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/ ■'A 4 t THE CLINTON CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JUNE 2. 1949 MclNTOSH'S SHOE SHOP Send Your Shoes To Us for Best Materials and Workmanship. GULF PRODUCTS Tires, Tubes, Batteries and Accessories INSECT KILLERS Quick Action Gulf Spray Gulf Trak Gulfspray Roach, Ant Killer CLINTON SERVICE STATION E. Carolina Ave. Phone 96 On Hand... The master of every combin- ahle crop, the JOHN DEERE 12-A Combine Hill succevsfull> har\e<«t hard-to-thresh crops »s .clovers, beans, and serecia. Let us prove to you uhat the John Deere 12-A Mill do in your field. Also see the JOHN DEERE IViretyinc baler in operation. J. R. CRAWFORD CLINTON. S. C. DO YOU HAVE PROPER FIRE PROTECTION? Is roar rovermre sde^oaie* Should yoo toffer a disostroo* ftrr Mould your insurance cover yo«r loos? Think this over See as for all kinds of Insurance, Surety Bond* and Real Estate We Invite your business We Write Hail Insurance On Cotton Clinton Realty & Insurance Co. B Hubert Boyd Phone • Gold Theatre JOANNA, S. C. Morning SHoms—10 A. M. Monday, Wednesday, Friday Matinee—3 P. M. Monday, Wednesday, Friday Night Shows—6:30 and 8:30 Every Night Admivsion 33c (29c plus 6c tax) Children under 12—9c Thur.-Fri. June 2-3 MOTHER WAS A FRESHMAN Loretta Young Van Johnson IN COLOR Saturday June 4 Roll Thunder Roll Red Ryder Little Beaver IN COLOR Also: “In This Corner’’ Mon.-Tues. June 6-7 THE SUN COMES UP Jeanette Macdonald Lassie IN COLOR Wednesday June 8 The Fighting O'Flynn • ALSO CASH NIGHT Next— WAKE OF THE RED WITCH COMMERCIAL HOUSEHOLD WIRING a Electrical Appliance Repairing and Electrical Construction Work Floor Plugs A Specialty ARNOLD M. CANNON 406 W. Maple St. Tel. 312-XJ As Washington Sees It. IKE NATIONAL SCENE Special to The Chronicle. Washington, June 1—Lobbying in the 81st congress has reached a new high, or a new low. depending upon your viewpoint ... in numbers reg istered. amount spent and tactics employed to influence legislation. According to a compilation of ex penses or expenditures thus far. lobbyists have spent or have at least reported expenditures of $2,182,329 from 264 groups, according to Con- gressibnal Quarterly, a non-partisan and accurate reporting service. This is an all-time record. As a result, the house nas passed a bill calling for a joint committee of congress to probe the lobbyists. The measure is pending in the senate and likely will pass. Objective is two fold. according to observers here—to obtain information on how to strengthen the rather loosely drawn lobbying law, passed in 1946, and to learn. whether or not the lobbyists are violating the law. Many new gimmicks are being used to call the attention of Congress to the pet measures of the lobbyists. For instance, the National* Tax Eq uality association is circulating phony dollar bills called a “tax-free buck” to call attention of congress to the tax exemption features of farm co operatives. The Property Owners’ association used cartoons to fight the rent control law. Merchant Ma rine veterans seeking draft exemp tion for seamen sent printed paper bags urging congress not to leave them “holding the bag.” Even the American Library association used a Graham Hunter cartoon reprinted from the “Southern Agriculturalist," urging federal funds to buy more bookmobiles. There was a lobby investigation in 1941 led by Sen. Joseph C. O’Ma honey of Wyoming, chairman of the temporary national economic com mittee which drafted recommenda tions. some of -which were incorpor ated in the anti-lobby law. The last big probe of lobbying was made by Sen. Hugo Black of Alabama, now Supreme Court Justice, in 1935 to 1938 Senator Black’s committee was appropriated $62,500 for it« probe during consideration of the Ihiblic Utility Holding Company act of 1935. The investigation revealed that more than $1,500,000 was spent on a com- paign to defeat the act. According to information here, the department of commerce, under Sec retary Charles Sawyer, is go.ng to bat for the small business man and will go to bat for him before the senate committee hearing evidence on price spreads of farm produce. The department is conducting • se nes of surveys, including freight shipments—one involving shipments of paper to small town newspapers. According to results of some of these surveys, the farmer and the small town business man have tile same idea about what is in store in the immediate future Both are cautious. The farmer is buying only what he has to buy and the businessman is stocking only what he has to stock to keep up with his trade, both ex pecting price drops. Where the farm er gets squeezed, however, according to the survey, is that price of farm produce is dropping faster than prices of things he buys. Probably the best indication of the trend is that prices of farm land are falling, there is little land mov ing, but the general concensus is that when the leveliing-off period come*, conditions in the rural areas and home towns will be generally’ healthier, economically. As this is written, the economy drive started by Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio with some Democratic sup port headed by Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia has been stalled. After suc ceeding in recommitting several ap propriation measures for a horizon tal five per cent cut, the senate re versed itself' and brought the bills back by a close vote. So to date, there is an increase in appropriation measures in the senate over the amounts which came fro m the house. Some Democrats, according 1 to observers here, feel that too dras-i tic economy might cause more po litical reverberations in 1950 than over-spending or the tight budget as it is now set up. Rather than slash domestic expenditures, the cuts may come in the authorized expen ditures for ECA and other author ized appropriations for foreign ex penditures. Then, these observers say, at this time there is a psychological aspect to the national economy which must be seriously considered. They con tend that any drastic slash in gov ernmental expenditures on the do mestic front at this time, might start cuts all along the line and really touch off a depression. For instance, the lopping off of 8,008 employees in the Veterans’ administration, coming; just when it did, observers say, had a bad psychological effect upon un- 1 employment generally. David Abercrombie Aboard Carrier David. C. Abercrombie, aviatipo machinist’s mate, second class, USN, of this city, has arrived in the Med iterranean aboard the aircraft car rier USS Coral Sea for a six-month cruise, which will afford him the op portunity to visit seaports of Europe and Northern Africa. 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