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THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1949 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Three As Washington Sees It.. IHE NATIONAL SCENE Washington, May 8.—With debate on repeal of the Taft-Hartley act •and the enactment of a new labor law taking the spotlight in the con gress a powerful fight of dramatic intensity was taking place behind the scenes- in Washington over the ques- m 'XZd c * THE FINEST LINE FOR 1949 MERSON LECTR1C FANS From Smallest To Largest In stock for Your Summer Comfort HOME SUPPLY CO. Pitts St. — Phone 423 Scott-Atwoter &»rfr l Mrtboords *C»C c«rt. «4200KPA* ■foessr MIWS in oatboard hUtory — the Scott • Atwater SHIM It lives yon cruiser control. Start at the dock in Neu tral (propeller doesn't turn), SHIFT to back away, SHIFT to apeed ahead. SMFT for smoother landings. See all three new SMFT models now. They actually cost no more than ordinary “shiftless" outboards) gflifrto ScottAtwstf C. W. COOPER GARAGE 302 E. Carolina Ave. Phone No. 5 JOHN DEERE TRACTORS AND IMPLEMENTS THAT WORK Wire Tieing Pickup Hay Baler. Side Delivery Rake. Big and Little Disk Har rows. Six and Ten Inch Hammer- mills. Four and Six Disk Tillers. Grain and Hay Elevator Combines. Mule and Tractor Mowers. Spring-tooth Harrows. Rubber Tired 4 - W h e e 1 Trailer. Used 4-Wheel Rubber Tire Manure and Lime Spread er, like new, $200.00. 14-Inch Roughage, Silage and H*mmerinill, like new, $350.00. Korean Lespedeza Seed, Recleaned. J. R. Crawford South Brokd St. at Armory Phone 10 tion of public versus private power. Indications now are that final ac tion on the labor legislation will take place, probably a conference com mittee, some time in June and no one here pretends to know just what the final outcome will be. Quite the reverse of the set-up in the 80th congress when the private power lobby had pretty much it own way, representatives of the power industry now admit that the advo- ; cates of public power are in the sad- i die and that the private power in- , terests are backed against the wall. Meanwhile Clyde Ellis, executive manager of the Natinoal Rural Elec tric Cooperative association, who is a spokesman for public power, de returning springtifne, Jesus bade the j day nor disciples to read in coming events in for a Savannah River Valley Au thority in Georgia by Senator Rus sell of Georgia; the American River 0 { downfall of Jerusalem. Basin Development ih California by* Cong. Leroy Johnson and Cong Jack But » thou S h heaven and earth shall pass away, his words shall not pass away. Two great things seem confused in the lesson—the destruction of and Jerusalem and the Second Coming of Christ. Some passages seem to refer to the first; others to the] Lord’s Second Coming. Of the fall of the Holy City—that was soon accomplished. It is a mat ter of history. But two thousand Z. Anderson of California; the Mis souri Valley Authority signed by 15 senators, 13 Democrats headed by Senator Douglas of Illinois, the two Republicans being Langer Youung of North Dakota. Eighteen senators have signed the bill for the Columbia River Valley Authority and, in addition, there are four bills in the house on the same subject. Cong. J. Percy Priest of Tennessee has a bill to include the] years have passed and we still look Cumberland River Valley in the for the Lord’s .coming. As to the the hour when he shall come, wf should be watching all the while. And this is the great lesson for us—we must watch and serve and pray. In the attitude of watch fulness and prayer we shall be ready to meet the Lord at any time. TVA system and Sen. Pat McCarran dares: “The private companies are of Nevada has a bill to establish a monopolies and the philoeophy of all: National Water Conservation Au- monopolies is scarcity; that is, you; thority. can never go wrong by not expand-j Only about one-fifth of the U. S. ; mg.” Mr. Ellis was referring to the power capacity is publicly owned, admitted shortage of electric power only about a half of this fifth by the; the time of the Lord's coming. For! in the country which public power federal government and the other be.cause we can know neither the ‘ advocates aver is cutting down pro- half by municipally-owned utilities.! duction and causing unemployment, Most experts agree there is at least ! and which the private power lobby a io per cent shortage in electric! signs of his coming—we evidently! have not been able to read them.; Jesus himself said that we cannot know the time. The only thing that we can know of is its