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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursdoy, Februory 12, 1948
OHrp Qlltntnn (Ehrmwl?
Established 1900
tflLSON W. HARRIS Fxiitor and Publisher
HARRY C. HAYTON, Assistant
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By GEE McGEE
A Private Enterprise Has Gone 1
Politeial
mr. slim chance,, jr., says he in
tends to-rpn his. filling, statiorv on the;
state leggislature and the u. s. con
gress plan, using the same working
(?) hours that .these
agencies use ansotforth.
gov verm en'.
CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY! 12, 1948
Big Election Year
e
year, D-ei
mmn;
ency of the United
county offices. This
j public . treasury. Attorneys who seek j
| and’ secure judgeships are well paid,;
their salary and expense allowances
1 mr. thance will open up his i'ilHng/
station every Tuesday at noon and
istay open till' 1 1 p. m., same day, and
; then close up and loaf, he will open;
up again tor bizness on Wednesday:
1 at noon and stay open till around ■ 1
13 p. m. t and then close up and loat
till 6 p. m., and then open up for 45;
minnets befoar going home anso-
I forth. / j
f the aforesaid {filling station will *■
open up thursray morning at 11
o’clock and remain ^constantly open
J for 2 hours, and then he will close
I up and recess till 6 p. m.. and then
; he will return bark and open up'
.gain for 2 hours, mebbe.
amou
That
nting to about $9,000 annually, j ,
. , „• P» *. e
why. so many lawyers offe
mr. oiirince 'will not open up hiS; ;
of bikness .. at all on fridays
:ne people should become j f or the legislature in the hope or ex-.
and/Saturdays, but will spend his!
icr .or the senate and house, lie officials at taxpayers expense;, , „ , , ^ . . !
t 'house and loafenng wherever—he >
r of.i -es pay well now, and i cannot be justined. I , , . j
* ^ , , o, ■ • ' pleases, the only hitch is. he wont
a attract a number of able men.; m>.— __ „ . , !
make . army monney while his plant ;
is closed up and he can't expect anny j
extry pay while doing nothing, but*
he thinks the' govverment plan is!
worth trying out in prviate bizness.,
if this plan wont pan out, mr. chance j
is going to enter polliticks. f
ing watermelon.
Thes
mri, should ta rtcouraged to: K j|, Thi Bj || . ' ’ ’
offer tm-ir services ior_ the public , )
good. ! A representative from Anderson
—-— j county proposes a bill to raise legis-
Look Af Britain j lators’pay from $1,000 to $1,800 an-
, . | nually in . this state.. The measure
In srpAe President Trumans iri *j wou id provide for monthly checks of
.-ns ten re, the American people wantj^ 550 the . year, while the
uj more controls, rationing, P rl <te- j members- are.'-at :.home' fishing or'eat-
rtxing, allocations and the rest. The-
production record of b^sic American
.ndustries is the best possible argu
ment against such dictatorship.
More production, all along the line
is our basic need. This country has
been
prise it is the tried and proven -sys- j p r0 p r j a t e .“official expense .• money
mm that gets the goods out, more for themselveSt last year the amount
goods, better goods and cheaper goods bein g 5700. Under a ruling of the
' han are produced under any other , action was upheld, which statement must be boarding with an*
system. I; you doub. it just take a means that they can appropriate;old aunt who has not gone up on his
mok n; wnat the Labor government j w h a teve r ' amount they desire under j groceries for the past sevveral years,:
mis done to Brttam.the "guise” of “expense money.” This: or he would pf known better than;
members received: to say such a thing, a man can’t eat!
statisticks, so he said. , |
The High Cost of Existing j
mr. art square made a statement!
at the drug stoar last.night that he;
- The bill should be killed. It is an-|h ac j read a piece which was rote!
other attempt to raid the treasury, t by a high govverment otilidal who|
At present members, of the legis-j ca ]i s hisscif a economist, and the ;
lature are paid $l r 000 annually inj^id article claimed that the cost of j
bui” great through free enter- ^ ?50 ° mslal! ™ e , nt , s - ^ addition to 1 Hvvin g had gone .up only 42 per cents 1
- this wage provnded -by law, they ap-| since 1942. * he should of said 242
— iw iS the tried dnd pro\ en sys-j “nfYiriai f*vnca mnn^v” cerkt
the genterman who, . wrote that!
