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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, August 16, 1956
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CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 16. 1956
Whose Democratic Party
Is It? South Must Fight
For Its Own
By DAY 11) LAWRENCE
(Reprinted from I . S. News and World Report)
There was a tihie when the Democratic
Party was the great defender of the rights of
the .States and of the rights of the people as
against a centralized government.
There was a time when the principles of
Thomas Jefferson and of Andrew Jackson
and of Woodrow Wilson were the guiding
concepts of the Democratic Party’s national
platform.
There was a time when individual liberty
was protected against any encroachment by
federal or state governments.
There was a time when the Democratic
Party proudly boasted that it was the party
of individual freedom and the foe of govern
mental despotism.
But the Democratic Party under the New-
Deal and the Fair Deal deserted its ideals of
the past and went over to the concept of fed
eral absolutism sponsored by Madison and
Hamilton—the fundamental doctrine of the
Republican Party throughout its history.
The only legitimate descendant of the Dem
ocratic Party of Jefferson, Jackson and Wil
son today is the Democratic Party in the
Southern States. >,
All lingering doubts as to the continuance
of these fundamental differences in party
concepts were removed by the avowed sup
port given lately to the usurping Supreme
Court by Democratic Party leaders of the
North. When the highest court ruled that
States now have lost their power to legislate
jn many questions long reserved to the States,
the Constitution was flagrantly violated.
Many Democrats at the last session of Con
gress protested against this usurpation, but
a Northern majority ignored th^mX **
The South, which has long been the citadel
of brave devotion to principle, now stands at
the crossroads. It has perennially supported
the Democratic Party’s nomination for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency, even though
in recent years the selection of candidates has
been vested largely in the party bosses of the
big cities of thg North and in the labor bosses.
Under our Electoral College system, each
State may choose its own electors. The peo
ple may, in the first instance, write in the
names of new electors if they choose to
ignore the "organization" electors. We writ-
nessed in the last election for United States
Senator in South Carolina the effectiveness
of a "write-in" campaign as.against a regular
party nominee.
The South cannot stand by and let a
Northern taction write a platform which ne-
gatest every principle the Democratic Party
has stood for ih decades past.
The South is in the midst of a life-and-
death struggle—ito preserve the right to con
trol its own systems of education.
This is more important than the political
..ambitions of individual Democrats anywhere
who feel they must play ball with the North
ern organizations'of so-called Democrats and
accept the "compromise" planks on civil
rights that are good only for the duration of
the campaign.
The South can challenge the right of these
so-called Democrats of the Northern States
to use the party name. It can challenge this
morally and legally.
There is nb need for a third party. There
is every need for a strong^ independent stand
within the Democratic Party, even if it means
abstention from voting for the candidates of
the Chicago convention when the Electoral
College 'meets. This is an important veto pow
er—long neglected but t^oro‘ughly constitu-
A Simple Proposition
The bosses of communist, Russia used to
forecast that the economy of the United
Stajes—call it capitalism, call it free enter
prise. or call it anything else—was due for
a collapse. Then communism, having proven
its superiority, would inherit the earth.
Now. according to Edwin A. Lahey of the
Chicago Daily News Service, an abrupt re
versal has taken place in the Kremlin. He
reports that t.he present head man, Khrush
chev. in a recent private talk with Harold
Stassen. admitted that Soviet economists’
analyses of the U. S. were wrong.
In making this admission, Mr. Khrushchev
simply acknowledged -facts, Economic pro
gress in this country—especially as it has
affected families of modest means—has been
unprecedented in history. Between 1940*and
1953, according to the Industrial Conference
Board, the proportion of families in the $5,-
000-$7,500 bracket increased from 4 per cent
to 25 per cent—more than four times. After
making adjustment for price changes and
taxes, the factory worker with a w r ife and
two children took home 2*4 times as much
pay in 1955 as he Aid in 1916. The board also
points out that most American families have
automobiles, while at the beginning of this
year 97 per cent owned radios, 90 per cent
electric refrigerators, ,80 per cent electric
washers, and 72 per cent TV sets. All of
these appliances are regarded as luxuries,
which only the^ few possess, in other Coun
tries—most notably the communist countries.
Free people produce more than oppressed
and driven people. It’s as simple as that.
under the understanding that the
delegation would* ms[ke an appro
priation to cover it. According to
Legislative records. Sen. Wilson
inserted an amendment to the
House bill to provide the funds
but the House delegation cut it
out. ,
Other surpluses shown for de
partments which did not come
under the supply bill were as fol
lows: tax collector’s office, $789.-
73; health center 1 * construction.
