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p age Foot a THE CLINTON CHRONICLE GUintan QUirnnirlr EsUbthbed IMt July 4. 1889 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — Jane IS. 1995 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) One Year $3.0(t, Six Months $2.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Po«t Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Centres* March 3. 1879 ‘ ‘ ^ The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of it* aubscnbers and readers—the publisher will* at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature Anonymous communications will not be noticed This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial. Association X - . • * \ National'Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION — New York, Chicago, Detroit. Philadelphia CLINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 27. 1957 Not So In Clinton * From reading the Charleston papers we get the information that the venerable city is having financial trouble. A'sizeable deficit ($304,061) has been revealed by the. 1055 ' audit, and news of a suspected similar deficit in city operations for 1956 cannot be given because the audit for that year has not yet been released. ' “Until the audit comes out,” says The News and Courier in an editorial, “Charlestonians will not know how their municipal accounts stack up. Nor will they have any assurance that future audits may not show continuitig deficits.” Continues The News and Courier: “A rem edy that no doubt has occurred to many a business man is a closer watch on the city’s cash position than is afforded by an annual audit. By the time the audit comes out it is too late to do much about conditions that it reflects.” We get the impression that news of the 1955 deficit was only recently released by city officials and that it came as a surprise to Charlestonians. • Our compatriots in the Coastal City could learn a lot by observing methods of operat ing city affairs in Clintdn.- -Not—only is~a statement of receipts and— disbursements presented at the ‘monthly 'imply, must-be overhauled. The question js s How? The Speaker of Oregon’s House of Repre sentatives has come up with a plan. Under it, taxpayers in the $4,000-$ 10,000 brackets would pay a somewhat higher combined state-federal income tax than they do now. Those, in the over-$10,000 bracket, on the other hand, would pay a little less-. • This proposal, needless to say, has brought on a wave of opposition. It is dehdonced as a plan to favor the well-off at the expense of those who can least afford to pay. However, these protests" to one side, the Oregon Speaker simply faced a fact. To get tax money, you have to go where the money is—and most of it is in the middle and lower brackets. The Portland Oregonian states: “The 1955'State income tax records show 6 that’ of the total taxable returns, 442,693, those for families earning $10,000-and less numbered 41&.239, while those for families earning above $10,000 numbered only 24,- 454.” • In other words less than 6 per cent of.tl^ie families^ were in the over-$10,(XK) group ana all the rest were in the under-^ 10,000. That is generally true of the whole country. Thursday, June 27,1957 thing to fear from its union with either of the oth er departments . . —because during this period there has been a. self-evident union between the executive and the judiciary. This started with the attempt to “pack” the court, which failed at the time but later succeeded by replacements anyway, and which misalliance has continued down to the present day.. None of the decisions handed down during these years—de cisions which have lost for the court the respect of the people—could have been or can be made ef fective without the connivance qf the excutive. Neither the executive nor the judiciary have the authority to legislate, but when the judiciary usurps the power of the legislature and the exeu- tiye ^proceeds to use its power to put such legis lative decisions into effect, then it can only be as sumed that the executive and the judiciary are in full agreement in relation thereto. The ends desired by the executive and the ju diciary may have been, or may be, attained there by, but the process used bids fair to throw our government into a veritable state of anarchy if it is not stopped. meeting of city council. But a monthly study is made of budget operations. The city clerk and treasurer presents a tabulated form for e'ach department of the city. It shows the annual"appropriation for each department, how much has been spent thus far during the fiscal year, and the re maining balance. The mayor and city cotincil know at any given time the exact expendi ture and unexpended balance for every item in the approximately $500,000 annual budget of the city. And, furthermore, ciitzens are invited— even urged—to attend council meetings and to study financial reports at any time, and see for themselves the status of city .opera tions. Ends Amicably The much-discussed $1,500 doctor hill pre sented to the parents of young Benny Hooper in Bay Shore, N. Y., will not have to be paid, thanks to the mediation of the County Medical Society, with the assent of the doctor concerned. Dr. Joseph H, Kris assisted in the rescue of Benny from a well into which he ha/i fallen. - ' The case had wide publicity, and it was said that the doctor was under the impres sion that the family had received a consider able sum of money from public contributions earmarked for medical expenses. That turned out not to be the case. However, some was received, and the parents decided to turn it over to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. We are not one of those who wguld’con- demn the doc-tor for sending a hill for his services during the Rescue and for a week or ten days thereafter in ministering to the boy. If he thought a public funcl had been ac cumulated for the payment of medical fees it was only natural that he would think he * should be paid. In pictures showing the doctor and the parents of the boy, the matter was ended in a