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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE. CLINTON. S. C.
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'Back To Farm'
In Soulhem States
'Boom In Form Sales
Follows Increosed Living
Costs In Area.
THE NATIONAL SCENE
As Washington Sees It
special to The CThronicle. ^
Ww^ingtonr"Octr* 15. ^ President
A Prhreto CttlseB Speeka Hie Mtai4
Spectator Comments
On Men ond Things
The announcement that a million-
doliar plywood mill will be biillt at
Hampton is most gratifying. Hampton
recent spectacular increase in the pay
of teachers; and yre an likely to And
school taxes heavily delinquent again
this year. Relief for the taxpayers is
not the main idea; the principal and
dominating note was political; it was
to curry favor with the teachers as a
i political force
Roosevelt’s efforts to create a more is to be congratulated; South Carolina
.. j sympathetic feeling in this country is to be congratulated.
Atlanta, Oct. 12. — In cities • and toward Russia, by making it se^ Let us turn our minds to the fu-
towns all over the South, thousands | that Russia s anti-religious reputation j,tufe with hope and conAdence, but j
of families are storting a vast “back ^w Ckatterated, seems temporarily to let us be sensible and remove any
the school term, but only ’wifli ffiw
condition that an equal sum be
duced in the tax buYden of the
ty with an appropriate reductioa
millage as a mandatory proviso.
The most direct proceduoe
be ftjr the schools and their' n
to pass from the counties to the
I f
if thb^legislature wishes to do a iThe present plan of state aid is
salutary thinciet it take off/the state! Hng the burden in many cases,
taxes on general property gnd then
let it take over the ninth month of SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLH
to the farm”'),movement, encouraged
by^the brightest agricultural outlook
in more than a decade.
The Arst boom in farm sales in
hkvtr fizzled, although it may yet pro
duce the results he sought. ,
His statements indicating that Rus
sia does have a form of religious free-
about 20 years has followed quickly I dom, in which he pointed out that the
the rapid increase in urban living Russian constitution provides for
costs and the skyrocketing of farm
produce prices. In the South, the vol
ume of farm sales for the Arst six
months ot 1041 exceeds that of the
Arst six months of 1040 by from 25
,to 50 per cent
Paralleling'^ increased prodvictive
acreage throughout the South is the
steady turn to diverslAed farming.
“Southern fanners are producing
more of the things they formerly
tried to make cotton buy for them.
freedom of worship, was imet by re
sound!^ criticism on all sides. Lead-
barriers to new enterprises,
We have something hei'e in South
Carolina;'climate, open-air work all
the year; good roads; good, substan
tial people. We are Ame^can stock,
almost free from isms_tod foolish
theories of government. Tpe rank and
Ale of our people are sound at heart;
ers of practically all religious groups | the nearest thing to a calamity which
loudly attacked this stand, pointing
out that the Communist government
was a notorious enemy of religion.
But the president’s later move,
aimed at persuading Russia to take
deAnite steps toward religious free
dom, was hailed by some of the same
religious leaders as a move which
we have is the political group who
swallow every pill prescribed by the
Socialists and Communists in Wash
ington.
The plywood enterprise for Hamp
ton is worth mdre to us than fifty
millions dollars of war money. All the
money for defense, or war, or what
not, will pour out like a Aood and
soon pass out to sea; but a continu
ing, productive enterprise will be a
permanent; toctor of development
might lead toward a more tolerant
says J. H. Eleazer, South" Cietolina! attitude toward religion by the Rus-
farm official. . - j gian government. It at least resulted
Each of the following is equivalent i in an inunediate statement by S. A.
TOtton the j^th for Hampton and South’
One Hereford cow; average farm’s
harvest of rice and.wheat; home
grown and canned vegetables; aver
age yearly production of syrup, pea
nuts, sweet and Irish potatoes, and
,the addition of modem farm working
equipment.
More farmers are going into the
proAtoble business of livestock. Mar
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Russian government, in which he re- j Una
which reads:
‘To insure to citizens freedom of
conscience, the church in the U. S.
S. R. is separated from the state and
the school from the church. Freedom
to perform religious rites and free-
cles? High local taxation is one, but
I am not sure it is the worst. I think
the weakest part of all our public
life is our surrender to special inter
ests. No one seems- to have a clear
program of development; the only
keting of Uvestock will be larger in Hom program or aeveiopment; me only
1942 than In 1941, and commercial ^ ^ those who
production of meats is expected to
set a new high. In addition, the Unit
ed States army food requirments for
next year includes the tremendous
total of 335,000,000 pounds of meat,
277,000,000 pounds fresh meat and
sausage, 32,000,000 pounds cured and
smoked, and 26,000,000 pounds can
ned.
Relative increased demands for
milk and milk products prevails. In
one Southern state, Georgia, the
value of barnyard cows jumped from
MS Sept. 15, 1940, to $52 on the same
date this year for an average increase
of $9 per head.
Few Deaths Since
Jockson Estoblished
Fort Jackson, Oct. 13.—There have
bem only 60 deaths from all causes
at the huge stotim hotp^Lal here since
its establishment 14 months ago, of
ficials reported today...
