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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Slip CClintnn (Chrontrlr
Established 1900
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
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Congress Vs. Truman,
Widening Daily
Controversy Grows Over
Issues As Adjournment
Draws Near.
20 counties in the state to report no
traffic accidents last Week, according
to W. L k Hardeman, director of the
motor vehicle division of the state
highway department. However, five
can-sponsored tax reduction bill, un
changed except to move its effective
date ahead six months to January 1,
probably will prove another irritant.
This would fit in with what lawmak-
jers on both sides of the political*. , , , _
| fence frankly say are deteriorating! ^ lcenses were suspended in the coun-
| relations between the President and ty during this period,
congress. i —
Democrats are predicting the Pres
ident will veto the carbon copy tax
bill, just as he did the July 1 origi
nal, which he said was the wrong
kind of tax reduction at the wrong
time.” *
Thursday. July 10, 1947
’ As is customarily the case, Rich
land county led the state with a total
of 19 traffic accidents. In all, 80 ac
cidents took place last week, with six
deaths and 48 injuries as a conse
quence. .uicense suspensions in the
state numbered 127. %
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1947
Washington, July 8. — Congress
starts its cleanup round this week. „ ... ,, ,
^ ! Congress might pass the $4,000,-
with indications pointing to an m- 0 00,000 reduction bill over his veto
crease in the controversy, now. bor- but the administration is expected to 1
dering on open conflict, between the So all out in the senate to prevent,
lawmakers and President Truman-on\ ar )f suc ^ action- ; . j
domestic issues. ! Re l ations between the White House
Ahead in the three weeks before anc * Capitol, Hill may be further
the scheduled July 26 adjournment 1 a P art ^ an ever when the lawmakers
i lies a series of money bills for gov- i corne back to Washington in Janu- j
ernment departments likely to be; ary . for a residential election year)
! pruned far beyond the margin of ex- : se ^f lon ‘
penditures the President has called Senator Hatch, Democrat, of New,
“rock bottom ” Mexico, a close personal friend of I
i Mr. Truman has already taken oc-l^ 6 President, told a reporter he
casion to criticize congressional cuts ^e 51 }! see much hope next session
started may be expected to furnish j i n a similar measure, the treasury-
^ the main issues in the Presidential, postoffice appropriations bill.
The President may get legislation
to unify the armed forces in aboufe
A City Directory
The Chamber of Commerce an-,
... campaign next year
nounees that a city directory is to be 1
published in the near future for local Th e Republicans put as first issues i
for the kind of domestic cooperation
between the two branches of govern
ment that Mr. Truman suggested be
fore the present session began.
“Perhaps this conflict is the incvi
puDiisnea in me near luture lor local V"”' the form he wants and may receive, 11115 culllllLl 15 ^
distribution by a Charleston firm long °f im P«n a nce a reduction n taxes, a Presidential succession bill alon g!table Result of having a division in
experienced in this type of work. ; and a labor bill that would.put a euro the ljnes he recommended But {ew ! the control of the government be-
nn the enormous powers of labor! !
i on
The announcement is one ot inter- ^ president Truman vetoed ! other measures marked tor congres-
i tween the two parties,” he
said, |
Such divisions have' always resulted f
weeks seem likely to be- pleasirig toi 1 / 1 the past because of political dif
; him.
for certainly the city has long . ■ , sional approval in the next three i.
, , , . . . , , both, defying the majority opinion of I , ... , ^ , , . . . i
needed a directory giving complete ... , ,, . „ ~ *« '— l -
. . f . . « „ ^ , , congress. His veto on,the tax bill was
information for business firms and „ ... .
. not overridden, while sufficient, _ . , , v,-
residents. The book will list all resi-I , ., , , Expected passage of the Republi-
, . . , , t strength was gained to pass the labor i ^ » k
ients of the city, their street address- „ , , .. —*• — •: ?
, , . , measure. Congress performed its
es. telephone numbers and other in- , . , . , , . ,
. plain and inescapable duty in over-
;oimation as well as a rural direc- ... ., „ . ...
