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Thursday, December 18, 1952 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pasre Three r * >• :« Blanket Decision-In School Segregation Case Expected Washington, Dec. 13.—TT>e Unit ed States Supreme Court may make a blanket decision, complete ly upholding or outlawing segrega- iton in public schools of South Saint Nidiolas Has Heritage Of 1,600 Years Santa Claus in America is a her itage handed down through 16 cen turies and by way of many lands. The good St. Nicholas lived and performed great deeds among the poor in the Holy Land in the Fourth Carolina and other states, when the .Century A. D. For his works he was justices hand down their verdict 1 consecrated Archbishop of Myra, next year on the five cases argued'. Dutch settlers first brought their before them last week. (version of St. Nicholas as connected Lawyers on both sides of the is-1 with Christmas to America. From a sue expect that the high tribunallean and severe theologian, St. Nich- having gone so far in hearing three 1 olas became a rotound, merry fellow, new administration takes over. The question is: how far will they go in their probes? They may not be too harsh m their investigations because * the voters might think newly-discover ed old Democratic scandals are new GOP scandals. Discovery of more scandal in government may rock even the GOP boat. Investigations take time and money. They would complicate matters for Republican office hold ers. Ike’s bureaucrats won’t want to take time off to run up to Wash ington and do a lot of testifying. They might have to answer some embarrassing questions them selves. The kepublicans will make RFC loans harder to get. They wapt borrowers to make more effort to get money from private lenders, j The board feels that etailers are Consumer credit hit $23 billion by the end of 1952. Thus is bother ing the Federal Reserve Board. They look with suspicion upon bor rowers who rely too much on fed eral help. The RFC has relaxed again since the days of clean-up man Symington. taking too big a risk encouraging customers to go too far into debt. Tighter money for business would prevent i retailers from being too liberal in offering credit. days of oral arguments on the mat te, will not dodge Uhe central issue at the heart of the matter, but rather that they wify meet it head- .on. The attorneys say the court could make one of several decis ions, for example: % 1. That school segregation, in it self, is unconstitutional and there fore must be eroded everywhere. This is the position of lawyers ar guing for the Negro applicants in the caMi. 2. segregatkm systems may be kept iAthere is real equality of the school facilities for both races. Tinder the “separate, but "equal” doctrine much more of a human provider of good things than a mitred saint. His robes of the church and his donkey were traded in the early Am erican concept for fur and red suit and the term of reindeer. In New Amsterdam on the Hudson, the Dutch name Santa Nikolaas was shortened for future Americans to Santa Klaus. At once there was\a resemblance between the picturde Santa Qlaus and the robust Father Knickerbock er. It was cartoonist Thomas Nash who gave Nineteenth Century New York, and the world, its now univer sally accepted figure of Santa as a white-bearded old fellow in ermine- itrimmed, red debt. In a twinkle he This is essentially the was we i come d as half Father Knick- verdict of the special Charleston court in the Clarendon County case which ruled that the state of South Carolina is doing its best to build up a Negro school system which will be as good as the Whites’ by financing a $75,000,000 bond issue with a three per cent sales tax. 3. That, if school segregation is to be ended, it must be done by a constitutional amendment for the states, or an act of Congress for the District of Columbia. Also, the courts could hold that the state legislatures have the power to change segregation. The “separate but equal” doc trine has been maintained by the court since a decision in 1896. But the justices, in ecent years, have forced states to admit Negroes into graduate schools of universities for White students when it was clearly shown that the facilities for Ne groes were inadequate or in some cases, non-existent. The court also has banned "Jim Crow” practices on buses and trains, but those ver dicts were related to Congress’ power, under the Constitution, to regular interstate commerce. Schools, clearly, are not in inter state commerce; or, at least, no lawyer in the current cases claim ed that they were. The Negro appellants are basing their appeals on the claim that they are being denied equal pro tection of th laws under the four teenth amendment, and that it is a bill of attainder, outlawed by the Constitution, to make them attend