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\ Page Four THE CLlNTun CHnoNIfoE THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1949 ah? QUinton (Chrnnirl? 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 oi .... So >nd Class Mail Matter at the Post Offio at Clinton, S. C., unMer Act of Congress Mafch 3, !«"}». T:u Ch: :ncie seeks x ic cooperation of its subscribers and readers—• ; iblisl will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and k n Hy The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest w:V#*n, • are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications v. i . *• be noticed This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents., MEMBER: SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION National Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION New York Cmcago Detroit Pmiadelphia qualities they are not likely to suc ceed in a highly competitive world. They will make their own success or failure. Boy Scouts Enjoy Two-Day Camporee Last Friday and Saturday approxi mately 100 Boy Scouts of Laurens' and Newberry counties took advan tage of a beautiful week-end to en joy a Camporee at Greenwood'State Park." W. P. Sheppard of Laurens, chairman of the camping and activi ties committee of the district, as sisted by Carroll Pitman, field scout executive, directed the rally. After pitching camp and preparing supper, games and contests were enjoyed until the campfire program. George Kramm, a 15 year old Pol ish boy who recently moved with his family to Joanna after coming to this country with a group of Displaced Persons, was given a rousing welcome to Scouting bv the group. He spoke in Polish telling how glad he was to live in America and translated in English. His na tive tongue being Polish, and later speaking German, makes the Eng lish language difficult for him, but he proved to be one of the most popular Scouts of the camporee. day for Montreal where he will at tend the annual meeting of the Gen eral Assembly of U^e Presbyterian Church in the United States as one of the commissioners from South Caro lina Presbytery. He will be out of the city until next week. Turner Attending General Assembly Dr. W. R. Turner, pastor of the rir>‘ Presbyterian church, leaves to- THE CHRONICLE Completely Covers Clinton s Trade Area for Advertisers There Is No Substitute for News paper Advertising CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1949 Disgraceful A report from Columbia yesterday s.. that the army had brought cots n the -tr.te senate as legislators in • <. et" session prepared to filibus- ti .. ! :.ight. and indefinitely, against the confirmation of a woman indus- •r.M commissioner appointed by -\ err,or Thurmond. 1* .> a disgraceful spectacle and « < t.iat should bring rebuke by vot- » : i those who are responsible for ty ng no the wheels of the legisla- t ct department at enormous, un- ne.essa y expense to taxpayers. It i- .neap, politics as we said last w« i rt. fed by a tew rabid Johnston- itc- who want the commission “dom- m..ted" by appointees of Johnston i:..-tea a of Tnurmond. It is not a matter o: principle, but personali- t e>. w.th the approaching United S' 'e- .-mate rate as one of the prin- cip.i’. tactors behind the filibuster. The Chronicle hopes that Senator II T Wilson of our county is having ji > part in this disgraceful political w . ngle If he is, his constituents ’ invited to join the National Com mittee of the Citizens Committee for Reorganization of Government. Mil- , lions of post cards are being mailed out asking taxpayers to sign as spon sors and help the committee in each i community. The response should be i prompt and large, irrespective of party affiliation. We need an awak ened new-Jrtferest in federal affairs and to let this public-spirited com mittee know it has our backing, and that we will do our part to keep the reorganization effort from being pigeon-holed or killed by pressure from entrenched individuals or groups. The need for an informed and fighting citizens group is obvious. If the present attempt at reform of this gigantic New Deal bureaucracy should bog down and fail, there will be little hope or incentive in the future to try again. The government agencies will not supply the needed pressure, and the congress may not. The public can and must do so. .d know it. It's Groduoting Time May and June on the calendar mean i:*s graduating time again The People Must Act H is encouraging to note that som 0 throughout the land at universities. I>i 'gre.-s is being made in congress colleges and high schools, when toward adoption o' the rceommen- thousands of graduates will further! jt former President Herbert pursue study or else step out into a Jk> .or s Cormrwssi m on Organiza- hard world with new responsibili- t.n i o: the Executive Branch of the tie.' and problems. In this commu- * > 1 There a report— nity the commencement season is al- whetner reliable or not — that con- ways one of interest to parents, rela- i. rt - ai!1 resp'nd to the challenge t.ves and friends with appropriate i . a fash.on and that many of the closing exercises at the college, city, jo n.mer.dations may become effec- orphanage and Bell Street high t re w;:hin the life of the present schools. j Thousands of boys and girls are' Congressmen and senators are graduating from high school—a most! hearing from the people back home important event in their lives. Es- where pub.ic interest in the propos- penally is this true when less than aL- r or reform is high K only for ten per cent of high school gradu- | political reasons, progress will be ates enter college, and a large pro- made. for the nation’s top economists portion of those who matriculate do cannot agree on whether the coun- not graduate. This properly raises try is going tnrough a period of the question, are these young high heaAhy deflation or embarking upon school students properly prepared to j» recession This is a matter of great meet life in this new sphere’’ concern to both major parties, and We wish to congratulate the se-' cf still greater concern to millions ot niors upon their graduation. It is a employers and employees who keep day they have keenly looked for- tne wheels of industry turning. ward to and will always bring back T h* n iover report calls for a fond memories. They will never .