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t / i Thursday, April 12, 1951 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Fir* The Federal Government is hav ing gambler’s luck; that is, the gam bler who wins, or, when winning. If ever an organization did every thing wrong it seems to be the Na tional Government. Of course, our it, too, has future. has been throwing money around promiscously, spending and lending and giving, it may close the books on June 30th with a surplus! Won mighty Bo-peep should loose his catch on. Our leaders in 1929 au- sheep. jthorized a bond issue of $65,000,000 i Because Mr..Truman is a so-called 'for roads. It violated the State Con- Democrat we find the sheep follow-. stitution as clearly as any act could, ing Bo-peep on the European-troop Then our Courts validated it, found question. As it stands, the Great Bo- 1 reasons for declaring it within the peep tells his sheep that he will Constitution! Read your Constitu- send troops hither and yon, as hejtion; thousands of our people are as pleases, and so we set aside the law,! capable of understanding plain lan- the Constitution and commonsense in guage as are the Courts. Instead of order to stand by the leader, though upholding the Constitution we play he lead to destruction. at a game of upholding the Legisla- What is more sacred in a nation-1 iu ™<x in plain violation in ordinary concept—than the purity Constitution, of its money? How can we live and: this Appropriation Bill, with do business unless we can accept in 1 1 * ,s Sales Tax and Building fund, a complete trust the soundness of our, three per cent Sales Tax and a money? Well, our Government under building Fund of $75,000,000. Ob its marvellous leadership lent to the 1 serve the increases in pay in the Russians our money-printing plates most hihg-handed refusal to respect the Constitution; and observe a I trickery of language which is in-1 tended to salve the consciences of the judges, if they accept increases in headlong, foolishly, .into greater debts and greater commitments be cause we have thrown aside the thrift and soum^ financing of our fathers and have arrogated to our selves the know-all for every occa sion. We may borrow from Job on his ash heap the scathing reply he gave to the friends who accused him of sin: “No doubt bui ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.” Yes, indeed, we are wise, full of wisdom, wise beyond all the wis dom of the ancients; and when we die all wisdom will be buried with us. So it seems. Both our Legislature and Congress are full of the wisdom of the moment, if there be such a thing as a state of intellectual be- fuddlement that passes for wisdom of the moment. , Sgt. Blockstone At Germany School Sfc. Johnnie B. Blackstone, son of Edward A. Blackstone, of this city, was one of the sergeants se lected in his company to attend the eighth class in the non-commis sioned officers school on the Ber lin, Germany, Military Post. Sgt. Blackstone went to Germany member of *‘G” Company. 2nd Bat in December, 1950, and is now a talion, 6th Infantry Regiment, with duties as squad leader. LETTER FOLDERS, Sales Books, Paper Clips, Pencil Sharpeners, Sta pling Machines and Staples. Chron icle Publishing Co. Sifato rW«n’t want to overlnokfvH inwiejr-pruning pmica the reproduclion ot American money by the Russians. That was quite a secret and we learn of it now Although^ the Federal Government, from a speech before the Ohio State derful, eh? A truly remarkable thing Proclamation declaring a State of is that we still have billions to throw ; Emergency? Where, in the Consti- away on Europe and Asia and South: tution, do you find that? In South Carolina we are quick to Chamber of Commerce by the Ed- p a yi And then talk to us about a itor of The Indianapolis Star. Why have a Constitution which can be set aside by. a Presidential paid 1S2 Goodyear Tire and had to it. America but a battle-scarred veteran can’t build or buy a house. He would; do better, apparently; or his chances would be better, if he were one of Tito’s siibjects, or even a lad from Argentina. Billions for the foreign ers but a straight-jacket for our own boys. At any rate, we are building a mansion for Gen. Isenhower in Paris. Why should we build a place for General Isenhower in France? France must have thousands of great places which the French Gov ernment could provide. Lf you know anything of France you know that that is true. Why should America build a mansion? It is on a par with this: I read a statement showing that this nation had sent to Greece more than a billion dollars! Little Greece. If the great Washington powers should spend a billion dol lars in a Southern State, in the same period, they could almost buy the State. Nothing is needed so much as to* tarn ninety per cent of the crowd' oat of Washington, including Con gress. Corporations earned more profits in 1969 than in 1949, but for every additional dollar Uncle Sam was right there with the hat. United States Steel earned M per cent more, but its taxes rose 86 per cent; Du Pont earned 19 per cent more but Uses took 92 per cent more; Gen eral Motors earned 2? per cent more, but Usee rose 109 per cent; Seers, Roebuck earned 39 per cent more, but paid out 111 per cent more. So- cony-Vacuum * earnings increased 10 per cent and Its Uses went up 111 per cent; General Electric II per cent more am to the Government, earned II per cent pay 1T2 per cent more. Most of the big companies pay much more In Usee than they pay to their stock holders. Well, if our brilliant young think-1 ers have their way we should borrow our ideas and plans from Russia. They must think that life ever in Russia It • long, sweet sang, w Ilf* of Riley, milk and hooey. ambroeUt delights, or la our beet native tongue, i riam and eggs, liver and bacon, all the time. Now to that so? Here's the, condition under which the Russian worker lives "Inefficient workers are subject to prosecution In court. Workers who damage tools can be fined II times the tool’s value. On the other hand, concessions are made to the ever emerging personal ambition; but on the other, criminal law to put Into operation in an ef fort to check the ine ctency of the entire system Workers are subject to penalties imposed by manager* for ’loafing on the job’, and to court action for ab senteeism and unauthorlaed quitting of the job. From 10 to 25 years in a forced labor camp, with or without confis cation of property, can be imposed for ‘misappropriation,’ embezzlement or any kind of theft of the property of the principal employers, the gov ernment or public bodies. Neither the constitution nor any law or decree mentions the right to strike, and the strike is tacitly out lawed. But labor does have the right to ask for a better deal—by applying to the state. Collective bargaining is allowed, and in fact is considered ‘most im portant’ to achieve production. But wage rates and bonuses are specific ally excluded from the area of bar gaining. Very good workers may be awarded such honorary titles as ‘hero of labor’ and get special bene- fits.” , , Do we need a new Constitution in South Carolina? If we need a Con stitution at all it must be because we intend to respect It; to be gov erned by it; to do what it requires; and to refrain from doing what it prohibits. If we are to proceed at our own pleasure, according to the impulse of the moment, and in total disregard of clear mandates of the Constitution, why should we speak of a new Constitution? How can we say that this a bad, or outmoded Constitution if we disregard provi sions of it which are sound and fun damental? Some of us may have spent long hours studying the Fed eral and State Constitutions but all that work is love’s labor lost. On the National scene we have such things t as the pact or agreement of the United Nations, which most of our people know nothing about, but which can operate in such manner aa to supenede our own basic laws. 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