The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, March 24, 1955, Image 2
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thuioday, March 24, 1955
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Thursday, Mar. 31
Fifty Seniors Take Washington Trip,
Report Educational Experience
Fifty seniors and their chap
erones—Mr. R, P. Wilder, Miss
Bernice Johnson and Miss Frances
Sheely—boarded the Silver Com
et for Washington Monday night,
March 21.
Arriving in Richmond Tuesday
morning, they went sight-seeing
and then made a bus trip to Wil
liamsburg, Jamestown and the
Mariner’s Museum. An overnight
boat trip was taken from Old
Point Comfort to Baltimore,
whence they went to Annapolis. A
bus carried them to their destina
tion, Washington, D. C.
For the next three days the
travelers toured the capitol, in
cluding the Bui^au of Engraving
and Printing, Washington monu
ment, U. S. Capitol, Library of
Congress, Supreme court, White
House, Sixteenth street, Lincoln
and Jefferson memorials, Smith
sonian institute, and the National
Art gallery. One “free day” was
given for shopping and anything
else the seniors wished to do.
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Washington, March 22—The Su
preme court today set aside the
week of April 11 to hear argu
ments on when and how to order
an end to racial segregation in
public schools. The arguments had
been scheduled for last DeU. 6, but
the death of Justice Robert H
Jackson prompted the court to ord
er postponement until a full bench
of nine judges was available.
Judge John Marshall Harlan,
President Eisenhower’s appointee
to fill the vacancy, will take his
place on the high bench next Mon
day. Today’s scheduling of the
segregation arguments came
through promptly to give all in
terested attorneys time to prepare
for their April appearances.
Harold B. Willey, clerk of the
Supreme court, announced the new
date. The tribunal is in recess un
til next Monday. Willey said the
segregation arguments could take
up a full week if all of the parties
interested use the full time pre
viously allotted to them by the
court.
The segregation cases on the
court’s docket directly involve
South Carolina, Virginia, Dela
ware, Kansas and the District of
Columbia. The tribunal last May
17 decided unanimously that ra
cial segregation in the public
schools of those states and the
District violated the Constitution.
But the court called for the new
arguments in its present term on
the question of how best to put
the decision into effect.
In addition to the areas specifi
cally involved, the states of Flori
da, Oklahoma, North Carolina,
Arkansas, Texas and Maryland
have submitted “friend of the
court” briefs preliminary to the
new arguments. It is not known
how long many of these latter
states will wish to present oral
arguments in April.
The Justice department also has
submitted a brief and Atty. Gen.
Brownell is expected to present
an hour of argument. The depart
ment’s brief suggested the Su
preme court send the cases bade
to lower courts and tell them to
require school officials to submit
within 90 days plans for ending
segregation “as soon as feasible.”
President Eisenhower, in a No
vember news conference, said he
believed the Supreme court would
not be arbitrary in its final ruling
on how lo end segregation. He
added he understood the court was
titying to find some sort of de
centra llaed process to handle the
situation, and that he believed
emotional and practical problems
would be given weight by the
justices.
Baruch Says
Market Boom
Inflationary
Camp Fire Group
Sponsor Cake Sole
♦
The O-Ki-Hi Camp Fire group,
Mrs. Taylor Martin, leader, will
sponsor a sale of home-made
candy and cake this afternoon
(Thursday) at 3 o’clock in front
of Belk’s.
Proceeds will be used to help
finance a trip for the group to!
the Charleston gardens.
Washington.—Bernard M. Ba
ruch said today the main causes
of the stock price boom are a
vast expansion of industry and
“the cumulatvie effects of, the
inflationary policies which have
been followed over the past de
cade and a half."
“If any economic danger
threatens 'today, it will be found
not in th^fcStock market itself,
but in the eifects of the inflation
ary heritage,” the 84-year-old
retired financier and adviser to
presidents told the Senate Bank
ing Committee.
Baruch, the final witness in
three weeks of public hearings
on the state of the market, came
out strongly against any tax cuts
now. Just as strongly he urged
a bigger defense buildup.