* weeping reorganization of govern- travel the same road again. They Jne-.t in the interest of efficiency and now reach a turning point in their e. i nomy There will be concerted lives, and whatever may be their, oppo'.t.on. of cour'e. from the log plans they will be called upon to j oiler', with conniving to secure ex- step over into a new and challeng- empfions tor their pet agencies. Re-* and difficult period, organization will mean the abolition These young graduates are lacing « : many useless jobs and a cutting heavy responsibilities, an uncertain down of the great army of govern- transition period which will prove! men*, employees. Senator Harry Byrd a recession, or might develope into < : Virginia ,s now pleading anew for a depression. We must get back on ecr.vmy. and has called upon the a safe and sound economic basis. We Truman administration to lop 500,-• have been spending and wasting as 000 employees off the federal pay- a nation like mad people, we have roll At average civilian pay of more been spinning around for years be- t.uo $3,000 a year, ‘‘every day we cause of abnormal war conditions— are adding more than $750,000 to the now *e must settle d4»wn for a pe- ■mn.ial payroll.” Bvrd said. This riod of stabilization and readjusL- -n v- the bureaucracy is completely ment all along the line, with a high- '.*u* ' ntrol er premium from now on out placed T..e Hoover report contains basic up<m efficient service, regardless of f. i . : ; j iu* a long needed plan for, w hat we attempt. This means that I ;g good government and rear-. this g rcat arm - v of graduates will be go::.rut.on. Composed of a number confronted with many problems of tne country’s ablest business men, calling lor the best in them, and that tLc Commission has fulfilled its mis- j°bs will not be as plentiful as they v. , n 'i^ntficently. It is now up to once were for those who seek om- tht American people to insist and ployment. The?e young p e o p 1 e , I. demand of congress that this docu- whether they go on to school or en- ment be enacted into law in the face ter varied types of work, wnll all <>• oppo-ition pressure that may be want—arid deserve—a better world, expe.ted from many mdivivduals surely it is now distracted, twist- anti groups. If one doubts that we c d an d out-of-gearv need government reorganization and These young people should not be retrenchment, look at these figures misled. They should be told the released by the Commission’s re- truth. All will not be rosy and sun- pon: In twenty years the cost of op- shine. Black-letter days are just as crating the government has leaped sure to come as red-letter days, from S4 billions to $42 billions and There will be ups and downs and threatens to go still higher under disappointments, interspersed with tne Truman administration, while successes and happiness. Above ev- the number of employees in the ex- erything they should learn,at the e -utive branch has risen from 600,- outset that the world owes them no (100 to 2.100.000. The number of de- living. They must make their own partments, agencies, administrations, way. It is the great tragedy of New boards, bureaus, commissions and Deal years that millions of people other units of the executive branch now look to government for support has increased from 350 to 1,812. The rather than their own self-initiative, lederal debt has mounted from $16.9 Government has encouraged and fi- bi[lions to $215.5 billions, which nancially supported such deception, means a mortgage of $7,000 on every Today under President Truman’s so- ; American family. Waste, duplication cialistic program we are promised and overlapping go unchecked in more than ever before, and if a halt spite of a few fighters like Byrd be- 1 is not made, he and others will lead cause good administration is made us to bankruptcy. We must get back impossible by organizational chaos lo conditions where the masses are and archaic methods. The Hoover willing to do an honest day’s work. Commission shows how more than We hope the graduates will be suc- $3 billions a year can be saved for cessful at whatever they attempt, ' the American taxpayers. The inves- and that their lives will be filled ligation reveals that through simpli- with happiness. They can make a tication and modernization we can lasting contribution to society if they have “better government at a better, are so-minded. But it will require price" if congress will forget poli- vision, courage, self-improvement, ^eneJhidersm ’$ Repeat Of A Sell-Out! The Original HOPE REED Lace Trimmed CHAMBRAYS .95 Hope Heed, the creator of the Lace Trim Vogue of Cot ton Pastels, presents originals at the price of the copies. 5.95. 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