$2,098.5; birth certificate fees,
$1,308.54; county service officer,
tional
The South must make iDs protest felt. Too
long have the Northern ^Democrats tak,en
the South for granted. Indeed, this is one rea
son why the leadership of the Party in the
last .25 years has been free to woo the votes
of former Republicans in the big city areas
by telling them that the alleged rights of a
federal bureaucracy supersede the basic
rights of the States.
As long as the Democratic bosses in the
North can feel sure that the Southern elec
toral vote will be theirs anyhow, the process
of letting the Federal Government usurp
State powers will go on.
The National Convention of the Demo
cratic Party in Uhicago next week gives the
South its chance. Will the South make a
stand on principle or surrender to the jargon
of expediency , which the professional politic
ians constantly: preach ?
This is the hour for decision. When will
the Democratic Party rise again to defend
the freedom of the individual as against un
constitutional acts committed in the name of
the Federal Government? Will the Chicago
convention denounce the several decisions of
the Supreme Court which have ignored the
words of the Tenth Article of the Bill of
Xkights? For that Article plainly says that all
rights not specifically delegated to the Fed-
1 eral Government are reserved to the people.
Who delegated the control of education to
the Federal Government ?
Whose Democratic Party will speak in the
platform to be adopted in Chicago next week
. —the Party of the usurpers of the Party of
individual freedom and States’ rights?
SENSING THE NEWS
By THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
" Southern States Industrial Council
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SOCIAL SECURITY SATURATION
The Social Security Act, which was fallacious
in conception and is entirely faulty in execution;
is gradually approaching a point of saturation. If
the trend which has been followed since the law
became effective is continued down through the
I years, there will come a time when the people of
this country are all being "kept" by the govern
ment—and we. all know what kind of government
we shall have when that time arrives.
We suggested some years ago, as we were dis-
i cussing-4he "government’ll take care of you" phil
osophy and "cradle to the grave” security, a meth
od by which all our individual economic needs
could be solved; that upon the birth of each child
the government issue him §100.000 in government
bonds (which would cost thejgovernment nothing;
it would be only paper) and that thereby the child
cou}.d live comfortbaly the rest of his life. /
Such a proposal, of course, is reducing the phil
osophy of social security to absurdity — but isn’t
that where it belongs? Which brings Us back to
our first statement.
The whole idea of government-provided social
security is fallacious because in a free nation there
is no room for the concept of compulsion in seeing
that, the individual provides for his future*— and
social security is compulsory.
And the execuiton of the social securiyt law is
deceitful because the people who participate are
misled into believing that the taxes they pay into
the government treasury for this purpose and
those paid by their employers are set aside to
build up a reserve for their old age.' ^
Nothing cduld be farther from the truth. The
money is spent by the government for general
operating expenses as fast as it is received. When
it comes time to pay this employee his old-age
benefits, additional taxes must be collected by .the
government to pay for them.
Of course, proponents of the present system
will say that the reserve in the social security
fund is invested in government bonds and that
these bonds constitute a sound reserve fund.
In order to explode any impression that this is
true, is is only necessary to point out the fact that
piling up of great, quantities of its own deb^secur-
ities as a "reserve’’ does not add anything at all to
the ability of the government to meet social se
curity obligations. Cash funds needed to pay re
tirement benefits can still only be obtained by
means of taxes at the time the benefits are paid.
But we are continuing to delude ourselves.
Both the House and the Senate have now sent to
conference bills "liberalizing” the present social
security provisions. Women would become eli-
gibje for social security benefits at age 62 instead
of 65. This, of course, is “discrimination”—of
which we have heard a lot lately—but the Con
gress being composed mainly of men, they are
undoubtedly too gallant to bring out that point.
Why not lower the age of eligibility for men to 60
and the women'to 55? Give them time—that will
come. i
Another provision is to continue social security
children's benefits beyond the cutoff age of 18 if
total disability was sustained before the age of 18
And an entirely new concept is added to social se
curity by making those disabled eligible for its
benefits at age 50 instead of waiting yntil retire
ment age of 65. An additional tax of one-quarter
of one per cent will belaid by both employee and
employer to take care of this provision—which
money will also be spent as fast as it is received,
regardless of any provisions made for a so-called
‘reserve fund.”
