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i, ' ■' « page Four THE CUNTON CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1»49 3ltr (Elinton (Ettrnntrlp Established 1900 WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher HARRY C. LAYTON, Assistant Published Every Thursday Bv THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable In Advance): One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.25 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton, S. C., under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Chronicle seeks t ie cooperation of its subscribers and readers— the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice. The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not 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 Chicago Detroit Philadelphia and Congress. Lewis picks the hot 5 summer season as the opportune tim^ Jor his work stoppage order, and his followers are glad to work' Clinton Cavalier Juniors downed, pansion program. He expressed the, views, Byrnes said the federal gev- the Joanna club. opinion that the recent meetings of ernment is now, taking tax money for Truman Owens’ home run over the Big Four foreign ministers in ... . . . ., the center field wall in the sixth Paris “cannot be regarded as having “ . . ® * e even three days they said, instead and a double in the eight with the made no progress as long as there states in which it could be put to a of being idle after the expiration of ( bases full provided the win for was an agreement for further con- better advantage by remaining in the their contract. Could w’e have a, the Junior Cavaliers. James Fuller ■ ferences. So long as men confer individual states, more glaring example of absolute' pitched a neat 5 hitter. The Cava- about their problems, even if the - * He said the earlier address “was monopolistic power than this? j her Juniors have won six and lost 0. language is profane, there is always interpreted by some as an attack up- Lewus should be condemned for, hope of agreement.’’ he told the Le- on an individual and a political par- C LINTON. S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1949 what he has done in the past and 1 what he may do in the future, but that does not put him where he be-1 longs. The real fault lies in laws' passed by Congress which do not recognize that industry-wide bar gaining creates as serious a monop oly as this country has ever faced. So long as this kind of bargaining is permitted, one union, dominated j by one arrogant man, can tell the nation whether or not it shall have a commodity it cannot do without. Lewis, other labor leaders. Pres ident Truman. Vice-President Bark ley who paid our state a political i “money raising” visit the past week and others in the Administration in ner circle, are against the Taft-Hart- ley Act. They want it killed out right, and the one-sided, unfair Wagner Act to be the law. They are not interested in improving the Deficit Spending, Welfare State Hit By Byrnes 0 Greenville.—America “must re main strong economically," former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes said here Monday. “Our first line of defense is not on the Rhine—it is a sound, safe American economy," he told the 31st annual convention of the South Carolina Department of the American Legion. Byrnes continued, “We do not want the federal government regimenting our lives from the cradle to the grave.’’ The former cabinet officer said that Russia does not intend to back down in Germany in its cold war ex- £ion. i ty. I singled out no individual, I Referring to a recent address at named no party. On the contrary. I Washington and Lee university in said that each political party tried which he had expressed similar to out-promise the other. ALCOHOLISM Treated Effectively In Hundreds of Cases TELEPHONE DAY OR NIGHT 2-4485 ALCO-HAVEN SANITARIUM f 605 E. NORTH STREET VGREENVILLE, SO. CAROLINA/ AUTO LOANS PROMPT SERVICE SECURITY LOAN AND INVESTMENT CO. (Chartered 1905) 1219 Boyce Street Newberry, S. C. L. W. Cooper, Agent Clinton, S. C. The Federal Deficit At the end of 30. the U. S. treasur: greater vast by President Truman’? last January. <c h S :: | it ♦ ♦ i I f r public schools, and more subsi- ri.zcd business of all kinds by gov- «■: nment. Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia, a the only man in the senate who keei tucky politician, was smart enough Taft-Hartley Act but ip playing poi- to steer clear of the explosive issue dies. These leaders, along with h the fiscal year, June of civil rights! He let it be under- Pi t'sident Truman, call the recent-1S sury announced that stood, however, that he still stands ^ retained Act a "slave labor law,". ft the government ended up SI.811.440.