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! n 1 < } ... V Page Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, January 29, 1948 alhr (Clintmt (Ebrontrlr 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 En eied as Second Cla^fs Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton. S. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. 7 1 " The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all bmes appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous cpmrr.unications will not be noticed. This, paper is not lesponsible 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 j ination now is the big qustion. It will be Truman versus Taft, Dewey, Stas- sen, MacArthur, or probably a dark horse in case of a deadlock. Wallace is not likely to get far as an inde pendent. And with Eisenhower out, Truman’s outlook is brightened. The approaching election promises handling the same kind of junk that he has always handled, the dif ference is in the price of his stuff, the items he used to sell 2 Tor 5 have gone urp to 20 now. to help his everhead. it only takes 2& ounces on same to weigh 2 lbs., or 32 ounces. o the drug stoar prospered, he do ^not handle anny meats or flour, but he said he once bought mdse that, It is otherwise a one-stop shop, his was exported from china and jappan hardware stock and electrick fixture to be one otf' hottest contested in and germanny, but they all went out stock is heavier than hjs medfsobs. years. Your guess -as to what- may, t>f bizness after the war, and most > he done a nice xmus bizness oh of^those furriners are still livving sweaters, soap, and candy, he has 2 over there, of coarse, but are board ing with uncle sam. * said russia is fighting pll religions except stallin’s. happen at the big Philadelphia cou.- vention is as good as‘.the other fel low’s. It may be Vandenberg. NOBODY'S BUSINESS By GEE McGEE - Civic Improvements Are In Store «,For Flat. Rock a movement is on foot, led by miss jennie veem smith, the monthly dues were collect ed by the treassure which amounted to c98. miss jennie veeve smith sung two numbers entitled—swing low sweet charriol and going home, she was encored a right smart, but she stated that she did'Yiot choose to sing anny more as she was just ra- clerks, but one of .same fills sub- 1 covering from the brown-kitis. scriptions only, except when bizness j • *— is rushing, the liberty stable has slowed up. he is fresh out of mules- ( I.INTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 29. 1948 to get some play-1 grounds in' flat rock for the children and keep them out of woods and pastures and ofif the streets, miss smith estimates that she can get 50 j vacant lots free of charge to be used • as playgrounds ansoforth. the cash & carry had a good year last year but his vollum was no big- and cows but he has,7 used cars and ger, he simply taken in more monn^y 5 new ones of which is 500$ too high, for‘the same goods, his porch chops, I i - —■ mostly bone and gristle, rizz from! Social,News From Flat Rock c30 a lb. to c79 a lb. he keeps his, the mission-nersy society of reho- skaies out of ballanfce about 6 ounces ber church met at the palatial home of mV., and mesdame slim chance, sr., last thursday gone and had as its guess speaker, mesdame skant- ling from thb county-seat, she told of the evil and tore up world, and .«c ,,r r * T . nil a o: tem '■ ’■.me. n.: .1 I >il!s !n House >r ail.s are in the leg.sla- ■ j.uie dry", and the other a. and proponents of state i.ive:^ g:ven up'their J'.-.hg the slate with a sys- •o the old. dispepsary re el for its corruption. happened ing years won’t ragain. There are many price-' are high now, in 1920 and the^mVbcecd--*’ require some cash monney 1 necessarily happen to get equipment for the said play grounds, but miss anith thinks this reasons why can raised by levelling a tax on and they will T ho d y b.ll may be expected to mt t de l. at. Should it pass in the h •. 1! be defea te<i in the sen- cT<.‘ th. . h,:i ’ powerful pressu re. The Imu:. opt ah me .isure may have a ch c .rj could be- enacted if the p> i.;>;»* <*! S ia:'r Carolina would be come a'oused and march.on Coium- b.a demr.ti ling .*s passage. The state is in the liquor business up to t> neck to produce revenue, ab ut twelve million a year accru ing from rts. sale. We must have legal liquor to raise money, primarily for the schools, the majority of the gen-1 oral assembly members shout back. 11 >w are we to replace revepue dol lars'; they ask, ignoring deplorable j fnr-K-U: irise,I by legalized intox icants. i dogs and cats in our town, a tax ol remain high so long as conditions re- 2$ P er ar >d 15 P er cat W1 ‘l rais- main as at present. But our main, 3 barrel lull ot monney, so she says, trouble is the question of supply and the town is Ifull of^ these varmiats. demand. When the demand for goods, 1 ^ , all kinds, exceeds the supply, prices miss sm.th says that she will neeo go up quickly. That is what has been . about 2 see-sav/s -15 trap taking place for several years. When P^ees, < ladders, 1 baseba.l, 1 foot- there are more goods than there is ba • * aasketball, 4 tom-walkers, 15 demand, prices go down, 1 sets of dice ’ and some cigarette Ught- a nice 2-coarse meal was served consisting otf a small sweet cracker .and a little gobbler half full of grapefruit juice, each.person pressent received only one helping . furrin missions were discussed m a round- table type, mrs.