friendly manner. From photographs of Dr. Kris, and from reading news stories on the case, the doctor appears to be a reasonable, friendly sort of man. and, like most physicians everywhere, is ready to shoulder the burden of his part in any rescue work that confronts him. Doc tors. like other citizens, have an obligation to society to do whatever they can to aid the stricken when disaster strikes without thought of payment. And we believe that Dr. Kris is just as ready to assume that obliga tion as the next man. ‘ Where The Money Is More and more people are learning—^and learihing the hard way— that the old idea of paying the cost of government by soakihg the rich no longer holds watgr. The reason is that there aren’t enough rich — or even tnough} moderately- well-to-do people. Oregon is a case in point. In company with many other states, it is in a financial predicament, and the legislature has been running around in circles trying to find a way out. Everyone seems to agree that Ore gon’s current income tax law is a mess, and SENSING THE NEWS Bjr THURMAN SENSING Exvcutiv* Vic* Pr*tid*ni Southern States Industrial Council LOSS OF RESPECT FOR THE SUPREME COURT It is a national tragedy that the Supreme Court of the United St^Jes should have reached its pres ent state of decadence in the eyes of the public. It presages a breakdown in law and order that could result in tragic consequences for our form of government. That the Supreme Court has lost the respect of the public is quite evident to anyone who has his eyes open. Neither is this loss of repect con fined to any one region of the country—which might be explained by a special condition; it is spread nationwide. If this attitude were that of the general public alone, it might be said that the people generally are simply not enough informed of law to under stand the actions of the court. But the deplorable fact is that this loss of respect is evidenced most vigorously by those who do understand matters of law—by outstanding practitioners of law, by just-, ices of state supreme courts, by members of Con gress. The severe denunciations of the Supreme Court by individuals of this type cannot be passed off lightly. What has caused the Supreme Court of the United States to enter into this period of decadance in the eyes of the public? It is nothing more nor less than this loss of public respect—because it is only this respect for the Supreme Court on the part of the people that ever gave it any power or any authority in the first place. When our form of government was established for us by our forefathers, it was set up under three main headings—executive, legislative and judic iary—each with checks and balances on the other. . From the very first, the judiciary was recognized as the weakest of the three branches; in fact, it had no power at all except that gained for it by the respect of the people. Such power is extreme ly great while it lasts; when this respect is gone there is nothing left. Alexander Hamilton, writing in the Federalist, recognized this situation, when he said: ( "The executive not only dispenses the honours, but holds the sword of the cpjnmunity; the legis lature not only commands the^pbrse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated; the judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm for the efficacious exercise even of this faculty. . ‘.This simple view of the matter suggests sev eral important consequences: it proves incontest- ibly, that the judiciary, is, beyond comparison, the weakest of the three departments of power; that it can never attack with success either of the other two; and all possible care is requisite to enable it to defend itself against their attacks. It equal ly proves, that, though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be en dangered from that quarter; I mean so long as the judiciary remains truly distinct from both the leg- silative and executive ... It proRes, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other de partments . . .” Andrew Jackson pointedly showed up the pow erlessness of the Supreme Court while he was president by commenting something to the effect that, “The Supreme Court has handed down its decision; now let them enforce it,” which of course the court could not do without the cooperation of the executive. But there is nothing more power ful. than public opinion, and so long as the court had the respect and confidence of the people, which it had—almost reverently—until the last quarter century, then that very force made the court powerful and its opinions almost sacrosanct in the minds of the people. All during these years the Supreme Court depended upon good judgment, which, as Alexander Hamilton pointed out, was the only faculty of its own that it had to depend on* But the important aspect of the judiciary to the people, as pointed out by Hamilton, is that “the generalTiberty of the people can never be en dangered from that quarter ... so long as the ju diciary remains truly distinct from both the legis lature and executive.” What has happened during the last quarter century bears out the truth of HamiHon’s further statement that, “liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have every- Greenwood Social Security Office To Be Open Saturday The Greenwood social security district offree' at 516 S. Main St., will be open all day Saturday, .June 29. in* addition to its normal week-day schedule. Miss Martha Pressly,'district manager,..said to day. ° - Miss Pressliy explained that this special.Saturday schedule of office hours, from 9 a. m to 5 p. m., will enable the' office to accept last, minute applications-from severely disabled people who may be elig ible for social security disability protection. This will be the.only Saturday, that the social security office, which serves Laurens Coun ty, will be open for business. Miss • Pressly pointed out that people who have been ddsbaled and Xinable to work for a long time must apply before June-30 for disability benefits or to have their .darnings records “frozen." 06her-wise, they may, in ^wne cas es..