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i .a*** i > *1 Thursday, January 5, 1950 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE , .Ml*'*****' P-i-re F‘ e COMMENTS ON M|N AND THINGS fry Spectator What is the matterVwith us? The newspapers tell us day by day pi. scares and alarms and crimes. Have we become so bad or so nervous that calm and repose are impossible? Or, -HOW TO WIN Pit (ENDS and Author of HmmKtnonr ground, arid on the highways and'inlcar immediately shows the marked congested traffic centers in many | improvements. There is a surging re- 1 parts of the country.. isponse from the 135 horsepower New smoothness in forward speeds | “rocket” engine at the traffic signal. and faster shifting in to, reverse are i the chiPi |pd vai iy«ca # » oJ ' new drive- i Engineers state that a demonstration ! ride in a hew 1950 series “88” or “98” is it that everything is now played up by the papers and radio commen- tators? " , Almost every day I rejoice in my; citizenship in. South Carolina-. Here, we are far Trom the “madding, crowd’s ignoble strife,” as'' Shakes-! peare says. But just as I feel the! ^pride of my Carolina background . .! anp present, and foreground, too . .' 1 hear something unwholesame about •his State. We have no big bosses who can issue orders to- their under lings, but we have developed a leg islative condition which should be corrected.. Without indulging in rames, we have such a state of af fairs that an Administrative Board or Commission of the State will fail to act on public matters because a member of the Legislature . passes the word that he wants the petition denied, or wishes such delay as may be preducial to the interest of a peti tioner. Much has been said of the evil of legislators practicing as lawyers be fore the Boards and Commissions of the State. It is a bad practice be cause the legislator has undue in- 1 fluence since he may cast a vote for or against the officer or officers, if: the choice be by the Legislature' or he may have something to do with the fixing of the pay of pliblic of- J ficials. The men who prepared the i Constitution thought they had made | State officials, including Judges, in dependent of the Legislature. They; thought they had done that by stip ulating that a salary might not be • increased or reduced during the term for which the officer, or Judge was elected. That was easily evaded | in recent years by. providing expanse accounts and travel funds. Most of the State officials have been granted increases by subterfuge, or legisla tive disregard for the Constitution. " I do not say that they are overpaid; I am referring only to the method adopted for increasing the pay. Now, if the Legislative whim or favor may increase pay by subterfuge, it may cabnigib / just as easily reduce the pay. Do you imaginTTfiaT the Legislature los-| 'Cfl OMcmoKiloc es or gains in influence by proceed- l MCW WiuamuDlieb ing as it does? Practicing law. as it is called, be fore the State Boards is one thing, and should be stopped, but passing, * ^ the word in private to one’s bene-* rievv 1950 Oldsmobile is I Gardtn of Annuitits JJERirs an odd but true story. Harry Forbes was a foundry salesman, working out of New York City, and things were hunky dory., He saved up $10,000 and put it into a business proposition. Just then the golden apple or luck fell in front of him and he. picked it up. He in herited $20,000 more. Well, he was sitting pretty. Then a panic came along and wiped out •verything he had in the world. That was a pretty hard blow. * v . * Bat at the age o£ 40 he made a ■Mat unusual decision. He decided he would put all the money he could save —not inte a business—but into life Insurance annuities. He thought this up himself. No salesman got him by the lapel and gave l, 'm the ancient mariner look. \ ^ And ao he began planting everything he could into the an nuity garden. He was earning money at his old trad^-foundry salesman. ? He did fairly well at it; he kept planting. But he took a strange angle. He paid for a lot of small annuities with different companies. Evend>ody said he, was foolish. But he had an idea and he tuck to it like a cocklebur on a Missouri mule’s tail. i At the age of 60 he stopped work. He had put 20 years of his money-earning life into an idea. But it paid off. He had arranged so that a check would reach him every day! That is exactly what I mean—a fcheck every working day of the year. Some were small, some were healthy. But every morning, when the postman . knocked once, there would be a check. At the age of 60 he began to enjoy his check shower. He had read about Grenfell and his work in Labrador and he wanted to see that wild, snow-smothered country. He went there, hired a dogsled team and a guide and crossed it from one end to the other. At last, having seen the country that had intrigued him, he came back to New York—and there a whole fljftck of checks were smiling up at him. - < / .