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THE CLlNTun CHnoNIfoE
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1949
ah? QUinton (Chrnnirl?
Established 1900
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
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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-
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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,
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