schools solely for their race. SC Electors Cost 8 Votes For Stevenson ^ erbocker and half merry King Cole of legend. For the picture of Santa Claus in words, the world is obligated to Dr. Clement Clarke Moore, who in 1822 was professor of divinity at New York Theological seminary. Two nights before Christmas in that year. Dr. Moore told his children of “The Visit of St. Nicholas.” From that night forward, Ameri can children have thrilled to the dream of the Christmas Eve arrival of “a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, with a little old driver so lively and quick.” Dr. Moore’s Santa was “dressed all in furs from his head to his foot” as he dropped down the chimney with “a bundle of toys he had flung on his back.” In Dr. Moore’s version “the stock ings were hung by the chimney with care,” since a legend, which is lost in antiquity, had St. Nicholas drop ping gold coins down a chimney one night. It so happened that they fell into a stocking which had been left by the fireside to dry. Gifts, which crowded Santa in “the sleigh full of toys and St. Nich olas, too," naturally came to be a part of the American Christmas through the presents brought by the Wise Men to the infant King in Bethlehem. And thus, 1,602 years after those first gifts, the toys for American children in 1952 are estimated to run to a value of $400,000,000. This years “space” toys are far different from the tgold, frankincense and myrrh offered by the Magi, but the spirit of joy and good tidings re- mau\g.,j, SAVE TIME, ENERGY AND MONEY! STOCK UP NOW ON Pre-Christmas Food Buys As Washington Sees It... THE NATIONAL SCENE Columbia, Dec. 16. —* In brief pro ceedings South Carolina’s Democrat ic presidential electors met Monday in the office of O. Frank Thornton, secretary of state, and cast their eight ballots for Adlai E. Stevenson for (President of the United States and John J. Sparkman for Vice President. After the electors had assembled, the oath was administered and Ne ville Bennett of Clio was elected as chairman with Mrs. Margaret M. Suber of Whitmire, secretary. Ballots for president and for vice president were distributed; they were taken up and counted and the chairman announced that the eight votes had gone to Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Sparkman. The electors signed six copies of their recorded vote. One copy goes to the president of the United States Senate where the national results will be announced next month; one copy goes to the resident federal district judge, George Bell Timmerman; two copies go Servica in Washing-.on and two are kept by Secretary Thornton. Their balloting having been eom- Speial To The Chronicle. Washington, Dec. 18. — A slow overhaul of the tax laws is planned by tax experts. Right now, Colin Stam, chief of the congressional tax staff, is going through returns on 1,100 questionnaires sent to cor porations and individuals concern ing the tax set-up. Most of the replies tend to indi cate that tax relief is needed. Some special problems of tax re formers are: co-ops, investment in come of life insurance companies, workers’ pensions, welfare funds and other benefits included in tax able income. The House Ways and Means com mittee wants a tax revision bill passed in 1954 and plans to start hearings on it next year. The State Department says that the recent Czech puge shows that Stalin is still mighty but that he fears Titoism. Czech Red leaders ,rge oeu ximmerm.n, ‘"u ha dbun gied and he living condi to the Administrator o( General ^ naUon worse . Popular feeling against Commu nism was ' growing. So the trials had o be staged, with Slansky and the other defendants as goats, to create a diversion of attention by the public from bad conditions. The next U. S. secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, plans to make hay of satellite resentments against Russian domination when he takes office. The Czech purge will provide him good ammunition pleted and properly recorded, a mo tion to adjourn was made and pre vailed. So South Carolina’s eight votes were cast for Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Sparkman. Let the Doctor write it # Free advice may be costly. Let your Doctor make a careful diagno sis and write a prescrip tion. Then, of course, we hope you’ll bring the prescription to us for our precise com pounding. Thank you! Howard's Pharmacy Phone 101 RFLIABlfj* Woods’ resignation as price con trol boss was brought about by his inability to put through a decrease in the retail beef price. Truman's aides told him he was foolish to at tempt such a thing. Also, Woods believes that price controls are on the skids. • • • The GOP, despite promises to work for a return to the gold stan dard, aren’t hopeful that the re turn will be realized. 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