As the young people are taken care of longer
and as the old people are taken care of sooner,
there is less and Iqss time in between for a person
to earn his’ living by the “sweat of his brow.” How
long before the two ages meet and we reach that
point of absurdity mentioned above? How long
before additional “liberalizations” make social se
curity taxes, added to all other taxes, so heavy
that the government must, by necessity, take care
of the people and we have a complete welfare
Departrr/ents showing deficits
were; county’s part of Travelers
Insurance, $283.52; boartlihg
home under department of wel
fare, $1,197.66; and contingent
^und, $?5,050.28.
Mrs. Mabel Little, county wel
fare dircetor, said that she ran
Laurens. August 10 — Laurens over her appropriation for board-
county spent $914,834 10 the past for indigent children
year in tax monies provided in
the County Supply Bill," from
market road money, from» bond
highway department farm - to -
money and other sources of reve
nue. according to the 1955-56 re
port made by County Supervisor
Bennie B Blakely to the. County
Delegation.
The report was handed to the
delegation Wednesday and cover
ed al known bills through June
30, 1956, the supervisor said.
Included in the total was $513,-
468.60 spent on the road program
from farm-to-market funds, apd
bonds. A total of $245,086.52 was
spent for maintenance of roads
and bridges.
The report showed tha't all the
departments and sub - depart
ments of the county government
except three either balanced
their accounts or showed sur
pluses for the yea.r.
Departments showing surpluses
and the amount of each were as
follows; Court house upkeep.
$0.10; insurance on buildings.
$880.46; road and bridge mainte
nance, $18.24; road program, $1,-
245.68; L. S. C. industrial com-
mision, $1,090.90; clerk of Court,
office expenses, $238.66; court ex
penses, $3,689.20; additional help
for auditor, $152.62; board of as
sessors and equalization, $206.30;
second assistant to the treasurer,
$81.20; office supplies for super
intendent of education, $10.33;
four miscellaneous items in shre-
ifTs office. $6.73; jail expense,
$605.43; extra help for judge of
probate, $308.50; office supplies
for judge of probate, $1.39; health
department, $298.94; inquests,
$745.00; magistrate’s court, $216
assistant county agent. No. 1
$42.17, No. 2, $200.00 home dem
onstration agent, materials, $11
25; agricultural building, $1.03
FFA, $15.00; Negro county agent
steno work, $4.64; emergency re
lief in welfare department, $2.44
county audit, $26.10; and lunacy
examinations, 408.90.
The surplus in the court ex
pense item came about partly
through the caucelation of TfiF
June term of general sessions
court, the supervisor said.
$2.33; hospital building fund,
$4.70; hospital, $10,010.95; archi
tect for juvenile jail, nothing ex
pended, total remaining, $2,000.-
00; NYA office rent, $297.46; re
fund on bond, $255.92.
Accompanying the report was
an itemized statement of the va-
riaus departments.
Expenditures out of the con
tingent fund were itemized as fol
lows, in dollars: Carillon expense,
435; legal work, $719; travel for
Gray Court magistrate, $160;
trustee referendum, $853.40; in
dexing pensions, $25; pauper fun
erals, $470; coroner’s office, $9;
probate judge, office expense and
lights, $675; air conditioning un
its, $545; City of Clinton, new wa
ter line, $12,000; salary increase,
library. $300; stenographer, do
mestic court, $600; premiums on
bonds, $565;; county part of social
security, $3,37T; repairs to court
house, $601; travel for mill dep
uty, $300; ads for bounty fair, $91;
court house janitor, $330; blinds
and tile for magistrate’s- office,
$129; board of registration, $227;
Clinton high school athletic field,
$5,150; funeral wreath for coun
ty commissioner, $15; right of
way on by-pass, $100; American
Legion Junior baseball team,
$0.10. ^
Delegation
(continued from page 1)
in the appropriation from secon
dary highway funds $1^100 for pipe
for improving South Holland
street, a state highway. A side
walk then be laid on the west side
oif Holland Street.
It was also agreed to furnish
pipe to improve drainage over oth
er nearby areas from F arle y ave
nue In Laurens.
.The delegation also passed a
move to air-condition the ladies
lounge in the courthouse in Laur
ens.
Using money from a special
Wildlife Association fund, it was
directed that $500 be spent for fa
cilities for loading and unloading
boats on Lake Greenwood for use
of game wardens.
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and recreation. Then plan to set aside a certain
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vacation time rolls around. Savings here earn a
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