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Pac« Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, November 24, 1949 \ 7 Babson Is Optimistic, Says Small Business Has Future in America Rogrr V. B*W« industrial and Babson Park, Mass., Nov. 22.—If 1 believed that American small bus iness did not have a future, I should seriously question the future great ness of America it self. This coast-to- coast nation of ours is largely the prod uct of the pioneer ing struggles of the small businessmen and their families Trace back the history of almost any of our mighty commercial empires. Vou will discover that the successful corporation of today grew in stature Slowly, beginning in some tiny shop store. Humb’e enterprises have been the acorns, the seed corn of Amer ican success. There was magic in the American formula: Start small, learn as you earn, plow back prof its. make the business pay its way. Our basic system of private enter prise and individual opportunity has created in this country the spiritual “Climate” that stimulated record- breaking progress. Even those mil lions of worthy men and women who chose to work for others became su perior employees through knowing they always were free to “go on your own and be your own boss". The fundamental American attitude of liberty, initiative and individualism, has generated an unequalled econo mic productivity Wanted: More Than Kind Words Everybody apparently is glad to g.ve small business a big hand; but j only a few members of this friend-1 ly cheering-section seem prepared to offer senfic helps What. then, are o' the real, concrete, tmmed- :ds which would most assist j businessmen to carry on the.r i« and essentia! activities* Le’ >e two simple illustrations •. e a lette' from a small oper- n tne coal f.elds He employs twenty men He u t'ytag to r them He says that 1 erator is asking. It sounds sensible to me. Another report and recommenda tion comes from a small manufactur er of metal specialties. He writes that government contractors tend to place with the smaller shop only a variety of trifling short orders. But for efficient handling any concern reeds * reasonably long run. To make a profit, after adequate tooling up and devising new methods, takes time. Many of the smaller shops. I am informed, lack the immensely di- versified equipment and experience .necessary to take care of an endless hodgepodge of experimental knick- knacks. Less Surveys And More Service In political speeches, our govern mental big-wigs are loud in applause lor small business. In actual prac tice. the government confronts the little businessman with a maze of barbwire entanglements. The gov ernment not only bleeds him with extortionate requirements, but ap plies these with legalistic red tape that is all but unintelligible to any body but a Philadelphia lawyer. Ostensibly to serve small business, the government has encouraged the setting up of commissions, commit tees, councils, authorities, advisers, administrations, offices, agencies. It has exhausted both the alphabet and th epatience of the businessman who is compelled to pay bills for this costly nonsense. Small business in America today is not seeking a hand out, but a hand-up. It is tired of Ail ing blanks instead of Ailing Arm and j profitable orders. Speaking as one who got his own basic training in the small-business field, I urge the gov ernment to' let up on the questions for a spell; and instead to give small business a few sorely needed ans wers. Additional Miles Added To State Highway System Special to The Chronicle. Columbia. Nov. 22.—From June 30 through October the total Laurens county roadway in the state highway system has increased by 24.9 miles, highway department records reveal. At the end of June 492.76 miles of highway in the county were part of the state system. At the end of Oc tober the total county mileage in the state system was 530.27 miles. Laurens county mileage in the state primary system remained the same during this period for high type pavement, 74.14 miles, and for un improved earth, 6.82 biles. Bitumi nous surface increased from 144.1 miles to 150.14 miles, and improved earth in the primary system declined from 6.34 miles to 0.86. In the secondary system county bituminous surface went up from 100.32 miles to 126.22 miles, and un improved earth increased from 160.74 to 172.09 miles. , Roadway in the entire state system has increased over a thousand miles in the four-month intervval, going from 19.323 41 to 20,569.44 miles. Four Legal Soles Handled By Clerk Clerk of Court V. R. Fleming made four sales under court procedure on salesday for November, as follows: Citizens Federal Savings ic Loan association vs. Roy L. Fuller, et al, lot in Garlington Place, City of Lau rens, sold to O. L. Long, attorney, for $3,800. Marie Fuller and Lillie Mae Fuller Morgan vs. Larry Fuller, lot on Green Street extension, City of Lau rens, sold to Hamp Hunter for $1,250. Newberry Federal Savings & Loan association vs. Harold Eugene Mason, 54 acres in Waterloo township, sold to G M. McSCuen, attorney, for $1,250. r- t Newberry Federal Savings & Loan association vs. James Marley Griffin, lot in Garlington Place, City of Lau rens, sold to G. M. McCuen, attorney, for $4,000. year to $1.20 the fourth year; and a measure implementing the interna tional wheat agreement which allows the CCC to take the necessary loss on wheat exported under the agree ment. Published government reports in dicate that business profits are down about 25 per cent the first half of this year compared to 1948. The pew council of American business says this is not a true reflection, that prof it decrease is only about 10 per cent after taxes, because of the effect 3f changes in the valuations of inven tories taken on a rising market. But even in terms of the 25 per cent drop, profits in 1949 stand up, for only in 1947 and 1948 were profits higher than today. Washington- acres; the national wheat agreement, providing for annual export of 163 million bushels of wheat with a ceil ing price of $1.80 and a floor price in world markets ranging from $1.50 the first year, dropping 10 cents each GIVES FAST RELIEF COLD MISERIES STRIKE 1921-1949 Hugh L. Eichelberger NEW YORK LIFE MAN 28 YEARS EXPERIENCE PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE INFORMATION FURNISHED FREE Member The National Association of Life Underwriters LIQUID OR TABLETS D. E TRIBBLE COMPANY In Clinton, S. C. 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