- on the Democratic platform of Pres- which they know is not true as the 1 S 047 68 in the red. This was three ;dent Truman, nor did he mention record shows. If this amended Act. ft |r.n.e< greater than the deficit f re- his famous ruling to apply gag rule fair to labor and capital passes both - g budge: u enact the "civil rights" measure. 1 houses, there seems a likelihood He will make no compromise, he that Truman would veto it and T ie figures released by Secretary ^aid. why should he expect South again throw the issue into the 1950 £ the Treasury John W. Snyder Carolinians to give up their convic- campaign talking about a "man- I |(r.\e : spending jumped to a peace- tuns for which they voted, and ac- date" allusion again. The Senate time record of S40,0r)7,10i.85i.<9. Re- vept those objectionable issues load- did a good day’s work when it for the same period dropped to e d with dynamite, for which he wrote into the new labor law an t ie lowest in live years — $38,245.- stands? Those who believe in States' authorization for the Government ht'i.h!" ’.. And President Truman Rights will stand their ground and to seize plants and or issue injunc- advorate,- more spending, more will not rush to the mourner’s bench, tions against labor unions to halt u\t . m o b lions for h rosing pro- Little harmony was promoted at strikes which imperil the national jv tw especially in the large city t h 0 dinner, though some of the boys safety and welfare. This is a proper 12 ar^^. millions of free federal money o ave the speaker a rousing applause provision in the law to protect the||| it was reported. Many in the public interests. Those who voted group were ardent Johnston support- for the law are to bo commended ers. and in looking over some of the for their courage. They put public name^the discovery is made that welfare and fairness above political seve/il of the ring-leaders in block- expediency. The law should com-! ft natun intorme.i «n fed- , ng t h e Clayjon appointment to the pletely fair to both labor and man-[g ' J ‘ . t : and woo n.,- lough. j n dustrial comm.ssion were at the agement. and to the public, and that | ft -inglo-hando 1 ngn: f >r dinner The meeting certainly had a is all the American people have a g .s ending and a political significance as relating to right to expect. Anv intelligent per- g ’ ’ ;e senatorial race next year. son knows that labor has made con- Senator Maybank at the last was siderable gains under the Tjft- selecfed as the "introducer,” and was Hartley measure, and that it has, !ngh in his praise of Barkley Dr. been modified extensively in labor’s] “Buck" Pressley. Due West physician behalf. of the year, was selected in advance In the final analysis, the only real to introduce the Vice-President at solution to the problem is to abol- the pro-Truman dinner That was a ish labor monopolies which now can smart gesture on the part of the not be touched under our anti leaders. But when Dr. Pressley found Tuust laws. In' law precisely as we out that the affair was purely "po- have abolished industrial and finan- litical" he declined to make the in- cial monopolies—to make all of treduction.- which deprived the Tru- them equal in the eyes of the law. In 1939 m3n party favorabIe publicity it There should be no favoritism to sought. any group. j __ I It was a good political show by a * ~ v. ™ .fn alarming rate bureaucracy small handful of the state’s citizen- CLINTON CAVALIER JUNIORS h..> grown in Washington. The cen- ship. Our people were not fooled and DOWN JOANNA TUESDAY f.i- bureau reports that federal, state will continue to stand firmly fdr uu i lv.,1 governments employed states rights and not be frightened ou . persons as of January 1949. by pressure from Washington We T:..~ rne uis that about one person in’should understand that the Truman te . : so who are employed was Democrats are far more interested in o.. ,i g .vernment payroll and that helping themselves than they are in 51 4';u,noo in taxes was required helping South Carolina. They want 1 :n. t t their pay checks for just one'"use us. I Multiply this by twelve and • ba...:uvu oudget o from $3,000,000,000 to $5,000,000.- OOO for the fiscal year 1950 which began July 1. Senator Byrd has just reported that the number of civilian employees of the United States gov ernment rose again in April, reach ing a total of 2.122.710 in the execu tive branch. This was an increase, K.