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/ THE CLINTON CHRONICM fS» Xf68 By SPECTATOR.. COMMENTS OD MEN AND THING Well, you ncveV can tell, can you? I clipped this choice bit from the editorial page of a great paper: “'Hie following is the interesting reply of Congressman Otto Pass man. Chairman of the Subcommit tee of Foreign Appropriations, to a group, designating themselves as ‘Christian ladies', asking more fed eral missionary work in the Mid- Eastern Countries ‘The foreign a i d program is wrecking the economy of our nation. We are placing an unbearable debt upon the shoulders of unborn gen erations of Americans in spending our money on a program which is loaded with bribery, blackmail and corruption Much of our foreign aid money is being spent to support kings and princes of the Middle and Far Eastern countries where polyg amy is practiced with some of the rulers having a-- many as fifty wives There are thousands of sim ilar ridiculous items in the foreign aid bill, and I just do not want to see a continuation of spending the American taxpayers' dollars for such corrupt practices. I am trying to take out of the bill the tens of thousands of doUars which may be spent for choice whiskies and U- quers for foreign rulers. I will, however,' support a bare minimum to cany out our country’s military commitments to friendly nations ’ T am sorry that you have placed a blanket approval of the foreign aid program, but I am sure that you did so without knowing that a large percentage goes for the sup port of king's harems and for alco holic beverages'.” Tut. tut; wine, women and song in our so-called “Foreign aid?” I read recently that some small time ruler in the East had increased 1 the number of his wives from two hundred to four hundred and then decreased his army from 6,000 to i.000 I do not know whether "Fo reign Aid' was given to him. • • • A very notable event in our Con stitutional development was the ses sion of the State Chief Justices in California recently. No safer or Add Up To Profitable Investment Returns • Plus regular earning bj check • Minus charges or fees when you invest EARN liberal dividends twice-yearly on in- vested savings! Yet never pay a cent for our many convenient services! INVEST YOU* LUMP SUMS OP $100 NOW I Laurens Federal Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION ▼ Ht SICUUITV cr a nation LIFS INTMI HOMIT. or IT', LAURENS. SOUTH CAROLINA 201 W. Main St. Telephone 25012 sounder group of men could be found in the nation than the Chief Justices of the states. I am entirely beyond dispute in saying that the composite learning, wisdom, expe rience and poise found in that gath ering of state jurists so far exceed ed the judicial quality of the Fed eral Supreme Court as to command instant attention and respect. In fairness to the Federal judiciary, it is generally believed that the Fed eral Judges of the lower courts are more depely grounded in the law than the august brethren who sit in Washington and incoporate popular sociology into the fundamental con cept of Constitutional law. 1 shall quote an editorial from The Wall Street Journal, very es pecially because it is not a Southern newspaer: t “In the politest possible language, chief justices of the state supreme courts the other day offered some advice to the United States Supreme Court. “By an overwhelming vote of 36 to 8 the members Of the Conference of Chief Justices, meeting in Pasa dena, Calif., had these things f o say: ‘A fundamental purpose of hav ing a written constitution is to pro mote the certainty and stability of the provisions of law set forth in such a constitution . . .' Our system of federalism, under which control of matters primarily of national concern is committed to our national government and con trol of matters primarily of local concern is reserved to the several states, is sound and should be more diligently preserved.’ ‘The diversion of powers between those granted the national govern- metn and those reserved to the state governments should be tested solely by the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and He Amend ments thereto’ The Conference of Chief Justices then went on to suggest where the justices think the United States Supreme Court has gone astray in some of its decisions affecting the relationships of the division of Fed eral and state powers. TTiey admon ished the Supreme Court to recog nize that there is a difference be tween what the Constitution re quires or allows and what mem bers of the Supreme Court ‘may deem desirable or undesirable.’ In short, the highest legal authori ties of the states here are telling the Supreme Court that cases should be decided by what the Constitution says, and not by what the members think the Constitution should say. They are also warning the Court against continued whittling down of ‘local self-gjvemment’ if the U. S. system of federalism is to ‘continue to function.’ And what should the Supreme Court do in order to restore the up set balance the chief justices find? The answer to that was also a po lite but plainly put condemnation: 'Exercise one of the greatest of all judicial powers—the power of self- restraint ' The State Chief Justices are the guardians of what rights remain to the states, and they do not like to see them nibbled away for any reason This is not just the view of one chief justice in one state about one case. It is the concerted opinion of 36 chief justices who come from al sections of the country and who have little dee in common aside from their guardianship of their states against Federal encroach ment. They are attacking a pattern they think is dangerous What they had to say will provide a great deal of ammunition to those who would take away some of the Supreme Court’s powers. Like the chief justices, all of us are interested parties—or should be —in retaining a proper federal sys tem of national and state powers, one other result of this plan for self- restraint should be hoped for. And that is that the Supreme Court will read this report in the light of its decisions and judge where, in all the criticism, the er ror ties." Let me quote the Constitution of the United States for the informa tion of those who speak of under mining the Supreme Court of the United States: “In all cases affect ing Ambassadors, other public min isters (diplomats) and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.” That means that the cause of action may be brought to the Supreme Court first, without having been first submitted to a lower court. Now continuing: “In all other cases before mention ed the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction both as the law and fact, with such excepdoas and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.” That is the law. * * * How about beefsteak, or bread or soap or clothing, or just anything: is it the same price as ten years ago? Now, then, how about automo biles and tires? And taxes!! My word: do you pay the same taxes today that you paid fifteen years ago"? Well, there is something that seems to get cheaper and more de pendable. Can you guess what it is? Look over your old accounts and one item is cheaper today than it was even in 1939. How can it be? Wages higher, all items in con struction higher; their taxes much higher. Can you guess what tt la that you use every day and every sight and which is cheaper new even with all other items of your living costing much more? t “While scientists and engineers labor mightily to produce economic electricity from the glamorous atom, a number of U. S. utilities quietly are preparing a shot in the arm for ‘old fashioned’ power gen erating systems fueled by such commonplace combustbiles as coal, gas, and oil. This involves that old standby, steam—basically the same kind of feathery vapor that rises from a tea kettle. Only this is steam with a difference. It’s a hard-to-manage vapor that’s been super-heated by the so-called fossil fuels to five or more times the boiling point of wa ter, to temperatures some 20% to 30% higher than those found in most existing -steam generating plants. The commercial harnessing of this hot steam*—already accom plished by one utility in a prototype plant—holds the promise of cheaper power production evontnafly. And such savings art Meaty to bo re flected in future industrial and res idential electricity bills. Some T9 per cent of all the elec tricity now is generated by steam plants. EsentiaBy, these plants burn coal, oil or gas to tarn water into steem. The steam, under high pres sure. is directed against the blades of a turbine which, in turn, runs an electric generator. The principle behind the hot steam hypo basically is this; As steam gets hotter, the pressure it exerts mounts and more work re sults in a turbo-generator before the steam becomes spent To reach higher steam temperatures, steam is reheated at various points in the process. Although this uses slightly more fuel, the resulting extra work more than offsets the added enegry needed to produce it. Thus, in a hot steam system more electricity can be produced from a pound of fuel than can be generated in a lower temperature system.” What I see is this; the power com panies have been constantly study- NIBD CASH FOA FALL EXPENSESf "HEAD FOR HOME" When Fall expenses throw your budget for a loop and yon aeed EXTRA CASH immediately . . diet’s the tlma to “HEAD FOR HOME’’ . . . HOME CREDIT COMPANY! Get the money you need now from the friendly folks at HCC—where YOU select the amount you want and the pay- plan moot convenient for you. H0USEH0ID • EMERGENCY • SIGNATURE LOANS _CaOi Vse Cot IjZMtertMy Ym Set 1> NoatMy riyateirtt I tits ill 75 TT3TT "ITTJi 134. to 13.75 195.43 1575 1973 234.47 1973 Itoto 2773 31370 2375 3373 37274 2773 440 45 4773 441.30 33.75 tha abovo puymant, inclurta inuronca. It CMStUMlt wn $omt C\edft lag. experimenting, and heavily in- Mting handrads «t mflias «f dollars over year to bald down the cost of producing power although every item of meir expense has gone up enormously. Now you can answer. The out standing bargain of the day is elec, trie power in the United States. Behold the modern miracle: with wages, taxes, wire, coal, machinery —all higher, yet the price to us is lower!! CREDITORS’ NOTICE All persons having claims against the estate of S. J. Morse, deceased, are hereby notified to file the same, Sobocribe te The Chronicle BACKACHE g**; jgg.—g* —.top i Md VtUoua C m U (MMHy «M •!•*- MNy ja ea drin, Art Fnwo today *1 droniati In man comfortabl# InrMM. oaf> JlxfK.rt m 14.00. 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