-art square said she diddent see how the heathens ewer had aany spare time to get religion, they are fighting all of the time. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE "The Paper Everybody Reads’* are consumer demand, prices go and it can happen overnight. Supply and demand regulate prices, don't let i anybody fool you. Were automobile ! show windows, for an example, full of automobiles today and sales lag ging, prices would drop. It would be the same with .other commodities all along the line. We can’t get away : from this sound economic law.. ers. she will superintend the play grounds after scholl and will accept whatever is givven to her by the parents. In 1940 a referendum was held ifi Yf.i.th c.'i.ens voted dry by a large m irg'n The r ‘wishes ..Were ignored and defied by was assembly. Governor ning .showed excellent judgment the legislature, -which when he turned tv) Walter G. Query has O'sumcd the role of masters to head this important tax collecting rather than servants of the people. agency and for- the 33 year period | he has headed the commission he has ‘ rendered the state honest and able service, enforcing the law impartial ly upon all alike. if ‘ flat rock needs something to enter tain and amuse the children, as she has nothing now but 2 mudholes to play in. 6 trees to climb, 1 fence to keep tore down around the church, ■ . ' J LA ' anc * some cans t0 throw rocks at. Losing Vjood Mon imiss smith has the backing of rev. 1 In 1915 when Richard I. Manning; will waite and several other lead- beeame governor of South Carolina, ing citizens, the leggis-lature has re- thie estate tax commission upon his fused to .help flat rock, recommendation was created by the! • general assembly. Governor Man- Business, C hanges In Hat the local 5 & Rock 10 stoar has changed its name to 20 & 30 stoar. he could not get nothing to sell as low as 5 and 10, hence the change, he is DOORS NO BARRIERS Even if you locked up your house and threw away the key, it wouldn’t stop burglars from enter ing. But you can buy utt- na Residence and Outside Theft Insurance which will protect you both on and away from the prem ises. WE LEND MONEY ON AUTOMOBILES S. W. SUMEREL, Agent CLINTON, S. C. Jacobs Building—Tele. 80 The /€tn» Casualty and Sumy Company of Hartford. Conn. u. Armstrong’s Armstrong’s Products Products 1 j Let Us BEAUTIFY YOUR FLOORS AND CABINETS ...with... Armstrong’s Quality Tiles, Linoleums Our Prices Are Reasonable Our Mechanics Are Trained a » ESTIMATES AT NO OBLIGATIONS t(/. Q. Ki*Uf & Sand Corner Oak and West Centennial Sts. Phone 438 Phone 438 More Building Looms rd-a- tiie ■re-acn country. Pxcd.C- li(ins now being made that. 1948 v. .11 show still greater building ac- Tv.ty than last year. Government ta'ks about high prices and inflation when it is largely responsible for the U.g boom which it has done nothing to cheek To the contrary it encour aged it through easy GI loans and FHA. assuming iiak' of the risk .under the veterans program and as high p.< 90 per rent of the value of FHA mortgage:! FHA has exhausted its allocated cap ital • ?4.200,000,000. The senate ■b .nk.ng and currency committee be cause i/ this situation, has given the FHA .hi ither billion- for guarantee ing mortgages. It all spells more bu;’ ling, more speculation and high- c onstruclion costs. Vhrrfmous building may be expegt- i t.ni.' year regardless of high-priced. ni,:e - and labor. And for such a 1 >m. g()\rtnment will largely be -XoW'-Ghaiinwn Query_is reaching the retirement age. We are opposed to public officers retiring at the ex pense of taxpayers. It was stated he would relinquish the post when his -ts-oijn term expires during the session of i the legislature, and now it is report- ied that he may not retire just yet out remain on for a year. This has put the office-trap to work. Who will Governor Thurmond j appoint to the commission is causing 1 on high-priced^ houses. The. S p ecu i a tj oni anc j no^doUbt sleepless nights to some. Who will get this fat political plum is the sixty-four dol lar question. Since the position pays 1 $1,8(MJ more to the chairman than the other four members receive, all four commissioners are said to be candidates to succeed