- report shows, of 11,453 in thirty ci.i> - Nearly two years ago, in No- vemoer 1947, the number had been eat down to 1.999.853, the first time it ha? been under two mikion since the early war days in 1941 there were only 920,000 civilians on the federal payroll, which shows a Tuesday morning by a score of 9 to Make All Equal In Eyes of the Law John L. Lewis, the cml miners “kingfish", rec«atly ordered toe miners to close down the mines of the nation for a week’s duration. Hi/ latest move is somethiag new—[ a 3-day work week imposed by hts 1 union which went into effad Tue*-! montn you will see whaf you, the citizen taxpayer- are being called upon to pay This enormous item, and in peacetime with the war over four years—is a contributing factor to the federal deticit and helps make your withholding tax high. Taxpayers can’t comprehend such figures which upon no reasoning on earth can be justified by congress in a time of peace and business pros perity. The $40,057,000,000 we spent da >' following their annua4 ten-day | is an increase of $6,266,000,000 over P a,d vacation. The action has been, 1948. an all-time peacetime high, called illegal al<«g restiaunt ot Our surplus is gone, we are back in trade lines. The big chief got around the hole. We are spending more than traditional 'rati' contract , ' nc we are taking in due to gradual dis- work policy by ordering the short inflation that is going on, we are week which meazu more wage st.11 floundering around, spending losses to workers. Such or(&?rs dis- taxpayers’ money as though it grew regard the economic needs - of the on trees, while the President clamors public, the welfare of union work- for more taxes and shows no inch- « and their fanniies. but what nati n for cutting expenditures. does that matter with Lewis who, Today, more than ever before, we rules hii crowd wittr an iren rod. > meed a house-cleaning in Washing- Many years ago Congress passed ton for the benefit of the American a series of anti-trust laws to pre taxpayers. vent monopolies and comlsnatiomi • • ~ j in restraint of trade in this country. The Pro-Truman Dinner These laws apply to industry and The big Barkley political, money- They pomtedly e*- ra ising dinner in Columbia last week empt ^ organunrtions. Yet L now past history, and so far we'this time rabid labor leaders and HORN WONT BLOW LIGHTS WONT BURN CAR WONT START JUST WONT GO SHOULD HAVE STOPPED JOE’S ESSO SERVICE I.9.UMIE a GARDENCIOSE-OUTS haven’t seen any evidence that South!labor unions are weild.r* power Carolina is ready to swallow the'to an extent, aided by government, Barkley 3 -Truman program, to forsake | which was never ^med af by fheir convictions and clirpfc on the jobber barons of. th* las* century, bandwagon. The Vice-President.Why should unions be exempfed spoke to some 600 people, it was^ re- 1 from the anU-Tn.st laws. why potted who planked down $15 each should any umot* have tte nghs to fo- a olate the $9,000 to go into the!control production and thereby con- Democratic treasury to be used for Urol prices. ' , . . -p- One of the most startling exam- 1 The big show was directed by the pies of this d^riance 3 found in Williams and Williams and Collins Lewis order to the United Mine leaders of the Democratic party in Workers, which he controls lock, this sta’e It was labeled a “har- stock and barrel He can close them mony” meeting to wipe out differ- down for a week or for three days J eores and heal a breach. It did no He claims this is not a strike in the, such thing ordinary meaning of the term, that Senator Olin Johnston commented coal stocks above ground are at a| in Washington yesterday that in his high level, and that a shutdown opinion the Columbia dinner was a would not seriously affect the m- “start of a healing process in the dustnes of the nation Big coal piles party ” He said, ‘By the time we hold are a nightmare to the miner’s boss, precinct meetings next year we will | But these excuses are entirely beside bll be ''ood Damocrats and abide by the point If Mr, .Lewis can dose the results of the grass roots.’’ He down a vital industry at his whim has a big lurpris? coming to him. (for one week or one day or one hour Mr Barkley, as would be expect- he could by 'the same kind of dicta- ed* lauded the so-called Democratic torial action, close it down indefin- party and eulogized President Tru- itely. He could cause a breakdown man Thomas Jefferson arid Andrew in such essential industries as the Jackson. How could anyone stand railroads, electric utilities, and before an audiance and compare the steel, which cannot function with- present Democratic party and what out coal. He could tie up ships car- ** f '' r rying coal under the expensive Mar shall Plan to other lands, and thus undermine a foreign policy which has been approved by the President A DEFENDANTS fOEA OF A ORA NO atTAY /S ONE THAT SAYS "HOT GU/LTY* it stands for with those principles for Which Jefferson and Jackson dedi cated their lives The VirenPresident, * shrewd Ken- Your friends’ idea of a GRAND suggestion is to ‘‘meet for a treat” at our fountain—the rendezvous of town. M'GEE’S DRUG STORE Phone No. 1 | Reg. $1.00 | BROOM RAKE , 75c I Reg. $1.75 p GRASS SHEARS 98c I Reg. $3.09 I HEDGE SHEARS $2,49 Reg. $2.98 Long Handled | PRUNING SHEARS $1.49 WHILE THey LAST! 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