. . ,. riding the Presidents veto on tneJ.
toi v. It will oe a sort of encyclopedia 1 . ' * , .
* ... , , r , latter bilL It failed to do its inescap-
and will be helpful in many ways, ,. , . ... ... .
, . , , , . able duty when it sustained his veto
and make a valuable contribution to , .... _. „ „ .
u . ... , ,, of the tax reduction bill. The Presi-
the business life of the city. , , , • „ , . . .•
,, , /, , dent and some of his Democratic
Also included, it is stated, will be . , , ,, , ... f , ♦
, ’ . , , supporters said that the bill favored / .. v . . ..
a map of Clinton and ,a complete re- u . »u ^ .u New York 1, N. Y.,
.. , . , ,, . the rich at the expense of the poor. T ,. , 1Q - 7
numoenng will be made of all hous-i—u- . , , , , „ July 1, 1947.
® , . This is a lot of bunk, a^flimsy excuse r .,. c .
es m the city by the block system. A ■ ,, * t * ■ i Q - ^ ir - '- ) ^ m Sheely, Sr.,
High Praise For
Seaboard Silver Comet
t-u , used in an attempt to gain the votes
Tms is another need, since there has , , , . , Agent, Seaboard Railroad,
. . , t . . of people who are not conversant ^ c /-
been no system or regulations in res-1 4iT # , * i • f * , Clinton, S. C.
. , , , . . .. . .with the facts. A lowering of taxes i r-. _
idential numbering in the past. u u u A ,, t , Dear Mr. Sheely.
ferences and this one is no excep
tion.” j
Senator Wherry, of Nebraska, the
Republican whip, and he wants to be;
fair about it but believes most of the
blame for the sharp differences'
which have arisen can be attributed {
to what he called the bid by the Pres- j
ident for “leftist” support in the com-
I ing Presidential campaign.
I “He’s getting further away from |
(congress all the time,” Wherry told,
1 a reporter. “It probably will be worse j
in the next session, because the elec
tion, will be nearer.”
Wherry said he thinks the Presi-
Better Furnityre!
Lower Prices!
Federal PayroHs Increase
The move is a , good one. The would have benefitted a11 taxpayers, j The most wonderful trip i- ve ever 'dent “wants the labor and tax issues
Chronicle thinks. The labor bil1 15 nof P erfect - but !made to New York City was on the in the n ext campaign” and that this;
it is a needed move in the right di-j new train just put on thru"Clinton. | desi re contributed to his veto pf,thbse
rection. When the President vetoed
the bill he defied the verdict of the
Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia last election and left the impression
has worked hard for years to put an 1 that from now on out he is to be the
No wonder you wanted me to try this i bills.
one.
With the exception of foreign pol
icy issues, on which the congression-
end to government spending and President for organized .labor- only,
wasting in Washington. He has made He yielded to highly organized pres-
a brave, fearless fight* but over-
whelihingly over-powered by the
New Deal spenders he has met de- people
feat in many of his proposals to pro- The
tect the American taxpayers.
The senator has repeatedly point-
I've been coming to New York for
30 years and I never dreamed I'd, a l Republicans largely have gone
ever make a trip as the one I’ve just j along with the administration, Mr.
made. The comfort was wonderful,! T ruman hasn’t been able to put
sure of the unions and flouted the | the service excellent; in fact, I did: mucb of his program through con-
will of congress and the American; no t miss my favorite program which gross.
jl heard on the radio played in the j His requests for universal military
bill may have some weak; diner. j training, housing, health, civil rights
points, but it can be strengthened. It| I had thought of making this tripj and refugee admission legislatioh
attempts to deal fairly and decisively
ed out the large and unnecessary with an issue which directly affects
number of government agencies with the strength of America at home-r-
their multiplied thousands of em-j and our prestige as a nation abroad,
ployees. In his fight to reduce these The charge that the bill is designed
agencies to a minimum he is con-| to destroy the unions and enslave the
fronted with a strong, organized op- 1 workingman is completely unfound-
position. “Government agencies,” he ed. The very fact that more than
by plane so I wouldn’t be so tired' seem unlikely to be fulfilled. The rent
two-thirds of the members of the
house and senate voted for it is a
refutation of that wild accusation.
declares, "are using the most violent
pressure campaign I have seen in 14
years" to prevent cuts in the budget.