Stressing a need for a “sound
government policy covering all
the interrelated problems of eco
nomics, finance and national de
fense.” Baruch made three gen
eral recommendations in his pre
pared testimony:
1 Determine just what our na
tional security requires, both
what we and allies must do—and
then do it.
“2 Forego all tax reductions
until our defenses are made se
cure and the budget is balanced.
Nothing could inspire more con
fidence in the soundness of our
economy than some reduction in
the national debt (now over 276
billion dollars).
whatever is required to win the
cold war and real peace.”
Baruch aimed some plainly
implied criticisms at the Repub
licans now in power as well as
at Democratic administrations of
the past.
The tall, white-haired finan
cier, who made millions in Wall
Street, said the stock market is
largely a mirror of the whole
economy and the economy now
is dominated by the cold war,
“If our general economic and
security policies are sound," he
said, “the stock market will ad
just to them and we will not need
to worry about a possible col
lapse of the market. If we do
not pursue our national secur
ity and our national credit, then
nothing can have lasting value.
“Much of our weakness in for
eign policy has come about be
cause some people believed that
the economy could not stand
what is necessary for defense.
With this view I am in total dis
agreement.”
Tickets On Sale
For Fashion Show
Tickets for the fashion show
and tea to be presented by the
Woman’s Auxiliary of All Saints
Episcopal church April 13,at the
American Legion Home, are to
go on sale this week, according
to an announcement by Mrs. A.
B. Stump.
Clothing shown by local mod
els will be from Belk’s, Earline
Shop, Garber’s, Ladies Ready-
to-Wear Shoppe and Penney’s.
MAKE IT FANCY
Fancy up ' Waldorx salad—
diced apples, ceiery and mayon
naise—with some pineapple tid
bits and chopped walnuts or sliv
ered almonds. Serve on shred
ded lettuce or in lettuce cups.
YONOB
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Yonce, of
Johnston, announce the birth of a
daughter, Pennye Copeland, on
March 20 at Blalock clinic. Mrs.
Yonce is the former Miss Jean
Copeland, of Renno.
ROGERS
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Rogers an
nounce the birth of a daughter on
March 23 at Hays hospital.
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Patients at Hays hospital include,
James Fletcher, Mrs. A1 Thayer,
Mrs. L. A. Boyette, Mrs. Clyde
Cannon and Fred Scott
Friends of Mrs. Hayne B. Work
man will be interested to know she
has returned home after being a
patient at Blalock clinic for some
time.
Mrs. Eula Corbin, J. B. Frost,
little Linda Littleton and Mrs.
Herman Seay are patients at Bla
lock clinic.
Mrs. Cancey Brown of Joanna,
Mrs. Lewis Dawkins, Mrs. Charles
Kinsey, Henry Suttle, W. W. Qrr,
little Karen Lanftord and Patsy
Brown have been discharged from
Hays hospital.
Mrs. James Heaton, Mrs. Mar
gie Stone, Allen Marr, Mrs. Boyce
Lawson and Mrs. Dora Leopard
are patients at Hays hospital. <
Mrs. C. Y. Kuykendall, Danny
Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lea-
man Jones, Mrs. Andy Young, Sr.,'
George Gossett, Mrs. John Little
and little Priscilla Gaskins have
returned to their homes after be
ing patients at Blalock clinic.
City-wide Leagues For
Boys Of All Ages
Scheduled To Meet
All boys that plan to try out
for the Florida Street Small Fry,
Little League and Pony League
team will meet on the Florida i
Street field Saturday morning at
10 o’clock. Be sure to bring
your birth certificates with you
so it can be recorded. We will
not keep the certificates. Also if
you are interested in subscrib- j
ing to the Little League Maga
zine (6 copies), bring 50c to this
meeting. i
• • •
The following will manage the
different teams in the baseball
program: Joanna Small Fry, I
Johnny Moore; Joanna Little!
League and Pony League, Hack I
Prater; Lydia Small Fry, Billy;
Oakley; Lydia Little League andj
Pony League, George Fleming;
Florida Street Small Fry and*
Pony League, Truman Owens. |
Florida Street Little League/,
Harry NettleS; Academy Street
Small Fry, D. C. Whitman; Acad
emy Street Little League and
Pony League, Charles Leather-
wood; Thorn well Small Fry,
Benji Timmons; Thomwell Lit
tle League and Pony League,
Bob Burnside.
