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4 l I i Thursday, March 22, 1951 THft CLINTON CHRONICLE Page 5?eTcu \ s. New C For State Again In Hands of Senators - Columbia, March 17.—-For the third time within lour years, the hope of a constitutional convention for South Carolina rests with the mem be/s of the state senate. Three times the house of repre sentatives has approved submitting the question otf a convention to the voters otf the state. Three governors in succession have called for a con stitutional convention. The South Carolina bar association has sug gested the calling of a constitutional convention, and the state’s education association likewise has endorsed the idea. Yet time and again the proposal has died at the hands of the sen ate judiciary committee. Now, once again, that committee has before it a joint resolution providing for the calling of a constitutional conven tion. And once more there seems a notable lack of enthusiasm among the 17 members of that committee for even sitomitting the question to the people, which is all that is pro posed at this stage. Senator W. Brantley Harvey, of Beautfort, the committee chairman, seams to be chiefly concerned over the fact that e constitution adopted in convention need not be ratifled by the people, unless the conven tion itself so prescribes. Senator L. (Marion Gressette, of Calhoun, the vice chairman, seems to feel that the present constitution is not too bad as it is, except for the sections affecting debt limita tions and suffrage. Several of the other committee members have indicated a belief the constitution needs revising, but are not all agreed on the method of that revision. The question of method was one of the issues under discussion last week when the committee met with representatives of a special committee named three years ago to study the constitutional needs of the state. There are three methods otf re vising the constitution presently un der consideration. They are: 1. Revision by “piece - meal” amendment, as has been done in cessantly for the last 50 years. 2. Revision by constitutional con vention, wherein the people of the state would elect delegates to a con vention and abide by the results of that convention. (An amendment to the present constitution could re quire ratification by the people, but that in itself might further postpone the entire process.) 3. Revision by Sbmisslon of an en tire constitution to the people for approval. This also would require an amendment to the present con stitution to permit such a procedure, and would be subject to delay. Revision by convention would be the quickest, simplest, and most rep resentative method of all. Yet the conclusion is inescapable that the senate is afraid to permit the calling of a constitutional convention, and for these understandable if none too laudable reasons: A convention could break the throttling grip on state government now held by the state senate. A convention could reduce the un warranted power now vested in the • general assembly and rpstore a prop er balance between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government. A convention could destroy some of the political arrangements where by legislators and state administra tive officers operate to the mutual advantage of each other. A convention might inject safe guards into a state constitution so as to insure adherence to governmental principles now flagrantly disregard ed even though they may be set forth in the present constitution. These and other desirable results | might be achieved by delegates (not| necessarily lawyers) elected by the people of South Carolina for the ex press purpose of giving the state “a body of fundamental law estab lishing the general framework of government and safeguarding the naturaTTdghts otf man. What the state has in the way of ja constitution now may have served ‘well in 1896, when it was adopted, ; but today it is a bloated and abused | parody of the original. South Carolina’s present constitu- j tion now runs to something like 32,- 000 words, making it the third orj fourth longest in the United States, j In the last half-century, 328 separate, amendments have been proposed in' the constitution, and il79 have been! actually added to it, not counting I the 38 amendments approved in the 1950 election. It is cumbersome, inefficient, un duly detailed, and too easily ignored by officeholders who find its provi sions restrictive of their political ir r responsibility or impropriety. All this is known, or could be learned, by the 48 senators in South Carolina’s “'House of Lords.” They could also learn, upon in quiry, that the hope for a constitu tional convention is becoming more and more apparent among their con stituents. And they will learn that Gover nor James F. Byrnes spoke not only for himself but for the people when, in his inaugural address, he said this: “I recommend that the legislature sttonit to the people at the next general election a proposal for a constitutional convention to draft a new constitution. y J > ■* . 