This great army of employees, draw-' Many labor leaders will fight any
ing salaries far in excess of what [reform, no matter how reasonable,
they are capable of earning in pri- ] and in order to carry their point will
vale business, resist every effort to ( defy the public. They will go the full
cut their forces and appropriations, length and take drastic action that
A large percentage of the employees | will imperil the interest, welfare, and
have received their jobs through the, in some cases the health of milllions
iTifluence of congressmen, senators,, of people. These labor abuses long
bureaucrats, and -others, Sml they ago should have been curbed, harfn-
constantly apply the pressure to those ful as they are to the worker, to in-
ivho have helped them secure posi- dustry and to the consumer alike,
tions to "hold the line" against re-, The bill, we hope, in spite of a Pres-(
irenchment. Senators and congress- ident, apparently with his eye on
nen, to a large extent, are responsi-' 1948 politics^, is a start toward cura
ble for this outrageous condition ing labor monopoly and excesses
which is costing taxpayers millilons from which the public has long suf-
of unnecessary dollars. Look at your fered since Lewis, Murray, Petrilloj
income or withholding taxes which and others have been allowed to have
/President Truman and your senators their way. And the tax bill should be
and congressmen are opposed to re- revived and sufficient strength mus-
duemg, as shown by their votes tered to pass it this time over a Pres-
against the Republican sponsored tax idential veto and give the people a
reduction bill. (deserved breathing spell. The house
Senator Byrd knows what he is acted yesterday—the senate now has
talking about. He would be The the ball.
Chronicle's choice for president over]
any other person in the United
States, Republican or Democrat.
The average citizen does not know j
what has happened since 1930 in the
lederal payroll raid. In that year,
Senator Byrd tells us, there was one *
lederal civilian meployee for every !
33 Amenitan families. By 1940, a ten !
year period of Roosevelt New Deal
spending, what happened. There was 1
one federal employee for every 22,
tamilies And now’ in 1947, when ev
erybody except government has been
working ty reconvert from waftime
to peacetime, what do we see? One
fedeial employee for each 11 fami
lies. j
This means that federal tax cost
lor each 11 Clinton homes for fed
eral employees has tripled in 17
years, which shows how r badly we
need a general house-cleaning in
Washington. «
We are nearing the point when we
will soon have more taxeaters than
taxpayers.
The bureaucrats, jobholders and
politicians are in the saddle, while
people back home look to a spine
less congress for relief.
Important Domestic Issues
- All signs show a growing split be
tween congress and President Tru
man on domestic issues. Truman crit
icizes congress, and in turn congress
lambasts Truman.
Scheduled adjournment is set for
the end of this month i and American
business will feel relieved. The ac
complishment^ of the session draw
ing to a close, which is a Republican
congress, will be valuated by the
American people and the program
when I arrived in New York, but
“The Silver Comet” is fast enough
for me. I won’t have to think how
control bill he signed was far from
his liking, and he said so.
Congress ignored his laboor pro-
IT1 make my next trip. As long as 1 posals and wrote its own, enacting it
over a Presidential veto. However, he
got the extension of excise taxes he
asked for, and seems likely to re
ceive legislation to unify the armed
“The Silver Comet” flies thru Clin
ton I’m going to fly on it. It just
couldn’t be beat in any respect. --
I know you must feel proud to sell
tickets for such a wonderful train. | forces.
I’m looking forward to my ride home j a ^
and IT1 tell you more of the nice j No Traffic Accidents
things I enjoyed while on “The Sil
ver Comet.”
Respectfully yours,
ELLA ADAIR,
Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear Shoppe,
Clinton, S. C.
In County Last Week
Columbia, July* 8. — (Special to
The Chronicle).—Laurens was one of
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