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Thursday, June 2i, 1956 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pats ThirWea By SPECTATOR ,, f COMMENTS on MEN AND THINGS When we cell on Congress or the Federal Executive depart ments of our national govern ment we say to them and to the world, by necessary implication, that they are clothed with neces sary authority to act as we petit- on. By every reason the national government assumes that if * it may act in local matters on our petiton it is equally empowered to act in local matters on its own incintive; and whether we Ap prove such a course or not. We have called and petition ed so of\en, and our senators and representatives likewise have sought Federal help for us that we have virtually stopped our selves from challenging the Fed eral Government even for med dling. My attention to this has been called by the following story ^n The News & Courier recently: “The Federal Bureau of Invest igation has been requested to ex amine fragments of the ancient Indian canoe found on Kiawah Island in an effort to determine whether an explosion caused the craft to disintegrate. County police asked the FBI to conduct the tests to satisfy per sons interested in the historical find, Marion J. Schwartz, direc tor, said last night. Fragments are being sent to the FBI for tests, said Schwartz. When the dugout was found damaged a few days after its dis covery, many persons advanced the theory it wsa blown up by an explosive. However, Lt. Rudolph W. Knight and Detective L. M. Lou- thian who checked the canoe area, discounted such theories. The canoe was located near- a tidal creek. ; ‘We found nothing to back up a belief an explosive was used’, said Knight. ‘We feel the tide did it. Police will be happy to have the opinion of the FBI in the matter, Schwartz stated. He pointed out they have equipment that can determine* if an explos ive was involved. •We could be wrong, and if we are right, the persons giving their time and effort to salvage the ca noe should have the satisfaction of knowing the loss was not due to vandalism,’ said the director. Removal of the remaining por tion of the canoe is antcipated about the middle of the week, E. Milby Burton, Museum director, stated." I do not mean to exaggerate the significance of this, but, as a matter of law let’s look at it. This is a matter of interest locally; it is a matter for Charleston county. Not even the State need be called on. Now if the FBI—a Federal agency, is invited to partedipate what shall my Charleston breth ren say if the same FBI should, of its own initiative, investigate some other purely local matter? We can’t eat our cake and have it, too, can we? Here we are, in many instanc es, cryng aloud for the Govern ment to act in our affairs, while at the same time denouncing the assumption of local powers by the sprawling Federal bureauc racy, not forgetting the Federal Supreme Court which nowadays may intervene in any matter, however local, even if basing its authority on the magic properties of syrup of squills and CC pills. • • * Is there anything, any plan that is relatively stable? As men asked for a few years ago, is there anything which once is put out or ordained or agreed upon “will stay put”? I was brought up in the legal tra dition of South Carolina and Vir ginia. A# a matter of fact, that was the tradition of Massachus etts and Pennsylvania also, as well as most of the thirteen states which formed our Federal Re public. Don’t you remember the Hartford Convention of 1814? The New England states romped all over the National Govern ment and did as much vocifera ting as any Southern State did in I860 and 1861. There was this difference: the Southern States did not back down. Since the formative days of this nation the dominant idea and principle was a clear recognition of the full sovereignty of the States, except so far as the States themselves had expressly and ex- plcitly conferred a small portion of their sovereignty on the Na tional Government. These days of strange doings. I was taught that a Baptist church is a completely independ- SPECTATOR NO. 2 ent, self-governing body. A Bap tist church of fifty members is as independent as The Citadel Square Baptist church of Char leston or the Charles Street church of Beaufort or the First Baptist church of Columbia. And that Complete independence was beyond any chaUange. TO THE PEOPLE OF LAURENS COUNTY: I thank all who voted for me in the first primary. Your vote and personal support in the second primary ^; will be deeply appreciated. If elected, I will remain humble and grateful to you, the people of Laurens County. _ Sincerely, PAUL S. O’DELL CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER REFRESHES WITHOUT FILLING The Light Refreshment Macaroni Makes a Meal Try It With Instant Cream. FOR A SUMMER LUNCHEON, on a really hungry day, remem ber macaroni and cheese makes a very hearty dish. Served with a few greens it also makes a delicious and well-balanced meal. The new recipe we are giving for macaroni has a particu larly good flavor. It calls for the instant cream that is so easy to use and gives such satisfactory results. Try it plain or with variations. —————— — — - INSTANT CREAM MACATONI AND CHEESE 4 cups water H cup instant cream 1 teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons flour 1V4 cups elbow macaroni 1 cup cubed sharp cheddar cheese Bring water and salt to a boil in a 2 quart pan. Stir in maca roni and covef. Reduce heat and cook abbut 15 minutes stirring once or twice. Do Not Drain. Mix instant cream with flour and stir into macaroni and water. Add cheese and cook and stir until mixture comes to a boil and cheese melts. Makes 4 servings. VARIATIONS: L Place macaroni and cheese mixture in greased heat proof casserole. Top with 3 shoes bacon cut in half. Place under preheated broiler and cook 5 to 8 minutes or until bacon is crisp. 