telling me about the products available The money you have made from me my friends you have earned You have made it possible fur the man" to have things If there were no men in the world superior to the common man no men capable of earning more than we do no men capable of preaching better sermons organizing better businesses developing greater skills in medicine it would indeed be a drab world in which to live You will still be doing for the common man long after the Society" is forgotten A WHITE 650 Ravenel St Spartanburg Needed: A National Right- o-W ork-Act Pueblo Seizure To the Editor: ly" Both words were used by the administration in connection with the return of the intelligence ship Pueblo The State is to be commended for its brief editorial of February 23: USS Pueblo and its crew of 83 Americans were seized by the North Koreans one month ago today" Other than two brief news items (one indicating the ninth meeting at Panmun-jom to talk about releasing the ship and crew showed sign of the loss appears to be accepted as Just another routine harrass-meni Gen Thomas A Lane USA ReL calls the surrender af the Pueblo with which I concur wholeheartedly The Pueblo surrendered because weak political leadership in Washington deprived the skipper of his right to defend his ship The public must demand that the President and Congress repudiate the defeatist policy which cripples us as a nation MRS GLADYS TRUESDELL Route 1 Lugoff Thanks Business To the Editor: I have no quarrel with President Johnson because of what he believes or disbelieves but because he wants Congress to pass laws to make other people think as he does Any of us worth our salt should speak out about the President taking from the Gives Suggestions For Ending War To the Editor: These are by suggestions for ending the war in Vietnam: 1 Give Hand 48 hours to call oft the fighting or remove them from North Vietnam courtesy one H-bomb 2 If fighting continues remove North Vietnam itself a piece at a time 3 If the Great of Red China interferes remove them by same method thereby solving a future problem 4 If North Korea feels and attacks South Korea make North Korea disappear thereby curing a very large headache By removing the roots of the trouble peace should and would prevail Russia win yell long and loud but wiU not back up their boasts with action because by this time they win know better The has the nuclear weapons and can put them in the right places if our gutless leaders would give the word It would save many American lives and in the long run Asians too I am not a I am just suggesting a 100 per cent tested and proven method of stopping war Remember Nagasaki and Hiroshima 23 years ago? Either this or pull out and let the Asians have it ALLEN MOORE 1007 California Dr Columbia THE FEDERAL Communications Commission gives signs that it may come to grips with the board issues of censorship its policies have always involved For years the FCC ran herd on a handful of local commentators mostly conservative and found the experience exhilarating But now liberal network pundits are demanding greater liberties and the rules may have to be revised CBS complains for example that rigid enforcement of the rules might inhibit the pompous ruminations of its resident sage Eric Sevareid It is a thing not to be contemplated At issue is the so-called under which broadcasters are required to make time available for dissent and to furnish advance notice to persons Rnd organizations about to be assailed for shortcomings of character honesty and the like In short the fairness doctrine requires broadcasters to be fair The networks long have ignored the doctrine on the dubious ground that they do not broadcast their affiliates do Thus in order to correct a network abuse it has been necessary to work through umpty-odd individual licensees an impossible task As a practical matter then the fairness doctrine touched only local stations whose opportunities for unfairness were relatively modest And even here the FCC was concerned mostly with picayune infractions on the part of conservative broadcasters so reckless as to dissent from the common cant The continuing government harassment of WRAL-TV in Raleigh fairly reflects the FCC attitude Other cases come to mind This month the FCC facing a court challenge in Chicago and fearing the worst announced its intention to overhaul the rules by means of which the fairness doctrine is applied The selective application of these rules mocks the announced intent Whether the FCC has experienced an actual change of heart or is only interested in re-doing its cosmetics for the benefit of the court no one can know One surveys the record and reflects that all and all any change has to be for the best "Let'i paint the tewa Repairing The Damage 3-Time Losers Are Doubters Devalued Pound Is Weakening By Henry Taylor the scenes Federal Board nffirial ready been devalued $483 to $403 when By RUSSELL KIRK The next Congress certain to be more conservative than the present one is likely to consider seriously bills calculated to make labor unions more responsible The Taft-Hartley Act and the Lan-drum-Griffin Act beneficial though they have been have not sufficed to restrain sufficiently the labor racketeer and the labor demogogue And the public is growing wrathful against irresponsible unions Consider some present ills In New York the city sanitation workers were engaged in an illegal strike defying a court order Garbage was piled high on the sidewalks and rats prospered These 'unskilled laborers already were receiving annual salaries of $6424 to $7956 far above the median income for all American workers But they demanded $600 more per year right away Some of those strikers were using shotguns to intimidate those who strike In Detroit the Teamsters Union (unimproved by the imprisonment of Emmy Hoffs) has shut down the two daily newspapers for months Evidence has been produced to suggest this is a criminal cor zy for the profit of friends who publish papers and the formidable Sen Robert Griffin who has dime much in the past to drive racketeers out of the union movement means to do something about this scandalous abuse of the right to strike In Los Angeles the strike against the Herald-Examiner has been marked by reckless violence extending to destruction of the plant of a small California newspaper suspected (erroneously) of supplying personnel to the beleaguered big daily In state after state unions or (sometimes) state affiliates of the National Education Assn have been ig-norlng restrictions upon strikes by public employes and have been demanding instant affluence from school boards They seem to care very little what happens to their pupils One consequence of unchecked power among unscrupulous or Ignorant union bosses is steady Inflation of the currency as costs are driven up inordinately The great American stem Industry already has been virtually priced out of international competition by high wages and there in talk of a federal subsidy to shore up an Indus-try which once was a model of efficiency and productivity throughout the world When everybody is on strike against everybody else every- body suffers There exists no inexhaustible and remote source of funds public or private from whidi every band of strikers can draw lavish raises without a corresponding increase in prices for