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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, December 4, 1952
RULING TO AFFECT 15 STATES
SCHOOL SEGREGATION ISSUE
FACES HIGH TRIBUNAL DEC. 9
COLUMBIA, S. Dec. 1—South
Carolina's racially segregated public
schools go on trial before the U. S.
Supreme Court Dec. 9.
Segregation in the schools of three
other states also will be under di
rect attack. Indirectly, the laws and
customs of about 13 others will be
at stake.
Continued operation of public
s.hool systems in the south may de
pt nd on the outcome.
Nobody knows for certain what
will happen if the court rules segre
gation is unconstitutional. But it’s
sa^e to say there will be vigorous ef
forts to abandon free public schools
it this happens.
Preliminary steps in this direction
have been taken in South Carolina,
Georgia, Virginia and Alabama. In
South Carolina, general election
voters last month overwhelmingly
favored removal from the state con
stitution a section requiring free
schools for all children.
The proposed amendment to be
o ective, however, will have to be
ratified, or approved, by the Gen
ual Assembly, which would then
be relieved of the mandatory re
quirement for maintaining schools.
Famed Care
The question coming before the
court stems from the now' famous
Clarendon County case instituted by
Negro school patrons and backed by
the National Association for Ad
vancement of Colored People.
The state's case will be argued
bcicre the court by John W *Davis
of New York, who was the 1924
Democratic Presidential candidate
and who specializes in constitutional
law. His services were obtained for
South Carolina by Gov. James F.
Byrnes.
S;milar cases from Virginia, Dela
ware, Topeka, Kas., and the District
of Columbia have been joined with
the South Carolina case for the
showdown argument.
The federal government has enter-
< 1 ’he case against the states. The
. u.-tice Department will file a brief
■ > support the argument that segre-
-tion is unconstitutional in itself.
The South Carolina case started
^-w 12, 1949. Parents and guardians
of 104 Negro children in Clarendon
County’s old Schobl District 23—4he
Summerton District — asked , the
school board to provide facilities for
Negroes equal to those for white
children.
Next Stop
Next step was a Federal District
Court suit, filed at Charleston, ask
ing the same thing. This was in
May, 1950.
In November, 1950, U. S. District
Judge J. Waties Waring, now re
tired, dismissed the complaint on
motion of the Negroes’ lawyers. He
suggested a head-on attack instead
of a plea for better facilities.
A second suit then was filed at
Charleston Dec. 22, 1950. It chal
lenged Article II, Section 7, of the
state constitution, providing for
separate schools for the races. Also
challenged was a section of state
law which says children of one race
may not attend schools for the other
race.
Arguments were heard at Charles
ton May 28, 1951, by Waring, Dis
trict Judge George Bell Timmerman
of Batesburg and Judge John J.
Parker of the Fourth Dstrict Court
of Appeals. Their split decision,
handed down June 23, 1951 was
that segregation is constitutional if
facilities and courses of study are
equal. Waring dissented.
Big Program
Meanwhile, South Carolina had
embarked on an ambitious equaliza
tion program. A 3 per cent retail
sales tax levied to finance a con
tinuing 75 million dollar bond issue
for the purpose. The state t<^ok over
school transportation for the first
time. A sweeping district consolida
tion program got under way. *
The state conceded at the three-
judge hearing that facilities were
not equal in the Summerton and
other school districts. Robert McC.
Figg, Charleston attorney who made
the principal argument for the state,
said equalization was proceeding as
fast as possible.
Complying with the District
Court's request, the state filed a
progress report in December, 1951.
By then, however, the case al-
reariv had
As Washington Sees It...
THE NATIONAL SCENE
Special To The Chronicle.
Washington, Dec. 1.—All Wash
ington is agog in anticipation of
one of the most elaborate inaugu-|
ral ceremonies in the history of,
the country in spite o< the fact
that the President-elect would
prefer some more simple rites.
Already hotel rooms are a sell-:
out. The inaugural committee is|
canvassing the rooming houses for,
possible housing for thousands ofi
visitors, the steel inaugural plat-'
form on the steps of the capitol!
building is complete except for,
decoration, and the biggest throng
in Washington in history is expect
ed to view the inaugural cere
monies, plus the millions who will
see the inauguration of a Presi
dent for the first time by tele
vision.
* * *
Political observers here are ask
ing if the appointment of lame-
duck Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
of Massachusetts from the- liberal
element of the Republican party,
as his liason representative with
the Truman administration is an
indication of his future appoint
ments. Appointment of J. M.
Dodge, Detroit banker, an old bud
dy and financial adviser to Eis
enhower in Cfermany, as personal
budget representative was also
considered as significant.
The meeting between President
Truman and Gen. Eisenhower at
the White House also set a prece
dent, and of course was for the ex
press purpose of presenting a unit
ed front on basic foreign policy
for the benefit of the world and
the United Nations.
General Eisenhower, backed by |:
the biggest vote ever given an !
American president from the ranks :
of Republicans and Democrats, la-!
bor and management, Catholic and
Protestant, rich and poor, north j jg
and south, will go into office on;§
January 20 probably with lessiM
pressure than any other president jj:
in history. No deals, do strings, no H
commitments other than the prom-
ises and pledges he made to the !•;
American people.
a Republican-Southern Democratic
coalition as it has been in the past
decade. With the Senate composed
of 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats
and one independent (Senator
Wayne Morse) the vote of Vice-
President Richard Nixon and
Morse may prove most important
bn close partisan questions.
