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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.
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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.
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