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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, March 13, 1032
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"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
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! far more than the whites, and the
was held here with several cities and
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'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.
Herbert Henning of - Darlington,
district secretary, and Orin Crow
of Columbia, a member of the In
ternational board of trustees,
brought greetings to the ten
clubs represented
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