2. Place macaroni and cheese mixture in greased heat proof casserole. Sprinkle with 1 cup dry bread crumbs buttered. Place under preheated broiler and cook 5 minutes or until crumbs are lightly browned. S. Add Vi cup chopped cooked ham with cheese. Heat thor oughly. (ANS) ' PEPSI COLA BOTTLING CO. Greenville, S. C. A Baptist church may associ ate with and cooperate with other Baptist churches, or it may stand aloof and proceed abso lutely alone. There is no high er authority to rebuke it or com pel it to cooperate. That is part and parcel of a Baptsit church. Now comes.aome- body in the. Southern Baptist Convention and dreams a dream like the Washington bureau crats; he seems to think that a Baptist church owes its existence to the Convention! Well, well! “O times, O customs,” as Cicero said, as I recall. You remember Cicero when he thundered against Cataline? O tempora, O mores! Yea, verily. Now, even if they steal all our states rights and local self-gov ernment, shall we let them put our Baptst churches under ec clesiastical bureaucrats? Nothing seems to' stand, eh? When I walked through another cemetery recently, that of the old Charles Street Baptist church of Beaufort, I almost wondered that many of those sturdy and faithful departed didn’t come forth in in dignant protest at the rumors from Kansas City. What would they say, the long departed saints of Salkehatchie church now, or formerly in Barn well county? Anl think of the spirits which must hover about the old High Hills church of Sumter county-*-what a thunder ous protest they would have made under Richard Furman. Well, well!! —" 4 * * ; — Raymond Moley, remembered as one of the original Brain Trust of Mr. Roosevelt, is a scholar, a thinker, and a man who grapples with facts with comprehension of the meaning and application of the facts. I quote from Mr. Moley in •Newsweek: “The decision of the Supreme Court in cutting back tbe Ne braska ‘right to work’ law is the most recent of a series ot jwiioy^ which have denied to the states much of their traditional power' and authority. The most not able of these was the school seg regation decision in 1954. Many lawyers have since call ed arttenton to the signi$cant and ominous fact that Chief Justice Warren cited as his major ‘au thority’ certain writings of sociol ogists and psychologists. One of the most notable criticisms of the use of ‘evidence’ of that sort ap pears in the April number of the American Bar Association Jour nal under the names of Eugene Cook, Attorney General of Geor gia, and William I. Potter, of Knasas City. The insubstantial and unscien tific character of most modem sociological and psychological writings has recently been re vealed n a powerful book, ‘Fads and Foibles in Modem Sociol ogy,’ by a distinguished student of sociology, Pitirim A. Sorokin. Lawyers disturbed by the War ren opinion might well examine this book. The'naive reliance of the court upon sociological and psychologi cal writings is a logical outcome of a delusion which swept a num ber of major law schools in the 1920’s. Many law teachers, who should be the most rational of men, swallowed—hook, line, and sinker— a body of information which a famous sociologist, more frank than others, called ‘any thing that’s interestng’. The new ‘sociological jurisprudence’. Grand Design was to create a Among the early victims of this infection were Professors Doug las and Frankfurter (now on the Supreme Bench). Prior to the 1954 decision, in a case involving the University of Texas, the court rejected the doctme of ‘separate but equal fa cilities’ on the basis of intangible factors ‘ncapable of objective measurement’. It remained for the Warren opinion to cite socio logical ‘authority’ for those intan gibles. The Chief Juctice stated that ‘we cannot turn the clock back’ to the Plessy VS Ferguson case of 1896. But to qyerturn the law established at that time it was obviously necessary to find new facts or to throw new and sig nificant light upon Old facts. The only obvious new facts were the great progress of the Negro in the South and a distinct improve ment in race relations under state control of education. The court rejected’ these j?nd turned to the intangibles of what are called psychological data. The new ‘authority’ which the chief justice cited specifically consists of eight books. and ar ticles not offered in evidence in the lower courts. Moreover, the court could scarcely have cited these had it looked into the quali fications of some of the authors. One was a socal scientist employ ed by the agency which was act ing for the plaintiff. Another who was cited ‘generally’ was a Swedish socialist, Gunnar Myr- dal. Myrdal’s book on the Ne gro question says that the Con stitution of the United States is impractical and unsuitfed to mod ern conditons.’ Thus Myrdal would not, to use a Warren Phrase, ‘turn the (flock back’ to that this court chooses to fashion the law of the land.’’ the Constituiton. The real Consti tution, therefore,'becomes not on ly ‘what the judges say it is, but what Myrdal says it is The assumption by the court that these psychological writings constitute firm and lasting facts determined by scientific methods is nonsense. Much of sociology and psychology consists of mis cellaneous and sometimes useful information. But as Raymond Pomcare, a notable mathematic- iand and statesman, commented: ‘An accumulation of facts is no more a science than a .heap •of stones a house.’ 1 It is of such extraordinary stuff '56 Traffic Death ToH Now 12 More Than '55 South Carolina’s 1956 traffic death toll climbed to 12 piore 1 than the total for the-sarne—pe riod in 1955 as 11 persons were killed and 138 injured in 471 acci- j dents during the week of May 27 through June 2, according to a state highway department report. This brings the 1956 traffic death total to 263 ^ IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THH NEWS Phone 74 ' To The Voters Of Laurens County With the deepest feeling of humility, I sin cerely thank you for electing me as one of your representatives in the General Assembly in the . first primary. The enormity of the vote given me is a chal lenge to give you the very best representation, I accept that challenge and, with the help of God, I will give you nothing but the very best; remembering at all times that the one who is elected to this office only keeps it by giving the voters this kind of repredentation. William C. "Bill Dobbins rr $500 in prizes will be given away by Lawson Furniture ( o. on June 50. Tickets with each dollar purchase in cash or pai<F>on account from now until June 50. Drawing 5:50 P. M. June 30 5 ou Do Not Have To Be Present To Win V , UPHOLSTERY SERVICE We Close Each Tuesday at 1:00 P. M. Drapes Custom Made ^ Wall to Wall Carpet LAWSON FURNITURE CO. JOANNA. S. C. Savings Accounts 3% —DIVIDEND —3% We invite savings accounts from the people of Clin ton and vicinity. You will like our friendly and effieieat service, and you will receive your dividend promptly each January 1st and July 1st. Any amount—from $1 up—opens an account. 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