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.'7T ; J I ' f . Poge Four // r»r t THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursdoy, Moy \, 1947 ull|p (Clinton (EtirontrU Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday By THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.25 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C. The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers 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 Exclusive National Advertising Representative GREATER WEEKLIES New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia and jerked it out and it flew off his hook and struck a wild duck nad they both fell exhausted at his feet, so his folks had fish and duck fqr supper that night. mr. art square stated that one of his dogs set a pattidge about 2 months ago and the only way they could stop her from holding same was to tie a rope around her hind legs and drag her home and put her in the corn crib, she got out in 10 j days and went right back to the I same bird, and set it again for a ' week, and both the dog nad the bird 1 starved to death in their tracks. i the poleesman told the crowd that one night last week he ketched 2 safe-blowers robbing the drug stoar safe, when they saw him, they throwed down their tools, and walk ed over and took his keys and hand- j cuffs and they all went down to the l jail and they locked theirselves in {the same and pitched the keys to him. Presb/ferians To Observe Christian Family Week i — Members ot the First Presbyterian church will observe “Christian Fam ily week” May 4-11. Each home will set aside some time during the day for a devotional service prepared es pecially for this week. The theme, “What Makes a Family phristian?” should be of "interest to each mem ber of the family. The content of the CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 1. 1947 T Retailers and High Prices l^ 00 * the Piano puyer-he 1 . doing the best he can. President Truman is making a de- That the predicaftl€nt of the Ve- rr.and for sharp price reductions to; tall opera to r today, confronted with avert what he terms a major depres- whirling ^ices and variable quali- sion. “Prices must be brought down,” • taxes kept up” until the country is Your Money or Your Life Or Your Car the'town of flat rock will go intc bankruptcy ere long if parking me- terS' triT notvTnstalled all over the comrrjunity. the movement is being fought by the citizens on the grounds that the town belongs to the people and not to the town counsell. EXPECTANT MOTHER? GUAM rout Mtr CBADLKGRAMS brlnr you daUlfed. profcwional advice and Inctructioiu on pro- and post-natal car* br lucccwfui obstetrician; St weakly lettera on baby cart by noted pediatrician; feeding- formula schedules and pray roes charts; Information on every step of the im portant tret year. You reeeive pro- and poet natal laetructiona, charts, first five CRADLBCRAM Utter* immediately. Other 47 CRADLBGKAM8 art amt U you weekly. Personal need for expec tant mothers. Ideal as dit. Send M cheek or M.O. now for thin friendly, professional service. OUAROIAN PUBLIIHINO CO. S5 W. 42nd *♦., New Ynrfc It. N. Y. parking meters are being put up ties^He 'isJ 'doing the best he can. Take groceries as an example. They over the hump' of inflation,” he says, are righ, as you know when you Labor unions and others are de- i spend five or ten dollars for a small manding increased wages, to which 1 basket of fqod. But that isn’t the re-J all over the united states, it’s an easy I tailer’s doin!g. His unit profits are no | way to get holt to monney, and the | larger than they used to be—and inipuolick has to suffer them. dr. hub-j many cases J are smaller. He is con-|bert green says if annyboddy puts | fronted with consumer resistence I meters in front of his stoar, he will i and is just af disturbed about high dig them up and throw them into the President expresses no objection. The President’s statements do no; nt and his reasoning is unsound. Certainly they do not make sense. Kor high wages and high taxes are the main reasons for f high prices. At| prices as iSj It the very time he is making his pa- wise, his first i triotie appeal, wage increase de-! er’s interest. mancts in several large industries^ i n ;he final analysis the consumer are met. Labor will continue 'to de-j i s boss. No ^ne can force him to buy. mand higher wages just so long as Competition will get keener in all id it Tire Recapping:. Battery Charging;. Firestone Batteries. Radiator Boiling:. Car and Truck Repairing:. TIMMERMAN MOTOR CO. Phone 119 Gary St. daily worship provides for a connect ed or developing idea,of the charac teristics or attributes of a truly Christian family. Any age can un derstand the messages — every age will get a new or renewed ideal and pattern for the Christian family’s 3! daily life and growth. On Wednesday evening, May 7, all members are asked to meet at the church as a church family for wor ship and fellowship. A story ’hour will be planned for the children at this time. \ WANTED! SEWING MACHINE OPERATORS Experienced or Inexperienced Apply— ' HALLMARK MFG. CO. Davidson St., Clinton, S. C. iatKs»»s«x«K»»»»x«KKStt3amfqtjmy.MMMy.KNKKKnNMWi»mfatiqpf»H / the 1 consumer. If he is interest is the consum- the town well. prices continue to rise; and prices jfiejds—and !the merchant who wants will continue to rise just as long as‘ his share of the business must get on the citty farthers say they must j have at least 1500$ per annum! every year to get along, the mayor’s sallery is to be raised 50$ per* month, the poleesman expects 35$ per month more, the saniterry waggin request | labor obtains higher wages. Mr. Tru-, his toes and| stay there. American re-} 40$ per month more or nothing will i man opposes reducing taxes* which tailing will spare no effort to see | be hauled and the members of the me Republican majority in congress! that the needs and desires of millions} counsell are asking for 15$ per meet- has been working for weeks to bring : of consumers are met fairly and hon-! ing in the future, about. His chief supporters are the estly. ' - ■ ^ Democrats. How can big business be j There is bound to come a business; nothing will be spent for wellfare e xpected to cut prices in the f ace ! recession. Many alert, well-informed ! from now on. the demands of the > .raling wagex L doesn t ma ^ e business men say it has already be-1 counsell must be met if everything rerrse again. i gun. It may be just around the cor-1 else goes de-bunk, all monthly ap- Following the President's appeal 1 ner. who knows? The problem con- propriations for the needy'ansoforth : r once reductions retailers in New-i fronting us is two-fold—affecting lai-'have benn cut out. meters is the buryport, Mass., launched a city-wide, bor and industry. They must get to- ancer to the polliticians ~ prayers, c. mpaign for a reduction oWJO per gether if our American economy is more monney is the order of the vent on all retail prices and Reported | to be stabilized. A publicity “stunt" j day. this demand must be met. it’s that sales spurted upward. The idea,} in Newburyport, Mass., is not the; against the law to use a pistol to wnich they claimed would work ma-! answer- Prices in a free economy' raise publick monpey in flat rock. g:e, strikes us as a good publicity (our only hope) are regulated by; ’J stunt, impracticable and unsound, supply and demand. And we should! And yet the idea is spreading into} understand there is more lasting many parts of the country. The truth prosperity when it is more widely ; is that many wide-awake merchants shared in full production at moderate; have already reduced prices on much f prices and wages. Big business and SHEAFFER FOUNTAIN PENS—An ideal, useful gift for graduates. Chronicle Publishing Co. . SAVE and HAVE IS MIGHTY GOOD ADVICE . j • \ ' We Accept Savings Accounts With No Limitation As To Amount. Current Dividend Rate 3 Per Cent — Accounts v • * Insured Up To $5,000. Let Us Help You “OWN A HOME” rEDERAL Savings AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Telephone No. 6 A Clinton Institution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 - seasonable merchandise, not just 10 big labor should understand this is per cent, but as much as half on the solid economic basis for a drive many lines of apparel. The Chronicle to lower prices. has carried a number of,such adver- And the Washington spenders} L.