The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 27, 1950, Image 16
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, April 27, 1950
COMMENTS ON
MEN AND THINGS
By Spectator
South Carolina's Constitution may
need amending, or we may need a
new Constitution; certainly we need
something. But is it a Constitution
that u'e need above all else; or do
we need a new attitude, or perhaps
r.n amended attitude?
D:d you ever think of the real
purpose o! a Constitution? It is, above
atil. a statement of certain rights of
the individual which a Legislature
may not take from him or violate,
and which the courts must assure
him. guarantee to him. One such
guarantee is; . . nor shall any per-
-on be subject for' the same offense
to be twice put in jeopardy of life
or hmb”. Constitution of the United
States, Fifth Amendment. This is one
of three bulwarks of individual right
,.nd is set forth not only in the Fifth
Amendment of the Federal Consti
tution, but in Section 17 of Article
One of the Constitution of the State,
the language being almost the same,
the- State Constitution guaranteeing
against second jeopardy of “life or
liberty,” whereas the Federal Con
stitution speaks of "life or limb".
Strangely enough, the courts find
that one cannot follow the language
absolutely. For examp!e,_#i'f a man
named X wobbles along a street in a
car he may strike another person.
The Town may arrest him, try him
t»n a charge of bad driving and sen-
tence him to jail for den tiays. That
is-on jeopardy. But suppose the man
who was struck develops something
terious and goes to a hospital; may
X now be tried by the State on a
charge of Assault and Battery, which
is an offense against the State? Sup-
pose^he be committed to the Peni
tentiary for a year 0 That is a second
jeopardy. Now the man \vh • was
struck comes home and dies, all the
doctors agreeing that his death was.
~rhe direct result,of the blow._Might
th.s man be indicted now for murder
or manslaughter? All resulted from
the same act. Would that be placing
the man in jeopardy three times?
A very interesting case seems to be
brewing n this State. A man Jned
for a farm in future years, except
to the extent that the acreage ac
tually pianted to cotton on the farm
in 1950 af.ecU the farm’s Ivghest
planted acreage for the 3-year base
period.
pear }ustified in farm allotments al
ready established.”
He pointed out that an official
form is provided for a grower to au
thorize release of all or any part of
his allotment, and asked that grow
ers come into the county office in
Laurens for this purpose.
Farmers Permitted
To Release Part Of
Acreage Allotments
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Laurens County cotton farmers u • ...... A
, The chairman pointed out the ac
were advised last week that ihey (rea g e accumulated from these re-
may^ now release any portion of leases will first be used to offset in-
; their 1950 farm cotton acreage al- crease in 1950 farm cotton acreage ** J ki
lotments that will not be planted to allotments required by the minimum V3U0r0nt66d Market
.cotton this year. This procedure is farm allotment provisions of the | n P/]Kinn ftf f'hirlrpnc
i provided by new Federal legislation new legislation. The acreage released U * n y ''' ^nitlvens
passed by the Congress last month, and used to offset these increases, he Is MOW Available
In making the announcement Hugh explained, will be credited to the < ^
B. Workman of the Hopewell com- State and county in determining fu- (Says The Laurens Advertiser)
mumty, county Production and Mar- ture allotments., j The problem o! no market'
keting Administration -committee 4 If any of the released acreage re 1
chicks. This is done to keep the plant
from having an over capacity for
any one week.”*
W. B. Carden of Gainesville, Ga.
is the new general manager of the
processing plant that has been com
pleted at the Greenville Farmers
Wholesale Market.
for
chairman, assured growers that if the mains after meeting minimum al- c ^ lc ^ ens after they have reached the
release is authorized for 1950 on’y, lotment requirements, it may be used broiler size, no longer exists in Lau-
, it will have no effect on the size of by the county PMA committee to irens county, according to C. D. Wal-!
■an allotment thabmay be established make further adjustments that ap- drep of the Carolina Milling Com-
pany.
He said the Carolina Milling Co.!
with its new poultry processing
plant in Greenville, now assures
chicken growers of a guaranteed
market for their products. Mr. Wal-j
drep declared that “we now have
our own processing plant, hatchery
and feed mill to meet the needs of
Laurens county farmers.”
j He pointed out the advantage of I
having a side line income for farm-'
ers whose cotton acreage has been
; cut down. "It will also supplement -
our farm program and grve farmers
a ‘well-balanced income.”
“To assure a market for individ
ual growers at our poultry proces—
sing plant, growers should have top
lity broilers and contact a re- i
presentative of the Carolina Milling,
Company before putting in their baby
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and acquitted in one Cou’hty is want
ed in an adjoining County for the
same offense, the same act, the very
act for which he was acquitted. I
don’t know the facts, the details of
the alleged crime for which the man
was tried, and am not interested in
•ne details What interests he is this; :
What about that man's Cohstitution-
ai rights; the guarantee against“be- 1
mg placed in-jeopardy of life or lib
erty a second time? .
Some one has made the statement
that the man. acquitted in one coun
ty, should be brought to trial in the
neighboring county 'and allowed to
plead his Constitutional rights! Well,
isn't that going tpo far? How would
a poor man fare in a case like that?
Must he retain able and expensive
Counsel to plead his Constitutional
rights, when the records of the Court
and the common knowledge of all '
men is that he has already been tried
and acquitted in another County on
the same facts? What appears alarm- j
mg to me is that the State of South
Carol.na—the State—wants to pros- •
ecute h;m twice. As you know 7 , the
persons tried in our courthouses, in j
every county, are tried by the State, I
not- by^the Counties;' and the alleged :
offenses are crimes “against the peace
and dignity of the State; as the in- ,
dictment must say.
We have a bit of _cpnfusion here
tnat has its roots deep in our idea of
tiie rights of a citizen. A man is ar
rested by officers in a county, or an
a warrant by a Magistrate of he
county. A grand jury of that county
brings in 4 true bill; and the trial is
before a petit -jury of that county.
But the prosecutor is the State's
lawyer and is pa.d by the state, be
cause the law is the law of the State
and the trial is for a breach of State
law, aithougn the jury is a body from
his county. And the Judge is a State
Judge.
The question 0; a new attitude re
solves itsell into this; do we mean to
be restrained, as well as guided by,
a Constitution? If not, this Consti
tution has enough good in it to serve
a helpful. pur;r-e and jnot enough
confusion to bew.Icier us more than
the attitude of those w’ho kick it
aside whenever..;! would stand in
their way.
We are able to write a Constitu
tion but we are not in the calm, re
flective mood of men whose minds
are on. the eternal principles of jus
tice: just now we are all for some
fad or fancy of government, or
against too many ideas. The ideas
are as out of place, many of them,
as are some inhibitions of the pres
ent Constitution. Some day, one can
m*t ■ im igine wiicnewe may be pre
pared in mind, spirit and resources
to write a great charter for the State.
But fifst let us restore sanity in our
National Admmstratibn, in our Con
gress, in our Federal Courts, spe
cially the Federal Supreme Court;
and let us finish with the South Car
olina Senatorial campaign. Perhaps
then we may .have our minds un
encumbered with a lot of pride, pre
judice and foolishness that today 6b-
scure the facts and make us see
through a “glass 1 darkly”, as the
Apostle Paul says.
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