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Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, March 13, 1032 X y (Eltntnn (U^rmtidr EsUblifthed 190# WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON. Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 | , Six Months >1.25 Entered* as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C^ under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chronicle seeks t ie cooperation of its subscribers and readera— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest .when they are not of A defamatory nature. Anonymou| communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia. "NO PLACE TO HIDE" CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1952 Route 72 Important 7or some time the local Chamber o: Commerce- has been interested in, «r.d urging'other towns and cities to ,3oin in the .effort to boost highway No. 72 as the quickest and 'best route through the state from. Charlotte to case of forced Federal control over the states which began with thej packing of the Supreme Court. Cer-' tainly the Negroes should have goodj schools, but there should be segrega-j tion which is best for both races. By | a judicial decree breaking downj segregation the Negroes would lose deviated from the support of the Democratic party.” Russell is an all-out foe of the President’s civil rights program, and in the past has sparkplugged Senate fights against such legisla- ■ “tion. The prpgram includes bills to outlaw the r poll tax, lynching and t- -discrimination in employment. However, he did not participate in the 1948 revolt which cost Tru man the electoral votes of four normally Democratic southern states—Alabama, Louisiana, Mis sissippi and South Carolina. That revolt followed the adoption by the Philadelphia convention of a plat form which contained a strong civil rights plank. Asked whether he. is in the con test for the nomination to stay, Russell said: “So far as the Democratic con vention is concerned, there are no contingencies. I ^ntend to carry through and have my name pre sented to the convention, and hope that I will receive the support of a majority of my fellow Democrats who are delegates to that conven tion.” His senate duties will keep him in Waslyngton most of the time, Russell continued, but he hopes to get away often enough “to present my candidacy to the people of the entire nation.” He indicated that would include some campaigning in thr^ortlv ( ; OFFICE SUPPLIES Complete line, all the little items needed for the office. CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Phone 74 4 7b Relicvt ^ Ms ") 9 {$/ 666 ! far more than the whites, and the was held here with several cities and o\i rTt: 'towns represented in this section is NAACP lawyer fhurgood Mar- .oox:ng to t.ie publicizing of the j ancl ot her agitators who are do- route and gn ing it adi erasing to at- ( j n g great harm and attempting .to trr.ct tourist.traffic. arouse racial feeling. As a matter of The route leaving Charlotte would fact, truth is—it is not the equalizing tollow 21 to Rock Hill and pick up of schools they are fighting for—but 72 through the state via Clinton, and mixed schools. All of the litigation on into Elberton tind Athens, Ga. Committees have been named to could be quickly ended with an opin ion by the Supreme Court as to make a study of the route and its whether separate but equal schools] possibilities and to give it a name, are constitutional. While Clinton is on no tourist route,! — ♦ Russell In Race 'Tofhef inish', But No Comment on Bolt Washington, Mar. 2.—Sen. Rus sell of Georgia said today he is in the race for the Democratic presi dential nomination to the finish, but he declined again to say wheth er he would bolt the party if Pres ident Truman is renominated. Russell announced his candidacy on Thursday. He immediately at tracted pledges of support from most of the .southern Democratic leaders who are trying to block re- nomina^ion of Truman. Appearing on a CBS television interview program Russell indicat-; ecT that tftcr kind of platform adopt ed by the national convention in Chicago next July, will be a major! factor in his decision whether to stay in the party or leave it. . Asked whether he would head up a third party if Truman is nomi nated for another term, Russell re plied • “I can only say that I have never ’ Be Sure to See This Magnificent Color Spectacle More beautiful than ever this season . . Azaleas in all their gjQry. iiDring.X'iowors-w-eolorfu 1 ar- ray and late Camellias at their best. J. see them now. CHARLESTON’S FAMOUS GARDENS Cypress - Magnolia • Middleton Charleston, S. C. strictly speaking, th< traffic passing through the city that is beneficial in many ways. The im provement of this highway and prop er recognition given it by the AAA is bound to result in increasing trav el as the public becomes familiar with the route and its advantages as oters Are Aroused In the presidential election of 1948 only 49 per cent of the eligible vot ers of the nation took the trouble to go to the-polls. The principal reason for this indifference and selfish con duct was the theory that Dewey was the shortest route between Charlotte _f urc t0 be e ^ ecte< ^-’ So why bother, rnd Atlanta. The Chamber of Com-fP^' W£ ] s Seated largely because ^ h was a “yes man, tried to imitate : e • ce should give its sunpnrt along with other interested towns in this Promise everything that Tru- area in promoting the project. f 13 ": the champion promiser, offered