Certainly the new president will
not have a working majority in
either house of Congress. If he ap
proaches the Congress on a par
tisan basis, he may have trouble.
If he asks for bi-partisan coopera
tion he likely will get through his
program, and he has a reputation
of reconciling opposing opinions.
Many political observers here
say that Eisenhower will be a one-
term president; that for this rea
son, he will take the leaders of
both parties into his confidence,
and that with his record Democrat
ic vote in the South will win
many Southern Democrats over to
his way of thinking.
These same observers point out
that with one term in mind, he will
not play politics as most Presidents
are forced to do throughout their
first term. *
WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING
—EXCEPT BAD
CHRONICLE PUBUSBINO OO.
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OPTOMETRIST 4
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Phone 794
Cl*4M
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• >
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Heads Freedom Crusade
preme Court by NAACP lawyers
representing the Negro plaintiffs
The Supreme Court sent the case
back to the District Court Jan. 28,
1952, for further evidence and action.
Justices Black and Douglas dis
sented, holding that the court should
rule then in segregation itself.
Shows Potency
Election Study
Of Newspopers
He amased a total of almost 32 ft . ^
million votes, more than 10 million
more than the average Republican;
vote in the last four elections. Hisi
party at the state levels ran far
behind him. Some Republican sen
ators and congressmen were elect
ed only because of the tremendous
Eisenhower vote. Other Republi
cans could not even win on. his
coat tails—'Witness Kem of Mis-
LE.STER L. BATES
Ltster L. Bates, president of Cap
ital Life and Health Insurance com- (
pany in Columbia, has accepted ap
pointment as state chairman of the
1952 Crusade for Freedom, it was!
announced yesterday by Henry Ford,;
II. national chairman of the Crusade,'
and Charles E. Wilson, former chair-i
man of General Electric and until
recently director of war mobiliza-.
fern, .vho is serving as national cam
paign chairman for the Crusade.
Mr. Bates and his assistants are
inn.I;. engaged in organizing county i
< n m.ftees throughout the state.
A study of the election returns
and the stands taken by the va
rious newspapers of the state,
shows the papers have lost none of
their influence and were very po
tent in determining the results of
the voting according to W. G. Haz
el. advertising director of the Capi
tol Life and Health Insurance Co.,
of Columbia.
A recent cheek by Mr. Hazel
showed that 24 of the weeklies
were on the Eisenhower side and
eight were for Stevenson. Later
two more came out for the Repub
lican candidate and one for the,
Democratic ticket, making the
cdunt 26 to 9.
By a coincidence the identical!
number of weeklies, 26, were on,
the winning side in their counties,
While nine were on the losing end.
Of the losers, six had expressed
themselves for Eisenhower, and'
three for Stevenson.
In two counties each with two 1
weeklies, the papers took opposite!
sides, so that there had to be two
losers; one Ike paper had five oth
er weeklies in its county, none of,
which took sides; three losing!
souri, Cain of Washington, Eckton
of Montana, Lodge of Massachus
etts. Others squeaked through as
evidenced by the almost tie set-up
of the Senate and the bare major-j
ity in the House. So Democrats,
can take heart out of the elec-1
tion, and Republicans cannot crow"
too loudly, for it was a personal i
victory for the popular national j
hero.
* * •
What will happen in the next
Congress is difficult to determine.
Most likely, it will be governed by
weeklies were overshadowed by
dailies in their counties which
were on the opposite side; one is
on the edge of a county with aj
large labor vote; another is in the 1
extreme corner of a county, and'
the county seat paper, which is!
much stronger, was on the opposite
side. Two large weeklies, each
having the field entirely to itself
(one for Adlai and one for Ike) lost
straight out.
Among the larger dailies of the
state, six were for Eisenhower and
four for Stevenson. In every in
stance they won in their counties.
Two of the smaller dailies won in|
their counties and th$ position of;
the others is not known.
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Will your life savings and your right to drive be
by an auto accident after January 1st?
n if ySo
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It could happen if you fail to meet the requirements of
the South Carolina SaTety Responsibility Law which be
comes effective January 1st.
Read the digest of the new law in the panel at the
right and you’ll see that, without adequate protection,
an accident can cost you your savings and other property
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Htft’s What the New Aate Law Meaai ta Yoa
SrieF Facti About South Corolioo'i
Now Softly Rtipoonbilify Low
If you are the driver of a car involved in an
accident causing injury or death of othera or
damage over $50 to another's property, even
though you may not be at fault in the accident.
you MUST
1. Settle all claims yourself and furnish
proof to the State to that effect, or
2. Deposit security in the form and amount
required by the State up to $11,000. or
3. Prove to the satisfaction of the State
that your car was legally parked or was
being driven by another person without
your consent at the time of the accident, or
4. Furnish satisfactory evidence to the State
thatyou have been released from liability, or
nnalnr adjudicated not liable, or have exe
cuted a duly acknowledged written agree-
ment providing for installment payments,
5. Show that yea were insared at the time of
the accident by aa authorised company ouch aa
AlteUte for Bodily Injury Liability limits of at
leaot W.DDD for injury or death of one person
and $10,000 for two or more persona, as dP^oo-
erty Damage Liability limits of at least $1,000.
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