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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, August 28, 1952
COMMENT
ON MEN
AND THINGS
By The Spectator
Is South Carolina for Eisenhow
er^ It looks so, doesn’t it? I don't
know how many citizens have
signed the petition td put "Ike'’ on
r. ticket: and no one knows how
many citizens will vote for him:
but very little is being said about
the Trumanite, Trumanized tick
et: still you never can tell: the
same lineup that dominated the
second meeting of the South Caro
lina Democratic convention will
be busy all the time; many of those
gentlemen are professional poli-
tciians and in such matters they
<an ‘ run and not be tveary! and
they can walk and not faint”:
whereas the citizens advocating
General Eisenhower are full of en
thusiasm and zeal—both of which
must be guided and sustained in or
der to be effective. As Uncle Re
mus would say: ’^Brer fox, he ain
spend: he ain say nuthin; he jest
lying low watching for a chance.”
. v erily, verily, AhalLis.the . truth.
However, thih splendid, fervor, this
rt'splondtmt—purpose, -to rise above
bosses and bossism, above political
managers and political moguls—all
these element.-: of a triumphant
crusade, enrich our life and add
zest to this campaign. Nothing is
i:ner than a great enthusiasm; and
when it springs from a motive of
serv.ee it lifts us from just ordi
nary. plodding, people, sunk in the
routine of living, to new heights.
We must remember always that
enthusiasm elevates drudgery into
something sublime. But this en
thusiasm—this djvine afflatus, as
the Greeks call it—must be nour
ished and revivified constantly,
andmaintained at white heat.
‘The heights by great men
Reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden
flight:
But they, while companions
slept.
Were toiling upward through
the night.”
And so. those now impelled ir-
icsistably, by an overmastering en
thusiasm. must learn from the oth
ers to "mount up with wings as
eagles; to run and not be weary;
and to walk and not faint.”
So the enthusiasts, with the great
the word “Commerce” originally,
that we are today mere puppets,
jumping before the vagaries of the
courts.
And now the bureaucrats: For
some reason that I have wondered
about, the Trumanite bureaucracy
wishes to drive the private power
business out of existence, and have
the electric power, and its vast po
tential. under the sway and whim
of Washington. It was never clear
to me why the Government picker!
on the power business. I live on a
power line and my power bill is
not a major item. If the Gvoern-
ment were really desirous of help
ing me it would serve me more
hlpfullv if it reduced my grovery
bill by fifty per cent. Obvious-j
lv I am not advocating that. But
with all the fanfare and trumpets.;
the tumult and the shouting, thej
average man’s power bill is a small;
item, comparatively, while groc- j
eries meat, and other things really ;
count. In some families the softi
drink bill is more than the light j
and ,< power bill. In some other
families the hard-drink bill is sev
eral times more than the light bill:
and in still other families the hard-
drink bill, plus the soft drink, plus;
the tobacco bill, makes the power;
charge look like a piker’s demand.I
by comparison. So, why did net^
the bureaucrats’ give us relief on;
hanr and sofey liquors, - eigpreitevj
cigars and pipe tobacco. Gentle
men. I said nothing about eosmet-r
j cs _ a bill of; staggering propor-
t ; ons. what with scents, re-scents,
gives, ■ lo
the first part, and not only mourn
spirit of reformers, must carry but
up with wings as eagles, but they
must run and not be weary; and
walk and not jfaint.
Our nation Is so badly in need of
a-“new look” that we should keep
before us a picture of America as
she is. and should hg. rafoeiv.than
as she was fifty .yejE^agtvl-i^paie,
days I ago I sat with a great rtf&V
of affairs and asked what he
thought of America today, as com-J that he can. oD they sell power
(i issents. asliing 1 nl>.
lions—oh, and what not!
The Trumanites borrowed the
Socialist and Communist program.