wj* ' i 4 i • u • to the Public arid it worked in the Tounst travel is becoming an enor- latter>s vote . catching sch ' me mous asset to many parts of our ° state, and we should be interested in , have Ranged, and diverting all travel possible through our city. When travelers get in their automobiles and start on a trip they are 'primarily interested in a direct short route with a good road. What they want to see on their maps is the red line, and that is the line they prefer to follow. If the oil companies will list Route 72 in red, as they have un-i less they have — we are ! hopeless. { Four years of utter incompetence, of I graft and greed and scandal, and of foreign “policy” which has carried us literally to within sight of nation al ruin, have even sobered the minds of the boys who halve wallowed in the seemingly endless flow of gravy from Truman’s welfare pot. Introducing... the car with the been requested to do, it will be worth farmers voted the welfare much to our section. Let us all join in boosting the route. state in 1948. But all those promises didn’t pan out — and were never meant to. You only fool a farmer A aaIa once with the same line of baloney. Segregation Upheld Again union labor was supposed -to go A special three-judge federal court all-out for Truman in ’48 because of s-.t Richmond, Va., during the week the Taft-Hartley law, which they unanimously upheld the constitu- had been deceived when told it was tionality of Virginia laws requiring | anti-labor. But millions of members knew the truth about that law and voted against Truman. Millions more will do so in November—and because separate public schools for white and Negroes. The court, ruling on a suit brought by parents of Negro school children i of that law. in one of the counties, said it found | Many ardent church members vot- “no hurt or harm to either race’’ in ed for Honest Harry In 1948. Scan- the statutes requiring separate but I dais upon scandals in this adminis- tqual In Uities for the;races. The de-; tration have awakened ; them. cision of the court said the system. But in our opinion the great Re- "has not been social despotism” as publican majority expected in No- contended by the National Associ-: vember is coming from the 61' per ation for the Advancement of Color-! cent of slap-happy citizens who cd People, but on the contrary has didn’t take the trouble to vote in ‘ begotten greater opportunities for 19#8 but who are now frightened the Negro.” and with cause—at the ghastly con- Separation of the races in the pub- | sequences of their former avoidance lie schools of Virginia “has for gen- of duty. orations been p part of the mores of Our country has been placed in! her people," the court opinion said, 1 grave danger through a seemingly) adding: “It indisputably a p p e a r s utter ignorance of money and fi-j from the evidence that the separa- nance, and because of a foreign pol-: tion provision rests neither upon icy which at times has seemed al- prejudice, nor caprice, nor upon anj-1 most suicidal. In 1948 we did not I other measureless foundation. Ra'th-jfaee the same dangers that we do er, the proof is that it declar.es one today. But the last four years of the Truman Fair Deal, a hand-over of Him 4-D—r 'S3 Kaittr Mmktum. Styled like • hardtop, priaed like a i White tidewaU tires extra when available. of the ways of life in Virginia.” Arguments were brought against segregation by the National Associ ation for the Advancement of Col ored People. This is the same group of agitators that brought the suit in Clarendon county in this state in which a federal tribunal ruled that segregation was legal so long- as equal school facilities were provided. This case is now pending under or der of the United States Supreme Court. This state is proceeding with diligence to equalize those facilities as shown by the report that South Carolina is now spending $516,000 lor new Negro schools in Clarendon, ^Tnd nothing for whites in that coun ty, and has allocated $5,515,619 for new Negro schools throughout the state as against only $1,992,018 for white schools. Most of the three per cent sales tax is going to school equalization. The association making the fight admits that progress is be ing made toward equalization (look at the quoted figures), but it is still dissatisfied, it wants more. What has happened in this state and Virginia, may be expected in many other sections of the South in” defiance of long standing tradition. The case will go to the Supreme Court as expected. It is also likely that the high court will hold, as it has held on so n\any other occasions since 1896, that the administration of public schools is a state responsi bility, and that the decision to re quire segregation or abolish it is a matter for state legislatures. It is a the Roosevelt New Deal — have changed the entire picture. We are frightened if we have any brains— and fear is going to bring out the largest vote ever cast before unless the signs fail. Divisiondl Kiwonis Meet In Greenville Past lieutenant governors and president, Ratchford W. Boland and W^W. Harris represented the local Kfwanis club at the 9th di visional meeting held Thursday evening at the Poinsett hotel in Greenville. The meeting was at tended by about 300 Kiwanians and presided over by Lt. Governor Grady Hipp of Greenville. ’ The principal address was made by Governor Joe Talley of Fay etteville, N. C., newly elected head of the Carolinas Kiwanis district. 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