7 Special Stamps made to your precise needs. All “Cushion-mounted” on hea vy sponge rubber. Prompt service. Stamp Pads—and Inks, All Colors. PRINJINC i PURPOSES OFFICE SUPPLIES All the needs for the of fice. Books for 1951. • • , CALL 74 • • Chronicle Pub. Company ' STATIONERY DEPT. Senate Group Reports Out Record Spending Bill, $146 Million Columbia, Mach 20. — Sky-high appropriations of $146,193,396 for the next fiscal year were recom mended in the General Assembly today. Then generous-minded Senate Finance Committee report on the general appropriations and sales tax bill was almost $3,500,000 more than the total spending voted by the House March 6. The $142,771,174 House bill itself was a record one. Retaining the House-approved three per cent sales tax levy and other features of the bill with al terations, the Finance Committee sprinkled appropriations increases generally throughout its version of the big bill. In fact, the committee in several instances went beyond original appropriations requests to the state budget and control board. While the Senate did little lese than receive the report, the House squelched, at least temporarily, a judiciary committee bill for a mer it personnel system for state em ployes. Representatives continued the bill until next year after some rousing debate. General fund spending contem plated by the Senate Finance com mitteemen totals $99,916,237. A $46,- 277,159 State Highway Department gasoline tax and license fee funds, budget, supported by earmarked accounts for the balance of the total. To cover the recommended ,sharp increase from the HouseNbiU, gen eral fund revenue estimates were revised upward. The 1951-52 in come tax estimate was increased from $23,850,000 to $26,000,000 and the sales tax estimate from $30,- 000,090 for the full year to $31,- 000,000 for 11 months. The proposed sales tax will be collected monthly after next July I and therefore there would be only II collection periods in the first fiscal year. A major change in the sales tax plan was the elmination from the bill of a $25 tax ceiling on any single sale. This would make the tax a flat three per cent. Income tax relief proposals to compensate for the sales tax would not become effective under the committee proposals until next January 1, instead of July 1, this year. As in the House bill, sales tax revenue would be pledged in part for educational purposes, chiefly a $75,000,000 bond issue for new school building and state opera tion of school buses. The commit tee bill would distribute the bond issue proceeds on a county, rather than a school district basis, how ever. Hundreds of Accidents Which Kill Children Are Preventable New York,—Each year hundreds of fatal accidents to infants in the United States could be prevented by the person caring for the child., according to the Metropolitan Lil*i Insurance company’s statisticians. Thih is borne out by a detailed study of fatal accidents during the first year of life among insured babies. The most frequent fatal accidents, the company’s statisticians report, are those resulting from the swal lowing of foreign objects—nipples, pacifiers, safety pins, buttons, mar bles or other things—left within the baby’s reach, and from asphyxia caused by the regurgitation of milk and other liquid foods. Such accidents as burns or scalds from makeshift vaporizers, fires started by older children playing with matches, strangulation caused by the child getting its head caught, poisoning, and dro^yning in the bath also take a consideratole toll of in fant life, the study indicates. These accidents are due, in the majority of cases, to lack of proper care by the person—usually the mother—in charge of the baby. On the other hand, the statisticians point out, most deaths that are re ported as suffocation by bedclothes or pillows—causing great anguish to hundreds of mothers each year who blame themselves for carelessness— are actually the result of acute res piratory infection. Mothers are ad vised, accordingly, to be particular ly alert to signs of respiratory ill ness in very young babies; Little progress has been made in reducing the mortality from acci dents among infants during the per iod since the early 1930's, while deaths from causes other than acci dents have declined by about 44 per cent during these years. TO ATTEND DENTAL CLINIC Dr. A. D. Salter will attend the Hinson Mid*4nt«r Dental clinic in Atlanta, Ga., Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of n4kt week ’HOME When you’re doing shirt laundry, sort all shirts to go in one laundry tub. Colorfast shifts may be wash ed safely with all-white shirts. It you are determining loads for machine by