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rjjr i ,;n / hK -0. )) / ! ;; .r THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursdoy, October 30, 1947 Ulh? (Clinton (CtjnmirU 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 OfTice at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. , 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 defamatocy nature. Arrbnymous communications will not be noticed. This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents. T -r?- M EMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION 1 Exclusive National Advertising Representative GREATER WEEKLIES New York Chicago Detroit Philadelphia College Alumni Plans Elaborate Program For Homecoming Friday The Presbyterian College Alumni ' association ' is planning an elaborate | program <for the annual homecoming ; in connection with the college’s foot-; ball game with Wofford college next, I Friday night. i Under the direction of Lieut.-Col. i • Powell A. Fraser, the comrmttee4ias planned a full afternoon of activities I for the expected overflow of gradu-! i ates. i Besides the football game, sched-1 ' uled for 8:15 p.m., there will be a; j semi-formal dance held in the Clin- * i ton armory at 10:45 p.m., and an’ | alumni banquet in the college dining I hall at 6 pm. t . \ The program includes a golf tour- [ j nament at the Lakeside' Country club ( ; in the early afternoon, class reunions, 1 ! and open house at President Mar- 1 ! shall W. Brown’s residence before 1 I the dance begins. ! Col. Fraser stated today that the CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, pCTOBER 30. 1947 dance tickets will run at $2.00 for I How Much Will We Stand? British Labor party leaders are de bating as to how much Socialism the country can stand at the present time. They might also give thought to how much the United States will stand. It is a question that vitally [alumni and guests, with the student body admitted for $1.50. I Officers' of the alumni association [ this year are: President, Col. Fraser; j vice-president, Henderson Wyatt; sec affects every man, woman and child j E n gia nc i jt would mean political con- in the nation. I tro i over ever y detail of our lives. ‘ ) Hope would give way to despair as j productive activity was blocked by crated price control and black-mar keting. But in peacetime, even with high prices generally which we all recog-j retar y_ treasurer> j Mac Adair; direc nize, "there is no excuse for price' tor from Georgia, Robert D. Lynn; control in the United States. It would; dir e C t 0 r from South Carolina, Dr. J. mean the scrapping of American | N Gaston. Jr.; past president, L. A. ideas and the creation of an expen-• Jr.; chairman, board of trus- sive bureaucracy such as is throttling Dr wi-lliam P. Jacobs.. u ' 1 It was further announced that all alumni and their guests are invited to the banquet, with tickets on sale at the door for $1.00. You Lost A Billion Everywhere people are kicking senseless red Controlled price about the high price of living, with;* 3 * 5 wou ld become a farce as there multiplied reasons Advanced' fori would be I ewer articles to hang them soaring prices. Yoti might also coi-f 0 "- The black market almost over- sider that the common folks would would become the true ^PP 1 ^ have had iust a ronl billion more to 1 and - demand market ol the country.! Robert M. Hampton, former resi- spend for the cost of living if'Mr.' ^' he c° nsum e r . along with honest dent of GreenviHe county, died at his i Lost Rites Here For Robert M. Hampton Truman hadn/t vetoed the tax bill. [ P roducers and retailers - would suffer - 1 home in North Miami, Fla., last As it stands now, the billion you This country is a land of opportu-j Wednesday after a^hort illness. might have had to spend for grocer- nity for energetic individuals. It isj The body was ,brought here to the ies? meat and milk will go to help about ^he only spqt left in the world ( home of relatives and, the funeral an almost limitless bunch of'bureau crats at the public trough fed by the American taxpayers. where there is hope. .Let’s keep it! conducted Sunday afternoon' at the i that way. Let OPA and such farces; Pentecostal Holiness church, with in-' lie dormant forever. When production ; terment following-at Rosemont ceme- ’ catches up with demand, prices, tery. through keen competition w;ill Ipvelf The deceased is survived by one An Egg Mix-up down to a stable basis. They always step-son, Thomas Ballew, of this The American people have been have^in the past. | city, one brother, Jim Hampton of: J ~ 7“ ^ [Chester, and three sisters, Mrs. Rob-1 asked l?y the President of the United Staes and a special food committee Labor's Champion i ert Friddle of Greenville, Mrs. J. H. to observe “eggless" Thursdays. The President ot the South Caro- ^ zemore of Greenville, and Mrs. There is no scarcity of eggs, they lina Federation of Labor said in" a ^ am ' e ^ ance Ibis city, are being shipped into this state and newspaper release a few days ago ~ others in carload lots and given to that Senator Burnet R. Maybank and school lunch projects, institutions, ■all six of this state’s members of the and .qthens. This means the govern- national house of representatives men: has been spending large sums have been entered on labor’s black-i of money to dispose of surplus eggs list. He expressed the opinion thatj amounting to millions of dozens. A all six are slated for defeat when