The population now includes 42,-
000 soldiers and additional thou
sands of civilians engaged in con
struction and administrative work.
Authorities considered the death rate
low in vltov of this number of per
sons. Patients admitted totaled 24^75.
MR.. MRS. AND MISS SCHOOL
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It is expected that, while Mr. Lo
zovsky’s ^tement did not say that
the Soviet government would change
its attitude toward religion, the mere
re-affirmation of this part of its con
stitution would tend toward curbing
the “Godless propaganda’’ which has
beeA spread by the Communist gov
ernment ever since the revolution.
President Roosevelt believes it is
imperative for iis to give aid to Rus
sia in its Aght against Hitler, but is
nurse a plan to get money out of the
state treasury. It is seldom a part of
a constructive program; more often
it is merely the cohesive effort to get
something for some group.
If the heaviest burden of taxation
falls on real estate — and it does —
there should be a constant effort to
ease the strain on the taxpayers.
Well, in the time of Governor John
ston the Ave mill state tox was re
pealed. Then we repealed the three-
mill constitutional school tox. Very
in the difficult position of asking the quickly the 3-mill tox was re-impos-
American people to help a nation
which most of us have considered an
enemy of all the things we stand for.
Any concessions toward religious
freedom in Russia would make it
easier to get our people to support
greater aid to Russia.
Such aid will be sought in con
junction with the new $5,585,000,000
lease-lend measure which the presi
dent is backing and which congress
is expected to pass, although consid
erable opposition to permitting much
ed in a new guise, and it is still on
us; as quickly one mill was re-impos
ed, afte^ the veto by Governor John
ston. In other words, we were com
pelled to impose those taxes again—
why? Our revenue was increasing
and our appropriations were increas
ing. If we had not swallowed all the
nauseous quackery of Socialists and
created Our welfare hand-outs we
should have had not deAcit in the
Arst place; if we had not gone on a
building spree-for the state institu
tions we might have saved a lot of
if
of this fund to be used to help Rus-, , ^ ,
sia is expected in both houses of con- ^ second place; ai^
we had not poured out some hun
dreds of thousands of dollars unnec
gress.
Congress is re^ to take quick ac-
tiem (m revision of our neutrality
law, following the sinkhig of more
Am^ican ships sailing under Panama
registry. A poll of the senate, al
though not conclusive since a large
number of senators were con-com
mittal, indicates that a small major
ity favors either scrapiping of the act
or revising it to permit arming of
our merchant ships.
Government officials are taking the
attitude that the ainktng of more
ships, although under Panama regis
try, has aroused public opinion to the
point where the majority of people
favor modlAcatiim of the neutrality
act. This attitude also Is backed by
recent Gallup polls of public opinion.
essarily, we mighii-havc helped th*
condition in the third place. But the
taxes were put on—resting on your
home and your farm—while various
small favors of hundreds of thousands
were attended to.
Let me ask you again! How can
the state help you most iq your
county? Unquestionably by assuming
more of the school burden. Since the
state undertook to grant aid to the
counties the most effective aid was
to pay for a certain number of
months. Dxuing this year the state
should have assumed the ninth
month. Granting increases to the
teachers was playing into'the hands
of a powerful political lobby, but it
was not serving the counties in the
^ effective manner. Not a dollar
iss.z: *<■ “>• •»' «>•
portont than keeping this country at
peace.
Hie actual cost of our defense pro
gram changes so quickly that it is
impossible to Agure it very far ahead,
but a recent estimate of defense and
lexul-lease expenditures for 1942,
made by Harold D. Smith, director
of the bureau of the budget, says
that it will amount to about $18,-
000,000,000 in 1942, which is over
seven billions more than was esti
mated when the 1942 budget was
announced last January.
Mr. Smith attributes this increased
estimate to speeding up of production
and to higher costs of materials. He
predicts that by next June we will
be spending two billions a month on
armaments.
Mr. Smith also pointed out that
all appropriations made or pending in
(xmgress for rearmament and aid to
allies, have now reached a total of
$60,000,000,000. Last January, total
appropriations for these purposes
amounted to $28,480,000,000, which
shows that this year appropriatitms
will total over 31 additional billions.
The total expenditure of 60 billions
so fa# planned, amounts to an ex-
penditun of about 450 for every man,
woman and child in the United
States.
In addition to the tremendous
problems of war, defense and billion
dollar appropriations. President
Roosevelt is aisd woriiing on greater
social security for the American peo
ple following the war. He has ap
proved the propoeal of the social se
curity board lor an all-inclusive so
cial security ayitom to etonbine old
age insurance, unMnploym^zt insur
ance, survivors insurance, etc.,' all
under one head. And this plan calls
for an extensioo of beneAts which
would create an additional purchas
ing power of Ave billion dollars after
the war. This new plan, which faces
many difficulties due to the variations
in state social security laws, is ex
pected to talre some time in getting
through congress, but it Indicates that
social security will be broadened
rather than curbed while the war is
in progress.
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