Living In Luxury
One reads that the British taxpay
ers - w
j means that the memt
$1,700 for a few hours work a few
i days out of a few weeks. Most of
them are at home uni?! mid-day
nil pay nearly $2,000,000 this , , , , , . ’ ,,
, a , .Tuesday and back home Thursdayngood tfloe
to support the royal family night> which , sbows that their jeg^. per 25-lb.
yea
while people
mr. square stated that he (bought
flour enduring 1942 for c75
poke, he now pays $2.25
hun ^y- ^ jS ^ n " lative duties make no big interfer- for the same thing, he got his eggs
a S-00^00 annual aliowan e nce with their business or profession, at c30 per dozen, whereas—he now
tor Princess Elizabeth and her. hus- , , . , « sn u: t . mo ^
The work of the legislature could 01s la^ba^k meat pulled
easily be concluded ’ in forty work P er h). back yonder, 1
days if the members wojild get down . nQW ihey have stretched that
to work and stop .wasting time and j leg to c42 per lb. ‘ j
playing politics^ Where'do they get;
the idea they should be employed
eludes
for Pr
band, the.Duke of Edinburgh, which
was assured when a government bill
'providing “household expenses” for;
the newlyweds 'passed 'in' Commons; !
And while such extravagance is ■
approved,
to’d t ha:
stuff in the. department stoars is
the American people' are the ypTr around Hke the^heriffreierk! up al>oul per cent, and that ex-
economic conditions are ’ -.1 -1
bad Britain and the country in
danger of going broke. It was. only
: w« years' ago that me Britons' se-!
. urt-d a'n American loan for $3,750,-
ufiO.OOO Will .it ever be paid back?
Anci n >w' they are , asking for more :
alp by the Marshall plan. ;
of court or other count
Their duties are legislative as pre
plained why mr. -square-goes-arourtd-
U " ''iso ragged, he stated, that some cop-
SQ
j jaer- rat ions brag about .. paying
scribed-by the Constitution, but too; ,
many of them have made themselves; niuch , taxes ' what t!ie - v ^ is collect
administrative officers or business! tax f® Horn the hard-pressed publick
na?
rs for the counties, and must j an< * turn in ' t - 0 un ^ e sam > eic -
Tn : c nri‘ : m idv u!d r‘up
? trit ; whole" world, ■
ti
to
have their finger in the pie. Manyi
senators hold virtual veto power. The*
ui gives tlum no such
power.
he further stated that he was of
fered a nice pair of 3,50$ shoes, for
117.50$, that alIso explains why he
SfajL o the South Sar.tee-Coopsr Again
f litnern governors are 'all stirred cA. .- , •
itnem governurs are
■ -ard ifesiir. ; ugainsi President
run- ,r. reeommended program of
■1 ... ... '. . • Ikenaer do the people
k., !i;r cement, made no doubt,
■ ar.rifct voa‘S lor. the Democratic
vket ui d (iibtful states. The. P.resi-
- ;. ■ ‘.starbed and says he will
and ' v- ground without com pro-
use. He knows that the Southern
; kairbed such a cold onner count of
, wet feet, mr .square says he now
•-pays—15$ per turn •’•for coal that he
The Srmtee-Cooi er crowd is giving bnugnt on creddick endurii^i^J2 tor
.iuiiv tn t'-e fact that it has nni - v thanks to John 1. lewis, he
frsi dividend-of $198,323.73! is rcddyUor a depression, it could-
to the
is the
wiae
paid
ale of South Carolina. This ^^ 1 make tilings worse so tar as he
lolitical-kilowatt generating Is concerned, so he lows,
of the state
states a.
m the “bag” for next. No-1
vember.^We take the “crumbs” thej
ad nun;.-that; on offers because pohtl-i
■. p.-ttaga is- more -dear- to us than
honor.
—H’-he Dcmovratic party needs a new
1. adey-one who is friendly and fair
to tine S ruth.. Harry Truman, is not.
H , ; n proposals are repugnant.
concern in tne lower par
headed by Senator Jefferies of Colie-:
1
ton county,;as general manager. ; !