Query. The applicant with the best political pull with the governor will get the job. t .Chairman Query was the right man | tf&r this responsible position. Cover-, nor • Manning always knew how to pick good men. We haven’t had an outstanding governor since he lefb dCice. Another notable example is Christie Belief, recently resigned as chairman o! the board of regents of the State hospital and State Train ing school. He was -fl Manning ap- the same time as Query. • Now on display THE 1948 CHEVROLET HKTMASTM CUM COW* The Spending Goes On No tax relief, legislation from the general assembly is expected at the p; esent ses-ion, reports from Colum- b.a indicate. There is just no incli nation on '.he part of the legislafofe^2gintee k at I t . redir.-e tax^Joads. The idea is lav, raise more revenue lor thin isia'ure to spend. Though pikers at spend.ng corppared with the WaJh- ington c; a.‘ j. our legisliture is _ lowing n their £ootstep>s. Their hands South Carolina will ever be in- -him lor‘'Cunstructive, un selfish • seiwicev. rendered over years to the inmates of these foi- 1 institutions^ Men like Query Banet are scarce. the two and Newer! Smarter! Finer. j « ' The new Chevrolet for Here’s the one to see’. Come in an se ^ ^ ^ harmonies, 1948 brings yon ne« smarmy ^ of B , G XW luxury — 30 even .g _ - L t»c orcater value, new interior - And with all its greate^ vw «tt/v car n burn to expend war years, surpluses due to the they give millions away. /# to institutions or use it for some»oth ■<: purpose. Not a word is heard on saving. The house sent to the senate the past week the state general appro- pi ia:.on bill, bigger than ever and exceeding by a considerable margin the recommendations of the state budget commission. At the weekb end it stood at one hundred and eight .million dollars, which is a million and a half more thah proposed by the ways and means committee in the original draft. When i approved* “alter being doctored with Ike" Drops Out . When Gen. Dwight D Eisenhower i took himself out of the presidential' election the past week, he gave the American people something to talk about. It was a most important an nouncement and left-political Wash-J I ington shaken and breathless. His; letter addressed to a New Hampshire newspaper publisher included this, flat declaration: “In any event my decision to remove myself completely from the political scene is definite j and positive.” is na ly ( S { a t emen ^ by the general elim- . QUALITY AT , d the ' 0 „fy car ,n it* Chevrolet's the lowest-pr.ee hn« a , ^ by V.sher, price class corobm.ng such g- ^ RlJe andTositive VaUe-in-Head Engine, Lmti drive Chevrolets —- ’ -ifurm'; Urakes No wonder P t Action Hydraulic BraKes. 4 anv other make, people want official nation- r’S. MFTMAJTS* CAMIOm 4 and mote according to pendent nation-wide survey Chevrolets than , any -wide registrations and seven jnc CHEVROLET^* FIR5T! „ ..tinated himself from the presidential•• by the senate finance committee, it . T , , xi . . ^ ^,, . i . . , ^ , icomest. It put to an end a draft boomi is likely to- be still larger. 1 The order of the day is to spend money. Political pressure on Office holders is paid for by helpless tax payers back home. A Price Fallacy , A popular pastime with many is the comparing of prices now with tne past. When we look at'prices in that was spreading all over the coun try for the famous soldier, as shown by popularity votes in which he has appeared tqf transcend any other man mentioned on the Republican side. No doubt his decision brought' re joicing to other prominent aspirant* in* the Republican, camp with the ’ .Id now left wide 0{Jen. ■On the Democratic side there is 1959 and 1940 many Conclude that only one prospective candidate, Pres)- the public is being robbed in many ident Truman. The Democrats admit ways. But it isn’t sound* econ mics.'they >ave no one else to put up ex it would be equally serisible to com- ’epi .osevelt’s successor. Polls taken pare 1940 prices with 1840 prices and have shown .President Truman out conclude that costs have been extor-' d'stanced -by General Eisenhower tionate for decades. . v, N y j when, his name was pitted against Another fallacy w to compare the condition^ which followed Yforld War II with -those which foMoved World War I or some other previous conflict, and to attempt to draw ex act parallels. We forget that nothing •xyjv#; v-V: FtftTMAFTfR STATION WA«ON - PI sm * i# me mmm <?<■< v - : r v-Xv. mp. • ■ .- ' £4' f 1 m ' %<* r if - 4 '' .aLv’..? x ■ a - is "permanent but change,” and what that ‘possible candidate. Had Eisen hower entered the field and worked for and won the Republican nomi nation, there is strong probability that he would have been the next president of the United States. Who_jimlL.geL the Republican nom- i ' » s-'l Giles Chevrolet Company, Inc. CMatM. S. C.