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ONE MAN, ONE VOTE
By THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice-President, Southern States Industrial
Council
When the Founding Fathers
established the American gov
ernment, they wisely avoided a
rigid “one man, one vote” form
ula. The House of Represneta-
tives was designed to be appor
tioned according to population,
but in the Senate big and little
states had equality.
Until a few years ago, this
balanced system was accepted
without question. The states, in.
developing their legislatures, fol
lowed the federal model nad
avoided the “one man, one vote”
formula in the organization of
their respective state senates.
But the Warren Court, without a
shred of constitutional justifica
tion, upset the workable system
of many decades. The Supreme
Court laid down an edict, saying
that the states would have to
reapportion their legislatures.
Many members of Congress, in
both parties, are supporting a
constitutional amendment that
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will confirm what was establish
ed American practice from the
founding of this country. The
struggle is in the U. S. Senate,
where approval must be won for
a resolution calling for submis
sion of such an amendment to
the states. The liberals are bend
ing every effort to defeat the
resolution.
As yet, President Johnson has
not taken a stand on this ques
tion. It is to be hoped that he
will refrain from coming out
against the resolution. If he
chooses the path of restraint, be
will be in accord with tradition.
For, traditionally, the incumbent
President does not interfere with
the amending process involving
the Constitution.
The evil in the court-ordered
reapportionment is that it will
upset the political balance in the
country and shift major power
to a small number of big cities
in which political iqachines .can
herd masses of voters to the
polls. The shift, in other words,
aggrandizes the power of those
who control bloc votes in metro-
politan centers. If this
develops, the country will be un
der the tyranny of what John
Randolph of Roanoke, the gnat
19th century political thinker,
termed “King Numbers.”
Our American government is
subtly devised to avoid a tyran
ny of numbers. Government, in
the American system, is sup
posed to represent not the force
of sheer numbers alone, but the
entire amalgaam of state, local
and regional interests. Idaho and
Nevada, for example, have very
small populations. Nevertheless,
their rights should not be can-
oelled out by a bloc of voters in
New York’s Harlem, let us say.
Idaho and Nevada, like the other
states, were admitted to the
Union as co-equal with the larg
est states. Rigid application of
the “one man, one vote” formula
is destructive of states rights.
If this formula is to be the
basic law of the land, it is clear
that the present constiutional
system of two senators to each
state will be in jeopardy in time.
Already there is talk that the
liberals hope to find a way
around the requirement for two
senators to each state. The cur
rent notion gaining currency
among members of the left-wing
is that each state would retain
two senators, but that be votes
of the states would be weighed
That is to say, Idaho and Ne
vada’s senators might be‘assign
ed a weight only one-third or
one-fourth that of New York.
The only way for the majority
of small and middle-size states
to lose their constitutional rights
is to vote their powers out of
existence, or to fail to defend
statese rights. The forthcoming
vote on the Senate reapportion
ment resolution provides an op
portunity for senators from small
and middle-size states to strike
a blow for states rights.
The problem inside the states
is of the same character. The
liberals hope to deprive rural
areas, small towns and small
cities of all power in a state;
they want to concentrate a state’s
political' pofcer In one or more
big cities. If this comes to pass,
a grave injustice will be done
citizens who choose to live in
uncrowded communities. In these
comm unties, the qualities of self-
reliance, hard work and respect
for property are very strong.
They send first-rate officeholders
to state legislatures. It is import
ant to the political health of
America that the less thickly
populated areas not in effect be
disfranchised so that herded
votes can be brought under the
control of big city bosses and
new radical groups now building
in urban areas.
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The struggle for freedom is
never ending. The American
Revolution, fought some 200
years ago, has been rightly
called the “War for Freedom.”
While conflict ended
in freedom for the American
colonies from British rule and
produced the United States of
America, the struggle goes on.
The freedom won for us by
our forefathers is not a static
gift. Each generation must
struggle to hold and maintain
that freedom.
The battlefield for freedom
has widened until the whole
earth is involved in it. Our
freedom has been called “lib
erty under God.” Let’s not for
get that. This generation is
losing that battle.
This has been called an age
of triumph, as man extracts
from the universe its funda
mental secrets. There seems to
be no limit any more to. pro
duction. '■ So fast is progress
that today’s wonder is tomor
row’s obsolescence. But let’s
not forget the source of our
freedom—Almighty God. It is
from Him that we came, and
it is to Him that we return for
judgment of our stewardship.
While this has been called an
age of triumph, we are failing
in two places: (1) Man is fail
ing to rule and discipline him
self; (2) We are failing in gov
ernment. In the world over
politicians are engaged in a ti
tanic struggle to steal control
of goveramnet. Whether it be
in the masquerade of Com
munism, Fascism, or Social
ism, their purpose is the same
—to wipe out individual free
dom and usurp it for the state.
We dare not forget our stew
ardship. We must share what
we have or lose it. If we don’t
share willingly, we will by
force.
Look at our income tax struc
ture. The Divine Plan is that
the more we make the more
we give. The government plan
is the more we make the more
medical care go hack to the
“hoepes,” where dedi
cated me" women of the
church cared for the sick. The
Industrial Revolution which
commenced in England and
which marked the beginning of
the modern factory system
would not have been possible
had it not been for the Wes
leyan revival.
It is our freedom and lib
erty under the direction, pow
er, and influence of Almighty
God which has made this coun
try the richest in the world.
Yet sadly we are the most hat
ed nation in the world because
of our affluence.
We must share with the leu
fortunate nations our basic se
crets of success and achieve
ment. it is not enough to send
the money. We must share our
lives with them, our love, our
“know-how.”
Pages of history reveal the
wreckage of civilization which
came to greatness and refused
to share.’ Unless we change our
way of thinking and living and
put God in His rightful place,
or civilization will go the way
of our predecessors.
William Lomax
Cross Hill — William McCrary
Lomax, five-day-old son of
George Talbert and Judy Waller
Lomax, died Sunday afternoon at
a Clinton hospital.
Surviving in addition to his
Rgrents are his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. William McCrary
of Rt. 1, Cross Hill, and Mr. and
Mrs. Roy J. Waller of Cayce.
Graveside services were con
ducted Monday at 11 a. m. at
Magnolia Cemetery in Green
wood by Rev. Edwin William
Rogers.
H. Williams
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liams, 89, of Rt. 2, Laurens, died
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clining health and a short Illness.
A native of Laurens County,
son of the late John and Corrie
Moore Williams, he was a mem
ber of Mount Pleasant Baptist
Church. He was a retired farm
er.
Surviving are four daughters,
Mrs. T. E. Moore of Mountville,
Mrs. Josephine W. Wade of Au
gusta, Ga.; Mrs. Wayne Ervin
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