certainty. It must be better that we cannot know MOBILOIL Gas and Oil Complete Line Groceries CHARLIE NABORS West Main Street Phone 511-VV DO YOU HAVE PROPER FIRE PROTECTION? la your •overage adequate? Should you suCfer a disastrous Hr* would your insurance cover your loss? TMnk this over. See os for all kinds of Insurance. Surety Bonds and Real Estate. \ ^ We Invite your business. CLINTON REALTY & INSURANCE CO. B. Hubert Boyd Phoae 8 SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLB “The Paper Everybody Reads” says they can lick by 1950 or 1951 jif the government will let them alone. Purcell L. Smith, head of the power lobby, has publicly said he is]load, forming or attempting to form an| alliance with the coal, oil and steel power and both private and public i power experts agree that the reserve; margin of generating capacity ought to be 15 per cent above the peak; industry and with the big insurance CIY |Mf'U | companies. Why the latter are in i ^CIX/VtUIN terested in the power fight is diffi cult to determine, according to ob- 1 servers. Smith’s strategy is to arouse the states east of the Mississippi and north of .the Mason-Dixon line to 1 fight public power on the theory they are helping to pay in taxes for the development of public power in the western and southern states, i , Roughly, it is the strategy of the , National Association of Manufac- By Rev. Robert H. Harper JESUS’ TEACHING ON THE JUDGMENT Lesson for May 15: Mark 13: 1-2, 28-37. Memory Selection: Mark 13:33. The temple, to the square inch, was one of the finest buildings the world has known. It excited the ad miration of all who beheld it. But Dr. Felder Smith Optometrist Laurens, S. C. 126 EAST MAIN STREET South Side Public Squaru HOURS FOR EYE EXAMINATIONS: 9:00 to 5:S0 Wednesdays 9:00 to 12:30 Phone 794 for Appointment ; . ... , the finer the building, the greater the turers in fighting government grants f a n When one of the disciples ex-] to these states divide and conquer i c i a j mec j concerning the temple, Jesus —s cam P a >g n generally solemnly prophecied its utter de-i is in the same 14 states listed by s truction NAM as P^ing^ out more in taxes ' Using the fi g tree as a sign of the! for subsidies than they receive in - j grants from tne federal government.' And, co-incidentally, these 14 states are known as the “private power states’" such as New Jersey, Massa chusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, In diana, Illinois, Rhode Island. Wis consin and other New England states. Smith, however, does not list New York, where Governor Thomas E. Dewey recently renewed his ad vocacy of a public power project of the Big St. Lawrence River seaway. | Notwithstanding Mr. Smith’s con- , tention that the New England states 1 are in his camp, it is notable that : Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge of Massa chusetts has introduced a bill pro viding for a survey to develop the Merrimac and Connecticut rivers; Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, of Maine, has a bill providing for a j power project devetepaaent on tne { Passamaquoddy river; Rep. Eugene , I J. Keogh or New York has a bill pro- I viding for a Merrimac River Valley authority; Rep. Edith Norse Rogers of Massachusetts has a bill to survey all New England rivers te further a program of electric energy genera tion and Cong. Thomas J. Lane and Cong. Doster Furcolo, both of Mas sachusetts, have bills to provide hy- dre-eleotric power on the Merrimac aud Connecticut rivers. In addition, there ei^ bills now You’ll be pleasantly suprised- AT THE LOW COST OF AN EXTENSION TELEPHONE Gray Funeral Home Clinton. S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ...end... EMBALMERS AMBULANCE SERVICE Phones 41 and 399-J L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR. Gen. Mgrs. Do you know you can have an exten sion telephone in your home for only a few cents per day? The cost is mighty small when you consider the many advantages an ex tension telephone provides for the h jme and family. It saves time and affords privacy on the telephone. protection in an emergency. It makes your telephone more valuable by in creasing its usefulness. All you have to do is call the Tele phone Business Office and say: “I’d like to have an extension telephone installed.” Why not order yours today ? 4 Orders for main telephone service are sometimes delayed because oj shortages of central office and other equipment, which are not ni oh ed in the installation of extension telephones. 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