For years the Communists have.
said that the Government could
soon control and utterly dominate
the life of the Nation if it controll
ed the electric power of the nation
and even if ignorantly our Govrn-
ment carries it out. There you
have it: it is no secret. But our
Congressmen have lamely stumbled
into the Communist program be
cause it was sugared so sweet that
the nasty pill was not tasted
The bureaucrats proceed step by
step, here a little, there a little but
with the perseveranc and stadi-
nss of termites7~* eating into the
foundations. Here is the program:
At first they must control the wat
er. That was the great hoax that
Congress adoped. so as to build
dams. Then followed generators,
so as to utilize the power, possibili
ties. For example, that was the
pla nat the bottom of Clarks Hill
—and most others. Now', when!
Clarks' Hiir'is ready, what shall'
they do w’ith the power? In bur
law* is such an anomaly as this - ,
that power generated through the
use ,of *tax money, shall be sold to
a certain kroup as preferred cus
tomers. I belong to that group,
since I have farm interests. Can
anvone defend such a practice? No;
bue we who are so favored accept
•it because we live in a flesh-pot
area when every man grasps all
at a preferred rate to newspapers
No! Do they sell it to cleaners and
pressers, as preferred customers?
Do they sell it to the great enter-
priss which pay most of 4he taxes
No! It is the usual underhand
method of coddling some of us. be
cause we are supposed to rejoice
in receiving special advantages and
favors over our fellow citizens!
pared with the days of his young
manhood. He is a man of marked
success, .and is still in control of a
\ast institution. He thinks that
our Governmen and political med
dling 1 are leading us swiftly toward
all of the evils of Socialism. lyly
mind turns to two evils whith we
must correct very soon, if the
America we cherish is to survive:
we must have the law so clear, so bloc. The greatest buyers of pow’-
plain. that every intelligent person; And they think we w’ill vote as a
can understand it. There is no reas- er have never complained nor wish-
on why it he law should be mystify- ed Governmnt power,
ing-as a pysiciarr’s prescription. in l U p an( j suggested to^yh© bureau-
what we playfully call Dog Lat-= ^ long last, even Congress woke
jn. Of course even Dog Latin haSj U p an( j suggested to the Bureau-
its merit. Water, just pure w-ater— crats that c i ar k s Hill power should
pure, that is the ordinary drink- ^ distributed over th,e lines of pri-
ing waer. couid hardly be sold to va t e power companies, if suitable
us for a couple o/ dollars a jill; out j^rangements could be made. For
aqua w’ell, aqua is worth a lot of ^ wo y earSi or more, all the private
money in a small bottle, with a lab | power companies operating in this
el and skuh and bones. - i stat, and Santee-Cooper have offer
The law should not be a rehash e( j every plan, consideration and
of Briti.sh judicial decisions, nor mducement to transmit that power,
the English common law. drawn on ’j- 0 an y reasonable man it is so
as a fount of unknown law, nor fhe c ] ear j v right plan, the oconom-
judgments f Massachusetts, Idaho i j ca j pi ani that is is as plain as the
or Horida. There is no practicei nose on vour face. What then?
more ridiculous than a svstem of » , ... ... , . „
Men in high position in Washing-
jurisprudence which is as confusing;
to a lawyer as it is to a layman.
ton say bluntly that they do not
Instead of our being victims of wish to operate with the established
our forebodings of what some; th e.v re a lly hope to con-
iudge or some appellate court wiH ^ /he power business.
ordain, the intelligent, prepared , ^ e ^ hal1 ,^ ake ^ ^ la t e „ some
iawvr should be able to say with ^ Even if our Senate and House
certainty “this is the law.” No one, 3 ^.^ 1 ^ the fluent eloquence
con do that today. 1 of * bureaucracy: even if these
Ti umanism has brought sharply gentlemen see hazily the drift to-
„c th* *viic of our ward Communism; even if they
would like to call a halt, they are
lacking in sturdy qualities of states
manship and are running along
weakly, ineffectually, like men of
no strength and no vision.
to us the evils of our jurisprudence,
the meddling of the courts, the
draining, twisting of the Consti
tution, the assumpiion of jurisdic
tion in our local concerns, the im
aginary inter-state nature of much
of our commerce, because of a
mere incident; and the inclusion as
interstate commerce of matters so
far from being within the scope of
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