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t Page Eight V THE CLINTON CHRONICLE a Thursday, March 13, 1952 What about the increase in the pay of the Judges? An editor wrote me a card asking “What's the mat ter with the old battler? Is there a special right and privilege for Judges? Or does the Constitution mean what it says, or, mean any thing at all?” I replied to my friend that I was so completely flabbergasted and dumbfounded that I was like the frph workman who fell off a .ladder. When asked jf he had broken any bones he said. “Faith and the bones is all right, but I’m SPEECHLESS.” What says the Constitution? “The Justices of the Supreme Court and Judges of the Circuit Court shall each receive compensation for their services to be fixed by law, which shall not be increased or diminished DURING THEIR CONTINUANCE IN OFFICE.” Although a Justice or a Judge may be elected for a term of years and then be re-elected, it is a prop- f amounting to approximately forty- five cents per pound, and failedT/b establish a floor price in excess of the present parity price of approx imately thirty-two cents per pound for cotton to be produced during 1952; and WHEREAS, there now, exists an acute shortage of cotton and the incre^^ n o\ton A aCTeage Ure »nd] Mills community center with the encouraging farmers to consider- president, Mrs. J. B. Templeton, yield, which is necessary for the presiding Clinton Compfire Leaders Have Meet. Training Course Planned The Clinton association of Camp fire and Bluebird leaders met on Wednesday, March 5, at the Clinton defense of this country; and The group decided to meet every WHEREAS, The system employ- month rather than quarterly and ed for crop reporting during the | to devote more time to handcraft, vear 1951 cost the farmers of the By-laws .were discussed and the United States several millions of dollars, in that the BAE Crop Re porting Board either intentionally or unintentionally gave false esti mates at the beginning of the harv est concerning yields, thereby forc ing many farmers to sell at unreas onably low prices; and- WHEREAS, the prevailing, hour committee may make corrections and send to headquarters for ap proval. The following committees were elected: t Social, Mrs. A. C. Young, chair man; Mrs. Brevard Patterson, Mrs. Davis Holland; program. Mrs. B. C. Prpslar, chairman, Mrs. lone ly wage now required to be paid by j Wallace, Mrs. Joe Land, Mrs. farmers for labor has increased George Bellingrath and Mrs. A. G. from sixteen cents in 1940 to fif ty-five ecnts in 1950; and Sutherland, Jr. A training course for leaders and WHEREAS, the selling price of I sponsors will be conducted March cotton for the years 1940 through 1 24-27 by Miss Corinrie Moller, na- 1950, inclusive, has been, with the j tional field representative, exception of the year 1946, only slightly above the loan or support j propriately covered by The News price-and ■ Courier and The State. I needn t WHEREAS, the farmers’ share of! re P e .at any of it but several sug- the retail value of the cotton pro- ^ cs ^ lons that the world npeds duced in the United States during' honest and honorable dealings —er question as to, the meaning of thc ve:itr£ 1940 through 1QS0 has in- amor »g men as the foundations of the expression "DURING THEIR | crea s e d f rom n i ne nercent to only bus i ne ss, as well as the guiding CONTINLANCE IN OFFICE. It t we i ve , an{ j two-tenths per cent;^ and WHEREAS, the average cost of picking cotton in Aiken County has is possible to maintain that the Judge is contihuing in office when re-elected. If that isn’t true the Constitution should be amended. But as to holding out an invita- advanced from one dollar per one hundred pounds in 1942 to two dol- . lars and seventy-five cents per tion to the Justices and Judges to hundred pounds in 1951; and resign so as to set up a fiction of a new term is hardly an act to arouse great enthusiasm. How can we defend a re-elec tion which is virtually a guaran teed affair a for the sole purpose of evading the Constitution? In cold, sober truth tell me how any man can advocate a new Con stitution for South Carolina? WHY ANY CONSTITUTION? The fault is not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. The bitter and the sweet must be taken together, so while we marvel at the .mental gymnastics, like police court pettifogging, which brtmghf-about the resigna- WHEREAS, the average price of fertilizer during the years 1945 through 1951, inclusive, has shown a steady increase now amounting to between twenty and twenty-five per cent more than such fertilizers cost in the~year 1945; and WHEREAS, the cost of ginning has increased from six dollars and fifty cents per five hundred pounds in the year 1947 to eight dollafs and fifty cents per five hundred pound bale in the year 1951; etc.”. The American cotton growers would have been “better off” last year without any Government con trol. Why must we have all these! controls? Is it thg little “POLICE principle of all other relationships; and that we must save ourselves from the confusion .of the day by taking ' thought and ' adopting a courageous course. Talking to the Merchants’ Association Mr. Ed wards talked as a businesman, but he does not forget that ail men have larger concerns than absorp tion in business in a narrow way. Campfire Girls Will Celebrate 42nci Anniversary March 22 Campfire Girls will celebrate their 42nd birthday an niversary. The project for the year, “Design for Friendship,” seeks to help its members of all religions, races and economic back ground to • make friends within their groups through understand ing and appreciating each other more. Through activities based on this theme they will form closer ties with their own groups and their families. The Campfire and Bluebird or ganizations in Clinton are for girls seven to eleven years of age. The Campfire law is Worship God, seek beauty, give