-ements m recent weeks. It will ougbt—UL know (they do not) that j P y you, Mrs. Consumer, to read this government can help bring down paper's advertisements regularly. prices by holding down expenses, re-: But to approve a 10 per cent re- during debt and putting'Tm end once daction on all goods in a merchant# anc * f° r a h to subsidies and hand-outs > ore would be impracticable and a t the expense of taxpayers. They “’disastrous. When the retailer sells on ly make prices higher in the end. merchandise he must replace- h,is; • stock at prevailing replacement pric- e>. They must pay manufacturers 1 and jobbers prices. How then in the name of common sense and fairness, can retailers reduce prices unless they are reduced first by manufac turers and wholesalers. The .,New- buryport “plan" begins at the wrong end. L NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE Comrade Wallis mr. slim chance, sr., says he heard j E\ es^ - honest merchant or business j a t the county seat that hon, henry j concern wants to see prices stabilized wallis, formerly in the president’s i and reduced as rapidly as is safd. He cabinet befoar they fired him, had is eager to put lower price tags on lwen ^ europe to give stallin, mol- his wares. But he would also like to' atov *nd companny a fee simple see his taxes and operating expenses deed to the united states, thereby stabilized and reduced, but this is a makin S this country a saddle-ite of question over which he does not have russia. final control. Retailing works under! fixed limitations. If wholesale prices! mr - chance sa y s he has alwa y s be - go up, retail prices must follow the! lieved that hon ‘ wallis W3S 99 and t ,. enc j . p ! 44-100 pro-communist — and the _ , , . , ' " ,trip above referred to proves that Prices generally speaking^ are all! he was right> nothing our state de . too nigh, a 5 the public well knows >, p ar tment has dime so far about fur- a R d must be, brought dowq. We have! in a£fairs is righti according t o hon. been spinning around now fojfmonths wa jjj s following the war, but we cannot go ! ^ on in this inflationary sp^al. We mr. chance says, in his own opin- might afr-Jweiliaqe the fact that eco-j i on) that if the u. s. had 10 more nomically we must come back to the men like hon. wallis and john 1. fundamental princtfjle of supply and lewis, that we wouddent have a demand before there will be a stabi- democratic govverment over 2 weeks, l.zed balaficing of prices. There is. jt would be ruled by commia-rats ap- still an excess of demand for many; pointed by the stallin regeem. items over the available supply in ■■ ' goods and services. The middle road, if russia were to spout such men with a gradual reduction in jlrices as some we now claim as our own, beginning at the source of produc-] she would dispose of them without lion and continuing right on down j notis, but it’s against the law for to the consumer is the nation’s safest! us to get rid of vermin unless ( the course to follow'. The problem must! sanniterry department decides when, be attacked in a cooperative spirit how and why. mr. chance -says it by all factors, manufacturers, whole- wont be long now. he thinks if wal- salers, retailers and consumers. | lis likes russian methods better than There is a feeling of unrest in thei ours we should export him at once, minds of the public about high pric es. They will come down gradually.) Competition will be the main rea son and competition has not yet be gun to operate freely. It will get into action as we pass to a buyer’s mar ket. It is the buyer’s safest protec tion. Customers are becoming choos- ier, and thinking more in terms- of prices, -and more and better goods and seryice for their money. It is unfair to criticize or condemn retailers because prices are high. And to be fair to the manufacturers, they must pass on increased labor and other costs of the time. There was once a sign in. a famous frontier saloon which said, “Don’t ■ t.. Flat Rock’s Liars Club Met Friday Night the flat rock liars club met at the town hall last night and told a few tall ones, to with: i '71 f-f” mr. slim chance, sr., said his wife bustec} her stone churn one day last week and was left in a dilimma. he went-dbwn ~to the cow pastor and dug up a post-hole and fetched it to the house and put a dasher in it and in no time a-tall, mrs. chnace was back a-churning. mr. bert skinner claimed that he went a-fishing last week in samson’s mill pond and he hooked a big bass 1 J. C. THOMAS’S TIMELY THOMAS, Jeweler “It’s Time ffeat Counts’* 4) i m- i t i / -! teUS-J** XviwA. ■ . ./ / . . r 7 bhHHhHhh L , Brnml