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t .f * THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1949 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE -e r i nrt9 > CLEAN-UP WEEK BEGAN WITH GIFT TO CHILD IN 1909 As Washington Sees It IHE MTIONAl SCENE ! m ic controls, s ^ indicated that he cannot “take” the On the latter—economic controls— punishment handed out in digs and the president’s opposition are point— “egging" and in the constant snip- ! ing out that the trend is away from ing conducted by such senators as ! inflation and pointed toward de- Wherry of Nebraska and Jenner of flation and so there is no need for* Indiana. So observers declare he has the stand-by economic controls for failed to measure up as a senate which the president is asking .But learier'i Despite this fact the presi- as a matter of fact, the president dent has indicated that he still can Spring Clean-Up Week, the year- ly phenomenon in which more than 10,000 communities clean up the to The Chronicle winter’s debris, is said to be the re- Washington, April 20.—Observers an d his advisers declare that , the move in, change his tactics and come suit of the gift of a blue pinafore to here, who two weeks ago admitted stand-by controls the president is out of a huddle with senators, up- an untidy little girl in Cleveland, frankly that President Truman had asking are just as necessary in a ~ ~ The child, a product of a run- lost control of this congress and that sudden drop in prices or employment down, shanty district back in 1909, his legislative program had gone as they are needed in the case of was given a bright, crisp pinafore glimmering, today are not so sure, spiraling prices and employment, by her teacher in an effort to install These same observers are wonder- Manufacutrers, at least in the up- some pride in the girl. The immed- ing if they have not again under- r (and this includes all late transformation from a dirty ur- estimated the political sagacity of business in the upper brackets), chin to a pretty child made her fam- that Man from Missouri. achnit that they made more profit ly aware of their sQualor. Self-con- There has been a lot of news in 1^48 than in any other year in sciously they started cleaning their the public prints that the president the h j story 0 f t hi s country, i They house, washing up floors, repairing l.as been handed, again., and again, jyjom-jj over the fact, however, that the fence and planting flowers for definite defeats at the hands of con- ^gjj. profit, per unit, was not as big the first time. gress. But what actually has h a P" as it was in the previous years. Astounded neighbors began right- pened? When it is all simmered That the tears shed in this mourn ing act are crocodile tears is obvi- setting the applecart of his oppo nents. There has been every indication that action over a period of about 10 days on consideration of the ERF or Marshall plan in the senate was nothing more than a "delaying ac tion” or, in other words, a filibuster or “stalling” to prevent the measure fh.j from being broyght to a vote, was evident as the opponents, led by Senator Jenner of Indiana, joined by a few southern Detnocrats, used every parliamentary tact: , much to the discomfiture of Senator Lucas, to stall a vote on the measure. Bit as this is written, every attack on the ERF program was beaten back. ing their own back yards. The ugly down, the president has been de- street became a respectable part of feated in a senate committee—hot ous, according to economic experts town. The neighborhood clean-up in the senate—on his nomination of here, since it has become axiomatic inspired other communities to tackle Mon Wallgren as head of the na- in technological American industry their local eyesores. The idea spread, tional security resources board and th at the greatest profits are made as In 1913 it was tried on a citywide he was defeated when he asked the a r p S uit of mass production and the scale for the first time in Cincinnati senate to change its rules orr cloture. s ij c i n g of profits on individual units, where civic groups, improvement as- Those are his only two defeats. TOj These same observers declare that sociations and school children pitch- even up those defeats, he won out on ^ slashing of prices on heavy dur- ed in'on a week-long clean-up. City his nomination of James Boyd as di- a bi e s, such as automobiles, ice boxes, after city, hoping to reduce fire loss- rector of the bureau of mines and sew j n g machines and any other es and fight diseases, took fip the he defeated the house on the $90-a- household gadgets, which the normal annual renovation, paint-up, fix-up month Rankin veteran pension bill, buyer is in the market for only about plan. | , And outside of that, every other ever y five years, is a false trend to- In recent years it has grown stead- single action of either house or sen- warc j deflation. It is only when the ily, and now the National Board of ale or of either house or senate com- ac t ua i cost of necessities of life start Fire Underwriters reports that more mittee has been in f^vor of the Tru- than 10,000 cities, towns and villages naan legislative program. In other participate in the yearly clean-up. State Money Bill Raised Last Week Three Million Dollars Special to The Chronicle. words, after 90 days of this congress tobagganing, these experts say, that the country can feel concerned about an actual recession. And that the president as yet has not lost a ^as not yet started, although the single legislative measure. He has, a g r j cu jt ura i department has put out scored with seven measures which feelers to the effect that we may already have become law. Nineteen; look for a definite drop in meat other measures have either passed p r j ce s, ekeept lamb, within the next one of the houses or have been given f ew weeks. favorable committee action. It is ad- Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, the mitted, however, that the president’s, Democratic leader in the senate, has Columbia, April 19.—The state ap- big fights are still ahead—repeal of propriations bill still held the spot- Ibe Taft-Hartley act, broadening of light in the general assembly last ’ social security, health insurance, un week, with several important sec-1 iversal military training and econo- tions of the bill still to be consid- IN INTERNATIONAL STERLING We’ll enjoy showing it to you. J. C. THOMAS JEWELER “It’s Time That Counts” ^ ered by the senate when it adjourned STATE'S CROP for the week-end. By amendments DDIf'UT added on the floor of the senate, the. KtrUK I DKIoM I $110,096,940 appropriations bill! ♦ which had been drafted by the sen-j Columbia, April 18. — Early crop . ate finance committee wad increased reports show South Carolina farm- to a total of over $113,000,000, ap- ers off to one of their best starts on proximately the same flgikre as the record It bill which was passed by|the house. This was the opinion today of fed- of representatives. Notice had been eral-state agricultural statistician given that other amendments to Frank O. Black, make additional appropriations' “Land preparation, planting and would’be offered. (development of early crops bears Among the increased appropria tions adopted last week were $1,928,- 760 for school teachers’ salaries, $682,599 for pupils’ transportation, $12,500 for a speech therapy depart- this out,” he explained, and added: “Most growing crops are in good condition and grain heading is be coming normal. About the only adverse factors in ment of the state department of ed-1 the present crops situation, which ucation. $60,000 for printing the state may or may not be serious in final code of laws, $100,000 for a central i production and money value, are the state farm market, a $105,869 in- threat of mildew and rust to grain crease for the state forestry commis- yields, cold damage to peaches and sion, $77,250 for cancer hospital pro-' blue mold to tobacco beds, gram, crippled children’s home and "Practically all commercial truck orthopedic camps and mobile tuber- acreage has been planted.” culosis X-ray unit, and a number of dor way to appropriate $49,000 for other increases. j the state to send students to out-of- When the senate adjourned for state schools and medicine and den- the week-end, a proposal was un- j tistry, and veterinary schools, par- I ticipating in the regional education program. Notice of ALCOHOLICS. 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