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s Tape Tvyo THE CLINTON CHRONICLE :hrc^i Thursday, May 15, 195!T Now he seizes the steel plants and calls it Welfare. Next he may seize all the printing and publishing plants an dtell us the act is inher ent in the presidency in order ‘to insure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity’. It is not what Mr. Truman says that counts, but w’hat he DOES. Mr. Truman asserts a prerogative scope of his Constitutional powers; and a discretion utterly beyond the sccope of his Constitutional powers; and the Congress talks about it, de plores it, proposes to lop off some part of the Executive funds, and all 1 on at the Laurens court house. sentative ’James P. Richards: ! such childish means, instead of The district wants to be released My letter to the twelve gentle- j confronting the issue with vigor- from Laurens county district 55 to men: ' . ous resolution to maintain a Con join the Ware Shoals district. The State’ of today carries an stitutional government, a govern- A delegation from that area met Associated Press story from Wash-j ment of law’, instead of a govern- •with the Greenwood County Board ington. It is the usual roseate stuff ment by caprice, whim, prejudice Portion of County Requests Release From District 55 A group of school patrons from the Laurens county section want ing to become a part of the Ware Shoals school district in Green-1 I wrote a letter to eight or ten wood county pressed their request Senators and Representatives in last Monday at a meeting with the Congress which I wish to quote, Laurens County Board'of Educa- together with the reply of Repre or political aggrandizement. The Constitutional lawyers must have meant that impeachment of Education at Ware Shoals some about the Southeastern Pow’er Ad- t.me ago to request that they be ministration. All the guff of the allowed to enter the Ware Shoals story leads to the request for district The Greenwood board has money to build transmission lines, would not be practicable, due to been favorable to the request, but I know as a fact that it can trans- i political ties, because some mem- the Laurens countv board must mit any part, or /all its power, jbers of Congress are fearful of | through private lines. It isn ; t inter- challenging Mr. Truman since he There is also a section in Abbe- ested in saving money, of course, I is the so-called titular head of the vide countv whcih wants to be-j and Congress has too meekly been [Party. .So far as the Constitution come a part of the Ware Shoals snared by suave Administration | is concerned, it not only provides district ' A representative from ' lobbyists to take frequent plunges for impeachment in cases of ‘trea- — son bribery, or other high crimes’, but includes ‘MISDEMEANORS’. If the high-handed seizure of priv- that section met with the £reen-;into Socialism, wood hoard at one tune and show- j o ur friends may be accepting the ed a petition which was signed; idea that the voters want all this, b| the them to the Ware Shoals district. | proper course the voters might just The requests would in no sense ( as W eii have clerks in Washington d a petition which was signed, idea that the voters want all this, * ‘X T ^ u- I :>• a number of residents asking > but if leaders in Congress haven’t ] ate ^ b / the | he Abbeville board to release the wisdom and courage to steer a i c f^ e , re^eral Government, in Campbell Lodge, No. 44, AFM, will hold a regular communication Tuesday night, May 20, at 8 o’clock. All members are urged to be pres ent. V. P. Adair, Secretary. ony and also to offenses for Which ImSONS TO MEET TUESDAY the law has not provided a partic ular remedy’. But this is no mild act—to mis-use the power of the Executive so as to confiscate pri vate plants. I do not suggest that Mr. Truman was deliberately kow- towing to the Grl.O.^ that lowers the plane of the discussion. Let us confine ourselves to the Constitu tion which has been grievously set aside by an asserted Executive pre rogative of ‘ihherent power’ which sounds like the twaddle of the Di vine Right of the Kings—a theory long exploded everywhere except in Washington. You are a forthright man and‘ will appreciate a forthright expres- j sion which carries with it my very j warm regard for you and your out standing qualities. To my home come nine dailies, ranging from New York to North and South Carolina; and I keep in touch with Congress; but I read of no real purpose to re-assert either the powers of Congress or the re served powers of the States respec tively, or of the people, as declares the Tenth Amendment, th6 Su- j preme Law of the Land. With regards, I am, Cordially yours, J. K. Breedih.’’ SAY: “I SAW IT IN THE CHRONICLE” THANK YOU IF YOU DON’T READ THE CHRONICLE • YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS change the county lines, but would r-.erely make the school districts cross county lines. It is understood that a meeting instead of men whose vision and fundamental training make them our leaders, the successors of the great figures of the past and the of ^the Greenwood, Abbeville arid j connec tj n g links with a great fu Laurens county boards is being ar-1 t urei developing our Nation’s time- ranged to discuss the matter. Ware Shoals has not been finally accepted as a separate district in Greenwood county. The State Edu-^ (atibnal' Finance Commission has accepted the Greenwood and Nine- tv-Six area as one district, but de- clear violation of Constitutional guarantees, is not AT LEAST a ‘mis^enreanor’ w’hat is it? You know as a lawyer that a misde meanor is "An offense of less atrocious nature than a crime; ap plying to offenses inferior to a fel- SUMMER SUITS By Merit L B. DILLARD WHHWMKIHWHKKICWlMCmttWWIHaOg FOR A MORE COMPLETE LINE OF Fishing Tackle | firestone Got Your Fishing License Yet?.. Come In .. We Got 'Em WINNER OF WEEKLY $3.00 PRIZE RUFUS HANDBACK 200 Gordon St. , With Bass Weighing 4 Lbs. COME IN AND REGISTER! SEE WHAT HE CAUGHT IT ON! Cox Home & Auto Supply Fishing Headquarters honored conceptions. Mr. Truman’s seizure of the steel plants shows where we are headed and I greatly dep^pre the-inertia ot Congress, -fts j utte*r failure to re-assert the powers! of Congress and the limitations on! the prerogative of the President. 