member of the House agriculture they come up for re-election next committee publicly stated that in re- summer. The charge against them cen/t weeks $750,000 had been alio-1 for which they should be hanged is cated to dispose of eggs held by the that all supported the Taft-Hartiey government. A recent report showed bill. the government had 160,000,000 doz-, The labor leader went further and ens of eggs. stated that Senator Olin D. Johnston Such figures indicate no scarcity is “OK according to our measuring of eggs, though they are probably as rod,” because he voted agkinst the high as they have ever been. It would Taft-Hartley bill. Ip other wotds, seem therefore as improper and un- this group is out for the scalp of the necessary to bje proposing egglesS days entire South Carolina delegation with until the government itself disposed the exception of Olin. ol its egg stockpile accumulated over It seems to us that Senator John-, months as the result., of large pro^ ston's services would be missedV_ duction. jthe state less than any mqfnber ^bf! The government has no mot e busi- ' the delegation. His record as gover-; ness in the egg business than The nor was cer tainly nothing to brag' Chronicle, or in any other type of about or * ive him a P lace in the hall l business, for that matter. ; °* I ame - In that office he declared the state highway department in a ; state of insurrection because he i THE COMPLETELY AUTOMATIC .-i- Dishamatic Dish Washer HOME SUPPLY CO. 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He boasted loud as a! foreign aid. And the session may be prohibitionist and yet refused to put| expected to run the whole gamut of his constables in Charleston to sup-; political campaign issues. 1948, you press lawlessness. And there are oth- 1 know, is the big Presidential election !er actions on his part that certainly year. did not entitle him to promotion toj Fnr-Bome time it,,was thought that the United States senate after re- the President uporf^the reconvening signing for governor before his term' of congress would pu'sh for a renewal had expired. of government food-rationing, price *;' And Mr. Johnston is often referred I and rent controls. But he has ended to as Mr. Paroler. Excepting Cole such speculation by declaring that’Blease, he is reported to have par- any control enforced by government' doned more convicts during his ad- is a police method of compelling the ministration than any other gover- people to comply. Government con- nor. Only recently the names of 45 j trols are not good. They are bad be- tcon^icts on parole without state su- | cause they strike at individual free- pervision until last June were made dom. Some want control of prices but public by Governor Thurmond. All not wagEs, or wages but not prices, were paroled by/former Governor It doesn’t make good sense. Perma- Olin Johnston. This list was released nent control of one must lead to per- 1 after the director of the clemency manent, control of the other. When board disclosed that a Negro who we were in war conditions were dit- shot himself after killing a white ierent. The people were willing to be man at Chester a few days ago, was “restricted,” undergo hardships and a term convict paroled by John-- general regimenting. But as the firing ston in 1945. The Negro was convict- ef guns ceased wartime controls need-, ed of murdering, three Negroes. He eo to go as quickly as possible. ! should have been in prison, but John- Prices are high, as we all know, ston came along and turned him out. and will come down. When, you ask? i Why he paroled him, the public does We don’t know, but not in the near not know, but he did. He got out of future in the face of high wages, fuli the penitentiary where he was given J iji\\ ii iUIANF Carolina Suburban Gas Co. Laurens — Phone 508 employment, heavy buying power and unprecedented production de mand. Because prices are high and pll out of line, generally speaking, some people look back to the days ol price control, and some even pro pose the reviving of some sort ofrsan agency akin to the deceased D$A. It is the old way of looking for an unsound and uneasy way out of trou ble by cracking a -joke, Jaofa-owing another several billion dolllkrs for pump-priming or write another law. Price control was an emergency wartiqne measure to force maximum war production. It was needed then, . and proper. Patriotism impelled the people to support any measure that would help bring hostilities to a suc cessful end. That was why they tol- rjven if you always play • M aafe M you can never really fed "secure” unless you have Personal a life sentence after he had served only 13 years and was thus given a license to go out and kill somebody else—which he did. We would not pick the ek-gover- hor as our most valuable represen tative in Washington. To the contrary, ‘ we would say when we review his public record. iETNA IZE Am Atciimmt policy written by the Mem* Life buoraac* Company of Hertford, Connecticut, will pay your kocpital, nun* nod doctor bill* —and protect yoo agnieat loot of SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE “The Faper Everybody Reads” wp a XiquitL — DISCO M FORTS * Per* Bottle WE LEND MONET ON AUTOMOBILES S. W. SUMEREL, Agent CLINTON, a C. Jacobs Building—Tele. M '4 »• WE DELIVER '4 Drinks, Sandwiches and all Fountian Needs CALL US! A Complete New Fountain With Which To Serve You! 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