.Santee-Cooper wants to be a “pow-;
er trust.” It cost close to $65,000,000,;
paid for by the American taxpayers. ;
Taxpayers should not be confused or I
misled by the photostatic copies of;
i the dividend check that have been!
I appearing in a number of papers in]
the state, or by the statement that]
the project did not cost the state any
money'to build. Its cost is represent
- . . . COLO DISCOMFORTS
mLujjxleL — 351 Per Bottle
We.need a man like Senator Harry ed ’i' , the enormous publiedebt you
By:a d V.rg.nia. He has the cour- ar e helping to pay. ■ !
•• "-Ti .‘iftv end Cohvtidth^TO iuF- Thls ' newspaper-has no confidence j
..ntam-.i-m for the South and raciaiH n lhe Santee-Cooper project because |
_:;t is political through and through,!
•and wants to control the power busi-1
ness in this-state. It would put pri-
vately-owned, tax-paying power cbm-
agitation. Truman is a Weak pre
dent, many of his-views are dange.-
i."js. We have reached a low level in
the Democratic party when wa have
onlv one man we can put forward' i:,anies ° wl ol ^M‘ n ® ss - it 4 s repre-
for the presidency. i sented by a general council in. the
-—A ! state legislature, And it Is reasonably
ll- safe to predict that the-development
grabbing ror More 0 f ciark’s Hiii win also deveiope
The. general assembly elected ,a i great political strength. ‘ ' .
new- judge iar—the twelfth judicial! How many business-men in South!
circuit during the past week,. There Carolina would invest a dollar .in i
were two candidates in. the field, both Santee-Cooper? ' ■ ’ .)
members of the house, which means;. And while the management loudly
that a member of the closed, shop. ^ proclaims the payment of its fir-st4
was elected. The judge the
will succeed wilj-retire^imNoveiuovr, me* early days of; the New Deal,' it j • nrntertMl PVFIIV’ Vlav
after which he* will receive' annual.would be interesting to the public tfV F '-**7,
ret.rement.pay of $3,000 to be paid the management would also an-! a gamst lOSS from accident*
by taxpayers. ; nounce the amount that has been I with ^Btna Accident III-
A ne., bill relating to the* legal; paid for legal services and in general j
profession bobbed up ip the -house; manager’s salary since the project.;
las; week. -It would increase the pen-,-^as approved-by - President Rodsevclt;i
sion pay of'judges from S3,000 to aided by Maybank, Byrnes and oth-l
$4,500 annually and allow them to ers. • ■ :
practice law' after their retirement, j
. . . « i-■ j-? j S?xto*i>*a£&--‘.r- ,:r- . .
BEWARE OF
BLACK CATS-
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broken mirrors, walking
under ladders, etc. on
Hoodoo Day, Friday the
the winner. dividend after being in business,.since] 13th! But better still, be
V.Novemoer, the* early days of the New Deal, it! Protected FVFBY’
sarancel
WE LEND MONEY ON
.AUTOMOBILES'.
The blir was rejected by a" vote of
65 10 30. Representative C. L. Milam!
of tms 'county voted to kill the bill |
and" voted "right.;; Representatives 1.
, Martin and Wasson were not record
ed as voting. : — ‘T
- The -passage pit- this bill would have j
been nothing short of a raid on thej
Arthritis Pain
«ulot delightfully comforting help lor
ttriiM Wi4 Mtu 9t Itteomatkai. Arthrltl*,
SeitUcirOr NeurUgl* try
Si—fai4. W»ke throufh the blood. Tirit dote
■eaeay eUite eUeidetteir pain 10 you can
w>t, enjoy Ufe and eleep more comfortably.
Oet RemM at dratflst today. Quick, com-
•tote eaiiafaetlea or money back guar-nteet
S. W. SUMEREL, Agent
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HELP US TO GIVE BETTER SERVICE BY
PAYING OUR DRIVER ON DELLIVERY OF
FUEL OIL OR ON RECEIPT OF INVOICE.
This year, due to the increase in cus
tomers, we are so busy trying to sup
ply you with fuel oil it is impossible for
us to make additional trips to collect.
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WE DEALERS HAVE TO PAY FOR FUEL
OIL WHEN DELIVERED
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