service, pursue knowl edge, be trustworthy, hold on to health, glorify work and be hap py. The program emphasizes the importance of home and family life and the group activities are based on the .seven crafts: home, outdoors, creative arts, frontiers, business, sports and games and citizenship. During the forty-two years the benefits to the communities have shown in its growth to an organi zation representing 3,000,000 alum- Baskin To Seek Re-election To S. C. Party Post Bishopville. — State Democratic party executive committee chair man, William P. Baskin, is an an nounced candidate for re-election to the post. Chairman since 1946, Baskin also is state senator from Lee county. The party (post is filled by election at the state convention here April 16. In a formal statement of an nouncement "Saturday night, Baskin said in part: “During the time I have served as state chairman I have endeav ored to carry out . the instructions and mandates of our state conven tions a*id our state Democratic Executive Committee. “During my term of office the party has faced federal court ac tions. I have been called to testify in federal court and to operate our party under federal decisions, and our party has supported a com plete new election law assuring every registered elector the secret ballot within the Democratic pri mary and general election. “If re-elected state chairman .1 shall endeavor in the future, as I have in the past, to . . . carry out nae and 369,651 girls in 2,900 com- the will of the Democrats of this munities all over the United States. During the anniversary week all members are urged to attend •- --- HOUSEHOLD HINTS A delicate desert that’s easily prepared is custard baked in in state.” (HOUSEHOLD HINTS Here’s an unusual sauce for icfeiMarrh fi. Ift52 cream or vanilla pudding: use 1 cup chopped, pitted, cooked prunes and a cup of the cooking liquid dividual cups. Unmold, surround with 1-2 cup each of brown sugar with canned, cling peach slices and top with 1 tablespoon of raspberry preserves or some thin jam. and crushed pineapple and 1 tea spoon cornstarch. Cook slowly 5- 10 minutes. Serve hot or cold. Attend Columbia Beauty Convention Monday Mrs. Grady Adair, own er of Virginia’s Beauty Shop, with Mrs. Frances Warner, of this city, attended the State Beauty conven tion in session for several days at the Jefferson hotel, Columbia. ■ Mrs. Warner was chosen as a model and was given a personality hair styling by Madame Marguerite Buck of Paris, France. APPOINTED TO ACADEMY Laurens, March 11.—Congress man Hamilton C. Jones of Char lotte, N; C., has appointed Hoyle H. Miller, Jr., to the United States Naval Academy at Annajbolis. Mr. Miller is a grandson of C. D. Nance of Clinton, former senator from Laurens county, and is now a sec ond year cadet at The Citadel. NOTICE OF MEETING OF STOCK HOLDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on April 7, 1952, at 11:00 a.m. at the offices of the Clinton Paper Box Co., ‘E. Carolina Ave., Clinton, S. C., there will be held a meeting of the stock holders'of CLINTON PAPER BOX CO., for the purpose of considering a proposed increase in the amount of the capital stock of said .Clinton Paper Box Co., to the amount of Fif ty Thousand ($50,000.00) Dollar;. . T. E. ADDISON, President. L. N. WARREN, Secretary. -3-4c. OFFICE SUPPLIES Complete line, all the little Items needed for the office. CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. Phone 74 tion and guaranteed re-election of i ACTION" in Korea that brings Judges in order to ~bring about ani-about all -our National - confusion?-- increase in pay, we also find i about all our National confusion? praiseworthy ! the otherwise bus-1 Couldn't we put most, or all of inesslike procedure of the General this control operation in those Assembly. - 1 Washington Deep Freezers, along Some members of the courts did i with the mink coats and tips? Is not resort to this legislative device j there anybody wise enough to be and so they will not receive the i substituted for hundreds of thou- larger measure of loaves and sands of men who have the ability fishes. But is money the only co.i- sideration of the day? to make opportunities for them selves and their fellowmen? We are playing a game according to rules Cotton farmers paid a heavy I which are not well conceived and price for the bungling reports of! administered by men who 1 don’t the Federal Department of Agri- know the first principles of the culture last year. • When the esti- game. We spent so much time try- mates of the cotton crop were a ing to learn how to operate with- million and a half bales beyond in the rules that we have very lit- the harvest the farmer lost several cents a pound on millions of bales. At the same time the cotton of the American farmer was under a ceil ing price of about forty-five cents a pound, cotton from other coun tie time to use our natural re-! sourcefulness. And then when you think you are right somebody who | read all this in a theoretical \ course “bawls you out.” O TEM- PORA, O MORES! I was afraid my tries sold on the world market at 1 Secretary would write that “O a highei; price. So the cotton farm-1 tempora, o MOSES”, thus throw er may wonder who represents his 1 ing my classical phrase on the 1 interests. scrap heap, or suggesting to my] It may be of interest, a resolu-1 banker friend, Mr. B. M. Edwards, ; tion of the Aiken County Pomona that he tell me how Moses would Grange. I quote it in full, as it ap- have worked out a solution. One 1 pears in the Georgia Market Bui-Tof Mr. Edwards’ stories is of the 1 letin: (So far as it deals with cot-1 preacher who proved by Lot’s ton). I wife’s fate that he shouldn’t turn “State of South Carolina I °ack to, or return to, the old pas torate after preparing for the new couaty of Aiken WHEREAS, Resolution the United States pasture and the fatter sheep. 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