everybody Short of passing new state and federal laws something might be done through more literal enforcement of the Tail-Hartley Act But that act has been much distorted and weakened by the National Labor Relations Board which applies it it wiU take a change of national administration at least to appoint stronger and less partial members to that board Congress also may consider adopting a national act the practical consequence of whidi would be some check upon union authority through making union membership voluntary not compulsory If this happens certain extreme or irresponsible union leaders will have themselves to thank (Copyright 1968) Weaponless Once papa dealt out stern discipline in the woodshed Then furnaces took away the need for wood The electric razor eliminated his strap Tax worries took away his hair so his hairbrush was discarded why kids are running wild today Dad has run out of weapons Elisabethtown' (Ky) News lence or by assassination of any officer thereof the government of the United States Amend the civil service regulations so as to permit tranfer of loyal security risks to nonsensitive positions or their dismissal under normal civil service procedures without stigmatizing such individuals as security risks Prohibit reprisal by any government agency or by any employe thereof acting in his official capacity against any witness who testifies be- fore any congressional committee for or on account of his testimony or the fact of his having testified (This last pretty obviously is in particular reference to the Otto Otep-ka affair) Many of the recommendations contained in the report to the Committee on the Judiciary would not have been necessary but for a long series of Supreme Court decisions impairing national security The American people still look to their representatives in Congress to safeguard the nation against espionage subversion and treason Unfortunately the Supreme Court has consistently tom holes in the protective fences which Congress has sought to erect The task ahead is to repair the damage or to try again with other fences The need for protection is as great as ever ARE THERE GAPS in internal security laws? The Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act believes so Recently the Subcommittee made a number of legislative recommendations considered desirable in the interest of national security These recommendations grew out of open public hearings on the general subject or gaps in our internal security laws As Sen James Eastland put it: any law for the protection of our national security is stricken down by a court decision Con-press has the responsibility of deciding how to meet the problem that law was intended to deal A few of the recommendations were to: Make it a felony for any person owing allegiance to the United States to give aid or comfort to an adversary of the United States (defined as a foreign nation or force engaged in open hostilities against the United States or against Armed Forces of the United States) Extend to 15 years the term of the statute of limitations with respect to prosecution under any criminal statute dealing with treason or espionage Amend the first paragraph of the Smith Act so as to prohibit (without regard to the immediate effect thereof) the willful advocacy of overthrowing or destroying by force or vio Behind Reserve now see renewed tremors in Britain's devalued pound It is weak again at low levels And the renewed drop comes while our own gold reserve continues to go down and out The root causes of the fresh anxieties are several and basic Britain imports four-fifths of its raw materials and two-thirds of its food This of course must be paid for by exports But the Washington Robin Hoods of the Red Ink and the Wilson Robin Hoods are blood brothers And the fundamental problem in Britain as here is that fire government is spending far too much few the amount of wealth generated by the private sector Organized hold is more formal in England through Mr Labor party His party gets three-fifths of its votes and two-thirds of its cash support from trade unions and their members But in principle Mr and Mr governments are both Labor-Socialist governments Each promised pie-in-the-sky And ecliptic forces abroad which they cannot control have caught up with both of them Mr Wilson announced the devaluation on Saturday November 18 at 9:30 am He stated that domestic buying curbs would be applied to reduce home purchases and thereby provide more goods for export Political spenders making hay in inflationary governments Mr and Mr Johnson's alike are always more willing to curb private spending than- to cut their from Britain entered the International Monetary Fund It was devalued again in September 1949 from $403 to $L80 And in the third devaluation last November 18 the effect touched off 25 more devaluations of other currencies within a single week The repeated losers each time tiie three-time losers are the central banks (chiefly the Treasury that is the American taxpayers) private banks firms and all individuals who trusted the British solemn guarantee that the pound would not again be devalued An estimated 70 percent of pound supply is held by foreigners abroad valued at the ratio interchangeable into dollars and gold Three-time losers are doubters In a similar appraisal of the Washington Robin Hoods of the Red Ink the Central bankers abroad do not believe that Mr Johnson will defeat either the inflation here or the balance-of-payments problem which is merely a soft name for our gold crisis The vital result is that we are defending the pound with a slipping dollar while Mr Wilson has not clearly stopped the slip in the pound itself For the cold hard truth is that as of March 1968 Mr Wilson's government has failed to succeed in the fundamental steps required to make the third devaluation securely effective and Mr Johnson continues to attack the politics of our money problem in this election year more than tire problem itself (Copyright 1968) own spending of the money But Mr Wilson failed to announce the curbs for more than two months after November 18 The obvious happened New wage demands flooded in to Jump the gun But even more serious the British went on an enormous buying spree to get things while they could As a result store shelves have gone bare Manufacturers had to replenish these The domestic spending spree caused diversion from exports Britain increased imports It badly damaged exactly the balance-of-payments problem the devaluation was supposed to help Moreover with the pound devalued 14tt percent Britain must sell 14tt per cent more abroad to get the same return In addition Mr Wilson is passing laws nationalizing many of the transport facilities and other enterprises at gigantic public expense He is adding to the public payroll list as Mr Johnson constantly does The British civil sendee has increased increased more under Mr Wilson than the entire existing size of tire British Army And like Mr Johnson he is urging more and more costly public services as if nothing in the crisis made any difference As one result productivity today is lower than any Western European industrialized nation on the continent Unemployment is at and remains at the highest level in 27 years The British pound had al- AMBROSE HAMPTON Chairman and Publisher JOHN McGEE Pres and Assoc PpUUher.