1 ferred decision on. Ware Shoals un- ^ ow we have. a. precedent that may til it can be determined how many j be invoked again students the district would draw i j lived ten years un der the sort! from the Laurens and Abbeville of government' Mr. Truman wants. 1 county areas. X know something about it from the Walter L. Martin, a resident ofj j ns j dei but I never expected to find! the area, and a former member of s0 blatant an assertion of Execu- the legislature from Laurens, was ^ ive prerogative in this Country, suoktsman for the group, asking to nor so supine an attitude in our te taken into the Ware Shoals Congress. c strict. The Laurens Advertiser story of tne meeting said, in part White schools as now’ constituted represented in the request were announced as Mt. Olive, Mt. Gal- agher, Poplar Springs, Brewerton, and Mt. Bethel. The names of the colored schools in the same area were not listed. Mr. Martin described the area broadly as lying between Reedy River and Ware Shoals, constitut ing six or eight square miles of territory and having approximate ly 500 pupils, white and colored, of all grades'through high school. At present, he said, the high school children, approximately 140 in number, are attending Ware Shoals high school. Re said that a small part of Ab beville county would also be in cluded in the proposed district. Mr. Martin explained that the area had no complaint as to Lau rens county but that the request was fair and logical in view of the You and I know that Clark’s Hill power will be used by the H-bomb plant in Aiken and will never be sent to Oak Ridge. That Oak Ridge claim is a lot of poppycock fed to Congressmen who don’t know geog- raphy Let me ask you: If the Federal Government should have all the parallel lines it wants, may it not cut off South—Carolina industries by sending the pow’er to other States, leaving us in the lurch? Since we are embarking on grandiose concepts of the Presi dent’s powers may not a Truman suddenly decide that Missouri should have the power? And di vert it from us. Boiled down, is our Congress under the thumb of these lobbyists and bureaucratic Moguls, or may. we expect some measure of sound statesmanship to giude our affairs? Observe that we no longer talk about Reclamation, Flood Control and all that: today we are boldly Power Barons with the people’s fact that high school children of [ money, the area had gone to Ware Shoals | I expect to use this letter in my *n the past and that there was a Spectator and over several radio strong bond of sympathy between 1 stations. Because of my personal the communities. ? 'regard I shall be glad to use your ‘ We have been given assurance reply, that the education board in Green-j I hope the Senators and Repre- wood county is sympathetic with the proposed district and will ac cept us if uV get released from Laurens No. 55," Mr. Martin said. Chairman J. B. Hart, speaking for the board, thanked the assem bled patrons for their interest in school affairs and promised them ‘ the board would give them an j answ’er just as soon as possible i after the school survey of the dis trict is completed, which ought to be in a week or two.' sentatives w’ill give careful con sideration to the trend of Execu tive arrogance which blossomed in to such perversion as the seizure ; of the Steel plant. With' all good wishes and regards. I am, Sincerely yours, This man can take care of all your insurance needs! • Yovr local form Bureau Uturance repretenlative offer* More than 60 different policie* to cover practically every protec tion need ... in your home, in your basinet*. He'll be glad to help you with a tingle auto pol icy, for example, or a compre hensive insurance plan for all your protection needs . . W. C. BALDWIN, Agent DOUG BLANTON, Assistant Phone: 586 or 587 flA FARM BUREAU insurance cos. • Fane • Fane • Fana Fire Co. Co. Co. m, in. Olfu.• COLUMBUS OHIO J. K. Breedin. Mr. Richard’s reply: “Dear Mr. Breedin: This Is to acknowledge your in- j dictmeht of Congress dated April 1 19, w’hich I think is unjustified in 1 many particulars. You end your let ter by saying, T hope the Senators and Representatives will give care- t ful consideration to the trend of Executive arrogance v which blos somed into such perversion as the seizure of the Steel plants.’’ If you have been reading thei papers and the Congressional Rec-1 ord recently you have seen that Congress has daily been express ing its concarn relative to the President’s unwarranted action. It might be well also to consider j again the fact that the Congress cannot stop the President from do ing the kind of thing he has done except through impeachment. Practically every constitutional lawyer I have talked with does not consider that impeachment pro ceedings could be sustained in this instance. With regards and best wishes, I am Sincerely yours, J. P. 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