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* ▼ / $/ Thursday, January 10, 1952 THE CMNTON CHRONICLE Page Seven “There are 588 companies ip this country with assets of more than 1 bUlion dollars each. Their combined assets totaled $147,782,000,000* on dec. 31, 1950. On that same day the Goivkrnment’s outstanding debt amounted to 526,708,000,000. WHICH Big Business do you mean?” That—I tfm takihg from the, mag azine of The Duke Power Co. 1952 is here. A new year has come and the wheels turn aboiif as usual Perhaps we fret too much about the New Year, wondering what it will bring forth. Why shouldn’t we glide jftto the new year as fmoothly as a fine car moves along with gracd and power? The new year may be asso ciated with Federal taxes, but tax ation doesn’t produce business; let us keep going under full steam, taking the taxes in our stride. That doesn’t mean th^t taxes are not too high; ' they are too high; they seem to dis courage prudent management; they seem almost to take the heart out of the investor; but there is some re turn for the work; the Government doesn’t get^all the profit. I point that -out because we seem to have many men who hope that the Government will come day take all, the profit; in fact, that all of us shall be • in the employ of the Government. We are not in the employ of the Gov ernment yet; we still come and go - ~c.i will: .the Government only- takes most of the earnings. So, let’s' be thankful for what we have; what we keep; and then let us highly re solve to deflate the Government, . literally take the wind out of it, and rebuild it on the ancient foundations of sound, policy—of truth,. integrity, simplicity, economy. leaving the trail and rambling all over the earth. The latest departure from the ancient law is the United Nations’ charter. Most o.f us have thought favorably of some kind of association of the Nations for Mu tual protection:' but this United Na tions organization is^so organized^ that it wants to reform the land laws of all the Nations; and do a thousand other things which are nojt , . . , , the concern of the Congress of the $25,000,000,000—so far. . Umted^iates. All this is being done, The News & Courier of Charleston published a dispatch from Washing ton giving that figure as an estimate. Twenty five billions of dollars! The First World War cost this nation $27,000,000,000. That wa« under and is said to be binding on us, be cause the Senate ratified the treaty by which the United Stateyftecame a member ,of the United Nations. And they argue nOw that the treaties are binding on ys over and above cur State laws because the Consti- Woodrow Wilson; the Second World' tution of the United States makes | War cost this country four hundred J billion dollars. iMr. -Truman has 'spent twenty five billions on what ! he calls a “police action”. It is a puny affair, in money, compared with the the Constitution and treaties the* su preme law of the lahdi I don’t be lieve any such twaddle; if a treaty between this Nation and any other nation violates the spirit of our Con- ^two hundred and sixty billions spent stitution, including the reserved by Mr. Truman from July, 1945 to j p 0Wers , 0 f the States, such treaty is July 1, 1951. The Nation will survive jicgif invalid because it rests upon MjA,'! JL that, even with Mr. Truman spread ing dollars all over the earth and the Seven Seas. But the thousands of miimed and mangled men; the thou sands of lives lost; the thousands of widows and orphans; the thousands of wrecked ^iomes — they are the price beyond ^.all calculation; and loss cannot be covered by any po litical talk of any other appeal of a slippery tongue; nothing but Di> vine grace can smoothe over those furrows in the hearts of thousands. • * • How far can the Congress go, in legislating? May it lawfully invade the field of thg State in purely intra state matters? Everybody knows what the powers of Congress are, in general; but Congress has been -KO.IMJ.U.H'U.t/ Aj», NOTICE! V ; Beginning January 1st, 1952, all out of town garbage collections will be billed at the rate of $2.00 per month for each residence, for one col lection per week. This is payable in advance quarterly and collection of garbage will be dis continued unless all bills are paid promptly. This is by order of the Town Council. JOE P. TERRY, Mayor. an uncqnstitutionbl Act of Congress And, if necessary, the people should i re-affirm the powers and lack of powers of the Congress. This matter #f Segregation is not a mktter for the Congress of the United States. What we are faced with is a lot of judge-made law. In cidentally, the most undemocratic part of the Americun system of gov- ernmenT~l5 the “unregulated, uncon trolled tyranny of the courts. The legation is of itself unconstitutional, without reference to whether sep arate apd equal facilities are avail able. . ^ „ Tftfe two other cases were‘brought Sputh Caroling and Kansas, and Stp^iil three-judge courts ruled in ,dn line with the long-standing !lgh court decision, that segregation is not of itself unconstitutional. Both these cases have been ap pealed to the Supreme Court, but Hits court has not yet announced whether it would agree to review them. j. In the District case, however, Judge -McGuire denied a motion for a special three-judge court holding that ‘no substantial constitutional question' was involved. Decisions of such special courts may be appealed directly to the Su preme C$urt, by-pVssing the Court ot Appeals. j A The District case was dismissed by District Judge Walter M. Bastian and the NAACP pas already ap pealed to the Court of Appeals. But attorneys for the Negroes involved in the District case, meanwhile have Upraise on his.SC^h birthday today asked the Supreme Court to order in a way that' sde District Judge McGuire to set up a special court to hear the ca'se. * As one of its first orders of the current term, the Supreme Court di rected Judge McGuire to show cause why he should not be ordered to set up such a court. ‘purely and simply’ procedural is sue, arid wore in fact making ‘a thinly veiled effort to obtain’ an ex pression from the Supreme Court on the merits of the question raised in. their complaint in the District Court.’ ‘The question of the consti tutional validity of laws requiring separate - schools for white and Negro children of the District,’ Judge McGuire’s brief said, ‘has “been settled by • the United States Court of Appeals'for the District, and the Supreme Court has many times expressed itself uporf validity of sep aration of the races -in wholly equal facilities.’ . These findings, it added, are bind ing oh a district opurt judge in de termining whether a three-judge ^r.urt should be set up to decide is sues of that kind.” ^ NOTED PIANIST Malenkov May Be , Stalin's Successor position was in his brief filed with citizenry*of"this Nation may have to Supreme Court in response to 'that order. * He told the Supreme Court that in denying the request for a three- judge court, 4 he properly followed local law and the established Su- demand that the scope of the "Exec utive, the Courts and the Congress shall be fixed, determined and cir cumscribed so that the liberties of the individual and the prerogatives „ . „ . , . ... of the States shall be set forth m i Preme Court.doctnne of separate but clarity and precision; and that tha eq ^ a ^ facilines. A district cour. present forays into the rights of all :^® 6 ’ argued, is more than a ‘mere ministerial officer, and has the duty as well as the power to de- Mqgcqw, Jan. 8.—Deputy Premier Georgi Malenkov came in for signal in a way that' sdemed to have de sign and ' spefctal significance. - All leading- Soviet newspapers published on their front pages huge portraits of the unsmiling Malen kov, along with laudatory greet-; types of raw wool an average of • ERVIN LASZLO will appear as the second attraction of the Community Concert Association of Laurens County on Monday. , evening, January 14. in the Lau rens high school oudilorium. .»* feet selling prices, which already are below ceilings. An official told a -reporter that major effects‘of the orders will: 1. Reduce the ceilings on all - ings from the central committee of the Communist party and council slightly more than 21 per cent. 2. Adjust wool futures ceilings drrdgtr—MuGuhe’s defense mf-mr ministers- calhng-tTtTTr-a make them commensurate with shall be defeated as decisively as 1 mere ministerial officer. were the Austrian armies by Na poleon. I’ve read in The States’ Righter an account of a decision in the City of Washington and the remarks of the District Judge, in answering the Supreme Court. I quote: “Judge Matthew F. McGuire, of the U. S. District Court for the Dis trict of Columbia, has vigorously defended before the Supreme Court his refusal to order a special three- judge court to rule on the consti tutionality of segregated schools in the District of Columbia. "■The District case is one of three initiated by the tyAACP in an ef fort to upset the 1896 Supreme Court decision^ never reversed, sustaining the constitutionality of ‘separate but equal’ school facilities. The NAACP is fcampaigning for a reversal of that cide as a judge whether a request for a three-judge court involves a substantial question of the type which can properly’Ue* ref erred ,to such a court. Even ifr the complaint raised an otherwise constitutional question, he said, it should not be referred to a special court because the school seg regation policy of the District is based on an act of Congress which applies only to the District. He also argued that establishment cf a three-judge court would ‘put a serious drain upon the Federal ju dicial system.’ Furthermore, he said, -petitioners fn The" case have hot b€fcn denied their right of appeal to higher courts on the merits of the case. Judge McGuire said the appel lants, in seeking Supreme Court ac tion to force establishment of a doctrine, trying to establish that seg- three-judge court, went beyond the visor of Comrade Stalin.” It w^as announced he has been awarded the Order, of Lenin, the highest Soviet decoration. (The unusual tribute, surpassing that given othei; Soviet leaders on the new raw wool ceilings, aged soap powders and detergents 3. Lower the ceilings on pack- 30 cents. 3. Cut the ceilings bn bar soap from 33 cents a package to 29 to their decade birthdays except in by about 10 to 12 per cent, down to the case of Premier Stalin himself on his 70th anniversary, may mean the struggle for power inside the Politburo has been settled and that Malenkov has been chosen as Sta lin’s successor.) It is the accepted Soviet custom to pay special attention to the 50th, 60th and 70th birthdays of leaders. But the enthusiastically-worded greeting from the central commit tee and ministers, accompanied by the big pictures and the aw’ard, seemed td go beyond the uSual tributes. ■ 5. Slash the tallow ceilings from 14.15 cents per pound to 10.50 cents. This compares with current selling prices of 7 l i to 8 cents. 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