* He liked to go fly-fishing and he went. Upon returning home, there would be that lovely flock of checks.. He even went on an owl hunt, for he was fascinated by owls* When he got back there was a flock of checks. Well, the old gentleman died aMittle less than tw» yean ago at the age of 86. He always said that the reasorC he wa« living so long was because he didn’t have anything to worrj about. €)n hills the new “whirlaway” fea ture -.instantly provides’vast surplus power for acceleration and for pass ing slower vehicles. • # Longer life is also brought by Qldsmobile’s new “whiriaway” h>- dra-matic drive*. 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For purchasers who do not order-the new drive, Oldsmobile is making avail able two synchro-mesh transmissions §§^standard equipment—one for the “rocket” eight cars and one for the “76” cars powered by Oldsmobile’s “big six” engine. Oldsmobile engineers developed; the new “whirlaway” hydra-matic compression "rocket” engine. Ac cording to automotive writers who made preview tests, the result is a “power-package” that establishes new standards T»f performance. Thor ough testing of the new “power- package” took place last year in the Oldsmobile engineering laboratories, on the General Motors proving ficiary on a Boa-d o'r Commissiori is, 011 display by Timmerman Motor a practice which is not open and sub-, corn P an y this city., __ ^ ject to public hearing. For example, I The 1950 Oldsmobile “Futuramic if a legislator practices as a lawyer,'fleet" is composed of 19 models in before a State body we can assume; three new series. There are seven that the whole proceeding is a pub-16-cy^inder series “76” models pow- lic record and open to public hear- ered by the improved “big six” en- ing and public inspection. But If one gine of 105 horsepower. There are drive to team'up"*with the'new high- merely passes the word on the quiet,: seven 8-cylinder series “88” models, r comDress j on “rocket" engine Ac- that is a practice which makes the | powered by the new high-compres- State Government the plaything, the sion “rocket” engine of 135 horse- private instrumentality, of someone, power. The “rockef’-powered series acting in the dark. There are many i “98" is offered in five models, rumors of that, with names and dates 1 a new and exclusive “whirlaway” and places. We have full control of j hydra-matic drive is being introduc- the Counties, by legislators by which e d to the motoring public on 1950 the nod of the lawmaker is the royal models by Oldsmobile,- which pid- sign of cijnsent or denial. In local matters, the General As sembly bows to the Senator and Re presentatives of a county as though* the so-called county delegation were a legislative body. Almost no coun ty supply bill is passed which does not contain provisions in complete disregard of mandatory provisions of Che State Constitution. Sometimes this may be due to ignorance of the Constitution, but one hesitates to; -suggest that any legislator is ignor-i ant. If not a matter of ignorance,; then-what? Is it just indifference to| theCconstitution? Are they assuming; that tif no one challenges the act ini court it will be the law of the land? And that is true. The greatest failure of our Nation al and State Governments is the wide-open break in our law’. What is the law? We, a people under a government of law. do not know what the law is; and the courts are frequently so far at sea that the la’w changes with FLORIDA ORANGES 5 lbs. 27c IL S. 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If one would study mir govern ment, government ^ throughout the th f United States^ ’inclft^ing the«,Nation- al government, he ■would ■wonder, Why we had not found how to have laws which are clear and beyond | dispute. Haziness o f the law, howev-; or, is not the reason for the state’s ignoring the Constitution. The most dangerous trend in Am erica is not the attitude personified by Mr. Trumart; or the weak spjrit of Congress in playing me-too poli tics with the President; we expect politics in the'^executive and legisla tive branches of the government— although . a .br^nd of politics of dis tinctly higher practice; but we did not expect the courfs to play me-too politics with the President, as though the courts were merely a part of his Administration and bound to do his bidding. The attitude of the federal judiciary is the most- dangerous de velopment in our land. You andj would liketo think that a man is a judge because of his thorough grounding in the law, in the law, and because of his character and temperament; and because of his commonsense; and we find o'hr free institutions without a champion when courts merely echo the whims of a woteseeking politician. ~ THE CHRONICLE Completely Coven CBaton's Trade Aroa for Advertbera There Is No Substitute for News paper Advertising , v- Itpnututl I Rocketing into the Futuramic Fifties—a fabu lous new fleet of Oldstnobiles! Three exciting new cars—the glamorous ”98!” (pictured above)—the action-packed ”88,” now at a new low price!—and the sparkling *76!” See them now at your Oldsmo'bile Dealer’s! See the Oldsmobile "Rocket”—America’s most famous automobile engine! Whirlaway Hydra-Malic—the new automatic "drive” that matches "Rocket” smoothness! i\ew Futuramic styling—fleet, free-flowing lines— roomier interiors — more visihility — many other new features! See the new Futuramic*! 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