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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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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.
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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
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pasture and the fatter sheep. That
reminds me that Mr. Edwards de-
Congress has recently established a livered a notable address down in
ceiling price for raw cotton, 1 Charleston recently, which was ap-
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