-lose their rights to disability payments and also their own and their family's rights to old-.ige and survivors insurance payments Keith Fleischman Joins Coaching Staff At Laurens Laurens, June 20—Keith M*. Fleischman, 39, former principal and head coach’ at Andrews high state, has signed a contract as assistant coaph at Laurens High School, according to C. K. Wright, j superintendent of school district I No. ‘SS. A graduate of Presbyterian col- .-jiege in the class of 1941 with ,?a B A. degree, Coach Fleischman has done summer school work at both the University of South Car olina and at Appalachian State Teachers College in Boone, N. C. j He served four years in the arm ed forces during World War II. He replaces Paul Wells, who served one year under the late Jerry Bolin: Wells resigned at the end of the part school term, but did not announce his future plans, Mr .Wright said. The new coach is married and the father of four children. Mrs. Fleischman is the former Betty Spratt, of Clinton. During the past year he has been^ngaged in the insurance busines sin Clinton, and Mrs. Fleschman served as a school librarian there. Coach Fleischman was a PC roommate of Head Coach Jerry Roberts .recently appointed to the local athletic post. He coached at Andrews High School continu ously until 1956 after his gradua tion except for intervening war service. Moves Info New Home Here Mr. and Mrs. L. Judson Breh- mer and son, tprmerly of Char lotte, N. C., have moved into their recently completed home on South Adair street. Lydia Mills Gets Safety Award Today Lydia Cotton Mills will be awarded the South Carolina De- Mr. BreHmer is a manufacturers partment of Labor Safety Award agent for the American Bedding Certificate by Labor Commission- Go., of Charlotte and Elmer I. er William Fred Ponder at 3:30 Klein Agency, of New York. A p. m . today at the Lydia plant, native of Kinards, he is a brother , *,, . . . . ^ of Mrs. Hubert Todd, of this city. I being recognized m . f °r its progress m accident pre vention. Lydia’s 1956 accident TAKES POSITION Thomas G. Pitte, son of Mrs/P. M. Pitts, left Saturday for Lynchburg, Va., where he is em ployed in the Atomic Energy Di vision of the Babcock and ^Wilcox Co. Mr. Pitts was graduated from Presbyterian College this month. Funeral Services For N. E. Hill Held Sunday At Princeton Funeral services for Newton Eugene Hill, 68, were held Sun day afternoon at Princeton Bap tist church, conducted by Rev. E. D. Johnson and Rev. F. Stanley Hardee, Jr., Burial was in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Charles Craw ford,'Frank Stewart, Harry Kel ly, L. M. Medlock, Lewis Med lock and Lude Medlock. Mr. Hill died Fiday moning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Eula Quinton, on West Main Street, after two years of illness. He was a native of Laurens County where he spent most of his life. He was a son of the late John Franklin and Texanna Med lock Hill and was a member of Turkey Creek Baptist church. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mary Janie Medlock Hill, of Clin ton; three daughters, Mfs, Cath erine Prince, of Columbia; Mrs. Eula Quinton, of Clinton; and Mrs. Ada Prather, of Clinton; one brother, Bennie Hill, nf Simparwi. ville; five sisters, Mrs. Margie Smith, of Greenville; Mrs* Magie Crawford, of Piedmont; Mrs. Eula Wells, of Long Island, N. Y.; Mrs. E. L. Holland, of Clinton; and Mrs. Tom Flow, of Joanna; and seven grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Pitts Move To Befhune Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Pitts will be interested to know, they will move the comirvg week to Bethune where the former has accepted a position with Kendall Finishing Plant. Mr. Pitts was graduated from Clemson with a BS degree in tex tile chemistry. He has been asso ciated with the family in busiess here, managing Pitts Country Mar ket for* a number of years. Mrs. Pitts will be a member of the ele mentary school faculty at Bethune. The former Miss Martha 'Woods, daughter of Mrs. Paul T. Woods, who makes her home with the Pitts, and the late Rev. Mr. Woods, she formerly taught Bible,,in the city schools. They have three chil dren, Lewis, Jr., Paul and Mar garet. , * Mr. and Mrs. Pitts have been active in all phases of religious and civic life of Clinton and many friends regret they are leaving to make their home elsewhere. • Theodore Ellison, who has been connected with the market for some time, will succeed Mr. Pitts as manager. frequency rate was 64 per lower than the 1955 rate. cent Robert S. Owens (continued from page 1) Surviving jare his wife, the for mer M&s^liiiary Frances Pool; one son and two daughters: Tench P. Owens, Clinton attorney; Mrs. Conway Twitty, of Richmond, Va., and Miss Anne Owens, of Colum bia. A younger son, Robert S. Owens, Jr., died several years ago. Also surviving are one brother, W. Edgar Owens, of Milwaukee, Wis., and three sisters: Mrs. R. E. Sad ler, of Clinton, Mrs. W. M. Scott and Mrs. Ben H. Martin, of Easley. ATTEND ANNUAL MEET Among those from the Laurens Unit atending the annual meeting of the South Carolina Employees Association in Greenville Satur day were Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Bar nette, Mrs. S. B. Loftis, Mrs. John H. Boyd and Mrs. Murrah. Mr. Barnette is one of the new ly elected direetdrs and Mrs. Lof tis is the newly elected president of the Laurens unit. Ginton Lions To Install Officers The Clinton Lions club will in stall the recently elected slate of officers, headed by President Wnu P. Jacobs, at a meeting Friday night. The session will be held at Ho tel Mary Musgrove, beginning at 7:30 p. m. Officers state that perfect at tendance pins for the past year will also be awarded at Friday’s meeting. To Moke Home Here ► Dr. Harold Shield#, of Griffin, Ga„ is a patient at Blalock Clinic. Mrs 'Shields and son, Ronald, will arrive later this week from Griffin and will occupy an apartment on Centennial/Street. They are the parents of William M. Shields, lo ta! photographer.. 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