weight, it’s well to re member that two men’s shirts aver age a jjound, while fouf boy’s shirts will give the same weight. Repair before you wash. If you want to be ellficient about shirt laundry. You can avoid big repairs for example, if you mend a tear while it’s small. Sew on missing and soon to be missing buttons, and that will prevent your chasing around finding the right ones. Collars and cuffs need * special; attention before regular laundering if they’re to be kept in the peak of condition. Dip a stiff brush into suds made from 1-4 cup soap flakes or detergent and two cups of warm water and rub the badly soiled places to loosen and remove dirt. The hotter the water, the easier is the washing. Temperatufes of 140 degrees F. may be used for white and colorfast shirts. A good basic plan for starching the shirt is to use a light starch for the body; use double or triple strength for collars, cuffs, button and buttonhole bands, depending upon individual preference. Shake all wrinkles out at the shirt before you hang. This will remove many that would otherwise have to be ironed out by hand or mangle Fold the shirt as little as poarible after removal from drying line so as not to put in any more wrinkles than necessary. RECIPE OF THE WEEK Peanut Batter Bread (Makes 1 loaf) 2 1-3 cups sifted cake flour 3 teaspoons baking powder ’ 1 teaspoon salt 1-2 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 cup peanut butter. BeA< 6ggs, milk, peanut butter to gether; add to dry ingredients and Sift all dry ingredients to gether. beet until just blended. Pour into a greased loaf pan (8x4 inches) and bake in a modearte (350 F.) oven about one hour, FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 10th day of April, 1951, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Adffninistrator of the estate of Ora Weeks Wright in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a.m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administrator. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make pay ment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or be fore said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. D. V. WRIGHT, Adm., Clinton, S. C. March 6, 1951. 5-4p Dr. Fred E. Holcombe Offte* Wmmn 9m to fcM 200 SMtk BnU Si. OPTOMETRIST Men at From Mrs. W. C. Blaine, Tuscola, m.: I remember when the whole family gathered In the parlor on cold winter nights. Mother would play the organ and the family would sing JUST BECAUSE YOU MADE THEM GOO<JOO EYES, PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND ME HONEY, HOLD ME TIGHT. RED WING. We would wind up the eve ning singing Stephen Foster songs and hymns. From Mrs. Bessie K. Hubbell, Ada, Ohio: I remember when women at 40 stopped wearing hats and wore straw, silk or velvet bonnets with ribbon ties to make a bow under the chin. They wore somber clothes and never all white. From Mrs. M. E. Stanley, Mitten, ▼k: I remember, when a girl, father making butter, pecking it in tubs, then In early morning when cool, driving 14 miles to sell It for 15 cents a pound. Also when wom en and girls had high button shoes, flour sold for 75 cents for a 25-lb. sack. Eggs were only 10 and 12 cents a dozen. Frem Edna Marsh. Blalrsrllle. Pa.: I remember when women wore shirtwaists with high neck and stiff collars up against their jaws. Some collars were ribbon wound around their necks. Hair was pinned on top of their heads with a puff all around their heads, kept out by hair “rata.” Frem Mrs. EDs M. Cenant, Ply mouth, Mich.: I remember when we slept on "ticks" filled with dried corn husks. When housecleaning time came, mother would empty the husks on a clean sheet in the yard. It was my job to pick the i husks up one at a time, shake out 1 dust and put them in a clean “tick." We called them "ticks” be cause they were made of ticking. When washing, all white clothes were boiled in a large copper boil er placed on a wood range. (Mail your memories to The Old Timers. Box 340. Frankfort, Ky.) ATTENTION FARMERS! Big Reid Day Program Friday, March 23, at J. Herman Power's starting at 1 p. m. reef - reef - free A $70 Philco FM-Radio set will be given away free as a door prize—plus other gifts l! We would like very much to have you with us give an actual demonstration in the field t&hind for our field day on Friday! We will be showing our store if weather permits. If not, we will the New Holland ,, 77 Baler", Oliver Tractors and demonstrate the machinery inside. Factory rep- Oliver farm equipment, Ezee Flow spreader, resentatives will be present to help in the pro- Simplex and John Blue cotton dusters. We will gram. 0 ^ N»w b«l« leo4«r «•«•! Il**— •■*•( lobar—bo, I > PoUror, tobo Nay Cboppor. looUapa Collar ContfoS by Svporiar capacity U. S. To>i«a Co. on loti poworl N.** copocirv—«p Ip IS toat por bool J. HERMAN POWER 4 Miles from Laurens on GreenviYYe Road