• • •
The Little League season will
open Monday, May 2. The Pony
League season will open May 16.
The Small Fry season will open
May 30. The time of the games
will be the same as in the past,
Small Fry at 10:00 a. m., Pony
League at 3:00 p. m., and Little
League at 5:00 p. m.
• * •
A beginners league will be
formed (after school is out and all
boys that do not make Small
Fry, Little League and Pony
League wll have a chance to
learn baseball the same as the
other boys.
Why S. C. Needs
A New Constitution
By W. D. WORKMAN, JR.
(In News A Courier)
government.’*
Actually, there is much that is
good within the Constitution of
1896, along with much that to bad,
and often mor....e that Is unneces
sary. But the good is often ignor
ed, the bad is oppressive, and the
unnecessary makes for political
clutter and patch-work.
And, in the abaence of anything
organic within the Constitution,
which makes its provisions self-
enforcing, the General Assembly
gets by with that attitude. The
people are learning, as John C.
Calhoun once put it, that “it is
a great mistake to suppose (hat
the mere insertion of provisions
to restrict and limit the powers of
the government without investing
those for whose protection they are
sorted with the means of enforcing
their observance, will be sufficient
to prevent the major and domin
ant party from abusing its pow
ers."
Since any remedial action must
await either a change in attitude
on the part of the Legislture, or a
change in the composition of the
Legislature, the following obser
vations on the Constitution are
made in an effort to afford the
reading public an opportunity to
determine for Itself whether the
electorate has the right to become
concerned.
Const! to bon Is Archaic
The age of South Carolina’s
Constitution does not, in itself, im
pair the document, but the arttempt
by its draftert to include every
thing in the Constitution whether
it belonged there or not has made
for a number of anachronistic pro
visions in the light of present-day
life.
1. Until this year, members of,:
the General Assembly were lim
ited (by Article 3, Section 19), to
a mileage rate of five cents a mile,
although other state officials have
been drawing a hitter rate in
keeping with contemporary travel
costs.
» 9. Until this year, state officials
were required by the Constitution
(in Article 3, Section M) to swear
that they had not and would not
engage in duelling, although duel
ing is ifeaelf outlawed by both Con
stitution and Code.
3. The jurisdiction of magis
trates is limited to cases involving
property worth not more than
$100 (Article 5, Section 11) wita
the result that numerous counties
have had to amend the Consti
tution to preeerve a correspond
ing jurisdiction under today’s in
flated economy.
4. The Constitution forbids all
“prise fighting** (by Article 8 (
Section 12), yet what ia today
known as "prise fitting** is reg
ularly promoted in the state.
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Columbia, March 23. — For 60
years the people of South Caro
lina have lived and labored under
a State Constitution which has be
come more obviously inadequate
with each passing ybar. Proof of
that inadequacy lies in the very
frequency and nature of the mul
titudinous amendments which
have been tacked onto the docu
ment since 1900.
Yet in die face of acknowledged
shortcomings of what purports to
be a statement of South Carolina’s
organic law, members of the state
Legislature have steadfastly re
fused to permit the people even
so much as a vote on the question
of calling a constitutional conven
tion confirms rather than dispels
the contention that the document
is in bad need of revision.
Strongest opposition to a con
stitutional convention regularly
comes from a senatorial coterie led
by Calhoun county’s Sen. L. Ma
rion Gresette. When occasion pre
sents itself, he excoriates news
men, college professors, and r-
ganizatioris such as the League of
Women Voters for their temerity
in suggesting that the people are
entitled to at least vote on the
holding of a constitutional con
vention.
The verbal flagellation of such
convenient “whipping boys” di
verts attention from the defects of
the Constitution itself, but fails to
take into account the fact that
South Carolina’s last four Gover
nors, including the one now in of
fice, have individually and re
peatedly called for constitutional
revision by constitution. And even
the Constitution of 1896 itself has
this to say on the people’s right
to review and revise their basic
framework of government:
"All political power Is vested in
and derived from toe people only,
therefore they have toe right at
all times to modify their form of
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